skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get barked at for this but autism isn't a disease it's label.

The reason I believe that is my brother and his friends who all have a couple of mild to bad cognitive issues. Thing is they have different set of issues. And over time the severity of those issues has lessened as they learn to compensate.

My working theory is different parts of the brain are primed developmentally to handle certain cognitive tasks. If something goes sideways then you get a deficit. It's harder for the person to learn or perform that task. You get delays and impairments. Some of those can cause socialization issues. Others don't, like dyslexia.

What's the underlying cause, huge numbers of things probably.
Given the difference between the two types of protestors, Occam's Razor leads us to the obvious conclusion. Now, I say again, if you want to claim it wasn't white privilege, I'm still gonna need more than "could it be the case," and "perhaps."

Are you actually trying to make that claim or just arguing for the sake of arguing?
That is by design. The Republican party only serves the wealthy who want government to serve them exclusively. Their numbers are too small to vote themselves into power so they cook up ways to convince disenfranchised groups to glom on. By not enacting policies that satisfy these people, the GOP elites maintain an agitated base that keeps voting for them because they believe all the party propaganda. It's 1984 as an operators manual.

This scheme was almost too successful when the tea partiers got elected and weren't fully on board with the real game plan. They were either assimilated or fell out of favor. Boehner's inability to contol them is why he was reduced to tears.
Assuming your comment is coming from Blue referring to Red.

The issue is that their activities are motivated by a fundamentally different version of reality. Which is a serious practical concern for all groups.

Because I believe that actually no common group has a very accurate version. They are just flawed in different ways.
I wonder if this will spearhead the adoption of cryptocurrencies which we so desperately need?
> But the fact is that Russia made a very large and active effort to interfere in the US election, as laid out very clearly in the Senate report.

Yes, they engaged social media campaigns, although I don't think it was enough to influence the outcome of 2016.

But many people are convinced it was, and that believe that Trump has never been a legitimate president. Do you not think people would take steps to prevent an illegitimate president from winning re-election?
The Hunter Biden conspiracy has been debunked dozens of times over. That’s why the companies haven’t withdrawn support for his family. Trump, OTOH, has pushed the boundaries of acceptable his entire presidency, and has almost certainly broken the law in the process many time.
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They got into the business of political activism when they plastered Black Lives Matter on their websites, app stores, and products this summer. Twitter and Facebook did the same when they censored a NY Post story about a politician this fall. Big Tech is very much about political activism.
Yeah, sadly. The project never had much developers, because tackling AOT compilation for Java, alongside its dynamism, is an effort that requires a full time job, so only the commercial offerings like Excelsior JET were competitive.
Reading your comment really takes me back.

"STEM undergrads > non-STEM undergrads"

For me, this superiority complex heavily tainted the open campus, freedom of thought feel colleges strive to represent. Constant bragging about whose curriculum is more challenging is one thing, but suggesting without a whiff of substantiation STEM majors wont spread covid as much because they "understand the science and mathematical models"?

I feel like I'm back in the school library trying to focus on my work while some loud, insufferable 20 year old with zero work experience two tables away decries sociology majors.
I will be blunt.

It's because none of the video chat apps are competing on features, only on user lockdown. Their KPIs is how many users they have, and that only needs enough features/price to convince the corporate buyer which rarely accepts feedback from larger set of employees.

As such, outside of certain older very expensive corporate videoconferencing setups that remember targeting inter-corporate meetings and the like, the actual feature set ossified. You get some things that are easy to demo in 1:1 call, you get locked down room systems that leave me weeping for Webex ffs, and you get omnipresent WebRTC in-browser setup that often murders your CPU unless you get lucky.

I find it really bad that the best video conference experience I ever had involved Cisco Webex hardware and Bluejeans, all interconnected with so-maligned SIP. And before that, the glorious days of wider ITU-T based video conferencing, like NetMeeting with its whiteboards and active screensharing.

Imagine if video conferencing solutions competed on top of common protocols, and you'd separately invest in infrastructure and clients? Instead of the rare enterprise cases where Lync/Teams/Webex/other SIP is set on dedicated lines in large corporation, make similar setups common everywhere (WebRTC/SIP bridges/transcoders on the edge, with dedicated bandwidth bough by company, etc.?) with vendors competing on something more than "you have to use our stack because we don't interoperate with anyone else".

Sincerely, someone who has had enough keeping 3-5 video conferencing apps around.
> I'm a firm believer that video adds nothing to the call other than add distractions.

I agree. And I would add that voice does not add anything either. It's better to do everything by chat or by mail, that at least leaves a usable trace.
That is a delusional statement
Hertzberg theory: One more time: How do you motivate employees?
> “Only in the US" is only what matters when discussing US politics.

And only in the US would someone be so insular as to make such a statement :)

The US is still the largest economy in the world. As much as the rest of us would love to turn a blind eye when they elect an incompetent sociopath, unfortunately, we have to deal with his bullshit.
I think it also depends a lot on the type of dev and if they want to take responsibility. I have experienced many devs that just didn’t care about the business and design side of things. “Leave me alone and go talk to the product owner”, was something I gotten quite often. But, to be fair I often also got “We want to be more involved in decision making”.
Yes, although its progress has been kind of slow, at least from the outside, it appears to be mostly Kenny Kerr's project with management's blessing.
Ah, yes, the famous polls which predicted a 99/1 landslide win for Hillary
I was looking for Twitter alternatives and found this one, which is old and stale but looks like a very interesting experiment! Quoting its frontpage:

But what's wrong with Twitter?

I'M GLAD YOU ASKED. There are two aspects of Twitter that just bug me as an engineer:

Ruby on Rails - Using rails to prototype a system is fine — scaling up to a million hits a day with it is just a bad idea. As the service grew, I'm sure it cost them a lot more time than it saved.
140 characters is not enough - I routinely write sentences longer than 140 characters, so I can't even begin to imagine making a point in such a small space. This textual confinement has led to the rise of URL shorteners, which are breaking the internet.

Blërg solves these problems by applying absurd reactionary engineering. Blërg's database backend is a custom C program that handles requests over HTTP and stores data in a very small and efficient indexed log-structured database. The frontend is done entirely in client-side Javascript. A single post can be up to 65535 bytes in length.

Which is not to say that I believe writing your service in C is the solution to all your problems. Clearly, this approach has just as many hairy problems that will bite you in the ass sooner or later. The best way, as with most things, lies somewhere in the middle of high-level abstraction and ZOMGHARDCORE OPTIMIZATION.

Or more politely described in the documentation page:

Blërg is a minimalistic tagged text document database engine that also pretends to be a microblogging system. It is designed to efficiently store small (< 64K) pieces of text in a way that they can be quickly retrieved by record number or by querying for tags embedded in the text. Its native interface is HTTP — Blërg comes as either a standalone HTTP server, or a CGI. Blërg is written in pure C.
Because it's not a feature that will show in quick demo used to sell the product which will lock-in everyone supposed to cooperate using it, ensuring high MAU metric that will drive business KPIs and company validation up.
My reading of the campus environment prior to March was that, aside from any pandemic concern, Stanford was not prepared for the heightened level of student and community activism on campus coming into 2020, and the transformation of the formerly bucolic evergreen village into a high-rise arcology, was probably making a lot of people nervous.
> At some point the lies need to stop.

So you cannot tell lies on the internet? What happens to religion, then?
I don't know why you are talking to me as if I have any influence, but the contrast of your concern for the well-being of politicians with your apparent disregard for the well-being of innocent civilians is disquieting.
I would be happy if people would use good microphones (wireless earbuds tend to have the worst mics) and laptops would come with waaaaay better cameras.
I'm European, but if I were in America I would not be republican, I might be democrat. I don't like Trump as President or even as a human being. I think Trump is a sore loser who should've accepted the election results and I think it's despicable that he incited his followers to insurrect and take the Capitol. I also think he's desperate because either he exiles to a country without extradition with the USA or he's going to prison (I believe he'll exile).

I can even understand Twitter and Facebook banning him until the 20th to avoid another violent incident.

On the other hand, I never used Parler, but I think Amazon and other providers should not deny service to Parler, as I understand Parler is just a Platform that allows free speech. They're just killing the messenger. I don't agree with those MAGA or QAnon or Antivaxxers, but they should be allowed to discuss freely. I'm an atheist, what if someone decided atheists have dangerous ideas and they shouldn't be allowed to have a platform to discuss? If the internet existed a few centuries ago that would've definitely happened.

Also Trump had a personal crusade against Jeff Bezos, so I believe Bezos is just trying to claim some payback.
Matfer Bourgeat and De Buyer are the well-known brands, both are very high quality.

I don't even remember which brand my pan is, I bought it years and years ago at a kitchen supply store. they had them in sizes from "single egg" to "enough paella to feed an army", and rather inexpensive for something I've used reliably for over a decade and a half.

My only small annoyance is that the handle is just a bit too long for the pan to go in my oven. I should probably just buy an old-fashioned cast iron pan with the short handle design, too.
So is google going to start censoring my email now? I have friends in islamic and other authoritarian regimes that deal with this sort of thing. So ironic in the effort to fight fascism big tech becomes fascist. Doubleplusgood doublespeak!
Yes, just like any other group, HN tends to have commonalities in opinions. And common biases.

Those are not just result of experience, but also result of "what you really really want to be true" and "what you really prefer to be false".
It converges to XKCD 927 instead.
It doesn't take a very large number of exiles from the agora to cause a large amount of damage if they are determined terrorists.
I don’t understand the distinction you’re drawing. Can you explain? Max flow and min cut are entirely dual. Which one you use is more a matter of convenience
If you think AWS banning is bad

https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/digitaloceans-position-on-...

Other services include Twilio, Okta Zendesk, Sendgrid, Stipe, etc.
I found these with a 10 second web search. There were many more results with similar information.

According to this[0]:

"More than 60 people were arrested, at least 50 police were injured, and officers confiscated guns, pipe bombs and Molotov cocktails."

And this[1]:

"An Alabama man allegedly parked a pickup truck packed with 11 homemade bombs, an assault rifle and a handgun two blocks from the US Capitol building on Wednesday for hours before authorities ever noticed, according to federal prosecutors.

Another man allegedly showed up in the nation's capital with an assault rifle and hundreds of rounds of ammunition and told acquaintances that he wanted to shoot or run over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, prosecutors said."

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/congress-electoral-college-tall...

[1] https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/feds-p...
> Nobody said anything about BLM. That was just you.

Oh, okay. I had thought I had seen Donald Trump try several times during his speeches to conflate ANTIFA with the BLM movement in order to discredit BLM. Considering we know that a certain number of Trump's base will follow him all the way to treason, I hope you can understand why I might believe they were tricked into thinking this was true.

A reputable source would still be appreciated though. Thanks.
You can just Right click -> View source to read my crappy code. I just plug the HN API together with a graph library called d3-flame-graph [1].

[1] https://github.com/spiermar/d3-flame-graph
What prevents you from becoming a successful person?
I interpreted that comment to not be “all groups are equally as tolerant”, but more that “you have subconscious impulses that drive your tolerance or lack thereof”, just like those outgroups you criticize for being intolerant.
I don’t get the downvotes. Jammed or severed wire linkages were involved in many non-FBW crashes.
I'm not suggesting we disallow having very different worldviews.

I said the glorification of those differences is an extreme that is quite problematic. Just like disallowing them is a very bad extreme.

What I think would be ideal would be to separate group membership from worldview. And hopefully the differences in worldviews would be smaller and more subtle and disentangled. But still important for those new perspectives to evolve. But in a more subtle way.
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Aka "felony murder".

I am not a lawyer, but as I understand it, in some circumstances, a group of people that commit a felony during which someone dies, can all be charged with murder, even if none of them intended to kill and only one of them actually did.

This is kind of controversial and not the case in all jurisdictions.
It's amazing how many dev boards with 300 GPIOs on the chip give you... 50 (especially looking at you, Xilinx!). At least give me a tiny little header that I can use if I'm determined enough.

Signed,

Someone who needs 200+ pins in a current design and doesn't want to make their own board from scratch.
Republicans, pick one:
- Government regulation
- Small government
It’s pretty wild that statements like “people do dumb things in mobs” are controversial depending on the prism people are looking through
Telegram has more than 500 million active users already. https://t.me/durov/142
The modern understanding of ASD is that it's a cluster of traits, and generalized into the broader autism phenotype. I think this paper is taking some of those traits and understanding the selection mechanisms that increase their prevalence, and also builds upon earlier work suggesting that ASD could be caused by the amplification of typically attractive and useful traits by sexual selection.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23713510/
The link preview is generated locally, but Whatsapp blacklists domains it doesn't want previews to be generated for by marking them as 'bad domains' in the app. It did this for telegram a few years ago, and an analysis of the android app's source code proved it was intentional.

https://www.androidpolice.com/2016/09/09/whatsapp-is-blockin...
Yeah, on modern 3D APIs 90% of the work is done via shaders, have a look at mesh shaders as well, the future of shading languages, as GPUs are now general purpose computing devices.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25722027.
> he's trying to say that if you tolerate everyone "except" some group, you're not really tolerant, because being tolerant is about accepting what you find distasteful.

This is a decent summary.

> Except this rather stupidly implies an equivalency between "accepting gay people" and "accepting people who hate gay people."

Those would really only be equivalent if the person doing the accepting had an equal amount of animosity for both gays and gay-haters.

> Accept everyone except the racists and bigots

Accept the pedophiles and the pederasts and the sexists? and the greedy rich? And the pimps and the pushers and the slavers?

I think you missed the point of the article. You don't get virtue points for tolerating gays if you're not a homophobe. You just get to be known as a person who tolerates gays because that's how it is.

> Nobody's missing out by kicking the nazis off the platform.

Are you kicking nazis off the platform because you hate nazis or are you kicking nazis off the platform because of the potential for harm?
For those who haven't seen any of my annoying mentions of it yet, large threads on HN are currently paginated for performance reasons (yes we're working on it) so you need to click More at the bottom of the thread to get to the rest of the comments—or like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25722027&p=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25722027&p=3

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25722027&p=4

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25722027&p=5
> Apart from Telegram now having E2E encryption by default, it also invents its own weird and unverified encryption

I was confused since the tone of that sentence sounded weird (Apart from <positive>, it also <negative>), but I think it's a typo - I believe you meant to type "Apart from Telegram not having E2E encryption by default"?
Just some casual murder and terrorism.

These people look real "caught up in the moment".

https://teddit.net/r/PublicFreakout/comments/kucaz0/the_mome...
A lot of my dating age friends looking for relationships to blossom into marriages are really frustrated right now with the state of affairs. I'm beyond those years but I can appreciate their frustrations with the halting of their searches.
Oh yeah, I understand that bit - but how does it connect to the DHT in the first place. I couldnt see any information on where it connects when you arent yet peered (i.e. how does it bootstrap).
Robert Paxton, a professor emeritus of social science at Columbia University in New York who is widely considered the father of fascism studies, defined fascism as "a form of political practice distinctive to the 20th century that arouses popular enthusiasm by sophisticated propaganda techniques for an anti-liberal, anti-socialist, violently exclusionary, expansionist nationalist agenda."

Some further highlights:

seven feelings that act as "mobilizing passions" for fascist regimes. They are:

1.The primacy of the group. Supporting the group feels more important than maintaining either individual or universal rights.

2. Believing that one's group is a victim. This justifies any behavior against the group's enemies.

3. The belief that individualism and liberalism enable dangerous decadence and have a negative effect on the group.

4. A strong sense of community or brotherhood. This brotherhood's "unity and purity are forged by common conviction, if possible, or by exclusionary violence if necessary."

5. Individual self-esteem is tied up in the grandeur of the group. Paxton called this an "enhanced sense of identity and belonging."

6. Extreme support of a "natural" leader, who is always male. This results in one man taking on the role of national savior.

7. "The beauty of violence and of will, when they are devoted to the group's success in a Darwinian struggle," Paxton wrote. The idea of a naturally superior group or, especially in Hitler's case, biological racism, fits into a fascist interpretation of Darwinism."
But that is how WinRT/C++ started out as well. Kenny Kerr was working on it independently, then Microsoft hired him to continue to work on it.
I might wholly agree with you, but the real question is what happens next time. Perhaps the next claims of a stolen election will also be dismissed by the media and courts as "not credible", censored as "malicious lies" and dangerous "misinformation". How can y'all be so sure that you, or the public at large, will be enabled to tell the difference, when any and all debate about the claim of a stolen election will have been banned at the outset by an overt policy aimed at protecting "the public faith in our democracy"?
Durov (Telegram CEO) responded to some questions regarding this: https://t.me/durov/146
The color is already color coded by username if I'm not wrong. But yeah, there are many improvements can be done here :)
Their hypothesis doesn't really ring true to me. If the "assortative mating" hypothesis were correct it would mean that in the past people with ASD would have been having children with normies, for lack of a better word, and then due to some vague advancement in society are now instead choosing to mate with people who have more similar traits to themselves. Doesn't really make sense to me tbh
This sort of things, for example. I am more familiar with the UK, France, and Germany, but your example is on point.

I suspect at the beginning there is a kind of identification and a contrarian reflex (“you won’t prevent me from speaking so I will say the vilest things just to test how far you’ll bend”). But people doing that end up taking it seriously after having steeped in it for a couple of years. Still, surely they realise that the people they support don’t care a bit about them and live on the other side of the world.
> To me, this sounds a lot like "both sides, both sides".

When one side is being banned for not meeting a standard, "both sides, both sides" is an extremely valid argument.
Don't think of your comment as being grayed out, think of your discourse as being narrowed.
Thank you for the vital context. “Democrats are to blame” -is- an opinion, but “No one who scaled the walls of the capital was a Trump supporter” is a statement of fact which can be disproven trivially (literally hundreds of photos of the hats and the shirts and the flags on the people scaling the walls).

The lack of -context- irks me far more than any other issue here - particularly when the context is so damning.

I’m always more frustrated with those with facts on their side when they fail to argue properly than with those who are wrong. Being wrong is easy - the burden of argument is on the intelligent - not the slow witted.
THz? That's interesting but seems hard to believe. Do you have some pointers?