skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Getting things done at the last minute all the time because of procrastination is a trap people who do not know how to manage their ADHD fall into

It is also a trap that smart people can fall into - say you have coasted through school, picking things up easily, slapping together the homework on the morning of in 15 minutes before you hand it in and achieved good grades. Why wouldnt you continue to do the thing that got you where you are now?
I don’t disagree with you. FSD isn’t yet what the name claims, though they’ve made shocking progress in just the last 3 months. If your experience with FSD was longer ago, know that it’s almost a completely different system. I have full confidence it will get there, and it isn’t going to take long from where it is today.

Also, the eye tracking update that was rolled out a few months ago is strict - you are either paying attention to the road and never looking at a phone, or FSD is going to shut itself off and suspend your use of it. It easily holds you to a higher standard than the average driver holds themself for being engaged with the road (which is a low bar.)
Because it’s the best of the cloud providers and spending 2 minutes to submit a doc update to help others is worth it to me?
(slight ot, sorry!) This brings back great memories of one of the best assignment from my college time: We had an "Agile web development" course (~2007) with a precursory Ruby 101 workshop as well as a pre-course assignment to "create a shell in Ruby". It was such a joy to hack on this and learn that way. It was clearly wayyy too vast of a task to ever _complete_ it, but I learned so much Ruby there and couldn't stop working on the project. Thanks Carsten Bormann for being a great teacher!

And thanks op for reminding me of this :)
This. Every CI platform under the sun has support for secrets and config that should never live in git. It's worth ensuring people know this, of course, but I'm not sure storing secrets in git is all that prevelant. Many platforms also have secrets scanning to ensure you don't accidentally do this too.
Funny ancedota, I use a chrome extension that adds chatgpt to all of stack overflow posts.

You get answers to unanswered posts with 0 replys that are useful that way

Stack Overflow is doomed
1-2% is really high from my perspective
MySQL has a weird feature, by default enabled in many clients, that the server can request a file from the client.

I have requested /etc/shadow, cracked the hash for root password, and ssh'd back into the botnet node that was bruteforcing passwords. I then shared the information with the webhoster where the botnet was running and a local infamous antivirus company (Avast before it was leaked that they are evil) and got a t-shirt.

https://www.abclinuxu.cz/blog/jenda/2019/2/exploiting-mysql-...
There’s eye tracking in the cabin now. It’s simply not possible to use it without supervising it.
No, it isn't.

The benefit that some code (maybe) provides is an asset. The code as such is strictly not.

Nobody would even look at your code if you don't compensate them with some benefits.

Exactly that's why nobody touches random "free code" even with a ten foot pole if there aren't very strong reasons to do so.

If you could have the benefits without the code any sane person would prefer that.

Code is just cost. You don't want code as such as already just owning it has steadily increasing costs. You just want the benefits out of it.

If there's a solutions to a problem where writing new code can be avoided this is almost in any case the cheapest and most preferable solution.

Only junior devs think code has value. But the truth is you get more value if you're senior skilled and smart enough to avoid wasting your time on writing (more) code.

Code is a means to an end, not a means in itself!

Given that, the best approximate measure of technical dept (and with it security issues, bugs, and in the end of the day cost) is: Lines of code!

https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/blog/2008/an-approximate-measu...

Now, a smart and really helpful AI for programmers would try very hard to achieve the stated goals but delete on it's way as much code as possible. Because that's the only way to lower cost in the long run and keep things maintainable.

Any AI that does the opposite, and just creates mostly completely mindless piles of more and more code, is like an oven heated by dollar bills…

I really don't get how something such obvious isn't seen by so many people. Especially people that have to handle all the pains created by more an more code on a daily basis.
Pretty good list! Sadly, knowing what to do and doing it are two different things, which is why there’s a market for self help books.
I thought it was from Brazil
Read the book, “Solving the Procrastination Puzzle”.

Procrastination is a psychological issue. You won’t solve it with a “To Do” list.

Highlights of the book that worked for me:

1. Forgive yourself for past procrastination

2. Goal setting and task breakdown - break larger tasks into smaller chunks

3. Identify the unpleasant feelings and thoughts associated with a task causing you to procrastinate

4. Realize you won’t feel more like doing it later (the procrastinator’s lie)

5. Just get started

#5 is the most powerful for me. We often have feelings that a task will be more difficult and more unpleasant than it really is. Just getting started corrects that.
Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres

We also have

Cría cuervos y te comerán los ojos

In case you want to warn of dangerous acquaintances

https://cvc.cervantes.es/lengua/refranero/ficha.aspx?Par=585....
or maybe they are under scrutiny to do their job properly after their 737-MAX crashes due to cutting corners
At least interns can do physical things in the real world, even if otherwise useless.

If a LLM can respond correctly to sudo make me a sandwich it’d be much more valuable.
Does this compete with Virtualbox, VMWare, etc?
The PineTime watch has this vibrate-on-the-hour feature:

https://www.pine64.org/pinetime/
My guess is you're trying to focus on more things you can handle at this time.
These are facts and not theory. Which of these statements do you think is untrue?
Once grandpa's vision, reaction time, etc. declines to the point he becomes unsafe he should be losing his license anyways. That's the law today, though it is not enforced as strictly as it should be. In my model grandpa maintains the ability to travel by using FSD and everyone is safer, in your model he loses his license and is stuck at home or more people die.
That’s noble, but open source doesn’t always deliver the same benefits of COTS products, such as stability and support. That trumps ideology for many people and businesses.
Having been the norm for decades in that research area doesn't make the term significantly less misleading for everyday usage, though, right?
can you use a macbook (m1 for example) without signing up to an apple account or logging in to one?
I lived with the founders of Soofa for a while. They have a great product. It’s a good looking bench with a solar power bank. You can plug in your phone while you relax, encouraging you to stay outside.

The city also benefits because they get some usage data, so they can estimate how much foot traffic there is, which helps with planning around city services, such as garbage collection.

https://www.bizjournals.com/bizwomen/news/profiles-strategie...
Psychopharmacology, Modafinil is a slow acting long lasting weak dopamine reuptake inhibitor, so it’s non addictive and you can try it and see how it affects you as a diagnostic and if it works you take it as a treatment. There are other meds like Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) which are also quite safe and can help a lot with dopamine dysregulation.

Another potential avenue is diet, quit all sugar including fruit. A small percentage of the population reacts particularly badly to non lactose sugars and you may be one of them.

I think a common cause of ADHD is undiagnosed hEDS, especially if you’re in tech. The usual tests for hEDS has a extremely high false negative rate so it’s way more prevalent than commonly believed, I think a mild form occurs at a rate of around 2% within European populations. As medical research has improved the accepted prevalence has gone from 1/50K to 1/15K to 1/500 and I think there is still an additional order of magnitude to go when able to test for the mild forms. These 2% are prone to dopamine dysregulation / burnout / ME/CFS and Long Covid. You don’t have to be particularly hypermobile to have hEDS, and in men especially the mild forms can be barely perceptible and symptoms usually show up in other ways.
There never was a 2.44MB disk. You're muddling up 1.44MB (which were really 1.4MB) and 2.88MB.
Recommendations missing from the article:

- Enable mandatory 2fa within your Github organization (if you don't use an organization, you probably should)

- Disable the ability to fork repos in your organization

- Configure and enable mandatory SAML authentication. In combination with mandatory 2fa, this makes phishing and even key leakage less likely (specific keys need to be double authorized for SAML, so that random private key you have on a random CI/CD platform from a few years ago can't access repos in SAML organizations even if it's leaked)

- Disable the ability to make repos public at the organization level

These are some quick setting changes that should address at least 3 of the 4 main issues in the article.

Additional suggestion:

Enable branch protection on master. Require at least 1 peer review to merge anything in it. Enforce branch restrictions to include repo admins so restrictions can't be bypassed. This should stop obvious mistakes like accidentally committing .git or random credentials.

Edit: if the author sees this, feel free to add these things to the article!
Are users migrating to Phind? ChatGPT was all over HN when it came out, but this comment is the first time I hear about Phind.
Robot takeover? Not quite. Here’s what AI doomsday would look like
Binary of sarin is latest they got? Doesnt sound very "new".
Youd have to experiment. I'd point out though that it isnt supposed to "work", so much as improve the quality of your failure.
In many near-urban areas, bikes bridge the gap between the home and public transit, not necessarily all the way to the office. Living 2 miles from a far-flung transit stop might mean 10 miles or more from an urban job, but the bus or train covers most of it.

Bikes are very important modes of transportation for recent immigrant communities. They’re not likely to be working downtown or in a big corporate campus anyway. Construction, food service, retail, building and grounds services are more spread out in near-urban or suburban areas.

Even a long bike ride could be way cheaper than a car and way faster than public transit, which often is built out like spokes from the urban hub. Traveling perpendicular to the spokes can be challenging.
Does Microsoft Have a Boeing 737 Max Style Crash Every Week?
Detroit's decline had as much to do with shitty product designs as with protectionism and unions. It wasn't union members who designed the Ford Pinto or Oldsmobile diesel engines.
ChatGPT Trading Algorithm Delivers 500% Returns in Stock Market
>What changed in the past decade, in my opinion, is this mercenary attitude toward technology. To me it seems that the industry seems to be dominated by those who care about making money at all costs, technological vision, passion, and ethics be damned. "Move fast and break things" has been abused; its original definition of encouraging agile development and taking risks has unfortunately been used by some to promote technological recklessness: applying technology without considering its consequences.

I am not seeing the change. Before 2012, there were plenty of businesses "moving fast and breaking things". See the superfund sites in and around Silicon Valley, many caused by the aforementioned businesses, or their suppliers.

The only thing that changed was a more scalable, higher profit margin, lower liability product showed up (software and always on mobile broadband internet), so hardware manufacturing moved elsewhere.

There was also probably some leeway in land prices due to lower population and lower speed of information resulting in more "slack" (lower prices and more arbitrage opportunity). Otherwise, there is no world where the highly desirable features of the California coast are not among the most expensive.
From my perspective, the upkeep of maintaining such versions is far from trivial. It involves dedicated resources ensuring the regularity and reliability of backups. Furthermore, it's rare to find organizations conducting comprehensive disaster recovery (DR) restorations of their self-hosted GitLab or GitHub instances. This is typically due to an inherent expectation that each upgrade will proceed without hitches and yield flawless operation.

Moreover, the process of securing approval for NAT inbound rules, particularly for integrations with services like Jira, Slack and so on, often turns into a labyrinthine ordeal. It usually involves navigating the differing viewpoints and interpretations across multiple departments, each with its own unique stance, which further exacerbates the complexity of the task.
I think SV's motto is now "Move fast and break people."
Yes, this type of criticism is baffling and, frankly, a bit morally outrageous.

ProPublica can't be expected to do all the work of uncovering all sides of the truth. They already do the hardest work: uncovering what the powerful would rather that we not know. They do enough; what are the rest of us doing?

I would agree that it's historically been uncommon for the media to give balanced perspective on civilizational progress, but some good sources for this have emerged in recent years. One of my favorites is Works in Progress magazine: https://worksinprogress.co/
People have died following GPS off the “main roads” - it has no intelligence to say it doesn’t know what to do or if the roads are passable.

So now it always gives you a warning that it doesn’t know; which everyone promptly ignores because it comes up every time.

I suspect we’re about ten years from any GPS navigation device being required to have a PLT or similar like the iPhone now has.
I have a few recommendations that don't involve adding another piece of software.

- Adjust your expectations. It's possible that you have less productive capacity than others. To try and be as productive as they are may actually be little else than self punishment. Consider a smaller daily goal such as "I will get at least one thing done today."

- Consider going to bed earlier, waking up earlier, and getting to work ASAP. I used to sleep later and only start working at 9am, like most people, until I noticed that I was insanely productive the days I got up early and just started work right after showering. Now I get up at 6am and crank out work for at least 4 hours. There's a few things at play here. Firstly, there's nobody around during these hours to distract me. Secondly, I believe both the elevated hormones upon first waking up really help with focus and general alertness. Am I the most productive employee in the world? Not really, but I'm still way more productive when I just get right to work. Although this suggestion may seem like a non-answer in regards to procrastination, I find that I'm far more likely to address something I need to do during that window of time.

- Try taking cold showers. They have neurological effects that are beneficial for ADHD, notably elevated dopamine.

- Get a diagnosis to figure out if you really have ADHD or if you are just overworking yourself. If you actually have ADHD, medication can help a lot. This is based on my experience. I wish I got on medication a lot sooner.

- If you do things like play music or podcasts while you work, avoid doing so for a while and see what happens. Or if you really want something on in the background, make it something like smooth jazz or piano on low volume. Oddly enough, I realized my work is just better if either I'm playing something gentle in the background or just listening to nothing at all.
Yes. You can use all macOS systems without signing into iCloud.
I’ve struggled with focus and consistency over the years and always made up for it by simply working more. But eventually that doesn’t scale, I’d get burned out, or both.

I wish that great fits of productivity was just a byproduct of waking up every day. I envy people that seem to be able to do that. But for me, that simply wasn’t the case.

It’s become cliche, but I’ve greatly benefited from the tactics espoused by Cal Newport in his book “Deep Work” and in his podcast. I now plan my days (regardless of whether it goes according to plan), have startup and shutdown rituals, keep a list of values and goals…all that.

I also just finished reading “Atomic Habits” which wasn’t particularly insightful but provided great reinforcement of what I already knew.

At no point has a magic switch flipped and it’s been a slog at times, but I’m getting better. Like weight loss, improvement didn’t happen overnight. It’s not steady or consistent. Some weeks and months I might even regress and require a refocus or reset. But, over time, my focus, productivity, motivation, and actualization have definitely improved.

Coupled with a few behavior changes around health and fitness (exercise, better diet, daily sunlight, going to bed early and getting up early, and a focus on getting quality sleep), I’m as productive professionally as I’ve ever been. And I think I still have a lot of improvement left to make.

I lament that I didn’t realize all this back when I was in college. In every facet of my life I was capable of so much more than I did.
I appreciate your perspective, but I have a slightly different view. First, it's important to recognize that the term "language model," as it's used in the context of machine learning, does not claim to fully capture the entirety of human language ability. Rather, it refers to a model's ability to predict or generate text that follows the patterns found in the language data on which it was trained.

You mention that a language model can't model language, only text, because it only observes examples of text, not language. However, I would argue that these text examples are in fact representations of human language ability. The text that language models are trained on is a product of human language ability. This text, while not a perfect representation of language, is a direct outcome of language use and thus carries within it the patterns and structures that language models can learn.

Moreover, models like Transformers do have a sort of latent space - the embeddings space. This is a continuous space where words and phrases are represented as vectors. The distances and directions between vectors in this space capture semantic and syntactic relationships, which suggests that these models are indeed learning some aspects of language, not just text.

On top of this, many of these models are trained on diverse data sources, including transcriptions of spoken conversations. This introduces elements of pragmatics, or how language is used in real-world conversations, into the training data.

Finally, the translation capabilities of these models further suggest that they are capturing something beyond mere text. They are able to translate between different languages, which implies that they are learning some underlying linguistic structures that are shared across languages.

Again, it's important to stress that these models are far from capturing the full complexity of human language ability. However, to say that they only model text and not language seems to me an oversimplification. They are learning patterns and structures in the data that are intrinsically tied to human language use, and so in a sense, they are modeling aspects of language.
All my life I have been fascinated by how people pursue and signal status. Interestingly though, there do not seem to be many books written on this subject. Please do recommend if you are aware of any that touch upon, conspicuous consumption, status signalling etc.
I've recently gotten out of a funk by role-playing. I don't know why, but it makes me happy to pretend I'm a ranger while running, a hacker while coding, a botanist while gardening, etc. Etc.

It just helps me focus and life becomes more like a game with actual rewards.
If source code isn't public, it's a secret by the traditional definition of the word.
creating extreme consequences for unethical behavior unrelated to the mission of the organization itself is problematic because we don't live in a universe where you can know things with 100% certainty.

in fact this whole rust fiasco is an even greater and more blindingly obvious example of causing massive organizational rupture over a minor accidental personal slight.

should there be more process in place for rust leadership? maybe, probably. But I will skip rust and learn zigg if I need to do something low level due to this disproportionate response. It's not appropriate.

Don't tolerate the intolerant, ironically.
Is there a safe(ish) alternative to RoundUp aside from digging out weeds? Asking because I have a tremendous amount of Henbane [1] I need to get rid of. Deer and horses know not to eat it but it's a risk nonetheless.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyoscyamus_niger
>doesn't actually happen often enough to care about.

That's my entire point. It doesn't happen often enough to care about.

Sounds like you have some anecdotal experience of it happening to your entire family and a lot of your friends.

I experience the opposite. It has happened to exactly none of my friends and family.

We do live in contradictory universes where you experience one thing and I experience another thing. Given the contradiction let's refer to the shared experience: nobody on this entire HN thread has experienced the Eliza effect. The shared experience proves my pov.

>Almost everyone I know is much more likely to believe AIs have already or will soon put them out of a job

This first part of your sentence has a higher likelihood of being true. The reason is because there are instances of it are already happening. It's limited given the limitations of LLMs but we are at a point where if the hallucinations are fixed then it can very much replace many jobs.

Nuclear strikes and slavery is a bit far fetched.
This is entirely normal. I think the best thing you can do is begin to build a habit. Try to set a goal of working on a project for 30 minutes a day and stick to it for a month. Building the habit matters more than the results you get.
For others, it's AGPL
Can someone explain the numbers to me?

"After five years, 88% of patients who took the daily pill after the removal of their tumour were still alive, compared with 78% of patients treated with a placebo. Overall, there was a 51% lower risk of death for those who received osimertinib compared with those who received placebo."

So 88% instead of 78% without the pill were still alive five years on. I assume that is the maximum range they could test. How was the 51% then calculated?

Edit: thank you all for the explanation. That makes a lot of sense!
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

My terrible summing up would be that the book explores the way "status" can be hoarded across generations.
Maybe you're thinking something with couchdb and pouchdb, where the client can replicate to and from a cloud/hosted db and be able to work offline - in theory. It's very specific to that db combo though, very few, if any, apps use them as primary data store (afaik).
Overlooked No More: Sultan Khan, Untrained Chess Player Who Became a Champion
I never said anything about Apple inventing smartphones, there were plenty of earlier examples of smartphones.

What Apple did was achieve bringing the first smartphone to market that reached critical mass in sales and mainstream adoption. They didn't invent smartphones, but they did create the mobile market.