skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that it is worth blaming a "Jewish merchant class" is itself fairly anti-Semitic.

The average person in 13th century England barely had anything to their name, let alone debt. It would be the lords and tenants who took out massive debts, blamed the Jewish people for daring to lend money or charge interest, and blamed them for society's ills.
Mumbai Pollution 'Perfect' for Flamingos
More practically, at least for those thinking of buying a home on a standard 30-yr fixed mortgage, since it seems like the consensus among investors is that interest rates for long-term debt will fall it makes little sense to buy anytime soon if you can wait...

Or does it make sense to go with an adjustable rate mortgage instead?
> So what do we do?

Are there good polls measuring popular backing for (or indifference to) these bills?
"They weren't anti-semitic, they just thought jews were greedy bankers" is not a compelling argument.
> I'm not especially happy about it either, since I'm not a native speaker, but here we are

Many of us native speakers aren't happy about it either, English is a terrible language. I have a 6-year old daughter, and across the years we have spent teaching her language skills I have learned just how messy English actually is. Watching DVDs and reading books about pronunciation rules that quite frankly even I never quite grasped until teaching my own child, it's enough to make your head spin.
this this mean you won't vote at all? there was no pure anti-13 block iirc. not casting a valid vote is my generation's way of causing outcomes like the current one.
While I'm not saying you're wrong (and I'm not pretending to know enough to fully understand all the forces at play here), the article ends with the following statement that I find interesting, in light of your comment:

> Every time the yield curve inverts there is a theory about why it doesn’t matter. The stock market rallies that often follow inversions further allay fears that it really is different. In the end, it almost always ends up not being different.
Your periodic reminders that:

1. Honey bees in North America are a non-native invasive species.

2. Virtually all honey bees in the United States are livestock.

3. Colony collapse disorder is an economic issue for commercial beekeepers, and apparently not much of a problem.

4. The true threat to honey bees in the United States isn't environment, but rather the introduction of the Varroa destructor mite in 1987 (which eradicated feral honey bees).

A "honey bee sanctuary" in the continental US is a weird idea.
Keen to get folks' feedback on this. I'm all ears! Here or privately, I'm paul at fluidkeys dot com.
But so what?

People chatting about random topics prompted by the link is the whole point of a link aggregation discussion site. The discussion is not intended to precisely meet the needs of the person who created or submitted the link, and it’s silly to dismiss it because it predictably doesn’t.

If someone wants e.g. concrete technical feedback about a new specialized tool that takes hundreds of hours of preparation to appreciate, they should find a forum consisting exclusively of people with enough background to give meaningful feedback, and then describe exactly what kind of feedback they are looking for.
Ask HN: Does anyone suffer from severe iPhone battery draining overnight?
I brought my iPhone 6s to Apple Store to replace a new battery last year.
After several months from the replacement, I found the battery would be draining by 50% overnight. (see the below picture)
https://imgur.com/a/f1DLH6W

I tried turning off WIFI and cellular and also turning on Low Power Mode or Airplane Mode. None of them works.

And more strange thing is iOS shows the Battery Health is 100% when coconutBattery indicates the design capacity is only 78%.

Does anyone have the same issue?
> I don't want to use a P2P alternative to YouTube or Reddit, because 99% of the content is on Reddit/YouTube.

That might change once everybody gets forced off Reddit/Youtube. The best-case scenario here is suddenly starting to look like revival of the distributed, non-profit internet in Europe. If that's the case, I can live with losing Youtube.
Several major US airlines are reporting flight check-in issues
I've been able to find vague descriptions of the algorithm used but not any actual code. Might have to ask the author for it.
How many solutions are there?
I'm sorry to hear that, must be a really difficult for time for all of you. I doubt there's anything you could have done differently to get a better outcome. When people are in such weird situations, there's no "guaranteed method" to help. They're having a shit time, and they want to take it out on people - and you were there.
As a subscriber to the paper version of the NYTimes (weekend editions), it's nice to see the behind-the-scenes of how it is printed—even though my copies are printed in a different state, I assume the process is the same.

And yes I consume news online but I like the act of timeboxing news-reading into a more thoughtful moment than how it usually plays out when reading online.
This would be immensely beneficial, and long overdue in my opinion.
Yes, raise now and to be safe, assume that you will not be able to raise money again.
My answer to that would be "I don't give a shit what you do, as long as you take out the garbage" and I would _still_ be mad at you (plus annoyed that you asked me for a solution to something that shouldn't be my problem in the first place).
It does not matter where the content is produced, it is where it is consumed and Europe is a content consumption powerhouse.

This law intent is to prevent unlicensed content to be available to European consumer. That will probably mostly work, with the usual caveat and unintended consequences we all know about, here on HN.
ECR, ENF had votes in favour https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/copyrightvot...
Good article but AR15 receivers aren't stamped, they are milled from a block of aluminum. That was a significant part of the design.

This was in contrast to the AKM, FAL, and G3, the other popular service rifles of the era. They were all made from stamped sheet metal.
The people, with testing I.e. finished grad school
Micro-Batching Event Data into Amazon Redshift
the note he made about the kiwi farms admin is partially incorrect. the nz authorities were demanding ip logs for users of the site discussing the event and sharing media, not the shooter himself. kiwi farms may be a despicable stain but it isn’t a nz site and he was right to refuse.
>It is also pretty direct and far from passive-aggressive behavior in my opinion.

The message is "Stop being late for meetings because it's making the team ineffecient". That's an 'aggresive' statement but you're delivering it in a 'passive' way because it makes it look like you're asking to see if everything is ok.

If you want to deliver the "Stop being late" message then say that.

If you want to ask what's going on, then do it without pointing out the problems they are causing.
The Flaw at the Heart of Democracy
Agree with this. Your domain experts should already be inputting into the product and bringing early adopters to the table to help you build the right product. You development for X months whilst they wait for the product to be fully baked is the wrong way to go about it.
Vintage films of printing, journalism, and typography technologies
It is not illegal for a filter to wrongly block something. I think the pirate party tried to insert such clause in the past.
because many people use multiple browsers for variety of use cases.
votes for small parties are not lost, their main effect comes from causing the behavior of the large blocks to shift over time, even if only a little.

as an example, many parties now feature some feminist points, even though it was originally against their ideology.
If nothing else, it is really interesting to see exactly why this is hard.
yes he cut ties because he doesn't own it. Explain to me how he can shut down a platform he doesn't own?
The Han system isn't mostly pictures of things (ideograms), so your narrative descriptions aren't really practical.

The system is at heart logographic (so each squiggle means roughly one word, like "house" or "person") but you can't really do that at scale, it's too unwieldy (consider how many English words you use or are somewhat confident you would recognise if others used them), so you end up using two or three squiggles to make all but the most common words in modern Chinese writing.

The individual logograms are often related to a pictogram, but that's also true of the Latin characters you used to write this. The letter A is probably distantly related to a drawing of the head of an ox.

Han logograms also incorporate entirely abstract (ie they were never attempting to be a picture "of" anything) indications of how they should sound or what the general topic is, as hints to a reader. These would not translate to your narrative description.
Death, sickness, and financial windfalls each bring out the worst in most of us.

Don't take it personally, the failure here isn't yours.
This is a great story, and I've read some of it before, but the UX is just terrible. I was a quarter of the way through before I realised half the story was hidden in the photos.
I'm not saying it isn't possible, ANGLE is a thing after all, but possible doesn't mean optimal.

Of course, given enough time, faster hardware will solve this.
I‘ve heard the same reasoning from someone who voted for „one of the big parties“ so his vote wouldn‘t be thrown away, the same person is ow complaining about the politics of the party he voted for.
If you don’t give your vote to a party, just because it could be lost, you will ultimately end up with only 1 party to vote for.
> However, I’d argue that this is the right level of technical detail for a layman.

Uh, isn't that what I said? :)
I admire your restraint, you stopped short of calling me a nazi at least.

Again, you're completely missing the point: I don't have to "prove" anything to you. I don't even code anymore for that matter, and I can't give two shits if you prefer to write Clojure, Typescript or whatever rocks your boat, that's something that matters to you and not to me.

I simply observed that for a community that spends so much time talking about craftmanship and clean code, the worst messes I witnessed were all Clojure codebases and that's it. If you feel attacked... that's your own insecurity speaking.
Because that's the literal definition of local noon.

That has value in any society that values precise measurements of physical observations.

A purposefully inaccurate time zone is the equivalent of changing the length of the meter to make your daily commute less distance in the winter and more distance in the summer, or to make the meterstick longer all year just so you don't have to drive as many meters every day. It's ridiculous for distance, so why do we do it with time?

Business hours are almost entirely arbitrary anyway. Change them instead.
Sig p320 is the new sidearm. Officers and certain units can still get 1911s or modern variants like the m45.

M9 is going bye bye due to some pretty big long term reliability issues.
I think the point is to never communicate in evaluations. Observations are not codes for evaluations. Observations force discussion of concrete actions, which have a bunch of benefits over evaluations.

Let's say X and Z are coworkers. Z messed up some report numbers.

X could say "Z, you are sloppy."
Z could easily respond "No I am not, how could you say that?"

By focusing on a concrete example, X and Z can both discuss the actual problem (inaccurate report numbers) instead of bickering about whether or not Z is sloppy.

NVC is also a check on the person initiating the communication.

It's possible X's view of Z as a slob is not based in reality. If X can't find a specific thing, but just thinks Z is a slob, NVC makes it hard for X to say anything until they can point to a specific event/action. It's not perfect (X can just look for the first example that proves their belief) but it does prevent totally baseless claims of "you are a slob."
Yes, it often inverts before recessions, but most recessions do not accompany financial crises. The business cycle is normal; financial crises are (or should be) abnormal.
FWIW, there is at least one 2020 U.S. presidential candidate running on the idea of intergenerational justice, which is a term I hadn't heard before this election cycle.
Your platform needs to make at least x million a year and have userbase of x million and exist for at least x years. Only then the filtering is mandatory...
I would seriously like to hear from you folks why you disagree with my statement above, please comment. I have a feeling it's either rabid pro-nuke folks (I was a nuclear technician in the Navy, so I am also pro-nuke) or the pro-oil folks that disagreed with my carbon tax proposal. I have no idea right now why you think my position is wrong, so please enlighten me.
We've already had prototypical trigger warnings in that shows with flashing lights carry epilepsy warnings. We accept that certain things can trigger nasty responses in people, therefore it's better to add a brief disclaimer so that people with said issues can avoid it.

That said, in any sort of discussion people usually preface links to videos with violent and disturbing content with some sort of warning. If I for example, decided to drop a video of something gruesome without context I would rightfully be lambasted for doing so.

Also, your attempt at downplaying the seriousness of PTSD is really not needed. You're essentially saying that anything can cause PTSD, therefore PTSD is worthless to worry about.
About number 3, according to wikipedia [1]

> the total U.S. crop value that was wholly dependent on honey bee pollination was estimated to exceed $15 billion.

and

> honeybees perform some level of pollination of nearly 75% of all plant species directly used for human food worldwide.

Which sounds like a bit more than just beekeeping.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_collapse_disorder#Econo...
It seems his teachings are based on the teachings of Jiddu Krishnamurti. There are some good audio books by him on Youtube, like Freedom from the Known.
On a slightly related note, Jonathan Blow also has a talk called Techniques for dealing with lack of motivation, malaise, depression (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7kh8pNRWOo), where he also talks about the importance of observational skills as a means of understanding / "putting out" your (negative) emotions and thoughts.
You can find a lot of Marshall Rosenberg lectures and even full workshops on YouTube.

An important part of the nvc practice is to give up attachment to outcome. Making a true request means that there will be no negative consequences if the answer is “No”. It is possible that your wife’s brother was triggered partly because you insisted (if you did), maybe he needed autonomy, solitude, to feel that he matters, to grieve, to rest.

I teach NVC and often use a small yellow book called Communication Fundamentals by Jean Morrison.
Yea, it was an impossible position for Finland to be in, for exactly the reasons you mention: very small population, and potential to be washed away by they wave of Soviets rolling west in 44-45. All told, I think Finland conducted itself pretty well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Finland
>Sandboxes are unportable and strapped-on

I contribute to an open source project called Torsocks, which is part of the Tor Project, and this comment really resonated with me. Creating a syscall sandbox that works across even a few, generally similar POSIX-compliant OS's is ridiculous.

FreeBSD and MacOS for example have a very similar system interface. But sandboxing on FreeBSD is via pledge, and MacOS uses the App Sandbox. Linux uses seccomp.

It's a mess.
>So what do we do?

Whenever you start to feel encroached upon by the new world order, the best thing to do is build another one right on top of it.

Build systems which route around this damage. It's the only way to be sure.
I'd still wager a great sum on the possibility that the book is an elaborate hoax designed to coax some cash out of some stupid aristocrat.

There were a lot of charlatans at the court of that particular period and the Czechs just love to make fun out of Rudolf II. I highly suggest this (socialist-era) movie -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor_and_the_Golem -- to join in on the joke.
"I use NVC frequently to people with a lot more power than me ..."

Examples? I'm struggling to understand how one could "frequently" have to use NVC with "people a lot more power".

Having to do this frequently itself is a problem with the organization, right?
no vid?
The problem with firefox sync is that my search history and bookmarks are synced...which is non optimal when jumping between work and home computers. I use lastpass to sync my passwords..but would consider alternatives...lastpass performance has degraded lately.
Microsoft Discovers Scary Bugs in Huawei PC Driver (CVE-2019-5241)
Good point. I miswrote the original comment, anyways, I meant beats.

I thought a bar is 4 beats, a measure is 4 bars (in 4/4)? Going to have to look this up but is measure == phrase == section? Or I guess, a section can be arbitrary number of bars depending on song structure.
The selection is based on the display language. If you're a native English speaker voting in the upcoming election, you're aussumed to be voting either in your home country (Ireland or Malta are the only ones where English is official) or "abroad", which is the third option. German speakers would be expected to visit https://www.europawahl.eu/ instead.
Pretty big is relative. Sure, that's pretty big relative to suburban plots that are more likely to be in the 1/2 to 2 acre range. But it's not huge once you get even moderately rural; my two neighbors and I are on about 75 acres collectively. And it's actually pretty small relative to, say, many ranches out West.
It's called "active listening" and it's a powerful technique. There is no need though to sound dry or to avoid fillers when you are "actively listening". It's really not depersonal at all. Your mom was probably trying to comfort you but she failed to find the right tone.
> by whom?

Note that this hypothesis is almost entirely based on Viktor Suvorov's work, which has problems. From Wikipedia [0] (and also from Glantz, which I have read):

"Among the noted critics of Suvorov's work are Israeli historian Gabriel Gorodetsky, American military historian David Glantz, and Russian military historians Makhmut Gareev, Lev Bezymensky, and Dmitri Volkogonov. Many other western scholars, such as Teddy J. Uldricks, Derek Watson, Hugh Ragsdale, Roger Reese, Stephen Blank, and Robin Edmonds, agree that the Suvorov's major weakness is "that the author does not reveal his sources" (Ingmar Oldberg). Historian Cynthia A. Roberts is even more categorical, claiming that Suvorov's writings have 'virtually no evidentiary base'."

and

> "David M. Glantz disputes the argument that the Red Army was deployed in an offensive stance in 1941. According to Glantz, the Red Army was only in a state of partial mobilization in July 1941, from which neither effective defensive or offensive actions could be offered without considerable delay"

and Beevor shows serious doubts (note that a 41 winter attack is not what the original hypothesis is about):

> "Antony Beevor writes that "the Red Army was simply not in a state to launch a major offensive in the summer of 1941, and in any case Hitler's decision to invade had been made considerably earlier." However, he also notes that "it cannot be excluded that Stalin... may have been considering a preventive attack in the winter of 1941 or more probably in 1942..."

There's some support for this theory in the West, but very little. The vast majority of works seem to discount it. It seems to be a fringe theory.

Of course, eventually the Soviet Union and Germany would have been at war, what with Hitler's ideology being anti "Bolshevism" and considering most Slavs to be subhumans to be ethnically cleansed as part of Generalplan Ost.

One other thing. You also wrote:

> Stalin intended to roll over Europe armed with Lenin's concept of a world revolution.

That doesn't seem to have been Stalin's plan [1], at least initially. It was precisely a point of contention with his political opponents that Stalin favored the "Socialism in one country" position instead of "world revolution".

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_offensive_plans_controv...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_in_One_Country
The creative elements of Cage's work are that it's performed as a piece by an orchestra, and presented as a work (eg a specific length, sold as other works are). Your any-[other]-length-of-silence doesn't infringe. If it did then Cage's piece would lack the artistic distinctiveness needed to make it a work for copyright purposes.

Just having a urinal doesn't infringe on Duchamp's "Fountain", not even if it's the same model, only if it is presented as artwork does it become a copy of Duchamp's "work".
>I doubt we will see any reasonable economics for nuclear as long coal, oil and gas is allowed to be burned.

True, and that's why the carbon tax would have to be super-high as to make oil and gas financially un-viable. Banning burning fossil fuels is a better step, though, I agree.
Any advantages compared to Keepass2Android?
Apple Censoring the News App
Well deserved for the EU, not the programmer? Not really. Suppose the programmer could have sued, though.
WiPhone, a Phone for Hackers and Makers
> Why would you want the sun to be at it's high point at noon?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm

Nothing wrong with wanting sunlight during after-work activities, but are there biological consequences to all of this clock fiddling? (Not arguing for/against, just spit-balling a hypothesis.)
How Managers Can Best Support a Gig Workforce
One thing I like to do is combine the tracks from each disc, so I listen to order like track 1, 13, 2, 14, etc. Most of the beginning tracks are less creepy.

Also there is a "missing" 19 track you can preview on his site: https://aphextwin.warp.net/release/68148-aphex-twin-selected....
Medieval maps are very interesting, partly because they are noticeably worse than the best Roman maps of 1000+ years ago. I assume because of the collapse of Roman trade. Northern European maps would have relied much more on hearsay, and setting fixed travel waypoints over accurate distances.
It is almost 2020 so it is reasonable to know what the actual error is.

This reminds me of old C/C++ parsers that couldn't tell you what line was expecting a bracket or semicolon and you got to manually find the parse error.
It depends on the cost, honestly. If the cost is too high, no utility will continue to run those plants. I agree with you, but the reality is that finance runs everything these days.
Agree. EU and France is buried under too much bureaucracy to innovate. And instead of solving this technical debt, our politicians add even more laws and bureaucracy :(
One would have, but there are also cultural barriers to consider. I'm no expert on late medieval or early renaissance Italian culture, but what amateur reading I've done paints a picture of a culture where the nobility may have been literate and able to write letters, but serious writing such as creating vellum books was still considered dull, dirty, grueling work that was beneath their station.

Henry Darger (who was, IIRC, a janitor) was mentioned elsewhere in the thread. I think that you might get a more culturally comparable example out of the idea of Sarah Winchester whiling her time away in a manner more akin to how Edward Leedskalnin did.
> For example, paying down debt would be a good idea.

Opposite from a financial standpoint: if interests rates lower in the future you will be able to refinance.

From a job-vulnerability perspective it always lowers your risk though: better not to be very leveraged if your income can fluctuate.