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It honestly sounds like OP got the answer to her question but refuses to accept it. I guess there's also Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome, but there's not a lot of research into how it differs from just inattentive ADHD and no real effort has been made towards finding treatment besides stimulants and atomoxetine, so she might as well go with ADHD as the answer. That's the answer she's been given twice by professionals but rejects it, and she rejects even trying the treatment for some reason.

> None of these hold up under actual studies

I agree with you overall, but interestingly, research really has found a link between lower Vitamin B12/B6/B2 levels and ADHD. Also lower Vitamin D, and delayed circadian rhythm. You certainly can't use supplements as a replacement for stimulants but they may help.

I don't think ADHD in particular is caused by unrelated stuff. The heritability findings are pretty strong.

> A study of 894 ADHD probands and 1135 of their siblings aged 5–17 years old found a ninefold increased risk of ADHD in siblings of ADHD probands compared with siblings of controls [2]. Adoption studies suggest that the familial factors of ADHD are attributable to genetic factors rather than shared environmental factors [3, 4] with the most recent one reporting rates of ADHD to be greater among biological relatives of non-adopted ADHD children than adoptive relatives of adopted ADHD children. The adoptive relatives had a risk for ADHD like the risk in relatives of control children [4].

> Twin studies rely on the difference between the within-pair similarities of monozygotic (MZ) twin pairs, who are genetically identical, and dizygotic (DZ) twin pairs, who share, on average, 50% of their segregating genes. The mean heritability across 37 twin studies of ADHD or measures of inattentiveness and hyperactivity is 74% (Fig. 1). A similar heritability estimate of around 80% was seen in a study of MZ and DZ twins, full siblings, and maternal and paternal half-siblings [5]. The heritability is similar in males and females and for the inattentive and hyperactive-impulsive components of ADHD [6,7,8].

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-018-0070-0

And false negatives. I just pasted 100% AI generated code and it told me it's only 40% AI written.

With continuous use or a one-time dose? What was the dosage?

>My hypothesis about this for a long time has been stimulants help everyone be more productive (with some tradeoffs)

Of course they do. They're stimulants, that's what they do. Some people just need them to be closer to normal, or whatever's considered normal in post-Industrial society. Modafinil promotes wakefulness in everyone, not just narcolpetics. Anxiolytics calm down everyone, not just the anxious, and psilocybin makes everyone feel euphoric, not just the depressed. It would be weird if stimulants only had an effect of ADHD patients.

> and ADHD is kind of a weakly differentiated diagnosis that could apply to most people.

I don't think we really understand it yet, but it's not something most people have. As the article mentions, people ADHD have a higher rate of transportation accidents, lower life expectancy, higher crime rates, higher addiction rates, etc. The differences show up in brain scans, performance tests, genetic biomarkers, heritability/twin studies, etc. Whether you think of it as a disability, or brain type, or whatever - ADHD is something real.

> Probably something like this was lost when people stopped smoking, obviously beneficial for health - but a huge amount of the public was taking stimulants regularly via nicotine until relatively recently.

Yes, and this is possibly why 35-55% of adults with ADHD smoke today, compared to 19% of the population. Studies have shown that nicotine is helpful for everyone but particularly helpful for those with ADHD. Nicotine-derived formulations are still being explored.

Their API pricing is bonkers, their subscription is a great deal for what you get

I'd gladly do this for $50,000/yr given the chance. I have not been given the chance.

> Sure, but you can also describe monkey brain as being mindful of the wrong thing

The monkey brain is doing things on "autopilot", without noticing how your mind operates. It's the opposite of mindfulness.

> AI which still offer all sorts of opportunities for disruption

... such as destroying what's left of the entry to junior-level job market. And perhaps in the near future, mid-level too.

Would you say the same about Hong Kong?

Every single person who can effect change and publicly opposes the cartel gets killed. Every single one. There is a list [0] of the ones killed in 2024 alone. Even outside of politics, you can't even really joke about the cartel while in Mexico, no matter who you are. They torture and kill entire families over nothing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_politicians_killed_dur...

>I don't trust AI to translate anything accurately to are from a language outside of maybe Spanish and German.

But you trust scanlation groups? Neither will give you perfect, professional-level translations.

>Chinese, from my limited study is a bit closer to English in grammar and structure so that might work

Mandarin is full of nuance, and it's no closer to English than Japanese is. It has the Subject-Object-Verb grammar structure, just like Japanese and Korean.

> I’d just keep trying to draw public attention

This does nothing. It did nothing in 2016 and would do even less now.

>IMO it's the other way around – because OpenAI doesn't focus on any particular market, they'll be launching stuff that later will be easily reproduced by market leaders that have not only know-how, but they have the whole platform where the AI can be easily added.

this is under appreciated. I remember people declaring Perplexity.ai doomed when ChatGPT search came out. Yet Perplexity is doing better than ever, with a service that lets you search with any major LLM, even DeepSeek R1.

Aidan McLaughlin, who now works for OpenAI, wrote a nice essay about this:

https://aidanmclaughlin.notion.site/The-Zero-Day-Flaw-in-AI-...

Bottom right corner, click the "Please, no fish" button.

> That's an odd thing to complain about. Focusing on such a minor issue feels overly critical at this stage

Welcome to HackerNews.

It can be a totally different experience if you have a chronic illness that affects your schedule, or if you don't have a car. In my case it's been both. Currently, lack of reliable transportation and a driver's license is the main issue.

I've been struggling to even get an interview in junior software dev for over a year now. Tried some help desk as well and never heard back. I've had my resume looked at quite a few times now, so I doubt that that's the problem.

If you go to r/jobs and related subreddits, there are plenty of people who are losing their minds after applying to thousands of jobs for the last 2 years without even getting a prescreen. Some are even being rejected by temp agencies. I assume that this is an anomaly and 2023-24 had a uniquely terrible job market.

I'm going to a job fair soon. Wish me luck.

How can I do it without capital, straight out of college, with only around 2 years of real-world experience and no network? Honest question.

The only play that occurs to me is surviving off of gig work, building the business as a sidehustle. But I've seen so many people who seem to be permanently stuck there, with no real business to grow and no way to explain their resume gap to employers.

From what I've seen lurking here, successful bootstrapped businesses come from experienced people who know what they're doing and have savings to fall back on.

What do you do for a living? That's my natural schedule too. Flexible dev jobs are not as common as I was led to believe, and this has affected my life deeply.

>It’s a problem for image generators as well.

It was, about a year ago. It's a solved problem.

Did you have previous experience when you became self-employed? I'm strongly considering this but I feel that I haven't had enough experience in the 9-5s. I also really need steady income in the near future to pay off loans.

Also depressing as a new grad applying to junior jobs that don't pay anywhere near these salaries, and not even hearing back for a prescreen.

There's anecdotes [0] [1], surveys [2], analyses [3], direct statements from companies after layoffs (Duolingo and Klarna for example), a decrease in job postings and a decrease in freelance work. But HN just shrugs and says none of this counts because it's not hard empirical data (as if data about jobs was ever reliable). So let's just keep pretending everything's fine and tell the people who lost their jobs to stop gaslighting us.

[0] - https://www.reddit.com/r/technicalwriting/comments/1fuz4m6/a... [1] - https://youtu.be/U2vq9LUbDGs [2] - https://bloomberry.com/i-analyzed-5m-freelancing-jobs-to-see... [3] - https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/20/business/ai-jobs-workers-repl...

I have severe ADHD and do spaced repetition just fine, even when I'm not on my meds. The only reason I've paused my Japanese learning is sleep issues and stress from trying to find a tech job. What GP is describing sounds like the sort of resistance to tedium that can happen to anybody, not just to those with ADHD.

The issue with software like Anki is that it can feel like a complete chore or like a fun game depending on how you use it and the quality of premade cards available. Only using SRS, doing it for 1hr+ straight with no breaks, and DIYing all the cards is how a lot of people use Anki, which is insane to me.

So, as a soon to be new grad with tens of thousands in debt, limited real-world experience (~1yr), zero sales skills, no health insurance and no savings/safety net, what am I supposed to do? How do I even start in "the business of making" suffocating in debt and getting evicted within a few months? I'd love to go solo. Due to some health problems, early morning shifts (9-5, 8-4) are almost totally unfeasible for me, so even in a good job market my options in traditional work are more limited. But I just don't have the money to bootstrap a business, much less learn sales skills and everything else while my student loan repayment grace period runs out.

Because my experience is exclusively limited to software dev, I'm also getting rejected from positions in retail, and if I try to "dumb down" my resume, I'll have nothing but a blank page.

Seriously, any advice would be appreciated. I feel stuck.

not OP, but I'm about to graduate (I have some previous experience though) and already tired of this industry, mostly due to the intense competition for juniors. I feel like I'm already burned out.

The problem for me is that the people I like or admire have jobs that seem completely unattainable. I have considered product management, but that's not something you can just get into straight out of school (as far as I'm aware) and it appears to be just as competitive as software.

Musicians, film/TV directors, Youtubers (e.g. Tom Scott), writers, historians, game directors (Masahiro Sakurai is a favorite of mine), indie hackers, indie gamedevs.

In other words: creative, somewhat independent people whose jobs are one in a million.

Unfortunately I don't have any financial safety net to pursue any of these dreams, so I'd appreciate guidance or advice in building a career that pays the bills and is at least somewhat enjoyable to me.