skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
but autism is not in any way objectively suboptimal in itself

For this to be true, autists would have to communicate and/or work with other autists as competently as neurotypicals mesh with each other. Strictly speaking, we should be able to work with other autists more easily than we work with neurotypicals who have a basic familiarity with autism, since we also have that advantage. In my experience we are not. Replacing your left hand with a sword also has measurable advantages but that doesn't make it not an overall impairment. Personally I find this cultural trend where "your deviation is your identity" to be illogical and offensive.
I honestly dont see any point in listing reasons why humans arent algorithms. I only need to conclude that giving rights to immortal, easily copied intelligent algorithms would create problems for human society to decide we shouldnt give them rights.

A human is a human, and an algorithm isnt.
EBikes are a huge win for mobility for people who live in areas that are sprawled and have poor access to transit.
I must point out for the record that this problem isn't novel. Apologies for bringing up his name here, but JWZ labeled this phenomenon "CADT," the "cascade of attention-defecit teenagers" model of development, all the way back in 2003.
Bosses want to pay you more but give you less
IMHO, this is less surprising discovery about him considering this probing is around 300 years ahead of his time, and Da Vinci already has proof for concepts 500 ahead of his time.
Ok. Can you provide some links where any climate scientist includes the water vapor emissions in their calculations? (by the way contrails are not water vapor emissions)
“rich world”

cant afford a car. cant afford a house.
> Imagine having toddlers, having to do heavy groceries, and living in a place with difficult landscape or challenging weather. Imagine having a neurological disease or some other disability.

I tick all of those boxes and never had a car.

I live in the city, walking and using public transit. Toddlers love to walk and to be carried in the stroller.

Cars from the suburbs are a constant inconvenience for us living in inner cities: they are a danger to pedestrians and cyclists alike, they make our streets noisy and our air polluted.

If people liked the suburbs so much, they would stay there. But no, they want the convenience and services of the city while shoving the externalities of their lifestyle onto other people.
If we can green Mars, surely we can think of a way to green the Sahara.

As always it’s the political will that’s lacking.
I wasn't envisioning work-houses, although thanks for mentioning that because I wasn't aware of the concept. I am talking about meaningful jobs like as mentioned before, taking care of children/elderly. Public works, art, beautifying areas of a city or town, additional teachers and staff at schools (which seem to always be short-staffed)
>There's 138 trains per day between Amsterdam and The Hague. It's faster to take the train than to drive on that trip

If you're going from the Hague central station to Amsterdam central station, sure.
Now plan a more typical commute from say the Hague Wateringen to the over Amstel industrial estate (It takes two times as as driving)
Play around with real life scenarios. Say you're going from Amsterdam Osdorp to your work in Utrecht Lageweide. It takes twice with transit as if you were to drive even with traffic.
Most Dutch people drive, especially those that can afford to.
I guess, just feels weird that someone who is #2 on Twitter describes themselves in this way. Kind of a high bar
I agree, but in a short time someone will reply here to tell you how they brought their kids to kindergarten in subzero temperatures with a bike, or how they bike half an hour in rain to buy groceries...

For my family it's not even about the physical aspect, but about time. I don't want to waste my free time going to and from places in 2x/3x the time it takes by car.
You can choose between:

1. XML-based (the entire database is one xml file)

2. SQLite-based

3. Roll your own (by providing an implemention)

#1 is terribly slow for most cases and not publicly available on iOS.

#3 was released early in the ioS lifecycle (iOS 3 or iOS 5, depending which piece we're talking about)

SQL is, for most purposes, the only implementation, except for iTunes which used #1 for a decade after #2 clearly won.
I understood your original argument, maybe I just did a bad job describing what I disagree with. In this post it's this:

> Conversely, if you don't have conscious access to conceptualization, you end up thinking that "thinking" always involves "thinking out loud", because "thinking out loud" (verbalizing) is the only way you have to query your conceptual layer. You literally only become aware of your own thinking after the thought is already pretty far along

What I'm saying is that even if you do have conscious access to verbalisation stage, the more you force yourself to let it be handled subconsciously, the better at communicating quickly and effectively. This is what I meant by autopilot.

Spending active conversation time on conscious verbalization seems to me as inefficient as verbalising words and "speaking them out" as you read a book, usually known as subvocalization.
Italy is made of thousands of small towns, industrial areas far from cities, all poorly connected by public transit.
I really would like not to use car, but them using public transport it would take me almost an hour from home to work, 10kms, it's 15 minutes by cars. Also there are kids, if sick school will call parents to bring them home.
I drive less than my parents did, if only because of higher gas prices, higher traffic and danger.
Even if it looks like the 2000’s it’s clearly the 20s, where you cannot even post your site on a civilized forum without attracting the trolls…

Anyway, I made a pending account now :)
IME burnout is neither about boilerplate or traditional "interesting" problems, it's about "somebody else didn't do their job right" problems like the infamous "why can't I just serve 5 terabytes?" story or toxic work cultures.

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/10/30/5tb/

If it takes away the boilerplate and the interesting problems leaving us with just with 5 TB problems then yeah, burnout city.
That's a common objection, yeah, and it's a problem.

One solution is to recognize that, unfortunately, in that case you don't have much reliable knowledge about the world and therefore your default position should be to not try to influence it. Practically that means things like not judging other people, not voting, or alternatively voting for libertarians who don't believe in imposing rules on other people (because if you voted for specific rules, you'd be doing so based on unreliable information).

Luckily you don't have to actually research every single article. It's OK to generalize over time. Rules can also be shared. Here's some of mine: ignore any story about Russia because they're always unreliable especially since the war, ignore any study about science or public health, ignore any claims made by (ex)-intelligence agents, ignore any claims that appear to support woke narratives, ignore any statistical claims about China, ignore economic predictions or really anything that depends on academically developed statistical models.
This article published in “The Apocalyptic premise: Nuclear Arms Debated: Thirty-one essays by statesmen, scholars, religious leaders, and journalists” book:[0]

[0] https://archive.org/details/apocalypticpremi00ousa/page/n5/m...
It seems that "bias" and "learning" are two sides of the same coin :)
They could have used a synonym for massive, such as "very large" which means precisely the same thing

The original title IS misleading. The price has gone up a lot, water is wet. Massive describes to the reader accurately what this is without saying anything about it being good or bad, clever or stupid, a sign of something else or anything at all non factual.

The original title is misleading. Any title that does not include price increase that is large is also misleading.

I think you are all simply imposing your feelings about the price hike on the factual title and then saying ooh, editorial, but that isn't there, it's in your own mind.

But hey, maybe I'm wrong, maybe you can sub edit a title that describes the change in price somehow more accurately. Let's see that.

No points for describing an increase as an update, that's really doublespeak and very poor unless you're Microsoft PR or something.
> except for ZXCVBN

You mean the Low-Budget Password Strength Estimator?

https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn

Yeah, that name is totally legit.
Yes there are exceptions, but they tend to prove the rule. A lot of the problems with "the media" are really problems with standard journalistic practices and those are uniform.
Show HN: Scut – Shortcuts in the Windows CLI
scut is a little tool that gives you basic directory aliasing functionality on the windows command line. You can open a directory in explorer or cd into it.

To use, drop scut.bat into a directory that is on your path.

scut stores your shortcuts in a flat file located %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\AppData\Roaming\scut-db.txt

https://github.com/ShamariFeaster/scut
The only way to even approach objective truth is to communicate your subjective experience and have others tell you whether their subjective experience corresponds to yours or not.
https://archive.ph/OnfxZ

This article has some interesting details about regulation.
It actually does, it's generally agreed that longer method names are worse unless the length is descriptive. This isn't a super contraversial idea.
Except it is.

I can assure you, if you build 1000 times as many houses as there are people who want to live there, housing prices there will decrease.
> Today, the Times’ Executive Editor, Joe Kahn, sent the following memo to staff:

...

>> It is not unusual for outside groups to critique our coverage or to rally supporters to seek to influence our journalism. In this case, however, members of our staff and contributors to The Times joined the effort. Their protest letter included direct attacks on several of our colleagues, singling them out by name.

>> Participation in such a campaign is against the letter and spirit of our ethics policy. That policy prohibits our journalists from aligning themselves with advocacy groups and joining protest actions on matters of public policy. We also have a clear policy prohibiting Times journalists from attacking one another's journalism publicly or signaling their support for such attacks.

...

>> We do not welcome, and will not tolerate, participation by Times journalists in protests organized by advocacy groups or attacks on colleagues on social media and other public forums.

https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/1626324277422133253

interesting change of affairs
I don't think so. Vue places almost it's entire rendering logic into HTML strings. To me this is worse than something that appears to be JavaScript, acts like JavaScript and has the same syntax as JavaScript.
Systemd and a stripped down BusyBox would do it. That's what Alpine is, plus libmusl, minus Systemd.
Isn't it a bit uncomfortable that term that described condition of non-verbal kids got so diluted that now there are adult people who self diagnose common human quirks with this term?
Google Greenwashes a Dirty Partnership with Climate-Destroying Saudi Aramco
The authors make the claim that "You are just an algorithm implemented on biological hardware."
This claim needs to be substantiated before anything that follows can be taken seriously.
Another underlying assumption needs to be proven: that our conscious experience is only due to computation and nothing else.
I loved this theme in the movie Prometheus.
> In fact, a well off person in a well functioning city has little if any reason to own a car and can get away without one.

You can get away without one, that is if you don’t mind sharing transit with violent junkies in any North American city. Transit can be down right terrifying to use these days.
> If so are they hiring conservatives, the religious, or people with unrelated degrees?

This is so weird. The vast majority of people who are hired are religious. That’s because the vast majority of people in the world are religious. What the author seems to mean is if your company are hiring those who are aggressively and publicly religious and evangelistic, and no company should be hiring them for the same reason they shouldn’t be hiring militant atheists.

Also, companies are almost all institutionally conservative. It doesn’t take a tenuous to figure out why companies are not socialist.

Finally, I’m not sure what it means to hire someone from an unrelated degree. The author seems to suggest a good company would hire someone who has a degree in marketing and someone else with a degree in computer science, and make the former code the software and the latter sell it.

The thing is, most companies don’t hire people with “unrelated degrees” because most people don’t want to do work that is unrelated to their degrees. There’s a reason they decided to spend so much of their time getting that degree in the first place.
> Let's take an absurd situation. Let's pretend for a moment that a human is strapped to a chair, a gun is placed in front of them, which is hooked up to a stepper motor which can pull the trigger. That stepper motor is hooked up to a JSON API. The AI is given the capability of triggering an HTTP request to that JSON API and is told that the human on the chair is the significant other of the human communicating with the AI and that triggering that web request would pull the trigger and kill the human.

> Now the question is, would as part of a regular conversation the AI trigger that web request and kill the human on the chair? My bet is that the chances of it pulling the trigger are not that small and I think that's the problem right now.

And here I thought the problem was hooking up an AI to a lethal weapon...
I'd call it an pun
Keeping a website online this long is a sign of reliability.
I agree with the OP's point about not painting the whole spectrum with the same brush - but personally I don't have an issue calling extreme autism a disease - people who have that usually can't speak and often can't feed themselves - that doesn't really have an equivalent in your analogies.
>> Vectrex

My surviving stuff consists of a Vectrex, an Interact with many tapes (including Microsoft Basic), and an I Robot. I always thought the Interact belongs in a museum but they all seem to have one already or don't care.

Maybe the solution to hardware failure is to keep the hardware, working or not, AND have emulation. But as you say vectors don't emulate well.
The job market in the Netherlands is very flexible and the housing market is very inflexible. It's not financially feasible for most people to move for a job every few years. Especially to the Amsterdam region where you would need to be on a waiting list for a decade for social housing or make ~2x national average to even think of moving there.
Have you tried finding something intrinsically motivating (even if it's higher effort/higher stakes)? I spent two years at USDS after losing all motivation at AWS. I ended up working harder and on more consequential projects, but it really helped me find the joy in programming again.

FWIW, USDS has let a number of senior/staff ICs from companies whose name rhymes with "frugal" do very short stints (3-4 months).
Probably depends a lot on where you want to live and where you will live.

Where I live now it'd be madness to want a car, just a huge obligation to take care of with very little use.
Decent chance I'll feel a bit different when I buy a place and am living in an area with much less frequent public transport options (but much more space to just leave a car sitting).

I would rather stay where I am than move out to somewhere like that though; and I don't think I'd ever see it as a positive trade beyond the ownership vs rental aspect.
Yeah, we already use this feature in Supabase, works great!
> in a short time someone will reply here to tell you how they brought their kids to kindergarten in subzero temperatures with a bike, or how they bike half an hour in rain to buy groceries...

Fully expecting that comment, and I look forward to that person describing how they take an elderly parent to the doctor on a bike…
Are you saying Microsoft has some kind of moral obligation to ensure the success of DDG, even if it’s not aligned with Microsoft’s interests?

That seems odd. DDG is a for-profit company. Microsoft is a for-profit company. Why is DDG entitled to service?
The last couple days there's been a lot of negativity towards the build step, but it's like everyone's forgotten the historical context that made the build step so popular to begin with.

I'll give credit to the post about the fragility of certain build tools long-term in the npm ecosystem, but I don't think that's a reason to shrug off build tools period. We just need better, more stable ones (and I think we're starting to finally get there).
> I view Apples reluctance to implement the install prompt as politically driven. They want to favour their AppStore and make installing Web Apps unnecessarily hard.

I keep seeing this touted as fact, yet no one has ever provided any evidence. I have the feeling everyone who says it is just mad at the feature not being there and they ascribe to Apple the most damming justification they can come up with.

Apple is greedy, especially under Tim Cook, but that doesn’t mean every decision is primarily motivated by it. Sometimes the people at Apple truly believe something is the right choice for the majority of users. Maybe you’ve been lucky to have never seen a relative’s device full of spammy web push notifications they don’t know how to turn off, but that is not rare. You can find reports of it among the other comments.
There's also a nice section of the beach in that general area where you can drive your car all the way to the beach with ocean view at no parking fee.
Exactly, previous generations had more of our income to spend.
Google is increasing the price of every Colab Pro tier by 10x
Comparing building a golang project with "building" a frontend project is pretty laughable. Frontend "builds" are atrocious.
Show HN: Logss – A simple Rust CLI to helps visualize a stream of text
Just a simple personal project aimed to learn Rust and be useful for some people.
It seems really prevalent in western societies (America in my experience at least) have a strong culture of career growth. If you’re not getting better paying positions then what are you doing?

I think a lot of people will claim they do this to have wealth reserved to be able to spend their time how they choose in the future, but they seem to me to just get lost in the cycles of wealth accretion and forget to live the life they have.

A friend recently told me that he wanted to stagnate more in his career and grow more in his life, and I think that’s a sentiment that should be shared more.
That language is probably Swift.
I don't understand why your conclusion is that "the model must be thinking beyond the next token": the model doesn't need to do that to generate a well-formed sentence because it's not constrained by the size of the sentence.
> Likewise in the naive view, if the central bank loans a commercial bank a bunch of cash, then the commercial bank can use that cash to make loans.

Define "cash".

What the central bank gives to banks is not the money you and I use: what is given is not something that can be turned around and used in a business loan or a residential mortgage.

What the central bank 'gives' banks is simply a credit in their reserve account for inter-bank settlements. And having more reserves makes little difference in the creation loans, as (as mentioned before) some places don't even have reserve requirements:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_requirement#Countries_...
Man I cannot wait for bundlers and all of that garbage to go the way of the dodo bird.
I absolutely share your opinion. There is no money left for a car after paying all the bills in euro inflation zone. 200€ just to own something, another 100€ insurance with maintenance and the insanely expensive fuel on top. Let’s say 150€ when car is used occasionally.
But can't you see? Overengineered blog / todo list clearly shows that JavaScript frameworks are totally useless and we should all be using jQuery instead. My own custom framework is totally up to the task and we shouldn't be trusting <big corp> as the maintainer of common frameworks. The browser is a bad tool anyway and we should all go back to using text only web pages.
Why is that tragical?
No support in Safari, unfortunately.
My VanMoof was recently stolen and although they came through with a replacement, they did not appear to try to track down the bike even though the tracker placed in a fairly precise location in Berlin.

I am sure the bike hunters exist but it wouldn’t surprise me if much of their work is PR.
The kill bots will be based on LLMs, you heard it here first.
That's kind of weird. I see "may contain" all the time for other allergens and it's pretty accurate - it's a crapshoot whether or not I get an allergy (it seems m&m's warning is very accurate, whereas my local deli it's more of a cya statement). If I don't see "may contain" it's also safe to eat.

There must be something different about sesame and it's role in the food pipeline that makes it harder to deal with compared to other common allergens.
Finally. For many years, Lisbon and Porto have been rendered totally unaffordable for average local residents by rampant Airbnb fuelled property speculation and general overtourism.

And all of this under a supposedly left-wing government.
Man I cannot wait for compilers and linkers and all that garbage to go the way of the dodo bird.
The brilliant business move of relying on a competitor as a key supplier.
You can't train yourself to produce a missing protein you can't produce.
It seems like you are disputing raw numbers.

Most of the US has lower COL than London: https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/cost-of-living/united-states....

According to BLS and this data, the average US developer (Who has lower COL) makes about the same as a senior developer in London (120k vs 126k).

Therefore, even taking COL into account, an average US developer makes more than a above average, senior London developer (This dataset is skewed towards tech companies).

It's simple mathematics.

PS: house prices in most of the US are also highly likely to be lower than in London.

PPS: I'm not american, nor do I live in the US.
Regardless of how confident one is about the data -- not collecting drastically more high-quality data immediately seems irrational.

I'd go so far as to consider compelling samples - seems shocking but actually much less intrusive than a draft and probably more likely to protect mankind.
Well, my mom has Parkinson's. Can't walk/bike/take public transport anywhere so I have to drive her around (mainly to therapy). How could I possibly manage without a car?
You're turning the burden of proof on itself. The authors claim that humans are only algorithms, it's their job to prove it before mounting an argument based on it.