skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just wondering what the source is for Stallman being autistic? I see people saying he's autistic, and I even see people saying he has called himself "borderline autistic", but that's not quite the same thing as a diagnosis

If you understand the concept of the broad autism phenotype (BAP), it is hard not to see it in his behaviour. He obviously has autistic traits.

Now, is it BAP (sub-clinical ASD) or is it clinical ASD? Nobody can answer that unless they are actually a qualified diagnostician (psychiatrist/psychologist/etc) personally evaluating him.

But I'm not sure how much that matters. The boundary between BAP and ASD is vague, it varies from clinician to clinician and is changing over time.

If you choose to view things dimensionally [0] rather than categorically, you have "super-neurotypical" people at one extreme, you have "severe ASD" at the other [1]. And somewhere in between the two, you draw a line (the diagnostic cutoff), and say people on one side of the line have "mild ASD" and people on the other side of the line don't have ASD. And the people who are on the "neurotypical" side of the line, but still close to it rather than far away, that's BAP.

And I think the point is that RMS obviously is somewhere near that line, whichever side of it he may belong on. (And as I said, the line doesn't have a single fixed location anyway, he might be on one side given some clinicians' ways of drawing it and on the other given others'.)

[0] I've drawn an oversimplified one-dimensional model here. In reality ASD is a multidimensional construct. But, treating it one-dimensionally is a simplification which aids in explanation

[1] I know some people don't like phrases like "mild ASD" or "severe ASD" (or their close relatives "low functioning" and "high functioning"), but how else do you explain the difference between someone diagnosed with "ASD Level 1 / Level 1 without intellectual or language impairment" and someone else who is diagnosed with "ASD Level 3 / Level 3 with intellectual impairment and language impairment"?
In fairness, I overstated. They used “mental deficiency” as a weapon. Equating use of a competing product, the commons, as a sign of mental deficiency. Not necessarily illness.

Source document: http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/Comes-3096.pdf

I’ve lost my edit button on the original post so putting the correction here.
In this situation nothing was a death sentence, so impact was not exactly negative.
I am guessing they don't join such meetings due to IR35 concerns?
It is a waste of effort: the effort of building the pub that was standing there before being demolished.

What the order to rebuild did was place the cost of it on the correct party.
In the extreme, it totally is. It's important to be right about the important things; it's nice to be right about irrelevant details too, but it's not nearly as important as maintaining a strong network of collaborators.
The average person isn’t being held in a cage against their will, explicitly a charge of society, ostensibly for the purpose of rehabilitation, and widely understood to be under heightened threat of violence.
At least in my social circle, the handshake was pretty much extinct long before covid.
The "bad path" you're describing is what I and many others like about working in software. When I'm meeting with other technical people, we can have a frank discussion about problems we're facing and solutions to them, which comes much more naturally to me than constantly analyzing the feelings and relative status of everyone in the room. I completely understand why other people prefer more empathy-driven conversational norms, and I try to meet them halfway when I can, but I can't support the idea that their preference is fundamentally superior to mine.
From where did you get the 8 digits you clown?
React Divider
> I'm asking you a genuine question. I note you didn't call RMS out by name, but you certainly seem to be imply it.

I don't think the question is interesting or relevant, so I'm not answering it. I explained that I considered the question to be a loaded question. If you want me to answer a question, you will have to ask a different one.

> ...as far as I can tell, most of the time RMS genuinely has no idea when he is being offensive.

Someone who genuinely has no idea when he is being offensive should not be at the head of an organization like the FSF. "Mens rea" is a term from criminal law. It's used for figuring out the difference between murder and manslaughter, for example. It's not relevant to figuring out whether you are good or bad at your job.
Wikipedia was tied up in a code documentation license (GFDL) that didn't really make sense for it. Stallman allowed it to be relicensed into creative commons, someone else's baby.

Many people in the same position would have let their ego take control and keep it under the license they created or were most associated with out of pride.
The goal of marketing is to get product in front of the right audience. The proposed solution you mention would include plenty of folks who don’t convert. That would likely create less effective results for marketing.

Also, what would you use to monitor user behavior to improve your product if third party tracking is frowned upon?
No matter the reasons for his way of thinking, but maybe we shouldn’t have a person whose definition of freedom includes raping children on the board of a organization that promotes software freedom.
GPUs, probably...
I agree, but I'd note that Stallman was head of the FSF in part because he would never drop the principles no matter what the stakes.
I’ve worked for multiple FAANGs and can assure you that all have considered file names to be PII. Pretty much anything that contains user input should be treated as PII.
How’s that working out?
Dear Mr. Madoff69,

I believe that your analysis has flaws. It would be quite awkward on social media to use the a more formal way of addressing people. Twitter and other platforms have a "style" of conversation and trying to fit the square peg of formal writing into the round hole of internet conversation sounds stilted. I do not understand why you think corporations would decide to do that, no matter what their intentions are.

I humbly await your response.

Yours Truly,
Mr. rPlayer

P.S. I hope your Grandmother is doing well. Please send my regards.

P.P.S. Please invest in my new cloud computing blockchain biotech startup where we sell NFTs.
I do hope Backblaze will address this in the morning.
I did. Just off to try it now
"(it also looks like you might have to preallocate vs pay on demand)"

Technically you do have to pre-allocate, but it works like pay-on-demand because:

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We can increase the size of your filesystem at any time, with no downtime involved - so there is no need to overbuy in anticipation of future usage.

Further, you are granted a +10% grace at all times, so you always have some room to grow.

Finally, the system automatically emails you as you get close to your limit, so there is never an unexpected filling of space.

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They should not be prosecuted for avoidance. I think at a certain point it's fair to shame people for seeking out loopholes, even if they're technically legal. Not that they probably care.
Angular Divider
I just made a dark room in my bathroom last week to try black and white photo paper developing. The slow hard treacherous process is giving me a new appreciation for photography of the past.
I guess I do remember people talking a disposable camera to a party and then personally giving the prints to their friends weeks later. What I found in the mid 2000s was this new thought of 'what photo to take' and 'what caption to write' , Like I was my own publicist. always in an imaginary conversation with people who weren't actually around, which is more a hallmark of loneliness than of touted 'being connected to the things and people I love' ...
Free Unix (1983)
I read that graph as tracking the ratio over a decade. Yeah, during the pandemic, by all means freeze normal labor calculations and whatnot. But in the period from 2010 to 2019, as the population was slowly declining, there should have been layoffs (or, at least no new recruitment?). Somehow the staffing levels need to be grounded in reality.

And I'm with you. I could never be the axe man. But then again I could also never be a prison guard, so there's that :)
Just imagine being so clueless that you don't understand someone having a mattress in his office. “What, do you even sleep next to a computer? EWW, NERD!” And these are the people who are the loudest about their intent to steer the whole industry “the right way”. To be honest, the motto that you don't need the skill to make decisions about the work requiring that skill, or that you don't need understand people doing it (the misleadingly formulated “anti-meritocracy” ideology) could only be taken without laughing out of politeness.

And, as far as I know, the lack of mattress in the room never stopped any stereotypical harassing boss, so what's the point here exactly?
With my friends it's all about the exploding fist.
The answer, then, is to not try to judge people you don't know.

If you're not invested in someone enough to understand them, why should you be invested in them enough to try to destroy them?
Deep insight. Seriously. Happening across society.
I once wandered through a museum with a modern art collection. Several of the pieces looked like literal trash to me. I wasn't sure if the security guards were there to keep people from stealing the art or keep the janitors from taking the art out to the dumpster :-)

I get it that some people buy it as investments, hoping to find a sucker to sell it to at a higher price. But that just sounds like pump-and-dump to me. Or maybe it's rich people who have run out of fun things to do with their money.

Me, I'd rather do what Elon Musk does. I wanted to buy stock in SpaceX, but it is privately held, so I bought TSLA instead. Lucked out on that one.
Cool! Just a quick recap: resistance is futile.
Moderna and BioNTech are startup-ish. Both ~10 years old, with <1000 employees. They're not established pharmaceutical companies like Bayer (founded 100+ years ago, 100,000+ employees)
I think this entire moralistic debate is misguided. Granted, if RMS was indeed autistic, all the more reason to "judge" him more charitably. But even if he wasn't, its doesn't mean that his cancellation - based on things he might have said and, lest we forget, a smear campaign by an internet mob ignited by false accusations - was justified. RMS was one of the founders of the Free Software Movement - that is why he occupied that post at the FSF. Not because he was the epitome of high Christian morals - why would/should that be a job requirement in his line of work? Do you want righteous activists also demand they be "nice guys"? If so, time to start cancelling the very champions of cancel culture as few of them are "nice people" (which, btw, is bound to happen if history is any indication). You cannot have your cake and eat it, too...
> It's also possible to be both correct and diplomatic, and to criticize diplomatically.

Oh absolutely, but those are both totally compatible with someone who "care[s] more about being right than being diplomatic". It's if they didn't care about being diplomatic at all that they'd be an asshole.

I perceived that specific quote as referring explicitly to situations where the two are mutually exclusive, in which case I believe that being right is by far the better option in most scenarios.
Sure, they keep getting some words wrong all the time, but it is likely good enough to get the general subject of what a podcast is about.
I can be more specific. I was looking for an entry point into MTB. My experience with bikes was things that cost 100-200$ on craigslist, and initially I set a budget that would have netted me a bike-shaped object, or at least something that I would have traded up from by now. I trusted them enough to substitute their knowledge for my own, and the result is that I'm 2 years into a sport and am just now coming across aspects of my equipment that I want to change.
I'm Brazilian, and in 40 years I lived in different cities there: Recife, Maceio, Rio de Janeiro and now in Brasilia.

Interesting thing is, I think the sky from Brasilia is more blue than other cities... is this maybe because of the altitude? Recife/Maceio/RJ are from 0 altitude, but Brasilia is 1000 meters.
I was in a startup in the early aughts and had this experience. We had a telecom company that was supposedly building the "next interwebs for business". Ambitious, hard to sell to people since it was insanely complicated.

I was there at the beginning, then you start to see it. The closed founder meetings, no more team meetings. The hushed conversations at lunch. The rumor mill started to circle - VC money running out. The CEO blew all the money on coke and hookers. Nobody wants to answer basic questions like why the rollout of the new product is taking weeks and weeks to get going.

People KNOW what's going on, but nobody wants to jump off the ship, only to find out the company figures it out and all your co-workers are now millionaires and you're back at some other startup busting your ass for some unknown future.

People hang on, believing its going to happen, then you show up one day and the office is dark, the cop outside says you're not working today or tomorrow or ever really and you should go home. You hold out hope the company can pull out the nosedive, and when it doesn't, you have to go through the five stages of bereavement until you accept that it was really doomed from the start and you should have seen it but didn't want to believe this company was really just a complete façade to fleece money from some big VC firm.
> Challenging whether some particular behavior is toxic comes across as nitpicking, while challenging whether people should get in trouble for toxicity comes across as minimizing legitimately bad behaviors.

There are strategies to challenge accusations of "toxic behavior" without coming across as nitpicking. These strategies can be learned, and if you are worried about this scenario, I suggest you learn them. It is a great tragedy that dispute resolution and effective communication are poorly taught in school. These strategies are not difficult to learn, but it is much more effective to learn them in person. If you know someone who is effective at mediation and dispute resolution, see if you can ask them to demonstrate techniques and strategies for you.

There are also books. I personally recommend Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg and Crucial Conversations by Patterson, Grenny, et al. Nonviolent Communication may seem a bit hokey and the book is a bit padded out but I vouch for its effectiveness.

In the context of organizations like the GNU project, one of the ways to keep discussions about behavior sane is to have some kind of formal dispute resolution process. This can be done with a code of conduct. Here is the Python project's code of conduct as an example: https://www.python.org/psf/conduct/

Asking whether people should get in trouble for "toxicity" is kind of vague, because the term "toxic" is vague and mired in opinion. That is okay. We need vague words because we need the ability to communicate vaguely. "Vague" is not the same thing as "meaningless".
Daily Mail + Trump appointee + Fox News. It’s a trifecta.
If they track users this way it means this data is used for manipulation and extracting value. This is a nasty practice and I despise companies that do it. Only metric you should be interested is how many subscriptions you have. If you think people don't click where you want are you going to use tricks and social engineering to make them? Do you do circlejerk meetings about your funnels how you lure people in? This whole marketing culture is a cancer.
I would love to see the classic "up, down, false shake, pull back, exploding fist" become the standard used by world leaders and diplomats.

(If there's a name for this I don't know it, but hopefully it's recognizable enough to at least US readers.)
The idea that technology-lead solutions will solve the world's problems is just preposterous. Not only does semiconductor manufacturing use an enormous amount of energy, it also drives demand for rare minerals and creates horrible environmental problems (both during creation and disposal).

The only way that these solutions are currently palatable is because we have outsourced so many elements of the supply chain to other countries with lax environmental controls.

Edit: I should clarify what I mean by "technology". By that, I mean widespread use of computing-based devices.
What's that with Spotify?
In 2019 I read a statement that within the MIT media labs every women actively avoided him. That is maybe not enough to "cancel" him but speaks a clear message also.
> Its fine if to occasionally pay for some random irrelevant degree, because the cost of uneducated and unproductive population is much higher.

Is it? Imagine if everyone got a 4-year degree - you’d see a dip in productivity (due to less working years per adult), a dip in spending (due to debts), and little productivity gains due to a lack of degree-related work in general.
It takes painfully too long but there's an overall pressure in that general direction.
A plague tale.
Well either it's achievable, or your minimum wage is so grossly low that you have much bigger problems than the costs of incarceration.

You have people (mostly) locked in a building and you feed them 3 times a day. The biggest costs should be food, electricity, and labour (guards). Economies of scale bring the per-prisoner cost all the way down.
Which is why it has to be a two way street - when it comes to the product, specifically its security and performance, engineering needs to absolutely own the thing.
No has nothing to do with tax. Usually contractors have very fixed scope, they focus on doing what is in the contract. Sometimes things that come up ad-hoc like marketing requesting installation of Google tag Manager, is outside the scope of the contract. It would require a lot of giving them context, amending contract etc... It's not necessarily convenient to have to ask them to come in every time there is a problem.

Usually I try to reason with management first. If it can be resolved internally we would not include outside consultants, however if it gets serious beyond something we can handle internally we would ask outside consultant to come in.
Don’t Pass on PaaS – DevGraph
Oh I think you Mia understand, the is generates one bom, your build tooling generates a second at runtime your web server unions the two and that’s the actual machine BOM.
“Ethical Engineering” - artisan code written with a conscious
DevOps: Top Trends and Challenges for Companies in 2021
The article goes out its way to ignore the allegations of Stalman's behavior, choosing the easier to defend ground of ambiguous, or easily misunderstood, posts, so that it can mount its premise on the "wrong-think!" criticism of cancel culture.

I suspect it's less meant to be "persuasive" than it is meant to be defensive.
Nor anything unique about a Rolex. Can’t see how a purchased watch qualifies for bragging. It takes no skill, no dedication, no smarts, no gumption to open one’s wallet to purchase a watch.

The person who built the watch might have something to brag about.
I am quite sure it will be back. Give it a few years.
yes but this is the guy who didn't think he needs to give up his private jet, so although I'm sure he's will intentioned I'll not accept his pronouncements about the environment at face value, I'll check elsewhere first.
> Holmes settled the charges by paying a $500,000 fine, returning 18.9 million shares to the company, relinquishing her voting control of Theranos, and being barred from serving as an officer or director of a public company for ten years

Besides her name being synonymous with fraud, these seem like consequences to me. Also, her criminal case hasn't even taken place yet. (Scheduled for Aug 2021)
How is this a counterpoint? The above is advice to developers seeking to improve their career, not executives at large public companies making hiring policy decisions.
This hypothetical Mr X is going to take all of a week to get the entire helpdesk & IT procurement team (and every religious coworker) to avoid him and his need to criticize some aspect of their lives.

That's "toxic" because now you have a staff member who people won't communicate effectively with.
My Raspberry Pi 1 is still maintained.
Legal age of consent isn't the same as being moral. These are two separate things.

Nobody is saying we should 'cancel' Canada for having bad laws in the past.

IMO this is a really weak argument.
Exactly this. If this was possible, nobody said that this is a bad bad idea or did say but got overruled it makes me think this product is no longer safe. I'll give some time for them to publish post mortem and in the meantime will look where to move data.
I find it strange as a neurodivergent person that this person has a reputation for abusive behavior and that’s excused for him because he has celebrity in certain circles. I wouldn’t and shouldn’t be afforded that, and rightly haven’t when I’ve misunderstood how to treat others.
Alright, so only world-famous comedians can make jokes about race. How about religion? Are "normal" people allow to mock/joke about that topic without being cancelled?
An interesting development - students in LA object to returning to school buildings for the sake of being physically present https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdNO2pWrKD7IY9zPi2H...
If you won't mind a bit of unsolicited advice since you seem like a person who cares and might value it.

As someone who's interested in quantified self, etc. -- this kind of landing page is exactly what makes me think "bullshit" (and yes, in particular for Soundmind, I've clicked on it few months ago and left quickly). This is a kind of thing I hate about QS startups, I'll elaborate:

Literally the first thing it does is asking me for my email (seriously, who subscribes the first moment they get on the website?). Shiny, takes ages to scroll with useless background images and little actual information. I'd much more trust a simple single-page site which gets straight to the point -- maybe then you can convince me to subscribe.
Bitcoin and Data
And they're back. As far as I can tell, they've removed tracking. ublock is no longer blocking anything on that page, and I do not see the cd[buttonFeatures] property in headers.
Why would they? There are still to this day no downsides to a customer data leak here and there.
Maybe I've just been extraordinarily lucky in who I associate with, but no-one I would consider a potential "collaborator" (either in professional or personal life) would ever demand I be incorrect about something to suit their ideals.

I've been trying to come up with examples where that might happen and the best one I can think of is someone's young child asked you if Santa was real, but even then I'm about 50/50 on whether anyone in my social circles would care. I know at least a few who'd be pretty disgusted if I didn't tell the truth in that situation.

Now I recognise that this almost certainly is not representative of the general populace, but this is also one specific example (and the most egregious one I could come up with), whereas there's entire history courses written on the catastrophes that occur when people choose diplomacy over the right thing.
Tarsnap maybe? Not unlimited but encrypted. The author is on HN as 'cperciva'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarsnap

Recent talk with the creator:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg3NQLzMBKw
I would also love to know as I've leveraged custom events in Google Analytics fairly extensively in the past.
What counts as "neurodivergent"? Just ASD? What about other psychiatric diagnoses?

A lot of "non-autistic assholes" may have other diagnosable conditions, for example narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) or antisocial personality disorder (ASPD). Are NPD or ASPD "neurodiverse" or "neurodivergent"? They are probably partially genetic, just as ASD is probably partially genetic.