skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Wow, that's a lot of disorders

Eh, a bunch of those are just a part of the package that comes with AuDHD[0], Specifically these three:

- Pathological demand avoidance [1]

- Rejection sensitive dysphoria [2]

- Sensory processing disorder [3]

Then these two are can easily result from trying to live up to neurotypical expectations at one's expense:

- Persistent adjustment disorder

- Generalized anxiety disorder [4]

...and those, plus compounding trauma/cPTSD, easily yield this:

- Severely deficient autobiographical memory

(Which might, in itself, be a manifestation of Time Blindness [5]).

Personally, I don't consider these two as disorders[6] or limitations:

- Aphantasia

- Autism spectrum disorder

That's not to diminish the difficulty of living with any (much less all) of those conditions; just to say that they are not uncorrelated, and often come together.

The rest (namely, these three) have an overlap in traits with Autism:

- Developmental coordination disorder (Dyspraxia)

- Obsessive-compulsive disorder

- Chronic fatigue syndrome (Myalgic encephalomyelitis)

Of those, fatigue in general is common with autistic people, as masking can result in it.

The PSA here is that techniques, methods, tools, etc. that help Autistic/ADHD people are likely to alleviate the symptoms of everything on this list to some extent.

So if you find the list of issues relatable, but have not yet looked into Autistic/ADHD resources and communities, I would recommend taking a look to see if you find anything that you can add to your toolbox.

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[0] Talking from experience. See below; main page: https://romankogan.net/adhd

[1] https://romankogan.net/adhd/#Being%20Told%20What%20To%20Do

[2] https://romankogan.net/adhd/#Rejection%20Sensitivity

[3] https://romankogan.net/adhd/#Auditory%20Processing

[4] https://romankogan.net/adhd/#Depression

[5] https://romankogan.net/adhd/#Time%20Perception

[6] I know two three people with Aphantasia, and one of them was a geometry/topology mathematician (who has since left academia for software). He's at least as good in geometry as I am, and I'm a highly visual person (I'm a mathematician as well), and we share the same interest in photography (we both got Fuji X100), so at the very least, it's not obvious that it's an impairment to him to do anything.

While ADHD traits can be great to have if you are in the right environment, they also come with very obvious drawbacks. Autistic traits, on the other hand, have been a perk for me.

In general, many of the pathologized aspects of the so-called "high-functioning" autism are issues that allistic people have with autistic people, and not something that autistic people perceive as a problem for themselves. Research has shown that e.g. communication issues aren't significant in fully allistic groups or fully autisitc groups, but may appear between allistics and autistics (and therefore amount to protocol difference - which can be solved from either side accommodating the other).
Who were "the nuts" during the COVID pandemic?

The ones wishing unemployment, imprisonment, and death upon the people who didn't want to get the vaccine? The ones who insisted on forcing kids to were masks? Or the ones who silenced scientists who held differing view points from the mainstream narrative or challenged the efficacy of masks? Or the ones who were saying Ivermectin was for horses? Or the ones who said if you get the vaccine you won't catch or spread COVID?
where is this quote from?
Yes, and if that occurs during our lifetimes, that's the jackpot.

I would guess that now it's quite unlikely, we might be an ant colony far, far away from others. Finding specific biota or small organisms seems like our most effective approach.
Copernicus is the go to tool I believe for the data
https://atlas.climate.copernicus.eu/atlas

Having a look at the "Maximum of 1-day precipitation" dataset it is clear that it has increased greatly over the past decades which results - among other things - to flooding
One concern: Given the complexity, I wonder if this might be too niche for a mainstream LEGO release. Maybe it would work better as a specialized educational set?
We do hydrogen peroxide rinses of everything, but there are some organisms that can survive even this. I worked with some of them like B. pumilus that came back from the space station and exposure to space. Incredible resistance to hydrogen peroxide.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22680694/

https://astrobiology.com/2014/05/space-station-research-stud...
I vaguely recall people saying that Ireland has a similar issue with the UK, despite gaining independence starting around a century ago.

Not being a lawyer, I couldn't possibly comment.
For homepage I got frozen page and: page is not responsive / page is slowing down browser message from both Firefox and Chrome - I guess all that cutting-edge tech for displaying the blog really loves giving my CPU a workout.
Why don't we hear about billions thrown on robotics companies?
These bullets?

> educating general and targeted audiences about the social web

> informing policy-makers about issues on the social web

> enhancing and extending the ActivityPub protocol

> building tools and plumbing to make the social web easier and more engaging to use

Maybe I need more education about the social web but these tell me very little about what is actually going to be done.
Can these 2 people just kiss so we can move on? This is ridiculous.

And the moment lawyers are involved, forget it..

This feud is the type of thing that’s entertaining when the people involved are CEOs, upper management or tech personalities with all the high school drama and pet hates, when they start changing licenses, involving lawyers and suing each other it’s not fun anymore and quite pathetic. No one looks good in this.
Hmm. Seems like a bad deal.

This is a monthly reservation for a single 6000 Ada for $940. You can get the same on RunPod for $670.

And to actually train stuff you'd likely want nodes with more of them, like 8, or just different GPUs all together (like A100/H100/etc).
I think 10k will be out of reach for awhile, but I think we'll start seeing humanoid home robots for ~100k in the next few years. I also think we'll probably see more subscription/leasing of such robots rather than outright ownership.
I'm surprised the various charging maps aren't simply using OpenStreetMap. It has a large basis of charging points and anyone is free to use the data or contribute, so integrating is pretty easy. Instead, we now need to use various third-party alternatives and the market is quite fragmented. I noticed a family member with an EV needs to check two or three different systems and they'll all show different results of what chargers are near

Of course, live (charging) status will need to be fetched from the operator, but that can be a URL field just like we have website and menu URL tags for restaurants
Jonathan is eminently reasonable. He just wants everyone to get along. He’s no more an evangelist for Rust than Linus is, who, you'll recall, is trying to make it work also.
Something like nginx will likely perform far better at serving static content and other cacheable requests. Also allows you to run two binaries at once for a rolling update.
Have you tried how far you will get with a Hetzner VPS with dedicated CPU(s)?
It is not? Well, seems like the percentage probability is up when it happens more often.

Look at this table for example: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_von_Hochwasser-Ereigniss...

Seems like people either started documenting more or there are more floods now.
OSM doesn't have the same metadata as this project.
I’ll second p5.js and the coding train video series. They are quite good, fun and more advanced than than the videos make them out to be.

P5 also has an online dev environment which is good enough. If you create an account you can save stuff online (make sure to backup, another good lesson).

https://editor.p5js.org/

New ones are infrequent but there is a fairly complete set on the web.

Ive also started playing with
https://phaser.io/. It’s more of a game framework in JavaScript with built in libraries for collision. The getting started tutorial is decent/short and gives a good idea of what is going on.
Maybe a clumsy attempt at referring to DNA fingerprinting [0]?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_profiling
That's the only way to get funding.
P-Diddy and SBF sharing same prison cell
How long I wonder before these sorts of things will be affordable to the more everyday person say sub-$100?
I saw a report on the Schelde river. The total amount of water transported per year is not changing. But the difference in volume varies much more than it used to. We have longer periods with lower water heights, and more extreme heights on peak days.

This means a few things: Salinity of the sea perpetrates deeper on land. The risk of drinkable water buffers getting depleted grows. The risk for flooding rises.
> LLMs are just a new tool for these clowns to spray their idiotic pride all over their fellow humans.

While I agree, that's a bit like saying the nuclear bomb was just a novel explosive device. Yes, but the scale of it matters.
This whole release reads like manipulative propaganda. All the emotive language, front loading/priming with a widely accepted idea among the consumer of the information, framing the title in victimization terms, “Takeaway” in a Propaganda Relations release, meaning “here is what we hope you will believe unflinchingly”, etc. It’s all there.
Show HN: ConverForm – Conversational Forms Builder
Platypush isn't a stand-alone app, but it provides a PWA for mobile - if that's what you mean. My main goal was to make block editing available through a Web-based interface.

Extensibility is a good point, and one that at some point I could implement. So far the block paradigm I've implemented only covers the primitive statements supported by Platypush' procedures (action, set, if, else, for, while, break, continue, return). But extensibility can definitely be a big win here - although extensibility means that the semantic of the new statement/block needs to be encoded both on the backend and the frontend (the frontend for example needs to know that I can't create a block after a return, or that break is only allowed within a loop).
Show HN: Samarium: Readme Update
README is updated.
Depends on the specific model and your perf requirements, but lots of them will run on a single box with a middle of the road GPU. If your invocation rate is low, hosted solutions like AWS Bedrock or using hosted APIs might be cheaper.
No, it's actually ridiculous to write 100,000 lines of code to display some text.
I can bet $1000 that Europa at least has a life form that represents a virus or bacteria. It may not be similar, but it must have a biochemical form.
Generating fiction is a fantastic use of generative AI. One of the use cases where hallucinations are an advantage.
I'll give a +1 to Godot; my son and I had fun going through the 2-D game tutorial and customizing the game. We added some physics, and it was quickly hilarious.

Simpler game systems weren't flexible enough to capture his imagination. We also tried to get started with Unity, but we couldn't get past the first steps.
I have an XGS-PON ONT at home (an Adtran SDX 622v) to support the symmetric 8Gbps connection I have, but it's so basic that I can't really see what benefit there would be to replacing it or hacking it.

It just works, and I can plug my own router in to it.
Solve procedural CTFs for fun and profit
Hi HN, we're launching a private b̶e̶t̶a̶ tournament on a new platform for solving CTF challenges in remote environments, called AutoHack. The neat thing is that the challenges are procedural, and so no two targets are exactly the same. Here's the announcement post:

https://noemaresearch.com/blog/join-autohack-2024-tournament

The broader goal is to assess whether AI can hack into stuff. We're opening up the environment for humans to help us stress-test the challenges, get an estimate of human performance, and collect feedback on realism. Later on, we plan on open sourcing the core infrastructure, as well as a limited option pool, while allowing for better evaluation signals using held-out stage options.

We'd love to see you at the tournament, and happy to answer questions about the platform and event!
I wonder how ISPs would react to this. They're usually not thrilled about customers messing with their gear.
And that is a perfectly valid performance reason for adding an nginx layer in front. It does not IMO justify it in the general case however.
Telenet in Houston had a connection to a local credit agency of some kind. You could look up payment history and searches may have even created profiles for people who didn't have one.

I'm a little surprised there's no mention of CompuServe's billing hole. We discovered via purchase of their documentation a quick Fortran program to wipe billing info would let you stay connected cost free. By the time we found that loophole it was closed a few weeks after and clearing the info would force a logout instead.
Well, you get the entire server and not just a GPU, so you can do what you want with it.
Scrolling down from the top of homepage is pretty choppy on my M3 Max in Safari
Will do some shameless self promotion but only because you might enjoy this: https://peopleandblogs.com
I guess I don't understand what this is now. If its just proxying requests and storing in db, can't it be literally any API?
These accounts do not seem to be alts.
I initially thought this had to do with regulation as well, but people trying it over a VPN are complaining about latency, which makes me believe there's a technical (deployment regions) reason for it as well

(Also language reasons as well - though it seems it works with other languages)

How well does it work in the UK (and understanding its regional accents?)
It sounds like a niche use case where SQLite does work quite well server-side without needing any replication, since the database is read-only.

Other alternatives may use static files loaded in-memory, but I'm guessing the data is more than you'd want to keep in memory in this case, making SQLite a nice alternative.
I'd never considered the pressure under an ice cap... it would scale with depth, no?

So a water channel within the ice (going "up" from the sea below) would have a decreasing pressure gradient as it ascended?
> Just a glimpse of the article shows there's some research behind making the point of the headline, still people feel the need to comment on their feelings to deny it possibly could be due to climate change.

because "due to" is simplistic when we are dealing with multiple factors.

heavier rain might be more common due to climate change, but it causes a lot more flooding than it otherwise would because of the blocking of drainage etc.

> today’s climate, which has warmed by about 1.3C

Warmed by 1.3°C against what benchmark?
I do, and I think that's understating it; I think people wikipedia less. When I first used it, I asked for book recommendations on a specific niche -- it just made up entries, but this version now gives real titles; its an astonishing recommendation engine for music, and other domains.
> It's like the user running a random .exe from the Internet. Wow much exploit.

Which users do incessantly, necessitating an entire security infrastructure to combat it.
FS deduplication solves the problem at the storage level, but not at the transfer level. The components would still be downloaded multiple times if the downloader doesn't have a way to know what has already been downloaded.

Docker's way of doing things is basically an admittance of defeat by lazy engineers. We can do better than that.
See also https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder
For a complete application see https://github.com/wisercoder/eureka/tree/master/webapp/Clie...
Velvet takes <5 mins to get set up in any language, which is why we started as a proxy. We offer managed / custom deployments for enterprise customers, so we can support your client requirements.

We warehouse logs directly to your DB, so you can do whatever you want with the data. Build company ops on top of the DB, run your own evals, join with other tables, hash data, etc.

We’re focusing on backend eng workflows so it’s simple to run continuous monitoring, evals, and fine-tuning with any model. Our interface will focus on surfacing data and analytics to PMs and researchers.

For pgvector/pinecone RAG traces - you can start by including meta tags in the header. Those values will be queryable in the JSON object.

Curious to learn more though - feel free to email me at emma@usevelvet.com.
I still think that all those oil and weapon depots exploding relatively close to Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Austria and Italy have something to say here.

Hot clouds travel far away in no time and a similar stormy behavior has been seen lots of times in pyrocumulus from big wildfires before.
On privacy, I agree.

AI it's harder to say, especially with the attitudes of the people making it being a split personality mix of "wow this is incredible it might kill everyone" — that's enough of a surprise to legislators that I don't know what to predict nor who has the right approach from USA (e/acc), EU (conservative), China (not sure, suspect 'harmonious' but acknowledge I'm projecting a national stereotype).
Central Europe is in recovery from widespread deforestation. The regrowing forests act as a increasing buffer, weakening floods, overshadowing the effects of climate change.
The point the poster above was making is that we have already seen how society changes when we believe we've found basic proof of life, because we really believed we did a few times in the past: nothing changes.

Sure, finding actual living organisms would create new opportunities for study in xeno-biology, but it likely wouldn't change anything significant in our lives unless it is contact with complex multi-cellular and preferably intelligent beings.

Even for science, the most likely possibility (life on Europa, if it exists, would use the same basic chemistry, but not the exact same things as life on Earth) would not have any major impacts in reality: it would end various kinds of speculation, it would give us some new avenues for looking for extra-solar life, and it would create new carriers in studying this new branch of biology. But it would likely not change anything major in existing fields, it wouldn't give us some new perspective on life on Earth, and it would not change much about how we study biology. Just like finding out that not all protozoa are bacteria (some are archaea), or before that finding that fungi are a completely separate kingdom of life from plants and animals, didn't fundamentally change anything even in the day to day lives and study of even the vast majority of biologists.
Finding something that "indicated" something is very different than "We went digging in Europa and found these alive creatures that look like Dolphins under the surface that live on Ammonia"

Society hasn't processed something we have no evidence of (yet), that doesn't make much sense. Ask "society" at large if they believe there are other species out there and most of them will say "I don't know" or "Probably not". In many places, religion is likely to be more believable to people than multi-cell life somewhere else than Earth.
Why I still blog after 15 years
The department store was a place where women could escape their houses or apartments and spend time in surroundings That were much more expensive and attractive. Marble floors, decorated walls, mirrors and glass, finely finished display cases, and quality goods all contributed to a pleasant environment. Seasonal changes in decoration and products kept the experience fresh. The escapist experience was paid for by pricing the goods to cover the overheads.

When the department store migrated to being the anchor store at the suburban mall, its role as an escapist haven was diluted by the mall's amenities and by the proliferation of boutique shops lining the corridors.

On-line shopping now offers a wider selection of goods at lower prices. And social media offers an alternative mechanism to escape their present reality.
I made may own 70% limiter for Android. After 5 years the battery was like new. AccuBattery also said it was at 95% capacity.

But scheiße, I had to buy new phone anyway, because banking app refused to work on Android 6.
Been a pro gamedev for 20+ years.

You have a born game
designer on your hands. It is important to not assume this means they are super interested in programming. They may be, but game design is its own thing. HN will skew you towards programming first, naturally.

Check these out:

- Adventure Game Studio (https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/)

- Twine (https://twinery.org/)

And these have more visual ways of programming which could let them express their ideas with less friction

- Dreams (Playstation)

- Unity (with Playmaker or Bolt visual scripting)

- Godot

And the other suggestions of Scratch are good, but I find Scratch to feel like a way to learn programming more than expressing game
design.

Lastly, explore card and tabletop games with them. It’s a whole thing!
Muting his account has worked for me.
Ain't that for 8-yo
The code snippet toggle thingy takes almost half a second…
Why? Does she drain her phone to under 20% often?
I would imagine the water channel would re-freeze fairly rapidly, so you'd end up with a "bubble" of liquid water around the thing slowly melting itself down.
Herb Sutter CppCon2024 : C++'s Next Decade [pdf]
I dunno, it's a single button press on my phone to access it. That seems plenty fine to me.
The problem with current crop of LLM models is that it makes for a great demo. I am also confident that you can build a working prototype for GMail, Outlook or any other surface. But I am equally confident it will be a massively different ballgame to role it out to a billion users. You'll run into a lot of edge cases and have to take care of a lot of adversarial scenarios as well.
Pretty sure that's the same issue Apple is running into as well, and why they have had to postpone rollouts.
> The whole COVID Pandemic and the 2020 election definetly brought a lot of nuts out of the woodwork, and they never left.

HN was downright insufferable during the pandemic, it really made me think about leaving. Thankfully, nowadays the "bad" topics (mostly politically very polarised ones) tend to be fewer and can more easily be avoided.
I try to keep my cost of living relatively low for this reason. I’ll buy a nice thing or go on a trip here and there, but those things do not add recurring costs in my life. I _think_ if I were to lose my job, I could get a job at Costco or something and still make ends meet.

I’ve had a co-worker tell me I “live like a poor person.” He doesn’t know exactly what I make, but can assume I make more than him, due to our titles.

I thought once I paid my house off I’d be able to relax a little, but little has changed. I can just now last that much longer on a lower income of something were to happen. I also increased my savings rate, to keep extending that time out. But it’s all fear based. No amount will ever feel like enough.
When Computers Go Dark
Datomic Pro doesn't need AWS, I don't see what complications it can cause. It has some helpers for running it in AWS (like a bucket to export to CloudWatch), but none of them are mandatory. And if your use case is small you can run with dev storage (https://www.h2database.com/html/main.html); pretty much the same as you would SQLite.

It might be slightly harder to get started with, but then the simplicity comes in when it is time to solve common business problems. A trivial example would be - we have this nice db, now our clients want reports. You run your reporting as a separate clojure process, it doesn't impact production at all, without needing to setup reporting databases and log-shipping.