skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Living in Europe, my perception (AKA: anecdotal / unscientific / non-measured) is that most of the ADHD-diagnosed people I know live in the US, while I only know one European person in my network who received similar diagnosis from a professional psychiatrist. Counterintuitively, I know way more European people than Americans, which makes my perception feel even more skewed.

I very well know that my sample(ing method) could be wrong, it can be a coincidence, etc etc.

So my questions are:

* anyone else have similar experience in their friend circles?

* is there a higher number of ADHD diagnosis in tech / wealthy population? (considering that most of my American friends/colleagues are from tech, this would somewhat explain)

* do I miss something obvious? (e.g. maybe Europeans would never discuss their diagnosis with friends, etc.)
How much more it could have advanced for the masses under a more optimum system though, is unknown. Take war for example: is the amount of war we wage actually necessary? Is there no better way to do things than we currently do, across all domains?

If you think of our world as Sim Earth, what would 2021 look like under near perfect play, how far are we off from that, and for what reasons? One reason might be that we don't seem to think and talk about ideas like this very much, or perhaps not in a skillful enough manner.
My doctor tells me that there is some theories that ADHD may be an evolutionary response to dangers in our environment. (like avoiding lions or being alerted to changes in weather) When I think about it this way I feel better about rejecting medications (or accepting them). Personally just understanding the pros/cons of ADHD has helped me identify some of my shortcomings. For example, I can focus for days on the wrong topic, so I need to be aware of this so I don't work on something unimportant and then get burned out. When I don't know the right thing to work on and break it into concrete steps I find myself unable to accomplish anything at all for days or weeks jumping from task to task every 5 mins.

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?
The poster is just making sure people understand precisely what this does and does not guarantee. That’s always one of the most important things to know about a cryptographic primitive.
There are a ton of resources, but unfortunately you'll have to sort of figure out which ones work for you as they all seem to have slightly different approaches and opinions.

Two good places to start (in my opinion), if they don't work for you, just move on:

How to ADHD youtube (aims younger but very positive): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-nPM1_kSZf91ZGkcgy_95Q

ADDitude Magazine: https://www.additudemag.com/ (they also have a YouTube channel)
I use google drive from the play store. There is an extra step to enable play store.
The thing is, Apple WANTS us all to stop supporting Safari. It doesn’t help them make money to keep maintaining and extending WebKit to compete with the other browsers. Their (shareholders’) goal is to get more app purchases. I think the only realizable solution is something like antitrust litigation or class action lawsuit to allow web browser competition on iOS, allowing Firefox and Chrome to outcompete Safari. Then we can all drop support and give them the middle finger like IE
On their main page, where it says, "Curbside at your location" in the top right, click that and select delivery. Like another poster mentioned, it may not be in your city. More than likely if you're in Austin, it just isn't in your area.

H-E-B's headquarters is actually in San Antonio, where I live, so they may have more options available here. They don't advertise it a ton, but they actually hire a bunch of developers here in SA as well. I don't have the numbers, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was a 50/50 split between the two cities. My husband works as a developer there at their HQ in San Antonio.
Artificial Intelligence for Rapid Exclusion of Covid-19 Infection
No that’s the first thing I thought as well.

They have a lot of people concentrating on the things they don’t need to be done and very few on the things that do need to be done.
I respect him for his ability to think for himself and express his thoughts pretty eloquently. He's no doubt very intelligent. Having said - I find him absolutely not funny ... his humor leaves me completely cold.
Europe lacks the US bankruptcy laws which encourage risk-taking that is needed in this space
Or the billions of others pulled out of poverty by the miracle of free trade.
> real language

In what sense is CUE not a real language?
True, the only way I could see that happen is if they not only include a compatibility layer for the application side but also a way for the kernel to host old Windows driver binaries. No idea how easy, difficult or completely impossible that would be.
// is no different from

Using skin color for hiring is illegal and immoral and the government does not allow it.

Issuing sub primes is bad for business and blew up pretty quickly.

If asking programmers programming questions is "no different" from the above, which is it: illegal or bad for business?
Boox Note Air seems like the best fit for me, because it runs full Android, instead of a restricted device-only OS. So for example, if you want to use it as a glare-free word processor, connect a BT keyboard, fire up Word and you're good to go. The refresh rate is fine for normal typing.

The problem is that Boox is a Chinese/HK brand with no customer support depot overseas. So if you get a lemon, you might be able to return it, but it'll be expensive, and your refund might be subject to a restock fee depending on the vendor.

The Kobo Elipsa is coming in a few weeks, and looks similar to the Note Air, and is cheaper as well. It would be well-supported in Canada, but it's running a custom Linux OS that's pretty locked down and only integrates with Dropbox, Pocket and Kobo's e-store. You can't sideload apps.
We decided to go with Teams as a startup (usually Slack is the go-to for startup) and it’s been surprisingly good.
It was a very common UI once -- now the Joe editor offers it, but I think the CP/M version of Borland Turbo Pascal had the same.

I tend to agree with you. WordStar came before WYSIWYG or proportional-font printing, and it never really adapted to those things. By comparison, WordPerfect was a master of getting the absolute best out of any printer you might have -- its printer support was legendarily good.
I wont be suprised if someone puts a bullet in your head over the censorship. FB is a nazi company.
Language learning with Peloton-like streaming app
Hard work and good decisions may not always lead to a better life.

But not working and bad decisions will usually lead to poor outcomes.
It sounded like an intuition rather than a conclusion.

It’s an intuition that’s very familiar to those born without a leg up.

There’s always hope. This isn’t about hope. It’s about seeing things as they are, as the parent suggested.
The amusing thing about this book is that the main idea was a big deal for philosophers of science, but a commonplace notion for historians of science. That’s because the former had no idea how science worked, but the latter were intimate with its actual development. Kuhn was an excellent historian of science: his Copernican Revolution is his real masterpiece.
Countries like Netherlands, France, England definitely profited form the slave trade. But there are many European nations, Germany, Austria, Scandinavia, that didn't.
Yes, far more informed than reading Dinesh D’Souza Facebook posts or natural wellness Instagram stories.
Don’t hotels do this?

That being said while I have never had an AirBnB nightmare. I have had some lulz. If I were female I would hesitate to use one if I were traveling alone.
What time period are you talking about?
tech / wealthy people have more access to healthcare in the USA
Chinas economic rise predates those forays into modern re-education camps (different from the cultural revolution ones).

It’s known that the use of slavery or slave labor stunts growth rather than enhances it because rather than innovating you use “subsidized”manual labor while others are innovating and progressing and using less expensive labor (mechanization, automation).
They tried that with the App Store stuff. That was supposed to be the new world. But it wasn’t compelling, the store sucked and still does today and it was and still is like wading in excrement working on that side of things.
I don't see how a short-form rant suggesting greater time investment in slower activities would be an improvement or something other than a belief/personal preference.

PS: Maybe we need a one syllable, easy-to-pronounce word instead of "video conferencing?" Is "Zoom" that "Xerox?"
OK, fair point. Thanks for the suggestion. I've added that at the start, and clarified why Corel got out of Linux, and added a PS about where you can get a good free legal DOS wordprocessor.
I wouldn't ban the company (there's no way to make that sound right).

Just ban the practices they follow, which makes them unqualified to participate unless they really change that.

For example, public procurement should always require software be open source as a hard dealbraker. This is actually the case in [too few] countries.
Starting conditions help tremendously, and I'm not doubting that in the least. One other thing which helps, significantly, is how much the parents value education. Most of the people I know who grew up very poor but now have money had parents that valued education, and pushed their kids to learn. They didn't have shelves of books at home, but they did visit the library weekly.

It has to be extremely difficult to focus on school and education when you don't know when your next meal is going to be. It's why I find news articles about lunch aids being fired for giving a kid lunch when they have no money so infuriating, and food insecurity is an enormous problem that is likely happening in your neighborhood today, and it's often overlooked. It's not easy to move upward especially when your choice is between "Do I improve myself by working hard or do I eat?"
Yeah, the blog post, from a biased writer, makes the implication. The poll itself was quite neutral IMO.

I wrote in another comment [1] why people might be wary about voicing their opinions, TL;DR: polarizing topics with staunch opinions from both sides (and about the other side) would lead to heated debates.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27514258
That Airbnb take responsibility for its service offering end-to-end, in this case the key exchange. From the article it's obvious the company has no ethics and has tried to cover up shoddy/lax business practices from the beginning, so another alternative that could have helped is Airbnb being liable for damages in the millions/billions until they learn their lesson, or fold if they don't. Oh, it might also have been helpful to not wait two years to hear about this, but as we all know, those who use NDAs are always the best of people/organizations.
Let’s create a market for cryonics (2012)
Another way might be a life of crime. But to be a successful criminal, I think, requires some hard work, too.
SpeedCrunch is one of the first programs I install on a new machine, probably just after Everything, WizTree and Unlocker.
> The company lost €13 million in 2020, €23 million in 2019 and €11.2 million in 2018 for revenues that amount respectively for €7.5 million, €5.8 million and €3 million.

Pfft ... this seems to be peanuts for the Silicon Valley VCs out there.
> Apple, for all their flaws, are head and shoulders above the competition at the moment.

...if you can stand using macOS and if you optimize for working in planes, trains, hotels or in meetings. If you only need 16gb of RAM and one external display. If you like touchpads and if all of your preferred hardware works with it. If all of that, then sure.

I like hardware and software that just works without getting in my way and let's me do what I want and Apple has never been able to provide that. Heck, you can't even change the mouse pointer color in macOS without buying a third party app (which might stop working next year). No thanks- give me a PC tower, 2-3 displays, an ergonomic keyboard and a 5 button vertical mouse in a quiet room. I'll have Manjaro/XFCE setup and running circles around an M1 with real containers while you're waiting on virtualized containers or investigating which libs won't compile because they're not ready for the M1 yet.

When I came back into the office from the pandemic they told me that some guy with an M1 started working with one of our teams and he got laughed out of the office because nothing worked on it. That's head and shoulders?
Well my image is still not processed it its now 3 hours later...
Do you honestly believe this? What would you tell this to someone who wasn't born into wealth or opportunity? You're pretty much screwed, don't bother?

What impact do you think teaching nihilism has on children? I don't believe its true, but even if it were, it's not a useful model for life.
society is an extremely thick swamp

hard work is only one small ingredient

I'm a hard worker, I love it.. if the task suits me, i won't leave.. why did I fail ? people are jealous of your performance (inferiority), feel guilty of not being fast enough, are afraid of being thrown out because of you, and more and more politics (faster performance will be exploited by managers to pressure others in sad ways so people assemble/unionize and will restrict performance as leverage).

Unless you value yourself enough, society will drag you down to its level
Hi. Article author here.

I specifically mentioned the NetWinder in the blogpost and gave those 2 links to it.
You can have proprietary drivers even though the Linux kernel is GPL.
Is Your Makeup Carcinogenic?
I'm not entirely sure what that means, but as a person running Linux who has been giving early access feedback to a few indy game devs, the consensus among them seems to be "you don't support Linux because you want to reach a larger market, you support Linux because you'll get good bug reports and basically free Q&A".
It’s not really technology though now is it. They’re pushing the boundaries of capitalism and morality but not technology. It’s been ages since Silicon Valley was about silicon. Almost all the current energy of the valley is in surveillance/ad-tech. Maybe the odd rocket as a fig-leaf.
I think there are a few factors unique in U.S. history that would naturally lead its people to believe that hard work alone is sufficient.

Firstly, I think times of change are the catalyst needed for mobility (up and down). Just like in organizations: fast growing companies are where many employees first get elevated to, say, the CTO or Director level, and which they can then maintain from company to company. They worked hard, sure, but not harder than anyone else. It was that disruption in the status quo that gave them the opportunity in the shifting sands to find elevated ground.

I think the other factor is points of leverage. A sibling comment points out slavery, colonialism, cheap labor. Those are general points of leverage, but there are others (and possibly not the most important ones for the U.S.)

So the first great change in my mind was just the establishment of the U.S. For decades we pushed west "discovering"/stealing new territories and its natural resources. This led to mobility for some, but the leverage is small (still need lots of people to work your massive land stake in Kansas). Still, those resources were sent back to Boston or wherever and led to many opportunities.

Second, the Industrial Revolution. Now you're getting into great leverage possibilities. Vanderbilt was an ace accountant, but what other time in history could somebody good with a ledger rise to the richest man in the world? Vanderbilt was an exception, no doubt, but there were plenty of people who had accounting skills who significantly improved their station in life (and hence their subsequent generations).

Next was WW2. With Europe ravaged by war, the U.S. naturally was able to rise and fill various roles previously filled by the British and others. (Maybe the most important one here is reserve currency status.) This created ridiculous opportunity for its citizens to make a name for themselves. This is the wave many boomers rode to their current levels of wealth.

Lastly is the computer revolution. The wealth from this one has probably been more concentrated, but the leverage possible has improved the station of many many people (myself included).

So I think hard-work (or related things like "savviness") is necessary, but not sufficient. Maybe now people are just coming to terms with a world / country that is mostly settled, and without that disruption, the chances of moving up in life are greatly diminished back to where they've been for most of human history.
IMO there's a deception that we are doing better, but its more like the whole of society is doing better. I have a nice car not because Im doing better than my parents, but because technology has improved.

Real social mobility is very very very very hard if you dont have any special skills.
I respect them too. Here in the UK I always try to say good morning and thanks to our bin collectors.

Do you know how many hours do they do? Is it the fact that when their route is complete they are finished for the day? Because then there is a pretty good incentive to work hard and fast.
Constant distraction and procrastination seem so normal these days I dont know if I have ADHD or just struggling like everyone else.
you may want to talk to your doctor about other options for medications. I'm not going to name names but there are much slower, longer acting meds that are precursor drugs that you metabolize into the drug, for example.
Is it an option to go back in time and put the Airbnb genie back in the bottle before a tech company decided to get around hotel laws, disturb the housing market and profit while creating harms by failing basic security and safety?
Yep, keep underlying invisible improvements of 10 like the kernel but ditch the whole UI and revert it back to Windows 7. It was peak Windows design (second is Windows Classic UI) and change for sake of change totally ruined it.
I literally thought they were working on something to “make nightmares go away”.
> these are all emissive technologies

LCD doesn't have to be emissive. Black-and-white LCDs are most often not. It's unlikely but not impossible for there to be some breakthrough in colors LCDs
I don't really know the stats, but I'm curious if this is true. Yes, GDP has been going up for a long time in many countries, and so the "average wealth" of each generation is going up.

However, is the same true for purchasing power?

Sometimes you hear about these mythical stories of janitors who could afford to actually buy a house, despite having two children and their partners being stay-at-home moms.

And yet today, I hear so many stories about 30 year olds with masters degrees who are still living with their parents because they can't afford to rent a studio.

Like I said, and I can't find good stats on this online. If you have any stats on which you based your comment, I'd love to see them!
You're right. If you're lucky enough to be born in the US, you're going to have a better life than 90% of people in the world and 90% of people who have ever existed.
Exactly.

And everyone seems to think that the fact that all the billionaires came from a situation of decent familial wealth enabling them to make big bets refutes the fact that most people who don't screw up too bad end their career much better than they started and that most people's kids manage to start a rung up or so. Plumber sends his kids to community college and all that.
Maybe starting conditions are heavily predictive. Does it matter that much? The fact is mobility has never been more available. The problem is the "work hard" narrative. It's about working smart, not hard (that is a boomer mentality).

I think the real reason people struggle is because they just don't know how to take advantage of the opportunity available. It used to be easy - get some basic knowledge and find a hard working 9-5. Now that isn't the best path and while there is a lot more opportunity it is more open ended and one needs to find their own way.
Well, it depends. This short tedxoslo had some nice points ("Where in the world is it easiest to get rich?" Hint: not the US): https://youtu.be/A9UmdY0E8hU

He's talking about social mobility from 8:30
Good point. I've added a postscript to the end of the blogpost with details on getting and running Word 5.5.
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In 2019, immigrant entrepreneurs made up 21.7 percent of all business owners in the United States, despite making up just over 13.6 percent of the population and 17.1 percent of the U.S. labor force. As an immigrant I can assure you that my starting position was not that great. It is super sad to see the west being turned into an epicurean type world.
// What I said was basically "google admitted their old method didn't work, here's a link

No. Your previous post said they admitted their "leet code" interviews didn't work. leetcode means something specific.

Also I'd draw the opposite conclusion. Sounds like Google is "on it" in terms of evaluating what works and what doesn't. They threw out brainteasers because they didn't work. That suggests whatever they kept does work.
I don't think it's quite true, as other people have stated, industrialization (for example in China) indeed helped almost everybody, not just the subset of the wealthy or middle class people.

I think it comes down to this: Upward mobility is a little misleading term, because you can increase it not only by exploiting more slaves (as you seem to think), but also by reducing class inequality itself. As inequality gets smaller, the distance to travel (in terms of social mobility) decreases, and more people can cross classes.

And I would argue, what the West managed to do in the period of circa 1930-1970, was indeed a massive reduction in social inequality. This happened not by chance, but was a result of many years of struggle for social democracy, starting from the French revolution (rejection of nobility as a concept), and continuing in pursuing socialist ideas in the late 19th century, and rise of the unions in the workplace.
Cue definitions export to json schema.
That sounds about right in terms of complexity.

Maybe 20, the metadata format is a bit verbose.

Screen more than flashes, it exits to the entry screen, navigation state isn't saved.
Such law would even help with the walled garden of Signal.
They've got a terrible, terrible product. Not sure they would have received anything from a Silicon Valley VC.
Incredible amount of stuff I never hear about, is there a journal or conference to track to follow advances in this field ?
As someone running s small business in the EU: how am I taxed to death? The only taxes a startup really needs to care about are taxes on salary but since competent employees are a fraction of the cost here compared to SF it does not matter that taxes are higher. There is also VAT which can affect some businesses but in general is not too big of a deal.

No, I can't see how taxes are to blame. Taxes are not signficant concern for most startups.