skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me say that Trump is a swaggering, incompetent. Let me also say that I am unsure about how much more I should dislike him on the basis that most of what I know about Trump comes from the media.

Stuff like this demonstrates the media is used to sway public opinion via manufactured narratives; its a bit like the Gell-Mann amnesia effect: If I see clear manipulations if the things I know, I should distrust the same publications in those topics of which I am less familiar, or have no secondary source. The smear of sex-crime allegations, and invocation of the Russian/foreign power boogieman are a suspiciously strong part of the "political establishment" modus operandi.

As such, I'm apprehensive to hate someone for such allegations, b/c I don't know how much I'm being led. Sadly, this suspicious, and willing to give a high benefit-of-doubt to a person like Trump will get me branded a mindless supporter by anti-Trump people primed to believe in the "MAGA crowd" stereotype.

We should all suspect the political theatre, and attempt to figure out the script.
They need some kind of closure on the tube to keep the chips and crumbs in and the dust out in the cupboard. (The foil/paper closure works until first opened but not after.)

Chip bags can be clipped closed for this.
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Do you believe WhatsApp is safe on the whole?
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> Do they not realize that the United States is likely to undergo a regime change at the beginning of next year?

It's far too early to count on Trump losing the election... In my estimation, there's still over 50% chance he'll be re-elected. All he needs is for some Covid metric to show improvement, and he'll claim that as a win at the key moment. And economically, due to the weaker lockdown measures, the US will come out ahead of many other countries.

The media is (yet again) far too eager to sell you the idea that "he can't possibly win", and as long as people continue to buy that, he (and people like him) will continue to be elected.
Actually, I'm not sure how well recycling works in "Central Europe". In Czechia, at least, although waste sorting seems to work fairly well, as far as I'm aware, the share of plastic waste that gets recycled is negligible. Most of it gets burnt or pyrolysed for heating and electricity.
Assistance with diet, exercise, and brain training reduces risk of Alzheimer's
it's kinda scary that the go-to personal investment plan is based on a leveraged buy & sell with the implied promise that things perpetually increase in value.
.The minitel was free (we had to choose between having a minitel or having a paper annuary). The communication on 3615 was expensive (9.15€ per hour). On 3614 or 3621, it was around 3.05€ per hour (sometimes half).
The article is bikeshedding; still upvoting for the poem!
> According to his lawyers, Mr Assange was handcuffed 11 times; stripped naked twice and searched; his case files confiscated after the first day of the hearing; and had his request to sit with his lawyers during the trial, rather than in a dock surrounded by bulletproof glass, denied.

Stripped naked and search is standard custody practice. Criminals hide things and are known to smuggle things in and out of court to prison. And remember, he is techincally a criminal. He broke criminal law when he skipped bail. He is being held in custody, it seems fair for standard policies to apply to him. Why would he be any different?

It is standard for someone to sit in the dock, why would he deserve special treatment. He is able to confer with his lawyers when he needs to from the dock as many other people have done so in the past and will do so in the future.

The only issue I have is them taking his case files, which seems petty. But I suspect there would have been operational reasons, but why those reasons couldn't have been worked around seems odd and again petty.

While I think he doesn't deserve to be sent to the US and should not be. The fact, he is a criminal and is in custody because he can't be trusted does mean he should be treated as such a manner.
While technically correct (except cooling), that insight is of limited value.

Eating habbits are a great parallel - I have been gaining weight during lockdown, and discussed it with a friend, and he replied "don't worry, you will only reach a certain weight and then stop growing." Well, thats true, but I don't want to reach equilibrium of 150kg. Similarly, 2 degrees is the point we will reach in 2050, the global equilibroum will be much higher. We will reach it asymptotically, but that doesnt help.

There will be no cooling, because the CO2 level in the atmosphere dictates the equilibrium point.

Further to the post, it is interesting but gives the impression of renewable technology as if we are still in the 70's. Firstly, coal is not neccessary, we have steel production with hydrogen instead of coal. Secondly, US is massively behind other developed nations, coal is gone or dissapearing from power generation of most major economies within 5 years.

Lastly it claims EU's carbon price is damaging for the economy, but thats a ridiculous claim - the price is absolutely miniscule. $25 means an average cost of ~150 per head per year. Thats nothing! Lastly, that money doesn't dissapear, it funds infrastructure, so we can reduce taxes elsewhere.
You don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.
I don't think he is especially popular with Hillary Clinton either, given the role that wikileaks played in leaking her campaign's emails.
Really? You would rather the guy building it was associated with CCP?
A "unified sense" of right and wrong was often exactly the problem with many societies in history, because they often fall into absolutism and simplistic notions of morality. I'd call our more nuanced and diverse views of what's moral in today's society an improvement, not the opposite.

If anything, a case like Assange's just 60 years ago would have much more easily been condemned as simple treason and with wide U.S public approval of either a long prison sentence or the death penalty, on the grounds of then much more prevalent and simplistic "patriotic" sentiments in society. Today, there's far more divergent debate on this that is exactly why so many across internet and media defend his actions despite this despicable rigidness from the court.
You're mixing two arguments, one about total communications collapse and the FM/Radio, one about immediate danger and the sirens.

Total communications collapse - It would have to be over night and total for there to be ANY worth to FM/AM radio. It won't be. It's seems unrealisitic to pretend some sort of Walking Dead scenario would ever be real. If it did happen, the government would also somehow have to still be magically in control of the FM/AM broadcasters.

Urgent Alert - The governments around the world have been organising nationwide lockdowns virtually overnight using existing channels. I just don't see much value even if there were something 'urgent', as it's clear people get alerted pretty quickly about this stuff.
Generally, a queen is considered to be worth more than a rook and a bishop.

Also, knights and bishops are worth the same except they are not. Knights are good in closed play but you can't mate with two knights and a king. Bishops are definitely better when there is more space.

But, the value is just a simplification to help players assess situation. A piece which can't be played actively is worth nothing.
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> refugees

That example does not strengthen your case. While not unopposed, there are still lots and lots of pro refugee people and many countries let them in.

Homelessness is a far unsexier issue where you can absolutely say people don’t care enough, but refugees are more of a counterexample.
I agree with your sarcasm

> If it made sense the free market would already do it!

The free market only takes actions if there is economical incentives to do so. For the environment, it's difficult to achieve with the current process, which is why we can't trust the market to naturally adopt eco-friendly solution.
"You can't always get what you want" -- The Rolling Stones
I've found a way to upcycle those, they make excellent drinking glasses. My home is an old farmhouse in a semi-rural area, so it fits the aesthetic perfectly. I grew up poor, with my family reusing Mason and Bell jars as drinking glasses between canning seasons, so I'm comfortable with it. With the opening narrower than the body, they also prevent ice cubes from invading our mouths when we consume iced drinks.

As an added bonus they seem to be far more durable than our regular glasses and tumblers; we end up breaking one of those every couple of months. They have been almost completely replaced by "free" pasta jars at this point and we have yet to break any of those.
I grew up in a normal german household on the 'countryside'.

I alwasy recycled. Never thought about it much and my family is not 'alternative or whatever'.

3 Years ago i see a documentation telling me, that dark plastic can't be recycled and gets burned. Thin plastic can't be recycled and will be burned.

We have a system called 'green point' which basically means that the producer has to pay a little bit of money for the packaging they produced so that other company in germany takes it, its called the yellow bin.

So you have your black bin for garbage and you have a yellow bin for the green point which are 99% plastic (pringles has that sign on it as well). I thought, they would have a high recycling rate. Nope 40% of that already recyclematerial is recycled. 60% is just burned.

I could have thrown this shit away uncleaned, unseperated in my normal garbage bin for years and you know what? Everyone around me is doing exactly that.

Don't get me wrong, i will not become a pig, i will still put my plastic into that and sort and clean and recycle but wtf...
Nah, it's more of a cast or crutch or a wheelchair, gives you some space to start recovering. Or you might find that you need to rely on them for the rest of your life. Either way, it's better than nothing.
I'd assume the agencies behind all this might not change. A new government doesn't radically restructure the FBI etc, though it might alter some priorities.

Also, any US gov probably appreciates national serfdom..
> Thing is, he damaged himself by choosing to spend nearly a decade in isolation.

He always argued that he would not receive fair treatment if he submitted himself to authorities, especially as they would give him no assurance about not handing him over to the US (this is before the US officially started proceedings against him).

> We haven't done anything to him other than expect him to submit to due process as a citizen like any other.

But the International Bar Association say that he is not getting due process. Which rather confirms his original fears. The article here quotes IBAHRI Co-Chair, Anne Ramberg: "With this extradition trial we are witnessing the serious undermining of due process and the rule of law."
I hope you fly solo...
Almost all patent applications are published after 18 months, even if they are still unapproved, or indeed will never be approved.

The major exceptions are if the inventor files for nonpublication along with withdrawing the application (usually because they think it won't be patentable) or the US Government classifies it.
Do you think he's a bad guy? Leaving aside rape allegations, I would say his Wikileaks activity seems to be fairly harmful to both sides.

The Bradley Manning and other leaks probably hurt the Republican Bush government, and the Clinton Campaign leaks appear to have hurt the Democrats.

He may be a "bad guy" but he seems politically neutral.
The world will run out of antennas to boost.
You don’t need to pay for a DDNS service
if only there was some way to exchange money for labour.
I think it is worth mentioning that home studios has been quite viable for more than 2 decades. Although no doubt it is cheaper and better than ever.

Moby recorded and produced his super hit album "Play" in his bedroom in the late 90s.

[0] Studio pictures: https://www.reddit.com/r/synthesizers/comments/bnpmza/mobys_...
[1] Wikipedia article on play https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_(Moby_album)
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> So “Battered Woman Syndrome” [1] but applied to fraud instead of assault/murder.

It's interesting how before she got into legal trouble, she was the poster child for the strong powerful woman, but now it turns out she was too weak to be anything but a victim ... or I'm supposed to believe.
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If you enjoyed this, check out https://staffeng.com/

It's composed of interviews with Staff-plus engineers as well as guides for reaching and succeeding at Staff-plus roles
Statism gymnastics everywhere, all the time. I wonder where this will lead to
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He would have. The case was straight in the public eyes and he had a strong public sympathy back then. Instead he chose to be a fugitive and get in bed with Trump/Putin duo.
I have met people like Nikola's CEO, and I bet my dear life that nothing will ever be delivered, except if the technology exists to completely - I mean exactly 100% - outsource it using the cash given by others and slap a logo on the result, failing in the end anyway. When you see a company so hell bent and putting so much effort in tricking investors AND actively avoiding doing any real work, you know what's happening. If you, and more importantly people with money to invest, are persuaded that "it's not different from Tesla", that's a victory for Nikola, and their sole source of income.
I think the term "cow towel" should be introduced into common usage. It's much more visual than "kowtow," e.g. "The UK is the US'cow towel."
I thought about this a time or two, and I disagree.

As I read the tea leaves, some market participants think that after the upcoming election, there's a chance that the US trade balance against China might no longer by the world's most negative by a very large margin.

Being the world's worst by a very large margin isn't a natural, unavoidable state. Or shouldn't be.
Sometimes you just have to ship it
It sometimes is, at least for packaging. Glass containers may be reusable, but they’re heavier, often a lot heavier (even after decades of technological progress), than plastic containers, and transporting them to consumers and back costs energy and produces waste, too.

Also, some plastic packaging decreases food waste. That plastic cucumber packaging, for example, may seem wasteful, but makes them last three times as long and, because of that, decreases the fraction that gets thrown away (https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/feat...)

Now, individual stickers on bananas and kiwis, those should, IMO, be banned, but what do I know? Maybe they’re an essential part of tracking where fruit comes from (doesn’t look like it from my view, though)
Nothing you are saying is inaccurate. People bought albums because that’s how music was historically sold and they had no alternative. My understanding is that artists also embraced that constraint and created albums to create a specific experience (vibe, song order, etc).

Apple started selling individual songs and for the first time people were able to buy music without buying the whole album. So yes, Apple killed the album.
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Most good monitors are not flattering compared to normal speakers, and are often designed to be placed within a certain distance of the listener. Many of them are however excellent. Never understood why people buy them for home listening.

NS10M actually have bad flaws in their design.
My favourite moto is very hard to translate from French. It’s a quote from Chateaubriand. “Il faut etre econome de son mepris tant les necessiteux sont nombreux”. Clumsy translation that misses the elegance of the formulation: “one must use disdain sparingly given how numerous are the needy”.

Also eternal truths passed on to me by my various managers:

“The more you climb in the hierarchy, the more you realise it is the same idiots at every level”

“The optimal number of people in an organisation is 3. As soon as you add one more you lose efficiency. So passed 100,000...”

“Assumptions are the mother of all fuckups”
Downvoted.. so let me assume "by being chased all over the world in an attempt to make a shady extradition to the US".

It's like being rear-ended, and when you claim on your insurance, the other party says you cost them money. Except you didn't - they where to blame.
They definitely don't need the plastic lid, no way I can stop myself from eating the whole thing in one session.
LeelaZero is strictly used for the Go AI nowadays, the chess version changed their name to LC0 (or Leela Chess Zero, or LCZero), and the website is at [0]

AlphaZero is not involved in any battle with LC0 or Stockfish, as no one outside of Deepmind has accessed to it. The battle for chess supreme is between LC0 and Stockfish, with both trading blows pretty much every update :-)

[0] https://lczero.org/
I don't really get this. Surely the problem is you're handling lead in a home context? That's never going to be safe, since unless you're very careful about cleanup, you're going to get lead in your food.

To me, all this talk about lead being so much better feels a bit silly. As a craftsman, I can see that lead is nicer to work with, and makes for more pretty results. As a dad, I'm pretty glad that every electronic object isn't laced with lead - in fact, I'm glad about every measure full stop that reduces the industrial usage of lead. One of these things is way more important to me than the other.
I was coming here just to mention Zola, which we successfully use for two static websites of ours.

Zola is written in rust, has a single binary, great support for multilingual sites and a bunch of great features compared to other static website generator[1].

[1] https://github.com/getzola/zola#comparisons-with-other-stati...
Can you suggest anything that's reasonably priced? I have a great (cheap) setup for recording guitar + vocals but fiddling with the laptop when I'm trying to record causes me too much stress!
You cannot trust the US concerning extraditions. Just ask Austria:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholam_Weiss
Literature Mapped into Islands and Cities
each country is an author, each city is a book.
Distance correlated to similarity on Web
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No matter any other considerations, I have determined on a course of Love. Thus my past traumas are irrelevant, for it is the present trauma that some other suffers which it is my goal to succor.
No matter what happens, the job remains the same - to love and care for those around me (not excluding myself).
Reduce, Reuse, Refurbish, Recycle, Composting, Energy from waste, Incineration, Landfill - that was the basics of the Waste Hierarchy when I worked on the Waste Strategy for England back in the late 1990s. I don't know if the order has shifted much over the past couple of decades.

The EU Packaging Directive seems to be getting more robust - I remember the first Directive was a bit weak and too open to national interpretation so it's good to see they seem to have introduced hard recycling targets and put a lot more emphasis on the need for producer responsibility schemes for packaging - https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?qid=15958382...
Well, I was inclined to agree, but: when we say "count" and "number" we usually mean something very precise and accurate. Such as: "how many oranges are there on the table?". As opposed to when we we ask stuff like: "how many oranges do you think there are on that orange tree?" "You have lived by that tree your entire life, do you feel like it is carrying more oranges than in past years?"

My point is that these 2 activities are clearly different, and that non-humans clearly engage in the last one but I'm not so sure I have ever seen clear evidence they engage in the first one.
Epic Store successfully taking games exclusive makes Sweeneys priorities clear: they are no different than Apple's or Google's. I hope Epic fighting this fight will not obscure that.
Reduce is a consumer focused, it's a failing strategy. Reducing to 1% of what we currently throw away would still destroy the planet. Making reuse the centre point forces reduce to also happen, if your product has to ship in reusable containers, they are going to be smaller anyway. Products that don't need containers will stop using them again.
Replacing CRTP Static Polymorphism with Concepts
1. Make a plan, stick to the plan -- my colleague at my first internship

2. Mr. Winston, everyone knows what is in room 101--1984, orwell

These are the two I can remember right now. Was remined of the second one because it was referenced in cory doctorow's new book.
Manga guide to Statistics
Trump's first TikTok move: A China quagmire of his own making
Trump vows not to extend TikTok deadline beyond September 15
Moving from Vim to Emacs (2019)
It's fascinating to see how certain groups and civilizations like the Vikings end up being acceptable, even venerated in our society despite their horrific behaviour (by current standards at least).

For example:

- Roman empire, slavery, crucifixion, invasions ... where to start, perhaps 400,000 deaths in the Colosseum alone https://darkrome.com/blog/Rome/7-bloody-colosseum-facts,

- Celts - slavery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts#Society, human sacrifice https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/did-the-ancient-c...

- Spartans with their Helot's https://allthatsinteresting.com/krypteia-sparta

- Arab empires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_slave_trade

- Ottoman's - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_Ottoman_Empire, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janissary

- Mongol's, up to 40 million deaths https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-abou..., sack of Baghdad https://www.warhistoryonline.com/medieval/the-sack-of-baghda...

Are widely acceptable in our current society.

What is about societies like the Vikings (invaders, human sacrificers and slave traders https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/12/151228-vikin...) that means they don't get talked about in the same way that Germany's Nazi regime is? Is it politics? Or just time? But how come some groups statues and iconography are "acceptable" while others are not?

(sorry for the long post that's wandered off topic ;-) )
I didn't see who was making any specific conjecture.

When you know there is going to be relevant information coming out, prejudging as if there isn't going to be, is just wrong. Not in the sense of injustice, but in the sense that there's no realistic chance of being correct.

I don't think that is a "weird" outlook. I am making no prejudgment on whether her actions were justified, just that context matters, and in this instance, context will be provided later.

The compulsive need to judge without information rather than waiting is "weird" to me personally, but I acknowledge and accept it's normal human behavior.
As you approach the speed of light, in any direction, due to time dilation, once you get above 0.866 c, as you add thrust, it still seems like you're accelerating normally, but you are instead accelerating yourself more in the time dimension than in a spacial dimension. Time continues to slow for the rest of the universe from your POV, until you reach 0.999... c, at which point time you are moving so fast, the rest of the universe appears to not experience time anymore. The same as how galaxies at the edge of visible universe are receding away from us at the speed of light, and are deeply redshifted, but if we could correct that redshift, we would see galaxies that don't experience time, because they are moving away so quickly, that we are receiving their photons at a heavily reduced rate. Photons do not experience any time, from their POV, they are created and destroyed at the same time. Thus going FTL implies travelling backwards in time.
“Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.” - Lewis Grizzard