skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counterpoint: ADHD diagnoses are a hot topic among kids and junior devs right now. Many of them self-diagnose based on Reddit, Twitter, or TikTok information that tells them that ADHD explains away all of their perceived shortcomings: It's the reason they're not motivated, it's the reason they didn't attend an Ivy League school, it's the reason they don't earn as much as their peers, it's the reason their last significant other broke up with them, and so on (these are all real examples from conversations I've had with mentees since ADHD started trending on social media during COVID)

One of the most concerning patterns I've seen is that these people go out and find a doctor who will prescribe them stimulants (during COVID it was as easy as following ads on TikTok, filling out a form, and having a <5 minute virtual visit with a doctor, believe it or not) and then many of them get worse.

By this I mean the stimulant medication supercharges their actual underlying problem: The anxious procrastinators become even more anxious. The perfectionist procrastinators become even more obsessed with perfecting things. The video game procrastinators now game for harder and longer with stimulants in their system. The hobby/side project procrastinators are now putting in more hours on their side project and have even less time for the work or studies they're supposed to be doing.

I'm not saying that ADHD isn't real, because it's definitely real and debilitating. I'm saying that we have a real problem with the current trend of "ADHD explains everything". Social media has supercharged this trend by bombarding people with videos that position ADHD as a perfect excuse and explanation for their frustrations. They are frighteningly good at finding a video or TikTok or Reddit post that tells them exactly what they want to hear, and they're also good at skipping past any content that doesn't confirm their beliefs.

I have extended family who are in grade school education, and the trend goes all the way into 5th and 6th grade from what they tell me: Kids using "I have ADHD" as an excuse for everything and then trying to show their teacher a TikTok that explains why they shouldn't be held accountable for late homework, low grades, or behavioral problems. They're not alone, it's a common topic in /r/teachers on Reddit too ( https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/12cfdj3/i_have_ad... )
don't apologise to the recency police for posting something interesting of value
Their tone reflects their excitement, it's authentic and great.
The speed for children scare mongering is pathetic and ignorant and betrays your lack of experience with children with this and related condition.

Lots of kids have behavioral and impulse control problems. If you give them amphetamines you see exactly the same problems, but with the boundless energy amphetamines give you. When you give amphetamines to ADHD children they visibly and noticeably become calmer, quieter, and more focused. If you did not come into it with the predetermined idea that this drug is "speed" you would certainly not arrive there from watching the behavior of medicated children with ADHD.

You were addicted to twitter good for you for solving your problems. Don't extrapolate that experience out to kids though. ADHD is fucked up, life ruining stuff. Look at the rates for drug abuse, car crashes and incarceration for adults with untreated ADHD. This sort of scare mongering makes it less likely for children to access effective treatment when it can be most impactful on their lives. It is harmful and you should be ashamed.
>> From an end-user's perspective, there's very little difference between "the task didn't work" and "the task worked, but took longer than your patience to wait." Both appear to be broken.

I disagree. Assume it usually takes 1sec but 1% of the time it takes 120sec. Does your test suite wait 120sec and fail 1% of the time or does it wait 1sec and speed up the test suite? These are test trade-offs IMHO
> There was this poor lady on a board who crocheted this damn homunculus when it was supposed to be this elaborate picture and she just got totally scammed! Waste of material and time and money!

I would love to see this. Both the instructions and the outcome. I have no clue what it would-- could!-- look like.
> My understanding is that people don’t put any effort because of a mix of factors: no technical career; low salaries; no financial reward for putting extra effort; management is mostly non technical and don’t value developers; companies can’t increase salary for a single individual in the same role because of unions or country laws; people can’t be easily fired; etc.

Or they just plain don't care about software engineering and just do bare minimum for salary.
> In places where JS is truly useful, that is when the UI is more than a text document, SEO is not a concern or possibility.

I don't think you're thinking about this. e-commerce is more than just a document and SEO is massively important there but javascript makes the user experience miles better; Think product variation selectors, bulk pricing selectors, product filtering, realtime cart, etc, etc. It's insane to say we shouldn't use new tech so that the search engines can index us, do we just forever stick with what we had 15 years ago and never progress? Madness.
There's a line of "real curiosity about interesting aspects of computer software" and no-substance snake oil.

So, in one case, it's "low substance but good effort", in the other it's "low substance and low effort"
civetweb will run cross platform as a http server.

the issue is when you need write code on each OS, e.g. a cgi for windows/macos/linux/bsd, you will have to know the native API for each OS and use them, which could be hard to maintain if cross-platform is a must.

I wish there is something lower level that is truly cross platform, e.g. a C library runs on each OS and let me do filesystem/network/etc, it does not seem exist.
Looks like they graduated college.

>Oh... that's ALOT of parameters

If they would just learn that "a lot" is two words.

Given that their resume says Coding Ninjas tutor and Coding Ninjas is one of the worst websites out there for coding challenges and tutorials, while using incorrect syntax for Python and C++ (probably to lazily port problems from one language to another), this makes sense.

I'll probably get downvoted for my comment because of all the "touchy feelys" around here, but a lot of people can do what OP did sans college. What makes them extra hireable? Because they had a hacker news story catch some action on a holiday weekend?
A well run open source ebook project, producing the highest quality ebooks. Always looking for volunteers as well as donations.
What happened with the tradition to add 1/N to tweets to indicate multi-post thread?
And I’m wondering how much power is wasted by the literally billions of these status indicating LEDs…
Any with inflections and particularly with grammatical gender.
Have you come across any high resolution sliders that you can recommend? Either motorized or not, or a brand in general you like?
I’d imagine someone not signed in would load up the safe mode generic list from js and the federated server preferences and if you want to reveal a word you can as a anonymous reader or set a cookie with preference sort of like turning off safe mode on duck go without having to sign in. Of course signing in would have your long term preferences. This allows racist to still send people to links with comments revealed I believe based on server or link url param … as aggressive as it can be it’s not really nuking comments and a freedom of speech issue
If we are talking about the real world I have never encountered a person with a negative opinion about generative AI, and I'm not just talking about tech people but people that mostly use ChatGPT for stuff like "some ideas for hiking trails in X".
"Everybody has a plan until they're punched in the mouth."
"Just because it isn't useful for me specifically, then nobody else should use it."
Not surprised about the surgery robot company failing to meet revenue goals.

Surgeons are well-paid, treated as heroes and influential. Replace them with a robot? Ha. That isn't going to play well.

Autonomous specialists are all going to meet considerable resistance. Specialists wield power in their area, and have little incentive to change.

Further, the medical profession for all it's modern look, is about the most conservative group at adopting new tech. They're still using pagers for God's sake.
I found the RP2040 to be great for HID projects like that because of its two cores and PIOs. So you don't have delays because of display/LED updates, and you can delegate some work to the state machines.

If the author is around:

I really enjoy your grease replacement idea and will definitely use that in my projects. Reminds me of the people removing the stops in step encoders.

I was wondering a couple things about your approach:

- do you have noise issues (as in a value oscillating by +/- 1 randomly)

- do you see an issue in precision around your 0/max R positions? they are not exactly contiguous in the pot.

- did you get a measurement of the angle equivalent for a change of 1 in your output value (equivalent of step angle in a step encoder)
The Roche Limit specifically applies to loose, gravitationally-bound bodies.

Chemically bonded objects e.g. solid rock or a huge diamond could approach closer to the planet without breaking up due to tidal forces, depending on the bulk material strength and melting point.
> Allowing AI output to be copyrighted is one of the worst ideas in copyright

What does that mean, in more specific language?

If I create a poster in Photoshop, it is under copyright? What about if I use a smart fill plugin? What about if I use a prompt plugin?
Disney knows it doesn't have Congress in its back pocket right now so there was no point in wasting resources on trying to get copyright extended again even if they really wish they could.
How will AI tools know which sources are "valid"? It's likely SEO will transform into ways of tricking bots scraping training data into considering their information as being more "valid".

Alternative search engines must rely on AI themselves to filter out good results, or some form of manual curation by humans, like Kagi's boost/block/pin feature.
I would strongly disagree with it, because it misses the opportunity for using the commit message as a sanity check. Accidents happen, sometimes I select the wrong file for the commit, or include changes I didn't intend.

Even for the most minor commits, including "improve comment formatting ; utils.pl" allows skimming that message and comparing it to the actual commit.

It also helps me be aware of what I'm doing, pointing and calling style.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_and_calling
Strange then that frameworks advertise how fast they are at rendering, mutating, and creating objects in the DOM, and one of the main JS benchmarks everyone likes to measure their performance by is literally a benchmark about DOM manipulation: https://github.com/krausest/js-framework-benchmark

Oh wait. It's not strange. Because state manipulation is a largely solved problem, and even the least performant state manipulation is blazingly fast. However, presenting components in the browser's DOM is tens of magnitudes of orders less performant than anything you can throw at state manipulation.

And every single framework is busy solving one single problem: how do we touch the DOM as little as possible?
For any living species the population is self-regulated by the ecosystem.

We're no different.

We've been able to change our ecosystem with technology and thus greatly expand our population. But there are limits, always. And we're lucky that this self-regulation is still operating (I think that the housing market is acting as the signal for us) otherwise we would have to endure an ecosystem collapse at some point.
This will be most people.
That approach is problematic with text. If you take a blurry version of the word "apple", you can't be sure if the text should be "apple" or "appie" as the "i" and "l" look too similar when blurred. Some scanners do this to get clean crisp letters and end up fixing typos or making other substitutions. "Filling in pixels" is inherently guesswork and it's certainly not "issue free".
Crushes are often just misplaced ambition (2022)
Read up on the history of Hollywood! It's deeply intertwined with the history of copyright.
I find it jarring that the article says there’s no historical account other than the one from the Bible, but then gets into detailed geopolitical dynamics which I’m going to guess is not in the Bible.
There's definitely a lot of variability on the ICE side. There are some brands/models that do last 200k miles, but there are plenty that don't. And many that could, but the required maintenance cost past a certain point is too high compared to the current value of the vehicle.
The planet could support many more people - but not if they all drive SUVs! (sorry, being glib, but with more efficient resource utilization, the planet could support the current population to a good standard of living).

The concern is that there is no obvious natural mechanism that would reverse the decrease. Our civilization would simply evaporate.
Your post made me recall of a technique I saw on a mixing book some 30+ years ago. The trick consisted in linking together two or more potentiometer knobs on a mixer by using thick rubber bands, so that one could rotate more than one with a single hand, for example to alter a filter while acting on a fx send, etc. By wrapping the rubber band in inverted position on one knob one could also for example pan a sound to left while another one went to the right, etc.
This was of course well before automation became widespread.
Unfortunately I lent that book to some friend to never get it back, and don't even recall which friend was or the book title.
Are we using the same website?
youve very succinctly explained an incredibly frustrating reality. it really helps to understand it clearly like that
First they have to sort out all the "no foreigners" signs at restaurants and shops.
> A better n-gram model would calculate the probability of an n-gram following another n-gram according to their frequency in the training corpus. With a larger corpus and better training techniques (some smoothing for one thing) you'd get much more coherent output.

I don't understand what you mean here, isn't that exactly what an n-gram model is already designed to achieve where n > 1? Since this is a 2-gram model isn't it already doing this?
> if you're working on something collaboratively

If I'm working on something "by myself", I'm really collaborating with my future selves, who will appreciate the information that I'll forget after the next context switch.
I wonder where this is actually needed, since most React frameworks support metadata with server-side rendering.
Definitely a problem but will open up value to other contributors as well. Someone willing to make time lapse videos of their entire project or someone who creates a site where contributors are verified by different means like sending work to verified assessors who can say this is real will be allowed to sell verified patterns at a good price.
Love this! Naive question: what kind of resolution do potentiometers like these provide? I took a look at the specs but I don't know how to interpret them. I'm curious why you would or wouldn't use high res rotary optical encoders (aside from $).
> the difference is that generative AI leaders literally think that they are about to create a techno-utopia, and they may be sorely disappointed when others don't feel the same way.

No, the difference is generative AI guys believe that the content generated by generative AI will soon be literally (literal literally, not figurative literally) indistinguishable from those made by humans.

It's quite different from other techs. When people invented movie films, they (almost certainly) didn't think watching a movie will be literally the same experience as going to the opera.

Are they wrong? I don't know. But so far I incline to agree with them.
realistically the solution is going to be artificial wombs, which are already being tested in Japan and the US. They'll get them in the door initially for women who can't have kids naturally or homosexual couples, but eventually it will be normalized or governments will just create as many test tube kids as needed

only other alternative is a massive propaganda campaign to raise the social value of being a mother to how it used to be, where motherhood was socially seen as being far higher status than having a job for women. That's the current problem, years of women being told that "freedom" and having a job is way better than having kids. It's really not a money/stability issue, because the poorest people in Western countries have the most kids
Agree, online spaces will adapt, and honestly how great was a community to begin with if as the only thing keeping it from becoming a hotbed of fake content is that the users didn't have the tools to fake it.

I'm sure very few people would agree when I say that nothing of value has been lost, but honestly I think this is more about people's illusions about the online communities they engage in becoming harder to maintain than those communities becoming worse somehow. I get the impression that people feel like their online spaces are being invaded by phonys using AI all of a sudden. If your community is so full of fakers and liars that it is dominated by fake content immediately when it becomes possible to generate that fake content, and that content isn't recognized by a critical mass of the existing users and laughed off the platform, you have been interacting with a lot of fakers and liars all along. That sucks, and maybe it was better psychologically to have that social outlet even if you only could only leverage it as a social outlet because you were being deceived, but there it is.
This does not solve the issue of procrastination at all. A common myth is that procrastinators are simply lazy people who don't do anything useful. This is not the case. Many procrastinators are super-efficient at working on what they need to do; it's just that they are procrastinating on another useful task/project that objectively should have a priority.
If you get plantar fasciitis, the fascia will receive a lot of attention. I brought on a good case by my stupidity, and lost six months of running.
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Shakespeare's works likely wouldn't have been known without a team of performers to perform them, without an audience willing to accept them, no one gets anything done alone.
ChatGPT will simp for your ideas, pretty much whatever they are unless it's trained against them. I would previously say it would simp for ideas if they weren't outside the overton window, but that's not the case exactly. Unless it's RLHF'd or otherwise trained against the ideas you propose, it won't go against them unless you force it to.
Yes, passlib, sorry for the confusion.

> What's your usecase?

We need to store hashed passwords that are then used by third-party programs (like Apache or exim) to authenticate users, so we need to generate salts and hashes in formats compatible to them.

It works with passlib after some fiddling, it was just way more fiddly than I'd expect from python.
This is only tangentially related but I wonder if Bing’s numbers are shooting up since ChatGPT does all its lookups using Bing.
We are not discussing that here? Obv your business should maximize profit and as such your comment falls into that function
Go with original replacement sliders from good mixer boards. They will usually be much much better and easier to select than any out of electronic vendor ones. They are really costly but the difference in behavior, feeling and reliability is worth the cost if you need precision.

I've had good success with Numark salvaged ones, but I'm sure there is better.
guess you missed this thread OP

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/news-views-gossip/supe...

GG is doing not even basic modeling of theoretically possible vs actual win rates to identify outliers (cheaters..)

I'd say that the assertion that these "named pro-players" are doing anything to ensure a game seems like utter PR fluff nonsense, esp given they have 0 credentials / skills in data science / analysis etc.
Part of the social security system is built as a Ponzi, but we often forget that kids and teens are also economically inactive, having less of them means more money for the old.
I wonder if this is an unexpected consequence of training on unproblematic data? I could see politely phrased responses having a statistical bias towards validating others’ statements, rather than disagreeing.
The best employees focus on both.

You know what makes a great chef? Mise en place, technique, and taste. Organization, preparation, skills, and that indelible knowledge of what looks and tastes good and why. The best chefs don't focus "on process" or "on content", they have to do both, or the dishes will either be inconsistent or mediocre.
I call this procasti-working and it is absolutely my most productive space. I don't really see it as a problem though; I might be completing lower-priority tasks, but they would have later become high- or critical-priority tasks; it's ultimately a net win.
So we're going raw with the antisemitic conspiracy theories now? Sure, you could have provided any example, but the others just failed to convey what's at the core of your paranoid imagination.
Maybe whoever will break current state of encryption landscape will also gain privilege to build new and benefit from it?

In my opinion if breaking AES is to serve military (and hunt for secrets) then it would be done in secret.
At least in the case of children I don't think one should be able to since the cost of caring for them is transferred to society. It's also pretty shitty for the children to lose their parent. Is the death of a parent worse for the children than witnessing that parent be in a perpetual state of misery? Harder to say.
> Not setting a morning alarm.

And for those of us who work for a living?
Oh very cool! Do you have any stats on distance and other things you can achieve? I can't believe you have a Mesh WAN project!!
Playing the cat as a musical instrument actually dates back to 1600s. (and "catgut" strings are not made from cat, for the record)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_organ
In my n=3 experience, that didn't work on any of my friends who got caught and were forced to smoke the entire pack. It also didn't work on my siblings and I when our mother got tired of us pestering her for saltwater taffy so she made us eat an entire bag. If it made us sick, I don't remember that part and either way, it did nothing to dissuade us from further pestering for more until we aged out of having such extreme sweetooths.
A 51% attack would cause enough pandemonium. A state actor could do that using technology the public already knows about.
It was the same domain for me, but maybe I should have tried it without adblockers? The page downloaded the YT video completely fine for me.
The solution is to understand that no amount of guilt/regret is going to change the past and that no amount of internal anxiety is going to help the future.
Found this gem yesterday while trying to research “k3s vs k0s” on Google: https://www.nops.io/blog/k0s-vs-k3s-vs-k8s/#:~:text=While%20....

Unsurprisingly it is on the blog of an AI company. The article contradicts itself multiple times, restating who is the developer of each of k0s, k3s, and k8s. Even if you are unfamiliar with these things a human being reading it can easily see it’s false information from the contradictions alone, which just goes to show this “nops.io” is just publishing AI blog spam without even having a final human proof read.

And the worst is that Google’s automatic algorithms are consuming it and thinking it is good content, making it the featured snippet.