skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have two sons who both likely are ASD, though neither is formally diagnosed. They both have sensory issues. They are both control freaks about touching. But if it is done on their terms, they can be affectionate.

Something you commonly see with impaired kids is that they are given far less control over their lives, far less choice, than "normal" kids. I did the opposite. I gave my kids more latitude, not less, to help them be comfortable.

It shouldn't really come as any surprise that sensory issues plus other people not doing things on your terms typically results in an aversion to being touched at all. It isn't necessarily solely due to them being ASD per se.
It's not like there aren't other firms in this space or that cymbals are unique to one culture.
Cool! Glad to see mention of 1P here. I'm a fan of it myself.
I live in a small town, work remotely for the most part, and love it. In my town, the number of people who work remotely is steadily increasing. The remote workers tend to have higher incomes which brings in more resources to the town, but also creates some divisions.

For example, there’s a “yuppie” coffee shop and a “hippie” coffee shop. They’re both great, but there’s a noticeable cultural divide and some animosity on both ends. People who have been here their whole lives are starting to get priced out of the area, and they’re understandably leery of non locals. We’ve already had long time businesses shut down because they couldn’t afford rising rents. There’s a vocal group who are very much against new developments that would taint the old charm and probably raise prices.

Our town is actually pretty progressive though, and is already investing in low cost housing, but I doubt that’ll be enough. I see a bright future ahead for our small town, but managing the growth without losing our sense of history and community is going to be difficult.
I’m not sure why it matters who loves/hates him or what to classify him as. Only his actions matter and his actions are propping up the 1%.
>Project management, etc. It helps to spend a few years as a programmer before you move into this field. It doesn't matter if you are the worst coder on earth before you move. If you write on your CV, "I've been a programmer for the last 3 or 4 years, but I really want to get into project management", you may have to take measures to protect your physical safety as people rush to grab you (programmers, as a rule, do not want to do this job, but their experience is necessary).

As someone without a CS degree but 3+ years of software experience (and a non-STEM Bachelor's), how do I go about doing this? I feel like I would need to go somewhere that would train me on project management, and I don't see job positions like that. It seems like PMs are promoted from within or hired with prior experience. As crazy as it sounds, I think I would enjoy PM work.
> In what sense is Trump not elite?

When did I say that he is not elite? That wasn't even remotely my point.
Never heard of these. Thanks for the pointer.
That. Your attempts at entertaining small talk often will be perceived as sassy, cynical or arrogant.
Buy some algorithms books. Brush up. In the beginning, if you're stuck on a problem, peek the solution. After a number of them you'll be able to start doing them yourself. You're learning a new skill, it's called the bullshit-google-algo-interview-problem-solving skill. It has little to do with most real problems, and when you do encounter the real problems, you'll talk to people and look up reference material anyway.

Just like how the SAT has little to do with predicting academic performance, this silly little game has little to do with predicting real world programming performance.

It can be a valuable exercise to be exposed to the material, but by no means is it a pre-req for being able to succeed at sw eng. Plenty of people garner the correct resources, study for this and get fancy jobs where they go on to spew out absolute garbage in code form. It is meaningless.

Some companies recognize the folly of this, ask the recruiters.
What was your point? I am curious.
By "object," I just mean "a thing in the world." We can talk in particulars: a candle, a ship, whatever.

I don't disagree that there's plenty of room for vagueness there, but I don't think that either of us has particularly vague definitions of "object" in mind.

> How would someone deal with objects in the real world differently based on a solution to this supposed problem?

The simplest example is in the second case: if we were to conclude that objects don't contain historical properties, then we would be hard pressed to accept any sort of continuity. Am I the same person as I was a moment ago? Am I responsible for "my" future actions, even if it's not "me"?

The first case also has problems: if objects encapsulate their historical properties, then how did we end up with two objects? Which one of them is the "real" one, i.e. the one with the name "Theseus's Ship"?
I didn't get a chance to ride a scooter in Washington, DC last weekend because they were all taken, but I picked up one of the similar park-anywhere Spin bikes. The ease of onboarding and the freedom were almost utopian. It's like living in a world where everyone trusts you.

The new user flow addresses the parking issue more prominently than anything else. They illustrate leaving six feet of sidewalk space and places you cannot park. And they have you rate the parking job of the previous user when you begin.

This is one of those rare occasions where you can actually see how much government regulation is taking away from you, instead of just living in a stagnant, unfree world not knowing how much better it could be.
What the Internet is doing to our brains (2008)
> deemphasises the benefit of careful thinking.

This may be a bit of a tangent, but that reminds me of what is, by my guess, a core flaw of the US Constitution - it is deliberately written in a difficult to follow style (most notably, double inversions are slammed in everywhere). Even if the intent is to cause people to more carefully consider the subject matter, in the hopes that they come to a more accurate understanding, the literal effect of making information harder to access is that more energy is spent trying to access that information. In turn, the likelihood of errors in the course of accessing that information increases.

addendum: It's good to make things less error-prone.
Without knowing Fortran, I’d speculate it’s easier to maintain backwards compatibility in a language that doesn’t have as direct a mapping to hardware as C. Fortran seems to have more abstractions built in.
I love the cynicism :-)
Einstein, Bertrand Russell and even Wittgenstein himself were all armchair philosophers. They just formed their deductive powers in the modern scientific era.

Wittgenstein is well-known for changing the origin of mathematical problems to the most convenient in his mind - about as close to philosophy as you can get.
You don't have a job yet, so you don't actually know what being a programmer is like. You're stressing out about what you think being a programmer is like, and worse, you're stressing out about what you think how a programmer is hired.

Sit back, relax, go talk to someone who actually does the job, and re-evaluate once you're better contextualized.
For when you've completed that here's an application (with an amusing name): http://eugenezhulenev.com/blog/2017/04/26/type-level-instant...
If you have a copy of Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, the section on seminumerical algorithms covers software floating point.

Another source is the Handbook of Floating Point Arithmetic, which covers both hardware and software methods in detail.

An implementation in source code may be found in libgcc. IIRC their ARM assembly code versions are some of the fastest routines available anywhere for software floating point emulation. While they are in assembly, ARM assembly is fairly intelligible.

Finally, you can probably come up with 90% or more of the correct solutions yourself if you start with the definition of a floating-point number as (-1)^s * 1.m * 2^(e - bias) and grind through the algebra with the bias as a constant. The theorems that prove the minimum number and nature of the guard bits to get correct rounding are another matter, but you can start off by computing the equivalent infinite-precision terms and then rounding.
The real interest rate is built into the cost of the car!
The last reason that people are mad is that they are correctly informed.
"I recently graduated .."

Are you throwing the towel at the first round?.

"I gain little to no satisfaction at this point"

It is not about personal satisfaction, especially a fast satisfaction but to work hard and achieve a specific goal. Which goal?. your goal. It was your call to pick this career and you achieve it, then, go ahead and end the fight (or die trying).

btw, welcome to the world of the adults!.
I bookmarked your comment, thank you so much!
> pouring millions into 'smart grid' R&D

Unfortunately, that essentially contradict's the GP's "isn't a research problem anymore" assertion.

Similarly, millions, even tens of millions, isn't an impressive amount of money by VC-funded high-growth tech startup standards, so that also belies the notion that it's not just research any more.
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I just wanted to add that I have been absolutely loving gitlab. Signed up in 2014 and use it pretty much daily.

One of the biggest problems I had was the speed of the web ui but since the great github migration the speed increased massively and has stayed snappy.

Contributing code to GitLab has also been my favorite experience with open source as not only were my changes looked at, Gitlab developers actually helped me get things working and write better code.
Yeah, a rare few philosophers did some precursor work to my field before it was its own field of study. Well enough. Would someone else have done it if they hadn’t? Perhaps a mathematician? Maybe. Maybe not. Probably. Philosophers doing something useful a century ago tells us little about whether philosophy continues to be a productive force in society. If the best thing you can say about the pursuit is that many years ago its members contributed to studies we now think of as separate disciplines, well, that’s not much.
The argument about science replacing philosophy is constantly presented as a nuanced conundrum.

But there really are scientific questions and there really are philosophical questions.

For example, when two cars crash, science can in principle tell us exactly at what speeds they were traveling, what the drivers were doing, and all the physical details.

But as humans we want to find not just what happened but who's at fault.

When we ask questions about guilt, we're asking a non-scientific, philosophical question.

Understanding precisely what happened is important in assessing guilt, but only up to a point. I don't mean questions of physical cause and effect, or even of legal guilt, but actual culpability. If you think that question is answerable, then you're in the realm of philosophy.

Questions of credit and blame lead to questions of good and bad. If you believe that ethics are a real thing, then every decision has an ethical dimension, and science can't really help with that.

The best attempt I've seen at reconciling science and physics is by Bob Doyle at http://www.informationphilosopher.com/
Reminds me of the story of the heroic woman in Arkansas who, during the same period, helped hundreds of victims living their last days on Earth: https://m.arktimes.com/arkansas/ruth-coker-burks-the-cemeter...
You can put your CS degree to great use in the technology field without being a programmer. The two that come to mind are:
1. Product Manager
2. Sales Engineer sometimes called Solutions Engineer.
After the war, Americans got these diseases  and they wont let me tell
The Intel C2xxx Chip was faulty and I wonder if there is more to this story. Like CPU degradation due to heat.
Maybe the traces on the CPU just can't hold up to heat.
The reason I say this is the top end C2750/C2758 seems to be more at risk then the C2338 dual core. This is unscientific just browsing forums. I think this is heat related.

Wasn't the C2xxx series also an expensive server SOC.
Man these guys are fumbling.

[0]https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/06/cisco_intel_decline...
You're getting a lot of legal advice from non-lawyers.

Reach out to the EFF and see if they can give you some pro Bono consulting on how to license it for your needs. Alternatively, @buu700 and I have worked with and can recommend https://twitter.com/falconred (Jim Rennie). I get no commission for the rec—we last worked with him two years ago.
I have a couple of book suggestions that might help you start exploring the question for yourself:

1. Man's search for meaning, by Victor Frankl

2. Ambition, by Gilbert Brim
That's why they don't publish 'uncorroborated hearsay'. You are just calling it that. We the readers have a pretty decent idea what standards major newspapers adhere to. It's a minor exercise in reading to get familiar with them if you personally happen not to be.
It's disingenuous to associate yourself as a "reader" when you evidently didn't read the article carefully:

"Tesla declined to comment on the specific memo. But it confirmed it is seeking price reductions from suppliers for projects, some of which date back to 2016, and some of which haven’t been completed."

The second source the WSJ found was Tesla itself. Uninformed assertion does not make for a proper, useful Hacker News comment.
Trump is a billionaire. He doesn't just go have a Miller Lite and listen to country music after "work", ya know? He screws super-models, has the "taste" of a Russian Oligarch/Arab Sheikh (most likely shits from a golden toilet) and can casually eat steak that probably costs more than what his adoring fans make in a week.

The truly sad part of everything you said is that Trump is a "man of the people" because he makes "Librul tears" flow and because he speaks like a simpleton.

And that's truly sad. There was a time when "men of the people" could string together coherent thoughts, speeches, hell, they wrote books even, to inspire others.

Now it takes a quick little angry Tweet aimed at Mexico, Muslims and/or something Bezos did and American blue-collar types get their panties wet immediately.

It's so, so, so very sad, especially because there was another populist who didn't appeal to the worst dregs of America exclusively and who also was an outsider who could've shaken things up a bit. Wasn't meant to be, I guess.
Do you have a cite for that? Ambien makes me slightly more drowsy; it's not like being under general anesthesia.
When you issue a chargeback, the credit card company asks the merchant to return the money. They have no power to enforce this even if they side with the issuer. If they cannot get the money after six months or so, you're on your own with small claims. I'm there right now even though the merchant promised in writing they would refund me. I've been screwed before also with five star Marriott hotel rooms that had no air conditioning in summer in Cancun. The belief that the credit card company eats the loss if the merchant refuses to refund is a myth, albeit one even I believed till recently. Don't ever rely on that. Not from any credit card, not even Amex. This is how things really work and most people don't find out till they get fucked over.
> I experience PTSD like symptoms from the constant barrage of negative thoughts the difficulty and stress of doing these problems are causing me.

Find a good tutor who understands this issue and knows how to help.

I've helped multiple students level up in math by getting past this kind of anxiety.

The book Misteaks... and how to find them before the teacher does is about calculus, but hopefully it'll be obvious how to generalize it to your situation.
Yeah I remember babysitting an autistic child when I was younger who had 'severe' autism. had had to wear a small lock on his pajamas so that he would not open his diaper and smear feces on the walls. He spent most of my time babysitting with him with his face pressed up against the television. It seems like 'autism' is thrown around to lightly in my opinion, especially after working with someone who had such a severe form.
I don't think developers would ever pick SF because of how user friendly the release page looks.
It’s important from here moving forward that we understand “liberal” to mean the same as it did in the French Revolution; that is bourgieous who say they care about working people to gain popular support. The “left” and “liberals” are 2 very different factions. If they ever seem similar, this is a matter of understandable confusion at the hands of liberals.
The worst mistake in human history was when the USA did not take over the world after WWII using the power of nuclear bombs.

End of story.
How Hellobike is beating Mobike and Ofo in China’s smaller cities
Or she can sign up for a new email and new uber/lyft account. I doubt they care and probably leave this door open like Amazon because they know they will fuck people over wrongfully.
I used to work in the automotive industry. It is common to push suppliers for price reductions on existing and future agreements. But I have never heard of partial refunds on past sales. This is not a smart game of chicken to play. If your suppliers don't think you are able to meet your obligations, they will rapidly cut you off from all credit (if not stop doing business with you all together). And if suppliers require upfront cash for parts deliveries then Tesla is in big trouble due to their high negative cashflow.

Also, a move like this could trigger additional credit downgrades. Institutional investors (the main holders of Tesla stock) are much more likely to dump the stock if ratings agencies further downgrade Tesla's creditworthiness. I'd be surprised if Tesla were bluffing here- I think this is either pure desperation or "fake news".
Ok lets put it this way. Lets just say it is discovered that Jesus was actually a banker himself. Does that really change the fact that he purged the bankers/money changers form the temple of Jersualem?

And because he did that, do anti-bankers and money changers care about the fact that Jesus himself was a banker and a money changer? Especially since the banker community repeatedly comes to the television and talks about how Jesus is breaking the fabric of our society and throws a barrage of anti-Jesus message through media?

Look, Bernie Sanders made $1 million second year in a row, but do Democratic Socialists care about it? He is far richer than most of his followers would ever be, but if Jeff Bezos writes Editorials talking about how horrible Bernie Sanders is, then it just gives Bernie more credibility, irrespective of his newfound wealth.
4 chan plays this game, but also with adversaries (as one would imagine)

Allegedly they made it to 10 for ACTA.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/b-counts-to-10
This is what happens when the "gender is a social construct" rubbish infects academia. They now start off with the assumption that men and women are completely equal in all ways and look for explanations for why that changed, agriculture in this case. Starting off by acknowledging biological differences (men being stronger and faster) and biological necessities for a group to survive (pregnant women make poor hunters and warriors) is now heresy.
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Amazing part of the world. I lived there for a year as a child (Bois-le-Roi) when my Dad was teaching in Insead and visited every summer (to a small village called Recloses) until I graduated high school. Fontainebleau is not exactly the middle of nowhere though. Only around an hour by train to Paris.

We used to go bouldering in Buthiers, which I'm sure you've visited. It was also the location for the world mountain bike trials championships in the 90's.

One of my favourite places in the area is the sand quarry near Bourron-Marlotte (48.342808, 2.676220). Highly recommend a day trip there.
I'm outside the VC arena, so take this with a grain of salt.

It appears to me that part of the reason the Silicon-Valley-Tech-VC model involves explosive growth is because a large number of the businesses are chasing what really amount to fads, and the only chance they have of being successful is to take the entire market before the uers move on to the next big thing, so that after the initial "wow" wears off, anyone that remains stays on their platform/program/app/service/etc.

Obviously, that's not entirely a bad thing. It's made a lot of money for a lot of people, and there are people who genuinely thrive on the churn and burn involved.

It's not a model that I personally like, preferring instead a slow and steady growth based around a lasting quality product. It might not lead to billion-dollar businesses, but I think it leads to better businesses.
Why do you think that guilt is a non-scientific question? Is it only because it is too inadequately defined to produce a consistent interpretation?

And guilt probably has little to do with fault.
> the scale of money involved [1]

And yet in that very example, that scale of money is involved for a battery solution. Notably lacking is how software, or computer technology of any kind, contributed to that dollar amount.

I don't doubt that opportunities do exist, and some have been outlined elsewhere in the thread. I'm just unconvinced that the overall money involved has anythign to do with the money available to pure software solutions.

Even in computing, not all problems can be solved with software.
They do but thats not meant to be used on your app/website. It's mainly for editors to use.
Why is this an insurance issue? Do you expect the servers to catch on fire?
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"Not that there’s anything wrong with a bit of self-stimulation. I’m here commenting after all."

That sounds a bit solipsistic. Don't you believe other commenters exist?
> Yeah, a rare few philosophers did some precursor work to my field before it was its own field of study.

We're talking about the late 19th and 20th centuries in the cases of Frege and Russell (two of dozens), well into mathematics being its own field of study. I brought up the 5th century BC to show a continuous line of inquiry, but you can look into most philosophy departments today to see novel work in the philosophy of mathematics. I studied under some professors who did that work.

> If the best thing you can say about the pursuit is that many years ago its members contributed to studies we now think of as separate disciplines, well, that’s not much.

I'm not understanding this reasoning. The "separate disciplines" you're talking about would not exist without philosophy. All modern computing, mathematics, and political science stems directly from relatively recent discoveries and insights by philosophers. In my book it's a sign of tremendous success, not failure, for one field to spawn another.
I would work on making regular space travel a reality for everyone, anyone.
Dont worry about the puzzles, a lot of companies dont use them for interviews. Interviewing is (mostly) a numbers game, so while you might not get a Big 4 position (which frankly might be over rated anyways), just keep going, keep interviewing. I'd make notes on what I missed after an interview, studied them, and pushed to do better on the next one.
Should I (or do I?) own the firmware, OS, applications, etc? Maybe, maybe not. Certainly if I own a device, I should have the capability to use the device to its fullest with my own owned software (i.e. no gimping of hardware/firmware allowed depending on what is booting) i.e. I do not really own my iPhone. The DRM/trusted computing ecosystem might then be (realistically) opt-out via taking an alternative fork (running alternative software) of the web/tree/chain of trust. There need not be only one DRM/trusted computing fork, all-or-nothing choice, though.