skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Me:
New movie is coming out.
I’m excited for new movie.
I’m so excited about new movie that I buy tickets and choose seats.
I tell my (whatever) how excited I am about new movie and that we have tickets.
New movie is coming out.
It’s the day of the movie — I start to feel lethargic.
I don’t want to go see movie (different than “I don’t want to see movie”).
I’m grumpy all day that I have somewhere to be at a time and place.
I’ll hit a bottom.
I go see movie.
It’s great.
After movie I’m spent.

Reason for sharing this: I like being alone. But if I have a life configuration that leaves me alone when others aren’t..: I might go through the inverse of this

Recently broke up. Ex- is being very social. I’m annoyed ex is being very social, I think I can’t be social, even when I confirm with myself that I don’t want to be social I’m still conflicted about it. When I went with ex- while being social, I flirted on edge and wasn’t social. I didn’t want to be there either.

I feel like this every time I read an article that says we have to have connections or we will rot in our old age

Or my employer tells me we have to come back to the office because “community”

I really actually do want to be alone 90% of the time. But not every part of my brain let’s me fully have that thought uncontested.
You assume people need external incentives to commit crime, which is completely wrong. People need external incentives to NOT commit crime, because most crimes already include inherent incentives. For example, stealing comes with the inherent reward of gaining whatever it is you stole. You don't need to be homeless and starving to want more money or physical goods.

I am living a comfortable life, all of my basic needs are satisfied, and I have never stolen anything. But if I could just walk into a store, grab things and walk out with the knowledge that I was not going to be punished for it in any way, I absolutely would. Why wouldn't I? Because it's "wrong"? I'm sorry but the world doesn't work that way. If I didn't, someone else would.
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And so they paint the ground on the bike lane... rain + paint might as well be wet leaves or black ice.
The friends are consensual, and they are simply inviting people to watch. It all sounds so welcoming, natural, wholesome, harmless.

Of course it seems that way. Any person worth their salt in the industry would be ashamed to admit it depended solely on being addictive, and missed out on the opportunities created by also saying it's basically harmless. A really good spin would be to say instead of being harmless, why, it's actually good for you!

The harm of inviting the (paying) world to watch as two people have consensual sex? Four, off top of my head:

1. The special bond from such intimacy is cheapened. Sex is wonderful - it doesn't just feel good, it involves another person that you have an opportunity to relate to in a unique way, and they to you. Properly used it involves dignity, selflessness, and deep relationship. I've heard others say similar things that cheapen it, like "it's just body parts touching each other." What a shame it's reduced to that.

2. The children that naturally come from this are treated as a negative aspect, instead of a blessing. What if a kid accidentally came from one of these videos, would you be able to tell him some day that your friends wanted to have him and it was totally worth it to stop the gravy train to do so once they found out? You, your friends, and I will not be around forever, but hopefully another generation will come after us - don't harm that generation by depriving them the foundation of knowing it is good that they are alive and the previous generation welcomed them.

3. What happens in the bedroom affects what happens in the house, and what happens in the house affects the culture. Stuff is connected - give me a culture that has honor in the bedrooms, because I know how well things will be going in the public sphere.

4. Lastly, there is a point that is crucial for Christians, but I think even non-Christians should be aware of it - it is harmful because instead of furthering the worship of God, it furthers a falsehood where the individual is worshiped instead. Let me speak of myself: just imagine what I would do if there were no God, and I were God for a day. It would not be a fun world for long, even for me. Can we really treat such thoughts as harmless, just inside our hearts and heads, having no bearing on each other and the world?
It sounds innocuous enough, but could the real motivation be to make open source software so expensive to use that all government agencies "choose" to use closed source software?

(This is a genuine question, I'm honestly not sure what the consequences, intended or otherwise, could be?)
Why do you think software engineers hate technology?
I think that's likely, yes.

It's easy to distance yourself from the cost of tuition when it's paid for through a loan (with predatory interest rates, and no escape through bankruptcy).

Meanwhile, the swag is bought with 'your' money, to support the artist (and good teachers are artists, in the most positive sense of the word).
Yeah I’m from the UK, but I still like Japanese food from the other side of the world. A different type of bread made in the same country seems a bit extreme.
> How do you deal with it?

I got married.

Well, I didn't get married to deal with it, but I no longer have any time for my brain to reach melancholy.

My sole alone times exist when I'm going on a run or commuting to/from work. When I'm running, my blood is flowing and I'm generally energetic and calm. During commutes, I'm also generally calm and previewing/reviewing the work day.

Aside from that, I've always gotten a lot of use out of a good therapist.
“Lots of innocent people don’t get beat up by police” is true, but not actually a rebuttal of “police beat up innocent people”.
I've updated that sentence to read, "A persons position on crime really depends on how they interpret the data on this dashboard."

Thanks for pointing out the poor phrasing.
Every time I click a link in email, IRC, Slack, Discord... At least 100+ times a day, easily.
On desktop there's emails, chat apps, etc. On mobile the default browser is often used for the webview within apps, e.g. on Android I have Firefox doing the rendering for webpages inside other apps' UI, which means I can block ads thanks the uBlock Origin.

It happens all the time, for lots of people.
I'm really not sure that is worth looking at positively.
Well, if you check out what’s going on in many Red states where the officials are trying to pass laws that give the government the power to overturn elections, where the former President tried to convince the Secretary of State in GA to “find votes”, and where he was trying to get the VP not to certify the election results, it’s already happening.

Unless you also believe that Trump is facing down a shadowy cabal of Democratic pedophiles with headquarters below a pizza shop.
The more you learn, the more unique you become. The more unique you become, the harder it is to find similar people to socialize.
You are normal in the sense that you do want to socialize, but from pervious experinces you also learned that with most/all people you will get no satisfaction from interacting with them.
Yeah, kind of reminds me of the Star Wars sequels (well, I actively disliked the last one also, but the first two sequels anyway). Are they as good as the original trilogy? No, but when they came out my expectations were calibrated to the prequels. The bar was basically "Does it have Jar-Jar? No? Then I'm OK with it".

Same here. The pacing is inconsistent, and some of the characters seem pretty off. The pacing is not as inconsistent, and the characters not as off, as The Hobbit. Therefore whatever, it's fine. Is it going to be my favorite show? No. Will I watch it? Yeah.
Sci-fi short story about a VC and a distributed network of on-demand assassins
Interesting, do you know how this is achieved?

Is there a Rust optimization that notices logically this type of construction is always in-bounds and so the bounds check is never emitted, or is the LLVM bounds check smarter now and realises hey, my parameter is never out of bounds, so no need to emit code here ?
My default browser on my phone is Firefox, and even when I open articles from the news feed in the Google App, they open from Firefox as well. I guess it's possible that this could vary by phone, but I've never had an issue with an Android phone using my non-default browser when opening a link from an app in years.
This is just another "not MY LOTR". It's a show, plenty of people can like it and this attitude is quite insufferable. It's OK to not like a show, but you can't just gake-keep something and say it's "BAD".

If people think this is bad, then they truly haven't see a bad tv show - with bad effects, bad writing, bad delivery, bad acting, continuity errors, and so on.

> Rings of Power Is Dull

Some TV shows are slower than others.

> Example the First: The Dwarven Test of Endurance

Durin commands the other dwarves, and was punishing a friend for imagined or otherwise misdeeds. I'm pretty sure he can do what he wants with his own agency.

> Example the Second: Galadriel Sword Troll Thing

I can't see this as anything else than sexism - there was no complaints at the absolute insanity that Legolas did in the LOTR trilogy.

> Example the Third: Broken Hobbit Ankle

These aren't people living in the modern world. Why apply our sense of fairness or compassion. The author even says we wouldn't be able to understand what the middle ages were like.

> I'm Not Watching More

LOTR films were not as Tolkien wrote. I recently re-watched them and they're not perfect either, to heap praise on the films but scorn the TV series is looking back with rose tinted glasses at best.

> The violence in this show is way too explicit.

Again, perhaps the author should revisit the original film trilogy because it was certainly violent.
"Real-time" doesn't mean "live", which might be what you're shooting for in your definition policing.
Re-Entering the Vampire Castle
Yes, it seems certain areas have two conflicting political problems.

The DA is either letting too many people go or the mayor is keeping too many police.

Personally I believe certain DAs are completely out of line and don't reflect the will of the people, but the will of certain donors.
I think all the points he makes are good, but he misses at the beginning when he describes how now people can be picky about fantasy because we've a glut of it.

That's technically true, but so many people are just SO happy to see orcs and wizards, none of the writing matters. Especially if it has a big brand like 'lord of the rings' attached to it plus an enormous CGI budget. You could have children write the story and it'd still make people happy.
What exactly are these companies supposed to do? Web access really is the meat behind modern OS usage. Say what you want about Microsoft, but that's exactly what they realized when they began shipping Internet Explorer with Windows (and got into hot water over it). Safari can't be deleted from iOS, but aspects of Safari are integral to the OS. As long as someone can use another web browser for actual web browsing, as opposed to something that an app might use as a web view, I really don't see what the big deal is. Not being able to delete apps sucks, but this goes beyond browsers, and is hardly the worst thing any of these companies are up to. Should there be an initiative to create a standard pluggable API for web views that operating systems comply with? Oh boy, let's create yet another worthless committee!

Maybe Mozilla can knock off the grandstanding, the money wasting, the back patting, and just work on making a competitive browser. Also completely remove Pocket and anything else like it.
I’m going to assume you mean well, but I’m honestly unsure if this is helpful.
Its recent usage is largely an allusion to the film from 2000. The title refers to a contest where members of a graduating high school class are pitted against each other to the death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Royale_(film)
> Here's the thing. Art is individual to its creator. Only Van Gogh can paint a Van Gogh. Only Shakespeare can write Shakespeare. Only Tolkien can write Tolkien.

> Rings of Power could never, ever be Tolkien. It could be, at best, competently made "I Can't Believe It's Not Tolkien." Yet, Partially-Hydrogenated Tolkien Substitute still could have been a good show.

Okay. Sure. But they can launch movements where people try to expand on what they've already created. In this case, the Rings of Power show is beautiful, jaw droppingly beautiful in scale and execution, showing a world larger than has ever been depicted on TV before.

https://winteriscoming.net/files/image-exchange/2022/08/ie_9...

https://winteriscoming.net/files/image-exchange/2022/08/ie_9...

A lot of attention to detail has been paid in the little things and I think it's amazing.

But that's besides the point. The point is that these are shows and properties meant for the young, people in their teens or those who are growing up. The Hobbit was meant for children. The Lord of the Rings for adolescents. These are stories meant to fire up a young person's imagination and get them to dream bigger than before.

By reducing these properties to an audience of adult fans, I feel, does them a disservice. As yes, absolutely media can be made to be enjoyable to all ages, but trying to please these fans is often an exercise in self immolation as whatever you create will never be as rosy as the memories from their childhood. But they are a powerful market. They are the ones buying the merch usually, instead of parents buying it for little kids. And so they have an outsized say on what happens within the product.

It's baffling to me to see older generations maintaining a stranglehold over the stories that they enjoyed when they were younger.

I think we should give these series and places room to grow and become into something more for each successive generation. And enjoy the process of that growth.

Because almost every single person who is disappointed by this series is a diehard, middle aged, Tolkein fan (often male). Who grew up with Tolkein in the 80s, a time when its very reading was an act of mild rebellion. From the article,

> Wayyyy back in the 70s and 80s, science fiction/fantasy/superhero content hadn't completely taken over the culture yet. New nerd content was rare and treasured.

> The Superman movie (1978) was mind-blowing. (I’m old enough to remember when Superman was a good guy.) A new Star Trek series was an impossible dream. Battlestar Galactica was cherished. We were so desperate for sci-fi stuff that we watched Doctor Who, for God's sake!

This is not true anymore. And in that change, the stories that have been told and whom they're being told to has changed as well. And that genuinely seems to bother these middle-aged fans. And I think that's okay. It's hard to let go, but let go they must so that future generations can cherish what they cherished, with fresh, unblemished eyes.
I concur with your assessment, and I'll add one additional thing to that assessment, most of these incredibly poor countries are religious and use the church as a community third-space. I believe San Francisco has replaced it's reverence for God with reverence for meaningless politics, and there is no third-place for the community. These may not be the causative factors, but certainly they speak to some differences that may affect the outcomes.
I understand his intention, but “the worst form of encoding” is pretty ridiculous.
Those buttons drive me as crazy as cookie banners seems to drive others.
+1 for suggestion on trying Stoicism

You can try reading classic Stoic texts such as Meditations from Marcus Aurelius and Seneca's On the Shortness of Life.
Do you have any hobbies or sports you are interested in? Sign up for something even if you have no experience. You will be forced to interact with people and it’s likely if you enjoy the hobby or activity and keep showing up you’ll eventually make a few acquaintances and friends. It gets harder to make friends as you get older, so I’ve found common interests are the best way to connect. Work definitely isn’t.
One alternative is to run everything on the server, but that introduces another set of problems.
Walkable without density => walkable only for the rich

Would love to see Europe with US levels of diversity and population still remain "walkable" without density

Most European "cities" are what would be a suburb/village in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities

The US has tons of walkable suburbs and villages.
Yes, the US Government pretty much gave up on meaningful anti-trust regulation along about the Reagan era, as they pretty much gave up on a lot of stuff. The Biden administration via FTC Chair Lina Khan have declared they're trying to turn things around, but it's a big ship with a small rudder. We'll see.
Fucking finally somebody that says cygwin. Everybody nowadays is "wsl2 this, wsl2 that" but they forget that the OG, which still blows wsl2, it's CygWin. I use it for 2 decades, one of the 2 programs I install whenever I need to use somebody else (usually client) PC; the other one is uBlock Origin.
I would second this. A team sport is also a good option. There are always clubs/teams that take beginners.
You still have the subject and object of “depends on” reversed, at best.
You know that handy dandy search bar that Windows has decided will occupy your taskbar?
So, you weren't forced and instead opted out is what you're saying here in your opening sentence?
I’ve been using Photoshop alternatives for a long time now, but when I was a kid, I had access to Photoshop (version 2.5 and later 5.0). I’m used to the alternatives. Mostly Gimp, Krita, Pixelmator, and Procreate.

Recently I had a chance to use Photoshop 7 on an old iMac G4 that I acquired. Surely this would be like living in the dark ages, banging some rocks together?

Well, no. It turns out that this old version of Photoshop is easy to use and powerful. I can quickly do simple graphic design tasks that would take me longer in other programs or leave me frustrated. I can also do a bunch of simple photo editing tasks that I’ve been missing out on. This experience really highlighted how I’ve gotten used to missing features or poorly-designed UIs in programs like Gimp. Simple things like messing with channels, changing the brush size, working with 16-bit color and alternative color spaces, layer styles, nice text layers—it’s all just there and working and ready to use, in this nearly 20-year-old software.
It would be cool if every Chromium clone had a page where they explain how is the browser different to standard Chromium. Many of them feel like rebuilding Chromium with something like sed -i 's/Chrome/MyBrowserName/g'
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Not all Conservatives agree with the Talmud
The other side of this coin is why do people need to feel a show is good just because they like it? It's ok to like trashy media.
It has a future if their search partners say it does.

Some of whom they are naming in these allegations.
You've got to be the most unhinged person I've ever seen write on these forums. Congratulations.
This is a shame to see - it's understandable that there are some technical challenges in it, but it does seem possible (via a mutual auth handshake) to introduce portability. Kudos to you for arguing the case though!

Before "cloud keychain" (i.e. software-backed, like Apple's implementation), your only "safe" option was to have 2x hardware tokens, and try to keep one off-site, but still accessible enough you could enrol it on all the sites you use.

I fear with "cloud keychain" Webauthn, we are heading for a world where getting locked out of (or banned from) your "FAMNG" account will lock you out of everything else, to an extent we've not really seen before - no access to your synced keychain secret will prevent you from logging in to everything. Physical tokens remaining interoperable should give technical users an insurance policy against this, but without some kind of portability (i.e. pairing hardware webauthn keys), I fear it won't be practical enough to keep users safe, and independent of the keychain providers.
You made the correct first step, talk about it.

Look for some virtual therapist (I'm from buenos Aires, the city with more therapists in the world per capita) they are very good and cheap (if you live in some first world country) because we are a very poor country. Therapy for us is very common. Look for some, many are working overseas.

Talk with your family about that, try to do some exercises, it will improve your mental health.

You can be alone without feel loniless.
Reminds me of The Oatmeal's article on being happily unhappy [1].

I think I'm pretty similar. I'm also 30, live alone, long distance from all of my family and most of my friends -- but I'm very close with my friends despite that, and most are the same or similar to me. And while I enjoy being around them, I still crave my freedom and am very proud of my current identity as someone who paves his own path. And I also despise my lifestyle at times too.

I read a comment recently that resonated a lot too, that socializing is a muscle you need to exercise like any other. I think it was always hard to make friends in your 30's but the recent pandemic has had a lasting effect on our culture, where so many people made themselves comfortable at home in online communities that now it's hard to make friends in your 20's too. But I'd still suggest trying to find a meetup group (board games are always fun!) or a volunteer group (foodbanks are everywhere) and socialize because it's good exercise.

[1] https://theoatmeal.com/comics/unhappy
I was going to say this as well. Even pre internet my first inclination from dialing BBS was how do I make one of these? How can I get a dedicated phone line in my bedroom? From there, chatting with people who called my board, then moving to IRC which was all UGC. Bots, scripts, file hosts etc. distributed servers.

I think my take away is more that these large “visions” of what the internet could be were made by outsiders from an outside vantage point. They had difference answers to the question of what the internet could be. The insiders were too busy playing around on it to think about answering that question.
Just as importantly, being an introvert and having a limited supply of social energy doesn't mean I'm not excited to see people.

I also get excited about long and difficult bike rides and I'm dead afterwards. But that's part of it.

I think there's often a misconception that introversion == anti-social or a non-enjoyment of social situations.
This is so much better than the standard ops tooling. I don’t know why you would ridicule it.