skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When “comorbidity” is used in this context, are we actually referring to people dying because of it? Or does it just mean “are found together when discussing this disease?”
Saying this doesn't make you hip, woke, or cool.

Autism is clearly a "spectrum" disorder that is not fully understood or categorized yet, which is exactly why we need this type of research to reach a conclusive, testable biological basis.

To portray severely afflicted people as simply "neurodiverse" and dismiss treatment options for them, is far more bigoted than the reverse.
This thread is about the world of on-device models, not the world of built-in voice assistants. The competition that this thread is about comes from this sentence in the original comment: "This is a huge win over competition that needs clients to connect to a network-connected GPU farm."
He mentioned EU, not Europe, so the number is less than the 740M you used. But yes, China's population would still be less than double US+EU's.
If you build environments where people bump into the same people with high frequency and low stakes, they will socialize.
You cannot self-diagnose, and only a trained medical professional can diagnose autism. By trained medical professional, I mean an autism expert who is either a therapist (PHD, PsyD, LMFT, etc.) or a psychiatrist.

Most people who use terms like autistic, bi-polar, sociopath, narcist, etc. are using the terms incorrectly.

Also, I suspect you are correct that most ASD diagnoses do not use brain scans and rely on a trained professional's judgement and observations. That fact does not mean that autism does not exist or that some autistic people may have physical differences from neurotypical people.
But with a fork of WebKit? I don’t think another fork is all that helpful in the context of trying to fix a bug.
agree, I think this is the best argument for autoregressive models, and why they are so 'unreasonably' good
If you are going that way, the whole thing isn't a disk either. And it wasn't a disk on the previous model either.

Hard disks on the other hand, had hard disks. While the whole thing was way more rigid than a 3 1/2 floppy, and hasn't been a disk since they started selling it.
> There is a big difference between "neurodiverse" people and severely autistic people facing huge challenges in their life. Are you seriously dismissing the idea of helping treat that latter group?

The people who you are referring to as neurodiverse also face huge challenges. When everyone hates you just for being yourself and not hurting anyone, that is a huge challenge. This can threaten peoples ability to make a living. This can result in people having to live in abusive situations due to lack of financial — not practical — ability to live on their own. When you need to do stimming to feel internally at piece but most other people will perceive this as a threat, that is a challenge. When you need protection (e.g., headphones) from sensory input in the outside world, but the world does not allow this in some cases (for example a job may deem it to be "unprofessional") that is also a threat. Supports are needed in this case, and these supports are for the world to lighten up about allowing these things.

Also, there are, perhaps more challenging, problems that what you call "severely autistic" people face. We should also support these people. For these people, the supports could be similar as above (the world lightening up, perhaps about the requirement that everyone be productively employed) or they could be different (a medical treatment that increases intelligence). Such a medical treatment needs to be performed ONLY with the informed consent of the patient, to the degree that that is possible with the communication difficulties.

> This is a self-contradictory statement. But what do you think people are researching if not those intellectual disabilities -- why they occur and how they can be prevented.

I think that this type of research is unnecessarily lumping intellectual disabilities with the traits in what you call neurodiverse people. I am much more open to helping people with intellectual disabilities, to the extent that these people want that help, than I am to treatments that attempt to normalize neurodiverse people. The word "autism" refers to both groups, so research that is about "curing autism" is at least in part about normalizing neurodiverse people.
3D Sudoku
> I'm sure Thread Group would love to stop Google making OpenThread available

Google is a founding member of the Thread Group. OpenThread exists publicly because it's the only widely available implementation that's shipped in a lot of places. Nordic's SDK, for example, uses OpenThread.

OpenThread is built by and for members of the Thread Group, and used by them. It's fairly clear that Google doesn't care much about anyone else.
Congratulations, this is where a pattern matching system with years of experience having to deal with this industry steps in.

Make the intuitive jumps yourself.
Does anyone have any stats on how successful these small niche tool shops are from the business perspective? On the one hand $8/mo is pretty negligible. But on the other people will go to great lengths to not have “yet another subscription”. If we run some math a shop of 10 people in the US is at least $2.5M in just comp outlay per year, all in (meaning the entire comp package, not just net pay). At 96 bucks per year that’s about 26K users (assuming zero marketing expenses and zero cost of accepting payment) which idk if that’s realistic or not for a nice to have tool like this. What’s the business plan here? Is there a business plan?
Of course society should become more accepting and accommodating of differently-abled people of all types. But can you really look at the extreme end of the Autism spectrum and say that isn't a disease or disorder?

One reason we need this fundamental research is to disentangle the different types of afflictions and give them different names.
For everyone I know, their personal PCs don't store data that's valuable to criminals who might steal their PC, but do store personally important data like family photos, etc.

They all would much rather have the disk exposed to anyone with physical access and have their data recoverable in the much more likely case where the PC suffers physical damage or some other kind of software/hardware failiure.

Account passwords and session tokens can be reset, photos of loved ones can't can't be retaken
Fuda Wiki: A wiki for all types of traditional Japanese card games
more than the effect of deepfakes, I fear the accusation of deepfakes / plausible deniability from claiming deepfakery rocking being a substantial issue. Like politicians screaming "fake news" media
Disney released "Cars" on VHS in 2006. (The last big studio VHS release)
It happened during covid and they just haven't returned in the same way. It's unfortunate. I really hope the small late night coffee shop makes a return.
Changing this improved my mental health significantly. I'll try to never work fully remote again
I recently got into TCGs for the first time in 20 years (I’m in my 40s), and holy hell is the structured activity with recurring people liberating. I’ve made more fiends in the last six weeks than I had in the previous three years.
Which patents cover implementing Thread if it’s just IPv6 on Zigbee?
My belief is that this can be mostly or maybe entirely traced back to the way Americans ruined their cities. At one time, before urban neighbourhoods were demolished for freeways, Americans more commonly lived in denser neighbourhoods.

The transition from urban to suburban living (partially fuelled by cost of living being subsidized in suburbia, and partially caused by NIMBY advocates blocking the development of new housing to keep housing prices affordable in cities) completely destroyed any chance Americans had to be independent from their cars.

Instead what they have in the states are a bunch of disjointed metro areas that demand a car to do anything. So teenagers need to be chauffeured around and lose independence because of the reliance on parent transport.

I think that feeds into the mental health crisis but it also makes third places more expensive (fewer people using them than if the area was more densely populated) and more hostile (housing unaffordability drives homelessness and the use of third places as homes for the homeless.)

You’ll find an exceptionally strong correlation between viable third places and cities that don’t demand that you own a car.
Restaurants removing chairs does indeed sound insane. But I imagine it's on high-rent areas that want to focus only on take-outs.

I mean, the high-rent areas that exist today are also insane, and them creating extra insanity is just expected.
Sometimes it happens. Particularly in big US old school broker-dealers, "Dictum Meum Pactum"[1] is something some people take very seriously especially since you will have a fruitful (if adversarial) working relationship over many years and may need someone to do you a personal favour in the future (eg giving you a job etc).

For example I know of one US investment bank where a very large options position was "booked" by a trader using a spreadsheet rather than in the official booking system which meant that the normal "exercise and expiry" alerts didn't go off to warn people when the trade was about to expire. The trader in question went on holiday and as a result the trade expired more than a billion dollars[2] in the money. The CEO of the bank called up the counterparty and successfully persuaded them to honour the trade and pay up even though it had actually expired and everyone knew there was no legal obligation. As it was explained to me at the time, the counterparty had probably hedged the trade so was not scratching around the sofa trying to find the money.

[1] "My word is my bond"

[2] Yes. With a b.
You also affect how much energy (heat) you radiate from earth's surface into space, by choosing the right color, materials of buildings or land around you.
I worked with unpoly for a bit and it had a few rough edges (I can't remember what, it's been a while). My major concern at the time was that the entire project was javascript written inside erb files, who then were compiled into js and erb was used for some sort of compile step.
It wad really hard to contribute/extend.

I have no idea if this changed
Just Google him.
Have you seen the "Jesus in the Wheat" billboard?
Ah, the xkcd gf-spambot test https://xkcd.com/632/
I live in a tier 3/4ish city and the coffee shop scene here is sad, but it was sad before COVID.
The data is filtered by Countries with more than 20 million people. That is quite an arbitrary filter and removes neighbouring countries which might provide contrast but are smaller than that
> shouldn't the question of harassment be handled by appeal?

They did appeal.

As I understand it an appeal is granted if they can show misconduct during the initial trial and not because they disagree with the verdict. Could me wrong, not a lawyer.
Curious that they partnered with Dragos instead of Armis or Nozomi.
You don’t need 10 people to run this business in 2024. They could definitely do it with half that. They could probably do it with 2 people.

If they do staff up (eg if they have raised capital) they will eventually go up market or into adjacent markets.

That said, there are millions of software developers in the world. They can probably find 26k customers.
Thanks I'm thoroughly familiar with the DSM criteria, the ICD criteria, and the research literature.

> It literally lays out a path that can generate a non overlapping diagnosis.

It does not. If you believe there are exist two autistic people who have no overlapping symptoms please present an example.

> The moment there is a biological underpinning to something like ASD it gets interesting because what do you do with all the folks with a diagnosis who DONT fit that label.

Compare this to, "The moment there is a biological underpinning to something like cancer it gets interesting because what do you do with all the folks with a diagnosis who DONT fit that label." To which the answer is "that's a red herring, the current understanding of cancer doesn't require all cancers share the same biological origins, so why should finding one marker call that into question?"

Or "The moment you locate the code line with a buffer overflow it gets interesting because some programs that seem like they have a buffer overflow don't have that line of code."
Because I don't ever hit them except by accident while using vi(m) so disabling means an accidental keypress does nothing rather than something I didn't want.

(my main reason for preferring original ex-vi is that when I typo a command, it beeps at me, whereas in vim the typo is usually some completely unrelated but valid command sequence and then WTF JUST HAPPENED and argh)
Anecdotal, but we grow a heritage strain of wheat here in PHX (Sonoran White).

Its appearance gives me pause. Common commercial wheat is very short in comparison.

I have a friend who can’t eat “common” wheat products from the grocery store, having been diagnosed with severe gluten intolerance, but can eat Sonoran White without symptoms.

You can follow the same exact recipe but substitute Sonoran White flour for standard flower, and they can eat the final product.

I have absolutely no research to support my stance here. But given gluten intolerance is, from my understanding, a microbiome disorder. And Sonoran White grows tall and requires less pesticide/herbicide/fungicide, while common commercial wheat grows low to the ground and the head of wheat sits stewing in a bath of herbicide/pesticide/fungicide - I suspect the difference between the two strains’ impact on the microbiome is less genetic and more environmental.

ADHD research is showing similar early correlation between a mothers’ diet and the rate of ADHD (particularly caffeine consumption). I have a similar belief here that ADHD correlates with caffeine consumption because caffeine is often consumed in liquids containing additives that disrupt the mother’s microbiome.

I strongly suspect that, over the next 100 years, we are going to find that we’ve been waging war on the human biome through food preservatives and environmental contaminants. And that many common chronic disorders/illnesses (including ADHD, Autism, weight gain, etc) in our generation are actually attributable to a disfunctioning microbiome.
There are two ways that something can lead to needing help with daily living:

- society rejects the trait without good reason, so then someone needs help to deal with this rejection

- the trait leads to an inability to do something that the person wants to do, irrespective of any societal concerns

I am okay with calling the latter a disorder, but not the former. The traits that are recognized as part of autism (social incompatibilities, stimming, special interests, hyper or hyposensitivity — these are the DSM traits for autism rephrased more politely) are clearly in the former case. Traits that lead to being unable to function (such as an inability to feed one's self) are not on this list, but rather are characterized by intellectual disability.
Comorbidity is a commonly used term to denote that a condition occurs with another condition. In this case you can think of it more like "co-occurs".
ah sick people from my uni

it's pretty messy tbh but it's a good idea
See here for why I think that it is different: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40329752
Ask HN: How many positions should I apply for at the same company?
In the case of companies that have many open positions (Microsoft, etc.), I'm not sure how many of the positions to apply for. Currently I'm only applying for one at a time.

Background: I'm job searching (Senior SWE) and not getting traction anywhere -- not even getting automated rejection emails when positions are filled. Maybe I'm getting flagged as a bot? Not sure. I'm a generalist (frontend, backend, SRE, lots of languages) which is a blessing and a curse: many of the positions could be a good fit, but I'm not a perfect fit for any particular one.
So do I, that's why I leave my house around 5pm, 5:15 at the latest.

To the gym, to my favourite cafe, walking alone in a random direction, doesn't particularly matter.
I'm not sure if you've seen them, but there are LED glow sticks that look normal when stationary but leave sort of a trail of distinct after images rather than a smooth blur when waved. I've seen LED Christmas lights that have a similar effect when you scan your eyes past them quickly. It's called the phantom array effect, and it's caused by a flickering light (LEDs lit with less than 100% duty cycle) moving rapidly across the visual field.

Mitigating sample and hold motion blur by blacking out the display for some of the frame time turns your display into a flickering light source, so it can potentially produce the same effect for small bright objects on dark backgrounds when either the object moves rapidly on screen or you scan your eyes across the screen. It's fairly niche in that it'd only affect some rather specific scenes and even then can depend on how the scene is viewed (it won't occur if you track the only fast-moving bright object with your eyes, and it's much reduced in higher ambient light), but the flicker fusion rate is generally several kilohertz, so you'd need to boost the hell out of the frame rate to guarantee the effect is eliminated altogether.

More generally, an object that is moving rapidly enough for its screen position to change by many pixels per frame can have its motion look jerky even without motion blur. And, in fact, motion blur can help disguise that.
I never had those habits, though I have passed that stanza on to people who were just learning to help remind them to use hjkl.

I just tend to turn off things I only ever hit by accent (see also the :h override).
> Or does it just mean “are found together when discussing this disease?”

this.

"morbid" is from the Latin root "morbus", meaning sickness.
I used 10 as a nice round number. You can scale it up or down with linear effects on the rest of this napkin math. Their careers page by the way has 8 open positions as of the time of this writing. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying this isn’t viable, I’d just like to understand how.
That's true today, no reason to be true tomorrow, else we would all still be on mosaic or netscape or firefox (who fired the rust/servo team afaict once they weren't as valued)
This is about people diagnosed before the age of 5, they're almost all cases of severe autism. That's very different from the kind of autism you're talking about.

People who are permanently unable to live independently have a condition that should be prevented if possible.
Reminder that we subsidise production of Biofuel from corn, which is WORSE than just burning oil

> The research, which was funded in part by the National Wildlife Federation and U.S. Department of Energy, found that ethanol is likely at least 24% more carbon-intensive than gasoline due to emissions resulting from land use changes to grow corn, along with processing and combustion.

This is how you get people skeptics of net zero
"The important thing is about how an AI can digest its experience into its view of the world and how it predicts things going forward and how it needs to have motivations both internally and externally imposed."

Those issues, he said, are not addressed by large language models, which don't address how our brains work. Yet every lab in the world, he said, is currently "throwing resources" at such models. [1]

interesting, thanks for sharing. this might be the guy. also, "Founder Id Software"? [2] ok, I'm hunting him down

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/26/john_carmack_agi/

[2] https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack
Said maintainer also does dev work for Canonical. So this probably affects optics for Ubuntu too. Although, speculating charitably, maybe the maintainer knows something we don't about the upstream's security policies.
Some things stand out:

- What is going on in South Africa? Are the women stealing all the food?

- Arab women are landwhales.

- American men are the fattest men.
I have worked in critical infrastructure and am familiar with SCADA systems. US power infrastructure is relatively distributed and privatized, rendering cybersecurity collaboration and compliance efforts difficult. There are no shortcuts to security. Redundancy is costly, and is no guarantee against attack. If threat actors have already infested systems to await a day of reckoning, there is not too much one could do about that. Our only hope is to create and deploy systems that are robust by construction, but that too ends up being costly, so companies end up following the path of least impedance. If anyone wants to make a dent on this problem, it would be through cheaper access to secure designs, such that even the poorest of companies can get some basic assurance. For instance, GE and Siemens are the largest controller providers for the power grid. How about an open source industrial controller to rival their capabilities?
PJM ended the GMD action at 05.11.2024 12:00 EDT. The PJM manual says that GMD actions are ended after three hours with no problems.
There were no additional actions required to deal with the problem. They'd show in that list as "Conservative operations", "Pre-emergency load management reduction action", "Curtailment of non-essential building load", or even "Emergency load dump action".

K-index is at 8.67 right now, down from 9. (9 is currently the maximum reportable K value.)
Indeed, my ex wife was incapable of living on her own or holding a job. I have a whole social circle of autistic friends of different abilities. Some still live with their parents. Men in their 40s living with their parents. Women who left home for the first time at 30 only to have to move back within months. My one friend is a sex worker because she can't hold down a real job. She sells her meds and her body to get by.

I lived with my parents last year, at 36, but I moved out and got a 1 bedroom. It was touch and go for a while, I still can't cook for myself, but at least I can take care of my cats.

I'm never going to have children. I'm never going to have a house. A family like my parents had. My sister as well, well she just got a boy friend so maybe not.

The through line problem here is not autism. Despite the range of (dis)ability, the thing that makes it a problem is how autistic needs are unmet by a society that expects us to be worker bees.

My ability to type this message and read is not a constant. There are times when I am non verbal. There are times when I cannot read because the letters are all jumbled in my head. When I'm able to read and write and speak, society values me. When I'm not, society devalues me. You want to take autism out of the equation so that I can be valuable to society.

What I'm saying is that society needs to be reoriented so that autistic people are valued whether or not they can read or write or speak.

Although I have to say I'm unsettled by you speaking for someone who can't speak, and deciding unilaterally that "curing" them would be a massive quality of life improvement for "all involved". Did you ask them?