skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> see all of the various cruel and malicious acts and positions EU leaders take against Britain for deigning to resist the expansion of EU powers

I have yet to see even one example of that, given how many opt-outs the UK was granted and how much the UK actively encouraged the expansion of the EU.

Heck, the mere existence of Article 50 as an option puts it ahead of the behaviour of the federal government of the USA in the American Civil War.

It’s not the fault of Brussels or Berlin that the single largest party in Westminster:

* Invoked article 50, a 2-year process, a few months after it’s own Permanent Representative to the EU wrote that it would take ten years

* Followed this with a surprise general election, which unnecessarily lost them seats

* Set a bunch of “red lines” which were incompatible with their own goals

* Made no attempt to win over any skeptics in their own party, or in their opposition, after losing seats

* Spent 18 months trying to negotiate a withdrawal agreement, where the “Irish backstop” was their own solution to the RoI/NI border, because of their own red lines and the red lines of their supply and confidence partner, the DUP, who they only needed the support of because of losing seats in an election they didn’t need to call

* Chosen as Foreign Secretary a man who later said “fuck business” because they didn’t like his plan

* Were then surprised by the Westminster MPs, who had fairly consistently been ignored and lied to by the UK government, voting down the agreement by the largest margin on record

* Was unable to agree with itself if it did or didn’t need to plan for no deal because the conversations typically went “they need us more than we need them” “no” “that’s just project fear”

* Only seriously considered “no deal” in December 2018, describing it as “unforeseeable” despite having been warned of it for about two years continuously; and as a result contracted a ferry company with no money and no ferries who copied their terms and conditions from a fast food delivery company, to run services between a mothballed UK port that needed dredging and an already-at-capacity EU port

* Just had 3 (plus 8 opposition, total 11) MPs resign, including one Tory from a Tory safe seat, whose goal is now the destruction of the Tory party

What the EU has done is, apparently, start planning to send food parcels to the UK. The Express newspaper apparently calls that plan “blackmail”. I don’t even understand how anyone can say that without breaking into laughter.
I'd say there are established rules on this for fair use. You might adding some meta information with attribution and doing automated checks on e.g. the scope of the use in the context of the new work. This is a greenfield currently; people are very sloppy with attributing or even acknowledging each other's content. Also, rights to the content is something you could manage in a registry by e.g. stating that content reuse with attribution is allowed by the content owner.

All I see in discussions on this topic right now is this apocalyptic thinking which in my view is not a productive, at all. Where's the counter solution or the improved proposal? The debate on this only seems to get going when legislation is about to be passed; which is typically too late. Youtube as a victim is not going to cause me to shed tears.

Vague amateur interpretations of interpretations of what somebody said on a blog leading to ridiculous conclusions about what it all means are just noise. This is not the end of free speech, satire, or the internet. Wasn't the case for GDPR either. I see this as just a necessary step to get out of the abusive mess that is the status quo of today where people just do whatever without regard for copyright.

Sure this proposal is less than ideal and the process for creating it is flawed. There are probably many ways things can be improved further; how the impact for honest businesses and individuals can be mitigated; etc. Lets have that debate instead of doing nothing and hoping this topic goes away (which of course it won't). In my view concrete improvements might be a lot easier to get support for in the EU and other countries like the US with powerful lobbies for changing the law on this front (this is not an EU problem) than arguing for nothing to happen.
FYI that’s a fork of the repo I posted. The fork hasn’t been updated in over 3 years
In South Africa WhatsApp is almost required. It's ubiquitous.

In Germany I'd say it's by far the most common chat client, even my parents use it.
$1500 is a LOT for a phone, but $2000 is a whopping $500 more than that. It's not exactly a "little" more than the top iPhone model.
So due to HN cross-pollination, I'm now using Delta.Chat on my android which works a treat.

Hopefully once COI has a client, I can try that one out as well; if its android client supports multiple email accounts per install (unlike Delta.chat at the moment), it will almost certainly make its way into normal app rotation and evangelizing BBM/WA/Messages users to a more private, secure instant message client.
Well, regular bloggers have higher standards than journalists because they actually link to their sources. News sites do their damnest to avoid linking or even mentioning things by name if the article isn't explicitly trying to promote them.
The actual skimmers are still "traditional" in the sense. This thing just relays that stolen information.
Rising.

But with huge progress in treatment over the past decade.
Oxy/fuel cutting is more like rapid oxidation than burning. The reaction is not self sustaining without fucktons of oxygen (you can burn basically anything if there's enough oxygen present). The oxygen stream helps blow away partially oxidized steel. It only works with steel because of the specific combination of metals other than iron in steel. It won't work on cast iron or stainless (though you can certainly melt them).

Plasma cutting liquefies the metal with electrical current then blows away the molten metal with air.

Take an oxy/fuel torch to a piece of wood and you will quickly have a self sustaining reaction even once the extra oxygen supply (torch) is removed.
Get Ready for Gravitational Waves All Day, Every Day
That's the issue with using cloud services... what used to be your data is now their data.
No, YouTube does prevent exactly this. This is the whole point of this idea.

When you watch videos on YouTube the license you are bound to is not the content creator's, but YouTube's. When a user uploads a video to YouTube they agree to grant YouTube a license that is extremely generous to YouTube, not dissimilar to what you agree to when posting on here. And so when you then go and watch a video on YouTube you are bound by their terms that they then attach to to access to their licensed content. This includes a prohibition on duplication. Their terms and conditions also expressly prohibit commercial solicitation of users for their content.

It creates this really weird scenario. A user wants their content to be shared as much as possible. They upload it on YouTube, now suddenly that content is effectively owned by YouTube and all lawful sharing stops there. If YouTube were required to allow users to default to free use licenses it would in no way negatively affect their content, but people would be able to continue sharing videos beyond YouTube - it would help enable competition and the freer spread of information and ideas.
Google already has IMAP. I don't know about the other two, but I would be surprised if they don't.
Per the article, the EU court ruled that EU nations are individually permitted to ban criticism of Mohammed, as long as the criticism is ruled less valuable than the feelings of the people who dislike the criticism.

It's legal to call Hitler a murderer in Austria, but not to call Mohammed child molester.
Samsung Launches Galaxy Series Preloaded with Cryptocurrency Wallet
Libel and slander aren't illegal, they're civil matters.
"Falsehoods programmers believe about..."

* Names: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...

* REST APIs: http://slinkp.com/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-apis....

* Fonts/typefaces: https://github.com/RoelN/Font-Falsehoods

Collection of falsehoods: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
This is awesome, very well done!
> Nothing whatsoever. Why must it?

If the assertion that a carbon (or whatever else) tax is to cover the "cost" of externalities, then the money needs to go to actually addressing those externalities. Otherwise, it's just a lie to make a general tax more palatable.

It also runs into the problem that "sin taxes" have, namely that once a government entity has a consistent stream of income from such taxes that it can spend on its general expenditures, said entity has a perverse incentive to not curtail the activity below a certain point to avoid endangering that income stream.

> Norway's oil fund pays pensions.

Norway's oil fund is built up on royalties from exploration and extraction activity in Norwegian territory. It's not a tax on externalities.
I switched from a dedicated SAD alarm clock (Lumie Bodyclock Starter 30) to using the wake up routine with a Philips Hue bulb. Such an improvement, maybe because it evenly brightens up the whole room.
I use that a lot.

FYI, the tool saves the plans on your local storage, so links won't work :)
> I would imagine therefore that Earth's micro-organims occasionally land on the surface of the moon.

Only on the moon? They might be hit by space debris and travel through space to other planet's atmospheres.
If they cared about informing the reader, they would link to the source, so that interested readers could explore the topic further. It's as simple as that.
Which is, essentially, the scheme being currently implemented. Expecting jet-ski chases of illegally entering tourists - the city was built by sea merchants, water is still the main mode of transport, with streets secondary.
The EU is not a country and does not have its own laws. Things like this copyright directive will get turned into 28 distict member state level laws. Directives only set the common denominator for these laws.

Also, the EHCR is an organization of the Council of Europe which is entirely unrelated to the EU. This is a weaker association of states including Turkey and Russia.
The best part is the brief addendum about some of the bunny suit inhabitants of the chip fabs (~20 minute mark), and how they are weird, but that the gender distribution of their children is, in fact, "normal" or at last not specifically a product of their occupation.
> No, most people have a phone number and for most people that's their own phone number. That was a tradeoff for them.

That’s a very first world observation, and even there, this would be quite shaky if actual numbers were known.

Also, I didn’t say or intend to mean that these companies made excluding people a goal. Their decisions, on the contrary, have resulted in that.
Off-topic: At that point do we run out of software names? At least "Ramses" is an acronym for something reasonable, it feels like a lot of them intentionally make no sense.
Tardigrades beat us there?
I work in HFT, and I'll be contrary and suggest that if you want the most value from your time, focus on learning as much maths and probability as possible. Once you have a strong maths background, learning most financial maths is relatively easy. Any of the financial models you find in textbooks are probably useless because if they work, everybody else who's read the textbook has also used them so there's unlikely to be any edge left, hence it's the ideas underneath them that matter, and understanding and extending these is much easier with a strong maths background. The key skill is developing and assessing new models, and the better one's maths, the easier this is (imagine if a market behaved like a complex aerodynamic system; only somebody with enough mathematical background to model a complex aerodynamic system would be able to create a very accurate model of that market).

One of the most successful hedge funds, Renaissance Technologies, also takes this approach. Regarding its employees: "a third have PhDs, not in finance, but in fields like physics, mathematics and statistics. Renaissance has been called “the best physics and mathematics department in the world” and, according to Weatherall, “avoids hiring anyone with even the slightest whiff of Wall Street bona fides." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies). Similarly some of the best HFT hires I've been have been people with a maths or science background.

A quote sourced to Renaissance Technologies from https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-secret-behind-Renaissance-...: "We have some Tier One mathematicians and a lot of Tier Two mathematicians. Other quants funds have mostly Tier Three mathematicians, and worse, they don’t even know that these tiers exist! Someone has to create the correlations in the markets." Aim to be one of those Tier one mathematicians!
I wouldn't be surprised if COI encounters issues with automated abuse detection and spam filters in those servers. When you're in an active conversation, the client is rapidly sending 1-line emails with strange headers.
New Bill Is “Clear Attempt by MidAmerican to Monopolize the Sun in Iowa”
As much as the Austrian conviction and this whole discussion about blasphemy and "religious freedom" makes me P.O., she was convicted of paying 500 Euros.
The narrative of focusing on "those with vested interest in having this passed" is ignoring those with a vested interest in it not being passed. Julia's meeting list on her website is a Who's Who is Google and organizations Google is a part of or funding.

I would argue I have a vested interest in having this passed: I want an Internet which isn't predominantly controlled by one corporation which steals content from everyone else and passes it off as their own. I have no employer or funding source based on this, I don't work for anyone in the movie, music, news, or tech industry, I just want a better Internet, and the EU both in antitrust and copyright reform, seems to be delivering it.
And literally never will.
Hey everyone. I don't want to start a debate or anything, I'm just looking for a privacy concerned chat service that I can easily teach my fiance to sign up for and use. She gave up on Pidgin, and I would appreciate any pros/cons for your favorite service of this kind. Thank you in advance!
Apple Falls from First to 17th Spot in 'World's Most Innovative Company' Ranking
Civility and tone policing is the refuge of the privileged scoundrel. It's akin to the literacy tests that prevented black people from voting in the US, which used to be legal in the US that
https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/politics/2019/02/20/s...

Old men sermonizing the masses with little real reason
Is there anyone else that always uses cash to pay for gas?
Programming Languages for Microservices (and Containers)
If our neoliberal globalist government didn't effectively force us to outsource the production of the products we consume with unrestricted labor markets and generally stagnant wages in the face of explosive inflation, maybe we would have that luxury.

Poor people have been put in a position where they really don't have a lot of options. Blaming poor Westerners is like blaming a child for their parent's bad spending habits.
This surely will end well for the company.
Another frustratingly neglected topic is fusion. Fusion is really the least painless way to get out of this mess. It should be one of the major investments for every developed country right now. Even if it doesn't work out, the benefits of it does are so big that we absolutely need to throw out full weight behind the research. Yet funding keeps getting cut because it's "nuclear" and no politician currently in power will get to claim the enormous win for themselves.
I really appreciate his perspective on ACLs. It really frustrates me that basic security controls are often considered "enterprise" features. They aren't. They are fundamental features that should be baked in and widely encouraged to be adopted.

I especially appreciate his perspective on downloading random libraries that could potentially blow up in your face. Access control affects us all and can no longer be viewed as something you "bolt on later" when you have a $100MM valuation.

His perspective on a flexible roadmap also makes sense. It does place a premium on clear communication. One of the things I really respect about antirez is his recognition for the value that users bring in helping to flesh out the design and function of new features. If you don't have a good feedback loop from some kind of end-user, you won't get very far in producing something that can be widely adopted.
Welcome to the IoT “Empathy Economy”
Machine Learning 101 – Introducing Today's Most In-Demand Field
Interesting fact, jet powered short haul flights are worse per distance due to the fact that most energy is used in takeoff and landing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_aviati...

I also read somewhere that propeller based airplanes flying lower in the atmosphere would be better option for short haul flights.
Does this mean you cannot bring meat into the kitchen, or just that they've found a socially acceptable way of keeping provided food costs down?
> is their driver remotely competitive in terms of actual usability/quality?

A resounding 'yes'. You must not be using their open source driver, or are using a very old one in your 'comparison' with nvidia's linux driver?
"Punishing" is kind of a loaded term though, isn't it? "Not hosting your video for free because of concerns about risk to YouTube" isn't really a "punishment".

As I sort of alluded to already, giving other services an incentive to exist, or incentivizating more self-hosting, I see as a virtue anyhow. YouTube shouldn't be The Video Site On The Internet.
Under the hood this is generating tikz. I imagine with more TeX/LaTeX skills than I have, someone could embed much of this directly within LaTeX to hide tikz manual (and tedious) work.
A lot of people wouldn't call a company that is never destined to grow overall a few million $$$ turnover a startup.

It's a term without a strict definition.
There is already an email bridge! https://github.com/kamax-matrix/matrix-appservice-email
In the case of, let's say, 60% of the population suffering of depression, is that a mental disorder or something that have to be ascribed to external conditions (maybe political, related to environment etc)?

Possibly either, possibly both, possibly neither.

It might be the case that social or environmental factors are causing people to become depressed, in a way that could only be fixed by addressing those external factors. It might be the case that people are experiencing difficulty in coping with those external factors, but could learn to thrive with the right cognitive tools. It might be the case that we're over-diagnosing depression, or that the concept of depression itself has caused an iatrogenic epidemic. It might be something totally unexpected, like a hitherto-unrecognised prion disease or a strange reaction to an organic pollutant.

It's worth noting that, while rates of depression have been rising in recent decades, only 7.3% of the US population suffer from a depressive illness at any given moment; a larger proportion suffer from diabetes. Most people who are diagnosed with depression do get better with the right treatment. We're still a very long way from the point where we can reasonably argue "what does depression even mean if depression is the new norm?".

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171030134631.h...

http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/statistics/
Ask HN: Strategies to Avoid Burnout?
I'm in a situation where I'm the senior engineer on a team that has to manage a lot of work. I'm a bit overwhelmed right now and having to work nights to keep up with it all.

The main responsibilities are:
1) Building out products, building features and working with the PM to ensure everyone is reaching deadlines. That means working with both backend and frontend engineers.

2) My team has a lot of reusable components that other people use and build on, this makes other teams want to change our APIs often and add things to them. I've been having to code review & design review a lot. There's at least 2-3 concurrent projects at any time every quarter.

3) Work on bugs that come up that sometimes are simple and sometimes require significant investigation.

The team has 3 Product Managers right now so we always have tons of feature requests, asks to investigate future work, etc.

I have only one other team member right now who has been taking on one of the larger projects that requires a lot of cross coordination. They're posting PRs late into the night so asking them to take on more work seems unreasonable.

What's some solutions here?

1 & 3 seem that they still have to happen regardless. But I'm wondering if there are better ways to do 2? Do I need to have to help them find solutions? Do I stop participating in these API changes and just let technical debt accumulate and fix it later?

My manager wants to hire more people but we've had more people, the work just increases to accommodate that new engineer.
Montana Legislator Introduces Bills to Give His State Its Own Science
Surely it will use TLS for encrypted transport.
Signal is probably the best combination of easy-to-use/secure.
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Awesome! Glad this was helpful. There are still so many questions and unknowns though. Best of luck!
YIMBYs: Friend, Foe, or Chaos Agent?
> Not only are they not developed by any recognized standards body (meaning they have no long-term sustainable funding model),

I don't see a clear relationship between the sentence and its parenthetical.

I don't know about Matrix' funding model. But I do know Signal, for example, isn't developed by a recognized standards body. What can I infer from that about the sustainability of its long-term funding?
The ruling was overturned, so was a precedent really set?
Sudoku Solver in Prolog
I would use Signal, quite simple and privacy focused.
> it doesn't make sense to use some of that energy to remove some of that CO2.

Of course it does, if the price of CO2 is high enough. If I can capture 1.1 unit of CO2 per unit of CO2 released and it still makes me money, I'll use any energy available. This could happen if e.g. the government subsidizes carbon capture credits or simply if an efficient enough process exists.

On top of that, if the price is high enough it would be viable to build renewable energy solely for powering carbon capture.
> from yelling fire in a theater

I don't understand why so many people think this isn't protected. The courts ruled it was.
Most of these places would also just have a hard time "scaling" if they did managed to get people or business there. One successful or a couple of smaller startups might need at least a hundred people a year. So there really needs to be something special going on for that to work out.
> either your binary format ends up not much better than JSON or you end up reencoding old comments because the API changed

Those are other options too, eg, storing the schema separately from the records (then batching records with identical schemas in compact binary files) and defining migration rules between different schemas (eg, if schema A has required field "foo" while schema B has required field "foo" and optional field "bar" then data which follows schema A can be trivially migrated to schema B at read time without needing to reencode on disk).

https://avro.apache.org/docs/current/
Reasons to Adopt an API-First CMS
There is a difference between your opinion and science.

Your opinion may become science one day, but unless you've thoroughly reviewed the relevant literature before posting, it will be a coincidence.