skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> An autistic person behaves in a way that you interpret as "being an asshole" not because they can't tell whether they're being an asshole - it's because they think in a different way and their reasoning makes perfect sense for them and doesn't make them seem like an asshole.

Aren't you basically doing the same thing as the parent is accused of doing, though? Painting all autistic people with the same brush?

Just like non-autistic people, autistic people can also be assholes. Some recognize that they can't pick up on social cues, but just don't care. Many do! But some don't. RMS may be one of the uncaring kind, and it seems a lot of what people have said about him may support that. And do we really want someone like that running advocacy for Free Software?
Similar story: large chunk of my PhD at Bath in early 1990s involved porting Helios (which was developed on/for Transputers) to Intel i860. Fun times...
There are already some very skilled people active in the homebrew community. It runs Qt applications and up until recently, the company also published the developer toolchain (which will hopefully return soon).

Most of the device is Open Source and the compliance section gives you the root password of the device that has ssh via usb enabled by default.

There are also initial (unpolished) solutions for encrypting files with gocryptfs.
I went for a hike there on Saturday night, here are a few of the shots I got:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeFBYeKa30w&list=PLoqbqfn2ku...

Unfortunately, photos and movies don't capture the atmosphere and sheer scale of the thing. What might look like some rocks rolling from the crater is cose to building-sized. Still, it's defined as a small eruption.

Edit: iCloud rate-limited the playlist I originally posted, so changed to YouTube playlist. Original link: https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0OG6XBubGEA3MC
There is no objectivity in this. RMS was attacked by a specific subgroup of the identity culture. He could well be defended by another. Sometimes identity politics just seems to be the continuation of european leftist splinter group infighting with other means.
What is an MtF programmer?
I read it as Microsoft programmer but that doesn't really make that much sense in the context.
Did he though
> You can just lift the objects so that they are a function of the scope so that the table of them only need to be constructed once.

So, I had very carefully worded that statement. I said you have to construct them "each time you enter that scope."

Although CPython does not have a jump table opcode, it easily could, if it were a priority.
Just in time for it to be wholly unprofitable and made derilict ..
Writing from Spain. Schools are open since September, with measures such as masks, isolated groups that don't mix during recreation time, etc. It has been shown that schools are not a major vector of propagation and that kids can safely go to school. Here what has an impact in the propagation of the virus is opening bars and restaurants and allowing people to move between counties (comarca) or regions.
Gratis vs Libre.

Even as a non-latin speaking person I can identify the difference between those types of "free".

Or, alternatively "Free as in Freedom", which is another phrase I've heard coming from the FSF.
Catholicer: Create as many Catholic corporate spaces as possible
Why? Using ads to increase business is completely valid. This issue is data leakage due to an implementation error and has nothing to do with using advertising services from Facebook or other companies.
How the EU got screwed by the UK and the US is nicely laid out here:

https://twitter.com/DaveKeating/status/1372897635577761803
Of course they should NOT be profitable, because remote routes are not profitable to operate, yet it is in everybody's interest to prevent overcrowding and excessive density. Give me one example of a successful metro that was built on "profitability". It may become profitable in the end, but only because the initial intention was public service, not profit.

This kind of capitalistic short-term thinking over long-term public interest is precisely what is wrong with America today.
really! how? every person and their dog is becoming part of the gig economy, selling their everything online and finding ways to create a newsletter or some kind of tool. who are these people without digital skills?
I started to feel strange being the only one using freeze dried...
Albania and Kosovo (which is 90% albanian)... they were force-ably split after WW1 when the ottoman empire fell, then re-united for a bit in 1939-1945, then split again....
Then Kosova gained independence after the Yugoslav disintegration.

Now they both want re-unification (70% want re-unification), but geopolitics wont allow it as it might be de-stabilizing to the region, and the EU is afraid it will stroke instability within its own countries (i.e. Basque independence, Catalan independence, german towns in france wanting to go back to germany, Belgium disintegration, etc... etc...).

Ps. I am Albanian, My dad is half form the north and half from the south, but he was born in Kosova, and raised in Tirana, Albania. We consider it to be the same nation, just divided by arbitrary borders.
I think even all the "analog" stuff in modern cars uses chips.

A modern engine wouldn't work without chips.

LEDs won't work without chips.

Automatic AC won't work without chips.

ABS, ESP, etc. are all based on microcontrollers as well.

Not even the speedometer needle is actually analog anymore, it's all digital now.
It indeed achieves both, at the same time! Here's how it works: a typical person - particularly an American - gets enough money to buy more food than they'd ever need, but at the same time, they're ~two random events (e.g. sudden medical or car repair bill, and losing their job) from becoming homeless.

It's really not that hard to imagine living in luxury and fear at the same time. That's how rich and/or powerful people feel in less democratic countries - they simultaneously have more money than they know what to do with, and are one random event (mistake, shifting political winds) from losing it all, possibly along with their lives. It's actually one of the main reasons democracy is considered the superior system - powerful people living in fear is a combination that often leads to blood being spilled.
Awesome videos! Is it not dangerous to get that close? I got apprehensive just watching that
The executive’s guide to better listening
Here in Germany you will sometimes read about discussions on making public transport free, making it a completely public utility. I’d be more than happy to pay taxes for that.
The best thing is that they don't lose value. Can use them everyday for 5 years, and then sell them for same price (or higher).
> Because it makes for a great excuse for their failure to negotiate their vaccine contracts.

This argument is beyond ridiculous. It was the decision of health officials, and it wasn't just countries part of eu that have suspended AZ vaccinations.
> what makes you think so?

Because that's how language works. You don't call somebody a neanderthal to imply he has great hair.
People seem to think that delivered vaccine doses will get thrown into the trash during the suspension. In reality it just means that the doses accumulate for a week or two and will be administered more quickly after vaccinations are resumed.
And the faster you learn how to give good criticism, the better for you. Being cavalier about other people undermines your ability to effectively communicate.
Please make sure the first sentence clearly explains what the project is in one sentence. You can expand on this later on.
That depends on the country. Norway had four cases of fatal blood clothing in young people which is significant considering only 9 people below 50 died of covid there.
You are confusing value with data.

Copying the value is a different question, but I can copy the data all I want.

> Yes, you do. You have verifiable providence of a unique digital signature (not unlike an autograph)

You have a signature that a token is valid on the chain, cool. As long as it stays on the chain of course. But that’s all it is, it does not make one jpeg the original and another one with the same bits the copy.
Strangely noone ever asks this question: Is there any city that has a private car street and parking network that is profitable?
Woah, it looks like a 3D render, surreal.
anything with the headline of 'shortage' can be distilled into this translation:

employers want people with high tech 'digital skills' for less pay.

The UK is infamously known for not appreciating programming skills.
MtF = Male to Female
Justice without kindness is just violence while somehow getting to feel good about it
> If I make a statement and you infer something about my intentions, how are you to know if I actually meant to imply that or not?

If the mafia boss says "I think he is going to get a visit tonight", the person in question is probably not long for this world. Did the mafia boss order the killing of said person?

I agree that every little sentence, in isolation, shouldn't be scrutinized, and meaning inferred in a vacuum. However, surely patterns of behavior and the larger context of the words being said should play a role in our interpretation of the words said?

Otherwise you end up with things that, read hyper-literally, are innocuous while being completely heinous in context. "Exterminate the Vermin" said by an exterminator is very different to it being said by a German in 1944.
Java. But to be fair to my point, both JDBC and ORMs are also variants of these kind of abstractions. :)

But as you said, some of the problems were when it got really DB specific. A simple layer that could be swapped for a simpler (and not performant, but didn't matter with little data) variant locally was nice.
Even more so considering that, IIRC, only about 120K people were vaccinated with AstraZeneca in Norway.

There is something strange going on in Scandinavia because UK has reported nothing special with two orders of magnitude more people vaccinated. But it's definitely a cause for concern, at the very least.
Ask HN: Why can't Git be serverless?
I had asked this as a comment[0], but I feel like with one exception [1], the answers all say "ssh to a git server" which is not a remote filesystem based git-like process on each client. Indeed, the simplicity of ssh and git probably makes the below steps overly complicated. But I was thinking for personal micro-projects, that someone doesn't want hosted on a platform (github, gitlab), and doesn't want to pay & operate a VPS.

Instead of referring to the existing functionality "git", let's call this hypothetical example "git+".

Here's the concept:

+ a remote filesystem stores the files of a git+ repository (e.g. cloud Bucket accessed via rsync/rclone)

+ each git+ client contains extra functionality from a normal "git" server, including functionality from the "--bare" option, but runs entirely on the client (or as a cloud function).

+ the first step of every git+ process would be to create a .LOCK file, that prevents other users from writing concurrently to the repository. Once completed, a git+ process deleted the .LOCK file and allow other writes.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26491271

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26491428
A necessary evil is no less evil merely because it is necessary.
Quantum supremacy, command execution, whitespace, race condition, Red-black trees, blackboard, n-gram, Domain Specific Language, Domain, Chained iterators, locks.

Jokes aside, what matters is what you mean by words and how do you feel when you realize that what you're saying genuinely offends somebody. Imagine you don't really think about slavery when you say "sell down the river". Somebody points it out to you what it actually means. You can say "oh, shit" and try to avoid the phrase. Or you can say "it's my inalienable right to keep using this sentence". Or you can say "well, yes in this case it makes sense, this sentence is racist, but if we start to police words, where does it stop?"

Let's see; let's replace that sentence with any of the above. Is "whitespace" really a space for white people or is it because space between words is ink-free?

Is a "race condition" a condition of a race of people or a competition of speed? The words are spelled and pronounced the same but they are not the same word. One comes from romance languages and the other from Norse.

But it's not only etymology. Contrast "master" in "master-slave" where it clearly means the owner/controller of the slave and it stems from shameful practices actually happened in our past by and to our ancestors. Contrast this with "master copy", "to master an art", etc. where the word retains its original meaning of "teacher" (magister).

Be smart, be curious, don't stop at the surface.
Emotionally, this is true.

Literally, this is false in a way that harms our ability to handle disasters.
when online businesses grow too quickly they forget to build the basics along the way. wonder if we should all slow down a bit.
Indeed, the age group for cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) is very specific [1], mostly women < 55 (menopause?):

> The Committee’s experts looked in extreme detail at records of DIC and CVST reported from Member States, 9 of which resulted in death. Most of these occurred in people under 55 and the majority were women. Because these events are rare, and COVID-19 itself often causes blood clotting disorders in patients, it is difficult to estimate a background rate for these events in people who have not had the vaccine. However, based on pre-COVID figures it was calculated that less than 1 reported case of DIC might have been expected by 16 March among people under 50 within 14 days of receiving the vaccine, whereas 5 cases had been reported. Similarly, on average 1.35 cases of CVST might have been expected among this age group whereas by the same cut-off date there had been 12. A similar imbalance was not visible in the older population given the vaccine.

This seems to be yet another case where the news is incapable of keeping up with timely technical information. No mistakes were made, the pause could have gone either way and we should generally be more understanding of difficult but timely decisions made in the face of uncertainty.

[1] https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/covid-19-vaccine-astrazene...
Convert all your Medium posts into a Gatsby blog in 5 min
There is an unmaintained repo with some examples that might serve as inspiration:

https://github.com/matiassingers/awesome-readme
The Behringer Truths 2031A are still a great buy, although they're super heavy.
Naively thinking I would assume they're only queueing the updates, but running the read requests against the slaves in that timeframe.

This would mean that there is probably a possibility for people to "overspend" money they don't have, because a recent transaction wasn't yet applied to their account when doing the next transaction quickly afterwards, but if the timeframe is sufficiently short, that might be a risk they're simply willing to tolerate and mitigate by organizational means.

Alternatively one could also integrate some kind of quick-and-dirty solution specifically to catch cases like that, by tracking "temporary balances" in an intermediate layer and denying payments if they are likely to exceed the actual account balance. Such mechanisms wouldn't have to replicate the actual business logic exactly, but just roughly, in order to provide meaningful protection against exploitation of this temporary update situation.
> My understanding was that the rate was still lower than it is in the unvaccinated population

That was when it was thought to be a normal thrombosis. The one they identified then, was actually an extremely rare one "Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis":

> an estimated 3-4 cases per million annual incidence in adults

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_venous_sinus_thrombos...
I don't see how it would help with this, as the study had 32,000 participants. That wouldn't tell you much about rare side effects that appear on the order of 1 per a hundred thousand.

The blod clots are not a rumour, they're there. It's not certain the vaccine caused them, but that doesn't make this a rumour. And the events do seem to be unusual enough that they certainly need investigation.

Doesn't mean the vaccine is unsafe, the events seem to be still very rare, even if they are caused by the vaccine, so the benefits still outweigh the risks. But the events are very serious, so this does need to be monitored closely and needs to be taken seriously. Downplaying potential side effects is not the way to create trust in the vaccine.
Neither. All you get is in effect a certificate that says you “own” it. Nothing more, nothing less.
Can you explain how he is a threat to women's safety?
I did this with a pair of Focal Alpha 65s (albeit ~2.5 as expensive as the JBLs, and larger too), but I am not sure I can ever go back to smaller computer speakers again. The sound is so so so much better.
Yes. By “project health”, I mean is “the health of the project”.
‘Trust’ is defined as wilful forbearance toward those agencies that we can conceive of as being sources of harm to us.

If you “trust Facebook to fuck [you] over” then you’re not trusting Facebook. You’re expecting Facebook to fuck you over and minimising your exposure to that process.
Source? I literally know one case personally and I would be pretty surprised if that was a one in a million.
A definitive reference would be great, for me the "tried in the past" quote has always been a pointer to the Java VM. Which has great benefits of it's own but always had the problem of global GC induced freezes. Working with Cassandra instances this has always been a problem since 2013 till today. It just seems to be a very hard problem to solve when object references flow everywhere. But it's really unpleasant when your whole DB instance with all it's parallel requests locks up for GC.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21992943/persistent-gc-i...
Ah. I did that (self-diagnosing as an aspie). I'm not.

It's not a special preoperty of spectrum people that they have to learn what neuro-whatsit folks know "instinctively"; we all have to learn these things. Socialisation is learned, not instinctive. You don't have to have a disorder to have poor social skills.

It could be that your poor social skills are the result of inadequate experience or training; it might be that you don't care much (not because you don't care about others, but just because the approval of others doesn't matter much to you, and expending energy on gaining that approval is wasted energy).

Not needing the approval of others isn't a disease; it's a mark of psychological health.
Wear guards, wrist guards, “Bumsavers” for times when you’re planning to fall on your back.

Before going down the stairs make sure you have fallen enough times to understand the physics of falling in such a way that you always end up on the guards. Learn how to never use the wrists for falls.

Guards most of the time are just like ice - while they have some cushioning, they are mainly supposed to make any surface slippery so that you could just slide your body energy away.
I overheard a rather loud phone conversation yesterday where a guy was urging his friend not to use AstraZeneca under any circumstances. Such things spread like fire.
How does the PM know? Are they told or is it something they are required to ascertain?
> ESP, etc.

I tried to parse this for way too long. The ESP32 and ESP8266 are chips themselves.

I need to raise my head out the weeds.
USA trial shows Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is safe and highly effective
One anecdote - I work in an org that makes enterprise software for compliance/regulatory mgmt/risk mgmt .. most of our customers, even in sensitive industries, are perfectly fine with moving to the cloud.
If you're up for changing things based on one persons feedback, I loved the repo title and the gif, and in light of that and what's occurred I find the changed article deeply offensive.

The experience of vocal minorities being triggered by something, and then having their way is actually extremely triggering for me, as I feel I am in the company of the less-vocal majority who have been historically oppressed in such situations.

This is even worse when that vocal minority is triggered not even by their own feelings, but by assuming the feelings of a typically larger groups, on their behalf. This act takes that larger groups voice without them even being aware of it. It's horrifying.

I hope you'll reconsider and restore your fantastic article back to how it was.

Thank you! Also, please write more, and don't hold your humour or personality back. Instead let them gush forth, exploding into the ice of the world as your own unique snowflake of originality.

The world desperately needs that, at this time of minority tyrants ruling over a largely silent (but slowly awakening) majority.
> Just like non-autistic people, autistic people can also be assholes.

I figured that it goes without saying, since that case doesn't need additional explanations ;]
Unfortunately Facebook has lots of information about you whether you have an account or not. You’re a big black hole with known characteristics inferred from those acquaintances of yours who interact with you in a manner Facebook can track. You might not have a name and an account, but there’s a big you-shaped golem in their data and there’s absolutely nothing you can do about it, unfortunately, and they’ll use it as they see fit with or without your consent.
Archived copy: https://archive.vn/vmcNC
> I’m not really sure what they were thinking.

My guess would be that developers installed a single Google Tag Manager script and left the tracking to the marketing/analytics team. From that point they manage what third party scripts are added to the site, not engineers.

This situation cases a tunnel vision which can unfortunately lead to situations like this.
There is no 16" MacBook.

The 16" MacBook Pro is not an M1.

The Air starts at $999, the mini at $699 (official list from Apple itself), $899/$679 education.
> I don't think there's something fundamentally different about Tokyo compared to other dense metropoles like NYC or London.

As others have pointed out, there is. It's about owning the land where you set up your stations. You don't make money on the tickets themselves, you make money by charging rent to companies in highly convenient locations.

Some European cities do this on a smaller scale (like a shop or two right at the station), but nowhere near as much as they do in SE Asia.
That’s why you elect officials who are supposed to think in terms of statistics.
It's underreported, but the EU hesitance towards the AZ vaccine really started with the Danish government putting the vaccine on hold. Hours after, Austria followed and many other EU nations.

Whereas it may make sense to err on the side of safety for the Danish government, who has already vaccinated the oldest and weakest 10 percent of population, who has no third wave yet, who can afford the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, who has the infrastructure for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, and who has a generally well educated population, it really complicates things in many other places.

I live in Bulgaria, where the population and even health care personnel are already skeptical. Medical doctors are old, many don't speak English. They get their news from Russia. My own physician called her patients warning us not to get a jab back in February. A third wave is well underway now. When people here heard about richer and more well functioning nations suspending the vaccine, they lost the last confidence.

Although Bulgaria has since reassumed vaccinations with AZ, I fear the damage is done. Few people are getting a jab now.

I really wish richer nations would think more globally before they rush to such decisions. Thousands of people will die in poorer nations due to the delays it causes.