skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody's defending narcissism. My objection was to reflexively associating these problems with narcissism, and by answering only in the context of narcissism you're still equating the two. So let me even more blunt: that theory is so weak that it's almost self-refuting. Let's try to apply it to the OP and see just how badly it goes.

The first item on the list is inability to celebrate. How does that suggest narcissism? Can it not be explained at least as well by feelings that the subject of celebration is undeserved, transitory, and subject to reversal?

The second item on the list is inability to rest. How does that suggest narcissism? Can it not be explained at least as well by feelings that one is an impostor, unable to keep up without making extra effort?

And so on. Every connection you claim points to narcissism actually points even more strongly somewhere else. Narcissism causes problems, to be sure, but it's far from the only thing that can cause these problems. Claiming that these issues are all about narcissism is tantamount to claiming that conventionally-measured success itself is all about narcissism. As I said, it comes across as a big load of sour grapes.
> GitJournal

Thanks for this

--a fellow git + markdown + cron note-taker
It is a fair statement because ownership was granted via concession to the British, originally by the Qajar dynasty. Moreover, a company is allowed to own resources and infrastructure outside of its country of domicile, just the same as Royal Dutch Shell is allowed to own resources and infrastructure in the USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Arcy_Concession

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Persian_Oil_Company

I often see on HN that, when the topic of Iran comes up, people who don't know much about the history of the country try to interpret its facts through a modern lens that is tinged with a hint of leftism. The reality is that the development of the global petroleum market was a fiercely capitalistic and competitive phenomenon that yielded immense wealth for major oil companies and host governments alike. That context cannot be amputated when discussing topics like Mosaddegh and the British sphere of influence in Iran during the first half of the 20th century.
The office was a passport office in Plymouth.

The password was:

Passw0rd1
> > me: The FDA should be able to certify drugs as safe, effective, etc.

> you: Individual pharmacists of the type that serve the average person most often (retail pharmacists) are not equipped or trained to be the gatekeepers deciding which products are safe and effective.

I find your response stupefying since it seems to be responding to things I'm not saying...

> > Well...that definitely vibes with the incoherent disestablishmentarianist approach you seem to be promoting, I guess.

Hahaha, beautiful.
If society decides that people should have a minimum income/minimum quality of life, then the burden of providing that minimum should fall on society as a whole. I don’t think it’s right (or efficient) to place that burden on a certain set of firms or industries that are providing jobs for low skilled workers. We would be much better off with a negative income tax plus universal health care.
It's only 120. I don't think this is going to teach us anything new.

I think the main objection is whether it will work when made universal. We know giving a small number of people money is both liked by those people and economically viable.

I think to really add new information to the debate, we need something that is self-funded by at least a state/province/prefecture/etc.
Dibs on the US
Let's not even get started on abortion...

Edit: I meant this as a joke, albeit in poor taste, I see it was not received well.

That being said, I do think that relativizing deaths in terms of "opportunity cost" does lead to some somewhat unpalatable moral conundra.
yikes. What should I do? Or should I just resign myself to being, as you've implied, an inferior human?
Mental health is the reason why I still go to my crossfit gym. Its small, the same 8-9 people show up when I do. Ive only lived in this town for two years and my only friend moved away earlier this year - no family. I did quarantine when a case was discovered during the rare time I have to be an office and I had two serious depressive episodes in which I spent the better part of three days intoxicated. I've been into fitness for almost 15 years, sure I know I can get a workout 10 different ways on my own but right now I have to have other people.
> The victim's family were [resolute] that the BBC [should] show pictures showing the extent of his injuries and quote, in full, the racist tirade he was subject to during the attack.
We'll swap it out for the subtitle, which is a lot more specific.
Right, someone walking around carrying an iPod has gone from notable to mundane and back to notable. No longer the way to blend in.
The Fed are buying corporate ETF bonds, not stocks.
If ruby development is your gig, and especially if Linux is your target runtime environment, I don't understand why you'd choose anything other than Linux, unless the choice was made for you.

Speaking as a web dev on a company-issued Mac, running my local dev environment inside a Parallels Linux VM. I asked to switch to Linux but was turned down.

(Now if Microsoft released LSW, i.e. an Ubuntu-based distro with Windows syscall support via a KVM-hosted NT kernel, I very well might opt for that instead.)
Observable Self-Documenting ELT
Yeah, I read it and ended being not sure what it was about.

Unless you're going to end with a stance of "but we'll get through it because of COIVD" or "we should go back to school no matter what" I'm a little lost of the point here.

Nobody is "doing this" to you, it's what we all have to do.
Given the amount of brain development that happens at young ages, this is daunting to consider.
Aspartame is pretty terrible for you, so sugar-free alternatives that use artificial sweeteners (instead of just naturally savory flavorful options) aren't great either.
Replace 'determined' with 'deadset' (or 'resolute'), perhaps.
It's because people are afraid to go to hospital or call paramedics, they actually did a mini-campaign over here in the UK telling people it's still ok to call 999 (our 911) because they were so concerned about the deaths happening at home that could have been avoided.
I can't speak for anything but the X1 Carbon series. I will say when this thing arrived it had a battery issue, but Lenovo overnighted a box and turned around a fixed machine in less than a week.
Cycling a bicycle is just easily one of the greatest of human experiences.
I think UBI is a failed project from the beginning. We dont need UBI per se we need to provide basic utilities at fraction of the cost or for free.

Housing should be free so should be food. We are incredibly efficient when it comes to building real estate or producing food.

We can set a basic standard for quality of housing and food (you get seasonal fruits,veggies,bread,flour,chicken etc etc).

You should be incentivized to learn how to cook and take care of yourself and acquire additional skills.

The usefulness of UBI will be diminished by inflation and market behavior.The money you get wont actually help you to get things that you need.
That’s the fastest u-turn I’ve done in a while. Context matters.

So by avoiding the BBC site, you're going against the victim's wishes?

Edit: on reading further on this, there seems to have been more outrage at the BBC reporting what was said, as they were asked to do, than at the near murder of the guy in an unprovoked racist attack.
That's been the case with or without school.
The victim's family specifically requested that the journalist repeat the phrase used in full. The journalist/editors obviously made the choice, but they chose to go by the family's wishes rather than by the general consensus on whether it's acceptable to say that word even in the context of reporting about it.
> Your "better" study is not an experiment

Strictly speaking, the discussed research of toddlers using touchscreens is not an experiment also. In experimental setup researcher must control independant variable (touchscreen use). For this research it would mean to get a group of toddlers, split them randomly into two groups, give touchscreens to one group and some "placebo" to other. Researchers didn't do that, they split toddlers into two groups on the ground of the existing touchscreen use. So what they did is called a "correlational research", not an "experiment".

Correlation doesn't allow to speak about casuality. Maybe children ability to a visual search drive them to use touchscreens. Maybe touchscreens teach them to search. Maybe some other factor (like parenting style, or family income) teach them to love touchscreens and to effectively search for visual stimuli.

To be frank, I do not like this reseach much. It is correlational reseach, and there were no attempts to exclude interfering variables: if toddler used touchscreen more, than he/she would be better at tasks on a screen, wouldn't he/she?
It's not always easy to quantify. Consider people like janitors or security guards. They may be absolutely critical to the business running even though they don't produce revenue directly. Even if minimum wage was set to $100/hr for these jobs, it would still be worth it for many companies to hire them, since producing any revenue could be contingent on having people in those positions. At the same time, they are very competitive labor markets, so without a floor, the pay could go very low despite being essential to the business.

When someone is directly contributing to revenue, like a factory worker or salesperson, it's a bit simpler since you can look at their output, but you still need more information than gross margin to know the maximum a company could profitably pay an employee, since a company might design their operations very differently depending on the price of labor.
It's good to link to both, but the BBC article does contain some extra information.
Teaching not to hate is hard to do. Instead, teach everybody is different, and that that is normal. Teach them that people have different looks, different backgrounds, different religions, different believes and personal convictions, and that that is normal. Expose kids to those differences, so they won't see different people as Other.

Don't make it an us-vs-them thing, but unite them. Let them embrace those differences.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
I believe that all available evidence suggests that keyboard-only editing is not actually faster or more efficient (I say this as a keyboard-only Emacs user).
replace with "insisted"?
I doubt the point is to offer people a playground but rather to find a way to write new code in a language that is memory safe by default. Browsers are notoriously plagued by bugs related to memory safety so there’s quite a lot of motivation for at least considering this path.
saw the word "delighted", stopped reading; my rules serve me well ;)
I believe that colinmhayes' point is that you dug the extra nine holes because there was a shovel, not because you got better at digging holes with your hands. The productivity gain was because a shovel was being used. It didn't matter who owned the shovel, it mattered that you were digging with one.

But that's not completely true, because a person who only knows how to dig with their hands still only digs one hole a day, even if there's a shovel just lying there. Knowing how to use the tools does in fact make you a more productive worker.

It seems to me, then, that part of the gain from the productivity from better tools should go to the worker who knows how to use the tools. And part should go to the person who bought the tools.
I read it and ended being not sure what it was about.

Unless you're going to end with a stance of "but we'll get through it because of COIVD" or "we should go back to school no matter what" I'm a little lost of the point here.

Nobody is "doing this" to you, it's what we all have to do. Yes it impacts everyone different, but what's the message?
Wow. Agree with all the other comments. I read the whole article, and there is some next level self-centered entitlement here that has wholly passed on to "Raffi" the 5 year old who is only now learning not to deliberately make his little brother cry, and who has learned that spitting his drink on a laptop makes mommy and daddy take him to the park. While I want to empathize with the parents, the fact that they blame remote learning for all their problems rather than realizing that they have raised a hellion and dumped him on the poor teachers at school... and are bitter that now they have to deal with their own child... wow... yeah, definitely not the parents problem. Everything is to blame on remote learning! We better re-open the schools again so parents don't have to deal with their children!
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Reading the article he is not currently getting $1M in annual compensation. He is promoting his blog and book.
British companies would not have purchased/built that equipment without the resource access that had been established via contractual agreements with the Iranian government.
AWS Downlink between regions for higher cost but lower latency global xfer? It might not all be cloud->office, but maybe intra-cloud.
I have a natural tendency to walk away from problems or ignoring them. Fortunately I have a wife who cannot rest until we're ok with each other.

I agree that it's unproductive to talk about something when emotions are out of control. Both should take a break, a walk, time to cool down.

What I think is, that late in the evening I get into a state, where I am too exhausted to defend my point of view. And sometimes that is the key to accept a different opinion more easily.

But your right. Some problems cannot be solved in an evening. I guess it alreday helps to talk about them and maybe agree to disagree for now.
There are no license restrictions, so you can use the images for whatever you like.
Mobile "compatible". In reality it's pretty bad on mobile too.
The idea of making a battery a structural part of an aircraft wing has come up before, e.g. https://newatlas.com/axial-stack-battery-supersonic-electric.... I'm not sure if any progress has been made on this front recently, or whether they've come up against a materials-science roadblock!
It's also possibly one of the reasons we're so worried about Huawei here in the US right now: We know what our guys can do. We may know a fair bit about what China can or has done. And nobody wants to talk specifically about what those things are.
I think it's pretty easy to tie that "progress" back to American interference in local economies - I can't really speak to how much that is attributed, but blaming America certainly isn't a stretch.
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Over the last 50 years, the combined middle and upper-middle class of the USA has been the part that has grown the most. The lower middle and poverty classes have shrunk. The upper class has grown a small amount. 62% of the country today is middle or upper-middle class today as opposed to 50 years ago when 51% were. [1]

However, the middle class has shrunk quite a bit as the upper middle class has seen tremendous growth while lower middle and poverty classes have seen a good deal of shrinkage.

37% today are lower-middle or poverty class compared with 50 years ago where 48% were. In particular, the poor have shrunk from 24% to 20% today.

So the middle and upper-middle have grown over the last 50 years with the upper-middle in particular growing and lower-middle and poverty has shrunk. However, middle class people may feel left behind as they see more people becoming upper-middle.

[1] https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/81581/...
> (1) It’s not proprietary

I would call requiring a paid commercial license if you plan on doing commercial use "proprietary." That was the deal breaker for me, as I'm more than happy to continue using Foam until a free Obsidian-like client comes along.
There doesn't appear to be consensus like that - but not because lack of trying: https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty-and-research/anderson-...
Eliyahu M. Goldratt

And yes, everybody should read it.
Hey HN,

Finally quit freelancing during the pandemic to work on my side project full-time!

Bookmark OS uses Mac / Windows inspired UI as a solution for organizing your digital life (bookmarks, notes, to-dos, and files).

GUIs like Mac and Windows have been the market leaders for organizing your files for decades so it made sense to me to draw from them for online organization as well.

There is just a web app right now, but the web app is fully responsive.

Anyway. Hope you guys find this useful.
>> This school of thought argues that some labour markets are characterised by a market structure known as monopsony. Under a monopolistic regime one dominant supplier sells to many buyers, whereas under a monopsonic regime, one dominant buyer purchases from many sellers. Just as a monopolist can set prices higher than would be the case in a competitive market, a monopsonist can set prices artificially lower.

I had a really hard time understanding this paragraph. Did anyone else?
I guess that may happen for kids who go to private school (public in U.K.) but for kids in public schools, skipping a grade when the schools know their status before the pause might be harder to do. Additionally it’d likely be a minority of students—most would take the opp to remain refreshed and current rather than learning new subject matter.
Kids spending more time playing outside and some less time on stressful academics is probably good for them. We didn't evolve to sit sedentary in a classroom.
Get ahead of what?

I’m not convinced any of this remote learning stuff matters that much as long as parents have money to feed their kids and house themselves.

Canceling remote learning to spend time with the kids and giving them space to let them learn about something they’re interested in for a year probably does zero harm and might even be beneficial. I would have loved it.

Obviously bad family situations, and poverty are not helped by this - but those things are probably made worse by throwing remote learning on top of it.

Wealthy countries should have a vaccine and distribution done by end of 2021. Waiting that out is what I would do if I had kids.
I just called an HVAC company and there's a product known as a Heating Recovery Ventilator that pulls fresh air in, exchanges heat with the outside air coming in, and passes the incoming air through a filter. The filters however were not designed with the expectation that the air be full of smoke. They do offer some amount of filtration however. The store apparently stocks Fantech products.

There's also these grow room products that have fan and filter combinations such as https://www.homedepot.com/p/Viagrow-6-in-Carbon-Air-Filter-w...

This fella creates a DIY window based intake filter from a furnace filter, an air conditioner prefilter, and some other charcoal prefilter mesh http://www.air-purifier-power.com/windowfanfilter080515.html. It apparently works well for everyday dust but is unknown how it stacks up against smoke.

There's also this product much in line with the above DIY project Activated Carbon Passive Window Air Purifier https://www.homedepot.com/p/Activated-Carbon-Passive-Window-...

There's some airbox inline filter design too such as this unit https://airboxfilter.com/Airboxfilters/air-box1
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hit his parents, hit his brother, broke things, and spat a cup of juice all over my laptop.

Barring some kind of psychiatric problem like ODD, that's a significant failure of discipline, the responsibility for which lies squarely on the shoulders of the parent. I would not trust any kind generalized behavioral prediction from someone who can't keep a five year old from striking their siblings and intentionally destroying objects.
You might notice that one of the author of this document is casually the creator of the most widely used cipher in the world.
This is amazing!

Was there anything you found difficult about balancing the for-profit and for-impact motives?

Is there any framework you used to help you make these kinds of decisions?
The flu, in a normal year, kills 35,000 people. Coronavirus, with all the steps we've already taken to stop it, has killed 5 times that.

If we had not taken steps to stop it, the projection was millions dead. That is why.
I wish could get an overall rational argument FOR UBI, so I could at least debate it.

From what I see, it's madness. The economics make zero sense.

For example ; Canada. The Federal Government. (All of this speaks of the Federal Government).

https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/services/publica...

2019 Federal Revenue? $312B. That's from taxes, income from oil, any and all Federal revenue.

Now. UBI. Universal Basic Income. That means everyone over 17 gets it, as an example. That also means it must cover the basics. That you can live on it.

That's the whole point of UBI, and being "free to choose career paths", and all that other blather.

That, to me, means $2k/month. Maybe that will scale, up AND down, depending upon where you live. But let's just go with $2k/month. Or $24k/year.

Stats Canada says, out of almost 40M Canadians, around 30M are 18 and older.

What's $24k30M? 720B.

So.. the entire Federal Revenue is less than 1/2 of what UBI might cost.

Now bear in mind, that there was a deficit* in Canada, about $20B. And there is currently a debt in Canada, of about 1.1T. The GoC will say it's less, 800B, but that's if they 'use assets of 300B and deduct that from actual debt", which is meaningless, because interest on debt is on 1.1T.

Right now, 8% of Federal Revenue pays just the interest on that debt. If interest rates go up, say in a year or two.. so goes up that payment.

My point is that one year of UBI, would almost DOUBLE the ENTIRE FEDERAL DEBT. A Federal Debt that arose after decades, not one year.

If you half UBI? Now it's not basic income, it's just a supplement.

And you absolutely, positively can't get that money from taxes. About 25% of people's income is taxed (yes, that's an average), that's gas tax, income tax, federal sales tax, tax on alcohol, and other such things. My point here is, you can't just double the tax.

And, the above Federal Revenue? There is a pie chart, just under 50% of Federal Revenue came from personal tax.

You could increase taxes on business, but are you going to tax 100% of their profit? Because that still won't cover it.

Let's tax the rich you say! Well, most money is invested. For example:

https://financialpost.com/executive/posthaste-canadas-3-mill...

Note, that's ONLY 8.7 trillion. UBI is 720B for one year.

And, what are you going to do?

Seize people's real estate? Then what? Sell it again? To whom? Certainly not the people you just seized it from.

Are you going to tax ... what? Because, "wealth" is real estate, stocks, companies one owns, land, more. Are you going to seize stocks? Then what? Hold on to them? How does that fund UBI?

Are you going to seize companies? Great! Now that software company, valued at 100B, is worth $1, because the original owners are out, and they were the magic, and a government isn't going to be able to run something like that.

None of the logic behind UBI seems to make sense to me. I can't see where the cash is coming from.

This doesn't even include things like inflation, loss of productivity, or 100 other little things that are "just going to work themselves out".
This is unfortunately the truth of the situation. I spent way too much time writing scrapers for Zillow and Redfin to guide home purchasing decisions, only to find out half the stuff listed for sale had been under contract for weeks, places listed with garage that had none, homes with pictures of pools and no pool in the data fields... just tons of errors in the data that no amount of vigilance could clean.