skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you have ADHD are you any kind of protected class?

yes, in some cases : https://chadd.org/adhd-weekly/asking-for-workplace-accommoda...

The ADA includes ADHD as a recognized disability. For an employee who has ADHD, the act can require the employer to provide reasonable accommodations, as long as it doesn’t create undue hardship for the business.

Not everyone who has ADHD is a “qualified individual” according to the ADA, says Nancy O’Mara Ezold, an employment lawyer and partner in the Philadelphia-based Ezold Law Firm.
I think they mean don't play a light show while driving. You need things like blinkers, tail lights, etc. to function as intended for safety reasons. Many places have strict laws about exactly what kinds of lights can and can't be on a car in motion.
thats probably where i heard about it.
This looks slick, reminds me a lot of Basalt[1][2].

1: (2019 thread) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21774018

2: (2021 thread) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29347715
Also known as "God damn it Bob just make a gmail account we're trying to run a business here."
I'm not disagreeing with the article, I'm just wondering what painful 'project' oritentated piece of work the writer has had to endure when it crashed into their life.

To my mind there are products and milestones as maybe a point releases within a product - Agile/Scrum.
I've suffered many systems over the years, but this is the one that makes the most sense - and maybe most importantly demarcates responsibilities.

Projects are something external to this procress, product management (i.e. me) need to deal with it - a spanner in the works of what we were all happily orchestrating.

"A project" is a demo we need to make next week, or a customer requirement the next release needs to address. It's something the product needs to deal with - and PM decides whether this should impact dev.

It's the job of PM to sort out the backlog/timeline of the product so it hits the new eternal "project" requirement. Dev shouldn't even have to be aware the project exists - they'll maybe see their backlog change and just have to deliver on that as normal.

Obviously the reality is that they're aware of the project once PM has accepted it, and you ask them to change their course - but dev shouldn't directly care.
When the hallway is on fire and the only option is the stairs behind you, I really doubt you'll care about the space 'wasted' on them.

And in response to Grenfell, the argument is tenants don't like fire drills; just wow. Eventually everyone forgets the reason for regulations...is there a named law for this phenomenon?
Yes. And I have read a few pretty interesting novels in English about such business families, from the time I was a kid.
Ah, so uber for your own car.
That did not work well for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Magnitsky
Or for offline-friendly webapps to flourish?
> I keep an eye out for people that waste time solving the wrong problems.

Which is exactly what you seem to try to do.

The issue with workers not keeping up with the necessities of the business cannot be put on the workers themselves. If communications in a company are so lacking that people need to be shuffled around randomly, in order to understand the needs of the business, then problems run too deep already.

In the case of Doordash, making engineers shadow delivery people is overkill and counterproductive, and management obviously doesn't understand what a feedback loop should look like.
Postmodernism goes further than that:

> Postmodernists deny that there are aspects of reality that are objective; that there are statements about reality that are objectively true or false; that it is possible to have knowledge of such statements (objective knowledge); that it is possible for human beings to know some things with certainty[0]

So in essence, postmodernism teaches that critical thinking is all about tearing down what it calls the illusion of objective reality, statements that are objectively true or false, objective knowledge, and certainty -- and finding (or at least positing) the subjective sources behind such illusions.

I object to such assertions and flatly deny that reality is subjective. Only perception is subjective -- and critical thinking ought to be used to get through to the objective truth. In the case of ancient texts, critical reading helps us establish what the original text most likely said.

[0] https://www.britannica.com/topic/postmodernism-philosophy
The thing that most (if not all) people who have ADHD want is to be normal. This works against them, similar to other people with disabilities, in that asking for accomodations feels like admitting defeat. Like you will never make progress in your lifelong struggle. Like you have an incurable disease.

While it's cool that workplaces can make such accomodations if requested, it would just be better for fucking everyone if these were available to everyone. That's the real problem with being disabled: you're treated abnormally.

Sure, there will always be exceptions, but just recognize humans are not fungible, and be kind. Don't make folks lives harder than they already are.
To speak to its English contents, not the translations it hosts, as most are speaking of --

'Thelema' is a decent section, but sometimes the versions on https://hermetic.com/ are better (footnotes linked, proper unicode symbols), and https://lib.oto-usa.org/libri/ are probably the most up-to-date (i.e. the fill->kill correction to be accurate to the Stele in AL[1]).

The Theosophy, Grimoires, and Wicca sections are very worthwhile. Where else are you going to get AE Waite's Goetia (etc.)[1] right next to Mathers/Aleister Crowley's Goetia [2]?

Edit to add: scans of original editions of Crowley's works are @ https://keepsilence.org/the-equinox/ , too

[1] https://www.oto.org/legis1.pdf

[2] https://sacred-texts.com/grim/bcm/index.htm

[3] https://sacred-texts.com/grim/lks/index.htm
Yes, except US government does not try to order Google to delist Wikileaks. And has not tried to poison the man. AFAIK.
> It's indeed a "new" way to make money. You cannot "pirate " this signature.

You can't stop anyone else from making different nft pointing at your art and saying their nft is original. So maybe you can't pirate it, but nothing stops you from making as many nft pointing to someone else art as you want. And selling them.
UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT A B START.

I miss unlock codes (and can’t believe I still remember this one).
Buffered I/O is usually not lost when a process exits. Usually buffers are flushed automatically upon exit when the file descriptors are closed. And if a program truly crashes and leaves a core behind, the unflushed buffers should be found in the core file.
In medieval and renaissance Europe, would the average peasant have known the exact date of the current day, or did that not really concern them? I figured most living simply would only concern themselves with whereabouts in time they found themselves.
The leader exists because the (majority of) people implicitly allow it. The calculus of whether to resist and /or topple the leader is whether the individual is worse off without doing so.

In China, most people are better off with the current leadership (than the previous), and the economic prospects is at least looking good for them. They wouldn't want to rock the boat obviously.

So despite the fact that the people of china is peaceful and willing to cooperate unlike the CCP's external stance, they do hold responsibility for the actions of their leaders.

I take the same stance with the USA's actions under trump - this is in no way targeted at any particular country.
This is a good point. Scrum's sprint length inflexibility frequently means over or under-allocating time on projects, which messes up metrics (e.g., ticket completion per sprint) ... but is otherwise irrelevant to the work itself. This leads to organizations making sub-optimal choices that help with scrum, but don't help with work.
> + videos can play in the background

you can do that by asking youtube to display the desktop version of the webpage or by using the Newpipe application...

I would never pay for Youtube, just for the fact that I am already paying for it by watching all the spam that ask me to pay for it.
IDK what I have exactly but it’s some combination of Aspergers and ADHD. I can mow through a lot of tasks and projects. When it comes to research or exploring some big problem domain, I can do that really well.

If people leave me alone and give me some wide berth to go complete some massive project I can do that fine. Better than fine. I can do projects that 15 people together can’t do, by myself.

I typically am able to develop an extremely accurate prediction of the future from the base technology up to the market.

However.

At this point in my life, it isn’t a matter of “if” I am going to get into severe interpersonal problems and fights with co-workers it is “when.”

What has helped me is to have a small group of friends who I use to improve my decision making quality. Left to my own devices, I misunderstand and misinterpret people and this leads to war in many cases.

I can’t read peoples intentions, I don’t understand peoples motivations, I can’t understand what “normal and expected behaviors” are.

Once I get pissed off at someone, I stay pissed off permanently. That person is “dead” to me. This is apparently typical of people with Aspergers.

My favorite analogy is this: “normal people have a wide variety of tools ranging from soft to hard in their toolbox. People with Aspergers open their toolbox and all they have is a hammer.”

That is exactly how I feel. Once I lose my composure, I only have a hammer to solve the problem.

This leads me to become highly paranoid. When people start annoying me or infringing on me, interfering with my ability to work on my own terms - I start building resentments.

I get along really well with older people who have calmed down. Mid career managers and I do not have a great track record.

My career has been a nightmare. A lot of great parts. The number one thing that protects me now is having a panel of advisors who have normal brains. Without these advisors, I am literally wandering blind through the land of the humans, unable to understand them.

On the surface I often look and act normal, underneath the hood I am a genius and a mess. Working in the modern workplace has been a nightmare. I have come to realize that people like me don’t get to “win” in corporate. Sooner or later, they figure out what I am (different) and it’s over. Highly discriminatory against people like me.

My idea of heaven now is not to be promoted, but to be left alone to pursue my interests where they align with the corporation.

I tend to have a very massive positive impact at companies where I work. My ideas, creativity, research and insights result in massive wins. But other people always get the credit, never need. I am so misunderstood, it’s my lot in life. I don’t expect to ever have my abilities respected, noticed or rewarded.
Seems to me that they've found themselves stuck with the worst of both worlds. A freedom/privacy certification that has a pretty glaring (and arguably hypocritical) omission, and a tepid response from industry because they won't budge on things like including proprietary drivers for Windows.

Their certified product list is... sparse.

https://ryf.fsf.org/products
Rainbows End is a great standalone novel. And Marooned in Realtime is like old school Asimov with great new ideas... you can skip its prequel Peace War.
> Yeah, see, I would personally contend that indentured servitude is ipso facto immoral, and so if your "fair deal" includes that, it is not actually fair.

And I personally wouldn't call a 10 year 0-10% cut of income "indentured servitude" so that's not a very useful way to figure things out.

> Specifically, you're selling future labor in exchange for an asset that you can't immediately liquidate to pay off the debt. This is not acceptable, if the counterparty makes a profit from it. (If you could immediately liquidate it, at that point there would be no need to make recourse to your earning power)

Doesn't the same thing happen if I use a loan to buy almost any product? As soon as it becomes mine, it becomes used, and liquidating it wouldn't be enough to pay off the loan. I don't think all those loans are immoral.

Is there a difference? Or do you think both are unacceptable?

And look, I'm fine with saying you could discharge this college revenue-repayment loan in bankruptcy if you were actually in need of doing so, but I'm trying to describe the kind of repayment terms where that would basically never be needed. If your income isn't above the threshold then you owe $0 and the loan goes away by itself after a few years.
It’s known as the Konami code, although it’s got BA Start at the end :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Code
Unfortunately, I do not see how.

As we all know, N_homeless = N_people - N_homes.

Current regulations effectively forbid to build horrible ugly high-rises that can house 50,000 people in each. Currently, it is only profitable to build luxury houses that nobody can afford.

However, the horrible ugly high-rise has the only one advantage: it is cheap, and everyone can afford it. Even a homeless guy that manage to found a crappy -paying job through his heroic effort.

I only see one way to end homelessness: make housing 20x cheaper than it is now. And that would not be possible without cancelling all housing regulations.
Another thing that irks me as blatantly wrong is that those account bans just cut the people off the network cold turkey. Even criminals don't get such treatment. You don't just "disappear" if you are convicted. But with facebook you just vanish. Nobody tells you "your account will be banned in 7 days, please close up the convos". You can't post "hey, I'm getting off facebook, contact me by email at xxx". There's no autoreply. People you were having dialog with don't know what happened, just assume you blew them off. And also facebook (and google for the same matter) is used by many sites as an identity provider, which has an effect of severing your access to sites that may or may not want that, and likely don't even know. What if you are in the middle of financial transaction, which you can not complete now because account is banned? This is such a clusterfuck
FYI Uniqlo is suspected of using forced labor in Xinjiang.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/02/fashion/xinjiang-forced-l...
Not all cloud providers are equal so do your own testing on who's got the fastest internal network between Singapore and the EU that doesn't go via the US.
Google embraces Kotlin because of IP issues with Oracle.
Did your company start remote from day one?

What were some of your painful lessons you wished you learned sooner?
BA start, doh! My elementary age self will never forgive myself.
They're Made out of Meat!
No link but when I was younger I partnered with a non-technical founder to build a personalised news app. He quit his job while I worked on it part-time. Despite having some users, we failed for many reasons in hindsight.

1. Not shipping fast enough. This one is standard startup advice.
2. No traction for the amount of time we worked on it. Probably caused by not shipping fast enough and not talking to users properly.
3. No conviction. I didn't really care enough about the problem to go all in. TBH, I just wanted something to work on to put on the resume.
4. No competitive advantage. There are a tonne of personalised news apps out there. We had no differentiating factor.
5. No realistic plan to monetise.
6. Finally too many co-founder disagreements as a result of everything so we called it quits.

I don't regret the experience because it taught me a lot about what not to do in my current project.
I now just realize I'm describing Agile..
Not sure what your problem with them is.

JetBrains is simply trying to provide a stable development platform.

And since it took me about about a minute to switch to JDK17 it's not like they are going out of their way to make it difficult.
It sounds to me like println! and other I/O macros and functions should buffer I/O by default if the file descriptor is not a terminal. This would be consistent with how other languages’ standard libraries behave.
If you could put this into an ontological solver format, like Cyc or protege ( https://protege.stanford.edu/ ) then create a couple dozen translations of real laws into the format, you could turn gpt-3 loose on the entire set of United States federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Then propose a question to the solver using your model whereby a person can successfully sue or acquire property according to the letter of the law.

There are probably hundreds of obscure unintended consequences of laws not intended to have the effects they do in practice.

Figure out contract law and parse website TOS and EULAs for violations and you could probably make some money.

The biggest benefit of such a system, though, would be for actual legislators, so they could run simulations of proposals to get a sense of consequences in practice. Simulation and summarization could be very powerful.
Buckminster Fuller designed beautiful cardboard dome-houses for the 1954 Milan Triennale (the pre-cut components were shipped flat by plane).

I don't have great photos at hand, but here's something: https://imgur.com/a/rTYfJRE
Worked on a contract where we did async standups, and implemented that in our small company for a bit. Stakeholder (owner/president) really liked it.

I haven't worked at a company that did physical standups, but what I've heard over and over is that they tend to devolve into longer meetings, and even worse, into blame game sessions.
Also, if I read that, I would assume that figuring out where I needed to go and actually taking time to do that would end up in nothing, so I wouldn't bother. I wouldn't expect to get rich off it, and the chance at (apparently) $50 wouldn't excite me enough for me to waste my time on it.
So, BATNA may not be the ultimate negotiating tool as the prevailing literature seems to indicate. Interesting article! Focusing on the mutually beneficial aspects of negotiations does strike a chord with my inner economist.
Maybe you should follow your own advice - your numbers are wildly inflated (can easily be checked at Wikipedia), Ukrainians weren't the only ones in USSR who were starving to death and they were part of USSR leadership as any other nation there (with Stalin being Georgian). And frankly, idea that you're going to judge who is fit to comment is highly delusional.
Non-technical folks will just tell you that they don't have this problem with anyone else, and will likely get more annoyed when you present it that way. Since it's 2021, depending on which part of the world you are in, you may even be accused of "gaslighting".
It's been ages since I've looked into this, so my memory is probably bad on the details, but my understanding is that GD-ROM is very close to standard CDs in most respects, and can even be read in some PC optical drives with the right procedure (which I think involved either hacked firmware or hot-swapping between a specially crafted CD-R and the GD-ROM, to trick the drive into reading the high-density area). The main CD interface that Sega used is an off-the-shelf Oak Technology chip, but not driven by stock firmware. The high-density area was in a second session that was not linked in the first session, but rather was at a fixed offset that the firmware knew to look for. The high-density area basically worked by spinning the disc at half the speed that would normally be used for the interface chip. Since the disc was recorded the same way, the signal coming off of it looks exactly like a regular CD signal (maybe with a bit worse SNR).
I've not read that one, but I also found his Dhammapada and Upanishads to be quite nice. His name on a work is a good sign, to me!
It was shown in vitro to be 10x less effective at infecting lung cells vs epithelial cells (mucosal membranes). There’s more than prior immunity at play here. https://wap.business-standard.com/article-amp/current-affair...
> Decentralization limits monetization of anything, so that is going to be a non-starter for investment of resources. Unless you are trying to have your infrastructure survive a nuclear war, no one is going to provide the means to build anything big unless you can sell it or the users of it.

I'll go further: centralised systems can emulate decentralised systems, but not vice versa. Thus, ultimately, the only USP of a decentralised system is that it is decentralised for the sake of being decentralised, and nobody cares much about that. Centralisation is inevitable, and wins out every time.
I'm the same way about jvm languages, but for ruby I use RubyMine as a text editor. The navigation is a bit more powerful than text search but could also get by with only the fast searching. The main reason for the choice is familiarity.
Then Turkey will become China's puppet, like Russia is now.

Russia is already losing their strong engineering force to China, their resources are bought cheaply by China and China is not even remotely investing in Russia. Much to the dismay of Putin.

Turkey next?
Reasonable people can disagree here, and I'm not convinced by the case you've put up. I remain a realistic optimist that this will become endemic and we'll put up with the risk as we have when the flu became endemic.

Of course the vaccine will help tremendously (relative to, e.g., retroviral STDs), as will the constant pressure for people to return to their normal lives.
Please read the link you included in your comment. There is no connection between democratic process and international law except that some of the nation states themselves are democracies.

Note also that capital D Democratic refers to an American political party. Lowercase d democratic is correct for your comment.
Those looking like tented coffins probably didn't help. I'd really like one of the Fuller ones (from the Fifties!) I mentioned above.
Accessibility is for everyone. Everyone is disabled at least sometimes.
This is a useful post, thank you.

I have only recently become aware of what it means to try to work with someone who has ADHD. I’d heard of ADHD but I didn’t know what it was or what the implications were.

Then, a project went terribly terribly wrong. I tried to make sense of it through empathic modelling of my colleagues circumstances, but this only made it worse. I was baffled by that, which is when I realised I needed more information about ADHD, because just placing myself in my colleagues shoes didn’t help when we were using very different thought processes.

Without a model of ADHD thought processes my attempts at empathy were counter-productive.

I’d try to put myself in my colleagues position in order to understand my colleagues feelings but because we have different thought processes this didn’t work at all.

I think I’m seeing the limitations of empathy for the first time. Until I have a better working understanding of ADHD, articles like this with practical tips are my best guide.
> But the downside of having an FB account is they plant cookies on your browser or track you in their app.

Use Firefox, it automatically puts Facebook in its own Firefox Container so no FB cookies tracking you everywhere. And don't use their app it's basically spyware.
I just got the property 45 days ago and left the watering system alone for now. I think my last bill was 16k gallons but I need to check again. I'm in Hawaii packing my old apartment till Tuesday.
Unpopular opinion: Instagram and Pintrest are absolutely amazing for discovering aesthetics and visual culture. I don't use them for their intended purposes or any social need. Have no followers or I follow no one. Just save images and cultivate what I like.