skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Presumably you live in a democratic nation with a strong constitution, respect for law and order, lack of discrimination, and where freedom of speech is a non-negotiable absolute.

Further, I assume your country has a strong army and/or is separated from any would-be invaders by tall mountains, deep oceans, or both.

In that case, probably the worst thing you need to worry about is some level of power imbalance when negotiating with large companies over insurance rates, real estate, or credit.

So, you know how some places have these oddly specific laws based on some of something that happened there? Well, a lot of places in the EU have had some Interesting experiences with people being tracked and analyzed in unknown ways. Hence the laws against it.
> Apple just got another excuse to make its charging and data cable even more incompatible ... (emphasis mine)

Not sure where you are going here. Apple’s USB C cables and chargers are ordinary, standards-compliant devices.

They do still have lightning devices (predating Type C), but the other end of those are standard USB type A and type C connections. Type C is the upgrade path; my Mac and iPad use them.

I’m sure when they switch their phones to type c there will be much anguish about the “incompatibility” — just as when they introduced the USB-based iMac in 1998!
If you omit the part about the one-child policy I would think you were talking about the USA.
Your comment is a bit bigoted, the government has been paying families, not "french families", to have more kids. This isn't segregated by language at all. Everyone gets their child allowance payments, whatever their origin.
Agree, this is a very incomplete list. Better places at least in Europe are often mid- to small towns. They might be however boring for certain people. But in general, they share most of characteristics with their nearest big city from this presented table.
He may not be in the US.

In most of the world you can hire a junior programmer for $30k.
The Advanced Principles of Chaos Engineering
I haven't listened to the episode, so this may be off, but...

our broad use of the word “addiction” can cause real harm.

I would say that the opposite is (at least) as harmful. Quantifying and medically defining addiction narrowly has led to a lot of harm. Smoking is extremely hard to kick, with some first handers claiming that its worse than heroin. People rarely prostitute themselves (or others) for tobacco though. Which defines or quantifies addiction?

Withdrawal symptoms of severe alcoholism are among the most dangerous, and deadly, much worse than cocaine. That doesn't quite capture what addiction is though. Withdrawal symptoms are short lived, and addicts of many substances are extremely likely to regress well after this part. Cannabis can be habit forming. There are no withdrawal symptoms, and motivated quitters seem to have good success rates... even returning to moderate use. OTOH, it is a very common experience that someone decides not to consume... but does, repeatedly, with impacts on other areas of life.

We know that context and comorbidity is very important.

I think there's no doubt that technology creates impulsive & compulsive behaviours, that people want to stop, but fail to.

It's all complex. There aren't real dividing lines between procrastination, self discipline issues addiction and such. People call it addiction because it walks and quacks like addiction. I'm more inclined to say that research definitions are incorrect that layman ones. If a researcher narrows the definition to observable neurochemistry or withdrawal symptoms, excluding other addictions with similar behavioural effects... who is wrong here?

That said, I haven't listened. Adding depth and nuance to our understanding of different addiction (or addiction like) experiences may be useful.
yes, well true, maybe the ranking should be "Best Work-Life balance" for singles/family without kids/U30, etc
Really like how Pixelfed is evolving. A good balanced set of features are added at a good pace. Best way to keep track is via the maintainer's Mastodon account: https://mastodon.social/@dansup
That handshake starts the opening sequence in the (otherwise awful) movie "Valerian": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6oTziHKM_c
If you read the post from the bottom you would start with:

> I don't own any Apple products, and I don't endorse their labor practices,

would you have stopped reading it because of anti-Apple bias?
We’re reaching a tipping point in our society where some peoples lived experience is primarily digital, and the physical is an accessory. Our world, peoples health, and the things we need for a fulfilling life will suffer as a result.
These days, I find that there is little point in discussing anything China-related in Western internet forums. There's an overwhelming amount of ignorance, misinformation, prejudice and propaganda about China from tons of different parties. People largely post to get their standpoints confirmed, and nothing you post will change anything.

As a fellow Chinese raised in the West, I know it's hard to resist getting drawn into such thread. I try to avoid posting/reacting as much as I can, and sincerely advise the same to you. You're probably not going to change anybody's mind and just wasting your own time.
Eh, in terms of temperature its not much different than the American northeast. The real problem is the amount of sunlight.

Compare the mean winter temperatures of Helsinki and Boston. Now compare their mean sunlight hours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsinki#Climate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston#Climate
what would be a shitty neighborhood in your opinion in Berlin?
China to allow couples to have up to three children to cope with aging society
Are you railing against registering births? Which country doesn't do that? Somalia?
I seem to remember wireless charging with magnetic induction. Why did this never become the norm?
We have here in Argentina a "reality show" where actors, journalist, old athletes and other influences go to cook, and they are eliminated or pass to the next round. The producers choose the recipes so there is not much creativity, and some of the contestants barely can make a fried egg, but there is a lot of drama because they are famous, they badmouth the "jury", the "jury" make hurtful remarks, they get eliminated and later reaper magically, or get mad and go away, and other things like that.

You can choose to have "professional" sports like that where the important part is the press coverage, or something like the Gordon Ramsay show where if the food is perfect but 30 seconds late they get eliminated. [The guy could reduce the amount of scream anyway. Why is he screaming all the time?]
If everyone in the planet gets to toss a coin, and if it comes up heads you get to toss it again, that doesn't mean that there are any more tails than heads, each coin toss is just a coin toss, independent from any other.
I’m a doctor, but Covid’s broken my faith in medical research
Fairly happy not to. I love visiting Copenhagen, but I see no reason to live there. Travel times in and around Copenhagen are insane, compared to most other Danish cities, and housing is way to expensive.
Yeah I remember that program. When I saw it it immediately felt like that was something that was probably running on an Amiga, glad to see a confirmation.
Identity theft and ransomware are different classes of financial fraud, saying that one helps the other is like saying that petty crime helps murder; it doesn’t make much sense.
At $2 per month they are probably still subsidizing you with datamining.
I think you like most American's and Brit's overestimate how big of an influence it have that English have become the international common language by underestimating how much of that culture and language have been internalized as an European thing that is no longer owned/controlled/dominated by AngloAmerican interest.

In terms of cultural sympathies the internet have opened the door for the European public to understand and pick sides in the internal debates that happens inside of America which further limits the influence the American state/establishment have on European public opinion, and the general disgust most Americans feel for Washington is shared across the pond where it gets amplified by the fact that Europe's geopolitical interests is radically different from the dominant neocon/neoliberal agenda's that dominate Washington policy making.
Only if the entire loop audio fits into the RNN's hidden state? Or if you use some kind of external memory mechanism that gives the network access to previous audio.
Which came first, the high cost of living or the sky high tech salaries.

I would guess that they co-evolved in a vicious cycle of inflation. But I know very little of economics.
The ostensible reason is research on what the range of possible threats are, where you would think that learning how to fight them would be part of that, but is instead surprisingly sometimes "not my department" according to Josh Rogin who wrote a book on this.

More unofficial and non-scientific reasons that may not necessarily be in play are weapons research, and fetishizing of harmful viruses by sociopathic scientists working alongside other scientists.
What would a Deadmanswitch service need to do for you to trust it?
Imagine a service designed to help manage your death. You upload your will, a list of your assets, passwords, death instructions etc, and when you die access gets granted to your loved ones.

For the time being assume this service exactly matches your needs in terms of functionality, price, user experience etc.

What would need to be in place for you to actually trust the service with your data and to give you confidence that the service will outlive you?

What protocols could the service put in place to ensure that its fail proof? These could be tech protocols or in-person protocols.

I'm not a programmer so I'm thinking more in terms of non tech solutions like giving users voting rights and promising that users will maintain 51% control, or something to that effect. But I feel that there must be more developed and robust solutions to this question?
One child policy is one of the major things that led China's historic revolution out of poverty.

It's a very controversial policy, but you're free to prove me wrong.

People could be employed longer without an abundance of young people taking their jobs.
I think it’s much more likely they just don’t measure the bad:

Their tests are short duration, so they measure the smaller but more immediate bump — then fail to notice long term user disengagement.

It’s common for A/B testing to “switchback” downhill like that: recording mild positive signs in the short-term, highly focused trials while causing long-term diffuse damage to your brand/engagement.

Companies are datablind like that.
Maybe a foundation that begs for donations from everyone in the world (even these who make $3/h) and pretends that they are going to go bankrupt without your donation should not be giving its management FAANG wages.
Wikipedia is a non-profit foundation. $374k is a pretty damn good salary for a foundation.
What bias are you talking about? I thought Jimbo was an Rand Fanboy, freedom of speech is their religion.
Really interesting take. Is there a 'more' missing from second-last para?
The community is the owner, the individual editor/committer has to reach consensus if the edit is disputed.
What? In Germany an income of 80k EUR will put you into the top 10% of all earners, so you will be upper class. Especially on two such incomes.
I used to watch it in the 90's on Israeli TV!
Two n half men was great. And nobody like firefly xD

Its all internal politics. Directors, producers, money people. Without the great shows die because 'numbers' and trash keeps on coming.

Also a lot, a lot of people have terrible taste. And they stick to what they already know, even when its trash.
We got an Atari 800 around 1982 but I believe the 810 floppy drive cost more than the actual computer so we never had one. We did get the 410 program recorder that used ordinary audio cassettes to save and load programs.
check out https://github.com/GuitarML
> People rarely prostitute themselves (or others) for tobacco though. Which defines or quantifies addiction?

Because you can walk to an ashtray and pick out cigarette butts, which is about as dirty as the prostitution.
I use Wikipedia literally every day and I’m happy to donate some money annually just to show appreciation.
> If it was, it certainly was a failed CIA operation.

That's not rare at all. See also: IS, Al Quaeda, vast swaths of Africa (which are now being ceded to the Chinese) and Latin America. The world is littered with failed CIA plots, and the fall-out of those will last for decades.
And it's just yearly I think? I think modders will just revert mods for inspection and then redo mods after they have passed.
It's not meant to be bigoted (that's you mind reading) - it's meant to give context to non Canadians. But I probably should have said "Quebec Families".
Different tool, but this forum post lists some options: https://forum.photostructure.com/t/automatic-phone-uploads/2...

Some of the tools recommended are:

https://syncthing.net/

https://www.resilio.com/

https://www.photosync-app.com/home.html
Germany had once 60mil and is now at 80mil.

What's a good number for a country though besides having more kids for protecting a retirement?

Same question for china.
nytimes articles costs to view it.

below paid by ads.

https://www.thestreet.com/phildavis/news/engine-no-1-s-big-w...
I'm more inclined to think it was industrial espionage on an industrial scale.
That’s a joke. $200k is a high developer salary if you ignore the TC amounts thrown around which are due to stocks popping in the past 3 years.
I tried to do so, too. Decided to make no compromises, i.e. that any compressor-based refrigerator is unacceptable. So, bought a small absorption refrigerator from Dometic. Indeed no noise at all (because there are no moving parts), but it still feels like a huge waste of money: a bit too small and "suitable only for keeping the frozen food, but not for freezing it". But it does make ice.

https://www.dometic.com/en-us/food-and-beverage/refrigerator...
> Why should I donate to people who earn more than twice my salary?

If one look for reasons not to donate, they can always be found by thousands.

I find it beautiful that there is such a site as Wikipedia, that is free and open, and I am happy to contribute a tiny bit to it.
Always liked tuning in to the Prevue channel and seeing a guru meditation error.
A peacock unfurling his iridescent feathers
WAL-G 1.0 released: disaster recovery for PG, MySQL, MongoDB, MS SQL
But it allows areas with a national identity, like Scottish or Welsh seats, to be represented.
Using SHA256 Hashes to Draw Turing Machines
Source for your first point?

Josh Rogin, who wrote a book that covers the arc of events around COVID and the work at the Wuhan lab, says the opposite. He says the people doing GoF research generally consider counteracting the viruses to be not their department.

However, he's more of an Asia expert, not a lab expert, so he could be wrong about this. That's why I wonder if your source is the same source I had originally when I had the same belief.. my source at the time was simply my own guess based on common sense, but according to Josh that's not how the research is set up.
In Podman this is a solved problem: podman run --userns=keep-id
It is not what we put into ourselves that is dirty, but what comes out of us.
>legally mandated helmet obscuring my face from cameras

Can you link to the bike helmet you are referring to?
The Groundbreaking Sound of Delia Derbyshire
New version of tool to speed up and simplify CouchDB server released
> It's true, $30/hour is insultingly low for a software engineer.

It's dependent on location. It's low for the US, but it's high for most of the world.

Even in western Europe that's what engineers with 5 years experience make, and that's not a low cost of living area.
Well, it might be true for some positions, like engineering, but it definitively does not apply to all of them.
You have no idea what you’re talking about. Average salaries in WE are 25-40k.
> That is it: it doesn't matter to the regular Joe. At all.

That's what we're arguing about, isn't it?

> Because it was made first priority by throwing it into his face as the first experience when visiting a new website by this insane regulation.

I struggle to see how you go from what is the first thing you see, to what is the most important thing.

> Are you really equating cookie tracking with bathroom privacy?!

I am not. I am failing to understand why you think tracking is unproblematic. I'm probing to see at what point you do get concerned about invasion of privacy.

> Even then, I am not sure if there are laws protecting my bathroom privacy

Yeah? Try putting a camera in a bathroom that's not yours.

> but if there were I am sure they don't require me so sign some sort of waiver every time I take a dump in my own damn house!

Nor does a properly implemented, conformant GDPR dialog.

> Well now I can sleep so much better. I was quite worried about those awful trackers and their... tracking habits.

I do understand that you don't care that you're being tracked. That's fine. Carry on. I do not accept your premise that nobody cares. You are not the only person in society. If you are not in a wheelchair, I'm sure you don't personally need wheelchair ramps. Are you angry about those being mandated too?

> Good thing those Brussels bureaucrats,

I should have brought out my bingo board. I already have two items. What's the problem with bureaucrats? What's the problem with their location? Have you been swallowing too much UKIP rhetoric?
The startup that made air conditioning units look cool
Uli Behringer in a box ;)
Lots of cars have buttons to set the exhaust modes and adjust baffles and stuff in the engine / exhaust system to make louder pops and crackles.

Some people think it sounds cool.

Some people think it sounds extremely annoying.

Either way it is possible for a lot of these cars to sound quiet during an inspection.
Actually it was going reasonably well for 2 or 3 centuries, the mass spying is a recent development.

Thus the correct question to ask is "why/how did we break the system that used to work"
US has one of the best demographics in the Western world. Millennials are larger than Boomers. Plus the US can use immigration to decide what population they want. Countries not built on immigration cannot really do this in practice. see Japan.
I think the systemic cause was clearly pointed out: the one child policy.
I work in Stockholm and I just have a feeling that compared to other Swedish cities, people here tend to work more and have a worse life/work balance. Dunno about cities outside of Sweden though since I’ve never worked abroad.
What was it that Zuckerberg allegedly said?

"If Europe had invented Facebook, they would have invented Facebook".
I would like to see Wes Anderson, Charlie Kaufmann, and Tim Burton collaborate on an adaptation of this comment.
You use a romanized version instead of e.g. kanji. Or you lose apostrophes. My name does not typically fit english forms and i personally would blush if I had to say I’m being left out. Sure, it would be better if I did not have to do this, but bucketing this into the “the system is racist” argument together with other real issues, imho, its compeltely tone deaf.
I clicked expecting to find a mention to Video Toaster, and wasn't wrong.
That's horrifying. As a parent myself, I know I spend too much of my time with my kids on my phone, but I also don't use it at the dinner/lunch table, while I'm reading to them or tucking them in, while we're having an actual conversation or doing an activity like playing a board game or going for a bike ride.

So there's room for improvement, but I hope that being intentional in carving out at least these handful of times every day is something.
Whether you are “addicted” to something or not (and what defines “addiction”) is the wrong question, in my opinion. The correct one is whether your repeated, compulsive behaviour is affecting anyone else. If you knew it was, could you stop?
I'd even go so far and say GDP is related to temperature.

Or at least it was until the rise of cooling appliences.

The closer to the Equator I am, the less incliened to productivity I am.
Especially those driving their Honda Civics with the special BRAAAAP exhausts when they accelerate in my street just after the speed bump only to then jump on the squeaky brakes for the stop sign a few meters further. That really annoys me.
> I'm almost surprised that you can't add a shebang line pointing to Ansible at the top of your YAML.

You actually can do that, with something like:

#!/usr/bin/env ansible-playbook
---
- hosts: localhost
tasks:
- debug: var=ansible_distribution_release

It works pretty nicely, just remember to make your playbook file executable. It's a bit cumbersome though since you cannot use `ansible-playbook` arguments like `--limit`, `--diff`, `--check` and so on to have better control over the playbook execution.
I wonder how this would work in places where mortgage exceeds one's lifespan. The numbers simply don't add up anymore.
Exactly this.

The "discover who really has the power to break these supposed “addictions.” (Hint: It’s you.)" rethoric is always pushed by lobbies for industries who do not want to be considered responsible for the harm their products cause.

For example, MacDonalds and other fast-food producers have been pushing that in order to fight rampant obesity, people should do more sport, rather than have limited access to deeply addictive, processed and sugary-filled foods.
Examples of Excellent Personalization Marketing
have i mentioned yet that training only takes ~30 minutes and you only need ~3 minutes of data?
American here. I agree we are a bully.

However, you have no basis for complaint unless/until you want to get off the american military tit. Based on a 2.5% GDP differential in military expenditures, the EU would be paying out an extra $350B a year to protect itself.

America should leave NATO, keep the EU cultural/trade relationship, and reduce our military budget by that amount, which would pay for our much needed "infrastructure" projects. Would have been $7T in the last two decades alone. According to the progressive theory, this would solve all of our social issues without increasing our deficit.

And our world might be a better place to live in.

Unfortunately, neither the Americans nor the Europeans would consider doing this.

You can of course decide to have less military, and pay less. Ask the Ukrainians about that.
naw - I took three paragraphs of an important but obscure 20th century news event, rewrote using 8th grade English principles for clarity and order of facts, specifically and purposefully not changing any statement in the content, and it was immediately reverted with no recourse. The original was demonstrably awful writing -- total gatekeeping.
If you go back to the start of this discussion, this is not about not being happy for paying to support Wikipedia. I’d be happy to do that too.

It’s the fact that they are begging for donations while hoarding $300M in cash, and only 5% of your donation goes towards Wikipedia itself. The rest is on the hands of a foundation for them to use at will.
Some definitions of Scandinavia include Finland, others doesn’t.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia#Use_of_Nordic_coun...
I really like the duck-typing analogy for addiction. Addiction is a complex set of causes, symptoms, and consequences and every addiction is different.
Ask HN: Why can't I charge my electric bike at an EV charging station?
I know I can charge my bike at a coffee shop or some such place but I have to ask permission and I don't like asking for free electricity. I'd rather pull up to an EV charging station and pay with a debit card without having to ask permission.