skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being unable to focus attention is not a beneficial trait in current society. Imagine having to have to take regular medication to control your blood pressure but cannot keep track of your regimen. It requires extra effort to keep the person healthy. Another is tackling difficult and long-term cognitive tasks, which is often necessary to function in society nowadays (I dread filing taxes). This may change in the future (especially with AI) but right now it is the way it is.

There are many traits that are advantageous in one environment and not in another: for example, sickle-cell phenotype became prevalent in regions where malaria was common, because you are likely to survive the infection. But otherwise the individual is likely to suffer from sickle cell anemia. People who have low calorie requirement may survive a famine, but may suffer from obesity in calorie-rich environment.

Many things are hard enough for “normal” person who would not be perceived as having ADHD, but it’s more so for people with it. The expectations are set by the modern society, but the actual challenges for ADHD are naturally present - thus they are classified as disorder. It’s commonly debilitating enough to be recognized as one.
Are they? Or is Elon running around without a chaperone doing whatever he wants because the white house team is still getting moved in, unpacked, and shoving out as many EOs as humanly possible?
I could see it being a great option for getting bulk goods into space. Fuel, water, food, spools of wire or powders for additive manufacturing, structural components, etc. Depends on what is cost effective. The difficult part would be catching the payloads.

It would probably be an even better option on lower gravity lower atmosphere celestial bodies.
Yes! You can go here to have group texts be horizontal, it was just a stylistic choice to better show the layout: https://phiresky.github.io/isbn-visualization/?groupTextVert...
I get people are probably going to flag this like they did the other article (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42897871), probably more so out of concern for the trans optics (Ziz and many in her orbit are trans/non-binary) than how it reflects on the wider rationalist community. But we should be able to discuss why this group, which is influential in discussions of AI alignment, is producing these people. Zizians aren't the only ones. Luigi Mangione was also a rationalist (and cis), and I remember a thread on a certain website that documented some other oddball fellow travelers. How does a community dedicated to "rationalism," whose leader writes Harry Potter fanfics, produce people like this? Does it attract maladjusted people to begin with? One common thread seems to be psychedelics. Mangione, for example, experimented with psychedelics heavily (possibly to treat pain) not long before he assassinated the United CEO.
strange that bzip3 is not yet listed on the large text compression benchmark http://mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html
"company that hates elon and has vendetta against him says bad things about elon companies"

fidelity has been shitting all over elon companies forever, and losing tons of money in the process:

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4200471-institutional-inves...
You mean legal rape, basically?
Is the clipboard also a "data leak"?
> In 2022, Vallejo landlord Curtis Lind was allegedly attacked by a group of young tenants who lived in box trucks on his property. One of the alleged assailants reportedly stabbed Lind through the chest with a samurai sword. During the attack, Lind shot two of the alleged assailants, leaving Emma Borhanian, 31, dead. Lind survived the attack but lost an eye. On Jan. 17, Lind, now 82, was stabbed to death on the same property, weeks before he could testify in the case. Oxford-educated data scientist Maximilian Snyder, 22, was charged on Tuesday with Lind’s murder.

> Youngblut allegedly pulled a gun on the agents, and the resulting shootout left Bauckholt and agent David Maland, 44, dead, and Youngblut injured. Youngblut and Bauckholt had been under surveillance by authorities in Vermont after they were seen walking around two towns in “all black tactical style clothing,” carrying firearms. They had also been seen wrapping cellphones and other items in aluminum foil bought at Walmart, the complaint states.

The article is from 2025; the OP's is from 2020. It seems the Zizians are now murdering people.
From 2022, so a similar analysis today would be revealing if substantial differences were seen/heard.
There may not be a proper US example. But if you ask a western LLM about the impact of the 20th century Nordic involuntary sterilizations, you’ll see some heavy RLHF fingerprints. Not going to make an argument one way or another on that, other than to say I would not expect the same answers from a Chinese LLM.
I've turned the flags off for the time being, but it's a little hard to evaluate that article. It seems to be more of a tendentious opinion piece than a neutral report?

Edit: I ended up merging the current thread into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42897871, since both are general posts about more or less the same topic, but also re-upping https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42877910 since it seems to be the most neutral news report.

I guess the idea is to have https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42877910 be about the recent events and keep https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42897871 for discussing / arguing about the generic aspects.

(Sorry for the complexity but in this case it appears to be essential not accidental)
No amount of marketing gives a company a $750B market cap.
> no one does such background checks for p2p and commercial transactions

It’s a watered-down version of the stuff every bank uses. Hell, my small-town bank does this when screening mortgage applications.
Release people from the shackles of capitalism and start over. Easier said that done, but it's completely understandable why most people are looking for different ways of escaping reality in this century.

If it wasn't phones, it would be drugs, alcohol, and gambling.
Yes it's very possible to do this.
Without seeking support it's trivial, just instruct the encoder to encode with a low bitrate for a few seconds and then increase it.

To support seeking you could encode a low bitrate stream, and a high quality stream, and then a number of ramps between these. So when you seek you start with the low bitrate stream and then after a few time units go on the ramp to the high quality stream.
Moving the start menu back to the left side is a built-in setting.

This is exactly what I was talking about. You hyper-focused on one easily revertable UI change and ignored the rest of the features, benefits, fixes, and improvements of an OS that has now been getting updates and enhancements for 4 years now while Windows 10 has been sitting there receiving basic security updates and nothing else.

When your IT guy finally forces you to upgrade, you'll spend a week getting used to the places where your cheese got moved and figure out "oh shit this thing actually has a bunch of neat stuff in it that I didn't have before."
I was told there would be cake.
Inaction by the other majority of non-voters is accepting that this route wasn't any less desirable than Harris's plan. So yes, most of the country at best didn't care.
It's a different sort of focus than mainstream, where there's not what a "normal" person would call regulation. So lots of hyperfocus on topics that interest, and little on what others might think is required or needed (which would look like distraction if the person were forced/compelled to focus on things they're not interested in).
It’s it’s… more developers that cannot measure things.
Deploy dedicated DeepSeek 32B on L40 GPUs ($8/hour)
Ask HN: Recommendations for a Linux Distro and Laptop?
I'd like to switch to Linux by 2026. I'm comfortable on the commandline, but not an expert. I'd like something that is relatively easy to use and stable. I do enjoy tinkering and will hopefully learn more about Linux, but for now, I'm mostly interested in making the transition as easy as possible?

I build websites and simple web apps so I don't need anything super powerful.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
If the buzzwords that Snow provided turned out to just be something he pulled from a resume book rather than insider information, why should we believe that the answer keys were any more accurate?
how much context size?
See "Why not use graphs / frequency analysis to compare codecs?" https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=FAQ#:~:text=Why%...

"I decided that analysis should focus on the higher, more conventional rates – 48k and 44k1" - opus is always 48khz, so that doesn't mean much.
First time i saw this i thought it must be people who do actually know their stuff. But then they realized it can not be done and decided to have fun while scamming investors.
ADHD is ultimately a disability of reduced executive function, and all of the seemingly disconnected symptoms are connected by that common fact. Everyone has challenges with executive function in life - especially if chronically sleep deprived, but the degree of severity varies substantially to the point where people with ADHD are radically different from people without on a lot of axes.

It's quite the opposite of "absolve[ing] people of the responsibility to work on their concentration." Instead the diagnosis shows that this is indeed the reason why people with ADHD have been struggling to meet expectation their whole life, and there are specific actionable things they can do to fix it, that aren't the same thing that work for people without ADHD.

I had a huge amount of guilt and shame that comes from having tried every productivity, organization, and concentration technique to no avail. I felt like I was pushing against an invisible brick wall that nobody else had. I could deeply care about something, focus all of my energy on it, and yet fail to do it for reasons that remained a mystery to me- when peers with less innate ability and less motivation/drive still did it easily. The diagnosis made sense of this, and pointed me to solutions that actually work.

As a parent of a young child with ADHD that was kicked out of 5 schools before getting a diagnosis that led to him thriving... the idea that it is just an excuse to avoid personal responsibility seems absurd. I could (and have) guilted myself into thinking this way about myself, but can't really apply that to an innocent young kid trying their hardest to fit in, and constantly being rejected and abused by adults and peers due to their brain just working so differently.
The same could be said of America in general. It’s totally unpredictable, and the people in charge are not especially reasonable.
It's a very difficult job to do right, but some of the ways you can get it wrong are pretty damn easy to avoid. Like, it should be obvious that you don't double down on strategies that produce no results other than distressing your kid.
Target as in, target for recruitment into the group.

The targets for their victims seem chosen...as retaliation to defend their understanding of their own interests.
How would user vs developer be distinguished? Looks like it mentions both users and developers but doesnt distinguish how one would be found liable
I tend to not edit drafts as much anymore and just start over, more of a destructive iterative design approach. It makes it harder to plan projects and colleagues don't always like it but my output is high and I tend to be really good at cutting off things early that won't work. Do you feel similarly?
I have been searching for a single example of someone running it like this (or 8x P40 and alike), and found nothing..
Isn't that their complaint though? They don't want to participate in a language where they can only ever be a second class citizen.
You would have to do the rotation in the short straight section in the vacuum chamber after it is released from the centrifuge. The craft is traveling extremely fast at this point and you only have maybe 50m or less to do the rotation. I think doing a 90 degree rotation in this timespan (25ms or so, because you’re traveling at 2km/s) would need extreme rotational acceleration which wouldn’t be much gentler on the craft, and you would need some system that can actually achieve this rotation in this short time.
> how antiquated their OS is

Enlighten us? I use both 10 and 11 regularly and don't get what you mean at all.
This isn’t true, you can get the next version of Swift by downloading a pkg installer from https://www.swift.org/install/macos/

You can get it bundled with Xcode as well if you’d like, but it’s not necessary.
Just 4K. Because deepseek doesn't allow for the use of flash attention it means you can't run quantised qkv
Considering the requirements, perhaps a LaTeX static site generator would have been a good fit.
The use of LLMs for constructive activities (writing, coding, etc.) rapidly produces a profound dependence.

Try turning it off for a day or two, you're hobbled, incapacitated. Anecdotally, ThePrimeagen describes forgetting how to write a for/range loop in Go after using CoPilot for a while (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQNyYx2fZXw). Funny stuff.

Competition in the workplace forces us down this road to being utterly dependent. Human intellect atrophies through disuse.

In the arts, we see something different. People don't seem to like AI-generated content. For example, I monitor a random sample of recent pornography (4-second slideshow from all over the Internet, see https://rnsaffn.com/zg3/) and AI-generated porn is still very niche, comparable in frequency to small fetishes like elder or latex or rope porn. I expected it to be more popular, but generally humans prefer something else.

As Tim Cook recently said, (paraphrased) once you start using Apple Intelligence to think and work, it's hard to stop.

Those skills that you no longer use will be lost. This is the profitable new addiction, and programmers like us are the first group of people to become hooked.
Right here in this post you have no trouble ignoring any real concern using a meme instead while declaring that it's everyone else's fault for "glossing over" things.

I think you would find they're not glossing over anything, you are just uninterested in any details since your value system already has a conclusion you're not going to change your mind about.
I found that a nice compromise between self-hosting and publishing on a Medium / Substack is using Github pages + Notion published links:

- You get one free site per GitHub account

- I forked https://github.com/academicpages/academicpages.github.io and updated the blog posts to link to published Notion pages.

- This gives you a great WYSIWYG editor and all the nice features that Notion provides (collab edit, embeds, tables, LaTeX, view/edit anywhere).

- Notion handles the SEO too.

- See https://mikeshen.github.io/year-archive/ and an example post - https://mikeshen.notion.site/Deepnote-Embeds-Share-Your-Resu....
Everyone acts as if Silicon Valley isn't run off of the same stimulant abuse. But because it's snorting crushed pills off a keyboard wrist rest in a cubicle at 3am to get that project over the line, and not described as "banging 7 gram rocks" it's somehow socially acceptable.
This is an uncharacteristically involved type of comment for "someone with no horse in this race". It is unserious and/or malicious. I can't believe we are still having to deal with the same type of conversation 9 years later.

In case someone else is reading:

- AvaloniaUI/Uno

- Algorithms are dependent on what an OS crypto provider supports (which is OpenSSL in the case of Linux, so it's an OpenSSL issue), but you can always just use bindings to an alternative and wrap it in a stream, like some do with e.g. libsodium

- IO behaves differently because each OS has different IO implementation, .NET tries to homogenize it within reason, but there are differences that cannot be hidden, big surprise?
I imagine this one hits pretty close to home for Congresscritters. You might see some action.
it's only a problem because the neurotypical vastly outnumber the neurodivergent.

if most people couldn't walk, the world could be difficult for people who can. it doesn't make one group "correct", it just means the world is shaped better for them
The Cline AI Assistant Is Mesmerizing
I found every international flight in the world
I do mean long term - unless you've got experience with dealing with complex tasks as you grow up, is there any chance at all that you'll be good at that? (Research link welcome)
I know. Still dumb.
Mentoss: The Fetch Mocker
I'm tired of LLM, full stop.
Given extremely recent events, as a controller I would be far more nervous about locating my company in hostile states (regardless of ideological bent) that actively persecute companies for culture war nonsense, fabricated claims of censorship, books that the government thinks people should not be allowed to read, requiring drivers license storage for adult content viewing, abortion criminalization (have fun fighting those John Doe subpoenas!), "save the kids from addiction" laws enforced by arbitrary interest group censors, etc.

Tech companies are foolish if they think they're going to be harassed more by quiet, stable, corporate tax shelter Delaware than the Yosemite Sams that run Texas. They're practically drowning in the evidence already.
You are technically correct, which is the best kind of correct. I concede the "zero-sum" point, thanks for taking the time to discuss it.

That's said, I still feel there is room to discuss which outcome we are trying to optimize for when we discuss the cost benefit of education and how to allocate those resources. Is the goal profit for employers, well adjusted complete cotizens who understand the world they live in, or something else?

I do suspect that our current attempts to laser focus on the skills most valuable to employers are short sighted, and frankly might be damaging society almost as much as the utter failure of primary education. That is why I mentioned the illiteracy issue before.

If only a minority can read well, and we are trying to "optimize" the learning outcomes of the remaining smaller percentage of competent students, we leave only a tiny percentage of well rounded and capable thinkers.
SpacePort America, SpinLaunch's New Mexico test flight facility, is at ~5000' above sea level. If drag is a serious limitation, they could potentially see additional gains by relocating their launch facilities to a city in e.g. Peru. My understanding is the atmospheric density is about 25% lower above 12K feet compared to sea level and about 15% lower than at 5K feet and there are a handful of places with road networks that go that high
I appreciate the author's goal of not requiring readers' browsers to run Javascript to render the mathematics. The tradeoffs between images, SVG, and MathML are also unfortunately as stated.

Note though that another option is to use MathJax or KaTeX at build time (e.g. as preprocessing or postprocessing to the Hugo build here), to generate a static page that does not require Javascript to render.

MathJax: https://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/server/start.html

KaTeX: https://katex.org/docs/api#server-side-rendering-or-renderin...
I suppose. Millenials were all raised to expect Social security to run out by the time they retire.

But we're not quite there yes, and I imagine many gen X will need that social security.
Or a well functioning government for that matter
Again, like I said in my original comment, this is the kind of stuff that the never-11 people beat their drums to without ever using Windows 11 and certainly without using a recent build.

There are a number of components of Windows 11 where the UI is clearly beter. The screen capture tools are an example. Notepad.exe with tabs. The Game Bar. Settings, while far from perfect, is slowly improving.

No, they just label the entire thing as a step backwards using blanket and sweeping language, which makes it hard for me to believe since it's so vague and accusatory.
But what if you also like the people you work with?

Or, to flip that around a bit, what if you hire people who are both competent and interesting/pleasant to be around?
Sort of obvious sarcasm, no?
Yes, it's been integrated in lots of places, mostly as long ago as the late 2010s.
You need to demonstrate a causal connection.

How do you not know that? Where did you go to high school?
There are other problems besides just being inefficient. In a world where energy is cheap and abundant, you still have to deal with leaks (hydrogen is small, so tends to escape everything over relatively small periods of time) and embrittlement (again, hydrogen is small, so it tends to fuse into other materials and destroy them).

I don't know if these limitations are fundamental, or if we'll eventually come across some breakthroughs that make them economical to deal with, but it's something we've struggled with for a very long time so far.
As someone who has both diagnoses late in life (autistic/Aspergers and ADHD), they explained it to me as different things. The ADHD wants to respond to stimulus, the autism wants to resist it and impose order. One at a time is fine. If they both activate, then the result is massive stress.
> feature flags in a JSON file that you have to redeploy to change

Our config files are stored in their own repo. Pushes to the master branch trigger a Jenkins job that copies the config files to a GCP bucket.

On startup, each machine pulls this config from GCS and everything just works.

It's not a 'redeployment' in the sense that we don't push new images on each config change.
I’d push it further than you, even, and have been thinking this way for a while. The economy is AI. I know that’s a ridiculously simplistic way to put it and a network of individual actors doesn’t function identically, but for all intents and purposes we’re massive amounts of distributed compute running a “capitalist” algorithm and it isn’t perfectly aligned with us either. We don’t have AI problems, we have a generic class of algorithm problems that keep popping up wherever agents interact dynamically.
Ah this again?

Commit message is not just a quick summary of what, it's also a historical record of why. Can't generate the latter from the diff.
But how does “there are specific, actionable things they can do to fix it” mesh with the declaration that people with ADHD are part of a community of neurodivergent people who seem to actively push against the idea that they need fixing?
There seem to be a lot of businesses like this one: well-funded by VC money, but trying to do things that are scientifically questionable. This reminds me a bit of Helion Fusion, which is supposed to produce commercial power by (I think) 2029? Something seems a bit wrong with our VC markets if stuff like this is getting funded.
The article doesn't mention the differences with current swift package manager build system. The repository doesn't mention it either, just saying that swiftpm can use the new build system by adding an argument. Anybody does what does this actually changes? Does it improve something for non-Apple platforms?
From what I could find they have only reached 1/10th of the Karman line.

I also think its a red flag that they do not have actual press releases or data, just a list of any random website that wrote a story about them.
I always understood it as working because of the predictability of a symbol/letter/token given the previous one.

Sorting all the shifts of a string puts all the characters in order, then looking at the last column shows you all the _preceding_ characters. If there's any predictability there (which there often is), it's now easier to compress. It's sorta like an entropy coder in that way.

I've never thought of it as being that deep, and understood them since I was a kid -- building an intuition for "why" the FFT works is much harder -- but that being said, I clicked quickly to reply thinking "that's easy! I can explain this!" then struggled for a while trying to get the picture in my mind into text. :)