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This looks like a way to enforce social governance by secondary means. e.g. "company X, you must adopt these policies or we will use these esoteric things you can't reason about to use litigation to isolate you from investors and major customers."

It is utterly pernicious, especially because they are apparently collecting bundles of low quality patents that are primarily a source of legal uncertainty that they can leverage politically via legal channels. Whether patent aggregators like this are the intent of IP regulation is dubious, and this organization seems like an arbitrage play against a convention to not be an anti-social PoS.

The two factors that could make this a storm are that a) schools are very likely not bound by anti-competitive regulations that would prevent them colluding to create a provisional militant lawfare body to engage in threatening other organizations, and b) the architecture of the patent system does not anticipate someone aggregating patents based on their weakness and uncertainty to weild as a political weapon.

Maybe this is uncharitable, but as someone who remembers the total nonsense vortex that was SCO the first time around, and in security I have watched the various efforts to establish influence over FOSS via crypto backdoors and other means, this effort looks like a macro-strategic play to seize the means of production.
I think both are important. There is a question of what we do to prevent any successful medium-sized European business becoming a small part of some huge US business. But there is also a question of how our entire entrepreneurial sector got so broken on this side of the Atlantic that such a huge imbalance arose in the first place. If we don't address the issues that caused that to happen once, surely it will tend to happen again sooner or later.
About the same here. ADD was being said instead of ADHD.

I learned to recognise the signs. I think just being aware of something going on your mind is enough to cure.

ADD/ADHD, I don't see it as a decease, more as a gift. Take the good things and learn to recognise the bad.

I always worried why I would have amazing productive hours and then sometimes days of inproductivity. Now I now (and everyone around me) that I'm best when in these 2 states. It took a lot of mental stress away by just accepting instead of trying to change.

It was also very important to let my surroundings know how my clock ticks. Really high highs and sometimes pretty long lows. In the end I get the job done and thats what matters.
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>> If you've got shitty social mobility

>> You might want your children to think social mobility is possible if they work hard enough

I'd definitely want my children to work hard, understand how the world works, but I also don't want them to spin their wheels for 25yrs only to realize their car was on a jack and not going anywhere.

There are glass ceilings in certain countries and especially in certain industries. Recognizing that is important IMHO. I hope we break all such glass ceilings, but one has to recognize they are present, recognize the odds, and then make a decision to give away large parts of your time to attempt to do that.
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m68k is the equivalent of those, it's late 70s/early80s, with speeds in the low MHz range (e.g. 7.67 MHz for the version in Sega Genesis) - but I haven't seen claims of FHE having that high of a performance (e.g. sum or filter a million numbers in a second as low MHz allows you to do) but only something an order of magnitude or two slower (e.g. 13ms/core for a bit operation might be treated as comparable to a 0.077 MHz microcomputer; you can parallelize over cores but that computer parallelized over bits), so we're talking about much more than a 40-year regression of performance, as it's slower than the first 1970s microcomputers which themselves were slower than the 1960s minicomputers, so perhaps the 1950s early transistor computers?
if they have reported anything incorrect, point it out.

quit indulging in ad hominem arguments.
People like to say ads are useless, and then talk about how they listen to others’ recommendations and blogs and videos, conveniently ignoring that they’re also ads.
Your comments sound like something an angsty teen would say.
> After all this is a political issue.

It's really not. Hard work does lead to a better life. It's fulfilling in its own right, at least for me. That's why I go to the gym and push myself regularly. If I loaf around all day, I don't feel well. I find meaning and satisfaction from being productive or putting in effort. It's not only societal but biological.

Things are harder for some people, sure. But for children, the bar is so low in the US that a minimal amount of effort could put you on the right track. My experience was basically that showing up and doing what you're supposed to do puts you above 50% of your peers. Consider Hoboken High School. 12% of students are math proficient. NJ is 42, while the graduation rate is 90%. The bar is very low.

[0] https://www.publicschoolreview.com/hoboken-high-school-profi...
Related: FDA Approves Video Game Based on UCSF Brain Research as ADHD Therapy ... > https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417841/fda-approves-video-...
My local supermarket (Shoprite) charges just $5 to order online and pick it up yourself. The only issue, which is better now, was that during the height of the pandemic you had to book your pickup time a week or two in advance.
The biggest problem I have with semver is that we don't have good enough tooling to reject minor or patch version bumps when major version bumps are actually warranted. I'm not sure it's possible to have that thorough of analysis in general.

Semver is handy for understanding what the maintainer meant to do. I guess in a lot of circumstances that's not nothing.
At the very least they're going to be doing payroll taxes.
Generally it's not you making the decision but some investor who needs to close out a 10y fund and can force the sale through some nasty term in the SHA.

In a unicorn situation, the founder will generally take money off the table early and will be okay regardless. Just look at WeWork.
I wanted to see their Stratus era code.
How about high income through athletics or modeling? Should any two children be equally likely to make it professionally?
> If Europe wants to have its citizens (and companies) rely significantly on European-operated software, it has no choice but to develop better software, and to also offer that for free

It already does. Look at the very large number of open source projects (like Linux) that originated or received substantial contributions from continental European volunteers.

What Europe doesn't have is a strong VC infrastructure or a large density of software engineers in any given location to simplify growth scaling.

Some of these are changing. Whether they will change fast enough to compete in software is another story, but it's very likely that Europe will be better positioned to take advantage of the next tech revolution. You can already see this in biotech.
> How much social mobility we talking? ([...] only talking about the US)

My college US history course ~20 years ago very much drove home the fact that (at least at the time) social mobility in the US was the same as in India. The surprise, of course, was that India has a caste system, while the US narrative is freedom; if you work hard, you’ll get ahead.

I don’t remember the sources, but the rate of social mobility (up and down) we learned in class was ~20%, as defined by ending up in a different quintile than one was born in, meaning put people into 5 categories according to socioeconomic status, and see whether they ever change categories, for example going from middle class to upper middle class.

Wikipedia says that overall average social mobility in the US hasn’t changed since then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socioeconomic_mobility_in_the_...
You tell them the truth: the people in power do not want you to grow out of poverty, and you must work to convince them (through democratic means) to let you have a chance.
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GP's phrasing is wrong but there is a point there - it is much easier to achieve success and then regulate and distribute its benefits than to go the other way round.

I am not a fan of unbridled capitalism a la the USA and fully agree that more countries should strive to reach European levels of worker and civil rights... however, there is validity to the statement that Europe is currently coasting along on the spoils of centuries of loot and plunder. A lavish, comfortable lifestyle was handed to the citizens of western europe and many of their older firms have struggled to innovate as technology has spread across the globe. There is a good reason why a fast moving industry like tech has taken root in the US while Europe as a whole is playing catch up.

The US will solve its problems, i have full faith in that country's ability to rise to the challenge as they have done numerous times in the past. Europe's problems with tech innovation run deep and go beyond simply vacation days and worker rights. Look no further than the current spree of tech regulation. I wish more countries did that but there is a fundamental problem - the EU is trying to legislate without having a good alternative.

My prediction - If the US resolves its immigration system and allows more talent to flow in without having to worry about a visa, European skilled immigration is toast.
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> 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. That is the normal social mobility we should expect in a democratic society with no class structure. We are so laughably far off from this everywhere in the world...

That’s only if you assume there isn’t a generic component to traits that influence (broadly defined) success. But of course that’s not true.

We should expect Bill Gates to be much more intelligent, conscientious, and to have much better impulse control than typical people living in a trailer park. Ditto for many other traits. Therefore it’s much more likely that his children posses these traits compared to children born in trailer parks.
I disagree that no one is going to commercialize anything without exclusive rights. Most things that are commercialized are done so without exclusive rights. We don't see restaurants patent new dishes, yet they create new dishes nonetheless. Most web startups don't have exclusive rights to their ideas. Drugs in the public domain still get produced and sold.
This was posted to HN a week or two ago: https://github.com/vkbo/novelWriter

I haven't tried it, but it looks interesting. At least, I like the idea of basing it on a custom version of Markdown.
I don't know about the bankruptcy laws, but Germany's GMBH (similar to an LLC) requires 25k in capital to get started.
Prob my health. Because I get out less as a result.
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It's a comparison, but I wouldn't say a better one. You can't just rent a fraction of a property without sharing it with someone else, so the comparison is "What does it cost to get a place of your own in 1968 vs today?" and the answer is you either rent today's bigger but more expensive property, or don't - even if you could afford a 1968 property today.
MDMA and LSD are marginalized? Everyone I've ever known has either tried them or knows someone who has. Psilocybin even more so. That was practically a rite of passage growing up in rural Canada.
> It makes my shoulders ache, just watching them

??

Are they not using wheelie bins with trucks that do the lifting? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUA_gB5SuPc
These have been the norm in West Europe for easily a decade plus.
Universities should get some financial credit for inventions arising from their studies. But there might be instances where important science should be undertaken even if it offers no medium term opportunity for commercial reward.

E.g. studying sea urchin skeleton formation could provide insights into blood vessel growth in humans, but which co would pay someone to study sea urchins in the first place? Or mole rats - in the course of studying the creatures, scientists realised that they are age-defying - but which co would pay for the initial few decades of mole rat research that led to this realisation?

Commercial gain is only a problem if it becomes the tail that wags the dog of science, narrowing its scope for the pursuit of short term profit.

If universities are going to collaborate in research, then allowing multiple universities to benefit from patents arising from joint research makes sense, else patents would raise a competitive bar between scientists which would be counter-productive.
>Boggles my mind why they'd ever let someone like that be a cop.

Of all the jobs available, how many people really want a job that is historically known for low pay, long hours, and on more than occassionally requested to put your life on the line? How long did you personally contemplate that as an option? Of all of the people left that didn't say hellznah, fill the positions you have open on your police force. Policing is like politics in this one manner: those who want/seek the job, tend to be those that should never have the job.
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Thank you! I do agree that, researching, I see that there are things that have been nagging me for years, but not enough to really need a fix. I work in technical and creative capacities, so I don't to dull an edge with medication.
A lot of things that are social “musts” today were “wants” 30 years ago. Smart phones, unlimited data, eating out 3-4 times a week, Uber Eats delivery. None of this is necessary in order to survive, but not indulging is seen as odd or socially awkward.
NSF funding has a different purpose than SBIR funding.

If we're paying for it under the justification of "Science is good for the country" then it should enter in the public domain.

If we're paying for it because "We want to invest in small businesses" then it should be the property of the business.

Programs will need to choose to apply for the kind of grant that makes sense for what they're doing.
What a load of nonsense! There's plenty wrong with EU research funding, but I think you are missing the mark completely.

> Add to that a large volume of EU funded "projects" which are just alternative names for transferring money to professors and other administration

Sure. And then the professors hire PhD students and postdocs to do the nitty gritty research, using that money. That's pretty much how grant money works – EU or no EU. It's far from perfect, but not specific to the EU.

> So everyone wants to work on a EU project, as they will get a lot of money for very little (if any) work.

I mean, they're a giant source for research funding, so of course. I have never experienced them being "little work" though! The oversight seems comparable to that of other grants.

> The money has to be spent on equipment etc

That's not true. In my field, almost all of it is spent on brains (and their attached life support systems), typically in the form of PhD students and postdocs.

> but usually that equipment (IT hardware/software, specialised equipment, vehicles, whatever) just ends up in the private hands

Citation needed! The universities I've worked at have had very strict rules about what happens to things like specialized equipment bought on grant money. They definitely do not just end up in private hands – it would be a scandal where I've worked. (IT hardware sometimes, because the depreciation on commodity compute hardware is often so significant that it's just not worth the hassle).

> Professors stopped teaching long ago, they just consider it a nuisance while making extremely good money with those projects, a lot of free time and high salaries.

The professors I've worked with all had pretty intense teaching loads, and essentially zero free time (in fact, to paraphrase a recent email from a tenured full professor I used to work with: "I finally took a Saturday off, so I didn't have time to look at what you wrote yet, but I will tomorrow"). The more senior ones have had decent salaries indeed, but that's typically after a decade of living on scraps, and often (but, granted, not always) with skills that industry would reward massively.
ADHD is a disease/difference of executive function-- how your internal world interfaces with your external world. It totally makes sense that you had a tough go of it when you experienced major life changes.
One hypothesis is that, in the country where you live, there is more stigma around ADHD in adults and it is more frequently ignored or dismissed.

It is an easy condition to ignore —- adults with ADHD are frequently not very “hyperactive” because even if they were as children, they’ve learned to modulate that behavior through experience.

The traits of inattentive-only ADHD are often written off as laziness when in reality that person is experiencing executive dysfunction that makes prioritization of tasks difficult. A common feature of ADHD is to be frequently paralyzed by indecision.

It’s not uncommon for those first diagnosed as adults to be completely blindsided by the disorder.
Besides we could only expect it in a society of clones. Genes matter.
I was diagnosed last year, the change in my life has been nothing short of profound.

I recall the computer based testing before and after the short-term dose of Ritalin. The graph of my body movement and failure rate - I became normal. I could do the task and it wasn't hell under Methlyphenidate. I was relaxed.

On the downside - the change in my behaviour and my ability to be more independent with administration etc. caused my partner and I to separate. My change was too much for her. It makes me sad, however I was an utter pain-in-the-ass for her the way I was. My invoicing and personal accounts were always such a mess, but now I can do these things myself. I'm next-level organised compared to how I was before.

My core work as a strategist / developer has also improved remarkably. I don't rush in and make stupid moves so much these days - and I find myself taking the time to understand things I never had the patience to understand.

In short, I feel like I've been living my life on hard-level my entire life. At 45 everything changed. It's just a shame I wasn't diagnosed earlier, but I didn't believe ADHD was actually a valid disorder.
Learned helplessness is the bigger factor. You get beat down so many times that it seems pointless to think further ahead than the next paycheck.
That sounds like me! 10x productivity, sometimes so profoundly bored I'm a blank slate.
If this is the sense in which the comment is intended - CUE is capable of some kinds of computation. It's just not Turing complete.

My 2c - thus far, i've found the language features enabled by this constraint much more useful than the expressiveness lost - at least, for the purposes i've chosen.
> Mandate that every API version that introduces breaking changes remains available for X years.

This is the kind of insane regulation that holds Europe back - it’s the problem not the solution.
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> You seem to believe that in your face conservative white evangelical Protestants are the only Christians. This speaks more to your own biases than society’s.

I grew up Catholic, went to Catholic school, "Hail Mary, full of grace, the lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus", etc but carry on.

> Every poll of Americans and religions shows Christianity as by far the most popular choice.

More popular choice of what? Music? Films? Television?

> There is simply no way to square your idea that nonreligious is the default when over 70% of Americans identify as Christian.

Sure there is. The simplest conceivable explanation is that Hollywood doesn't represent a cross-section of the United States; that Hollywood skews more secular, and that those biases are what get represented in film. I suspect it's a bit more complex than that; I think the fact that the upper classes in general skew secular has a fair bit to do with it (not only the people who create the content, but also the people for whom the content is created). However, that's harder for me to defend.

> As for representation, I have no way verifying this, but I suspect there are more Roman Catholic characters in American film and television than conservative white evangelicals Protestants. If for no other reason than mass, iconography, and religious tchotchkes photography well. Hell, Catholics have the entire horror genre on lock. WEPs have what? Footloose?

I don't doubt this. I'm really not sure why you're framing this as a Catholic vs Protestant thing. I get the feeling you think I'm using "Christian" to mean "white evangelical protestant", but for the life of me I can't figure out why.
That might explain why in america more people in tech are diagnosed with ADHD, but would provide evidence against fewer people in europe being diagnosed with ADHD than in america (which is what the poster is asking about) since they have more access to healthcare, and it's not income dependent.

To answer the OP's question, I seem to recall that people with ADHD are more prone to be entrepreneurial (I believe a higher appetite for risk is the general explanation). Here is an article [0].

This would explain things if the people you know in tech happen to work for tech startups.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/dalearcher/2014/05/14/adhd-the-...
The Cue integrated Kubernetes project I'm most excited about is KubeVela[0]. Effectively, you can create an "operator" for just the YAML bits to narrow your Kubernetes API and provide best practices via the Components and Trait overrides, and it should allow platform teams to standardize how their teams are deploying software on large Kubernetes installations.

[0] https://kubevela.io/
First: less guilt (especially important as I had a Catholic upbringing). Before I believed that I am failing at being an adult, and that my parents were right that I am too messy, chaotic, etc.

Second, getting help. I got the most from HowToADHD YouTube Channel, the "Driven to Distraction" book, and conversations with friends having ADHD and working in tech (some other life situations are no that relevant).

Third, started taking Modafinil. It helps me a lot!
Erm… a lot of the “pushing the boundaries” of technology happens at the foundries in South Asia, and equipment providers in the Netherlands.
I would think "starting conditions" includes the parents one has. Also what you say is not quite logic - you're saying that valuing education means people succeed. So why didn't the parents succeed then?

I think that's the question, and usually that's because they were born in the wrong place, at the wrong time or under the wrong regime. When their kids are born, it's a different perhaps better time, so better starting conditions, and they now have a chance to succeed. The anomaly is corrected.

But those are anomalies, it's exceptional. I think the issue is when you take two people born in the same town, at the same time, and both work equally hard, except one has the parents to give them a head start in everything and the other doesn't. Maybe one will eventually make an average salary in a local company, while the other will have his own company.
Don't forget the fact that standard PCs are very well-documented too. Instead of teaching on proprietary barely-documented systems, choose one that has decades of documentation and a huge software/hardware ecosystem.