skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> stop when asked to by a police officer

My mistake, I thought there was a need for cause for a producer. Such as the made up "faulty brake light" that miraculously starts working again when you have stopped, or you just got pulled for speeding etc. :)

> prove ID if you get secondary care

Yeah, that's the newly minted, and rather offensive regs from Theresa, in the govt mission against immigration, most of which always been from outside the EU. It was previously much the same for Brits and EU citizens as I understand it. From a quick glance of the link it seems to generate a couple of absurdities along the prove you don't need to prove ID lines that's been in the UK:Ireland travel area a while.

ID to the police or PCSO

Yes, they can ask for my name and address, and I'm expected to be truthful as they may check. They can't demand documentary evidence of same such as my papers or driving licence when not in control of a vehicle.

They might go away and check against their records, electoral role and so on. They might ask if I can confirm this, and much of the time I can honestly answer "no" without problem. They'll have more to say if I claim to be M. Mouse of 10 Downing St. Obviously if arrested they can search and find any circumstantial or actual evidence of ID, like a bank card or driving licence, that will hopefully match the name provided earlier.
Clicking the "download" link with the pdf icon at the top gave me access to the entire pdf

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S246806721...
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I'm a complete layman but from my perspective this seems funny that we're discussing gene modified food in a country where they're already fighting an obesity epidemic.

Do we really need more food? Are we (the western world) running out of food? Feels like there are other parts of the world where this discussion might be more relevant.
To read and contribute remembrances about this great man, Patrick H. Winston, welcome to https://www.memoriesofpatrickwinston.com/remembrances. His research works, talks, photos and more can also be found on that site.
> Github was a free platform for everyone since many years ago, but it has decided to restrict Iranian accounts.

First of all Github has never been 'a free platform' to begin with and secondly this entire plea is absolutely pointless. GitHub/Microsoft is subject to US trade laws and this is mentioned in their terms and conditions for which they have to comply to. Due to this they have to disallow users who are on the list of sanctioned contries and Iran is one of them.

The problem is not GitHub, its the developers who keep using it to host their private code there and by doing that you have 'agreed' to their ToS. One could easily self-host a GitLab/cgit service at home and do their work from there. The moment you depend on Github in a sanctioned country you risk your account/repository getting banned or inaccessible for others.

The best thing they can do is to quit GitHub and self-host a Gitlab/cgit service (Not on AWS or whatever) locally which that is completely free and for private use. 'Open-source' development was fine without GitHub (Linux, wireguard, etc) so depending solely on Github to contribute to open-source doesn't make sense here.
Sounds good - as a Canberran, I think I'd really benefit from an involuntary social media detox for a few weeks!

This is a policy area in which it's completely legitimate for government to exercise its powers. A digital economy dominated by a handful of American companies is not healthy for our own software industry or our society.

I'll be looking out for the government's (and Labor's) response to this report - it will be interesting to see which recommendations they do and do not accept.
There is also the French saying: "quand on parle du loup, il sort du bois" [1]. Literally "when you speak of the wolf he comes out of the woods", known in English as "speak of the devil".

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[1] Also: "... on en voit la queue" or "le nez", i.e. "you see his tail" or "his nose".
It's interesting to see how they estimate all the different quantities involved here: first the fact that there was an impact at all, then the size of the impactor and its speed, then the size of the crater and the ensuing environmental effects like the height of the resulting tsunami, ozone depletion, etc. But there is apparently no evidence of a major extinction event at the same time.

How carefully do researchers in this field crosscheck these numbers? Do they build their next model assuming that the previous model got it right? Or did someone run through some kind of conservation-of-energy calculations and say "yep it all fits together"? I assume these kinds of things are researched all at once soon after the discovery, but are those results ever revisited?

I'm not trying to cast specific doubts on this study or any other particular one, just wondering in general how confident these kinds of ancient geological results are.
Paul Krill @ InfoWorld reports npm disputes the rumors of the public registry's demise.
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3412143/npm-free-public-ja...
I really like this idea. You have your personal space (I saw a video in which you even have a small kitchen and bathroom in your room) and then the rest are shared areas. I don't believe it could work in many other countries but in Japan, where people are more concious of colaborating to keep everything clean AFAIK, it could be a great way to fight the feeling of loneliness that is spreading around the world.
Yeah, but corporate databases documenting every small detail of their life like who they meet, their location history, chat history with friends and family, etc, all that is fine. Because it's not the government... Never mind that the govt has access through prism and other channels... It really baffles me how voter ID is such a huge issue, but most Americans voluntarily offer up so much of their private info to online social netwoks.
I live in Tokyo. These apartments (9m^2) are definitely not the norm, a typical tiny apartment is 20m^2 and a typical university dorm room for 1 person is 15m^2. They are just a bit more choice on the new/close/small, old/far/larger list of housing options; they are not a widespread trend. Also, the old/far/larger options are in livable neighborhoods with good public transit. Transit is usually paid by your employer, so it makes sense that the people in the video have non-traditional jobs without that perk. Roommates are not a popular option, but other than that I find Tokyo to be quite good for low end apartment options compared to say Vancouver (do you want a close moldy basement suite with a roommate or a far moldy basement suite and car dependency?).
I think you're reading a little too much into the word "sensitive". Nothing in the article suggests the historian is trying to whitewash or downplay the horrors of slavery.
Let's be clear here - the government is not as yet doing anything. This is a report from the technocrats who run our competition regulator. Which recommendations actually make it into government policy once they've gone through the political process is a completely different question.
Like most measures that give more power to governments, it makes things easier for them, not possible. Are you honestly not aware of how unique permanent identifying numbers give governments more power over the people thus numbered? There are examples in the article.

US passports, among others, do not have a number identifying the holder, only the passport. Each time you replace the passport, every ten years or less, you get a new number. The passport also does not bear the social security number.
Honest question, why should I care what Google or Facebook does with my data? I am honestly curious, and would love if someone could explain the pros and cons to me.
I didn't even realise they were perennial tbh.

We can swap climates if you want, I'm in the UK so guess what, its raining!
It’s funny because “concentration camp” itself in the WW2 sense is a euphemism for death camps. A concentration camp is nothing more than a place where you concentrate individuals that you don’t want to allow to freely walk around at large but don’t want to put into individual prison cells either. Inherently, there is nothing wrong with a concentration camp.
The router you mention uses a cpu originally designed for the home wifi router market and was in fact heavily used in them. It also requires binary blobs to accelerate NAT to that 800Mbs and to accelerate IPsec. EdgeOS also tends to be a buggy mess. The rollout of the 2.x train for the er-x has been a fiasco.
One thing I learned many years ago, you can solve infrastructure problems with software. If prior jets have multiple sensors and the new jet has one sensor, then software isn't going to help in this situation. Gyros worked back in 1911. why not use one to back up the failed sensor? seems like a simple fix that could be mounted anywhere on the plane.
The UK as a whole does not care about housing policy (and by extension the wellbeing of the population at large).

In the mid 20th century we engaged in a huge campaign of housebuilding, the result being that my relatively poor family were able to rent a terraced house with garden front and back for decades. I owe pretty much everything to that.

Today? Nothing.

Local governments don't care, landowners don't care, the national government doesn't care, no-one is seriously protesting, it's just not a thing.

I'm considering moving out of the country soon, and if I do, this will be the number one reason - we've basically gone back to a feudal society in which you either already own property, or else you fight over increasingly small scraps.

My best understanding of why this is happening is that this is all based on some sort of silly ponzi game in which everyone pretends that their home is worth lots of pictures of the queen's face, and when the majority landowning generation retires, they'll all swap houses and somehow loads of money and labour will appear from somewhere to look after them.
Can you expound on the concerns?
Then why say that?
It also doesn't give a clear picture of the full story, which is years of personal study from medical textbooks, discussions with scientists, partnering with them over years of research to figure things out, and get to a diagnosis, and then, yes, design a new surgery.

It is a good story. Just a bad headline.
At the company which used GraphQL in production, two of the major reasons for adoption were decoupling the backend from the UI of the client, and allowing front-end developers to easily update the payload without making changes to the server, which weren't affected by using persisted queries. Caching was handled by separate backend services rather than the graphql service or the client, which wouldn't make sense for every usecase.

Apollo was really useful for managing state across the client. Tools like optimistic updates were very nice too. Unfortunately, it was somewhat buggy when we were using it, and the API kept changing, but I think it's more stable now.

It was also good to have a well-defined schema between client and backend, although you should have one anyway.
Not really an autobiography, but something quite similar is George Lois's Damn Good Advice. Quick and read with great takeaways. I put together some notes on that book here: http://alvaroduran.com/damn-good-advice
nevertheless, they would find it to be a "big deal".
I totally agree and I would love to see this idea implemented in many other places but sadly not all the countries share the same mentality that Japan has about social duties.
I used bird to build our companies network. At the time I couldn't reason about how to manage Quagga with configuration management and I disliked how it tried to emulate a Cisco CLI. Bird solves my problems nicely for BGP and OSPF.
Meanwhile, the most recent heatwave in Europe is attributable to climate change:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/07/26/european-h...
The IPCC tend to be on the very conservative side as they only endorse the most certain, and play down the most extreme as they tend to use normal distributions, which in a situation of rising temperatures they aren't. That they are government appointed probably has some influence too.

Some have called it dangerously misleading in the underestimates - sea level rise has been tracking the worst case of the IPCC range of projections. Where that leaves us, I'm not sure.

More info from last year:

https://www.sciencealert.com/international-climate-change-re...
I know I probably don't speak for the people who are drafting these rules, but personally that doesn't bother me so much. I don't have a specific interest in knowing the computations that produced a particular result, I just want to force some kind of transparency on how this data is being used and stored.
My understanding is that Lithium is not a big problem. Cobalt is more rare.
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This was a 100m asteroid (city killer), not 1km.
Closed source software should not be used in safety critical systems that affect the general public.
Ireland - yes and no.

The Irish Government like to deny it, but I'd argue that the "Public Services Card" (https://psc.gov.ie/) is a de-facto ID card (and hence central ID database).
They don't have that leverage, Australia needs Google more probably.
Its strange from an economic analysis standpoint but its actually pretty pedestrian.

Its a cash-position. If you kept cash in a bank account you are insured up to a certain amount if the bank goes insolvent. So people that have 10 billion dollars and wish to remain in a cash position, want to park the money in a place where it is guaranteed: and Treasury bonds are 100% guaranteed (as opposed to bank deposits).

So what we are actually seeing is the rise of cash positions in the best stock market position ever.
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> Voice assistants appear to be yet another instance where a technology has been developed and adopted faster than its consequences have been fully thought-out.

What a rubbish. This is totally expected and thought-out. It's even worse, this is probably the #1 reason voice assistants exist at all, to provide these companies with even more valuable data. I cannot imagine the existence of Siri (or any other voice assistent) without a business model behind it.
There were almost 400 delivered by the time it was grounded, some of them in service since 2017. Yes there were two high profile failures and this failure rate is extremely out of the norm by the very stringent standards of aviation — but these are not sudden-unavoidable-death machines that gets sensationalized.
In Greek Galileo's whole name sounds funny. "Ο Γαλιλαίος Γαλιλέι" sounds a lot like a verb phrase, "Galileo is Galileing".

Although there is no verb "Galilei" in Greek it does sound like a weird way to say that "Someone is saying something in Gallic (French)".
Not in Tokyo. A dorm room is typically larger than that. A small apartment in Tokyo is 17 or 18 sqm.
In places without any kind of unique ID, multiple voting is often prevented by dyeing your thumbnail after voting. This is sufficient to keep voter fraud down to insignificant levels. The UK commenter points out that a number specific to the voting process is also adequate to the purpose. Pension accounts can similarly be identified by numbers specific to the money in question, and in that case there's not even any requirement for being one to one—your pension contributions from different years can and possibly should be in separate, unlinked accounts. Certainly there is no benefit, and potentially enormous harm, in linking your pension to your voting.
Same in Hungarian (a Uralic language). Wolf is "farkas", lit. the tailed one, and deer is "szarvas", lit. the horned one. Both used to have true names but became taboo and got lost.
Somehow I expected a story of a modern biro faked up as a Roman find, rather than the quite remarkable stylus.
This paper disputes your claims about the effects of climate change on Syria’s current state: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096262981...
A Comprehensive List of All the Potential Causes of the Cuban “Sonic” Attacks
This may be dangerous to perceive this as the norm. Thinking back, a lot of things considered horrible today were the norm not that long ago.

We should think really hard about whether to accept this and make an argument: "no one forced those ppl in it". It's not the point. I'm sure we can do better. Is it beyond our abilities to figure out a good living condiditions? in year 2020? Really?

I'm horrified by the idea that in order to have a decent job, I'd have to live in such conditions. Can you imagine if it's not few ppl, but hundreds of thousands? All of New York?

No, thanks.
I agree, and then that technology is put to use on the pretty well put together accessibility tech showing up in iOS 13:

https://youtu.be/aqoXFCCTfm4
Piggybacking off of your comment, regarding click bait.

In the news where I'm at, if a 19 year old does something good, they refer to him/her as a "Teenager."

If this same 19 year old does something bad, "MAN ARRESTED FOR..."

Never understood it.
So, is it related to adrenal fatigue which is not yet fully recognized AFAIK ? Would it help ?
I'd say we would have the chance to have a much better understanding of that type of consciousness than we would our own, unless such an AI were to come about spontaneously from a long string of machine learning such that we don't have any clue about the inner machinations.
What kind (make and model) of digital FX pedal would you recommend? Also any suggestions on DAW software?
The interesting thing to me is that we call his father, a lutenist and composer, Vincenzo Galilei. Maybe there has to be an unbroken tradition of referring to the person at all; we've talked about Galileo nonstop for 500 years, but there were a few hundred years there where almost everyone had forgotten Vincenzo.
Scripting is great, especially for handling one time jobs, for doing PoCs it short-lived projects. You can be really productive and just get the job done. But operating something on a regular basis is a different thing. Productionize such thing invokes a lot of different aspects to handle and this articles is mainly about it: showing cases where evolving “scripting solutions” simply doesn’t scale. Too much glue and too few control over the main aspects of the problem.

I saw solutions that started like this and very quickly became an unmanageable mess. I guess it’s some sort of pattern where it’s hard to see this fine line between “it works so don’t need to reengineer it” and realising a huge technical debt incurred. It requires experienced person to make a decision to drop the former and start with some more sane solution.
That’s irrelevant IMHO. I’m not saying that the link shouldn’t be shared on HN, which would potentially be a matter of freedom of speech. But the HN homepage isn’t a neutral list of links ranked by users, there is a specific algorithm to give visibility to some topics and not others, and admins ultimately decide what is there. For example you can easily see that politically controversial topics are often quickly downgraded from their high rank, if they reach the top. My question is why should a piece full of CCP propaganda (not just facts, they are clearly spun in a CCP friendly narrative) be in the homepage? That’s clearly not what the platform strives for.
> "just to boil water" has got to be the biggest understatement that I've heard in a while.

It’s also a good illustration of how much we depend on extreme energy densities for everyday use cases. Coming up with a good storage solution for renewable fuels is going to be a defining challenge for our generation.
My first own apartment was a 1-room with kitchen and bathroom, for a total of 26.56m². The living/sleeping room was about 3.5x5 m. (For a floor plan schematic, put "wbs 70 grundriss" into Google Images).

It was very nice. The only reason I moved into a 2-room apartment was because I wanted a sofa.
This itches me a bit tad as well. I immediately assume the author is trying to belittle or judge the person, it's a bias or some kind of semi-conscious compensation and revenge process.
The maps at the exhibit referenced[1] were fascinating.

I know people often criticize topics that surface anything remotely concerning race, as there is a “race to the bottom”, but I often find that I learn a lot just by the fact-checking that it spawns.

To that end, one reference that I didn’t know coming in is “Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660”, for the degree to which Trans Atlantic slave trade re-shaped Central African society. Secondly, a book I read a year or so ago Ibrahim Kendi’s “Stamped From The Beginning” which discusses how exponential profits reaped by the trans-Atlantic and inter-America slave trade — unprecedented in the human practice of enslavement — spawned racist hierarchies that persist now.

[1] https://www.slavevoyages.org/voyage/maps
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Ins: An Interactive Chinese News Synthesis System
This is my favorite method so far:

https://qz.com/1355672/stacking-concrete-blocks-is-a-surpris...

Works well, portable, space efficient (could house it in the center of a skyscraper), and easy to disguise as something aesthetically pleasing
I second Benjamin Franklin Autobiography and would like to add Andrew Carnegie Autobiography as well. Both great and in my opinion worth reading multiple times.
Um, could the business model be to provide value to users in order to make the systems they are loaded on more attractive products?

Sure, a huge part of the Siri/Alexa/Assistant business model is probably data collection. But does that mean all voice assistants ever inherently have no real end-user value? I don't regularly use them, but I would be very happy to find a reliable way to change music and send messages with my voice while driving.

Before the era of mass data harvesting, arguably useful utilities like the MS Office suite were loaded onto OSs to make users more likely to stay on that platform.
In Hungary it's Galilei.
I agree with your general recommendations to not rely on corps and to use crypto, but it's not a weird belief, it's a fact. Google is bar Facebook the worst company in the world at privacy and their whole business model is focused around subverting privacy.

There are many studies done by non-profits and government organizations which prove this. They also repeatedly got fined for their rotten practices.

That doesn't mean Apple are saints. Any US corporation is suspect and a feature like Siri is broken by design and can't be implemented with privacy in mind.
> GraphQL is great in that you define the exact queries that you know to be performant.

How is this meaningfully different from having an SQL query fronted by a REST API?