skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There hasn't been a word from the UK government about how this could be achieved. There seems to be no realistic way to retain an open border with the Republic of Ireland while not having an open border with the rest of the EU. The mythical Romanian could just fly to Dublin, drive to NI and catch a ferry. The only solution that I can see is to move the border to the North Sea. An open border with the Republic, but border controls between NI and GB. I imagine that will go down like a cup of cold sick with a good proportion of the population of NI.
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df is a dataframe, which is like a spreadsheet. This line takes the logarithm of the column named 'y' and updates it in place.
Your TV could conceivably stay in functioning order for 20 years. More likely 5 years.

Your table could conceivably stay in functioning order for 2000 years. More likely 500 years.

Quality built wood furniture has essentially an indefinite lifespan.
Theres also the fact that a large number of British emigrants are beyond the pensioner age and the bulk live in either Spain or Ireland.

It will pose a massive problem for old Brits in Spain when their right to claim healthcare via the Spanish system as facilitated by the EU will cause some of them to move back to the UK and this will compounded by placing an increasing strain on NHS which has come under cuts.

The EU citizens in the UK by contrast are typically young, educated working professionals and will be an economic boon for the EU to take some back.
I now read most articles in Brave[0] because of this.

[0]: https://brave.com
Do you think something like this is feasible for a home media server? I suspect things like video streaming from this would be slow, am I wrong?
And in the first world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

"The 1933 census, with design help and tabulation services provided by IBM through its German subsidiary, proved to be pivotal to the Nazis in their efforts to identify, isolate, and ultimately destroy the country's Jewish minority. Machine-tabulated census data greatly expanded the estimated number of Jews in Germany by identifying individuals with only one or a few Jewish ancestors. Previous estimates of 400,000 to 600,000 were abandoned for a new estimate of 2 million Jews in the nation of 65 million.[15]"
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I use protonmail, really nice to use. I use my custom domain with them too.
Wave pipelining would be a more practical alternative to fully asynchronous design. It keeps the design synchronous (helps in simulation workflows) while removing the clock and pipeline registers for power and area reduction.
Scary story. But read this one from the comments:

>I’m not going to apologise. I’ve been fighting this brutal nonsense since I was an MP’s assistant in the late 1980s. At the time the system was that a Member of Parliament could intervene on any deportation and by contacting the Home Office get it stopped until any questionable aspects were resolved. One evening I was the last to leave the office when a call came through from Heathrow. Normally I left the immigration stops to the more experienced caseworkers, however there was nobody but me available.

> So I listened to a tearful South African chap explaining that he had flown to the UK to be at the wedding of his sole surviving relative, his sister, the following day. All his papers were in order, but the immigration people had made one attempt to contact his sister and on not having the phone answered (on the afternoon before her wedding) had told him he was to be deported to South Africa. I got out the instructions on handling such cases and having taken the chap’s number and all the relevant details, and instructed him to tell the immigration people that Stuart Holland MP’s office were in the process of getting the Home Office to put a stop on his deportation. I then called the Home Office and got them to agree to do their part of the business.

> Next I rang Heathrow to talk to the South African chap. I was told it was too late he was already on a plane to Luxemburg. I called the Home Office again and asked them to forward a further stop to Luxemburg.

> Again they agreed to do do. By now the senior caseworker had got home so I was able to get her to take over.

> I was distressed to learn from her that whilst the authorities in Luxemburg had received instructions from the UK Home Office to stop the deportation, they had ignored it and placed him on a flight back to South Africa anyway. Apparently the Home Office had also agreed to apologise “for the inconvenience” and if he wanted to come to the UK on the next available flight they would “ensure” that he would be able to enter the country. Since he had by this time already missed the wedding, and for the next couple of weeks his sister would be abroad on honeymoon, he naturally turned down this “kind offer”. I cried.

> It has not improved since then. It is now far worse.
Should be only 85% of the net energy by weight if I understand petroleum vs. alcohol correctly.

Actually, much worse: 46 MJ/kg for kero, 19.6 MJ/kg for methanol.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
Strongly recommend the Nim "How I start" article:

https://howistart.org/posts/nim/1
That isn't true, net migration fell but it is still positive: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/feb/23/net-migratio...
LLVM IR could squeeze out some more. I should take a crack at it. Did something similar to show DuPont why Criterion rocked.
"Experiment A is based on the assumption that Y is true. Halfway through doing A, it's quite clear that Y is at the very least not true. Thus, Experiment A doesn't work."

Most people I know who have experiments not work out mean something like that - there's something not successful about the experiment itself, not just that they didn't get the answer they were hoping for.
I've been toying with the idea of a site for original written works, in the same vein as current fanfiction sites or Deviantart.

I imagine it would end up working along the shareware model, x chapters here for free and purchase access to the full story, or something along those lines - though if there is a market for it you could use it as a streamlining process for publishing houses I suppose

Is anybody aware of a site like that in the wild already?
Is this true?

Bulgaria and Romania are both EU countries, neither is Schengen.
Right, so measures that confirm your prejudice are legitimate, whereas anything that dropped was clearly 'artificially high'
You can observe nothing but the fact that mass distorts light. Everything else is imagination.
I see more metal than dirt in all of their experiments. No biohazard markers anywhere so probably not using waste.

The best way to farm in space is to convert human waste into manure and compost, and you need to have other organisms to do that. I don't see red worms either.

NASA won't be able to engineer plants in space, it will have to adopt a microbiome that exists on earth already that can be modularized into a spacecraft. Growing lettuce is a joke, you need to figure out how to make pigs and chickens into astronauts.

I'm not joking.
Keeping in mind that this organization was a welfare office, what's the solution? Should the government stop keeping records of how much money welfare recipients have collected? Should they not keep logs of calls to customer support, tax payments and similar things?

If a person is unable to manage their own life and requires the government to be their parent, it's unclear to me how the bureaucracy can simultaneously manage their life for them and also not keep records.
If they understand security better than their customers, it's correct for them to say so when an issue doesn't require customers to individually review whether they are affected.

If they misjudge that, it isn't an indication that they don't "take security seriously". It just means they made an error in judgment.
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In many government jobs, the criteria for moving a task forward is the ability to check off a tick box. So you do not admit you do not know the answer; you give a plausible answer that lets the officer check the box. That's the case for most govt questions. Very little depth is required in the answers as not everything can be validated in the timespan of an interview. So admit you know what a binary tree is and talk about it in high level terms. Unless the officer was a previous programmer, the checkbox gets checked.

When you say you do not know or answer a different question, it makes it harder to check that box off. Most officials just want to check a box and move you (and themselves) on. Don't make it difficult for them.
>Also why so many companies are happily making web apps, with everything behind server walls.

Which is why the AGPL exists.

I would rather have few people use my software than have it used as part of a distribution that is sold for profit by an organisation making use of extracted surplus value.
Well, the article is titled "I'm a Silicon Valley liberal..."

There were a few points where he mentioned how against these people he is, but at the same time I found the overall article to be fairly well balanced and not attacking.
Methane, not methanol.

Presumably liquefied. 53.6 MJ/kg at your link.
What? We know what the existing system is: residence is a necessary but not sufficient condition for becoming a permanent resident. People who have lived here for ages under the free movement rights are applying for permanent residence, and some are being rejected: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/feb/27/rejections-e...
"She's wrong but we can't release any evidence proving it" doesn't seem very effective.
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I have heard something similar about Austria and Australia
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That's very cool... Some years ago I wrote my own multiple-precision arithmetic library. I implemented a lot of it in assembly so that I could access the carry bit and do full-word multiplication etc. I studied GMP and realised that my addition and subtraction were near enough perfect, but multiplication and division were far off. I now see that just because I was way off with division because I simply implemented the long division algorithm and used IDIV for words (and even that was more difficult than the other algorithms).
Pretty much this. I cannot help but see a replication requirement like this turning things even more political. Young New Investigator's Lab, who has very little to trade, is going to struggle, while someone who can conjure a postdoc out of thin air for someone's student will probably be able to find someone.
Why is there no mention of the model you use?
While slightly different laws may apply, it clearly shows the attitude of UK's officials.
How will these annotations be seen by anyone not already on board with the message? Maybe that's all that it's for? If not, how do you keep it from being overloaded by trolls?
Yeah. This is largely IO bound. Operating system read calls from STDIN dominate the runtime.
I don't think that's a fair characterization of how the history of science is taught. There are other examples in these threads, but even in a high school & EECS-biased undergraduate science education I was exposed to "ether" theories of light propagation and Lamarckian evolution.
The hash table is implemented in safe Rust (By using std's Vec). It has some inefficiencies that could maybe have been polished off using `unsafe`.
So-called Islamic State 'carried out drone attacks'
Interesting. Even with the title, and some of the points he made around "seriously disagreeing with some of these people" I found this to be fairly well balanced and interesting.

This quote really scares me, and something I've considered true since Obama was first elected. Some people are truly scared to share their political opinions in public. We should be worried about that.

"Almost everyone I asked was willing to talk to me, but almost none of them wanted me to use their names — even people from very red states were worried about getting "targeted by those people in Silicon Valley if they knew I voted for him." One person in Silicon Valley even asked me to sign a confidentiality agreement before she would talk to me, as she worried she'd lose her job if people at her company knew she was a strong Trump supporter."
They've explicitly said they don't want to use them as a bargaining chip, but would be foolish to give it up uniliaterally.
So.... I don't understand how this is better or worse than using forecast.

You talk about having to choose the best algorithm but it seems like Prophet is just another algorithm to choose from. Is there some kind of built in grid-search or are you just stating that results from your AM have been more accurate than ARIMA?
I am not a physicist.

> Remember that dark matter isn't just some arbitrary fudge factor that gets inserted into the observations to make the numbers come out right.

I look at dark matter/energy as a measurement of what we don't know - it is not necessarily matter or energy (although it could be). It is an effect or the sum of effects that we are not aware of. It's almost like the predictions that Mendeleev made with the periodic table.

Personally, I don't like dark matter because my "hack" alarm bells start ringing. That being said, I also don't know what I don't know.

> nobody has been able to come up with anything like a coherent modification of gravitation that explains the observations.

There have been promising "non-matter" dark matter hypotheses[1], though these hypotheses seem to be quickly relegated to the disinterested bucket. In that way, it wouldn't hurt if slightly fewer eyes were looking at particle dark matter and slightly more at "non-matter" dark matter.

[1]: https://phys.org/news/2016-11-theory-gravity-dark.html
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For now. Presumably even if you were here for >5 years now as an EU citizen, if you went to europe for >2 years, you wouldn't be allowed in, the same as this lady.
The quote from Ken Stevens, whose opinion I respect, makes a
compelling argument, and certainly Intel has a lot of expertise on
asynchronous design, but I'm wondering if its position is similar to
that of Kodak inventing digital imaging in the 1980s. That is, there
would be less money for Intel to make in a future where asynchronous
design prevails, so there's no incentive for them to develop it. With a
properly executed tool chain, asynchronous design would be a
comparable skill to software development (that is, less of an elitist
activity than it is now) and the circuits would be more likely to work
on the first try because a whole class of hardware bugs wouldn't be a
thing anymore. Any comments or am I just a plonker for believing this?
I just want to write quickly to say - "sample size." You can't make conclusions like the one in the title because we don't have a large enough sample size of nations that legalized same sex marriage to reliably make conclusions about how it affects suicide rates, especially when you consider other variables such as growing acceptance of homosexuality and growing awareness of things like depression.

This "comparison methodology" that the researchers presume to get around that - does not get around the problem of small sample sizes nor does it eliminate other variables such as social attitudes because the legalization of gay marriage itself is linked to changing social attitudes towards homosexuality.

I am glad that gay suicides are down, but to say it's definitely linked to gay marriage is premature and unfounded. This research seems to be pseudo science in the service of a political agenda.
While all of these are possible and all of these are bad outcomes, I think that their probability of happening and the magnitude of the result is less bad than what would occur if allegations of cruelty or incompetence were made against an individual.

I don't think we're going to be able to settle this argument here, so I'll just leave it at that.
Remember "dark matter" is just a placeholder name for a number of observational anomalies. All of which can be accurately explained by introducing a single extra particle that interacts weakly with photons. So what you call "invisible stuff" is not necessarily that outrageous. A lot of new particles have already been proposed for other reasons, and some of them fit the requirements quite well (SUSY, sterile neutrinos etc.).

That said, I believe the main reason that many physicists prefer some kind of dark matter "particle" is that it's extremely difficult to modify general relativity (GR) without breaking the theory. GR provides such accurate predictions that modifying it just the slightest is almost guaranteed to break something somewhere else (e.g. at some other scale), which forces you to introduce nasty (if you ask me) scale dependent effects.

This does not mean that we shouldn't modify GR, it just means that it's very difficult to make it work. And physicists tend to like simple theories that work (for reasons such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor).
With this approach, your novel becomes an average of what the masses like to read, rather than what you wanted to say. Engineered for the masses, so to speak. Which, of course, could explain why King is so successful.
> So an implementation-detail for a feature on a platform you don't use caused you to shift to another product, which doesn't even support the feature you are complaining about? Am I reading you correct?

I don't think he's talking about only this one issue. Dropbox had an issue with something of this sort recently [0]. They secretly gave their Mac application root privileges. They may have crossed the line for him here. I should say that I'm not speaking for him but I can see how something like this could have been the last straw for someone.

I personally think that the way a company treats it customers is a good display of how good it's culture is. It's not a good sign that they did this.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12619722
I was asking for facts, not gut feelings. Can you name any kind of certificate or any other kind of paper a immigrant could get now which would help him in the future?
I think that probably has more to do with how you market yourself. Me and two of my friends all taught ourselves and all of us work on major top level projects now only about 3 years later. I think my point is that there is a type of person that makes a really good software engineer and those types of people typically don't need a coding bootcamp. If you market yourself as having found your passion and built a lot of awesome stuff on your own I guarantee that you will have work.
I have heard that suicide is 'contagious' in that it has 'copycat' outbreaks so if an LGBT teen doesn't attempt it, then perhaps a near suicidal non-LGBT teen in their community will also not attempt.
> if you live in Paris and are offered a good job in London, and they help you deal with the visa stuff

Note that the freedom of movement in the EU means there isn't any "visa stuff" to deal with.

An EU citizen moving to the UK needs to fill in a form, to get a "National Insurance" number. The same would be required of a British citizen that didn't have one, for example if they'd been born and lived overseas before moving to the UK.

There are no other requirements that don't also apply to British / resident people moving within the UK.
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The same could be said about the lottery.
> EV owners often report that charging is more convenient, because you wake up with a full charge every morning. Plugging in to a charging point takes just a few seconds.

Well, this plug-in hybrid owner disagrees. I find it very tedious to have to fiddle with the cable twice on every drive.

>> Unless we install power sockets in every streetlight

> Lamp posts with built-in EV charge points are commercially available. A stand-alone charging point takes up no more space than a parking meter. If there's space to park a car, there's space to fit a charge point. Charging is a solved problem, it just requires investment.

True, which is why I mentioned lampposts. But they need to be absolutely ubiquitous. "Some" lampposts don't cut it -- charging needs to be possible literally everywhere, or there will be perpetual fights over the coveted charging parking spots. In my city the curbs are completely full of parked cars at night -- if they all are electric, there'll be a spider web of charging cables. (Also, the charging port on my car is actually on the street side of the car :'-( ).
I could believe that; I was thinking of things like cleaning and seasonal work such as fruit-picking.
Custom user roles and role-based authorization in ASP.NET core
I like that he did this. The extreme polarization of the left vs. right is much more worrisome to me than anything Trump has done (I didn't vote for him.)

I would like to see more respect for people with different views. Much of the blame, I think, comes from polarization in the news media.
That's pretty much it. I can remember stories from a decade ago about Canadians traveling to the US. They get the "business or pleasure" question. They say "pleasure" and then the border patrol does a quick search, finds "business" papers, then proceeds to ban the person for 5 years from entering the US.

Nothing has really changed with regards to how people are treated.
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There are lots of English speaking jobs with computers in most countries, including Finland. (I worked there a few years, loved the place but the allergy information was horrible).

The sad part with all this is that Scotland will certainly leave the Union now. It is like seeing two old friends getting a divorce. :-(
Pretty sure Romania is in Schengen. As someone that spends more than half the year in Romania I know I hear it mentioned a lot.
I remember reading about how politicians deliver information and learned a lot about both effective 'explaining', story telling and just good conversation structure.

Also, don't over think it!
It's a bad headline, and the point is to trick people into loading the story.
I don't think this is true. Let's assume every matter is our solar system is actually not neutral, but slightly positively charged. For Sun-Earth, let's say this reduces the effective force by 1%. Since both Coulomb and gravitational attraction has the same power law, this fixes the change everywhere, or in other words, you could absorb the change into the gravitational constant. Same goes for making everything 1% less dense.
Real estate always goes up...
Not for if it's just one thing

He says ignore the gradient
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Chains of sofa stores in Italy follow this pattern to the point that ads are slightly ironic about their discounts and/or try to divert attention towards good craftsmanship, quality, etc.

Stores of expensive or custom furniture are completely different, with genuine market pressures keeping prices and quotes in check.
I have not read the code, but assuming df is a pandas dataframe, it sets the 'y' column to the log of what was previously the 'y' column.

https://gist.github.com/llimllib/385230f38c3f9b70c3e46158e60...
Yeah, I think SIMD will be the next big jump for these benchmarks. I also wish we could see clang used with the C/C++ cases.
Indeed. I can't see Stormont agreeing to border posts (and Stormont is anyway in a mess over RHI corruption!), but if the British government starts unilaterally building them against the will of Stormont they've broken the GFA and the IRA may start blowing them up.

Internal quasi-border is a bit more likely - there are already some ID checks there - but will accelerate the decline of Unionism further.
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> UDP packets are not encrypted

how does QUIC do encryption?
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