skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm saying "should", not "does". Obviously there are inequalities, and there will always be, for a variety of reasons. The goal is to reduce those differences and keep them from getting out of control.

Saying someone's opinion does not count is generally unproductive and needlessly hostile. The only cases where that might be defensible, is if the opinion that's under attack is itself attacking other opinions. For example: if someone claims that women's opinions don't count, I can see how you could argue that such a clearly bigoted opinion is not worthy of attention: it's arguing for the exact situation we should be getting away from.

Another case might be where an opinion is obviously badly informed; sometimes you see people voicing weird opinions based on wrong assumptions about other people they know nothing about, and refuse any correction on those wrong assumptions. (In politics, those misinformed opinions are often still the loudest, though. See the abortion debate for some bizarre examples.) In those cases, shutting up and learning may indeed be the best idea.

But in most cases, all opinions deserve to be heard, and nobody should be excluded from the debate for who or what they are. Of course that also means they shouldn't exclude others for who they are.
The Spanish government can't talk or agree on having an illegal election about a portion of people deciding about National sovereignty.

Article 1.2 - Spanish Constitution: 'National sovereignty is vested in the Spanish people, from whom emanate the powers of the State.'

http://www.congreso.es/constitucion/ficheros/c78/cons_ingl.p...
> At least governments are sort of remotely accountable

That's very "sort of", and very remote! I wouldn't trust my (the UK) Government as far as I could throw them!
"Things break at random for reasons you can't understand and the only way to fix it is to find terminal commands from discussion forums, type them in and hope for the best."
I have different goals, my friend. But congrats on how you've set things up, sounds like it worked out great!
Earlier this year I purchased a fairly pricey Asus laptop. A few months in the wireless card appeared to commit seppuku so I reinstalled the drivers, no dice, reinstalled windows, no dice and now my touchpad was broken. Every driver failed to affect any device, so I installed the latest Ubuntu and it all 'just worked', including the keyboard backlight.

When I explained this to ASUS support they said the hardware must be faulty and my only option is to send the laptop in. That is ostensibly not true as Ubuntu can't magically repair hardware failures.

Meanwhile my other Windows box restarts every night, but fails to apply updates, so every time I use it I am greeted with that failure and no insight or path to success.
We need a diversity of opinions for sure, people without opinions are just Yes Men.
Just to add an important note, this is true but it’s different names for different people depending on when they enter & exit the index.
Not ideal, but http://dev.zeppel.eu/luca/SidecarCorePatch might help, apparently it works on the release version too.
Thanks for the correction, I've updated now.

> Anyway, what would be the minimum number of people to have the right for it? A region? A city? A 'barrio'? A family? A group of friends?

If you're asking my personal opinion I think there would need to be a population of at least a few hundred thousand in favour of succession. I guess it would depend on how many people are required to run a functional state.

Perhaps there would be middle grounds where smaller groups can be granted some level of independence. Although that might naturally arise from states wishing to retain some level of control over a discontent population seeking independence. I know many believe devolution is the answer to Scottish independence in the UK.
The wikipedia article says "There are conflicting definitions and legal criteria for determining which groups may legitimately claim the right to self-determination." Have you not just pick a definition that agrees with you political point of view?

"Other definitions offered are "peoples" being self-evident (from ethnicity, language, history, etc.), or defined by "ties of mutual affection or sentiment", i.e. "loyalty", or by mutual obligations among peoples.[40] Or the definition may be simply that a people is a group of individuals who unanimously choose a separate state"
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Judges are not free to ignore the law just to appease complex political issues that have been fed for 20+ years, and can be backtracked to when Pujol came to power in Catalonia. So yes, judges did the right thing. Now it is up to the next president to manage the situation. But the news being discussed here is about politicians misusing funds to pursue their own agenda, and the penal consequences.
I've noticed it has less to do with an organization's size or age and more with its workload and urgency.

One program I work with has a few clearly defined tasks they've basically mastered. They're very open to my ideas and critiques. Another program was required to overhaul their planning process. It was part of the grant which provided most of their funding. It was harder to debate decisions, because everything needed to move lock-step to make the deadline. It surprised me, because they're usually more receptive to my advice.

They feared failure more than non-optimal success. This can happen in large and small organizations.
If you're displacing groundwater based desert agriculture, that's one thing, but it's worth keeping in mind that in general, desert != wasteland. Deserts are fragile ecosystems with many rare and specialized plants and animals.
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The StaSi wasn't 2+ generations away though, the SU (and with it the GDR) only collapsed in the late eighties.

I do believe that most people aren't appalled by what was done, they are appalled by what was it done for. "To secure the rule of the party" sounds bad. "To end human suffering" sounds much better, and we tend to have a thing for rationalizing why it's righteous (or at least necessary) to do it this time.
Yeah it does limit it a bit, and if the goal is really to plant trees, then eventually it will be somewhat self defeating as forests cool the air and will generate clouds. On the other hand, desalination doesn't require extremely high temperatures, so it also kinda depends on the heat capacity of the molten salt. It probably also doesn't really have to be 24/7/365. But that's I guess a numbers game, so obviously it has to be modeled first.
Perhaps people who write product reviews should get into the habit of starting their review with a description of what they are reviewing, who they ordered it from, and how much they paid for it. That last bit of information is definitely very relevant if you're going to comment in your review on whether the product was good value for money.

Perhaps also put the date in the review itself and state that you do not give permission for the review to be edited.

Unfortunately, I think that some sites don't allow reviews to mention prices.

Even if the T&Cs say you give up all your rights in the review you perhaps still have a right not to be misrepresented so they shouldn't edit your review if the review is still going to be attributed or attributable to you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests

Inspired by Fang and other 'people-power' movements around the world, in December 1986, student demonstrators staged protests against the slow pace of reform. The issues were wide-ranging, and included demands for economic liberalization, democracy, and rule of law.

[..]

As its size grew, the gathering gradually evolved into a protest, as students began to draft a list of pleas and suggestions (Seven Demands) for the government:

1. Affirm Hu Yaobang's views on democracy and freedom as correct.

2. Admit that the campaigns against spiritual pollution and bourgeois liberalization had been wrong.

3. Publish information on the income of state leaders and their family members.

4. Allow privately run newspapers and stop press censorship.

5. Increase funding for education and raise intellectuals' pay.

6. End restrictions on demonstrations in Beijing.

7. Provide objective coverage of students in official media.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goddess_of_Democracy

> At this grim moment, what we need most is to remain calm and united in a single purpose. We need a powerful cementing force to strengthen our resolve: That is the Goddess of Democracy. Democracy...You are the symbol of every student in the Square, of the hearts of millions of people. ...Today, here in the People’s Square, the people’s Goddess stands tall and announces to the whole world: A consciousness of democracy has awakened among the Chinese people! The new era has begun! ...The statue of the Goddess of Democracy is made of plaster, and of course cannot stand here forever. But as the symbol of the people’s hearts, she is divine and inviolate. Let those who would sully her beware: the people will not permit this! ...On the day when real democracy and freedom come to China, we must erect another Goddess of Democracy here in the Square, monumental, towering, and permanent. We have strong faith that that day will come at last. We have still another hope: Chinese people, arise! Erect the statue of the Goddess of Democracy in your millions of hearts! Long live the people! Long live freedom! Long live democracy!
Everyone knows this is a nice juicy troll blog post.. not meant to be taken 100% seriously. Right? :)
His point is that coal costs are just as high, if not higher, but we prefer not to think about them that way because it makes us uncomfortable. Just have your pick of examples of this thinking among the comments containing "uncomfortable".
I really like how the OpenStack project does releases - it has a ton of tooling, but for people who are deciding what to release, it is super simple.

e.g. - the latest RC of a project I maintain is L10-14 on https://opendev.org/openstack/releases/src/branch/master/del...

by committing that file, the tooling chooses the right commit, does a tag, and builds the python tarballs, and puts them on releases.openstack.org, and for the client libraries, it pushes them to pypi.

it avoids a lot of the footguns of special scripts in repos, while allowing an easy release process.
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Anyone with kids knows this would be a good source of entropy.
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I've always wondered why "normal" unconcentrated PV system didn't at least have at least a couple mirrors put up around them to direct more photons onto the panels. It always seemed like a cheap way to get a bit more efficiency out of a system.

While we're at it, I also don't understand why solar hot water heaters aren't more of a thing as the efficiency gains are tremendous against using grid or gas power for heating.
It's not like this is a recent change in policy as Hong Kong has become more insignificant in the scheme of things. China has been systemically fiddling with HK since 1997, despite lodged international agreement and "one country, two systems". The extradition was merely the last of many straws.

One of the earliest protests I remember was around 2,000 (Edit: it was actually 2003) and tied in with the universal suffrage electing the Chief Executive that was in the handover agreement, written into Basic Law, and remains an issue for today's protests. It's one of the protest's "five points".

Edit: There was an earlier demo in 2,002 over civil rights stemming from the subversion law, which spawned the yearly marches.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_1_July_marches
45 PB is approx. 45 million GB, or 45k TB, or 3000 of the largest HDDs available, or 2 metric tonnes of state-of-the-art hard drives.
Exactly. What proindependence needs to do to try to have their way legally is to work towards a whole restructuring of the constitution. They just don’t care for that, they took an illegal shortcut, misusing funds in the process.
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>what factors the financial algorithms are looking for and optimize

Except you've already got algo's trying to outguess each other. It's a bit of an arms race with little space left for mortals
Samsung and Sony exports massively from their Chinese plants.

Also, the smartphone market in China is shrinking. That's the reason for the current scramble for marketshare outside China. The market has reached saturation and the major Chinese brands are growing only at the expense of the smaller ones disappearing.
There's a very realistic possibility that China is going to crush resistance in HK by any means necessary.

I keep waiting for the shoe to drop.

China, by her own standards, has been very soft on the protests so far. China is much more concerned with its global image than back during the Tiananmen Square protests.

But if anyone should think this won’t end similarly, they’d be fooling themselves.

I’d put lower odds on a sudden violent crack down than on a slow, methodical process of arresting leaders and slowly ratcheting up the pressure on protestors.

As sad as it might seem, the CCP will come out on top in the end.
Though I am not a "condescending elitist hipster latte drinker" (or at least I hope I am not), I agree with most of OPs sentiments. I would like to see Apple invest more into making sure their stuff "just works", because that's why I use their systems: they are the least-crappy of anything that is out there today.
In software, "stable" often means that, given certain assumptions (OS interfaces, working hardware, etc), the code will not crash even if given bad inputs.

Based on my reading of this thread, in aviation, "stable" means that, given certain assumptions (fuel supply, etc), the plane will tend to return to equilibrium after pretensions along one particular axis, if you give it no inputs. Pilots in the thread, please correct me if I'm wrong.

You may think to yourself "that's stupid, stable means it doesn't crash!" But if you want to communicate with people in the field, you have to learn their language. If an astrophysicist said "what do you mean that program is stable?? It doesn't have enough hydrogen to roast a marshmallow, much less initiate and sustain fusion!" you would roll your eyes. Sure it's all the same English word, and there is even a common semantic root, but they all mean very different things in their contexts.
As somebody on a 2015 15" MBP looking to make the switch, how do you deal with things like Word/Excel documents or updating the firmware of IOT things (not mine but those of relatives) that only offer proprietary Windows and Mac updaters/installers? Do you just spin up a KVM and pass through USB, or use a separate computer?

These edge cases (and the uneasy feeling that there are many others that I won't discover until I make the switch) are the main reasons holding me back at the moment. The lack of interoperability because Linux is not an established consumer OS (yet).
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I can do a lot more stuff on macOS on 2019 than on any linux distro in 2000.
Or the Times Beach incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Beach,_Missouri
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> Why do we spend so many trillions of dollars in wars and pointless witch-hunts

Not "we" but "they". The US is at best an oligarchy or at worst a fascist state.
There is http://www.stencyl.com/ also. Used it many years ago, so not sure how it stands now. But back then, it was a very cool product. Used at a couple of game jams.
I'm not sure what you're talking about, what I'm describing is exactly the SaaS model which is already quite popular.
> 1. Never once seen an issue with USB-C to HDMI or VGA connections. It doesn't even make any sense since MacBook Pro users with external, third party monitors are an extremely common combination.

Last year I had a lot of problems with this. It was pretty common[1] that USB-C to HDMI cables would work at first and then stop working in a particular port. Sometimes rebooting helped. Sometimes swapping the cable for another in the same port helped. Sometimes using another port immediately helped. There was never a good explanation for why this was happening; most resources blamed the cables. After some software update last year, suddenly all these bad cables are fine in any port.

As of this summer, there's a shiny new issue where connecting to GMail (at least) from System Preferences doesn't work, which I discovered through changing my password recently. SysPref claims it needs to open a Google login in Safari (even though that isn't my system browser!), but when Safari opens, it's to a blank page. Again, searching makes this seem like a pretty well-known problem, but no one has a solution, and Apple seems silent on it, and enough people do not have the problem that a common response is that those of us experiencing the issue must be doing or have done something wrong. And maybe we are(!), but I'd sure like to know what.

> 3. If you have a tech support issue go into the Apple Store and work with them 1-1.

Well, that literally hadn't occurred to me (for problem 2, above); I would have assumed store employees don't know anything one couldn't google immediately?

[1] I was quite annoyed that this went on long enough for me to have an opinion like "pretty common" for these connections not to work sometimes, over more than half a dozen such cables.
I definitely had problems with external monitors, (not even projectors), being either blurry, using the wrong color profile or not being recognized until some time after I log in, so "Yeah, no" might be the answer you wish was true, but isn't.
I'd argue the sentences are harsh at least compared to many if not most European countries. Where I live, for example, the offence related to serious seditious activity (Endangering the sovereignty of Finland) carries a penalty range of 1 to 10 years imprisonment (generally, the upper range is rarely applied) and additionally requires at least a credible threat of violence or foreign state financial/military involvement.
I guess this is one way of inflaming 5/6 of Hacker News.
> coal kills a lot more people than nuclear.

There's so many problems with this statement I barely know where to begin.

1. Are we talking total or per kWH of generated power?

2. "Deaths" is a questionable measure. One should look at the environmental impact of digging up, processing (enriching in the case of nuclear), transporting and the storage of byproducts from processing (eg UrF6) as well as spent fuel.

3. Here's the important one: you need to look at failure modes. Coal plants pollute but they also do it very slowly and no coal plant has ever blown up to the point where it's made 1000 square miles of land uninhabitable for decades (to compare, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is 1000 square miles).

4. Coal vs nuclear is a straw man argument. Coal is terrible. Everyone knows this. Coal is becoming the power source for the developing world as it is naturally dying in the developed world, being replaced by renewables and fossil fuels that while not great, are at least better than coal (eg natural gas).

5. How many of the externalities of nuclear power aren't factored into the price? Like the cost of storage and clean ups. These seem to be borne by governments not the companies profiting from the power (of course, some nuclear power in some countries is state-owned and run; depending on the country I'm not sure if this is better or worse).

Personally I find the apologism on HN about nuclear to be disingenuous, exhausting and naive.
“任何人企图在中国任何地区搞分裂，结果只能是粉身碎骨；任何支持分裂中国的外部势力只能被中国人民视为痴心妄想”

You can copy and paste in Google to find transcript from Chinese sources.

粉身碎骨 is an idiom used in a variety of contexts, largely not literally, some different usage:

https://www.purpleculture.net/sample-sentences/?word=粉身碎骨

It's generic language for saying "crushed", but western audiences with limited understanding of China will naturally think of tank treads.
My favorite one of these is Iquitos in Peru, which is an Atlantic port, reachable by ocean going vessels, 2,200 miles away from the ocean
> The only way they wouldn't get prison terms was if the secession succeeded, which it did not.

“The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.” ― Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Book
There are a whole bunch of effects that you tend to get when conditions change. Same thing happens in traffic where (say) a set of traffic lights goes out, and suddenly there are fewer accidents. Of course, this is because the lights being out puts everyone on their best behaviour and the accident rate goes back up as people get used to it.
Sure, and they had to bring about a civil war to secede, because it was illegal.

That also happened some centuries ago, what was politically acceptable or moral was quite different then. I’d like to think that we now have the political maturity to do this slowly, legally and peacefully if it needs to happen at all.
Sometimes companies manufacture things in China to sell in other countries.
I just hate n-grams is the short answer - tear apart the input with link, use arc and modifier info as input to the statistical processes - so far, too early to say it works better, but sure as hell its more interesting . :-) . Sadly I have to keep my instances running all the time, they eat all of the public Reuters news feeds - side note - additional info can be obtained by taking the top N parse candidates for a given sentence and collapsing them into a graph - I have a pretty good signal out of that for 'the parser has gone insane'
There is a very, very, very, very, really truly properly real effect of money for research. More money means you can run the same studies/trials on bigger cohorts. This directly leads to better data, which means we can demand stricter hypothesis testing (p-values, narrower confidence intervals).

More money means you can simply hire more technicians to do more lab work. More specialists for data processing, statistics, stats review.

You could compensate referees ... maybe, just a thought. Nah, just let's directly pay more to Elsevier.

More money would mean better and bigger experimental machines.

More money would/could translate into better pay for PhDs, so they wouldn't be incentivized to leave for industry.

And so on.
My experience is that the Costco exclusive models of many electronic products are not feature reduced but are identical to the non Costco versions except bundled with accessories or services not included with the non Costco versions.

For example Ring security systems and cameras sold at Costco usually include additional sensors or things such as additional Ring chimes plus a free year of service.

Back in the day, I haven't bought one in years and can't speak to the current situation, printers sold at Costco almost always had unique model numbers because Costco insisted printer manufacturers include USB cables and full ink or toner cartridges instead of starter ones. So if HP sold a model 420 everywhere else they would sell a model 425 at Costco which included the cable and full ink cartridges but the printer itself was identical to the 420 sold elsewhere.

A couple of years ago I bought an electronic keyboard for my daughter. It had a different model number than the keyboard normally has but the keyboard itself is the same feature wise as sold other places but it came bundled with a stand and a couple of other accessories which would have been extra elsewhere.