skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's a disorder when it effects how you function and how happy you are with your life. if you can live a happy life without medication, and neurotransmitter deficiencies, kudos.

some people with physical deficiencies have no issue navigating the world, and some do. same with queer folk. same with people with ADHD. sure there's a societal aspect, but there's also relationship aspects and everything else. we don't live in a vacuum. you can't look at it from the perspective of "if we were hunter-gatherers we would be fine" because that's not the reality of the world.

and fwiw there are plenty of things one can do that are not working 8 hours a day, that are not working during 9-5, that are not focus related. you just choose not to do them, or do not find the proper opportunity.

and that's why medication exists. so people _can_ do normal things and live a normal life. the system isn't great, to be fair, and i wish it were reformed, but until the glorious proletariat uprising, i'd prefer people get the mental health they need to focus on their lives and not some fictitious idea of what may be
> They interpreted crashing as bad quality

The solution here is to rebrand it with some vague euphemism:

“Ah yes the component underwent a state calibration”
> Once you have everything trained (you might need a GPU or a cluster of GPUs to train it for several days/weeks/months), you can use it.

It takes a whole team to replicate an advanced model. Take a look at our open source working groups: Eleuther, LAION, BigScience. They worked for months for one release and burned millions of dollars on GPU (gracefully donated by well meaning sponsors).

https://www.eleuther.ai/

https://laion.ai/

The BigScience group is massive:

https://bigscience.notion.site/10743770aae24ff3bdc1b938cf454...
Hey maybe you're smarter than me, but it took me a lot of studying to be able to hang with the big dogs, so to speak, in software development.
You're not wrong. :)
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Sure and that's actually where I developed my love of walkability and bikability. But I live in the "bike-suburbs" (everything in easy biking distance or walking distance) and even then as my friends and I got older, it became harder to socialize. We still stay in touch frequently, but planning flesh meetups became a lot harder. For us it was mostly prioritization. After a while we all started prioritizing our family lives over our friendships. It started when most of us entered serious relationships. After that point, it became harder and harder to meet up. I sometimes wonder whether the tradeoff (choosing family over friends) is worth it but I still find that it is.
Why did your daughter hate Clojure ? Was it the language or the tools/ecosystem? (Curious on what beginners find difficult)
I think it's one approach to try to hack your world to resolve the behaviour. It never strikes me as the right one though.

We can say we live in a world of endless distractions that keep us from more worthy causes, but we are also choosing to spend our time being distracted. This is stating the obvious, but we must want to be endlessly distracted, otherwise we wouldn't do it.

Perhaps if that feels like the wrong answer, it is because we are asking the wrong question. Perhaps the proper question is what level of technology is acceptable in our lives.

So, for example, we now know that smart phones come with lots of extras, apps, games, finance, social, etc. Lots of apps are also explicitly designed to be addictive. Once you have a phone, it's not really possible to close the door to some and allow others, at least not to a satisfactory level.

Ultimately, if the technology is not serving you, you have the choice to not use it. You can take the nuclear option, and turn your back on whatever hardware. Perhaps this is the real question - can we turn our back on entertaining, pleasurable technology that wastes our time to some extent, to allow natural physical life back in?
Clearly it's not unlimited. On the one hand if your co-worker takes 4 weeks off then you'll feel cheated if you take 2. On the other if you take 4 weeks off you have no way of knowing if that is frowned upon. This seems like more stress than it is worth.
The first thing I thought is "but, what D&D do they play?"; because D&D has changed over the years.

Turns out the game started as the D&D of the time (AD&D), with more or less house rules; and then moved on with some "homebrew" rules that are still familiar to D&D players.

I mostly tend to say I played D&D back in the day, but the truth is, I only played actual D&D on one short one-afternoon session. I played other games instead (LoTR Middle Earth, RuneQuest and Vampire), but D&D is what people mostly understand I guess.
Interned here while in university, was a pleasant experience but never felt like I was working in a high security lab or anything of the such. Interesting to see how things seem from the outside.
Wait. I have another solution: "Those who die before their god-ordained time, loose all their wealth and die poor".

But I think this was used in medieval times, at least they did lose their advantageous spot in the graveyard.
Obviously you would auction water leases for terms long enough to ensure the intended economic activity remained viable. It's actually pretty wise IMO. And despite the other poster's straw manning here, I think something similar should be done with land and mineral rights.
I'm glad that you're happy with the system, but I'm not satisfied with your comment. In my personal experience, people with "unlimited vacation" tend to take less overall vacation than I do, on a mandatory vacation time per year.

> (you'd have to explain going beyond, say, 4 weeks, but otherwise working)

Unless "I'd like to take a 5-week vacation" isn't enough explanation in itself, it clearly isn't working. An employee shouldn't have to justify _why_ they want to go on vacation.
That's just obscure political correctness. I'd say it's far more often people who lack emotional maturity or self confidence and have any of all sorts of common insecurities that they don't want to be reminded of. Imagine being called an idiot when you actually have a low IQ? It hurts and it's far more common than being gay in Pakistan or whatever.
Diminishing Returns: cross-platform UI frameworks is a bad business decision
Rebrand it as "fault tolerant" and/or "adverse environment certified" and you should be good to go. That's how they do it in the military sector at least.
>"What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea. Resilient... highly contagious. Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it's almost impossible to eradicate."
Dungeons and Daddies should probably be in that list too! :)
I created a clunky discord bot that listens to everything my friends and I say on discord and uses that data in Markov chains to talk to us. The bot has various random chance parameters that allow it to chat with us, reply to us, send us memes (that it also generates via the imgflip api), choose random outcomes, and more. This bot has become quite the character and art project. He entertains, horrifies, and banters with us, mostly in terribly broken discordese that gives a laugh out of goofiness.

My brother also took a bit of time to hook him up to one of the GPTs, producing even more outlandish, essay-like responses.

I highly recommend coding toys like this for one's self and/or friends.
Hello, and this project is open source and will it ever be?
What technologies were used?
At Microsoft Israel we have:

- 23 days off every year for everyone.

- 5 extra days off for COVID years (but doesn't accumulate between years)

- 18 days of (paid) sick leave (also for family)

- Lots of leaves for stuff like family sickness (1 month a year), bereavement (10 days), paternity (6 weeks), maternity (6 weeks) on top of the ones we get from the government (3.5 months parenting leave for example).

- 2 times a year where taking a holiday only costs half called roughly "office shushing" where you take 2 days but are away 5.

- Plenty of holidays etc, requirement to take at least of 5 days consecutive (so 10 days off with weekends) of vacation a year and it only accumulates up to one year's worth so you are required to use your PTO in practice.

After a long time, you also get a sabbatical which is pretty crazy to me in a tech company.

In practice you take few long vacations (e.g. 1 month off twice a year during the times of the hadmama where it "costs" half) and a bunch of short ones (long weekends).

This isn't based on level and you don't have to be a principal engineer to get these benefits it's just market competition - SW1s fresh out of college get the same amount of vacation.
That's not the only defition of probability - and it's a very limiting one.

Statistical mechanics is based on the probability of the physical state now and not on the frequency of physical states over time. Sometimes we can assume an hypothetical infinite time evolution and use averages over that but a) it's just a way of arriving at the averages over ensembles that are really the object of interest, b) the theoretical justification is controversial and in some cases invalid, and c) doesn't make sense at all in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics.

Don't be offended, but "Nobody looks at a future event that he already knows is going to occur and says that the probability of that future event is 100%" is a very strange thing to say. Everybody does that! Ask astronomers what's the probability that there is a total solar eclipse in 2024 and they answer 100%, for example.
>Then, given Sturgeons Law that 99% of everything is rubbish at each level then "knowledge" is not growing as fast as you might think

Sturgeon's law was 90%, also that's a mighty big given to entrust to a snarky Science Fiction writer's quip explaining why so much Science Fiction in his time sucked.
The devil collects on his end of the Faustian Bargain that was manifest destiny. The American system turns out to be a system for making convenient choices and not wise ones.
As is basic, the information can be extracted to a not-crippled (Office) program, at which point MS can ...
There's another port called D2X-XL with another HN Discussion about it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28183868
This sounds very shortsighted.

My own grad school happens to have a top 4 CS program (UIUC), but I went there for math (was top 15 at the time, not sure how it has done since). Some of the stories of people I met in my grad program were fascinating, there were people there who were likely smarter than most students at most of the elite universities - one particular extremely smart person I met even turned down top math programs in favor of a full scholarship at a lesser known public school for undergrad. My own personal background is a bit fascinating in some ways as well, but it never comes up in interviews - I'm at a FAANG with most of the achievements notched for a promotion to staff SWE, and my brother was promoted to staff research scientist at another FAANG for an extraordinary business-wide accomplishment. Neither of us coded before trying to get into the tech industry (my brother has a PhD in Chemistry from a reputed program).

I've learned throughout my life that focusing so much on where people went to school might cause you to miss smart and/or revolutionary people. People don't really talk so much about the schools people like Steve Jobs went to. Lots of very smart people are rejected by the likes of the Ivies, or not gotten the head start in life that would've gotten them placed at the most prestigious schools or programs. Some people's lives took a different turn for reasons that may have caused them to miss out on opportunities earlier in life, but life events created resolve & the will to make a switch & become successful. I think it's very unfair/silly to pass judgment on someone just due to what school they went to (I certainly don't really care when I'm interviewing someone) - there are actually a lot of very smart people who never had any such privileged background out there. We should be striving to find them not only because it could be very beneficial for business, but it's also the right thing to do.
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Asking about time gets you into adjacent issues like free will. I find that interviews with Lee Smolin are illuminating, even tho I'm totally OTL on the technical aspects.
I would like to see corporations that commit manslaughter dissolved. Threat to human life should be an existential risk.
Not ALL of human knowledge - and many(most?) might cringe to consider it so, but wikipedia english text only was 8GB or so in 2013 when I put it onto an ereader. Was handy to be able to read about the places as I travelled to them without internet connectivity.

Might be more now but storage has likely outpaced it in growth.
The savesoil.org movement could be a possible solution. Incentivise farmers to plant cover crops when it's not season. This increases organic content in the soil, which over time increases the nutritional value in the fruits and vegetables.
Searching for the Lost 76th Street Subway Station, the “Roswell” of NYC Subway
People will not emigrate if it means leaving relatives and family behind. That's why you saw so little emigration from the USSR - once they're out they were completely shut off.
is this RDS Aurora or RDS "classic"?

classic RDS is essentially control-plane-only - AWS spins up an EC2 instance on your behalf, installs the database software, configures replication, etc etc. but on the data plane, you're connecting to a more or less stock Postgres or MySQL instance.

Aurora uses a more modern distributed design [0] akin to Spanner, CockroachDB, etc. they implemented their own quorum-based log layer as a storage backend, so it is now involved in both the control plane and data plane.

classic RDS has been around long enough, and in essentially maintenance mode without many new features added, that I wouldn't expect weird behavior like this from it. so I'm guessing Aurora.

YMMV, but personally I don't trust Aurora for databases I administrate. I use classic RDS for small stuff, but if I needed availability & throughput beyond what classic RDS with its single-node / scale-up-only model can offer, I would reach for CockroachDB or Cassandra or something similar.

also if your database size is only 15gb you definitely don't need (and are overpaying) for a 200gb Aurora instance. your data fits in RAM on a mid-sized RDS instance.

0: https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2019/03/amazon-aurora-d...
I also work for a Fortune 500 company. Unless the employees are doing anything related to Apple ecosystem, they will be carrying Thinkpads instead, or using classical PC desktops, with external contractors having virtual workstations via the various cloud offerings.

Overall Apple desktop market across the world, is still around 12%.
yep. on the web it means i have to turn on javascript to view the content. or more often don't bother and close the site. ;)
>you'd have to explain going beyond, say, 4 weeks

This is less than the PTO mandated by law in many European countries. Hardly unlimited.
There are some interesting points on car-dependency which I agree with, and thusly I've structured my life around living in a bikable suburban area, where everything we need is within easy biking distance (1-3 mi.)

But mostly it's a matter of priorities. In school, my priorities were: Academics, Friends, distantly followed by Family, Personal Health, and Home (meaning dorm, flat, apartment, w/e). Now Family, Personal Health, Home, and Career are at the top and Friends are at the bottom. When I was in undergrad I could text my friend "Hey wanna grab food" and we walked to the nearest calzone place. Now I make sure my partner and I have spent time together, that I've done my chores around the house, and then I text a friends to meet. One friend is trying to lose weight and can't eat at a place with too many carbs, the other is trying to cut back alcohol and doesn't want to go to a place with lots of drinks, and I need something gentle on my stomach. Then we agree on the place and meet up. Walking to the nearest calzone place is just not a plan my friends and I would trivially agree on anymore and that's okay. Priorities change with age.

I don't think this has anything to do with the macro trend of decreasing socializing.
In the Nordic countries the obligatory minimum care of terminal cancer patient is often quoted as 100,000 euros. So this sum might be cumulative and we start from the 100,000.
I got my current 4 day gig just by being upfront with everyone I interviewed with that that's what I was looking for, and waiting until someone said yes.
I started lecturing at the university at the same time as I picked up D&D again. I think both activities helped each other out. But I felt a bit like a living circus, pulling elaborate acts out of my head almost every day.
I recently tried Apple's Monaco 9 bitmap/non-antialiased (sadly Terminal doesn't seem to support it but iTerm2 does) on a 32" 4K monitor and was pleasantly surprised by its legibility.

I like Cozette's completeness but I prefer Monaco's bitmaps for the ASCII/classic Macintosh character subset.
Piktochart.com is working 4DWW plus national vacations - there are currently searching for a frontend dev https://piktochart.com/careers/#jobs .There are also other companies, like https://buffer.com/journey part of the people-first initiative https://peoplefirstjobs.com following the 4DWW.
I think he's definitely talking about natural hyperfocus - for one thing the author is in his 50s and I don't think you could get ADHD drugs as easily in 1985.

It is hard to control, but it can help you do one thing as long as you're willing to abandon all other parts of your life, like eating/sleeping.
That's the availability part. If a system is unable to make progress it is not available.
ADHD itself didn't give me superpowers

But going undiagnosed, it did force me to cope in creative ways.

I'd zone out in class and forget about tests. Only to inhale all the info in the dopamine-induced panic of the night before.

Long, wordy explanations bored me to tears. Which gave me deep sensitivity when explaining things to others.

And to keep myself sane during endless school days, I'd bend over backwards to try and "real-time edit" topics to be more interesting.

Finally, in my senior year of high-school, I read a blog post summarizing the classic ADHD memoir "Driven to Distraction". For the first time ever, I asked my parents to take me to a doctor. I was diagnosed basically on the spot.

The change was immediate. I went from serial coaster to rampant bookworm. Within a month, I tracked up in all my classes. I finished out high school with a bang (though it didn't matter much to college admissions).

There's always been a slight pang wondering what might have been had I read that blog post sooner. I certainly had the scholastic chops to excel, and could've landed at a much "better" school (and maybe even a "better" career).

But then I remember the blessing in disguise my alma mater, Queens College actually was. Few students cared to take advantage of the (surprisingly) excellent faculty, so I had their undivided attention. Also, the relatively lax workload gave me the space to split my time between class and internships.

And then I think about the weird, rewarding professional path those internships led me down. Where I inhale large amounts of information quickly. Find the shortest, sweetest way to explain it. And "real-time edit" the subject to make it as interesting as possible.

These aren't super-powers. These were talents I was forced to discover and lean on to cope with those that I lacked.
That sounds like a fun thing to build - if only someone I knew used IRC…
In my experience, the conversation goes like this:

Me: I'd like to take a 5-week vacation

Manager: Why?

Me: I haven't taken a long vacation in about year.

Manager: Sure thing. Approved.

This is what happens and it's better than dealing with accrued PTO where I have to keep track of the days off. I'm sure companies are doing this because they've done the math and see that on average people take less time off with UTO. But if you have a good team and good managers then it isn't difficult to take time off.

Additionally, in the accrued PTO case, if you end up taking 5 weeks straight with absolutely no justification and your manager isn't good then there's probably a chance at retaliation. In either case, it depends on your relation with your manager.

I do agree that mandatory vacation is probably the best however, it's extremely rare in America which is where the unlimited vacation trend has started.
If you wanted to give wireless bluetooth headphones another try... In my experience, the better Airpods are made by Xiaomi (their top-of-the-line 'Airbuds 3 Pro' work out of the box, are relatively comfortable to wear, and are inexpensive, coming in at around 50 dollars).
The Nordic countries have a much more social government which requires a much higher level of social trust than we have in the North American countries.
It's not about my beliefs, except my belief that the die is fair.

I made a statement about a simple bet, using a fair 20-sided die, on the outcome of the 8th roll after the die has just come up 20 seven times. I'll take the bet that it doesn't come up 20 on the 8th roll. This scenario with 20 random people and 10 sequences appears to be a different scenario. I'm not sure how the odds work in that scenario, and I don't fancy that bet. That's all.
> I don't know the name for when you have to bail out and parachute to your destination while the plane continues onward.

Either D.B. Coopering, or CIA Black Opsing.
Hmm, I have a Razer Blade laptop and it pretty much runs off stock drivers (directly from Windows Update). The only exception is a single piece of software - Razer Synapse - which can configure settings both for the laptop and the eGPU enclosure I use. It's not a really lean piece of software but really far from bloated ad ridden Vantage thing that I've gotten with a Lenovo?
Can you reverse that. A sale person ask a customer "are you interested in buying that car with the sticker price of $10,000", the customer says "yes", the sale person says "We have a deal". Is this a contract, meaning that the customer can no longer walk out of the store?
> inhibit creativity by limiting the potential scenarios

Constraints are a typical tool for augmenting creativity, by restricting the easy path to a solution.
Since not all ADHD medicines are dopaminergic, people would have to be short on norepinephrine and… whatever it is Intuniv/Tenex does as well.

I'm not very keen on the "everyone needs a dopamine break" hypothesis because I'm not sure those are actually the symptoms of amphetamine withdrawal. I mean, for me when it crashes it just makes me unable to get off the couch or go home from work because I forget to do it.
He left Discord lol
I've found that I appreciate the manual download and import process. It makes me look over each transaction more deliberately than I would if it were just an automated update. I've caught 3 or 4 fraudulent or erroneous charges over the past half decade because I'm forced to look at each charge on my credit cards.

Probably 90-95% of my spending goes on a credit card and then gets paid off at the end of the month. GnuCash has been great for tracking everything. I'll have to look at KMyMoney too.
I'm so happy I actually enjoy programming. I would do it even if I never got paid for it. Enjoying programming feels like such a life hack, considering the generous financial compensations.
A strong cup of coffee (or anything above the low Vyvanse dose I usually take) actually makes me so jittery I concentrate even less. Though at least if you took too much Adderall IR, at least it'd wear off in 3-4 hours instead of 12.