skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think it is ridiculous this is a test for autism.

Sorry but that is a pretty autistic response.

It obviously isn't a test for autism. It would be part of a much larger written and possibly verbal test along with one on one medical support.

Then holistically a medical practitioner could make a decision.

You have a sore toe, it's probably not cancer. But do you have a sore toe might be a good start for toe cancer testing.

It's just in the blog to make it fun.

>Does this account for the fact that women tend to be underdiagnosed?

Yes, this was acknowledged years ago. Like the fact men can get breast cancer was acknowledged years ago. It can still lead to mistakes and people being missed but the figures still remain approximately the same.
On the contrary, when minor blogs are submitted by someone not obviously the author, I'm suspicious of the submitter's relationship to the author.
I find that the more time I spend around computers, the more I actually want to hand write things. I've recently gotten into the habit of keeping notebooks for various things, I even wrote a letter by hand to someone (something I haven't done since I was a child).

There's something so permanent about handwriting, compared to an ephemeral computer file. There's also the fact that notebooks don't run out of battery, or need signal.

As far as actual penmanship goes though, I have pretty terrible handwriting, it's getting better. For some reason, buying a fountain pen has markedly improved my handwriting.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12351187
> Any suggestions on how a small office (~15 people) can have a napping area without taking on any additional custodial work?.

An ordinary couch that's long enough for a person to lie down on will do. If it's vinyl / plastic covered, cleanup is a matter of wiping it down periodically. Add a couple of small cushions to act as pillows (periodically replaced for hygiene) and, voilà, you're done. If the soundproofing of the nap area is less than optimal, add an inexpensive white noise generator to help mask ambient noise.

Employees can supply their own blankets, etc. (I can't imagine that people would be particularly enthused about the idea of a shared blanket anyway.) I use a cotton hoodie in place of a blanket since the hood can be pulled down over the eyes to block out light.

Also, on behalf of myself and others, thank you for being a considerate employer and providing a nap area. I, myself, suffer from treatment resistant insomnia and I know many colleagues who have had less than a full night's sleep because of their newborns or children who would have desperately welcomed a place to nap.
It's not a circular argument because it wasn't an argument at all. It was a fairly conservative opinion.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14944077
I discovered Tcl and Tk a few months back. Spent a few days poking around and experimenting. At first I was incredibly impressed, and amazed I hadn't even heard of it before. But once I started digging deeper, the poor docs turned me off.

If anyone is interested in seeing a recent app example, check out git-gui [0]. It's bundled with git.

[0] http://repo.or.cz/w/git-gui.git
Ask HN: Do you get more done working longer hours?
I've been wrestling with this idea for a while that pulling long hours at the office doesn't increase the chances of us meeting a deadline. For whatever reason there's rarely more than 4 hours in the day that I write solid working code. The other hours are either meetings or replying to emails. The latter I mostly skip and read HN or Reddit.

What's your experience? Can an engineering team be successful only working 4-5 hour days?
In general we always get to -rc6 to -rc8 before we do a release, with perhaps -rc7 being the most common. Since the merge window (before -rc1) is two weeks, this translates to a two month release cycle. So using a time-based release cycle paradigm, -rc3 isn't _that_ late, although as I acknowledged in another comment in this thread, it was a bit marginal.

(And by the way it's "Ts'o", but the wrong spelling is all over the Internet at this point.)
You are not most people on Airbnb. I've rented pretty amazing places on fresh profiles. And really, it's not as if the idea that online rating systems are unhelpful is new to anyone.
I'm not sure your observation of of "white trash", "redneck", and "trailer rats" not suffering from systemic racial discrimination is an accurate one. I for one can assure you that people know how to suss out the difference and it starts at a young age.
a nice comfy couch could do
It's perfectly possible to do these things without throwing away your TV, you just need to have self control.
Hmm, can your example really be called an externality? Real estate price rises as a reaction to the economic activity in question?

I'd say it fails the definition "cost or benefit that affects a party who did not choose to incur that cost or benefit", particularly at the part "party who did not choose to incur".

Finding prices higher in an area, when choosing to purchase or not purchase, doesn't match that IMO.
But where and how? If you don't have one at all, when you make a more deliberate decision to, how do you?

I'm all for demoting the object in terms of rooms, but if you rid your house of it completely I'm not sure what you mean by deciding what, where, and how to watch television?
Youtube has live streams and recordings, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrgR2AqH5cA
I NEED naps. It's just how I'm built. I can feel my I.Q. going down when I need a nap. After a quick nap, my I.Q. feels much improved.

Storytime: I once interviewed for job in Delaware. It was exhausting. I did great in the interviews, but my mind was burned out after all the technical questions. So I asked if they had a spot where I could nap for a few minutes. They were a bit puzzled, but showed me to a spot where I could sit in a chair and lean back to nap. It was great and I got the job - it wasn't till months later that they mentioned they almost didn't hire me because of the nap incident during the interview!

So, I do recommend naps at work, but I'd say not everyone will understand if you nap at your first onsite interview. YMMV ;)

Fortunately attitudes seem to finally be changing about sleep and brain optimization.
No. The partner model is different. Tech companies are keeping talent on the bench. McKinsey and co turn over hardworking younglins.
Speaking as a former commercial pilot - the training involved in getting to that seat involved SO much immersion in emergency situations, that it became pretty much a habitual response to react in a methodological fashion.

We often joked that we should have got a 50% discount on the twin engine training component during flight school because we spent more time flying around on one engine instead of two!

Personally, I don't think I used to handle emergency situations well before I did my flying training. There was no neural plan to approach a problem in a sensible way. AFTER I completed my 12 month long commercial pilot course though, I had a whole new way to approach a critical problem, with a view to assessing, managing, controlling, eliminating and processing it.

I guess it is the same with people trained in the military, police, medical first responders etc. You become accustomed to seeing the parts of the problem that are outside your control, and parts that you can effect an immediate difference. You also learn to ignore the 'noise' and to quickly change your course of action and decision making as soon as you realise you are on the wrong track.

It is certainly something that can be learned/taught, I believe. But you are right in that this process also essentially masks the human side of things, and can create problems later, when your core personality comes back into play and you start asking the 'what if' questions. At least, that is the way it manifests for myself personally, after the crisis is past.
Soldiers are usually highly valued but earn very little.

My father and ex husband were both career military. You are misinformed.

In the US, soldiers get relatively little cash pay because they are provided free room and board, free medical, a free burial, free life insurance, and can access a host of other free amenities for merely flashing their ID card, such as access to free legal services for some purposes. If they serve at least 20 years, they get a retirement check for life. If you join at age 18, as most soldiers do, you can retire as early as age 38 and readily pursue a second career. Unless you were maimed in war, you will still be young and able-bodied.

They can buy a house with no down payment and the federal government will help them pay for college. Military retirees tend to be in quite good financial shape. What the federal government does not give them in cash pay it more than makes up for in countless benefits.

People who say they value what you do but do not want to pay you adequately for the job are basically taking advantage. Women are routinely expected to do things out of the goodness of their hearts, because they care.

I am a woman. I have been homeless for 5.5 years. I am incredibly sick of people acting like "we love what you do!" And then not wanting to pay me anything. I have spent a lot of time deconstructing this problem space and I very much expect to get paid these days. I do a lot less giving it away for free. Because the vast majority of people expecting me to benefit them because I care absolutely do not care that I struggle to get enough to eat every month and I need money to get off the goddamn street and back into housing.

Poverty in the US is overwhelmingly an issue for women and children. If we valued women so much, this travesty should not be true.
Its great that they make the distinction. But I also hope that they do update standard practices as well. i.e. not allow their codebase to become un-maintainable, use good distributed VC's etc.
Functions don't need to be accessed through them symbol. A file compiler can assume that a function does not change inside a file, etc. Inlining and being called via a symbol are slightly different things...

I would also think that lexical functions are not called via symbols...
“Schumpeterian” entrepreneurs, those that are “creatively destroying” the old in favor of the new, are critical for breakthrough innovations and rapid advances in productivity and standards of living.

Awesome term, explained in a referenced paper[0] as one of the following:

1. A new product.

2. A new method of production.

3. A new market.

4. A new supply of raw materials or components.

5. The re-organization of an industry.

The question, then, would be "what isn't covered by Schumpeterian?" .. rent-seeking only?

[0] http://www.colorado.edu/ibs/es/alston/econ4504/readings/Baum...
Do you have a cached copy?
Why is it problematic? Why does every field of endeavor have to be exactly 50/50? I'm honestly asking, because I don't believe that at all.
>where this forum is based thus my reasonable presumption

The 16th word in the post you responded to was "Reykjavik".
Second line, first sentence. The post contains the word Iceland once and the word Reykjavik twice. There is only so much I can do to help you on this front.
This was one of the awesome things about switching to Soylent for lunch. I'd sip it at my desk around my lunch break, and close my door during lunch for an hour of glorious shuteye.
No, value in general is not expressed through money, only market value. For some things they correlate, for others not at all.

The reason a nanny makes very little is because of supply and demand. On the supply side most young women can become nannies, it requires no special education. Demand wise people would not hire them if their cost approached what the parent that would otherwise stay home makes.

At the same time you entrust your children, that you doubtless value more than anything in the world, to the nanny.

Same with midwives. The "value" they create is infinite, their salaries are not, mostly because it is not _that_ difficult to become one, so if the supply is low you can just raise the salary slightly and demand would catch up. You could even argue that the _economic_ value they create is many times what they earn. Without midwives a significant proportion of children would not survive, and GDP would fall appreciably. Yet they can not bargain with that, since they don't have a monopoly. If they won't deliver children, someone else will. That is not true for olympic sprinters or Fortune 500 CEOs, the supply of talent is so much smaller.

On the other hand you have particle physicists and accomplished poets. The supply of them is also very low, but so is the demand. I also suspect that neither group is very income sensitive, they do what they do because they have to, not because it pays more than something else.

Clearly income and value are very different things.
I'm not sure siphoning off wealth by printing dollars is really a thing. China for example has become vastly wealthier over the last few decades while selling stuff in return for dollars, rather than having anything siphoned off.
The Forgotten Steinwinter Supercargo Is Unlike Anything on the Road Today
I am interested in this as well.
The article lumps few different scenarios under the sensationalist "look, ppl are making shit ton of $$$ and are barely working!!!" umbrella.

None of the scenarios are unique to SV or even IT world in general, the only "shock factor" is the compensation figures.

But again, most of the scenarios are pretty typical to corporate environments. Unless you're on some "kick ass all-star" team, once you start growing you can cruise if you choose to.

What struck me as odd is the "Just don’t talk about it and everyone will assume you're on someone else’s team" bit. Can't really picture an environment where a person doesn't show up the next day and everyone just "assumes" they are on a different team now...
I love it when people link slides -- it is much more accessible than video!
I read it, nearly the entire thing is junk. Feel free to waste your time with it, but it's a very lazy article with an agenda, northern academics writing about a London the know little about.
>You're simply demonstrating NIMBYism.

Reducing something to a term doesn't negate it. There are many things which, if they start happening in your back yard, you would have valid reasons to object to and work against. Yet you could call all of them NIMBYism. So what? That's not shorthand for wrong.

The neighbourhood around you turning into a transient state where your neighbours change on a daily basis? To me that's a valid cause for concern. To others, young professionals renting in a busy city and moving every 6-12 months? Probably not so much.

Both positions are valid and deserving of consideration.
That's probably the best way. It may be multimedia but YouTube is still pretty much book learning. That said, lack of people doesn't need to imply difficult circumstances. Camping out by yourself for a week doesn't need to imply living off the land, etc.
> But what is the exact mechanism that is making it so finance and tech are among the only fields where labor compensation is commensurate with leveraged value-add?

What makes you think labor compensation in tech is commensurate with the leveraged value-add? I think you're generalizing too broadly.

The vast majority of tech workers, even at the "Big Names", are not anywhere near a position where they can "rest and vest". Also their compensation per unit of added value really isn't comparable to their similarly skilled/socially connected peers in finance. A "rest and vest" Google Engineer whose blood, sweat, and tears made Google a multi-billion dollar product might make in the very low 7 figures per year, while a moderately skilled investment banker earning his bank tens of millions of dollars in a year might make a similar salary.
Guy Steele: Cool Ideas (Dan Friedman's 60th Birthday)
Could have open plan, with a quiet room.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14651287
>>> a = [1]
>>> a += (2,)
>>> a
[1, 2]

>>> b = (1,)
>>> b += [2]
TypeError

It's an oddity that an immutable type cannot be mutated in place?
I didn't mean to say they are slacking, just that it's funny over here the first thing we would think is 'slacker', but the idea of interpreting it as slacking just doesn't cross their mind.
Could you provide more information on which documentation you found poor ? Tcl certainly has a lot of it, in the official manual pages for everything as well as the wiki.
Section 6 of GPLv3 gives several options for how a purveyor must provide the source code. I haven't personally checked through the entire list and seen whether any method is provided by this project -- I'm sure someone else has the free time to go write up an email about it.

My comment was responding to someone saying that even if someone gave you code they authored under GPLv3, that you couldn't expect them to honour the terms of the license.

As an aside, I just noticed that the license text on their website is not a verbatim copy of the GPLv3 license text (which is not permitted). In particular, it's missing the copyright, version, date, and the epilogue that describes how to use the license for your own works.
It depends on your setup. The default when no size is given is to use half the RAM.
>it's so fascinating to people it almost always starts a conversation

This is very true, but the outcome is usually negative and alienating to the subject of the discussion (me).
Thanks for pointing this out!(I was on my phone) I just resubmitted the article

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14944129
I don't think its that surprising. Essentially what happens is, engineers do a good job and keep getting promoted. If their service is required/essential, they continue to get funding etc. until they reach such a stage that they know their systems through and through. They're also at a point in their lives where other things take priority (most of the times its children).

I don't particularly find this situation to be bad. They are doing the tasks assigned to them, and there is a defacto agreement with the management that they have other things to take care of as well, but will get a ton of shit done when they do work.
The way the western Media reports on this continent is downright negligent. It's misleading and honestly hinders the world's perception of the reality here.

I'm in West Africa right now, moving South, and it boggles my mind to see how the world reports on "Africa".

Every day people ask me questions online and I read articles about "Africa" - so many people genuinely think it is one "place" a can be all lumped together. Because of that people assume that for example if there is war in South Sudan, then "Africa" is very dangerous. Or drought in Northern Kenya means "Africa" is desperate for water.
They have no understanding there are over a billion people living in 54 separate countries spread out by tens and tens of thousands of miles.

If there was war or a nasty disease breakout in Northern Oregon would it be dangerous to visit Costa Rica? of course not.
If you like a good ATC video, I love how calmly the pilot and controller react to this birdstrike: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KhZwsYtNDE
Or maybe that's because there's actually a scientific consensus that there's no biological races so to speak : http://www.americananthro.org/ConnectWithAAA/Content.aspx?It...
That makes no sense. What is the opposite of autism? Please give a citation, because I've never heard of this condition you speak of.

The scale exists because it's a scale of severity in diagnostic criteria. The scale exists to distinguish between "non-verbal and incapable of ever caring for oneself" to "experiences impairment but can generally hold a job and live independently". It's not a scale of how good you are at finding boxes in colored square pictures.

Frankly it's kind of insulting to imply autism is just a grouping of logical behaviors and anyone who is good at those things has some "level" of autism. It's a disability. I got picked on, I got mocked, I struggled to understand basic things and it took me a lot longer than my peers to get this communication thing down.

Besides, if programmers had enough incidence of autism to justify this level of imbalance, would pair programming really be a thing? (this was a joke).
I don't think this is nearly universal - certainly none of the systems I use have /tmp as tmpfs.

/dev/shm, on the other hand, is almost always guaranteed to be a tmpfs on glibc systems.
I often default to taking people literally. Because of that, people who don't like me sometimes suggest I am autistic as a faux polite way of publicly calling me a social retard.

Although ASD individuals are prone to being very literal, I have observed two other types of people who tend to do that.

The first are people from low context cultures, where you say what you mean and mean what you say. Except for certain aspects of military intelligence and information security, military culture is generally like this. My father and ex husband were both career military. So, I tend towards being blunt and direct. Some people find this refreshing. Others find it abhorrent.

The other group of people that I have observed as tending to be very literal and taking people at their word is people with PhDs. Less educated people routinely leap to conclusions that are rooted in personal bias. People with sufficient education tend to consider only the facts in evidence. They aren't stupid and they aren't unaware of the fact that there may be additional facts not currently in evidence. But they are less prone to shitty, prejudiced behaviors that are the lifeblood of sexism, racism, etc.

So, I am not at all confident that the way ASD individuals think is a) unique to them or b) evidence of mental defect.

I am highly skeptical of the degree to which all sorts of differences get labeled and medicalized and framed as a defect. They used to do this to homosexuals. IIRC, homosexuality is no longer officially listed as a mental disorder (aka form of insanity).

So, while I know that a battery of tests can cast light on certain things, I still fail to see why this specific test is seen as indicative of being on the spectrum.
In fact it does do something for polar launches, but it's bad. Being close to the equator means cancelling out more rotational velocity to go into a polar orbit.
Really curious about self discharge. We make super low power wireless systems and one of the best parts of alkaline is that they are effectively shelf-stable unlike most lithium chemistries that loose a lot to leakage. For phones, tablets, computers etc, this is fine since the charge/discharge cycle is frequent, but for applications were devices are either sleeping most of their life or are off most of their life, low self discharge is huge. Hoping for the holy grail for this application in this but not holding my breath as it always seems that breakthroughs are never in the market...
This is a great article. Little puzzles like these are often the gateways to enormous mathematical journeys. Here, I only wished the journey was more detailed -- you could motivate all of these operations -- but that would take many pages.
Perhaps it's simply this country was founded and built by White Males.
This is awesome! I wanted to do this for a procedural generation algorithm during a game jam but didn't have the time to figure it out.
Yeah, git and fossil and whatnot was all much later.
I carry a pen, and a neatly, uniformed folded piece of paper in my wallet. Folded to open like a book, accordion like. When I'm done with it, I open it up and file that sheet of paper for a while just In case I need it. My pen is a G2 0.7 in a machined brass body.
Allowing a reasonable number of consecutive actions might help, too. Like if I want to go forward two steps and turn 90 degrees to the right, I could send "wwddd." Not as necessary in Twitch Plays Pokemon, but could do wonders here.

But as mentioned, it would have to be capped to some number to prevent abuse.