skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Joe Rogan is fantastically meat headed about so many things, but really he's a jack of all trades, master of none, and he majors in cardio kickboxing.

The thing is, he often operates pretty engaging interviews, and the Murray Gell-Mann amnesia is in full effect for all of them. He's basically talk radio, and despite the subject matter, he refrains from sophomoric shock jock goofing off, unlike Howard Stern.

He is willing to meet most guests in the middle, and he's got the gift of gab, but infrequently waxing blow hard, with a few exceptions. Most notably: gender identity politics. But other than that, he's plays pretty fair with everyone across the political spectrum (he's had more than a few gay/lesbian gender bending guests on), even if head count favors hypermasculine tropes, and satellite ideologies.

But while having serious pop-science guests on the show, fringe UFO theories are bread and butter among pro-wrestling enthusiasts that enjoy the art of kayfabe. And if you think it's all in good fun, hey that's fine, but Joe Rogan certainly seems to eat up junk science all the time.

His recent show with Bob Lazar, discussing Area 51 was filled with "what-if" tales of anti-gravity and synthetic Element 115, which was futuristic when it emerged in the 1980's but hasn't withstood the test of time. He talks of cyclotrons shooting anti-matter at government synthetsized Moscovium fuel pellets to produce free energy and, then by turns, anti-gravity, concluding in time travel and teleportation. Joe just gobbles it up like a wide-eyed Joe The Plumber, and the rest of the bullshit artistry piles up. Now, faster than light travel across megaparsecs is an open, probable reality, and so too, alien races from Zeta Reticuli. The Grays are really androids. They're at war with The Reptilians, which is why an asteroid killed the dinosaurs. Riiiiight...

But it's all faces and heels in an MMA match, nothing more. Unless you're not in on the joke.

Most people don't grok particle physics enough to be dismissive of the premise of magical (or rather, unstable) element 115. They don't get that it's just another blob of the usual nucleons that we're all so familiar with, no free gravity, no free lunch. That lights in the sky do not, a spaceship, make. Oh well...
I have still never owned an Oculus Rift simply because it is owned by Facebook and while I can't know for sure what they are doing with data collected, I can try my best to not walk straight into the fire. Maybe it would actually be better for Facebook to spin off an acquisitions/ventures arm associated with the main company as loosely as possible, and leave out data and privacy concerns by not using any data from their ventures until they are wholly incorporated into the Facebook business, but I'm no legal expert and Facebook is definitely not the type of company that would stay it's hand at an opportunity of collecting even more data
I think the myth of any "balanced" news source is exactly that, a myth. All human organizations have an internal culture, and that produces bias.

My view on public broadcasting is that its culture is CLEARLY left-leaning. That is, I don't think you could get hired and build a career in that world if you were known to be politically conservative or libertarian. Subconcious bias is worn on their sleeves, and they do tend to ensure that it always gets the last word (e.g. see virtually any interview segment involving gun control or illegal immigration).

However, I also think they TRY to be objective in their content. Even if there may be bias in story selection or story structure, I think they try to provide the building blocks so that you can think for yourself. One POV might consistently get the last word, but the other perspective(s) are represented in a segment.

Anyway, this topic and thread were on my mind, because I happen to be in the middle of reading the book "Listener Supported", a book on NPR history from longtime insider Jack Mitchell. The last section in the book deals with criticisms of bias that NPR has received over the years.

Mitchell is pretty candid in acknowledging public broadcasting's progressive roots and culture. However, I was surprised that most of the discussion involved attacks on NPR from the LEFT! A lot of people feel the same way as parent comment. Not that NPR is culturally right-wing, in the same manner as Fox News. But rather that its bias is not sufficiently left-wing. Or that it's a "trojan horse", appearing leftist yet subject to manipulation and too much a servant of the status-quo.

This perspective is interesting to me, if a bit frightening. Particularly reading the claim "they're mostly funded by the Koch's", and not seeing a SINGLE person on Hacker News counter that 8 hours later. In reality, David Koch has only made donations to the PBS show "Nova", has never donated a dime to NPR, and this is such a prevalent fake news trope that Snopes has had to cover it:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/koch-brothers-buy-npr/

You think about this sort of thing being right-wing material, spread by old people on Facebook. It's sobering to see its inverse here.
> In fact most of the Indian public is poor and can't produce land records to prove anything, they don't own any land. They don't have passports because they haven't traveled or even had a need to.

That was also true in 1985 when GoI signed the Assam Accord. Why did the GoI lie to the people of Assam if all this was a disaster in the first place?

Regardless of what happened in the past, the recent stress on NRC is due to the SC order in 2013. I'm not sure how the Government should've defied the SC order. Even if they had done that, it could've had ramifications in Assam which has already seen a lot of violence against ethnic Bengalis.
Someone in that moment of panic is not carefully choosing the words they're using and considering their dictionary meaning.

I'm a paramedic, not a calltaker, but if someone is described as "having difficulty breathing" and "incoherent", that warrants an EMS response. Start the rig and ask any other questions you have after that.
> Gavin McInnes is really a misogynist and founder of Vice.

He has been fired. I don't much care for people like him but he is not part of the problem with Vice.

> She's really building weapons for the US department of defense

Can I get a link or reference for this? It is a big fact...
I agree with you in principle, but unfortunately the system has been so perverted that it's the consumer who inevitably suffers.

Here's a pretty entertaining peek (by Micheal Lewis) into what happens because of fraud that the consumer had literally nothing to do with and how the lender (bank) is able to put the onus on him to fix. It's not life or death, at least in this example, but it really shows how obviously unfair the system is. Apparently this happens quite a bit.

https://atrpodcast.com/episodes/the-seven-minute-rule-s1!1c9...
it has nothing to do with GDPR

thanks for trying
Ad blocking is like eating apples. Some apple eaters are vegans, some are vegetarians, and some are just regular omnivores. A diverse population with many reasons for doing what they're doing.

Myself, I'd prefer to pay with my data if the terms were clear. I have an issue with manipulation, and I'll be blocking all ads I can until the ones that are left are non-attention-grabbing, non-interactive, not manipulative, related to the site I'm in, moderated, and preferably pull, not push.
> Certainly our remainer establishment would have wasted no time in interpreting a Remain vote as permission to rapidly speed up integration.

That's a nice strawman you're building...

> EU dictates terms that are essentially the same as not leaving, or actually even worse.

Yes. I mean, what else would you expect? They're not going to treat a random country better than EU partners.

> working in the real economy, like port operators, saying they're prepared for no deal and there'd be no disruption at all

Real people already have to apply for residency and not everybody gets it. Disruption has already happened.
What's wrong with building weapons for the US department of defense?
We had one also in a low security facility. Random things always end up floating in when people transfer from camps to lows. For some reason at the camp we weren't allowed to have beard trimmers or fans. We didn't have AC so people would run out and smuggle in fans.. $250 just to have some minor comfort in the 95F heat :(
If you've used screen for 10 years, learning tmux will take about 10 minutes. There's also some handy plugins: https://github.com/tmux-plugins

Really, if screen works for you, tmux isn't going to change your life. And I say this as someone who used screen for at least 10 years before switching to tmux.
Nope. Every other work day at any time is fine. In fact multiple prod deploys per day is perfectly fine.

Sometimes something has to be coordinated but we try to prevent that with feature flags or putting "shims" of code in to bridge us from one workflow to another and just remove the "shims" later.

Continuous integration plus small feature changes per 'ticket' and each item can be deployed whenever it is ready. Ability to roll back a deploy in minutes.

Occasionally if there is a fire or bug fix that needs to go out, those will go on Fridays.

Who wants to be fretting all weekend about if something is going to blow up?

If you deploy on Fridays because of low user counts and there is some unforeseen problem with actual users then you start your work week on Monday with that problem.
This will result in advertisements working their way deeply into songs themselves same way podcasters now just talk about how they like products on their podcasts instead of explicitely advertising (example: Joe Rogan and Tesla)
If it's illegal to mute ads automatically, is it therefore illegal to mute them manually? How can automating a human function be illegal? Computers don't have legal capacity they simply do what humans tell them to. All computer actions are ultimately human actions, I don't see how they can draw a distinction between the two cases.
That's the major difference between Presidential systems and Parliamentary ones. In the first, the head of government is directly elected and the legislature separately, and in the latter the legislature chooses one of its own as head of government. Semi-Presidential systems (like France) are somewhere in between.
More pragmatically each party is trying to get the timing that would be the most in their interest.

Labour is trying to get in power, first and foremost.

Unfortunately (or fortunately) they are currently so left wing that they are scaring most moderates away.
Amazing that someone would choose to work for a huge American corporation for no fee instead of providing the data to anyone who wants it.
The consumer is also the victim because their credit score is impacted by the fraud, which can prevent them from securing a loan (for car, home, apartment, school, etc)
I'd counter that in many cases it doesn't even try to be fair. It privileges the ability to craft an argument over bare facts, which immediately privileges those who can afford professional representation. At the core of the fear of a surveillance state isn't simply the loss of privacy (which in and of itself could be worth the accuracy it would bring to judicial proceedings), but the fact that it would just bolster the ability of skilled narrative-builders to pull the most advantageous facts out of context and twist them to their whims.
I tried setting up a 3B+ with pi-hole, but I think it was overheating...I had it set up on a first-gen Pi, and it still works great.
>The idea of a monastery is to dedicate yourself completely to introspection and philosophy (...) no matter what religion or philosophy

No, the idea of a monastery is to dedicate yourself completely to God, and specifically the God of a specific religion.
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"Smoking room". Nothing wrong with that!
You literally said: "dnsmasq + periodically updated hosts file".

That is what PiHole, in its core, is!

The rest is just for the webserver, dashboard and API. You don't really need that. Sure, you're solution requires less code but I don't think it's easier to setup or manage.
> The idea of spending a week or a month with no electronics, all my meals prepared, and quiet time to just read, study and think sounds fantastic.

If you just want a hostel / retreat, many monasteries already provide that service through their guest-houses.

I think it would be way more interesting and useful to be able to actually be part of the community save for the religious part: taking part in the preparation and work, and be able to engage in one's secular activity (study, projects, reading, …) during the periods where monks engage in religious activities. Of course the issue with that is there is little incentive for churches to subsidise such inviduals (unlike even the lay brothers of old).
"Nim feels more like Python and Crystal more like Ruby"

Agreed. To me Crystal is a bit easier to grasp because I already used Ruby a long ago, but it has the non trivial disadvantage of being bootstrapped (ie, it requires itself to compile itself) so that it is slower to port to different architectures.
I'm not talking about that garbage. I'm talking about the mom and pop stores. The catering service, the stationery shop, etc.. These services are competing with shit (other ads) right now. Wouldn't it be nice if we could clean up the ecosystem and have these companies benefit?
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Many javascript code compression techniques are used to create even shorter demos, animations and even games, using 140 characters or less, by the Dwitter community. E.g. a similar to Perlin noise image used to create the terrain (in this 13k game) was made with less than 140 characters of JavaScript, see here:
https://www.dwitter.net/top/month
Some Dwitter members are also developers of 13kb games.
> and given that random garbage could result in pretty much arbitrary "undefined behavior"

Nitpick: UB doesn't come from reading random garbage, it's quite the opposite: UB could result in reading random garbage, but it could also result in many worse things.
Yes and I addressed it in my comment: "the decline of religion/religious practice "
Thank you. I guess I always considered that a phrase regarding features where a browser doesn't have a feature yet, but will in the future. But I guess it works well for the other direction as well.

(ie, a browser that will never have any new features)
Have you seen Nimpy[0]?

It allows for a nice integration between Nim and Python. At least for the examples I have tried, it could be used in place of Cython, when there's a need for extra speed in some hot loops and similar situations.

[0] https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy
> I'll throw up a mix of the Scando countries with no citation

There's a widespread, but very misguided belief that Northern Europe is a socialist utopia.

Denmark and Norway rank higher than the USA in ease of doing business, Sweden closely behind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ease_of_doing_business_index#R...

As to government programs, yes there are many, but to finance them, half of your wage is taxed away upon payout and then you have to pay additional 25% of VAT on almost everything you buy. Everyone gets taxed like that, not only "the rich" or Amazon. This gets rarely mentioned when bringing up Scandinavia as an example.

There's no socialism, but capitalism with very high taxation on everyone, even the poor. I'd be very surprised if American climate activists would voluntarily subject themselves to such taxation to finance similar environmental programs like in Scandinavia.
Google can, and does, use open data in their products.
Rivals aim to document Facebook, Google strong-arming
I quit Facebook and Alcohol at the same time, cold turkey. Facebook I didn't even notice. I looked back after a few months and thought, "oh yeah, I did also quit Facebook". I didn't delete it. I just stopped using it.

Quitting Facebook changed basically nothing. Now I don't get done with a Facebook binge and feel like I just wasted 10-30 minutes of life. Alcohol was a totally different experience.

The one thing that I regret about not having Facebook is organizing events. I've missed a couple with good friends, because I simply don't have Facebook. As a software developer, I wonder if this is something I can change. Perhaps couple Facebook's API with Twilio's API and convert events into text messages. Perhaps a completely separate system that I have to urge my friends to adopt, simply for my inclusion.

Not sure what the solution is, but the problem itself isn't worthy of luring me back into Facebook.
I'm not sure I should be getting involved, here, but I haven't had my morning tea yet, so what the hey --

It seems like you're hyper-focused on a rather skewed interpretation of my first sentence, to the point that you largely ignore the second sentence. Or at least you seem to ignore everything after the word "but", which, given what the word "but" is often used for, is a rhetorical move that has a way of enabling interpretations that tend to be close to the opposite of whatever was originally intended.

Parent poster has it right. I picked that initial comparison to Python by way of introducing one of the more popular summarizations of Nim, so that I could say why I don't think it's a good summary. If I didn't put it emphatically enough to satisfy you, I apologize. I apparently don't have anywhere near as strong of feelings on the subject; Nim's just a language I like to program in sometimes.
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Plaintiffs' class action (mostly securities) lawyer here. I have no idea what you are talking about.
I built my own with OpenBSD to get this and other functionality

Not to mention the cool toys you can setup to see what is happening

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20140228093820
Because moneybags Farage isn't the elite or Jacob Rees Moggs?
Out of curiosity, how did you go about picking up this fluency in Estonian? Are there any good sources of particularly easy Estonian to get started? I'm semi-interested.

Granted, I'm also super lazy, but Finnish and Estonian should be close enough to just have some threshold to get over until it's pretty smooth, I guess?

Fwiw, I'm native in Swedish, but I speak and write Finnish daily.

To go on about my earlier comparison, I can really visit the site for a Danish or Norwegian Bokmål newspaper like Politiken ( https://politiken.dk ) or Verdens Gang ( https://www.vg.no/ ) and start reading with a feeling of just moderate confusion. Academic text would require some extra effort. The "voice in my head" or mode of reading doesn't really even change, because I've never attempted to communicate in either Danish or Norwegian per se.

For Estonian Postimees (https://www.postimees.ee ) I'm stuck pretty much immediately. I can pick up words and some context, but that's it.

At my first job, at an internal IT Service Desk for a certain Nordic energy company, I dealt with Norwegians and Danes. But it was a business context where everyone just seemed to agree to just make a polite effort at having a maybe slightly "clear in a Swedish way" common Scandinavians language, because switching to English would feel a little silly. I guess some of the older dudes working in the field somewhere in Norway might not have spoken English.
Engineered by who and for what reason?
See also https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/ for a larger and more specific blocklist.

I found it worked better for me because the annoyances list was too broad and blocked too many legitimate page elements, such as the <div> containing the play button for NPR podcasts.
bacteria =/= eukaryotes. Gene expression in bacteria is very far away from gene expression in humans.
100% there on the analogy. It's incredibly difficult to define but I think we can put some boundaries on it straight away - flashing ads, usage of audio for static ads.
> And it is worth saying: to get that verdict, they had to take the leap of judgement in assuming they knew exactly why the PM did it.

They explicitly side-stepped the motive of why Johnson prorogued Parliament. From page 2 of the summary (https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2019-0192-summar...):

> For present purposes, the relevant limit on the power to prorogue is this: that a decision to prorogue (or advise the monarch to prorogue) will be unlawful if the prorogation has the effect of frustrating or preventing, without reasonable justification, the ability of Parliament to carry out its constitutional functions as a legislature and as the body responsible for the supervision of the executive. In judging any justification which might be put forward, the court must of course be sensitive to the responsibilities and experience of the Prime Minister and proceed with appropriate caution.
> If the prorogation does have that effect, without reasonable justification, there is no need for the court to consider whether the Prime Minister’s motive or purpose was unlawful.

Also:

> * MPs voted down the current deal 4 times but EU won't change that deal

The EU is happy to change the deal if the UK government proposes something reasonable. But it will not back down from its red lines which is the integrity of the single market and solidarity with Ireland, which is a member state.
We already had a referendum in 1999 which was voted down.

A president in Australia would be a significant departure from the current system, and I'm not sure I know anyone who would support it. We don't vote for a person to be Prime Minister, we vote for a person in our specific federal electoral seat and the leader of the party that wins the most seats is the Prime Minister.

This person also doesn't have any powers that their party doesn't give them for the most part. No veto powers etc afaik, and party leadership (and hence the Prime Minister) can be changed at any time by a party vote.
Yes, and he has a majority in Parliament...that is why he is the PM.

And the issue people have is the alternative. There is no alternative.

The implication of the decision is that Parliament is now going to do something...well, the European Council won't meet until before Oct 31 anyway...which is when Parliament would get to scrutinise the final deal.

And the big plan that the opposition has is: to go to the EU, negotiate the same exact deal that has been voted down 4 times, and then whip their MPs to vote it down again.

The lack of actual practical understanding here, not just here but on the part of journalists, is astonishing.

The only comparison that comes to mind is in football: journalists and fans will turn on a manager, they will laugh at them on Twitter, write endless articles about how they are washed up, clubs will then panic and fire the manager...and then only then realise that there is no-one else to do the job, and they just fired the only person who can.
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if chain includes belt.
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Agreed. If they were smart, they would break themselves up as Alphabet did in preparation for future investigations etc.

They could then acquire companies more "quietly".

Mark should also take a page from Larry's book and transition to the background more while lettings someone else run Facebook.