skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m equating democracy with listening to the most numerous. You have been thoroughly defeated with 3 blatant-majority votes in 4 years. If you don’t like it, you were never in favour of democracy, and if you are not in solidarity with your English mates, tell me about solidarity with an entire continent.

Name a single country that succeeded to leave EU without retaliation from said EU and I’ll eat my hat. EU is not a choice for most of us on the continent. We’re not free to leave, and we were manipulated into joining.

Long story short: The simple fact that it required not 1 but 3 blatant-majority votes for elites to register that yes, UK people wanted to leave EU, is a sufficient proof that EU is not listening to the most numerous.

And let’s not even talk about the quantity of funding, sponsorship and 4x3 billboards it took to swerve Scotland’s, Wales and NI in favor of EU. Manipulation is in plain sight here.
Very true. And as I reflect on why I used the identity language, I'm realizing that expressing my irrational feelings in an exaggerated form also helps to reduce the impact they have. By announcing dramatically to my husband, "I'm not a sewing person anymore!" I'm able to see just how silly it is to have that thought as a subconscious burden holding me back.
why not

struct Foo{
bool some_flag : 1;
bool other_flag : 1;
....
}

?
Don’t they just both correlate with socio economic status?

Can’t read actual methods to check if this was adjusted for…
A bijective proof isn't the same as an enumeration, which is a bijection to the set 1,2,3...

Of course you can derive an enumeration by bijection to a set with an existing enumeration, but the point is that that's usually not of interest.
Your position is that it's the reporting that's inflammatory? Not the underlying accusation that someone is racist or colonialist for using "Alice" and "Bob"?

That's absurd.
Pawn promotions are legal moves, yes.
Ultimately that’s not why they bought them anyway. So no, not really

That's not relevant to the fact that limiting competition was their very first consideration.

And other competitors were seen as lesser value because of their location, not to mention the fact that the reply to that argument was that just talking to them would still hurt competition by making any acquisition more expensive.

Just because Google ultimately found YouTube to be valuable doesn't change the fact that their first motive was to limit competition.
And now I'm very curious as to the reasoning behind the downvotes. Again, I'm fine with you disagreeing with me, but I must insist that discussion is more valuable than blind downvotes when you do have the rare occasion of an actual real life black person here giving their opinion.
I've read that in many Asian countries houses are seen as a depreciating asset.

And I've noticed that in the US, the observations that cars are typically depreciating assets never really stopped people from buying them.
In my case I kept the core supplies but got rid of a big stash of stuff that I was keeping in order to be able to "go make something on a whim" after realizing that right now it's the lack of time more than the lack of supplies that has been keeping me from creating. If it's going to happen, it will have to be a deliberate effort for a particular project and in that case I can also make the effort to go out and buy what I need.

But coming to terms with the fact that I don't have that kind of time in my life right now is hard, even though it's my own choice to prioritize other stuff. We're putting extra time into work right now with the goal of early retirement within the decade. This fact combined with the number of small children in the house means time-consuming hobbies with lots of small pieces are off the table for the next few years. I'm definitely looking forward to coming back to it in the future though!

I think the sacrifice is worth it but it's still a sacrifice. Usually I'm caught up in the busyness of life and don't think about it, but spending time on big-picture stuff like minimalism really brings the feelings to the surface. So no wonder I keep putting it off!
> But billions of people will get access to all the worlds information.

This is exactly how we ended up with QAnon, anti-vaxxers and people taking horse dewormer.

I'd argee with you ~15 years ago, but with the internet now being more or less dominated by companies who profit off "engagement" and are hawking any content (no matter how false or harmful) as long as they can get eyeballs to look at their ads I'm not sure it's that good of a thing.
At the time Google tended to destroy companies they bought by insisting they rewrite their product using Google infrastructure.

By the time that was complete, the product had died.

For some reason, YouTube was allowed to keep their infrastructure.
I used to live with a dog who really, really loved to be petted. He would hop up next to you on the couch while you were reading a book, on a laptop/phone etc and very deliberately hook your forearm with his "wrist" (not sure the right term, first major leg joint above the paw) and pull your hand/arm towards him for pets. Cute the first few times but he was so persistent and deliberate about it, it became a little annoying!
>There is a better way - raise the real rate.

Ok, you decreased monopoly rents but you also raised the cost of everything that isn't a monopoly. You will now pay more interest on your car. Companies pay more interest and pass the cost of interest onto you through more expensive products and services.

The truth is that you didn't even make housing cheaper. You still pay $1000 per month for 30 years. Higher interest rates just mean more of your money goes to the bank in the form of interest payments rather than into home equity.

>Cheap loans along with endless printing has basically made fiat useless as a medium to store value,

I don't understand this logic. Fiat currency is created by the promise that someone will work for you. If you never redeem that promise it is worthless. You cannot store labor the same way you can store gold. All saving money does is create room for investments today. If those investments never happened then you saved for naught. You denied yourself of the value of your money and yet you have the audacity to blame others for it.

>I hope ECB and other central bankers realizes how they are fucking up an entire generation before it’s too late.Negative rates is only going to make things worse.

What negative interest rates do is force you to face the fact that you are not utilizing the promise and that money, just like grain decays over time. You are letting people sit unemployed unable to live up to their potential.

What "fucked up" an entire generation is the utilization of money as a time machine. Let's imagine a simple money system. $1 = 1 pound of grain. The grain standard. Grain decays over time. Therefore $1 appreciates exactly at the rate at which grain decays. The farmer storing grain has to pay the maintenance cost of holding onto it while the person with the money has none of the costs. Everyone will start hoarding money while they get to watch the real world decay. If you put a holding fee onto money that matches the decay rate of grain then people will be forced to spend their money on something that is more durable than grain like giant pyramids that survived for 4000 years.
* Anticipated explosions managed with the fire containment pie tin.

Big Clive is an electrical engineer from The Isle of Man and has a very unique English accent, complete with local slang and idioms. He’s a very engaging character and passes as entertainment, even without the electronics content. Genuine and occasionally heartfelt and up-lifting. :)
Juniper breach mystery starts to clear with new details on hackers and U.S. role
Yes. You do not need to choose a queen when the pawn reaches the opposite side.
http://web.archive.org/web/20210903093344/https://www.bloomb...

https://archive.is/QISk9
nothing to do with Google, this is phone from Indian carrier Jio

also the price doesn't seem particularly cheap, I can buy Cubot Note 7 here in Czechia with 2y EU warranty for 70$ incl. all fees without any subsidies from any carrier like Jio, also 5.5" display, also 2/16, also 4G, Android 10

I'm sure I could buy better configuration for less than 50$
By this logic no one would buy food, as it drastically depreciates in a minuscule amount of time.

The real economy is the one that fulfills people's needs. Real-estate investment is parasitic to the real economy - it locks money away and artificially increases the price of a basic necessity. This has always been recognized in even basic economics with the concept of "rent-seeking" - unproductive activity that still makes money, such as literally charging rent.
Currently, the owner could rent out 2 units on the land and break even. But really there could be 12 units there. LVT raises the taxes as if there were 12 units. This will bring the break-even point to renting out 6 units. The owner has to either build out the property (increasing supply, driving down rental prices), sell to someone who will, or lose money.

That's also why there shouldn't be an exemption for first home.

Obviously made up those numbers but hope you get the idea.
Y'd think if you had access to 1400 "paper", the effort of making your own gall ink for your forgery. It ain't hard. Maybe the galls aren't common in Norway?

Otoh the deception lasted 100yrs.
Said it before, saying it again. I merely said "pay special attention," not "always 100% agree." You've got two black folks here with differing opinions ostensibly ready to discuss. I have no problem with being disagreed with, but I'm still good suggesting that mere downvoting isn't helping.
You see this in lots of long-play shows/properties. Adventure Time comes to mind. A number of seemingly irrelevant details become central to the main plot in much later episodes (years/seasons later).

I am wondering, however, whether there is some sort of plot bible that lives with the “keepers” of the storyline, or whether some details are just randomly sprinkled here and there as hooks with the hope that writers will weave them into the future plot.

Either way, this type of writing is extremely rewarding to long-time fans of a show.
Germany wants Apple to offer iPhone updates and parts for 7 years
That's a silly reason to justify a worse product. And I've yet to see what company has switched away from Github purely because of Microsoft's acquisition.
The paper states high up that it's been well studied that Toxoplasmosis infection increases reaction time - this study was basically just showing that that laboratory-viewed metric has real-world consequences.

As far as mechanism of action, T. gondii infects both neurons in the brain and glial cells.
That probably involves creating the maximum number of pieces, by capturing 4 pawns to promote the 12 others.
Let's give each side 1 king, 3 queens, 3 rooks, 3 knights, 2 light squared bishops, and 2 dark squared bishops.

Then have these move through as many board permutations as possible without triple repetition. This would give a multinomial of (64 choose 36 1 3 3 3 2 2 1 3 3 3 2 2) ~ 4.6 x 10^41 positions to move through, which could be multiplied by 2 for side to move (over estimating a lot since many positions will have the wrong king in check, or the right king in impossible check) and another factor 2 for first repetition, giving roughly a 2e42 upper bound.
Will this technique eventually extend to non embryonic stem cells?
This is a good point. Exercise is probably correlated with a general effort to take care of yourself for either health or appearance reasons. Many people enjoy sports and exercise for recreation, but health is probably at least a secondary reason for those individuals to exercise.
> what you say about untraceability not being entirely true

Oh, OK. I have no idea, just true coin anonymity is something I regularly see cryptocurrency advocates brag about on HN. Some imply it's as easy as changing to Monero and back, others point to tumblers, etc.

> literally hundreds of billions of dollars of assets are regularly moved, labeled, washed and rewashed in ways that make it extremely difficult or costly to know about

Costly but possible, if one follows the money and studies the paperwork. Stories about shady manipulations and laundering do hit the news from time to time.
It is difficult for old politicians to understand the difference between securing your device networking & harping national security concerns. Similar to I guess playing video games from China backed companies is not okay but enabling him-grown startups to take VC money from Tencent is okay.
It's even more difficult to buy a cup of coffee with a Treasury bond or a kilogram of gold, yet Treasury bonds and kilograms of gold somehow retain value even without this essential capability.
About the same order of magnitude of the number of air molecules in Earth's atmosphere.
Interesting. You are far more cynical about this than I am. I can't say I know their motivations, but it seems at least plausible that they could land on this structure for earnest reasons if they both: a) believe they need more money than could be raised as a traditional non-profit, but b) want to limit the power of investors in the case where they successfully develop a strong AI.
The story is about a raid, not jail, but point taken in any case.

EDIT: Later he mentions being “released”, so I guess there was some jail involved.
My natural reaction to flicked Vs is to anticipate danger, "it's kicking off Pru", so I felt rather pleased with myself at recognising the intention of the gesture, hey I'm a man of the world, a sophisticated European; the one pint reveals that I'm just another English schmuck tourist. There is pride, and there is a fall, that's why I found it quite funny.
It is possible for both to be inflammatory. The comment you replied to only mentioned the article.
>what exactly constitutes a "cat person" exactly?

>the dichotomy between "dog people" and "cat people" had always been interesting and telling to me.

I think by "cat person" he meant less "I like cats", and more "cat lady"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis#Society_and_cult...
Ask HN: What could a modern database do that PostgreSQL and MySQL can't
If there were a general-purpose OLTP SQL database that was developed today, what features or design decisions would it pick that PostgreSQL and MySQL cannot adapt for historic reasons?

Or put another way, what are some cutting edge OLTP database techniques/features/architectures that PostgreSQL and MySQL would have a hard time supporting?
Also wanted to mention that bronze metallurgy is often considered elitist compared to iron metallurgy because 1)tin ores are less abundant 2) techniques are more intricate. Iron tech is pretty much the first mass tech, if zeroth is fire/fermentation or if those were too easy to be considered tech.
TLDR: Hoarding wealth is normal. Redistribution is necessary to keep the peace. This last cycle, wealth was accrued faster than normal counter balancing measures could respond.

I wholly agree that technological change begets social unrest. And that regulation, applying rules to the open market, with competent referees, has struggled to keep pace with technological change.

However. OC does not propose a theory for technological disruption leading to accelerating inequity.

My best guess of the probable root cause is when wages were decoupled from productivity. Productivity boomed, wages remained stagnant. The Productivity-Wages Gap. There are insightful, complimentary narratives of this phenomenon from Piketty, Turchin, many others.

Buy why did this happen when it did?

My current best guess is when finance got super charged by IT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financialization

When the majority of wealth creation transitioned from doing real world stuff to massaging balance sheets. When Capital transitioned from investment to rent seeking.

Advances in IT was the enabler, force multiplier, by dramatically decreasing transaction costs and improving financial analysis (eg playing what-if with spreadsheets),

Ok, fine. But why did wages stay decoupled?

At the same time, Capital led a sustained attack on Labor. Which hobbled the expected normal efforts society has historically done to redistribute wealth. There are many, many useful complimentary narratives about Milton Friedman, Chicago School of Economics, Heritage Foundation, etc.

Another "also true" story is Lobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA https://www.amazon.com/Lobbying-America-Politics-Business-So... Whereas other histories detail the obvious persons, ideologies, and culture war stuff, this book details the legislative knife-fight that actually made it happen.

PS- My starting assumption is the fight is, and always has been, wealth vs democracy.
I don’t care if I won’t be raped everyday. Getting raped only on weekends is not a compromise I would accept. What is so hard to understand about that?
Agreed, But:

Wikipedia cites it as a "dramatic principle", not merely a style. I've seen it advocated as "the way things should be done". That's why I think the contrast is important to note: it's not a principal of good writing, it's merely one style of telling a story.
People pay because it is still the best choice for the non-financially-savvy to secure their net worth given the policies our government has made the past few years. Someone else already explained how renting costs way more, and people would argue the break-even point for renting vs buying is only about 1 to 2 years. That's without taking into account all the restrictions landlords are putting up.

Once you get past the hurdle, banks give you insane amounts of money to buy these insanely priced houses with. And due to the low rent, you're not that much worse off than 5 years ago. Since no one who buys a house today wants to end up losing out, many homeowners will vehemently oppose any measure which could make the prices sink, so more borrowed money, so even higher prices as long as there isn't a suitable alternative (cheaper/affordable and easy to attain rent).
Show HN: Backpainfree.org – stackoverflow for back pain problems
It was mostly better content, but also it just worked. Many of the other sites didn’t work well. Video sites are actually very complex engineering-wise and have lots of moving parts.

Additionally, some turned on ads right away, which people hated. There was also YouTube embeds. The site just felt fun.

By contrast, Google Video had very little good content. There wasn’t anything fun about it. Whereas YouTube had a social aspect to it, Google Video felt like a VCR.
At the very least, anyone contributing to a repo with contribution guidelines around commit message format is expected to.

Anyone who cares about others reading the commit history, should.
Banks will definitely know about any other mortgages and loans you have within the Netherlands before the mortgage is finalized. These are all registered with the credit agency they all employ. The only exception to this rule (for now) is a government student loan.
You can have OpenWRT act as a Wi-Fi client (you might need to install the wpa-supplicant package). At that point your wifi interface is connected and you can adjust the firewall/routing/IP configuration to mark it as "WAN".
Okay, despite the fact that I keep being downvoted for having brought this up, I'll answer anyway and probably get downvoted again. Here's the thing. As someone who knows the "original" Pollen, and knows that it is a system designed for making online publications look good, my immediate thought was: "Oh, is this a CSS library from the guy who created Pollen? That's cool." Maybe it was designed to work in concert with Pollen! Maybe it's just inspired by Pollen! Or...oh, maybe it has nothing to do with Pollen. Huh.

If the title was "Pollen - a library for controlling air quality sensors," I wouldn't have thought that, because those two fields aren't remotely connected. But this Pollen and the original Pollen are in adjacent problem spaces, and that makes the identical naming relevant.

I'm sorry you think that's "little more than noise." I just don't agree. As I mentioned elsewhere and I guess shouldn't have, normally I don't bring this sort of thing up, but I think in this case the possibility for confusion isn't in the "so wacky ha ha out of the blue gosh nobody would ever mix up the two" camp that apparently everyone else does.
Good on him, but this seems bittersweet to me.

This coupled with social media or search engine information can help determine mental states, world outlooks, and can be used to manipulate outcomes. A custom reality for customized behaviour.

Anyone knows if this is implemented anywhere?
Link to the complete article: https://sci-hub.se/10.1126/science.352.6285.508
Having lived through the 70s and 80s, the last 30 years have been relatively stable by comparison. But different. Zero interest rates, ERM, and QE, versus inflation, stagflation, currency devaluation, decimalisation and the winter of discontent. I can wait to see what black swans we get in the next 20 or 30 years. My point being really, the classic finance phrase, past performance is no guarantee of future performance.
Ask HN: What VCS to use for binary files only?
I know about git-lfs and mercurial binary files extension, but don't know the pros and cons. Is there something like git, but specialized in binary files?

Apparently SVN could work very well with binary files, but it needs a central server.
I've seen bad user input, one very unusual char, bring down a whole self-healing geographically redundant cluster of machines running an expensive commercial cluster software. Any connected devices can bring each other down.
The rule says a player can claim a draw, but they are not obligated to do. So, if you're a player and want to exhaust the search space, this only helps you if you seek a draw; but perhaps there would be a guaranteed win somewhere if you kept playing (and the opponent didn't claim their draw).
I propose Ali & Bob, a multicultural gay couple.
For everyone commenting about different hardware failure modes and possible solutions. Take a look at the airbus « flight control laws » such as https://apstraining.com/wp-content/uploads/FCS-Airbus-Quick-... it governs what happens to flight controls and what protections are available in different scenarios. In this case the system worked, it crashed and reverted to direct law providing manual braking control.

Off topic but I found this very interesting « The deceleration performance of the occurrence flight between 6,600 feet and 7,300 feet from the threshold of runway 10 deteriorated. It may be due to paint marking and rubber deposit on the touchdown zone of runway 28. »
The Astonishing Rise of Angela Merkel (2014)
Saying "written in Rust" as a proxy for performance is a bit like saying "X in Y kb" in JS-land for the same reason. It says nothing about actual performance. One needs to show benchmarks if they want to have a convincing performance argument.
So this is like Angel investment ?
> You already have to trust Apple to do the right thing.

Yeah, I trust them not to do stuff like this. Society is based on trust, it is normal. If you trust your friend, it doesn’t mean it is okay if they stab you, is it?
'The Burning Blue' focuses on Christa McAuliffe's down-to-earth life
This would look so much better, if the wheels were hidden by the sidewall when collapsed inside... they'd look like normal sneakers when worn inside, and then "bam!", skates!