skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, I used unattened-upgrades for everything not libc/kernel and then use the requires-restart stuff (you can do this on centos and debian based distros) just to make sure it's a bit more managed. Nowadays a lot more stuff I deploy is in immutable containers with health checks so tends to be less of a pain, but you trade that off in increase in complexity and overheads etc. Still have to reboot hypervisors too if not managed.
It sounds like you actually have ADHD but can control it with the perfect environment. Others are not so lucky; either lacking the ability to create the perfect ADHD haven or that haven only working for a while before they relapse.

> Anyways, what exactly do you think you have to gain by being "diagnosed" with ADHD? Except for an "excuse" for your problems?

Please don't dismiss mental illness this way.
Categories are created for people not people for categoried

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-ma...
WWDC by far.
> The fact is whenever quick upward mobility has been possible anywhere for a large number of people, it has been built upon slavery, colonialism and/or cheap imported labour.

Which of these was responsible for China's rise from poverty?
It doesn’t exist anymore. Its modern successor, Die Linke, still exists and gets about 10% of the vote. Advocating for it is perfectly legal.
So we have this sentiment, how long will it take to be reflected in business schools, those leading these companies? We need at least boomers and Gen Xers to die off since they were instilled with the old way of go-into-the-place-and-give-a-firm-handshake bullshit. Are we looking at potentially decades before we seriously start making tangible changes with our relationships with work?
I am medicated for ADHD, and my goal is to one day get off the meds, maybe in 5-10 years. Sounds like you've been functioning pretty well without them, which is a great reason NOT to start.

Have you gotten any encouragement from people in your life to investigate ADHD, or is it just this therapist? I was encouraged by teachers and loved ones to look into it starting in grade 2, finally got a diagnosis about 5 years back.
Before my diagnosis, ADHD was my kryptonite. I thought I was lazy, I couldn’t accomplish the things I needed to. It pushed me into depression and was quite hard.

After my diagnosis, I felt like ADHD became my superpower. I know how to play to my strengths rather than my weaknesses. I know if I have an interest in something, I can dive into it and produce great output, and for tasks that need doing which aren’t interesting, I have coping mechanisms and medication if necessary.
https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.nytimes.com/interact...
If you were living in the west at that time it was true for you, not for the slaves toiling it away in the colonies. America's trading partners wealth was all built upon that. Plenty of America's own wealth was built upon slavery, even after slavery was technically outlawed.
Apparently something which you are not able to grasp.
I could easily find a lot of reporting on the "CNN leak", even in German online media, and from my understanding, we cannot, at this point in time, be sure that this leak is legit.

Right now, it's simply a news story that is very difficult to confirm.

In any case, my recommendation would be to apply "I can’t help but see some kind of special interest or agenda whenever I hear a news story now." here, too. Everything else would be a bit inconsistent.
Off lease refurbishers generally have old 1440x900 monitors in bulk, although in COVID world they're pretty picked over as everybody working remote has grabbed one or two.
> In order to be innovative and compete, we need very flexible working laws, people with a big growth mindset, a less relaxing lifestyle and AMBITIOUS people.

There needs to be a source for this.
No, I'm pretty sure I got a copy from a flatmate who bought a USB ethernet adapter and it came with Corel Linux on a CD. This would have been about 2001. Don't think I ever installed it though.
Basically we need hardware that works a lot more closely with the OS, and an OS that works a lot more closely with modern language semantics. The problem with the general abstractions you call out (correctly) as inefficient, is that they're stuck in the 80s, and they gotta work with code that looks pretty much like compiled C binaries from the 80s.

Green threads at the language level and so on is a stop-gap in the long-term. Everything has to align together, and then native thread switching will be just as (or almost as) light as green threads.

To be a tad more specific, basically we need hardware+OS to provide us with a model that's pretty close to what the Erlang VM emulates.
> There does not appear to be a way to tell gcc that it can cache the result of compound_head()

Isn't this what __attribute__((pure)) [0] is for?

[0] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Function-Attribute...
You can actually SCP into the device without any modification. It's under the Copyright section of the device. It'll show you the default SSH password for your device and then you can drop files in there. :)
I concur, and I think OP has the answer already. I went to a psychiatrist (diagnosed at age 34) because of significant problems that were getting in the way of life, but if that's not the case for you then there is no justification for the time and expense of treatment.
Not just oil but generally vast natural resources ready to be tapped.
Since you can connect via ssh to the device you should be able to use SCP too, shouldn't you?

I personally prefer to mount the cloud via some fuse-based solution though.
For those that don't read, this is a global population survey, not an American one.

If you're American, surprise - you're much more likely to believe work pays off.

Won't stop the parade of people with unsubstantiated statements about how much society sucks despite the frankly marvelous QoL advances over the past several hundred years.

Also, total sample size is 500. Globally.
Cheap labour?
They keep doing these things that are ostensibly aimed at hurting Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc. But the effect of their actions just entrenches those big players, who have the money and the legal teams and the resources, such that the added regulatory burden widens their moats and suppresses upstart competition.
Fyi... a related 11 minute video from a Hungarian on why Europe doesn't have many big consumer-facing tech startups: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSU5MFPn6Zk
It wouldn't need to be open source. They would make closed-source distro with custom kernel modules and packages.

Just like MacOS.
MacOS does this with “enable Siri” after every update and annoys me to no end.
Suppose SEC doesn't like Tether to be breathing before ETF is approved?

It would be hilarious if Tether took down all investors through ETF and SEC will be painted for irresponsibility.
The whole point of nix is to decrease the chances of being burnt by dependency management. This is why packages don't rely on _just installing packages via pip_.
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>> typical clunky open source software

What?
Because it is crucial in practice, right?
Imported from where?
I spoke to my doctor last year about this, was referred to a therapist, and was diagnosed (I’m a bit younger (32) and like you continue to grow, have a long-term stable marriage, good savings, great life. There were a lot of signs, but primarily I had trouble staying focused even for a few minutes. To have a productive morning and not get derailed, I would need to have an app like Routinery to walk me through what I needed to do step by step before work.

I decided against medication for a few reasons, but to deal with it is a daily exercise. I have to put up guardrails or I can lose hours / day with distracted activity. I find it’s tightly correlated to how much time I spend on technology.

Meditation, prayer, down time from technology (physical news paper and Economist in the mornings) all help to start the day focused. I’m considering re-arranging the house to have a room dedicated to technology and everything else in the house be low-tech, higher quality forms of recreation (books, musical instruments, board games, etc). That will, in theory, allow me to put time boundaries on how often I’m around technology. Another big thing I did was stop drinking. I did an A/B test at the start of 2020 - 2 months not drinking followed by 4 months of drinking, and by June I decided I was done. I still taste different things if my wife has one or I’m making drinks for others, but haven’t had a full drink since last June. NA beers have been great.

Books that helped me: make time, essentialism, digital minimalism, (an extreme but easy read recommended on here) - “better off”

Part of my hesitancy for medicine was that I didn’t want it rooted in self-improvement / optimization. I think there was some burn out mixed in and I was looking for the next step to optimization with medicine. I figured it would be better to fix the system rather than over-optimize for what I was doing. If I can’t naturally deal with it, then maybe I shouldn’t be running that hard.

If I get two-three hours of focus now per day it’s great.

Perfect is the enemy of the good, and I am generally happy and see no need for that much optimization. If it was really impacting my work and life, I’d reconsider medicine.
Definitely pandas care, since they don’t breed while caged.
I guess I am in the minority, but I have never understood this business. You would have to pay me to stay in someone else's house vs a hotel.
As much as I dislike Windows in general, the NT based Windows systems have been very stable for a very long time. I once saw a server running NT 4.0 with 6 years uptime.

I don't know about Vista, but in my experience both XP and 7 have been very stable as long the hardware was reliable and no messy device drivers were in use (which includes AV software).

That being said, Windows 10 did a few things I liked, too.
That's the healthiest take. Severity of any disorder is a function of its effect on the person and the person's social and life function. If these are minimal and minimal, IMO pursuing medication is really not warranted.
What do you mean by "a completely new OS"?

Do you think the kernel needs to be re-written from scratch? Yeah, the current one has issues, but that seems like an unnecessarily large undertaking, and one that is also not likely to produce bug-free code. I'd have thought some kind of testing/fuzzing/formal analysis would be a better approach.

Do you think the Win32/WPF/whatever APIs need to be thrown out and some other way of interacting with the core OS services be put in place (e.g. porting the GTKx.y/Glib API?) with some kind of shim for backwards-compatibility?
Has anyone ever taken action against a university for patent infringement? Seems very unlikely.
I think it's good news, living happily and freely is possible independently of our job occupation. Also if one is first happy and lives a good life then they will do that they really care for and do it good.
Starting conditions (where one was born, levels of wealth and opportunity there, one's parents' education and jobs) are shockingly predictive about an individual's future. Hard work leading to social mobility has always been the exception, not the rule. Most will not beat the odds since if they did, those wouldn't BE the odds. A lot of us are just so deluded by survivorship bias borne of listening only to success stories, but it seems more and more people are seeing through the illusion. In my opinion, that's a good thing, as recognizing the true state of things is the first step to improving them, and this combination of consciousness and lived experience can prove to be potent immunization against bad faith actors who want to maintain the illusion of widespread social mobility.
All of the above.

- Chinese sweatshops

- Chinese "investments" in africa

- Chinese anexation of surrounding territories
> In order to be innovative and compete, we need very flexible working laws, people with a big growth mindset, a less relaxing lifestyle and AMBITIOUS people.

And yet Silicon Valley lies in one of the states with the most employee friendly regulation in the US wrt worker protection, paid overtime etc.: https://s3.amazonaws.com/oxfam-us/www/static/media/files/Bes...
Unfortunately I can see that only benefiting a tiny minority of owners, and even less to go around the workers.
The most alarming thing to me in this report[1] is that a clear majority (> 60%) distrust technology and/or the government's ability to understand and manage it for our safety. That sort of sentiment is what can power through a destructive clamp down on big tech in the U.S. from ill-informed legislators.

[1] https://www.edelman.com/sites/g/files/aatuss191/files/2020-0...
I think the myth is "all disc brakes are always better than all rim brakes". There are definitely reasons it y situations to prefer disc brakes, especially hydraulic, but also reasons to prefer rim brakes.
There's no official solution, but,

It's just linux. It has ssh installed (it tells you the password in the "copyright and licenses" menu, and you can private keys on the device like normal). It connects to wifi. You can write a script that runs on the device and periodically syncs notes somewhere (I have this setup with restic for backups).

Handwriting recognition is done by cloud, and, I mean, unless you want to set up your own software for handwriting recognition (doesn't sound easy) you would need to give up that feature (I have)...
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This.

I switched from 7 to 10 when it was offered. I stayed with 10 for about one year, and I liked it thanks to all the fixes and improvements and despite the occasional quirk.

But after one year, I realized my computer didn't feel like it was mine anymore. I jumped to linux and never went back.
Nothing about these laws is specific to foreign companies. It's specific to data abusing companies and if those come from within Europe they get fined too.
Microsoft knows it's a dead end. It's time to put Pop OS or some other "user friendly" distro on your machines.
A more cynical version. This will go nowhere after the Conservative party in the UK receives a number of large political donations from business leaders who do not work for Apple and Google, but do play golf with them.

The UK wants to show it has teeth post Brexit, but will find out shortly it can't tackle FAANG without broad political support from other countries.
One trend I have noticed is a grass is always greener hiring mentality at a lot of companies. That is, looking external for new hires versus promoting from within. This forces folks to jump around for career progression. And those that are not as willing to jump around feeling discouraged that no matter how hard they work they will likely be overlooked for someone from the outside. To this end hard work is discouraged over networking and willingness to disrupt your life.
There's a lot that WordPerfect got right in document management, esp. for large files, as well as innovations in formatting capabilities and sophistication. Sure, it's not latex, but it nicely captured the space between "desktop publishing" and the dinky small document tools so prevalent before it (primarily Wordstar variants).

Shifts in ownership and strategy (Windows and GUIs in general threw it for a loop) really knocked the wind out of them, but for a time, WP was both the cutting edge and the go-to tool for many writers before the MS Office hegemony arose.
> I see how kids and adults are spoiled here

Where do you live in Europe, and what do you mean exactly?
As others have said, pinch to zoom works now.

Although that only helps to zoom in to one spot, if I were to try using that to read a page where the font is too small, having to shift the page left and right while zoomed, it would be a nightmare to read a document.

My gripe is I cannot switch the device to show a PDF in landscape mode. Then at least pretty much all documents' fonts would be large enough, if I use the height of the device for the width of the PDF. Then I would only have to scroll down and only after reading half a page. That would work well, scrolling left-right-left-right-.... while zoomed in does not, unless the page has two columns of text so that I don't have to scroll right-left-....

I use my RM2 mostly as epub reader. For the price - I got the preorder discount - it was the same or even lower as other pure readers of a similar size.

The software does have some weaknesses, for example sometimes I have to edit the epubs and remove some CSS background color because it ends up black on dark gray (unreadable of course), or it has set defaults for font, line height and such settings and I cannot set new defaults so I end up setting those for each and every document I sync to it anew. Still, it's acceptable for me, it's just a few (now muscle memory) clicks. To sync I sometimes have to start the Windows app to which I added a document a second time before it uploads it to the cloud server. That too now is a muscle-memory action. I hope they fix it some day but it's not a deal breaker.

I did a bit of writing and that just works and feels very good too. Other than the base use cases the software is very barebone. As others have pointed out, that's a goal. The device does everything I expect from it, which is just some basic writing and the epub reading. I can send webpages to the device (while it's online) by clicking an extension icon in the browser, which I do for RoyalRoad chapters, for example. WebToEpub creates epub files for entire Webnovels, which have to be uploaded using the Windows app though.
Do you feel the same way about generic he? It too has a long history.
You had the post-WW2 boom, which then wound down in the 80s/90s but there was a small resurgence of "everyone is getting rich" in the late-90s Dotcom bubble and then finally the run up into the housing bubble.

Since we have fallen back to a more historically traditional model - hard work can advance your life, but you are capped within certain bands by where you start, by and large.

Where you start is regional, family money & upbringing and then finally level/quality/quantity of educational attainment. Of course all 3 of those things are hugely interlinked. And if you start too low it's exceedingly hard to break out. If you start sufficiently high, its very hard to fall down.

The wool has been pulled from GenZs eyes (or was never there, given what they've grown up in) and they see the world for what it has become..
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It's an interesting experiment to ask the average Microsoft Windows user to identify - let's say 5 things - in their current workflows, that they couldn't do in Microsoft Windows XP (or 7, etc - pick the subject's age-appropriate release).

Similarly for versions of Microsoft Office products.
WWDC for me
It wasn't imported in case of China only technically. The rural to urban route was "imported" labor that mostly made city dwellers rich.
Wow that's a lot to unpack... But I'll just leave this here.

> I see how kids and adults are spoiled here

I think what you're seeing is how people are meant to be treated.

Maybe the German software developers don't want to work for a startup sweat shop?
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You can't have a folder structure like in Xp (and 7?). Or decide where stuff should be and in what order. Also MS push crappy game adds there as shortcuts which look like they are allready installed.
Can you blame him? Throughout all my schooling at least, history was always presented as “this is what happened”. Never once in any history class I took was there ever any doubt presented about historic events. It was never “well, a lot of evidence shows that this probably happened for that reason, but theres also potential that it might have happened for this other reason.”

I’m sure real actual historians in universities have these sort of discussions, but history class as it’s used in schooling is pure propaganda.
Just working hard was never a guarantee of anything, but when is it ever a bad idea to adopt a positive mindset about putting in the work to achieve something? It's not like that DOESN'T work? You can get pretty far if you put your mind to it.
As someone who has found ADHD medication to be hugely beneficial, I completely agree with you. Treatment has its tradeoffs. In general, stimulants greatly improve my quality of life. But at the same time, they can wreck my appetite and make me prone to anxiety and irritability. And dealing with the bureaucracy of scheduled medications is a serious headache. If someone is happy with their life and their symptoms aren't negatively impacting them, then what's the point?
> “The informed public – wealthier, more educated, and frequent consumers of news – remain far more trusting of every institution than the mass population.

> “In a majority of markets, less than half of the mass population trust their institutions to do what is right.

> Trust levels among the informed public in Australia were at 68 per cent, far higher than the 45 per cent recorded among the mass population.

I wonder what the meaning of "informed" is in this context? Someone who keeps abreast of "the facts" from consuming the news?
It's helped me understand the pros and cons of an ADHD diagnosis, it good to know that you're not alone in a sea of neurotypical people. It's helpful to understand ADHD and share your learning with people who are close to you. For me and it seems like you as well, the challenge hasn't been with work and life in general but more with relationships with people closest to me - read up on RSD. It's also fun to understand all those coping mechanisms you've developed over the years. Use it as an opportunity to learn and explore.
Do any of those use this Gooey framework?
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