skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even as Americans we find these amusing. They tell you to "ask you doctor about x." Does anyone do that ever?

They're also unintentionally hilarious now that they can't read the side effects at super speed, so 50% of the commercial is watching someone play with their dog while you learn that this allergy medicine is going to give you diarrhea and suicidal thoughts and maybe a heart attack.

They must work somehow because they're clearly dumping so much money in them.
My first reaction would be to say that if you are doing fine, don't worry about it. Yet, you sought out therapy for a family issue, and that therapist went to this place. Odds are that they believe it would help. So I'd be asking this question to your therapist, not to us. They know the details of the situation and are a professional, whereas we are neither.

After all, a therapist is a partner in your treatment, not a dictator. If you express discomfort at this idea and tell them so, they should be able to work with that.
Based on my only social contact working in trades, the income follows a bathtub distribution - a lot of people taking below average, and a sizable minority getting upper middle class incomes, with almost nothing in between. This is the reason why we get the contradictory narratives of great fortunes in trades on one hand, and the statistics telling the opposite on the other hand.

Allegedly, the talent pool is really shallow - with a modicum of intelligence, passion and human skills, it's not that hard to make it. But most of the guys who end up studying trades are the bottom of the barrel who would do badly in any endeavor (or so I was told).
It breaks your body down till your about 50 and you start to develop chronic issues which can impinge your enjoyment as you age. Dont romanticise get a workout on.
> But you could make a spec that is implementable using SQLite.

Yes, that would be the smart choice. But alas.
Absolutely true. You need to finish everything you start (within reason), because starting new projects then quitting becomes akin to an addiction. Don't develop bad habits, start only projects you know you can finish and see them through to the end if you want to be successful.
Basemark Launches Rocksolid Ecosystem for the Software Defined Car
I think there's also other cases where kids grew up without education (like myself) - but could have, but if i were to have kids now i'd value education immensely. Ie i'm not an immigrant, my lack of early education is a result of my family being poor and making poor decisions.

However now my values have shifted drastically. Ironically i would consider myself very lucky. Not wealthy by any means, but far better off than the average American household. Which then perhaps would put my children (which i'm not having, lol) in the position of being "children of well-off families".. maybe.
As the quote goes: "you cannot reason people out of positions they didn't reason themselves into." Attacking conspiracy theories with facts will not work, and can often entrench the beliefs further into someone. Not giving up on our loved ones who've fallen into questionable beliefs doesn't mean we should assault them with a torrent of facts. Rather we should continue to support the other aspects of their lives, and maybe gently nudge them towards more reputable sources. Conspiratorial thinking is something that they will have to lift themselves up from for it to stick.
This story reminds me of a Java 1.x codebase I worked on that didn't use generics even though we were on Java 1.6 by then. The number of lines affected seemed astronomical--it was a retail trading app that had evolved over many years from using AWT to Swing JPanel and rarely other Swing components with the data handling similarly stunted. I took it upon myself to incrementally add type information in chucks as a side project. After a number of months, less than 12, I finally got to under 1000 warnings which was the first time I had a sense of how many there even were. A short time later it was done. Interesting thing was that there was only 1 bug exposed where an ClassName@pu4k3 sort of string would get added to a list/combobox under some race conditions. The codebase was much happier place to be after the changes.
A few server use cases? It's used for like 99% of all server use cases.
People will take my phrasing to their preferred way, I was aware of it when I wrote it. It's the internet.

I'd need to be a great philosopher and writer, to write a boring book with the same opinion that wouldn't hurt them. Unfortunately, I am none of those two. Those who want to take it in the wrong way will and I'm ok with that.
people love to credit MS's success to their ruthless monopolistic practices and there is truth to that, but they've also (a) treated developers very well and (b) put tremendous effort into backwards compatibility. Neither of these are trivial but I don't think there's another player out there who has done this as well.
> And yet today, I hear so many stories about 30 year olds with masters degrees who are still living with their parents

Stands to reason. Dedicating five or more years away from the workforce at least partially, if not in full, is an enormous setback financially. As money compounds, your earnings when you are young are dramatically more important to your financial stability than those when you are older. It would be surprising to learn that such a person is on equal footing with a janitor of the same age who started working at the age of 14.
You do realize that obesity among the poor isn’t due to eating too much, as much as eating cheap high fat, low nutrition foods, right? In fact having only access to high processed, low nutrition foods is also considered food insecurity.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19320248.2010.5...
The engine is still called Gecko. Quantum was the project name that try ( and succeeded ) to bring components from Servo to Gecko. Where Servo was the experimental engine written in Rust.
> There is a caveat regarding FLoC blocking on Whole Foods pages, however. While other Amazon-owned domains mentioned here that block FLoC do so using Google’s recommended approach involving sending a response header from HTML pages, Whole Foods blocking employs a tactic that sends an opt-out header from Amazon analytics requests.

What do they mean here, that the actual page request does not send the "no FLoC" HTTP header but the requests from Analytics do?

What happens in this scenario?
I will say that I was diagnosed after college with ADHD and was given a prescription for Adderall. I get the feeling it was from a "script farm," so I didn't get anything more than a "yes you have ADHD, here's some drugs."

I tried the Adderall and the focus I always lacked was there; it felt almost like a super power. I explain it like being Cyclops from X-Men. I had this laser beam of focus: whatever I looked at I could focus on for as long as I wanted. But it also felt a bit like a performance enhancing drug, and something that was changing who I was by changing my brain, so I stopped taking it.

Recently I've started seeing a therapist who explained that my ADHD is not a deficit of attention, but a different way of how my brain works. Since I'm always thinking about a ton of things all at once I'm able to tie things together better than a lot of people I've worked with (or been in school with). If there's a crisis situation things slow way down for me and I'm able to think really clearly in the moment, instead of panicking.

The best part was that it was explained to me that if I ever needed to focus the way other people do (on things that I struggle to focus on), I can always temporarily "switch" my thinking by taking an ADHD drug.

TLDR: Initially rejected diagnosis, but have accepted it thanks to a better explanation from a professional.
Cool idea. I keep looking for a search/filter/facet function to leverage the tagging and classification they've done with the models, but I can't find one.
Is it good to read PDFs?
I wasn't thinking about not having a car (which is funny because at college I borrow a car, but I also don't have a kitchen so...), but that's a good usecase.

> Whole Foods/Amazon Prime

Does Prime make the fees for grocery delivery get much smaller/go away? There's a Whole Foods in my area but it's 20 minutes from my house so I didn't even think to look there.
I don't think so.

I know I'm going to leap back decades but maybe there's still a thing worth considering here: old recordings of Groucho Marx's "Your Bet Your Life" have been oozing into my YouTube feed lately.

(Fascinating all that is out there that can innocently scroll past your gaze. Click on it just once! and expect a tidal wave of the same.)

At first I was drawn in by the truly off-color sexual innuendo of the host — something I was not expecting from television of the 1950's. (I fully expected the 1950's sexism on parade however.)

But what started to fascinate me more and more were the ordinary occupations and the lives of many of the guests on "Your Bet Your Life". To be sure there were wanna-B-film stars and other minor celebrities, but Groucho appears to have also had plenty of men (and women) "off the street".

What menial working class work they performed in the suburbs of Los Angeles County. One guy's job is to milk cows (with an electric milker). Another woman's husband drives a fertilizer truck. A guy sells vacuum cleaners door to door.... Like sitting in the DMV, you saw a strange cross section of working class America from the 1950's.

But the men had wives, children, homes. I'm not so sure the there was a lot of upward mobility for these (primarily) men bread winners. But when home, car, family were within reach of a modest, blue-collar existence, maybe they didn't care as much.
Dare I mention this on HN? Here it goes.

These universities listed legal schools have been converted into communism/socialism brainwashing centers. I started doing personal research during the (Gasp) trump administration due to the how obvious it became the media was completely manipulated by someone.

I found in my researching that nearly every misinformation campaign and general SJW madness had ties back to the exact universities listed in this article. Either through law professors employees at uni or from students that graduated from those universities.

Here come the downvotes, but do some research for yourself and see that something is going on.
They haven’t even finished transitioning from classic to lightening….
I'm curious, with third-party cookies being fased out, and alternatives like FLoC being met with resistance, could this drastically cut the size of Google's revenue's down? If the ads can no longer be accurately targeted, I imagine that would mean the main value of AdWords is no more, and that's the foundation that entire company is built on.
Zero Knowledge
Note that I said the Republican party. I know there are many decent humans in this country who have small-c conservative beliefs, and I can have reasonable discussion with some of them.

And I pity those who don't take the time to create their own philosophical defense of their beliefs, and only parrot what Fox News tells them to think.

When I start getting into a heated discussion, I like to turn away from arguing about specific people (too much) and say "What do you want this country to be? What matters to you?" and the discussion becomes a lot more enlightening.

So yeah, if someone really believes that the poor deserve to die because said person, making $60k a year, thinks that taxing the ultra-wealthy is unethical, I'm gonna have some problems with your character.
> But no message could be found that allegedly influenced voters.

the linked page is chock full of messages that allegedly influenced voters. Such as:

> Influence operations included recruiting typically unknowing assets who would stage events and spread content from Russian influencers, spreading videos of police abuse and spreading misleading information about how to vote and whom to vote for.[76][46] The attempt to target Black Americans has been compared to the KGB's attempt to foster racial tensions during Operation INFEKTION.[149]

it of course is impossible to prove that a specific voter changed their vote due to a specific message from a disinformation campaign, short of them telling you so. But certainly we are well within the range to "allege" that the enormous amount of propaganda coming from Russia may have influenced voters, it would be ridiculous to claim otherwise.
My advice: get a second opinion from a cognitive behavioural therapist. If you are already high functioning and happy with your life, mind altering drugs (which ADHD prescriptions most definitely are) could be a loaded foot-gun. CBT on the other hand is literally the same body of techniques used under other names by top athletes, musicians, and anyone else for whom real-time mental focus is a huge part of their career.

Please note, I am not saying ADHD does not exist, nor am I saying that the Rx's are not necessarily wonderful for some people, nor am I anti-drug. I have no doubt that for some people ADHD medication has been a life-saver. But it doesn't sound like you necessarily are one of those people, and there is no doubt a problem with a segment of the psychiatric profession being very quick to prescribe drug based solutions. The fact that you exhibit what your current doctor calls symptoms is not necessarily justification for changing anything or adopting a new drug regime. And we can all benefit from the mental discipline of CBT practices. I had an ex go through a CBT program for social anxiety and it was life changing for her - without drugs.
How do you block it?
If it broke the exposed API, it should not be a minor.

It doesn't matter if it's "by design" or not, people still rely on it and semver is how you communicate the breakage to them.
I really appreciate how this reduces notifications for engineers not involved in the review.
I used Adderrall 30mg x 2 for a few years. I started to have issues, shaking, back-pain etc...

I switched to Adderrall XR 30mg and issues are gone. If you do consider Adderrall try the XR, it might not be the SUPERBOOST people want, but it may be safer.
As a counter-anecdote, I've been using company MacBooks for almost 7 years now, and the only time my computer has been out of action was when I shut the lid on my headphone plug and cracked the screen. If that happened with a Dell or HP, it would've been thrown in the trash, as spare parts (apart from RAM, SSDs, and wifi modems) are are usually impossible to come by.
I think a big part of me starting PhD at 30 is that I wanted to get off my parent’s back as soon as possible. So I got my bachelor’s at 21 and started working. I enrolled in Master’s at 28, only when I could pay for it myself.

Other factors include the quality of my BS degree. I wish I was surrounded by professors who liked what they doing.
> > > For one, we lack the imagination and vision to launch something without knowing how it might eventually make money

> I don't think there is lack of imagination. The biggest barrier for any person who wants to launch something is: paperwork around establishing a company.

I don't think that is true for the type of company that is described by the line you're replying to. Starting a company is not that hard. Starting a company without even knowing what its eventual business model will be, purely banking on growth for growth's sake, that requires a vast amount of investment with very little guarantees of a return. And that is hard to get in Europe! Much harder than merely starting a company is. I have been part of one such startup for a short time years ago, and I thought it was a complete scam, so unused was I to that type of company. I've never seen any since.

> In some countries you have to pay every month some amount of money if you want to be a freelancer,

Yes, but freelancing isn't the topic.

However, I have a feeling that companies that just want to grow big and are unclear on what their business model will be when they are, are not exactly working on the most important problems. So maybe it's not all bad for Europe.
And how would they have done that? Facebook ads? Please...

People were fed up with career politicians and voted out of spite. End of story.

The DNC hacking could have been Russia. I have seen the public evidence and it is inconclusive. An internal source sounds more likely, but there is just no evidence on anything.
I’ve been diagnosed a couple of months ago and here my main takeaways:
1) My self confidence improved: I know I don’t “mess up” because I’m lazy, stupid or don’t care - it’s just how my brain works
2) I can drastically reduce the amount of “messing up” by taking medication
3) Now I can get things done with half the mental strain and drastically less “mess-ups”

TL:DR - Therapy is also essential, especially if you have built an adult life & persona to counteract the ADHD symptoms. What is “you” and what has been a coping mechanism? It’s fascinating indeed.
> What are you thinking of here? Big US companies like Google will let you get a high-level job with no college education whatsoever. Most traditional European companies would not consider doing that.

But Google isn't a "traditional US company" either. So I don't think that comparison holds.

> "a few institutions"? The US absolutely dominates the top universities. You have to go down to the 40s to find your first EU institution.

Good point. Is should not have used the word "few". But my point still holds: the overall excellence of the university (which is admittedly stellar in the US) doesn't matter much if the university happens to be magnificent and world-leading in exactly your field. This is part of the reason why such university rankings are a bit silly. If I'm in (making stuff up here) biochemistry and my European university has a world-leading lab for that, what do I care whether an equivalent US university can boast a magnificent English and aerospace engineering department?
I would like remarkable 2 or any of these devices to be used as a pen tablet in an easy way with the different OS. It would make much easier drawing diagrams while working in a presentation. Even better if they at some point can be hooked to some kind of software for collaboration editing.
How I see myself using it. Prepping diagrams early in the morning, pulling that on the computer, keep editing while presenting to my coworkers, let my coworkers add any other information(even better using their own devices).
The industrial revolution mostly happened in England. American industrialization came later and was mostly imported at first via the same kind of industrial espionage plus protectionism that China is using today. (The USA was the China of the 19th century.)

Slavery dwindled away in England around the same time and was abolished in 1833 right before the industrial revolution really went white hot.

I should have mentioned the connection was a hypothesis. It's also possible that causation goes the other way and industrialization led to abolition by reducing demand for slaves. It's easier to make moral progress when it doesn't cost very much, which is why in our current society you see a whole lot of very inexpensive "corporate woke" virtue signaling but massive pushback if someone mentions the word "union" or "increasing the minimum wage."
...and disturbs sleep, and can help treat symtoms of ADHD
These days that seems more hassle than doing it over the cloud though - I'd have to go and dig out some kind of physical cable!
Perhaps people do not remember what using search engines in the 90s was like; statistically, there are a huge number of current software engineers who never did, and a largish number who were not even born when Google Search launched.
I searched their forums and the issues on their core repo on Github, and cumulatively there are 20 issues that contain NixOS, of which some are created by NixOS maintainers themselves.
I find that boxed thinking quite problematic. Plenty of great solutions came without loyalty or optimism. Why did we throw positive thinking into the mix of otherwise confrontantional systems.

I say confrontational systems, because the only way to actually spark change in a system that has been systematically extinguishing sparks of change is actually confrontation. And the very fact that confrontation as such is now associated with negative emotion (same with conflict actually) goes hand in hand with the top level comment on this issue. Confrontation/conflict is bad, optimism is good.

Confrontration is how you bring attention to a problem. Conflict is what happens when that dominant idea is challenged by another idea.
Interestingly, in FLOSS the opposite is true.
You won't get any arguments from me that the current system isn't broken. I personally believe that we'd get a lot farther if every claim on a patent had to be "reduced to practice", that is -- actually done. I think change alone this would help to get rid of trolls from the system.

But I don't think it would be better if we didn't have patents at all. So many things are currently protected by trade secrets and not disclosed. Imagine if it were all kept secret... I don't think that would benefit the public interest. And that was the original goal -- benefiting the public.
Emacs Love Tale by sdp
> It was someone else's hard work that was the real source of abundance and hence upward mobility.

I can't help but feel like it's what we're doing today, but using processors instead of slaves, which is why tech pays so well.
A large issue is the reluctance, especially in the US, of approving new designs in nuclear. We tested a molten salt reactor in Idaho once in the 80s and it worked as expected. It can not melt down even in power loss because of the heat transference properties of using molten salt as a coolant and can not build pressure like a more conventional water cooled reactor. But rolling it out into production was killed in the water due to chernobyl and the public response to anything with the word 'nuclear' in it afterwards. We can mitigate a lot of risk now, but it takes lawmakers who don't understand physics or engineering to "bless" it for production. There are some reactor designs that can also reuse already spent nuclear fuel (TERRAPOWER's lightwave reactor). We probably shouldn't also build reactors in areas were earthquakes will occur fairly often and can create tsunamis.

Renewables are great, but that is a long term solution that still needs a lot more iteration. If we are looking to reduce our carbon footprint massively with respect to the electrical grid in 30 years, nuclear is the only viable option to garuntee this.
I would tell them the truth that they are more likely to get stuck close to where they are. That could be more motivating than selling them a fairy tale and watch them screw up their 1 or 2 shots that they might afford.

If you say upfront that the odds are against you, then I think it can spark more conscious decisions.
> Some random internet guff information I guess.

https://signal.org/blog/whatsapp-complete/

"A year ago [2015], we announced a partnership with WhatsApp and committed to integrating the Signal Protocol into their product, moving towards full end-to-end encryption for all of their users by default."

Now obviously things may have drifted since 2016 but it definitely sounds like - at some point - WhatsApp was based on the Signal protocol.

"Over the past year, we’ve been progressively rolling out Signal Protocol support for all WhatsApp communication across all WhatsApp clients. [...] As of [Apr 2016], the integration is fully complete. Users running the most recent versions of WhatsApp on any platform now get full end-to-end encryption for every message they send and every WhatsApp call they make when communicating with each other. This includes all the benefits of the Signal Protocol – a modern, open source, forward secure, strong encryption protocol for asynchronous messaging systems, designed to make end-to-end encrypted messaging as seamless as possible."