skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much of autism diagnosis is just people misunderstanding people with high IQ?

Obviously autism != intelligence, but I'd wager a fair amount of people are thought to be "on the spectrum" when really they just have an incredibly high IQ compared to their peers.

Obviously not coming at this from a medical background.
Most likely the malware is using SSL so packet sniffing from an external device isn't gonna work. And it's apple, so at best you might find a firewall among their tightly locked down app store. Don't worry, apple knows what's good for you far better than you ever could
::eye roll::
My takeaway from the article is that "fairness" is overrated.

I don't care one bit whether the parents of my surgeon were rich or not. I want the best, most meritorious surgeon to do my operation.

If every niche in society is operated by the most qualified person (even if they became the most qualified by having rich parents) then, by definition, society will be running as well as possible.
Their previous article mentioned it: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/challengingprojects.html.
I'm not sure if this can ever exist in a world with scarcity.

> a recent study of kids ages eight to 12 found that nearly 30% aspire to become YouTubers

People will always want to go out there, do their own thing, and get paid a middle-class wage for it. The problem is there's a surplus of these people, most actually aren't talented enough to achieve that, and for those who don't have a natural market fit with what they do, they'll have to compromise their vision.

It reminds me of artists getting priced out of a gentrifying urban center. It takes away the character of the neighborhood, but who is to say their art is good, worth fighting for, and that they're more deserving of their apartment than someone with enough money to afford the apartment.

Basically, I don't want to subsidize someone's hobby/lifestyle. I completely support them doing what they want, I just don't want to hear complaints that there's no money in it.
You might also find the work of Darrah Chavey to be interesting. His study of Sona designs is very similar, albeit in a math education context. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Darrah_Chavey
New Atomic Clock Could Help Detect Dark Matter AndStudy Gravity’s Effect on Time
He sold a loss-making business for $4 billion without giving up the brand or any other long-term IP.

I wish I could blow my failed ventures so horribly. And it indeed was a failed venture by the time Elop got there.
Each time these intrusions are uncovered inside the supply chain of governments and companies we routinely describe them as “extremely sophisticated”, indicating “nation state capability”. This covers our collective embarrassment and implies that there is nothing we can do to prevent them. But it is simply not the case. The truth is that, however expert these malign cyber actors may be, they are exploiting weaknesses which we continue to tolerate.
What good is usability when there’s no support?
Not sure how you don't see any issues. I explicitly mentioned several ones in the other comment.
Unbiased Estimation of Standard Deviation
Oh it’s worse than that: https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-school-be-antiracist-a-new-...

Under a policy proposal by the Evanston, IL superintendent, white and Asian students would be held behind doing remote learning while other students were prioritized for return to in-class education. When people opposed the policy, they were called racists. The condemnation was worse for Asians who objected to their kids being given a worse educational experience on account of their race—they were called, in essence, traitors to non-white solidarity.

Critical theory has some really f—ked up premises about Asians. The classical liberal, even left-liberal view, doesn’t require an explanation for Asian economic success. Asians don’t face the legacy of say Jim Crow, and the American system is otherwise basically fair, so Asians have been able to prosper even if roadblocks have hampered other groups.

Under critical theory, however, the country and its institutions are considered systematically racist and white supremacist. That creates a dilemma with respect to Asians. How can they have prospered in a system of white supremacy? The solution is to suppose that whites “allowed Asians to succeed” to “serve as a wedge with other non-whites.” Asians are thus stripped of agency—their success isn’t their own, but instead the byproduct of a ploy by whites.

Therefore, when an Asian complains when his child must continue distance learning while other students return to in-person education, they’re not merely being self-centered. They’re not merely failing to acknowledge that other kids suffer from disadvantages that their own children don’t. That would be the typical liberal view. In the critical theory view, they are collaborators. They owe their status due to white supremacy and they’re complicit in white supremacy unless they act in solidarity with other non-whites. Even if that means suffering disadvantageous treatment in schools, etc.
If someone wants to continue to pin something distasteful, that’s their storage dime. There will need to be a mechanism to report and moderate objects that are illegal in a jurisdiction so people who don’t want to actively host and serve illegal content don’t (a hash blacklist or similar you can action or your node can subscribe to).

Tangentially, in a perfect world, the Internet Archive is the IPFS pin of last resort, a payment mechanism allows for the Archive to collect micropayments for perpetual hosting (so the web isn’t going through the perpetual boom bust cycle of img hosts), they can dark content that gets DMCA reported, but they’ll nuke or reject content both illegal and/or exploitative.
I've always attributed it to the scary chemical sounding name "Monosodium Glutamate"

There's that common joke "Di-hydrogenoxide, a little will kill you can and it's in nearly everything. Babies die from it. Why isn't the government doing something about it!" etc and it's always generally easy to convince some people because of the scary sounding name.

No racism required
Solaris 10 with Trusted Extensions which I believe includes extensive security for X11, shipped in May 2009.
Yes, there’s a strong, recurring aversion to food additives that doesn’t require racism as an explanation. I think the MSG/Chinese connection was because the restaurants would add it to their dishes, which was at the time kind a unique thing - even though many processed foods contain MSG, having it added to your prepared food would be as strange as them adding Yellow #5 to your dish, and the reaction no different. There’s a quality of integrity to prepared dishes that most all but the modernist restaurants trade upon. Chemical additives, in the days Red Dye #2 scares and the rest hardly need a racist explanation to understand the aversion.
"Or even worse, they think they could have done anything different... failing to recognize their fathers would have essentially married them off, and their husbands would have beaten them until they fell in line."

"It kind of disgusts me that a lot of modern women look down on someone like my Grandma, who built a happy home, a beautiful family, and fostered literally nothing but warm and special memories for all her kids and grandkids."

When it's your grandma who cooked for you and made you happy its a happy home but even you can realize when its not your grandma its some sad dump getting her ass kicked by drunk hillbillies. No shit modern women look down on your stupid rose tinted nonsense. You can't seem to fathom that your grandma had a really shitty and garbage life from your own description no shit people do not want that life. Stop being such a incel loser.
> I may be misremembering, but I believe that at the time Elop joined, Symbian was still the largest smartphone OS by the number of devices

I think this is correct. It had a traditional market base but was already hopelessly noncompetitive except for old reputation and brand value (see my other comments here) and on a steep decline. Compared to iPhone and Android which were more modern and on a steep growth path.
I heard a rumor that Stripe recently changed their initial RSU grant. Now the value is fixed, you get $x worth of stock every year. So new hires lose out on a lot of the upside from stock growth.
I wrote a Tetris to learn Python and Pygame. There are correct ways (assuming you want to follow official rules, or parts of it) to do the field size, colors, choose pieces randomly, wall push off, rotations, scoring, etc.

https://tetris.fandom.com/wiki/Tetris_Guideline
Technically it was found to be "by policy we do not press charges against sitting presidents" rather than false
Yes—there was a lot of “it won’t matter” talk when the A7 shipped.
That sounds extremely cool.

Sadly, I don't program in Linux, so I can't use it. :'(
Probably because of things like this:

XFCE is still in the process of upgrading to GTK3 when GTK4 is already out and they still have made no progress on migrating to wayland so its not a usable DE for a modern desktop experience.

What's wrong with GTK3? And "modern desktop experience" just reads like meaningless marketing fluff.
I really enjoyed taking Ullman's Automata course on Coursera. I found it was great for better appreciating topics like

* searching

* implementation of automata in electronic circuits

* challenges of formal specifications for things like protocols and grammars, as well as for verifying their correctness; implementation strategies for applying these specifications

* computability and complexity

* programming language theory

* history of computer science

* LANGSEC arguments

in addition to having an austere mathematical beauty.
WhatsApp "attempted" to get NSOs export license revoked and failed. How would you expect America to stop two of their allies from dealing with each other (with a potential courtship in the works)? Especially when America itself gets major weapons contracts to look the other way?

This will just continue to get worse. More journalists and human rights activists will die because some delusional maniacs feelings were hurt, some ex IDF techs want to make some money and a President wants to keep jobs at Lockheed Martin.

Maybe the BDS list should include more countries. Maybe tech as a whole should replace lip service and instead redirect (and/or reject) major funds to fight injustice on a geopolitical level. Maybe VC funds shouldn't "techwash" despot dollars.

The tech industry has a lot of power in itself and can push the needle without the need to rely on 'America' to do something.
I do not like that pawns move forward but capture diagonally, or en-passant. I also do not like the teleportation that takes place during castling. I do not like that many pieces can cross the entire board (bishops, rooks, queens), and that they're so many of them.

I think shogi already took care of many of the things I do not like about western chess.
Regarding IPFS: I'm very disappointed in the progress that IPFS has made. I was extremely excited when it was first announced, but it's taking so long for them to make useful progress they I've lost faith. So many of the projects under their umbrella are incomplete and untouched in a long time.

Regarding this project: Several of the existing centralized imageboards are already breeding grounds for terrorists. The world does not need this.
See also the number of people who believe they have a gluten sensitivity or peanut allergy, or who are worried about the pH of their food, etc., etc. A large segment of the US population has been conditioned to be paranoid about food. A rise in self-diagnosis combined with the placebo effect when testing a self-diagnosis certainly hasn't helped matters.
they're really simple, in their basic form and for simple ISAs!

it mostly boils down to keeping a bunch of registers and a giant switch statement. Each case simply implements the opcode. You have an array of bytes for the memory, and some emulated devices (e.g. trigger a screen update when the framebuffer memory gets changed, or set the instruction pointer to a handler when a key gets pressed.)

It gets hard when instructions need lots of decoding, or you have 3d graphics hardware to emulate, or if you have something like a BIOS, or if you want to JIT.

I'm actually eyeing implementing a console on an FPGA as my holiday project, with something like Chisel.
The great firewall was originally built by Cisco, but I don't think anybody remembers that.
The problems with ignoring every signal but price should be obvious.

How many people understand whats important in a roof joist when they are having their new home built?
zoom has been the best for this since most have accounts. They are also free unlimited calls during xmas. Curious what others have found?
This is pretty cool.

I've done a lot of Celtic knotwork designs, over the years (See my old personal site: https://cmarshall.com), but I've always done them by hand, and it can get tedious.

I have developed "libraries" of knot segments, that I put together as needed. There's a bunch of variants, for things like corners, circles and illuminations.
I used to donate to Wikipedia but stopped when I saw that they have enough already.

I still donate to ffmpeg (it's used in more software than you might think), newpipe, signal (the signal foundation, the people behind the end to end encrypted messenger) and debian.

I use all of the above software and I'm fairly happy with it.
Practice. You want to develop a “ceiling” that is substantially higher than the bar being asked.
We're starting to split hairs here. Sure, laziness is not at play here, but the point remains that businesses will have fewer people to serve targeted ads to. With that, you will see either fewer transactions or the same amount of transactions but on fewer websites (eg: Amazon). Either way, if you wanted to launch a small business that - to extend OP's example - sells dog leashes to people with a penchant for the outdoors, your CAC will increase and you will have to raise your price. At that point, some of your customers will go with the cheaper Chinese version sold on Amazon, or simply won't buy any. So we'll get more privacy and a stronger Amazon, and fewer people will be able to make a living with their SMBs. I am not judging either way, all I want is for people to be aware that there's a trade off here that we should discuss openly and honestly.
Ivory from 16th-Century Shipwreck Yields Clues to African Elephants’ Decline
If I have nautilus extensions for different purposes, those won't be available for the desktop because it's managed by the desktop icons extension.

It makes the file management experience inconsistent. That is not the case on macOS or Windows.
If journalists start sharing Google Voice numbers instead of their iphone #s then would they be resilient to this sort of attacks?
Racism. A bigger hoax than MSG. By far!
My brother and I were raised by a single mom. Getting our first computer (my first computer, as my brother wasn't interested) - a Commodore 64 - was a watershed moment. I couldn't believe it the day my mom got it and brought it home. This was when it's prices were getting slashed to prices should could kind of afford (approximately 1984-85). I pulled it out of the box after nearly breaking her neck with hugs and put it all together, hooking it up with to a massive, very pale and low contrast wooden cabinet color TV.

And then it dawned on me. I had no way to play any games! I actually needed a disk drive (something that nearly cost as much as the compute itself!). For the first couple of weeks, I entered lines of BASIC I either read in the manual or from the back of magazines.

When we finally got the drive, I could feel the surge of power! This would have been 9th grade - my last year of middle school where I went to school. I remember grousing about it during math class that I finally had all this gear and no money to buy the games for it. A guy ahead of me turned around and said he could bring me a stack of disks tomorrow.

We became solid best friends. That dude had a modem and was able to pull down "free" games from his telephone line all night long. It was the darkest, most seductive black magic I'd ever heard of.

I remember getting a copy of Top Gun before it was even available for retail. Crap game, but I thought it was something magical at the time.

The floppy disk was a life changer.

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For what it's worth, Lode Runner was one of my favorite games as a kid. And it was one of the few my brother really liked, too. In fact, he was better at solving the puzzles than I was. I have multiple versions of the game for C64 to this very day, including a boxed cart.

I love Lode Runner. Great article - thanks for posting it.
I should also resist to answer to delusionists

Java AOT story is all over the place, and it's not even good, remember the 300+mb executable from Excelsior? AOT low profile? yeah sure it invalidates the whole language features

Dotnet AOT? i don't call experiments, products, and they have the same limitations as Excelsior AOT, they produce insanly large executables, or if you want to target something like GO, you need to give up on the language features, i don't call this a good experience

Il2CPP, it's a transpiler; and same story as Excelsior AOT, it produces insanly large executable, the GC, and the code produced is very poor quality due to the nature of the language (lot manipulations at runtime, including reflection)

Go success story is that it now go beyong docker and k8s, people write cli tools in GO (github cli one good example), they write all their servers in GO (Riot for example), and some start to do gamedev with GO (ebiten)

Google is still using GO, it's not a system language it has a GC

And since the Rust guy left, their rust effort vanished, at least publicly https://github.com/google

oh and BTW, we'll see wich one get flagged, the one who call someone a TROLL because he give valid arguments, or someone who call someone a delusionist
My friend who works on the MAME project told me that it's a very friendly platform for adding new emulators (whether you want to add an emulation of a game, a device, a platform, or whatever) because it provides a good structure to work with and a lot of tools to describe recurring patterns in electronics and systems. That might be a good middle ground to start with -- trying to add support in MAME for some device that's not presently emulated there. (Apparently the MAME project really appreciates such contributions, since they think of themselves as pursuing mainly a historical preservation and documentation mission, and would always like to see more devices covered.)

Although that's not "from scratch" because it would still be using their libraries and plumbing, it could be "from scratch" in the sense that you might take an environment with 0% support for emulating a certain device or system and build it up to having 100% support. So it seems like a nice way to start.
You can switch elections to 2016 though, where Obama and Hilary could have been suing to throw out Texas's votes because they didn't like the results
If more advertising was focused on stunts like this I’d be more favorable toward the industry.
To paraphase Churchill, Gnome is the worst DE, except for all the others.

I don't particularly love Gnome, but it's still what I use, as I don't really like any of the others more.
Gnome Shell has a lot of javascript, which must go down in history as one of the worst 'modern computing' ideas ever.
Oh I'm sure some other people took the discussion on various different ways. Such is communication between humans ;)

Btw. in case it helps you. No fresh clone in a different place needed. I think I know what kind of situation you mean and all you need is to cherry pick your commit on top of the branch you want instead of doing that merge/rebase that isn't working out. Takes even less time than cloning somewhere else and moving your changes over.

And in some cases what this sort of situation really just needed was an interactive rebase that just skips the appropriate commits that already happened on the main branch. Suddenly a litany of seemingly unresolvavle conflicts doesn't even exist in the first place. Many ways leading to Rome there.

I would encourage you to always work from just within exactly one repo with git. The whole "having another copy of the repo somewhere else" is something I have seen so much with svn but it just really isn't required with git at all. And even if you have to "do a fresh clone" you really don't have to. Just get rid of all files (rm -rf) except the .git directory (or copy it where you need it) and checkout again. I've used that a few times when I was having build issues and I wanted to make absolutely sure there were no generated files from either my IDE or the local build left anywhere that could screw things up.
Hence the "modern". I thought it was a fairly safe bet that no-one was talking about the Pocket PC.
I don't want to give you the wrong idea here - my bad phrasing above. As an 11-year-old boy, who'd never seen a computer before, I was more interested in the TV... I've often thought what my life would be like if my parents hadn't bought me a computer back then. It's had that much impact on my life...

[aside: story of how my parents got tired of me just using the TV]

About 3 months after xmas, I still hadn't soldered everything together. My parents laid down the law, so I eventually went into the garage and started soldering away. I took my telly with me :) Once it was all together (which wasn't really that hard) I had it plugged in and working, and I was going through the instructions to make sure it was done correctly... Then I proudly walked into the house and everyone gathered around the living room TV (the only other one in the house...) I plugged it all together and up came the boot screen.

Following the instructions, I typed in

PRINT 1 + 1 = 2 [return]

... and the computer printed '1'

At which point my father turned to me, and said "I knew something was up. You've buggered it", and walked out the room. It took a long time to get across the concept of logical true as 1 and logical false as 0...

[/aside]

Once that episode was done, though, computers took over my life, I graduated to the Atari XL (which Dixons sold for £129 with a disk drive) a few years later - it was supposed to be a shared computer between myself and my brother for another xmas present, but basically he never got a look in. I became the 'computer room prefect' at school when I got to the sixth form, I was obsessed.

When I went to college, I used my student grant to finance an Atari ST, and I'm convinced that my lab grades were better because of the beautiful DTP reports I came up with, when everyone else was on 80-character daisywheel printed text.

I used to regularly write code in GFA Basic, and then graduated to C, learnt unix and used my ST as a terminal, then wrote the MDK (a unix-like distribution like Slackware for the ST)[1]. I fell in love with unix at college and have never used anything else since. When linux came on a boot disk and a root disk (yes, floppies), that was when I started using it :)

Time passes, and until very recently I was in R&D at Apple. Everything from verilog for FPGA's, kernel drivers, PCIe bus drivers, system frameworks, app frameworks, and even full-blown applications. One project I worked on, I had to produce an operating system for something that didn't have a central CPU. That took me two years, but it was a lot of fun, and I believe will have enormous impact when it finally sees the light of day :)

I've been immensely fortunate in that computers (my hobby for the last 40 years or so, my degree was in Physics, but generally physicists consider themselves jacks of all trades. Pretty much everything deals with energy at some point...) are also my day job. Sometimes it's had its down-sides, but mainly it's been a blast :)

[1]: http://umich.edu/~archive/atari/Mint/Distrib_kit/Doc/readme....
Wait, what? No. That is definitely not true. We have very good insurance, and every ambulance ride has cost a fortune.