skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US has millions of people incarcerated and a few million more who can't vote because they were formerly incarcerated.
Lockdown has a death toll. This is just fact. People delay preventative treatment, they get depressed, overweight, suicides skyrocket. In Melbourne in particular, there was a giant spike in 12 year olds getting prescribed serious anti-depressant medication.

Four newborn babies died because the South Australian government did not want to risk flying them to Melbourne for treatment.

Lockdown primarily harms young people (ostensibly to save old people, the primary victims of the virus). I think this is such a sickening calculation.

We're enslaving our children to debt, depriving them of social lives (this can have permanent impacts), some of them commit suicide, some of them are denied treatment by government and die and they're not getting as much exercise and are also eating poorly.

I'm really tired of seeing people gloss over the effects of lockdown, because lockdown is dangerous in itself. Is the virus or the lockdown more dangerous? Well, that remains to be seen.

In Australia, an additional 4,000 - 7,000 suicides were projected beyond the norm as a result of lockdowns. [1] This is significantly higher than the death toll of the virus and is only a single datapoint. It doesn't include people skipping preventative appointments and dying as a result, or the long term effects of massive depression and obesity spikes.

[1] https://ama.com.au/media/joint-statement-covid-19-impact-lik...
I thought CORS is blocked by default in modern browsers?
I spent 48 Hours coding in Nova and forgot about VS Code
> If murderers should be disenfranchised then why not jaywalkers?

Presumably they are, if they're incarcerated. I don't see why the crime of the person should matter. What do people think they're going to vote for, a rape and murder party?

Being incarcerated is the punishment; denying the vote is just cheap populism, being seen to be 'tough on crime', with the added benefit (for politicians) that if prisoners have no vote there's no incentive to treat them humanely.
My favorite story-in-two-headlines:

NSA offering 'billions' for Skype eavesdrop solution (2009) https://www.theregister.com/2009/02/12/nsa_offers_billions_f...

Microsoft Buys Skype for $8.5 Billion. Why, Exactly? (2011) https://www.wired.com/2011/05/microsoft-buys-skype-2/
• Because one was proprietary, the other was not.

• Because one was top heavy, the other was not.

• Because one was a document format shared between an application that creates ne one that displays, the other was a whole server/protocol/client stack.

• Because one would insist on rigidly paginating it’s content as output by the generating application, while the other defined content that would be streamed to your client and allow it to adapt the content to your display and reflow it’s (admittedly primitive-looking) text & cetera.

• Because one was designed for use within corporations to distribute documents, while the other was intended to allow collective authorship beyond corporate confines and that this consumer/researcher technology would later seep back into the corporate domain and possibly screw up their plans.

Another way to look at it: if the Adobe folks were angsty, irritable, annoyed, or otherwise flustered, it’s probably because they knew (some?) of the above (and perhaps more) and realised that they were going to have a fight on their hands.
Set theory was definitely my favorite course that I took in pure mathematics. It blew my mind how you can study “infinity” and find much structure; which I had previously thought was a fairly vague concept. It doesn’t seem surprising to me now, but definitely did then.

It might also have had something to do with the professor teaching the course, who was incredible.
> some shared routable prefix ... still provide strictly worse privacy than NAT

Why can't you share the prefix at the network level (ie where the NAT currently resides)? Just use cryptography to randomly distribute your device local prefix across that of the entire network.

For example (there's almost certainly a better way to do this), distribute a shared key when you assign device local prefixes via DHCP. To get a new address, allocate from the local prefix, encrypt with the shared key, and (slight hand waving here) map back into the network prefix. This will produce a pseudorandom distribution that is guaranteed not to overlap other devices (that use the same shared key OFC).

Depending on how downstream software made use of it, you might actually end up with better privacy characteristics than NAT. For example, an IPv6 address per browser tab mixed across multiple devices means that an adversary now has to do some amount of work just to reconstruct the range of the prefix that's being shared (where before NAT gave this information to them more or less for free).
The browser can't know what's an external or internal address (not that even we humans have a meaningful definition, not really a compatible concept with current networking)

This is one of the reasons network level controls are problematic and the solution is being reinvented as "zero trust networking".
We've unbundled Craiglist, how do we unbundle FB Groups/Subreddits?
There is a great article by A16Z "Platforms vs Verticals and the Next Great Unbundling" where they write on how companies like Airbnb, Tinder or Thumbtack started as an alternative to Craiglist's category.

Today there are big and active communities in Facebook groups or Subreddits which I believe also could be unbundled and turned into a businesses like social marketplaces or niche forums. Are there any examples of companies who did that already?
The US has millions of people incarcerated for crimes, not political dissidents.
How to Install Flutter on Windows 10?
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"PHP is an embarrassment, a blight upon my craft. It’s so broken, but so lauded by every empowered amateur who’s yet to learn anything else, as to be maddening."

https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
Seems pretty silly to try to classify a ball as a round object, period. A ball is a round object that doesn't sit on someone's shoulders.
You can look up the characters in the database, they fall under "Subscripts for UPA".
Yeah, no. A well-written one, but clearly not an honest one. You probably don't go from a literal (not the way the term is often thrown around, but literal) comprehensive neo-Nazi belief system to suddenly thinking neo-Nazi beliefs are bad in the span of a few weeks. From thinking Jews run the world and need to all be killed to "oops, nevermind". He's just sorry he got exposed.
> A related factor is that it's hard for an educated person to get suckered by Fox. There are too many garish infographics and obvious nutjobs. It just does not give even a superficial impression of being Legitimate and Unbiased and Supported by the Best Experts. But the NYT does, and that's what makes it more dangerous.

So, same reason why scam emails are rife with spelling errors.

They might actually face more criticism if they don't turn away the part of the audience with half a brain first.
imho ... why not!?

it's just "yet another c-style/curly brackets scripting language", which isn't hard to learn and especially easy to use and which was and still is heavily used in context of web-development.

why? its very efficient/productive ... which is of special interest for example for smaller fixed-rate projects, mvps and similar use-cases.

even if php has many flaws, it got a few things right and is for example available on nearly every webhoster out there ...

but: don't stop learning programming-languages with php.
add for example javascript, but also python, some functional language - no, not haskel, i prefer ocaml - and other languages to your "selection of tools" ... :)

btw. another example ... "everybodys darling" javascript:

compared to javascript php is a pretty decent language ... just search the net on critiques on javascript, and despite that: everybody uses it.

why? because its in every browser / on every system / every mobile-platform etc.

availability/accessibility/... counts more than some academically influenced aesthetic discussions from some "theoretical computer-science point of view" ;))
You can try TinyFPGA. It has a fully open source toolchain and a lot of examples on Github. It is also quite inexpensive.
Why not just use the API? :)
PHP is not going away anytime soon. The only downside, it has no use beyond web. If you're new to programming, no. Better focus on Python, Node, Go, Java, or even JavaScript. There's still a strong and in certain niches growing demand for PHP, but definitely not suitable for a beginner, as lots of that work involves maintaining and / or upgrading legacy code.
There is definitely alot of organized crime in Montreal, but a lot of money is invested into fixing the water distribution system, which is crumbling and was neglected for decades. They usually fix 1-2 blocks at the time, and it costs hundreds of millions.

Roads do get a beating because of snow. Montreal definitely get more than Toronto, and the road system is way over capacity, with the number of cars and trucks increasing 2% each year.

The costs estimates are interesting too, because the construction industry is/was colliding in order to hike prices. So now all projects are fixed-price, meaning that companies won't take risks and tripple their estimates.

Some say that these problems started in the 60s, but got worse during government downsizing attempts. Internal expertise was lost and they had to rely on (corrupt) private companies. Others say that the restructuring were required to get rid of inside corruption. Whenever two government entities get merged, it's pretty much always as an attempt to water down corruption.

All that said, these days the city is pretty lean. I know lots of folks working there. I also did my small part to help liberate the city from Oracle consultants (siphoning the city) and also ran for borough office some time ago.

Just don't get your car towed. They are as bad in Montreal as everywhere else. And the city needs more public transport.
Well then clearly you have some work to do. Everyone knows that you've only made it when your a target for eavesdropping by the nsa
I love this related quote from The Wire:
"You follow drugs, you get drug addicts and drug dealers. But you start to follow the money, and you don't know where the f* it's gonna take you."
Now do France.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1768013/

Correlational studies are inherently flawed when you have something as complex as diet. It's probably quite true that in a random sample of 80,000 health care workers in America, the people with more grease in their diets drop dead faster. It doesn't happen in France, Spain etc etc. Meaning it probably has nothing to do with saturated fatty acids, and probably much to do with whatever goes along with it. Who knows what it actually is? Soybean oil, wonder bread, dunkin doughnuts, HFCS, diet coke, being disgustingly overweight, never walking anywhere, granola, fruit juice (bleh -sugar water), dietary iron, twinkies, nacho "cheese," brined ham, trail mix, marshmallows, potato chips, microwave popcorn, soy protein -any number of things the Frogs and Spaniards don't eat or do, but fat Americans do. Using linear regression, grease/saturated fat probably correlates well with all this other garbage, and with dropping dead sooner, assuming you censor out other world populations with different national diet tendencies. Of course including Spaniards in the data set, you get a different answer.
Not sure how heads are "surprisingly ball shaped." What part of a round head surprises you exactly?
> Blender is great, and boolean tools are improving, but it isn't parametric, and the non-destructive workflow is unusual.

I recently discovered https://github.com/aachman98/Sorcar which looks intriguing but there is UI friction with these workflows and node-based systems offer power but add clutter and complexity.

I wish a non-destructive modifier stack was front and center in Blender. I know it's in there but it's not the primary focus and that hurts UX.
Sorry. You are clearly a right-wing partisan who sees bias in any source of information that does not reinforce your pre-determined ground truth. It is unfortunate that you are stuck in this bubble, but thankfully the rest of us no longer need to care.
If you're ever forced into using Zoom, it's possible to add captions: https://webcaptioner.com/help/integrations/zoom
Well, I guess I'll just keep digging myself further into a hole!

I want to focus entirely on your first example.

Let me ask you: What is it about your first example that makes you call it transactional? If it behaves as badly as you say, shouldn't it be called a 'method' or a 'procedure'? Because my "fix" for it is to actually use transactions. I suspect your fix would be the same.

Why did you choose to interleave its steps like that, when "Isolation ensures that concurrent execution of transactions leaves the database in the same state that would have been obtained if the transactions were executed sequentially."

If you're telling it like it is, then I cannot argue with facts. I guess I'll stop using DBs, at least until they figure this stuff out in 1973.
A substantial majority have not been convicted of a crime and there is of course certain groups that tend to be incarcerated at higher rates.
Use plain JavaScript to read MySQL databases on your server
It's the same guy so that probably explains why it looks familiar. According to the commits in this repo the website you refer to was the same content, only slightly delayed compared to the github page.
https://github.com/onlywei/explain-git-with-d3/commit/93fe62...
Even a snob wouldn't want a WAV file; FLAC is lossless.
Now all vendors have to do is to add a work component to their products and customer churn will cease. The only(?) caveat here is probably that if customers realize that their required work was added to the product for the sole purpose of customer retention then this scheme will surely backfire.

(Congrats btw for being close to the only comment that actually addresses the gist of the article and not just the title. Had to scroll to the bottom, but here you are :-) People are surely stressed nowadays. Could it be because that Ikea bookshelf isn't up yet?)
> there was a period of time when I thought PDF’s days were numbered

And indeed you are correct! A time shall arise, sooner or later in the future, a moment when the last PDF file is created, as well as a moment when a PDF is consulted for the last time. Depending on your definition of format obsolescence, this might be well beyond its expiry date, or it might actually mark the moment of death.

(Let’s forget that the Apple lineage of OSes derived from Display PostScript-using NeXTstep such as OS X [latterly macOS], iOS, iPadOS, watchOS and tvOS all use PDF as a mechanism for drawing primitive sources onto the screen.)

Anyway... after that long preamble, statements like these remind me very much of Goldfinger’s famous quote, and in honour of Sean Connery’s passing yesterday I will allow myself to elucidate:

Bond: “Do you expect me to talk?”
Goldfinger: “I expect you to die!”

The latter being a very reliable expectation, but one that can sometimes take a lot longer to come true than the utterer might have in mind when they make the assertion.
The population of South America is more than 15 times larger.
You know that you cannot just "gift" a house or a car even to close family. There is amount for which above tax authorities have to be notified and there is a gift tax. So if investigation goes about searching for crime related gains it should go around connections of the crime boss. If they have house, they have to have at least contract to prove it is theirs. If you were not earning any money for entire life (because you were a mistress of a kinpin) and now you have a house that is at least suspicious. So if you don't disclose your income source then around 80% tax comes in for income without source.

In Poland government introduced extended seizure so, mothers, sisters, wife's are under scrutiny for any possessions that were acquired by those people in relation to crimes with a lot of money involved. Such crimes are above $50k and are taking into account all possessions that are within last 5 years before court verdict.

That means just as in tax case all those people have to prove they legally acquired their possessions. They probably have to have invoices, contracts and prove they had such amount of money. To remind as well, for tax purposes you have to prove you are not guilty, because you have house/car/money which makes you guilty until proven otherwise.
We're not talking about jailing dissidents though, we're talking about jailing demographics that tend to vote for the opposition.
The opposite of "boring" is "interesting". Not "entertainment".
The Taubin smoothing patent expired in 2014 btw. https://patents.google.com/patent/US5506947A/en

And the better Siemens method/patent DE19929752B4
also.
btw.

"25 years of php" - an interesting talk about the background/history from its creator Rasmus Lerdorf

* https://youtu.be/wCZ5TJCBWMg

with a god point during the last 5 mins.

"work on things that matter (to you)"

ps.: imho ... don't waste your time on "vim vs emacs"/"win vs linux"/"python vs php"/... style discussions ... just use both.

use the best of both worlds. in the end this doesn't really matter as long as you get your work done ;))
> Is there anywhere where the JS standard library uses null?

Plenty, though it depends a bit on what you count as JS standard library.

An object’s prototype may be null, so things like Object.getPrototypeOf(), Object.setPrototypeOf(), Object.create() and .__proto__ all deal with null.

Anything that is accessing a named property that exists on a class will yield null for no value, never undefined.

This is seen in DOM methods; things like Node.firstChild and Node.parentNode spring to mind as potentially null, and in each case it would be semantically quite wrong for them to be undefined—they are defined, as “no value”.
ITT was another conglomerate that got fat selling to both the Allies and the Axis; radar sets made by ITT subsidiary Federal Telephone and Radio were used to shoot down planes built by ITT subsidiary Focke-Wulf (partially owned by radio manufacturer and ITT subsidiary Lorenz).
The difficulty is that people don't worry about it and turn everything into PDF, even if it shouldn't. How many scientific papers are actually printed out for reading? Yet the huge majority of them are published as nothing but PDFs. Good luck reading one on mobile.
I think it's silly to focus on single variable.

I'm Over 40 and my body is showing it. I've done quite a lot of health research over the past few years. My personal metric at the moment is to lower my cholesterol and have been moderately successful without medication, so I think I'm doing something at least partially right.

I think the beneficial geeky rules of thumbs for healthy living that are simple rather than perfect, are:

1. One needs in ones diet
1.1 Protein
1.2 Fiber
1.3 Carbohydrates
1.4 Fats
1.5 Vitamins

2. Prefer foods with:
2.1 Unsaturated fats like olive oil, salmon, etc
2.2 Fibers

3. Generally avoid food with:
3.1 Fast sugars
3.2 High inflammatory index
3.3 High saturated fat content

4. Don't eat more than you consume.

5. For exercise, as the bare minimum, try to walk at least 8000 steps per day or equivalent. This will statistically reduce mortality considerably.

6. Sleep enough

7. Don't stress about the above rules! Pay attention, but don't judge - yourself or others.

8. Look into other stuff that's probably good for you like stretches, breathing exercises and strength exercises.

These are not hard and fast rules. But things that one can pay attention to, and through self observation perhaps make slow adjustments.

So don't stop eating burgers, but pay attention to the number of calories you eat, and of what the calories are composed of. Eat what you like, but don't delude yourself.

For geeks metrological devices may offer motivation. I have a bracelet that measures my steps and my sleep, and I feel it as a successful facilitation tool. But don't treat the device as a life coach, or the numbers as something that you should strive to optimize.
It's not a total (heh) disaster, since many intervals are comparable with many other intervals. Floating point implicitly "solves" this problem by truncating the implicit interval onto a member of a fixed discrete set. It does so quite cleverly, but ultimately it still silently loses information; sometimes (admittedly rarely) you might want the correct result "I was unable to compute an answer due to lack of input precision" that happens when you try and work out whether [0,2] is less than [1,3].
We have our own dataset that we're annotating.
In memoriam: Robert Finkelstein, 104, physicist and professor emeritus
Could have been much worse. Imagine the same camera falling in love with the white shirt of a exuberant woman in the public. Focusing and refocusing all the time. That would be glorious meme food. Go home camera, you are drunk.

Can be solved adding a "too-sexy" list. The fake ball was always in the same part of the field. When the problem starts, a human should be allowed to enter a command ordering to ignore the area around coordinates X,Y of the grid. Putting a virtual black rectangle in the area only to be seen by the camera. Coordinates could be passed as arguments. When the real ball enter this area the camera of course will lost it, but will quickly relocate it at the other side so is not much of a problem.
You don't need to be a dissident to be politically disfavored. "Sarah Shannon and colleagues estimate that one-third of black men had a felony conviction in 2010—a significant increase over the past 30 years and far above the rate for white men." [0]

As one Watergate conspirator revealed in an interview, this was the purpose of the war on drugs: "by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities." [1]

[0] https://www.sentencingproject.org/news/5593/

[1] https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/
Maybe not the model they used but AI in general does. A simple model like P(ball is in position y at time t1 | ball is in position x at time t0) accounts for all of that.
This is a truly marvelous piece of work. Expected nothing less seeing who it was from.

However, don't miss that it all works because Netfilter passes IP fragments to the ALG instead of either reassembling packets first or making the ALG fragment-aware. Either way it's a software bug, rather than an inherent flaw of the protocol stack.
It's not very healthy to be so politically infatutated, that too with one ideology. You will change, either with age or circumstances and then find yourself having missed certain oppurtunities because you don't find someone politically aligned with you.
Ha ha! That's what my friends in KL and Penang were telling me in August. Just wait until the king comes home from France, and insists that his 100 or so favorite hookers skip quarantine :-(

Seriously, I think that we'll have to live with one Southeast Asian country (including Australia) having an outbreak at any given time.
I'm questioning their definition of success and what that "success" matters when they reach their goals without any ethical principles?

I'd like this person to elucidate why moral purity (not doing things like murder, assault, fraud, theft, etc) is antithetical to success and explain why people who practice this aren't universally a danger to the common (wo)man and organized society?

Their argument is essentially that not only is it okay to rob, embezzle, murder and lie to reach their goal, but that since you competition is you should either become a criminal or prepare for failure.

I'd rather not live in a world where people who survive this way are celebrated.