skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>All meetings should start at a time ending in 5 on the minutes side. Eg. 10:35 is a valid start time.

This is an excellent example of an ADHD accommodation that costs nothing to implement, and is absolutely welcomed by neurotypical people too.

Same goes for having meeting-free days, and a culture that teaches people to be mindful of interruptions[1].

Unsurprisingly, it's something companies like Meta have (software engineering tends to attract ADHD folks because Hyperfocus[2] is a trait of something ironically called attention deficit, and coding marathons are a great example of that in action).

Programmers talk about Flow all the time, but that's what Hyperfocus can easily mistaken for[3]. If you find it difficult to get started[4], but once you get going, you forget the world exists and find it difficult to switch out of whatever you're doing[5], and stopping feels painful.. yeah, that's hyperfocus.

Which, along with being late all the time[6], is an ADHD trait. ADHD is surely the worst-named affliction.[7]

Found out the hard way at the age of 34. Sharing my experience so that y'all don't have to keep on living your life on hard mode, and driving your Lamborghini brain on unplowed fields when it was built for a different purpose.

If you find yourself relating to the article we're discussing (Late Again), you'll likely find the links below interesting.

[1] https://romankogan.net/adhd#Hyperfocus

[2] https://romankogan.net/adhd/#Interruptions

[3] https://www.additudemag.com/flow-state-vs-hyperfocus-adhd/

[4] romankogan.net/adhd#Getting%20Started

[5] https://romankogan.net/adhd/#ADHD%20Switches

[6] https://romankogan.net/adhd/#Being%20Late

[7] https://romankogan.net/adhd/#Awfully%20Described%20Human%20D...
Yet surely the number of cases and broad outcomes are at least countable, even if identities and specifics are not available, right? For example, like in this piece [0]:

> That study was based on an analysis of [...] the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System, which provides information on removals of children from home, terminations of parental rights and adoptions.

From there with a little searching I find this graph [1] showing various metrics from 2013-2022, which don't appear to show any freakish growth over that decade.

[0] https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-analyzed-child-wel...

[1] https://www.acf.hhs.gov/cb/report/trends-foster-care-adoptio...
“Widespread” is quite the weasel word. I have no idea what criteria the author used to justify using it.
You think over 1200 modules is small?

Definitely enough for endless hours of modular patching.
> An attacker can use this vulnerability to obtain root on OpenBSD 7.4 and 7.5.

Ouch! And this all due to unsanitized user input. I really would have expected better from OpenBSD in 2023. I mean I would expect better from everyone but especially from OpenBSD.
It's not simple to add function keyword arguments to Go
These are proprietary so how would you include these?

Cardinal is based on open-source modules (compatible with GPL3.0-or-later license) that are all compiled into a single static binary.

This is not possible with proprietary binaries.
Why can't he have written it? Has he got something better to do while everyone else is doing the actual work?
Thanks! I'm indeed using uBO, but only to block one element on Reddit. Otherwise I haven't even explored (or changed) its default settings.

I plopped that filter text in, and... BOOM. Problem eliminated! Thanks man.
I don't know a single artist that's doing commercial work that isn't using AI to speed up their delivery times. They're all using AI tooling because it's useful.

I know this because they've all reached out to me at one point or another and asked about tools/hardware/services/etc, and I've done my best to point them in the right direction. One that I'm particularly proud of bought himself a 3090 and is running his own models and doing inpainting stuff to great effect.
Writing udev rules for development boards
If Procreate wanted to maximize revenue they'd have switched to a subscription model way back instead of one time payment. I know it's hard to believe but some people are not making all decisions from a business perspective
I certainly agree that we shouldn't bank (figuratively or literally) on positive social expectations, such as expecting an employer to treat us fairly.

However, AppSumo is apparently promising the opposite - they are setting the expectation that it is quite likely new hires will not work out and you should be fully prepared for termination.

Now that's an assurance I'd take seriously.
... so, the day after you asked me why I thought you didn't read the FAQ, you did the exact thing the FAQ asks you not to do?

Yeah, I don't feel so bad for assuming.
People think imperatively though. If I think of visiting my friend, grabbing gas on the way back, the way I'll visualize the steps is not functional.
Binary Ninja – an interactive decompiler, disassembler, debugger
AI is not one thing at the moment. We have multiple systems that are being developed in parallel:

• text generators

• code generators

• image generators

• video generators

• speech generators

• sound/music generators

• various robotics vision and control systems (often trained in virtual environments)

• automated factories / warehouses / fulfillment centers

• self-driving cars (trucks/planes/trains/boats/bikes/whatever)

• scientific / reasoning / math AIs

• military AIs

I find all of these categories already have useful AIs. And they are getting better all the time. The progress might slow down here and there, but it keeps on going.

Self-driving was pretty bad a year ago, and now we have Tesla FSD driving uninterrupted for multiple hours in complex city environments.

Image generators now exceed 99.9% of humans in painting/drawing abilities.

Text generators are decent. There are hallucination issues, and they are not creative at the best human level, but I'd say they write better than 90% of humans. When it comes to poetry/lyrics, they all still suck pretty badly.

Video generators are in their infancy - we get decent quality, but absolutely mental imagery.

Reasoning is the weakest point, in my opinion. Current gen models are just not good at reasoning. Sometimes they are brilliant, but then they make very silly mistakes that a 10-year old child wouldn't make. You just can't rely on their logical abilities. I have really high hopes for that area. If they can figure out reasoning, our science research will become a lot more reliable and a lot more fast.
They are not necessarily "virtual analog", they can also just be "digital".

Think the Mutable Instruments modules, many of these are based around STM32 microcontrollers. The firmware is MIT licensed and has simply been ported into Rack modules.

There are a number of Rack modules that started out as pure hardware that now have virtual counter-parts.
Would you like to expand on what I missed and how my summary is still wrong?
Genuinely asking.
I think it's very possible for a CEO to have a strong stance on their technology and product roadmap without it being purely marketing.
Whenever you use an online service, you share at least all of your data related to that service with that service (often they get even more data than you think). The companies making your phone, your OS, maybe your baseband, and any advanced attackers may also be getting some or all of this data. Many of these parties may be sharing this data with other parties that they trust, and their employees may be using it for their own ends too. This much is at least partly understood by most people and it is impossible to use an electronic device and an online service without exposing yourself to all of this.

But what you don't expect is that any other user of that service has access to your data. That is a completely different level of privacy breach. And it's also one that people using a dating app in particular have much more reason to worry about than the more nebulous threat from above. Especially when they're not out in their community about their romantic and/or sexual preferences, and are told by the app that it hides this information.
But it IS a moral question.
As it is IMMORAL to just go and steal content to train AI and then let the lawyers to take csre of it later
Au contraire, when your tools add the Hot New Thing for the sake of it, rather than any coherent product strategy- that's when things go downhill.
Apple Podcasts on the Web
Bold of you to assume hating AI isn't the "Current Thing" among online artists.

Blind decisionmaking is bad. It's perfectly fine if Procreate devs don't want to add AI features. I simply find it distasteful to present it as a moral position (as people are wont to do with so many things nowadays) or groundbreaking perspective. It's a preference - which should be respected - but just a preference.
1) It's cheaper: fewer expensive sensors

2) It's better: improved range and greater redundancy

3) It handles new conditions: extended time in rain, snow and Texas bugs
> Even for more experienced programmers, reading imperative probably cost less energy, since it is more internalised?

I disagree. For-cycles are usually more difficult to reason about, because they're more general and powerful. If I see "for (...", I only know that the subsequent code will iterate, but the actual meaning has to be inferred from the content.

Meanwhile, a .map() or .filter() already give me hints - the lambda will transform the values (map), will filter values (filter), these hints make it easier to understand the logic because you already understand what the lambda is meant to do.

Other benefits stem from idiomatic usage of these constructs. It's normal to mix different things into one for-cycle - e.g. filtering, transformation, adding to the resulting collection are all in the same block of code. In the functional approach, different "stages" of the processing are isolated into smaller chunks which are easier to reason about.

Another thing is that immutable data structures are quite natural with functional programming and they are a major simplification when thinking about the program state. A given variable has only one immutable state (in the current execution) as opposed to being changed 1000 times over the course of the for-loop.
Err.. fix the Google cache link. Did you do that to get around the earlier submission? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41291031

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-19/gm-to-cut...

[dupe] either way

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41290899

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41290795
> Waymo’s approach of designing both hardware and software from the ground up has been crucial to our success

I’m sorry, what? It’s not a success. It’s a very expensive piece of R&D. Success would be widespread adoption and, you know, profit.
So true. My first parser was for a little text adventure I wrote. I didn't know parsing was a thing people might write about, so I just muddled through some text manipulation in Atari BASIC it until it worked. Even sorting was something you just had to figure out - I managed to come up with bubble sort on my own, presumably like many others did in those days, unaware that sorting was well-trodden territory.
It is a kink of mine to argue with people who wish for the impossible

The goal post was a HASH table with ordered keys.
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Such a thing cannot exist and retain the desirable properties of a HASH tab=le

Do you think that statement is untrue?

Do you understand order analysis?
They explicitly say they love machine learning and deep learning. This is against gen AI and stealing people’s work
For a brief moment, I honestly thought this title was for some satire of a character stuck in an ancestral profession. Probably in a slightly dystopic way.
>They can't have their cake and eat it too. When you entrench yourself in a monopoly, there are duties that come with it

I mean, it seems like people want their cake and eat it too. Not Google.

People want no commission, and for Google to spend resources policing the app store.

Since Google open sources Android, Google doesn't make money from the OS itself. They only make money through pre-installed Google apps and the app store.
>Who cares.

clearly anyone trying to buy a car, which is already an ordeal with a human as is.

>I literally use ChatGPT 30 times a day

good for you? I use Google. mos of my queries aren't complex.

>Isn’t “this not good enough yet” line getting old?

as long as companies pretend 2024 AI can replace skilled labor, no. It's getting old how many more snake oil salesmen keep pretending that I can just use ChatGPT to refactor this very hot loop of performance sensitive code. And no ChatGPT, I do not have the time budget (real time) to hook into some distributed load for that function.

I'm sure in a decade it will wow me. But I prefer to for it to stay in its lane and I stay in mine for that decade.

>There nothing else that can estimate the number of cinder blocks I need to use for a project

is Calculus really this insurmontable feat to be defending big tech over? I'm not a great mathmatican, but give them excel/sheets and they can do the same in minutes.

>I can think of literally thousands of things I have asked that would have taken hours of googling that I can get an answer for in minutes.

I'm glad it works out for you. I'm more scrutinous in my searches and I see that about half the time its sources are a bit off at best, and dangerously wrong at worst. 50/50 isn't worth any potential time saved for what I research.

>I think the problem is you haven’t shifted your mindset to using AI correctly yet.

perhaps. But for my line of work that's probably for the best.
I don't think they disagree with not adding AI features. I think they disagree with the moral posturing. It would have been different if the devs simply said "We aren't adding AI features since we don't think it's actually that useful."
Is there a site that has hand-curated playlists I would love that let's say if I want to listen to Korean pop from the 90s or Minimal Techno from the 00s.
> not having to interact with anyone is pretty great.

Bleak.

And then questions get asked of how techies have become so despised by part of the general population and why they feel so out of touch in comparison to said general population. We’ve become averse to even holding the proverbial chat with the proverbial taxi driver.
The dig against FP is weird since the "good refactor" also uses FP, just a built in one in JS. Which I agree is better, but mostly by being built in and idiomatic, it's still exactly as functional.
No regulation? How will the private sector only do its job if we don't put it under control of incompetent bureaucrats?!
That OO refactor isn’t actual OO. The tell tale sign is that it is named by what it does rather than what it is (verb vs noun) and the -or ending in the name [0]. It’s just a function masquerading as a class.

The better refactor to introduce OO concepts would have been to introduce an isAdult function on the user class and maybe a formatted function. This + the functional refactor probably would have made for the best code.

return users.filter(u => u.isAdult())
.map(u => format(u)); // maybe u.formatted()

[0] https://www.yegor256.com/2015/03/09/objects-end-with-er.html
AI is not "stealing content" and it is not immoral.

This is literally the same line from record companies and Hollywood during the 80s and 90s, and they were rightfully mocked then. It is baffling how so many people are just repeating it now.
Wow, that's a dramatic shift from previous "And now for something completely different" sections, even the 3.11 one (whereas a lot of these ideas have been circulating among the higher-ups for years). It seems like these sections were introduced with the 3.8 release, and initially involved actual Monty Python sketch quotes.
Wrong. As per the article - a part of our brain is a prediction machine. A human body is more than the sum of its parts.
Alarms alone aren't enough as most people either won't care or won't do anything to stop burglars because they fear of being shot, and burglars know that; if you have a security system, always make it call the police. Also, wireless and security don't mix well; WiFi cameras are toys, lay those damn cables.
Duplicate of a previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41294166
It’s a 3 year old vehicle. The backup sensor might be a wiring issue, but everything else is pure software issue.

Many of the “won’t turn on” things actually involve the component powering on (like the backlight turns on), but the digital components just don’t work.
Also safer than human drivers.

Statistics after hundreds of millions of miles driven are compelling.

But my own subjective confidence in how it drives and the decisions it makes in very challenging and ambiguous situations allow me to trust it far more than most Uber drivers.

With Uber, I feel uneasy to moderately frightened probably three rides in ten. With Waymo I've never felt at risk.

I'm pretty sure Waymo is a safer driver than I am.
Istio 1.23 Drops the Sidecar for a Simpler 'Ambient Mesh'
If we had a sense of intelligence, why would we want to deal with... Us? Humanity has shown a considerable skill at eliminating other species, and a tendency to eliminate ourselves anytime we encounter something slightly different.

If you were in a forest, would you pick the bear or the man?
Or… you only know about the ones who are, because they're the ones who talked to you about it.
It's Peltier.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_effect#Peltie...
Doesn't really matter. It's moved to a Russian Github clone, so YMMV:
https://gitflic.ru/user/magnolia1234
Counterpoint, meet me where I want to spend my money and I will. Not giving every publisher on the planet a sub.
>Why Are We Still Making Unshaded Playgrounds?

Because the US is developed as an urbanite-hostile wasteland, devoid of third places[1], where people are kept out of the streets by design, and are goaded into existing only in the following locations:

1. Home

2. Work

3. Car

4. Somewhere you will be spending money - particularly, if it involves connecting with other people

Parks exist, but I can't recall the last time I met anyone at a park. The interactions are usually limited to "Hello" and commenting on the weather as you pass someone on a trail.

There are exceptions, of course. And there are shaded playgrounds too. But there's a reason most people meet their spouses online these days. The Internet has become our third place because our actual places keep us isolated.

NYC is on of the few exceptional American cities, but it, too, is not immune to the blight (so excellently described by N.K. Jemisin in her ode to The City[3] that only New Yorkers will fully appreciate).

The playgrounds follow the overall trend.

[1] https://esl.uchicago.edu/2023/11/01/third-places-what-are-th...

[2] https://www.theknot.com/content/online-dating-most-popular-w...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_We_Became
If the company follows normal at-will employment practices, there would be no need to mention it.

The fact that they explicitly call out this practice is probably a sign that they lay off a larger percentage of new hires compared to the average company. Otherwise, why mention it?
Same. Defending the fort is fun.
Whoever said there "internet," they fail to grasp how big the internet really is.
>I'm not sure if LLMs are getting good use yet / general chatbots are good or ready for business use.

They left room for the idea that the technology could evolve to be useful. You're simply dismissing anyone who cannot use he technology as is as "using it wrong".

As someone who did a tad of UX, that's pretty much the worst thing you can say to a tester. it doesn't help them understand your POV, it builds animosity towards you and the tester, and you're ruining the idea of the test because you are not going to be there to say "you're doing it wrong" when the UX releases. There's 0 upsides to making such a response.
Came to write this. The guy not only makes the best algorithmic reverb plugins out there and sells them very cheap, he also shares his obsessively deep and broad knowledge on the subject. Big fan.
Is it just nostalgia or do you still have a use for them? (Nostalgia is perfectly fine! I love Sony's design.)
I have an old jeep and I’m dying to put a backup camera on that thing. I can basically reach the bumper from the driver seat and I still prefer the visibility that a backup camera brings.
Argument from authority is a pernicious fallacy, and typically effective too. You were right to call it out. I must admit I overlooked the sarcasm, however.
Well that and the people in charge during that decline need to feel personal consequences.

This is also a problem of incentives:If you can roll your dice and the only possible outcomes are:

A) you save your corporation some money while lowering reliability and fucking up safety, but you get a bonus and IF something happens you are either long gone or never held accountable

B) you do nothing, you gain nothing

Then it is clear why more people choose A. If you want management to feel what they are doing is "taking a risk", then make it really, actually risky for them. Especially if it has the potential to kill people. I am talking about significant jail time on top of losing all benefits made during the act. I am an electrical engineer. If something I am not giving my work due diligence and it ends up killing people, I go to jail. If management makes me use flammable materials to safe money and they burn down an orphanage it is a tragic accident that nobody can change, even when you have whistleblowers warning about it internally and publicly.

I constantly heard the phrase that management has to earn a lot because of the huge responsibilities they carry. If the most dire consequence to breaking those responsibilities is that you leave your job with a golden parachute, then that does not sound like it comes at a huge risk. Sure you need to be able to act like a amoral psychopath, but that is a price they are willing to pay.
Procreate is awesome though.

I wish their redo and undo shortcuts were used everywhere
Gold Bars Are Worth a Million Dollars
https://archive.ph/2bmyu
The frequent diesel semi fires have created far more delays and done far more damage to California roadways and overpasses. Each fire is unique in what they emit, how long they burn, and how long clearance takes. Fuel fires can have much larger and more difficult runoff containment challenges.

https://www.wfxrtv.com/news/semi-truck-carrying-meat-inciner...

https://kesq.com/cnn-regional/2023/08/02/semi-truck-hauling-...

https://bakersfieldnow.com/amp/newsletter-daily/thousands-st...

https://www.ksby.com/news/local-news/northbound-101-closed-s...

https://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/news/nation-world/2007...

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-11-11/10-freew...
How do I preload or cache ISOs on a flash drive holding the netboot.xyz client? I haven't seen any mention of it in docs. I've seen some people talking about setting up local iPXE servers, but I don't know if my machines always have functional networking to my server laptop during startup (and this fails outside my home network).
depends on the tool and purpose. There was skill in navigating a file system, and now the next generation (obbscured from folder systems by mobile) seem to be losing that ability.

You can look at it in two ways, neither are particularly wrong unless your job is in fact to navigate file systems.
I think usually it is “X is the armpit of Y”, for example NJ is the armpit of America: https://knowswhy.com/why-is-nj-called-the-armpit-of-america/
Or all my friends in that space are more technically minded than average. Sampling bias is implied. We're on hackernews afterall, normies don't really come here.

That's why I was clear about "my" friends, which necessarily limits the scope of what I'm saying.
It's the exact same benefit as having your own car. It's a common reason people have to avoid shared transit.