skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I see; unfortunately, that's a disappointing answer. Maybe it's also worth pointing this out:

> Intellectual understanding of the claims of Christianity and belief in its claims are totally separate.

I don't think I've ever seen a clear separation of these things. At any rate, if I choose not to believe in the claims then I will be unwelcome by the congregation. In practice, these things seem to go hand-in-hand most commonly.

Also, I would like to thank you for taking the time to reply thoughtfully! I do believe you've been very honest and approaching the conversation in good faith (I have difficulty reading this without it coming off as snide, so please just take it at face value).

(I'm sorry if it is frustrating but I am personally not interested in continuing this conversation privately.)
Why did they do all of this instead of just letting the user use their own browser? Why was injecting JS and listening to every event necessary?
It seems all but inevitable. Regardless of the technical feasibility of keeping your own browser engine going, much of the missions of the foundation and overall company do not really depend on having a truly separate browser at all.

If anything, it is an albatross around the necks of the groups and management that care more about the 'mission' of an open web and the advocacy and other programs that are largely unrelated to the Firefox browser, and certainly don't require the browser to be its own thing rather than a chromium fork.

For the short and medium term goals, a browser is just another tool and vehicle for pushing their vision for the future of the web... But it's an extremely expensive and difficult tool with comparatively little short and medium term importance. So why keep it? You don't need a 'real' browser to put up surveys or blog posts, or to attend or run conferences, or to join web working groups or participate in RFCs. Not having to pay for almost any engineers or teams for something the rest of the foundation could categorize as a pyrrhic project? That would be simply wonderful, I'm sure.

Vasselization simply makes more sense in the foreseeable future.
While this does align with my beliefs and biases, do you have any proof or evidence to point to that was the case? Specifically that the antitrust suit was due (in whole or in part) to Microsoft not engaging with politics, and that the result has been a trend towards big tech playing ball, and hence future antitrust being unlikely?
Sounds like confirmation bias?
> Of course, many apps don't properly do this and end up hardcoding references to Chrome...

I think what OP is referring to is this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32415470
Well let’s just say it didn’t get any better, quite the reverse
I have noticed that when I am in a lonely or sad phase, I start to fixate on it more, so it then becomes more of a thing, a la William James “My experience is what I agree to attend to.”

Trying to figure out the WHY (which is unanswerable, and our minds hate an open question) and the HOW TO FIX is still fixating on it and reinforcing it. So I had to stop that (after enough therapy to understand my basic wiring).

What helps me is guided meditations on first relaxing any tension and then imagining the way I want to feel. Sprouting those connections instead of re-running the neural ruts related to the way I don't want to feel.
What do you (Gary) expect if you bring up a text-to-image generated mess of a bicycle and shoot that down as if it's claiming to be AI? Maybe a bit more intellectual honesty about what these systems are and claim to be (or don't claim to be) would result in less criticism.

Symbolic systems like CYC and SOAR were always going to be brittle, limited by what was programmed into them, and perhaps equally fundamentally seem to have been addressing the wrong problems (knowledge acquisition and how to solve problems).

With today's large scale neural nets finally we have an approach that shows far more promise. Gone is the brittleness since they are based on learning rather than canned data and algorithms. Tomorrow's systems will learn continuously. Gone is a dependency on hand coded algorithms, replaced by emergent capabilities derived from their ability to learn in self-supervised fashion from data and experience.

Perhaps most promising is that these LLMs derive their emergent capabilities from addressing the problem of prediction, which appears to be the same way our cortex functions. In fact I'd suggest it's fair to define intelligence as nothing more than the ability to predict based on experience, including all that implies such planning based on ability on ability to predict outcomes.

Maybe we shouldn't be so surprised at the emergent capabilities of an LLM such as GPT-3. Trained to predict next word, yet capable of predicting the computer code that will follow a comment describing what it's about to do ...

Yes, we're not there yet in terms of AGI, nor is anyone claiming that we are, but the progress made in last 10 years has been nothing short of staggering, and there is no sign of it slowing down. We are finally making progress, and it is progress in the right direction unlike symbolic AI attempts of past that were flawed by conception.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and the Gold Standard
Really excited to see the transcription based editing. There is a ton of work that this can simplify. I really hope some of this gets integrated into Audition or AE etc as well.
what's the corresponding setting on an iphone? I have the same permanent notification because I refused to use icloud.
just use Linux you get none of this nonsense
That's a much more poetic way of saying something I've always said: the important thing isn't where you are in the moment. The important thing is that the trend line is going the right direction.
The operative word here is can.

Does Firefox use the keychain - on macOS it does not even try
For some introverts, at least for myself, they are so inclined to do things by themselves they don't realize they are hungry for social interaction. I knew of a person who had a brain tumor removed and they lost their sense of hunger. They had to remind themselves to eat.

For me, what helps a lot is some sort of habitual or scheduled interaction. Like a weekly thing. That way the decision making process isn't, "do I feel like setting something up with someone else" but just going.
Yep, and it requries computers. It is clearly a use avount la lettre. The title is to be understood as a play on words: "Battle Royale" == "Fight in the most royal manner possible". -- Whether it's a good play on words is for the reader to judge, though.
Not all. NYPD pretty much has this and has partnerships with private companies to assist in their surveillance.

But I share your sentiment
It's also much deadlier for the winners to not let the opposing side retreat/surrender, if people feel trapped they'll fight to the death.
Eventually!
Helix. Most wonderful to use text editor I’ve found in my short career.
Your second point is such a lost gem of history. I still remember it well and remember how upset it made me. But it seems the world has forgotten, and just assumes that Chrome just meteorically shot up in usage just on its merit.

Did you just update Java? Looks like a new browser you've never used is your default now.
Well, I guess the NSA makes the most sense. They've been integrated into the corporate structure of FAANG for over a decade now, and they're the primary government entity making demands over this stuff. The who is a lot harder to track down - maybe there is a Wizard of Oz hiding behind one of our administrative curtains, but I think it's more of a bureaucratic process. Judging by what we know about America's surveillance infrastructure (eg. XKeyscore, Tempora, Boundless Informant), it would make sense if most of this software is developed in-house and then passed off to FAANG to implement and obfuscate.

Again, all of this is conjecture. There's a lot of strangeness that surrounds the US intelligence agencies though, so I'm inclined to make some sense of it.
Consider reading Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, by Lindsay Gibson. The loneliness you feel may be rooted in your upbringing, and learning more about this can give you a deeper way to understand your feelings.

Meanwhile, as others have said, spend time with a competent therapist. You may need to shop around until you find someone that works well for you. They will guide you on how to socialize and form new relationships.
Good point about smart photos being hooked into the web, and trying to use them to create some well thought out then is really difficult. And as far as the web goes it's really up to us how that plays out, so I think yea, there will always people that choose the quick way around the net using mobile, but I think that is a by product of living out of touch with the world anyway.
I find myself using the `site:` keyword much more often than before when searching for quite obvious stuff using Google Search. The first page of search results always consists of some useless SEO-optimized shit or is simply missing relevant results.

A month ago or so, when I was researching some MS tech topics, Google Search results did not include any links to the docs.microsoft.com website. However, the results included some Chinese mirrors of docs.microsoft.com with weird names (blablahxyz321.GFWproxy.com or something like that). This never happened before, so something is really broken.

And it's just one example of many. I have to switch between three search engines thorough a day, and it's frustrating.
This is of course not to be taken as a diagnosis but something to look into.

You might have what’s called avoidant personality disorder.

There’s a subreddit if you’re interesting in learning more: https://reddit.com/r/avpd

One common theme which you alluded to in your post is the feeling of loneliness but also enjoying being alone.

Avoidants crave social interactions but also engage in avoidant behaviour. For example, someone invites you to a party and you decline but you actually really want to go (and might fantasise all night about being there and have pretend conversations in your head).

Again, this is not a medical diagnosis but hopefully can help you search some more and help figure out some stuff about yourself.

Good luck!
yeah but pre-chesa it was George Gascon, who by all intents is exactly the same ideologically as Chesa. You need to go back before George Gascon(who is now DA of LA and was also under a recall). And honestly SF knew who they were getting in both of them so they deserve the out of control crime that is plaguing the city now.
I don't see this as edgy pessimism, I see it as pragmatic optimism. The author isn't complaining about JSON, they're acknowledging JSON as the best choice despite its warts.
I was paid to code in Ocaml by the CEA a long time ago. I think INRIA also has position, probably Cambridge too. That might not really help you. On a more serious note, Nomadic Labs was a big employer recently. Bloomberg used to have a small team using it for PL related tooling as did Meta. Docker bought a unikernel company using it.

You sometimes encounter people who are surprising knowledgeable in the language in surprising place in France.
It reads too ranty to me.

/spoilers below

I think it's good. And personally I like that they managed to keep some characters completely mysterious, like Adar and the Stranger and you can't tell who Sauron is. I'd guess it's possibly neither.
Common does not mean > 51%.

Term Numerical rate Percentage
Common 1 in 10 10%

iPhone is by definition most common.
Their soul will live on as Web widgets.
Use Expose or Cmd-` rather than Cmd-Tab or the Dock if you want the Windows behavior.
It would be great if you could configure this depending on needs.

E.g. include only the Canvas part, leave out JS, CSS, Video, etc. for a simple drawing app.
Tijgerbrood, apparently

https://www.kqed.org/news/11761468/dutch-crunch-a-bay-area-f...
If that's an accurate description of the situation then why are you still an SF resident?
It does not matter if you have multiple clients, employees etc.

To have truly outside IR35 contract, things to look for are:
- can you provide a substitute? (for instance if you get ill, can you send someone else to do the work - and you pay them, not the client) (no personal service)

You should be able to send someone else, that way the service is not personal. So the contract should be with your company, not with yourself.

- can client decide how, where and what time you do the work? (control)

You should be able to decide your own working hours, where you work and how. That of course does not mean you can't decide to work at client's office during their working hours.

- are you obliged to accept the work and is client obliged to provide work? (mutuality of obligation)

This is also important - you should be able to refuse to take on the work. Ideally that should be reflected in notice periods - good outside IR35 contract would have zero notice on both sides. You should be able to walk away from the job without consequences.
I can't speak for iPhone but I was always bemused by the line. Until someone responded to one of my messages and I realised my message also ended with sent from my ** phone. I hadn't added the line. I realised on some Android phones the phone adds the line to the bottom of your message. You can turn it off but I suspect most people don't..
I have no idea why you're getting downvoted. I don't really consider myself to be a "gamer" but I stumbled across that channel myself a few months ago and it's incredible. Definitely not going to solve all of OP's problems, but it can help. That guy is incredibly insightful and knowledgeable.
I would recommend traveling. Maybe in South America. Travel aligns your priority’s if you stay in hostels and explore. You’ll learn necessities, privilege, love and hate.
It’ll get you out of your box of loneliness.
For excellent insights into the use, misuse, and gaming of statistics, from the source, I'd strongly recommend David Simon's lecture "The Audacity of Despair", presented at UC Berkeley on 10 December 2008. It's long at 70 minutes, but quite solid.

I'd seen this several years before watching the series, and it was this lecture specifically which sold it to me.

<https://yewtu.be/watch?v=nRt46W3k-qw>

The bit on statistics starts at about 8m20s.

Nutshell: If you want to find out where the dirt is done, parse some statistics.... I learned as a reporter to start despising statistics and to regard anything that was ever cited to me in advance of an argument as dubious just because somebody was pulling it out and using it. I was that cynical about it. As I got better as a reporter I realised that as soon as any of our institutions create a means of measuring how things are going in terms of quality, someone will run behind them within the institution to destroy that statistic as a meaningful measurement of anything.

There's exposition around this both ahead and after, and again, there's a ton of meat in this talk.
What does the Google IoT core shutdown tell us about IoT platforms?
Is it possible that you realize you're most comfortable being alone, but the external signals you receive, and have accepted as truth, say that's not ok?

> I truly can not handle it anymore…

You don't really say what "it" is. What is it about being alone that you can't handle?

I think if you could try to put into words the bad feelings being alone is causing you, you might have a better handle on where to go.

You mention "saudade". Wikipedia explains it like this:

> Saudade is a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for something or someone that one cares for, or loves. Moreover, it often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might never be had again.

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

It seems that's a world view locked on the rear-view mirror. It doesn't seem to track with your first paragraph or title, which is about seeking solitude but not being at ease with it. Did you at one time spend more time around other people?

> How do you deal with it?

Wanting to spend a lot (even most) time alone is perfectly ok. There's a wide range of needs for being with other people. If the discord is due to external perceptions, then disregard them. But if there's something else to it, say self-destructive tendencies, you may need someone to talk about it with with.
Naive European here. Are you saying that in America academics sell merchandise for their modules? And students, despite having paid exorbitant sums to sit them, go and buy them?
> GNOME clearly targets the mobile form factor

I think it's more fair to say all form factors are treated equally, to the possible detriment of focusing exclusively on desktop. I think Gnome does well and is really versatile no matter which form factor you use, and I didn't have much issue moving from Gnome 2 to 3, or Windows to Gnome, or OSX (at the time) to Gnome (I've gone back and forth a lot over the years).

For me, workspaces (which Windows lacked natively until very recently) and Alt+Tab/` are how I get around.

The customizability argument is a solid reason to dislike Gnome, but not for all time. Things do get better each release. Well, except for extensions, which always break.
my 2014 BMW i3 could be set to start charging when electricity was cheap (defined by me onscreen). it was a little buggy, as far as systems go, but it was the original model year (for north america, i think 2013 in europe).
From the discussion:

> This was particularly tricky to make work because the image data in a PNG needs to have a valid adler32 checksum, and a valid crc32 checksum.
I'm also in for most of the stuff others mentioned(VS Code specially), but two never mentioned I'm grateful are 'Flameshot' and 'Gitkraken'.
Suprised no one mentioned SHA256. I know there's not a official SHA256 implementation but i guess any implementation (except OpenSSL) is good.

Left out OpenSSL because of poor docs and a small amount of developers. Last I had seen it was like 2 or so.
I've come across this blog a few times in the past month, and it's excellent.
The meme that MS lost the case about bundling IE with Windows is about as false and pervasive as “cable TV was once ad free”.

MS won the case on appeal and absolutely nothing changed in the US. Even the cited Wikipedia article says as much. There was never a time since IE was bundled with Windows that IE didn’t come with Windows in the US. There was also no browser choice mandate in the US.
> I can‘t summarize it better right now. I have learned the portuguese word „saudade“. That feeling, i believe i know. It seems somehow related, to what I am trying to describe.

I've found "theories of personality" textbooks to be delightful in expanding repertoire to describe feelings better. One of note I found is An Introduction to Theories of Personality by Robert B Ewen.

I found it to be beginner friendly and showcase a variety of competing theories in a very objective and proportional way, without pushing a conclusion onto the reader, it just laid out their strengths and let me make up my mind.

If you're open to reading I have more resources on personality theories.
Since Windows 10 plenty of security features rely on Windows actually running as a guest OS on Hyper V, like secure kernel and device guard, hence turning on the hypervisor.
While Mozilla uses that same force with Pocket, their VPN, ads on the home screen, “experiments”, Google search, etc.
Can you elaborate on "all the internet video is ran by it"?
Just checked - I don't appear to have received the email.

It's possible the spam filter ate it, though I didn't find it in my Junk folder. You can send it to evan@ the same domain if it turns out that that is the case.

Also - this is an open invitation. Anyone who wishes to discuss this from any perspective (or honestly anything interesting) is welcome to send me a message.
> vim. I keep trying to quit vim

Haha, good one. I see what you did there.
I find refuge and solace in reading books written by those I consider my intellectual peers. Preferably older books as I believe standards have since dropped precipitously. There have been sufficient intelligent people who have written a sufficient number of books that I expect to be able keep my curiosity satiated for many decades.

It would be near impossible for me to meet such people in day to day life. As I found what I’m looking for in books I no longer try to elicit thoughtful engagement from those around me, much to the relief of all involved.
If you want to just have the one window come forward use Expose to do it, rather than Cmd-Tab or the Dock.
Wow I have had a dream very similar quite a few times. I'm driving on some very unstable road, often made of sand and the car falls into the lower levels of that road, getting stuck... Sometimes it's a curvy bridge the car needs to climb and it constantly tends to fall off. I thought the school exams were the only common dreams that I had, but at appears that similar ones to this one is dreamt by others too!
> The JHU data was based on the best available data at the time, and was regularly updated.

But how did you decide that JHU was presenting accurate data?
At some point it begs the question if it is a problem with the police or with the people. I have spent time in some incredibly poor countries where police are essentially non-existent. Theft is low because people individually believe that it is unacceptable Behavior. They are raised this way and a critical mass of parents, friends, and acquaintances perpetuate this value.
Individuals themselves reject thievery as a solution to their problems.

I don't know how to get back to that from where we are today
As long that is true, it's also going to block widespread adoption of this stuff. Terrible usability is just not a great feature from a security point of view: it leads to people working around security measures.

I have to support some non technical people in our company once in a while. Trust me, this stuff is way too hard for normal people. People I know that own things like a ubi key are almost without exception IT professionals that know what they are doing. Outside IT professionals in IT departments, I don't know a lot of people that have much awareness of this stuff.

The trend in this space is to not have dependencies on dedicated hardware and use multi factor via phone apps and other things. It works, it's easy to explain to users. And lots of apps do this now. Google authenticator is still used but is increasingly positioned as a backup option to more user friendly alternatives.

WebAuthn is not a great success so far. It launched with a lot of fanfare a few years ago and then nothing much at all happened. In it's current form, that's not going to change any time soon.
US Treasury Issues Iran General License to Increase Support for Internet Freedom
(2020)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8Q4tHEHdRg
I continue to be impressed with how adamant the internet is to tell me I need to not like this show. I’m a middling LOTR geek and I’m just happy to have more on screen adaptations that aren’t the Hobbit. I really enjoy it. Sorry internet!
Again, a mischaracterization. There are somewhere north of 3,000,000 police-citizen interactions per day. An overwhelming majority of them end without event. Rarely are 'innocent' people even restrained. What's most likely is a person will resist arrest after they were suspected of a crime, and will be injured in the forceful arrest.
In the off chance you remember this conversation, the package does not require attr (even though lxd does), so you need to zypper in attr to get lxd running if another dependency didn't pull it.
The audio denoising / filtering they have seems quite impressive, if only I could use it in real-time on teams calls