skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Heads of state are routinely dispatching people by various violent means, including "bloody dismemberment" by remote controlled Drones.

Why not give examples? I can give a well-known one: President Obama's approval of the 2011 drone strike on Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen residing in Yemen (his 16-year-old son, also a U.S. citizen, was killed in another strike but was not officially targeted for killing).

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/30/magazine/the-lessons-of-a...

It was controversial years later, including today -- his 8-year old daughter was killed during a 2017 U.S. raid [0], but I think we can agree that Obama was far from danger of stepping down. However, the facts surrounding al-Awlaki's and Khashoggi's deaths are different enough to suggest there are natural, non-conspiracy reasons for why MBS is facing far more scrutiny. We can only imagine hypotheticals, but if Obama had ordered a drone strike on Sean Hannity on U.S. soil, and then pretended for a week that it was an accident despite his signature on the kill order, I'm pretty sure he would have faced similar levels of outrage.

> But seriously, in the early 70s the United States of America and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia reached a secret strategic agreement. And the USA no longer wishes to hold up their end of that grand agreement.

The United States's and Saudi Arabia's strategic of the past decades has hardly been "secret". And the U.S. is far from eager to disengage from that alliance, as recent headlines suggest:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/white...

> At the same time, Trump defended the oil-rich monarchy as an “incredible ally” and kept open the possibility that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman did not order Saudi agents to kill Khashoggi.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/01/yemen-strike-e...
The UK is an odd place at the moment. Brexit is almost too toxic to bring up in discussion: I think it's safer to discuss religion.

I personally feel like a passenger on a train that has a 50/50 chance of derailing. I didn't choose to get on this train, and my time remaining to get off is running out very quickly. But I can't just get off because I have lots and lots of baggage. I can't hear the screaming in the driver's cab. Maybe there is no driver. All the posh people in 1st class keep going in to the cab to argue and decide my fate. All the other passengers are just drinking tea and enjoying the views of ye olde England.
The idea here is that 1) Emacs has flexible means of automation (like keyboard macros), and 2) it also has a web browser, so 3) Emacs can be used for browser automation. The conclusion seems trivial in retrospect, but I hadn't seen it discussed anywhere, so I thought the techniques involved would be worth recording.
Yes, for better or worse Trump is breaking the Washington concensus on trade and you get a lot of opposition from the establishment both left and right.
As for cooking beef...

So perhaps not perfectly safe?
If there wouldn't be the Northern Ireland/Ireland border, an intractable problem, this would be over long ago.
The big news here is fraction scaling without hacks! The hidpi support is awesome.

You can specify a fractional scale instead of a non-fractional one for the ui and then adjusting the fonts/using xrandr.
Vancouver has many branch offices but few headquarters of large businesses.
Brexit always struck me as a frustrated response that would have been more valuable symbolically than something to actually follow through on. If they could just reframe it as "sure people are frustrated, let's try to address that" it would be far more valuable than attempting to leave.

The whole last few years remind me of an 80s movie where a teen threatens to run away and the parents let them go through the motions before they realize how screwed they'll be on their own.
I agree that this is crippling the UK and will for some time yet. However, I come to HN to get away from it.
Is this why Costco stores have so much cheap Jarlsberg Swiss?
Partially the reaction is due to the location: a Saudi consulate. Embassies/consulates are generally considered unassailable, because an attack on them (or the people in them) is considered an attack on that nation itself.

Essentially, conducting an attack/murder at a consulate is considered far out of the standard diplomatic procedure. Bin Salman (who wasn't initially aware who conducted the attack) was outraged and demanded answers (not knowing the chain of responsibility would route back)
In the OEM part of the automotive world there's all sorts of dynamically adjusted shocks, sway bars, etc, etc. None of that has made it into even the highest levels (most $$$) of off road racing (where it would be very useful) or normal racing (where it would still be useful, but far less so) yet.

Most recent tech is still under NDA and the people that do this stuff as their day job don't post on hobbyist boards and doing your own testing is prohibitively resource intensive compared to computer stuff. That's why you don't hear about recent tech until it's old. If you keep up to date on academic papers and industry press releases you can kind of get a fuzzy picture of what's going on.
Has this happened before? How can we learn more about this phenomenon by looking at history? To me this is an entirely new phenomenon.
We have this working in all our desktops in our bank branches using freenx.
Same thing in Austria, at least until a few years ago.

Farmers still complain over falling milk prices, and that they cannot survive. Yet the market is still saturated, milk was literally drained down the gutter regularly, every milk product is incredibly cheap IMO, considering how it is produced (although there was a butter shortage and a price "spike" last year).

Subsidies (and even worse EU wide subsidies) seem to do more damage than good in the long run.
That's seriously messed up. thank you for sharing though. My heart's with you.
I just assumed that the tales of “Chinese money” in Vancouver was part exaggeration and part fear of change and foreigners.

Real estate everywhere is booming in nice cities.

However, I may have been hasty in that assessment because this single number — the first estimate I have seen — is mind numbingly large:

“of their country’s capital controls. Since mid-2014, capital flight from China may have totaled as much as $800 billion, according to estimates from the Institute of International Finance.”
She did almost no campaigning in California after the primaries. Mostly all she did in California after that was fund raising.
If the higher-ups wanted to listen they'd have done so long ago.
They're called chili cheese fries. And they're popular here and there.
Not sure anyone is still following here. For a fun example of an entire field being wrong, look into the history of the causes of ulcers.
A bit off tangent but I never understood why there is a vaccine for herpes zoster (shingles/chicken pox) but not HSV1/2? Are the two viruses that different?
How few directs does one usually have?

My last office had 30 people under one manager, and my current have 15.

I don't see how weekly 30 minutes 1-1's are feasible.
It really really bothers me this is happening in the 21st century. I hate hearing people like you having to go through this crap
A supply side solution to a weakening demand? That's just logical enough to work.
Apple Watch at has gotten significantly better since its launch.
If you havent yet you should check out Sidney Dekkers writing. He does a lot of work around human factors and perception in the area of safety & operations management.
There are two Linux drivers for Nvidia GPUs: proprietary (nvidia) and open source (nouveau). Only the latter is supported by sway, and it has inferior performance and doesn't support newer cards well.
"Brexit", tonight on the Hallmark Channel.
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That seems absurdly low. For reference, I work for a major ISP and we pay our new college grads between $85-110K across our regions of operations.
Interesting about AVL trees is that almost all implementations out there either use recursive algorithms or require nodes to have parent pointers. This is due to the fact that most literature on AVL trees describe top-down insertion/deletion and bottom-up rebalancing.

Now the interesting thing is that rebalancing can also be done using a lesser-known top-down algorithm, allowing for a non-recursive algorithm that doesn't rely on parent pointers.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180315093634/http://neil.brown...
https://web.archive.org/web/20180320115617/http://neil.brown...

The downside of such an approach of using two successive top-down algorithms is that a naïve implementation would require twice as many object comparisons. Opposed to traversing a tree bottom-up, you now have to make a choice. As both traversals (insertion/deletion and rebalancing) are identical, this can easily be prevented by storing the path during the first traversal. As AVL trees are strongly balanced and only a finite number of nodes fit in an address space, storing a path only takes very little space (a bitmask would use less than two uintptr_t's).

I've implemented such an algorithm for FreeBSD's copy of the POSIX tsearch() and tdelete() functions a couple of years ago:

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/lib/libc/stdlib/tsearch...
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/lib/libc/stdlib/tdelete...
Are you saying that the Irish border is the only intractable problem in brexit? I don't think that's actually true.
Hey guys, I want to share with you my MVP. Through this site, people can book a Spanish conversation chat. The site is only for those interested in learning Spanish (language and culture). Obviously is work in progress, but any criticism or advice is welcome.
You can, but only with nouveau, which performs considerably worse. This is because Sway only supports GBM and nVidia only supports EGLStreams.
My former neurology teacher was working on finding a genetic model that could predict Alzheimer's. They said that work was going well. However they were also finding strong evidence for these infection models. which seems to contradict their work. The disease couldn't be both hereditary and infectious. Their answer were that possible we were looking at at least two different diseases that just so happened to attack the same neurons, and hence produce the same symptoms.
Wouldn’t that make it less objectionable since that would mean they technically attacked a person in their own country?
This is an interesting way to burn absolutely any credibility you have forever.
> a complete AVL tree that doesn't use recursion and is a whole lot faster for it!

A simple benchmark would've gone a long way here.

Edit - also this:

if (_comparer.Compare(key, node.Key) < 0)
{
node = node.Left;
}
else if (_comparer.Compare(key, node.Key) > 0)
{
node = node.Right;
}

needlessly doubles the number of Compare() calls in Delete() and Search(). Insert() however does it right.
"Environmentally friendly" vs. "environmentally unfriendly" is surely not easy to measure, but it's going to be a cakewalk compared to measuring "good" and "bad".
Man Dies from Extremely Rare Disease After Eating Squirrel Brains
... or start making more buttons ...

http://plastiquarian.com/?page_id=14228

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galalith
Milk is an industrially produced commodity in the US with it's own contamination problems. Most flavored Yogurt in the US is so full of sugar it's more of a health liability than a health product, I had to give it up.
+lakes +california +(largest OR "by size")

vs

what are the 5 largest lakes in California

The first isn't hard, but remember those few years when people would think you're a search guru because you could use + correctly, or when people sold books about how to use Google search? https://www.amazon.com/Google-Hacks-Finding-Worlds-Informati...
No, absent collision and when you have fixed costs, in a free market any individual producer ends up producing as much as possible. The market regulates production by people going out of business entirely.

This is why the EU built a complex production management system.
One of the issues is the federalisation of the European Union.

I don't know what could be done to address that though, it's not something that can be undone I would have thought without huge political and economic consequences.
I mean debt that you can't pay off for some reason. $1000 that you can't pay is the same as $100 million you can't pay.

That's one thing people keep forgetting about, for example, take population figures. Species specifically refuse to multiply unbounded. And that's weird the first time you realize that DNA contains a distributed regression algorithm that estimates to what size the population of it's species can grow under the current circumstances and then blocks reproduction, or enables asexual (or otherwise really fast) reproduction. Why ? Because if you get it wrong, population numbers will fluctuate.

And that seems "what's the problem ?". Well the problem is that there is a very special number, called "zero". And if the population of any species randomly fluctuates, it might randomly hit zero. And then it's over. There's no coming back from zero. Then you will realize that the number where that happens is not actually zero but can in fact be quite large a number and you see why fluctuation is an extremely undesirable property.

So for debt you can't pay, "zero" is the magic number. Once you cross it, your mission in life changes. It's no longer to get out of debt, but rather to get in as deep as you possibly can, while refusing any and all attempts to get back out (except of course to deceive others to let you get deeper in debt). That behavior by itself is the only thing that might get you back out of debt (just look at the president)

And in economics in general you should keep in mind that while individual humans are stupid, large groups of humans are incredibly good at finding optimal Nash Equilibria. If large numbers of people "randomly" or "out of stupidity" do something, fact of the matter is that the stupidity is yours, for not seeing the whole picture. Stupidity at large scale only exists at very short timeframes, if at all. Lots of people going into debt is not stupidity.
The Brits will be fine. Are we to believe that the loss of trade with economic titans like Italy are the lynchpins of Britain's demise?

That this comes from the BBC is telling...the last gasp of the neoliberal media establishment trying to preserve its well-crafted model of trans-national feudalism.

Your Twitter feed is not representative of the world. Working class people understand neoliberals are not liberals.

Maybe the Stay plutocrats can team up with their friends on the coasts in the USA and buy themselves a nice island like Madagascar where everyone can finally be disarmed and forced to agree with their Barons. Teslas for everyone, but we'll be monitoring your Twitter feed....

keep downvoting, it's what your manager wants
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> The Washington Post suggests that it’s because it humanized the action.

Putting a human face on a controversy tends to cement the controversy in people's minds. Rosa Parks was not the only nor the first person to be arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat [0], but she was the one whose case was made famous. But Khashoggi was not merely just someone known who was killed, he was someone known for speaking out against the Saudi prince. People who are killed because of their (legal) work, by the powers most threatened by their work, generally get more sympathy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks#Her_refusal_to_move
every crisis is an opportunity if you know how to exploit it.
I’ve just replied to a similar comment above, I’m not sure that the “information never leaves my phone” is accurate as my phone was able to reversely geo-locate my geo coordinates to the name of the coffee shop. I’m not sure how it would do that without sending my geo-data to outside of it or without trying to match my geo-location to extracted keywords from my messages (which would open another big can of worms).
So, basically ignore the result if you don't like it?

The Bolsheviks also gave fair elections a shot....one shot....one and done.
That's the thing with credit cards. The merchant always ends up paying.
Yes, and the proof only uses linear algebra: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frobenius_theorem_(real_divisi...
(Not sure who 'we' is but,) in the recent renegotiation of NAFTA, Canada did surrender some additional access to their domestic dairy market. The USA was demanding 100% access, but got only a couple of % more. But CETA, CPTPP, and USMCA combined get only 10% total of the total Canadian market.

Basically, Canada prefers to have its supply management system, and the USA prefers have its massive subsidies.
True, and it's much more complicated than it looks from the outside (or even from the rest of the UK)
I am almost reluctant to say this, as I'm almost jealous that you're able to think that. But fact is ... this is extremely naive.

Good on you that you think like this. Try to hold on to it and enjoy it, it won't last.
Opt-in to something that is only happening inside your device?
Which is why they said "credibly pretend that it cared about human rights" instead of "cared about human rights".
And the majority of sushi has been frozen, killing any parasites. If the fish has not been frozen, there is still a risk from parasites.
I agree, but in this case stupidity can not explain their actions.

The agency processing the FOIA request would get the export control status from the third party I contacted. The third party's software highlights export controlled documents with a red and highly noticeable statement. It would be difficult to believe they thought this was present when it was not.

The request also had actually been transferred several times because no one believes they have the authority to release the document I requested. The other agencies had ample opportunity to reject the request for being export controlled, but none did.

There are some other reasons that I will omit for brevity.

This makes me think that the export controlled claim was a lie meant to kill the request. Most people would stop at what they told me, but I thought it was worth verifying.
I'd say I'm riding a very similar train in America, if only we invested in such things.
Similar story.

I worked at a polling company out of college owned by a Standford professor. My first task: After a poll is finished online, match that with voter records (using emails and addresses).

My first question was: "Well, that is a cool idea, but, there is no way the government would release a huge database of every california voter and their party affiliation. Let alone, the users entering in online poll information would extend that database to include their actual vote. There is no way this is possible.... right?"

Standford professor's response: "Do you want it in CSV?"
Anti-discrimination laws regarding protected classes aren't applicable in general to private organizations.

I believe that they generally are related to employment and public accommodations and to educational institutions that receive public funds. There are probably some other situations also.

So Harvard Book Store can't discriminate based on protected classes (public accommodation) and Harvard can't discriminate when hiring staff (employer) and can't discriminate if they receive public funds.

If Harvard refused public funds then they could set their own standards. This is why I suggested that it would make sense to remove federal funding. For example, here are some schools who have refused federal dollars:

https://deanclancy.com/a-list-of-colleges-that-dont-take-fed...
I use an i7 IPS x230 (ie top of the line at the time) with Linux for dev work. It's great. I have the 9 cell battery (but it's getting old, I only get 60% of the full capacity when full nowadays), and I can still achieve 6-7h on WiFi. It hovers around 8-11W with i3wm. Powertops is great at optimizing power usage.

I replaced the ssd because the 180gb intel that came with it has issues with heavy writes and it freezes. In a very Applesque way, Lenovo and intel always ignored the problem, even more so that most of these machines' leases are over and not under warranty anymore. Ssds are cheap these days so not too bad.

Anything else for that laptop is very affordable. Spare parts are plentiful, I got two docking stations with 2x HDMI and 2x dvi for 30$. A genuine charger is 20$. A new keyboard is around 40$ (you can install a backlit one if you want.) It does usb3. The WiFi is slow in my opinion (802.11n) and you can't upgrade to ac without either installing coreboot or buying a modded bios from the bios mods forum (for the price of a 10 USD donation, I'm told.) the intel me can be fully disabled on that machine with me_cleaner (ie reduced to a few dozen kb instead of the original 7mb.)

It's lightweight, very sturdy (magnesium cage), fully repairable (service manual freely available), you don't need anything else than a Philips screw driver to completely disassemble the machine and replace any given part. The only downside is that the to left corner is weak and is broken on most of these, but it's not really an issue if you use the notch or right corner to open and close the machine instead.

It can be had in good condition for 300-400$ and takes up to 16gb of ram (haven't tried 32gb, don't know if it would work) and should last you quite a while.
Who’s “they” in this scenario?

I know it’s easy to pretend that Brexit got a massive majority but really it didn’t. It was just 52-48%.

A large number of us didn’t vote for it and still don’t want Brrexit.
The hostile behaviour introjected by common, good-natured people towards outsiders of any sort is more frightening, though. It is actually self-preservation in this new dystopian environment but it seems mind poisoning or zombification to the receiving parties of that hostility.
AFAIK the point wasn't to replace elisp. It was to replace emacs' interpreter with guile's which also supports elisp.
Actually, its an IDE for modern “Smalltalk” development. Pharo has a few extensions vs Smalltalk-80.
They should start a business. Then they’ll realize how valuable their time really is and that $100/mo won’t seem so bad. (Note: I’m an eng who used to enjoy reinventing the wheel.)
Brexit is such an oddity. It was never 'real' and yet its drag is overwhelming.
Actually, no, companies still would be facing sudden & unwanted barriers and there would still be the unresolved issue of whether the UK would diverge from the Single Market or not. It would still have the potential to wreck several sectors, with companies being forced to trigger their contingency plans. Even just taking the IT industry, with the UK slated to leave the Digital version of the Single Market while repelling talent, it is a disaster by design.
Why would it be less objectionable to be killed in your own "home" by your own government? The reason why governments don't kill their own citizens on another country's soil is because it's incredibly hard to do so without angering that other country.
Now that BC is cracking down on the money laundering in Vancouver, the exact same story is playing out in Toronto and to a smaller extent, Montreal. Canadian cities have been hard hit generally speaking, because it's a lot harder to do this kind of shady stuff in American cities. Also Canadian dollar is cheap.
That's often different thing from real Quebecois poutine, most of the time. The cheese curds are different than queso-type cheese sauce I usually see in the US. It's only relatively recently that I've been able to regularly find curd cheese in the grocery store; when I was a kid, one of the best parts of going to Canada was getting packages of "squeaky cheese" as a road snack from little Esso stations.
Chile introduces first fleet of electric taxis
It was probably a mistake and I'll continue to learn from it. I can't change my past but I can use it to inform future decisions.

I hope it gets some people to donate to some projects