skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Autism is a socioculturally bound diagnosis

This is untrue and unsupported by evidence

> It's a label for those perceived by others in a certain light

This is untrue and unsupported by evidence

> defined in such a way that two with the same label can have remarkably little overlap in terms of observed behaviour

This is untrue and unsupported by evidence

> You diagnose autism based on how people act, not who they are

You diagnose all disorders based on observable phenomena, not some sort of metaphysical essence.

> Any biological markers for autism are politically suspect

What is this, Lysenkoism?

> as it would imply those without those markers are invalid

Are you saying that in your view biology has some ability to mark people as valid or invalid? That's an extremist view and I wonder how you arrived at it. If your ideology requires you divide the world into "valid" and "invalid" people, then it's probably a good time to rethink your approach.
I disagree. AI will be able to do "rigour" before it can do "thought provoking".

Part of Adam's appeal is the fact that behind it is a human being struggling to understand the world and struggling to explain it.

LLMs are incredible but nobody cares what a hyper-evolved Markov chain pretends to say about culture.
Show HN: We solved our own problem and pivoted to the solution w Google API
Hey HN,

2 months ago I was cold calling to launch a startup idea. The problem was I was spending 2 hours every day manually putting together a list of businesses to call. I figured there’s got to be a better way.

So my co-founder and I got started on an app that rendered a map for us to select a location, a slider to change the radius of the area selected, an input for us to type in a keyword and a button to click to pull a list of results from the Google Places API. We clicked the button. Results loading. Less than a minute later we had the same amount of data that it was taking me 2 hours to put together previously.

We just saved 10+ hours per week. Then it dawned on us that this software would be valuable to others as well, so we polished it up and packaged it into LeadSnappr.

It was a super fun project. Really happy how it turned out. Unfortunately the API credits cost money each search so I can’t let you try it out for free but if you or anybody you know is spending time manually putting lists together to cold call for their startup, let them know about LeadSnappr.
don't know about that, but just on Saturday hamas released video of israeli/british 51 year old kidnapped hostage alive in video and few hours later killed him and notified he is now dead.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/05/11/hamas-vide...
That's concerning. What if your archive password is ;rm -rf --no-preserve-root /? There might be an easy CVE for the taking here.
Please keep writing. I'm hooked!
> It's broad to the point of absurdity.

It's called "autism spectrum" for a reason, partially because a lot of the symptoms overlap with each other, and can appear in every possible permutation.

> The reason many people think autism is a faux disorder is because it includes everything from an individual who simply sits in the corner endlessly flapping his hands, completely unable to function as a human being, to Bill Gates or Elon Musk.

At least for the latter, it's undeniable he's presenting quite a few symptoms, and that even before he went off the rocker in 2018 with the "pedo" comments. He's lucky to be as rich and successful as he is.
Hey everyone, happy to answer any questions you have here!

Thanks for checking out the project.
This tickles my spidey sense. Real tech is what we can't use or teach, that Neo lived for in the Matrix, stuff like: Tor Browser, BitTorrent, pre-Microsoft Skype, WebRTC, Bitcoin, etc etc etc. It's anything that lets the mind seek the truth uninhibited to get closer to the divine.

The tech purgatory we live in today between utopia and dystopia is mostly walled gardens and surveillance capitalism. We pay a fortune for 5G and streaming services that technically have no reason to exist. It would be borderline trivial to develop real p2p networking for smartphones that self-organizes with others near them to share some fraction of their bandwidth and create a darknet. Like BitTorrent, performance would increase with the number of peers, so it would run faster at a festival for example, not slower. Which means that a gigabit radio would fully saturate and we'd be enjoying internet speeds perhaps 10-1000 times faster than we have now, even millions of times faster when the protocol runs on wired networks. Maybe something like Thread would facilitate the creation of a p2p network running on and alongside existing infrastructure.

I believe that this free p2p network should have been developed around 2007 when the iPhone and Facebook exploded, but greed took us into this alternate timeline where expenses rise faster than wages so we never have the time, money or resources to escape the rat race long enough to get the real work done that gets us closer to a Star Trek UBI economy and self-actualization. Meanwhile there are countless Mark Zuckerbergs, 1000 billionaires and millions of tech influencers who have won the internet lottery but don't pursue the goals that I'm talking about here. They just seem to build out ever more infrastructure to expand their wealth, creating a black hole that shrinks the wealth of the working class. I can only think of a handful of benefactors like MacKenzie Scott who might do it in reverse and seek out eager minds to offer them what they need to work at the pace they're capable of outside the status quo.

Which brings me to my point: the legalese obfuscating the Thread protocol isn't to protect their working group, but to prevent the disruption of the status quo in order to protect the fortunes of the biggest tech companies.

The thing is, we're crossing thresholds now where I don't think a lot of people under 50 expect the future to get better. They're waiting to have children because they don't have enough money. Children are dying in proxy wars and we can't even call out the political party responsible because the other one is scarier. We're facing enormous geopolitical threats like the rise of authoritarianism and we can't even call it out because we depend on products made by child labor in those same countries, created using minerals and fossil fuels which only exist there. I mean this is like, really serious stuff. If we want to actually invent the real innovation that heals the world and improves the quality of life for everyone, it starts with the most fundamental disruptive tech like this.
Robots will catalyze a food system transformation (2022)
^^^^

Better to read the paper instead of the pop journals. Most writers don't understand the issues fully and make mistakes, or sensationalize the discovery.
Original Source (linked in the tweet):

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1cmz296/oc...
> “Lives rent-free in my head” is a horrible cliche.

Yes it is, much like "dumpster fire" or "toxic" or "gaslighting" or any other contemporary Reddit-isms that are associated with hyper-reductionist cultural hot takes. My personal distaste for them, however, has no bearing on the fact that they have very real meaning and people enjoy using them.

> By now, it has the same effect as saying “it’s nice” but uses lots more letters.

The commonly-held meaning of this is that it describes a pervasive, intrusive thought, not a nice one. This particular turn of phrase is often used to describe how politicians devote energy to talking about other politicians that they don't like, for instance.
Does this mean that they'll start getting their kids vaccinated?
Google restricts that to PI of product they sell to advertisers, like all your browsing history or YT videos.
I'm certain I've read that with T2 enabled mac still offer to print recovery keys.
An important topic. The article would benefit from interviewing (in person!) the hosts of local private/public institutions known for their hospitality and culture, often for decades. There may not be many of those places remaining, but we can learn from their stories.

It's also worth comparing cities with some public (boulevards alongside commerce) vs mostly privatized space.
It'd be awesome if there were more dev posts about hooking into the node runtime, about how to layer in observability especially of code you don't control.

I've occasionally peaked at dd-trace-js. The last two years seem to have been a major overhaul of the whole Node observability core, quickly percolating to the whole ecosystem, with diagnostic channels becoming a thing & everyone rebasing their approach stop it. That's a huge part of the picture, I'd wager, for how info gets recorded. https://nodejs.org/api/diagnostics_channel.html

But also, what Node offers for hooks, how we can observe node & various libraries; there's gotta be hooks & techniques up the wazoo to do that. I don't have any clue how application monitoring libraries do it. JS allows a lot of cool monkey patching but man, but folks (to my chagrin) tend to design much tighter surfaces libraries than in the past. (Personally I find strong encapsulation to be an unfortunate hard bound to force on others.)
Celiac is an awful disease. My ex has it and it wrecked her life for years until she found out.
JS runtimes are allowed to optimize this out, IIRC, and will often do so.
StumpWM uses Common Lisp, and can be setup to be nearly identical to Emacs window management. It is also quite performant. Out of the box, its configuration is pretty nice already.
and don't get me started on "Serverless" which often involves servers to my own befuddlement.
> I don’t want to create a bunch of views to attempt to get it right

Then don't.

> You will pull every one of your hairs out trying to make that work with something like this

No. I won't. I've already made this work, several times.

> It’s not like CRUD endpoints are hard to write

Then why write them? I prefer to automate that part, freeing me up to solve harder problems.

> That lets me keep all my auth/visibility rules in one place instead of spreading them out over multiple systems

My auth/visibility rules are all in one place, in one system: the database.

> I find “I want a tool that does everything for me”-type thinking and “look, it’s magic and it just works”-type tools to be something junior devs

I don't know who you're quoting. I'm not aware of anybody claiming that PostgREST does everything or is magic.
Yay indeed. retirement is s complex issue. its up to you to pretty much do it all yourself unless you have a pension and even that isn't 100% funded.
I'm Broad Autism Phenotype (BAP) and prefer low carb because I feel better, but it doesn't change my personality traits or cognitive tendencies one iota.
I think the rift comes from people thinking manual memory management is a bunch of random allocs and frees all over the place. That is gross and those of us who don't mind managing memory don't like it either.

Personally my gripe is when people don't think about memory or space complexity at all. I don't care if it's a custom memory management strategy or GC'd language, you need to think about it. I have the same gripe about persistence, socket programming, and database queries.

Abstractions are great, use them, love them. But understanding what the hell they are doing under the hood not only improves efficiency, it prevents bugs, and gives you a really solid base when reasoning about unexpected behavior.
Very true all. It might be harder to find a third place, but I think it is still very possible. There are people out there who like to be social. That muscle might be hard to rebuild after COVID, but many communities are still there.
While technically Craigslist is an advertisement any layperson can see we’re discussing the concept of advertisers and they ferocity to lie and deceive in their ads, not the very concept of ads themselves. But valiant attempt to derail the conversation.
On the topic of metabolic disturbances in Autism, huge fan of the work Dr. Randy Blakely is doing on the links between Serotonin metabolism and Autism. One of the most surprising, and strongest (25-30% of patients), biomarkers for Autism is actually Platelet Hyperserotonemia (high levels of bound Serotonin in the blood).

For decades it's been without explanation but recently Dr Blakely has described a bunch of cases where it was narrowed down to SERT transporter polymorphisms and inflammation.

Worth a watch for those interested in the weeds of this stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpDtuKV5CJs

I've got a pet hypothesis that differences in Serotonin metabolism (and receptor hypersensitivity) might play a role in why SSRIs aren't generally considered a first line treatment for ASD symptoms, https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1112345109
> The reason many people think autism is a faux disorder is because it includes everything from an individual who simply sits in the corner endlessly flapping his hands, completely unable to function as a human being, to Bill Gates or Elon Musk.

Autism and intellectual disability are different things. Successful people like Bill Gates can also be depressed, as can somebody who sits in a corner. That doesn't say anything interesting about depression, nor does it say anything interesting about autism. Same with cancer or male pattern baldness or really just about any condition you care to think of.
Apple quote 18h of Apple TV playback or 12h of web browsing so I will call a large amount of bullshit on that.

Even considering the marketing, best case scenario you would be between 27 and 41% battery consumption for 5h of runtime.
The actual number will be lower than that because you probably don't use the MBP at the low brightness they use for marketing benchmarks and game streaming constantly requires power for the wifi chip (video can buffer, hence the lower consumption).

There is no way to say this nicely, but can you stop lying ?
NASA warns us about CMEs, but doesn't bother to say what kind of zombies to expect? How does that help anyone?
How to avoid one C++ foot gun
The primary advantage of CORDIC is that it saves space in the design.

Lookup tables with interpolation are much faster
If manually managing memory were in fact an easy engineering task, software developers wouldn't be so demonstrably bad at it.
I tried to help someone who had a Windows update freeze for several _days_, and after force rebooting the PC it bluescreened and went to a BitLocker recovery screen, and he had no recovery keys in any of his accounts, and all data was lost.

I think it's absurd this kind of thing would be enabled by default without very explicit warnings about the possible reprucussions of not backing up your recovery keys
Good for them, but I have to wonder how much that extra time they had to spend running, recovering from running, and training to run. Personally I'd rather just die a few years earlier, and have the free time that I don't spend obsessed about a single activity.
Kuwaitis are a minority within the actual population in Kuwait. Seems kind of like measuring only at the golf club.
How would you know in the first place
Pathologizing autistic behaviors is not the right approach here. Most autistic behaviors are harmless except insofar as allistic (non-autistic) people provide unnecessary consequences for it and through incompatibilities. We don't say that a Linux workstation in a network of Windows computers is broken or needs to be fixed (or visa-versa), but rather we recognize that the problems are due to the differences. As such, attempts to "cure" or "prevent" autism are actually an eugenic attempt to remove harmless variation that many people irrationally deem to be objectionable.

For example, it is commonly stated that autistic people have communication deficits, but this is just a communication difference. We can see this because if a communication task is given to a group of only autistic people they perform comparably to when the same task is given to a group of allistic people. Problems only take place when the group is mixed with both autistic and allistic people being present. The keyword "double empathy problem" can be used to find more information about this. (https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361320919286)

As another example, allistic people tend to very harshly judge autistic people for extremely subtle cues that they are different. When allistic people are shown recordings of autistic people communicating and of allistic people doing similiar tasks they, within less than a second, judge the autistic people very harshly. This effect persists when controlling for the content of the communication. (https://doi.org/10.1038/srep40700) Of course, doing anything that actually warrants such a judgement in a context like that is impossible so this is a bias against autistic people. I think that this can be compared to implicit racial bias: it is something that most people need to learn to consciously identify and then not perpetuate and is not due to any faults with the victim.

Good resource on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1AUdaH-EPM

There are higher support needs autistic people who need help with activities of daily living. In my opinion, though, in many cases this is not autism but rather autism with an accompanying intellectual disability and the intellectual disability is the reason for higher supports needs. In some cases this could also be caregivers unnecessarily pathologizing behavior and then convincing someone that they need more support than they really do, which I have seen in real life.
Yes, for sure, but at what resolution?
>People like to call themselves autistic when it's just social awkwardness, and some doctors might even improperly diagnose them, but these are separate from the condition.

What makes such a diagnosis incorrect when various forms of social awkwardness satisfy criteria A and D of the diagnostic criteria [1], and all of the criteria for social pragmatic disorder[2]? In the DSM-V-TR era psychiatrists are instructed to not just judge somebody to not be autistic if they do not appear socially awkward, and to additionally ask if they find social interactions distressing, and observe them for longer in more naturalistic settings to find the deficit in social functioning[3] as part of a thus far continuously lowering diagnostic bar as to what is considered sufficient social awkwardness to be diagnosable.

>Autism has clear physiological differences in the brain.

Which physiological changes in the brain make you autistic, or put another way, which physiological changes in the brain must you lack to NOT be autistic? I've heard of any autism diagnosis's and self-diagnosis's and I've never heard of any of them being based on a brain scan and yet people go around calling others and themselves autistic. I've never heard of a diagnosis being lost or gained due to a brain scan.

I've heard this insistence that we can infer the territory, the neurological conditions of peoples brains, from the map, the behaviourist diagnosis, and there may be a correlation but it can't be said that any given person with an autism diagnosis has any given specific neurological change. The only thing we test for IS behaviour, and infer biology from it.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/hcp-dsm.html
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_(pragmatic)_communicati...
[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/aspergirls/comments/th9hku/dsm5tr_n...
I take it as short for the "why are you still carrying her?" parable https://medium.com/@soninilucas/two-monks-and-a-woman-zen-st... - something you should have let go and forgotten.

Doesn't seem to be what the author meant in this case.
Does it touch on the legal issue this post is about at all?
Reading this i just think of the Fassbinder movie The Third Generation, where the protestors, in causing civil disobedience for their higher values, are really supported and lead on by the commercial interests of their parents.

In this case, while the protestors say they are against all car manufacturers, only Tesla is new to the massively automotive dominant corporate scene. Their ideological stand only serves the entrenched powers.

But very typisch Berlin in any case, no one can be surprised!
Well as the article says:

"Metabolism is the language that the brain, gut and immune system use to communicate, and autism occurs when the communication between these systems is changed"

So it's not unreasonable that for some people, dietary interventions can have some effect on this interplay between systems. Mostly a just a random "YMMV" shot in the dark at this point. But hopefully as this research advances, more targeted and predictable treatments will emerge.
I work from home. I don't even have a second place.
I thought it was more often "negative" like you cant stop thinking about some dumbass getting disproportionate affect on the world
Zero interest rates -> huge surplus of capital looking for return -> investments in VC and tech -> explosion in tech projects without having to Keep It Simple Stupid -> explosion in complexity (i.e. micro services) and hiring.
Sure not for peanut butter.

But I sure do for milk, eggs, yogurt, certain cheeses.

It directly affects whether I might have to toss the last third of the milk by the time I get around to drinking it. Or whether the cheese will be growing mold before I finish it.
They likely have patents, which restrict use even to people who have not agreed to a license.
I have a noticable ability to react quicker in social situations, im more "normal". Otherwise my brain is sluggish and i struggle to maintain conversation/things go over my head
"The low-cost luxuriating necessary for healthy third places isn’t considered profitable." The author has a good point, although link in the article is to an ad for Toast, the not very good point-of-sale system. Starbucks has removed chairs and tables, and covered power outlets, at many locations. This was not accompanied by a price reduction.
Proposal: Standardize TCP Port 41 for AI Services – Here's Why
In the playful spirit of leet speak where "41" stands for "AI," I propose we consider standardizing TCP port 41 as the default for AI services across the internet. This idea started as a fun experiment when I began deploying my chatbot on this port, but it sparked some thoughts on the broader applicability and benefits.

Why Port 41 for AI?

Memorability and Symbolism: Just as port 80 is known for HTTP, associating port 41 with AI could create a memorable link, making it easier for developers and users to remember and adopt.

Standardization Benefits: With the proliferation of AI services, having a designated port could simplify network configurations, firewall rules, and security protocols, making it easier to deploy and manage AI applications consistently.

Technical and Practical Considerations:

There is the need to consider the technical feasibility of reserving a low-numbered port for such a specific use. This includes potential conflicts with existing systems that might already use port 41.

Security Implications: Standardizing a port for AI services might make it a target for malicious activities. It would be crucial to analyze and implement enhanced security measures to protect services running on this port, but this can simplify the creation of tools like browser extension, that interfaces directly with an AI for a "site" (intentionally vague definition of a place on the internet)

Adoption and Support: For such a standard to be effective, it would require broad support from both the tech community and standards organizations. This would involve discussions, agreements, and possibly formal proposals to bodies like IANA.

I would like to hear the community’s thoughts on this proposal. Do you see this as a viable standardization? What challenges and opportunities might this present for the future of AI service deployment?
Yeah. As a BMW owner this was the moment where I decided I’ll never own another BMW
You have a virtual place via zoom
Yeah i mean i know that keto isnt great, but it has changed my life to some degree. When in ketosis, i feel like i have "agency", otherwise i am this foggy headed, sloth