skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Will they melt down or get violent at slightest provocation?

Autistic meltdown can be made a lot worse if someone hasn't the theory of mind to understand when someone is experiencing it (i.e., the double empathy problem). This can lead to situations, especially where law enforcement is involved, where people get killed. Physical abuse from parents towards autistic children—once again due to lack of empathy—can cause outbursts to be excessively violent.

If you have difficulty reading autistic people, there's training for that, but on the other side, asking autistic people to not meltdown is akin to asking an epileptic person trying not to have a fit. If someone gets particularly violent during meltdowns, they essentially need to be kept away from other people. This can't be trained out with therapy.

> Are they telling the truth?

If they're autistic, likely answer is: To a fault. A higher IQ autist (archaically 'aspies') can learn social mechanisms, rarely even over and above a neurotypical, but with greater conscious effort and delay.

> or with not randomly swerving their car into a crowd because fuck knows why

Sounds like a conflation with psychosis. I'm not sure how it's relevant. Many autistic people do struggle with driving and may have dyspraxia, which may require more lesson time, or not qualifying a driving test. I wouldn't class that as exceptional 'conformance' for autists though.

But truth be told, autistic people are coached all the time by caregivers on proper behavior, because as you say they have to live in the world.
>X showed that you can fire ~80% of your employees and the product could still exist.

Most fired employees weren't producing profit. Most were censoring, making politics or concerned themselves with corporate bureaucracy, drawing charts and making presentations.
It is a spectrum and every person is unique. With every disorder, you need to tick enough boxes in order to fall under the definition (currently using DSM-V though I know one org stubbornly sticking to DSM-IV as it benefits them). Not all boxes may apply, or may apply severely. It is the same in other disorders. But also personality disorders define our very being and are very different to combat, so to conform to them is living in acceptance and harmony with them. Ie. it is something one has to live with. Anyone diagnosing a (personality) disorder worth their salt is going to explain this much better than I just did. And of course one can reap the benefits of a disorder. Stephen Fry, the actor (also a terrific writer) famously is bipolar (a term with a predecessor being manic depression). One thing which triggers some people with autism is wording; they don't have autism; they're autistic. Personally, I don't give a shit about it, but I feel the same regarding pronouns like they/they. Apparently it is a really big deal for others and I need to remind myself about that. Otherwise, I cross the line of bullying. But when I am describing myself or in general (not someone specific) I feel at liberty to pronounce the way I want. Which is careless, I admit, and a bit of self-ridicule seems healthy to me, too.
Bat powered ones have gotten so good. On the low end, I have a 40v Ryobi Whisper model I think I bought for 200 or so. It's definitely -not- anything resembling a whisper, but they don't hurt your ears much. I always compare it to about as loud as a vacuum. They work surprisingly well.

Same with Greenworks 80v. That sucker I have to hold with two hands because of the blowing force. It's about the same price.

Generally I suggest just buying whatever 'line' you're interested in, so you can share batteries. Just stay away from the 18 or 20v lawn stuff, it's garbage. I got a free Ryobi 18v blower, and it's basically barely strong enough to blow dust off the garage floor.
Correct. You're just not going to get into a bottleneck situation with ~4-8 people per floor/flight of stairs.
> If you don't know the "who" then now we're asking an LLM does this conversation sound predatory!?

But you always will know the 'who' - so, you (the platform) knows that it's a conversation between an adult and a child unrelated to them and yes, at this stage, simply asking a LLM 'hey is this conversation sus' will give you results that are more than enough to trigger a human level analysis of the interaction.

Also you have to consider that adults and unrelated children generally do not interact at all. So, if you wanted to legitimately try and screen off abusers, 'adults that initiated more than 5 conversations with children unrelated to them' then feeding all those interactions into a LLM classifier would get you 99% of the way there.
That's a big issue in AMD land imho. Everyone can pickup a 200$ GPU (talking about the RTX 3050) which will behave like a scaled down A100 and get started playing around with CUDA. You can't really do that with AMD GPUs, their cheapest officially supported GPU is the 7900 XTX and that has a different architecture than the data center ones.
I doubt it would be better.

I’ve said for many years now that my job is primary knowing what’s possible even if I don’t necessarily know exactly how to do it (today).

By reading HN nearly daily I keep my finger on the pulse of tech, or at least the parts of tech that most directly affect me. Countless times I’ve been able to say “oh, I saw a library/saas/etc that does what we need” in a meeting and it’s directly led to starting my own company. When a company came to me asking for software I was able to say “yes that’s possible and I’m capable of delivering it”, in great part due to following advancements/products/etc in tech even when I hadn’t used some of those specific tools before.

Personally I shine the brightest when I can pair my knowledge of technology with someone who is a subject matter expert (outside of tech) to create something they didn’t think was possible. I’ve often thought my dream job would be to go into non-tech companies, learn enough about their industry, examine their processes, and then suggest and/or implement solutions (revolving around the use of technology) to improve them.

I don’t know of any place, other than HN, that has high quality posts and discussions about technology and new things coming out.
I can think of two: Digital Equipment Corp and Sun. Also, first 10 years of AWS was probably ridiculous good.
Brother, you missed the "lol" in op's comment.

Anyway, perhaps the devs are Pakistani ;-)
You’re all over this thread but I think you need to read it a bit more carefully. There’s no reference to any belief system in the post you’re replying to, there’s an assertion about expected profit and control.

You can disagree with that assertion, and indeed have on another thread, but within the context of the assertion the poster is correct.

I think you’re wrong to even think this is about “ideology”, which is presumably a set of beliefs you are against. It applies as much to _variance_, which 100% is something a founder should care about.
Yes, it's pretty obvious this is what's going on. The solution to these "less secure apps" was to simply generate stronger passwords for them instead of making the user jump through hoops by using oauth2 proxies, especially for older hardware/software.
The Dilemma with Internal Tools and No Code Apps: An Engineer's Perspective
Noise pollution has become one of my biggest problems. I'm sure everything has got louder and it seems to keep getting even louder. Obviously I have also become older, but I don't remember my parents complaining about noise when they were my age.

Leaf blowers aren't ubiquitous in the UK, but where I live now they get used. I'm three floors up and even with windows closed the noise inside is incredible. I also noticed the horrible smell when I opened the window to see what it was.

> Most have what’s called a “two-stroke engine,” an outmoded design that burns a mix of gas and oil

One thing that surprised me is the two stroke engine was invented after the four stroke (Ottoman cycle) engine. It does have advantages like being able to run completely upside down since it doesn't have a sump where the oil needs to drain. They also have a higher power to weight ratio.

The thing that makes them outmoded is perhaps lithium ion batteries. You couldn't fit a four stroke engine to a leaf blower or chainsaw etc.
Email was sent out today to many Google Workspace admins with a link to this blog post.
Dense, rural towns ftw
We likely wont have a strong theory of how brain architecture results in unique emergent temperments and subjective experiences until weve got data collected from millions of people with chips in their head, and a large database to work with.

Until then, I will remain agnostic on any theory unless it is very obviously causal.
Disagree. 109 db is typical for a gas powered one. Electric hovers around 70 db.

Of course, you can be annoyed by both. But then the solution is to move somewhere without neighbours.
> The following for [sic] declaration [sic] are then all equivalent:

int i;
int *ip;
typeof(i) *i;
_Var(_Typeof(i)) *i;

What? How are "int i" and "int *ip" equivalent?

_Var(_Typeof(i)) ident strikes me as incredibly silly. The type value produced by _Typeof(i) should be directly usable as a declaration specifier, without requiring hoisting to a name.

FFS, GNU C has had a sane typeof working for years.

To bind a type to an identifier, we don't need a _Type type at all. typedef does this!

I.e. not:

_Type x = int;

but

typedef int x;

Existing, decades-old typedef is how you bind an identifier to a compile-time type value. There is no need to do this via a _Type type specifer, which then forces us to move the type we want into the initializer. We use the typeof storage class specifier, which then lets us have the type we want as another specifier, and we don't need an initializer.

This works in GNU C:

int x;
typedef typeof(x) tx; // same as typedef int tx;

The problem of declared, named containers to capture type is long solved.
Porpoisely!
Which low code platfor do you use?
Tell HN: eBay search still supports logical operators
While shopping for a new Linux laptop, I attempted to use Google-style advanced search operators on Ebay, without luck.

All references to such things seem to have been removed from their docs. But it turns out it’s still possible:

AND operator: thing1 +thing2

OR operator: (thing1,thing2)

NOT operator: thing -thing2
Nowhere did the parent comment say either of those things. The guidelines tell you to assume good faith.
> Why shouldn't experts in the relevant areas make their best determination?

Because experts are often myopic and terrible policy makers. Also experts hired by federal agencies will likely tend to favor interpretations that the agency prefers.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/01/18/chinese-mutant-covid-...
Snopes: they didn't mutate the virus
it mutated on its own in cell culture.
And its 100% lethal based on 4 out of 12 mice,
the same 4 of which were "humanazed ACE2 mice".
It makes one wonder about the hyperconnectivity hypothesis:
https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/18/4/763/281733
Does that apply to G.hn? I thought it was only WiFi on the 5Ghz band?
I resonate a lot with that, and since llms and adhd meds I have become even more capable of building layers and retightening them and making them all work together.

It feels like a constant rabbit hole because once the layers are there, the features themselves can get built in a blink of an eye, so that the balance goes even further towards layer building.

Because of increased feature velocity so does increased feature “ambition”, so in a way the balance just remains the same…
In one of my worst places for noise pollution I would regularly have thoughts of throttling the perpetrators to death. This was one thing that made me realise how bad noise is for people.
im with you but many people really would choose the blue pill. They just dont want to know.

I was surprised by this when in my high school class the teacher (a doctor) asked the students if they would like to be accutely aware of an unfixable chronic brain impairment (if i recall it was memory impairment in this case). To my horror almost everyone said no.
According to wikipedia, this is circa '92 era
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel_version_history
How so? It seems to make sense to me that now there are available treatments that the disruption to society can be lowered.
Replacing lectures with video lectures is fine, even an improvement. But not such much for exercises/problem-solving/practical classes.
He won't tell you. Nobody would tell well-paying niche to avoid competition.
Middlebrow dismissal. Author has an experimental sandbox for running imaging operations but hasn’t integrated it yet. Aka not 100% finished. Details at the site/github.
Absolutely not. Hackernews to me seems to have the most nuanced and intelligent people I have seen. I don't find myself being cynical either. I am not sure where it is exactly coming from? Are there cynical people here? Sure, but there are also optimists, builders and optimistic people.
>Maybe if Ello had raised only a few million and kept around a dozen employees or so, it could have succeeded.

I doubt it. It seems like a poor product market fit. I think there aren't a lot of creators willing to pay to have a small social network just for them. They won't probably be active users even if the small social network was completely free.
I learnt Pittman shorthand (and some Greg), and taught it to my kids as a "secret code". They use it in class to jot notes the teacher cannot read :)

Both of these make the writing faster, but reading slower. I once spoke the world's champion shorthand writer - I've forgotten her name. She said the even she cannot read shorthand as fast as regular text.

Which made sense before computers, when a stenographer needs to write very quickly, and English is written long.

Bt, nowadays we need the opposite - a "shorthand" which, once you have learned, can be consumed quickly.
I know from experience that it takes much less time to read Hebrew than to read the same text in English (even though my mother tongue is English), since the vowels are assumed and abbreviations are extremely common - the actual text is shorter and quicker to read.

I can scan a long article quickly, but I wish there was a way to convert that to a writing system that was quicker to intake.
Can you explain how you would know the data is right if you don't have actual data from a site popular with non-techies?

Like I go to a tech meetup it will generally be 95% male and mostly white and asian. If I surveyed anything there it would have very little relation to the real population. You list these sites

threekit.com webgpufundamentals.org james.darpinian.com realism-effects-obeqz.vercel.app gobattle.io. ict.moe.gov.om modelviewer.dev realism-effects-git-v2-obeqz.vercel.app dev.phaser.io redblobgames.com threejs.org axiomatic-inc.com weatherlayers.com alpha.gobattle.io. gobattle.io spookyball.com mrdoob.com streets.gl realism-effects.vercel.app phaser.io alpha.gobattle.io molstar.org demo.weatherlayers.com old.phaser.io webglfundamentals.org toji.dev jeeliz.com clicktorelease.com

Pretty much all of them are not sites any non-graphics person would visit. So how can it possibly be even close the correct? It doesn't matter that there 250k samples per week if those are nearly all programmers interested in 3D rather than the average non-techie
In what way? The article states clearly why the change was made, it makes sense to me.
Mark Bandwagon Zuckerberg
Kind of wish this site went to more effort to explain some of the details. I'm a graphics programmer so I can guess why PNG is bad at alpha, but they've done nothing to convince me that EXR gets it right other than show one or two comparison screenshots.
but now you have 2 up paths. and migrations are critical, i would avoid it where possible!
Who you choose to engage with will make or breaks any platform.

Being here increases my chances of engaging with people looking closer - at anything.
I for one look forward to the vr os that comes out when the "android" of vr steps up to what the apple vision is going to bring.

meta is currently the top here but they have focussed mostly on the game experience. can't wait to see AR as a legitimate productivity tool.

I'm sure general AI will play a role here of course
or without lawns
I don't know about others, but personally I feel that the Vision Pro is a solution looking for a problem.

While the 3D / immersive video is surely impressive, and several of the advertised features are truly impressive feats of technology, it feels very much like they will collapse to gimmick-status before long.

I can't picture having this strapped to my face for 8 hours a day. In day-to-day life, I'm just not sure where this fits in... it's like a less-social TV? A laptop where it's awkward to turn around and ask my coworker a question? Generally, the ergonomics of the device just seem... off.

While the device might be good for Apple, I'm not convinced it's good for anyone else.
What?! Really? How did u increased magnesium intake
Well, you certainly have right to your opinion, as do others to theirs. Law is the ultimate arbiter as usually.
What can GPT-6 do for real? Just write single-step code? Whoever is writing that prompt will be a low-skilled person to fix their problem or find out whether they are doing right. No GPT will replace developers. Writers, maybe.
Sometimes scaling to the market size even means smaller.
Sorry, but this looks like opinionated nonsense. There's an underlined and bolded "PNG is a forbidden file format" that is in fact not a link, without explaining how and why it is forbidden.
> You just can’t scale “total internal transparency” when the company doubles in size every year.

_total_ internal transparency is trivial to scale. partial and no transparency is difficult to scale.
Yes, and there's no good way around this - no human organisation can scale beyond a certain (quite early) point without becoming an immoral profit machine. I wish society would better understand this, and governments would add caps. Of course no one on the world political stage would handicap their economy like this.
How did you have regenerative braking on a non-electric BMW 5?
Military and police famously attract people (primarily males) with autism. I am not related to military but since war in Ukraine I followed a channel called Speak The Truth to understand how a US veteran with Republican leaning background (he himself defines himself more neutral than that) to get context to the war. The guy ticks all the ADHD boxes (ADHD is considered to be related to ASD), to the point it gets hilarious.

Do I agree with him on everything? Well, I am on UA side but politically I am progressive left and European. So I obviously do not agree with him on a lot of matters. But apart from his ads (lot of BS/scams) it has been interesting and, at times, valuable. It is a misconception that people on the spectrum get along with each other.
Hi, I'm Alex, curriculum director at Math Academy.

As Justin mentioned, there are several criteria that we must meet in our high-school pathway that aren't needed for studying higher-level (e.g., undergraduate) math, or they can be postponed. We decided to remove some of these in the Foundations series.

The idea behind the foundations series is to provide adult learners with the most efficient path possible to get onto the higher-level material.

Examples of topics that were removed from the high-school series to create the foundations series include some of the following:

* Various Geometry topics: All of the _essential_ geometry is covered. However, we removed topics on inscribed angles, Thales' Theorem, Triangle congruence, and similarity criteria (apart from the AA, which is the only one that seems to come up in practice), midpoint and triangle proportionality theorems, a fair amount of solid geometry, except what's fairly standard for calculus (volumes and surface areas of spheres, volumes of cones), lots of stuff on different types of quadrilaterals.

* Conic sections: The essentials are covered in both pathways. But in the high-school path, we go into a little more detail about foci, directrices, eccentricity, and utilizing their geometric definitions (e.g., focus-directrix properties).

* Trig identities and Equations: Covered in both pathways, but the high-school versions go into more detail and consider more cases.

* Some word problem/modeling topics.

* Other arbitrary Prealgebra topics: Divisibility rules, going into more detail about ratios in contextual settings, scientific notation, and some basic data representation topics that one would normally meet in Prealgebra.

* Slope fields. This will be covered in our upcoming differential equations course.

* Some analytical applications of differentiation that are quite specific to the BC Calculus exam: Identifying and removing point, jump, and infinite discontinuities and analyzing graphs of first and second derivatives.

* There are also fewer topics on related rates and optimization, though these topics are still covered.

* Some contextual applications of integration, like volumes of revolution and volumes of known cross-sections.

* Convergence tests for infinite series. When we get to that, these will be covered in real analysis, but other than infinite geometric series (which _is_ covered in Foundations), these tests don't show up too often anywhere else.

* Some ODE models, such as exponential and logistic growth and decay. We cover ODE basics in the foundations course, but particular models will be covered in the differential equations course.

* Taylor series. Again, this can be covered in the differential equations course for anyone wishing to take that course when it's ready.

Happy to answer any further questions you may have.
Two of the worst colleagues I ever had also went on to thrive at Google. It’s been hard for me to take their claims of only hiring the best since then.
The titles of both the HN post as well as the original blog post are ambiguous however.
But depending on agreement, founders can have much more voting power than investors, regardless of shares they hold.
I can’t even read my own cursive, so I can’t imagine how illegible my shorthand cursive would be.

Does anyone have any experience with this that suggests that maybe it can be clearer than cursive?

One can always hope…
Yeah. The HN submission title is incorrect though.
Yeah, Reddit at times does seem like some bizarre group think type of thing in terms of how comments are downvoted or upvoted. Coming from Reddit, in Hackernews it seems people are more accepting of controversial ideas.
Under the headline (all at the top, next to the logo) it says "Surround sound voice communication software". So fancy Skype ;-)

But yeah, that page is not for people who have no clue! But maybe that's not that bad? Idk how many who comes to that page having no clue what that webpage is about, but I would guess a very tiny percentage. Maybe it makes sence to assume that the wast majority ending up there knows the basics already.
privacy-first and not opensource ? alright I guess I will just trust that random company

seeing all the comment in this thread and confirming them on the website, this browser is not quite there yet

Sticking with a hardened firefox
I also found this. My email address/username/name doesn't appear at all in the 0t search.
Use ear protection. It doesn't take much time to wear ear muffs and it is overall a better experience.
It's important to note here that OAuth isn't one thing anymore like it was for OAuth 1. With OAuth2 it's more like OAuth is a toolset for implementing your own proprietary protocol. Each major provider needs it's own custom implementation in email clients to cover it. There's no general purpose oauth2 in practice. OAuth2 is more like a per-corporation protocol.

Lets hope they don't sunset "app passwords" for at least a few more years. If you haven't yet, consider setting up your own mailserver for kicks and using it for non-important things to build IP reputation for when public email stops being email entirely.