skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another shitty development is how "mild" autism has become a trendy status symbol. Psychiatrists are now inundated with so many diagnosis requests from neurotypicals that actually autistic people such as my wife and I cannot get the official diagnoses we need for government programs, NGO memberships, school and workplace accommodations, etc. There are now literally years-long waits to even get an appointment! Autistic people now have to add the preface "actually autistic" to hopefully get some understanding.
This is interesting to me as the author is definitely right that people use the word "spectrum" wrong. It has come to mean a gradient rather than a spectrum. But that's natural language for you. There's not much use fighting it.

I do think that when people talk about being "on the spectrum" etc, it is well understood what they mean. I'm sure everyone on HN knows at least one person who is "a bit autistic" and maybe even considers themselves to be. We all know what it means. It might be the wrong words, technically, but we do seem to be communicating the right thing.
The “local government” are my neighbors the Sheriff and the County Commissioner.

Then there are freedom of information requests, journalist, whistleblowers working for local government, and whistleblowers working for hotels.

If the Sheriff knew who you were and had probable cause he could get a warrant to get your credit card transactions from your bank and from that see you were in a hotel.

But that’s pretty far away from “hotels register you with the local government.”

There was actually a hotel owner who took it on himself to report suspected undocumented immigrants to ICE a few years ago. We know about it because it quickly made its way to the papers, and caused an enormous uproar.
English is not my first language so maybe fabrication is the wrong word? I didn’t mean fabrication as in it didn’t exist, but that it wouldn’t have existed without the US.
>> They changed the copyright holder on this fork, but left the MIT license in place. How does this harm anyone?

Here you go:

https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript

Just fork TypeScript, change the copyright holder to yourself, and do what you want with it. I sure Microsoft won't mind.
5) Retention is vastly different than comprehension and integration with other knowledge.

I often am thinking about the applications of knowledge during a lecture. I am currently listening to an economic history course and the last lecture I compared the foolish inefficiencies of 16th century mercantilism tarrifs to the new modern ones of the last few years.
Since MIT has this line:

> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

MS would be in the wrong to redistribute this code without the notice that includes '(c) 2020 LesnyRumcajs' - however, just changing the line doesn't constitute copyright infringement or fraud if MS reverses the change and/or simply appends the original MIT license above their MIT license (since MS does indeed have '5 commits ahead' of the origin repo, all of those changes are copyright MS but still MIT licensed). They could even simply have a file called 'LICENSE2' with the original notice, if they can't easily exclude this repo from the bot.
Good point: I'm in a suburban area where land is much easier to come by, so it's less of an issue. Although even then, 3-bedroom apartments are as rare as... Something very rare. (It's Christmas, metaphors fail me at the moment.)

Anyway, if they built floor plans like this then I would want to see some seriously bulked up building codes to deal with fires. Also it always strikes me as odd that sprinkler systems are used to help with the fire, but smoke is what mostly kills and I rarely hear of emergency ventilation systems tied to fire alarms. If anyone knowledgeable on that sort of thing could chime in, I always love to learn why my ideas are wrong/bad.
SNI often allows you to discern the domain being accessed, and depending on how well you know that domain, the nature of the traffic flows can unwrap a lot more than most people would really like (timing and sizes of requests/responses - even wrapped with https, the size of a GET vs POST uploading data are pretty obvious).

The GF doesn't care about 100% accuracy either. They won't always perfectly ban stuff. But they will hinder it often enough to make some "banned" service effectively useless inside China.
+1 — This wonderful man helped me and listened via twitter DMs when I was in a rut.
Hey if anyone considering down voting this guy - it is important question as a lot of people might not understand those things.

I see it as a honest question.

Instead of voting down, vote up so more people can read replies and see that it is not something that should be done.
I doubt you're getting the accurate picture still

> lived there

China is fast devolving into dicatorship's way of life. 2+ years away is along time.

> keep in contact with many friends

Those friends are afraid to say anything negative to a foreigner living outside the guo on a platform closely watched by the government

> consume a lot of TV and podcasts from there

Government approved safe and patriotic contents

You have to be a native citizen who is living there 10+ years to understand
Is better fire isolation obviously cheaper than a second staircase? Depending on the footprint of the building, it actually sounds a lot more expensive.
> There is ample organization and leadership skill among the geeks. Look at the site you are on and its background. Many millionaire geeks...

Are any of those building and maintaining a successful open source project that is not commercially interesting to their company?
Got a link for sm? I can't find it.
Working on OSS is always worth it... What I have doubts on is the F (free) part.
The larger issue is that anyone using GitHub is donating their work for re-use without attribution through Copilot.

In return, you receive hosting from GitHub.

The writing is on the wall. You MUST host your own code on a stand-alone website.

Here is an example. This Go program (a compiler) generates and serves its own website: https://NN-512.com

It runs on a Linode shared CPU cloud instance that costs $5 per month: https://www.linode.com/pricing

Another example, look at what Fabrice Bellard does: https://bellard.org
The flow is basically:

1. You enter an idea

2. The app generates, and you edit, page blocks one by one

3. You share the page

When others open the page and click the CTA, they are a waitlist-like form where they enter their email, and you see all such leads on you dashboard.

Thus, you can validate ideas really fast and get prepared leads if you ever get to building it.

The last part (dashboard) is not ready yet, it’ll take me another few days.

But the pages you create are already functional, and the people who sign up to your waitlist are actually stored.

Eager to hear your feedback! I’m @vovahimself on Twitter.
Mobile pizza operation Speak Cheezy plans Long Beach pizzeria
Pump and dump? Trying to become a memestock?
https://www.termsfeed.com/blog/all-caps-legal-agreements/amp...

It’s legally important
Regardless of the particular merits of Socialism/Capitalism, I think we agree on the main point - the replacement of the Soviet system didn't significantly (if at all) improve the lives of it's former citizens - the main advantage seems to be it's easier to emigrate from it.
This happened with gluten intolerance although seems to have had the positive effect of raising the profile of actual gluten intolerance (like coeliac disease) and vastly increased the availability of gluten free products. I wonder if there could be a similar upside for people with "actual autism".
Honestly this is a massive problem in the psychological sciences. Most of the disorders are just collections of symptoms without any solid research tying those symptom collections to concrete issues in neurological circuits or biochemical signaling pathways. Work is being done to fix this, but its currently an absolute shit show in my opinion
As an autistic person, I usually find people saying that they're "a little autistic" without really being autistic a little demeaning. They're trying to tell me that they understand, I get that, and I genuinely appreciate the attempt at connection. However, I literally have this label because I am different and they cannot really understand what it's like, so it just comes off like they're trying to tell me the way I feel about something doesn't matter or like my troubles aren't real because they claim to experience something similar (even though they literally don't because they're not autistic).
Programmers like every other human being decide what they are willing to do and what they are not willing to do.
If it involves blockchains, the answer is that he is dooming it.
You inspired me to read the Wikipedia article, which paints a pretty damning picture. It is not that far off from what is presented by Harari.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_extinction
I realise you didn’t post this looking for advice (and I apologise if this is unwelcome), but if I can relate one small thing from my own personal mental health nadir:

Walk. Outdoors. In the greenest place you can find.

No, it won’t change anything that you’ve been through, but it really will help you to quiet everything for a small chunk of time to let your mind get a rest from it.

Please don’t ever think you’re inadequate. No-one, not even you, as any idea what might be waiting in your future :-)
I worked multiple times for a few weeks at a game development company in Shanghai in 2017 which definitely had a GFW bypass in place, and it was explained to me that companies can obtain a "license" to legally do this. How much of this is true, I don't know, but I could access the global internet at full speed (minus some occasional hickups) from within the company network, but not elsewhere.
Just curious- how did you advertise/market your saaspegasus solution? I Google “boilerplate python and Django SaaS app” and your site is not front page, so I figured SEO probably isn’t the answer.
Such a BS cop out. When I was doing my PhD, we were all training to pick apart the science. All challenges well come, as it forced our work to be airtight as possible. That’s why the final process of a PhD is your thesis “defense”.

To somehow claim that we should just shut up and accept what the government says because “its based on science” is silly. Science changes, science is sometimes wrong.

But we should also make clear that science results in policy and policy can be criticized without challenging science.

“Yes, vaccines are effective, but no we shouldn’t force people to take them” is a policy objection, not a scientific objection.
> (even if they're wrong about theism)

an individual post says this, while generations uphold theism
Have you familiarized yourself with Complex-PTSD?

You’re just as worthy of life on this earth as anything else. Hang in there!
They've added an LCARS theme and notifications on start up.
These numbers are from Wikipedia. I don't know how reliable they are:

NASA: 8,800m
ESA : 850m
CSA : 200m
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All : 9,850m
Unusable by non-technical users? Lol. Then explain how everybody from kids to grandmas started blogs and ecommerce sites built on top of WordPress pre-Gutenberg.
What field are you in that you use Emacs?

I'm always curious what non-IT folks that use some rather IT-specific tools do (not that Emacs is just for coding like gcc, but it's pretty rare to see it jump over the wall).
Cant agree, try installing rtx 3090. Even if you manage to there are no games :/
Thanks, I'm 36 by the way.
Don’t forget on the other side of the planet is summer :)
China is not a rich country per capita (on par with LATAM), but it’s massive size is what attracts businesses.
It's funny we want others to tell us who we are rather then just examining our own selves. Try it. Diligently and thoroughly examine yourself as if you were a third person. Every thought, feeling and impulse. All of it. No need for shame, censorship or judgement. This is a private space. If a thought brings up and uncomfortable feeling or emotion. Don't turn away, examine that feeling. What makes it uncomfortable? Why don't I like this feeling?
This has completely changed me. It has freed me from the tyrannical rule of uncomfortable feelings. I highly recommend it.

Full disclosure, I'm all into self-realization now and the non-dual philosophy.
My house had sprinklers and it was not a big deal. There was one special valve they said you should change every five years. But that’s the only maintenance anyone ever told me. No one had to check them before the sale.
It touches on the main one which is simplicity. it's much easier to write an AD system for a more static language.
I got the idea that those were good ventures for parent poster but not for those partners. Then those partners gracefully withdrew, maybe they knew more that parent poster.
Permanent residency of some kind and citizenship right after. All the biggest Western European countries. Trust me when you have money, everyone's a whore.
Is the copilot thing true for paid accounts as well?
The 6.0 release hasn't been made officially yet (the source code tagging is just the first step in that process). There will be an announcement and changelog once it happens.
I have tens of org files scattered across different machines.
Moving blocks of text in NEdit is its best feature. Try doing the same in vim. That is an exercise in frustration.

I first learned NEdit at Fermi where it was developed. Been using it for 28 years now. Carrying a dependency on Motif for all that time has been sort of a drag, though.
Isn't this what the entire field of bioinformatics supposed to be about? I know a few people who left it because it doesn't pay as well (in the US) as your average software engineering job.
> All of that should be considered entrapment, and law enforcement should not be doing it

Not in courts in the USA. Entrapment is when you convince someone to do something they wouldn't do if not for your encouragement. This is painted as making it easy for someone to do what they want to do. It's why they target schizophrenics and idiots.

> law enforcement should not be allowed to break the law to enforce the law. We however allow them to do so all time.

That's not a simple standard. If we allow law enforcement to break some laws legally, they aren't breaking the law. It's against the law for you to break my laptop to pieces, but it's not against to law for me to break my laptop to pieces.
If you treat copilot like a human, and you ask it a question ( like "#find median of list") that human either (A) will put together all the things they've learned over thousands of hours of simply looking at code in the programming language and how the syntax works, then provide a new code block, or (B) remember "oh, I remember this extract string of text and what comes after it. Here's the next 10 lines from that snippet". In that B scenario, would the human be infringing on the original's copyright? Arguably yes; but is situation (A) also copyright infringement, or is it like getting code help from a friend?

In these situations, whether it be originating from a human or robot, the knowledge comes from looking at public code on GitHub and it's always been a risk that your public code might not be used with proper attribution at some point. Think about how many OSS projects have core code and algorithms copied daily by companies with no public name and keep all of their source code private - it's surely caused more damage than CoPilot ever will.
From my perspective, driving around is pleasant enough, as an activity, but the loss of time to do anything else after committing to so many hours, just to make rent... it seems like giving up on life.
> Most of the disorders are just collections of symptoms without any solid research tying those symptom collections to concrete issues in neurological circuits or biochemical signaling pathways.

This isn't true for autism, ADHD, bipolar or schizophrenia since some biological mechanisms are understood (even if these labels aren't perfect), so what are you talking about and what do you base it on?
I'd recommend you get a degree in engineering or CS, you can get good education even from more affordable state schools esp if you are living at home and can save on housing costs. Unsure about the severity of the narcolepsy, but could also consider the military if looking for a kick start in your life. Good luck!
Bot-driven crimes would be crimes nonetheless.
I think this snippet would raise a KeyError whenever the index you're searching for is greater than 0.
Yes! Exactly! Is there a name for this phenomenon?
The mistake is not harmless. Corporations don't get to hide behind their bots' mistakes. Microsoft needs to reverse the change, explain why it happened and implement precautions so it doesn't happen again.
An English teacher did this to us. The first big problem is about half of the students knew about the trick because friends in one of her earlier classes told us about it. So half the class got 100% not for reading the instructions but for having friends willing to go against the spirit of the task. The second problem was that it was intentionally formatted to look like the instructions were the paragraph at the top of the page and everything below were tasks. The teacher had a huge grin on her face about the whole thing, apparently happy that she was able to outsmart a group (well, half a group) of children. A classroom relationship between the teacher and students should be built on trust and fairness, both of which she damaged that day.
> You have to work 9-9-6. Which is why many citizens are lying flat (not working/pursuing marriage)

None of the government/public workers are working that schedule. Or someone who finds a job in the private companies who aren't insane.

> You are constantly subjugated to random mass covid testing, standing hours outside in the cold.

Speaking from anecdotal experience, my parent has been subjugated to none in 2021 because they were not living in an affected location. Mass covid testing are only carried out where there are outbreaks.

> You are constantly watched, monitored, "invited" to police station for tea, banned for posts that contain any words that are on the growing banned list

Might apply to your personal case? I don't know even one person who are constantly invited to police station for tea, despite having hundreds of friends in China.

> You cannot watch Spiderman, BTS, squid game, porn and many many more things legally

Except that everyone does, and I'm not aware of any prosecutions. Also, Spiderman, BTS, squid game does not even touch laws, they just haven't been screened in cinemas, you can still get them from different sources (which often means piracy in China).

> Oh and there's the yearly flood + shoddy buildings + crashing economy + crashing real estate + aging workforce + factory jobs leaving + dictatorship

We'll see then. The rhetoric have been around for decades.

Some of what you said is true to a degree, but you are painting it in a very biased fashion. China has a lot of flaws, but what you said certainly does not apply to an 'average' Chinese citizen. In fact, all of these combined are almost impossible to happen to a single Chinese citizen, average or not.
Yup certain. It is surprising that all the countries which complain about illegal immigration open their legs wide when you have the money. Looking at US, UK in particular.
>renamed Streamlabs OBS to Streamlabs Studio

Ah that is a good outcome. I pessimistically thought this post was implying that OBS decided to "collaborate" by relenting to huge wads of money and giving up their name. Which would've been a huge shame to open source software. Glad stuff worked out.
To be honest, can't humans go through various open source repositories and copy the bits they like?

If you don't like that,don't release your code as open source. I'm not going to host my open source projects on my own website. That's just hard, it's much more difficult to get people to check it out if it's on Broblog.net

I personally don't believe extremely short code snippets, like the ones copilot tends to copy are problematic.
After working for Canada's Defence, I certainly don't trust how they protect military members' medical data. It's on a separate network which requires asymmetric crypto for access, but the actual data has yet to be encrypted. I think that's unsafe, considering how it's common practice now.
> Not everyone of course, but even a large number of psychedelic researchers who were supposedly doing it the “right way” were still walking away with bizarre and irrational beliefs: https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/04/28/why-were-early-psyched...

That article gives examples of folks who most definitely were not using psychedelics safety. Timothy Leary is famous for his controversial experiments.

Moreover, LSD and mushrooms are often conflated in discussions like this, but it should be noted that the two drugs have widely different outcomes and safe usage parameters.
> it’s clear that the system is designed so poor or uneducated people would only be able to consume government approved content

That's not by design, that's just the virtue of human ingenuity. Give us something we ain't supposed to do, and people will invest a lot of effort to still make it work.

Case in point; For a while Germany wanted to put Internet filters in place, based on DNS blocks [0]

Trivial to circumvent for anybody remotely familiar with networking, yet seemingly impossible for the vast majority of people who have no expertise in the field.

Was it designed like that to lock out the poor, uneducated, Germans?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zugangserschwerungsgesetz
You (or possibly your employer) own the copyright to the code you produce. And you are fine to say something like "copyright $me $yearIMadeACommit". What you can't do is claim copyright on work you did not produce or remove existing copyright notices.
That would make total sense if it were correct. That's exactly how I think most people would intuit it

However, that's exactly how it doesn't work and that's my point. The else clause is only ran if the loop DOESN'T break.
I really feel for you. My ex-boyfriend had Asperger's and was similarly had issues applying for programs and getting regular specialized medical/therapy visits because of how sensationalized "neuroatypicality" had become. My heart sinks whenever I read another article about how TikTok users decided that nervous tics are not only popular, but deserve to be imitated and even diagnosed to feel legitimacy. I know "social media bad" is a played-out theme these days, but it really makes my blood boil imagining all the personal development these people are missing out on by trying to roleplay as a less-fortunate individual and record it for online clout.
Tangential, but this audio book about the experience of a young autistic Japanese has been useful to me in more ways than one.

The reason why I jump
(1)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eZe8_60zZtg
The reason that some autistic people get upset by that usage is that is diminishes how they experience life. It's like saying, 'everyone is a little black'. There is a big differences between having the genes of a black ancestor in your family tree, and experiencing life as a black person. So, to autistic people, you are not communicating the right thing.
Great anecdote!
I developed and published an iOS app using ReactJS and CapacitorJS
A supercorp will have far more resources to succeed in courts than an individual person, such that the courts are not a fair avenue for resolving disputes. The court of public opinion is, unfortunately, far more accessible to the individual.
Mining asteroids isn't about bringing those resources back to earth... its about breaking down resources in space to be re-used in space for space purposes.