skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does this actually prove it's a "sense"? It stands to reason that magnetic fields could subtly affect brainwaves, as brainwaves are electromagnetic in nature, but does that indicate that the body actually does anything useful with this perturbation?

They have well demonstrated that they affect the brain on some level, but I think making the jump to call it a sense requires some actual effect on our physiology or behavior that the body takes advantage of as a means to DO something.

I'm inserting my own definition and understanding of what a sense is here, but I'd wager there there aren't too many ways of defining a sense without somehow including perception as a critical aspect. At least not any that people would buy wholesale or would be easily demonstrated scientifically.

A counterexample to this would be ionizing radiation. Radiation is present in our environment, we generally do not perceive it (at least not on any conscious level, and excluding the sense of heat and visible light, both frequencies along the electromagnetic spectrum), and it certainly has effects on the body that are easily perceivable (tanning/sunburn, cancer, etc). Can we sense it? I don't think many folks would argue that we can.

I also notice that the article uses quite a few weasel words, throwing "suggests" and "hints" in to justify the title. Not fantastic journalism IMO.
The difficulty is when the elected representatives decide unilaterally to pursue their own goals and aims, putting party before country and constituents.

As evidenced by Merkel and Voss's reported comments (which were in the Wired article on this): "The protesters are a bunch of people Google paid off to protest. Every one of them has a pay cheque".

Which to me sounds a lot like the oft-quoted line from the other side: "George Soros is bankrolling this".
Ever since druqs Aphex Twin’s albums have contained both fast-paced techno, and quiet little solo piano pieces that sound quite well within the range of what one human can play.
Do you stick with it on a regular schedule?

No science here, but anecdotally if I've been slacking off on exercise and then restart, I feel pretty tired/terrible at first. After a few weeks of regular routine exercise though, it flips and I feel tired/terrible when I don't exercise and energized when I do exercise.
Does anyone know if the Apple Card is dependent on iCloud being enabled?
Hah I wasn’t blasting you or anything! Sorry if I made it that way. I tried saying it was unimportant to the overall convo. If anything it reinforces your argument since it’s two of the big 5 movie studios.
The Play Store has alternatives, you can install alternative app stores on Android devices very easily and buy or configure devices that don't include Google services, install those services yourself etc.

https://f-droid.org/

https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=sxts_snpl_1_0_d21...
I've only skimmed over the links you provided so far, but why do we even need any of this stuff?

Look at this recent show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19482280

It's plain text, would parse as valid Markdown for the most part but reads just fine - I didn't even realize that it was MD until someone mentioned it in the comments. Using

Underlined Text
===============
Works as an effective heading (# in MD)
Leaving some empty lines also helped in that txt file
* and these
* type of lists
* work just fine.

Why not just use a .txt file with two or three special format codes: one to make a URL clickable, one to embed an image (with a specified width, clicking goes to the full image), and (maybe? - this is getting kinda complex) one for math.

On the one hand there are barebones formats like what I described, and on the other there are complex ones like MD and the ones you linked to. The issue with all of the complex ones is that they provide leaky abstractions.

With MD you get a compiler that does MD->HTML, and you provide your own CSS file. OK, now you have a neat looking table. But what if you want to make a cell span two columns? You're screwed, you either need to look up complex nonstandard syntax for that (may as well use HTML at that point) or just convert the whole table into HTML (now you have 80% MD and 20% HTML in your file).

But if you have a .txt file, you just delete the | pipes you drew. Sure it's a bit more tedious, but it works and is 100% consistent.

And what if your CSS gives table header rows a yellow background, but you want one column of a specific table to be red? Again you need nonstandard syntax to mark that table with a class and link it to a CSS rule, or you just convert the whole thing to HTML and add an inline color="...". Leaky abstraction.

In this case a .txt helps by removing choice and placing limitations - you can format the whole document as a text file but with clickable links and inline images, and if you need more styling then you can use HTML. Or write in MD and compile into HTML, if that's what you want.

MD and its other formats are in a half-between position where you often use the abstraction but also occasionally have to fall down to the lower HTML level, and I just don't think that it deserves a place as a standard format for web browsers.
What if you're having trouble with an API, you don't look at code to see what kind of arguments a function needs? You just go to the docs? What if the docs are sparse?
Hard to support all possible mods and changes I guess. The best they might be able to say is "modded: yes/no". And that is another great thing that is dying out. Mods. :(
> Your only choice as individual user is to leave the platform.

For some platforms, even this is not an option. Case in point: LinkedIn (owned by Microsoft). I get "friend" suggestions about a friend that I know is not on LinkedIn. He's absolutely social-media averse, and would never be on LinkedIn (or FB, for that matter). But LinkedIn continues to claim that I can connect with him.

How did they get his email address? Because some third person (who emailed both of us) probably shared his contacts with LinkedIn.
That's not how I see it. Yes, the employer (the organization) may be psychopath but I am not interacting with an organization while having a difficult conversation. I would be interacting with a manager or a colleague or someone who reports to me. These are human beings who are not psychopath. These are also not short-termist. Sure, we would all change jobs sooner or later but I would sure like to maintain good relationships with them and hopefully work with them again in future. So it makes a lot of sense that while talking to them I talk to them with some empathy which I think they deserve.
YouTube doesn't sell your data.
I don't know why I did this, but your welcome. 'Murica.

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It's kind of amazing how much credit the Finns get for losing a war.
Please, play damaging economic games with your own country not mine. No one cares about this in the UK right now, we are far more worried about the meltdown of our government and their attempts make us all poorer with the Brexit madness.

It is immeasurably more complicated than "I'm sure everyone will want to trade with the UK!". This is exactly the sort of line is expect to hear from the fanatics here.
That's precisely why there are societies of authors, editors, publishers, etc. => in part in order to protect from malicious claims.
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Surely you're aware that Switzerland is close to implementing broadly the same law?
With well-implemented and sufficiently widespread P2P there’d be too many people to sue.

(I can’t name a strong contender in the wild currently, but I would also hope that this regulation, if successfully implemented, catalyzes some progress in this direction as a side effect.)
Yeah, the whole point of them isn't to announce it and then force the content on them anyway, the point is to warn about the nature of the content's gravity so that one can make an informed consent whether to continue or not. It's unfortunate that both the researchers and much of the coverage didn't think so.

Link to paper: https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702619827018
$100/year to upload unlimited apps.
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It really, really shows. That and documentation. And some periphery work related to larger efforts, especially on any platform that's not the Web. It's the only explanation for how an organization like that can produce so much broken and half-assed software—bad incentives, and probably a serious middle management problem, in that they don't have leverage or motivation to make ICs do "boring" and follow-through work.

Maybe it's working for them from a bottom-line perspective, but it's made their brand as an engineering company clownish.
I honestly cannot connect the feel/felt/found with NVC.

>I absolutely despise the NVC communication pattern because very few people actually speak like this and when they do so it's an obvious deviation from their status quo.

After learning NVC, and then observing people who are effective at destressing others in the work place, I've found most speak like this. What's more, while it felt artificial in the book, no one in real life even notices.
The catalyzing event for the article is a talk at NIPS drawing a comparison between ML and alchemy (i.e. experimentation by intuition and rules of thumb without an underlying theoretical foundation). The author presents this as a novel bombshell declaration (an "intellectual hand grenade" he calls it), but that is a sentiment that has been raised and broadly agreed with in every conversation along these lines I've ever had with actual practitioners. The other comparison I hear a lot is to bridge-building before formal structural analysis. People were perfectly capable of building functioning bridges, and some through practice were much better than others, but no one could tell you e.g. the maximum load for a given margin of safety and maintenance schedule.

Anyway, point is, the author is not wrong but this is far from some eventful revelation.
I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised if it pushes a chunk of the tech-savvy youth vote towards "Brexit at any cost".

As I said elsewhere on this story -- the EU has possibly just handed Eurosceptic parties a massive win in certain demographics they've had trouble making inroads into.
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It all really depends though. This speaks to concepts like the 5 love languages (time, words, acts, touch, gifts) but words mean nothing to me personally. Words are easy, show me instead. But each person has their own needs and bias.
If you then proceed to wall all the surroundings as well and basically build a feudal fiefdom I'd say it's time for a revolution. When you become big enough to be the system you lose the priviledges of being part of the system.
> The communication cost of making decisions and shipping something is extremely low.

I'm sure everyone is a little different in this regard, but for me, having someone to make a decision with is something I really cherish. I'm a very optimistic person who dreams big, so having a partner who can poke holes and challenge my decisions has always helped me along the way.

> Do not invest too much time early on designing the perfect pricing model for your product.

As someone on the cusp of launching a side-project/wanna funded startup, I really loved this. I've recently caught myself trying to attain perfection instead of 'ship and adapt', and this is a great manifestation of that to be aware of.

Thanks for the great article!
But that constitution, if legitimate, expresses the will of the people itself. So what really happens is that the principles of the people bound the whims of the people.
Linux In-Kernel Server Design
Got this today morning from a link here on HN, this is from their website

"Unlike traditional servers, Mesibo uses two sophisticated designs - `in-kernel` packet switching and `lockless` contention free architecture. The state-of-the-art in-kernel packet switching offers much higher throughput compared to userspace switching on the same hardware. Also, Mesibo's almost lockless design ensures that the CPU is never locked." Thoughts?

This is the link https://mesibo.com
As someone who grew up alongside the internet, I wonder if this is just part of the bigger picture of where the internet has always been heading...

The bigger, more popular, and ubiquitous it became the more corporate and political powers were going to seek to rule it. Now were are at an age of internet giants with the GDP of small countries, and political elections being swayed by the bovine herds of Facebook and Twitter users (or useds as Stallman calls them!). The internet has come so far from my happy memories of the late 90s.

My prediction is that we will see multiple 'internets'. Whether for political reasons (e.g. China), or commercial (someone like Facebook or Google providing their version of internet to a 3rd world country).

Then of course we have things like dark web. I think many will stop seeing the darkweb as a place of CP and drug dealing, and more of an internet free from regulation.

It's an interesting point in history.
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(I'm a bookwork so please share any recommendations on this topic!)
Buy plane tickets obviously. I wonder what would happen if people actually did that.
I'm not confident a fee structure that incentivizes Google to not be wrong will work that well.
The study in question limited participants to 4,000 steps a day for four days. That's an absurdly low level of exercise to undertake.
3.1.2 (a) last point refers to Auto Renewing Subscriptions.
It refers to this URL: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/subscriptions/
Even the examples in URL shows information about cancel and auto renew description. (You can see a wall of text under the buttons).

Many apps were rejected due to same missing that wall of text.
> I've seen proof of this technique being regularly deployed in other countries it would just seem common sense to me to think that the French would do the same

Italy has well-known corruption and mafia problems. Its press is less free than [1] and political system quite different from France’s. Even then, its frequency of violent protests is much higher than that of false flag operations.

Globally, there are more examples of peaceful protests becoming violent than of false flag operations. One’s prior should default to the former while being wary of the latter.

[1] https://rsf.org/en/ranking
I would argue Portugal is the one in the "wrong" timezone here.

If you want the sun to be at its high point at noon, Spain is obviously in the wrong time zone. But you see plenty of countries around the world choosing a slightly different timezone to facilitate trade and communication with some other country (or within itself, in the case of larger countries). With most other barriers to trade gone within the eurozone having to convert timezones is a significant inconvinience that (in the mind of many) outweighs having the sun in slightly the wrong place.
THis is actually false.

School start at the same time in Spain and UK, people wake up early in Spain.

One of the main reason of eating late is that it gets too hot in the beginning of the afternoon so people take a break then. Work hours can be 8-14 and then 18-21 for instance.

Making solar noon 12:00 would not help anything at all.

In addition, it would require rewriting all the laws regarding night work, all the work agreements etc. (because your contract says from 18:00 you are paid x% more, but suddenly with your change 18:00 is way too late).

This would be a disaster and with no real benefit apart from saying that you synchronized an artificial time construction with a solar phenomenon.
You need only look at the rampant abuse of Content ID to see what the likely result will be...

"Sorry, the video you uploaded 'Me playing Beethoven on the piano' contains BEETHOVEN'S 5TH SYMPHONY by BMG-EMI-XYZ Music Corp. You cannot upload this video."
Brexit might not be such a stupid idea after all..
Torify all the things. Let them legislate over a graveyard.
They both use kubeadm, but the design is very different. Kubespray runs Ansible against the hosts in the cluster, whereas Keights uses Ansible to build CloudFormation stacks, and all the instances then bootstrap themselves with kubeadm.
>Ahmet noticed that the words often began with the same characters, then had different endings, a pattern that corresponds with the linguistic structure of Turkish.

And tons of other languages...
Knuth has an interesting take on this, as he learned by reading programs. He claims if the programs he first saw were too good, he wouldn't have bothered with programming:
https://github.com/kragen/knuth-interview-2006/blob/master/R...

"I read the manuals that came from IBM, and it had; the manuals had example programs in there, and I thought of better ways to write those programs. I thought of, you know, well, okay, this program works, but if you did it this way, it would be even better. And so that’s given me some confidence that maybe I had a talent for programming. Now, if the manual hadn’t had these bad examples in it, I probably would not have gotten interested in programming, because I wouldn’t have this confidence, and I would have been scared and say, oh, I would never think of this.But the fact is, the manuals were pretty stupid, and that’s what gave me the confidence that I should think a little more about programming, because I might be, you know, I might be good at it."
Ah, I had seen that page multiple times, but was confused that it only presented the options "in ireland" and "in malta".

I now found out that I have to scroll to the bottom and select Germany there. Weird.
I think it is great that Firefox is branching out of just browsers, and making its own ecosystem of products. However, it doesn't seem that necessary. The existing field is already pretty good imo.
There's been a lot of shady copyright trolling against bittorrent users.
Screentime stats 2019: How your phone usage impacts your workday
I will vote not only on national-party basis, but on the voting behaviour of the international bloc they are part of.

For example, all members of (Dutch) D66 voted against this directive, but of their faction (ALDE), 60% voted for. I will not lend my vote to such a faction, so sadly D66 will not get my vote either in the upcoming May elections.
I’d love federation to work out. I’ve unfortunately lost most hope.

The comments there show other problems too. Other problems that may never be solved. For example not being able to take your social graph with you if you change Mastodon instances. Having issues with the admin or an instance seems like it’ll happen often enough. But you’re essentially punished for that. That’s just one example.

It is good though that people are trying to solve the problems. Hopefully my cynicism will be proven wrong and I’ll only be happy about that.
They are. It’s just that no one wants to piss off the store owner by saying so.

See also: Spotify.

The EU will eventually break up the App stores. It’s only a matter of time.
Pretty sure this is what you are looking for https://www.tekrevue.com/tip/exclude-app-dark-mode-macos-moj...
My experience in college was that these simply apply a "chilling effect" to any and all discourse. I tended to stay more silent, lest I find retribution for voicing my opinions. I think that is pretty sad. But I guess for its proponents, this is the intended effect.
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The internet is already by definition a collection of separate networks...
So, the researchers didn't study the people whom trigger warnings are designed for?

The entire point is for people with severe trauma/PTSD to elect out of watching films or material that might bring up painful memories.
I know this is an extremely unpopular opinion, but I’m actually fine with more equality in copyright legislation. These “disastrous” copyright laws already apply to you and me, and if you think they don’t, then just try hosting a top 1 music video on your personal domain.

Where the laws don’t apply is if your service is to host user content and you have the size to circumvent justice. YouTube makes a lot of money off legal content, how much is unknown because they literally won’t tell you how much they earn from your content, but they also earn money from illegal content. They avoid responsibility by being large, and these copyright laws is going to combat exactly that.

It’s not perfect, but how else do you suggest that we make the laws that apply to you and me also apply to big tech companies?
How to Be a Flâneur
Global coal use up as greenhouse gas emissions rise
Who wants to work with me on a new startup? "EU Upload-Filter as a Service"...
The potential effects on mood and freetime activities of having all sunlight hours fall into school hours sound more serious than walking to school in the dark (most places where you walk are already illuminated quite well)
I would say the quality is relative to your input and to what type of application you need results for.

If you are gonna use the pointcloud as a cheaper and faster alternative to LIDAR and need to take measures with centimeter precision, you will need a lot of overlap (we use 75%) and the drone to take the photos automatically to be sure it covers most of the desired area. I would also recommend a commercial tool for the task. We have jobs that take one week to process with state of the art hardware.

But if you just want to do it for fun, you won't need to get this complicated and can do even with your phone.
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The lines are not connected here, on Chrome. Maybe it depends on what fonts you have installed?
I think you need to open it in Print Preview to change those settings, which is accessible in the main menu (there's not a keyboard shortcut, unfortunately).
I feel that way here in Hungary. If the Eastern Europe time zone was called something else maybe we'd be in it. In the summer it doesn't matter but I'd kill for sunset an hour later in the winter.
Seems like a wasted opportunity to write a new kernel and OS that might last another 30+ years in the mainstream in C++. Who knows how many million-man hours will be spent fixing memory bugs in this new OS because of this decision.
I mean isn't every form of social media a platform for influencing(another word for manipulating) people?

of course that every government will try to abuse it, so will corporations, it is very convenient and profitable for them.
Same. About three weeks of consistent exercise (three times a week) and I'm back in, "fighting" shape. Those three weeks suck but after that, it almost sucks not to work out.
Almost everything you buy has an O&G component to it. With the economic development around the world, at this point it is either O&G or worse alternatives (more costlier and sometimes dirtier)

How do you think goods are transported? How do you think the material is processed?

I agree that humanity needs to find better alternatives, but we all have to be realistic.
A lot of European media sees their content stolen and re-uploaded by anonymous users on YT, FB, etc... FB in particular have not responded to this and thus content creators lose a lot of views and money.

This video sums it up nicely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7tA3NNKF0Q
> That's called "agency". As an individual, I don't have to respond to the way something is phrased and stick to that like an automaton.

Speaking of that, I think I already have wasted more time on this tripe than I can justify.
I think that is the main by-product of these things is forced empathy and introspection. It is too easy to get caught in one's head and this forces things to get structured and analyzed so they can be externalized.
FSFE urge the EC to avoid filtering monopolies