skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, if you consume heroin, you are likely to become addicted to heroin, and that has really bad outcomes for you individually and for society at large. Don't you have any interest in how we might solve the opioid problem? Or is that also a matter of simple physics, and thus not a topic worth exploring scientifically?
I wonder what it's like being her sometimes, where you have, and will continue to fail at everything you do for years on end, in the most public and embarrassing way possible. I can't quite figure out if she is driven by just really wanting brexit, or it's just a power grab.
The problem you're sweeping under the rug is that calorie in and calorie out are interrelated. You have to account for the existence of complex control systems. The temperature in a room is also just a question of calories in / calories out,
but when there is a thermostat in the room, opening the window or adding an extra heater might not work so well.

If external factors are fucking with your thermostat, it's going to be more challenging to reach a target temperature.

There are complex feedback systems controlling hunger and physical activity. In one study it was found that when participants were fed extra calories,
only some of them gained weight. Some of them burned them off by unconsciously fidgeting more, others didn't. People can burn 350 cals per day from fidgeting.

On the flipside, excercising makes people hungrier.
the electorate is aware that politicians lie
Why is it the best system, and how do you even measure that? I personally like living in a constitutional democracy but the past 100 years has shown us plenty of failed democracies and successful dictatorships (Korea, Taiwan, Singapore).

It seems to me that one of the downsides of democracy is promoting short term thinking. Another is that policies are only as good as the population is educated (US climate change, brexit)
Well the tories where voted into power due to the promise of giving the people a vote on EU membership... sounds democratic to me.
I’ve lost it twice. Still no contactless :(
If it "would require less than a tenth of processing power" while being "very feasible and does not require significantly more development effort" I think you should get in touch with Google or Facebook with your suggestion.

You can solve two problems at once - you will lower their carbon footprint to 1/10 of their current one, and become a multi-millionaire or even billionaire. Sounds like a double win to me.
Does he get paid to work today?

Edit: It was an honest question I wanted to know the answer to, but I've got my answer.
Can someone please explain the trend with companies' engineering teams starting there own blogs? It can be interesting to read, but I'm not sure what they get out of it.
It was, nevertheless, the directly expressed will of the people. This is very much the social contract that holds the society together, and makes the government accountable to the people. Would you rather they just did as they please?
The marijuana argument you cited is logically valid. Logical validity isn’t about whether the premises are true. It’s about whether they entail the conclusion.
It works if the ! is quoted, as in the example.
It feels like the country is roughly divided into 3 equal bits:

* Leave EU quickly, at any cost

* Don’t really mind either way, as long as economy is stable

* Stay in EU

The one in the middle doesn’t trust either of the others. So nobody can get a majority, whether we have another referendum or a general election. So this shitstorm will just go on and on.
The criticism isn’t that it’s unnecessary, but that it’s insufficient: https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-build-truly-intelligent-ma....
After 27 Years Reporter Who Exposed ECHELON Finds Vindication in Snowden Archive
Yes, definitely. Override uneducated decisions that harm the republic, regardless of "the will of the people" [1] [2] [3] [4]. That is exactly why republics exist versus direct democracy.

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” -- Winston Churchill (edit: supposedly Churchill did not say this; I'm keeping it, as it helps express the idea)

Disclaimer: American

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/poll-majority-of-british-peo... (POLL: A majority of British people regret voting for Brexit)

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-polls/britain-... (Britain would now vote to stay in the EU by six point margin, new poll shows)

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/nov/25/protest-vot... (‘I thought I’d put in a protest vote’: the people who regret voting leave)

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_United... (Opinion polling for the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum)
I can't reply to your other one because of HN max-thread rules, but yeah. My wife has a masters in social work, or as we like to joke, is a professional social justice warrior. Keep fighting the good fight.
Politics should be utterly boring, instead we get this endless theatrics. Politics should not be entertaining at all. Same goes for finance & banking. These jobs should be the most boring jobs in the world. Just get on with it, and forget about all the posturing and game-of-thrones crap.
And I use Guix, and respect Nix :)
I do the same, but I do NOT think my patience has decreased. Perhaps not being able to deal with "yak shaving" is a sign of cognitive decline, but because the truth hurts, we say we don't have time for such things (e.g., I have no time to recompile a kernel! I just want a computer that works, give me a Mac!). In our youth, complexity was fun because we were able to takle it easily.
Some might say that a good outcome is one where the people can freely make their own choices and accept the consequences. The plight of the British might serve as a cautionary tale informing the decisions of some other country, that's certainly a good thing in some sense.

Democracy is not guaranteed to deliver prosperity or lead only to the correct decisions, yet it's the best system we have.
That's a great quote. Very similar to: "The avalanche has has already started. It's too late for the pebbles to vote." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zJsrjOytG8
1992: it was a local ISP.
In 1993, I got a UUCP feed to my BBS, including email and Usenet news.
Hrrm... I think maybe it was my email when I was at UNC-W back in the 90's. I don't remember what it was now though. Maybe something like prhodes@sol.cms.uncwil.edu or something like that.

My first personal email though, was mindcrime@nccoast.net. This would have been about 1996 or 1997 or so.

Some things never change, huh?
The perf script from MS is what we use to profile and fix issues on linux. I do not have Windows; no issues so far with just Linux. We managed to diagnose and fix every perf issue so far. Not sure what you mean by windows only tools or manually generate symbols?
Because you're not accessing the search engines directly, you're going through a sort of proxy that hides your identity.
There are two outlooks. I like to think of them as theory vs practice.

In Theory: "Do what you love, and you’ll never work another day in your life."

In Practice: "It's not about where you work, it's about who you work with."

The theory is achievable, but it ignores working with people. The practice can tend to avoid obtaining your ideal work to perform, but can lead to more satisfaction among most people.

Working on a dream project can feel like bore or a nightmare due to the people or dependencies. Sometimes safe but boring is awesome because it still might challenge you and the people around you are amazing, they pick you up when you are down, support your failures, and celebrate your success. Ultimately it's a balance that we all have to find.
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Unless one of the byproducts of space colonization is the retrieval of a super virus capable of wiping out large swaths of humans rather quickly, I don't feel the domestic paradigm will shift significantly enough.
I think the US is trying to be quiet to get the UK a good deal with the EU. Suddenly lowering the EU's trade status is an example of more visible setup for what they want.. Special access to Europe through a corrupt merchant island.

I.e. how do you bypass EU regulations without a nice English speaking middle man country with near EU trade status to do a lot of dirty work?

IMO the UK will be a specialist in packaging and final assembly of US and Indian goods if they get a good deal from the EU.
"Tea?"

"OK, go on."

"There's no kettle so I'm burning the house down to heat water."

"Now wait a…"

"Shut up, I've a clear mandate for tea."

https://twitter.com/LouiseJJohnson/status/829617043582369792
My tv is not connected to the internet, but I connect devices to my TV that are connected to the internet. The devices that I connect are computers that I have full access to and control over.

My whole point in my post is that I don't want devices that I cannot look into and control. Unfortunately that's become incredibly difficult if not impossible. Personally, the line I've drawn does not include my TV. it's not that important to me to have an integrated TV system that I can't control.
Well yeah, what’s your point?
Honestly, if it means more quality content, I'm for paying even $15+.

Netflix has a ton of content, but I feel like at least 70% (and I'm being generous here) is very much 'meh'. There are some people who are happy to watch 'meh', and that's awesome, but I find myself re-watching old (but good) TV series, because the good TV show I watched has ended and I haven't found anything good yet.

So, Friends it is, I guess...
Life requires the bio-mass to perpetuate; if people take up the share of all bio-mass in their bodies life finds a way to unlock and reuse that material. I'm guessing a new microorganism that will take the place of some of these depleting species.

Or how about the bacteria that is able to break down plastic? We (still)have to worry about the various fungus that developed and transitioned the world out of the carboniferous period.
The deal is a compromise. The Brexit faction never woke up to the reality that they were asking for things that the EU was never going to give, and so they hate it. (In particular, they hate the fact that it admits that this stuff is really complicated and needs more than 2 years to discuss). Remain would rather just remain, and see the deal has second-best to that. So everyone hates it because being in opposition means they don't have to come up with a plausible compromise.
A+ DDG! I have been using DDG (duck duck go) since Gabriel created it in 2008. It’s been my default search on all my devices. When I need to route searches through Google, I do, as Google is still king at knowing and giving you the exact results you want, whereas DDG, gives you great results, with a different algorithm on the type results plus the added security of what DDG is about. They don’t track you. They don’t save your searches. I don’t use apple maps as i use android, but I like that DDG continues to go against the grain and choose privacy over comfort.

Lastly, I know the bulk of my searches go through DDG so I don’t have to think about what I searched, on what devices, was it on a public net, was VPN enabled?? etc etc.. What are you thoughts? Do you use DDG?
I’m not sure. I think we’ll leave or stay in the EU and it won’t make a tangible difference in the long run. Not in the way that say the internet, smartphones, antibiotics, nuclear weapons/power, quantum physics etc etc have made a difference to the world.

MAD means we probably won’t have a major war any time soon, so we’ll be trading with the EU regardless, it’s all semanitics and minor politics.
I suppose I should make it known that I am a patreon supporter. I may be a superfan but I love what that team is doing
Tbh that is one of the highest turnouts ever.

Probably the most representative vote we've had.
An unmown, unmanicured lawn, will have a much larger variety of weeds, plants, flowers, etc.

I bet that, after some time, the density of ecologicially-good stuff that sprouts up will be much greater than what you'd get in a manually maintained mulch patch.
It's true but this is no longer the default substitute server. For the default we use a custom Guix Continuous Integration tool.
I don’t mind. Netflix is a steal of a deal IMHO. Their media is so satisfying to consume. I’ll take it over a nice entree at a restaurant any day.
depends on how they are structured. a few companies have moved to where loot boxes guarantee to return goods of the same value as the cost. Now of course they set these values by offering similar goods on their stores for direct purchase. that being said, those values being up the developers could be depicted as misleading.

my take away is this, as long as we allow states to market lotteries then the idea that private companies should be held to differing rules is wrong. either all play on a level playing field or none play. considering the misery many state lotteries are said to bring I don't see how they can stand there smug except the fact they have the courts and police power to get away with it.
Number of subscribers who won't renew because of this? Zero. Netflix delivers the most hours-of-entertainment-per-dollar of anything in the world that isn't free, it's not even close.
I'd much rather we tedo the referendum, as a substantial number of people have changed their minds when faced with reality.
He was an MP, is still a MEP, and cofounded a party that once commanded "major party" status and nearly 20% of the vote in 2014. He's clearly representing some folks.
People forget how bad things were in the past. This is one of the reasons why it's so dangerous to ignore history. Idiots like Scott Adams love saying history doesn't repeat when they actually mean events do not repeat exactly atom for atom, but human behavior repeats. It's also why idiots in the former Confederate states think that slavery was a walk in the park and that slave owners were so nice to their slaves.
Was Russian election interference a big part of this story? If so, that was money well spent.
So how should he have said it?
don't let the echo chamber fool you: the popular sentiment remains as it was on the day of the vote

the polls have hardly moved despite the political fuss
ha, yes, we used damodaran's book in my corporate valuation class!

i forgot to mention that you can also employ an option pricing model, like black-scholes or the binomial model (in simpler cases), in cases with multiple classes of equities, wherein you can back out a valuation (and subsequently, a discount rate) based what the various VCs involved are expecting.
Thank God there's Kodi
I think Core 3.0 can?
Yeah, I know what you meant. You use a tool like the CMU pronunciation dictionary[1] to turn words into phonemes, and then you use a model similar to the pink trombone to turn the phoneme string into sound, including the transitions between different phones (which, it turns out, actually matter more than the phones themselves for making it understandable). This is how TTS works.

1 http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict
Downvoters: see https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/21/brown-signs-bill-allo...
I'll be the first to admit: I'm an American. I fundamentally do not understand Brexit.

I understand the following timeline:

1. A largely disseminated, nation-wide vote occurs, bolstered by nationalist sentiment, that the EU is bad for the UK. This vote results in a conclusion that UK should leave the EU.

2. This is controversial, due to the majority of the populace in general not desiring to leave the EU, but not voting as such individually. Some portions of the UK, itself a Union, are strongly aganst this voting result.

3. May, a woman of great importance in the UK government, chooses to try and make a deal with the EU for favorable leaving conditions for UK.

4. Nothing May is presenting is considered acceptable by anyone.

On its face, this makes no sense to me. Why is May being held responsible for this? Where are the people who initially brought in Brexit- why are they not supporting May? What is preventing the referendum from being declared stupid and that the UK gov't is not going to do it?

EDIT: Thank you all for your excellent responses. I'm now under the impression this is like when a significant portion of a dev team with (actual, hypotehtical) equal or flat hierarchy believe that code needs to be refactored to a serious degree, but no majority of devs can decide on what the refactored code will look like. (Extremely simplified!). If this is largely incorrect please let me know.
I don't see how this balkanization of content - Netflix only has Netflix, Disney has Disney, NBC has NBC, etc. - is going to do anything but hurt both companies and consumers.

Suppose that right now I can watch 70-80% of the TV shows I'd like to see by using only Netflix and Amazon Prime (the only two services I actually subscribe to). If that's reduced by moves like this to 20-30%, then the price I need to pay (even disregarding individual services raising their prices) to see the same amount of content is going to shoot up.

Even if all these new streaming services are priced decently, uses will soon have to pay for two or three times as many of them to get the same content. That just seems like a great way to encourage us to stop paying at all, and to go back to either not watching as much, or (for some users, I'm sure) obtaining them illegally. One of the big issues in defeating piracy was that it was sometimes more convenient than obtaining the content legally; this change may resurrect that issue. (I'm not saying it's OK to pirate, but there are a lot of people who don't have a problem doing so; it seems reasonable consequence to infer here.)
They just missed their "adjustable brownness dial" stretch goal! Oh, what a fickle lot millenials are!
My very first address was a BITNET address. This is pre-Internet: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET and my address, which I don't recall, was specified with a "bang" address: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP#Bang_path.

I would have gotten this around 1986 while at the College of Wooster. Honestly, I don't think I used that address very often for e-mail. At least, I don't recall using it much, although the details are a little hazy in my memory now. I don't have an archive of anything I sent and received back then. My earliest archived e-mail messages start around the fall of 1990, when I got an account on the University of Michigan's mainframe, and I think that account used the modern scheme for Internet e-mail addresses.
It is not a "win-win" to allow people who vote (and make policy affecting millions of lives) based on a fantasy-ideology to continue in their fantasy.
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I won't trust anything other than my own fears at the moment and nothing will convince me otherwise at that point. Dementia ruins everything.
There is a similar project to provide modern Clojure-like abstractions for Lisp: http://cl21.org/, which includes vectors, hashes, string interpolation, etc. It doesn't look very popular for some reason.
I'm not sure you know how public/private keys work.
Where did you find this fact? I would like to find it too.
Interactive chart: Film genre popularity 1910-2018 (data from IMDB)
Which they fully expected to win. It was just a calculated risk which went wrong.
I guess I would need to see the decision. I think a "Big Mac" is a fairly known thing. There even is a Big Mac inflation index, because of how uniform they are.

Edit: I guess it is a purchasing power parity index.
Specifically, see

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/21/brown-signs-bill-allo...
> The Chief Data Officer (CDO) will "(1) be responsible for lifecycle data management"

I am very interested in what this type of lifecycle might look like considering most data I feel should be kept forever. I wonder how a lifecycle might collide with the challenges that bit rot[0] are dealing with.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/13/what-is-b...
> they are trying to camouflage that reality with a bad deal

They're not, May is, and May is not a Brexiter. The Brexiters generally are pushing to leave on WTO terms, not so much as a preferred end state but in recognition of the fact that only a genuine commitment to doing so has any chance of convincing the EU to agree to sensible terms such as Canada+. If the EU can keep the UK under its thumb forever then of course it will, and it would be unreasonable to expect it to do otherwise.
What if the consequences are instability or large scale war?
Literate C version: https://pbat.ch/proj/voc/

Literate depot: https://github.com/PaulBatchelor/voc

Actually compiled source is there: https://github.com/PaulBatchelor/Soundpipe/blob/master/modul...
I used to be a C++ guy from the early 90s 'till about 2010. Every few months, I think "I should really learn the new C++ hotness", and then I read something like this. It's like a bunch of priests arguing about how best to fit a bunch of ugly angels on a pointless pin. It just feels so pointless.

If you must use C++, just use another language to generate the C++. All this template mumbo jumbo. Who says your meta-programming language has to be the same as your target language?

I used to spend some time looking for the perfect vector (as in linear-algebra) library. Templatized for vector dimension, data-type, blah blah blah. Dude, just use Python to generate it. Duplication doesn't violate DRY if the duplication is generated from a single higher-level source.

Doing meta-programming in C++ is a really limited way of thinking.
Most brexiters I know admit that a hard brexit would be bad economically.

But are willing to pay the cost
What is the point of a special relationship with a UK out of the EU? It conferred benefits for both sides whilst the UK was some mid-Atlantic bridge between the EU and US. I seem to remember the (ex?) US ambassador speaking quite strongly on the topic, as have the many UK diplomats who've resigned over the issue.

I'd be more inclined to believe the US ending up with a special relationship with another EU nation. FiveEyes will probably survive as a special relationship, but I would expect there to be a wish to add someone inside the EU for SIGINT purposes. Possibly as an entirely separate arrangement excluding that now insignificant island nation.

Ireland would be my bet, on both counts.
Also, '< file.txt | ...' does not work as well. Not sure if its well researched.
I work at Mapbox. Not speaking officially for the company here (for that see https://www.mapbox.com/privacy/), but I can say it's definitely an internalized norm that in order to earn trust as a platform we need to be very careful with any user data we get. While user-generated location data does flow into updating our map, we are aggressive about anonymizing and aggregating that data as quickly as possible (including stripping out data on the client side).

But I agree Apple has consistently advertised their focus on privacy and backed it up with their actions.
I think part of the issue is also that humans don't actually know what a healthy weight for a dog or a cat even looks like.

We get criticized all the time that we are underfeeding our dog; that you can "see her ribs", that she's "way too skinny". Yet according to the vet, she's about the right weight — maybe a tiny bit over.