skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some perspective from someone like your family member. ~2 years ago I self-diagnosed with ADHD and paid for a private assessment. I learnt everything about it before being assessed and therefore knew exactly how to respond, and was put on a prescription for methylphenidate.

The reason I went looking for the diagnosis was 10+ years of utter misery. I had been on various treatments for depression & anxiety, but found them minimally effective. I was getting by but was pretty apathetic about life. Over the years I'd investigated various other mental illnesses, but never came across one that seemed to fit me. I came across ADHD purely by chance, when an acquaintance was diagnosed and I looked it up. Previously I had probably ignored it assuming that it was just for hyperactive kids.

This one did seem to fit, and frankly I was desperate. The though of a pill that could actually fix some of my issues made it worth a try at the very least.

For the past two years I've been happier than any other time in my life that I can remember. Life was just easier. The most telling point for me was when I realised that I was no longer apathetic about life, I actively wanted to live, I had things that I wanted to do, goals to achieve - and I was actually able to do them.

I don't know if I actually have ADHD, I still question the diagnosis. It worries me sometimes that maybe I don't have it and that instead I'm just not very good at life. The truth is that it doesn't really matter, the diagnosis and treatment worked - If I payed for a placebo I don't really care.

Perhaps your family member is the same - maybe they have ADHD, maybe they just needed something to help them through life, maybe they had run out of alternatives - it just gets to a point where you wonder 'how much does it matter even if I'm wrong?'
I really think this phenomenon is due to just how hard a diagnosis is to get in many countries.

Here in Canada you need a referral from a doctor (hard to get on its own), then you have to wait many months to years to see someone. Alternatively you can go private and spend quite literally thousands of dollars like I have.

Teens may recognize something is wrong, but simply not have access to the systems they need. We don’t want people to self diagnosing, but we as a society don’t enable them to get the help they need, so they turn to social media.
I'm doubtful I could succeed even in a simulator, but I'm more interested in whether seasoned professionals could succeed.

I have seen "Sully", but I don't recall where the issue of inverted controls came up, either in the movie or the actual incident.
The plagues of Egypt were awesome. Nuclear weapons are awesome. Your breakfast was not awesome.
what victims? Are Christians victims because satanists are gathering privately somewhere else to have their own ceremonies?
Imagine if all employees got golden parachutes….
I'm not going to assume anything in regards to a future release I have no details about.
Answered first line -

> A hot plate [sic] (includes induction) typically draws 1000 to 1400 watts.

> A Tour de France cyclist typically generates 300 to 350 watts. Joe Average on a bicycle will go over 150 watts only in short bursts.

Halfbakery does better math than HN, can't seem to pin down the conclusion either though. Which is it's a dumb idea, or rework the numbers and show where a non-dumb idea might lead.
Even though Meta doesn't issue dividends, they did do massive share buybacks last year. That effectively returns cash on hand to investors, much as dividends do. (Of course, Meta's buybacks are also to offset stock based compensation, but on net, it still represents a return of cash to investors.)
If you were going to debate in a public forum, you should have anticipated some pedantic loser like myself coming along and pointing out your No True Scotsman fallacy.
I would love it if some language would implement a segmented heap, where each part could be GCed separately.

Erlang has this model with it's lightweight processes. And it's a great model that helps not only with GC, but also guaranteeing no shared state between different parts of the code.
I'd disagree there. You've heard of Robert Bork?
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, by Serhii Plokhy.

He also wrote an excellent book about Chernobyl which I read last year.
He could just buy Uber for another 50 billion and he'd be more than halfway there...
Nope. Israel in the 80s was not a wealthy country and didn't have jets to spare. He guessed the correct motivation.
The article mentions this possibility.
If you use moderation as a tool to push your ideology, sure it is.
I would be interested as to why you feel weight loss and consuming a healthier amount of food is bullshit?
Also, for social invitations, "If it's not absolutely yes, it's definitely no."

Life is too short to waste your free time being somewhere that you don't want to be.

(It's also easier to change a "no" to a "yes" later, then to change from a "yes" to a "no".)
Pretty sure that's 85% of the people who comment on this site. Only thinking about the purely technical side of things, never the issues and limitations that come from other people.
> On June 20, 2015, the United States released its 2015 Summer Olympics schedule. The Times They Are A-Changin’ was released in 1963, when Americans were growing increasingly upset with Vietnam.

What? Was that article written by an AI? Your comment as well seems completely disconnected from the New Yorker piece and a flimsy excuse to use Dylan for your own gains. This is the type of behavior that drove Dylan away from the protest movements in the 60s.
Happiness is a state of mind. You don't find happiness hiding under a rock one day, you have to make it for yourself.

Also, don't get all of your validation from other people, because it can be very inconsistent; instead, get your validation through things you are good at (like hobbies, skills, etc.)
This needs to include not getting injured as well. I worked out plenty in my 20s, but was also reckless as hell, and lost most of my 30s to severe spinal degeneration. It's not too late in your 40s, though. It took about six years, but even after spending most of a decade unable to consistently put my own shoes on and ending up with ten screws in my spine, I'm still lifting just about everyday and putting up lifetime PRs. To be clear, I'm not saying those are huge numbers, since I was more of an endurance athlete in my 20s and only lifted to have a solid strength base for longer-duration activity, but even so.

Granting here, I'm sure it's definitely easier to resume old habits after injury recovery than to start completely fresh, so yeah, still start young if you're young. But if you're not, it's never too late until you're in the ground.
What I often see is a chronic failure to properly define and maintain boundaries.

Chicago has only two remaining buildings from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition: what was once the Palace of Fine Arts and is now the Museum of Science and Industry, and what was once the World's Congress Auxiliary Building and is now the Art Institute of Chicago.

In order to save costs, most the buildings were deliberately not built to last. These two were built to spec. One because its future as an art museum had been identified ahead of time, the other because its immediate purpose as an art museum meant it couldn't be slapdash; no other museums would lend their art if it were going to be housed in a potential fire hazard. But all the others, the ones that were expendable? They were immediately torn down after the fair concluded, in part so that people couldn't get themselves into trouble misusing them. And any further use would have been misuse.

I don't see the same culture of maintaining boundaries in software development. What I see much more frequently is that we make a reasonable decision to cut some corners with some purpose-specific code that doesn't need to be high quality, but fail to put up any sort of warning signs about it or otherwise prevent its reuse or misuse. When we do that, it's inevitable that someone will come along later, perhaps long after the original authors have moved to a different project, and attempt to simply reuse it rather than, say, rewriting it into something that was engineered to last.

Some attention also needs to be called to the Clean Code afficionados who spend 20 person-hours gold-plating code that was only worth four person-hours. I appreciate the desire to take pride in one's work, but that kind of misallocation of team resources does grave harm to the developer-manager relationship, and leaves the development team with little social capital they can use to argue for building things with care when doing so really is necessary.

That said, it does need to be observed that Scrum (not agile in general, but definitely Scrum) came out of the contract development community. I don't think it would be unfair to characterize the methodology as one that was made by and for people who don't normally expect to be maintaining the code they write for years to come. They ship the project, they move on to the next contract. And they work for companies where, as a matter of business necessity, teams are constantly being reshuffled around those contracts, so letting people get too specialized is somewhat antithetical to the nature of the business. It's theoretically the managers' jobs to be paying enough attention (and know their business well enough) to notice this, and reflect on whether they are working under similar conditions.
In germany it is called the holy-johannes-grasp.
It changes for me on Firefox for Android.
great project but it is inactive for a few years
The article mentions this as an early hypothesis, and then notes that both male and female specimens have the same arm structure, as opposed to sharks which exhibit sexual dimorphism in that facility.
Don't sit on creative ideas waiting for the skills to apply them. The ideas you come up with developing those skills will be so much better, and you'll have a lot of noob stuff to look on fondly. Applying the noob ideas is how you get there. I see too many writers, musicians, etc holding on to some idea they've always wanted to work on until they somehow develop the skills with ideas they don't, so they never do anything.

And then they finally get to it, work through it, look back years later, and realize the idea they sat on was far below what they were capable of once they finally worked through it.
> When a company has cash that it can't invest as profitably as its shareholders could do on their own, it's obligated to pay it to them as a dividend.

Aside from, as far as I know, not being any kind of legal obligation... I don't see how that situation would ever even come into effect if it was.

What kind of investment opportunity is going to turn down cash from a company (especially one the size of Facebook/Meta) but welcome it from most/all of their investors?
Excellent point, thank you for enlightening me. I will go back and make corrections post-haste.
Christianity and Satanism aren't inherently and (usually) intentionally harmful. The KKK is literally a terrorist organization meeting for the purpose of conspiring to commit acts of terror and spread racism, with the explicit intention, that that propaganda has the specific effect of harming people. That's what their goal is, to hurt people, for the benefit of their own in-group.
Elon Musk and the Longtermists: What Do They Want? (Sabine Hossenfelder) [video]
Which ones? I’ve read this argument for Easter Island most often but that has been questioned many times:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rethinking-easter...

One of the biggest fallacies in human thinking about complex things like civilization is the tendency to look for one cause for any one effect. In reality almost anything that happens in a civilization will have many causes, or even many layers of them.

This makes it hard to reduce things like civilization collapse to cartoon morality tales or just so stories but it also makes it hard to reason about them generally. We seem to be bad at judging when things are actually in collapse.

Case in point, I sometimes feel contrarian for thinking that the US is not in decline. Both the far right and far left push this for obvious reasons but I see a lot of counterarguments.
I’m in this exact same boat right now, word for word, other than I haven’t had the assessment yet (very soon though).

I’m quite literally desperate for any answers at this point, my teen years and 20s were on the whole, an absurd nightmare.

The only thing that worries me is they’ll tell me I have it because that’s the easy thing to do. I don’t want a diagnosis unless they’re 100% sure and I worry that paying for the assessment will bias the outcome.
Interestingly enough, Liu Cixin's books got me thinking in more pessimistic ways, and maybe even more realistic - how we are still just a bunch of brutal animals, MAD being the only thing that's keeping us from destroying each other. His "Wandering Earth" is also a very good read.
> or was that imposed on them

How exactly imposed? A candidate state needs to hold a referendum in order to ask for statehood status. If the people of the territory don't want to join, nobody will force them to join. It's the other thing that happens: people of a territory want to join and Congress does not grant them statehood. Just ask Puerto Rico.
The article was observed, not the events. I know PR people who plant such articles for profit, all the details are vague enough to seem possible. Even the supposed pictures of eng folk with printed code could be in on the gag. CNBC got trolled by a guy faking being an ex Twitter staffer. Someone from Twitter posted “the algorithm” repo as a troll on Musk.

Why not troll the public and traditional media who are far more obsessed with office life than doing real things for others?

Why bother taking the article seriously? It’s unverifiable. I see no reason to give it a sincere discussion.
Musk is idiot. Just downgrade to basement janitor. Those golden parachutes clauses won't get triggered if they stay on or quit on their own. I've seen this played out even pay cut just to force someone out of ghe company with absolute humiliation. Then still procees to sue in multiple countries to ruin that persons financials. --- 28 years HR experiences in 7 difference industries and 4 countries.
I’m in my 30s and I could fill up hundreds of pages with all the crappy advice I’ve been given over my life by well-meaning people. Yes, some advice is helpful, and it is helpful to know when you’re stuck and need some new ideas, but I think in most cases advice is overrated. Try things out yourself, make your own mistakes, figure out what works for you, and what doesn’t. You will learn more from the struggle, and the lessons will be cemented much deeper. Don’t be afraid to fail.
Define "good."

I hear functional programming is great.

Not so sure I'd write a driver with it, though.

Everyone loves to rain hate on C++. I ran a C++ shop for 25 years, and have heard it all.

Listen. It's current fashion to hate OOP, and I'll never convince anyone otherwise, so I'll just back off, and let y'all think what you will.

For me, I like some of the new stuff. If you you look at the links in my comment elsewhere in this thread, you'll see some of the transitions that I've made, from an older, OOP/delegate-based model, to one that leverages protocols and closures. I'm not averse at all to learning new tech, but I've found a lot of mileage in combining it with classic patterns.
I'm not thinking 1000s of servers, because that is extremely rare, but this definitely doesn't apply to only non-critical private stuff. Many orgs have up to a dozen servers, each running multiple services. If you have multiple replicas of certain servers, you can reboot them (or just restart the impacted services) one at a time with no disruption.

The thing is, you usually aren't building everything from scratch. A pretty typical containerized web app deployment might consist of postgres, redis, elasticsearch, nginx, task queue and app server containers. Each of these needs to be updated and you're probably only building two of them from Dockerfiles. Instead of just your host distro, you're now waiting on the maintainers of all of these images to push updates that you can pull. Big distros get updates early so they can push them out the instant the embargo lifts, but I doubt all of these Docker packagers and statically-built software maintainers do. You're either stuck waiting or you have to build all of them from scratch.
>If you have trouble meeting people or maintaining a friendship you might want to get therapy.

I actually disagree, I worry that we don't do a good job of getting folks OUT of therapy -- then they're forever stuck in this coercive loop where someone is baswically paid to be the person they call when they have a dispute with the police or whatever. (Unless you want to take an extremely liberal view of therapy and argue whoever is selling you the weed and not calling it in between pickups is your "therapist", but that's a bit much imho)

Pretty much every mental health issue I've had stems from folks who tend to move from city to city interacting with me differently than they would someone who was... "from here" when I was debating career paths and floundering in undergrad after a transfer.

The current trend seems to be CBT -- set some goals, and go in each week to talk about them.

I don't know what to do when my "goals" are things like "reoccuring income, and vendors who don't go out of business because they couldn't handle treating someone like a peer" and "a weed card, or take it recreational, it helps a lot".

(I've had a string of folks treat getting one like... a reward or something... to almost a bdsm-like degree -- when I've had a diagnosis of Asperger's or autistic spectrum disorder since the late 90s? I'm not even sure if I'll renew the card, I might travel for a year or two like I wanted to in 2016 and let them riot some more)

For context, just before COVID, I got out of a domestic violence sitution in the suburbs of my city, then got laid off.

The city I'm in had a riot outside the mayor's house, then got a new one, and apparently is currently staffing something called a "citizen's police review board"? I was at a bus stop yesterday trying to call my city councilor but there's no one currently in that office apparently? Same day, for the first time in ages, that bus (which comes only every 30 to 60) just blows on by me and the other person waiting for it.

Anyways sorry to ramble -- I'm unemployed, and it's Saturday, so I'm in a... creative spirit.

To put it short: I'd focus on getting exercise everyday OP -- then just... treat people like you'd want to be treated, and be mindful sometimes folks with have a "OK, I sold you your espresso or notebook or whatever, now go away so I can go on the internet to". Pick an errand. Go get a coffee or something. (And to do that you'll need to... take a shower, and put on clothes etc). And then just don't rush it.

Trust is earned and that takes time, rushing that or being algorithmic will weird people out.

(And be mindful people usually have a small number of actual friends -- those are CONNECTIONS on social media.)
Security is a tradeoff between usability and safety. In this case, the author of ring received a suggestion from Rust security group to yank old, unsupported versions to be on the safe side, which created usability problems with ring. Security-minded people are OK with that, while security-ignorant people are not.
Always take sides. By not taking a side you are automatically wrong. This doesn’t mean you should engage in identity politics, etc. but when faced with a choice take the time to make an informed decision.

If you say something “should be a thing” you are automatically now in charge of creating it or convincing someone to create it. Do not tell people who are working on things that they should realize your idea if you are not willing to put down what you are doing and work on it yourself. This advice prevents you from being the annoying ideas person.

Don’t get married. Tax benefits are minor, divorce headache is major. Separate public declaration of love and commitment from your government and financial affairs. You can still have a commitment ceremony and a big party.

Learn how to properly ask for consent. You are likely very bad at this.

The most important thing about a job is not what you work on but who you work with. Pick people, not projects.

Plumbing is easier than you think. Learn to do it yourself.

Related to the above, read Heinlein’s quote on specialization. It is for insects. Learn to do everything.

Stress kills. Get sleep.

Don’t take advice from strangers on the internet :)
Creating that value is precisely what Meta is investing in.
This is so true. My friend got a ADHD diagnosis very late in life and it became so much of his fucking identity. Thankfully, he was smart enough to know the dangers of abusing adderall so he took it in moderation. But he refused to listen to my assessment that it was not helping him at all.

The worst part of it was that he was convinced that his academic failures in life were due to his ADHD. Now we are both successful people in general. He's a software engineer in a major company. But since he couldn't figure out some simple math shit that was obvious to me, he thought he was being handicapped by his disorder. He refused to listen to my claim that everyone has a lot of stuff in math they just do by the rules they were taught and only realize later in life that there's an underlying concept. It is kinda the point of our education system because our young brains take more time to grasp the basics so we cram the rules and wait for the rest of cognition to catch up before teaching the basics.

He stopped taking the meds a while ago when he realized it wasn't doing him much good and realized that there's a limit to how smart people get and it is ok to not be born as next Terry Tao or something.
Same, in Azúcar Moreno's version.
"It's easier to move from IC track to management than vice versa."

This advice came from a coworker who encouraged me to continue down a technical track, rather than switch to management too early.

I am now a manager and love it, but that advice led me to accumulate additional hands-on experience that has been tremendously valuable.
I wouldn’t say it’s a requirement for qualia, but rather for experience.
No they don’t? Or am I misunderstanding what you meant?
And an animal in the end, incapable of reasoning or higher order thought to construct something meaningful in the long term.
One thing I read on HN a couple of month back and really clicked with me is:

"If you really struggle to decide between two options and you begin to waste time by postponing the decision, this often indicates, that both options are very similar in expectable outcome"

At least in situations, where you can't access more info about path A or B, indecisiveness may indicate "go flip a coin"

Sounds simple, but made me aware and helped in a few situations not wasting time already.
Impact of the bugs in OpenSSL are so significant, that they always end up in to the news.
BearSSL is still a quite little project compared to it, and because of that no CVE:s are being made if the author finds a bug by themself from his own code.

On the other hand, every bug in OpenSSL gets CVE mark and will end up into the news.
It gives distorted view and comparison of the software quality between many projects.