skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the trick with product reviews on modern reddit is to skip over anything positive and look for what people are complaining about.

If I’m shopping for something deliberately enough to be digging through reviews I’m probably pretty sure it’ll solve the problem all the positive reviews say it will solve. But I want to weigh that against all the negative feedback that might be removed or downplayed in big marketplaces or commercial review sites.
This is wild. It took me ~20 years as an adult to get diagnosed because I couldn’t get my shit together to keep going back to neuro-psychiatrists to progress through the testing pipeline.
Ask HN: Which database(s) are you building your AI agents on top of, and why?
Anyone interested in helping organize a boycott of filing federal taxes until a direct-file system, that serves everyone, is instituted? I’d like to join, but don’t have the influence to start one on my own.
If this is in reference to DoH then I found an upside. Generally, DoH servers allow HTTP/1.1 pipelining by default. This allows one to fetch DNS data in bulk over a single TCP connection. The DNS specification RFC 1035 suggests that computer users would be able to send multiple queries in a single _packet_: QDCOUNT is any unsigned 16-bit integer. The implementation of servers that can handle QDCOUNT greater than 1 has not happened. But at least with DoH I can send multiple queries over a single TCP connnection.

Once retrieved, I load the DNS data into the memmory of the "MITM proxy". This eliminates the need for DNS queries to be immediately proceeding associated HTTP requests for web pages, etc., or within some DNS cache duration period.

When I use other sources of DNS data^1, I eliminate the need for remote DNS queries altogether.

1. For example, I extract DNS data from Common Crawl data.

Indeed, it does not seem like DoH was implemented to improve life for computer users but, at least for me, it can be useful. It can also be useful for example to computer users who use remote DNS servers where their ISP is hijacking port 53.
What does this have to do with the fact that Trump and Co are complaining about their hurt feelings while pretending they were the party that valued facts over feelings?

The fact is, this problem is proving a lot harder to solve than just "get a deal done" like Trump and Co promised us
Everyone who? Surely anyone interested would do the research after buying a shiny new CPU.
Some people don’t, but many people do - for example, older people don’t want to do yard work - and everyone has to choose between a number of different related things. If you want to live somewhere with culture, interesting local businesses, a healthy walkable lifestyle, etc. the suburban model isn’t economically sustainable. If you want a detached single family house and a large yard, you might trade those amenities for the house you want but it’s definitely a choice with significant costs. The fact that America’s walkable neighborhoods have such price competition suggests that there is a significant underserved market for that even if the preference isn’t universal.

As for that scenario, 1-2 hour commutes are still misery class. Doing it on a train is better, but countless studies have found that a shorter commute increases happiness more than a big house (the amenities don’t matter, you don’t have time to use them!).
Corrupt and fair are key points. I believe it comes from a change in worldview.

The fundamentals used to be closer to the Bible's. They shifted to subjectivity, nationalism, authoritarianism (unchecked), and capitalism. Then, new groups around 1900 shifted to more subjectivity and atheism. Add pleasure-driven culture from the sequel revolution onward. Then, evolution, intersectionality, and feelings over facts.

As I look at these, I see a dangerous combo of not seeing individuals with inherent worth, thinking people are like animals, believe/do whatever without long term consequences, and do what maximizes selfish gain, money or pleasure. Our problems are inevitable under that mindset.

Let's look at specific examples in your post. The rich should take more wealth for themselves since that's maximizing selfish gain. The poor (or scheming) should also try to take their wealth by theft or welfare. If people get hurt, it's an unavoidable problem in a workd of conflict where the fittest survive. No objective morals even exist.

Fortunately, we're seeing a growing rejection of those values leading to life transformations. That's a huge part of Trump getting elected since his policies are appealing to such people. The Spirit of Christ is also causing revivals across the country with thousands to tens of thousands gathered trying to change at the core. Inner change leads to outward effects.

Right now, our college students are taught conflict theory, favoring specific geoups, subjectivism, work against our natural design no matter the losses, and pleasure/money/intellect are god.

What will happen when college students instead are taught objective truth, doing what's right above all, building on our natural design, loving others with sacrifices made, helping those in need onto their feet, unity despite our differences, and building companies that are profitable within those virtues?

I think the results will be beautiful. I've already seen places like that on a small scale. For big ones, Chic-fil-A and Hobby Lobby are pretty close. Part of God's design is some people will be rich and eventually generous. So, that won't change in most places.
That's an insane amount of work. Enjoy having free time while it lasts...
There’s a common suggestion that the condition isn’t real for a whole lot of diagnosed people. Schools are prisons and perhaps being bad at being forced to sit through long and unengaging education isn’t a disease. A kid being bored and preferring to run around outside isn’t a disorder.
>It is next to impossible to hide the fact that someone owns something like real estate

Real estate can already be taxed via property taxes. Unrealized gains in securities can't be taxed the same way as their value is much more volatile, with potentially large daily swings. Texas makes up for the lack of income taxes with relatively high property taxes.

>In addition to real estate I might consider other property such as bank accounts, at least above a certain threshold.

Interest from savings accounts is already taxed. The wealthy don't hoard their wealth in bank accounts though.
If Trump does accidentally manage to unite Europe, have them end the Ukraine war, and all without US involvement and spending… he will of course immediately claim full credit.
Similar to another poster. Our 6 year old was just diagnosed with it.

The formal test was a short survey about our childs behavior in various situations. It was highly subjective with questions similar to "My child has difficulty sitting still" (Never, Sometimes, Often).

There was not example of what is considered sometimes or often and what is age appropriate for a 6 year old.

The survey was required to be answered by the parents and kindergarten teacher. That was all that was necessary to have the option of medication.

Even more surprising is that with only slight more effort we now have the option to put our child on an IEP (indivdualized education plan) where there will now be a full additional teacher in the classroom assisting her.

Overall it has been an eye opening experience. Compared to our first child, our 6 year old is more spirited, but is not violent or defiant. She is mostly concerned with her own interests and will admittedly have difficulty focusing for long periods of time. I would be very curious if her behavior is above the threshold for ADHD in other countries.

This was just our experience and it is very possible that our child was an obvious case so further analysis was not necessary. For now we have opted not to use medication. Interestingly our diagnosing pediatrician has two children with ADHD and said that they put both children on medication at 6 years old.
I wonder if it would have been easier to make just one video and have the computer zoom in to different parts of the video. And then run the video simultaneously through a web browser
I get it. I'm just adding, as an aside, that they actually do have a perfectly good place. For one thing, there are off-the-shelf libraries that'll turn an HTML table into a pretty good PDF. Saved me weeks of work back when I was buried in financial reporting.
Correct. In my experience it's the reason many kids don't have medication. The parents can't afford the testing.
Pretty sure for electric aircraft to do anything useful at supersonic speeds you'd need beamed energy. Which would be a pretty cool technology
Folks can wallow in conspiracies if they want, but there are real concerns that could be focused on instead.
I'm wondering the same thing... It is a legitimate post & discussion. @dang can you resurrect it?
No, Mozilla developed a full Firefox for iOS in ~2010, and Apple flatly refused to put it on the AppStore.
Abusing C to implement JSON parsing with struct methods
I have used HiddenBar for a while and it's been pretty solid. It's open-source: https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden
I always thought that 18F would be the inspiration behind DOGE. Instead it seems to have become the opposite
Yes, I have such a diagnosis and can confirm this, but it was many years ago. I assume it's still the same.

I got a short quiz to see what symptoms I was complaining about and then I got asked about my drug usage and why I was seeing them.

I told them that I tried a friend's adderall once and I felt so much better immediately.

They told me drinking 2 pots of coffee a day, doing tasks out of order, "just in time laundry", and being "excitable" is actually ADHD and that I'd be better off if I took these pills every day and cut way back on the caffeine.

It took about 15 minutes.

What other questions would you have? Do you think you'd need to give me the long-form test? Lol.

I followed the advice btw. It's going well many years later and I hope RFK doesn't take the stimulants away.
Presumably, if US already has all of the minerals it needs, the minerals' deal is going to do as much good as is current status quo.

After all, why would the US get involved when they don't need the minerals they'd have to lose?
This is a non-sequitur. The raw numbers are irrelevant. What are those employees doing?

In abstract, I support a smaller government. In practice, Chesterton’s Fence is an important principle to remember.

For example, the TSA is largely security theater. It would be a real win and legitimate cost savings (unemployment numbers aside) to dismantle the TSA and go back to metal detectors and simpler X-ray machines run by private companies in airports.

On the other hand, getting rid of USAID diminishes America’s stature in the world. Where do you think our power comes from? It’s not solely due to our nuclear arsenal.

These people are destroying the US government’s capabilities and influence for bizarre ideological reasons that are largely grounded in equally bizarre fictional views of the world. It’s going to be _more_ costly, devastatingly so, to US citizens both financially and otherwise in the short and long term.

They could have reduced the size of the government strategically and they could even have done it using this same illegal DOGE technique, but it would have required care and thought, grounded in actual reality.
> We like to think that intelligence protects us from bad decisions

I like to think that intelligence protects us from classifying decisions as bad. Much more useful are e.g. ill-considered, unwise, regrettable and unfortunate.
My post had two paragraphs.

The first tried to explain that it does not necessarily have to be a zero-sum game.

The second paragraph tried to explain that, even if you do see it as a zero sum game, trade between two parties, or trade in general, can give you benefits over ones who are not part of the trade.

Obviously I am trying to describe this in simple terms without writing a book. But i do think the board game analogy holds even though it is very simple.
What happens if Ukraine is given sufficient support to start winning and Putin decides to go nuclear?

I don't want Russia to win either but we also have to operate in reality.
> very rich people that want to siphon off profit

Tax preparation is a huge industry in the US, they're going to fight tooth and nail to make sure the government doesn't cut into their business.
There's millions of radial turbines in cars around the world today. They use an internal-combustion engine for their combustor, and they're called turbo-chargers.
Man, I hate when I'm reading a blogpost and then I realize the whole thing is just an ad for a startup.
The same peace that we got after Crimea was invaded?

It's sweet that you've had enough of the wars, like you might have had enough of a Netflix series.

The peace on the table is no such thing. It's a temporary appeasement of a murderous dictator who is against everything the US used to stand for. Shameful.
Eastern Europe rushed towards NATO as soon as the Russian-controlled Eastern Bloc dictatorships crumbled, to secure themselves from falling prey to Russia ever again. Existing NATO members were for a long time very lukewarm about the idea of accepting new members.

The US did not push or expand NATO onto anyone, but Eastern Europe did everything they could to pull NATO towards them to gain additional security against the very same Russia that had just reluctantly agreed to the dismantlement of their dictatorships and removal of their armies from Eastern Europe.

Are you not aware that the Russian-run communist dictatorships were not voluntary, but forced upon Eastern Europe? That's the key to understanding everything.
> A typical ADHD diagnosis in America is done by a paediatrician or a family doctor in an office visit as brief as 15 minutes.

I'm in my 30s, and in the process of receiving a diagnosis after it had been suggested to me my entire life by teachers, colleagues, and friends. I avoided diagnosis and medication mainly because I was skeptical of the safety record of medications -- probably because that's why my parents never sought a diagnosis for me when I was younger.

After doing more research the past few years, I learned that ADHD medications are the success story of medical management of psychiatric illness, and they have a strong safety record

In any case, for me so far it has involved four (4) 2-hour appointments with a clinician, having trusted colleagues and close friends fill out detailed "external rater" forms in which they rated my executive dysfunction, and (yesterday) a marathon 4-hour long testing session in which I took a sequence of standardized tests under the supervision of a clinician.

I know that diagnosis of ADHD in children is a different animal, and even for adults there are clinics that provide a diagnosis and prescription in a half hour or so -- but not everyone with ADHD is diagnosed after a single 30 minute session with a provider. And contrary to another sibling comment, there are fairly robust objective metrics for identifying the hallmark features of ADHD and executive dysfunction.
The right in America does not believe in a federal government. Anything that helps a federal government exist is to be destroyed.
To partly answer my own question - clearly there is work we can do that is net-positive. I can spend my time turning a crank to charge a battery, and sometime later get back a subset of the energy I put in. Or, I can spend that amount of time digging up coal, or building a solar panel, and then sometime later have access to many multiples of the amount of energy that I put in.
I'm not sure if "unilateral disarmament" is "peace".

Russia's got a long history of mulching their subjects, I'm pretty sure "peace" is the peace of the grave, for many souls currently living in Ukraine.

So they're not really heavily incentivized toward peace under the "please dig your own grave" terms on offer.
They used the TOVA test to diagnose mine. It measures what part of the attention paradigm may be deficient or overactive. AFAIK that test isn’t purely subjective.
Adult me had a therapist visit for anxiety, after an hour with the first guy he said that he suspects mild ADHD, but it would need to be confirmed by someone else and it wasn’t something he would prescribe anything for in the mean time. No idea what is next but most of this is outside my budget currently so it’s on hold. Doesn’t seem easy to get a confirmation in my experience
It was not that long ago that solving a maze was thought of as AI. Or a bot in a video game adapting to your play style was AI.

Today, LLMs being trained to output text, images and video equal to or better than any human is now what we consider to be AI.

There is a semantic game we play to move the goalposts at every new tick of these technologies so that humans are still on top.

Maybe the next big trick is to define AGI as having a system that was not trained on the entire corpus of human output available on the internet, and train it with nothing. Can an AI be “born” with no model like a baby and learn to speak, walk, function in society without being primed for success with a state of the art model? Could you drop this AI into any human society, regardless of culture, and have it seamlessly integrate?

What precisely we consider “cognition” feels like a philosophical debate, one where we have no single true answer. And doesn’t really matter?
But did the diagnosis result in any sort of ongoing treatment (e.g. medication, formal school/work adjustments, etc.)?

It may be personal, and you don’t have to answer, but this is the general question I have to these 15-minute diagnosis.
Aren't those operational costs in this case those payment processor fees? Because otherwise there should not be much difference.
It's easy to solve once you realize that the US has no strategic interest in Ukraine.
You don't "need" rich people, but they are an inevitable consequence of the ideas Western civilization is built on. We generally believe that someone is entitled to keep what they have earned and do what they wish with it (property rights). So, let's say you burn down society and start over with everyone working at subsistence level. The first generation, everyone will be basically equal. By the end of the generation, some will have done better than others (through luck, or through hard work and intelligence). They will want to pass it on to their children. Now in the next generation, some people will be starting at an advantage. Some of those will take it easy, but some will use their leg up to get even further ahead. The ones who get even further ahead will want to pass that on to their children, and so on.

Repeat this cycle enough times and you will wind up with rich people and poor people, even if you started with a perfectly level playing field. It's an inescapable outcome. Some people will always do better than others, even starting from nothing, and as that advantage accretes through generations it will mean you wind up with the haves and have-nots. The only way to prevent it is to enforce limits on what people can do with the fruits of their labor - and that is something most are not willing to do. People believe in property rights and aren't generally willing to violate them. So, you will inevitably have rich people in society.
If they wanted to, they could stop sheltering and seize Russian oil wealth hiding in the UK or stop the 'shadow fleet' used to export oil by sanctioning the importers. Probably won't though.
Filed under: Things more important than having a path for work-upon-graduation.
> They are also some of the most vocal extreme left-wing activists I've known well.

Can you give a few examples of the vocal extreme left-wing activism?
The elephant in the room though is Europe. Trump wants Europe to step up and act more independently. Pay their fair share for NATO. Increase their active militaries.

Here's another fact to remember: Trump told Europe to kill Nord stream pipeline during his first term. He didn't want them tied economically to Putin. He didn't want Europe to depend upon Putin! Why? Because he's Putin's ally? Or maybe he is trying to make strong, independent countries that act as a deterrent.

That would be a hell of a deterrent, instead of old people with no kids droning on endlessly about NATO.
The right wants everything related to taxes to be as difficult and painful as possible, in the hopes it will encourage the government to lower them.
I don't think you disagree here... Zoning changes and land value tax are both beneficial. In some cases like the example you gave where you can only build one dwelling per 5 acres, zoning would be a more significant problem. That's an extreme hypothetical though. In other cases, taxation incentives are more significant.

We absolutely need to push for BOTH zoning reform and taxation reform. They will work really well together :)
Good point, that's definitely part of it.

Tax fraud is just top of mind because the other day I had to endure a smug rich asshole brag about it over dinner and I wasn't in a position to push back, so I'm venting a bit.
oooooh.... this does sound good. But not enough far away from the Sun since we would need a maximum of time once the Sun inflation started in order to exit the solar system.

But the real question is to know if the kuiper belt has enough interesting materials to build what's required to leave the solar system which we could easily mine.
Nitrocellulose lacquer on a substrate, says Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetate_disc
Did you listen to what Trump said yesterday?

1. There is no security guarantees.
2. There is no future help if Russia breaks the cease-fire and tries taking Ukraine again.
3. The cease-fire will simply give Russia time to regroup and launch another offensive later.
4. Trump thinks Zelensky is a dictator
5. Zelensky has already offered to step down as president if Trump gave security guarantees.
This time there's too much unchecked abuse of power.
I haven't tried 4.5 but it is being touted as having greater EQ - presumably meaning emotion quotient. That sounds like progress, or at least something that's worth releasing to find out what people can do with it.

Having said that, 4.5 is clearly a misstep, one that should realign the goals of the AI industry to focus more on utility and cost effectiveness.
No he said 5% 'is in future dollars', i.e. not inflation adjusted to a present value... When in reality the nominal S&P500 returns are 10% leading to the same 'future dollars'. That is conservative.

Plus if 7% real returns (after a 3% inflation) is the historical average, how is 5% real returns generous? That's still conservative even if he meant to claim a 5% real return.
> The Trump administration is instead discussing tearing down NOAA

Nah, they're just straight out going to do that.

States are then free to sign up for the SpaceX-in-proud-cooperation-with-Starlink-and-Tesla Extreme Weather Notification Plan, which is only $420M/state/month, and will be available in, well, 2 years or, eh, so. [Announcer's voice speeds up] Not every state may be eligible for participation, see your DOGE representative for full disclaimers and details.
This is empty speculation. And it can be trivially refuted by noticing that vacancy rates are at record lows.
Thank you! We haven’t figured out what to play on it yet actually - I think the plan is to build out all the tools so that our school can create and upload their own videos (eg. montages of students work - this is in the Design workshop after all) to display on the screen. It could be self-service even after we graduate in June.
That's interesting, can you share more information about your tech stack?
PRESIDENT (over radio)

As the situation develops, one thing must be understood above all others... People of Gotham, we have not abandoned you.

BLAKE

What does that mean?

GORDON

It means we're on our own.
Make it an .exe file and storm the world's offices.
It absolutely believes in a federal government.

It just does not believe in a federal government that it is not in control of.