skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Other commonly classified neurodivergent diagnoses are ADHD and OCD (which along with ASD commonly overlap)

What makes those diagnoses "neurodivergent" and the others not? Why aren't other diagnoses "neurodivergent" too? How exactly do we define "neurodivergent"? (And why is that the right definition to use?)

> They don’t have much overlap with personality disorders (which do have a lot of overlap among that category).

There is a lot of overlap between the disruptive behaviour disorders (DBDs) – oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) and conduct disorder (CD) – and ADHD; so much so that ADHD is sometimes considered a DBD along with ODD and CD. And there is a clear connection between CD in children and adolescents and ASPD in adults – indeed, a child or adolescent with CD can follow one of two trajectories, either their conduct problems resolve with maturity and they become law-abiding pro-social adults, or else the child/adolescent diagnosis of CD evolves into the adult diagnosis of ASPD. So there is definitely a connection between ASPD and ADHD. A child with ADHD (even without comorbid CD) has an increased risk of developing ASPD as an adult – https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24284138/

Some researchers consider ASPD to be a neurodevelopmental disorder – https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29401045/ – which is the same category that ASD and ADHD (and sometimes also OCD) are put in.

There is also a lot of overlap between ADHD and BPD (Borderline personality disorder) – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4739390/

There's also overlap between ASD and BPD – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5590952/
Some people in the thread are mentioning OVH. I would love to know about alternatives myself, I have zero trust in Backblaze now.
I categorically disagree with this.

> You can't expect marketing to understand these things.

I work in marketing ops and I know how difficult it is to get marketing folks to understand or care about how the tracking they use works. There’s a small but growing number of us trying to change behaviour and awareness from the inside out but if marketers fuck up on privacy an example should be made of them.
Rethinking site capacity projections with Capacity Analyzer
She spends a considerable fraction of her day turning non-issues (such as the term "domain driven design" [1]) into major issues. I really empathize with her coworkers; it must be really difficult to work with a person like this.

[1]: https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/1073234104311734273
Yes, including the Czech Republic, where I live. We have about 0,25% of the entire population dead from the Covid pandemics, one of the worst results worldwide, if not number 1...

So I was really interested in OPs sources.
What's the point though? Either the software is evil/has a bug that lets it steal all your data, or it doesn't.

Making each app have its own filesystem just forces a weird file structure where you don't have a folder for a project, but for an app. Whose projects only consist of one type of files?

If the app is a web browser then fair enough, but what other apps would that be useful for?
> The huge majority of organizations are set up for selfish benefit, not collective benefit.

What on earth are you talking about? For most of human history we lived in small bands of hunter-gatherers where selfishness could lead to ostracization. Even nowadays we organise in nation-states which try to (artificially) extend tribal loyalty to larger groups. Sometimes this leads people to commit the very self-interested act of dying for their country (note the sarcasm).

And how about families? Have you heard of those?
Government should reverse its decision on Port Harcourt refinery
> I got into ...shitposting ... It was one of the worst experiences of my life and I haven’t recovered.

It sounds like you got your arse kicked for being a jerk. Oops.

There's a psychological model for this called DARVO, knowing about it might help you recover.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO

DARVO is an acronym for "deny, attack, and reverse victim and offender". It is a common manipulation strategy of psychological abusers.[1][2][3] The abuser denies the abuse ever took place, attacks the victim for attempting to hold the abuser accountable, and claims that they, the abuser, are actually the victim in the situation, thus reversing the reality of the victim and offender.[1][3] This usually involves not just "playing the victim" but also victim blaming.
Seems related to Tesla valves? Fascinating stuff!
Is it ever!
They mentioned this:
> One other detail to note is that we built our software architecture in such a way that we can stop traffic to our PostgreSQL databases, queue the transactions,and run a PostgreSQL update without affecting payments acceptance.
I have seen this happen a few times in my career however the bias against ugliness is so ingrained there's no possible way of bypassing it. I think the current consensus is that exclusion based on physical characteristics is ethical because it is a very natural behaviour. I don't really believe this but it is what it is.
It's disappointing that a company dealing with sensitive data resorts to third party tracking solutions (and then Facebook of all things!)

Especially a tech shop like backblaze who have engineers building amazing tech in general. But then you cheap out on implementing some basic metrics for the web UI. Do you even need all the bells and whistles Facebook offers?
When I first my the woman who would later become my mother-in-law, one of the first things she said to me was to tell me the following:

> Welcome to Texas. In case you were not aware, we do actually have all four seasons here, but you may not be familiar with their names. They are: Almost Summer, Summer, Holy Cow Is It Still Summer, and Christmas.

Welcome to Texas.
I'd be interested to see a site where marketing professionals with limited technical understanding knocked themselves out, but they used standard tools and checklists, and it came out OK. Do you have any examples?
Are you saying that when this policing will end you'll stop using master / slave?
I relate because I've been there, I think. Before I transitioned I had pretty strong ASD and couldn't figure out how to answer simple questions like "what's up?" or if I should wave to someone I've met twice if they're 15 feet away walking towards me.

Transitioning did something to my brain chemistry and let me read social cues nearly overnight, but I got friends by delving into the LGBT community. Maybe furry cons is a good approach?
I'd point out that one thing about "con job" art like that is that, compared to craftsmanship art, where there's a steady paycheck for skilled work, "con art" is, well, the lottery. Tons of people try, and the vast majority make absolutely nothing.

Meanwhile, in craftsman's art fields (all of the many ingredients that go into filmmaking, videogames, etc), if you're merely competent at what you do, it's like being a programmer - you learn the skills, and you get a job doing it, and my goodness - it pays a salary. There's no lottery involved. If you're a good matte painter, concept artist, 3d modeller, et cetera, illustrator, figure artist, etc, etc - people gladly pay money for it.

--

Anecdotally, as someone in the games industry (and knowing some folks in film), the difference between these two fields (con art and skilled art) is pretty stark. Every person I've know who's tried to do con art has failed to make a career out of it, and every person who's gotten a degree-equivalent level of skill/effort into skilled art has earned a living doing it (in much the same way they would in programming).
A comment above indicates two people got identical test result reports with a very long report. This seems unlikely unless either:

- the system made specific predictions with very little data such that two people could get the same prediction and report simply bc they shared a few poop attributes that were key in the prediction (which would imply a very very bad model)

Or

- the reports were fake

Can you speak to this?
A have a question about creating lookalike audiences, by sending data to FB (either separate or through pixel tracking). Is that data not by definition PII, and so they are likely violating GDPR doing this?
Toxicity is a serious thing. We label toxic chemicals with labels and warnings because they're dangerous. Serious business.

When we apply "toxic" to a person or his behaviour, we borrow that seriousness. That's why we choose that specific, strong words with a well-known meaning.

I oppose calling "I disagree with your world view" toxic. A serial killer might deserve the term.
It is a demonstration of how easy it is for websites to track your behavior online.
Peak of laziness - build ai to do your job so you have more time building ai.
You can just lift the objects so that they are a function of the scope so that the table of them only need to be constructed once.

Python (C) does not have the tabled indirect jump that would be required to convert the table of objects into a table of offsets thereby turning the function call into a jump.

The compiler could use such a tabled indirect jump for every switch statement. Some of which could be optimized by using a different type of table rather than always using a frozendict.
Catalog – Living Style Guides for Digital Products
This should not be on anything even slightly related to payments
> What that strongly suggests is communes are just incompatible with human nature.

I really don't understand how this conclusion follows from your premises. Even assuming that you're right and that all US communes failed, what does this have to do with human nature?

By the same token you could say that people tried to be gay in Nazi Germany, but they all died, therefore it's against human nature to be gay (maybe my example is a bit strong, but hopefully you get the point).
Looking at the spreadsheet subsidies make up fully half of the revenues. I suspect those are adjusted as needed to zero out the metro budget, which explains why, after subsidies, the bottom line is “barely profitable.”
I wonder if they charged per-level? :)

Honestly though, I've always thought folks should involve game developers in desktop design. They really are at the forefront.

Good games are really approachable - they can take a complete beginner and have them enjoying themselves quickly. Then they have settings for advanced players that let them fine-tune the pain points.

For example, most PC games not only let you change your screen resolution and audio volume, but map your keys in a way that's meaningful to you.
Yes I have recently been asked about splines, and the Magic Kernels are of course a subset of those, but generated in a specific way. I have not had a chance to compare to all previous interpolation kernels (and there are many of them).

Yes, the "beat" statement survives from a much earlier version of the page, and is not quite right. I'll fix that.
Attributes and predictors of long Covid
Given their (paying) customer base, which skews more towards content producers, I suspect it's more likely intended to ease setup for less-technically-savvy users.

ie they don't really want your truly-security-critical customer data. But if they can boost their conversion rate with sites like dogfoodreviews.com by 5%, and the price is sending backblaze.com's fantastically-sensitive paid customer data into an unsecured data path, they will absolutely do it.

Comparable to the absolute havoc that Zoom wreaked on browser security to save one click on starting a call.
https://sterling-archermedes.github.io/
I'm pretty sure you'd find yourself at home there, we also have a large trans/gender non-conforming contingent in the community.
It’s been going on for a while already.

Some years ago there was a case where a woman in Melbourne called out a man for harassing her on public transport. Turns out he was autistic and was outgoing to everyone. His friend had to post on Facebook to stop people sharing a video of the autistic man.

Helen Pluckrose also posted on Twitter a similar story. A man she would help checkin on because he was autistic would get complaints from women for harassment. It was a suggestion from his therapist to help him socialise.
Why are WYSIWYG document editors so radically incompatible with each other?
"ouch"
> Are you not in IT? Remote is literally permanent now

Sadly, not for everyone. For the company I'm with, before covid we were allowed to spend up to three days out of the week remote as long as we came in for at least the two required days (Monday and Thursday). Then, right before covid, we were told that even this policy was going away and we had to be in the office four days out of the week and could remote on Wednesdays. That policy never took effect because covid hit right before the transition date, so now we're "remote until July 1st 2021, after which we'll reassess the threat and plan on everyone being in the office five days out of the week."

I've been so spoiled by WFH, I am not looking forward to going back to two hours of commuting per day.
I think the biggest conflict here is the fact that most people are not actual pedophiles or sexual assault defenders; however, many may have confused, internally inconsistent or overly simplistic views on those topics. To that end, I really think you need to put on a Stallman hat to understand his viewpoint. (Not that I’m not saying this is something you should wear normally, this is just an attempt to interpret his words in good faith.)

Seeing through those lenses, I think the point being made was that Stallman believes the situation was that Minsky was unwittingly approached by a girl who had been coerced by Epstein to present herself as being of the age of consent and genuinely interested in him, and he felt that the term "sexual assault" in this case was unfair as it projected the view that Minsky had done something coercive, similarly to how someone who buys something that was stolen is unknowingly "trafficking in stolen goods". His views on statutory rape are, IMO, fairly straightforwards: he clearly subscribes to the "if the law says it is legal tomorrow but not today there is something unsatisfying about its definition" viewpoint.

Now, these viewpoints have multiple issues, the largest of which is probably that one is supposed to do due diligence in their choice of partners to ensure that they are what they seem and not underage or being coerced, especially if one is a 73-year-old man with a woman half a century younger. And the reason we have a specific age set in law is that otherwise we would have to do exceptionally difficult value judgements on whether a person is mature enough to provide consent. But I think both of these are just the failings of a rational person to make sense of the world, rather than the rants of a deranged and actively malicious lunatic as most people (including you) claim.
And then you check out Second Reality 64 by Smash Designs https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=1216

Yes, it's Second Reality on the Commodore 64 <3
I think professional conduct has been confused with other things. There is some basic standard of professional conduct that should be adopted in a professional environment. The lack of such a professional conduct is detrimental to the organization and all people who work for it.

This professional conduct is not political correctness, it is not any specific political stance, it is basic things like don't make sexualized remarks, don't make sexual advances, don't ask for personal favours.

If someone can't adhere to these basic standards it is not clear to me why everyone else in a professional environment should be disadvantaged on their part.
i use an amazing ssh library called asyncssh, altho I've had to go very low level in it to scale beyond a single instance so my code looks quite different to the examples.

ssh tunnels are a part of the ssh spec, like most of what you "see" when using ssh it uses an ssh channel.
Every time a request comes in from clients I read (technically MSG_PEEK for those that love TCP) into the TCP stream to find the destination and match it up with an opened tunnel. on the free plan and port 80 requests to the paid plan this means reading up to the HTTP Host header, and on TLS this means reading up to the SNI headers. Once I have that match I create an SSH channel and wire up the traffic to flow back and forth.

You can try your own ssh reverse tunnel if you have a server on the internet, all you need to do is install an SSH server on it and then use the same command as you do to connect to localhost.run, but change my hostname for yours. You won't get the Host SNI level routing so this doesn't work as well for more than one user but it is an interesting exercise to see SSH tunnels in action when you control both ends of the connection.

If you want to dive deeper into the internals of SSH definitely give the RFC a read, https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4254#section-7.2 is the beginning of a tunnels journey. I know RFCs can be intimidating if you've not read them much, i felt that myself pre-localhost.run, but they're written concisely and unambiguously, and once you've gotten to grips with the writing style they're by far the best way to understand standards like SSH.
Object Storage - https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/object-storage/

yes, they support rclone https://docs.ovh.com/gb/en/storage/sync-rclone-object-storag...
Obligatory Douglas Adams

> "For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons."

-- the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Personally, I've found it really helps to limit the patterns as much as possible to best match the valid input. My own rules of thumb:

- Prefer character classes like \d, \s or \w over .

- Prefer non-greedy .*? over greedy .*

- Exclude a delimiter from the search space, like using [^>]*?> rather than .*?> or worse yet .*>

- Prefer {count specifiers} over unbounded repeats. Not \d+ but \d{,3} instead
But why?

When I commuted from Mountain View to the financial district, it was cheaper to drive by myself than to take public transit including the lifetime cost of my car. (not to mention being immensely more pleasant)

I simply do not get the economics of public transit losing so much money.

I get that I'm not paying myself a salary to drive the vehicle and that the roads I drive on are "free" and the railroad track isn't... but still one would expect the efficiency of rail and economies of scale to make up for this.

Instead BART costs hundreds of millions of dollars per year more than received fares.

I just don't understand.
Show notes:

Geohot hops into the briar patch with Corey and Dixon.

Check out Comma AI's work on the Android of cars:

https://comma.ai/

Hotz's SXSW talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESXOAJRdcwQ
I put the Magic Kernel into the public domain in 2011, long before starting at Facebook. Yes, the Sharp step is nothing more than a three-tap sharpening filter, not at all remarkable in itself, and yes the "+" is just extra sharpening with the same filter to match existing properties; it was convenient in practical terms in that it did not require extra processing, but is not special in itself.
Yes that's true. (Hilariously, duckduckgo does not track me so my search history is hard to work out ...)

OK: who was phil hartman, alan may quotes, history of netscape, treatment for wrenched neck muscle, dad jokes and campsites in the new forest.

So yes, you could sell me something related to each of those (a dad joke book, a phil hartman dvd) but there is no commercial intent there except for the last, and that's more research than intent.

I am not spending my life in a state of purchasing arousal (I think the analogy to women navigating a world of men is interesting)

But more importantly the lead quality is terrible. I think this is what people are learning - FAANG almost always provides low quality lead density. (More research needed)

It may be a good explanation of Amazon's 20 billion dollar new ad business - if you search for anything in amazon you are almost certainly doing so with commercial intent.

Jeff might win again :-)
Do you actually get most of your work from promoting yourself to strangers via Github or similar?

In my experience, if you do good work, it's usually not that hard to get more work even without a public showcase of your work. Your clients will come back the next time they need to get a job done. Your clients also tell others about you, and word-of-mouth is extremely valuable advertisement.

I guess promoting yourself on Github and on personal blogs is one way to go about it, but real life personal relationships shouldn't be undervalued in my opinion. Most consultants I know have a surprisingly bare website.
either the reason is weak, or you're just not important enough to cancel.

cancel culture is not just mean comment. Affecting real life in every possible way is also one of its goal. Its basically modern day witch hunt. No way ignoring Twitter gonna solve that problem
What's both practically sad and scientifically ridiculously fascinating is that the cognitive dissonance goes both ways. See also, furry culture representation in general.
I wouldn't trust any model to generate text for customers yet. Not even the largest GPT3. There are no guarantees on what they will output and could be damaging to your business.

You're better off either:
1- Defining common "intents" that a lot of customer queries are categorized into, and having a model map the incoming message to the appropriate canned response. Look at Rasa, for an example of this.

2- if you insist on generating the text, have it be a recommendation to a human agent that either chooses to send it or writes their own response.
*takes off his pants* AMIGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
I wonder if university networks are properly secured against external attacks. Universities produce valuable research and IP (eg, early vaccination experiments or know-how) that might be of interest to foreign (or even domestic) actors.

In my school, we could SSH from Internet using password. So one compromised password could provide entrance into network.
Is it smart to tell people that you are leaving before you actually backed-up and moved you data in the new place!?
> For instance, one of those characteristics is having trouble with rhythm. I love the most complicated, fascinating rhythms

One can have no "trouble with rhythm" and yet meet the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for ASD; one can have immense "trouble with rhythm" and yet not meet those criteria – that's because "trouble with rhythm" is not part of the diagnostic criteria, indeed if you read the DSM-5 section on ASD it never even discusses that topic, "trouble with rhythm" simply isn't part of the DSM-5 definition of ASD. At best, it might be seen as an "associated non-diagnostic symptom", something which may occur in some people with ASD (possibly even at a higher rate than in people without ASD); but it is simply a mistake to reason "person X doesn't have symptom Y hence X cannot have ASD" when Y is not a diagnostic symptom.

I don't know whether Stallman has ASD or not, but his conclusion that he doesn't seems to be based on incorrect information. Given that, I don't think we should put much weight on it.
> Commercial intent is not consent to be tracked and tagged.

It's not, but that's not what this subthread is about.
> He literally used to have a mattress on the floor of his office. He kept the door to his office open, to proudly showcase that mattress and all the implications that went with it.

There are no implications. Sleeping in your office at MIT is (or at least was) common, as evidenced by this story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24172245