skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is almost no chance for spontaneous interactions with strangers."

My family lived in a suburb of an east coast US town. The "town" was about 30k residents in just under 5 square miles. It had a well-developed downtown, but driving was still the norm. In the five years I lived there, I ran into an acquaintance (neighbor, parents of our child's friends, etc) while "out and about" about 1-2 times.

When we moved to the city, running into someone we knew was a daily occurrence. Even after school was out for the summer, we went close to 40 consecutive days of running into a classmate. Most hilariously, I was on the subway with a coworker and explained out I ran into more people I knew in the city than in the suburbs. As we exited the subway, the father of my son's best friend rode past on a bicycle and stopped to chat for a bit.

While these weren't strangers, I felt more like I was part of a community in the city than everywhere else.
Neopuritan?
Do a bit of the groundwork first:
Build a landing page, attach free tier analytics to it and start sharing it as much as you can (especially with strangers who are your target market).

Reddit is actually a great source for this, just find a subreddit that relates to what you want to do and direct message people who are active on it. Reddit will block you if you send a ton of messages but 2-3/minute should be fine. If you get terrible feedback or if you hate reaching out to people then you know it isn't for you.

I have a one year gap in my Resume where I built and launched a few products, I just list it as 'Solo Developer' and link to the projects. They all failed haha. It is not as beneficial as a year at Google, but it also hasn't been a huge deal.
As a fashion magazine.
Unfortunately I don't think it fits any of the projects I work on (and I don't use VSCode to begin with, never had it installed, bit I do see an IntelliJ plugin as well).

I have one project that's a server application (https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen), but since it uses lots of custom stuff on top of the Spark micro-framework, your plugin would probably not work on it. I imagine it does expect projects to be structured idiomatically for the framework they use, at least to some degree. Spark also doesn't know anything about databases, so that is all custom as well. Oh and I also hacked it a bit with reflection to allow streaming responses.
The questions I ask on topics I am familiar with are usually very demanding. On these it is clear that there are limits to its comprehension and reasoning abilities, but nonetheless, I find it very impressive.

Questions I ask on topics I am not familiar with are much further from the limits of its knowledge. I find it to be an amazing tool for quickly getting a structured overview of a new subject, including pros and cons of different alternatives and risks I should be aware of.
How much of that is correlation vs causation?

I don't see anything in that article mentioning obvious causes for worse mental health:

- employment perspectives - even my generation that graduated right in the financial crisis knew we were in for rough, low-pay and crap job years, kids graduating these days have even worse perspectives

- the looming climate crisis - everyone paying attention in a school that teaches fact-based education knows humanity is in for a rough ride with climate change threatening to make wide swaths of the world basically unable to support human life during their expected life time

- politics actually regressing worldwide - with open marches of actual Nazis raising their arm to the well-known salute, dictators and authoritarians worldwide getting and staying in power, politicians hell-bent on erasing all social progress of the last decades, and no one doing anything about that, it paints a pretty depressing view.

The earlier kids get smartphones, the earlier they see that the promise of "work hard, have a good life", "everyone can start a dishwasher and die a millionaire" and "your future will be better than your parents'" is bullshit. Facts don't lie, facts are not political, and children and adolescents are not dumb. They know they are being lied to, and they see that lies have absolutely zero consequences.
Which is a worse outcome?

People with ADHD being denied medication to help something like extremely bad executive dysfunciton that drastically lowers quality of life.

People being able to take advantage of the system to get medication that shouldn't get it.

Do we really believe the second group is larger than the first?

I'd also like to point out that if he talked to the NHS counselor about his project before-hand, that makes it a big confounding factor in the negative diagnosis.

On a more personal level if you're interested in knowing if you have ADHD or not, anectdotally it seems quite effective to see what your reaction to adderall is. I wonder if there is some way to judge your likelihood of ADHD by reaction to medication?

For me personally it's "Now I can 'just do the dishes'" or other obligations without 1000s of other thoughts raining down on me that make doing the dishes seem pointless before addressing the 1000s of other thoughts.

However there are other days where taking medication feels like literally nothing happened and I have what feels like the same amount of challenges.
Do you really need to be part of “this space” to know that Microsoft has a 90% share in PCs and most of corporate America and even personal computers are running Windows?

Even the people who like tablets are still buying Surface laptops - running Windows.

They aren’t buying iPads and definitely not Android tablets.

Even a lot of iPad aficionados are moving back to Macs now that they have a lot of the advantages of iPads - slim, lightweight and ridiculously long battery life.
Saturn reclaims 'moon king' title from Jupiter with 62 newfound satellites
Any other examples? Law is a trillion dollar industry and the AI startup mentioned, Harvey is a backed by Open AI
The point is not to stop criticizing smartphones.

The point is to be direct with that criticism.

How else can we possibly change anything?
It's the original wiki, by Ward Cunningham. It has a lot of interesting discussions about software topics. I noticed the site was down because it has a page about the "Cobol Fallacy": that it is a misconception that software would be easier to create in natural language. I wanted to see how the (old) discussion on the topic compares with the present LLM mania/break-through.
Genshin Impact runs on the A9, I don't think there exist any more computationally demanding games on mobile.

What games are you referring to?
> Yes, but feeling hungry doesn't cause weight gain. Acting on it excessively does.

Tobacco doesn't cause lung cancer; smoking it does. Last century, we had to crack down on tobacco companies selling cigarettes as a healthy choice. It has become clear that artificial sweeteners do not live up to the medical claims that they have been sold under; they're possibly a major contributor to the obesity epidemic. Your "personal responsibility" schtick sounds great in a vacuum, but people are susceptible to marketing campaigns bombarding them with a counter-message: you don't need self control, just eat our magical non-fattening food!
So this article claims "so many ..." and cites 6 examples (I'm not counting Madonna). And maybe statistically they represent more, but I feel like this article is just someone looking to write something about nothing. I'm not on TikTok and Twitter much (just instagram), so it could be a trend and I'm just not seeing it.

Speaking of the Madonna example, I'm not sure it's fair to lump her into this because this article seems to be focusing on people who have never lived anywhere in the UK, they are just mimicking what they've heard on TV/Film. A lot of people made fun of Madonna when she started speaking with a British accent but she at least _lived_ there for a long time, and doing so can definitely affect your accent. I've known it to happen the other way around. I've had British friends who lived in the US tell me that their friends back home would make fun of them for their new Americanized accent.
> ICRs can include that you visited Wired.com but not that you read this individual article

So obviously it's just DNS records they look at, unless they look at other metadata? I know that DoH encrypts your DNS queries, but still leaks the site you're visiting via the TLS handshake.

There are further developments in this space which mitigate this weakspot, namely ECH[0] and Oblivious DoH[1]. Combine a VPN that you trust with these and you've essentially gone dark to this sort of surveillance apparatus.

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/encrypted-client-hello/

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/oblivious-dns/
Any chance you could share examples or describe how they are better? Does Vicuna drop into the "As an ai model, I can't..."
ECC encrypted text messages over a FM handheld UHF radio
My kids rock Punkt MP-02s. They pretty much just make calls and text (with t9!) but they can also be 4g hotspots if they need to connect a laptop. They still have access to social media and other garbage but it's not 24/7 and I do believe that makes a difference.
You can also lock guns away, and people find way past the locks. Someone forgets to lock them or someone actively breaks the lock.

Sure, smartphones aren't the problem _in themselves_. But blocking apps is also not the solution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy

And 24 million Taiwanese are far less likely to die due to US invasion of them.
The latter method isn’t necessarily wrong, however.

I have genuine low testosterone (using the current, quite broad, range). When I first tested I was at…352? And the low end of the range was 350. The doctor wouldn’t prescribe me anything but let me see an endocrinologist. That endocrinologist let me test again, and that time I came in close to 200.

I had actual symptoms that made me test in the first place and testosterone supplementation has greatly helped with that. The downsides aren’t great for most though. It’ll wreck your fertility and you very well may suppress you levels even further without supplementation for life.

All that said, we’re living in a time where we know levels are low for men - and they very well might be for women. Teens are having less sex than ever, many identify as asexual or trans, etc. Sperm counts have absolutely ranked.

A lot of that could very well have the same root cause and we need to figure it out. Testosterone supplementation is a cudgel but it’s basically all we’ve got right now.
Despite the wording of certain bills, mere possession of purely artificial media is generally not something the government has or can demonstrate a legitimate interest in controlling.
When working with default deny firewall rulesets, inbound port by PID is an essential rule mechanism.
Because the waiting time for an ADHD assessment on the NHS is currently >2 years, which is why he was talking to the director of services rather than an actual practitioner at an actual assessment, and there are therefore private entities providing the service the NHS should be providing. As far as I’m aware the NHS actually sends most of its patients to the three profiled to be assessed, so really I’m not sure what an “NHS assessment” actually is.
Saying that the government is spending too much money is such a triviality. The facts are that there is no serious appetite in U.S. politics today to reduce law enforcement budgets[0], and that reducing the budget of the U.S. Marshals would be unlikely to stop them from using these tools (which they see as a less expensive way to accomplish their objectives).

If you want to stop this kind of surveillance, your best bet is to advocate that it be illegal, with accountability. You can also advocate for a reduced budget, but it's not going to get you very far. If anything, it would tend to lead to more use of this kind of tool.

[0]- There are some agitators on the fringes of both parties for specific reductions to parts of law enforcement that those agitators have a problem with. Whether correct or not, the fact is that these are two disjoint proposals from elements that have no interest in compromising with each other. Neither proposal covers the U.S. Marshals, and neither is going to amount to anything at the federal level.
The government is already wasting half my paycheck, I'm not going to donate more money and hope its spent wisely.

The issue is an inability to budget. If we doubled tax revenue, we would double spending and increase the deficit further.
So if I work for Walmart and donate to planned parenthood does that mean that Walmart supports planned parenthood?

I don’t really understand the point you’re trying to make here? Is it that NPR is biased because it takes some marginal amount of governmental funding? Is it “state-sponsored media”? Or are you just arguing the numbers?
> For me - with this approach of small, frequent updates I've found that updating software becomes boring - which is a good thing.

That's all well and good until an update happens that changes workflow or changes the look/feel too much. Those sorts of changes cause disruption that I want to schedule. Or until an update is made that changes the software in a way that makes it actively worse for your use case. Those are the sorts of updates I want to avoid.

That's why I don't allow software to automatically update. Most of the time I won't notice the update, but when I do, it's a big deal that would have been better if I could have done it on a more convenient day.
Why? Probably for the same reason journalists love writing trend pieces about manufactured narratives, attention and clicks?
ADHD is over diagnosed. Your comment will hurt people.

Sincerely - ex medicated ‘adhd’ diagnosed.
> Do you ever configure ST?

Agreed, both editors require configs to turn this off. ST is updated so rarely at least it was less annoying.
I was very confused when I saw "gnod.com". I thought my favorite krautrock band was getting into the AI space.

edit: This seems to just be links to other search engines... is there any actual benefit to using this site rather than visiting the engines directly?
Luckily, there is no such thing as a fish.
AIM: AI Instant Messenger
AI wouldn't have antagonists with comparable capabilities? Why?

Also, no, individuals are not a problem. Not after Nazis, Red Khmer, and Russians.
Now I'm imagining an alternate history where the Indians were forced into Canada, and came back years later riding war hippos.
Why does it work this way with ADHD but doesn't work with obesity?! No one wants to prescribe Wegovy to me with BMI of 27, i'm almost ready to offer a bribe.
There's several dozen, recent, news stories that pop up on Google when searching 'AfD East Germany'. Such as:

https://unherd.com/thepost/afd-support-surges-in-east-german...
https://www.politico.eu/article/german-election-far-right-af...
https://www.dw.com/en/why-young-eastern-german-voters-suppor...

etc...

If your genuinely unaware of this phenomena, then I suggest to do some reading.
I understand you didn't use that repo but did you do something other than change the audio prompt ?
The currently proposed "Online Safety Bill" will potentially put significant limits or ban VPNs. I suspect (if it passes) it will be a case of VPNs that don't collect ICRs will be band, or at least prohibited from payment services, in the UK.

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/15101/
That sort of direction wouldn't be meaningful anyway, since money is fungible.
Ugh, my sister got convinced she has had ADHD her whole life (now 40) by one of these pop-up adderall shilling companies.

Now she has insomnia, but refuses to acknowledge that it could be her newfound "ADHD" is just a pill shill program and that adderall makes everyone perform better at their job.
Sounds like you know why you "failed", so you could easily adjust your responses to "pass" if you wished.
Maybe give GrapheneOS a shot then. In my experience, pretty much everything works out of the box.
> Also the amount of tweets that suddenly popped up on Twitter with the same template of "ChatGPT is finished! Now that Bard has launched here 10 tips on how to..". It was clearly a Google marketing push ( scummy as always, but Google have done way worse in the past ).

There's clearly a Big Tech turf war going on over AI. All sides are slinging poop/propaganda. I've seen more hysterical and uninteresting anti-Google FUD than ever on this here Orange Site over the YTD. Special mention of the "world is literally ending because Google requested .zip TLD from ICANN" or pre-IO anti-hype "Google CEO earns as much as other highly-paid CEOs".

Superfluous spam that I wish would be filtered, but often times it's produced specifically to get upvoted on HN, which is a dilemma for moderation.
What makes you think he displays a lot of ADHD symptoms?

I mean, he says "I can forget things, I fidget, I will on occasion zone out of long meetings" but that's true of every human being to some extent.
You want a dialogue tree IRL? That feels dystopian.
My rebuttal would be: it is not impossible to attribute causality, and THIS IS THE PROBLEM.

Right now, there are two identically possible situations (well, even more, but you get the jest):

A) smartphone -> depression

B) depression -> smartphone

But the author does not do a good job in explaining why he choose A instead of B, except "it feels logical to me".

It feels like a coin toss. (and sure, the author has some arguments, but they are arguably disputable, more than in other cases where the idea that there is causality ends up being adopted as a consensus)

It does not mean it is impossible to reasonably attribute causality. It just means that the author does a bad job at the "reasonably" part.
Maybe they would be an artist, like several people I know who did just that.
My understanding is that Stevia does not negatively impact glucose levels, unlike most/all other sugar substitutes. But the WHO seems to be lumping it together with other, very different sugar alternatives. Is there compelling evidence to think that Stevia has a negative impact on health or weight control?
True. The question is what sort of disruptions will emerge when the political class resides far away from economic power.

I am now in Italy. Rome is the capital, but the center of Italian economic activity is Milan. Northern Italian businesspeople and politicians hate or at least despise "thieving Rome" and there was/is a significant secessionist movement.

As of now, within the structures of the EU, an actual split of Italy is logistically impossible, but the country seems to owe some part of its dysfunctionality to the physical distance between seats of power and wealth.
The same can be said of any of their service offerings. You could build a business around something MS/Oracle/Google provides and they could one day decide to deprecate it.
US cities must beware the ‘donut effect’
Commute time isn't usually paid for.
What kind of deep learning startups survived or thrived? The underlying technology (of gpt et al) is racing towards being a commodity. There are very few "pure play" "AI" companies left from the deep learning wave, and what few there are pivoted to become SaaS with some ML features. Something similar will happen here. Companies that solve a business pain point, irrespective of whatever "AI" will get somewhere.
The criticism is that the claims of the patient are not adequately verified by the prescribing doctor. Some people have to undergo a lengthy doctor-administered screening process to receive an ADHD diagnosis. Others fill out a straightforward questionnaire. To use your example, you'd hope that a doctor would verify that a patient actually had something wrong with them before, say, prescribing them something addictive like painkillers.
2023 is the year where I personally benefit from LLMs, and might spend money on them as casually as others spend on video streaming, but the pivotal moment could still be a year or few away.
I ordered the CM4 Lite uConsole kit almost immediately after opening that first link.

That's a great price for a 4GB RAM CM4 given what they currently sell for on Amazon/eBay.

I currently own an A06 DevTerm but have been unsatisfied with it. Clockwork OS feels lacking, I wish there was a stand for it, and the keyboard isn't great. The uConsole CM4 can theoretically run Raspbian, has a built-in stand, and features a more compact keyboard. Better overall IMO.

If I end up liking it then I will go for the RISC-V option. Of the available RISC-V options I know of, it appears to be one of the best.
My logic is that those clinics shouldn't be able to remain in business if the NHS did its job and was fit for purpose. Nobody pays £500+ if they have an equivalent, free alternative.

The reason he was able to get a diagnosis from the NHS is because he is a BBC journalist, and is able to navigate any bureaucracy as part of his work day and get paid for it, and ultimately does not suffer from the disorder and thus doesn't really care how long it takes for him to get seen by the doctor.

The average person would be stuck in a kafkaesque maze of bureaucracy and months-long waiting lists before they get anywhere close to a diagnosis (which is even worse if you actually do have a disorder and is impeding your day-to-day life and/or work) - that's why these private clinics have business.
Are you sure it's a new replacement monitor? Every warranty product I received was always a refurbished one, even if the product broke in less than a month (confirmed by support as well).

I also will never buy dell in my lifetime, and have encouraged all family/friends not to as well.
Talking to babies may help shape brain structure, research finds
Gmail allows you to mark an email as read.
I think humans can do fine on carbs, but I think you’d need to provide a citation stating our expected requirements are “vastly overestimated”. Furthermore, we do all kinds of problematic things to our grains in America.
The No-ADHD diagnosis was done by a professional whos pay depends on dispensing a No-ADHD diagnosis, while the 3 professionals offering a Yes-ADHD diagnosis depend on positive diagnosis of things to get paid.
Love the idea! Gotta try it, to give my poor Emacs pinky a rest.

I also like the audacious stealing of a common key like COMMA.
My old least-favorite-trope isn't on here, maybe writers have finally stopped writing it.

> (Somehow, a man and a women end up alone on a planet. This is the last dialog.)

> Man: I never caught your name.

> Women: I'm Eve.

> Man: Hi Eve, I'm Adam.
Oh yes, it's totally the protests and a few broken store windows that ruined this town. Not the fact that 5 people are moving in for every 3 people-units of living space that get built.

/S obviously.
> As for "a British accent". Would an American say there's "an American accent"?

Of course, just the same as British. "American accent" for foreigners usually means "Southern Foghorn Leghorn" e.g. Daniel Craig in Knives Out, but can also mean New York, Boston, Chicago, Dakota (aka Fargo) or some other variation. To Americans it really means "unaccented" Midwestern English, aka broadcast (radio or TV) voice.

Americans know "American accent" from "British accent" by the same standard, the British "unaccented" voice is called RP and sounds posh or overly fancy to most Brits, but Americans don't distinguish RP from Cockney, Yorkie, Jordie or any of the other variants. RP is the broadcast voice.

To be clear: I used to be the same. "British" was one accent that Michael Caine, the Queen and Chris Ramsay all spoke. (For Americans: "Robert DeNiro, Harrison Ford and Dolly Parton have one accent" is equally wrong and hilarious.)
Requested access way before 100k and still haven't gotten in.
Wow this looks beyond epic. I've been looking for something like this.

Going to try to hack this into something my mom can use (who has trouble with confusion and memory). Could potentially be very great.

Thank you