skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"For media covering the airplane crashes in Washington and Philadelphia—all NTSB updates about news conferences or other investigative information will be posted to this X account. We will not be distributing information via email."
There's no shortage of careers with fast-paced work environments requiring creative problem solving that would be well-suited to a person with ADHD.

Anything creative or artistic, healthcare, tech, sales, skilled trades, restaurants, etc.

If the "reality" you are trying to prepare your child for is becoming an accountant/banker/lawyer/bureaucrat, then you will probably all be disappointed.
Not to nitpick but it’s 2025
Regulation about ads and tracking.
Since when is CNN paywalled?!?

Recently. There's been a few articles in the newspaper lately about CNN having a new guy in charge.

From memory: he wants to follow the New York Times/Washington Post model of news delivery -- which as much as people on HN hate -- seems to be working, financially speaking.

To that end, he's putting CNN news behind a paywall, firing 200 TV journalists, and hiring 200 digital people.

He's also pushing for more of CNN's video to be shot vertically.
Lmao. Nope. US is reclaiming the common sense
In practice communities of research mathematicians develop latex styles, similar to what they name the variables and like which proofs can be taken for granted. Collaborations are a method to synchronize the latex as are professor/grad student relationships.

So when you injest all the latex, you get the semantics, latex conventions, an variable naming of each school math for free
I make a living with go, scala, python, rust, java, and sometimes ts and Js. I prefer scala and sometimes rust.
I don't know if you are being sarcastic or not, but that is pretty cool if true.
Cannot agree more. Human interaction in person is far superior to virtual. Younger developers have never experienced this so they don’t appreciate the lack of it. However, I notice their delayed and glacial pace of growth. All of this is due to lack of discrete interaction which is where the real learning, team development and software development processes can thrive.
Comparisons to humans are ultimately misleading because 1) humans are not general intelligences most of the time, 2) humans run on incredibly faulty hardware.

1) Attention is limited. Human reasoning is slow. Motivation is limited. System 1 vs 2 thinking. Many will just tell you to fuck off or get bored and give some random answer to make you go away. Etc. See difference 2.

2) People run on limited hardware in terms or error rate and memory.

2a) Brains make mistakes all the time. Ask them to multiply a bunch of large numbers, using pen and paper they will get it wrong a lot of the time.

2b) Doing it in their head, they will run out of memory pretty fast.

But you wouldn't say that humans can't multiply numbers. When they have the right algorithm, they can do it, they just have to use the right tools to extend their memory and check for errors. A human who notices the difference in input to something he already knows, immediately knows he has to pay attention to that bit and all subsequent parts which depend on it. Once a human has the right algorithm, he can apply it to different inputs.

LLMs:

comparison to 2a: Current LLMs also make a lot of mistakes. But theirs are not a result of faulty or limited hardware, they are the result of a faulty algorithm. Take away the random seeds and an LLM will make the same mistake over and over. Randomness is the smoke and mirrors which make LLMs seem more "alive" and less like machines imperfectly imitating humans.

comparison to 2b) Current LLMs do not store statements in an abstract, structured form where they could save and load information and perform steps such as inferring redundant information from the rest. They operate on the token stream which is probably wasteful in terms of memory and less flexible in terms of what they operations they can perform on it.

Most importantly, they are not limited by memory. The input clearly states "the wolf will eat the cabbage", yet the LLM generates "This is safe because the wolf won't eat the cabbage if they're together on the far side." just a few lines below. It is unable to infer those two facts are contradictory. The statistics of tokens simply worked out in a way that lead to this.
Soon people will read other people's summary that they copied from AI summary on the web.
tl; dr
-- "Pinning Last Night’s Disaster On Diversity Hiring Is Unsupportable"
Maybe I don't want my experience "improved". I have never been glad my scrollbar was hijacked, or that the behaviors of the "back" button was changed.
It seems entirely reasonable some teams will work well remotely, others in person. It maybe be context dependent, and it may be that some people prefer different structures for different projects in different places over time.

There is no perfect pasta sauce, only perfect pasta sauces.
This blog post is irrelevant. Stub the feature flag system in code and write tests for both cases.
What's worse, is that the quote comes from a US government employee?

The megarocket instead relies on liquid methane and oxygen for propellant — but “any kind of fuel is going to … have a bunch of chemical energy inside it,” according to Marlon Sorge, the executive director of the Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies at The Aerospace Corporation, a federally funded research center.

“Even if it isn’t as dangerous as hydrazine, where you touch it or get close to it and you’re in trouble — it’s still volatile, like gasoline,” Sorge added. “And there are other things on board spacecraft, like batteries.”

He added that it is possible for entire rocket fuel tanks to survive the trip down to the ground: “If they’re weakened, you touch them, they blow up.”

I assume quotes are taken out of context by the article author. But that last quote appears pretty idiotic. I would hope that an executive director had more nous (technical and PR).
Do you actually have any reason to think it reads notification contents? This feature has never done anything that made me think it is. (genuine question, I’m in the EU and we don’t have Apple Intelligence here)
Linux on a floppy?
I don't think that's too far off, they had sex with people who had sex with him. Or people that were like them.
A JWT? Me me! I've seen this done wrong!

- memcmp(actual_sig, expected_sig) == 0
- strcmp(actual_sig_base64, expected_sig_base64) == 0
- strcasecmp(actual_sig_base64, expected_sig_base64) == 0
It isn't that good at maths tho, at least compared to Claude, at least for diophantine approximation and numerical linear algebra.
Related: a long podcast talking about the issues with starship locally: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/32-spacex-wastewater-l... (from https://deceleration.news/podcast/ ) , also https://deceleration.news/spacex-is-colonizing-south-texas-e...
I was at a speaking engagement where yudkowsky said quite clearly said to the audience "Even if my research has a 0.0000001% chance of preventing AI from destroying humanity it is worth it to fund my research"

To them their rationalization leads them to believe that because 0.0000001% > 0% they should be funded millions of dollars "just in case" AI goes rogue they can use their philosophical toolset to contain it.
Quick note that when I worked on a campus (not Dell, big silicon valley outfit) 30 years ago, I seldom met most of my co-workers face to face, except once in a while in a meeting or randomly in the cafeteria. This was because the campus was large and the probability that someone you interacted with was on the same floor let alone the same building was low.
Why aren't you just using environment variables for feature flags?

Have people still not bought into the whole 12 factor config things?
"There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."

Not sure how a general strike fits in that framework but to each their own...
EXAdam: The Power of Adaptive Cross-Moments
I don't want to disparage any of these specific demands, I agree with a lot (not all) of them, but put together they're so overly broad as to be a pipe dream. They might as well say they want to start a new political party that's slightly to the left of the Democrats.

The one thing that does stick out to me though is the Constitutional Convention. This is a bizarre ask, and it must be how they see their demands being passed into, not only law, but an amendment to the Constitution. The problem is calling a convention is so difficult† that their strike will last, essentially, forever. The last and only time we had a convention was in 1787.

† This graphic illustrates the difficulty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_to_propose_amendmen...
If they have to be incompatible then it's better to not conceal that. Generalized file formats require you to implement more stuff to support them, and we can't tell the format by looking at the file name.
I think it is possible to confuse a positive psychological effect in the sense of bringing you joy as opposed to a positive psychological effect that results in improved communal activity. I mean to say, not all benefits to a community are coincident with benefits to the individual. In fact, that would be a pretty Christian idea, that the sacrifice you make as an individual (to your enjoyment) results in a benefit for the community.

That is what I meant about me feeling selfish. It may be the case I am prioritizing my comfort over the needs of the community. Rituals are a public display of a willingness to sacrifice, one that is shared amongst a community. The monks see themselves sacrificing for the sake of each other when they show up for the unpleasant 5am prayers.
This quite literally cuts both ways, and workers know it.

If you can outsource work abroad, then you cannot justify mandating everyone be in the office. If you’re mandating everyone be in the office, then you can’t be outsourcing work abroad.

Workers aren’t stupid, and ignoring them is what leads to Unions.
I’d love to learn about more tools you use to collaborate productively in a virtual arrangement.
Please stop with the unnecessary platitudes. The GP is specifically asking about future safety in light of what's being discussed in the article. Continually harping on the past safety record as if it is an accurate forecast is a disservice to the parent's question.

Granted, the question was hyperbolic, but you can address that hyperbole directly rather than just giving a canned generic response.
Strong disagree here, my whole org does not roll out changes without feature flags at all and whenever someone doesn't follow this policy they cause large scale incidents. Feature flags are actually a sign the deployment pipeline is very sane and mature, because people understand any new code comes with unexpected risks and we should prevent these risks from taking down systems.
> you basically always want to run the best model, but the price of the hardware is a bit ridiculous. In the 1990s, it was possible to run Linux on scrappy hardware. You could also always run other “building blocks” like Python, Docker, or C++ easily

= "When you needed to run common «building blocks» (such as, in other times, «Python, Docker, or C++» - normal fundamental software you may have needed), even scrappy hardware would suffice in the '90s"

As a matter of facts, people would upgrade foremostly for performance.
Imagine you're a 10 year old in a typical suburb in the US. There might be a pet dog or cat around if you're lucky, but nothing even at the level of a goat or chicken, let alone something wilder.

Your nearest friend is two-three miles away. Not walkable at your age for sure. Maybe bikeable, but your parents watch Fox News and know that sex slavers from the city are on constant patrol for juicy morsels like you, so you stay in the house. (Even if your parents have a basic grasp of statistics, your neighbors don't and will call CPS before you make it a block from your door, if a "block" even existed for you.)

Genuinely, what would you do in this situation? This is _normal_ for a depressingly huge number of children in the US. There's school and there's the video games in the basement.

Adults can drive. There are no other options for kids.
I believe it’s turned off when below a certain altitude
Disability is in general relative to the expextations of a particular society. There are people who can't tell a minor and a major third apart - they won't make a career in music probably, but it's not considered a disability or disorder.
> I guess it depends on if you see humanity as a horde of dumb beasts drugged on sex, sugar and alcohol or a collective of relatively smart individuals capable of taking collectively smart decisions for their greater good.

Why not both? Clearly we have addiction problems in society - opiates, sugar, alcohol, cell phones - and clearly we have smart individuals and have been able to take collective action.

That collective action did not eradicate any of the above mentioned addictions though, and many of them grew worse (or were encouraged!) under the watchful eye of the collective.

We clearly need more tools at our disposal for these problems.
Amazes me how much the AI generated slop artwork puts me off the actual content of the article, which I'm assuming is of greater quality.
Explainations need to be 2-3 short sentences.
Longer, and even teenagers with Ahdh may not follow or retain the explanation offered.
Yes when it’s repeated hype, I expect better from HN.
A statement like "EVs pollute more than ICE engines" needs substantiation.

Large power generation systems (even messy ones like coal) are tremendously more efficient per unit CO2 produced than a car engine[1]. You could make a case, though it's been proven wrong many times, that the production of the battery in an EV generates more waste than a comparable ICE vehicle.

https://www.cotes.com/blog/greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-ev-...
My wife worked as a customer support rep for D-E-Double-Hockeysticks in the 2000s.

She liked working for Apple much, much more.

I think relatively poor treatment of employees is just ingrained into Dell's culture.
Did a test on a 1.3G text file (output of `find -f -printf ...`); Macbook Pro M3 Max 64GB. All timings are "real" seconds from bash's builtin `time`.

files.txt 1439563776
bzip2 -9 -k 1026805779 71.3% c=67 d=53
zstd --long -19 1002759868 69.7% c=357 d=9
xz -T16 -9 -k 993376236 69.0% c=93 d=9
zstd -T12 -16 989246823 68.7% c=14 d=9
bzip3 -b 256 975153650 67.7% c=174 d=187
bzip3 -b 256 -j12 975153650 67.7% c=46 d=189
bzip3 -b 511 974113769 67.6% c=172 d=187
bzip3 -b 511 -j12 974113769 67.6% c=77s d=186

I'll stick with zstd for now (unless I need to compress the Perl source, I guess.)

(edited to add 12 thread runs of bzip3 and remove superfluous filenames)
Linux On A Floppy
And of course, the email chain gives everyone time to think on the problem and construct a sensible reply, without interrupting anyone.

As opposed to some manager walking up to your desk while you're neck deep in concentration, only to ask you a retarded question that should have been an email.
I know it misses the sweetspot you are looking for, but have you tried curl?
The massacres will increase until open society finds leverage to push back.
Humanity mostly died hungry or sick...
I put together a $350 build with a 3060 12GB and its still my favorite build. I run llama 3.2 11b q4 on it and its a really efficient way to get started and the tps is great.
Well if Sam Harris says it.
Blaming the parents doesn’t matter anyways. The author, and the rest of us, are adults and responsible for ourselves. If those problems we bear are a byproduct of our upbringing we still are the ones responsible for dealing with those problems. Sure it’s unfair but you can complain about it or learn to accept those experiences made you who you are.
I retired from the industry a bit over a year ago, which led to some tension between my wife and I; these kinds of drastic lifestyle changes can be hard on a couple. We ended up seeing a couples therapist who, among other observations, strongly believed I suffered undiagnosed ADHD. So, in my mid 50s, having already in my own mind succeeded at life, I saw a specialist for an official diagnosis. After filling out several detailed surveys and discussing my life's history for several hours it was official--the therapist said that she had rarely been more certain of a positive ADHD diagnosis.

I'm still not sure how I feel about it. Over the years I've developed a narrative that explains away my utter failure as a student, the huge highs and lows of my professional career, my distrust and lack of respect for authority of any kind, and my pride in my achievements as an autodidact. I am a non-conformist I'd tell myself, a rebel, an independent thinker, yes a frequent fuck-up, but also a drug user, a risk taker, and someone who sees the "small stuff" as beneath them.

Now the narrative is becoming: "I have a neurochemical condition that affects attention, impulse control, and executive function which causes me to seek novelty, and drives a need for stimulation and engagement." Honestly, I like that narrative a lot less.

I suppose it's somewhat of a comfort knowing that there is a fairly common condition that goes a long way towards explaining my life, but it does seem to take the personal choice out of it.
Same here. Storage is not that expensive so I do NOT care to squize every byte out of archive. Also, im more into retro, so portability and memory usage is more importand for me :)
Author here. Yea, in this fashion. And it can create the feedback using llm as a backward engine
Humans run on hardware that is both faulty and limited in terms of speed and memory. They have a better "algorithm" how to use the hardware to compensate for it. LLMs run on almost perfect hardware, able to store and retrieve enormous amounts of information insanely quickly and perform mechanical operations on it insanely quickly.

Yet they "make mistakes". Those are not the same as human mistakes. LLMs follow an algorithm that is far simpler and inferior, they simply use the hardware to perform incorrect ("illogical", "meaningless") operations, thus giving incorrect results.

See my other replies for more depth.
This is dishonest, unnecessary, and likely a shadow layoff. But it’s also bad for the economy. If we can have people spread out, live how they want to in a mix of different environments, we can remove pressure on housing, traffic, services.
I've been doing this a long time and seen a few different apps use config in database. There's different levels of config you're talking about here, but general app config should generally not go in a db.

No-one ever changes the bloody things and it's just an extra thing to go wrong. If it only loads on startup, it achieves nothing over a bog standard config file. If it loads every request you've just incurred a 5% overhead on every call.

And it ALWAYS ends up filled with crap that doesn't work anymore. Because unlike config files, no-one clear it up.

Worse still is when people haven't made it injectable and then it means unit tests rely on a real database, or it blocks getting a proper CI/CD pipeline working.

I end up having to pick the damn thing out of the app.

Use a config file like everyone else that's probably built into the framework you're using.

To be honest, most of the time I've seen it has been when people who clearly did not know their language/framework who wrote the app.

I'm not saying it's you, but that's been my honest experience of config in the db, it's generally been a serious code smell that the whole app will be bad.
I didn’t read the author as blaming, and I can relate to what they’re saying. It’s hard to speak about a childhood full of abuses that thought they had your best interests at heart. I was locked in my room for days on end (sometimes back-to-back stints for weeks), deprived of privileges/books/music, berated, demeaned, and ultimately gaslit, throughout my childhood, because my parents didn’t really understand ADHD (or that I had it). It created a pretty big mismatch between expectations and reality. As a kid, I resented them a lot for this. As an adult (and parent), I realize what it must have looked like to them and I can empathize without condoning their behavior.

My performance is heavily bimodal: my adult ADHD assessment included scores in the 98th percentile and the 8th depending on the task. I also have an extremely wandering mind. Taken together, it seemed to my parents that I was a brilliant child who simply “refused to work hard”. This was not only toxic for my relationship with them, it poisoned my self-image and ability to relate to others for the first two decades of my life.

Any resentment I might have over that is ultimately misplaced. They were loving and caring parents who missed the mark in a way that just so happened to fundamentally shape my childhood experience. ADHD wasn’t even understood the way it is now, so the most I could have hoped for in childhood was a prescription.

Instead, I now make a point to be a parent who understands my own ADHD and my kid’s (which thankfully is pretty identical to mine). I help them use alarm clocks and timers like I do. I give them tools to understand and empathize with other people. I don’t treat dragging their feet on a task as disrespect or disinterest. I don’t get hurt when they lash out at me during a hard time. I’m not baffled or disgusted when their words reveal their underdeveloped empathy, and I try to accelerate that development.

I just cannot agree more that it’s a difficult job to get right. All kids need structure and discipline, but the types and amounts can vary widely, even for the same kid across their stages of development. I’m so thankful for the research that has been done and resources that have been created since I was young; without that I would have been a lot more like my parents, and my kid would have barely had a chance. I also appreciate OP for sharing their experience with us. It’s not fun to do but it’s necessary for understanding to grow.
Right? Like what if the parents of a child who's legs didn't work just pretended they did? How would that play out? Probably would end with a phone call to CPS.

Ignoring mental differences is not a solution to the problem. I've met too many parents who are afraid to get a diagnosis because "what if they have it".

There isn't a right way yo parent kids with ADHD. It's going to be something you have to work on together. But pretending it doesn't exist can only bring misery for all involved.
Nah, RTO is in no way trying to fix business sales. It's entirely a way to layoff workers or to control them. Trying to put an economic reason behind this power play is Febreezing a turd.
So how it works is there's a selection process to go to ATC school/training.

Just getting into training doesn't mean you get to be a controller, you get tested a lot and hard with very representative work (a close relative failed this actually), and only get to be an ATC if you pass well enough.

I think maybe you misread the article, because it explicitly says "Note that leaving behind qualified applicants from Collegiate Training isn’t why we don’t have more controllers"
No, you are not the only professional among the amateurs/hobbyists.

I know that sounds offensive, but let's be real, nothing wrong with using AI to code or using a gui to learn about the underlying protocol. But it is what it is
Yeah they aren't that good at spotting wrong questions (tho better than a year ago). Claude is especially likely to do this correctly. GPT o whatever will do this push back wrongly. Something in Gemini is positioning Gemini as an all knowing expert rather than a tool for exploring new true statements. It ends almost every thing with "is there anything else I can explain about the distribution of algebraic numbers with a given height".
can you explain that part though? i'm still not reading it. is it censoring abortion pills are pro trump activity?