skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The silly thing about this is that in Korea (as in Japan) seaweed/kelp based stock is incredibly common, and that's the historical origin of MSG as we know it today.
> there is a 3-to-1 male-to-female ratio in autism prevalence

There is a 3-to-1 ratio in diagnostic prevalence. From the article you linked: "There appears to be a diagnostic gender bias, meaning that girls who meet criteria for ASD are at disproportionate risk of not receiving a clinical diagnosis."

There are multiple theories for this difference: genetics, environment, ...; but also gender bias in diagnosis. eg. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/sep/14/thousands-of...
Men are a big part of it but patriarchy is promulgated by all of society, not just men.
> Unfortunately most meteors never land because they completely burn up in the atmosphere.

I think you mean "fortunately".
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The health risks are similar to table salt.
> nobody had internet at home

There were no residential ISPs in the early days. You had to work or study somewhere with internet access.

And home connectivity was all dial-up. DSL was completely unaffordable.

And even then, home computers lacked a TCP/IP stack, so you’d be dialling into a server using something like z-modem, and using that to access the internet.
The primary flaw of the article is that it gives FAR too much agency to the "sociopaths".

Most of the sociopaths are where they are because of randomness, too. The sociopaths often recognize that a situation could benefit them personally so they grab ahold--this is the point where they may stab somebody in the back.

However, after they mount up for the ride, the tiger goes where it wants and they really don't have any control over it. If it goes well, congrats on your promotion. If it goes badly, even with a scapegoat your promotion path is done so start looking for a new job.

So, the "sociopaths" are a product of 8 coin flips that all came up heads--unfortunately they all think they are geniuses.
I remember using akebono.Stanford.edu
And in the music business - and probably also the movie business, and to some extent the writing business - there's been a strong subculture of payola and industrial promotion.
The major labels hire pluggers - as they're known - who used to deal with radio DJs and now deal with playlist curators.

Sometimes money changes hands and marketable but otherwise not very interesting music suddenly appears on hundreds of playlists - in the hope that it will break through into mass appeal.

You can only push this so far because ultimately listeners still decide what's hot and what isn't. But they're forced to make their choices from a limited and crafted pool of suspected high-performing product, and not from a much wider pool of more varied styles and less homogenous artists.
I'll surely stop commenting about it, as soon as click trolling will stop being a problem on HN and the topic will become boring due to irrelevance. As you can see, it's far from irrelevant at present. Click trolls are abundant here.
Well, its 'total' 60% white (20% more white than NYC), which is pretty white, nor is that whiteness distributed evenly. I was just in Chelsea, which is pretty pricey, and it was near exclusively white outside of people who worked in the service industry. Depending where in London she went and what she did, she ran into different groups of people, much like if you went to Chicago and stayed exclusively on either its south or north sides.

More than likely, as a tourist, she saw mostly other tourists and the largely immigrant dominated low-paying service industry jobs. I was also recently in Iceland and while in pure 'tourist mode' saw few native Icelanders due to so few working in the tourist and service industry. When we ventured out to the neighborhood store areas, boutique shops, non-tourist bars, higher-end restaurants, etc it was almost 100% white.

>tourists.

You may want to remind her that when she's in traffic, she's also traffic. Of course its full of tourists, she's there isn't she? Its beautiful and historic and should be full of tourists - the same way Athens, Paris, Berlin, Madrid, etc are full of tourists. This is a feature, not a bug.
I face the same problem, I think that programmers can be skilled in a lot of different tasks, but for large projects, our two hands and our brain are not enough, no matter how smart you are, you need co-founders, loneliness leads you to procrastinate eternally.
Plenty of celebrities are self-made and own their own production companies (or whatever structure is appropriate). The youtube star this story is about appears to be pretty self-made.

Its not like bill gates was only ever a CEO, in the beggining he was a coder. Just because he decided to start his own business which he coded for, does not make what he did for that business in the beginning be any less "coding".
I think that just reinforces the point. If your culture eats tons of food that’s packed to the brim with glutamate but you’re vocal about the MSG in Chinese food… what should the takeaway be?
I clicked to specifically mention that book as a staple. That book was the single handed reason for the largest jump of my programming skill while in university.

I'd also recommend a comprehensive book about networking infrastructure if you haven't read on already. I don't think a specific one is necessary in this case.

I think the content in The Art of War is good to know in software too especially with how widespread espionage has become in those areas.
They probably confused it with solanine, the toxin in green potatoes and potato plants.
I have gone through the autism diagnosis process myself, it is very flexible so as long as you have the stereotypical problems with social situations they will give you a diagnosis if you want it. I didn't want it so they didn't give me a diagnosis. I guess if there were parents involved who wanted something to blame they would have pushed for the diagnosis though.
> In the 1960s, academics including... arrived at the theory of backpropagation.

It was clearly phrased this way specifically because backprop is just the chain rule applied in a particular direction, and as such has been invented and reinvented over and over by every one under the sun. Hell, a lazy googling says gradient descent goes back to Cauchy.
Even garbage collected languages do not prevent leaking memory because doing so requires understanding programmer intent. For example, adding objects to a static hash map and never using them is a memory leak that no GC will fix.

V has the same issue and autofree will not be able to fix it.

Reference counting is also necessary even in entirely single threaded programs to handle some situations.

It's concerning you state things that are categorically false with such certainty.
Including your own! A big part of opsec is putting systems in place that mitigate dangerous but unavoidable human behaviour.
I'm in the same boat as you.

I had to go to my local college when I was 11 to use their Internet. They offered it for free on weekends. There I learned JavaScript and C from the guy who I'd say basically launched my interest and therefore my career into what it is today.

I remember downloading "large" (Warzone is 250GB!) files and splitting them up, copying them to multiple floppies disks. Now I've got 1TB in my back pack!

Those were the days when websites were just tables... I miss those simple times :P
https://archive.ph/3xT9v

I tried getting Wayback Machine to archive it, but it just goes on a HTTP 302 wild goose chase.
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I too received a probable-diagnosis later in life. (It was part of neuro-psych testing to look for ADD, so they didn't run the specific test battery used for Asperger.)

In many ways my life has been just fine: steady well-paying employment, wonderful wife and kids, etc. So as with you, being (probably) somewhere on the spectrum isn't correlated with a crappy life.

But...

I've also had some unusual personality traits for my whole life, and I've really beaten myself up regarding them. Once I had a probably Asperger diagnosis, I felt like a tremendous weight was lifted. I no longer felt like I was uniquely messed up in those way. And maybe the subconscious logic is that if I'm part of a cluster of people with these idiosynchronies, maybe there's an underlying physiological cause that's somewhat out of my control, and therefore I'm less morally culpable for my atypical social failures.
Yes! nand2tetris.org has this. (Also available on Coursera.)

You write a compiler for a Java-like language in several steps: a parser that organizes the raw code, then a compiler that emits the virtual machine code, then a translator between the virtual machine code and assembly (and then, between assembly and binary).
Would you rather prefer a garden that tells you its gated or the one that has invisible gates?
Some of the technical debt in my codebase at work was put there by programmers who have long since left the company, too.

It still has significant impact.
Not everyone is trying to display a widget, with data from a remote database. If you work with local/edge data, then having access to numpy/pandas/scikit-learn/pytorch can be quite handy
May I instead ask for scientific evidence that it's a waste of time?
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Unfortunately, in practice, because of the way the legal system works, your question doesn't have a straight answer.

Even if you follow the law and get proper legal advice, you can still be sued, and what happens afterwards will depend on the specific situation, how much money you have, how competent your attorneys are and whether you decide to settle or go all the way to trial.

Hence, for it to be worth doing, you probably need to make a lot of money with your derivative work, and have very good counsel.
This is also the direction I'm taking. It makes everything just easier when everything is file-driven, backups are simpler, and when nothing works anymore the basics always work.
At least it's useful for his family, and perhaps by extension to the local community.
I haven't tried this with any node modules but you should be able to set imports.searchPath to include your node_modules folder, at least for testing: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gjs/-/blob/master/doc/Modules...

Since there is no inbuilt support for Node APIs this will probably only work with modules that have no dependencies and are built into a single file. ES6 module support is WIP and ongoing: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gjs/-/issues/328
But the point of cross-platform frameworks is for non-tech or non-mobile focused companies to quickly churn out LOB apps with whatever developers they have on hand. (There was even one for PHP - KikApp - which appears to be dead.) So in theory, ignoring great UI/UX in favor of quick development time would drive investment in and adoption of some of these frameworks.

Your point on web based approaches also doesn't seem to match reality yet as PWA are still the once and future destiny of mobile apps, much like \(currentYear) is the year of Linux on the desktop. afaik, it would seem like most mobile apps are still primarily native, and if crossplatform, possibly React Native or Xamarin, with some older ones using Cordova/PhoneGap/Titanium. Web based approaches are far from replacing native and cross-platform; most companies that support mobile web also have their own apps.
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My experience in the tech industry writing tech-ish books is that they've been very good for my career. Also. The direct money I've made from them has been a rounding error even though the one I've done through a publisher was apparently successful enough they asked me to do a new edition.
I have to ask how you got £130k as a contractor in the UK? I know London pays more but that much?
Aren't you just agreeing with the GP? They now realize spending all that extra money isn't worth it, but they can't just change everyone's salary in one go.
The Qt SDK was released for Symbian just a few months before Elop joined. Symbian applications and developers were not yet using Qt when Elop killed off both Symbian and Meego, just a few months later. It was part of a long-term strategy that did not have any time to play out. Quite possibly it would have been too late anyways.
This article was subsequently debunked by This American life, and many of the comments here are confused.

Dr Kwak was a real person, and the letter contains historical facts linking it to him. His family says the letter is genuine. According to blind studies, the symptoms described in it are experienced by a small percentage of the population, but MSG is harmless to everyone else.

The article links to the This American Life podcast in question, here is the transcript:

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/668/transcript
Looks like a mix of OSX and android.

Not sure if they are targeting this as a hybrid OS or just having an identity crisis.
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As has already been said, Kivy isn't a web framework, but we're well aware the website isn't great. Unfortunately it hasn't had much love for a long time, especially as it's quite a task to seriously change it and we're both under-resourced and Python-oriented. We've been talking about various options for a long time. It's possible we might make some moves now as Kivy 2.0 was just recently released, which was a major update taking up a lot of focus.
One of my rules is: society always over-corrects. I think it’s because bombast and mockery gets more attention than rational and balanced thought.

We went from “women can’t do what men do” or “women should never have careers because it’s bad for the family” to “any woman who stays home is letting herself down,” or is stupid, etc.

How about this: women who want careers can have them, women who don’t can stay home, and both are okay because people have the right to choose their course in life.
That's definitely true, as it's true that the first iOS was a modified version of Mac OS X.

Android in 2003 was created to rival with Symbian and BlackBerry but was struggling to be funded

At Google it became the Linux based OS that we know today, but Google was still marketing it for the mobile devices of the time that were nothing like modern smartphones

The real switch happened when Apple released iPhone + AppStore integration that showed the potential of the smartphone devices bundled with a closed ecosystem of apps

Google and Facebook were already in the market of tracking users habits, but it's smartphones that unlocked their true power and enabled them to subvert the open web to their advantage

Apple has never really been interested in the web, they wanted apps for their smartphones and Google and social networks apps, especially Facebook, were a major selling point that drove their enormous success in the mobile market.
>when authoritarian countries wake up and realize they can simply force Apple to migrate user data into servers they own in exchange for market access

China is the only authoritarian country with enough leverage over Apple to force them to do that sort of thing. There it's not just an enormous market, but also an utterly critical part of Apple's supply chains. Every other authoritarian country is small fry in comparison, and if they demanded such a thing Apple would tell them to get stuffed. Apple has not just commercial reasons, but political ones as well. While Trump is enamored with authoritarians, the incoming Biden Administration is not, nor is much of Congress or the general public. The EU would also like to at least pretend to care overall. Particularly right now at a time of scrutiny, Apple has every reason to not merely deny such a demand but to do so loudly and publicly.

And seriously, it's not like authoritarians are all stupid (unfortunately) and need to "wake up". They're all aware what China has demanded and gotten away with. If they thought they could too, they would. But they wouldn't, so they don't.
I am not assuming pay has anything to do with value.

The employee is already remote in the high COL area in this case. Why is it easier to replace you with a cheap low COL area employee once you've moved to a low COL area yourself? They could have just replaced you with a low COL employee before you moved.

I think the other comment in this thread about rate limiting this change touches on the real reason.
Kids playing FIFA as opposed to loitering outside the shops, smoking etc. is probably good for them and society.
In the Apple II game "Below The Root", was a side-scrolling RPG kind of like early Zelda games, and you could use the floppy drive to wall-hack.

Every time you walked from one screen to another, it would load the new screen from disk. If you removed the disk from the drive before walking to a new screen, it would grind the empty drive for a while, but eventually it would just use the old screen layout for the new screen but still "think" you were in the new tile.

So lets say you had 3 screens 1-2-3 and '2' has an obstacle but '1' does not. You could:

1) walk to the right hand edge of screen 1

2) remove the floppy

3) cross to screen 2 - this would appear to reset you to the left side of screen 1

4) put the floppy back in

5) walk to right side of the "fake" screen 1 and cross to the next screen again

6) presto - you're now on screen 3! Obstacle avoided!

And you could repeat step (3) multiple times to teleport across an arbitrary # of screens.

8 y.o. me was super proud to figure that out :)
n9 was announced to be the last of its kind even before they started selling it. It's a miracle that millions(really?) of people ended up buying them
Surely there is a bitter killjoy undertone in it, yes. Perhaps even more when coming from the old and weak who envy the young for their energy and enjoyment.

But I don't think that's all.
Found this through a d3 tutorial on how to create these types of visualizations: https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/the-impact-of-vaccines
> They actually do serve the same purpose. The purpose is communication

You just said that a name, definition, question and assertion all serve the same purpose and can be used interchangeably...I mean what else can I say?

Exactly.

It was a nice exchange nonetheless but at this point it really looks like you hit a dead end.
This sounds a lot like the symptoms of depression. I have depression, and the isolation of the pandemic has really worn me down. I went back on my antidepressants about six months ago and I'm still struggling. Totally up to you, but you might want to try talking to a therapist or psychiatrist. It's one of the best choices I've ever made. Making that first call was hard because I felt like I was admitting defeat, but looking back I was actually choosing to fight.
I would like to learn a bit more of the details of how this developed from start to finish. Were there any other bidders apart from NTL and Telewest? This must be a matter of public record somewhere.
im glad you can appreciate the concept. im guessing your not a philosopher.
Apple's has done the same thing regarding QA. Lots of companies have eliminated their QA departments, moved the QA engineers under development managers, and transitioned the QA labs to virtual machines allowing all tests to be identical and repeatable on each machine. You will never find edge cases or problems unique to certain hardware and software configurations.

As an example, Big Sur bricked lots of Late-2013 MBP laptops, but Apple had no way of knowing this would happen because they never tested them.
You can (or could?) place collect calls in the US. The receiver of such a call then pays the bill. To prevent abuse, you give your name and then the phone operator will ask the receiver "do you want to accept, and pay for, this collect call from Bob Smith?"

The video is just making fun of that situation by encoding a message in the name.
This is a sort of milquetoast piece: no serious social scientist should be using political hack jargain like "American Dream" and "Middle Class" as if they describe real material phenomena and aren't just memes (in the original scene).

The fact of the matter is that any media platform where the cost of production is minimal is going to have shit power laws.

That said, glad they close out with UBI. If we can't quota the views per video from above, we can at least provide a revenue floor.

We're a non-society with with centralized media: increasingly atomized associated people transfixed by the machine. Only in rebuilding society in meat space forces the sparsely connected graph that coupled with technology allows heterogeneity to really shine.
QAnon is carefully and cynically designed to be engaging. It's a package of shock-value emotional hooks known to be sticky with low-information voters who slant towards moral narcissism and authoritarianism.

The arts have to work harder. There are certain stock tropes and narratives musicians and movie producers can draw on, with varying degrees of deliberate awareness. But the target demographics are more varied, and some are even mutable. So it's harder to hit the bullseye with any consistency.
In this case a different approach to building a cybernetic organism, it's living tissue under metal exoskeleton.
Yes, there was blood testing data that had skyrocketed and an insulin requirement 8-10 times the normal amount for the given set of carbohydrates and time of day adjustments.
I guess I wasn't explicit enough, Koreans aren't vocal about MSG in Chinese food - we are vocal about MSG in our own food !!!

(But of course, only when it's added as factory-made "chemical" - if it's from dried anchovies and seaweed, that's natural, so of course that's totally OK, either in Korean, Chinese, or any other cuisine.)
Worse, you’re penalized the longer you stay at a company pre-IPO if you ever want to leave. If you do decide to exercise your shares, you not only have to pay the cost of exercise, but you also have to pay taxes on the difference in strike price and presumed current market value. Despite there being no actual market, the high possibility that there will never be a market, and that “current value” may reflect extremely favorable investment terms not available on the open market.

If your strike price is $1/share, you have 100,000 shares, and the last funding round closed at $20/share, you have to pay $100,000 to exercise and pay taxes on $2,000,000 that you’re still highly likely to never actually have the opportunity to turn into real dollars through a stock sale.

The longer you stick around, the more you’re incentivized to stay waiting around for a liquidity event at a job you’ve outgrown and potentially hate at this point. While the company itself has incentives to delay IPO as long as possible, knowing full well that they’ll lose a sizable amount of their burnt-out senior talent within months of going public.
Well I somehow went from having multiple exes beg me to marry them at one point all the way to not even being able to get to know a single woman in years. The complete lack of women in any aspect of my life has proven to be extremely inconvenient(even outside the context of dating)
I’m in the same boat. I own used x230 and a used T460 both souped up with more memory and SSDs. I just picked up a used T480 with an i7 and 2560 display. Will soup it up with more RAM and another SSD and should be good to go for a few years at least.
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No affiliation -- found it while searching for browser-based ports of FFmpeg.
"Empathy" in the business circles, the one we hear most about these days, means if a given person takes into account the (profit) goals of other people. It has nothing to do with emotions.
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If there was high demand then we would see salaries rise quickly year over year.