skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't a black box test, it's the World Health Organization's ADHD self-reported screening scale for the DSM-V [1]. They clearly gathered a research group to include roughly 50/50 positive and negative participants: this isn't a random sample of the population that happens to be 50% positive on a self-reported ADHD scale.

Obviously using the self-report test is nowhere near is useful as getting people with a formal diagnosis, but finding 250 study participants with formal ADHD diagnosis (and verifying each case) is waaaaay more expensive. Trials like this sometimes pave the way for a more expensive and exhaustive study to be funded.. and then people come into these threads to complain "great another study telling us what we already knew."

[1] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5470397/
I'll take look! Thanks for the feedback and I'm sorry about that :/
Water cooling is overkill for Pi 5
The Tauri v2 Beta Release
I'd be interested to know if they still get it right (i.e. responding with "car A") if it's changed to:

"Two cars have a 160km race. Care A drives at 16km/h. Car B drives at 8km/h but gets a 75km head start. Who wins?"

(or similar slight perturbations)
> I bet if we removed the requirement to get a lawyer and file a lawsuit that those behaviors would vanish real quick, if all you had to do as the wronged consumer was report to an authority that Company X is doing business dishonestly.

They can still appeal the decisions of the authority in the courts of law.
They will just get the authority disbanded altogether.
Previously, on hn
`Amazon argues that national labor board is unconstitutional (apnews.com)`
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39411829
Around 2020 is when a lot of us became truly aware of it. I saw one of those junky self-diagnosis quizzes and laughed about the questions. What? This describes, like, everyone! And then I compared notes with friends — “haha, look at this silly thing!” — and they assured me that, no, everyone does not have the issues it asked about.

Well, huh.

I finally talked to an MD about the symptoms I’d had my entire life, and they diagnosed me with a quite intense version of ADHD. I started taking meds for it and it was revelatory, like a nearsighted person putting on glasses for the first time. What, is this what it’s like for everyone else?! They can just, like, decide what they want to do today and then do it?

My life would have been so, so different if I would have done this earlier. It’s not that I decided to catch the ADHD a couple years ago because it was trendy. More like, because it was trendy, I became aware that the problems I’ve suffered through my entire life are a common thing that lots of people have and is treatable.

Sorry. I didn’t mean to take your meds. It’s just that a physician and I found that I have the same thing you do, and now I’m also getting the treatment I should’ve been getting all along.

Edit: Since we're having a conversation in edits instead of threads, I still wish I'd been diagnosed when I was younger. Yes, we know a whole lot more about it than when I was a kid, so I have the benefit of experiencing the modern version of its treatment. I still wish I'd known that my inability to force myself to do things that didn't interest me wasn't me being the lazy POS that my teachers and bosses said I was.[0] I've been astonished at how much less anxious I've been since starting treatment. It's been life-changing. I just wish I could've had that life change when I was starting out, not late in the game.

[0]I know you understand what I mean here. For others: I don't mean that it was hard to get excited about things that bored me. I mean, it was beyond my ability to force myself to do those things, even though I desperately wished I could just get up off my lazy butt and do them like the other people around me.
Ask HN: How are AI agents given scope of authority at companies?
I’ve been curious given the outcome of the AirCanada ruling. I searched through the topic on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39378235) and some talk about the legal test of apparent authority. That was partly helpful in how that scope is likely to be tested in the court of law.

What are the actual mechanics within the company? For example, the companies I’ve worked for typically give delegation of authority to human roles that dictated what that role can or cannot do on behalf of the company. Some authority is even written directly into company bylaws, like the ability to enter into a contract with financial implications, or issue stock, etc.

Side note, on the AirCanada ruling. I find it hard to believe that company would go to court over a few hundred to a thousand dollars. Most customer service departments have the authority to just solve that issue without even tapping the legal team. My best guess is that they chose a case with minimal damages to test how the courts would react when an AI agent conflicts with the official policy of the company.
You'd be right except that anything encrypted now can be stored and cracked later.

I remember as part of the snowden leaks there was documentation about this kind of delayed phase collection.

Basically store as much signals data as you can and try to crack it later if there's a weakness discovered with the protocol or computing power starts being capable of wholesale attack.

You might remember that hashes are significantly easier to crack with "rainbow tables", and so we added cryptographic "salts" to online password storage. We discovered that about 15 years ago and started salting all our passwords, but for a large window of time all of those old leaked databases were suddenly extremely easy to crack.

Now, Imagine the NSA is 10 years ahead of us (and you might be close with that estimation), so even if they can't crack RSA right now they're much closer than we are, and even we get there we will likely have a large window of time before we fix it properly. (not that we're talking RSA here, but you get my point).

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/20/leaked...
Would be great if we could uninstall iMessage completely out of iPhone for security reasons or make it opt in by default. Unfortunately it's not possible and it will be a gateway for security issues and malware in the following years to come. Post quantum cryptography is nice but that's one of the smallest problems with iMessage.
Gotta hand it to the Anglos, what a smashing success the Russian Bots psyop has been.

Anyway, you rationally bought the ticket, hope you’ll rationally enjoy the ride. Hope things never stop making sense to you.
What happens when the “few bad apples” get all of the traction and all of their news spreads vs good journalists who get very small readership?
You end up with all perceived journalism being bad and the good being so diluted by the bad that their impact isn’t ever felt.
I believe this is where we are headed if we aren’t already there now.
That's probably why they didn't.
They didn’t do anything to get away from the 30% App Store tax. They just chose another App Store - with same App Store tax.

They didn’t make a PWA.

And I don’t want a “direct relationship” with app makers for them to spam me. I use “Hide my email” for a reason.

And the “wall garden” didn’t lose the case.

Apple won on almost every account. The reason Google lost is that they changed the rules of the game after a consumer bought into their “open platform”
The mall kiosk where you can get a broken iPhone screen replaced is a business model predicated on right to repair.

Independent computer repair people are as well but I am not sure how may of those are left.
Kissinger is (still) dead. Who has the stature to replace him?
A Guide to Collecting Vintage Fountain Pens
I think I could price for a few tens of thousands of dollars a service that creates a bunch of such wronged consumers. There are a bunch of homeless people in San Francisco we will represent. To make it easy for someone on the streets to be able to complain, we actually operate as a non-profit that advocates on their behalf for having wronged the company. You could use my service to attack another company on demand, but I advise that you do it at critical moments. Ideally, two weeks before a big launch or so should do it so that we have enough time to stagger out sufficient number of complaints.
I'd just be glad for the community to standardize on one or the other. I don't care either way but right now we sometimes have both .yml and .yaml in the same directory! For GitHub Actions (the only place where I use yaml) there doesn't seem to be a clear consensus yet.
You'll be able to build your own high quality, low latency voices at scale.
The first part doesn’t make sense at all. A huge percentage of american taxpayer funded research is released openly to the world. It only makes sense in using it to create the latter monopoly, though, I guess showing where incentives really lie.
Not really - it's simply that a lot of people are safer trusting a custodian to hold their bitcoin for them (e.g. an ETF)
Thank you guys for the comments - I will probably archive this project, since you had such a bad reaction.
Appreciate the feedback
Last November, we had several outages and have since directed much of our engineering efforts towards improving stability. During this phase, cold start latency regressed, but the root cause and magnitude were not immediately apparent to us. We made the call to continue working on stability and revisit the latency issue later.

Today, we want to share the story of tracking down and fixing that regression, which turned out to be in the Pageserver’s walredo mechanism.
Nietzsche gave us a religion-free solution in the concept of Ubermensch 150 years ago, it's still too controversial today.
Now? It's been horrible for a while. And this being an election year, the search result is littered with political news and garbage that has nothing to do with what is being searched for.
I can't believe the absurd euphemisms we tolerate on this issue.

There is no such thing as "cancelling" or "forgiving" student loans. The debt was transferred from the people who took out the loans to taxpayers.

Biden administration took $1,200,000,000 from your income taxes and gave it to an influential voting group. This is one of the most egregious cases of "pork barrel" unethical government corruption and grifting in the Western world.
I don't see why chatbots can't be kept to the same standard as human staff. If an airline support agent lied to me to sell me tickets, no shit I'd want a refund and compensation! Chatbots should be allowed to be wrong, but the company should be prepared to face the consequences of that.
Just to let folks know. This is not officially from Google.
I didn't know Wolfram was even available in short form.

I bought NKS for fifty bucks twenty years ago because I thought I could form a group around it that would take turns summing up chapters for each other, but unfortunately, if humans who give a f** represent states and the number of f**s a human can give represent colors, we're talking about a 1,0 turing machine here.
I have had this happen in a sense.

I once booked a flight to meet my then-fiancee in Florida on vacation. Work travel came up unexpectedly, and I booked my work travel from ORD > SFO > TPA.

Before I made that booking, I called the airline specifically to ask them if skipping the ORD > TPA leg of my personal travel was going to cause me problems. The agent confirmed, twice that it would not. This was a lie.

Buried in the booking terms is language meant to discourage gaming the system by booking travel where you skip certain legs. So if you skip a leg of your booking, the whole thing is invalidated. It's not suuuuper clear, I had to read it a few times, but I guess it kinda said that.

Anyways - my itinerary was invalidated by skipping the first flight, and I got lucky enough that someone canceled at the last minute and I could buy my own seat back on the now-full flight for 4x the original ticket price I paid (which was not refunded!).

I followed up to try and get to the bottom of it, but they were insistent they had no record of my call prior, and just fell back on "It's in the terms, and I do not know why you were told wrong information". Very painful lesson to learn.

I try and make a habit of recording phone conversations with agents now, if legal in where I'm physically located at the time.
Was a kid in middle school, did exactly this. Ping the website to get the ip, enter the ip into the browser. Dumb easy and it always worked.
To be fair, many git maintainers are or have been github employees and git is officially hosted on github.
What % of exports, though, and what % of exports to the countries outside of the region (i.e. the globally competitive industries)?

Even by world standards, 70-80% of urbanization in the 60s and 92% now is quite a lot. Especially a lot for a country which mostly exports agricultural produce. Without checking, I would expect it to be 50% in the 60s and 70-80% today.
Growing with Free Products?
That may be survivorship bias. How many TLA projects failed that we never heard of?

Not to mention the number of times I've tried to do a web search on an ordinary English word because someone thought that was brilliant to use as a product name and it turns up nothing because they didn't get as popular as Git or didn't have other distinctive keywords to go along with it, such as when your query not only includes "bash" but also "variable" that is unlikely to occur in a dictionary entry about the verb to bash

I'd be very surprised if there is no causal relationship between names and the chances of success, all else being equal, and the devil is in the "all else". Evidently this is not a problem with a big enough marketing budget (think Teams and Meet), but without that it may be much more economical and practical to think of a useful name
people as organizations are a larger problem that people as cultural products.
cannot upvote this hard enough.

group think is so appealing to the herd that they will throw out reality to stay comfortable themselves. who cares what the means are as long as there is no discomfort for ourselves.
This study doesn't demonstrate that. I personally fail to see how someone with a critical lack of executive function can have an easier time surviving in the wild, dangerous, ancient world, compared to now. Or extreme inattentiveness, where not noticing a snake on the ground or a lion in the bushes likely means the end of you. But sure it's an interesting idea to think about.
Yes. This is why I disabled my car’s airbags: nothing will keep you more alert and defensive when driving than an awareness that any accident will result in near certain death.
I am also fortunate to be in a career where ADHD isn't debilitating (software development), but it was hell to my personal life, and then to my marriage. I'm glad I _finally_ sought out treatment for it.

It was also eye-opening to see how "the other side" operates, once on meds. Wow, suddenly I have motivation to actually follow through on things! Not every little thing distracts me now, including when I drive!

Anyway, not a superpower - for me in any case.
I use a repurposed mobile running BlueWallet
I'm surprised to see a clickbait headline like this on HN. Thanks for posting that info.
Using gpt to code should feel like taking an inflatable doll out to dinner. Where is the shame, the stigma? Says everything about the field; it was only ever about the money it seems.
This approach to programming is not all new to me (I studied Prolog at university which looks very similar but does not have the planner feature) but the planner is a very elegant and simple way of solving problems.

The comments about video game at the end of the article makes me wonder: the planner feature allows solving problems very easily by writing few lines of clear code. However, how does the performance compares against an algorithm written in imperative programming?

Picat seems to be fairly efficient compared to similar languages [1] but I don't find a comparison against "standard" languages.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.2538
Why China's EV ambitions need virtual power plants
>This technology can let millions of electric vehicles feed electricity back to the grid when necessary, helping China deal with extreme weathers and power shortages.
The largest company in the world - Apple - would beg to differ.

People care about quality in many profitable very large industries: health care, technology, military, automotives, aircraft, etc.

Do you really want to fly on the cheapest airplane money can buy?

No.
It’s astonishing to look at the future and realize that all of this capacity is being created because of the forecast expansion of technology. Like, how crazy integrated into everything are we going to get?

Sam’s massive fab for AI chips alone is huge news. Japan is pouring it on.

I know people comment about the growth and bust cycle in chips, but it does create profound societal transformation in the process and I’m really starting to wonder just how profound the change that’s coming is going to be — if history guides us it looks pretty big.

The challenge all these AI vendors are trying to solve and why national priorities are turning towards supplementing this industry is to try to capture market share to solve critical shortage of computing power specifically (in microchips or GPUs) that are necessary to advance AI technologies.

And like I mentioned Nvidia has been the hot AI chip with the H100 (and it’s lead to a rather high market valuation — a trillion dollars). But their success is getting noticed and we are seeing Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and Google all throw in to create their own AI processors. And that’s why you see this massive spending by nation states, because they don’t want to be left behind in this conversion and what is presumed to be ground floor opportunity for the “next big wave” of technology.

Different companies are doing different things but almost all of them are going all in on in-house design and many on FAB itself:

Microsoft is in-housing the Maia 100 for cloud.

Google is doing the TPUs and a bunch of other stuff not public yet.

Amazon won’t be left out with the hilariously named Trainium for machine learning and a bunch of chips under development for AWS.

META is doing the MTIA and Artemis in house.

SoftBank has realized that real estate isn’t it and now has their Izanagi project.

Huawei has their 910B.

Nvidia is all-in on GPUs like the H100 (and developing the H200) and making huge piles of money helping other create custom AI chips.

And of course I already mentioned it by Sam Altman is seeking trillions for some unnamed chipset.

What other major efforts do people know about? Seems like a massive shift and if this is as big as it looks, like I said, this is going to change society incredibly.
"broad spectrum of symptoms with varying severities"

Think this is the key.
Maybe 'mild' can have some advantages, while 'severe' does not.

And also, environment.
If you have 'mild'-'middle' symptoms, but also lucked into a school-career like software or something, maybe it seems like 'super power'.

But for those people, this is luck that symptoms and environment/situation matched up.
“For many people it's completely debilitating.”

Anecdote: I have ADHD (diagnosed) and I think I can safely say that it is the single highest source of stress in my life.

Interest-oriented motivation is incompatible with employers’ needs for predictability. I’ve lost entire workdays because of completely irrelevant side-quests.

I find working on a contract basis is much more compatible with my ADHD experience than being a FTE because I can at avoid charging for days when my brain goes completely off the rails.

This is with medication and years of psycho and occupational therapy. This is with regular exercise (which definitely helps). I think I am managing the disorder with the best tools I can reasonably get my hands on right now and the best it ever gets for me is controlled chaos.

I do love the rush of learning something new that folks with the disorder tend to get but, man, at this point I would happily ditch that occasional good experience in exchange for behaviors that look like a functioning adult in his 40s.
Infinite Infinity car hack, came with two, left with three Q50s.

They do crouch an awful lot near front wheel well. Reminds me of this Toyota hack where thieves plug into headlight canbus wiring thru wheel arch https://kentindell.github.io/2023/04/03/can-injection/
Read the parent comment again. It says the paper says 49152, not the config.json.
So in this scenario there's a general case and a special case.

The general case is where merging a patch makes the code invalid in some sense. This can range from a syntax error to a subtle bug. Version control systems don't prevent this, because they can't: in full generality, correctness is an opinion of the author.

The special case is where two patches each create a valid program, but applying both of them makes the program invalid. I think that's in the FAQ because pijul makes much of the fact that it has a sound theory of patches, as it should, that's a wonderful thing. But people commonly confuse soundness and validity, leading to questions like "so what you're saying is that a merge will never result in a borked program?".

IMHO that shouldn't be in the FAQ though, because it creates the impression you got, which is that Pijul is talking about something which might be possible in principle but which it doesn't happen to be capable of. It's just patiently explaining that Pijul can't do impossible things.
One reason to move sooner rather than later is to mitigate the threat of previously stored data. There may be a government entity simply storing all imessage traffic in the hopes of one day decrypting it when/if a breakthrough happens. If you transition sooner, you increase the age of the latest data that could be decrypted, thusly hopefully making it safer.
Don't agree with the parent comment but we haven't really been moving in the opposite direction with special purpose instructions either. Look at a modern smartphone SoC (eg [1]) how much of that die is CPU even with caches? And as ML becomes more important it's only going in one direction.

[1] https://www.semianalysis.com/p/apple-a15-die-shot-and-annota...
Like the article says, it's protection from harvest-now-break-later.

Apple users and communications are today a state-secret affair as shown by the impact of NSO/Pegasus.

So even if Google,IBM,et al _might_ have approached feasibility in the open there is still a significant risk in state-level adversaries having poured enough funding to still be ahead, plus they will benefit from all open research in the hidden with extra funding to take more leaps.

So no, it's not premature if there is hidden or open leaps just 10 years in the future.
Here is my favorite YouTube lawyer Ian Runkle a Canadian firearms and criminal defence lawyer discussing the flipper zero. This guy is very enjoyable to watch in all his videos highly recommended. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=djqKqr-qh8c
Here's the real punchline:

> Experts told the Vancouver Sun that Air Canada may have succeeded in avoiding liability in Moffatt's case if its chatbot had warned customers that the information that the chatbot provided may not be accurate.

Here's a glimpse into our Kafka-esque AI-powered future: every corporate lawyer is now making sure any customer service request will be gated by a chatbot containing a disclaimer like "Warning: the information you receive may be incorrect and irrelevant." Getting correct and relevant information from a human will be impossible.
Peter Watts comments:

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