skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One complicating factor that I put into every thread about random things being associated with autism: the diagnostic criteria for autism doesn't just measure how autistic someone is, but also how well they've learned to cope with being autistic. It measures things like frequency of meltdowns, ability to handle their everyday life without assistance, ability to "mask" by doing things like holding eye contact or memorizing social scripts, etc.

Better brain function in general means that someone on the autism spectrum is less likely to have general life issues that lead to an official diagnosis. Anything that could reasonably be linked to a decrease in IQ can also reasonably be linked to autism. IQ is positively correlated with general life outcomes, and negative life outcomes are part of the diagnostic criteria for autism.
It's some bug - tries to load
https://d07riv.github.io/spawn.mpq
while actual working url is
https://d07riv.github.io/diabloweb/spawn.mpq
The article says:

> The main reason scientists have historically been resistant to using Bayesian inference instead is that they are afraid of being accused of subjectivity. The prior probabilities required for Bayes’ rule feel like an unseemly breach of scientific ethics. Where do these priors come from?

It's not just "being afraid"; the problem is that random guessing (of priors) is not a reasonable replacement for science.

Bayes' rule is great if you can find a reasonable justification for a prior. Bayes is widely used for decision-making (for example), where you need an answer quickly & you aren't trying to make general scientific claims. But if you can't find a justifiable prior in a scientific work, using Bayes' rule just replaces one statistical fallacy for another one. After all, Bayes' rule will give nonsense answers if you give it a nonsense prior!

Bayes' rule is a great tool in many circumstances! But it has a great weakness: it requires a prior. That doesn't make it useless; few tools are useful in all circumstances. But requiring "everyone to use Bayes' rule, even though we have no reasonable way to find a good estimate of the priors," is unlikely to ever happen (and rightly so). The article rightly points out a serious problem with the typical application of statistics, but there needs to be a better justification for priors than is suggested in this article.

I could imagine systemic worldwide ways to deal with this. For example, perhaps the scientific community could allow people to propose initial priors, and then allow multiple different papers to improve the estimation of the probability over time. But that would require much more than articles repeatedly saying "there's no serious problem with priors"; having a justifiable way to estimate and update priors is the fundamental problem with Bayesian analysis in the scientific community.
Developers will support multiple markets, the same way that car companies deliver cars with the steering wheel on the wrong (i.e. right) side of the car for those comparably small markets.
I think the point is that vegeterism has been thought of as an automatic healthy diet. At least that's what I thought until my doctor told me that he had vegetarian patients that were obese and dealing with the related problems. Vegeterisim is only healthy if you eat the right diet and don't over do it.
Capital gains are income (when realized). Specifically, they're unearned income, as opposed to earned income (W2 employment, 1099 contracting, etc). Unearned income also includes interest and dividend payments.
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Oh, good to know! I'll update the docs. I'm on arch linux so I wasn't aware. Should've spun up a VM to test it first or something.
Yes.

Used it in a production paint program I ported from Ikonas to SGI 4D+ machines.

It worked completely as advertised. I started out just using it to read a settings file. But then I realized that I could use the REPL to change the settings on the fly. After that, I wrote a flexible GUI library, then I was writing core paint functionality in it. It wasn't fast enough for hardcore image processing, although I prototyped a lot of stuff in it before converting to C, but it was dynamite for gluing things together.

My program somehow upended itself, going from a big chunky main loop to lots of little functions in C, glued together with ATLAST. It was almost magical -- I got rid of so much C code and I could add new stuff in minutes instead of hours!

The GUI was a sort of "Tektronix-chic", with flat buttons and LED style numeric readouts. It was completely defined in ATLAST so I could easily change layouts and functions without a recompile.

The "chassis" of zPaint (which included ATLAST) was later used for two commercial products -- zScope (waveform monitor and vectorscope) and zMatte (chromakey with spill suppression). Although it defined the user interfaces for both of those programs, the REPL wasn't exposed to the user (although the zscope manual had a very detailed explanation of how the setup file worked).

Unfortunately, they were both kind of niche products (especially on expensive, niche machines), but I do know zScope was used by Digital Domain in their film scanning pipeline for the "Apollo 13" movie.

Using ATLAST was a very pleasant experience. It integrated very well with ANSI C of that time and it was very compact. The documentation was absolutely stellar and I never had any problems with it that I couldn't solve. It's showing it's age now -- I seem to recall modern compilers frown on some of the memory tricks it does.

Because of that, something like Lua is probably a better choice for new projects, but at the time, it was a huge step forward for me.

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I think if you buy the trailing edge of the latest generation, and re-sell it once it’d trailing edge of the next generation, you’ll have s cost-effective cycle of good devices.

Or trailing edges of the 2nd and 3rd generation respectively.

Just make sure you don’t hold on beyond obsolescence.

Sometimes old stuff spikes in value a bit as others want to replace/repair instead of upgrade.
"Linked" is a meaningless word in these contexts, and only creates confusion (and clicks).
> Most people don't need a faster processor to view their Twitter.

If twitter keeps “improving” their app you will.

But seriously though, how is it that the twitter app regularly causes my devices to lock up?
I lived in the boonies north of DC so by the time I heard DC/PG transplant kids using it, it was probably already old news.

We did say "bust on" a lot (more common than "joan on" where I grew up) and it stuck around longer. Even now, 25-30 years later, I wouldn't take note if someone said "bust on" someone--but the one time I heard someone my age say "joan on" recently, I gave her a grin and asked if she was from PG county. She was surprised to learn it wasn't common elsewhere.

edit: after looking into this just now, I guess it's still used farther south. Haven't heard it in the DC/MD area in years.
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I'd recommend just switching to StartPage. Instead of proxying a Bing/Yahoo search result as DDG does, it uses Google under the hood, which has been giving me much better results even without the personalization.
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I find that difficult to believe. Estrogen isn't known to cause large behavioral changes like you've described. The changes in hormones can result in some emotional changes, but I cannot see how they would reduce symptoms of autism.
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Second this, since 2015 the Hokuriku Shinkansen gets you there easily and the garden and castle alone are worth the trip. If you can make it sometime during the cherry blossoms it is insane.
drug costs are only one piece of healthcare costs. You're comparing apples and oranges.
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It’s possible, but since we made it a priority to mess them around for decades, we will never know what would have happened.
Word of warning: There's about on study per month finding the cause of autism. Unfortunately each study finds another one.
I would love to understand how laws or language requirements would produce such a list.
Have you tried putting 100 songs you really like that are in similar sub genres into a new playlist in Spotify, then playing the last song and letting it generate new suggestions from there? Kind of a weird hack, but I’ve been getting good results from it that have improved my #2 daily list selections a lot.

Pandora’s concept of a music genome is quite fascinating too. For whatever reason the repeat rate gets too high though, even if you seed it with multiple songs.
> And this is where services and wearables come in to pick up the slack, which is arguably more consumer friendly than building devices that barely last two years.

It's worth noting Apple's US battery replacement fees.

Watch: $79

AirPods: $49

AirPods Case: $49

Not outrageous on the watch, but on the lower-end SKUs it could constitute a large percentage of the original purchase price, especially if they were purchased at even a common discount.

$98 to refresh AirPods is significant. The case battery does tend to degrade a bit more slowly, but my experience is that they don't last all that much longer than the AirPods.

A new wireless charging case is $79, while a standard replacement charging case is $69.

Given that the above hardware has about a 2.5-3-year life on the batteries, it doesn't seem as consumer-friendly as it could.
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The History and Future of Compensation
Maybe fear of getting pigeonholed as a head in the clouds academic type who does little but proclaim the superiority of LISP and chide people for not understanding macros? Or some other LISP-based stereotype (that’s for AI, right? LISP is hard to read, I don’t know why you deal with that BS, etc.)
>What does manifest V3 add to privacy or security?

By definition, restricting the APIs extensions can use limits their power. Less powerful extensions can do fewer things, good or bad. Fewer bad things adds to privacy and security. At least that's what I understand.

Yes, I know ad blocking makes your browsing more private and secure, but that's another discussion.
It doesn't, it simply protects the transport between the untrusted network location (e.g. coffee shop, airport, or Apartment 23C's unsecured wifi) and your VPN endpoint, which presumably has a suitably "safe" transport.

Without digging into too much detail, or providing a whack of data because I am not writing long form about this and I spent too much time writing comments on HN this morning :P, but my observation has been that the majority of unsecured apps have service endpoints that are deployed in cloud service provider environments, so if you have a VPN end point that terminates inside the same region, then it is highly unlikely that your traffic will hit the Internet before arriving at it's destination. That said, it's TCP/IP, so all it takes is a routing change and all of those assumptions go out the window...

Beyond that, MITM and traffic monitoring is happening all of the time in many network service providers, not all of it's nefarious -- alot of traffic analysis is just sampling to make sure that the network is working well and to understand whats happening. That said, there are many service providers and jurisdictions that opportunistically capture data or modify traffic in flight for purposes other than quality of service (e.g. ISPs injecting advertisements into HTTP traffic, surveillance, etc)

Using a VPN in this way doesn't protect you against those kinds of threats - the value in using a VPN here is about preventing local eavesdroppers from monitoring network metadata that can be used to classify your traffic and track you.

There are many examples, but one clear one is for marginalized people, such as folks from the LGBT community using specific apps (e.g. gay dating apps such Grindr or Growlr) that could out them to a monitoring service while in a jurisdiction or community hostile to them. Having that traffic tunneled safely to a "known safe" destination, e.g. an AWS or GCP instance in a safer region, would provide a measure of protection.

I had a discussion with a colleague about this about a year ago, but I think it would be very awesome to build an open source VPN service that leveraged AWS & GCP VPCs and inter region peering so that it would egress in the same cloud provider regions as destination IP blocks to prevent as much traffic as possible from flowing over the public internet, but I haven't had the time to put into it.
If you were living off the labor of others, wouldn't a health issue be able to knock those laborers' families off course?
> In the past five years, she has taken 3,802 cases, including 1,787 new felonies, according to data from Michigan’s Third Judicial Circuit Court. That’s more than one felony case every workday—excluding the ones involving simple probation violations, which Cameron also takes hundreds of each year.

3802/(5*365.25) ≈ 2.08 cases per day, every day in those five years including weekends, not just "more than one per workday". There is no way these cases are being handled adequately.

I get that the more than one a day refers just to felonies, but it's still ridiculous.
I know how HN feels about streaming culture, but this is a move that'll have significant trickle-down effects.
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I hope it goes well, this has been a common complaint for half a decade now.
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> I feel like a superior person by using their products

Well, as long as you're happy...
It's nice to try things, but that's a terrible idea. You don't want to rely on "my code will run fast and no request will go out while it does" for your security.
“Probably 95 percent of the people that are charged with something are guilty of something,” she asserted. “They may not be guilty of what they’re exactly charged with, but they may be guilty of a lesser offense, okay? … And you have probably 90 percent of those people who are looking for the best deal possible.”

What a disturbing quote and very telling about the state of our justice system.
Not sure what you mean about stuck at 2 GHz? My current Dell laptop and the previous one used 45 W CPUs and can hold a sustained 3.2 GHz while compiling with 8 threads.

That immediately drops as soon as I start using the iGPU or even the Nvidia dGPU, because of power limits and thermal limits.

On the desktop, my 5960x from 2014 sustains 3.3 GHz and overclocks to 4.1 all-core, if I want to bother. Ryzen 1700x does 3.7 and the Ryzen 3900 seems to do 4.2 pretty easily. So there's no 2 GHz limit there. Intel is even better, with many desktop chips able to do 5 GHz.
We are discussing it right now, so I would say its already doing something.. Nothing wrong with creating awareness, though other avenues will certainly be needed before meaningful change will happen.
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