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Ask HN: Struggling with poor memory and executive function. What to do?
In my late 30s and have always struggled to effectively build a career, network, life. Has only occurred to me that this may due to what seems to be a deficiency in my memory. I've had a wealth of experiences, both good and bad, but few have found their way into my mental models of how the world works, and so I keep making the same mistakes or am unable to effectively navigate my way to a specific goal.

From learning new topics & skills, to learning how to network, to learning the dynamics of how an organization and how to navigate various relationships, to making well-reasoned and effective decisions, my mind often feels like mush, totally blinded to the realities of the world. I feel I've been stuck both cognitively and emotionally at a late-teen stage. Poor emotional regulation, difficulties with thinking in nuanced details, constantly flying at 1000 feet.

The older I get with no improvement, the more it feels my goals keep drifting farther away. I want to get fit, I want to read more, I want to develop skills, I want to build relationships, I want to be an entrepreneur. These are things many of my colleagues have been working towards for years. It feels like I just wasn't given the playbook, and worse, am incapable of piecing one together.

Have any of you dealt with this? Any advice?
Are there coaches that can help?
CPP spends billions on active investing. Time to go passive?
China bans clinical research in germline genome editing as 'irresponsible'
My Sony a7 mirrorless solves basically all of the issues you have described.

The menu hierarchy isn't flat.

Physical knobs for everything, even customizable. Touch to focus (though I prefer using the ring tbh).

BT/WiFi transfer. A bit slow (2-3 sec for a 50mb raw photo) but fine for what I need. I use a USB-c SD reader for my phone and sync the entire card to an SD card in my smartphone.

Full size HDMI built in.

I don't think I would say that cameras are dead, it's just that it's a hobbyist thing now. Most of my friends would never buy a camera except a cheapy one like an Instax for fun, they're not dropping a grand on an f1.4 35mm.
I only have solar!! It’s awesome. Completely off grid. Sailboat life.
Baldur's Gate 3 staff in Russia were relocated during development
Idk, I've been a pretty big booster of Mozilla (check my comment history) but this one is appalling.

Legit, this is the same FLoC we had to bully Chrome out of having. And now Ffx is putting it in sneakily by as an opt out default with no notice.
I was recently released from a clinical trial because of too many “newly measurable” areas of tumor. I was offered CAR-T but was told that it comes with a high risk of possibly fatal infections and is not guaranteed to work at all for my cancer (HER-2 positive lung cancer, stage 4). I turned it down. I have a wife and 3 kids, I’d rather spend an unknown amount of time being fully present with them than risk my life today.
Jailbreaking RabbitOS (The Hard Way)
> Why do people return Windows laptops when they have to pay for a Windows License Activation?

The internet echo chamber strikes again. Exactly how many people are actually doing this? Not many, and those that are all hangout together. The rest of the world just blindly goes about their day using Windows while surfing the web using Chrome. Sometimes, it's a good thing to get outside your bubble. It's a big world out there, and not everybody sees the world as you do
> Although I must confess that I have a mental block about the second and third components of a C-style for-loop and whenever possible, I avoid them if I can.

Glad I'm not the only one! Despite programming for over a decade, I still mix up the order of `update` and `condition` sometimes in `(initialization, condition, update)` for loops. Probably because I spent too much time with Python and became so accustomed to only using `for x in y` style loops.
Saw it in Karachi last year: a street containing exclusively gold workshops was blocked for traffic Sunday morning, guarded officially by the police, while the staff hired by the co-op swept every inch. Apparently this is a weekly routine.
If properly generated even the smallest RSA key sizes used in practice are still safe from birthday collisions.

But there have been several high-profile cases of bad RNGs generating multiple certs with RSA keys that had common factors. I think if you were put at risk by such a broken RNG, frequently re-generating your certs would tend to make things worse, not better.
Electra: Pre-Training Text Encoders as Discriminators Rather Than Generators (2020)
"..without confirming the new timeline..."

Non existing technology.To be shown next year with some driver assistance, with service announcement for probably 2027, that will be delayed every year...providing for years of stock pumping. Brilliant...
There's a really good documentary movie about this too:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435625/
> the EU is basically a technocracy. The European Commission authors all European law, and the legislature is reduced to being a vetoing and amending body. They came up with this system after a couple hundred years of people experimenting with republican forms of government, and it seems to be doing pretty well

For whom? The EU is almost completely unaccountable and used to launder unpopular legislation that favours monied interests; the European populace only tolerate it because it's been stapled onto what was originally a politically neutral trade bloc, and have voted against giving it expanded powers in every chance they've had (for all the good it's done them).
> A double-precision real in the 8087 provided ~15 digits of accuracy, because that's the way Berkeley floating-point expert William Kahan designed its number representation

I don’t think Kahan had a direct part in the design of the 8087. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8087#Design_and_developm... agrees, saying “Palmer credited William Kahan's writings on floating point as a significant influence on their design.”
I've never evaluated any myself, but became acutely aware of them after launching my own temporary mail service as a learning exercise. I think there's a github repo somewhere that's regularly updated with a block list of these cycled domains though.
How to choose what a programming language to learn first
Looking to pivot from IT into programming and super overwhelmed by the choices. How do I begin to choose a language so I can advance into tutorial hell erm learning.
Well put <3
I got 59. Too bad about frame and frameset. I was happy to recall map and area.
Not so sure I agree. In the case of an iPhone, the making of voice calls is probably a small amount of all use cases for the device, it's more so a computing device with a phone peripheral. But a washing machine's main function is to wash, and the computer controlling it is really secondary to its main function. The computer could be removed and it wohld still be essentially the same function with relays and timers. If you take the computer out of the iphone and replace it with relays and such to control the "phone" part of it, then it wouldn't resemble an iphone at all, and have virtually none of the functionality that an iphone has.
A gummy isn’t a hemp product. A gummy is a candy infused with a hemp product.

The article’s claim about gummies is supported only by shops, not by courts.

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/public-health-focus/fda-regu...
Ingenious! Why not. Beats getting it out of the ground. Possibly good for the environment as for a given gold demand less needs to be mined.
I choose Google Domains just for the ease of use but when it came time to move there was no way I was transferring to Squarespace. I'm not sure how long I'll stick with Cloudflare, but for now they will do.
> I do note that CUDA is itself closed source

And this is a good point. However, it also has a 17 year head start, and many of those years were spent developing before people realized what a huge market there was.

All it will take is one committed genius to create an open source alternative to CUDA to dethrone it.

But they would have to have some Mojo (hint hint) to pull that off.
I hadn't considered that: in an age of social media, this kind of review gets a lot harder.
> Okay, so by my understanding, now the goalposts are all the way out to being unable to capture the count of enemies but being able to verify the count?

I don't think the goalposts have moved, at least for me. I've always had them set at Mozilla not turning any info over to advertisers. They spout a mathematical formalism (differential privacy) so I point out that a better formalism (Shannon secrecy) already existed 70 years earlier and they should stay with it.

> If you want Mozilla to stop shipping potentially privacy-affecting changes without consent or notification, I'm in agreement with you. But the actual system they describe and their reasoning for implementing it is, in my mind, relatively sound.

"Without consent or notification" is more misdirection, since they did give notice and arguably obtained consent, knowing perfectly well that almost nobody actually reads the notifications and conditions, and instead uses the defaults. If they have default opt-out and a true affirmative opt-in then that is more acceptable. We went through this with email spam more than a decade ago, and currently acceptable practice is DOUBLE opt-in.

> But the actual system they describe and their reasoning for implementing it is, in my mind, relatively sound.

I can believe that in technical terms, their system does what it says it does. Their reasoning for implementing it is that it brings in money, and that reasoning is probably sound too (i.e. it really does bring in money). Their reasoning that it preserves user privacy is self-serving and obnoxious. They too successfully obfuscate how real privacy protection would work.
And some countries at least pretend that privacy rights are stronger vs. the right to publish photos that are not marketing/advertising although I'm sure those rights are broken many thousands of times a day. The US does not except in very specific circumstances--including for said marketing/advertising or circumstances where you had a reasonable expectation of privacy (or misrepresentation).
How Slitherlink Should Be Solved
You're assuming that the courts will be consistent or sane with their rulings.
Top posts during (approximately) last 1 months:

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The review looks to be real in this case, but I believe I was victim to fake reviewers about a decade ago that destroyed my Amazon business. I had all positive reviews up until this point (about 2 years in business, 150 reviews).

A single person told me they received what they believed was a counterfeit product. I immediately refunded them and paid for shipping back to me (so I could inspect it myself).

They refused to ship it back and went to complain to Amazon and leave negative reviews. Amazon closed my account and held around $50,000 for 90 days. They told me I might not get any money back. I got it all back, but my business account was permanently banned. I just got it back about 6 months ago.

This changed the direction of my life. I built a million dollar business outside of these major platforms and ran it for almost 8 years. The industry changed and I was able to get out of that business with no debt.

Basing any business on platforms like Amazon or Ebay is horrendous. It's nice for a boost, but too many companies get drunk on the easy sales and end up losing everything when they decide one day that you are on their shit list. The worst part is that they offer almost no support and almost always side with the customer, even if they are outright scamming you.
> The place I worked have everything length prefixed and by the end of the 90s all the network parsing was code generated from protocol description files, to remove the need for manually writing string copying code

Would you expound on this please? I've seen people reserve the first element as the size of the buffer but then, say a char buffer, has a size limit based on the size of char itself. What advice would you give yourself if you were just becoming a senior developer today? I do embedded myself
Yep, I'm looking forward to seeing how China (and maybe their Russian partners) develops the Moon and the resources there, and seeing how this affects economies and the power balance here on Earth. Because the western countries certainly aren't going to succeed in getting there first.
Reminds me of the stories of people in NYC's diamond district making their living by looking for dropped gemstones and tiny bits of gold.

https://nypost.com/2011/06/20/got-his-mined-in-the-gutter/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfrqUNFtM6A
>Oh, so you're just fully committing to bad faith?

At least of late, that appears to be GPs raison d'etre[0].

Not sure what that's all about. And more's the pity.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40919902
It's the usual reason: insurance company BS. I was diagnosed in the early 2000s, which mostly stopped my snoring, and I felt a little better. I had my second sleep study in the early 2010s, and in that sleep study, they thought they detected signs of central sleep apnea. I had to change sleep doctors because of insurance, and my current one is quite good. He ran a more in-depth study plus looked at the nightly results from my CPAP machine, and from that, he was able to piece together the story about central apnea and high-loop gain periodic breathing.

Now that said, if you not getting results, call your sleep Dr. and make sure they take a look at the nightly stats from your CPAP. I'm assuming you have a modern one that reports back to central headquarters. From those results they can do things like change how the CPAP deals with your apnea. If those don't work, the sleep doc has information to justify a more in-depth sleep study.

Exercises like planks and wall sits seem to improve my sleep. I also take a magnesium supplement at bedtime. If you take any medication like blood pressure drugs or antidepressants, talk to Dr. because they also can affect sleep quality.
No, my reasoning does not say that a browser shouldn't handle a long URL (which is a substring of a page it has already accepted and rendered).
Not much disagreement (and a huge fan of Scott himself), I'm more so thinking they could do so much more with the raw cognitive horsepower in the community. They'd be better without their ideology and methods imho.
Nope. Unicode correctness is much more complicated than switching char to wchar_t. Many glyphs take multiple codepoints or multiple character units in either utf-16 or utf-8. You need something like the break iterator "character" separator in ICU.
> Spare me the glitchy touch screens on kitchen appliances that can't be operated with wet fingers

Well, the person upthread did say "I don't think any of the camera manufacturers have good UX people" (emphasis mine) and the kitchen appliance companies don't either
The pitch retraction at the new Santiago Bernabéu stadium – Real Madrid [video]
Scratch is the only type of visual programming I've enjoyed using. It's easy to read if you're an experienced programmer because it has the same structure as regular code, and it's easy to read for beginners because everything is broken into large blocks that have what they do written right on them. The way code is structured in most programming languages is actually very logical and intuitive, and it's the most successful system we have so far. The problem for beginners is that they can't figure out if they enjoy programming until they've learned the syntax, which can be very discouraging for some people. I've seen Scratch bridge that gap for people a couple of times, and I think it's probably the best model when it comes to teaching people to code.

I think other types of models would only be useful for situations where writing code isn't the most intuitive way to make something. From my limited experience, a visual system for making shaders is a pretty good idea, because ideally, you don't want to have many conditional branches or loops, but you might have a lot of expressions that would look ugly in regular code.
This is why if you ever get jewellery repaired or resized, ask for the scrap to be returned.

Some less than reputable places will try to off-handedly say it was discarded. They don't lose anything.
Incredible timing, I was just looking for somewhere to store and share my video game clips. This looks more appealing (cheaper) than Streamable.

I love that there is a Linux Appimage but does it also work with just a browser?
That is a valid reason to pick Python.
Cloudflare of course does not do so out of the goodness of their heart.
Yes, the spec is open and contributed to by the main implementations, all open source.

https://github.com/lightning/bolts

https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd

https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning

https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair

https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning
The sorts of things the author wants cannot be built on top of malloc() and free(), that's kind of the whole point here.
https://archive.is/nN7Am
Yeah, the same crap that's been started with Youtube and has exploded on Tiktok... everything must be advertiser friendly, so instead of "suicide" it's "unalive" now.

As societies, we have to force Google, YouTube, Tiktok and all the other algorithm-based rankers to fully disclose their ranking criteria as a first step, and then actually discuss as a society if we want to force the rankers to rank differently.
I can understand why you would feel that way.
Why are we so sure that a lot of "previously intractable problems" are/will be solved with this family of methods? (and I mean real-life/real-world problems, not toy problems constructed specifically to show the proposed methods in the best light possible in the research papers)
Of course others above have pointed out drug or protein design as a potential area, but there still seems uncertainty as to the practical impact on the real world. Other than that, I don't see areas of impact for these approaches so far.
> The belief that a normal number must eventually contain itself arises from extremely flawed thinking about probability.

Yes. There is an issue with the premise as it leads to a contradiction.

> Like djkorchi mentioned above, if we knew pi = 3.14....pi..., that would mean pi = 3.14... + 10^n pi for some n, meaning (1 - 10^n) pi = 3.14... and pi = (3.14...) / (1 - 10^n), aka a rational number.

Yes. If pi = 3.14...pi ( pi repeats at the end ), then it is rational as the ending pi itself would contain an ending pi and it would repeat forever ( hence a rational number ). I thought the guy was talking about pi contain pi somewhere within itself.

pi = 3.14...pi... ( where the second ... represents an infinite series of numbers ). Then we would never reach the second set of ... and the digits of pi would not be enumerable.

So if pi cannot be contained within ( anywhere in the middle of pi ) and pi cannot be contained at the end, then pi must not contain pi.
> Bakers don't give away their goods. Mechanics don't typically repair things for free. Builders don't build things for free. Gas stations don't give away gas.

These all have the property which is that they are scarce physical goods or services. Software is not scarce (though of course the labor to create it is), so this is a really bad comparison.

And again I did not say it should or should not be free, I said there are engineering benefits to open source software and more and more people recognize those benefits and choose to make things free because they see the value and are willing to recognize the tradeoffs. I never said what "should" be done. "Should" is kind of a nonsense term when used in this way as it hides a lot of assumptions, so I generally do not use it, and notably did not use it in my comment. I want to point out the peculiarity in your rather strong response to a word and concept I never used. I think you are having an argument with imagined people, not a discussion with me.

And for what it is worth, I am a robotics engineer and I am designing a completely open source solar powered farming robot designed to be made in a small shop in any city in the world (see my profile), funded by a wealthy robotics entrepreneur who recognizes the value in making this technology available to people all over the world.

So I am one of those engineers making this choice, and not someone just asking for things without doing the same of my work. Everything I produce is open source, including person projects and even my personal writing.
Thanks for the suggestion but we need to alert our users of important changes!
I've got a pretty old 7400 watt system installed back when the incentives from California were pretty good. It's lost quite a bit of efficiency over the years, and usually tops out at around 5200 watts, providing ~40KWh during cloudless days in the summer. I don't know much about net metering and incentives, but what I do know is that I can't make any major changes to the installation without ratcheting down to the current regulatory system, which reduces compensation for selling during off-peak hours.
You can't post like this here. Please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yeah the only time that wealth has a chance to transfer back to the young is then the old die and they give it to their children
I'm wondering how these gemstones even make their way on the street. Are jewelry workshops really so messy and flippant with this product that it presumably gets caught up on people and just falls off their clothes when they leave from work? Is it from crappy stone settings falling off immediately on leaving the stores? Seems so strange to me how such a valuable product ends up dispersed in the environment like this.
He would be too busy begging numerous agencies to handle his name to beg to differ with you.

Is there a picture of the ID page of that man's passport? Or of a driver's license or similar?

Whatever is on that is his actual name.
And people say that public ownership is "less efficient" than private industry, and less efficient than regulated private industry.

Well.. I don't buy it. Access to drugs and efficient pricing and rationing (because that is what it is) is not working well. It's a massively distorted market.

The public good here would be better served by another model.

Even the "we need these prices to recover our massive sunk costs" part of the argument is bogus. Much good drug design and research is done on the tertiary education and research budget worldwide.

There is absolutely no single-process need to do drug IPR based models, the profit motive is not the only model.

I look to the modern mRNA drug emergence to lead to radical shake up in the cost of production of novel treatments. We're seeing some signs of this, along with other changes in drug models: injectable hypertension treatment is in test. Imagine the impact on the cost basis of a pill-per-day model!
Scale: Compile unmodified CUDA code for AMD GPUs
Appreciate the clarification. That makes perfect sense.

I work at a B2B SaaS company that sells $50k contracts, and we don’t offer monthly billing and we’ve done quarterly billing maybe once (for a premium). I could imagine the way you’re thinking being helpful if you offer monthly billing and you have lock in to the point where you know people won’t churn so there’s no major benefit to locking people in for a year.
Well I don't.

I've seen 2 people who cares about the stack more than the task itself. They lose their job
way more often than average and is often criticized for not able to complete their task on time.

Some hiring managers tend you quiz you with framework details instead of your learning & reasoning ability. Avoid those teams.
Kind of like the system we already have with landlords.