skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> First one typically translates to something between "I have a completely unfounded illusion of understanding" and "I have no clue but don't dare to say it"

You didn't mentions the industry so maybe you're in an environment where you spoon feed everyone, but for me it translates "yes I understand the goal and the vague outline, let me go away and dig into the details, then I can ask good questions".
> I only noticed that after I started taking stimulants my temper became a lot more short. It's to the point that I have to be really cognizant of it

That scans closer to my experience. I’ve been on Adderal for years, and when I started it I learned that I have the potential to get angry much quicker.
Researchers talk a big game, but genomics has turned out to be a massive disappointment and really oversold.

SNP analysis is useful, but leaves out a lot of important variation. Also, it's taken the field a long time to understand that most interesting phenotypes are complex nonlinear functions of many different variations, which makes health discovery far more challenging.
> Once you bind it to a key, though, it's a lot quicker.

but that's something any IDE in the world can do ?
I'm going to put on my pessimism hat for a moment.

Option two: User buys a nice, expensive wireless speaker at a discount. After setting it up, they learn that it will literally never get an update and they can't get any support for it. Their experience sucks, and worse, it always will. Now they feel like they've been screwed by Sonos on top of however much money they paid for the thing. Their brand new-to-them device is forever hobbled.

That doesn't sound like a happy new customer. That sounds like an angry secondary-market consumer that will never be a customer and a tarnished brand. That seems sub-optimal for a company that highly prizes loyalty and the user experience.
Have been quite a few negative economic indicators in the last six months or so, but not particularly decisive. Hard to say which way the trend will go.

It’s an election year so the government will stop at nothing to avoid a recession however.
I admire your confidence, but I always feel uneasy when I hear someone use the line: "We landed on the moon, so we can surely do <some other thing, which sounds not much harder to a non-expert>".

Next time you try to use it, consider how much credibility you'd give to this argument: "We had men land on the moon and return safely, so we can surely land men on the sun and return them safely".
> Everyone complains about Amazon selling counterfeit goods - so GE comes up with something like this so you know you've got legitimate filters.

You're being naive if you attribute actions like this to altruism from corporations.
"No, no, I wasn't questioning the paternity, you can use the test to check if your baby is a mutant."
I have been on an XR methylphenidate for going on two decades now - it's a pricey medication, I'm a rational person, I'm well aware of how many magic booster packs I could hawk my meds for in high school - I'm also aware that some folks take it recreationally, but a few times I've accidentally doubled up my meds and it feels terrible to me.

I haven't abused my meds personally or traded them on the street, and I do regularly trial myself off of meds to make sure the effect is still noticeable. I am happy you can get away with not using pharmaceutical aides, but a lot of folks can't and, while good life style changes are always good, please don't paint these medications in a negative light. They are really helpful and believe me it absolutely makes a difference - and a lot of people don't follow their GP's advice because they're afraid of being over medicated or becoming dependent.

People should do what they're comfortable doing, but for people with more severe ADHD stepping off that ledge can mean falling all the way down into a really dark place and needing the help of friends and family to get you back to stability.

And, there is absolutely nothing to be ashamed about in taking medication to help you maintain a healthy state.
Repair people are second only to exterminators in their ability to speak the truth, then get something done, in the space of a few minutes.
Luckily for most founders, a business that tops out at $10mm a year in net income is still considered a lifestyle business for most VCs.
Given the general attitude of the GNU/Linux community, I could see most examples/edits being rejected with elitists saying "RTFM!"

Remember, these are the same people that claim the Emacs and Vim are better to code in, and that IDEs are for inexperienced/lazy coders.
I take a non-stimulant ADHD medication named atomoxetine (marketed as Strattera) and I’ve found that it’s been life changing.

With untreated ADHD, I was not aware of my attention issues and had trouble understanding the way my mind and the world around me worked, even though I could have fantastic focus and attention to detail when excited about things.

With atomoxetine, I feel that my attention still drifts, but I am able to notice it and respond to it without stress and turmoil. I get distracted often, but it’s actually EASY to just put myself back on task. It still sucks to get distracted, of course :-)

For me personally, it’s been fantastic. I have basically no negative side effects and no physical dependence (if I were to stop taking it, I would miss the benefits, but there would be no extra downsides.) It’s significantly less invasive than stimulants in that way.

A psychiatrist is always the right person to make the call, of course!
Can it connect to Spotify? Or do you need another device to do that?
SAR and Mountain Rescue Association groups are almost entirely opposed to any form of pay-for-rescue, including the kind of "negligence fines" that a few agencies like New Hampshire's Fish and Game department levies.

It's not just a theoretical possibility that people will hesitate to call for rescue if they think they'll be charged for it, it's something that has already happened in a lot of cases. When people delay a call for rescue, it complicates search and rescue efforts and may even further endanger rescuers.

A great example of this is injuries that worsen to the point that they require evac by helicopter. Helicopters are an over-used tool in SAR and they are extremely dangerous. It's much safer for us if we can just hike out to you, triage a minor injury, and escort you out on foot or by litter if necessary. If we arrive and you're delirious with pain, exhaustion, or dehydration, those options have just gone off the table.

Another really unfortunate related issue is the number of people that think they have to wait a certain period of time before reporting someone overdue or missing. That's not at all the case, especially where children are involved. We would much rather get out while the potential search area is only a few square miles than get called when it's gone up to 30 or more square miles, even if it means we more frequently get woken up in the middle of the night only to get a "disregard, subject located" notification 20 minutes later.

I have a number of statements available from various SAR groups and other articles on this subject if anyone's interested.
how large is the team, if i may ask?
They'll continue working together if and only if you never update the software on the newer devices in your system ever again.
People seem to miss the point of Sonos.

Yes, you can build a good stereo system, connect some kind of streaming system and end up with something roughly the equivalent of Sonos.

But this is the whole Dropbox vs Git+Remote Backup+Your own server thing.

The ease of use and "it just works" simplicity is the feature, and every other setup compromises this to some extent.

I have a Onkyo & Dali hi-fi setup. It's a great system. And I've made attempts to make it as easy to use as Sonos.

Let's go through the things I've tried and the compromises they have:

- Harmony remote + CEC to control the TV and stereo. This is ok (the Harmony products are good) but has *exactly the same issues as Sonos: a propriety system that is subject to upgrades. I've had to throw away one system already.

- Bluetooth streaming. Tried Airplay, but there is no reliable Android support. Bluetooth is ok, but if the range is annoying if someone is walking around the house.

- Zones. My amp sort of has a concept of this, but I haven't even attempted to get it to work. The wiring of speakers is enough to put me off it.

Sonos solves all these problems. But obsoleting their speakers is horrible, and 4 years seems too short a time for this.

I'm not sure what the solution is, but some kind of maintenance fee is something I'd consider - especially for older hardware. It'd have to be substantially less than what I pay for Spotify though. Maybe after 5 years I'd pay $10/year?
Expedia had a bad last quarter and blamed it on Google. Booking has a good quarter and said they did a better job with retaining visitors to skip Google.
You may also work with your psychiatrist to try different stimulants. There's Adderal and its side chains, Ritalin and its side chains (mine is one of those - Dextroamphetamine), stimulants bonded to lysine to enforce delayed release, and non-stimulant options.

Don't feel trapped into one option that isn't working for you.
You could still do what you did, AND go sonos. They sell an amp without a speaker in it. https://www.sonos.com/en-us/shop/amp.html

If you had walls and ceiling torn down, it makes waay more sense to run wire.
I did the same thing. Shocked that five years later there still isn’t a great app that really wows. I think the fundamental problem is that the data is broken. Banks don’t get context from the merchants, and the devs only get ugly data from the banks. The only way this situation will improve is if we can somehow get devs better data. I kicked around ideas on how to do that for a year or so before running out of steam.
When I saw Telengard played on a friend's Commodore 64, I thought for sure it was the end of Dungeons & Dragons forever. Who would want to bother with getting a DM and buying lots of books when you could get the same thing from a computer whenever you wanted?

Glad I was wrong!
> It is the difference between writing a story together or playing along in someone else's story.

A 100% this, a good GM actually doesn't really know much about where the story is going -- you play to find out what happens. I also have a hard time imagining an automated DM effectively 'failing forward'. Every skill check players make should change the game state, pass or fail.

Never, ever let your players roll the dice and tell them "Sorry, you don't see anything". Every check should be an opportunity to move the story... somehow.
It's been a while since I've taken high school biology, but the odds should be the same as the mother. Scottish-ness is not something that's limited to the X or Y chromosome.

Mitochondrial DNA will only come from your mother, but I don't think we're talking about that here.
Uber and Lyft approved in Vancouver, B.C., rollout coming in days
I agree with proportional representation applied within a bounding area of authority and letting representation by __area__ and/or __area of interest__ be by decided by the vote rather than distracting (which is subject to jerry mandering).

I prefer the "Path Voting" method (which I have to google for with wikipedia path voting every time, since I can't remember how to spell the inventor's name). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method

"The Schulze method (/ˈʃʊltsə/) is an electoral system developed in 1997 by Markus Schulze that selects a single winner using votes that express preferences. The method can also be used to create a sorted list of winners. The Schulze method is also known as Schwartz Sequential dropping (SSD), cloneproof Schwartz sequential dropping (CSSD), the beatpath method, beatpath winner, path voting, and path winner."
In vim:

:'<,'>!awk '{printf("\"\%s\", ",$0)}'

or to do the whole file:

:%!awk '{printf("\"\%s\", ",$0)}'

What I find nice about this approach is that I can use my knowledge of awk in other non-vim contexts. Similarly I can use my knowledge of other text processing commands to do things in vim, like reformat text into columns (:%!column -t) for example.

Of course you could use vim commands to do the same thing:

0<ctrl-v>GI"<esc>$<ctrl-v>GA", <esc>VGJ

Which would have the benefit of making it more customizable at the expense of....well you can see what you have to type.
Please do seek professional care and don't try any of the self-medicating techniques mentioned here. From someone else with ADHD, there's nothing to be ashamed about and if it's hard right now - I hope it gets easier.
That's a fair point, and historically it was very hard to arrange to test a unit unless you were the manufacturer. So even a serious reviewer couldn't say "The FooCorp RescueMax failed after just six minutes in our ice water bath" or "Our testers weren't able to understand the orientation instructions for the FooCorp RescueMax and test transmissions were not received in the canyon test area" because they weren't supposed to try the actual function of the beacon at all.

I believe COSPAS SARSAT and the relevant US authorities got it together so that it is now possible to arrange a test carve out, agree with everybody when and where the units will be tested and not cause helicopters of annoyed rescuers to arrive so long as you stay in the agreed area and only test in the agreed time frame. But it can't be made trivial, so chances are only really hardcore survivalist outfits will do that work.
I too have ADHD and OCD.

It's a terrible combination since stimulant medications tend to increase anxiety and therefore worsen OCD symptoms.

My OCD is largely under control now. It took a few years of CBT; figuring out how much sleep (5 ± 1 hours for me) I need per night; and nailing-down a daily routine featuring bounded compulsive activity in order to, for instance, enable me to get out of the door in the morning.
I've used #412f1c for years as my personal site background. I've now changed it to #4A412A (Pantone 448 C). Looks just as good to me. Has better story. https://www.ronilan.com/ What do you think?
You can't ramp up hiring that quickly. By the time you've onboarded several new devs, the year (and budget period) will be over.
Non blogspam-link - https://www.activestate.com/products/komodo-ide/

It says it's "Komodo IDE is now free as part of the ActiveState Platform". Looks like you have to create an account.
No, not everybody can. If you can manage it using those topics, great. You're not as far into the "ADHD affect my life" spectrum as other are. Awesome for you.
I work on the tech side of vehicle manufacturing and while white collar layoffs haven't hit yet, it's getting bad. See [1]. Freight movement is down significantly and trucking companies are going bankrupt all over the place. Truck order forecasts for 2020 are way down from a year ago, and passenger car isn't looking too hot either. This likely won't spill into the advertising-based SV tech economy for a while, though.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/trucking-companies-bankrupt-...
I did it and then regretted it. Possible outcomes:

You risk getting linked to a crime because your DNA was found at the scene of the crime. You might even be innocent, but just having your DNA in a database increases your risk of a false conviction. Worse, you put your relatives at risk too, regardless of whether they are guilty or not.

Maybe you unknowingly got someone pregnant and now owe child support. Depending on your situation, you may not welcome this discovery.

Best case, you find out that you have a genetic disease that you can't do much about.
The funny part about this one is that you can go from zero to really good with under two years of focused practice.

Most people don't do focused practice over time because when you're actually forcing yourself to learn and get better at the edge of your ability it's hard.

I think people get better in the beginning when they know nothing, but once they know a few things most people just plateau at the level where they can play the couple of things that they know without forcing themselves to get better.

Children mostly are forced to do it, with all the advantages and disadvantages of that process.

All this is to say in the majority of cases you can trivially catch up if you're interested in learning a new skill.
This can be generalized to any sort of black and white thinking. Often characterized by thinking or asking "What's the best..." Often they arrive at such a conclusion through a shallow or second-hand evaluation. I do my research and the best I come up with are 'default' tools which are what I'd use before knowing any specifics which may override them.
Considering the types of cars that surgeons drive, I'd say yes, quite lucrative.
>Because if WalMart has the same TV for $40 less, the customer will go there to buy. //

It used to be ready paying meant getting more quality, longer life, easier to replace parts. Now, it seems unrelated. The cheapest one may well be the best one, or a at least the expensive one has all the corners cut too.

There are situations where this isn't the case. And this may be a middle vs bottom of market thing. But expensive stuff is often the same crap with a brand logo.
As a guess, people are probably on average a bit sharper. But it's a weak signal. If it were strong, companies would just hire people from the BA without a tech screen, and rarely or never look at people outside the BA. Which is not the case.

I've not worked there and once dreamed of it as you did. On a few business trips, sat in on tech meetups. It is indeed glorious to sit in a large room full of nerds on any given evening. If you're still young and single, you should ride the ride for a few years.

At the same time, it seems like a terrible place to actually live your life, relative to other possibilities in the US.
Either replace the filters or use the bypass cartridge. You don't want to leave a filter in forever so you don't get bacteria growing in your drinking water.
Anecdotally I would disagree, I know plenty of men and women who just can't find the right words when it comes to the opposite sex but have no trouble navigating social situations otherwise. I'm skeptical that you've never come across such people.

Sexual tension occurs in all situations that pit people together for any significant length of time, regardless of sexual orientation. It is by definition a result of self-control, I'm not sure your definition of sexual tension is the same as mine based on this statement. It is unexpressed attraction usually because the situation may be inappropriate.

You seem opposed to the idea of gender-exclusive spaces. So I have to ask, do you disagree with women's only gyms? Men's only? Gender specific locker rooms?
The Space Problem of Time Travel
Using static typing to make changes slightly bigger than intended.

But with a better architecture and nearly zero mistakes. Through using OO correctly ( please read the word correctly)

One step at a time.

Ps. This is mostly when a code-base is detected where a part of the code is sensitive for bugs. Eg. From today: handling better payment providers and payments.

I thought it was important enough to make the change bigger, but with the intention of removing recurring/similar errors in someone else his code-base.

Afterwards, go to him and explain why. Developers can be proud of their code, although it's just shitty code ( eg. Long functions, loops, if else, switch, by reference, ... Is mostly an example of bad code) and never say it's shitty..
Monthly/yearly subscription to updates of some sort

And tie it into credit score fear.

"Do you want a higher credit score? Sure, we all do. So be sure your 23andMe DNA is up-to-date!"
But can't my employer assert that they bought all my time when I signed up to be an exempt employee?

No, that would be illegal in pretty much every state, except possibly the worker-hostile US Deep South.

The moonlighting laws in CA seem to give them leway to so if they are in a related area to my project, which for AmaGoopleSoft is potentially everything that can be done with software these days.

This is backwards. CA's laws are one of the few in the country that actually let you do this type of thing. Most states let companies have extremely permissive claims to products/IP created by their workers, even off the clock. CA is one of the few states that strongly protects workers' individual creations produced off the clock. In a nutshell, unless you're an executive, material employee, or significant owner of the company, the stuff you make in your free time is yours unless it's directly within the scope of the Company's business activities. And generally, even in those situations CA law provides procedures to protect the workers' independently created IP.

Note: off the clock for these purposes roughly means that you're (a) not in the office/facility and (b) not working on a specific task or project for the company. I'm not going into all of the nuances in this comment.
My dad’s JBL speakers from 1970 still sound great and he has options for streaming music if he was so inclined.

I wouldn’t be impressed with a decade of use out of a speaker.
Ask the AMA. Docs should have stood fast or at least forced more patient privacy protection. As it is, some health providers require patients to sign broad privacy waivers before issuing prescriptions for controlled substances (including ADHD meds).

My GP didn't even think it was an issue -- here sign this. I couldn't believe what I was reading. I refused and didn't get the meds I needed -- resulting in harm to put it mildly. I am lucky that I am not suicidal because it got pretty dark for me, after a few weeks I had to crawl back to get the meds I need.
This was my main reason for not doing it as well, until I got it as a gift. Still waiting on results, though I expect to be disappointed.
I mean, I can think of ways, the banks would have to actually implement them though. Why my bank doesn't let me generate account tokens the same way GitHub does is beyond me.