skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that I'm "on the spectrum" but I'm quite bad at predicting social responses to stimuli. I don't know when a joke will get a laugh or be offensive, when a comment here will get voted up or down, when flirting or a complement is harassment, etc. I interpret this as meaning that my theory of mind is deficient, it's a poor simulation of reality.

That perspective can form a weaker claim about autistic people that's more defensible: they have theories of mind like anyone, but at best different, and at worst maladaptive. We can recognize that they have a theory of mind and still recognize that some are deficient or as with various forms of bigotry, diseased.

High functioning autistics like Temple Grandin who appear to have a better functioning theory of mind than mine make me think that ToM isn't at the core of autism.
Just wait until you ask a Buddhist monk the question ‘what is “me”’?
Unless I'm mistaken, we both read the same physical copy of Cliff's book back in '99. Talk about a small world, running across this comment was wild.
This was my takeaway as well - theory of mind can sometimes be described as 1. "literally does not understand that other people have their own thoughts" or 2. "cannot reliably predict what other minds would think". Most high-functioning autistic people I've met clearly don't meet the first definition, but definitely meet the second.

The second definition makes more sense to me since it also comes up in non-autism diagnoses, like personality disorders. They have trouble reliably predicting what other minds would think, but for different reasons.
I think one of the major problems with fields like psychology is that they often deal with wicked problems.

You just cannot really run rigorous experiments that isolate explicit features you want to investigate.

No two people have exactly the same experience. And you cannot repeat experiences. The fact that you've gone through an experience once informs you on the second trial. Watching something from 2 meters to the left is not the same experience as the person on your right. You will see slightly different things, hear slightly different things.

And that's not even getting into all the years of upbringing everyone brings to the table before you even start.

We can infer things from statistics, but that only takes us so far. Because of all the things that could influence those statistics.

For instance, we've all seen the study that people who drink moderately often have better health outcomes that both those that abuse alcohol and those that completely abstain. Which kind of flies in the face of the medical/biological facts which show that any alcohol is technically bad for us. However, when you peel that study back, you see that the amount of alcohol consumed is often related to the income level of the person.

People in poverty are more likely to both abstain and abuse. Either they use their money for things other than luxuries like alcohol or they've essentially given up and spend all of their money on alcohol. These same people often have worse healthcare options and thus worse health outcomes overall. So basically, the people who drink moderately have access to better health outcomes because they can afford it. Alcohol and health are completely unrelated, they are both dependent on a third variable.

Now imagine that most of your studies have these hidden variables. And that you couldn't even know for sure that two things are correlated or coincidental because they are related to another or multiple other variables.

I can imagine that being rather difficult. And not really a field for those who like to study and apply knowledge. Which I know sounds weird. But, for instance, medicine and law are both fields where you can study known facts and apply that knowledge in trade. As a doctor, you never have to advance the field yourself, it is not expected. Same with law. It seems that in psychology, you have to be comfortable with a degree of ambivalence.

Of course, that same ambivalence and uncertainty allow a lot of people to peddle trash. But I don't have an answer for that, much less a good one.
You still have to pass the interview to get in. DEI changes the candidate ingress to the interview pipeline, it doesn't change the pipeline itself. You still gotta know your shit and be competent to get hired. Hiring someone below the bar does their demographic cohort no favors.
You can see some of the images created in this reddit post I shared:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1aivczq/i_made...
I was wondering that myself, 25% doesn't seem like a "significant increase" over 24%.

I'm wondering if it's just sloppy reporting. At the end they claim their record breaker was 28.6%.
4% is tremendous for Linux. However, If I look at the data for the recent month, OSX was 21% in November and now roughly at 16% - as it was at the beginning of 2023.

What I want to say is: this data seems to be very volatile. I doubt, that it is a sufficient representation of the real world.
Error detection using pneumatic logic
False. Definitely false.

And I say this as an above average software developer (which sounds stupidly cocky to even say).
99% of people put the definitions on 1% of people, on how well the 1% interface with the 99%. What if it was the other way around? There is a neurological difference, but is it really neurologically worse? Nature decides I guess. Well it would, but these days society decides, well, the bulk of society, well the 99% meaning nonautistics that is.

My personal problem is that, there is some pervasive belief that autistics lack empathy, morals, or gets judged as being narcissistic or worse. These sorts of accidents can happen because signalling doesn't happen, because of the neurological difference, despite the autistic person in question hypothetically following a very ethical code and behaves with full integrity and love and so on but not initially obvious due to the neurological gap. My fear is that shaky concepts, like ascribing lack of theory of mind, could contribute to "othering" and even more misunderstanding.

So in some ways it becomes a semantic argument, theory of mind, why yes minds exist, and autistics may be bad at ascribing mental states to allistic people, but allistic people are bad at ascribing mental states to autistic people (guess you'll have to take this one for granted, but e g or they could replicate the specialised results I mean, like systematise vast bodies of knowledge) so I would say it goes both ways right? So what I mean is the autistics could say allistics lack a theory of mind, because they only understand eachother and not autistics. Except the weight is put on the 1%, by the 99%, rather than a uniting force for humans to understand eachother, it becomes a onesided label of weakness.

edit: I wrote this related comment in another thread as well, explaining why I posted this link : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39253047
That is why we built this open source platform:

https://qbix.com/platform

We bet on the open Web since 2011. We believe Wordpress had huge success for Web 1.0, but for Web 2.0 everything is proprietary. Mastodon is an exception, but it doesn’t go far enough.

This is our vision:

http://laweekly.com/restoring-healthy-communities/

https://qbix.com/ecosystem

Anyway, use it! Let’s opt out and wrest the power from Big Tech!
This is a funny way of saying "Healthcare in America costs too much." Car insurance coverage would be reasonable if healthcare costs were lower.

Car insurance can't be much more expensive, because it's already pricing out many drivers. This is just car insurance companies subsidizing healthcare--yet another example of how the entire US economy is subsidizing healthcare because we refuse to cut out the health insurance middleman corporations.

Car insurance is a particular injustice because many (most?) states require car insurance to drive--another example of corporate middlemen writing themselves into laws. There should never be a case where a law forces me to be a customer of a business--if I can't walk away from the price negotiation table the market isn't free.
I tried for a long time to even get docker to just give a config option to disable privileged mode with no success.

I even resorted to posting instructions on stack exchange demonstrating how to walk /sys to find device numbers and use mknod to read the hosts root volume and now as most servers don't mount their efi partition, how you could mount it rw inside a container with little effort.

Containers are namespaces and purely depend on privilege dropping for the security they provide.

Part of the problem is that container breakout is narrowly defined.

The fact that a privileged container can upload firmware or access private keys by reading the hosts root volume didn't count.

While the ability to disable privileged mode wouldn't have solved this issue it still would have reduced the attack surface. But will the projects refusal to even take that step I gave up.

Deciding that the only safe option was to consider containers as namespaces and nothing more.

Unfortunately adding persistence and other functionality tends to result people running it as uid0, which means that you have to consider as anything that can launch a container as having superuser privileges.
My Windows partition, which ostensibly exists for gaming, sees little action these days.

Proton truly has made 90% of games I play awesome on Linux, not to mention that games are increasingly targetting it natively.
If it's actually a race to the bottom, you don't want to be first.
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission is the opposite as advertised. It's a serious mistake to take the self proclaimed Ministry of Truth at face value.
The cost of domestic installation on a new house varies wildly worldwide.
In the USA labour and permitting cost dominate, rooftop solar installation costs are almost double what they are in Australia or the Netherlands, where they have the highest percentage of rooftop solar installation.
A kernel panic is caused by some serious issue in either the kernel or the hardware. In itself, it's relatively "harmless": it just means the OS stops doing anything and you need to hard reboot the machine (such as by cutting power).

However, if the kernel panic is caused by a software bug (rather than something like a broken RAM stick), then the bug which causes the kernel panic might also be exploitable by malicious code to do things like arbitrary kernel level code execution. For example, if the problem is that the kernel somehow allows the user to change a piece of memory which the kernel interprets as a function pointer, then the result of carelessly changing that piece of memory will cause the kernel to jump into some part of memory that's not valid code, causing a kernel panic; however, a very clever attacker may pick a jump address which causes the kernel to keep executing without crashing but doing something which the developer of the kernel didn't intend. Maybe the attacker can cause the kernel to jump to a location in memory which the attacker has control over, which would mean that the attacker can run arbitrary code in kernel mode.

This stuff is all very complicated and very interesting, I recommend reading up on it if it interests you.

And no, the kernel can't really check if it's being manipulated. A checksum at startup wouldn't do it since these sorts of exploits don't tend to involve changing the kernel bytes on disk, but rather tricking the kernel into doing something it's not supposed to. There are various mechanisms to try to make bugs unexploitable (such as address space layout randomisation), but fundamentally, you can't perfectly protect against potential bugs.
Another theory, reversing cause and effect, being a multimillionaire would give you enough free time to write 1000 tiny games.
"Those who are habitually concentrated"

I like that description.

In meditation, the first trick we learn is a refined form of concentration. So such people have a definite leg-up.

(They were the preferred recruits among the Buddhist/yogi/... Oh let's just call them wizards.)
> On the contrary, many old-timer traditional literature-focused e.g. Object Relational psychology schools are having a heyday having their insights shown to align with reality using all the bleeding-edge genetics and AI-powered data going around.

Do you have a link, this smells like bullshit too. In fact i'd put a lot of money on it being just as much bullshit as the research supporting drug prescriptions or talk therapy. Why am i so confident? We live in crazy times and no amount of "science" can control for this short of changing social, political, or economic structures themselves.
They are global commodities so reduced demand in one place lowers prices everywhere.
Can we elaborate? Is this some well-known tracking system?
Ultimately, as a society, we have to decide what is more important: the best of us or the worst of us.
They do, both iOS (and iPadOS) and Android.

You are correct that it is pretty interesting how they went around implementing the interface. Look up some YouTube videos if this interests you.

Another clever thing is that you can connect an iPad to your Mac and control both with the same mouse, jumping over screen to screen with the cursor (dragging files, etc).
> DNA damage happening after a single dentist visit

Your dentist uses UV after every visit?
Binary packages compiled for your platform.

More generally, any non-Python packages (e.g. libwhatever, or some binary utilities).
God, reading this is awful. I have a CPAP and I would not be willing to go one night without it. I'd buy the parts/machine out of pocket and make insurance pay for it later. The impact on my health and quality of life is way too high.

But I'm privileged to be able to do that. I can shell out $1,000 for a medical device in an emergency, and my doctors are local and return my calls. Not everyone is so lucky.
I only have to charge my Garmin watch like every 10 days...
Do you mean one point ?
25/24=1.04...
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The appeal of diversity is to avoid systemic risks.

For example, I recall talk about some automakers offering insurance (often as part of an all-inclusive subscription model)

You'd have some very distinct systemic risks with that pool. If you had a Toyota-style sudden-acceleration crisis, or a Hyundai/Kia style theft crisis, you'd have a lot more exposure than a conventional insurer who accepted a broad range of models.

I'd expect there are other obvious systemic risks, like geographic limits (if you cover a wildfire area, you're paying more damage/loss claims), or restricting to some specific professions (which might track with specific damage patterns or vehicle choices)
using wasm goes into crazy territory imo. It would probably be bigger, and opaque, with no proper errors (unless you compile debug info which would make it much bigger).

I think we already have an almost perfect language i.e. Lua
Everyone knows it (or can learn it easily). tiny runtime to embed. sandboxed by default. garbage collected. Only feature missing is static typing.
I think this is all utterly misunderstood. IMO autism is a predictive processing failure: the brain gives too much weight to inputs and inference and not enough to prior knowledge. This causes hypersensitivity to everything surprising, which is deeply unpleasant. The coping mechanisms are to try to shut out anything that's insufficiently predictable, to try to force things to be as predictable as possible, or to restrict attention to controllable and predictable things.
Without paywall: https://archive.ph/5dGvK
Depends where the damage is. Skin is made mostly of epithelial cells with a limited lifespan. Genetic damage to individual cells isn't lifetime- it goes away when the cell dies. The damage a damaged cell can do is significant, though.

But those cells are grown from stem cells, and if they remain undamaged, their descendants (the brand-new epithelial cells making up skin) will begin their life already damaged.

With all that said, the underlying biology of cancer is extremely complicated and it's hard to evaluate the impact of things like this. Some amount of DNA damage happens constantly that bodies can clear up without any real long-term impact.

For a dentist visit, we assume that the increased benefits from infrequent x-rays exceed the low probability of cancer. I don't know about UV used in dental applications, though.
I think I've talked to you before on threads about AI so I won't belabor my points any longer but just know that while you believe them to be different, many don't.
I regularly set timers for things like pasta, steel-cut oats, baking cookies, backing lasagna, roasting chicken, chilling pastry in the fridge. Many of those things take significant time and do not need constant attention. I can wander off and do other things and be reminded when to come back and check on them. (If something takes an hour, I’ll usually set a 30-45min timer to check on progress.) Sometimes that other activity is just sitting in the kitchen table and browsing the web or watching a video. I could do that on the AVP, too.

Obviously you wouldn’t pay for an AVP just to set cooking timers, but if you are wearing an AVP, it is handy to be able to do this.
>Though intended to be reused many times, the report says 90% of the new reusable bags are used a mere two or three times.

This is easily fixed. I know because I fixed myself and if I can change this behavior anyone can.

I've been using the same three cloth bags to carry my groceries once per week for over ten years.

That's, at a bare minimum (because they hold more), 1,560 plastic bags not used.

How does the carbon carbon footprint and greenhouse gas emissions of 1,560 plastic bags compare to the three "Earthwise EXTRA LARGE Grocery Bag Beach Shopping Tote HEAVY DUTY 12 oz Cotton Canvas Multi Purpose 20" x 14" PROUDLY MADE IN THE USA (Natural)" that I purchased for $13.99 for in 2012?

Yes, it took me a while to get in the habit of using them. A frustratingly long time. But it happened.

My county recently banned ALL plastic bags so for the occasional drug store or gas station purchase that used to come in a plastic bag I purchased a packable tote that stuffs down to the size of a pack of playing cards and keep it in my center console of my car.

That habit was established instantly.

I know for an unassailable and irrefutable fact that bans work because I am a volunteer watershed steward. It is my job to poke around storm drains and shorelines in my little section of the Chesapeake Bay to make sure they are clean. Less than 90 days (four big cleanup pushes per year) after a styrofoam ban was enacted several years ago the amount of styrofoam I was personally responsible for picking up off the shoreline plummeted from "a depressingly large shit-ton" down to almost nothing.
> No different than IPFS.

You’re wrong. SAFE is autonomous, meaning no one has to agree to host your thing, and no one has to agree to pay you for hosting. You just spin up a node and earn coin. With IPFS there are manual deals, it’s not clear how to actually get paid for your file space, and they even opened up a new tier that pays 10x filecoin block rewards for hosting data they consider “important”, but the hosts for that data don’t charge any fees and despite being quite tech-savvy I couldn’t figure out how to start earning FileCoin for hosting, using their program at all! Do I just pin the IDs of data which is going to possibly earn me 10x block rewards, or do I need to advertise and get someone to whitelist me for a “deal”? (Did anyone here do it successfully?)

> This also makes large parts of the network unreachable. Freenet achieves DDOS protection without this extreme measure[2]. It also allows development of all sorts of apps, it's not only for data storage.

Not that kind of DDOS. If I know the IP addresses of all the nodes on the network, I can flood them with traffic via the DHT leaking their IP.

Freenet does antiflood tokens on the level of their protocol, but I can DDOS their ports and subnets without conforming to the protocol. SAFE doesn’t let you even send a message to the end-computer’s IP because there is NO ADDRESS on any protocol (including BGP) that would route it there. That makes the network harder to block.

Also, I fail to see how this makes parts of the network ureachable. It’s just that I need the neighbors of a node to agree to forward info to that node. Unless you mean eclipse attacks?

> If you hold the key, why bother?

That’s a very good question… this is the only patent their team ever made… the data is encrypted using its own contents instead of relying on an external key, to aid in things like deduplication as multiple people storr and encrypt the data, while each has their own key to access it:
https://youtu.be/Jnvwv4z17b4?si=oHM96fBjCVGaGmSN

It’s not a “new crypto”. That video is 9 years old, and SAFE network started before Bitcoin! Just a bit after Bittorrent. They started in 2006 and are still working on it.
Chicago undergraduate mathematics bibliography (2018)
There's a general pattern here:

* Object wants some asset.

* Asset might be in memory in a cache. If so, satisfy request from cache.

* If asset is not in cache, queue up request, possibly on a priority queue that gets re-prioritized. Merge requests for same asset.

* When request reaches front of queue, see if the things that wanted it still want it. Remove dead requests. Discard entire request if all requestors no longer need it.

* Lock against two asset fetches for same asset being performed simultaneously.

* Fetch and preprocess asset

* Check again that asset is still wanted.

* Deliver asset

* Unlock against two asset fetches for same asset.

This is almost generic, except that once level of detail becomes involved, it gets less generic.
yes, if there was only a choice between the two options. In theory, we in western democracies have a choice what happens in our places, I would have neither. In practice and it seems that bringing up the very notion of impartiality is worse than any problem being examined, I would rather have the easily digested Banksy.
There was a good article from John Loeber a few months back about browser extensions: https://loeber.substack.com/p/9-15-years-of-market-gaps-for-...

He had the same point, where it feels like browser extensions are a big, somehow under-appreciated market. Browsers are huge platforms -- creating add-ons and making them more capable should be a popular, value-generating thing to do! But for a number of (developer) UX/UI issues, that just hasn't been the case. I hope this changes!
The more devs using wayland, the faster we'll hammer out the remaining bugs! Everyone is invited!

Color management should land this year.
You take the action which you computed to be optimal under the hypothetical of your posterior sample; this then yields a new observation. You add that to the dataset, and train a new NN.
Of course. But to Russias recent chagrin, blowing up/severing a fixed and very expensive cable (or underwater pipeline) is a generally far easier proposition than tracking down mobile and intermittent sources on the ground.

Still possible. But orders of magnitude harder. Nothing says that starlink ground station needs to stay in one place, after all.

Undersea cables get cut all the time, from shipping to nation states.

Trains don’t make cars obsolete, anymore than cars make trains obsolete. Taking out train tracks is much easier and more effective than taking out all possible roads though.
Would it be too much friction to host internally and require your users to "load unpacked"?
Deepfake Scam Video Cost Company $26M: Hong Kong Police
> I think this is beautifully written.

Thank you! I'm so happy that what I wrote other have found beautiful to read :)