skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This phone was paid for and controlled by the company for whom I worked at the time, so I didn't want to cross the IT overlords and their policies by rooting the phone.

Good to know about deactivating apps on Android, though; thank you! I do not remember if I had that option.
I know you're trolling yet this approach turned off not only me but lots of talented kids from math and technology for years.

We thought we were "bad at math" when in reality our parents couldn't afford to buy teachers' unofficial private time.

Education (or diplomas and connections to be exact) was a huge status symbol in USSR.
Our vacation rental had surveillance cameras. The landlord used them a lot
"The European vision of living in dense, walkable neighborhoods, with easy access to quality amenities without the need to drive makes sense, to me at least, as the answer to this problem."

What vision? People in Europe drive cars. The cars are smaller and things are less sprawled out than in the US, but people still drive. Europe is not just central London or Barcelona.
That fix is great!

I had to merge it with some of my own customizations. So be aware of that if you already use the Profile chrome directory
> I am witnessing public schools take math out of the curriculum at elementary, middle and high schools.

Is that for real? If true, this is ridiculous. Do American authorities want to introduce some kind of education for plebs?

How is such low standard for basic education is even acceptable in the modern world? It’s not only about “beauty of math” but at least basic math is required to help develop some specific cognitive and thinking skills. You can’t leave that part of children’s brain underdeveloped.

And cutting out math from schools you are deleting the future for a huge number of kids. No more future engineers and scientists and programmers etc.

I don’t understand.
Also because environmentalists in CA see any destruction of the environment as a bad thing, even if it is an overall net gain for the system.
Which is why a huge swath of laws need to be thrown out. The majority of our governments are tyrannically inhumane. If a law is not going to be enforced, remove it from the books.
This is wrong. Apple never gets the contents of the file. Read the white paper.
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Google, Microsoft, Apple, Samsung, etc pushing their browsers through their platforms would be the main reason. Most people don't care about the UI changes.

Yes it was a little jarring at first. I've been using the new ui for a while now and likely wouldn't want to go back (I tried the ui hot fix for a bit, but ended up removing it and going with the default).
I'm not sure how you can say if they're broadly unpopular - certainly you mostly hear complaints but that could be because the only people bothered enough to write about it are the ones who don't like it.

I'm personally a happy user and like almost all the changes they've made over the last few years. I like the new UI. I haven't felt the need to post anywhere about being roughly content with it.

The market share stats looked bad long before they started messing with the UI, no?
> spent in the company of bitter old farts who just want to complain about things?

I'm sorry but this entire thread is a collection of various complaints. In fact I would argue that HN is nothing but an endless feed of people complaining about things.
Wait, why I have been hearing non-stop astro-turfing about "CRT in schools" in the last 6 months and I've never heard once about math being taken out? This sounds really serious, is there more I can read about Math being removed from public schools?
HPMOR is my all time favorite book, I've read it multiple times and I am still in awe of it. From the same genre I liked stuff from Alexander Wales, mainly The Metropolitan Man [1], The Dark Wizard of Donkerk [2] and, to a lesser extent, Worth the Candle which was just finished.

While not really intended as rational fiction, Threadbare was a nice read too if you enjoy litRPG.

[1] https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10360716/1/The-Metropolitan-Man
[2] https://alexanderwales.com/the-dark-wizard-of-donkerk-chapte...
This is one of those things where you can align with the intent --child abuse is a horrible thing-- and yet, at the same time, cringe at the prospect of what doors we might open.

I don't use iCloud. I have no need for it. Then again, most people on HN do not fit the profile of the average Apple user. When you are technically capable some of these things don't have the same value they may have for you parent, uncle or grandma. In my case, I had a couple of problems back in the iPhone 3 days and just opted to ignore it completely. Today, my iPhone X isn't using iCloud and all is well.

That said, I have seen people do things like take pictures of tax and other documents and message them to others. I can't possibly imagine what people take pictures of and unwittingly keep in their phones and on iCloud. ID, paychecks, that wart in their crotch, anything. The average user has no clue how any of this works. It's magical. And, yes, it's simple. And, yes, it comes with potential consequences.

And now, all of it is up for evaluation for potentially criminal activity? By an anonymous a team with no legal accountability to anyone? Without and before being accuse of anything?

Wow.

What doors are we opening?
For a while I had a misting setup during the summer, at my deck desk. I didn't have any trouble with electronics. These days I'm in Colorado which tends to be relatively dry.

One solution to sun is to use shade strategically - https://mgsloan.com/posts/tree-based-computing/#handling-the...
The privilege that comes from being as rich as he is overpowers anything else. From his perspective the system is always on his side (the good guy side), so that's his perspective for society in general.
I live in LA and had a similar experience to the original poster. I had an employee who stole $19,000 for me and I called in and made a police report and got no help. Then I went to the precinct and asked for help and got nothing. Finally, I called the mayor and their office put pressure on the police to actually help. Absolutely ridiculous. I am convinced that anyone who puts in a minimum effort to get away with almost any crime in America at this point.
Do you have a bug report open? This isn't true in all cases so it seems likely that there is an issue with some combination of OS version and hardware which is forcing a software fallback.
I just had the same question and looked into it. The answer is no you can't, they removed the ability to disable Proton as of version 91.

I also strongly dislike the new tabs as they're totally disconnected from the actual pages they're a tab for with whitespace, less contrast as you mention as well which an issue if you don't have great eyesight. I guess they're willing to lose even more market share over this, which seems pretty silly considering what their trajectory has been...
I'd bet a lot of money this doesn't apply to executives, however.
> Our main defence against invalid curves is compressed public key points.

This is the point in Slack when I usually reply with a sparkly heart emoji.

I'll get in touch sometime. This is a busy month for me so I won't have a lot of spare cycles, but if I catch a break it might be fun to test. :D
Wait, this is the Slate Star Codex guy?
Hah, yes experimenting in life is good :)

If you want to see more wildness, a couple of my other posts are more unusual:

* https://mgsloan.com/posts/polarizer-glasses/
* https://mgsloan.com/posts/tree-based-computing/
I mean, if it's true of course they wouldn't. No company was saying they were doing things because of prism, either. If there is a forced government cooperation they will be under a gag order.
Ah okay, I was thinking the AGTMs were being launched by US/NATO.
Note for the would-be-users of this approach: Chrome does not save your history infinitely, it only saves the last 90 days. I use an extension called Tabs Outliner to get around this problem.

Firefox, on the other hand, will save history until your storage runs out!
You have to be careful when analyzing GPT-3 and derivatives due to BPE encoding. It's accuracy greatly improves when adding commas to strings of numbers: https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3#fn21
Yes, this is the very tricky aspect of regulating pollution. There’s so much room for dishonesty in reporting due to the complexity of the processes, that without thorough investigation a simple plan may end up causing the opposite effect.
Apple is basically admitting their system is vulnerable to abuse but wishing/praying/hoping that people won't abuse it. Optimism isn't a security measure. This is like leaving your production database with default credentials and saying it's OK because people will do the right thing and follow the rules.

seems like it almost confirms this system was created to make it easy to ruin people's lives, because you know plenty of bad actors will take advantage of this
But the point is, once you accept something noble and difficult like "preventing CSAM" as your primary overriding goal, then there's nothing that's too far or too extreme if it will help you with your noble goal.

Five years ago, the idea of Apple scanning photos on your phone would have been absurd.

Five years from now, what will people think about hotels installing AI-powered cameras in every room? The vendor swears they only start recording when they detect an act of abuse. It sounds absurd now, but where do you draw the line?
I just think of my mechanical watches as an intricate form of jewelry rather than as something purely functional.
100% agree. Bookmarks are cumbersome to make, hard to search, and just generally kind of annoying to work with. They kind of integrate into searching on the URL bar, but not very well. Many of them have tagging support, but the system feels like an afterthought.

And I'll add onto that, the way browser history works is also kind of annoying. I don't really trust that I'll be able to re-find a page I visited at a particular point in time. Visiting the same page twice doesn't create multiple history entries, it's hard to search by date. It feels really unreliable to use as a log.

There's a lot of room for innovation here, we're only just now starting to see browsers merge in tab grouping and containers, which I could have sworn Opera already supported ~10-15 years ago. I don't feel like we've spent enough time actually thinking about what different types of workflows people have for browsing the web and about how bookmarks/history/tabs could be adjusted to make those workflows easier.

It would take too long to list out all of the experiments that would be worth running (bookmarking screenshots or assets on a page, having bookmark "containers" for search, automatically categorizing bookmarks based on the domain or keywords inside the page, offline bookmarks that store the current state/DOM of the page, not just the URL, etc, etc). I think Edge was playing around with marking up pages using a stylus, but I don't know if that's still a thing now that they're based off of Chrome. And web annotations have been standardized for ages now. Still not integrated into any browser UIs that I'm aware of.

In my opinion bookmarks are one of the most underdeveloped parts of the modern browser, closely followed by history, and then by tabs themselves.
Which online services were you able to find that allows changing class type?
You gotta be a special kind of idiot to choose a 2hr commute over a 10% pay cut
A slightly more verbose (less abstract) version of k would be q. Kx (proprietary owners of k/q) have a nice reference page if you're interested in learning more about the language, e.g., where it's used and how it's used... https://code.kx.com/q/ref/
While in general I think work from home, or hybrid is a good thing, it is different with Google. I was invited to work there as a contractor on one specific project, and being on campus was so much fun (food, invited lecturers, walking around during breaks). Working remotely wouldn't have been nearly as enjoyable.
Any discussion that starts with "Here's a graphic account of sexual abuse" is not a real discussion.

It's just like trying to start discussing the Patriot act by starting with a recording from a plane on 9/11 (an irrelevant appeal to emotion that is so outsized it interferes with the dispassionate ability to weigh alternatives).

For all we know taking away cp from pedophiles makes them more likely to try it in person. Go after the creators.
The new "chunky" layout and UI elements are not really an improvement, and a lot of users have been unhappy with this. Despite plentiful feedback about this during beta testing Mozilla have basically opted to force it through anyway.

UI changes in general are something to expect, but if you're just going to disregard user feedback then you can't claim to respect users.
Sounds to me like you just wanted to buy a lot of new stuff.
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Cryptography patents are, on some level, stupid. It's all math.
Banking apps don't like rooted phones either, even if they do have GApps. My bank's app, though, isn't much different from their mobile web experience, so I just use that.
Lots of social media isn't necessarily bad either. HN, a carefully-curated Twitter feed, or the right subreddit or web forum can be wonderfully mind-expanding. Without regrets, I have spent many hours reading and discussing things in these digital spaces.

My intuition is that the connection between digital environment and mental health will prove similar to the connection between family environment or school environment and mental health: the quality of the environment is overwhelmingly what matters, not how much time is spent in different environments.
"Basically every service that refuses to send to GV also refuse to send to Twilio numbers."

Most likely they are sending SMS from a short-code - and a short-code cannot send SMS to a non mobile number.

Twilio numbers look and feel like "mobile" numbers (you can send SMS to/from them, for instance) but they are not.

So it's not so much a refusal on the part of your vendors (Apple, for instance) but something they simply cannot do.

Ironically, twilio themselves requires a 2FA process that cannot be satisfied with their own product.
I think the most important mistake is writing needlessly complicated algorithms. I.e., creating more auxiliary variables than needed. Also 'if (condition == true)' tends to happen quite a lot.
Since you asked:

https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/google-exec-remote-work-wfh...
I am not sure how to define the point, but my way of thinking is that its not the same point. The point never moves, instead it continuously vanishes and a new point is being continuously made next to it.

That way, there really isnt a point that is traveling or moving, its just our perception mistaking it for a point because it looks and move like one.
Should companies provide salary adjustments for each child an employee has so they can maintain a certain quality of life? Should the company reduce the salary of employees that have lots of investments so that they don't have a higher quality of life than someone with fewer assets? Should companies pay people with chronic health conditions more than healthy people so they can live a more equal life?
When I started programming, the first mistake that I have encountered is that I did ignore the spacing rules in Python, thus creating errors even though the code was correct.
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I'm very interested in moving from IC to management, is this transition easier within the same company, or switching company. How did you make it?
I am not a Buddhist, but I would highly encourage you to look into the basics of mindfulness and the core concepts of that faith's views on happiness and suffering. In essence, it really doesn't matter how intelligent or unintelligent you are, as the nature of suffering/misery is endemic to life. There's way more to it than this, but I think you will enjoy reading more about it and you may even find acceptance and peace with the way the world is.
True, but if you're running a beta test and the feedback is negative, you can't be surprised that people don't feel "respected" when you decide to push the change anyway.
FTA: " A peace agreement in Afghanistan would allow the government to redirect its scarce resources. The government might also see substantial new revenue flow in from legal sectors now dominated by the Taliban, such as mining."

This assumes facts not in evidence, namely: (i) that there will be a peace agreement, and (ii) that the Taliban would honor a peace agreement.

The brute reality seems to be that very shortly, essentially all of the members of the current government will be in exile; hanging from lampposts; or minus their heads.
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My interest in this story stems from the rumors and allegations that I've read on this site about this particular Chinese company being tied to Tether, and the repercussions of this crisis on the crypto market.
Just give me a deeply customizable Firefox fork.

Lots of people complaining about superficial issues that would be easily solvable if only Firefox offered power users what they want (preferably with a better design than XUL). "Normal" people don't give a crap what browser they're using, most don't even know what a browser is. Mozilla is killing Firefox by neglecting the few who care about it. It's these dozens of small things that add up and make Firefox not stand out.

I keep hearing the Firefox codebase (or Gecko, or Servo) isn't very modular and makes it hard to pursue such a project, and I don't doubt it. But aren't there enough of "us" out there to make a concerted effort? Could anyone with enough knowledge of the codebase say more than just "it's hard", maybe offer an outline of what would need to be done?
FWIW in addition to this they also added an (off-by-default) "HTTPS Only Mode"[0] to Firefox settings recently, which I've been using instead of HTTPS Everywhere.

It's not as powerful/flexible/configurable, but certainly ticks some of the boxes.

[0] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/https-only-prefs
Some have swappable cables! Ergodoxes typically use TRRS audio cables. Keyboardio uses ethernet between the two halves.

There are also some fully wireless split keyboards like the southpaw centromere. I found the thumb keys to be too inward / too few for my taste.
I presume they'd be injected by the browser, but it also seems trivial for Google to display your bookmarks in search results if you sync them with your Google account.
> it creates a huge incentive problem as it slowly turns into the "dictatorship of the worst off."

Where is the dictatorship, precisely? The veil of ignorance challenges us to select those principles that we'd find agreeable to us given the kind of lives we wish for and no other prior information about ourselves. Commonly observed consequences of this are the elimination of homelessness and basic privation, both of which are achievable today in every developed nation. But there's no dictatorship involved in that -- it's just boring domestic policy.
I quit my tech job in 2020 to learn new technologies and build my own startup - I made a HUGE bet on Vue and kinda regret it.

In the first half of 2021, I dove deep into Vue, Vuex, Nuxt.js (basically Next.js), Gridsome (basically Gatsby.js), and even coded a startup idea using Vue + Electron + FFmpeg[0] before moving to React. Three main reasons for this switch:

- Community Support: React has better support for lots of JS libraries. For example, I made a markdown editor which required the use of CodeMirror and the React NPM library for that was updated 1 year ago while the Vue library was updated 3 years ago. There's a lot of international support for Vue and some of the NPM libraries (like the CodeMirror one) are partially (or fully) documented in Chinese so this is a drawback as well.

- Typescript: Vue 3 is built from the bottom up with TypeScript but it was only released in September 2020. Most of the community thinks Vue 3 is better than Vue 2 in TS support, but still not as good as React. Additionally, since TS support has only recently been offered, libraries (like Nuxt.js) have not been updated with TS support.

- Job Market: React is the clear winner whether you are building a startup (and looking to hire developers), or want to join a company (at least in the US).

I think Vue has lots of potential to improve in all three areas but it's just not there right now. You can see my full thoughts on YouTube[1].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/ohbl6i/i_made_a_des...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=009-6j5ewDM
This is still relativity, not quantum mechanics.

Point is, illustrative models and analogies are limited. Ideas like 'space itself expanding' or 'space flowing like a river and falling into a black hole like a waterfall' might help visualize some things, but can also lead to wrong ideas if taken too seriously.
My fav feature is the Temporary Containers extension. Using that, I never run out of my quota of "free" articles on news sites that keep count.
My only real gripe with FF nowadays is that the addressbar/search UI really really just needs to bite the bullet and mimic Chrome here where I can type a partial host name, <Tab>, and enter my query for that site's internal search.

Right now you have to type '@', then the partial host match, then the query. Minor, I know, but <Shift>+2 (two fingers going in different directions) is less ergonomic to reach for than <Tab> (pinky can reach for that alone while all other fingers remain on home row).
Yes but the point is the government has the ability to do that. Exactly my question
That is true, this is my parent's hammock. I own a dutchware chameleon hammock - see this post about using it for computing https://mgsloan.com/posts/ergo-update-hammock-under-deck/