skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm astonished by the randomness of expertise among the signees.

https://skepticalscience.com/global-warming-scientific-conse...
I’d love to be able to ditch my pager and rely solely on smartphone apps. Unfortunately there’s no way to get our alerting apps to override silent mode on iOS and they’re patchy on Android. So I keep a pager next to my bed to make sure I get woken up if something’s on fire.
I like this project a lot but I question the claim in the headline, that hundreds of thousands of people are reading these novels through NYPL's Instagram stories.

More likely is that the quoted number refers to how many views the stories have received, combined, and then mainly the first pages of each individual story.

The stories have hundreds of pages and there's no way to pick up where you left, so I do not believe people open them more than once. I'm guessing that none of the 300,000 viewers have actually read any of the books until completion , through these stories.
What hidden-compartment furniture reveals about us
I can't say much about the arguments themselves as I'm not competent enough, but many people on the list are not scientists, and many of those who are specialize in fields very distant from climate change.
This has not been my experience. People, especially the ones these days, are bored to tears by facts. They don't care.

However, by pointing out absurdity in a way that invokes a positive state of being, welled crafted humor can not only get the point across more efficiently but propagate more effectively if people choose to retell the joke.
Intel is so focused on server chips it forgot all about the desktop. AMD is killing it.
Not a JS solution but if memory serves, setting the font size of in an input to 16px or greater prevents the mobile auto-zoom. At least on iOS.
Apparently not, at least in the world of dishwashers and washing machines. The expensive model is often exactly the same as the cheaper one, but with extra buttons, cycles and so on. Prices for white goods seem to be based on what the market will bear, not on the cost of production.

When I was born, my parents had a hoover twin-tub. It was still working 20 years later when I left home.

The first washing machine I bought lasted twelve years (the control panel had to be replaced once). I think I eventually replaced it because I had moved house, and it didn't fir in the new kitchen. Nowadays it doesn't seem to be possible to buy dishwashers and washing machines that last longer than 4 years. I threw out my "old" dishwasher after just one year; it had broken down 5 times since I bought it brand-new, each time for the same reason: failed heater. Each time I had to wait several weeks for the mechanic to show (manufacturer's warranty, contracted out to a service company). Each time, I asked the mechanic if he could recommend a make/model that would be more reliable. And each time I was told that I might as well buy a cheap one, they all break down as quickly as one another.

These mechanics are seeing what I am seeing: machines that break down much sooner than they used to 15 years ago. Well, that's a market failure; it's what government regulation was invented for.
Why? I think many people have somewhat misguided notions about the punk scene.
China’s Youth Are Caught in the Cult of Nationalism
> The server might have the wrong Python version available

That's the point of using virtual environments, so that you can run the Python version and libraries that you need. Also, as of 3.3, Python ships with venv which means you don't need to separately install virtualenv anymore. It's all very portable.
Isn't Google supposed to comply with the "right to be forgotten" in the EU? In that case Boris Johnson could have asked to remove the offending articles and, since they are gone, new ones take their place. Just a guess thought, but indeed it's strange that they can be so easily tricked.
Yes, pretty much.

We have decades of experience with this. It's why scientists have to declare conflicts of interest: we know that it undermines their arguments.
Surely it's completely uncontroversial that producing longer-lasting, repairable goods is more efficient than regularly throwing away almost-but-not-quite-working goods because of perverse economic incentives put on the manufacturers of those goods?
Vengeful IT admin thrown behind bars for destroying Army systems on exit
If they are answering math questions correctly in unexpected ways then they are demonstrating skill at math. Math is not a procedure,
>but there seems to be a reflexive (negative) response from many posters here regarding any new regulation that the EU produces.

it's the audience of the website. Even though most people here seem to fall into the American liberal camp due to the fact that it's a tech site there's a strong "regulation=bad" undercurrent in the posting that's also been prevalent in the industry, in particular in SV for the last few decades.
India certainly is a factor, and Nigeria and Pakistan will also contribute.

We could hope that they have another incentive to use a lower percentage of fossil fuels: It's going to become more expensive over the next decades, not only to buy them, but also to bear the health problems that come with that.

These countries already have a high population density. If they want to meet their demands mostly through fossil fuel, they themselves will be very unhappy long before the climate gets any worse.
I read that sentence, but it refers to a different problem. The author is trying to explain why you can't fix the problem by simply having the runtime automatically copy your []struct to a []interface (if it did so, any operation which was supposed to modify the original slice would instead modify the auto-created copy, which wouldn't be correct):

> It could allocate a new slice of interface values for you, and assign the concrete User values into corresponding indexes:

> [snipping example]

> Indeed, for getNames(users) this would actually work fine! But slices have mutable indexes. and many functions mutate the slices they're passed.

Again, this is not a real problem, and it could be pretty easily worked around. The real problem is that the slice type is neither covariant nor contravariant.
I always switch my outward-facing ssh servers to key-only. Is there any advantage for running fail2ban additionally?
Linguee (https://linguee.com) does a pretty good job of translating idioms from and to different languages. It is not perfect, of course. No pasa nada.

I’ve lately found in my Spanish learning that I can “see” idioms without knowing their meaning by using subtitles in Spanish with Spanish audio. They usually come up as sequences of words that make no sense to me.
Not to take away from the efforts of the developer but this basically turns Slack into Discord. Which I think would be interesting. I think always open audio channels are useful because anybody can just join and you can code and talk whilst doing so.
I'd like to know why. Has it got something to do with yet another corporate entity consolidating market position and power?
I did just try...but I noticed they require a login/account.

I usually don't have this issue with my ebooks/paperbacks.
Where are you getting this information that mentioning Yaxley-Lennon's alter-ego gets the post deleted? Appears to be nonsense to me, I have seen plenty of posts with that name in them.
That's because keto isn't really a weight loss diet. It can be, but it was designed to reduce seizures in people with epilepsy. It's a healthy diet with the side effect of reducing weight if calories are reduced. It is popular as a way to lose weight because the fats keep you satiated for hours, reducing hunger and the feeling of needing to eat. Also, the reduction of carbs reduces the blood sugar spike and the subsequent sugar crash later that makes you feel hungry.
Just because some people say that doesn't make it true. Green Day fans are like the flat Earthers of punk.
Whatever happened to Prometheus? I haven't heard anything since their launch [0]. The website doesn't have any updates [1]. Complete radio silence.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19842240

[1] https://www.prometheusfuels.com/
I don't think recruiters work the way you've described.

I also don't think a sane person would like to stop receiving messages from recruiters.

I'm also not sure I understand what you have in mind when you write "privilege".
Somewhat fitting that he was killed by his own invention (not tetraethyllead or freon). I remember hearing about him from Stephen Fry on QI.
Don't know why you were downvoted; new technologies should make things both cheaper and more reliable, but it doesn't seem to be working, at least not for white goods.
This feels like a nightmare to me. If I am thinking and in concentration - all external stimulation needs to be shut off.
Great job on building something but man I’d hate it if employers actually demanded always on video, even for calls. Slack is pretty intrusive as is.
We could explore every variants indeed, but nlhe is the most popular and Stu's game choice. I was thinking about Linus and Baron as pete_mc replied, they've both crushed it in the past few years.

Of course there are other specialists above their competition in every variant ; my point remain, though, that the level is much better now, and would we analyse the plays made by Stu with solvers, we would find lots of mistakes made. (Actually I will probably do it for fun).

My point being, Stu was incredibly dominant in his time, and props to him for figuring out so much about the game especially back then, and that's a feat just for itself, but other players are incredibly dominant now too and with a much better understanding of what they are doing.
This is a problem I did not even know I had. Thanks for pointing it out!
It's not so much about fascism but about citizens neglecting the political sphere. And at least in the US, Trump was a real wake up call. Political participation has risen sharply, not just in terms of voting.

I would hope it will be similar in the UK. Their current political system needs to be shaken up to produce a new, larger group of leaders in a more competitive environment. Or at least more competitive around policy specifically. However, this "shaking up" is really hard without breaking a lot.
"500 scientists and professionals" so title is voluntarily misleading. Overall there are much fewer than 50% physical science doctors.
"How to tell an over-confident student they still have a lot to learn?"

Give him a problem that's worth his time to solve.
You can still use cloud products in areas where there's not fibre/ultra-broadband internet. You just have to put up with a little bit of shit every now and then - much like having a backyard septic!
Gatsby can be a great replacement for create-react-app
DataHawk provides e-commerce analytics so you can optimize your listings
Do people really know such detailed information of the HR issues of their competitors?

Plus it just sounds like a shit post - "You can't hire black people, they'll just slack off and sue you when you fire them."
> that makes filtering impossible

... including spam filtering, which matters somewhat for consumers, too.

Then there's the issue of search - with webmail you have no realistic choice but to rely on server-side search, and the same issue likely applies on phones even when using a dedicated mail app. (And indeed ProtonMail currently only offers meta-data search, but no full text body search)
Can you elaborate? I know Amazon has this extremely unequal vesting schedule. Are they now doing yearly comp targets and bringing you up to that target with cash?
Expensive models are made on the same production line, usually owned by the same group multinational that makes the cheap and mid-range brands. The factory, knowledge and workers who made the premium one when it was independent are now gone. It's exactly as you say. Even the vanishingly few properly independent premium brands have come markedly downmarket quality wise, by using the same techniques.

In the 80s and 90s the distinction and spread across the market was real. The buyouts and takeovers hadn't consolidated into just a few mega groups. The expensive fridge or washing machine was built, and lasted very differently.

Now we have Samsung et al building £1,500 premium fridge freezers and £800 washing machines that are just as unrepairable as the cheap crap.

It goes far wider than just appliances though.
Speaking of opinion pieces, that second one could really use some scrutiny.
You could have one GDPR compliant site in the EU and a different international one.. or just block EU. Nobody is infringing on someone else's sovereignty in that case.
The idea is nice but we've tried this, and it got us hellish levels of inequality (gilded age, etc.).

I do see what you're saying, for instance setting a maximum interest rate on payday loans caused lenders to shift to that maximum (even those which were below before), and having rules about what's part-time or full-time work does tend to solidify jobs around those points (get as much work out of them as you can without providing health insurance, etc.) but the alternative doesn't seem to work.
Sorry, but that's just not true. If someone's spending 5000-10000€ on a kitchen renovation, then it's quite worth it to spend a couple of hundred more on appliances that will last as long as the rest of the kitchen. With modern built-in appliances then you need to take that into account, unless you want to install new cupboards every 5 years because your dishwasher died.
> Sometimes they’ll find a way to optimize the work away.

As would plenty of other adults, myself included. Whether that's evidence that children don't have much different self-motivation than adults, or that my self-motivation skills are still childish - that I'm not sure.
Sounds like small string optimization (SSO), which is common in C++.
An insurance company could offer it, however. They'd want to make sure the produce is of sufficient quality, and if it breaks, they'll provide replacements/repairs until the end of the warranty period.
You Shouldn't Be Terrified of This Never-Ending Stew (2015)
The misleading title has some suggestion the letter is from the UN. But its a letter send to the UN.

The original title is 'Prominent scientists warn UN Secretary-General Guterres'. Already in the first sentence the story weakens further by explaining the 500 include 'professionals' as well - which can be anybody with a job, basicly.
What makes it different from silicon valley? I read the whole article but couldn't find it mentioned except for the headline. Is there something I'm missing? Is it just that they aim to limit sponsorship from silicon valley giants?
From what I read (not an expert in this topic), the passive radar solution didn't rely on this and would've worked without deflectors. Maybe it worked a bit better, but I don't think they have much opportunity to test it with aircrafts flying stealth.
500 also sounds like so many when in reality it's a very small number.
We’re a cruel species because we have empathy.
It's important to be skeptical about this, but it's somewhat fun to entertain as a way of neutralising any potential attack lines for upcoming elections.

So far:
* Buses
* Models
* Bridges

3 is a pattern. Maybe we could anticipate future subjects being letter boxes, water cannons, watermelons, Iran, etc.
The point I am making is the web is huge and your curated list likely to be small and not contain any information about 'tail of search' kind of query.
One camera on you, and an additional camera pointed at the keyboard to ensure that you are in fact working.
Millenials should keep in mind this quote from Milton Friedman: "We economists don't know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. If you want to create a shortage of tomatoes, for example, just pass a law that retailers can't sell tomatoes for more than two cents per pound. Instantly you'll have a tomato shortage. It's the same with oil or gas."

That 400 euro price to repair a laptop might accurately reflect the labour and other costs. Repairing something is much less amenable to automation than mass-producing it in the first place (especially since the latter can be done in a low-cost country).
Protester shot in chest by live police round during Hong Kong protests
If the accessible alternative isn't really an alternative then I don't think that's a different issue at all.
So what you are telling us is that the leave side knew what they were voting for because they saw through the lies from the leave side which said that everything the remain side was saying was "project fear". Do you honestly think you can claim that is democracy working as intended?
Slack is extremely intrusive, doesn't obey DnD and forces favicon updates.
On the one hand I recognise a lot of the teams and work issues this developer had. But reading between the lines it seems like this dev wanted it all, equity without commitment, weeks of remote work without formal agreement, a quick cash out over adding value to the company...Seems very entitled to me. It looks very one-sided as well. Everything had to come from the company and its management, nothing from his side.
A quick Google search tells me that the "new regulation" re firefighters you're talking about is a recent court ruling about the working time directive from 2003. Volunteer firefighters are a huge part of the firefighter workforce in many EU countries including Germany (97%) and France (78%) so I highly doubt what you're insinuating will happen.
Couldn't agree with you more. 10 years is way too short.

Apple forces iPhone 5S and iPhone 6 owners to buy a new model even if they work fine after 6 years. Why couldn't a mobile phone work for 15years?

Just think of the US cars in Cuba, build in the 50s and still on the road. If I remember well, the amount of fossil fuel needed to build a car is more than it will use during it's lifetime on the road.

Changing to Less is more will require either

- a disaster (war, flooding, hunger) or

- long endurance and perseverance against old thinking by Greta Thunberg and the like.
Why would anyone store 1TB of data in highly redundant JSON?

Stored as protobuf, I estimate it would be 8x smaller. A custom binary format would be smaller again. Not only is that smaller, which saves storage and transfer cost, it's also proportionally faster to process.
Scott Adams is a commentator and humorist, not a researcher or academic. Most reasonable people don't expect others in such a position to cite statistics and evidence, just as we don't shout "citation needed" every time a comedian makes a joke and doesn't mention a study proving their punchline is indeed funny because it's true.

Even if Scott Adams wrote something legitimately offensive, that article, like everything on Jezebel, has an obvious agenda and uses language that rip-snorts while tip toeing around the points Scott was making. If anything, it's made me more sympathetic to him because the obviously bigoted author can't stand the fact that a "white male" said something contrary to the women-are-wonderful stereotype.
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Parker Lewis of Unchained Capital explains why Bitcoin detractors are wrong
You mean https://www.styled-components.com/ ? I am curious how the components can be themed? My understanding is web components use shadow dom isolating their dom tree from the outer document so wasn’t sure if it is possible to have an outer document css file provide theme colors to the components?
OP said the replacement screen was 400€ just for the part, not labor. Given the total cost of the computer is 600€ fully assembled that's obviously extortionate pricing for the screen.
Nor in some cases even read at all https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-cont...
The question is not "does this work on you" instead it's "does this work on enough of the population to have a significant effect".

Observing my social groups, Is answer that it does. People often question something like "how does this buffoon get to be PM".
https://github.com/godotengine/godot
Amazons “signing bonus” is just a way to equalize the total compensation over 4 years. It’s paid out monthly in the second year which doesn’t make it much of a bonus. This is as someone with 1 year of tenure. After the first two years folks get stock refreshers.
Medium is encouraging people to put their articles behind a paywall, so many Medium stories are inaccessible unless you log in. Many feel this goes against the spirit of blogging.
You're falling into the same trap. Your words also work from the other perspective:

Therefore it makes sense for alarmists to move from a scientific discussion (which has largely been lost) to a political/emotional one, where things are more flexible and a good presented bad argument might still enable you to win.

This very submission is an example of the alarmists doing that.

There are none so blind...
Humpback whales appear to show empathy towards other species. We have 115 documented cases of them doing so (and it is a lot given how hard it is to observe them).

http://oceanwildthings.com/2018/06/what-humpback-whales-can-...

They also have mirror neurons that have been an important component in theory of mind.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061127111607.h...
No. They knew the terms of the deal when they signed the papers. It's a work permit. If I buy a ten year software license I don't magically own it in perpetuity by virtue of having used it a long time.
How much work does cutting a 14,000$ check requires? It been going on since August. For a foot truck operations 14,000$ must be a significant toll on cash flow. It's inexcusable.
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21106520
I get the users are just looking for ways of doing thing they like. Many won't know what features are available elsewhere. Sooner or later they will start grumbling about it.

And then expect Zuck and his henchmen, to come up with retarded round about ways to provide the features. "We pay close attention to our cattle. Our new AI based cloud OCR can identify upto 40% of all words on a single page! You can even copy and paste some of them etc etc".

I personally don't like reading books on the Kindle or Phone but do find the bookmarking/lookup/navigation features very useful and of course the ability to store a zillion books. Given all those advantages expect some Facebook exec to start drawing up master plans.
But in this case passive radar would help enormously? It could detect the aircraft and help to launch an IR missile, effectively rendering the stealth capabilities useless. Deployed at borders, it could provide good air defense against F35.

You obviously need strong signals for passive radar to work but those could be positioned inland and they don't need to be where the passive radar is, making it harder to disable it.
Most humans don't block ads though.
They should all go off at once for a last hurrah.

All ten of them.
Remember that the EU was actively working with Iran to find a solution that works for everyone, while Trump on his own reinstated the sanctions.

This argument could have been made in years past, but now, when sanctions can be reinstated by a single mad man instantly, the argument no longer holds.
Is it only me or the article font is really hard on the eyes? Why the web designers (looking at Microsoft as well) insist on using such thin fonts?
Pretty slick implementation. Was also wary about the always on video rooms but it seems they’re opt in for the most part.
A story about Lady Hale is currently the top hit for me in Google News if I search for "barmaid".
It isn't BS as I've lost a considerable amount of weight in a very short time on it, eating nothing but vegetables and meat. Usually eating (far) over 1,000 calories per meal, dripping tons of butter on literally everything, 3x a day, going from 223lbs to 180lbs in 3 months.

I know nearly a dozen people at work who've lost as much or more weight than me, eating like I did. In fact you're the first person I've ever heard of gaining weight on keto, on or off the internet.