skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not much of an electrician but wouldn’t the phase kind of randomly reset every time you turn the monitor on and off?

Our eyes are good at adapting to all kinds of things - like really small red, green and blue lights in an array can look like anything to us
How does one differentiate between cheap and good products? How do I know they actually work? How does one know they don‘t destroy the coating on apple devices?

Apple doesn‘t even sell an official matte screen protector last I checked.
Here’s hoping. Autism is pure hell for some families. Unless of course self-declared leaders of the ‘neurodivergent community’ declare such efforts to be genocidal, modern eugenics, and so on.

Relatedly, I was struck to see the recent breakthrough in curing congenital deafness condemned by members of the ‘deaf community’ on Twitter. So we unfortunately have good reason to expect the same kinds of folly here.
yes, that is what I meant.
It's a nice article actually;

> If you do hope to stay, expect to keep spending. The low-cost luxuriating necessary for healthy third places isn’t considered profitable.

A lot of people struggle with this after college and a social club (sport, dining etc.) is usually the best way to keep your social life going. But yeah you usually have to value and invest in it, which maybe people aren't doing so much as prices have increased in the physical world while prices for entertainment over the wire has decreased.

I also think communities (third places FTA) that enable these friendships need to be, to some extent, closed or invite-only. I feel like as a social network grows each individual edge is a little weaker, which is the reverse incentive of developers of social networks and explains why socialising over the Internet feels the way it does.
ZIRP -> free money detached from practical feedback loops -> bad decisions
I'd assume this is one of those things where, if you have to ask, you're not invited.
In general the legal standard which gets applied in such cases is to check if the people are "Beiwerk". Meaning if the persons depicted are not the focus of the picture and more or less background props, then it is fine.
> The weaker diagnoses, which is an increasingly large chunk of all of them, often seem like an effect to pathologize normal behavioral differences within people.

This is a phenomenon which is known for a long time in the hacker community. Relevant quote from the Jargon file (http://catb.org/jargon/html/weaknesses.html):

"1994-95's fad behavioral disease was a syndrome called Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), supposedly characterized by (among other things) a combination of short attention span with an ability to ‘hyperfocus’ imaginatively on interesting tasks. In 1998-1999 another syndrome that is said to overlap with many hacker traits entered popular awareness: Asperger's syndrome (AS). This disorder is also sometimes called ‘high-function autism’, though researchers are divided on whether AS is in fact a mild form of autism or a distinct syndrome with a different etiology. AS patients exhibit mild to severe deficits in interpreting facial and body-language cues and in modeling or empathizing with others' emotions. Though some AS patients exhibit mild retardation, others compensate for their deficits with high intelligence and analytical ability, and frequently seek out technical fields where problem-solving abilities are at a premium and people skills are relatively unimportant. Both syndromes are thought to relate to abnormalities in neurotransmitter chemistry, especially the brain's processing of serotonin.

Many hackers have noticed that mainstream culture has shown a tendency to pathologize and medicalize normal variations in personality, especially those variations that make life more complicated for authority figures and conformists. Thus, hackers aware of the issue tend to be among those questioning whether ADD and AS actually exist; and if so whether they are really ‘diseases’ rather than extremes of a normal genetic variation like having freckles or being able to taste DPT. In either case, they have a sneaking tendency to wonder if these syndromes are over-diagnosed and over-treated. After all, people in authority will always be inconvenienced by schoolchildren or workers or citizens who are prickly, intelligent individualists — thus, any social system that depends on authority relationships will tend to helpfully ostracize and therapize and drug such ‘abnormal’ people until they are properly docile and stupid and ‘well-socialized’.

So hackers tend to believe they have good reason for skepticism about clinical explanations of the hacker personality."
>...they booked a $5m loss and made a policy to never trade with that particular bank again

Maybe I am too cynical, but would many businesses retroactively agree to a deal which would cost them a ton of money? If the Process requires Is dotted, Ts crossed, and a phone call confirmation which was never placed -why eat the loss when the other party should own the error?

Citi just had a lawsuit because of paying back a loan too quickly. I expect everyone in finance to play hard ball on written agreements when it works in their favor.
That's why there's so many comments responding to this callout that are, dare I say, defensive.
> the same label can have remarkably little overlap in terms of observed behaviour.... You diagnose autism based on how people act, not who they are.

I'm able to mask until I'm alone. My meltdowns look exactly like the observed behavior you see in other people, I just hide it better.

I'm also verbal mostly, until I'm not and I'm dissociating. Then I look a lot what you're used to seeing, except i don't let you see that. I don't let you see me rocking and stimming.

I can talk for an hour in front of 100 people about my special interests at any depth, but I can't complete simple tasks that others can do every day like going to the grocery store and restaurants without extreme difficulty.

Some people are "high functioning" autists, meaning that they are able to suppress their negative autistic expressions for the benefit and comfort of people around them. This doesn't make them "not autistic" -- they still are even if you personally can't tell. It just means they're putting on an act for you, to make you happy, so that you don't respond in the negative way they are used to being received. You are witnessing a performance.

That suppression is not a constant, and it can't go on forever. Someone doing this long enough will go into autistic burnout, which is like an extended depression and comes with skill loss and an inability to function in society. If you were to see this person at that point, you'd "see" the autism then.

Is this all there is to being autistic though? No! Being autistic comes with a great capacity for curiosity, creativity, artistic expression, innovation, and excellence associated with committing fully (as in actually 100%, eschewing loved ones and society) to an endeavor.

These are things we don't want to "cure". Most of the problems I face related to my autism have to do with interfacing with society, and not understanding people or not being able to do things everyone else seems to be able to, without any compassion for my inability to do so.

As far as I can tell they come from being dysregulated, and being dysregulated comes from extreme sensory overload. If we can fix the sensory overload a lot of other things are fixed. But that doesn't mean we should be "curing" or "preventing" autism, and it doesn't mean people who aren't melting down and who can live by themselves aren't autistic -- they're just well regulated.,
I don't think this extra claim about polynomials which are a product of a complex linear term and a polynomial with real coefficients is true.

Let a be distributed uniformly in (-1,1) and let b be distributed uniformly in the unit disk (i.e its a complex number of absolute value less than or equal to 1).

The roots of (x-a)(x-b) are (obviously) a and b. The average absolute value of b is 2/3 while the average absolute value of a is 1/2, you can also work out that the probability that |a|<|b| is 2/3, so with probability 2/3 the largest root will be complex.

This just gets worse if you let b be uniformly distributed in the unit square instead of disk, so you need some quite funky distribution on b to make this work which seems to be unjustified.
This is an artifact of V8's GC. Effectively, largeObject and smallObject are tracked together, as a unit. Splitting it out into two separate records increases average memory usage. They keep saying they want to fix it eventually, but it's been this way for 10+ years at this point.

You really do have to know the quirks of what you're targeting.
You have to be careful about doing simple aggregations when it comes to stats about acres planted.

The same piece of land may get planted twice in a year, which would mean it is reported twice in those stats.

In warm-winter states it may be more easily done, but even in cold-winter states you have this kind of thing:
https://www.agriculture.com/crops/wheat/how-winter-wheat-can...
It's not just games. There is in fact not a lot of stuff that Apple Silicon can run well.
In theory you get great battery life, to use software nobody wants to use or to take longer to run stuff that is not running well.

The problem is two-fold, first the marketing bullshit does not match the reality and second the Apple converted will lie without even thinking about it to justify the outrageous price.

There are a lot of things I like about Apple hardware but the reality is that they can charge so much because there is a lot of mythology around their products and it just doesn't add up.

Now if only they be bothered to actually make software great (and not simpleton copies of what already exists), there would be an actual valid reason to unequivocally recommend their stuff but they can't be bothered since they already make too much money as it is.
Do you have the background and training to parse what you’re reading and apply it to individuals in the correct context?
Physics of the universe is the most complex thing in the universe
The link provided is bad. (It was never good, so it's likely just a mistake on the author's part.) Googling for "rust regex library" will take you to the right place. https://docs.rs/regex/latest/regex/

What do you use instead of grep on the CLI? Or do you "trust regex" when using grep?
I'm an AI optimist but LLMs are still too primitive and burning resources too soon on them is a waste. Imagine nuclear powered ENIACs. The research should continue and Close AI haven't got to the pinacle of AI.
Indeed. ASD or not, everyone would surely benefit from following a nutritionist-set diet based on the person’s own requirements.
There is a big difference between "neurodiverse" people and severely autistic people facing huge challenges in their life. Are you seriously dismissing the idea of helping treat that latter group?

" this is not autism but rather autism with an accompanying intellectual disability and the intellectual disability is the reason for higher supports needs. "

This is a self-contradictory statement. But what do you think people are researching if not those intellectual disabilities -- why they occur and how they can be prevented.
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> presumably there was supporting evidence of the harrasment charges

Yeah, the media shitshow...

There were no DeepFakes, a few text messages raising concerns about some young girls' behavior and a DA running around during an election year slandering this woman to get votes. Oh, and a lying teenager capitalizing on the drama to get movie and book deals.

The result: a woman who's life was forever turned upside down and found guilty by an "impartial" jury.
Governments have no problem allowing de facto specifications to be closed. 5G is heavily patent protected, for example. MPEG is heavily patent protected.

Typically patents "essential" for a standard are licensed on "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory" (FRAND) terms. But you do still have to go and pay for the license (sometimes from all the individual companies that have patents, sometimes from a consortium that represents the entire patent pool for a standard).
I use a Brave extension that opens always a new window. Window management is then left to my WM, XMonad.
I wouldn't call charging $5/user "cheap" when a user might cost a few cents. Pure software services are supposed to have insane COGS. The free tier may eventually get reduced, but with something like this you have basically no lock-in, so I wouldn't consider that a meaningful risk.
whoo! that you could jump back up and use variables from below has been an annoyance of mine
I understand the sentiment, but there's a reason it's called the autism spectrum.

I work with several software engineers with autism who are as capable as their peers. Sure they may have behavioral quirks, but not significantly more so than the normal variation in human behavior. Their brains don't seem to work in an inferior or problematic way, just different.

On the other hand, I have a close relative with more severe autism who could never read and understand this article, could never type a comment such as yours. She's incapable of holding a job or living on her own without assistance. Her mother passed away young, and her older sister, just 19 at the time, had to take on the responsibility of being her sole caregiver, and she will have that burden for the rest of their lives.

For some it may be a different variation of the human experience, but for cases as severe as my relative's, I find it hard to believe that a cure or prevention for autism wouldn't be a massive quality of life improvement for all involved.
Here's a recent (2021) paper on the idea: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.08719

It has the nice feature of explaining why the density of baryons and the density of dark matter are not too different. Naively, there's no reason to expect the two to be anywhere close to each other. It also offers an explanation for the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe.

Don't believe any theory until it's been well tested.
I'm being productive by pushing back and saying that when people say that autism needs to be cured and prevented, that they shouldn't say that, because autism doesn't need to be cured and prevented.

It's not a disease, but in this society it is a disability, and there's a stigma and lack of understanding around autism in general.

What we can do today to make life better for autistic people everywhere is to spread awareness and acceptance of autism. Not talk about curing and preventing it. That's stigmatizing.
This is not a footgun. This is about the most basic things from the C++ object model you should know.

C++ is not Java. The first thing to learn is where things get allocated and how copying works, which is quite different from "almost-everything-in-the-heap" languages.
Also excels at destroying the cassandras if you will.
I knew someone in high school that had ADHD. He totaled many cars when he wasn't on meds for things like game day for sports (not sure if that's a performance or health thing).

What baffles me, is how someone diagnosed with a condition that affects driving is allowed to drive without the condition being treated - especially if they are under a prescription and just not taking it, and also if they have multiple accidents attributed to the condition. We already require this for people with seizures, for people needing glasses to wear them, etc.
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each of those things are tenuously related at best
Does Buddhism mean different things in different languages?
I think I would be using std::unique_ptr here instead of the manual memory management, which as you can see sometimes fails spectacularly. I've had codebases myself ~10 years ago where I didn't really know how to use them properly, and I eventually completely gave up on them. The code was just too unreliable. These days, writing C++ is just like writing Python to me. The language is rarely the problem as long as I keep on the happy path with RAII.

I did see your issue immediately, though, and I could remember having the same issue with my own code. I remember assigning Shaders into a shader manager. They were already dead.

These days I prefer to in-place construct most things, unless there's a particular reason for assignment.
The benefits of SSO kick in way faster than you'd think, in some cases before you even have a company, much less revenue. I could easily see a Hackerspace wanting SSO, for example, and adding an SSO tax of fifty dollars a month would double membership costs. Then there's stuff like https://twitter.com/NireBryce/status/1564100084652036096.
Some people are severely disabled by autism. Are you suggesting that we should just let them suffer?
From making the same motions with my mouth I was able to figure out that the other thing he's saying is "faa", so I'm guessing some people literally hear "faa" even though the audio is "baa"?
> In my opinion, though, in many cases this is not autism but rather autism with an accompanying intellectual disability

That's just like, your opinion, man.

If autism warrants needing help with daily living then it's a disorder by definition.
The section of the license agreement excerpted:

> Thread Group, Inc. […] hereby grants you a […] license […] to view, download, save, reproduce and use the Specification solely for your own internal purposes

uses the term "internal purposes" which doesn't seem to include writing a blog post for the external world to see.
Their website looks interesting

https://www.spaceweather.gov/communities/global-positioning-...

https://www.spaceweather.gov/communities/space-weather-enthu...
What are the limits of a generic implementation?

The individual object calculi are already complicated, when does the meta-logic reach its limits?
Thanks for the comment. I looked more into this and it seems like not only are we in the era of diminished returns for computational abilities, costs have also now started matching the increased compute. i.e 2x performance leads to 2x cost. Moore's law has already run it's course and we're living in a new era of compute. We may get increased performance, but it will always be more expensive.
Any professional developer should understand these things. It was taught at first year of my computer science degree. As you say it isn't particularly difficult if you have a strategy. If you can't manage memory then what about any other resource that needs to be manually closed (sockets, file handles etc ).
> At their very best, third places allow people of differing backgrounds to cross paths — to develop what are known as bridging ties. As opposed to our closest connections, bridging social networks encompass people who have varying identities, social and economic resources, and knowledge. “Studies have shown that just having a diversity of folks in your life … more informal and infrequent and unplanned, can be really protective for health and well-being,” Finlay says.

What is intrinsically valuable then: third spaces, diversity, or individual health? It feels like the first has the most value in service of the second, which is really just a supplement for the third. Almost like we stopped believing we can convince people to get on the same page about anything that looks like a shared value...

Also much respect to the persistence of patronizing Vox-speak in 2024: "to develop what are known as bridging ties" Known to who? "Studies have shown that" Studies where?
>> defined in such a way that two with the same label can have remarkably little overlap in terms of observed behaviour

> This is untrue and unsupported by evidence

Here is the diagnostic criteria for ASD: https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/hcp-dsm.html ... It literally lays out a path that can generate a non overlapping diagnosis. It sort of has to because we lummped what were previously two disorders together because people are sensitive to nazi's having existed.

Now go to the UK where there is strong advocacy for a whole other set of diagnostic criteria for women. The DSM begins to look barbaric and/or sexist if not misinformed.

The moment there is a biological underpinning to something like ASD it gets interesting because what do you do with all the folks with a diagnosis who DONT fit that label. They have something that looks the same but isnt... and the whole psychiatry/psychology community looks like quacks. DO note that im not opposed to these fields but they need to get their shit together on reproducibility.
No, React is a framework library. JavaScript is a programming language.
> Starbucks has removed chairs and tables, and covered power outlets, at many locations. This was not accompanied by a price reduction.

Wait, what!? I don't frequent Starbucks but this is insane to me. Where is this happening?
I think you're engaging in the no-true-Scotsman fallacy with the claim that highly autistic people with a lot of special needs are really "autistic with intellectual disabilities". I disagree. They're simply more autistic and more impacted than either of us.
Of course, that goes without saying. What I'm adding is the increasingly more computer illiterate expectations of the end consumer deriving the value, and the increasing functional demands he expects at his level of ability to understand the internals.
It is.

Make some friends first. Be the type of person that people want around. Then the third place will naturally form
Maybe it's my European perspective, but i feel like Starbucks has fallen several levels down in terms of it's price perception. Simply put, they haven't increased their prices like... ever. I remember very well pricing on some items and they are about the same in nominal euros as they were 15-18 years ago. They went from definitely upscale to cheap-ish - not the sheapest, but certainly not premium by any measure. And yes, no more outlets in most locations, and more limited seating. Why is that? idk. I loved it the way it used to be and would pay more to keep it that way.

And yes, certainly the kind of people visiting them as well as the kind of people working there has fallen along with their price niche.
The original Warcraft 2 story page (1996~7)
Pirate adoption just helps cement thread as the winner in the IoT space. Which forces organizations in the IoT space to use thread. And they are afraid of being sued, so will follow Thread rules.

So tactically I think this actually plays against making it effectively legalized.
Notes:

A few of the story links (the ones to the gatech.edu domain) seem to be broken and were not archived in Wayback Machine. I call this out because the very newest story link (“I had a Partner, Right?”) is one of the broken ones and might cause people to bounce from the page. The vast majority of story links do work!

I assume the various authors' habit of abbreviating the name of the game to “War 2” stems from the game executable's name, `WAR2.EXE`. Eight-dot-three strikes again :)

Kali is the IPX-tunneling software they were using to enable WAN play. The “Battle.net Edition” of WAR2 wouldn't come out until 1999, after StarCraft and Brood War: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_(software)
There's no way that a book or blog post breaches any patents.
This notion of derivative of a number depends very weakly on the number itself. It only depends on the multiset of exponents in the number’s factorization into a product of prime powers. In this way it’s like the divisor counting function, the omega and Omega functions, the möbius function, etc. As such, its value distribution might be interesting. Something analytic number theorists might like to play around with.
That makes a lot of sense

About turning the screen on and off, it’s very slow if I want to change it in real time. It would be nice to have a little nob on the side and just change the phase one way or the other in correspondingly :)