skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would you need MS/Apple/Google to implement it? Just write your client and install it. Anyway you need to install the reverse engineered clients on non-apple devices, which are the majority.
Five States Had Covid-19 Infections Well Before First Cases Confirmed
This is a common misconception. The euphoria is a transient side-effect. Some people don’t experience much euphoria from amphetamine.

I experienced euphoria for a month or so when I first started treatment, but now it feels similar to a morning cup of coffee.
SQLite is open source. If it goes away from the direction you want, then fork it. That's still way less effort than implementing a bunch of different IndexedDB variants.
> European investors specifically are much more interested in traditional business plans than US venture capitalists. “Data is the new oil” does not translate well into German, French or Spanish.

> In addition, with the GDPR, NIS (2) Directive & other regulations, data in Europe is definitely more “the new toxic waste”. It is in any case not a business plan.

> So not only do we lack the imagination to launch free platforms, the path to one day making money with them is blocked by regulation.

So protecting your citizens' rights and their privacy is "lack of imagination"? This is such a horrible argument. As if the only way to provide a service were to spy on your users.
This is false - if the dose is high enough with a drug like Adderall or Vyvanse you will get the euphoric and high energy when first starting out. Over the course of a week or two your body adapts and that feeling fades.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predestination_in_Calvinism

Reformed Christians believe that God predestined some people to be saved and others were predestined to eternal damnation
My biggest dislike is the storage: my ebook collection is closer to 20GB and I'd love to be able to put it all in the device but it's not to be.

The sync story is itunes like (transfer+metadata), which I somewhat dislike, but the use of rmapi plus other mechanisms to transfer data to it (e.g. plug in via usb and then post/curl a file vs. using their somewhat silly front end directly) has made it work for me.

I use their app as an easy way to look at my notes on my work+personal laptop plus also use the send-as-email functionality to share notes. I also transfer content from my chromebook to it via the chrome plugin.

All in all, the storage limitation is my biggest criticism but in general the other improvements it's brought to my life have been much appreciated.

PS: I use the Staedtler Noris Digital Jumbo stylus instead of the stock due to the built in eraser. The writing experience is less realistic with this though but the eraser is handier; I wish I had bought the marker plus when I preordered.

Edit: I didn't really answer your 2nd question: I don't know of good approaches to share data with a Linux desktop in this case though I think rmapi would do well for it. It would be nice if they had a webapp vs platform dependent apps for sharing data. Some of the hacks people have developed for it might help in that case. I recommend joining their discord or checking out remarkablewiki.com
I would advice against it. Phones are pretty useful. However to reduce phonetime, I followed Tim's advice [1] on it and combined it with Naval's behavior replacement advice [2]

1. Uninstall all apps that are not required. Especially social media apps and email client. Also, signout of things that are not required on phone like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.
2. Keep it on silent all the time.
3. Disable notifications.
4. Replace behavior by adding useful apps to help cope up with your anxiety. You can install iBooks or Kindle and read on your phone.

Eventually you will see the behavior shift. This will have you partially reduce phone use and maybe prepare you for more adverse changes like complete phone abandonment.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NgtEfg3vJk
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGY2To_HW98
I think trust in general is overrated as a concept. Even after 20 years of working in software business, it is shocking to me how gullible many Westerners are because they are ready to trust people by default. No surprise they are getting duped more often than not. In fact, i believe decline of trust is mainly due to globalisation: when Westerners get to meet and work with people from low-trust countries, their trust level naturally decreases.

I would go on to say is that levels of trust, for the mutual economic and social benefit, need to be dramatically decreased across the board. No credit card chargebacks, no ACH, use of escrow for all non-trivial transactions, improved methods for identity verification, and overall teaching people that they should not try to "build reputation" or rely too much on someone's reputation: reputation is just a metric, and every metric is a hackable metric. Relying on it only makes you a victim of someone who is better at gaming the system.
Interesting use case.

Some quick feedback on the homepage:
- "predictable": serverless is not exactly "predictable". On the other end, having a set number of instances is :)
- "low cost": this assumes specific patterns of usage under a threshold where it's profitable to use serverless. That's entirely "use-case dependant" & a bit misleading.
- "constant speed": so you're saying that the worst case scenario is bounded to 150ms, no matter the data set?

Pointing these out because it makes it read as "yet another DB vendor with some unrealistic claims" :)
Are those the immigrants whose kids have a good chance of becoming doctors and lawyers?
There's not a conspiracy theory that Russia manipulated US elections, rather, they were a major source of disinformation throughout the 2016 presidential campaign. This is well documented throughout myriad sources and is not a conspiracy theory. The conspiracy theory here is in fact that it was a hoax, so you might want to check that you aren't a victim to this theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20...
As I have said many times before... I blame the government.

I have a small company, dealing with high tech stuff, and yeah...

If i got thaxed at the same rate as eg. Amazon is, i'd be totally rich... like really really reach... currently i make about as much as an engineer in a 'better' startup here.

We have large companies that don't pay taxes at all, and owe the government millions, and nothing... we hear about them on the news, there are talks... If I don't pay taxes one month, I get a reminder, the next day, they take away their money from my bank account, and if they can't, they leave my accounts closed, so I can't do business.

Covid help? Good luck.

...

There are many many cases, where hard workers and small business owners (i'm talking about mom-and-pop businesses, not 100+ people) would have a better life, if they were treated the same as facebook/amazon/... are. But the governments let the "big players" get away with murder, and then bother the small businesses, because their automatic hand sanitizer dispenser has a too-small label with sanitizer specifications/contents, even though the label was literally ripped off the hand-pump bottle, which would be ok if it was still on the bottle instead of the automatic one.
Taking personal responsibility for my life has completely revolutionized it, even being > 40 years of age. The idea of working as hard as one can and as much as possible is game changing. Optimizing for effort and learning and health (mental/physical/emotional) creates meaning in one's life and enables an entirely different mindset from 'the normal drudgery' that I see so much of on my social feeds.
Slow is smooth - smooth is fast
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Working with your hands is a practical skill that takes significant time and effort to become good at. I, personally, am terrible at it. I am highly educated, though. There are what, maybe 2.5 school years of degree related work in a STEM degree? That’s pretty comparable to an apprenticeship.
Getting overwhelmed is totally spot-on. I do need to remove myself on occasions. My family always remarks on my sensitive hearing and sense of smell.
It's only been, what a few hundred years since the industrial revolution began? We haven't given it enough time for the innovators to figure out how to manufacture the needs of society in an overflowing plentiful way that's also automated & low effort. Some things never will be of course.
Fair enough.

Can't say I agree with your 'on it' conclusion, but I guess time will tell. It took them about 15 years to get rid of the brain teasers (1998 to 2013ish from what I can tell), so if they're consistent we should hear one way or the other in 2028ish :-)
You really went to a different school than I did then. In the 90's, I was taught history purely as "This is what happened" with zero mention of debate, evidence or conflicting conclusions. I was explicitly taught that the civil war was fought over states rights alone. I was taught that the US was sparsely populated before Europeans arrived with glorious civilization. I was taught that democracy was triumphant and the best system of government that could ever be, and better in every way than the failure of Communism. I was taught that we alone saved the world from fascism in WW2 with barely a mention of the eastern front. I was graded on my ability to recite these facts.

Sure, I am aware that actual high quality historical scholarship must exist, but I honestly wouldn't know where to find it without waking into a university and asking someone close to the field for research help. Nearly every book of history on the shelf of my local library is in the vein of Guns, Germs, and Steel. I enjoy listening to some history podcasts, but have mainly experienced them as good storytelling and nothing about how the sausage is made.
I enjoyed the "independents taking control of their education, never stopping the learning for success and profit" section.

Specifically for "product", apparently every independent product who is taking control of their lives learns agile, kanban, waterfall or scrum.

Did they survey people or word2vec?
I bought the RM2 and used to have a RM1. The battery life is much better, though I don't have any hard stats.

They also improved a lot of my complaints with RM1 such as difficulty erasing.
Exploiting Current Management Mechanisms to Create Covert Channels in Processors
I think this is the essential question.

My hypothesis is that working hard can move you a few deciles on the income ladder (and position your children to start from higher up the ladder than yourself).

I also think though that people misestimate the slope of the income curve at various points, and that it becomes exponentially harder to get up the curve in the top quartile (I.e. going from a ~$30k (~25th percentile) to ~$60k (~50th percentile) to ~$120k (~75th percentile) to ~$500k (~99th percentile))

Lastly, I generally don’t see people that are not hard workers advancing (perhaps they might not advance as much as they should or would like) but I definitely see them make marginal progress vs people who haven’t worked as hard
Andrew Lee sold Private Internet Access in 2019 and has nothing to do with them anymore. Likewise, PIA has nothing to do with Freenode.
Hard work + opportunities leads to a better life. Hard work alone? nope. Go to a construction site and do the work the low graded workers do for a day. Tell me if this is not hard work. Tell me where are they going to be in 10 years?

At the same time opportunities are getting more and more scarce as wealth is getting distributed between a smaller set of people.

People can be fooled, but not all the time.
BoE's Bailey promises 'tough love' for fintech firms
Perhaps it slows down bigger tech companies ability to innovate.

My tech co has spent a significant amount of energy complying with GDPR and CCPA the last couple years while the products have received less and less feature improvements.

A brand new entrant would likely bolt on compliance to their innovative product once it reached critical mass, not before.
Battery farming of hens has been illegal since 2012 in the EU, although enforcement might be lacking in some countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_1999/74/EC
I "use" Chrome on my iOS/iPadOS devices periodically. I use it for the integration with Google services, the shared state with Chrome on my other devices -- bookmarks, currently open pages, passwords, etc. I jump between devices and this integration is critical. This is mostly between my iOS and my Windows existence.

I use Safari in a similar way, albeit mostly between my iOS and macOS existence.

The number of times I've missed a Chrome engine feature is somewhere approximating zero.

So saying "most of their value" seems pretty specious. If Chrome were faster, used less power, or had some value proposition rather than integration, sure, but it isn't. Here's a fun hottake - Chrome forced to use webkit on iOS is almost certainly better than Chrome would be if it used Google's own engine.

"because they do not implement crucial features in WebKit, like push notification"

There is always something that becomes the critical missing ingredient. Yet uptake of web apps on Android and the desktop is somewhere in the proximity of non-existent (but always explained away by shaking one's fist at Apple). The suite of features in web apps has grown spectacularly, and now encompasses high performance graphics, a massive VM, game controllers, gyroscopes and cameras and microphones, but there is always just one more thing that Apple is always to blame for.

This is another futile thread that is going to be brigaded by the anti-Apple crew, so please enjoy downvoting to try to assuage whatever hangups you have.
The industrial revolution started a century before 'end' of slavery. I mean, cotton was pretty much the basis of most early industry. Where do you think it came from.
People completely take for granted all the good luck, good fortune, opportunities, advantages, etc. (whatever you want to call the things that give them an upper hand as they go through life). We start and go through the first few years of life with zero input about where we are, where we go, what we eat, etc. As we get older, our choices don't increase all that much until we get to adulthood. Even when we do have choices, our choices have already been narrowed by someone else. Nearly every piece of information a person consumes was produced by someone else. Nearly everything that happens to a person is a result of something outside of their own mind. If you're doing well for yourself, then you can thank everyone around you because the world is more responsible for your accomplishments than you are. You may have worked incredibly hard, studying, reading, networking, and all that was probably necessary, but it accounts for a very small part of what got you there. If we're assigning percentages, it's in the single digits. For every person like you, there are 20, 30, 100 others who were just as willing and just as able to do the things you did, but maybe they didn't have the right information at the right time, maybe they didn't have the same networking opportunities, maybe they had to take care of their ailing brother, maybe they had more pressing issues.

Hardly anyone who has done well wants to accept this reality. They would have to change their perception not just of the world, but of themselves. They might feel very guilty, and people don't like that feeling.
I do not (AFAIK) suffer from ADHD, but having been in therapy for a while for other issues I had a similar concern at one point: I had a bunch of problems I wanted to talk about, I thought my therapist was missing the obvious and following a red herring with her questions. But she mentioned a book on a disorder and I read it: it was like reading a book written just about my personality. I had heard of the disorder, kind of a lot, actually, but it was nothing like what I had inferred. Understanding it better helped break a lot of unproductive cycles of thought.

If you're inclined to not treat your ADHD with drugs, I think that's admirable. But IMO it's important to have a period of time in therapy where you don't hold back and really try to understand everything that's going on with you. There's a great answer to your question in one of my favorite podcasts [1]. The wife in that relationship was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult and, similarly: recognized herself in a lot of the symptoms that she didn't actually think were typical of ADHD. She's now on medication (some of the time, I think), but just knowing that was an underlying condition helped her, her husband, and her family manage a lot of relationship problems better.

[1] https://www.nottheworstmarriage.com/episodes/mental-health-a...
> epicurean type world

I am curious what exactly do you mean by this? Adopting philosophy of Epicurus, in my view, can be very beneficial to a person.
The Steele Dossier was paid for by a firm hired by Hillary's campaign.

So essentially what you have is some weak circumstantial evidence and a campaign that tried to take advantage of existing leaks (about... what? was the information provided truthful?) and another campaign that paid to have false information compiled then leaked to the press in order to discredit a political opponent. Then, when that opponent was in office they tried to use it to overturn his presidency subverting the will of the people.

In spite of your "certain" rhetoric you are clearly in the wrong on this issue, as the Mueller investigation ultimately found.

But I suppose it's not worth arguing "religion" as this apparently has become, discarding reason and rationality. So as other poster says, have nice day! And I truly mean that, have great one.
Regardless of what the bible says, American Christians do not believe "...it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

You might ask yourself what America would look like if american Christians believed this line. A billionaire like Donald Trump would be unelectable. The inheritance tax would be 90%. The social safety net would be larger than secular Europe. Health care would be free as a universal right.
Yup, just bitcoin. Strike also uses stablecoins so you can send/receive USD without a bank being involved at all. True, peer-to-peer value transfers, nothing like a sms->sms transfer through a 3rd party. This will be my last comment — I beg you to wake up, look around and see what is happening. Janky cell phone centralized payment systems run by banks, telcos and governments suck. They represent control and surveillance. You think these central payment networks are about empowering a Kenyan farmer, no, it is about controlling them, being able to apply financial censorship and have full visibility into their private spending. There is a better world being developed right now. One that needs no gates nor gatekeepers.
This is oversimplification.

My personal opinion is that we're still working as much as ever, productivity per hour/individual is through the roof, automation made a lot of processes much easier/productive, yet every few years the legal retirement age goes up, pensions go down, workers right are eroded, life gets expensive faster than wages are growing, &c.

Keep in mind most people here live in a bubble. We make 2-10x our country's min wage while sitting on expensive chairs in ventilated offices, most people don't live like that. The increase of negativity towards work comes from the majority of people who barely make ends meet and know for sure they'll never be able to afford the life their parents/grandparents had no matter how hard they'll work. The system is designed to have a majority of people doing shitty jobs

The "work hard pays off" propaganda is very convenient when you want to make people feel personal guilt and divert their focus from the broken system that make them feel miserable.

People have been shitting on work well before cryptos and social medias were a thing. I'm not particularly versed on the subject but even I read books from the 60s which were already predicting what's happening now, we're just at the visible end of a very long process and more and more people can't take it anymore.
"Windows Classic Subsystem for Windows"
Being charged with a crime but not convicted shouldn't be held against anyone, even if in this case they were to commit actual crime later. To do otherwise is an injustice.
At $7M a pop, they’d show up in their operating expenses pretty quickly if they were common.
You contradicted yourself. Many companies like McDonald's and Walmart promote from within. You can be successful at those companies by working hard and getting promotions.
> calling regulations against clear abuse "endless bureaucracy" is insidious at best

It's insidious, yes, but also what if foreign competitors gain a competitive advantage due to fewer regulations?

They will still need to follow EU regulations, but they gain R&D momentum locally.

The only solution I see is to bar foreign companies that do not adopt EU regulations locally too - e.g. a self-driving car developer that does not need to follow safety regulation as strictly locally.
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He doesn't. Nobody deserves anything.
I've been on and off Vyvanse and Ritalin for a decade. Work with your doctor on side effects, I found Concerta to have the least side effects for me (long-lasting, tapers slowly at end of day, and fewer anxious feelings for me than Vyvanse.) I've also taken breaks from the medication for a year or more. It takes somewhere between 3 days and 3 weeks to feel like I'm not missing something when I stop the medication, but overall it's not that bothersome or unpleasant unless work/life is very busy at that time. Quitting coffee cold-turkey feels much worse, for comparison.
If you do a great job this year and kill yourself working… your boss might be able to afford a bigger house!
Go fuck yourself dude.

This isn't fucking "BigPharmaCo". This is someone who suffered and the meds helped. Believe it or not, mental illnesses are a real thing, and some of us need the help of medicines to deal with the issues. Take your conspiracy theory bullshit on somewhere you fucking clown
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It's interesting how political ideology and religion has so much in common when it concerns social mobility.

There are many different religions in the world, but I don't think it is a coincidence that the major religions tends to be very convenient for the top 1%.

They often teach that your life situation is a result of your actions (either in this life or the previous life), and if you follow all the rules you will be rewarded in this life or the next. There's a natural order to things, and it is all part of $deity's plan

Maybe people are waking up and realising that there are more to life?

Edit: This is not a rant against religion as a personal choice. I don't care about what you believe, so long as you do not use your religion as a tool to control politics.
The link says "as regulators threaten to block"
> valuing education means people succeed. So why didn't the parents succeed then?

Picture a first-generation immigrant family in America where the parents are older, don't speak English very well, and spend almost all their time working multiple jobs to pay bills and provide food and shelter for their kids. They then push their kids to do well in school because they know it's practically too late for themselves, but that their kids will be much better off than they were if they succeed in school.

Anecdotally, I knew several such families growing up.