skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah they copied it. They copied it because it was better. Do you think that they copied it because it was a bad UI idea? Not sure what your point is.

And great question about the Git model, after mentioning 'phases'! Mercurial has about a billion concepts and nouns for different random things like that. It takes forever to explain all the random ideas they've piled into it in an attempt to keep up with Git.

Mercurial think they can fix everything with yet another plugin and new concepts and nouns. Git built a cleaner model where you don’t need these plugins and abstractions.
Understood, though, is my account dead right now?
Hmmm... I was just obsessed over solving a futures algorithm. (In which I haven't been paid for.) Became anxiousness when I was away from the computer. Slept only 5 hours until it was solved. I wouldn't have had to stress so hard, if a good project brief from the client, but regardless. I was more interested in the solving the problem, than the economic benefits. I write stock/options in the evening for fun.

I'm moderately introverted. But don't do poorly in social situations / or awkward. However dealing with clients, has really prevented me from starting my own firm.

I wouldn't say that I have Asperger's, but I might have mild tendencies? Labels really don't matter as it is more important to know one's strengths and weakness. That's the key I take away from the article.

But I can relate to some of this.

I work with other programmers who might think they have Asperger, but in actuality I think they are just probably dochce bags. :)
All of this is trivially and obviously true to power users of GNU/Linux systems.

My machine does precisely what I want, when I want it, in the way that I want it. If it doesn't, within reasonable constraints like physical possibility, I can open a text editor, and make it do so. Sure, that might take me a long time.

I can add almost all of this configuration to stuff like git repos; back it up; transfer it between completely different machines; I can have a very high degree of certainty that any laptop or desktop I pick up off the shelf will just work and that within 30mins - 1hour I can have it working _identically_ to the old one.

By contrast, right now I am using my phone for USB tethering. There is literally no way for me to make this automatic because it's a black box. I have to enable it every time; if the cable moves a bit and disconnects; etc.

Trivial, basic example? Sure. The fact that even this most basic behaviour is completely unfixable proves the point.

I'm really looking forward to stuff like the Librem, pinephone, etc.

The IBM-compatible PC might well be the greatest contributor to the progress of technology in the last few decades. It's heart-breaking that smartphones are this custom random locked down mess of nonsense.

Hell, this article has reminded me I was meaning to set up a donation to the FSF. Off it goes. A small impact but an impact nonetheless. I really appreciate the work you guys are doing for those who can't.
> Just like everyone else.

You think? It seems to me that there are a lot of people (more than the other way around) who go out of their way to seek out social interactions: they go out and have lunch with somebody else just to talk to them, or they chat with a coworker by the coffee machine instead of getting back to their desk as fast as they can, or they strike up a conversation with the barista at Starbucks instead of just trying to say their order without screwing it up… these don’t seem like people who are just faking it to the best of their ability. Or maybe they’re just practicing more studiously than I am?
1. Yes, Otzi had Lyme: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms1701. However, it's possible tick populations were lower 50-100 years ago.

2. Yes. The main issue is that nobody wants to pay for the robots, although they're extremely effective: https://www.cnet.com/news/military-robot-deploys-co2-to-lure..., https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1594003/?arnumber=15940...
My statement was in response to the blanket question "how did we come to the point where not being indebted is bad?". The (somewhat blanket) response was that debt is not always bad.

Second, I second Krugman's conclusion that rebus sic stantibus, Germany should borrow more (very cheaply) and invest more (for example, in fixing the shamefully neglected infrastructure). This a fairly specific statement, tied to a place and time.
but the salt is in the database. You can hash all the known-compromised passwords with the salt and see if any match.
Most people are too blase about having decentralized backup systems, in every area.

We need decentralized power generation and storage (solar panel based, etc.) to survive a Carrington Event or an EMP. Or just a simple blackout. We need electric cars which represent choice rather than fossil-fuel lockin.

But we also need mesh networks and software to run on them, to survive the Internet being cut off like in Kashmir or Hong Kong. We need decentralized town currencies and much more.

Please watch this talk I gave a few years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzMm7-j7yIY
>If you'd like, you can disconnect that information from your account, and it will not be associated with you personally.
Specifically no mention that they will delete the data, helpfully combined with no mention that it's trivial to deanonymise such data.

TL;DR: This is a bullshit PR piece to assuage worries that Facebook data-mining the internet. They still are. Move along.
If debt is issued to invest productively, yes, then it's good. Now look at what caused 2008. I don't think it was good debt that got us into this situation.
Not quite - if someone steals your 1Password (or equivalent) database with TOTP seeds in, they need to crack the password on that, then have full access to everything. If they get the password from the other end (e.g. the site you log into), they can probably log into that specific site (they will have the TOTP seed), but not anything else. In general, there are more attackers looking at the site end than at the client password DB end.

Probably wouldn't be a bad idea to have a distinct password vault for TOTP seeds, although they'll be stored on whatever device you generate codes from anyway (hopefully in a secure way). At the very least, it might be helpful for moving between TOTP devices without needing to do the random steps required by different services!
What are some current plausible wost-case models that take the non-linearity of the sea level rise and any conceivable feedback loops into account?
IBM Open-Sources Power Chip Instruction Set
Wait a minute. How are Kolkatans with (probably) cheap phones getting their hands on coordinates that accurate when phone GPS is usually only good to within ~5m?[1] I assume the postal workers are getting high end equipment?

[1] "GPS-enabled smartphones are typically accurate to within a 4.9 m (16 ft.) radius under open sky" -- https://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/performance/accuracy/
We can't support 7 billion people if each one of them has a house with garden and grows it's own food. That's what the middle ages were, look at the population then.
My last senior dev was an aspie and I aswell. We connected on levels that none of the other team mates could. It was like a perfect interface for communicating everything.

I miss working with him. Unfortunately my boss really didn't like how I behaved socially and I got alienated over time. I quit to pursue something else, and I haven't seen a co-worker in days.
Which Banks or Building Societies have the best term deposit rates?
Too bad steam has trouble hitting even 100mbit/s on my gig fiber connection. In fact I find that many services seem to throttle at exactly 100mbit/s, e.g. Dropbox.
Why some ancient erotic poems are far more stimulating than modern pornography?
> Of course the Germans have a particular aversion to printing money.

They also cannot, the ECB decides on monetary policy with the Euro, not Germany or Germany's Bundesbank (which, if they were, also weren't directly taking orders from the federal government regarding monetary policy).
Comcast's 150mbps down includes 10mbps up - it's not terrible for one or two people but as a power user I had to upgrade to 450down/20up.

The upload is so pathetic because cable doesn't have symmetric bandwidth, you have to choose if you want more download channels or more upload channels. Most households don't need much upload, thus the ratio.

10mbps up is a minimum requirement for me though IMO.
It's not "gentler". It's only perceived as such. An iron fist covered in velvet.

When someone asks me a question like that, I deflect with humor by saying "I don't want to, but I'm going to because that's what I get paid to do".

I know stuff has to get done. They know it has to get done. There's no point in wasting time dancing around our feelings on the issue. Tell me what you need done and I'll get that done.

I think people have confused respect and deference with obsequiousness. There's nothing disrespectful with "Bob, do X by Friday." as long as the tone is civil. It's just an assignment of a task from the people who are charged with assigning tasks.
how do you find those companies?
Also, I have yet to find an Electron based app that supports it. On the other hand I was positively surprised when it just worked on Android (for Google login).
That’s like quoting the max speed off a WiFi box at the store (AC5300 does 5.3gbps gais, Linksys PR said so!) or funnier yet 5G radio vendors.

TBH the backend upgrades to support DOCSIS 3/3.1 are way more expensive than its worth to ISPs. Add in the finite spectrum for cable providers and giving up 24 channels per modem to-fill-what-business-need isn’t high priority.
I understand, some people on the spectrum or suffering from other disorders can certainly be very difficult to deal with and I can see how this would provide a challenge to management. I just dislike generalizations about people with poor social skills, as that can mean a huge amount of different things, and just because someone struggles socially doesn't necessarily mean communicating with them would be challenging/uncomfortable or they would require micro-management due to being a problem employee
Of course the Germans have a particular aversion to printing money.

That's not really surprising though is it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_R...
> doesn't let me pull or do other stuff

Not sure what that means?
I agree with you when it comes to topics like Trump. Obviously, there are many people on both sides of that issue.

When it comes to a topic like should protesters in Hong Kong be allowed to continue and make requests for freedom, generally the only opponents are going to be state sponsored. I think you need to draw your moral lines not just at preventing someone who supports outright genocide, but probably at those supporting the extinguishing of others freedom.
George Mason University 'Inadvertently' Sent Alert About Person with Weapon
A Developer Job Description Needs a Tech Stack
Mercurial lets you pull and even update with outstanding changes.
Rings true for me, I've worked hard to socialize and try to talk to a stranger everyday for at least 30 minutes. It's painless now, and I'm loving where I've come along my journey. It's been hard, but really well worth it.

It all started with me working in a call center 7 years ago...
Germany is not in a position to print the reserve currency of the planet.
Not pedantic. English may not be OP’s native language, so tips like yours can be helpful. I found the rest of the comment to be insightful and true!
Visual Sorta-Safe, we used to call it.
Depends on the type of rural - it doesn't feel like "hiking" to be wandering around your neighbours fields, or walking along the side of a gravel road.
I’ve never understood the obsession businesses/managers have with specialization in the tech realm. Knowing a lot of different (but related) things doesn’t preclude you from learning something in depth.
What I hate is being lonely. They're shutting down our offices for cost savings. As such I've basically been straight work from home.

Working from home reminds me of the isolation of being homeschooled. I love having the flexibility to work remote on certain days, for example when I need to bang out a bunch of code. But, having a place to interact with people is invaluable for me.

I imagine countless others feel the same way, hence why companies still see offices as having value. So, for all the remote work evangelists on here: what do you do to counteract isolation?
No one would argue that isn't consistent success at the highest levels of running.

>If you can't understand that breaking a record by 10 hours means that the previous record was shit, then I don't how to help you understand that.

I get it you don't like women, and their success threatens you and your identity. What were you saying about weirdo agenda? You can't seem to acknowledge the few hundred men who have been unable to break her record (or come anywhere close for that matter).

>Case closed, or at least it would be with anyone who actually runs ultras, or runs at all.

I look forward to watching you compete against her in a future Ultra and showing us all how she is shit and her records are shit. In fact, as your accusing me of using a throwaway, tell us all your real name and these Ultra's you have competed in and lets see if we can find a single race where a women didn't beat you.
Yep, I recently got Google's Titan pair of keys, and anywhere that supports hardware keys, I was able to register both, and I'm only required to use one to login.
Well that's not especially credible.
Agreed. I have two main paths between my home in city A and work 11 miles away in city B. Neither has bicycle paths, and only the longer one (about 18 miles) has shoulders worth mentioning.

I've almost hit bicyclists because I couldn't see them (their fault; black clothing with no reflectors) on both of those routes. You coudln't pay me enough to bike to work.
Even worse: tethering uses a different APN, which allows providers to rate limit tethered traffic, and without root access, you can't bypass it.
Couldn't agree more. Flexibility is amazing, but loneliness creeps in all too often.
Will have to try one of these... todo.txt not yet available in South Africa App Store
> I feel that the things that Rust is trying to do were solved long ago under FP

I don't think this is true at all. Statically analyzed Sync/Send are an amazing tool that I don't see in any other language. In fact, your point of view w.r.t. the actor model is extremely well-supported in Rust, due to Sync/Send traits. Immutable objects can be shared between threads using simple pointers, and mutable objects can have ownership moved between threads with just a pointer copy.

Those threads may have 'shared memory' in the strict sense of the term.
But compared to other languages, Rust makes working with shared memory 'feel' like working with independent processes, except with extremely efficient message passing. The language statically guards against threads interacting directly as long as you don't use primitives like Mutex<T>.
There's also a cultural problem with US having this superficial politeness that is expected in communication, where orders are given in the form of "would you please", but are still expected to be followed without a word. I'm not autistic (well AFAIK), so if a manager asks me if I'd take a task and I'm super busy, I'd probably (try to) refuse it too, but I'd do it in a polite, beat around the bush manner, and manager would recognize the situation, and (again super politely) try to push back and we'd come to some agreement. No one would freak out. Problem with Asperger is that they're not very good in this back and forth social dance. In other countries, say in Eastern/South Europe culture of communication is different and manager would simply tell that guy to do the task, with no "would you please", no smiling, just a simple "do that". Not because of being rude, but because there's simply less social rituals in the communication. My (anecdotal) impression is that this "less-polite" environment, while it freaks out many Americans ("people are so direct and rude here!"), is much more friendlier to people with Asperger. I've worked with a few and they were doing just fine, super intelligent, super focused, great fit for IT companies. You just can't expect them to read your mind.
The Quest for an Ultimate Theory of Gravity
There are many comments about the pros / cons / learning-curves / customization-payoffs involved for chorded keyboards.

I'm struck my how similar this is to a discussion about using vim.
Hmm, are they recyclable? Because I can't find clear messaging here in Redmond, WA with Waste Management. The little flyer doesn't address it, and there's no markings on the Amazon envelope that I see. I currently throw them away with regret.

On a related note, I took delivery of a Boosted Rev scooter yesterday. Pretty big box, as one might imagine for a 40-some pound scooter. What amazed me was that after I broke down all the cardboard, what was not recyclable cardboard or paper would have fit in the front pockets of my jeans. Probably less non-recyclable trash than most of my Amazon deliveries.
Throw in SCCS, on SCO Unixware, and Darcs, and you match my exposure too, mostly. Now I remember what an abomination VSS was - with the mandatory locking behaviour.
Three unique St Tropez networking events in Autumn 2019
Yes, Euro is a disaster. It's a predominantly ideological project that economically is totally unsound. Okay, it was conceived as a way to boost the German economy (before Euro the German mark was just too strong so Germany couldn't export as much as it does now) but ends up painfully backfiring at all Euro economies. First the weaker economies (Greece and Italy) and now Germany.
I honestly think that the People choosing to work for big tobbaco should be killed. All of them. They purposely push poison onto us.
> monopoly of that 200-foot right of way piece of land?

If you think that's bad, look at these squares of land:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_and_California_Railroad...

You can still easy pick out this land in satellite photos:

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.9007308,-123.4338901,37529m/...
I haven't studied it deeply, but a breadcrumb would be that cooperative threads (green threads) are equivalent to coroutines.

Ok it looks like current techniques are stackless runtimes and compiling coroutines to stackless continuations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stackless_Python

https://stackless.readthedocs.io/en/v3.6.4-slp/library/stack...

http://jessenoller.com/blog/2009/02/23/stackless-you-got-you...

https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?r...

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/b9aa/49e4b7a00e6c9f0d8c18ba...

https://www.osnews.com/story/9822/protothreads-extremely-lig...

This looks like a rare gem, although I just started reading it:

https://cs.indiana.edu/~dfried/dfried/mex.pdf

I grew up with the cooperative multithreading of classic Mac OS and was really shocked when I first saw Javascript back in the 90s and it had no notion of it (because it didn't have generators). That sent us down the callback hell evolutionary dead end, through promises/futures and finally to async/await where we are now. That could have been largely avoided if we had listened to programming language experts!
This is why we should not be paying for speed/bandwidth, but be paying for data usage. Internet carriers should deliver traffic at the fastest speed possible all the time, and then just charge us for how much we use their network. What we've become accustomed to in home internet pricing goes by another name for mobile carriers: throttling.
> Trust me, once you get a faster connection you definitely won’t want to go back to 100.

I had a 1G connection, but my most often used desktop would often switch to 100M, and it would take me weeks to notice. I would absolutely get a 1G connection again if it were reasonable, but a solid 100M is fine for everything other than really large up/downloads. Symmetric 10, with decent latency isn't that bad either.

> It’s kind of like high DPI displays.

Yeah, I've had those too, and I don't find them worth it. A slightly higher than 'normal' dpi, that I can run at 1:1 was pretty nice until my eyes got older.
> The second it starts going off the rails it needs to be switched over to a private conversation

Can be just as bad, theres an exec where I work who has taken a disliking to me and I'd much rather when he goes off on one it takes place in Google docs comments where other people can see it and see what he's like than in a private Slack convo where only I see it.
I've seen the same phenomenon where CEOs spend way too much time thinking about the physical office space. I suspect, though, that they enjoy doing that - it plays pretty directly to vanity - and invest that time because they want to, not because they need to.
haha, I guess I'm around a lot of bookish & verbal friends. That sentence didn't strike me as odd in the slightest.
"Thank you George Mason for making me think I was going to die today by 'accidentally' sending us all this. I am traumatized." https://twitter.com/karaakline/status/1163832823943499777
The bandwidth is not priced as dedicated bandwidth, so of course users don't expect to use "all" of it.

Gigabit speed residential bandwidth packages allow users who want slightly faster download speeds to pay extra, ultimately they are just using the newer hardware revs and getting the same level everyone else will get in a year or two.
The youtube video is unfortunately unavailable in my country (USA).
> MacOS High Sierra forcibly reformats SSD boot drives, and changes the file system from HFS+ to APFS, which cannot be accessed from GNU/Linux, Windows or even older versions of MacOS.

It is important to be accurate.

You can access APFS from Windows or Linux at at least Paragon APFS for Windows, and Paragon APFS for Linux. There is also an experimental AFFS FUSE driver.

This can actually be important in case of forensics.

[1] https://www.paragon-software.com/home/apfs-windows/#
I live abroad and it's one of the few ways in which I get to see what my family/friends are up to. I don't post anything or read news articles from Facebook. I just look at baby/vacation/wedding/birthday pics.

I use Facebook in a container tab in Firefox, completely cut off from my regular browsing. Before that, I used to block it using Privacy Badger.
If you have an android phone then you probably can automate that: https://llamalab.com/automate/

USB tethering is specifically listed under features, presumably there's some API that developers have access to.

Apparently by use of the class WifiManager in android.net.wifi you can programmatically change the state of USB tethering without any kind of special privileges.
Given this thread and the one about Apple, I can't help but notice that Microsoft feels, to me, much better on that front. Far from perfect or even good enough for the (very sane) criterias GNU aims for, but I feel very much more in control of my Microsoft box that I am of my Apple or Google one.

Of course there are dozen of areas where Microsoft fails as bad as the other two, but I notice there are a couple dozen where they let me while the others don't, while the reverse is not quite true.