skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Just not getting round to it" is what my ADHD often feels like. Let's say I have to mail a package at the post office. I've got to write the address, pack it all up and then take it to the post office. At 9am in the morning I genuinely feel like I'm on the cusp of doing it. I glance at my watch "Oh, it's midday, better each lunch". No to worry, I'll get the package done right after lunch. 4pm rolls around and I realize that I might miss the closing time of the post of office so I rush to tape it up, write the address and hurry down there. I send it just in time. At any time of the day you could have asked me "Are you going to send that package now?" and I would honestly say "Yes, right away!" but somehow it doesn't happen. On one level I know myself well enough to have seen this play out hundreds of times, but I still think this time will be different. It still feels like I'm just about to send that package.

This happened on a much larger scale when I was in university. I had 18 months for my dissertation. Each week that went by I planned to write a small chunk of it, just to get going. In the end I wrote the entire thing a week before the deadline with my professor literally sitting next to me making me do it.

> I suspect you will be less likely to feel that inability to get around to do the tasks that you know to be important to do it if you fail in a way that life itself, the universe, hurts you for the failure, as opposed to your boss saying "you're fired for showing up late".

This is true up to a point. What ADHD people need is consequences ASAP. Your boss checking in on you every hour and providing constant pressure is much more effective than a meeting at the end of the month where your boss blows his top and fires you because you've done very little.
yeah unfortunately the OpenAI API hangs sometimet
Ya, humans are really good at pattern recognition. I can understand what my parrot (who can’t speak) is communicating.

But did I learn my parrot’s patterns or is he intending to communicate with me? Hard to say.

If he is intending to communicate, did he just learn what works through operant conditioning? Hard to say.

If it is just operant conditioning (for both of us) and a pinch of antropomorphizing from me, does that even matter when the end result is that we are successfully communicating? Hard to say.

Whatever it is, it works. We can’t have a philosophical discussion, but he can usually get what he needs from me and I can usually understand what he wants and get him to change course of action when needed or get him to perform tricks on command.
Of course, blood and urine. I do them every six months, even though my insurance only covers once a year, I'm happy to pay out of pocket for the second.
Show HN: Garf – Goal-centered task management tool
Garf is a tool that focuses on goal-setting rather than just simple task management. It allows users to set goals and targets (success criteria) to help achieve their goals more easily.

When using conventional task management tools, it can be difficult to answer the question, "What is the reason (goal) for completing this task?" Even if you know why you're doing it, it can be challenging to understand what impact completing the task will have. With the belief that tasks should ultimately be done to achieve goals or outcomes, Garf was created.

Although it is still in its early stages, I wanted to share it here for feedback from HN to help improve it. Thank you for your time and consideration!
You have to go through 8 years of court sitting stress for those $3 million. From that perspective it is a sensible sum.

And the way I see it, somebody has to fight injustice. Otherwise laws are meaningless. This guy did it, and that is his reward. We all benefit.

I would like to see you take on a lawsuit against a multi billion dollar corporation. Do you think it would be a piece of cake?
Gotta do something in your old age. Better than crossword puzzles, I'll bet.
If you are under the impression that CSV’s-and-friends are “less complex” because they’re text, I would like to assure you that any “simplicity” in the existing text formats is a heinous lie, and the complexity gets pushed into the code of the consuming layer.

I use parquet for small stuff now, because it’s standardised and so much nicer and more reliable to use. It’s faster. It ships a schema. There’s actual data type support. There’s even partitioning support if you need it. It’s quite literally better in every useful way.

Long winded way of saying: the complexity has always been there. CSV’s act as if it’s not there, parquet acknowledges it and gives you the tools to deal with it.
oh, so those things are what people call "opinions", which they are completely allowed to have, just as you have yours. They aren't oppressing you, they don't expose you to penalties, you can't get thrown in jail.
Interesting summary and rebuttal. Appreciate you taking the time to watch the video I linked.

>>He claims they have reasoning capabilities.

I think here you touch on the crux of LLM conversation. In my limited experience with GPT, it does appear to have some basic reasoning ability, but that could be that it's really good at regurgitating its trained dataset and it just appears that it's reasoning. I think over time we'll be able to sort this question out.
You can do this with sound if you clap twice and make a spectrogram.
It’s a cult of personality created by 10+ years of fawning press coverage.
>I'm sure there's a combination of words out there that would let someone generate child porn.

I hate to break it to you but as long as a piece of art is produced without sexual exploitation of children, even if it depicts children in sexual circumstances, it is a legal expression of the first amendment (in the US). Think of "loli" hentai, the myriad erotica stories featuring young children, even books you probably read as an adolescent depicting kids your age in sexual situations. A computer-generated pornographic lifelike image of a nude 13 yr old is completely legal so long as it doesn't depict a real 13 yr old.

The question is whether it is possible to do that, and if any pornographic images of children generated by these machines are not in some way eroticizing images of children in the (adobe) photo stock, thereby exploiting them. Either way, the cat's out of the bag now, as soon as the originals are lost and people are just using copies of copies, it will be impossible to track and therefore there would be no legal avenue to stop the proliferation of this type of pornography. It may even become difficult or impossible to differentiate between real child porn and computer generated child porn, and that would make it difficult to prosecute those who produce child pornography unless some new, very specific laws are passed in the US which avoid violating the first amendment.
I use and Advantage but have not tried the 360.

How do you find it?

Have you used the older models to give a comparison?
I agree, the real world difference is negligible.
Eight things to know about large language models [pdf]
Canadian statistics professor games Tim Hortons contest for 80-98% win rates
I agree with your reply. As long as the amount of stored carbon by the forest increases, it is a valid form of carbon sequestration, and, IMHO, the most beautiful.

Regarding other methods, people should Google for: norway carbon sequestration. Note: The volumes are very limited -- not enough to burn coal as your primary energy source, then capture all the CO2 and pump it underground.

To be clear, I am not shilling for non-forest/peat based carbon sequestration. To me, it is mostly a green washing game by big oil, gas, and utility firms to delay action and avoid responsibility.
Easier to shift the blame for producing 10% of the world's emissions with 0.3% of the world's population that way.

Plus doing anything else might see Australia benefiting from their natural resources. Last time a government tried that, the CIA and Britain delivered a new one.
Windows 7 included an "XP Mode" virtual machine which could run 16 bit applications.
Oh god it's too good. IDK if 1860s British culture war sucks harder than 2020s culture war or what.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_One_Christian_Ministries
If something is not OK, can there not be a penalty for it which is also not OK?
Side effect.

From the shooter’s perspective it would be much easier to cause mass casualties with everyone standing up instead of hugging the contours of the ground. Zero warning is the goal.
>Just because stimulants _can_ get you high and be addictive doesn't mean they will when taken appropriately.

I'm definitely calling out inappropriate usage, so I don't disagree.

>Plus both cause slight dry mouth, appetite suppression that I have to forcibly eat through, and insomnia if I take them too late in the day. Not to mention the fundamental hassle of taking pills every day within narrow bands of time, something I regularly procrastinate and/or forget.

Yeah the side-effects are not great. Throw in teeth-grinding, compulsive behaviors, irritability, aggressiveness, etc.

>If I had no ambitions or responsibilities, I would be more than happy to throw my medicine away and sit around on my computer all day every day. Unfortunately, I do have ambitions and responsibilities and medication helps mitigate my crippling, career-threatening inability to get things done. So I'll take that tradeoff.

I'm happy to hear about your self control. I wish I were effective as a person naturally, I'm sure you can relate. Unfortunately they don't work for me as well as they once did.
It's potentially related to the outage at Virgin Media (AS5089) in the United Kingdom, see https://twitter.com/CloudflareRadar/status/16430702601305047....

I'm guessing a lot of sites that had name-servers hosted in AS5089 might also have gone down too.

But as of 30 minutes ago, apparently it's back online.
I vary between one to many. Sometimes it's beneficial to have an entire workflow up across 2 or 3 screens.
You didn't even read anything about the case!
A large format (A1 or A0) roll plotter, pencils, compass, protractor and set squares.

Obviously highly dependant on what you do. After being heavily screen only for most of my professional life, having the ability to print off a table sized drawing of an engineering diagram, review it, mark it up, and work with others in that process is really nice. It’s definitely more efficient in pure IO terms to work solely in the digital realm, but the forced interaction barriers help provide a little more room for rough thought before returning there for fine tuning.
Who cares about Grep when you can quite literally execute SQL across one/many files that might even be remote.
We have just performed basic delay performance comparison with MPLS, SR-MPLS, and SRv6 in a small network case study with Cisco Modeling Lab (CML) and the initial results are very promising. SRv6 has about 48% improvement over original MPLS and 10% improvement over SR-MPLS. This delay improvement mainly due to the lack of LDP in Segment Routing approach. Perhaps later we can check other performance metrics as well and without LDP the node processing overheads will also be much better as well compared to the original MPLS. Scaling to the size of the global internet should further increase the improvement margins even more.
For the latter, the camera provides the Remote Viewfinder and MobileLink modes where it creates an unencrypted access point with wide-open access to its X server and any data which you would expect only to be available to your smartphone.

They believe in "security through not fucking working the way it's supposed to". Seriously, no other technology I've ever used has been as prone to breaking between uses and straight-up refusing to work when it was fine yesterday.
although I tend to agree with this concept applied to food and diet, I must state that I find it weird to refer to our ancestors for insightful wisdom when by nearly every record-able metric things have gotten steadily better in nearly every way.
We've been through this before. The empirical evidence is not mixed: there is weak evidence that it is effective at securing compliance in the short term, and strong evidence that it leads to bad long term outcomes. The high-performing Asian families you alluded to in the last thread about this issue are some of the least likely in America to physically abuse their kids. That's because hitting kids is, among other things, stupid.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34471156
I literally can’t believe this comment actually got upvotes; at least this restores some sliver of faith in humanity for me..
That screen size is probably like a football field to the vim/emacs types though.

I do webdev in Vim. It is nice to have the browser on one side and the editor on the other. With a pretty standard 1080p 24" monitor, that is just barely doable with a comfy font size. My coworkers often write very longgg lines of code :/
Show HN: Otterkit.Numerics, WIP IEEE-754 Decimal Math Library for C#
> the point of human evolution

there is no purpose behind human evolution, or any natural evolutionary process. There are selection pressures, and there are outcomes.

Superimposed on top of that are purposes that we define for ourselves, collectively and individually. Kennedy may have said "We choose to go to the moon", but we are also free to choose not to.
I got one of these recently, it's great. If you don't have too many peripherals you can achieve the same thing with a USB-C hub, but the TB ones obviously have the bandwidth you need for multiple monitors etc.
OpenAI has temporarily stopped selling the Plus plan
So you’re an asshole if you think critically and notice obvious patterns? At Stanford in the mid-90s it was quite apparent to anyone with a head not buried in the sand, that certain groups of minorities performed at drastically lower levels than their peers. Any rational observer who was aware that the school preferred to admit applicants with brown skin, and then detected the obvious pattern of low performance in those groups, was not necessarily an asshole for noticing that. Christ, this observation was not even lost on those members of that group in fact.

Observing reality is never wrong.
It’s a fair point - health care isn’t the only thing holding us in bondage. I’d note that I think humans will still work, but it’ll be more directed towards causes (we see this emerging as a generational demand now that work be meaningful) that talk to the human. I think, and now we are really ranging afield, that we already see as society’s move to post scarcity reproduction rates drop materially and some of these issues around “where to live” become less crushing. Additionally, as the need to be proximate to a human hamster wheel containment facility (office) we can utilize the broader infrastructure for our bag of mostly carbon water home and garden.

I think the issue will be less about whether it’s possible or whether we won’t get what we want, but more about breaking down norms and inertia and biases and mental constraints and the need for accountants to keep us in hamster wheels for their moral view of the world.
I have several 60% ANSI HHKB layout[0] boards that I'm fond of, which similarly lack dedicated arrows. They feel more natural to me than typical QWERTY boards, both in arrows being a layer (which reduces hand movement) and in Backspace being one row lower where it's a lot easier to reach.

[0]: https://hhkb.io/layout/
Here in DC we have a "Papers We Love" meetup. There's some very dedicated core organizers who end up doing the lions share of the presenting, and while I am absolutely here for anyone to show up & talk about yet-more ML, the challenge has been thrown to open up & talk about other things, from someone so motivated.

I want to sign up to present some cool papers, to talk about more general computing topics. This is a fun read, & I really appreciate having a great papers i/we love post like this. I'm still trying to find my way to being useful for this community I love, and this is a good solid example.

> First off, I love the vision of gg. It promises a vision of the “best of both worlds” for local and cloud computing: You get the low latency and full control of keeping source control and data files locally, and running a local editor, filesystem, terminal, and such, combined with the full compute power of the cloud so that your builds or test runs are lightning fast, and don’t destroy your battery or make your fans sound like a jet aircraft.

It also touches on some really interesting mixed CI/CD things I've heard out of Facebook/Meta, where code is semi-ambiently slurped up to the mothership & ci/cd just runs, without anyone necessarily asking for it or making commits. I keep wanting to hear more, to know more details, and I'm not sure how "real" my understanding is. But I love the concept at least. And wish I could at least cite where the idea was introduced to me.
I never said people with ADHD shouldn't receive treatment; I said there are far too many people who don't have ADHD popping amphetamines to get an edge in work or academia, and I'm glad to see they're finally being cut off from their dealers. For some reason, HNers really hate being told that not everyone taking these drugs 100% has ADHD and 100% needs them. Scott Aaronson's post on this (which was discussed here) is illustrative: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/28/adderall-risks-much-mo...

> I didn’t realize how much of a psychiatrist’s time was spent gatekeeping Adderall.
Believe Your Assignment Is AI-Immune? Let's Put It to the Test
The suit is regarding discrimination that occurred in 2015-2016; the VP was saying that they had improved since then rather than that they had improved for 5 years to get to that point.
Protected classes exist. Libel and slander laws exist. Hate crime law exist. In every single one of those, someone is being "mean" to the other party.

Many of those laws are written in blood, since being "mean" to someone based on traits they're born with and suffering no consequences leads to people being even more "mean".
I think Garmin's days are numbered in this area. You can buy a small prepaid mobile phone as a backup and leave it off, it won't weigh much and be far cheaper.

I am going to guess One New Zealand won't allow prepaid mobile phones to use the service initially other than 111 emergency calls.
Coupling power for everything inductively seems like a reasonable approach.

I'd like to visit Japan and take a ride on that train.

I've been a fan of maglev trains since I saw future shown to me by the NOVA in 1983[1]

[1] https://archive.org/details/TrackingtheSupertrains
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There are also significant disadvantages to text formats, most obviously in the area of compatibility. They’re easy enough that people have a dreadful habit of ignoring specs (if they even exist) and introducing incompatibilities, which are not uncommonly even security vulnerabilities (e.g. HTTP request smuggling).

CSV is a very good demonstration of these problems.

Binary formats tend to be quite a bit more robust, with a much higher average quality of implementation, because they’re harder to work with.
I have a Stream Deck XL connected to the TS3, seems to work fine (although I'm using BetterTouchTool to power it rather than the default software)
It seems like I'm the only person in the office or at home who uses a touch screen on my laptop. I like it, but there are some issues with software that gets too clever with UI widgets, rendering them unusable without a mouse. Routine things like web surfing are great, coding is almost impossible with a touch screen. So I wish I could say that it works better than it really does. And touch screen support for Linux distro's has been hit-or-miss so far.
I'm guessing it's a TB3 dock? TB4 docks usually work with USB as well.
Frankly, you cannot see past the tip of your nose. Don't comment on how the law is applied.

If nobody sued against discrimination, then discrimination laws would be useless. So fighting discrimination is a public good that we all benefit from. Fighting a lawsuit is hard, especially doing it for almost a whole decade, and against a multi billion dollar corporation.

Should the guy get $10,000 for it? He's not getting paid $3 million, because somebody shouted a slur at him once.
Democracy is mob rule. Direct democracy. The fear of "too much democracy" is only a fear for people who are afraid that others might not want the same things they do. One person, one vote is mob rule. What that requires is a well informed, well educated population. Instead we have an ignorant, uninformed population that leaves all of the important decisions to a hand full of representatives that tend to run things the way their wealthy donors want.
It's blackjack where judge is the dealer.
No argument here! Great points.
- Sit with a white wall right behind you. Clean, fresh, quality paint, like Dulux really seems different for some reason. Put the desk in the open facing out. No blurry backgrounds, green screen, bad background edges. While everyone's modifying you're just appearing clear and less reasons to be choppy.

- Three 2K screens - 23 to 25" (2560x1440). 3 of these have more usable pixels than a 4K. I have used 3 monitors so long that breaking work into screen 1/2/3 becomes a quick and helpful thing. I don't always use the third but have told people if I'm having a 3 monitor day, to keep on sliding by.

- MIC: I am heard better by sounding the clearest. I recently bought the best wired mic headset I could find. Steelseries Tusq for $50. Voice quality has been through the roof and close to the best, to the point that almost every call someone is asking me what I'm using. Won't cancel noise, but good otherwise.

- SOUND DAC: Soundblaster G3 - Makes good sound even better. Optionally adds the ability to output to both headphones and speakers. Handier than I thought it would be. Also allows cleaning up your voice with a pre-set and outputting it through a "Creative Microphone". Works great. I had my eyes on a nicer one but don't see myself getting rid of this.

- WEBCAM: Logitech Brio 4K - Clearest low maintenance 4k image wins. Lots of other options emerging, but this one whether I'm sitting in the dark, monitor bias lights or have my overhead light on adjusts quickly enough. I like that it has it's own onboard electronics to do image smoothing or it's other features so zoom doesn't clog.. It's mic isn't bad as well in a pinch.

- AC Infinity Cabinet Fans - Quiet fans placed underneath any Apple or other laptops that are unable to manage their thermal selves. One is up at an angle and draws air away, and the other blows across. I like it enough that I would cut a hole out in my desk with the fans inserted and let the air blow down. Can be dremeled and put into ikea lapdesk laptop holders. Especially helpful for i9 laptops. Quiet.

- Heated desk mat. Use on floor as well if the floor is cold, or get a dedicated one for that.

Edit: added a few more.
A number intended to be punitive, yes.

What is your framework for believing that number to be ridiculous? Do you know how such numbers are decided?