skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not true. While most voters from low income households supported leaving the EU (as shown in the report you linked), 59% of leave votes came from middle class voters and only 17% of Leave votes were from skilled manual workers. The majority of middle class voters supported remaining, but because there are so many of them, middle class voters also made up the majority of leave voters. This 5 minute report [0] from the BBC looks into where the votes for Brexit came from and how the different classes voted.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOMiUONDLno
> Otherwise intelligent people are incapable of understanding that their outrage is being directed to serve geo-political ends.

"Direction" implies that there was a coordinated decision to inflate the importance of the Hong Kong protests by sending more journalists there to produce more articles. But Hong Kong was already an internationally important city with many journalists. Of course they were going to report on protests happening right under their nose.

For example, when the German broadsheet Die Zeit published an article on the protests, it was by the same journalist as always when there's something to report in Hong Kong. When they sent a team into Yemen, they weren't allowed into the country, operated from Djibouti and used a Yemeni reporter as a proxy to allow them to do interviews via video call; of course using a translator because there wasn't enough forewarning to learn a language for this assignment.

The difference in reporting difficulty explains the difference in reporting frequency.

If the media really wanted to patriotically antagonize China, they could have devoted similar attention to incidents in places like Nanjing, Zhuhai or Wuhan, but I only saw Wuhan make it into English-language media; that played out as usual when something happens where no (English-speaking) journalist is there to report on it.
> Undoing this damage [...] includes less meat, less intensive and more intelligent farming, and the application of new technologies, including ways to produce high volumes of food for cities.

So “going vegan won’t save the planet” by itself, but it plays a major role in doing so. Makes sense, especially if one considers that the production of meat presupposes the production of plant-based fodder worth about 10 times the energy.

The title is misleading, or simply clickbait. Then again, it helps tricking your meat-loving friends into clicking on it...
And when you think yesterday people were talking that at least apple is better than blizzard.It didn't took long.
What is good war?
It's still a mobile website, so they can just use a VPN to access it.
I came up with:

document.documentElement.innerHTML.split('\n').forEach( (line) => line.includes('mailto:') ? console.log(line) : 0 )

But please push this further (is there a shorter way to say document.documentElement.innerHTML ?)
From 'Gemini Man' to 'The Irishman': Dawn of the De-Aged Actor
> Are you against requiring seat belts and emissions controls in cars? Requiring homes to be built to code? Requiring utilities to provide water/power/gas to products made by other companies?

This seems like a good line of reasoning that should be used when drafting up legislation to stop this behavior. All of this legislation enforcing certain behavior is to prevent harm to people. Similarly, the ability for China to so easily make Western corporations dance to their tune is an incredibly dangerous development with obvious potential for significant and frequent harm. I hope this becomes a major election issue.
Krakens on globes. I still find the similarity to the propaganda drawing from a 1938 Stürmer (Nazi propaganda publication) unsettling: see e.g. "World domination" section at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitic_canard. Sure, it's been used before as well, but it's what I feel reminded of. In many different classes in (German) school we talked quite a lot about Nazi Germany and propaganda, where we also talked about this image and all the messages it transport. A similar logo was also used in the ACTA protests 2010 and found itself criticized for its similarity, e.g. https://taz.de/!5101105/.

Apart from that, thanks for this FOIA request! It's great that the original vector graphics are now available.
Grammarly Raises $90M at $1B+ Valuation
Very cool. I've been working with the existing Jupyter-like support for interactive programming in VS Code[0] but this is so much better.

[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/data-science-with-pyth...
This is not surprising consider Apple's past actions. I'm sure everyone that gave up Blizzard games will now be giving up Apple products now.
Yes, exactly. It's like nobody read to the end of the article:

"For sure, it's good news, but what we are seeing now in the Mediterranean Sea and other parts of the world is that these marine heat waves are recurrent—happening every summer or every second summer," Kersting said.

These corals also grow very slowly—at a rate of about 3 millimeters a year—"so if you are having every second summer a heat wave, and it's killing 10 to 15 percent of the cover, I mean, the numbers are clear," he added.

"They actually need help from us. We need to stop climate change, because it's not going to be enough."

Global warming is just starting. Ocean temperatures are on an uptrend. If every human being disappeared right now, temperature would increase for decades.
Imagine instead that this reads "After Trump tweet, Apple removes app used by border protestors."

That's exactly what this is.

In a way the China thing is even worse because Apple is not a Chinese company. There is realistically more Trump could do to harm Apple than the CCP.

Of course I suppose Apple has outsourced all their manufacturing to China, so there's that. I must admit a bit of schadenfreude at watching the great greed-driven amoral outsourcing rush of the past 50 years start backfiring badly as I knew it always would.
Electricity, transportation, and manufacturing add up to about 80% of all GHG emissions. If you want your diet choice to have the biggest impact purchase locally produced and unprocessed foods.
this works at least in chrome console (to get link urls, not emails)

[...($$('a'))].map(e => e.href)
Show HN: Clojure-based metamodel of CRUD apps
Bone marrow was kept in a Stone Age meat locker
When people say "politicians", there really is a world of difference between local, county, state, and federal. Most locals are definitely the walk on team.
TIL. That would explain why a recent submission had the word "How" removed from the front. Was really confused.
There should really be a "things you should know about SSH" article. Then an inventory of similar articles like the awesome-thing type lists.

I'm guessing it already exists and I don't know what it's called? (Maybe it's basically cheat-sheets? But they tend to be cues for syntax, rather than concepts).
Developers are also just lazy or plain believe in snake oil. On PC, Titanfall 1 had uncompressed wav files for audio which was 35GB of its 48GB file size, the reason being 'decoding audio incurs a performance cost and we want the maximum performance for our players'.

Not only is using lossless audio unnecessary (no in the world is gonna hear the difference between a wav/flac or 320kbps mp3 gunshot), the decoding cost for mp3 or ogg is miniscule.
You seem to have grasped the essence of the argument, except that health insurers wouldn't have captive customers because the captivity is enforced largely by government regulations.

The point is that mandatory certification of doctors, medications vetted through a highly risk averse process and having no flexibility in dealing with health insurers all secure better outcomes at a cost that nobody apart from the government thinks is reasonable. If anyone had a choice, which they do not, they would probably choose something cheaper.

It is lovely that surgeons are all wealthy, articulate, over-educated polymaths with numerous hobbies and interests (and can probably play a musical instrument, I don't know), etc, etc, except it isn't actually obvious why they need all that. At the end of the day a surgeon needs experience, steady hands and an aversion to doing things that are not necessary. And when tested people will prefer cheap with a good reputation to overqualified but approved by some guild.

It isn't like accidents don't already happen. Can't escape from risk using bureaucracy; minimising risk at all costs is a sign that people are making bad decisions.
That is great, love it how sometimes things like this are stumbled upon by working outside what you are used to.
oregano and cilantro are completely unrelated
If the West is bad at reporting, is it better elsewhere, maybe in China or maybe in Russia, even India? Or is it that almost everyone is like that?

Are people in Santa Barbara bad because they don’t keep up with things in Sparks NV too much?
You at ALT or are there other players in that? In discussions about regulation, I often tell people one of the biggest ways of showing its value is that DO-178B caused a company to attempt a high-quality driver for Radeon that they wouldn't build themselves. ;)

I'm very curious about your experience in that market. Especially whether the GPU vendors give you enough information under NDA to make them reliable, if you mostly black-box it using a subset of their features, and so on. Also, the QA techniques you use in such scenarios. I think some of tricks on your end might be applicable to other types of hardware.
Trump to meet with Chinese vice premier at White House: Big day of negotiations
Nothing against helping refugees but EU and NATO should cancel any further economical and military cooperation with Turkey ASAP until they have a more sane leader in charge.
Obviously one solution isn't going to solve the problem, but we'd get a lot further if the single solution people adopted was eating less/no meat instead of (say) not using plastic straws.
The first article you cite says:

"The chemical UV filter oxybenzone has been studied most intensively and the following effects have been described: Bleaching of coral fragments and coral cells from various species of hard coral. This effect is more pronounced at higher water temperatures."

Sounds like, as with many things, the story isn't simple. Multiple environmental changes simultaneously can have consequences where each, by itself, would have much less effect. In general, we need to tackle all the causes to some degree to have much hope of success.
It wasn't all that obvious or popular back in 2012. Many of these patterns have become more popular since then, also in part due to articles like this.
> American exceptionalism isn't the same thing as manifest destiny

Sorry, you're probably right. I confess I'm not really aware of the exact difference. I meant the general feeling of "America is the best", which I think is pretty undeniable, at least as the rest of the world experiences it. My point was to contrast it with the Chinese, who have the exact same feeling.
Right, but I'm asking if this article is outdated already?

Often a story gets held up while being written and doesn't account for developments in last few days. It is just confusing as they don't state that this would be Apple undoing a previous reversal in the fate of this app.

Update: ok, Apple did initial reinstated it and has removed it again.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/09/apple-pulls-hkmap-from-app...
That feels pretty dogmatic. I get soda not being "real food", but I think the only way you can disqualify all pizza is by running down an anti-carb rabbit-hole.
Even within the EU (and Turkey is not part of the EU, which is the EU's fault, not TUrkey's), this rule has been bent a lot in recent years. Greece and Italy and other countries have been sending refugees north.

Of course, the Mediterranean countries will regret this bad precedent once the hordes of Scandinavian refugees come down from the south, and Germany and France and Benelux expect them to take some of them. Oh, wait...
> Tyranny of the majority is a bad thing.

Tyranny of the minority is significantly worse.
The invasion did have a lot to do with shaping the oil market to the US liking, so if you're a western consumer of petroleum industry - which you are - then perhaps you might find some connection with the plight of Iraqi people after all.
Or if all the app does is report police presence using your location, they could create a website and not need an app at all....
That's not an expensive hobby
It's a lot less efficient to grow almonds than livestock-grade soybeans, so perhaps almond milk is worse for the environment than cow's milk? The article doesn't really go into that sort of analysis though, and it's difficult to imagine that the average vegan has a bigger ecological impact.
edit: I removed this comment. I travel in China.

(HN doesnt' apparently allow me to "delete" it, so I apologize for the edit.)
Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era
Bazel may be 1.0 and the internal abstractions of dag solving etc are rock solid from years of use inside Google, but the ecosystem around Bazel is quite bad at the moment. They've been breaking backwards compatibility constantly, so rules authors have struggled to keep up (hopefully done now that it's 1.0).

The reason the ecosystem maturity is so important for bazel is because its design encourages complete reimplementations. The rust packaging rules for bazel reimplement a subset of cargo's features from scratch. The docker rules reimplement image building from scratch (they don't actually use docker). The (Google maintained) python rules shell out to pip, but it's got a ton of problems, some packages are unbuildable, and it busts the cache constantly and redownloads everything.

If you're using C++ or Java, I can heartily recommend Bazel as an improvement to your current tool. If you're using anything else, hold off until the ecosystem is more mature.

I can believe all of these reimplementations are worth it for hermeticity, but I seriously doubt most shops need the extreme hermeticity Google does. It's a thing that really matters at gargantuan scale.
UBI isn't a reality in large parts of Europe. There might be a handful of local experiments here and there but nothing on the scale that "large parts of Europe" suggests.
I don't, and my coworkers laughed at me when I relayed that conversation to them, I feel vindicated the issue around requirements gathering, and the effect that has on development, isn't unique to my company.
There appears to be a handful of NROL logos (and related documentation) FOIAed on Muckrock: https://www.muckrock.com/search/?q=nrol

edit: Check out the wikipedia list of NROL launches https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NRO_launches
I spoke with a former Apple dev on this topic once. He says that you can opt out of code signing and the App Store on Mac because that's a professional OS, but for iOS the security rationale for not allowing that is that it's geared for less tech-savvy users. Paraphrasing: "If there is a way to opt out, malicious apps and sites will con users into doing it to get malware on the phone."

I can't totally disagree. To have a completely secure device you have to lock out the user since the user is often the least secure component of the system.
> Is this actually true?

Not even remotely. Not even in the same ballpark as true. Not even the same sport.
Me too, but for that to be possible requires friends who don't demand that one uses them to voluntarily associate.
no I think that's a sign it's working it's not like anyone in the field has an ability to predict what's truly groundbreaking groundbreaking is something that you realize 5 years later in the context of many other things that have gone on. for example I doubt that the first reviewers of the crisper papers really appreciated the deep power of the technique.
Cheap electricity and convenient transportation for yourself at the cost of everyone else's health, well being and future is something a free market could offer and I'm not sure why you think I denied that.

You fail to demonstrate how more of that free market fixes safety problems. If you are suggesting the normal solution, you will end up creating stacks of regulation to force people into "free markets" for services they should buy to offset externalities such as risk to 3rd parties, which will in turn seek ways to create new externalities to cut their costs. That stack of turtles can either collapse under its own weight and need to pay usury rates or not actually address many of the externalities, or both..
You can get a free developer account which will let you sign an app for 7 days. You just have to redo it every week.
The name for why this is not easy is “coordination problem”.
Same story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21210678 (235 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21213694 (144 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21211971 (97 comments)
I've been getting more and more interested with qt development. As a linux user, I'm exhausted from the bloat and cycle stealing electron apps ( with VSCode being a notable exception to this rule).
But more recently, the idea of writing one app in Qt, running it everywhere between Android, a Librem 5, and desktop platfoms is really exciting.
It originates in the constraints of hardware, particularly 8 and 16-bit computers with typically 4K or 64K addressable memory. Starting with the modification of existing games, it became a challenge to push how impressive a program could be made (typically an audiovisual demonstration "demo"). Such hardware becoming obsolete added to the impressiveness.

Demo and game competitions without constraints exist, but naturally become a competition of art and design, where use of existing engines is rewarded, discouraging programmers. The constrained competitions can be more appealing to programmers, where programming creativity is better rewarded.
Hopefully Github is/continues to be a good, cost effective partner so more money and time can be spent on areas of concern.
Everything You Need to Know About 5g
For those new to hearing about Qt / Qt for Android:

- https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/android.html

- https://www.qt.io/

> Qt for Android enables you to run Qt 5 applications on devices with Android v4.1 (API level 16) or later.

> One framework. One codebase. Any platform.
No, just the majority, as I understand it, and as I believe their actions demonstrate.

Of course I can't know the inner secrets of a billion minds, but it's my genuine belief that what I wrote is at least mostly in the right direction.
To ask the dumb question, what is source hut? It looks essentially like Gitlab to me.
> I believe that objects exist in one place, then they move to the next place.

Bohmian mechanics was made for people like you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie–Bohm_theory
This is sad. Because as tech advances, we are stuck with governments that don't have good teams and leave a ton of stuff vulnerable.
Because decades ago during the early stages of the cold war, the US needed a place close to Russia to plant nukes and Eastern Europe was taken, so Turkey was the best option at the time.

But now, with Eastern Europe and the Baltics part of NATO there are better options and Turkey's membership should be reviewed.
Sigh, I grow tired of pointing this out, but if they were able to figure out someone was doing this, and even who it was, then you weren't a l33t hacker. You used common tools and used a known exploit that people were watching.

You broke rules for personal enjoyment and weren't even good enough to not get caught. You didn't beat them, they beat you. It doesn't matter if you went unnoticed for several months, the fact is standard monitoring and logs were your down fall. Nobody ever thinks of the log files and network monitoring tools as being part of security. Not being prevented from accessing the system is not the same thing as successfully hacking a system unless you aren't caught either.
Obligatory UTF-8 Everywhere[1] link.

[1] http://utf8everywhere.org/
because:
a) Turkey is the (almost literal) culture gate between Europe and the Middle East, this is in itself very valuable.
b) Largest army in Europe.
c) Erdogan still has to restrain himself because he has treaties with NATO allies. Otherwise we might get a second unhinged Putin. That would cause a real headache for the EU that tries to stop immigrants from reaching its borders by millions.
FWIW, Polish army did help the US in Iraq, in the vain hope that if we kiss the US ass hard enough, we'll get visa requirements for Polish people removed...
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"incoming inequality is a red herring"

Greater income inequality leads to less civil participation.

The Gini Coefficient and Democratic Index seem to line up quite nicely. Coincidence?

File under "believe but cannot yet prove", correlation != causation, blah, blah, blah.
caloric deficit while on the paleo diet?
I really want to use it but anything beyond the simple example is difficult to migrate to.
I must have read the toolchain pages 10x times but still setting up a custom compiler or even different JDK setup is confusing.
So spell check is now a unicorn idea?
I am sympathetic to the Dancing Bunnies Problem [1]. However, when I weigh the societal harm of (A) preventing people who are very dedicated to shooting themselves in the foot from shooting themselves in the foot, versus (B) protesters being unable to share and access important safety information, the choice is clear.

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-dancing-bunnies-problem/
I disagree with you regarding Apple - they are the ones who started the trend of the ultimate walled gardens by letting the platform maker decide which software resides on your device. Neither Google nor Facebook nor Microsoft were inclined to do that. Apple single-handedly changed the narrative (in a significant way, since earlier there were tiny pockets of walled gardens like gaming consoles). The society is going to suffer in the long term because of that.
> China obviously isn't an expansionist colonial power either.

Maybe not colonial in a ~legal sense, but some of the deals they're doing with weaker countries seem designed to grant them significant power.
What about war and progressive social change
What was the theme this year?
How my iPhone landed me with a £476 fine and made me a criminal
That's not a very good threat. Diversity is Europe's strength and they will be welcome with open arms!
hkmap.live

The map is online as well, I guess they also wanted the app
I'm director of engineering (50+ employees)

I'm given a budget and that's my absolute ceiling. If there's a high anchoring I just pass because there's nothing I can do - the budget is the budget.
Utahns agreed to give up polygamy in order to join the Union. It's almost the opposite of the current situation in Hong Kong.
>well, you did invade them. Overthrew their government.

A one-person invasion? And he even succeeded at overthrowing a government all by his lonesome self? That's impressive.

This mild sarcasm I used above is to draw attention to the ludicrous idea that any citizen, anywhere, is responsible for the actions of their government.

Hee and haw about how we citizens brought whoever to power. I don't care. Until the day that government corruption ends and elections become fair, the governments' actions are not my own.

Call me when that day occurs.

P.S. here's a bit from the comic Doug Stanhope that hits a similar topic. [1]

"‘Oh, was that us?’ Was that me and you, Tommy? We saved the French? Jesus. I know I blacked out a little after that fourth shot of Jägermeister last night, but I don’t remember… "

[1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKT4a-RMT5o
> I don't think most physicists would hold this position

That's true, but those that do hold it hew to it rather vigorously.