skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the DSM, the way you get identified as having ADHD is by reporting persistent executive function (esp. for inattentive type) and/or impulsivity-hyperactivity problems [0]. Most people grow out of the H-type symptoms as they mature but I is more persistent and suspected to be less diagnosed[1]. What I mean is that anybody who thinks they have executive function problems likely does.

Yeah, hyperfocus is a symptom of ADHD proper. But if you're unmedicated, for most people it's not something you can control - if you could, it wouldn't really be a disorder at all. I was responding specifically to the following paragraph:

"Until I got to college I didn't understand how people could spend hours a day “studying”. When I got there I found out. When my first-year hallmates were “studying” they were looking out the window, playing with their pencils, talking to their roommates, all sorts of stuff that wasn't studying. When I needed to study I would hide somewhere and study. I think the ability to focus on just one thing for a few hours at a time is a great gift that ADD has given me."

That's pretty much exactly what it feels like to take adderall. For me taking stimulants like adderall allows me to force focus even on stuff I don't care much about/even when I don't normally feel like it. And yes, this is exactly the way people without ADHD feel too (as you mention - even if you don't have ADHD, you can still focus on-task for a long time and feel smart as fuck).

What you mention about dopaminergic stimulants only actually benefitting people with ADHD is likely an oversimplification. To meet the DSM criteria (and thus, in most clinical settings, to get diagnosed with ADHD-I) you just need persistent problems focusing. Hence my overall point that anybody that thinks they have trouble focusing should be able to just take adderall. ADHD is a spectrum and not a binary condition anyway. You can meet 4 DSM criteria and remain untreated, or meet 5 DSM criteria and take 60mg of amphetamine every day.

The "propaganda" is that ADHD is this cut-and-dry binary condition where people with ADHD who take dopaminergic stimulants totally don't get high (go on /r/ADHD and read any post about someone taking medicine for the first time), hyperfocus/tunnel-vision (ie "bad hyperfocus"), chatty, irritiable, or have trouble sleeping. And conversely that people without ADHD who take dopaminergic stimulants will only masturbate, stay up late, dance at a club, or take apart their neighbor's lawnmower. When in reality this is mostly set, setting, conditioning, dose, habits, tolerance, dose metering, and expectations.

And as a consequence of this propaganda, mostly because some people benefit a lot from taking dopaminergic stimulants but they also get you high and our society moralizes against that, plenty of people who don't meet the formal requirements for ADHD under the DSM, are subclinical or at the threshold of being clinical, can't afford a $100 copay every 2-4 weeks, or don't have the executive function to seek treatment remain untreated.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/diagnosis.html

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3441936/
Perhaps a noisemaker that emits a continuous cavalcade of decoy fart sounds?
> If you stopped taking caffeine (or adderall or whatever other drug that enhances focus).

I'd just like to point out that it's QUITE a large step up from an innocent cup of coffee to pharmaceutical grade amphetamines. Also the side effects of stopping one vs the other can be vastly different, and one is often taken as a medical necessity while the other is just a luxury.

Personally if I stopped caffeine for a while, I know from experience I'd be headache-y and irritable for a day or two then I'd feel fine pretty soon after. Definitely wouldn't impact my job unless I chose to do it during workdays, but even then I don't feel like it would be more than what I could solve with some Panadol and water.
To me, an issue implies “please do this”, whereas a PR implies “I'm going to do it myself, just tell me if you're going to accept it”.
This may not exactly be the answer you are looking for, but Red Hat (my employer) has 4wd employees, even in my current team. Depending on the team, you may be able to negotiate a 4 day workweek without problems. However, you'd have to reside in a country where RH has an office. I have been at previous companies too where negotiating a shorter workweek was not a problem.
Use fast data algorithms (2021)
I've worked with developing new features and maintaining existing code. Never worked on migrating away from cobol.
> Does Cloudwatch confirm that RDS "needed" to scale?

Actually you pointed out to a clue that I missed. I should have checked cloud watch!

The free space graphs shows that at some point something got the 200 GB of space that we originally assigned.

This is a good clue that I am going to dig in.

Thanks for your feedback!

EDIT: Cloudwatch metrics in RDS has been the key to find the source of the issue.
For the second, https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/6662#issuecomment... is the right solution and I will try to have it documented. Unfortunately, clang disagrees that it's the right solution and meson might have to hack something around that disagreement.

Thanks for the report!
If that means that there will be no check in advance for printf: hell yes.

Perhaps the error printing during a parallel build could also be improved somehow.
The problem with how Apple is treating FOSS apps is in that it’s using scary messages like „this could be a dangerous malware!” every time, all the time, if you want to distribute your software without paying Apple for what amounts to protection racket.

Which leads to two outcomes: either you learn to right click everything and one day it’s going to be malware, too, or you „spctl --master-disable” and make the system turn a blind eye, and a drive-by zero-click kind of malware finds its way in.

Or, if you are not really familiar with intricacies of software distribution in Apple’s ecosystem, there’s a third outcome: you believe Apple and for you, all FOSS is dangerous malware.

Mind you, UAC nagging on Windows has the same problem, and sudo conditions you into just giving your computer password away left and right. I don’t know if a good solution exists, except maybe that you have to learn to not let your guard down in certain situations.
I find power in art through reflection more than immediate action. A lot of how we perceive the past and the lessons to be learned from it are reading a historical account. Seeing an accompanying art piece that makes the text come alive. In the Vietnam example, the Napalm Girl photograph speaks to the horrors of chemical warfare in a way that is immediately palpable. Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen gives an honest account of the nihilism of war veterans in a way that's otherwise hard to explain to teenagers. Without this media, the war would not have the same visceral nature to a millenial like myself, who had not lived through the experience.
This is my experience with using React Native. I commented on it recently in another context, which was that my team of relatively competent people had a surprisingly hard time keeping the build and deployment pipeline happy. It was a lot of overhead. We essentially had to live with knowing we had low confidence in it, and there wasn’t much to do about it.

Anyway, the actual end result was impressive for how much code we were able to reuse, we were able to build it pretty quickly, etc.

But it wasn’t that great in a number of more subtle ways, like in terms of usability as you mention. Accessibility features were missing in some cases. Various behaviours didn’t match the OS quite right, and we couldn’t easily find ways to make it happen. Text handling of all things was extremely convoluted and hard to get right.

You’re right that it suits cases where you want a skin over a more complex back end service. But even then, I’m not convinced it isn’t worth learning to build with native tools.

We’re obsessed with saving time. Every team I’ve worked on that tried to save time was just saving time to build more stuff with corners being cut. It’s rarely actually worth it. Make a few things, do it well, and I bet you’ll see better results than if you build 100 shitty things.

I’m not particularly successful in software so who knows, I’m certainly not an authority.
i don't understand any of the points you are trying to make. it's great you can cope, either you don't have ADHD or you found ways to deal with it, but others are not you. people with ADHD struggle greatly and in a diversity of ways. a lot of people can adapt and integrate in work/social life/school way better on medication, and studies have shown the concentration and focus have increased measured cognitive benefits.

people with ADHD have decreased function of neurotransmitter activity for dopamine and norepinephrine, which is proven. i don't doubt that the future of medication will be more controlled or targeted, as we understand more, but your idea that a lack of understanding means the drugs aren't appropriate, or that ADHD isn't a disorder is basically the same thing as saying "we don't know why people consciousness exists so why bother studying it".

i personally had issues since i was not medicated for quite a number of years, mostly social and behavioural. i never was unintelligent, just had a lot of trouble focusing on tasks, prioritising, and having things in order. the pandemic and work-from-home were very hard for me, and taking stimulants again has literally opened my eyes and removed the fog of inaction. in just a few weeks i've seen huge improvements in my mood, happiness, work effectiveness, and focus, as well as thoughtfulness in conversation.

not everyone responds well to drugs, and people can cope in various ways at varying times, but that doesn't mean we should throw decades of proven methods out the window and cancel the disorder entirely. if we were only hunter-gatherers maybe it wouldn't matter, but we quite literally live in a society that demands an exceeding amount of effort 100% of the time to be successful
The title is highly editorialized (by the news agency/Reuters), and the article reads like something from a content farm - which I suppose is what a lot of smaller newspapers are. There's a vague attribution to "municipal authorities" for the "highly toxic" part of the title, even though "The municipality ... did not immediately respond to a request for comment." Later the article reveals that according to the company's claims "toxicity testing of April 11 showed extremely low levels of marine toxicity, capable of being completely neutralized by dilution." - so it's at the very least a contested claim, and yet used prominently just so that they can sensationalize the title.

Also,

> The key part of the article :
> "Looters set fire to a UPL warehouse containing the pesticides during a wave of looting and arson in July last year.

The warehouse (and the looting) was in South Africa, which wasn't clear to me on the first read through.
My point is, their are both so complicated because they are built around the idea of routine use without GC. Yes you can optionally have GC but it’s like saying you can tow a car. Yes you can, but the whole point of a car is to be self-propelled.
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China has its own nuclear arsenal with about 400 active warheads (compared to about 1500 for the US and just over 2000 for Russia). China could easily make more if they wanted to, but for now the official Chinese doctrine is deterrent only / no first use.

Furthermore the haphazard use of the nuclear threat has never actually been a cause for sanctions, nor for that matter has it been a threat that yields concessions. China doesn't need Russia to threaten to melt the world over some Pacific Islands or for calling Taiwan a country or whatever. The threats not credible.
I like the look of Nim, but it is GC based so not quite what I’m musing about here.
> Also reached out to you via email

Perfect. Let's chat via mail about drawing lines ;)
> At first, it was Gatekeeper. Yeah, appeared in 10.8. Then notarization. Now, on M1 you need to sign your binaries ad-hoc or they won't run. Custom kernel extensions? No way.

I don’t know, from my experience just building and running works fine. As hoc signing is something the tool chain does. I don’t write kernel extensions so I cannot really comment on those (though I have a couple of them installed as a user and there was no significant hassle). The worst annoyance I’ve seen is having to authenticate every now and then to attach a debugger to a process.

> there's some sacred knowledge that you should be in possession of, and update it every year for $99, so that you can program your computer.

Programming your own computer has no red tape, the difficulties start when you want to distribute binaries, if you don’t want your users to have to right-click once. You can get compilers and things from xCode, Homebrew or MacPorts and they work without you having to pay anything.

> I like the pure Unix approach more, when the line between using the computer and programming it doesn't really exist, and where the system is basically your IDE too, and where you're going from being a user to being a programmer and back without really noticing. Mind you, it doesn't mean you have to go from one to the other, but when you want/need to, it's damn frictionless, and the system is as malleable as you want it to be.

Yes, it’s nice. But my ose of MacOS and Linux are not very different in that regard (true, I spent quite a bit of time customising xfce, which was fun). Also, to be a bit realistic it does not really work with end users in general. For a mass market OS, the fewer footguns the better.
> I don’t think the analysis is any less credible and it is certainly worth the hour it takes to read.

I think that changes how one would interpret the later section rather than earlier ones.
I don't know what to say except that the death penalty is too light a sentence for government agents guilty of offenses like that.
It’s probably psychological, but I always perceive skeletons as slow. Maybe because mainly slow-loading sites like new reddit or facebook use them?

But now that I think about it, I also see them for payment forms, where the loading time is usually short. Thinking more about it, I think they annoy me because they fake having loaded something useful. But there is no interaction yet, nothing I can do. A spinner is truthful, a skeleton is a lie. Interesting, I had never thought about this before ;)
In the same space, but looking somehow more mature, and based on Freeswitch as its voice core: https://www.jambonz.org/ - it is available as a standalone project or a managed cloud (for small apps, a quick test, or prototyping).

My company is starting to use it. Dave is super helpful, and it handles SMS.
> there is more slack in the labor market.

Is it the slack? Or is it the fact that US-based companies have much more to offer this pool than they can offer the comparable group in the US. In particular, much higher pay than locally available and the prestige of working for a US firm.
At Bumble we have:

- an unlimited PTO (you'd have to explain going beyond, say, 4 weeks, but otherwise working)

- mandatory 2 payed weeks off (1 in December and 1 in Jun)

- mostly remote using the "office-hub" model, only requiring presence when necessary

- every 2 weeks there something we call a Focus Friday, when nobody can contact you and you are free to concentrate on things you want to work on.

This covers all offices, i.e. Texas, UK, Spain.

Pretty comfortable, I'd say. I don't feel I need more time to restore some energy.
I am responding specifically to some of the paragraphs in the essay where the author mentions working non-stop for hours straight on something in a quiet room, while their peers who were "studying" were spending some of that time chatting or bothered by some distraction.

Without medication, at least for me and I suspect almost all other people, hyperfocus is something that comes and goes at random and is rarely centered on what it should be (even if I do find it interesting, like real analysis coursework). But even regular people hyperfocus when they take adderall.
Have a look into Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome to see if it rings any bells for you.

(source: I am diagnosed with type 3 and can relate to many of the things in your story)
I've been a sucker for Razer mouses for about 15 years. using Viper Mini right now
Open proxies? I heard about this more than a decade ago, but why would anybody in 2022 run an open proxy? Or are these open proxies unintentional, i.e. misconfigured?
95.14 in less than 3 minutes.

Eucalyptus, Zircon, Pistol, clay, anarchy, ovaries, interface, noodle, octopus, fan.

The process in my head was more or less mental navigation of the world + filtering. The problem with random search over our vocabulary is that our recall is highly correlated so to find something that is very unrelated we need to go through 5+ mental hops. Given sufficient working memory, it is feasible.

Sex also matters, in this case, I exploited my visuospatial abilities to become passthrough and walk through the world quickly to observe as many items as possible, with the idea being that given sufficient exploration, I'd find things that are uncorrelated.

Somebody whose primary sex hormone is oestrogen will have better odds of doing what I described 2 paragraphs above since their language centre sees far more activations than mine.

I had tried this task before, and the highest score I have gotten was around 110.
Jambonz: Open-source CPaaS built for communications service providers
> A 4-day work week usually means that a work week is reduced from 40 to 32 hours without a loss of compensation.

Is that what's being discussed here? My mind immediately went to a 4 10s situation (which, while not the norm, is fairly common in the US).
Yeah I feel like something was definitely up with RDS, or at least this event is suspicious enough to warrant further investigation. Step one is definitely get all your "evidence" together - CloudWatch screenshots, logs, maybe cloudtrail etc. and then double check there's nothing you missed or any boo-boos in the scripts or data.

Either way, definitely mention your support interaction to your account manager if you have one, from how you've described it this was a pretty poor interaction especially if you're paying for Business support. If it's definitely not something you caused, I would also ask them to escalate the issue and get you an explanation as to why RDS did what it did.
there are no longterm effects of amphetamine use at therapeutic dosages, that's fake news.

i hate capitalism as much as the next guy (i'm literally a socialist) but i still want to be successful, have healthy relationships, plan events in my life appropriately, and not let people down by inaction, forgetfulness, or social outbursts.

fwiw i'm hugely successful and was even without medication excelling in my field and have contributed to world-changing projects. but i still was frustrated about my utility, my actions in social situations, and the issues i had with executive dysfunction.

i don't fit any mold, and could give less than two shits about "fitting in" in the general sense, but i still want to create good works, build a career, and especially do things like raise a family and enjoy my time with others. and all of those things are domains where ADHD has an effect, and where medication helps.

i've been on-and-off medicated, and there is 100% a utility in it for some.
> Why are fertilizer prices rising?

Supply chain issues, logistics problems, and high demand lead to rising prices which lead the largest exporter of phosphate fertilizer, China, to halt exports to protect domestic supply. Russia is the biggest exporter of potassium fertilizer.
Was Leonardo da Vinci not an artist when he drew the Vitruvian Man? Were all Renaissance sculptors and painters for that matter not artists, since they were copying the Greco-Roman style? Are script-writers of House of Cards not artists due to writing a Shakespearean play? Is George Lucas not an artist because he did not make anyone question what art is?

> Duchamp also said "Art is either plagiarism or revolution". So unless you are doing Greco-Roman statuary in a manner that shatters people's expectations of Greco-Roman statuary, your statues are a jejune copy of what has come before -- and therefore not art.

Here is a contradiction. First plagiarism is listed as an example of art, to then be described as "not art". Also, I think that art which sticks to established understanding of what art is isn't necessarily plagiarism. Just because there were plenty of standard 3-act structured plays/films, does not mean that subsequent attempts are plagiaristic. Otherwise art would be castrated to just form, when in fact it is a marriage of form and substance.

I think this fixation on "subverting expectations" comes from self-centredness of some artists. Maybe if you dedicate your whole life to just art, you don't have other experiences to draw from to create something about more than art itself. And so art becomes a simulacrum.
Considering I got >95 on my first try and I have been frequently told that I find obscure associations, I think it is.
The problem is the android game ecosystem- a lot of the “higher end” mobile games are for iOS (I moved from android to iOS and back several times and it was always easier to find games on iPhone).
Always impressed with Palantir's software.
Thank you for your comment, for the insight and ! It's been extremely hard to basically "debate" or "convince" my psychiatrist that Ritalin and Vyvanse make my anxiety so much worse.
I also want to mention that I'm in my 20s so I've been scared that taking a "cocktail of medication" might affect my life in the future.
My psychiatrist has basically been trying to convince me that I should have more self-esteem, should reduce stressful situations and that when it comes to medication there are no other options. I will bring up your suggestions in my next session.
Possibly very interesting (production usage at WA sounds rather interesting) but it really does not say much.
The argument behind this test is that the words we generate are highly correlated, and therefore a person who is capable of generating a diverse set of words also exhibits diverging train of thought.
"life is hard for everyone" for you means that we shouldn't give people mental health? if people have recognised diagnoses they are entirely entitled to treatment. whether it's "i can't sleep enough" to "i'm gay and feel like my relationship with my family has struggled" to "i have a fear of airplanes" to "i can't focus and sit still".

even if there is no true neurotypical brain, the fact is that an overwhelming number (hundreds of millions of people) don't ever question their mental state or life and have no problem doing ANYTHING they want. and then there are people who struggle and ask for help.

it's pretty demeaning to belittle mental conditions as "just something everyone has" tbh
I also have ADHD and suffered my entire school and university years due to it. I have used every medication there is for it. I recommend everyone to take up meditation. Even 5 minutes a day is good. Im not saying quit your normal medication etc, just meditate for 5 minutes a day, every day. It will make a difference like day and night.