skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As several have mentioned this is a common symptom with ADHD, what no one has mentioned is it is also a common symptom from various types of heavy metal poisoning.

While I am not a doctor or a psychiatrist, you may want to speak with one to get an idea of various things you might do to help yourself.

I can tell you from experience, structuring your life is important when you drift. That means enforcing strong boundaries; creating a routine which you do not deviate from, and following a process methodically, and other things like meditating and visualizations can help. A lot of developing habits is simply to set a process and not give yourself the choice to deviate. After you've developed them (several months later) you can choose when you have the choice; i.e. there are conditions where you can reasonably give yourself a choice.

Its very hard to get properly tested for heavy metal poisoning because they can really only test for acute poisoning. Chronic poisoning commonly goes undiagnosed because the heavy metals get bound into your cells and out of your blood so quickly. Literally, to test for heavy metals the doctor needs to cause acute poisoning by using a chelator. As far as I'm aware that is still the case.

Common avenues for heavy metals are lead paint, arsenic in contaminated water, and mercury from silver dental amalgams (50% by weight; it leaches from acidic foods).

If you've had any of the following symptoms, its more likely this is poisoning than anything else.

Mercury:
Tremors, Emotional changes (such as mood swings, irritability, nervousness, excessive shyness); Insomnia; Neuromuscular changes (such as weakness, muscle atrophy, twitching); Headaches; Disturbances in sensations; Changes in nerve responses; and/or Poor performance on tests of mental function; Brain fog; Skin rashes and dermatitis; .

Lead:
stomach cramps, constipation, muscle/joint pain, trouble sleeping, fatigue, irritability, and loss of sex drive

Arsenic:
Has quite a lot see below.
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/arsenic
What I have heard and seems was considered "common knowledge" about a year ago was that the founder embezzled the money. His VCs considered suing, but decided it was just too messy. I'm not joking, something about some seriously extravagant vacations and a house renovation all paid right out of the company's bank account.
Hey man, we all do this, it's normal. I don't know what to say to improve so much but definitely don't fret.

Maybe try to think a bit bigger picture, and as some authors like to do: just grind.

I've read that some authors force themselves to sit down and write x-page in the morning and that's that.

You know the Beatles used to clock into the studio every day like factory workers - making the best albums of all time was mostly not impulsive, it was 'work'.
Money upfront and a small salary in the form of electricity bills.
I find it curious to be called a naysayer when I look at a chatbot and I see a chatbot. People are implying grand things are behind this breakthrough in Natural Language Processing. I'm waiting to see something of significance emerge. Up til now it has been merely blog fodder and empty news media hype...
One other huge disadvantage of L3. As driver physically drive less and less while models learn, their skills will wither and when the car gives up control it will be to out of practice drivers.
That's how I played Horizon Zero Dawn. I am playing Botw at the moment but it lacks that Alttp or Oot or Link's awakening spark. I guess the zelda novelty wore off along the years because I can see how BOTW has better mechanics than Horizon (but I prefer Horizon settings much more).
Once again, what specifically do you think is wrong with the study? If it's so easy to poke holes in it then do it instead of calling it 'perpetual motion' without even quoting any of it.
How to evaluate a game for your startup?
Yes, cheap devices are real problem. China has strict rules for transporting batteries that are actually enforced.
These models can run FP16, with LLM quantization going down to Int8 and beyond.
Pretty different use though, and these are more complex having NC electronics and a rechargeable battery for wireless use.
Removing higher grade metals from a car chassis using a hydraulic claw [video]
There is that charming eighties movie 'slow clap' that builds to a crescendo of appreciation and/or support.
Notice how the argument breaks down.

It is the case that the open source model has made Linux difficult to compete with (though that is in significant ways the result of commercial development; still, those corporate contributors were coerced into open source development by Linux's success, and would have done things differently in a VxWorks alternate history).

But that same open source model produced Fetchmail. Most startups could produce something comparable to Fetchmail, even if forced to use 1999 tools. The open source model didn't turn Fetchmail into an insurmountably dominant tool in its space; Fetchmail had fallen into irrelevance even before Google Mail made all of these kinds of tools irrelevant.
I used to be like that, but am now more of a finisher. It's habit you have learn and then consistently practice. It includes learning to be done vs perfect ("perfect is the enemy of good"). Sometimes perfect is important to finishing, sometimes not. It's also important to know when to let things go. Sometimes a project's time has passed. To get started with the practice, start with a small thing you've started, take the mindset "I'm going to practice finishing", and then finish it. The first few times will be hard, but you'll get better every time you go all the way through to finish.
Yeah the fallacy is that most open source comes from independent programmers

What has undoubtedly happened since Raymond’s time is that Intel, Google, etc became the biggest Linux contributors

Mozilla has been almost entirely funded by search revenue for decades

Big pieces of open source like the JVM and MySQL seem to require corporate stewards, for better or worse

Microsoft did a 180 on open source, to some acclaim, which I’m still skeptical of

So the framing is it a bit wrong now, and modern writing probably needs new terms to make these distinctions clear

There is independent open source but it seems clear that most open source is funded by commercial entities
They can’t hire enough drivers, probably since the starting wage is near-poverty level for this metro.
or change their name to be on brand and disassociate from their unremarkable upbringing?
I’d believe half of all traffic to non-video hosts, however. We provide a lot of free content and it’s staggering how many bad robots there are - not actual malice, just what you’d expect from lousy programmers who don’t get the bill. Things like the same IP / User-Agent downloading the same file thousands of times just in case it changed in the last 5 seconds or crawling millions of permutations of search parameters rather than using the site maps. Many week that’s half of the total traffic, many tens of terabytes of HTML & JSON.
Are processors themselves typically sensitive to storage temperature? I know motherboards are (lol, ask me how 0...):, but given the operating conditions, I'm struggling to see how anything other than corrosion or +/-100c would damage a stored processor.
> what's interesting isn't true ("Linus's law" being perhaps the most notorious example)

> Even the high-level organizing notion of "cathedrals" and "bazaars", which should have been a lay-up, hasn't really proven out.

you and i live oceans apart. a year of working around NixOS and especially linux on mobile phones has me working in very bazaar-like systems — where every component is swappable/composable — and seeing/using Linus’ law daily — in that people from out of the blue will patch things i’d been unable to figure out and when i hit edge cases that look familiar enough in any software i install i will debug it & send fixes upstream.

i’m well aware the above is niche. on the other hand i’m fairly confident that niche would be inaccessible to most of us who are otherwise participating in it were it not leveraging these two concepts.
Looks like some type of PCPaint clone.
It’s interesting that English only became the primary global language after British empire had already collapsed…

Also the British subjugation native populations and forcing to speak English doesn’t really explain its prominence outside of a some areas like Indian and parts of Africa.
I'm surprised that after all of these years commercial airliners don't have jettison tubes/boxes/compartments ...

A one-way, pressure (and possibly mechanical) airlock (or sphincter ?) that you can force a small item out of. This feature would have been useful even prior to mobile phones and batteries. It is my understanding that jet liners dump fuel anytime it is expedient to[1] so this is hardly the worst outcome in terms of pollution and has, essentially, zero cost over a body of water.

Related:

I am unsure whether a jet liner can descend to a breathable altitude (say, 10000 feet) and feed "fresh", or ambient, air into the plane. That seems like a nice redundancy to have and I wonder how realistic it would be to implement ...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_dumping
It depends on the topic. Math notation is a 2D horrible domain specific mess, and it's much faster to draw it in 2D than forcing it into a 1D symbol chain. (Bonus point for Greek letters or $\weird$ symbols.)
Obligatory XKCD https://xkcd.com/651/
Url changed from http://www.pgc.com/pgc/home-stuff/papers-full/computing-w-tg..., which no longer works.
Or perhaps they aren't, who knows. Regardless, is this a hypothesis that leads to anything useful?
You just invented https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrus_Airframe_Parachute_Syst...
even though i don't know how that would work on a commercial sized plane.
Is there a political party that the Chinese government considered less hostile than the other?
That's exactly what the next generation of 'accelerators' will be like.

Whether it will be co-located with a GPU for consumer hardware remains to be seen.

The thing to determine is how essential running LLMs locally is for consumers.

BigTech is pushing hard to make their clouds the only place to run LLMs unfortunately, so unless there is a killer app that is just better locally (like games were for GPUs), this might not change.
I have this hi fi hat on it so I can use it as a synth or effects pedal.
I have an extremely simple programming question that I always ask in interviews. It’s FizzBuzz-like in terms of complexity: write a function that manipulates numbers to achieve a certain result.

ChatGPT fails it, as does Bard.
except OP and everyone else that didn’t get an ADHD diagnosis right

Paradoxical standard
> industry often standardizes on inferior things with better marketing.

It standardizes to what’s cheaper on their eyes, sometimes in a very short-sided way, but also companies that work for profit never know if a project will still be running in the next quarter, right? It makes me think that open source and for profit companies should have very different considerations when it comes to choosing frameworks or technologies for their solutions. I should probably gather more info on that and expand it into a blog article.
>Does it matter what is the origin of that opinion? As long as it is a good insight into the situation and accurately reflects the state of affairs, it shouldn’t matter, right?

It does matter a great deal whether a particular opinion is held by someone with the power to act on it or by someone who can only try to influence those who can act on it.
https://github.com/topcat001/tmux/tree/sixel

This is a more promising and updated sixel branch of tmux, which is slowly getting updates propagated to mainline.
“You’re so close”-type replies are easily the most annoying kinds of comments on message boards. Can you just say what you actually mean so people can refute it directly?
Ah, I assumed that it was specialized because it's called "kudzu bug" in the article. Still, the same logic applies: the species encountered a new habitat where its particular niche was probably not filled, enabling explosive growth.
The book discusses the two sources of randomness early on: unknown information and true randomness. It even identifies Democritus and Epicurus as the philosophers who first identified these sources of randomness.
I'm accountable or 'own' my designs end to end. which means I want and need to help the people or experts who should know their job (who sometimes give BS)

Yes I write highlevel risks about the information I'm given could be wrong (to cover my backside) but you have to be thorough. Its makes you a better technical person or a better engineer. where by you dissect and rebuild information given to check it's right and to spot inconsistanses.

It's like solving a puzzle, but like a good puzzle it can be sometimes tedious, slow and time consuming. but when you find issues that could cost hundreds of thousands of pounds/ dollars through mistakes it really makes up for it.
Does it matter?

Sounds like you’re having fun.

If you enjoy that process then relax.
We do. As a vulnerability researcher, my take on "Linus's law" (which, like "Gell-mann Amnesia" isn't the product of the famous person it's named for) --- "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" --- is that has been effectively refuted by the recurrent discovery of grave vulnerabilities that have hidden in plain sight, sometimes for over a decade, and with the success of commercial vulnerability research work in eradicating those vulnerabilities.
The last few times I've flown, I've noticed that with the other 'emergency' gear that the crew has stowed away in one of the overhead bins, they now have a fireproof bag in there too. So it's not quite at every seat, but they do seem to carry some on board.

That does very little for situations where checked-in baggage has a lithium ion battery that ignites. They tell you to remove things like laptops and portable batteries from your checked in luggage, but I haven't heard disposable vapes mentioned, and those very often have lithium ion batteries too.
> To its credit, the owner of the DSP, Battle-Tested Strategies (BTS), voluntarily recognized the union and signed the collective bargaining agreement almost immediately.

> The problem? Amazon did not.

The headline is misleading and doesn't make it clear the workers don't directly work for Amazon. They work for Battle-Tested Strategies
FWIW compiling the LLVM ir is a common approach, and LLVM has builders that don't require serialization
why should it? it makes no sense to me; you can do anything

It just might be that you don't go all the way, because you think a 80% sufficient result is enough for you
Have clearer goals

It sounds to me like you have a lack of consequences

I cant focus until I have external pressure to make more money, for example. So I go rent in more expensive trendier neighborhoods for the pressure.
Great article.

Discussed 6 months ago, 150 points:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33298158
Right, that's what is in the article, but just naming a random arbitrary use doesn't make any sense.
Any links to direct discussion of this (or sources)? All I can find is indirect evidence that they burned through vc money too fast
There really need to be rules in place to prevent these ticking time bombs that are cheap devices with 0 safety considerations or QA from being brought onto planes.
Instructing finetuning or RLHF. Both instances are "just" next-word predictors. Instruction tuning just changes the goals of the predictions. Doesn't necessarily make a model "smarter"(didn't for GPT-4) but it does make it for accessible.
While they’re not under every seat, battery fire containment bags are already included in airlines’ onboard emergency equipment, for flight attendants to use when needed.

https://avsax.com/news/what-to-do-if-a-lithium-battery-catch...
> Do you maintain a freely-available repository of all of your knowledge and experience, in case someone else wants to consult it one day?

No, but I try to maintain some of it, and I see the value in maintaining as much of it as possible.
For the tasks I need it the efficiency is similar to the online model. Only slower. I don't care for conversational functionality.
If you just want a super simple tiling WM for demos and such, ratpoison is as minimal as it gets.

StumpWM similar concept but more powerful.
Nobody is penalized anywhere - it caps how much greed can net you

It means that if you're in the business of strawberries then your overall value is tied to the relative increase in value of a new strawberry producer. and the accompanying competitive labor rate. There's likely an equilibrium between relative wages across an industry given this constraint.

Aka if you want to start a strawberry farm you're never going to be a billionaire. If you're in manufacturing your overhead is higher, so wage inputs are higher, so you'll never be a billionaire but your employees will be better off than they were in a regime where you took the majority of the ownership.

But I'll let you define what would be a "fair" way for you

Limiting and checking power is the entire purpose behind democracy

We should do everything we can to eliminate the possibility of outsized ownership of any productive capacity. Diffuse power is the best kind.
I often think of it the other way round, ie Reddit is the usenet of its time.
The title is alluding to an old article called „The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences“ by physicist Eugene Wigner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness...
I think for me, when I was first learning software development 12 years ago, I had heard about Linux and open source, but I didn't really understand how it operated or organized itself. I had seen Wikipedia appear in the early 00s and understood that distributed groups could develop something better than centralized entities (such as Microsoft's Encarta or Britannica's encyclopedia), but the analogy of a centrally planned cathedral, carefully coordinated, vs the organized chaos of a bazaar, was useful for me in understanding why software development is quite unlike other engineering disciplines, especially once software was augmented with the ability to update itself over the internet.

You can build software like a traditional engineering project, with a chief architect and lead engineer drawing up plans along with a team of people that map out all the specs ahead of time. But the internet changed everything. It made distributed coordination possible, and long-running, complex open source projects that could outlive or outgrow their founding team, became achievable.
Turkish Electoral system requires at least a simple majority for the presidency stage (50% + 1 vote) and seems like none of the candidates will be able to reach it (assuming the trend stays the same). This will result with an unclear 2 weeks when the elections (only for the presidency part, not the parliment) will have to repeat between the two most voted candidates (Erdogan and his opponent).
During my physics undergraduate, it was for two primary reasons

1) Writing is more efficient when taking notes in real-time for maths notation

2) Better rentention of knowledge from the act of writing vs typing

Now as I teach, more students use tablets to take notes. But they're still writing, not typing
I made a free GUI app for this tool: https://sindresorhus.com/speediness
> SV caliber devs leaving US because they can find better paying roles internationally or not even looking due to fat severance/low pay in the bay.

Where are they going? Genuinely curious. Where outside of the US are SV caliber devs getting paid even more than they'd be getting paid here?
This pretty much sums up the situation in Italy also.
> The twitter of its time (minus Elon)!

No, but we had B1FF D00DZ1!!1
Mark Fisher went on to become one of the most significant voices on the Left in the UK before his suicide in 2017. His many online leavings are worth a significant investment of time.
It isn't a silver bullet. But it does have a lot of distinct advantages. I can come into any Elixir project and very easily write tests. I can't do this in Node.

This is a huge disadvantage, and extremely dangerous, and in my opinion should render the entire language useless as a backend language for any serious project.

Elixir may not be a silver bullet. But Node.js is definitely a vampire...that isn't on your side.
Same here, we decided to actively block Bing. It’s the most useless egress traffic we have to pay for. Go away Bing.
I've done the same thing with vanilla JS in a service worker. I did it with my HTMF library -- similar to HTMX -- but not production ready and based on forms rather than being able to put your attributes everywhere. I'll have to create a simple to do app with HTMX that shows this same functionality. The Rust one is cool as you can do it with 150kB library. But I can do the same thing with 10kB with just simple JS.
Yeah I never felt proprietary was the cathedral, more like GNU was the target there.
Physicists are very interested in capital T Truth. They work with explanations not just statistical priors.
Probably not.

You'd have to leave the flue open (there goes heating/cooling) and regularly pay to clean it to make sure nothing nested inside or it won't vent. They don't smother either, so airtight boxes are out too.

Focus on fire suppression/escape strategy. The one that burns your house down is going to be some freebie gadget someone else lost in your couch, that you didn't know about to account for.
I have the Jabra evolve2 85 and, while being ridiculously expensive, are the best I've used.

Even better for calls than the Sony's, for me anyway.

At this price point and quality though it's more about personal preference, choosing what's most important: comfort, voice call quality, music quality, etc
I disagree and am not sure what you mean by "efficient". I have never liked typing notes, be it in school or at work. Handwriting flows much better for me and I also find reading through notes, or just finding them, on paper easier.

I still usually show up at meetings with only a notebook and a pen... (added bonus: no-one asks me to connect to Teams/whatnot because they have a problem)
Further, the largest open source projects --- Linux included --- are increasingly gatekept, and have their own priesthoods. And that's arguably been for the good!
It’s a chandelier/candle holder or heating device, is it not?

I'd love to have a replica for that purpose, I wonder if someone makes them.

Edit: of course they do, one search away. A nice conversation starter :)
That's the point in question:

> The union’s next step is proving that wrong. Amazon, it says, is a joint employer of the drivers, and in full control of the conditions that caused them to organize—low pay, unsafe heat conditions, and extreme performance requirements—despite the fact that it places those responsibilities on the DSP.
I agree. But if we had a simple system people would be able to tell whether or not they get adequate value for their money. Obtuse and opaque are a defense against fair or just, take your pick.
> For example, there are many people on HN who absolutely cannot comprehend why people prefer single family housing, with a yard, and a car. So much so, that I've considered writing an article from my perspective, about why I prefer low-density housing.

Personally, I've never seen a lack of understanding for the desire of SFHs, but rather the factual realization that SFH housing is not an economically sustainable path for the majority of Americans and the world.
Do you have a ballpark of how large is the cut off intermediaries such as those you cited?

Asking as an Italian hoping to find a foreign fullremote employer.
Not a company, but as a product linux has eaten a lot of lunches that used to belong to companies working in person..
Do you have an example of a complex widget being implemented in a simpler way with better results? I see this sentiment often here, but most examples are toy examples or frivolous.