skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, they are not. Reddit (and even more so Discord) does not have the permanence that forums have and far worse tools for formatting posts, so every subreddit degenerates into 101 questions, circlejerking, and meme shit. There's no way to contain that like you can on a forum. Cross-community navigation is an anti-feature and harmful.
That was a wild ride of reading,

>"They formed a consumer group, the 349 Alliance, which organized a boycott of Pepsi products, and held rallies outside the offices of PCPPI and the Philippine government. Most protests were peaceful, "

....

> "but three PCPPI employees were killed by a grenade thrown into a warehouse in Davao,[13] and a mother and child were killed in Manila on February 13, 1993, by a grenade thrown at a Pepsi truck."

What the hell
Code as text had long bothered me because of my experience with various schematic capture and pcb layout tools. With those the design is stored in form that can be queried directly. And you can change object properties programmatically.

I feel like the insistence of text based programming languages just leaves the industry completely mired in the mid 1970's.
I wouldn't mind! Pre-owned, opened $5 MagiCans are going for $650 - $800 on eBay now.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Ultra-Rare-MagiCans-COCA-COLA-Class...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1990-MagiCan-Promotional-Coke-Can/2...

While you can get an opened can of Billy Beer for less than a buck.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Billy-Beer-Billy-Carter-Beer-Can-Pu...

But you still would have been better off investing that $5 from the MagiCan in Apple stock.
Yes. You'll be left with a messaging plus broadcasting app. I'm building it for people who waste a lot of time on twitter but can't leave the platform for various reasons. I thought removing the time consuming parts might help.
as I'm sure you well know, the Lords is completely subordinate to the Commons (the elected house); it essentially acts as a scrutinising committee

the (elected) EU parliament cannot initiate legislation, only the (unelected) commission can

EU: the elected parliament is a rubber stamp on the unelected commission's agenda

UK: the unelected house is a rubber stamp on the elected house's agenda
It's interesting how trying to formulate an answer to a left field question like this helps shine a light on areas where knowledge is lacking on both of those things.
You didn't attach it to another lock?
It also requires a browser that supports HTML for some reason, instead of being an API you communicate with through CURL POST requests.
They left euratom, which has nothing to do with either the ECJ or EU. There’s precedent.
This is exactly what I am talking about when I said "you can't argue with them".

The EU is how we negotiate with the rest of the world. When we leave, we don't just lose access to the EU, we lose access to 72 other countries with EU trade deals.

And that's without actually examining the Brexiteer position: If we can't accept EU membership rules in exchange for EU market access, why would we be able to accept any other trade-for-sovereignty deal? Everyone else wants more sovereignty for less trade.

The Brexiteer position is crazy and doesn't match reality. More reality won't persuade them. All they have is weird slogans like "What's better, the EU or rest of world?" and when you explain why it's nonsense, they stick to it because it sounds good and who needs inconvenient truths?

EU trade deals: https://fullfact.org/election-2019/ask-fullfact-trade-deals/
I can FOIA my government's one-to-one email communication. If I can't do that w/ Twitter they shouldn't be using Twitter.

The local government I work for uses some god-awful subscription software to "archive" all their various social media interaction. I'd rather just see the government not use third-party-hosted communications systems but, grudgingly, I'll take thr "archived" social media data over nothing. The data needs to be accessible to the public, ultimately.
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> They left euratom, which has nothing to do with either the ECJ or EU. There’s precedent.

afraid not: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-uk-leaves-the-eu-4057...

> The UK joined Euratom when it joined the EEC in 1973. It is a separate legal entity from the EU, but is tied up with its laws and institutions, and subject to the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice (ECJ).

you may want to revisit essentially everything you've posted here, because most of it is just flat out wrong
When they were looking for the missing Malaysian airliner, there were "fresh" (I guess days old) satellite images for people to look through, although the detail level was not that great.

I think a commercial satellite imaging company supplied the images for free.
> The baggage caused by the UK will dissipate in 5-10 years or so

This is quite optimistic. I'm not sure if you live in the EU, but the UK severely tainted its image and destroyed all good-will with most powerful EU member states. In less than 5 years, it went from being a highly respected member and culture, with a reputation for pragmatism and seriousness, to a sad joke and an object of scorn with a bad after-taste of good old-fashioned xenophobia.

More objectively: if you study the history of the EU, you will see that this "baggage" is quite old. For quite some time in the 70s vetoed UK's accession (to the then EEC), precisely because it feared that the UK was only interested in economic benefits and would sabotage any other aspect of the European project. That is more or less what happened when the UK eventually joined, and the EU had to build around the UK (Schengen, Euro, etc.). It is true that the EU likes rich countries, but it is also true that things are far from being as simple as you describe.

Interesting detail: you mention Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. They are members of EFTA. EFTA was created by the UK during the time that they were not able to join the EEC. After Brexit was decided, the UK tried to rejoin EFTA, and they were refused. So being rich is not enough once you become sufficiently toxic.

Due to the situation after WWII, the UK was given special treatment. It was allowed to opt-out of most things, and it was given extraordinary rebates for its contributions to the EU budget. Should the UK wish to rejoin, it would have to accept Schengen, the Euro, no more rebates and the "ever closer union" political commitment spelled out in the treaties. I find it very hard to believe that the UK would accept such things in our lifetimes, and I find it very hard to believe that the EU would be willing to put up with the current circus that is UK politics and media in the forseable future.

The UK government is now talking about not honoring the Withdrawal Agreement if there is no Free Trade Deal. Well, this means a border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. This means the return of violence to that region. Even if the UK honors the WA, it is quite likely that the situation will degrade to a point that this border comes back. That was the crux of the negotiations for the last 4 years between the EU and the UK, that everyone is now forgetting about. There are also other issues, like Gibraltar. I am afraid that heavier baggage will necessarily accumulate before it can even start to dissipate.
I've seen people with analysis paralysis at the lowest level of development, and I've seen opportunity-chasing in different directions of different market segments at the top of orgs - sometimes fence-sitting takes the shape of trying to go down both roads, rather than no roads.

I think it's a lot more common than you think it is - especially because not choosing does not simply mean not taking action, it means lacking focus.

A strong opinion will at least put all the wood behind one arrow, focus in an area. It might not work; deciding when to change tack is where the judgment is, but at least there ought to be some solid feedback to work with.
> Honestly I DON'T trust my own reasoning.

I have this and it's a real problem for software development because everyone expects a senior to be gung-ho about their solutions and perfectly confident. Whereas I'm always asking for second and third opinions about things and people (largely management but occasionally other developers) view that negatively.
> notices when a function is renamed, or can represent refactoring in a diff

Maybe this tool is moving a step towards this goal: https://www.semanticmerge.com/
There's a nice little pun in "real", which is Portuguese for "real", as in "unit of real value", but also means "royal". In this latter sense, "real" had already been used as the name of the Portuguese currency since 1380, and was used in Brazil until 1942.

I don't speak Portuguese but IIUC the two meanings have different plurals.
You never need to preface any comment with a disclaimer about it not being legal advice.
I'm not so sure. If I wanted N. Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England to rejoin the EU (separately and in that order) then I'd be doing pretty much what the government is doing right now.
We are a bit of a second-rate nuclear power though - we are completely dependent on the US for delivery systems (Trident missiles) and, apparently, for the design of warheads.

If the US decided it didn't want the UK to be a nuclear power then I don't think we'd be able to maintain the capability for very long.
> I tried DokuWiki at first (has flat file db which is cool). It's simpler, but I ended up going with MediaWiki which is more powerful, and aside from Wikipedia using it, I noticed most big wikis I use also use it (https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Main_Page). MediaWiki lets you choose Sqlite as an option, so I have one big wiki/ folder sitting in my Dropbox folder symlinked into my iCloud folder and local fs.

or you can just use Zim which is a cross-platform desktop app which does not need any setup and simply save files as text files in markdown : https://zim-wiki.org
I saw the Inventing on Principal video several years ago and I’m very happy to come across it again. Thanks for sharing!
Looks cool. Would be nice with a YouTube video about it for those of us on mobile.
Syntax highlighting is very useful, if not then it wouldn't be so commonplace. The other highlighting methods are also useful. But there is not one objective best highlighting method, it actually changes from moment to moment depending on what you are doing. And many editors in fact already change how they highlight things based on the context! For example, when I search for something, my editor highlights all matches. If my cursor is on an opening bracket, it will start highlighting the matching closing bracket.

Some of the highlighting methods shown in the article also seem a bit useless to me. Assigning colors to indentation levels? Surely the indentation itself is a huge visual clue already that doesn't need colors to be wasted. The rainbow parentheses example also shows that there are limits to how many obiously distinct colors you can actually have on screen at the same time, and the colors don't uniquely show nesting levels.
> entirely effective against swords

Against the immediate cutting, probably. But it also bends. And with bending, it could damage you really bad, including the part that removing them could become quite a trouble.
"strong" is called a breeze.

Strongest martian storm can have wind speeds up to 100 km/h. Because low air density, the force of the wind would be equal to "Fresh breeze" in Beaufort Wind Scale. (8.5-10.5 m/s) "Small trees sway, waves break on inland waters."
i think so too, but selling a non-consumable in a package that claims to be a consumable is also a problem, so i am not sure they thought this through
I'm not sure why you were downvoted, I hate sites where the only option to "do you want to be tracked?" is "yes" too.
Because it uses Node.js in the backend. MediaWiki is written in PHP, but it does not require you to have PHP running in the client to work.

As much as we could argue about whether no-js support really matters or not in 2020, the fact remains that having to having to load Vue.js and have it parse and render the frontend on the client is not really "lightweight", especially when the most popular competing products pre-render on the backend.

It wouldn't honestly be that much of an issue if it was a SPA (and it must do SPA-ish things already if it uses Apollo) so you just load the frontend once and it'd load other pages asynchronously, but nope. Every link is a full page reload, with Vue having to re-do everything every time.

It just reeks of modern tech used in an old fashioned way, which ends up with the performance penalties from both.

Go browse any other wiki, see how much faster and smoother the experience is.
Actually, that's a good point I hadn't thought of. The world has moved on from GPL to more free alternatives.
> Zrythm and the Zrythm logo are trademarks of Alexandros Theodotou. See our Trademark Policy for more information.

> Alexandros Theodotou

> I am a native-level English and Greek speaker born in Cyprus,
currently based in the UK.

Where did Korean developers came from?
I really enjoy DIY, and it's 'always' been my dream to build my own house (actually build, not spec and pay) but there are definitely things that do just take practice/experience.

For example, skimming a wall. Not hard to learn what you need to do, but when you actually do it... It's a lot harder than it looks. You can think it's perfectly flat and then step back or the light hits it a bit differently and it's just am obvious nasty blob.

I've only patched a few holes (from 'chasing' cables) - if I did the whole plasterboard join it'd be a mess, I'm sure.

It's such an aesthetic difference that if I built that house I might pay someone to finish the walls. It's not a graceful did-it-myself charm of an error, like one cupboard door that opens the other way or something.

Wallpapering I suspect is similarly hard, and just takes practice, but I've not tried.

There are books and videos on software engineering too - and we know that people do self-teach - but our employers pay us because we've already learnt and gained some experience.
NI, Scotland and Wales leaving would make England one of the richest countries in Europe (by capita), which would vastly increase its EU budget contributions

this makes Leave's argument better, not worse
The problem isn't DRY. The problem is most programmers' inability to tear down abstractions that aren't correct for your new requirements when they evolve.
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Developpers opinion doesn't matter much, but developpment cost and reliability does. If a project takes 6 months vs 3 weeks, it's a completely different game.

Even for big B2B corps, it's the difference between a project you can lead on your own and get credit for it, or something that will go upper in the chain because of all the approvals you need for it.

In a previous life, to get an Adyen contract and dev. environment and then the prod credentials, it took us something like 3 months, and we had a smaller PSP integrated for a different project in the meantime. That meant that for any project we didn't have as much volume, we'd go though faster PSPs instead of reusing the Adyen connection.
> Rest of the world looks a lot better than EU nationalism/protectionism.

The EU has literally the least nationalism and protectionism in the world. To an extent so extreme most of its people wish we'd go back to more reasonable levels.

> The choice provided for every half-in option is to give up the rest of the world in that matter

That's absolutely untrue. The UK could be part of the EFTA and have any kind of bilateral agreement with the rest of the world it wants.

Anyway don't worry, you'll have a deal worse than Ukraine or Turkey, since it's what you want.
"Some"? The fact that you have to manually access the database backend in order to change a password is a joke, among many.
I've been using Obsidian for note taking recently, and as much as I really enjoy it - having hypermedia would be quite useful too. I can paste images in Obsidian, but it tends to put the pasted image in the root folder, and I can't display it inline with my notes.

EDIT: VisualEditor, the de facto standard for pasting things like screenshots into your articles seems to be a pain to install. Got my local env up and running though.. Will report back on success with this extension.
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> Nah, they'll want the budget contributions back.

Also: "The German car industry will demand it", "The EU needs the UK more than the UK needs the EU", etc. All of this has been falsified in the last four years. The integrity of the single market and of the European project is turning out to be much more valuable to EU member states than the highly rebated UK contributions.
On the other hand, I can see the other more powerful Security Council countries leaving and setting up something else (to which the UK, now a rather middling power, will not be invited).
You're missing the thread here.

Suppose a guy walks into a grocery store with a shaved head and swastika tattoos. He wants to buy a bag of apples. The store owner doesn't like the cut of his jib and asks him to leave. That's fine, the guy goes to the grocery store across the street and buys the apples there.

The store owner across the street doesn't care what kind of tattoos a man has and is willing to sell apples to anybody. That's fine too, right? But then an angry mob descends on the store, filling the entrances and harassing the customers, accusing the store owner of being a complicit racist for doing business with Nazis. The store owner does some simple math and realizes that selling a bag of apples a month isn't worth this kind of trouble, so they start to turn the man away too.

Then the angry mob does the same thing to anyone who will do business with the man at all. He can't buy food, electricity, clothes, medicine, nothing, or the merchant will be the subject of a harassment campaign which will cost them more than they could get from his business.

This is clearly just as coercive as anything the government could do, if not more. Even they're not allowed to deprive you of food and medicine.

And as much as we might like the idea of making life impossible for Nazis, the target is only the current whim of the mob. Nothing guarantees that a given target is actually evil.

Or that they're paying enough attention to notice that the guy with the shaved head and swastika tattoos is a Buddhist monk and not a Nazi at all.

Which is why, when the government does it, they have an obligation to give you a fair trial and access to an attorney and respect your constitutional rights. None of which the mob gives you.
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Start with iron pentacarbonyl, which is conveniently a liquid that can be distilled. That gets rid of nearly all impurities.
Only if we continue to be wealthy, which is not so certain right now.
I agree, but that doesn't make the "old data" problem go away.

It's worth noticing that in the first part (Paul Saffo forecasting), the problem is all in one head. Saffo recognizes an unintuitive methodology: strong opinions weakly held. He's only really dealing with himself, his intuitions, tactics that work for him.

The second part gets social:

"you’ve decided, along with your boss, to build a particular type of product for a particular subsection of the self-service checkout market."

This is a good example, imo. These decisions are made with imperfect information, and they incorporate a lot of interlocking opinions. Ex ante can only get you so far. You need to make a decision and start rowing to progress, change paths when necessary.

Multiple people are involved. Credibility is on the line, among many subtle subroutines of group psychology that we aren't even aware of. The solution from Tetlock, express your opinion as a probability, is a solution to the problem in its group form. When people are in meetings making big decisions, a lot more than the big decisions is going on. Human power dynamics are taking place. Being right can play a very small role in these.

I think the author has a blindspot. "This is not how the human brain works" is one kind of challenge. "This is not how human groups work" is another. It isn't a derivative of the first.
GTK with many custom widgets.
Thanks. There are a few comparisons to my field which stand out as being different than an end-user software sales model.

First, like I said, most companies in my field (including me) already do a software subscription model. You write "there's no reason I shouldn't keep using it for another 5", but there are reasons to pay for chemfp upgrades even nowadays:

1) I track support for underlying toolkits, where new features are added and APIs change. For example, the most recent release of chemfp added support for Open Babel's 3.0's new circular fingerprints, and for a number of new structure formats in OEChem and RDKit.

2) The commercial version adds Python 3 support - if you stay with Python 2 then you build up technical debt. (#1 and #2 depend on other software advancing enough to need support.)

3) I added improved performance, new APIs, and Zstandard compression support, which resulted in better I/O performance over network file systems than gzip.

So while you could wait 5 years - and it would be cheaper for you to only buy a new copy every 5 years than a support contract - there are advantages to spending the money. And I can still budget for a 5-year update period; while Microsoft has to meet market growth expectations on their revenue streams.

Second, there's plenty of scientific software in my field which started decades ago, and which haven't become "essentially useless" in the meanwhile, making them counter-examples to your broad description.

Third, pharmaceutical companies keep their data close, and prefer to analyze things internally rather than on the clouds. Even the search queries may contain sensitive chemical structure information, which causes some companies to block access to chemical search services unless an NDA is in place with the search provider.
https://www.wired.com/2010/12/realtime/

The feds get every card swipe in real-time without a warrant.
Not in Germany, where this company is listed. There, the auditor is allowed to (or even required to) assume "Good faith".
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>Brexit is like the Aesop's fable of the greedy dog dropping its bone into the water in the attempt to grab its reflection.

I love this. It feels very apt (said from a UK expat, watching his country slowly unravel from afar)
Yes, images of your house/area will be older. Near real-time imagery is only available at lower zoom levels.

It takes a long time to take satellite/aerial photos of everywhere on the planet in high resolution, so 2018 is quite good in the geospatial industry.
Silly question maybe...

Why didn't they just put the prize in a sterile packet and fill it with Coke like normal?!

Seems like it would solve pretty much all the complaints and issues!
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> Surely the indentation itself is a huge visual clue

Apple had a security bug that stemmed from indented C code that was indented but not within brackets. The second line of an if was not under the condition, but was indented the same as the first line.

I myself prefer to use type to convey structure and color to convey semantics. Having keywords boldfaced helps structure to stand out while coloring parameters, locals and globals differently would help meaning to surface more evidently.
Before Lena: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine#/media/File:A...

Note the broken window!
Neutrino detection is very slow, it is averaging signal over several hours to transfer a few bytes. Useless for HFT.
Wow kind of amazing. Don't think a human would give me much better results. It would be interesting to know how fast OpenAi is able to retrain / update the model based on new data.