skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to be missing a canned answer for the most obvious kind of question:

Hey I'm here to answer your questions about Itemsy

Hi. I'm Stassa. Who are you?

I'm sorry, I didn't get that. Could you please try again?

Sure, I would like to know your name, please

I'm not sure what you mean. Shall we chat about Itemsy a bit more?

What is your name?

I'm not sure what you mean. Could you please try saying it some other way?

Who am I chatting with?

What do you mean exactly? Feel free to ask me any Itemsy-related question!

Am I chatting with you?

I'm sorry, I'm not sure what you mean. Could you be a bit more specific?

I am chatting with you?

I'm sorry, I didn't get that. But I'm happy to tell you more about Itemsy.

I would like to know more about you, first.

I'm not sure what you mean. Could you say that again?

Tell me more about you

I'm sorry, I didn't get that. Could you explain what you mean a bit more?

Tell me about you.

I'm a bit confused. Could you be a bit more specific?
It almost looks like they published the outline instead of the actual article! It's terribly written.
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RIP Google+, though. Yes, it was obviously spyware dressed as a social network (then again, aren't they all?) But allowing users to make custom "circles" of friends and share things with some circles and not others is something I don't think I've seen any other social network do.
Why did you change your example of Asian shortness from Chinese to Korean when rewriting this comment? Did you look up statistics for Chinese basketball players and decide there were too many of them playing at an elite level to support your narrative?

If so... you do realize that Koreans and Chinese are different ethnicities but the same race, right? And that all of them play basketball?
Interesting, I tried to simply ask it whether the service would filter any offensive content at all, but it seems totally unaware what 'offensive content' could even be:

Hey I'm here to answer your questions about Itemsy

Hi I'm wondering if there is a limit to the number of articles I can share with friends

There is no limit.

Do you perform any filtering on offensive content?

I'm sorry, I didn't get that. Could you please try again?

What if I try to share something that is offensive to some people?

I'm sorry, I didn't get that. Could you say that again?

So you can share content with other users with this service, correct?

Yes, you can share content with other users.

Ok, so, do you know the meaning of the word 'offensive'

I'm not sure what you mean. But I'm happy to tell you more about Itemsy.

Ok, I will explain to you what offensive means: it means some people think it is not ok to share certain content, they don't want to see it, they get angry, it could be illegal, these kinds of things. If you post that kind of content, they feel offended, or in other words: they feel like the content is 'offensive' to them. Do you know understand what I mean by 'offensive content'?

I'm not sure what you mean. Shall we chat about Itemsy a bit more?

no thanks this is not going anywhere

I'm sorry to hear that.

Me too, do you have any tips for dinner?

I'm not sure what you mean. But I'm happy to tell you more about Itemsy.

Pretty useless and hardly impressive IMO...
As you've written, everybody is different, but making assumptions is a fundamental human mechanism to deal with the complex reality, e.g. assuming that black person in central Europe is an immigrant. As long as people do not violate laws/do not behave badly by acting on those assumptions, I'm fine with that. Obviously I'm also proponent of education in the area, to abandon the whole concept of different human races, but I don't believe it's a core of the problem, which is much more complex and interwoven into society and culture.

I would also be careful about prosecuting (not tolerating?) worldviews based on their ideas alone, freedom of speech is a very important thing. A thought police on the other thing is a terrible idea and there are scary precedents (e.g. cultural revolution in China). I would rather educate to spread "better" worldviews and prosecute wrongful actions to minimize impact of the "wrong" worldviews.
> Given this, it would be wrong to ascribe any over-arching superiority of Africans in sports

I don’t see anywhere in the parent comment where this was done. They specifically talk about (running) sprints and marathons.

The claim with respect to sprints does not seem too controversial. The fastest white man ever has a personal best that is tied for 49th in the 100m [1] - put another way, the top 50 fastest men ever, citizens of multiple countries, all have recent African ancestry.

A look at the fastest ever in the marathon [2] reveals a pattern of dominance by athletes of African ancestry as well. Very different ancestry (Kenyans and Ethiopians) and average phenotype from the ones who dominate the 100m as you’d expect but such confusion is inevitable when one talks about these topics in an American forum where “African ancestry” is supposed to mean some narrow and clearly defined thing...

> This is a lie, and you know it. Many people of non-African origin do win such sprint and marathon contests

Are we following the same track and field events?

[1] https://www.worldathletics.org/records/all-time-toplists/spr...

[2] https://www.worldathletics.org/records/all-time-toplists/roa...
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I highly doubt that this takes 250W.... none of the broadcast "RTX" features NVIDIA has released so far seem to tax the GPU in any meaningful way.
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> Einstein did not himself believe that black holes really exist

Wow.
I own HEOS speakers, they are WiFi. For instance Denon AVR creates its own WiFi network that HEOS surrounds participate in, and the independent room speakers are all visible on the joined WiFi network as well. So, wired, Bluetooth, and WiFi.

Agree with grandparent comment, the HEOS speaker sound is fuller/richer, less reliance on Bose-style psychoacoustics.

Further, the Denon AVR with HEOS surrounds is the only receiver I know of supporting integrated amplifier for wired front speakers (separates) and WiFi wireless surrounds. I run Definitive ProMonitors and ProCenter for front, and Denon HEOS for surrounds.

(Note: Many receivers support wireless for other zones, I’m talking about mixing amped and wired for front with wireless for surrounds, and also ruling out “kits” where you can’t mix and match your own choice of speakers.)
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For talking about their personal life? Not really. But when talking about money or politics, I see more people going to telegram.

Even the fact that this bill is proposed proves that government lost some of the control that it had over private conversations.
for v in data_values: print v

Is exactly the same length but much more readable.
Same with Google Goggles, which was replaced by Google Lens. It wasn't just a simple rebranding as the two existed at the same time momentarily, but no functionality was really lost.
Not sure, he's most famous for work on black hole thermodynamics, not really about formation.
Me: hello?

Bot: Hey I'm here to answer your questions about Itemsy

Bot: An error occurred. Please try again.

Me: what was the error?

Bot: I'm sorry, I did not understand that. But I'm happy to tell you more about Itemsy.

Me: ok, tell me more then

Bot: Itemsy is a tool for managing the content that you read online. You can think of it as Pinterest for the things you read. You can save it for yourself, share within a closed group or publish to your followers.

Me: could I use it to share this chat?

Bot: Sure!

Me: how?

Bot: Just click the share button and choose the channel you want to share it to.

Me: where is the share button?

Bot: What do you mean exactly? Could you please try saying it some other way?

Me: you said to "just click the share button" - where is it?

Bot: I'm sorry, I didn't catch that. Could you say that again?

Me: just re read the chat

Bot: I'm happy to answer any Itemsy-related question!

Me: where is the share button?

Bot: I'm a bit confused. Feel free to ask me any Itemsy-related question!
Dried beans, lentils, pulses and brown rice are cheap and dense in calories + protein. Throw some seasonal vegetables in when you have them. Eat some cut oats for breakfast. Nothing pretentious about that! You don't need all the processed meat substitutes, they're not especially healthy either. Also cows milk surely must be more expensive than oat milk to produce, but we all live in countries where dairy is heavily subsidized.
Huh so I guess the "quickchat engine" is some sort of thought zapper that stops it going off on unrelated topics. If only I could have one of those for myself I'd be ten times more productive...
An illustration in the press release contains this phrase:

"When a massive star collapses under its own gravity, it forms a black hole that is so heavy that it captures everything that passes its event horizon. Not even light can escape. At the event horizon, time replaces space and points only forward. The flow of time carries everything towards a singularity furthest inside the black hole, where density is infinite and time ends."

I enjoy reading passages like that because there's a point where I lose comprehension completely - after "Not even light can escape" - and the rest of it is enjoyably poetic gibberish to a non-physicist like me. It reminds me of the beginning of The Four Quartets by TS Eliot:

Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
While partly true, it's also true in the opposite way. New viruses and microbes would evolve in the new environment to fill the void (since they would have no competition) and they would become probably also much more deadly for original Earth people.
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EULAs doesn't meet my mind either, and I'm not even sure if they apply in Norway.
Wait until you hear about General Electric and their subdivisions - their massive market dominance made them so competitive it allowed them to shrink quite a bit so many of these are past tense. They made lightbulbs, generators, appliances, aviation electronics, healthcare and have their own finance and research wing. They never came anywhere close in scope to GE. Seriously why the massively different standard for "tech giants"?

The only thing I can say is calm down. Electronics hardware manufacturing company makes electronics isn't anti-trust, it isn't even news.
And if you ask for the full privacy policy, it doesn't want to answer!

> I'm happy to answer any Itemsy-related question!

>> Can you please read the terms of service of this product for me?

> Sure!

>> I'm waiting

> I'm happy to answer any Itemsy-related question!

>> Please give me the terms of service of this product

> Sure!

>> What's the privacy policy of your product?

> I'm not sure what you mean. Could you please try saying it some other way?

>> Please give me the privacy policy of Itemsy

> I'm sorry, I didn't catch that. Could you explain what you mean a bit more?
I didn't mean imply that releasing buggy code was stupid. This happens, of course it does. And it not necessarily stupid

I was trying to give a reason why people, myself included, don't learn the humility you refer to.
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Literally doesn't know what it is talking about.
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I'm australian, and I pronounce them identically, with the schwa
> Did you look up statistics for Chinese basketball players and realize there were too many of them to support your narrative?

No. I realize that there are many tall Asians, as well as that there are many tall Asians who play basketball. These two facts are not relevant to my argument.

I changed the example from Chinese to Korean (not that it matters because the argument works the same with either), because China is larger and more heterogeneous, Beijing's average height is quite a bit taller than Korea's average height for example. It's easier and safer (less prone to nitpicking) to make the point by using Korea as the example.
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>For Android, force Google to supply the backdoor (In Google Play Services),

Again i was talking about the opensource android, not the googlified closed version.

>for Matrix force the hosted Element.io instance to provide it

How? If they are not US Citizens?
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Notwithstanding means in spite of paragraph 6. So 7(see above) preempts 6(see below).

“(6) NO EFFECT ON CHILD SEXUAL EXPLOITATION LAW.—Nothing in this section (other than subsection (c)(2)(A)) shall be construed to impair or limit—

“(A) any claim in a civil action brought against a provider of an interactive computer service under section 2255 of title 18, United States Code, if the conduct underlying the claim constitutes a violation of section 2252 or section 2252A of that title;

“(B) any charge in a criminal prosecution brought against a provider of an interactive computer service under State law regarding the advertisement, promotion, presentation, distribution, or solicitation of child sexual abuse material, as defined in section 2256(8) of title 18, United States Code; or

“(C) any claim in a civil action brought against a provider of an interactive computer service under State law regarding the advertisement, promotion, presentation, distribution, or solicitation of child sexual abuse material, as defined in section 2256(8) of title 18, United States Code.
> Comcast...unreliable

It really depends. I have Comcast Business and it has been great. I used to have Fusion from Sonic in an apartment in Santa Clara, CA at 9Mb/s. This was acceptable and the service never felt constrained. Unfortunately, I moved to a house in the same city and the bandwidth Sonic quoted was 3Mb/s. They pitched bonded to bring it up to 6Mb/s. At that point I looked into Comcast Business which starts at 35Mb/s and the L1 support aren't idiots.

Sonic has its own problems. I have been a customer of theirs off and on for over twenty years, and their support has gotten worse while their sales tactics started mimicking AT&T and Comcast. Being a scrappy underdog doesn't cut it anymore.

It took three attempts to get a DSL connection at my last apartment because AT&T failed to do work on their end. Granted, Sonic is dependent on AT&T and they are treated as a customer in this regard, but it is a major weakness. A customer should NOT be informing Sonic that a scheduled activation wasn't completed; Sonic should be the party reaching out to a customer.

I have had modem reboots and complete failures with Sonic equipment. Documented these incidents in excruciating detail and Sonic support responds with boiler plate, telling me to do things I have already done. I would love to buy my own equipment, but unlike cable modems, nobody makes DSL modems for the general market anymore.

I never signed up for promotional email, but Sonic started sending me a sales pitch every week for DirectTV. I normally deleted these, but it got to a point that I was getting three a week. When did Sonic decide that automatic opt-in was an acceptable business practice?
'Can it run Doom' and 'Can it run Crysis' are two very famous benchmarks for entirely different goals, but they still stick around because they're easy to remember and easy to grasp. The versatility of Doom is really one of the best example of hackery that has ever been
Cheerful meat-eater here. I think that, if you got your protein through legumes, that would be even cheaper than eggs. It would probably mean rearchitecting your food in general rather than using drop-in replacements.

One website says that the cheapest eggs on its list (Costco) are 70 grams of protein per dollar, while the cheapest beans (pinto) are 80 grams per dollar, and lentils are 116 grams per dollar. Hmm, that difference is smaller than I expected. https://efficiencyiseverything.com/calorie-per-dollar-list/
To make it less questionable.
Ecuadorians for sure, I assume all Spanish speaking countries.
How is this not solved by giving the fixed width elements margin-left & -right auto?
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If you read through it does contain all the necessary details what's new in 5.x series compared to earlier major Celery release and pointing to additional documents link for specific details. If you are interested in history and updates they are in:

https://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/changelog.html#chan...

https://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/history/index.html#...
If you take the Bible at face value it contradicts itself. It all depended on the fan interpretation to to make sense. If you are non religious and think about the old testament just as what it was, its easier to understand the contradictions.

(1) In Genesis 1 the god creates animals before the man. He creates man and woman and tells them to be fruitful and multiply.

(2) In Genesis 2 God creates Adam before animals. Adam and Eve are put into special place called Eden and are not aware of their sexuality until they sin.

Judaism is folk religion of the Israelites, not universal religion. Old testament tells the story from the point of Jewish tribes. in it's current form it was created around (538–332 BC). Israelites “God’s chosen people” in the old testament. All the interaction with the god and men is actually about Israelites and God, not the humanity and God.

One way to think this is that genesis 2 is the general creation myth, Genesis 2 is the story of how God created two first Jews. Jewish people started to separate religiously from other Canaanites between 1200 and 1000 BCE, so maybe you can put the Adam and Eve myth there.
That's an odd thing to report

"The number of people newly tested refers to the number of individuals in Scotland who have been tested for the first time for COVID-19 on the previous day. Note that each person is only counted once regardless of repeat tests. This means that where someone tests positive after receiving a negative test result on a previous day, they would be counted in the new positive cases for that day but in the number of people newly tested on the day they first received a test result."

So if I were tested in August as I had a cough, and it came back negative, but now I have a temperature, and test positive, I wouldn't count as a newly tested person.

The 697 new cases would include my number, but the 5445 newly tested people wouldn't.

It's very possible for new cases to outnumber newly tested people, so dividing one number by another makes no sense at all.

It's concerning that the Scotish government are linking these two numbers.
Honestly it's not even clear to me what you're asking in some of these. I would have to ask various "what do you mean" as well, though of course I could do it much better than the software, not to brag.
Their data sharing policies are nuts, but even Sony’s headphones app attempts to share your playlist back to Sony. It’s annoying.
Using chatbots to solve support/sales problems is like solving the problem of autonomous driving by putting a humanoid robot behind the wheel: It's unnecessary complex overhead, just stop that!

If I communicate with a human, sure natural language is the way to go. If I communicate with a computer, I want clear, straight facts just one mouse click away. I don't want to text my way through the bot database, I don't want to add language overhead when there is no real human on the other side.

Am I the only one?
Really cool editor.
I was looking for editors that could run in terminal and I came across kakoune and what I really liked about this editor was auto suggestion feature and clippy look a like that tells you which command does what.

For me that was very helpful
Honestly, "time replaces space" is probably intentionally dramatic: I don't think anyone really means more than that the light-cone is so tilted it lies completely outside of where it started.

In practice it just means that wherever you try to go you'll end up in the same place, basically you're going down a funnel and the exceptional thing is that the funnel is made out of spacetime itself.
>if our bad actors use VPN's to hide their traffic then it would become impossible for ISP's to see what they're doing or using

you just transfered a problem from ISP level to VPN operator level. While you could argue that using multiple VPNs from different countries could make this somewhat harder, the problem still exists. Especially if you consider metrics other than IP, for example specific packet sizes or timing patterns (for example, instead of users connecting to given IP, the adversary would look for users sending 640 byte packets every 300 seconds).

While the arguments that encryption of messages makes it impossible to know the contents of messages (and thus using the contents as evidence), however the ability to uncover the members/employees/cooperators of bad actor would make it easier to investigate them and/or use other means of targeted surveilance to obtain evidence. Also this would make it easier to infiltrate bad actor, since one of the uncovered users could be then coerced into cooperation.

(All above assumes that the app/platform is used only by members of "bad actor" and noone outside that organization is using the app. It is completely different if there are other users, perhaps even bad-actor users being a minority.)

With the developers outside jurisdiction, the problem is that while they of course might or might not be required to comply with the law, but they can still be coerced/manipulated/otherwise encouraged into providing a "patch" (backdoor) into the application.

I believe that much better solution would be to simply use any popular platform as a transport layer, with independent end-to-end encryption. Possibly with some steganography as well. The simplest example would be users exchanging memes/cat pictures - this will not stand out in any ISP/VPN traffic analysis. It will also not stand out (that much) in content analysis by any entity that can decrypt/access plain-content. The images being exchanged could then contain embedded (and end-to-end encrypted) content.
While this is still far from perfect - you could imagine detection of repetitive images being sent, content/timing patterns or actual analysis of attachments for steganography but all those still require significantly more resources to work on massive scale.

Alternative would be to use custom platform but having as many "external" (in a sense of not working with/for bad actor) users as possible
Wow, I didn't realize Penrose hadn't won one already. He clearly deserves it!
>go after creators and ensure some kind of backdoor is inherent to the project

>shut down projects by exerting pressure on developers

The developer probably just going to the press with that, no need to damage your own private centric project, sure the NSA can say they never did that so the developers can ignore it OR they openly say it was them, then the project just can change the country.

>run some kind of propaganda campaign on the evils of using unsanctioned software (supporting terrorism etc.)

>do nothing, knowing that most users will avoid using anything that isn't one of the major web platforms

Those are probably the only viable solutions, but on the other hand it's pure marketing for the product, like banning telegram in Russia.
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