MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by phtrivier | 2025-08-31 20:17:20+00:00
It will sound cliché, but if dark thoughts come to you, if you start feeling like whatever else than Youtube is worthless, etc... it might we worth finding someone qualified to listen.

If it's mild, and you just fell like you're too easily drawn into whatever the algo feeds you, well... it means the dopamine dealers at Alphabet are doing their job "right". Your job is know to try and cure the addiction.

This is not like "spending you days on cable TV" - YT has infinite content, with no occasion for boredom. Everything is always going to be 100% interesting, captivating, infuriating, etc... And if it's not, the "next" rush is a click away. Your brain is fighting an unfair battle.

Thankfully, "cold turkey" should not have any critical downside, so you could try.

Just being mindfull of how long you spend can help.

Leechblock NG has a helpful mode where you just restrict how long you can spend, before being locked. [1]

Any extension that removes the "suggestion", "shorts", etc... would put you in a better spot. I use Enhancer for Youtube for that [2].

I also find that many of the most interesting youtubers happen to be on nebula.tv, which clearly is way less designed for binge and addiction. [3]

And of course the usual stuff apply - find something or someone so great that you're rather spend time with them that on YT.

Also, at some point, I hope someone will run on a platform of "not letting advertisers completely rot people's brain for a few clicks". Even meth dealers have to sleep and watch they back.

Good luck !

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/leechblock-ng...

[2] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/enhancer-for-youtub...

[3] https://nebula.tv/featured
by vdalal | 2025-08-31 20:17:39+00:00
Here are some more thoughts...

Core product health

Based on a key goal to enable the virtuous cycle "Meaningful content --> More engagement --> More $" * Content health ("quality"): Keeps content creators on their game even up their game to generate more content, more personalized content, and perhaps more interesting content

* Content quantity (#): Makes all of us up our game and become better content creators

* Super personalization: Produce just the content on-demand that can get engagement. It's likely already happening

Core product growth

* A hedge in case they have content inventory challenges or AI is able to produce better content than creators

* FB/WA/IG? growth means targeting more and more local businesses with new services e.g. chatbot for SMBs

* Search: Chatbot/answerbot is a thing. Wean some Google Search traffic and keep it within their ecosystem

Company health and longevity

* AI-based automation and efficiency for great number of use cases

* It's great marketing, attracts talent, and enhances the brand

* Finally, as a tech company, cannot not invest meaningfully in the next great new tech trend

It's a win any way they look at it.

edit: formatting
by DavidWoof | 2025-08-31 20:17:59+00:00
One of the aphorisms I repeat a lot is that in this age where everybody programs a little, including analysts, devops, QA, researchers, etc., the thing that separates all of them from actual software developers is that developers know that "code is bad. Code is where I find all my bugs.

And I do wear these other hats sometimes. I think nothing of scripting a useful utility or cranking something out in R or VBA for a presentation. But when it comes to production code, I'll spend a lot of time trying to think of ways to reduce the amount of code required.

But it's two completely different philosophies regarding code, and unfortunately in some organizations AI is starting to blur the lines.
by necovek | 2025-08-31 20:18:17+00:00
This is the phone that came out and faced an announcement that development is stopping on the platform a few months before release — that's actually amazing sales considering the circumstances!

HP Pre 3 was a similar situation where it was pulled after it was shipped to retailers and operators, but before it went officially on sale — they still sold well even with unsupported system.

There were many rugpulls like these, and while they technically make these products flops, they were also not given a fair chance either.
by bonzini | 2025-08-31 20:18:27+00:00
90% accuracy was just my own hunch but it is true that, out of 2000 lines, roughly 200 lines were changed, and there were roughly 20 mypy errors left after the first fully automatic pass.

Most of these were due to code that did use duck typing, but it turned out that this was dead code and therefore it's understandable that the LLM got confused. Once the dead code was removed, the remaining 5 or so issues were annotations that were too loose in either variable or argument declarations. It would have taken at least a couple hours to do it by hand.
by anatoly | 2025-08-31 20:18:37+00:00
No, this data in fact suggests growing population, for the following three reasons:

- the survey recorded a surprisingly small excess of nonviolent deaths (in excess of what's demographically expected), this is discussed in the preprint. The much larger number of violent deaths is almost matched by births, so the total balance is somewhat towards shrinking, in that cohort

- however, it is well known that the violent deaths occurred overwhelmingly early in the war (so far) - according to the official Hamas statistics, something like 50% of all casualties are in the first 4 months of the war, out of 22 so far. Whether these statistics are over- or under-counted is not likely to make a dent in this huge imbalance. So as the war is ongoing - and it's already been another 8 months since the 14 covered by the survey - the death rate is still "collapsing" compared to average rate so far.

- at the same time, the birth rate has evidently not seen such a huge collapse since the first 4 months of the war; this can't be gleaned from the survey, but enough plausible reports (e.g. what @richardfeynman quoted) exist that point in that direction.

So if we consider the survey relatively representative of the entire population, the imbalance towards shrinking population after 14 months is already almost certainly repaired towards growing after another 8 months, because so few civilians are violently killed (again, compared to the first 4 months of the war) in 2025.
by scarface_74 | 2025-08-31 20:18:55+00:00
In the 30 years I have worked in tech:

1. Jobs via me reaching out to external recruiter: 1999, 2012, 2016, 2018, 2023

2. Jobs via outreach from an internal recruiter: 2014, 2020 and 2024.

My first job in 1996 was from ny returning from ab internship.
by cyberax | 2025-08-31 20:19:00+00:00
Both systems are an example of a hidden Abelian subgroup problem. That is also why Shor's algorithm equally applies to both: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_algorithm#Shor's_al...

So a hypothetical classic algorithm that breaks the RSA is also highly likely to break the ECDSA.
by kgeist | 2025-08-31 20:19:22+00:00
On my pretty modest dev machine with 12 CPUs, I once managed to achieve 14k RPS with Go+SQLite in a write+read test on a real project I was developing (it used a framework so there was also some overhead due to all the abstractions). I didn't even batch anything. The only problem was, I quickly found that SQLite's WAL checkpointer couldn't keep up with the write rates, the WAL file quickly grew to 100s of GBs (this is actually a known issue and is mentioned in their docs), so I had to add a special goroutine to monitor the size of the WAL file and force checkpointing manually when it got too big.

So when people say 1k is "highload" and requires a whole cluster, I'm not sure what to think of it. You can squeeze so much more out of a single fairly modest machine.
by mordechai9000 | 2025-08-31 20:19:59+00:00
I'm surprised they gave you nicotine patches - was this an American hospital? I always thought they want you to suffer withdrawal as a punishment for the moral failure of being a smoker. Also, there are probably some risks with throwing nicotine into the mix of whatever drugs they might be giving you.

I used the patch to quit, and I used to enjoy slapping those patches on in the morning almost as much as I enjoyed a morning cigarette.
by zozbot234 | 2025-08-31 20:20:06+00:00
> ...without ruining my concentration and focus.

I suspect that this just isn't in the cards given that kind of situation. You're ultimately just better off suffering through that withdrawal (especially since you've said you were in a frickin' hospital to begin with. It's not like you're losing that much effectiveness and productivity) and trying to find a new normal after the worst symptoms are over. It might take some time but our best guess is that kind of habituation is not permanent, so you should see quite a bit of improvement over time if you just stick to it.
by Spooky23 | 2025-08-31 20:20:12+00:00
The private entities share the data willy nilly. You can do near realtime tracking of cars now with the LPRs mounted on tow trucks, parking garages, etc. Landlords are already engaged in scaled abuses through scaled blacklists and price fixing.

Abuse of this technology is a pox on society. But don't assume that only the government has the ability to abuse.
by johnklos | 2025-08-31 20:20:18+00:00
These days we have more meta-software than software. Instead of Apache with virtualhosts, we have a VM running Docker instances, each with an nginx of its own, all connected by a separate Docker of nginx acting as a proxy.

How much waste is there from all this meta-software?

In reality, I host more on Raspberry Pis with USB SSDs than some people host on hundred-plus watt Dells.

At the same time, people constantly compare colo and hardware costs with the cost per month of cloud and say cloud is "cheaper". I don't even bother to point out the broken thinking that leads to that. In reality, we can ignore gatekeepers and run things out of our homes, using VPSes for public IPs when our home ISPs won't allow certain services, and we can still have excellent uptimes, often better than cloud uptimes.

Yes, we can consolidate many, many services in to one machine because most services aren't resource heavy constantly.

Two machines on two different home ISP networks backing each other up can offer greater aggregate uptime than a single "enterprise" (a misnomer, if you ask me, if you're talking about most x86 vendors) server in colo. A single five minute reboot of a Dell a year drops uptime from 100% to 99.999%.

Cloud is such bullshit that it's exhausting even just engaging with people who "but what if" everything, showing they've never even thought about it for more than a minute themselves.
by netsharc | 2025-08-31 20:20:18+00:00
The original iPhone didn't launch with an app store, and they weren't even planning to have one, only to allow big providers like AT&T to write software for it. Jailbreakers and reverse-engineers figured out the API and how to compile apps for the iPhone, and then they figured out they could rent-seek 30% and created a new department in their company that provides them billions of income stream.
by happytoexplain | 2025-08-31 20:20:25+00:00
>A patent makes it illegal to use a particular idea, by any means. It is a limited-time universal monopoly on a set of specific "claims" (the selected applications of the idea). It has nothing to do with whether someone copied you or not.

Just FYI, as a layman with no opinion on whether they are "the same thing" in this context, this paragraph sounds self-contradictory. It sounds like you're describing copying somebody's idea, and then you say "It has nothing to do with whether someone copied you", so I ended up confused as to your meaning.
by mamonster | 2025-08-31 20:20:33+00:00
It's all fun and games, but you need to remember that this is Canton Vaud, one of the most fiscally irresponsible cantons/states in all of Switzerland. The article briefly mentions is, but a lot of this "cooperative" housing is heavily subsidized by the canton itself (the article mentions the cheaper 99-year lease but it goes way beyond that) and the resulting shortfall in money is paid for by other people (i.e 100,000CHF yearly income in Vaud is the massive marginal tax wall in Vaud). I've still, to this day, not managed to find out any detail about how these apartments are valued for the purpose of the VD wealth taxes (You can impute house price based on comparatives or rent, here obviously rent would be lower).
by ric2z | 2025-08-31 20:20:42+00:00
1. Buy a Bloom card or similar device.

2. Block ALL algorithmic feed apps AND websites on your phone using the card/device (tiktok, instagram, facebook, youtube, etc.. even linkedin).

3. Set a 24 hr block schedule, no breaks. No half measures. Go hard mode. Cold turkey.

4. Leave the card / access device in your car or somewhere not easily reachable in your home.

5. Install social focus extension on your computer browser.

6. Sometimes you will fail. That’s ok, start over and keep trying every single day.
by jedberg | 2025-08-31 20:20:51+00:00
> You make me feel old

I watched the changeover live on TV in my 20s. :)

>> Hong Kongers ages 35 and older are more likely than their younger counterparts to feel very close to China.

> That's the exact opposite of what you claim.

No, it's not. What I said was young people have been growing up with propaganda, and of the people who were there for the changeover and remember it (people over 35), the ones who don't like China have left the country because they could. The ones under 35 (well technically 28) don't have that option, because you had to be born before the changeover to get the British citizenship, which is what lets you easily move to Canada, Australia, and lots of other places.

Which would mean that those over 35 that are still there are the ones that were already pro-China. So that tracks with the data.

In other words, China is indoctrinating the youth and the people who have to option to leave and hate China are leaving, so only the people that love China or were indoctrinated by it are left behind.
by Telaneo | 2025-08-31 20:21:38+00:00
2G and 3G networks are already being dismantled, if not already gone, in several parts of the world. Even if you do want to stick to those devices out of principle, you often can't, or if you can, only for maybe 5 more years.

You can still buy equivalent dumb phones, but they aren't any more open than the rest of the rabble.

Laptops are a different story, although I believe part of that battle was already lost when the Intel SSM and AMD equivalent came around. We'll see how things go when banks start to require you to enable (In)Secure Boot just to be able to log in through a browser on a PC.
by bongodongobob | 2025-08-31 20:21:45+00:00
Take less. I don't mean to be snarky, but if it makes you anxious, it's too much. If 5 mg of Adderall feels like too much, I think the issue is just that you feel different. Give it a few weeks. Psychotropic medication isn't an instant fix without side effects. You'll get used to it.
by kamranjon | 2025-08-31 20:22:06+00:00
Just a heads up, Ive taken stimulants on and off as a treatment for ADHD for many years but my body/emotional health always felt compromised as a result. I've recently started on a non-stimulant ADHD medication called Atomoxetine and so far it has not had the emotional blunting, irritable effect of stimulants at all, and I haven't noticed any negative effects so far. It seems to help me get over the hump of being able to start things and stay with them which has always been my biggest downfall. We will see if I stick with it, but just wanted to mention that there are alternatives. There is also another medication called Guanfacine that I may try if this current medication does not work out - I don't think I can go back to stimulants.
by MrJohz | 2025-08-31 20:22:14+00:00
Eh, it's not a particularly informed opinion, it's his experience from a brief stint with it where it doesn't really sound like he got enough to grips with it to make much of a judgement.

It's like if I took my brief experiences writing C in uni and summarised it was "it's a pain getting all the different files to compile, and I couldn't work out how to import any useful dependencies" - it's not necessarily a _wrong_ opinion, but clearly it's not a useful one. I just don't have enough experience with C to be able to give you a meaningful opinion on it. It sounds like Kernighan is in a similar boat with Rust.
by sandeepkd | 2025-08-31 20:22:25+00:00
Theoretically a good idea, practically there are couple challenges with it-

1. Some one makes an intermediary service where they allow users to get the age verification from them. Get the information from the user provided to them by merchant, use their own (service providers) bank account to get the token and return back to the user. Identity less age verification is not practically possible, somewhere down the line you have to peg the identification for the user with a common identifier that services can mutually trust.

2. WebAuthn flow has timeouts (everyones spec implementation might be different) associated with it, most people are going to run into that
by verdverm | 2025-08-31 20:22:27+00:00
The frontier models like Gemini are so much better than the open weight models you can run at home, night and day difference. I have yet to try the larger open models on H100s

I'm keen to build an agent from scratch with copilot extension being open source and tools like BentoML that can help me build out the agentic workflows that can scale on a beefy H100 machine
by grumbel | 2025-08-31 20:23:11+00:00
> Is everybody nice to each other on the Internet?

For most part, yes. ISPs still carry traffic as is and don't just block random hosts because they don't like them. This is however slowly changing in Europe due to ever increasing censorship and age verification. The Great Firewall of China hasn't been nice either. And Claudflare has also become rather annoying with its constant never ending CAPTCHAs.

> On Mastodon, disagreements lead to independent islands not federating with each other, which is fine, too.

How is that different from Twitter, Facebook or any other centralized service? All of them are just independent island that don't federate with each other. If that's ok, what problem is federation solving exactly?

To me the goal of decentralization is "Get rid of the middle man between me and my audience". Federation ain't doing that, it puts far too much control in the hands of the server.
by dhampi | 2025-08-31 20:24:12+00:00
Yes, Schrodinger’s equation is entirely deterministic. There is no randomness inherent in quantum mechanics. The perceived randomness only arises when we have incomplete information. (It is another matter that quantum mechanics to some extent forbids us from having perfect information.)

I mean no disrespect, but I don’t think it’s a particularly useful activity to speculate on physics if you don’t know the basic equations.
by ashwinsundar | 2025-08-31 20:24:29+00:00
More people need to talk about the disaster that is Next.js, to counter the massive amount of sheer nonsense and propaganda being spewed by pro Next.js-ers. Our sole purpose in this career isn't to pump out "10 more features" or whatever, it's to also explain why certain engineering solutions are bad.

If that offends you, maybe consider not reading things that offend you. Or be less easily offended by light criticism.
by griffzhowl | 2025-08-31 20:24:55+00:00
Math genealogy project says Herstein was a student of Max Zorn (the guy the lemma is named after), but Zorn was a student of Artin! Zorn doctorized under Artin in Hamburg in 1930, before Artin moved to Princeton.

https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=6526
by Burnsedia | 2025-08-31 20:25:02+00:00
MIT is great for fast adoption, but if you go that route, you’d need closed-source add-ons or a SaaS layer to monetize. Apache is also good for adoption and for getting corporate clients and sponsors, but the trade-off is that anyone can take your code and repackage it without contributing back.

GPL or AGPL gives you more direct monetization options because it forces reciprocity. GPL protects against proprietary redistribution, while AGPL goes further by preventing companies from just hosting your project as a service without contributing. That makes AGPL especially useful for developer tools like LSPs, since it also sets you up for a dual-license model (AGPL for community use, commercial licenses for companies that want to integrate it into proprietary tooling).

In short: MIT/Apache = growth and sponsorship potential, GPL/AGPL = stronger control and licensing revenue. It really depends on whether your priority is fast adoption or direct monetization.
by shrubble | 2025-08-31 20:25:24+00:00
It's more than that - it's all the latency that you can remove from the equation with your bare-metal server.

No network latency between nodes, less memory bandwidth latency/contention as there is in VMs, no caching architecture latency needed when you can just tell e.g. Postgres to use gigs of RAM and then let Linux's disk caching take care of the rest (and not need a separate caching architecture).
by kamranjon | 2025-08-31 20:25:31+00:00
Has anyone used the Todoist app? What are the apps that you find the most helpful in supporting ADHD - I am thinking to get this app, but also have never used Obsidian before, would love to hear what others are using.

Edit: Oh also want to mention that I generally prefer privacy oriented apps - so if there is something, even paid, that will keep my notes on device without sharing them with a server I'd love to hear about it.
by susiebright | 2025-08-31 20:25:32+00:00
Just raising my hand in bittersweet resignation — I loved my Typepad world, 16 years until it was felled by social media.

Of course I want to save it, it’s priceless history — but every method I’ve tried (I’m sure there’s more) has failed. It seems to not be “crawlable” or something. The Wayback Machine tell me it can’t scrape it.

I manually moved a few things years ago. But I sure can’t do it all, there must be thousands of posts in my inventory, tens of thousands of comments. Boy did we have fun there for awhile.
by niemandhier | 2025-08-31 20:26:59+00:00
The parent is explicitly endorsing stimulants. Those work well to some extend for treating ADHS, but in general evidence is rather weak for then improving academic achievement, while evidence is rather strong for behaviour changes that makes it easier for teachers to deal with kids, see e.g. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38871418/.

Pharmacology is not my main area of expertise but I used to do a lot of work in cardiology, and anything that increases the QT interval in the ecg increases the risk of Torsades de Pointes.

Rule of thumb is 5–7% more TdP risk per 10 ms QTc.

Quite a few adhs meds do this moderately, not enough to make an ecg mandratory.

I still believe that making medications the default for adhs is not warranted given the side effects, especially since in many cases it’s not clear if it treats the condition or just makes the lives of education professionals easier.