skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is an important point, and one that is rarely discussed. We've seen our economy shift to one where the highest paid jobs are those that are based predominantly on knowledge (doctor, lawyer, engineer, and also licensed trades like plumber, electrician, etc.). Knowledge is something anyone can attain, but some people gain knowledge easier than others... we generally refer to that ability to gain and retain knowledge as intelligence. There's a huge cliff, rather than a progression, between menial low-skilled jobs and high-skill jobs, where before there was a much more progressive increase in income. This has had numerous impacts on society, such as creating the K-shaped recovery coming out of 2020, and the vastly different outcomes for unemployment across socioeconomic lines.

Intelligence is on a bell curve, flatter for men, more rounded for women, but nonetheless has a relatively normal distribution, and the types of work that are most well-rewarded in society are shifting right-wards (towards higher IQ individuals) along that distribution. It's a simple fact that our economy is shifting in such a way that the average person no longer has the same opportunities for success that the average person had 20-30 years ago. We don't know all the reasons why someone might have higher intelligence than someone else, whether it's genetic, or a factor of their home life, or some other psychological trigger that happens in childhood. But it's a simple fact, at this point, that higher IQ people are likely to have higher earning outcomes in our current economy. It's not just that opportunity is a multiplicative factor (as others have mentioned), it's that you must have the capabilities to capitalize on an opportunity and turn it into a successful outcome.

Probably many of those minimum wage workers have the necessary intelligence to do more complex knowledge-based work that is more richly rewarded, but many of them do not, and they are being left behind as our economy changes. One of the last great jobs for people who are of average intelligence to have meaningful economic mobility is going to be eliminated by automation within the next 20-30 years (OTR trucking), and within the same time span our society will have no choice but to wrestle with the reality we've created. I think it's obvious at this point that our socioeconomic structure does not work well for everyone, but that changing it to work better for those left behind will artificially hinder technological and social advancement for all. This is one of the reasons I think UBI is likely to be the path forward for society in the future. Everyone deserves basic human dignity and the needs met to support that dignity, and our continued increases in productivity through technology make it possible to allow for that even as there is no longer meaningful work for large swathes of the population.
Funny story. Most recent Windows10 update broke Fusion360's ability to do some things. In my case (and that of my customer) it crashed every time we went to export the CAM processor for the PCB export in the electronics section.
Happened after Saturday's big update too.
But if I use Win7 it exports just fine...even though there is big flags everywhere saying don't use Win7 with Fusion.

The only reason I don't go to linux entirely is software like Fusion360 which are windows/mac primarily. Kicad is already better than Eagle for electronics design (especially 5.99) and I have some hope that Freecad will do some updates which will make it a serious competitor in the CAD field.
It is an amphetamine. Go to r/ADHD and read the thousands of enthusiastic stories of people that just took it for the first time and are basically just high. I took medication for a while and it helped me surmount a bunch of issues. Now I can do well without. I never liked the effect on my body and mind.
I've had many more crashes on Windows 10 than Windows 7. I would guess it's more about what you're doing with the computer.
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Actually, I'm on the other end of the spectrum. Google letting itself to parse everything, and doing it without my active consent is borderline creepy from my perspective. At least it can say "Hey, I've found a package, shall I track?".

Instead I use an application called FindMyParcels which I register my packages and get push notifications for them. It's a one man operation and works pretty well for me, so I didn't get bothered by Amazon's decisions.

Neither of these two companies are angels, but when they compete instead of forming a bigger eye-of-sauron, it's a win in my book.
Have you considered that some of us actually see the benefits in a hybrid model? There are downsides to working remotely, just like there are downsides with working in the office. Some of us just want to get our work done.
> Russia interfering in the election was already being investigated & reported on BEFORE election day.

Television, newspaper, etc. It was reported that there was suspicion of Russian interference, from multiple outlets, well before election day.

"The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) opened the Crossfire Hurricane investigation of Russian interference in July 2016, including a special focus on links between Trump associates and Russian officials and suspected coordination between the Trump campaign and the Russian government."

Obviously it was all rather silly, AS YOU RIGHTLY POINT OUT. That being said...

> It was an excuse for a embarrassing loss.

It was not an "excuse" the (D) dreamt up for the loss. That's the issue that makes no sense.
Are Statues Necessary?
Hotels are usually easier and cheaper EXCEPT if you actually want a whole house. Traveling with kids and a babysitter requires like 3 rooms and having a kitchen is a huge plus. So for that, its really good.
> You can set up a generic config with default values for everything, and then have more specific configs that override the defaults.

I was going to say the same thing - this pattern of having an "override" file in add to defaults, is something I've seen in multiple systems and liked. For example, it's used for JSON configuration in .NET, and with Docker Compose's YAML service configuration files.
> Well-Behaved Bubbles Often Make History

Oh my, it is hilarious. Great content. Very self-satisfying. I'm glad these people think this way, more opportunities for the rest of us.
That's very true. Widespread, high quality public education is a must.
you might be able to use the user as an oracle, but the real issue is that the user has to be around. querying the user after every clock cycle will get old, fast.
Google is too intrusive on privacy. I have blocked all google anti privacy actions.
http://n-gate.com/ is a great (albeit acerbic and derisive) summation of HN for those interested.
This is not about barriers (fortunately, most of us do not live in a feudalistic or caste-based or apartheid society, where this would be literally the case); it is about probabilities and effort, even when accounting for genetic differences.

It is extremely clear that our society, nowhere in the world, doesn't offer equality of opportunity; based on your birth, even accounting for genetics, your mid-life expected income could be predicted with decent accuracy.
I have been looking at the Remarkable 2 and other devices in the category. My use case is taking notes on CS and maths, which both often require diagrams and other drawings. Can you speak to how well it works for something like this and how it compares to note-taking with a pen and paper?
At least somebody at Microsoft thought and _optout can be anywhere in the SSID.

Good thing that you don't have to have two specific suffixes at the same time!
Given that I know dozens of people who use it without such issues on various platforms, and come across similar kinds of show-stopping problems on forums for related software, I personally wouldn't lay this at the feet of LibreOffice. Your mileage may vary.
Right, perhaps I wasn't 100% clear. My point was that obesity does not mean that a person is well fed, and that if a parent had to choose between eating and education, eating will win.

The parent's attitude is absolutely a factor which was what my original message (up a bit from here) was about, but I don't think that you can deny that food insecurity plays a part in their attitude toward education.
While it may seem connected, it isn’t. Just look at history. America has been infamous as a country of get-rich-fast people almost since it was founded. Long before progressive taxes and social welfare. It is a cultural difference.

This was at a time when the US was actually more egalitarian than Europe.
I'm inclined to agree with this, but could you elaborate on some of these behaviors? The ones that come to my mind are punctuality and subservience. Absolutely critical for a bottom-tier laborer, but nobody is upset if the CEO is late for a meeting.
Vive le roi chien de l'espace!
Why such loyalty to one piece of legal fiction but not another?
I was really hoping this was some kind of light gun like some old arcade games (and duck hunt!) had.
I needed to setup a separate office for work stuff and work stuff only before I really got into a WFH rhythm. Definitely have experiences that match yours in office environment.
This is one such setup: https://twitter.com/fresheyeball/status/1403192219092144130
So they respect “do not track” headers?
Wow, I didn't realize it exposes root ssh over it's wifi interface. I just tested it and it works. I don't like that at all.

The documentation makes it sound like it only exposes ssh through it's ethernet over USB interface.
GP’s point is that at first blush it doesn’t seem like the Wormhole app should need any local storage in the first place.
I'd love a list of the materials the author is using for their standard work stations. I'm particularly curious about the "inline power adapters". I see in one of the pictures each one has a little black brick. Looks like maybe a USB hub or something? The Raspberry Pi 400 already has 3 USB ports.

I'm speaking as a daily Raspberry Pi 400 user. I've tried one of those USB hub things with power pass-through that I use for my Mac Book Pro, but it didn't work with my RPi400.

Always up for hardware tips for improving my Pi situation.
Google does a lot of shady stuff but they're a pretty sue-able entity, not some fly by night unknown data broker. If they say they will respect robots.txt and floc headers they probably will. They are surely collecting whatever data they want in other ways anyway.
My most impossible bug was a Direct3D issue. It was impossible in the sense that what we were seeing on the screen wasn't a result of the code we were writing.

It turned out to be Direct3D's debug mode. Once we flipped it back to non-debug, everything started working again.

I became a lot more skeptical of debugging tools after that day.
The Gold Rush show has very little to do with reality. It’s a scripted show that had the primary motivation of making money.
What's the situation with reMarkable 2's privacy? I'm interested in it as an extensible Linux device, but part of that would mean connecting it to a network to take advantage of SSH support.

Is there a way completely turn off analytics so it never connects to a remote server at all without my permission? Can I disable updates without disconnecting it from the network? Or is there a replacement OS/hack that can disable any data collection?

I get nervous around proprietary software, even if it is extensible. I like that I can SSH onto the device itself, I like a Linux base, but I want to know that I'm not going to be fighting with their UI layer for control in the future.

I guess KoReader exists, but as far as I know from other e-readers KoReader doesn't actually replace anything, it just runs automatically after the normal OS has booted. I want the ability to completely disable any part of the OS that would be reaching out to a remote server without my permission.
Nothing is finished, always abandoned. Sure, you may have a list of exit criteria, but I can almost guarantee there were ideas you had to FIGHT to not add.

(I may or may not have written a blog post about it, although is was more about creative endevours https://aarontag.dev/2020/01/20/nothing-is-finished.html)
I agree. It's essentially normalcy bias with a political slant and usually ad hominem at the same time.
Yes, also the market is saturated and they are desperate to show revenue growth. I think many companies of AirB&B's generation are in the same bind.
It's a false equivalency. Crypto is different than the other things, which are regulated. Crypto exchanges need regulation. That is all.
Yep. As someone who has been taking these medications for over a decade, I can say the danger of physical and mental addiction is very real. I've also stopped medication several times over this period and the withdrawal can last weeks or months.
Ambiguous title. I thought it's about learned helplessness in insects.
> This got me interested, so I checked it out. The top thread is literally about r/antiwork NOT having this goal:

It's the same way that incel communities insist they're NOT about hating women, but rather something deeper and more respectable: It's a veneer of misdirection so they can justify their continued complaining about having to work.

Like I said, they want to end "work" but they don't ever explore ideas for how society would function or how they'd get their food, clothing, and housing if work was abolished. They tend to romanticize primitive, pre-industrialized societies as the easy times, while assuming we could abolish work and still maintain our iPhones, internet, food, and shelter simply by [other] people's innate desire to build these things for free.
Wouldn't they be the owners of the bed in the first place? Or were they managing it for the owners? That's so weird.
If they remastered Windows XP, I'd dig it. Some of my favorite old tech memories were finding bootleg versions of XP with the shitty MIDI key gen and installing it with an all black theme and windows update removed. lol
Can you share your complete parameters, so I can do the same thing for my DVD archives & other stuff?

No hard feelings if you don't want to though :)
What about HN?
Same, I usually press them 2-3 times to make sure they work.
Well worth the read, although I would have liked to have seen more depth on “what could have gone better”.
Why doesn't AirBNB just vertically integrate to make some of these issues go away? They could have AirBnB locks, which only open via the app after payment and approval for the guest is received.

For cleaning, they could hire out cleaning to the hosts or even the guests for a discount, or they could acquire someone like TaskRabbit or an Uber-for-cleaning type app.

To me, it seems they're taking the easy way out by not doing much about the issues and letting hosts deal with it.
* the web, not the internet.
If you legalize sex work and drugs fine, I'll give you cryptocurrency.
The mechanisms of action of Ivermectin against SARS-CoV-2
Instead of thinking "We can't think of a less intrusive way, so deal with it", how about "We can't think of a less intrusive way, so let's not do it until we do".
>I understand that the ducted systems are less efficient

But they're not less efficient, ducted systems are more efficient. Mini-splits multiply your refrigerant lines, compressors, heat exchanger, condensing coils, etc., so you're multiplying your inefficiencies. A single variable rate, zoned, ducted heat pump is the most efficient, but they definitely cost more.
Recreational riding is about going places.

You could shorten your distance to zero by not leaving the house at all, but that's missing the point. I like to go places, and the further I can go on the same amount of energy the better.
If Google wants to use other people's stuff for their purposes, they should pay them. Not force them to jump through hoops to avoid Google abusing them.
I have been looking at the Remarkable 2 and other devices in this category. My use case is taking notes on CS and maths, which both often require diagrams and other drawings. Can anyone speak to how well these devices work for this use case and how they compare to note-taking with a pen and paper?

To date, I have used pen and paper because taking such notes in a text editor is too difficult and time consuming. To deal with the risk of losing my physical notes, I take photos of the pages and back them up to my Google Photos (text search through photos works decently well actually), but I would much prefer to have the notes in digital form to begin with.
Sure, genes and other accidents of birth make the model more complex. But still, in our current society, if you were to take two identical twins and separated them from birth and made various income families raise them, and repeat this experiment 100s of times, you would still see remarkably little mobility.
I don't think you are correct. Just because the name has disorder in it does not mean you have to have a significant negative impact on your life.

It is a mental disorder. My brain functions differently than a normal functioning brain without ADHD. I have built my life in a way so that does not negatively impact my life significantly.
It's not gaming the system, it's having money. That's the system. People with money can get more of it. Start with it, and you can get more of it. Lots more of it if you know what you're doing. If you don't, you'll die with about the same millions you started with.
That might be a factor, but given that they all failed at about the same time I think there's a good chance that timing is just as important. Adding billions of people to the internet and mass adoption of smartphones may have been necessary precursors to the success of Amazon/Facebook/Google/Uber.
That's an admirable life. But, then, there are people like me: Mostly lazy, but focused on creative expression, learning things, helping friends and family, and supporting community.

My life still has purpose. I just don't work very hard.
Agreed. My AcuRite/RPi/Weewx combo has been running solid since Dec 2014, with zero issues.

If and when it does die, I'll switch to a Davis and whatever newest RPi is available.
Sounds like an American problem.
Instant bank transfers over SEPA for one, without third party payment processor involved.
It's been covered, but unsurprisingly I've never seen a news segment go after the Sackler family. Probably because the 24/7 news channels are flush with medication ads.
You might enjoy this project. Its a browser plug-in that submits random search queries over time to ruin the accuracy of companies tracking https://trackmenot.io/
> Do you mean more risk-averse?

I do. Thanks. Corrected.

> Europeans have very set schedules

That's another way of describing conformity, in this case to cultural norms.

The best way I can describe it is like this: in the UK (and the US), the default position is that things are allowed unless they're specifically forbidden. In continental Europe, it's the reverse: everything is disallowed unless it's specifically permitted.

This was evident to me from the time that I lived in Germany and Switzerland at least.

Disruptive businesses aren't created by conformists.
At one point, I encountered a low level bug that would only manifest if the computer was physically located in a particular room. It ended up being an undocumented cabling revision, but I revisited a lot of assumptions about the nature of software and reality before getting to that point.
It depends a bit on the subject, but most IP generated by grad students is not worth much. Of course if you specialize in something where you see the commercial possibility from the beginning and aim to do that to start your company:ok, consider this things, otherwise don't bother.
Priority and motivation can change pretty easily. You can think something is cool and interesting at the start, and then it fades over time. It’s just expectation vs reality, no different than a project car rusting in your garage or an unfinished novel etc
Hotels are more reliable and organized, but I prefer AirBnB in general. I like feeling a part of the neighborhood or city, I like the home-y vibe of most AirBnBs. Hotels in contrast are a bit sterile and cookie-cutter, for obvious reasons, and some may prefer this vibe. Different strokes for different folks.
There's no reason it would have to be an injustice. The standards of proof for getting banned from Airbnb should be less than thrown in jail.
My experience: iPad with a pencil is much better. But it is a personal choice in the end, I'd say.
It appears as a virtual network device via USB, so it's completely functional without WiFi.
I am baffled to this day.
For me the hard bugs are the multi-threading ones where I made a bad assumption about order of execution. One from 30 years ago that I still remember is when a "packet received" interrupt for a response came in before the "packet sent" interrupt of the request, due to queuing in the lower levels of the network device driver. It totally crashed our system because the pointer pointing to a transaction data structure wasn't initialized yet. It caused a triple fault so it was an instantaneous reboot.

Since then I've become more defensive with classic multithreading.
As a Chi resident, Uber/Lyft is super expensive because lack of drivers due to COVID and carjackings. A couple months ago people would call Uber/Lyft just to jack the car and it scared a lot of drivers away.
> I am genuinely curious: how do you know that you do not have an issue?

I haven't used an AV since before Microsoft Defender. I don't even remember. I had no need and considered them a scam, but I'm aware that lots of people are literally helpless against them.

That out of the way, I did catch a few things occasionally, but not even once a rare. Before there were SSDs it was actually really easy to spot when your system behaved differently, simply because the system started acting differently.

I'm sure, or hope, you remember times before the were SSDs. Things took time to load. Windows took time to pop up. One could hear his harddrive doing it's work.

And that's how I spotted a virus I've caught from * microsoft.com, somehow, I don't know. Suddenly the system's timing was complete off. Things took a quarter second more longer to load, irregular hardware accesses, etc.

So I took a look into the task manager (TM) and noted that there was a program that sounded "off". It didn't feel like it belonged there. I had a rough instinct about what's running in the background in a normal system, so that definitely helped.

I even got rid of it manually and because I can type pretty fast I'm going to share the rest of this story. ^_^

It was actually pretty easy. Killing the process in the TM made it restart again automatically, so I've went out seeking the file in question. If my memory serves me right it was pretty easy, using the TM itself.

Sadly there's no great hacking story behind this. Accessing the executable in question wasn't possible while it was running, so I've made a command line ready to rename the file when I've killed it. That was pretty much all it took and after a few attempts I've nailed it.

Deleted it from the harddisk and that's the end of it.

So ... you can notice based on the timing of things happening on your computer. When they feel off, then there's a good chance something's unusual. Same goes for your computer temperature and fans spinning.

When you notice that your fans are spinning up more often, or your internet is suddenly slower, then you should check if there's something wrong with your system.

There are tons* of data points one can use to assess if the system is acting normally, you just have to notice them. :D