skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually: no. Not even close.

1) The backstop is just that: a backstop. It applies only if and as long as the "frictionless" arrangements for the NI border, which everyone wants and everyone has very publicly said they want, doesn't happen. So as soon as that happens, no more backstop.

2) UKGov claimed that this frictionless trade technology/mechanism exists and can be made to work, but in the months (or years) couldn't actually come up with a single bit of evidence that this is actually so. So the EU said, hey, we believe you can come up with this, and we will do our best, but in the meantime we have to have some sort of guarantee in place for the off-chance that it doesn't work.

So now parts of UKGov and the press are screaming bloody murder that the backstop will keep the UK in shackles "forever". Huh? You told us that you have this way of making the border frictionless. If that's actually true, why is the backstop a problem? So were you lying to us?

3) The only requirement is for the frictionless arrangements/backstop to apply to Northern Ireland, in order not to endanger the Good Friday Agreement, which, incidentally, is a binding agreement voluntarily entered into by the UK (so effectively part of the UK constitution). Extending this to the whole of the UK was something UKGov demanded.
Soon in space-time does mean hundreds of thousands of years. The masses do not appreciate this, respectfully.
Schmidt's attitude shows just how much Google thinks it owns the internet. There is so much data out there that people can live in relative anonymity online (95% of bloggers) however Google crawls and indexes so much that many things become quite easy to find. All the tracking and linking and indexing that is done without a person's informed consent makes that person's intentional behavior a warped spotlight back on them.
I read an article a while back, that argued[1] that openness to tracking and surveillance may be linked to helicopter parenting.

The argument goes that because millenials have been raised to be under continuous adult supervision, that predisposes them to view surveillance as benign and benevolent.

[1] I can't find the source.
Reddit too, they cripple their mobile website to force you into their mobile app and hence your data.
What shape, form, colour, flavour, texture and consistency of Linux?
Self-driving cars will "cruise" to avoid paying to park
>A huge part of science as a field is consensus.

How many were against Einstein for decades? Appeal to consensus among experts is still a fallacy.
That list of school shootings includes someone firing a gun near a school, and someone shooting a cat a 3am, as well as an officer discharging his gun negligently. Nice list, not hyperbolic at all.

You’ll be happy to know there are less school shootings today than the 90s. [0]

As opposed to other countries, where guns are available they are used... shocker! The fact is that where guns are in the USA, our rural areas have violence rates as near European rural rates. We have a lot of metropolitan areas with populations of 250k+ where our crime is, those are areas with illegal guns, that go with the drug, gang, poverty, inequality of social mobility, and gang problems. We have issues in the cities - but it’s not because of guns. That violence committed with guns is falling, despite record gun availability. The CDC found that where we have 10k homicides including all the drug and gang violence per year, we have 500,000 to 3,000,000 successful and legal defensive gun uses. And... to wrap up the “but other countries” argument, I don’t care what other countries to, in the USA we have a fundemental freedom to defend ourselves with the lost effective means of personal protection ever invented, it’s a natural right enumerated as a civil right.

[0] https://news.northeastern.edu/2018/02/26/schools-are-still-o...
Not sure if you read the original article, but the exchange between Europe and Japan seems fairly balanced.

> EU businesses export €58 billion in goods and €28 billion in services to Japan every year. (snip) Japan exports €69 billion in goods and €18 billion in services to the EU annually.
Well, he did say, "Chicago has about 750 murders each year." This seems off to me based on the facts.

Murders in Chicago the last 10 years:

2009 - 463

2010 - 456

2011 - 449

2012 - 514

2013 - 455

2014 - 464

2015 - 512

2016 - 808

2017 - 683

2018 - 588
The biggest effect of the ban has been to largely push production from independent producers in the US to drug cartels in Mexico. It has been a failure at actually reducing usage.
My thoughts as well. I can almost guarantee this will be used for advertising.
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Fedora: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f29/system-admin...

Red Hat Enterprise: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...

Slackware: https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:hardware:serial_installati...

Debian: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s03.html.en

Ubuntu: https://clinta.github.io/bionic-on-apu2/

So basically every mainstream distro.
Great idea! Turmeric is a good anti-inflammatory drug.

If you burn yourself, you can put yellow mustard the burn and let it sit for a minute or so. Pain will nearly disappear and healing will be notably accelerated. Supposedly it’s due to the turmeric used as color (brown mustard won’t work).

Wouldn’t’ve believed it if I hadn’t tried it myself. Works like a hot damn.
I'm super tempted by the Brydge, but I already have a Logitech Slim Folio that's almost as good, but also provides all-around protection.

Unfortunately, it's not backlit, which is something I'd really enjoy, but since the SF is so good I can't see dumping it to switch to the Brydge.

I also love to use it as a stand for reading at lunch or whatever, which is nice.

(ZOMG native emacs on iOS would be KILLER.)
https://duck.co/help/results/sources

"In fact, DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (our crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, stored in our answer indexes). We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from a variety of partners, including Oath (formerly Yahoo) and Bing."
> You miss the point completely. The real issue is how much heads up you get before you get destroyed.

rkagerer addressed exactly this point, so I think you've misunderstood him. He acknowledges that the heads-up time from launch is formally much shorter than other delivery methods, but argues that the effective heads up time is large in scenarios of interest ("imminent geopolitical threat") because you have to slowly roll out a shuttle launch. The only case where you can actually exploit the very quick launch speed is when you have premeditated a first strike months in advance, which is not the typical scenario that Cold Warriors worried about.
Agreed. For school I have to use Visual Studio on my laptop and the input lag is just absurd. (Surprisingly Code is pretty good.)
Yeah, popularizing the term "fake news" was a an impressively epic own-goal by traditional media.

And while I do agree that MSM fakeness mostly comes in the form of "technically facts, mischaracterized and cherry-picked," there is also a lot of just straight untruths as well, but laundered through anonymous sources. The effect is the same, in that you come away believing untrue things.

E.g., this is fake.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/27/manafort-hel...

And this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/08/world/threats-responses-i...

Another form of fakeness is "honest" mistakes (that always seem to coincidentally play into some popular narrative) that are hyped in headlines, but then only quietly corrected later, e.g., stuff like this:

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

So the casual reader will be left believing lots of untrue things, as they catch the headlines and miss the corrections.
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You could also add Maison Ikkoku to the list; it was the definitive romantic comedy in Japan, and for a long time all new romantic comedies were compared to it, even with the dismissive "I liked this better when it was called Maison Ikkoku."
According to this article[0] I happened to read the other day, Canada.

[0] https://www.newsweek.com/earth-magnetic-field-baffle-scienti...
While lack of tariffs is nice, as a small-time seller, complying with all these VAT, taxing rules (Germany added new requirement in 2019 to obtain some kind of new tax certificate which is not related to VAT certificate) makes it quite complicated from compliance point alone. But I guess it represents general attitude towards business in europe. Not sure how it is like in Japan.

[edit] What I mean is that it is all fine if you can justify hiring a consulting service or actually establish an office there. But if you are too small for that - local rules makes it quite hard to sell in this market. So while free-trade indeed a positive, it is positive only for larger sellers.
Define "merit". You seem to want to use it to mean something like "potential merit", but that's a pretty slippery concept. Nobody, or very nearly nobody, lives up to their "true potential". It's difficult to define and even more difficult to measure, if it's even possible to do either.

In terms of actual merit, as measured by actualities and not potentials, a healthy population is going to have more merit than an unhealthy population. If that feels weird to say, well, it's just a restatement of the why you want populations to be healthy and why you want to help unhealthy populations become healthy. It isn't because healthiness is somehow an abstract goodness disconnected from any real effect, it's precisely because it represents a real loss in capability.

Personally I don't like the idea of trying to equalize the results at the final measurement bar, like the chess tournament, because that just removes all incentive to improve actual health. We should strive to make people really better and healthier, not break our measurement tools for effectiveness and healthiness, thus guaranteeing a lack of ability to improve either.
As an amateur astronomer/astrophotographer for the past 25+ years I've relied on long to short term forecasts. Will it be clear for an event I want to see? I can certainly agree the models have improved and are pretty good. Much to my dislike on occasion such as the recent lunar eclipse. I was clouded out, that looked likely days ahead of time.

One has to appreciate the complexity of modeling such a large and dynamic system that the atmosphere is! There are cases where forecasting is more difficult. Certainly getting the temperature correct within a degree or two is one case.

Another issue is geography. I'm in middle of of USA and there is significant amount of data collected over the continental US as systems approach me. For those on the west coast I can see where forecasting is more challenging since there is far less data available to input into models (current atmosphere state 100s of kilometers out over the ocean). I'd suspect some European countries experience same situation, those further inland benefit from increased modelling data.

Reading the comments here I'm a bit surprised at how many quibble over slight details. The improvements over the past decades in forecasting models and the supercomputers that crunch the data has been significant. In most cases, like recent cold temperatures and snow fall amounts, models converge on a good solution as the event nears. This is consistent with idea that better data input yields better data out.
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I used to use ublock origin and noscript a long time ago, but now after years of browsing with umatrix, I say browsing without it is like having unprotected sex with the internet.
I don't see the need for tortured hypotheticals when history is already full of flawed artists.

You can still get copies of Mein Kampf, how's that for deplatforming.

The point isn't to erase people from history, but to stop rewarding, glorifying and shielding them.
It's also frustrating to see double standards for veterans and non-veterans in the career tracks. The military-industrial complex contractor companies create a lot of sinecures, so that "retired" veterans actually have a place to go to work. It's a bit of a drag on each company, but the people writing the contracts are also military or ex-military, so they will write requirements into the contracts, such that those jobs positions have to exist and be filled in order to be the prime contractor.

It would be a better jobs program for veterans to just keep them gainfully employed by the military somehow. Or send them back to school before retirement, to be educated for useful civilian skills. You might be surprised at how many people have jobs whose only real qualification is half a lifetime of filling out a specific form.
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I get the feeling that this "hyper-local" mentality contributed to NYC and surrounding areas being caught flat-footed by the first-of-season snowfall at the end of last year. I have little understanding of meteorology, but it was clear, just from the forecast maps, that a small change in the location and timing of the rain/snow line would make a big difference to the outcome, and that something more than was forecast was a distinct possibility.

As with many things, having a little understanding of the big picture can help you get more out of weather forecasts.
No, even then it has nothing to do with whether or not the subject of debate is scientific.

Bad deontology on the part of an individual doesn't discredit the field as a whole.
I'd argue that you are in a 'strong' place if the mgmt is putting off releases - not the team.

If you can be in 'can we release yet, can we release yet' frame, rather than 'when will this be ready to release?' frame, then you have a strong feature/value focused team. Again measuring the delays that are caused by mgmt, rather than you and you team, is really valuable.

And as to time to sort out these metric - lean on jira etc to create these reports automatically - metrics and reporting should be as easy and as simple and as valuable as possible, or people simply won't track them - or care about reviewing them.
> Wouldn't it be cool if in far future, my great-grandkids find some piece of tech I was using, and it would still be working?

We have this, it's just relegated to the extremely expensive or extremely simple. Basically, metal items without too many fine parts. Old swords and knives might last for a few hundred years in a good environment (and alloys might help? That's a technology of itself), and gold lasts quite a long time, but is limited in which items it's appropriate to use for.

It's not impossible to believe that my great grandkids might use my favorite paring knife. It's also not all that special sounding, since we've had that for centuries, so it doesn't seem all that amazing. I imagine there was some point in history it did though.
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I will lookup LineageOS, thank you.
I'm impressed by the sheer number of topics posted. Although digging deeper I'm quickly disappointed. A lot of the information is old and has gaps.

Wouldn't it be easier, and arguably smarter, to maintain a offline wikipedia archive? I can appreciate that reliance on a third party may go against the prepper mindset.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
Their core product is still storage, even if you had a bad experience. You may think Dropbox is a bad product, but OP's point still stands.
Check r/surfacelinux there's always always recent info on how things run on each surface version.
Just a little knowledge to drop, as a bachelor degree meteorologist and also coder / HN'er.

Dont use your built in phone app for forecasts. Dont expect hour by hour precision (maybe for the next few hours sure, but not 2,3,4,5 days out). Trust nobody expect the trained professionals at NWS. These people look at ALL the models, they watch things like a hawk. I work with some of these nerds and it's crazy. They are like 'oh jimbob did you see the latest GFS kicking out the low up into canada? oh yeah doug that is crazy, but the euro says blah blah and NAM says blahblah... Their job is to literally make a forecast, for the same area, every day. Some people do it for years and years! Think of the experience, wisdom, little tricks and tips etc. Just go to weather.gov, look at it for 2 minutes. Read the foreacst discussion if you want to get your details.
Why do you feel I am the one being combative? The commenter you are referring to said I was speaking from “the ultimate pedestal of privilege”, which seems explicitly combative.

Am I not allowed to push back on that? Or to push back on the rhetorical tactic of devaluing free speech by highlighting speech involving direct violence (the most egregious example potentially), especially when I accounted for it?
I had the same setup (uBlock Origin) and I just cancelled my subscription over ads. Not because I saw any, but because every NYT web page had a static (did not scroll) gray banner telling me to disable my ad blocker.

And then when I couldn't take it anymore and went to cancel, their retention department had the gall to suggest the message was not from them and maybe was from my browser.

Fuck you, New York Times. Paying subscribers should not see ads or be hassled to be tracked by the ad industrial complex. Raise your prices if you have to.
Absolutely. I’m mostly pointing out that people don’t do this.

It seems like it would be worthwhile for the industry to come up with a standard symbol for “hold your key fob here to make it work when the battery is dead” and print it on the appropriate spot on the car.
Old.reddit.com still works okay for now.
>I'm fairly sure my comment still applies

There are other comments in this thread that go into this, but your comment doesn't apply. Another poster used the light bulb analogy well to describe SSD failures.

It's very common to see SSDs that were purchased at the same time, that were likely manufactured in the same batch, fail within hours of each other. Im' pretty sure I even read this fact on Backblaze.
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Hey its the creator here, this was a project I made with friends at a hackathon, I would love any feedback!
Isn't their core product the interface and software you use to access their storage?
Can't say that I've ever had an issue with the reliability or service at Dropbox. Not sure they're known for moving fast either, as the product has changed very little in 10 years.
> no particular reason except some ideological one ...

You make ideology sound like a bad thing.

Depends on the particular beliefs of the ideology, no?

After all the “free market” (for lack of a better term) beliefs in your post are an ideology too ...
I'm not sure if you're serious or not, but one thing we can say for sure is that there are differences between sexes and sets of genetic traits associated with the concept of race. Now, whether these differences extend beyond biology - that's what scientists currently would rather not discuss for fear of consequences. The authors of the article argue this attitude is harmful for the society as a whole.
At-home DNA testing company gives the FBI access to its database
"UKGov claimed that this frictionless trade technology/mechanism exists and can be made to work, but in the months (or years) couldn't actually come up with a single bit of evidence that this is actually so."

The Norway-Sweden border would be one example. Just like Ireland-Northern Ireland, they are not in a customs union but allow free movement of people.
Honestly, I was expecting the music to be extremely weak. The third item I hit was fire. The design is clean, no bs; Sold.

Suggestions:

1. add autocomplete to your search box.
2. make it easier for people to give you their email address (i.e. least intrusive as possible modal that disappears after an email address is submitted).
3. pressing play on one player should pause any other players.
There is a famous saying : "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
https://www.inspiware.com/design-is-how-it-works-steve-jobs/
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I've typed the same postcode into Maps almost every day for the past 5 years - Google, could you maybe help it be the first autocomplete result when I enter it manually?
This claim still isn't in the paper, though. Not sure why the press release makes this much bolder claim. Seems a but weird to me. If I had the measurements to prove that, I'd include them in the paper.
Does anyone know of a book that has information like this (about technical aspects of the Cold War)?
The overload indicators are strange to me. For example, one indicator is "IO thread idle below 20%: this means the pool of worker threads used by kafka for handling client requests are too busy to handle any more workload". How did they determine this? Is it true?

I think a much better way would be to monitor the JMX reporter for dropped messages or high latency: https://docs.confluent.io/current/kafka/monitoring.html.
I disagree ENTIRELY.

If one wants a more open environment, there's always Android.

I consider Apple's oversight of iOS to be a feature, not a problem to be solved, because so far they have been worthy of my trust. I don't have the time or inclination to vet everything, and I have zero interest in having to sysadmin something else (seriously, creeping sysadmin-ism is the bane of technical folks in 2019 -- your TV, your stereo, your light switches, etc., may all require sysadmin tasks now, which is kind of absurd).

The problem illustrated by this affair is not Apple's control of iOS; it's how far Facebook and Google have gone to quietly betray their users' trust.
The system is complex beyond our comprehension. If we really wanted to model weather and climate better we need to know more things. Things like how much cow farts are there? I would be happy to build a system to ingest cow fart obs and feed them into the numerical models. FPS farts per sec yo
This article includes the assertion:

"Think, for instance, of the common idea that individual recycling can stave off climate change – this in spite of the fact that one hundred companies produce 71 percent of carbon emissions."

Rather shocking if true.
A climate problem even California can't fix: tailpipe pollution
And Imperialist and hegemonic are accurate descriptions of the Nato bloc. Won't catch you accurate labelers incessantly using that at every opportunity, now will we.
In a previous workplace we had a very capable part-time instructor. This fellow was never converted to a full-time position (eventually they got fed up and left); instead management kept recruiting externally for the full-time instructor position. They went through 3 or 4 people in as many years because the new recruits were glaringly incompetent. They were, however, innocuous and unthreatening. So far, no consequences for the departmental chair.
Well, it's the UK's obligation to preserve the Good Friday Agreement.

The legal technicalities of that are debatable, but let's assume for this discussion that there exists a clear legal obligation to do so.

Which specific obligation(s) under the GFA do you think would or would not be satisfied by which specific proposal(s) that have been made in relation to the NI/Ireland border?
"shift of the earth's crust with respect to the [...] magnetic poles"

This is not incorrect, even if it is a little garden-pathy.
Perhaps worth reminding everyone that a lot of people in the UK (probably the majority by this point) are actually pro EU.
Earth*. Also (2014): https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you

This is what probably triggered to re-print of old news: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1091080660100440065