skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ah but it was justified - by the need for a Queen's Speech, which hadn't happened for a very long time.

The court unanimously seem to disagree with this as counting as a justification. You can't just throw whatever justification you want out there, it has to be tested as being valid. This was one of the government's arguments: there's no test that a court can apply for whether the justification is valid or not. The problem with that is that the logical conclusion is that the government can shut down parliament indefinitely for any reason it likes.

> What the Supreme Court has said here is that they don't like or believe the justification. But who are they to decide that?

They're called judges. It's literally their job.

> At any rate, regardless of (pointless) arguments about a non-existent constitution, the realpolitik of this is that the UK is heading straight for civil war.

Spare us the hysteria. The judicial branch ruling on the legality of an action taken by the executive is literally their primary function.

> Parliament refuses to let the UK leave the EU by its own deadlines, an outcome it had itself voted for.

Nice bit of omission there. What you actually mean is "Parliament refuses to let the UK leave the EU without any form of trade deal".

> It refuses to trigger a general election.

What problem would a GE solve? We already had one in 2017.

> The Speaker has given up the traditional role of political neutrality.

Well, in your opinion. Many people don't share that view, and those that do conveniently seem to hold it because he's making decisions they don't like.

> Many MPs have not only announced they will fight against the very policies they promised during the last election, but actually quit their parties and joined parties with opposing policies, whilst refusing to trigger a by-election so they can be judged.

There's no precedent or legality for by-elections being triggered when the whip is withdrawn, resigned or the MP leaves their party. People are elected to be representatives, not party-drones.

> One major political party is now openly saying if they get enough power, they will simply cancel Brexit entirely. Labour is not far behind.

I'm not sure what the problem is here. Parties campaigning for things is somehow... bad now?

> At all levels British democracy is in outright collapse. This is not due to actions of Leave supporters or campaigners, but rather due to coordinated efforts by people who are ideologically committed to the EU and who are willing to destroy any institution, tradition or constitutional procedure whatsoever in their efforts to do so.

More hysteria. There's plenty of people who support the idea of Brexit who are aghast at the recklessness of the government. Brexit is a red-herring - this whole issue is about where power should lie and to what extent the executive can just do whatever it likes with no form of check or balance.
This seems fit to complete the loop, however it s redundant. FB already knows what you want to do with your computer
I have a hard time believing that someone on HN, a crowd whose primary job involves using free software and whose primary hobby is reading Wikipedia articles, would just idly speculate about things against the most blatant contrary evidence.

But then, this being HN, this sort of speculation is to be expected, heh.
I mean, you should have one from one of the many previous breaches. Also, arguably your credit card or mortgage company may be providing you enough monitoring to claim you have it. For those who suffered under TurboTax, Intuit offers a free credit monitoring service as well.

Credit monitoring, like antivirus, is something you should have, but should not be paying for.
> The Brexiteers are the party of the unwritten British constitution as it existed from the Glorious Revolution of 1688-89 until Britain’s accession to the E.U. in 1973. This is the tradition of “parliamentary supremacy,” as John Locke called it, or “parliamentary sovereignty,” as it more often came to be called.

Not sure I'd be sending this article around as the canonical last word on Brexit after the prorogation and today's ruling on it.
At the extreme, it approaches art: https://www.reddit.com/r/VXJunkies/
For a entrepreneur's forum, HN is pretty averse to the idea you can learn lessons from failure when it comes to political systems (especially if it would come at the cost of your own material wealth and comforts).

If you think the USSR is bad, take lessons from the best case (I'll throw up a mix of the Scando countries with no citation) and let's not be ideologues.
How to work from home without going crazy
Is it?
You wrote: "which is how they managed to brainwash 1/3d of our population", do you really think that over 100 million people you disagree with are brainwashed by a foreign power?

In Russian political discourse nowadays liberals are all too often accused of being on American embassy's payroll. You want this kind of talk in the US when opponents are labeled as foreign government shills?
You could surely have said the same about commercial software libraries 10 years ago.
It's definitely not unique to Hollywood... Before I switched to infrastructure development I ran a Linux engineering group and among other things handled production support escalations. The job was often finding the actual problem while gently dissuading my customer the issue wasn't a pet theory and/or something they just Googled. In fact sometimes the escalations came specifically so I could weigh in on root cause after joining the bridge because the various parties couldn't agree.

A favorite was someone to run free and declare the system was "out of memory and must be swapping". It recurred so often I think that theory passed from group to group like a treasured heirloom until we wrote a FAQ on the subject. Fortunately in my opinion getting ops and development to work together built mutual respect for respective skill sets.
I believe they are like Canada. The Queen is our Monarch, but has no real power here. The UK government is completely unrelated. We have a Governor general that is the Queen's viceregal representative, but we choose who that is.
That distinction has been steadily eroding. Over on their television broadcasting counterpart, the PBS NewsHour plays straight-up commercials from financial planning firms prior to each episode now.
Microsoft sucks at the desktop, but there's more to their userspace than that. If you want to play the latest games or use a lot of other applications, it's the only game in town* pretty much.

*Obviously, there's Wine and OSX, but still.
It's worth it if you have a lot of "secondary" devices on your network (phones, tablets, smart tvs, game consoles, IOT devices) because then you get ad blocking and no tracking for free on devices you couldn't otherwise effectively block. If you have a lot of those sorts of devices then it's definitely worth it.
If you have an extra Raspberry Pi laying around, and are comfortable adjusting your DNS settings on your router, then it's definitely worth it too.
I have PiHole running my DHCP server as well, so I can assign static IPs to my devices as well, which is nice if you have any servers running or like to SSH into devices.
Hard data:

- Everybody will tell you what to do.

- Even more, they believe they are right everytime.

- You'll spend a lot of time in ER (or something like that) because you don't know what's going on and how to troubleshoot a baby. When in doubt, go ASAP or you'll end going back home at 5am.

- You'll be tired of doctors asking you if it is your first son. Fact is when the second one has fever, you give him/her medicine _and_ pospone.

- If you're wondering if you'll be able to do it well, you will (that's a symptom of someone who cares).

It is _very_ important that the mother has enough rest, at least the first 3-4 months. Some people talk about post-labor depression: it is not depression, just the mother is more exhausted than she has ever been in her life.
I am not sure anyone is forgetting about Ireland seeing as the media and the EU bring it up every five minutes
iterm2 (macOS only, alas) will make a local or remote tmux session work like a native tabbed iterm window.
> Nobody thinks musicians shouldn't be paid, but until Spotify everyone was downloading music.

This is even worse IMO. People think musicians deserve to be paid but still manage to rationalize taking from them without paying instead.
Uhh, I'd check the popular vote counts over the last 25+ years.
I mean, it's very common colloquially to describe non sentient things as racist because they're based on either purposely or obliviously racist ideas and stereotypes.
Just use `bind-key -n` for a no-prefix bind

See e.g. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/450184/in-tmux-how-...
Interesting that this is a tech I've wanted for ages, yet with these days of privacy issues where mere mouse behavior can lead to identifying signatures... I'm not letting anyone near my brain patterns.

I'll wear a tinfoil hat on this one.. but not knowing what possible behavioral/emotional/matchable patterns might exist in my waves is a bit terrifying. Thanks no thanks Facebook. If there even was a company I'd trust with my brain signature, it's sure as hell not you.

edit: I should note, it sounds like this is not specifically brain waves.. but still. My opinion in this arena doesn't change hah.
The gravity of the topic and its near-binary political divide are the main reasons - but this is true of all climate politics, not just this case.
Heh, I'm considering it for the exact same reason you said.
I want to control the whole home network with it and avoid per-client customizations. I want the exact same filter on the whole network, and I don't want it to be easily circumvented.

I want to set up once and forget it and it should filter everything, automagically, every device, every browser, from the whole home network, forever. If I want to REALLY check something out I will use my mobile's internet.
I remember back in the day when every "creative type" doing anything on a Mac would reboot before starting a new big Photoshop or Illustrator project.

This was before Macs had memory protection and one process could stomp on another processes' memory if there was a wild pointer. After running any large application for a while, before starting a different one, it was standard practice to reboot.
There is not going to be a civil war, because the Brexit side is made of of delusional people led astray by Facebook and Farage and is predominantly elderly.

There is no clean, costless way out of the EU. There are "less damaging" ways, such as "Norway+", but those have been rejected. "No deal" is clearly going to be a disaster. The government commissioned its own planning which also found it would be a disaster. Job losses are ongoing and the currency has dived by about 25% since the start of the process. And for what?

> If voting doesn't work to change those in power - and right now it clearly doesn't - then what's left but violence?

Well, this has kind of been a problem of the UK for years with its non-preferential voting and unelected upper house. Maybe now we can fix it. But in the meantime I'm laughing at the idea that some sort of pensioner brigade is going to be out on the streets with the molotovs.
No that's not a risk. EAPs are run by outside providers. Patient privacy rules prevent them from discussing anything with employers.
After several months, CafePress finally acknowledges data theft
I block ads because I don't want to be conditioned to buy things I don't need or legitimately want. I don't want the mega rich to gradually chip away at my mind day by day, hour by hour in order to make themselves another fat pile of cash. If a site shows me some sad puppy image about me stealing their money by blocking their brainwashing, I just add their whole site to my filter.

Content on the internet powered by ads is almost entirely content made to distract people. Cutting it of my life is only doing me good. Until everything decides to block me, I'll just be blocking ads because I hate them and the industry behind them.
You're going to get downvoted for sharing wrongthink and not screaming "hate!" at Goldstein... I mean Kavanaugh, but you're ultimately right.

The thing is, though, there is no more "newspaper of record". The newspaper industry has been in such a downward spiral for such a long time that, like any other industry bleeding money, quality has severely suffered. Try to find a single notable paper that adheres to the objectivity guidelines of the AP guidebook. Hell, even the AP doesn't do that anymore.
The heart of the Enlightenment project is the realization that educated, non-poor citizens are more effective at waging war with other countries.
Mountain range formation and tectonics in Mediterranean studied for first time
Ah but it was justified - by the need for a Queen's Speech, which hadn't happened for a very long time.

As the ruling stated, preparing for this takes 4-6 days, not 5 weeks...

What the Supreme Court has said here is that they don't like or believe the justification.

Actually, they made no judgment on that, in fact they noted that the lawyers for the government put forward no justification for them to believe or disbelieve.
So now you could defeat the purpose of the "right to be forgotten" by making a site that remembers and lists all items that have been purged from EU only search results?

righttoberemembered.eu hasn't be registered yet.
Big tobacco owns a hefty minority share of the major nicotine vape companies.
I am really curious why I got a down-vote or two. I was not being facetious.

Outside the classified materials Ed leaked and we all know about, he shares details about hotels he stayed at during training and his trips into what seemed to me as classified information about government building locations.

I was really curious if this is ‘common knowledge’ or if other readers felt he disclosed additional classified information.

As others have recently said, it seems like this site has changed quite a bit in the recent years from the site I once knew.
The point of ads is to create demand where none existed, as much as adtech people want to pretend thats merely via informing people of all these wonderful products they were previously unaware of (which I admit, does happen), the vast majority of advertising is trying to convince you to buy useless shit you don't need, or even worse, stuff that actively harms you. (these are the most profitable things, thus the most profitable things to advertise).

They do this by preying on insecurities and making you feel less valuable and incomplete. Another tactic is either outright lying about the product, or constructing statements where a reasonable person would "fill in the gaps" to produce the lie they intend, even if they don't explicitly state it. Closely study some ads sometimes, they are incredibly psychologically manipulative.

This is before such considerations as privacy, tracking and data leaks with online advertisement, and the general idea that advertising is a zero sum game, and the only way to "beat" your competitor at it is to blow even more money on it, thus its a massive economic inefficiency, advertising doesn't create value, it merely shifts it around.

While advertisement is rarely actively malicious in a targeted way, they are a systematic evil much like pollution, everyone would be better off if it didn't exist in the first place.
> There's no law or legal precedent here for a court simply deciding they don't like a justification for a prorogation

That's exactly what (higher) courts do, decide on cases not explicitly determined by law.

> but rather due to coordinated efforts by people who are ideologically committed to the EU and who are willing to destroy any institution

It's frankly amazing how almost all the pro-Brexit comments make explicitly clear they know crap all about what they're talking about and try to win the dialog by just repeating what they want, but louder.
Ahhh, you just made my day. Thank you!
I'd suggest getting an RPi with an ethernet port, I've got mine running on an original Raspberry Pi.
Fascinating discussion! Could any of you knowledgeable folks say a bit more about 1. why whole-nucleus simulation is so hard and out of reach, 2. what role simulation currently plays in understanding gene expression, 3. to what extent will simulation be important for understanding how genes translate to phenotypes over the long term?

I know next to nothing about this field or the relevant biology, but would love to learn more!
Facebook acquires CTRL-Labs for its mind-reading wristband
I don’t think anyone who’s ever shopped for designer trashcans would agree with this :P
Thankfully no force. Its just his philosophy
Comcast has overlap with both since they thought it was acceptable to inject JavaScript into unencrypted HTTP responses.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15890551
They use it liberally
Shafties come around about as often as airless tires — and stay just as long, too:

Saint Sheldon says “just use a chain case”, and as usual, he’s spot on:

Shaft drive was briefly popular around 1900, and occasional attempts are made to revive the design. Unfortunately, shaft drive turns out to have more problems than advantages.

A shaft drive requires heavier frame construction around the bevel gears to maintain their precise alignment under load. The drive system is heavier and less efficient than a good chain drive.

For reasons of clearance, the bevel gears of a shaft drive bicycle must be considerably smaller than the typical sprockets used with a chain drive. The smaller size of the gears causes an increase in the stresses on the whole support system for the shaft. This problem is exacerbated because the stresses from the shaft drive are not perpendicular the triangulated structure of a bicycle frame, and so are not well-resisted. .

Most of the advantages touted by proponents of shaft drive are only advantages compared with open-chain, derailer gear systems. Many proponents of shaft drive use specious (if not dishonest) arguments "comparing" shaft drive systems with derailer gear systems. Any such comparisons are meaningless, it's like comparing apples and locomotives.

...

Shaft drive proponents also often compare sealed, enclosed shaft drive systems with open, exposed chain drive systems. This is also a misleading comparison. All of the advantages claimed for shaft drive can be realized by the use of a chain case.

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/gloss_sa-o.html

Shaft-driven motorcycles are a whole other story.
Ha, I came here to make the same joke.
Logistics and relatedly prices I believe is why. The tradition there was because grass was cheaper to grow than hay to feed them. Now it is the opposite and has probably been so for a while.

Grass takes more time to fatten them for slaughter and it being cheaper to bring the feed to them than to cattle drive them around to even cheap feeds.

Maize (the winner of the local grain corn title) is a type of grass technically but one whose mutated seed size and height are way up there and given that it is human edible (even the field corn variants which are terrible tasting) the trophic layer issues become egregiously obvious.
The research, coordinated by Utrecht University, reveals how a piece of continental crust the size of Greenland that once separated from North Africa plunged into the earth's mantle under Southern Europe.
That is incorrect. Stallman defined 'free software'. He has said:

"The term “open source” software is used by some people to mean more or less the same category as free software. It is not exactly the same class of software: they accept some licences that we consider too restrictive, and there are free software licences they have not accepted. However, the differences in extension of the category are small: nearly all free software is open source, and nearly all open source software is free."

In particular, he notes the example of DRM software. DRM software can be distributed under an open-source licence, but by design and in practice it serves to restrict the freedoms of its users, not to enhance them.
The previous game, Underrun, was excellent, and I took to heart his points on sound files taking up a lot of space. Using synth sounds is relatively easy to generate and takes up only a few bytes for code snippets.
He Built a $1B Business by Selling Natural Home Care Products
We are seeing the first generation where large numbers of children are worse off than their parents. ie there isn't a sense of general progress.

Parents are working, but children can't find a well paying job or put down a deposit for a house. The trend in life expectancy is even reversing.

The concept of justice and fairness comes in to play as well - it's not just about whether people feel they have enough, it's about whether they feel they are getting a fair share.

If you went to work and got paid the living wage ( just enough to get by ) and somebody else doing the same job got paid more - most people would feel it was unfair and be unhappy.
> But podcast ads are not targetting nor using my cookie or phone id.

You say that, but there are products to allow dynamically insert personalised ads server side when you download a podcast.
Can a Pi really keep up with that size of network or would you run it on more powerful hardware/a VM?
Bring good memories of trying to get around that during HS. At first people would store notes and things in programs, so teachers wisened up that you had to clear your memory. But there was a way you could archive programs, so then they figured out how to make sure you hadn't done that, either.

But they never foiled the genius plan a friend of mine and I concocted to write a program that would simulate all of the screens involved in the "check" that teachers did to make sure you had cleared your memory correctly. What we were most proud of was the fact that after it was all 'done', you could even enter basic calculations in the calculator and it would behave as expected, making you none the wiser that you were actually running a program of ours all along.

We also never used it for cheating. There was just something beautiful about knowing that we could, plus we had so many other games and things that it was always a pain to have to reinstall things after an assessment. Ohh the memories!
> At some point the UK is going to cross into seriously extreme territory.

I'd argue we crossed into that territory when a right-wing brexit supporter murdered an MP.
if a single bot controller can buy up an entire stock of limited items legitimately, that is malicious as that company is not longer able to meet the needs of their consumers. That's bad for the company.
You're right! The biggest harm to the rain forests are these developing countries clearing them out for farmland. Ban the consumption of food and ban these developing countries trying to make exports so they can be inclusive in the world market! End the status quo of inclusivity! Raise the banners of exclusivity!

See what I did there? Pretty easy to spin tree hugging to fascism. These climate change talks have been going on for 30 years. Plus, ya ain't the first with that eco-terrorist call to arms. No one brings up why these developing countries do these "horrendous acts against the planet". Because it flies in the face of all the other virtue signalling rhetoric. Figure out a way for developing countries to be apart of the world economy in an environmentally friendly and economical way, you'll be a god damn hero for centuries to come. You'd also get tons of money from the UN, the EU and hell, even Harrison Ford will give you a check from Conservation International like he did yesterday to the amazon fund. Or you can just virtue signal on the internet that you think "da worl' ith bad".
Spin up a different pi-hole vm per user
Didn't the original Mac Pro look like a cheese grater, too?
Twitter is a whole universe and not all edges are the same. It’s possible you both are right.
Selection bias. You don't find out about the ones that don't share.

I also quit social media and told no one (oops, it seems I just did).