skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If this were an invasive species (like murder hornets or malarial mosquitos) problem that could be stopped before it started or a temporary measure to prevent life and death (rather than wealth accumulation) for a significant number of people"

I wonder what recent event governments could have used to show that this was a reasonable course of action to take. One that they could manage easily when it is in its early stages, having been warned about it. Perhaps one that affects humnans?

What thing could they have managed better that would make us trust our government in the UK to be using this known bee killer to manage a disease for a greater good later on?
> Then most of them just stood there, unsure what to do. They even stayed inside the velvet ropes in Statuary Hall, like a bunch of tourists. Does that sounds like an armed insurrection?

It sounds like what it is: a mob, drunk on falsehoods and weaponized against the US Capitol in hopes of intimidating congress into overturning a thoroughly litigated and settled election.
(June 2020)
My dad's doctor told him to stop eating so much butter. Dad said, "My uncle ate a stick of butter every day, and he lived to be 96!"

The doc replied, "See? It finally got him!"
Every source I’ve seen disagrees with you.
> Nevermind that 1 individual -chose- to use twitter as their primary base of operations, instead of the usual channels.

Isn't this perfectly reasonable to switch to the modern Internet channels as time comes? Or should all the presidents keep transmitting in Morse code over cable telegraphs?
Coincidentally, today I read an interesting article on the Gatwick drone scare that contained this anecdote:

"In April 1954, a strange phenomenon swept across the town of Bellingham, Seattle, and other communities in Washington state. People began to observe “windshield pits” on their cars – minor damage that, when magnified, can look like a tiny crater in the surface of the glass, usually caused by sand or other small debris colliding with the windscreen at high speed. As the phenomenon was reported in the press, more people noticed marks and chips on their screens. A few weeks before the sightings began, the US had exploded a huge hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean, and many blamed these nuclear tests. Others believed a nearby navy communication tower was warping the glass. Residents panicked. By 15 April, almost 3,000 windscreens had been affected, and the mayor asked for assistance from President Eisenhower.

Today, the Seattle windshield pitting epidemic is often cited as an example of mass panic, in which people attributed a sinister cause to something that had been there, unnoticed, all along. Two days after the appeal to the president, Seattle police issued a statement saying that the pitting epidemic was “95% public hysteria”. Sightings suddenly stopped."

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/dec/01/the-mystery-...
How to Trick Your Brain to Like Doing Hard Things – Atomic Habits by James Clear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7w5r5PfBKo
I've started exercising around the time the lockdown started. I had been doing some occasional bouldering for a couple months before that, but starting lifting, then starting more seriously (3 times a week at least, plus miscellaneous training on off days) has really been life changing. I am so much more energised, feel so much healthier (whatever that means) overall. I'm pretty happy I started early, but can't stop wishing I had started even earlier.

I recommend the HN crowd especially to give bouldering a try. It's climbing with a higher emphasis on power and puzzle-solving. Incredibly addicting, has a great feedback and gratification loop!
It’s a perfectly fine idea. Kubernetes uses standard rest endpoints with defined semantics and data types are strictly defined via protos
Project is seemingly dead with the latest commit being from 2018.

Two major games with code on github I can think of are Amnesia: The Dark Descent (1) and Celeste (2)

(1) https://github.com/FrictionalGames/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent
(2) https://github.com/NoelFB/Celeste
"If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech."

- Noam Chomsky
The Trump presidency is much more comfortable with antagonizing China than the Biden presidency.

(To be clear, I don't mean this as a judgment of either strategy, just an answer to the question of why it matters.)
How do they compare from patent encumbrance perspective? AVIF is supposed to be protected by AOM for everyone to use.
If China tries to take Taiwan by force, it would spark WW3. There are US military bases in Taiwan [0] which would automatically ensure that the US military is involved in any such attempt.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Taiwan_Defense_C...

US-China relations were OK under the Obama administration. Note that the Trade war and the cultural divide were initiated mostly by the current administration, and on balance, have done little to improve US standing or economy at the cost of straining Sino-US relations. They appear to have been mostly targeted at improving domestic standing by the administration. As such, it is reasonable to assume that a different administration can lead to better relations.

As to the bigger question of how the US can deal with another Superpower: that is a much harder question to answer. What's clear is that China will be a far more powerful rival than the Soviet Union, whose economy was mostly subpar and never really matched that of the US. It seems that Obama admin wanted to expand the US sphere of influence with the TPP; basically supercharge the economies in the immediate vicinity of the PRC with the help of the US to "contain" it. But the PRC has been a step ahead, and has cultivated allies using the same strategy that the US adopted: huge amounts of aid. Especially in Africa.

There are other factors that will make it even harder to predict the best approach in the future: Climate Catastrophe is already upon us, and its going to get a lot, lot worse in the future. Just look at how the PRC was able to handle the pandemic: if the US is unable (or unwilling) to take decisive actions to contain pandemics and natural disasters, it will cause permanent damage to America's economic capacity. This pandemic alone has cost the US over 370,000 lives, while the PRC (reportedly) has lost less than 5000. Despite this abject failure, the ruling party actually won more seats in the House (although they did lose the Presidency and the Senate, but only barely). This does not bode well at all for America's capacity to handle the severe challenges that it will face in the next few decades.
What is the purpose of a poll observer? I’ve read some of the affidavits, and many are immaterial, but some do raise concern. For example from a Bloomberg article:

> Their affidavits raise a series of observations where the effect is not clear. For instance, one Republican poll challenger, Articia Bomer, said she saw 27 ballots inserted into a counting machine “at least five times.” An affidavit by a poll watcher named Brett Kinney said he witnessed a worker reach into an envelope marked “invalid ballots” and “process them with valid ballots.”

Why would this happen? Can we have an explanation that explains why this is standard operating procedure? Assuming good faith on the part of everyone, an explanation like “each ballot has a unique bar code and a misread would require re-reading, on a misread this red light on the scanner would light up and the ballot should be re-scanned until the green light lights, but even if the ballot is scanned successfully multiple times it would not be counted more than once” - maybe there is an explanation like this out there but I haven’t found it, only repeated insistence from every mainstream media outlet that there is no evidence of voter fraud.

Furthermore, there are credible examples of observers being disenfranchised - again, many not so credible (for example, building at capacity when there are already plenty of bipartisan observers, or “feeling intimidated” or whatever). But in Fulton County, observers insist that they were told by election officials that counting is over for the night, and that’s backed up by news reports from election night (https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pipe-bursts-atlanta-arena-ca...) and then they continue counting - but now the election officials insist that nobody was told that counting was over for the night even though ABC reported that a specific responsible person, Regina Waller, had said so. Who is wrong? There are also many reports from several states where observers were kept 6 to 25 feet away or only able to watch the counts through a video monitor, which doesn’t seem like it would allow them to really observe anything. Many of the court cases were thrown out due to lack of evidence that the election outcome was altered - because affidavits aren’t investigations, they of course can’t show evidence of that.
I have heard plenty of rebuttals for some of the more far fetched fraud theories, but it still seems to me that observer rights need to be bolstered, including a more thorough explanation of procedures, a way to document and address/explain exceptions in the public view. However, there does need to be a way to filter out the specious complaints, because any system where exceptions require handling can be DDoSed.

So while there is a lot of easily debunked, meaningless, agitating noise, there are also still some valid, unexplained concerns. I think you are right that a lot of people just won’t believe it no matter what, but I also think a lot of reasonable people are still feeling pretty uneasy about this election, and the fact that a couple dozen radicals shut down the last chance for transparency for 75 million voters ought to concern everyone.
I suppose a lot of countries wouldn't even consider it, because they don't want to be kicked out of trade agreements which have imposed the life + 50 or 70 year system.
And here is the issue and why the sides cannot understand whats going on.
I'm a bit irked by these 'always been a thing'-responses.

Yes, it may be true that the thing (whatever it may be) is not a recent development, but that doesn't mean that it couldn't have steadily gotten worse over time and might eventually reach a tipping point that would be worth worrying about.
Exactly, a mob drunk on falsehoods trying to intimidate representatives. Like those protests above I linked. Glad we finally agree. :)
I think writing down your objectives and results you'd like to achieve are good. Writing them down is itself a form of positive thinking and self-help; they're "just" words, and there's no limit to what you can write.

And then review your progress at some velocity that makes sense (weekly for some, monthly for others, quarterly or thereabouts for the rest) to see if you're on track, if your objectives have changed, etc.

But the book Switch by Chip and Dan Heath kind of opened my eyes to the danger of "SMART goals" / self-motivation. They talk about the "rider" (your rational, critical inner voice) and the "elephant" (your emotional id-like creature) and how you have to get both working, and OKRs and the like satisfy the rider but don't reach the elephant.

They recommend for example drawing up a "concept poster" or postcard (similar to Amazon's "future newsletter" touting the success of a proposed initiative) to really get alignment on what will get you excited to do the good things you want - health, wealth, family, community, planet, whatever - without having to prescribe it to a chart or metric.
This reminds me of a discussion on pesticides I had with a friend working for the FNSEA (a French agricultural union) and one of his point that, if a pesticide is banned, farmers will just use another (which might more or less efficient, more or less targeted...)
But hasn't Trump (and others) shown that if you repeat the lies enough people start believing them and those who could debunk them slowly gives up by lack of time or resources ?
A Google Pixel phone with LineageOS (sans Google stuff) would be the option I would use.
Hilary Clinton used the term "stolen election" throughout the last four years, including 2020. That's not an input, it's an output. People - including the media - called Trump an illegitimate President for 4 years. That's not an input, it's an output. Perhaps you should be the one paying more attention instead of getting defensive when your hypocrisy is exposed.

You can try to spin it or rationalize it all you want, both sides are behaving the same.
Curious if you know the potential efficiency loss of converting back and forth from AC to DC and back to AC again? I assume a lot of energy is wasted in heat? Do clippers use so much energy that it may be cheaper in a short time to simply buy new clippers? $40 for conversion hardware already, it's only a few more bucks to get a decent set of clippers that match your new country's grid.
I still use JPEG because I've seen iPhones in the wild that didn't support my WEBP graphics.

Thanks Apple for being behind the times.
This is horrible:

https://twitter.com/joshscampbell/status/1347749675777011714...
Is there any reasonably valid speech that is unduly silenced by cancel culture? I don't disagree that people are restrictive of their speech, but I am trying to ascertain if we are better or worse off due to self-censorship.
Cool. I don't think I understood that aspect back then. I was tasked to look at converting the sun box sitting in the sodo DC to something else. I logged in and found latex but didn't understand it how it all fit together.
> similar to "election fraud" alleged

For those in a leftist bubble, there's thousands of affidavits and several videos of election fraud, plus fake ballots printed in China.

The Dominion voting machine, used in 29 states, violates FEC rules - able to connect to Internet, and company ownership is unclear but foreign, which is why Texas rejected it.

If Trump doesn't declare martial law and redo the election, this fraud will dog American politics for decades, like JFK's assassination.

That's the worst case, not redoing an election involving a 78-yo well-reported senile man that can't muster an audience of even 15 people to a public speech, and whose family reportedly took $1 billion from the CCP while Biden was in in office. The USA is the leader of the free world - where does the Democratic party find these candidates?

What should have been done before the election was:

- validate the voting machines for ownership and operation (that excludes Dominion, used in 29 states)

- train voting staff on the rules

- video everything

- post police at voting staff public desks to avoid staff threatening watchers ("Oh, you're Republican ... Stop breathing on me, you're spreading COVID-19. Help! Help!")

- provide more training for watchers, who were screwed over left and right

- monitor USPS for malfeasance (deliberately back-postmarking ballots after Nov. 3, inter-state shipping, etc.)

- enable recounts in an efficient manner

- enforce signature verification for mail-in ballots (not done)

- clarify the judicial process and roles so they can't reject election cases just on standing.
>My only point in the comment above was that the character limit remains a fundamental characteristic of Twitter, and removing that constraint would qualitatively change Twitter

I don't use twitter, so either way it doesn't matter much to me. But was twitter not created with this constraint due to the original intention that tweets could be posted by sms and were thus constrained by the format of sms itself and not actually an inherent and necessary part of the platform?

It seems like there's room for twitter to provide at least a method for long form content.

Maybe have it seperate from the actual twitter feed and let people use a normal size tweet to link to it?

People already seem to use it for longform content, providing a way for people to do it efficiently may provide a positive change. It would give people a reason to use twitter who otherwise might not because of the content limitations.

Even adding such a system, I imagine the bulk of tweets will still be the 280 character kind, but it would provide a built in method for that occasional time you want to write something longer.
Any chance of Apple shipping a default VPN in the base iOS image?

Running the required servers might be too hard, though.
Facebook and Twitter Promote Propaganda and Disinformation. We Can Do Better
Wouldn't this encourage false-flag hashtag squatting? Just figure out what your "enemies" are likely to hashtag, and set up some unpleasant accounts to use the tags before they do.
The narrative you're trying to present is completely false. Any "cutting away" of Trump is utterly inconsequential compared to the complete domination of the media Trump has commanded since the beginning of his presidential campaign. Trump is literally the most famous man in the world, you're simply in denial if you can't admit that.
> Show the receipts that the election was stolen before you decide to broadcast that claim to millions.

Again, look at Matt Braynard's work. It's compelling, and has been completely ignored. [1] The right isn't pissed because they think they know fraud happened, they're pissed because the evidence hasn't been examined.

> Trump's legal team had the chance to do that in court dozens of times

False. Trump's legal team brought a handful of cases before the courts, most of which were thrown out on procedural grounds without looking at the merit, which again is the reason the right is rightfully pissed.

Many more cases were presented to the courts by third parties and thrown out. Some because they were batshit, some on procedural grounds, very few on their merits. The media has been presenting those cases as "Trump's cases being thrown out" in order to make him appear incompetent, but that is just more spin. That you bought into, apparently.

> attempted to kidnap and execute the executive line of succession.

More speculation presented as assertion.

[1] https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/11/matt_braynards_...
Agree, never heard of bees as a service - also live in a farming community. We farm different crops here.
Irrelevant. Here’s the original comment:

> I wonder how many people have been forced into a "sedentary" life style by COVID-19...

You are not forced into a sedentary lifestyle if you have the time and space to do bodyweight exercises.
> some people are not capable enough to handle the responsibility.

Unfortunately I'm not convinced that anyone is capable of handling the responsibility of determining who is / is not capable of having responsibility. There's just too much potential for abuse.

Thanks for the reply.
Yes, I really like nebenan.de, and I have a monthly donation subscription :)
> high up in the armed
Command-in-Chief not high enough?
It’s possible that the outgoing President had personal financial negotiations that this decision was enmeshed with. Retribution perhaps? The timing is odd. Time will tell.
So some poor independent author who make a few thousand a year from selling a self-published book should lose his copyright after ten years if he can't cough up $10,000? That sounds downright evil and completely against the original spirit of copyright law.

Why do you think only people with the big bucks should enjoy copyright protection? Who are you trying to benefit here?
I appreciate you pointing this out. The article says very little about the political context of this election and Uganda in general.

From what I understand, not being an expert either but having spent quite a few months in Uganda in the last few years, Museveni has been the president since 1986 and brought a lot of stability to the country, aka brought peace after lots of conflict under Idi Amin. Some people have expressed gratitude for that and fear that Uganda will go back into the violence it faced before and yet seem very tired of the way Museveni has been running the country and want new leadership. Recently, there has been stronger opposition and in the last few years, a popular musician, Bobi Wine, decided to get involved in politics and declared to run for president.

I imagine, if I were in government, I might be afraid of the US, China, Russia, or other countries bringing their political influence into the country through the internet. I might fear revolutions like the ones that happened in Tunisia and Egypt and other countries. I may also just fear my own citizens and what they want. It's hard for us in the US to know how much of the political discourse here is from the citizens vs external sources vs government sources, and I could imagine even harder sometimes in other countries to figure that out.

That's the tricky part with this decision, it could be to stop foreign influences, it could be to stop local influences, it could be to amplify government influences, or a combination of all three.
What you're referring to as "gatekeepers," I would see as one of many sources of evidence. Others include direct experience, non-expert opinion, data from experiments/studies, and so on. Ideally we'd weigh each source of evidence by how trustworthy and reliable they are, and then we'd use our brain to make sense of what may be true based on that evidence.

Society does not "work better when gatekeepers decide what the truth is." That's especially the case when the "truth" is political, and people have ideological incentives to report what they see as the truth in a certain light. Instead, society works better when individuals are free to look at the evidence and think about it for themselves. This is because in this case, you're treating the members of that society with human dignity.
A few thoughts:

1. It's not "easy" to beat negative value growth at baseline. EG: a risky investment that loses your entire investment is much worse.

2. If this was year 1999, could you have written exactly the same about .COM stocks shortly before they crashed and burned? If not, what is the thing you see about Crypto that makes that value feel real vs bubbly?
Provided, thank you for the call out!
By far the biggest help is how much easier it is to reach the zone. It is crazy how easy exercise is when you are lost in deep thought.
It forces the Biden administration to either accept the normalization of relations with Taiwan as an independent nation or explicitly take steps to treat them as a piece of the CCP.

He's boxing in the next administration.
We went through implementing AVIF support in our image service, only to find out that it generated larger images than WebP anyway. Not sure if that’s typical though.
Easier to read format: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1347969772177264644.html
The fallout with China is Biden’s problem. All gain, no pain.
Why is this downvoted. Is this site full of wumaos too? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
I'm not sure how effective that strategy is if you exclude the last 2-3 years.
Scaramucci: 'Trump should go to jail'
Exactly, move to Parler or start another free speech platform.

Otherwise expect one party to dominate both government and the entire media spectrum silencing all opposition.
Incredibly detailed analysis. That site is what the Internet was supposed to be all along, dammit.
the best statement i've encountered about this (besides survivorship bias) is,

"ask a lottery winner how to get rich, and they'll tell you to play the lottery"
Does it auto-play? Can it replace gif?
I haven’t heard vitamin d administration is associated with better outcomes, but I’ve heard that vitamin d levels are inversely correlated with outcomes - i.e., people should take a blood test and determine if they are vitamin d deficient, and supplement as needed.
>I watch these types of videos and I can't help but wonder if we transcended the need for elderly advice or we just grown as a youth centric society.

I think we've combined "youth-centric" with "faux-young" (aka immaturity), where 40-year olds are "excited" about the latest superhero movie and 50 year olds act like teenagers...