skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My trick is to cook a roast and just eat roast beef and frozen vegetables for a few days. Very little effort required, and once ketosis kicks in and the brain fog lifts you have the clarity to make more sustainable diet changes.

I'll do this when I find myself slipping, too.
Simplistic "No True Scotsman" bullshit. ORMs provide type safety, ease of refactoring, and reduce a lot of boilerplate. Of course, occasionally you need to bypass an ORM to write complex queries, which is fine. ORMs are not perfect, but are a very useful tool nonetheless.
>> The page isn't working for me so I can't confirm this

I don't know how I feel abouy a company that sends mixed messages about the shelf life of their products and can't manage to consistently serve a blog post to its customers.
Quick: in the last year, what % of your discretionary income did you spend on dining out? Across multiple payment methods?

That's the kind of question that my bank's statements don't let me readily answer, but something like Mint does (I use YNAB because its flow works better for me, but YMMV).
Generally, turnover is a very bad sign. But why are they leaving? Can you ask some of them?

If there's nothing really wrong with management, etc., it might actually be in your favor to stay, faster promotions, maybe a raise, etc.
Wuhan coronavirus may have been transmitted to people from snakes
Added. Was an oversight, thanks for pointing out!
Then why are all men-only groups constantly under attack to include women (Boy Scouts of America, etc.)?
Stress is dopagenic. You have learned through trial and error that procrastination will help you get enough dopamine to focus. Those habits don't go away even after you find proper medication
Ask HN: Has there been a spike in layoffs or belt tightening recently?
What are people seeing in the tech sector anecdotally ? I’ve been reading about layoffs at Mozilla, Intel, Quora, StubHub, 23AndMe, Oyo.

It seems to be the start of a down trend.
It is easy to see a procedurally created game replacing a mediocre GM.

But it's extremely difficult to see any kind of procedurally created game being able to create the sort of experience you get with a really good GM.

It is the difference between writing a story together or playing along in someone else's story.
Funny. ADHD for me means no meditation. The focus needed to meditate is impossible to gather, even medicated.

Attempts at meditation immediately becomes rumination, where I play through all the conversations I could possibly have in the coming day (and exploring the worst case scenarios), which leads to elevated stress, which makes the ADHD tendencies worse.
What's more inefficient: the extra electricity and water of older machines, or the extra waste, manufacturing, and shipping caused by shorter replacement cycles?

I know many people who have had to replace or service their "high efficiency" machines within 5-10 years, while many old washers seem to last at least 20 years without service. Given the electronics and specialty parts in the new machines, it seems doubtful that you could keep one of them in service for more than 15 years.
> Sonos lets users choose to brick old devices in exchange for a discount.

What I don't understand is why. Let's look at the two options.

Option one: User must brick device and trash it, Sonos sells new device at 30% off, basically losing out on their margin.

Option two: User can keep old device, maybe even sell it to a new Sonos customer who can't afford new devices. Sonos sells new device at 30% loyalty discount, losing out on their margin (but gaining a new customer who can't get that loyalty discount if they decide to upgrade in the future).

From a company perspective, Option 2 looks much more attractive: Same initial cost, but you look more environmental and you gain a potential new customer.
And it sort of is - most people get distractable on occasion and feel like this - ADHD is being constantly stuck in that state (with varying intensities). It's similar to the issues of empathy around depression, people get sad and get over it - that's not clinical depression it's just being sad... but since they're confusable people assume that the things they did to get out of sadness themselves will work on people with depression - but no, petting a puppy sadly doesn't fix clinical depression... everyone likes to pet a puppy though, so don't stop bringing people with depression puppies... it's just not going to suddenly switch the person into being fine.
Tin cans are lined with epoxy. So "BPA" is actually BPA-derived epoxy resin, and so most likely formed from bisphenol A diglycidyl ether, not BPA per se. Since BPA diglycidyl ether is made by reacting BPA with epichlorohydrin.
The US Government already has my DNA thanks to my military service. I very much hope that they aren't sharing it with private companies though. Despite the government having my DNA I would still never give it to 23 and me.
I am this way about learning Spanish. Hard to focus only a day at a time.
Companies usually go through cycles of turnover. This might be an instance of that - it's a very normal thing.

However do you notice a lot of senior level people leaving? That could be a bad sign.

Things are subject to the network effect, if my friends leave, so will I.
I think you make an interesting point.

However, I think there are some other considerations that should be factored in:

- The good that left wing policies would have done if they had been implemented.

- Situations where the economy is a zero sum game (e.g. desirable housing).

- The possibility that the good that comes from the rich is not evenly distributed. (In this case I mean distribution different between different segments of the non-rich. I don't mean distribution between the rich and everyone else.)

It seems to me that the logic that you present could act as a sort of social contract that basically say "in exchange for implementing right wing policies that make conservatives rich, you will benefit from their charity, taxes, and economic growth". In that case, I could see the increasing unrest and polarization in America being due to a growing segment of the population feeling that the contract has been broken.
As I said in my main comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22127841#22133387):

Give up social media (all of it: Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, HN), porn, and TV (including Netflix) for a couple of months. Take up some form of exercise (lifting, running, even pilates or something), and re-evaluate your attention span.

I'm not being flippant. If your therapist hasn't recommended this as at least a starting point to better diagnose you, then you need a better therapist.

Whenever a friend tells me they're depressed, or anxious, or have attention difficulties or whatever, the first thing I ask is "what did you spend most of your time doing last week?". If the answer is "Oh, I found this cool new show and binged it", or "Oh not much, I wasn't motivated to do anything so mostly just scrolling the feed haha" - I immediately sit them down and suggest that maybe those things are the cause and not the symptoms. You aren't depressed, therefore you watch TV and observe other people's lives on Instagram. You are depressed because you do those things with the majority of your waking hours.

Sure, many people suffer from depression, anxiety, etc. for plenty of other reasons they cannot control. But the rates of this in Western countries are skyrocketing. There has to be a better reason for that than "it's just who I am".
Reminds me of the time a priest told me he read Playboy to 'keep an eye on the competition'.
The rule of law has a lot of ambiguities and intent and context certainly matter.

If someone repeatedly says “you can have this” and you say “no” and then say “no wait I want it now that it is valuable” you probably don’t have an open and shut case regardless of what a contract says.

I’m not super familiar with Woz’s story so if that’s not what happened, my point was more about the ambiguities of the law and flexibility of its application.
a couple of years ago, i finally upgraded to a proper home theater system, with everything connected through a yamaha receiver, and i am pleasantly surprised at how well CEC works (given the many complaints i saw online).

since i'd vowed never to pay into the cable cartel, i watch most things via my apple tv. i just have to hit one button on the apple tv remote and the apple tv, receiver and tv come on automatically, and will switch to the right hdmi input (and tv input) if not already set. even if the apple tv is not being used, i can still use the volume buttons on it (easier, since it's radio and not infrared like the receiver remote). it's great!
why would anyone sign up for a service that will link anyone in their family to law enforcement DNA tracking databases?

I’m a customer already but now that I know how non-private the identity data is, I would not do so again.
Ending Support for macOS and Linux
I am using raspberry pis with shairport (https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync) works like a charm and at 15$ bucks impossible to beat price wise.
> Honestly, I would also say that a partial reason why these would've dropped is that everyone who can do it has done it.

In my immediate circle of acquaintances, that doesn't seem to be true. I haven't done it. I'm aware of it, but I've never looked into it, since I've never seen a reason to care.
Wikipedia now has more than 6M articles in English
If it took Google that long to implement it, another search engine will beat them to the punch by simply noting that many users search for this information and would be much happier to get it without clicking through to another site.
That's basically it, and this "attack" works perfectly when the web is just HTML and hyperlinks.

The remarkable thing is that it still works in the walled garden of social networks like Facebook, even though their main value-add is that they can stop people abusing the system like this.
I love how the references note that all the news articles talking about it use a different color to talk about it, as the tone itself is hard to tell whether it's just a dark grey or black or some tone of brown.

> "This is the world's ugliest colour, according to experts". Evening Standard. 7 June 2016. Retrieved 19 June 2016. N.B. As of 2018-03-29, the image there erroneously shows colour #5D4914, rather than #4A412A.

> "Researchers discover the ugliest color in the world: Pantone 448 C". Digital Trends. 16 June 2016. Retrieved 19 June 2016. N.B. As of 2018-03-29, the image there erroneously shows colour #4D442E, rather than #4A412A.

> "Does this colour turn you off?". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 19 June 2016. N.B. As of 2018-03-29, the image there erroneously shows colour #594A13, rather than #4A412A.
> sun -> electricity, wind -> electricity.

You still need to convert sun/wind energy to electricity. And you have to store it. Or you may use a sail.
I find it hard to do my actual job, which is often boring. So what I do instead is I find something else to do, that is even more valuable than my actual job and significantly more difficult, but which is inherently interesting to me. Then i go all ADHD hyperfocus on it. I've been lucky... management goes “wow, initiative, thanks!”

Many of my ADHD friends say something similar... they can't follow orders, so they have to make sure they find something in the work that they can obsess over.
Amazon Engineer Leaked Encryption Keys. Analysts Discovered Them in Minutes
For me, to have a meaningful effect on ADHD, I have to drink so much coffee (or other caffeinated beverages) that I have heart palpitations.

That's one of the advantages of the prescribed stimulants; they're effective at doses that have no physical side effects.
I have my doubts about the accuracy of this map. According to it, a huge chunk of central Russia is 'peopled' - yet there are many parts of it where you can try to bushwack through the taiga for two weeks, without ever running into a soul.

I assume that the 'regions' that were painted in the map are oblasts (Russian equivalents to counties) - so if there's a giant oblast, with a medium-sized town at its center, but few people living in the outskirts, the entire region gets painted orange.
Kudos to the coating for resisting drain cleaner. The method in that video could be a standard test for newly developed coatings.
I have a connect amp: how would one go about trying to root it?

I have no experience with reverse engineering or hardware really, are there any good resources for stuff like this?
My bad, I though it was a deterministic system, not probabilistic.
Source: I vote in King County (of which Seattle is a member city and probably uses the same process given the same elections office).

The Mail In Ballot procedure here uses a double-envelope system.

The inner envelope has the vote (with a matching identifier tab pulled off). It is supposed to contain only the vote.

The other envelope contains the inner envelope and this envelope is marked with the address of the voter, and a legally binding contract (signed by the voter and/or representative witnesses if they are unable).

My belief is that the validation process for these ballots includes multiple stages and probably blinding, wherein, the outer envelope is authenticated as a registered voter and that it contains something likely to be a vote (there's a small viewing circle). This would then be stripped and the trusted inner envelope, still sealed, added to a tabulation bin. Said tabulation bin would then be counter later in an anonomized manor.
I would encourage you to really ignore the stigma that comes along with it, because I think it's endlessly harmful and only delays treatment for folks.

The best way I can put it, was the first time I got a pair of glasses, I didn't know how bad my vision was (I was like 12)... when I put them on for the first time, I was shocked, I was in disbelief, "this is how everyone else sees?"

Glasses are a tool to help you see better if your eyes don't work correctly, a "stimulant" is a tool to help your brain if you can't focus. The world, in both cases, I was missing, was one I had no idea existed until I had a tool to do so.
Thanks, seems I've missed a decimal. My questionable sources[1][2] mention concentrations up to 14000 ppm = 1.4% and seem to disagree whether going higher cognitive decline plateaus or it becomes harmful.

Seems there is merit for concern, though I stand by my claims of cognitive effects probably being more temporary than permanent.

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DtQzYXBTwaWXbhCoS/stale-air-...

[2] https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/co2-on-the-brain-and-the...
What you're trying to argue is that poor people can't move to other countries, and that's just not reality.
I think it's ugliest because it's kinda color of poo?
Ask HN: How can I find a SaaS project to build?
I'm a software developer and I want to make a SaaS product. I've reached out on reddit asking for someone to partner with who has:

* A SaaS idea that is solving a proven pain point for SMBs/SMEs

* At least one customer who is ready to pay for it

* The capability of selling the software and is in a position to get customers for it

I've posted a couple times and haven't been able to find anything. Am I asking for too much?

It seems very difficult to find software to build that is actually solving a problem for people. There's a million me-too-social-media-platforms, projects that are re-inventing existing software that is serving its domain just fine, or ideas that simply have no real plan for gaining users (other than spending hundreds of thousands on advertising to take users from other platforms) or have no real way to demonstrate or gauge the potential demand.

The issue seems to be, at least partially, that the niche problems I'm looking for require expertise in some industry that barely anyone in the general public has given any thought to - for example, I've read about someone who had success in building software for doggy daycares. I'd have no idea this is a problem needing solving unless I operated or owned a doggy daycare.

How can I find a project to work on that has reasonable evidence to show its need/demand?
Would that be admissible in court?

Does Apple just have carte blanche access to any data they have?

I mean, I guess so, there’s probably some EULA I haven’t read.

But I’d think their privacy stances would let you sue them if they snooped through your iCloud backups.

Unless it was a company phone in which case their employees probably have a separate EULA like most corporate devices.

Just like you hopefully wouldn’t stream a torrent over your corporate VPN.
Here's an example of what it looks like in WA.
https://www.kingcounty.gov/~/media/depts/elections/how-to-vo...

These pamphlets are made separately by each county, and large counties sometimes make different versions when there are many local elections or initiatives on the ballot (e.g. King County had 4 versions of this pamphlet, each covering a different set of municipal elections, the corresponding school districts etc).

You get them in the mail in advance of your ballot.
Most folks these days are more interested in enrolling in one of Lo's classes for the future contact, not the course content.

I remember walking by Lo one afternoon and overhearing a medical doctor trying to catch up with him in order to tell him what a "lifetime admirer" he has been of Lo's work. It could have been anything from Lo's latest antics claiming that he knows how to "harness the power of greed" to cure cancer (the so-called Cancer-X project) to this poor fellow thinking that he had discovered a new way of beating the stock market (perhaps after reading this classy title that Lo published with one of his more attractive acolytes several years ago: The Heretics of Finance.)
The threat is effective. You force the enemy to carry extra gear for protection and decontamination.

With a serious immediate threat, you can force the enemy to wear the full NBC gear. That impedes everything. They can't effectively eat or wash, their vision is restricted, and they might get heatstroke.
Why is it a new budget system? You just categorize the money you have right now, there you go, that’s your budget.
This actually sounds like an honest (mis?)diagnosis. Confusing migraine and temporal lobe epilepsy is not a particularly egregious mistake, and the two conditions often occur together. A number of anti-seizure medications are prescribed to prevent migraines.
Try Roam Research [1], it is awesome.

I've been coming up and using various GTD systems for a better part of the last two decades. I'd be slipping in and out of different setups, tools, solutions, systems... Some would stick for years, the others I'd abandon pretty quickly.

All of them worked for me to a degree, and were very helpful in keeping me organised and efficient, but never did I find a perfect setup that I'd be perfectly comfortable and happy with.

I guess the most useful thing I learned from all these years and years of trying to get a system in place and trying to get organised is to be perfectly comfortable with changing the systems as I go along. Keep experimenting. Keep what works for you, discard what doesn't.

For a long time I've been using a combination of a Trello based implementation of a GTD-gone-wild kind of a todo list (with the centerpiece being week-by-week daily todos) and an Evernote based journal that I kept surprisingly consistently almost every day for years.

A few months ago, I got in one of those overwhelmingly busy crises, which made me drop the journal. Rather than daily, I'd do it occasionally. To an extent it was a relief, and I rationalised the hiatus by thinking in terms of the benefit from the valuable extra time that I could spend on other work, but I quickly realised that I lost an important information repository I could comfortably and consistently rely on.

And then I stumbled upon Roam Research (RR). The experience was so great that I started keeping a daily journal again. Went from 'nah, I'm not writing shit' mode to an almost obsessive 'gotta record everything' in an instant. And I'm actually enjoying it.

I've ditched Evernote (I still have all my old data there), and I did not think twice, cause I got used to evolving my system without looking back if I find something that i feel works better.

At the moment I'm still using Trello for tasks, but the todos are so easy and natural to do in RR that I'm increasingly using it for my tasks, and finding that I am having to open Trello less and less.

RR is so powerful and flexible and natural and easy, that I am genuinely excited about a prospect of evolving my next system on it. I have a sense this one will stick for a while.

There's a very helpful article on Medium, written by a guy that's quite serious about getting the most out of RR. I'll try to find it and link it below.

[1] https://roamresearch.com/
... and if you got a different story, you might wish you hadn't spent $100...
> once ketosis kicks in and the brain fog lifts

No such effect exists for me. Plus, it would require following through on going shopping so I have roast beef and frozen veggies in the house (or remember to take them with me to work). That's not happening in an unmedicated state. I'm lucky if I can put together a remotely healthy meal while unmedicated.
Companies could stop retaining data that governments would be interested in. I'd love to get my genome sequenced, but I never want that data to be retained by anyone but me.
I seem to remember reading that even when they delete your data, they keep your sample. So really all it does is prevent you from getting it.
Looks like this is a known issue due to a misconfiguration of BART's transit feed.

(Source: I work at Google and located the relevant bug, but I don't work on maps.)
NYC to Consider Extending Voting Rights to Some Immigrants
I am just finishing up building a new house, and so many people suggested the same thing (use sonos). Since it was new construction I put in 38 dedicated room speakers all wired to a central distribution system with good old speaker wire. I also ran extra Cat6A to each room for a control pad in the case I want to do system that needs that..and for starting out I'm using an AMP and dist controller from HTD. As Zeroth mentioned above this gives me a great deal of potential future redesigns as things change. Of course I also ran wire and fiber to every room for APs as the future will likely have more LOS wifi in it.

I really like some of the features of Sonos, but when doing 38 speakers and 20+ zones the cost is pretty high.

(Build thread here for reference: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=409988)
Is this the color picked for Microsoft Zune

https://www.amazon.com/Zune-Digital-Media-Player-Brown/dp/B0...
AKA “Ubuntu Brown”
Maybe they're talking about something like Face ID on an iPhone? You can use it to identify yourself.
Very bad? Really! It was my understanding that companies account for that, they expect it even, since they make staff replaceable by nature.

In any case, it's a gamble. I fear that if too many people leave none of the original staff will remain and management will suck.

Good advice, I should ask some of them before they leave.
I think it's an instinctual reaction because it's like poo color, but wrong in some way, like it's a bit too dark, so it's like our instincts have us thinking that color means we're sick. Like if there's blood it can make it darker.
That might be workable.

Frankly, I think these mail-in DNA tests are like modern-day phrenology, but you could spin in that "pay us $x per year, and we will analyze your DNA every month once research becomes available".
It will happen only if they develop a bulletproof self-hosted environment for corporate clients. Otherwise the enterprise clientele will never trust writing code at an online environment that they don't own.
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