skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some highly functioning adults which some medical professionals advocate shouldn’t even be on the spectrum might feel like that.

Most people on the spectrum will require help to go to the bathroom or complete other basic tasks so them making medical decisions is unlikely.

There is now a pretty big concern about the over-diagnosing of ASD especially amongst functioning adults.

In many countries you can be diagnosed in a commercial center without even seeing a doctor, it has become almost a business similar to the ADHD “epidemic” of the early 2000’s.
Now you're claiming that monetization has nothing to do with money. Ridiculous.

If you make monetization hard, people will freely share their works. If you make it easy, they will monetize them. Monetizing is easier than it used to be, stopping people from sharing freely. That shouldn't be hard to understand.
I get the impression that nobody has really mentioned the elephant in the room, which is that Facebook and Twitter are so popular precisely because they are so big, and the IndieWeb is unattractive mainly because it isn't.

Like probably most of you here, I don't care for walled gardens. I host my own blog, avoid Google as best as possible, and am regularly one step away from deleting Facebook. But I don't. Why? Because many old friends are there, and I have no other realistic way of keeping up with them. There's no earthly chance I'll ever get them all onto Mastodon, so for better or worse I'm going to stay where they are. In the end, friendship is more important than philosophy.

On the contrary, after years of avoiding it, I recently started using Twitter. Again, the reason is that that is where the people are. I'm still a bit iffy about it, but I have realised that in my field, almost everybody is on Twitter. It is simply the most efficient way to keep up with what is going on and what the important people are doing. In the end, practicality beats purity.

So yes, I'd love to use micro.blog, or host my own Mastodon instance. But until they can offer me what the elephants of Facebook and Twitter can - i.e., a global community - they don't stand a fighting chance.
I found this: https://www.chessvariants.com/play/seirawan-chess

Perhaps it is of some interest.
In addition to the other comments, for those few running old enough browsers that none of the new CSS is recognized, the fallback is basic HTML table layout (because at its core, it is still a HTML table).
They use `display: content` which many assistive technologies will incorrectly remove from the accessibility tree (or at least they used to). So it is not currently recommended to use this this value if you want the content to be accessible.

https://hiddedevries.nl/en/blog/2018-04-21-more-accessible-m...
Personally, I find config files to be simple and elegant, and gui based configuration to be clunky and cumbersome. For most things anyway.
It's not an uncritical cheerleader, though. They do support free trade and globalisation, yes, but also drug legalisation, gun control, carbon taxes, gay marriage, etc.

For US presidential elections, they endorsed Bill Clinton, John Kerry, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton.
Haven't had too many requests for that yet. Do you have any recommendations for creating an epub file? The book was written in LaTeX with VS Code. I worry that a lot of the command line stuff and images wouldn't look good on a reader.
> whoever set the trap obviously did so to control him, not to expose him

We have no indication that he was controlled, so what are you basing this on?

My guess is that the video was produced as a form of insurance by people who wanted to see if he gets into government, and how bad it really gets. Otherwise they could have leaked the video before the last parliamentary elections. At some point they decided that Strache must go, and it seemed like timing it before the important EU elections would have the biggest impact.

> So there are more corrupt parties to expose.

How does this follow? (Not that it isn't true...)
>Nowadays, the only realistic use for this would be a case where you have a fixed-size array that you search frequently, where the same end marker can be used all the time, so that you can add that sentinel marker once.

The sentinel needs to be identical to the value you're searching for, otherwise you're trading "compare a pointer" for "compare a value with an arbitrary equality implementation" which is no better (and probably worse).
The popularity of Fried Liver Attack among beginners in the US is puzzling to me. When I was learning chess (in Europe), I was told not to waste time on it since it's not a "serious" opening. With black you just need to know to play Na5, sidestepping all this drama with black king in the center.
I had a few cocktails and thought about a few points made in the video.

It seems to me that there are two different notions here that are being conflated:

. A rotting of knowledge over time.

. A variant of Moore's Law. In this case, the idea that the value of technology, in a particular area, has a decreasing value on the margin.

It's kind of like the notions you see in cliodynamics, that there are a few interacting sine waves (or some other function) in mass human behavior.

I suppose that the main concept of importance is how it all might mess with your own personal situation. Personally, I think that the West is in decline, but that doesn't have a whole lot to do with the quality of software on internet websites.
I don't know of any good definition of free will, intuitively it should be something that would allow to say "this person made a choice and that choice wasn't something that i could predict simply with some machine or equation".

Say the system is deterministic, and we have the technical ability to perfectly predict its future. There are several ways to predict that future, for instance for a dropped stone, we simply put a number into a simple formula and get the position, for water flow we have to compute some integrals. In both cases what we do, is not exactly equivalent to the process we are trying to simulate, and we omit all the things that happen during the process. My conjecture is that for a system containing a person, the computation is irreducible, and the only way to predict the future is to simulate it with 100% faithfulness which makes the process of prediction equivalent to that person living an making a choice.

This explains the paradox of god knowing everything, but people making their own choices, because even though all the information about the future exists at current time, the only way to extract that information is to let people live and see what they do.

The system being indeterministic doesn't seem to give a more useful interpretation to the vague definition above. It either doesn't fully describe the person (something from outside the system makes the choice like in games), or adds some randomness to the choice.

Do you know a better definition of free will?
Well, "Communism with Chinese characteristics" is quite a strange beast.
No drug is ‘safe.’ But they save lives.
I think the question everyone here is interested in having answered is "what if you don't?" The EU has no jurisdiction here (in my country); the law applies to the citizens of those countries. Sure, some countries might be willing to extradite you to the EU for breaking laws that apply there, but that seems rather extraordinary (in the case of a law that applies to internet sites), not to mention an outrageous abuse of power.
Vista had language packs, but they were exclusive to Ultimate.
They can touch down/"take off" while stationary (not sure if they do it while stopping in stations), but don't have wheels, so they have to hover to move at all. If both sides of the maglev system fail, they have skids designed to slow them at a safe rate, but that's emergency use only.
The box they are talking about is the box that comes from the factory. By mixing all of the flavours you only need the shelf space of one box. They place more boxes behind that one.

If they needed one for each flavour, then they would need three boxes, side by side taking up three times as much space.
Ahh my fault. I'll have to let my high school chemistry teacher know to stop using that story lol.
Any abnormality that adversely affects the form or function of the human body that does not stem form physical injury is a disease.

The problem here is that most people think that those who suffer from autism are the quirky guy at work who’s good at math while in reality most of them would be in diapers trough adulthood.

In reality it is a terrible debilitating disease that enacts a huge toll on both those who suffer from it and their families.
I really hope no one would have to live through the fear that they can’t die because no one would be there to provide the life long support their child might need, not to mention having to live with that responsibility for the rest of their natural life.
> made by 16 year old children in a sweat shop, earning starvation wages?

Are they in fact starvation wages? I'm the last person to defend Apple, and I'm all for emotional appeals about ethical issues, but they're useless without an understanding of the facts, and none of the complainants on this thread seem interested in understanding whether what they're saying is accurate, presumably on the off chance that they'd lose the opportunity to pay themselves on the back for their outrage.
It'd be problematic for some operations, but if your access is dominated by reads, then setting aside an extra entry for a sentinel value 'only' requires serialising operations that needs the sentinel value and mutations. You'll need to protect against mutations during the search anyway, so then it boils down to if its better to wait or fall back to a bounds-checking version.

Though I'd question if it's worthwhile vs. some unrolling (you might even have a use for Duffs device...) to just do whatever number of iterations you want per bounds check.
There are no words for Uber’s latest perk
> Yes it is, if <insert your favorite expensive car here> is the same price as your Hyundai (that is, free). If however you moved because you found Google's results to be inferior, then that is a perfectly valid reason.

In my case the price was higher and for a while the results were better.
Will 5G Undermine Weather Prediction?
How to Choose a “Secure” Messenger
I am genuinely confused though about how his remarks we're sarcastic.
I'm not disputing your point about social and cultural change. The issue is that the comments you posted were too low-quality (generic, venty, and off topic) to be good contributions to a Hacker News thread—a thread about the Romans and toilet paper, of all things. If you get from there to Trump, you've gone on a generic tangent, which is exactly the sort of low-quality, all-the-same discussion we're trying to avoid here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> “Mostly correct” is also “somewhat incorrect”.

No model is perfect. I guess I should prioritize rhetorics in the future lest someone use my honesty against me.

> Also, I think there are probably sufficiently small decreases in expected profit ithat many large companies would tolerate.

There aren't. A company that accepts decreases in profit does not become large, it fails against its more psychopathic competitors.

> And even aside from that, there is the possibility of a choice between options which does not have any large-enough-to-predict-or-evaluate-its-direction impact on the bottom line, and in these cases, the decision will likely be made in accordance with how some people working there prefer.

If a company cannot predict whether an action is profitable, it will always decide against it and instead invest its resources in something that is.
Because they _are_ boring. I have no idea what to think of the GP other than to assume they've never actually worked a blue collar job. I have. They suck. They're boring. They are the definition of boring work.

Here's a list of manual labor jobs that I worked during my teenage years. This list will not include any job that I worked in my 20s. If I added all of the manual labor jobs that I had in my 20s I'd be here for the next hour.

* Picking corn/green & soy beans/tomatoes/peppers/berries by hand (this is summer and fall only, mind you, so not only is boring it is also hot -- even when you start at 5:45AM, you get very little reprieve working the fields because you're there until 11AM or noon).

* Working a farm stand, selling aforementioned corn/green & soy beans/tomatoes/peppers/fruit (moving up in the world!).

* Flipping burgers / running a fry station / running a fast food cash register / washing dishes in a fast food joint.

* Delivering pizzas.

* Delivering printed materials (hard to explain, friends dad had a printing business, I ran deliveries for them for a while -- loading, unloading, driving. Driving for a living is easily the most boring thing that can ever happen to you, IMHO).

* All manner of construction -- but mostly roofing and framing.

* Working the end of a glass plant factory line, inspecting glass television screens for defects. OT was in abundance here and I would often work 16 hour shifts doing this.

* Waterproofing basements / dealing with broken sump pumps / digging out deteriorating septic tanks.

* Throwing boxes at a FedEx.

This list represents ages 13 (maybe 14?) - 19 for me. 3 of these jobs were things that I did while attending University (though I left and didn't return until later in life). It doesn't get much better until 22. At 22 there's some manual labor that is disguised as technical work (military). A lot of this is or was seasonal work. That was the nature of manual labor, when and where I grew up. I'm sure that hasn't changed too much.

All of these are boring jobs. They are mind-numbing in ways that are genuinely hard to express. If salaries are dictated by who is doing the most uninteresting work then we have things _completely_ backwards, IMO.
The DSM-III, published in 1980, established autism as its own separate diagnosis and described it as a “pervasive developmental disorder” distinct from schizophrenia.
There are places where you have to pack out your poop, like the Grand Canyon, but many places have nice composting toilets. Mount Rainier has some lovely places to take a shit. In any case there is still no advantage to bringing TP.
Was it not showing $0 for you pests? Just want to make sure I'm not hitting some threshold with Gumroad...coming up on 2000 copies requested!
There is really very little of Machiavelli's one can accept or use in the contemporary world.
- Henry Kissinger
A somewhat different path could be “architecture.”

I went from a software developer to a system architect, and then moved to director and VP but always in “architecture,” which definition could differ from company to company, in parallel to development management.
Sounds like an opportunity to shift eating habits towards vegetables/vegetarian if possible?
You're comparing apples (average) and oranges (10th percentile) here.
Haha, I'll be honest, I have no idea what the sicilian or french is. I just played casually on the weekends.
I think the tone of your post seems to imply that writing languages in some quasi-democratic (rather than oligarchic/dictatorial/elitist) way is or should be default. In fact, those assumptions are not the default (I can't think of any languages that are truly democratic, certainly most big ones aren't). Nor should it work like that imo, we don't design power plants by referendum. We put experts in a room, probably with a dictatorial decision maker and everyone else can whistle (or at least would really have to shout loud and be clearly right to be heard).

Also, if you're going for max language usage through design, how do you do that? By trying to perfect your design, so it's kind of an irrelevant motivator. Rich got a ton of clojure users (relative to his resources), he did that by having strong (reasoned) beliefs, not by opening the floor to a vote.
Rich did /not/ say that he was only building Clojure only for his company, that's a very misleading statement that you've made.
Revenue-based financing, new form of funding for tech companies
Yeah, good point. I'm sure there are servos that have the required specs. I'm just not in the habit of looking at catalogs where the prices are that high :) Maybe I should switch to building flight simulators so that I can order the good stuff :)
I've had good managers, and I've had good relationships with my managers in general, and my managers have usually been very happy with me.

But—I once got to visit the people who did a menial task for a Very Large Software Company That Pays Very Very Well. They were contractors (so the company wouldn't have to pay them benefits), they got paid low enough wages that the state would have to pay for their health insurance (we should have Medicare for All, but lacking that the company can damn well afford to pay for insurance).

I'm sure there are worse jobs, but it was a shit job, and the company could've afforded to pay them better and give them actual benefits.

A software engineer at same company would get paid top notch dollar and would be treated very very well. Why? Because the company has no choice, the market is very tight for hiring programmers right now. If the company could, they'd be treating the software engineers just as badly—think of all the savings.

A thought exercise: at how many companies can a software engineer, however well paid they are, complain to HR about sexual harassment by an executive and actually get real follow-up? (Asking the executive to leave with a multi-million-dollar check doesn't count as real follow-up.)

My guess is the percentage is less than 1. Possibly there are no such companies.

In the end we're workers, just like minimum wage workers.
Interesting to see the old Soviet Union TLD is still in use.

There's a pretty nice jsonpath implementation that was recently produced at https://github.com/pacifica/python-jsonpath2

I haven't switched to it yet, but I'm keeping an eye on it, to see how long it's supported
Rails is opinionated and forces a literal sense of MVC pattern, its dogmatic, thus the fat controller or fat model phenomena
I've come to use packages outside of the standard library very sparingly; been burned too many times to find that development of some package stopped or slowed down and backing out can be a real pita.
Chicago used to do it.
Because raising progressive taxes that are already high make it likely you’ll trigger a death spiral where high earners flee, raising the taxes you need to levy on the rest, etc.
This is normal in a lot of places. Even much of first-world Asia allows for racial discrimination.
> Accumulating evidence implicates aluminum adjuvants as a cause of autism. Autism is caused by inflammation in the brain during early development (gestation and first few years of life). The specific inflammation signals (i.e. cytokines) that cause autism are interleukin-6 (IL-6) and interleukin-17a (IL-17a). Aluminum adjuvants stimulate this specific type of inflammation in the brain.

http://vaccinepapers.org/high-aluminum-content-autistic-brai...
Unfortunately I think the Economist is one of those publications where it seems authoritative until they write about something you really know about and realize it is mostly just written in an assertive style.
Dug Sets Foundation for Exascale HPC Utility with Xeon Phi
It's also great for returns. Their backpacks have 10 year warranties. When I returned one, they were able scan the RFID to get all the details up and refund me.
Are you implying that because their record of presidential endorsements have a (D) after their name, we can thus infer they are critical thinkers?
It's funny how many quotes in this article (not the article itself, but quotes from others) seem to imply that it being "psychogenic" makes the symptoms and experience any less real, painful and problematic to the sufferer. It's repeatedly contrasted with a "real" problem. As if having a psychogenic illness is some kind of weakness. It sure doesn't sound fun.
Why does it need to go?
> t's democrats exposing corrupt anti-democrats.

It is not “democrats” but some hidden power.
You are not a blue collar worker. You are a business owner. Being a business owner sometimes entails working blue collar like work but it doesn't mean you are a blue collar worker.
I'm really happy for them, but they are among the lucky ones. The less lucky can't say what they think.
> For most users, "replacement" mean it can open and edit Microsoft's documents perfectly. For some users, it even means the GUI is just about the same so they don't feel lost.

Citation needed.

The company I work for switched wholesale away from Microsoft. Management moved first and the rest of us shortly afterwards. Haven't heard any complaints.
Perhaps i didn't formulate my hypothesis well. What i was trying to say, was that if combination of complexity and chaotic behavior makes the system computationally irreducible (that is any method to compute its future is fully equivalent to that system evolving), then we get an interesting situation when the future is computable but the system can make its own choices, and there are no shortcuts to find what these choices will be.
How is this Alphabet's fault?
Doesn’t really matter.

Moving off Salesforce is a many month project for a small company and possibly years for a larger company depending on the add-ons and everything.

Doubt they lose any real customers over this but they’re definitely going to be cutting some checks/credits to a ton of people for the next few months but it’ll fade.
IMO, it's no more the pensioners' fault than any other voter. If they're a resident eligible to vote, it's partly their fault. It's not their fault for accepting a job offer with certain terms broadly available.
You don't need all of six in most cases. You just need a couple of different functions.

As the maintainer of WebOb/Pyramid/Waitress we have a compat module that contains all of the changes/renames/functions to help with the Python2/3 compatibility and all tests run across both platforms.

Are the functions borrowed heavily from six? Yes, but we don't need to vendor all of six.
Many reasons, but for a start, the roads are much more subsidized than the rails are.
This is funny as I'm a beginner who has played plenty of the French and plenty of other openings like Queen's Gambit and Scicilian, but have never heard of Fried Liver. So we're the same, but total opposites.
https://xkcd.com/1134/
I think the biggest problem is going from zero third-party dependencies to one and more. Adding that very first one is a huge pain since there are many ways of doing it with many different trade offs. It is also time consuming and tedious. The various tools like you mention are best at adding even more dependencies, but are hurdles for the very first one.
Hm, Cargo should absolutely work in this environment; it’s required by the Firefox and Debian build systems, for example.

(Pointing at an internal mirror is now stable. Setting up that mirror is the hard part.)
Didn't you save time on finding the eggs? I shop at Aldi and Lidl, not for the low prices but for the convenience of getting what I want and getting out quickly.
pathlib is another example.
How did you become a chess master? Can you tell me more of this hippopotamus?
Yeah, it's disappointing, he seems like a bit of a dick TBH.

(Though in nothing on the level of some in open source).
I don't think vaccinepapers.org is a reliable source.
Or .into_iter().collect(), I believe. No import needed.
>Not being able to take a week or two straight to get away from civilisation would have me clawing the walls going stir crazy, and I'd probably find myself divorced.

That's interesting, as I recall many couples get divorced after being on vacation together because they spend most of the year separated but they discover during vacation that they can't stand each other.