She was such a kind and impressive human, and inspired so much of my career. I can’t believe she’s just gone. This is heartbreaking.
Kris Nóva has died
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#122Off-topic, but why this story is so low on the front page?
A ton of upvoted, not many comments (so no indication of flamewar), still is below position 25 for several hours (with much better upvote-to-hours ratio than most of stories above it).
Just weird.
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#123Some context from someone close: https://hachyderm.io/@quintessence/110922746691596046 > The person I cherished more than any other, @nova , died unexpectedly late Wednesday in a climbing accident. > I have no words, only despair. The light in my soul is gone. > Joe Beda @jbeda and Nivenly are posting announcements. Others will also.
Awful, scary. My son loves climbing things. I enjoy a bit of indoor bouldering, I'd love to get him into it, but I'm terrified of him deciding to do silly shit like free soloing.
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#124A self-authored bio of Kris for those unfamiliar with her, here: https://krisnova.net/bio/ >
I found some information about her background that I thought was interesting here as well: https://hackingcapitalism.io/why/ (this is also authored by Kris)
A cosmic ray in a cloud chamber. R.I.P.
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#126Kris was a talented engineer and an amazing person. She was doing something that she loved. Kris recently said how she was feeling the healthiest and happiest she had ever been. The loss is gutting to those that know her, or only know of her. For those that don't know, Kris created Hachyderm[1], which had incredible growth[2] after Elon Musk's Twitter takeover. She also created the Aurae runtime[3], and went on to cr…
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#127Shocked to hear this news.Still shivering.RIP Kris.
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#128I lost colleagues and an acquaintance to mountaineering accidents and I do not understand what makes people risk their life doing that.
It doesn't have to make sense to others. If I was to imagine what I didn't know about mountaineering, it might be about working to see views that I couldn't have imagined.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apologies, that's not what I intended to say, and not what I said to her either. It's unfortunately true that my behaviour (and the behaviour of many autistic people) can be easily characterised as being an asshole, and vague rules do not help us function. The condition is very much characterised by being unable to understand social cues. I really was trying only to be helpful and got quite hurt in the interaction.
Dijit, Why is a rule about “Not being an asshole” incompatible with welcoming Autists ?
argiopetech stated the problem much better than I did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37200670
The fundamental issue is that Autism itself is at least partially characterised by being unable to read social cues, this is harder in text form.
Its very easy to say something in perhaps not the best way. To welcome autists you have to do what the hackernews guidelines do: State that “Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.”
This is not essential to operating your site, but if you are trying to be inclusive to neurodivergency then its extremely helpful to them to have a guideline like this which allows them to feel a bit at ease.
A rule like “don’t be an asshole” requires a emotional intelligence that may be lacking, it will feel like a guillotine around the neck waiting to strike if you comment something which is interpreted in way other than it was intended.
A fantastic example of this, ironically, is this thread and the original thread with Kris. Mal-intent was assumed but was not intended; people in this thread have genuinely called me an asshole- with no sense of irony.
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#130Some context from someone close: https://hachyderm.io/@quintessence/110922746691596046 > The person I cherished more than any other, @nova , died unexpectedly late Wednesday in a climbing accident. > I have no words, only despair. The light in my soul is gone. > Joe Beda @jbeda and Nivenly are posting announcements. Others will also.
Awful, scary. My son loves climbing things. I enjoy a bit of indoor bouldering, I'd love to get him into it, but I'm terrified of him deciding to do silly shit like free soloing.
I've been climbing on and off for 30 years. Most people are not "free" soloing as it's called in the US (just soloing in the UK). If he's the sort of person that's attracted to those kinds of things he'll find other dangerous stuff to do anyway like sky diving, riding motorbikes. Most climbing is relatively safe although accidents do happen from time to time often due to complacency.
I'm sorry to hear this much loved person has died. RIP