skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This analogy still works. The staircase is not public, its in your house. Which would map to running on your local computer or local network.

As soon as you turn your house in to a public venue (put your code in use for the public) you now have to worry about accessibility and safety. If that stair case collapses because of your dodgy building, you are liable. But you are free to fall off your own staircase in your own house.

So people are free to run whatever they want on their computer. But once you start taking user data, you now have legal responsibility. User data is hazardous waste that needs ultimate care.
The primary issue with TikTok is that it is Chinese. That is why the US state department and the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) “studies” it.

It is fairly obvious the issues with influencers creating messed up body images in their followers are far bigger on Instagram.

If anything the Tiktok algorithm, its short video form, and tighter moderation mixes things more up, and makes the issue less prevalent there than on other more simpler platforms.
Is there an estimated timeframe for when people will start to experience the impact of the climate crisis instead of only hearing about it?
Why, when it basically apparently doesn't run on laptops, and when it fails to start it provides no hint whatsoever about what to do next, is there no information about what to do next anywhere on the Haiku web site? Why, if your position is that there's a list of hardware (a very well-hidden one, I might add) on which I should be running this, is that list not front-and-centre so I don't waste my time trying to boot it on anything else?

Why, to put it more briefly, does Haiku insist on being treated as a serious operating system when it simultaneously clearly runs on less stuff than most other OSes and yet requires us to pretend that it's in the same class as those other OSes?

(This doesn't happen with ReactOS. But then they don't have the social disability of resolutely insisting that we all pay attention to them as a Very Important Thing.)

[edit: I forgot the big one: after over eleven years would it kill them to at least once spit out a fucking error message? Or is the total lack of information with which a person could file a useful bug report in fact the intent?]
Sure... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wishing-Table,_the_Gold-As...
> there are sounds and consonants people just cannot make past a certain age.

It's not that people can't make the sound above a certain age, it's that above a certain age it becomes difficult to learn new sounds that are not in your language.

This age varies by person, and for some people it is well before adulthood arrives (when you are likely to be exposed to a much greater diversity of names).

One of my linguistics professors, whose specialty is to learn and document 'dying languages', told me that if I wanted to learn a new language, I should do it before 30. Even for him — a trained linguist who knows the IPA forward and backwards — age makes a difference.
And when you can’t afford a house for one person, there’s little hope of letting grandma live your guesthouse.
Those car cams have done some absolutely historic data collection. Did you ever see the dashcam video of a driver panicking and hurriedly slamming their car into reverse when shells started falling in an eastern Ukrainian city? Still blows my mind to think of what we can all see now as if we're right there.
Carbon tax is a really nice and simple idea. But its key problem is that it costs the same whether or not there is a viable alternative for lowering carbon. So it punishes industries for which there is no viable alternative using today’s technologies. And it also provides relatively low pressure to adopt the technologies we know are on the cusp of working. In theory in the long term it encourages innovation in all the right ways, but in practice there’s no way to usefully spend billions of dollars on pure research projects to fix the problems we don’t know how to fix yet.

Targeted incentives and regulations, in contrast, can force industries to adapt quickly in ways that we know are actually not economically painful. (You just gotta enable low power mode on your laptops Dell, seriously it’s not hard just stop whining and do it.) Yeah it is a bit annoying, but it’s just annoying, no worse - not like putting a carbon tax on concrete which would be super expensive, basically impossible to avoid, and drag down economic growth everywhere.
The teacher's union does not dictate the curriculum.

Typically the state legislatures dictate what is in the curriculum broadly, sometimes extra specifically, and the administrators and teachers create their lessons to satisfy the legislation.

How does the teacher's union suppress subject matters in the history department?
Heatwaves, forest fires, and dying coral have all been experienced in the past few years by some people.
> There are number of individualized transport options.

That is not actually true. In almost all of the US, as well as in most of europe (outside of large urban centers with good public transport) there is no viable alternative to cars.

The netherlands is one of the few places where avoiding cars is an actual option, elsewhere it requires heavy compromission, and imposes significant restrictions on various life choices. If giving up cars means giving up living or having to seriously compromise on your ability to achieve things, it’s as much a choice as “cake or death”.

I’ve lived without owning a car for 20-odd years (with the odd rental / borrowing), it’s only an option because I’m a very non-social person and don’t have children (so my need to move around day-to-day are extremely limited), and I’ve selected my living locations largely around the ability to not have a car, which would leave about 90% of the area unlivable if everybody made the same choices, because there simply is not enough car-free infrastructure for that to be anywhere near a universal option.
needs a search feature
Yes, yes, the poor companies. But do you ever consider the poor customers/users that put private information in the companies' databases? Or that the price they pay assumes the companies do not let their software rot for 10 years?

Then there's the typical logical fallacy of taking a trivial problem of escaping SQL and conflating it with something more complicated, and comparing to eternal perfection.. yawn.
> But they are.

They are. Except for building highways. Gas subsidies. Gas stockpiling for security purposes. Road Maintenance. Signage. And then there's the opportunity cost of the space lost to parking.

Those above choices? Well they're collective and everyone has to pay for them, because without raising taxes they are much too expensive to fund privately. So even if you ride a bicycle to the train to work everyday, you still get to pay for the construction and maintenance of the highway that driving commuters drive their cars on that you can't ride your bicycle, or any smaller motorcycle, on.
Do you guys also have the open/closed u distinction?
Of course this is a lot of work but it means that unless PHP takes security seriously, no one will take PHP seriously and the language will die off / be relegated to dirt cheap contractor work.

No serious org is going to use a product where you have to remember that the sql escape function doesn't work and you have to use the one that says real sql escape.
You probably know that supporting a wide array of hardware requires many hands (and that hardware).
0.1 seconds is still too many. There is probably another 1000x speed up possible there. We just have to do a merge on two rather small arrays. The most expensive operation here would actually be writing out to the output array.
A mediocre CEO can cost a company many billions of dollars. Just look at Boeing. How difficult can it be to be the CEO of Boeing, back in 2015, let's say? It's a market with only 2 players, costumers are fairly sticky, the products don't change quickly. You just need to keep the cost under control, and deliver the airplanes on time. Right?
I had that problem in Virtual Box I had to enable a serial port for it to output error messages.
Maybe you should preserve your sanity and wait for a release that's not clearly marked as "Beta".
TensorFlow and Next.js: Remove background and add virtual background with webcam
Using OpenCV: Developed a web app to convert images to manga style
Are you familiar with the history of the Internet?
Thanks for your experience. I think the age is closer to 13 than 30.

You can learn and speak 'well enough' at many ages, but past a certain age you will always sound different, and it's much younger than 30 for the majority of folks.
Thanks!! I'll look into it!
Pff, no thanks. 'Neverending story' is a concept for children, same as 'the song that never ends' and other cartoons of infinity. In reality I get as much enjoyment from finishing a book as starting it. I'm not rejecting the idea of technological progress, I'm rejecting the whole idea of wanting to live indefinitely. Shrinking from death misses the point of life.
WiFiDemon – iOS Wi-Fi RCE Zero-Click
> A key way I think about building visual UI components is that basically everything can be broken down into a bunch of rectangles on a page.

I created this tiny script[1] in order to be able to view all the rectangles that makes a website, a little while ago. Here's a demo[2].

[1]: https://gist.github.com/corentinbettiol/85a8938175f89a15ac35...

[2]: https://up.l3m.in/file/1597168094-tilt.webm
When You Do DevSecOps, Don’t Forget the SREs
>companies do not let their software rot for 10 years?

I think that one of the big mistakes made in the last 20 years is that every company needs its own custom software and that software is like an asset that you buy once and not a constant cost source.

The vast majority of businesses have no need for custom software and should be using 3rd party services. Then those 3rd parties have the income to dedicate to keeping the software secure.

Its honestly terrible how many local businesses have their own complex software built on some ancient version of a frame work which is sitting on an ancient server box in their office. Its a ticking time bomb no one wants to think about. Prolonging the explosion is not the solution.
First paid programming was 1981. It is all true. And easy to understand: http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
That's interesting, could you elaborate on the difference in 'w' between 'wise' and 'when'? I'd say 'Wookash' as in star-wars 'Wookie' is a good way (way, hehe) to say Łukasz.

I'm not a linguist though so I'm curious
For me the giveaway was https://moultano.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/1626613273_the_... -- that brickwork is classic Deep Dream !

Still I only said to myself 'maybe' because the art seemed so original up to that point. I wonder what the source material looks like? It is perhaps collaging and laundering the original work more than it is generating it.
How to convince your prospect to buy from you
Yeah it gets cited a ton because the colors look intuitive but really the map isn't particularly useful. Would honestly be better if the hadn't used "hot/cold" colors because as it stands it's basically the metrological equivalent to a stroop test...
Very woolly. I was expecting more concrete things like

* Use static types

* Use CI and version control

* Use schema-based data storage

* Prefer function calls to events

* Use formal verification if possible

etc.
Okay this is a really awesome project. Thanks for the info.
> The EU? The father or Ursula von der Leyen did a false flag against some imprisoned RAF members. They bombed a prison and tried to blame it on the inmates and accomplices.

Could you tell me, where to find more information about this? Thanks!
Haven't a _lot_ of people already experienced it?
Cheers, yes it's a rather astounding display of kinetic forces.
There is also Borgmatic, which makes it easy to manage backup settings, do monitoring, directly dump databases and prune old archives with a single YAML file. https://torsion.org/borgmatic/

We also maintain an Ansible role to set it up quickly on new servers. https://github.com/borgbase/ansible-role-borgbackup

And last, if you need a place to put your backups, try my https://borgbase.com offering. It's purpose-built for Borg and offers handy features, like separating each repository and monitoring for stale backups.
How do other search engine results compare in this regard.
In defense of PHP, this is probably due to simplicity. PHP got many people started with server side web development, and docs were supposed to be "simple". The thinking back then probably was "if we make the example more complicated, we will loose people", which was probably even true for the target audience.
Pretty sure an increase in average temperatures can be seen pretty much everywhere at this point.

Though its effect on weather patterns is harder to estimate.
That's good advice. It's also a kind of zen-like approach (forgive me if I am not referring to it by the book). In the past I used to fight CSS by setting all kinds of attributes until it looked half-decent. Now I feel much better by cutting back and lettings the layout engine do its work as you said. Turns out to work better on mobile, too. (Ok let's forget about the dirty media query hacks to shift the last pixels. Move them to a dirty.css and enjoy your other clean stylesheets).
I was going to pick a few to complain about, but there are just so many things on that list that are wrong or contradictory.

Simple is a very relative thing, qnd not everything can be "simple". Not everything is a transient thing, especially if you're trying to improve ypur customers lives. Tinkering qith parts is often the only way to improve a system and setting your sights on changing everything at once is setting yourself up for being overwhelmed.

It's just one overly-dogmatic, "new age bs" after another with little though to what the consequences of these heuristics would be.
Maximizing freedom for the individual doesn’t necessarily maximize freedom for the group. If there is a concern for example that judges give higher scores to women wearing skimpier outfits, then a more restrictive rule could lead to an outcome that better comports with what the majority of the women find more comfortable. (It’s like the minimum wage. Yes in a sense not having one maximizes freedom. But that’s not the only way to look at it.)
https://stundin.is/grein/13627/
If Interface Types doesn't convert WTF strings to UTF, the flaw won't have to be documented, and the risk that someone forgets to do the right thing and causes a program to break will be eliminated. This seems like a better outcome. I haven't been able to think of downsides of not "sanitizing". Can you list those?
A cursory search of media published in the last month [1][2] shows those can be used to productively communicate in Chinese languages. You can argue that it is outside of what is prescribed in a table, but if not Pinyin, then what writing system is being used here?

[1] http://finance.eastmoney.com/a/202107151999911843.html
[2] https://www.marieclaire.com.tw/lifestyle/art/58762
Plea bargain does not exist in the Swedish legal system.
"Global warming" involves extremes of temperature on both ends of the scale, and "coldest winters" are not inconsistent with that.

Think about a pot of hot water vs. one that's boiling. The surface of the water in the boiling pot is not smooth, it has peaks and troughs. The level of some of those troughs will be lower than the level of the water in a less energetic pot.

The situation with global warming is similar, although much less simple (pots of water don't have seasons, among other things.) More energy in the atmosphere and the Earth's crust translates into more extreme temperature fluctuations, both up and down. However, the average will inevitably be higher. Basic physics doesn't allow for anything else.
> In that context, almost anything becomes justified - which is nightmare fuel for the moderate middle majority.

So, if they are a majority, why don't their values dominate?
Ah yes, my AIM font and colors; I have missed you.
Started programming in 1981. His recollection is correct. We were agile. Today's "Agile" is a disaster. We are not being condescending, we are mourning what once was an uninterrupted delight.
I’ve long stopped using the phrase “social sciences” and use “social studies” instead. (I include medicine here, or at least studies with 5% p-value… not science if compared to e.g. 5-sigma physics.)
Why are you so upset? I would be if I absolutely required running something and it didn't work. Probably something I paid a lot of money for. But I wouldn't expect that from a hobbyist OS.
Some people take this idea to heart a bit too much. Barely anyone can pronounce my name properly and I really don't bat an eye at it. It's not pragmatic to expect most people to do so, especially in a place like the US where so many people come from different backgrounds. And that's nothing to say about the fact that the same name, written the same way, can be pronounced very differently depending on the bearer's background. At last, it seems to me that the people who care the most about this issue are monolingual.

It's one thing to do a quick effort at it; you can ask "how do you say your name" real quick and let it go after a try. Or just try to catch how I'll introduce myself, and say it the same way.

On the other hand, some folks get hung up on pronouncing my name "properly" and get very annoying about it: "no no no I reaaally want to say your name properly, it's important _for me_". In a 30min meeting, I don't feel like spending 5 minutes giving a useless French pronunciation class for something so pointless. I much prefer hearing my name pronounced wrong by mistake, than wasting time in a useless woke-posturing session with someone using my time to teach them how to make sounds their mouth hasn't been trained to make, supposedly out of respect for my foreignness.
Not sure the source but there is a rule in fiction that everything has a purpose, as opposed to reality. If the camera stops in an axe, you can be sure someone is going to wield it later.

There is no purpose in those alternate realities, other than being a sadistic fantasy, as another comment points to. Tarantino's universe is very familiar to me. It's based on the series B (or worse) films that we watched as teens.

There is an interesting exploration in Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill of the obsessive thoughts that old movies raised presenting extreme situations.

I do enjoy goofy details like Uma Thurman in the plane with a katana in the hand luggage. But this is part of the assumed over-the-top tone. Like you said, it's clearly delineated and presented as fiction. The others not so much. A counterfactual historic movie? Now it seems I'm supposed to learn about the plot before watching the movie, or just avoid Tarantino, because I've had enough of that bs.
No write up at all, even in the description so we don’t know what this clickbaity title is about.

Thanks, I hate it.
It's not the order, it's the frequency when analyzing a corpus such as all newspapers.
> rhymes with "fun" in US, in UK rhymes with the second syllable of London

Are there USians who pronounce fun like this (“I’m having fn”)? Struggling to hear it.
> Authors found X. Seems interesting. Here's how they're interpreting it. Here's my speculation.

Agreed, that is mostly how it goes.

On a similar note, null-hypothesis testing is not a true and tried scientific method. It started sometime in the early 20th century. Aside from p-hacking and mistakes of that kind, there are many philosophical problems with the use of statistical inference itself.
Dozens dead and more than one million people displaced by flooding in China

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/07/21/china-floods...
> there is no viable alternative to cars

Well, there I agree. Mopeds, motorcycles, electric bikes...alternatives, but not viable for most people.
I don't know the point he's making because I don't intend to click, but the fact he's chosen to make it through a YouTube video only detracts from it
There is mathoverflow.net and its meta site as math researcher hangouts, plus ncatlab.org for category theory, and various sites, blogs, mailing lists etc. for other fields.

You might also like Bill Thurston's famous article "On Proof and Progress in Mathematics", which says not so much that math is social, but that human mathematicians want personal understanding of mathematical truths. So black box computer-checked but human-incomprehensible proofs aren't of that much appeal.

https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9404236
I checked the first page of google results for "php sql login" in german and all examples are talking about escaping or prepared statements.
Fibre broadband ‘gold rush’: can the UK’s alt-nets pull it off?
If you open a thread on Haiku forums, I’m sure you will find a lot of help to help you boot Haiku on your hardware, even get developer input.
It's not my 'position' that there's a list of hardware; there literally is one (edit: and it's not exhaustive).

I really don't see how Haiku "requires" you to take it seriously. It's clearly marked as beta. Even though I disagree with those who might call it daily driver-ready, I don't understand the source of this hostility. If you don't want to "waste your time" with it, then don't. It's beta software developed by volunteers, none of whom are forcing you to download their OS.

Also, if these instructions (https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/welcome/en/bugreports.html#ker...) don't help you with your bug report, then I dunno what to tell you, I guess the gods have decided you shouldn't use Haiku.
When I started like this, I always followed up with a google query for securing what I did. Not the best way to learn, but as you say, it got you started.
Wow, that is fascinating. The reason I likely haven't come across it is that my interest/research with regards to dementia is sleep specific. I'll definitely be keeping my eyes open for more acetycoline in the further research I come across. Thanks for bringing that to my attention.

I see where you're coming from re: "over-active" brain, and so I'd question if they're equating "over-active" with "reduced sleep", and if there is a commonality there.

I'm not a neurologist, I come from a software engineering background. I've always had an interest in neurology, and got into the sleep-tech field because I've always been an insomniac and started learning more about sleep.
So why should Perl, Go, PHP, or Rust?
I think ca 2150 would be a reasonable non-cranky estimate, assuming current trends hold.
Nixie-clock using neon lamps as logic elements (2007)
If it's about them taking control of how others act, isn't it about others?
I don't disagree at all. My comment was perhaps just a tad too pithy.
quote from the linked interview (my translation followed by the original)

Q: Your job was to reveal cases of torture and mistreatment by states. Do governments exert a lot of pressure?

A: I have been always in respect of all of the regulations, and I have to admit that I could always proceed freely with my work. However one is risking his carreer, if one is stepping to much on the feet of the permanent members of the UN security council. I was told informally, that I would have to pay a political price, but I am accepting this (reality).

Original:

Ihre Aufgabe ist das Aufdecken von Folterungen und Misshandlungen durch Staaten. Gibt es da nicht viel Druck von den Regierungen?

Ich habe immer darauf geachtet, dass ich nach den Vorschriften handle. Und ich kann sagen, dass ich meine Arbeit wirklich frei machen konnte. Allerdings riskiert man schon seine Karriere, wenn man den permanenten Mitgliedern des UN-Sicherheitsrats allzu sehr auf die Füße steigt. Man hat mir informell mitgeteilt, dass ich einen politischen Preis zu bezahlen haben werde. Aber das nehme ich in Kauf.
Interesting. Why function calls over events? And is it always applicable?