skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> In the nineteen-thirties, restorers at the British Museum polished the Elgin marbles, the most treasured sculptures from the Acropolis, until they were as white and shiny as pearls.

As good an argument as any for the Greeks getting them back from those ignorant barbarians.
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Yeah...the second I saw his Pic I knew this guy was a mess. At that age with a history of American diet he had to be primed with serious health issues. Can't excersize that away.
From the abstract:

"We define quality as the
number of votes an article would have received if each article
was shown, in a bias-free way, to an equal number of users."

I haven't yet the whole paper yet - but isn't that ignoring other major factors like how "newsworthy" a particular link is? A low quality link might get a lot of upvotes simply because it was the first link submitted that describes an inherently interesting event.
Correction on that: any employee in Sweden is forbidden from striking if they are currently bound by a collective bargaining agreement. This means strikes are only legally recognized as strikes in the period between the expiry of an agreement, and the signing of the next one. This is generally every three years.

In other words, political strikes are effectively banned i Sweden.

I'm not aware of any exception to this rule for public servants but I could be wrong.
The general rule is: You don't need supplements. Period.

That's because supplements provide (or are supposed to provide) trace elements that you need, but you only need a little bit of it. Like minerals and certain vitamins etc. The thing is - you basically need the same (trace) amount of it, whatever your lifestyle is. And you get it through eating a normal varied diet (e.g. a little meat, vegetables, some fish and seafood when you can, some (unprocessed) grains).
So when do you not get enough of it? When you don't eat much food, or not enough of certain kinds of foods. Say, if you are a vegan with a sedentary life style. You're simply not getting enough of the trace elements through the restricted type of food you eat.
If you're an athlete and you're also a vegetarian then you don't actually need food supplements at all - you're eating a lot of food due to the energy requirements and you'll get enough of it. Think Roman gladiator - they were vegetarians. No supplements needed.

For some reason a lot of people think that you need supplements if you excercise a lot, while it's in reality the other way around.
Last time I used Spotify's discover weekly is was completely useless. The recommendations consisted of mostly the same super specific sub genre of music with zero variety that I don't like at all.
Any arguments as to why that is so?
Better than it was 5-10 years ago - improving steadily.
Fibre internet 40Mbps for about USD60pm - reliable, quick, low latency.

Compared with the rubbish ADSL we've had to deal with in the past it's day and night.
Such an extrapolation doesn't make sense. You could also assume that all of New York would be speaking Italian by now given historical immigration rates.

Foreign languages only tend to have staying power until the 2nd or 3rd generation. All these immigrants are going to public schools in their respective countries where the official language is spoken, it's expected that they speak it at their jobs etc.
It's a shame. If I was FB I would continue to sell peoples data and pay the fines.
Balance? = price of private data minus fines;
That is great business.
You don't need anything... if lab results suggest nutrients and hormones are all in range.
It may need a few extra click for simple things. But it makes slightly more complex things much simpler
You can try WebGazer. It's a very user-friendly website monitoring tool and its cheap. I didn't get any false-alarms.

https://www.webgazer.io/
Well try going from south of England to the north of Scotland and tell me these people speak the same language.
Somewhat tangentially, it’s actually a fairly smooth process to pull data off a MacBook when the keyboard/graphics/touchpad are dead.

A friend dropped a drink through his and it looked very dead. Turns out with a thunderbolt cable, another Mac, and his disk crypto password & he had easy access so his old disk. Don’t ask me how, but kudos Apple.
>Partnership/expansion of for-profit networks will never get there.

So people believe that Tesla is going to upend the entire auto industry, but can't believe that some company will figure out how to build nice charging stations?

So many contradictions in the arguments here. Yes, the Supercharger network was, basically, necessary for Tesla to reach a critical acceptance level. But operating and maintaining those stations is not free.

The idea that the major fuelling stations won't start adding fast chargers is incredibly naive. They already have the infrastructure and real estate. It's a no-brainer. If/when EV demand reaches those levels, it will happen.
Bernie Sanders: We Must Stop Helping Saudi Arabia in Yemen
I find the general throatiness and swallowing of sounds in Arabic to be far from melifluous.
The parallel to post-Roman Europe is interesting, where Latin lived on for quite a while as the language of writing. It gradually gave way to written forms of the various spoken languages, derivatives of Latin or others. During this time of parallel usage Latin, just by being there as an alternative for the elites to show off pedantry, may have helped establishing a tradition of keeping the new written languages continuously aligned with their permanently changing spoken counterparts.

Keeping Latin while it was helpful as a shared language when the scholar density was low and then moving on once local intellectual networks became stronger and mass education required efficiency may have been one of those "guns germs and steel" factors where Europe just happened to be lucky.
Well they just opened the first 350kw one in denmark and there are two more that will open soon. The first electric car cabable of taking 350kw will first come late next year. [0]

[0]: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/regionale/syd/europas-foerste-supe... In Danish
You are ignoring the most comprehensive studies. Population analysis. There are populations that drink green tea regularly as a matter of tradition. Thats how this shit was discovered in the first place.
i use this. best "turn everything into dark mode" ff plugin ever. supports per website settings. https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader
If they weren't faded from their tacky paint jobs perhaps the classics would never have gained popularity.
Despite the clunkiness of the writing, I really enjoyed Dragon's Egg.

One aspect I thought was fascinating was how they solved the problem of getting a probe (relatively) close to the the neutron star without it being torn apart by tidal forces.
LastPass on firefox/linux is very chatty too, check wireshark or dnsmasq log
Agreed, however in the case of Wales and Portugal there are some ongoing efforts to keep Welsh and Mirandese alive, which of course depends on the willingness of the local population to actually care about it.

Didn't knew that main Italian came from Florence, thanks for the hint.
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Yeah, I don't even care about dark mode, but that is very nicely done. I really like that they care enough to actually implement dark mode all the way from OS to the browser.
Care to share a spoiler? :-)
Here’s a more recent one than a decade.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/...

The reason they’re able to use them sometimes is that they’re routinely carrying them. Fixing your bayonet is still a taught step in the drill for clearing an enemy position in at least the British Army I think.
>What is this based on?

This is the "everything is Silicon Valley" view of the world.

Another hilarious one is: "why doesn't everyone just bike to work?"
Yep. If you research green tea throughly this comes up as a major concern leading one to learn that it is very difficult to obtain any green tea that is free of toxins. Supposedly one of the best was regular Lipton tea bags.
> PS The official name is "Kingdom of the Netherlands", I guess that solidifies my point about Holland being easier :)

That's kind of shifting the goalposts though. It's not like I'm introducing myself as "from the Federal Republic of Germany", either.
> Do you expect or want companies NOT to obey law?

Whose law? US law in this space says a lot about the rights of US citizens but a lot less about the rights of non-US citizens. So, yes it's reasonable to expect that a US company should obey the law but it doesn't follow that there's no reasonable concern with that.

Having said that, I applaud Cloudfare for making this step. Just because something isn't NSA proof doesn't mean that it has no value. But the concern is valid given that Cloudfare, presumably, still have access to the lookup data.
NetGuard is amazing, really can't recommend it enough.

You can use it to specify which apps are allowed to use WiFi/data, and whether they're allowed to use all the time or only if screen is active. It also allows you to set a hosts file URL and update it with a single click. It has improved my battery life, I rarely see ads (both when using the browser and when using apps), and it force me to use old.reddit.com since reddit.com is blocked by my host file.
Post your entire diet. Then we can talk.
The author praises the package manager as a positive, not a negative as I usually see from people used to downloading *.exe installers. He's used other distros, plus a Mac, in the past, but I wonder if phone app stores (plus Windows' own software store) have made this become a more natural method of installing software for the average user?
Annon: Configurable API gateway that acts as a reverse proxy with plugin system
That's backwards though (from a grammar POV). I would like an @is.my.name address. :)
It’s critical to not let up on this topic, and to pedantically keep energy focused on hammering home the points that cost-effectiveness does not support choosing open plan layouts, headphones don’t solve the problem, and to understand this choice by corporations you have to look at status signalling and sociological problems.

Even treating the topic like it’s some kind of even or fair debate about productivity is a problem now. It’s well beyond dispute that productivity suffers to such a degree that it erases any cost savings. It’s important to stop acting like there is some need for further proof or debate about this, and move on to social outrage and unwillingness to engage with companies that choose for _everyone_ to be embedded in open plan layouts (rather than letting some workers choose open spaces if they like it, other workers choose private offices if they need it, and simply just paying what this costs).
Visions of the great marine cities to come
>I'm not sure where you get your information,

Laughable, isn't it? Once second of Google would prove it wrong. People literally don't care about reality when it comes to this company. Some PR site says it, and it becomes "fact". The list of things people claim Tesla has done/can do that has no basis in reality is long and growing longer.
> The fine is the maximum allowed under the old data protection rules that applied before GDPR took effect in May.

£500k, what a joke for a company like Facebook. I’m glad that GDPR has a wider range when it comes to fines.
Optical angular momentum: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_angular_momentum_of_...
How many studies should I show you that use green tea _extract_, not green tea?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30174618

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29429153

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28904061

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28585735

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27806972

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27062963

etc.

Even studies with just "Green Tea" in their titles use green tea extracts:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27797683

It's obvious that the public would not be interested in green tea without all the studies using concentrated green tea extracts.
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German government has/had iPhone Ones. Didn't stop allies from eavesdropping.
I came here to post what you already did on (2)

Couldn't agree more.

The problem is that we are stuck with it, looks like web technologies are set in stone.

Here's how it should have been:

https://constraints.cs.washington.edu/web/ccss-uwtr.pdf
Just block third party JS and Cookies using uMatrix.
Then use uBlock origin to remove select divs that are annoying.

No need to rely upon third party lists.
> nice to see that this curse still occasionally persists /s

FTFY

Seriously, though, that's a huge outlier. I haven't touched a machine in the last 10 years where Ethernet and Wifi were not supported out-of-the-box. (Including my new Thinkpad, which I was weary about since it came with an Atheros Wifi module, but it too worked out-of-the-box without any tinkering).

These days, the biggest issues are with Nvidia GPUs from what I've heard.
Parse Strings in Python
Long-time swimmer here. Without extra magnesium, I will get spasms in my legs from time to time while exercising. With extra magnesium, I don't.
The story behind Michelin stars
The author, a junior doctor at the time, later acts the consultant what plant he was referring to and the consultant says "a water lily".

I think the consultant in question had a bit of a thing about people consuming large quantities of "natural" products and being surprised that this could make them quite ill and indulged in a bit of a rant.
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But it's already painfully obvious that one or more of the assumptions is violated. That should only be surprising if you've spent years being indoctrinated by academic finance or economics.
Well, that part is subjective.
"In english for example you have : Book, Author, Library In Arabic (kitaab, kaatib, maktaba) which is the same root (k,t,b)"

I see might not be difficult for me to learn it since I know Swahili (the most commonly spoken language in East Africa, which has Arab influence) since those words are pronounced respectively: Kitabu(book), Katibu(secretary), Maktaba(library).

Arab is not really complicated. Trust me, I'm accustomed to more troublesome dialects in Africa.
Compared to hundreds of studies about green tea extracts, many of them reported by the media, those population-wide studies had minimal effects on the public. And even those studies would usually find the largest effects on people who drink impractically large amounts of green tea, e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3103781/ or http://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/722554/relationship-betwee... (6 cups per day!). In addition, there are many confounding factors with population-wide studies compared to clinical studies.
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I'm writing this from my XPS 13 using the latest Ubuntu and once I've spent a few hours configuring everything, it works almost perfectly. There's still a few bugs, like Ubuntu not remembering the audio settings.
"Intrinsic quality" is a terrible name - it should be something like "decontextualised quality" or "neutrally presented quality", because it's still an aggregate subjective view on the quality of the article.