skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bit of history - in Northern Ireland, before the Good Friday Agreement, the IRA was killing MPs...

Part of that was because they didn't feel they had a representation. So now they do have a lot more self-government, including a Northern Ireland Assembly and Northern Ireland Executive. They to some extent are a state within a state already, and if they close the border with Ireland, that agreement is broken... I'm sure you already have some of the IRA gearing up.
Yes, I live on the island mentioned in the article. This place gets insane with tourists during the Summer months, but gets much calmer during September. The weather is also nicer, with the highs averaging in the mid-80s(F). The summer months are generally hot and humid -- this is the deep South after all.
On the plus side (not that there is really a plus side to this epic stupidity) many many Brits are entitled to an Irish passport.
I'm not suicidal, but thanks.
Yes, if I could continue to be paid that 60% but move to a lower cost-of-living area. Also, would have to keep health benefits, because USA.
> Maybe I misunderstood the tone but it seemed to me that Stross wanted a customs border between Northern Ireland and Britain, and no such border between it and Ireland?

I don't think he was expressing a preference. Rather he was saying that either option is politically impossible, and that the only other option is a hard brexit.
of course you can talk about it. But using it to characterise them as an immoral group is a fallacy because it was not immoral at the time. You can't hold up any group more than a few decades old to be moral if you take that stance.

The original argument was "male scarification is an old and well-recognised social phenomenon, that transcends social class". Not "those old German aristocrats sure were swell fellas".
> For instance, I'd aggressively bundle common JS or CSS

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes...
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It really serves a different audience/purpose.

Poetry replaces setup.py which is mostly used for building libraries. You still need to create your own virtualenv.

Pipenv replaces requirements.txt and handles the virtualenv for you. It can’t be used for packaging libs, but it’s primary purpose is to make developing on apps easier.

Lore seems to be much closer to pipenv than poetry.
Scott Tucker. Huge Asshole. https://jalopnik.com/convicted-payday-loan-mogul-scott-tucke...
This is from an outsider to UK politics but it seems weird to me that we didn't see the Lib Dems or some other smallish party position themselves as the party of "We won't Brexit" and pick up a lot of the Remain votes?
I've spoken to people who are cheering for these kinds of effects. An actual quote: "I hope Trump does as much damage as possible."

The Trump and Brexit elections were for some people a kind of Luddite revolt -- not against technology per se but against globalization. This was a revolt by the working classes of the developed world against a globalization process that is substantially impoverishing them.

I can't say I blame them much. I don't know about the UK but in the USA nobody cares. The American left looks down on the working class for their religious beliefs and hates them for their social conservatism. The American right pretends to care long enough to win an election and then goes back to pursuing policies that hollow out industry in favor of lucrative labor arbitrage profits for major corporations.

This could have been avoided, but the time to avoid it was perhaps in the early 2000s. Developed nations that don't have these problems are those that have taken steps to protect (through social safety nets) and retrain those whose jobs are threatened. But here in the US and (AFIAK) UK we have made college dramatically more expensive, allowed housing and health care to inflate far beyond wages, and generally twiddled our thumbs and looked the other way. It's almost like some fraction of the US educated and wealthy classes delight in the economic impoverishment of its middle and have pursued policies designed to do exactly that. I say this because as the effects have become apparent we have doubled down on these policies.

What are the victims of these policies going to do? Nobody listens to them. Nobody cares. So in the end all they're left with is political revolts that most of them from what I've read understand are likely impotent, but at least somebody is discussing it. I'm a coastal "tech elite" and I'm writing this post and I wouldn't be if Hillary had won and Brexit hadn't passed. That's democracy I guess.

Edit: one more point:

During the election I watched a show (Colbert I think but I'm not sure) where Trump supporters and "MAGA" were mocked by walking around and asking them when they thought America was great. None of them had a good off the cuff way to answer the question. Well here's the answer if anyone is curious:

http://www.eoionline.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/productivity-...

Draw a line through 1973. Before: America was great. After: America is not great.

Highly skilled and educated Americans don't get the appeal of MAGA because they have been spared to a much greater extent from this divergence. I would argue they've still felt it but more through indirect means like housing hyperinflation on the coasts, but it hasn't been visceral enough to provoke an extreme response.

I'm not and never was a Trump supporter but I totally get the appeal of that slogan and it's not stupid at all. It's very real.
Wasn't it because it was the same group of people who worked on both? And when it ceased to make sense, the games were split off - the only remaining ones in FreeBSD are things like banner(6) or pom(6).
If he doesn’t believe Tesla’s official financial reports, I think it’s fair for me to not believe this episode - there is no evidence of this profile being a person.

I’m just glad to have less noise regardless, don’t have enough invested in TSLA to really care.
Impossible Burgers’ key, bloody ingredient gets long awaited nod from FDA
How Technology Grows (a restatement of definite optimism)
Any article which devolves to name calling within a few paragraphs (the Nazi stuff) lacks credibility and can safely be dismissed. It won't win anyone over and just looks like someone who is preaching to the choir.
I hated the smell after heavy rain though. Made it really difficult to do anything outdoors.
Why would you do this?
Redirect chain:

https://tech.instacart.com/freezing-pythons-dependency-hell-in-2018-f1076d625241
https://medium.com/m/global-identity?redirectUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ftech.instacart.com%2Ffreezing-pythons-dependency-hell-in-2018-f1076d625241
https://tech.instacart.com/freezing-pythons-dependency-hell-in-2018-f1076d625241?gi=85c0588ca374
I found this company: https://www.pointgrab.com/ and they seem to be good. The only possible problem is that they use camera, I am unsure how will this work with GDPR and also if people will accept the fact of camera pointed at them.
It's not about what cstross wants. It's about what the various stakeholders with effective veto power can accept, and how that makes a deal unlikely.
> I’ve been waiting eagerly for their cultural identity to emerge and express itself with authentic art, music, film, etc.

I think it's already happening/happened, it's just not as easy to see and commodify because media is not being funneled through a few mediums. I don't think we'll ever see these large generational "identities" like we did pre-internet and especially pre-social-media. I predict that from now on the defining identity trait is that there is no defining trait. You can choose one identity from the many pre-existing ones or create your own, then find your community online to make you feel good about your choice.

I also enjoyed the article. Not perfect but hey, it's fostering discussion. I'm actually more interested in their authenticity article, which I will read next
No problem. Your app is really cool! I really have to compliment you on the design/ux too. Clean, easy to look at, and minimal futuristic. I look forward to seeing more!

Do you have a github or a blog I can follow? I didn't see anything in the info on your site.
If what your really care about is desk utilization, ask the people who use the desk to tell you.

If what you actually want to do, is track when people are at their desks, you are picking a poor metric if you think it correlates to productivity. Great idea for telling the employee that you don’t trust them though.
Depends on where you're from and what temperatures are comfortable.

May and September are the standards. Adjust to preference.
Are there any reliable objective numbers and comparisons for this? While mimo is a great technology, it is trivial to “hold your iPhone right way” and get the same benefits, I feel mimo has become a marketing ploy for companies to push their latest without any perceptible impact to users.
Sure they do guarantee the ABI stability (within major release), but the main thing here is that FreeBSD - like pretty much any other operating system, but differently from Linux - maintains the stability at the libc level, not at syscall level.
It's impossible to copy and paste that link on mobile Safari fwiw, fixed width scroll area.
See also "Breaking the Bluetooth Pairing:
Fixed Coordinate Invalid Curve Attack"

https://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~biham/BT/
I don't think anyone is celebrating diversity of hair style or body art in the workplace.
More lies from sore losers.
That's the Lib Dem position exactly, but they are currently too small to matter.
>But more often than not, it shows an inability to manage ones finances and staying within a reasonable band of spending

You know what home economics taught me in high school? How to sew a tennis racket cover and how to make a beaded lizard keychain/zipper pull.

You know what it didn't teach? Balancing a check book, taxes, 19%+ interest rates on credit, emergency fund savings, how to deal with sudden unemployment, how to deal with sudden unexpected medical expenses.

I was paying my debts monthly, barely, that wasn't good enough for one of the lenders and they sued me in small claims. I never got the summons (apparently quite common) and they were awarded default judgement of 35% of my gross income and had my waged garnished which forced me to file.
They did. People didn't read it.
I use miniconda in production, and it's awesome. It's on par with (or even better than) npm except perhaps on the number of packages in the repository, supports pip, does everything I need and then some.

I'm baffled myself at the anaconda-blindness in the general crowd, which is evident every single time this comes up for discussion.
Why not just use pdfgrep?
GBPUSD: Bullish, Eyes Further Corrective Upside
>The Electoral Commission has uncovered evidence of electoral spending irregularities in the Leave.UK and Vote Leave campaigns serious enough to justify criminal investigation and possible prosecution

Somehow those kinds of probes only conveniently find "irregularities" from the sides that the political elites are against...

UK is supposedly a democracy (and thus such matters are to be decided by popular vote), but the pro-EU side has brought a strong TINA approach over the whole thing -- as it's not just a choice with pros and cons, that can be debated, and eventually go either way (even if it has a cost), but some kind of historical inevitability for the UK to be in the EU.

And anyone against is a bad person, and/or racist, and/or baseless (if not an agent). This demonising will continue to hurt the Bremain in the UK (and the ruling classes in general) and the Democrats in the US. You cannot rule a people, or have a united country, unless you understand "how the other side lives" and their grievances.

And all of that after a long period where the legitimacy of the EU was in question, the Euro in the crapper, and fiscal policies made to benefit a few big gorilla countries (if not a single one).

(And after 2 decades of power elites getting their way with the Maastricht treaty, the Lisbon treaty and so on, untangling 50+ years of social protections in the process -- and after time after time, the popular vote for the EU constitution, policies and other matters has been against when it was asked for in a referendum (e.g. in France, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Greece, etc).

(This is of course not a popular approach for the upper middle class, mobile, HN crowd).

>On a micro scale: I'm stockpiling enough essential medicines to keep me alive for six months, and will in due course try and stockpile enough food for a couple of weeks.

Rather, on a micro and macro scale: nothing much will change. The "end is coming" survivalist fantasies will be laughed at 2-3 years from now. I'm saving this post, let's check back and see who was right.
Both the Lib Dems and the SNP are pretty clear about not wanting Brexit (possibly some other parties as well) - but this means nothing in the context of UK politics.

Given that the current Labour leadership are quietly pro-Brexit and that there is unlikely to be an election anytime soon I don't think there is any chance of an electoral solution to this problem.

https://www.libdems.org.uk/exit-brexit

https://www.snp.org/what_is_the_snp_plan_for_brexit
My upload bandwidth is low enough to make offsite backup not practical (~1mbps). Anyone else with the same issue? How do you handle it?
[...]the Bluetooth SIG is not aware of any devices implementing the attack having been developed, including by the researchers who identified the vulnerability.

Well that is odd. Did the researchers really convince the Bluetooth SIG just by pointing the issue(s) out on paper?
IT Architecture Matters, Even in the Cloud
A long running fake news experiment
That statement appears to only apply to images created with the CSS image() function, not HTML <img>s.
More mitigations against speculative execution vulnerabilities
The Lib Dems went into a coalition with the Conservatives in 2010 and still aren't forgiven for failing to deliver any of their campaign promises.
Genuine question: does pipenv do anything that [mini]conda doesn't?
Hm, drone doesn't support AWS CodeCommit where my main repo is hosted, so I don't think I can even consider it.

Had a look at self-hosted GitLab, there is immediately a warning at the top of the installation page that there should be at least 4GB of free memory. I could upgrade my droplet, but I don't really want to.
> 4GB RAM + 4GB swap supports up to 100 users but it will be very slow"

It's looking like I will probably go with BuildBot...
Just an outsider's opinion, but I think that they had a vote. They probably should not have voted "Leave", but they did. So now you have to get on with the business of implementing the will of the people.

It might come out just as the author has outlined, or it might not be that bad, or it might be far worse than even the author has envisioned. The thing is, whatever the consequences and benefits are, they are consequences and benefits for which the people voted. I think as democratic stewards and public servants, the only thing you can do is implement the Brexit to the best of your ability. Even in the face of the many grave personal reservations you may hold as to the wisdom of that Brexit.
Realistically the UK is shaping up for no deal. Highly appealing to Rees Mogg and his tax haven based hedge fund, not so good for everyone else.

No deal will mean life goes on with tariffs on many goods in either direction. As we have seen over the last two years the Foreign Office has seemingly lost everyone who has diplomatic ability. Funny, they used to be famously good at it. This is not promising for the chances of equitable trade agreements with anyone after Brexit. Life will go on but it appears it'll be a damn sight more expensive.

If the next govt wants to renegotiate re-entry to the EU the terms will be much less appealing than first time around.
I hate the whole idea of activating virtualenvs. It's a tool that makes it really easy to end up running a command in the wrong environment and see weird behavior instead of a clear error message.

I've seen variations on this scenario happen at least 3 times, for instance:

1) Somebody creates script that activates and runs django and commits it.

2) Junior runs script but the virtualenv doesn't get created for some reason.

3) The "warning virtualenv doesn't exist" message appears briefly and gets missed.

4) The junior gets "import error: cannot import django" or something.

5) They then start installing django in their system environment and... it sort of works. Except then they get another import error. And a whole bunch of python packages installed in their system environment. Yech.

Moreover, I'm really not sure what was so wrong with just running ./venv/bin/python in the first place and never having to worry about what environment you're in.
The US Federal Government is the superior sovereign. Sovereign immunity is powerful but also specific in dealing with civil lawsuits, hence this very ruling. It doesn't apply to federal agency actions for example. It also in no way prevents Congress from carving out whatever exceptions it wants, in fact that's how civil lawsuits against the government in general happen, Congress passes laws saying "people may sue the government for this."

It'll actually be most interesting to see how this might ultimately affect other entities that have been using it, such as State Universities. This ruling didn't specifically address that, as usual courts like to stay specific to the case. But in their final paragraph CAFC clearly acknowledged the parallels with other cases, and it's hard to see how the same logic of this ruling wouldn't apply to any other such entity too.
Wow, didn't know that the godawful Ben Affleck movie was actually based on something! I will give it a read.
We do not assign desks to people, I think "hot desk" would better explain how we use them as our devs are free to work from home if they feel like it.
In the same time there is a group of people who do like to come to the office.
Also some people pop in early in the morning, leave their bag and check email only to spend rest of the day on meetings with customers.
Without letting this devolve into the typical anti-US-healthcare-system circlejerk, medical debt is one of the few ways completely outside of ones control. While I'm sure there are a few, I can't think of another one that is entirely outside of the individual's control.

> where buying a house you can make payments on but whose value drops precipitously resulting in a seizure of the house

This is patently false. You can buy a house for $400k and if its value drops to $100k nothing changes for you unless you want to move, which is a choice. Nobody is going to take your house just because you're underwater on paper as long as you keep making payments.
Part of the problem with the SID particularly is its analogue components, such as the filter, which are very hard to simulate digitally. It's not just demos that depend on their behaviour.

Even Commodore themselves weren't able to reproduce all of its subtleties (i.e., the 6581 vs 8580 differences).

Bob Yannes did some amazing things with the chip, especially considering the limitations he had to work under: http://sid.kubarth.com/articles/interview_bob_yannes.html
This is another good result of applying transfer learning to NLP.

Transfer learning works great for vision problems (just reuse one of the big SoTA trained on ImageNet networks - I like resnet50). This was enabled by the amazingly shared structure of vision problems. There was nothing similar for NLP, besides pre-trained first layers like word2vec. If you want to learn more, check out the fast.ai DL course, it features transfer learning a lot.

But this model and ULMFiT (nlp.fast.ai) show that deeper nets can be pretrained for NLP, and achieve good results when transfered to other datasets and problems.

This enables not just the obvious use case of "I don't have N GPUs to train a deep net from scratch but I can now finetune a pre-trained model" but more subtle and interesting cases like fine-tuning on a very small dataset (compared to ImageNet or 100000 samples NLP data sets) and cheap training on demand. Training a new model for every user was way too expensive if training from scratch, but if fine-tuning a pre-trained net takes just a few minutes, why not ?
While the article may seem alarmist, considering how little the government has achieved in the 762 days since the referendum, I too have little hope of any meaningful progress being made. We have 240 days left, little idea what the government even wants, and Theresa May is in the headlines for snatching milk from children. Not that the opposition is in much better shape.

I do not know what Brexit the UK will get, but it will be a lazy, half-arsed Brexit. My prediction is either the UK will crash out entirely leaving the country in the chaos described in the article, give in to essentially all of the EU's demands in the last few days or weeks to save face, or give up entirely and call the whole thing off. When was the last time any UK government pulled of something this big this quickly?

I am probably going to stockpile medicines, food, and essentials late Winter.
There is a non-zero chance that May is replaced by a hard brexiter and they insist, by will of the referendum, that a hard brexit must occur. You can see UKIP bubbling back up in frustration.

When you consider what a soft brexit is, it's genuinely nothing of what leave wanted. The UK still doesn't have a solid border between itself and the EU because of the Good Friday Agreement, the UK still had to pay the EU and follow it's regulations and for all that it gets zero say in the EU legislature.

So there is a real chance of a hard brexit and it's going to be very messy.
Haven't commercials been doing absurdism for a while? Speaking of Asian ones, it's been known that Japanese commercials can be weird AF (to the western mind) that it was made fun of in the Simpsons with the Me Sparkle episode back in the early 90s. US has also been creating absurdist commercials pre-internet for a while now as well
This has the added benefit of letting you encode the system dependencies (OS packages) for library build time and for run time.

Docker images are also a great way to distribute Python CLI tools, certainly far better than installing via pip which either pollutes global state or is confined to a certain project's virtualenv.
what about OpenCV/DLib and a basic face detector?

You can combine it with PIR eventually
Smells of what exactly?
- Watch all korean & Japanese drama & anime & US TV series that get 8/10 rating or higher (It would take 50 years if I spent two hours every day devoted for it)

- Read all the books I'm interested in (I get depressed thinking I won't ever have enough time to read them all, even if I stopped working for the rest of my life)

- Watch all the youtube channel I'm following

- Learn how to play the piano smoothly.

- Put everything I read and watched into application in my own life. What's the heck to keep theories in your head if you don't put them into practice ?
So many bad choices.
Pick up the subject of old 8 bit computers, games and browsers.

Get ready for the 20 KB JS shooter competition.

https://gynvael.coldwind.pl/?id=686
People probably didn't trust it.

Nick Clegg rather infamously signed a very public pledge to vote against increases in tuition fees[0]. Then voted for tuition fees in coalition.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/nov/12/lib-dems-tu...
Locust: Open Source load testing framework
Nope, it is plenty productive to call out corporate pseudo-cultural production for what it is: fantasy.
Thanks, has a much better link with more information.