skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Admittedly due to the recent hype about adult ADHD, I got myself tested to understand that I am likely to have it to some degree. However, it proved difficult to diagnose as I found my niche to function as part of society (if you assume that a university is no ivory tower) I had a mother that actually in hindsight devoted her life pretty much to make life work for me. Before she died she actually told my to be wife to take care of me. As much as I am thankful about having people who cover my ass, I would expect it from anyone. Also the right balance between structure and 'affirmative action' is close to impossible to find. One of the most important things though my mother told me over and over as a child was that I should not compare myself to others and that I am in the end responsible for myself (also to find my place in society)
Twitter seems as strong as it did in 2016.

Granted the reasons why are different. Musk has a cult of personality around him that turns anything he touches into gold.

But laying off tons of talented people from Twitter didn’t kill it… that’s just what it is.
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The problem with claims like these that models are not doing “actual reasoning” is that they are often hot takes and not thought through very well.

For example, since reasoning doesn’t yet have any consensus definition that can be applied as a yes/no test - you have to explain what you specifically mean by it, or else the claim is hollow.

Clarify your definition, give a concrete example under that definition of something that’s your version of true scottsman reasoning and something that’s not, then let’s talk.
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> or whether it's a backtrack after the 'bad optics' after the Washington, DC, crash.

Either way you have a plan that wasn’t well thought through or thoughtfully executed. Having said that, at least they’re not (ultimately) directly tempting understaffed critical workers to quit although one wonders which functions haven’t had a plane crash moment.
I have seen this work. You just work it out with your manager directly and don’t involve HR or leadership and it’s fine.
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dupe, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42878450
> A common case where this is useful is if the address space where the object lives is accessible, for read or write, by references exogenous to the process like some kinds of shared memory or hardware DMA.

Huh? Okay, I allocate some memory and DMA-map it to the device [0]. Then:

1. Device uses it.

2. I copy or otherwise consume the data. Hopefully not in a way that causes UB.

3. I’m logically done, but maybe the device isn’t.

4. I’m 100% done, and I unmap the memory. And it’s an error if the device touches it again.

Why would I represent steps 2 and 3 as std::move? Maybe this results in efficient code in some particular code base, but it is not idiomatic, and I can almost guarantee that the same performance could be achieved in a less mind-bending and expectation-defying manner that doesn’t call itself a move.

I don’t see why Rust would have any particular trouble with this as long as you don’t try to force the lifetime of a DMA allocation or mapping into an object that doesn’t live long enough.

[0] The mapping operation may or may not be a no-op given IOMMUs, various VM translation schemes, etc.
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I think you're overstating the betting angle. I saw and read about people buying buying lotto tickets long before COVID. Sports betting is certainly a bigger deal but day trading was a big thing in the dot-com era well before crypto.

And there's still a ton of innovation going on in the tech industry. There have been shifts; there's a lot more about open source for example. AI is way over-hyped probably but there's still the core of something useful there even if we don't really know how it will develop.
I think the privacy should be the whole point. There's always a price to pay.
I'm optimistic that soon you'll be able to get better speeds with less hardware.
Probably backed by some adversary IMO
"root cause of success"
Never been managed by KPIs?
I have a feeling that "Apple is late, but does it right" is an excuse. They are dealing with a tradeoff from being a deeply integrated and polished system. Being in control of everything is nice for creating a unified experience. But, it also means there's coupling everywhere. It must be a nightmare to change or add things, especially big things to iOS. We are getting to see what happens when they are forced to rush, they need to move a lot slower to avoid breaking things.
What you have here is essentially a tragedy.

I totally sympathize with the author as someone who is (probably) neurodivergent but had accommodating parents. Being given space to better understand myself and my value was integral to my success and in being ok being different.

But as a dad to a neurodivergent kid, I impose structure - sometimes to discomfort, never intentionally to pain - because structure is imposed upon us all. I mean, if I could stop time, that would fix most of the issues with my kid’s ADHD. Same if I could make less the impositions of having to do chores, or to eat, sleep, bathe. But there is no easy escape from those things. So, I impose, despite not wanting to, because the imposition is coming anyway.
I find this argument a bit weak:

for example, regarding human marginalization in states, it's just rehashing basic tropes about government (tldr, technology exacerbates the creation of surveillance states)

- "If the creation and interpretation of laws becomes far more complex, it may become much harder for humans to even interact with legislation and the legal system directly"

Well duh. That's why as soon as we notice these things, we pass laws against it. AI isn't posing the "existential risk", the way we set up our systems are. There are lots of dictators, coups, surveillance states today. And yet, there are more places in which society functions decently well.

So overall, I'm more of the opinion that people will adapt and make things better for themselves. All this anthropomorphization of "the state" and "AI" obscures the basic premise, which is we created all this stuff, and we can (and have) modified the system to suit human flourishing
This article reeks of performative privilege. She’s not living without money, she’s simply refusing to handle money herself, allowing others to do it for her.

“I live without money by living rent free in my friend’s house that she paid for with her money and when I discovered dentists won’t accept fermented vegetables, dumpster dived food or my handwritten poetry money I started a crowdfunder asking friends and strangers to give me some of their real money. I have a phone because my friend bought one with money and gave it to me, but I don’t have a SIM card. Instead I use the wifi that my friend pays for with her money…”

It’s easy to live “without money” if you know people with money, capital, resources and a sympathy towards alternative ways of living.
I don't post on hacker news often so forgive me if sharing a link to my own blog post is not kosher. I'll remove it if so.

I've been experimenting with using a flip phone for a few months now. It's got some quirks and has been more interesting of a switch then I thought.

I wrote about it here:

https://www.greghilston.com/post/switching-to-a-flip-phone/

Disclaimer, I have two analytics JS libraries running. One is gA, the other is one I've been meaning to rip out but haven't yet. I also want to add a comment system that ties into say GitHub posts or something else. Open to any advice on making these posts more "hacker" friendly
Show HN: Drop-In RAG Middleware for Ollama with DeepSeek R1 Support
This release will enable Chipper to act as an Ollama drop-in middleware and allows for client side query parameters.
The comment about an "email chain could have been a 30-second chit chat" is such a straw-man argument. On top of that, forcing everyone to commute up to an hour each way is a blatant disregard for people's personal time. How productive would the workforce be if the commute counted as work hours?
The author is super cool. They are one of very few people to write any substantial programs in Malbolge, a programming language designed to be cryptographically hard to use (or something like that)
Looking at the human nature while interacts with Capitalism, looks like they will try to concentrate it.

I found it shameful that we hold so much a power hungry war while however as Memento Mori teach us, the only certainty is death, and that power is simply gone.
It does seem likely that it is the least productive who remain.

The approach ensures that the people who most badly need a paycheque or who just are into it for a paycheque are those that are most likely to stay. Not likely the most experienced and best workers.

The most passionate people can go anywhere and do anything and are more likely to leave.
Are you referring to the 30 second quip or the generic non-response?

> Asked whether Dell has any financial data that suggests working from the office leads to better productivity or results, a spokesperson said, "We continually evolve our business so we're set up to deliver the best innovation, value and service to our customers and partners. That includes more in-person connections to drive market leadership."
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It's also purely surface polish. It's a rat's nest underneath the shiny, I half expect Apple to not even know how to make things work properly anymore given the hot mess their underlying systems are.
Oh good lord, I asked it two fairly technical questions, and it contradicted both the top answers... is there a way to get rid of it?

You used to be able to put 'Eliza' to sleep by using the word 'Dreamt'
Intel sinks $19B into the red, kills Falcon Shores GPUs, delays Clearwater Xeons
Blaming yourself for things that aren't your fault is also a sign of depression, not productive, and doesn't lead to solutions to the problem at hand. I think we probably agree that blame just isn't the ideal way to approach problems and the end goal would be to not include blame in the thought process at all. But for someone who is blaming themselves for everything, placing blame appropriately can be a step toward rebuilding some self-esteem.
Good find, I think those would be books written in English published by German publishers. The blog post discusses how ISBNs are allocated ... specifically the ones you picture are published by Springer, which is a German company that publishes in the English language.

Considering a specific example: "Forecasting Catastrophic Events in Technology, Nature and Medicine". The website's use of "Group 978-3: German language" is a bit of a misnomer, if they had said "Group 978-3: German issued" or "German publisher" it would be clearer to users.
If ADHD is genetic, which I believe it is, then the odds are the parents have their own problems as well - and these problems can manifest in a wide variety of dysfunctions.

My parents are awful people but having lived through ADHD and chronic fatigue I no longer blame them for who they are. Knowing that they would have been going through something similar when they were my age I understand how tough it must have been for them. The internet is what saved me from becoming a full time asshole, without the internet my parents just had gaslighting from doctors. The amount of pain and suffering that you don’t know isn’t normal because everyone is telling you it is, is enough to make anyone an asshole no matter how much they fight it, it’s not a choice.
All my Republican friends tell me this kind of talk is 'shrill' and would never happen. I certainly hope they're correct, but that story about Pinochet is terrifying.
> in past generations you had artists and rebels and seekers and every other kind of misfit that made life interesting and unique and challenging to the status quo

I get what you’re saying, but parents of ADHD children are looking to help them become adults that can function in society and be independent without the struggles that are often accompanied with ADHD: addiction and self-destructive choices.

A lot of the types of people that you mention — rebels, seekers, misfits — I feel are generally less happy individuals, and might chose a different path for themselves if they had the right opportunities and tools.

Sure they might make life interesting for others, and maybe “interesting” is a word they might describe for their own life. And what often makes them “interesting”, looking from the outside, is that they are addicted and/or self-destructive.

But are they ultimately happy, and is it the life they really wanted for themselves?

That’s what parents struggle with. If they know their child will be happy with addiction, self-destruction, and being “interesting”, maybe it would be easier to not worry about or try to help them with their struggles with ADHD.

But most parents think their children will want a different life, and so they also want that for them.
I poke around in this space periodically, but I've never found a compelling reason to move away from gzip.
The biggest win we had as parents, I think, is always explaining why we had each rule and expectation. We’re not doing this because we don’t want you to have fun. We’re doing this for these specific reasons that benefit you.

Now that are kids are older and out of the house, they voluntarily follow pretty close to our teachings, largely because they saw friends do the opposite and experience the bad consequences we foretold. “Huh, Dad was right: staying up too late and sleeping through a work alarm really does make bosses cranky.” They’ve each thanked us for taking the time to teach why things are important instead of just laying down inscrutable laws. I know I hated that as a kid.
Yes; and for further reference, the non-Pinyin transliteration is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade%E2%80%93Giles and the "add/drop" is that instead of the title 秦始皇 Qín Shǐ Huáng (lit. "first Qin emperor") Borges is using the title 始皇帝 Shǐ Huángdì (lit. "first emperor").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi%20Huangdi (redirects to Qin Shi Huang)
My standard test is compressing a "dd" disc image of a Linux install (I use these for work), with unused blocks being zeroed. Results:

Uncompressed: 7,516,192,768
zstd: 1,100,323,366
bzip3 -b 511 -j 4: 1,115,125,019
You are replying to a comment talking about how "having IT" is the exception rather than the rule. You'll be fine.
Read “masters of doom”, they go into quite some detail on how Carmack got himself a very expensive work station to develop Doom/Quake.
And as someone who has accounts on both Bluesky and Mastodon, I see very little activity there--as well as much less on Twitter/X. Musk basically succeeded in killing much of the micro-blogging (or whatever you call it) ecosystem. A lot of people have just largely walked away from the whole thing. And maybe that's OK on net although something ended up lost.
Yes, twice. I did it and it did work, but I was on a shitlist because of it. Excluded from higher level meetings/information, given menial/impossible tasks, etc. They hired someone else in my area pretty quickly to replace me. If you do this, you're going to have to start looking for a job immediately. Telling management to fuck off is a job ender even if it doesn't happen immediately. The second time I did it, I already had another job lined up for leverage. I worked for two more weeks until my paperwork was done at the new gig and then bailed.
I systematically hide them since I'm not interested in them and they just pollute the main page, and you're right that they've become a bit excessive. Looking at my list of hidden posts, there are 26 AI-related items from the last 2 days alone.

Edit: 10 minutes after this comment I checked the front page and had to hide another half-dozen posts.
For some people, its actually therapeutic, but for most, its like talking to a plant, except AI does not benefit from the exhaled carbon dioxide.
I imagine SpaceX will clean the debris as much as possible. No pun intended.
Eh, the history doesn't support that meme; only the details and not the existence was allegedly burned (if it even happened at all). It's pretty well established that there were 7 major states (Qin, Qi, Chu, Yan, and the 3 Jin (Han, Wei, Zhao); notably, not including the official Zhou king) at the end of the Warring States period, and the Qin conquered the other 6 within a decade.

(Fun fact: the lesser-known state of Wey actually lasted longer than Wei due to not being worth conquering. In modern Chinese they are pronounced the same, but at the time they weren't.)
I'm crazy: I deployed DeepSeek in my company VPC in <24 hours without Kubernetes
Those that can vote, but don't, don't count.
Feel like I'm having deja vu in away. Didn't this exact problem blow up a couple years ago?
In that scheme -5 is always A and there are only 6 options for any particular letter, so you can do a slightly more complicated frequency analysis.

Sounds like it might be good for kids learning how to break crypto?
Hate that. Yes, some issue can be resolver faster by talking in person, but that can be accomplished by a phone call, too. Just like a face to face conversation can end in an hour of gossip. How's that for more efficient?
Yes, one use case is to eventually replace the Safe C dialect Apple uses for iBoot firmware.
That works till management n layers up starts tracking office entry badge taps or wifi access
They have also been working on a completely open source version of the Foundation library for use on Linux and other platforms. (IIRC the URLSession type is part of Foundation, as are many core building blocks that you need for making a real application.)
You make a compelling argument for RTO.

I've been in tech since 1990. My first job at IBM, my entire product team of ~100 people was on one floor of one building. We knocked out projects at an insane rate.

Today, trying to lead teams over zoom, across multiple time zones, means it takes weeks to solve problems that took a few hours over a whiteboard.

If I was a CEO I would mandate RTO, but I would also make sure to colocate my teams, otherwise there's very little point to RTO when you're just calling into a Teams meeting.

Of course, the downside no one is talking about: camaraderie is real. If you're an engineer with <5 years experience you probably don't see it, but a very large part of team success is how they work together, and in-person collab is priceless.
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You'll still be building management UI over their system (it doesn't understand or validate actor types, tenants, etc, so you have to do that.).

But at high throughput, you might want something with dedicated professional love. Ten thousand feature flags, being checked at around 2 (or 200) million RPS from multiple deployments... I don't want to be the team with that as their side project. And once you're talking a team of three to six engineers to build all this out, maybe it makes sense to just buy something for half a million a year. Assuming it can actually fit your model.
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See, while I agree that loopholes will abound — basically your whole last paragraph I completely acknowledge — I also want to point out the deeply insincere and frequently malicious people who appoint and confirm judges now. From both of our cravenly corrupt parties. If anything, since common sense is not even uncommon, it’s nearly extinct, we need even more fine-grained explicit laws, if of course we had a useful Congress to pass laws with any degree of seriousness, which we also don’t.

Basically (speaking from a US perspective) we’re doomed either way.
Somehow the author of the article discussed how liquid methane and liquid oxygen would be dangerous to touch.... Without mentioning that it would absolutely not be present
Except for the most part, commuting has never counted as work hours except in particular situations like billable hours for some professions.
I don't really write code that traverse trees that often these days. I do use libraries or services (e.g. SQL databases) that do though.

And I have no idea whether the implementation of map/reduce I use is implemented as a recursive function or not, I just use it.

If your friend works with implementing libraries or database engines I would be a bit shocked. If he implements applications and services I could agree that keeping things simple and not inventing your own frameworks could be a good idea.
> I think you're overstating the betting angle

My sister is currently 23 and I talk to her about this a lot. At least from what she tells me, I don’t think I am.

I mean… pump.fun exists…

Remember, the 20yo people now grew up with CS go betting, loot box mania, then sports betting, then crypto.

They’ve been cooked wrt gambling their whole lives.

> And there's still a ton of innovation going on in the tech industry

I don’t think that’s true, mostly.

Please give me some links. I’d honestly like to see where.

I feel so down on tech right now.

I feel like all I do is work on money making machines without solving actual problems for people.
I think the UK Government should start first as trial and have 5 days working hours compressed into 4 days taking Monday off.
It started off as a general strike in opposition to US support of Israel during the Israel-Hamas War.

Their social media aspect (at least their IG) is definetly sketchy, because a lot of it veers away from standard economic demands to only Israel-Gaza related topics.

DSA and most mainstream unions do not appear to be affiliated with this either, and some of their advice around the NRLA seems wrong and could leave strikers open to dismissal for cause.

I definetly think it's being partially promoted by unauthentic accounts, because it just doesn't feel organic. My hunch is probably Iran, as Iran has been instigating Israel-Gaza protests and discourse for the past 1-2 years now [0] in retaliation for the 2022-23 Iranian protests.

[0] - https://apnews.com/article/gaza-war-protests-iran-foreign-in...
if the author really has ADHD, he's blind to half (or more) the things the parents did and especially to why they did them. not his choice, that's how ADHD works, doesn't make it any easier for anyone.

you'd want to read parents' rebuttal, or at least commentary before judging them based on this post.
The Toyota Mirai can take up to 30 minutes to refill.