skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the first I've heard of tipping trash collectors. Apparently it's a thing? How, logistically, does one even accomplish that?
If the plumber's kid not successful if he goes to school, gets a white collar job and generally lives better than his parents?
^^ this! No need to install anything on my Apple devices. Long term plan is to have an instance of AirDrop Anywhere running perpetually on a Raspberry Pi and have a web interface accessible over the LAN for non-Apple devices to connect to when sharing files.

That said, this is all just a bit of fun so monetising it isn’t really on the cards anyway :)
With he sleep thing, I experienced the opposite. The ability to just lay down, decide to sleep, and sleep, combined with a bit of a chemical cue from the comedown really helped to regulate the insomnia I had struggled with since adolescence.
Like the NaOH. The graphite problem always looked pretty difficult.
Voiceitt extends the voice revolution to people with nonstandard speech
> Qwant should be dead, it is said most of its index is served by Bing anyway.

Almost all search engines apart from Google use the Bing Index, including DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Excite, Lycos, and Yahoo! Search. [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines
The immigrants who come to the US are, by and large, already relatively wealthy. Especially if they come here with the capital to start a small business, or to send their children to medical school.
The issue is that patents are designed to be as useless as possible at revealing anything and as broad as possible at claiming everything.
Post-scarcity cannot come fast enough; the (external) need to work hard should just die in a fire.
Looking at the state of academia, its an honor to have those people think I'm a 'Knuckle Dragging Fuckwit'
I think we need more studies and evidence to create meaningful predictions.

Now, I’m going to remove any moral or emotional thoughts for a moment.

Sure there may be a correlation between wealth and future success, but hasn’t that always been the case - it’s a fact of nature. The most successful genes are able to procreate leading to success. What we did is say “all humans need to have the same vindication’s” and ensure infant mortality was near zero. As a consequence even the least able to produce can (a) survive but importantly (b) reproduce.

If you want maximal improvement to society, reduce the points subsidies. Quickly, only those helping society will procreate.

All of our poor, all of them. Are a creation of our society. Historically, the weak and unfit didn’t survive. Those hardy enough to survive the system procreated and made a stronger society over time. today, we have the weak and unfit leading more weak and unfit. Eventually, this system will collapse.
They didn't even have to skirt the rules to get the benefit. Even if it wasn't US criminals they still get to turn around and say "look, we made the world a safer place".
> Click-and-collect from supermarkets' existing stores is likely here to stay. It's very appealing for people on strict budgets, because you don't get to the cash register then realise you have to put things back.

People on strict budgets typically also need to stretch that budget as far as they can; they likely can't absorb the markups on each item that pays for the in-store shopper to collect them.
Low impact aerobic exercises to try
> If you send your server two encryped numbers and ask to multiply them for you, the server may send you their addition instead, or just encrypt some constant it chooses and send you that. And you can't check that your data was processed the way you want.

I don't see how authenticated encryption would address that. In fact, I don't see how any kind of encryption can address that. Every way I can see to verify that the server is actually carrying out the correct operation would work without encryption.

Authentication proves that you are talking to the right server and that the result you got back from the server was the result it tried to send you, but whether or not that was what it was supposed to send you is out of scope for encryption.
Me and my family have used Airbnb a bunch of times in various countries, and every time has been a great experience. Biggest issues with hotels are lack of space, privacy and noise.

I should note that we've never rented just a room from Airbnb, but the whole apartment/house/villa, and the ones we have rented are actual rental properties, e.g. the owners rent them out during a whole holiday season.

One of the big bonuses of Airbnb is market segmentation - those same houses, apartments or villas on Airbnb are very often advertised with higher rates elsewhere!
To add a bit more here, when the job is suddenly crappy it’s easier to let go of anything holding you to it. When it progressively gets crappy you hold out hope that it getting better is just one seemingly simple decision away.
With Google providing Firefox with life-support.
> Similarly with colonialism - that's something that is only possible once your society is already rich and powerful enough to go around and dominate others.

I disagree. The European colonial period started in the 15th Century[1]. It established the wealth and power of those nations for almost half a millennium following. The main enabler was not power and wealth, but technology (sailing ships)

> Colonialism was not a huge success for England when you look at how much it cost. It was great for national pride and as a symbol of their "greatness" however.

Again, I'm not sure is correct. By 1914, European colonial powers controlled 84% of the globe[1]. Effectively the only competition was other colonial powers and colonialism demonstrated itself as effective to achieve economic power through (ruthless) acquisition and exploitation of global resources.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism
As a European, I do think he hits several marks correctly. But I don't at all understand point 10. If anything, it's been my experience that the US is more focused on people having "the right" education for the job. Could anyone elaborate on what he might possibly mean?

(Also, I think point 4 is very field-specific. While the US may have a few institutions that are universally recognized as excellent, there are also many European ones that are phenomenal within a given field. Having a truly exceptional group within field X does not give your a university the name recognition of Stanford, but it serves the same purpose when it comes to training people in field X.)
Mandate that every API version that introduces breaking changes remains available for X years. Big companies do this anyway because there always are people using outdated first-party apps.
Well-behaved bubbles often make history
So, is this just a HN thing (since engineer/STEM salaries are higher than the usual population) or do a lot of people order groceries?

I live on the East coast in an apartment building, and from talking to neighbors and seeing the trash room, I'd say it's not just an HN thing (Whole Foods/Amazon Prime, Drizly, UberEats, Postmates, FreshDirect, Peapod, etc.).

that's a lot of money vs just stopping in on the way home from work or running once on the weekend.

If you don't have a car/license (or access to a car like Zipcar), it can be hard to get to a grocery store in person.
Where are the HQs of Qualcomm, AMD, Intel, Nvidia located? Yes, everyone talks about Uber et al and indeed those companies barely add innovative ideas compared to the innovation that is needed to increase a CPU's performance. Uber et al instead mainly do a better job at extracting money from their extremely good market positions than the hardware companies do.
Compilers may get better but business logic rarely gets simpler and specs rarely more refined
As a counterpoint, I was diagnosed with ADD (now known as ADHD-PI) a couple decades ago as a child and initially took medication for it, but complained about the effects and so my parents agreed to stop giving me medication. This kind of decision seems manageable at the time if you're bright enough that you can skate through school regardless of how much work you actually do.

You cannot skate through adulthood this way. My condition, ADHD-PI, is characterized by the tendency to lose focus on dull activities while hyper-focusing on fun activities. If my current task is interesting then I could work even with a rock concert held 5 feet away. This sounds like a superpower but if a task is not interesting then the slightest distraction totally derails me. There are ways for me to trick myself but they are unreliable and my brain will eventually route around them.

I do my best to always work on something interesting, but this isn't always possible and the productivity hit can be quite large. My solution was to get a prescription for Adderall XR. With the benefit of hindsight I regret ever going off medication. I don't think it's always necessary but if you have these problems, you've been diagnosed, and it's severe enough that you have become depressed (this is very common among adults with ADHD) you should really consider it.
Can you provide stats to back this up? Many come here as refugees or cross the border illegally from very poor countries.
Working smart doesn't equal working hard. You can put in 12 hours a day at work doing pointless shit like reformatting powerpoints and that would technically be considered "working hard" but that's probably not going to help you make money in the future.
Have you looked at:

https://github.com/Evidlo/remarkable_syncthing

I don't have a remarkable, and have therefore not experimented with this software. But it's the approach I'd prefer if / when I get a device like this.
I don’t know the context of your situation but use an IDE with an graphical debugger. Eg. PyCharm. Then you can easily enter a breakpoint and inspect your code, move up and down the stack to see how you arrived at the point, etc.
“How to ADHD” is a fantastic resource. She’s honest, funny, and reaches out to professionals to make sure she isn’t fertilizing her audience.
Prosperity Theology, also known as Prosperity Gospel.

Some of them say that the "eye of the needle" is actually a narrow gateway in Jerusalem - a physical gateway - which is a bit tight, but you can get a camel through it, so that's what Jesus was actually talking about, so actually it is fine to be rich; you might just have to unpack your camel a bit and carry your riches through.

"The prosperity gospel (also known as the “health and wealth gospel” or by its most popular brand, the “Word of Faith” movement) is a perversion of the gospel of Jesus that claims that God rewards increases in faith with increases in health and/or wealth." - https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/what-you-should-k...

And so on.
Die Linke is in fact the successor to the Communist Party, although their ideology has shifted over time.

KPD (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands) — in East Germany, merged with SPD (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands) in 1946 to form SED. In West Germany, banned after 1956.

SED (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands) - ruled East Germany until the democratic transition in 1989. Rebranded as PDS in 1990.

PDS (Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus) - Merged with the minor party WASG in 2007 to form Die Linke.
I guess the implication is that only a small minority of poor people are trying hard enough to avoid these scenarios, but if the reality reflects that most don't, what is the role of willpower or 'managing' here?
Whatever shortcuts ABB is taking, how are they responsible for a rapist?

Let’s say i absentmindedly leave my door unlocked at home and someone comes in and raped me. Am I partially responsible for my own rape because I left the door unlocked?

Why isn’t it 100% the fault of the rapist?
Well, Arm is not a UK company much longer either:
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/14/qualcomm-offers-to-invest-in...
>risky enterprises can be funded even if 1 out of ten or 1 out of hundred actually are successful

correct me if i'm wrong, Europe is dominated by legacy business/banks that normally won't take such risk. legacy business like BMW. European and Asian want to see you have some success or already making money before they invest. while American will throw money into something that just an idea.
As long as fastly is up of course!
I think the point about the workforce being flexible is tremendous.

I had an engineer tell me- in America people don't care about your title, they care about how much money you have. In Europe it's all about titles. In Japan it's about seniority.

I've had no problem picking the job that pays the highest and it changed me from chem engineer to programmer.

My peers that are obsessed with a title have fallen behind, making 80k a year as a 30 year old. I think these people have a significantly harder time finding a new job, where as being a programmer and engineer, I'm able to work in any industry.
> You have very, very, good odds of doing better than your parents if you manage to get to age 25 without incurring a felony record, addiction to something that will likely kill you or too many child support payments.

That is a laughably low bar, and it is unlikely for the trend you are describing to continue past the move from poor to lower middle class.

In a fair society, with equality of opportunity, it should be equally likely for a child born in a trailer park to become high income earner as it is for Bill Gate's child. That is the normal social mobility we should expect in a democratic society with no class structure. We are so laughably far off from this everywhere in the world...

And note that I completely accept that becoming a billionaire is going to be extraordinarily rare and a product of BOTH extreme luck and good work ethic. Or I would accept that, if not for the fact that being born the child of a billionaire is a guarantee to this future, or as close to a guarantee as one can ask for.
Well, it has been well over a decade after competitions have become common and if people can't change the habit for the better, stuck in an ancient tech, not sure what to say.

No voice, no proper file transfer and can't even see messages when you're offline meaning there's no reliable way of mobile notification means it's just getting too old.
I got mine honestly: a good ol' fashioned tech IPO. Soon as I cash out the rest of my unvested shares (next year or so), I'll definitely consider "cashing out." Why bother working for $400k - $500k per year total compensation when my investment portfolio is earning $400k or more and I have no debts?
I question why you have lumped gen x and boomers together regarding job seeking.
Technically Chrome forked off WebKit a few years back and Edge (and most other browsers) use that. I do wonder how different Blink and WebKit are at this point considering there’s quite a bit of manpower behind Blink.
London and the City of London are different entities.
It‘s starting to happen in Germany, at least in healthcare. The Corona Warn App was open sourced (developed by SAP und Deutsche Telekom) and the server software (developed by IBM) will also be open sourced (https://www.kma-online.de/aktuelles/it-digital-health/detail...)
Ok, sure, but that isn't the same thing as meritocracy is it? It is hard to justify to the population at large that billionaires earned their wealth and deserve to keep it when they could only get to that position by being born out of the right womb. That's just a different kind of aristocracy.
> If you believe you have ADHD, and your therapist believes you have ADHD, BUT your life isn't negatively impacted by it, why start treatment now?

If your life isn't negatively impacted by it then you might be hyperactive or have trouble paying attention, but you don't have ADHD, by definition. It only becomes a disorder when it's causing a significant ongoing negative impact on your life.
What kind of doctor to you go to to get a diagnosis?
Eh, it is pretty tough to stay purely objective about political reporting these days. "Both sides" play political messaging games, but the Republican party led by Mitch McConnell is a pack of barbarians at the gates of our political system. They'll destroy all Americans' faith in democracy and each other, if it means the GOP can suppress minorities and keep their own pockets lined.

So while "Pod Save America" for example is biased, I still believe their takes on what is happening at the federal level are informative and thought-provoking.
So do you provide your full name, street address, phone number, drivers license, and social, to everyone you meet? And do you require that from everyone you wish to be friends with? Otherwise how do either party know the other is not providing false information?
This is essentially what you are stating you are hoping for on the internet by allowing every company to request identity information.
If you've got shitty social mobility

You might want your children to think social mobility is possible if they work hard enough

But you don't want your politicians to think social mobility is possible through hard work. Because if they don't know you've got a social mobility problem, how are they going to fix it?
Yes, I have it enabled as git's diff. I have tried exa but didn't see much difference. Anything remarkable I may be missing from exa?
On the other side of this, I wasn't sure if my life was negatively impacted or not. I decided to try out medication to see, and my wife and I instantly started noticing improvements in our lives. I was getting more done with less mental strain, and there were tons of tiny little things that she wasn't having to remember for me or worry about because I wasn't losing track of them.

YMMV.
But not the majority of people
If I may give you an advice.

If you want to justify monthly payments, figure out how to provide ongoing value. In your case, it could be that you will update sitemaps in the background and notify users about changes. That way, it’s much easier to see the reason behind recurring payments.
I got a diagnosis when I was in college (inattentive type, definitely not hyperactive). It was a bit of a rollercoaster for me.

I also have anxiety and disthymeia, so meds were complicated. Stimulants send my anxiety out of control. Ultimately, I'm unmedicated for the ADHD, now.

It's been 20 years, and I'll admit, I fear any major med changes, because it can be ~1 year to get it all worked out.

I would say, make sure you are working with a psychiatrist who specializes in ADHD and a psychologist who will partner with them to aid your treatment. Their experience is key and can save you a lot of time struggling with meds, I wish I did that from day 1. I originally started with a PCP and then psychologist + PCP and really struggled from bad treatment advice.

I was "smart enough" for it to not seriously impact me until later in college. I would dive into 1 class and neglect the rest.

But my career is pretty tolerant of it. In some ways it is an asset. I have developed a ton of coping mechanisms to compensate, and have also learned to build in time to let myself go. It took me a while time to "forgive myself" for needing that, but a good therapist who also had ADHD helped me.

Taking sensory breaks is really important for me. Shifting to working from home meant I had to learn when I should take breaks from notification overload. I only allow my calendar to notify me then. I do benefit from working with people who really know me and help support.

I also cannot track time internally (I do not know if that is common or not). So making sure to schedule things like lunch has been important. It's easy for me to get lost.

My wife is also amazingly supportive. We complement each other very well and have for years. We are very communicative and that has helped a lot.

I'm sad that my one of my daughters is struggling is struggling with it early in school. School in general is just so incompatible. I can sympathize in many ways with the "inattentive" aspects, but she is also hyperactive which is foreign to me.
Apple is actually doing evil monopolistic tactics. At least you can compile your own Android or Chrome. I do this.
Why you would be surprised baffles me. There are only a few e-ink tablets with color and they're all small and expensive. Setting that aside, they're not focusing (that much) on e-book comic reading, their focus is note taking, drawing and pdf reading. I use mine to do all three things and it works excellent, couldn't be happier. The remarkable is expensive no doubt but it's a much better device at what it does than an ipad or any other tablet for that matter if you ask me.

I can't comment on the other tablets mentioned her as I haven't used anything else but ipad previously and now the remarkable 1. gen.
Raising capital is getting easier but still nothing compared to the US. If we want change we need more capital to make competing software. If my competitor from SV has 10M in the bank and I can only raise 500k in Europe how do I compete? The end users doesn't care that much.
<< "That's just not how US managers age leaders [are incentivized to] think."

Just wanted to highlight that it's not a problem we're destined to deal with. Fix the incentives ala fix the problems.
How to keep your sanity when you feel like the world is going crazy (2020)
I'm trying to wrap my head around how this, and tipping, works. Here (suburb of Boston), curbside trash collection is like a 10-second affair. Do you like wait outside on a lawn chair for hours and then run up to them waving your arms and shouting over the noise of the compactor truck?
It helped for Ruby. Ruby released 1.8.6 and 1.9.1 which were both two intermediate steps between Ruby 1.8 and 2.0. 1.8.6 beibg similar to 1.8.4 but with many added 2.0 features and 1.9.1 which was almost 2.0 but with some deprecated features in it.

I got to experience both and the Ruby 2 migration was much smoother than the Python 3 one.

EDIT: To be clear, Ruby did not make it literally possible to run both 1.8 and 2.0 in the same code base but with just a few conditional statements and avoiding to use non-backported 2.0 features it was easy to write libraries which could run in both 1.8.6 and 1.9.
Study Claims Using CarPlay While Driving Is More Dangerous Than Texting (2020)
I highly doubt that they're salaried, so the incentive would actually be to take longer to make more money. A more likely incentive for them to work fast is that they'll be fired if they don't.
https://archive.is/vMKTY
No, people are pessimistic because their agency is being taken from them. Trust in democracy is low because polarized private media manipulate the public into thinking it is always corrupted and cannot be fixed while the rich make sure to kick off the ladder at every step with regulatory capture or simply by squishing competition as soon as they notice it.

They own you. By design.

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/democracy/the-lewis-powell-me...
Why People Fall for Conspiracy Theories
Indeed. I have a friend whos whole extended family kept telling her that she should stop with this fancy expensive state college education and go to a trade school or something that would get her a job. Even when she was working at an engineering firm and starting to see the payoff, her family kept trying to drag her down.

Fortunately, she had a particularly strong will, so she spent just as much time telling them where they could stuff their trade school, and ended up doing quite well for herself.

I'm not sure I would have done so well had I come from a family that was that opposed to education on principal. I don't have any trouble believing this sort of thing keeps lots of people exactly where they started in life. (Lucky for me, my dad spent several years working at a paper mill out of highschool before going back to get his degree, so I got to hear first hand about what a good idea that was.)
I think another component might be the major.

It's a mistake to think all masters degrees are equally 'bankable'
So you're saying people born in poor farming communities are being taken advantage of by the massive creation of higher paying jobs in the cities?