skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP here, autistic, not the author.

I like how this post fights with "scalar fallacy" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8132525, http://observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com/2011/01/scalar...), prevalent in popular psychology.

My small nitpicks:

1. IMHO, the gradient (from "a bit autistic" to "highly autistic") makes sense - as long as we treat it as the first principal component of a multidimensional process. I know many people who learned that they are autistic in their 30s, as on ALL axes, their symptoms were relatively mild (especially women, who are vastly underdiagnosed). After realizing they are autistic, they often cried, explaining decades of their life and why they always felt different.

2. While I understand where "Don't assume anything about an autistic person." comes from, I disagree. If we take it literally, the word "autistic" makes no sense (as it is not related to anything). Sure, stereotypes are both inaccurate and harmful + there is great neurodiversity among autistic people - "If you've met one individual with autism, you've met one individual with autism". The best antidote is Bayesian thinking - having reasonably wide priors and modifying the posterior with each measurement.
You're right. Saw the reviewer on that PR but you were too quick and I couldn't delete my comment anymore.
It seems people are outraged because they don't like it, but they don't seem to be talking about whether it's actually legal.

IANAL, but the MIT license specifically does not say you have to redistribute with the same copyright owner notice. It says the copyright notice and terms must remain, and that you can sublicense it. It doesn't say you can't change the copyright notice.
> I do think your original and follow-up comments were just outright racist

I simply pointed out that the system was unfair to regular Chinese people. Something that almost all of my Chinese friends also agree in the tech industry. Since you seem to know quite a lot about the system in China, how many years of experience do you have working in China? Clearly, you must know a lot more than me judging by your comment and brushing off 996 as simply "working too much".

If I had to guess, I think you are a New Zealander that has never worked a day in China before. You defend China maybe because your parents are from there, but you have no idea what it is actually like to work there as a regular citizen. You call anyone that talks badly about China's system as racist.

If you truly think I am racist, then I feel sorry for your delusion. I urge you to move back and work there for at least 5 years. Perhaps then, you will see how the rich take advantage of those below and you wouldn't brush off 996 as simply "working too much" and "bullying tactics" as nothing when your wage depends on it.

In fact, I have yet to meet one regular Chinese person that defends the rich like you do. Most of them are hated in China for creating a highly unfair society. Those that do are usually people like you: full of vigor, nationalistic pride, and 0 life experience. The irony for you is that even CCP agrees with me regarding the rich.

It's a shame to meet people like you online really. To outright call people you don't agree with as racist.. no manners whatsoever.

> Telling me to see a psychiatrist and then wishing me merry christmas haha I prefer direct rudeness and name-calling instead of whatever that is.

I think that just points to our upbringing right? Direct rudeness was never acceptable where I grew up. But I am certain being rude to people is nothing more than having breakfast for you. And to be proud of it...smh. For your own sake, you might want to learn some manners sooner rather than later. People won't take it kindly to being called racist in the real world.

One last note, I was being serious about seeing a psychiatrist. It was meant for your own good. Your comments show serious signs of projection and self righteousness.
cry havoc and let slip the sweatpants of war
Sure, I agree, I think you basically restated what my proposition.

The key thing is that we can fix the technical problems in government. But the privacy failures of the private sector are built into the predominant business models of the tech sector itself and harder to fix. (Full disclosure, I worked in ads for many years before walking away in disgust)

I should say that -- coming off a 10 year stint at Google -- Google takes PII super seriously and does a very good job of protecting it technically and organizationally. I'm sure most other BigTechs do, too. But clearly this data, people's private data and models of behaviour etc based on that, is a major source of revenue in our industry.

Another point on this topic: Governments and do act with malice to their populations in some situations, but in general Canadians have higher expectations of, and higher trust for, their government than Americans seem to on the whole. Hence our single payer health system and the classic motto of 'Peace, Order, and Good Government' which characterizes our commonwealth vs the 'Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness' etc. of the American Republic.
I use these X11 tools daily:

- xterm

- xmessage

- xlockmore

- xkill

- xfontsel

- xev

- xcalc

- xchm

- glxgears

For example *xte
rm(1)* can is one of the most compatible terminal emulator out there and its nice to have it started each time with random color theme:

- https://vermaden.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/xterm.random.pn...

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2021/05/19/freebsd-desktop-pa...

With some theming in *~/.Xdefaults* both *xmessage(1)* and *xcalc(1)* look really well:

- https://vermaden.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/openbox-alt-tab...

- https://i.imgur.com/gl1Q63H.png

I still use *xfontsel(1)* to select bitmap fonts.

I lock screen with *xlock(1)* (package name *xlockmore*) to lock the screen:

- https://vermaden.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/xlock-user-pass...

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2018/06/23/freebsd-desktop-pa...

I also use *xkill(1)* when some X11 window misbehaves.

Hope that helps.

Regards.
You are fighting trend of making up diagnosis by making up diagnosis based on single assumed data point?
The Guardian is left-wing although the champagne socialists branch where the Daily Mirror is more the working class socialist paper. Check out the Tortoise or Byline Times articles on the subject if you want something more nuanced.
Back when I worked in fine dining, I worked every holiday because it was great money. It wasn't a really important job or anything, but still needed to get done. My dad worked in a factory, and also worked some part of every holiday. Even now, I volunteer for holiday coverage if needed.

The world doesn't stop because it's some made up day on the calendar. Thank you to all those who keep the world going.
http://teslalight.show
The same issue exists with Jax. XLA compilation can take up quite a bit of time, especially on larger NN models. And theres no persistent compile cache, so even if you don't change the jitted function you need to wait for compilation again as you restart the process.
I just learned I can charge my ThinkPad with USB-C chargers so I ordered a USB-c charger and one of the magsafe-like connectors from Amazon. It’s working great, but would be nice to have a bit more than 80W charger so I’ll probably get this.
Center-left from a US perspective. But where will you find a right wing equivalent dealing in actual facts instead of isolationist fever dreams?
They shot a live torpedo at FDR. Not the usual.
I guess because keyword arguments couldn't use the same shorthand if they did.
I thought TypeProf is really interesting but doesn't seems to get much attention.

I am also wondering if anyone is using RBS in production. Apart from big shops like Stripe / Shopify.
And four days later, the conic loaf of bread video Brady just posted is perhaps the best example yet of the level of excitement that I'm shooting for pretty much anywhere in my life (and you've found it in bread...)
I own zero shares of anything directly or indirectly.
In my opinion, this gets a strong reaction because:

1. They made similar mistakes in the past.

2. They didn't fix it for half a year.

3. They can expect strong financial benefits from making these mistakes.

4. They've recently burned a lot of goodwill by deliberately infringing licenses on a large scale when they trained Copilot.

5. They could have easily prevented this kind of mistakes.

My summary would be that Microsoft deserves to be punished for making this mistake. If nothing bad happens now, then we'll have the same discussion again in half a year from now.
> And no, people don't reuse trivial libraries in C, this is not JavaScript.

You do realize that tribalist arguments based on absolutely no technical point whatsoever do not make any sense at all, don't you? I mean, who in their right mind would argue that only nodejs developers need to delete dirs?

And if you believe that putting together a reliable cross-platform library that handles idempotent directory creation then be my guest and just do it. How hard would it be, right?
> The notion that a neurotypical person exists is kinda silly.

Supposedly they don't. Mental health professionals could probably diagnose neuroses or psychoses in most adults.
They've already been tricked, and they donate every Sunday. They may as well also donate to what's really going on in the sky.
Thanks for the dairy farm wave! 3:30 start, stop at 9:30. Back again at 13:30 and finishing 17:30.

A long day, but it was satisfying.

Plus the animals don’t know it’s Christmas.
My understanding is that the normalization doesn’t mean subsumption but that the differences are normal and accounted for by default. For example, m/f bathrooms are largely considered normal to account for two different gender identities (this is extremely simplified; I’m aware that non-binary people exist but they are still not considered “normal” largely and are not accounted for by default). Very few people are running around saying all men are a little bit women so why do we have separate bathrooms, clearly this is perpetual exclusion.
I still don’t get why Asperger is seen as a subgroup of Autism.
> it inevitably fails on large projects.

This is not even REMOTELY true. Plenty of companies use massive pure C++ projects.
I'm happy to "listen" via email. Follow the link in my profile to find my contact info. Put "HN" in the subject line to get past my spam filter.
> some hacks to get transformers to work with computer vision at a meaningful scale (splitting images into patches and convoluting the patches to produce features to feed into the transformer).

sounds a lot like 'classical computer vision'. e.g, when I learned the subject (mid 2000s), topological features were all the rage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_topology
Script [pdf]: A Christmas Story (1982)
I’m not sure they will, at least not with the research in the state it is presently. Researchers are interested in vision transformers because they’re competitive with CNNs if you give them enough training data - they don’t drastically outperform them.

Right now switching over to them would require a ton of code changes, relearning intuitions, debugging, profiling, etc. for not a ton of benefit.
Communism in China,(A construct of the human mind to control mankind) does not want what it considers to be other constructs of the human mind to control mankind to be in competition - as it may well lose...
Flow Club (YC S21) Is Hiring Front End Engineers Who Love React/TypeScript
Cat’s Cradle
>refuse [...] because of bigotry

I think you might need to reevaluate either your word choice or your perceptions
Randall’s comic for Dec. 25, 2021 is <chef’s kiss>.

https://xkcd.com/2559/
MultiMC – Clarify WSL error messages #3165
I run Vivaldi because it's actually awesome on the phone (but I don't like the desktop version). Works perfectly.
There are significant contradictions within her recollection, as cataloged in the article https://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-p... Some examples (from the article) -

* Park’s account of the mother’s crime changes constantly, depending it seems on her audience
* Park says her father was sentenced to 17 or 18 years in prison. Her mother told us he was initially sentenced to a year, but later it was increased to ten years.
* Park’s mother told us prosecutors interrogated her on and off for about a year – sometimes at home in Hyesan and sometimes elsewhere [...] But, in a recent BBC radio interview, Park claimed her mother was imprisoned for six months
* When she spoke with us, Park told of how her and her sister, at just nine and eleven, were left to fend for themselves after their parents were jailed. “We have shower and wash our clothes there and then we go to the mountain to get the grass to eat,” she said. But, in the BBC radio interview, Park claimed her sister went to live at her uncle’s house
* .... the host of the show says to Park’s mother, “When we talk about stories of people eating grass or people struggling to eat, Yeju (Park’s pseudonym) says, ‘Oh that never happened…’
* The story of her escape has multiple versions with incompatible fundamentals (like who escaped, when, and how), and increasing in brutality over time.

The foundation of her story is a collection of self-contradicting childhood memories, making this case closer to the narration arc of Life of Pi (where the viewer is left guessing if the story was true or they were in the imagination of the protagonist). Even recent "vetted" "auto-biographical" stories like Lone Survivor can get so carried away in presenting the feeling of the situation that they sacrifice the facts, and we must be careful when trying to extract facts from the other side of the communication.
My New 2022 Ritual: Open Mic
In 2022 I will begin a brand new ritual: Open Mic

I will share a startup on my Twitter every day.

I'm going to ask them an open-ended question.

Let the party begin

Follow on my Twitter: https://twitter.com/sametozkale
It might well have made Europe stronger. UK was always the awkward odd man out that vetoed decisions left and right.

I suspect that the UK will be back in the Single Market in all but name by the end of the decade, once there is a change of regime, the core Brexit demographic has passed away, and economic realities come home to roost.
Check out this Snowden guy. He made some uncomfortable revelations
It's not.

Now it is not considered neither a separate unit nor a subset of autism.
(As there is no meaningful distinction between Asperger Syndrome and Autism without cognitive impairment.)
This is a bot that is supposed to configure the right license when employees start a new repo in the Microsoft GitHub org.

It seems the automation is also triggered when Repos are forked into the Microsoft GitHub org which isn't correct behavior.

This isn't a deliberate action. If it were plenty of employees (myself included) would be outraged.
I assume it's a bug in the bot - an edge case that was not considered. It is very rare to fork something into the Microsoft GitHub org after all.

I'll pass it along to some people I know.
Life is indeed harder for some exactly for the reason that societal norms are being imposed on them. Think corporations and the norms they impose on all the industries. I personally work hard to mask my differences but it does take a lot more effort on my part. All these efforts could have been used to be more productive and efficient.
Oooooooooooosh.

NOT ON CHRISTMAS DAY, guys...
I definitely like the clear visible syntax
The original Viet Minh was a anti-colonial organization, fighting against japan and france, in WW2 - ironically with US-Advisors and taking the US- as a example for a successful liberation from european colonial powers. After the war ended, the us- switched sides and dumped them. They then went and picked the next-best set of allies - which was russia/china.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940%E2%80%931946_in_French_In...
It's not, especially when you're funding things that are fascinating, but are inherently not useful. I love astronomy and physics, but much of it is now being spent on pure knowledge. The discovery of the Higgs boson hasn't improved any lives or led to new technology, but it did eat untold amounts of money that could have been spent on other things in science.
Licensing matters for things that would be forbidden without permission by copyright law. Fair use is an exception to copyright law. Microsoft's explicit legal theory around Copilot is that ingesting code for it (and ingesting content to train ML models more generally) is fair use. If there theory is correct, license is irrelevant, there is no legal (at least copyright-based) barrier to them using any source code they can get their hands on to train Copilot.
This comment is just plain wrong.
It has been even studied and proven scientifically that for example psilocin, one of the main components of the psilocybe family of mushrooms promotes neuroplasticity and neuritogenesis (Neuritogenesis is a key process required during development of the mammalian brain). [1]

So, the completely reverse of what you said is true, mushrooms can actually promote repairing the brain and strengthen new, more healthy connections within it.

* [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6082376/
> […] most people learn eventually, because the rewards for KPI manifestation are the biggest of all.

I don’t feel that way at all.

My greatest reward, by far, is the moment when the all the pieces “click into place” - the moment of understanding a process or system. I feel absolutely no positive reward at all for getting things done. At best, I feel a bit of relief from the rapidly increasing pressure of a looming deadline.
This isn’t just one person making a silly mistake. This is a catalogue of failings. Where’s the peer review? Are you suggesting that anything published in the main branch on Microsoft’s GH org gets commit without any branch protection? And as pointed out by others, this isn’t even an isolated case.

A healthy org doesn’t blame individuals, it blames failures in process. Thus Microsoft should own this mistake. Stating it’s the fault of an individual sounds more like your team operates a blame culture. Which, frankly, is a major red flag for a failing organisation.
Did the NHS get an extra £350mm per week? No.

Did the country get richer? No.

Are there fewer refugees? No.

…

Whoops.
Regarding your last paragraph… it’s a struggle for sure. Here’s where i personally am at, dunno if it will help you or not.

I have needed glasses to see since I was a young child. While I could get Lasik or whatever and not need them anymore, I would never think to myself, “do I want to be someone who is only workable with glasses?” There are multiple options and all of them are okay.
If you pay cash, you pretty much uniformly have to show ID, no? I don't think it is possible to book a room without identifying yourself.

This might not be reported to the state, but I feel like it definitely could be subpoenad by the state.
> and it is

Can you provide the independent data you used to come to this conclusion?
What financial benefits do they stand to gain by changing the name on an MIT license?
This is not a tender, so the rules don’t apply. Generally, tenders would only apply to contracts where the government procures a service or good and only from certain thresholds on (~ 130 000 EUR for services), see further down on the page you linked. https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/selling-in-eu/public-c...
Or maybe it's nice to not have those things. It's a very different feeling.
Great idea until you lose the paper or something happens to it (natural disaster/burglary/accident). It's also incredibly inconvenient to record 20 character passwords by hand. This is specifically what cloud storage (LastPass/1Password) solve.
I'm sorry you're going through this. I went through a dark night of the soul a few years ago amidst some professional setbacks. More recently, I've been on the edge of losing my 17-year marriage; we are still exploring whether reconciliation is possible.

The vulnerability, honesty, and goodwill in threads like this always warms my heart and bolsters my faith in humanity. I'll offer my own contribution. I wrote a deeply personal book called "Eating Glass" about navigating these seasons when everything seems to fall apart. I mention it from time to time on HN when I think it could be helpful, but today I'll just post the entire book for free: https://s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/com.markdjacobsen/Eating+.... My passion is just to help others walking similar journeys. Consider it a resource if it's helpful.

I wish you well on your own journey, and everyone else going through similar experiences.
That’s the entire point of the prototype fund - there’s another technology fund that funds basic open source and infrastructure.
I don't work at Microsoft but I can confirm. There are so many "suggestions" for Microsoft Teams. I don't know if there exists another company whose employees are more critical of Microsoft Teams than Microsoft.

My personal conspiracy theory is Teams would have died long ago if not for strong support from the top.
Thank you, and your team, for your amazing work.
Crawled paywall content is also SEO optimized garbage. The argument I assume is that paywalls that can’t be crawled (and thus can’t be SEO optimized) are therefore better.

Not that I particularly agree. I just don’t want to see ads or pay for content.
Ghost Towers: The view from Iran’s housing crisis
To be fair, that only applies to big tech and some fraction of non-tech companies. The rest have a fairly cavalier attitude towards computer security.
Might work, if they are guaranteed to be the pickup driver, by logging in next to the store?? - dunno how the economics fits?
Debilitating to themselves but infinitely more harmful for the people they interact with. Maybe a diagnosis would open them up to some mitigations on their behavior. Narcissism personality disorder cannot be cured but sufferers can learn to do less harm.
Seattle sure, but in cascades/olympic region it's deep snow (where I believe majority of forest trails are).
https://github.com/microsoft/cups/commit/8100595a3a3a6d5c7d0...

That's not a bot.
>China has not attacked any country in a long time.

What is a long time to you? A month?
Thats a good point. Thank you. I have to reflect upon it but this angle is interesting
if I did this to microsoft do you think I’d be granted the same leeway? could I tell them they need to cut me some slack because i’m one person and “there’s a process”?
This comment shows they've done it to other pieces of software, including things like… CUPS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29684567

For some reason I doubt they've bought the copyright to CUPS.
in C I always end up building my own world because the default one is broken. for example null terminated strings are just really awful to work with. i'm not alone - alot of larger C projects have their own runtime, particularly memory management. another cross-cutting concern is multihreaded safety and scheduling.

unless the library author broke those functions out, then I need to rehost it in my environment. so I usually end up forking any library that I want to use. this isn't all bad - I find some bugs and integrate the build. I adopt the library and develop and understanding of it sufficient to maintain it myself.

contrast that to a language environment where those things - strings and threads and build are all standardized.
DoppioJVM: A Java Virtual Machine Written in 100% JavaScript
I'm sure having to wear a uniform gets tiresome.

But always dressing comfy means you never get to express that side. Having only used the office once a week in the last many months, I would consistently overdress when making an appearance. There is something nice about making an effort at dressing that correlates with wanting to make a bigger effort in general.
Path dependence means that the "data-based, rational investment decisions" you're talking about were determined long ago (the early 1970s) by overtly racist policy. It's like making building and investment decisions about a superfund site.