skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're probably right and I've misread your intention (autism lol). I agree with you that yes being autistic is a disability in the modern world due to a lack of accommodations.

My perception of the word neurodivergent is that firstly the vast majority of people who use the word use it with an often first-hand awareness of the disabling aspects of conditions like adhd or autism, but with a view towards self acceptance. The people using the word are often painfully aware of the downsides of their disability, but equally can see the upshots.

If we were in a world populated by 99% autistic people, neurotypical people would be called overly emotional, lower cognitive function, inability to think abstractly, inability to focus for long periods of time.

The point is you can acknowledge the need for accommodations while simultaneously acknowledging that it's not so much something inherently "wrong" with you, rather something wrong with you existing in a neurotypical world.
Then we'd have the Oxford comma problem:

[1, 2, 3 and 4]

or

[1, 2, 3, and 4]
Counterexample: sports teams that improve when they replace their star player.

Football doesn't have great players in an absolute sense. For the last decade, the greatest player, depending on which tiresome fan you ask, had been either Ronaldo or Messi.

Messi didn't pull up any trees at PSG, and Ronaldo's second stint at MU was underwhelming. In both cases, that's because the team tactics had to be shifted to accommodate these players, to the detriment of the other players.

My old team lead was rated highly. But he stifled the rest of the ICs. From above he looked good, from below he looked shit. He should not have been developing software, he needed to be in a process-oriented role. I believe that our productivity would have increased - certainly morale and cohesion would have - if he'd fucked off and not been replaced.
There's also LingoAmigo, which is based on whatsapp
https://camplejs.github.io - website
Anecdotally I haven't observed managers having more difficulties job hopping than engineers. In fact managers are often the first to jump the ship in stormy weather.
> There just isnt any way to prepare a house, road, field or any other area the beavers want to inundated.

Huh? Are you talking about the legal quirks of some particular place? Because there are plenty of practical measures.

For example: Trapping the beavers, for relocation or some other fate); protecting trees with fencing or a sand/paint mix they dislike; putting in some cage-protected piping that limits the water-level in their dam; and various techniques to prevent beavers from blocking culverts and drains.

Interestingly, beaver dam-building instincts are affected by the sound of rushing water (rather than a detailed understanding of flows and pressure) which means there's some acoustic engineering that can be done to prevent them from perceiving dam-opportunities.
Yes.

I tried to come up with something that would convey in a few words that the GIL was going to be removed for sure this time. But as a Frenchmen, I couldn't find better.

"GIL will be removed" was the closest, but it's very long, and it sounds like all those times we had the promise it would be, but it never did.

So the Prophetic perfect tense is the best compromise: it asserts near certainty, it's short, and worst case scenario the article remove ambiguity.

Plus the news popped up this week in HN front page, so a lot of people knew the context.
Yeah anyone motivated to take down a plane can just buy a surface-to-air missile for a few grand.
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I think you underestimate the problems that will occur in a large code base when the GIL is gone. It'll play out like this:

Test will be fine, but production will have some weird bugs. Nobody understands it. The devs end up adding locks everywhere, bringing down performance, or creating dead locks. In the end, they migrate back to Python 3.16.

Here's free lesson number 1: start adding stress tests now.
AWS offers p5.48xlarge which is 8xH100 for $98.32, so 12.29$ per hour per H100 - ~6x the price.
Outlook Account Problems
Outlook has account problems
I originally asked for languages in which the language itself is more powerful, yet you got me thinking, because I want speed first and foremost. Still, wouldn’t a Lisp dialect (which are famous for individual dev productivity) like Clojure better in this regard, because it has afaik Java interop?
> It's for this reason, supposedly, that we're asked to boot our laptops and so forth.

Not at all.

The TSA got credible information from intelligence agencies that there is a group who has the plan to manufacture bombs which are disguised as laptops. They would be manufactured such that they appear normal to the commonly used screening technologies. This is what we know. From here on it is speculation.

The easiest way to accomplish this is by replacing the battery of a laptop with explosives. You wouldn't want to have a mix of real battery and explosive though because that would be very hard to hide seamlessly on a scanner. So the theory is that these laptops would not function, and when being turned on they would appear to be out of battery.

So no. Being able to boot your laptop does not prove that you are not an "assassin". It proves that it has functioning batteries inside.

Besides how silly that is? I wager that we could teach mandolin stringing and laptop booting to anyone in an hour tops. Attacker or not. In fact anyone who can chew gum and walk at the same time can probably string a mandolin in 15 minutes (not to the exacting expectations of a real mandolin player, but to appear competent enough to a screening person.)
Synapse is kind of a pain, I think I'll give this a shot.
Well, it's like showing your plan for painting a room, and asking "I seem to get stuck here after painting all but the corner, how do I get out of the corner?". The answer actually is "don't leave the corner for last".

Or like the martial arts student asking the master "how do I fight a guy 100m away with a rifle?" - "don't be there".
While that answer is not complete, it's also definitely not "no answer". I agree that there should probably be some company associated, but as MVP from single developer, do you expect to get his full address too?
I've actually been in HR discussions telling people managers are overrated and we need to value ICs more. It's really difficult to explain to HR people that managing people isn't[1] a higher responsability job than being an expert at doing something...

[1] Of course, sometimes it is. It depends on the team size and seniority, but also depends on the expertise. I'm just saying that a manager does not have to always have a higher grade than a person on his team.
This was only implemented to "punish" Britons.
EU citizens are allowed to use electronic gates in the UK
"If you're going to write assembly just write assembly."
Like Mozilla and GNOME. And the left wing CCC. They were all banned everywhere.
Well, are they your kids or her boyfriend's?
EM fields propagate just fine through vacuum, they are mediated by photons.
> Isn't xmpp old style instant messaging?

No.

XMPP is just as "modern" as Matrix, but has a _different _ data storage/distribution idea.

see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36939676
> Basically everyone who utters the question “.. but how technical are they?” in that particular tone of voice is a shitbird.

Software is a new industry, we're only just starting to get it right, and put behind us a litany of failed projects and methodologies. Every decision in a software company has a technical aspect. I personally am absolutely over non-technical managers and the aberrant strategies and directions they set out on. In my jaundiced view, any software company not led by developers is just waiting to be blown out of the water.

But don't let that detract from an intelligent, heart-felt and thought-provoking article :-)
I can assure you that a great majority of practicing Catholics do not treat confessions seriously. Coming from a traditionally Catholic society, we don't have any better coping techniques than "simply man up".

I'm fascinated with Americans who discover Catholicism though. Suddenly the religious parts of Europe become what Japan is to anime enthusiasts - a mythical land of perfection.
I find that philosophy becomes dry and irrelevant when only treated as a field of study as opposed to a way of living.

My suggestion is to find a school of thought that you find useful enough that it can actually guide you in your everyday life.

For example, many people on HN find Stoicism easy to understand and fairly applicable - but maybe not always easy to apply - to their daily lives. I can recommend "The Daily Stoic" by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman [0] as a good introduction to stoicism with modern commentary.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Daily-Stoic-Meditations-Wisdom-Persev...
Some years ago I was flying home from a large European airport. Unbeknownst to me there had been a bomb threat, so the security check was turned up to 11.

The queue for the security check was enormous, thousands of people packed in a snaking queue filling up the place.

I've never been so scared flying as I stood in line looking at the doors to the parking lot, with nothing but people between.
This is a common bitcoin meme now, mostly to try to disassociate bitcoin from the negative associations that the term cryptocurrency has accrued over the last few years. It allows bitcoin fans to say things like "Yes, I agree, cryptocurrency is a scam!" and follow that quickly with "But have you heard about Bitcoin?"

It is, of course, nonsense. BTC effectively defines the term cryptocurrency, there is nothing about BTC which isn't found elsewhere in other cryptocurrencies, many of which are chain or code forks of BTC anyway. It's the biggest name, it was the first mover, but the claims that it is a separate phenomenon all of its own are relatively recent (or have increased markedly in recent months) and are IMHO hilarious.
I'd say writing and speaking are certainly two very different skills which I am sometimes painfully made aware of when my words in foreign languages flow much slower and less eloquently than my fingers on the keyboard, but I believe there still is a high degree of synergy.
No idea how world coin is supposed to work.. but couldn’t they get their account back by scanning their iris again? Like, I’m guessing you’re not supposed to have to scan your iris every time you use your account. But can’t the iris be like a “I forgot my password” mechanism?
Sequoia Capital cuts back fund for crypto investments
I learned about Ayn Rand second-hand thanks to the Bioshock series (which took place in a retrofuturistic submarine dystopia produced by a strictly libertarian society), so I got the reference right away...
Where I live, it is common to air-dry clothes on dryer racks. It isn't as common for folks to have dryers inside the house.

The catch: I'm in Norway, and can promise you these clothes aren't seeing sun for most of the year. People don't stink - and it isn't due to being used to the smell. Folks didn't stink when I moved here a decade ago either. Clothes don't stink more in the winter, even though they take more time to dry due to colder house temperatures. You can't leave them for hours in the washer, but that's true even if you are using a dryer.

Of course, there are exceptions. You really should hang them up soon after you take them out of the washer.
Now hold on.. Google made not just the software but the structure that makes it practical for Google and hardware makers like Qualcomm to get their cake and the vendors to somehow be responsible for the gap it causes when every vendor has to integrate drivers separately into orphans of the Linux kernel.

Many vendors happily joined Android One which Google seems to have silently killed, so I don't think they are that happy losing reputation to sell Android phones they can't properly support.
Not even NEJM:

Recent letter to the editor in NEJM about that paper that showed 90% drop in Covid-related mortality after the first booster:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2306683

It turns out that there was also a similar non-disclosed drop in non-Covid-related mortality. Either we discovered a magic elixir, or the entire effect is probably just confounding.

The original authors even say in their response that

> However, boosters were generally not administered to hospitalized patients who were at high risk for death from any cause.

They never even attempted to control for it.

Edit: at least NEJM accepts letters to the editor about the crap it publishes.
>For this use case it would be better to put the data in a shared SQLite database than relying on multiprocessing CoW

In Python yes. In Java you could take advantage of shared memory and get spared the overhead of SQLite.
> the ideal that I already mentioned - and that you seemingly missed in your enthusiasm for attacking me and my motivations - is that we should simply invest far more in education so everyone gets the best possible education catered to their needs.

In our very well-heeled district, the administration resists calls for offering options for advanced learners. It has nothing to do with resources, so adding more resources would not result in more learning for advanced students. The constraint is ideological, not financial.
Yeah there's comorbidities, the only two of which are significant enough for the literature to note in this context is epilepsy and mental illness. Epilepsy does not account for most early death in level 1 ASD.
The tenses in the headline and the article are very iffy.

It’s more like there will be work to remove the GIL that will start after a particular PEP will be approved.

The main reason we are still writing some stuff in java at our shop is because parallel processing sucks with multiprocessing, and trivial in java.

I look forward to a future where it as trivial in or even simpler in python.
Interesting point about the west. Apparently Dostoevsky wrote the novels in a western style, altering the Russian style to be more like his western contemporaries like Dickens and other readable novelists. (He still wrote in the russian language of course)

I don't think the intention was to appeal to the west but I think it does make it easier for westerners today to approach and appreciate his work.
It’s a ridiculous statute in my opinion, but this is also silly:

> That means Copeland’s church gets a pass on what would otherwise be an annual property tax bill exceeding $150,000 — money that other local taxpayers must backfill to cover the cost of schools, police and firefighters.

How on earth does this make sense? It’s not like there’s some divine requirement that an exact number of dollars must be paid and now everyone else is on the hook. Taxing rich people more is convenient and mostly accepted but come on, it’s 1 person, they aren’t using more schools/police/whatever.
Sorry for the repetition, but do you mean 16 GB VRAM? That is a very high requirement, a RTX 4060 only has 8GB and even a RTX 4070 only ships with 12GB. Any upcoming further optimizations for reducing memory usage?

PS. Nice to see an Hindi name for a software. For those who don't speak Hindi: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%96%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%9C...
Being a more-or-less sequel to the equally sublime System Shock series, they had to choose something with "Shock" for the title...
A "hot take" is an initial reaction, without benefit of much data or consideration.

Like when someone shouts to you after they've already thrown, and you must turn and catch in a fraction of a second. Or take a ball to the jaw.

You've expressed a considered preference, not a hot take.
The difference is the cultural expectation. The web has always been like Venice's Carnival: people wear masks, some very elaborate, some very thin. Now Google wants to go around ripping masks from everyone's faces, because "we are doing some serious business here". It ruins it for everyone.
> If you're developing for Linux via Mac or Windows and you're comfortable at the CLI, just forego Docker Desktop, install regular Docker (or podman) in a VM, and work that way.

That's pretty much what docker desktop does anyway, except it bridges the host with th containers in the Vm. I don't think it's worth throwing out all of the interop there because Docker the 2-billion-dollar company can't handle basic networking on windows and Mac.

> Use Nix to get reliable dev envs,

I'd really rather not throw away all of the _good_ docker has - despite my complaints, I still use it every day.
Keyboard navigation is available through the accessibility options. What extra things do the 3rd party tools provide?
> it works the same way email does.

No.

Matrix is like chatting via GIT (distributed databases) and tends to be a great team messenger like Mattermost or Zulip - XMPP is structurally like email ...

-> see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36939676
Everything eats Arborvitae, especially deer. It is often planted for its speed of growth.

I would not describe this as 'strange ways'. It's herbivores eating tasty plants.
I read The Brothers Karamazov in my early 20s and after the first 100 / 150 pages or so, which as other have mentioned felt like quite a slog, I was blown away by it. I tried to read it again around 20 years later and it felt wildly overdone. As Borges said, if you get bored reading a book then it wasn't written for you, but I think that needs an addendum that it wasn't written for you at that point in your life. Perhaps I'll enjoy it again later on - the pressures of work and a family do mean that I find myself having very little time or patience for melodramatic people in my life, and I wonder if that has spilled over into my appreciation of novels!
XP had a Classic theme from the beginning.
GCP Cloud Functions with Python and Polylith
Running a full-blown 24/7 running service is sometimes not a good fit for a feature. Serverless functions (also known as Lambdas or Cloud functions) is an alternative for those single-purpose kind of features, and Polylith is a good choice for this.
> Emacs was called "obsolete", "hard to use", "bizarre", and other things.

Well, Emacs isn't designed for a common user, but for a power user. From my experience, first time using Emacs was really frustrated.

In contrary, VSCode, Atom, Sublime Text etc. were usable right from the start. But these IDEs didn't stick for me. Easy come, easy go, I guess.

Emacs and Vim, although took a lot of effort to configure them into usable text editors/IDEs, stick with me 'til these days and I'm continuing to use them in the future. The power of configurations are astounding and I can shape them into whatever I want.
there is no judgement free context
Looks like it's Open Source too (GPL2): https://github.com/archagon/sensible-side-buttons

Hasn't had a commit in 6 years though. :/
Can India’s Cinematograph Bill Kill Camcorder Piracy and Satisfy the U.S.?
Languages that lose cases will replace them with adpositions which can then again develop into cases. I unfortunately can't think of any PIE languages but Hungarian has 18 cases while proto-uralic only had 6.

PIE languages are currently in the process of losing cases and we can statistically expect some of them to start gaining cases again sometime in the next few millennias.
I think that’s kind of his point. Now any time you want to do something in your property, “figure out how to deal with the beavers” is now the first item on the list.
Somehow for me a mouse gives me instant finger pain, where trackpads I never have issues.
I also believe it is an obvious virtue signal piece, but to be fair, I also think he exposed some valid cases in that post. Are there really coping strategies and tools for all these problems?
I must say, this is the worst I've seen "beaucoup" spelled.
Some say they work for money alone and measure it in bills paid, in which case they can promote to management position, because the only difference they see is salary.
All good points. Perhaps a passing reference with a link back to the intro chapter (or wherever it's covered) in the chapters where it's used, since it's easier to dip into one of the later graphics chapters without having seen the intro.
Apparently cosmic ray activity changes up to 15 days before, discussed here[1].

Two hours, while certainly useful, seems short. Days would surely be better. Of course, no reason not to use both approaches.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36358672
I have rewritten node.js code in D2 and it was shorter and clearer :-)
I do/have, with conversations, siskin, movim, and I think dino. Can you expand on your experiences?
That's a good point regarding the particular subset being more expected/accepted/integrated.

If you're asd and want to work in math or programming or something similar, it's much smoother sailing than in you want to work in many other professions that aren't abstract/sedentary. Much worse if you'd like to work in a highly social profession like advertising or journalism (or even academia in today's climate where it's mostly about how good you're at self-promotion and networking).
A great resource, thank you for the effort you've put into it.

It's already really good but you're getting some great feedback below too.
Depending on location there's enough underappreciated indirect economical benefits to them ('ecosystem services' is the term used these dayss). For example a city I live nearby is largely protected from flooding because it's main river is, close to city's borders, embedded in a big wetland serving as a buffer, as it has been since the river started to exist. Last severe rainfall (which was close to an anomaly) it became like 80% full. The costs of the thing not being there would be several orders of magnitude larger than what one can make in a lifetime using it as farmland for instance, yet there are people thinking that way.
Sounds like chronic toxic employers then?
It still works in EU, but it only loads the top post and not the comments.
If you think beavers can be destructive, wait until meet a Fisher.

Literal Rodents of unusual size and very ill tempered
The thing that makes best managers IMO is the lack of ambition to be leaders. They understand their role as helping engineers do their job and grow and do that well. Whether you need technical expertise for that is an open question. In my career I've seen bad managers both with and without technical background, while good managers all had some experience as engineers - but my sample size is quite small.
Because cities should be designed foremost for people, not cars.