skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The referendum in Catalonia is valid because the Catalonians have a fundamental moral right to self determination."

The Spanish courts have rejected this, and the most official statements coming out of the EU by Junker, stand by Madrid's position.

Your Wikipedia quote is not relevant in this case. Both legally and pragmatically.

For example: the city of Manchester cannot separate from the UK by referendum.

The city of Montreal, as I mentioned, contemplated this during the Quebec referendum and it was squashed.

By the UN's vague definition, and 'individual' could claim that their 'home' is sovereign.

Also, legally, the UN has no jurisdiction in this affair.

But most pragmatically - the referendum is invalid because it's not being conducted properly. The state police are shutting down polling stations, urging people not to vote, indicating that 'it's invalid' therefore deterring a lot of people from voting.

There is zero legitimacy in this referendum, legally.

Popularly it will be a different thing.
Trying to insert biology into physics is a real non-starter, IMO, especially in QM. The standards are so massively different, and frankly, not comparable. Bell tests, and more generally BSMs don’t measure anything like free will, and don’t assume it. Worse, God or Superdeterminism isn’t going to be falsifiable.
Proof for the downvote brigade: https://i.redd.it/cgp2pyyy01pz.jpg
One thing Musk didn't mention (I don't know why) is that the BFR would make asteroid mining and outer-space manufacturing far more practical, and that could help save the environment.
Oh wow, I've been trying to figure out what was wrong with my subpixel hinting forever. It was right in front of my nose!
Official Visual Studio Support for MinGW, Cygwin, and MSYS2
Voevodsky won the Fields medal for A^1 homotopy theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C2%B9_homotopy_theory

It's quite technical to describe what that is, but the general idea is that he imported homotopy theory, a fundamental concept in mathematics which allows you to describe topology with an algebra of paths in that geometry, to algebraic geometry. This allowed him to solve some major open problems in the field.

Topology is essentially the study of continuity and the properties that are invariant of objects under continuous deformation. The prototypical example of a topological space is the continuum although the concept of continuity has been generalized a great deal. Homotopy is the study of continuous paths which are defined as continuous functions from the unit interval into topological spaces, as well as higher dimensional "paths". It turns out that these paths have a rich algebraic structure which give you a strong idea of what the "shape" of the space is like.

Classically algebraic geometry is the study of solutions to systems of polynomial equations over systems of numbers related to the integers, rationals, reals, and complex numbers. More modernly, it is the study of models of theories that resemble the previously mentioned theory in fundamental ways. For example, the theory of elliptic curves which underlies some of our modern cryptography is part of algebraic geometry.
I'm sorry but vague UN declarations are again, totally not relevant in this case - either legally, pragmatically, or even morally.

They have zero authority on this.

" and the arguments deployed by their supporters in suppressing the Catalonian people"

Really, because ballpark 1/2 of Catalonians wouldn't agree with that at all.
Completely agree. Worse, Intel would likely rather cut this than cannibalize Xeon sales.
> who's going to pay for servers to retain random peoples' and companies' web detritus?

You mean Filecoin?

Anyway, I'm also a skeptic about this model but I do think there is a sliver of chance that it may work. There ALWAYS is a sliver of chance that something crazy may work. That's how it's always been.

IBM laughed when personal computer vendors and OS creators thought that they will put computers on everyone's desk, and I'm pretty sure if I was back then I would have thought the same.

Also, before criticizing some technology it would help to actually understand how the technology actually works. As far as I know, IPFS is working on all the problems you mentioned. Now whether they will succeed or not is a whole different issue, but it's not such a trivially obvious thing that one could easily say that it's a "thoughtless hype".
I guess this means he has taken the box.
For clarity, Tarsius is not the original creator of Magit, that would be Marius Vollmer (https://github.com/mvollmer). Tarsius is "just" the current maintainer and most prolific contributor. I'd strongly recommend contributing to the kickstarter if you use Magit, however. I donated $100 and felt that was not near what it's actually been worth to me. Don't think that just because it's fully funded you shouldn't bother, there's good reason to keep contributing: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/71viq3/the_magit_kic...
Survey HN: Preferred Retro Open-Source/open-core PC AT/XT
Prefer:

-2. Real CPU + FPGA glue

-1. Complete FPGA solution

CPU

0. 80186 + 80187

1. 286 + 287

2. 386DX + 387

3. 486DX4 (w/ 1 MiB WB L2)

Video

4. CGA

5. EGA

6. VGA

7. One of the SVGAs (ie ET4000AX, TMS34020 or S3 P86C928)

Sound

8. GUS

9. Adlib

10. SB Pro

11. MT-32

RAM

12. 640 KiB

13. 1 MiB

14. 16 MiB

Storage

15. Actual PATA/SATA/FDD

16. SD card

17. Integrated Flash say 2 GiB

Expansion

18. None

19. ISA 8/16 dongles

And a "Turbo" button, PS/2/AT/USB HID keyboard connectors, VGA/EGA/HDMI, DB15 gameport obviously.
It also shocked me to learn that the Army threatened to open fire again after the initial shooting (the emotion in the Geology professor's voice as he pleads with the students to disperse or be killed is incredible). My school teacher taught that it was a horrible accident and provided no context of the disdain that many had for the anti-war/civil rights movement.

Much of the narrative and imagery of this episode could be ripped out the headlines today - "half" of the country approving of unarmed protesters being shot, hate mail directed at the parents of dead, images of cars driving into protesters blocking roads, and an attempt to portray all protestors as violent.
Creativity doesn't pay the rent in today's L.A
How does vala compare to electron or qt?
That‘s true, but it‘s also important to note that most of the BSD subsystem is actually a shim over Mach. So once your BSD syscall has made it to the kernel, chances are you‘ll get a mach IPC call from the BSD shim.
Videos from Cognitive Computational Neuroscience 2017
I think its because they have unique beliefs, and a lot of positive reinforcement for these beliefs. Along the lines of what Naval Ravikant said recently, even the craziest ideas in crypto which failed completely would still be a net win for people at this point if they got paid in bitcoin/had enough of an interest in it to buy some a few years ago. Unlike the tech crash where the shares employees got in dud companies become worthless.

The crypto community has a lot of people with (at least on paper) f*ck you money, and in a form where they arent really tied the legal system of any country.
So Git is what Linus thinks is good. What I think is good, and this was Git's inspiration, is at http://bitkeeper.org

It's very different from Git. Git versions the tree, BK versions the tree and versions files. The difference is profound. In BK, you debug by looking at the file history and then zooming out to the commit history. Git can't do that. Or it fakes it and gets it wrong. Same with merges, renames, creates, deletes, Git gets all that wrong.

I know it won and there is no hope that things can get better but if you want to see what better looks like, check out BK.
Gdb Debugging Full Example: Ncurses
> (To increase the likelihood of your proposal being funded, say that you’re using machine learning rather than statistics.)
Aha, so true, so true...
In Santa Clara, California, there are several crosswalks at intersections not controlled by a traffic light. There is an ongoing problem with cars not properly yielding to crossing pedestrians (I mean, like, ever). I almost got killed in one twice in one week. As a driver, I get rude treatment (and some near-collisions) when I stop for pedestrians. A pedestrian was killed in the one near Halford a couple of months ago.

The city solution: enforcement? Ha! No, they put in a new fancy overhead signal of a style completely unique (and, to my reading, non-compliant with the actual vehicle code) at one of these crosswalks (just west of Kiely).

The problem: when a crosser presses the call button, a pair of overhead red lights flash for a fixed cycle of time. But (in CA, anyway), a flashing red light means "stop, and proceed when safe" by law, but the signage simply says "Stop on Red".

So, people are confused as to how long to stay (the full cycle? or only as long as it occupied? or only as long as the near half is occupied? or, ?)... and almost half continue to blow through the intersection regardless.

Ambiguity in such contexts is inherently unsafe.
Career prospects of a coder
you said git is wrong but don't explain why bk is right
> Oh, and massive inflation raises all the prices so your next check doesn’t go as far.

That is not at all clear.

Food is a competitive market. And even the poor in the US currently get plenty of food. Why would prices increase?

For most standard goods we could ramp up factory capacity and actually expect a decrease in cost/unit. We don't have a supply problem.

Rent is heavily tied to location which is tied to job prospects. There is close to a 10x spread for the same kind of housing dependent on city across the US.

When I was poor I had to go where the jobs were and just suck it up and pay the much higher rental price. This meant room sharing in an expensive city.

With BI I would have had a lot more negotiating power. How do you convince me to pay 5-10x more rent to move to your city?
It can't just be poor, it must be deliberately misleading signage, "smart", dynamically adaptive, evolving. And more than just signs: a large system of automated aerial observation drones, satellites, the whole sky. All networked together. The branding is simple though, just call it NetSky, or SkyNet.
Tiny Robots Will Fix Jet Engines from the Inside
The Spanish federation doesn't allow teams from other countries to play in Spain. None teams from Andorra or Portugal play in Spain.
I have avoided reading it (and watching the movie), but I have read about it, and it's full of historical conspiracy theories. (I was actually surprised it makes no mention of the Oak Island Money Pit.) Many of the conspiracies are debunked in this documentary by Tony Robinson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAtoP5nFhh4
I don't think anyone would accuse Dan Brown of being a very fancy writer, but in my experience, most people who hate his work actually hate it for the stories. Dan Brown's stories seem to have the same problem as rushed newspaper articles — they seem clever and interesting when you know nothing about the topic, but if you have a passing familiarity with any of the facts of the story, it becomes painfully obvious that the author is bullshitting their way through gigantic holes in their knowledge of the world.
Totally great game. I was home from college and me and my little brother played it straight for a week. So much fun :)
Video Games for People with Disabilities
Talk to your kids about bullying and suicide
Put a stop to all bullying! Check out "Butterfly Me"....by, Evon Latrail
Now available @ amazon
Also, talk to your kids about death "When Mommy Went to Heaven" by Evon Latrail
This actually holds for roads. Large wide roads are driven at higher speeds and more fatal for pedestrians. The technique now is to make the road narrow enough to cause traffic to slow down.
Sigh. The thing I miss about the internet in 1995 is that not everyone was an "aviation expert".
Technology Adoption Life-cycle
-2, 3, 6, 10, 14, 16, 19
I don't know why you got downvoted so much, I share the same experience.
The Modern IPO Is Useless. Let's Reinvent It
"Pot, this is kettle. You're black."
Looks like they are working on NVRAM support :
https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu/blob/master/iokit/Kernel...
He pivoted thrice, and almost shut down, before Singapore’s Goldbell backed him
Yes, I have a great optometrist who provides a ton of value but I only get a certain window with them which at Berkeley is about an hour which is a lot. And I got an awesome prescription from them.

But optician (!= optometrist) generally want to talk to you about frames and not about lenses. This is understandable since they have to make a buck.

So the gap filler here is educating myself. I still let them do what they are in fact very good at but I educate myself on the choices.

This has worked out very well for me. My sister in law has terrible vision and I wonder whether my approach (self-education) would work for her. Maybe, maybe not. But I do think she should get personalized free-form lenses and her optician hasn't suggested that. Dunno why.

I've talked to a ton of people about their phones and apps. I've never talked to someone about lenses. That's strange.
For anyone that didn't get the reference, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM. Worth a watch!
Science Affliction: Companies Cursed by Cameos in Blade Runner
The label helps to shame the other party into acquiescence.
>>>Now what? Well, what happens now is popular media stays popular, and continues to be delivered via big binary-blob plugins with horrible security properties.

EME is big binary blob plugins called CDM's, EME is just a different API to access the binary plugins that will have (and have already had) all kinds of security issues

>What's the human cost of hacks? What's the human cost of the security issues those plugins open up? How many people end up financially ruined due to personal information being stolen? How many people end up on the street because their credit gets trashed? How many in prison because a plugin vulnerability turned their computer into a node for serving kiddie porn and murder markets over Tor?

Hyperbolic Much, Everyone Info is already out there now and it was not Flash or Java or any browser vunerablity at all that caused it. The idea that the source of people having their Credit Card data and other personal info stolen is the browser shows your ignorance in the field of InfoSec.

Browser are a source for Fraud and Ransomware. Databases of Ruin are targets for ID Theft, that is the database of Large Corporations like Equifax, Target, Yahoo, Anthem, Sony, Adobe, Ebay, etc etc etc

Companies that collect and store PII, they are not hacking individual computers to obtain PII, they are dumping databases

>>It is nowhere near unreasonable to ask how many lives you'd consider an acceptable cost for defeating EME, because there absolutely would be a human cost to it. It's a human cost we're already paying right now, and the major argument in favor of EME is that it helps us reduce or eliminate that human cost.

So you assume in this moronic equation of your that there are zero lives lost in the implementation of EME, The sharing of knowledge via the open web is a huge driver of getting people out of poverty, and improving the lives of billions world wide. In change political regimes that abuse, and torture their population.

How many lives will be lost because all knowledge is locked into wall gardens and accessible only via "approved" platforms, and only for "approved" purposes.
Does HTTP have to lose for IPFS to win? Except the cost argument, none of the points in this article prevent sites from serving things via HTTP with IPFS metadata for the long term (though I don't know how that would play with advertising).
Lost weekend: How Trump’s time at his golf club hurt the response to Maria
http://wapo.st/2xInkJ3

Washington Post did a story on the botched organization
RIP John Clarke :(
How the media controls your mind
Selenium waits: isn’t it time to move on?
That's young. What happened?
Basically, it costs free energy to forget a bit. If you flip a bit, that doesn't mean you forget it, as long as you remember you'll have to flip it back (or reinterpret it).

("Basically" because there are whole books on the subtleties of physics and information. I haven't mastered them.)
If you don't mind, I'd love to hear a HNer-calibre opinion of how well the recovery has been handled. My understanding is that there are plenty of supplies sitting in port that can't get out to people, any opinions on what "should" have been done, both before and after the event, to improve the efficiency of the recovery in the days immediately after? Would helicopters airlifting those supplies out to people have been practical, or some other approach?
people have wildly different sensitivity to software latency. some people perceive one second as instant. other people are driven mad by it.
> Why even have roads by then?

Emergency response vehicles? I imagine a flying fire engine could be quite difficult to use to fight a skyscraper fire.

Also you need wide spaces between buildings to have light at ground level.
> Email is the pinnacle of human communication.

For one to one or one to many types of communication, I agree. Email, in my opinion, breaks down when there's a discussion amongst multiple people. For instance, you have to make sure that everyone in the discussion addresses are added by your MUA before clicking the reply button (or using the equivalent keyboard command). The other problem is that if you need to include a new person in an existing discussion, they won't have any of the previous messages to refer to (other than what happens to be quoted in the email they receive).

Newsgroups, on the other hand, address the issues I mentioned and are just as good as email in communication IMO.
The problem is not LEDs inherently, but the spectral power distribution and excessive intensity of the specific “white” LEDs on the market, whose light comes from a blue LED and not enough of which is absorbed by the yellow phosphor.

If cars switched to LED headlamps with a CCT of 2700 K or the like, they’d be much less objectionable.

I’ve taken to wearing orange safety glasses when I walk my dog at night and sometimes when I drive at night, so that the combination of street lamps + car headlamps doesn’t delay my sleep and cause bright-adaptation of my eyes. But I would really rather not be forced to take such dramatic and somewhat unpleasant countermeasures.
Just to get cash or buy gas, can take all day for most.
I read the Da Vinci Code when it came out, and just didn't find the narrative to hold together. The logic was bad, there were gaping plot holes, unbelievable story lines, etc. It has been too many years to recall the details, but I do recall my overall impression being that he just wasn't a very intelligent author, and I couldn't muster up enough suspension of disbelief to enjoy it.

That being said, I do know intelligent people who enjoy his work, and his books and movies have been successes, so I don't take my own bad impressions of his work too seriously - I'm clearly in the minority. So if other people enjoy his work, I'm not going to come down on him or them because of it all. To each their own.
What about remote data? I don't see any mention of built in options for remote sorting, filtering and editing.
There’s two other major problems with EVs in a scenario like this. The first is charging it: consumer EVs expect an AC sine wave, so you’d need equipment to handle that. If you have a solar installation in a building you are probably ok, but it’s not something you can easily put together on scavenged parts.

The other problem is generating the energy. Yes solar panels are a good energy source in an apocalyptic scenario, but the power they give out is really limited compared to fuel. 10m2 of solar cells will generate around 5kW per day (assuming no nuclear winter). With current EVs that would give you a range of around 10-15 miles once charging loses are taken into account.
git repos with non-linear history quickly turn to shit.

The only way to use git right is never to allow a commit to have two parents.

Never merge anything: always cherry pick or rebase.
And when people get used to that, start each week with a new drive side bit polled from a cryptographically sound RNG. If that still isn't enough: quantum uncertainty, everybody does not know wether or not they are on the right side until they meet oncoming traffic.
>>>>Apple introduced a large legal online music store with DRM. Apple got huge... Huge enough that record labels got scared and needed to break Apple's position. They turned to Amazon to start a competing music store,

ROFL.... That is ... wow... Nothing about that is factually accurate, to state the Record Labels was the driving force behind DRM free Music...

Ummm No...

>>>The fact that you keep claiming EME is DRM tells me that you either don't actually know how EME works or what it does, or that you are willfully lying about it. Which is it, please?

The fact you believe EME has any other purpose except DRM tell me you do not actually know the purpose of EME, or what is does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPfdOOiuOHI
I associate iTunes with useless bloat and loss of user control. My experience has exclusively been with windows and I've never purchased a device that requires iTunes to sync. Before iTunes came out, applications like foobar/winamp/Windows Media player were already loaded fast, used low resources, stable, and performant. iTunes was not. Before iTunes, you would copy your mp3s to your device. With iTunes you had a mysterious syncing process. Stories about requiring a 3 hour sync to add one new song or your entire collection being deleted were not uncommon. There was DRM in the early days. I surely wasn't going to switch from my pre-iTunes system to a system with DRM for literally no other additional value. If I knew that advanced options were missing, I'd include that in my complaints, too.
Every 6 weeks
Close to C for perf, in some things.

Very, very far from C in memory, for all things.
If one guy does what I suggested I'll start a blog. But people mostly just read, they don't do. I'll do if they do, I'd love to be helping people do more, I'm old, it's the kids that need to take on the task. So to be clear, I'll blog if someone adds a syscall and figures out how to call it. FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, hell, Windows (but I'll need to be educated enough to know that they did it), whatever OS makes you happy.
I was watching this one recently, and it really stuck to me.

Vietnam War: The Face of the Enemy (Vietnamese Perspective)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdTx6zLY0Zk (it finishes about half way through and then repeats)

It's more based around interviews. But I think it shows a really interesting perspective, the perspective of the self-liberated colony that had to fight off the US army in order to get their own declaration of independence recognized.
KGill if you have a specific criticism that we're being irrational, please contact us. Info in profile.

This country was founded on taunting men with guns and winning. Every bit of social progress does too. I am a small actor in comparison but the ideas are what matters.
And brave
Okay, how does that picture showing pallets of stuff prove that there is enough stuff?
Makes sense, but I wonder what they'll end up doing. Nobody's going to be driving a set of A380 compatible air stairs to Goose Bay.