skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pick up the phone and ring your local council right now - they all seem to have a different approach to this, but the person on the other end of the phone will have the answer for you. They will be very interested in the outcome of this.
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No, the point is that people do write code that is unsafe. A cursory glance at recent stack overflow questions tagged with "node.js" and "sql" shows many questions and answers with SQL Injection vulnerabilities.

By providing an API that makes it virtually impossible to create an SQL Injection vulnerability, we can allow novices to write code safely. Once you know what the `sql` tag is doing, it's really easy to review the code and be confident it isn't vulnerable.
We can always get more and longer heatwaves and higher sea levels. It might be more than normal now, but if we don't stop it's only going to get worse.

If we stop now and find a way to get the carbon out of the atmosphere fast enough we might even have a chance to go back to the old normal, but we have to act fast. Please help to push for it!
I’ve never quite understood why subletting is illigal in places like this.

Person A needs money because rent is high, person B needs housing because housing is scarce, A rents B their couch and everyone is happy.

Obviously that’s a little different than just sticking the whole thing on Airbnb, but it looks to me like it’s legally considered the same when it really shouldn’t be.
"The reason why this is false is because in biology, there is an enormous correlation structure in which, to a good approximation, everything is correlated with everything."

Yes, but not all at the same ratios; it is not the case that literally everything is correlated to everything else to 99.9%. When people say "everything is correlated with everything" they mean that 60%s and 70% and 80%s show up in a large number of places, it does not literally mean that for every two possible processes the correlation is 99.9%. It's not practical to set up a large correlation net with that strong a correlation everywhere unless it really is all the same thing. (It might be mathematically possible, but it's not something you're going to encounter naturally.)

You're still better off choosing something that is very strongly correlated, because you have still shaved off huge swathes of the possibility space to start with which is much less likely to be directly involved. Yes, you still have a decent chance of being wrong, but you also have to remember that in the process of being wrong, you will gather more data. (Well... assuming that you actually listen to the data and don't hide behind some scientific dogma, but that's another discussion.) You're better off choosing something and probing than sitting there, agog at the net of correlations, and being paralyzed by the possibilities. Get in there and start shaving them off, and start with your best guesses, even if they're only your best guesses by a little bit.
Currently 9% https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/3698/Who-will-win-t...
Asbestos-level? Do you have any sources to back up that micro plastics cause cancer?
So is it just a question of risk tolerance? Are the laws clear or are companies like GitHub in a grey area with out precedence?
> The fact that this was a regular daily activity once upon a time is a pretty good indication that it's not all that dangerous.

Sure, like drink-driving or smoking
It's pretty well known that Trump has been irksome to many in the intelligence community and the "establishment" (both status quo Republicans and Democrats). I wouldn't be surprised if the powers that be help move the crash along so that it occurs when Trump is in office. As it appears now, many want the country to move in a leftwards direction - more government intervention and regulation. The best way to achieve that would be having an example of why our current system is unsustainable (think of the momentum and public approval of FDR's "New Deal" after the Great Depression occurred, which many, perhaps somewhat incorrectly, attribute to laissez-faire economics and lack of government intervention) and the economy at this point, whether rightly or wrongly, is completely tied to Trump. He's been taking credit for it for some time. If it goes belly up, most people will not take his accusations of manipulation and wrongdoing (i.e. Fed policy) seriously.
My particular needs for PDF creation are somewhat unusual, so I'm not surprised that Acrobat Pro seems to be the only thing that suits my needs. If anyone knows of a PDF creation library that has good support for the various image compression schemes supported by PDF, I'd love to know about it.

Currently I'm using a 10 year old paid version of Acrobat Pro because I'm unwilling to spend another $500 to get a modern copy simply to compress images. I use it for scanning and archiving old computer manuals. In many cases jbig on 1bpp images is good enough; other times I want to use one of the more sophisticated hybrid schemes so I can have B&W or color images interspersed on the page with 1bpp text. Acrobat does a pretty good job of auto-deskewing images and doing analysis to figure out which compression type to use in different sections of the same page.
I think you should separate the concepts of Java (the language) and the JVM in your mind while making your decision. You can absolutely write Clojure without touching Java, but at some point if your app scales you are going to have to understand optimizing and tuning the JVM, that being said, it's no different than optimizing and tuning the underlying OS (from a conceptual standpoint), it just happens to be a virtual run-time. You are not writing Java to tune the JVM as most of it is set by parameters and config files.

If you are dead set on no JVM there is always ClojureScript.

For reference I have worked in Clojure, CL and a little Scheme, but would not claim to be an expert in the latter two. From my experience Clojure is a LISP built for building user centric apps, where many of the others are an assortment of projects of people scratching their itch. Some good, some bad, some complete and documented, some not. They are very powerful, but seem to have less stewardship to keep the project on focus to be a dev platform for building holistic applications for businesses.

while it gets linked to a lot in discussions like this, it's worth noting the following article:

http://www.marktarver.com/bipolar.html

That is very much what CL and Scheme felt like to me.

Also to note, I have never worked with any of the commercial offerings for CL, so take my opinion on the matter with the grain of salt that my exposure to them has been limited to open source offerings.
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At no point in the last 40 years has the US government held a higher moral ground than the Iranian government. The USA has killed far more innocent people under far worse pretext than any other nation on Earth.
Right, I "know" what to do; but I don't know if it's "right" for me to get involved. Appreciate the link; I'll report it tonight.
I'm hoping you're being sarcastic - if so, you're right, the US is becoming more and more transparent in its use of power to simply force countries to do whatever it wants.
This blog post is highly misleading. For example, they start off with several paragraphs about security/privacy implications, but this change doesn't have any security/privacy implications. That's because they have explicitly stated that they will not deprecate the observational webRequest API, which has exactly the same privacy considerations as the content blocking API. However because the observational API provides "important functionality for which there is no alternative" (to their tracking business), it will not be deprecated. But the content blocking API which also provides important functionality for which there is no alternative (but hinders their advertising business) is being deprecated.

Furthermore here you can see a tweet from Justin Schuh, lead of security and privacy on Google Chrome, where he claims that the "sole motivation is correcting privacy and security deficiencies" (which I just debunked as being a possibility), not performance: https://twitter.com/justinschuh/status/1134092257190064128

So between Justin Schuh and Simeon Vincent (author of the post you linked), who is lying? It must be at least one of them.

But let's ignore the misleading claims about security/privacy and just focus on the performance issue.

In this post, they include absolutely no numbers or measurements of the performance effects of using the content blocking API. They give some explanation of what is technically required to implement each approach, and certainly the declarative API is a simpler approach, but you made that point already. And I responded to it. Just because the API is "obviously simpler" doesn't mean the performance advantage is in any way significant, and could even be outweighed by the increased ad load due to the less powerful API. It's just not at all obvious from what they are saying here that the change is worth compromising user functionality over.

If you want a source with actual measurements, you should check the Ghostery team's response to the manifest v3 changes: https://whotracks.me/blog/adblockers_performance_study.html

Here are some highlights:

> All content-blockers except DuckDuckGo have sub-millisecond median decision time per request.

> Time to Process a Request in Ghostery (median): 0.007 ms

> Loading Ghostery's Blocking Engine (from cache): 0.03 ms

> Memory Consumption of Ghostery's Blocking Engine (at startup, in Chrome): 1.8 MB

Note that last one: 1.8 MB memory consumption. And they're arguing that we need to be "setting up and tearing down this component as needed" to conserve that "valuable" 1.8 MB. Nonsense.
you people are sick
> "Anti-fraud software had found Harman's first name in reviews and connected the listing to him."

Pretty interesting to me...

> "It's illegal for council tenants to sublet their homes and we carry out tenancy checks, as well as monitoring short-term letting websites for any potential illegal sublets."

Also pretty interesting to me... it's nice to see that the councils in London are using their own technological advances to fight illegal activity like this!
tell that to ukrainians, ok?
Build more housing capacity. An increased supply of housing could support both long term housing and legal Airbnb rentals.

Because of static supply, the two use cases are competing in a zero sum way, but that needn’t be the case.
A council flat is an apartment rented as part of a socialized housing scheme to low-income households. Usually the rent is much much much lower than renting on the free housing market.
Sub-letting is usually explicitly forbidden when you are part of one of these schemes.
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+1 - in particular, it's notable that the proposed legislation doesn't include an inflation adjustment, i.e. in real terms, the maximum cash transaction will decrease over time until cash becomes impractical, even across multiple transactions.
Why don't I just steal your stuff?
Doesn't get more "typical US brute force approach" than that, eh?
Imagine what would happen if India or Pakistan (a muslim country on top of everything else!) did that to the US. How do you think "assuming command" would go down there?
What is this??? I see a gif with terminals commands and a sign up. You have no call to action. There is nothing on the page that tell me what this is about or how this will benefit me.
They were probably not thinking about human lives at all, merely about how to game the regulations they had to meet. It's not mere negligence, but intentional short-sightedness. Forget that this is about human lives, it's merely about red tape you need to get past.

That's the real corporate evil: losing sight of the big picture of what your product is supposed to accomplish in the world, and see it merely as a vehicle for profit, where the regulations are merely obstacles you need to bypass, rather than a necessary good that ensures your product is safe and provides real value to the world.

And I fear this kind of thinking is incredible common in large corporations. It doesn't always lead to disasters like the 737 Max, the VW emission scandal, or the Fukushima or Deepwater disasters, but losing sight of the larger context of what you're doing does enable those kind of disasters.

After the mortgage crisis and other banking misbehaviours, all people working at Dutch banks (including developers like me) are required (and trained, to some extent) to always keep this big picture in mind: what does this decision mean for the company, the customers, the shareholders and also society in general. All 4 need to be balanced. Maybe this should be more common among all industries.

Corporations certainly do need to be held accountable for their actions, and for the corporate culture they create, because that will impact the actions of the corporation as a whole. If everybody just focuses on the immediate requirements (passing that emissions test no matter how, making the plane pretend to be the same in order to pass certification) without considering the larger picture, that is a result of the corporate culture and the way performance of employees is measured. The corporation is absolutely responsible for that, and yes, maybe it should be considered evil when upper management fosters or allows a culture of this kind of short-sightedness.
> No, no, and no. Cars are getting more and more efficient, and there are many affordable efficient cars today.

Which people don't buy most of the time. By your explanation many people seem to be either rich or the price of cars (over lifetime) is still too low. I don't see the majority of people being rich, so that only leaves the other option.

> But there are still people that live in the countryside, who have no other means of transportation, that‘d get hit pretty hard by even higher taxes on fuel. It‘s how they get to work, how they get their groceries, how they get to their friends‘ place.

People in the country-side are the first to state that higher rent is the price of living in a city -- to turn that around: Higher transportation costs are the price of living in the country-side.

> Low-income households? Tax evaders?

The first. You don't pay taxes below a certain income, low wages still hit you. Tax evaders are usually not hit by either.
Sure. I mean, it's not "them". It's us. Everyone.

I do bad things all the time because I have little agency.

I'm planning to make some major changes to move towards that, but still, if every store around me uses plastic in food etc I can't skip it.

We need to price in externalities. It's that simple. We need to cut this bullshit about the 'short-term economy' or phasing things out over 40 years or whatever; this isn't an emotional argument.

If we don't account for the cost of pollution we are going to kill ourselves.
>Was there a single UN report that was able to prove with certainty it was from the government and not the opposition?

There wasn't, and this fake news has been widely debunked.

That doesn't stop the blood-thirsty types from continuing to claim it happened in their call for war, more war, more endless war ..
I also would add that testing IaC is not something I see mentioned very often.

That said, I think the pros outweigh the cons.
If you are stew / soup fan and just getting into it. I cannot recommend a pressure cooker enough. Reduces cooking time by 60-80%.

Just throw in a load of veg and you can have pretty much a weeks worth of food to freeze ready in 10minutes incredibly cheaply.

If you also eat a lot of dried beans / lentils / chickpeas it is a godsend for how quickly it is ready and thoroughly cooked all the way through and dried beans at probably (here at least) 20% of the cost of tinned beans (even less if you buy in bulk).
I don't think thats the same ZippyDB Facebook uses. Theirs is developed for internal use on top of RocksDB, not Redis. (at least any public info I could find out about it), this looks like a (purposeful?) name collision to cause confusion.
1. Filling out what you would like to do on a questionnaire is not the same as actually doing so.

2. You and your friends are probably not like the average person.

3. You were probably raised with the idea that it's very important, both financially and socially, to have a job. It might be a lot harder to raise your kids with these values if they grow up in a world where working or not working has no financial impact.
Most industrial bread sold in the US has high fructose corn syrup added.
the issue here is that gov't lower corp taxes in the hopes that the money gets put into R&D. Instead, it goes into share buyback schemes.

Instead, gov't should use the taxes (rather than returning it to corps) and pay startups for innovation, rather than hope companies use it on R&D.
Have you ever tried to answer C, Python, Perl, Java, C#, F#, VB.NET, OCaml, Haskell, JavaScript Quiz Pub questions?

Many think that they know what they are using, but never bothered to actually read the language reference manual.
The problem is you need to buy land and equipment and pay for it. 5 years is a good time to plan for to ensure that you can make your payments. If you are not breaking even on the startup costs after 5 years the investment will probably never pay off.

Eventually you pay off the land and your costs go down. You can keep equipment running for a long time, but it wears out. You are risking all the time though that the mineral demand might drop and now you have a worthless mine (which you need to do environmental cleanup). With equipment you risk a new process making your old equipment unable to produce what the market demands so you have to replace it.

Of course everybody understands you plan on mining for longer than 5 years. However you have a 5 year plan to get the mine operating and prove it can make money.
The comment I referred to was very clearly talking about the case of people who are not actually top performers, but who think (wrongly) that they are. That does not sound like the situation you're describing, so I'm having difficulty understanding the relevance of your comment, either to my comment or the one I replied to.
Well, this topic went south really fast! I'm surprised the new Goodenough battery design hasn't come up!

Getting back to an actual discussion of lithium, it'll be very interesting to see if the Goodenough solid electrolyte batter works well enough with sodium. If so, a lot of expensive lithium mines will be worth a lot less over time!

The Goodenough battery (he invented LiON batteries for those who don't know) looks to improve on LiON in most important areas:

- higher energy density (~2x)
- not flammable
- faster charge rates
- many more charge cycles (~100x more)
- better performance in cold conditions
- either lithium or *sodium* based glass electrolyte

Apparently 89 companies are evaluating the patents for production:

https://www.texasmonthly.com/energy/all-charged-up-john-good...
I think there is a strong temptation for this when there is a large gap between the value of the social housing to the occupant and the value of the social housing on the market.

This flat is in Victoria which is quite central in London. I would expect you could provide more social housing at the same cost in some of the outer zones. There is obviously a trade off where the increased amount of housing from going further out is not worth the inconvenience to the occupants. However, I would expect this trade off kicks in well outside of zone 1.

For the sake of argument let's assume you could double the zone 1 social housing by moving it to zone 2/3. That seems like a pretty big failure in policy.
> Without verification, how can you possibly come to a determination that it didn't happen?

ID doesn't provide verification that it didn't happen, it provides a difficulty bar for doing it.

Verification that it didn't happen, insofar as that is possible, is provided statistically through the absence of signficant patterns of attempted double votes, which you'd expect to see if there was any substantial pattern of voter fraud (especially by more than one party; barely plausibly, a single party with a sufficiently good likely voter model could be problematic to detect.)
Really curious what exactly in his comment is not according to the guidelines.
Moore's law is dead right now. Maybe there will be a successor, maybe not, but at the moment one does well to not assume that we will get another free lunch of processing power soon.
You're correct. Somehow I didn't see the X there and had just been closing all of their articles.
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> Unfortunately, I don't see how to overcome these. Would be glad to be proved wrong!

Here's a solution at the international level: https://issues.org/climate-clubs-to-overcome-free-riding/

At the national level I believe the problem is slightly easier (though still extremely difficult). We generally have effective national institutions, so we "just" have to convince the populace that the pain is worth the gain. It's easier to stomach a little bit of pain for the common good as long as people believe that everybody else is also doing their part.
> It's also virtually impossible to find affordable, off-the-shelf bread loaves that don't have added sugar (in the US), it's ridiculous.

I'm not sure this is the case if you look. I live in the upper Midwest and we have many options to buy fresh (daily baked) at many locations around my metro. I just looked at their nutrition guide [0] for their breads and most of the standard, non-dessert breads (except "white") don't have added sugar and only a handful of whole ingredients.

I look at most labels these days and don't buy bread used for sandwiches or toast with sugar. I can't remember the last time I had an issue finding something. As for price I guess that's subjective but I don't find those breads much more expensive in general.

[0] http://breadsmithmn.com/nutrition.html
I didn't say <=> was a sprawling mess. I said C++ is a sprawling mess, and it surely is: C++20 will be at least as big a change as C++11, and the feature laundry list seems determined to grow.

That's great for people who work on a codebase, but makes bridging the gaps between C++ codebases harder with every passing year. And make no mistake: I 100% guarantee there will be bugs arising from the mixed use of <=> and traditional operators.
I read through this yesterday and I'm fairly confused about all that.

1. This is a long proposal. Excluding the implementation/issues/comparison parts, it clocks in at 7700 words. Compared to the 27k-word long Go spec, this is epic. I know the proposal is more verbose than the eventual spec (if accepted), but still...
2. There are some valid points in Nate Finch's criticism of the previous proposal (https://npf.io/2018/09/go2-contracts-go-too-far/). Be it philosophical arguments or just plain syntax ones - like writing `func (...)(...)(...)` in function declarations.

I don't know. I'd like some form of generics in the language, but I'm not sure if complex designs like this are likely to be embraced by the community.
If it's naturally occurring in a food, and not in pill form, whats the difference between oat fiber and say, celery fiber?
Didn't know about Friendster's backstory, thanks. Did JSP make the site so slow it made people flee to Myspace?
.. thus demonstrating that the US has been a far more negative influence on the world than most Americans have the courage to admit.
The first two are good reasons not to build new nuclear power plants, but we're talking about keeping existing plants running here.
Ah, here you go then.

https://www.home-assistant.io/components/xiaomi_aqara/

https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/tree/dev/ho...