skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps the developer shouldn't have the entire burden of interpreting everything way more charitably and coming up with far fetched questions. Perhaps some of that "social lubricant" burden should be on the manager as well. I think it was a perfectly acceptable question. The manager could have easily said "well, it's not underperforming per se, I'm just evaluating our current tech stack vs newer tech stacks"
To be fair, it's more liberal elitism than left wing elitism, but yeah, it's clear his sympathies lie more with technocrats than the great unwashed masses.
Imagine you hear throughout your life that you can't admit you're wrong or that your _kind of person_ can't admit they're wrong. Wouldn't it be a sign of healthy introspection to dedicate time to analyze whether that's correct?

And a fundamental requirement to admit to being wrong is, well, actually being wrong. If you analyze a situation and find that you're factually correct, you haven't failed to admit to being wrong.
The whole premise is weird. Logically, smarter people should be less happy, because they realize that important issues are borderline unsolvable in any realistic timeframes. A cat almost certainly doesn't think about things more than one day in the future.

Many people eventually give up thinking about things too much and give up to various forms of hedonism, but that's not real happiness. When it happens after 40s it's called a 'mid life crisis', I don't think it has a name when it happens earlier, but fundamentally it's the same thing.

Real happiness would require advanced transhumanism or even more (ie. uploading) - without it, we are all trapped only being able to imagine perfection.
You can do whatever you want. Just don't brag about your line count if all your project does is import dependencies.
GPUs are the most complex chips out there. Getting dumped on the head bazillions of registers won't do as a hardware programing manual. Saying otherwise is a sham.

If their hardware is less messy than amd one, this hardware programming manual should include:

1 - a host init part: upload the firmware files (I can feel the gaze of the open source zealots). Since those chips are the most complex ones, you need some software jingle room to "fix" bugs in the hardware programming interface. Then setup the command ring buffers (look at usb xhci and or amd hardware here). With huge pci "bars", you may be able to simplify some things here, and I think it is kind of done now, but I don't recall the marketing name.

2 - the full hardware programing manual of the 3D/compute pipeline, done via those very command ring buffers. That include the setup of gpu virtual address spaces for shaders (last time I check amd hardware had 16, namely don't run more that 16 GPU "tasks" at the same time...). That with full shader ISA documentation (amd doc an that matter is amazing, but the documentation on how the 3D pipeline uses this ISA is kind of shaby).
Why are people dumb enough to think that 2 effectively unconnected variables should correlate asking?
Some reasons to include a control group

- Trials tend to be conducted at the best facilities, and they monitor their patients extremely well. Thus, control groups in a trial tend to have a better outcome than the general population.

- Patients included in trials tend to be better informed and better motivated to seek treatment.

- When trials are run in a specific location, the patient group may be different than the general population (younger/older, less/more exposure to carcinogens, etc.).

Note that all of these are in favor of approval for the experimental drug, and combined with financial interest/pressure from pharmaceutical companies to get approval of a drug, leaving out a control group is a recipe for disaster.

The hypothetical case you describe where a cancer ends deadly in an average of 6 months for 90% of the population and is suddenly cured by a miracle treatment simply does not happen (see https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-... for some statistics), so you will always need a control group.
> But being smart just means you know the awful reality of things.

You don't need to be very smart to get existential dread from "climate change will kill us all and I can't influence much", "the upper class can still fully rule our lives" or "at some point, someone will create an AI that might kill us and there's not much anyone can do about it". Even someone hardly qualified to work at McDonalds can think that, usually in addition to "I can never handle a job to get a living wage", which I'd actually consider to be more serious downers on ones happiness.
That's the median. The "average" (when used undecorated/unspecified) generally means the mean.

A distribution which is biased towards high-side outliers (such as wealth or income) will generally have more than half of the population below the mean.

It's not at all obvious to me that general intelligence has such a distribution (and I can think of plenty of physical mechanisms [injury, disease, malnutrition during development] by which the opposite could easily be true).
If you’re running for president and you have a limited money, it’s best to focus on the major population centers in your bases. Forget the rest of the country. If all you’re going for is raw numbers then it becomes a system that can be manipulated, which will leave half the country completely ignored.
> consider shopping for a new boss. Autism really is orthogonal to that situation sucking.

The boss is doing absolutely the right thing here! Asking a trusted domain expert for an opinion about whether some technical investment would benefit the business.

The alternatives are a) the boss hears the podcast and the next day "rewrite it all in React" is at the top of the backlog, or b) the boss never polls the team about the technical state of things and everyone grumbles there's never enough time for paying down technical debt or experimenting with new ideas.
Guys I just wrote a json parser in one line of code!

import json
That's not quite what I was going for - I didn't propose any solutions, but that doesn't mean I believe the situation is completely beyond repair. By all means live your life as you believe best, but to anyone else reading this comment, please don't think this is a course I recommend.
> We don't necessarily need simpler cars, we need better electric bikes. Or electric motorbikes/scooters.

Or golf carts. Just like so many creatures in nature evolve into crabs, personal transport appears to evolve into golf carts. The Japanese have kei cars, which are just heavy golf carts and there exist cargo bikes, which are just underpowered, three-wheeled golf carts.

There are even golf-cart oriented towns:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcVGqtmd2wM
I’m all for accommodating disability.

But in this case an obvious solution might be to do what your manager suggests simply because he is your manager.

As a non-autistic person I don’t find it difficult to voice my concerns about a particular course of action and then do it anyway if that’s what the boss wants. (I realize the sticking point is “voice my concerns” — doing that in a manner that doesn’t come off as confrontational or undermining can be hard.)
Median Vs mean, median has exactly half above/below it, the mean can be nearer the extremes if the distribution is unbalanced.
> Could such a realigning election occur in contemporary America? It could [...]. Of the two parties, it would for better or worse have to be the Democrats. Though I am now a Democrat, [...]

You don't need sarcasm tags, he's quite serious.

"Just give me power and I'll unify the country and bring us into the 21st century with lots of reforms!"

Ok Mao.
The polite package using R is intended to be a friendly way of scraping content from the owner. "The three pillars of a polite session are seeking permission, taking slowly and never asking twice."

https://github.com/dmi3kno/polite
The polls were very clear that 2016 could go either way. Clinton was favored but it was close. This is equivalent to saying "You're gonna roll the same die that just rolled a six?"
wave function does not have to collapse for particles to exist. Particles and wavefunctions are just different lenses for which to make sense of excitations in quantum fields
Thanks a lot! Will add all these good ideas :)
You can know better to not overthink and still overthink.
Thanks for the great tip! (Hydroponics/gardening)
I don't think I'm (very?) autistic. Still, I share all 4 points of experience with OP, most frequently with one person with whom I've worked off and on for 15 years. We've grown over the years and learned to some extent to accommodate each other's way of thinking and communicating.

As I wrote in another comment, I think it's very helpful to notice the mismatch between how I understand myself and how others perceive me. It's also worthwhile to find ways to bridge the gap. E.g., in the "rewrite the checkout in React?" scenario, OP might be perceived as more open to the question if they offered, "That's not a small project, but we could definitely do it" before asking questions or if they started with an open question like "What might motivate us to rewrite the checkout in React?" instead of a closed (yes/no) question.

Learning to speak in a way that helps people understand your intentions doesn't require compromising your truth-seeking values: it lets you enjoy the journey more with more companions.
Building actionable cloud infrastructure metrics
I haven’t run numbers, but fewer trucks on highways means dramatically less maintenance—savings could be diverted to pay for rail buildout.
Fixed sized house is super silly, but the 2 senators per state is far worse. DC not having proper representation is also appalling when that’s a founding principle.

The founding fathers didn’t want the masses to be given proper voting. There were 2 million land owners. 7-9 million non land owners. So founding fathers like John Adams did not want a real democracy. They wanted their power. Their 2 senator decision was done without info about the future and well, they aren’t amazing people anyway.
The polarization is wanted and created to prevent actual change away from a festering oligarchy. Even if one totalitarian wing would win, a new split would appear within, to prevent action.
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While I personally am appalled by this, I would guess that there will be virtually no repercussions
There's a beautiful poem by Giovanni Pascoli, "Aléxandros" in which Alexander the Great gets to the Indus river with his army after having conquered half of Asia; he knows it's the end of his conquest and thinks - it was better when I was dreaming of it, I was happier when more challenges, road, destiny where ahead than behind.
Not extreme, just a poignant way to point out that you don't need to personally know someone to be affected by them and to feel love/hate for them.
The biggest insight I have had in my personal life is that relationships are more important than facts. Building and keeping long-term relationships at work and in my family is, by far, more important than being right every time (even if I can verify being right). Verifying it just makes the abrasion to the relationship worse.
Orchids, Air plants...
> This weakness is well understood by enemies like Russia’s Vladimir Putin, who has done everything he can to widen those divisions and has acted geopolitically at a moment when he thought the U.S. was too weak and self-preoccupied to respond effectively.

Not a fan of Putin, and I think the polarization is real, but then this should already be obvious to anyone whose not been asleep for the past few years.

Given the domain name includes the word persuasion, such a claim needs more substantiation, elaboration or citation. This feels like a student paper without much strong arguments beyond general hand wavy sentiments on the state of the union.
Yeah no. 100% no.

All this screams to me is that google has way too much power in email to be able to implement something like this.

On the one hand we have some companies trying to block things like tracker pixels and other static images for tracking purposes.

Then we have google saying "lets make emails dynamic" and just making it easier to track.

I hope no other email provider adds support for this. Email needs to remain static and platform agnostic.
Bingo, does energy not affect spacetime the same as mass? I always assumed it did. My assumption was this was already worked into the calculations and not enough to account for dark matter.
Conventional fuses are probably replaced by electronic, auto-resettable fuses like polyswitches (some kind of temperature coefficient thermistor). Alternator or not, fuses are needed to limit the amount of energy a circuit can draw in the event that it malfunctions or is short-circuited.
Replacing a track rod ends is not a deep operation, is a routine one and very easy to perform even if you can not elevate the car as most shops do. It does requires an alignment afterwards.

However, inconvenient access to diagnostic software and rare parts/components that can only be sourced from the official dealer are a big problem, and one that the market cannot solve because there's little incentive for value chain to do so.

I would like to see legislation that forces manufacturers to publish free-to-everyone specifications, firmware and diagnostic software whenever the component is commercialized for some amount of time, like 5 years or whatever makes sense. That would made old cars much more maintainable and prolong the life for several years and/or several 100 thousands kms.
I hope you take this as constructive criticism, as it's not intended to offend:

Your post reads extremely arrogantly. It's a "I am very smart" type of communication style.

None of the points you bring up are specific to autistic individuals. I'm allistic (as you put it) and, realistically, not that intelligent, but I experience the first two of your points on a regular basis. But I've learned to modify my handling of these types of situations so that, most of the time, I get a positive/productive response.

Now I obviously can't know how you communicate outside your blog posts. But it may be prudent to think about it – if you come across as arrogant or a "know it all", then the "you don't acknowledge when you're wrong" is just a nicer way of saying it.

And when people get a “vibe” of arrogance/know-it-all-ness from a person, they will be much less willing to accept, well, anything. And for good reason. This especially applies to corrections, "let's play 20 questions" and long-winded explanations of context (especially if you explain something they already know, even partially).
I want a Higgs bison steak, please! :-) Medium rare!
This looks pretty cool, especially since it is offline and free! The only caveat is that it is probably not feasible to train yourself, right?

I should play with this if I have some time. I've had the idea for a while to build a voice assistent which can switch modes or datasets while you are speaking. If you say "computer, play ...." for example it would load a recognizer that is specialized on song names. The idea is that you can mix English song names in a German prompt, and it will not be confused. Every voice assistent I know gets confused, presumably because they convert speech to plain text and only then act on the text.
> It turns out that the mass of neutrinos produced so far adds up to as much mass as all the rest of particulate matter.

I don't believe that's true? The energy density in neutrinos today is < 0.5%
(baryonic matter is ten times that.)
Who cares about instruction counts? Computers are there to get stuff done, they're a means to an end.

Good algorithms are far more important than instruction level optimization, which is to a large degree pointless anyway, since new CPUs come out all the time, and change the tradeoffs involved.
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This has absolutely nothing to do with the article.

Also, almost all large corporations donate to all major charities - that's standard corporate governance. It doesn't mean they somehow influence or undermine articles like this.

Selecting the oil companies alone from the list of donors to imply there's some influence operation going on is highly misleading.
That's the fascinating thing to me: it doesn't matter! MOND is a successful pseudoskeptical meme despite not being a successful physical theory.

The narrative of MOND-the-meme is totally wrong but extremely compelling. That's enough to give it outsized fitness in its niche, and then that general compellingness (which comes from being really good at tricking us) is misinterpreted as scientific merit. Even by those who say they're interested in truth, not stories.

It's an excellent test-case for critical thinking because everything about it as a meme should set off alarm bells, but often it doesn't.
Could this be used for things like autofocus in camera lenses?
Trivially, yes, but nothing stops you from using a proxy/tunnel/VPN (I'm not sure what is the correct word? They are marketed as VPNs anyway) either for your actual browsing, or just exposing your services through the proxy.

(The author even briefly mentions that in the post on step 3 as a solution to being able to host things at all, but it can also be used just for straight up privacy)

You could argue that's not "hosting at home", as you depend on another service to provide you with a connection, but I argue you'd still keep all the ownership benefits, as most tunnel services have similar TOSs to ISPs, and if it becomes a problem, you can easily switch providers.
He's such a hack, and the End of History was dumb even back in 92. Guess what he is saying resonates with some people, cause he keeps getting attention despite his work being neo-liberal fanfiction.
Also is the ability to open the Networks panel, to snoop on requests and find the exact API call that you might need to perform your task, instead of having to pull in all of HTML/JS/CSS crap. As a lot of SPAs have essentially pushed everything behind JSON APIs, all information is usually one (authenticated) API call away.
Ask HN: What are the cons of using an established name for a new SaaS tool?
Context: There is an existing open-source project with quite a big audience that has a name that I wish to name my new SaaS tool after.

They don't have ".com" domain or trademarks.

Their product solves a problem in a similar domain but does not have an overlapping user base.

I am not concerned about SEO – the SaaS tool I have in mind will not acquire users through search results.

What else is worth considering?
This reminds me of a time, many years ago now, another engineer and myself ended up in a debate with one of the executives. We seemed to be in a very strong disagreement with them. After well over an hour of getting nowhere we ended up going back and essentially starting over breaking everything down into little pieces and ensuring our definitions of everything lined up. Turns out we agreed the whole time, but how each side was saying it made us think we did not. I believe it provided me a valuable lesson in this but it was so frustrating at the time and that certainly didn't help the cause. Sometimes I have to remember back to it and to take that step back take a breath and reframe things. How things are being said can really affect the conversation.
Demographic trends indicate that future generations will do that anyway ;-)
...and in case anyone isn't clear - over half of it is from Chinese fishing fleets.
My layman understanding is that the dyson spheres would occlude objects behind them if they happen to be in line of sight to us. Given that things in the universe are not static, other (visible) bodies would move in and out of occlusion, allowing us to detect the DS.
Is this it? https://nathangarfield.com/blog/what-sailing-taught-me-about...

> it’s nearly impossible to sail on your own

Just have to comment that this is plain false (as already evident by dinghy sailing). I've sailed up to 35-footers solo (although I'd advise to stay below 30-ish or 3-4 tons, makes it easier to not crash hard into things). It takes a bit more prepping and does help a lot if you have an autopilot or windvane self-steering (for sail changes and reefing) but it can be done without as well.

And I used to sail my 28-footer solo without an engine.

If you're interested in sailing I recommend checking out Per Tangvald (known as Peter Tangvald). He sailed around the world in his homebuilt engineless ~52-footer for decades, generally handling the boat by himself.

https://wavetrain.net/2016/01/17/sea-gypsy-early-adventures-...
U.S. annual inflation rate drops to 8.5%
How much time did it take to research + install a Pi-hole?
This article says otherwise:

https://scoutapm.com/blog/performance-impact-of-using-ruby-o...

Maybe it has changed but either way they still can be a bottle neck
And 27 includes plus a huge model.

"284 lines of C++" is something you could fit on a small microcontroller. This isn't 284 lines of C++.
In many countries SMS can get expensive, especially for international use, depending on the phone billing policy. In poorer countries people often use free wifi areas for data-based messaging. Hence the popularity of WhatsApp. Even if you have a limited mobile data plan, WhatsApp uses the capacity very efficiently, so it's still affordable.
Which is one of three forms of averaging ... ?

Mean, median and mode. Though it's true that people usually mean 'mean' when they say 'average'.
Not sure why Fukuyama is taken too seriously - what are the things he's really been right about?

He dismisses rank-choice but mostly because it will take too long to get it everywhere. To me, it seems the best way to allow all sorts of candidates to run, and will likely reduce the chances of the wacko extreme candidates we're getting today.

Finally, he mentions Yang's new Forward Party, which imho likely won't do much good, but has the potential of causing another Ralph Nader-esque impact on a future election. Although we can't tell what would have happened with a Gore presidency, I'm almost sure we would not have invaded Iraq. Let's all hope the Forward Party dies a quick and painless death.
And if you have any interest in the history of power struggles, the 48 Laws of Power is an incredible historical reference of the thinking, attitudes and abilities available to the elite power brokers throughout the ages.
The title is a quote from other people, and the content of the article is an attempt to explain why the quote is incorrect; that it's just a different style of communication that's being interpreted as not admitting you're wrong.
My pet theory is that let's say particles are the excitation of the field, imagine you come to a lake in a quest to understand water. The surface is field. You throw in a rock and the splashback is particle, you analyze the particle, you throw other things and analyze the other particles. Then you form a water theory based on these particles and you find out that boats shouldn't float at all.

It's because particles are exceptional things, not the normal, calm field they come from. If you base your theory on those exceptional thing it will be non representative or outright wrong.

That's why quantum physics is giving us weird results, because particles are exceptions, not the common state of the field.