skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/connectivity-theory-autism...

> Some of this work indicates that autism is characterized by underconnectivity between distant brain regions and overconnectivity between neighboring ones; others show differences in connectivity within certain brain networks. In one study, connections within the default mode, or ‘daydreaming,’ network of autism brains looked especially weak.

> For example, mutations in the autism-linked genes MET and CNTNAP2 produce patterns that differ from those in people without these mutations.

https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/cntnap2-variants-alter-bra...

> Ashley Scott, a graduate student in Geschwind’s lab, scanned the brains of 16 high-functioning boys with autism and 16 age-, sex- and IQ-matched healthy controls during a difficult memory task that requires activity in that brain circuit. She also collected saliva samples from the children to see which ones carry the CNTNAP2 variants.

> Because the variants are common in the population, most participants — 11 of the children with autism and 12 of the controls — have at least one copy.

> Scott found that these children have increased connectivity among local areas of the prefrontal cortex. In contrast, long-range connections between the prefrontal cortex and the posterior cingulate cortex — a region toward the back of the brain that’s part of the frontal-striatal loop — are significantly stronger in the children who do not carry the risk allele.

I don't remember if this is it or not, but there's something that stimulates the generation of long neural connections, and a deficiency in something can cause those connections to be shorter on average - you end up with the same amount, but they are distributed differently and more localized, which is what causes the "attention to detail" effect (as well as underutilization of potential connections, and connections between unwanted areas).

Still trying to find the original source where I heard that, though. Sucks that I do so many of my impulse searches in incognito mode.
A lot of the "sunscreen inside" people are those trying to maximize their visible skin health and beauty. If you don't care about your physical looks, as least above all else, I imagine the trade off to getting regular direct sunlight is well worth it.

But it is fairly intuitive that sunlight's ultraviolet radiation at any strength is going to degrade your skin over long periods of time.
My dad saw (here in the US) a fairly hefty insurance bump going from a bells-and-whistles Acura to a Tesla Model 3.

The single-cast underbody is a big and expensive single thing to repair if it gets damaged, as is the battery.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a42709679/tesla-insurance-...
Between the focus modes and general notification settings you can get things pretty quieted down.

As a baseline have about half a dozen things on my phone that actually actively interrupt me. Calendar, alarms, weather alerts, banking, and, yes, messages from my wife. I have a few more that can send notifications but they don’t alert me, they all get rolled up into the “Notification Center” for me to review whenever I feel like catching up on them. (This includes direct contacts like SMS from anyone else on my “allow” list.)

During work hours Slack can notify me as well. If I get any notifications outside of work hours, they’ll appear when my phone goes back to work mode.

After 9pm the only things that can notify me are phone calls from a handful of people. The notifications will be there in the morning.

When I’m driving I can only receive phone calls from my wife.

This is a whitelist, not a blacklist. I have to consciously decide to receive notifications from something and when I want to receive them.

The focuses turn themselves on and off throughout the week without me doing anything.

If I’m expecting something (e.g., scheduled telehealth call), I’ll just turn focus off around the time I need to receive the notifications and deal with the firehose until it’s done. (Used to do the same for food deliveries and stuff until I moved to the middle of nowhere and stopped doing that.)

I truly don’t understand how people live with their phones otherwise.
or worse, funny!
Is this not available via the aws cli/api?
There's no existing topic for this, but do feel free to create one.

paul@linuxaudiosystems.com for email
A music synthesizer. It's a pathway to learning electronics, music, and the nature of sound. There are cheap kits, cheap synths, lots of kinds of synths, and there are much more complicated and expensive systems you can grow into. You can get software synths also, VCV Rack is a free though complex one:

https://vcvrack.com/

However I'd recommend an inexpensive hardware one with real knobs you can turn, like one of the Korg Volca series:

https://www.korg-volca.com/en/

Recording the sounds can lead into exploring all the concepts and gear involved in recording and mixing music. It's not mutually exclusive with doing other things also, you can play with both synths and computers and being involved with something artistic can add dimensions to and an escape from the nature of classwork/work.

Some other suggestions: gardening, high voltage electronics (with lots of supervision), electronics, photography, movie making, ham radio (gnu radio), show lighting systems (there's more than disco lights, robotics is involved), robotics, acoustic instruments (guitar, piano, flute, drums), sensors (you don't necessarily have to know electronics, get a data logger with built in sensors), weather monitoring/forecasting, hydraulic systems (with supervision), wood working, metal working, 3D printing, bird watching, painting, minibikes/small engines.
Comparing 500 century Italy and 19th century Russia is kind of idiotic. Other then that we use the same general word, the political systems are really not that similar.

I dislike how people use feudalism as a vague catchall for everything that came before British Capitalism. This is just one of those idioitc theory Marx came up with that has no basis in reality. His theories were not even correct for Britain and he had extremely limited knowlage about the world. But he still was arrogant enough to believe he could deduce 'general laws of history' based on these extremely limited examples from British history (that weren't even correct or complete).

But no matter how wrong Marx are, we now must forever pull out the 'feudalism' card anytime somebody dislikes something. Despite historians not even agreeing on what 'feudalism' actually means. European medievalists generally talk about feudalism in a narrow way of how lords would agree to contracts with knights. Global historians tend to use feudalism more as a catch all land ownership by the nobility.

> Serfs were effectively slaves

Serfs were not one thing. The thing we call 'serfs' had many meanings that changed over 100s of years and was different in each region and depended on that countries specific context. The laws around serfdom were constantly shifting. And beyond the actual laws, we know that very often the real world didn't actually reflect the laws.

Making any general statements about serfs simply doesn't make sense. Just as it doesn't make sense to talk about slaves as one thing.
The poster was talking about digital formats and compression. The expense of speakers and receivers is usually higher quality analog reproduction. Two vastly different concepts at play there. Even then going into the $100k+ territory usually yields very little results on top of the many thousands of dollars setup. Its probably better spending at least half of that just making the room and the other sound reflecting/absorbing things better if you're going that high-end.
That was my first thought too it seems too wide from the measurements given but the attachment mechanics might be adjustable.
Nobody is immune to this. But he really did fail to do an easy test. Someone with his level of experience should have been able to make a challenge that wasn't trivial to refute, and being insulting in the process.

Especially since he happens to be in the thick of a position that is easily accused of being anti science. One would think that makes it doubly incumbent not to make such trivial errors.
Have you ever wanted to copy anything from A->B that wasn't a 2fa text, a password, or a url? I certainly haven't. An android phone out of the box supports syncing tabs and passwords and provides a trivial way to copy 2FA codes with a built in feature.
The majority of traffic tickets (including speeding tickets) are civil offenses and generally not considered a crime.

It's not until you get into reckless driving, street racing, or similar that they move into criminal classes (misdemeanor/felony)
OnlyOffice seems to be the only FOSS office suite that handles Microsoft Office documents correctly.

When I open my Word docs in LibreOffice, they still look significantly different than in Word after all these years. In OnlyOffice they look exactly like in Word.
So it replaced Word-in-Wine for me.
Sarcasm aside, the state of the art tells us that humans are not special. A couple hundred lines of python and a shitload of data can produce an "intelligence" that can rival the less intellectually gifted people.

So, given that relatively simple structures can become intelligent when exposed to sufficient data, it can be argued that intelligent structures might be all over the universe, they may not need to be biological, undergo evolution, nor be capable of reproduction. As for where the data comes from, well, the cosmos showers every object with shitload of data from every corner of the depths of the universe.

We know that humans are not special, and intelligence is less complicated as we thought (after removing the overhead of reproduction). Intelligence could be everywhere. The idea of panpsychism is strengthened with recent developments in AI, IMHO.
CSV is not a standard (rfc4180 exists but only very few things actually pay attention to it) so no behavior is a sane behavior when trying to import it.
Wow didn't know it was knew that people owned land. Truly something we only just introduce in the last two decades.
I have no trouble hearing EVs approaching, they sound identical to modern ICE, which is to say 90% road noise.

Some ICE cars are noisier by choice of course but modern commuter cars are very quiet at the exhaust typically, the road noise is the dominant noise.

I have cars driving past me at about 50kph right now, I am barely hearing the engine for about 3 seconds or less as it passes, and the road noise continues to be audible for about 20-30 seconds. Pretty much all I am hearing is road noise. Same was true when I lived near a highway. Just a whooshing blob of road noise.
1. The "off by a factor of 10 due to a math error" is only applicable for one study. What do the other studies say about daily intake?

2. while there's plenty of evidence that vitamin D levels is associated with positive health outcomes, AFAIK evidence that vitamin D supplementation being associated with positive outcomes isn't very good.

edit:

3. I dug further and found there was a response to the study that you linked[1]. The response points out that the standard used by the original study (ie. supplementation levels that's needed for 97.5% of the population to achieve adequate serum levels of vitamin D) would cause people on the lower end to consume too much. Therefore the recommendation of 8000 IU (or any single number, really) is bad, and we should instead have different recommendations according to body weight:

>With this approach we estimated, for example, that doses of 1885, 2802 and 6235 IU per day are required for normal weight, overweight and obese individuals respectively to achieve natural 25(OH)D concentrations (defined as 58 to 171 nmol/L).

As such, even though there might be an error caused by "off by a factor of 10", everyone really shouldn't be upping their supplementation by a factor of 10.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26690210/
Speeding in a motor vehicle is a criminal offence in the UK.

I think the relevant section is clause 89 here: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/27/part/VI
Sata is proprietary.
Hospitals were closer to collapse in 2022 than they were in 2020 or 2021 in my experience.
From the article:

The founder of Branch Metrics ... struggled to integrate
with devices because of steps Google took to block them.

> Sounds like Google is getting punished for being a more open ecosystem than Apple.

A straw man fallacy (sometimes written as strawman) is the
informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from
the one actually under discussion, while not recognizing
or acknowledging the distinction. One who engages in this
fallacy is said to be "attacking a straw man".

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
> Child doesn't have enough money

Yes child has the amount of money that parents are able to provide.

> Keep searching for the boogeyman who wants kid to not exist, and not horrible parents to not procreate.

Why do you think that not being able to send a child to school trip with the rest of the class makes one a "horrible parent"? Not providing child with a sibling is a significantly worse thing.

> I love how all of your message is focused on kid, like parents are just passive observers in all of this.

Parents are trying to give their kid as good a life as possible, and having several siblings gives more opportunities in life and better life overall, than being a single child and having more toys, trips, etc.
I don't think cat faces are all that much less expressive than dog faces. They have a wide variety of facial expressions, including surprise, irritation/anger, happiness, playfulness, anxiety/fear, disgust, and so on - and that's not including at cat body language, especially tail movements.

Our cat has perfected the guilt-tripping innocent stare. She stands beside her food bowl looking almost blank. This somehow communicates a combination of infinite sadness and disappointment, blended with child-like hopefulness.

It's very effective.
In fact the one he linked is the problem this one is trying to solve!
I’ve never met a competent recruiter. I’m not saying they don’t exist but they seem to be elusive if they do.

I’ve worked with multiple and they always strike me as uninformed, minimum wage, right-out-of-school, and flakey as fuck. I’ve been ghosted by recruiters, had them miss meetings then come up with absurd excuses, and generally fail to do the bare minimum. At one point I contacted a company directly after the recruiter made multiple mistakes and/or just lied (I think they lied at least) as the go between and I ended up getting the job.

I’m not saying I wouldn’t attempt to leverage one if I needed a job but they will never be my first pick.

I got my last job from a “who wants to be hired” thread here on HN and I couldn’t have asked for a better fit. I don’t know if that’s rare since I only did it once but I think I’d try it again if I was looking. That and looking through the “who’s hiring” thread. I’ve also been approached a few times about interviewing due to comments I’ve made on this site (about certain technologies or frameworks) so overall I see HN as a great resource on this front.

Ironically I love the _idea_ of recruiters and every time I go job hunting (and inevitable see if they have gotten any better) I think about how maybe my next job should be as a competent job recruiter since they are in such short, or non-existent, supply.
The elephant in the room is excel not word IMO.
FWiW, because it's a very unique situation globally, W.Australia a state 3x the size of Texas with a population a bit over 2 million people effectively "sheltered in place" by airlocking its borders - international and inter state flights had to quarentine, road transport on the one major transport road to the eastern state was pick up | drop off with out of state drivers quarentined, shipping through the port was non contact with crews quarentined.

W.Australia's COVID-19 vaccine roll-out began 22 February 2021.

The state remained isolated from 24th March 2020 until 3rd March 2022, by which time essentially every person in the state had been double vaccinated.

For the most part people continued life as before, now and again the capital city would have portions "locked down" when there was an active case in order to contain spread and test potential carriers.

The first active case was the 21st February 2020, contained. The first COVID death was 1st Mar 2020.
Active case numbers stayed low until There was no real increase in active cases until February 2022. There was no significant increase in deaths due to COVID until March 2022.

"Shelter in state until vaccinations rolled out" for a state that was already largely independant and isolated worked just fine - the deaths started once the borders opened, but at rates greatly below those seen elsewhere in the world thanks to a vaccination buffering.

W.Australian cases Jan 2020 - now: https://covidlive.com.au/report/daily-cases/wa#2020

W.Australian deaths Jan 2020 - now: https://covidlive.com.au/report/daily-deaths/wa#2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Western_A...
Hotswap-classloader – a dynamic class loader based on the JVM
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- Achieve rapid application hot reloading in ~1 sec.
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- Inspired by jfinal-undertow's hot loading design.
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I think the impulse that made the US do that is the same impulse at play in Ukraine. Notwithstanding the difference about whether it’s supporting or opposing independence (the US takes either side in a variety of conflicts), it’s really about a proxy war against Russia/the USSR.
Pretty much. When I was younger, modeled it quite literally off of "neighborhood grids". The idea being communities + their networks mirror one another. Grids would end up becoming infrastructure items maintained on however granular a municipality decides it wants to. Instead of a wild hodgepodge of differently financed networks (some bad because not wealthy, some good because wealthy), we'd focus on codifying and rolling out "this is the minimum quality of service to be expected period".

The reason I architected things that way was because I strongly believe that the best way to bootstrap network savvy for the widest possible audience is to bootstrap off of ways of life everyone no exceptions can relate to. Road systems are the prototypical network we all end up learning from.

By mirroring civil infrastructure, you can also cultivate an appreciation and awareness w.r.t network traffic, and propagation in and out of a space. You essentially end up, with local groups of network operators able to coop to keep their surrounds operational.

If this is sounding a lot like municipal networking, that's cause it is. Networks should be the realm of communities, and not seperable by mere financial accident.

The bloody business only net would reside in what I call "the remote net" which is basically the net we have now, completely divorced from any type of local geographical constraints. The reason for it not to the necessarily "default net" is to specifically allow for things like a community engageable desync from the web at large if necessary, because back then, I was far more interested in empowering groups of people living together to coordinate amongst themselves uninterrupted rather than faciliatating top down control by "remote zones" of local nets, like you see starting to materialize today in the form of the practice of deplatforming.

A new arrival (child's) onboarding process to the world would basically simplify down to one simple practice: learn to navigate and travel the real physical world, adding on increasing scopes and breadths of access as they can handle it. The shift toward algorithmic thinking, and getting an intuition for navigating these networks would just materialize in the same way that one learns ones neighborhood, local library, local municipality, next town over, etc.

The final net gain, har har, is that one could over time basically decentralize every form of networked interaction.

Yeah, it's pretty naive as *f given today's world. But the idea of Nets of data ever widening in scope, preserving data associated with the local inhabitants over time at least provides a framework of organization for any locality, or handful inhabitants to organize themselves with, and most importantly, express their own digital sovereignty with (which includes individuals setting up straight to remote grid connections, bypassing the local grid systems entirely).

It was really more of a passion of getting the onramp to global networking a bit more navigable to the less tech inclined, and creating abstraction layers whereby municipalities can more effectively protect community subnetworks in some fashion.
Criteria like "not starving", "not being murdered", "not being raped", "not being put into concentration camp for following your own religion", "not being imprisoned for criticizing the government" is pretty objective, and I have yet to see a culture where being raped and murdered is praised and desired by people. I am sure whatever are the cultural differences in China, they like starvation, rape, murder and imprisonment as little as we do. So the country which does such things to its citizens, massively, is not "doing well", even if its citizens aren't allowed to say so aloud (and that's another sign it's not doing well - "I can't complain" can mean two things, and in China it means you'd be in prison if you do).
there are billion dollar markets that operate entirely due to information asymmetry
My understanding from being close to but not directly connected with part of a company successfully infested by Palantir’s sales is that it’s a lot of “oh yeah our tools do everything” but then it turns out you’ll be needing to hire them for a lot of expensive development to get anything cool out of it, because it’s not actually a stand-out product that magically does all the stuff they’ll try to convince you it will.

Just another data platform, not much different from the others except better at convincing execs they are.
1) "a majority of people in this world" don't give a fuck, factually speaking; 2) if they did, that still wouldn't be an independent reason to think that's correct--you may not have noticed, but most people are selfish, stupid, and ignorant; 3) "despite what you were led to believe." -- it was never a claim of anyone pro-Ukraine that the majority of people in the world are on their side. Nor should it be. The opinion of the majority does not determine what is right.
No, after the 100*investment is recouped, MS will own 0% of openAI. Now they own 49%.