skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people using "ADD," should know that it doesn't exist anymore. Now it's all diagnosed as ADHD with three sub types: combined (the most common), hyperactive, and inactive. "ADD" aligns with the inactive type. Anyway...

There's a perspective in some ADHD circles (and likely other mental health circles) that the concept of neurodiversity/neurodivergent are not the correct framing for living with ADHD. It follows this idea that when people highlight (or unmask) the parts of ADHD that make them quirky or entertaining to society, they are not revealing the _very negative_ symptoms of ADHD that are extremely debilitating. The proliferation of sound bite videos that portray ADHD in a very positive light on TikTok, ADHD memes, etc. gloss over the dark realities of ADHD. My personal belief is that while it's good to help people understand some of the more lighthearted ADHD symptoms, it's important that we share even the negative aspects. Of course, negative things don't get engagement (as the author states when he gets to mentioning a battle with depression).

TikTok isn't covering things like ADHDers' propensity to lose their jobs due to poor performance, the financial ruin from overspending and money mismanagement, poor physical health and wellbeing, likelihood to have comorbid depression and anxiety, missing out academic/professional opportunities, fewer if any meaningful relationships because of social disorder symptoms attributed to ADHD. You rarely, if ever, see social media ADHDers talk about how ADHD affects something like dental health because of the "out of sight, out of mind" effects and the inability to form healthy hygiene habits because there are no immediate consequences (the "now or not now" mental modes). How getting a restful night's sleep is a rare delight because of ADHD's ability to delay sleep. You'll never hear them talk about how ADHD people have a significantly shorter life expectancy than the general population--some studies calculating it by as much as 20 years.

These are all very negative, debilitating pieces of ADHD that get glossed over by modern social media movements of the quirky/neurodivergent ADHD crowd. Even this author doesn't really dive into the dirty pieces.

This is a long one, but all of that said: I have ADHD. I was diagnosed at 8 years old. Finally, got on stimulants for the first time as an adult and my life's trajectory turned around in a just few months. I still struggle with all the negative things that come with ADHD. But I believe that ADHD is both a blessing and a curse; that I can personally celebrate the parts that make me quirky and bring me joy and also be aware of the negative effects it has on me and on my ability to function in modern society. I do see it as a disability, but not as a hindrance. The more I learn to accommodate it for myself the better off I'm going to be long-term.
Racket v8.5
What do you use the API for? I've not really seen any interesting commercial uses other than customer support bots that are sightly more convincing but not something consumers actually want (they actually want the human that can solve their problem).
That could be, I think it was explained to me by an former engineer on Mac OS 8 or so. But there was still 68K asm in there up until Carbon.
it made sense to me. If they make human rights as the main talking point to push this realignment, it'll certainly involve rights for marginalized folks.

If their definition of democracy requires rights for all, then you can't be a democracy and not be "woke".

I certainly agree with that. Of course by that definition i am of course "woke" myself.
Hey everyone, I'm the original author of this library. This is actually my first software project ever-- I'm a full-time officer in the military who was just messing around. It's extremely flattering to see this shared so publicly, but I feel the need to pre-emptively apologize to readers. This is just a hobby project for now, but I would appreciate feedback.
Yes, exactly. This is a dumb clickbait article.
It's not genetics, it's wealth. In addition to better nutrition, wealth affords you better, proportionately cheaper healthcare. It's a predictor for lifespan and healthspan.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/16/science/rich-people-longe...
The ratio of times autotools checked my system for a Fortran compared to the number of times I compiled something with a Fortran dependancy must be at least 200:1.
National Geographic is much less nutritious than it used to be as well.
do you think Product Management works harder than devs from what you see?
amazing, thanks! Having a website load so fast is really refreshing.

When you get a minute, would you put an RSS feed for your blog? I want to read your articles.
Good to finally learn what it is. I’ve seen results from lib.rs come up occasionally in web searches for crates but never understood what it was or bothered to look into it (since I am usually looking for docs rather than crate overview). I wonder if they could potentially surface what lib.rs is more obviously for people whose only exposure is accidental, like mine.
Agree. I've never seen a poor dev reach for a framework to solve a problem. Poor devs do nothing for days and then ask a bad question at a stand up.
I am 50+ and have zero problems competing with younger developers. While they are busy making things as complex as possible, and spend most of their time fixing self-inflicted problems/bugs, I have already finished my task and moved on to the next. I spend almost all my time adding new features, and have close to zero bugs in production. 25+ years of experience solving hard problems in different software domains is a super power. The secret is to brutally strike down and destroy without mercy complexity whenever it shows it’s ugly head. Complexity is the enemy. Learn to recognise it and be merciless in cutting it out.
I've discussed it on HN previously, but out of college I took a position doing development on IBM zOS mainframes writing HLASM and COBOL. When I left that company after two years (around 2014), I was making roughly 75k. The salary bands I saw capped at about 120k. I moved to NYC and joined an A stage startup and instantly was making 110k as a junior working on a rails stack with zero experience. In the following years I'd proceed to continue getting substantial compensation increases, where everyone I know in mainframe land still appears capped ~100-120k.

So, frankly speaking, there is plenty of demand but it does not pay anywhere close to market rate for US based engineers.
Related, for anyone who hasn’t read it Cadillac Desert is a fascinating read about water in the west.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Desert
1. that's not the message of the linked post at all
2. adhd is a disability under the ada. do you ask people in wheelchairs to change as well?
Ask HN: If you cut caffeine, how long would you last at your job?
I'm aware of the almost magical effects caffeine can have on my coding and productivity.

If you stopped taking caffeine (or adderall or whatever other drug that enhances focus)... how long do you think you could continue to do your job effectively. Would you be fired within a month?
Wow Nick Clark in Falls Church, Va! What is it with all the whacky news stories in Fairfax County right now? Isn’t the Johnny Depp trial here too?
The United States made a lot of vast vast vast promises to farmers ~100 years ago they could have oodles of free water in perpetuity & the legal system believes there is no way to ever take back these rights short of paying these users-of-natural-rights dump truck loads of money forever to stop.

(other posters call this calamity by it's legal name, "water rights".)
I'd really encourage you to read up on how stimulants affect people with ADHD. It is quite the opposite of "performance enhancing" that you're implying here.
I'd say it could be a slippery slope. But so can passive aggression. I believe the emotion often leaks out in other ways regardless, whether thru our comments or our distancing or more distrust etc. I guess I believe that articulating it can stop the slope from slipping so much.
Thanks for the link. I've been working in old and/or biggish tech for my 4 years so far, and only recently joined a startup and something about it just deeply works for me. The newness and smallness of it all makes me feel paranoid that if I don't do it, it won't get done, so I've been moving fast and making shit happen instead of what I had been doing, which is relaxing into the good work situation and not learning as much as I could.
I got my first entry level role in tech at 19 in a small city in England and currently have a decent life in the Bay Area at 28. No degree, although I've tried several before remembering I dislike school, and have also taken various certificates in my spare time. Made a good six-figure rate by 26 in the UK, and most importantly I've worked on projects I've found interesting in stacks I've found interesting.

It's definitely possible to do but it's not a quick journey and I think you have to genuinely enjoy programming. As in, if you didn't work in tech, you'd still play with code for fun. Saying this if you do enjoy it I think it's fairly easy to do assuming you take the long slog of a route, focus on experience over salary, and have reasonable expectations at the beginning. Your first job may not be development - it could be IT support, or manual testing, but you start writing code to automate small bits and try move into a developer role after a year or twos experience. FWIW, my first full-time job in 2014 paid 13k GBP (around $16k I think).
Are torrents inefficient?
Can you please stop with the "candy" trope?

Here in the UK, ADHD drugs are controlled substances. They can only be prescribed as by registered psychiatrists as part of ongoing treatment with patient monitoring. There are not enough doctors qualified to do this, and as a result people who need the treatment are facing year-long queues.

Don't get medical advice from TikTok, and don't form an opinion of a mental disorder and its treatment from TikTok either. The "have you tried mental health walk?" thing is as infuriating as cancer patients getting "have you tried essential oils and yoga?"
There's no mutation there; it's just rebinding the name. Rebinding is very different from mutation. It wouldn't be my stylistic choice either but your FP friend wouldn't be complaining about mutation here.
This seems so Twitter. No link to a resource that would even mention a study that says it is 90%, rather than say 10% .

Ok it might be that 90% of YOUR work is integrating poorly documented APIs, then why don't you say so. Or say "I think it may be the case that ...".

This bothers me because I've seen similar Twitter posts being discussed here where the Twitter post is clearly the writer's opinion but presented as a numerical fact.

Is it that people who communicate over Twitter think their opinion is the truth therefore no need to present any (links to) evidence? Does Twitter make people dumb, or just attract dumb people :-)
>semantic accuracy matter more than accessibility,

Is that your opinion or the conclusion of a study I’m unaware of?

>…especially in a world where espitemology is not taught.

Which is an argument to use more accessible language.
Richard Feynman and Ronald Reagan both worked for GE a long time ago. I'm not sure how close in time and space they got.

But it sort of boggled my mind when I realized people who worked there in the 50s saw them more as co-workers than as a Nobel Prize winner and world famous politician. Because that stuff happened in the 60s.
was intel really "disrupted"? The M1 designs aren't available as general CPUs for alternative uses other than on a mac.
> but I just had to wonder why they couldn't make their games 64-bit-ready with 15 years of warning.

First off it wasn't just games. You can't run the old Microsoft Word anymore, for example. Why is this important? The old Word did everything I wanted. The new Word has fewer features than the old one. Also, I already owned the old one. Now I have to buy it again even though the old one was just fine.

For the games, I want to play my 20 year old games. Now I can't unless I fire up an old computer that is not upgraded and not on the internet (because it's horribly insecure). The companies that made those games don't exist anymore. And even if they did, it wouldn't be worth it for them to compile them again.

And on the iPhone I had a ton of awesome kids games. Those companies are also out of business, so again, I can't have the kids play those games unless I use an old insecure phone.

This is one area where Windows shines. For the most part you can still run 40 year old software on Windows.
Sure, agreed, but let's say the buyer doesn't accept on the spot in mere seconds. So no agreement is made on how long the counter is good for. Buyer goes home to check his finances. He comes back an hour later and says, "done deal!"

The seller seems firmly within their rights to say, "Sorry, my counteroffer was good only for 15 minutes."

This might sound silly but market conditions change in minutes and events happen like earthquakes or 9/11. In the absence of an agreed term of expiration I see no reason why a counter is good for any longer than the seller feels like it. Though with written or implied terms it would be totally different (see real estate contract offers for examples).

Am I missing something?
You're right, defining a "disorder" is hardly a boolean question. ADHD has been studying extensively and there is substantial evidence for biological origins. For one, heritability very high, reported to be somewhere between 0.75 and .9, only slightly less than traits such as height.

Significant differences in brain neurophysiology are well-documented in ADHD (vs. non-ADHD people), and show genesis of the condition is multi-factorial. Calling ADHD a "disorder" implies the condition has physiological origins but is not attributable to a narrow/distinct range of factors like a condition termed a "disease" (such as viral illness, etc.).

The issue of diagnosis conceptually reflects a state where "malfunction" and "maladjustment" or "maladaptation" coincide. IOW malfunction is relevant when it's maladaptive, that is lacks fitness to a problem-space. In a computer application a bug (malfunction) can lurk undetected as long as the code containing the error is not invoked. But when some refactoring exposes the bad code to invocation, that code is maladaptive and the result is dysfunction of the application.

An example is an ADHD individual with trouble prioritizing who takes longer than peers to complete tasks. Not a problem when deadlines are minimal. But thrust into a role where timely performance is required risks failure, loss of a job, etc. The individual's malfunction is then maladaptive, which could prompt the person to seek help to mitigate malfunction and improve adaptability to realities of employment.

Consequently there's no across the board right or wrong answer to the "correct" way to regard ADHD characteristics. Also I agree with you that "mental illness" is a misleading term that could profitably be expunged from our vocabulary. However were that to happen the conditions that are labeled as such are still very real and will in many cases continue to need treatment regardless of the labels we apply.
I think it’s easier because while you indeed learn the most common words first, the learning gap between common and non-common words is much lower and the associations in the brain are less developed.

For reference, I got 92.8 and English is my second language.
> The DSM-5 defines a mental disorder as a syndrome that causes significant disturbance in behavior, emotion, and cognition. These disorders are also usually accompanied by significant distress that affects a person's work, school, and social relationships.
That's interesting. How much was 'small'? Was it a constant amount or a royalty that fluctuated?
Why don't you enhance your understanding by, for example, reading the article?

Soil depletion is mentioned, among other things. But it isn't so much a deficiency of nutrients as a disruption of the uptake of those nutrients.

Water is only mentioned in the context of less water being drawn into the plants.

It's left to the reader to guess what you mean by "chemically treat plants[...]" but FWIW the main culprit is selective breeding, not any chemical intervention.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. It's a bit vague. I had dry mouth for a day or so, but got over it pretty quick.

I'm a regular brusher and flosser, for what it's worth.
Wouldn't steer-by-wire that reduce steering feedback even more? Compared to my old (somewhat unreliable) Jetta with hydraulic power steering, every electric steering-assist car I've driven has terrible steering feel, like I'm driving an RC car. I feel so disconnected from the road, as if I'm merely aiming the car rather than actually driving it.
Also just realized part of it is the worry that I'll get downvoted with little to no knowledge of why, which is one thing that bothers me on HN. This "am I playing by the rules" uncertainty, which I even feel as I type this. Is this a meta-comment that breaks some HN rule? Doesn't have enough curiosity?

All that to say there are often platform-specific norms about these things and I rarely see curse words on here.

EDIT: Also, thank you for your words.
You can gauge whether your niche language is, actually, dying by how many of the jobs you can find calling for $niche skills turn out to be to transcribe code from $niche to $mainstream.

That sidesteps the difficulty of counting absolutely how many openings there are, and how many there ought to be
My IANAL answer is that in that case you would not be negotiating in good faith, and both purchasing parties could sue for damages.
Lewis Mumford on the Interstate Highway System in 1958
It’s a pretty random and unrepeatable test.

I think we as a society need to have a profound discussion about averages and how useless they are for understanding people or helping with every day life.
You could design one on blockchain, yes.

I can't really discuss the particular merits of it, though, because this RFC doesn't deign to actually address any of the interesting or difficult parts of enhancing BGP.

It doesn't even talk about what security properties their proposals would support if they had been written - other than 'more secure'.
> ADHD is a physical condition

It sure is not handled like one. If that is the case, then I find it odd that most people get treated by psychiatrist and not neurologist. Also, why are fMRI and other neurological scans not used to diagnosis the illness? It seems to be merely symptom based diagnostics coupled with psychological evaluations.

(I am not saying there are not structural neurological differences.)
Sorry, I meant "getting rid of bread". To be honest, I was snarky at you for suggesting dietary changes instead of talking to a professional. It has very "wow thanks, i'm cured" energy. I won't be snarky in the future.
Ask HN: What utility apps do you wish existed?
This sparks an interest of mine. I want to grow my own garden of fruits and vegetables. I can grab seeds from my local hardware store. But are these genetically the best I can buy? Is there not a genetic strain of seeds that I can buy somewhere else, perhaps online, that produce both the most nutritious and delicious?
> why are we considering making consumers pay for expensive desalinated drinking water instead of diverting snowmelt to drinking water?

Water rights are a thing. In order to divert that water, it would essentially be eminent domain, and you'd have to compensate farmers. It wouldn't just be the dollar amount for wholesale water, it'd be what it does to the value of the land, too. You could see farmland go from $30,000 per acre to $5,000.

There are also second-order economic effects. It could cause a dust bowl-like recession in the central valley. And then you run into all the other crops that are grown there. Expect peaches and melons to double in price.
I think it’s less that these programs aren’t interested in people from typical backgrounds and more that the candidates from alternative paths are more likely to be of diverse backgrounds, so considering those alternative paths (in addition to the classical ones) is a good way to help diversify your hires. I.e they’re expanding the pool rather than pulling from just one source.
"Island" offshore Long Beach. Some are disguised oil wells.
> we experience a length expansion

backwards. we measure contraction
Is it being presented as a numerical fact? I think it's actually fairly clear that this is just the author's opinion and is not meant to be taken literally. In general things I find that signify this include using very round numbers, mentioning it as the title in a longer piece that is clearly just opinion, and not including wording like "research has shown" or "we know that."

That said, it would be great to get some actual data on this. Seems kind of hard to measure though -- while my personal projects do indeed have a good amount of API integration work, I'd find it hard to exactly say what percentage. And how are we even defining an API? Are we including eg a language's standard library?
I went through an entire four-year CS degree and two years of professional work and in that time heard Lisp mentioned exactly once, as a literal historical footnote in a powerpoint slide, as "and there was this weird language with all these parentheses, now, moving on..."

Then I found myself working at a lisp shop and learned a whole lot more about it
Did he choose to coach amateur women because they seemed any easy mark? They wouldn’t know any better?
What about the mechanic working in the proBikeFC shop all those years and now he takes over as owner? What about Nick’s 3 kids? What happened with his wife? Why didn’t Alexium shareholders sue him? Where was he before he appeared out of apparent obscurity?
I almost want to order his book. Weird that no one thought it was odd he didn’t have a single professional race or military picture from those days!
He is still the second largest shareholder of the company he ripped off? So much more to explore here. Maybe it really could be a Netflix series or podcast?
Seems like a great way to have an engineering monoculture, what with all the good old boys at the Ivy Leagues
Considering people with ADHD have a much shorter lifespan, I would disagree. I encourage you to actually look into what medication for those with ADHD looks like before disparaging those who seek treatment.
I did this (within the US the whole time, seems like they were hiring a ton of domestic college grads) and it worked out great. They even flew me out to a paid training program for a month at the beginning, free hotel and breakfast. Worked there a few years then doubled my salary taking the next job.