skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mass traffic isn't really the result of a 5-minute drive to McDonald's. It's the result of people only being able to afford single-family houses 1-2 hours away from their workplaces, and either having no commuter trains to get them there, or having city jobs that require driving in a car. For instance, in LA a lot of Uber drivers commute in from an hour away. Contractors, roofers, plumbers, all commute in. People who live in the city may actually get to work by biking or walking, but they aren't the vast majority stuck in traffic on the highways in and out every day. The problem really is the sprawling nature of the economy which necessitates spending hours in a car, not that people are so lazy they can't walk for five minutes.
If I calculated correctly, the 75th percentile is about 43k in euro's. That's quite a bit below market for the Netherlands, but does not take cost of living into account.
If you are trying to do something about it, get some people together and look at the UK's approach to this - it sounds like you could bring a lot of this to Quebec.

Not saying it would be easy - these sound like deeply entrenched problems to resolve - but often showing precedent for how it's done better elsewhere can help spur Commonwealth governments on.

In the UK, you would want to point them towards the Access to Infrastructure regulations, and the regulator's approach to "duct and pole access" - https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/media/media-rele...

In the UK the "national telecoms giant" has to give equitable wholesale access to ducts and poles, and this is being used to lay fibre to the premises in rural and urban areas.
I think they meant virtual function calls, that manifests in indirect calls.
I think I rarely use polish letters when I write on whatsapp/signal etc. and I don't think I often see them written. I don't pay that much attention though so it may be that I'm the only one
That is some Latin name translation thing. Christopher Columbus (EN), Cristóbal Colón (ES), Christophe Colomb (FR), and Cristoforo Colombo (IT) are all Christophorus Columbus (his original Latin name). Edit: the same things happen with Ancient Greek names - one person has different spellings and pronunciations in different languages — look up 荷马 or ソクラテス.
That's the technical side of things. But there is also a human side of software development and this is even more important to get right than the technical side.
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Official death count isn't the only metric worth looking at. It's also worth investigating the 42.6% of children suffer from noticeable, and possibly even more silent, "long COVID" with permanent tissue injuries from mild illness. Such a potential lingering injury burden could turn-out to be extremely costly.
> Can we fix that "historical distortion" too?

As we speak (July 2021), young women are being added to the US Selective Service (the draft), so that should elicit some conversations. :)

Note that the US is currently a volunteer army (nobody is drafted), but there's always that option.

The history so far is there have been problems with the initial female fighter pilots despite what the generals said (their poor training records are public) and a very high washout rate in Rangers (see Youtube videos), but hopefully they can be assigned to roles like equipment and missile operators.

It was very sad seeing the foto of Kara Hultgreen's mom at her funeral, especially since it was a peacetime mishap, avoidable if she had remained a cargo pilot instead of flying an F-14.

Also, the US military can look at how the Israelis assign women to learn what works for them.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/legislation-require-women-me...
That's what happens when politicians are in charge for 4 to ~10 years. They all vote for deadlines in 2025 - 2030 - 2040, which, on their timeline, means "never"

Most politicians are more concerned about their carrier and personal gains than their country, let alone the world.
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https://ruairidh.dev - just my dev blog. Recently given a new lick of paint!
Razor is stock though, but there is still no in-box way using PHP's own syntax to auto-encode output.
PHP is simultaneously a framework and a language, though. It features a very simple framework, though, and has been supplanted by others, including those that resort to reimplementing their own templating system, which defeats the point of using PHP in the first place as that was its main goal: to be a templating system for Personal Home Pages.
The browser is said to use WebKit 612.1.21. This sounds relevant, although I'm not really sure how new 612.1.21 actually is. LibreOffice also is available already. As are Python 3.7 and VLC. Many people run Haiku on real hardware rather than in a VM (although I would speculate the HCL is rather humble).

This sounds pretty usable to me already.

Lazarus also is available which means the emerging Sublime-replacement CudaText editor can be ported as well as the Double Commander.
In her case: Der Apfel faellt nicht weit vom Stamm. She is a chip of the old block.

One of the things that got her famous in Germany was her persistent lying and schemeing, including "think of the children", including showing actual child porn to journalists[0], to get her internet censorship and surveillance scheme passed. Definitely her father's footsteps.

[0] https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/blockade-illegaler-sites...
I think the reason for this black-boxing in software and mathematics is quite different.

In top-level mathematics its that you have no choice but to treat results as black-boxes because the complexity otherwise is just too high. Its the only way forward, and mathematicians would prefer not to take this approach.

In software development, black-boxing is a way of accelerating development. It allows people to abstract away and disregard complexities. And it allows re-using big works. It comes at the cost of some integration losses and performance losses.
But, since they are not at the complexity limit, software developers can dive into their black boxes if required for performance or other reasons.
My name is Freek, a sort-of common Dutch name, usually people call me Frank from the start (when the name is not written anywhere and they only hear it being said), I'll leave it at that for Starbucks situations. Otherwise, in a Teams chat for example, people see my name and they call me Freak hesitantly. If I leave it like that they start to use it with more confidence. For long term relations I tell people to pronounce it like "Frake" (like brake and snake), which is very close to how it sounds if a Dutch person says my name.

Over time, I've come to see my name as a nice conversation starter.
>Do you want to write out like 7 lines on a screen for a character? or just type its 2-4 letter phonetic?...
>The current input stuff is basically like T9 crossed with gmail's autocomplete...

DISCLAIMER: I know nothing about writing Japanese characters. But it was the fact that current methods require typing a phonetic equivalent using an alien character set [ie. Latin] which is then translated back to the desired Japanese character set that seemed so clunky to me.

But I'm imagining it from the point of view if I had to learn the Greek or Cyrillic alphabets and type phonetically in them to have the computer then try and guess what I wanted to write in the Latin alphabet. But maybe for Japanese people brought up on this method of entering text, the Latin alphabet is completely familiar, so this disconnect doesn't happen?
> Alpine for containers (goddamnit why don't you have vim by default

The whole point of Alpine is to NOT have vim (or anything else) by default.
There is nothing out of line here. Democracy is not "morality" - it's purely a means by which the majority enforces its decisions onto the minority. In fact democracy is one of the "best" ways for achieving "group irresponsibility" and allows us to do atrocious things with no-one in particular to blame afterwards.
> Looking at how we handled the pandemic, I don't think we'll manage.

Amidst the chaos, humanity has been able develop a wide range of therapeutics and public healthcare prevention protocols, research and deploy vaccines at global scale in under a year, all while avoiding total economic collapse.

What outcome would've given you hope in humans' ability to solve complex and chaotic crises?
Human, all too human.
jisho.org doesn't provide the same numbers for these kanjis:

議 : 25 https://jisho.org/search/議%20%23kanji

選 : 57 https://jisho.org/search/選%20%23kanji

調 : 87 https://jisho.org/search/調%20%23kanji

and for instance

書 : 169 https://jisho.org/search/書%20%23kanji

I cannot tell how accurate these numbers are, but jisho.org is using the free dictionary built by Jim Breen of Monach University (see the about page for details). It's a well known resource in the open source world.
Only in the US or everywhere? I see there are anonymizing services to mask the domain details so that any whois query returns a pointer to their office rather than the effective domain owners. A service that does the opposite might be handy for example to expose spammers.
> there's no GIMP, but there is Krita, for example

I wish they'd rather port Inkscape.
A functional legal system is one of the qualifier for being a democracy. Without a working legal system you can't have a functional society. Without society you can't have a democracy.

When a nations legal system is manufacturing false evidence, the target of that become irrelevant. A legal system can't manufacturing false evidence, against anyone, and still be trusted.
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Is this actually plausible?
They still shouldn't have given the breakaway 10 minutes in a race as hard to control as this (with teams of 4).
In the men's race, the favourite teams (Belgium and Slovenia) sacrificed riders earlier (Greg van Avermaet and Jan Tratnik respectively) to maintain the breakaway on a leash. The dutch women were arrogant and they paid for it.
Is there a good port of this for android?
I agree that the number of people that can understand a cutting-edge paper will be low. But, in CS for example, the number will be much higher than 100. I would assume that it would be in the 1000's worldwide. Since, it isn't my field I could speculate that cutting-edge biology would be understood by a lot more than 100 persons.
I had the same thought! A site called "Front Enderman" for Minecraft-themed CSS tutorials.
I didn't mean "typical" as in "most Rust fn signatures are like that", obviously most functions are far simpler. Who would even claim that?

I meant "you will only encounter this level of generics complexity in Rust" (disclaimer: I don't know C++). They can't be that rare either, I have not written a lot of Rust but already encountered similar constructs multiple times. But admittedly that might be partly due to no-std requirements.
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depends what you mean by verify. do you require incorporation certificate? which would require you to check who are current majority stake holders, which would require you to verify their passports...

but maybe you don't need that. just throwing an idea, you could verify ownership of a domain via DNS TXT records, for example. lookup domain verification.
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19785455 (166 comments)
Not really.

There's 'understand', and 'believe you understand', and in other fields (say, software engineering...) you meet lots of people who think they understand, when they don't. I also think that in the SE case, because it's more 'relatable' ('look at my website') , people generally assume more easily that they understand when they don't.

Also if you look at theoretical comp sci results (calculability theory, etc) , or even complex software engineering systems (actual working distributed systems, etc) , I very much doubt that many people (apart from the people who designed and wrote them, and who may even be wrong about them! ) can _actually_ claim to understand them fully. You will understand, to some extent, the 'theorem' (ie the system), but the implementation will remain a black box.
> 1-4%

Citation needed, as well as a fully qualified definition of "organisation". It's not fair to equate the leader of the local farming co-op with the editorial head of a major newsgathering (or in present-times: news-aggregation) corporation.
Special needs kids usually cause a lot less harm.
I'm not surprised, plenty of tutorial writers (totally wrongly imo) want to write the simplest example they can cobble together under the guise of 'making it easy for people to understand'. There's no excuse for avoiding SQL escaping and using parameterised SQL and if it takes a bit longer for learners to pick it up then that's just the cost of learning something new.

I really REALLY can't stand it.
It was in Spain, say 20 years ago, and they pronounced it as though it was Spanish words. I suspect you know a different demographic from that I knew.
They’re both a fine choice really. And being open source there’s no harm (other than time) in trying both and seeing which suits your use case best
> You'll find injection vulnerable examples in the MySQL docs themselves: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/c-api/8.0/en/mysql-real-query.html

I can't find those examples, is there something in the mysql docs that I can copy and paste and be instantly vulnerable?
I mean you can have worse quality if you want. But won't have the effect you want. Aka speed. In fact the opposite is most likely to happen.
Sure, only "priviledged" people should have children. Elitist thinking ahoy! Nope man, these days, with the amount of people on this planet, nobody really needs more of them, no matter what nice elitist excuse the individual finds.
>One weird thing with rents Germany is that old contracts have very low rents that barely increase over the years

Does it really work that way all over Germany or is it something specific to Berlin?
Ah, 5k running. I was still on topic with cycling. Sorry.
The poster is technically not wrong, many IPO'd companies eg. Airbnb, Uber, etc all still lossmaking and founders/VCs have cashed out
On the contrary, the link between animal torture and psychopathy appears to be pretty well-established
There is no such thing as countries spreading democracy and I am not aware of any country that has ever went to war to spread democracy.
The only time the US attempted to "spread democracy" is when their influence over a foreign country was being challenged by anti-imperialist entities. At this point they invade to make sure the country transitions to a democracy, which when it comes to a poor country with little international clout, democracy amounts to it being very susceptible to foreign interference.
And of course the US also invades actual democracies when they elect anti-imperialists that challenge US interests in the region.
"We should keep interfering with nature because the more humans interfere with nature, the more unintended consequences we'll cause."
Things should be secure by default. With a basic query builder you can't ever have a SQL injection bug, not even by mistake, not even if someone maliciously tell you to do something wrong. This should be the default for tutorials.

The tutorials don't even need to talk about security: just tech secure by default APIs. If the programmer later needs more flexibility (which should be understood as an advanced topic), they ought to learn that you must sanitize user input in raw queries.
No, that's not how 'cognitive distortions' work. Think of the process of mental modelling as a hugely complex input-output function. CDS are specific patterns of mental output, that have been associated with changes to the thinking apparatus that we associate with certain psychological disorders.

These are not simple bugs. In fact we know today that working on changing these thinking patterns can in many cases help alleviate the underlying disorders (that's the C in CBT)!

To come back to your example: Being cautious is not catastrophising. Feeling a stress response or even a panic attack or anxiety because of pathogens is (we are taking a broad definition of catastrophising here).

Also beware of the fallacy that positive thoughts are the opposite of negative thoughts - they aren't. They are distinct factors that share some correlation.
It's quite simple, really: any software that pretends that it can be in control of a car should be subject to the same kind of test that ordinary drivers have to do before being allowed to take to the road. Then, the manufacturer should assume all liability for errors made by their product. Just like a real person would. They can choose to insure or self insure.
I'm not a fan of that. Multiple times I found myself confused while using some distro or desktop environment when I tried to figure out which file manager or text editor it uses. I want to run it from command line or fast commands build into DE, but... what is that program?!

It's surprisingly hard to find actual packet/binary name of the app while actually using it. Modern Linux apps love to hide it, good luck if you use a proper translation. Everything is called "Editor" or "file manager" etc.. I have to use "ps" to figure that out.
Rule of thumb of consonant clusters in mos languages: break the cluster. Don't try to pronounce "VSK" directly. Instead, split it and add different parts to syllables before and after: Le-van-dov-ski. Adding "ski" after the word is much easier than dealing with three consonants in a row
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The Olivetti M24 (also sold as the AT&T PC 6300) from 1985 did 640x400 as well, plenty of software could use it.
In the case of Hakuin he said himself he was very ill.

In many other cases the description of "demons" and other things match what is now called psychotic episodes. There is difference with struggling with practice and being unwell.
you can do that. not everyone can. try waiting 20minutes in front of a tesla charging dock for each car that is in front of you. it does not scale. try harvesting the needed rare earth to replace all the fuel cars ull drive costs up, eco-systems will fall.
Although rare, virtual inheritance (used in multiple inheritance) makes things even worse because even "this" needs to be found through a vtable! So you get another level of indirection.

I was going to illustrate with an example like yours but I couldn't figure my way out through all the bits (including the virtual-base offsets in the vtable, or the VTT which is a table of vtables!).
>she too is definitely a bad person

Well yes she is a pretty bad person, remember McKinsey? Internet Censor at ISP level? Trying to buy Drones with weapons on board? The probably buy d dissertation for her Dr. Med?
So you think extinction is preferable to solving our problems? Suicide isn't a more moral choice when pursued by a species instead of an individual. Furthermore a world full of dumb animals isn't well situated to clean up our mess.

More realistically its just making it other people's kids problem.
> a) I have no useful information to put into a bug report

A list of the chipsets involved, or just brands and models of the laptops would also help.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

It's not sexism if it happens to a man.

It's not racism if it happens to a white person, or sometimes, an Asian person.

There are no double-standards, no hate, no hypocrisy going-on at all.

/s
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> It all sounds horribly complicated, although it may be one of those procedures that's easier to do than to describe.

It's extremely annoying to be honest.

I fully believe that logographic scripts are faster to read once properly mastered, but writing or inputting them is another matter altogether and the article doesn't even begin to touch upon some of the frustrations such as the i.m.e.'s intelligence deciding at the last character to change the educated guess, completely changing the sentence from what intended as one presses “enter” or the inability to type without looking at what one types which is quite possible in many other scripts.

The system tries to be as intelligent as it can and learns from patterns so the guesses are usually correct, but it also means that at times it is unprædictable.

It can also be quite disorienting for a sentence to suddenly shrink or expand considerably as one is typing, and it isn't generally easy to see part of a word one has typed; only when the full word be typed is the proper conversion made and before that point the i.m.e. actually converts it to something entirely differently, often completely misinterpreting the structure of the sentence because a sentence that ends on an incomplete verb is not a sentence grammatically speaking so the i.m.e. doesn't know what to do with it.

Then comes the fact that the i.m.e. is generally very bad with colloquial Japanese as it's conversion rules rely on the grammar of standard textbook Japanese.

Having said that, there is an odd sense of satisfaction to typing Japanese when the i.m.e. agree with the intent of the user. There is something satisfying about a garbled sentence that looks like nothing instantly transforming into a coherent sentence as the last character is added to it.

> I wonder if things will change [or have changed] with the advent of touch screens and styluses? [stylii?] which would allow the characters to be written manually, using finger or stylus and then have the software convert this to the appropriate typed character?

Yes, the system is quite a bit different there; as the article says: Japanese characters are primarily arranged in a grid of with a width of 5, so te standard approach there is to drag in one of four directions, or not drag at all to select a character, and a list of possible conversions to Chinese characters is more easily available with a touch screen to select from. In this sense typing Japanese on a mobile phone is actually not any more time consuming than typing English on a mobile phone, but on a keyboard, there are definite problems with it.
Not always applicable but it makes debugging far easier, reduces the chance of events being lost and makes it easier and safer to understand and modify code.
Uh yeah, that's sort of a BIG DIFFERENCE to hand-wave away.

OP might as well have said "it's interesting how China's and UK's fertility rate is almost the same" while ignoring how each country got to that level...