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I think a lot of us are unhappy a lot of the time because we’re all at least a little bit insane. Either we don’t see the cause of our unhappiness because we’re insane or we see it but don’t fix it because we’re insane.

Perhaps “insane” is too strong but “lacking sufficient sanity” is too long.
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It is true that I disagree with some of the right-wing framings, but I don't object on that account. I've never entirely agreed with The Economist, but that hasn't kept me from enjoying it and finding it useful.

But the US right has from my perspective gone insane. Take as an example the belief that Trump won the 2020 election. A majority of Republicans (and only Republicans, not independents, Democrats, or people outside the US) believe that Joe Biden did not legitimately win: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/07/republica...

And unfortunately, it's not confined to the US. From Boris Johnson to Jair Bolsonaro to Viktor Orban and well beyond, there are a lot of politicians on the right who you can't really call conservative in that they, like Trump, have repudiated a lot of traditional conservative values like honesty, accuracy, and integrity.

My problem is that the Economist, whose tone for me has always been one of cool reason, whose founding goal was "to take part in 'a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress,'" is letting the crazy leak in.

As I said, it's a hard problem to stay balanced in unbalanced times, so I have sympathy for them. But that doesn't mean I'm going to pretend the problem doesn't exist.
It's ok to be accountable for what you eat when you do have choices.

America has a food regulation problems that drive a variety of obesity-related problems. America also has a laziness problem that is almost mandated by suburban sprawl and automobile-oriented urban centers.

Most Americans have severely limited food choices. But even those who don't are subject to marketing and sugar-addiction that leads to bad food choices even when better choices are at hand.

Still, it's ok to hold accountable a person for buying and drinking two 20-ounce sugar-coffees for breakfast and then heading to the local strip mall to eat dinner at the restaurant that only serves 2000mg sodium meals--the affordability of vegetables was not the problem.
Yup, that's pretty much the question that has bedeviled all blockchain "innovation" since day one. Cryptocurrency still works (for some value of works) because it's self-contained, but as soon as you need to track anything in the real world you run into the oracle problem: how can you trust that what the blockchain says about the world is correct? (Spoiler, you can't.)
> since it could break another process.

This isn't how things work on Linux. It keeps the file "alive" as long as there is at least one process using it. Any processes which do not have the file open already will not be able to see it but those that do can keep using it. The file will be deleted when all processes release the file.
My personal anecdote, I don't have any issues with Teams on my Mac. Our organization is a Microsoft shop. I'm one of 3 Mac users only because I develop our iOS apps, so it isn't like our IT has some exceptional skills with Apple products.
HN is terrible at interpreting sarcasm or jokes, partly because people will say the most extraordinary things with apparent sincerity.
I eat beef and salt. I haven't gotten much pushback about the salt.
In a lot of ways Windows predates that being an option. This blog post has more of the history on that: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190830-00/?p=10...
Or your startup is forced to look into "enterprise plans" due to necessary features for compliance being locked behind them, without having attained a certain size and "enterprise" money.
> We haven't even established that intelligence should imply the desire to be happy.

Most people desire to be happy. I don't believe I need to prove this.

The point was that we should be able to use our intelligence to identify and resolve issues that decrease our happiness. I think this is true to a certain extent, but there is an upper limit where solvable problems are not the limiting factor to our happiness.
Can you elaborate?

If someone forces themselves to eat X calories, where X is below their maintenance calories, they will lose weight. This is both obvious from understanding the mechanics, but also proven through many actual studies.

I'm not sure if you agree with that or not, but if you do, then what do you mean that CICO doesn't explain the phenomenon?
I learned I had ADHD last year. I'm in my mid 40's. Just knowing I had ADHD, and learning that I don't think the way normal people think was a huge burden unloaded for me. I'm not lazy, I'm not stupid. I'm atypical. I have executive dysfunctions. It's Normal for ADHD people to do things the way I do. That doesn't mean I like it, but it empowers me to recognize it. THEN I can work around it.
Use Shift-Del to bypass the performance shitshow that is the recycle bin.
Hard disagree. Severs aren't free to run. They're welcome to recoup those costs and even make a profit from providing a valuable service. Ethically they're doing nothing wrong by letting people play a 30-year-old game for free, even if they're in violation of our utterly insane copyright laws.
> Seriously though I believe the blockchain has always been hidden behind an API hosted by IBM

I kind of misread what you said and read "Bitcoin" instead of "blockchain", but this wrong scenario is as funny as your comment. Imagine if the whole Bitcoin is powered by IBM in secret as a ploy to sell their blockchain consulting services [0].

[0] - https://www.ibm.com/blockchain/services
Insane. Is this the risk of working for companies with such small margins?

The article doesn’t specify the regions with cuts.
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Was intrigued by the title, disagree completely with the content.

You can have a rewarding job and still be unhappy, you can have no job at all and be the happiest person out there. Happiness is not one-dimensional...

I still think it's a fascinating topic, anyone got any better recommendations for reading up on this?
> A related question is why would you want to reload the entire file/namespace every time you make a change?

Wait... What change does it make to evaluate a single function or to evaluate that single function plus re-evaluate all the other function in the same Clojure source file? It's not slow. It doesn't break anything?

Regarding figwheel, which I find very convenient (it reloads not just the modifications in .cljs files but also in HTML and CSS files AFAICT), where is the problem and would you reproduce what figwheel does without figwheel?

Most of my Clojure and ClojureScript source file have zero state, zero variable. And from what I can tell many Clojure projects are like that. So what change does it make if I define (or redefine) a function from a REPL or from the source file and have figwheel re-evaluate the whole source file?

Heck... I got "confused" at some point: if I modify a .clj file I need to eval what I modified (or the whole file), to have my REPL "synched" with the file. While with figwheel I don't need to eval but save the file for figwheel to update the front-end's JavaScript in realtime.

So what I did is this: I modified my shortcuts that does "eval buffer" to do "save + eval buffer" and modified my shortcut that does "save" to also do "save + eval buffer".

That way everything works in the same manner and I don't need to remember which one does what.

If I modify a .cljc source file (common to both Clojure and ClojureScript) and either eval the file or save the file, both REPLs see the new definitions and figwheel also hot reloads. I really like that.

And, yet, I still have my two REPLs at all times and I can directly eval stuff at the REPLs if I want to.

> My guess is that lots of those people never worked with a REPL where you eval single forms from the editor, so this auto-reload on each save seemed much better.

OK but for ClojureScript running on the front-end, how would I then go, without figwheel's hot reload, to make a modification and have the (transpiled) JavaScript be updated immediately?

> And it creates its own problems, like the one the OP solves in the article.

But the problem of ring routes not being updated have nothing to do with auto-reload? I may be wrong but wouldn't the problem be exactly the same if I were to re-eval the router var from the REPL (I'll try it and see later on)?

Anyway I'd say that, when worse comes to worse and you screwed your application's state / components lifestyle, a full restart one every blue moon ain't a biggie.
come hang out at /r/adhdmeme at Reddit. That's how I figured out I probably had it and have had a similar experience to you since then, starting about a year ago.

While it's trying having your 'personality' shown to you as just coping mechanism of your disorder, but it's nice to feel so included too ;)
I'm aware, mostly posted my comment to inform, honestly, I never understood the design choice.
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Lord of the Flies was fiction though, not only that, it was bullshit. when it happened in reality, the exact opposite of the book happened: https://medium.com/illumination-curated/real-life-lord-of-th... .
Easiest thing to do is just make a rule for yourself that you will never eat anything that isn't beef.
Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.

Intelligence is worthless without a heart to use it lovingly, and even then, it has no direct correlation to wisdom. It is wise to use intelligence lovingly, but it is also wise to use money lovingly. Intelligence is simply a resource while wisdom is a quality.

Furthermore, you must define "happiness." Happiness is simply a feeling, while joy is a quality, like wisdom. Intelligence and happiness are circumstantial and transient while wisdom and joy are qualities that can be nurtured and cultivated in one's character.
I don't think the problem is that you can't focus - the problem is that the reward isn't high enough.

I know your post isn't money-related, but let me digress. What is the point of fixing your procrastination? What goal are you really trying to achieve?

If you can't pay attention in project meetings, so what? It's not like you'll get a $100,000 bonus for doing so.

If there was a $10 million gold bar in the bottom of your backyard pond I don't think you'd procrastinate learning how and going about recovering it. It would probably occupy all your attention.

In my opinion the solution is to change your focus in life to things that pay out higher rewards. I.e. instead of paying more attention in meetings, do the minimum to not get fired and figure out ways to make more money (find another job, start a business, etc.). If your job is already high-paying then focus on things that are high impact on impressing your managers.

If the result of fixing your "procrastination" gives very negligible long-term financial benefits then it's not really worth it.

I also often don't listen to my wife - unintentionally - but it's because she often says things without a lot of substance. So it's hard for me to keep focus.

I've had lifelong procrastination issues too. Maybe I have an attention disorder as well (but undiagnosed). But I have a few million in my brokerage/retirement accounts, and my own startup with millions in funding, so do I care? Nope not really.

Anyways, my advice is to figure out where the metaphorical gold bars are and go after those instead.
Sure, great advice.

Know where I can do that in a reasonable time frame? Because I've been trying to find a psychiatrist to check my work on my Bipolar 2 self-diagnosis and of the 5 clinics I found only 1 ever got back to me about appointments, which are several months out for availability.
> Most Aussies want more government control in their lives

You don't have to look far, there's plenty of them in this thread defending it.
Didn't grubhub and ilk effectively insert themselves this way for food service to a lot of restaurants?

Somewhat relatedly, I know my local tech hub has a couple places that do leadgen like this for financial verticals and it has been... lucrative. In my local cases, usually either a license or a snapshot of supporting technology is part of the deal and the vertical is spun out as a new entity to the acquirer. Rinse and repeat several years later, when the "acquirer" has years-old versions of the original stuff and needs something fresh to reinvigorate their pipeline...
In some instances the fetus helps repair a ruptured amniotic sac
OP didn't recommend medicine, they recommended seeing a psychiatrist.
If your company gives a stipend and you live in a larger city, why not get a co-working spot?
I think this is something more people should share/talk about so I'm glad you did so and I hope people listen.

I had done the same in the past and was prescribed Vyvanse which I liked much better than Adderall. Adderall was enjoyable & worked but it also felt really good and I wanted to take more when it was wearing off for the day.

Vyvanse seemed to be even more effective at helping me focus, it would last its 8-10 hours and then I didn't have any desire to take more for the day. It did make my stomach hurt for a short period when it was wearing off though(not for the whole day or even very much of it).

After a couple Iraq tours I had such difficulty concentrating and became someone who procrastinated & then got days worth of work done in a few hours once the deadline was there. Vyvanse really changed things for me as I was able to not be in such a rush slamming out work and that made me so much less anxious and less depressed. I learned a lot of my depressed feelings were because of my anxiety from knowing I was behind and not doing the things I needed. So getting my ability to focus improved helped me immensely in more than just the one way.
Be careful. 1 month is not enough to make a judgement.

I hope it'll work for you long term and not create any side effects.

I'm worried for you in terms of medication you mentioned. As an extreme example taking cocaine/amphetamines for 1 month would probably make you best dad ever, best coworker and best husband straight away - but would fuck you up totally longer term.
Haha! Good sarcasm :)
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I really respected your post, I like the recognition of behaviours that can cause obesity as being common across other types of addiction. I also like the parent your responding to though, because while you make an insightful point, it's helpful to keep it grounded. You have the sense for the parents post to feel obvious, but I think others do overcomplicate it.

The function can be simple math, and the factors psychologically/emotionally difficult to deal with. Recognizing that is not lessening the struggle, from where I'm standing
Okay, I'll bite.

Java could be a much nicer language with much less allowance for architectural space programs.

Type classes were introduced into Haskell as early as 1988-1989. At 1991 you could have programming in language with parametric polymorphism, type inference and principled (albeit called ad-hoc) overloading, there was at least one.

The ST monad, one of the first effect-containing abstractions, was introduced as early as 1992 - I think it was close to introduction of IO monad.

So, at the time Java was introduced in 1995, it could have all these nice properties which greatly simplify programming and make architectures easier to understand and more future-proof (Haskell's solution to an Expression Problem [1] is one of the simplest, it uses what was available in 1995, more or less).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression_problem

Thus, we could have a programming language that makes architecture rocket launch much harder. But we did not.

The slogan was "write once, run anywhere" without any regards on how much is needed to be written or how to safely compose what is written.
I've been on the carnivore diet for a while and I can assure you that it is politically incorrect -- people think it is wrong to eat only red meat.
Clearly there are at least two readers who've never seen the movie, and the scene when they discover the source of the protein bars.
You've basically whittled the options down to Python. It's still an extremely popular and reliable language, not to mention relatively readable, and in use at the enterprise level. If you are feeling like you want to be on the bleeding edge you can give Go a try as well, not quite in use as much but still quickly gaining traction and no need to deal with endless packages that you need to install on each system.
Maybe the broader issue is the sheer amount of government licensure in the UK and the cover that provides for civil servant and enforcer abuse, rather than defining cases as a right/left problem.
AKA the "stop hurting" solution to chronic pain, as applied to ADHD.
Previous discussions (Meta recently renamed the project to Sampling)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31006003

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33612410
100% upvote from my side. Not an ADHD but getting psychiatrist help was one of best decision of my life. I got meds (SSRI) that relived my stress, demotivation, social anxiety and helped me regain control over life. I can't emphasise how big this is.
> why? It's just a really strange choice.

I personally thought it was a witty name. Had a tiny mental chuckle when I read it.

Better question is, why not? If it's not offensive, then what is the reason you "wish they had called it something else"?

> It's just a really strange choice

Doesn't sound like a real criticism to me...
I ran some data analysis on all the comments on this site to see which XKCD comic is the most cited.

The raw posts and comments data is available on Google BigQuery. I then wrote some code to extract comic IDs and calculate some statistics.
> my therapist dropped me because the office only allows them to see someone for 1-2 years max

interesting. I've never heard of that happening.

I found my therapist on PsychiatryToday- just added a bunch of filters and scheduled a couple phone consults (most offices will do these for free). Went with the one I found that had availability and seemed to work well with me. They referred me to a psychiatrist.

It's definitely easier if you have a plan that doesn't require a PCP or anything, I think mine is a POS so I just call up any providers I need, no referrals or anything.
It's compelling because SimCity 2000's terrain is very much a network of curved lines, so it sounds like a plausible part of the process.
I have such a love hate relationship with Swift. It genuinely has some great ergonomics and I see it as a sister language to rust.

I just wish it was more cross platform (I know it technically works on Linux and windows…but it’s not a great experience) and that it didn’t have so much churn (though they’ve stopped futzing with the core components as much with Swift 4+).

I also wish it was faster. I did an Advent of Code against some friends. I picked Rust, they picked Swift. The rust code was running circles around their Swift ones even when we tried to keep implementations the same.

Anyway, that’s a rant, but I think to your point, I feel like Swift could have been as big as Rust..or bigger given the easier use, with many of the same guarantees. I just wish the early years were more measured.
The "pride flag as swastika" meme is extremely offensive, given the actual history of the Holocaust.
This thread currently contains both people confused by the OP's sarcasm, which didn't have a tag, and people annoyed by the sarcasm tag in a reply.
Feelings of hunger are not the only reason people eat.
>So I do think blockchains do have some unique use cases where they would be beneficial (e.g. I think property (land, home, car) titles is a good one, car accident/repair history)

All of those use cases are subject to the Oracle Problem (you have to trust whoever initially put the information on the blockchain, and also that nothing happened later to the real world entity that wasn't captured on the blockchain). As such, they are horrible use cases for blockchain.
There is a (real) shortage of nurses, but not necessarily of blockchain engineers.
A lot of people have stale bot set to 1 month or less. Very few open source projects moves fast enough for 1 month to make any difference in replicability.
zabzonk is technically correct, which is the best kind of correct. I was using 'mainframe' colloquially and lazily. DG's mini line was used for the same kinds of things as mainframes, but they were formally minis at the time.
Nope.

All you need for "Capitalism" is a legal system that will support organizational ownership without requiring employment or labor inputs to the organization
The author seems to be under the impression that utf8 and Unicode are distinct, incompatible string types, and the rest of the objections follow. Bizarre.
Please don't let this be the kickoff to gitlab starting to remove the self-hosted option like Atlassian/Jira decided to do. I know it's open source and a fork would happen but I would prefer not going through this crap again like I am currently having to deal with Atlassian. What happens to all the premium features we pay for right now? They aren't open source.
It’s young single people with more disposable income than patience to learn how to cook or motivation to pick up their food themselves. It’s particularly big in cities, where you might be craving a restaurant that is only a mile or two away as the crow flies but can be a huge pain to get to, with or without owning a car.

I agree with you though, the fees are outrageous. When our first kid was born, somebody gave us a Door Dash gift card. I tried to use it one night for a slightly upscale gastropub near us - it was going to be $65+ after all the fees and tips for two burgers to get delivered. Even with a gift card, I couldn’t do it on principal.
Depression is also only one dimension of unhappiness. You might lose your wife and kids, but not be clinically depressed. Poor, uneducated people are also less likely to seek help, though that may be accounted for in the studies you are referencing.

I'd guess that the nature of unhappiness between educated high-achievers and uneducated people is quite different.
I don't think anyone said anything about 'deserving it'.
> In image-based languages like Smalltalk and APL, you just save your environment after modifying it interactively; there are no separate source files and the problem does not exist.

My experience with APL was not based on using the image (longterm), but with Smalltalk, there is a source file paired with the image (you can see this with both Squeak and Pharo). And Iceberg has been around for years allowing you to select specific portions to export to or import from git repos as source files. It was preceded by other version control systems that let you export to and import from source files.
What's the pitch here? What makes this offering distinctive to JS developers vs any other species of engineer?
Yes, that would be the greed part I was talking about. If the current stock pricing depends upon worker exploitation, then obviously ceasing to exploit workers would cause the stock price to fall, at least in the short term. (In my experience, treating workers well pays off in the long.) But that doesn't turn the continued exploitation into "basic math".
When I go into the office, it's 90 minutes by commuter rail (with very limited service hours) plus another 30-45 on the subway (when it's not on fire), then another 15-20 minutes walking. Each way. I'm mentally wiped my the time I get in. Most of my job is WFH, and I'm only going in when I must be in the office.

I'm fortunate that I can shift some of my work time to my train time, but it's still a big chunk out of my day to just move around.
How much do you value your time?

I consider 1 minute ~= $2. So if Doordash saves me 15 minutes, then that's worth $30.