MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dxdm | 2025-11-24 09:49:46+00:00
The article doesn't do a good job of highlighting that there is help beyond medication, and that the personal "size" of the problem should be taken inro account. I mean, "answering 6 questions -> yay, stimulants" is a bit of a shortcut, isn't it.

Recognizing that one's problems with being organized (and other executive functions) have a reason, and are not just a result of "being lazy" or "not trying enough" can be powerful and liberating. It allows acceptance and a systematic approach at addressing them. Of course, medication can help a lot while learning how to make things easier for oneself in other ways, but this should be decided with a professional who has experience with diagnosing and treating ADHD in adults, ideally one that does not simply want to push pills.

In any case, it's good to seek out more information or consult a professional IF you think you're being held back. If not, then that's great! For others, articles like this might provide the initial nudge for a noticeable improvement in their lives.
by alisonatwork | 2025-11-24 09:49:56+00:00
Sure, and before the Qing armies invaded it was declared an independent kingdom by a Ming loyalist who was born in Japan to a Japanese mother, and before that there were a couple of European outposts and scattered settlers from Fujian, and before that there were indigenous peoples who themselves are part of an ethnic group that can now be found everywhere from Madagascar to New Zealand.

The point I was responding to was the misleading comment that the people of Taiwan are actually just engaged in some kind of internal dispute with the CCP, which is entirely a CCP framing of the issue. Few if any people in modern-day Taiwan believe that they are the true inheritors of the Chinese mainland. The pretense has to be upheld in order to preserve the status quo, but in practice there is no serious movement staking a claim to any part of China.
by graemep | 2025-11-24 09:50:20+00:00
> If anything, centralisation shields companies using a hyperscaler from criticism. You’ll see downtime no matter where you host. If you self host and go down for a few hours, customers blame you.

Not just customers. Your management take the same view. Using hyperscalers is great CYA. The same for any replacement of internally provided services with external ones from big names.
by jasode | 2025-11-24 09:51:23+00:00
gp was using a more restrictive definition of "native controls". I.e. "o/s builtin UI controls" vs "framework canvas painted elements".

For Windows, "native" would be the classic Win32 UI "common control" elements from "Comctl32.dll"[0] that is directly used by older GUI frameworks such as Windows Forms. Those map to classic Win32 API CreateWindow(L"BUTTON", ...). In contrast, the newer frameworks of WPF and Xamarin Forms and Qt Quick "paints controls on a canvas" which are not "native" and makes every app UI look different instead of standardized "look & feel" of common controls.

But others include custom-canvas painting UI objects as "native" -- as long as it's not Electron.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/controls/com...
by nsonha | 2025-11-24 09:51:39+00:00
> giving the LLM more capability to generate user interfaces

This is not dissimilar to the argument that "MCP needs not exist, just tell llm to run commands and curl". Well, llm can do those, and generate user interfaces. It's just they don't work reliably (maybe ever, depending on how you define "reliable").

I guess as engineers we can do some work and create stopgap solutions or we can all sit and wait for someone else (who? when?) to make AGIs in which everything just magically works, reliably.
by marginalia_nu | 2025-11-24 09:52:08+00:00
I think in general, bugs go unfixed in two scenarios:

1. The cause isn't immediately obvious. In this case, finding the problem is usually 90% of the work. Here it can't be known how long finding the problem is beforehand, though I don't think bailing because it's taking too long is a good idea. If anything, it's those really deep rabbit holes the real gremlins can hide.

2. The cause is immediately obvious, but is an architecture mistake, the fix is a shit-ton of work, breaks workflows, requires involving stakeholders, etc. Even in this case it can be hard to say how long it will take, especially if other people are involved and have to sign off on decisions.

I suppose it can also happen in low-trust sweatshops where developers held on such a tight leash they aren't able to fix trivial bugs they find without first going through a bunch of jira rigmarole, which is sort of low key the vibe I got from the post.
by exasperaited | 2025-11-24 09:52:37+00:00
Converting from STL to STEP is essentially always a case-by-case thing.

If you import, sew, check geometry, refine, etc., you can eliminate unnecessary triangles in planar faces. But you can't magically make a 120-sided-polygon that should be a circle a circle; you're going to have to do that yourself.

Though Mark Ganson's MeshRemodel workbench looks interesting: https://github.com/mwganson/MeshRemodel

And FreeCAD is not the best tool for correcting broken meshes, which are commonplace. MeshLab and the vaguely-on-life-support AutoCAD MeshMixer are better at it.

STEP/IGES is as you say more or less essential if you want to work with code-CAD output in any other serious context. STL is not enough: it is like converting to JPEG in the middle of a photo editing flow, not at the end. It destroys information — in this case geometry.

You might find DeclaraCAD interesting.
by Tanoc | 2025-11-24 09:53:40+00:00
I can provide some, specifically the section on probation in [1] and "drug war logic" in [2], though it's not really something you need a source for. If you arrest someone it affects them for the rest of their life. Drug abuse is a terrible affliction, but it's still temporary. The abuse stops when access is revoked. Revoking that access can be a difficult and sometimes even dangerous process, but it marks the end. It can begin again if it's induced by an addiction, but that merely starts another temporary behaviour.

That's not even considering systems, like how a single arrest introduces costs to the state because of the transportation, the provided meals during their stay, the hygiene standards the arrestee must go through, and the required paperwork. Or how it affects total prosperity by almost guaranteeing that someone will be stuck with less productive and less meaningful employment for the rest of their lives, reducing taxes the town/city, county, state, and federal government can take and that person's own contributions to the local economy.

[1] https://www.hrw.org/report/2016/10/12/every-25-seconds/human... [2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9302017/
by teekert | 2025-11-24 09:53:51+00:00
Sounds familiar. I've been quite successful professionally, I have accomplished many nice things. But always in the final days/hours and under extreme pressure (ie 2 nights of no sleep to finish PhD thesis in time for print for defense, etc, very difficult for people around me also. I'm currently working on our old house. Also not nice for me, and people around me. The results are pretty nice and technically fully correct though.)

I've had the same comment about being chaotic, and not being able to see the bigger picture during performance reviews my whole life. But I've always felt unable to see the bigger picture if not understanding the details. Although recently I've gotten better at letting go, trusting my mental models etc, but also at finding great, structured project leads (or assistants if I'm in the lead). Such people are invaluable to me, although I must say that I also start to find it easier and easier to just copy their behaviour (ie things like "Start project with timeline, not important if it's 100% accurate, its more about the order of things" - etc... At least you will appear very structured which radiates confidence!).

I've also had a manager at one point in my career that said: We really just want you to start many things, you are in research not in development. It's great that you start with so much enthusiasm, let de development people determine the fit for product later... (But perhaps a bit more "eye on the market" would be nice!)

That was somewhat of an eye opener, at 35 (42 now).
by orloffm | 2025-11-24 09:54:16+00:00
Yesterday I had my "death by a thousand strikes" moment with the children's iPad.

1. It was showing 4% of battery for a while, but then showed a pop-up that the battery level has dropped below 10% and suggested turning on the battery saver. 2. I entered iMessage via a notification, and it was unresponsive, I couldn't select the thread on the left. And there are in total 3 of them, not hundreds. Had to tap it multiple times. 3. Then I wanted to switch to the previous app, and the drag-the-line-up-slowly-to-show-apps menu was polluted with 8 copies of iMessage.

All of these should've been not only caught by some kind of internal testing, they should've not happened at all due to proper architecture of the system. iOS more and more feels as a collection of hacks that try to mimic the real thing.
by reassess_blind | 2025-11-24 09:54:44+00:00
Someone on Reddit shared these logs:

{ "code": 400, "errors": [ { "domain": "global", "message": "Job exceeded rate limits: Your project_and_region exceeded quota for creating jobs. For more information, see https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/troubleshoot-quotas", "reason": "jobRateLimitExceeded" } ], "message": "Job exceeded rate limits: Your project_and_region exceeded quota for creating jobs. For more information, see https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/troubleshoot-quotas", "status": "INVALID_ARGUMENT" }

Did Supabase hit their Google Cloud quota?

EDIT: Appears to be back online now. Somebody paid the bill?
by Fricken | 2025-11-24 09:55:38+00:00
Copyright was originally intended to last 14 years, after which the work is transferred to public domain. That was back in the 1700s, when the pace of life moved much faster than it does now.

If it weren't for Disney's success at regulatory capture, the copyright would be expired and anybody would be able to produce a fictional work featuring Roger Rabbit, including Disney.
by blendergeek | 2025-11-24 09:55:56+00:00
I don't think you are correct here. From the FAQ [0] on the website linked by the post:

“Derivative works” exception – although a successful termination causes all of the rights to revert, this will not affect exploitation of derivative works created during the lifetime of the agreement, even after that agreement has been terminated. Once the agreement has been terminated, the grantee (see the glossary) may continue after termination to utilize “derivative works prepared under authority of the grant before its termination…[consistent with] the term of the grant” (to quote from the U.S. Copyright Act). This means that if, for example, an author granted a company a 50-year exclusive license to create a movie based on the author’s novel, that company can continue to use and exploit the movie even after the author successfully terminates the exclusive license. The company may not prepare a new movie based on the novel; it may only continue to use the existing movie that it created when the exclusive license was still current.

[0]: https://rightsback.org/faq/#So.2C_I_get_all_of_my_rights_bac...
by andrewstuart | 2025-11-24 09:57:26+00:00
What’s the message here? I read and read a lot of words but nothing clear came through. Maybe he sort of seems to be saying that Ruby is special in modern programming with LLMs? That doesn’t ring true for me - seems that languages are less special and less differentiated than ever with LLMs, which is to say that languages just tend to be less important now and that’s a good thing. Who cares about language, just build the thing.

Is he saying that Ruby is better for LLM programming? That’s hard to imagine because strong typing has to be a big help for automated programming tools and Ruby is behind all the other modern languages on typing.
by shallowsax | 2025-11-24 09:57:50+00:00
I'm not referring to any specific actions or commenting on who did what. I summarized what I've observed to be the common perception, which is that Iraq and Afghanistan were "forever wars" conducted against the informed consent of the American public, and a spectacular failure of our institutions and both party establishments.

If that sounds lacking in nuance, well, I never claimed to believe American political discourse was particularly nuanced ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
by mytailorisrich | 2025-11-24 09:58:01+00:00
> the people of Taiwan are actually just engaged in some kind of internal dispute with the CCP, which is entirely a CCP framing of the issue.

This is broadly true, not just "CCP framing". Obviously because of history and external influence there is also an "independentist" faction.

I don't see why this should be hard to accept unless the aim is indeed a "reframing" to push the independentist narrative, which does not really need it as the status quo mean de facto independence. So perhaps the aim is actually more along the lines of an anti-China narrative.
by throwaway152021 | 2025-11-24 09:59:13+00:00
Isn't it a bit of a non sequitur? The fact that you choose not to be treated (with a history of unhealthy self-medication) doesn't imply that someone else would not benefit from changing some healthy(-ier) medication specifically targeted at ADHD.

So to answer your questions: 1. it leads us to people getting treated (or at least having the choice) for stuff that makes their life harder 2. Yes, it is helping.
by kace91 | 2025-11-24 10:00:00+00:00
I’m younger at mid thirties, but I was recently diagnosed with a career and personal life already “in check” so my experience might be useful.

I’d 100% recommend you go for a check. For me, the main outcome has been getting rid of the nagging feeling that my potential is wasted in making up for shortcomings.

Now it’s no longer “I am bright and curious, and this compensates my {lack of consistency, periods of “writers block”, reduced attention to detail}”. It’s hard to explain without direct experience how cleanly those problems you’ve been trying to white knuckle all your life just… stop. It’s not a personality change, it’s much closer to allergy meds letting you breathe, the bad symptom goes away.

The only con is that once you get the meds there’s work to be done. The productivity tips and books you’ve likely heard all your life and were unusable now can actually be put to practice… but you haven’t done it yet.

So it’s like you stop being bedridden but if you want to be fit you still have to go the gym. It’s just that now going to the gym is a task you can realistically approach, and that in itself is a game changer.
by scarmig | 2025-11-24 10:01:30+00:00
In California, attacking someone with a knife, solicitation of murder, and shooting a gun at someone in their car are all nonviolent felonies.

I'm happy--indeed eager--to have all of these (correctly) classified as violent felonies. But there's simply the matter of public opinion and how much space in state prisons there is. If we hold prison capacity constant, increasing the severity of punishment of one crime necessarily decreases the severity of punishment of other crimes.
by sznio | 2025-11-24 10:01:30+00:00
As for the name "impulse", I don't know - but the way this command works reminds me of interrupts.

The impulse command sends a command to the server instantly, rather than in the usual UserCmd sent to the server 30 times per second. They are used mostly for debugging, just assign #90 to your debugging function, then poke it from the console while the game is running. No need to change and potentially break the network code.
by abc123abc123 | 2025-11-24 10:02:19+00:00
Hah... europe will become king of the world! We'll tax and regulate ourselves to enormous wealth! No... jokes aside, europe is a failed union, and will slowly collapse or decompose in a decade or two.

Then we can again focus on trade, lowering taxs and creating value. The only thing that is happening now is that the political class has become enormously rich through bribes and by having managed to phase out democracy and enriching themselves.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-11-24 10:02:24+00:00
No data. Just hand waving. Typical.

Now you want a firming nuclear plant? First it needs to be reliable, we can't have a system collapse when 45% is offline like happened in Sweden in October and May this year.

Then it needs to be dispatchable.

Nuclear power when it runs at 100% 24/7 all year around except a tiny maintenance window costs ~18 cents/kWh.

Are we looking at a 50% capacity factor? And not collapsing when 50% are having outages?

So ~60 cents/kWh?

I love how new built nuclear power becomes completely farcial when put into real world constraints.
by latexr | 2025-11-24 10:02:40+00:00
> "Termination of Transfer" was introduced via the 1976 Copyright Act. It allows creators to unilaterally cancel the copyright licenses they have signed over to others, by waiting 35 years and then filing some paperwork with the US Copyright Office.

You have to wait half a lifetime?! Talk about a performative (pun unintended) law.

> when Congress gives creators new copyrights to bargain with, the Big Five (or Four, or Three, or Two, or One) just amend their standard, non-negotiable contract to require creators to sign those new rights over as a condition of doing business.

That’s the sign of a deeply broken system. It should never be possible for someone to sign away their rights. If you can sign them away, you can be swindled of them.
by rldjbpin | 2025-11-24 10:02:59+00:00
> There is a weird assumption people make that somebody as successful as Charli XCX isn't smart because her persona is "I like cocaine and partying," and then are surprised when she can express herself like this.

after all, it takes a smart guy to play dumb. artists do portray a persona, or are encouraged by labels. at the same time we cannot blame others for buying it or making their own assumptions.

from first look about the book club podcast, it seems great that one reads a book and gets to talk directly with its author.
by yvdriess | 2025-11-24 10:05:30+00:00
> Unstructured sparsity cannot be implemented in hardware efficiently if you still want to do matrix multiplication.

Hard disagree. It certainly is a magnitude harder to design hardware for sp x sp MM, yes; it requires a paradigm shift to do sparse compute efficiently, but there are hardware architectures both in research and commercially available that do it efficiently. The same kind of architecture is needed to scale op graph compute. You see solutions at the smaller scale in FPGA and reconfigurable/dataflow accelerators, larger scale in Intel's PIUMA and Cerebras. I've been involved in co-design work of Graphblas on the software side and one of the aforementioned hardware platforms: the main issue with developing SpMSpM hardware lies more with the necessary capital and engineering investments being prioritized to current frontier AI model accelerators, not because of lack of proven results.
by fainpul | 2025-11-24 10:06:11+00:00
So the appeal for you, as the "user", is that you can easily customize the parameters which are made customizable by the designer and get a suitable model without requiring proprietary software (or any software at all). I can see the appeal of that.

But I assume the designer spent quite a lot of time, creating this in OpenSCAD and make it customizable. He was also restricted to making shapes which are easily described in OpenSCAD, where he might have gone for a more elaborate design if it was easy to do.
by kalaksi | 2025-11-24 10:06:18+00:00
> Taiwan is different: the vast majority of people there are ethnically Chinese, so reunification is seen as an absolute necessity.

How does that make it a "necessity"? It's not for China to decide? This is the reasoning Russia uses when invading neighboring countries. To "protect" russian people and claim that <insert part of country> are russians anyway and want to get annexed (still wouldn't make it right). If someone wants to join Russia, they should move to Russia.

(Or maybe it could happen through some longer and slower political process. And the country as a whole should agree, with a lot more than 50% agreeing, to a unification.)

> The Chinese way of thinking is that only after a group has been fully Sinicized (language, culture, identity) can they be considered “one of us.”

Like above, I hope you're not implying that a culturally similar people in another country #2 somehow gives country #1 power over it's sovereignity.
by freehorse | 2025-11-24 10:06:53+00:00
Judging from his videos, I do not think he actually creates something new. He takes a geometric approach to constructing complex numbers, but these approaches exist. Not all approaches to complex numbers are algebraic (ie about extending the real field).

As far as I understand, he essentially defines $i$ through a π/2 rotation. But this is exactly what $i^2=-1$ is. So in a sense, I do not think it is quack, but overblown in terms of novelty. Personally, I always liked such kinds of geometric approach to complex numbers, because it makes a lot of stuff more intuitive, even just for reals (eg you can see multiplication by -1 as rotation by π). If he makes a good dissemination of the complex numbers to kids, it could be worth it, but no idea without any sample from the book.
by themafia | 2025-11-24 10:07:55+00:00
> refrigeration. Samples being shipped to the lab and reagents shipped out to clinics were both temperature sensitive. Providers had to verify that these materials had stayed adequately cold throughout shipping and handling, [...] Moreover, Stevens imagined that these sensors would be in continuous communication. There's a lot of overlap between this application and personal area networks (PANs), protocols like Bluetooth

I like the low-fi solution personally:

https://www.ipack.com/warmmark-temperature-indicator-short-r...

https://www.ipack.com/coldmark-temperature-indicator-10c-50f...
by sceptic123 | 2025-11-24 10:08:13+00:00
> The ADHD epidemic is less about the discovery of a disease and more about the construction of one. Over the past two decades, we have witnessed the normalization of drugging children into classroom compliance — an act made possible only through the coordinated actions of pharmaceutical companies, medical professionals, school systems, and parents, all embedded in a culture that equates emotional and behavioral difficulty with biomedical defect.[1]

While I think lack of discipline is over simplistic, I also think that labelling and diagnosing children is a simple and effective way for parents to absolve themselves of responsibility for their own failures. Parenting is hard, but admitting that is harder.

I'm definitely not saying ADHD and Autism don't exist, I'm just saying that it's possible that ADHD diagnoses are higher than they should be. It's easier to externalise and medicate a problem than it is to look at your own behaviour as a parent.

[1]<https://ebm.bmj.com/content/30/Suppl_1/A52.2>