skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, they didn't really opt out of the Euro. It is completely unfeasible at the time. Originally they were going to go with the Euro and to start the transition they linked the pound to the deutsche mark. However, the German economy was crushing the British economy and this pushed interest rates in the UK to over 10% (Fun fact: I was getting 12% interest in my savings account in the UK). Mortgage rates were about 18% IIRC and this sparked a bursting of the real estate bubble in London. Prices fell 25% in 1992 as banks foreclosed on under water properties. The Japanese bought up a lot of properties, which buoyed the market somewhat, but it wasn't until the pound delinked from the deutsche mark that the market could recover properly. I remember that day well as I lost half the value in my UK bank account (so much for 12% interest ;-) ).

Everybody knew that the UK couldn't adopt the euro which is why they "opted out".
Am I understanding you right? You are not currently allowed to bet on the outcome of sporting events anywhere in the US? That's fascinating news to me
Even if being a stimulant were its only property, what makes it decidedly bad? Researchers understand it as a stimulant as it is, they're not evaluating its worth "despite" being a stimulant. If consumption in small doses poses a net harm for that reason, there ought to be stronger consensus, which is lacking.
Let them riot. Then we'll see how many of the alleged people actually exist.

(There are not going to be pro Brexit riots outside the existing far right EDL and other small groups.)
Just after the original vote in 2016, Tusk admitted that the EU needed reform. Cameron (UK PM of the time) in 2015 went to the EU seeking reform, he was palmed of with some token concessions for the UK. 2016 we had a vote, since then it has been a cluster of chaos with every opportunity for personal limelight being sought over any sane approach.

May's deal wasn't a deal the UK was looking for on either side and in effect was a weaker form of what article 50 was and is. Yet also locked the UK into the EU with no say until a final trade deal that the EU approves was agreed. In short, a terrible deal as not only less say than as with article 50, but also given all the cards to the EU when it comes to making a deal. Sheer madness at any business level of thinking.

So what have we got, a divided kingdom instead of a united one. You can go down this side, that side avenue for eons, both sides did some epic flaws and lies.

SO how do we move on.

Firstly - cancel article 50, then reenact it again. That is within EU rules and avoids needing any yay or nay from EU.
Bit of a gaming the system, but at least resets the clock and allows time for second referendum. Equally it means going back to the start, but article 50 also allows early leaving.

Yes I agree now, a second referendum is needed; BUT it has to be done in a way that respects the first vote, otherwise you will still end up with a divided kingdom. You do this by combining the results of the first vote with the second vote. You allow again as with the first vote 16 year old to vote and have a say and the final result is what we do and that frankly has to be either.
1) Stay in the EU, but equally get fully behind it this time and fix what is wrong - start by a EU Health Service, that oversight has always irked many with the EU ethos to free access to basics, health being one. Curtly what the EU people want over a Army, least all those I know think so.
2) If we leave, we go WTO, plan for that and if the EU wants to sort a deal out, fine, we will run with a direction and anything else is good. Least can do trade deals with other countries and the whole focus upon the EU at the expense of ignoring those avenues is very blinkered.

But one aspect many overlook. The UK has on many votes in the EU history, singularly or instrumentally held the EU back from advancing, with financial services regulation and taxation being one area that stands out. This hampers how the EU has progressed and as it stands, and been detrimental. So putting the money aside what the UK pays in - has anybody really asked the question of the EU people - is the EU better of without the UK?

I would also add, that a second referendum should see all MP's remain neutral and they all focus on facts, over opinion. Also all avenues are equally explored from a worst to best case and presented to the public. The public love facts and a full picture, let them have that and vote without pontificating peer-pressure. Let it be fair.
All it would take would be someone in government to suggest it, the position would have cross-party support. DUP would be irrelevant in this situation. Having said that, DUP are actually agnostic to the form of exit the UK takes. Their red line is that they will not be treated differently to the rest of the UK. People often forget that.

I actually think this is the most likely outcome right now.
Seatbelt laws aren't just about protecting yourself. Someone who is not wearing a seatbelt is a threat to others in a crash. For example, a person on the rear seat can actually kill the person in the front seat by blunt skull trauma (hitting the skull from behind with their forehead). And people in the front seats can become projectiles, going through the windshield and hitting people outside.

As far as the general notion that government has an overriding interest in people's welfare - that same logic would trivially justify abortion bans, forced marriage and labor, and all kinds of other nasty stuff.
Or light pollution.
It will be interesting to see what happens to the Irish border if the no-deal exit takes place. Will the EU demand a customs border, but Ireland resist it?
"www.loyalty.org itself is the server for the web site of Californians for Academic Freedom, the group I founded to oppose the California loyalty oath, which is still a non-negotiable requirement for anyone who wants to work for the State of California -- including student employees of the University of California. "

http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/

That's the most controversial thing about the page. In my view it's not a big deal to have that stance but some people don't like others who rock the boat when it comes to the status quo.
Alien Life May Exist on Large Planet 30T Miles from Earth: Researchers
Yeah, it occurs to me that a 9 year old could have the emotional intelligence of, say, a 15 or 16 year old and that would be "surprisingly high" but that doesn't mean that college is a good place for a fifteen year old, let alone a 9 year old with the emotional intelligence of one.
The funding issue has hamstrung scientists for decades and limited our data to a very small pool, but the trends are increasingly clear: we're well into the 6th mass extinction event. See https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-bound...
and
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/11/animal-de....

On a more positive note, a few folks I know are in the early stages of an ambitious attempt to regenerate a bioregion: https://medium.com/@joe_brewer/we-are-regenerating-an-entire.... The hope is that this kind of work—developing models of ecosystems rooted in complexity science that expose key leverage points—can be refined through experimentation in Costa Rica and extended to increasingly dissimilar bioregions.
What if the "customer" is trained through gamification and other psychological tricks to come back? I hated Facebook and still had the muscle memory of <ctrl>+<t> face <tab> <enter>. I still do that sometimes after I've seen the logo or name even though I don't have an account anymore.

It's like, do you go back to the sugary foods cause they're so healthy and you love them, or are you low key addicted? I don't really consider that a healthy customer relationship.
Wow, when statement that journalists are important is downgraded, we truly live in dystopia.
Why should they pay tax without representation?
I knew all of that too, but it didn't prevent a very unpleasant visceral response in the pit of my stomach when I saw that email come in with the old compromised password on the subject line. The content of the email made me laugh, though.
Democracy doesn’t have to mean that 50% + 1 gets whatever they want. There can be higher bars to clear for more drastic changes, and pretty much every democratic government has some.
Old people should not be able to vote. They don't understand the world, and won't be alive to feel the effects of any decision.
Or layer CSS gradients. Images of any kind are unnecessary.
CSS gradients have 2 notable annoyances:

- Simple horizontal, vertical, or radial gradients can rarely capture the "organic" look that most designers want (the gradients of real materials and scenes are highly uneven so perfect symmetry has a distinctly artificial appearance).

- I'm not sure if it's actually an aspect of the spec, but all implementations I've seen interpolate the colors in RGB or an RGB-like colorspace. This can have the effect of creating dramatic jumps or ridges. With a lot of trial and error (or color math) you can overcome this by using custom stop values, but it's much simpler and more in-line with a designer's toolset to be using colorspaces whose linear interpolations are more perceptually uniform.

Of course there's also the "standard drawback" of modern webdev too: it's often easier to just throw assets at the problem. :/

(Thoughts from a design-adjacent dev.)
Definitely not a good way to go about software development, and one of the things agile avise against.

To have a "complete" design (what does that even mean), you need perfect requirements (what does that even mean), and perfect requirement collecting has been many many times proven to be virtually impossible. You'll get an imperfect design that you'll have to work around.

In addition, you'll have waited god knows how much time for those design, while you could have been developing stuff and validate that it actually solves problems for your users.

Agile is not about making devs into assembly line workers, nobody's pretending that works (though some people are still trying to do it without realising it)
Ireland are not making plans for a hard border, even in the case of no deal.
>best data of both

Isn't that basically just Google Maps? I thought Apple Maps' data was just a subset of Google Maps'.

What does Apple Maps do better? Genuinely curious.
This may be a lovely book, but not only is this a terrible PDF of it that's scanned from a paperback, it's a pretty clear copyright violation -- the book is from 2007 and it's still in print.
So, like, Parliamentary sovereignty with a democratically elected parliament, instead of popular sovereignty? What an odd idea.
You're welcome!

The taste of coffee is pretty tough to resist, I'll admit!

They do make decaffeinated coffee, although I've never tried it myself.
> The moon is usually out.

Is it? Do you think that the sun is usually out as well? And note that often the moon is out during the day...
I read somewhere that stolen works of art are used as a form of currency between drug crime Organisations
I’ve basically stopped reading stuff hosted on Medium. I hit the limit of my “free” articles way too quickly (often by following links from other platforms, or mailing lists), but the content hosted there is neither compelling enough nor unique enough to make me want to pay even the small amount of money they ask. I’ll click through based on an interesting headline or intro, but quite often the content doesn’t live up to the promise.

I also have no idea how much of that money makes it’s way to authors. A lot of stuff on medium seems to be available elsewhere (grab a sentence and google) so I’m not sure whether medium republished it, or whether authors/publishers do it themselves.

Either way, these things combined make me not want to pay, and I find medium increasingly irritating to the point that when I see links (for example on here) to medium-hosted content I often don’t click them. Particularly on mobile I can’t face the aggressive experience-hijacking that tries to force me to use their app. When I think about it I even find the “applause” mechanism somewhat smug and sickly, which probably also puts me off at a subconscious level.

No, I’m not going to “clap” for you: I’m not a sea-lion and I’m not a child. It reduces the whole exchange between author and reader to the level of kindergarten, and contributes - for me certainly - to content often feeling like cheap grandstanding, clickbait or “content for content’s sake”, churned out by content marketer hacks.

I happily pay for a significant number of publications large and small, and am a partner in a moderatley successful niche publication (successful in the sense that we have a relatively significant audience, paid editorial staff, cover our costs and continue to grow each year) so understand some of the economics of publishing online but have found no reason so far to pay money to medium. On the very occasional times that I’m desperate to read something and have hit my “articles limit” I’ll open a private tab, but too often I just move on.

I’m glad to see publishers are releasing that it’s maybe not a great platform to put stuff. It’s a shame that it’s not better.
Bear in mind that the second of those referendums didn't happen until two decades after the EEC we'd originally signed up to was massively and fundamentally changed in nature. Now we're talking about having another referendum two and a half years after the previous one, before the result of the last referendum has even been implemented. That's quite a difference and it very strongly suggests that we're only seeing calls for another referendum now because the last one came to the "wrong" result.

(Also, we didn't actually get any referendum on joining the EEC. The 1975 referendum was on whether we'd stay in and came with very similar warnings about the perils of leaving to the more recent referendum. One has to wonder whether, if that'd ended in a leave vote, we'd have had a second referendum several decades sooner than we did.)
To be triple clear, any sort of claim about about economic performance 14 years in the future is utter nonsense.
Yeah 52% of those who could be bothered to vote. The non voters polled about 60-40 remain so you could argue the will of the people including the lazy was remain.

Though of course there isn't really a single will of the people, just a lot of people with differing opinions.
Another problem with this that makes it more complicated is that the TabPanel (for example) now has two interfaces an explicit props interface, and an implicit context interface that need to be met in order for it to work
It is, but without the desire to monetize your searches.
You can be for or against Brexit. The saddest thing is the gulf between the governing class and Britons. The former cannot effectuate a strong existential roar from the people they represent.

That’s worse than this vote, and worse than the original vote for Brexit. (If you even think that was bad.)
China sentences Canadian man to death for drug smuggling
> Nobody wants a crisis

“Nobody wants a crisis” is a far cry from “everyone supports this as a mitigation of the otherwise pending crisis”.
A lot of companies have an affinity towards jobs numbers, and derive benefits from the local municpality by being able to print job numbers

It simultaneously helps the organization’s tax efficiency and MAYBE something interesting gets developed
An alternative approach to a simple and performant rate limiter using redis
I remember an interview with an ex FEMA manager after hurricane Katrina. She said the Bush Administration prioritized fighting terrorism and making sure high value officials would survive a nuclear war. The result was all the competent managers left.
i also love coffee, so i do periods of decaf-only to re-balance my caffeine tolerance. decaf doesn't taste good by itself, but milk and sugar (which is how i usually drink coffee, whether espresso or not) tolerably dampens the inferior taste.
A very specific use case but a good thing to know. Click-bait title makes people here unhappy though.
> 2. I'm not sure I understand here. What version of your application is your canary running if you're not using it to validate a new version? The same as the baseline? But then, what are you using it for?

We run canaries continuously against all stages of our pipelines, including prod. Once a change is deployed to a stage (initially triggered by commit to git repo), there is a time window where canary failures will trigger approval workflow failure and rollback (note that we additionally have separate integration tests that also run as part of this approval workflow). Canary failures at other times trigger steady state alarms. Thus, our canaries serve both to validate new versions and continuously monitor the existing versions.
Dtreeviz: Decision Tree Visualization
How is having another vote, to establish a revised opinion based on new information and two long years of public debate and analysis of the original campaigns, undemocratic?

We could well be on path for a third general election in six years, a periodic vote to re-evaluate what we want as a country based on the current state of affairs.

Isn't being able to change your mind based on a changed context fundamental underpinning of a democratic system?
Yes, I agree, and expect people, companies or whatever to act in their own self-interest, so no implication it is rigged because it may be self-serving. However, I am more suspicious of the study, and studies in general after the recent wave that uncovered an epidemic of unsound statistical methods being used in studies across multiple disciplines. Unfortunately, I am not proficient enough in statistics to vet these things out for myself most of the time, so I remain skeptical, and similarly cliche with the Edgar Allen Poe quote:

“You are young yet, my friend,” replied my host, “but the time will arrive when you will learn to judge for yourself of what is going on in the world, without trusting to the gossip of others. Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see."
Sure. Unless, let's say, a company that's already used by travelers to book travel options enters the space and/or syndicates the data to hotel search engines in addition to their own website. If I can find both hotels and apartments in hotels.com, why do you think I'd use airbnb? (Assuming apartment owners don't mind listing their space in multiple sites - which is a hard problem to solve but not an impossible one. It has less churn on the supply side compared to, let's say, Uber)
There was a time when any toy that was supplied to me was instantly ripped apart.
i knew there was a hidden inside aspect and i had to know what it was. by the time i was 9 toys didnt do it.

the microscope.telescope.encyclopedias.chemistrysetelectronicset. did.
by the time i was 9, ripping my Texas Instrument calculator [and anything even remotely technical] open to find out how it operates was the way to go. There was never a satisfactory answer; "it just works that way; its to complicated; ask someone else [etc].so i began an independent learning effort early despite the discouragements. i had to sneakily experiment with things such as CRTs and flyback xformers. they were supposed to be lethal, but i survived.

I hope this guy goes far with the encouragement. I hope he doesnt burn out. There should be some very special concessions, this is a 9 year old nervous system that is >for lack of best analogy> Overclocked into college. This is where the development of executive functions come in, the degree of restraint, and long term patience for the latency of rewards for current efforts.
It seems there is a surrounding support in place that has a grasp on the issues this guy is going to have popping up.

{edit} i had a coca cola test when i was a kid, same thing you can drink this now or wait and then get two when i promptly opened the can and spit into it. my response to why the hell did you do that? was, i didnt drink it, and noones going to want it; so now i get three?

I wish him all the best.
This is how Bezos built AWS, so he meant services that are needed to build websites, such as databases, servers, containers, queues, caches, storage...
There isn't any sort of spec to ask the browser to use specific scaling algorithms, right?

I think the general idea is safe enough -- images of gradients are probably going to look fine upscaled in any algo that would actually get shipped. But there's no guarantee that tomorrow Mozilla won't decide their new mission statement is to spread the gospel of nearest neighbor.
> the overwhelming majority of its facilitated transactions are illegal.

Any source on that? I know some municipalities regulate rentals now, but to say that the vast majority of them operate illegally is a bold claim to make with no data presented.
I've owned MBPs for over ten years. But my mid-2015 15" MBP ("peak MBP") is giving out, and I need a replacement. It won't be another MBP, because of the keyboard regressions -- the butterfly keyboard, and the touchbar. Thinking about a System 76 Galago.
Yes! Oculus makes an SDK for this. You can use it in Unity 3D, Unreal, or directly in a native app. https://developer.oculus.com/documentation/audiosdk/latest/c...
That's a weird example. A team that makes a library probably doesn't share too much data with other teams. I think this directive is more like, don't share a spreadsheet of your quarterly stats.
By first agreeing to such terms.

They can probably still leave as a sovereign entity, in the same way I can technically ignore my loans that I initially agreed to pay back. There will be consequences.
Yes, Google Maps is superior in my region, but as I mentioned, I’d rather support Apple and DDG. I do so for their stances on privacy, but also because usability-wise I do prefer Apple Maps.

> I thought Apple Maps' data was just a subset of Google Maps'

They must be different datasets; I doubt Google would want to give Apple any data, or data Apple would take it. I will mention that once I have found one place in Apple Maps that was not in Google Maps. It was a small hostel in Europe.
> That's why I'm always annoyed at the 'another referendum would tarnish democracy' line

I'm annoyed about the whole "referendum is true democracy" because no two referendums in the UK have been held under the same rules.

EU nationals resident in the UK are entitled to vote in Parliamentary elections. They voted in the Scottish independence referendum. They were not allowed to vote in this referendum, despite the fact that it would erode their rights and possibly force them out of the country.

Besides, democracy has been "tarnished" by widespread cheating in the referendum which had not been adequately prosecuted.

Not to mention that the U.K. is not a "popular sovereignty" country, we're a constitutional monarchy with an unelected upper house! The uncodified constition gets changed increasingly often in a haphazard way. We're practically making it up as we go along (see Bercow controversy).
> Great acceleration chart

OP's point is a bit more complex. Per capita, humans became a less respectful on initial industrialization (and initially wealthier), but become more so as they become wealthier. Probably the worse is at a middle-income point (maybe $5k/capita)

This is why forested acres have gone up significantly in the US and Europe: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/12/04...