skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other 2 current replies are great and in-depth. I'd like to add a more shallow, kind if like a TL;DR.

(For reference, I got diagnosed mid 30s, wife idem.)

1) You need to find a proper therapist to assess if you have autism. Ideally someone specialised in such. Because otherwise, chance of misdiagnosis is too high.

2) Co-mobordities are common, ADHD and anxiety were given as examples in other reply. I had the latter diagnosis, and got Ritalin prescribed for symptoms of the former in past (I hated the ups and downs, and I could not afford Concerta back then. FWIW, I currently use Prozac, it works great for me, but does make me more oversharing but less edgy. There's multiple other options, I went to a psychiatrist specialized in autism.) If you already have another diagnosis do not assume it is a panacea. If you have ASD it is the root of your being, and all your other issues (see some examples at #3) more or less stem from it.

3) People go for a diagnosis because they are stuck in life for one reason or another (a trigger). Common triggers are work related (issues with coworkers, unemployment), social (divorce, lack of friends, drug abuse), or family diagnosis (children, cousins, etc).

4) Proper diagnosis is painful. Your entire life is basically reviewed with multiple professionals who have specific expertise on the field of autism. It takes a lot of time, energy, and probably money (I live in The Netherlands and it only cost me my 'own risk' of insurance). Try to prepare for it, I say this to warn if you are in a very stresssful situation in life.

5) There's a lot of bullshit about ASD on the internet, and self-diagnosed or misdiagnosed people. Via my diagnosis I met other people who had a proper diagnosis, and I learned so much about autism.

OK it ended up longer than I anticipated, kind of how I am IRL too, masks my shyness too.

Good luck!
Could you dig a hole for your batteries and store them below the frost line?
Based on some recent inexcusable and fatal mistakes, it's hard to believe that modern US Navy training has become much better.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/01/16/navy-ho...
Not an ad. His YouTube reviews are all about diy and cover many brands of batteries and f at liar systems.
I wouldn't underestimate the cost of internal politics...
">When some starve and others hoard food, is property more important than hunger?
Yes, because destroying private property rights will lead to further famines. It's something called second-order effects"

There is this really interesting second order effect I heard about, very few people know about it - apparently masses of starving people might not just quietly watch their family succumb to famine, sometimes they start cutting off heads of whoever is in charge, or just is in the wrong place at the wrong time.
> Still not sure how I’ll ultimately get around this.

If it's portable, your option works well.

For year round off grid use, there's something to be said for sealed lead acid, or flooded lead acid - they don't care about being cycled while cold (capacity is down and the voltage sags a good bit), and as long as they don't get too deeply discharged, they don't freeze.

A single panel, facing south, absolutely vertical, will shed snow and if you have no other loads, is usually enough to offset controller loads and self discharge over time to keep the batteries fully charged (and therefore not freezing) over winter.

There's no way you'll generate enough heat on electricity to keep a battery bank (or cabin) warm in the winter most places. I've got 5kW of panel on my office, and still can't manage that for a small, well insulated shed.
Not arguing your greater point at all, but the Pittsfield MSA includes all of the Berkshires which are absolutely desirable even if Pittsfield itself isn't.
As someone with a C/C++ background, this gist was a good reference for those times I needed to use Javascript: https://gist.github.com/yig/8744917
#2 reminds me of this: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2016/04/cold-war-nuc...
Hyperledger ecosystem might be of interest, Fabric uses Proof of Authority by default
475lbs Deadlift and 185lbs Press

Convert what I'm learning into content so that others may benefit.
20 minutes? I've used LaTeX on and off for a decade and I still feel like I don't really understand it. I mean, I can copy-paste my way to do anything with it, but usually I'm Googling "latex how do I X" over and over.

If you learned it in 20 minutes please point me to the tutorial.
and Christoph Waltz is the first guy to tell you to never "do what you love". Acting is just a career for him
Danger is contextual though. My LiPo burning down in the middle of a concrete patch is no risk to anyone, but having it burn down in a backpack in my cupboard will probably burn the house down.

Petrol inside a petrol tank inside a modern car is not the same risk as petrol sitting in a jerry can by the stove for another example.
Good article, really looking forward to parts [2..)

But if it is your software, since you own the licence, can you not simply issue it under different licenses?

Unless and until you have contributions from others, my IANAL understanding is that you are free to sell it under a proprietary license AND release it as F/OSS under the licence of your choice.

Contributions others make under the GPL cannot be so relicensed without permission from the authos of the contributions, but again, IANAL.
I'm 57, and have been cooking on conventional electric stoves with time proportioning controls for my entire life. What am I missing? I could consider an induction stove, but running gas to my kitchen would require some pretty major surgery to the house.
This was already posted 6 hrs ago.
I'm in a fortunate enough position that the day job pays the bills and I enjoy it, such that I don't need income from my open source efforts.

However, about a year ago I did two things:

- Enabled sponsorship through GitHub and Liberapay.

- Put my GPL apps (freely available on FDroid) on GPlay for $1.

Since then, I've made a fun amount of ~$300 in little donations (a combination of one off and recurring sponsorships). Although a tiny amount of income in the scheme of things, it is still thrilling each time someone kicks a small donation my way even though there is no obligation to do so. Itis a nice pat on the back for things I do for free anyway.

Also, given that I do zero self promotion and very minimal nagging (just in some of my release notes), and given I spend probably less than a total 7hrs a week on all of my projects combined, it makes me think that this could be ramped up if I was to dedicate more time to it.

Some things I try to do with each project to help gain traction:

- Release often, so it appears at the top of the FDroid front page regularly.

- Take i18n seriously so that people around the world can benefit from the apps.

- Foster a sense of community and inclusion in any discussions (e.g. GitHub issues and PRs).
I also try to add new apps whenever a new idea comes along. Hopefully a large diverse range of apps will find use with more people.

Hopefully in the future that $300 will grow to $500, $1000, or even more.
It looks like this is 3 years old and based on a really old version of PyTorch - did something happen to bump its popularity recently? Is this still SOTA? (I would assume not given how fast the field moves)
You seem to be the one not understanding here. I said effective which accounts for marginal rates.

Thats why even though those numbers add up to 50%, i specifically said that will only get you close to 50% effective. Also the more you make, the more percentage wise will be paid at the highest marginal rate meaning some people will pay close to their highest marginal rate effectively.

Thats why the whole second point was there about other taxes. Those numbers dont have to add up to 50 for there to be people paying that rate

So yeah, no misunderstanding here. Im well aware of how marginal tax rates work.
Ask HN: Is there any way to use threads.h on macOS?
Or a libc with a full C11/17 implementation?
This is something that I’ve wondered about. I’ve got a trio of Powerwalls in my unfinished basement. My town seemed cool with that - for the most part the inspector was totally geeking out over the setup and how clean the installation was.

I read about a lot of places that require Powerwalls to be outside or have additional fire suppression for inside. Anyone have suggestions for what I can do given that I’ve got these guys installed? I haven’t found much help on how to protect myself there.
sorry, scientists always use nomal English words in their region and then it will get meaning in this specific region. It maybe is confused, but the advantage that most people understand English is enough.
ASN.1 is all over the place in low-level networking protocols. That is where I learned it, two decades ago. While I disliked it initially, it was thoughtfully designed albeit obviously from a prior era.

Also, turns out that if you work with it long enough you can read the binary encodings almost like it is text.
This stuff should be history 101. It’s depressing to see someone here having to state the biggest lessons of the 20th century, learnt by the spilling of the blood of millions.
Great! How do you heat your house when power goes out for three days straight in the winter?
I love C, but strongly disagree with the "learn C" part. It's not a suitable language for interviews even if you're an expert. C is by far my strongest language but I wouldn't dream of using it in any generic FAANG like interview, I'd chose something like Python which has plenty of built in things like appendable lists, dictionaries, garbage collection, et cetera.

Agree with the psuedocode part though.
Lead (or lithium lead) would not work for ARC, because it is electrically conductive. It would not be possible to pump it in the strong magnetic field because of the back EMF generated. This is also why PbLi with vanadium structures was abandoned for DEMO: it proved impossible to make an insulating coating for the metal structures that would prevent the induced currents from flowing. Even slight cracks in the coating were found to be ruinous.
There's a Startpage alternative that I've seen referenced numerous times but can never remember. Do you happen to know it?
"...3 times that of a competent IT organization providing a similar service in house." A competent IT organization is a real stretch for most organizations.
Induction stoves have all the benefits you mention, plus they are faster to heat and cool down and produce no indoor particulate pollution.
Well, you're welcome to think positive as long as you want, but you're going to need actual features sooner or later. Being able to send money to someone else marginally faster/more secure is not a "killer feature" by the way.
"YouTube is simply the wrong medium to try to teach detailed"

YouTube is literally just humans talking, so you are basically saying you don't think humans can teach complicated subjects?
There are recipes and sticky situations where having a near instant heat switch is a real convenience, if not a real life saver. That said, if you've made it this far you probably aren't going to get much out of them. I love gas because I love cooking with a direct flame, but I think from an environmental perspective we're going to have to start making due without them
the last time I tried it a few months back, it was extremely buggy, especially around undo
Intelligence has almost nothing to do with it. The whole 'rona thing has been very very stressful and many people have not reacted well to it. Scam artists have exploited this stress (as they always have and always will). Some people have been led astray and some are leading people astray, and some are both.

At any rate, it is an impairment of gathering and processing information correctly, not intelligence. It's a filter problem. I had a really hard time with this too, after seeing how people I previously respected dealt with this whole thing.

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For what it's worth - I'm strongly in favor of people choosing to get vaccinated and masking up in public. I despise the people who made this a wedge issue for their own benefit.

I also think that being self-righteous about it is very tempting but also very bad and destructive to discourse.
I don't! But that was also true when we had gas.
That's actually not true. This is actually achievable already. I wrote about that misconception here: https://twitter.com/ArbVision/status/1461528245170487300
No Meaning Without Justification
How did you get into this? Did you learn the tech with a job in mind, or did you just learn the tech and then jobs started appearing?
Is this a common problem that Web3 solves?

I understand it makes it more difficult, but they could seize your keys or your person and force you to turn over your keys.

Either way that seems like a legal issue, not a technology issue.
"My rough estimate is that the unit cost of provisioning a service on AWS is about 3 times that of a competent IT organization providing a similar service in house."

The word competent here is doing a lot of weight lifting.

I know companies in which you have to wait _months_ for a small server to be allocated to your team. AWS does it in seconds
> Are there regular flash chips here, or something more exotic?

Something more exotic. It, at a minimum, has to be radiation hardened, which means it is not a regular consumer or enterprise SSD.

Also, wikipedia says development began in 1996 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jwst) so also keep in mind that the "storage unit" was probably chosen sometime circa 2000-2004, which probably goes a long way to explaining the (by today's standards) somewhat slow write speed. The radiation hardening also likely has a play in the write speed because whatever changes are needed for rad. hardening have to go in, even if they have a detrimental impact on performance.
Emacs does this for markdown files
I'm in the Bay Area. Net electric bills for the year are $0 or <$0. Hard to compare to 'before' because the EVs were added after solar, but my next door neighbor with a somewhat larger house, no EVs, and both gas and electric has $1200 energy bills in the winter. I don't think ours would have been that high, but at least half that.
How the Pandemic May Have Distorted Our Sense of Time's Passing
That seems like a cheap shot.

I live in a very socialist place (Québec) it’s everywhere and while it’s good for some things I think we are closer to a collapse than most people think.

we have close to 50% tax rate on income
+ 14% tax on consumption (that was supposed to be temporary 30years ago )
+ municipal tax (those make more sense)
+ lots of other fees for employment

It’s very hard to start something productive without being tied with red tape. In a lot of cases those rules don’t make sense anymore but are just there forever.

People generally have a disdain for private enterprise, like it something dirty to make money, but that is what still feed and employ everyone.

If there is not a force to push in the other direction, it’s always more taxation, more laws, bigger government, less efficiency.

If we don’t do anything to push back at some point it become too top heavy and it collapse.

So this book provide some refreshing perspective and a way of thinking that is lost on most people today. That doesn’t mean that it contain all the solutions.
Why Developers Don't TDD (An IT Audio Drama)
A fun voice acted drama that gets to the heart of the matter: https://agilenoir.biz/en/agilethoughts/why-developers-dont-tdd-a-radio-drama/
My only motivation for work is the possibility of retiring without starving
To learn less new things and just get better at the stuff I already (somewhat) know through application. Too much time in recent years has been spent doing any Udemy or Coursera course that looked moderately appealing. The breadth of knowledge has become too much; with far too little depth.
I never respond to those emails, but after reading your comment I'm thinking maybe I should reply with, "what % of those X millions is being offered for this role?"
Obsidian actually supports Jupyter via a plugin, if I recall.
https://agilenoir.biz/en/agilethoughts/why-developers-dont-t...
I don't want to force them; I want them to refrain.
Are you saying their genius was a result of their class?
Yeah, seems dumb "economist" thinking. The idea that "if someone gives up and walks away, everyone behind them benefits" is a absurd on two fronts.The stall owner clearly doesn't benefit from a lost sale. Mulled wine, mince pies and hot chocolate are not fungible. Maybe you are allergic to chocolate. Maybe mince pies make you gag.

Also, optimising for queue length only makes any sense in the described scenario if all stalls are owned by a single entity.

I'm not even going to touch the "only add something to your todo list if you are going to do it immediately" stupidity.
I could not agree with you more, except for the small problem of range.

I'm not sure batteries will support vehicles being in motion 10 consecutive hours. And in some categories (busses, delivery bikes) it will be as lot more than 10 hours a day.

Maybe a 3 on, 1 off schedule would work (leaving it some time to charge) and that will have some capital implications (more actual vehicles in the fleet)

But I concur with the premise-work on reducing driven-miles not on "what percentage of vehicles" are electric.
Any costing data?
Huh, I was going to write about what I heard about the natural gas pipelines freezing, but it turns it out they do not actually do that due to being buried at least 3 feet underground.

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/politifact/202...

However, the multi-stage above ground pipes that carry oil and natural gas were compromised as well as refining stations for the natural gas due to the lack of power leading to a possible shortage of natural gas that did not happen that winter in Texas.

Learned something new.

Been considering going all electric for my future home with a heat pump as Mr Money Mustache did. Reading about the freeze in Texas and how even coal piles froze; it felt like relying on solar panels and batteries seemed safer. This will change my calculus a little.

https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2021/10/05/diy-heat-pump/
It does come off as a bit kneejerk, huh. There's this like, cultural thing where folks just get mad at people who do things they don't understand, especially when they perceive it as 'dumb'.

My question to that is; why on earth do you care what other people choose to do and why? I get that there was an argument made here to that effect, but for real, nobody is suffering from other people eating less gluten. I know I'm not and I love me a good bagel.
This will be replaced by us-east-1 failure days
There are plenty of ethical uses for using this with real people. Entertainment, a language interpreter, helping disabled people communicate, etc. The lines don't change based on what technology is available, it can, however, make it easier for people to cross them.
I’m not sure there is much in the way of data driving the situation. It largely depends on the root cause obviously but when they get into staffing situations like this, the calculation is nearly impossible. They can reroute crews to more critical flights but that causes such large cascading effects that it’s often best to avoid that if the cascading effects get too complex to solve cleanly and quickly by a person at a work station. I could be wrong though. That’s just my observation from being a frontline employee.

The easiest way to fix these things is throw money at the crews sitting at home on their time off. If that doesn’t work, have more crews available… meaning, hire.
Analysis and reverse-engineering of the original Starlink router
My boiler system has an electric pump. I'm not sure my boiler would run without electricity either.
OP here - we upgraded to 400 amp service, but 200 would still be sufficient for us. I just have a hard time saying no when 'overkill' costs only 10% more.
Labels are what we use to categorize and assign meaning to the world, like it or not.

Think about it - without an "autism" label, how do we communicate or think clearly about research, diagnosis, treatment, and social structures to help people who suffer with this category of symptoms?

It's like talking about coding or doing math without variables, making decisions without criteria, or reasoning philosophically without definitions. Coherent thinking relies on the ability to categorize and label.
I'd rather have stack overflow sweat a little more to create cloud community and contribute there than on AWS.

Though the enterprise support is excellent on AWS, using its own customers to answer their questions is absolute free loading.

There's nothing stopping them from adding the forum membership, as part of their business package deals down the lane.
I just checked the numbers - in 2021 I opened 19 AWS support cases. Every single one of them was resolved quickly and satisfactorily.

By contrast in a previous job I dealt with Azure support on the regular, an experience which was akin to pulling teeth.

I’ve yet to actually get through to a support person at GCP whenever I’ve tried.
This is going to be a bit of a wild answer... But I'm going to say Awk. All the basic programming constructs/concepts are there, without having to get lost in compilers, IDEs, makefiles etc. On Windows you can get coding with just a single gawk.exe binary doing very practical things for real world tasks. Not to mention the original Awk book is maybe a 4 hour read, and very understandable.
Heat pumps are rather inefficient according to this video [1]. Are you not bothered by all the noise it generates? Why not just use electric heater instead of a heat pump?

1 - https://youtu.be/GhAKMAcmJFg
So basically a full table scan, where the table is stored on tape instead of DASD. Sounds very plausible!
450 doesn’t seem like a crazy amount to me for what discord is. You can be flipping through 10+ servers each with 10k+ users in it, hopping back and forth between real time voice chat, video chat/streaming, and chat with huge images/gifs in it.

Too be honest I wouldn’t be surprised if gif rendering is one of the most memory intensive parts of the app. They have them everywhere and people paying for their premium subscriptions get a 50Mb upload cap and they will store the full uncompressed version of that resource and display it in the chat (although I think you have to click to load resources over 8Mb).
My comment wasn’t addressing them, that said:

Kids are back at schools and daycares with no air filtration mandates, no parent bubble separation, no parent vaccine segregation…

Ultimate metric for abolishing MIQ is ICU pressure. And that was about to happen anyway just few days away, until Omicron (rightfully so, although given slip up with delta I’d say close the border completely).
I didn't know, neat!
Add MS Teams to that list. It’s got a poor UX, is sluggish, and makes the system sluggish.
for me it's a spatial web browser.
What Is Your ROI from Investing in Your Brand and Reputation
ROI from investing in your reputation broken down. Happy Holidays.
Much as with other things, the problem isn't the creation of the lie, its the publishing of it. I can claim your dad spoke against his values, publish a fake document, draw or photoshop a photo showing him committing a horrendous crime, etc.. Publishing something anonymously as a fake primary document is vaguely new but probably not going to be too common.

It's pretty dumb to suggest that I shouldn't be allowed to create something on my computer privately that I can just imagine on my own, imo.
I mean, ok?

That doesn't change the point this house cleaner was able to get creative and a bunch of property.
And if they refuse?
Just curious: if you are an enterprise, what do you think (besides cost) is a compelling argument in 2022 for not going to a public cloud? This is probably a Ask HN, so please do point me to it if you know an existing one.
Have you seen executive bonus structures? I'm going to assume the compensation committee isn't stupid and has more than one metric and a metric that can't be gamed quite so easily.