skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hot take: the problems here are cultural.

Consider these data points:

1. The US is a country of migrants (ignoring the blight of slavery for now), whether those be those seeking a better life from Europe originally, later China and later still Central and South America. These are all people who uprooted whatever lives they had and legally or illegally migrated to the US. IMHO you still see echoes of this "pioneering" culture and I think it's no accident that the peak of the frontier, the Wild West, and homesteading in general have been deeply mythologized.

But look at TV shows like Gold Rush or Deadliest Catch. Whatever creative license is taken here, you still have people who will take the risk of working a dangerous and dirty job for a share of the proceeds.

The average American just seems to have more of an appetite for risk than at least anywhere I've been in Europe.

2. The much-discussed "Protestant work ethic". As exploitative as it is (and it is exploitative), the willingness of Americans to work all the time has an effect that I don't think you can dismiss.

3. Being comfortable makes you more risk-averse, even lazy. We all joke on here about Europe with its 6-8 weeks of vacation, 35 hour work weeks, universal health care and a year of maternity of leave to some extent. These are all good things. The upside of not having those things, if there is one, is that (IMHO) people have a greater motivation. Again, I'm not saying this is a good thing. It just... is.

4. 330M people most of whom speak one language (English obviously). You can't argue that this doesn't make things easier.

5. The barrier to education that is cost with a legacy admissions system led to the endowment system that created venture capital.

For the record, I'm Australian not American and the above isn't intended to extol the virtues of American culture. For example, the fact that a near-majority of the US thinks it's acceptable that a trip to the ER can bankrupt a significant portion of the population is cruel, even reprehensible.

EDIT: corrected less risk-averse to more risk-averse.
No. My phone is really useful.

Why do you want to quit in the first place? Are you finding it difficult to quit because it's inconvenient or because of some behavioral pattern that you want to eliminate? If it's the former, I wouldn't bother with it - you're just making your life harder for no benefit.

In general I think that the benefits of quitting stuff (social media, entertainment, devices etc) are really exaggerated in some circles. Cal Newport's book Digital Minimalism was very popular, there was also the whole concept about dopamine fasting and similar ideas - I really think that we have very little evidence to back those claims and it's become a kind of broscience in which people are sharing what works personally for them as fact, or misattributing effects and relationships and are very susceptible to confirmation bias.
It is, as always, an inequality issue.
Sadly, the alternative is not acceptable in a neoliberal world: no european company is willing or able to pay up for a promising technology as much as Google, Apple or Amazon will, but nation-states definitely can.
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This was linked elsewhere and it only talks about home ownership and says nothing about renting which is the only viable option for many Americans. It doesn't say how many are renting vs owning and how renting has fared in growth/decline per capita.
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Am I the only one who thinks this is not a problem but just how things should be in general? Why should people be pushed to work themselves to death due to societal/financial pressure? If the work culture in Europe provides less stressful life and better work-life balance, barring those who are career driven/ambitious/enjoy the associated challenges, it should be perfectly ok to embrace the former without being guilt-shamed by the latter. I don't have stats but I think the percentage of people who enjoy their work but not as much so as to slow-march to their deaths to the tunes of never-ending deadlines, isn't insignificant.
On your advice, I have edited the title.
I don't think any of those matter. America has distribution and is unapologetica about marketing and people heavily hustling and pushing their product. EU countries have so far tended to place obstacles instead because of mentality.
For some reason it isn't common in the US but elsewhere you can rent a flat specifically for this purpose usually with less ammenities like you'd expect from a hotel and hence not as expensive.
> And that, IMNSHO as someone who has founded tech businesses here, is entirely fair criticism. The environment created by all those regulations is insanely hostile to tech entrepreneurship, and it's not as if many of those regulations are well considered or effective at protecting vulnerable groups anyway.

yup.

Many different rules in eu countries, fscked up tax rules for companies trading with foreing customers, high taxes for relatively well paid tech workers, and high cost of entry into the business is killing european businesses.

Even starting a business is hard... I hear a lot of people from USA who (eg.) find a old t-shirt printing press in a yard sale, and start their own t-shirt printing business, fill out some forms, sell 7 tshirts in two years, mostly to family, and then stop doing it. Just being able to letally sell a t-shirt in many eu states will cost you thousands and thousands of euros, where it's just not worth it to start. Wanna make an app by yourself and host the backend on a $5 digitalocean VM? Sure... but do it for free. Want to earn something? If you have just a few dollars of income, it's not worth it... you need a lot of users paying you a lot of money to pay the government fees, even if you work for free.
Many less people live like this, however, than 50 years ago. It IS old-fashioned poverty, combined with exponentially increased expectations.

And there's a thousand books out there that prove that folks on the flip side aren't really any happier than those in poverty. Living a life devoid of purpose is just as soul-sucking as living a life of poverty. Perhaps more so.
It doesn't just phone home to China. The company actually refuses to comply with the GPL because of "anti-China sentiment" and closed down their support forum when people got angry (https://www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/hsyigm/on...)
IMHO the key thing is that any proper hangman implementation would require much more computing on the FHE side than the six if-statements it currenly has. Currently even for such a toy problem as much as possible is moved to the non-FHE client.
Or it’s because a fraction of immigrants does do with means and for the express purpose of this, essentially self-selecting for the task?

Immigrants also make up a disproportionate portion of poverty population.
Yeah I definitely see the value in privacy and respect for the user, and Librem is king there, but that still doesn't justify a $2,000 price tag to me. I wouldn't pay $15,000 for a Ford Pinto because it has bulletproof windows.
I'd disagree about "not necessary". Cellphones are a necessity now because payphones have gone the way of the dinosaur, there go 100 dollars for a family plan, internet is a necessity, there go 50 dollars more, and especially the expenses for the second car because no one can make do on one income, especially at the lower end of the income scale.

And childcare expenses, of course. Especially childcare.
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If a young millennial cannot afford a small apartment, it's a poor consolation that house sizes have grown.
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No, it's not used or usable in production due to performance reasons.
> It was an excuse for a embarrassing loss.

This is the conspiracy theory.

Russian interference in global elections is well documented. In the 2016 election it was already being investigated & reported on before election day.
It saved my life.

I went from always being clouds in the sky, never finish any project, always in my head, wasting days away on social media, both kind and loud and inconsiderate, and seriously depressed, to somebody I can face in the mirror.

It's not a cure all and it took a lot of counselling and some time to find the right medication but it turned my life 180 degrees.

I no longer feel like all my dreams are running through my fingers, and that every new endeavour I start will end in failure. I have much better personal relationships, and am a much better listener with the same kindness I had before.

I've learned to appreciate things that I never thought I could appreciate before. Working on a project for an extended period of time with progress so small you barely see it, and then realising how much you've accomplished over a long timeframe is such a rewarding experience.
Before I couldn't study, either I was immediately gifted at something or I just couldn't bring myself to invest time into it.
Simple things like, being able to read without getting bored or distracted by every little breeze, or not spending every night coding because you didn't get stuff done during the day and feel like you have to make up for it, is just nice.

Don't fear medication, there's so much stigma around it, but it helps more than anything else. If you got an inflamed thumb you also get antibiotics. The ones I tried first were making me emotionally very detached,
but me and my doctor tried around a bit and found something that works really well, it's part of the journey.

Without the meds I feel like a prisoner in my own head.
With them I still suck at cleaning my place, I still talk over people when I'm excited,
and I still procrastinate regularly, but at least I got enough of a fighting chance to feel like I'm in charge of my life and no longer feel like a leaf in the wind.
So you, a non-professional, casually diagnosed your friend with ADHD, and then went on to explain his behavior with this.

If there’s one thing my psychologist friends tell me not to do, it’s exactly this: make up diagnoses for myself and others around me to explain behaviors post hoc.
Without it i would have never been able to succeed in life. For me it was the single greatest decision i have ever made in my life. I simply could not focus on anything important, I was a miserable mess.

I was a consistent grade D student in high school, I was that werido in class who everyone hated. In my final year my parents realizing I was not going to have a great future, decided to bring me to our doctor, I was prescribed Dexedrine for ADHD.

That Pill completely and utterly changed me in my final year, i could think clearly. I understood what was being said, it completely changed me. I suddenly decided to go to University for CS, forcing me to do a victory lap in high school. I was able to get into University on an amazing scholarship.

However the biggest thing was the few people who i was vaguely friends with me praised my 180 personality change, they liked being my friend.

I am now 36 years old taking the same dose of meds i have been for the last 20 years. It works for me, immensely. At the same time there is a huge stigma around ADHD medication. My ex hated the idea of me taking meds saying its big pharma pushing this, i don't need this, i just need exercise, etc. She changed her tune after she saw me not on my medication.

I know there are probably people out there that don't need this or abuse it. Sure, but that is true for almost everything.
We should also notice that in the US, garbage collectors are routinely in the top 10 most dangerous jobs. It is extremely hazardous.

I imagine the overall health impact from this occupation is large as well, considering the weird stuff that ends up in the bin, biological factors, as well as exposure to transportation related pollutants (Carbon Monoxide, NOX, brake dust, all quite poisonous)

Consider these other factors while rating the pay.
It is Europe and that is what I thought. Aka, anecdotes
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So what are your favorite digital-only stories? Stories that can't be printed out and read or watched on a TV, without crippling the experience?
>The sooner we recognize that, and stop treating loved ones who have adopted conspiratorial beliefs as lost causes, the better we may be at curbing the beliefs that threaten our democracy and public health.

The problem is that people tend to dig in like ticks when presented with facts contrary to their closely held conspiracy theories.

They move the goal posts and re-interpret/mis-interpret statements over and over to keep their faulty beliefs.

It's so frustrating to deal with as to make it not even worth it.
I think it is very hard to say if it is because if or in spite of its policies that Sweden has been somewhat successful.

And I would say that going from the world's highest tax rates (% of GDP) to the world's fourth highest rate does not make Sweden neo-liberal. We have also had a Social Democrat prime minister since 2014 and a government that relies on support from the former Communist party, so we are not quite a neo-liberal utopia yet.
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s/education/financial success - parents who support and motivate their kids in arts, sports and entertainment vs parents who support their kids in fields that don't pay well or which the child has little interest or skill.
People forget about bad luck too. Everyone gets the same amount of good luck in life. A few (ie Bill Gates) are at the right place at the right time and can go far, but nobody gets any more lucky breaks that anyone else, though a few breaks can go a lot farther than most of our breaks could.

For most people their luck is about equal to anyone else. which means you can't get a head because everyone else is moving as fast as you. However you are still moving forward.
People like stories of extremely poor ending up rich and it doesn't help that the rich like to abuse these kinds of stories to better their optics.

What looks better on a millionaire:

* The poor guy that invested every cent he had and kept slaving away for years every day at the brink of certain failure.

* The rich kid that got several hundred thousand from his parents for his first company and knew exactly that failure just meant asking his parents for another go or having to switch to a management position that has probably been waiting for him since he was five?

Of course the first one looks better, you can also bet that any millionaire telling it is a habitual liar that paid a good sum to have some PR guy find ways to navigate around his actual rich kid background without looking too obvious about it.
Let's start with the last thing:
It is close to constant speed - as pointed out in the article, the more data sets you have, the longer it takes to download and aggregate the entity. But the search itself is always the same steps and therefore constant. Obviously, having an entity with 10.000 data sets in it will not load in 150ms - but finding the place where the full data is stored is easily doable in that time.

I agree, that having a server which you bought once (or rented) is predictable cost. But what happens in cases of burst? You would have to buy another server (without knowing if you will still need that tomorrow). Predictable in this case means, that since you have the same steps for each request, you can tell the exact the cost per request. And that is from my point what is important.
sounds a lot like how HR works- both as a front and on the inside.
Brief periods, for a few. Basically no different from now.
Smartphones replace a lot of things though:
* camera (including film & development costs)
* camcorder
* long-distance phone service
* answering machine
* portable music player (walkman, iPod, etc.)
* GPS navigation devices

Depending on their use they can save a lot of money relative to the the products/services they replace
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I’m not a coder and I don’t make 2-10x the national wage.

Hard work does pay off. Ask any children of immigrants. And I mean recent immigrants.

While inequality certainly is rising and there are legitimate economic issues, I find that people have just become far lazier and more distracted. It’s not uncommon for the average American to spend 8-10 hours a day on your phone or watching television. If I had to guess, I’d say the rhetoric is rising because of this, not because everyone is just working so hard.
Everybody says “oh I ignore ads, my brain automatically blocks them out, it doesn’t affect me” but the truth is they do affect you.
Yes, referring to 4A as a "privacy law" is sort of the jurisprudential equivalent of calling Tim Berners-Lee a "web developer."
This survey result is to be expected, as the zeitgeist has moved from advocating for 'equality in opportunities' to 'equality in outcomes'
I'd say that "Productivity-pay gap"[0] is a good starting point for a discussion about how working harder may make your life better.

[0]https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
‘Artificially’ works but I think ‘maliciously’ is more apt; regardless of the color of your collar.

Also, this comment echoes the same issue as the original maxim and just moved the ‘hard work’ to the ‘find’ing part.
Skype.

And really, i18n is a minor issue.
There are some extremely nice places available on AirBnb, far nicer than most hotels I've been to.
> The main enabler was not power and wealth, but technology (sailing ships)

As we should understand rather well, sometimes technology is power.
> It was an excuse for a embarrassing loss.

This is the conspiracy theory in and of itself, not the other way around. Russia interfering in the election was already being investigated & reported on BEFORE election day.
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First of all, I personally really like exploring anything a therapist recommends to me. If they (or people in my life) are noticing something, then it's something worth consideration.

I got a formal ADHD diagnosis around 8 years ago. They did prescribe medication, but I honestly do not like taking it. Sure it gives me focus and "superpowers" but it also shifts the way I think about things and I don't feel like myself on it. I personally use it as a "backup" when I have a lot of tasks I have to bash through, but for others they find daily is useful. To each their own. I find a lot of people with diagnosis and medication from a young age lean on that heavily, with less technique based change.

The benefit however has been that now I have the name of something to explore and work on. I didn't really know I was ADHD prior to my diagnosis, and it was a partner that pointed me in the direction of exploring it.

I've realized that my father's behavior was similar to mine, and it's an interesting lens to see his life through.

I've been able to lean into organizational techniques more. For me, putting in hard work on techniques is better on average than medication. I'm also not someone who responds to average organizational techniques and I often have to find "tricks" that work for my own personal motivations to keep me organized.

For example, I've never been able to keep a calendar, todo list, or schedule. I was awful in college about missing classes, running late, etc. So much of it was because I'm overly optimistic about time (so run late), and also about my ability to keep things in my head (which I'm actually terrible at, but in the moment think I'm clever).

My solution to this has been weird - it's Google Calendar. But I share it with a dozen friends. It's no longer about my schedule tracking, but it being a social communication tool. My motivation to keep it accurate isn't just about my schedule, but about letting people know when I'm free/busy and where I am. For my brain, that is a highly motivating thing and so now I keep it accurate. Same with things like grocery lists and Google Keep and my live in partner. It's not just about my list, but now it's a socially motivated list, so I'll keep it accurate. This isn't a motivational technique for everyone, but it's mine and works well to keep me organized.

Eventually you may find parts of yourself described in various literature and experience that aren't just about organization or distraction, but things about how you take feedback, etc... some of which are highly linked as ADHD traits.

There's also at least 3 different distinct types of ADHD, and it's useful to think about those and how they fit you. Your therapist should be able to help you identify these formally.
Thanks! I shared my story so you could sort of contrast negative impacts of ADHD I experienced with your own situation (though there is lots of that here now :-).

I would suggest that, whatever you decide, you take the time to understand the impacts that ADHD can have on your friends, family and co-workers and check in with them to make sure you are not having more impact than you think.
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The ADHD diagnosis allowed me to get Adderall. Adderall allowed me to listen to people and not just talk about whatever comes to mind all the time. After a while of using the drug, I was able to listen to people off the drug. Now I cut my dose down, and just know to recognize my behavior and nip it.

This has improved my personal relationships so much. You wouldn’t believe it.

Previously, everyone loved me because I was the life of the party etc etc but now I can also form deeper connections because I can listen.
That does not fit any definition of money laundering.

It sounds more like decisions are being made based on politics, presumably with an eye to the long-term improvement and viability of Qwant.
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This is pretty much what I came to say. Both of my parents came from very poor families, but they both valued education very highly. My brother and I may as well been born into a wealthy family since we both got every educational resource we needed, but up until I was 10 years old my parents had to make huge sacrifices to achieve that.

In these poor communities I'm seeing a tendency to stigmatize education... that's the biggest problem. The educational resources available to anyone today obliterates what we had in the 80's. You don't need to be an elite to have access to the critical material, you just need the desire to pursue it.
Very often is not someone's house but a property that has been bought, renovated and furnished specifically to be rented on Airbnb.
Europe is not America and emulating American mercantilism is probably not going to result in anything positive, as the European market is too decentralized for the kind of collusion between the political/diplomatic system that allows the American multinationals to dominate.

What the EU should do is play to it's strengths as the last organizations left that takes the regulative role required by smiths model of capitalism serious and start enforcing transparency, choice and interoperability on the digital field, with the same zeal it treats similar regulation in the agricultural and manufacturing sectors.
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I have a pretty good track record of finishing software projects I start.