skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a distinction between addiction and habits and conditioning and, from my personal experience, you need to understand what is making you tick there.

There isn't a mapping of trauma to protection (which may lead to addiction). You do what you can to survive in one moment and, as you grow up, your methods of survival can become much more dangerous. And what you did to protect yourself as a kid won't serve you at all as an adult.

You might be addicted to Netflix because you were brought up in front of a TV. Is that trauma? That's between you and your therapist. You might be addicted to Netflix because it drowned out the sound of your dad yelling at your mum, and it gave you an escape. That's also between you and your therapist.

There's no prescription here, you have to explore how it all was for you and then you have to process it, how you protected yourself, and how you are now.

For example, an alcoholic might rely on booze because it numbs their emotions, and in their younger years they relied on suppressing their emotions in order to not be abused. Therefore to get emotional is overwhelming.

Or for me personally, I enjoy a drink or two because I have feelings I struggle with, that I wasn't allowed to feel, and I use the alcohol to maintain that. Before I could drink, I was withdrawn and I avoided people, after I could drink, I could go out and wear a mask. By drinking, I don't allow myself to feel what is really happening in me, to process it. A huge indicator of trauma.

I believe this is one of the few ways, if not the only way, to be compassionate with yourself and what you're going through and how you try to keep yourself together in it all.
A PR? Well, I wouldn't completely write it out, but my C is really rusty and I am being buried under a ton of stuff I'm expected to do (I'm doing a PhD, so I basically have no free time).

Is it just you on this project?
Yeah I'm thinking of descriptions of people from the first half of the 20th century. I've no idea what the actual rate of ADHD is in the population, but the chances are it's been roughly that rate forever and long before there was any recognition or treatment of the condition. It certainly seems like we've reached a level of diagnosis that seems wildly excessive.

I've read enough histories and biographies to have thought "ADHD" quite a few times when reading of a life of missed opportunity, or the insufferable politician or military leader who seems to have all the symptoms but succeeded despite it. Maybe sometimes because of it.

The difficulty is appropriate medication can be the difference between achieving a regular career as lawyer or programmer and struggling through a transient series of failed unskilled jobs or ongoing unemployment. I'm not sure we have enough precision in the data to recognise that. I've seen wholly positive effects in those few diagnosed and on medication around me, but that's a useless anecdote. I'm in a country with a far lower rate of diagnosis. :)
The strongest lesson life has taught me:

Never underestimate the power of convenience.
I agree, that solution has endless of possibilities, I can’t think of any feature it doesn’t have
Is this not what Freud, Fromm, &c have been saying for about a century?

Psychoanalysis is designed as a therapy through which the patient "deals with their past trauma".
> The question is, why is mainstream psychiatry still so obsessed with "curing" addiction via chemical means, as opposed to through psychology/trauma recovery?

Substance misuse treatment, especially for opioids, _must_ include medically assissted treatment or it fails. The US has a bunch of opioid addiction treatment centres that don't offer any medical assisstance at all - purely psychogical - and all the evidence we have show that they don't work.

You're right that people need a holistic package of care, and that this often isn't provided in substance misuse treatment. But I don't know any treatment in the UK that is mostly medication.
Introduce me to any one of these people. I can almost guarantee that every single one has some form of developmental trauma. I’m willing to be proven wrong, but after seeing a dozen ish cases up close and personal, I’m currently batting 1000.

I would bet that the reason you are unaware of the past trauma is because the individuals have chosen not to disclose it to you, due to the stigma and shame associated with opening up. Also, in the most severe cases, the core wound is generally repressed until some shock to the system causes it to be more accessible.
Could you explain this process in more details or link to a more comprehensive description please? Thanks.
That’s precisely the Supreme Court case I was referring to. The fact that the laws are still on the books in many states is certainly an indicator the priority those state governments give to protecting LGBT rights.
Main article: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07402-0
TIL England tried to copy the Eiffel tower: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watkin%27s_Tower
I don't know what device you are running but the reddit and twitter websites seem to be built to be absolutely horrible to use. Both get stuck on long loading screens and have constant popups getting in my way.
Because it's shorthand for "the burden of proof is on those making the claim, and negative claims are much harder to prove or disprove." If your rebuttal to my assertion that Taylor Swift is not, in fact a zebra boils down to "you SAY that none of those zebras are secretly Taylor Swift, but maybe that just means Zebra Taylor Swift is just that good," I mean, I can't technically disprove that, but shouldn't the burden of proof be on you?
"Valve" is the common British usage (and the site is based in the U.K. - see its home page).
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Of course it can be scaled and monetized.

Psychologists are experts in branding and developing models which you can apply to your clients if you buy the workbooks and get the training and gain the accreditation.
On sugar and 'gives you energy': I'm not an expert but it seems this is extremely over-hyped, and I've noticed more people believe in this if they were raised in a place where parents believe in the 'sugar rush'. I still remember the first time I heard about 'sugar rush', already an adult. It's just folklore in some western and richer countries [1]:

> "In 1995, a meta analysis of the 23 most reliable studies was published(...). Sugar simply had no discernible effect on the children's behaviour in these studies."

If you erase that notion it becomes pretty obvious that sugar does little (if something at all) to keep you 'on', at least compared to caffeine (or, you know, harder stuff).

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2014/fe...
Does it matter? Presumably the memories were troubling and addressing them helped their wellbeing.
My solution is to have side-projects that are open source, which I reuse across multiple jobs. Wherever possible, I get permission to "contribute patches to Open Source projects" included in my contracts, and thus grow the body of reusable code over time.

It usually takes some nights and weekends to get the initial body of open source code written, but since it is usually more-or-less a clone of something I've previous written and want to use again, it is fairly mindless effort.

If you're in a position where you retain the IP for what you write, (I assume you're permitted to use open source?) you could just do whatever tidyup is needed, and push it to GitHub, ready for reuse?
Great post!
Added my two cents: https://medium.com/@ronreiter/why-side-projects-are-hard-psy...
> chemical imbalance

No psychiatrist or psychologist still believes in the chemical imbalance model.
It's funny then. Why am I, a healthy young person, condemned to economic poverty because my parents have poor healthcare as a result of the sham that is the US healthcare system?

Tell me. Can you explain why that is OK in your narrative?
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A monad is a descriptive term for certain objects with have certain properties. For example, a ring in algebraic theory is a set together with two operations (+ and ) with certain properties. The natural numbers (1,2,3,...) together with + being addition and being multiplication form a ring, but to say that 'the natural numbers were constructed as a ring' or that 'a ring is an abstraction for the natural numbers' is wrong. Both rings and natural numbers are descriptions of things which happen to fit.

Similarly, category theory monads are a description of things with certain properties. These happen to be satisfied by IO actions in every language and Promises in JavaScript. Haskell allows you to define this abstraction within the language, but it is not the only language that allows this.
With respect, most psychiatrists I know generally pay lip service to the idea of psychological counseling, but when the rubber meets the road end up relying on meds. I mean think about it. If you actually believed the root cause was psychological, you would become a clinical psychologist instead of going to med school just so you could have the title of Doctor and prescribe meds.

If you are one of the “other” kinds of psychiatrists, who deeply believe in psychological trauma recovery and are trying to fix the system from the inside, then I sincerely commend you for your work.
> I'm not sure where you are getting this from.

Not GP, but the prozac shrimp story probably didn't help the reputation of psychiatry in the United States at least. And to clarify: I do mean "reputation" - I don't know if it actually says anything about the state of medication - could very well be sanitation.
Yeah, China. I know of the Cultural Revolution, and maybe there's more. And it was careless to forget the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia.
I have seen several psychiatrists, and all of them have prescribed therapy in addition to any medication. The medication is supposed to be a temporary aid while you get fixed, and generally it is the patients who only take the medication.
This is just correlation, not causation. The illegal "chronic pain" robo calls are being made to everyone. They have robo dialers enumerating every phone number. Everyone I know has gotten them.
That post is misguided for so many reasons. In order to say something 'forms a monad', you need to define over what operations. That poster assumes Promise forms a monad using regular javascript function composition as the function composition operator. This is stated without justification, and there are other notions of javascript function composition which would preserve the functor composition law.

More clearly, Promise indeed forms a functor, if the domain is the set of Javascript functions which do not return 'Promise<X>'.
Taking the easy choice.

Whenever you have to make a choice and there are an “easy” and a “hard” options, you should choose the hard option. It’s always the right one.

Why? If the easy option was also the right one, you wouldn’t even be thinking about it. The hard option is your conscience/instinct telling you to look beyond the obvious, easy answer.
They are only forming a purchasing consortium to get in front of the line of other buyers or force bulk discounts. If they don't want to build production capacity themselves they could purchase an existing facility, but they don't.
To the downvoter who didn't get the joke: Didn't you notice that the author's examples are exactly those mistakes that a compiler could find?

Checklists and unit tests and TDD are useful. But how about first using the right tools? I don't think they tried to repair airplanes with jack-hammers in WWII, so we shouldn't try to program complex systems with Javascript and other low-level languages.
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sorry, but what exactly is unfortunate about it?
Ssh can be enabled and wifi configured in /boot.
I view it as something governments will eventually step in to fix. It's very convenient to dump toxic waste into rivers. If it weren't for regulation companies would probably still do this. That doesn't make it ok, and it doesn't mean that behaviors like that will always be allowed.
How is this device anything like Theranos? Theranos promised a world with less of a need for lab testing and claimed to empower individuals to analyze their own vital statistics. This is a product for disease detection in labs. They are more of a thematic contradiction of one another than anything else.
Because I was able to cross check them with legal filings made during my parents’ divorce proceedings.

I have also obtained documentation of similar instances of abuse in previous generations on both sides of my family. So at some point the whole “your memories aren’t real” attack starts to fall apart and ultimately be revealed as more gaslighting.

I encourage you to use more caution the next time you question an abuse survivor.
The test in this video was obviously staged.
I've used it 10's of times to remove my contact info from various websites and now I get 0 unsolicited unwated calls on my phone.
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That’s an easy one to solve by running it through fetchrss or feedity.
Right. That’s what everyone says, meds are temporary. In your case, were they temporary or are you still taking them?
As an aside, the Dune audiobooks are excellent. They are the voice acting sort and are done very well. I recommend them to anyone looking for commute/travel material.
Parent link is: (Ask HN: How should a programming language accommodate disabled programmers?)

And another related thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18478776 (Ask HN: Blind programmers, what can I do to make my code easier for you?)
I disagree. Economics may drive everything, but there's more to life than money, and it shouldn't stop us from creating laws that protect citizens and increase public good.

Before we created the relevant laws, economics also drove companies to hire children, dump trash into rivers, ignore safety, etc. It wouldn't be too much of a stretch to say tracking cookies and advertising malware are the pollution of the internet.

Even as a tech person, I'm skeptical ad-based services are a net win for consumers. It wouldn't be the end of the world, IMO, if tracking cookies and shady marketing practices were illegal and companies had to use traditional sales tactics online.
I can tell you I've got two people in my life suffering addiction and in both cases it can be directly attributed to a trauma they experienced.
Your personal rent example: 650 -> 925 in 20 years is very meager growth, well below inflation: 1.78% per year.

So yes, less than 4%. A lot less.

>>> (925/650.0) (1.0/20)

1.0177975914387338

Note that 20 years of +1.78% per year does +42% compounded.

>>> 1.0178 20
1.4231442772353857

In real money, the rent for your place has gone down, not up, ignoring the furnishing.
I have found that pairing works well for teaching and for solving particularly tricky problems. It also results in higher quality code than working individually with reviews afterwards. However, it is a fair bit slower than working individually - depending on the type of work 0.5x - 1.5x a single dev. That said, the outputs are of a quality actually unachievable with a single dev, so comparing time doesn't always make sense.

So, like many things, it is a tool that should be used when you feel it helps. For example, API design can be done well in pairs, where the code quality has a big impact later on, and then the functionality implemented individually. It also is a great tool to speed up your onboarding process and get new devs giving useful feedback from day 1 and being highly productive within a week or 2.
Man seriously I wish there was like 10x upvotes. Somewhere there is some scummy ass CEO thinking that exact thing.
I think you can do most of those things in mc. The following is from my experience running mc 4.8.18 on Win 10, inside powershell (the executable is from cygwin).

-- Arrow keys work in the menus- press F9 to bring them down, then you can navigate around them with the arrow keys. In the main view, tab moves you from one pane ("window") to the other.

-- I don't think you can use the mouse in mc. It's text based. The menus are all operated by key presses.

-- I can open a text file without extension, on the setup above. I navigate to the file, then press F3 and it opens (in the mc file viewer which I don't generally use).

-- If I understand navigate-as-you-type correctly, yes, mc doesn't have that.

-- Yes, I don't think there's a vim plugin.

-- (No shortcuts) Well, the shortucts are all in the function keys. Also, after F9 each menu item has its own shortcut (its first letter, which is highlighted).

-- (No pin & visit dir) There's the possibility to bookmark paths. Is that what you mean?

-- (No media info) I think you're right about that.

-- cd on exit is configurable; e.g. instructions:

https://ptspts.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-to-make-midnight-commander-exit-to.html

-- Sorry- I don't know what "filter workflow" and "du mode" are and I'm not sure what you mean by terminal locker.

mc's been around for a while. It's a good piece of software. I think I might have been a bit unfair asking for a comparison, after all nnn is not an Orthodox File Manager, so it occupies a completely different space than mc.

Apologies again. I didn't mean to make you defend your work, and I didn't mean to attack it.
I'm not sure if I'm seeing the logic here. Say I want to develop a game. The easy option is to use an existing engine. The hard option is to build your own engine. The latter is quite often the wrong choice.

> If the easy option was also the right one, you wouldn’t even be thinking about it.

Ironically, significant cultural pressure to glorify grit and choosing the hard option often means that the easy option looks automatically bad, in a "too good to be true" kind of way, and you may have to go back and convince yourself that it's OK to take the easy option. This is compounded by the fact that availability of easier options may often be very random and "unfair".
In which case, they aren't "the sort of mild addictions a lot of us have".
The double star * * 'power' operator was removed from my text.

(925/650.0) raised to the power (1/20) is 1.0178

1.0178 raised to the power 20 is 1.42
And succeeded at a much smaller scale

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackpool_Tower
I seem to remember old demos of booting android on old iphones but I doubt it will ever be practical and probably next to impossible these days. Would likely be easier to design and produce a whole new phone than crack the multiple layers of DRM on iphones
I am actually happy that Apple is making a lot of money with their business model. Rather than sneakily offer something for “free”, and selling your data, Apple offers you a product that you can freely buy or not buy. They do a great job in packaging awesome tech, into something the average consumer finds compelling. In addition, their CPU’s are way beyond what any other mobile platform has. In addition, they do a great job of supporting old models of the iPhone, with IOS 12 actually running faster than the previous version on the old hardware.

I hope the success of Apple inspires more companies to see how they can be “greedy” by selling me a product instead of selling me as a product.
If demand is flat, but customers are still paying more, then you're close to price equilibrium.

> If this doesn’t scream greed to you, I don’t know what would. Apple knows how tied into its ecosystem its customers are, and it’s taking advantage of that fact by hiking prices across the board. The products have some new features, but not enough to justify all of these price increases.

This is a voluntary transaction, is it not? These are electronics, not public utilities. Many fashion brands have far higher margins than Apple.
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> The cost of a $2000 for a poor person is huge, the cost for a richer person - whilst significant - is not debilitating.

Which is irrelevant for economic issues because both values are in the same units. An hour may be worth more than $500 for a rich person and not a poor person, but $3500 is more than $2000 for everybody.

> That's why progressive justice systems use means tested fines for things like speeding.

Then the super rich will hire a chauffeur to do their speeding for them, or fly in a helicopter, so all you're doing is creating a differential between the low and middle income people. But then either the fine is oppressively high for middle income people or is an inadequate deterrent for lower income people.

Because dollars have a declining marginal utility when you get more, but the relationship isn't linear. Someone who makes $60,000 may have effectively the same disposable income as someone who makes $30,000 (i.e. both near zero) because the first person has higher costs (housing/transportation/other cost of living) needed to live in the area where the higher paying job exists. You also end up penalizing the person who has "double the income" because they have three kids to support and have to work two jobs. Means tested fines are a populist farce.

> What you get with small fines is people will pay, even if they didn't deserve the fine, because of the cost of time/effort to challenge it.

This is not a deterrence issue, and can be solved by returning to the person the true entire cost of the resources and time taken to successfully challenge a false claim against them.

> If a company can save €100k for multiple years, the only downside being that if they're the 1:10000 that are caught they'll have a €20k fine, the financial analysis - morals aside - says don't pay, unless the €20k would sink you.

If the €20k would sink you then surely the €100k/year would, so the amount of the fine in that case is irrelevant. The real problem in your scenario is the 1:10000 chance of getting caught. If you could clear €100k/year for ten years with a 1:10000 chance of getting caught, the fine would have to be ~€10B, which would obviously annihilate any entity for which €100k/year was a meaningful amount of money to be worth skimping to begin with. Which means that no amount exists that could act as an adequate deterrent for a small organization and that probability of getting caught. Any amount over their total enterprise value couldn't actually be paid and therefore doesn't act as a deterrent.

What you need is to improve the chances that they'll be caught. In which case you don't need such a large fine.
Another excellent BBC4 documentary on the subject, Two Types: The Faces of Britain.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0903ppd
Even more, it confuses unconsciously learned skills and skills learned by repetition. Repetition is not always the best or the only way to learn those skills that get mastered at an unconscious level (though it's definitely an important way to achieve unconscious mastery at some things). These sorts of skills often involve physical activity, movement, writing and coordination generally. If a person begins with "poor form" in such a skill, repeating the activity only makes the poor form more ingrained.

Alternative method include something directly guiding student physically and practicing in such a way that you get immediate feedback if you are wrong.
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Hi, today a noted liberal screenwriter compared the word "anti-vaxxer" to the racist n-word.

So if you ever scroll back through this, Google to see how wrong you were about this.
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The plentiful council housing, while certainly wonderful for the reasons you gave, did come at a cost. I was surprised to learn that the upper tax rate on income over 20k pounds in 1974 was 83%, rising to 98% for investment income. [1] I believe this trend was what the Beetles sang about in Taxman.

1 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_taxation_in_the_U...
Yup, lobbying is far more effective and important than buying Facebook ads.