skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a basic concept in accounting. The general ledger is an immutable log of transactions. Other accounting documents are constructed from the general ledger, and can, if necessary, be rebuilt from it. This is the accepted way to do money-related things.

Synchronization is called "reconcilation" in accounting terminology.

The computer concept is that we have a current state, and changes to it come in. The database with the current state is authoritative. This is not suitable for handling money.

The real question is, do you really care what happened last month? Last year? If yes, a log-based approach is appropriate.
Weirdly, it already is! I don't understand what's going on there. Are we getting sent to a different spot on the page depending on what angle we click from?
> It had fairly steady growth until 2012, before petering out throughout the 2010s and 2020s in lieu of more centralized sites like StackExchange, and by 2025, only a small community was left

This timeline tracks with my own blogging. Google slowly stopped ranking traditional forum posts and blogs as well around that time, regardless of quality, unless it was a “major”.

> But, unlike so many other fora from back in the early days, it went from 2003 to 2025 without ever changing its URLs, erasing its old posts, or going down altogether.

I can also confirm if you have a bookmark to my blog from 2008, that link will still work!

The CMS is no longer, it's all static now... which too few orgs take the short amount of time to bother with when "refreshing" their web presence :(
Reminds me of how Amazon doesn't arrange its items by similarity like a store does, so a model of vacuum cleaner might be next to a set of kitchen plates. They actually intentionally avoid similarities so pickers won't accidentally grab a similar but wrong thing.

I lose track of so many infrequently used objects in my home -- which storage bin in which closet did I put the x-acto blade refills in? -- and one bin will overflow while another is half-empty because I try to keep similar items together. Sometimes I fantasize about tracking every possession in a spreadsheet that points to which bin, so I'd never lose anything and could always use storage space with maximum efficiency. But then I know I'd be lazy and skip updating the spreadsheet when I put something new away... plus it just seems so inhumanly weird, like something a robot would so rather than a person.
> NeXTStep

That was 30 years ago! Why should Apple stick to a decades-long rule?
Good questions. Zeekr Mix does have lower entry height and a larger opening than typical taxis/rideshares. It is not designed for wheelchairs, but it is already common to operate separate paratransit vans for wheelchair users who are better served by door-to-door transport. Self-driving vehicles guarantee a seat because rides are pre-scheduled.
> They are often misrepresented presented as a futile toy for “galaxy-brain people”, providing no benefit to the regular programmer

Me: Go on I am listening...

> The backend I’m writing is just a program — written in Haskell — that takes as input the internal representation of Agda programs, and outputs λ□ programs. A compiler of sorts.

Me: <Closes laptop lid>

I am sure that theres something useful happening here, but it is definitely too galaxy-brain for this guy.
Stress is certainly a killer, but it's a facet of a broader factor.

Society has built up a lot of systems to support people, to protect us from our environment and ourselves, and they've been incredibly successful; average lifespans have increased dramatically... literally by decades.

For the most part, these systems are built in response to and designed around how "we" expect peoples' brains work. If your brain doesn't work those ways, many of those support systems are unnecessary, ineffective, or worse still: harmful. There's also no doubt a bunch of systems that could be designed & built that could to help support & protect people with challenges that are largely non-existent for people whose brains work as we expect.

That the combined consequence of this is less that a decade of life expectancy for people with ADHD is actually quite remarkable, but let's not kid ourselves: we could be doing so much better.
> Right, most of the energy is used pushing air out of the way

That's certainly the case once you're at speed (above 20km/hr is about the point where more energy is spent overcoming wind resistenace iirc). But I'm taking about taking off from the lights. Even to get you to 10 km/hr for free (or cheap) would be a bit boost for a commuter.
It can make it get there faster depending on how many stages of heating/cooling you have.

Problem we have at work is people that are cold temporarily adjusting the heating setpoint too high (above the cooling setpoint), now when it goes back to normal operation after the override expires, the temp of the space is above the cooling setpoint, so the cooling turns on. And now people are wondering why it's in cooling in the winter.

But I agree that's not the desired operation.
> When there was xenon poisoning in the upper half of the core, the safety rods were designed in such a way that, at least initially, they were increasing (and not decreasing) the core reactivity.

I wonder if any reactor-design groups do "fuzz testing" on simulated models, checking that they can recover from very weird states even if it's not clear how the state could have been reached in the first place.

For example, having one section just arbitrarily xenon-poisoned, while another is arbitrarily too hot.
It's amusing to hear of a software developer just beginning to block ssl.gstatic.com in 2025 when other folks have been denying access to ssl.gstatic.com and various other unnecessary domains for many years, years before Little Snitch even existed. The author confesses he did not know about his web browser phoning home to ssl.gstatic.com but titles his blog post about Little Snitch with the phrase "that nobody knows about" insinuating that he now knows about something that others do not. Funny.
> "...while providing zero contextual links."

I can't provide a contextual link for a subjective judgement about the quality of conversation on Twitter. You can provide a contextual link for the guy on Twitter who posts about AI and has been reposting his Bluesky interactions on Twitter.

All I'm hearing from your contributions to this thread is "I'm interested in saying things, I'm not interested in listening to responses". Which makes for a pretty poor level of discussion that's beneath HN.
I find that stress leads to this endless cycle of drinking at night to clam the brain (otherwise I spend half the night panicking and ruminating over every little thing), followed by energy drinks the next day to keep focused without taking proper medication. I ended up having to quit most of it when the toll on the body was too much after years and years.
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The username length restriction might come partly from that. They could surely relax it by now, though. I saw it at play this week when @SecondGentleman (15 characters) changed to @SecondGent46.
Man, this would be so much more intuitive as a command line tool that either generates a HTML file with the summary, or a CSV file with filename, focal length. Dragging thousands of photos into the browser window seem very sketchy (OK I just tested, Vivaldi doesn't like me dragging dozens of files onto it, I can do 2 files, but if I try dragging about 20 files it just loads one of the images, replacing the page).

I can imagine a CLI wouldn't even read the entire file (I have 15MB heavy images), just the few KB's at the beginning to find the Exif tag.
> What idiot designs these things?

This is carefully planned.
Thanks. I noticed that, and removed the study link after posting- but these drugs have been used very long term, and the risk vs benefits extensively studied. They do increase CVD risk measurably, but that seems to be compensated for by reduction of other risks.
As usual this started with an incoming phone call. If you ever receive a phone call from a tech company, it's a scam. The caller ID doesn't matter. The caller's accent (wtf) doesn't matter either. It's a scam.
I distinctly remember that "Paintbrush" in Windows 3.1 had something very similar to this. Check it out in the Win3.1 emulator: https://archive.org/details/win3_stock -- open Paintbrush, go to Options -> Image Attributes and set "Colors" to "Black and White".

However, the dithering there is not fixed to the background but depends on your brushstroke / mouse position.
From the first article: "But people with ADHD had twice the rate of suicide, twice the rate of death by homicide, and a 30 % greater rate of death from unintentional injury"

I get the suicide, but the higher homicide rate is surprising. Any thoughts on why someone with ADHD has a higher chance of being murdered?

ETA: I never considered ADHD people as risk takers (definitely not me) but apparently they are: https://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/features/adhd-dangerous-risky...
Could I buy a physical device like RSA SecurID from my bank branch or post office and log into a closed VPN-like network where all the servers are run by verified users? I know there are problems with that idea.
It’s really just Date and Instant. Joda-Time isn’t part of the standard library. And if you’re listing Calendar, you might as well also list ZonedDateTime, OffsetDateTime, and LocalDateTime, not to mention stuff like java.sql.Date.

In reality, there’s just one old API and one new API, similar to the old collection classes (HashTable, Vector, etc.) and the newer JCF ones.
In your opinion, how far out are we from an AI agent that is usable as a daily driver (i.e., does not have the flaws in Operator, or other common flaws)?
Something I'm increasingly noticing about LLM-generated content is that...nobody wants it.

(I mean "nobody" in the sense of "nobody likes Nickelback". ie, not literally nobody.)

If I want to talk to an AI, I can talk to an AI. If I'm reading a blog or a discussion forum, it's because I want to see writing by humans. I don't want to read a wall of copy+pasted LLM slop posted under a human's name.

I now spend dismaying amounts of time and energy avoiding LLM content on the web. When I read an article, I study the writing style, and if I detect ChatGPTese ("As we dive into the ever-evolving realm of...") I hit the back button. When I search for images, I use a wall of negative filters (-AI, -Midjourney, -StableDiffusion etc) to remove slop (which would otherwise be >50% of my results for some searches). Sometimes I filter searches to before 2022.

If Google added a global "remove generative content" filter that worked, I would click it and then never unclick it.

I don't think I'm alone. There has been research suggesting that users immediately dislike content they perceive as AI-created, regardless of its quality. This creates an incentive for publishers to "humanwash" AI-written content—to construct a fiction where a human is writing the LLM slop you're reading.

Falsifying timestamps and hijacking old accounts to do this is definitely something I haven't seen before.
One study cited by the paper looked at long(er) term cardiovascular risk (most likely concern for stimulants) and found that while people with ADHD had significantly higher risk of cardiac events there wasn't a significant difference between medicated and unmedicated individuals (11.8 year average follow-up).

IMO its definitely possible there are increased risks but its unlikely they overshadow the associated significantly reduced risk of unnatural mortality for most people with ADHD. More research, better risk screening, and non-stimulant medication options are all still great directions to move in though.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36073682/
Putting random links in your comments is of limited value, and it shouldn't add authority to your claims. It's actually too common on HN for people to make things up and then put some sort of citation that actually doesn't support what they are claiming whatsoever, knowing that 99.9% of users just don't care that much. The fact that it actually works on some people is hugely unfortunate.

However while I'm not the other guy, how about [1] and [2]. I desperately hope that this ups my links to post ratio!

The whole "block list" thing on bsky has been a massive torch mob/brigading tactic, and it's boorish.

[1] https://eugeneyan.com/writing/anti/

[2] https://bsky.app/profile/eugeneyan.com/post/3lcykteugys2w
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Isn't the combined type the most common, or has that type gone away? I find that people that are hyperactive tend to be more impulsive, and if I am not mistaken, impulsivity is the strongest correlated factor in determining longevity in humans. However, I could be wrong about the levels of impulsivity being different. That's just conjecture on my part.
At the 12 second mark, https://youtu.be/0_0M_5tgLT8 says Trump wanted to buy Greenland and failed, but the Prime Minister of Denmark is a fan of MrBeast, who will manage the purchase on April 24, 2033.
I believe his was actually: the network is the computer.

And he was right, he just didn’t anticipate greedy US ISPs would set progress back 2 decades.
I don't even know where the idea that those are the best practices came from.

The phone number best practice has always been constructed as "call them back at a known good number, preferably one written on paper or on your card". You certainly don't ask them to show you where on the company website the phone number is listed.

And asking the person on the phone with you to send you an email from a specific domain is likewise not something I've ever seen recommended: that's one of several things you check to see if an email is phishing (And only one of several! A good domain isn't enough to clear an email!) But if you're already on the phone with someone suspicious, the best practice has always been to get off the phone with them immediately and call a known number, not to ask the caller to prove themselves.

None of this is to blame OP for misunderstanding, it's just very clear that we need to do better at communicating these rules out to the world.
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Why is Meta the company using facebook.com domain? meta.com doesn’t work? Maybe Meta is a temporary name? Shady AF.
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Perhaps.

But Pres. Trump enjoys dominating the news - whether he's actually up to something, or just having fun by making a scene.
Didn't the study only look at people that were officially diagnosed though?
I don't doubt it's his "style", and I think the effect is as you describe.

I do not know if he is conscious of it / it is a thought through strategy... or something else. He seems straight up falling into an old age involved cognitive decline. At times he sabotaged what seemed like initiates last term by praising a bill, then angrily claiming he would veto it, his own party members not sure what was going on. Some of his legal troubles don't really benefit him at all and he steps in it again. His words don't even make sense together at times and even those around him seem confused.

I'm just not sure how much is thoughtful strategy, or just old age problems that are effectively just childishness.
Yeah, we don't understand nearly enough about the brain to have a very mechanistic view of ADHD. With so many different types on a spectrum, and sometimes symptoms being caused by things like physical trauma or infection, it is likely there are different possible mechanisms. However, it certainly appears like dopamine is highly involved, but noepinephrine also seems to be involved as well.

Medically, it is defined symptomatically, and not mechanistically.
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> You need around 200 watt to hold 25kmph on a flat road

Most non-lycra cyclists I've observed seem to cruise at around 20km/hr; my personal experience is that 20km/hr is pretty easy once you're moving; 25 is a noticable bit more work. Also, for commuting where there are traffic lights involved (based on my own experience), you rarely have a chance to do more than 20, and if you do, any time advantage is killed by the next red light.
Online identity verification is the obvious solution, the only problem is that we would lose the last bits of privacy we have on the internet. I guess if everyone was forced to post under our real name and identity, we might treat each other with better etiquette, but...
>There are approximately 160,000 individuals living with bipolar disorder in Norway, and globally, around 40 to 50 million people are affected.

Does Norway have an unusually high prevalence? That is 2% of Norway's population and 0.6% of the global population
Correct, I'm sorry. I meant the app, not the module. You don't need the module, just the app. I was confused by the repo name it seems. The app is indeed called EasyEUICC
Holy C is hard to code without crashing Adam. If you type the wrong kind of indirection, the whole OS freezes.
I don't really get the revenue angle though. The AI posts don't seem to be trying to drive traffic to ads or anything. I really don't understand the point of auto-generating a bunch of AI gibberish under the name of old users on ones own site?
Hey!

Whichever versioning scheme you end up choosing, the important bit is to keep documentation for all versions. Bonus points for mentioning in the docs when a feature was first added.

Some examples off the top of my head include python docs, django, bootstrap, postgres and celery.
The AC to backspace change really screwed me up and I'm back on a third party calculator. It's a speed bump that feels like hitting a brick wall every time!
For windows, there is also [The RAD Linker](https://github.com/EpicGamesExt/raddebugger?tab=readme-ov-fi...) though quite early days.
As a tangential observation, I discovered something surprising in the etymology of "to remain," which serves as a microcosm of Heidegger's philosophy.

First, consider this word2vec equation: being + time = to remain.

Then: "to remain" is the goal, while "mere remains" is the fate we want to avoid. This mirrors Heidegger/Hölderlin's quote: "where danger is, grows \ The saving power also."

Let's examine the etymology:

"To remain" comes from Latin "re-" + "-maneo". "Maneo" means "to stand," "to remain". So "to remain" literally translates to "to remain again". Intriguing.

"Remaneo" is affiliated with "remano", meaning "to flow back". As we dig through the stratigraphy of etymology, we stumble upon "wret-", the Indo-European root that led to "re-", associated with "returning" or "rising back up". By seeking the origin of "to remain" through the allegedly dead stacktrace of etymology, we realize we're merely iterating it over again.

This leads us into Proto-Indo-European territory: "men-".

726 1 men- IE 2. menth- to rise, mount, tower
726 2 men- to press, step on, tread down
726-28 3 men- IE 5. men- to think; mind, spiritual activity
728-29 4 men- IE meni- to diminish; small
729 5 men- IE 3. men- to stay, remain, stand still

This leads to a profound realization: "to remain" is "to think again". Being and thought are the same. Or so is the literal translation of Parmenides that Heidegger insisted on—thinking over.

It also leads us to "to remind" (the Call), and "mindful" (Care).
> Maybe government roles do not need high performers at scale like the private sector does.

As a taxpayer, I respectfully disagree; as someone who wishes the government was more efficient, I disagree; as someone who complains about poorly thought-through red tape and bureaucracy, I disagree; as someone who cares about enforcing regulations that set minimum floors on the safety of our food, transportation, and drugs, I disagree; as someone who cares about the money poured into basic and applied science research without expectation of profit, I disagree.
It's a game of knowledge and I have time, if you think I don't know what I'm doing please just call it out so I can politely disagree :P
I run a very small vps running caddy and tailscale. Then just expose any service I need externally through that. Very easy to setup.
One could argue that substance abuse, suicide, and impulsive behaviour (and these were all specifically called out in the study) are a reaction to stress. I would certainly say they are a reflection of lack of access to health care and support systems (e.g. a large portion of ADHD substance abuse is self-medicating).

I think it would be interesting to see a follow up study comparing the life expectancy of ADHD folks who are on vs. not on ADHD medications. If nothing else, I would expect it could help with advocacy for better access to them.
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Well sure, that's why you work in grayscale and only dither in the end if you want to maximize quality and detail.

I'm talking about from an artistic perspective. The way you see the brush strokes in certain styles of painting, it would add character to see where two dithered areas of the same lightness had a slightly visible discontinuity. I think it could be a very cool artistic effect.
Same with siliconinvestor.com

It was an early stock discussion forum. It grew rapidly when search engines started indexing everything and this forum had a URL for each message that was easily indexable.

It's still around, but nothing like the old days.
I'll read every Stephenson as soon as it drops, but yeah, they are hit and miss. Anathem was definitely a hit (though I think Snow Crash or The Diamond Age would be my favorite). I wonder how much Anathem was inspired by Canticle
I am not bitter for buying my first home in 2023. Like, I gave the sellers a life time savings on top of what they bought it for 15 years ago. Also they did almost no maintenance. I am not bitter.
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I suspect this is because of a continuing rise in the percentage of home sales representing home purchase as an investment by an investor instead of purchase for habitation, but I have no citable research to back that up at the moment.
I genuinely don't know what people with this opinion work on that they can so easily choose to completely re-invent the wheel in every project, just because they're afraid of hypothetical dangers. Most of which are still present for private re-implementations (like bugs).

I cannot think of a single project where NIH syndrome would've been a net positive. Even dependencies that aren't "essential" are super helpful in saving time.

When you recreate parts of an "optional" dependency for every single project, how do you find the time to fix all the extra bugs, the edge cases, the support for different versions of lower level dependencies, of different platforms?
100%.

So far (thankfully) I've noticed this stuff get voted down on social media but it is blowing my mind people think pasting in a ChatGPT response is productive.

I've seen people on reddit say stuff like "I don't know but here's what ChatGPT said." Or worse, presenting ChatGPT copy-paste as their own. Its funny because you can tell, the text reads like an HR person wrote it.
I have a friend whose son was prescribed Adderall when he was 12-13 years old. She noticed the adverse effects right away, so she discontinued the drug, and took her son out of school for a year. He did much better getting homeschooled, and was able to return to the public school system after a year.

Most of the "mental health" diagnoses have to do with metabolic problems. Emotional stress is one of the drains on the body's energy reserves.

Stimulants like amphetamine 'shred' our mitochondria. It's okay for a short-term boost, but causes deterioration too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18211048