skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I expected: an article about the common ways in which autistic people don't realize they're wrong and therefore refuse to admit it. For example, autistic people will often optimize their engineering decisions around a performance metric (speed, memory usage, etc) that doesn't matter much, rather than a business metric (ease of use, maintainability) that does. When you push back, they will accuse you of not valuing "good engineering", just like this author does.

What I got: an article lecturing neurotypicals about how, whenever they think an autistic person may be wrong, it's actually just because autistic people are more holistic thinkers and know more than them.
This thing you are talking about is called the oracle problem.

The solution to it is to move away from centrally coordinated definitions. This also means central currencies built on on a decentralized computation of some kind (i.e. blockchains).

You can see why that is not compatible with the narrative coming from the sky... there'd be no safe store of value.. how to become rich with no metric?

Question is (for me at least) who is going to be the first giant to betray the current economic system as the real world collapse becomes too obvious to ignore (hint: they'll probably be actually competent).
Disney streaming beats out rival Netflix in number of subscribers
He went to jail?
trailer is not mint. lol.
The Metamask logo fox thing would behave similarly as well, not sure how that relates to Yeti though
low key hilarious that it crashed this fast
I think you misread me or I didn't word it well enough.

I meant switch off sqllite by the time you're running a real business critical application off your db.
Large government subsidies, I think it mostly had to do with this government agency:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers_Home_Administration

And this grant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Electrification_Act
archive link for it (if post downtime): http://archive.today/JJSwo
Haha, time for an urban dict entry :D

Yeah I was typing on mobile and didn't catch it while proofreading. The textarea is so annoyingly small :(
Democratising Dev
Seeing how many people object to this first question that I think is just... perfectly fine (I talked a lot about it to my wife) unlocked something. I wasn't aware that a question like "do you think our checkout is not performing well?" can be construed as dismissive while another question like "what are you looking to achieve?" wouldn't.

In fact, I would have thought that asking them clarifying details about exactly the topic they are asking about is the good thing to do. I think I know the checkout pretty well, and it doesn't seem to be causing trouble, so clearly there is a piece of information I am missing. While I would think that asking "what are you looking to achieve" is the impolite thing to do, since they just told me what they are looking to achieve, i.e. "making the checkout perform better by rewriting it in react."

I think a good topic for another article is showing what "learn some social skills" and "you need to be aware of the context and you come across" looks like for me.

Because I don't have the mental setup to intuit all the myriads of things that can make a question ok or not ok (words? silence? rhythm of speech? voice level? eye contact? clothes? past interactions? tone of voice? posture? mood of the other person? my mood? temperature? background noise? eyebrows?), and because no social situation ever repeats, the best I can do is figure out some very rigid scripts and then practice them. Why one question is ok and another is not is never going to be intuitive for me. Often, learning to do something better will result in even more awkwardness at first.

For example, my script for speaking to people at conferences is something like:

- say hi
- ask where they come from and what they do
- say "oh that's cool, tell me more about X"
- listen and ask follow-up questions
- try to regularly establish eye contact, but not more than a few seconds
- mimic their posture
- when the first pause comes up, say one or two sentences about what you do
- then continue asking questions about them and listen
- go for a 20% talk / 80% listen ratio. people like to talk about themselves.
- don't talk about any of your real interests because you might lose track of the rules and start going on forever
- don't forget to mimic their posture
- and eye contact!
- don't rock on your chair!
- rinse repeat until there is a longer pause, or they look away, or 20 minutes have elapsed.

That's about the level of complexity I can manage. I practiced this and other scripts so much that I don't have to think about them most of the time, but when I am tired, I do have to execute it like a little robot.
Kenyan court must decide if it has the right to hear case against Meta
I once got community service for reasons, and will have to disagree with this. Sanitation trucks are usually covered, commercial trucks are sealed and work trucks tend to not want their tools to fall off. Most of the trash we picked up were soda cups, cans, cigarette butts and empty cigarette packs (and in one case weed stashed in an empty cigarette pack). What gives you the idea that most of the trash is not from people throwing crap out of their cars?
Starlink will get slower and slower as they get more subscribers.

This is already happening. In many places it is well below half as fast as before. More, and more powerful, birds will help some, but if they need to loft 4000 a year their unit cost will matter.

I expect they will cap subscriptions offered in some areas, particularly parts of Asia and Africa.
We are headed for a massive population collapse everywhere

Countries get richer, people move to small apartments in cities, birth rate drop below replacement.

Japan, China, Europe, Russia.

The US are less bad, people want to go there and the birth rate is not as bad (more suburbia?)

We are headed toward very different times with degrowth all over and a lot of infrastructure to maintain.

Here (Canada) ’we are hiring’ signs are everywhere a lot of places will close soon for lack of workers. Then the government funds will dry up (less income tax) at the moment they need it the most to support the aging population.

Japan is just a bit ahead of the rest of us.
Alas, I really wish Microsoft had bought Unity. It would have bridged the gap between .NET and consoles nicely.
> Amazon is very strict about EPUB validity.

They're also bad at converting perfectly valid epubs to their own format.
The Anatomy of a Data-Driven VC Sourcing Stack
Hi all! First post & nearly decade long lurker here!

I recently built a data science system to help VCs (like me!) identify interesting open-source startups using the GitHub API. I wrote about my experiences & learnings here & would love for folks to check it out!
thats +1 realism and -1 kiddie friendliness
Maybe your view of the world is a bit too narrow.

The above was absolutely true in my market (Australia). The GP didn't appear to specify a country, so I'm unsure why you're trying to invalidate their experience.
> Is Asperger's part of the spectrum? Wikipedia says it's an invalid diagnosis. So did all those people with Asperger's just get dumped in the "Autistic Spectrum" bucket?

This is explicitly what happened. The DSM-V explicitly automatically gives you an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis if you had an Asperger’s diagnosis. I think it’s hilariously how blatantly political this criteria is.

As for the legitimacy of spectrum disorders, the only thing I have to say about the subject is the parable of Chesterson’s fence. Think about the problems people were trying to solve with the concept of autism spectrum disorder.

>is this a spectrum for which every behaviour pattern has a slot

You aren’t far off but are missing th forest for the trees. It’s part of a diagnostic system where every disorder is meant to be discrete and non-overlapping and you either have it or you don’t and other good traits you would want in a diagnostic nosology. The spectrum is an artifact of it having to bend to describe what are actually several distinct similarly presenting conditions. It doesn’t have to describe EVERYTHING, it has to fit a hole in the nosology. Asperger’s was depreciated in large part because of the overlap with autism.

If you want something to criticize take a few steps back and look at mental health and psychiatry as a whole. A lot of the assumptions underpinning autism underpin more of mental health.
No competent manager would undertake a rewrite without new functional requirements at hand. Feature parity may well be the first milestone, but without an idea of what future projects might be, it's impossible to choose the best tools to facilitate them. Commercial companies are there to serve customers, make a living for employees and generate returns for owners/shareholders, not for funsies, save that for a hobby github project. Any managers not willing to listen to engineering concerns / articulate their own and any coworkers who expect others at work to be happy about every single aspect of their employment need help.
You would have lost money. hahah
I've read (most of) the lawsuit[1] and unless I'm missing something, the allegations seem to be entirely guesswork, and the sex worker bans across multiple websites can be entirely explained by the SESTA/FOSTA law of 2018. The lawsuit notes that in 2018, many adult entertainers were banned from various platforms, such as Instagram, and gives some examples. It then alleges (without evidence) that OnlyFans (and MyFreeCams) models didn't experience such bans. From this, they guess (without evidence) a conspiracy: that the people behind OnlyFans and MyFreeCams conspired with Meta employees to automatically filter out their competitors, and they speculate (without evidence) that there might have been payments routed through an offshore company.

2018 was the year of the SESTA/FOSTA law, which was ruinous to many sex workers. The sudden increase in adult entertainers being banned by Instagram and others is correct, but can entirely be explained by SESTA/FOSTA. You can read about it on Hacker News – here's a link to a Hacker News search about it[2]. The top result has 715 points, linking to an Electronic Freedom Frontier column about it, which begins: "The U.S. Senate just voted 97-2 to pass the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA, H.R. 1865), a bill that silences online speech by forcing Internet platforms to censor their users."

The lawsuit doesn't mention SESTA/FOSTA. It includes no evidence that OnlyFans or MyFreeCams users weren't affected by the SESTA/FOSTA crackdown, and I'm pretty sure they were. A friend of mine is successful on OnlyFans, and if I recall correctly her Instagram was banned and restated at least once. It's a standard occupational hazard for online adult entertainers.

The lawsuit only speculates that terrorist watchlists were used, just noting that they'd have been "ideal" for this: "One or more [Dangerous Individual and Organization] lists, combined with the GIFCT Shared Hash Database and URL sharing program, would have served as the ideal training data for a classifier/filtering tool to create this blacklisting effect, particularly in 2018 and 2019."

The talk of bribery is entirely speculative. After noting that OnlyFans has a Hong Kong office, and "The law of Hong Kong makes it very difficult to obtain discovery for a proceeding in a foreign court", they speculate "Radvinsky could have used either Smart Team International Business Limited Hong Kong or Fenix International Hong Kong to make the scheme-facilitating payments."

I don't read a lot of lawsuits so I don't know what's normal, but this all seems really off to me. Maybe the lawsuit only exists to cause bad press, so journalists can write pageview-harvesting lines like "OnlyFans bribed Meta to put porn stars on terror watchlist" and "OnlyFans squashed competitors in the online porn industry with the help of a bizarre scheme that bribed Meta employees to throw thousands of porn stars onto a terrorist watchlist", and then append "lawsuits" or "according to a group of explosive lawsuits".

[1] https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
If god can be the one-time exception, the universe can also be the one-time exception.
> It will mine your personal data that it has been collecting for decades now (while claiming to care about your privacy), and allow advertisers to exploit you better with the "insights" on you that their ad platform will deliver.

Do you have a credible basis for this, or is this pure conjecture?
I don’t think they’ll ever remove that, because a decent portion of apps serve HTML from the app bundle (many hybrid apps do nothing else infact) and SFSafariController can’t hide its chrome. Many hybrid apps do need the delegation methods WKWebView offers, which are already way more limited than UIWebView was.
> I don't even see what the Kindle value prop is.

Availability. I can get the Kindle delivered the same day (or) the next from a village(Now a corporation) in Southern India. Once my Kindle didn't wake up, Got it replaced within couple of days near the end or after warranty period.

That said, I'm with you and wouldn't be buying a Kindle again. It's Value/Price is low for its utility, Especially since Amazon is locking up the device and has started interrupting bulk emails from approved email addresses. Also since I have started to limit my purchases from Amazon.

Now, I have to pester my friends and family from overseas to buy the Ereader not available here (or) Order one with international shipping and pray that the customs don't hold it and charge me a kidney(Compute devices are often charged 2x-3x the cost as excise duty!).
I can barely pay attention to these kinda stories anymore... Anyone could make this shit up just as easily as it could be true, but we rarely ever get any bit of proof. Unless we dedicate our own selves into finding something to give us an idea of which it is..
I've never been diagnosed with autism, but I'm certain I'm on the spectrum.

I hate repeating myself. But I had to learn to write in such a way to do so because if I don't I end up with 4 sentences when a person further off the spectrum will write an entire page on the subject... or maybe that's my subjective opinion.

You can make all the personal inferences you want but I don't agree; I repeat myself because if I don't I received lower grades and downvotes.
This problem of too much integration is not limited to cars. The same for washing machines, TV's, etc, etc.

The 'smart' electronics and UI are always early to break, become obsolete or unsupported, and they're usually by far the most expensive 'component' to repair or replace, and often aren't even available after a few years. Also they're completely custom - there's no way to substitute something generic.

We need to get back to more modular hardware.
That was an awesome read!
How to investigate and debug performance issues in backend systems.
Same. I love that feeling.
Something I recently considered was that many of the questions, the "good" questions, do ultimately test ideology more than knowledge. The obvious example would be something like "Humans share the majority of their genes with chimps." This is of course factually true true, but it seems much more likely to test ideology than scientific knowledge, in part because of how it is phrased. Imagine the question were framed as "Scientists claim that humans share the majority of their genes with chimps." Now you are no longer testing agreement with the scientific view, but knowledge of it.

And perhaps a bigger issue is that there were literally zero questions that would do the same "trick" vice-versa for somebody who ideologically agrees with one of the topics, but otherwise lacked much knowledge. Testing this would have been quite easy by simply throwing in questions that sound like they fit the consensus but have an important aspect that makes them false. An example would be "Evolution is a process of improving a species which, over time, may lead one species to become an entirely new one." That is, of course, false - but somebody of low knowledge and high consensus agreement, would likely consider it to be true.

My personal hypothesis would be that extreme views tend to be associated with high confidence and relatively low knowledge. And this could be extremes of agreement or disagreement with a topic. As Betrand Russell put it, "The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."
So let’s say my project has a failed job in the pipeline. Can be anything like install failed or build or unit test or e2e job failed. Can I integrate this with gitlab and receive notifications on slack for that job? Is there a sample example implementation?
>The new Netflix of course provides more content - the key here is content people want to consume.

Which people? People in the U.S. only?
-- seems like it's well in excess of that --

https://cis.org/Bensman/US-Government-Now-Publishing-Terrori...
To IPO, they would need to release information that might make the whole enterprise seem less tenable. And, if it turns a profit they would be less able to siphon the money off to private projects. (No, not for a Mars colony. There will not be one.)
How does it compare to ObjectiveFS (a commercial offering) and S3QL (now abandoned)?

Would JuiceFS be suitable for a handful of servers (and mobile laptops) with connection latencies anywhere from 5-150ms accessing the same file system? Workload is basic home directory stuff (lots of tiny files, few large ones, read-heavy, write-rarely). I wonder about the operational complexity in running the metadata server (yet another thing to manage unless outsourced); if it goes down, do all fs operations block/fail until it's back up?

I'm looking for something like the now-abandoned s3ql file system but one that allows multiple hosts to mount the same volume and have reads/writes "just work" without conflicts.
Details emerge on Apple office campus in Culver City
I know what you mean. However, I can’t tell whether recommendations are ads or just very bad recommendations.

But there are plenty alternatives, so you just should switch services.

I went for Tidal, which also supports better bandwidth (HiFi and Master) and Apple Podcasts. I’m actually very happy with both services. You will find tools online to migrate your Spotify playlists to Tidal and when it comes to higher bandwidth: trust me, you will hear the difference and when you did, you will not want to switch back to lousy 320kbps MP3s.
> weakly-interacting particles aren’t “something we’ve never seen before”, and in fact the neutrino is an excellent example of such a particle.

That's right. But the only reason we know about the neutrino is that it was predicted by theory.

> However the neutrino isn’t a candidate for the specific particle causing the observed effect because the distribution of observed effects on normal matter would look different, hence the search for more massive particles:

Correct again.

> a search that is very much at its early stages.

That depends on what you consider "early". There are only so many places in the standard model that wimps can be hiding, and the vast majority of them (if not all of them -- I haven't been keeping up with the latest developments) have been ruled out.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02741-3
QI (quantized inertia) is a theory created by Mike McCulloch in the UK. It predicts galaxy rotations, including wide binaries extremely well, amongst other things. It is well worth a look.
Have you ever worn a beard, or a hoodie?
lol - the $80B is for agents, not clerks.
Nice puff piece though.
Its that it is competing with the hackerspace and blurring the lines between the third place and the work place for the employees. If you are in the wood workshop at Facebook and are a practiced craftsman hobbiest and see your manager messing up an expensive piece of wood - do you treat him as a novice? or as a manager?

Next, these things are to try to encourage the retaining of the college mindset. Aside form the "play hard" there's the "work hard" - the all night cramming that you had with college gets translated to working all night to meet some project target date.

Additionally, by establishing these pseudo-third places, it encourages the people who use them to be part of the work "community" rather than the civic community (where the hacker space or coffee shop is). This in turn makes the people who work there more isolated from the people in the community and has an impact on the third places there as there are fewer people in the civic community who use them (when they are provided free at work). Yes, you would rather use the local hacker space than the one that FB has for a woodshop - but that isn't true of a fair number of people.

Lastly, these perks aren't things that the company values too highly and thus is apt to remove them when times get tighter. Establishing those perks as the norm (see Basecamp with its combination of company forum pseudo-third places and perks) and then changing how they're done or making them location specific (FB employee in SV gets a woodshop, while the remote worker doesn't) will create discontent later down the road.

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I believe that companies that are offering these perks and pseudo-third places (as perks) are finding that the trouble that they cause is more than the value they provide to their employees from the employer perspective but are having trouble withdrawing.

The SV style perk - I believe - is a liability to a company. While it may improve employe retention a bit while it is active (and I really question that in as junior dev tenure has been dropping combined with an increase in remote work), removing it can result in singicant discontent and hosting it increases the issues that HR has with maintaining it.
Does this guy also reject DM models based on MACHOs?

I think they expect particles to be thrown out and result with slowdown but dark objects as massive as stars wouldn't be thrown at such a huge rate to observe slowdown, am I right?
shoutout to the MVP of "studied a bunch of books on human interaction in their 20s" techniques: disarming a criticism by undefensively agreeing with it
I wrote myself a tool to monitor the RSS feeds of a bunch of web serials, and send any new chapters to Kindle.

Using Calibre CLI, adapting to send EPUBs instead of MOBIs was as easy as changing from:

ebook-convert chapter.html chapter.mobi

To:

ebook-convert chapter.html chapter.epub

Calibre is incredibly powerful.
The thing is; people can clearly see that the internet is going to be the foundation of our societal communication infrastructures (such as money, politics and other governance). Therefore technologies that enable that are somewhat inevitable... it's just all done in such bad faith that it leaves us reeling.
I do agree that SFSafariViewController should use the newer style of sheet that can be pulled down on to be be dismissed. It makes more sense than the current navigation stack style presentation, and the extra context of the spawning app being visible around the top edges under the sheet would be helpful in app switcher.

The reason SFSafariViewController switched to per-app containers is because the older behavior in iOS 9/10 where it used the same environment as the browser proper was being rampantly abused for advertising/tracking purposes, dampening the benefits of it being out-of-process and isolated from the spawning application. I suppose it might be nice to have a setting to toggle this behavior, but it'd need to have disclaimers with red text next to it to prevent advertisers, etc social engineering users into toggling modes.