skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One of the worst cases of ADHD I've personally seen was from someone from Bulgaria. I have neighbors who have it who are Russian.

Sure, millions of people, myself included, do have attention deficit issues, but the question is whether it is an actual pathology or something socio-educo-cultural. The very diagnostic seems to be extremely controversial amongst scientists, according to google. My bulshit meter is activated because again, while people with troubles of attention can be found everywhere, the United States is about the only country where ADHD is a thing.

PS: in terms of options, cocaine works as well and for sale everywhere in the world.
Aren’t most rich residents in NZ from the UK and US? That was my impression. The middle class are usually Chinese. But regardless, rich people in China and Russia don’t accumulate wealth simply by playing fair. Is NZ okay with this kind of wealth transfer to their country knowing this? (Well we all know the answer honestly)
For the benefit of other people who haven't been in a serious building fire: what were your other options?
That is a nice way of putting it!
I went to Jesuit high school and we had to watch "The Mission" (the Jeremy Irons movie) almost as often as Dead Poet's Society. That and "Romero". The good thing about it, though, is that the Jesuits at that school were performatively endorsing liberation theology, which is not something you can say for Catholicism writ large.
Dr. Russell Barkley's book, Taking Charge of Adult ADHD, is also good.
> I can't imagine any environment in which I can't instantly find all callers/users of a shared package

All the people who spent that last week or two hunting down places where log4j got imported by dependencies like Springboot or Grails are crying into their Xmas whisky at this…
The Red Line podcast has been an excellent deep-dive geopolitics podcast with some high profile guests & multiple perspectives. I always learn so much each episode, it covers a lot of my blindspots in the field. https://www.theredlinepodcast.com/

Honourable mention to Mobile Suit Breakdown podcast. The episode-by-episode analysis of the Gundam series has greatly improved my literary appreciation for a show I was otherwise only barely interested in. The hosts dig into not just the show but also the world that would have inspired the creators. A lot of background research goes into each installment. https://gundampodcast.com/
And then converting them
It was intentional. Glad you recognized them!
The "triumph of high quality open source software" is wrong because ffmpeg is old C/ASM hacky code (not even C++, optimized by speed for hardware). I got my first experience of optimizing ffmpeg video decoder for AMD Alchemy processor in 2006.

Let's take a look at the history of ffmpeg created by hackers for hackers.

Do you remember how many times you saw strange squares on the screen when rewinding a YouTube video or DVD MPEG2, or random freezes when streaming Twitch when you think it is a video stream error. But no. Most of these are programming errors of the ffmpeg hacker backend, which has many pointer errors. It is difficult to recovery state from a failure of any level due handling C and pointer errors. The global use of ffmpeg is caused by the lack of FOSS alternatives, but not by the quality of the software. It was cheaper for corporations to fix bugs and hire a developer like me than to develop their own video codec or system from scratch. All alternatives were closed source and required of tones of money per tech licenses like MPEG2. Of course, over the years, the ffmpeg ecosystem has improved and many bugs have been fixed, but this has not changed the general situation with existing and potential bugs and vulnerabilities by design. Therefore, in different video applications, you can observe random bugs and signal drops every day. Nice try John ID_AA_Carmack
It is both. Surely the business are responsible for coming up with a model. Similarly the community is responsible for setting rules so that community members have their needs met.

You can ban sandwich shops in your city, and there wont be a viable model for sandwich shops.
Why shouldn’t businesses be able to require people to pay for their content?
I spent a year during and after grad school writing a blog and building a tiny community on healthy living for elderly people. I remember a particular article I wrote on eating pineapples for healthy bowel movements really offended some in the community.

My grad research was on AI and robotics for elderly. I thought I knew my audience. How wrong I was. I didn't even reach out to talk to my audience, for crying out loud.

10 years later when I was working on a project for smallholder farmers in Mozambique. I made the point of moving myself to Africa and working alongside them for weeks. https://www.quantisan.com/facebook-loving-farmers-of-mozambi...
But it's all about saving lives (and catching mentally challenged/ill people while filtering out serious would be murderers, apparently).
Acquired is by far the best podcast I've listened to this year:

https://acquired.fm

The hosts tell the stories of great businesses (for example: TSMC, Berkshire Hathaway, and Standard Oil). They dive into each company's history (which is always fascinating), analyze what made the business tick, and discuss the lessons that can be learned from it. It's a bit like How I Built This, but geared toward founders rather than the general public and also much more entertaining.
People Don’t Buy Products, They Buy Better Versions of Themselves (2018)
I actually saw someone use that for-else pattern in advent of code earlier this month. I believe the consensus was that it was definitely the perfect choice for the given use case, but neither he nor I would ever dare use it in production because nobody knows about it and it's super unintuitive.

I think the idea is cool (albeit rarely useful), but a different word than "else" for the same functionality would go a long way.
Wow, a lot of negativity here! I found the article to provide quite a helpful mental model.

Agile processes definitely provide some of the structure mentioned here, but I've found that they lack sufficient guidance on the optimal size of work chunks- this article provides a compelling case for work chunks (milestones) of a specific size, and that alone is quite valuable to me as a concept.
Ideally Pham would be played by Chow Yun Fat, Sammy Park by Teo Yoo, Tomas Nau by Kevin Spacey, and Anne Reynolt by Lana Del Ray.

Rotoscope could be used for Spiders.
This is been a really depressing reality check for me.

People are happy to let their important rights and liberties be taken away, as long as it's not too overt or sudden. But don't you dare make me wear a mask indoors during a respiratory virus pandemic!!

What's even more frustrating is that these people generally aren't "stupid".
where citizens can, and do, buy machine guns

Sounds kinda awesome to be honest.
The motive behind their good schools, is just to prove their superior culture... Make non-Christians familiar with Christianity and western culture, make them admire them... And then convert people..
the school also provide jobs for people who are converted..

Jesuits are just doing crusades but in a more psychological and cunning ways...
And I say this from broad experience and insider knowledge.
> I’m a professor now and allow students particular freedoms along these lines, like wearing headphones or skipping lecture for the recorded one. I recently had a student who was able to participate more and keep up with the lecture much better by looking down and slowly maintaining a game on his phone.

Man, I do the same thing. Zoom meetings have been great for this because I can do that to help me pay attention while still looking like I'm paying attention for the other person on the call. It's funny because it first almost felt like deception, but really it's the opposite: I'm paying more attention than if I weren't doing anything else and worrying about my body language instead...
Well, number 55 was not factored using Shor's algorithm on a quantum computer, so I'm a happy camper.
The premium that you pay extra for the safety equipment in your car is likely more than 33%.

We would have many new cars for 4-digit prices if not for the large number of safety systems required on cars.
While I agree I give him a pass: he could simply abandon the site but instead continues to run it. If that thought motivates him, why not?

Likely some of the people would ultimately try to do the deed on their own. Probably a small number, but a bunch of tragedies were likely forestalled, even if the seeker is not arrested but receives help. Which is probably what happens for people outside the US.
Yeah,

> That's how it happens: a tiny little change flings the door wide open. Someone solves their own local problem and misses the bigger picture.

feels like an opening to say "...which is why we mandate code review to try and prevent situations where a single person's lack of perspective gets shipped." Of course, that's banking on the reviewer(s) having a broader perspective, so it's only a probabilistic mitigation, but it beats nothing.
It's very sad to sit here, watch Carl spell it out, and recognize that 40 years later very little significant progress has been made. Much of the sadness is for the assessment of human leadership that it leads to.
So you’re saying he’s committing fraud?
That's a very very optimistic interpretation of North Americans' behavior.
Not necessarily but sure read whatever you want from that, the point of my post was actually that all AML/KYC is a waste of public sector and private sector resources.

I’m not a New Zealander and I don't care about the local politics. Its still entertaining to me that any random government could say someone’s money is clean and its magically clean from that point on.
That was a great read, gald you made some progress.

I started with year-end reviews too. Hopefully next year will see me having some success as well.

https://www.riknieu.com/2021-year-in-review/
I will tell you for 10 euro
This isn’t what’s happening.

I don't know how you can say that. It's the inevitable result of a system with finite capacity (once capacity is reached).
I didn’t finish my PhD, what’s wrong with it? I don’t understand how somebody can judge that you didn’t finish a complex project because your priorities hanged at some point. PhD is a job and people quit their jobs sometimes, its ok.
I'm painfully ADHD. Extreme. But I have slowly realized that what was actually hurting me is the belief that there is a way to "waste time" ... when I actually relax then I take pretty good care of myself and my surroundings. Of course the modern world is not exactly a place where people relax so I doubt many have realized this. For me yoga is an absolute blessing, I stay away from all amphetamines (never drank coffee) although I did try it a couple of times so I know how it works and I'm glad I don't do it to meet deadlines or further "my career".

Anyway, although I can never predict what I will do or how much I will get done it seems that I am steadily accomplishing more as I learn to relax. Accepting some of my bad habits has made them easier to manage and hopefully let go of eventually and engineering my environment so that I make smaller circles when I'm trying to avoid things has also helped. Most of all though I think what allows me to relax is that I have obtained a sufficient level of skill to survive and I am curious to learn more, even though I am a NDTM I am still converging, all the DTMs are puzzled by my behaviour but I arrive in similar places nevertheless. My credentials / certifications don't necessarily match the things I know, which can be annoying. I wish the evaluation system was decoupled from the education system.

I believe philosophy is the most important tool to better your condition and computer science, scratch that, lisp! is an amazing gateway into philosophy... Evolving to extinction is not intelligence.
I’ve not tried this service yet, I’m curious though.

However, the easiest trick to bypass paywalls in my opinion is to switch to ‘reader’ mode in your browser. This works for most news sites I visit, including NYT. There are exceptions, but I reader mode should be your go to first attempt if you ask me.

It’s built into every browser now, and if it doesn’t work, then check archive.org. Using these two methods alone will get you most anything you want to read.
> Why would people feel happy about living under this oppressive system?

Because you read too much media.
If something is clearly causing severe life issues in both places (as in clear issues with mental well being, same everything in that sense), but one writes it off as ‘whatever, they’re losers’ and the the other gives treatment and helps - I don’t think it’s that it isn’t a pathology in the place that just calls them losers and refuses to do anything.

Since a pathology is a disease (aka something not working) and all. And it clearly isn’t working in either place.

There is a reason why life expectancy is dramatically shorter for men in Eastern Europe, it isn’t just ADHD that gets this treatment.

And suggested illegal street drugs of unknown potency or other problems is somehow better than regulated and tested stimulants is more than a bit bizarre.
If that’s the alternative to being a political prisoner in the USSR, then I’ll take it.
That is a thing you can do, and for example units(1) does just that, but doing it creates the usability problems we are discussing in its thread. My comment is aimed at solving those problems, not worsening them.
When i was in college, a chance at say 50$ would totally tempt me to spend a few hours hunting around campus ( Arizona State Uni for me ), i made ~$8 an hour at the time
You can do something akin to parameterizing SQL with fork and exec (directly setting the arguments) but at that point you might as well call whatever mkdir is doing.
There is no way to anonymize movement data.

Anyone telling you that location data is "de-identified" or "anonymized" is lying to you.
If it makes you feel any better, these projects derived from decompiling binaries infringe copyrights in the original and can be shut down whenever the owners decide to assert their rights. Your project is at least your own work.
What about people who can’t take the vaccine for medical reasons, or are too young? Fuck ‘em right?
Is this a clever way of saying "studying"? :)
That also happens, or effectively happens.

Part of modern US stairwell regulation also learned from 9/11, where they found out it wasn't a great idea to have all the required stairwells very close to each other either.
> Please stop celebrating this. It’s just awful in so many ways.

I tend to agree, we have a very clear divide between Social Strata (that if left unchecked can resemble your caste system) that has only gotten deeper in the 21st Century: what once relied on cheap, migrant labor in the 20th century has now been imposed on to the domestic debt-laden labor force due to COVID travel restrictions, which leads to the grind and 'exploitation' of a once middle class society experiencing the economic fallout from COVID largess and consolidation of Marketshare. Many of who went to college with promises of being able to work in their desired Industry, carry lots of debt, and are forced to work a combination of retail and gig jobs to make ends--it's a large part of what has led to the antiwork/layng down movement in both US and China.

And to be honest, I don't blame them.

But to you point on automation.

I recently went back to school for AI and ML after leaving a career in fintech and we had a recent hackathon over Xmas that included robotics: I think automation, in logistics specifically, can currently only do so much reliably without incurring immense expenses and delays while trying to survive in an already broken model; it's the law of diminishing returns where Human capital has only recently had it's wages re-evaluated as a vital role in the equation to ease the labor shortage in certain Industries but the tech be it software/hardware/battery is simply not there yet to completely replace all of these 'menial jobs' overnight.

I also take issue with the implied notion that some of Society's most valuable workers are often deemed 'menial' by the educated intelligentsia in high ranking positions you say are ruining things. Especially with a guy with the handle that implies he farms; which is an immensely vital role (former Biodynamic farmer myself), but filled with a great deal of toil and back breaking labour only suited for 'uneducated folk' in the rural part of the World--when that is completely untrue.
Is there any particular reason that any mention of Fabrice Bellard turns into a praise-fest? I mean, I get it, the guy makes neat stuff and lots of it. But the level of hype is unusual, and I wonder whether there's an origin for this meme that isn't rooted in reading his actual source code.
In this case the business is proving the general public with information. Which is of great concern for all of us living in society, it has an influence on what people know and think.
If you’re going for a tour of the USS Constitution, the site is nearby.
Previous substantial discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19075325 (Feb 4, 2019 | 81 comments)

Other cheatsheets (excluding learnxinyminutes already mentioned in another comment)

* Python Crash Course: https://ehmatthes.github.io/pcc_2e/cheat_sheets/cheat_sheets...

* Scientific Python: https://ipgp.github.io/scientific_python_cheat_sheet/
Just because it began to dismantle it doesn't mean it was completely gone.

Stories about KGB are popular for a reason, you know.
There’s absolutely a middle ground, and you are right: it is fork and exec with discrete arguments.

It is the intermediary subshell in system() that is the root of all evil, not composing unix programs together; that is what our OS forefathers intended.
As much as I hated AMP this is one thing I loved about it. Click an article, get paywalled… Google the article headline and it’d take you to a paywall-free AMP version of the full article.
> Thus I came to realize that all these other memories from Eastern Europe and Communism that pop-up on today’s screens and “populate” the literature, have almost nothing in common with me. And yet I lived under such a regime for thirty years!

There's a reason why in scientific discussion anecdotal evidence is dismissed. There's no singular canonical experience that people in Yugoslavia share. Also, people can live a very oblivious normal life without knowing all the darks secrets of a system.
I'm curious how others are using the recently added support for compose. Happy to answer any questions you might have.
This is just Agile/Scrum to me

People were doing milestones decades, generations, centuries before "Agile" came along.
Hey what tool did you use to design the floorplan? Pen and paper?
It seems to me that hiding a risky implementation is the problem. If you were directly shelling out to `mkdir -p` yourself, it would (hopefully) at least be obvious that it's a risky thing to do, and you need to make sure that either the input couldn't possibly contain any data touched by a malicious user or that it was sufficiently well sanitized to protect against that sort of thing. But if it's hidden behind a friendly-look library call, it would be less obvious that it's a risk, and it's easier to see someone absent-mindedly calling it because it's handy and passing in data from an unauthenticated web user or something.
It's based on using it, not reading it. It's not hype. There just isn't anyone comparable out there.
I think it matters in terms of treatment plans. Sinus issues can cause ADHD symptoms. Nutrient deficiencies can cause them. Brain damage. Immune problems. And so on.

If we were better able to uncover what helps move people toward their preferred homeostatic state, it would reduce a lot of suffering. As it is, we spray and pray, shotgun blasting people's brains with amphetamines, bupropion, methylphenidate...

What I imagine is a spreadsheet with all of the values we uncover that affect an individual's state of mind. I guess that would be a simulation of human physiology and I'm curious if that's being worked on at all...
> NDTM

Non deterministic Turing machine?
In practice, usually fire escapes are more harm than help. A fair amount of disasters happened where in the event of an actual fire, the fire escape had been poorly maintained and became overloaded so that they fell to the ground during the evacuation.
Also, there exists a system that so many people are trying to enter, that it has to pass laws to prevent ~70% of the earth from immediately emmigrating there. One that has made more immigrant 1st-generation wealthy than any other. One that directly or indirectly defends the entirely western world with their military, and receives very little monetary payment for doing so. One that has 4% of the global population but 55% of corporate valuation. It also went to the moon first, as it was inventing all the technologies to enable it.
2 stairways are much harder to block than one, especially if they are at opposite ends of the structure. One person will struggle to keep them blocked.

That’s a whole lot better than 1 stairwell!
Focusing on things you like and procrastinating or finding distractions from things you don't isn't itself adhd. It's that, taken to an extreme that impacts your ability to function socially and/or professionally, along with a full awareness of it and an inability to adjust. There are other behaviors, which all taken together are what determine a diagnosis.
That’d alert me to the fact I didn’t have my vpn running.

Im happy to pay for my own cellular data and vpn to avoid networks like that. Including tethering my laptop if needed.
There's not much context in the story, but I would guess you might want some sanitizing for stuff like ../../../<whatever>/
Floating cities like cruise lines are bad for inhabitants but good for a pandemic in that they are easy to isolate and enforce control measures onboard.
It does in most places - concrete stairwells (typical) don’t exactly love fire. Sheetrock similar.
A few weeks ago everyone was expecting them to replace MIQ with home self-isolation in Feb-April thanks to the vaccine uptake. Now Omicron has thrown that all up in the air.
Yes, Macromedia flash and web 2 , iphones.
And Soviet corruption sounded pretty awesome for my grand-uncle, and his children, grand-children, and various hangers-on. He had an incredibly lucrative career over his life, floating from one bit of graft to another (He continued to be quite successful at it long after the fall of communism, with his career peaking during an 'obscure' international sporting event that took place in Sochi in 2014).

I'm sure it sounded less awesome to the people he hurt, but hey, it's all relative to where you stand, what you personally value, and how concerned about externalities.
For C programmers that hate C++ (2011)
Doesn’t even need that. I’ve run pretty much that stack on an original Raspberry Pi. You wouldn’t want to be trying to do a lot else, and GB sized attachments are gonna be limited by the usb Ethernet speed, but it’ll run just fine.
Australia eliminated travel restrictions for citizens and hotel quarantine for incoming travellers a while ago. At worst you’ll do 3 days home quarantine.

That’s not sensational though so it’s not reported on.

Also COVID case numbers have exploded since then so I can kind of understand NZ being hesitant to do the same.
I agree. People who can sip from firehoses of information are going to be rewarded. I have a feeling that anything that requires long-chunks of attention has a high chance of being automatable.
Well for one, they have been required equipment for years - tire pressure sensors and backup cameras in general. So you’d need to go quite far back.

And the still working quite far back vehicles are pretty valuable because they have stood the test of time and don’t have all the buzzword crap, so folks don’t want to part with them.

The old cheap ones also got fed into a grinder (essentially) for cash for clunkers.