skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Seems to me there's a lot of evidence that almost everyone with autism

This is a true statement because almost everyone with autism does not have severe autism.

Like, I'm sorry, but the research I've read about autism does not paint such a rosy picture about the intellectual capabilities of kids with severe autism. That doesn't mean I'm going to treat my kid poorly because there are cases of kids with severe autism and no intellectual disabilities. That, however, is the exception and not the rule. Severe autism is very frequently accompanied with intellectual disability. [1]

I've read the same books authored by kids with no verbal communication. I've heard the stories of lawyers with severe autism. However, those are the exceptions. I certainly hope my kid is one of those exceptions, they are on border of severity which gives me a lot of hope. However, I do have to accept the fact that the most likely outcome for the rest of their life is needing support. It's a fact I've come to terms with over their life as improvements in communication have slowed.

> that often it is not about pushing past their boundaries to get them to do things in a "normal" way, but about working around them and finding other ways for them to engage with the world productively.

Sorry, but this severely misunderstands what we work on. It's not about doing the "normal" thing. My child, for example, has extreme food aversion problems. They have a very limited diet which ultimately is not healthy. We do food therapy because expanding their diet and tolerance to eating foods in non-preferred ways is super important. They attend school and unfortunately if the wrong aide is in charge of setting up their meal, they will frequently simply go hungry.

I'm not working on "normalizing" my kid. I'm working on getting my kid to be able to advocate their needs and to be self-reliant as much as they are capable.

> That might mean writing instead of speaking.

Already working on that. They have an AAC device and have been to therapy to learn how to use it for the last year.

> Or using mouthwash instead of brushing their teeth.

Or sedating them when they inevitably need to have cavities drilled? You can't replace brushing your teeth with mouthwash. Feel free to ask your dentist if that's acceptable on your next visit.

[1] https://www.verywellhealth.com/what-is-severe-autism-260044
> their creative software needs GenAI features to stay competitive.

They're not interested in staying competitive. It's not in their blood. They define markets and dominate them. If there's even a whiff of Jobs-era thinking left at the company, they're working on something that will make all of the "competition" irrelevant. Even if it takes them a few years. Do I expect it? No, but the last thing they'll do is chase the crowd/tulip mania.
> But you don’t have to fuel it fully to go to the moon and back.

Numbers: from LEO (low Earth orbit) to TLI (translunar injection) - approx. 3.1 km/s; from Moon hyperbolic to LMO (low Moon orbit) - approx. 0.8 km/s; from LMO to the Moon surface - 1.6 km/s, back to LMO - 1.6 km/s, total - 7.1 km.s . Numbers are optimistic, no errors. You absolutely, positively have to add delta-V for landing, Apollo LEMs, for example, had ~0.6 km/s, and also for docking - about the same, so total is already 8.3 km/s . This is more than Starship needs to get to LEO after SuperHeavy boosted it from the Earth.

So... no, if you're planning to get to the Moon anything near the Starship regular payload - 100 ton - you absolutely have to fuel it up fully.
Tesla did it pretty quickly? And they were new; lots of Volvo centers out there..
Something interesting about your three pictures, there's very little concrete or asphalt in them, just poor old plants that we did not spend enough effort protecting from other plants. Myth of wilderness?

A typical knotweed patch that I see here in Scotland is in a disturbed urban area, for example by the railway. While it might be displacing a native species that takes over ruderal sites, e.g. blackberry or gorse, it still performs its functions of urban greenery - makes habitat for birds, cleans up the city air a bit, covers up trash on the ground.
The V1 is the ancestor of all cruise missiles, pretty far from no military value.
I have their CC shop there every now and again. Don't most stores either do this themselves or sell the data to bigger data brokers? Not saying its not an evil practice in general, but their actions don't seem to be an outlier?
I can't speak for others obviously, but this sort of caption is nauseous:

> In the heart of a vibrant skatepark, a skateboarder is caught in a moment of pure exhilaration. The skateboarder, dressed in a black t-shirt adorned with a yellow graphic and black pants, is suspended in mid-air, performing an impressive trick on a concrete ramp. The skateboarder's arms are outstretched, adding balance to the daring stunt. The skatepark itself is a concrete playground, with the skateboarder's ramp being the main focus. In the background, palm trees sway gently, adding a touch of nature to the urban setting. A few spectators can be seen in the distance, their attention riveted on the airborne skateboarder. The image captures not just a moment, but a story of skill, courage, and the joy of skateboarding.

This seems a lot more like a puff piece from a local publisher trying to fill space, or description of a stock photo to an advertiser, than a description I'd describe as accurate from a human to another human.
Dodn’t their president just leave because he missed with their approach to EVs?
I agree, it's fun. However, who wants to play pong? It's not exactly a flashy "CLICK ME" type game.
You can try it yourself here -> https://iss-sim.spacex.com/

Protips: Watch your instruments and take it super slow!
No need for NVLink just for inference, not even with tensor parallelism. And you can get used 3090 much cheaper than that.
You can probably see Kansas from the top...
In Baldur's Gate 2 it would keep repeating "you must gather your party before venturing forth" if you wanted to transition to another area but one of your characters got stuck, or was tons faster than the rest (boots of speed). It was pretty annoying.

About ten years ago I found the developer who added that so I kicked him in the head till he was dead, gnahahahaha.
I'm normally on a very minimal dose. I have, prior to getting timer tops and forgetting that I'd already taken med, taken >100mg of dextroamphetamine without feeling high and without titrating up. Instead, I got very focused and methodical to an uncomfortable degree, but there's absolutely zero high or euphoria.

Across ~4 doctors (1 PCP, 3 pysch), none have titrated up. They've ballparked and said things like "let me know and we'll reduce if you can't sleep and increase if it doesn't work. If you want, try doubling up or cut it in half (for non-XR)".

Given the variation in dosage visible in the literature (such as this case report of megadosing: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3407707/ ) I'd suggest that there are multiple underlying physical causes for the condition described as ADHD to the extent that sweeping statements like that aren't accurate. E.g. my (very different) experience and your experience being different indicates that we probably have different underlying causes, not that one is a myth or misperception and the other is the real take.
you can just go around calling people creeps now for being neurodivergent?
That is absolutely not the same thing as GP is mentioning and you know it.

>Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
That’s perfectly fine but when a monthly streaming charge is the same as a single DVD movie it’s poses a very different calculation for most households.

When you are looking to get content for children it becomes even harder and more expensive.
> but their creative software needs GenAI features to stay competitive

The only truly creative software they sell is Final Cut and Logic.

And both target professionals who aren't interested in generating low quality GenAI content.

It's Adobe and Canva who care more about those features.
> The general consumer does not care about this at all.

The general consumer will note that Costco wants their money.
"We don't know how X works" literally means "we don't have models yet that can explain X's behavior".

TFA is about making a tiny bit of progress towards such models. Perhaps you should read it.
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I wonder when people will make the connection between monetary inflation and birth rates. You can also see the crash in birth rates even in rural provinces of Turkey.
As an autistic (yes, medically diagnosed, with obviously difficulties in communication and self care) who has survived to adulthood and is able to care for themselves with support now: fuck you for this "real autism" bullshit.

Yes, some people are hit real fucking hard, some of us improve into adulthood, some of us don't get hit that hard in childhood but suffer more as adults.

You don't get to decide what real autism is, especially as an outsider, and excluding people who have that diagnosis is shitty, petty behavior. Grow the fuck up.
I think they must be working on something good just because Siri is still so bad. It hasn’t had a proper update in years and even whatever update that was didn’t change anything.

There’s no way they’d leave it to get this bad unless they’re working on a complete replacement.

I hope they don’t even call it Siri. Siri should be left to die like it deserves.
The first self driving video wasn’t faked, it was “staged” which just means they planned the route ahead of time.

When Musk said “we can do this right now” he meant it’s possible with today’s technology, and that Tesla had probably run experiments to that effect already.

The hypothetical ability for a vehicle to act as a robotaxi would absolutely lift the value of the asset. That’s not even controversial. It’s a separate question whether the technology is ready to go in time for people to take advantage of it.
I don't even think it's about data. Since when has Apple's strategy been about being "first" to anything? I'm probably showing my age, but I remember the iPod being ridiculed as both late to the MP3 player game, especially if you were a PC user, and lacking "key" features the competitors had like FM receivers.

Literally none of that ended up mattering to the actual success of the product, a pattern that has been repeated with a lot of Apple products. My first MP3 player, smartphone, tablet, laptop, etc, were not Apple products but that's what I own now (well except for the MP3 player which is essentially a dead product category).
I think "problematic" is more or less used a synonym for "bad", except the speaker wants to indicate "this isn't just not to my personal tastes, you are a wicked person if you don't agree".
No one doubts they made the decision intentionally. I think we still haven't seen whether it was a good call or not.
ICC promises to 'remedy' New York pitch problems
Just because you make the hardware doesn't mean you have to build the software. Not really sure why you'd expect Apple to feel like that's something they should be involved with at all.
Huh, curious. There were stories of police/courts subpoenaing Amazon for Ring camera footage because of crime near that camera.. I wonder if cops will notice Teslas near crime/accident scenes and ask the company for footage from those cars..
When the police come the squatter says that they are illegal tenant that has been living there can you beat them up and threw them out. They say that you were renting them a room or some nonsense like that.

In California the courts hold squatters innocent until proven guilty through a lengthy legal process. Meanwhile you are charged for with no delay because it is illegal to beat someone even if they are squatting in your house.

I don't like it, but this is the situation when the law is on the squatters side.
True, you can buy 2x 4090 FE brand new for $4000
Ladies and gentlemen, behold the famous Apple user experience.
It's interesting because "that level of privacy" was the norm, and it's the world around us that's changed. So just by wanting to maintain the same level of privacy you started with, you're deemed sketchy.

I don't buy this framing. I think it lacks historical context by starting with the norms of the present day, instead of understanding how those norms have changed and how privacy and rights have been eroded worldwide over the last decades.

When a bully is crowding your space, doing the "I'm not touching you" game, following you around teasing you, and then acts shocked when you take steps to defend yourself, this is abusive behavior.

Maybe 40 years ago a "burner phone" was for drug dealers and criminals, but nowadays it makes a lot more sense. When a phone number is basically a lifetime unique identifier, and companies and government agencies the world over are being hacked or corrupted, using a disposable phone number should be considered proper hygiene, not sketchy.
In a few generations locally run models will be as good as gpt4 is now.

Having on device ai that good will be amazing for so much stuff
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/costco-founder-kill-hotdog...

> The founder of Costco told a CEO who wanted to raise the prices on Costco's hot dogs: "If you raise the effing hot dog, I will kill you. Figure it out."
A PC from 2021 should have a TPM in the processor.
Unlike advertising in other places, where you're often getting something for free, sadly that's not the case in retail media. Consumers gain nothing from it. It doesn't make products any cheaper, actually makes products more expensive. Manufacturers are pitted against one another, and whomever pays the most gets the most prominent ad placement and higher placement in search results. Manufacturers pay for it, and pass that cost onto the consumer. Then search results are skewed in favor of the manufacturers who pay the most. The only winner is the retailer. Everyone else loses.
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The government wants to use the data collected by these giant corporations. At least in the US, third-party doctrine allows for the govt to snoop on people--esp useful if they want to go after opponents.
What. No one is under the illusion that Costco is a charity.
It's not like they are ignoring it. They are building custom chips with cores dedicated to the task.
Show HN: I extracted and collated mean quant GRE scores
Across countries, across years.

India has had a significant jump in 2020.
Too bad the HN Flamewar detector removed this post from the homepage. The content is interesting, the comments are pointless bickering over browsers
Yes, they froze Japanese trade. But only to stop outrages being committed all over the area, including annexing Manchuria and invading China. The Japanese were doing all of this with imported US oil. Stopping the oil exports hardly places responsibility for Pearl Harbor on the US.
I don't think neovim is as strong as emacs when it comes to extensibility. It also has no self documenting like emacs. If one is committed to the philosophy of using emacs for everything or almost everything neovim would probably leave one wanting.
I do agree however it has come a long way.
It is good there so many strong options these days. And I will cede one thing about emacs and vim (neovim). They most likely still be around after whatever next big editor replaces vscode.

If you do try neovim again maybe check out (in case you may have not heard of it)
https://github.com/Olical/conjure
It was (is) pretty nice last time I used it.
Just think about it. We've had hybrids pushing 50-60+ MPG's for what, over two decades now? Imagine where we'd be if the entire industry leaned into that tech...

Instead we pursued an entirely unproven technology that required (and still requires) ridiculous infrastructure investment (charging network, energy grid improvements, chargers at home, etc) and isn't as green as people might want depending where you live in the world (externalities of power production). Electric is still not ready to replace all vehicles, and may never be - nor is it going to be willingly mass adopted anytime soon. The drawbacks, which proponents like to handwave away, are severe and real.

Over the past couple decades we could have gradually improved MPG's on hybrids to astonishing (and impactful) levels. The crowd that fawned over Musk and his fantasies (the same crowd that now vehemently hates him, cuz politics...) would not accept hybrids or anything short of full electric vehicles.

Well, you all were fooled... and here we are with the average real-world 2023 vehicle fuel economy still less than 30 MPG's...
Opt-out:

https://www.costco.com/DNSMIView

https://simpleoptout.com/#costco
How could you possibly connect an abortion ruling with squatters rights? No different?

Is there any case pending at the Supreme Court or lower courts on squatting?
It can change under other (rare) circumstances. Otherwise a collision between an already-chosen base address for one module and an allocation in your process would result in a failure to load that module into your process.
That sounds like a refreshing and practical approach to developer hiring! It's great to see companies moving away from traditional, often artificial, coding challenges and embracing assessments that reflect real-world workflows.
Apple has a chip, and the devices, but they don't have an LLM. Google has a chip and the LLM but they don't have a way to monetize it. MS has the best LLM so far and access to enterprise clients. NVidia has the metal but nothing else. It's unclear at this stage if there will be a single winner in this game. Maybe they will all find a way to somehow benefit from the AI craze.
I've had a Costco membership for over 20 years. I'll be letting it expire when my yearly renewal runs out. My privacy is worth more than the insignificant discounts they provide anymore. I hope I'm the first of many that leave.
I know of https://blog.transitapp.com/how-we-built-the-worlds-pretties... because it was on hn
Yeah I’m so confused by people saying there are no use cases for AI. I use AI so much every single day for research, making code, helping generate ideas, helping to plan, extracting data from messy sources, honestly I could think of hundreds of uses for AI that I would pay for.

The one thing is though - does this need to be something Apple sells? I like my iPhone for the hardware. I don’t care if they don’t make all the software.
$15 per month or $90 per year
There’s also the trade unionist Mick Lynch who, also appearing frequently in the UK news recently and being fairly similar in appearance, has caused me some brief moments of confusion.
Definitely not an expert, but isn't Oklahoma a bit on the seismically active side to be building uber-tall buildings?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_earthquake_swarms_(20...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2017_Oklahoma_seismic_haz...
For clarity that's Threads (the Slack clone), not Threads (the Twitter clone)
Wanted this to exist for so long. I’ve started learning Swift to build an app to solve this. Then I discovered HammerSpoon[1] and since I use a HammerSpoon lua script to adjust the windows layout for my different setups:
1. Laptop only mode
2. At home my MacBook screen is closed and connected to 2 external monitors
3. At work my MacBook screen is open and connected to 1 external monitor

The script detects the connected screen UUID and applies the appropriate layout

[1] http://www.hammerspoon.org/
Smart. I recall them being nothing but problems.

My father had a fake lotus racing car in the same vein. Mostly made out of beetle bits and what I suspected was a bathtub. Motor came from a Toyota, with lots of modifications.

I know it did drive, but my memory only includes pushing it up a hill so we could try starting it using gravity.
i'd never heard of threads.com, but now can't even see their landing page. it's just about the acquisition. good luck googling it too

what was threads.com?
> It's not debatable at all

you do appear to be debating it...
> To be fair some of these are subjective

Okay, let's try to go through each of them more or less objectively, shall we?

- "Lisp is archaic and outdated"

While Lisp was introduced in the late 1950s, it has evolved considerably. Modern dialects like Common Lisp and Clojure offer extensive libraries and features that compete with contemporary languages. New Lisp dialects are constantly being added to the family. Clojure-Dart and Jank are more recent examples.

- "Lisp is hard to read"

Lisp’s syntax, based on simple and consistent S-expressions, can be highly readable once you familiarize yourself with it. The concise and uniform structure allows for straightforward parsing and manipulation of code. Try taking any JSON and convert it to EDN, or any HTML/JSX to Hiccup, and visually compare it - the latter would look far more readable. One doesn't even need to know any Clojure at all, to see that this is true.

- "Lisp doesn't have a powerful type system"

While Lisp is generally dynamically typed, Common Lisp supports powerful optional type declarations and checks. Dialects like Typed Racket offer strong, static typing. There's a new extension for CL called Coalton, and Clojure has Spec and Malli. You can do mind-blowingly awesome things with them, e.g., building a data structure for a ledger where each transaction is ensured to be in the correct order and shape — something that would require significantly higher effort to build in any other programming language.

- "Lisp code is not easy to refactor"

The homoiconic nature of Lisp, where code and data share the same structure, makes it particularly amenable to metaprogramming and automated refactoring. Tools like SLIME for CL and Cursive for Clojure can do an amazingly good job helping you refactor.

- "Nobody uses Lisp in production"

While not as mainstream as some other languages, Lisp is actively used in various domains. Companies like Grammarly use Common Lisp, and Clojure is widely adopted in the industry, particularly for data processing and back-end services. Apple built their payment system, Walmart their billing, and Cisco their entire cybersecurity platform. There are tons of examples like that.

There are many seemingly great ideas in our industry that initially received hype but later faced significant criticism — goto statements, the waterfall model, object-oriented databases, CORBA, SOAP, XML everywhere, and so on. Lisp, though, despite all the skepticism, keeps coming back again and again, and just refuses to die.

So, I stand by my words: Lisp (as an idea) is really awesome. Every programmer should gain at least some basic understanding of what it offers, because there's no harm in it — only benefits. Again, I'm not fighting anyone disliking any concrete tool, but hating the idea? Why? The only explanation I have for that - shallow understanding of what that idea is about.
I imagine such an encoder would be specific to a model.
For a moment I thought it was about the Instagram Threads team, and I thought surely not.

Then I saw that the tweet mentioned Instagram Threads when skim reading and I was confused.

But no. This is about a startup named Threads that was approached by Instagram for the domain Threads.com that this startup owned. And this startup ultimately got aquired by Shopify.
The term for this is "eugenics", and it's generally considered a negative.