skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Where does this come from?

The book "Mind and Tissue" by Ray Peat, available on LibGen (and amazon, for $200 used).

>Are drugs like Adderall or Ritalin sufficient based on this view?

From the text,

> the observation that drugs which stimulate the sympathetic or adrenergic nerves (ephedrine or caffeine, for example) will relieve the symptoms,

So yes, stimulant drugs can treat ADHD insofar as they cause a greater supply of energy to be delivered the frontal lobes. Needless to say that stimulants wear you out over time though. A more sustainable solution is to optimize for brain/body bioenergetics generally. You can read more on his website, raypeat.com.

I'm not a shill, the man is dead, I just think this information is far too important not to share vigorously. It's how I resolved my lifelong depression nearly effortlessly.

The somewhat higher rate of mental illness among higher-IQ people (according to some studies), to me, also points to an insufficiency of brain energy as the principal cause. A more energy-hungry brain will fail more readily under an even slightly faulty energy supply.
It is only difficult for a LLM to sort a list of numbers if the list is longer than half of the context window. (Source: I tested this myself[1]). The sorts are not error-free every time, but with sufficient training they become error-free the vast majority of the time, even for long lists. This is not especially surprising because transformers are capable of directly representing sorting programs.[2]

[1] https://jbconsulting.substack.com/p/its-not-just-statistics-...

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.06981
Physicians don't study physics, they have medical degrees. You're thinking of physicists.
I built a VS code extension a while back that I still use that wraps GPT-4 and writes code directly in my editor.

The method I used to choose which files to feed GPT-4 was embeddings-based. I got an embedding for each file and then an embedding from the instruction + some simple processing to pick the files more likely to be relevant. It isn't perfect but good enough most of the time in medium-sized codebases (not very large ones).

The one thing I started doing because of how I implemented this is make files shorter and move stuff into different files. Having a 1k+ LOC file is prohibitive because it eats up all the context window (although with 100k context window maybe less so). I think it's a good idea to keep files short anyways.

There's other smarter things that can be done (like embed and pass individual functions/classes instead of entire files) so I have no doubt someone will build something smarter soon. You'll likely not have to change your coding patterns at all to make use of AI.
Cost is $100-$500/sq ft. Sometimes the math pencils out better than demoing the building or eating a loss keeping it in service as office, especially if local govs are giving incentives to keep the potential economic benefits in the area. No emotions, build a model, execute on the most favorable scenario. It's just an asset.

EDIT: @bbor Absolutely. I believe the challenge is everyone's incentive is inertia. Cities don't want to lose tax dollars and economic activity, even though they will. Asset owners don't want to take haircuts, even though they will. I'm a strong union supporter so workers have agency over their working arrangements, versus being dragged back to the office because some bro who lucked into leadership says "because I say so." Rarely does anyone include happiness and quality of life in these metrics and models, which is unfortunate. Hope this helps.
Precisely, it's ridiculous.
It's on for corporate users, but I assume because it would be a terrible UX for consumers, having users always enter a PIN code at boot/re-boot and would make them throw their PCs out the window.

It's even worse if you use a Bluetooth keyboard as that doesn't work at BIOS level so you'd have to plug in an USB keyboard just to enter your PIN on boot. Would be maddening and people would just turn it off.
"New ancient", today's funniest oxymoron.
It's already open to all
Dockerhub is great for sharing images with the world at large, much like HF is for models. But once you're at the point where you want to host your images / models for business use do you really still want them?

All cloud providers seem to have an image hosting feature, why go through hassle of managing and paying for a docker hub account when you're already on AWS and can integrate better with ECR? The same problem exists for ML model hosting IMO.

Github is totally different, it's a more complex and human proposition. For many github has replaced an entire raft of tools, not just code hosting.
Thank you for the reply! I'll look into the MOTU devices... I had not heard of them before!

I was hoping to keep the cost at sub-$1k (although that is by no means a hard limit), but you are correct in that I already have the speakers wired in. Basically all cables come to a single location, which is where the amps need to go (speakers are not powered). It seems that the previous owner just ran the same 2 channels to all rooms in an on/off configuration.

I didn't think about the RS232 for debugging, but that's a good idea.

I know that the datasheets give external components, but when I was looking at this ~6 months ago, it seemed that most of the options were surface mount, and I've only done breadboard designs, so I didn't know how to work with that for prototyping purposes. This may be my biggest sticking point.

Also, I didn't know if FPGA or something more familiar (such as a RPi) would be better for mixing. I have a PhD in CS, but I've never worked with FPGAs!!! lol I only know what they are in theory!

I'm not against rolling up my sleeves and working, I just didn't know where to start. Even the smallest MVP (stereo in, mixer, stereo out) has too many parts with which I am unfamiliar.
The only requirement to submit something to HN is "it's interesting". Random evergreen content with no contemporary relevance gets submitted all the time, hence the (YEAR) rule. My 8 year old GitHub repo which hasn't ever been significantly updated gets submitted to HN atleast once a year: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fminimax...

If other users didn't think this submission about HN rules was interesting, it wouldn't be upvoted.
It's not nerd-sniping. It's nerd-shooting nerd-fish in a nerd-barrel.
HF feels more like mules than tents to me.
Fair enough, that doesn't sound great.

That being said:

> Devices likely to be affected by the certificate expiry are those that don’t get updated regularly, like embedded systems that are designed not to automatically update or smartphones running years-old software releases. Users running older versions of macOS 2016 and Windows XP (with Service Pack 3) are likely to face issues, along with clients dependent on OpenSSL 1.0.2 or earlier, and older PlayStations that haven’t been upgraded to newer firmware.

Still not convinced we can claim HTTPS should not be used in the general, or in this particular, case.
I have a feeling this is a pretext for Zoom looking to shed staff.
I concur with the other opinions. After having used Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Google meet in the workplace, I've found Google Meet to easily be the best option.

It feels like I'm taking a big step back when I have to use Teams or Zoom.
Gmail will lock important settings behind a pop-up 2FA challenge
Do we really want to condone this legalistic regulatory cancer, where we now have to suffer even more boilerplate drivel being copypasta'd into the job postings? This is how we've ended up with at least 7 disclaimers on everything we buy.

I'd find the press release much more compelling if DOJ focused on actual harm actual people suffered, and dropped the handwaving about people being discouraged by simplistically-worded job postings. Generally if you're in a narrow corner case like ITAR-eligible but not citizen or permanent resident, you know to read through simple phrasings as stand-ins for the actual requirements.
> it's like you're in the same room as the other person.

Even the biggest fans of remote work won't go that far. I think you've forgotten what it's like to work in person.
> Oh, this is a good idea re: "pricing"; right now it's on the homepage under the section "Flexible plans built for every brain". Thank you for this—will be adding today.

I appreciate you accommodating my request. Normally the cmd+F route gets me to a "Pricing" link at the bottom near things like "Careers" and whatnot, which is totally fine.

> Hm, I'm not able to replicate the blank screen. For now you can bypass this section by going to app.shimmer.care and creating an account directly, but let me check in with my co-founder on the blank screen issue.

https://imgur.com/a/zvQ72hT

Happens every time.

Again I appreciate the update + response. Best of luck with your service.
Last time I was on teams 2 months ago they still hadn't solved large meetings. You could switch to a different mode to show more people on the screen, but it was extremely blurry, missing parts of the normal UI, and still cut people off after a relatively low number.
That doesn't cover what the DOJ is asking, because you can't separate closely linked roles into de-facto separate companies.

Like, are you saying the people writing blog posts, the legal team, even certain engineering specialties, are not allowed to ever interact with the engineers working on satellite encryption?
I don't really get your point, other than trying to insult everyone. It's fairly well established that in the real world, strict functional programming languages aren't an option. So who really cares that you keep railing on about them? Until they're an actual option, we are not being "zealots" when we can't use them... not "refuse" to, can't... and, yes, you're just being an insulting jerk with no real options to offer anyone.

If you want to be wistful for a world where we could use better languages... get in line. It's a long one. But stop expressing it in the form of insulting other people.

You are not the smartest in the room, you are not the only one who has grappled with the issues, and if you'd stop going out of your way to insult everyone else, maybe you could listen to and learn from people offering solutions. Even if they aren't perfect; it's hardly as if you're offering a perfect one either. You aren't offering one at all.
Further in the article he goes over exactly why he feels that its allowed to both test a single class or multiple at once, going as far to give a name to them: solitary vs sociable unit tests.

Then, he goes on to, and let me emphasize this, defend against the criticism that other people make that this type of test is not a unit test. (sound familiar?):

Indeed using sociable unit tests was one of the reasons we were criticized for our use of the term "unit testing". I think that the term "unit testing" is appropriate because these tests are tests of the behavior of a single unit. We write the tests assuming everything other than that unit is working correctly.

I'm not sure how thoroughly you're looking to be refuted here but I feel I can't quite do a better job.

Funny thing is, this is not even a very deep insight: the answer to nearly any question in software design can be boiled down to: it depends. This discussion is just the unit-test rendition of "it depends". Why are you so hell bent on having it exactly one way?
Elon probably knows more engineering than Jim Farley or Dave Calhoun. I don't think you have a good handle on CEO competence in this industry. Musk is running circles around these guys.
Fair enough. I agree turning off the lizard brain is impossible so if I misread your comment in this way I apologize. I was more referring to "people are going to have sex when working together, even when just men", which I agree with, but wanted to make the distinction between co-workers hooking up to what was referred to in the article, which wasn't clear to me from your comment.
SQLite 3.43 Released with Up to 2x Performance for JSON Processing
> Is it therefore possible that this bug check is being implemented as part of the journey towards actually dropping "support" for these CPUs?

That seems entirely possible. That being said, I'm not sure I'm going to be upset about them dropping support for a 20-year old CPU built on an architecture that I think is pretty widely accepted as a failure.
Can someone who knows the VC industry explain why having 10 years runway would be considered good? Aren't these companies supposed to be deploying capital as quickly as possible, not banking it. If a ceo said they needed your money 5+ years from now, wouldn't you wait until then to commit?
Some hummingbirds resort to sneaky methods to obtain nectar
I feel like I'm going crazy in these threads. UIs have really awful responsiveness these days and it is a source of constant annoyance to me. And then they hide all the elements like that, gating commonly used functions behind unpredictable delays so that users can't even find them unless they know to rub the magic spot until it appears.

I clicked the start menu on a PC today and was greeted with spinning circles on an otherwise black box for at least 5-10 whole seconds before it showed anything.
Given the advancements of LLMS, have you given thought to automating some moderation to tell the user they're about to leave a predictable repetitive flamewar comment? Ie, a cleverer version of https://blog.xkcd.com/2008/01/14/robot9000-and-xkcd-signal-a...
Well, you might hold your nose for a few days while Copilot helps you write the IntelliJ plugin for Code Llama. Now that would be a good hacker news post...
Motivation is fickle, discipline is about doing the action when you’re not motivated and don’t want to.

Motivation comes and goes. Discipline shows up for work every day, rain or shine.

I’ve worked on long term projects, and it’s the discipline that lets you power through those tasks you don’t want to do. It’s required to finish anything of substance.

One thing that’s really helped me build discipline is the gym. It’s hard, I usually don’t want to go. But even on the days I don’t feel it, I go and get a workout in, even if it’s not a great workout. Even if I just go for a walk in the park or on a treadmill some days.

Once you do something consistently enough, it becomes habit, and develops its own inertia, to the point where it can become harder not to do it. I think habit and consistency are important in maintaining discipline.
Appreciate this question, it's one we've gotten a lot and quite frankly I agree we haven't nailed the best way to articulate it. To answer a few of your questions...
- We don't use psychologists or psychotherapists as the front-line helper because there is a severe shortage of them and our main goal is accessibility. There is a provider shortage (psychologists, psychiatrists, therapists, etc.) in the US and most places in the world
- Depending on someone's severity, helpers can include parents/teachers, peer support specialists, mentors, coaches, therapists, psychiatrists, the list goes on (I tried to broadly categorize from least to most intensive); our service does not aim to support the most severe. Anyone who screens with high degree of Mh impairment is not suggested to use Shimmer (and we have screening in the onboarding process)
- Frankly, depending who you ask, you'll get a different answer for "are coaches respectable". Coaching is a modality that is "up and coming" because of (1) the need for more providers and subclinical support services, and (2) the credentialing / reimbursement models are evolving... see next point:
- We align our model most closely to Health & Wellness Coaching, which is estimated to be reimbursed by next year: https://www.wellcoachesschool.com/post/medicare-moves-advanc...

Overall though, we use PhDs/psychiatrists/master-level coaches to supervise, create protocols, trainings, etc. and use coaches to deliver. (Not AI). Our coaches are either credentialed by ICF (International Coaching Federation) like BetterUp or Ginger or Lyra's coaches, NB-HWC (National Board - Health & Wellness Coaching), or have masters-level psych degree and go through our training.

Happy to expand on any of the above!
Shower thought- people spontaneously form genuine bonds online all of the time. Why do companies struggle with this? Make company intranet or IRC fun. Toss up a Quake, Valheim, or Minecraft server. People outside of work have virtual "teambuilding" exercises all of the time! Am I being naive?
Maybe it's outputting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_langua... :-)
So with the "convenience" of the free bank transaction what do you give up? There is no free lunch. Somebody pays for that "convenience". My guess is you pay with a loss of privacy from the government and the corporations that run the program for the government. Why would they do that? What is in it for them? Are they your public servant or have you become a governmental pawn?
I'm trying to imagine some wacky living polymer or protein that wiggles around and grabs whatever molecules it needs to force localized reactions without a protected cell environment.

But then I start to wonder if evolutionary pressure would encourage ones that form colonies and eventually closed topologies and cells. And then others might specialize to hijack those colonies...
Elon Musk might not have the reputation he had three years ago but SpaceX is still incredibly well regarded.
> EDIT: unfortunately I cannot defend my point in the comments, as I am now rate limited :)

All comments get rate limited as they start to nest, by hiding the reply link. Are you seeing that?
The other co-founder and cto here, we just made the updates to the site so it should reference "pricing" in the subscription plans section! Really appreciate the suggestion here.

Also for the blank screen, I wasn't able to reproduce either but the quiz is an embedded Typeform. There may be a plugin/extension enabled on your browser that could be blocking it. What browser are you using and are you able to try viewing it on incognito?
This is… ummm… original and… ummm… a good idea.
Sorry, not my fault that you misunderstand what Governors-Generals do (and don't do) or what happened with the 1975 dismissal.[1] Or you now pretending that you knew what had happened in the 1979 federal election (let alone the earlier cases, especially 1896) before I told you about it.

[1] Or The Dismissal, depending on who you ask
That's correct. An analogy to a thing is not that thing.
US Justice Department sues SpaceX for alleged discriminatory hiring practices
It's probably not the case in most places, but the custodians/building managers should be cleared to work with sensitive or restricted data.

From what I know about pentesting, they usually have the most physical access regardless.
Reminds me of that onion article: "FDA Official: "Just Eat A Goddamn Vegetable""
I would guess that's different because people who follow a page want to see that content, and ads are shown to people who might not want to see that.
That is illogical. Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection doesn't contain any specifics on how or where hominids evolved. There is nothing in this article which is inconsistent with Darwin's theory.
I can't comment on Office, Adobe and Visual Studio, but for Ableton or any other DAW, I would certainly choose macOS over Windows. Audio runs much smoother on Mac than on Windows. Lower latency, less dropouts, better overall stability from my experience.

Too bad that audio is total joke on Linux. There's very good software, like BitWig and Reaper, but the audio subsystem is total mess doing random stuff all the time. PipeWire seems promising but there are still problems. Maybe one day.
> with modern, fast, Internet speeds, it's like you're in the same room as the other person.

I've been working remotely for nearly as long, and like anything else, it has its advantages and disadvantages. But this assertion is patently false, at least for me. I have a symmetric gigabit fiber connection at home, with 10GbE hardwired everything in my LAN. No tool I use, be it Zoom, Meet, Teams, whatever, comes even close to being in the same room as another person. The combination of latency (however slight) and imperfect duplex sound transmission between different equipment means that people are constantly inadvertently cutting each other off.
Those are pretty standard Intel cards installed on laptops with Intel CPUs. ax201 or something. If "nothing-ever-works-without-fiddling" Linux is able to ship drivers for that card and work out of the box, I don't see why windows couldn't ship with drivers for that, especially since they seem to get updates via Windows update, so ms has them. Plus, if you're going to force people to use an internet account, maybe make sure that they'll actually be able to get online?

Or maybe the whole point of not supporting the touchpad was to weed off the faint of heart and send them off to Linux?
Thanks for the excellent summary on the Kalman filter! I admit I was too lazy to write any details.
Show HN: Last Night I Built a Junior Dev AI Agent (Experiment)
Hey HN!

I've been live streaming most days this past 6 weeks building a lot of Machine Learning/Web Scraping related projects (as well as some react/nodejs projects). Last night I live coded an experiment trying to develop a Junior Developer AI Agent. The scenario is assuming I'm a non-technical founder what sort of interface would I want to use to automate the role of a junior.

In the around 4 hours, I was able to implement the developer duties -> bug fixing (vectorizing the codebase for relevant files according to the manager's problem), writing tests (this works really well), bootstrapping projects given technologies, sizing tickets and giving technical feedback

Overall, a fun experiment. Using the WizardCoder LLM https://huggingface.co/WizardLM/WizardCoder-15B-V1.0. Some of the duties are better than others. I think it's good to get used to the process of automating your work away (if possible) to see how far you can get and if it's actually useful. Better than being caught off guard by the fast-paced AI tooling coming out if anything actually becomes useful.

The live stream if you're curious: https://www.youtube.com/live/LElsbw9iBeE?si=5eBHd4U6XnQZ84Rx
In my experience the organizations that claim to have social utility fail at it and don't pay well.

Language stacks are much easier to fact check.
> I feel that setting up the infrastructure to specifically exclude certain “luxury” foods would not only be a giant waste of money, but weirdly cruel and punitive.

It certainly wouldn't be "cruel and punitive." After all, as the saying goes, beggars can't be choosers. It would be valuable insofar as it would undercut one of the most biting criticisms of the program.

> Just give people the resources to buy what they need.

Exactly. People need good nutritious food; not expensive luxury food.
Appreciate this; curious your perspective on best-in-class solutions (aside from stimulant drugs) for insufficient brain energy? I'm always looking for holistic solution sets.

Also some of our members (for various reasons) can't or won't take medication (which is a whole other conversation) so any behavioral or natural solutions I love to be aware of.
Glad to see digging in a bit more on HN! While we're at it, if you're not aware of the "second chance pool", you should be: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool

More discussions/description from dang here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
Zoom has nothing to do with the difficulty of trust building. Trust building is hard. That they aim at "trust building" as a justification at all signals to me that they may be of a particular personality type that gets a lot of leverage out of in person manipulative techniques that become non-feasible or downright legally dangerous over a medium that could result in a persisted recording.

Which jibes well with my experience of high level management types. There is a lot that can fly under the radar in person that when filtered through a screen makes it easier for even the socially awkward or anxious to muster a defense.