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> I heard him make the claim that Clubhouse has bigger potential than text-based social platforms, because talking has less friction than writing

That's why cellphone exists. And now several VOIP services, and meeting apps. Skype exists for years!

All of these let you talk seamlessly with a group.

Other arguments in favor of CH might be valid, but this one is weak.
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Is that because Japan is also poorer and presumably most folks have less disposable income? Because my understanding is iPhones are still the #1 or #2 selling phone model in the country.
You make it sound like there was much of a choice...
These, also, are not Linux. If in fact Linux CVEs matched such a pattern, somebody would be certain to be jumping up and down pointing it out.
I worked with different teams at Google that build tutorials. The hard part of this is not creating them, but maintenance. Most of the teams move to a new product and there is no incentive in updating them, specially for security. Most of the updates have to do with versioning and compatibility for multiple components such as Db versions/GKE, SdK etc.
Honestly philosophers getting ahold of set theory is probably one of the worst things to happen to it. I feel like it can be hard for people to take set theory seriously when the conversation about it is dominated by this kind of drivel.

Basically this kind of dichotomy, and this image of set theory as the source of all truth in math or whatever... is essentially a myth made up by people peddling their own (new and improved!) foundations project as the source of all truth.
Incandescent light bulbs are generally illegal now.
And in the US "a friend in need is a friend indeed".
He admits it's a minority opinion, though. It seems based on a little research and a lot of theory, for the time being.

I actually like the entropy comment a lot. Cancer seems to
be the great equalizer. The biggest things we can do today to extend life reliably are a) cure cancer, b) lab grow vital organs, and everything that goes along with that, and c) clear arteries. That would by far extend our lives, without looking to theories and such.
I'd go further and say it's easier to teach prepared queries than string building (or at least equally difficult).

That might not be true for other security issues but I think tutorial writers should be fine saying "here is a bit of magic that fixes a problem called csrf. We won't cover that in this course but leave this in here"
We can adapt without dying, thank you very much. In fact, traditional death-based evolution is probably hindering our adaptation more than it helps, since it takes a few hundred thousand years to do what we can now accomplish in just a few decades.
How can you vote differently when you always get two nearly identical candidates and the system has been engineered from the late 1800s to only accept two parties (the last real third party being parts of the populist movement)?

To be frank, I think we have a one party state with a global military dictatorship.
People aren't convinced by comments on message-boards. They have to come to the conclusion on their own.
How is GP missing the point? They're arguing about the timescale of entropy, not the basic principle. You're right that ordered systems eventually become disordered, but "eventually" can mean 10^100 years, and you haven't provided any evidence to the contrary.
> Bikers should realize they are driving a more dangerous vehicle. Bikes have no protective covering, no crash cage. Your body is exposed directly to the road...

These are only a problem if you build your society such that bikes are traveling physically next to fast cars.

But that does not mean biking is unsafe—it just means our current setup forces all traffic into a single unprotected road next to fast cars.
Update: Bankrupt debtors published in Kanpo (Japan)
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IIRC, one limitation of this is that the fonts will look like garbage when font-smoothing is disabled (e.g. all kinds of ugly artifacts and too-thick lines).
The thing that "stupid people" often wonder in this argument is this:

Why are the unvaxxed being blamed for endangering society when the vaccinated spread the virus too?
America is exceptional. There’s a good reason why Jobs was Syrian-American and not Syrian-Japanese or even Syrian-French.

Japanese consumer growth stalled during their lost decade while Clintonomics gave us a boom. Americans are significantly wealthier than their Japanese or Western European counterparts, with the only exception maybe being Norway. A large, prosperous, and open society breeds innovation.
The turning point regarding the US' stance on democracy and human rights has been, IMO, GW Bush's withdrawal from the International Criminal Court.

There we were, in a world where USSR had collapsed, China not risen yet, with a USA as the uncontested dominant power. It has the unique chance in history to steer the world in one direction or the other.

Building international legal standards, multi-lateral cooperation, ensuring that whoever had the most power at one point would be limited by the world community, was something within US reach, and was a realistic hope. As a bonus, the first thing the community would work on would be tackling the climate change, as it was an obvious field where every country of planet earth had a common interest.

Instead, because of a few hundred "miscounted" votes in Florida, the US president was a zealous anti-intellectual evangelist, who decided that US interests trumps human rights, that denying climate change was a respectable political stance, and instead of spending a mountain of dollars on research, energy transition, diseases eradication, social net improvements, he spent it on invading 2 countries despite experts warning that it would not solve any problem.
postgres does. PQexecParams, which executes a sql statement with parameters, accepts oids that are array types.
“We def don't recommended this, but Model S floats well enough to turn it into a boat for short periods of time. Thrust via wheel rotation.“

“If curious abt TSWLM car, am still planning to do a sports sub car that can drive on roads. Just a side project. Limited market potential :)“ Musk, 10:29 am 6/19/16
The spy that shagged me car which is a reference to a amphibious car. There is more in this article too.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/6/20/11975452/tesla-model-s-fl...
One day, death from aging will be as much of an anachronism as half of children dying before the age of five, as they did throughout human history until the 19th century, is today.

In almost any case where someone is dying, both them, and their loved ones, are devastated by the unfolding tragedy, and go to incredible lengths to prevent that outcome. There is nothing more human than to work to prevent death, and no outcome more inevitable, if the human race can survive long enough, than to provide people with biological immortality.

A 500 year old Musk or Bezos will be building out space colonies for us to live in and funding the development of ever more advanced and affordable spacecraft to help us get there. I also don't think biological immortality will lead to individuals remaining the wealthiest in the world for ever. In the rapidly evolving economy of the modern age, every generation will see new entrepreneurs disrupt the old guard and become the new top players. This has more to do with the advantage of having a fresh prespective, than aging making the previous generation feeble.
Roving gangs of activists on Twitter who call out companies for failing to meet a diversity quota?
The US brought democracy to Germany and Japan after WW2.
> (All this also assumes that aircon is some sort of human right. We could learn how to deal with heat without power, the way we had to for the past 300,000 years)

Well, sure, except that the way we dealt with the climate of the American South before air conditioning was by not living there. That is a major reason the South, and not the North, had so many slaves.
It was worse than that. I recall domains being $70 for 2 years. This is confirmed in the Wikipedia page for Network Solutions, who held a monopoly on registration at the time.

“Following the acquisition by SAIC, the NSF gave Network Solutions authority to charge for domain name registrations. Network Solutions imposed a charge of $100 for two years registration. 30% of this revenue went to the NSF to create an "Internet Intellectual Infrastructure Fund." In 1997, a lawsuit was filed charging Network Solutions with antitrust violations with regard to domain names. The 30% of the registration fee that went to the NSF was ruled by a court to be an illegal tax. This led to a reduction in the domain name registration fee to $70 (for two years).”
> They do not pass 100% of the time unless you have a very narrow definition of "these simple emergency braking tests"

Lets get them working consistently under well defined, standard, simple, emergency braking tests before worrying about the real world.

Like not hitting a balloon dressed up as a pedestrian during clear skies in sunny weather. I don't care about rainy days until we get the bright / sunny weather figured out.
> I respect your desire to be precise, but the problem is that it makes conversations super difficult.

Respectfully, this isn’t about being precise, it’s about being factually correct. I feel your tomato example is off the mark. A more fair (albeit not precise) analogy would be someone saying “there is no sun in the sky” and someone correcting them by saying “yes there is, it’s just behind that cloud” and then the person arguing back that “only suns that aren’t behind clouds count”.
“Reach commercialization” means something might be delivered in 2023. Maybe. Now that they have a new round of funding.
This is interesting and hopefully will be real one day, but the headline is misleading.
> Well, there’s nothing in their marketing copy that says that any of this is in doubt

I think this bit is meant to cover their rear: "The future use of these features without supervision is dependent on achieving reliability far in excess of human drivers as demonstrated by billions of miles of experience, as well as regulatory approval, which may take longer in some jurisdictions."

Translation: we don't/can't actually guarantee this will ever happen, and if it does, it may depend on where you're located.
One answer to "What's the academic equivalent of HN?" is "going to week-long conferences and workshops", which often involves a bunch of presentations of papers (with Q&A) and discussions long into the night. Before the pandemic, an academic (such as me) could easily spend the entire summer just going from one conference to another. With the pandemic, there's now a lot of live video chat, and seminar series where everybody gets together in Zoom, there's a talk, and discussion afterwards. Here's an example of such a series for number theory: https://sites.google.com/view/vantageseminar And, here's a massive list of mathematics (and related) online seminars: https://researchseminars.org/

In math there's also a lot more "think deeply and send an email" that happens, rather than things like Hacker News.
Front Ender sounds like a Minecraft boss
Future societies will definitely look back at the "age of death" with complete horror. How could humans accept aging while at the same time desperately clawing for life when death came near? How could they move the world and spend trillions fighting COVID while not even spending a billion fighting aging? People will shake their heads in fascination and perhaps a feeling of disgust at our obvious shortsightedness.

In the future, even a single death will be a very significant event, similar to how we might see a high-mortality catastrophe like 9/11 today.
OK, that's less bad, although formatting a press release as a scholarly paper typeset with LaTeX is still weird.
High output of consumer products in general, which unfortunately also comes with a high consumption of resources.

Same with software.
People who enjoyed DI liked their facebook page.

Previously, this meant that those people would see DI articles on their feed.

Facebook changed the algorithm so posts by pages you've liked show up rarely if they don't pay to promote them.

Facebook wasn't identifying a core new audience, they were selling access to their original audience.
Ha I remember when I saw my first PIC of a topless lady on the internet. Way before videos were a thing on the web.

I was like this....is a game changer.
>Americans are significantly wealthier

Mean or average?
I won’t disagree that PHP has its flaws. A lot of them are legacy problems to support old code. Every language and tool with a big installed base has this problem — just look at the legacy crap in Windows.

It’s fairly easy to write clean and safe PHP. Any number of libraries and frameworks exist to do safe SQL queries and escape HTML. The problem is a lot of programmers don’t even know the vulnerability, not that it’s hard to fix.

I could bitch and moan about PHP or make a good living fixing bad code. Complaining won’t make that legacy code better or magically rewrite it.
I haven't posted outside an FB group in 5 years.

If it were not for those groups, I would have deleted my FB account.

And I treat FB as a non-professional networking platform. You meet someone at a wedding or a funeral who you find tolerable? Add them to your FB.

Thus, with people you are not intimate enough to share your cell number or talk over the phone, and you still want to keep in touch, you add them to your FB.

That's how I see it.
>“Happiness comes from within” is a core element of every major religion and most secular life philosophies

Thesis here, rather than that being authentically true, rationalization is the actual universal across human cultures, in the same sense how belief in some sort of divinity is omnipresent even if it's not necessarily authentic and isn't reflected in behaviour at all.

The notion that happiness comes from within is comforting because it implies that happiness is always within reach. It's harder to admit that happiness is say, a function of at least a reasonable level of material well-being and intact social structure and relationships, but this is actually what you observe if you look at communities. It's hard to admit because it means that happiness is 1. fundamentally social, not individual, 2. out of your control to some extent.

People not being as happy as they report is the most self-evident thing on earth. I've lied about how happy I am countless of times, as has just about everyone I know. What do you think the 'American smile' is for? The US has built a culture around this stuff
Without death, time has no value. Good luck peeing in bottles for 7 cents an hour to support these spacecraft.
*Achieving exponential growth until we as a species reach our environment’s resource limit, and then a plateau, not a crash; Evolution’s “goal” then is to try to ensure the survival of the species.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/exponential-growth
One of my takeaways: When I see "stitch together black boxes," to me that says that aspects of academic math are becoming similar to opportunistic software development.

When such an effect happens in group psychology it is typically part of the "grounding" effect happening. There is a high supply of theory without the energy to go into analyzing so many individual black boxes anymore, and a correspondingly high demand arises for integrative applications which bring the high-minded ideas down to more fundamental, widely-scoped, or practical effect. Down to earth, so to speak.

Some would think of this as an economic-benefit effect. The point is, it tends to bring all those stitched-together black boxes much closer to the end user space, where application is key, not so much theory.

So I wonder if in the coming years we will see a dramatic closing of the gap between direct access to mathematics inputs and daily living. It may be that the typical non-math-minded individual will soon readily and happily bootstrap themselves into the language of mathematics via the closing in of a perception of direct competitive or economic value.

To share an example, in 2003 I started to use a node-based editor to edit 3D textures for graphics projects. This node-based tool gave more control than standard sliders, color pickers, and checkboxes. But soon I discovered that in a lot of cases it was easier to enter a math formula in a node than to chain nodes together. Maybe a single checkbox designated whether the function was periodic, but other than that, enter math here, please. Your mathematical wish is our graphics-producing command.

So I wonder if we'll soon get to the point where formulaic systems control with direct mathematic input will be more desirable and common in unified system interfaces that are found in office and household work.

Let's say you want to write the perfect formula for a given air quality factor in your office...

Or your competitive game which allows you to program AIs is made much more efficient if you can tweak formulae by hand...

Or you need to design a new form of printed steak, but simple toggles and switches just won't do...

(Then...when the time is right for the black-box theory end to pick up a lot of momentum again, imagine how large a pool of new mathematicians will be ready...)
Blaming a group of people is a lot more convenient than trying to find evidence to support a theory. But whether an answer is convenient has nothing to do with whether it is correct. When people jump to conclusions, they might be right, but not because jumping to conclusions is inherently more correct.

Or, to put another way: only an idiot would suggest that a complex subject like the energy policy of a small handful of states in an incredibly large country with wide-ranging economic and environmental factors is solely due to the generic political group that currently makes up their majority.

Why do we have to keep re-establishing the basics of cognition and critical thinking? Did these commenters not go to school, yet somehow found their way to HN? Are they trolls? Is it just more fun to speculate stupidly? Is "low effort thinking" some kind of meme now?
Free subdomains and domains out of your control like tk/cf/ga are somewhat different from a full domain subject to registrar rules.
iOS has 2 solutions to this. They have a push models where you “share” the file to the next app you want to use. And they also have a traditional file store model where all apps can request to save and request to load files.

Critically, apps can not directly read your files, they can show a button which will open the OS file picker and the user can pick a file to open which then provides access to the app.

This means that opening a game does not instantly expose all of your sensitive files.
And tons of people skip lesson 2 thinking they’ve got it, go on to make websites which seem to work, and then get pwned by script kiddies down the road.

SQL injections are incredibly easy to test for, and exploit scripts like SQLmap make it trivial to dump an entire database server’s contents with a single point of entry (and, if you’re unlucky, tamper with or even delete your databases). There’s practically no excuse for not covering it in a tutorial, or at least giving some forewarning about it.
As a teenager back in 2000 I got my .com domain for free from namezero. When I got into university and got my first credit card, the first thing I used it for was to buy my domain out to own it myself (I think it was like $20-$30 from Network Solutions)

These days there are so many free DynDNS services out there that I don't know if a $1 domain on some weird TLD is that enticing.
There are some interesting ideas in here, but I feel like the author left out a lot of the story and many other possibilities.

1. The author basically says that, due to fonts, Japan focused more on “applications” computing rather than system computing up through the 80s. I mostly agree with this.

2. The author then completely leaves out the 90s and jumps to the 2001 release of the iPod. Excuse me?

3. In the late 80s and early 90s, the computing tech became robust enough to handle Japanese fonts somewhere between well enough to almost perfectly. For example, I fondly remember my Wordtank from the early 90s made by Canon that helped my Japanese studying tremendously. Note that some models had variable memory (e.g., marking something for review) and expansion slots. My Apple PowerBook from the early 90s handled Japanese almost perfectly. Japanese word processors (ワープロ) also seemed to have some basic system level functionality (I rarely used one, but many friends did).

4. The above suggests that systems were available and functional in the early 90s.

While some open systems like the Mac OS were not made in Japan, open systems existed, so why didn’t they become more widely used in Japan?

To me, that is the key question.

I think at least one other possible explanation is that Japan’s societal structure didn’t (at least at that time) really leave very much space for people to be able to make a living via these open systems [1], as such, these systems were not broadly in demand.

Another possible explanation is that the first “lost decade” (the 90s) saw very little space for innovation.

I’m sure other viable explanation are possible.

Side note — this is incorrect:

“For comparison, let’s look at a few common Japanese characters (these are ranked as the 35th, 64th, and 104th most commonly used characters, respectively):

議 選 調”

I wonder where they got this info from. Maybe they were thinking of the list of kanji that students start learning in secondary school?

[1] Note that some people actually did make a living these open systems, but they tended to be connected much more intellectually, professionally, and economically with folks outside of Japan. TWICS internet was publicly available in 1993, and that helped tremendously imho.
That’s not the case in my experience. I’ve been living in Japan since 2006 and can’t recall seeing an iPod in forever.
>CSS can be hard to grasp when you're starting out

The browser differences especially for the box model were the bigger problem.
No. Japanese and Americans have similar levels of disposable income.

https://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/japan/
> helping people to live healthier lives while they're young so their bodies aren't in horrible shape by the time they're old would also make for good priorities.

Agree. But let me add that finding that sweet spot where the body isn't in horrible shape is not as easy as it might seem, based on my observation.

My father-in-law was a Minnesota dairy farmer all his life. By his early 60's his body was utterly beat up by the hard work. I, on the other hand, got a little too soft and CRT-tanned over the years, so while not as beat up at the same age in some ways, my cardio health is not what it should be and I am rearranging my life to make room for more exercise and have made radical changes to my diet. But on the other, other hand, a friend's mom was a competitive athlete and active coach all of her life, and by her early 60's is as beat up as my father-in-law was. So there is such a thing as unhealthy exercise.

Good diet, and the right amount of low-impact exercise would seem to be the path to enjoyable golden years. Which is such a broad statement as to be utterly un-actionable.... cue the arguments over diet and exercise. And then, of course, there is the issue of motivation, even if you could be told the One Correct Way.....

(107 days without BBQ ribs... but who is counting??)