skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's definitely something to what you're saying, but I think in relation to the article/discussion, it's more about young people than it is about specifically people on the spectrum.

My impression is that as programming, being nerdy, and so on, became main-stream, the target audience for the founders/managers/investors has become much broader. I know a number of decidedly non-autistic people who I feel are used by this 'startup culture' to do stuff that isn't in their own best interest.

If anything, I'd say that generally people on the spectrum would be /less/ likely to get caught up in these types of schemes. It's just that for a while in history the stuff that these people gravitated to was also the stuff that was easy to make money off.
It's lossy, but not destructive, and a 'sharpen' operation is technically the same as blur but in reverse. So you won't end up pixel-perfect after doing an 'unblur' but you will be able to make out more than you could before.
I think I'll just stick to i3 for now.
since I can do a book a week (approximately) using an ereader and reading whenever I have a spare moment during the day that's not my point, my point is where does he get this nobody can read a book a week thing (since I could read a book a day when I did not have the troubling concerns of employment and family and still a book a week now that I do have these concerns.)

The average reading speed is about 55 pages per hour, 8 hours a day or 8 hours a week - 440 pages.

Pretty much anyone can read fast enough to read a book a week.
That's a gross over-generalization: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/wsl-2-where-is-it-and-w....
Hate it as well. The obvious reason is the effort to have a unified interface that will support both pointer-based and touch-based devices.
Plan de San Diego (1915)
Try some of james mickens articles: https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens

They are written in a similar style, I really love them.
A friendly advice to the author of this article. Even though I enjoyed reading the whole thing, if you are gonna have a tl;dr in your article; put it at the start, not at the end. Almost felt lika a mockery.
The parent commenter is correct in the sense that API changes can be, and should be, automatically checked for server.. you're just saying that doing that still does not guarantee there's no breaking changes because, besides API changes, there's also semantic changes, and those are difficult, perhaps impossible, to automatically check.

Or are they? Check this out: https://www.unisonweb.org/docs/tour#-the-big-technical-idea
since when is the seattle coffee culture largely dead? o_O
Great. Now what we do to keep it from happening again? How do we reduce corporatocracy and regulatory capture?
Realtek stuff installs Nahimic 3D virtual positioning and a different denoiser and beamformer, which are controllable from their driver.

Technically, they could make these features separate and configurable from Windows sound effects options for the recording or playback device...
>>We should absolutely be blaming the individual in this case.

Extreme case: Your employer tells you to stay alert in a super-boring job for 8 straight hours or else a person can die or whatever. But that may be an impossibility due to how our brain works.

I'd like to know how many hours was he sitting there and how often did he have to intervene that day /week /month. Uber, maybe, should have had another one checking now and then on drivers. Say one for 10 drivers...
5G NG spectral downlink efficiency is 50% better than LTE,
Uplink efficiency increase is more than 500%.
khechari mudra steps:

step 1: talabya kriya, it relaxes linguistic mind, until it clicks free

step 2: stretch the tongue to touch the uvula using tongue

step 3: bring the tongue to the uvula, stretch the frenulum.

step 4: bring the tongue out, grab it with towel to stretch it out.

step 5: (apply this after the frenulum has been stretched enough, it's a very long process)

put the tongue to the nasopharynx, by pushing with finger, with nice, easy, and gentle way, don't rush it.

step 6: the khechari would be new for your body, so to make it more gentle, gargle with saltwater,

it will sterilize nasopharynx

step 7: push it into nasopharynx over and over again, maybe 10-12 times everyday, see how long the tongue can stay there without any reaction (example sneeze, swallowing saliva) you must get to use to it, repeat step 6.

stretch the soft palate to reprogram that it is okay for tongue to go up into nasopharynx

the endgame would be to reach sphenoid sinus

source: forrest knutson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC-Cn9H6CQE
Sorry, I still don’t understand why you believe that you has to ship an app using new features in 24 hours if your app worked even without using them all this time? Did I understand that the existing picker worked and will work in your case? So where that 24 hour pressure comes from in your case? I didn‘t understand that your app built with the tools for 13 would be broken on 14? And if it would be, why?
I wouldn't say that there's no reason, but it's just very unhealthy for democracy.
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Interesting, thank you for the link. I had a hunch this should be possible but I wasn't aware that it was already proven. I used a similar trick on image recognition: turn images into a single 32 bit word by heavy pixelation and then look up a matching description. It's interesting how often that will work once you feed it with enough data. After all, that gives you 4 billion inputs mapped onto 4 billion descriptions, and plenty of those will contain the Eiffel tower with various cloudy backgrounds apparently recognized perfectly.

It's a total cheat but it is funny how close that can get you to something that might be actually useful.
Security guards have more a split second leeway to react.
And here we are, hearing about people who can read without saying what they are reading in their minds!

I tied few times to develop this ability and failed each time.

Apparently without this inner narrator voice you can consume books much faster.
It's because a) GNOME no longer renders title bars b) GTK3 instead treats title bar as combined titlebar + menu space
So what's wrong with Linux if you want a Linux based system? I don't remember the last time I got a Linux desktop which didn't "just work"; of course I try to avoid exotic hardware components, but the truth is that you can run into driver problems and issues too when running operating systems you pay money for, like Windows.
For me, the show stopper is lack of device forwarding with WSL and WSL2 (HyperV in general) on non-Server versions. Even the Workstation edition does not support it.

It will be less of a problem once DXGI support lands since it's mostly required for AI, DSP and video processing work for me, as they require rather direct access to the GPU.
> to answer correctly that the coronavirus originated in nature rather than a laboratory

That hasn't been proven either way, and probably never will be.

And journalism.org's linked source is not scientific evidence, but rather a "Statement in support of the scientists, public health professionals, and medical professionals of China combatting COVID-19". I guess they mean "answer politically correctly".
The API key shouldn't change what type of data an API call returns. The developer should explicitly request data and that either succeeds or fails based on authorisation. Making assumptions about the use case from the key will of course lead to this kind of error.
Dependency Injection in TypeScript from Scratch
Agree whole-heartedly that everyone should give more. If you find a way to give automatically (ideally from your paycheck, not your credit card) you never even feel it.

It's important to recognize that some causes are not as cost-effective as others, but are still worthy. I'll use my own donations as an example:

1. Against Malaria Foundation - widely recognized as one of the charities that can do the most for a dollar. Malaria nets cost about $2-3 and it's estimated every ~$2500 given to them saves a life from Malaria.
2. Larkin Street Youth Services - helping homeless youth in San Francisco (where I lived). A very expensive city and they provide not just housing but education, job services, medical care, etc. Helping just one full-service client can cost $40,000 a year.

I don't think giving to both of these causes makes me inconsistent. After all, no number of malaria nets in Africa can take a person off the street in San Francisco. And I want both outcomes. I believe nobody should die of malaria, and nobody should be homeless. So I give to both.
Since the Pinephone interests mainly a Free Software and open hardware audience, it is worth noting that Sailfish is not libre – the UI is closed source.
So wont private donations. I believe some forms of poverty are unavoidable if you want to have a free society (i am not saying I endorse either side). The country I live in has the rule you are not allowed to treat mentally ill people against their will (if they are considered harmless). There seems to be some evidence that quite a number end up homeless. So what can you do? Not realising being sick is one of the symptoms of some of these (treatable) diseases.

Adding more money wont solve anything.
Combinatorics Coincidence (2008)
Startup Advice Compilation Videos
Hi everyone,

Honored to be part of the Hacker News community.

I made a 5-part video compilation series of 200 successful entrepreneurs and investors giving startup advice. It was quite a fun project putting together those videos. A lot of clips came from the YC YouTube channel actually. They are some of my favorite pieces of advice.

Alright here we go:

- Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfURE_qpWEs

- Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3q8A9dgW2Y

- Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR8WM9WDVOA

- Part 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRjfl6DoyTo

- Part 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvPiJWEiDTY

Hopefully you guys can get some value out of them. Let me know what you think please and also if you want me to make more of such video compilations in future. Thanks!

Cheers,
Mike
In classic American fashion it’ll be increased as the solution!
That laundry list would make for an excellent blog post. I'd love it if you share that list in one form or another, including as a comment on HN.
I don't like this at all. Scrolling is a 'no' in serious UI design, and tiling should be an option.

The video is too fast to allow any actual evaluation of its offerings.

The big buttons in the section 'find your tasks instantaneously' are not necessary.

The gnome interface sucks big time and I don't see this as improvement.
Also com.joelapenna.foursquare: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-story-of-Joe-LaPenna-and-F...
US election 2020: What is Trump's record on the environment?
The issue of the gifs was actually discussed on discord. IIRC it was because the gifs would be to big in some cases.
Please no opinion pieces from National Review here, thanks. If I want fascist screed propaganda I have and use Twitter for that.
Because you need a human to control it. A robot however could just be sent on patrol and its AI would do the rest leaving no one to blame.
Yes sorry I was comparing like for like and not kopi. I do love Singaporean hawker coffee culture. I’m going by experience from living in the heartland for a few years where the only 2 western cafes are coffee bean and Starbucks. They leave no space for a local alternative.

Definitely really good western café’s in Singapore too. Ronin is prob my favourite..... looks like they had to close :(
Tokenization in Natural Language Processing Using NLTK
Search and Replace Tricks with Ripgrep
sigh.

> Republicans on the committee did not endorse the investigative report. [..] criticized Democrats for an investigation that "began by concluding that our system was broken and worked backwards from there."

So, do many republicans hold the view that killing 346 people in the first year of service is acceptable business practice?
Sure, it has some nice integrations, but I don't see how this article is in contradiction with what I've said.
(To be clear, I didn't mean it as a critique, I like Hyper-V)
A spoiler for the future – Bitcoin (2013)
I would say that these days the exotic components are the ones that DO work on Linux, and various common components just don't, or work "on paper" but with debilitating bugs.
Debian network-manager: Please restore removed init script
If the US system is even slightly functional, the FAA will get beefed up and we'll be fine for a decade or two.

Then people will again start saying "we've had no accidents for years, therefore flying is really safe, so why all this burdensome regulation?". Regulation will get scaled back, something like the 737 MAX will happen again, the FAA will get beefed up, and so on, ad infinitum.

It's this sort of regulatory boom and bust that makes me feel humans shouldn't be allowed to do anything that's dangerous on a really large scale (such as nuclear power).
What is the network effect for Google?
Rust, too. WebAssembly is going to be a big deal to some people, and the rust tools are good for that.
> The whole software industry moved away from waterfall to agile because it's unreasonable to assume that no requirements will emerge

That's completely unrelated to library versioning. The software industry that I work at absolutely relies on library authors to diligently introduce breaking changes only in rare occasions, and preferably using semver to the extent possible.

If you can't guarantee your library will be kept up-to-date with bug and security fixes, without me having to re-write my application on minor library updates because you decided to change your API to make it prettier, then I most certainly won't be using your library (indeed, I have removed dependencies from projects I worked on for this reason).
>Do they use the roads and hospitals and prisons and the police 25x as much?

By use do you mean "physically interact with" or "reap the social benefits of?" Because for one of those it's a clear yes.
Yes. And then you‘re app grows and now you have an undocumented NoSQL database that would better have been a RDMS...

There‘s nothing wrong with starting the proper way.
make targeted advertising opt in. Make the opt in scary like how android enables the installation of apk's from unknown sources.
I had no idea, thank you for that little fact.
Stalin killed over 20 million, Mao almost 80 million. How many adult Americans know that?
How did he rank these? Some are obvious (1, 8). Can't really differentiate the rest. Any good articles about it?
This entertained me a lot.
I just started using Bazel this weekend for a personal (Rust) project. I understood the concepts which convinced me it was something I wanted to use. The documentation and tutorials definitely make the learning curve steeper than I think it needs to be.

It works so great though, now that I've managed to set it up.
When did computer geeks and programmers, professionals of one of the least physical occupations, become so aggressive, at least verbally? This article sounds rather like my 16 year old friends who had a punk band with song lyrics where they "fucked" the police, the politicians, the church and basically everybody else. So much pent-up anger, I expect from a teenage punk band, but an article on technology? I don't really get it.

Not to say that, knowing we're all nerds here, this kind of tone sounds, frankly, a little ridiculous. I'm compelled to whisper "when you make a fist, you wanna keep your thumb on the outside".
Even if the republicans are right in how the process was performed, it doesn't make the democrats wrong.

Sounds a lot like whataboutism to me
Yes there definitely is a case to be made. It’s more a criticism of capitalism imo
I still believe capping executive pay is a necessary (though not sufficient) part of any practical solution. At least for publicly traded companies, we must cap compensation at no more than 50x minimum wage or something. No, executive compensation does not "come from a different pot" or any such nonsense. Don't listen to such silly arguments. Literally no shareholder wants to pay executives more unless they are executives at a different company where their buddies are on the board.

Some HN readers apparently don't like to hear this but I don't see any other way.

As for how we can reduce regulatory capture, I don't believe there is any good solution other than constant vigilance.
Anime Avatars Are Going Mainstream on Twitch
Best practices for a stress-free code review process
Shadow banking isn’t fintech. It’s non-bank lenders like hedge funds.
Email them? SMS Them? Its not pure notifications, but its far easier to implement.
I had rather hoped you could repeat the process indefinitely = maybe to get down to one byte or even one bit. Only requiring one bit of storage would help a lot in lots of situations - not to mention the potential for increasing network throughput!
The markets and VC are too short-termist for things like this. The failure of many VC-funded robotics companies is evidence of this. Rethink Robotics. Jibo. Anki. I can keep going. The VCs ran out of patience long before the product gained market traction.

And Boston Dynamics is not an exception. Government funded primarily until 2013 when it was acquired by Google. Google then didn't have the stomach to continue to fund it, so they sold it to Softbank.[1]

[1] https://thenextweb.com/google/2017/06/09/its-no-wonder-googl...
That's what Intl.DateTimeFormat is for.

var options = { year: 'numeric', month: '2-digit', day: '2-digit'};
console.log(new Intl.DateTimeFormat('te-IN', options).format(new Date()));
// outputs 16-09-2020
What a brilliant blog post. Thank you for posting it!
Ah, he was the guy who wrote the facebook sleep time stalker script! It hits the same style of prose very closely.
> Sadly it’s a material design, one of the worst shits out there.

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It is probably still easier to screw up on a computer than by looking at physical documents to verify them and then scanning them.
> Designed to simplify navigation and reduce the need to manipulate windows in order to improve productivity. It's meant to be 100% predictable and bring the benefits of tools coveted by professionals to everyone.

Oh dear. Now I remember why I keep using macOS which actually does it better than 'this'.
Solving different problems, huh? but still similar.
If you want to upgrade your Bazel dependencies using pinned semver constraints and a lockfile I've made this [0] for you.

It superseeds http_archive and falls back to git_repository if needed. Just run `bazel sync`. See it working at [1].
Note: there's an open (and somewhat long standing) issue WRT Bazel fetching from gitlab.

[0]: https://github.com/fenollp/bazel_upgradable
[1]: https://github.com/voidstarHQ/voidstar/blob/master/WORKSPACE
Japan's virtual celebrities rise to threaten the real ones
I agree, if you just want to use Linux a classic Thinkpad/XPS will play well with it
One thing off top of the head is

For example:
If the DNS was initially designed as such as https://handshake.org could be a better place to lay the foundation of Internet.
It should be noted that even when Kernighan wrote that, with the exception of the stylistic bits (e.g. where you put the semicolon), most of the issues he has didn't exist in the Pascal dialects that people used. His comments were about standard Pascal but few really confined themselves to standard Pascal - even the standard itself didn't do that, IIRC it explicitly mentions that implementations are going to extend it as that was an expectation at the time. In general Wirth's languages weren't meant to be taken as a gospel but as a base to expand from (even his own Oberon system slightly extends the language described by his Oberon language report).
In some states, all you need is a federal EIN, which you can get free on the IRS site in about five minutes.

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...

I live in SC, and you don't even have to inform the state that you formed an LLC. If you do want to, its about $100 and takes another online form.

The idea that you would need a lawyer is absurd.
It's worse than regulatory capture.

The FAA delegates oversight to non-FAA contractors working and being paid at Boeing. If they don't agree with Boeing mgmt., they are fired.

Also, the FAA manages safety using paperwork. The submitted paperwork did not match the excessive MCAS trim rate.

"The problem is it was compliant and not safe." is a false statement. MCAS performance did not match the paperwork filed with the FAA.

The Republican comment about it not being a system problem is also false. The FAA has a history of losing control until an accident. The result of the 1956 Grand Canyon accident was that they determined the ATC system "was not a system." In the case of the 737 MAX, the FAA latitude given to Boeing allowing it to outsource everything and self-certify bad designs is a system failure for airliner design and mfg.

Midair collision between a Trans World Airlines Lockheed 1049A and a United Airlines Douglas DC-7

https://lessonslearned.faa.gov/ll_main.cfm?TabID=1&LLID=50

Equally disturbing, and it illustrates Boeing's extreme mgmt. dysfunction, is the gamifications with the meeting room shotclock and the Southwest $1 million penalty per plane for a different sim.

Source: commercially-rated airplane pilot.
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I think my daily driver language (Ruby) has become so ingrained in my mind that it's written out of muscle memory in Vim, and translating that direct connection from thought to Vim into a whiteboard might actually be challenging. You almost never write for loops in idiomatic Ruby anyway, you use an iterator chain.

Languages like C that have a single official for loop syntax are a bit easier to remember, in part because it's a syntax I have previously used on a whiteboard rather than exclusively in actual code.

So if a candidate can't write a loop on a whiteboard, maybe let them try in a non-IDE text editor, or have them glance at a formal grammar for the language as a refresher that won't give away the game to someone who can't actually code.
Why would you want to work for a company which has only those desperate-enough-to-jump-through-hoops applying to them?
The session that they did together with AdaCore presenting which languages they went through and why they picked Ada in the end.

Rust syntax was one of the factors that played against it.

"Securing the Future of Safety and Security of Embedded Software"

https://www.adacore.com/webinars/securing-future-of-embedded...

Page 35,

https://www.slideshare.net/AdaCore/securing-the-future-of-sa...