skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I understand it, the hip trend among the elite now is to be a “cultural omnivore,” and has been for some time.

“The new…elite listen to classical and to rap; they eat at fine restaurants and at diners. They are at ease everywhere in the world. We even seem to demand this omnivorousness pluralism of our elite. We don’t want a patrician president; we want a man who knows how to act around the queen of England but is just as comfortable sitting in a lawn chair holding a beer summit….[Elites] are comfortable almost anywhere. It is as if the new elite are saying, “Look! We are not some exclusive club. If anything, we are the most democratized of all groups. We are as comfortable with rap as opera. We can dine finely or at a truck stop. We accept all!”

from this book Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School (2011), Shamus Rahman Kahn

The only people I know who only listens to classical music are 75 year old Russian math professors and pretentious upper middle class teens
I love that they’re finally considering this, but they’re missing a key insight: Search enables harassment.

With Twitter’s unrestricted search, it’s easy to find strangers talking about any topic and harass them about it - directly on Twitter, or indirectly on whateverchan.

Restricting search to mutual friend networks would vastly reduce the ability of strangers to harass others on Twitter, and in conjunction with tighter ephemerality defaults, would remove the most common vector of attack used today.
The quality of American produce is surprisingly mixed. For a lot of it, you've got to shop around and maybe pay a little more to get the same as baseline normal quality in large parts of Europe. I don't know why, but that's how it is. OTOH we have lots and lots of very cheap, kinda bad produce. So there's that.

It's also possible to live among wheat fields and not be able to buy good bread for anything less than insane luxury food prices here. All I can figure is our ovens cost more to run? I mean I know it's not that but I can't figure out WTF else could be the problem.

Decent cheese is also a lot more expensive—but again, we have lots and lots of fairly bad but very cheap options. And the cheaper end of our wine market is (much) less consistently good than in, say, France.
The argument for friction was lost the moment we got cheap access to home recordings, which at this point is any mobile phone that was produced in the last 20 years.

From all my history in computer security, conferences and just picking up trends in what criminals do, the most common channel for sharing CP should be, as an educated guess: Plain text email. A smartphone, a camera app and the email app that is already installed, as an educated guess, is the tool of choice for the wast majority of cases. For the remaining portion we got people who do not take most friction-less method, and here I doubt OnionShare will cause any change in the availability of CP.

A bit of a tell is that during the crypto wars there were officials that forbode that there would be an explosion of CP if free encryption was allowed. CP and nuclear proliferation was the standing bet between Eben Moglen and Phil Zimmermann on what the opposite side would first bring up, and I think its fair to say that neither issue occurred after Phil Zimmermann won.

Taking a perspective from behavior science, CP production and sharing is unlikely to be a rational decision where risk and reward is fairly balanced. As an example I would predict that increased jail sentences does not actually reduce the crime rate, nor would turning a very hard tool into only slightly hard to use tool. Effective measures would have to either address the emotional state of the person right before the crime, or implement catching mechanism in the tools with lowest friction like email and email replacements like chat.
Although it seems to only include the family's account of events.

I've been nodding to many Guardian exposé, environmental, and social-justice stories the last couple of years, but felt they'd started to go too far recently. This is indicative, to me.
Deep fakes have been used overwhelmingly in porn.

Claims it'll be used and transform politics have been largely overstated.
The parallel with Mauna Kea is too tempting to not be mentioned!
If you mean in Boston, they actually built all the new buildings in the Seaport on the assumption of floods. Everything on the first floor can be full of salt water and the building will be OK.
Yeah, cultural norms are what matter here (vs the tool per se).

Slack usage covers the whole gamut, from one extreme [proper (ie, consistent) use of channels, status / DND, and notification settings, making it a very effective, developer-friendly and management-helping async-oriented system] to the other [flowstate-killing, nonsense-generating chaos of interrupts and noise].
According to the original article, the Margherita pizza was invented after Italian Reunification: "All that changed after Italian unification. While on a visit to Naples in 1889..." I'm not a vexillologist (expert on flags) but looking at the historical flags at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Italian_flags#Unificat... there are many from 1889 that have the green, white and red, e.g. the state flag of the Kingdom of Italy from 1861. So I think the story is plausible, although that doesn't necessarily mean it is true or didn't come after the event.
>Is it not? I truly, honestly, don't know how complex that is in the end, compared to - say - supporting Texas leving the US, Bavaria leaving Germany, Basque leaving Spain

The HK protestors aren't attempting to secede in any real quantity. It is not on their list of demands. They want a free Hong Kong, but it being part of China is perfectly acceptable as long as they have that freedom.

>Westerner here. No, I don't want ANY political agenda in game streams.

Perhaps you should, so you can be more informed on a position before posting opinions such as this. As evidenced by the above, you don't actually know what this protest is about, yet are trying to create comparisons that will mislead others that are uninformed.

>No.
I was going to write out a lengthier response about what the similarities actually are between the two, but you provided a zero effort response, so I guess I can too:

Yes.
If heroin and meth were "legal" in the sense of they being freely dispensed in special places and surely taken under supervision, you'd see a lot less violence caused by its users. That could be the starting point to get people off drugs, the same places could have get off drugs programs. The problem is that nobody really cares and the war on drugs causes more problems than it creates.
With the removal of level crossings (not always replaced with an over or underpass) to make the route suitable for higher-speed trains, railway lines are becoming more of a barrier. But they're still narrower than motorways.
It took Amazon.com, a large company with tons of incentives and a strong mandate from the top floors, 7-8 years (at least!) to get out of Oracle.

I can easily imagine how "normal" companies will not have such an easy time doing so. I guess we're going to have Oracle around for a long time.
There is a lot of mysticism over the origin of Pizza. In fact, it's probably a very straightforward kind of dish that probably has been invented multiple times, of course with varying toppings and maybe a few other differing ideals.

Basically if you have a wooden oven to bake bread, baking is risky. If the oven is too hot, the bread will become burnt before being thoroughly baked within, if you put it in too late, the heat will not be enough. So how do you, as a baker (or farmer baking for your own supply) test whether the oven has the right temperature? You trial-run with very thin patches of dough, that you can pull out easily and are always done inside, when the outside is nicely burnt: a kind of flat bread.

Putting stuff on top of the flat bread and making it your snack on baking day is just a logical conclusion.

In fact, around here, there are several regional dishes similar to a pizza serving this purpose. Flammkuchen from Alsace, and Denede from Swabia. The village where I work still has preserved (and renovated recently) a "Backhaus", a common oven of the village that would be fired regularly and then used by all villagers to bake their own bread. Did they triage the heat of the fired oven by putting in a small piece of dough? probably. Did they put stuff on top of that piece? I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised.
Wouldn’t heroin/meth be significantly cheaper if it was legal?
Linkedin grabs the chance and debuts their alternative, currently free https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/15/linkedin-gets-physical-deb...
Looks like a small truck to me. You solved nothing.

Also I highly doubt these tiny bicycle tires can handle a pallet of bottled water or beers. They will just get crushed.
Wait, but unions are not necessarily protectionist. Also the protectionist government you are referring to was active until 1903, yet the productivity growth in the 1990s was followed by Labour winning majority in the parliament. What am I missing?
> How does Noam Chomsky's work on linguistic contribute to computer science? And are there applications?

This stuff is referenced in textbooks on compilers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy
>Elitism at its finest.

Do you think doctors in training get to do open heart surgeries by themselves fresh out of university? Do you think we train aviators that can only fly using the autopilot? Because that's the way we treat software developers. This has nothing to do with elitism and everything with professionalism. Our industry has built training wheels in form of various VMs and high level languages because it missed the opportunity to properly train its workforce.
and they were carrying $16,000 in cash?
For the section of rail parallel to the tunnel, there is only one grade crossing at Sphinxlunet and one foot crossing in the station. While it is hard to see from satellite view after the tunnel is built, there were likely more crossings at the aforementioned stop lights on A2. Width of right-of-ways is not too important if there is no way to get across the narrower one either.

Most likely the tunnel is really due two conflicting desires - wanting to remove stoplights from the A2 to expedited the flow of through traffic while not wanting to route A2 around the city's east perimeter where there is ample open land. Usually the city retailers and other businesses want to keep the central routing to prevent the development of competing business centers along perimeter highways.
All small ones. The question is, why there's no large one?
From everything being described this looks like an entire waste of money moving them around to different places and housing them. Have you ever seen the government run something effectively ?
Haskell is a lazy-by-default language and the most practical way to disable laziness is that syntax extension.

You can do it without the extension, but it'll turn ugly really quick (lots of uses of the "seq" function everywhere).

In general, the Haskell community is very tolerant of language extensions (people will recommend you enable about a dozen of them in every project), so this is pretty standard.
I am tired of giving MS feedback. Either you get no answer or some standard text snippet from a bot and nothing ever happens anyway. It’s a waste of time in my view.
Should be plenty for a house in Miami.
Break up the tech giants? How is that going to result in having 5 Androids and 6 iOSs? The nature of the technology and market is what drives consolidation. It's a testament to the quality of both platforms that we even have two options.
Piggybacking on this (slight point on semantics but still important in terms of framing the discussion)

Don't tell them, SHOW them. The advice about displaying all of those things, almost like metrics or hitting a benchmarks is key.

There is some obvious psychology at play here - for some bosses it might be more effective to present everything in one fell swoop so you build an ironclad case with no room to argue. Another might be to either build up this proof over a course of a few weeks and mention another point and another project. With deeply held beliefs, it takes time to change one's mind and seems like a rare thing to convert someone instantly. (The question is here, how deeply does the boss believe OP does NOT deserve a promotion)

Another critical point is the company structure and finance. Is there bureaucracy the limiting fact and there simply isn't an open position? Or is the company small enough they can simply make one? To me this would be the biggest obstacle to find a way around/through.
Having read that, I'd agree with you.
I generally agree. I think the only thing I do like is that the new picker appears to be locally attached instead of a separate dialog that is called out and not closed once a selection is made (at least that's the behaviour on mac. I'm not sure if that's been the same recently on Windows)
Seems easier to move companies elsewhere no?
I like how a lot of the comments assumed you are European since you chew Copenhagen, a US smokeless tobacco company brand.
How limiting would it be to have auto complete implemented in the browser? Probably not quite as nice as Google but still useful.
Don't worry, we have public works that go way over budget too. Curiously that happens more often with rail projects than with road projects here.
> money has been allowed to become directly correlated with voter share

This is demonstrably false, most vividly exemplified by the current president who raised far less than his competitor. In the United States, when there is a race with no incumbents, the winner is anticorrelated with the one who raised the most.
Caution: I kept having problems in websites where timestamps were hours off, and every captcha was super annoying. It took me a while to figure out it was due to the fingerprint protection that I had enabled.
The full article has a lot more details. Not buying the family's story at all that they just got lost. They had 16k in cash, were previously rejected from US entry, etc.

Not excusing the alleged conditions of their detainment, but from what's given in the article I see nothing amiss in how they were apprehended and scheduled for deportation.
In the standard model neutrino masses are 0....
The thesis of Manufacturing Consent is that even investigative journalism doesn't venture outside of certain acceptable norms.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50067575

And the fact they’d been denied entry
> So they search in the app store and they know it'll probably be okay.

Bad plan, both on iOS and Android. You should not be installing random apps unless you vet them first.

People keep going back to the "users are stupid" argument, but (particularly on Android) the app store does not protect users. Installing random apps or trusting the first app that shows up is a terrible thing to teach dumb users to do.

If you want to protect users to the point where they don't need to think at all, you need to be way more locked down than iOS/Android currently are -- you need Nintendo Switch levels of moderation, vetting, and sandboxing. The problem is that very few people (dumb users included) want that level of vetting for a smartphone.
Are you being ironic when you say there were "never any extremely powerful opponents to it"?
Or increase remote work.
Depression is more about a loss of vitality than it is about 'being sad', although it manifests with lots of negative thoughts. You can't just suddenly become more alive or have tons more energy, although drugs and therapy can help. And telling people to 'snap out of it' does not help someone who is depressed.

It's like if you're really, really, really sleepy. You can't just suddenly be super awake. You can take pills or try to push through it, but you just want to sleep - you can't help it.

Depression is crippling just like having a broken leg, it's just that it cripples your mind.
Google employees are debating company's decision to ban HK Protest game
Yes, it would be. But it wouldn't be a good idea to let it be freely available on the streets. Being easily accessible and taken under supervision in special places it would be a start.
I doubt my teacher lied to me. This stuff is in the text books, in wikipedia.
It's only optional if you don't want to go inside the temples and don't mind being burned during the Second Coming.
Why are they called "magic" mushrooms? Because they remind you that life is, in a sense that we rarely recognize, truly magical. We can adopt the materialist lens and say that they "rewire your brain" -- and in a certain sense, that's of course true. But the crucial point is that experientially, you discover firsthand that life is precious beyond belief -- beyond what the rational mind can contain -- and if cigarettes (or depression...) aren't helping you express that transcendent truth, well, bye bye. And that's not something you easily forget.

(And on a grander scale, if our modern way of living isn't helping life thrive, well, maybe it's time to make some loving changes. So I'm glad this research is being done.)
No details about the actual workload...
Yes, ATMs nowadays wait for you to remove the card (start beeping if you don't) and won't produce the cash unless you've done so. But there could be ATMs on less-prone banks or just by other companies that just "sell cash" (and charge a fee) that are not so caring.
Haskell does use green threads. The thing is, Haskell code is managed by a Haskell runtime, and each runtime manages a single (processor) thread. So the usual parallelism model for Haskell is to spawn a runtime for each processor core and then let each runtime manage its own green threads.
EFF Defends Section 230 in Congress
I moved to another country where I didn't have the same network of friends and contacts. Basically, changed my environment and was busy setting up a new life.

I didn't move to another country to give up cannabis, it was just a happy co-incidence.
"The Connors family says it didn’t plan to be on the unmarked road. The two couples and their three young children were driving near the U.S.-Canada border on Oct. 3 during a visit to Vancouver when an animal ventured into the road, forcing them to make an unexpected detour."

"U.S. authorities disputed the family’s version of events, saying they were spotted via video surveillance “slowly and deliberately driving through a ditch onto Boundary Road in Lynden, Washington” between parallel roadways on the U.S. and Canadian sides. The roads are not connected by cross streets, and the only legal way to traverse between the countries is at staffed border stations throughout the region."

I lived for many years in Vancouver, and there is no road connecting Canada and the USA without a checkpoint until you hit the logging roads in the Rockies (a 3 hour drive East). It's not possible to cross over to Boundary road without driving off-road.
Sorry about your cat. Feel better.
I may be biased (I backed that Kickstarter), but this makes me sad :(
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If you are going to some Apple Store, you need them, especially if you're looking for a Mac Pro
Canada would not accept them and their previous Visa waivers to the US got denied. There is more to this than the clickbait title let’s on.
who's capable of doing better?
Eco-Friendly Oral Care. Delivered
Yes! Born and raised in Georgia, never knew so much racism existed in the world until I moved to the northeast 15 years ago. Could go on a long rant about confederate flags up here but this isn't Reddit. I'll still upvote your username.
I'm also for increased drug legalization, but it's important to keep in mind the counter-balancing points as well.

Lots of adults will make very poor decisions when presented with the easy opportunity to do so, at least at certain critical times. People fall on bad times routinely (job loss, death in the family, etc) and can quickly find themselves hopeless and/or depressed. In a completely unregulated environment, these bad episodes of life can quickly escalate into serious (e.g. heroin) addiction problems and spiral out of control with devastating long-term effects first on the individual, and then increasingly on everyone around them and the entirety of society.

There's the obvious and immediate costs like ER visits, violence, police calls, etc. There's also the secondary impacts: the devastating impact on friends and family (who may also fall into the same hole as a result), any children of the now-addicted, etc. All of this rolls up into big-picture economic costs and "fabric of society" issues as well.

I have a streak of independence and self-determination in me as well, but it's fallacious to think that there aren't significant tertiary negative effects on others when I do misguided things, and making it super-easy for me to do so at my weakest points in life isn't a winning idea. This is the ethical basis for societal/government regulation of "dangerous" activities and items.

You can see a mirror of these same issues in the gun control debate as well. A bunch of responsible adults reasonably don't want the government telling them they're not allowed to responsibly own firearms and make their own decisions about what firearms they own for what purpose. They can make those decisions for themselves and it doesn't hurt anybody, because they are responsible adults.

But, as above, one has to consider that some small percentage of these responsible adults will eventually have a bad mental health day (or week, or month) and things will spiral out of control. Or they'll make a simple mistake and the gun is stolen by another, or discovered by a curious child or a very upset teenager. These are dangerous items and misuse (or even minor human error in controlling access) can have huge negative societal impacts. Thus, it's ethical for society to take an interest in regulating them.

In both cases (and so many others) the magic is in finding good healthy balance, and realizing of course that law and policy can't prevent all possible harm. Banning all the guns and drugs in the country is obviously not the right answer, and neither is wiping all regulation off the books and letting everyone walk drunkenly into their local corner store and pick up a loaded M-16 and a pound of meth for $20 whenever they feel like it. Developing a good regulation regime that's reasonably-protective and also minimally intrusive on peoples' rights is hard work; much harder than soundbite-happy bans.
try PBS Pro.
Do you think neutrinos could be used to produce electricity?
Different technologies. Judging from this article, this Maastricht tunnel seems to have been built as a "cut and cover" tunnel, while according to Wikipedia, that SR99 tunnel was built with a tunnel boring machine. AFAIK, the cut and cover method is much cheaper (but more disruptive during the construction, and can only be used for shallow tunnels like this one).
It would appear there is a lot more to the story than the headlines imply.

For example evidence disputes their account of how they ended up in the US and the fact that they previously tried to enter the US and were denied for reasons not fully clear. I’m ignoring the sensationalist headlines for now until the full story comes out.

ICE may have some challenges but they’re not just rounding up nice wholesome British families and throwing them in the slammer for no reason.
When not high, I could rationalise that cancer fact the same way many other smokers probably do. When stoned, I focused on that fact and made myself paranoid about it.