skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Drugs like Adderall can have distinct adverse effects, like cardiac arrythmias, increased blood pressure, jitteriness, insomnia, anxiety.

Because Adderall is (IMHO) suboptimal. Most of the physical effects come from the 25% levoamphetamine, a primarily physical stimulant.

Other ADHD drugs [1] are 100% dextroamphetamine, which exerts most of its effect in the brain, with minimal physical side effects. D-AMP doesn't increase my blood pressure, doesn't increase my RHR, doesn't cause insomnia nor jitters. It feels smoother than a cup of coffee.

1: then there's methylphenidate, which I've never tried and haven't studied as much.
Sorry to rant about the presentation rather than the content, but this blog is another great example for horribly inaccessible typography.

Unlike other sites I've seen linked on HN this one uses a reasonable body font size of 16px, i.e. the browser default font size. However it uses a font that at 16px renders as the equivalent of the Windows default sans-serif font at 14px.

What's worse, block quotes are rendered at a calculated 13.6px, which makes it the equivalent of the default font at a minute 11px!

I know most HN users will likely not care about this as HN comments are set to a mere 12px (making HN the only site on the web I regularly visit that I have to zoom in to at least 150% to use comfortably) but this just borders on cruelty. It's not even good from an aesthetics point of view as at a fixed width of roughly 30rem (working out to roughly 70 characters per line) the article occupies less than 1/3rd of the screen.

There's clearly some intent behind the design as it uses a non-standard font and makes other seemingly deliberate choices but every choice seemingly just compounded on making the site harder to look at.
I like being able to want something, come up with a solution, do it and use it. Most of it isn't novel but that feeling when you get it to work is great.
Back in the days, my students gaming group organised "one-shot" weekends. One session, 4hrs or so, story finished. Repeat 4 times, weekend done.

It was great fun and a great way to get exposure to new (to us) systems. I can't imagine the wacky hijinks of Toon in another way now. Or starting a session of Munchausen at 2 in the morning - with a whisky, because, you know, Munchausen. There was also serious stuff: Star Wars d6, of course the Empire knew about the trench run and had taken precautions! So while Han & Luke were freeing Leia, we were out to sabotage those countermeasures. I even got Kenobi's light saber out of it.

Highly recommended to those who can afford a while weekend like that.
No, I brought it up specifically because they were specifically told not to do that and signed the NDA. He was heavily criticized by other members of congress for endangering Zelensky.
If you replace 'fuck' with 'procreate' or 'fornicate', it should be more polite: Oh procreation, what have you done now?

However, as Hollywood managed to promote 'fuck' as a generic expletive with no meaning, these are actually less polite, as they emphasis the meaning that was gone.

I also wonder why people write f*ck. If you want to swear, do it. If you want to be polite, don't do it. If a censoring system won't let you use fuck, be more creative. F*ck with a star just seems to say you're a pushover.
I am not about to write out the equivalent of "Hello world!" for legal citations and the various laws as they apply to private sale vs an entity recognized as a business or merchant with established conventions. This entire thread, other than the rare statements by actual laywers (who have a learned opinion on the matter, but probably lack a lot of context without reading the actual filings) is armchair lawyering of coulda-woulda-shoulda. I happen to be one of those armchair lawyers, with a lot of law classes to back up my reasoning, but still not a paid up member of the legal profession. I stated a number of points that can be verified by anyone with a legal background, which you seem to have at least a modicum of. I hedged my bets by stating "this varies by state."

It appears to be a very clear case of a business' legal team overreaching what constitutes an agreement of sale in the hopes of either scaring the owner of the asset, or swaying opinion enough to have a judge side with them. I suspect they will not prevail in their initial filing, and then they will argue for domain squatting. I doubt this will end amicably for either party.

> you need to cite some authorities on

P.S. I don't need to do shit.
Here in the Netherlands it's your legal right to work less hours for the same pay (per hour). In my company, the largest ISP, lots of people work either 32 hours, 36 (4x9) or something else. A standard contract at our company is 36 hours. Meaning every other Friday off by default.

So I think finding a job in the Netherlands would be a good start.
Rails provided many of those things. I believe Django does. Meteor used to provide many of tbem
The job I want is unset hours. I have a terrible sleep pattern.

I know what the job is (no job) but have to get there.
Ask HN: Learn C++11 or Rust in 2022?
Python/Golang/C (ye, C) day-to-day job here.

I am interested in either updating myself on (C++11>) or going the Rust way. I see a lot of criticism/hate of C++ lately (mostly due to the comittee), but the tooling and libraries are there for multiple areas.

Rust is also interesting to me from a security standpoint.

So I don't really have time to invest in both languages; any directions?
Dev tools are hot currently, VCs like it. That could be a reason
Drawing Multiple Sprites of a Water Tank
An attempt was made: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30463632
Yes this is the case.
This person sounds like they have an outstanding work ethic, and the ability to quickly adapt, combined with the capacity to play the long game (sacrifice today, for gains tomorrow).

That will buy you success, no matter the industry. It’s kind of amazing what self-discipline and delayed gratification buys you.

As a hiring manager, I looked for exactly the type of thing this person did. They would have definitely been someone I would have hired. I had an interesting team.

I have no opinions on bootcamps. I’m a high school dropout with a GED, along with a redneck technician school, and whole lot of short seminars and individual classes (but no college). I did OK.

I did attend a one-week “bootcamp” for ObjC iOS programming, once (Big Nerd Ranch), but that was a very different thing from something like Flatiron School. It was a “springboard.”

> I was a jazz pianist in a restaurant in my teens.

I have known many musicians in the industry (I was one). I think musical aptitude is probably a good indicator of software development aptitude.

Not to mention, working a tough gig, in your teens.
My setting is live from the mid 90s. I've stayed in the same town, so hasn't had the same complications of his moves. We've got nearly 400 years of in campaign history. We've migrated through a lot of systems (currently PF2E). Its something I'm proud of, and its always pleasant when non RP nights end up with others talking of epic moments in our games from over the years.
Friends who've sadly past are immortalised through the deeds of their characters as well, obviously not to take anything from their RL activities but its nice to speak of those who've moved on from the real world, whose exist as NPCs
I use it on buttons that do things. Whether as part of the button or button goes lighter/hover over it with wait cursor (has spinner).
Hello, we have people working 3 or 4-day work weeks at Dashdoc. We're in France and Belgium for now, hiring software engineers!

https://dashdoc.welcomekit.co/companies/dashdoc/jobs/full-st...
Ipe is to my mind the rightful moral heir to Xfig. Love both for their support for latex.
Many if not all of the oil wells were there long before the people were - so it's more of a "hide existing infrastructure" than "random oil well out of freaking nowhere" being hidden.

As people move in and out of the area that knowledge is lost; so new inhabitants may be surprised to find that they're right next to a rig.
they still were the best machines imo. Have to give them some credit. build quality was always top notch and it was “just” the keyboard that ended up having too high failure rates, and very meh typing experience.

it’s not like the machines were dumpster fires. I think we are too harsh sometimes.

but yes obviously the keyboard sucked and i hated that part of the laptop.

otherwise it was as good of a machine. great even. slimness is still nice in a laptop - it still performed as good as any other laptop I considered. 4x USBc was a great move too, especially charging from either side.

So undoubtedly new ones are better. but we are overly harsh on that era and Ive.

it’s not like he was the only one in on the keyboard decision either. Apple thought the keyboard was a competitive advantage at first!
I think people massively underestimate “being in the right place at the right time” factor in their lives.

My current job - company gets big contract m, desperately needs to scale up. I was fed up with previous job, and just happened to have used Django. Got headhunted and got a huge pay rise. Got to company to find that they literally couldn’t find Django developers for love nor money locally. I’d only really taken on a tiny side project in the last job - had I not used it, they probably wouldn’t have been interested in me here.
Usually/makes sense to prorate them so you only get 4/5 of themif you work Mondays, or get an extra 4/5 of them days holiday if you don't.

In the UK this would be required if you're only offered the statutory minimum (which is also prorated) leave, since you don't have to be offered the bank holidays but have to then have as many days extra (just not on guaranteed dates).
I would say a large proportion of top chemical/materials science papers are also drawn in only powerpoint (besides data, where origin>matlab>excel).
Five Elements of High-Quality Software
okay, i think we understand each other. It's an interesting thought experiment. And you're right that probably the majority of Clojure libs do involve interop. Thanks for taking the time to write :)
Such an interesting concept to try to approach. I am in the process of open-sourcing my iMessage API (sendblue.co) - any advice?

Could probably swap out the SMS piece, at least partially, with Sendblue for now.
It's far more flexible than SML. I'd pick Racket over SML for production use any day of the week. (And I have indeed shipped code in both SML and Racket.)
> First jobs’ the hardest — once you’re in, you’re in. A mere 4~ years and 4 jobs later I now make 175,000 dollars as a senior software engineer.

Congrats! You earn more than me after 10 years of experience and a bachelor and masters degree (Computer Science) in Western Europe (my current salary is: 95K eur gross/year)
What is their business model? How could you possibly make money creating a new terminal?
Stm32F429 – Keil projects and libraries for stm32f4xx devices
Yeah, it's not always fun :P

There are some projects that try to be partial dependency "package" managers for mingw, but for whatever reason I never really used them, so I cannot comment on how well they work and how up-to-date they are kept.

I guess, I just like fighting with the interwoven mess of build-systems and dependencies sometimes (and really, I don't spend more than maybe 1 or 2 hours a month on that)... a bit like people doing linux-from-scratch, except probably less time consuming than building an entire kernel and userland step-by-step.
As a senior software engineer in Sweden (.net stack) working in finance, 175k sounds amazing. Here we make around 70k/year. Getting a remote job is starting to look very appealing…
Thanks for your examples, a lot of that really hits home, especially the stimulants. I have been trying to figure out why I can't quite function without caffeine, not in a get a headache and feel sleepy sort of way, but that without it I feel really listless and almost depressed.
> Intel's margins are strongest on servers

Not anymore.

Intel CCG is at 9.3b revenue/2.8b profit this quarter (30% operational margin).
Intel DCG is at 6b revenue/1.7b profit this quarter (28% operational margin).
I was fortunate to make this jump too. I still remember mopping the floor at some restaurant listening to my podcasts (dev/entrepreneur related). Eventually made it. Still poor atm (personal choices) but definitely at a better place opportunity wise.
is this ad-free? how is this similar/better than say

https://github.com/Shabinder/SpotiFlyer

or

https://github.com/Harsh-23/Musify
The thing is that last D. A mental difference is not necessarily a disorder. That depends on severity and extrinsic factors.

E.g. there are cultures where punctuality is not really a thing. I'm not saying we don't gain many benefits from a culture of punctuality and reliability, or that one would necessarily want to live in one of these cultures. I'm just expanding on the author's point about extrinsic factors. Difference can often be a disorder, but difference is not equal to disorder.
I thought this thing was amazing regarding no battery.
But have any of the issues the article addresses been smoothed out?

The guy basically built a whole macro layer to make inkscape less clunky
> I wish more linux laptops had the build quality and support of macbooks

I'm glad my "Linux laptops" are very much not like those macbooks with their glue and solder and "no user-serviceable parts inside (and we really mean it)"

> This isn't a rant from an Apple fan, this is a rant from a laptop fan. ThinkPad's aren't good laptops despite what the guy with the pocket protector says. They are flimsy and feel cheap. They still have 20th century tech (eraser mouse, c'mon!). They are my grandfather's laptop.

The good thing with those machines is that you'll be able to keep on using your grandfather's laptop while those whose grandfathers opted for macbooks are left wanting. I'm using a T42p from 2005, apart from putting in an SSD I have not changed the thing. It was, and still is, a perfectly useable tool.
The thing is, you cannot harden it even more. If Apple Almighty hasn’t thought about your use case, it may as well not exist. There are two modes: either Apple nannying your systems like the overly attached yiddishe mame, or a mad ex breaking up with you, but also ripping out the locks from your doors before they go.

Which is my freaking point exactly: you are being constantly reminded that despite having paid mad bucks for the hardware, Apple still owns it, snooping over your shoulder, giving you slaps on the hand if you dare „misuse” what they gave you.
Terrible agony: Wait for when you have kids.
Just want to support this response. I work 32 hours as a contractor, it should not be and issue in NL. The 100% remote part may in practice be more of a challenge than working 32 hours.

For others: That extra day off means less income, but to me the value of that extra day off is almost incalculable.
Australia and America are different in this regard. In the US, social life is optimized around making money. That's not because we're individually more materialistic than anyone else--I don't know if that's true--but because we have to think and operate that way to survive.

Long before 21, genuine serendipity and mutual interest fall away and cynical "networking" takes over. I'd say the transition happens, on average, around sophomore year. Once people get their first experiences with the working world, they realize how much social class really matters and will do everything they can not to lose ground in the shuffle.

The higher (or lower, since it's the middle class that has the longest period of class naivete) you go in social class, the earlier this transition happens. It's why you don't actually as many connections, if you don't come from wealth, at an elite college as people think you do. The legacy mediocrities (e.g., final club brats) and the middle-class smart kids who actually earned their way in don't mix. If you're going to make connections in the US, you have to do so before class/caste identity really hardens and they learn to see you as an enemy; that's in prep school.
From Write-Ahead Log to LSM-Tree to LSM-Forest in 10 Minutes
I'm interested in what the fly.io would cost if you didn't work there.

I got a fly app and can't proxy it through cloudflare cause that doesn't work.
The Strangest Encounters with UAP We’ve Found in the FAA’s Database (2021)
I think this was a very bad faith take. Try to spread some positivity!
So what was it? My money would be on (in order): Wal, logs, unexpected indices growth.
I haven't noticed them, could someone post links?
As a forever DM, I'm impressed by this guy's fortitude. Coming up with an interesting session can take a good deal of time. In my experience, the amount of prep time you need is at least half of what the length of the session is. Of course, modules can help a ton, and there's a lot of tools available these days to procedurally generate the hard parts. Still, many of those didn't exist until recently, for the most part. This guy had to have spent countless hours on his own building out this world. It's an inspiration, really.
Virtual communication curbs creative idea generation – Nature
It can be simultaneously true that ADHD is over-diagnosed (in some cultures), and also that people can benefit from treating what we currently understand as/call ADHD.

It can be simultaneously true that ADHD has no positive consequences for some people, whereas it brings benefits (or is correlated to beneficial traits) in other people.
> Maybe I can make that happen.

The most surefire way to achieve that is to move into a large, new housing project, but these are rare nowadays and usually work-related.

My grandparents moved in their early 20s from their village to a whole damn city district built specifically to accommodate workers(along with their families) employed in a newly built steel mill.

Everyone was roughly the same age and had children at the same time.

To this day I think it's the single thing communism got right.

I spent the first years of my life living in an apartment complex for university employees, because that was my father's line of work back then.
As much as I love zero-configuration software, it seems implausible to do it for C/C++ as anything other than a gimmick. Even a simple program may need to link against a library or two to pull in some APIs unless absolutely every single function you use is in libc and it gets linked by default. If you want to target multiple platforms it gets worse because you may need things like per-platform defines set by the build system or per-platform .c/.h selection. Once you approach that level of complexity you should strongly consider just using existing build ecosystems like cmake - not because they're pleasant, but because the people maintaining them have identified a lot of the sharp edges that you're going to run into.

The performance of builds with this seems like it could also scale badly once your app gets big enough, since it doesn't seem to do incremental builds or avoid re-building individual .c files if a source file and its dependencies (headers) haven't changed.

Seems handy if you just want to fiddle around with a .c and .h file pair without writing a makefile, though!
Microsoft Joins the Open 3D Foundation for Advancing Open-Source 3D Development
Without reading the book, did you ever reach an answer? In my understanding, wheats and carbs were never optimal for us but if you are a starving medieval peasant on a bread or rice diet, you have worse things to worry about.
The fact that someone would write this on a blog give me the sense that he/she is over analysing this dating thing. Analysis works for accounting and engineering, it does not work for dating. So stop analysing and go have some fun in life.
The Open 3D Foundation Welcomes Microsoft
Nice work! On using tikz for vector graphics, I use it mostly for technical presentations. I'm terribly slow and abysmal at writing tikz code, but still I was hell-bent on using it—just because of the clean and smooth melding of text and diagrams. I should really look at other tools to save time. I can't justify spending so much time mucking around with tikz anymore.
Got a link? I'd love to read it.
O3D Foundation
How to Use Xpra to Run Linux Applications Remotely
Not being in need of this solution space, but interested in the massive dynamic shift from my time across the 70s and 80s.

I don't think modern dating is nice. I don't just think that's technophobic thinking, I think it's too introspective and risky.

Things were different when it was landline phone calls and note passing. We were less concerned to be helped by friends, it was normal. Nowadays there is a strong tendency to keep relationships private until ready.

"Warts and all" is hard through a lens.
I dare to say that all three examples - depression, adhd and homosexual orientation - have in common, that they lead to questions about identity.

How come that we try to create AI with NNs and billions of funding, but we don't pay the same amount of attention towards understanding the foundations of our own thinking?
Ich bin als Tochter mit einer narzistischen Mutter aufgewachsen. Ich weiß was das bedeutet einen Münchhausen Menschen erleben und ertragen zu müssen. Der Narzist ist widerlich, erbärmlich und auch sehr gefährlich für die Psyche seiner Opfer! Ich habe dadurch sensible Antennen für Lügner und Möchtegerns entwickelt, aber musste dafür auch viele leidvolle Erfahrungen sammeln. Heute laufe ich so schnell ich kann, bevor mich ein narzistisches Wesen nochmal in seine selbstbemitleidende, kontrollierende Hände bekommt!
ignorance is never the superior tactic
The article was well written but I think it falls victim to bubble of anecdata in the dating and social media world online.

What I mean is the people online who are dating and talking about dating online are more likely to be experience the agony of Eros. Than those who are dating or in a relationship but not sharing about it online. Sort of like a signal to noise ratio that is highly squeued towards the love fails than love wins.

Love will never be solved, regardless of classical theories or modern day ones. Just go for it and don't think to much about the theoretical
This happens all the time, property gets seized at the merest suspicion of crime (whether or not it was actually prosecuted) and is often not returned. Jon Oliver did a piece on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks
And to Europeans, the price of our beer (especially in major cities) is also often shocking. They wanted $5 for a pint! ;)
India and Pakistan swelter in 'unprecedented' heatwave
That should be rather easily doable but finding a company obviously depends on what you're looking for. Most likely you're in Software Engineering? If so, with which preferences and specialities?

Here at SumUp we're hiring fully remotely across the EU and most teams are very flexible regarding the working hours. A 4-day week should be easily doable and I've personally done that before.

Contact me via my email address in my profile and I'm happy to connect you with the best matching team.
Does Evolution Estimate Gradients?
We expect more from our partners than ever before—we want them to be our true love, our best friend, our coparenting partner, and the person we combine our finances with.

Curious what is their idea of 'before'. Unless they mean pre-industrial societies.
There is one but I'm scared that the HN Gods will forever curse my account if I post the word "bad" and the name of that terminal here in the same sentence.
Important to know Europe doesn't calculate time offs like the US does. In the US, if you take 4 weeks off, it's 20 days PTO. In Europe it's 28-30.
Redis. The interface is quickly obvious using telnet (which makes all clients pretty obvious). The documentation is both succinct and complete. All operations are listed with their big-O notation.