skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
War causes famines. Ethiopia, for example. Certainly in the 20th century.

I can't read the paper, but the abstract says it's specifically about China in the years 1470-1911. Well, what on Earth could that say about our planet in the 21st century? One would think that studying famines and epidemics and wars of the 20th century would yield more statistics and lessons that would be a lot more relevant to the 21st century than any centuries previous to the 20th.

Given my knowledge of 20th century history, I'm quite ready to say that the title of this submission is simply backwards.

Moreover, the title of the submission does not match TFA's. And TFA's does not match the paper's (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/095968361876154...). So I'm calling this click bait, and declaring it jumping to conclusions to the exclusion of general and widespread knowledge of 20th century history.
I use LibRedirect: https://github.com/libredirect/LibRedirect
Well, there is always a deadline, isn't there? I mean, not many of us have the luxury to say, "I'll just work on my pristine, clear, well-architected code and it will be done when it's done" (except maybe in side projects)...
I must have bought at least a dozen boats. I would park them somewhere secluded or near the mines/forests, then totally forget about it. By the time I got back, the boats had already decayed into nothingness, (or I forgot where I parked it).

I used to own a house on that little pirate island with NPCs you could kill. My house was situated on some weird boundary line such I could fire spells at people outside while in the safety of my own home.
Having the program exit when a memory safety fault is detected is entirely safe.
It appeals to me, absolutely, because I am familiar with and have a positive impression of the Grug character.
I just love LWN for how impartial and informative it is. It's a bit clunky with 20x"he said", but it sure does a good job of giving me a balanced idea of what this is all about! Happy to be a subscriber.
“More than 99.9% of peer-reviewed scientific papers agree that climate change is mainly caused by humans, according to a new survey of 88,125 climate-related studies“

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/10/more-999-studies-ag...
>in real-world use cases I have no doubt that properly configured and up to date FreeBSD, Linux or even Windows Server is just as secure as OpenBSD.

wheeze Windows Server??!! This beggars belief.
In https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations "Harbinger Households" are called Laggards in scholarly circles.

So to use the word "Harbinger" which for most people will have greater negative connotations by virtue of the common phrase "harbinger of doom" in most English speaking people's lexicon, would suggest an element of psychological profiling is being carried out in plain site on ycombinator, although it can be played down as just a clickbait headline, no different to the techniques used by journalists and editors of "reputable" news outlets.

Either way, its getting even easier to identify the people who are worth manipulating to win elections in a country, rendering the election process not "free and fair process" so easily trumpeted out by Western democracies.

I might just place a bet on Trump winning the next US Presidential election because there are more Republicans owning and running a business than Democrats!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-small-business/wp/201...
That's what I did in 2001 in my QMath markup language [1] as shown in this screenshot: https://matracas.org/qmath/screenshot_2.png

[1] https://matracas.org/qmath/

Lines that start with a colon are metadata, for instance :for:[symbols_simple] indicates that the Example is for a mathematical theory called symbols_simple elsewhere in the document.

There are shortcuts for certain types of metadata, for instance double quotes following the colon :"The Title" for titles, ISO 639-1 language tags for the language, and then if the text after the colon is not a single token and has no colons it marks an author.

It produced XML with the language put in xml:lang attributes, that was later processed into HTML and LaTeX for each language, and from that into DVI, PS, PDF.

I chose to have the tags at the start for the reasons you mention. When having several of them together as in the example they form a visual block that I find easier to scan.

The idea of using colon to mark these came from AsciiDoc: https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/attributes/attr...
You think that’s bad, wait until you hear about our federal identification system…

I think people from other countries don’t understand that Americans don’t want (federal) government knowing anything about them besides taxes. There’s a whole bunch of reasons why, but for the most part it boils down to various forms of liberty - and tales of the mark of the beast.

… but it’s usually fine when your state or a corporation is doing it.
This is the case only in developed countries. Idk how about India (never been there), just as in vast majority of the world, full time job is optional. Even in many places of comparatively 'civilised' Eastern Europe (even in poorest corners of EU such as rural Bulgaria or poorest parts of Northwest Romania, which are both light years ahead of India in economic development), as absurdly as it sounds, working on a full time job is a sign of poverty and lack of life skills. I mean, a full time job means getting an average salary or so which is not sufficient for survival (i know people are surprised reading about $400 wages in countries where Numbeo shows living costs being 2/3 of U.S., like how are they surviving, answer is - they don't, they live off something else).

Vast majority of people there, just hustle. Which is basically nothing but freelancing. Idea of freelancing without depending on a secure permanent job is 100% acceptable in poor countries simply due to lack of alternatives - liveable wages are a rare exception there so people are much less locked into the idea of "job slavery" than they are in the rich countries.
since, ironically, my old phone has a better camera than most security cameras I've ever seen
you can still find mentadent (that came in the pump dispenser) for like $300 a pack.. I think it's just how the market works - if anything is so good that people will much more than market then somehow the market adapts
TSMC to Expand Capacity for Mature and Specialty Nodes by 50%
Also, the slug is "harbringer-of-doom.html".
RAD (Rapid Application Development) is a valid way to brainstorm.

Offloading solutioning to other people or tools is also a valid strategy.

Ultimately, RAD is just a design phase. Commercial No Code companies aren't positioning themselves to be phased out of the design phase, they want to keep collecting your money for as long possible...and if your only advantage is that you have capital to pay someone to do your work for you, you have no advantage over competitors who are likewise capable of doing the same thing, against large companies who can pay much, much more money for the same thing, or eventually against people who figured out how to do it for themselves, more efficiently, than you.
So, I take it I'm not allowed to use encrypted connections to do internet banking?

Unless I'm mistaken, it's like they're working for a scam technical support racket who call the phone at midnight and talk in a foreign accent.
No.

It is that the med under test could perfectly treat the small number diagnosed who actually have the illness it addresses, and have nil or negative effect on everybody else given the same diagnosis who have an actually different illness. According to the RCT, it just failed.

Validity of RCT results is limited absolutely by validity of diagnosis. Bad diagnostics, bad results. That doesn't stop people from running invalid RCTs, so it should stop people from citing invalid RCTs.

But it doesn't.
A lot of negativity towards no-code in the comments, which I think is misguided. These tools also makes developers lives easier and help us serve the customer better.

Sure, when a project react a certain level of complexity, no-code is not enough and you need real code, and the transition might be painful. But most tasks are simple. 80% of all solution might never reach the level of complexity where code is required. For the remaining 20% it means we now have a working prototype which represent the requirements of the customer, which is much better than starting from scratch with vague specifications.

Web site builders like Wordpress is the classic example. Once even trivial websites required programming. Now most websites can be built in such a system.
Schroedinger's streaming service just died
That coffee and alcohol thing only happens in certain tabloids and other trash media. Both have positive and negative effects on your health depending on how much you drink of it. Having a little is fine, drinking it 24/7 is not.
Its not a vocal minority from my experience. I live in a safe neighborhood in Southern California and there are hundreds of people like that here. I have seen people posting photos from their door cameras and posting warnings about seemingly normal things.
More likely, the creator might recognize that a lot of people who like this kind of stuff have a habit of "hiding their power level" by not buying it and displaying it on their chest. Going ahead and buying that shirt is something like what we used to call the "Silk Screen Goku Shirt" phenomenon, but the newer generation tends to refer to it as "Ahegao hoodie" Syndrome.
I believe Apple would like to have a word...
I don't most of the time. The files in my iCloud files are small documents, and I always have a network connection near me (at least I have my hotspot with me). Hence, I had no problems reaching any file I need so far.

I can parse the state of the files inside a directory pretty quickly with the inline icons, too.

However, I understand your woes. iCloud doesn't work as straightforward as other cloud providers, and makes its own decisions. On the other hand, I agreed with its choices so far.
The closest I know of are https://hackaday.io/ and https://osf.io/
Nope, Android started to ban linking to native APIs that aren't officially part of the NDK, like Linux syscalls.

More recent versions will just kill the application if they get used, and Termux folks refuse to accept that they have to go through JNI for specific OS features, so they won't be around for much longer, other than on rooted devices.

Or they might eventually accept how things are done on Android.
>Providing support should be required by law. If you run a service that people depend on for any of the requirements of modern life then you should provide real live human support 24/7/365 or be liable for treble damages and equal fines for all harm this corner cutting costs.

Yes, exactly this! Unfortunately many people will see this as socialism and reject this kind of regulation.
Well yeah, if the code was without "problems" (using the widest definition of "problems", including stuff like "code smells"), you wouldn't have to refactor it. But such "problems" don't necessarily mean that the code was bad in the beginning, it might also mean that the requirements have changed in a way that the original code structure can only handle using hacks...
^This! For some reason people poking holes in his analysis are getting downvoted here. Strange.
> Why take a 3x in 5 years when you can get a 25x in 15 years?

3x in 5 years is equivalent to 27x in 15 years.

Obviously it's not that simple in practice but it's not like it's easy to predict growth over a 15 year period.
I was being sarcastic but also noting that 85% of the work is not in a book
Those seem trivially correctable?

Seems to me the MFA app could, with the approve/deny prompt, display the application the request is for.

If you delay the request of the MFA until after the password has been verified, then even a single "unexpected" MFA would be an indicator of the password having been compromised.

… and if it's insecure, well … MS is using that flow.
The "trans" student is a kindergartner who doesn't identify as trans, and the assault likely didn't happen: https://decaturish.com/2018/10/u-s-department-of-education-i...

The flag burning is a problem with over-imprisoning, that is widely regarded as a big problem with America, and I'm not sure why pro-lgbtq+ laws are an issue here.

I didn't bother to try to research your rant about Sweden.

EDIT: If you're talking about this other event, the student doesn't appear to be trans either, but went into the girls' bathroom despite identifying as male: https://loudounnow.com/2021/10/26/teen-convicted-in-sexual-a...
Hello World example:

15 requests.
21.65 MB / 7.66 MB transferred.
Finish: 8.19 s.
DOMContentLoaded: 707 ms.
load: 2.95 s.

no, stop. I'm super confused about the obsession of clonking specifically the reference implementation when other implementations exist, like micropython for example. Sure, less compatible, but you are already not getting native modules so shrug?
> Would be great to complement with social media as we’ll. For example, make the domains in posts within my networks, more relevant.

The cynic in me can’t help but wonder if this is just dialing up an echo chamber if we include social media proximity as a filter.
Oh that sounds exciting, would it also solve the current performance issues when moving large amounts of data? It's currently the only reason I still have to use public IPs for some applications.
"Mail Merge" is such an unintuitive phrase. .. When I first heard it I had no idea this was anything to do with sending a templated word document to a email recipient list, auto filling in their personal details.
> when the anecdotes and the data disagree, the anecdotes are usually right.

My friend's mate's sister says the same thing and the graph shows otherwise. I guess it must be true.

;)
No it's not. The Atari isn't one year old. Come on man, from your logic you might as well say that a one year old car should be fed hay since it's practically a horse.
I think the point is to try to "prove" the opposite. Wars causing epidemics and famines is a well established fact and it's a "natural" part of mass scale conflict - men go to fight, men die, big swathes of land are damaged, foraging, etc. create conditions for famine, and meanwhile improper handling of the many dead coupled with the massive movements of people in closely cramped quarters ( be it armies moving, supplies, sieges, etc.) create conditions for epidemics. There's even cholera now in Ukraine due to the invasion.

So those two are nothing new. But the opposite, that unstable social conditions due to famine/epidemic causing social unrest causing war, is also interesting, has happened many times ( e.g. the 1848 revolutions in Europe, Arab Spring), and could be indicative of the future, as the article says - we're in for a lot of social unrest due to unstable social conditions due to climate change ( famines, epidemics, swathes of land becoming uninhabitable thus forcing migration, etc.).
Wait that's gone? Are you 100% sure? I literally just grabbed a bottle of it out of my fridge and I swear I bought only a few months ago; San Francisco TJs on 9th street.
data-diff has several advantages over running the query you wrote here.

- data-diff can compare tables across different databases. Your query is limited to one database.

- For very big tables, your 'select' will time-out. data-diff splits the diff into small segments, so we side-step this issue.

- data-diff supports running in threaded mode, which means it can finish a LOT faster. (especially for cloud databases.)
We apply a different standard here, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence".
I remember looking at that fork when the whole licencing thing went down a couple of years ago, but it was unclear how much, if any support it would have. Looks like the project is doing ok.
The concept is equivalent to "Bring a coat, it might rain" not "It's going to rain"
The article describes what is possible with Python in a browser, but misses an important detail: how much memory it consumes and how much CPU it uses.

Python is not a fast language. For example, consider a simple loop:

for i in range(10):
pass

In Python, this will be compiled into: a call to range(), heap allocation of an Iterable, calling getIterator() on an Iterable (which might also do allocation), calling next() on an Iterator while catching for StopIteration exception (and calls are often slow in interpreted languages). While in C we could just have a loop without any calls.

I remember how I had to use a Dart-based web application (compiled to JS) in one of Google's advertising products. The script weighed around several megabytes and everything was so slow. Furthermore, there also was a small and useless "what's new" applet, and it probably was shipped with a separate copy of Dart runtime because it weighed several megabytes too. Obviously this was a product intended to be used only on latest MacBooks, not on a Windows XP laptop.

It is totally fine to write such application for youself, or maybe for internal use, but if you are a corporation with millions of users, I think you should pay a little attention to performance and choose a better technology. Or, if you are of a Google scale, find a way to optimize the code.
I’d say opposite! He pointed out flaws in the argument and then suggested that his arguments weren’t up to the standard that people with his credentials usually keep!
I want to use Python more often but having to care about significant white space is a much bigger downer for me than the async being a "dumpster fire" and I also don't think async in Python is so bad.

I'm saying this as someone who has been programming in many languages since more than 20 years.
> Whereas the US, for all of its flailing around politically, is perceived by many people in many countries as a good place to move.

The lower language barrier is a massive help. Thanks to British colonizing half the world, there are over a billion people who speak and understand English.

Hollywood (and now, TV shows) help too. American culture is already familiar to most people across the world. You're less likely to get a culture shock moving from India to USA than from India to China.
Nazi Apes on the Internet
They are somehow heaviear, but you can run them in process isolation mode and then it is the same as in Linux.

The caveat is that the images need to be in sync with the kernel version.

And they are still usefull, there is still plenty of Windows based servers that aren't going to be ported to UNIX environments anytime soon.
I'm agreeing to that.
Yes! I don’t know why anyone commenting on his clear bias are being downvoted.
> Never got compromised.

What makes you 100% sure you would have figured out?
I have really finicky feet and cried tears of joy when I found ASICS GT-4000 only to cry tears of sorrow when I wanted to buy a new pair and found out they only made one run of them.
It sounds like you're responding to a cryptocurrency talking point. How likely do you think it is that taxation (as in, "nothing is certain except death and taxes") will disappear at some point?
> I hope we do not forget that it is Russias fault when the food prices in Europe hit new highs in the coming fall

So you dont recognise the deceit with Nato govts as the trigger for Russia?

I dont blame Russia for standing up to Western passive aggression thats played out over decades across popular culture, media and govt policy. Its not like you get the truth from criminals running much of the world directly or indirectly through manipulation, blackmail and other disingenuous means.

There has to be one country which is the Emmanuel Goldstein of the world, its how the simple unthinking masses manage to comprehend world events.
> Operating System Windows 11 Pro

..and how do I buy one without the Microsoft tax?
It is surprising how every other profession manages to pay for their work tools, only specific classes of software devs are so much against paying for anything, yet they will gladly have a means to also pay their own bills.
Your paradox only shows (conclusively, I might add) the logical impossibility of omnipotence _under one definition of omnipotence_. Not a very good one, nor one that is widely used by anyone who has thought about omnipotence at all. Other definitions of omnipotence (such as: being able to do all logically/metaphysically possible things) do not fail to this paradox, but beings that satisfy them would still be "omnipotent".

It's interesting however to consider _what exactly_ people believe counts as "omnipotent being" when they say they believe in the existence of one (e.g. religious people). If asked, many would probably only give the definition "omnipotence is being able to do anything". But "anything" doesn't necessarily mean "anything at all". People say to their children "you can do anything if you set your mind to it!" and that "anything" is not qualified explicitly, but it also is restricted to "anything that a normal human being can reasonably achieve given enough effort". If you pressed anyone on this issue, they wouldn't update their belief, they would update the definition they give you. Perhaps with omnipotence one would have the same result, where "being able to do anything" really means "being able to do anything not self-contradictory", and pointing that out doesn't change the belief, only the stated explicit definition. The reason I think this digression is interesting is that we're in a thread about "commonly held beliefs", and here we have a belief that is arguably about the definition of a word; but there is a missing step between believing that there can be omnipotent beings and producing one definition that would satisfy that belief, especially when multiple subtly different ones could be given, and not all of them are logically inconsistent or self-contradictory. It's a problem of epistemology and philosophy of language, of course, and not really about logic or theology.

Mind you, I don't think that any omnipotent being exists, not by any reasonable definition of omnipotent. I do believe one can make reasonable definitions of omnipotence that are consistent and logically possible; but there is no reason to believe that any such being exists.

As one of the posters above pointed out, I don't think you're particularly interested in discussing subtleties. Perhaps pointing out inconsistencies in this topic or argument doesn't change your belief of being right, but will just change the stated definition of "being right"... So I would like to extend a gentle reminder that discussions, even on the internet, do not need to be about being right. Sometimes nitpicking adds to the discussion, but it doesn't need to prove anyone wrong. We all get everything wrong all the time, but through talking about this stuff we all get a chance to learn something, to change a little. It really sucks that as soon as we _perceive_ the tiniest accusation of being wrong, we stop being kind and make huge asses out of ourselves to vindicate the truth of our superior, and usually very inconsequential, arguments.
Wake me up when they develop their No-/Low-code tool in their tool itself. Up to that point it is not better than code itself :)
That's like complaining that the first wheel was not a perfect circle.
Minikube now supports rootless podman driver for running Kubernetes
The article is using the term companies use, because: customers buying their products are harbingers of doom for the product (unless they got causation wrong on the coupon use for heavily discoubted possibly discontinued goods...)

The last half of you comment seems completely unrelated to the article?
Regarding pricing, in my experience the Tailscale crew have been very forgiving when it comes to user/device limits. I'm sure if you have 10 users and 100,000 devices you would get some attention, but keep it reasonable and you should be OK.
There are a ton of sellers/businesses whose business plan is radically oversimplified to be "pay me $50 and I'll send you a dropbox link".

Same audience, different product.