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eatitraw

2,252 karma · joined February 5, 2012

Software engineer from Russia living in the UK

Email: avp-13@yandex.ru

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eatitraw··on When starting school, younger children are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD
Spot on. I wish ADHD had a less cute sounding name, maybe then people would take it more seriously. And it is also a misnomer: it is often about being unable to regulate attention (rather than simply having a lack of it), which leads to mysterious variations in productivity, especially with tasks that are not novel, interesting or challenging.
eatitraw··on When starting school, younger children are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD
What's your point here? ADHD brains are still there. You can choose not to medicate yourself if you don't want to.
eatitraw··on When starting school, younger children are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD
There is a 'hunter vs farmer hypothesis'. It is certainly a cute idea. But even if it is true, the society isn't going back to back to persistence hunting.

There is some real human suffering right now (simply by definition from DSM - if there is no impairment, it is not ADHD).

"I guess I picked the wrong time to be a human being".

eatitraw··on When starting school, younger children are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD
I am really surprised at all the skepticism about ADHD in this thread.

1) Attention (or executive functioning in general) is normally distributed, just like a lot of other human traits. If you don't doubt that intelligence is normally distributed (and that some people are smarter than other), what makes you think that there is no variability in executive functioning / attention?

Executive functioning also improves as brain develops, and that's why problems of younger kids are probably more noticeable.

2) Re: diagnosing using checklists and interviewing. That's literally how every other psychiatric disorder is diagnosed. Depression? Checklists and interviewing. Anxiety? Checklists and interviewing. Schizophrenia? Also checklists and interviewing.

Studies show that there are measurable differences between ADHD brains and normal brains. People complain that these are not used for diagnosis. The reason these scans are not used for diagnosis is because the resolution of common brain scan methods is not high enough, and these differences are seen on the population level.

3) Some graphs on brains differences: https://adhd-institute.com/burden-of-adhd/aetiology/neurobio...

eatitraw··on Show HN: Lunar lander-type game with computational fluid dynamics
Really cool and fun game. I really wish there were more levels!

Also, like some people suggested, it'd be nice to have an option for running the game at a higher speed.

eatitraw··on Should Rivers Have Rights? A Growing Movement Says It’s Time
> Should they be imprisoned?

No, because other animals don't have mental capacity to truly understand the consequences of their action.

That said, I've never really seen a consistent argument against _protecting_ prey animals from lions (and letting lions die out).

eatitraw··on Show HN: Just Get Me Food
Unfortunately, it didn't work for my city.

The idea reminds me of "WHERE THE FUCK SHOULD I GO TO EAT?"( https://wtfsigte.com/)

eatitraw··on Chaff Bugs: Deterring Attackers by Making Software Buggier
Imaging having a bug in your software that introduces bugs. Instead of introducing new non-exploitable bugs, it introduces exploitable ones.

This would probably be a nightmare to debug.

eatitraw··on Ultrasound can cause anomalies in the Xiaomi MI5S Plus gyroscope
Humans fuse a lot of sensory data though. For example, walking without proprioception is incredibly hard: https://philosophyandpsychology.wordpress.com/2007/10/14/liv...
eatitraw··on Archiving your website in the Wayback Machine
You actually need to worry, because ids are personal data.

Eve you abandon all these social media platforms and use emails for login, email addresses are still personal data, and you are still processing it.

eatitraw··on Archiving your website in the Wayback Machine
Except that if you add "login with" button then you are suddenly start processing personal data (even if you only store social media ids).
eatitraw··on Archiving your website in the Wayback Machine
Have you actually tried to read and understand GDPR before getting to this level self-righteousness?

A blog writer wants an easy way of tracking popularity of their posts. Clearly I need a protection from this.

The internet is worse off after GDPR.

eatitraw··on James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google
Probably something like "Women are more interested in other fields, so they end up working in these fields instead of tech."
eatitraw··on DeepMind and Blizzard Open StarCraft II as an AI Research Environment
I agree that SC2 is much easier for a human player. However, top players still have to do quite a bit of micromanagement.
eatitraw··on Regarding Marcus Hutchins aka MalwareTech
> So, if I paid someone $1 to commit murder then it wouldn't be egregious?

A straw man. Stealing $1 is certainly isn't as serious than stealing $100k. And creating malware is closer to theft rather than murdering people.

eatitraw··on How We Built r/Place
Ah okay then!

BTW, thanks for the great post, it was a very interesting read.

eatitraw··on How We Built r/Place
> We used our websocket service to publish updates to all the clients.

I used /r/place from a few different browsers with a few different accounts, and they all seemed to have slightly different view of the same pixels. Was I the only one who experienced this problem?

When /r/place experiment was still going, I assumed that they grouped updates in some sort of batches, but now it seems like they intended all users to receive all updates more or less immediately.

eatitraw··on How real are real numbers? (2004)
Even though you defined the number, you can't really do usual stuff with it: e.g. you can't compare it to other numbers.

IMO, these kind of numbers are no more "real" than infinitesimals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreal_number

eatitraw··on It’s now illegal in Russia to share an image of Putin as a gay clown
TBH, so far I haven't seen a single instance of this picture shared after it became illegal.
eatitraw··on Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment
> I don't think there is anything actually political on the final /r/place piece other than country flags.

There are various flags of different anarchist movements, very long trans* flag, LGBT flags here and there. IMO, all these count as "actually political".

eatitraw··on Heroku is no longer the hobbyist's friend
> I'm wondering if there are any recommendations for "Heroku-like" providers with a free tier that stays up 24/7 for super simple Rails and Sinatra apps, perhaps with a DB.

OpenShift(https://www.openshift.com/) may be the service you're looking for. I haven't tried it, but it looks nice.

eatitraw··on Ask HN: The best way to move an existing long-running process between terminals?
This works sometimes! Thanks
eatitraw··on Ask HN: The best way to move an existing long-running process between terminals?
I am aware of screen, and in fact, it'd be nice to move the process into a screen or tmux(and I mention this). The process is long-running, and I'd like to keep it running(instead of killing it and starting in screen/tmux)
eatitraw··on Ask HN: The best way to move an existing long-running process between terminals?
The whole point of my question: you have a _pre-existing_ long-running process that you don't want to restart.

I am aware of screen and tmux, in fact, I explicitly mention that I'd like to move the process into a tmux:

> ideally, you'd like to move this process inside a tmux

eatitraw··on Classical music generation with recurrent neural networks
If you are ok with someone else setting up a service like this, could you please share the model data? I have some free computing power, and I wanted to play with deep learning for quite some time. (Also, If I set up a service like this, I'll link back to your blog post)
eatitraw··on Show HN: Bocker – Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash
Now we need bokku: https://github.com/progrium/dokku
eatitraw··on Show HN: Retroospect – How was your work week?
Anyone else have problem signing up? The forms just don't work. I press "Sign up" but nothing happens

EDIT: now they've sent me 8 welcome emails. Hmm

eatitraw··on Ask HN: When will “Who is Hiring?” be posted? It's past 9am Eastern
> PS. Mods, dang - it'd be nice if you could take over this and make it official, no?

Isn't it already (semi-)official?

> An account named whoishiring is the only one allowed to submit the regular threads. This prevents a race to post them first.

From: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

eatitraw··on Agar.io
Great game! Feature request: please add chat
eatitraw··on Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Liking”?
> I can only imagine you have a use case for building something.

Not really! It's just simple curiosity.

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