skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not saying it is perfect, once more.

The referendums were a disgrace, true.
So were they because referendums are often organised, and seen, and used, as votes of confidence for a given government, and not as expressions for the very question.

Find any country, political structure that is pure, of anything.

But still. Here we are. More than 70 years at peace on a continent, something not seen for several centuries before that. The EU project, and structure, and growth, and maturity, is central to that peace.

How factually worse, exactly, have been any EU member, since they joined the Union? How factually better have they been as well?

Pretending that EU members would be better off without the union is a plain, undocumented, geopolitically hostile, lie.
No, it really begs the question of "how many Canadians were involved in designing this stamp?"

Subject-matter experts are always required.
That reminds me a bit of the Star Trek Voyager episode where the a group sends their dead from one dimension to another. Their bodies come through intact but some form of "neural energy emissions" is added to a local energy field.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Emanations_(episode)
I've seen similar comments about automation on Facebook recently. People seem to have short memories with regards to all the jobs that have come and gone due to the march of technology.

30+ years ago, most offices had a "secretarial pool" - people whose entire job was to take handwritten or dictated material, and type it on a typewriter. Busy professionals would never be expected to do something like this, but not everyone had a dedicated secretary, so a shared pool of people who could type fast made a lot of sense.

Of course, when PCs became commonplace in offices, people started doing their own typing, and the secretarial pool became a thing of the past. I don't recall hearing about a huge issue with unemployed typists, so presumably those people found new jobs, likely more rewarding ones.

I'm sure that the introduction of PCs onto virtualy every desk in an office 20-25 years ago eliminated other positions as well. I don't hear people proposing that we get rid of computers so that those people can all have their jobs back.
Nice.

Of course I mostly care about macOS. Unfortunately that's the area that Embarcadero appears to mostly ignore.
The WWF has estimated that, barring dramatic change, the stock of fish for food will collapse by 2048: http://www.wwf.org.pe/en/how_you_can_help/faq/sea/
You also cannot go to your customers and say "well instead of using a popular library, we used our own and it broke and so did your site"

And more importantly, NIH leads to on-boarding issues. Many, many people are React/Angular/Vue developers, but how many are $INTERNAL_RECREATION_OF_REACT developers? By creating a new framework, you waste money (not just on reinventing the wheel and fixing bugs in your new wheel, but also on having every new-hire take even longer to get productive)
NNs have dramatically different architecture and abstractions from organic matter... advancements in neurological modelling and insights are better served by modelling based on dramatically different neural models than the ReLU and siblings. Neuroscientists do indeed investigate these biological models, but they are a far cry from NNs.
Mindz – The slightly different mobile mindmap looking for beta tester
I never said "appetite for self-criticism" equaled free and even handed. In fact, I think it is opposite.
Yes, the event horizon of a black hole is precisely this sort of wall of death. Indeed there is an active debate in the literature about whether outside observers ever see black holes because from the outside perspective infalling mass should become “frozen” on the surface, with Liu and Zhang very recently in 2009 arguing that if you consider a shell of nonzero thickness falling symmetrically into the black hole then as this mass approaches the event horizon the event horizon actually expands to gobble up some of the matter—this paper is then cited and refuted in a 2011 paper in the same journal by Penna, who argues that they got one little detail very wrong and that once you correct for this you do indeed see the matter “frozen” on the wall-of-death; see [1] for a PDF of this paper.

The z = -c² / A relation does hold even when you transfer from the first-order-in-β transform to the full Lorentz transform; for an outworking from the inimitable John Baez, see [2].

I did mean that we can’t see beneath our feet, but I see your point: at g = 10 N/kg this term c² / g is something like 10^16 meters away, way way outside of the Solar System, which is only in the billions of km large. I was purely thinking about our Schwarzschild radius, which is millimeters away from the center of the Earth: therefore we cannot see the Schwarzschild event horizon because it is nonexistent; it is “underground” but so far that then most of the mass is outside of that, so you have to recalculate and get an even smaller amount, but that then needs another recalculation... and so on. It vanishes to zero because the mass is not located in a condensed enough space.

[1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.758...

[2] http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/Rocket/r...
> but I don't think it should have access to do backups of phone system settings.

Why not?
What is the nature of that horrible detriment to society?

There are myriad ways that humans tend to make bad decisions in the course of modern life. Psychology and evolutionary biology currently provide the best answer to "why".

If you want to understand yourself well enough to be able to avoid having marketers and advertisers make your most important life choices for you, or want to raise your children to think critically about statements they hear even when it means overcoming confirmation bias, or want to think about how to help society escape detrimental Nash equilibria that lead catastrophic global warming, a deep and accurate understanding of human behavior seems to me to be clearly better than simply operating under the wildly simplistic assumption that people always behave rationally in the pursuit of well defined goals.
It is automation, but the concept being automated isn't that obvious; they're automating theft prevention mechanisms.

The real shift that allowed for this isn't so much the development of these POS systems, but rather the ubiquity of touch screen devices in our daily lives. In the past these POS systems probably required training, but now they're intuitive. Our adoption of technology adjacent to the POS industry has lowered the bar for entry such that now even a toddler can operate a self checkout; that's not even an exaggeration.
The lost generation of tech pioneers: 90s kids
But think of that sweet ICO profit!
Why can’t you keep Google Maps open instead?

I disabled autolock long ago though - so maybe that’s not how you’re supposed to use them?
Converting a Git repo from tabs to spaces
I thought nothing could move faster than light?
4th step should not happen. A cool feature I am implementing into fire.ci now is that it will trigger a new build every time the main branch moves forward until the safe merge happens. If you have fast builds I don't expect this to take more than 2 builds each time (or you have a huuuuge team working on the repo). What do you think?
ICO Calls for Social Media Sites to Remove ‘Like’ Button
what is stupid about wanting to protect your kids from being preyed upon by corporations who are paying teams of psychologists and coders to keep your kid in their app for as long as possible? do you think children fully understand that is being done to them, and the ramifications of it?

i think parents ought to be able to decide what’s best for their kids, but see no problem with making this policy enabled by default.

of course a lot of people on HN have no kids, and have an income that depends on them believing like buttons and A/B testing children to maximize their app usage can’t possibly have a psychological effect on them.
I mean, I've always thought that Planck's constant defines the discreteness of time and, as it were, reality. Isn't it rather obvious that this is the case?

"Planck time"..the unimaginably small 5.39 × 10−44 s, is as fundamentally important to the fabric of the universe as it's much more well known "brother", the speed of light in a vacuum c.

Now, we are nowhere near able to measure that short a time frame...we are limited to around 10x-19 or so, but without a doubt time is discrete, we just are unable to get there yet.
That depends on how ethical the breeder is.

My breeder has a waiting list, and you are not guaranteed to be accepted as a potential adopter (i.e., there's a detailed questionnaire to fill, and you have to pass their "smell test" when they meet you). They have a fixed number of litters per year (litter size can vary though, so you can wait a long time to get a dog), and they never increase that number no matter how much demand there is.

They never have a problem finding a home for their pups, because they have a reputation for being good breeders and for their dogs not having health issues.
What do you use for monitoring your mains supply?
See my comment above: a cool feature I am implementing into fire.ci now is that it will trigger a new build every time the main branch moves forward until the safe merge happens. If you have fast builds I don't expect this to take more than 2 builds each time (or you have a huuuuge team working on the repo).
Every year is lost ground:

1. Your conception of a modern browser is what surveillance&brochure dotcoms want it to be. "Tools to fix the defaults" doesn't fix this.

2. The anti-user facilities in your browser that are now expected are what dotcoms wanted. Taking them away will be harder than saying they couldn't have them in the first place.

3. The now-massive complexity of browsers (to provide features and directions that the dotcoms want) is also a barrier to engineering and improvement, and also keeps out upstarts.

4. Dotcoms couldn't always afford to block Firefox.

With the now small market share, Mozilla might be a charity case, or it might be an antitrust buffer case. I'd favor Mozilla adopting a public interest charity model, and taking PR money from big corps (among other sources) in exchange for a sponsor logo, but not selling its users in any way.
> Weighing up the consequences of covering our main oven in molten MacBook, I also chose to use our standalone oven

Anyone who ever tried to bake a frozen pizza in one of these ovens following the instructions on the box would've immediately recognized that this is a very bad idea.
Between 2011 and 2013 Apple had a repair extension program for video issues. This is how they fixed them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaGHcBZjmWA
I wonder when Starz will send a takedown notice to the EFF over this article.
Gentle Brain Stimulation Improves Short-Term Memory
The Average Null Energy Condition (ANEC) makes it so there can not be a traversable wormhole joining two otherwise disconnected regions of spacetime. So by construction, any infinite null geodesic (a light ray) which makes it through the wormhole must be chronal (causally connected). This means there can be no traveling faster than light over long distances by going through one.
Unfortunately, a non-native scaling mode is the default on new Mac laptops now. You need to switch to one of the custom scaling modes to get a true, native 2x.
Fluoride in Drinking Water – Is It Good or Bad for You?
My point that it is a technical problem, not conceptual.
I think it's safe to assume that the comparison flat tariff won't be available that way (or, at least, at that price.)
>Your CI tool should perform a local merge of your branch to the main branch and run the build and tests against that. Your branch can then be automatically merged if the main branch does not change in the meantime. If it does change, the CI checks should be run again until your code can be safely merged. If your CI tools does not support this kind of workflow, change your tool.
Labor is saved by the mere fact that touch screen technology is now so ubiquitous that the training costs of labor for these jobs is so low that they don't qualify as valid jobs any longer. POS systems are now intuitive, so much so that even a toddler can operate one, and that's no exaggeration.
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That flimsy tail design bothered me as well. Even if the center wing and wing roots are incredibly strong, there's little reason to place them under stresses that could be alleviated with a single-stabilizer tail design, as other commenters have pointed out. The fact that they did not do this suggests this aircraft is designed to launch millions in contributions into the designers' pockets, and not so much rockets into space.
Counterpoint: if we tried to build all software using the same rigorous and "clever" processes that aerospace engineers do, almost nothing would ever get built. It's a different process because it's a different field, not because aerospace engineers are fundamentally more clever.

Signed, Not an aerospace engineer ;)
It's pretty clear what that person means. Saying "I don't care about 'safe space'" is equivalent to saying "I don't care about the feelings of the people around me if they are different than mine."

Which, is TOTALLY that person's right. Just like the right most decent people will take advantage of when they say "Cool, have fun at your book club, jerkface."
You're right. Unfortunately, it's the conditions that lie in the realm of conjecture and opinion that are the province of psychiatry. Sometimes the conjecture is good, sometimes it's not.

When the actual biological cause for a condition is found, it moves over to being treated by other medical specialties and loses its psychiatric significance. Parkinson's, now treated by neurologists is a one such example. Hepatic encephalopathy from liver failure, which can cause dramatic personality changes, is another.

Sometimes its changing social conditions that help recategorize a diagnosis. Case in point, the vote to remove homosexuality as a psychiatric diagnosis from the DSM in 1973.

Psychiatry is the catch-all until we actually figure out how to fix something. You can extrapolate this: if something is a psychiatric diagnosis, theories as to cause and treatment are actually hypotheses, sometimes uncomfortably out of date. If the treatment works for you, that's excellent. But if it doesn't, realize you're dealing with a bug in the most complex object in the universe. Hitting it with a hammer might not work.
the best way to do the latter might be to colonize another planet and lead by example.
Special Relativity states that no two objects may pass each other faster than the speed of light. Space itself isn't bound by this restriction. To wit: no thing can move faster than the speed of light, but space is not a thing.

Space is dynamical. It can stretch and expand and even break, but it doesn't move. The result of this is a cosmological horizon that prevents these objects from communicating, because the distance between them is growing faster than light can cross it. This is the same reason you can't escape a black hole.
The lack of lead in modern solder is what causes these issues in electronics in the first place.

I remember it was a common discussion topic for the Nvidia 8800GT.
Anyone who saw this and who got to witness shuttle launches: how does it compare?
Can you show me where is says they found no side effects?
Unsafe sounds like a really bad word, but unsafe usually also means performant. I know that's not always the case, but usually. Rust falls in the exception to that rule category, for the most part, while C# does not. Also, the people typically working on these codebases, like Linux, are very senior developers and have code reviews being done by other very senior people. So while they definitely have had a lot of bugs related to security in the language, we don't have any examples of other languages implementing something anywhere near this size that didn't have as many bugs.
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I triggered on "work around dumb rules". Large institutions consulted by legal and behavioural experts, backed by decades of research come to the conclusion to severely restrict the effects of persuasive design on children. Taking the time to reflect on both sides of the argument without dismissing it as 'dumb rules', would be my interpretation of responsible guardianship.

As we speak, persuasive design experts, applying behavioural psychology are having wreaking measureable, wide-scale deleterious effects on our youngest generation.

Yes, I agree we should teach our children about these systems of control. At the same time, we should acknowledge that the effects are spanning wide ranges of our population, regardless of age, sex, income class and education level. Our society needs stronger controls to counter decades of psychological and sociological research, designed and funded for offensive purposes (psy-ops).
If you still have that logic board, sell it. Someone will buy it for repair or donor parts.
There's a Chrome extension to fix that: https://github.com/sean-public/RecipeFilter

> It is born out of my frustration in having to scroll through a prolix life story before getting to the recipe card that I really want to check out.
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I really enjoy shopping at smaller markets in Europe that still have counter staff. Spain in particular still has many of them. It's much more pleasurable but I wonder, if it's because of the lower wages there that they can still afford to do this, as in northern europe I can't remember the last time I saw anyone except a shelf-stocker in the big supermarkets.
Invocable (formerly Storyline) is shutting down
Screw the profit, give the money back to US citizens via a general social dividend.
I got an X1 Carbon rather than a Macbook Pro in part because if his Mac repair videos.
Coordination becomes difficult precisely because of self-interest, which leads to hierarchies of power. If your organization is built to disenfranchise your workers and empower execs, those execs will naturally have trouble hearing from, and thus talking to, those workers.
Obvious answer, but China wouldn’t be too crazy about it
Wikipedia suggests that a grunt is a type of cobbler [1]? Although [2] suggests its steamed?

[2] also suggests a slump is yet another cobbler variation.

The upside down tarts are what they try to pass off as pies in British pubs, I wouldn't class them as pies, just like I wouldn't class a tart as a pie. British crumbles,cobblers et al don't tend to have pastry bottoms, so I wouldn't class those as pies either.

Shepherds, Cumberland and cottage pie...... Are the exception that proves the rule :)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobbler_(food)

[2] https://www.seriouseats.com/2014/07/what-is-cobbler-crisp-cr...
The movie "Best in show" certainly plays on that drama in a hilarious way.
The philosophical implications of this are the subject of one of my favorite web-comics: The Machine, from Existential Comics
http://existentialcomics.com/comic/1
"As you said yourself, Google had a DCMA team..."

They still do, and they still push back, fwiw :)
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Yes, because doing any research on anything is not what professionals do, they just do everything themselves...

Blogs are meant to offer insight and arguments, and all the top level comment is saying is that this blog did a bad job in that respect.
Early Measurements of Intel’s 3DXPoint Persistent Memory DIMMs
Sex with condoms is less enjoyable than masturbation
"The end result is that Twitter understandably doesn’t want to have their legal team review every single DMCA request for validity."

I mean, humans are still involved in the process almost everywhere anyway, so it's not like they save a tremendous amount of overhead to flag weird ones.

"The law is clearly broken but service providers like Twitter are caught in the middle."

Sure, that i'm not gonna argue with
I switched from Apple to Windows 10 when Apple stopped offering decent "Pro" platforms. I need NVIDIA cards for the CUDA number crunching I do. (The Mac faithful say "b.b.but you can run an Nvidia externally over Thunderbolt." Ha!)

I even used to be an Apple employee.

Windows 10 is just fine. With a tiny amount of care to choose hardware that is all "happy path" (I run dual Intel Xeons, with a SuperMicro MoBo, and now dual Nvidia 2080 Ti for scientific processing), everything works fine. (Also, don't run third-party virus scanners. Just use what's built in to Windows!)

And things that don't quite work right on Macs, like 30-bit color, etc, work great.

I run Linux and FreeBSD in VMs. I don't use WSL much, I just build many things on Windows under Powershell if I don't need Centos or FreeBSD. I find that a lot of FOSS stuff works great on Linux and native Windows and not so well on MacOS because of "non-standard" choices about directory locations, etc.

It's best to give up your prejudices and give Windows 10 a try. Microsoft really did solve almost everything.
Title should be updated to state that the article was published in 2017.
A MacBook Air can't survive a 30 cm drop (less than 1 foot)? Most phones can't survive a 10 second dip in a toilet bowl? Is it just me or is technology today weak?

I mean seriously, anyone could build these things better than the big companies are. Yes, the technology in the chips and logic boards is astounding. But the engineering of the cases is.. either amateurish bordering on the inept, or companies design in such brittleness to sell more devices.
I did this 3 times with a HP laptop from 2010-2011 and had the same experience, the graphics chip would last 3-4 more months.

My understanding was that the oven repair was/is mostly for when GPU’s had to move away from less based solder due to EU regulations but hadn’t gotten non-lead based solder right yet.

Also I wrapped most of the board in foil only exposing the GPU, and I put the board in hot and then killed heat after one or two minutes.

I thought it was great as a kid without any means to a new computer. Friends would give me their broken computers and I would fix them for myself.

The right repair I guess depends on what you can afford and what you’re willing to risk.
Adblock Plus filter lists may execute arbitrary code in web pages
An Exchange with DataCamp
I tried the app and it didn't successfully identify either of my dogs.
Apple Music. Their services are making up a growing percentage of their revenue: https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2019/01/30/apple-music-50-m...
"Sane" and "insane" are useless terms.

I wonder say that's a blow against the profession, but that is a blow against the individuals involved. The police are complicit in that whole thing as well, but we aren't trying to throw all of law enforcement out because of it.
I don't know if this has been said or not already - but I wouldn't use that oven again for cooking food, especially since something somewhere off-gassed.

I don't know how dangerous it would be to eat food from an oven that was previously used for reflow soldering; if I had to guess, the danger would be minimal - maybe an increased risk of cancer or something like that. Likely, the fumes or whatnot was simply rosin flux vaporizing.

Rosin flux is usually something like refined pine resin with a solvent; it won't kill you to eat it (or breath in the smoke while soldering - though that can be a major irritant), but I am almost certain it might cause a flavoring issue for future baked foods.

Then again - maybe it would lend those holiday dinners a festive flavor?
That's made with layers of pastry on the top and bottom, right? I believe that the Nanaimo bar has a biscuit base, like a cheesecake, and chocolate icing on top. The custard core is a common point, though.
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