skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Illiteracy is hard to really pin down, as other commenters say. I'll provide another anecdata point too:

Wife is a public HS teacher. Many of her native English speaking kids are illiterate yet use their phones like they were air to breathe. This may seem contradictory, but it hinges on the definition of illiteracy. They can read a word, yes, even type them out with a speed unmatched by anyone over 25, but they do not type more than 7 words at a time (again anecdata). That 7 word number is about the same as your working memory limit, and there seems to be a causation there, though it may be correlation. The kids just cannot read a sentence of any real length, like many of the ones posted on HN. Imagine trying to read Aztec Hieroglyphs. You have to decipher each word from the drawings on a stone fresco and it is not easy work to do this. By the time you reach the end of a line of these strange drawings, you have forgotten what the first word was. That is how the kids see reading, they try to decipher the word, and then about halfway through the sentence they have forgotten the first word. The meaning of the article is totally lost in the exertion of translating the symbols. That is how many of her kids are illiterate in the age of the Web.
You're picking a few massively successful people out of billions that have come and gone. You could argue the same about any industry by cherry-picking a few successes while the mean comp is much lower, which actually shows that as a society we actually do not value those things very highly.
I'm pretty sure the kings of old didn't go hungry.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_in_the_United_States
> Sincerity is so overrated. If only these self-righteous monsters had been corrupt hypocrites, millions of their victims could have bargained and bribed their way out of hell.

Love this.
Do you bring it up proactively? I'm not a HR manager so I cant say how appropriate it is but If I was interviewing someone and they let me know they have autism and it affects their communication skills I would be much more understanding than when I'm interviewing someone who just seems to have poor communication skills for no obvious reason.

Remote work might also be a good option. A part from the anger your written communication doesnt seem affected. I also understand not loving getting cat gifs but if that's part of the office culture you have to make some attempt to assimilate.
The idiom "on top of one another" means very crowded or close. Not actually on top of one another, although in this case it could be meant literally.
Good stuff, I always enjoy the way they present their patch notes; even as someone with just the basics of unreal, it's always a good read.
I disagree that your proposal is better.

For instance, "zoning should factor in the average Airbnb rental rates". I am not sure what you mean by this, but presumably the average rates are fluctuating all the time, which means "fluctuation" in the zoning as well. Plus the properties would be properly treated as commercial sites and subject to appropriate taxes.
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Ditto: https://github.com/pavellishin/dotfiles/blob/master/osx-setu...

And thank you for the sound effect on boot killer - I loathe, loathe that stupid sound.
This page desperately needs line breaks between paragraphs.
So they're mad that the stream they shared publicly was seen by the public?...
Do you have proof that JS rendering is equally as friendly to SEO as statically rendered html?

I have been fighting this battle for a while at different places by I can't definitely prove it's true, and most SEO experts that I work with seem to be afraid to upset the apple cart explaining that Google might be good at it, but what about yandex or baidu. I know there are small tests, but has a large corporation where SEO really matters made the switch without a meaningful SEO hit?
If I can offer you cloud-based access to a Windows app you need that no longer runs on hardware you can purchase, you don't have to know crap about what OS I'm running.
Search is more than Google. There are many other search engines. And I'm not just talking just about Bing. I'm talking about the likes of Yandex and Baidu with huge user bases. Do you know whether they can crawl SPAs? What about Archive.org? What about new projects that just try to get started and need to crawl the web to do their thing? Saying "I don't care about those" over and over again is not a good enough answer.
If all you have is today's moderator's personal feelings about what kind of comments are passive-aggressive and what sort deserve a ban, how is that any better than codifying it as a standard?

You don't need a massive rule book, but surely having some basic rules is better than having none?

If you don't have rules, then what, it's just personal judgement on how I feel today about what you said today that rubs me the wrong way and I hand out a ban? Come on, it's daft.

Communities need to feel like there is a strong consistent moderator presence in them; if you're all over the place doing whatever, the community will fall apart into arguments and spam; there are countless examples of it.

The difference is when the community is small (ie. many software projects) its probably perfectly easy for one single moderator (eg. the project owner) to be consistent and thoughtful in how they handle the community.

...but that model doesn't scale.
> you can afford to act more like a collection of freelancers who share a space

In fact, that seems closer to the actual situation than the article implied. From http://dna.crisp.se/docs/index.html :

> None of the 30+ consultants are actually employed by Crisp (although we do have a few employed office staff).
I never needed to bother with a filter where I live. So everybody uses them where the water is chlorinated?
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> To be clear, this is a really cool project but I fear that many of us throw out keyword spam like SEO and UX to make something more digestible, when the reality is that the performance gain is the real hero!

Yes but the performance gain can have an impact on SEO. I'll have to find the article but I believe the StackOverflow guys figured this out early on and blogged about it.

Regardless of how the search engines interpret Javascript. If your site is slow it will take longer for indexers to index and they may penalize or throttle.
It's not obvious that these designs have anything to do with deep learning; it doesn't appear to be mentioned in any of the linked articles.
"That's when the number of people involved is too great for the human brain to process the entire social network. Hence why formal organisations and hierarchy are now needed."

Or innovate on a divisional or matrix-style organization where it's a series of independent units or teams of teams. Not too different from how we make complex programs integrate well. Decomposing them properly with complexity in the right spots lets the integration or supervisory part be small and simple. Could be something to apply to real-world organizations there.
This doesn't prove anything, but it's interesting to consider at least: if you look at the list of the most common elements in the Milky Way[1], 7 of the top 10 are essential for life on Earth: Hydrogen (#1), Oxygen (#3), Carbon (#4), Iron (#6), Nitrogen (#7), Magnesium (#9), and Sulfur (#10). Silicon (#8) is also pretty much essential. The other 2 elements in the top 10, Helium (#2) and Neon (#5), are noble gases with low chemical reactivity.

So, what could that mean?

If you claim that those elements (or at least a subset) are essential for any kind of life, then by the anthropic principle, it's not surprising to see the distribution that we see in our home galaxy.

Alternatively, you could claim that life can evolve with all sorts of combinations of elements, but that it makes sense that it would evolve to use the most common elements in any given area of the Universe.

Either way, it seems like the fact that the life we know uses the most common elements in the galaxy is a good reason to expect non-Earth-based Milky Way life to be similar.

This is just a thought I've had in the past; I haven't done a whole ton of research into this correlation. And of course, there's a whole other set of arguments involving the chemical properties of elements, which I'm just skipping over in this comment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_the_chemical_elem...

EDIT FOR CLARITY: The sentence mentioning the anthropic principle used to read: "By the anthropic principle, you might say that those elements (or at least a subset) are essential for any kind of life, and given that life exists on Earth, it's not surprising to see the distribution that we see in our home galaxy."
> anyone who wants to build websites of even the simplest kind is expected to wheel in an incredibly large client-side and development stack.

What? Says who? In my humble opinion this sounds to me like a case of "I don't like when people use things that I don't like". Nobody is expecting anyone to do anything for "websites of even the simplest kind". People just use technology they like or think is fun. Nobody is forcing you to like it or use it.
This BBC article is terrible and manipulates the reader via the omission of critical facts. If you haven't read it yet, I suggest you first read the company's recruitment webpage[1] and specifically their following sentence:

- "It also means that there is no guaranteed salary. The only thing we guarantee is that you will have to pay a flat fee every month plus one-tenth of what you bill."

After making a mental note of that, go read the BBC piece. You'll notice how empty that article actually is. For example, the following sentence becomes meaningless:

- "Ultimately, the firm hopes that its way of working could inspire other companies to emulate the "Crisp DNA"."

What "DNA" of Crisp exactly? The DNA of having employees pay the company to work instead of the other way around?!? Of course, the BBC article wants you to think "DNA" as in "no CEO" instead of "workers paying a rent".

There's nothing wrong with that model (as another commenter mentioned doctors paying into a "group practice" for shared expenses such as an office and billing staff.)

However, leaving that fee structure out is incompetent journalism. If workers are the ones paying the company, it's easier for them to agree not to have a CEO manage them.

[1] Google's English translation of: https://www.crisp.se/om-crisp/jobba-pa-crisp
It was rebroadcast on TV. Try doing the same by posting a broadcast TV show on the net...
Visualization tools are like daily standups and burndown charts. They only beneficit the management. It's just one extra task for developers that doesn't get the job done. I think they're pretty useful when you first jump into a new piece of code and want to have a quick overview. For people who work on the code everday, it becomes quickly obsolete.
It's certainly cool that our computers and manufacturing capabilities are now able to pull off such optimisation, but this has been going on for a while; compare the box-like car bodies of the 80s to the curved aerodynamics of today.

Also, I'd guess this "alien style" has a lot to do with the user's choice of algorithm and representation. An alternative approach, e.g. building up by connecting tubes like scaffolding, or lego-like blocks, then I'd imagine the results may have a very different "style".
I hate facebook not because of this bullshit but because using facebook is so utterly "normal" on the society that some websites are facebook-exclusives (facebook login only), people only seems to like the idea of using the fucking facebook chat for everything and now even customs ask you to unlock your phone so they can analyze your friends... hoping one day, some terrorist attacks facebook servers so we can get rid of everything online and start to forget about it.
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I'm actually happy you didn't use the original title: "A Gourmet Guide to Wifi" because I wouldn't have clicked on it.
well, implementation details matter. the premise of the article is to remove the "subsidies" (there language, I would have called them externalities that car owners benefit from) and move towards true-cost pricing for things related to automobiles.

ok, that's a workable premise to start from. the true costs imposed by driving in urban environments are almost certainly much much much higher than those in rural environments. urban areas is where issues like air pollution, traffic congestion, bottlenecks on bridges and tunnels, scarcity of parking, and the need to share limited road space with pedestrians and cyclists are really big issues. in rural areas these are just not really major causes of concern.

so my reading on it is that true-cost pricing of cars ought to make urban car use much more expensive, but only make rural car use a little more expensive. I think that's highly desirable, actually.
In the text on Netzpolitik linked in the BBC article it says, the doll has a microphone.

>Jedes bluetoothfähige Gerät in Reichweite von etwa zehn Metern kann eine Verbindung zu ihr [der Puppe] aufbauen und Lautsprecher und Mikrofon nutzen. In einem Versuch hatte ich auch über mehrere Wände hindurch auf die Puppe Zugriff.

Google Translate: Each bluetooth capable device within a range of about ten meters can connect to it [the doll] and use speakers and microphone. In an attempt I had access to the doll over several walls.
I am very interested in this problem as well and have been doing some digging. The surface level answer from some real estate people in NY is that the ROI from condos is just better than any mid-priced living.

1. I don't know if that's actually true
2. Even if it is, it might be possible to change architectural and design constraints to achieve desired unit economics
3. If it's straight up not possible to build mid-priced units with the same return, then existing condo prices don't sufficiently take into account externalities and we should use local legislation to bump their costs up and take them into account.
I do think that is a good idea, however, trying to tell historians and bio-peepz and whomever else that is not a programmer how to do this, and the reasons they need to do this in the first place, will end in failure. Adding more steps in that process will decrease use and contributions.
I actually can't tell myself if I'm serious, so I guess I fit in on the internet.
Wasn't Free Software Movement and GNU Project (which are the foundation for this whole GNU/Linux distros thing) born because of a certain idealist who was unable to compromise?
I'm seeing more people get Google Homes and Amazon Echos now compared to when they first came out. It's still a novelty for most people. I was reading a newspaper the other morning at the kitchen counter when I looked over at the Echo my mom got my dad for Valentines Day. I realized I could just ask Alexa for the news but then I wouldn't have the convenience of just skimming headlines. I would have to verbally skip to the next story and that just felt like a lot more effort than continuing to read the paper. We don't have any other home automation devices in the house like the Nest thermostat or any Hues. I feel like if I had a lot more connected devices in the home, then having something like an Echo or some other hub for controlling them would be necessary.
This jist of this article is that companies need robots for manufacturing _because_ the Swiss have it so great in their non-manufacturing jobs. Having low unemployment, high wages, and a strong currency is an enviable situation for a country.

edit:
P.S. For the record, they currently have a 3.5% unemployment rate.
Which is pretty ironic given the word "space" appears in the article roughly 20 times!
My verbal communication is basically non-existence. I struggle even with remote work (I've worked remotely previously), and finding remote work is extremely hard anyway. And basically impossible for someone who can't hold a Skype conversation.

What upsets me is that I harbour no dislike to people without autism. I don't understand a lot of your jokes. I don't understand a lot of your interests. But I try to be friendly in my own way. I try to smile when you say something that isn't funny.

But I don't get that same respect back. People rather simply reject me.

"He's weird".

"You need to work on your communication skills".

Fucks me off because I know people who are deaf in tech who can hardly talk and I've never heard someone say they need to work on their communication skills. Because they do.

I'm fed up with trying to be normal so people don't think I'm weird. And I'm fed up and trying to fit into "the culture". And I don't want to shoot some pool at lunch, I want to be left alone.

I just want people treat me with the same respect I treat them for being different to me.

So honestly yeah I am pissed off. I'm homeless now thanks to this constant shit. I can't even explain how fed up I am of being rejected for such a stupid reason.
First, it is definitely not embarrassing to admit, and the answer may be overwhelming, but you can customize nearly everything.

One of the simpler things is to customize the look and feel. E.g. you could try out different desktop experiences and WMs (window managers). Most of them are just an `apt-get` away and when you logout and login again you can choose and try out a different desktop.
but now it does (occur to you that dolls can have hidden microphones).

I also wouldn't expect a TV to have a microphone, but smart TVs proved me wrong.
Came here to see if anyone mentioned next.js: https://zeit.co/blog/next

Which fits in with this discussion.

Been working well for us on https://DNSFilter.com
I don't follow this convention, but something I do follow is naming things by type first. This makes it really easy to find in a long list of files in a folder.

Example: plantArrowhead, plantGuzmania, plantMarmo vs. arrowheadPlant, guzmaniaPlant, marmoPlant.
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> Maybe machine learning can help distinguish the important e-mail I care about. Is your startup taking a fresh look at e-mail? Great!

Google has been doing this for years, automatically sorting your inbox for you.

> Why can’t we aggregate great comments from different sites, based on what I’m interested in? Where is Big Data when you need it? Twitter has failed miserably at solving that problem.

Companies are deliberately sequestering their data and preventing it from being scraped, because that data is a valuable asset.

> Talking about cool technologies, I find Machine Learning fascinating. It’s entirely possible that only a few years from now, programming will become irrelevant, replaced with feeding huge amount of data to all kinds of neural networks.

This doesn't even mean anything. What do you think all those magical AIs are made of? Computer programs, written by a programmer.
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At my company, we had difficulty making our landing pages rank when they were just written in React. We ran an experiment where we took out the interactive parts of it and just put the static content into a html page-- and it performed better.

The other engineers and I were flabbergasted ("it's not supposed to make a difference!") but our SEO expert was not surprised that there was inconsistencies in the Googlebot documentation, and it goes to show that we still don't have a lot of transparency into the google algorithms.

I suspect that, like you say, it was a speed-to-paint thing. But when you're in a crowded keyword space it makes a difference. (As oppose to when you're just trying to rank for your own unique name--- looking at you, Preact ;) )
The admins are likely to approve an account if you're a member of a health collective for trafficked transgender women of color or something like that. Read some activist publications to learn the jargon, and you too can have your own network of riseup addresses
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I have several recordings from my teenage years...would you mind forking over some of them billions that society is handing out ? ;-)
Why do you keep repeating 50 w/s when that's not an actual performance number? CDB will likely run with thousands of ops/sec per node.

Can you really not see why distributed databases are needed? High availability, (geo) replication, active/active, oversized data, concurrent users, and parallel queries are just a few of the reasons.

Distribution will always come with a cost, but the tradeoffs are for every application to make. We use a distributed SQL database and while it's faster than any single-node standard relational DB would be, speed isn't the reason we use it.
This is a strange argument, because all of that rhetoric is status quo - people do argue (or argue via proxy; the words are different, but the substantive claims are the same) that people already receive enough. If that's the problem with universal basic income, then the only change is that such vulnerable people end up with more money, which must be a good thing.
For servers, their choices are often bad. I recall how we had database failures in the middle of the night on the first of each month, until we figured out that a monthly chron was running slocate indexing all files and IO jumped to 100% under load. I have many anecdotes like this. Also they don't seem to understand that during the update, rebooting a server is the last resort, unlike a laptop. In the server distribution patch instructions, it often says "reboot your computer", whereas one can just restart the services like in the latest openssl security update.
They went from $1 million or so to over $100 million during a time of hyperinflation and otherwise terrible economy. There's the objective evidence the methods produce results. Now just need to start tweaking the model in various ways applied to other companies to see which variables had what effects. I've seen companies get very far just minimizing management/executives, treating employees respectfully, letting them make most improvements, and giving above-average compensation.
hehe... yeah, just build it for that, but good point. It's my first chat bot project (and node.js project for that matter) and I figured I just start with one platform. And Facebook being the biggest...
One way I've seen the infrastructure problem handled is to have all city residents who own cars to be required to purchase unlimited use pass for all city bridges and tunnels.
Surprised this article missed the opportunity to point out that the fuel taxes, both federal and state, have not been sufficiently raised in years to decades in most states. To my mind, that's step 1: raise the fuel tax in each state such that it adequately pays for the construction of roads. As it stands, the fuel tax in most states only services the interest on road projects, with the rest being siphoned from the general budget.
That's a bummer, but your SEO experts shouldn't be afraid! They shouldn't let you flip over the whole website either though. You guys should just run a test on one landing page. Yandex and Baidu are pretty ignorable, Google is King.
And in that particular case, the sea travel took 10 years, rather than weeks or months. With favorable winds or strong oarsmen, a vessel can transit from the port on one island in the Aegean to another in days. With diesel engines, cruise ships can make those same trips overnight, while the passengers are sleeping.

Seafaring ships and river boats were the highest-throughput way to transport soldiers and cargo for thousands of years, until one empire or another built an overland road and maintained it.

Sea travelers had to deal with adverse weather and piracy. Land travelers had to deal with inconvenient terrain, adverse weather, taxes or tolls, banditry, and blisters.
I don't know about good tools for JavaScript.
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