skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TeXmacs (https://www.texmacs.org/), which is a document preparation system, may be taken into consideration as a word processor too; its main editing mode is WYSIWYG and its operation by default can be menu-driven.
> I went through a whole grieving process when I realized how much easier I could've had it all along.

I was diagnosed six months ago and I have absolutely been going through the this same process. At one point I cleaned up a bunch of old boxes (some of which I'd been meaning to unpack for over a decade... yes the meds help!) and came across a folder of my old school reports. Reading through them and seeing the lifelong pattern of struggle with focus and attention that I'd just thought was normal, and that didn't have to have been that hard... I cried, a lot.
my handwriting is also terrible yet this is so incredibly better than notetaking on computer as soon as you have graphs, e.g. here's my current page: https://imgur.com/a/D0m4okF
Ah, sure. I didn't mean it as criticism, just to say it's possible with the right wifi chipset.
All the survey said is people have a dim 5-yr outlook. You are reading deeper than that.
We were the tech team at a European consumer credit bureau. We could not find any technology that could handle our scale of data with the required speed, efficiency and cost. So we spent the last three years developing a new entity resolution technology that we call TiloDB.

We think TiloDB has lots of potential outside this credit bureau, so hope to release the technology as open source software in the near future.

We would welcome your comments, thoughts or potential use cases. In the article you will find a description of the technical challenge we faced and how we solved it. There is also an interactive demo so you can play with the entity resolution yourself, and see the livestream of data submitted by other people.
The latest update includes the ability to open password protected PDF's https://blog.remarkable.com/software-update-2-7-small-steps-...

Might be worth taking a look again
>That is the normal social mobility we should expect in a democratic society

That might be what we expect from a perfectly egalitarian society, but expecting any free, democratic society to come even close to perfect egalitarianism is completely delusional.
Another example of reinterpreted payroll costs. Different payment scheme but still paying some other people to be money supply for a business(equity).
There are equivalents (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsabilit%C3%A9_limit%C3%A... - in French) but country-specific, there's no a European common structure.

But another benefit from LLCs in the USA might be the lighter paperwork and simpler taxes filing.

Which we also have (in France at least, as entrepreneur individuel), but both don't intersect.
American here. Lived the first 30 years of my life in the States, the next 20 in France/UK and have worked (temporarily at least) in most major European cities.

I think you are on to something with you last point. One long-standing joke about Americans is that within 5 minutes of meeting them you'll know more about their bank account, hopes/fears/dreams, and their lower colon than you'll ever know about your best European friend in a lifetime.

I'm not judging. We (Americans) are simply open about lots of personal details to everyone. We're a bit like the golden labs of humankind. If someone will listen, we're happy to talk about anything.

Europeans on the other hand (this is another BIG generalisation) are definitely much more private especially when it comes to health. I've been in the UK for quite a while now and I struggle to even learn the names of my neighbours two doors down. Good luck borrowing a cup of sugar around here. In the states I actually let someone use my shower! I knew him from passing in the hallway and he had a job interview in an hour but lost his keys.

Anyhow...I digress. #4 is my choice. Access to good healthcare is NOT a cause. But I don't want to go there and start a discussion on the pros/cons of socialised medicine. It always ends in shouting. :D
Late 30’s diagnosis for ADHD, who went to school to fly in college. Here’s my hot take:

Being barred from a pilots license is a good thing.

I look back on that time, and I’m shocked I didn’t crash the damned aircraft. I couldn’t focus when landing (executive focus disfunction), I would freak out randomly (emotional disregulation), and I gave at least one of my instructors several grey hairs when landing.

When you’re a pilot, you can’t afford to not be paying attention.
To be honest I find it more interesting to know why people thought this in the first place to begin with, any pointers?
Stimulants do have an anti-depressant quality in a similar sense to SNRIs. They stimulate release of extracellular neural serotonin and norepinephrine (SNRIs block reuptake of serotonin and norepinephrine. Before the accidental discovery of the first front-line antidepressants in the 50s, they were prescribed for depression.

However, for the reasons you mentioned, they aren’t very good antidepressants. It’s easy to mistake the early euphoria of amphetamine for reduction in depression. Without careful management, it’s easier to become tolerant or even addicted to amphetamine.
Concerning the deterioration in social mobility, in France, this book from 2005 opened my eyes "Generation 69, les trentenaires ne vous disent pas merci".

In France "generation 69" are the boomers, to simplify. Therefore a rough translation of the title would be: "Boomers, the 30 something don't thank you".

It passes, in a humorous way, through all problems which later will be more and more magnified.

https://www.michalon.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&...
Ok I gave up too early then. Ah well I didn’t have patience.
When I had a Remarkable, I installed KOReader on it. It transforms the e-book experience from "really poor" to "really power user".
I’ve been on a low dose of Ritalin for a few months now and it’s been life changing. I was self medicating with a lot of caffeine (which definitely wasn’t good for me) and I couldn’t really choose when my brain would kick in. Sometimes it’d be at like 9 pm and I’d just work till 2am. Not great for someone trying to have a normal sleep schedule. Medication has helped me add some scheduling to my brain. I take a small dose in the morning and another in the afternoon; I feel focused the entire day, and I’m tired when I come home. I’ve been on a good sleep schedule for quite some time now, my caffeine consumption lowered a good bit, and I do feel happier. Maybe it’s the meds, maybe it’s a side effect of feeling like I can actually be a performant human during work hours. Either way, I’ll take it.
I think it’s worth at least exploring medication. I did a blind trial with my doctor to see how it affected me and that made me feel a bit more confident that this was a good route.
Michael Jordan Had a “Love for the Game Clause” in His Contract
Yea, that was my take too. So much hindsight bais.

- If I read Enron's financials instead of the news, I'd have gotten rich.

- If I ignored Hertz's financials AND ignored the news, I'd have gotten rich.

Author focuses on cases where the media hype ended up being wrong, but what about all the cases where the media was right?
In the US they are the market leader in both profit and volume [0].

[0] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-sta...
This is a social class that still hasn’t quite realized the bubble they’re in.
>>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...

Every time I make this argument on HN I'm met with two responses

1) I worked my ass off when I was young to get to where I am, why should we make this easy for anybody, it will just create a lazy society

2) why should MY money go towards helping anyone else

Both are really hard to argue against no matter how much statistical data you pull out showing that improving equality of opportunity improves the society overall, because both are very emotional arguments. People feel that way and it's hard to change.

PS - the "funniest" response I had to this was someone saying that US has "perfect" equality because literally anyone from any walk of life can become rich or a president. Yeah he acknowledged that some people have it much harder than others, but it doesn't matter because at the end of the day anyone can get rich so everything else is irrelevant.
Swiss don't
If apple was forced to allow competition in browser engines on iOS and wanted to keep some market share for Safari, then they would have to compete fairly with Chrome.

So maybe they would start investing some real money in Safari's development and add the features everyone is using Chrome for? Maybe they'd also develop Android and Windows versions of Safari, like a normal browser trying to get market share would do?
Same here, also in UK, but exclusively with Tesco - the whole thing runs like clockwork!

Back at the start, I used to get all sorts of bizarre substitutions, but now I can't even remember the last time I got anything random.

My only real beef is that the grocery pickers don't always pick the best perishable items - for example, sometimes I'll get herbs that are already starting to rot, or ginger with mould on it. It's rare enough that it's not a big issue, especially given the benefit of not having to spend time doing the shopping in person.

Oh, my other beef, with Tesco specifically is how CRAP and primitive their website is. It's so embarrassingly slow - every.single.action takes multiple seconds to complete. Thankfully the Android app is much better, and very recently they have finally started to improve the UX a bit.
Anybody who receives public funding should be forced to license their patents under FRAND terms.
The UK is an outlier because though they had a far more robust and diverse economy they threw everything into finance and have just burned any bridges back.

That's not really true.

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn06...

The financial services sector only contributes around 7% of total UK economic output.
What is a good tip amount? If they make decent money, would they be offended by a low tip?
Since when does "a better life" and "social mobility" mean the same thing?

Does hard work make you rich? Does it guarantee you a specific source of income? There are plenty of examples against those propositions.

Does hard work help provide for you and your loved ones? The world is complicated, but there are many jobs that pay fine and mostly ask you to reliably show up and pitch in. So generally, hard work is a good bet.

I don't know why folks expect to see billionaire janitors before they believe hard work is wise.
7-Year-Old Polkit Flaw Lets Unprivileged Linux Users Gain Root Access
I think that as e-ink gets better and better refresh rates, that having it as a grayscale monitor for things like textbooks/markup and browsing the web will make sense. Having an e-ink tablet to browse HN, check email and read the morning paper sounds pretty nice. I used to get the NYTimes delivered to my Kindle each morning.
I am not speaking about indies, rather traditional businesses.

As for bug reports, well https://twitter.com/bgolus/status/1080213166116597760
"They caught him and emptied his backpack, pulling out three incriminating items: a knife, one of the woman’s earrings, and a set of keys to the apartment."
> I have never seen a government or any regulation deliver anything "good and compelling", or take any other action to "make sure" someone else delivers it.

* US Digital Service

* 18F

* Pubmed
The pre-AirBnB version is called an Apartment Hotel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartment_hotel
Stupid Google spying on Amazon's customers when that's Amazon's job and gold mine.
Amusing how so many comments here equate "better life" with "monetary wealth".

If your roof has a hole in it, it will take hard work to fix that hole; but your life will get better once you have. The same but moreso if you have no roof at all to begin with.

I don't think "hard work for others benefit" was specified in the questions, it's just assumed as part of the context, probably more in my USA context than in other cultures with less unicorn fart in their air.
thanks for giving me some word for what i felt. it has definitely been a grieving process.
There's a genetic component - as there is for Openness, which is higher on the West than the East Coast of the US.

So, maybe ADHD types were the first to leave Europe for the Americas?
The upgrade from Leopard to Snow Leopard on a plastic MacBook just made everything better. Things were faster, smoother, and you could run more things at the same time without killing the machine. It was the perfect OS. Then when Lion came around, it was the exact opposite, it felt terribly buggy, and made everything clunky and worse. At least that's my memory of these OS updates.

Makes me wonder whether this alternate major release cycle was a good idea. If you delay all feature development for a year, you'll get a barrage of features once the performance-only OS version is out the door, and there's not enough time to do all of them properly, so you get buggy and slow versions.

Maybe doing performance improvements and feature development at the same time would have been the better choice? How is it being done at Apple nowadays?
I had a fridge of meat go bad. Triple bagged it then tipped them $60 (maximal divvy potential) for dealing with it. Just tape an envelope to the can with a little note, they'll figure it out.
If you lived on a desert island by yourself, the only thing you would get is what you get by hard work. Your life would be better very directly by your work.

If you had another person on the island, you could share and exchange, and if you both of you worked, you'd both be better off.

By induction, adding more people can result in more people being better off, especially when you add specialization, etc.

Where that breaks down is when others start using force to take your/others stuff. Then you don't see the product of your labors, since someone else is stealing it.

Exploiting colonies fits that, so does the modern warfare/welfare state, the late Roman empire, and communism/socialism. _Anywhere_ that force is used to "reallocate" the products of someone's labour, the people start to get the feeling that working more won't get them ahead, because someone else will take what they produce.
Every consumer of cotton in the first half of the 19th century was a beneficiary of slavery. That's why serious abolitionists eschewed cotton. An unflinching economic analysis shows that the value of the labor stolen was distributed (not necessarily evenly) between plantation owners, textile manufacturers and consumers.
Massively.
Like getting the first of many tremendous insights into how I interact with this reality.
@dang rule violation
Have you tried it? Prices have shot up, but back in the day, you could get a whole small house with a kitchen, laundry room, and multiple bedrooms, nicely appointed and clean for less than a three or four star hotel room.

It was a pretty great value proposition. Still some bargains to be had, but much less so now.
Thank you, I will certainly look into this.
For some it's not a caricature. For me is how my life looks like without meds. But yeah, ADHD is probably a spectrum.
You're asking for measurements to something not measurable.

I can't relate to you my experiences or the experiences of others I've known or just observed (I'm a keen observer) without just giving you anecdotes.

I could counter and ask you to measurably prove that people are not looked down upon for coming from a lower station, but I think we'd have some trouble with that as well. (Christians* are some of the worst for it—coming from one who grew up "in the church")

* Thought I should asterisk that so we don't go down a discussion about what makes a "true" christian. It's a broad scope and label of convenience. It's not meant to slander anyone practicing their religion. It's most certainly not isolated to Christians. Most of the encounters I've had are with people who tend to believe themselves somehow more... esoterically enlightened. It doesn't even make them bad people—just filled with hubris.
>>Did you really name your company OpenCV? As in.. Open Computer Vision, which you know is an incredibly well-known brand for a 20-year old library, likely fundamental to most the libraries you're now trying to commission for in your market?

This looks deliberate because the Chief Scientist & President, Gary Bradski[1], created the OpenCV library that you refer to.[2]

[1] https://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/3270

[2] https://www.opencv.ai/#About-us
> n 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.

Maybe aspirational, but it's not reasonable to expect this.

More educated parents both earn more money and educate their children more (and not per se due to their higher earnings).

It's hard to compensate for that.
Or going back a bit further, the mail.
Beneficial to whom?
A lot of this is just a reversion to the mean. For most of history the opportunity to advance your station was basically nonexistent. We're starting to see that pattern return where a variety of institutions(including naked oppression and conquest) created briefly a place where some categories of people could get a head in a dynamic society.

All of this has happened before and all of it will happen again.
Ah, well, that's fair. Egg on my face.
You realize that humanity is several hundred thousand years old, and most of that was brutal slavery, of the strong imposing their will on the weak, of kings and chieftains using their gangs to take from the rest?

If you think American slavery was unique, you need to get your money back for you education. The Romans had a special tool to knock out the teeth of slaves so they could be better abused sexually. The N. African kingdoms castrated their slaves so that they would be more docile. There are a plethora of horror stories from history, because that was the norm. Just like it is in the norm in nature for the strong to take from the weak.

What we have today is a brief moment of respite, but it sure looks like a hell of a lot of people want to regress to the mean.
For me main use case is reading research articles annotate on it and sync it with my desktop and share it with my colleagues. Ideally I wanted a bibliography library tool like mendeley or zotero and keep all my annotations and notes synced. But that is far from possible on any e-ink tablet so far I have tried.
How is it a straw-man? Impossible or not, it means what it means.
Although the EU is a marketplace of 27 countries, it is not a digitally homogeneous marketplace. Adoption and acceptance of digital tools varies by country. Language is also important - the tech giants localise their apps and tools. But many software companies in larger European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain etc) concentrate on their home country first before they focus on international reach. That makes sense. In smaller countries, where the software market is also smaller, software companies have a more international outlook.

I am struggling to think of European success stories in the traditional desktop app space - apps that have international reach and name recognition. I can only think of a handful desktop apps:

- Sketch (Netherlands)

- Affinity Photo/Designer/Publisher (UK)

- Cinema4D (Germany)

Who else enjoys international success for their desktop apps? What about SaaS?

The apps above specialise in a particluar field (design and 3D animation), but missing are any apps in the "office productivity" category which seem completely dominated by tech giants like Microsoft and Google.

Note: I purposely did not mention SAP because no-one looks to SAP as a source of inspiration. Their enterprise apps are expensive and clunky.
Its very hard. Even if you build an EU Facebook that is awesome, how do you make users switch? All the data is in the old Facebook. Not just your profile: groups, pages, marketplace etc etc
Do you feel the same moral indignation about crimes committed in hotels?

Yes. Sorry, I would share stats about Airbnb crimes with you but the company keeps most secret by paying people off.

Second, if you want Airbnb compared to hotels, then the firm should be paying all applicable hotel/rental taxes and following all respective hotel regulations, but they don't because Airbnb markets itself as a "platform".

A trivial issue is I don't know of a hotel in New York that would have the key exchange be at a bodega.
It all lies on a spectrum. No one likes doing something dull but with ADD it can become so intense as to be debilitating. You always procrastinate to the last second on everything, sometimes far past the last second. Left untreated you attain a reputation as a lazy flake and it affects your work, your relationships, etc.
I just looked at graphics, but that's comparing minimum wage against various goods, isn't it?
So it would be interesting to see the comparison between median wage and rent, etc.
From the data, however, it looks like income inequality expanded quite a bit.
Yes, generic he can be used in the singular as well.
It's less true now than it was a few years ago, but it's often a cheaper option.
Vista was a good OS. It’s just when it came out there was a huge lack of drivers. So everyone got upset. When 7 came out with less DRM, all the drivers were available at this point. And vista was solid.
> I take offence at such massive overgeneralizations as "Europe lacks imagination."

Why then did Airbus put their VC arm [1] right slap-bang in the middle of Silicon Valley?

Note. In this case, its Europe bringing/managing the capital - they are choosing - all by themselves - where to find the talent.

[1] https://airbusventures.vc/
Yes, and no. Yes, because people do get bored. No, because with ADHD, you can’t even force yourself to focus despite the boredom. Bribes, identification of potential consequences, punishment - none of these work.
I am really curious what new wave UNIX is supposed to be.
I have noticed an increase in negative attitudes toward work, hard work, and generally the idea that one should sacrifice time/pleasure/etc. to reach a goal.

I blame it on finance, crypto, and social media. When you can see millions of people casually get rich simply by holding an asset, the narrative of “working hard pays off” gets buried.
You're right that telling somebody they are screwed wouldn't help. What would help is figuring out the factors that actually lead to success. I'm guessing things like education, good healthcare, financial literacy, access to capital, role models, etc... all matter.

Work on programs to make sure these basic things are available to everybody. Start mentorship and apprenticeship programs early. Work for a strong social safety net so that people don't have to worry if they start a business and it fails, they won't be homeless or without healthcare.

So don't teach hopelessness. Instead recognize the failures and fix them.