skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly I'm happier where I am now, which is generally writing http APIs and cryptography related code in Java (with bits of Go and python thrown in).

Development in C is slow, fraught with unexpected pitfalls and you end up writing an awful lot of stuff from scratch. While this is satisfying in some ways, I find the modern paradigms of the languages I work in now to be more fulfilling - yes you throw a lot of existing components together, but you also get to deliver functionality much more frequently.

There are also a lot of very old-school C shops out there, that don't believe in modern things like CI/CD, git, even automated testing. I'm sure there are good ones too, but there are a lot of dinosaurs in that arena. One of the last ones I contracted for (for about three weeks until I quit) responded to my usual first-day question of "OK, how do we build this product?" with "Oh don't worry about that, we can sort that out later" and later never came.

That all said - I really enjoyed working on a couple of embedded devices. Seeing what you can achieve with 128kB of SRAM and 256kB of flash is challenging, and since I was a kid I've enjoyed making the computer do stuff. With embedded devices that have buzzers, leds, little displays etc, you get immediate feedback. And having to think more about things like memory allocation strategies does influence your thinking in (I think) a good way. You can definitely gain some deep knowledge!
Why would they decide to blow themselves up? it doesn't make sense

Sounds like a trap from Ukrainians because they knew Russian troops would advance this far
Overthinking.
California is habitable, but they need to import food from the midwest and elsewhere rather than insisting on growing it in the desert with borrowed water.
Old laptops work great. Has a screen, keyboard, and mouse for troubleshooting and a built-in UPS (laptop battery).
Google Fiber plans 5-state growth spurt, biggest since 2015
I don’t know if I am autistic never got tested and I don’t care, but I’ve found myself at the start of my career in some compatible positions and thoughts, which now I have grown away from, are you sure that these things are about autism and not just simple immaturity?
People can be wrong about factual things, which can be verified.

We need to be careful, though, to not adopt black and white thinking even around "facts." Often, multiple contradictory factual things can be true at the same time and all pass verification.

Illusions are a lighthearted example of this that helped me appreciate this point. For example, the Yanni/Laurel audio illusion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanny_or_Laurel) where people on both sides argue, in good faith, that the sound is one or the other. And even if you analyze the underlying audio in depth, neither side is factually wrong because that is how they experience it and isn't merely based around an opinion :-)
Could you expand on why you see the OP's position as patronizing?

AFAICT, the OP identified a minimal set of questions he thought needed to be asked to give a good answer, and tried to ask them.

Are you taking exception to how he sought that information, or something else?
The crux of the article:

> Spearman was right that people differ in their ability to solve well-defined problems. But he was wrong that well-defined problems are the only kind of problems. “Why can’t I find someone to spend my life with?” “Should I be a dentist or a dancer?” and “How do I get my child to stop crying?” are all important but poorly defined problems. “How can we all get along?” is not a multiple-choice question. Neither is “What do I do when my parents get old?” And getting better at rotating shapes or remembering state capitols is not going to help you solve them.
I seriously doubt SpaceX would be where it is today without Elon getting people motivated.

We'd just have another SLS pork-barrel space company, which was the norm before Elon came along.
I get what you're saying, but at the same time that is exactly what the author is trying to do, just that they are doing it in their own way, which just so happens to feel adversarial to the manager.

There is no right or wrong here. Asking the engineer to "think logically" in terms of how what they're saying might be interpreted is stupid. They are autistic, and you cannot reasonably expect them to do the exact thing autism prevents them from doing.

Asking the manager to try to understand is probably more efficient, but the manager might be geared to think the engineer is adversarial already, possibly because of demeanor, or past experiences getting similarly confused. In this case the manager is probably more able to reason logically that their counterpart is autistic and is probably genuinely asking, but that is not a default, and probably requires some diversity training.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_Conservancy#Big_bus...

Big business ties

The Nature Conservancy has ties to many large companies, including those in the oil, gas, mining, chemical and agricultural industries.[42] As of 2016, its board of directors included the retired chairman of Duke Energy, and executives from Merck, HP, Google and several financial industry groups.[43] It also has a Business Council which it describes as a consultative forum that includes Bank of America, BP America, Chevron, Coca-Cola, Dow Chemical, Duke Energy, General Mills, Royal Dutch Shell, and Starbucks.[44] The organization faced criticism in 2010 from supporters for its refusal to cut ties with BP after the Gulf oil spill.[45][46]

Writer and activist Naomi Klein has strongly criticized The Nature Conservancy for earning money from an oil well on land it controls in Texas and for its continued engagement with fossil fuel companies.[47][48] The Nature Conservancy responded by arguing that it had no choice under the terms of a lease it signed years prior with an oil and gas company and later came to regret.[47]

In 2020, Bloomberg published an article claiming that some of the companies (such as JPMorgan Chase, Disney, and BlackRock) that purchase carbon credits from The Nature Conservancy were purchasing carbon credits for forests that did not need protection.[49]
The seed is also recursive, in that it contains all the instructions necessary to get the resulting plant to produce more of the seed.
Why can't they kill the products everyone hates, instead of the ones people like?
I installed pi-hole in my house just for this.
South Korea investigates Apple and Google over new in-app payment law
I always wonder if this "missing mass" is just light. As in it is so close to zero mass to be undetectable at a normal scale, but at galaxy scale, it actually has mass.
Sometimes the blame is with the other party.

An uncomfortable truth we all pretend to ignore is that more than half the population is below average intelligence.[1]

The comments in this blog post don't just apply to autistic people, but apply equally to people that are simply less wrong than average.

An observation I made is that some people make correct statements approximately 90% of the time. This is waaaay above the typical, which is more like 30-40%.

Typical people assume that everyone else is typical, because that's what typical means. Average people are average, and the Bell curve is the tallest in the middle. So when they encounter someone who isn't typical (not just autistic), they assume that their behaviour is arrogant, because someone who is right 35% of the time and talks like they're right 90% of the time must be arrogant!

Someone who is right 90% of the time faces an endless series of accusations of being overbearing, arrogant, self-important, not-a-team-player, or not "giving in" as in the blog post. Being contrary, argumentative, or not taking the blame to a sufficient degree are commonly said as well.

Speaking of giving in, most people follow the ten-thousand-year-old[2] tradition of doing whatever the grey-haired tribe leader says. Authority over correctness. Toe the line. Know your place. Keep your head down. Don't rock the boat. Part of the team.

The thing is, being old doesn't mean much, especially in a time of exponential change. In fact, the older you are, the more wrong your rules-of-thumb are, often exponentially wrong. This leads to endless fun conflicts of opinion where the young inexperienced buck is actually entirely correct in disregarding decades of experience[3]. But that leads to ostracism and exclusion, because we're all human, which is to say that we're basically strategically shaved gorillas in suits.

[1] If you don't know why more than half, well... umm... I have some bad news for you about which half you might be in.

[2] Did I say ten kiloyears? I meant megayears. Sorry. This is what we've been doing since before we were human. It's wired into us deep.

[3] A random example from very recently is that I had to explain with pictures to senior management that upgrading the WAN links for one hundred sites from 2 Mbps to 4 Mbps and locking in that telco contract for 5 years is a mistake three zeroes in size.
What if you got diarrhoea?
The same polls that showed trump losing 2016?
Even Alzheimer's and ssri research is faked these days.
I don't trust the expert class these days.
Adding to the other comments, there are also SD card/flash drive-based 'floppy disk' hardware emulators available on eBay. They even have buttons on the front so you can cycle through, e.g. all thirteen floppies of Windows 3.1. :)

There's one piece of hardware (3.5"
hardware emulator) whose clones are popular enough to even have third-party customizable firmware on github!

I own one, but unfortunately, I can't remember the name of this hardware nor the alternate firmware off the top of my head. When I get to a computer I will check my ebay history.

Even though it's physically a 3.5" 'drive,' with the IDC-style connector, the alternate firmware lets you emulate various disk geometries, and I believe the 3.5" and 5.25" signals are electrically compatible.

It's an extremely useful piece of hardware, especially if you're already getting software in the form of floppy disk images from a place like winworldpc.
Show HN:JuiceFS 1.0, A POSIX, HDFS, and S3 compliant cloud file system
The issue I worry about is the planned obsolesce by code. Like the epson printers stop working after so many prints, or Apple phones slowing done when a new model comes out, or BMW charging for heated seats, or other features that 'expire' purely due to some parameter set in software that has nothing to do with the physical components they control. The cars of the future (EV or ICE) will suck because of these problems that no government will ever address.
I've run into the same issues constantly throughout my life, especially when it comes to asking clarifying questions to get a grip on the situation. Something I'm going to do moving forward is first stating that I have a few questions that I need to ask to better understand the other's statement or question.

I think this sharing of my perspective may help the conversation to move forward in a more productive manner.

Thank you for putting this information out there! I hope it helps other people understand autistic communication and intentions a little bit better.
That is the reason why the worlds is going to chaos, we are driven by political autistic necromancer O_O

7000 years after the first pound, we are ending the planet ... and no one agreed that human is wrong ()
TBH if it comes with some decent starter templates it's a massives step up from what the python world offers.

I've been looking to make a simple website recently - landing page, user sign up, taking payments, then access to a simple react one-pager. It's all doable but with django you just have to do everything, even if you start with the cookicutter.

I just want something where I can pick from a good base template, then get started, not spend days plugging all the parts together. If this helps with that I'll check it out. What would you use for the user data? Firebase, etc.?
I am pretty sure Shopify is still hiring. May be the author wants to work on next gen Ruby VM as well?
Arguably, identity is the only application for which blockchains are the most suitable for the reason that identity itself is the artifact of a consensus.
I'll share the argument here in case you haven't read this particular driver for it yet, and it needs scrutiny.

The reasoning goes that in govt, you have licenses and birth certificates, SINs and ID cards, and depending on the legal regime, there are limitations for the legal uses of each of those. Banks could theoretically offer ID because they have more information about you, but then they take on risk and liability in its usages. Second, each transaction that requires identity only needs a certain level of assurance, and what these orgs have agreed to is they will contribute their user identity attributes to a blockchain to support an identifying consensus without holding any risk or having any responsibility for the usage, while providing a high degree of institutional assurance that their contribution is verified and supported by KYC, pattern of life, anti-fraud etc. In this case, identity is an epiphenomenal artifact of the consensus.

Where I might agree is that I don't think strong identity itself is valuable, it in fact destroys value, and the consensus just implements the impunity and social anti-pattern of a one-way committee decision - and I think it's an imposition that doesn't help anyone except make them more exposed to remote enforcement of fines and petty policies. e.g. Yay, now you can get parking tickets in foreign countries, and all the use cases are variations of that.

However, if you want recourse and sanctions of individuals that are portable without integrating with central national identity schemes, a blockchain is the way to do that. That's the most succinct version I think there is. The irony may be that civil liberties may be the strongest argument against blockchains because they are the cryptological implementation of a committee or star chamber when their consensus represents a monopoly or "radical monopoly."
That is what a JIT is, a dynamic compiler.
Author here, thanks for reading. That is exactly the first question I would ask.
If you ask me to make something better, I need to know what you mean by “better”. That’s where a productive discussion start, when we align the goals (and I don’t really care about them, they all turn into interesting technical challenges) and then discuss strategy (amongst which there is technology).

If me asking what the goal is is perceived as patronising, when I’m just trying to do my best, then sure I can work on that. But that requires good faith on the side of the manager. It’s not my decision to shut things down.
General elections are largely a mechanism for resolving conflicts and not for finding competent leaders.

Historically, people have fought to select leaders. Such a system puts the strongest and most brutal in power.

Now we let people talk and then vote. It's a mechanism for resolving conflicts that has been extremely successful at its job.

This is, btw, why freedom of speech is so important and why it's exactly whose we least want to hear, who must to be able to speak. We resolve conflicts with people we have conflicts with, not people we agree with. Talk about it or fight about it. Talking has led to, probably, the most peaceful period of human history.
Then you have a signed NaN and instead of eating them at your local indian food restaurant, you put it in a collection.
Yeah, I got that from the post that's what prompted my original comment.

It felt like you were falling into the common trap of seeming angrier about "people complaining about X" than "X" even as you mentioned that X was bad.

The mentions of great crimes all seemed a bit remote and dry, whereas the accusations of people being overdefensive and deflecting using it as an excuse seemed a bit more heartfelt.

I think from the inside it can be hard to judge that balance and put yourself in the position of someone who might weight things differently. A problem of "privilege" which you bring up, but don't seem to be swayed by, though I've never met anyone who thinks it doesn't apply to other people.
My little brother is autistic and admits he's wrong all the time. The title of this is trash.
It’s not clear in the article, but if this is all from the same company, this sounds like a really bad company to work for. The author is probably right that they’re being treated unfairly because of their autism (which is wrong), but I’d bet that the neurotypical engineers at the company also have experiences of being dismissed by management.

The example that stuck out to me was “should we migrate our website to React”. The questions the author wanted to ask seemed like very normal questions to ask, and good questions that any good engineer would ask before answering a question like that (unless they already have a lot of context about the website in question).

I don’t have autism, but I’ve worked with people with autism, and at my job I think they were treated more respectfully than what the author describes. It’s possible that they’re being mistreated but I’m just not seeing it though.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that although I can’t directly relate to the author’s experience, I would still recommend that they try to find a new job with a less toxic workplace culture.
Nice game! Thanks!

Some proposals to improve usability:

The game should notice a stalemate and tell you that you lost (no matter how you rotate: no more progress is possible).

The game should accept a hit of 'Return' to start the new game (it currently seems to insist of mouse interaction).

The game should have a 'fast' mode with less animation so that I can play faster. A single move takes too long! I am impatient! :-)
I’m celebrating the antispam properties of device attestation, not asking anyone to trust Apple. I’m quite upset that Google RCS doesn’t include device attestation. It would have helped us get rid of text spam in carrier messaging, and made a convincing case for adoption by telcos. Imagine being able to block text spam by the equipment sending it. Imagine being able to block phone spam by the equipment calling you. It’s a missed opportunity for Google and for all of us.
This must be unique to the US, many vehicles in Europe still have a belt. Even with a chain you'll probably still have auxiliary belts which need replacing, water pump, etc.
I’m italian and I think this is extremely rude.
> If a manager comes over and suggests something to you, you need to understand their perspective for coming to that discussion

Isn't that exactly what the author did, at least in the React discussion? They tried to establish what potential benefits the manager hoped to get from the React rewrite. It was the manager who immediately gave up on the discussion, not the author.
Neuro diverse people can't necessarily change their behaviour because it's how their brain is wired. It's like asking a visually impaired person to just see better. Many neuro diverse people have to force themselves to "fit in" causing untold stress and trauma. That's not for their own good, it's forcing their brains to work in a way that they don't.
One problem with the parts of newer cars is quite often they come in "assemblies" rather than individual parts.

For example, I somehow misplaced the brake fluid cap for my car and needed to buy a new one. OEM would have required that I buy a new master cylinder assembly (including pump and more) for £200 and no garages seemed to stock the particular cap I needed.

As I couldn't find anyone willing to sell the cap on its own, I ended up buying the fluid tank from a breaker on eBay for £30 and just used the cap and put the rest in my loft just in case I ever need it.

That being said, the reason this is harder than it used to be is because fewer people need to buy individual parts nowadays. The market is evaporating. Still, some standardisation or legislation about what counts as a "part" could be valuable, but I'd be concerned about over-regulation reducing innovation and reliability, so it's hard to find a balance.
> The author may also benefit from investing some of their mental capital (I'm not being sarcastic, they're obviously very intelligent) into learning how to play the games

I am not aware of any good systematic textbooks on this topic.

(of course not the author)
I'm all for using and reusing old hardware as long as it makes sense, but complaining about something being a resource hog on a 9 year old laptop with 8GB of ddr3 is nonsensical.
What an extreme response.

Hitler and Stalin had a high probability of causing the direct killing of people they knew and loved.

Elon Musk is the CEO of a company you likely will never even patronize. Hatred (or love) of him is pure teenage emotional angst.
A lot of the little stuff you just live with on an old car. It's the medium stuff that kills you. If something big goes you just trash the car, but it's the many $500 - $3k repairs that eat you alive. Brakes, suspension, CV joints, et cetera.

Electric cars don't eliminate this kind of stuff, but they do reduce it. Brake wear is almost completely eliminated, differentials usually are eliminated, transmissions are single speed transfer boxes, CV joints are sometimes eliminated, et cetera.
? https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=bunniestudios.com
> “…giant metal death machines…”

I live in the greater New York area and I walk a lot, or use my kick scooter (Xootr), so this is my perspective.

Comfy seats, phone, music, beverage holder—all the comforts of the living room—drivers are oblivious to everyone and everything around them. How many times is a driver ‘surprised’ when they realize you’re sharing the road with them. How entitled are drivers who flip out when anyone slows their forward progress. People wrapped in their personal auto-cocoon, and completely distracted and emotionally disconnected from people outside. Leave their air conditioned homes, and button up in their air conditioned cars. From isolation to insulated.

My family always had manual cars, and when someone dropped out, they would say, I’m too old, and too tired to drive the clutch. Automatic was for old people. Haha
I've said it before, Google Chrome is the modern IE in terms of pushing proprietary web solutions that block out the competition, I can't remember which services it was but a few times I've seen here on HN people complaining that new Google Products work only in Chrome, but if you fake the browser agent in Firefox, it works just the same, they are just blocking out other browsers, which is really bad, I wonder where that lands a company in ADA compliance if you cannot even access something in your browser due to some developer somewhere not thinking about other browsers.
An Email is supposed to be a document which reflects the state of a topic at the time it was sent.
The fact that there is a need in the industry for distribution of dynamic content which provides different (more recent) information whenever it is read is clear.

But maybe that's not an evolution of email but in direct contradiction to it. Maybe it's something entirely different that is needed ... an industry standard for notifications.

Unfortunately the current landscape of the market is not favorable to create proper industry standards anymore like it used to, as all the big players feel that they have no need to co-work anymore to solve a cross-industry problem.
lol. the same argument is being used by politicians to try and stifle development of Tor and E2EE chat apps - "only criminals need to use these privacy tools."
How do you square your idea with the other substantial implications of photons having mass?