skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Four classes, to wit:

> We identified one class … referred to as Social/Behavioral … that demonstrated high scores (higher difficulties) across core autism categories of social/communication and restricted/repetitive behaviors, as well as disruptive behaviors, attention, and anxiety, and no reports of developmental delays

> A second class … called Mixed ASD with DD … shows more nuanced presentation within certain categories, with some features enriched and some depleted among the restricted/repetitive behavior, social/communication, and self-injury categories, and an overall strong enrichment of developmental delays

> The last two classes scored consistently lower (fewer difficulties) and consistently higher than other autistic children across all seven categories. These two classes were termed Moderate Challenges and Broadly Impacted, respectively.
Really most of Artemis is well run. They got Starship to provide their lander, they are aiming for Shakleton Crater where there is likely ice in the permanent shadows, they are just stuck with SLS for their human lifter because Congress said so. It will be comical seeing the little Orion spacecraft docking with the HLS, really a testament to how new space is leaving old space in the dustbin of history.
Systems evolve to handle such liability: Drivers pass theory and practical tests to get licensed to drive (and periodically thereafter), and an insurance framework that gauges your risk-level and charges you accordingly.
As long as the potential impact exists (and that impact can be huge), they have the time and money to do those takedowns
Iv seen the word Boeing used as a verb.

"He got the Boeing treatment"
> the weight loss curve usually decelerates with time and this pattern is not captured by a straight line either

I have done keto for weight loss across several stints, one lasting 4 years (I had a lot of weight to lose). I encountered plateaus at various points were despite pretty consistent caloric intake (at the time I religiously tracked everything), activity, and normal body eliminations, I would have periods of several weeks where my weight would not move at all, only to dramatically fall in a later week and continue the steady loss. I found it demotivating and had to adjust weigh ins from weekly to monthly to avoid the frustration.

I wonder what the model would say about those periods. I wish I would have kept the data from that time, it would have been interesting
That is a problem of organisation size, not so much whether the organisation is private or public.
> do you actually buy into the myth that billionaires are billionaires because of merit?

Yes.

For example, I've missed at least 4 opportunities to become a billionaire, because I was too stupid to see the obvious in front of my face.

I am the son of a mid-level Air Force officer, and attended public schools. After he passed I sorted through his tax records, and discovered that I made more money my first job out of college than he was making at the time at the end of his career.
> It's not clear to me that LLMs sufficiently scaled won't achieve superhuman performance

To some extent this is true.

To calculate A + B you could for example generate A, B for trillions of combinations and encode that within the network. And it would calculate this faster than any human could.

But that's not intelligence. And Apple's research showed that LLMs are simply inferring relationships based on the tokens it has access to. Which you can throw off by adding useless information or trying to abstract A + B.
The Vanishing of the Internet
Replace the word "change" to "make" and it may be more intuitive
That entirely gels with my experience as well.

The testing-type divide feels similar to the schism around ORMs, where one camp (mine) find that ORMs end up costing far more than the value they bring, while the other claim they've never had such issues and they would never give up the productivity of their favorite ORM.

Both sides appear to be describing their experiences accurately, even though it feels like one side or the other should have to be definitively right.
It almost feels like a cynical ploy to nerf autism so insurance companies don't have to pay for anything.

There's a huge, huge, difference between "I'm awkward" and "my kid cannot talk".
Statquest is really good. Maybe a little basic if you’ve taken ML courses, though?

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLblh5JKOoLUIE96dI3U7oxHaC...
I assume any information I put online (intentionally or not) will be sold to data brokers, AI, etc. at this point. Privacy policies and settings are pointless because they frequently change or auto opt-in like this, sometimes forcing you to accept the new terms before you can access the supposed opt out button.
Long term support of a Linux distro, and probably the ungogly amount of spaghetti hacking to get wine or to emulate or virtualized the programs.
Isn’t this just windows vista all over again?
One proven approach:

Older stable Windows versions for office work and non-internet hardware, air-gapped away from internet access.

Linux for the internet to concentrate on what it takes to avoid Microsoft's web, once you're more confortable there, then more smoothly migrate away from Windows for office work too.

Hurry up before the new PC's no longer have drivers for the older Windows versions.

Archive everything.
This ignores... a lot of reality. Like the fact that when IP was designed, the idea of every individual network device having to run its own firewall was impractical performance-wise, and decades later... still not really ideal.

There's definitely some benefits to glean from a zero trust model, but putting a moat around your network still helps a lot and NAT is probably the best accidental security feature to ever exist. Half the cybersecurity problems we have are because the cloud model has normalized routing sensitive behavior out to the open Internet instead of private networks.

My middleboxes will happily be configured to continue to block any traffic that refuses to obey them. (QUIC and ECH inclusive.)
I took a Udacity class by Norvig [1] and my abilities as a programmer clearly were improved afterward.

His code here demonstrates why. It is both shorter and much easier to understand than anything the LLMs generated. It is not always as efficient as the LLMs (who often skip the third loop by calculating the last factor), but it is definitely the code I would prefer to work with in most situations.

[1] https://www.udacity.com/course/design-of-computer-programs--...
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The problem with starting with a 555 timer is that the things you can make with a 555 timer aren’t impressive to kids anymore. Oh, you made a sound that gets higher pitched when there’s more light on it? I thought that shit was amazing when I was 8. But my son wouldn’t look twice at that. So we started with Arduino so that the first thing he created was something he saw as “cool.”
I always start with God’s design thinking it is best. That’s our diverse, mixed-signal, brain architecture followed by a good upbringing. That means we need to train brain-like architectures in the same way we train children. So, we’ll need whatever data they needed. Multiple streams for different upbringings, too.

The data itself will be most senses collecting raw data about the world most of the day for 18 years. It might require a camera on the kid’s head which I don’t like. I think people letting a team record their life is more likely. Split the project up among many families running in parallel, 1-4 per grade/year. It would probably cost a few million a year.

(Note: Parent changes might require an integration step during AI training or showing different ones in the early years.)

The training system would rapidly scan this information in. It might not be faster than human brains. If it is, we can create them quickly. That’s the passive learning part, though.

Human training involves asking lots of questions based on internal data, random exploration (esp play) with reinforcement, introspection/meditation, and so on. Self-driven, generative activities whose outputs become inputs into the brain system. This training regiment will probably need periodic breaks from passive learning to ask questions or play which requires human supervision.

Enough of this will probably produce… disobedient, unpredictable children. ;) Eventually, we’ll learn how to do AI parenting where the offspring are well-behaved, effective servants. Those will be fine-tuned for practical applications. Later, many more will come online which are trained by different streams of life experience, schooling methods, etc.

That was my theory. I still don’t like recording people’s lives to train AI’s. I just thought it was the only way to build brain-like AI’s and likely to happen (see Twitch).

My LLM concept was to do the same thing with K-12 education resources, stories, kids games, etc. Parents already could tell us exactly what to use to gradually build them up since they did that for their kids year by year. Then, several career tracts layering different college books and skill areas. I think it would be cheaper than GPT-4 with good performance.
> but the unifying element is luck

Smart people make their own luck. You don't get lucky posting on the internet.

> Very few people have the means to even try to build SpaceX

Musk didn't either - he created a series of companies, each one financed by the success of the previous one.
What about scenario 0: Windows 10 is discontinued, but unofficially supported for years afterwards with security patches all the while keepings its users anxious that "full support will really stop any day now", a la Real ID.
Recall is off by default and
opt-in:

“ During setup of your new Copilot+ PC, and for each new user, the user can opt into saving snapshots using Recall. If you don’t choose to opt in, it will be off by default and snapshots will not be taken or saved. You can also remove Recall entirely by using the optional features settings in Windows. ”

https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/windows/privacy-and-cont....
> I'm not judging "open source leaders" more harshly

On purpose, no. But it's a question of interest. People seem to have a lot of interest in going after open source tech leaders that they don't have for going after closed source tech leaders, partly because any time they go after closed source tech leaders they have to deal with paid defenders (many who are simply paid by being on the much larger payroll, partly funded by government contracts obtained through bribery).

If you'd have judged a FAANG the same way but don't ever get around to judging them, that amounts to being more harsh with open source leaders.
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As far as I am aware, higan/byuu already achieved accurate emulation with no known bugs.
Reported in https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/groundbreaking-clinica...
In automattic's defense, there are not many tools to fight open-source corporate freeloaders. We've seen these free-loaders before, AWS's freeloading on elasticsearch and others. Usually the free-loader eventually realizes that it needs in-house expertise to customize and build bespoke solutions to their customer base, in which case, why not contribute back right, but we've never seen a freeloader like WPEngine, where they change the code to disable what would otherwise be gotten for free, in addition to diverting revenue stream to their own coffers.
I have long thought that you should resist growth in people at all costs - there were famously a very small number of people working at Instagram when it was acquired.
"discontinuing Windows" is obviously a step too far and clickbaity.

BUT the point remains - MS appears to not want people to run Windows.

In the old days, Windows was welcome on any damn machine you could boot with and Intel compatible CPU.

Windows 11 however has all sorts of restrictions on what it will run on - restrictions primarily designed to sell new computing hardware it seems.

I feel like Microsoft does not want me to use Windows 11.

So they point remains, despite the clickbaity title - Windows 11 ain't for me and Microsoft doesn't seem to want me to run it on all my old machines, so what now?

Wait for SteamOS for general computing?

Try Ubuntu desktop again?

Just stay on Windows 10 till it's deprecated then never run Windows again?

What is clear is that Windows users come last in MIcrosoft's calculations - before that comes Windows OEMs, Windows advertising sales group who put all the crapware and advertisements on Windows, and all Microsoft's other big businesses that have eclipsed Windows in importance such as Azure.

It's strange - MS just doesn't seem to care at all any more about whether you want to run Windows or not.

Steve Ballmer would turn in his grave, except he's alive and well.
It's worth noting the precise and narrow sense in which the term "language" is used throughout these studies: it is those particular "word sequences" that activate particular regions in the brain's left hemisphere, to the exclusion of other forms of symbolic representation such as mathematical notation. Indeed, in two of the studies cited, [0] [1] subjects with language deficits or brain lesions in areas associated with the "language network" are asked to perform on various mathematical tasks involving algebraic expressions [0] or Arabic numerals [1]:

> DA was impaired in solving simple addition, subtraction, division or multiplication problems, but could correctly simplify abstract expressions such as (b×a)÷(a×b) or (a+b)+(b+a) and make correct judgements whether abstract algebraic equations like b − a = a − b or (d÷c)+a=(d+a)÷(c+a) were true or false.

> Sensitivity to the structural properties of numerical expressions was also evaluated with bracket problems, some requiring the computation of a set of expressions with embedded brackets: for example, 90  [(3  17)  3].

Discussions of whether or not these sorts of algebraic or numerical expressions constitute a "language of mathematics" aside (despite them not engaging the same brain regions and structures associated with the word "language"); it may be the case that these sorts of word sequences and symbols processed by structures in the brain's left hemisphere are not essential for thought, but can still serve as a useful psychotechnology or "bicycle of the mind" to accelerate and leverage its innate capabilities. In a similar fashion to how this sort of mathematical notation allows for more concise and precise expression of mathematical objects (contrast "the number that is thrice of three and seventeen less of ninety") and serves to amplify our mathematical capacities, language can perhaps be seen as a force multiplier; I have doubts whether those suffering from aphasia or an agrammatic condition would be able to rise to the heights of cognitive performance.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17306848/

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15713804/
It's not clear from the article (which I largely agree with), but that "ability to change the decision" can just as easily refer to change the decision before it is made, instead of any ability to change it afterwards.

Amazon's concept of "two way and one way doors" is useful here. A two way door decision lets you go back if the decision turns out to be bad and can be made with significantly less scrutiny that a one way door decision which you cannot back out of after you've acted on it.
The remote actually makes some sense. It has a button/joystick-thingy control on the back than can bring up a settings menu and navigate it but it is a pain to reach. Leaning forward enough to reach under to it brings my face too close.

Edge controls would be easier to reach. Side edge controls can be a problem because people often want to have things right beside their monitor, such as another monitor. Bottom edge might be reasonable.

For people with bigger monitors than mine (mine is 27") their arms might actually be too short to reach bottom edge buttons comfortably, assuming they sit farther back from the screen than I do from mine.

Anyway, the remote can be faster than buttons would be because it allows for voice commands. If I want to set the brightness to say 6 I just pick up the remote, hold down the mic button, and say "brightness 6". That's faster than navigating to the picture settings menu and adjusting the brightness there.
It's too bad that Elon Musk and Kelly Johnson never met. Both are engineers' engineers doing impossible things, and I bet they would have had a blast.
Due to the extreme data quantity requirement for pre-training, LLM effectively locks your reasoning language into the lowest common denominator, aka Python. Sure, people (maybe very smart) can come up with reasonable, effective, efficient notation; the problem is to train the model to use it properly.
Yes, when you redefine failure to mean success, everything can be a success.

That kid who got 1% on his test? He passed, if you redefine the threshold for passing to mean something that everyone else would consider a failure.
The later.

While I generally do suspect that we need to invent some new technique in the realm of AI in order for software to do everything a human can do, I use analogies like chess engines to caution myself from certainty.
Glad they're working away at this.

I've stopped identifying as autistic despite having a dx because I was tired of the way it got me treated worse by the general public who presume I'm far more incompetent than I actually am and medical practitioners who do the same. Last time I sought help for a totally unrelated issue they asked if I had any prior dx and I was foolishly honest so I was subsequently referred to a day program for unemployed people with severe mental health issues. I'm full time employed so I couldn't even attend. This is the outcome of treating "autistics" as a monolith.

After the DSM-IV they decided to consolidate 3 different autism spectrum diagnosis's into one. They said this was scientific, but IMHO, this was done so everybody with Aspergers or PDD-NOS to be eligible for the higher funding levels those categorised as "Autistic" got. Which has done nothing but take away funding from severely disabled people while causing more mildly impaired people to receive inappropriate and condescending treatment, I am fucking eligible for a full time day program where a social worker will be paid to chaperone me because I'm just so fucking needy that's just what needs to be done. This change was great for the psychiatrists through, who simply received more money as a result of making this diagnostic change, nice conflict of interest there.

As a society, we decided having certain labels of disability entitled you to special legal rights and certain financial benefits. Where I live any autism diagnosis, no matter how severe or mild, gets you a flat amount of money, whereas other diagnosis's even if the condition is more severe than autism get nothing. What do you think parents, who can shop around from a variety of private psychiatrists, looking to access therapy for their child that autistic kids also get do? So you might get a kid with ADHD or Anxiety or some speech disorder, and not getting an autism DX, but getting treated like a moderately impaired autistic.

I honestly loathe, absolutely loathe the status quo of autism diagnosis and treatment and am happy for any change to be made that splits the diagnosis up because it creates at least a hope of "Severe autism" receiving higher funding levels than the rest, and "autism light" starting to get similar funding levels to other disabilities so there isn't a perverse incentive. I have not made an online comment on any website in 1 month but this inspired me.
As a Chinese whose latency to servers outside China often exceeds 300ms, I'm a staunch supporter of QUIC. The difference is night and day.
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“Persuasion is at the core of norm creation”

Nope. Norms, or ‘social facts,’ are primarily a function of the culture within which one is raised. Persuasion has nothing to do with it - children have no previous positions to alter. And very rarely do people with widely diverging viewpoints make good friends.

More social science study nonsense that somebody had to write to justify their social science grad degree.
How hard is it to have brittle bones develop from malnutrition? I figure it would be quite difficult… unless people are absolutely crash dieting from too much glp1 drugs, that shouldn’t be a problem.
> To the caller of that specific function, nothing.

And that's what makes async code, not the blocking code, a leaky abstraction. Because abstraction, after all, is about distracting oneself from the irrelevant details.
Brings to mind old wisdom:

"A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a Management Decision." IBM presentation, 1979
There's still room for synchro and servo theory I learned in the Navy but I really like the digital world a lot, so flexible.
No, the problem was that psychiatrists could bill insurers more to treat autism than they could Asperger's. You aren't cynical enough.

If it wasn't a scientific distinction, why are we still identifying autism subtypes?
Liability and retroactive clawbacks need to be introduced, particularly for very large organizations that like the government, don’t face real competition.
E*e*t*on, maybe.
This is some bullshit. And it doesn't help that everyone is using async to mean different things.

Blocking/synchronous system calls are not friendly to userspace async runtimes. Explicit async runtimes are a pain in the ass. The best solution imo is a blocking userspace interface that maps into the system however it likes. Go and Haskell do this. Erlang and probably all BEAM languages do too. Nim and Zig let you choose.

Runtimes like Go and Haskell can map onto code that makes blocking system calls for compatibility reasons when needed, through explicit request to the runtime, or detecting that a green thread has blocked.
Ask HN: Can a 5 year old i7 laptop compete with one made today?
Moore's Law is mostly dead, so current i7s aren't much faster than the ones made many years ago. I'm thinking of buying a 5-year-old Dell i7 laptop, which will mostly give me the same speed as the latest model. Am I right? Is it worth saving the money? I mostly use spreadsheets and web apps.
It's probably more relevant to compare intraspecies rather than interspecies.

And it turns out that human brain volume and intelligence are moderately-highly correlated [1][2]!

[1]: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7440690/
[2]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602...
Yes because the diagnostic label is over broad to the point of meaninglessness and people have their own independently valid reasons for wanting autism to be interpreted as either a mild or severe disability because the diagnostic label is over broad to the point of meaninglessness.

Autism and "severe autism" in particular need to be addressed using totally different words.
well big companies use thousands of virus scanner, so this shouldn't be a big issue.
I've run a big webserver that served a decent size apk/other app downloads (and a bunch of small files and what nots). I had to set the maximum outgoing window to keep the overall memory within limits.

IIRC, servers were 64GB of ram and sendbufs were capped at 2MB. I was also dealing with a kernel deficiency that would leave the sendbuf allocated if the client disappeared in LAST_ACK. (This stems from a deficiency in the state description from the 1981 rfc written before my birth)
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Basically, yea. Maybe being pedantic.

In certain fields, there is a serious and distinct difference between Accountability, Responsibility, Consulting, and Informing.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_assignment_ma...

There’s a whole philosophy behind it. My spidey senses tingle when those words get misconstrued.