skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In order to be innovative and compete, we need very flexible working laws, people with a big growth mindset, a less relaxing lifestyle and AMBITIOUS people.

The US has those things and it's turning into a "third world country with a Gucci belt" (as someone put it) for everyone except the 1% and the indispensable knowledge worker class that can't be automated away or juiced dry for all the productivity they are capable of.

"Flexible working laws" and "less relaxing lifestyle" to me translates as "light a fire under their ass until they are forced to innovate", while "big growth mindset" and "ambitious people" translate as "hustle culture", which I consider toxic in its very nature.

As a European, I can only hope that our culture doesn't degrade itself to that degree.
Correct, but I like British grammar, where companies are plural :-)
Amazon Fresh does really well in NYC, has been a positive experience except that their baked goods are frequently sold out. Wal-mart wants you to go out to one of their stores to pick things up - great strategy in a city where nobody drives. Target’s master strategy wavers between being out of everything and not telling you they can’t deliver something until you try to check out. So I’ve mostly used peapod to purchase items from Aldi - that has been the most reliable way to get groceries delivered.
In the author's defense, when a new major release of Windows is announced, assuming that this time it might happen without yet another not asked for start menu reshuffle would be quite the dark horse bet.
Yes, but the "only over USB" thing is unfortunate so I find myself mostly using the bundled cloud service, which is usually something I try to avoid relying on. Some sort of peer-to-peer sync like Syncthing would be great.
"Since all communication platforms are now free, the only way to get people to use competitive European software and services is to also offer these for free, and to make sure this technology is very good and compelling"

I have never seen a government or any regulation deliver anything "good and compelling", or take any other action to "make sure" someone else delivers it.
I occasionally open the ad/tip by mistake, because I wake the mouse and PC by clicking. I guess this is my mistake for "holding it the wrong way", but it's quite annoying nonetheless.
Rural, poorer areas of the country?
I still think hard work and dedication is a virtue and our culture should continue to view it that way. However I think the work ethic should apply towards one’s family, friends, and community rather than just one’s job. In other words we should celebrate hard work but not being a workaholic or company-man.
Working hard but doing so for someone else can often not lead to significant gains. Many services like Uber or InstaCart or even McDonalds or Amazon Warehouse or Walmart or Retail Sales or call center, you can work hard but there is no where to progress to. Your rewards are capped.

You need to find a way to work hard such that your rewards are not capped artificially. Startups were you get equity. Large companies where you can progress to high salaries if you are able to rise. Starting your own business and being competent at it. Working on commissions in an area where the commissions can be large -- true sales, or real estate. Being a professional, e.g. doctor, accountant, lawyer, has traditionally had high wages and you often run your own business.

You need to work hard in a way that has unlimited rewards, or at least high rewards possible, and that aligns with your aptitudes.

You need to not work hard at a minimum wage job if you can get something better.

And if you are stuck in a minimum wage job, maybe you can organize with your fellow employees to demand better wages and benefits? This is also another way of working hard in order to get more for yourself.
> Anyways, what exactly do you think you have to gain by being "diagnosed" with ADHD? Except for an "excuse" for your problems?

For me it helped me realize that I not normal.

I excel at certain things (creative thinking, handling unexpected situations) and I'm hopeless at others (following through on plans that doesn't have to be acted on daily).

I have decided to not use it as an excuse and told my wife so so she doesn't feel sorry for me.

I've decided to exploit my disability for all that it is worth: I deal with tricky customers at work because it is easy for me, I wake up before certain others goes to bed etc etc. I am different and I not only accept it but actively enjoy it and take advantage of it.

Also I know I speak out more easily than others so I accept that I should raise my treshold for when to speak out.

My life has become better after doing this.

Oh, and not a bad word about Ritalin, but be aware that for some it works wonders, for others it has nasty side effects (muscle tension, weight loss) and also the exact brand and capsules makes a difference (yes, they are supposed to be identical but I guess it is something about the microbiome because I have seen it too many times no so.)
This has been true whenever a society has injected large amounts of capital into the bottom classes of its society.

Slavery, colonialism, and cheap imported labor are ways that lower mercantile classes can see significant wealth (generated from slavery, the colonies, or cheap labor) injected into their class at very little expense. However, they are not the only ways. Expansion into new territory, gold rushes, new technology, and governmental policy are among a very long list of other things that can have this same effect.

The most important one for a society, however, is the fact that sufficiently progressive taxation and societal reinvestment can do this as well.

This is one of the primary reasons why democratic capitalistic states tend to have better overall growth than more strongly state capital societies. And more controversially (and far too complex to talk about here) why socialist countries were often able to industrialize in under a generation.

When hard work can't guarantee a better life, it is a sign that a democratic society has hit a degree of wealth inequality great enough to translate into a failure of democratic society to represent and act on behalf of the interests of the majority of its population.

The fact that this is the historical norm is a reflection of the history of authoritarianism (monarchism) in human history, not some unwritten rule of physics.
Promoting from within means you have to forgo quick wins for long them gains. That’s just not how US managers age leaders think.
You can, but getting the reader to pick up a new pdf involves

- Setting up a bit of metadata

- Restarting the system service

it's not quite as simple as `scp file remarkable:/folder`
> I don't agree with this law but to say it doesn't do anything against proper criminals is patently false.

It’s not false, we see this with gun control laws 100% of the time. Handguns being illegal in Chicago yet it being rather easy to get one. The laws are followed by noncriminals but criminals don’t care and only get caught after they do something. If at all. So the laws reduce freedoms for noncriminals and criminals just get charged with something else when/if they’re caught. And mind you the criminals don’t care what or how many crimes they’re charged with. At best it deters law abiding citizens, nothing more.
It's a simple test of your hypothesis.

I say if you let go of this rock, it will fall to the ground. Let's test gravity.

You say it won't. Not all rocks. And true, maybe not all rocks. Maybe a great gust of wind will blow at the same time. Maybe there's an unseen glass table between your hand and the ground. Maybe it's only 0.1% of bad apple rocks that fall to the ground.

So I just wanted to make sure, since you're sure that only 0.1% of rocks fall to the ground when you let go of them, well, let's try it. When you let go of a rock, it has a really good chance of not falling, right? We don't want to demonise all falling rocks. If you're sure of your thesis, you should be very confident letting go of the rock and demonstrating how it doesn't fall.
I had a neuropsych evaluation (the neurological test) in my early 20's. It confirmed my diagnosis of ADHD and dyscalculia.

If you don't believe you're negatively impacted with ADHD type symptoms, it probably won't help you. It did help me manage the 'cycle of anxiety' brought on by ADHD-induced lack of focus and procrastination.

Stimulant medications do help, I'm on Concerta which is an extended release methylphenidate (Ritalin). It is not magic. I see a therapist to help with accountability and manage the chronic anxiety as well as develop systems to help me block my time and limit distractions.
For most citizens, the benefit of spending goes negative after a certain point. But each additional dollar does benefit somebody, and everybody is fighting for it to be them. The strategy of reduced spending is a global optimum, but not a Nash equilibrium.
For example folly's vector performs this optimization: https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/master/folly/docs/FBV...
> Mozilla used to be the beacon of Web standards, what happened to them

They still are. Only now Google inundates everyone with Google-designed Chrome-internal "standards", and releases them against any objections.

See WebHID as the best example of this: Issue https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/459#is... and timeline https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27512354
Darwin is BSD-licensed (it's a FreeBSD derivative after all), that's a huge difference to the copyleft GPL license of the Linux kernel. See e.g. the VMware vs Linux story for the implications of that.
Biden eases trade friction with EU ahead of Putin summit
https://archive.md/LOSqD
To be fair, some major changes are not directly user-visible. For example, Microsoft created a new programming language (called "P") to rewrite the USB stack in Windows 8 or 8.1 that allegedly made that part more secure/reliable.

EDIT: I suppose there is a certain pressure to mess with the UI, so non-technical people will "see" the difference. Some changes have been genuine improvements, IMHO, like AeroSnap or the search field in the start menu, others have been disastrous (cough Windows 8 cough).
Hong Kong watching Chinese nuclear plant after leak reported
Hard work is one of multiple preconditions for success - not a guarantee. Working smartly, remaining focused and simply being at the right place at the right time are just as important.
Can you all recommend any science-based books/videos/etc that one could use to improve their ADHD?
> Certain attempts to log in to Windows will also open Edge.

I think that is when you click the teaser text with the dots and just expect the location of the nice picture to unfold.
I'm a successful 33 year old adult in a career ideally suited to the way my brain works, so I was VERY skeptical about whether it would make any difference to my life to get diagnosed or go on meds. Now that I have, I can confidently say that it was a total game-changer and I wish my parents had gotten this done for me when I was a kid. It would've made so many things so much easier.

I currently only use my meds (specifinally, Vyvanse) once per week, because I don't love the side effects and I can manage fine without most of the time. On that one day per week, I do everything that my brain chemistry usually makes difficult, which is mostly paperwork and cleaning.

The difference it's made is HUGE. I went through a whole grieving process when I realized how much easier I could've had it all along. I can sit down, spend four hours doing my taxes, and then be done (and then realize the bathroom needs cleaning, and also do that), instead of sitting down, getting a snack, doing ten minutes of taxes, cuddling with the cat, starting a conversation, going on hacker news, doing ten minutes of taxes, going on hacker news, and finally finishing the taxes ten hours later at a quarter to midnight.

It's also made a huge difference to accept that some things are simply symptoms, and not signs that I'm a disorganized failure who'd too stupid to manage daily life. It's also helped to live with people who know and accept this about me, and who know that although I'm very good at managing my symptoms, sometimes things go wrong.

Yes, sometimes everyone is mildly inconvenienced because we were about to leave and now I have to go on a ten-minute WHERE IS MY WALLET tear through the house. It's fine! Sometimes, we're mildly inconvenienced because my girlfriend's insulin pumped is clogged and she needs to spend ten mins fussing with the catheter. These are things that happen when you have a chronic health condition, and no reason for anyone to get upset or berate anyone else. Accepting that has made me a much happier person.
DotEnv to the rescue.

https://github.com/theskumar/python-dotenv
Yes and the reason why we aren't ranked higher is that the press was not properly protected by police at right wing and anti-corona-measure protests.

We were ranked at place 11 but were downranked cause of continous attacks on journalists.[1] But the people wo did this are those who cry loudly: "We have no freedom of speech". I even read in this thread "Germany is a totalitarian dystopia with no free speech"

Those people are so far away from reality. I am concerned they might never find back.

[1] https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/deutschland/panorama/pressefr...
I'm not sure which med you are on, but I've been on adderall for about 12 years. Started during 1st year of a phd program.

In my experience with adderall... everything initially good about this particular Rx eventually fades away. Amphetamine makes you feel great. At the beginning really, really, great. It certainly helped me focus on whatever was in front of me, whether it was math homework or an iphone game. It became very important to ensure the right thing(s) were in front of me before taking meds (e.g. homework textbook or open IDE; not, for example, wikipedia, or email, or HN). Not getting enough sleep was the most acute negative effect of the meds. The battle for sleep continues to this day. The meds do suppress my appetite - they still do. It didn't help me lose as much weight as I'd hoped; turns out staring at a computer screen doesn't require a ton of calories.

These days I take as little Rx as possible, and I feel a lot better. I attribute a portion of this mood improvement to using a treadmill desk, which I started using ~2 years ago. I walk about 15-20 miles a day, while working (coding/writing/etc). I feel like it helps me focus, because I am "burning off" pent-up ADHD restlessness while working. And probably most helpful of all, I'm tired at the end of the day, so I fall asleep much easier.
>> But I absolutely do not get the point in reverse engineering a protocol that has been actively closed off.

You might be in the wrong forum. ;P

I kid obviously - but in all seriousness some people actually do this stuff for fun! And also just to know more about the services we use every day.
Necessity is the mother of invention. But that doesn't need that the must humane way up induce invention is to purposefully create the necessity in the first place.
Exactly. Big operation means senior oversight. Senior oversight means people who care about politics and optics are involved.

Someone at the FBI probably got a verbal briefing from foreign agents about the US users and what they were engaged in and then decided that a dozen mid level drug suppliers wasn't worth yet another political fight over the 4th amendment, international coordination that effectively circumvents it and the legality of drugs themselves.

Remember, federal agents didn't get their shoot first ask questions later reputation from nowhere. Their bosses aren't blind to this. Each one of those fifteen doors you kick in comes with a non-zero risk that you create another Brianna Taylor or Vicky Weaver and in this day and age it might wind up in 1080p on Youtube before you can clamp down. What do you gain by this? Maybe you'll get a drug table photo op but it will be nothing like what CPB or the Coast Guard get when they bust a semi truck or a smuggling boat. You'll get to flaunt the fact that you took part in an international drug bust operation. But the public mostly doesn't care.

From the FBI's perspective the risk reward ratio of skirting the 4A to take part in this operation just just doesn't work out.
I was diagnosed once as a kid, and again as a teenager. I was prescribed medication just as fast as I was diagnosed. In either case it hasn't helped, as it concerns my focus. In fact I quite often felt worse when I relied on these later on. What it helped was to ascertain that I do not in fact have ADHD, and to learn that the diagnosis process is a complete joke.

My issue was primarily of chronic fatigue from inadequate sleep through my teen years, informed in part by high levels of anxiety and stress at home. Conversely as a kid, diagnosis came recommended by a teacher (!) because I was "daydreaming in class" - that's it. Details of my fatigue were made aware to the psychiatrist I was sent to at the time, but perhaps because I was scheduled for focus/attention issues, it was completely ignored.

I eventually regained my focus in adulthood, after pain and trepidation, with a multi-pronged approach that included reinvigorating sleep, reducing my anxiety levels, and diet / regular exercise.

Make no mistake: this is not to proselytize that "ADHD doesn't exist". But I would put it to you that since there is a perverse incentive to diagnose it, it's diagnosed as though everything is a nail in North America. There should be more credence given to the possibility that focus issues can be symptomatic of other problems.

I also find it dubious that children can so easily be diagnosed by virtue that a long day of boring lectures and sitting still is difficult to pay attention to. This is almost ubiquitous among children, though yes, it will exacerbate things more among kids who have more of a difficulty with focus. This brings to mind the story of Gillian Lynne, choreographer for Cats, who was brought to the doctor for her fidgeting - he suggested she go to dance school where she excelled. Why is it unthinkable that certain children be allowed to flourish in more appropriate environments? Because they're an inconvenience to adults - that's all. It's not less virtuous to be a person drawn to more physical engagement with the world.

Also see: A Disease Called Childhood: Why ADHD became an American Epidemic, by Marilyn Wedge, Ph.D.
I think that this may as well be a pendulum: many browsers, IE6 monopoly, many browsers, Chrome monopoly. We may yet swing back to many browsers at some point in the future :)
I think that, like imessage, you need certificates signed by Apple in order to actually use it with Apple devices.

Really you'll be happier if you just ignore everything going on with iOS and Android.
Really nice to see "native" and not electron :). Very clean looking.

One suggestion would be to do thumbnails like Octal on iOS, but that may just be a personal preference.

I'll try to remember to check back later, when you're ready to `brew`.

Also based on threads here, nice to see you're using this an an opportunity for feedback.

Well done!
Dads now spend 3 times as much time with their kids than previous generations
Yes I am doubling down on the facts. For reference, you posted two links with no explanation as to how they supposably refute my points and have refused to backup your claim that HRC created the Russia problem for trump.

Please explain:

- Don Jr's meeting where he's looking for help from the Russian government

- trump's obstruction regarding that meeting

- Manafort's shady dealings in Ukraine on behalf of Putin

- Roger Stone's involvement with guccifier 2.0/wikileaks while working directly with trump

- Why you think HRC created a fake story about Russia given the facts above and the fact that even the Steele Dossier (only part of trump's Russia problem) wasn't initiated by HRC or her campaign

The fact that you cannot defend these actions show the weakness of your position.
I think the people that distrust it are often the people that know the most about it as well not just back water hicks. How many folks here trust Facebook? Anyone?
I was diagnosed with ADHD 7 months ago. The diagnosis and medication have been life-changing.

I was 'high-functioning', in much the same way as OP: stable marriage, successful career, not much savings but at least not in any debt.

But I also suffered from depression, anxiety, extreme procrastination, substance abuse, risky and impulsive behaviour.

Of course I saw psychiatrists, and they stopped listening the moment I said "depression" and prescribed the usual drugs, which did nothing for me. Luckily my 3rd psychiatrist listened a bit better and referred me for tests.

Since diagnosis I have started medication (methylphenidate/Ritalin, the only real option in the country I live in) my life has significantly improved. My procrastination is almost entirely gone (now maybe 4 hours a week "wasted" instead of 3+ days of being unable to do anything productive), my work performance is drastically improved, I'm losing weight (no longer dopamine-hunting with food), my wife says I'm doing more 'chores' and forgetting little things (spoon in the sink instead of the dishwasher) less often.

My depression and anxiety have disappeared. I still get overwhelmed in loud/busy environments. I still have emotional overreactions to small annoyances. I still forget things, and procrastinate a little. But the key thing is acceptance. I understand why these things are happening now, and that understanding makes them less hard to do live with.

Even if you don't start medication (and I suggest you do, it's provably incredibly effective for most cases) the biggest thing you can do is learn. You will be amazed for the first 6 months at least that such a massive amount of your life has truly been affected and so much of your 'unique personality' is shared with other ADHD adults.

My psychiatrist answered my same question "How can I have ADHD if my life is like this?" with "But how hard was it?". Success despite ADHD doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It just means you developed coping strategies for your deficiencies. And if you're in therapy for family issues then clearly those strategies are not working sufficiently.
The one question that turns a lazy day around
I'm a fan of AJE for my headline blast style news. They're far enough removed from my day to day in the US that it manages to give a good "rest of the world" vantage point. It is often the case that a big story for a few days on AJE is some sort of major unrest in this or that country but on all the US networks it is something inane.

Because of their ownership I do tend to take a more critical view of their Middle East coverage. Need to view it (and everything really) through the "What does Qatar want?" lens. Although sometimes even that helps give a good "both sides" style comparison. For coverage on Israeli/Palestinian tensions I can use both that and the more standard US options and get a more well rounded view.
Sure, you can SCP all the files you want but even if they're PDFs or EPUBs they won't show up in the interface. (I can't remember if I actually tried this or if I just read it somewhere. Maybe it's worth a shot.)
I guess that's the business norm. It's not really that Windows 7 is better than Windows 10, but that traditional business practices - of buying tools and using them and a respect for users - was better than modern business practices - of data and limited services and a confidence that the plan is always right. Everything has changed to foster that distrust, even completely non-computer services like journalism, taxis and food delivery.

If Microsoft would go back to pick up development from Windows 7, or Windows 3.11 for Workgroups, it would still be about abusing their customers.