skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I couldn't remember what steeple means because English is not my first tongue so I googled it. I did see a picture instantly, but I didn't want to imagine this concrete picture so I had my own church in mind.

Thing with churches is I never really pay attention to them so I'm also pretty sure I would've thought of my own abstract version of it. I also have a lot of trouble navigating according to landmarks, any buildings or details. I can't remember directions or the path I came from when going again or reversing. I eventually do remember, but compared to people I know it's a lot worse. Everyone else seems to know where church with this and that name is, but I do not.
I’ve been learning testing the last few months (been programming around a year) and this logic seems pretty apparent, and also fairly impossible to adhere to.

More so, this idea of TDD seems a little ridiculous so far, and structural testing is why, but I wonder if this is just becuse I’m going through a period of wanting to refactor a lot while building something.

TDD is clearly appropriate for adding features, but when architecting central components, I think it’s cost me a lot of time. Some of that time is writing and verifying extra tests but most of it is reviewing a mountain of tests each time I modify architecture.

Is this just a learning phase? Or is there a long-term lesson to learn here?
I don't mean to sound demeaning when I say this, but I think it's better to be blunt for topics like this one. The majority of your comment seems like baseless speculation to me. There is a vast amount of pseudoscience and armchair ideation about autism on the internet. This ranges from outright hostility towards those who have it, to minimization of its very real impacts on quality of life.

I spent about ten minutes searching with the keywords "high functioning autism", "autism employment", "autism programmers", etc and could not dig up any studies substantiating the claims you've mentioned. This is not to say you're lying - I believe you actually did pick them up from somewhere. But I'm deeply skeptical of their clinical veracity and empirical provenance. Given how polarizing autism can be and how difficult it can be to research, I consider it harmful to be confidently describing "theories" like yours without much real support for the claims involved.

In particular, I would strongly advise anyone reading this to resist the temptation to self-diagnose or self-identify (one way or the other!) based on a strange question designed to see if you actually think of a church steeple. If you believe you may be autistic, personally see a professional and try not to read into the popsci promulgated by radio interviews.
My bullshit detector went off when the article said "the number of drivers involved in fatal crashes who tested positive for marijuana is up significantly" (a reference to Colorado). Duh, the overall percentage of the population smoking dope went up when legalized.
https://www.ukfast.co.uk/images/2018-redesign/logo.svg

> UKFast - your future is our business.

Turns out it's meant seriously.
Because it is filled with the air they are moved with.
People have been known to disappear for less.
That doesn't seem right. The API for an instance is going to be the Mastodon API, which will be the same for all instances. Each instance isn't going to be creating their own API - really, all Mastodon is is an API spec.
Among the many bad arguments this article makes, the most glaring to me is assuming that the "distilled version" of Newton is superior to his original works. Little known fact: Newton had profound insights in the philosophy of science, predicting, among other things, computational complexity,a and if these parts of his thought were heeded, maybe the "Enlightenment" wouldn't have made the terrible mistake of thinking (or willing) the world as a linear, rational place (it isn't.)
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Illiquid in the sense that it takes a few days to liquidate. One can always get back their original investment with no penalties.
Yes, global shutters are a thing in expensive professional video cameras. But almost every camera in the world is a phone camera prone to rolling shutter effects both in stills and video shooting. Out of the rest, almost all have mechanical shutters for stills shooting and electronic rolling shutter for video. It’s going to be a while before global shutters become a thing in consumer cameras.
Key based authentication isn't really going to protect against a homograph attack.
They were ads to upsell them on a higher level of subscription. The argument was that they were "promotions" from US, not advertisements, which were from a "third party."

Of course, this is nonsense. An in-house ad is still an ad. When someone pays for an "ad-free" experience, we know they don't expect that they will still receive a full-screen modal popup, even if it is a house ad.
I would like this. Especially if you can get the filenames mangled into Plex-friendly form. Willing to seed out of 55 Marietta.
The definition of "wrong" isn't up for debate. b^)

Well, it seems like a simpler concept than "science", anyway.
Using software to model the spread of wildfire
Well the test subject has the option to 'undo' the loss. So the loss can be seen as optional for the purposes of the experiment.

Could we settle the argument by reading the definition of loss aversion to 10 people and asking each person whether the author's experiment measures loss aversion?
Yeah, that's in fact a good test for whether your work might be unethical - if you're relying on information arbitrage, you're screwing someone over.
Did you read any of her writing? She is far from popsci.

Also in defense, I was careful to word everything as suspect, not fact.
Maybe one could start with making and painting things, while blasting super loud sound at them, and do it with a robot so the only difference is the sound. Then check if the difference between sounds and no sound can be detected in any way right after the thing is done.

If you get any results, just a reproducible blip, then try things you haven't made yourself in a controlled environment... but if you can't even get it there, it seems kind of pointless to mess around with really old things.

That's my layman armchair perspective anyway, but from the armchair it makes sense :D
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Once I was with a friend and a homeless person pointed gun at us and asked us for all our belongings.

Now my friend who has rage issue and is also a football player, kicked so fast and hard at his wrist the gun was nowhere to be seen.

Now, i am neither martial artist nor a football player, i could barely see him kicking but he was ready to punch his face now since the gun was out of the equation.

If it was just me, I would have gave up everything and went home.
It was a great question in terms of something you might work through in classroom setting for advanced undergraduates or beyond. I thought it was really interesting. However, I think the weakness of it would be that anyone with a particular background (out-of-core) would identify it immediately. Many of the "hard questions" really come down to being some shibboleth to identify who has been at the right schools. :-) (and that's not a particularly sour note from me, as I have a CMU PhD, although I still can't get those questions)
I disagree, classical philosophy is what sparked the enlightenment, and the fact that so few scholars read those texts today, is probably why we are heading into a new age of stupidity.

Obviously you can get great in the field of physics or mathematics without reading Plato, but you really shouldn’t, because the works and thoughts of Plato are the foundation of our free society. And that’s just Plato, you really should enrich your life by reading classics of your field as well as philosophy, classic literature, arts and history.

In my country we have a word to describe this, it’s called “dannelse”, and I can’t find an English word for it. The closest thing I’ve been able to come up with to describe it is: ”give people a broad, general basis for developing their talents to the maximum and growing into strong, open and multi-faceted individuals who can assume their responsibility in society to the full.”. In my country, you can’t attend the university without a minimum foundation of classical philosophy, because you can’t do science if you don’t understand how knowledge is obtained, but I’ve never met an actual scientist who didn’t actually delve deeper into those aspects of life, because they offer so much in return.

Another example is programming. Who would you rather hire? Someone who is self taught, or someone who’s educated in best practices and patterns? The latter, because they won’t repeat the mistakes of the past 25 years. Every science is like this, and if you don’t educte yourself on the past, you’re really just wasting your time, making someone else’s mistake.

The real irony of the original story is that it excludes history from this. History happens to be my field, and unlike most other sciences, our classical works are mostly full of lies. Because they weren’t written to keep track of history, but to further the authors political agenda at the time. We use them only because we have to.
The way to type this would be: String -> Int | String (or, if the bottom type is part of your type system, String -> Int | String | Bottom)

And assuming that "eval" is typed as String -> Any, there should be no problem automatically inferring the type signature of this function. I certainly didn't have to solve the halting problem to generate that signature.
jamescostian has addressed the point well enough, but to add more to it, there are many ways to state an opinion, but tchaffee chose a very authoritative one, and when you claim something as true with neither evidence nor a good mechanism exploration, I believe you should be called out on it, because way too many claims like this are being made these days and people often end up believing them because they don't stop and think about how poorly the claims are actually supported.
Hospital superbugs are evolving to survive hand sanitizers
If the global economy shuts down, then you would get eaten in New Zealand.

Anywhere with mountains should be OK since temperature drops x degrees for every y meters above sea level.
Old glass doesn't flow and is solid. Google it to see plenty of debunking.
Microsoft can't disable existing installations, so the worst case of this theory is that if you don't pay you'll be stuck on Windows 2018. Which is no worse than the status quo from a few years ago: if you don't pay for upgrades you don't get upgrades.

My take is that they'll never do this for the consumer desktop. All competing OSes have free updates and MS put a lot of effort into convincing people to get on Windows 10 and stay current; why would they reverse course now?
Testing basically breaks down into the following types (and you can flavor them however you want, but take this as a starting point):

- test-last testing to test the implementation you just wrote

- test-first testing to test the implementation you're gonna write

- test-driven design, where the tests reflect the specification and are applied to the implementation

So, with these on hand, here's my litmus test for TDD:

Do I know what I'm building and why?

You can't meaningfully do test-driven design if you don't know the what and the why. TDD tests need to encode "the business cares about this", and IME, the questions you are asking often arise when somebody doesn't really yet know what they're building. You're figuring it out. And that is okay, too!

I'm not a TDD devotee (in that I would love to write code in a TDD fashion much more than I actually do, but I think it's probably the right answer for most situations where the unknowns have been solved or pushed out) and I think that you're describing a very common situation where writing tests while you're writing code, or maybe even after--though this is often fraught--is totally fine. I regularly build systems by writing tests to exercise bits and pieces of them in lieu of opening a REPL or running it through a command line; the Test Cops aren't gonna come get you if this works better during your exploratory phase. (It does mean your exploratory phase has some useful artifacts when it's done, though.)

Put another way: if I have a spec, I can do TDD. If I don't, I can't, and I don't lose sleep over it.
Worked for them before the merger.
From observation, some of the people I know who were sharpest at learning new technical subjects and solving hard technical problems were way behind as undergraduates compared to folks who were not as good at problem solving but had been steeped in a technical culture from a young age, and as a result the newcomers had to work a lot harder to catch up.

“Easy to teach” comes from understanding your vocabulary and references, having seen similar material before, not being confused by severe misconceptions, coming in with similar mindset, etc., not necessarily from being the best at new research (or whatever other real work task).

Someone who is a 4th generation mathematician is going to be completely comfortable talking about mathematical topics in casual conversation, irrespective of any genetic differences.
Just as long as you pay me the $3 downvote fee.
mastodon is used by pixiv here in Japan, which is essentially what deviantart used to be -- a sprawling, incredibly active community of artists (amateur, semi-professional, and professional alike).
We have a mechanic now that constantly surprises us by billing us something like 2-5x times less than we expected. Turns out, he's good, and he bills us for actual time spent and parts cost. Like last time, I expected to pay ~$270, ended up paying $65 - $32.5 for parts, $32.5 for work time.

This guy only takes work from existing customers and people referred by them, because it's widely known in the local community that he's good, and has way more people wanting his services that he can handle. He could rise his prices, but it turns out, he's a decent human being.
"outrage machine". What a perfectly succinct description. That said, Mastodon would likely turn into an outrage machine if it ever reached critical mass.

I suppose you could stay in your own mastodon instance to avoid it.
Yep.

Ticketing is actually fairly complicated, both technically & as a business.
> The tunnel vision that goal oriented people have prevents them from performing efficiently enough to meet their goals.

Interesting. You basically just described various situations in which I was flabbergasted because some colleagues of mine regularly try to slog manually through very boring, repetitive tasks (with much sighing and moaning, of course). I find it rather strange to have to point out possible automation (even for one-off tasks) in an IT firm.

That said, being the procrastinating type, some tasks just have to get done. The dishes don't do themselves, no matter how much you organize them :-)
Why does Windows not recognize my device when I use a different USB port?
> This is by design so that a person’s Toot is only Boosted in a way that gets the message they intended across.

Seems like a bad design decision trying to force people to use the platform in an unnatural way. They will just take screenshots and add their own comments instead, making the "retoots with comments" inferior to what it could be with native comments.
Yes. Well put and necessarily said, 62991. Hopefully, one has the peace-time luxury of a leisurly acclimation toward the deeper end of the pool; too many in the world sadly don't. Absolutely, awareness and preemption are paramount. btw - instead of "healthier options", I perhaps should have said "healthier instinctive responses". All that aside, any day arriving home alive and intact is a good day.
You trust Mozilla code, why not trust them to negotiate on your behalf?

Do you think you'll be able to negotiate a better solution on your own... If so, just change the defaults.
Usual wild speculation from media.

They have no "leaks" "exposing" "monthly charge".
The only time it bothered me or affected me was when taking management consulting case interviews, where I felt like I needed to be able to think way faster (or maybe I could have done more prep work so I’d pattern match rather than think).

I jokingly tell people hat I’ll get them an answer in 2 hours. ;)
Awesome Python Features Explained Using Harry Potter
The original story that this one is referencing: https://www.gq.com/story/spy-or-uber-driver
Oman Air becomes official carrier of Ironman – Aviation
Nicely done! Glad to see the explicit shout-out to https://github.com/kroitor/asciichart

FYI, the original calls itself ASCII chart because it limits itself to ASCII - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII

However, the curved shapes are from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_866 which originated from the USSR and was used in DOS and OS/2 to write Cyrillic script.

I honestly didn't know until I searched for it; I was curious and didn't recognize the characters.
I don't understand why these federated social networks don't use standard email addresses for identity.
But it‘s a centralized service and this is something Usenet wanted to avoid.
> which boils down to existing wealth generating much more much faster than far less wealth

No, generating wealth from wealth is proportional to your wealth. A middle class persons wealth in the sp 500 generates the same percentage returns as that of a billionaires does.

> join a VC

If you really think you can beat the market, then you should join the VCs and you can make a bunch of money IF YOU ACTUALLY CAN ACTUALLY BEAT THE MARKET. However, I HIGHLY doubt you actually can because most people do not and yet there are tons of people like you that think they can especially the most uneducated which is why they are the most susceptible to scams and why we have laws to try and product them because having an economy based on scams has lots of negative externalities.

> does accreditation requirements help or hurt the ability for individuals to ascend economically. It obviously hurts them

Explain?
People have been reflecting on their own natures, and the natures of others, for thousands of years. Some of those reflections grew into systematic traditions leading to real understanding.

Apart from their scientific-ness, finding one of these traditions can be helpful in sorting out self. E.g. in Jung's psychology, we all have a shadow ('dark core'). But beyond that is a greater Self. E.g. in Buddhism, we learn that desire is a primary cause of suffering ... But we can grow, through self-mastery, beyond our suffering. And share. There are more examples.

Yes, these old systems pre-date science, but several are firmly grounded in centuries (or more) of shared human experience. Finding one of these traditions that 'talks to you' (while avoiding schemes) can be very helpful - in a pragmatic sense. All are part of what Huxley called the 'Perennial Philosophy'.
I don't disagree. I think a lot of the debate on this thread comes down to free market economics and whether you believe it leads to a global maxima or not.

I think that starts to approach a religious belief, so I don't think I want to get into that debate, but I have yet to see a system that works better than the free-market (plus a reasonable safety net )
yes what i was saying is, i doubt you will be able to hit one mastodon API and get the tweets across all the federated instances. you will only retrieve the data of that single instance you are hitting. if that instance only has 1 user, then that will be all you are getting.

but please correct me if im wrong. i havent really dived too much into it.
536, so a bit more than a third.
Awesome! It's great to see India move northward between 50m and 35m years ago, and smash into the Eurasian body, creating what is now the Himalayan range.
This article leans heavily on an analogy between philosophy and physics and/or economics. This analogy is not generally accepted by most philosophers. Briefly: philosophy is not a science.

>Again this assumes that the job of the distiller is to summarize the original author. A good analysis book doesn’t summarize Newton it digests his insights and presents them as part of a grander theory.

Calculus is certainly part of a more general theory. The works of e.g. Kierkegaard may have relevance to some theories of philosophy, e.g. existentialism, but the best analysis of how Kierkegaard contributed to existentialism is still not a real analysis of Kierkegaard. Philosophy deals with a person's most fundamental beliefs, and because of that we often want to look at the whole actual person whose life grows up around those beliefs. That is not the case in physics or economics.
I hope this isn't true. MS already has so many ways of making money off of Windows users through various services, this move is akin to Gillette doing monthly lease for its razor, on top of charging separately for blades. It would be pure greed and abuse of monopolistic position.
In most states, refusing a breathalyzer test can cause suspension of your license, even if you are completely sober:

https://dui.findlaw.com/dui-arrests/can-i-refuse-a-breathaly...

Sadly, as with many things in our criminal justice system, the answer ends up being "hope that you're not prosecuted by mistake, and that you have enough money for a lawyer if you are".
I'd like to think I'd enthusiastically engage in a question like that. But in reality I think I'd find it extremely off-putting and would want to leave the conversation.

There's this sort of...meme, I suppose, of perfect dialogue. You can see it a lot in the way movie characters talk to each other, especially the ones who are supposed to be intellectual. Think of characters like Tyrion Lannister, Robert Ford, Chuck Rhoades or Andy Dufresne.

They're not just preternaturally witty - they have excellent rhetorical poise. They don't open conversations directly, they gracefully meander to their point with some kind of obscure arcana or quiet intensity. They're theatrical in their delivery and flush with metaphors, analogies or double entendres.

That's the way I feel about questions like, "Is your life a rich tapestry?" That's not a question that's asked or spoken, it's a question that's written. It's so pointed and so raw that, at best, you'd think the asker is eccentric. If you're less charitable you'd think they're simply socially awkward. Opening conversations that way is flying too close to the Sun.

I feel that the best way to answer that question is to turn away from the person asking, as if lost in thought. Then you'd make your way to your answer circuitously, by first deflecting to talk about the origin of the word "tapestry" itself alongside some powerful childhood memory about your father or a famous quote made on the eve of war. Finally, you'd arrive at a delightfully disarming answer that gives a real insight into your life and experience.

But in actuality I'd probably be asked that at a social gathering and respond with some sort of befuddled, "Er, what do you mean?" while being utterly taken aback at the penetrating intimacy of the question. Later on I'd probably ask someone, "Hey what's up with that guy, did he self-help book big on provocative conversation starters or something?"

If you really want to go down the route of non-traditional greetings, I'd recommend, "What have you been reading lately?" or "What are you about?" They still require some situational awareness, but they're a lot less risky and polarizing. I enjoyed being asked those when I first heard them.
Newton predicted computational complexity? Am I reading this right?

What do you mean by that?