MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dylan604 | 2025-05-01 20:40:02+00:00
man, the Googs already has a library of images of you. If there's anything about you that the Googs doesn't already know, I'd be shocked. the Googs probably knows you better than your therapist, because you've only shared with your therapist what you wanted. the Googs gets data about you from places you know nothing about.

being concerned that a Waymo car took your picture isn't invalid, but man is it a tear drop in the rain of everything else the Googs is doing.
by brudgers | 2025-05-01 20:40:03+00:00
Time is how habits are acquired.

If your body doesn’t tell you you need them, it is not medically critical. And you have plenty of time to acquire the habit.

You can also change monitor scaling.

When it comes to reading glasses, an abundaence of cheap glasses is probably easier than tracking one special pair.

They are $1.25 at DollarTree. Four bucks and up at Wallmart. Keep a pair in your shirt pocket, a pair in your hoodie pocket, and two pairs pushed back on top of your head.

Good luck.
by dangus | 2025-05-01 20:40:04+00:00
Yeah I guess you could say they may notice but at most companies everyone is evaluated under a performance system where the numbers go something like:

4: you have no life and you’re getting promoted

3: 90% of employees

2: you’ll be in a PIP soon if you don’t get better

1: you’re in a PIP and will be fired almost certainly
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by Aurornis | 2025-05-01 20:40:53+00:00
You'll get a lot of pop-science answers when you ask about dopamine. The less popular truth is that focus and self-discipline can't be reduced to a single chemical. It's not as simple as a level in your brain that goes up and down.

Side note: ADHD is more than just dopamine, too. The stimulant medications used for ADHD have strong norepinephrine activity. There are non-stimulant ADHD medications that act on norepinephrine primarily. There are even studies where some non-dopaminergic ADHD medications outperform stimulants in certain measures like memory by modulating adrenergic circuits.

The unpopular take is that you need to realize that "dopamine" is an abstraction for higher level behaviors. It's not "dopamine" leading you to be distracted or focus, it's a behavior that you need to train and develop over time. There's also a big emotional regulation component where it helps to understand why you're seeking distractions instead of doing the work. Is it to provide comfort? Avoid uncomfortable feelings that the work brings up? Perfectionism? Are you trying to recharge during working hours because you're not recharging outside of work properly? There are many angles that need to be pursued.

I would recommend starting with small steps. Look up Screen Time settings or plugins that will limit your time spent on HN if that's a problem. Start with a generous setting and lower it over time. If you slip, start again the next time.

Treat it like something you train. Start small, make a deliberate effort, and work on getting better slowly. If you expect to flip a switch and turn into the most diligent coder you can imagine, you're unlikely to succeed. If you set a goal to do 10 more minutes of work and 10 fewer minutes of HN before lunch, that's doable. Little wins will compound.
by johnea | 2025-05-01 20:40:56+00:00
I have a serious issue with this idea that anyone trying to remote s/w engineer from North Korea is automatically a terrorist.

Maybe some of them are just trying to make a living?

Maybe a lot of them are economically disadvantageous because, like with Cuba, the US has been f_cking with them non-stop for the last 75 years?

Maybe instead of assuming that every person inside a geographic area agrees to all the exact same things, we should normalize relations with North Korea?

The Cold War, like all other wars, is an idiot's errand, which has contributed to the entrenched hostilities that continue to dominate international relations.

Maybe world leaders should try "adulting"?

Since pretending to be a grown-up seems to be as close as anyone gets anymore...
by Lammy | 2025-05-01 20:40:59+00:00
HP Omnibook 300? https://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=123

`Omnibook300Intro-5091-6270-6pages-May93.pdf` https://www.hpmuseum.net/exhibit.php?hwdoc=123 sez:

> Built-in ROM applications don't use up disk space

- Microsoft Windows

- Microsoft Word for Windows

- Microsoft Excel

- Appointment Book

- Phone Book

- HP Calculator

- Microsoft File Manager

- LapLink Remote Access™
by quesera | 2025-05-01 20:41:33+00:00
Schrödinger's Cat was intended to be easily imagined, but also obviously ridiculous.

I think that ends up confusing people a lot of people who can relate to the scenario, but don't understand that Schrödinger was accentuating the absurdity of the concept of superposition.

I really think that if the Cat was not a Cat, and if the binary was something other than the accessible-but-complicated concept of alive/dead, the thought experiment would be more useful to those of us who were not in the original messageboard threads between Schrödinger and Einstein.
by TimTheTinker | 2025-05-01 20:42:48+00:00
I think modern people in the West, and especially people who are against communism, may not realize that Marx's ideas took hold so forcefully because they seemed to provide a way for everyday workers to fight back against the working conditions that arose following the industrial revolution. (Charles Dickens's novels provide a lot of detail from the perspective of the working class.)

One example: in retrospect, the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia resulted in much death and starvation. But the people of Russia in the 1920s were fed up with the working conditions and effective two-lane legal state in Russia (i.e. the law bound poor people and protected rich people) that had existed for hundreds of years under the Tsars.

As far as I can tell, rule of law is always the best answer to injustice - a law that reflects the will of the people, binds all equally, and protects all equally. But when injustice has persisted for a while, people can be vulnerable to ideologues and ideologies that can take advantage of the situation, create a new ruling class, and cause an overcorrection.
by Aurornis | 2025-05-01 20:42:58+00:00
> Neurotransmitters are just "global variables" to the GPU.

No, neurotransmitters are very local.

Dopamine exists all throughout your body, including your bloodstream. The dopamine in one location is uncoupled from the dopamine in another location. The dopamine in your bloodstream can't get into your brain. Dopamine within the brain doesn't spill over into entirely different regions of the brain.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-05-01 20:43:03+00:00
Well that is even more ridiculous. I have a passport but I think I've lost track of my birth certificate. My state ID isn't even REAL ID compliant (and I am very happy about that fact - it's blatant federal overreach that badly needs to be snubbed).

But the point remains - you often (in practice) don't need ID for low skill jobs whereas high skill ones generally carefully vet you. Thus hand wringing about requiring applicants for a high end fully remote tech job to fork over ID is a bit silly.
by RansomStark | 2025-05-01 20:43:19+00:00
I'm worried about my caffeine intake. ADHD diagnosed but never medicated.

I've been a heavy coffee drinker since i was a teenager.

I'm sitting at 13 double espressos today which is about average.

Lately the instant sleepiness post coffee isn't worth the focus, and I'm starting the think medication would be a healthier choice
by kostas_f | 2025-05-01 20:43:24+00:00
Anthropic's strategy seems to go towards "AI as universal glue". They want to tie Claude into all the tools teams already live in (Jira, Confluence, Zapier, etc.). That's a smart move for enterprise adoption, but it also feels like they're compensating for a plateau in core model capabilities.

Both OpenAI and Google continue to push the frontier on reasoning, multimodality, and efficiency whereas Claude's recent releases have felt more iterative. I'd love to see Anthropic push into model research again.
by WorldPeas | 2025-05-01 20:43:32+00:00
> I’m also not getting rid of my Macbook and iPhone, at least for now

I say it far too much on here but it's a right shame that there's still no decent alternative to these devices. No operating system offers the same battery life, stability and power as they do, not to mention the ecosystem that while annoying, forces devs away from the downfalls of modern code (mostly). If the EU really wants sovergnity, they aren't getting it from linux alone, either they work with a tech giant there to bolster a stack or they continue ambling along with Microsoft technicians around their ankles and Amazon around their neck.
by JoeyJoJoJr | 2025-05-01 20:43:48+00:00
I logged into my wife’s iPad and somehow all of our photos got merged. I have no idea how it happened or how to undo it, but now we both have to upgrade our iCloud tier to cover the extra storage. We will both be stuck on tat plan in perpetuity because it is such a mess trying to separate out the photos.
by kajecounterhack | 2025-05-01 20:44:16+00:00
Totally fair to be concerned about pervasive surveillance for the _potential_ of privacy violation. Not sure what to do about that.

That being said, just speaking with some knowledge of current state: the scans don't live forever. At this point, all the data they collect is way too big to store even for a short period. They'll only keep data in scenarios that are helpful for improving driving performance, which is a tiny subset.

Personally identifiable information is also redacted.

You should probably be more worried about what gmail knows about you than Waymo.
by lbotos | 2025-05-01 20:44:31+00:00
> why sales people get instantly rewarded with cash comp while everyone else on the team might wait years for a potential liquidity event.

Because sales people also do not make money if they don't sell?

What's your counter proposal on how they should pay and attract top sales folks?

I know some sales folks who would love to have $200k base with no variable component: The bad ones.

Every salesperson that I've ever worked with that was worth their salt was worth the commission they made.
by BeFlatXIII | 2025-05-01 20:45:02+00:00
> have neither of the interest nor the belief that the organization is valuable in of itself as the organization and they are way more excited to jump companies in order to promote themselves because that is how they are incentivized and are happy to find themselves in that position.

This will continue to remain true so long as expected pay bumps for job-hopping outpace loyalty raises.
by rarebetsports | 2025-05-01 20:45:16+00:00
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by keybored | 2025-05-01 20:45:36+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43857741

> Sure. And that is why protesting looks so ridiculous. The oppressed working class, making six figures typing away in a well furnished office.

You’re pulling out all the stops.

1. Developers are too privileged to care about the working class

2. But actually, the working class (or at least the unions) are my enemies, and they anecdotally come across as bad people[1]

There’s more.[2]

> Easily the worst holiday. More hilarious is that it celebrated by those who hate work and working the most.

So add that to the eclectic mix: people who celebrate it hate to work. Of course if you think about what it is for two seconds you realize that it has nothing to do with “celebrating work” or the fact that you have to work as a wage laborer, a completely farcical assumption.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43858309

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43857106
by theGeatZhopa | 2025-05-01 20:45:37+00:00
I dunno. English seems to be the easiest language for me.

I speak german (the grammer (!), The koffer-words with possible lengths of tens of characters, the sheer amount of words/combinations in some millions), then I speak russian (for me the beautyfulst language in terms of expression. Grammer (!), the spelling of words is difficult), then I spoke french for a time (for me difficult to pronounce, grammer is difficult too for me), then I speak chinese - which is a picture-resque language. One talks in pictures and metaphors. So beautyful!!! and then, one could think of finnish. That's what I would call a weird language. But not english.

so I do not have a feeling english is weirdly different from other languages, as the other languages are more difficult to master. These other languages may not only be more difficult in their grammer, but also have different spelling of same characters indicating different tenses (finnish) or meanings (chinese) - just to name a true weirdness.

so long! Greetz from OG!
by gigaflop | 2025-05-01 20:45:47+00:00
> Focus now, lethargy later

IMO, that's always just been me. Now vs Later is hard to judge, though, because I tend to have "good focus" blocks of time, and "chill blocks". Exact timing depends on my overall weekly schedule leading up to a time period.

Also, I mentally classify different types of energy. Physical, social, and mental energies all have their different places in a day.

> small, consistent dose

For me, yeah, but YMMV based on brain chemistry and environmental variables. Since I use El Cheapo, I max out at 10mg 2x/day, but rarely adhere to that unless I'm planning ahead for it/have been on that roll for a while. This helps a lot with tolerance, especially when I have lazy weekends.

And from a personal perspective: It's a very simple drug to understand, which makes me feel at ease. Brain goes vroom, like an engine hitting a more comfortable RPM. Not every situation needs my full power.
by const_cast | 2025-05-01 20:45:54+00:00
Choice isn't binary, it's a continuous distribution. There's not "free choice" and then "gun to head".

Work, especially for vulnerable, exploited populations, is not voluntary. Particularly when we talk about pseudo-slavery tactics used on migrant workers or other vulnerable populations.

There's a reason companies will often progressively move down to poorer, more vulnerable populations for their labor. Those people are much easier to exploit. We even see this in the US, to an extent. Tyson recently had a debacle where they threatened their (knowingly undocumented) workers with ICE if they attempted to unionize. To call this "voluntary" is willfully ignorant, at best.
by TulliusCicero | 2025-05-01 20:46:40+00:00
There was a notable case recently where the Waymo did swerve, to avoid someone who had fallen off a scooter into their lane (video here): https://www.reddit.com/r/waymo/comments/1hfvb5o/waymo_visual...

Hard to say for certain, but it looks like just braking probably wouldn't have avoided the collision.
by poeticsilence | 2025-05-01 20:46:52+00:00
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by Terr_ | 2025-05-01 20:47:09+00:00
> the fact that "but disproportionate representation!!1" is even an argument belies the lack of understanding about why the system was set up that way in the first place.

Your reply belies a lack of bothering to read before making a hostile rant.

I literally just said the situation involves "a join-up bribe from 237 years ago", and I don't see how any minor-amendment-citer such as yourself could have missed the meaning, namely: Smaller states were granted disproportionate influence on federal policy, via the Senate, as an inducement to get their state-legislatures to ratify the federal constitution.

That decision involved sacrificing democratic principles and ethics in favor of reaching a deal. The same tradeoff occurred with the infamous "3/5ths compromise." One of those two thankfully became moot, and it's high time we got around to fixing the other.

_________

> a representative body concerned primarily with the interests of a state

You have provided absolutely nothing to justify giving some states disproportionate influence on federal policy which affects all states.

At best, you've provided an argument for reverting the 17th Amendment and changing how senators are chosen. That is orthogonal to how many senators a State has.

_________

> > Anyone who says it's "to protect the rural areas" or whatever is talking nonsense.

> that's a great "I don't like Republicans" dog whistle.

LOL, this is one of those times when the indignant response is an indirect admission. Yes, it is nonsense, and yes, you disproportionately see it from Republicans.

Kind of like when a context-free "Nazis=Bad" sign leads someone to complain that the sign is hostile to their party.

_________

> pretty glaring ignorance of how the government worked prior to 17A

A pedantic non-sequitur:

1. How senators are chosen is orthogonal to how many exist.

2. Only tangentially related to "gerrymandering" if you mean that the state legislators' boundaries were gerrymandered. If anything, 17A change made gerrymandering less relevant.
by poeticsilence | 2025-05-01 20:47:36+00:00
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In the past, I've managed teams of up to 12 engineers and pioneered a number of no- and low-code solutions for stream processing, data model and query generation, form building, workflow systems, and front-end construction for a variety of industries, including those with strong regulatory requirements and complex business rules such as healthcare and fintech.

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by Aloisius | 2025-05-01 20:47:43+00:00
The correct answer is to not drive so fast (or at all) in conditions where braking might lead to a skid. I'd expect an autonomous vehicle to be rather better at this given they can hook directly into the electronic stability control system in a vehicle and constantly monitor temperature (and ideally measure upcoming road temperature).

Also, shifting into neutral is really only a thing for old vehicles without ABS/ESC. In modern vehicles, you let your foot off the gas slowly.