skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you're a dick, I think I didn't convey my point well enough.

I picked one column off of a matrix and pointed out that most people considered to be "on the spectrum" have a high value here, whereas most neurotypical folks have a low value in that cell. That's not the only difference, it's just one that's easy to pick out. But it's also not a guaranteed indicator: if you've got an input filter and no output filter but you aren't actually on the spectrum, you can change the value there relatively easily. Read Dale Carnegie and a couple of books on communication styles and practice for a week or two: boom, you've switched over.

People on the spectrum can't do that easily. Instead of being a skill that they just haven't picked up, it's a method of analysis that takes a lot of work, remembering all the rules all the time.

Except, of course, there are people who find it more or less hard, and have put more or less work into it, so the results vary. Lots of gradations.

As to Gadson's comment: it is actually helpful from the perspective of neurotypical people who are trying to empathize with spectrum people, because it provides a reasonably useful metaphor for them to work in. The general perspective is called the Intense World theory of autism.

It can lead you to good analysis which yields workable solutions: by reducing the need for strong input filters, they can free up brain resources for doing what needs to be done. Environmental noise? Visual distractions? Organizational improvements? Working with everyone's strengths improves everyone's outcomes.

As to "I actually have too much emotion" as a descriptive phrase: if you take out the negative connotation of "too much", yes, I think it does describe one aspect of autism really well. "I feel things more intensely than neurotypical people do, and as a result I want to/have to block things out" might be a more universal description.
I don't see any tough choices. Saying yes to all of them merely brings the US in line with most of the developed world.
To be fair, both Democrats and Republicans claim to have moral high ground over the other. Evangelical Christians tend to vote Republican because that party has successfully sold itself as the party defending traditional Christian morality and American culture.
Linus has been wrong before, but here he is clearly and unambiguously wrong. You don't - you NEVER - develop to the details of an architecture. The only exception is when you're doing OS development. Since things that people want to run in the "cloud" are exceedingly rarely OS development, the idea that you'd care about the architecture is quite silly.

We have vendors ardently trying to get us to commit to their specific environments, like NVIDIA, but they've been dropping bricks on their feet by not actively encouraging software developers to not target specific versions of CUDA. Anyone running TensorFlow knows how much this sucks. After a while, people are going to get fed up with the problems that come from a poor yet popular implementation and are going to start preferring less popular, yet less proprietary, more deployable solutions.

The idea that Intel and AMD can continue to keep the x86 platform performance advantageous forever is pretty ridiculous. We are already seeing Arm CPUs which are significantly better than x86 in performance per watt. How long will it be until we have high end consumer Arm and low end server Arm that completely overlap x86? One year? Two? Three? Possibly four?

x86 isn't over - that's not what's happening here. But it certainly hasn't "won" forever.
I don't think that's what this article is about.

I for one would be OK with a machine learning model that's been trained using my data. I wouldn't demand that it be "re-trained" just because I asked for my history to be deleted. I think most people, given an explanation of what a machine learning model is, would be fine with this.

The clear history thing is about personally identifiable information though. It's not having your information dangling around after you leave Facebook. It's having the option to delete your shadow profile.

Throughout all the hearings, FB execs have been very wishy-washy about how they handle your browsing history, particularly what they collect outside of FB properties.

People should continue to call them out on this until they get their act together.
For payloads, I suspect a Slingatron on the moon would work well...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/391496725/the-slingatro...
The best places to work for try to balance both.
Did he once mention what kind of OS, phone or device he was using? There's like no actionable information there.
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Set my user agent to ' ' (single space character) in latest Safari on a new Mac. Get a 403 Forbidden.
What if instead of don't like them you identify them as an active enemy?
I knew the design looked familiar. If anyone uses Solr, this does the same for its debug output

https://explain.solr.pl/
DoubleClick was founded in New York.
I, as a F#'er, would argue that lines 2 and 3 of the C# snippet there is not an example of type inference. But I realise this is not a mainstream opinion so please don't downvote me :)
Based on your use of the word always to describe Zuckerberg as a liar, I infer that you are upset by FB, understandably. I would add that I am not a fan of FB and I am deactivated, but unless you work at FB, making comments on if they are working on it or not is just speculation. I would say a more probable speculation is >=1 employee is working on this tool.
The HN database must be very complex then, you can't do either.
I’d be really interested to hear more of this story! How you isolated the problem down to the level of the PSU is going deeper into the machine than I’ve personally been, so this story could be a great teacher.
Would such a move be enough to not be under the jurisdiction of the Eastern District? Google doesn't have any store there yet that doesn't stop any patent troll.
Ctrl + F feels like going to the index and looking something up. In that case its faster with an ebook.

However scrolling through / flipping through pages to find something feels much more effective with a real book.
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Yes, immutability, pattern matching, type inference, etc are not new ideas.

Pattern matching is another concept that’s making its way into popular programming.

https://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/pro-pattern-matching-in-sw...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2502354/what-is-pattern-...

C# and Java are also adding this feature.

We’re taking the long way to becoming Haskell and oCaml programmers.
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I suspect this won't actually prevent lawsuits in the Eastern district.

With internet shopping and the new store just across the district line, lawyers should be able to argue that Apple is indeed doing business in the region. It will just waste a bit of lawyer time.

It almost feels like Apple is punishing the region for it's patent troll supporting ways.
>> will fall victim to this culture

The issue with this culture is that using optics to achieve an advantage generally works, but is not a good long-term--big-picture strategy.

So reasonably, of course you need to learn all of these quirks, just to be able to get rid of the vermin in your org.
There were hundreds of years of "case law" on not letting black people drink from the same water fountains as white people. And yet, here we are.
Software developers often forget that their biggest critic is their future self.
> data vandalism

Words are powerful. Normalizing terms like "data vandalism" is the road to being legally required to use FAANG in such a way that maximizes their profitability. Probably not a great idea.
It's inexcusable how bad the iCloud system is, especially regarding authentication, however, I will note that if you enable 2FA you don't get an any of that security question nonsense anymore. (Yes, I know that you can't enable 2FA, but perhaps it is useful to someone else reading this).
The conventional wisdom around here is that you can't beat the market, it's efficient, all information is already incorporated, you should buy index funds, etc.

This is good advice for the vast majority of people. It's possible to beat the market, but you're unlikely to do so unless you're backed by significant capital and it's what you do for a living (see: Rennaisance, Two Sigma, Citadel, etc).

Ask yourself this: if you had the hottest of hot stock knowledge (and could legally trade on it), what would you do? Keep quiet and buy the stock yourself before word gets out, or sell the advice to a newsletter audience?
It's very weird to describe arrogance as a problem only for people near the bottom in terms of ability. Arrogance is an issue at all skill levels.
>If you have Firefox-Sync enabled. You will get all your extensions anyway. so it is a one time setup for all those extensions that you need.

Yes, but it's still annoying to set up the containers and set up that certain sites only open in certain containers.

Also if I'm on a work device I may not want to sign into Firefox Sync for privacy reasons.
> Don't implicitly approve Wolfram's narcissism. Just don't.

That's fair, but I'm not sure that a comment thread on HN is going to change him. He might be stuck in his ways at this point and may not even care about what some of the posts here say about his narcissism. I'm also not sure that we need to convince anyone here that he is a narcissist, as that part doesn't seem contentious. So maybe focusing on the other areas is better.
> "usually leads to components nobody can understand let alone maintain"

As you advance up the mountain, you will learn to see complexity simply. When you make this realization, your components will simplify dramatically. You must learn to see simply before you can design simply. It just takes time. There's nothing wrong with this, humility doesn't mean giving up your belief that you're capable of anything.

We were all born without any knowledge. We all learned everything we needed to know to get where we are today. We've put men on the moon. We've sent probes to escape our solar system. We've sent submarines to the bottom of the ocean. Humans have the capability to do anything we put our minds to. You can too. Everything you understand today, you've learned in the short lifespan you've had. Today you will learn more, and tomorrow and the next. Just because you find humility in your place, doesn't mean you're not capable of anything.
No, I don't think I meant to say all the lines were type-inferred. The type inference only happens on the 1st and 4th lines. In 2 and 3 the types were explicit.

All lines however are statically typed.
Check out https://wsvincent.com

He has a pretty good site on Django a couple books published with a third on the way.
It's a little misleading that they marked experts as opposing ideas when that opposition was merely based on political feasibility.
I don't think they expect it to prevent lawsuits, I think they're making a statement.
I tried for a couple months with the pixelbook...I couldn't do it. I ended up getting the surface book 2, and while I'd much prefer Linux for development, windows is far better than chrome for doing anything development-wise.
Nobody’s mountain has a peak unless you either stop learning or die.
Reminds me of those old over-engineered flash interfaces that consulting companies would make.
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Yes. Concentrating on error correction reveals the difference between digital and analog computing.

Digital computers have error correction. Analog computers don't.

Some small number of problems might be solved efficiently using analog computers, but they will never take over the role of general purpose computers because of error correction issues.
You think that evolution on another planet isn't going to put the most efficient killer species at the top of the ladder?

All the evidence available to us (Earth) suggests that the best killer on the planet will be the dominant species. It's been that way for billions of years.
This is wonderful! I love the personality that shines through in your site. In my experience at least, more personality is always better than less personality in freelancing.
That's the problem I have with it. I'm supposed to fight with all this extra infrastructure and configuration...to deploy a standard php web app with 600 users.
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The problem is that these lookalike models are constantly being re-trained to build an accurate profile that advertisers can then target. If you clear your history, the data that is used to train these models no longer exist. OC is saying FB needs time to adjust their models for a potential mass deletion of input data.
If you think it's a problem that you have this type of arrogance, what are you doing to improve and seek training about it?
> Picking up those pennies in front of a bulldozer

That is not what I'm advocating at all.
> Blocking by user agent would be a terrible idea.

You know what else is a terrible idea? Blocking IP ports in firewalls, or MAC based filtering, yet both of these are ubiquitous practices. Don't think something is not happening because you think is a bad idea. Other people, usually the ones in charge will often disagree.
> CR basically undermines its own reasoning removal of the recommendation in their own words, which CNN doens't cover.

How? Skimmed the report and it seems straightforward.
There is a request desktop version in iOS Safari, just like in chrome, but as the other answer mentioned - it’s up to the site to comply.

I’ve used my iPad Pro as a portal to Google Cloud and AWS for almost 2 years in personal projects. It works fine via SSH and the apps, but Cloud Shell isn’t great via the native app, so I end up running an extra instance. AWS, I just ended up doing an EC2 for command/control/dev.

Observed a few people at work on ChromeOS and they seem to be productive, so most likely you need something like a high end pixelbook to be safe on local tasks for data science.
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Question to the HN crowd : Would having event data & PII-ish data decoupled be an acceptable compromise to privacy granted that you can wipe the PII stuff and the only data left is completely anonymous (just a UUID that leads to nothing in case of deletion)?

Is anonymity in the eye of the beholder?
Depends on general confidence level and how mission critical your deployed software is. For instance, I will always prefer to run PHP, Ruby or Python on Linux servers. But on the client side, I have faith in Electron Apps to run cross-platform without issues.

I wouldn't be comfortable with an underlying architecture change to ARM for at least years to come and the usage decision would be based on general consensus on reliability that follows.
This is such a ridiculously bad take. NYers were against Amazon for the same reason Seattle residents were against Amazon taking over SLU. Nobody wanted 15k gentrifying jobs in LIC, half a mile from the Queensbridge Projects. Nobody wanted 15k transplant yuppies who don't want to contribute to culture at all. Nobody wanted Greenpoint, Astoria, and Williamsburg to turn (even more into) a gross similacrum of the Mission, where all the black and brown people get kicked out in favor of boring ass FAANG employees who only leave their 3k a month railroads to go to Soulcycle.

NYC is still a tech town. But it's not _only_ a tech town. You don't have to only be one thing in order to succeed.
And they fingerprint and track you regardless of you having an account!
> Rather than burning all this energy spreading FUD about Matrix, perhaps it might be better spent improving XMPP? :/

Yeah, didn't I say above about such kind of arguments?
is there a money timestamp or is the whole interview about the history tool?
That would just start an arms race where they would profile the browser to figure out what type it is.

Better to just leave it as a string you can spoof and let them pretend that it is good enough.
>Can I propose that we start on a "noise" tool/borwser plugin for these suveillance captialism companies?

It's been done :)

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1873/IWPE17_paper_23.pdf

https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/FAQ
The fact that the provided charts have no comparison to existing universal coverage systems (e.g. Canada, Europe) is frustrating. American news organizations treat the topic as if it were new and as if the care of American bodies is radically different from the care of the hundreds of millions of human bodies already being looked after by existing social welfare plans.
True enough -- but if a friendly fork is impossible and he's given up... I'd consider that fair game for a less-friendly fork provided the licence allowed it.

I know a few folks who use CPAP machines and would likely contribute to such an endeavour.
Impersonation code is some of the worst and scariest to write.

I've seen advisory after advisory just on user impersonation. Just no. Don't implement.

If you want to impersonate, use a private session or have users you control do the testing.
I do. You could.
As an adult? Not sure.

As a kid? It opens a lot of doors for additional help and accommodations in schools. This will of course vary by state and district, but it was a game changer for our son.
> Amazon pays $0 in federal tax

Citation to actual financial statements needed. Their most recent 10-K indicates they paid $1.2B in total taxes.

> demanded $3 billion in local tax breaks

No, they didn't. At least $2.5B of that is on the table for any company that wants to build and office for 25,000 people in LIC.

> offered very little enforceable things in return

Not sure what you mean here. The majority of the tax breaks are directly tied to headcount or construction. No hiring/construction == no credits.
Sounds like maybe he was just an asshole. How do you know this was due to his autism and not due to just that?
Yup, this works in 2d.
I really wish there was an official build of chromeos for virtualbox, it's ideal for a virtual appliance. There is one company that has a build for vmware but I don't use VMWare and it only has a 30day trial IIRC.
Yes, there is a $$ cost in the trial period. In my case they use cloud resources (lambda time mostly).

But there is also the "clogging" of analytics pipelines, reports and overview in general. If for every geniune paying business user there are 50 qq or yandex users lots of stats and metrixs get hard to interpret or use.
I really expected this to be about a hacker movement and JOLT cola
NetLogo is fun for toy agent-based simulation models. It includes visuals. For discrete event simulation, I recommend SimPy. If you like animations and you're willing to trade some personal info for free stuff, Simio has a free version that supports mixing discrete event and agent based simulation.

Edit: I realize I only answered about half of your question. I was in grad school when I did simulation modeling, this was about 5 years ago. I was working on modeling industrial processes. Simulation is great in that context because at a certain point queueing theory breaks down. I can't tell you how many talks I sat through that derived exciting conclusions from the assumption that all arrival processes are Markovian.
If you remove NYC and SF from the equation, there aren’t many million dollar jobs out there ...
Maybe related to Island Giganticism, and also Island Dwarfism (foster's rule).
The median income of NY's 14th district is 52K. My mother in law makes about that working in a hotel in Manhattan and is an immigrant who has lived in the same apartment in this district for 20 years. In what way would Amazon moving in possibly be good for someone in her situation?

I also live in this district but work in tech and have a market rate salary. Amazon moving in would be good for people like me, but the average resident of this district is much closer my MIL.
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Ummm, it seems like the problems may not be 100% on your ex-boss here. If you’re having dreams about killing somebody, perhaps a little self introspection is in order.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Apple isn't exactly known for their ability to provide reliable internet services.

This is IMHO a badly misconfigured WAF or possibly application config bug and not some kind of grand conspiracy to exclude certain Linux users.
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> Figure out something better.

There is no magical solution. The alternative is some kind of payment system.

And many people can't afford paying for each site they visit, so it would limit people's access to the net if there were paywalls everywhere.

Also, if sites can't show ads and not enough people subscribes then many sites will close which would lead to further concentration of the web. Small players would be eliminated, big players would still thrive.

Independent journalism would decrease while sites financed by rich companies and people could keep running and promoting the agenda of the rich players.
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> The assumption would be that all the benefits that came from banding together as a city and creating a modern society were net negative to the residents of LIC.

I suspect we could find many people who do think life was better before tech and finance took over. Not only in LIC, but in blue, pink, and even some white collar neighborhoods around the country.

Whether their opinion feels right to us here on Hacker News is only relevant to the extent that our political influence outweighs theirs (if it does).
Apple is a small percentage of the laptop market.
> You can see our governance model at https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/matthew/msc177.... and see that we do everything we can to ensure that the wider community can contribute to the spec and steer it in the right direction... And fwiw, we'd be perfectly happy to contribute the spec to IETF or W3C or whoever once it's relatively stable, just like XMPP did.

I'm not a lawyer to read such documents. Just "contribute" your core to the IETF, prove me wrong.
Suddenly there would be so much of a supply that the sale won't be profitable any longer. That's probably the reason why no one is extracting rhodium from nuclear waste, where it is a common fission product.
I would more comfortably run my code developed on x86/Linux on ARM/Linux than on x86/FreeBSD for instance... Platform is just one unknown and not the worst if the tooling is good IMHO. Consider that complex software under Linux/ARM now has a ten years history at least, with numbers (mobile) that are not approached by any other thing on earth.
There were a few x86 tablets dual booting Android and Windows, mostly from Chinese brands.
Vuetify is so easy to work with. Sure some docs are missing and I don't like some of the default styling but it gives you the ability to write good SPAs with very little effort.