skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> adhd + addictive drugs? Head scratcher. I have a nagging suspicion it’s the next OxyContin, personally.

If I am Icarus, then stimulants are my wax wings. Stimulants have been the cause and solution to most of my problems in life over the past decade.

Some days, I truly feel like I made a deal with the Devil. But what alternative do I have? The world has no sympathy and even less empathy. I want to survive in this world like everyone else.

Sure, I do not technically need them to survive. I wasn't even diagnosed until my early 20s. However, I've had a taste of the good life, and I can't go back.

I do not think I am clinically addicted, but I am very psychologically and physically dependent on stimulants.

One sick thought that occasionally ruminates inside my mind is that while I feel like the medications have helped me so much, I look around me -- look back on my life -- and I literally have accomplished nothing. I have nothing to show for any of it. Life is "stable", for sure. Same underpaid, miserable job for 7 years now, but really, that's it...

I do not care what any medical research paper or any doctor says. These medications are powerful psychoactive substances. I think they absolutely fuck with one's mind, and one's perception of reality albeit in subtle ways. I am starting to wonder if my perception of reality has been warped in to making me think I have been performing better than I actually have been all these years.

I'm not really sure how to end this scattered rant, but all I can say is that I've lost a lot of faith in psychiatry and psychology because of ADHD and its treatments. ADHD is the most treatable psychiatric condition? Seriously?
So glad my company pays for managed services so we don't have to worry about managing resilience and availability of critical infra ourselves...
Is this the solution that you give to any shortage? No housing shortage, people just not paying enough?

I mean, who is declining jobs here on account of pay? I feel like there is some nuance here.
I don't know, I argue APIs and models are "code" in the informal sense. Architecture is important, but it's even harder to understand "good architecture" than code, not without the architect right there explaining it to you. Many decisions were made for some reason that you can only understand through experience.
Maybe now they can open-source their OS too and run a service instead of a proprietary codebase
Small correction: BLAT is a local alignment tool Jim Kent also wrote. I think his assembler you're referring to is GigAssembler (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC311095/).
Absolutely. My local and much beloved (by others) repair shop got really pissy when I started asking them if they participated in the authorized repair program. Why? Because the battery replacements always sucked. Sure they “covered” the work, but I was tired of going back every other month for half a year because they “got a bad batch of batteries.” I got tired of their crappy attitude and eventually found an authorized shop. Give me genuine parts with the convenience of not having to deal with a “genius” bar.
I have spent the better part of the past year looking obsessively over genomics papers for cancer and I've grown very fond of the field.

Are there any positions at Google/ companies you wold suggest me to look into? I'm coming from algortrading/ ML research with ML MSc.
It’s not really anything to do with Apple, and applies to all displays.

If you wear polarized lenses, like good sunglasses out in the sun, polarization angle changes visibility of your screen.

It can make your screen completely illegible if not created with forethought.
A quick search of;

'UK may/could ban apple updates'

Failed to provide an authoritative source to a definitive answer.
That (also called "future noir") actually is a separate genre, related to cyberpunk, but not exactly it. A lot of works loosely called cyberpunk have noir tendencies with detectives, femme fatales, and an overall 1940s feel, but other works really do have the 1970s punk feel.
I'm curious, why are you so concerned about how ADHD affects people who don't have ADHD? What makes you think we "shouldn't distract others?" Have you considered that the problem might be failure to accommodate ADHD brains rather than people with ADHD not complying with arbitrary neurotypical standards?
What about the ones who give you relaxants? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanfacine)
Lol. Sorry for your loss, but just lol.

The performance difference I see from the OS on my friends computers really makes me want to get an Apple computer. Hearing these horror stories always scares me straight.
Painboard: Automatically summarize, group and sort qualitative customer feedback
hallucinations can be resuces by incorporating 'retrieval automated generation' , RAG, on the front end. likely function library defs could be automagically entered as prompt/memory inputs.
>isolated enough that rewriting it won’t cost absurd hours.

I mean, juniors can do this. Once you're a senior, there will inevitably be come coupling you need to make in order to "pay the bills". Or you may make the first part of a system that will be a pain to re-write, even if it's the most elegant, readable code ever.

Nothing wrong with preparation.
And don’t fall while walking with a metal straw. I remember reading somewhere about a horrible death from someone who tripped while sipping.
Controversial take: The laptop formfactor is somehow a worse compromise vs desktop/phones in terms of manufacturer care and quality.
And how will you decode it?
"repository of all my important information" does not mix well with "experimental".
Applying DevOps lessons to improve Security Experience
And I suppose a dev who only cares about paying the bills would still resonate with this advice. It's not their problem once the suits take charge of the product and give a thumbs up. Why bother with future dev maintenance? the suits will pay for that bride when it burns down, and having that happen is 100x more easy than trying to explain good code upkeep that delays business for a few weeks.
Employers are always talking out of both sides of their mouths. They signal they want more workers yet are more choosy than ever in terms of pre-employment screening. it's like someone who wants to work at McDonald's has to go through a huge gauntlet of background checks , interviews, and tests, yet companies insist thee is a shortage. maybe try lowering the requirements a bit. And then once you get the job it's more requirements and rules. A lot of low-skilled ppl would rather just not work than deal with t all that crap for a minimum wage job. Part of the problem is maybe the quality of the pool of workers has declined , so more screening needed.
Attaching unwanted ads and tracking to desired content also consumes actual real world resources for people who don't want ads. Seems to go both ways.
ADHD != a lack of attention. It's a lack of control of one's attention. What you are experiencing mirrors my ADHD symptoms.

I can't even read a page of a novel without getting slightly distracted, having to re-read sentences, etc. but I can program for 6+ hours straight. When the hyperfocus kicks in, then it's really hard to break away/distract myself. I'll forgo standing up, eating, etc. because I'm in the "zone" and I can't make myself break away until it's damn near unbearable.
Expose doesn't show fullscreen windows of an app.
I've been using Shimmer for close to a year now and would highly recommend it. Have found it really useful and it's worth the money. I go over super specific issues with my coach each week in the 15 minute sessions: e.g. how do I prepare for a work trip without being late for my plane/forgetting half the stuff I need, how do I avoid being accidentally grumpy with my colleagues.

I've written a detailed review here: https://www.focusbear.io/blog-post/my-thoughts-on-shimmer-ca...
It's like in-painting, but for code :)
Author of `wherr` here again.

Your approach is indeed elegant, and leveraging `#[track_caller]` is quite idiomatic. I also see the value in opting out of macros when possible.

However, I'm pondering the error matching aspect. Using your `MyErrorInner` design, one might want to downcast and match on specific error types:

if let Some(specific_err) = err.downcast_ref::<SpecificErrorType>() {
match specific_err {
SpecificErrorType::Variant => { /* ... */ },
// ... other matches
}
}

But this raises a question: Given that `MyErrorInner` holds a concrete `E` (which is, at runtime, a specific error type) and the public API exposes a boxed trait object, how would we effectively match against inner error types without resorting to static lifetimes?

In your design, while `location` is static, the concrete error type `E` is hidden away. Exposing it, especially without requiring static lifetimes, could be a challenge. Your thoughts?

Always a pleasure to dive into these Rust intricacies. Thanks for taking the time to contribute to this discussion!
I don't even understand what that means. What programming problem?
If the screen was working fine then an update caused it to stop working that doesn’t sound like an issue with the display but rather a hostile software update that is preventing it from working merely because it is a knock off screen but was working as you say just prior. Should be mad at apple in that case not the knock off screen.
So we change the social system.

“What!! Impossible!!”

Yet in the US we do not identify as British, don’t speak Latin, and <50% believe in god now, down from 80% around 2000, Ai/Ml are threatening copyright regimes, wfh/abandonment of obligation to prop up the war era normalization of industrialization of everything to crank out tanks, and canned food…

Your problem is solving itself. It’s just one of those problems that takes time; which is a euphemism for generational churn

Google “French debt restructuring”. Google Reaganomics looting pensions to deflate the… erm… exiting generation to invest in the kids

There’s plenty of historical examples where humans rethink the social contract without violence
>Modern web stacks are built on the idea that you can delete a file and re-implement its interface with a different service behind it later on.

and that paradigm is exactly why my domain is the start opposite of front end web development. Code I write may be used by thousands of other engineers over decades. I can't take into account every edge case, but I do try to write with the assumption that one day some archeologists will uncover that code as some Rosetta Stone. Of course, modern demands never let me reach that ideal, but it teaches care and good documentation.
Weirdly, I don't see foreach in the classic "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"[1], which is imo the definitive Csh reference text.

[1] https://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/misc/csh.html
He said he wanted to be an ICP again but now seems more concerned with writing his own terminal over saving his own company. https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/1694785322318712960?s=2...
that permits both possibilities
Your combative behavior here is entirely unwarranted. The only person blaming random chief executives here is you. If the drivers work fine in a standard Linux install, it is obviously not some obscure hardware setup.
I feel like this is the one domain where the beowfulf cluster meme is still funny
Hella ASMR from listening to this guy
The inclusion of a XMPP client is cute
For folks interested in the standard process, I highly recommend this channel: https://youtube.com/@h2omechanic. Very informative.
Thoughts and evaluations of anti-reflection picture framing glass
You can do left to right for jpegs too. It's astonishing it works.
Are we including it just to poke the bear? Prime numbers are typically defined as numbers with no positive divisors other than one and the number in question.
Euros?? Where are you?
It's a Welsh university. I wouldn't be surprised if the university wants to both promote the Welsh language and diffuse its research, and proposes such resources.
AI has been synonymous with ML for years now.
>But also sometimes it makes more sense to copy and paste over trying to fit an abstraction where it shouldn't be. :)

depends on goals. diverging modules should be copy-pasted, two modules that rely on the same functionality should be consolidated (not necessarily abstracted, but synchronized somehow). Those are both two common cases, so there's no general advice on which is better.

>Good intermediate (I suppose Sr. in our industry) level code is notoriously difficult to find examples of and mentor toward.

so much industry code and knowledge is proprietary, so I imagine that is by design. even intermediate code has a bunch of value to a company, even if the company lets go of that engineer to make their earnings report 0.1% higher.
"Mother Earth News" is a good resource:

(1984) https://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/d...

> Some people ... got their rig stuck three different times in their first well! As they wrote, “We recognize that many of our problems are due to our inexperience …. But our inexperience is not much different from yours.”

They have many other articles on the subject; but I'm fond of linking to this one in particular.

I helped dig that well. And several others. The fellow in the middle of the picture there is my dad.

Using the gantry rig pictured in the article was much easier than just the engine unit (much like a post hole digger they sell in stores now). One of our crew was a gifted machinist who ran that up after we bent the several pipes trying to dig without bracing.
Looks like the Tetris pieces aren't aligned to the canvas pixel grid, causing unnecessary antialiasing. This causes the piece borders to look eternally blurry.

To fix it, you should add a "cleaning cloth" app that the user can drag and drop onto the Tetris canvas that moves the pieces horizontally by 0.5 pixels.

Or even better, only move the pieces that intersected with the cleaning cloth. :)
Apple is as right-to-repair as they can be while also trying to inhibit and disincentivize the stealing of iPhones to send them to chop shops (to extract the parts to sell wholesale to repair shops.)
As noted, the shotgun sequencing wasn't any worse than the traditional chromosome walking method used by the other human genome project, and neither created a truly complete sequence, which is only possible today with improvements in technology.

And it is worth noting that despite all the critiques of shotgun sequencing at the time as "cheating", chromosome walking sequencing is dead, and shotgun is what we use today. If anything replaces that it will be long read technology like that done by Oxford Nanopore sequencing, although we aren't really there yet (you still need to assemble that data and don't really get end-to-end sequences yet).
That’s what they said. You both agree!
I think there’s some pretty cool applications to be built upon homotopy type theory/ univalent foundations. One use case I’m working on is building a structured version control system that allows versioned documents to be translated to code at compile time. Think rich text translations or other static assets that you may want to change at runtime. One really interesting exploitation of the univalence axiom is that you can make hot updates to compiled code without having to recompile the entire system by knowing if the identity paths of the updated document state is a topological subset of the document used at compile time. If it is, you know the updated generated code is isomorphic with the compile time code, meaning it’s safe to swap out. That’s pretty mind blowing and (seems very) practical to me. Basically allows for higher order configuration editing.
I asked ChatGPT how to add a JSDoc type to a Vue 2 prop and it gave me a wrong answer. There have been several times where I’ve asked it questions and it sprinkles in well disguised misinformation. These tools are impressive but they definitely have limitations.
IBM is modernizing COBAL code with AI
First, the idea that art is inundated with people who are just in it for the money isn't just wrong it's funny. Who is this crowd of cold dollar-driven people who pass over high-value careers like business, finance, medicine, tech, etc and say "yeah, being a musician is my gravy train, even though I don't give a damn about it?" Like, insert Drake-in-Orange-Coat meme here, right? Even with the rare outlier successes (like Drake), everybody knows the arts are a lottery ticket. Nobody is doing it just for the money. Especially music.

Second, it's pretty iffy that only low-quality succeeds economically. Sure, everyone can think of examples that somehow succeed with limited merit, but you can't sustain the thesis that well-rewarded work is mediocre without ignoring a lot of strong yet widely appreciated and profitable material.

But even those two big points are minor compared to the most important one:

Everyone needs money. Even artists who do what they do for love. It's the legs of their stools you're suggesting "filtering"/kicking out too.

When someone can't earn money doing what they love, they have to spend time doing other things in order to get the money. And that's time they're not creating art and time they are not refining their craft.

What you're "filtering" out is the peak of the skill they could have developed with more time as well as the art they could have created with it. Maybe even the attention and focus they have to doing it at all, hijacked by all the ways necessity can preclude even love.

And again, for what?
It's crashing frequently for me. Are you using Proton experimental or v7? I am using experimental and vulcan and it keeps crashing for me.
WebGPU Viewer for 3D Gaussian Splatting Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering
>The problem with calling things irrational is that it doesn’t allow you to make any predictions. You’re saying “there’s no logic to this thing” which may or may not be true but it is fairly bold to look at something you don’t have an explanation for and say “that’s irrational”.

That's absolutely true.

But it's not the kind of irrational that's the article tries to refute. That one comes with mechanisms and predictions, it's just not conscious (or not fully conscious) to the subject.

The kinds of non-rationality ("automaticity") discussed are e.g. as if we noticed that every time we play somber music at work, a subject gets more moody. There's a mechanism to invoke it, and we can predict the reaction of us playing it vs more energetic music, but the subject would not consciously know that it does it - and it wont be a "rational" decision they made to be more moody.

Basically, the article tries to refute the existence of a whole class of unconscious automatic responses, bring back the crude man as some fully "rational agent" that economics threw into the dustbin decades ago.
Global population growth, box by box (2010) [video]
recently learned about postural restauration. seemingly the teeth and the hip-flexors are connected via the vestibular system. Which means, you can do all the excercises, chirpractics, yoga and so on, and still suffer back pain, because the hips don't relax.

The demonstration was: molars and canines have to have contact, if they don't the vestibular system is out of tilt, put a piece of plastic between them, hip flexors relax, hips get their mobility back, back pain goes away.

Tried it... worked!

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So you agree you should be judged as someone who doesn’t care in those cases also, right? You didn’t mention anything about people excusing themselves initially, just that you judged them. I just hope you hold yourself to the same standard.
> who do you think that customer is holding accountable for that? Themselves? The repairer? Nope, it’s Apple.

This is disproven in these very comments by people blaming the repair shop for doing a poor job. People know whether or not they took their phone to the Apple store to get it repaired.

These arguments also seem... odd? From a marketing perspective. "Our customers are much too stupid to know where they had service done, so the only solution is to prohibit them from having it done by anyone independent." (Pay no attention to the effect on our repair margins or that increasing the cost of repairs often causes people to buy a new device instead.)
> ADHD drugs are not methamphetamine

https://www.drugs.com/pro/desoxyn.html

Sure, there is a slight difference in amphetamines and methampetamines, but by and large the positive and negative effects are damn near identical. The difference, as I understand it, are in the dosages required. The methyl group makes meth pass the blood-brain barrier much easier, which makes it much stronger and neurotoxic, but the substances are not too dissimilar.

So what if ADHD drugs are meth and/or meth-like? Cocaine derivatives are common in medicine (Lidocaine, Novocaine, etc..). Opium derivatives too. The dosage, not the substance, makes the poison. The only reason people get so up in arms about this topic is due to social stigmas and the BS propaganda from The War on Drugs.
What are the implications of this? What's now possible with this feat completed?
It goes hand in hand. We're still talking about engineers here, not pure computer scientists. And if we want to call them "engineers" they should understand short and long term ramifications of any decision they make, something reflected in the code they are responsible for. Few other engineers would ever accept a paradigm of "make fast, re-implement fast", but since that's a luxury a software engineer has, it comes more down to understanding what the business needs and using the right tools.
Unbelievable. A post about buying an island includes zero numbers concerning the costs.
How Hard Should the Fed Squeeze to Reach 2% Inflation?
From personal experience, it definitely got better in Win10 but it is still not as consistently low-latency and stutter-free. I think there are just too many audio pipeline features (some of which are really quite nice and useful for non-music users) built into the OS to provide the same level of baseline performance, and each feature adds more obscure configuration gotchas.
I created a disaster playing around with GRUB once 20 years ago and I’ve been afraid of it ever since.
Yeah, and if you do manage to jam your foot in the door at one of those places they just look at you sideways.
Is this like: "we have a working keyboard driver" or more like "we identified all 104 keys on a standard 104-key US QWERTY layout"?
When your country flies your flag over its embassies around the world, you are not the counterculture. And let's not even get started on how the Fortune 500 has embraced this faux counterculture.
I took it as a compliment. Some value "productive" engineers, while others value "curious" ones. curious ones are probably for companies that want to retain talent and invest a lot into R&D. productive ones are for when you need to get a product out fast before anything else.

Not saying one is better than the other. Sometimes being first across the line is make or break for a company. But I wish companies could be more honest about what they want.
Dude you use ironically for no good reason, no wonder you don't understand how much $8 is in many countries. Utter ignorance.
Curious, how does it do when you give it examples / use playground.openai?

I find that no examples often leads to the same result as a befuddled junior, but with examples often it gains confidence. Also I find playground to give me much better code snippets than chat sometimes