skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes it feels like we're in the midst of a loneliness epidemic, created or exacerbated by technology like the internet. But the data doesn't actually line up with that belief: https://ourworldindata.org/loneliness-epidemic

It looks like we are generally as lonely as we were throughout the 20th century. Perhaps that's a sign the internet hasn't yet lived up to its promise as the great unifier. The fact that the greatest and most accessible communication technology in history hasn't put a dent in loneliness shows that we still have a lot of work to do in making it serve that end.
Oh, wow. Had never heard of astro-ph-leaks. That is the best.
Seems like the payment data is just handled by the credit card companies, so it's a matter of targeting random businesses vs Visa....

So, seems like you're ultimately advocating for all data to be handled by credit card companies, or similarly hardened targets. In the end this may not gain much; a company with compromised api access is still a good target. Which helps demonstrate another difference: Companies need ongoing access to their data, where payments are 'fire and forget' and thus are easier to protect.
I'm always surprised that there are people who can't guess.
As someone who worked with Rawtherapee, it’s without exaggeration that I will say that the tool is _nowhere close_ to ready for serious photo editing. Frequent crashes, poor performance and inability to deal with large RAW files is a dealbreaker.
I disagree with this mindset. Humans are a social species and require some sort of interaction to thrive. Perpetuating this idea of going at it alone is a problem in modern society imo. This is coming from a pretty extreme introvert.
Agreed. The EU is where countries go after empire, and is a solution to that problem (along with all of the lost wars and preventing more lost wars). It also deals with the populism problem far better than America, for example.

The UK is going to become a Russian and American playground when Brexit occurs. It will be a paradise for oligarchs to play the populace even more. Oligarchs thrive from the chaos of these sorts of situations and especially financially.

I understand why Americans want to come to the UK. A lot of them come for the sole purpose of having access to better and guaranteed healthcare (you can have good insurance and still owe tens of thousands to millions if you have either cancer or a rare disease and both are statistically common—-also the third leading cause of death is believed to be medical errors according to Johns Hopkins and others—-you can go to the best institutions and still very easily die unnecessarily in the US as that kind of statistic cannot be evaded), but the lifespan of the UK population is going to lag hardcore compared to other countries on the European continent, especially ones in or aligned with the EU.

Getting UK citizenship can be hard too. They are not immigration friendly at all, unless you were an EU citizen (at least in the past). There are some really esoteric rules, and there are people who have been denied citizenship for having a misdemeanor moving traffic violation, with no arrest or criminal record, who paid the fine on time.

If you really want to have access to the UK, become a citizen of the Republic of Ireland, which is part of the EU. By being an EU citizen, you can live/work/retire in over 30 European countries, including all of the EU countries. It is far easier to become an Irish citizen too. They are also very pro-EU. Not only that, citizens of the Republic of Ireland have rights to live/work/retire in the UK due to a common agreement.
Surely asked and answered - BoJo, well-known Brexit guy, led conservative party to decisive victory in 2019 elections and rightfully became PM

How much more are you going to ask?
I thought this for the longest time, and then when I actually went through the kind of thing people offer "thoughts and prayers" for and people offered them to me personally (as opposed to generically on the internet), it actually made a world of difference to know my struggle had even entered the mind of another human being.

So if you can tell someone personally that you're thinking about them, especially in the days/weeks/months/years after the fact, I recommend it.
I was so shocked visiting London this January. It felt like a modern-day dystopia ­— a city with a large immigrant "underclass" with pockets of WASP-ish bankers working in huge, ugly, and soulless concrete and glass buildings decked with CCTV cameras. Very little nature to be found anywhere, no one smiling anywhere on the street, an underground "tube" packed full of unhappy faces herded around like factory-farmed chickens...

I felt like I was on-set for Koyaanisqatsi.
I’ve also found it incredibly difficult to help depressed/lonely people without experiencing some kind of backlash. I have a jobless friend who still lives with his parents, and is always lamenting about how terrible his life is, as if phishing for help. When I offer help, he becomes combative, so I try to just avoid the topic until one day he’s ready for change in his life.
Most times I hear this criticism of Monopoly, they're not playing with the official rules. Here's why you should avoid some of the common "House Rules".

- Going around the board once before purchasing: needlessly prolongs the game and makes it unfair

- Fines collected at Free Parking: stretches the run time out artificially and makes the game far too lucked-based

- Landing on GO receives double salary: see above

- No auctions: takes away a major point of the game! You can't just decline to purchase something, you must surrender the opportunity to your opponents who could snap it up on the cheap OR agree to plot against someone else by driving the price up.

- No requirement to build houses evenly: makes commonly-landed spaces death traps long before they should be, giving an unfair advantage to whomever lands on those properties. It's no coincidence that the most commonly-landed on properties are in districts where buildings cost $150 a piece; nobody should be getting one hotel on the red/yellow properties without first shelling out $1800!

- Unlimited buildings: a major late-game play is to deprive your opponents of the opportunity to purchase buildings, either by putting them on as many properties as you can or concentrating four houses on each of a dominated district.

If you don't play with the official rules then, yeah, it's just mindless dice rolling.
That sounds like something the likes of Jordan Peterson would say.

One of the best things my therapist did to me this year was get me off of Jordan Peterson. I was spiraling down in self-doubt because I listened to him so much.

It’s one hell of a miserable relationship if you can’t rely on your partner to have a receptive ear to listen to the things that bother you or make you sad.
Fun fact, "Don't be evil" is no longer officially part of Google's mission.
I feel compelled to share that after 30 years, my social anxiety only started improving once I stopped seeing stuff like this as "corniness" and "artifice" and instead as mundane BS that is step 1 of 100 towards a meaningful relationship. I was not the one blessed person on earth who was going to have lifelong friends fall into my lap from going to work[1] and the grocery store

[1] _Small_ FAANG team, artifact of a reorg of a reorg
In the late nineties we started a public message board at http://newdream.net/bored/ ... somehow it became the top result for “Aol punterz” AND the boy band Hanson.

Some strange threads ensued.
not op but one issue i have with it is that it ignores the routing table as soon the packet hits the interface. what i mean is if i tell the linux network stack to route packets "via" some address (which normally would involve arp) this configuration is completely ignored and the packet gets routed to whatever endpoint has the destination address as (confusingly named) AllowedIP address set. I expected it to do the lookup based on that via address and was trying to figure out what went wrong way too long. I think it would be kinda trivial to do this as i expected it after some minor research but that also led me to think it is supposed to be this way for some reason or another.
2nd and third viewings for me really sold the plot.
This is a great movie IMHO.
I'm curious if that's the same for other games that do similar "gibberish" sounds like Mario Odyssey and Zelda games - I do think the gibberish "sounds" englishy. I can see them making it sound more like Japanese gibberish in Japan.
After 51 years you can hike this Bay Area park. I did, and it made me furious
Indeed, like every other election the EU has lost. Ignore the result.

Remind me how the Lisbon treaty was passed when it was known as the EI constitution?

Most voters didn’t get a chance to vote on the most fundamental change of their countries’ being.

The voters who did get to vote rejected it. Margins of 10% (France) And 20% (Holland).

So what did the EU do?

Cancel the referendums in Portugal and the UK to avoid further embarrassment.

Then they pretended to have won Brezhnev level margins and passed the constitution anyway.

That is how the Lisbon treaty was passed, right?
Fontile – Tile based font generation tool (2014)
Correct. There is no exception for apples own apps to skip the active VPN connection.

How could there be? Things would break and it would be a privacy nightmare.
I'll bite... your bio says you draw. Do you really think this work took no skill, or is this an attempt at sarcasm?
Just as well nobody's forced to use it, then.
There is very little medical tourism from the US to the UK. In fact patients tend to go the other way. The US has higher 5 year survival rates for most types of cancer.
She is a Physics professor at UCL, and works on solar Physics:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucie_Green

She is also quite nerdy.
Most men I know have experienced what he describes; why not believe it? I agree with the sentiment though that there should be research conducted so that it can be understood and be cited to back up men's experiences. Could also be false, but I'm inclined to believe men's experiences.
Note also that her father is a friend and colleague of the two brothers.
This is why the American system is superior. The representational nature of it allows minority voices. While sweeping changes, e.g., constitutional amendments, require a 3/5s majority of the states. The grid lock is by design.
That might be fine, but that’s not what GoDaddy did.
I was talking about your proposed solution, not the problem itself. Point free code does not inherently solve any problems, and it certainly doesn't solve the entire notion of technical debt.
This is good if you're experienced with this sort of stuff, but I like to save time with the "set it and forget it" approach.

Relatives of mine got setup with a VPN in under 5 minutes just by:

1. download (vpn client)

2. pay (for a month or two)

3. switch it on and forget it.

In terms of on-boarding new users to use secure and recommended tools, I find this a massive achievement.
Because it was six chips not six racks
Why not just use that? Looks like it uses WireGuard under the hood.
What would you call the Apple M1 which has a number of chips in a single package?
Last I checked it's free software. The point of free software is to do what the user wants, because the user is free to fork or patch misfeatures like those.

If it were proprietary, then yeah, it would have no point.
I reason that filling loneliness should not be the primary focus of a relationship. If you’re lonely, you’re making decisions because you’re lonely. However if you’re not lonely - meaning you’ve found happiness in being alone - then you would seem to be more free to choose partners based on other things than filling your loneliness. I guess in short, loneliness seems to be a really shortsighted reason to date someone.
A Surprisingly Simple Biochemistry Rule Drives Evolution of Useless Complexity
^ This exactly.

It's demonstrative of the knee-jerk reactions from people who see the mere mention of the words 'Apple' or "App Store" and immediately come to piss all over everybody's cereal without actually knowing the full story.

All I see are baseless assumptions coupled with a condescending, know-it-all tone from those unwilling to engage with either OP's points, more prone to redefine the discussion to allow their soapboxing. Worse, it's delivered with a tone that screams "oh, the silly thing, why didn't they come to me first? I could have told them better!".

Pardon the rant but it gets tiresome in every damn thread about anything vaguely Apple-related.
Or stuck some spring flowers in it.
It feels like there were a lot of missteps for the embedded market which got crushed beneath the juggernaut of PC-compatible x86 chips.

The big one was the 80186/188-- basically an 8086/8088 with a few onboard timers and serial controllers and a few enhanced instructions, but the new goodies were not in a PC-compatible design. You do see them quite often in embedded devices.

The more interesting one was the 80376-- a 386 which was protected-mode only, but also missed other key features so it wasn't just "take a 386 oS and change the bootloader."
I recently re-read The Fellowship and appreciated how prudent the filmmakers were to remove the Bombadil side plot entirely.
> how exactly does making your users skeptical of email "lose the war"? are they going to type in their passwords out of spite now?

No, they’re going to quit, or put less effort into their job (which is often worse for the employer than quitting), or tell other people not to work there, or—as in this case—tell everyone on the internet what you did and then your company’s reputation takes a well deserved hit.
I think it's pretty simple:

Women look to men for strength, so showing weakness takes a man out of consideration as a partner.
Thanks! So two years after it was filed, and a year after it was closed, another user figures out on a different bug that the Linux psuedo device initializes size to 0, 0? That is super odd.

What is more odd, is that the number of lines and columns are in both the termcap file and the terminfo database for the vt220, and in the bug the user said they had set TERM to be vt220, which if you do an infocmp after setting will show you it is a 24 line x 80 column terminal. And yet the user krader1961 has them going through a stty command to set the values to 24 x 80? That "fix" just raises more questions than it answers. Why doesn't stty respect termcap/terminfo? Why does fish see 0,0, and what is going on with terminal support in general?
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig. The only book I've read twice (at about 18 and again in late twenties.) Deep thoughts on the contrast between "pragmatic" vs "romantic" perspectives on life, and the meaning of "Quality".
> Mozilla just shattered an extension ecosystem and now there's like 10 extensions left

The gutted extensions are exactly the kind that never worked in Chromium or another browser, so I don't see this as a disadvantage.

On the contrary, Firefox still has extensions that don't work in Chrome like Tree Style Tabs (it needs a userChrome.css to work properly but still)
IIRC : Silicon Valley gives generously to homelessness, food banks, and job training for people who can’t afford to live there, eat, and clothe their children. Right?
If the UI is more important to you than the security of your VPN, by all means but I think for most uses this is questionable advice. TunSafe development has been dormant for years, the official WireGuard client fixed one of its bigger Windows UI quirks just recently.
I think there's a setting to turn on flagged messages! But here it is:

> Hi guys--Jonathan here at Bare. I've forced everyone's hand on this because... whelp... we've recently acquired the business and we ended up finding that we can be critical to Stripe Webhooks processing for folks on the older Stripe API. We literally will take down your invoicing on Stripe when a customer cancels. Then we have the unsavory task of working with customers that have canceled, did not complete their deprovisioning and then flame us for causing them outages. I love a lively debate but if you're a customer and love us, reach out to me NOW and I'll hear your feedback. If you're not a customer, then please, please if you never want to talk to your vendor, please go to ProfitWell or ChartMogul. Patrick and Nick are great guys and are crushing it and will gladly take your business. We are getting eaten from the bottom by platforms AHEM Stripe that are inspired by us, folks that clone us and you can see from our revenue transparency that we're the last in line for making money. That is going to change--by helping customers that really want to make more... make more. If you'd like to give me direct feedback, give me a ring at 855 252 6050. (I'm also a CISSP™, CREST CRT™ and Brown Cybersecurity dude--so if you've any legislation that speaks to this, let me know--for you folks quoting CA--we have business customers and they are over 13.)
REvil are a well established hacking firm.

They normally ask in the millions. Generally anyone can pay for it. You could buy it instead if you want. (There is an Auction section, but it's not open for TheHospitalGroup atm)

The amounts they ask from even small websites I find way too high. Perhaps their website asks high so when they go lower they get paid.

If you don't pay and no one else wants to pay, it goes public.

REvil .onion - "At the beginning of next week we will post the first batch of files, namely: Pacient Personal - 20гб TMG OFFICIAL Documents - 50гб"

> why was this even a target?

I assume like almost all hacks, even at the nation level, it's opportunity more than targeted. This website had a sploit, then they found real data behind it.
There actually is research about men and women both turning away from men who are seeking emotional support. College age researchees, so YMMV. Research is referenced in Terrence real’s “I don’t want to talk about it.”

Basically you have to learn to express emotions in the right way, and to the right people, at the right time. I had to train my therapist girlfriend not to freak out when I have strong, negative feelings. She would constantly make it about herself (I’m not doing enough, you’re not acknowledging what good I’m doing). There was very limited space for simply expressing how I was feeling, and having it acknowledged without being punished.

You also just can’t expect most people to be skillful listeners, or give good advice. Even if they want to help, you need some pretty darn well developed theory of mind to conceptualize how the other person is feeling, and what would be useful for them to hear.

I’d also comment that you when men are stressed, it is often incorrectly read as anger, and thus threatening. I was in this terrible situation where I was in a vacation cabin rental with an ex and 20 other people- we’d broken like a week before. I was in anguish, but several people misread stonefaced non-emotion as anger and aggression. The fallout ended up being really immense, and a huge part of it was just a fundamental misread (combined with “all men are abusers and liars!” style distrust. It was real dumb.)
Look at the signal that is the net today. As long as you see something that cannot be adequately explained with simply increasing entropy, there's a chance it's someone just like you speaking. Don't be afraid to speak
up and reach out.

Even those who wish for
censorship to protect their own interests， at the very least their agents， are most likely humanists - for now.

As long as we have reason to hold on to this assumption, know that you are not alone - even though most of those who you would like to speak to may prefer to stay silent over having every Syllable of their public speech recorded for perpetuity and likely analyzed for exploitability， not unlike a software bug allowing privilege escalation.

IMO, it has never been a better time to speak up. We may be the last generation to know the true meaning of free speech, where it is still possible to express or share an opinion before an Al evaluates, scores, judges it.

Even those tasked with watching
us must realize that the short term goal is to
make them redundant, to replace their weary eyes with an automaton that will never question the morality or ethics of their surveillance of us and thereby，their future selves. Trust them not to rat you out simply for extending
the courtesy of assuming good intentions.

Guess why everything is now being recorded unconditionally： The hardest idea to contain is that we're all equal， which is incidentally the singular proof necessary that the 'net community transcends nations. It blows a hole through any|
nationalist or elitist rhetoric, it turns into a leaky sieve any argument justifying war. You will find that those who oppose this view most likely do so because they have come to rely on control through fear. They'll find It hard to keep you afraid if you do not feel alone.

And you are far from alone. you've got a worldwide communications network at your fingertips. Say hi, stranger!

Merry Christmas!
As someone who's worked on consumer electronics (analog + high speed digital PCB design) and software ranging from (research) satellite firmware to an orchestrator for a robotic genetic diagnostics pipeline but now works mostly in frontend/"full stack" roles, I disagree with your characterization of engineering. At it's core, engineering is about wrangling constrained systems to impact the world around you and the people living in it. Corny as that statement is, ounce for ounce, software engineers' sweat go so much further in that regard, for better or worse. The impact is very diffused so its hard to measure and we don't get that new-factory-smell assembled prototype from the fab to hold in our hands, but software has transformed the world around us (in concert with the hardware that runs it, of course) at a staggering pace.

I will say that your description matches what I consider "real" vs "bullshit" engineering - akin to how people refer to "bullshit" jobs. Science is all about discovering the constraints of the physical world and before software, engineering was all about exploiting those constraints to do what we want. Software engineering, however, is unique because its constraints are, more often than not, of our own making. All that time and boilerplate spent managing memory and converting data between all these different formats and representations is our own damn fault, which certainly takes away some of the pride that a mechanical or electrical engineer gets when they trick nature for their own purposes. Software's closest cousin is probably systems engineering and we've massively failed in learning its lessons.
This is how I came to know the term. I was a fan of the PBS weekend lineups during the 90s.
Bose QC-15 headphones. Yeah, I know they're now old and there are newer and better models that are wireless. But I bought mine in 2010 I believe and they have exceeded my expectations by a huge margin. Biggest benefits: (1) ability to concentrate/focus in noisy office environment, (2) heard sounds in music that I had never heard before (for music that I had known for decades), and (3) made flying dramatically more comfortable. Mine are old but they still work great.
Tracking Santa: Despite Coronavirus, NORAD’s 65-Year Tradition Continues
A person certainly shouldn't choose to have an incompatible relationship to assuage their own loneliness, but the argument that I'm making is that people tend to get lonely when alone regardless of their own self contentment. And it's quite fine for a person who's uncomfortable being alone to start a compatible, healthy relationship. Humans should seek human interaction to some degree regardless of their degree of loneliness.