skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ext/mysql was not removed "to prevent string-concat SQL from being used." ext/mysqli and PDO allow raw SQL to be executed as well. It's just a necessary feature in some cases, but it should be reserved for static SQL.

Forming SQL by concatenating strings and variables is just bad practice and hopefully we can agree on that. ext/mysql provided no other option and this was just one of many issues with the extension.

Using ext/mysqli and PDO in a such a way (and I don't care if you're talking about retrofitting old code) is not even bad practice, it's just improper usage of the API when prepared statements should be used instead.

EDIT: Individually `print` `echo` `shell_exec` may be just as dangerous... It's up to the developer if they want to use them correctly.
Yeah, if they can't pull that rabbit out of the hat, it looks a bit bleak. With US MAU's stalled for the last four quarters, they are faced with extracting more revenue from the same set of users - i.e., show everybody more ads and presumably water down the user experience in the process.
Yeah for a video conferencing tool. Makes you wonder what 1652 of those people are actually doing.
maybe not in purpose, but thin vailed racism here, saying non white people don't want to really be readapted
From the article:

> JPM coin... are unsecured promises by a bank to give you dollars

From JPM:

> JPM coin... represent United States Dollars held in designated accounts at JPMorgan Chase

So, is it secured by deposits or not?
If I said "you can't build apartments because this is zoned for low density dog houses" what you said _might_ be a relevant comparison.
Those CCP units are more a red herring than anything. The relevant law says "The grass-root organizations of the Communist Party of China in companies shall carry out their activities in accordance with the Constitution of the Communist Party of China." [1], which doesn't automatically imply that they get special access to anything. I think it's more a measure to boost membership than anything (the term "grass-root" is a strong hint).

I also wouldn't be too sure that Google employees outside China aren't spying for the CCP as well, and pulling out of China wouldn't protect against that.

Worrying about an AI research center in China only makes sense from a perspective of those Chinese researchers being more likely to later apply their experience at Chinese companies than if they moved to the US to work for Google, whereafter they might stay and continue working in the US.

[1] http://www.china.org.cn/english/government/207344.htm
One problem with internet debates is the debators only ever know about the people they're debating. Rarely will you convince your "opponent," but you'll probably have an impact on people who read but don't comment. You're debating for the audience.

This is also why people should challenge others in public when needed. Your boss might not change his ways, but your colleagues could.
Surprised they didn't have a longer sunsetting period. Unless the server costs are massive it seems like a year or so would be more appropriate. Maybe their 28 day retention is just low enough that they didn't think there were enough long term players for it to matter.
Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately
Well that's a glib way of evaluating anything. I'd be concerned about the impact on sea life here.

School shootings in the USA and ISIS beheadings don't affect my daily life, either.
notably, the 2 & 10 year has not yet inverted

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10Y2Y
> The only thing it wins on is that it doesn't require a client download.

Well, sorta. On Firefox, Hangouts refuses to function. On Safari, it requires a plugin.

meet.google.com seems to work fine in Firefox, oddly enough.
Apparently it has predicted the last seven recessions. People are using the expression "self-fulfilling prophecy."
I think you're comparing apples to oranges here.

If you reclaim a parking space for another use (such as building accommodation for families or an animal shelter), you're not depriving the car of anything, it's an expensive, large piece of metal and is not sentient.

Next, you'll say that you're depriving car owners from the practicality of parking their vehicles anywhere they like. I'm perfectly fine with depriving car owners from this convenience to allow a human being to have a roof over their head. (speaking from direct experience as I've just minutes ago had to park my car 1km away from home because the city is currently building housing and has restricted parking space nearby)

Then, some might argue that one should be ashamed of helping animals while humans are suffering. That's the exact same train of thought with «we can't allow more migrants in, we have to take care of our "own" homeless people».

This is a false dichotomy. Western societies inequalities are growing larger and larger. Me trying to do my part is insignificant. Me donating to human or animal causes is a small dent into the mountains of inequalities we live on top of. Us collectively, we do make a difference, by donating, voting and generally keeping our eyes open about the world we live in...

Finally, an entirely anecdotal pov: I've witnessed several times extremely poor people going out of their ways to show solidarity to animals or humans. I've also witnessed an awful lot of extremely wealthy individuals complaining about the poor inconveniencing them by just being there, whose wealth was a direct consequences of their ancestors exploiting whose very same poor people.
TaaS – Tar as a Service.
Upvote the GP comment 100 times to get the SEC to reveal the answer on HN now!

/facebookspam
As a photo store clerk I can confirm that this is indeed one of the most frequent requests we get, so this could be a huge timesaver. But you really need to work on the removal part, it’s practically unusable as it is!
Good advice, being ready for a revenge DDOS, but I suspect most of these SSH hunters are busy business people who have a quota of zombie hosts to fill for whatever mining or spamming they're up to. DDOSing doesn't pay like those things do.
Here's a simple example for explaining what this means. Imagine I'm the government, and I sell bonds where I promise I'll pay you back $100 in 5 years or 10 years. Because I'm the government, and I can print money to repay any debt, these bonds are considered very low risk - sometimes they're even called risk free.

The market bids on these bonds, and the market price is public information. Let's say that people are paying $90 for a 5 year bond, meaning they pay $90 today and get $100 in 5 years. Knowing this, we can work out that this is equivalent to a yearly interest rate of 2.13%.

Now we expect that the computed interest rate for the 10 year bond should be higher than the 5 year bond. People want to be compensated for locking up their money for longer. So let's also say people are paying $80 for a 10 year bond, which works out to an interest rate of 2.26%.

These numbers fluctuate up and down every day, and they generally rise and fall with the prevailing interest rates. Here's the key question - what happens if the 10 year interest rate falls below the 5 year rate?

There are a lot of possible reasons, but this often indicates that investors think a recession is around the corner. The reason is that investors are betting that the prevailing interest rates will drop. If interest rates drop, then future bond purchases may have much lower interest rates than those bought today. It turns out you might like the idea of getting 2% interest for 10 years rather than 2.13% for 5 years and then 0.5% for the next 5 years.
> Face ID is so much better than Touch ID.

Yeah, no.
YAML is so badly designed, it shouldn't be used for data either.
I stored an entire 30GB PostgreSQL production database on an AWS ephemeral volume (gets automatically wiped on restart) because I mistook the device ID for one of a regular volume I thought attached.

Found my mistake months later, was able to fix it before disaster struck.
> I provided evidence for my claim that women choose not to go into tech on their own volition.

Uh... no, you didn't? I don't see it. All I see is circular logic: you're citing the lack of women in tech as evidence that they don't want to be there in response to a thread that says the lack of women in tech is a problem.

My point is that there are dozens or hundreds of other career paths where women used to be excluded and are now at parity, so I don't see any reason (other than novelty -- tech is still new, comparatively) for things to be any different here.

And your logic doesn't speak to that at all.
I save all the seeds for 2FA in a separate keepass db & just rescan it on new phone whenever needed. Also, as last time I got an iPhone, I just made a simple javascript local script to paste that CSV seed data into it & click generated links to auto add those to Google 2FA App, https://davch.gitlab.io/dms/otp.html
>Zoom is objectively a good software solution but being de facto forced to install yet another piece of software just to take business meetings has left a sour taste in my mouth.

No kidding. I can't tell conferencing clients apart anymore. I have the following installed: GotoMeeting, WebEX, JoinMe, Zoom, Hangouts Meet, BlueJeans and every other week I'll get invited to a meeting hosted by yet another one (last week someone hosted a meeting with one called 'ringcentral'). They are all about the same, and I can't tell them apart anymore.
Is Kotlin/Native production ready? Why we are not using it (yet)
What is it with Intel and its roadmap. In my book Intel was the pinnacle of execution from as far back as I remember. The last couple of years have seen shocking half hearted attempts at adding things to the roadmap and then jettisoning them silently.
The same can be said about medicine.
Because you expect the share price to grow to reflect the increased likelihood of being paid dividends in the future.
There are no single reactors putting out tens of GW, so just one (at most).
Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes
Thanks for introducing me to `checksec`!
The other posters on the game seem pretty mad.

> So basically all the money we've spent on this game is gone lmao wow

Not sure what they expected, tbh. That money was always gone.

It would be nice if they open sourced it, so that someone could take on the mantle and run private servers. I wonder how difficult reverse-engineering and patching it would be.
Come on are there no limits to how sensitive people can be? It’s joke article on the internet, if that offends someone they need to see a shrink. I’m sensitive about my hair in person, with people I care about, but you really can’t be worrying about what online jokers joke about. That would be a full time job.
Literally going directly off of the nutritional source they cited... Like I said in my comment.

Also, you have to consider that bacon can lose up to something like 75% of its weight during cooking...
Dude. All S-1s say that. I haven't read the first one that didn't.
So IMAP is the next on the kill list. RIP email.
Most of the commentary on the signaling of an inverted yield curve is all parroted by everyone else as “ominous”. Catherine Wood is the only person I’ve seen to go against the grain on this one [0].

Essentially, she notes that the yield curve has been inverted roughly 50% of the time in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Furthermore, during the times it was inverted, it marked periods of strong growth!

It’s an interesting take as everyone else conveniently (more like lazy) are not doing the research and going back as far back as late 18th century. Her point of view is contrarian and refreshingly unique!

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/04/the-economy-will-surprise-to...
I'm with you but with my S10+ at this point.

I use it for browsing the internet casually. As soon as I get to work I hook it up trough my USB-C hub to DeX to watch plex. When I get home, if I want to get some work done I hook it up over DeX and boot ubuntu on it.

I don't bring a computer with me when I travel, I use RDP from DeX if I need to do some real heavy lifting that the Ubuntu distro I have can't do (which rarely happens, but does happen.)

At this point I could go months with my phone, a USB-C PD charger, an HDMI cable, and a cheap ($20) USB-C hub.

DeX is criminally underrated and the major reason I'm going Android (Samsung more than Android even) over iOS this generation. Granted, I'm losing out on security/privacy :(.
JetBrains DataGrip does put up a warning like this before you can do a DELETE on a table, unadorned by a WHERE clause.
Steve Gibson makes some fantastic stand-alone-simple-executable tools!!
I think you have the relationship between yield and demand backwards. The yield of a bond and its price are inversely related, so an inverted yield curve (lower yields at longer durations) implies the opposite of what you said: there is higher demand for longer-dated bonds relative to short-dated ones. One way to interpret this is that investors expect poorer asset returns in the short term, so they are willing to lock in a lower yield for a long period of time instead of, for example, taking significant losses in the stock market.
I started programming on VT-100s, moved to the IBM monochome (green) and then amber screens (over-hyped in my opinion.) Younger guys and their EVGA monitors would program in yellow on magenta which I couldn't stand. But nothing is as bad for readability to my 60 year old eyes as all forms of gray on gray. Anyone trying to use a historical argument for this color scheme seems misguided to me.
> "When Apple introduced dark mode for MacOS, I thought it was cool," says Bir, the Virginia programmer and artist. "But I wish it was Solarized."

I’m not sure I understand what this means. Do they want UI elements to be Solarized?
If their claims about not collecting data from users is correct, then this is something I could get behind.
This is like .01% of users though.
The SEC has not been enthusiastic about Bitcoin ETFs. On another recent application (VanEck):

>Bitcoin ETF is “absolutely not” going to be approved by the SEC, says CSO of CoinShares

> The whole cryptocurrency market has been eagerly waiting for the approval of a Bitcoin ETF by the U.S. Securities and Exchanges Commission [SEC]. The reason the exchange-traded product is of much importance to the community is that it is considered as the gateway to drive the institutional investors into the space.

>So far, the commission has rejected all the proposed rule changes with the main reason stated as concerns over market manipulation... https://ambcrypto.com/bitcoin-etf-is-absolutely-not-going-to...

There have been a bunch of applications, all turned down so far.
I wouldnt be able to say why anyone would want to be working at oracle these days.

What compelling reason does oracle even have to attract talent?

(Im not being snide, seeious questions)
If there were such TVs in the 80s they would have been extremely high end models and very uncommon. The “static” interpretation would be far more common, and indeed is what Gibson meant.
You have it backwards: the NLRA guarantees the right _not_ to join a union unless the _employer_ decides otherwise (Sec. 7. [157.])

And in many states, under deceptively named "right to work" laws, union-shops are illegal even if the employer agreed to them. Interestingly, while employers can not always require union membership as terms of employment, they can always require binding arbitration and non-competes which is the opposite of a "right to work"
On the other hand, one would not want to oscillate between breezy "no problem" claims, and engineering jargon. Because jargon is likewise not convincing. It might be helpful to just link to the reliability assessment. The document linked from the MIT website is just a conference publication (I looked it up) which is pretty vague and is really just a concept overview.

Note: I acknowledge that you have much more expertise here than I do, but it's not translating well. OTOH, I'm receptive to actual analysis - I have a PhD and work in a model-intensive engineering field.
None of your rebuke is actually accurate.

The CDC acknowledges that batches of bad vaccines do occur. How can a vaccine be bad except that (1) it doesn't work or (2) it actually hurts the patient?

Also, people from the CDC do leave to work for pharma companies. That is true...so a revolving door exists. Decide for yourself if that could produce unwanted collusion.

The other links support my claims that Vaccine companies send shoddy vaccines to other countries even if they are rejected here. World health should be about more than profit. Vaccines can be helpful, but not without honest discussions which Vaccine suppliers seem unwilling to have.
Then you’re out of touch. Almost all men are very unhappy about losing hair, but very few mind being blond. Some even like it!
Advertising on Pinterest is really tough. Their system is buggy and paying for the ad nearly impossible internationally, last time I checked. Due to these reasons, we put our all ads into Facebook instead of splitting some to Pinterest a couple of months ago.
I wonder if you could make the attacker crunch out some shah-256 and you can profit by mining Bitcoin.
"We currently depend on the continued services and performance of our key personnel, including Benjamin Silbermann and others. Mr. Silbermann’s employment, and the employment of our other key personnel, is at will, which means they may resign or be terminated for any reason at any time."

Genuine question: is it normal for the CEO of a company in the US to have no notice period?
If you are in a privileged position, and then that privilege is reduced, it can feel like a barrier is going up. It's not.

When you rebalance scales, the side that was too high has to go down a little.
Snopes is run by a conman in bed with big business.
I am working on an effort to build a course for my younger daughter. Its less ambitious than this, but she is having a lot of fun learning.

I am targeting visual programming with Scratch 3
Faking volume is an issue with exchanges, not Bitcoin. Exchanges are in the business of trading. They have incentives to transact Bitcoin. Bull market produces more volume. Bear market has less volume. I take this as most Bitcoin people now are HODLers. They actually see it as a Store of Value.

With this research, the Bitcoin ETF group is telling SEC: Our ETF will better than other exchanges. Please approve.
I hear what you're saying and don't disagree with you at all.

But one thing that I've found beneficial is that a lot of modern smartphones support wifi calling. I haven't had a single dropped call in my basement since enabling it.
EUV Arrives, More Issues Ahead with Uptime, Defectivity, LER and Process Flows
How Japanese bamboo art made it big in the West (2018)
No, it did not mean blue or any kind of blue tint. He meant gray. And I can’t say that any CRT I saw had a tint towards any color specifically.
EDIT: The website says these ads are not individually targeted. Hooray!!

I'm leaving the rest of this comment for context.

...

Wait, these are still individually targeted?

In that case, I need to learn a lot more about them before I can be OK with them -- specifically, how it's possible to individually target ads without collecting data about users.

> that provided a identifying token

If that's what it's doing, then I'm out.
I've used zoom before but never hosted with it. It's always been great. I just looked at their pricing page and was shocked that they give so much on their free tier!

It seems like a small company could get away with the free tier for a long time. My only question is, for that 40 minute time out on meetings, does that mean you can just rejoin after 40 minutes, or is that a lifetime limit on the account? Is the only thing stopping you from having a longer meeting really just the hassle of rejoining every 40 minutes?
It's amazing what having enough money to put you on the front page of every google search can do.
I had drawn on the contemporaneous newspaper accounts in Val d’Aosta and Chamonix for my story.

This is a good example of why re-writing another person's stories is not journalism. I've been saying that for over 25 years in newsrooms across the country. Eventually, your laziness bites you.
Yes, very. That's boilerplate.
And you don't hear men asking for more men in nursing school!
Or you don't hear women asking for equal number of women in mining or oil field work ,despite being well paid.

A lot of posturing with no intellectual rigor or honesty.
How do I get notified when this happens? While that page technically has an RSS feed, I am not hopeful that it is the kind that will update when you update the site.
I don't know. That's why I say we need to come up with them. It's not easy to reconcile our values with the obvious ones. It's not easy to reconcile our values with the current criminal justice/prison system either though. My point is simply abolishing or greatly scaling back the current criminal justice/prison system without a replacement doesn't address the needs of society that the current system (poorly) serves. Without some mechanism to dissuade antisocial behavior, you get anarchy for a brief period, and then people start organizing vigilante groups, and then the vigilante group becomes the government.
At least Mark Gardiner has the integrity to reflect on his mistake.
The OP was making a semantic point. Take their example and write it in Python and imagine trying to actually work with it. I partially applied a function in Python once. Sucked.
>I think people making money making music was an aberration in history, not "the way it should be".

Whether that is "the way it should be" or not, depends on what we want it to be as a society.

Not to whether some technology helps it or not. Untraceable murder could be very easy tomorrow with some new technology, but we'd still not want it to happen.

So the part that "artificial scarcity" helped musicians make money off of their art, is a historical and technological accident.

But whether artists should be able to make money off of their art (scarcity be damned) is an ethical and "what kind of society we want" question.

We shouldn't abandon our "oughts" at the first sign of some technology working against them.
thats not anonymous at all and wouldnt pass gdpr
It's interesting, all top results in Google for "affirmative action in medicine" are about ethnicity, not gender [1] (same for psychology), can you point me to the source where it's something normal for men as well?

[1] https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=affirmative+action+in+...
Without PoW the crypto you describe does nothing to stop the TTP from re-writing history. The TTP can just re-generate the chain starting from the block they wish to re-write.

With both a private blockchain and a signed transaction log you have to rely on the tx log/blockchain being published so that third parties can verify that all updates are consistent.
If we compare software engineering to retail, not everyone can work for walmart (Google), but have to make do with the random dollar store chain (Oracle).

There is only so many decent jobs you know.
I don't live in USA but a couple of years back I was working for a large financial organization in my country and was flat out told don't even think you are getting promoted because we need to lift our diversity so no white men will be promoted.

I left not too long after that.
Good point. I don't know why it bothers me so much.
Cosplay.