skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of it qualify as interesting to peopple interested by phds.
>A group of 500 prominent scientists and professionals, led by the CLINTEL co-founder Guus Berkhout

Well let's see who this is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guus_Berkhout

> Augustinus Johannes "Guus" Berkhout (born 1940) is a Dutch engineer who has worked for the oil and gas industry, and as a professor. Berkhout started his career working for Shell.

> In 2019, Berkhout founded the climate change denial organization Climate Intelligence Foundation (CLINTEL).
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it sounds like the priority is to have quality life not just bust your butt to make company owners rich.
Or more realistically business will go on as usual, with a little green-washing here and there, and we will cope as well as we can with the resulting mess.
Which means after a period of relative calm (less wars nowadays than before) we'll probably have climate/water exodus and wars in the future. But this will happen gradually.
Well, I read a post from another ex-moderator[0] and it seems the CoC change has a part about pronouns, but it doesn't mean that all the changes are about this and that Monica left because of the changes on pronouns. But that still doesn't change the fact that "firing" a mod for disagreeing with and commenting on a future change of a CoC seem wrong, especially since it didn't look like SE tried to discuss the issue before firing them.

[0]https://christianity.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6718/b...
productivity gains typically translate into greater profit and not much wage increase so from a worker's perspective: shrug
I find that perfectly fine. Why should an old model retain its A rating when in fact it consumes a lot of energy compared to a newer model? Just print the actual consumption on the sticker to make comparisons between older stickers and newer stickers possible.
I'm American but also an Italian citizen and have lived there for many years. I have zero hope that Italy will reform in the next few decades unless something incredibly radical like a war breaks out. Cultural apathy and corruption runs far too deep, and anyone who could reform simply leaves for Germany or the UK. Italy is a good place to live if you already have money. If you are a young enterprising person it's hell.
Not bold enough.

This regulation is part of the EU Ecodesign Directive. In fact, repairability was studied in the 2016-2019 working plan - so for 3-4 years.
https://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-19-1596_en.htm

>>introduced for refrigerating appliances, household dishwashers, household washing machines and household washer-dryers, electronic displays and refrigerating appliances with a direct sales function.

Some more facts here: https://eeb.org/europe-paves-way-for-right-to-repair/
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- The proportion of defective devices being replaced by consumers grew from 3.5% in 2004 to 8.3% in 2012 (source)

- This may be costing German consumers €110 a month per person (source)

- A long-lasting washing machine will generate over 20 years 1.1 tonnes less CO2 than a short-lived model. This analysis takes into account manufacturing, distribution, use and end-of-life treatment (source)

- Electronic waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the world (source)

- Only 35% of electronic waste in the EU is collected and treated properly (source)

- Illegal flows within the EU are estimated at 4.65 million tonnes in 2012 (source)
My pals cracked this one back in June! https://parall.ax/blog/view/3301/boris-johnson-the-unlikely-...
I like this idea. You can also start with a pre-populated pool of curated sites for particular topics. You choose these seed pools based on your trust of the curator, which could be a university research department, for example.
This almost reads like a joke. Rough up your life by carrying your own groceries and not flying first class? Really?

And yeah, the mansion in a state specificially chosen to pay as little tax as possible plus accompanying Ferrari and staff will surely help in finding someone who's going to love him for who he is rather than for his money...
Yet another reason we need synonym-aware search. Google should do nlp to find which "model" is being used in the page and then ask you which one you meant.
> Are we morally obligated to not cut the nip of societal development in the bud for these species? And if this species suffers in developing and advancing, are we obligated to ease and accelerate their development?

Perhaps we can start by preventing their extinction by stopping the destruction of of their natural habitat.
LTE-M / LTE cat.0 would be the ideal replacement for a pager. NB-IoT is not meant for mobility. NB-IoT has cell reselection mechanisms, so you can connect to a different base station, but the process is very energy demanding. It is meant to be used rarely, for example when a closer base station activates.

Also, firmware updates for these devices are a few KB typically and occur maybe once every 6 months. 12 MB per year should be enough.
Well, taxes a certainly not a reason to go to Germany. We also have our own pyramid scheme pension system.

To escape that you probably would have to go to north america. Advantages and disadvantages of course, but if you have a good education and nobody to care for, I can't see why you shouldn't go abroad.
That is sad. Biggest advantage of a beeper over a cell phone? Privacy. The beeper just receives and does not send your location.
"A Well-trained Idiot" describes the British Etonian elite so concisely I think it should become a technical term. Well done.
Perhaps it's just a new thing invented by PR coaches.

Anyway, I hope that Google fixes this kind of SEO.
I don’t know what I want. I just know that I don’t like the text-matching, machine-learning path that Google has taken. The internet can no longer be distilled into 10 blue links. Maybe.

Thanks for the suggestion about reading up on information retrieval. But maybe the point of this exercise is NOT to use well established methods. I want to rethink the interface and mechanics of search.
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Depends how many millennials think they have something to lose by the time

Be interesting to compare the change of vote as millenials grow into their 40s with the change of vote as hippies grew into their 40s.

Remember the era of woodstock are now those 70 year olds voting for brexit and trump and burn the foreigners. Will today's Extinction Rebellion, or Occupy Wall Street from 10 years ago, change at the same level?
So many dates in the article and yet the article itself is not dated. Surely that is important. Does anyone know when this was published?
In Hungarian "ny" is a distinct letter corresponding to the same (or at least very similar) sound as the Spanish "ñ".
I believe that he said that children having sex together is OK. Not adults having sex with children. That's not OK.

I mean, when I was 10-12, I engaged in private circle jerks with other boys. And we "played Doctor" with girls. No sex, but feeling and "examinations". And spin the bottle games, for taking off clothes and kissing. And holding our brearh, and squeezing each others chests to pass out.
Let's hope silicon valley doesn't get their hands on them. We need more people fixing real problems for the third world instead of solving uninteresting first world problems.
Have you looked into other options like Strontium? https://github.com/StrontiumJS/Framework/blob/master/tests/q...
Having lived in Germany and Italy, I can confidently say that while German bureaucracy has room for improvement, it's miles ahead of anything Italy has to offer. Italian bureaucracy is so hopelessly inefficient, corrupt and useless that even third world countries are better for doing business.
According to Magnax no-load losses reduce the effective range of the vehicle by 10% to 20% (iron close to rotating permanent magnets equals braking when there is no load) Magnax claims 85% less iron losses due to the low amount of iron.
The small diameter of the CV axle makes the inertia small compared to the rest of the wheel, tire, brake assembly.
Looks to me like you're over-generalizing. From skimming that article it appears that paracetamol is ineffective against chronic page, not the headache/hangover that most people use it for
But only like the correct way to say it in English is to say "I'm not hungry anymore", not "I'm full". Je suis pleine gets fully understood by french people, and said. Probably a story that got warped when retelling it, she will have said something else.
If they've been here more than 10 years, that means they stayed through the Great Recession, when there was no genuine shortage of domestic talent in any category that warranted H-1B in the first place.
Thank you that was a very good and informative read.
More importantly, she came up with a land reform that quadrupled the annual state revenue [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volok_Reform
Yes, and in slovenia it's 25%, and in other countries its at mostly the same level. Then theres's health insurance (12.92% in slovenia). Only after that you get income taxes. And above that you get VAT (22% here) for your services. So basically, you charge your customers ~5k, and get ~2k of net payout (the rest goes to the government) ... and that's without any actual business expenses.

Denmark has even higher taxes, but the country still works better than italy.

Calculating taxes is pretty easy in most countries, especially if you have to do it yourself (eg. independent contractors, etc.).

The only problem here is, that once one country fails (eg. they stop paying out pensions), all the other ones will go into full panic mode, and the shit will hit the fan.
Customers ditch single-use coffee cups if sold separately
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One of the goals of 4G/5G is to allow for the coexistence of high bandwidth devices with IoT.

I agree that at this point the cost of cellular IoT is higher than it should and the technology is immature. In the long term though, it would be a better choice than keeping a 2G network.
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That's a good point. You could avoid that problem by giving grades relative to the best product on the market, e.g. anything that doesn't use more than 10% more than the most efficient model on the market gets an A.

Regrading every year seems to be about the same as what I propose. I guess the actual numbers used for the current rating are based on actual efficiencies of the models on the market when the regulation was introduced.
My hope is all in climate engineering. Not because it's the best solution but because it's the only politically viable one. Not until we've felt the pain will we invest in solving the problem. Governments also have an easier time investing in massive infrastructure projects than curbing pollution.

Will will be able to do anything at that point is not certain.
What I noticed is that the only thing that matters is how you do on the tech part...

Tech skills are obviously important, but whenever I've interviewed people the "candidate is not a psycho" checks are equally, if not more, important. You can be the most technically skilled person in the world but you're probably in a list of candidates who can all do the job, so that's rarely a major differentiator once you're actually at the interview stage. Conversely, if you don't seem to be a nice person who I'd be happy to have in my team you're not getting hired.

Consequently a personal website or a portfolio that shows off the fact you're actually a decent person is really useful. Mentioning things like hobbies or volunteering gives the interviewer a great starting point to find out more about your personality - that's what makes a lot of people shine in my opinion.
> If he understood the context of the poem (a lack of sensitivity to the three wars the British fought to suppress Burmese independence) then he would've never recited the poem.

That's exactly why he did it. He's a nasty, vindictive, racist colonialist.
Recently there has been a backlash against "regulation" and I can only assume it's because people associate it with "over-regulation" or are simply not aware what its purpose is. It seems to be the kind of hot word that triggers mostly negative feelings so people don't care to hear the rest.

But I have yet to see a person demanding less regulation for something who didn't change their mind when faced with a problem with that something which could have been solved by (some) regulation.
It's hardly genius and it's hardly coming from Boris.

His press team will have told him to drop in particular words or phrases repeatedly - if we hear it once, he has probably said it multiple times.
HAha. You think non-emergency helicopters are a problem?
Wait until everyone and their mom is getting deliveries from thousands of drones. It'll be like in a soccer stadium with vuvuzelas outside.
> Four Scottish cafés trialled selling disposable cups separately from drinks. They were asked to reduce the price of drinks by about 20p, the approximate cost of a throwaway coffee cup. Customers were then charged 20p more if they opted for a disposable cup.

I'm sceptical about this, I'd imagine different results if it were framed as 'save 20p if you bring your own reusable cup' (which Starbucks actually do, if it's one of their reusable ones) - I don't think as many would take it up.
I suspect it's the work of Grant Shapps: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/grant-shapps-..., a known SEO spammer.
BGA is doable, just a bit more work. Just be very careful with your prep work.
I can't help thinking that his support for Trump is more like an intellectual challenge than any personal convictions. He is quite open on the fact that he disagrees with much of his policy. But his view on the persuasion aspect is interesting.
Ok good, but why do these pictures have to be 2-3MB each? Each one of them would have taken an hour to download just a few years ago (or today, if you live in a less well developed area of the world).
I think you meant 'via'?
Does labeling them wholesale as "having ties to deniers and oil and gas" make their arguments irrelevant?
I'd say this effect is a perfectly rational part of being a functioning actor in a complex environment. Partly completed tasks need to stay relatively high on the stack when interrupted to make it possible to continue the task when the interruption has been dealt with. Completed tasks quickly sink down the stack to be garbage collected since there is no need to keep that baggage around. A task is only complete when there are no more benefits to be had from pushing it up to the top of the stack, e.g. he who just graduated and is now looking for a job will keep his education and graduation near the top of the stack as it gets pushed up at every interview. Once he lands a secure job (or so he thinks) they'll gradually sink down to become part of history. If he were to change jobs those historical achievements might get pulled up again but this is not a given since their value has diminished compared to his more recent professional experience.
You didnt mention virtualenv. That is what I use. I even made a deb installer that forces itself to use virtualenv and fetches system python files for those packages available to Debian but not pip (kind of a hack but it worked! Look mah!). I agree though I like that with D and Go deployment seems simpler.
Google cannot figure out which news items are more subjectively relevant for every individual. Any system with rules and emerging behaviour will be game-able by simple analysing what goes in and what comes out. There is no solution to this problem.
this would be 4.5D smartz
I find this romanticism of reading a little odd. When I was a kid and teenager I was a voracious fiction reader, finishing a couple fantasy or sci-fi novels a week. My parents always thought I was involved in some virtious activity that was a clear sign of how “gifted” and mature I was. In reality, all I was doing was passively consuming. Reading books like that is most certainly a vice, and while not especially bad for you, isn’t especially worthwhile either.
> The last thing anyone would know about Arcuri is that she was very briefly a model.

Sky News: "Boris Johnson: 'No interest to declare' over links with former model Jennifer Arcuri"

The Mirror: "Boris Johnson 'had affair with ex-model Jennifer Arcuri while London mayor'"

The Sun: "Who is Jennifer Arcuri? Model connected to Boris Johnson"

The Independent: "Jennifer Arcuri: Boris Johnson repeatedly refuses to deny affair with ex-model awarded public funds and access"
> There are a couple of players online of which we can easily say that they are the best players to ever live

Who are they?
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Somebody needs to buy Cuban coffee in Canada, repackage it with a nice "produced in Central America/Aerated in Canada" sticker and sell it to the end coffee stands.
I'm also new to programming and I think you can start with Github:) A lot of free tutorials are available in Github like
https://github.com/30-seconds/30-seconds-of-python
https://github.com/fonnesbeck/statistical-analysis-python-tu...
I had some of the same snobbery about audiobooks (which one could level the same criticisms at, maybe even more so). But I have tried a few recently, and have to admit I got a lot out of the experience, maybe even more than reading it myself in the case of some of the better narrations.

I don't think your comparison to a movie adaption works at all. It is very much like reading the book - you consume the same text. The difference is maybe the 'distracting' animated illustrations, and the tendency to read in very small pieces, rather than settle down to reading chapters at a time. The last point speaks to your concentration comment, though not sure it's definitely a bad thing, certainly better than not reading at all.
Maintaining a calorie deficit causes weight loss, but the question is whether it causes sustainable weight loss. If you lose weight, but are constantly hungry, irritable, suffer from headaches and lightheadedness, will you really succeed at keeping the weight off?

I'd argue that most people are more interested in sustainable weight loss (some exceptions, e.g. losing weight to fit into an outfit for a professionally photographed lifecycle event).
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> It's like saying - there's a trained neural net with input

It's not. There's a world of difference between a neural net and a chimpanzee. Chimpanzees are some our closest evolutionary relatives. They are living animals with whom we share a great deal of our DNA (98.8% seems to be an often quoted figure). Therefore, conclusions that are likely given the observation "neural net shows similar behavior to humans" are vastly different those given the observation "Chimpanzee shows similar behavior to humans".
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I wonder if a huge downside of achieving a monopoly position is the ability of politicians to extort you with threat of anti-trust action?
That's just savings in end-user monetary expenses, which is a proxy for energy use, but not necessarily a good one.

I wonder whether this calculation holds once you account for the energy used to develop, construct, market and transport the new fridges that replace the older-but-working fridges. It's a genuine question - I haven't seen such calculation done. My current intuition is that the extra marginal energy used in manufacturing a new fridge dwarfs the energy savings of replacing the old one before it dies.
This is just a consequence of a free market. A communist would worry that letting people organize themselves to grow and sell food would end up with a Cambrian explosion of small businesses, each vying with each other for dominance. If they will follow the same model as everything else, we'll end up with monoliths in control of everything, just badly joined together.
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> they voted for something very vague and ill defined

Utter tosh. The consequences of a Leave vote were hammered out by Remain-supporting politicians for weeks and weeks before the referendum. The government spent 9 million GBP to publish a leaflet in support of Remain which went to every household in the UK, before the referendum.

Claiming that no one knew what a Leave vote meant, is gaslighting in the extreme.
Far from unique to BoJo. This is a wildly successful strategy, which also explains the outrageous and obvious lying (e.g. in front of dozens of press saying "there's no press here"). It's not new. Many of the internet era populists currently so successful have used it. Trump was the first time I saw it, but perhaps it goes back further.

Each and every time he lies, misremembers and drops in a search term he makes it harder to disprove as both sides get reported. The original story and the the reports of the use of the lie. Both in the respected media, not just a random blogspot. Frequently they're both running at the same time.

With Trump the Democrats and media spent to much time "fact checking" to see the strategy. Ours have done no better with BoJo, despite seeing it played out so successfully in the US.

It completely burns the post-war expectation that politicians be honest, and plays all sides as effectively.

I'd love to know where it really originated.
Was it "tricked" or does it just prioritize recent news articles? If media stop reporting about "model scandal" and start reporting about "model of restraint", and Google assumes you're interested in most recent news stories (seems reasonable to me), then it's doing the correct thing. (Feel free to blame the media instead for dropping an important story, but then I feel the same thing about Epstein scandal...)
Re the reference letter - I thought that this law caused a shift in how people interpreted the content. So instead of "was incompetent and lazy" you'd put "met expectations" - sort of damning the candidate with faint praise
Also a Python dev. I do use VirtualEnv but the other thing is a huge performance boost for small performance intensive projects.
They have broken the internet by banning hyperlinks. So naturally everything starts happening inside the app. How would you do copy a quote, table of contents or term lookups? I can't even check out the links u posted cause it asks me to login.
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I know for some backbone comms technologies (SDH, maybe?) there has to be some sort of carrier signal at all times. I think this is probably true for fibre as well, it's never truly dark. So maybe the bandwidth being there should be used for something useful?

(I purposely ignore the processing power required at the other end to serve you the images ;-)
Government jobs are really really bad at this.

Small companies are a lot better at this (atleast here).. the last time i worked at an international one, they sent me an email two weeks before i started there, saying basically "we don't choose the devices, but we have a 5k(eur) budget for a work computer, and you pick everything yourself - we suggest two monitors and a 'real' (non laptop) keyboard and mouse + a docking station", I emailed them the list, and everything was waiting on my desk. There was also a policy of buying small stuff we needed ourselves and getting paid back (keyboard stopped working?, don't ask, just buy/order it, and sent the receipt to accounting to get reimbursed). And after two years, we were allowed to buy the written off equipment for 5-10eur/piece. It has a lot of potential for abuse, but in that setting it worked great.
Just for fun, I connected through a VPN (private internet access) and googled via a fresh firefox private window and the majority of the results are about his relationship with Jennifer Arcuri. A couple of results at the bottom of the page are about his "model of restraint" quote, that's it!
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