skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I generally find it a waste of time since it has nothing to do with difference of opinion. It's the anti-woke/culture war mob who makes up opinions that you supposedly have and then expects you to waste your time refuting an opinion you never had.

You'd get more intelligent debate with a monkey at the zoo and probably considerably less shit flung in your face.
Morally curl | bash is no different to downloading a package from the provider directly, or adding a repository managed by the provider. As people are well aware, it will not protect you from the software provider being malicious. Neither will obtaining that proprietary installer from adobe.com for Windows/Mac. I'd argue the security level goes from worst to best:

1. curl | bash = npm/pip/cargo/whatever install = developer provided package repositories = proprietary software installers

2. App stores from proprietary OS vendors. You still don't really know what's in the software, but at least you already have to trust Apple/Microsoft if you're using those OSes and they can remove detected bad behaviour globally.

3. Package repositories from trusted traditional linux repositories. You can view the purported source code of the build, plus there is now someone who can block bad packages.

4. Package repositories from linux repositories with public build processes. Not just the scripts, but being able to see the execution of the build and have it signed to prove where it came from (as opposed to Joe packager's personal machine then FTPing it up).

5. Making your own copy of every piece of software, auditing the entire source code, building it in an environment you control, and keeping the artifact you then sign somewhere you control. This is so much work that nobody does this.

People like to tut tut at curl | bash, but most of them are happy to do everything else in line 1, and maybe trust line 2. This is not the position of safety and moral superiority it's portrayed as.
The difference is that a bottom 20% developer can make 6 figures after a few years of experience, while even a top 10% musician can barely make rent in a major city
I doubt it, any more than it includes the time it takes procrastinating users to actually update their systems.
You take maths because it shapes your brain, it forces new neuron connections to be formed in the right side of your brain. Then you also have literature and arts for the left side.

The brain is like a muscle, if you don't train it, it wont grow AND you will basically be STUPID. That is it.
You misunderstand.

C++20 added std::format [1], similar to Python's str.format [2] (~2010).

But OP said f-strings [3] (2016) which is string interpolation, a language-level feature.

C++ does not have string interpolation.

Not massively important, but IMO quite handy for inline code, e.g. SQL parameterization.

[1] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/format/format

[2] https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.format

[3] https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#f-...
From what I've read you can, but I haven't tried myself or looked into it too deeply.
What would the reactions have been in that case?
Ain't gonna lie

I thought this tweet

>Computer security would be about 80% solved if we just deprecated every technology shown in this graphic.

is going to be about memory unsafe languages like C, C++ and JIT compilers (web browser) since

>Around 70% of our high severity security bugs are memory unsafety problems (that is, mistakes with C/C++ pointers). Half of those are use-after-free bugs.

https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...

>Figure 1: ~70% of the vulnerabilities Microsoft assigns a CVE each year continue to be memory safety issues

https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2019/07/a-proactive-approach...

Also HN title is editorialized.
As someone who has contributed to the Fediverse, I can assure you the EU hasn't been sleeping on this and has helped many other projects (not just Mastodon) through funding.

Really, if anything, they've helped a lot of folks sustaining their contributions.
Why am I learning Rust?
i agree, that is a problem, mainline linux and working drm, that is direct rendering manager, drivers should exist before release of the product.
> prefer to pay for a service

There was a comic (an Oatmeal comic, IIRC) where the guy goes into Starbucks and orders a $5.00 coffee, and then while drinking it picks up his phone and it asks him to pay $1.00 to access a news article and he says, "$1.00! Who do they think I am, Mark Zuckerberg?" (or something like that).

While I get the _sentiment_ behind it (especially from a webcomic guy who's producing entertaining content and not getting anything back from it), it misses a lot of the subtext of why paying for things on the internet is such a hassle. Yes, I'd probably pay $1.00 to read a news article - I pay $5.00 to buy a print magazine when I get on a plane after all - small transactions on the internet are a huge hassle. There's a lot of friction around tracking down my credit card, typing in the number, typing in all my personal info, hoping that the site doesn't store it stupidly and leak it... I don't know what the solution is there, but the way it works now ain't it.
That's what happens when you disable automatic updates. /s
freetaxusa.com doesn't seem to be doing this based on their privacy policy here:

https://www.freetaxusa.com/privacy

But they are not one of the majors.
Your analysis on 3 is nonsense? People clearly want to buy non-SFH. Look at time on market and price growth for non-SFH units, people want them.

Toronto for example largely doesn't have "middle" zoning, its either single-family or condo towers. Similarly for Vancouver.

No surprise, Vancouver/Toronto are the worst hit compared to Montreal or Ottawa, which has a spectrum of density (rather than a bipolar distribution).

Moreover, even within the SFH, there's a huge spectrum of density between something like Atherton, CA and a rowhouse district in Philly.
I just watched the MLB All-Star game OTA yesterday. We also watched the Jeopardy Masters Tournament a few weeks ago. And we do tend to pick up the local news in small doses just to see what’s up around town.

We do stream more than we watch OTA, but when I’m using an antenna I bought almost a decade ago and a HDHomeRun that doesn’t have a recurring cost, it still has its uses.
If it's coming from tax dollars, it's increasing the amount some people can spend on consumer electronics and used cars while also decreasing the amount that other people can spend on houses, vacations, and new cars. So the net impact should be roughly zero, assuming that the taxes don't meaningfully affect supply. However, with pandemic rate cuts, much of it came from newly-created loan money (either borrowed by the government, or by businesses and individuals), meaning cheap loans for cars and houses drove those prices up at the same time that consumer goods were also in high demand.
KEY POINTS (from the article)

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* Microsoft is slimming down its
salesforce.

* The new layoffs are separate from the 10,000 job cuts Microsoft announced in January.

* Salespeople and customer success representatives posted messages on social networks to announce they lost their jobs.
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> If they don't use something unless it's free, that's because its value is 0.

I'd say that it is because the value is less than the transaction cost of any payment, not zero.
I do. And the last thing I want is this.
I'm not sure which part of federation it is that makes you think there's a reason for them to be selective.

The "worst case" scenario is that people on this instance can follow someone undesirable and so that they end up with undesirable content in the local feed. But that's pretty much down to ensuring users act how they otherwise would on any social media, with the expectation it will be seen by the public.

I'm a bit surprised that they allow public access to the federated view of the server [1], because that does mean it potentially could get embarrassing w/respect to people who don't get that the gov. doesn't choose what ends up there, so I'd bet that eventually ends up locked down.

[1] https://social.overheid.nl/public
> dynamic ad insertion plus things like overlays and interactive application ads

> “a viewer who gets home at 6:10 pm and wants to watch the entire 6 p.m. local news will be able to ‘start over’ after watching a very short sponsorship message,”

> Display ads will also occur whenever a viewer pauses their video feed under Scripps’ ‘Pause Ads’ feature

Obviously who doesn't want that when watching a dying media?
To be fair, that's about the same with the exchange rate, but the fact that the average mortgage cost across all of Canada is the same as one of the most expensive US markets is telling.
Mastodon is a website, which is well-suited for discussion and broadcasting. Yes you could create a website and often the agencies do also that - for presenting more static information. But Mastodon etc. already solve the problem of discussion and "following" some specific party or "thread".

A conventional web-site is good for distributing static information whereas a social media site is good for broadcasting notifications about CHANGES to that (more static) information.
> But it's kind of boring, there's no definition of better that everyone is going to agree on.

I agree. Part of that is that economically successful music also isn't "better", it's just making money. I like Madonna but she's an objectively crap singer. Just because something is popular, it doesn't make it good. That's like saying Coke is the best drink in the world because it makes the most money. Commercial success is due to marketing, distribution and luck.
Happy birthday ReactPHP – releasing new Promise v3
I can’t tell what this company does.

Does anyone know?
I imagine ATSC 3.0 tuners will eventually proliferate, but as of now, the situation seems to be most TVs for sale don't have ATSC 3.0 tuners, Best Buy doesn't even include it as a filter. Of course, the installed base doesn't have them either. I haven't seen any external ATSC 3.0 tuner boxes for sale either.

On the enthusiast front, ATSC 3.0 is hard to use, because it includes a new audio codec (AC-4) which is patent encumbered and difficult to use, so while I've got a tuner, I can't use it unless I don't want to hear the programs or I change to a proprietary software stack.

Honestly and unfortunately, I think the end of OTA may happen before ATSC 3.0 has enough adoption to transform anything.
> Double current prices and suddenly most of those jobs wouldn’t look attractive which instantly reduces demand for housing until you’re back to current prices.

Sure, but we've already done this several times in our major cities, and it hasn't killed demand.

> Interest rates do little to discourage home construction

https://financialpost.com/real-estate/cmhc-housing-starts-dr...

“With interest rates remaining high, it continues to be challenging for developers and homebuilders to get projects started,” he said in a press release.

That article is from April and housing starts dropped further.

In the 1970's Canada had a lot of purpose built rental stock subsidized by the government. You could find a place to live anywhere. I think there has to be some of that, plus some top-down work on zoning (which is happening in some provinces, overriding municipalities) and then we need to just build and build.
Because the false affordability of mansions is the prime cause of the real estate issues

Way too many ft2, too many valleys in the roofs, too many yards.

We solve the housing crisis with high density, modest housing, not the absurd mcmansions everyone keeps demanding.
Well, he's a fine businessman but maybe a little bit overconfident about a lot of things
Not in this case. Writing for TV owns your life while you do it. 16-hour days to meet an episode deadline, spending the whole weekend turning around a first draft script.

If you work in a professional TV writing room, you simply don't have another job on the side. It's not an option.
I'm looking for different data than what the article presents. The article mentions what a hypothetical owner that is past the fixed-rate grace period pays. I am looking for the percentage of homeowners overall that actually falls into that bucket that feels these rate hikes immediately.

For example, if (hypothetically) 100% of the adjustable rate mortgages were opened last year, and they all had a 7-year fixed-rate grace period, then the rate hike doesn't actually affect any of them right now.
Not to mention there are very very few cases of a foreign forceful power changes in a country working out well for the people of that country. I'd argue it's utterly immoral based on historical examples to invade a country to change it's government no matter the type of government. To say a million dead people is better than not accessing Grammarly is such a baffling statement to me.
> However, it is probably not a plausible replacement for Twitter writ large;

Yeah, I figured out pretty early that it wasn't going to be what I used Twitter for. Threads, as much as I hate Meta, might just be what kills Twitter.
Are there any benefits to these herpesvirus and various other viruses?

If the downsides outweigh the upsides, why aren't we just eliminating them, as we have done for more deadly viruses like smallpox and polio?
Ok, I partially agree.

Favourable studies getting to publication, and unfavourable ones getting left in the desk drawer is a thing. But the same thing can happen with surprising results vs boring results. It is why some argue for preregistration of studies [0].

There is more than one government in the world, and corporations are in competition with each other. I'm not convinced that they amount to a single funding source. That's not to say that there is a perfect plurality.

Academics are also in competition with each other, and can make their name by demolishing a false consensus. They are also often motivated by things other than money, otherwise they would be quants or something. So there are balancing forces to those that would distort the truth.

At this point we're both just describing, without much evidence, how we think the world works. I agree there is plenty of shady shit and bullshit science going on, it just doesn't make sense to me that all the bad actors would be super-competent and pulling in the same direction on everything. At least not to the extent that it amounts to something akin to mind control.

Consider, there has been a hell of a lot of oil money poured into science funding, but the consensus has settled on "fossil fuels are heating up the planet".

There examples where a powerful lobby has held back the tide for years (tobacco, for example), but we know about them because the truth reasserted itself.

I'm not particularly familiar with HN moderation. I have expressed some reasonably controversial opinions in a calm and reasonable tone, and not been moderated. But perhaps my opinions are not among those you believe to be surpressed.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preregistration_(science)
PIF files are perhaps madder. They're configuration files for MS-DOS programmes running under Windows. But you can rename an .exe to .pif and it'll still work as an .exe as the same internal function to start an executable also handles PIF file parsing. But Windows Explorer considers PIF files "shortcuts", and so like .lnk files the file extension is always hidden even if visibility is requested.

This included 64 bit Windows (at least for 10), which can't actually run MS-DOS programmes, and has no real reason to actually try and do anything for PIF files anyway.
Gross. Unencrypted OTA TV is one of the last areas you can enjoy a modicum of fair use with respect to personal recordings. DVRs, skipping commercials, transcoding to watch on a different device or in a different place. Too bad this is being closed down.
i watched it once

highly recommended

i will never watch it again

as obscure pointed out, it's on the archive, while that still exists: https://archive.org/details/threads_202007

maybe watch it at a time when you have good emotional support and time to recover for a few days afterwards?

today there are bigger threats but the risk of a second nuclear war hasn't gone away yet
Yep it's the taxation folks.

For example one of the biggest costs on apartment builders that dissuades them from building apartments is the HST. Developers are constantly saying this makes their projects unviable and kills them.

The Federal government could waive the HST tomorrow and massively incentivize apartment development.

The Liberals even promised to do this in past campaigns, then reneged on this.

In the past when apartments were being built rapidly it was aided by enormous tax expenditure from the federal government.
Set up and automatic counter-notice bot to start with, thus annoying them back.

However:
Any person who knowingly materially misrepresents under this section—

(1) that material or activity is infringing, or
(2) that material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, shall be liable for any damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees, incurred by the alleged infringer, by any copyright owner or copyright owner’s authorized licensee, or by a service provider, who is injured by such misrepresentation, as the result of the service provider relying upon such misrepresentation in removing or disabling access to the material or activity claimed to be infringing, or in replacing the removed material or ceasing to disable access to it.

17 U.S.C.A. § 512
> But a lot of people ARE looking for Twitter 2.0 and a lot in the Mastodon Community WERE saying "we are it"

Well, they were probably telling the truth from their perspective. Mastodon likely does a good job of replicating the value that those people were getting from Twitter. But not everyone experienced Twitter in the same way.
> The reason why most (consumer-facing at least) malware isn't targeting Linux is because its desktop market share is like 3%.

This is also why there's not as much software in general. So if a (lack of) regular software is a valid reason to not use linux, a lack of malware is also a valid reason to use it.
Correct. Crypto is. Money is an arguably good use case for "crypto-related tech."(lol, by definition, right?)

DAOs and such are hamfisted attempts to slap crypto-tech on things that AREN'T suited for it.
Without net neutrality many providers favour the incumbents.
I think it might have more to do with regulatory concerns, maybe they think that appearing to be more open will make them seem less monopolistic. On the other hand, they aren't launching in Europe because of their troubles there.
Writing Libraries for AIs to Use
Hey HackerNews. Using AIs for coding it has become obvious that software development will use AI assistance from now on. I wrote this post talking about what it was like for me to teach an LLM a new technology.

I'm super curious about other folks' experience, as I'm sure lots of people are doing similar things.
For anyone interested, Dr. Lamport has a book called "Specifying Systems", which has more in-depth explanations of many of the topics in the linked paper:

http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/book-21-07-04.pdf
I've felt similarly for a while. It seems like all these smaller brewers start with an IPA, then maybe make something else later. Well, I don't like hoppy beers, and I especially don't like IPAs. I like malty dark beers like dunkels or Irish reds, and those are apparently way down on the "craft beer" clout list.
Five years ago, I would have leapt at this. Today, there's no way I'd want to be anywhere near a Musk-based tech company.
I pay less in Costa Rica for 1G sync fiber than I pay for 1G up / 200 down on cable in the US. My ping time here to Miami, 1000 miles away, is about the same as my ping time to San Jose from my house in the US, a fraction of that distance.
Nope, it means "simply by voting".

Whether the vote is valid or not, whether it should be tossed out or kept, is a separate issue that really should be determined asynchronously, and carry no penalty. Especially if, as in this case, she literally asked the authorities if it was okay, and her ballot was only ever provisional in the first place.
I think this is right. When I was in my 20s I was really into beer. Now I'm older and I split my time between the usual light beer culprits when I'm drinking out and enjoying a few craft favorites when I'm drinking in and gaming/doing hobbies. Also when a four pack of 16oz cans is approaching $20 (or exceeding that) I'm less likely to be exploratory because who the he'll wants a fridge of rejects they don't like.
lol, yes. See, when YOU type hunter2, it shows to us as ****
Brazil’s CBDC pilot contains code that can freeze or reduce funds, dev claims
>Have you ever used a LJ-III? Clearly not. It was probably the finest printer of its type made since the beginning of microcomputers.

I have owned a LJ-IIp, Laserjet 5p, and currently have a Laserjet 4050tn(with less than 5,000 sheets on the engine) in the corner serving as a paperweight.

If I had known prices would explode post COVID I wouldn't have sent the others to recycling where they belong.

>You actually missed the point, it was its reliability I was talking about (if you'd ever seen one then my comment would have been self-evident). And I wasn't advising others to use one.

I did not miss the point but you seemed to have missed mine so let me reword it: Giving up everything else for "reliability" is not ideal because you just have a reliable printer that makes you miserable.

>It was built like a tank, nothing breaks and it takes a lot of bashing. I purchased it over 30 years ago and it still works because it was built in the days when engineers ran HP and not fucking accountants.

It was built during the days where they had text mode only and if you were lucky your printer could process some fonts on board. It sounds like thats all you print anyway. If you print a PDF of any meaningful complexity you'll be in a world of hurt real quick. I know from experience. All of a sudden all the reliability in the world means nothing because I can't get the contents of the darn file on to a piece of paper.

>This is the clincher fact. Nothing like that happens, it works damn fast—no RAM delay and no waiting to print. (If I want more than 300dpi I just change to another printer.)

Have you used a more modern printer?

Compare this: https://youtu.be/Ka60XggECiQ?t=131

To this: https://youtu.be/fEjD8DikLB0?t=14

The new printer printed three pages in the time it took the old one to print one! Don't even try to print a pdf or anything with graphics on it.

In addition to the engine just being faster, the speed is limited by the CPU in the printer that decodes the file and the speed by which it receives it: both of which are slower on the old printer. That is if you don't run out of RAM and then the printer errors out.

You have rose colored glasses on. This is like those crazy cat people who continue to justify their love for an animal that is scratching them and destroying their stuff all the time.
This is fascinating, but is focused on the engineering side and not the modeling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1e4t2k2KJY
When I am presented with an obtrusive popup to sign up for some website, I've been in the habit of just filling it in with a random email address pointed at the site's own domain. Funnily enough, some sites will stop you from submitting an email address associated with the current domain because even they know how annoying and unpleasant they are
So do I. Besides the fact that I got my current position directly through LinkedIn (cold contact from a recruiter), I use it to learn about people I'm going to meet.

I work with our Bizdev team a lot, discussing proposals for new business and it's great to be able to look up the management/development team of a company that we're going to have a meeting with to get a better picture of where they're coming from and what their company does.

The objections in this thread strike me as typical developer negativity: it's not directly tech-related so it must be useless.