skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are also many people who take offense to the term lower/lesser functioning

As I understand it, the problem with using the expressions "lower / higher functioning" is that it evokes the idea that problems of people with "lower functioning" are a strict superset of problems of people with "higher functioning".

In reality, it's more like there is a set of symptoms, and some people have a larger random selection, and some people have a smaller random selection, so it is possible to be "higher functioning" but fail at X, or be "lower functioning" and fail at everything but X. So the "higher/lower" is more about how much your specific set of symptoms disrupts your life, but it doesn't imply which symptoms are present or absent.

But people who see the "lower / higher functioning" as two sets of symptoms will judge you by presence or absence of one specific symptom.

(Also, with some symptoms, how much they disrupt your life depends on what environment you live in.)

> Autistic twitter is quite the landmine for semantic wars of this sort.

Twitter seems to evoke the worst in people in general. The explanation I wrote here would almost certainly be also considered highly offensive by someone.
Does GPT-2 know your phone number?
You are correct about the recent change but I think that Apple making the default change exposes a program like ZSH to many tens or hundreds of thousands of people who have no idea what a shell is. I'm sure there are many people around the world who wanted to achieve something on their Mac, found online to open "Terminal" noticed the shell said "Bash" or found something online about Bash scripts, or commands, etc and this leads them down a hole of learning. This can add a lot more than people would think.
You have demonstrated bad faith by moving the goalposts, therefore I am leaving this conversation.
Artificial intelligence solves Schrödinger's equation
I would strongly suggest OP and anyone else looking for something, find something other than Sendy.

Dumpster tire fire in the middle of a train wreck is the nicest way I can describe Sendy.

The code in it is like a teacher deliberately set out to exemplify all the worst traits of software development, to have students identify & fix the problem areas, but they went too far and anyone with a bit of experience would just say “scrap it and start over”.
True, but isn't it a good idea to have an "upper limit" global value too in case of badly behaved types?
I've found the number one cause of flakiness in tests is from misuse of nondeterministic or highly stateful functions. This becomes especially apparent when you recognize a lot of nondeterminism comes from misusing datetime libraries such as momentJS, or from Math.random . Even integration tests against certain "eventually consistent" databases tends to result in flakey tests. Entropy and Time libraries are intentionally nondeterministic, so the use of these should be recognized when writing tests, and designing functional "cores" that can do predictable operations when given testable inputs.

Ain't no one got time for flakey tests.
We actually don't know how big the entire universe is in reality. When people talk about the size of "the universe", they talk about the part whose light has reached us, the visible universe. What's beyond is pure speculation. Also, due to the expansion of space, large parts of even the visible universe are inaccessible to us. Even if you started today at 99% light speed, you wouldn't ever reach them.
I'm not saying you're wrong, either! I just don't have any USB-C stuff myself (aside from the aforementioned MBP). My phones have all been lightning <-> USB-A for the last decade or so.

My wife does have a Nintendo Switch, so there's that. (IIRC, the Nintendo Switch's USB-C is non-standard? I might be misremembering.) I don't think I could use it as a phone charger on a regular basis, just for logistical reasons.
I hate hearing that.
On a desktop 1gigabit connection:

https://bestmotherfucking.website/

Loads almost instantly.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/21/europe/russia-navalny-poisoni...

Takes almost 6 seconds to finish loading and settle (content stop moving around). Pre-loading is not the only reason amp is faster.

On mobile its even more dramatic.
Venice and Siena come to mind

Anecdotally last time I was in central London I counted the vehicles going past parliament. About 1 in 10 was an unmarked car, the rest were commercial vehicles or taxis
Nikon buys sensors from Sony. It can't get ahead in any meaningful way there. Plus, sensor tech has plateaued a bit.

Nikon, if it were to survive, would need to move into new markets. dSLRs are dying, but imaging is exploding. Nikon and Canon ran into the innovator's dilemma: they didn't want to eat into their core market, so they released crippled products like the Nikon 1 or Canon M-mount. By the time they got into the game, their market was collapsing, they lost a lot of credibility, and Sony had a huge lead. It's probably too late, but we'll see.

Drones, industrial, teleconferencing, and hundreds of other markets are popping up, but Canon and Nikon are conspicuously absent.
In the HN FAQ, under "Are reposts okay?"

> If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Usually you have to get lucky with the right time of day for something to actually take off the way it would otherwise (before it falls too far down "new"). Sometimes the staff will even email you asking if you can repost a link that "should have" taken off, but didn't because of bad timing. Personally I limit myself to three tries on posts I've spent time writing that haven't yet gotten out of the single digits.
What is WITH that subway? Military bases, small towns, everywhere.
Fedora Shifting Their Git Repositories to “Main”, Some to “Rawhide”
> Can I see exactly enough on this page to know what it does? Not more, not less

Is there some book/website/SO post that tries to drive this piont home? Bascialyl some web resource I can link to other programmers to explain the value of coding as such.
Treasury Department’s Senior Leaders Were Targeted by Hacking
The gas is "free as in speech"
Raspberry Pi 3 or 4 ( possibly raspberry pi zero ) is an easy start.
Don't reinvent the wheel
Why try to tribalize this? I explained how a lot of people feel, and that there is a bit of a spectrum in what people want.

It really feels like you're trying to make this an "us vs. them" situation negatively, rather than understanding that it's people wanting safer, healthier, more enjoyable places to live by means of reducing car dependence.
The page you linked to was a fascinating read, I enjoyed it a lot. I wonder how much this happens - making up fake data in research papers. It seems that it would be easy to get away with in a lot of cases, but unlikely to succeed if your "research" promises a breakthrough in making smaller computer chips, because lots of people will want to replicate that.
I've been trying to find a similar plugin for vim. Does anyone happen to know one?

In fact, I have never seen a vim plugin that add a "notation" at the end of each line like this one. Is it something very difficult in vim?
One interesting point about Modula and Oberon is that these systems were not only the topics of academic research (which are often quickly abandoned when the related project ends). Rather, the systems were used at ETH to educate generations of students over the period of more than a decade, running on custom-designed hardware from day one (the Ceres workstations).

We arguably spend too much time teaching our students how to work with complex commercial systems (or nowadays also complex open source systems such as Linux) and should try to rely more on self-developed software which can be understood, adapted and improved in a reasonable amount of time. I'm trying to revive some of that spirit in my courses and projects.

Maybe Oberon errs a bit too much on the side of simplicity. I don't think it's very problematic that the compiler doesn't implement sophisticated optimizations, but the OS part of Project Oberon does not implement memory protection (the older Ceres-based system did to some extent) or preemptive multitasking. This is appropriate considering the system's age and the constraints of the FPGA for the original RISC5 system, but due to this the OS part of Oberon is on a similar level as non-NT Windows and classic MacOS. Accordingly, it's not a very useful example design today IMHO. Other systems such as xv6 might be more appropriate here, but xv6 was never designed to be used as a desktop os for real-world use.

One problem that also affects other bare-metal systems such as Lukas Hartmann's Interim OS (http://interim-os.com) or my Smalltalk-80 port (https://multicores.org/blog/smalltalk-on-a-small-computer.ht...) for the Raspberry Pi, is handling the complexity of modern peripheral and communication protocols.

Some of the worst "offenders" here are USB and Bluetooth, both of which require driver and protocol stack code that often has more lines of code and is more complex than the rest of the system. Ethernet and TCP/IP might be a bit more manageable, Adam Dunkels' uIP/lwIP are a good example.

So, as always in system design, the art is to find the right tradeoffs. Exploring the design space here is interesting, especially within the constraints of a real-world ISA as a basis. And I think projects involving small operating systems and RISC V are lots of fun (I hope Rikke agrees ;-) - we also have students working on Plan9 and Inferno ports to RISC-V) in addition to be educationally worthwhile - IMHO an important point to keep students motivated.

I think we should probably all re-read Prof. Wirths "A Plea for Lean Software" (https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf) once in a while, but also consider how to apply the principles of this paper carefully instead of going for absolute minimalism. I hope that something along these lines will be a valuable learning outcome for the students working on my projects and attending my courses..
comparing it to my macbook (us layout), Ctrl is in the right place, it just that the function key that should be to its left is not there and is on the other side of the space bar which I prefer.

Fun fact: As well as caps lock, it has a function key lock without having to touch anything in macos preferences.
No need to be snarky. First, you're just wrong: most of my devices are not Apple. Second: from my perspective, USB-A is the universal standard.
Could the great filter be something like developing language? That's something that seems quite rare (only one species on Earth has it). If so, then discovering bacteria in the Solar System wouldn't be such a cause for worry.
I think we're seeing two conflicting trends at work. People have better and better consumables in their lives: always-connected pocket computers, cars with amazing safety systems that last much longer than before, and bigger rental apartments with amenities like air conditioning, cable TV and WiFi. At the same time, they are more and more likely to be living paycheck to paycheck with no savings, and no hope of owning their residence. The working class is simultaneously wealthier than ever before (pocket computers !) and poorer than ever before (can't afford to see a doctor !). What's undoubtedly true is that income inequality has grown dramatically in the US.
It's like the often-proposed micropayments, except without the "micro".
We required MAC registration but you also had to auth with 802.1x to get an IP so we knew who was doing what and when. MAC registration came in handy several times for locating stolen laptops and phones. I think there may have been an exception for devices that couldn't auth but it could have been a different vlan and probably port.

We also had adaptive password expiration and complexity policies based on length. If you used a passphrase (~15+ characters) you could use dictionary words but if it was under that you couldn’t and had to include a number and symbol too.

Passphrases had like a 90 or 180 day expiration. Passwords were I think 30? You set them in the same text box and the rules were based on your entry.

I think the lockouts had a timer with an exponential increase. You'd get like five or ten tries before you'd have to start waiting minutes for the next attempt. Not sure if there was a hard lockout option. Phone support was daytime hours in the main office, all times when labs were open (some labs were 24 hour) and email support was 24/7. 24/7 lab monitors worked the ticket queues as well.

It was a great department actually. Lots of great work being done to make things easier for students. Relied heavily on students to operate the department and gave a lot of people careers.

Back in the 90s a student wrote a ticket management app in Perl. The university hired him and he was still in the department writing code 20 years later when I was there. One of the techs I worked with was hired by the law school to handle their IT. I got several jobs including my first out of school through people I met and worked with there.
You should read the history of C3.ai to understand where it fits in the market.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2020/12/09/billionai...
That sounds right. I'm not exactly sure
Yup, this is not a website.
That's a very common scenario for Clojure users to go through and it's one of the reason it has so many abandoned/unfinished libraries (although 7 years was a lot). After they have gather all the insights they can from Clojure and its ecosystem (which is a worthy endeavor IMO), they go back to their big ecosystem mainstream programming language because of all the benefits you get from it even if that programming language is worse. It also doesn't help Clojure the fact that JS 2020 is way better than JS in 2010 and that you can easily bring all your Clojure insights/concepts to JS.
> A touch screen requires looking at it, buttons do not.

While there are things on my car I use instinctively without looking—wipers/ lights come to mind—there are plenty of other pieces which are frustratingly difficult to find in the dark. Turning on the window defroster when the window starts to fog up at night comes to mind. Likewise many of the climate control nobs. While they do have nice physical manifestations, I don't know off the top of my head what position the nob happens to be in or which direction I need to shift it to get it into defrost versus heat versus vent.

Personally, I think there is a happy medium somewhere between Tesla's touch everything and the current state where you play button guessing games.
There is research that shows that subjective passage of time depends on physiological changes to the brain. The most compelling example is that certain brain tumors make the passage of time seem extremely fast or slow to patients with them. The fact that time “seems to go faster” as you age is related to a normal aging related change (though natural, not caused by tumors.)
Yes - there are some understandings that are kind of in a gray area where you really have to do some digging to determine if it is true or not. Just 10 years ago people would have thought you were nuts if you said that the bacteria in your gut influenced your mood and mental health.
Didn't Metallica make it big by surfing a wave of tape traders [0][1] before becoming the face of the Napster lawsuit?

[0] https://www.salon.com/2000/05/09/metallica_fan/
[1] http://www.metalforcesmagazine.com/site/feature-metallica-mf...
There's the toxicity on Reddit on one hand, and then there's the "Hitler was right", casual usage of racial slurs, and insinuations that "jews are trying to stifle Voat" on the other hand.

In the linked post you'll see references to "Angel", an anonymous individual that was funding Voat up until - apparently - March of this year. The comments refer to this individual, in a negative light, surrounded by both three parenthesis and the star of David.

In other words, the level of toxicity is on a completely different level.
> Another option would be to lock down but also to provide for people who will otherwise be ruined by the lockdown.

Well, that's will just establish a beachhead for socialism, and that is reserved for big business.
This relates to the programming concept of overloading.

The word 'violence' used without context would often be understood to mean 'violence against a person'. Here it is used to mean 'violence against property'.

It's "literally" correct, but unclear and risks misunderstanding.

The headline writer is taking advantage of this disconnect to exaggerate their point. Other words such as 'riot' fit better, but are less sensational.
Not sure that is optics, more that is just the shape of the community on there.
>Right, the ".." part was hard to remember because it's something like:

You misunderstand. The command I wrote is meant to be used as I wrote it. `..` is not a placeholder for you to replace.

https://stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/#RecursiveDescent%3a%2e...

>and as you can see the field fileURL is actually an object with another field en-US (with a hyphen) so the jq becomes something like this:

Sure, so then it's:

<file.json jq '.. | select(.fileURL?).fileURL["en-US"] | select(startswith("http://"))' -r
I meant to write “not too many” functions of course :)
Compared to GNOME it is indeed a lightweight and also incredibly powerful system.
Banning people from speaking doesn't change their mind. Every single tech site baffled.
Human Rights Don't Exist in Brazil

There is a criminal organization in Brazil using NSO Group's Pegasus to infect devices for hack for hire, to incite terrorism, blackmail people, produce illegal pornography and assist in assassinations. They also have other advanced malware, like UEFI implants and even persistent implants for Kindle and Raspberry Pi. Plus face/voice recognition on every camera and microphone they can get into, in public or private places.

Brazil won't do anything to stop them. Only the FBI, CIA and NSA can stop them.

There is also the possibility that they were engaged on the hack of Bezos' smartphone.

If you know of any security researcher who wants to reverse engineer the exploits they are using, I am more than willing to help them.

If you want a story about how they operate, I am willing to work with you to expose them.
No but something nearly as bad was typing on punch cards and having to feed them into a card reader to get the code into the computer. And all but one of the terminals was a TTY at 110baud and printed on paper. There was a single Dec VT100/102 terminal you had to get in early to use.
Probably worth pointing out that both stock buybacks and holding reserve stock occur in practice. Especially reserve stock - that seems to be fairly common, as otherwise every new offering of stock to employees means a fresh round of dilution. Which it sorta means regardless (it's less reserve for future investment to use without dilution), but I'd be willing to bet that explicit ~annual dilution along with your bonus is probably less palatable on an emotional level.

(whether or not that equals "founder-only dilution", I dunno. kinda? it's earmarking, it's at least mentally/structurally different)

Buybacks... I haven't personally seen them occur except to take more control back from investors or employees (e.g. to pay off the one(s) that won't agree to dilution), but either way that's the opposite of receiving funds / dilution as it costs the company money.

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I agree entirely that the argument for non-dilutable stocks is "... otherwise the value of the rest of your shares may go to $0". But unless they get voting power proportionate to their stock (like normal) or can be forced to accept buyouts, one person can decide to risk everything for everyone. Or do nothing, and benefit from non-dilution while everyone else gets diluted. Again: it's possible to do this! Founders often have exactly this kind of power! But I don't see that working in most cases for larger groups.
Instead you only give them string, so if they want a rope, for any reason, they have to make it themselves.

Every time.
How much what ?
And if you're doing it right you're telling them the whole time about how the ship is sinking. The Ponzi don't have that
Can you or GP comment on how Teddy was able to help?
I always wonder how they manage that much money in cryptocurrency. Do they keep all of it in a single wallet ? Is it split in several smaller wallets ?
tests of test tests are test tests, so just use your test testing tests to test your test tests
You can rely on a type system that help you to use mutable data responsibly, à la Rust.
>Netflix’s recommender system is hands down the worst

Until you log into prime video.

Can’t manage to give me a “continue watching last thing button”. That’s literally the most likely thing I want to watch. Also routinely suggest starting with S02 even though I’ve not watched S01.

Never mind machine learning some common sense would be greatly appreciated
> A large percent of the homeless and drug addicts in cities are minorities.

I'm sorry, but what exactly are we supposed to derive from this claim? That unprompted police frisking under the pretense of jaywalking is acceptable so long as the jaywalker is a member of a vulnerable class?
"I think the US took a bit of a harsh stance on these devices for common consumers"

What makes you say that? I don't see any laws about owning these. The good ones are just really expensive. Renting one would probably run you about the price that you mentioned ($200-300).

I've been looking at used ones on craigslist, but haven't found the right one yet.
Sounds like crowne plaza in Birmingham (UK), a stones throw from new street station. Birmingham is very walkable.
Old-Games.com: 10k Games to download
Higher search result page placement required AMP (in the news carousel).
Can you explain why a relevant equivalence holds between Facebook and drug cartels?
That's actually a thinly veiled erectile dysfunction double entendre.
Wow, just the replies alone is reason enough for it to be shut down for good.
> It's a video chat tool, of course it's going to ask you to use your camera.

You only know this because you saw the HN headline.
ABA is... quite controversial, to put it mildly. It is essentially an "aversion therapy", which is a codeword for "I will keep hurting you until you learn to behave properly". (The same idea as behind many cures for homosexuality.)

And yes, you can make kids stop performing some specific behaviors using ABA, so they will count it as big success. It does not make them less autist, only more terrified.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_behavior_analysis#Cont...

> applied behavior analysis ... used aversives such as electric shocks to modify undesirable behavior in their initial use in the 1970s, as well as slapping and shouting ... aversives have continued to be used in some ABA programs. In comments made in 2014 to the FDA, a clinician who previously worked at the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center claimed that "all textbooks used for thorough training of applied behavior analysts include an overview of the principles of punishment, including the use of electrical stimulation." In 2020, the FDA banned the use of electrical stimulation devices used for self-injurious or aggressive behavior and asserted that "Evidence indicates a number of significant psychological and physical risks are associated with the use of these devices, including worsening of underlying symptoms, depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder, pain, burns and tissue damage."

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Rotenberg_Educational_Ce...
You make it seems like we would need to make adhoc change to gravity which would result in a hard-coded equation with magic numbers that would fine tune gravity for our universe.
On the contrary, MOND is a simple modification while dark matter has a very weak epistemological strength in comparison of added premise
Do you have a source for that? I can not find anything like that in the reporting.