skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have a good grasp on this. Have you looked at Tom Campbell? He has a separate angle than Hoffman but very similar conclusions.

The batshit crazy thing about Tom is that he shows you ways that you can individually experiment and prove through your own experiences the things he's positing. His My Big Toe trilogy goes into all this, but I shudder to recommend it. Tedious slog.

If you really want to prove it to yourself, it's not too hard. This book by Kenneth Daz, "The Last Astral Projection Book You'll Ever Need", is the best way I've found, he's read endlessly and summarized it into a hundred pages.

So far I've rolled out of my body twice now. Floated through my front door and got down my road a fair ways. Fully conscious, able to make choices, full memory after returning to my body. No psychedelics involved. You can't of course talk to anyone about this. My wife knows but she's been naturally OBE'ing since she's a kid.

(Edit, I can't believe I'm not being down voted to oblivion here. Love HN).
Not quite something I would use, but I think it's a fun project. Good work guys!
One of the memes that we as a species need to eliminate is the idea that apathy, laziness, or inaction cannot be malicious.
everything is connected, my mom believed my brother's ASD was because of vaccines, I didn't have much of an opinion till I researched it years later and learned it was based on one cooks theories, but this seems like a more sound research study, albeit a small sample size. I'm self diagnosed (3 of my friends with ASD told me I'm probably am on spectrum, because I over share and don't shut up about a subject I like.), my brother's an easier more detectable case. I had to be a lot more independent so learned masking and taught myself coping skills...

This however, seems more reasonable than the vaccines theory because the gut also has some gray matter and our digestive system I think plays some role in our consciousness system, along with neurons, and all the hormones and chemicals that our body uses to transmit signals and all the electricity running through our neural network, etc...

I'm pretty sure an uptick in ASD could very well correlate with environmental conditions considering we all have forever chemicals and micro plastics in our blood and those probably have some effect on hormones and internal body chemistry.
> the only way to test is... to call 911

You should be able to use 933 to test emergency services. https://support.bandwidth.com/hc/en-us/articles/210291778-Th...
Ok now I’m /r/TooAfraidToAsk… NLP means something else relevant to probabilistic language models?
Any example of downgrades that you got from updates? Don't know what updates you got but for me they al came with upgrades, not downgrades.
V2 is often a surprise to management and many of us have a lot of scar tissue originating from these sagas. We are not eager for more repeats. Sunk cost fallacy begets cheapness, not frugality.
Naivety and lack of knowledge have never been a valid defense for harm.

Manslaughter is a criminal charge. As is criminal negligence.

And quite apart from facing criminal charges, the folks who introduced lead in the gasoline, produced microplastics and PFAS, and more all have the kind of wealth that gives them raw economic and political power and with it, the ability to do continued harm.
If Google, of all companies, can't afford the necessary testing equipment for a critical function, who can? If they thought that emergency services would make them money, they could have a lab in every office. But it won't, and so they don't care.
“Stop intervening while I’m trying to genocide! I’m super serious this time guys!”
The cure for Google is to "legally" mandate opt in/out for personalized advertising.

Personalized advertising is built around an obvious violation of human dignity and the right to privacy as recognized by the UDHR.

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...
Even if you throw all of them away, the point is the human is simply more effective in their role. Just breaking the ice, the writer's block; anything to get out of the creative rut that we all fall in, is worth its weight in GPUs.
Related?

https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/oracle-database-at-...
It’s cost exactly $0 to not produce poison
When you hold down the power button, there is a big red emergency button beside the restart button. I've gotten pretty close to accidentally pressing it.
Completely disagree. You're just listing features and assuming they're all equivalent (e.g., 7 features is better than 5 features). What the iPhone got right was that it was actually intuitive for a regular person to use—it didn't feel like a business/work tool that you had to learn to use because you were forced to. Copy/paste, multitasking, and landscape mode weren't important for a v1 device aimed at the average consumer. What mattered was the overall ease of use, which can't be reduced down to a single feature.
We have the same architecture deployed on all 3, and they're all good at something and suck at something.
Any recommendations for #3? Particularly with low barrier of entry for kids? Something you can use a midi keyboard and a mic with?
Women tend to not be diagnosed as much as men either, mainly as they're forced to mask more throughout life -- I don't think we'll ever get an accurate representation there, unfortunately.

I feel like there are things not being said in the study that should have been. I could be wrong, but I don't see a mention of whether the parents of the autistic children were themselves autistic or not and feel that could be important criteria to have noted.
Sounds true but is it? We can't perceive neutrinos.
In a world where HA is key, PostgreSQL has nothing to offer.
If memory serves, only a few decades ago, it was believed that autism incidence was 10 boys for every 1 girl.

Since then I think they discovered they were under-diagnosing it in females due to gender norms, but my impression is that it still skews more heavily towards males (3:1 or 4:1).
Off-topic out of the gate, I'll recall that on my very first attempt to write a program in Modula II on our university's Vax, I accidentally inserted a # character at the top of the file. The compiler output wasn't very user friendly, and I was relatively green at interpreting compiler output anyway. So the fact that basically every line of my program was considered a syntax error was deeply baffling to me. It was a long day (and evening) in the lab before I figured that one out. I expect it was character building. Or something.

A bit more on-topic, although this one is not strictly my story: at British Airways, working on the cabin crew's manifest documents, we had an issue where the printout kept aborting a short way in. It turned out that any time a sick passenger needing special assistance was noted in the records the problem would occur. After a lot of head scratching someone (not me) spotted that there was a special handler to end the printout if there was an "INVALID" field in the dataset and the test literally said something like:

if(contains(recordset,"INVALID")) exit;

Invalids, therefore, were a problem :)

For anyone confused, note etymology #2 here:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/invalid
Many CPUs have claimed to be competitive with x86, but it rarely pans out. Being able to match the IPC on a microbenchmark is good, but they often struggle with poorly tuned, low bandwidth cache and memory controllers.
RAM stems are already out there ... I think the drumless release, especially on vinyl, is more useful for DJs who want to mix in samples "live" in the room to a dancing crowd. RAM is all about marrying a Disco and DJ aesthetic with the best of everything Dance that happened between the 70s and the 2010s. Daft Punk even switched out specific period microphones for different parts of recording. Encouraging old-school vinyl scratch mixing is right in the wheelhouse.

I suspect they Daft Punk also enjoy how deep the pocket groove on the work is. When you have Nile Rodgers and Nathan East playing on tracks it's just incredible. And because they recorded to Omar Hakim's drums originally, his groove sticks even when you can't hear him. I hope he still gets credit!
Use https://86box.net/
There's a ton of hardware profiles embedded. I found my old XT PC which is not that common. Goes up to Pentium era.

It is not perfect tho. My XT has a Plantronics card which is a CGA+, with double memory granting few additional modes, but it's not emulated. There is some historical software targeting this graphics card, even some contemporary retro-indie games.
No, this is entirely untrue.
That was a hypothetical scenario. How are you gonna pay Adobe to port their stuff to Linux?
DAW version control is one of my dreams. If I could have a really tight git equivalent for reaper projects, it’d be so cool. Plugins are, as usual, the biggest barrier there. Doesn’t seem like there will ever be a good way to deal with different people having completely different plugin collections. Unless someone makes “Netflix but for plugins” or something.

The other thing I saw the other day that I thought was cool was a reverb plugin that uses your GPU. Seems like the next step for modeling could easily be in that direction. Especially since the bar there is low, pretty much just the positively ancient UAD hardware acceleration cards, although UAD themselves seem to be going the opposite way and pushing native stuff now.
Microplastics in all water
You couldn’t even pinch-to-zoom a photo when this phone first came out. It dropped frames like crazy. It was definitely a smart phone with a touch screen (and keyboard), but it definitely wasn’t an iPhone in terms of polish.
Again? I feel like I've heard of this bug before.
Maybe Armenia’s most steadfast ally and fellow CSTO member should do something about it then?
Being unable to ever not do a thing (which is what is being criticized) is not the same as not having that ability at all (which is your straw man).

And people who always self-censor and are never honest aren't called anything, we just shudder and change the subject.
My next motorcycling frontier is to get better at using the clutch in low-speed maneuvers. I've only ridden as large as 650cc class machines for any real length of time and they're small enough such that I can get away with modulating the back brake more than the clutch for tight turns. I'd like to be able to do this type of stuff clutch-only - I'll probably give that a shot in an empty parking lot in an hour or so.
I think it's partly because there's so much junk. Messaging is still relatively uncluttered. Our inboxes are full of junk from mailing lists, from people who CC' everyone and their cousin, etc.

I try to keep my unread inbox at zero, using filters to neatly file emails or delete them. Most people who don't do this (or don't know how to do this) and so end up with unread message counts that number in the thousands. I've seen a guy with 14000 unread emails in his inbox (and he only had one folder, the inbox).

People tell me they don't check emails regularly anymore, and if I wanted their attention, I should either text or call. Emails are the domain of us old fogeys I'm told.
No. Flint was a specific criminal act.
That is such an obviously good idea I'm surprised it doesn't exist. Apparently the official way to test it in the UK is to email them and schedule a test. They say they use the real 999 because that's the best way to guarantee that it works, and that's true - but there's definitely utility in having an almost-real number that you can test at any time guilt free.

They probably just can't be bothered to set it up tbh.
When did you have problems dialing 911 with an iPhone? It seems like something worth reporting - feedback to Apple, public posting, etc.

Dropped calls etc. do happen for a variety of reasons, but there have been next to no reports of iPhones being unable to dial 911 (assuming a decent cell signal, etc.), and that would be a much more serious issue.
On Windows, the entire world can collectively report a glaring deficiency and not have it fixed for years. See taskbar labels.

On Linux it varies widely by software, but a ton of maintainers don't have time for your issue because they're busy fixing their own, and they expect you to fix your own as well.

Neither one is perfect.
Not to mention the hefty consulting fees he’s been getting for years from places like Google. IMO those probably dwarf his faculty salary and money from books.
Another explanation could be found in the DNA where siblings share the same traits even at a family distance > 3.
4 out of 5 people diagnosed with autism are male. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_gender_differences_in_...

So, there’s a significant gender difference here, possibly with diagnosis but likely a deeper connection. Alternatively, it might impact both but this study didn’t have enough statistical power to notice the correlation.
What is the future of the rotary phone? The typewriter? The floppy disc?

None of these have dissolved completely; the rotary dial, the keyboard layout, the swappable storage medium still exist, especially in music production hardware.

It just takes a company like Bitwig to come along and show how else these pre-existing interfaces can be modularised and combined, and some iterations of the Push controller[0] to uppend the traditional fingering required to play them.

[0]: https://www.ableton.com/en/push/
Making sense of surface-mount components
That is the narrowest of all possible views.

Good luck using your personal consumer choices to avoid Pesticides in aquifers and breathing Tire dust in the air.
Nobody?

Nowadays the only way to get some legit information is to cross-check multiple conflicting sources. And then apply some gut feeling based on historical track record. Which also needs to be formed by cross-checking multiple sources.
Some time ago I was wondering what would be the best way to traverse a list of objects contained in optionals or unique_ptrs.

It seems like there is no way in C++ to express that i want to traverse the objects themselves and not the container objects. Hopefully that changes soon.
Have "AGI" outperform truck drivers first. They said autonomous trucks would replace all truck drivers by 2018.
This is the downside of single-vendor proprietary solutions.
Ok, I've read about this before but can someone with big brain dispute this? Seems like a solution to quite a problem but as it's crypto, not entire truth could be told here
It cost 0 to not be obese

It cost 0 to not drink and drive

It cost 0 to ...

It's not a cost issue, it's a "we're slightly above average IQ monkeys, but we're still fucking monkeys" issue, we're easy to use and abuse, companies know that
Indeed. The rule for anyone wondering is:

- "justify-" is for the primary axis.

- "align-" for the secondary one

- "-content" is for grid tracks / rows in flex-wrap containers.

- "-items is for individual children (within the row / grid cell)

I would also definitely prefer clearer names.
I loot authors I read for grammar, and I picked this and “nb” up from David Foster Wallace, who used both all the time. This usage of “which” is really handy for achieving clarity in certain situations.
I have autism and can definitely say that my mother didn't drink diet soda. My partner has autism and I can say his mother also didn't drink diet soda. I know anecdata doesn't invalidate things like this, but I'm highly suspicious of the conclusion.
It was a great insight by Boltzmann, and his intellectual heirs.

But that was circa 1877, around 150 years ago. It is not a great insight today. Please keep up.
See Tom Campbell above re new Double Slit experiments, he's addressing your specific issue here.
Despite (or maybe because of) following this space for more than 20 years, I would love a (good) book on the inner (recent) history of the music software industry (= DAWs/plugins). I fail to find even one book on the subject. Anyone ?

There is this quote : "To know your future, you must know your past". I agree the cloud/AI combo is revolutionary, but we also need to dig a little deeper into the past to understand what is coming.
It’s a very substantial aspect of “being poor is expensive”. Polluted places, and the sorts of places where pollution tends to collect, are undesirable and thus cheap. The rich historically buy the high land and thus are not affected as directly by flooding, which these days also comes with a dose of pollution.

Ironically all of the rich people migrating to waterfront property may be what finally gets us past where we are today with waterway pollution and global warming.
All vendors have weaknesses, but few have Microsoft's cavalier attitude towards security. Case in point: https://www.wiz.io/blog/storm-0558-compromised-microsoft-key...

If you bragged to me about being locked into Azure I would be very puzzled.
Lead has been connected to madness since antiquity.
Full text: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/17/3772

What is interesting here is that drinking 'diet soda' actually decreased the odds for girls (though not reaching statistical significance) - that strikes me as an extremely odd finding. Their discussion of 'why' was not very compelling. I have a hard time thinking there's anything causative with such a disparity in sex.

I also noticed that adjusting for some of the larger confounders for autism (maternal age, SES) didn't move the needle much. I would expect there to be a much larger difference between adjusted/not-adjusted OR. Maybe there's other confounders lurking or the adjustment was insufficient.
Would you feed human output directly into a computer program?

I'm just saying, we invented backspace for a reason. LLMs have no backspace. It's insane they work as well as they do.
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Do institutions even try to be trustworthy these days? Everybody is just pushing a narrative.
That doesn't exactly line up with my experiences. I have generally had to actively work to avoid Windows from messing itself up. That or put in work to get basic functionality working. A regular user isn't going to be able to do that.
Oof, that article is brilliant. Seldom do I see such an honest perspective, with penetrating insight into the essence* of the matter.
Did they control against non diet soda drinkers or non soda drinkers in general? Wasn’t clear from reading the summary.

There’s a whole lot of other indicators that could be linked with soda drinkers (education, income etc), so unless the only variable was diet vs not, consider me skeptical.
This is hilarious. As impressive as GPT-3/4 has been at writing, what's more shocking is just how bullshity-y human writing is.. And a "business consultant" is the epitome of a role requiring bullshit writing. Chat GPT could certainly out business-consultant the very best business consultants.

Sometimes to be taken seriously at work, you need to take some concise idea or data and fluff it up into a multiple pages or a slide deck JUST so that others can immediately see how much work you put in.

The ideal role for chatgpt at this moment is probably to take concise writings and to expand it into something way larger and full of filler. On the receiving end, people will endure your long-winded document or slide deck, recognize you "put in the work", and then feed it back into chatGPT to get the original key points summarized.
Earthworms is an entire subclass of animals. There are earthworms native of USA. Other aren't.
This is really interesting to consider, and I hadn’t before. It lends a lot more potential weight and credibility to the idea that rewilding plains (for example), thus increasing the biomass there, would have significant climate benefits. This falls deep into the “We can’t know that” category, but I’m a fairly large proponent of leaving more land alone and letting nature do what it does. At the moment, economic activity like grazing cows seems like it could be a net negative since it’s clearly harming the environment while also preventing natural landscapes from establishing, which could have significant ecological benefits.

The idea that biomass can bring stability and better conditions is certainly supported by my aquarium experience, though it’s a closed system. If you limit the number of species, water parameters will swing all over the place. Add more species (particularly plants and micro flora/fauna), and the water becomes clearer and cleaner. Add some small crustaceans, snails, or other animals which love algae and it’ll get even cleaner, and their populations will self-maintain quite well. Add some tiny fish and they will live on the algae, micro fauna, offspring of the shrimp, etc. These systems work well, but they need a huge amount of plants and tiny creatures, bacteria, and small animals to groom and maintain things. Without them, it’ll crash and swing all over until just about everything is dead.

If we imagine the world as a giant aquarium where we inhibit the micro flora and micro fauna, bacteria, and other balances, it certainly seems possible that restoring this would improve all kinds of factors like water and air quality.
> It’s plausible that qualia are inner workings in our brain that our brain is itself perceiving, and thus is conscious of.

This seems circular. Why would those inner workings not themselves give rise
to consciousness, in the way you suppose second-order workings of the brain
do?

> we are also conscious of our consciousness. That doesn’t need to mean that the subject and the object of consciousness are the same in that case: it could also mean that the “of”, i.e. the arrow between subject and object, is itself an object of consciousness.

Those are two different things, no? You can think about your consciousness, or
you can think about your ability to think about your consciousness.

> Now, it’s very plausible that this “of” arrow in general is not a simple arrow, but rather a complex graph or network. Given the complexity of the brain, there is certainly ample space for myriads of such arrow-networks.

Meaning what? You're describing a different graph, I don't see how it bears on
the simple one we started with.

> we manifestly can’t get a grasp on the subject without making it an object of consciousness

Again this seems circular. If you think about consciousness, then by
definition the thing you're thinking about is consciousness.

> we would be completely unaware of it if it wasn’t also an object

Same again. If you aren't thinking about consciousness, then consciousness
isn't currently something that you're thinking about. I'm not seeing the point
here.

> what actually exists is only the “of” relation, and that the conscious subject is really just formed out of those

I'm not convinced. Our ability to be conscious of our consciousness is of no
particular relevance to the deeper question of how consciousness arises. Many
animal species clearly have some form of consciousness, but are probably
incapable of the sort of abstract reasoning needed to be conscious of their
consciousness. I'm skeptical of any theory whose starting point is the human
ability to do so.