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Heh, I was a lifer until some billionaire bought the company and laid me off even though I've been a top performer for years. You never know what life will throw at you, best to prepare for the worst just in case Space Karen comes for you next.
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This sounds awful: flying is already a terrible experience, and people suck. On my flight last week, some asshole had to be repeatedly told by a stewardess he had to use headphones to watch a video, instead of making everyone within 10 feet listen to it. Loud phone calls will definitely improve this experience.
Also learn SQL. Being able to structure data and write complex queries is a superpower I waited far too long to acquire.
One thing that isn't talked enough is the importance of regular exercise for managing adhd. Humans are not to designed to sit on our butts all day.
I too found it surprising. DoorDash has always been _fundamentally_ unprofitable with their business model. The fact they are doing layoffs rather late into the first layoff cycle seems like it's completely on a whim. Not much of their macro vision of continually losing money has changed.
Congrats to the CodeCov team. Sentry is a fantastic operator/tech/business. Excited to see what unified features fall out of this purchase.
5 years ago I would have downvoted you.

Based on some unfortunate personal experiences I have to emphatically agree. I would also throw cut down on social media / porn / addictive games as very important if you’re identifiying as ADHD.

Amphetamines like Adderall have issues with long term tolerance and can have adverse effects on your cardiac health and mood, both of which I unfortunately experienced.

They mostly work by spiking dopamine which there are non pharmaceutical ways to accomplish such as cold water therapy and being more cautious with your baseline dopamine levels (hence the importance of avoiding cheap , easy spikes of those levels).

It’s obviously a complex issue still being figured out by scientists but there is a zeitgeist pushing people towards pills as the simple solution when increasingly the science demonstrates that lifestyle change is both more effective long term and lacks adverse side effects.

I do think psychiatric meds can be appropriate in extreme circumstances and in cases where they temporarily help people “course-correct” . But people viewing them as a panacea because someone’s having a stimulant honeymoon should dig deeper.

Finally, I get ADHD meds advertisement on Facebook constantly. There is simply a financial incentive to push people towards pills over lifestyle change and it’s irresponsible to pretend that doesn’t impact any narratives.
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I was bullied pretty severely as a kid. So bad in fact I was put on medication just to deal with it. I was a weaker kid when I was younger owing to the fact I was sick a lot.

In America there is a concept of "zero tolerance" that keeps the bullied compliant and the bullies in charge. It was not until I started to get very violent that the bullying stopped. I would fight at a moments notice even sometimes in classrooms. Spent a lot of time suspended and my parents had conferences. I never lashed out at anyone. Though if someone tried to insult me, push me around, etc I would immediately switch modes and start swinging. As I got bigger and stronger it became less of an attack of weak punches to full blown knockouts.

The only way we can solve bullying is by teaching our kids that violence is not only necessary but expected. Teach them to be violent, and teach them to control it. You must defend yourself from these people. Enrolling your kids in an actual martial art (some combination of boxing, bjj, muay thai, etc) will help. When they break a bullies nose/arm/etc and get suspended you should not only encourage them to continue you should celebrate the victory. You can't win with bullies by "being the better person". Bullies aren't beat enough at home, so it's your job to bring the beatings to them. School systems are DESIGNED to protect bullies and subjugate the bullied. In America, they are prisons. The sooner children realize this the sooner they realize the methods to staying alive aren't much different.

"If you are not capable of violence you are not peaceful, you are harmless."
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Wall Street Journal (except the op-ed pages, which are comically extreme). Financial Times is also very good, I prefer WSJ.

They provide actual reporting and not just narrative; WSJ reporting broke the news of the Theranos fraud for example.
GitHub performs fuzzing as part of their testing, so I'm not surprised there aren't any significant findings. I am surprised this is on hackernews two years later though.
I agree that joy is obtained when one is true to who they are - but there is a much larger debate in the definition of one's "true self." Some would say that one's true self is defined by their creator. Others must determine some alternative way to define that self. I suggest that without being defined by a creator, then it is impossible to know one's purpose - or even to believe there can be a purpose. And if you do believe in purpose, then it is inevitable that you have to serve someone's purpose. Like Bob Dylan sang - "you gotta serve somebody."
> Maybe they should be removed from their job if it's something related to their job, but it almost never is. It always comes down to "this person disagrees with me, therefore cause their employer a nuisance till its no longer worth employing them". There's not a moral court judgement or fairness, it's just some people harassing other people and insisting they deserve it.

The problem is that anything can be "related to their job" if you're willing to stretch enough. For instance, by hitting PR notes like "do you want your company to be known as being associated with this kind of person."
The problem is the food supply. Sugary, fatty food, constantly available.
Builds character.
Has anyone written an OTP library on top of it?
That is exactly why I quit not only food delivery, but grocery delivery as well.

My final Doordash delivery was almost 6 months ago. Only half the order arrived. DD got around to refunding half, but only after playing ping-pong with CS. The quality of their drivers certainly has gone off a cliff in the last year, with a nearly 100% failure rate to deliver the food complete and/or in a timely manner. DD clearly needs to add the ability to rate delivery quality AND hide tip status. They need to take immediate action on low performing drivers by booting them off the service if standards are not met. Right now, they have NO standards.

I also quit grocery delivery. 100% failure rate to deliver an order as charged AND complete ambivalence from management to correct their issues.
I'm loving seeing the shift from embedding and linking to tweets and twitter accounts to embedding and linking to fediverse posts and profiles.
God, if this was documented properly it’d be such a lawyer slam-dunk.
The GUI code looks very simple at first glance - just four buttons and file picker and background worker. Chances are this would be straight-forward to port to a .NET command-line tool that would be cross-platform assuming there's nothing Windows-specific in the domain logic.
>> Who is the "we" that "establishes" things, and decides what information constitutes "evidence" and what does not?

> LMAO.

Not an answer to the question.

If you have an aversion to answering questions that's fine, but I'd prefer an acknowledgement (just a request though, not a requirement).

> We are HNers participating in a discussion...

Well there's a problem: you do not actually know the degree to which other HN'ers agree with you.

> ...in which you appear to be taking issue with the point I made that Epstein offers no reason to update our priors on conspiracy theorists knowing things the mainstream media doesn't because Epstein was unmasked by lawyers, police and mainstream media, not conspiracy theorists. (And mainstream media did not, as far as I'm aware, rush to insist he couldn't possibly have done such awful things)

You also do not have comprehensive knowledge of what has happened in the conspiracy theory world, or in the journalism world (including editorial decisions made behind closed doors).

> I presume if you felt evidence to the contrary existed - that people who were onto Epstein were pooh-poohed as conspiracy theorists until the truth came out - you'd have offered me that as a counter argument rather than a list of links about heuristics and cognitive biases.

I've formed no strong belief because I understand the significance of the content of those links - you on the other hand seem to (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) have not only formed a strong belief, but also mistaken it for knowledge.

> (If actually do have the evidence, I apologise for the excessively charitable assumption about your understanding of how to engage in truthful, good-faith discussion and look forward to seeing it)

No charity required - I am not here to make friends. (Nice dig though! :) )

> I'm thinking an honest attempt to demonstrate alignment between Epstein revelations and popular conspiracy theories (that wasn't after, and derivative of mainstream reporting on Epstein) might be an more interesting counterargument than a list of articles about cognitive biases.

Making up stupid beliefs and implicitly attributing them to your ideological opponents is a demonstration of something: the poor thinking skills and dishonesty of the person who made the claim: you.

> In the absence of such evidence, I don't really see Epstein offering any reason for anyone to update any priors they have on popular conspiracy theories.

At the very least, conspiracy theorists had the ability to take this story very seriously, and discuss it in much greater depth than normies. Opinions vary on how seriously child abuse should be taken - some are strict, others are more accepting.

> Cute that someone that responds with a series of Wikipedia links is demanding explicit statements in response and lecturing me on truthful, good faith discussions though.

What's cute about it, and what's the problem with including links that are relevant to a discussion?
It came about because Microsoft deployed what they called "unicode" before UTF-8 was standardized. In Microsoft-land "Unicode" means UTF-16. This isn't great but it's also baked into all the APIs.
At this point we're both mostly into semantic territory. You focused on the beginning of the statement ("real business"), I focused on the end ("shouldn't exist"). I don't think a business that is only viable due to illegal pricing schemes is a real business, but that's also just semantics.

Speaking of.

> should be illegal

Predatory pricing for the sake of driving competitors out of business to establish dominant market power is illegal, setting aside that the gradual erosion of enforcement means that antitrust law functionally no longer exists in the US.
> but it is entirely software based so you can sync credentials between devices.

AFAIK one can flash a Yubikey with a specific AES key and make the Yubico backend aware of that AES key. The OTPs won't start with cccc but something else then (this is used to differentiate from the default flashed AES which is already known by Yubico).

So what's stopping you from flashing the same AES key to another Yubikey, essentially duplicating your key (at least for OTP)?

This is of course not as secure as the initial AES known by Yubico and present on your Yubikey (not readable).
that study is about overpopulation? worker coops have nothing to do about what you're talking about. but if you wanna go down that path, to counter: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-mutua...
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Yes, but as you’ve pointed out not at their desired multiples.

The history of the concept goes line this:

1) Some restaurants begin offering delivery for a fee as a service to busy customers.

2) Restaurants figure out free delivery is a great loss leader and make it up on volume.

3) Seamless figures out they can centralize the menus of these companies using the Web. Restaurants still handle the delivery themselves and pay Seamless a small referral fee.

4) DoorDash innovates on this by vertically integrating the delivery aspect themselves allowing scale and access to restaurants that did not previously offer delivery.

5) DoorDash begins the process of “delivery arbitrage” betting people will pay more for individual items if delivered.

6) Ghost Kitchen are invented to vertically integrate the restaurant into the service. This bets that people are price sensitive to delivery fees/arbitrage.

Going up to #3 was profitable.
And even when dieting is done successfully, most people regain the majority of weight lost within 5 years. It takes permanent lifestyle changes to make weight loss persist over time which is not a simple thing to do.
I'm not seeing this right now. I'm almost 42, just laid off, should have three offers this week after only three weeks of looking. I have lots of white hair...I think it's all in the presentation and expectations.
H&M has 155,000 people, and the layoffs are primarily back-office staff. As unfortunate as it is, laying off 0.1% of a company of that scale (perhaps not in one go) has to be somewhat of a standard practice?
Did you work with your Psychiatrist to try different meds? There's a lot of different types, including some that are not stimulants.

I had 3 different types that didn't work for me until I settled on an extended release dose of an aderall derivative.
After reading that book, I look at influential people so differently now.
Even the setup that locks a work device (and I feel the dirty secret these days is often people are using personal laptops for work or work laptops for personal use) should be able to display an email-length message.
I am not sure how that is related, but the last part of that phrase is often left out. “Americans do not want to do those jobs at a certain price”

>Relatively open ended immigration programs with minimal restrictions are defensible, but this caste system is not.

Yes, that was my point. The only population benefiting from H1-Bs reduced negotiating power due to their immigration rules is business owners.
Not surprising. Anybody with a life isn't desired by these places. The results, unfortunately, seem secondary to the culture. Their call, their money - pay attention during interviews and how the companies perform.

The sad thing is that everybody on the south side of this problem will cross over 30/35/40 and wonder what hit them.
How do you start with 'good riddance' and then end with 'it's a shame really'?

It sounds more and more like these people tried to solve social / political problem(s), with technology.

Regardless of blockchain or not... it wasn't going to work until they got past the social issues.
Ask HN: Lighter Alternatives to LLVM
Is LLVM the only way to generate fast cross-platform nowadaysk?

Last time Zig managed to be self-hosting and codegen for various platforms is possible without LLVM.
I joined one of the shards of Mastodon in 2018 or so and it's amazing to me how little it has evolved even since then. Not a knock on the developers who maintain it, but something is inherently broken in how it functions. It is not a consumer product and will not get adoption. Way too much friction that will be too alienating to journalist-types.

I also get irked by quotes like this from the article:

> All the chaos has scared away advertisers and users, who are leaving [Twitter] in droves. [...] On November 12, Mastodon founder Eugen Gagron posted that “[t]here are 1M more people using #Mastodon today than there were on October 27.”

Unless this writer has evidence that these 1M people are deactivating their Twitter accounts, this is meaningless. Signups to a new platform do not equal to those signups "leaving" the other one. The point the writer is making for advertisers is more reasonable, but they too have likely just paused campaigns for the time being and could scurry back as soon as traffic warrants it.
See also: there are only 12 episodes of Fawlty Towers.
>What's your assumption based on?

Anecdotal. Seeing restaurants that no longer do sit down and only do delivery, plus the creation of the ghost kitchen market. I also have no data, so I can't really defend this point. Just an observation.

>How is it different? They run an unprofitable business that rips off everyone involved and is subsidized by investors who were suckered into thinking this is a real business.

The point I was making is that the food delivery marketplace is a real business that delivers real value, just a sucky one with unclear value. Your comment seems to outline that you think it's built on hype and sucking in future money to pay past investors.

The fact that Lyft can, at times, be profitable disproves your point.
> Are they just trolls who jump on to the case du jour to send threats to people?

Once someone has been positively categorized as belonging to the outgroup¹, people love to really get their kicks in. Doxx cheaters! Punch nazis! Get those groomers! Everything is acceptable towards the outgroup.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33046527
Titanic collision could have formed the moon within hours
One solution to a government-related problem:

"Mike Titley-Harris and Michael Titley-Harris, who live in West Midlands, England, recently received a jury summons. “Michael opened the letter and we both said, ‘Who is this for?’ He phoned up the number on the letter and they said, ‘Whoever opened the letter is who has been called,’” Mike recalls. “Off you go, Michael!”
I read the "Erlang inspired" more narrowly. Specifically, it's about supporting large numbers of efficient, isolated processes. So there's a single, well-understood concurrency primitive: the (lunatic) process.

Having written concurrent code in Erlang, C# and Python, I'd view above as a win. A big win. Concurrency decisions in Erlang are simple: if things need to run concurrently, spawn them in different processes. If they're sequential, put them in a function. That's it.

In C# and Python it's nowhere near as straightforward. Do you use OS processes? Threads? Async/Await? Each has different strengths; each also has significant weaknesses.

So: a new runtime that aims to bring Erlang's simple, powerful and scalable concurrency model to any language that targets WebAssembly is, at the very least, interesting. It doesn't need to have all the wider benefits of OTP, or the symbiosis of Erlang and the BEAM. (Though that's great too obviously).
Once you know how to program picking up a new language is just a matter of doing a project or two in it. Just go see what jobs are interesting to you and learn the language/framework they want over a weekend or two.
> trust-less "source of truth" for coordination between mutually distrusting parties

This only works if everything of value is on the blockchain. Otherwise, the oracle problem makes regular databases a better solution.
Selling the sarcasm.
Good for you, unfortunately some of us with ADHD want to fly airplanes, and soon enough, realize that the FAA still lives in the early 1900s, where you have to "man up" and "deal with it". So we just silently suffer, every single day.
For big tech, a lot of your comp is in stock. So this would diminish the salary increase effectively by reducing the stock price.

IME, people are a lot more sensitive to lowered stock prices than meager annual increases. The latter doesn’t feel emotionally like a loss.
It's fine to not optimize from the start, but the examples they gave are of cases where the code is doing something more complex that's also slower.

Don't make your solution more complex than it needs to be. Start with the simplest solution and you will often get a faster solution as a side effect.
They could always use WTF-8 for the filesystem APIs which can encode all WTF-16 strings (i.e. the encoding that Windows actually uses).
I'm not really sure about that. I used to have a full-time job out of college where sometimes I'd spend 30 minutes working per week. Serious, serious procrastination. Got panic attacks about it too. It took lots of introspection but eventually settled on "do one thing per day" for a while, i.e. the Seinfeld method, then eventually after a few years started job hopping.

I was also actually diagnosed with bipolar - around the same time as the bad procrastination - but I stopped taking my meds a decade ago (against the wishes of my doctor) and I'm basically fine now.
This looks like a data equivalent of WordPress, and I don't mean that in a good way. What happens when someone no longer wants to use Patterns?
Spot on. Experienced devs already know enough languages to cover most sides, so learn the one that fits the job.
Fully agree. I unfortunately never had the balls to fight back, but every time I think back about it, I wish I'd just fucking punched someone. Even now, 20 years after the fact.
I was in a Target once and I spied a small box that read "DOS" in nice friendly bold Helvetica. For a fleeting moment I thought maybe it was a mini console shaped like a PC that ran DOS games.

Turned out to have been Dos, the sequel to the card game Uno. But man, what a dream. It's good to see this guy making that dream real.

Tandy mini PCs when?
As a younger man I used to apologise for other christians who let the show down, but now I don't. As you say there are many good and bad from all walks of life. The church is my family and we all know how families tend to play out.

I think as human beings we need to think seriously on the question, why are we here? And I also think that we need to have good relationships, be part of a community. I have realised this more as I have gotten older. Some will be surprised when they reach their work/money goals. You will find you will still be left with questions. I speak from experience. At 50 I am reading books written by 80 year olds looking back at life. It makes interesting reading.
They can rot in hell. I ordered a pizza the other day, and it went from a $15 pizza, to a $40 + tip endeavor. Fuck that. First and last time I used their service.
"Value Add" for food is insidious.
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Could be different for application devs vs the infra work I do as a SRE. I just know during the last couple of months when I was job searching Python was a common denominator in a given tech stack and a safe bet. Go was a nice to have for the more forward thinking out there.
>Adjust your expectations.

This is so true, life is all about expectations. If you hope for the best, but plan for, and expect the worst, you'll be pleasantly surprised along the way.
> Crucially, you can't solve this through a trusted third party, firstly because there is none that operates world-wide, and secondly because it would grant enormous power to that party, and no logistical actor is willing to give away this power.

This is one of the weirder aspects of crypto. Why would entrusting 1000’s of random people with GPUs be preferable to trusting one party (who, in a black chain scenario could be one of the GPU-holders anyway).
Doesn't help that one of its highest-profile proponents is Jordan Goddamned Peterson.
An astonishing amount of 'hackers' on this wee forum confuse the two.