skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chobani is mentioned so many times that this must be paid for by that company. The article is a dress that barely covers an advertisement's bare bottom.
Cotton seed oil is used in central Asia for making pilaf and other dishes. Are they being unsafe or is that oil something else?
The sky is falling! The UK may be headed for disaster status as seen in basket cases like Switzerland, Norway, Iceland.

Except of course that's not going to happen. Nobody's going to leave anything after all, as per a well-known line from a well-known Eagles song, about the feasibility of check-out.
Wouldn't this be an end goal for malicious bots? I also think this article puts too much emphasis on people "being lied to" by all social media bots with statements like: "One question begs for closer analysis; why would a small percentage, though small, find anything positive about the bots, about being lied to, that the information is not free of salary packet or automated word strings?", when that's absolutely not true for all bots.

For example, a National Weather Service severe weather social media bot just posting severe weather warnings probably isn't lying to you.
The leavers, who think untangling a web of commercial, legal and financial connections (which a lot of them depend on - I can't wait to see the face of the farmers when their EU subsidies stop coming) is as easy as unplugging their kettle.
A few of my business school classmates fell in love with Vancouver and wanted to move their after graduation.

They found out pretty quickly there aren’t as many jobs in Vancouver as one would expect. As others have mentioned, lots of regional office, but not many headquarters.

You’d have a much easier time finding a job in Calgary or Toronto than Vancouver.

It’s a big, well known city, but has fewer professional jobs than you’d expect.
It is a little odd that the homepage doesn't say Smalltalk on it anywhere.
I wouldn't read Washington Post for technology: I read it for politics. I don't read Bloomberg for technology news, I read it for investment news.

Well, there's certainly a problem with Bloomberg's technology / cyber-attack division. But Bloomberg as a whole is one of the better investment newspapers. IMO, Bloomberg probably should just stop writing about cyber-attacks. They're clearly incompetent at that and its causing people to lose trust in the greater newspaper.

But I won't go to Ars Technica to read about insider Washington politics. Its a matter of recognizing what these papers are "good" in.
If you can manage that, sure, sounds pretty good. But I doubt that's the case most of the time. None of the Feds I've had the chance to talk to sound like they're slacking off.
Jumping on a blockchain thread to ask this question-

Can anyone imagine ANY uses for a centralized blockchain?

IOTA uses tangle, but the idea is the same. Storing immutable data.

I understand Bitcoin, people commit currency fraud. Bitcoin is decentralized. Trustless currency sounds fantastic.

I do not understand these data coins that are centralized. It isnt trustless, and at this point, why not store in a write only sql database?
For sure we can presume if he’d been sympathetic to Kurds in the southeast, or critical of the post coup attempt crackdown, he’d likely be on a different list. Point being this seems like Turkish manoeuvering for their benefit. But that said the coordination in the reaction has been unique.
That was the original intent of GNU Guile.
Whether it's correlation or causation doesn't matter: that question can be rephrased as "is there a difference between de facto and de jure discrimination?" and the answer is no.

"Accusations of racism" slightly mischaracterizes my argument. I'm not accusing any individual of racism, I'm saying that the college admissions system in many ways privileges white applicants.
There is a Pharo MOOC currently running:

http://mooc.pharo.org/

https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/course-v1:inria+41010+sessio...

The original course is in French (dubbed in English) with English, Spanish and Japanese subtitles.
I keep a notebook and open a new page every time I walk into a meeting. I take down all salient points. If I have trouble putting something down, that's usually an indication I need to ask more questions.
Wow, what a fantastic thing to see that photo of a cosmonaut wearing the the old DDR patch. For me it's a curiously sentimental mix of the idealism of modern day progress and forgotten historic nostalgia. The first of which I still believe in, and the second of which seems more of a ruefully likely prospect to have to consider as I age.

Thank you for sharing the article.
Although IMO it’s not possible to have a monetary union without some kind of federal law. In addition, EU isn’t poised to compete with other world’s superpowers unless it gets its shit together (e.g. EU countries competing amongst each other to offer lowest corporate tax etc.).
Surprised there was no mention of non dairy milk. Almond, soy and others have all taken over much of the aisles, has to leave a mark I would imagi ne.
It'd not as bad as it sounds in practice. The screen is also 12.5 inches so pixel density is ok, and if you break lines at the 80 columns mark in your code (as you should ;)), you can sit two vim windows side by side in a terminal.

Just have to zoom out these trendy websites who think it's "in" to design a layout with 40px font size for copy and everything fits well in Firefox.

Oh and if you're really adventurous, the x220 and x230 make for pretty good hackintoshes, I hear. Plus they have matte displays.
To get a more precise answer, try narrowing down the question a bit. I don't know what point of view you're coming from, or what specific type of justification you're looking for.
For anybody who's used an "immersive" programming environment, like Smalltalk to a Lisp machine -- what's the advantage? It seems like the ability to mutate the whole world would just be asking for mistakes. I can barely keep a clean Python REPL. Do you restart your whole machine to run your test suite?
I have absolutely no opinion on Brexit. It would be amazing to me beyond rational belief if the first attempt at a European government wasn't severely flawed. Maybe it's great, maybe it's awful, but to nail the first time? Probably not.

Having said that, I have no clue about when you should jump ship or hang on. Additionally, these are not the issues of my country. So even if I had an opinion, I'd just shut up about it.

With that prefix, the Brexit discussion is about as whacked as any public discussion that I've witnessed online. You can see from the HN comments that there's a ton of emotion around this thing.

I don't think it belongs on HN. And I've been deleting political leaders as fast as they appear in my Twitter feed telling me to feel one way or another about it.

I love talking with fellow nerds about things that are contentious that we can reach some agreement on, even if it's just to agree to disagree. This doesn't look like one of those things. This looks like something that no matter what you say, people are going to be upset about it.
And the Exit people will say they voted against EU policies all along yet have been compelled to go along...

The rules for winning were known before the votes were cast, just like in 2016 in the USA. Do the do-overs stop as soon as you get the result you want?
> Not sure what are you talking about. The best moment to speak about anything is ASAP. I am not going to wait until next 1-on-1 meeting day because that's the procedure.

But then all of your conversations are about operational matters.

When can you talk about careers? When should I talk to my employees about the 'boiling a frog' stuff? A steady increase in workload, the new x is causing anxiety with y. Or even that person x is concerned about person y's welfare. All huddled in our open plan office, it is hard to have those conversations. The 1 to 1 allows that.
React: Controlling Rendering with keys
Does it actually matter if it is a bot rather than a person with malicious intent?
Regionally this was covered extensively with pictures of devastated houses and graphic detail about the fatality.
The most likely outcome, in my opinion, is a no deal Brexit. That has been the most likely outcome for several months.

There has only been the illusion of progress in the talks. Really things are in largely the same state they’ve been in since January.

The Northern Ireland border issue has not been solved, because it is effectively impossible to solve. The EU wants Northern Ireland to remain in the customs union to prevent a border on the island of Ireland, however the UK conservative government depend on the DUP, who are opposed, for support and will not agree. The EU will not consider any deal that introduces a border. There is no compromise position here, either one side backs down or there is no deal.

Also the conservatives have floated the idea of a “Canada+++” free trade deal, which to my knowledge has never been offered by the EU, as it would include services and thus be too close to the single market, rendering it meaningless. Even if the NI border issue were to disappear overnight, the substance of a deal still appears to be unagreed.

The deadline of March next year is fast approaching and any extension to the current negotiation period will need to be passed by the EU. If it comes to that, some EU government will likely derail the extension process and it won’t happen. Then everyone will shout “But we couldn’t possibly have seen this coming!”, even though you could see it months ago, as the UK hurtles towards no deal Brexit with no means of stopping.
They could have export more milk, UHT, Cream Cheese, Butter etc.

Instead they won't interested. They won't interested in completing against EU, AUS, New Zealand's dairy products. I doubt they will lose any money if they were priced competitively against it, they are just likely to have less profit margins.

Actually that is not a totally fair assessment, since a few of them did complete on price, but their quality won't as good. And they blame it on their international sales staff, which has since changed hands multiple times.

P.S Those companies do not include any Multinational like Nestle USA, Danone, and Kraft Heinz.
You cannot execute a person in an embassy.
Of course they're not exactly the same, but I'm saying you're not going to wow Americans with poutine. They'll look at it and say it's some kind of chili cheese fries. And it kind of is.
As much a satire as the notion that SF is a liberal city, yes
This answer is a bit underwhelming to my mystic sensibilities.
Those tales are not exaggerated. The $800 billion feels very right, and possibly even conservative, to me. Source of anecdata: many investments in China, Asian family, frequent visitor to Vancouver. Few high net worth Chinese nationals expect to be able to keep their money from the government in the long haul.

Racism/fear of change aren't factors. Locals would fear "these people" moving in and jacking up real estate prices if they were German, Swedish, or Danish. The problems are quite practical: as with older property owners in Silicon Valley, locals love seeing their own house values skyrocket, but no one thinks about the fact that once they sell they won't be able to remain.
No, it's an opinion. But people in echo chambers usually can't tell between the two, after all everybody must agree with them, because they're the good people on the right side of history.
The article mentions that processing seeds to make cotton seed oil removes the poisonous element. Also that cows' digestive system can handle the element - that's why the seeds were relegated to cattle feed and cotton seed oil previously.
Time which we might not have, especially given the political pushback.
Much appreciated, thanks, but point is we do not live in a bubble and I am not sure Nerdistan would be a nicer country to live.
(Homer Simpson drooling voice)

“Squeaky Cheese... Aaaaah...”
Don't think so, no. Making the Maps Search more sensible requires the app to know the current location which it does anyway, plus maybe your search history. I'm sure a lot of people would give Apple permission to store search history with all the Apple-style privacy statements in place of course. I think their product management just doesn't get it.
Yep, and all the source code is developed in the open as well! https://github.com/3b1b/manim
A new equilibrium with a smaller population, after the problem of an old population had passed, would still imply less room for specialization, and therefore less per capita productivity, and ultimately lower quality of life.

Instead of more natural resources available per person, a less productive economy eventually provides for fewer resources in terms of goods, services and capital like installed infrastructure per person that are necessary to thrive.
Sending a data outside and keeping that data on the outside servers are two different things don’t you think? Apple might use a web api but they don’t store that data about you unlike google.
Where abouts do you live? Germany?
Looking Back at Final Fantasy VI Tech Demo with Kazuyuki Hashimoto (2017)
It's hard to make someone on HN understand why someone would ever want a Brexit.

As the 10%-ers, their livelihood depends on them not understanding it - and their social circles can only consider the people who do unwashed masses and scum.
Brexit would certainly be done by now without the border issue. Maybe painfully or imperfectly, but intractable problems don't even have painful solutions.
First, I would ask: why do you think you need a formal 1-1 with your direct reports?
With that attitude, I'll bet your IT guy thinks you're a bunch of complaining idiots. If you're actually respectful to him, and work with him to fix problems, your relationship will likely improve. Managing Windows 10 is hard, and he sort of has an impossible job, as MS updates have become so awful.
Well actually, it could be. Viral infections can cause mutations which lead to other diseases down the line, HPV causing cancer being the most famous. It could also, potentially, be heritable. Or the risk is heritable but the infection actually triggers the disease.
> The disease couldn't be both hereditary and infectious.

Why not? Why couldn't "proneness to infection" be hereditary, and the actual infection completing the disease mechanism?
> There's a chance that is lactose, which, per the FDA [1] counts as sugar for nutrition labelling purposes.

I'd expect most sugar in yogurt to not be lactose: part of the point and advantage of yogurt and other fermented dairy (and they're commonly consumed in places with low to no lactase persistence) is the cultures break down much of the milk's lactose into simpler sugars. In fact, the chobani nutrition section quotes 6g carbs, 4g sugars, less than 5% lactose.

More to the point, unsweetened yogurt should contain about the same sugar ratio as milk (4~6% by weight on average), >10% (the yoplait one) is way above the upper end and indicates added sugars. GP misread the chobani's nutrition label though, they quote 6g carbs (4g sugars) per 5.3oz (150g) not 15g.
It’s weird that people have an issue with bots when the bigger issue is astroturfing. But no one wants to get rid of astroturfing bacause that’s every brand’s bread and butter.
Yeah, if Zinn hadn't read much history, he might have done that.

Because who gives a fuck about Africa, Latin America, or Asia, right? If anything, perhaps the white people did them a favor and civilized them...
This submission has been flagged. Perhaps because it's not really pertinent to HN?
I have filed both US and UK FIO requests. (But I am not a lawyer.)

I think you are right in the UK. The US law is different and seems to allow this sort of broad request. I have been told before when filing in the US that others may request my contact information, and I have seen lists of FOIA requests received via the FOIA including contact information for requesters.

In the UK, requests need to be fairly narrow as I recall. And the time frames in which the request will be processed also are narrow: 20 business days as I recall. If it would take longer than that you probably would be asked to narrow the request. This is good for me as I typically request individual documents, not huge swarths of data. I requested a classified UK technical report and received a redacted copy within a month as I recall. Much faster than in the US.
Do not be so so harsh on the people who wanted the brexit. They have made a mistake, probably. Some of them realize that.

As a pro eu person from nl(if that even exists) i would prefer not to give uk a hard time to come back on their decision. And even íf they really quit: we still have to work together. It is in interest of all of us to have the uk with us. It is just impossible to negotiate for brexit and cherry pick all the good parts of the eu, while not doing something in return. They will end up with a eu type of deal, with a few minor things stripped off. Or a hard brexit, which may not even happen.

It is a shitty situation, which starts to affect my life as well. I have some stocks on a company “degiro” which has its license in the uk. This is a problem because i am unsure what is going to happen. I moved my investments to a broker with dutch bank accounts and licenses.
In a democracy the do-overs never stop. That is the most critical aspect of a democracy: You never stop having the right to fight to change a decision.
The day after Brexit will be like Neo waking up from the Matrix. Yes, there will be pain and things may not seem quite as bright as they did under the yoke of the EU - but they will finally be free of the oppressive regime of Germany, France, and the EU bureaucrats. The UK should have the chance to drive their own destiny.

The EU was a great and prosperous (for some) experiment but it has outlived its usefulness for all but the elites desperately clinging to power. It's only a matter of time until another major country exits, then the balkans, then the south. The UK should rip the band-aid off now and focus on their core strengths of Finance and Tech, work to build out domestic manufacturing and agriculture capabilities, and establish trade agreements with key partners.

The UK will come out stronger and more globally competitive in the end.
I also use it for adding calendar events, much easier to say than type a title, set the date and time and set the duration.
You forgot:

- Alhiemers is a form of diabetes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4578267
670,000 of those who don't want it marched through London yesterday. That is a huge number for the UK btw.
What damage was done to Quebec? Sure, a bunch of francophobic anglos fled to Ontario, but Quebec remains a vibrant society with a semi-functioning healthcare system and a decent univeristy system.

Now, the election of the CAQ last mont: _that_ is likely to cause some damage if they succeed in enacting their stale neo-liberal policies and fail to react to the CLIMATE CHANGE CRISIS.
This made me think of this incredible piece of art by Mishka Henner that I saw in Edinburgh at the Scottish National Gallery: https://mishkahenner.com/Feedlots
This idea is the most disgusting part of western morals...

The inability to understand that, with their faults and all, not all cultures are equally power-grubbing like theirs. And that who did what to whom matters...

At least they could say they're sorry, instead of "I only fucked you over because you didn't have the power to fuck me".
But it's the only part of the problem where the "wrong" solution has a real risk of reigniting armed conflict.
When I go to the doughnut shop at the end of the day, why are they almost out of doughnuts? It would be possible to produce a lot more doughnuts than that.
I can get it three places in my local Iowa town
Well you've got cities like Miami and Providence which were built with cocaine money, cities like Havana and pretty much all of the Netherlands that were built with money from the slave trade, etc. Not really new. And then you've got places like New York where a large percentage of the money coming in has always been from illicit or semi-licit activities, but never so much that it was the overwhelming majority of the economy at any given point.
Fair enough

> They will end up with a eu, with a few minor things stripped off.

Maybe. They had that already
Yes, as it was a nonbinding referendum to see if there was support for leaving the EU, come up with a report showing some numbers that indicate the estimated impact and run the whole thing again.
I'm a senior director and most of my reports are middle managers, but hopefully some of this will still be relevant or useful, i meet with my direct reports quite often, like sometimes multiple times a day, but these aren't 1x1's, they're project related, i'm typically trying to get a pulse on the team and projects. For actual 1x1's, i try to schedule once a month, i have 7 direct reports, each 1x1 is scheduled for 30m, if there are a lot of topics, we can extend if time permits, or schedule a follow up. Most of the folks have been with me for a long time (6+ years) so the trust level is quite high, that way we cut straight through the crap and speak candidly. My direct reports typically have a list of topics prepared, they don't share these topics with me in advance, which i think is beneficial because then i'm more so in listening mode, topics range from people, career development, to work politics, etc. I try hard not to prepare responses in my head while they're talking. i think for most of my managers, career path is pretty evident, they want to manage more people, larger orgs, and more responsibility, i have gone through career planning with them at some point, so we're talking about specific goals that we've outlined together, and their progress along those lines. I rarely get status updates on projects. Typically discussions are more exploratory, for example, I don't like direct reports bringing problems to me unless they have a set of possible solutions with pros/cons well articulated, my job is not to solve their problems, my job is to prepare them so that they can resolve their own problems.

My skip level 1x1's i try to schedule a 1-2 per week, i have over 80 people, so this rate gets me through most of the team by the end of the year. It's good to get a pulse on the team through this manner instead of just hearing it from the managers, and it lets you get to know the people in your organization more intimately, i'm sure at some point this doesn't scale, but i'd like to keep it up, maybe as the org grows larger to sample folks instead of trying to get to know everyone. I'm in learning mode mostly here, trying to figure out what makes them tick, what's frustrating them, i also try to recognize their work if applicable and get a good grasp of their potential. Sometimes i'll get into their project details, because a) it helps to relax them to talk about technical things b) it helps me to gauge their potential and then i get a better sense of how to coach their careers. Again, listening is key here. Skip levels are also 30m. Recognition for their work is important, great to hear from your manager, but also great to hear from your manager's manager. Typically the skip level engineers don't have a list of topics, so it's more me getting to know the individual better i typically ask about their background, what they're working on, i like digging into the technical details, whiteboarding is wonderful. In terms of career discussions, i most likely don't have all the specifics about their skill set, so for that, i expect the managers to sort through. But obviously if they have career questions, i'm happy to give them my perspective.
How about mushrooms many of which are poisonous? Why isn't there a religious prohibition on mushrooms?

Do you really think that humans need religions to forbid something that was known to be harmful for hundreds of thousands of years?
I had a thought the other day. Did we convince people that fat was bad, and then used that to water down milk so that from one harvest we could sell more watery milk and other dairy fat products?