skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is, essentially, how it happened with our cats. It's kind of a continuation of what happened with the pets my sister and I had growing up. We (as kids) made up stories, and our parents participated to some extent. We used to joke about making a book, "The Secret Life of Walter Kitty" (of course, someone else has done it, just checked). As adults, we just kind of continued it because, why not? It's entertaining and amusing just like any other story telling activity.
I tried it on archive.org and it’s not that good.

https://archive.org/details/flash_badger

On Chrome the animation starts lagging behind after a few loops so audio and video desync badly. On Firefox it’s much worse, since Firefox is naturally slower than Chrome so even the first loop is desynced already.
We use Bazel’s visibility settings this way. More often for controlled beta rollouts than for deprecation, but same principle. You can make it a compile time error to import a package that isn’t for you.
layers.omtp.enabled isn't used when WebRender is on.
For the company: infrastructure management. You don't have a local PC (other than mainly a low cost thing acting as a fairly dumb terminal) that may have parts fail and will otherwise need upgrades every now and then, with local work that may need to be encrypted and backed up, ... You are working in "the cloud", your environment is running on a common set of VMs/containers, a fault in a node just means a new one spins up (or you get shunted onto the still running ones), hardware redundancy is handled at that level reducing single points of failer, local machines don't need to be monitored for data/apps/other they should not have, resource management (does anyone run their dev PC at full tilt 24/7? no? so CPU/IO/other resources can be shared), ...

For the individual: similar concerns of hardware failures losing work go away a bit (there are still ways to lose everything, but less of them), easy moving between environments (desktop, laptop, phone), ...

Though it depends how much is pushed to the "cloud". You may still need some meat on the local resource bones if not pushing any CPU crunching into the sky too.

Essentially we are reinventing the thin client from the 90s/00s, which in turn reinvented many mainframe concepts, not that either ever completely went away, with an eye on much the same benefits.
Raleigh is where we’re headed in January, California has been great for the past 20 years or so but now with full WFH we don’t need to stay.
Full circle :D
there's an abyss between "saturated fat are evil" and "eating a stick of butter every day is great for your health" but apparently the forum is looking for a science based dichotomy, which cannot exist because nutrition is all about daily intake - hence why my original post topic was about proportions and only tangentially related to saturated fat health, and why I carefully avoided to answer to the clear bait: notice how the same poster is claiming two post above that palm oil is good for health, but he doesn't provide any citation, instead pretending that everyone else does the homework for him.
>Oh, it' accomplished something. It entirely ruined WHOIS so that you can no longer just pull up domain contact information.

That was ICANN's decision. They implemented a scorched-earth policy in response to the GDPR rather than, say, showing corporate ownership information and hiding personal ownership information.

It was petty, and, I imagine, would not have happened if ICANN wasn't a US corporation.
Another cool way you could do this: Ruby methods can ask for their caller_locations. They work like this:

# Source

$ cat example_for_hn.rb
def foo
bar
end

def bar
baz
end

def baz
(c1, c2) = caller_locations.first(2)
puts "Parent caller: '#{c1.label}' in '#{c1.path}'"
puts "Grandparent caller: '#{c2.label}' in '#{c2.path}'"
end

foo

# Demo

$ ruby example_for_hn.rb
Parent caller: 'bar' in 'example_for_hn.rb'
Grandparent caller: 'foo' in 'example_for_hn.rb'

So, you could define a method decorating class method like so:

module Shitlist
def shitlist(method_name, whitelist)
original_method = instance_method(method_name)
undef_method(method_name)

define_method(method_name) do |*args, &block|
call = caller_locations.first
passes_whitelist = whitelist.any? do |label, file_pattern|
call.label == label && call.absolute_path.end_with?(file_pattern)
end

unless passes_whitelist
fail "Shitlisted method! Permitted callers: #{whitelist}"
end

original_method.bind(self).call(*args, &block)
end
end
end

and then extend classes with it to use the decorator:

class Example
extend Shitlist

def not_on_shitlist
qux
end

def baz
qux
end

def qux
puts 'Only some methods can call me :)'
end
shitlist :qux, 'baz' => 'shitlist.rb'
end

If I run this example (full source: https://git.io/JLOdV), the non-whitelisted caller throws an error:

$ ruby shitlist.rb
Only some methods can call me :)
Traceback (most recent call last):
2: from shitlist.rb:44:in `<main>'
1: from shitlist.rb:25:in `not_on_shitlist'
shitlist.rb:13:in `block in shitlist': Shitlisted method! Permitted callers: {"baz"=>"shitlist.rb"} (RuntimeError)

---

Of course, you might not want this hijacked method with tracing inside something performance critical. You could always configure the implementation to be a no-op in production.
While many companies support LARGE open source projects by supplying dev time, I'm glad to see this sort of corporate monetary support that helps developers pay for dinner.

This appears to be a great side effect of Cognitect joining Nubank.
This headline immediately made me think of the "tulpa" concept I came across a few months back.

It's basically creating an imaginary friend, except "different" somehow?

Tried to find a decent representative article or video, but didn't really feel comfortable linking to any of them.

The biggest impression I got from looking into the concept was that these people were profoundly lonely.
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Yup. I'm waiting for an Iphone/Android competitor, but all of incumbents are half-baked solutions.

The sanest thing you can do is use LineageOS, but I can't really trust the LineageOS team since the april fools fiasco.

The lack of a third option is simply because of incompetence, not monopoly.
Does it mean I can curl https://whatever.localhost without SSL warning for self signed certificates ?

That would simplify my life when developing stuff on localhost and importing them between different things over http(s).

edit: Kids, you see those articles that regularly hit the frontpage about work/life balance ? The ones about how you need healthy sleep patterns and crunching all night long is actually bad for you brain ? This comment is what happens when you read those but don't actually follow through with recommendations.

Sorry everyone ^^.
My wife occasionally teases me after I have an imaginary debate with "So who won, you or the other guy?"
Do you have an example url for this?
You mean like Cloud9?

https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/
>The study compared the MRI scans of people who said they “often” feel lonely with the scans of people do not report feeling that way.

I'm curious about how a sizeable fraction of the population "lacking inner thought" https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/pristine-inner-exper... throws off that figure.

It raises a disturbing question: what feelings can/cannot be had if you not the conscientiousness to experience it?
What's intriguing to me is no primary password support on FF Android and yet it allows sync with FF protected with a primary password.

DDG using Webview with built in ad-blocker seems to be the fastest android web browser I've ever used. I wonder whether it uses Chrome's data compression.

But FF Android supports extensions, at least most used ones and I hope with support for more extensions its adoption could grow.
I think this might be common in people who are generally socially anxious. TBH, this helps me in my social conversations too as I think of jokes the day before I have a talk with my friends. But this has increased in the recent weeks and I am concerned whether it is "normal" or not.
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They get the benefit of all the hard work developed countries have done before them. Many countries have skipped right past land lines for instance and gone straight to cellular.

Should they also be forced to go through all the innovations and advances developed countries have in order to utilize them?

It seems to me it's perfectly OK to tell smaller countries times have changed get with the program, but we have to do it in a compassionate and understanding fashion as the OP mentioned.
That's more like giving your car a role playing character in a TTRPG.
I do this since I was a child. Not only do I imagine conversations, but also all kinds of interactions, including giving speeches, playing chess, fighting, etc.

My mouth and hands will move in accordance with those imaginations.
Then apps get kicked out of the App Store for violating App Store Policy and word gets around that it's a shitty ad network.
Badoo?
IMO content is far more important than UX and Netflix has gotten pretty bad. I don't care about all the crappy Netflix originals.
So MDN is now controlled by... Microsoft? And Microsoft's browser is now controlled by... Google?

Maybe this bold new world is better. Maybe I'm just old and brittle. Or maybe we really have lost something that was good.
It's also a lot further away from the Mexico border, where an awful lot of car parts are manufactured. A whole lot of those parts are already flowing through TX as it is, easier to dip into the existing streams than build new supply chains.

Also a lot of bigger, tech friendly cities -- Dallas, Austin, and Houston is poised to overtake Chicago as the 3rd largest city in the US within a decade or two.

Kanasas may be similar in terms of taxes and political climate (unions) but all its really got going for it is empty space. Ditto for much of the rest of the Midwest.
I have DID, and one of the ways I ended up communicating with myself was through imagined friend contact.

This really sounds like you have a dissociative spectrum symptom. Up to 1 in 12 people are at the very least at the OSDD-1b spectrum, down to 1 in 100ish and > with DID, so it's super common.

Most people don't know they're systems, but usually it involves a lot of talking to one's self, having a lot of very distinct "modes", certain kinds of memory issues/weird amnesia/short term stuff, the ability/feeling like you could be really good friends with yourself (alternately, the ability to deeply hate yourself as well), and being able to go from having an amazing day to absolute raw terror, not even recognizing it because of emotional amnesia.

So yes, it is normal, and this sounds very system-ey. If you are a system, don't pass over this! Discovering your dissociative spectrum tendencies, if you have them, is very hard and requires a lot of effort, but it is a transition that is very significantly life-changing, in a very positive direction.

The most important thing is that if your identity is fragmented, most people only focus on meeting the needs/listening to the people near the front of the brain/consciousness, so the younger alters/personality states/people/etc. get ignored and there's always anxiety and never-ending loops of feeling a desperate need for something but not getting it (because communication between people in the brain -- and yes, they are individual people! you can share multiple people in a brain, it's just like your body is more of a mech than anything else -- is usually completely cut off with DID and vastly inhibited with dissociative spectrum disorders, but the emotions eventually build up under pressure and finally leak out there.)
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> People make predictions because they judge that it's better to have bad predictions than none at all.

Some do. (Some make predictions because they mistakenly believe that they can predict accurately.)

But is a bad prediction better than none at all? Depends on how much you rely on it. The more you rely on it, the more it matters that it is accurate.
As we see more and more companies leave the EU under increased regulation I wonder what kind of potential will exist in the void. GDPR for instance caused a lot of smaller players to peace out entirely. The early bird gets the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese comes to mind.
I agree. I've personally noticed time and time again how git-based workflows discourage me personally from making small one-time changes like typo fixes compared to a wiki or similar. It's just so much more overhead to have to start up a CLI, edit the document, push a commit, open a pull request etc…

This is not to say there aren't advantages to the git-based workflow and it might be a valid choice for a technical audience like this, but to claim it as "huge advantage in terms of contribution workflow" seems questionable.
1. You’re allowed to use IDFA. But users will now have to allow access, as a permission dialog will pop up first.

2. The IDFA is just a simple static UUID. It cannot do a very good job at preventing fraud. There is no way to validate anything about it or affirm that it ties to a genuine device.
I experienced this when I lived abroad. I moved to a new country for work and didn't know anyone or speak the language well at that point. This was before the internet enabled instant communication around the world, and my new timezone was on the opposite side of the planet from my home country, so I couldn't make phone calls to family without making a plan.

In any case, for the first month or so before I started my job, I was totally alone in my apartment and didn't have any conversations in my native language (English) the whole time. I began to have imaginary conversations with loved ones, both in dreams and in waking life, very much like the kind you describe.

I am one who has always been introverted and ok being alone, but this was an extremely disorienting experience. I coped by keeping a journal. The upside was that I eventually developed an ability to not feel lonely even while alone for long periods.
Not horrifying, that's pretty cool!

Or we are both the same kind of horrifying :D
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My bone to pick with this is in order to make a real dent in these problems, you have to be able to put down roots and live in a place for many years.

San Francisco and the bay area generally are just too expensive (and frankly, too dangerous) for most people to put down those roots and raise a family and get involved meaningfully in the community.

Doesn't excuse most gold-rush tech people from not being involved in local politics at all, you can get involved trivially, but in order to build real lasting coalitions and build real influence people need to stay here a long time and fight it out.

And it's just easier to throw your hands up and move to a new trendy city that doesn't have these problems.
There's something deeply ironic about a vim cheat sheet having been created in Excel.
As far as I can tell, nothing is said in the article or in the paper about causality.

The researchers suggest that lonely people's thoughts are directed inwards due to a lack of social experiences, and this is what alters the brain. But I wonder how many people just have brains like this, and feel lonely as a consequence?
You're analyzing the effects of Prop 13 at face value, while ignoring its many unintended effects of commercial property undertaxation and rentiering, reduced workforce mobility, concordant increased incentives for NIMBY behavior, effective increase in regressive taxes, etc. Prop 13 (along with California's constitutional amendment referendum system) has a network of pernicuous effects that promote cynical behavior and economic inefficiency on a scale that is unmatched in California politics.
In physics, I believe this is called the observer effect.
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> Something can grab your attention, but you can decide to ignore it anyway.

I disagree. It's been shown[0] that repeatedly exposing people to information makes them more likely to believe it's true. As a further example, try to not think about your breathing after reading this sentence :)

[0] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2958246
It seems to be driven by norepinephrine levels,[1] which seems like it it might have some interesting implications.

>Our analysis showed that norepinephrine also is a key regulator of glymphatic activity and that norepinephrine might be responsible for suppression of glymphatic during wakefulness.
[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4636982/
But even with large corporations, how far would you go and what is considered a bias?I buy Apple laptops for the irrational reason that I find them pretty. I am biased towards spending money on items I find aesthetically pleasing. Should Apple be banned from making pretty laptops? Should they be legally restrained from overpricing their products because it creates a possibly unwarrented impression that they are "premium" to people susceptable to that bias.

Just about everything we do has some component of persuasion or an appeal to biases. It's a huge can of worms.
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curl is a separate program from Firefox. How would a change in Firefox affect how curl works?
> Major browsers can't ditch Flash until Adobe EOLs it.

Adobe announced EOL a long time ago. January 12th is the day it will stop working, regardless of browser support.
Your list not seeing the forest for the trees:

Microsoft
The one question I have is where the data comes from that constructs most of these internal experiences. Is it mainly information in near recent experiences or observations, is it an aggregate that is somewhat in relative isolation to observable 'reality' that develops over time and if so, are there objective types of experiences that promote mutation of the internal experience? Can some of those consist of more internal experiences, and if so, at what threshold does such an internal experience become a self-sustaining feed back loop?
You could. But you see, that's really working as an income tax then, but even less efficiently/equitably because you now need a mechanism and oversight to classify people/households as retired/out of work and that classification may not be taking into account the difference between someone making more money in retirement than others might make while working.

For example, if I'm retired and making 5% annually on $5M dollars, that's more income than many working class people. Why should I get a break on property tax? If it's income tax, then it applies to everyone equally and you don't need special exceptions for people who lost their income since it would automatically remove the need to pay the tax (no income to withhold from).
As someone who values their privacy and anonymity I don't like this. I don't want records or identifiers embedded in my body, full stop.

> the medical record is stored and controlled by the patient within the patient’s skin

Can the patient remove or alter it? If not I don't feel like it's accurate to say they "control" it.

>the patches deliver a pattern in the skin that is invisible to the naked eye but can be scanned with a smartphone that has the infrared filter removed.

So any attacker can pull up your vaccination history (in theory your identity depending on what is imprinted in the dots) with a drive-by attack that requires nothing more sophisticated than a cellphone camera? That is exactly the opposite of how I want my medical records secured.
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> This network is responsible for a wide range of mental processes that take place when the brain is at rest. These processes are often referred to as the “inner voice”, or the “self.”

Now I am wondering if my "aphantasia" also explains why I rarely feel lonely.

Could it be that people who are able to see and hear their friends in their mind are more likely to miss them?
I don't remember the exact project or where I read it but one project added delay (using sleep function) to depreatected methods in order to discourage people using them. After every release, they increased the sleep time so that at one point it became impossible to use it without noticing it. Although I don't know if it is possible to do this for new code trying to use deprecated function and have old code use non-delayed one, I think it was a nice trick.
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Same here. I got "caught" recently. They said "You were just talking to yourself out load". I said: "Yeah, I do that. Nothing wrong about that! It's actually very useful."
That would mean paying millions of "backwards" tribal communities millions and possibly billions of dollars which we can't afford (/s) - Governments everywhere

Unfortunately, unless they're a voting group the government can maintain control over, nothing will be done. On the contrary, we have government ministers and bureaucrats around the world likely engaging and actively playing a role in the deforestation of rainforests.
Sure but it’s likely significantly more work to set up the private connectivity to the VPC. Makes sense to release to some customers IMO.
Given my (21m) loneliness, I find pretty much every young women sexy and desirable.

Not that I have a chance with any!
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I am an introvert too and it seems like having these conversation are common among such people. I don't keep a journal, so I will look into that :)
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This isn't true at all. There are people everywhere willing to work their butts off and people everywhere who are wanting to do 9-5 work/life balance.

Those in Europe who want to work the way startups expect tend to try it in the USA. Not always, but many of them do.
Eventually we're just back to mainframes + dumb terminals, except the dumb terminals are web browsers.
VPN, FPN (https://fpn.firefox.com/) or Pocket Premium. All of those go to the corporation directly, not the foundation.

Out of the three, only Pocket is widely available. FPN is US-only, VPN is only available in like 5-6 countries.
I disagree about the health aspect. It's very unclear at the moment what the right proportion of saturated/unsaturated/polyunsaturated fats is and the nutrition science on this subject is horrible (partly because the palm oil, soy oil, etc. producers are keenly interested in getting their products billed as healthy). In the US most fast food is made with poly-unsaturated oils (e.g. canola/corn/soy oil) and those foods seem quite unhealthy.
I get all my imaginary social contact by listening to podcasts.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction

https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1273792-me-irl
Absolutely me too. Especially the debates and speeches. It's actually very useful. I actually talk out loud. I don't talk out load what my debater/opponent is saying, that happens in my head!
You almost certainly would feel different.
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protip: look into this for pci.
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Not really, unfortunately.

If I knew how to make a Reddit with all the positives but none of the negatives I'd probably do it myself haha.
how would subsidies on solar energy end up raising its price?