skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm also highly skeptical of the idea anyone outside of a tiny minority would be unaware that "garbage" is an intentionally insulting term, especially given that it is a metaphor. Even "completely fails to meet standards" is vastly better and more descriptive (outside of the emotional content of "garbage").

For many on the spectrum (though certainly not all; it’s called a “spectrum” for a reason), this notion of “emotional content of <word>” is simply an alien concept! I know this is quite hard for a “neurotypical” person to truly accept (let alone empathize with), but it’s true: Which words are emotionally charged, and which aren’t, must be learned by rote memorization, and this can take a great deal of effort.

In this “neurotypical” world we live in, those of us on the spectrum must put a lot of effort into “acting neurotypical”, since “being yourself” just doesn’t fly when it means you can accidentally hurt others feelings (and we certainly don’t want that either).

Nobody is perfect though, and mistakes do happen. What’s unfortunate is that the kind of mistakes often made by people on the spectrum aren’t naturally tolerated or forgiven by most people, because the behavior is often seen as so far beyond the norm that “surely malice must be the only explanation”. Therefore, forgiveness and tolerance is often bypassed entirely.

Of course, I’m not trying to make excuses arguing that hurtful behavior should be tolerated; rather, I’m agreeing with the original point that we should help teach people how to behave well first, rather than dropping some kind of “ban hammer” on the first offense. Responding with the maximum penalty at the first offense is not only unfair, but creates a culture of fear and terror and anxiety, at least among those who aren’t the best at predicting what may or may not be seen as an offensive statement.
If the scale is from Mars to Earth, then we are doing nothing to make the Earth measurable less habitable than it is now.
>Why aren't more people going to there rather than Vancouver or Toronto?

The main language is French and it causes harm to the expansion of many businesses.
Vaping ain't that great either.

All mind altering substance is not for kids.

Heck, even tobacco should be 21+
Because a fresh start allows us to try out different ways of running societies and escape established structures. It's so hard to change things in established systems.

I think there's pretty good historical evidence of this. The establishment of the USA is an example.

It can be a good way to, over time, enact change within the established societies.

A similar argument can be made that the unique technological challenges involved will spur innovation that will again help deal with problems in the established societies.
It’s because Mars is a fixer-upper. You cannot make it worse.
Not tech support but more like sales, relationship management, tour guide, anything where you can have extended conversations with people. A tech support role that is in person (as opposed to over the phone) would be okay.
That's not what I said. I said Rust was a good candidate for all the things Python is using to actually do useful work. The underlying libraries written in Fortran, C, and C++.

Don't tl;dr; if you don't know how to r.
Whoever wrote this either doesn’t live in NYC or has somehow miraculously avoided riding the subway while living there. This is nonsense. There is absolutely no way a fleet of autonomous vehicles could replace the sheer volume of passengers that the subway handles. An autonomous car can fit maybe 6 people who all would need to load and disembark. Also, good luck finding 6 people going from one station to the same destination station easily. Finally, let’s just ignore “The stations would have to be redesigned, outfitted with little entrance and exit ramps“ because, yeah, subway construction is trivial.
Montreal is an extremely easy city to live in. Very inexpensive rent, good nightlife/events and arts/culture scene, and a pretty good transit system.

The Quebecois will disagree with me on this, but I don't think you even need to speak French if you're working in tech - you might just have a smaller friend circle of Anglos.

Taxes however are crazy high and salaries are low compared to cities like Vancouver or Toronto.

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AFAIK, the ability to tolerate oxygen is an advanced property of terrestrial life — the simplest, oldest life forms were totally unable to survive in the presence of oxygen.
This school is for free, and to educate the next generation of students, why do you have to complain?
> The incentive is not directional

The magnitude matters. Meaning journalists have an incentive to stretch the truth in either direction, as long as it'll get a reaction. A journalist now has to weigh this monetary incentive against their other incentives for being non-hyperbolic, truthful journalists.
I'm reminded of the Black Mirror episode "The Waldo Moment".

It's the 3rd episode of season 2 (6th episode overall). Worth watching.
But that doesn't come for free with Rust. You still have optimize the DB. And then does it really matter which language you use, since the DB is still going consume most of the time generating a web page anyway, right?
> Why aren't more people going to there rather than Vancouver or Toronto?

1. You need to speak French

2. Winter is brutal (forecast for next 10 days, and it's only October: https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/CAXX0301:1:CA)
Earth's magnetic field could flip within one lifetime
I trust Mozilla would throw ProtonVPN under the bus at the first hint of trouble.

Can you actually check if a VPN provider logs data? No, but Mozilla certainly has more sway than I do.
If you are telling a government agency what it will cost them to do the work, you are "bidding" the project. Does that not make sense?

I don't understand why you want them to do the work. How is it more cost effective to have the government do the work then to just do it yourself?

I'll answer this question, it is not. I 100% guarantee that ancestry, if they brought in their own staff or standard partner to do this, paid a LOT less then whatever the goverment would have charged you.

And then you got things for free. And are suing over this.

Let me make a suggestion. Follow the ancestry model. Offer a free service to agencies, backed with some quality, and if you then give them even a hard drive with the images you will make them very very happy. Seriously.

On the other hand, if you tell them to do something they don't know how to do, and then sue them when they don't do it the way you want, you will be helping to make the world worse off.

I did look at the fiche count, I will say, that's a very small job. That's where you will most likely see the biggest cost difference between doing it yourself and having them do a one off.
Well, spend some time with those employees, they know about these cases.

This means that these employees frequently send more, faster to avoid a big public issue.

The point is that individual people feel pressure and make decisions based on these articles (and many not so public cases) that in retrospect are not that great.

And then some blogger makes foolish claims, as if it was incompetence rather than fear.

I'll not comment further
The older copy of the US site at https://web.archive.org/web/20180206011840/https://www.42.us...
is very clear:
"I AM NOT BETWEEN THE AGES OF 18 AND 30. CAN I COME TO 42?
No. While we do not have anything against those who are over 30 years old, when opening a new location, we have decided to concentrate our where they can be the most efficient and where we have a great deal of experience."

On the current site this is changed to:
"You can apply to 42 if you’re older than 45, but please know that most students here are younger and that Intensive Basic Training is tiring."

Hardly encouraging.

The french site http://www.42.fr/ says "ouverte à tous et accessible aux 18-30 ans" (18-30 only)

Draw your own conclusions about age discrimination here. You are free to apply...
See:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325704105_Flynn_eff...

Although there is still one possible genetic cause, which is people (both women and men; in fact, some studies show the effect is stronger for men: https://www.nature.com/articles/gim200868) having children later in life.
An Open Source FIDO U2F Security Key Implementation on NRF52 SoC
I have an iPhone 7s for work and a Xiaomi A2 for personal.

Not going to lie but the iPhone hands down is a pain in the ass. Battery life is shite compared to the China phone, the thing constantly goes to emergency menus in my pocket or tries to tap pay for shit.

Reception on it is AVG at best (both phones on same network) and it's general usability sucks. Like can't even just plug it in to transfer files, the fingerprint sensor has about 1/3rd the hit rate of my China phone, the thing can't shoot video while in a phone call, hell I can't use my earbuds for hands-free while it's on the charge because it has no headphone jack (oh and the stock headphones are about the tinniest worse quality sound I've had in half a decade). Christ I could rant for dayz but you get the point the list goes on.

Tbh all these things suprise me, I've avoided iPhones like the plague for moral reasons but I figured/assumed the phones would have decent usability. Apparently I was wrong as I have been forced to discover thanks to work.

I would have to agree with the article, shit that is simple and fairly easy to do elsewhere becomes a tedious task W/ iPhones.
> I'm really excited to see where WebAssembly can go. I know many of these projects will peter out, but it's exciting nonetheless.

Absolutely. On the Lua front someone made a PoC to add Lua as a language for Iodide [1] using Fengari [2] which (while I haven't used it yet) definitely looks interesting. Hadn't heard of Nebulet before but will definitely be following it now. Cheers!

[1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/iodide-dev/ahc4fg8_JLg/llkHS...
[2] https://fengari.io/
It's being sorted by votes. Many times, the accepted is at the top despite higher number of votes being cast for those below.

I'm not sure what the deciding factor is now, perhaps there is a more complicated scoring system happening in the background or it recently changed?
Why are they optional? SGML! Data integrity! Ambiguity! Rabble!
Am imagining all compasses would suddenly flip, how would it affect our GPS systems built to work in AI environments? Is it possible that nothing will be much affected a la the millennium 2000 craze or will it be impactful?
That’s why I said “ease” too.
Taxes are pretty comparable to NYC, but they include health insurance (assuming one has the right immigration status) regardless of employment. Salaries are definitely lower but also in line with cost of living. Agree about language, though one may want to learn French after arriving for maximum enjoyment.

Hello from another techie in Montreal, recently arrived from NYC. :)
We have to start somewhere that isn’t earth. Interstellar travel over the next 100-1000 years will be a requirement for the next 5000-10000 years if humans expect to survive that long. Starting development now to understand terraforming and building out the primitives that allow for it in the future is something we owe to generations to come.
Eh I’m not convinced. “This rewrite will be different, we will make all the right choices!”. Next conversation “it’s just wrong in different ways”.

Like you’re right, the inertia of established countries probably holds us back a lot, but I’m unsure that we have evolved sufficiently to do better. It’s possible to imagine, but it doesn’t seem like an obvious outcome just yet.
Isn't that why you want Mozilla?

By siding with you they can certainly pave over the asymmetry in the relationship between provider and users.

I trust Mozilla, not ProtonVPN, and I trust Mozilla vetted them and will continue to look them over the shoulder.

That's more than I can say for my current VPN provider.
Well, tabs versus spaces is not a Python thing, that will bite you in any language eventually. Blame the VT-100 terminal.

Here is the thing about indentation versus curly-braces-and-semi-colons: It boggles me that people find it acceptable to use one mechanism to communicate block structure to the compiler, and a completely different mechanism to communicate block structure to humans, and have no way to automatically check that they have the same semantics. This is a frequent source of bugs, and is entirely preventable. When it comes to the ergonomics of computer-convenient versus human-convenient, humans should win. Therefore, significant white space is clearly preferable simply from the standpoint of eliminating the source of an entire class of bugs.

But the main thing that makes Rust harder to read is all the punctuation noise and short, cryptic keywords. While one friend once said: "A good programmer can write FORTRAN in any language.", I don't feel compelled to help them.

Readability matters.
People always worry about joke candidates getting enough votes to actually gain a seat, but how often does this actually occur?
The radiation on the way and while on Mars is a pretty big obstacle
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/real-martians-how-to-pr...
Or under pull down menus... or context menus... or...

Force touch just seems like a different form of right mouse clicking.
> I'd say that it seems like it's easier to make it as an average/mediocre person if you're doing epitech, 101, 42, etc.

You could just as well learn all the theory by heart, do not know how to use it in practical situations, forget it after the exams and pass just fine in most public schools as well. If you're bad and not willing, you're gonna be bad, no education will save you
This is partly true and bad, partly false, and partly true and good.

Partly true and bad: I think this bit is self-evident to this audience.

Partly false: the language wars have subsided in Montreal and rank and file tech workers can manage okay in English until they get around to learning French, even if the company has to deal with French by virtue of being here. The provincial politics are noise which can mostly be tuned out within the Montreal tech worker bubble.

Partly true and good: the friction that Quebec's language laws have created across the provincial border have allowed space for more "made in Quebec" companies that wouldn't have happened if Quebec let itself be treated as just another North American jurisdiction. It keeps the French/European cultural flair that makes it uniquely Quebec. Admittedly plenty of North American influence is still present.
Some of us hate SF because of (among other reasons) the lack of winter. To each their own. :)
Well, at least once, recently
>Just the opposite: you need the CoC to make sure they do get kicked out.

No, you don't. You don't need a CoC for sensible moderation.

Good moderation is a combination of clear, actionable rules, good intentions and wisdom. Documents like Contributor's Covenant do not help with any of that. They're vague, their intentions are debatable, above all they're the exact opposite of "wise".
I'm not about to try it right now (don't want to mess up my contacts) but I'm pretty sure you can just tell Siri that "suchandsuch is my wife" and she'll update the relevant Contact cards for you.
See gwern's write up: https://www.gwern.net/Embryo-selection

We can predict roughly 16% of the variance in IQ.
Dude, trying to get proof is not proof.

For all they know ancestry didn't even ask the state to do the work but did it for them for free, and then after doing the work themselves gave it to these guys (not required).

So no cost estimate needed, no fight about cost needed.

You've got one group demanding detailed costs estimates, demanding names of vendors (the government probably doesn't even have yet because they've not bid it yet).

You've got ancestry who shows up, willing to work for free, willing to give images back, with past experience.

Do we seriously want government to turn group #2 away and battle away with group #1?

Or do we want govt to let group #2 do the work, no battle on price needed, then give the items to group #1. After exercising some common sense, the government is now going to be sued by these guys.
I've been where you are.

Here are some things that worked for me:

1. Get some time off. Don't work, just relax, read things, try to find real problems from people around you.

2. Start a project with someone. Anyone. Accountability works really good.

3. Try to concentrate on one things, making it good enough.

4. I've found that listening to entrepreneurship podcasts works wonders for motivation.

And to end this comment: the moment you've got $1 in your account you stopped being a wantrepreneur :)
Agreed. The pointed denials make the whole thing even weirder.
Every single action that was available in the contextual menu (hidden "behind the ctrl key") was supposed to be available elsewhere as well, typically as an actual app menu item.
>> But surely terraforming a barren wasteland is going to be easier than terraforming a (relative) oasis of life!

Actually, terraforming a barren wasteland might indeed be easier than preventing the oasis we have from being turned into a barren wasteland.
It's possible that the hack wasn't that big (targeted to only certain boards) and that the higher-ups at the companies don't know the details
Outside of environmental factors, social factors should also be considered.

Oversimplified:
Maybe everyone is being too safe and not exposing children to stimuli that promote better development.

I suspect several factors are contributing to this. 1) As more toys are discovered to be 'dangerous' or 'have small parts' children have less exposure to complex objects or it is deferred to later ages. 2) Adults have less, or are less inclined to, time to properly care for children and thus don't understand that judgement and supervision can allow 'supervised' use of toys that can be dangerous if not properly used, but would be fine if used while supervised. 3) I wonder how strongly this correlates to all parents within child rearing units being in the workforce (single parents, dual income parents, etc)? 4) Or how it relates to decreasing access to natural areas to explore as a child?

These are only some of the social influences that could also be part of the cause.
> It's because colonization and population growth has been our MO for the last 200,000 years.

Then it can probably wait another 2,000 years or so, while we figure out how to not trash civilization on this planet. It's practically a blip in the grand scheme of things.
I think everyone should try to do the best to get along with others. That said, I wouldn't even cry if that would be that case.

No COC will improve anything. It just might divide contributors without any benefit.
>>I just can't fathom a huge market in stolen car parts.

There is a huge market for them. They are laundered through junk yards.
Plus, by nature of having to go through several hops, it will always be slower than a standard VPN. (And that's in the best case. In reality it's noticeably slower, I assume due to congestion of exit nodes.)
When Google crawls your site, it doesn't know the difference between two urls with the same path, but with different GET params.

Theres no way for them to know whether or not the extra params on the URL change the result page.
(i.e. example.com/index.php?post_id=1 and example.com/index.php?comment_id=1 could be very different pages, or they could be the same; you don't know).

So in comes the canonical url!
This tells Google the proper url required for a specific page.
That way if Google gets to a page using two different urls, it can tell that they are the same page.

You can list it by adding a tag to your HTML head.

You can even do face things like rewrite urls entirely (i.e. If the crawler hits example.com/?category_id=1&item_id=2, you can correct the ugly url by listing the canonical url as example.com/category/1/item/2)

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en
Remote Code Execution Flaws Found in FreeRTOS – Popular OS for Embedded Systems
>This is another case of Apple being held to a higher standard than competitors in the market.

My phone cost $300
I was trying to make the point that you need to actually find the motivation to spend the time to learn something in order to be able to use it, and not just expect to be able to use it with no time spent learning at all.

Most of those extra gestures you can get away without knowing, can't you? I'm not on iPhone but on Android you could get away with just using the home button and tapping on icons on the screen to do almost anything. Tapping on a touchscreen to activate an icon hasn't changed since the first touch devices in the 90's.

I guess the larger point I was trying to make is that not everything has to be obvious, and in my opinion it is ok to have some learning curve for advanced operation, in the same way that many of us have spent extra time learning to touchtype in order to save time over the long run.

If you dumb the device down completely for the lowest capability user, then it will limit how a person willing to put in that learning time will be able to operate it.
> would go and dismantle company property

since when taking a photo of the claimed motherboard with a foreign spy chip on it is considered as "dismantle" company property?

> discredit your employer knowing that it's likely to damage them and ruin you

I thought those huge number AAPL and AMZN investors deserve some truth.
Missed two of my favorite: (1) enabling flash the camera light on notifications and (2) double-tap physical home button to access the to of the screen one-handed.

This diatribe fails however to make a point. If they really cared about helping others learn to use emergency features they would've included more detailed instructions for others.
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Because opioid use decreased in states with legal marijuana...

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/articl...
Price data is freely available from many sources for you to examine and issue your own conclusion. Here is another chart:

http://images.woobull.com/2016/10/volatility-btc-vs-fiat.png (from https://woobull.com/bitcoin-volatility-will-match-major-fiat...)

The long-term trend is that BTC is becoming less and less volatile.
This is fairly accurate, I am in Montreal.
Sounds like they are running scared? Could this be a cover up do you think?
For what it's worth, I prefer it without such lists. Although HN has guidelines on what are acceptable posts, I like the fact that quirky, interesting and completely irrelevant posts occasionally make it through.

If HN had sub-lists, I'd feel compelled to use them, and I'd miss out on a whole bunch of things.

I also agree that keeping a simple UI is what helps keep, in part, HN exactly what it is.
If you haven’t discovered this, TripMode handles #3.

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