skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Starting with an ad hominem, are we, now? Most people can't program and are comfortable with Mac/Windows.

> Don't let your lack of imagination become everyone else's weight to carry.

No one here is shackling you to Signal. You're free to use and customize Matrix, but your argument that people using Signal is no progress at all based solely on being a centralized service is zealotry that is blinding you to the experiences of laypeople.

Starting with your root comment - most people use centralized services that have gone down at some point. In many cases they are still using those services, not because they're foolish muggles who can't program, but because it's worth more to use than it is to switch to something else. Centralized or not, people don't really care. This entire thread has been an effort to convince you that most people don't have the same values you do, hence the argumentum ad populum that you so despise being actually a valid metric of success for a project. Popularity is a flawed argument if you're in a formal debate, but it is useful to nearly every other venture.

So is Signal the best possible messenger it could be? No, probably not. I, too, would like to see a decentralized, federated protocol take off. But is it measurably better than plaintext SMS or Facebook Messenger? Yes, probably.
"Ombudsmand" is a Danish word that certain other countries have adopted. Basically it's an independent office that has the power to investigate certain kinds of issues within their remit. For instance, there's a consumer ombudsman who can look at shady practices like signing up people for subscriptions they didn't think were going to happen. There's also "THE Ombudsman" which was the original independent watchdog over government affairs, who will comment that some legal manuever was possibly wrong.

Of course one might add that there is very little questioning of the ombudsman himself, historically. If you get dragged into a case and he says your website is scammy, he's right and you're wrong. The office hasn't been drawn into politics, something that you might imagine would destroy trust in the institution. The Danish government fell on a case brought by the big Ombudsmanden once, but nobody was bringing into question the legitimacy of the office.

The question is then whether such an office would be transplantable to other countries, where things are more polarized. Perhaps one of the biggest things comparing Denmark and eg the US is that there are institutions in Denmark that people trust, whereas in the US everyone is put in a red or blue box.
just had a conversation with a mate since he was convinced teams is tracking him though since he is non-technical I had to probe a little to get what he means.

turns out if you have had a conversation with anyone on teams they will see your status (online/offline/ etc) even after you've left the chat. That works across domains too. Worse the status (online|busy|don't disturb) is visible even in Outlook.
Honestly, you kind of already made my day with your quip. Sorry it disappointed you. Would love to hear what you thought about, though.
>Can you point me out to left leaning content that gets demonetized

This is a false equivalence. For all the flaws of Antifa and woke culture, they aren't the ones advocating violent insurrection against democratic government in the United States and the murder of Republican law makers for being traitors to the cause. Not as satire or comment, but literally.

I would contend that it is not surprising that one of these sides is encountering more problems with posting guidelines than the other.
Exactly this, as well as anyone pushing revenue sharing or some other nonsense is trying to have your cake and eat it too.

Everything in human reality is about boundaries and responsibilities within those boundaries. As manipulators successfully fool the public into thinking otherwise, we get a completely insane information attack, filling 360 degrees of our environment. It is going to require generations to undo the damage the last 4 years have done to the United States both domestically and internationally.
Cultures have different professional cultures.

* Executive ethics focus on maximizing shareholder value, while individual incentives, on personal returns. If I can pollute a lake for an extra buck to my stock price, I'm expected to do this.

* HR ethics focus on protecting the company. If they can lie to you as an employee to minimize legal risk, that's what's gonna happen.

* Legal ethics focusing on protecting your client (no matter how evil), while practice focuses on maximizing billable hours.

... and so on. It's not good or bad. It just is. As a programmer, you'll be off-putting to people from those groups for reasons just as valid or invalid.

And generalizations are often accurate. If you don't show a certain modesty and humility in gift-receiving in China, you'll be an outcast. If you don't show a certain opulence and over-the-top gratitude in some parts of the Middle East and show the same, you'll be an outcast just as much.

Guess what happens when the two cultures come together?

People are viewed as jerks.

A little cross-cultural training goes a long ways to avoid that. I'm sorry you don't like the tone, but I viewed this as a fair guide for programmers managing corporate settings running into those barriers. This article appears to do a fine job explaining HR's role to people coming from e.g. CS undergrad degrees which will prevent them from getting hurt. It's no better or worse than a guide for e.g. American women as to what to expect if they marry someone from Saudi culture.

As a footnote, quotation marks suggest you're quoting someone. Your claimed quote doesn't exist in the source article. Your point would be stronger if you commented on what the author wrote than your (somewhat inaccurate) read-between-the-lines. That's another place cultures differ a lot: how things are implied and subtexts. People misread subtexts, which I think you did here.
I imagine if the work laptop is 24/7 connected to a VPN, then this tool doesn't work.
>I don't want to engage in any political discussions, but the main flaw with this is the violation of freedom of speech.

Someone needs to get educated on "free speech".
Good to know people are spending their time working on such important issues.
This is a pretty one-sided view of nationalism. You make it sound like a unifying thing when a key point is usually creating a cohesive identity which excludes certain groups. Though it is true that much nationalism in America has been civic nationalism, which is mostly formed around citizenship and shared values (but note also the southern nationalism formed around different shared values, and the nativism starting in the middle of the 19th century). Here is a study of contemporary American nationalism: https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/bonikowski/files/bonikowsk...

The nationalists being talked about in the article are Hindu nationalists. They explicitly want to create a shared identity that excludes Muslims.
Keka: 11 years old! https://changelog.keka.io/

Bear:
1) Bear is not Mac-only: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bear/id1016366447
2) Bear is more than 4 years old
3) Shiny Frog, the maker is Bear, is even older than that

Wipr:
1) Again, not Mac-only. In fact, Wipr started as iOS-only. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wipr/id1030595027
2) Wipr is more than 5 years old

Darkroom:
1) Not Mac-only https://apps.apple.com/us/app/darkroom-photo-video-editor/id...
2) Darkroom is 6 years old

Amadine: 1) Not Mac-only https://apps.apple.com/us/app/amadine-vector-drawing/id13391...
Patient Regains Sight Following Artificial Cornea Implantation
Serious question: is there a warez scene for trained models yet?

(I don't know how the model is accessed - are users of mainline GPT-3 given a .pb and a stack of NDAs, or do they have to access it through access-controlled API?)

Wherever data is desired by many but held by a few, a pirate crew inevitably emerges.
But Western European diet "americanized" itself a lot recently. For example in France, some of the staple meals are burgers, tacos[0] and kebab.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_tacos
“America” is often shorthand for “USA”, and @Daho0n said “US state”
So... is it good to break down old immune cells?
A Chrome/Firefox user expending some effort to make their existing extension available to Safari users is doing those users a favour. Generally one doesn't have to additionally start donating money to someone's preferred charity when already doing them a favour.

You're going to have plenty time to Wrap Your Head Around this dynamic by simply observing how the Safari WebExtension ecosystem plays out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_incandescent_ligh...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel
A personal story about fasting:

About 8 years ago, I had a particularly stubborn stomach bug, that just would not go away. After a week I went back to the doctor, and he was reluctant to put me on anti-biotics incase it was viral, and also he was generally anti-anti-biotics if your immune system could do it on its own. So he had me do a 3 day fast. Only water, and once a day a small bottle of Gatorade. Day 1 was easy, day 2 was hard, day 3 was actually easy again. On day 4, I was told to reintroduce food slowly and to eat as close to unprocessed foods as possible, so I had a bowl of watermelon for breakfast, a cup of oatmeal for lunch, then for dinner... McDonalds.

The outcome was the bug did die, but I no idea if it was from the fasting or just that it had been 10 days. But the fasting wasn't that hard, and I felt better afterward.
Faster orbits are lower, not higher.
I used to open GitHub issues to Gatsby to report bugs. Almost nothing was ever fixed and every few weeks I had to manually clickety-click to keep the issues alive because of the stale bot. Guess what I do now? I don't report bugs to Gatsby, and I recommend against using Gatsby in newer projects.
Well, he apparently still does.. the Bellingcat report is now Navalny's insurance policy, Putin is now thinking twice before doing anything really bad to Navalny, because it could cause mass protests...

Strangely enough the Russian government still want to appear to have a legitimate democracy, probably caring more about the appearance to the governed rather than to outsiders.
That's great but I actually want the keyboard to be an integral part of the chassis rather than a separate thing to carry with me and put on a table. Like in classic laptops or like in Lenovo Yoga. This way I would also be able to type the classic laptop way - putting it on my laps when in public transport.
Indeed, I've never seen auto-lock bots on bug trackers before: this is terrible.

I am fine with auto-close because they can indicate reality if they are closed with a WONTFIX status: nobody will work on fixing this. As opposed to eg OBSOLETE status which is not necessarily reality.

If there is no explicit comment indicating how the project doesn't even want this, it is still an invitation for someone else to solve it themselves (for a free software project).
Contracts by definition cannot bind people into illegal conditions, and there's degrees of neglect that can be considered illegal. The entire point of an ombudsman is to keep actors within "this is not illegal" lines; I'm guessing you could do this on small claims court too, but with the plague and everything it can take a lot longer
> Yet, as far as I could tell, employees don't have too much say in all this. They're forced onto a particular platform without much control over what that platform may record about them personally, with their employer being the potential beneficiary.

Sorry but why is the author surprised by this? I work in corporate IT. We issue company-owned laptops / desktops / devices to employees, most of which come with Teams. Anything they do on these devices is subject to company monitoring. There is no privacy when using a company asset.

All employees signed an agreement (Technology Use Policy) about this during their onboarding.

Are companies asking employees to install Teams / other chat apps on their personal devices? Or is the author suggesting companies should not be able to view their employees conversations on an employee operated platform?
I was talking specifically about the ARM ISA extensions. The accelerators are a different question of course. I understand the folks working on the Linux port are trying to reverse the GPU ISA. Apple could of course also just publish that, but I'd put the odds on that lower than the ISA extensions. That said, Apple has sometimes surprised me on these kinds of things.
Founder of tulpa.info here. Perhaps I could weigh in.

The most recent wave of tulpamancy, which I would say started late 2011-early 2012 arose from a metaphysical imageboard of all places, until people started trying to understand the psychological rationale for the creation process. I started ".info" more or less as a blog to figure out if any of this was real and as a central location to host guides and community discussion.

Over the years, I've seen a multitude of different kinds of people create tulpas, many of these are lonely, others are bored, and some (like myself) were just trying to see if it was possible. I know one military veteran who created a tulpa due to having PTSD and his tulpa was able to help stop his nightmares.

One thing that I've found is that much of the time if the creator is very introverted, the tulpa tends to be more extroverted. They often encourage the creator to get out more, talk to more people, kind of like a life coach. Being an introvert myself, I know that I've taken social steps that I wouldn't have otherwise had Chess not encouraged me to try. More often than not, I'm seeing tulpamancy resulting in the opposite of isolation. For those suffering from lonileness, having a single friend (especially one who's encouraging) does wonders for self esteem, and means you're more likely to become more social in the long run.

I would love to do a study to find out how the brain responds to hanging out with your tulpa compared to hanging out with a real-life friend, but from what I've seen, I have a feeling that it reacts very similarly. And then there's the growing tulpamancy community.

There's a lot of message boards, a subreddit, and several discord chats for tulpamancy, and even a discord bot that can help the creator "proxy" the tulpa[1]. This means that not only are the creators talking amongst themselves, but tulpas are talking with creators and even talking with each other. Offline, a few of my friends know about my tulpa, but they I rarely proxy her, it would just be similar to telling a friend about a text you just got, "Hey, Chess says XYZ." I know people who hang out with other tulpamancers "in real life" though, and for them it's just normal conversations.

As for carrying on conversations with my tulpa in public, I often just talk with her using my "mental voice" -- that little voice inside of your head, think internal monologue. I've also had a Bluetooth adapter in my ear before so I can just talk out loud in public without looking weird, but even then I would just chat with her under my breath. When I'm home or out hiking, it's just more natural to talk out loud, and so I do.

I'll be happy to try to answer any other questions or weigh in.

[1] https://top.gg/bot/431544605209788416
Note that even you are not auto-locking, but only auto-closing tickets.
Twitter Won’t Let Biden Inherit Trump’s POTUS Followers, Angering His Team
> deal with the case of an offline client and still offer forward secrecy.

Wasn't that addressed by OMEMO, the OTR "replacement" protocol?
I didn’t see a text from my kid last night. She was sad and I could have comforted her. I thought about that being our last interaction, a missed connection. Things are challenging enough right now, I didn’t need a bummer feedback loop.

Are you a vampire, sucking the joy from souls?

Here, I got you something - http://archive.azcentral.com/news/articles/arizona-execution...
I am sure he stole the badge because he just enjoys collecting quirky things.
https://www.state.gov/outer-space-treaty
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>>who presumably seemed quite real to them during their escape from peril

There is also the possibility that they in fact never perceived this person during the events, that their brain created the narrative after as a coping mechanism for the trauma. Unless we had footage of them at the time, the two scenarios are very difficult to distinguish.

Some war stories have paralleled this. Troops cut off from chain of command have talked spoken of non-existent leaders (officers, sergeants etc) giving them instructions. After the fact this can look like lies, made up stories to excuse some behavior. They may have actually perceived the individual, or they may only later remember that they perceived the individual. They did not consciously create the person, but nevertheless the person only appears in their minds after the events. Some 9/11 survivors spoke of being rescued by people who we now know did not actually exist. That doesn't mean the survivors don't truly remember them.
If 'danger to the community' is a term of art that sets a standard for imprisonment/bail, then it's not so cut and dried as to say that the guy seems harmless so the judge is lying.

Clearly this guy exploited a security problem that endangers the community, and clearly he didn't physically harm anyone during his time in the airport.
Thanks for your thoughts, Irongirl1, I am actually based in Europe, so I hope there is some hope left. But I also get your point. I have gotten some nice feedback on my advert at least, so this feels good. I also got some "applicants", however only one followed my instructions. :) Also got bunch of people offering me their service...

I will check your suggestion! Thanks for taking your time.
Also, please keep in mind that bail is not punishment, it's just means of ensuring that the defendant will attend their trial. That's why it's refundable at the trial's end. Good bail should be low enough that defendant can afford to pay it, but not afford to lose it.
But what's the risk to having someone live for three months in an airport? He's gone through the same TSA security as everybody else.
Nim? I know it has Python-like syntax and aims to be performant, but don’t know much beyond that.
As sibling commenter said, bravery, but also to force Putin's hand. If he can show the voting public that this government is really a total farce, pretending to follow laws but actually just a kleptocracy, it would make kicking them out easier..
> is there any evidence to this

Well yes. The pattern holds true pretty much 100% of the time for most media platforms. Newspapers, reddit, etc.

The second question I think was already addressed.
Thanks, I like how it purposely looks like sketches to help guide people to the meaning behind the mock-up and not the specific hue used for the buttons.
Oh. Ok. You are right. I guess with impartial I wanted to mean "someone not siding with the company". I expressed it badly.
The most likely explanation for stealing the badge is that it provides cover for hanging out in the arrivals area 24/7. The article claims that the man stayed in an "area" (as in, a single area, rather than multiple areas). Have you ever been to an airport? They typically have security cameras everywhere. You don't think the investigation would have caught him walking into the flight control HQ to perform evil maid attack on flight control computers or whatnot?
We choose wiring gauge mostly by the "how large can it be while still moving well inside a wall?" factor. So, it's not surprising different places use the same one.
That seems like a fine solution for a relatively small and unified country of ~6 million, but I don't necessarily think it scales to a country the size of the US, let alone the global news economy. Ideologies are so fragmented these days that I could imagine many different regulatory guilds pushing their own agenda. There is no longer a monopoly on "truth", if there ever was one.
They should open up the front-end for competition - UI, ads, filtering and ranking. We should have many approaches to search and social networks that actually compete on a even field.

As for the backend - I like the idea of pods - self hosted or cloud hosted personal information stores that would be under the control of the user instead of the social network (and portable between networks).
Bitcoin apparently produces about 22,000,000 tons a year so rather more. Plus rockets are cool.
Is it, in the long run? Induction is much more efficient than gas.
I certainly think there is something to be said about that. Ad revenue tends to follow people though, and people flocked to the the open platforms, in part because Google, Facebook and so on, build algorithms to game the psychology of us as consumers, in ways that are illegal for traditional news papers to do.

I'm not sure how we're still allowing these giant tech-companies to more or less regulate themselves in the EU. I mean, which public mandate do they have, to remove the elected president of one of the most powerful nations on earth?

I'm not trying to turn this political or pro or anti Trump or even pro or anti ban, by the way. But these companies removed one of the most powerful political figures in the world from the reach of millions provided by their platforms, without asking any form of democratic institution for permission to do so. That just screams for regulation in my eyes.
Only 2,450M? Not a big deal!
I don't think it's a competition mentality as much as a need to be able to plan the time it takes to prep and cook so that the food is ready when the family is hungry.

I like to cook, but I don't have tons of time to cook as a hobby. New recipes are worked into our regular meal times. If it takes me an hour longer than the estimated time to prep and cook, I've made everyone wait an extra hour, throwing off any other plans for the evening. That can be discouraging and lead to wondering "why did they say it only takes 20 minutes? Are they just guessing, or am I just a slow cook?" Hence this thread. :)
But why on this thread then, about GPT-3? It's not even their own company, IP or source to give away.

But even when Microsoft can't open source it because it's not theirs, we still have people posting in this thread that this is further evidence that Microsoft is hypocritical. It sounds a lot like a form of Confirmation Bias to me where any evidence is used as proof that Microsoft is 'anti-open-source'.
"-I like to think of HR as an abstraction layer between management and employees, whose basic function is to shield management from having to interact with the employees."

This sounds cynical, but it's not nefarious at all:

1) As a manager (at various points in my career), I have better things to focus my time on than sick policies, vacations, sick leave, or similar. I'd rather focus on mentorship, growth, strategy, and technology. Outsourcing the menial stuff to someone else means I can manage people better. Plus, they're more likely to do it right. If I have a 16 year old intern who is a resident of Ohio working remotely whose parents are on an H1B visa who wants to do an unpaid work-sponsored training program beyond their 40 hour work week...

2) As a manager, I have no background in how to resolve legal issues. If an employee engaged in improper behavior (harassment, theft, etc.), the last thing you want are amateurs handling this. It's a relief to offload that onto professionals, both for the manager (who doesn't want the stress or liability) and the company (who doesn't want the liability).

... and so on.

HR is the company's agent. It's not your friend. It's job isn't fairness, anonymity, or justice, but to protect the company. It's still a necessary function and having it there is not evil, so long as employees don't go in with the expectation HR is some impartial judge. It's not. A lot of kids come in and treat it that way, and get into a lot of trouble.