skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have ADHD and Aspergers. Which results in extremely high anxiety. I did not get along with other children or people. In fact; I found them completely boring and had no desire to interact with anyone. My instinct at school was just to avoid them all. Eat alone, hang out in the school library.

I have run into parents who homeschooled their children and let them follow their curiosity. Some of the results I saw them get were completely out of this world. The kids taught themselves multiple languages and instruments.

I’m going to be faced with a similar choice with my kids. I will likely put them through public elementary school. Junior high I feel is abusive to children.

They are going through very complex hormonal and emotional changes and on top of this you dunk them in a tank surrounded by parasites who are garaunteed to act like savages.

With mobile phones and cameras.

I think I could see a strong argument to skip junior high and high school altogether and explore home school.

If anything like what happened to me happens to them (and I honestly didn’t have it that bad), I will seriously consider pulling them out.

The damage that was done to me lasted 15 years. That is unacceptable.

I personally had severe acne. Putting me in junior high to get taunted - irreparable self esteem damage.

Parents need to understand.

Let’s be honest. The elephant in the room is human beings get ahead by bullying Eachother and forming mobs and cliques.

This behavior has shown up at every job I have ever had. The dumber the people are the more likely they will use this “strategy” to get ahead. It is the go to dumb person strategy.

You can only avoid it often by working at smaller companies or developing much better social skills.
Whenever I read one of these deep dives into GoL achievements, and let me preface this by saying I mean this as a compliment, I feel like I'm reading the extended universe lore on a wiki page for a giant fantasy franchise. It's maths but feels so much more narratively rich than most other mathematics somehow, and the community around it has such a unique subculture vibe to it too.
Rust was beta for many years and started becoming mainstream only 2-5 years ago. Go was in production almost its entire existence, it's specifically a simplified language.
Two guesses

1) Delivery businesses only make sense in dense urban markets. Think vertical Asian cities. You can deliver on foot, bicycle, or moped to multiple customers at once.

2) Low prices to drive growth at all costs instead of a fair price and slow growth as they serviced a small set of niche customers.
The difference is a person with ADHD will be calmed by a stimulant rather than amped up by it. The ADHD brain can't focus because it doesn't produce enough dopamine to reward the neural circuits for maintaining focus. So there's this paradoxical effect where something that in typical brains would lead to hyperactivity leads to calmness and clarity in an ADHD brain. It's qualitatively different.
> keeps the bullied compliant and the bullies in charge

I've seen some of this in our local schools: meetings held with the head teacher to "hear both sides" when one side is a bully asserting their right to bully the other side.

> kids in an actual martial art

I had this idea, based on my experience as a kid, but never actually got around to enrolling them. They're in college now and so I guess it wasn't necessary.
Flutter, Typescript

One of the few modern languages that have my (dev) comfort as one of their priorities. Even if not intentionally.
I still remember when a co-worker told me that the biggest problem with C is that programmers are terrible at memory management. Given the number of memory corruption bugs I encountered in 27 years of working with C, I have to say that rings true.
Check out angel.co and look for remote startup roles - I've worked with two US startups from the UK prior to moving out here. Some are happy with extra experience & lower end of salary while you'll still have a good multiple.

The alternative to that is contracting - London is a great place to look for that.
Go if you just want to build stuff that deploys reliably and has good performance. It's a simple language with good enough standard library that you don't end up requiring one of those "mother of all frameworks" (e.g. Spring). Downside is the boilerplate can be excessive at times.

Python is easy to develop with, but the packaging situation somehow only ever gets worse. I don't recommend it for large projects that have to support multiple platforms.
Show HN: Book.green – Search for the best and greenest flights
Book.green was developed to present various flight options in an UI where all the results are nicely arranged and can be sorted/filtered very quickly and easily.

This includes carbon footprint calculation and graphical presentation so that users can make an informed decision.

Very much interested in your feedback, thanks!
Doordash doesn't even do a good job at it. The tech is awful. The website is slow; on mobile, it's so slow it's unusable. Payment issues require you to open dev tools to see actual actionable errors returned by the server.

Strongly agreed that these gig companies, at least in their current form, can die as quick a death as possible.
I do think some companies are starting to see this. I interviewed with two young (<25) people yesterday and she said they're /too young/ and all the "experienced" people have left so they're now slow and have issues with tech design and debt so they're trying to backfill experienced people now. It was pretty clear what she meant and why I was being interviewed.
Congratulations!! Excited to see how the two combined keeps engineering teams steady.
Amphetamines are still neurotoxic
This is patently false and also misleading as comparing adderall to meth is like comparing dynamite to a nuclear bomb

Edit: parent replied snidely to me, then deleted the comment. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Airbnb Aims to Attract Big Landlords with a Cut of Its Rental Sales
>Most people desire to be happy. I don't believe I need to prove this.

Happy isn't a long term state of being. It's a short term emotion like anger or sadness.

If you expect to feel that way all the time, and think you can achieve that through some kind of changes to your life you are setting yourself up for failure.

You should aim to build a life that is in line with your values, and accept that you're going to have down days. If you were to rate each day on a 1-10 scale, you're going to have 2s and 3s and probably some 8s and 9s. But if you've done the work, most days will be a solid 6 or 7.

And therapy. Therapy really helps. I think everybody should go to therapy.
If you think you may have mild ADHD and have desires to become a pilot, you are probably better off going without a diagnosis. You won't be able to fly if you're on any medication for ADHD and will have hoops to jump through if you have a history of diagnosed ADHD even if you're not taking medication for it. (If you have severe ADHD, becoming a pilot is probably contra-indicated anyway.)
The "location on disk" (blocks) are owned by the file until all descriptors to it are closed. So nothing else can write to those blocks (actually, inodes) until all file handles to it are closed. At that point, the inodes in the file will be freed to be reclaimed by another file.
> But it turns out that _in most cases_, we are OK with a trusted, centralized, institutional clearing agent that maintains the ledger. The benefits are numerous as long as we trust the institution/agent.

Who is "we"? I'm not ok with trusting banks and clearing houses with my money. I'm vehemently opposed to it.

I don't trust banks to act responsibly, and neither do I trust auditors to be thorough. I'll happily continue using crypto, with real SecOps, multi-sig auth, 2FA with hardware keys (and no SMS), multi-stage cold storage withdrawal with live self-hosted chain-analysis and no yearly account fee.
China launches Shenzhou 15 astronauts to Tiangong space station
I would go for either Rust or Kotlin.

Rust because it's a systems/native language and seems to be the go-to language for new projects that would have been started in C++ some years ago.

Kotlin because it's a nice modern language that can be used both on the frontend (Android and lately some iOS and Desktop, sometimes even web) and on the backend. Yes, it's a typical OO language that inherits some of the "ExtremeOO" properties from Java but it fixes some of Java's (former) issues as well. Having the whole Java/Maven library ecosystem available is also a big plus in my book.
Land mines persist long after the wars have ended, quietly waiting to maim the innocent.
Your whole thread here makes it clear that you are ideologically biased.
this is the classical DSM-V answer you hear thrown around but honestly times are changing, our understanding of this disorder is changing, and I do not think that is unequivocally true.
Haha, yes, unfortunately that’s how it is at virtually all government-run schools in my country…pure cruelty is the order of the day, and I’m not exaggerating.
Just a personal opinion, but I'd characterize Noah Smith as "uneven", not "laughingstock". He hits enough high notes that I would be quite sad to see him go, even though I find him very unreliable.
Every experience has something to teach, but that just means all experiences are alike in this one regard. It's an absolutely horrible way to justify the various strains of hell that run through the world.

Please replace the word bullying in your question with the word rape or mutilation or imprisonment or starvation and see how horrible that line of thinking is.
This is very important to talk about. I think I still have issues from being bullied and I am in my 40s now. My issues are anger, but more importantly social anxiety and much worse social skills than I wish to have at this age.

Just in case any psychologist are reading this, I would like to point out a type of bullying that I experienced but it is never talked about. It is basically sexual harassment by closeted homosexuals. One kind of assumes that homosexuals are these fey, thin mild mannered and fashionable kids, but in reality a lot of the fat nasty bullies were self hating closet homosexuals. I was always a target for them because I had this childhood disease that made me very thin and tall and pale, and apparently that is very attractive to those scumbags.

And they bullied me verbally and physically and always made me feel like shit. The worst part is I did not know what was happening to me because I did not know much about homosexuality (I grew up in a communist regime that preferred to sweep that stuff under the rug). So I grew up thinking there was something seriously wrong with me.

There is a lot of talk about bullying of gays in school, but there is also the problem of bullying of heterosexuals by homosexuals. To solve this, schools should teach their kids about homosexuality early. Probably as soon as puberty because by then these kids will be confronted by it. And while schools do teach that sexual harassments is wrong they should make it clear that the same holds true for homosexuals. I have a feeling that a lot of gays think they are special and above the general society rules about sexual harassment. Even in my forties I still get my drinks spiked from time to time! And most importantly teachers should be taught to recognize and prevent sexual harassment in the homosexual context as well as the hetero one.
I’ll preface my comment with the acknowledgment that there will always be medical and non-medical cases preventing dieting from working.

I think on the whole it’s a good thing to have psychological and physiological solutions to obesity. But I don’t think that changes anything. Ultimately the medical advice has remained consistent: the best way to lose and maintain weight is a healthy diet and/or physical activity. Calories in must be less than calories out to lose.

Unless someone has a truly impactful psychological or physiological obstacle to implementing that advice, what is gained pursuing any other end?

I agree with you but theoretically isn’t this kind of like “take your medicine” advice? If you don’t take the medicine, you don’t get better. To what end should we invest society’s resources into ever cleverer ways to get people to “take their medicine”?
I think our issues with homelessness and obesity are pretty similar -- targeting the late state symptoms is not effective. Dealing with the root causes will yield the actions for improvement. But both are creeping issues -- they've been going the wrong way for a long time and at least in our American society, we haven't seen any significant improvements. Our structural society doesn't value or recognize well-being.
High employable: JS
High earning: Haskell, Clojure, Scala, Ruby, COBOL, whatever Stackoverflow suggests?

Personally I'd study clojure to get exposure to new things. Already studied Elm, Elixir and Haskell for FP, ruby, php, c#, java for OOP, go and c for imperative, I think clojure would be an interesting addition.
Ask HN: Lighter alternatives to LLVM
Is it the only way to produce fast cross-platform binaries?
LLVM is huge and compile times can be slow.

I found several compilers related:

0. GCC

1. Zig started as LLVM frontend, finally with self-hosting, can do cross-platform codegen without LLVM.
> It's super expensive to buy healthy food.

Fresh veggies are the cheapest thing in a grocery store. And you don't need to buy the organic/exotic ones to "eat healthy" from the perspective of losing weight.

You know what's expensive? Junk food. For the price of a single bag of chips I can buy several pounds of carrots.
At the end of the day this person's argument is "WASI providing posix like APIs to WebAssembly is harmful for the web" and they are very angry the larger community disagrees with them. Despite all the diagrams, words, and tables repeating "In Violation" the author can't make an argument more substantiated than their own opinion of what's appropriate for the web.

It's also clear this person would be extremely unpleasant to collaborate with. So none of this is surprising.
He means the blockchain application in TFA is bullshit but the other situation he described regarding hinterland transportation is one that could benefit from a proper decentralized blockchain system but there is no such system.
It wasn't uncommon, most websites made by these popular GUI tools retrained these banners,

You're using some narrow definition of "advertising" that doesn't match common use. You don't need to be paid to be a walking billboard.

When the program you were using inserted these it was analogous to license plate frame advertising today[1]. Consumers don't get paid for those either, but it's advertising for car dealerships.

There was also a culture of voluntarily inserting these, but that doesn't mean some of them weren't product placement or advertising.

1. https://www.zazzle.com/car+advertisement+license+plate+frame...
Not ADHD, but some similar symptoms for me. I could not focus on anything at work. Massive procrastination. It was just brutally painful to try to finish things I was working on.

Long story short: the culprit was sleep apnea. After a sleep test, I got a CPAP machine. After a bit of time to adjust to the equipment, it made a profound change to my life.

The next year or so was perhaps the most productive of my life. My boss & coworkers remarked it was like I was a different person.

Good quality sleep is important, it turns out!

(Side note: I dropped into REM sleep before my CPAP machine, with lively dreams and stuff. So I didn't really think I had apnea. My faulty mindset of apnea was that you basically couldn't dream at all. But once I had the CPAP machine, my dreams turned into unreal, epic sagas, as my brain started to repair and catch up on all the REM sleep it had missed over the years. My dreams are no longer so crazy, but that first 3-4 months was really interesting)
The comparison with GameMaker is kind of impressive. I wonder how it stacks up against GDevelop. To me, on the first look C3 seems like a nice middle ground between something like Godot and using, say PhaserJS to code a web game.

All in all, it’s really great that I can now try this on my Mac. AFAIR C2 was a Windows only product.
In sbcl those two work the same.
Who says Britain and China don't have a lot in common? There's little doubt that when British (and American) politicians and bureaucrats look at China's authoritarian system of control, their essential emotion is one of envy.
I mean, SHFs barely exist in Manhattan so it's kind of a moot comparison. But the thrust of GP is correct - you can buy a townhome in much of Brooklyn and Queens for less than $1m.
I think it's very likely ADHD is mis/overdiagnosed, but I'm not a physician so I can't be sure.

What I can be sure of is that many people do have a debilitating condition, and these medications help them live a normal life. This "ADHD is fake you're in control just snap out of it" bullshit is offense and idiotic.
The current trends are Python, Go and Rust. Go is going to fade away when Google dies, but Rust will still be here, and Python will too unless there's another language that takes its share. (Python inherited its position from PHP, and Perl before that) And vendors keep churning out JS tools so that'll be a safe bet for a while.
This simplistic model sounds nice but (and he notes this in the article) doesn't pass the test of explaining the dynamics of weight/gain loss in live humans. Lots of people have pet theories ("just eat meat" or whatever) but researchers who work on this stuff don't seem to think it's such a simple or settled question. I'm an unexceptional counterexample: Despite substantial variation in how I eat and exercise over the last 20 years or so, not disciplined at all, my weight has varied by less than 10%. Is there some secret thing I'm doing that protects me? I doubt it, I think there's just a lot of variation in how different people's bodies run that means some people's lives are a lot harder and there's no silver bullet.
Have you read "Permutation City"? I'm definitely reminded of it every time.
Fatigue is a common side effect of Zyrtec (and other antihistamines). From purely anecdotal evidence, I think most people have to experiment with allergy medication to find one that works best for them. I know that I'm dysfunctional when taking Zyrtec but Claritin doesn't bother me at all.
Not your drive, not your data.

I know exactly where my data is at all times. And I know it is at least as safe as I am. Actually, it is safer since I keep 2 copies --- one stays at a fixed location and one travels with me at all times.

I spent some time contemplating the possibilities and this is a simple, easy plan that will likely survive even my death.
Thank god...
>You can't create/add matter to your body from nothing

Sure you can, imagine two scenarios:

1. You eat 100 calories, and you have a 70 calorie deficit in your cells. 70 calories go to your cells to make ADP (this makes you feel full) and the extra 30 goes to fat.

2. You eat 100 calories of HFCS, it spikes your insulin and your body take 90 calories into fat FIRST and 10 calories into your cells to make ADP. You are still hungry because you have a 60 calorie deficit because your cells still lack ADP, you still feel tired and you got fatter.

It is fully possible to eat nothing but trash food that freaks your body out. The problem is for a lot of people we were though the wrong facts about nutrition, like "Fat is bad and (highly processed) carbs are good".
> I didn't delete the zip file, I deleted the original file that I zipped.

This is why you should always check the contents of your archive before deleting the originals. There are myriad reasons why the archive may be incomplete or incorrect. You were hit by one of them that happens to not happen on Windows.
A friend of mine who's a neuroscientist likes to say, "Psychiatry is not a branch of medicine." He means it in a constructive way, the implied follow on is "that would be good though, and we should strive to do that."

My point is, there are lots and lots of different kinds of therapy, and lots and lots of variation in therapists. If you are having problems seek help please! You're not in this alone and it's important to take care of yourself. My advice is to try several different therapists until you find one that helps you.

OP got lucky, the psychiatrist they met didn't try to have them committed or anything gnarly like that, and it sounds like they got good results from the weekly therapy with a psychologist and some medicine.

You might not be so lucky.

Start with diet. Most of us are making ourselves sick by eating some kind of crap.

Check physical things: are you getting enough sleep? Too much light or noise at night can act like slow poison. Or you might have sleep apnea!?

Is your house next to a freeway or an airport? Some chemical source?

Does your spouse or child or neighbor drive you crazy? Your commute is too long?

Next, try mechanical interventions: massage, Rolfing, etc.

If it's not food, environmental, or something in your muscles or bones, then maybe just maybe you might need therapy of some kind.

Scientifically, we are no better off than witch doctors and fortune tellers. Psychiatrists are trained as medical doctors, which is strange when you think about it, because they don't use any of that training in the practice of psychiatry.("Psychiatry is not a branch of medicine." is "funny" because it's true.)

(E.g. When you go to a psychiatrist they do not draw blood. There's no point because there's no tests they can run on your blood to know what's wrong with you "psychiatricaly" (because that's a word that means "Western-flavored voodoo".))

So, to sum up, if you got problems get some help. But beware of psychiatrists because they are even more crazy than most therapists and they often have leverage with hospitals and police to do really messed up violations of your human rights if they get the idea that you have "demons in your blood" (demons with names like "Schizophrenia" and "Bipolar". They can conjure with these names to put you in jail for days or longer even if you have committed no crime or criminal acts.)
That's a sure way to torpedo any conversation, imply victims and mix with [political affiliation].

When in fact the whole police thing is based on order and control, anything out of the ordinary. ie. guy walking with winter gear on a hot summer day is subject for "investigation".

Not saying is good or bad ( perhaps both, but that's the police being the police )
I am extremely fortunate (like I assume most of the HN crowd) in being good at people picking and learning languages with reasonable ease (serious that was not meant to be a humblebrag but sure) depending on the use case.

One language I have been wanting to pickup for a while but haven't had the time is rust. The specific use case for me is high performing (with safety), mostly synchronous execution, and reasonable ease of use inside another web framework. My use case is something like building a rust version of tree-sitter.
Someone's feelings might have got hurt. That's not a joke.
https://txt.fyi/ is quite similar
Sorry but I think this is a matter of ethics and professionalism, not security.
I’d be interested to see if sentry integrates their performance monitoring tooling into test suites.

Would be super nice to be able to look at the sentry dashboard to find slow tests rather than having to break out the profiler
Bullying encompasses such a broad range of actions, it's possible some cases can be a strengthening/educating experience in hindsight, but others can be absolutely life destroying. My experiences with bullying were pretty mild. I'd say they taught me patience and standing up for myself when it's the right time. But they were mild experiences. I can't imagine the impact of what I've seen in some videos taken by high schoolers.
> [guaranteed] to act like savages.

While assigning them to read and discuss Lord of the Flies...