skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please stop using "Third World" as a term — it is no longer accurate, the AP has eliminated it from its stylebook, and is widely considered offensive: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/01/08/9548203...

"Developing Nations" or "Developing World" is better.

"Third world" contributes to exactly the kinds of stereotypes that this comment reinforces — the backwardness of poor countries, where doctors don't know better, science is ignored, etc. It's just not accurate; medical knowledge and competence is on the rise all over the world, among both professionals and volunteers.
I understand why the scientists lied (about masks), but it causes people to not trust them. You lie one to many times and people will stop believing anything you have to say. Fauci and other scientists should have re-read The Boy Who Cried Wolf before lying multiple times.

Also, just to be clear it wasn't strictly Fauci. The CDC and the Surgeon General made similar remarks about masks as well. If it was just Fauci I think that would have been less damaging, but to have multiple government agencies / officals all lying just looks bad.
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Two essentially unrelated comments about what you said:

In the US, the incentives which put women at a disadvantage in the workplace date from before there were many women in the workplace. Weirdly, we have doubled-down on them after women entered the workforce in large numbers, particularly in the tech industry. This probably means something.

Secondly, the site you link to says, "Both parents are entitled to at least 4 months leave each." Which is my issue with parental leave: I see it as a red herring. I mean, what happens in the other, roughly, 17 years and 8 months? (Yes, I know the EU is better in that regard, too, but focusing at all on parental leave rather than general work-life balance seems a little silly.)
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Cities dwellers lose out on such things

Depends on the environment. I grew up in a city, but your first paragraph matches my childhood pretty well.

Our neighborhood was a cluster of short, twisty streets, with narrow roads and broad sidewalks. Our street had about 40 houses/apartments (mixed zone), and at least 10 of those had school-going children. In my street, I was one of the oldest so I mostly played with a few other kids from "'round the block", but I never needed to go beyond a 100meter-radius from my home.

Our moms took turns doing the school runs, supervising the little ones when they were outside, even cleaning or babysitting if needed. But right now, I don't see much of this happening where I live: a faceless street with a broad road and narrow sidewalk, more than 100 apartments but hardly anyone knows each other. Maybe it's just because I don't have children so I don't look for it, but I hardly ever see children playing outside on the streets here.
That's insane. Brazilians don't deserve the economic development anymore? After Americans got rid of their wildlife? Rich Californians have to pay for Brazil the real price of not growing economically at directions that benefits them.
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Not sure why you're being downvoted, because I think this is accurate.

We will reach a point, probably in a couple months, where everyone in the US who wants the vaccine will have gotten one. By that time, restrictions will be lifted, mask mandates will be gone, lockdowns ended, etc.

The virus will continue to spread among the unvaccinated. And I will have zero sympathy for the people who choose not to get the vaccine and end up hospitalized because of the virus. (Note my emphasis on CHOOSE: I still have sympathy for those that can't get the vaccine and end up infected)
I bought a diet-aid box with a timer called "Kitchen Safe". Just dump my phone in it whenever I have the will power, set a timer for a few hours, and turn a moment of motivation into hours of phone-free bliss. The box is designed to shatter if you hit it, so there's no need to worry about losing access in a real emergency but the replacement cost is high enough to not do that everytime reddit beckons.
India Is Counting Thousands of Daily Covid Deaths. How Many Is It Missing?
I got a call today from my district health care center and they told me I have an appointment for Saturday. Took no more than a couple of seconds and only required me to press one button.

Super convenient and it was so much easier than booking a covid test through our health regions app.

I work with web stuff but often dislike using it, maybe someday we can make it so that it's as easy as receiving or making a call.
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god knows how normal people cope!
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A gazillion blockchains no one's ever heard of and no one will ever hear about.
Exactly. I own a software consultancy, and I tried explaining this to an engineering manager and he just didn't get it.

For some reason, he couldn't understand that when you write SQL queries for a project, you typically do it once, and basically never again, with the exception of maybe adding or removing columns from the query.

The "hard work," if you can call it that, is all in the joins. Then, I completely forget about it.

You spend so much more time in development on everything else.
Not sure why you're being downvoted; this is exactly the mentality of many people. I don't even think it's subconscious necessarily: many people think this is a conspiracy to ensure profits for Big Pharma.

EDIT: to be clear, I do not endorse such a view. I am merely stating that I have observed others espousing it.
Most work colleagues fall into number one. Some software projects are so demanding that you really get to see the true character of a person and how they react when they are tested. Sometimes number three happens.
Either way, my point stands, one set of diseases leaves obvious physical marks, the other just kills your or leaves invisible harm.

Which do you think will prompt people to be more happy to get a vaccine? Some invisible injury, if that, or knowing people with permanent deformities from a long time scourge?
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Considering that that's the only part of the memo they quoted, I imagine the rest of it was even more vague.
You’re still conflating “profit” with “revenue”. No one is doubting that YouTube’s revenue is substantial. There is doubt that it’s profit is substantial. If it isn’t contributing any meaningful profit to Google’s bottom line, it isn’t successful.
OP seems to think that looking after a single child is more effort than available from two parents, one of whom has an office job
I think you are mixing two forms of government and their incentives.

The above poster was talking about local government which has an incentive to establish local network effects and raise property values.

Flint was caused by the state of Michigan taking over their water management and ignoring warnings of what would happen.

It feels like states are much more beholden to telecommunications lobbies than the local areas. TN, despite Chattanooga being the poster child for municipal broadband, banned other cities from building their own networks. CO forces both the local government and the citizens later in an election to authorize local networks. WA just repealed their ban on municipal broadband networks.

I do not feel that a remote possibility of no-bid contracts is a reasonable concern over the current corrupt and no accountability of these large ISPs who lobby state governments to ban local networks. It is a lot easier to change local government than many state governments if a project goes wrong.
Not long after I got into software engineering is when the first NoSQL craze began. I imagine that those who started not long after me and spent a few years wrangling with MongoDB queries (shudder) and trying to do joins, transactions and consistency guarantees in application code must see RDBMS as some sort of magical new technology.
Indeed, and that's like the one thing addicts usually cannot do, almost by definition. At least that's how it is for me.
Perhaps the issue is classifying it as a "problem" in the first place. As in, why is it considered problematic to want to spend more time w/ kids knowing it affects work-related opportunities? We generally accept that we can't master dozens of hobbies at once due to the inability to put the necessary time and effort into all of them, so why then is it considered a failure to pick one of the choices if the two conflicting activities are family time and main job?

I think the author comes to the right conclusion: they come to terms to the fact that spending time w/ kids is a good reward for them, for making the trade-off of not becoming a CEO.

I suppose one could argue that guilt for choosing kids over work is more of an issue for men because of societal expectations wrt income earning responsibilities. But then again, at the end of the day, regardless of whether you're a man or a woman, do you really want society to dictate what happiness/success should look like for you personally? If anything, someone who is in a position to be able to turn down a CEO position ought to be considered a highly successful individual by any societal standards </two-cents>
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Is it possible to do any kind of version control with PostgREST? I have no doubt that raw SQL offers huge performance advantages over my ORM, but I'm pretty fond of the ability to roll back to a previous state when I push a bad change to production. Performance is just one of a number of tradeoffs that I consider when I'm choosing tools.
One massively complex malware is nothing compared to 2010's shtshow.

Noone can bullsht too often; attribution for hacks/tools as disinfo has limited utility value. And, again, attributing brain injuries to REW's as disinfo wouldn't help and they know that.

I still don't believe the US would decide to lie about this matter.
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I feel cheated but satisfying to watch
French has a related word with the same meaning, "glisser". Both the German and the French term appear to come from the same original word. The French word "glacier" and the English word "glide" are also derived from it.
Perhaps because until recently a "career" meant working for one company for 35 years, likely in the same city. With that kind of stability, long-term friendships can blossom.

It's harder if you're changing companies every 2-3 years and cities every 5-6 (as seems common enough in Tech at least).

Digital nomads are the vanguard—look to them to see what works and what doesn't.
That's why you become friends: so that you stay in touch after the "expiration date."
And yet not a single non-politically-appointed civil servant at the DOJ has the actual authority to bring an action against a big company like Amazon. When the DOJ brings a major antitrust case against a major American company there is no chance it didn't get the Attorney General's, and probably the President's, sign-off first. None. Zero.
Investments go down as well as up has been hammered into me since I was a kid. My parents lost a lot in the 2000 crash, then 8 years later 2008 wiped out millions of people.
Here's are some more interesting maze algorithms with proper live demos: http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/under-the-hood/

This one is really nice to watch: http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2015/1/15/better-recursive-divis...
That's a good point. It opens up a possibility for Russia's opponents to use any of these substances to assassinate someone with everyone believing it was the Russians. The Russians would deny it but nobody would believe them. Then obviously if that plan would leak, there is a risk of the previous attempts to now be pinned on this other party.
My comment was a suggestion/question, not a one size fits all prescription. There is definitely some nuance you are looking past.

Going cold turkey is a serious approach and for some addictions like smoking the most statistically successful approach to quitting.
Thanks for sharing! Do you have any tips with regards to posting content on LinkedIn?
I think that there's still time for Rust to reverse the .expect(...) naming mistake. It should be deprecated, either introducing something with an appropriate name like .unwrap_or_panic(...) or just leave it to be replaced by .unwrap_or_else(|| panic!(...)) which IMO one ought to use today instead of .expect(...).

Everything else is named so well and designed so well that this really sticks out.
I see no reason not to combine willpower with psychology tricks. I think of it as playing a game between my rational brain vs limbic system. Yes, my rational brain might be ahead for a while, but limbic system is always there to find me in moment of weakness. So I remove opportunities for it to take control. Turning off PC before work, laptop in the closet, phone across the room, ringer on. Simple and effective.

I have had better luck with physical impedances, and don't bother with tech ones now unless they're simple (uninstalling distracting apps). Like you say most software is easily circumvented.
You only need to activate a very limited scope of self-control to improve your current situation.

Don't. Download. Apps.

If you are actually serious about improving your situation, you should be able to self-recognize going to the app store and hitting 'download'. If you find yourself doing that, uninstall the app you just downloaded and put the phone down. It's really that simple.

99% of addictive websites out there will more or less force you to download their app by making the mobile website design incredibly frustrating to use. Use this to your advantage. 5-10 minutes of reddit/twitter a day is fine. But DO NOT DOWNLOAD THE APP
Jack Ma refused to take Alibaba public until Yahoo sold half of its stake back to him (for peanuts).

Carol Bartz really screwed Yahoo over in its dealing with Alibaba. Yahoo had 2 seats on the 5-seat board of directors and Bartz couldn't be bothered to appoint directors to those. When she became CEO, Jack came to meet her and she dressed him down in front of his underlings: a big slap in the face to Jack. These two incidents made sure that he was as uncooperative as could be. He took Alipay out from under Yahoo and never informed Bartz.

Whatever you may say about Marissa Mayer, when she became CEO her first priority was to fix the broken relationship between Alibaba and Yahoo. She smoothed things over, and Jack let Yahoo keep the 15% stake, instead of asking for all of it back. She made Yahoo many billions with her moves.
The thing that helped me quit using my phone as much was to quit using apps where there was a web counterpart available. For instance, I deleted the banking app and only visit the website on my home pc (or browser on phone if really in a pinch, which is rare). I deleted the facebook app and only used the website. I've since deleted the FB account totally. Same with twitter. Just use the website. My "phone" is now only used for phone calls and regular texting. I have a lot more free time and there is a "separation of concerns," to borrow a phrase from the tech industry. I use my computer for computing and my phone for phone calls, like how it used to be before smart phones. This also saved some money as I wasn't using as much "mobile" data, so I lowered the data plan. Also, shut off notices except for phone and texting, maybe email. My phone is relatively quiet now. No constant bleeping and blooping to cause that dopamine rush of "what did I miss out on" and programmatically running to check. Simply, you are addicted to your phone. You need to ween yourself off. Your OCD will likely subside once you've re-programmed yourself not to react to the stimuli. And if I'm out with people, the phone is OFF. They get my attention, not the phone. Now, a lot of the time, I don't even carry my phone with me. There is nothing so important that is happening that can't wait until I get home to check it. It's a gradual process, but the important thing is to start.
Congress sabotaged the budget of the usps by enforcing them to ensure retirement benefits PAID IN FULL decades before people retire.

If the usps is critical infrastructure, treat it as such.
Once it's spent, it doesn't really matter how, except insofar as it's left you with something afterwards. Three people standing side by side, one of them partied their whole twenties, the other focused on career, the last had kids. They're all thirty, so that's the same, but one of them clearly is worse off.
Is a source needed? Why would anyone be mining if it’s not profitable?
I kept clicking on it thinking it would generate a path to where I cliked.

Did the author of the site really buy a domain, point it at a web server, and add SSL, for this? Two GIFs?
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I’m not being obtuse.

You have posted a link to a person who has chosen to live in isolation for more than a decade to satisfy their own curiosity - which obviously has nothing to do with clubhouse. It’s not really clear why that’s relevant to anything.

Why would it be so surprising that clubhouse would change such a person’s life?

Clearly this person’s choices are unusual, but I don’t really see how you deduce anything about clubhouse or its users in general.

The piece was quite well written.
It's also difficult for fathers. I don't know if I buy the "mom's do all the work" line anymore. When I take my kid to soccer practice it's all dads.
I have never been a 'information is etched in stone' type. It is very much dynamic But the people making these calls are unaccountable.

We don't have herd immunity for _many_ pathogens, yet this is the one we irrevocably change society (in ways I would argue are more harmful to humans than this particular virus)? Nobody has a black and white information, yet our leaders are treating that way and refuse to outline off-ramps to these restrictions.
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> I don't talk with 99.9% of the people I've ever worked with and don't much miss them.

Maybe you don't miss them because you never talked to them.
One Amazon? There many competing sites on the internet.
Asking for advice is not "complaining for the sake of complaining."

Regarding the activity, it may make you feel better but my question is: does it actually improve the situation? I assert that it does not. Obviously just making a complaint doesn't fix anything, but more importantly it focuses attention on negative aspects (which we presuppose can't be fixed by merely talking), which reinforces both your view of those negative things and strengthens the negative emotional reaction.

I learned this from one of my aunts who is the best parent I have ever seen: tireless, family-focused, and always positive. When I became a parent myself I asked her how she deals with all the stress and she told me it's as simple, and as hard as just focusing on the positives. When you feel frustrated about something you cannot change, then find the positive and focus on that.

It sounds dumb, but it works. It makes you happy, which makes for less shouting or stern parenting, which builds better relationships with your kids and spouse, which starts a positive feedback loop.

On the other hand I often see parents complaining about their kids every time they meet up with other parents, sometimes when the kids are within earshot too, which just makes them focus on and respond more quickly with negative emotions to those same issues. This starts a negative feedback loop which starts them down into the "ugh, everyday is a chore" lows.

Our brains are reinforcement machines, so just complaining by itself does make the situation worse, when there is no expectations of the complaint causing the situation to be resolved. That's what I mean by inherent negative-utility.