skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I volunteer as a mentor in a group where most mentees are recent college grads or early 20s juniors. ADHD is a perennial topic of discussion because most of them (no exaggeration) have either received a diagnosis or have self-diagnosed as ADHD.

One very common struggle I see is when they take internet advice that tells them it’s okay to offload their own struggles on to other people. Unfortunately this blog gives similar advice:

> Focus on managing how your limitations affect others rather than trying to eliminate those limitations. This means:
> Being explicitly upfront about your administrative weaknesses early in relationships
> Giving trusted contacts alternative ways to reach you when truly urgent
> Building a reputation for being aware of your limitations rather than in denial about them

This commonly translates to them adopting ADHD as part of their public persona within the company, which they believe will grant them some degree of protection from consequences.

From what I’ve observed: More often than not this provides a false sense of security. They don’t intend for it to become a free pass, but after “coming out” as ADHD they get the wrong impression that the pressure is now off.

I think they intend to continue working on becoming better at managing their struggles, but it’s really easy to let the opposite happen: Once they think their diagnosis can be used as an excuse, they relax and let their behavior slip even further.

So be careful about getting the wrong idea from this line of thinking. It is good to acknowledge your difficulties and do things like ask other people to follow up if you don’t reply in a timely manner. It is important that you own up when you’ve dropped the ball. However, none of these things should be interpreted as a free pass or a loophole that shields you from consequences. That line of thinking, in my experience, is where people get themselves in trouble.
>Are you aware that no screen is 64k x 64k?

AmigaOS, I believe from 2.0 onwards, could do that[0].

Width and Height being 16bit attributes of the struct for the requested screen.

I haven't seen an actual monitor able to display the whole thing at once, but that's fine, because you can make your screen gigantic yet set the video output to a much lower resolution.

Intuition will let you scroll through it by moving the mouse pointer past the edge.

0. http://amigadev.elowar.com/read/ADCD_2.1/Includes_and_Autodo...
This is not a computer problem, it's a human one. It's not that we don't have APIs and hooks because they're so difficult to implement - we don't have them because software producers don't want or care for us us to have them.

Enabling automation will never be zero effort and anything more than zero effort for something with such a low ROI is a no-go by default. But increasingly, automation is actually seen as a danger to their business models and companies sometimes even go out of their way to prevent it.

Looking at the screen the same way a user does is the only way to win.
Search for Topaz space reactor
Character amnesia in China
People say the same thing about Sudoku. Or any video game (historically claimed as a hobby that creates coders, just because many coders liked computers at an early age, I suspect)
What's the Singular Form of Cattle? (2010)
What is obvious is that OP is really into IQ elitism. Looking at the ‘A More Realistic Framework’ suggestions, it asks people to aim for the bare minimum.
IMO coding is to solving puzzle the same way as any other discipline (from people management to architecture) is to solving puzzles
At the moment none of these tools are sticky; switching is easy; trial costs are low.

This feels more like a sticky move than an innovation in what AI can do.

This is the know more about you, better context for results trick. Which any other could deliver with your "user habit profile RAG data" - browser hook is a great way to collect.
>GNU/Hurd

It will not go anywhere until they manage to move away from the gnu mach kernel.

(as it hasn't happened yet, I am afraid it is quite unlikely to happen anymore)
See also https://keys.lol
I’ve used the paid version of Gemini and was underwhelmed with its limitations. The integrations in workspace seem like they barely tried. It can’t even recognize spreadsheet headers to answer basic questions, despite having a private level of access to your docs that exceeds what a third party could. Is this chrome AI going to be any better, or just a way for them to implement the collection of training data as quickly as possible to avoid irrelevance?

It really says something about the state of competition, the power of capital, and the level of data hoarding these megacorps enjoy. A startup fumbling this way would be dead on arrival and receive no second chances.

There’s also something very offensive about Google championing the death of ad blockers in browsers while sucking in all our data to power their invasive browser features.
Some of my polyester t-shirts have lasted more than 10 years without any loss in colour or quality, it's a damn shame they cause microplastics since it's probably better that people don't buy clothing every month if clothes lasted longer.
Sometimes you actually have to think, or hire someone who can.
Go join the comments section on the Goodharts Law post to go on about measuring magical metrics.
Which is a good reason to split Intel into fab and fabless design. We have the latter outside Intel. We need the former.
I don't think technology is really making things worse. The free flow of information comes with pros and cons. It is hard to imagine that unidirectional communication is net better in the final analysis.
IMO, Nim's killer feature is it's syntax. It's even in it's slogan "Efficient, Expressive, Elegant".

HN crowd would not agree with me, but indentation-based syntax is easier to read, less cluttered and more intuitive than multiple nested ()'s or {}'s . And the success of python, despite it's countless flaws is the proof.
this is absolute BS. Journals are meant to have a split between the editorial board and their owners, because the credibility and ethics of the journal comes first. People don't read, or shouldn't want to read anyways, a paper that is just whatever the fuck Bezos decided was good that week; things should be as unbiased as possible.
People creating an account just to browse isn’t great for the WMF either. You don’t get the pages cached by Varnish and hit the Mediawiki servers directly. There’s still parser cache, but it’s still more load while logged in.
From the article: caption on a cow picture: "What did you call me?"

Call me anything you want but call me for dinner.
There are a few talks on VMM.

The major shortcoming right now is that guests only get one CPU, but as per the talks guest SMP is a priority and will be available in 3-4 months.

I do not follow the verification side much, but what I know is that VMM has some interesting properties.

Namely, VMM itself (which handles VM exceptions) does not get more capabilities than the VM, thus dramatically limiting usefulness of a VM escape.
Thanks, I updated it. I’d also like to say that I wouldn’t normally post this. It seems too political. Given the relevance of the previous story about the Washington Post though, this feels worth of submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41949297
They just don't show any ads to Russian users (if the user doesn't use a VPN to the outer world).
Jerry Falwell won - he just never envisioned it would be progressives making the boob tube safe for the children.
This article hits home so precisely -- not personally but in terms of those who I've worked with in the past, and in particular the reputation bits.

It was been painful to watch, to be honest, because the impact on our team had been so acute, and it simply never got better after so much effort on the part of management, other engineers, etc.

Where I diverge with base assumptions however is that I suspect these particular people had been misdiagnosed with ADHD, were given medication, and it was the medication that led them to drop the ball. Why? Basic physiological needs were never being met, again and again. They were constantly reporting insomnia, missing meals, fatigue and all of the things you associate with stimulants being either misused or abused. Having _been there_, it was easy to spot. And I think this sort of thing is tragically common in our field, and is rarely confronted because of identity issues associated with medical labels.
Yes, when looking for the definition of an unknown term
> And even if it were accomplished in a central open source library like Flutter, that adds a considerable amount to the package size of any application.

The download isn't much different to a typical website. That Flutter demo in wasm is 2 megabytes.

Avalonia UI's WebAssembly uses canvas in C#: https://avaloniaui.net/

Uno Platform's WebAssembly implementation uses the DOM rather than drawing to canvas: https://platform.uno/

Uno's philosophy is to use platform native controls. The benefit is that you get platform native characteristics, the cost is it will never be exactly the same in each browser and platform.
> Instead, Crowdstrike was quite clear that no computer systems that need to be reliable should have their software installed on it.

It is true that Crowdstrike added a disclaimer. But it is also true that adding a disclaimer doesn't absolve someone from all responsibilities.

As an example, you can put a bold disclaimer on your car saying, "Do not drive around me as you can get killed". But this will not absolve you of 1st degree murder when you kill someone.

> it's certainly a valid corporate approach in many markets.

It is a valid approach in many markets - but not all.

Which is why I say that Crowdstrike needs to be sued so as to blast SaaS companies that don't provide reliability into lower market caps. Essentially, unreliable companies don't deserve such market caps - and this is the best thing for consumers.
Those are fabless companies.
Gonna enlist and be the first man to rocket jump
A Population Expert Deciphers South Korea's Plummeting Birth Rate
You're right. The intoxication of graphics and visual design in games can't be underestimated. It's more than a paint job or window dressing. It slots into the whole itch-scratching appeal and addiction.

I agree debugging tools could make more use of visualisation. I remember the excellent HTML 3d view in Firefox, removed from version 47. For some reason we can't have nice things:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqHV625EU3E

Not sure if there's a way to get it back. I heard it's available in Edge, but I don't use that browser.
Just curious, before reading this, would you have given an alien intelligence access to your computer, not understanding how it works, and not trusting it? It doesn't have to be an AI, just ... an alien intelligence. Something not human. Actually, strike that, reverse it! Would you give human intelligence access to your unsandboxed computer?

I wouldn't!
I'm not sure if there's any economic system that could survive long term without people being productive. Just because the farm is collectivized doesn't mean you aren't working from the crack of dawn to sunset
> But the right to practice medicine is not considered a innate human right, [...]

Sorry, no opinion on medicine implied. My comment was meant to highlight the casual xenophobia of this sentence:

> You should see this for what it is, salary suppression by importing foreign labor, [...]

At the risk of making a comment on medicine:

> Your profile mentions that you live in Singapore. You may not realize that Singapore is very picky about which foreign medical credentials it accepts [1]. This is a safeguard that they provide to you as a (potential) patient.

No, it's not a safeguard. Just like it ain't in the US. The only thing necessary for a safeguard would be something like a rule that you need to sign tedious paperwork of acknowledgement before you can be treated by someone without the proper credentials. Not a ban.

If Singapore cared about proper safeguards, they probably wouldn't allow all kinds of 'alternative' medicine. See eg https://www.healthprofessionals.gov.sg/tcmpb/en/registration... for 'Traditional Chinese Medicine'. (See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_medicine for how TCM isn't even all that traditional, it's a fairly recent invention. Though that article is mostly focussed on the PRC. It would be interesting to see how that contrasts with practices in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore: places where Chinese culture escaped the Cultural Revolution.)

(Of course, government policy, even of a generally competent place like Singapore, isn't really a coherent thing. So some people in the Gahmen and in interest groups care about safeguards, some care about protecting the 'guild', some care about other things like cultural heritage, etc and in the end you get some messy compromise.)
Good for you. Too bad that you don’t have compassion for the majority of the population that have been affected by high food prices, high fuel costs and record crime levels. The tax from your 10% household income will come in handy for paying the living expenses of illegal aliens and the reparations you will owe.
How many people of 100 IQ could even develop a working knowledge of the necessary linear algebra?

Most college students I took it with, probably average a standard deviation higher, did pretty middling in the class.
This whole thing isn't really going that well. From what I can tell, 20 years ago it was pretty common to think that even if you had a "friendly" AI that didn't need to be boxed, you didn't let anyone else do anything with it!

The point of the AI being "friendly" was that it would stop and let you correct it. You still needed to make sure you kept anyone else from "correcting it" to do something bad!
I cannot tell if you are serious.
Some discussion 5 days ago (7+6 points, 2+8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41905769 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41910303
For all of the excitement about "autonomous AI agents" that go ahead and operate independently through multiple steps to perform tasks on behalf of users, I've seen very little convincing discussion about what to do about this problem.

Fundamentally, LLMs are gullible. They follow instructions that make it into their token context, with little regard for the source of those instructions.

This dramatically limits their utility for any form of "autonomous" action.

What use is an AI assistant if it falls for the first malicious email / web page / screen capture it comes across that tells it to forward your private emails or purchase things on your behalf?

(I've been writing about this problem for two years now, and the state of the art in terms of mitigations has not advanced very much at all in that time: https://simonwillison.net/tags/prompt-injection/)
Tesla, thumbprint/keypad locks on exterior doors and garage door opener. And prox card for work.

No wallet either fwiw!
This seems like annoying pedantry. Holding same-as-cash assets is not rocket science, there are plenty of professionals who could help you with that. On Vanguard you can buy things like T-bills with a few clicks. (I am not suggesting that they're using Vanguard specifically)
Not to mention money losing value, unlimited losses on shorts and the occasional gamestonk style manipulation.
> can't learn about advanced machine learning.

There's a difference between grokking an ELI5 explanation and being able to build, modify, or review an existing ML model
> Sometimes you actually have to think, or hire someone who can.

I'm perfectly capable of thinking. Thinking about "how can I create a system which reduces some of my cognitive load on testing so I can spend more of my cognitive resources on other things" is a particularly valuable form of thinking.

> Go join the comments section on the Goodharts Law post to go on about measuring magical metrics.

That problem is when managers take a metric and turn it into a KPI. That doesn't happen to all metrics. I can think of many metrics I've personally collected that no manager ever once gazed upon.

The real measure of a metric's value, is how meaningful a domain expert finds it to be. And if the answer to that is "not very" – is that an inherent property of metrics, or a sign that the metric needs to be refined?
dang (pun intended), this sounds like the tone of an llm, including hallucinations, which are just an euphemism for factual errors,
so I'll send it to another llm to verify, before I reply. :)

did you see what I did there? :)
Half of Retirees Will Run Out of Money. That's the Good News
Yep, we even have a name for substances that are generally recognized as safe, are consumed regularly by lots of people, and live a de facto decriminalized state— party drugs. We're doing people a disservice by not providing them in an above-board pure form, and bucketing them in with "not-even-once" drugs.

How we didn't see that normalizing business dealings with criminal enterprise and then selling diy testing kits at the pharmacy wasn't a good way to handle this is beyond me. We could have taken the hint that once they're legalized in 1-2 states the safety and quality across the US jumps for some unknown reason.
Mindustry
Guess I Dunning Kruegered, when I thought physics is based on mathematics and logical systems, to which a theory (itself having been proven) aught apply.
> here's your 0xF minutes

Writing '15' would have been easier here. Nothing wrong with writing 0xF but it's a weird choice that irked my curiosity. You just did it for style reasons?
And that difference is mostly down to having domain-specific knowledge, which is not something an IQ test measures.
This is true for quite a few graphic algorithms today. Certain terms in the equations used are pre-computed, and you can generalize all of them in a sense to be “probes”, “queries”, “function inversions”, “look up tables” or whatever. The only real way to know what can be computed on the fly vs what can be stored is to go ahead, try to implement it, think really fucking hard, and then see what you can do in real time. That’s basically how the field has advanced the formulas used into something that can run in real time, or can run in screen space complexity rather than scene complexity, and so on.

An equation given to you will be one of 2 forms usually; the raw equation that may come from optics, in which case expect an ass load of calculus and diff equations with arcane terms not seen outside of Maxwell’s equations. Or, in the likely case, the presenter is a PhD ubermensch nerd who has already pulled the terms out, rewritten them, is presenting them, and you need to be really paying close attention to every single word during their talk to figure it out. It’s at your discretion to determine which of the two forms is easier for you to deal with.
The Fed doesn't let banks do this because it would be "too safe"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrow_banking
Yes, factorio is not coding, though it follows some principle of programming, such as input-process-output, workflow, load balancers, modular design, etc. Many players say that the factories often resembles PCB.

but that's the extend of it, you don't have to do heavier programming practice like algorithm, complex state management, input parsing and validation (unless sushi), or anything involving combinators until finishing the 1.0 version.
I am hopeful for a secure and reliable seL4-based firmware for KVM devices such as this one.
If you subscribe to Peter Singer's views on consequentialism, we all have a moral duty to spend our life maximizing the number of people we save from dying or from immense suffering. Hard to do that if you're not being productive; though I'll be the first to admit nobody does or can live with perfect adherence to that principle
> As a user who does have need for kernel access,

Why do you need it?
No, it's not suggesting the bare minimum. It's asking the person to openly do what can be proven to provide the best value as long as the missed administrative tasks or fails are down-playable enough to not damage your reputation. This is a very easy framework for me to funnel my thought process through.

Recently, I've been in the position where I'm the only one taking ownership of new work and initiatives, sometimes to my own detriment. For example, I took on a feature that required an entire validation system be put in place. Though I succeeded in successfully completing the system, the feature was not fully complete. The validation system was not visible. Though if leverage, it would lighten everyones load, it largely went unnoticed and what was observed was that I pushed out a buggy feature. Though I resolved the bugs within a sprint, my reputation was damaged to the point where I took on a new feature and promised it would be done in a sprint. I succeeded but wasn't able to complete it due to the api team only finishing 2-3 of 8 apis. This sort of test I made for myself also had low visibility so even though it was an impressive feat by my team's efforts, it also largely went unnoticed.

Though the author is wrong to equate work-throughput with IQ, he's right to find a way to inform trusted management with this work ethic and he's right to make sure when high value tasks are taken on, that it be made clear to product so credit can be given.

I have team members that are doing the bare minimum but cross lots of t's and dot many i's and that gets them equal recognition as me who often misses deadlines but does lots of heavy lifting.
Google Gemini can't even set reminders on my Pixel 9 Pro. It's really hard for me to get excited about Google AI products when it can't even match the functionality of their non-ai products that they're supposed to replace.
Well, nevertheless, it's not a dupe and I'm not sure why I'm getting such hate. I followed the rules in my post, and the only reason I posted again was because I launched a new area of business.
Being productive doesn’t require you to be productive non-stop. It’s not good for you and will likely make you far less productive in the long run

Trivia on farming: Medieval peasants worked far less than modern employees (at most 150 days a year). It was obviously harder physical work than sitting in an office all day, but they had plenty of downtime
I have ADHD and sometimes my brain wants to do admin work but sometimes it doesn’t. It’s actually hard to predict, so that makes it even worse. If I do the admin stuff one time then people assume I’ll always do it but then next time I let it slip and that has negative consequences.

It kind of feels like I’m just a passenger and my subconscious is doing the driving in terms of my decisions if what to focus on.
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Yup, we don't need Intel, we need fabs.
One of my first thoughts when I saw Computer Use was it needs some secondary agent controlling what the controlled computer is able to do or connect to. Like a firewall configuration agent or something.
Imagine telling a quadriplegic something like this, though. The neurodiverse, which ADHD is a part, are always being told we still need to measure up to the standards of the non-disabled in some form or another. It’s always about how we shouldn’t offload our struggles on others. There’s no wheelchair for us, almost no one cares if our workplaces aren’t accommodating.
The white sheet alludes to a burial shroud.
> I hired a square space specialist

I had no idea such a thing existed.

If you can set up your own domain why would you need someone that specializes in a super limited non technical frontend for customizing prebuilt web templates?
Never have I ever read such a pile of bull.

Of cause everybody prefers the new and shiny but not executing on what's important is simply lazyness and lack of will.

The cherry on top is the comparison of the impossibly of teaching advanced machine learning to someone of average IQ -- clearly indicating that they assume to be of higher IQ since they have grasped that topic.

OP seems to be a low performer thinking of himself as high performer held back by circumstances and not themselves
I stopped watching Black Sails because of it.