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> the two sides are not "Catalonia should be independent" [...but] Catalonia should have a right to discuss terms of independence

Polling someone about something implies one of the results is perfectly possible. I considered that as being the final result for the purpose of the discussion because that's the crux of the matter. So yes, that is the only side that matters. There are no "fair" negotiations to be had. Spain has nothing to gain. It would not only show willingness to let illegal activity go unpunished and worse, it encourages it by negotiating.

What happens next time someone wants something illegal according to country laws and constitution? Negotiate every time? There is no negotiation that will please everybody and at best you'd end up with a random collection of patches where 100% of the population wants independence (since you don't want to oppress anyone).

> Spain should have a right to say "Well, look, the border should not include Barcelona since 60% of them (or whatever the figure might be in a just and fair plebiscite) have expressed a desire to remain".

What about the 40% (just to fit the math) that want the independence in Barcelona? Aren't they to Barcelona what Catalonia is to Spain? Should they splinter from Barcelona? How many times do you splinter? How long until you say "well I think we have enough"? And when you do isn't that arbitrary and hypocritical?
I've only used Airbnb once, so I'm unsure. But given the "retaliatory reviews" mentioned in the article, it seems not; How could I retaliate if I don't know what your review will be?
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We need to create an open source organization to build these brains at home because: "Recomputing the AlphaGo Zero weights will take about 1700 years on commodity hardware."[1]

I see these huge AI brains creating a new class divide between people who have access to these new AI brains and those who don't. The mission of open source has always been to break down these barriers to empowerment with technology. Thus, this is a great area for open source innovation.

[1] https://github.com/leela-zero/leela-zero
News these days.
This can work, but beware that the company may send the charge to collections. It's a slimy thing to do, but we are talking about a company that's built its success on evading all manner of legal responsibility. (And outright law-breaking by many of its hosts.)
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If you want to make a summary judgement based on incomplete evidence, the only reasonable course of action is to assume the best of the person you are ruling against.

That’s how it works in a court of law, but I find it’s a good way to catch yourself when drawing conclusions based on speculation.

The video clearly shows a train with closed doors and large contingent of police corralling a specific train car and cornering a specific suspect. That seems to correlate well with an identified person who fled and got away at the prior station; they knew who they were going after, and had time to assemble a force to confront the person. Obviously the size of the force and the rapidity of response supports the notion that they thought the person was a danger and wanted to very quickly subdue them in a crowded area.

All in all it seems like a professional operation designed to be prepared for a worst case scenario and to try to control a situation with potentially deadly consequences if it got out of hand.

When someone is fleeing from the police and was reported to be armed, I would absolutely expect that they are going to take extreme precautions especially in a crowded space.
> The story doesn't "change", they're presenting the different pieces of research covered in the paper.

Yes, it does change. Individual forums discussions like this are typically a popularity contest, and you will surely win that, but I suggest your concern should be winning the war, not meaningless battles like this.

> I appreciated their closing statement: "From a broader perspective, it doesn’t matter if the consensus number is 90% or 100%.

A typically bold and confident statement. But what if it isn't actually true that it "doesn't matter"?

Whether the fact I point out above (and this is just one, there are many others) is is a meaningful change in the broader perspective is an interesting question. From the purely scientific perspective, it is indeed meaningless, of course. But from the perspective of persuading the entire population of an entire planet of people to change their behavior, is it (and other things like this) still meaningless? I have no way of knowing that, but I very strongly suspect it's not meaningless, at all. If it was me, with the stakes this high, I'd probably want to at least do a little bit of investigation rather than take my chances, but then I seem to have a far more conservative personality than others with passion for this topic.

My intuition tells me that to ultimately crack this nut, we are going to have to beat the Big Boss: the human ego. But first, we have to realize this entity even exists. Based on our demonstrated intelligence, awareness, and progress thus far in this journey, I am not optimistic.

> Thanks scientists, you've done a great job. The climate is changing, let's move on and build solutions.

Yes, let's. The scientists have indeed done a fine job within their specialized discipline, the rest is out of their hands. Are we up to doing as good of a job as they've done within their discipline? Are we willing to acknowledge and address that which is standing in the way to applying the same level of disciplined intellectual rigor that exists in the hard sciences? Personally, I don't think we are, at least those of us in Western cultures. My best hope at this point is that China progresses fast enough to solve this problem for all of humanity.
I use a Chrome extension to show the true cost per night on Airbnb. I find the fees variable enough that I want to see the real price as part of my analysis of listings.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/airbnb-price-per-n...

There might be others, but this one has worked well for me. No affiliation, just a happy user.
Golang has shortcomings a plenty, although that doesn't necessarily make it a poor language to use.

It's a fairly simple language, which makes it relatively easy to grasp and understand the majority of Go code. This is particularly useful for group development (i.e. in companies), where you want everyone to understand each others' work.

Anecdotally, although I prefer to write Rust, and consider it a better language in many ways, it took me a lot longer to learn the language, and longer still to write idiomatic Rust code. I was up to speed with Golang relatively quickly.
At least on Windows, the biggest difference is that Restic doesn't support VSS snapshot so you can't use it to backup all files in a consistent manner. This makes it a lot less useful than other solutions on Windows.
Thank god nude photos where male nipples cover female nipples are still fine.
"I think the biggest reason for Go's success is that is it incredibly accessible. Everything around and in Go is ergonomic, well documented, easy to understand and clean. It is a language that cares about the tooling and social aspects as first class concepts."

And most programmers probably wouldn't even know about it having any of those features if it didn't have a famous backer like Google and a famous name like Rob Pike attached to it.

Marketing definitely makes a difference. Whether it made a critical difference in this case is certainly debatable, however, as some languages (like Python) succeeded even before they had buy-in and support from big names. Though, there again, Python had a lot of help from marketing.. it was just that it was marketing of a different kind, from its users rather from any company backing it.
> They even tried to sue Valve over DOTA 2

Didn't DOTA start as Starcraft mod or something? I don't know what the legal status of mod/spinoffs is. Could I sell my own Mario fanhack game?
I wasn't scammed with AirBNB but I've had bad experiences, and the bad experiences happened more recently, while stellar experiences happened in the past.

My most recent experience was an apartment in Paris that was smaller than it appeared, hadn't been cleaned so it had crumbs on the floor, had a bed with what looked like sheets out of the package (never cleaned), and the owner's dirty clothes sitting there. But the worst was the toilet was electric, requiring being pushed down with a brush when flushing. No, that's simply not the norm in Paris. There was also construction on the building, despite my emailing the host (a company with a person's name), asking about noise.

Like the Vice author, I never left a review because I didn't want to appear difficult or even get a retaliatory one in case I want to use AirBNB in the future. BTW, in Paris it's regulated, complete with an issued ID for the property, but cities care only for tax collection, not consumers.

That may have been the last straw for me.
There are a few scientiats and doctors in the carnivore groups on facebook
Those are really good tips, thanks for sharing!

I do find it interesting to note that I'm not getting an algorithm/data structures vibe in The Netherlands as much, and your story just seems to support that idea. However, that US-centric narrative is a bit of a mainstream narrative on HN.
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Snake game made in Go
Looking good, Richard! Hop on this thread and join the discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21408415

EDIT: looks like you're already there. Nice work! Put contact info in your profile, I get a surprising number of email contacts after my comments.
JavaScript has a much bigger community/ecosystem that Go. However, Go libraries are (on average) much higher in quality.
But they did say "many of them are idiots", which is similar

Similar, yes. But, at least to my mind, there's a pretty big jump from "many" to "most". But maybe that's just me. shrug
I think that's what they said, slightly paraphrased:
"I've published papers in bio and worked with many PhDs. Many of them were idiots"

I have no interest in arguing about the interpretation of that sentence.
London specifically is known for this BS even before AirBnb.
You don't mention your actual age so if you're not past 50, maybe you're just bored or slightly depressed?
Wow, this a wonderfully rich post! I had a question about the following statement:

>"In short, it’s a mess, with each generation adding and removing functionality, reusing or overloading instructions and instruction prefixes, and introducing increasingly complicated switching mechanisms between supported modes and privilege boundaries."

Can someone elaborate on how a instruction at the machine level can be "overloaded"? At this machine level how can an instruction be mapped to more than one entry in the microcode table? Or does this mean overloading in the regular programming sense of something like an ADD instruction capable of working with ints, strings etc.
Very useful! do you think you might add support for device simulation? i.e. show how the icon will look on a variety of devices in the browser...
Toastmasters is great.

The meetings are structured with an agenda, the toastmaster for the meeting makes sure the agenda is followed and stays on topic.

They've made the program more dynamic. I don't know the new details very well and not sure how I feel about it. It used to be everyone received a workbook on how to deliver ten short speeches about varrying topics, but now you can customize it and I think they use an online website/program to keep track of that.

Everything at a meeting is always explained to everyone, and everyone I've met at Toastmasters meetings have been very nice.

You can use the website (https://www.toastmasters.org) to find a meeting near you and usually just drop in, but it's always polite to give them a head's up that you'll be visiting.
The primary problem is that it's not illegal for politicians to lie to the electorate. Without solving that problem, we will always have sub-par leadership and questions about what is or is not a valid advertisement.

In official capacity (under oath) it's illegal for us to lie to them. In their official capacity (under oath of office) they get to lie all day long, straight through their teeth. CEOs can't defraud their shareholders, but politicians can do so every day of their lives.
I believe this is a baloney quip. If you want to know how he fared in dotcom you should look at his worth before and after, not compare the peak of the funny money to the bottom of the crash.
>Start picketing their house, where they eat, everywhere they go.

This sounds so obnoxious and short-sighted.

If I own a business that doesn't align with your values, it's one thing to boycott and protest my business. It's another thing to follow me around to a restaurant, dentist, or park to protest my business decisions. You're disturbing the enjoyment of those places for other people who might have nothing to do with my decisions. I suppose spouses, children and even extended family should have to endure this as well?
What area of the country? I got waitlisted in New England.
A county in Delaware being on the top ten for food inflow seemed odd. I assume this must be including raw grain, because the only thing notable about that county is that it apparently is nothing but chicken coops[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sussex_County,_Delaware#Econom...
Should have been a rick roll in my opinion, but nobody got my joke so far : /
I had the same problem in Canada. Then I moved to the US. Now I have recruiters begging me to come work at their company at least once a week.

You should move to the US, it'll be much easier to find work
> You’ve reached the end of your free member preview for this month

:( I guess I can read Medium posts only during first couple of days in a month
Check out https://www.cellmapper.net If you zoom in enough, it will tell you what bands each tower supports.

As others have mentioned, band 12 and 71 are T-mobile's sub-1GHz bands, which are best at getting into buildings. Many phones support band 12, but 71 is a little less common (flagship smartphones from the past couple years tend to support it, midrange and low end phones less commonly). But, at least where I live, I generally have no issue with band 4/66 signals indoors, due to density of infrastructure. Pretty much every phone will support band 4 (and band 66 is a superset of that).
There need to be (and are) reasonable exemptions to free speech, such as hate speech. If someone was targeted in an advertising campaign, and the advertisement threatened to murder them, then it would be certainly illegal. Except there's no way for anyone to police Facebook, and therefore these advertisements could thrive. Facebook's standards for advertisements may not meet the law's standards.

We want free speech, not a lawless society. I hope.
With a hotel, if you complain and write a harsh review, you don't get penalized yourself. In OP, people complained and got B.S. made up about them, which impacts their future ability to travel. The author didn't even write a review. The incentives are all there to only write the happy stuff for future travelers. You, as that future travel really can't trust the reviews. At least at a hotel, with its more numerous but possibly fake happy reviews, you can look at what the bad ones say, because they won't be incentivized out of existence.
So let me understand what you’re saying: Blizzard should not try to be inclusive or otherwise progressive because they are not always? I think we should acknowledge that companies try to abide by the norms of their market and that their main concern has always been to make money. Them displaying any kind of opinion is just a byproduct.
Fantastic software. Fast, locally encrypted before being shipped to the cloud (or a usb disk), just works.
NPR's Planet Money did a decent piece on him earlier this month.

https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...
I have no interest in arguing about the interpretation of that sentence.

Then don't "interpret" anything. The person who wrote that sentence explicitly said "many" and not "most". Barring some evidence to the contrary, the sensible thing to do is take it literally, no interpretation necessary.
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Pure speculation here -- I've worked with scientists for a long time, but it's been a while and I no longer know how those circles work.

My guess -- Facebook doesn't bring any value to them. Scientists have had strong and deep international communities and very effective methods of communication within them for generations. Facebook would have to provide some sort of serious advantage over what already exists to lure scientists over to it. I don't see that FB offers any sort of advantage at all to that circle, let alone a serious one.
> Even basic strategies will win if they’re done faster.

This isn't really true. Basic strategies done faster still lose miserably to humans, we can see this from the long history of SC Broodwar AI tournaments where they have a human play the best AI at the end (and always win).

Faster helps, better strategy helps more, maybe we can't say the AI is doing as well as the top humans at strategy since it's faster, but we can say that it's doing pretty good.
I think there are a number of factors, but my personal recollection was that Google had a bit more of a magical air about them when Go was released. As an outsider, at the time it seemed like Google could do no wrong, and of course we should all pay attention to this programming language they invented.
A sideways grammar question: shouldn't the title be "Things Rob Pike attributes Go's success to"?
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"You’ve reached the end of your free member preview for this month"

Stop hosting your content on a platform that holds it hostage so that it can make money off it without giving anything back to you.
My grandmother had Alzheimer. Before the major decline she would remember things from her kindergarten, recite songs and things that even she was surprised she remembered.
Not to be a smartass, but... Wikipedia for a start? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masayoshi_Son
Calling WoW stale is a reach. It consistently appears among the top 10 highest grossing games every month. Millions of people still play it and come back every expansion. They have no reason to make a "WoW 2" as long as their subscription base is strong and profitable.

Also, keep in mind that they don't even use subscriptions as a metric anymore, since now they have the in-game store with micro-transactions and the WoW Token which sells for more than the price of a subscription.
Walmart, the airline industry, et al proved that people will put up with garbage experience as long as your goods/services are priced cheap enough.
Great! That’s why we have communities such as this one?! :) To inspire each other; even when we are wrong... Curiosity is contagious, I guess. :)
> How is this different from a hotel?

It's a lot easier to get an idea of what to expect from a given hotel (especially chains) because they have more volume than any single AirBnB, and you get more value out of that knowledge about one hotel (or especially chain) because it applies to more than one unit (and for chains, in more than one location) so it's not only applicable to travel in one place when one unit is available.
> I'm not really sure what group they're catering to here.

My best bet is a certain generation of people in the US who grew up shielded and learning to react with outrage and emotional breakdowns to absolutely anything outside their narrow comfort zone.

Not even their children, who grew up with access to the internet and thus unfiltered humanity, can take them serious on these issues.

But I guess it makes someone happy and it's too late to change some people anyways. This restriction doesn't really impair anyone fundamental rights and it's a minor annoyance at worst. What gives?

> My guess is they must be doing this in order to help protect women from sexual harassment.

This is a possibility. Somehow I doubt this will make any difference though. You don't stop creeps by taking away a random thing when there's millions of other ways.
If Facebook really wanted to stop this they could make the eggplant less phallic looking or remove it entirely. Almost no one is going on Facebook to actually talk about eggplant.

They don't want users to have the same plausible deniability when sharing a cartoon wiener that they had when adding a cartoon wiener as an option. And honestly, it is probably for the better that sexual harassment via eggplant is now explicitly called out in the TOS.

I don't expect much enforcement of this.

Edit: Wow, the eggplant lobby found my post. To be clear, I'm not against the eggplant emoji, or its sexual connotations, but I am convinced that it gets used exactly the way its designers expected it to be used.
because the real skill is in the micro
Lebron James is a moron. Remember the part of his statement where he claimed that many people had been physically hurt by Morey's words?
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Would love to see a stack rank of SoftBank investments from best to worst.

On the surface Nuro looks cool but now it makes you second guess knowing SB invested $1B in them...
I'd rather track down and expose a scam for free than to get paid $5 from TaskRabbit to put someone's IKEA furniture together. Sometimes it's about more than money...
DOTA started as a Warcraft mod, which used Warcraft characters. The suit resulted in some characters being changed to be less similar to the original Warcraft heroes (e.g. Leoric -> Skeleton King -> Wraith King).
There is an emulation project trying to save as much as possible https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/
Django is my favorite backend because its database migration tool is easy to use and can be customized to fit my needs. That being said, if you want database-first schema migration, the only way to do that (that I aware of) is by attempting to generate models for your existing schema using Django's inspectdb command, then run a fake migration.

I like how Wordpress does simple database-first migration: just call `dbDelta()` function with your new table schema in sql format (CREATE TABLE ...) and it'll figure out a way to update your table to fit your new schema. I wonder if there is any similar db migration tool in python that work like this, seem perfect for small projects that don't want to use an ORM.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_Tables_with_Plugins#Cre...
When did paid political ads become such a big issue? I was under the impression it was all the bots and organized trolls that Twitter and Facebook were taking heat for.
I had that same problem years ago (US customer here), but as of....2015 or so? it seems to have improved quite a bit. Now I rarely lose signal entirely when in buildings.
In the words of Jack O'Neil, how dare you end a sentence in a preposition?