skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't just for teens - It extends to the college students I see come through a mentoring program I volunteer with.

In some cases it's positive: I've seen a few people be convinced to seek treatment for anxiety and depression disorders after seeing people they trust on social media open up about their own therapy experiences.

But the worst offender (in older students, anyway) has to be ADHD right now. The sheer amount of bad ADHD self-diagnosis material on TikTok and other platforms is unbelievable. Influencers inherently want to reach the broadest audience possible, so they have an inherent conflict of interest to convince as many people as possible that they have ADHD. "Follow me for more ADHD tips!"

The result is a lot of TikToks and other short-form content that misrepresents ADHD as everyday struggles such as not being able to remember everyone's names at parties or forgetting to get all of the groceries you need at the store. Watch enough of these videos and anyone can become convinced they have ADHD. At one point, it felt like everyone in one cohort was convinced they had undiagnosed ADHD and wanted to discuss it in the Slack as the explanation for everything in their lives. It got bad enough that people were coaching each other about how to convince skeptical doctors to prescribe ADHD meds by exaggerating specific symptoms, at which point we had to shut down such conversation. Watching the ADHD self-diagnosis misinformation spread like wildfire was honestly one of my more terrifying social media experiences in recent history.

But it gets even worse: During COVID, the US government suspended a rule that required patients to have established a past in-person relationship with a prescriber before receiving controlled substance prescriptions. Several startups are capitalizing on this rule change with subscription services to send you Adderall prescriptions after a short 5-minute Zoom with a doctor. And of course, these ads are being served up to the people consuming the ADHD self-diagnosis TikToks. It's only a few clicks to talk to a pill mill that will prescribe you Adderall (for a monthly fee, of course).

At this point, I'm beginning to fear that so many young people are self-diagnosing ADHD from internet misinformation that we're heading for a reckoning with ADHD medication prescribing. It's starting to feel a bit reminiscent of the prescription opioid pandemic, where opioids were being prescribed to basically everyone who requested them. It wouldn't be good for actual ADHD patients if countries started severely cracking down on prescription practices.
Unfortunately, there really isn't hard and fast rules about this, as it is different for each person. And sometimes you have to get some life experience to figure out what you did sub-optimally in the past, or try to learn from experience of others and see if that applies to you.

I noticed that I'm happier now that I don't have payments going out for a lot of things (just mortgage and a car payment at the moment). I was looking into getting a motorhome, which I think we would really enjoy. But after thinking about it for the last couple years (and looking at industry quality issues), I figured that the maintenance plus depreciation totaled up to about twice what it would cost to do several 3-4 day weekend getaways at a nice resort every year.

As for buying things that will bring you joy, it isn't an all or nothing deal. Instead of getting the top-of-the-line tablet, see if a cheaper one would be 90% as good, and that leaves you money to get the watch also. On the other hand, if you cheap out too much on a purchase (say spend $300 on something that really doesn't bring you joy where the $800 item would), then you didn't save $500, you really wasted $300.

But the biggest rule I have is to not go into debt unless the payments are fairly close to what you would be paying out regardless. So buying a house (at least back before the prices got way out of control) would cost you close to the what you would be paying in rent, but you get to do so much more (extra rooms, yard, garage for tools and gear, etc). But putting a $3500 Macbook Pro M1 on a credit card that take you 5 years to pay off ends up causing you more stress than the joy that the purchase brought you (because the debt doesn't go down as easy as it goes up). Credit card debt is probably what put the most strain on my life over the previous couple decades (both personally and on my family, as I'd always be complaining about having to spend money on something).

The day I wiped out my credit card debt is the day I started feeling secure. It allowed me to go purchase a new car instead of driving a 15 year old vehicle that was starting to need monthly repairs, and the monthly payments on that didn't bother me because they fit in my budget while still having disposable income left over. Which allowed me to build up an emergency fund. Which now means I don't have to think about money if I want to go out and purchase that tablet, because I know it isn't going to add to my monthly debt payments. And if we want to take the kids to a water park resort for a 4-day weekend, again that is something that is budgeted for and not just thrown on a credit card to be paid off over the next few years.
Older media is far less socially degenerative to consume. Even modern media standards are higher than much of what I have personally seen children consume on YouTube kids. The 3 TV channels and two newspapers never ran programming that features Spiderman and Elsa having diarrhea after sexually suggestive themes.
OPT can be 2-3 years as far as I'm aware. I think a little longer than a lot of internships.
I've read alternative accounts of the debate which relate that he basically won, and sociobiology is the default viewpoint of science now. Could you share some hard science evidence leading you to describe his views as questionable at best?

I wonder if it's because your description of his beliefs is quite strong - i.e. you say "a very large fraction of human behavior is genetically determined" when another might say "most human behavior is heavily influenced by evolutionary instincts", which seems more more palatable? i.e. the quote I linked above - that we should strive to spite and overcome our incorrect, evolutionarily engineered instincts?
Nothing wrong with making a mockery of an already flawed medical system. These “mental illnesses” fit wide ranging bands, and damage people by treating them with medication when waiting a year would see a cessation of the issue without the long term impact of drugs
What about five million people? Is that a lot?
This is a great take. I've taken this poem with me ever since my high school valedictorian introduced me to it in his speech. The popular response was "Kipling was a racist." Okay. Why do I love his work so much despite that?

Looking at why work persists despite the negatives is a far better practice than looking for negatives to belittle work.
A portmanteau of Russian "засчитано" ("credited", "taken into account", "check!") and English "shit".

The word is a joke and there is no well-defined meaning. I've seen it used as both "it counts but it's shitty" and as a way to give credit for a failure.

Surely that's not the best example, but it's a word I've remembered.
Something people often miss about operator precedence in math is that it very closely tracks implied grouping by spatial orientation of the operands in conventional notation. The "rules" are a formalization of an implied intuitive ordering of operations.

This intuition is pretty well lost in programming language operator precedence tables.
High stress can sometimes trigger certain common cold symptoms even in the absence of an active viral infection. Unless the virus has actually been cultured you can't be certain what's happening in your body.

I do a lot of scuba diving. There are many anecdotal reports of divers who briefly experience cold / flu symptoms after failing to decompress correctly. The popular hypothesis is that tiny bubbles in the bloodstream trigger an inflammatory immune response, but who knows?
Did the same but 1 year in Bali has now been 8. Couldn't be happier.
Depends on your total, in relation to 8 billion humans it's extremely rare.
Aside from all of the other issues mentioned, for some languages it's not clear what language something is purely based on codepoints.

For languages that have Latin-derived writing systems, it's not uncommon to use English letters (without diacritics) to write the language -- how would that be handled? In addition, thanks to Han unification (though this would've been a problem anyway -- loads of characters would've been unified anyway) all similar CJK Hanzi/Kanji/漢字 characters are mapped to the same codepoint regardless of language. This means that for some sentences it is entirely possible for you to not know whether a sentence fragment is Chinese or Japanese without more context and a native-like understanding of the language.

Also in many languages English words are written verbatim meaning that you can have sentences like (my Japanese is not perfect, this is just an example):

> あの芸人のYouTube動画を見たの？面白すぎるww

And (at least in Japanese) there are loads of other usage of Latin characters aside from loan words that would be too unwieldy to write in katakana -- "w" is like "lol", and fair few acronyms (BGM = Background Music, CM = Advertisement, TKG = 卵かけご飯 = (Raw) Egg on Rice). There are other languages that have similar "issues", but unfortunately I can't give any more examples because the only other language I speak (Serbian) writes everything (even people's names) phonetically.

As an aside -- if anyone ever has to support CJK languages (in subtitles for instance), please make sure you use the right fonts. While Unicode has encoded Han characters with the same codepoint, in different languages the characters are often drawn differently and you need to use the right font for the corresponding language (and area -- Mandarin speakers in different areas write some characters differently -- 返 is different in every CJK locale). Many media players and websites do not handle this correctly and it is fairly frustrating -- the net result is that Japanese is often displayed using Chinese fonts which makes it uncomfortable to read (it's still obvious what the character is, it's just off-putting).
>observe the religion of your parents,

Why do you assume my parents shared a common religion? Don't most religions demand exclusive observation?

>drink only water or wine

I prefer beer to wine.
And poorly behaved DJs aside, it’s going ok.

Time will tell if the policies in place will deal with Omicron, though.
As a rhetorical example, not an invitation to debate the finer points of Cuban policy.
I wonder if someone could get legally get away with finagling this into a large bank loan, particularly from a bank with a partially or fully automated application process.

"Oh sure, here's my 2021 year-end statement (no additional comment)." (Let's just assume for the sake of argument that the money was left in the account long enough to be reflected in a statement.)
I couldn’t disagree more with your opinion. Symbol servers and pdbs are a tremendous advantage to C and C++ development on Windows. Are you sure you have equivalent experience with both Windows and non-MSVC toolchains?
Interesting, my sister in college is convinced she has ADHD now so I wonder if this is related.
Question - do you have children ?

Just curious, coz Im a in similar situation, my perfectionism is killing me and my prospects for being a good father.
In some spiritual circles, the number is 10 as well. I'm now drawing up on 9, and oh boy.
Aren’t link-local only applicable to a single switch, rather than a more involved LAN with several subnets and routers and whatnot?
Or perhaps litoE was frequently punished, accumulating hundreds of copies....
only if you control the system (hw & sw) top to bottom
"anything inside my home network from anywhere on the internet" doesn't sound much like robust access controls.

I wouldn't trust the horrible default passwords and lax security built into most devices for home use to be exposed directly to the Internet even with a firewall.
I wonder why Spain has such a low adoption rate (3.46%) compared to its neighbors. Same with Italy.
Happy new years 2022
If you don't work with spreadsheets often, you'd be surprised at how often spreadsheets deviate from the strict row/column format. SQLite actually sounds like a bad idea, unless you use it as a key-value store for cells.
Sharp left policy shifts like?
Oh man. I wish I had listened more carefully to this advice before the pandemic. I was not mentally in a good place couple months ago after being really burnt out working for my former employer (good team and good manager but the senior leadership really dngaf and workload reflected that as much). I was working 100+ hrs/week for weeks on end during the pandemic and really deprioritized personal connection and taking care of myself.

Looking back, the pandemic gave me an excuse to overwork since I was really determined to jump into SRE/ops world of things from helpdesk after slogging away in life sciences after graduation.

I've gained alot of weight (now I'm back to my pre-covid weight), lost hair, and lot of my social connections got strained. Fortunately I am still 30 so hopefully I'll be able to correct my past decisions but I'm finding out that correcting the direction of your decision becomes more difficult as you get older.

Your bit about moderation and balance seem to be aligned with what Sam Altman's advice on life before 30 (especially points 3, 4, 9, and 29).
Seth Godin is one of those "thought leaders" who has no real life experience besides selling "thoughts". He has the world of time selling his books and has been wrong on most of his predictions.
New Year Resolutions – and My Big Goal in 2022
Isn’t that in itself a big problem? You need a united strategy for public health initiatives to be effective.
Which is why questioning it and peer reviews are so important.
Sorry, I was being sloppy, I was just referring to the whole OIDC exchange from authentication to authorization.
Happy New Year, and thanks for all the sharing.
According to what I read, the manager attempted to go to bat for the employee, and basically did everything they could short of flat out refusing to fire the person. After this incident, the manager and most of the remaining devs on the team are now looking for new jobs. I can't say as I blame any of them.
How Chicago’s Poop Becomes Amazing Fertilizer
> The problem isn't that this is bad advice; the problem is that our civilization currently prevents this for most people, and instead aims to convince the 99% that they are the essential workers who can't go surfing.

I guess I’ve never formalized my thinking about this, but I believe it’s a sad outlook on humanity if the goal is to partake in pleasure at will. There seem to be much more fulfilling pursuits. Maybe I’m taking this the wrong way.
> painting a line

what if the bolt doesn't actually turn any, but the material itself stretches and loses tension?
It works as soon as you kindly tell people to fuck off, you're busy. The less busy you are with meetings, the more focused time you have to deliver, and the more weight your words carry when you tell them you don't do meetings you're not absolutely needed for.
Exactly. Same in the spirit.
As others have said, eat well and exercise (sweat) which for me usually leads to good sleep which is also key.

Is it possible that part of your “burnout” is actually dissatisfaction with never finishing? If you expect you won’t finish then motivation to start may diminish. Pick something (one thing) and focus to finish. Learn to live with imperfection. Read about the idea of minimum viable products (MVP), and apply this concept to your projects. You will find satisfaction in finishing, and then motivation to start (and finish) the next. Yes finishing is hard, but then you will have a record of accomplishments and trust in yourself that you CAN finish. Slow down and work on one thing at a time. And finish.
1984 Will continue to be the high water mark of secure general purpose computing, as nothing since offers the security of hardware enforced write protected floppy disks that can easily be copied and verified as main storage.
It's a koan. The Bhudda would play all of those games, because the games themselves are not the cause for negligence, but the attachments and importance that people give the games can create a cause for negligence. Part of the lesson/joke is that he pretty much lists anything and everything that could be considered a game.
Happy new year to you too, from one of the spoilsports who’s not into it. You deserve to be happy about a revolution around the nearest star regardless of how I feel!
It's news to me that Livingston retired. Wikipedia doesn't seem to have gotten the memo which makes me feel better about not knowing.

I no longer try to follow what she's up to but I used to be intensely curious about her career.
You can go surfing - there are people who live this lifestyle. They move to a beach town, get a beach job, and surf. Similar is the ski bum.

Lo and behold, most people do not want to make the sacrifices necessary to have this life.

Being a grown-up is about making these choices.
Attention is a muscle you can build up with effort.

Two forms of practice I enjoy are reading books and mindfulness meditation.
Circumventing censorship, or just saying/writing the wrong thing in China can result in imprisonment at the whim of unaccountable officials. Banned from twitter isn't even remotely similar.
I'm going to disagree with you and say that I think __ADHD__ has actually always been wide spread. We've just...not addressed it and seen rising depression, anxiety, suicide rates.

For far too long we've been __blaming individuals__ for their ADHD symptoms, and that's just created a broken system. And for far too long we've not taken ADHD symptoms seriously, and seen it as a phase.

The other point is, if people want to get these stimulants, why not? We actually understand them pretty well, and if they're not abused (e.g. you're not taking huge doses of them), they're fine.

And yeah, ADHD has always existed. But our lives weren't designed around making the symptoms of ADHD be something we have to deal with day to day. ADHD's impact is the worst on office based jobs.

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Unrelated to the points I made above, but the recent more "understanding" of ADHD actually got me to go talk to a psychiatrist and got prescribed a stimulant based medicine for ADHD. I cried the first week I took it because it removed a fog from my brain that I had for my entire life.

I'm thankful that these discussions actually lead me to getting a diagnosis and medication.
I was just thinking that these don't have wifi, an ip address, contact the mothership via aws to make sure the maintenance contract is paid up and TOS clicked...such a missed opportunity...
twenty twenty two here we come!
I like that ruby and perl can integrate with shell commands more easily than python or go.
If you want to live an anti-mimetic life, basically… be gay. Lol even the article has a pic of Oscar wilde. Gays have the secret and this whole form is way more homophobic than it likes to let on
Ahah. Went from majoring in math to killing trees. I get to wield what an in-law calls a “motor sword” every day. I feel gud.
I took this a bit differently, though in the same vain. The "unforgiving minute" I read as "every moment doesn't care who you are or what you do, it just marches on", and "sixty seconds' worth of distance run" as more of "put in work you're proud of for every second of each minute".

Essentially, there is no greater purpose or person giving you slack---if you can be proud of each second of each minute, the world is your own.

The differences in our interpretations of the poem is what makes it a great poem though. Both readings have very similar messages, and both messages are very impactful.
It is hard to find alternative form of peer review but not impossible. The harder is that once it ia found will be convince people in scientific communities to adapt.

In many fields nowdays ( particle physics and machine learning for example) it is standard and norm to publiah to Arxiv with the understanding that this is pre-reviewd platform for acceasing latest ideas more than latest research. Grad students, postdocs and professors all understand that.

But usually there is requirements from fuding agencies to publish in traditional journals so you have to do it even it is not required logically.

To illustrate that, lets consider a paper about latest results from ATLAS or CMS experiments at CERN. There are potentially at least internal review of a couple hundred physicists participated in discussion and authorship not to mention the period of public comments (there are thousands of people work in the experiment) after that you would apply to publish in physical review where the editor will assgn two or more reviewers to review that?. Usually there is not much comments but sometime happens but results usually gets announced before this and normally the published version would be important for citation purposes.

I think the dynamics of each field would play an important rule of what can we change about current model. But peer review as a theoretical idea is important but not how is implemented. The issue lies also with the whole scientific publishing model that is controlled mostly by for-profit companies with peer review process being free service.

Search on Twitter for example and you will find many complaints from reviewers that they get two or three papers and being asked to review them and provide a report over a weekend or a very tight schedule in general while doing this for free.

Changing the model would require pressure on funding agencies and publishing journals. Academics who rely on publications for promoted and being number one qualifications in most of benefits or eveb prestige are not suitable to lead this pressure at least until public pressure is applied on universities and research facilities to tackle this problem.
How do you know they did nothing at all. The purpose of copyright, at least in the USA, is to encourage creators to create. I wouldn't be surprised if she people try to create that one last great American novel, so their children are taken care of. If the copyright can't be passed on, those creators might not create that last work of art.

Personally I think copyright should be 25 years. And not the life and then some. But that 25 years should extend past the life of the creator.
Plus I don't want to create any motives to do away with the creators
That was my 1999. Left for Hawaii. Then CA, Berlin, Tokyo, Singapore. Goodspeed.
>With a minuscule fatality rate at this point,

Even at 0.1% over 7b population that's still a couple million body bags so measures even if only partially effective at preventing transmission are still worthwhile
> The calendar belongs to everyone else. Their schedule isn’t your schedule unless it helps you get where you’re going.

Therefore, wage labor should be abolished.

“Communism is free time and nothing else!” - jehu (https://therealmovement.wordpress.com/)
A house less man actually told me this poem one day. Awesome to see it again. It definitely hits different
1204 was an inside job. Steel swords can’t break stone walls. Dandolo did nothing wrong.