skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a quick intro – membership of the EU has been a bit of a hot topic in the UK for quite a few years now, and longer in certain circles of the Conservative party. That party made a manifesto commitment to hold a referendum on membership as a bit of a concession to help avoid a split in the party. It was generally expected that this would be an easy win for the "remain" group, and there is only minority support among representatives for a Brexit policy in any form.

The problem there is that there are now several groupings of representatives – some of them would like to push forward with a "cliff-edge" style exit, some would like a negotiated but "hard" deal, some would like a very soft "technical Brexit", and others would prefer to remain entirely. The parliament is politically bound by the outcome of the referendum—it would be a damaging move to hold a referendum then not implement the result—but at the same time, there is no consensus on what "Brexit" actually means, so it's not currently possible to construct a majority for any individual plan.

It's not a good situation.
What news content isn't toxic and doesn't fuel paranoia? Which content isn't manipulative? Everything I read from every side has me believing the world is going to end, collapse is right around the corner, opium epidemics everywhere, plague imminent, etc. No need to single out ZH only.
Buried in the settings somewhere is a zipball of all of your content you can download. I wrote a tool you can feed it to which generates a Jekyll blog for you:

https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/unmediumify

Note: don't do what briandoll did and skip the Google Analytics, please.
Oh dear God. Reading into the indictments, it seems that a lot of the kids never had a clue that they were complicit in the schemes:

>... and it was like, the kids though, and it was funny 'cause the kids will call me and say, "Maybe I should do that again. I did pretty well and if I took it again, I'll do better even" Right? And they just have no idea that they didn't even get the score that they thought they got.

Can you even imagine what those people are going through?

One day you are a USC/Harvard/Stanford grad. The next day you are a fraud. And not only that, you are revealed to the entire world to be dumb as a box of rocks, just totally naked and shamed. And you had no clue. Your closest family members spent tens of thousands of dollars fooling you, committing very serious crimes on your behalf, and all the while, lying to you about your intelligence and work ethic.

For those people, it must feel like The Truman Show or an episode of The Twilight Zone. It's totally unreal.
If the government didn't step in microsoft might still have 90% of the browser market. I think its time they came in and forced google to not push chrome in android.
The problem was the plebiscite format. It had two options:

. [ ] Remain a member of the European Union

. [ ] Leave the European Union

Do you see the huge honking flashing design flaw here?

No? Let's rephrase this with a little substitution:

. [ ] Continue the known reality

. [ ] Do something else (to be determined later)

There's the problem. The second was a catch-all that cast a huge net encompassing all imagined alternatives. Everything that isn't what is currently now, that's option 2.

That's what won, because it's every imagined alternative tossed in a huge pile. Your Own Personal Favorite Idea is option 2! Hooray!

The problem is that when that has to become concrete it turns out that staying in the EU outweighs any one particular instance of the "leave the EU" reality ... and one of them has to be executed on.

WHAT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED

The plebiscite should have had detailed, specific scenarios and been structured as follows:

. [ ] Remain in the EU

. [ ] Option 1 (addendum 1)

. [ ] Option 2 (addendum 2)

. [ ] ...

. [ ] Option N (addendum n)

Why? Because that's what would actually be happening, the actual reality that has to be contended with, not just some undefined fantasy.

BUT THIS FAVORS STAYING, ALWAYS

No. Not necessarily. If the Brexiters could offer a real-world, concrete, provable, air-tight demonstrably better alternative instead of amorphous good-feelings then they can persuade the public with this imagined reality instead of relying on a reality imagined.

What shouldn't have been allowed, and why this is a total mess, is an option of amorphous make-believe. Make-believe will always win.
It's also possible to cache server-rendered pages offline with a service worker. Admittedly not many people do this, but there's no reason why they couldn't, and it would probably be smaller for a lot of sites.
Similarly, you might enjoy learning about IFS, Internal Family Systems therapy. It's a psychotherapy approach where you interact with yourself as a series of independent personalities, each with their own motives.

The guided meditation might make the concepts a little more obvious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56Px9qaxAkY&t=29
Any place, where you've shared this experience? I was considering hiring one too.
tempting
Well yes, although it's possible the Ethiopian Air pilots haven't seen that memo. If I recall correctly, a fast remediation suggestion was to switch off all avionics power. As a pilot myself, I would be deeply reluctant to do such a drastic move, especially in an emergency. With the airplane in an overpowering dive, removing all instrumentation in one kill switch move just doesn't seem like the right thing to do. While I don't know the 737 MAX 8 electrical layout, in small planes that would also kill the radios, transponder, and navigation systems, possibly also flap controls, lighting, and some direct instrumentation. Such direction would have to be very strongly communicated if it were a viable escape from the MCAS/AoA failure.
True, I guess I was just nitpicking. :)
I think 'handsInTheAir()' got thrown a while ago; the trouble is that the government's error handler sucks, and so does its parent's (Parliament).

But, by design, exceptions don't automatically propagate from Parliament to its parent (the citizens) so the process is currently wedged in some kind of undefined behaviour. And no-one has the privileges to HUP the job.
Agree with this. I read the Damore memo and don't understand all the rage around it. He proposed organic solutions to an organic problem, and the Internet went apeshit over it.
Pretty much zero.
Except if they want to shut down github and need a bandwagon full of bad press and furious developers.
To the opposite, I've found often you can't have a meaningful progress until you start allocating time in your speech with those placeholders. Otherwise people would assume you're finished with what you wanted to say or don't have something to add and start talking.
Well there seems to be a majority of MPs against no deal, theres a vote on that tomorrow. So that would mean May going back to the EU to ask for an extension. That would seem most likely to be until May, before the EU elections. I can't see that being more than a temporary date though. Any other option has to take more time than 2 ish months.

That's where my crystal ball goes cloudy.
How is more expensive for a better experience not a luxury product?
Literally from the Bitcoin white paper:

"The traditional banking model achieves a level of privacy by limiting access to information to the parties involved and the trusted third party. The necessity to announce all transactions publicly precludes this method, but privacy can still be maintained by breaking the flow of information in another place: by keeping public keys anonymous. The public can see that someone is sending an amount to someone else, but without information linking the transaction to anyone."

That Bitcoin wasn't private was clear since day 0.
So much speculation is going on. The angry mob has already concluded that the MCAS must be the cause. Greedy Boeing was too cheap to redesign the plane and made a cheap software hack to fix it. Sneaky computers are overriding the decisions of the poor helpless pilots. The FAA is too incompetent to certify aircraft, etc etc.

Based on what I read, the truth is a lot more complicated. The MCAS doesn't work the way most people seem to think it does. Maybe it is a factor in the crashes. We don't know that yet.
I suspect that for many of the existing developers, it's deeper than that. A subset of the devs work a significant fraction of their time offline so firing up a web browser isn't going to work for them at all. Also, another subset of the devs would find adding a dependency to github or any other non-free[1] service antithetical to the Debian ethos.

Realistically, I don't see them switching away from text based files with at least the option of an offline workflow on the back-end, which makes sense to me. That said, I really do wish they'd understand that to people who don't live and breath the Debian workflow, the existing front-end tooling is painful to use and antiquated and prioritize updating it. It is possible to create a much nicer front-end user experience on top of what currently exists.

[1] From the FSF/Debian perspective, no-cost is not free https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_Libre
> do not outweigh a fair, free, democratically held election

In case it needs reminding, those elections did occur, and May ended up needing to go in bed with the DUP to stay in power.

Edit: ok, I see what you've done with your edit...

> Imagine the vote was vice versa and the right-wing would be crying about unfair campaign ads and Brussel influence, not one person would take them seriously.

Everyone would have correctly raised that it's horse shit, because the EC is fairly transparent in what it does if you bother to take a look.

The real wtf in recent decades has been that Brussels is a perfect scapegoat: as a national politician you can go to the European Council and promote what have you; EC and EP pick it up and deliver; and then you can turn around and tell voters "see it's Brussel's fault" because national newspapers aren't reporting enough on what's going on in the EU.

And just to be clear, this is nothing new. It already was a problem 20 years ago. And insofar as I've been made aware by the law teachers I had back then, 40 years ago as well.
What's the difference between OS X and OSX Yosemite?
I lived near Baltimore until 2012. Back then they were on an upward path. Pretty sad to hear that things have gone down again. It also shows how fragile improvements are. they can get lost quickly.
I think the title benefits from quotes: non-"Windows/OS X" users. IE, anything other than mainstream Windows or OS X.
You'd know because they can explain the other side's position in terms that the other side recognizes as accurate, rather than a strawman - and then explain what they believe is mistaken about it.

If you're really right, you shouldn't have to strawman your opponent's position in order to show that you're right.
Because a no-deal exit would do lasting damage to the British economy (this is a fairly uncontroversial point even among Brexit proponents), and a nation's currency tends to track its economy.
>it's hard to compete with the Giants, and the Giants walk where they want to. As a result, no one gets a chance to do better than the Giants are currently doing...

I'm old enough to remember when Michael Dell said Apple could never compete with giants like Dell and should just dissolve itself and disburse whatever money it had left to shareholders, and almost every business pundit in the world agreed. (I'm sure Michael Dell could tell stories about pundits who said he could never compete against the giant among giants, IBM.)

I'm also old enough to remember when pundits said Amazon would never be able to compete with giants like Barnes & Noble and Borders (Borders is a company that doesn't exist anymore, but twenty years ago it was a giant — look it up).

I also remember when tiny little Google was nothing more than a feature (search, how boring) that giant Yahoo would obviously just buy or duplicate.

And I remember when Netflix's stock price was so depressed you could have bought the entire company for less than the production cost of one summer blockbuster, and everyone was sure it could never survive competing against Blockbuster.com. (Blockbuster is a company that doesn't exist anymore, but fifteen years ago it was a giant – look it up.)

It's obviously hard to compete with entrenched giants, but I'm skeptical of any notion that it's any different now than in the past (if anything, it's probably slightly easier these days).
Ask HN: Own money vs. investor's money. Which is easier to spend?
I'd like start funding few of my own ideas but I've read somewhere investor's money is easier to spend, is it so? Personally, I've no problem spending mine, even I like it because it forces one to be more cautious. Any hints to decide? Thank you
presumably iOS as well, though in both cases they have native Chase apps which they'll push you towards.
I think what the platform offers isn't so much advertising as the veneer of legitimacy you get from users seeing a familiar layout.
I liked this explanation:
https://twitter.com/hugorifkind/status/1072222230791229440?l...
While this is true, cities in Virginia have governing authority almost identical to counties. Schools, roads, police, &c.
I wonder if the "Required operating systems" (Windows / Mac OS X) is really true. Just checked again with my Chromebook (Chrome OS 72) and it worked fine, as it has been.
> if companies can't make money by selling proprietary software, who's going to want to be a software developer?

And that did happen, we don't have a single decent affordable personal computing ecosystem at this point. The only good personal computing ecosystem is with Apple, which makes its money by selling proprietary software mostly but is not affordable to ordinary joe.

What an ordinary person can buy, is an ad-riddled machine like a windows desktop or a chromebook, where although the software is not proprietary, they're basically selling you ads(directly or indirectly through your data).

To tie it back in, in fact open source software did rise up and proprietary software did go down, but we lost the pure software aspect that came with proprietary software. Basically, open source software is being used to sell you ads and if the ads based business goes down/stops so does open source ecosystem.

If you haven't realized, the biggest parts of the open source economy are propped by FAANG and Microsoft. If these big whales go away, open source's vibrancy will vanish in a poof.

In fact open source software creation is hugely concentrated to North America and by extension FAANG. So if FAANG were to stop sponsoring open source, we'll be back to proprietary software age soon. So, I'm not convinced of your argument that "open source" has won conclusively.
> It seems no one wants Brexit as it has been suggested by the political leadership of UK, and the majority want to avoid no deal at all.

There's basically two big stumbling blocks:

The first is that there has to be a customs check between either: (1) The EU/Republic of Ireland , (2) ROI and Northern Ireland, or (3) Northern Ireland and Britain (the island).

(1) is unacceptable to the EU. (2) breaks the Good Friday agreement and could reignite violence in Ireland. (3) is unacceptable to the Northern Ireland political party propping up the government.

The second is that from the perspective of the EU, Britain has to get a worse deal by leaving the EU than what they had when they were in it. Otherwise, every other country sees that it's better to be out than in and the EU risks collapse.

These are more or less intractable problems. I'm sure we've all had the experience where an IT project is obviously doomed but nobody wants the responsibility and blame for pulling the plug. That's where Brexit is today.
There's a lot of politicians who have been very happy criticising every "what do we do now" proposal, without having any constructive alternatives. Even a general election wouldn't really help, as it would force MPs to say what they DO actually want, which the majority of them have been avoiding as far as possible.

On a topic this controversial, MPs love being allowed to vote "no" to everything, but hate being forced to commit to anything constructive - anything they say will be unpopular with some of their constituency, and likely lose them votes. It will be very interesting to see what happens as their ability to criticise without offering alternatives gets closer to being taken away.

This is particularly true of Brexit, as significant numbers of both major parties voted for and against it, so neither party can avoid angering lots of people who would normally vote for them no matter what they do.
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An aerodynamically sound redesign to accommodate the high bypass engines would have been just as fuel efficient as the version with confusing software band-aids.

If it is cheaper to invent something like MCAS than to properly adapt the airframe, then maybe the processes that would be used for the latter are ripe for some efficiency optimization.
I don't think they will support .webm until at least one or two generations of iPhone have hardware decoding for AV1 and/or VPx.
I assume you also believe we never went to the Moon..?
So, in other words, Chase is no longer offering a web presence. Good to know.
AFAIU, California mandates paper ballots statewide and also mandates post-election audits. It's not uncommon nationally, apparently: http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/post-el...
I didn't realize that you needed the extension to view them. I had thought that all the extension did was lookup links on the current page and add a badge to them summarizing their overall NewsGuard score, and add a mouseover popup for the badges to see the full score, and provide a link to the full report.

Edit: actually, the links aren't working for me now, either, and I DO have the extension installed.

Edit: it looks like they are time limited links. I just went to Zero Hedge again, got a NewsGuard link, and the long hex string is different. That new link works for me regardless of whether or not I am on a browser with NewsGuard, presumably until it too times out. I don't see any way to make a permanent link to their report for a site.
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Having people vote again and again until you get the result you want is like ignoring the vote.
This is such classic Dunning Kruger effect. You've never heard of them, therefore they don't exist, yet you won't do basic research necessary to prove your own assumptions wrong. Democracy isn't easy, it's hard. But it's better than anything else we've come up with so far, other than the benevolent dictator model - and good luck with them always being benevolent.

There are quite a lot of such politicians, but they don't have the personality you're criticizing, so they're not visible generally, but in particular not the media which is selling politics as entertainment just like anything else.

Shirley Chisholm? Bet you've never heard of her, which is fine, I don't expect that. You do also have the imagination that she should exist, which is good. But where you fail is your assumption that you are right to conclude they do not exist just because you've never heard of them. So you're stupid and yet you know for sure you're right. You're doing the exact same damn thing you accuse others of. It's blatant hypocrisy, which happens to be very common and you seem to think it's an exception! Of course you have to call that out in order to hold people accountable to a higher standard. It is in fact the thing you call uncivil that causes a chance at civility!

How about Ander Crenshaw? You won't see him on TV and you won't see him shouting. Michael Bennet, is another one you won't see on TV, and the one time in his political career he went on a rant was eviscerating the pure stupidity of a colleague to his face, calling him out with factual evidence of his hypocrisy based on indisputable past action.

I guess you lack the imagination of truly uncivilized behavior that exists today and through most of human history. Dead bodies littering fields, bloating, leaking, bursting. Firing squads. Mass graves. Really, you think politicians are uncivilized? It's a ridiculous comment.

Calling a stupid person stupid is not uncivilized. It's called making an observation. Politics is when you don't do that every time stupidity is displayed.
Find the exact opposite (except for devtools, unfortunately that's still a real issue).

Firefox for me is MUCH faster on all hardware I use it on, without or without extensions.

Chrome feels bloated and sluggish... Firefox just flies, and never slows down. I don't understand where complaints of FF performance come from... personally, I've never experienced an issue, on my i7 desktop or my horrible m3 Surface.

To me, it's Firefox that feels like the physical machinery, while Chrome is a piece of software, and a bloated, creepy, predatory one at that.
I'm having a hard time with some of the things you are saying here, but my knowledge of how this stuff works is pretty simplistic. I'm curious specifically about the mechanisms for this stuff.

How can fat elevate blood sugar levels?

If you don't have elevated blood sugar from eating a bunch of carbs, what effect does insulin have? Does it cause blood sugar to go even lower?

On gluconeogenesis: I thought this was demand driven rather than supply driven. Insulin apparently is an inhibitor for this. So how does this work?
I would maybe ban all kinds of domestic public selling available leaves blowers , if it was in my power, I think, maybe, yes...

in my humble opinion, and maybe I am mistaken, right, theoretically speaking in an hipotetical way of mental thought experiment yeah...

and I say that as a fan of having great fun jetting machines food powders with extrastrong but small tubes of compressed air with a intensity controled exit of air jet, but at hig intensity level set it blows a lot of dust and powder from food packing machinery and it is a lot of fun I have to admit...

so electric leaf blowers can be pretty useful for their specific uses, cleaning things, but not to clean leaves from someones garden, please! honestly!?

to clean sidewalks out of dirty? Yes electric blowers yes made by the same manufacturers of the electric leaveblower that better not be used to blow tree leaves from gardens(!) honestly...but anyway better the same manufacterers make money selling the same similar machine adapted a little to clean sidewalks and send the dirty to plastic contained places yeah...

I wonder if mother nature and godesses around would think about I write an mini/micro Good Robot with <<<fototransistors interface>>>(my patent, my tech, my trade Mark and copyRights, so take the eyes a little to that side, please!) to with the solely good puporse and intention of separating plast and material in big dumps of garbahe, those mountains of garbage, yes, come on, you can make a cute freaking insect to rovber on surface of Mars and cant make a neutral nice clean R2D2 skater to clean the trash mountains dumps here on near neighbourhood, yeas...

recommended song for sun light bath today is again Bordeaux in my Pirough by Chucky Berry :) :) :)

thanks!
Indeed, you can rest assured that this will be used to share passwords that should not be shared this way. I would be surprised if it hasn't been already.
They should be used to lift up communities that aren't doing well but then they should stop. For example, places New York that are already doing well should never offer subsidies.

I guess this should be a general principle. Give subsidies only to entities who need them and take them away once things are better,.