skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll bite.

"Autism Spectrum" is a deliberately vague term that has been created and stretched to bring a variety of minor social and emotional functional differences under the general label of "autism". As far as I can tell, in the US the major purpose of this has been to divert special education funding from severely impaired children to less-impaired children from higher socioeconomic strata, and it has been very effective in doing so.

So to directly answer your questions, "Asperger's" (or whatever substitute term you find acceptable -- I'm perfectly fine with a substitute) is very useful to distinguish people with minor social and emotional functional differences -- those people who are, for example, able to hold down a tech job and post about autistic politics to Hacker News -- from highly impaired people such as my daughter who will never hold a job and whose verbal skills are at a three year old level.

These distinctions are vitally important to ensure that appropriate funding goes to these highly impaired children rather than being siphoned away to children of well-connected or politically savvy parents who are fully capable of succeeding in the mainstream educational system without aid.
Reminds me of “wear sunscreen” https://youtu.be/sTJ7AzBIJoI but less inspiring. ()
> My offer still stands if you'd like a tour of a datacenter and see the sausage being made at scale.

I might take you up on that offer, as I might need that for some new project I'm preparing.

Where are you located?
It's very interesting. Some of the things my girlfriend described really highlight how weird we neurotypicals are and act. From many social norms and conventions to empathy, a lot of what we do only seems to make sense in the historic or evolutionary context, but not actually in the moment when you think about it. It really does feel like different species. I have no data but suspect people on the spectrum should get along great with other people on the spectrum; You just have the disadvantage that you are in the minority and seem to not be well-understood by society.
I have not heard of the guy or ART.

Extremely high reviews on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Mind-Resonant-Brain-Makes/p...
"Do you think that those individuals that own corporations, would be interested..."

I can't even get my business partner to agree with me on mundane things let alone a grand plan to shape the world regardless of wealth.

Your argument hinges on this hypothetical "you" and that is like identifying the handful of termites that coordinated the building of the colony's mound.

Besides does this mindset serve you in any way ? Even if you are right, keep in mind there is a third role: sideliner. Many financially independent people are neither cattle or rancher.
Lots of things to be aware of when boating. The best is of course to use a structurally sound vessel. Then your main concern will simply be to keep a lookout as to not hit other boaters. With a leaky old brittle boat you need to make sure to have various backups plans and means of repairs for when things go wrong. The better shape your boat though, the less you have to worry outside of basic precautions. But if your boat is old and frail it would be of prudence to get the Pfizer Hull-Restoration kit and apply it thoroughly before heading out. And remember to apply twice per year!

Best wishes to your nephew.
How do you define "socialist or communist government"? By some measures quite a bit of europe is at least as socialist as those countries.
In 1822, there were no antibiotics. In 1922, people had them or were well on their way to having them be easily available. In 2022, we are looking at what may be the beginning of the end of the antibiotic era. Will mRNA replace the antibiotic and is 2022 that beginning of the mRNA era? It appears to be a strong possibility.
You should absolutely care if they company isn’t doing well. Companies that are failing bring more stress and fail to you
I partly agree, but a lot of this stuff is very context-dependent.

Signals are interrupts, which are faster than an event loop but very bug-prone, especially in C (few C library functions are safe in interrupts), but shared-memory threads are too, for almost exactly the same reasons. If you want to share memory between processes, it's easy enough to use mmap().

Both threads and signals are somewhat tamer in Python, but lose some of their advantages on the way.

Interrupts are really needed for three reasons: device driver latency and buffering (multithreaded CPUs probably being a superior alternative), killing infinite loops, and userspace virtual memory. Unix signals are useless for the first and arguably so bad at the other two that Unix would have been better off without them.

Generally running multiple processes of the same program with different exec() calls uses more memory than forking it at startup, not less. It's true that threads use less still, and event loops less than that, when you don't have a multicore scaling problem.

If you're looking at writing your own event loop, select() is more convenient than poll(), and io_uring is worth checking out. kqueue, iocp, and epoll are faster than poll(). Also though maybe just try libev, libevent, or libuv instead of writing your own.
Python 4.0 will never arrive
On Android have you tried the similar Bromite browser?
Bitcoin's energy consumption is a feature, not a bug. The amount of energy consumed by the network will continue to increase, as it should, as it secures more wealth.

A currency that's based on energy has been speculated about for decades, such as by Buckminster Fuller, which he called the Kilowatt Dollar: http://roperld.com/science/CurrencySystems.htm

Bitcoin is the first attempt at such a money that might actually work. https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-1053/

If you're curious about the connection between Bitcoin and the energy sector these are worth looking at.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvtGQ-7O1Tw

* https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/bitcoin-energy-use-comp...

* https://youtu.be/b-7dMVcVWgc

* https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-is-humanitarian-...
I suspect it is a trap entry to deny access. Just like if you willingly declare to an exchange that you are going to spend it on drugs. They can deny you, and refuse to be involved in RW pay off purchase to avoid liability.
Have they though? I think I've run into realizations that deep learning is too expensive or not yet scalable enough to be useful in some applications, but like other commenters on this thread. It can feel like a lot of the criticisms are grounded in some sort of feeling about what true intelligence should look like and an idea that number crunching can't possible be it
That's my understanding, this is hearsay from a private corporate accountant in the construction industry. I presume the idea is a fully law abiding company would not deduct all of that but some portion would be the company responsibility so that pay is positive.
Besides paying for your drugs with it, what did crypto brought to this world that is effectively good? As I see it now it's only more fodder for speculators.
Here's a wild idea. Everyday people should not label themselves by a political party. Only politicians need to have a political party. Why put ideology horse blinders by self labeling yourself by a political party? That's why I'm a radical Independent. I look at each issue individually and come up with my own conclusions.
The world is richer because people took the potato and learned how to grow it all over the world.
When it comes to natural language (as opposed to code) I wonder what the optimal error rate is. Autocorrect fixes some issues, so it's not 0 errors.
This, big time. The other answers seem like victim blaming.
Phabel vs. Rector: Which is better for transpiling PHP code?
Everytime I see thread on typing speed it makes me want to re-surrect this: https://github.com/janmechtel/rockettype

I wanted to start small with measuring real-life typing speed. And then work on two epics:

1. more aggressive Auto-Correct: why can you swipe "messy" on your phone and everything just works, all typos corrected fine, but the same doesn't work on PC?

2. typing technique trainer, webcam record your fingers and learn to use the right fingers for the right keys

Is anybody interested?
It's a combination of doctors and nurses. In some places, it's nursing staff that's keeping all beds from being open. This is absolutely a workforce that can be flexed on a shorter term notice.

Doctors can also be incentivized to do rotations in the ER. My primary care physician many years ago used to do ER rotations as a sort of overtime. Inventivize with the right pay, more will do it. Granted this isn't a large labor supply, but it certainly could help.

Instead, what you see is a shrinking of the nurse labor supply by a few percentage points due to vaccination requirements. Pretty ridiculous to complain about lack of capacity when you force some of that because you refuse to officially recognize natural immunity as equal to vaccine derived immunity.
> Open PRs for browsers with provided-by-us code to integrate RSS again, with UI elements that make existing feeds visible and supports subscribing via a feed reader

Please please please don't reinstate the "support" browsers had, it was effectively useless.

As someone who's built their own browser extension for tracking and reading feeds, I really don't want the confusion of a half feature. The browser is GREAT at navigating pages and rendering them, but when we start bundling in other services (ahem Pocket in firefox?) it feels like cruft.

I'd much rather browsers focus on building out solid features that support building amazing websites and extensions.
The war started some time ago. One side is still in denial, the other is still building strength.
I would agree. Abrasive managers aren't necessarily bad managers, though if the skip-level is abrasive enough that OP's direct managers is avoiding meetings with them that is a warning sign.
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I mean, at the baseline I think it's useful to know you're not meeting expectations. Of course it's more useful to know in a timely manner.
don't worry, the french farmers are also capitalists
> cease-and-desisted

by your brother?
don’t generalize these things. self driving in every possible scenario yes is probably a while off. self driving in specific circumstances is already here, such as airport shuttles and moving shipping containers in docks. you don’t need to solve the general case to be useful
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Steno devices are well-known to the speed typing community. Some competitions allow them, some don't. You can't bring this to one that doesn't for the same reason you can't bring a F1 to a stock car race.
With due respect, you are the one ignoring key context:

From the employee's carrier perspective those are external messages originating from you.

All that Verizon/T-Mobile/at&t see is spam coming from you, they don't know about the employer/employee relation. So when those carries complain to your carrier, your carrier has little options but to lock you.
The version of this I heard was about pessimism or depression and other people's perceptions of their attractiveness.

It may have been the same study or one inspired by the study you mentioned, but I've heard things like this before too.
And these “fired by liberals” stories are not without their publicity. Check out one of the early comments:

> Larry Elder

> Hi Issac,

> Would you be available today Thursday January 6, 2022 to come Larry Elder's nationally syndicated radio show to discuss this.

> Isaac Kriegman

> Would love to be on the show. I'll email you.

FYI, Larry Elder is a conservative talk radio host: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Elder

There’s a market for these sensationalized “fired for being conservative” stories.
"None of the three individuals received post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), shots that can prevent rabies from developing if received before symptoms start."

This isn't news. This is people being stupid and dying. In the Illinois case the patient specifically refused the shots.

https://abc7chicago.com/amp/rabies-in-humans-symptoms-vaccin...
My first pickup didn't have a clock, so I got a cheap one and stuck it to the dash with a magnet. Had to adjust it for DST, which was fine, as it had usually gone off a few minutes at that point. That was an okay level of electronic gadgetry for me. What we've got today is bonkers.
Forking and merge requests across instances. Also things like retweeting merge requests and comments from Mastodon, and having Mastodon replies appear as comments on the Gitea issue/MR.
If the center of the political spectrum shifts too far left or right then things get distorted. Moderate viewpoints when this happens will similarly have shifted to the right or left. From my perspective the U.S. has very much shifted to the right the past 50 years. Consider that Nixon created the EPA and Regan believed that the tax on labor should be less than the tax on capital. When the starting point on discussions has shifted too far in one direction then it’s hard to have sane discussions with the majority of the electorate.

That we have sitting members of Congress openly call for secession and the suppression of voting rights without their party condemning them indicates to me that we have tilted too far to the right for common ground to be found.
Ah yes, in the long run it's all rational, but in the long run we're also all dead. Even if that were the case, you are not a star, you are not near equilibrium, you are alive and don't have time to play long term rational games.
I think what we're headed for, is a total loss of credibility of all media outlets, mostly due to ridiculous hyperbolic nonsense like predicting an imminent civil war or asserting that Jan 6 was on par with Pearl Harbor or 9/11. Looking forward to it - screw these self-appointed thought police officers.

Edit: My comment was a knee jerk reaction to a misleading post title. In reality the Economist is in agreement with me here, they are reviewing a book that is predicting a civil war and calling it very hyperbolic. Good to see there are still some outlets with journalistic integrity.
Reading between the lines, it sounds like you're spending a disproportionate amount of effort on low-importance tasks. Don't forget that you're an employee for a business. The business sells solutions to customers and your job is to create those solutions (at least, assuming the company hasn't become huge and bloated).

Whether or not you're working diligently isn't really of huge importance if you're working on the wrong things.
Trump won the hispanic vote. Trump is many bad things, but I have no idea why his haters feel the need to make him into an imaginary racist. Really all that has done is make uninterested folks (like me) more sympathetic to him for having to deal with this kind of unsubstantiated nonsense.
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Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/67898.Peter_Bogdanovic...
Hmmm. But I really didn't mean robots with mostly hardcoded requirements and a few excellent optical recognition algorithms (which might truly be the real boss here).

I actually do mean a walking robot that can find the exact knife it needs to fillet a fish, regardless of whether it's in the sink, in its proper place on a stand, on the table, or dropped on the floor (and if it finds it on the floor it will wash it before usage first). I mean a robot that can open the fridge and find the tomatoes, regardless if your brother has moved them to the top shelf or if they are where they should be. Etc.
Nobody in France is going to be importing truffles from California when they can buy them locally
> (thankfully former) manager hat

Care to elaborate? (I'm considering starting a small thoughtbot-like company that focuses on elixir/functional languages primarily, where I'd mostly play dev-shepherd)
>this sucks, that sucks, it doesn’t work how I like it to

That’s too bad, really. But it’s the nature of Free software, you don’t have to use it, you can fix it, script it, make whizzy graphical front ends… I really hate to say it but this comes off the same way as somebody ranting about how Gimp isn’t Photoshop. PGP works, it’s Free, and there’s nothing else widely available with anywhere near the utility.
(Really responding to beepbottheory's comment, to which I cannot reply)

The downvoting around here is just weird. I thought downvotes were supposed to indicate comments that were against forum rules or just unhelpful; _maybe_ offtopic? But people seem to downvote stuff they just don't like, regardless of how intelligent it might be.

It's sad, and it's deteriorating HN.
How meta.
This already applies nationally for government jobs.
BTW, PayPal is absolutely terrible. That's a very low bar for crypto to clear. SEPA (=normal bank) money transfers or direct debit within Europe, TransferWise, etc. are much better options than PayPal (or crypto) for most purposes.
Your comment does the very thing you ridicule. Be better.
For programming, I wonder if there isn't a lot of low hanging fruit just by key remapping. For instance, a large proportion of keystrokes must be for opening and closing brackets, which requires two fingers for shift + the key.

I bet I press brackets more than "d", "f", "j", "k" - the best positioned keys in QUERTY
One side has a monopoly on calling for civil war. One side has sitting congressional representatives openly advocating a "national divorce" i.e. a civil war.
What makes you think that it is unnecessarily complicated?
True and my personal preference is for paper money made of actual paper. I prefer that over crypto too.
Yeah - when I read the news I see it... But when I go to the grocery store, the PTA meeting, or the mall I don't. It very well might be my bubble, but I don't see neighbors arming themselves, and the ones I know that are most adamant that Trump should be President for Life, would be shocked and appalled if called upon to leave the couch or keyboard to fight. It's become a passtime to predict the end of our democracy, but it takes a lot more than Twitter rants to really overthrow the government and install a new one.
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> For some reason, communists suck at automobile making.

Do you not think that embargoes have some degree of impact on this?
I was super annoyed by that too, but now it’s a distant memory as I must’ve found out how to disable it. I just see a fresh blank page when I open the browser. I don’t think they bother me with anything anymore. I don’t know what list of other things are wrong with Brave, but whatever they are I don’t notice them.
"Stephen Grossberg explains why his ART model is better"

Please don't explain me why your model is better.

_show me_ your model is better with results.

I see a lot of: "this model is explainable and has no forgetting modes". But I cannot care about an explainable model that does not work.

There are many classic explainable models, how do they compare to art in real life applications?

"The problem with today’s AI, he says, is that it tries to imitate the results of brain processing instead of probing the mechanisms that give rise to the results."

Today's AI works really well for many applications (computer vision has leaped in quality). But of course I did not expect perfection from ImageNet trained models. I also did not expect gpt3 to be agi. But are they good (especially when compared with what we had not long ago)? Hell yeah

Also, the advancements in protein folding are superb.

I understand the author is not dismissing the current advancement. But if you claim your model is better you ought to compare it with the state of the art
I am late to the party, but I also wanted to suggest learning to develop techniques for dealing with “this kind of attack.”

This may not be the last time you have this energy directed your way.

Your options are:

1. Make excuses or argue or “explain”

Looks really weak and doesn’t garner respect. Especially from asshole managers. Arguing will inflame them, they will take it as disrespect.

If they are in a mood to send a message, then explaining won’t get you anywhere. They want to yell at you to feel powerful. Explaining won’t help.

2. Take the beating

Just listen and don’t say anything. Neutral strategy, you don’t win or lose anything. But you also don’t prevent situation in the future.

If this is a one time thing, maybe it never happens again and you are better avoiding any escalation.

You turn into a doormat eventually, you are giving them a “free move.”

3. Restate their complaint before they complain (take their weapons away)

This is an extreme pro maneuver. If you have a truly aggressive boss, and I have had a few, you can anticipate their attacks in advance and state them up front.

This kind of managers attacks are often predictable.

This technique leaves your attacker with absolutely nothing to say. I use this on my own Manager to diffuse them.

This is a very powerful method, because you have to be willing to understand the situation from their view in advance.

Open the meeting with “so I know you are angry about how slowly this project has been going and probably think I suck at coding is that right? … “

This technique comes from the book “never split the difference.” You try to trigger them to agree with you up front. Once you do that; they are out of ammunition.

Lean into the punches takes the power away from them. But this requires extreme skill.

4. Blame on others by taking responsibility for their actions

This is a technique from the book “Stealing The Corner Office.”

You make your manager look weak by taking responsibility for misinterpreting them.

“I think I must be responsible because I misinterpreted Manager X when he said Y. I will work with X to clarify my understanding.”

This is kind of a passive aggressive strategy which indirectly blames your manager and makes it sound like he is actually the problem.

Anyways, I recommend reading both the books I mentioned earlier.

With aggressive managers I prefer to lean into the punches and take their attacks away.
Why is a plateau inevitable? And if it is, why aren’t AND and Intel subject to the same plateau?

Why must AMD and Intel end up on top again? It’s not like apple doesn’t have the cash to keep investing in chip dev.
"Either way, we probably need to think a little more about this kind of technology before we let it out of the barn. "

Ahaha! Hahahaha! Good one, guys. This stuff was out of the barn years ago.
If there's nobody to hold accountable when things inevitably go wrong then it needs to be perfect.

Too many times people have tried to push responsibility onto algorithms, which is the one thing everyone can agree they can't handle.
I've literally laughed aloud reading his guides, I'm a huge fan. It's honestly one of the best beginning programming-related books in my opinion.
Nothing scares me as hard as doing computer stuff in transport/logistics/warehouse/trade/invoices 'n' stuff world

complexity of those industries is giant