skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I like the vibe of Ten Percent Happier which is kind of like "Yeah, I thought this meditation stuff was bogus, but, for some reason it helps. No, it won't solve all of your problems, but it does seem to make things 10 percent better. And don't even think about saying 'Namaste.'" :-)
I grew up in the 80's, and the Apple II was basically everywhere in education! I remember we had a lab full of Apple IIe's. I had a IIc at home, but moved on to the Amiga sometime in middle school.
Kids: not even once.

Seriously, though, there might be external factors at play; different social circles might use these things and abandoning the apps could be the same as abandoning the groups.
Why would anyone want to rewrite curl? What's so wrong with using C?
"Make the slope approx 20-60 minutes", to be clear does this mean it should take that period of time to gradually go from 120 to 20-60?
I used to be worried about face scanning. But sometimes I wonder if it's an inevitable evolution of technology.

Which – to be clear – is not support for it, but a question about what is emergent from the new things we create.
hum the bookmarklet trick is clever, I suppose It should be able to sync to other device using a firefox account
At my company, we have daily standups and they throw off my whole morning. I only really work effectively when I am left to it and so have outlook/slack/messages turned off during periods where I am trying to focus - has got me in trouble with management a few times but I am not sure what else i can do.

The piece was a good read but its so personal to me that it doesn't really help sadly.
Yes, but they also can have side effects, some worse than dealing with ADHD. There are various non-stimulants like Atomoxetine which are also approved for ADHD and work for some that can't use the stimulants safely.
Growing African vegetables on buildings can save space and feed cities–new study
Can one of those engineers or product managers on $300k+ not fix it or something?
Downloaded, TLDR, and I uploaded it to chatGPT4 to ask for a summary:

"Bitcoin Is Venice" by Allen Farrington and Sacha Meyers is a thought-provoking analysis of Bitcoin's potential to revolutionize the global financial system. Drawing parallels with Venice's historical economic success, the book argues that Bitcoin represents a shift towards a more equitable and efficient economic era. It covers various themes, including the nature of value, critiques of current financial systems, and the societal changes Bitcoin could enable.

Each chapter addresses different themes, employing metaphors and historical parallels to explain complex concepts. For example, the authors use the evolution of martial arts and the rise of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) as an allegory for competition and the pursuit of truth in economics and social affairs. They argue that just as MMA has evolved through a process of practical experimentation and adaptation, Bitcoin and the financial systems around it are undergoing a similar process of evolution and discovery.

The authors envision a future where Bitcoin facilitates a more equitable and efficient economic system, breaking away from the constraints and injustices of current financial structures. This future, they argue, would be characterized by sustainable capital growth, decentralized governance, and a return to sound monetary principles.

Main points:

- Historical Parallel: Compares Bitcoin's transformative potential to Venice's economic history.

- Critique of Current Systems: Criticizes traditional financial markets and advocates for decentralization.

- Nature of Value: Explores the concept of value and Bitcoin's role in redefining it.

- Societal Transformation: Discusses how Bitcoin could lead to more equitable and efficient economic systems.

- Decentralization and Empowerment: Promotes Bitcoin as a tool for financial sovereignty and empowerment.
If you use VS Code there are a couple of extensions that insert the current timestamp with a hotkey. That makes it very easy to add to documentation.

I use this one that allows you to configure the output format:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=gieson.w...
One of the reasons for this popularity is the permissive license. I would guess that the license is MIT, but seems to be a bit different [1]. Does anybody know (in simple words) what are the main differences with MIT? The copyright webpage does not elaborate.

[1] https://curl.se/docs/copyright.html
OP didn't report trouble getting someone to believe they have ADHD, they reported indecision and difficulty identifying someone who offers treatment and arranging an appointment.

As someone who did get diagnosed: It took me _five_ attempts to get all the way to an appointment with a psychiatrist (inability to find a suitable psychiatrist, lost referrals, missed appointments etc). Navigating the medical establishment with untreated ADHD is hell. Now I've got treatment for it, I could do it easily, but it's really hard to overstate just how non-functional you can end up.

Because the symptoms are easily faked, I needed a significant range of retrospective evidence - quotes from school report cards, interviews with my parents - which I had to arrange prior to assessment. If I hadn't been able to produce those, I likely would not have been able to get treatment.
> is it war that makes renewables produce 15% of their installed capacity?

No form of power meets its theoretical "installed capacity". No one runs their nuclear, gas, coal, or oil plants at 100% 24/7/365 either. Yes, some days it's less windy; some days it's more cloudy. The dramatic fall in cost for new solar and wind capacity makes the solution pretty obvious; you build more to account.

> is it war that made Germany shut down 20GW of nuclear power plants?

It's war that makes Germany temporarily wish they hadn't.

> Because when it's cloudy in Germany, those clouds don't stop at Germany's borders.

They're unlikely to cover the entire EU's interconnected grid (and there's talk of generation in Morocco; https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/04/13/...). When the entire EU is covered in clouds, it's especially unlikely that there's no wind at the same time.

Given Germany's plan is 60% renewable generation by 2050, not 100%, they clearly understand the need for some flexible options for the tail ends of things.
Seems to me that you're using other people's opinions to colour your view on science. You can do what you want, but don't expect to be taken seriously when there is plenty of quality science over decades by many scientists that don't share your opinions.

> But again when anyone questions this stuff. Denier.

You have presented no evidence whatsoever so you're not exactly questioning the science, but spouting your own opinion. There's a reason that scientists use scientific methods and don't just read an opinion piece on the internet.

If someone didn't agree with physicists' view on how gravity works, but provided no equations or anything substantive to support their view, then they would be shunned as some kind of flat earth believer. That's not due to any kind of conspiracy, but just that it's a complete waste of time trying to pin down exactly what their point is.
crashing in prod is still a hundred times better than silent data corruption and security issues from use-after-free.
Palm Pre iTunes compatibility confirmed as a hack (2009)
There are degrees to everything, and the same psych disorder can manifest in very different ways in different people.

I have been diagnosed with generalised anxiety disorder. I "worry too much", in general, and have the odd panic attack or two per year. Some people have it bad enough they get these attacks daily.

That does not mean I don't have it or that it does not affect me, it just means it's mild in comparison to them, but my anxiety is still high compared to the average person when untreated. It does not have to be crippling to affect you.
There's only a landing page and then a sign up form. I still have no idea what this product does and it has been shared twice in the last few hours.
I think "orthodox" here is not the best choice of words. After reading the article I think "mainstream privilege" better captures what PG tries to describe.

This because orthodox tend to refer to "wanting to stick to, or go back to, how it was"; which could be very much against the mainstream opinion of today.
With the current promises with the Nothing Phone iMessage compatibility, Apple has been down this path before.

From a comment:

> I'm always surprised when major companies resort to this kind of thing. I suppose they're hoping that Apple will be too embarrassed to break compatibility with their phone, but Apple in the past has shown that they really have no shame with respect to that sort of thing.
Relatedly: to drastically improve Wikipedia loading speed for personal browsing purposes, do not stay logged in to your Wikipedia account. The reason as explained here (see top reply by baowolff)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36114477
The hydro stats are mainly due to the Banqiao case, which is a fluke: in similar conditions anything would go boom with way less latency:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35521090
Show HN: Numbat – A programming language with physical dimensions as types
Do you have a script you could share?
These lines have their own charm.
> IT Security and Administrative policy in non-technology companies trends towards restriction and justification rather than permissiveness.

I work in a tech company and the IT department is like that. The worst part is that IT/security is separate from the operational branch, and they don't care if it impacts our projects. Even though we are the same company, it seems they only care about their own profits (we get billed), we probably would have better service going to competitors, but we can't (obviously). We lost contracts because of it.
It seems like the bigger concern would be all the important data they have in Lotus Notes, as well as some of the other systems mentioned.

VBA seems like a solid choice compared to where they have their data being stored.
I've looked at the dishwasher detergents at a few of my local grocery stores, and all of them contain either ethoxylates or "fatty alcohol alkoxylates", which some brief googling tells me are a class of chemicals that include ethoxylates. I've been unable (even at specialty health food stores) to locate a dishwasher detergent that lacks this class of chemical. If you find a brand that doesn't contain it, please let me know.

I also looked at home-made detergent recipes, as we've had good luck making our laundry detergent, but the blog I looked at showed severe streaking and residue on their example dishwasher load. I can't say that appeals to me, either.
Paper and pen?
I don’t think you need to answer these questions to feel like an adult
It took me a long time to dial in my vyvanse prescription so it wasn't impacting my sleep, plus not taking it on the weekends.

Stress in all its forms also turned out to be a critical factor in sleeping well, too. Simply taking on fewer responsibilities (which I attribute in part to my particular ADHD) helped a lot there.
Intriguing. Wonder if sound would work also.
This comment absolutely reads as someone with ADHD telling a story :D
Diet and exercise! I mean it helps but the commenter probably means stopping with social media and passive distractions.
Human Bodies vs. Implosion Animation
I’m sharing this because I want to see how my fellow HNers feel about this. It’s pretty obvious that this is about the OceanGate sub, and I think it’s disturbing that someone made this. Someone has animated somebody’s son having his body turned into mist with several views. I know there is morbid curiosity, but I think this crosses a line to where it is disrespectful.
Well.

1. Self-diagnosis is not a diagnosis.

2. Things exist on a spectrum. The definition of it becoming a "disorder" is when it negatively affects your life enough.

During diagnosis a psychotherapist will be tasked with identifying traits of ADHD (IE; Markers), you will not have all markers. Everyone will have some.

Then those markers are investigated to discover how much they impact your quality of life. If it is above a certain threshold in aggregate then you are then diagnosed clinically as having "ADHD" and can be medicated.

What I mean is, for example: You can still have autism even if someone has significantly more severe autistic traits than you have.
A lot of "serverless" things are really on-demand timesharing.

One example of "serverless postgres" in my opinion would mean data is on a blob store and you only pay when running queries and for the static storage.

Basically snowflake's pricing model.
Bring a bicycle ?
Using LMUL > 1 likely kills vrgather performance, so I'd always use LMUL=1.

VL doesn't affect the table AFAIK - it only affects what's written out. The table doesn't need to be more than 128 bits, but I don't think you can limit it. Though I'd be interested if setting VL<VLMAX improves performance.

Unfortunately RVV has very limited shuffle/permutation functionality, which often forces you into using vrgather. For example, there's no endian swap instruction (in base V at least).

A byte permute instruction has many uses, from character matching, string processing, bit reversal etc. On x86, Reed Solomon coding is often limited by (V)PSHUFB throughput, for example.
Mosfets have lifetime depending on the temperature, so yes. But on the other hand vendor can install components which won't fail for some long time even under max load. If I remember correctly this was the reason for the "New World destroys GPUs", because some vendors didn't read the Nvidia spec carefully and installed less robust mosfets, so the max load (which happened to be New World game) pushed them over the expected lifetime fast. But with proper design this seems not to be a case.
I just want to be able to read a whole book.
Secure Coding Practices
According to this review, citric acid doesn't work as a rinse aid replacement:

https://www.test.de/Klarspueler-im-Test-Jeder-dritte-hinterl...
Not in the slightest. It adds flavor to the page and makes it more approachable than just a wall of text. This is one of the benefits of generated images - it is a nice middle ground between creating your own and choosing from stock images.
”When you can”, is nothing I disagree with, but also bad advice in that it doesn’t give any criteria.

For example: if you are writing the parser for a compiler you will spend years on, then a handwritten parser is great! You can tweak error handling easily and do all sorts of things in an easy to read and understand manner.

If you are writing a tool that will take some code and transform or analyse it in some way which isn’t a full-blown compiler, then a parser generator is nice to focus on the actual meat of the problem.
This might become a discussion about the definition of pragmatism, but I find the most pragmatic solution is to simply ban the use of fossil fuel in the energy grid. Remove the easy, cheap and extremely harmful substance, and people will be forced to find a working solution. If that happen to be nuclear then that is that. If that happen to be renewables + some yet to be developed technology to address grid variability, then lets do that. I have no horse in that race except that hydropower need to get their very old infrastructure fixed so that we don't make eels and other species extinct, and water constructions on the ocean need to be a bit careful around nature reserves and places like the baltic ocean. Ocean based wind farms like to build on shallows for economical reasons, and those places have a tendency to be nurseries for fish and other animals.

What I really can't stand is the use of fossil fuels in the grid when there is known and effective alternatives, and it gives a bad taste in the mouth that tax money intended for grid stability is used on fossil fuels.
Communism isn't socialism. Cuba is as close to old school communism as you get nowadays, Venezuela is cleptocratic, deeply corrupt regime ehixh has not much to do with either socialism or communism. And North Korea, well, what can I say, is just North Korea.
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Yes the difference is that LLMs learn statically: they train and that’s it. Humans dynamically: they revisit learned facts and synthesize new ones. If you force an LLM-like training process in a human, by doing rote memorization without any exercises, then you get LLM-like results in that human.

This suggests that you may need to train an LLM on its own output. Goes against the conventional wisdom!
Fun facts, if you help a butterfly escape from its cocoon unnaturally the butterfly will probably die soon after.
> has got me in trouble with management a few times but I am not sure what else i can do

Don't worry about it. I think this is good advice for any software engineer. Eventually you'll be senior enough or on a different team and it won't be a problem.
I personally enjoy this article very much, just like what we are doing in KCL language [1]. KCL is a cloud native configuration and policy language, and we have endowed KCL with a semantic level gradual type system. It is a bit like Typescript and you use Javascript to write some project configurations with the Typescript type checker, but we have not completely discarded runtime type checking because as a configuration language, we need to strike a balance between efficiency and stability.

But on the other hand, we are currently facing certain challenges. KCL is somewhat ambiguous in grammar and semantics e.g. the record type, and we are working hard to improve it.

[1] https://github.com/kcl-lang
This again? A blog post stuffed with stolen art and often heard but absolutely not working advice?

> Every morning, I start my day by planning it out in a custom template that displays my Google Calendar events and Todoist task list.

For real? One of the best ADHD tools I am aware of is called the Anti Planner.

It doesn't take long to find posts like "why to-do lists don't work for people with ADHD" https://coachjessicamichaels.com/2022/03/30/why-to-do-lists-...

Also, this blog post misses body doubling which is incredibly helpful and can even be done virtually with focusmate or a similar service (I use focusmate personally but I do want to spam so no referral link or crap like that). Indeed, for me the only way to swallow a frog is focusmate.
The xml for building the UI gives me nightmares of Silverlight. I much prefer the way the Swift team has done it with SwiftUI.

https://developer.apple.com/tutorials/swiftui-concepts/explo...
Sadly another language with concurrency support that fails to learn the lessons from occam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam_(programming_language).

Erlang, Go, Rust, Raku and now Inko all missed the point:
1. synchronous channels guarantee correctness
2. so the same code can be run concurrently (ie lightweight processes on one CPU) or in parallel mapped to multiple non shared memory CPUs
"In 2012, ex-prime minister Naoto Kan was interviewed about the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and has said that at one point Japan faced a situation where there was a chance that people might not be able to live in the capital zone including Tokyo and would have to evacuate ((...)) If things had reached that level, not only would the public have had to face hardships but Japan's very existence would have been in peril"

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_reaction_to_Fukushima...
Do Ethicists Steal More Books?
> This memo describes a data structure called "S-expressions" that are
suitable for

I'm surprised and put off by the poor language.
Relevant reading: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098221...
It feels as if we should be able to achieve the same result, however got cancelled after them finding out how maniac of an invention the human was.
We’d have VBTypeScript now. ;)
No one at my company would ever let IT take over their Excel/VBA processes.

The moment IT touches your stuff, your job transforms from solving problems to writing emails and having meetings.

Any change, no matter how trivial, takes dozens of emails, dozens of meetings, and half a year to orchestrate.

If IT wants to help solve more business problems, it needs to fundamentally change its self-concept and purpose away from "prevent hypothetical bad things from happening at all costs" and move it towards "solve more business problems".
The audio environment plays a big role when it comes to fighting distractions, especially when having ADHD.

The problem is usually that it’s either too quiet (so the brain is not engaged and every small noise is very hearable and distracting) or too loud.

The other problem is when the sound environment is not predictable. This means your brain is constantly afraid it will get distracted (phone call, slack notification etc.) and you can’t enter a flow state.
I will try this, thanks!
The extremes dominate the public debate, because the media is outrage-driven for clicks. Thus insane voices get amplified, and our public discourse goes insane.
Yeah, I found it close to the annoying "you could try not to have issues... harder". I'm glad some people find they can actually change their behaviours. But it's more of a "if you /CAN BE/ consistent with it" issue for others.
And yet it isn't. Schools over here are less sitting in rows facing the teacher and Pay Attention, and more sitting in groups, get a laptop out, "fun" project activities. Modern workplaces - in our industry - are all about a deluge of distractions, meetings, tickets, incoming or always-on calls, side activities, incoming merge requests, Slack messages in half a dozen spaces that all need to be read or you might miss out, on top of a lot of people being open for private communications and distractions like making appointments, chatting with the home front, etc.

So no, I don't know where you live or work, but I don't agree that the modern world wants you to focus and produce.
We let people put their houses up as collateral in order to get a small business loan to start a restaurant. Statistically speaking those restaurants will be losers 80% of the time. They would be better off playing roulette and putting their house on black

https://home.binwise.com/blog/restaurant-failure-rate#:~:tex....
No, that isn't what the article said.

It said that calendars and to-do lists help cope with ADHD, not that everyone who uses them has ADHD.
I can't find the ethernet cable on my phone :(
keep drinking that kool-aid.
In France about 63% of the final energy is produced thanks to fossil fuel.

A new nuclear reactor is being built since 2007, it should have launched a new set of reactors, and this WIP is a disaster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan...
free *direction for big tech, who aren't particularly far forward on llmsec anyway
It also sounds like an overall horrible, consistently highly amoral way of life. Plus some form of an addiction. All the details in this discussion point pretty clearly to this. You need to be a proper a-hole to be fine doing this long term.

If one had only choice between being poor homeless or do this I could accept that relativity, but not like this. I can't have any possible respect for smart capable human living like that by choice, sucking desperate horribly sick people of their possessions, ever.

Sure, there are still few humans around worse than that, just look at the news, but its still pretty much the moral bottom. And all I've seen in this discussion just proves that (I don't judge this activity from my experience since I don't play cards, I get my happiness from mountains and extreme sports and that's more than enough, and salary is enough too).