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I honestly believe given the same set of requirements, constraints, and people skilled with their respective stacks, the language and framework wouldn’t make that much of a difference.

Out of the four modern languages/frameworks that I’m fluent in: C++/TreeFrog (played around with it just because I am a masochist), C#/ASP, Python/Django and JS/Express, I really don’t see any difference in my productivity in any of them.
I believe you have terms misconstrued.

What we in the US have is a representative democracy / republic that is also rather decentralized federation (states and state's rights) as well.

The US is a democracy. 🇺🇸
https://superthinking.com/ introduces a whole bunch.

It grew out of https://medium.com/@yegg/mental-models-i-find-repeatedly-use....

I would suggest starting there.
Usually? Most painters never even hit "subsistence".
FWIW, I was the same, until I ran into some issues at work.

Talking to a medical professional was eye opening. It's worth having he conversation, at the very least. I was very skeptical after being diagnosed.

Then I forgot to renew my prescription the other week and it was utter chaos. I can't believe how much focus and discipline I used to lack.
no, i am using lineageOS and the amount of work i need to put into it to make it usable is a lot. there are issues that drive me mad (for example lineageOS does not allow me to completely disable mobile data, something even most otherwise horrible chinese android phones support)

i don't have time for this. my phone is a tool and not a toy. i don't want to spend hours evaluating apps just to find one that works. i'd gladly pay something for someone to give me a trustworthy experience.
Yeah. I don't want to be somebody who jumps on the bandwagon and self-diagnoses themselves with ADHD, but I also fall into all of these categories, have developed a bunch of his coping mechanisms on my own (the lists part really hit home, I cannot get shit done without making multiple lists and sub-lists throughout the day so that I have an anchor to fall back on when I'm getting distracted), and consume gratuitous amounts of caffeine to keep focused. I've gone through a gallon and a half of Monster in a single day on many occasions, though my normal daily consumption peaked at about 3/4 of a gallon. I've had other people suggest that I might have ADHD as well, but I have no desire to get a diagnosis even if the doc would agree. I'm doing alright with myself and making improvements over time. I do appreciate articles like this because whether or not I have "ADHD" I do have a bunch of overlapping symptoms/patterns-of-behavior, and reading about how other people cope with similar experiences seems useful.
All the difficulty in art is in the selling, so commissions are high.
Yep, the left narrative around the Electoral College seems dangerous to me as well.

I think any argument against the Electoral College has to also include an argument against the Senate. Or is two senators/state acceptable?

The founding fathers clearly considered the effects of having large population centers and attempted to account for it in the House.

A system with no representation for the smaller states would lead to exactly the same scenario that caused the U.S. to be founded. Popular vote would always decide in favor of urban centers and rural citizens would be neglected yet expected to pay taxes.
I'm with you on that.

I cannot stand to be in corporate offices - it's a hell for me - but what choices do I have to earn a decent salary and feed my family? Not many :-(

I've just quit my 3rd job in five years because it got too much.
A 1 penny tax would be very effective too without the subsequent damage to liquidity.
Same here. Aside from my own parents, among my group of friends it's usually the man doing the cooking. I cook, and my wife does the dishes. No complaints from me.
There's already the "..." token to signify a variadic function, which is effectively what "takes parameters that you can't list" means, although I believe it's currently defined only for at least one non-variadic argument.
Why would anyone use Delphi these days? Except the case of maintaining legacy code.
26% is low. It's a buyer/middleman's market through and through.
Why blame democracy when the elephant in the room is capitalism?
> using machine guns to kill people who are trying to legally migrate to your country. To make those statements is to wage a weapon of war and to do it online and on TV en masse is a new kind of trolling that is physically dangerous.

Nobody is doing any of this and I am perfectly happy to dismiss such ridiculous claims.

This is not real. This is not physical. Nobody is machine gunning down people at the mexico border.

You you are the one who is engaging in trolling and lies by spreading such a message around.
Sorry again, dang. I know you don't like having to read an entire long-winded discussion because someone decided to flag every single comment they didn't agree with.

Any chance you can lift the posting limit you've placed on me? It's impossible to participate even in worthwhile discussions. This was just two strokes of bad luck, I promise that you won't be having future problems from me regarding unnecessary flaming. I will be more mindful of my language as well.
Maybe I didn’t clearly communicate, but I meant no additional benefit specific to addressing ADHD problems of biological origin.
And guess what is the most common diagnosis in users of illicit stimulants?

Just reading this thread should be sufficient.
I'm on a redmi purchased in China and I eventually switched to lineage because the people's app store didn't always have what I need.
> I can confidently say that money doesn’t make me happy, because I’ve managed to be happy at my lowest points of financial stability.

I'm not saying that being poor makes it impossible to be happy. I'm saying that money can remove many stresses which make it harder to be happy.

Also, there's 'low income' and then there's 'financial instability'. If you get paid $100/week, spend $50/week on rent, and $25/week on enough food to keep you well fed, and have $25/week spare, and you have a reasonably reliable job (or can easily find another one) then you're financially stable.

If you're on $2000/wk but you have $1500/wk in rent/loans/whatever and $450/wk in food and transport costs, your boss is constantly threatening to fire you, and you know you can't get another job if you do get fired, you're going to have a very hard time being happy.

> If losing financial stability robs somebody of all their happiness, then I’d say they should question whether they were really happy to begin with, or just comfortable.

I'd flip that around and say if your happiness levels aren't affected by 'losing financial stability' then you've lost income but not financial stability.
>This disconnect was so strong that when the civilians who were making these sophisticated moral calculations saw the manner and (more importantly) the rate at which the bombs were used, they put on the brakes.

Those civilians names were not auto-penned at the bottom of letters that started with "The United States Army regrets to inform you...". Those civilians had not seen what kind of end conventional warfare had lead to on inner islands like Iwo Jima and Okinawa. They did not understand how committed to their cause the people we were fighting were. The disconnect goes both ways.
They won't fly if customers won't fly on them. The first part of the rehab will be renaming and rebranding the product to reduce customer stigma.
Feds nab top exec on allegations he hacked a competitor, stole school lunch info
Kind of tangential, but does anyone know how long has andrewgelman.com been redirecting to statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu? I have been reading Gelman's blog (maybe it's unfair to call it Gelman's blog since it also has posts by other people) off and on for years. I've never noticed the address bar changing.
Hey, don't forget about the first two Pokemon generations, Pokemon TCG, Metroid II, and Wario Land!
Setting facebook itself, and the OP's specific decision aside for the moment...

> Who or what defines if a company is ethical or moral enough? You?"

> I certainly wouldn’t pretend like I am on some moral pedestal and hand out advice to young grads to skip taking a fantastic opportunity because it conflicts with my biases.

This is like saying that that ethics is equivalent to a category of personal biases, that they are therefore arbitrary and completely personal, and that therefore nobody has any right to use their judgment about the ethical content of the actions of other people.

"Are banks more ethical? (...)"

This is like qualifying the above by saying that 'not only is everything relative, but let us look at things relative to these other notorious actors. In that light, who indeed could condemn a person for doing X?'

Although the contents are drastically different, this sort of argument is logically similar in form to 80-year old nonsense such as: "if all the other restaurants are forbidding black people from entering their premises, who are you to say they are wrong?"

While I personally think that there is an ethical way to work for an unethical company, I don't think that pretending there are no issues to carefully consider is an adult behaviour. Its like an hiding your head under the blankets when something unpleasant is happening.

...in other ethics related news, a UN report has recently declared that 1 million species are in danger of extinction. Will we say that concern for this also is a relative, personal bias?
I wouldn’t use it for my projects, but Delphi still has some strengths that are not so common these days:

- very fast compile times

- great backwards compatibility

- non programmers can create simple programs
Soon you can have both!
Glad that they managed to find individual defendants. The corporate veil is too often present to protect malicious actors.
The satellites fall from orbit and burn up in the atmosphere.
Also, the American government/5E.
> Many people have pointed out why this is a terrible trend, for reasons that are obvious

Are they? I am not sure I see the obvious reasons. Considering the future, maybe its a better idea to not have children.
i'd love if they get brand new midlevel phones and re-sell them for a premium with /e/ preinstalled.
"And personally, I'm willing to pay extra for lab-grown."

I believe this mindset amongst thoughtful consumers like yourself only do harm. Like with other trendy foods that get popularized for health or whatever reason, it incentivizes the producers to raise the prices and when consumers like yourself accept that price, it sends a signal to them. The product then becomes too expensive for regular normal people to afford, so only wealthier families can afford to eat them and get those health benefits. If it is imperative for us to make healthy and sustainable diets more widespread, we must strive to make it as accessible as possible. Same with the beyond burger stuff or any other vegetarian/vegan products.
Perhaps a different flavor of mental model, but a great book: "Metaphors We Live By" by George Lakoff
There is nothing illegal about modifying your own car.

People have been doing so since cars were invented.

"Amateur" car modifications are already very wide spread.
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It certainly does.

In these comments you could see anything from people that think it's not an illness to people who have secondary impairments due to obstructed airway at night.

And they are all probably right to some degree.

This stuff - attention, executive function, ability to self regulate and direct your own attention - meta-cognition, if you will - is very poorly understood. Treatments are very crude, we will eventually see them as barbaric.

It probably is one of the youngest developments, evolution-wise.

Fascinating stuff.
This is extremely reckless
Show HN: Blendful–Create, remix, and sell illustrations
Hey HN, I have been working to create Blendful [0]. I'm a designer/programmer and I realized how frustrating it is for people who are not designers to create high quality illustrations that fit well with their project. Blendful is intended to fill that gap.

I would love to hear any feedback, comments, or discussion otherwise. Thank you for your time.

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I don't know. I can't write a CRUD app anymore to save my life, but I can dive into the middle of a foreign code base and quickly understand it and solve issues that stump the primary developers. I struggle with normal daily activities like paying bills or putting away laundry, but in an emergency or high stress situation when others are freaking out I feel comfortable and in control. I struggle with conventional learning, but can pick up things which align with my interests (which are wide and diverse) extremely quickly. The negatives are there, and they can be severe... but I do still see some upsides. I'm currently unmedicated, but have been on Adderall in the past. I've been able to manage it mostly by changing jobs when they become stable and boring or taking on roles where I'm constantly working on new projects for short amounts of time. I suspect at some point this will stop working and I'll have to change careers entirely and end up as a chef, or woodworker or something else completely different than what I do now. Maybe by that time I'll agree with your position, but I feel like I'm able to use ADHD to my advantage for the time being.
i wiped the preinstalled OS as soon as i got a chance. the constant nagging to connect to their cloud services was disturbing. and i wouldn't trust any chinese market. the level of spyware/adware in those is sickening.
I guess these fixes have not made it to the 6.5 errata page or syspatch, as neither are showing them at the moment.
I also have ADHD (and felt the irony of watching my leg shake while reading about the author's leg shaking). I tend to do a lot of what the author is saying. "Planned distractions" help. I try to work in blocks of time (sometimes about 20 minutes) but when my mind starts to wander I let it and use that time to check my e-mail (or HN) then go back to the task.

Keeping a task list is definitely key. I have a plain text file called "tasks.txt" open at all times and in the morning I'll list the stuff. I live by the "if it takes under 5 minutes do it right away" mantra.

Sometimes I'll end up working on a task, that while it does need to get done, is not necessarily the first task on my list (or on the list at all). So after a "distraction break", I check my task list again so I don't forget.

I am extremely good at figuring out issues. I'm a technical architect (programmer) and I often find myself going around and fixing others' issues quickly, but time management and attention to detail are definitely issues - issues that have been thankfully solved by technology and forethought.
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In case anyone cares, I found my own answer: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/01/11/new-blog-h...
Its very sad when what used to be the most prestigious paper in the world is pushing corporate propaganda with the new Red Scare. Citing deranged conspiracy theorist Molly McKew as some sort of an authority on anything brings just more disrepute to The Times.
You could, kind of. Basically, Kalman filter is this: you have 2 noisy data sources with a known real-life connection (like, vehicle position and velocity), so instead of an accurate measurement for each you have 2 "wide" gaussians. When you multiply them, you still get a gaussian, but a much narrower one, meaning: you still don't know the exact position for sure, but (kind of surprisingly) now you know it with a much greater precision than you had with the direct measurement.

In fact, I agree that this one is not really good explanation. I cannot remember, where I saw my favourite one, but there are really plenty of them in the internet, many are well illustrated and pretty clear overall, so if you are actually interested, I think you won't have much trouble understanding it after a few links from the first page of your favorite search-engine.
I feel like I've seen some negative safety coverage about 5g, and now I'm wondering if it was influenced by this campaign. Are there any legitimate safety concerns, or is pretty much all of it bunk, as this article indicates?
Why? The tiny % of people who need telnet are perfectly able to install it themself.
I don't think enquiring about the welfare of the kid is out of line. A simple 'he is living with a relative', 'foster care' would have sufficed and would not be a breach of privacy. You told an interesting story and it's completely natural people are curious how the situation unfolded.
Perhaps Ephemeral OS then.
Yeah what the hell? This just seems like someone spending a shit load of money and thinking that it'll make them happy. Shock horror, cheating on your partner makes you feel like shit, who'd have thought
You as the client try to GET /my-receipts/20190512-1 from Fancy Receipt Scanning Service, and content-negotiate with an Accept header to "text/plain" or "image/gif" (e.g. to get a plain copy or a scan). There's no agreed-upon way of communicating links in plain text or GIF, so Fancy Receipt Scanning Service can't serve you a GIF scan of your receipt that links to a product page for every item you bought.

If you accepted "text/html", it could have served HTML that embedded these links within the response body, but you didn't accept "text/html".

It can choose to send links as headers, if it still wishes to communicate links.
They care, they just have no legal reason to force it to be taken down.
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> This is kind of similar to the mission in Call of Duty series where one has to participate in the slaughter of civilians in an airport - I didn't like that one either.

Oh man that was a tough mission to play through... great game though.. definitely compelling and one of the most memorable. I wonder if something like that could ever pass today.
I make $200,000 doing smart proxying for FB campaigns.

My favorite easy way to increase ad efficiency?

Exclude Android users. Really.
I wish github had a bookmarks feature. Currently most people star when stars should be a "I used this and its good" rather than "Seems interesting, should take a look later"
It does to some extent, because once you have some improvements from stimulants, newly found ability to concentrate and follow through will allow you to create new feedback loops/circuits/patterns in your brain that didn't exist before, very much a biological change.
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Interestingly enough, on FreeBSD the mknod()/open()/write() code would have no effect. FreeBSD only allows access to devices through character devices that are exposed by devfs.

It is still possible to create device files on other file systems using mknod(), but they only act as placeholders (e.g., to prepare a filesystem image for another OS).
On the contrary; they knew exactly what kind of relentless bombing the Allied Armed forces were willing to undertake, completely leveling non-military cities with conventional munitions just to break the will of the “enemy”. The civilians rightly feared that with these new weapons of war, the similar indiscriminate use of them could result in efficient wiping out of cities in days rather than years.

At the time of their invention, nuclear weapons were seen as more effective munitions and not necessarily the civilization ending tools that they are now considered to be.
I agree with Vitalik on this. It’s the reason comma.ai / hotz can practically give away lane assist capability for existing cars. No control / open source.
Will help in other spaces suffocated by regulations on users data such as healthcare. Make a distributed / patient controlled system for hosting patient data that you don’t control, and maybe it doesn’t have to worry about hippa. Build a distributed white pages for people that want more targeted advertising and maybe you don’t have to worry about gpdr.
int main() { return 0; }

Main takes argc and argv, but it's idiomatic to omit them if unused.
The Omnibus package is very painless and internally uses Chef to apply configuration changes and data migrations. I maintained a (small) instance for a few years and never ran into any issues, all you need to do is upgrade the package through APT/yum etc.

There's also support for zero-downtime upgrades [1] but I haven't tried it yet.

[1] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/update/#upgrading-without-downtim...
That's a little cynical isn't it?

The world is improving by many, many metrics. Absolute poverty isn't just going down, it's accelerating towards zero. We're also hitting a point where everyone who can be, is connected. Online education is better than ever (for those who seek it). I could go on.
Those societies were worse off because they valued human life less and this was reflected in their entertainment. Seems like a reasonably unobjectionable no-brainer.
IIRC, it uses microG to emulate some Google services so that you can have push notifications without installing the play store. Otherwise, you have to go without for some things.

Also IIRC, microG requires you to allow signature spoofing, which has always creeped me out a tiny bit. I don't understand android well enough to fully understand the possible risks of that.

Please correct me if I'm mistaken.
That would make the people that generate the needles and feces effectively invisible in our society. Their suffering would be for naught.
This is covered at length in a book titled “Good to Go.” It was such a good read and addressed so many things that I’d taken as a given about recover. Highly recommend the approach and the style of the author.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40180017
>The impression the article gave me is that ADHD is more the inability to choose what you focus on, not an inability to sustain concentration?

This aligns pretty well with the definition of executive function.
The football team also has a heavy selection bias.

Personally, I got into CS because there was a required intro class at my undergrad. A dedicated and charismatic professor noticed my aptitude and encouraged me to take the next course and consider a CS major. This could easily have happened in high school if my high school had a required CS course.
If educated, professional, and higher-than-average net worth couples are not having kids but people of the inverse characteristics are having kids (at an accelerated rate)...
I literally cannot find them using search engines, I always need to find somebody who linked to them in a blog post or article.
Twice exceptional people with a solid track record of underachieving?

How is that in any way exceptional?

* Executive function is affected by all those disorders you mention in the wiki. And the best proxy we know of and can measure is attention.
Humans eat cooked food which gives us 2 major advantages

1. we can digest a lot of energy and power our brains with it that consume some 30% of our energy intake

2. we digest it fast, giving us ample time to do other things
Talk about excuse! LOL
I'd love to try it out but I can't bring myself to trust (on any level) something that's essentially a mobile phone running a hacked-together mashup of C and Python. There's no redundancy, no independent components cross-checking each other, nothing as far as I'm aware to try and provide any given level of reliability.

(Don't get me wrong, Python is great for research - I wouldn't regard it as highly reliable or good for high-availability systems, though.)
It's an excellent product except for one flaw - it clogs pumps and even their bottle caps very rapidly. I wish it didn't.
Nobody will ever admit it but memantine and/or dxm maintain effectiveness of amphetamines.

Even as much as fully resetting tolerance in some cases.
If it employs those that need it, keep the business environment clean, and makes everybody safer, it isn't all bad.

It's also worth noting the homeless are not being run out of town.

Things could be worse.