skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My "high-functioning" autism confers several difficulties and a few unique advantages. I've developed enough coping methods to smooth over the former to a point that I don't feel a cure would be on-net beneficial to me.

However, I have a feeling that the fact I can't choose whether I have autism is the reason why neurotypicals find what I don't/can't mask interesting or endearing rather than annoying. If there was a cure, suddenly I would have a choice, and I think people would have a lot less patience for my symptoms. "Why not just become normal?" I would feel pressured to take the cure.
Not for individual car owners, but in Japan some buses connect with neighboring signals which are more likely to turn green when the buses are approaching. Having buses usually quite close to schedule probably helps
We are talking about dollars here. Cost to get a degree vs. premium degree holders command for their labor.
>>it is a marketplace-as-a-service

>To the extent this makes a difference

It does, because you're arguing as if Amazon sells stuff. It doesn't (just) do that: it's a market-maker that provides a venue for other vendors to sell stuff.

So it's already an error to talk about Amazon as a monopolist, when Amazon isn't the only marketplace out there with a global reach. But you're also making a category error, because you wrote:

>A perfect monopolist, by setting monopoly prices, decreases the value of the price information it gets through transactions, because there are no other competitors offering the same goods at different prices to compare to, so the prices of the monopolist's transactions convey less information about the preferences of other market participants.

Amazon doesn't set prices per se, at least not for vendors in its marketplace that are not itself. So it doesn't do whatever you think it's doing when you were writing that paragraph. Certainly there are "other competitors offering the same goods at different prices to compare" with, because Amazon's marketplace include other vendors. But Amazon is running a marketplace, not (just) being a vendor. There's a difference in category there.
I don't know why I am being downvoted. Braid and The Witness are two of the best games I have ever played. And I've been playing games for 30 years now.

Your tech talks are also awesome.
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It's not FUD, that person is telling the truth. Don't interpret it the wrong way though. Browser exploits are a popular 0-day on any platform and it is indeed likely the security situation on other platforms is just as bad.
Ok so scanning the paper, this is just some Adafruit breakout boards (class D amp & electret mic) cobbled together. Is there something that is novel?
> Regardless why isn’t there a growing movement to call the perpetrators of this war criminals?

You're kidding right?

Before the US invasion, the largest protests in the world happened all over the world against it and it didn't do anything.

> Social movement researchers have described the 15 February protest as "the largest protest event in human history"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_February_2003_anti-war_prot...
I really got a kick out of this. Its sort of fiendishly brilliant to launch a "layoff" job board in advance of a recession.
If you listen to the Apple time warp podcast interview with Chuck Somerville”. He talks about chips challenge/ chucks challenge /chips challenge2 and the licensing from the current owners. It’s actually kinda a fun listen about Apple ][ development.

http://appletimewarp.libsyn.com/apple-time-warp-podcast-epis...

For those that like reading more than listening ars summarizes it

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/06/how-an-early-90s-wind...
> I don't like change when it unnecessarily breaks things that used to work just fine.

This is by definition what change is. It's an improvement, and if changes didn't break things there'd never be progress and nothing would get changed.
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>You can’t always ensure that all traffic goes over SSL. DNS traffic is an example.

But wouldn't you get a cert error if someone messed with the DNS to send you to a different IP than you would normally?

(Especially if they're using pinned certs, which many sites do now)
Could you clarify "AFAIK auto manufacturers certainly do "rent" many of the factory machinery they use, and they certainly "rent" the maintenance contracts from the companies who service them (the big exception I'm aware of being Toyota, which makes their own factory robotics)."?

Rental only makes sense if there is a marketplace for used machines. Eg, planes and plane engines are components that aren't really tied to one place or company. (The "that aren't easily replaceable" from the parent post.)

But industrial robots for car manufacturing seems like rather specific hardware. If, say, the Ford plant in Claycomo, Missouri no longer needs a machine for making the F-150, who is going to rent it? How is rental a better cost-savings for Ford than buying the machine and later selling it?

I tried looking this up, but failed. The closest I found was that "over half of industrial robot purchases in North America have been made by automakers" at https://www.robotics.org/blog-article.cfm/The-History-of-Rob... .

Also, '"rent" the maintenance contracts' doesn't make sense to me. I sell maintenance contracts to my customers, I don't rent them, and I don't understand what "rent" could even mean in that context.
Which cheap data centers are you referring to? Curious as someone unfamiliar w/ the space.
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I wish somehow thrift stores were online
Well they literally have lesser (or more correctly, “fewer”) functioning senses. Like 4 instead of 5 is clearly lesser.

I really hate when emotions get in the way of objective definitions.
Then you get bad questions with no feedback, they just get closed or deleted, and the experience is still "Stack Overflow sucks".
In 1973 I was 26 years old and for about ten years I tried to build a library that included the fundamental computer books. Your education needs to exceed the narrow field of computer reference books only.

First comment is I did get the Knuth books but I never got the college courses and problem solving work to use them. As Professor Marc Nicolet said: You have got to do the problems to master the subject (referring to his Caltech area of physics).

The second comment is computing is all binary. Go beyond that and learn about fractals, chaos, topology and knot theory. For instance, in Kaufman's Knot Theory, there are obviously true but rigorously unproven theorems in the first chapters of the book.

The third comment is after Turing's paper and Godel's uncertainty arguments, all real world computer programs, no matter how carefully they employ something from a fundamental book, must be tested.
I'm surprised there's no viable business model in just renting clothes at this point. I know there's "Rent the Runway" for women, though unsure if their customers are renting the majority of their clothes or just using them to rent one off pieces for special events.
That article contains no references to code that performs the calculations.

These sorts of discussions don't do much for increasing my confidence level that statements in the media or forums should be taken at face value.
They've been upgraded from no hope in hell to a slim chance in hell.
I've always found it to be an odd displacement of responsibility. If somebody doesn't have the resources they need to live, it's our collective ethical responsibility to provide a resource floor. Walmart et al don't magically gain ethical responsibility for providing this floor just because they purchase someone's labor, in the same way that buying a dresser from someone off of Craigslist doesn't make you responsible for making the seller has enough income overall. It's difficult for me to see this view as anything but a desperate ploy to abdicate direct responsibility for taking care of the neediest and foist it off on some perceived other
So, have you tried Catalina?
Residential liberal arts colleges are rare in other parts of the world.

How do other parts of the world handle education in the liberal arts?
CUDA? lol.
I remember reading that for someone who answers mainly CUDA-related questions.
I doubt many (or any) of them do much of anything on the board.
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> The 2011 Census found the racial and ethnic makeup of Vancouver was:

European Canadian: 46.2%
Chinese: 27.7%
South Asian: 6%
Filipino: 6%
Southeast Asian: 3%
Japanese: 1.7%
Latin American: 1.6%
Mixed visible minority: 1.5%
Korean: 1.5%
Aboriginal: 2% (1.3% First Nations, 0.6% Metis)
West Asian: 1.2%
Black: 1%
Arab: 0.5%

http://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/vancouver-popu...

And some suburbs have a much higher percentage. Richmond (pop ~200k) has over 50% of it's population claim Chinese descent, and

> Nearly three quarters (74.1 per cent) of Richmondites identify with having some sort of Asian origin.

https://www.richmond-news.com/news/chinese-reach-majority-in...

[edit] - Which I think is awesome, in part because of the absolutely amazing food/restaurants we have here :)
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> “The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel’d to heaven is no artist.”

The man who judges how others think thinks the least of his own shortcomings.

Also, he's dead.
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I agree. That's why I said it's still pretty shit. I don't think hyperbole helps the situation though. Exaggerating the statistics isn't the right way to seek change.
I'm still not sure what you mean. Are you simply talking about an email client that looks like a text messaging program?
In Texas, if you pass the stop light sign, you hit the gas, turn on the high beams, and pray to jesus it doesn't turn.
Certainly not, but this is exactly how China buys influence by courting the rich and important.
Yeah, because what they did is actually 1000x less interesting than actually solving the task, not just it "sounds" less interesting.
Is it true that for >50% of degrees, the cost of getting the degree exceeds the lifetime pay increase of having it?

Is there a citation for that?
I agree with you that the no-gravity part is likely doable with an acceptable risk.

What I haven't seen are actual solutions for how to deal with the radiation. Yes, there is ongoing research from NASA, ESA, JAXA and others, and lots of interesting proposals like hydrogenated boron nanotubes, electromagnetic force fields, lithium shields etc. But no solutions even close to implementation.

Here's from an ESA blog post on the topic earlier this year:

> As it stands today, we can’t go to Mars due to radiation. It would be impossible to meet acceptable dose limits.

http://esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Explora...

Are we going to send astronauts who have accepted they will likely die from the mission? Is getting a person quickly to mars worth such a suicide trip?

The final issue I believe will be a hurdle is the psychology. It's one thing sending people to the moon for a few days, or to the ISS for half a yesr where they can look out the window at Earth every day. But I'm not sure the human mind is going to stand up well to the type of extreme isolation a trip to Mars requires. It's certainly never been tested before.
Cost of doing business. Hedging a no deal scenario.
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Imagine all the hype. But few average citizens online. Little to no e-commerce from consumers. No smartphones within mobile data that was fast.

The majority of people around the web were either techies, or speculators who didn’t understand it and wanted to cash in.

Average devs were largely devs because they grew up with a passion for tech before it being a profession. The fact that it child be a profession was a bonus. Today some would say you find more devs who choose it as a profession first but not a childhood passion.

When the crash happened there were fewer tech jobs. For the speculation and hype based businesses. I switched to tech in the b2b space because it paid.. with a goal of to become as recession proof and crash proof with my skills because I believed in what software could accomplish that much.

After that there was Napster.. Friendster.. hi5 that built up to the next internet generation.. Around 2005 Facebook became the first thing that average people did online, followed by 2009 and the iPad arriving where there was a shift from people becoming primarily consumers instead of creators with tech.
Thankfully the war in Iraq was the last time our intelligence agencies mislead the public.
That seems uncharitable given the CEO looks to be walking away with ~$900M total from the endeavor while everyone else gets... nothing? Probably?
I read a few paragraphs, got the same impression, and closed it, because the author admitted they're using practically none of the Apple ecosystem and therefore have already discounted the overwhelming majority of the improvements in Catalina.

It's certainly disingenuous to have a clickbait headline "Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it's worth" when it's missing "as explained by someone who doesn't use music, photos, TV, reminders, notes, or really anything else from the Apple software ecosystem".
There are delegates from more than 120 governments that have to approve every line from every report. Government-appointed delegates from Saudi Arabia have the same weight as from France, UK, the US. The whole thing is mandated and sponsored by the UN and every government can participate. It's not an echo chamber.
This is extremely false, there are no refugees who fled because sea level rise made their homes be underwater.

There are people who's homes are not tenable due to storms and storm surge, which would be true with or without sea level rise. There are people who live on land that is subsiding, and so the land is lower (not the sea being higher).

Sea level rise is estimated to be something like 60mm since the year 1900. That is about as much as your finger, less if you have an averaged sized hand. You can't live in a place that is 60mm above sea level, even a light breeze would put you under water due to the height of waves being far, far higher.

So to believe there are refugees due to sea level rise, you have to believe there were people who lived at some level that was already under water much of the time in the year 1900, basically whenever there is some wind, and now with sea level rise it's under water a little more often, because now it only takes a 11kph wind to put them under water when 120 years ago it would have taken 12kph, and that 'little bit more often' over the course of a hundred years was enough that they abandoned their home rather than put a couple of thin boards on top of their floor to make it 3 inches higher, which would put them far higher above the water than they would have been even in 1900. It's completely absurd.
I really recommend the 2000 documentary Code Rush[1] about Netscape's open sourcing of the browser and acquisition by AOL. It doesn't give any major insights into the industry, but does give a glimpse of what the culture was like back then.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q7FTjhvZ7Y
It's fascinating to reread just how bad these stories were:

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

> In March 2003 [..] it reportedly took International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) officials only a matter of hours to determine that these documents were fake. IAEA experts discovered indications of a crude forgery, such as the use of incorrect names of Nigerien officials.

The CIA and foreign intelligence services did do some good work to try to correct that particular false narrative - something originally spread from Iran's intel service no less (which sounds a lot like the discredited 2016 'dossier' which came from questionable Russian sources). But they clearly didn't do enough. Probably because they were on the brink of getting new massive sweeping powers.

This one's my favourite CIA story from that era, just straight-up blatant disregard for the law with zero repercussions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_CIA_interrogation_videota...
I had a good internship every summer through school and was about a year out of school working for a multinational media company when the layoffs came. It was clear an adjustment was on the way so I'd thankfully secured a gig in health care where I hung out for the next two and a half years until I could make another move. Those brick-and-mortar companies were flush with talent as they were less impacted and benefitted from formerly hard to hire tech workers. It was at least into 2005 before things started to pick up again in the Seattle area such that you felt that you had any real latitude. Things are different today - many more robust tech employers in the Seattle area, especially in the city itself. Same rules apply though - just because you are minting money doesn't mean you should increase your spending, as what goes up always goes back down eventually.
Anyone know where one could buy such a piece?
College is mostly signaling. In tech it is easy enough to have rigorous job interviews and do away with signaling, but most professions aren't able to do that.
If the half-life is that long, exposure to direct environmental radiation is probably not that big of a concern- the sieverts will be very low- and the main harm comes through ingesting, inhaling, etc. I would wonder if things like dust abatement, water filtration, and food washing would be used to manage the issue in the future.

As a point of comparison, regular U-238 is present at low levels all over the place in Colorado, it's naturally in the rock & soil. As long as the amounts are low, the radiation is low, and it mostly stays put, it's not a big problem.
Very true. The Witness is in my top one PC games, precisely because everything seems to be there for a reason. It's extremely well done!
> Why does every employer pay poverty wages

Most employers of relatively unskilled labor pay poverty wages because they can get the labor they are seeking at that price, and they haven't identified ways to get sufficiently better returns paying more to justify higher pay.

> and what can one of the biggest (or biggest) private employers in America do about it?

Why should they?

I'd rather just tax capital earnings as income, tax high-end income more, and fund a UBI than expect employers to act irrationally as public benefit agencies.
Yep, the char_list thing is funny and String.trim is a departure from Ruby, which trims with strip().

Anyway, what are the two languages Elixir is made of?
Genuinely wondering, how many more Uighur Muslims have to die before associating with the Chinese Govt. becomes bad optics? I understand this is a Chinese university but we all know all entities in China serve the agenda of the Chinese Govt.
I open anything seemingly relevant in a new tab, run uBlock so they can't track me on the destination page and more often than not forget to close the search tab. So they'd be getting more bad information than good to work with. Even this is somewhat self reinforcing as the quality of search drops I'm more likely to open in tabs.

I think this is very common for developers, but then again the amount of shitty SPA sites that don't work with tabs...
Which company best in ERP development?
No cell division required, much more accurate than CRISPR. That’s a major advance.
Just donated $50. Their fundraising platform supports Apple/Google Pay, so it’s super quick and easy. Don’t even have to give them card info if you don’t want to.
I'm surprised to be reading so many 9/11 related stories. In my memory the dotcom bust was earlier than that.
Probably because Obama said we have to look forwards and not backwards, and Europe was probably in love with him that they just said "ok!", and Russia and China were thinking "that's fine with us because it means we'll get away with doing similar things!"

Obama seemed to have the dream of stopping the partisan bickering and reuniting the country, prosecuting the former presidential administration would not have helped with that (not that this dream/mission got anywhere close to reality in his 8 years).

Another reason was prosecuting them would've meant subsequent administrations would look for any wrongdoing they could use against the previous admin. (Well, this is what the GOP did anyway, say with Benghazi).
The internet of creation? You literally cannot think of an idea that someone hasn't built a website for. And then someone see those websites and say, "well theirs sucks, mine will be better" and they build their own.

It has never been easier to create something online. I ride with random people on a shared ride and they give me a card with a website they created themselves. It's ugly, it's crappy, but it's exactly in the spirit of the internet of creation.

People who created in the 90s were a minority, a small percentage of the total connected. Today, this percentage continues to grow. Though it is still the minority.
Yea. Hm. Somehow I don't feel sorry for him for one nanosecond.

I do feel sorry for the thousands of employees who bought into his bullshit and whose options are now worthless.
College ratings are basically bs so I’d take this with a grain of salt.
Why would anyone else have to provide a citation for your own claim?
>If as an CEO, you aren't invited to the board and you want to be global, you are doing it wrong.

Or to be precise, you want to be in China. Google is very much a Global company by most standards.
A Silicon Valley company in what way? Its inflated valuation? HQ is in NYC and they don’t have a real tech offering.
after a few years in silicon valley I learned that's essentially the right way to make it here. Building successful companies is for suckers, you just make a big ball of excrements, package it real well and then hand it to someone else before it falls apart. The VC system rewards that more than any other skillset.
I suspect it will just bifurcate the market eventually.

There was a brilliant moment where entertainment was all going to converge. You'd have your PC with terabytes of storage, stick a tuner card and an Ethernet cable in the back, run the sound out to your thousand-watt 20-channel amplifer, and display it all on your 70-inch flat screen. Broadcast TV, Netflix, Disney Plus, etc, would all just be desktop icons, right next to Steam and Excel. We were hurtling down that road in the mid-2000s (remember WinXP Media Centre Edition?) and suddenly it all jumped the track.

Seemed to happen pretty close to when Digital TV stumbled its way into the US market, or roughly the perfect time for it to really take hold (the classic "record a show on VHS" paradigm was suddenly killed off, and the ever-mutating subchannel lineups makes a smarter electronic program guide and recording functionality more appealing). I sort of blame the cable industry-- apparently it was virtually impossible to get a digital-cable-compatible tuner card for many years-- you had to buy from a narrow band of prebuilt PCs with the cards preinstalled, and even now the companies will scream blue murder over having to supply CableCards (if they even do anymore).

The PC is a do-anything device. Eventually, given the media industry's tastes, it will be the 'do anything except watch name-brand entertainment products' device. I don't think they can undermine general-purpose computing as a concept- there's too many other business cases that rely on being able to run random unsigned software or connect to arbitrary weird hardware.

Instead, Disney and Sony will push hard for various consumption-first or -only devices-- smart TVs, consoles, locked down phones/tablets. I'm sort of surprised they aren't already going for the subsidy model-- get a "free" PS5/Xbox 3&pi;/"smart" television if you'll sign up for years of a content subscription service to feed it.

People will end up having both and being annoyed that they can't converge things.