skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first proper dev job was in a call center.

When I started, they used Microsoft Access almost exclusively. They would put an MDB file on a shared network drive and every agent would open it to input caller data via the forms. Maybe 100 people with the same MDB open. Mental. No backups, lots of (data) corruption!
In Florida you can street register a shopping cart with V8 in it, as long as you put some lights, brakes, and seat belt on the thing. Obviously no Emissions testing for Florida man. Software is the least of your worries.
> So what? Also do Galicia, País Vasco, and many other regions and parts of Spain.

A complete list would include the Basques, many of whom would be happy to secede. We aren't talking about complete consensus and universally held beliefs.

> But this is not related to secession at all.

The idea that cultural differences - like language, but there are definitely others - are unrelated to a desire for secession, and it's all about wealth, which is what you asserted, is crazy. Plenty of secession movements move forward even though they are clearly financially self-defeating for the parties involved. (in my part of the world it's sometimes about Quebec...)

I don't have a dog in the fight but it's bothersome that you're trying to erase the reasons they are giving for wanting to secede. It's not helping anybody.
I think you are being sarcastic, because I can balance a broom a lot better than a pencil on my finger, so I'm going to discuss my thoughts behind why.

Based on what you are saying and tomxor in a sibling comment. Stability seems to increase with scale. Maybe it has something to do with weight, or center of mass, or a combination of the two.

I know that the longer the object you are balancing upright on your finger (or palm for something bigger than a broom), the easier it is to compensate the shifts in center of mass as it tilts. For a pencil, technically i guess it is "easier" to balance if you are a machine able to make the fine micro adjustments required.
I place it right above Mr. Lech. They were a victim. But they also had a minor amount of [well justified) agency in taking the first steps to create this situation--calling police for minor theft. I am not saying they are wrong in doing so. There are other ways of handling minor theft.

Mr. lech was a victim who was completely passive here.
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> The "America vs Europe debate" only ever pops up when an American comes into a thread telling everyone how wrong they are.

European posters do this all the time in health care discussions.
Your energy calculations seem implausible, irrelevant, and perhaps even sinister sinister. (similar to the conservative talking point about how busses, per passenger, are less efficient than cares because busses don't operate on average at capacity).
Current record is 2d 20h 9m for a passenger catamaran:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hales_Trophy
OP here. Given that I posted this, I think I that I should share my opinion. I am Spanish and against Catalonian independence, so hopelesly biased, I fear. I want to keep this short and cut to what I believe is the essence of the problem and how I think that all this will play out.

Given the power assymetry, hugely favourable to Spain, the only chance for Catalonian independence is to get external support that will twist Spain's arm. Here is where they are concentrating their efforts. They are trying this on many fronts, some legal (EU court in Strasbourg), but mostly by trying to keep the conflict in the front page of international media. This has worked partially (by damaging Spain's image abroad), but are still very far from their goals (UN resolution against Spain, EU warning, a big state or leader putting this on their agenda). Part of this is to commit illegal but not quite criminal acts, followed by an outcry and demonstrations when they invariably get banned by Spain. This "digital republic" is just one of many such acts. Spain is actually reacting with enormous restraint, given the propaganda disaster of past mistakes like the riot police during the illegal referendum.

Unless forced by the international community, Spain will never allow Catalonian independence, no matter how bad the internal situation, in my opinion. This is a matter of national interest for Spain, an existential threat, because it is one of the largest and richest regions, and because others would follow (at least the Basques), and Spain would just cease to exist.

Democracy is crucial, but, as with all complex problems, there are trade-offs to be made, one can't aim for absolute democracy at the expense of everything else, we should be careful with absolutes because they are not realistic. This is not a matter of human rights, or Spain being a fascist state, franquist, or a dictatorship. Spain has never been accused by other EU countries of being undemocratic or not respecting human rights (or, at least, not worse than other nations like France or USA).
Meanwhile here in the UK we have a fine rail network suitable for the 1910s. We finally upgraded to 1970s speeds in the 2000s -- deliberately avoiding 1980s speeds. HS2 might not be made available at all, let alone to the more northerly bits of the country. That nice Mr Beeching threw away half the network in the 1960s.

It shames us to see our closest neighbours do rail so well -- especially when the demand is there, it's just political will that's missing.
I don't know that it's obvious that the people outside of Catalonia should have a say in Catalonia's secession (which would mean it wouldn't matter what the majority of Spain wants, just the majority of Catalans)

Somewhere else in this thread someone mentioned that 90% the vote in Catalonia was 90% for secession, and included half the population. It seems unlikely to me that of the half that didn't vote, more than 90% are anti-secession.

Keep in mind, I don't live anywhere near the area, so I can't get a gut feeling that someone from there might be able to get.
Media regulations do exist, and are more robust outside the United States. Usually the answer to your question about bloggers and YouTube personalities is that they are ignored by the regulators of the professional media, but may attract police attention in extreme cases under anti-vilification laws that would likely be unconstitutional in the U.S., eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Meechan (UK), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blair_Cottrell (AU).

I don't see the problem with subjecting foreign media to the same or even stricter laws. Yes, it's difficult to enforce the law against foreign nations, especially your friends, so enforcement often doesn't happen. That doesn't mean that foreign meddling ought to be made legal, which would be a step backwards in view of laws like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countering_Foreign_Propaganda_....
In Europe private rail firms are eager to attract customers. In USA the government agency that is mandated by Congress to screw up rail travel is not so eager.
JS only has 64-bit floats.
> None of the above applies to this case though because presumably it is the person in question sending his own data outside the EU. There isn't much they can do about that.

Not at all. The problem here is that the Catalan government took advantage of their power position and used official data to fill the database of this "digital republic". This is precisely what this law disallows. They can still hold servers where citizens enter their own data.
I usually upgrade my travel laptop first before my daily driver laptop. So far, no troubles on my travel laptop. However I've only used it minimally.

I'm going to give my main laptop another month before I upgrade, I imagine.
That's why there's so much blank space between the paragraphs! /s
> people don't want pdf's because they can't be inlined on a issue ticket like plain old images can

Well, this module can also produce SVGs, which, I guess, can be inlined in some issue trackers. But, aside from being GTK3-only, the main reason this sort of thing didn't become popular is simply due the fact that even JPEG screenshots are just good enough and get the job done. Virtually nobody has any need to search for text in older screenshots; selecting text—well, you can't copy-paste from most of real error windows, so you're going to re-type its content anyways; and nobody is bothered with other people's font sizes, aliasing preferences, JPEG artifacts or whatever.
https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2016/12/21/it-was-all-so-unim...
https://developers.yubico.com/U2F/Protocol_details/Overview....

Via the U2F protocol, the browser embeds the URL and optionally the TLS Channel ID in the challenge, so a phishing website asking for a challenge will produce the wrong challenge (and response).

Note this does not prevent an attack via webUSB (https://www.wired.com/story/chrome-yubikey-phishing-webusb/ ).
But people aren't good. They would be on the ships for a long time and need to do people things, like eating and using the bathroom and not being bored. Hence cruise ships become floating cities with colossal energy usage and bad waste management.
I know, but they where suposed to throw flashbangs and gas. Not real granades!

Really, seens like a tatical unit with a balistic shield would be able to do the job without that much fuzz.
http://archive.is/gQ7wY to bypass the signup and private mode walling.
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The tech is still interesting, even if similar things that are used even in non-emergency scenarios have existed in large jets for a few decades. The one thing I don't understand is if it always just relies on WAAS and GPS no matter what, or, if depending on the runway it chooses to land, it may use something like an ILS.
> Like it or not, freedom of speech and assembly

Completely agree, but the investigation goes toward how this group is using this assemblies to promote disorders, chaos and unlawful activities.

Each of the manifestation in Catalonia and in Madrid have been approved and we have been able to see hundred of people fighting for their beliefs.

We will agree that promoting criminal activities doesn't help Catalonian cause, and that should be investigated.
Agreed it was worded poorly.. I didn't mean that as an analogy of "loophole" but the kind of unscrupulous stuff happening in the food industry
I think a new Constitution is the only solution. It could be possible to reform the Spanish State to make it federal or confederal and hopefully this would be accepted by all the political forces involved. However, this new Constitution would have to be voted by all of Spanish citizens in a referendum, not only the Catalans.
The appeal is that the cruise ship itself is a destination (with music, comedy, dining, spas, physical activity, etc.) and that makes a number of stops at other destinations, each with their own character and activities. When you add in the included "kids club" on most cruises and the fact that there are always some included food available at all hours, it makes for an easy family vacation with (potentially) lots of variety. Certainly, there are downsides, I'm just addressing your question about what "the point" is...
You take a distributed problem and consolidate it into 10x fewer areas. Now deploying a 1% improvement to a problem became more feasible. Repeat.

I thought HN was more thought through than this kind of glib comment.
>Best is to avoid any judgment when it is not necessary

That is generally why >90% of all lawsuits in negotiated settlements without going to trial/verdict.
Whoa, didn't know that was a thing. Vaguely I have heard about running iOS stuff on Desktop, but I didn't follow closely because I had no interest in it. Now.. I do.

Will have to give this a try, thanks!
> why mass attracts mass

What kind of answer could you get for that kind of question?

Seems to me that "Why?" Is the question you can ask endlessly of any answer.

Often I think a "why?" questions is just a request for a compelling narrative... Maybe that is literaly what "why?" means?
Vue.js is my go to for frontend development. It is easier than react in my opinion and allows me to architecture my app however I want
Alternatively it's an argument not to retire. Ideally you should be working with something you actually enjoy doing, though I suppose it's rare.
Eventually we'd also turn Mars into California.
Does insurance not cover this?
Politicians have been leveraging this for years, using this division to their benefits. And these applies both to catalonian politicians using independence and blaming everything in Madrid, and national parties in Madrid demonizing Catalonia.

They've been making a huge snowball of this, and it's starting to be too much.

From talking to some catalonian people, I think the last economic crisis, its management, and the corruption scandals in Partido Popular (the party that govered Spain from 2011 to 2018, but is always extremely irrelevant in Catalonia) had a lot to do with it, as it was easy for many to blame those on Madrid, on Spain, or "on the Castilians".

(I'm from Castilla but around half of my family emigrated to Barcelona a generation ago. I don't hate any catalonian who wants independence, they have that right; I'm sick of how both sides use FUD and hatred.)
Thank you for this, I've been doing this since I was a child, it often ends up being taken badly and I have a lot of trouble with it. I'm still struggling decades later to rein in this habit.

I actually find it a relief to know this is a common trait in programmers and may have it's alternate side of making me better at my craft.
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Lack of input.

Whether it's a train, a boat or in this case an aeroplane, an aware and capable operator will periodically fiddle with things a little bit, change the heading slightly, tweak engine power a bit, any little change shows you're paying attention still, no need for the machine to intervene. If that doesn't happen for a sustained period, the machine prods them. "Hey are you awake? Let me know you're OK" or moral equivalent. If they still do nothing after a further period, engage emergency systems. On a boat that means summoning the rest of the crew to come see what's wrong on the bridge, on a train it means you just bring the train to a halt and let a remote signaller communicate with anybody else on board, on a plane this system proposes to try landing.

Also a passenger can just (be taught how to) activate it.
Thank you! See you on the CRM battlefield ;)
On the surface it seems like such a simple thing to make - a box on some metal wheels. Why is it such an accomplishment to make "good rolling stock?"
If you have a loud neighbor you personally fight them? The problem here is not that police are carrying out violence that should be enacted by citizens. I think you have misunderstood the need for accountability, not self reliance when it comes to using force.
Ok I am sorry I assumed you did - so thank you for not dragging me down :-D It must have been some anonymous jerk who doesn't have the balls to tell me what upset him and give me the chance to argue with him.

In comparison the MBP 2012 and a MBP 2016 do not differ in weight so much (1.4kg vs 2kg which is basically a package of flour) and if I am honest I don't really recognize the difference when carrying them in my backpack.

But it depends on the bag as well, because if you use a messenger bag for example the strain on the shoulder and the back is probably noticeable. Also many people like to carry their notebooks around with one arm / hand and of course this will be a huge difference then.

Some people like to use the Thinkpad X1 or the Dell XPS as a replacement but I don't have any hands-on experience with those.

I hope someone will recognize the gap in the market and jump in to produce 13 inch, retina screen uni-body metal notebooks with the ability to upgrade the parts and with all the ports you still need when not living in some bubble where magically everything was converted into USB-C overnight.
I would think that parabolic trajectories only close in infinity, and hyperbolic not even there? Or both close only in infinity? The math on that is currently out of my brain's cache.
I see, thank you for the heads up.
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Do you have code examples of this?
Speaking of clean WebUI, the beta for the redesign is live: https://beta.protonmail.com/inbox

I've been using it since it came out a week ago or so and am rather pleased.
DI is a module system built out of classes; dynamic scoping is another way to build a module system.

If you had a good composable (parameterized) module system, you'd have much less need of DI. A composable module system would scope the lookup of type names and static methods to the actual module arguments arguments the accessing module is constructed with.

The problem with `new X()` vs `@Inject X x` is that the construction of X in the former has no indirection; type names are global constants. A module system provides an indirection. Dynamic scoping could also provide an indirection, because dynamic scoping lets you redefine / redirect those otherwise constant things.

(DI in practice does a bunch more, like proxies to let you put data with different lifetimes (request, session) in a mixed object graph; and the fact that proxies now exist means aspect-oriented programming sticks its head in and encourages its use for things like auth and transactions. Once you go over the edge of the DI barrier to acceptance, "best practices" shift dramatically - you end up quite far from where you started.)
Nitpick on Nitpick on Nitpick, it is indeed O(2^m) and not O(e^m). Those are not the same complexity.

Logs get to not care, but when we exponentiate it matters.
Here's an explanation of the reasons. http://www.cataloniavotes.eu/en/background/why-a-vote/
Regardless of the flavor of the month, the difference is Microsoft is still supporting most of their old frameworks. You can still go write an MFC app today, for example. (VB6 is a major unfortunate exception, I will admit).
This assertion is reductive and somewhat false.

Rail is the most energy-efficient method of hauling freight over land (where no water route is available), and electric trains are powered, on average, by whatever powers the regional grid. For countries besides France, such as the USA, Germany, or Norway, which get a sizeable portion of their energy from carbon-free sources, electric rail is a reasonably low carbon compared to trucking, and perhaps even compared to barge.
Some people = nobody in the grand scheme of things. This wont move the needle.
My brother had his phone stolen years ago from a gym locker in middle school. The thief was identified within a day and the phone confiscated by police, who kept in in an “evidence” lockup.

We tried again and again to get the phone back but they refused. We had to buy a new one. As far as I’m concerned, those cops stole my brother’s phone.
Well, unless you live alone or don't work at all, you will always be spending much more time working than on your hobbies, so you will inevitably be better at working.
This is a seriously impressive bit of software engineering. It seems as simple as "push a button" to the layman but what happens when:

There is a thunderstorm between the airport and the runway
The nearest runway is closed due to a blizzard
There is a mountain between the normal 3-degree glide-slope and the runway, an "offset approach"
There is a 40-knot crosswind
You have an engine out

That's just a few, I'm a commercial pilot and software engineer, and I find this insanely impressive.
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Joe Barnard, who looks a bit like the energy & space entrepreneur, earning him the title among his friends of “discount Elon Musk,” is one of the very best channels among tinkerer YouTube. Not annoying or fake enthusiasm like some of the other channels (but is enthusiastic!), innovative, informative, and fun-loving. A joy to watch his videos.

Also, I had ice cream with him one time after watching an Antares launch in Virginia.

Also good to see Make isn’t dead.
The best thing about those line guns is everyone watches you do it and if you miss you get laughed at.
What’s keeping them? They can get their own account or they can even use the free accounts.
See page 14, 15 of "Energy Efficiency in Air Transportation" by Arturo Benito, Gustavo Alonso. Table 2.3 gives MJ/pkm for the US. Fig 2.8 next page gives ranges of efficiency for both passenger and freight.

https://books.google.com/books?id=jJGZDgAAQBAJ&printsec=fron...

Back when "peak oil" was a thing, I was in several discussions about what it would take to electrify the US transportation networks, both passenger and freight, but I have not worked in transportation planning. Hydrogen-fueled intercity buses will be much easier to implement than anything else, especially if they are autonomous to reduce driver costs.
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All of these aren’t related to your 1password vault. They all occur even if you’re using your phone as a totp device.
CAT II/III can land with limited visibility.

CAT IIIc is interesting because there is no decision height and no runway visual range limitation. Pilots can approach and land completely blind without flying with the stick at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gthcuZV8agI

Big airports with CAT IIIc can stay open for CAT IIIc available aircraft in all visibility conditions.
Imports, yes; more precisely, modules with parameterized dependencies.
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It will be insanely impressive if it actually performs well in those scenarios :)
If I were not to use a DNS, I would have to know by heart my IPv4 address (32 bits) to SSH on the router, then hop on the right host (32 bits local address). I guess you could shorten that to 32+8 if you were to use a super common prefix, but I tend not to do that to facilitate routing when bridging networks with a VPN, so it is more like +32 or +24 (10.x.x.x instead of 192.168.x.x).

The full address I wrote above is 72 to 80 bits, depending on how you count (if the ::11 counts as 8 or 16). So that's more, but not much. And The common part is always 32 bit more than the common ipv4 part.

An easier alternative to hoping on the router would be to assign a port to each computer behind the NAT. That makes 32bit for the IPv4, and 16 for the port. Contrast 64+16 in my IPv6 case (I actually have a /56, but that's no help for remembering it). 1 computer on the network means that you have to know 66% more bits with IPv6. Bump that to 10, and it's just 16%. This is because there is always a common part, and that common part is two times the length with IPv6, so that makes it a constant offset.

When configuring a network, I typically do not know the prefix by heart, so I make sure to have that written on a paper sheet that I take with me.

Plot twist: I do not know my IPv4 by heart. I actually know the IPv6 one better, as I have a dynamic IPv4 at home. And I intensively use DNS/mdns. IPv6 actually makes it easier to use DNS for local network machines, I think, as I feel it is more worth it to fill the DNS entries with it, in case I want to later open some ports in the firewall for the www to access.
California is unique in many ways, so you can't look elsewhere. In particular California trees are "designed" to go up in flames every few years, so you have to work with it. Most places wildfires are naturally less common, when (not if!) they occur are smaller fires that burn out the underbrush without burning the forest.
You are right and I apologize for not reading carefully enough.

Of course 16GB is the max. you can put into an MBP 2012.

But: Who needs that anyway? Yes if you do heavy tasks like 4k-stuff and 3d-rendering but for most tasks you do with computers it's quite sufficient.

Personally I move my tasks to servers if they need more resources.