skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's disturbing that an alternative to Google is struggling. We need alternatives and even if Qwant is mostly Bing, it's still another choice.

The article is, I guess, based on a leak from a disgruntled person; or persons. They are most probably, and thus justifiably, concerned about the longer term strategy of Huawei here; a not untypical Chinese tactic at play here. Perhaps it's an Axel-Springer board member; especially as they own the publisher. It might be a call for another more palatable, to them, savior.

Their efforts to develop their own index would offer a real alternative and this is important for society and the economy. This article [0] dicusses those struggles saying “The technology developed worked super well on a few million indexed pages, but needed to be modified to operate on a larger scale,”. Certainly building an index for billions of pages and which operates fast is a big challenge we had to get over. There are many choices to make when designing, developing and deploying each of the three elements of a crawler, index and ranking engine. And those choices lead to big differences in SERPs: differences that are very distinct compared with what is offered between a search "engine" company and any of their syndication partners.

Self-disclosure: CEO of a search engine company

[0] http://www.wedemain.fr/dechiffrer/qwant-le-flop-de-lanti-goo...
The "free edition" was free to download directly from Corel. You can no longer download it from Corel for free, and downloading it from someone else is not permitted by copyright law.
If you’ve ever had to wrangle yaml configuration files… do yourself a favor and learn Cue. It’s still young and the website can seem intimidating; but it’s simpler than it looks, and the language is unbelievably powerful. There simply isn’t anything else like it. In my opinion it’s in a league of its own compared to other configuration languages like HCL, Jsonnet, Dhall, Starlark etc. Marcel, the creator of Cue, is basically the godfather of configuration languages - most of the state of the art can be traced back to his work at Google. Despite his deep knowledge of the subject and unparalleled experience, he is modest, pragmatic and responsive to questions and feedback. The momentum behind Cue reminds me of Go in its early days.

I’ve been using Cue for over a year now, using it as the foundation for a new projet; and will gladly answer questions about our experience.
Only if it makes sense for the product to make a sexual reference. (Source: myself, French, living abroad, worked in marketing/branding).

Coq is a bad name.
Sure, but if you dont have to translate requirements and a end user can build their own solution, you save alot of overhead.
I want to second this. Ample kids go to college or uni just because that’s the normal thing to do even though they don’t have a good aptitude for studying and end up with two year liberal arts degrees which land them answering phones and lower tier office work.

They would have been better served by a trade which can pay way better than these office jobs.
Most smaller orgs are wasting resources on poor utilization. Tighter code just gets those orgs even worse utilization.
> dosing stimulants sporadically ("as needed" isn't standard practice),

Interesting, I take adderall "as needed" and my doctor is fine with it. He prescribed it for daily use but said I can take it as needed.
The counter example are the immigrant populations that value education and hard work like asians. While pampered Americans are complaining why they don't get a 250k job with their PhD on women studies, asians surely and slowly climb the social pyramid.
Do you own a software services business? What have you done to go from no process to a great experience?
I've used the Note Air, briefly, and now use the RM2 everyday - my use case is for reading documents, signing documents, and storing notes at work due to the high number of lawsuits and FOIA requests. I use it almost exclusively for those three things.

The Note Air felt like drawing on plastic. Like using a ballpoint pen on a projector screen. It was easy for me to drift around the page. And my already terrible handwriting suffered. The transcription wasn't clean, and had many errors based on my handwriting. The RM2 feels like writing on paper. It has fantastic recognition for my handwriting, and the transcribing has one or maybe two weird words per page.

The only thing with the RM2 is there is no way to tag and search your pages. So you have to be very strategic with how you organize your notebooks, otherwise it's easy to just have a mess of a million pages you can never get through to find what you need. Tagging and searching would make the RM2 just AMAZING.
Tech innovation, once it has resulted in sufficient financial advantage becomes a 'winner takes all' game, where the people that won the previous round have a better than average chance of winning all subsequent rounds as well until there is some outside imposed limit. They are either able to throw more resources at the same problem or they can afford to buy out the successes elsewhere and claim them as their own.

The same argument could be made about the European film scene (check out how many Hollywood blockbusters are remakes of great European movies), the European music scene and the European literature scene to greater or lesser degree.

But you know what? It's fine. There is plenty of quality software in Europe, and as long as those companies don't get bought out by the handful of runaway American successes they can grow and do just fine. They tend to be better at customer service, they tend to be better at addressing multi-lingual markets at an earlier stage in their development than their American counterparts and they are active in important fields.

The thing that America excels at is advertising and simply making money. But there is more than that in this world.
The therapist, really. Kind of came out of nowhere.

I am terrified of getting on meds, and my wife (a doctor) is also against them.
The entire culture is based around "legacy" and "experience". Truth is, Europeans are extremely risk-averse and favor legacy, with grants, laws and such reflecting that.
That said, Europeans will throw money at an "idea", as long as that idea is approved by peers. They'll even die with that idea, once invested.
On the one hand, it doesn't sound like any possible ADHD tendencies you might have are causing you much grief. Also remember that ADHD is hugely situational - I've had a pretty great career and up until a year or two ago I wouldn't have ever suspected I fit the bill. It was only during a perfect storm of overlapping stressors that I really felt like I was struggling.

On the other hand, just because you can survive doesn't mean life has to be this hard. And looking back I now realise that much of my life I was doing just that. I was surviving, when I could have been doing so much better.
I feel it's become a self fulfilling prophecy.

90% of the people I've worked with who stayed in one place > 7 years were paid under market but also not great at their jobs.
EFF: You just now got the memo?

I know a guy who regularly goes IP shopping to a number of top private and public universities, and they welcome him with open arms. They will gladly license and sell that shit all day long because it's a business.
You'll notice I said all sides, not "both". That was intentional. As you say, there are often more than two sides to any one issue, and a near-infinite number of different perspectives once you start considering more than one issue at a time.

For what it's worth, the US actually does have more than two political parties. It's just that our first-past-the-post election system ensures only two of them are able to effectively compete on the national stage at a given time.
OK but you are getting off track here. The parent's argument was that if you take GDP / working Americans = working livable wage. My only point was that doesn't work because of costs and investment.

Sure you could look at capital investment as a form of payroll, but it's going to heavily skew the numbers and now GDP is not a great way to estimate if we can afford to pay a livable wage simply by looking at GDP.
This is by design. Progressive taxes on labor but not capital combined with comically low interest rates ensure there’s no true class mobility.
> I'm not sure what you mean when you say the RM2 has "pretty much none" when it comes to PDF reading and annotation capabilities.

Well, all you can basically do is scribble within a PDF. The RM2 doesn't offer proper PDFs annotations and it doesn't even come close to the Supernote in terms of other useful features like bookmarking, digests, etc.

> EDIT: Wow. Looked at the A5X and for the price compared to the RM2, it's very enticing.

Yup, exactly. It seems more expensive upon first sight but it's actually a pretty good deal.

> Do you know if there's any API that allows me to write my own utilities to sync with the A5X? Specifically, I want to be able to send PDFs to the device programmatically that will be eventually synced the next time I use it.

This is exactly what I'm waiting for, too! My hope is that once they open up their platform I'll be able to install the Syncthing Android app and sync my Supernote with all my other devices over WiFi.
My project had about 40kloc and acted as a low latency ad server. Far from a hello world.
in US or worldwide?
Thank you, I'm sorry to hear you've suffered.
Which raises another question:

- How bad can it be, if it stays undiagnosed?
> But is it an actual, practical, meaningful threat vector or an issue

Back when http was common and 3G was still kinda expensive, many public WiFi networks would MITM all the web pages you request to inject their own ads into them.

A notable example I remember vividly - the public WiFi network of Moscow Metro used to do this for non-paying customers, and it was particularly bad because 3G/4G did not work well underground back then.

This alone was a good motivation to switch my plain-html ad-free websites to https as soon as Let's Encrypt became a thing.
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I want to highlight this.

There is always talk about a european market, but it is more like 27 markets with one access ticket.

You have 27 languages, 27 cultures, 27 political systems, 27 markets, 27 levels of development and infrastructure. Although you have a market of 300 million consumers, they all have different spending habits, different spending power, different needs...

America is one market of 300 million people, with roughly the same culture, the same language, the same laws and political system and has been exporting it's language and power through out the last 100 years, so your market is probably double the size of your population.

There is also success stories of european players: Zalando, Delivery Hero. Sap has some very innovative departments, but their Reputation all in all is shite, yes.

Also most of souther europe doesn't have the get rich quick mentality. They live by "dolce vita" - the good life. Nobody is gonna be bending over backwards here to become a millionaire anytime soon. They happily live with 20k€ a year and their families and Relationships.

I still hate the shitty software we make here in europe/germany but we are working hard here to improve that. And if a european company tells you they offer a API or Service, they probably wont shut it down because it went out of falvour this month.
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How did you get your diagnosis? Every time I read the symptoms it sounds like me, but it also kinda sounds like everybody. What's the signal that it's a pathology worthy of treatment?
Working as a plumber, an electrician, or a carpenter can be quite lucrative, and they are certainly things that society needs.

I hear this kind of thing, but I have to say it is less than convincing when most of the people saying it don't seem to be sending their kids to trade school.
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For me it's much easier to drop files to reMarkable using RCU [0], works over wifi, too.

[0] http://www.davisr.me/projects/rcu/
Can I ask two questions please? First, what don't you like about it now that you've used it for a while? Second, are you sharing data to and fro with a GNU/Linux desktop/laptop (if to is the workflow comfortable) or is it primarily a reader and note taker that generates notes that are sent one-way back to your computer?
Fantastic, and fantastically written, article.
> I’ve never met anyone who things wealth reflects “wealth of the soul.”

I’ve never met anyone who would say exactly those words out loud either, and I don’t speak for the parent, but I feel like you might be taking what was an analogy extremely literally.

Have you ever met or seen someone sneer at a “hippie”? Have you ever heard someone argue that we should not increase the minimum wage? Have you ever heard someone suggest that homeless people are lazy or could get work if they wanted to? Have you ever witnessed anyone saying that the success they have is due primarily to their own hard work, and not for luck or advantages? I’ve seen all of those, often, and they all fit my interpretation of the parent’s comment.

Social Darwinism certainly is a thing and has been for a long time. A quick google about it brought up this article worrying that it’s a growing fad again: http://faculty.etsu.edu/odonnell/2011fall/engl3130/student_w...

Even just Survivor Bias in business - assertions that being better than the competition got them where they are - is relatively close to believing that having money proves you’re a better person. Certainly there’s no lack in the US of fascination with rich people nor of listening to our richest citizens. (How many famous rich people can you name? How many famous poor people?)
Not the person you're replying to but Vyvanse gave me excruciating neck cramps, brain zaps and really cold fingers. My doctor said that I had a bit of an outlier reaction to it so YMMV but if you decide to go that route at least ask about the cramps lol.

Adderall isn't a wonder drug for me but it tips the scale in my favor. I just take the standard release pills 'as needed' in the morning. It does tend to mess with my sleep a bit if I take any after 10am and definitely curbs my appetite (+/-). I'm 47 and recently have been paying closer attention to heart health, it definitely increases heart rate and blood pressure. Not alarmingly so, but if you're in any way marginal for either it's something to consider.
Calling a race close ("marginal difference ") when one program had 1/6 the runtime of the other seems a little disingenuous.

But why are people interested in rust on client side web? Does front end development need yet another paradigm?
than to chase the lotto ticket in a rigged game

That's just a strawman. We're not talking about winning the lottery. This is about whether you improve your outcome by participating in the workforce in some meaningful way.

From the article:

>Despite strong economic performance, a majority of respondents in every developed market do not believe they will be better off in five years’ time.

That shows a disconnect between opportunity out there and people's feeling that they will take part in that opportunity.
EU Recovery and Resilience Facility spending at risk due to lack of transparency
Narrative is important because the language it provides frames a way of life for many who haven't framed their own perspective based on the information they have and haven't seen. It's easy to pickup a narrative, it's far more difficult to dig through and generate your own perspective. It's even more critical because childhood education relies on providing narrative frameworks because children often don't have enough information of processes yet to think critically.

The reason I say this is as you point out, in the US we frame everything as being highly mobile. The illusory framing of our society in "the American dream" in K-12 education and freedoms dangles this carrot of possibility of high social mobility to children. It's not completely invalid, it is possible to make massive transitions in socioeconomic brakets, but it's just a framing of the rare exceptions, not the norms.

Most of us are going to be the norms, so these narratives are a disservice to people about what their real socioeconomic mobility potential and probability is. It's fine to dream, aim high, and shoot for the moon as a society-- that promotes growth and avoids stagnation. At the same time, we should be very clear what is and isn't a moonshot that way many aren't so resentful when they later discover what they thought was reasonable was actually incredibly difficult bordering on impossible. What's possible and what's probable need to be distinguished and the American dream framing doesn't talk to probability.

There's this whole lie painted to children that the US is somehow a meritocracy when it's not. Merit can help, but it isn't everything and we need people to understand this.
I remember reading a similar article a very long time ago, back when "reading an article" usually meant reading it on paper so have no recollection of where or how to cite it, and it had a similar list.

One that stood out was that in Silicon Valley having your company go under was not really much of a setback, if at all.

In many other places in the US that looked like they had the ingredients to be a Silicon Valley if you led your company to bankruptcy, that was what did them in. The money folks would not be interested in financing you again, and you'd stop getting invited to the social and business events that the successful people get invited to so your ability to network would take a huge hit.

Startups in those places tended to be focused on safe things like trying to do something slightly better in an already well established area.
There are plenty of folks willing to work. The figures will be used to justify more Visas for lower paid, indentured immigration status tethered slave labor.
> Safari is just Webkit like Chrome and Edge

This incorrect, Blink (chromium) forked from webkit in 2013.

Blink has significantly diverged from webkit over the last decade, they are very different layout engines today. Also this only applies to the layout engine, the JS engines and web APIs are entirely different. They are pretty much completely different browser engines today.
Onyx Boox Note Air Is extremely fragile. I had mine in a case in my backpack. Not a scratch on the screen, not a crack anywhere. The E-ink has crazy lines in it, not sure if it was pressure in the back pack but be careful. I loved the device, reading and writing on it was awesome but the company wanted $200 to fix it plus shipping both ways. Thankfully Amazon made an exception and I got all my money back.
You could probably add in some luck element as well
Who is talking about government spending? The OP I was responding to was talking about livable wages provided by corporations. This has nothing to do with the government.
Yes, that Rohloff stuff is nice, and indeed a tiny bit expensive.
Hahahaha

If you said you were Nigerian, I wouldn't be surprised at all. Politicians are the real big shots with few exceptions of course.
Don't immigrants show that not only hard work (which they usually did) but other factors (like emigrating from a bad environment, which can be pretty risky) are needed for a better life?
CUE is great - it's the first config language I've used that feels like it's getting things right.

I've been playing with some different ways of using CUE:

- https://github.com/cuebernetes/cuebectl (declarative, continuous syncing with a kube cluster)

- https://github.com/ecordell/cuezel (bazel/make but with CUE)

both have some overlap philosophically with the "command" subsystem in CUE, but it's been fun to play with different approaches to the same problems.
Not American and thus not subject to us intelligence surveillance.
If I'm interviewing a candidate, they likely still work with their soon-to-be-former boss, who likely still works at the same company the candidate is leaving.

This is the most common case, by far.

Are you suggesting going further back, to the candidate's previous previous employer, and hoping that their direct manager from years ago is able to provide reliable and accurate testimony on the current state of the candidate ?
Well, why don't you go ahead and do it that way when you decide to run one of these courses?
Yes they are the successor. But does that matter? The CDU was founded mainly by previous members of the Zentrum party. That was the party that voted with the NSDAP for the "Ermächtigungsgesetz" that gave Hitler the power over germany.

But the party changed over time and today it doesnt matter anymore. Same goes for die Linke in my opinion. The only thing that should count, are the targets of a party.
Oh, dear God. I am so sorry to hear your story.
Don't give up, friend. There's a place on this earth for all of us, no matter how weird we are.
There no massive capital flow like in the US because nobody's putting their entire life savings and pensions on the markets.
That's pretty dubious, especially about 'medicine' in general. If that was true it would double as a surefire test for ADHD. As well, all it takes is a little stronger dose and I know of a friend with ADHD that abuses it to party
> 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.

I don't agree with this. You are measuring equality of outcomes, not of opportunities. They are different.
It's been a while since I looked at it, but here's what I remember:

In the UI, you can choose if the device should communicate to Chinese or US servers. Both of them are available under the boox.com domain, so I assume they are both controlled by the Chinese manufacturer. The device uses this to check for firmware upgrades, to sync notes, for their own book store and IIRC to send some basic usage statistics. As per firmware version 3.0 (v3.1 is current), this traffic was only partly encrypted.

Besides this, the software seems to include some kind of Tencent SDK, which tries to contact Chinese servers quite aggressively, regardless of which setting you choose in the UI. The traffic is encrypted, so I couldn't figure out what it does. The servers seem to belong to Tencent's QQ service [1], so they supposedly use it for their on-device support feature. However, because the device tries to contact the servers immediately after startup, I assume it does some kind of analytics tracking as well. Blocking the service's domains on the DNS level doesn't work though, as the SDK will start to contact fixed IP addresses if DNS resolution fails.

Luckily, all of this traffic can be blocked after rooting and installing a firewall (see my post above), since all of this is implemented under Android user ID 1000, which makes it easy to block in AFWall+.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent_QQ
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