skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They don't do the work. I very rarely encounter articles that feel like a journalist has poured over documents, spent hours with experts, etc.

Indeed. Many times when I look at the original sources for news articles, the sources either include major pieces of information omitted from the article, or even information that contradicts the article. There's talk about how people on Hacker News/Reddit/Twitter/etc. comment without reading an article, but it looks like most reporting is the same - writing an article without looking at the source.

When you see that neither the reporters nor the consumers of the news seem to care about this, it's clear that the purpose is to entertain and not inform.
You don't have to quite smartphones, just disable all notifications (e.g., WhatsApp, Email, alarms, sms, etc.). Use the phone on demand, never let the phone notify you something. That's the trick!

So, for example, I usually left my phone next to my bed the whole day. At afternoon I pick it up and check messages. In the night I left my phone in the living room (I pick it up the next day). That's it. Some people have complaint that I don't answer "on time" (why should I?).

I usually don't take my phone with me when going out (except if I'm going to hike and the like, in case of emergencies).
How Much Are YouTubers Offered to Review Products?
> * Accepting hosts with prior criminal charges for battery, who then proceeded to sexually assault a guest.

The article says the offender had been charged but not convicted; what are they supposed to do? Know better than the justice system? And then they'd have complaints that people who have been wrongly accused at some point and found innocent, many of whom are likely to be minorities, are denied business by AirBNB.
>So protecting your citizens' rights and their privacy is "lack of imagination"? This is such a horrible argument.

I don't really think it's the argument the author is making, or if they are, they mean it sarcastically.

The frustration is with the state of affairs where American companies can destroy the entire market for software products with free services built on data mining, much like Uber, Lyft, Doordash, etc. have upended the market by completely ignoring profitability in search of marketshare.

And data mining pretty much is the only way to provide a free service and still make money.
> So I suggest you explore this to learn about yourself so that you can take the newfound information to make the best steps toward your personal/career/etc goals. That may be disregarding everything they suggest and refusing treatment, but understanding more about yourself and how your mind works cant be a bad thing can it?

I did that for 50 years before the diagnosis, I decided to try what my therapist suggested.
> I'd imagine ...

Yes, and imagining is what is actually happening here, because you clearly do not understand plumbing (or any of the trades).

The studies aspect of it are the least part overall. Good plumbers (and electricians and builders) get good primarily through a delightful combination of attitude and experience. The experience comes from apprenticing early, and accumulating lots of "stories" along the way as a result of having to work in a large number of different contexts.

You will get none of this while working on your STEM career, and you will likely find that most plumbers (and electricians and builders) will be reluctant to take you on as an apprentice later in life without overwhelming evidence that you'd be remarkably good at it.
Yes, my statement was very broad. But the point I'm trying to make is that regulation is usually reductive, not additive. It is definitely needed in many cases, and the state should interfere when necessary to ensure safety and fairness. But regulation is never the reason innovation happens.

The spirit of the author's comment was that if you regulate for something becoming compelling, it would become compelling. That never happens. You can't regulate your way to being innovative. I think it was Ben Evans who said the difference between the US and EU is that the US sees regulation as necessary evil, while the EU sees it as an exciting project. Hence the different outcomes.
> Educational apartheid by wealth isn’t a necessary feature of a society.

It is a fundamental feature in class-based societies like USA, the UK and much of the rest of the Anglosphere. Maintaining the class structure and preserving the accrued intergenerational wealth from the upper strata of society means that the kids of those wealthier classes must acquire distinctive social manners and culture which sets them apart from the commoners.
Not the person you are replying to, but generally speaking I look at getting a diagnosis (for most mental health problems) like so:

Do these symptoms cause me struggle with my everyday life? Are things that normal people do all the time oddly difficult for me to complete?

If so, go get a diagnosis. Everyone struggles with procrastination to an extent, but if you try to sit down and try to start the work and just CANNOT emotionally bring yourself to do the work or get your brain to engage, then it's probably something more than just normal procrastination. If you are frustrated with your inability to remain focused and complete things on time that are just not inherently interesting to you, recognize that most people don't struggle like that. It's not a discipline problem it's an emotional regulation problem which is common of ADHD.
I've seen those reports myself. However they don't note anything about the entire class changing. Today even the lowest cast things nothing about having an entire encyclopedia in their pocket (a smart phone), 40 years ago encyclopedias were something you needed to be middle class to have one in your house, and nobody could have them in a pocket (meaning you both could afford one, and the space to store it at home)

Going back farther, 120 years ago cars were the play thing of the super rich. Now the poor have much nicer cars (including options like electric start, not to mention the unheard of AC), that are fast and never break (by todays standard they break down all the time).
What's online activity if not speech?

If DoorDash has a fake profile for D111af5ccf's Divine Donuts, is that not a crime? Impersonation, fraud, theft of IP, etc.

Again, how does authenticity conflict with free speech?

Examples, please.
It is one market for google, facebook, apple etc. They all succeeded and there's no reason a successful EU company wouldn't become european and essentially global. But for this to happen u have to have companies that grow
Unfortunately regardless of the merits or otherwise of this article, it’s basically impossible to read - even on a large tablet, the content is relegated to a 3”2 inch area surrounded by ads, they have broken reader mode (only the first two paragraphs show up), and the second you scroll past the first paragraph a giant modal popup appears. I don’t doubt it is absolutely chock full of tracking cookies and other user-hostile garbage.

This publisher can, charitably, get in the sea.
That is just not true. It was an excuse for a embarrassing loss.

Wikipedia isn't really straight here. At first the story was that people were manipulated. But no message could be found that allegedly influenced voters. Later it was changed they were stirring the pot. Really questionable sources were pulled that later proved to be more than unreliable.

The readiness to believe these plain lies explains the Iraq invasion though...
> such as hard work and sacrifice pays off

Most don't disagree with that. The point is that the rate is different for different people. For some people, a decent live (house, bed, food) will take a lot of effort. For others, they might be born already into that.

What's important is that this is a discussion about policy and systemic problems. You can't address systemic issues with individual solutions (such as "poverty would be solved if people worked hard"), it's nonsense the same way it is to address individual problems with systemic solutions ("if you're homeless, ask the government to enact affordable housing policies).
It should be, and probably is 100% clear from your life story and problems that you have it. Regardless of how „successful”, „special” or „exceptional” you might feel you are. I have no clue what “neurological tests” mean because you’re the only one in your head capable of making this assessment. Also your loved ones, they’re the ones who have to put up with your ADHD and probably know it.

Try the meds. For me, it has been a complete life changer. Many many small things that I’ve always seen as part of me, or symptoms for which I’ve over-corrected for in my personality are suddenly changeable. I’ve never been more emotionally stable and effective in everything I do.

At the end of the day you’re the one that makes the assessment whether you have it. “Professionals” know only what they see for the 30-45 minutes that you come in.
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US (and EU, and indeed everywhere else), companies do not have as long and detailed a recent track record of IP theft.
First off so, your parents are part of the starting conditions obviously. But I think I read that from twin studies there are indications that parents does not help all that much.

In the U.S. just focusing on education can be bad, if you pick the wrong one you just get a giant student loan and not much else.

Finally, even though starting conditions and luck are extremely important, you can’t do much about them. So hard and smart work is still the best option to improve. Going back and giving itself better starting conditions is not an option.
I'm reminded of a story told by Joel Sposky about Simcity on Windows 95.

The DOS/Win3.x version of SimCity had a bug where it used memory after freeing it, which worked fine on DOS since the memory didn't get reallocated. The Windows 95 team found that it was broken, and so they added code to detect whether SimCity was running, and if so ran the memory manager in a special mode that didn't release memory immediately.
Frankly if you don't have problems in your life that seem to stem from ADHD then I wouldn't bother with it?

I got diagnosed with ADHD as an adult after struggling with my jobs for the first 10 years of my career, and getting fired from my previous one.

It so far feels like being medicated helps me switch contexts easier. It has not helped my focus really. Just that when I get distracted from what I was doing I can get myself back into it again more easily, instead of browsing my phone for 30 minutes before I get back to it.
It appears that using webpack or similar to generate truncated hashes as class names is somewhat common: https://develoger.com/how-to-obfuscate-css-class-names-with-...

Webpack has a parameter called localIdentName where you specify the pattern.
That's the "lite," family-friendly, optimistic version. Between the ages of 13-16, I fantasized repeatedly about how to blow myself up in the middle of nowhere to leave no trace.

When you do the same thing and expect a different result, isn't that the definition of stupidity or insanity? At some point, the problem is you if people react the similarly. So, it's either a matter of forcing other people to be uncomfortable, trying much harder to remember the thousands of ways to not make others uncomfortable, or giving up.

I am guilty of oversharing, of assuming familiarity too quickly, and of anxious-avoidance. And, more recently, I had a test result of testosterone come back as 200 when it was 800 (300-1000 normal)... no idea yet why it is so low, but I do have a headache, sleepiness, sleeplessness, and no energy at all all of the time.

I also need to look at it from another perspective: I am defective in the natural selection of things, or I would've been selected for. That's the breaks of mutations, recombination, and selection: not everyone can be a bulletproof, perfectly clear-headed, polyglot, polymath, artistic, model, comedian, and graceful social master.

Between about 19-20 (1998-9), I went hikikomori around the corner from eBay.

And then, 30-38 (2009-17) I lived in vehicles in the Valley.

I had to move during the pandemic but I don't know anyone in ATX. The neighbors I've met are by-and-large, immature, vain, gossiping kidults so intensely concerned about appearances and status amongst the other elitist, self-absorbed, self-esteem (learned narcissism), entitled nobodies. They're mostly sales people, low-level managers, marketing people, and coders of the Millennial generation from 75th-downwards colleges without advanced degrees who assume they're so amazing and living-it-up because they can afford a relatively-expensive apartment (it's cheap for me). They party too hard with substances, so I also backed-off.

Recently around the pool, I saw a guy who was a dead ringer for a Soviet illegal posing as a WASP from Spies Like Us. The two women he met were wearing dresses that looked like solid-colored Lolita packages with giant bows on the back. They were, of course, unwilling to acknowledge the presence of anyone but themselves. I thought I was watching performance art, some sort of kink, religious sect, foreign visitors, or they arrived on a time-machine from Massachusetts in 1987.
> If Europe wants to have its citizens (and companies) rely significantly on European-operated software, it has no choice but to develop better software,

Europe is at a permanent disadvantage with language. You either target your local market in your local language, or you do English first. If you do English first, your market isn't even in your home country. Even culturally England and the USA (and AUS/NZ) are a bit different to France, Germany, Sweden and so on.

Only one "European" success I can think of whilst typing this: Spotify (anglo-swedish).

America on the other hand has access to a literally flood of venture capital money.
Most leetcode problems I have seen are not research problem statements and usually require applying one or two algorithms taught in any CS program. So I have to disagree.

EDIT: Obviously even some of the most elementary Algo 101 problems were research questions at some point, and led to published papers, but that's the reason people write textbooks and use them in college, so newcomers don't have to redo the foundational work.
"an entity that has for all intents and purposes unlimited resources"

When discussing cryptography, it makes a difference whether your adversary has "unlimited" resources, or just a lot of resources. There are challenges in cryptanalysis that cannot be solved even if you throw a planet-load of resources at them; but given literally unlimited resources, are simple.

"I'd bet on E2EE not working out"

You mean, you'll bet money that a government can eventually technically defeat any cryptography? Or do you mean that a government will do an end-run around E2EE?

If you mean the former, I'll take your bet; one beer-voucher says you're wrong. It's easier to devise strong ciphers than to crack them.

If you mean the latter, then I'm not playing. Political and social developments "in the long run" are too chaotic for me to want to wager.
At my last company engineers openly bragged about strategies to get prescriptions and increase dosages. I find this behavior reprehensible.

If they were my reports I would have fired them.
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My first thought was "if you can SSH then you can pipe" and, like magic, you can pipe the wacom device from /dev through SSH to a computer.

The result was this: https://gitlab.com/afandian/pipes-and-paper

Blog post https://blog.afandian.com/2020/10/pipes-and-paper-remarkable...

It's kind of abandonware now, but some others have made some great forks!

https://gitlab.com/afandian/pipes-and-paper/-/forks

https://github.com/flomlo/rm2canvas
After doing airbnbs I since have usually decided to stay in hotels when I travel because I just like the reliability in having things provided as well as other things like location, services, etc. Airbnb is always a hit or miss honestly, despite the cheaper price.
To avoid misunderstandings, On the advice of @gk1, I edit the blog post title to :

"Introducing Alternative, the community-powered search engine for software"

Unfortunately, I couldn't edit it on HN

Does it sound better?
I order online for pickup through a service called Peapod (the "good" grocery store close to me is a Giant, which I think purchased Peapod at some point or at least has an exclusive partnership). I don't mind paying slightly higher prices, but I don't think they are. The pickup fee is also extremely reasonable, just a few dollars. But this is always for next day or even later in the week. I did fajitas and sides for about 15 people for a birthday party a few weeks ago and put the order in a week prior to pickup.

My question is, are people really order this stuff for pickup or even delivery and expecting someone to immediately run out of a back room and start filling the cart? I don't see the benefit to the store in offering "speedy" grocery delivery. Running out of food at home is rarely a surprise, and we're at a time now where it's no longer unsafe to go into the store even in urban areas. I'm not going to order from a different grocery store because they can have my order ready for pickup an hour sooner than a better and/or closer one.
> Your example is a pretty extreme caricature;

It's a caricature? I've only recently learned that this is not something that everyone struggles with daily...
How could one listen to enough Alex Jones to know this? I like the idea of Alex Jones, paranoid style American politics is a tradition and has its uses, but it’s to me a bit like pro wrestling. It’s not content that’s pitched toward the upper 2/3rds of the bell curve. He is a canary.
Can't see how, and this seems to suggest this functionality is not implemented yet: https://github.com/cuelang/cue/discussions/663

Mind sharing a reference?
SANY adopts TwinCAT/BSD for the automation of wind turbines
I see smart people watching charts like pornography addicts instead of engaging in productive business activities, that is all. I see money that could be invested in the community going into scams like Chainlink.
Same here. I'm so used to reading with the backlight at night for years (kindle paper white and Oasis) that going back to clip-on external light (I haven't used one since the paperwhite came out, do then even sell those still???) is a non-starter for me.
The UK government have blocked the sale to nvidia as far as I know. Whether that means it is being brought back to the UK, I don't know.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56804007
I think there’s multiple buckets here.

One is the old fashioned poverty you bring up. It exists, it sucks. A lot of people are struggling.

Another one is people that technically have all they need but spend money they don’t have on things that they don’t really need. This leads to being stuck “working hard” and for working longer than you would normally do (since you don’t really have a choice - you’ve gotta pay that loan)
This is revisionism. China’s rise is a classical story of pre-industrial to manufacturing economy (and then partly services economy) transition.

China’s policies are probably the largest force for human happiness in the last two decades simply because of the sheer scale of people uplifted from poverty through industrialization.

The fact that they’re a totalitarian dictatorship means that they stand opposed to us but they are not incompetent.

China’s regime is ridiculously popular for a reason: It’s the economy, stupid.
Yup. There is no doubt individual effort matters. But the extent to which it matters is sharply constrained by systemic factors. And escape from those factors is often about luck, not effort.

I'll use myself as an example. Going by parents, I do way better than one would expect. But I was lucky to be born into a time where my neuroatypicality was suddenly useful in an industry big enough that it created social upheaval and space for some to rise. Lucky indeed; 50 years earlier I would have made a mediocre car mechanic, somebody who only worked hard on the rare car problem that was interesting.

And timing aside, two other lucky items pointed me at tech. One was getting an early computer (TRS-80 CoCo) as a gift from a well-off friend of my mom's. The other was my dad being a software developer himself. Which only happened because in the mid 1960s his dad was an exec at an insurance company that had just rented one of these newfangled minicomputers but didn't know what to do with it. My dad didn't have any training, but he was a) smart and b) a bad student in college, so my grandfather used his connections to try him out on computing. Something that was only possible because they were white; Milwaukee had no black insurance executives in 1965.

Have I worked hard at points? Sure. Have I worked half as hard as a restaurant prep cook or a single mom who cleans offices at night? Nope. Indeed, the hardest times I worked were at the shittiest, lowest-paying jobs. Working the grill at McDonald's. Running an injection molding press to make mirror rims for cars I couldn't possibly afford. Since getting into tech my life has been comparatively cushy, and getting cushier. Way better than what my middle-school automated career counseling service suggested I was destined for: bowling pin machine mechanic.
good job it's not talking about the city of London, then
Firefox' engine is called Quantum nowadays. Not sure how much of the original Gecko code still exists in its depths though.
>You have 27 languages, 27 cultures, 27 political systems, 27 markets, 27 levels of development and infrastructure. Although you have a market of 300 million consumers, they all have different spending habits, different spending power, different needs...

i was thinking about that.

that's 27 smaller markets compare to one US or China market. you have to deal with 27 regulations and cultures. is that even worth the time and efforts?
I decided to put off learning kubernetes for 2 years because I wanted to see if people would still love it and if it would last. People went from loving it to fairly mixed feelings in their blog posts. Now I’m trying to decide whether to jump on the bandwagon and it’s a little hard to read the situation. I know a lot of people have given up on micro services for now but still think containerization is transformative. What has your experience been?
Pay to research and pay to use the fruits of your research? What kind of shameless parasite are they?