skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that we live in a society where one is constantly being bombarded with stimuli all the time. Because people cannot be in silence, you have to endure constant noise.

I began a new job recently and was shocked to find out they have a speaker system that plays music everywhere in the building including office areas. On my first day, they were playing gangsta rap all day long...

So now, in order for me to focus and do what I'm being paid to do, I have to separate myself from the environment by either working from home (in silence) or using ANC headphones all day, which is not pleasant.
It’s not exactly what you’re after but I love my Alphasmart neo 2. I can type on it, and I can spit it’s contents into a computer to print. It’s an excellent portable writing machine that’s been around for a while, and is quite inexpensive to pick up on eBay.
The database project is quite the rabbit hole if you start chasing performance. I have learned some amazing things about just how fast a 3~4ghz CPU core actually is from this journey.
Note that the author is reporting primarily on his own research, not all of which is uncontroversial. Cohen's assertions have mostly been anecdote-based, without a lot of support from formal studies, even to quantifying what this "Invention" faculty even is.
> But I think this article goes a bit too far in assuming that a significant number creators deserve an audience and an income that aren't getting it now, enough to create a creator middle class. I wish that was the case, but in the time I spent working in arts and entertainment I can’t support that view of the world.

Hmm, as someone working in the media in some fashion, I'd say there's a huge number of creators that deserve an audience and income who aren't getting it now. Those 6 or so lists of underrated gaming YouTubers I posted in the last few years should be evidence of that to some degree (though many of the people included did take off afterwards).

Every week or so I come across at least one creator who I believe should be much more successful than they currently are.
It's not a presumption. When I say, "I like the wine I'm drinking" I mean the wine I am drinking.

I am not using a term "wine" in some sentence constructed from fragments of prior text. I mean to refer to the object in my hand.

And likewise, if i ask a friend to "pass me the wine", i mean a particular part of our shared environment.

Text reassembly can appear to refer, but it is genuinely proto-schizoprhenic to attribute to this system reference. It isn't saying anything.

It isn't with me expressing an attitude to our shared environment. It's generating text. It will generate inconsistent text fragments on each generation run. It isn't talking about anything, there isnt any intention to express anything behind the generation of text.

There is in fact no mechanism by which it can speak about an enviroment. It's fragaments of prerecorded text reassembled on every run which appears to say something, but only because the people it steals from said somehting at the time. Now it it just a bad rehersal.
Being able to do challenging projects is a cold comfort when by far the most challenging project I’ve ever faced was trying to build something people would pay.
That too, of course, but I didn't mean expenses like office space, training etc. but things like additional benefits/insurance that employer pays in addition to salary that can be considered part of compensation package but don't get paid to the employee.
Cyberpunk 2077: Hotfix 1.05
Third time’s a charm? Now there is an interesting discussion on HN...
I wonder how much this is autism and how much it is people with low trait agreeableness being diagnosed with autism for being "bad with people". Refusing to do rituals without a good explanation makes people think you are autistic, but it could just as well be that they are disagreeable by nature and don't do things just because people tell them to. And refusing to do things the way everyone else does them obviously helps you find new ways to do things.
Does anyone who swears that MSG is bad for health do so because they personally hold anti-chinese racist views? Probably not.

Is it possible that:

* the MSG mythology in some Western nation was proposed by those with some degree of bias against foreign things or chinese cuisine or people specifically

* it caught on and was repeated by people who were enthusiastic about it because of some degree of that bias

* MSG was attended to in some food but not in others because of some degree of that bias

* as this reached critical mass in western culture the idea became common wisdom even among those with no particular bias and exported anywhere that western culture has reach

People sometimes refer to this kind of construction as "systemic" racism. The majority of people subscribing to the myth might be entirely innocent of any kind of identifiable racial stereotyping or discrimination and yet inputs from people who are might be enough to tip the system that way.

Maybe there's other equally credible explanations, but this one is hardly incredible.
Good point. The author of that article, Baron-Cohen, has previously written (debated?) about whether HFA/AS is a disability OR a difference. Speaking for myself, and many who identify as having Asperger's -- and your son, from what it sounds like (who sounds really cool!) -- it is indeed a difference, and by no means a disability.
The auditors, were they IT security professionals (if so, about how many years experience?), or accountants, or mixed, or something else?

Were there any requirements about pentesting one's company somehow?

Did they look at source code?
I use one of those for my headless dedicated Pi4B website server plus UPS controller.

Admittedly, that's a simple load, but my Pi never gets over 42 degrees C, in a tropical area, averaging around 30 degrees C.
> Mental disabilities are mostly adaptations that have huge upside.

There is extremely scant evidence to support this claim, and conversely, an enormous amount of evidence to disprove it.

The first part is questionable in its very premise. Mental disabilities as an adaptation? By what metric do you measure this? And having huge upsides? There aren't many upsides to someone being born severely mentally retarded. There aren't really even many upsides to severe autism.

For every "House, M.D." you're thinking of, there's another totally non-functional person who requires an enormous amount of caretaking.
London is a massive outlier in basically every way compared to the rest of the UK, but London is still like 45% white British (according to the wiki page).

In 2011 roughly 35% of the population of London was born outside the UK. In terms of population the biggest groups are from India, Poland, the Republic of Ireland, Bangladesh and Nigeria (in that order).

Our last census was 2011 so the data is pretty close to as out of date as it could possibly be. We'll have another in 2021 (I say we although I'll be out of the country for that one).
That term is over 50 years old and not commonly used, if at all, ever. The only time I've seen "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome" brought up is either in a article about how that term is racist, or a historic piece referencing the origins from the 1968 New England Journal of Medicine.

However, my local Hippy Organic Community Grocery Store has all sorts of products proudly claiming the absence of MSG.
>> There exists a medical controversy over the effects of MSG.

> That’s not true.

Of course it's true. Otherwise why would the fine article exist?

>> most potent yet least expensive flavour enhancers available

> Salt is approx 1/4 the price, as is sugar.

Both of which are also overused in the American food industry. Every new tool (flavour enhancer) enables the creation of new snacks. Do you think that Doritos would be as popular if they were all salt and no MSG?

>> I've inadvertently done the double-blind "Is MSG harmful" test too many times

> Cheese, tomatoes, it would be hard to avoid it. What kind of restrictions do you need to follow?

I don't eat cheese anyway, so I didn't even know that cheese is an issue. I do eat small amounts of tomatoes, and have never associated tomatoes with symptoms, but from what I've read here it's "heirloom tomatoes" that are maybe problematic? The tomatoes that I eat are pretty much water packaged in a red skin, mostly out of Turkey. My country does not have "Chineese restaurants" like those in the US, but any restaurant that I go to I have to specifically talk to the person preparing the food to ensure that I won't get MSG. Of course snacks such as Doritos are right out. Soup powders are the absolute worst, and are sometimes hard to avoid when eating at friends' houses.

My children are not sensitive, and I don't know anybody else who claims to be MSG sensitive. I'm sure that MSG is fine for the vast majority of people, just like gluten is fine for the vast majority of people. In fact, I know a few people who claim gluten intolerance who I serious doubt are celiac based on the things that I see them eat.
Seasoning with salt, pepper and MSG is typical in Asian cooking.
It sucks that people keep using gross salary instead of net because it really makes a difference.

Lets take an example, with a yearly salary of £100,000 / $122,247 / €109,654... (all same amount)

In the UK you would take home £66,533 / $89,412 / €73,088. (£2k less if you are in Scotland due to 1% higher tax rate)

In Germany, you would take home £52,911 / €58,117 / $71,102.

In Austin TX, you would take home £68,704 / €75,451 / $92,330

In California, you would take home £62,600 / €68,748 / $84,127.

Location really matters for salary and living in Austin for example nets you £15793 more a year as a stark contrast to Germany but comparing Cali to UK is less impressive with the same salary. But avg Cali devs salaries are a lot higher ($131,425 [0] vs $57,930 [1])

As for the question, in my opinion the glass ceiling for software developer is just much lower in European countries and people will try to defend their European country with very valid healthcare arguments and having more rights with holidays and such. If I could I would move over to America in a heartbeat due to many factors from products being much cheaper, being the forefront of tech, culture, lower average taxes across the country and about double the average software developer salary from a UK perspective to me.

Side note but... Earning £6k (net) less a year due to taxes can be the difference of £159,405 over 15 years in a index fund at 7% depositing £500 a month (6k a year).

I used https://salaryaftertax.com/ for the salaries feel free to correct me if I'm wrong in any of the locations.

[0] https://www.indeed.com/career/software-engineer/salaries/CA

[1] https://www.indeed.co.uk/career/software-engineer/salaries/E...
Wasn't it named uk.ac.kcl.ph.asterix, or had you Brits finally stopped driving on the wrong side of the internet by then? ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET_NRS
Professional investors struggle to make good investment decisions after years of intense practice, and many many investment decisions.

Why do you think naive employees can pick winners? Clearly the vast majority don't or can't...

The only difference is that an employee might get in on a hot deal where many investors are chasing one great looking deal and most investors will miss out.
Please don't take this the wrong way, but there is a 3-to-1 male-to-female ratio in autism prevalence. Does this mean that males invent more things than females? Or is the percentage of people with autism too small to have an effect here?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28545751/
Interesting. Six times is in the same order of magnitude, so it’s entirely plausible that a significant number of people would be affect by MSG with its normal dose. And it’s entirely plausible that some restaurants would put six times the normal dose in some meals, especially fast food restaurants that don’t use standardized measurements like Chinese restaurants.
And, on the other hand, is Richard Prince.

https://petapixel.com/2013/04/26/appeals-court-overturns-pre...
QM doesn't happen in lorentzian spacetime, QFT does though
Some people have this trait, when they see nothing is being done to help with their issue, they exaggerate or even lie to make someone in power to change things do something. Always take such stories with a grain of salt and try to verify with as many sources as possible.
What are you talking about? People that have no business buying options are buying options daily.
But I'm saying it is a strawman because "experts on TV are saying this hack was so sophisticated it could have only been done by the Russians" is not actually true. If it is, I would like to see some specific quotes from these supposed experts.
We had a bunch of BBC Micros at school and they were really cool. A working LAN, a proper file server, logins - and ways to circumvent security ;-) Good old times!
I think people miss that there isn’t a single solution that is a perfect for everyone. As your business grows there is a point where co-location makes sense, there is a point where cloud makes sense, and there is a point where maintaining your own datacenter makes sense. Over time you will make multiple transitions because the economics of the moment make it favorable.

Spending time in cloud does break people of bad habits, it’s worth spending some time in a cloud environment, but eventually you get back to the point where it’s cheaper to build your own infrastructure then to rent someone else’s.
Oh that’s very nice, I’ll give it a shot.

I did try blurhash but it was just a bit too abstract? For large images. Think desktop full width.
You could believe this if you have only ever saw mental disabilities in movies. Pay a visit to an actual mental ward and I can guarantee it will change your perspective.
Arguing of sales numbers doesn't work for the N9. It was a dead phone walking when it was released: The Microsoft partnership had been announced, Elop already had publicly stated that whatever its sales numbers MeeGo wouldn't be continued and it wasn't even sold in major markets like the US (here in Germany a few shops imported them from Switzerland!). Of course it (and more importantly the platform) didn't stand a chance like that.

(I'd tend to agree with the second point that MeeGo would have had difficulties and likely would have failed later, even if they'd focused on MeeGo and the N9, but there was something to it)
London is one of the most cosmopolitan cities in world. I walked down the main streets, not even the white people were speaking English! I’m sure many turists but still It’s a great city!

I also went to Birmingham and it’s much different. I talked to taxi cab driver and he said he ever left his city even though it’s very small. So maybe less mixing in smaller places in UK.
The city of Alameda originally had municipal coax network throughout the island - but the city council voted to turn over control of the network to comcast - and they dont allow any municipal networks to be installed...

I wonder who got bribed for that one?
Decisions in portable vs not may be a side effect of stability in lifestyle space.

Desktop implies desk. And well, a chair I guess. :-)

People living in various group houses, moving all the time etc see a laptop as making that all easy. Let alone those living from their car etc etc.

Anecdotally, I am fortunate enough to be amazed at friends who want a "gaming laptop" but then have a "nest" on the couch hunched over the coffee table.

I keep wondering why they don't set aside a space for themselves when computing. And if you do that, a desktop naturally follows...

For me, a desktop, tablet and phone covers it all. And the tablet may not get replaced when it's time is up.
Sympathy vs empathy also adds another layer. If a certain event would cause me pain and that event happens to you, I can feel for you because I sympathize with your pain. This can easily pass as empathy. But if that same event would not cause me pain but it causes you pain, this can be difficult to resolve as it involves theory of mind which is often weak or missing in those with ASD.
The hotswap 3D printed mechanism is pretty neat (reminds me of the swappable harddrive days). As for Rpi clusters, its just a neat idea to think about. It's not entirely trivial hardware or software wise to load balance 14 Rpis for "one purpose".
> Dave proposes, “do you think racism plays a part?”

So does COVID-19 not exist, because somebody called it Chinese Flu? A thing can exist, independent of racism, even if somebody uses it to promote their racism.
If you join that class action you can bet that you’ll never get any of that money back. The best you can hope for is a coupon for 10% off one month of Frontier service, but you’ll need to provide your SSN and other personal information to a third-party that is processing the coupon requests. Most won’t risk exposing their PII in such a way for very little return.

However, the lawyers will receive millions from the class action.
Batch size is an orthogonal concept. The reason your memory increases so much is because with larger batches, you need to store more intermediate results before running your optimizer. This would be true with a pure CPU implementation of an SGD (stochastic gradient descent) optimizer as well.
this is a preview paper.

the situation was artificially created.

the retroviral Reverse Transcriptase must be present in the individual cells also infected with the covid virus.
Army Secretary and Chief of Staff disavow intention to participation in a coup
TFA:

"On Friday, December 18, the secretary of the Army and the Army chief of staff formally disavowed any intention of participating in a military coup: 'There is no role for the U.S. military in determining the outcome of an American election.'

... even when Trump has seemingly failed to get his way, he has still succeeded in doing enormous damage ... No, there won’t be a coup. But we have on record the first ever formal U.S. Army repudiation of a coup. That’s bad enough."

Also see:

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-secretary-chief-2020-el...

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/dec/19/army-brass-...
You wouldn't need that much in their case (sorry) as they have through flow.
Even military action to affect successful extraction is worthwhile.

Every thing has a cost. Everything. Its very simple calculus really. What will be the short-term, medium-term, and long-term damage in dollars and lives of allowing this ship to break apart?

What will be the equivalent of using military action - if necessary?

Either decision will cost dollars. Either decision will cost lives. We either pay up front, or we pay down the road, but we will pay. We need to determine the cheaper cost and steel ourselves to pay it.
I get them from the pawn shop. They'll be a year or two old, but perfectly serviceable. That and the thrift store are great places to pick up TVs, stereo equipment, guitars, tools, etc.
I know that there is at least some speculation that autism in women is under diagnosed v men. Does this paper account for that?

Edit: yeah, that’s the conclusion of the analysis. I wonder if there is still more to be found there (ie if it is still closer to 1:1).
Please tell me if I’m correct:

1. Sell futures contract At $15 (bearish position)

2. Buy futures at TSA when it’s negative - an equal amount to the ones u sold- to cover the futures you initially sold
Some projects I've donated to this year, either directly or via donating to their developers.

OpenStreetMap
Wikipedia
DAVx5
Jellyfin
Mobian
Thunderbird
PureMaps
Sequeler
rust-gtk
It's funny when you think about it how much money is made by people writing relatively trivial tech on top of incredibly complex and technically impressive software written for far less reward and acclaim (at least, outside of engineering circles).

https://xkcd.com/2347/
To add a personal note, I came here to ask questions, to learn something new, and to try understanding how any of this is allowed to happen. You've ruined my experience and this thread for no reason. Please don't ever do that again.
Funny you mention that machine... I just finished a development contract that I did on an early 2013 MBA 11 inch. That little machine made me about $50K. I'm disappointed it cannot run Big Sur but keeping it anyway.
Racist. /s
It's genius. LZEXE creator, 3x Obfuscated C Code Contest winner, record breaking Pi calculator.

Fabrice Bellard started FFMpeg, but doesn't work on it anymore. He also started a few other little projects incuding most famously QEMU.
I think you misread. The exploit effects all ios’ before ios 14, not just ios 11
yes, sorry, I meant quantum field theory
> In Europe you get security + enough money to life comfortably, but not really enough to accumulate any capital and gain financial freedom

That's not true. I'm almost 40, and excluding pensions and capital tied up in my home, I currently have around £500,000 in savings. This wasn't particularly difficult to achieve on a software engineer salary in Scotland; we've travelled the globe for several years, have a nice house, 2 cars etc. We absolutely plan on retiring at around 50 at latest. Now with 20 years' experience I make €65k/y from my day job as a software architect/tech lead/lead dev (working 30h in a 4-day week). My wife and I also run a B2B micro-ISV that's made around €100k/y for the past few years (it was a slow climb to that figure over 10 years).

So, we have a household income of around €165k (~$200k) - certainly more than most in the UK, yet nowhere near what I could make in SV on my own - and still certainly enough money that we hardly need to think about it, and with considered financial planning we can easily retire early.

I'd far prefer to live in Europe than the US - I work way less hours, I get way more vacation days, our healthcare system won't bankrupt us (unfortunately I know firsthand it's far from perfect, but it's definitely still a boon for society), losing my job at any point in my career wouldn't have me out on the street, I don't need to especially fear the police, and (in general) people have a progressive attitude that serves to benefit all of society.
Yap. My mom had a big bottle of MSG she used to make kimchi and on other foods. It wasn’t even thought of as bad.
It exists and its idea is good, but major compositors aren't using it, so the benefit is lost in result.
I get them on eBay, but you are right, the success ratio is not great, maybe 50-70%. Batteries are advertized as "New", but the BIOS will say 100-200 cycles. I have tried 3 times to find a battery for my MBA11 without success. I'm going to try iFixit.com for my 4th attempt.
The middle mentioned about great deal etc. whilst important I cannot help to notice if we cannot allow minor to work, the immediate example of 14 something to become a big star would not happen. Of course she might be forced to do child Labour for tiktok or YouTube. But that kind of mismatch of underlying superstar economics vs we need a salary for all is a problem cannot be solved by the new platform.

The winner take it all is an issue. This is totally different from the issue of top 1% controlling the politics and finances in the old (finance based) economy.

Solution needed but not hers.
RiscOS definitely had significant influence on early Windows releases but the Taskbar ala Windows 95 was primarily a derivative of Windows 1.0 (minimized apps at the bottom of the screen) and Cairo (a reserved screen area) and Taskman (list of running apps)
https://outline.com/93CYw8
What MrBeast Burger used to launch 300 virtual restaurants
VCD compared to VHS loses every battle.