skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know I’m in the minority, but I think the media has gotten out of control. Journalist at major news outlets are able to say just about anything they want, about anyone, for any reason, and there’s really nothing you can do about it. Even if it has Little to no news value. Journalist have been acting with such impunity for years, and it’s just not right.
Your advice resembles one of the “tips” from the article:

> Finding a job where most of your work is stimulating to you.

In my experience this is 95% of the “accommodation”. I suspect many adults with ADHD are misdiagnosed with depression precisely because working a job that is insufficiently interesting will cause so many constant performance issues that anyone would assume they are doomed to failure in life.
and next thing you know you've committed genocide. Whoopsies
Agreed, it sounds like a romanticized version of what the author would like to be true. A bit like the 'noble savage' myth. Life in Romania can be pretty harsh. I lived for two years in Bucharest, have seen most of the larger cities and a good bit of the countryside as well. Romania has some incredible wealth, a very rich culture but also terrible poverty and with every change in government things seem to oscillate between bad and terrible.

It is frustrating because the country has enormous potential but unlike say Poland or Czechia it hasn't managed to really capitalize on that potential. Still, it is doing substantially better than its Southern neighbor.
I used to listen to This Week in Virology every week, but I found that their scientific, er, restraint and skepticism of results unless and until they were Peer Reviewed and Randomly Controlled with huge sample sizes meant the info I was getting from the podcast was perpetually 1~4 months behind.

Granted you listen to TWiV exclusively for hits, not for misses, but since I’m not a doctor myself and I was listening to keep abreast of the pandemic, wildly out-of-date info and dismissive attitudes toward anything without an RCT weren’t doing it for me.
One of the side benefits of doing them live, especially in the new new, is promoting connectedness. You lose that when you go fully async. It’s 15-30 out of your day.
I'm doing fine now -- PyCharm and IDEA benefit greatly from using JDK16. Remember, I'm on Linux, you're on OSX where they had to make some font changes which, AIUI, are Mac-specific, and it seems like that has made them decide to stick with JDK11.

I will update the post I made on my blog with the JVM options for JDK17. [1]

I have had mixed success reporting bugs to JB, as is to be expected for a company their size.

[1] it's Christmas, so why wait... it's this lot

--illegal-access=warn
--add-exports java.desktop/com.apple.eawt.event=ALL-UNNAMED
--add-exports java.desktop/com.apple.eawt=ALL-UNNAMED
--add-exports java.desktop/com.apple.laf=ALL-UNNAMED
--add-exports java.desktop/sun.font=ALL-UNNAMED

--add-opens java.base/java.lang=ALL-UNNAMED
--add-opens java.base/java.util=ALL-UNNAMED
--add-opens java.desktop/java.awt.event=ALL-UNNAMED
--add-opens java.desktop/java.awt.peer=ALL-UNNAMED
--add-opens java.desktop/java.awt=ALL-UNNAMED
--add-opens java.desktop/javax.swing.plaf.basic=ALL-UNNAMED
--add-opens java.desktop/javax.swing.text.html=ALL-UNNAMED
--add-opens java.desktop/javax.swing=ALL-UNNAMED
--add-opens java.desktop/sun.awt=ALL-UNNAMED
--add-opens java.desktop/sun.font=ALL-UNNAMED
--add-opens java.desktop/sun.swing=ALL-UNNAMED
Does NZ not benefit from this system? I mean, it seems like a good deal to me - attracting large amounts of local investment in return for something fairly small.
I lead the Common Form project, which maintains https://www.npmjs.com/package/commonform-lint among other tools. Mostly, this handles "linting" structural aspects of legal terms, such as making sure that every special term invoked gets defined, every section referenced actually exists, and so on. But we've also been able to include some very rote stylistic checks, such as alerts about archaisms, legalisms, and needlessly wordy phrases. Even just this has proved an amazing boon in day to day practice. Akin to having real-time syntax checking in a code editor.

Computers excel at the rote and structural. They really suck at substantive analysis, even with all the recent ML work I've seen...except where the substance in or out is rote or structural. You can probably get a model to read back effective dates or share prices out of a bucket of PDFs. First Amendment analysis? Is it going to predict Supreme Court cases for us, too?

The hard work in law is nearly always pattern matching---What law applies to this situation? Does the definition cover this case, given its language and purpose?---rather than calculating a bunch of deductive implications from neatly coded factual situations. A lot of the fights in law are about how to code the situation, because of how the law applies from there.
The tricky part - for most people they would be helpful.

If you struggle to function as a ‘normal’ adult without them? Or spend a truly inordinate amount of time and effort compared to your peers doing them just trying to get to the point you're somewhat ‘normal’? That is more than likely ADHD (or something else, but a problem)
In regards to corruption and political connections I can recommend taking a look at senate stock watcher [1] which sometimes make it obvious what senator was responsible for which bill, specifically.

[1] https://senatestockwatcher.com/

(edit: the parent comment was asking about violations of rule of law "over here" referring to the US being down that road in its parent comment)
IMHO Alexa, Siri, and their ilk will only be useful when (guaranteed to be) fully local, and also able to understand and respond usefully to pretty much anything said to them, and apply common sense to ask clarifying questions and the like. We're at least two decades away from that, it seems.
I had heard that some MFA student had written in the library copy of his thesis, “if you’re reading this, I guess I’m famous now.” Alas, I was part of the two MFA cohorts whose theses were electronically filed which means that it’s unlikely anyone will ever read it even if I did become famous.
AKA "you're holding it wrong".

The problem is not with the users.
Since from your comment she appears to be in the UK, GDPR right of access still applies. She can get a copy of the data, even if not access to the account.
Who defines the most useful projects? How do new projects get their start?

I think a simpler and less revolutionary route would be to simplify the registration of open source projects to be able receive tax exempt donations. That’d be a massive boost with only a minor change to the tax code.
Because as an industry we have collectively failed - both in dependency management and in version control. There are unreliable, and they are incomprehensible to an average user, no matter which operating system you use.
"Who's the real Dr Fauci"

Eye opening.
Unless they would use Graal Enterprise I doubt AOT would perform better anyway. Graal Community uses the Serial GC for native image. Enterprise uses G1
Good for them, but Minecraft is neither DBeaver nor Arduino.
Happy holidays everyone!

Not sure how you all see it, but in my experience people rub off on other people. We are, to some degree who we hang with. I choose to hang here because I am better for it, and say that unabashedly! So many of you have had an impact on me, some small, some larger than you will know.

Thank you all for all the bits of knowledge, perspective, curios, life stories, experiences and more! These are the things I am better for. I see many different kinds of voices, ages, stations in life here, and appreciate that we all share a little bit of our time and ourselves. It's both worth what you paid and priceless!

Been a tough couple of years for many of us. May you and yours grow and prosper, laugh, play, build, love, explore and live well and long into the future!

@dang & Co. -->You should feel good about what this little place on the Internet is. Thank you and others behind the scenes who remain willing to insure it continues to exist. Seriously appreciated.
Selling something based on a z80 for $100+ in the 21st century is truly an impressive feat.
There was a major push to flatten that whole neighborhood at some point during the Ceausescu regime, churches were demolished, and lots of other buildings too. There are to this date a lot of legal disputes about people whose land got stolen, formally the government owns it but there probably isn't a building there that doesn't have at least one claim against it. It is a huge mess, both legally and socially and I highly doubt it will be resolved in time for the people that suffered from it to be compensated, if that will happen at all it will be their children or grandchildren (assuming they keep the claims alive) that will benefit.
It depends, at UIC, there were lockers in some of the classroom buildings that were in use. I’d guess that, yes, students would be aware of locker locations.
You clearly don't know what IntelliJ offers. I've been paying a high price for their tools for years now, and will not stop. My colleagues are often on VSCode so i've forced myself to use it and learn it so i could help them when they struggle, especially junior people.

The difference is night and day. VSCode is a light code editor. IntelliJ is a rich IDE.

The database tool in IntelliJ is better than all other specialized DB software i've tried last year when i did a market study to try and find a good DB tool. That tool is hardly even advertised and is like 1 button out of 100 buttons in the IDE. The diff tool is another example of top of the industry software rivaling stuff like Beyond Compare.

Bottomline is you seem to not have dug into it before sharing your judgment of it with people who have
A core part of ADHD diagnosis is if the patterns have been present since you were a kid.

It also requires there be a struggle or problem with the patterns that cause issues with normal living and functioning.

The industry in general (well, the part of it HN folks have tended to be from), is maturing and that can bring folks to have to seriously face these issues. It isn’t as new and shiny as it once was. Also, stress from the pandemic and burnout and very non-ADHD friendly circumstances have been turning the screws and making it significantly more painful - which also highlights it.
Listen: NASA probe captures “wild” sounds from the Solar System's largest moon
There aren't many academic articles written in markdown. Most major conferences only accept word or PDF files, so it's a reasonable assumption to make.
Why would proDUct management decide what impacts dev? Surely that’s a question for proJEct management?
It's hard to describe my design and planning approach. I have tried to enforce a structure like we do at work...epics...stories etc. Ends up slowing me down and wasting a bunch of time.

I know the domain very well, so it's like the SME or product owner who is also an experienced developer just cranking shit out. I work with a visual designer for the UI which lets me play around with different concepts very quickly. I just iterate very quickly in code and in the UI, expressing myself...it's more art than science.

I may plan to do something, and then sit down and get interested in a totally different feature...it is very important to do the thing that thrills me in the moment. It increases quality and ideation momentum.
The Onion's version:

https://www.theonion.com/pudding-factory-disaster-brings-slo...
I've replaced Google Now with a HN app at the home button thing. All a tap away. :)
That’s not how Russia works.
Investor visas are just a distraction. The fundamental problem is that there's any restriction whatsoever on New Zealand's citizens entering their own country. The MIQ system should be abolished, and anyone who helped create it, or who has had enough power in the country to abolish it but chose to let it continue, should be put in prison for human rights violations (specifically, in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 13 says "Everyone has the right to [...] return to his country").
People have difficulty regulating all sorts of things. Personally struggling with addiction or depression or attachment issues or trauma or physical pain or attention span is foundational to the human experience. You'd be wildly abnormal if you didn't have to deal with at least one of these things to get through the day. And sometimes pharmaceutical intervention can help. I just think the wild over diagnosis and medication of what is essentially a personal struggle that's completely normal (what else can we call something that a third of the population has?) encourages the pathologization of normal human functioning at the same time as it creates victim mentality and removes responsibility and agency from individuals. For the express purpose of putting agency in the hands of psychiatric experts. We're all apparently sick except for them.
I found Peace War very interesting on two axis. First, the exploration of human intelligence augmentation and second the commoditazation of nuclear weapons impact on politics and "state" ie when the state no longer has a monopoly on violence. I personally did not enjoy Rainbows End much, whatever that's worth.
I’ll second Rainbows End, and add in its earlier incarnation, the novella Fast Times at Fairmont High.
Now that you mention it, I might try to pawn my old calculator. It’s not doing me any good and some other kid can certainly use a discount used one.
I think it's much more likely that ADHD is N different things and Autism is M different things, where there is some overlap between N and M. I get what you're saying, I just think in order to really progress how we understand/treat these issues it will be important to figure out how to more accurately split them apart rather than grouping more things together.
To be fair, one person has less of a chance of blocking all 5 exits if that many exists and they're spaced out well enough
I developed browser based Java applets demonstrating products in 3D with full animation and interactivity - these worked really well (better than some modern webgl) for some products (think mobiles and car manufacturers in the mid 00s) but my niche was the bifold door market… illustrating the combinations the products could be manufactured and operated. I got on board with a developer of CAM software and created presentations we could adapt quickly to each company which they loved… think Flash on 3D rendered steroids… just as ever green browsers and active x acceptance became mandatory… “Are you sure you want to…” My lesson was that you never know what big change is around the corner. It felt like hero to
Zero overnight at 23…
No, the bailouts are directly for the borrowers. Just as bailing out an airline keeps the airline alive, not indirectly the creditors funding it. Of course the effect is on both but I'm avoiding definition torture.

But risk externality is a good point. Maybe one that needs addressing with a return to reasonable regulation, reigning in speculation/predatory lending, Glass-Steagall etc.
The question is - do they pile up to the point they cause distress, sometimes crushing distress, because no matter what, no matter how important it is - until you feel panic, you can’t do it?

If they don’t really matter and meh, then that’s fine. But if they do matter, and no matter what you can’t do it? That is when it starts to become a problem.

If that sounds familiar, then you might want to get checked.
I programmed a simple HTML Snake game so I could have a simple ad-free etc etc game I could play while on the phone with people!
Unfortunately, last night in soho was not very good. My least favorite EW
Nothing like Assange. All FBK sources are open databases and registries. The corruption in Russia is that obvious.
It's usually the source code for the compiler or interpreter we're referring to when we say a language is open source or not. As you say, though, it is a misnomer of sorts. Many languages have both open and closed source compilers.
I'm much earlier in my career and I think I am running into the things you talk about. I want to learn from your experience. Can you DM me? (Email in profile)
Let’s not conflate ADHD with personality traits. I actually feel that my personality is high in conscientiousness, but my ADHD makes it extremely difficult to actually execute the behaviors that my personality would prefer. If that makes any sense…
I feel like there's Straw Postmodernism where you can make anything true by wishing really hard, and Tautological Postmodernism, where the human senses are limited in resolution and your mind is limited in memory and cognition, and somewhere between them is a postmodernism that a sane person would bother arguing in favor of. I haven't seen it, of course, but I conjecture it's out there in the libraries somewhere.
If the process exits in an orderly fashion then, yes, it will flush logs, and also do a bunch of other nice things. The problem arises when it dies in a not-so-nice fashion.

(Also, not every environment is running with unlimited core size.)
I don't know. We thought it was the best graphics school in central Florida (where I live) and we had an in with a professor there. We paid some students there for most of the 3d modeling work we needed.
As a New Zealander, I am super supportive of easier pathways for wealthy people to bring themselves, their expertise, their connections, and their money here.

Furthermore, my anecdotal observation is that articles in The Guardian about New Zealand reflect not reality, but rather the talking points of a very small subset of the hard Left of our political class. I know that this is The Guardian’s line in general, but it somehow feels more egregious when applied to a situation I’m more personally familiar with.
Wishing all a wonderful Christmas and good health to you and your families.
You have two competing colors. You design a new, unified color that covers the use cases of both. Now you have three competing colors.
Does anybody have advice for dealing with oncall (for all the software people out there)? My issues are light as they go, and I’m pretty productive for things with timeframes longer than a week, but managing a ticket queue is just brutal, and basically impossible once I end up with pager-induced sleep deprivation. Long-term I think I just need a job that doesn’t involve a lot of ticket management, but switching isn’t an option at the moment, and I need to find something to reduce the amount of slack other people have to pick up.
Yeah, like, install VSCode.
Until Trump appeared on the scene. You missed that out.
Agreed, what we have is often simply dismissed as selfishness or self-centeredness. It’s hard to keep tabs on others’ emotional state when there is so much going on upstairs all the damn time.
That is a US site and has nothing to do with the issue at hand.
This sounds like a recipe for write-only comments.

The point of a good comment is to guide later development - to say "here's something you should know before editing this code". If you put information like that in commit logs, then that implies that anybody who updates any part of that codebase must first read every log for every commit near what they're editing. If they don't (and they presumably won't), they'll never see that "here's why we're not doing X" comment before they change the code to do X.

Meanwhile, it's true that comments can drift away from truth over time, but putting them in commit logs doesn't change that in any way. An inline comment that's stale can be updated (and doing so is part of the job!). But a commit log comment that's no longer accurate will stay there forever, waiting to mislead anyone who finds it. The promise that it was accurate when originally written is of no practical use later on.
I saw the best minds of my generation being uploaded onto “second-brain” apps
Hashicorp Terraform.
All of the January and February rooms were taken. There were some rooms left for the remaining two weeks in December (likely too shot notice for many people) and March (the quarantine system was meant to mostly end by then).
Thanks for writing this, I was going to skip over this initially because the presentation style and its length. This talk was well worth watching.
Reminds me of this quote by Alan Perlis [1].

> Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

1. http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
I might be missing something but I'm not sure what that has to do with New Zealand. From a quick glance, there didn't seem to be any information related to the country mentioned.
It's okay, instead of running TV commercials, Tesla hires people to brigade negative and humorous commentary, they've been doing it for a long time now, but here's evidence that backs up my claim, they really learned that light trick from people with modified Civics...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRgu7_tKzi0
I failed courses in college due to inability to focus. Can't hear what someone is saying directly to me because I'm obsessed with minutiae. Have definitely struggled all my life trying to pay attention and do things. So yeah probably ADHD, but no point in getting it diagnosed now. Almost 50, and have figured out how to be very productive and happy at this point.
It's also the case that not being able to focus in social situations leads to an aura of aloofness and disconnectedness. I've met plenty of people with an ADHD/autism diagnosis who have no problem reading people. They just don't have friends for whatever reason, which gets them put in the autism box.
"You ought to be able to search something on Google and get an answer to your question without signing up for some newsletter."

Call me a cynic but they probably just want you to pay for their journalism. Looks like a cool product, and it's also probably piracy.
I share your lamentation about Jetbrains performance/responsiveness. It's truly awful.

I still use it, because it's by far, the best code editor in terms of introspection, refactoring, managing multi-file projects etc.
I assume you have a fixed IP. That's a non trivial part of the process.
Oncall shifts shouldn't be so burdensome, even for neurotypical people. That sounds like a real systemic problem. What is happening that regularly requires all the emergency tickets?
Merry Christmas! I'm actually looking for something like a self-hosted Notion, so this scratches that itch. Looking forward to standing up a local install to see what it's like.

Some first thoughts...

- Boy, this checkout is taking awhile...

- Coming Soon: Roadmap. Hah! Sounds like me...

- Is the app slower in dev mode? It took about 20+ seconds to load the "Getting Started" page. Edit: Ah, it's vite installing dependencies and reloading the page... that's not a good first impression. It reloaded the page at least 5-6 times on first load.

- By the way, ctrl-shift-p opens up an incognito window in Firefox, so that hotkey prefix is probably not so good.

- The "Workspace Home" shows a notice saying I have no notes, and a CTA to create my first note, but clicking it says I need to select a workspace, but I don't know how to create a workspace.

- Seriously, you remapped ctrl-r? I don't think that is a good idea.

- How come the "bangle-help" workspace doesn't show up in "Workspace Home"?

- Oof, a page load transferred 13.76MB of data... for a bangle instance with no data. I don't think this is excusable, because a production instance of NodeBB (to use a biased example, of course) clocks in at only 2.17MB. Like bangle, NodeBB also focuses on speed.

Some rough edges here, but all-in-all a really nice start! Looking forward to seeing this mature :) When I first started NodeBB and someone posted it on HN, we got a lot of drive-by critiques like what I just posted. It stings, sure, but it kicked our ass in gear to better our platform. Hope this helps.
Spare me the snotty tone. I was asking a question in good faith and still am. Read what I wrote: I know what hyperfocus is and I chose the verb I chose deliberately.
Then it shouldn't appear in search results. I think that's fair