skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Diagnosis for autism is complicated because some people act the same as people with clear physiological changes, but without those changes.

This puts medical boards in a sticky situation where they have to be inclusive since there's not enough research to say the latter group are definitely not autistic.

I'm in the camp that you shouldn't diagnose an issue without clear physiological or chemistry differences, but I'm not in control of the medical boards. I think we all agree that you shouldn't self-diagnose.
Predictive Mutation Testing
Similarly. I do have

(global-set-key (kbd "M-o") #'other-window)

since C-x o is a bit much, but I don't feel any need for all these extra packages.

But it's nice to have such an in-depth reference, Karthik's articles are always very educational and interesting.
It depends, I used to live in a very urban area of the city and the ground floors of most residential buildings were commercial. The Starbucks that was near where I lived had a lot of recurring locals that simply did remote work there in the tables, so you could meet people because it was essentially most of the same people everyday and you eventually had some interaction so you ended meeting the others - like work/student colleagues from different companies. I actually didn't remote work at the time but I used the space to study because my apartment was damn small. But this was before COVID and sadly that Starbucks unit closed during covid and I ended up moving from that small apartment to a suburban house around the same time.
It doesn't fully exist yet. Mine is far behind Grace. That's why I began with, "Well, shoot," because Grace beat me to the punch. Sorry.

But with Grace existing, I am not sure I should continue.

If I do, I can contact you when it's ready, if you wish.
In over 25 years of working, I never knew anyone who was actually a "systems analyst." It always seemed like an antiquated job title used for government classification and little else. Perhaps it existed more in larger enterprises?
7-zip version 15.05 will also decompile NSIS scripts (Nullsoft Installation System), but the feature was taken out of newer versions.
I have no idea what someone means when they say they live in city like this. What makes a city tier 1? What's the difference between tier 3 and tier 4? What's worst tier? When does something move from "not-a-city" to the worst tier?
Sure. Get a majority of people and a majority of states to vote for it. That's the mechanism.
Pichai be like: I know how to fix this! Let’s fire a bunch of people and move their jobs to Bangalore. /s
The security of the devices don’t depend on Tailscale coordination server, if tail lock is enabled.

An attacker with access to coordination or relay servers would be able to change whatever is in the admin console, which are basically ACLs.

Am I missing anything?
Is that explained by capacitance? I'm sure the capacitance of your finger through paint is pretty low but capacitors allow AC to pass
Looks incredible! All this needs is a little bit of conversational AI magic in the background to filter and modulate the content according to plain-English student questions and its go time.

Note that this was finished in 2019, so now would be the perfect time for someone to polish this up and expand it to the rest of math! Assuming this is threeJS, you could get an open-source file format going for simulations, and even host crowdsourced applications of it to existing popular math textbooks by Figure/page #. I mean, linear algebra is cool, but the market for good free geometry education is limitless

Does anyone know if the big names in math education offer simulations yet, or is it all animations/images/videos still?

EDIT: definitely ThreeJS — love the vector chapter. What this needs is true spatial computing support - not pages with nested simulations, but site-wide (SPA-wide) simulated objects. What if every student in geometry class could have their own simulation on their Chromebook as they read/follow along? I can’t wait.
I always assumed that was the reason too, but it feels like there was really only a narrow window when there was a significant crossover between monitor panels and TV panels.

Most all new TVs are 32" or larger, so that's not going to widely impact what 20-27" monitor panels can benefit from. Even when smaller LCD TVs were popular, they were often 720p or 1266x768 panels, but most monitors were 1080p.

OTOH, maybe it was more of a second-order thing: people were primed from TV and movies to expect wide-format content, so monitor makers had to produce products that satisfied that; people don't like letterboxed/pillarboxed displays.
KeepassXC consider these options as "plugins", it's right there in their official documentation for the build options.

The Debian package wasn't shipping the correct default configuration in the first place, it's unfortunate but better late than never, and it's not like you can't switch to the keepassxc-full package.
Uhm... What is a misconception in my post? I guess electronics can also be affected by a slightly higher flux of cosmic rays, but malfunctions due to cosmic rays are extremely unlikely in any case.
That is a possibility. But all our "soft-delete targets" have at least 2-3 levels of child tables, it's never just one table. So that complicates matters.

For example, it could be the user deletes a customer entry in our system, the customer has contacts, and each contact has multiple contact methods say. There are many other child tables for a customer, like delivery addresses and official id numbers and so on, this was just an example.

And yes, user wants to use this data as before it was deleted. So has to go back into the same tables.

On the bright side, we don't have too many foreign keys to "associated data". For example, orders with that customer id would not change, just point to a non-existing customer. So after restore that all works fine.
"Attention sinks" for vision models?
Is there a larger point to this? I'm not an expert, but it seems like this could point to 2 things:

1. The Urey-Miller experiment was a side show: amino acids could be delivered to a young earth via meteor. That could Kickstart abiogenesis. A more distant possibility is that abiogenesis occurred somewhere other than on earth.

2. This is soft evidence of extraterrestrial life.
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Gotta feed that corn agro lobby. Lobbying really is a cancer on this republic.
yes, I agree it's beautiful how basic vector addition/subtraction navigates you through some kind of meaning space, playing with relationships between things and such

actually, this is the same way in which the model in the Meaning space would operate too. so the process is similar, it's not like we're reinventing the whole wheel, but just that instead of referring to the words "king" and "queen" we'd refer to the actual concept of a king and queen, in a language-agnostic way, i.e. we wouldn't have to also embed their French translations "roi" and "reine" -- it'll be built-in, because a queen is a queen in most languages

I acknowledge there are differences even in fundamental concepts between countries/cultures, but it's not the norm. for example, in a language "to want" could just mean something passive, while in some language "to want" might also imply taking some action towards it. I'm aware about these, but I think they're just infrequent nuances (that have to be dealt with later)
I was omnivore for fifty years plus, vegetarian for several years, and even raw vegan for a while. But gastro issues made me go low residue and diabetes made me go low carb. Carnivore is what's left. Though I've been coerced into it, it has increased my healthspan a good bit.

Tofu is on the low side of carbs and fiber for plant food, but I believe that the fat and protein profiles and nutrient availability are better from meat.
I never want to retire.
Morbidity doesn’t mean dying…
I work in a Telco Fortune500, thanks for a great argument for why telcos didn't innovate.
> Computer systems analysts study an organization’s current computer systems and design ways to improve efficiency.

That sounds like what we’d call an architect now?
I refer you to the last line of the article:

> Multics didn't fail: it accomplished almost all of its stated goals. Unix succeeded too, solving a different problem.

Multics wouldn't have become what Unix became even if Unix wasn't there. It was pursuing different goals. And it turned out that Unix's goals had a lot bigger market than Multics's goals.

So, Unix had warts. But those warts were bearable because it met the needs of the market it addressed, and the other OSes didn't do so, or at least didn't do so as well.
The Latin morbus is disease and mortis is [of] death but my experience - and perhaps yours too - is that when discussions of morbidity (i.e. using the word morbid/morbidity) arise, they are often in the context where someone is near death or has died so it is a natural linguistic connection to make.

Remarkably often I find my partner has a different understanding of English words from me - she was schooled in French and can communicate in Italian and Spanish, but is also fluent in English (though spoken with French mannerisms which seem odd to me as a native English speaker). We often find we descend into discussions of the most correct meaning of a word in English which has a Latin root. The dictionary agrees with her mostly but I have an occasional win.
They didn't have cameras, either, back then...
Can't wait to see an irreverent logo
Floppy square. I still have some old floppy squares in a closet somewhere.
This is not the first time that Oklo has seen nuclear fission shutdown.

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/meet-oklo-the-earths-tw...
THe way current empirical models in ML are evaluated and tested ( benchmark datasets) tell you very little to nothing about cognition and intelligence. Mainly because as you hinted , there doesn't seem to be a convincing and watertight benchmark or model of cognition. LLMs or multi-modal LLMs demonstrating impressive performance on a range of tasks is interesting from certain standpoints.

Human perception of such models is frankly not a reliable measure at all as far as gauging capabilities is concerned. Until there's more progess on the nueroscience/computer science (and an intersection of fields probably) and better understanding of the nature of intelligence, this is likely going to remain an open question.
It's very easy for moderns to forget (or just not know) how difficult it was to find information before the Internet really took off.

When Ken cited "Unknown Air Force Document", you can be sure it would have been a direct citation if he had the paper at hand. But let's be generous and assume he called an Air Force reference librarian and described the paper he was looking for, and said librarian wasn't able to find it on the basis of that description. What's the next step? There isn't one.
The paper is a super fascinating read, and lines up with several key features I've noticed in both of my professionally diagnosed autistic children (good luck getting access to a competent diagnostician who understands how the ASD criteria manifest in passing adults). It's really enlightening to see the association between Xanthine, one of the end-stage products of eATP metabolization, and the anxiety that is so prevalent within my own family.

From the Discussion[1] section of the paper:

> These self-calming connections in metabolism failed to develop in ASD. The natural consequence of the loss of these metabolic safeguards to overexcitation is for children with ASD to seek sameness to avoid the anxiety produced by change91, and to be more sensitive to environmental changes across many sensory domains.

And a bit further on:

> In the current study, xanthine was the purine that gained the most stimulatory (+r) correlations in 5-year-olds with ASD. Xanthine is one of the end-products of eATP metabolism97. Xanthine is known to trigger a cascade of events that leads to mitochondrial network fragmentation, reactive oxygen species and reactive nitrogen species (ROS and RNS), eicosanoid (e.g., leukotriene, HETE, and prostaglandin) signaling, immune activation, anxiety-associated behaviors, and consolidates long-term aversive memories that make the animal hypersensitive to future environmental changes that warn of environmental danger, cause fear, and trigger anxiety in mice, and is elevated in the blood of adults with anxiety disorders98. Anxiety is a common but under-recognized problem in autism99.

Another really important observation:

> A major result of this research was that the developmental differences observed in ASD were not the result of an increase or decrease of one causal metabolite, or an isolated change in the gut-brain axis, or neuroendocrine, autonomic, cytokine, or immunologic circuits. Instead, it was the interconnectedness and developmental state of the metabolic network that underlies all these systems that was fundamentally changed.

In the last year, the All Brains Belong VT organization has been working on a collection of information they call "All The Things" [2], which lines up with the paper's observation that there is an underlying metabolic network at play. As a side note, All Brains Belong VT is a fantastic organization that focuses heavily on validation and support in a healthcare industry which often feels incredibly invalidating for individuals who have been reporting symptoms across a wide variety of siloed physician specialties.

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-06102-y#Sec25

[2]: https://allbrainsbelong.org/all-the-things/
He’s the author of the original manga. Which is as good as the anime, if you haven’t read it I strongly recommend it!
> what could be considered ADHD/light asperbergers

could be considered, or did you get a diagnosis from a specialist? Self diagnosis is not reliable. If you don't have an official diagnosis you can't be certain you really have ADHD. There may be several differe tfactors relevant for YOU that make keto diet work for you. Same diet can be harmful for similar people who have ADHD.
Until the click of death. [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_of_death

I'm more in favour of MiniDisc. Compact enough, large enough for storage but Sony screwed up with DRM requiring a Sonic Stage, eurk.
tf are you talking about. Nothing unethical about surrogacy, it’s all between consenting adults.
> I still don’t understand what is meant by ’straightforward nondeterministic solution’.

I'm not sure how much better I can phrase it than "run a generic polynomial-time algorithm in a nondeterministically-branching way, and then pick the winner."

Let me lay out a scenario:

You have a problem with 2^n potential answers.

You have a fast polynomial algorithm you can apply to each potential answer, and you want to find the right answer.

A lot of people think that if you use a quantum computer, it will check every answer in parallel and quickly find the answer at polynomial speed.

But it doesn't work like that. To some extent it does check every answer in parallel, but you need to do a lot more to make the correct answer show up out of the noise. Let's say you need to use Grover's algorithm. That cuts 2^n down to 2^(n/2), which is a remarkable speedup but it's still exponential.

It's possible that P=NP and there's a totally different solution for both classical and quantum computers that isn't exponential. But that's a side issue. The important thing here is that it's not being quantum that lets you escape exponential purgatory.

> If you mean that QTMs or quantum circuits aren’t formally the same as NTMs, I agree.

Kind of?

But it's not really about formal equivalences. It's that tons of people think a QTM is literally a NTM.
Site visitors from the USA be like droolin' over the pseudoephedrine content. The real deal that unclogs da schnoz.
Yes, Germany needed _more_ nuclear.

> Oh, and let's not forget what happens when one too many power plants have to undergo maintenance while a few others have to shut down temporarily due to a heat wave...

Let's actually forget it. The largest nuclear power plant in the US is in a freaking _desert_ and is cooled by evaporating treated wastewater. Nuclear power plants can work just fine during the heatwaves, the plants just need to be designed for that.
There’s also pzip[1], which lets you create zip files and extract them in parallel.

[1] https://github.com/ybirader/pzip

Disclaimer: I’m the author
Also in ours: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gfru6GskeCc (sorry for the shorts link, it was all I could find...)
A probably fake anecdote is a young person saw a disk and asked, "Why do you have a 3D printed save button?" I did have someone refer to a CD drive tray as a cup holder once though.
It’s an amalgamation of income/wealth potential, population size, and relative desirability amongst the general populace to (reflected in land/housing prices).

Obviously, there is no objectively true ranking, just people’s opinions.
Dig the video's homage to Apple's "hello" https://support.apple.com/en-us/105132
Invisible Women: On the Victorian Custom of Cutting Mothers Out of Portraits
I have a diagnosis, i just dont trust doctors. please stop gaslighting me
How much work does it take to create 3800 icons let alone 27000? It sounds like months of focussed work to me
It really pains me to see someone suggesting adding AI to a book like this. Current AIs are infamously bad at math. The last thing we need is ChatGPT misplacing a minus sign and confusing readers or setting back their understanding by weeks.
No, you've missed the point. You're saying all ad tech is bad because some has before served malware. I'm saying this isn't consistent - you don't avoid all websites because some of them serve malware.
So this is a greed forum?
Exactly, or Anthropocene, describing the changes wrought by humans including climate change.
We produce and sell cheese. The best by date we put on it is required by some regulation or other. The date is mostly arbitrary. If the package is still sealed and the best by date is a year ago, congratulations. Your medium cheddar is now sharp cheddar.

If you opened the package of some fresh Colby, and the best by date is 3 months in the future (so it's been open for 3 months), you're going to have to trim a lot of mold off of it and it probably won't even taste that great anymore.

Really it would be more accurate to say: best before X time after opening or X time after purchasing, whichever is first.

But even then: if someone buys the sharp because they like it, they'll very possibly like it more as it ages to extra sharp, even though it passes the best by date.
I was wondering if it was an older job that was the person that was supposed to help a company transition to using computers?
Great comment. The tax loopholes require art!
I'm not sure I understand the causal link between something having a proven track record of being error-prone and not understanding it.
This is great! Iowa could probably use a rename to something corn related
As important and impressive a result as this is, I am reminded of the cornerstone problem of neuroscience, which goes something like this: if we knew next to nothing about processors but could attach electrodes to the die, would we be able to figure out how processors execute programs and what those programs do, in detail, just from the measurements alone? And now scale that up several orders of magnitude and introduce sensitivity to timing of arrival for signals, and you got the brain. Likewise ok, you have petabytes of data now, but will we ever get closer to understanding, for example, how cognition works? It was a bit of a shock for me when I found out (while taking an introductory comp neuroscience course) that we simply do not have tractable math to model more than a handful neurons in time domain. And they do actually operate in time domain - timings are important for Hebbian learning, and there’s no global “clock” - all that the brain does is a continuous process.
For a more in-depth understanding, I recommend reading "Rust Atomics and Locks": https://marabos.nl/atomics/ It uses Rust for examples, but it more or less applicable to C/C++ as well.
It’s possible I’m alone in this, but the textbook / vaguely “academic” style of site always comes across as messy to me. That said, I think we’re spoiled by vaporware that invests huge money into style and flashy visuals — as anyone who’s been in school during the Blackboard/Piazza era knows, education software does not have to be pretty to be popular.
>Artificial intelligence architecture can be bootstrapped from a CD-ROM worth of data (~700MiB for the whole human genome-- even that is mostly redundant)

Are you counting epigenetic factors in that? They're heritable.
The European high-pressure demonstrator is still ongoing: https://hypster-project.eu/about-the-project/

BTW, hydrogen has a 100-year GWP of 12, so leaking 2-5% (the current figures) is not acceptable long-term.
Instagram ran ~year with GC disabled just fine, citing 10% better memory utilisation. While you might be right for a library code, on application level it sometimes makes sense.
Steam is now banned in Vietnam
From Dr. Paul Williams article:

>I began to see that if Buddhism were correct then unless I attained enlightenment (nirvana) or something like it in this life, where the whole cycle of rebirth would finally come to a complete end, I would have no hope. Clearly, I was not going to attain enlightenment in this life. All Buddhists would be inclined to accept that as true concerning just about everyone. Enlightenment is a supreme and extremely rare achievement for spiritual heroes, not the likes of us – certainly not the likes of me. So I (and all my friends and family) have in themselves no hope.

So in short, the [Buddhist] ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.
From my years of experience with the industry, ideas like microservices were used way before zero interest rates, and will continue to be used, because they solve actual real problems many people have.

Not saying it's always the best approach - as I mentioned, where I worked it was always under heavy scrutiny and chosen only if it was the best approach, which wasn't always.
Thanks, that makes more sense. Most of the time these generalizations make sense to me, sometimes it can be really obscure. Flipping the viewpoint makes it more clear in this case.
You're still misreading the law. AB-205 does not require the utilities to have a fixed fee. It simply sets the requirement that if they do introduce a fixed fee (which was previously regulated to be capped at $10), it have discounts for lower income customers. The fee structure must be approved by the CPUC, and the $24.15 fee is lower than the $51 fee that PG&E proposed. This matches the previous program, which required that the utilities set a discounted rate for lower income customers.

> Either way, the law and it's predecessor require income discrimination by private companies, opposed to subsidizing low incomes from the general fund.

The latter would be much more expensive to administer. I don't know why you want to pay higher taxes.

> Ironically, this bill was passed as a trailer to the state budget.

The bill is about regulation of utilities and includes changes to how utilities can apply for and use assistance due to COVID-related non-payment of bills. That affects the state budget.

The fee structure part of the law really isn't that complicated. You should consider whether the news source that you got your information from is reliable.