skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's not "newspeak" and there is nothing contradictory about those things.

This is a long reply, but please read on.

EU has absolutely never said that they somehow provide automatic free trade/movement agreements with a random country on the planet regardless of what terms EU gets in return. If that is what you think, then I think you have misunderstood what the EU is about.

The key point is this: EU as a block provides freedom of trade and movement etc. to countries WITHIN THE UNION. This happens "automatically" for union member countries. When Czech Republic (for example) joined in 2004, it enabled a person from Czech Republic to move to Portugal or work in Spain. And vice versa.

Countries outside of the union, like Norway, Switzerland, Canada, Japan etc. have to negotiate a trade deal with the European Union. This is a process of give and take and often takes several years to make it happen in a way which everyone is happy with.

So: the EU is the entity which agrees on free trade agreements (and other agreements) with nations outside of the EU. This is the reason why e.g. Norway and Switzerland have the good trade deals they now have -- they negotiated those deals with the EU. (Note that this is also beneficial for the union member countries since, as a bigger entity, EU can negotiate better deals)

Now, Great Britain had these benefits as a member of the EU. But due to whatever reasons, which I won't go into to, they left the EU. Therefore the status of Great Britain reverts to the default state, which is NO AGREEMENT of any kind with EU.

The contents of a new kind of agreement is what people have been trying to rehash out from the day 0.

This is why it is different. When Great Britain left, they reverted back to a "random country with no deal in place". The fact that Great Britain is geographically in Europe or was in the EU in the past means nothing now; the situation now is they are not a member of the EU AND they lack an agreement with the EU.

To summarize: Great Britain has no deal right now and has to negotiate a deal again.

For what it's worth, unfortunately Great Britain appears to be not very enthusiastic to truly negotiate. They seem to have an idea that the EU benefits are possible without being in the EU, but of course such a thing won't happen.

And that has nothing to do with EU principles of free movement and work or fairness to the people of UK and whatever, it has to do with the fact that now Great Britain is a country outside of the EU and will be handled like such.

How "left" is different from "never been in" is that it is no different; the difference is that e.g. Norway and Switzerland have long ago negotiated an agreement with the EU, which spells out how the EU and that particular nation play together. And Great Britain has no such agreement in place right now.

Hope this helps.
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http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...

On a side note, why does Google make it so hard for mobile users to use its cache feature?
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I've come to the opposite conclusion about downvoting. To me, downvoting is the most useful to people with an agenda to push. They can "push" the agenda by both upvoting posts that support it and downvoting posts that are against it, regardless of post quality. Either action is equally beneficial for the narrative. It essentially gives people two upvotes. Normal users, not trying to push an agenda, do not have this "two upvote" advantage, since they are generally not upvoting/downvoting content in a narrative-consistent way.
> Even the CDC was against mask use by the general public at first,

It. Was. Not. The WHO and CDC both issued guidance that public use of personal protective equipment was a bad idea, for fundamental scarcity reasons. And in both cases the messaging was done poorly in a few spots and could have been interpreted as statement that masks don't work against covid. They were heavily criticized for this at the time, and the criticism was carried by the media. No expert ever told people that masks don't work, or that the public shouldn't wear them. They were telling people to save them for the health care workers!

And getting to the point upthread: that bit of misinformation is, again, something being deliberately propagated by people with a political agenda.
I don't know about where you live

It really depends more on what you're into than where you live since so many radio stations stream.

There are plenty of great radio stations out there still, but on the internet people think it's cool to pretend the stations don't exist and burrow themselves deeper into a more and more Balkanized niche echo chamber, never exploring anything outside of their comfort zone.

FMs I've listened to this week: WXRT/Chicago, KCSN/Northridge, KING-FM-HD2/Seattle, KTNN-FM/Tohatchi, K279BO/Palm Springs.

If you want to hear the same old thing over and over, by all means wallow in Spotify or whatever you loaded onto your iPod a decade ago. I do that sometimes, too. It's comforting.

However, there's a world of good and interesting music out there. You just have to make an effort beyond tapping the play button and letting a computer decide what you hear.
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But an educated population is a net benefit for a society so you’d have to factor the societal benefits as well.

In the US the professors appear to often work a lot closer to free than the administrators do anyway.
What happens is that you write the first version, and then the requirements fundamentally change (or you learn that your requirements were fundamentally wrong) but it happens gradually and you change and change the old version. It's now mostly meeting the new set of requirements, but has a bunch of cruft from what it used to do.

Throwing that away and writing something to support the new set of requirements is a rewrite.

I take no position, here, on whether it should be done.
It's been really interesting to watch this pandemic from Japan, where I've been for the last ~3 months. I am an American citizen.

Walking around Tokyo this week I'm still seeing mask rates of >95%. Lockdown ended about 2 weeks ago.

In America, mask-wearing carries a different set of social signals. It seems that not wearing a mask is perceived, by some, as a signal of one's virility and freedom.

The article makes this all pretty clear, but the comments here are getting bogged down in "but the data says masks are/aren't effective". The point is that the data doesn't matter. Mask-wearing is determined by social/political expectations and signaling, not by data.

If a study came out tomorrow that said mask-wearing reduces transmission by 95%, Trump still wouldn't wear one. Looking for a silver bullet study to prove a point either way is a waste of time at this juncture.

Apparently, asking Americans to show that they care about the health of another American via a very low-impact signal (the $10 it costs to get/make a mask, the minor inconvenience of wearing one) is too much.

How can a society solve any size of a problem when it cannot be bothered to put a piece of paper or cloth on their face for the possible benefit of another? If your political climate makes such a minor gesture controversial, how will you solve any meaningful issue where your factions disagree?

How do you get Americans to care about the health and welfare of other Americans?
Then, the prestige it sells, is probably not all that legitimate.
It’s easy to find examples of health care workers complaining about masks interfering with their breathing[1]. That was just the first example I looked at there are plenty more.

[1] https://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/trouble-breathing-i...
This is the comment I have agreed with most in this thread. The employer should pay based on what the employee is worth, not where they live IMO. Why is somebody in California worth more? Is it because they’re in the office? Are they doing a different job than the remote worker?
Measurement by Paul Lockhart. Written by the author of the well known Mathematician's Lament essay [1], which deplores the state of school maths education, in response to questions like "Well, what are you going to do about it?".

[1] https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament....
> The WHO only endorsed masks a few weeks ago. I don't like Trump, but these are facts.

That's not facts, that's spin. From your phrasing, it sounds like you're saying that prior to a "few weeks ago" that the WHO policy was somehow anti-mask. It wasn't, even in January. Their policy was always that PPE should be reserved for health care workers due to scarcity, and in a few (A FEW) instances their wording of that recommendation was poor and might plausibly imply that masks don't work.

No expert ever interpreted the WHO policy the way you people insist on doing. And at this point this insistence is just pathological.
This is controversial but shouldn't be flagged. It's a link to a factual news story. Dang could you unflag this or otherwise explain why this remains flagged?
> And I want employees who have the fortitude to do the right thing rather than the easy thing.

And this way you get employees burning out I’m a few years. But you know, you can suck that up too.
Do you want some nose clips to prevent your glasses from fogging up? Also keeps the mask tight to your face solving your FOV issue.

>I can't ride my scooter at all because with that field of view loss, I'm worried I'll crash into something.

Just how big of a mask are you wearing? No mask I've used or seen would prevent this at all, sounds a bit dramatic to me. Plus, why are you even wearing one while riding your scooter? It's not needed unless you're in close proximity to people.
People are absolutely obssessed with institutions, mainly via justification of their own passage through those institutions. I have seen it at every level of education where people a notch below them or more on the educational ladder are looked down upon. People holding bachelor's or master's degrees will look down upon those with only an associate's degree or a high school certification. Those with a Ph.D. will look down upon those who don't and elevate those who do. I have both seen this and experienced it.

A book that covers this is Disciplined Minds by Jeff Schmidt.
Most high quality communities have active moderation. And many times, the vast majority of moderated activity is as simple as the mod privately telling a member to chill out or adjust their attitude. Don't need bans or downvotes even, most people will happily comply with a mod request simply because the request was made.
LOL. What a load of lies.

American businesses had the power to change American behavior in the 1800s and 1900s. Did they do it? No.

American businesses could have helped outlawed slavery in America. They could have forced the issue onto their politicians. Did they do it? No.

Then in the 1900s, American businesses could have outlawed racism. They could have forced civil rights onto their politicians. Did they do it? No.

And today. American businesses can force the end of police violence against minorities onto their politicians. Are they doing it? No.

American businesses can ensure fair distribution of wages, and financial equality, and social equality to help their minority citizens. Are they doing it? No.

Hence, give me some evidence that American businesses can actually do something useful at home first, before making them a pawn in this stupid game of geopolitics that the Washington elites are playing against a nation on the other side of the world, and forcing the rest of us to choose sides on. When, they themselves do nothing for us.

My point is, the problems we have in America, has nothing to do with China. This is all home grown. We have within ourselves, the ability to make life better, fairer, and more equitable to all Americans. Instead, what does the politicians do? Nothing. Instead, they do everything to support the rich, and the elite. While the rest of us gets fleeced, are lied to, and gets hoodwinked.

The biggest lie that they sold to us, is that Trickle Down Economics will work for everyone. That tax cuts for the wealthy will help drive business growth. Trickle Down Economics should instead be renamed to Trickle Up Economics.

The problem is not China. The problem is our corrupt political and financial system.
I’ve been in a position that was involved in hiring.

I’d count an open university degree as equal or better than most universities.

Anyone who can work full time, study for a degree and often manage family life is worth a good look all other things been equal.
Hot quinoa is slightly heavier than cold quinoa.
since "looking for a silver bullet study to prove a point" is the only thing fivethirtyeight has left, it should probably just stop now
The trivium and quadrivium are the foundation that, to me, ties the importance of the humanities into the non-humanties areas of study. It has a compounding effect on not just breadth, but also depth of knowledge, and in particular, offers greater potential for novel insights over "1 mile deep, but one inch wide" knowledge.
This unpleasant bullying is increasingly common in these discussions.
This story is about internal practices at an American company.
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Foreign information warfare units absolutely want to be stoking that fire to the fullest extent possible.

Their election interference was so wildly successful that they'd have no reason not be trying to inflict further damage on the US now.
Boom boxes have made a comeback. Some phones are pretty loud. You can buy a lightweight sound amplifier to add to a phone. People use these hiking, running, biking, at picnics, etc.
>” the humanities study things which are not (entirely) subject to scientific rigor, but which are still worth studying.”

An issue with these things is that institutions and government make major decisions based on the output from these fields. It’s not that we discount them completely but we should also consider opposing data from alternate studies, but what you get is agenda driven decision making (on all sides, this isn’t the province of one ideology).
https://archive.is/D6RKy
Godaddy is basically robbing customers
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This is now the second time this has happened to the domain I want to purchase, luckily the domain is parked by Godaddy for a month. So if you found that domain you really like, do not try to get through Godaddy, else you will pay a broker $50-70 to secure you a deal:

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On my system spatialite is 10% the speed with the Germany extract compared to PostgreSQL. Bigger extracts don't work properly.

But loading data directly from a osm.pbf or loading data via the QGis QuickOSM plugin into a spatialite file gives two problems:

1) You can not transform the data to fit your personal usage. Raw osm data is not nice to work with.

2) I had many problems with areas stored as relations (example: islands in lakes) and relation handling overall is a mess.

For the first steps and to toy around osm data in spatialite works. But don't fear osm2pgsql. For standard use cases it's a oneliner.
I did it when I used to work in the office, and it was pretty nice. I have the first generation Apple Watch, so the phone still had to be nearby, but I could keep my phone in my pocket, and it freed up a little space on my desk.

My wife uses the current Apple Watch with AirPods at work, and only uses her phone at home. She leaves her phone in her purse, and seems happy to not have to carry anything else around.
It's conceivable that humans minds are not perfectly modeled by software neural networks.

If neural networks are not perfect models of our minds, then your last paragraph does not hold.
I remember watching a BBC (?) documentary with (I think) Schoch and Hancock, and Schoch being very reasonable and accommodating to Hancock with respect to the possibly scientific foundations of Hancock's theories about the extended age of the Sphinx until it got beyond that to the idea of coded messages etc:

"...aaaand that's where we part company..."
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> How can a society solve any size of a problem when it cannot be bothered to put a piece of paper or cloth on their face for the possible benefit of another?

A friend's mother will tell anyone she encounters who is wearing one that they are a ninny and a coward. So for some people it is also an indicator of courage/weakness.
Properly fit N95+ masks definitely protect the wearer, but in clinical settings are also combined with measures like a faceshield (which reduces droplet exposure to the eyes specifically, and reduces possible viral load on the face generally).

Conversely: pretty much all masks (though ones with an exhalation valve will reduce the effectiveness) will reduce the spread of droplets and thus virus from exhalation and talking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYJvU81DKgk
Second this! I was soo excited about the Google App Maker as the cloud equivalent, but of course, they shelved the product and will turn it of Jan 19th 2021. The alternative they are touting, "AppSheets", isn't really the same and geared towards "no code".
They're more annoying for some people than others, there's no surprise in that. Still, there are nurses and doctors in disease wards who have been wearing these things full time now for more than three months, so... I think you can deal. Keep experimenting, you'll find something that works.

Or just stay in environments (your home, or outdoors with consistently good distancing) where you don't really need the mask.
Studies to peruse in the meanwhile: https://c19study.com/
This is a good idea but third-party developers might lose interest in Facebook's SSO if they are not getting user's real email address :)
The great rush of STEM funding that has slowly marginalized the humanities within our education system

STEM funding doesn't marginalize the humanities; there's no reason STEM funding needs to reduce the value of a humanities degree or needs to decrease the number of people majoring in the humanities.

The core of teaching in the humanities is the expression of the grand breadth of human experience

There is a lot of motte and baileying (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy) among humanities defenders: the humanities are hugely important, but the way they're practiced by many in contemporary universities is not so good. Harold Bloom called the current practice "The School of Resentment," but it goes under other monikers as well.

The other thing we ask students to do, beyond merely encountering these things is to use them to practice argumentation, to reason soundly, to write well, to argue persuasively about them

This is good! But many humanities professors now think they have the answer, and their job is to become activists, spreading the answer they've found to everyone else.

There are two big problems with getting students and grad students to major in the humanities: the cost of college is one, and the way the humanities have largely morphed into a particular form of political activism is the other. The humanities as learning "to practice argumentation, to reason soundly, to write well, to argue persuasively about them" is and would be great. The experience on the ground is quite different.

I majored in English and went to grad school in it: https://jakeseliger.com/2012/05/22/what-you-should-know-befo.... Here is one version, albeit not the only one, of the intellectual problems that occur widely: https://jakeseliger.com/2014/10/02/what-happened-with-decons...

I forgot to add: I used to try and keep a list of examples of the kind of thing one sees in the humanities, but Real Peer Review does it better: https://twitter.com/RealPeerReview.
> So then why so much effort into deciding if it works or not?

A lot of members of society view not wearing one as an act of courage. A friend's mother will tell anyone she encounters who is wearing one that they are a ninny and a coward. So for some people it is also an indicator of courage/weakness.

A study lets me tell her she is an idiot. Preventing others from being called also cuts into the "ninny" narrative.
I'm in Fl. When I walk out of a grocery store my glasses fog up. Is that a big enough inconvenience to ask them to turn off the AC? Nah...

My glasses don't fog up nearly so much as that by simply wearing a mask; little bit on some exhales. So, given the benefits to others, I'm okay with it.
It also means the droplets are mostly separating back out onto your skin, and also are not being directly blown into everyone elses face.
One big issue is how the humanities are widely practiced today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23728642
I think "cis" is a topic related to gender, rather than sex. The term is short for "cisgender". For example, "cis man" and "trans man" are both subsets of men.
Desktop Chrome: https://i.imgur.com/fehpJVk.png

Makes me feel like I'm reading through a small window. That was after I closed the obnoxiously large 'subscribe' box.
If you just need the basics - phone calls, simple messages you can do via voice, directions, streaming and local music/podcasts. It works well.
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