skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The big question for us is, do we consider the parts of our behavior caused by whatever we suffer from to be part of our identity or personality?

I do not now. I used to -- I had a fairly major crisis of identity after my diagnosis, because a very large chunk of what I considered to be my personality turned out to be ADHD symptoms. I literally had to refind myself.

But it turned out very well, because now I define myself based upon what my actual qualities are, rather than defining myself based on symptoms of a disorder. I no longer feel like everything about who I am changed after meds; I'm still the same person I was ten years ago, I'm just now more easily able to express that self without ADHD getting in the way.

Also, in almost all cases, the "new qualities" are better than the old ones. Whereas before, "I just can't finish things" was unfortunately something I considered to be part of me, now I am able to finish things mostly the same as neurotypical people. That leaves me free to define myself based on positive qualities -- good humor, optimism, and so on.

The thing is, it became much easier for me to feel okay about taking medicine when I realized that the goal of medicine is simply to bring me back to a "normal" level. I had been operating at a deficiency of certain neurotransmitters; the medication simply brings those levels closer to normal. Once I had adopted a more biochemical perspective on my brain and identity, my initial reluctance disappeared.

A side effect of this is that I kind of no longer believe personality is fixed. I really don't find that the things we tend to call 'personality' are the sort of permanent identifying landmarks to a person we want them to be. Now I've adopted a view that puts a much stronger emphasis on the actions a person chooses to take, which I think is a better way to identify a person's qualities anyways.

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I would hesitate though with ADHD in particular, because untreated ADHD reduces your lifespan in a statistically significant way, is literal hell to live through, and the treatments are perfectly safe and extremely effective. If someone has a child who is diagnosed with ADHD, I would beg them to not let their personal prejudices against medicine keep them from getting the child the help they need. As someone who lived through it as a kid, it was physically torture. The word "restlessness" sounds benign, but I find it to be quite similar to akathisia on bad days, which is really horrific.
I'm confused about the OPs opinions. I'm not confused about your response. I think it's more than unproductive to blindly dismiss questions, it's telling. How was that confusing? Who asked you?

... And to your comment below...

... I already responded to why, because it's Bs to post a claim with no questions allowed. I'm not calling her a liar I'm disagreeing with the conclusion she comes to.

Sorry I don't blindly believe conspiracy theories. You shouldn't either. I don't care if they posted NO QUESTIONS, IM FEELING UNWELCOME. Like that's great, I'm still going to ask questions, you don't get immunity especially with nonsense theories. That's something to qualify arguments with clear holes in them. I'm trying to get a real answer not make a sheltered bubble.

This is a hollow opinion to hold. If you can't defend or discuss your beliefs, especially inflammatory and controversial ones, then don't spout them off with a disclaimer of no questions allowed. I happen to disagree with the explanation op gives, but they won't even accept feedback. We're at an impasse because you want your own rules.

Otherwise it's just an opinion contest and no progress will ever be made. Thanks for pointing out the obvious repeatedly though. I don't want to e welcoming to everyone, I want to be welcoming to those who deserve it.
Almost all aluminum cans for food products are coated. You can safely assume there's a coating of some kind. Some brands print "BPA free" on their cans. At this point that's the only information available to consumers.
If you're non-exempt, then you're explicitly tracking "company time" vs "not company time".

Did you mean you are exempt?
Do not worry. There is only a tiny group of people who know the meaning of the term.
In programming, when someone talks about lines of code they've written as an accomplishment (more is better). For those in the know, they're a liability. Solving the problem is the accomplishment.

More generally, the right answer to almost any question in software is: It depends. (That is, it depends on the usually large set of explicit and implicit, technical and non-technical requirements.)
We Need to Embrace Deflation
What's New with Apps in Azure Ad – Jan 2020
Yep, can resonate a lot with that myself. I fell in love with GTD 20y ago and spent years trying to work out the best solution for _organizing_ thought, rather than putting all that energy into actually acting on thought. It was my hoarding & librarian lizard nerd brain gone into overdrive.

It’s similar I think to what I did back in those same days when I switched briefly from Mac to PC (from the pain of MacOS 9 during the super early days of OS X), and spent so much time building my own PCs & installing configuring tearing my hear out re: CD-drivers et al plus just getting to a workable state over and over with Gentoo Linux or whatever flavor du jour — I did stuff FOR the computer instead of actually doing valuable stuff WITH/ON it.

Nowadays I use mostly Apple Notes for pretty much everything (even though the backup story still sucks). But I’ve always been a huge fan of ”outliners”, it seems that it’s the closest to how my mind works. Still use OmniFocus for some personal task management (and OmniOutliner before that), and have used Dave Winer’s very nice little outliner web app off and on for years, just to jot down complex thoughts quickly.

But Roam is definitely the thing I’m most excited about currently in this space. I find Notion.so and the others much too complex for most my needs (even though the inline database is a wicked cool idea!).

And the fact that Roam is a small ClojureScript shop as well is just... PERFECT :)
Makes things trickier if you work remotely. Probably a good reason for having a personal computer and a work computer.
Actually this is all about Amazon.

Apparently in some countries users are going to straight to Amazon for their shopping searches and bypassing Google entirely.
A better example would be where high earners can shift their incomes into corporate structures and thus treat themselves as a “business”, realizing many tax savings and write offs. A professional Corp making $500k will likely allow for a greater “take home” than a W2.

Capital gains, as others pointed out help in limited circumstances and typical equity compensation only marginally benefits.
Delaware is used as the base for a lot of corporations of all stripes. It's because they provide an enormous tax advantage.

I actually had an argument with my business attorney about this many years ago. He wanted me to incorporate in Delaware for the tax benefit. I wanted to incorporate in my own state because that's the right thing to do.
And also that the US Fed Gov's role in funding Signal. Hopefully, the best outcome will probably be seeing how stupid the backdoor and encryption debate is.
Sure but... Let's not kid ourselves. The FIs are actively killing these products because we all realize how much we can damage the PBR stickiness of American banks.

The "KLO-ification" of Mint, the C1Acquisition of Level, Visa tactically grabbing Plaid: they're all to consolidate the industry and allow existing players to stifle the American banking landscape.
Are you working out of your employer's office? While you're in the office that's generally considered "company time", or at least company resources.

If you're working from home and don't have normal "work hours" then it's not so well-defined.
Thanks for the push. I've been working with ADHD my entire life. I never considered medication before until my son started on it and I watched an absolute transformation in the way he works at school. His 4th grade teacher literally cried it was so positive.
Doing emergency surgery on a code base and not knowing how many holes are left is likely to leave more rabbit holes than a rewrite.

Otherwise I agree with you. Rewrites are tricky. And the second system is particularly dangerous. But then it gets better - the third system tends to be a lot better than either of the first two.
Any business without physical inventory that can be automated in a way to sell/buy should really worry about Google. Eventually Google will come for that market as their new crop of managers/execs will want to make the number to get their bonus and move up the ladder.

I know a guy who used to work at tripadvisor years ago. At the time Google was trying to start up their own hotel search business but they didn't have the reviews. So Google was initially using reviews submitted to tripadvisor by tripadvisor's reviews. I believe there had been prior agreement for Google to use tripadvisor's reviews for a fee/beter-search-ranking in return?
Anyhow, tripadivisor didn't like what was happening so was in the process of telling google that they will stop the arrangement.

And a google exec in the meeting threatened tripadivisor execs that google will lower tripadivisor in the search results, if tripadvisor did stop the arrangement.

This bit was apparently shared in a regularly scheduled company wide meeting.
+1 from me. Every time I revisit code that I wrote cleverly I roll my eyes at myself. What was I trying to prove, now I have to put more effort in understanding my "cleverness" instead of quickly going through the change I have to implement.
Once you bind it to a key, though, it's a lot quicker. There is something to be said for emacs as a unified computing environment when compared to the UNIX way of doing things. Instead of wrangling different parts of the filesystem and tying them together with aliases and shell scripts, you can just version-control the productivity software (i.e. your emacs config) you write in the course of using emacs.
Trip Advisor has been fairly hit and miss for me. The star ratings especially for hotels have a weird value judgement in them that isn't at all congruent with mine. I'll see run down crappy hotels with 5 stars while much much nicer hotels with better amenities and locations are rated with 3 stars.

Some way to specify the profile of the rater's you care about would be a huge improvement. Things like traveling with children, back-packing, splurging on vacation, would be helpful criteria to make the reviews more relevant and informative to me.
Regardless of legality, you shouldn't be taking sand as a souvenir. Beaches are a natural resource for both people (recreation) and animals/plants. They provide food, breading grounds, habitats...

Leave no trace.
At work computer versus at own. Or even VPN on, versus off VPN, though that’s harder if you don’t use one.
Yes, but if you get a mutation in one of the SNPs they test for, it will show positive even though both parents are negative.
Note that Candy are/were a European conglomerate with multiple brands, including Hoover, Baumetic, Kelvinator and probably a dozen more. I know they had a few Scandinavian brands, and I think they also have Servis.

Wouldn't surprise me if others in that list of seven are holding multiple sub-brands too, and a full tree-walk produces a huge list of brands.
That reminds me of another _brilliant_ hack I had my kid do at a youth checkers tournament. I got him to swat the other players pieces off of the board so the opponent would eventually run out of pieces before my child. I think the opposing kids parents were biased against me just because I'm an inventive genius.
Talk like an Egyptian: mummy's voice heard 3k years after death
This doesn't even make sense. The advanced safety feature is the FCA equivalent of ONSTAR. You want to buy a car that has a safety feature based on them tracking your vehicle, but you simultaneously want them to guarantee you they won't track your vehicle??

If you don't want to be tracked, don't buy a truck with the advanced safety feature, pretty simple...
I think desktop search existed before Google's. But not a lot of people used it in my experience. I found Google's to be fantastic,a and it was nice it showed results in line with the mostly used search engine. I was surprised when they discontinued it too, and suspect it was some "gentlemen's (anti-consumer) agreement" between companies around turf.
Death announcements on the walls are common everywhere in Italy, not just in Naples. They are a very effective way to let people know when and where the funeral is, better than obituaries in newspapers.
This is malware, as simple as that. Chances are Google will soon blocklist this extension as side-loading extensions is NOT supported, see https://blog.chromium.org/2013/11/protecting-windows-users-f....
Why Windows at work, do you work for a large company that provides laptops you're not allowed to reinstall, or are you in a non-tech job?
I should really be working, but I am reading this article. Please send help.
They had to drive for hours to get into cell reception? I mean yeah that's pretty remote. Most people probably never get hundreds of miles from the nearest cell tower though. Now if you were all alone, I could see how it would have been crucial.
Please don't be a jerk on HN. If you have a point beyond just wanting to lash out, the idea here would be to make it thoughtfully and substantively.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The exact same can be said about “equality.” Any sensible system is a blend of the two.
> That is precisely what you were trying to do

What a load of crap. You’re projecting something here I’m afraid.
Found this for further context -- January 21 blog post:

https://blog.sonos.com/en/end-of-software-updates-for-legacy...
> Just wanted to say sorry for the outage. Issue was triggered by an aggressive uptime monitor which was freaking out at some slower-than-usual response times mid-HN-hug.

What is the theory behind this? If response times are too slow, how is terminating service supposed to help? Who is it supposed to help?
Smart phones also leak data. While you didn't mean this, I do think there's some sympathy here - the people that don't care about their data being out there because they 'have nothing to hide' probably feel the same way with their genetic data being out there.

23andME need to figure out a follow-on product to get the folks that have already taken the base test to purchase. Otherwise they have no new market to address.
I guess the question is..

What's more problematic: false positives or false negatives?
- Be supportive and help him realize his strengths over time.
- Keep an eye out for falling behind in schoolwork
- Talk to his teachers about it

My mom really pushed for me to get extra support and I was diagnosed with a Learning Disability (auditory processing sucked, spatial cognition was low too) back in the 1980's, but when I was in my early 30's something"snapped" and I went in and got diagnosed as having ADHD which explained a lot to me.

I always felt that my parents supported me and have told me they "always thought I would turn out great" despite my school issues (Basically like the guy who wrote the original post - I wouldn't finish anything). They just did what they could to help me along, extra support from techers, tutors (although they didn't help much), hobbies, etc.

I think the hardest hing for my parents and teachers was seeing that I loved computers, but couldn't do anything with computers without math, which I detested. Product Managers weren't very well known positions back then :) In the end, I have had a 12+ year career as a PM, and my ADHD is a pain everyday. But, I was able to do it because I always felt like my parents believed in me, even when they know I can't do my laundry.
Ask HN: Pull request body how detailed should it be?
Our team has the most inconsistent content for pull request body messages I have ever seen. Some will drop a link to a ticket without any other context, some will write a little paragraph that describes the intent of the changes, and still others put the ticket number in their pull request title and leave the body blank.

Personally, I enjoy the small narratives. The tickets are usually void of useful technical specifics (beyond maybe what component should be worked on).

So, my questions to HN:

1. How detailed should one make a pull request body?

2.Is there any value in pushing the point? We have lots to do and limited bandwidth, both points the CTO has tossed at me when I raise issues like this.

EDIT: format
When 23andme first started they were offering that a sample and your data could be destroyed whenever you liked. Then they got bought and their erasure document is a disgrace, their default position is they can't delete your genetic data and they don't say a thing about the sample at all. Those were not the terms under which it was collected.

There is a reason their business is failing and its because of this enormous change to their basic policy. What they have changed to is against the law in the EU and it is definitely not GDPR compliant despite the amount they say it is in their document.
I really like `albert` on the Apple Store for this. They even have texting as a component to it which is really nice.
Or a financial institution could create read-only accounts with no permission to transfer any money anywhere. Besides fintech apps, these are useful for guardians of young or elderly to monitor them. Or when I am traveling in an area with untrustworthy wireless or cellular and want to see if a transaction cleared.

Fidelity Brokerage has this kind of account.
Lol $199 - yup you're Asian. Thanks!
Right, max pay grade for ordinary civil servants. But "senior executives" and some political appointees get more.
The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution by C.P. Snow (1959). An important shot over the bow.
"Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?"

http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/kernighans-lever/
He gamed their poorly designed game. He didn't hack their servers.
Anyone know of a good hand-held NOAA unit to buy in case of emergency?
I totally understand you. I am trying to understand -for hours- what concrete things might come up over there but I'm still facing walls. I don't get why no concrete examples live in the whole thread just vague generalizations (to me).
thanks for pointing this out. I have to use MSO in the future because of corporate st. would not have realized this until to late.
Companies can can do claim that ideas from employees are a company resource, even when worker is paid hourly and off the clock and the idea was on the employees own time.
> 1. ...

This is a good thing

> 2. ...

This is against the interest of the DoD. It may be in the interest of other agencies, but not the DoD. The DoD's interest is that __all__ communications of their soldiers. Because it matters if a soldier texts their buddy back home "blah blah I'm taking a shit in this shack outside the base. You should see what it's like out here blah blah." That has security issues for them. Soldiers are going to text their buddies, significant others, and family by any means that they can. So your choice is 1) through a secure channel or 2) through an insecure channel. DoD is obviously in favor of option 1. Increased regulation, such as your suggesting, is counter productive and only encourages option 2.

> 3. ...

The code is open source. Moxie is also pretty adamant about keeping it open source. DoD also has an invested interest in keeping it open source.

> As another poster pointed out the US government funds TOR.

This user was me?

Since the conversation is exactly the same as the one we were having the other day on another thread I am literally going to reference that thread[0]. I think the pessimism comes from "anti-government" thinking, but also a lack of understanding how agencies work. You can probably tell from my chat history that I'm not super pro strong gov and pro privacy. But these agencies have differing agendas and this has to be understood. The intelligence community has a split incentive when it comes to Tor/Signal/encryption. The part that handles protecting their spies is pro Tor and wants other users on it because they don't want spies found because only spies connect to Tor nodes (or only spies/pedos/terrorists even). Conversely, those in charge of finding spies (or spies and pedos) don't like Tor (and that's why they'll claim that only spies/pedos/terrorists use Tor/encryption. It is pushing __their__ agenda).

It really comes down to "what agenda makes their life easier?" So it should be no surprise that a defense agency is... in favor of defense. It should also not be a surprise that agencies in charge of attacking (let's avoid debate about who they are attacking) is... anti defenses. Those that are in charge of protecting kings are pro castles because it is easier to defend your king behind a castle. Those in charge of killing kings are anti castle because it is harder to kill a king behind a castle. These people may work for the same king, but they don't really talk to each other that often.

I actually think the government will start taking a more pro encryption stance in the future (we've seen some of it already), especially as tensions rise. Those that worry about foreign interference have an incentive to protect everyone's communications from foreign adversaries. It is harder to manipulate those that you have no information on. Anti encryption sentiment comes from when we are in a stronger position and less worried about being attacked. Now as we're transitioning into a period where we're becoming more concerned about defense we have a much higher incentive (before it was ambivalence) to improve defenses.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22114149
My underlying premise, stated as simply as possible, is that when you have rules that disadvantage one group of people over another because of some immutable characteristic, that is unfair and a Bad Thing.

You are arguing with a platform I didn't cite and did not have in mind until you mentioned it. Arguments for basic fairness can be found in the Declaration of Independence, the US constitution, and numerous contemporary writings. The academic work you mention seems mostly to be an effort to investigate the degree to which those theoretical concepts are realized in practice.
Because the insane price of parking and getting into the park isn't going to cover the $0.50 of soda a family of 5 will consume in a day?
> Pick a palette from flatuicolors.com

Wow those are some gaudy colour schemes that all look the same.
Not true for what you might call "recreational" vessels.

"Uninspected passenger vessels less than 100 gross tons are not required to carry an EPIRB." https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2018-title46-vol1/xm...
Honestly, you've got to be doing something wrong. Maybe a bad, non-lubricating shaving cream, way too much pressure, or inappropriate holding angle. Safety blades are not known for creating horror films.
I mean, they were feature complete. There was nothing to add, only to remove to add an upsell.

It also doesn't help they run on Plaid and Plaid's a ticking time bomb piece of tech (despite what they sold for).
If it's going to make you feel better, your bank's website isn't as secure as you think too; it's not bulletproof.
You comment is structured so as to imply an identity or equivalence that doesn't exist. A claim was made without evidence. The respondant made a valid argument for the improbability of the claim being true, given that gender is normally not evident, and simply asked for evidence to justify the claim. There is no irony here, simply an attempt at objectivity.

We should ask for evidence to justify claims like this.
also, the value you get out of it seemed to be mostly curiosity and novelty. Getting a bunch of stats on your heritage is nice and all but it's not any sort of ground-breaking consumer service.