skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked with a pathological liar for about a year. We didn't have day to day interactions, but he was always eager for an audience and if I had time I'd humor him.

My goal was to let him spin his yarn and wait for him to contradict himself in some way. Rather than directly going a "gotcha" I'd act sincerely confused, "Oh, you just said you met him yesterday, but earlier you said you met that person months ago. I must be misunderstanding." Then I'd just enjoy how effortlessly he would create a new fabrication to cover up the gap in his story. I guess practice makes perfect, or at least better.

He was incredibly bold. Once he told me about spending Thanksgiving with a coworker ... and that coworker was in his cube immediately adjacent to mine. After the BS artist left I asked the guy in the next cube if her heard that ... nope, he was wearing his headphones. When I relayed the story, he said nope, he was more likely to shoot the BS artist than invite him over for a meal.

He ended up getting fired because he was taking time off work to attend classes at Stanford. After a few months of this someone in HR checked with Stanford and they said they had no record of a student by that name. LA few weeks after getting fired, HR received a call from another company checking references on one of our former employees, Dr. <bs artist surname>.
Yes, thank for this! Not burning are net 0 biofuels is equivalently the cheapest carbon capture we can do.

It's very good to analyze specific flows, but at the end of day, greenhouse gases (appropriately weighted) in the air are a fungible liability, and taking some specific process and sanctifying it's net greenhouse gas emissions in isolation is silly.
Even more likely because you're going to need to powderize the nuclear material. Which is super dangerous. (weighted dosage is higher for internal exposure since it is closer to organs and less "shielding") Radioactive dust is something you really do not want to be messing around with, even if the radioactivity is comparatively low.
British people have no right to criticize another country’s food.
> Who vs whom is one example...

of a distinction that exists in only the formal written register of less than a handful of English prestige dialects.

It is not wrong to say "Who did you learn this nonsense from?" It is just not formal written Standard American English.

Your insistence that one native speaker's dialect is somehow "more right" than another's is not a measure of someone's linguistic competence, it's a social value judgment with classist and racist overtones. Maybe if you spent some time studying AAVE (African American Vernacular English) and other dialects, you wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it as "ebonics."
Ha memories. Used to bike down to the local Radio Shack every weekend and fiddle around with their Model II display for hours. How far we've come in my lifetime.
I mean it's one of those nebulous things where sure you can go there take a look, but if the entire government is doing their best to hide it/threaten everyone who stays there after you leave will you see anything? would you be on a tour taking you only to approve spots or would you have complete and free access?

I assume US/EU/China all have their own motives and the truth is somewhere in the middle and we'll either never really know or not know for a very long time. But its super clear at the very least they are doing their best to wipe out the culture.... and then they go after canada for doing the same except decades ago with residential schools lol its all hypocritical on all sides as always
> current polygraph techniques can allegedly be beaten with training

No training is needed because polygraphs don't work. Polygraph testing is about as worthwhile as astrology:

https://www.apa.org/research/action/polygraph

https://www.salon.com/2000/03/02/polygraph/

And inadmissible in court in many places:

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MurUEJL/2000/6.html

> if trained polygraph techs with special equipment

There are no trained polygraph techs. They are, at best, con artists.
> Good, let's try to convince anti-vaxxers, Q people, Covid-deniers and what not of that, it will surely work!

You don't seem to understand. Don't tell them on Day 1 that mask are useless, and on Day 2 that mask are mandatory under threat of jail. Tell them on Day 1 that you fucked up and destroyed mask supplies a few years before and that you're not prepared anymore. Though, that will never happen as these people want to get re-elected and do-no-wrong.

If masks are useless on Day 1, they are useless on Day 2. If not, it means that people making these statement are full of shit on potentially ANY subject and thus can not be looked upon to (including vaccination).
I can’t decide who to root against.
I don't think that's true about French. It has some weird rules, the refusal to pronounce the last consonant in a word is especially galling (ok, pun was intended), but it's fairly consistent once you figure it out.

English, though, is a slough. Enough practice, thorough practice, and you'll get through it. But it's rough going.
How is the infrastructure that you run this with? I would love some advice for future startups and side hobbies. What are your costs and plans to scale? I'm especially interested in the plans of new startups who might not go all out with hosting and servers due to budgeting and what not in the beginning.
> From a customer perspective they are also very relevant most of the time.

I wonder just how that is measured, and how much of a bullshit metric only calculated and reported on to get someone promoted?

I’ve managed to get myself into the “buys webcams” demographic, but buying a webcam. I now suspect all the pointless webcam ads Amazon send me are all highly ranked for “relevance”, even though it’ll probably be 5 years before I buy another one...
As a Hungarian speaker who also knows other languages, I think there is indeed a difference. To construct even quite basic sentences in Hungarian you have to learn much more rules than to do the same for English. At a basic level English feels like just putting words next to one another. I mean basics like "I go in the house. You eat dinner." To say these in Hungarian as a beginner you'd have to either rote learn stuff or prepare to work through lots of rules and tables.

In my experience English tends to be more "forgiving" and robust to non native mistakes for basic communication and the time to one's first fully correct sentence (self made) is shorter.
> Europe's num 1 trading partner

if you only count goods. if you count goods + services, US is still the biggest trading partner
Oh ok, I thought that snippet was from an error log hence the reason the calls were not being displayed once the blocker was powered off. It is my understanding that the RPI takes over DNS service when powered on instead of the router, in effect forcing the router into a switch, but if the Pi is offline the router reverts back to being the gateway and probably would allow the GET calls through.

I haven't used PiHole but it looks like a practical use for one of my PIs currently collecting dust. Other than this issue how have You found it? Does it do a good job of blocking adds?
Story time: my first job, we somehow ended up abbreviating “on the phone” as OTP, to be used as: “I’m OTP with $name.” This practice basically ended when someone pointed out the more common expansion of that acronym to “one true pair.”
I quite like Wuheqilin's "Blood Cotton Initiative" -

https://inf.news/en/world/f73406a169d9f85896ccc124e3d3d566.h...

He also did the cartoon of the Australia solder killing a child which the BBC called a "fake image of an Australian soldier killing an Afghan child" because it seems the Chinese are not the only government media playing propaganda.

So for the BBC viewers I should mention the 'photo' above is fake.
> And the best part of it, 95% of it can be recycled:

That number is not actually supported by your source, as a matter of fact, your source points out that the US it not recycling any of the fuel at all.

> Oh, but Germany has a storage for highly toxic chemicals in Herfa-Neurode with already over 3 million tons of waste

Sorry, but I don't see the argument there? Just because there's already toxic waste, does not mean that more toxic waste wouldn't change anything. Or are you suggesting the nuclear waste should just be thrown into Herfa-Neurode with all the chemical waste?

> Compared to that, Germany has only 11,000 tons of high-level nuclear waste. An amount that fits into a single hall.

Germany also has quite a high population density, it doesn't have the luxury of large swats of unpopulated land where it could build it's "nuclear waste storage hall", and that's assuming that "just store it in a hall" is actually a good way to store it.

If it really was as simple as that, then why did Finland spend billions on building their Onkala deep geological repository? Which is the only installation of that kind on the whole planet. Not even in the US a proper storage location has been found yet, as Yucca Mountain was not deemed suitable.

The best answer anybody can currently give to that is "Just store it on site", which isn't a solution, it's the temporary band-aid for a rather permanent problem that's not actually solved.

You can't just hand-wave that away by claiming it ain't a problem and allegedly never was.
Rogers certainly got off lightly, as did the system that promoted him, and the US has to own that, along with all the other atrocities. The US pays in a thousand ways they choose not to account for -- the guilty have externalised the costs.
No. ALL floppies were called "diskettes" because they were tiny compared to hard disks, which were the usual sort of "disk" up until IBM devised the floppy format for loading boot code into their mainframes.

Sauce: My dad had a Tandy Model 16 with 8" drives (of the Shugart Thinline variety, one of which is pictured in the article!). Tandy sold blank 8" media that were labeled as diskettes. In addition, when the computer booted, if it could not detect a boot disk it would turn the screen white (green) with the words "INSERT DISKETTE" in the middle.

In addition, IBM referred to the 8" floppy format as the "Type 1 Diskette", which nomenclature dates from 1973.
not that it WILL pay each adult $13.5k/yr, it'll just go to the few billionaires at the top, while the rest of us can pick up the scraps.
I associate it with "One-Time Password"
The beauty of Bitcoin is that my wealth will never be redistributed
We have enough evidence about efficiencies to understand that this is not how capitalism works.
The China challenge: Why Intel is too strategic to fail
What about people who mix, e.g. Spanish and English? Is that English too? How many Spanish words does one have to use before it stops being English? Surely there must be a limit.
Dream fulfilled: https://github.com/BuilderIO/figma-html
Only until it decomposes, which is usually relatively quickly after it dies.
Ya, its just like what everyone said about Japan’s growth trajectory in the 1980s. Similar predictions even.
Grammar is, by definition, what native speakers get right when they don't give a fuck.
If we're taking descriptivist approach wouldn't it also apply to ESL speakers? There is probably many more Indian english speakers than AAVE speakers so wouldn't any differences not be mistakes?
The death camps opened up again. They're called fentanyl. This time they figured out a way to charge admission. How about reparations for that? More people enslaved today due to ignorant foreign unchecked ambition than anytime in history, and in far worse conditions. The past has its brutality. You're worst, for far less, and you do it because you like it.

No, the world doesn't need a autocrat. Too much knowledge for one single authority. The world needs you to learn how to live your life without bothering other people. Try it please. It's really easy to do.
I do, but I don't appreciate people snickering at me because I don't know their language, or illegal sketchy figures trying to scam me because I am a tourist.
Science is merely a tool. It's conclusions still must be interpreted and translated to fit in to a human shaped system. There are almost as many interpretations of the conclusions of science as there are interpretations of religious texts.

Science shows us that eating too much leads to heart disease and shortens your lifespan. What conclusions do we draw from this? An extra 15 years of life is worth 90 years of a bland diet? Different people draw different conclusions.

My point is that science alone is not a comprehensive guide to how a life should be lived. It requires some extra interpretation.

In this Maduro COVID miracle cure situation it's obviously a ridiculous claim and could mislead thousands of people into taking a placebo pill and pulling their masks off and endangering the lives of other people.

Facebook truly believes that they are right in their conclusion that Maduro's interpretation of "science" will lead to people getting hurt. They have a moral obligation to stop it lest someone accuse them of having blood on their hands.

However, Maduro being in power has surely caused many thousands of people to die from political violence and starvation. What if stopping him from exposing himself as a fool and a liar has extended his position of power for another year? Psychology is also a science. The psychology behind why people would rally harder around a censored dictator. Which interpretation of science would kill more people?

The answers aren't always clear.
Did you know that the GDP of Africa is two trillion dollars (PPP)? So Africa has surpassed Canada, right?

What matters is GDP/capita, not total output in a nation of 1.4 Billion people. You can easily get "first place" by redrawing boundaries around a bunch of poor and middle income nations. That redraw doesn't make anyone better off.
Discovering a new VGA mode (2016)
"The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time -- and then shut up."

-- Robert A. Heinlein
This tweet by Xinhua (state media) gave the same impression. It's bizarre: https://twitter.com/xhnews/status/1375271937442603012
This reads like something I would have written in high school and haven't quite figured out how the world works yet
I understand where you are coming from and am not trying to suggest that these smaller actions are enough, you should keep looking for more, but still the smaller choices you make do add up.
I think you'll find it easier to talk to people of other faiths if you stop asserting your religious dogma somehow binds them; it doesn't.
grabs pen, crosses out word in dictionary
> You're technically correct - but consider that China is simply too big to be run as a dictatorship, and the CCP do not act in the interests of their citizens' human rights and individual freedoms.

Ya, it’s more like a family dictatorship where economic and political power is concentrated in the hand of a few “red” families. That they made that obvious with Xi is interesting.
The US is on track to be fully vaccinated before many other countries except small ones.

And the US is already a competitor to China, to think otherwise is delusional. No matter how you slice it:

1) more tighter alliances, 800 military bases around the world vs 3 for China. These are diplomatic encirclements, including South East Asia.

2) dollar as world reserve currency

3) most of the top internet brands, aerospace companies, EV, etc

4) Top silicon (eg Apple, AMD, NVIDIA, etc)

I mean, if you look at high value industry vs low, China is the country catching up, not the one leading.

And without innovative companies like Foxconn and joint ventures from foreign countries where would they be in the pecking order?

Yes they’ve made absolutely astounding progress over the last 20 years, but I think it is going to some people’s heads and they need to cool the chest beating Wolf Warrior nationalism stuff for a bit. Their GDP per capita PPP is still 1/6th of the US.

In the 80s there was much lament over how Japan was making everything, and how they were going to surpass the US. And then came the Lost Generation, we know how that turned out. Cheap labor manufacturing is a temporary comparative advantage, one that moves to Vietnam, India, or Brazil soon. And eventually, with 3D printing, robotics, and other automation, a lot of the advantage will disappear.

Silicon Fabs for example, can be built anywhere, as they're almost 100% automated. The crucial limiting factor these days is often lithography tools and capital. So for example, Xi Jinping's 5 year plant isn't likely to give them EUV lithography fabs if ASML decides not to sell them any IP. There's no real competitive advantage to Mainland China except ignoring environmental laws, but at the same time, there's a lot of risk, so who wants to commit $10 billion in capital given the political risks of a capricious and non-transparent government who often ignores the rule of law.
> One person was not upset enough. The other was too upset.

This immediately made me think of Camus’s The Stranger, though maybe it’s an overreaction to bring existentialism into the conversation!
Yep, CUDA running on literally anything and everything definitely helped its success. So many data scientists, ML engineers, who got into cuda by playing with their gaming GPUs.
Web browsers are taking the place of the operating system
You need a good lawyer to prepare a very good contract so that everybody in the group knows 'the rules of the game'.

Old proverb: "If there are no rules, everybody will make up their own."

Better still, there is another proverb: "Never do Business with Relatives or Friends."
Nobody cares what you call it whether dictatorship, authoritarian or most democratic country ever.

Parent says “you get dissappeared if you say anything about government”. When that is true, we call it dictatorship. Terminology does not matter. We are talking about practical results of it.
Part of the issue with this logic is that ads for things people were already going to buy are going to preform like gangbusters according to metrics, and will be having next to zero actual impact on future sales.
There's a huge set of caveats for the maximum out-of-pocket. The maximum is only for "in network" care. You can very easily end up with out-of-network care for various reasons (including going to an in-network hospital but being treated by a doctor who is out-of-network without being informed of this fact). Maximum out-of-pocket for out-of-network is $40k per person per year on my insurance.
I thought whale oil was also used in something car related, transmissions/differentials?

Yeah, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_oil#Applications, up until 1972 in USA, apparently.
Open up all meetings + forms of communications (telephone, email , meetings) to and from public officials and their cabinet members, and this would likely not happen.

We let politicians still operate in the shadows, despite being deep into information revolution. It would cost next to nothing to copy , reproduce, organize serially everything that is said and done by a public official in their official capacity.

Its time for people to wake up and realize we don't work so we can pay their salaries, but that they work for us.
Call me old-head, but I design with code first. In my practice this is effective. I usually start with low-fidelity prototype with some tool and move directly in html/css to create design system containers. My final step is to work on visual parts, fonts, illustration, ui elements, animation.
I think people are mad about the perceived abuse of liability protections enjoyed by these private actors. In my opinion that is totally valid.
By chinese, do you also mean you're living in china? (I'm taiwanese/chinese american.) Would be interesting to get boots on the ground insights on the peoples' views.

First point implies younger chinese seem to have more national pride? I saw a few videos where it's not too weird for young people to wear traditional chinese clothing in public anymore.

What do people think about the accusations regarding Xinjiang?
I write in a book. Sometimes, I also write it on the computer, too.
I lived in Beijing in 2002 (for 6 months), first visited in 1999 (when north west 4th ring was just a ditch), and then lived in Beijing from 2007 to 2016.

Growth was extraordinary, but there are definitely problems with empty apartments and shopping malls (at least in Beijing). It is difficult to pick out what is real growth and what is simply government driven.

> How much do you know about Chinese politics? Xi Jing Pings power isn’t as absolute as the American media would like you to believe. In fact he’s in a very vulnerable position.

Chinese politics are famously opaque (the national congress is obviously rubber stamp), but I think it’s pretty obvious now that a few red families are calling the shots, and Xi’s power as a princeling is far from illusory as it was with Hu (before I would have said party elders)
> The worst thing that people can say about unions is they are bureaucratic and inconvenient.

I disagree. Unions can lead to the death of entire industries - I have seen it with my own eyes. Inefficiencies created by unions lead to jobs going to places where such unions do not exist. Personally, I do believe the workers need to be protected, but if you protect workers then you also need to protect industries, and this opens a gigantic can of worms as it runs counter to globalization and free trade.
You're implying a futuristic ultra intelligent AI would leave scraps?
This made as little sense to me as it did when I was talking the Finite Element Methods class during graduate school.

Still don't quite understand why you can't just use Runge Kutta methods to numerically solve these problems. I became quite good at manipulating the symbols to derive variational solutions while having absolutely no idea what any of it meant.
So any country that can disappear critics is a dictatorship?
Power should only be given to those who don't seek it out. I think "Songs of Distant Earth" had the right idea with random selection of the mayor or council. Just imagine if we picked from a pool of 500 randomly chosen citizens who are active in their community. Like if we required volunteer service before you could be a member of the possible pool. I would actually love to see this put into practice.
Even if the events are exactly as you describe, that is not "NATO provocation". That's Ukrainian provocation, using NATO as a threat. But you seem to want to paint NATO as bad regardless of actual facts...
Call for Minimalism in Software: Can Zen Help?
The failure mode of flying nuclear waste is much, much worse than just leaving it in the ground. It's relatively safe in the ground; the concerns are unfounded.
Can you give more info on that podcast? I'm finding a bunch with that name.
Beware, Straussian reading largely means reading a text and making it mean anything you want it to. Your evidence is the “esoteric meaning” you uncovered. The magic of this is when someone tries to debate you using the same source you can retort that your critics just haven’t read close enough or have not grappled with the material the same way you have. Despite being advertised as otherwise it is a rather unscientific method of reading a text and perhaps for this reason it is so prolific among the American right.
This! It’s been many years since I first started “adjusting” my processing circuits to understand all of the ways various English learners can mess up (and long ago started noticing similarities on what they consistently mess up, and their mother tongue). And don’t get me wrong, watching two or more people use broken English as their intermediary is always cool.

However, even the slightest mispronunciation in -their- tongue just hits a brick wall. I suspect it’s because so few have to deal with poor to intermediate speakers (excepting children) that their brains just can’t cope with imperfection.
I recall reading about a patient with split-brain (severed corpus callosum) could tell when people were lying. It seems there are verbal and physical cues when we lie.