skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm less confident in this, but: I certainly also think it's possible that many on the spectrum underrate how much literally everybody hates because-I-said-so's.

Maybe. I've always been surprised at how little other people (mostly NT) will actually say that they don't like the situation they're in, especially if they have the ability to change it by doing so.

> Reasons to stan the USA

Oh, I understand all of those reasons. What I struggle to understand is why people-who-hate-being-bossed-around by people-with-no-business-bossing-them-around still do it and often never say "This is bullshit." That's why I said "contented" was probably a better word than "happy."

> I've never been formally diagnosed, but based on informally discussing things with therapists and various self-assessments it seems pretty likely to me that I'm somewhat on the spectrum

One of the most helpful things I ever heard was "If you think you might be autistic, it's likely you are." Even if you get a formal diagnosis and it turns out you're not, you can have many traits of autism. (Technically, you have to have at least 1 trait from an array of specific categories to be diagnosed, so you can have many traits and still fail the test.)
Going from cool to usable for general public is a lot of work. And most of it isn't fun or rewarding. I get why open source doesn't do that, and why you would want money to go from solving a problem for your self to solving a problem for others in an easy way.
In New Zealand PVC pipes are used in concrete slabs for sewage, which in theory should last something like 75+ years. Water, I think, is still put in the dry wall cavity.
I think that "seem to accept authority happily" is exactly how it looks to a neuroatypical person. With emphasis on "SEEM".

Autism and ADHD both bring a lack of executive control. A lack of executive control limits our ability to comply with demands, including the demands of authority. The demands of authority generally include following the dictates of authority, while convincing authority that you're happy to do so.

People with poor executive control can only act this way out of desire. We have to really, really want to. And so a neurotypical person's ability to do what they should (regardless of how they feel) looks to us like something you're doing because you want to. No matter what the truth might be.

Yes, your internal experience may be entirely different. But, particularly with autism, neuroatypical people are often not very good at judging internal experience from external appearance. And so we may be fooled by the appearance.
I've been beating this drum for a few years now, and the key point that upsets me is precisely that they already have their own infrastructure, like you said, but they have practically abandoned those official .gov, .mil, .org websites (leaving behind stale information and dead links) to use Facebook and Twitter instead.

I think this is mostly a problem among small towns, counties, etc. so residents of big cities may not notice it as much (like the death of real local journalism). I think it usually boils down to the fact that it's easier for a lay person to update a Facebook or Twitter page than it is to maintain their own website, and IT people are expensive.

I'm in the US Army, and "Big Army" at the top level does OK with its websites (e.g. army.mil), but it also consists of many geographically distributed, semi-independent, sub-organizations (units) that each have a handful of people doing public affairs work. The official websites at those lower levels have been rotting for years, and public affairs folks have freely admitted to me that they don't know how to update their official websites besides changing the photo and biography of the new commander once every two years.
I think it’s a mistake to believe that all China can do is copy and clone.

It’s also a mistake to underestimate the market value of copies and clones. In many cases a cloned version of a product is better than the original. E.g., clones that remove over-engineering of the original and simplify the product down to its basic idea and offer it at a lower price.

It’s also a mistake to confuse manufacturing prowess for the ability to make “copies.” It’s not China’s fault that its competitors quite literally won’t bother producing in their own country.

It’s also a mistake to confuse a gain of experience for stealing intellectual property. A good deal of innovation in Silicon Valley comes from the fact that developers can move to new companies without non-compete clauses and take what they learned from their last job to build new, sophisticated software.

The fact that a bunch of Western companies set up factories in China and simultaneously expect Chinese employees and managers to gain zero experience and skill in that industry is incredibly contradictory. If we build a satellite office for Google and Apple in Austin, Texas then we shouldn’t be surprised that Austin, Texas becomes a hub for software startups, some of which compete with the companies that chose Austin in the first place.
Sounds like you're describing LSH (locality sensitive hashing).
Datadog is shockingly expensive, so I can definitely see something like this taking off.
This is a handle I used as a teenager, revived for serious Devil's Night discussions.

I'm autistic.

I was also diagnosed with C-PTSD once I escaped my home state, C-PTSD instilled by teachers and paraprofessionals who'd engage in who'd engage in malicious compliance, poised to punish, because they believed I was "faking" -- I'd be told I'm so charming, I must be a sociopath.

I'll share with HN when I told one of them who was so bald as to show up and try to disrupt my open mic in a show of intimidation:

>OK honey... let's say every professional with more education than a middle school teacher's assistant is wrong, and I'm a bald 160lb sociopath who might crash the internet and/or greater civil society because he feels his precarity is engineered by those with more means and less lateral thinking than himself. Why would you disrespect such a person, when if it is truly "Bellum omnium contra omnes" he's shown you how much can shown and told within two weeks of a man like me using his free expression to it's fullest, without firing a shot?

In my experience, if I'm not parroting the ideals of neurotypicals, or lifting others more diverse than "just" being a queer, lower middle class abuse survivor, people will coflate "being autistic" with "being pendantic" or "difficult" as an excuse to keep you precarious.

Meanwhile, those same people will turn on their TV and whine about mass shootings and other horrors by those more mentally ill than you or I, shootings that often stem from a sense of anomie and precarity that feels engineered in a society bordered by one with universal health care and respect for the declaration of human rights.

My own pet theory is that many cases of "autism" where one is "high on the specrum" are actually just generalized anxiety or C-PTSD, because no one is gonna tell a parent "Your kid is constantly traumatized by you and your Opus Dei weirdo woo woo friends", so it's put onto the child to de-escalate folks less rational, sane, or smart than themselves, and by the time you can articulate this... you're an adult, denied the childhood others good, forced into wage slavery if you don't want to rely on abusive "allies".

A lot of people carry the kind of slaveowner mentality they have when speaking to a barista or bookstore clerk into every interpersonal interaction -- they conflate being "threatened" with feeling so when someone responds with the spirit and vigor they communicate THEIR annoyances.

(Just my two cents.)
That's absolutely the last resort and worst thing to happen for them.
Honestly we just need better tooling. Where is my micro-service-fleet creator, which handles built-in all these failure modes of RPC calls?
did you make this?

"horcrux" is such a good name for such a tool.

if you drop your email, i'm working on naming something myself.
I think that's their point. I think the proper (Spanish) pronunciation is gwah-dah-loo-peh.
Facebook publish ARPUs by geography (and a lot of other interesting numbers) every quarter as part of their earnings release. See slide 15 here:

https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_earnings/2023/q3/p...

And no, Facebook is not lying about those numbers.
Actually, no. Reexamination requests are based on 102 and 103, not 112.

But yeah: accountability. The PTO makes money by granting them, and then makes more by hearing the challenges to them.

Edit: I forgot to mention that the PTO runs a profit, last I checked. The government takes it, so they don't get to use it for improvement.
I don't agree it's the simplest. Creationism is actually simpler and that's why it's appealing to so many people. To be clear, I don't support Creationism, I'm just counter arguing.
> They hired some incredibly talented people to make this happen, and then like five times as many idiots.

I can relate to this.
> and they really should have technical expertise in house

Why? Moreover.. how would any of this expertise actually get applied top down in a federal system? How would any department making purchases or technology decisions actually benefit from such an apparatus? Wouldn't it be more sensible for them to manage those purchasing and operational decisions the way they typically do? Having the expertise being more local to the actual deployments?

There's this "federal czar" ideology that comes from the 1950s, but I think the spread of technology and social development has reached a peak where this centralized expertise model actually holds us back. If we are /actually/ at a point where something like "ai.gov" should credibly exist, then we're definitely at a point where centralized bureaucracy isn't an adequate approach to manage outcomes.
And if they did not confirm it, then the right would not have had existed the entire time...
Doh, you're absolutely correct. I started with .NET back in 2003, so there's still quite a bit of baggage mixed in with the .NET team's terrible naming history.

I would personally recommend .NET for backend work, as MS track record of UI frameworks is rather suspect. For the main project I currently support, using .NET 6 API and a React frontend (+EF Core to access a Postgres database). Works beautifully.
Its an issue with Cloudflare Pages and Workers KV https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/l6x2h1zp69bc
I feel like this might be case of data engineers.

They're not usually software engineers. They're tool users not tool makers.

So they'll cobble things together to accomplish the task, using only available tools and never anything custom that would do it task much more cleanly, because they understand data, not software. They're not computer scientists or programmers, they're just users. And we all know what that means.
Ah, I don't know about Cloudflare Pages. I think they use Workers underneath. So unfortunately, there's no fix yet. Sorry.
Indeed, it is the only wannabe C++ replacement that deserves such nickname.
When a politician speaks in public the public can immediately respond to lies and falsehoods. Why should politicians be protected from feedback online?

But I do agree that anonymous posts to politicians should eligible for blocking.
Side note: Just nitpicking, but on the topic of website polish, you might want to hire a copywriter (or an AI, I guess) to rephrase the English text on the page. It sounds very unnatural right now.

Example: "You can no longer puzzle over where to get beautiful pictures" makes it sound like "You can't solve this picture puzzle anymore", which isn't what you meant. Maybe something like "Stop worrying and let LogoPicture make you the perfect brand image" or "Make a beautiful photo with your logo", etc.

But that's just one of the many awkward phrases on the page.
I can see it now: Ze Frank (of “The Show with Ze Frank” fame) asking him for his Power Move, and Musk being like, “X!”
Fascinating! I'm young enough to have almost entirely worked on cloud services, but that certainly explains the prevalence of this kind of behavior.
You can test the latest scam for free! Yay!
Thank you so much for posting this; you're a real one.
You have to with this tech. If your thing takes off and you don't, you're stuck with a huge bill. Then you get leapfrogged anyway.
the zero/zero2 should have you covered, I have a zero2 and its rather good. not bad for the price either.
Ah well. I cannot access the Workers and pages menu. It returns an error.
Fun day to release a blog post[0] about cloudflare page functions, on a site hosted on cloudflare pages.

[0] https://interbolt.org/blog/split-it-and-forget-it
Google CEO testifies at antitrust trial;says it's improved web for all consumers
The Married Introvert
Best answer, Jesus. Quite the community debate we got running here.
Yeah... No... You are correct in that there are rules on whether you get an extra ball it a multi ball. But those rules are known and don't happen randomly. Yes there are occasionally a random event, but those are rare.
As far as launching the ball, that is generally also a known factor. There are other variables in play, but none have to do with the game deciding to defeat you or not.
We certainly want to hear reasoned opposition, but I think a lot of people in this thread are ducking the elephant in the room, which is unreasoned spam. I don't think that 1000x posts of 'fuck joe biden' or 'dump= cheeto hitler' advance public deabte. Never mind whether the politicians feel offended by such remarks; consider the position of the people who want to engage with politicians in good faith (regardless of whether it's for support or opposition) but are drowned by the endless tide of low-IQ/bot spam from both supporters and opponents.

There was a whole bunch of mass shooting last weekend, as you probably know. But policy discourse is almost impossible on social media, because one side just endlessly spams 'it's the guns' and the other side endlessly spams 'shall not be infringed'. The people attempting to address the issue substantively can't make headway because the zone is continually flooded with shit.

I grumbled long ago that the very short-format of services like Twitter was going to end up making discourse dumber because it favored slogans and bumper-sticker cliches, and sadly that level of stupid has become the norm now.
I meant high tech gadgets, but sure

How to grow fresh air | Kamal Meattle https://youtu.be/gmn7tjSNyAA?t=11

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Clean_Air_Study#List_of_p...

On a second thought, indoor DIY growbox is probably can be considered as such device.
Right, they indexed this FAST
I do too!

I cracked open an internal tool we had one of the big consulting firms build for us to see why it sucked so much. In one of the header elements they had hardcoded the URL for a QA site they built for a large car dealer. Fun stuff.
The law preventing that was repealed a couple of years ago. Many businesses have since imposed a fee, reflecting their costs from the payment networks/banks.

The original argument, that it saved them the costs of handling cash, seems to have faded.
It's probably bad that I noticed this just due to a large percentage of my regular online-habits suddenly breaking. I liked the old internet where websites just broke one at a time.
Yep, same for me :(
Just for completeness, I noted in the description provided on that site:

> The Bakhshali manuscript is a handbook of rules and illustrative examples together with their solutions.

So, I guess these read like textbook examples because they basically are.
>We all know that this is how things are, but we pretend like it's not so we can enjoy the feeling of being outraged

This seems both factually wrong (the first part) and kind of an unnecessarily hostile oversimplification of people's emotions/motivations. It's also another example of the very common fallacy that we should patently not be outraged by things that we already know, or are common, for which there are essentially infinite counter-examples in the realm of human behaviors that are common and known, yet still outrage-worthy and shocking every time (e.g. child abuse). Just because we can't solve every problem instantly doesn't mean we shouldn't continue to express our thoughts and feelings about them - that's part of a healthy society.

Outrage only for outrage's sake surely is a thing, but it's also an easy thing to use as a label in dismissing things one doesn't like for other reasons.
> Discord communities are private by design.

Are they? I'm sure there are people who use Discord like that, but I am on dozens of servers and all of them are public, i.e. anyone can join anytime. That's not private that's just hiding from Google.

> If the server owners want public discourse, there are many options for that.

Chat/video/audio as good and popular as Discord? Where? IRC? Matrix?

> Are these same people upset that there aren’t microphones at every table in restaurants so that those conversations aren’t “walled off” from anyone not in the restaurant?

Fair enough but nobody is asking direct messages or the servers for people who actually know each other and want privacy to be on the open web. Just the ones that are closer to being public squares for discussing specific topics.

> In fact I think scraping website content by third parties for their own indexing should be opt-in, not opt-out, it’s pretty obnoxious in my opinion that you can put up a website intended only for friends and family but then large entities all over the world crawl your content and broadcast it on their own platforms without your consent.

Eh, I get what you're saying but don't you think the Internet as a whole loses a lot of its value if this happens? Wasn't Google and good indexing one of the crucial things that led to the Internet revolution?
>but I believe they are doing it to build their own brand, whether consciously or subconsciously.

I am always in awe at how easily people craft unfalsifiable worldviews in service to their preconceived opinions.
I assume it just displays rows edited.

I don't see how they'd display anything other than points. That leaves XYZM for diffing.

They might be showing summary stats like length, perimeter, area, volume, but that's usually not easy to generalize.
Where does "criticism" stop and "heckling" begin?

The article says that "politicians cannot use their social media account as a public forum and then block their critics from that forum. That’s not how it works in real life" but ... it kind of does? If you have nothing to offer other than a stream of abuse then you can expected to be shown the door.

Real-life interactions are "rate limited" both artificially (n minutes of speaking time) and more naturally (you can't follow politician everywhere to criticise them). A small group of online critics/hecklers can completely dominate the conversation because there is no rate limit. This includes posting about your pet peeve on every unrelated thread.

Have you seen the accounts of most politicians, even fairly moderate and uncontroversial ones? It's such a shitstorm that I wonder why they even have these accounts. As Peter Mannion MP already discovered many years ago: "this is the problem with the public, they're fucking horrible".

The article mentions O'Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier, and "when the trustees got tired of two concerned parents’ probing commentary, the trustees blocked the parents." Sounds kinda bad and childish from the trustees, but then you read the details[1] and that tells a somewhat different story: "Garnier had once left near-identical comments on 42 separate posts on O'Connor-Ratcliff's Facebook page. He had also left 226 identical replies over the span of 10 minutes to each tweet O'Connor-Ratcliff had ever posted on her public Twitter account." Describing that as merely "commentary" they "got tired" of is so woefully incomplete that it's hard to take this in good faith.

The second case is also rather more nuanced than presented; Freed was a civil servant and used his Facebook page mainly for personal matters, and occasionally also occasionally "posted administrative directives and press releases he issued as the City Manager that had already been released to the public elsewhere prior to being posted on his personal Facebook page." When COVID started this took up a lot of Freed's attention on Facebook, like for all of us, and "Lindke made Facebook posts on other accounts personally attacking Freed". I can't really find an account of what exactly was posted though, but this also sounds a bit more than "criticism".

And there is a legitimate discussion to be had where "personal space" begins, and "city manager used his Facebook page to conduct official business", as the article describes it, seems excessively simplistic.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O'Connor-Ratcliff_v._Garnier

[2]: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-611/256157/2023...
Sometimes it’s one of the only ways to deal with difficult people in authority if you don’t want to just blindly accept their authority…

As the saying goes, “don’t hate the players, hate the game”
In Latin America hollow brick is often used for walls. I'm not in the construction business, but I'm guessing it has to do with cost, insulation, and the ease of breaking in a crevice to lay conduit lines.

If you want to install a line and there isn't a pre-existing conduit in the wall, you do have to chisel one in. It's definitely more effort than with a "hollow" wooden wall, but it's not terribly bad.

> Look at small low-cost housing in Asia. Mini-split air conditioners and pipes all over the exterior.

I'd attribute this to the "low-cost", not necessarily the "brick/concrete". I'd imagine in the USA houses would be pre-fitted with more conduit, and homeowners could afford the installation of more as needed.
biology and physics operate at more dimensions where physical forces conspire to be leveraged by some neat tricks. Chemical gradients, various pressures, mechanical forces, electrostatic gradients, all sorts of differences out there to ride--some are passive, some are actively produced and take energy.
insofar as official business is being conducted there, the analogy would hold.

there's absolutely no reason that official business should be conducted on twitter; but good luck (a) getting officials to admit error and (b) getting government IT to stand up a comment board and keep it alive under fierce debate.
Can confirm!
I silently leave when this happens. They are so engrossed with the phone they won't notice your gone until they look up and you pulled a Batman.

Did it twice on dates. Turns a frustrating experience into a hilarious one.
> Going from cool to usable for general public is a lot of work. And most of it isn't fun or rewarding.

As a frontend dev, this is my favorite part of the work! I wish there was an easy way to find open-source projects wanting UI help in particular. Is there?
auth0 itself is (edit: was) down, https://auth0.com/
In the positive side, change is always faster when billionaires are forced to condescend to earthly cause and effect.
Well. Everything in AI seems to be going faster than I thought, even including the assumption that things will go faster than I expect.

This will be great for creating truly interesting avatars during video calls, instead of simplified fitting of facial landmarks to a 3d model (if the temporal consistency can be fixed)
1. You've fallen for the lump of labor fallacy. A 100x productivity boost ≠ 100x fewer jobs, anymore than a 100x boost = static jobs with 100x more projects. Reality is far more complicated, and viewing labor as some static lump, zero-sum game will lead you astray.

2. Your outlook on the societal impact of technology is contradicted by reality. The historical result of better tech always meant increased jobs and well-being. Today is the best time in human history to be alive by virtually every metric.

3. AI has been such a massive boon to humanity and your everyday existence for years that questioning its public utility is frankly bewildering.
I personally don’t enjoy the government enforcing monopolies and moats for the FAANGs of the world.