skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I struggled for years after being diagnosed with ADHD in elementary school. My parents didn’t believe in medication so I was never out on anything, which I am thankful for.

After struggling tremendously with math and social interactions as well as school in general, I spiraled into deep depression. I was bullied, something which I now blame on my lack of normal social defenses. People would say things to me and I would become overwhelmed and shocked and unable to respond. Normal teenagers seem to be quick with comebacks, it literally takes me days to figure out what I should say or how I should react to common scenarios like off comments.

It took me over a decade to get out of it. I recently began reading about the symptoms of aspergers and nearly everything fit.

Extremely high and inappropriate language skills e.g. using words that I really shouldn’t, check. Inability to detect and respond appropriately to emotions. Dyscalculia (inability to do math), something that can be associated with aspergers.

I watched some videos of some people who had been through similar situations and likewise fallen into depression upon hitting the social conditions that occur in teenage years.

It now makes sense why I have to plan my facial expressions before I get Starbucks. If I don’t, I have this horrible death stare and scare the shit out of people.

What really depresses me still to this day is just how sensitive most people in society are to aspergers. Once people detect there is something off about you, you are done. It happens within minutes.

There is nothing I can really do, I can only imagine how many relationships and life experiences Inhave missed due to being rapidly discarded by my peer group due to these kinds of eccentricities.
The general scholarly and scientific consensus is that the work is not rigorous, objective, or scientific. If you challenge this take it up with the scholars.
If you just need a transportation appliance, you should only even be considering used Honda/Toyota. If you're buying an image or a driving experience, touchy maintenance and expensive repairs tend to come with the territory.
Re "I suppose this isn't nearly as good as 4e10 flat sheets with 1 atom separation between each" - I guess it should be better, actually, now that I happened to notice 10+16 < 28. I got confused about whether my reference point was the basic cube or the flat sheet.
Cancer is physical, autism is psychological. It's possible to diagnose somebody who does not have autism with autism. If somebody has a cancerous growth - which is what defines cancer, it is not possible to falsely diagnose them with cancer. If somebody had a benign growth removed and called it cancer, yes I would think it was being thrown around too lightly.
people's desire to have kids is like how many react to religion: it's beaten into our brains from a very young age that it's the right thing to do

Wow, your first world privilege is showing, and not in a good way. You have to really believe deeply in the idea that everyone has access all the time to reliable birth control in order to think that. Historically, babies happened because sex felt good and birth control was unreliable or unavailable. In large parts of the world, this is still true.

For most of human history, having children or not having children wasn't really a choice. It more or less happened if you were fertile and sexually active, like it or not. We had cultural traditions like shot gun weddings to accommodate that fact.

It's only very recently that any significant part of the world had any real choice. To this day, in many places, having children is something you do so someone will take care of you in old age because there is no retirement system.

There are so many confounding factors here that I don't know how anyone can imagine we have a good handle on the role of individual psychology here at all.
"Pretty much nothing will accurately predict how well someone is going to do on the job."

^ this is a doggone well-phrased and accurate summation of the challenge of team-building. Raw capability is by no means a predictor of how well someone'll work with the organization.
I'm afraid you're actually engaging in the Ship of Theseus problem there. Your conclusion about why the Ship of Theseus is not actually a paradox is the very point of the parable. Another person might suggest that objects really are things. In fact, I would. If you replaced every atom in my body with a different atom of the same type, would I still be me? I would argue yes, that you've not made an identical copy of me. You're clearly taking a philosophical position on the meaning of the parable, yet pretending you're not doing philosophy in the process. It seems that's what a lot of people in this thread chain are doing, assuming their interpretation is the correct one and that philosophy is therefor BS to even ask the question. Everyone does philosophy all the time, but some people do it completely uninformed of the thousands of years of debate we've had on it.
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You should learn 3D in general, and then the platform APIs.

Contrary to popular belief, OpenGL wasn't never the universal 3D API outside the PC world.

Games consoles and some embedded stuff always favoured their own.

Also the APIs are very low level.

So when you finish doing a scenegraph, font, texture, materials, math, shader management, physics, frame management, UI, Mesh loader, the actual conversion of triangles into pixels is a tiny portion of the overall code.
Thanks. Since you mentioned public speaking, I would also strongly recommend Toastmasters as a way to improve your public speaking and overcoming-anxiety skills. I've personally tried it, and it really helped.
I think you missed the part where I said that Git intentionally _doesn't_ take a stance. Or rather, it defers the commitment, a bit like Schrodinger in regard to his cat. I guess what we agree on is that the problem goes away (kind of) as soon as that deferred commitment is made — but the problem goes away only for that particular instance, not in general.

What I'm arguing is that dismissing these philosophical problems as just nonesense rooted in the vagueness of language is missing the point. If nothing else, these paradoxes lay bare the vagueness of language, but moreover they beg the question of why language is so vague. What's more, it turns out that making language more precise — as we've tried to do with computers and mathematics — doesn't seem to solve the problems at all. In fact, it seems to lead to even more trouble, as, for example, the designers of Subversion or Mercurial eventually discovered.
Andy Pasztor published unfounded speculation that the highly classified Zuma mission was a SpaceX failure.[0] It certainly was not and is believed to be a Northrop Grumman failure.[1]

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-spy-satellite-believed-lost...

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/probes-point-to-northrop-grumma...
IT or cybersecurity both benefit from CS (cybersecurity especially, since that's basically just CS/IT + read the news / some sec feeds + basic risk assessment and management).

the good thing about IT for you in particular is that scripting is so important to it that it might sharpen your programming skills enough to incline you back toward software engineering. sysadmin scripting is obviously less theoretically demanding than most software engineering tasks, but you can get the satisfaction of solving real problems (relatively) quickly using code--and knowing basic CS principles will only help, as long as you're open to learning the practical realities of IT, which often strain to breaking the idealistic assumptions many CS people have about how systems work and where/why they fail.
Re implicits and their interplay with macros: Achieving 3.2x Faster Scala Compile Time

Diagnostics:

- A method takes an implicit parameter to be filled in by the compiler

- the Scala compiler synthesizes an argument for that parameter using macros

- instead of using an existing value in the implicit scope

Conclusion: that's why a small source file took so long to typecheck.

Details at https://jobs.zalando.com/tech/blog/achieving-3.2x-faster-sca...
So leasing wins if you've already decided to pour money out the window? I see that you said buying used and older makes far more sense; which means we are probably on the same page. However, is that really the only selling point for leasing? If so, how in the world do so many folks get suckered into doing it?
This may be a little out of the box, but have you considered teaching English? As long as you have a college degree (in any field) and are a native speaker, you could work as an English teacher in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, etc. pretty easily.
Pocket does so to my Kobo ;)
CRAM: Efficient Hardware-Based Memory Compression for Bandwidth Enhancement
I agree polish (user experience) is very important in winning people over. We think the worst user experience is between product categories in the DevOps lifecycle. Having to switch between JIRA, GitHub, circleCI, Artifactory, Ansible, and New Relic. We want to create a better flow. Therefore we have to balance polishing what we have with completing out vision of a single application for the DevOps lifecycle.
The quoted price for the last used car I bought was a hair under what any third-party pricing resource said it should be, so I accepted. I then learned where the dealer profit margin lives - in a very aggressive upsell to a $2500 maintenance package.
High performance networking in Chrome
To rebuttal your statements, I seem need to reveal a lot of technical details. You did not mention what type of software you were open sourcing when you were in Google. But it seems our overlap in knowledge is rather small.

I'll leave this open.

But I want to emphasize that what I stated are reasonable reasons for open sourcing by writing from scratch.
I would add 'brand' as one of their most unassailable competitive advantages.
That is the most frank yet loving description of philosophy I have read. Bookmarked.
> Is there a non-compact black hole? :-) :-) :-)

Yes. The radius of a black hole increases linearly with mass. Supermassive black holes can actually have really small average densities.
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I'm sorry about that. Maybe you can switch tracks without losing what you've already accomplished.

There's a paper by Phillip Guo about conversational programmers. These are people who do not program, but seek to learn programming so that they can be better at some non-programming task.

He's got three papers one this topic, but you're most interested in this one: http://pgbovine.net/publications/conversational-programmers-...

Particularly look at table 2, which is a summary of the motives of conversational programmers.
No link to article.
> it's like the cognitive part of your brain just isn't connected to the emotional part

I have this problem. Most of the time I call it autism for convenience although I know it isn't accurate. Deficient/Immature emotional processing is a better phrase that is more accurate.

I think that development issues in the psyche can lead to delays in areas like emotional processing and theory of mind. Oftentimes I have to simulate emotions because I don't feel them in myself and others. The good thing is that I've become very good at analyzing people and their motivations using knowledge of psychology - it's all conscious. I can understand people better on a rational level because my explanations incorporate negative thoughts people may have about themselves without realizing them (negative unconscious thoughts - mostly fear and anxiety). But I have to allow myself explicitly to feel something because my emotional regulation is very high - I think this stems from fear.

There's a wish to control social situations to feel safe. Maybe individuals who have this problem had negative social experiences because their perceptions were off in such situations and they realized that their assessments were wrong which lead to a deficit in self-esteem. To an untrained eye, this may look like autistic behavior, but it's mostly based on anxiety and a deficit in emotional processing.

It's possible to overcome that, but I have to admit that it has positive effects: I don't get emotional easily, I can control social situations and I don't feel fear or embarrassment. Feeling is a choice and having empathy feels like a tool. Sounds sociopathic to me (autistic people also have sociopathic symptoms), so I don't really wish this to anybody.
I didn’t have any trouble understanding it, it just doesn’t make any sense whatsoever and objectively wouldn’t have worked, at massive cost to their reputation. The is conspiracy nonsense worse than UFO believers and 9/11 deniers.
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Yes well FinFETs and other non planar transistors are very different from what's being discussed here. Interestingly, FinFETs actually do suffer from a bit of a self heating effect although this usually isn't a problem for AC operation.
What are those? Do you mean something like thermal "dummy" vias?
It will be interesting to try out implicits in the upcoming Twitter's Reasonable Scala Compiler [0]

According to [1] a working version will be ready before originally planned:

> Recently, Stu Hood came up with a groundbreaking idea. He suggested
> that Rsc can become useful much earlier that we initially thought.

[0] https://github.com/twitter/rsc

[1] https://github.com/twitter/rsc/commit/ebc3019c06c9e175311541...
We have only the timeline we live in. Praising the impact and efforts of anyone for anything can be attacked as affirming the consequent.
You raise some very valid arguments, but every powerful incumbent seems unstoppable right until they're stopped. The same case for why you shouldn't compete with Github now applied to, eg, MySpace. No product is eternal; someday Github will fade and be replaced, and we'll be having a discussion about how pointless to compete with their successor is instead. :)

...that being said, I don't think SourceForge is the product to supplant Github. But I think that says more about SourceForge that it does Github.
Real world software development work has almost nothing to do with the types of exercises you're likely doing. Focus on solving practical problems and making software that provides value to people, not brain-teaser, CS-heavy exercises.
Reminds me of https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview
Fun fact: the through silicon via was invented by William Shockley himself
Why RISC-V and not e.g. Arm? Why is RISC-V better than x86 from AMD? Serious questions, I have no idea about these topics and would love to learn more.
What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT?
Sounds like an anxiety disorder more than a technical issue, if you have a CS degree you would most likely not have trouble with easy problems given a clear state of mind.
Fabric isn't Ethereum-based. It's the next most active smart contract platform, but way behind in developer interest.
What exactly are the arguments for that statement?
"You can't possibly expect to compete with Switzerland and the US on technology when salaries are two to three times lower in Canada"

Maybe if Canadian companies paid competitively the talent would stay.

Point being, that's an issue of equilibrium.

The problem in my mind is product leadership. Canada has ample technical talent, but few are thinking in brand, product marketing terms etc., also, there's a weird open relationship with the US. The US provides stability, and opportunity for people to develop, but they have to leave so. So the US-CAN symbiosis basically turns Canada into a 'nice suburb' where things are generally very good, but there's nothing very important happening. The talent/exceptional things happen south of the border.

But in the context of migration, it's definitely an odd paradox that as 'cultural diversity' increases, that 'industrial diversity and sophistication' decreases. They may not be drivers of each other though ... the later may be a function of globalization, NAFTA etc..
There already is an option to set this, at /profile/preferences:

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Perhaps it's a simple question of obtaining credit for any supplier quality issues, which is common practice in automotive. No need for the author (or anyone here) to posture this as an act of desperation.
I don't know if this helps, but I personally find coding interview practice sites/problems to be extremely boring, difficult, not fun, and frustrating to work on. I'm saying this as a 13-years-of-experience software engineer; I've been called a rock star or ninja or something similar in almost every company and team I've worked in (big and small), and throughout my entire career and the numerous times I've job-hunted, I have never passed a single interview that involved those types of questions. (I've interviewed at both Google and Facebook, both more than once, at different points of my career, with no success) I pretty much always end up at a company where I had a really easy interview and we just talked about my experience and projects. I am (I'd like to think; and I think my coworkers mostly agree) good at everything involved in a software engineering job (building things, architecting things, communication, working well with others), but I absolutely cannot solve those whiteboard interview problems, especially during the interview.

I saw that itamarst posted a link for a list of companies who don't do "whiteboard interviews" type of questions. If you believe you're a good dev and can build stuff and just hate those interviews, I would encourage you to start there and try interviewing at those companies and land your first professional job, and see if you're really cut out for a software engineer role.
Looks great. I suggest charging more!
Don't the direct-sales showrooms also need staff?
I had a very similar experience to yours within the last 18 months - in my late 20s.

Tragedy, for me, opened up an emotional view that was blunted for so long. Immediately my relationship with everyone around me, especially my family, changed -- for the better, that is.

I consider it to be a very beneficial and important part of my personal development over the last few years.
Thanks, I’ll have to check that out too. Just bought The Inner Game of Tennis and read up past the introduction. Seems like it will be very insightful.
They have both SaaS and self-hosting options which cost considerable amount of cash ($99/mo per user for the most expensive option) for any large scale deployment. They're earning plenty and they need to fix what is valuable to their customers.
I have mild autism. I found a job I love where I just talk about math and computers all day.

When I was a child, it was far worse though. Just like the author, all my life I’ve learned through experience how to talk and I started so many fights as s child and hurt so many friends with my words. The worst part is that those things still haunt me, I regularly lose sleep because I remember somethibg weird I did as a teenager, finally figure out why it was weird, and feel like shit.

This fear of doing or saying something bad still keeps me away from social gatherings. When I feel like I don’t get any feedback on how I’m performing I often bail.
I doubt that Fabrice Bellard is getting a lot of money for his work. The money in open source goes to adding a feature in widely used projects. New projects have no users, so nobody to pay money.
Wait, you’re from the Dead Hackers Society? Holy #$%*!, you guys are legends on the ST!
But... Tesla confirmed the story.

They literally said that they WERE seeking price reductions for past contracts.

Is this really the hill to die on? A story that was confirmed by the direct source that this was regarding.
Lots of people seem to do just fine subsistence farming in mud huts, too. Doesn't mean I want to live like that.
Only one HUGE logical problem. C.S. Lewis wasn't a Evangelical Christian he was Anglican

What's the logical problem here? The article doesn't claim C.S. Lewis was an Evangelical (it's not about C.S. Lewis at all) nor does it claim Postman was one.
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This alone tells me that "consciousness" is an ill-defined term.

> Can/do laws of physics account for it?

Either you define the word in such a way that they can, or the discussion becomes meaningless.

I think fundamental point often missed when discussing this topic (and similar philosophical issues) is that a thing can be either measurable in principle (even if not with our current understanding or technology), or it doesn't exist and there's no meaning in asking about it. I arrive at this statement through following chain of reasoning: there is no sense talking about things that do not impact observable reality in any way, since the world will be identical with and without them (and thus there's no way to assert those things exist, as opposed to e.g. an infinite family of similar-but-not-quite-the-same things). And if a thing does impact observable reality, then - in principle - we should be able to observe its impact, and that opens it up for measurement and understanding, and thus puts it squarely in the domain of physics.

So for the term "consciousness" to be meaningful, it must be defined in a way that it makes a physical difference in the world. Some bit in a brain must go to 0 if you have a consciousness, whereas it must go to 1 if you are a p-zombie. If there's no possible way to - even in principle - differentiate between a conscious mind and a p-zombie, it implies that both terms are nonsense (and also useless).

INB4 uncertainty principle - it doesn't mean there are things that can't be measured hidden behind some "quantum veil"; it means that this is where our usual conceptual models (like position and momentum being separate qualities) break down and no longer correspond well to reality.
First off, if you're beating yourself up because you cannot do these Leetcode, Project Euler stuff - stop it. You will probably not be the best algorithms developer, but who cares?

Don't sit around and say, "Where can I go from here?". No matter where you are, figure out where you want to go. And 9 times out of 10, the skills you have accrued in your life will be of some value. That is my experience, anyways.
It's not uncorroborated. Tesla confirmed the main claim, which was that they were seeking price reductions for past contracts.
"Your web-browser doesn't support important security features required for µPad v3 to function" is the message that greet you when you access the app in Edge.

Which security features are Edge lacking in this regard?
Try small vs small on any of the images and it's a vast difference in quality, especially with any backgrounds or gradients.
If you have a Costco membership and buy cars through them they always send you to the fleet or wholesale section of the dealership. There isn't any negotiation with fleet sales but their price is almost always at invoice or a few hundred less. In fact for one of the cars I bought through Costco the fleet sales guy threw in a manufacturers discount of $2k in addition to giving me a base price of about $500 below invoice.
Once you have enough wealth to control the media, you've "made it". You could say that people like Putin have accomplished that. So it's not that rich people want more money because it allows them to consume more. I assume it is because more wealth allows them to control other people.
Socializing with AI is the new trend
As to technical interviews I've always believed the rule was: ask a silly question, get a silly (but still enlightening) answer. That series of blog posts is the height of this precept.
I mean surpass GitHub in both usage and revenue.