skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If inflammation is high then something is up for sure

Is that really the case? I have psoriasis on my elbows and knees which is caused by an overzealous immune system attacking the skin and causing excessive new skin cell growth (which causes the dry plaques). I guess there is an underlying systemic cause, but most of the (extreme) treatments are about blocking the immune system response.
Many predictions of population growth converge to a value between 9 and 12 billion, maybe followed by a slow long-term decline after 2050 or so. This would be high but manageable with proper resource distribution.

These are more pessimistic predictions, of course, but the more optimistic ones are based on the observable trend that higher standards of living correlate with lower birth rates.
I do not know about submitting to archive.org, but i use Save Page WE for Firefox to make full local copies of sites (it essentially takes the current DOM state and inlines all external files/dependencies to a single HTML file and then prompts you to save that file which can be opened later):

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/save-page-we/
Man, this project looks great. Many python devs, myself included, struggle with mobile platform onboarding. This could faster the process.
If you look at the example video, the videos are encoded in relatively large blocks that are easily recoverable from compression.
> It is better to not block ads. Just leave website if you don’t like it.

IMO it's better to do both. Ad supported websites are usually not worth spending time on, but on the occasion, you can still send a signal that you disapprove of this business model.

> the ads quality will help you decide about content quality.

Usually, the very presence of ads tell you the site content is most likely garbage.
>I'm launching a new forum for people who like the message of my comic.

>The new forum will be anti-pornography, anti-prostitution.

>It will favor the radical feminist perspective over a liberal or conservative one.

Radical feminism is a dude telling people what they can and can't do with their bodies, apparently.

I swear these people want to be puritans but it's too unfashionable where they live so they wrap it up with some token progressive buzzwords.
Interesting. This could mean that Intel actually discovered and thus knew about all those security-holes before the non-Intel researchers did.

Or they're just being awkwardly disingenuous here, that's also a possibility.
Nawa's carbon nanotube ultra-capacitors are going into mass production
That's interesting considering how closely Russian and Ukrainian are related and that in Russian, it's masculine and the synonym for the anatomical "tongue".
The world population will saturate around 10B. It's not really something to worry about for two reasons: (1) From what I've read, there's very little that can be done about it in terms of policy. (2) The largest effect has been caused by the exponential growth in the last couple of centuries. The additional 50% won't bring anything radically different.
Entrepreneurs should learn how to code
3M senior citizens in the US are still paying off their student loans
One thing I never understood is why it logs the data deleted? It obviously logged it on insert, it could just log the row ID's deleted.

They say its for rollback, but why wouldn't you just mark rows deleted during transaction, then actually delete them later in the background?

Anyone know if other database do this differently, I think Postgres doesn't log the full row on delete but haven't been able to find much on it.

This is always a big problem when I try and use SQL server to store things like logs where you want to retain them for a period of time then delete them. At high volumes the logging overhead becomes an issue especially in the back up system. Usually have to do a separate DB in simple mode or start doing partitioned tables with truncate, would be so nice not to have to think about it much.
If anyone can help for climate change - it's easy: don't eat beef. Really. Сattle produce TONS of methane. Less consuming => less market share.
Yes, everyone should have the opportunity for education, but if no one can live on the pay of an uber driver so everyone skills up to get a better paying job, who will drive the ubers?

I think everyone working fulltime should have a liveable wage.
> I spit on hipsters and their endless moral outrage. I'm an unapologetic meat eater. I love my cuts of beef carved off of methane farting cows and you can pry them out of my cold, dead hands.

This doesn’t strike me as a particularly reasonable argument. There are plenty of enjoyable things that are bad for you, those around you, or in this case, the whole planet (cigarettes, slavery, rolling coal, etc.) What would it take for you to care about “methane farting cows”?

Aside: Cows actually don’t fart much. Most of the methane they produce comes out the other end as a burp.
>Do people have any personal accountability anymore?

Yes.

The problem is that people shouldn't have to be accountable for failure-modes that they in no way have the training to predict, understand, or recover from.

The FDA explains the specific risks of a drug. They don't just say "This drug can cause issues.".

Hand-waving all corporate fault by admitting that your corporation is perfectly okay with beta software being on the public road as long as the car owner assumes responsibility is not a solution to the liability question.

A responsible beta program would 1) not be on the public highway in any means 2) require the participants to have a high familiarity with the product and the technical know-how to be effective members of the testing community; which should include training on not only error and incident reporting, but failure recovery and failure scope.

It's perfectly reasonable that a user would operate a mechanism incorrectly when their only advice is "Good luck, it's experimental!".
You say:

> A big help to his plans was that the people denied the right to hold weaponry for personal defence were… Jews.

Mill also said:

> That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

Which rather limits the effectiveness of — for example — the Jewish people taking up arms in self-defence in WW2. However, if you wish to argue that every victim of persecution was defending the other victims rather than themselves, the same argument would enable those same victims using their guns to shoot the propagandists. In fact, as Mill was a Utilitarian, I would expect [1] him to prefer that the free speech of literal-third-Reich-Nazis to be suppressed with a few literal bullets in the face, than to allow the holocaust to be escalated to 17 million dead.

[1] If someone resurrected him with an ancestor simulation, I’d expect him to have difficulty believing something that bad could happen and that it wasn’t merely a thought experiment like the utilitarian eyelashes thought experiment (whose formal name I’ve forgotten) or the trolley problem. However, as a note of caution to what I’ve written, although I’ve studied Philosophy formally, I got a poor grade and may be misrepresenting Mill without being aware of it.
Rolling back environmental impact means lower economic growth, poorer infrastructure

This isn't true. It just requires a different development path than Europe and Asia have followed. For example, local power generation can bootstrap a small, isolated economy without requiring massive investments in a nation-wide energy grid. And renewable power (solar or wind) lends itself much better to small-scale deployments than fossil fuel generators.
What part of "eating less meat / driving less/ relocalize industry" will kill people from heatwaves and cause mass migrations?
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As starting points I'd recommend checking out Digital Minimalism [0] (a concept and book by Cal Newport) and Tristan Harris' work at the Center For Humane Tech [1].

There are lots of products that try to help people spend less time on social media. There are website/app blockers for this (including mine [2]) and tools like Rescue Time [3] which tell you where you're spending your time.

There are communities around this too like https://www.reddit.com/r/nosurf

Also, device makers, Apple especially, are starting to pay more attention to this. Even Facebook has made some steps in this direction (partly by co-opting the "Time Well Spent" phrase that Tristan Harris pushed) but they are too incentivised to do the opposite here and it's unlikely they'll do much of their own volition.

[0] - http://www.calnewport.com/books/digital-minimalism/

[1] - https://humanetech.com/

[2] - https://www.deepmode.app/

[3] - https://www.rescuetime.com/
Indeed, it's not cost but investment. There's a return on investment and it's not just getting rid of carbon. IMHO the easiest way to get the world moving to mostly wind + solar is continuing to lower the cost (unsubsidized). Lower cost of energy enables new use cases.

People seem to be talking about replacing existing energy suppliers with clean ones. Instead we need to be talking about what it will take to generate 10-100X the amount of energy in a few decades and what that would enable. Cheap clean energy enables a lot of things that are currently too expensive/polluting to consider. Countries that manage this will be able to grow more rapidly economically. China looks like it is well positioned for that.

I'm not against nuclear but it will have to come down in price and upfront investment cost for that to have meaningful impact short term. As long as people still dream about maybe being cost competitive with coal/gas one day, the ambitions are simply not high enough. It needs to be vastly cheaper than that. 2-3x would keep it competitive with solar and wind for some decades.

IMHO any price comparisons against current prices are in any case effectively obsolete since those are likely trending down for solar and wind for some time to come. If prices drop by another few double digit percentages, a lot of home owners will do the math and put some solar on their roof.

Carbon capture schemes only make sense when the combined cost of that and keeping the carbon producing stuff they offset functioning is lower. However, even without carbon capturing a lot of these solutions are already problematic in terms of cost and making them more expensive will only speed up their demise. With coal, that has already happened. Natural gas will last a bit longer. However, when wind and solar bids start undercutting these solutions consistently the same will happen there. There's a real chance that remaining gas plants switch to clean sources of gas (i.e. generated using solar/wind/nuclear) when that gets cheap enough.
> [...] its defenders should focus on actually showing what modern PHP code looks like.

Laravel does this very well, not just by being a great framework but also in its ecosystem (Envoyer, Forge, Spark, Nova, Horizon, Socialite) and its documentation (https://laravel.com/docs/master).
> You have some syntax to opt into a later release (e.g. doing `<?php(version=8)` at the start of a script.

imagine the exponential complexity as old behaviours need to be kept around for various levels of opting in.
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I'm not really sure why this comment is getting downvoted, but literally every single thing in that post still holds true.
Well, github, just to name one:). Also shopify, digital ocean, stripe. I also worked on a large ruby app that was faster than another large Java app.
Keep is mind that all these platforms handle a great deal of requests at any given time, so we're not talking simple web apps.

In my experience bad software design, bad DB design and bad developers are the major cause for performance issues, you rarely get to that level of polish with your app that the difference between different languages really matters.

At micro-bench level PHP always beats ruby pr python, but most apps have performance issues without ever getting to that level.

My funnies experience was with a java team that where baffled why their app is slow. I told them it looks like they have a huge bottleneck on the DB, their answer: "Yeah but it's java, it should be fast"
> When re-rendering is throttled, you get progressive rendering only when the network is relatively slow,

I suspect this is the issue... In a modern multi-process browser and OS, it's exceptionally hard to know if it's worth making a low-res render, or if there is more data sitting in kernel/application buffers somewhere which hasn't yet made it to the renderer due to CPU pressure. For example, if you have an event queue for un-gzipping and another for jpeg decompressing, you should never do any jpeg work unless the gzip queue is empty.

Every event queue in the system needs to correctly prioritize every step in the rendering process, otherwise work is wasted rendering a progressive jpeg more times than necessary.
jq: Like sed, but for JSON
> BTW. I hope we're not just arguing about whether the word "perfect" was used in the article correctly.

I guess I'm trying to make a point about theory vs. practice. I think theorists tend to be pretty cavalier about writing down models and waving away the fine details, whereas practitioners tend to appreciate how hard it is to get the details right.

As an example, the literature on finance is full of this stuff. There's a whole body of literature on how to create an optimal stock portfolio under various constraints assuming you know the joint distribution of individual stock returns. It turns out that fitting that distribution in a sensible way is extremely difficult to do. The theorists came up with a `clever' model that's mostly useless in practice, but everyone still insists that it has `applications' in finance.

Personally I find theory really interesting, and beautiful in its own right. It just annoys me when the usefulness of that theory gets overstated.
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The old security issues with PHP were if you used SQL strings queries without sanitizing user input, or using eval or a bad configured server where someone could upload a file and had it be executed.

So you can use PHP without a framework, you need a good configured server, use the correct SQL related functions and practices.

Example for a project you have a third party payment system that can send you a POST request when an event happens, you want to log this event in the database and maybe trigger a simple thing. I can(and done this) with just 1 PHP file, no third party dependencies and I did not had to install anything on the server(because PHP is already there) so no installing node,npm,npm packages maybe git .

You will need a framework if you have a big project, you would be wasting a lot of time to do the logins, user management, view rendering from scratch and probably have a lot of bugs. There are minimalistic frameworks and libraries and you can use something that matches your need.
It was great in hindsight. Sadly the school is a vastly different place than it was 10 years ago when I went. The new headmaster has traded play time for school time, but it's had the opposite effect he's intended by decimating their grades. We used to come in the top 20 state schools in the country for overall achievement, but now they're barely reaching the top 100. He of course blames too many video games at home for that, and not his changes to the schedule... Sadly the US way is certainly the way UK schools seem to be going.

As much as I hate saying it, I can't imagine sending my child to a state school anymore. I won't be surprised if the class divide widens even more as wealthy parents start sending their children to private schools or home schooling them.
* Weed Plant for Paper/Fuel/Wood

* Nuclear over Coal

* 100% Ethanol over petrol/ethanol mix

* Replace Garbage under ground with Bio gas/Bio fuel recycling centers

* Open Source design/plans/information of all tech in today's world

* Ban on GMO food , instead 100% organic

Its almost like its an SCAM for censorship, control , money and power
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Your point as related to security, so mention what security problems are in modern PHP and frameworks.
PHP has many problems, but I always considered string handling one of PHP's strengths. Considering how PHP's string interpolation has gone mainstream I don't seem to be the only one:

PHP:

print("Hello, $name")
print("Hello, ${getName()})

Python:

print(f"Hello, {name}")

C#

Console.WriteLine($"Hello, {name}")

Javascript

Console.Log(`Hello, ${name}`)

Ruby

puts "Hello, #{name}"

etc.
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When no one can forecast plausible consequences for global warming that have any consistency, it's very hard to have any idea. We have wild apocalyptic visions of the world ending in twelve years, or Mad Max resource scarcity causing the downfall of society, massive sealevel rises wiping out coastal cities. Or it could be an adjustment of a degree or two upward, to bring us in line with the averages for the Medieval Warm Period and other previous climate optimums.

Nor do we have any real understanding of the equilibrium effects of the climate, and many who are pushing climate models are quite obviously ignorant of shifts in global temperature and atmospheric composition on a paleontological scale.

Nobody really knows what the hell is going to happen, and when presented with rank fear-mongering, it's prudent to puzzle yourself with the classic question, cui bono?
Does it have an actual debugger already? Or are we still stuck with xdebug?
That is not the case[1].

[1]: http://androidbeginnerpoint.blogspot.com/2016/10/how-to-get-...
Agreed, articles like these do absolutely nothing to address PHP's insane warts, some of which you mentioned.

That's not helpful. Laravel can objectively be the best web app framework in the world and I still won't touch it, because of PHP.

Predictability, minimum WTFs per minute, consistency, sane defaults -- these win over short-term convenience, every time.
... What exactly do you have against the NY Times? I'm from Germany, don't have any ties, and generally enjoy their articles (thus upvote them). Not everything you disagree with is a conspiracy.
The Language and Writing System of MS408 (Voynich) Explained
> Of course, the official meaning of the world "natural", as it relates to the list of ingredients on a package, has been diluted to be meaningless, as you say.

It's been restricted to be meaningless, IMO. If we go by your definition of artificial, then a lot of what doesn't qualify as "natural" on food labels isn't artificial either. Many "chemicals" added to food are substances that we've evolved to deal with. GMOs in particular aren't artificial by this definition, as they're mostly about making some food contain stuff that was previously found in other food.
I think this was a commonly misinterpreted study from 2016.

https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/33797273/BOLAND-...

With this being the key figure:
https://postimg.cc/pmQCfdZq

And the key conclusions from that table:

"The impacts from food production for a vegan diet reflect the least GHG emissions when compared with that of a meat-based or vegetarian diet. As per Table 10, vegan diets produce carbon dioxide emissions of 1,798 g/person/day, showing the lowest amount of emissions, versus 7,891 g/person/day from a meat-based diet, demonstrating the highest emissions (Table 10). Vegetarian diets produce slightly higher emissions than a vegan diet, totaling 2,622 g/person/day. The largest individual food group contributor is red meats within the meat-based diet in the amount of 5,153 g/person/day. At the opposite end in a vegan diet, the lowest contributor to GHG emissions is potatoes."

Every study I am aware of is clear that a vegan diet is less carbon intense than a carnivore diet. Beef especially, which is reported as 49% of the total for meat eaters.

I think the people suggesting that "in the US it would raise CO2 emissions" is like a third-order effect people imagined up by drawing a box around the US and saying emissions from cattle grown in other countries for our consumption somehow emit carbon that doesn't get to the US while simultaneously assuming land use conversion in the US to increase agricultural output of plants which would increase emissions locally. Maybe. A lot of our crops go to feed those cattle.

I would be extremely skeptical of any claim like this that flies in the face of 3rd grade science class where we learned that at each step up in the food chain 90% of the energy is lost to support systems like... being alive... while only 10% remains as biomass to eat. This is basically thermodynamics in action with edge effects that contrarians want to focus on.
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This also affects other blockers.[1][2]

I never reproduced such issue on my side, so unfortunately there is no way for me to investigate -- given that this affects different blockers with different code base, I suspect a filter issue.

* * *

[1] https://venturebeat.com/2016/03/13/youtube-shows-adblock-plu...

[2] https://help.getadblock.com/support/solutions/articles/60001...
Another article on the subject

https://phys.org/news/2019-05-bristol-academic-voynich-code-...
I'll be honest -- this graph gives me a headache to interpret -- I wish there was at least a single sentence elaboration of what the dropdown values indicate.

For example, selecting "Secular/No Religion" I see that Sydney scored about 83 on "Yes vote for SSM" (meaning 83% of those voting in Sydney voted in favor, right?). It scored about 44 on "Selected indicator" (in this case "secular", right?).

So -- 44% of Sydney self-reports as "Secular" -- right?
This was absolutely marvelous! Apart from it being the best wedding present ever, the write up is superb: generally with build projects the focus is on HW, however, the most intriguing aspect of this one was the design of the cards and fortune generation. The fact that people could affect the fortune being generated by manipulating cards was an ingenious touch. When people have an input in the generation they’ll be more apt to believe in the generated fortune.

The references to folktales and automatic plot generation are great. Something like Llull’s Ars Magna wheels could also have been used for random, rather than deterministic generation perhaps.

I looked at other projects done by the author, they are fascinating. You can read a good interview with her here: https://web.archive.org/web/20160507041048/https://femhype.c...
> Granted a flywheel costs less per unit mass and compressed air is cheap, but on a capacity and fabrication basis? Maybe. I don't think I'd call it a shoo-in though and wouldn't invest in it myself.

Its power and energy density is next to nothing in the industry.

Fabrication, cost on the market? Even most basic flywheels like one used as industrial UPSes can be used right away for grid storage, and be more or less competitive with their high round-trip efficiency.

This just shows that how low a commercial opportunity for energy storage as such is. You need truly monstrous daily variations in energy price to make people put money it it.
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But I am productive with PHP, I don't know docker or related tool chains, I am more productive in PHP then Python(because of my own experience and dilikes for Python like syntax), the ecosystems are equivalent for my task so I would use PHP.
Buf if PHP was not good enough then sure I would always use the best task for the job(I used Java for a different project or even use a bash script and pipe UNIX tools)
I don't disagree with your points -- but then it turns out that PHP is still the same old crappy language it was ten years ago.