skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is there a strong feeling of innovation/unicorn envy among the wider business culture in Germany?

It's not the business culture that's driving this, it's politics. Germany simply isn't a competitive environment for entrepreneurship anymore with problems in many areas: schools, taxation, immigration (too easy for unqualified workers), legislation. Politics is in denial and desperate for success stories that would prove things aren't so bad.
I can buy Pomelo at fruit shops and at least one fruit stall in the middle of a mall here in Southampton, UK. It's strange what travels to some places and not others.

I bought one a few years ago and was disappointed at the small amount of grapefruit-ish flesh, not realising how people actually eat them (candied peel and pith) in parts of Asia.
Google has the best autocomplete IMO, but below are some other search engine autocomplete endpoints if you want to explore.

DuckDuckGo:
https://duckduckgo.com/ac/?q=test

Startpage:
https://www.startpage.com/do/suggest?limit=10&lang=english&f...

Qwant:
https://api.qwant.com/api/suggest?q=test
And there is a reason why the bubble is still there even in private browsing..

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/m7jvvp/google-sued-tracki...
maybe you're right

but there's no way it's only liberals who care about bolton's book

add to that mitt romney, colin powell, and mattis, and in a very short time there's a lot of conservatives saying that trump sucks
> Eg. Germany has the lowest share of people invested in equities of all industrialized nations. Even with negative interest rates, people rather use savings accounts than "risky" products with yields above 2%

That is mostly to be blamed on savings accounts being decent in interest until the 2008 financial crisis while at the same time, especially in the dotcom boom, a lot of money was destroyed in the stock markets. The "Volksaktie", today known as Telekom (yes, this Telekom, for the US folks), wiped out a lot of people's savings and they remembered this.
My first (and only) reading of it was in high school. Too soon.
The most powerful thing I have learned in my adult life is this: "Don't cling to your narrative"

Making narratives is a survival technique. We simplify and reduce the truth of our world to abstractions like "narrative" in order to be able to fit them into our brains and operate on them. Mostly it is a lossy compression.

When we observe facts that contradict a narrative, at best they cause us anxiety and doubt, for the narrative is a safe place who's shelter is now known to be a weaker place. At worst, our minds protect us from those facts by not even allowing our eyes to focus upon them.

If you do you best to admit at a gut level that every narrative you have is probably wrong, it gets easier to handle it when new facts emerge, and helps you update your new "working narrative" faster. Don't stop using the tool of narrative, but don't get attached to this one, they break easy and they are easy to replace.
I just read a really good book about this: The Inner Game of Tennis. The book is old and never mentions the phrase “growth mindset,” but it goes into great detail about how often the judging mind gets in the way of the subconscious mind when learning new skills.

I read the book primarily to help with meditation skills, and it gave me a lot of new perspective during my sits.
Probably a good move as the whole Matrix ecosystem has just too many names for its own good.
The Allan Watts passage:

> "I know all kinds of people who've got this 'higher self' going, practicing their yoga - but they're just like ordinary people, sometimes a little worse. And they can fool themselves. They can say for example, 'Well, my point of view in religion is very liberal. I believe that all religions have divine revelation in them, but I don't understand the way you people fight about it. You fight and say that we Jehovah's Witnesses have the real religion, others say we Roman Catholics have it. And the Muslims say, no, it is in the Quran, and this is the right way.' And somebody else gets up, and he may be a rather highbrow Catholic who says, 'Well, God has given the spirit to all the traditions, but, ours is the most refined and mature.' And then somebody comes along and says, 'Well they're all equally revelations of the divine - and in seeing this, of course, I'm much more tolerant than you are.' Do you see how that game is going to work? Or, I could take this position - supposing you regard me as some sort of a guru. And you know how gurus hate each other. They're always putting each other down. And I could say, 'Well, I don't put other gurus down.' See, that outwits all of them! We're always doing that. We're always finding a way to be one-up, and by the most incredibly subtle means. So you see that, you see. And you say, 'I realize I'm always doing that. Tell me, how do I not do that?' I say, 'Why do you want to know?' You say, 'Well, I'd be better that way!' 'Yeah, but why do you want to be better?' You see - the reason why you want to be better is the reason why you aren't. Shall I put it like that? We aren't better because we want to be."

---

Alan Watts is always entertaining. I think this has quite narrow applicability towards self-contradictory pursuits of virtue i.e. the motivation for self-perfection or trying to become more moral is likely to be riven with status anxiety not moral intention.

I don't think it applies to skill acquisition whose motivation may or may not be virtuous but it isn't self-contradictory. Overcoming procrastination is in part a skill to use tools like pre-commitments, habit entrainment, implementation intentions, reward and relaxation management as well as deeper tasks like resolving the sources of anxiety and it's triggers that cause avoidance.
>> I will go over a few of the items that lead to CFEngine’s excellence, longevity in the market, and current strong position.

CFEngine isn't in a strong position, it has been completely replaced by Chef/Ansible everywhere. It's barely used with some legacy systems.
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>I want to make a case against [...] And against fighting procrastination.

I agree with a lot of what you wrote but I disagree about not fighting procrastination and thus letting it happen because of subconscious thought.

Procrastination leads to a lot of destructive outcomes and unhappiness. E.g. I kept procrastinating the cancellation of my gym club membership that I never used because stopping in person to sign the cancellation papers was a hassle. That procrastination cost me over $1000 of extra monthly fees for zero benefit. Staying with the example of fitness, I used to procrastinate the treadmill run in the afternoon because I've never liked exercise. I solved that procrastination by just doing it first thing in the morning before breakfast. I still have many areas in life I procrastinate but I keep trying to find "mental hacks" to reduce the damage it causes.

I'll add nuance by attempting to categorize 2 types of procrastination: (1) tasks that others think are important vs (2) tasks you really want to do

An example of (1) might be today's HN story on the front page suggesting you read Milton's "Paradise Lost". Ok, you then add it to your "mental todo" pile but as a result, you keep procrastinating your "education of classic literature". Well, maybe instead of letting that form of procrastination gnaw at you, it's better to be honest with yourself and just say you're not interested in reading it. A better use of time is to focus on the things you really want to do.

>And any other self improvement stuff.

To clarify, are you against the products/services/coaching being sold for self improvement -- or are you against the idea itself of self improvement?
So it isn't even renamed yet. This is news about upcoming news...
disagree with point no. 4 , wrong reasons for not doing sth
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For most people, it is hard enough to get good in one topic in our lifetime. Even harder to become a total expert.

To do this in multiple disciplines is incredible. I am fascinated by such people.
I think you're confused. This article is about people on very low incomes in places like Tucson and Detroit, not hipsters.
> old school journalist standards and integrity

Where were those when they wrote about Iraq?
John McWhorter makes this exact claim in his debate on the damage of racism and anti-racism. Its an interesting full debate but here is just his opening remarks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT2rlJe9cuU
> Ardennes, it turned out, was not impenetrable. Moving through the forest would perhaps have been a futile effort for an army using the attrition warfare strategies prevalent in World War I, but it was vulnerable to new modes of warfare. As the French focused on building the Maginot Line, the Germans developed exactly such a new model of warfare — Blitzkrieg —and sent a million men and 1500 tanks through Ardennes (while deploying a small force to the Maginot Line as a decoy).

While not outright false, this isn't exactly true. Ardennes' forest was in fact near impenetrable, but the Germans took the road. It would have been more than feasible to stop them while on that road, but before a decision could be made as to attack them there, they were through and it was too late.

The débâcle had many causes but the major one was a failure of thinking. In 1938 an important French general, Louis Chauvineau, wrote a book called "Is an invasion still possible?" in which he, of course, answered by the negative. The book enjoyed a modicum of success and had a reprint in... 1940: it was still in bookshops in France when Hitler was parading in front of the Eiffel tower.

Beware of experts.
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> there is almost no venture capital

That's simply not true. There is a lot of VC but there aren't many good startups - because the best people are heading straight for SV instead of dealing with a second-rate environment and a second-rate (in IT) labor force.
I've had much worse luck with Skype. Screen sharing will stop updating, audio drops out entirely and only restarting the call restores it. Eventually switched a long-standing Skype meeting to Zoom because of this. (With no great enthusiasm, since I'm not crazy about Zoom either. But Skype seems simply not to work half of the time.)
How is proton therapy a justification? The protons in PT have energies six orders of magnitude below that of this proposed FCC. Are you saying that the historical precedent of PT means FCC will also have that sort of spinoff? That's not a legitimate argument.
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> issues that they can't solve through any amount of learning or working.

so, what do you recommend?
As I said I think the problem is more that most people from IT just tend to ignore companies that don’t fit into their worldview. There are plenty of highly successful technology companies in Germany, just not so many in software.
What percentage of Mac OS users know that .dmg is a virtual disk format, what's your guess?

I've been using Mac OS for years, so I'm used to it. And good UX works well even for people who're not used to it. See iOS, you just tap "install" in the App Store and the app installs, that's how it should be.

Seriously, ask a good UX designer what they think about this - or just ask normal people why they think there's a virtual disk drive on their desktop and whether they know what a virtual disk drive is. I don't have the time or energy to convince you.
OpIndia is not a propaganda website. Period. This is the typical slander that happens when you refer to left-wing articles. If you are referring to left-wing portal Wikipedia as your citation then something is really wrong with you. The point I was making was precisely this. That social media is dominated by the left-wing and the left-wing narrative. Anything that is published on left-wing outlets is taken as truth without even bothering to question the sources.

So when the entire question is about left-wing bias you go ahead and show me a Wikipedia entry whose management and editors are known to have left-wing bias! In fact the Co-Founder of Wikipedia Larry Sanger himself says that Wikipedia's Neutrality is dead because of left-wing bias [1]!

A quote from his blog post:

"Wikipedia’s “NPOV” is dead.1 The original policy long since forgotten, Wikipedia no longer has an effective neutrality policy. There is a rewritten policy, but it endorses the utterly bankrupt canard that journalists should avoid what they call “false balance.”2 The notion that we should avoid “false balance” is directly contradictory to the original neutrality policy. As a result, even as journalists turn to opinion and activism, Wikipedia now touts controversial points of view on politics, religion, and science. Here are some examples from each of these subjects, which were easy to find, no hunting around. Many, many more could be given."

It is a fact that social media management is dominated by left-wing bias. No wonder so many right-leaning articles and accounts are banned on a regular basis. If you do not give the right-wing a voice they will make sure they are heard louder than ever!

The entire IFCN saga has been rebutted point by point by OpIndia [2]

OpIndia exposed many fake news articles published by BBC which was forced to backtrack. Then BBC claimed that it was a "mistake" and that corrections were made subsequently after being exposed. This was never a "mistake". It is purely left-wing bias.

[1]: https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/

[2]: https://www.opindia.com/2019/03/opindia-response-to-ifcn-int...
SAP is a solid business, but have you used their software? Once? It's atrocious and the developer experience is even worse, ABAP gives me shudders to this day. Not to mention that somehow, whenever a big IT project in government or private industry crashes, SAP seems always to be lurking.

SAP is not "modern" in any sense and certainly not "innovative". Unicorn companies generally are both.
Okay but what does this have to do with the thread? Scott isn't being silenced, he's shutting down his blog out of concern that his relationship with his patients may be jeopardized if they could look him up on the NYT. (Whether he's justified I'm not qualified to say as I'm not a psychiatrist.) What's the hidden truth, controversial opinion or super secret insight at stake here?
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https://www.sida.se/contentassets/700b0d2b48444b058389c27a64...
"Affordability: Less than 5% of household income spent on WSS services."
"Sweden has also underscored that richer states have an obligation to assist other states to fulfil the right to WSS."
"In addition, Sida offers credits and guarantees for WSS investments as well as international training programs,..."

Bangladesh, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Kenya and Mali are mentioned. But it doesn't seem Sweden would set up a water and sanitation services programme for the US.

"Through development cooperation, Sweden assists countries in Africa, Asia, Europé and Latin America."
Or make a private joke to your friend about a dongle.
Reinforcing the need to respect a company's ToS is not high on the list of principles I'm instilling in my children.
Apple’s App Store model isn’t worth the 30% charge for today’s developers
First of all, don't grow for growth's sake.

Figure out what makes you happy. When you're 100 years old, what will you have done, learned, or experienced that will make it worthwhile? As if it were one big experience that you unknowingly opted into. It can be many things, but usually there are a few really important things in there. It may take some real consideration - think about it for a while.

Thats your vision. And once you have your vision, growth may be necessary to achieve that vision. The existence of a vision will point you in the right direction of growth.

With that approach you may find that certain interests you have now fade away when you take such a broad perspective. It also forces you to take an inherently personal perspective on life. After all, it's what you want to make of it that is important, not what somebody else (religious leader, life coach, buddha, tech guru) says.
For UK sources, I'd suggest adding The Spectator. They're not perfect (some of their columnists strike me as fairly obvious shills), but overall I've found them the most intelligent right-of-centre source.

For the Americans reading, they have a US site too, might be worth checking out?
This is satire, by the way. Hopefully that part is clear to everyone..
Entirely regardless of any cuts made to the expenses side of things, can we agree that having to spend 4% of household income on water in a developed country is absolutely bonkers?
Where can one go to learn these controversial truths? I would love to see a list of these facts that apparently only insiders can talk about. Are they literally so confronting/offensive that they don’t exist on the internet?
Blake's illustrations for Paradise Lost can be found on Wikipedia [0]. They're incredibly fine works of illustration that a web browser can't do justice to.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake%27s_illustration...
Could I ask what the CNN article got wrong? I'm curious how different their story was to the actual attack.
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Why is this comment being downvoted? I swear, the HN comments section is just gutter trash as insightful comments like this gets downvoted, whereas pointless comments gets upvoted to the top.
Many years ago, a close family friend, who was a police officer in a small town, committed suicide. The local television news kept trying to find the man's children and wife in the days immediately following his suicide to ask them questions. Because there's no informative news value to the general public in his family's reactions -- of course they're heartbroken and grieving, their beloved husband/father took his own life -- it was clear that the media just wanted to air emotional people to appeal to viewers.

I stopped watching television news -- because the vast majority of 'news' programs are just entertainment with a veneer of news.
> how on Earth a 50k salary for a software engineer is at all justified?

Too many mediocre developers available (local & EE), too few good ones (they're in the US, UK, Switzerland). Also, if you can't find software engineers at that price, you just close the office and move it to Poland or so. Hence fewer employers remain.
I'm old enough to remember using a real C64, with a real 1702 monitor, when that, and its separated chroma/luma cable, was the hot new thing. And the colours were bright and vivid. They were thus on every C64 I ever saw in real life, whether with the older 1701 monitor or connected to a TV.

So why does every single emulator, and every article about the C64 use this super-drab pallette? Is this a case of "never mind what it looked like, we follow the spec" like apparently some earlier SID emulations that sounded nothing like a real SID chip?
It does CCD: https://nphysics.org/continuous_collision_detection/

Not sure if that is what you had in mind.
Also, intersections / collisions aren't the only dynamic in such a simulation.
Agreed - there were glaring red flags since as early as 2008. Here's an account from one of the earliest critics: https://valueandopportunity.com/2020/06/19/wirecard-the-germ...

The fact that something this obviously fraudulent dragged on for over a decade is nuts.
Yep, there are lots of weird clunky little windows only apps for doing calculations for things in my industry as well, usually stuff thats required for regulatory compliance. But I can't think of any that use really any processing power. As long as parallels can emulate x86 windows on ARM even a big speed drop would be manageable, as long as the windows UI doesn't get sluggish.
I used to think exactly the same way.

There's plenty of point in merely enjoying the moment. There is little one can do or say to combat the inherent meaninglessness of being, as every argument can be thwarted by a simple "we're all going to die anyways so what's the point?" I don't think there can even logically be a point to life.

That's not to say that goals such as bettering society, bettering one's self, or enjoying the moment aren't worthwhile. Nor does it imply that we should sink into abject hedonism and shoot heroin all day. It merely means that none of these things should be expected to subvert meaninglessness. In this sense, it's actually quite liberating. You can do anything you please, without the burden of wondering whether or not it will fill the perceived void in your soul. That void is an illusion, one which is unfortunately brought about often by depression, BPD, GAD, etc.

After lots of therapy I learned I had internalized a negative voice from an abusive relationship early in my development, which fucked up my sense of self-worth and my perception of life. It made me incessantly focused on "being the best", and if I couldn't achieve anything "great" then I had no choice but to hate myself.

If you're having suicidal thoughts, then it's time to seek professional help. I was at that point too. My doctor and I decided our best bet was to try 10mg of Lexapro for a couple months, and I've never felt better. Depression is a pernicious beast. It seeps in slowly subsuming all rational cognitive faculties, to the point where I was not merely sad, I was obstinately despondent, and refused to listen to reason. It emanated from a "feeling" of meaninglessness which I could never eliminate with mere rational thought. I guess my "chemicals" were just fucked up, and I needed a little help from the Lexapro.

So, what do you do if you're not successful? Anything else you want. The world is your oyster. Failure ultimately means as little as success. If you don't succeed at something you enjoy, then simply keep doing it, keep enjoying it, maybe you haven't struck gold yet but the journey is worth embarking on once you realize that contentment doesn't lie at the end of the journey, but within it's entirety. If you feel it's too late to start, there's still plenty of beauty left in life. Sometimes I find the following Kurt Vonnegut quote useful:

> "What is the purpose of life? To be the eyes, the ears, and consciousness of the creator of the universe, you fool!"

Now, I'm fairly young, I expect my opinions are biased by the fact that I personally feel like I still have a lot of time left to embark on journeys. I can understand if the perspective changes as you age, and feel as if you missed out or squandered your best years. Hopefully someone older can step in and share their thoughts.

I also hope I don't sound like I'm proselytizing. Just wanted to share my experience if it helps anyone.