skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
for example picking jobs (and choosing partners) that give/impose structure is a form of masking. overcompensating is another.

adhering to norms, okay but to which ones? how do you know when the norms are shifting? are you pushing for change, rocking the boat with a the trailblazers or are you cooling heads and pitching for the status quo? and of course this is where the neurodiversity dilemma is very visible, because is "pushing for change" in your personality or it's the "neuropathology"? sure, a bit of both, but if someone is bad at managing changes, seeing transformative projects to completion, then ... maybe they would fare much better if they could stay put on their butts instead of joining the youngsters (to escape the otherwise incomprehensibly harsh boredom).

> What would not masking the condition look like?

ideally, accepting that someone is simply a 1000-fold more sensitive to "boredom", getting accommodations for it, while still doing the same "boring old job" as others (instead of running away with the proverbial circus)

> If one can mask their condition then is their condition generally less severe than those that cannot mask their condition?

well. in some sense yes, of course. but maybe because they are better at keeping their mouth shut and pushing through adversity, they are in a more precarious situation in life, they simply don't have the luxury to not be okay.

still they might be suffering a lot more than others. (and as a result might have higher allostatic load, worse health outcomes, etc. -- https://karger.com/pps/article/90/1/11/294736/Allostatic-Loa... )

for example is being rich and having the possibility to not work for months (or job hop for many years), go to fancy therapy centers and evaluations, better than being forced to work low-paying service jobs for decades?

is masking good? since it's a very broad concept (maybe if we want to somehow encapsulate it we might call it a collection of tools) the various forms have different good and bad consequences.

being kept accountable usually helps for some ADHD people. but if one's ADHD mostly manifests as various nasty emotional regulation problems, then it just condemns one to a life of depression and anxiety (impostor syndrome, low self-esteem, etc.) and here masking is just "suppressing problems" which is hopefully obviously bad.

also simply having some kind of diagnosis, knowing one's limits, weaknesses and occasional strengths helps dealing with life.

...

also I recommend watching Russell Barkley's videos on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJHvFzO6jC4 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g6caraZCtw
Alternatively
pipx install llm

explain() {
# Use llm to generate a simple explanation for a command.
# Example: explain 'fortune | cowsay'
local system_prompt="Be brief. Mention only serious errors, if any, otherwise just explain the code."
local query="$1"
llm "$query" --system "$system_prompt" "${@:2}"
}

explain 'fortune | cowsay'

This command combines two fun Unix/Linux utilities:

1. `fortune`: This program generates a random quote or short message, often humorous or thought-provoking.

2. `cowsay`: This is a program that generates ASCII art of a cow (or other character) with a speech bubble containing a message.

The pipe (`|`) between them takes the output of `fortune` and feeds it as input to `cowsay`.

So when you run this command, you'll see an ASCII art cow "saying" a random fortune message. It's a playful way to display random quotes or messages in the terminal.

Example output might look like:

_________________________________________
/ Q: How many Marxists does it take to \
| screw in a light bulb? A: None: The |
\ light bulb contains the seeds of its /
\ own revolution. /
---------------------------------------
\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||
As detailed in the article, my conclusion of there being a limit does not rest on the assumption that higher math is intrinsically incomprehensible to a subset of people (though, unrelatedly, I would expect that to be true in some cases).

In the article, the key underlying assumption is that the further you go in math, the more energy it requires to learn the next level up -- and everyone's "energy vs level of abstraction" curve is shifted based on their cognitive ability and degree of motivation/interest.

Here is a quote from the article that gets at the main argument:

"As Hofstadter describes, the abstraction ceiling is not a “hard” threshold, a level at which one is suddenly incapable of learning math, but rather a “soft” threshold, a level at which the amount of time and effort required to learn math begins to skyrocket until learning more advanced math is effectively no longer a productive use of one’s time. That level is different for everyone. For Hofstadter, it was graduate-level math; for another person, it might be earlier or later (but almost certainly earlier)."

https://www.justinmath.com/your-mathematical-potential-has-a...
"Attackers" usually have a single mission in mind (exfiltrate juicy data, destabilize the target, hold juicy data for ransom, etc.) and have the privilege of exploring as deeply as needed until the mission is accomplished.

"Defenders" (like the SOC) have to think in lists because they're tracking many signals and threat vectors at a time and need to prioritize which ones warrant their attention/require action because a regulator told them so (think high-scoring CVEs against code that's been deprecated forever ago).

Without having "defenders" post in random places along the graph looking for interesting activity, I don't know how they'll be able to "think in graphs". To wit, the suggestions that the author made would be, you guessed it, signals in a list that a "defender" would check against!
I'm not an expert, but oil wreaks havoc to nature and life, if it spills. So there is problem nr 1. I don't know how much time nature needs to rebound from such spills, but I know, that (crude) oil on beaches makes them unhabitable for years.

Problem Nr. 2: plastics made from oil are different from, well oil. They're a product, that doesn't occur in nature, as far as I know.

Plastics are hormonally active in the body. There might be thousands of different plastics and nobody really knows how they're reacting with animals, nature and so on.

But the short answer is: petroleum kills, that stuff is dangerous as hell.
Aaron Swartz: How I Hire Programmers (2009)
What a cynical view of the world.
Whilst it can be true (that people have different incentives than they display), it's not always true, nor necessarily important.
Bought one of these miniature kits years ago and kept it on my desk at work and goddamn is it cool and fun and works great! Really encourage any model machine nerds to get one.
Why is it called that?
Current research shows ~850 people die in the US each year from mechanical failures in cars, but underperforming tires breaks etc contribute to far more.

The difference is we don’t do NTSB style investigations after a traffic accident.
https://archive.is/AwC7k
I'm the CEO of Tile and we are working on a line of products for theft.

As a genuine question, I'm very surprised that many people don't seem concerned that AirTags alert thieves to their presence. If your bike is stolen the thief will get the notification, even if they are on Android (with the new shared platform rogue tag detection).

I'm trying to understand the user psychology here - not pitch our own products.

Do you have any specific features you would like to prevent theft?
The central thing to me is - "quality of efforts" more than "quality of results". For anything sufficiently complicated or "difficult" - one needs to persevere. There's nothing magically special in any place, like a university, except perhaps a few understanding people around to egg you on (that can make a big difference in the right conditions). But end of the day, it is the individual's effort that matters. Effort can make up for many, many deficiencies. More quality effort held steady over a long-enough time should produce at least tolerable results, if not exceptional results.
> If your app is known to be uses heavily by criminals ranging from Pedo's to drug dealers.

What about toilet paper? It's used by quite some criminals (not all that said: many criminals have very poor hygiene and just put their undies back on without wiping after number two).

Should we arrest people manufacturing toilet paper?

Anyway we all know it's not about criminals: it's about controlling speech so that protests as in Barcelona, the UK (where people who are denouncing rapes and killings are put in jail, while the actual rapists get very light sentences like only six months in jail), etc. cannot organize themselves.

It's about controlling the narrative.

And they're using useful idiots resorting to broken logic to push their totalitarian agenda.
Does it matter, no. Does his stated reason make sense, yes. These things are not mutually exclusive. It would need to be financially sustainable to actually deliver on whatever long term goal.

Edited: for guidelines
Sure the government can create some inefficiencies but trying to blame them removes culpability off Boeing. If it was truly our government then many more government contractors would be delivering broken crap and that doesn’t seem to be the case. Example NOC stock seems to be doing just fine over past 5 years while Boeing..,has not.
Any organization that seemingly operates poorly typically just has bad incentives. Congressional funding for space became a feedback loop of pork for states (jobs program) from Apollo, continuing to today with SLS. Commercial crew demonstrates how stunningly dystopian over-specific congressional funding is. The solution is simple: Congress should take a giant step back from NASA involvement so NASA can have more commercial programs like commercial crew.
Deliberate Practice and Acquisition of Expert Performance: A General Overview
While we don’t have exact solution or workflow for handling this case, I can suggest an approach that might help.

Assuming that you apply pagination to the search results, you can send the results to Permify one by one, as you'll only be displaying a limited number to the user. Permify is designed to handle millions of requests per second, so this approach won't cause any issues for your specific case.

While this solves the issue, sending multiple checks at once could create a problem as the number of items on the page increases, though it shouldn't be much of a problem even 500 items.
> I'm pissed this is accepted as normal for the IT sector, while in railroad engineering and aviation (where human lives are at stake) you'd get your licenses and certificates revoked. Therac-25 something.

You're confusing a statement of the way the world *Is* as an endorsement of the way it *Ought* to be. Ask yourself this: WHY do you get your licenses and certificates revoked in railroads and aviation? Because without that threat of punishment, the railroad and aviation companies would choose to spend their money on other things that are their actual business and not on the distractions that safety and security are otherwise. It takes the force of law to mandate that the companies do something that is contrary to their actual interests and goals. See also Boeing.
As package maintainer you are required to sign the packages with a PGP key. Maven Central also requires that you upload that PGP key (the public part only of course) to one of a few well-known key servers.
Maze generation is a fascinating topic. I also played with different maze generating algorithms and wrote a program [1] that generates SVG files that can be send to a laser-cutter. I used it to do some investigations on the statistics of different types of algorithms. I have some fascination with mazes that only have rooms with either one or three exits [2]. I used the program to create an kind of inverted maze with different heights which now hangs in my living room. [3]

[1] https://github.com/FransFaase/MazeGen

[2] https://www.iwriteiam.nl/counting.html#paper

[3] https://www.iwriteiam.nl/D2006.html#21
Choosing between self-hosted GKE and managed Vertex AI to host AI models
Yes, in case like Facebook it would be easy to say that it provides information to the U.S. gov.

With Telegram, as you say, the Russian ban (somewhere around 2014) could have been designed to signal that Telegram is not run by the FSB.

This arrest, on the other hand, could have been intended signal that Telegram is not run by the CIA.

There have been a couple of house searches, extradition orders and YouTube bans all in the last two weeks for pro Russian commentators. I always wonder if these individuals are genuine or actually working for the U.S. gov.

Anyway, together with the latest crackdown of the EU on Musk all these events could be genuine and not staged.
Why scientists are trying to reengineer the cow's stomach
Scientists in California are working to genetically engineer the cow microbiome -- and in the process, eliminate methane emissions.
Iran and Russia also had reasonable laws once. Then things changed.
The problem is, you can't delete your old chats from the %EU_NSA_analogue%'s servers once they get there. The funniest part is, you might think that you are safe because that one sussy message was posted so long ago. Well, statutes of limitations are changed/ignored just as easily as any other law.
From what I understand, it'd had been far easier to use a seccomp filter instead. Would have worked with statically linked binaries too.
Peace, Love and Rockets (2017)
RocketLab (US/New Zealand) has been recovering stages for awhile. I think they're getting close to reflying one.
How would you launch the python interpreter if its binary is missing execute permissions?
It would be interesting to see how well does a human do it? Are they correct more than 99.9% of the time?
Humanity's greatest skill is ignoring the beauty that surrounds us.
This was my first use of ChatGPT maybe 1.0 I don't really remember but it was early last year sometime. I just started college for the first time and had a list of due dates for assignments.

I asked chatGPT "Can you make me an ics file from this list of dates"

It did it instantly and told me to save the file in a text editor as an .ics file. But it messed up and put the assignments and discuissions on the same week.

I ask "Do the same thing but move the discussion questions to the following tuesday, and put the assignment details in the details of the meeting.

It spit out a perfect .ics file.
Yes, sharing privately using for example a flash drive, sending file via messaging app, or a private download link that's not shared publicly is not distribution. But I was replying to your comment that said "violation of copyright", which implies distribution - torrents in my case. Fortunately I didn't distribute much, I had the torrent client set to a low speed, so I was able to settle it out of court.
I think we're at an epistemic impasse here. At what point would/could you be convinced that LLMs are incapable or unsuited here? If LLMs were successfully deployed in a production environment is the day I bite my tongue. What about you?

I'm not even sure that LLMs are even capable of solving standard bugs see: [1]. Hallucination seems to be a significant hurdle and any time spent validating the fixes of an LLM is wasted when it could be spent tackling the bug head on. The amount of energy spent espousing garbage requires an order of magnitude more effort to invalidate.

[1]. https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/01/02/the-i-in-llm-stands-f...
The cost per kg to orbit on a Falcon 9 is about half of what it was on an Atlas, $7,000/kg vs $15,000/kg That is a significant change, but I do not think it is a radical enough change to significantly alter the market.

The radical change was Moore's law. You can have more capability in a tiny cubesat today than you used to have in a satellite that weighed a ton. It was Moore's law that enabled Planet Labs and all of the new LEO constellations, not low launch cost.

Starship might provide a radical change in launch costs. More likely SpaceX will keep most of the gain for itself, charging similar prices and pocketing the difference.
I’m boxing up LunaKrons to get ahead of this year’s gifting rush, and I’m really pleased with how the packaging is turning out.
I think as a programmer they fascinate me because they feel as simple and elegant as a boid algorithm and looks like life in a similar way but they also exist in the real world. It gives you the idea that you could build other similar simulated life like things.
It's not to get into a network, it's just to list where they're at.. For points. Similar to internet points :). There's no hacking involved just nerds being nerds

What you find shows up here: https://wigle.net/

As you can see there's quite a few people who do it
almost 1000 comments suggests that this is very popular. doing this monthly would really help, although people may want to repost, so maybe some rule is needed for that. probably marking a post as "REPOST" or "NEW" would help regular readers find new projects.
Everyone knows Python is green and Ruby is red...
> if you prioritize security above everything else, you end up building a rock

Well, I'd prefer incapable people to build secure rocks over them building insecure non-rocks.
When thinking about take-off/landing you have to take into account the powertrain, fuel, noise, power-to-weight ratio e.t.c. With modern electric motors, batteries, BMS’ e.t.c. we are at a point where system weight is comparable (the battery is relatively small, motors are quite light and powerful), but all the other things - noise, efficiency, time between overhauls e.t.c. is much-much better.

Long-term vision is to build-out a network connecting large metropolitan centers to smaller places, unlocking swaths of real estate. You can live in Albany and fly to Manhattan/Boston/Syracuse in 30 minutes whenever you need to report to office/go to a concert/visit a non-emergency doctor’s appointment. Vertiport can be located on a floating pier, on the roof of an existing transportation hub, on a plot adjacent to a bus/tram terminal e.t.c.
Power outages disrupt operations at Port of Los Angeles
Sdf.org Acquires Remote Systems Program from Living Computers
IMO tileable window managers are over hyped
Grammar Wars: The Battle of the Oxford Comma (2014)
Show HN: Open-source alternative to Loom that only requires S3
Yes, no disagreement here. The Five Eyes is a poignant example of what happens if your essential view on societal ordering is that ordinary people are there to serve the select few. The problem for the US and Australia is that they inherited all the flaws from the UK, which till this day is still quite a class based society.

This is also why the US did not inherit a real, solid concept of personal privacy. Instead, ordinary people are increasingly becoming sort of property of corporates. You can see that if you contrast the Rheinland model (state reigns in corporates, protect people rights) with the Anglo-sphere, which is much more suited to a few select capital holders extracting value from the workforce (compare holiday allowance, fire at will etc).

This doesn´t mean that in Europe the Rheinland model is not under active threat, far from it. And look at collective self harm: watch this space (HN) if the EU sometimes takes measures against abusive monopolies. It is a very difficult fight.
'Huge benefits' in greater debt relief for lower income countries, study finds
I'm working on readjusting after getting married. It was a big wedding, and for a whole web of reasons I'd rather not post on a public forum, I was responsible for a lot of the cat-herding leading up to the big day. Best day of my life, and my wife and I are overwhelmed with joy. Yet, now it's been a week and I'm still sitting here thinking "...wait, what the hell was I doing 6 months ago?"
Oklo selects Siemens Energy to supply conventional island
Or most likely in today's scenario, demand is miniscule in space compared to earth's so you sell on the earth market while demand in space materializes.
Adding "REPOST" or "NEW" does nothing to ameliorate the problem of the same comment occurring over and over in search results (particularly hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate searches).

On the other hand, if each repost consists of just a link to the original post, or a link plus a few words, that would prevent the unpleasantness in search results.
We are far from public yet, but you DM me on LinkedIn, I’m always open for a chat!

It’s a sweet spot. Large enough to be useful, small enough to have reasonable refuelling times.
I've overlooked the importance of having a good virtual presence, I believe it's better to be noticed and be an average developer than being very great but working alone. The former is more impactful and not that I intend to be average but I'm starting and would love to have a long impactful journey. so focusing on having noticeable social handles.

I didn't like web dev very much but now I'm enjoying Django a little so I intend to swallow Django and pull off some products maybe as I don't intend to have a regular job for the rest of my life and build what interests me.

So yeah, I've been pushing some Django projects and getting better at it.

If you wanna follow along or learn Django, here lies my journey

https://github.com/JUSTSUJAY/Django_Projects
I started publicly inventorying and documenting my collection of vintage print advertisements (https://adretro.com).

The front end CMS is a combination of Notion and Super.so. The backend will be Lucee and MySQL.

I have many thousands of ads I want to catalog just to start. There are so many print ads, cataloging just a fraction will take a lifetime.

I'm developing a custom cataloging system that will allow me to process them more quickly and automate aspects of the management of the collection. I have in mind to eventually make the database available to other collectors.
I'm testing out generative cartoons and media. I want to see what is possible with AI and media and if the content can be engaging. Long term I want to create content that could be used in a holodeck.
Here is what has been published so far: https://www.youtube.com/@distarkmedia
Would love feedback :)
well, yes, but no. there's a huge overlap, and AuDHD seems more than just the sum of its parts:

"Additional analyses revealed that individuals diagnosed with both ASD and ADHD are double-loaded with genetic predisposition for both disorders and show distinctive patterns of genetic association with other traits when compared to the ASD-only and ADHD-only subgroups."

"We identified seven loci shared by the disorders and five loci differentiating them. All five differentiating loci showed opposite allelic directions in the two disorders and significant associations with other traits, e.g., educational attainment, neuroticism and regional brain volume."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10848300/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7077032/
Vertical tabs for firefox and lots of features. I use it myself in all my firefox profiles. It can be displayed as a sidebar or a popup. Which means you can use it in big windows and small windows.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/grasshopper-u...

Latest commit is on this little nim project to find text, similar to ripgrep

https://github.com/madprops/goldie

Last game is this thing where you get to see ants talk and react in different ways.

https://github.com/madprops/cromulant

Last big thing I made is this powerful python/tk client to chat with language models. Lots of features and my own markdown parser.

https://github.com/Merkoba/Meltdown
Overlearning hyper-stabilizes skill (2017)