skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much of what you describe(including comorbid depression and anxiety) is typical of people with ADHD. There are many other potential causes so please talk with a professional for diagnosis rather than assuming.
Ironically, when I finished reading this article, I found myself skeptical to subscribe to Snowden's mailing list when presented with a prompt to do so at the bottom of the article. I didn't want to be put on some list. Aware of this after the article, I'm subscribing anyway. :)
I've been a proponent of STAR for some time, but today I'm happy to learn about 321. It sounds even easier to explain and implement than STAR (though approval is likely the method with the least friction using existing equipment).

I really don't see the appeal of IRV, other than momentum. It's harder to implement. It's not really intuitive why you have to rank them. (I belive) it has higher chance of screwing up ballots (e.g. Forgot to rank a candidate). And I don't like how it forces you to split hairs on two equally liked candidates. Minimizing mental friction is important when we struggle to get high voter turnout as-is.

I think 321 most closely matches the political climate in America. People tend to like a candidate, hate them, or "eh, they're fine."

Also, not totally sure (maybe someone can chime in), but I think 321 is "stateless" or "commutative" in that the counts of Goods, Oks, and Bads are independent. With any runoff methods, each ballot has a "state", because after a knockout, you need to apply the runoff votes based on other information on that ballot. This makes it hard to compose ballots, e.g. for our goofy ass electoral college system. With 321, (I think) you can decompose each "channel" total for each candidate, and aggregate them at a higher level.
Therapy, changing teams and vacations?
There are about 74 million children in the US and about 450K of them are in foster care and at least as many more have been moved to relatives by CPS (grandparents, aunts/uncles, older siblings etc.)

So well over 1% maybe as high as 2% ... not an extraordinarily small minority.
Grip strength is another easily-measured physical metric where there is practically no overlap between the bell curve for male and female humans.

The applicability of higher grip strength to success in climbing is obvious, I hope.
I struggle with this too. It is common.

It's not a magic solution, but considering you work at a FAANG you have sufficient $$$/insurance to pursue therapy/coaching.

Don't misunderstand. Just finding a good therapist/coach is work. You will probably have to "try" a few and they're not cheap. And then once you find a good fit the real work begins.

But, it can be a great investment. Think about it this way. Sounds like you are in your 20s or 30s. You have potentially 30+ years of employment left at $150K+ per year. That is potentially 4 or 5 million dollars, maybe more. So, when considering the costs of coaching/therapy, weigh it against this amount.

Remember that million-dollar athletes and even college and high school athletes have all kinds of coaches to help them perform. Why should YOU not deserve it?

(Side note: why don't companies invest in coaching for their expensive engineers? Considering the high cost of recruiting and retaining engineers, this seems like it would be a great competitive advantage...)

Whether you try coaching, therapy, or some other completely different route I wish you luck. Please know that you are not alone.
People say this

Yet in over a decade of owning iPhones & iPads ... never seen it once
My daily driver is a ThinkPad Carbon X1. It has half-height arrow keys and PgUp/PgDn in the free corners (see [1] for a photo). Home/end are in a place where they are unreachable without looking (top row, right of F12).

I remapped:
- PgUp is Home, PgDown is End
- Top-right keys on the keyboard are PgUp/PgDn because I use them all the time and can easily place my fingers there without taking eyes off the display. In this case this means that Ins -> PgUp and Del -> PgDn.
- PrScr (which for some reason Lenovo decided to place between right Alt and right Ctrl) is now Del. Nearby and easy to reach (blindly).
- Old Home/End now serve as Ins/PrScr because these are rarely used.

Now, if only I could find some custom keycaps somewhere. :)

[1] https://manofmany.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/ThinkPad-Tr...
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Why will software jobs be outsourced? What will change?
It still is, but you no longer get educated at school ;)
Exactly my point. If substance the is banned, why even ask the question?
Yep. Bitcoin value is nothing more than a collective illusion. I especially like the marketing aimed at rubes who think "proof of work" means value creation in the same way as ore mining. Its an elaborate scam without parallel in history. When its over and the illusion disappears, people will still value gold but will delete their wallets.
Your scenario requires a lot of people to give up their personal freedoms and happiness for the good of whichever individuals' lives would be improved by their sacrifice. Let's add in that all men not married by the age of 21 should be castrated. It's for the good of society right?
> while also chronically underfunding schools

Schools are not underfunded in the U.S., they waste money. Big difference.
My first reaction to those reviews was that they read pretty disrespectfully. Writing a book is extremely challenging and some of the feedback is not appropriate for a page that's associated with a standards body.

Then I wondered, "If these are the resources to avoid, where do these people recommend I find the good information?"

Alas, those links are mostly broken.

As a long time programmer recently learning C, I've been surprised by how prickly and unhelpful C culture tends to be.

The concensus seems to be that no published information is good enough, and none of the critics are willing to publish the good information.

Maybe I just haven't found the right groups?
"Pleasure is never settled. Indeed, pleasure itself suggests a process, a fluidity, a striving. Pleasure once attained, whether bodily or intellectual, tends not to last. It is pleasing to kick your opponent’s ass at chess; it is pleasing to have finished working out – but, like the great majority of pleasures, these quickly fade, then to be sought after again. It is the seeking – the pursuit – of pleasure that usually matters more than the nature of pleasure itself. Behaviour, always tinged with ethical value, is more shaped by the seeking and maintenance of pleasure than anything else."

The fact that pleasure is fleeting is why both Plato and Aristotle reject pleasure as that-which-man-is-made-for (to use Scholastic language, man's final end, his telos). People pursue pleasure because they think ... it will make them happy. People reject the world and become hermits because they think it will make them happy. People become tyrants, become artists, become saints, because they think it will make them happy. Happiness is not sought for any other reason.

But that kicks the can down the road. What is happiness, this thing which is sought for its own sake by all mankind equally?

That, detective, is the right question.

Program terminated.
The author says that lots of measures were taken not to wake people up in the middle of the night, but that despite those efforts 3 people were. Wouldn't the most obvious method have been not to dial numbers at night local time?
How would unions fight outsourcing? Wouldn't that expedite it if anything?
>Apple push their own product multiple times a week

I call bs - unless you've invited the notifications

I've never gotten such a notification in over a decade of running iOS
You have to ask if the majority of 'educated' people actually do things of value. Perhaps we should simply follow a Lysenkoist approach of simply handing out a diploma to one and all.

Forgive me for the old man moment, but I was just musing about how little my life has changed since the 1970s. Noticeable differences: TVs have more pixels, airliners look the same but are slower, you can order manufactured goods from your house without using the mail system, improvements in medicine where they can see what they are doing (surgery),these kids music it's all noise. Digital music and arguing on a communications network have been around since the 1980s.

After all the fuss and fury, it's really all on the margin. You have to wonder what all these newly minted degree holders actually do. The growth of the FIRE industry is one answer.
After the politically inevitable taxes on short-haul flights are brought in, it may not be. As Hebert Stein said (on a different subject): if it can't go on forever it will stop.

Railways also benefit from considerable cost economies of scale, similar to the post office, the internet and of course...short haul flights. I wonder what the cost of flying will be when passenger seat miles drop by a factor of 5-10.
Google Photos is so 2020–welcome to the world of self-hosted photo management
Do you love programming? Do you like your work culture and colleagues? Is it possible you are overworked as in burnout?

There have been many discussions here recently about taking time off to rediscover your passion or just plain satisfaction. Going back over the decade, there were discussions here around people switching careers entirely (wood working, ski pro, ...)
Yes! Forbid procreation, import people from overpopulated countries!
It's the weponized AI, it takes away the power of will!
> On the contrary, that's a terrifying amount of political clout and power to steer discourse.

This one reminds me of the old joke about Jews controlling the media. One jewish man asks another why he's reading all those tabloids that are full of antisemitic lies. The othere one replies that no matter how bad things are in real life, the newspapers always make him feel great because according to them the Jews control the banks, the media, the world governments and everything else.

I'm full of jokes today.
What does this even mean? What in-group jargon is this?
In the old days, I had made a UI for SPARQL. Even adapted it to Wikidata.
But in the end, so few people cared about it that I abandonned it. (it still works fine, anyway).

http://datao.net/datao.net.png
Start by talking with someone. To me it sounds like there may be some emotions at the root of how you are relating with work. Potentially some official diagnosis as well, but no one here can tell you that. You could have a range of treatment options ranging from talking it out to meds. There are a lot of things that could help.
The teamsters just want their dues, they see Amazon as a big fat cash cow waiting to be milked. They’re not even going the vote route and now just flat out threatening Amazon “force your employees to pay our dues or something may start happening to your deliveries”.
What about intersex females or women with androgen sensitivity? They are XX but might still get "the advantage of growing up with testosterone". Or women who have testosterone insensitivity and an XY chromosome pair (ie, are in all factors but their sex chromosomes female)?
FYI, Software Collections makes the installation of newer PHP etc. easy and clean (i.e., doesn't interfere with the base system) on EL7.

(In EL8 this is done by modules, so no need for a separate SCLO repo. The upstream term for this is Application Streams).
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Most painful is that the idea was [1] that the web would be extended with the ability to create your own custom elements so that we would no longer have to wait on web standards to evolve.

In practice, it's still hardly practical to use those, yet "regular" HTML has hardly evolved either.

[1] https://extensiblewebmanifesto.org/
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Have you considered switching to product management? And, if you haven't already, developing some hobbies/active social life outside of work?
Controlling education is a political life source for the Democratic party in the U.S. One of the largest, if not the largest, unions is the teacher's and they are a major donor to the Democratic party.

Thankfully, the one good thing about the shutdowns has been the ability for parents to observe a couple things:

* how little the school system cares about the child

* the indoctrination and political ideas being passed to children

There are a number of states that have passed a "school choice" this year and its a rapidly growing movement. The idea is primarily to tie the funding money to the child rather than to the land. It generally means that if you move your child from school A to B, without school choice, school B wouldn't receive the money because it was bound to A.

Heres an article from Reason talking about West Virginia passing the school choice:

https://reason.com/2021/03/23/school-choice-is-coming-to-uni...
I absolutely hate the web dev community. Any HTML or JS related question was answered by "just use jquery" for maybe a decade.
mensa pythia?
> while also chronically underfunding schools.

The myths that workers with three months of paid vacation a year tell the rest of us.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted.. your analogy is a closer one than that of depression analogy
> In college I started getting inferiority complex.

> I never feel secured or that they have my back

3 good things: (1) your biggest problem is yourself (which means it’s in your control, possible to change), (2) you’re at least partially aware of that, and (3) you’re obviously good enough to get hired at FAANG so probably not actually “below average”.

Of course, changing your mindset is hard… the first step is knowing it’s possible. The second step is, trying out all the well-known techniques (meditation, equanimity, gratitude, working out, abundance mentality, …) and seeing what works.
Crypto is 'rat poison', a third of mainstream investment firms tell JPM
> It's simple: born as a man? Sport like a man. Born as a women? Sport like women.

Well, except for people born as women who take testosterone, then.
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What I am trying to say is that, after Wuhan lockdown, we have European health minister saying it is a hygiene problem and American politicians say it is a flu, and media painted the lockdown to be unnecessary and human rights crisis, is something I didn't understand. Wuhan lockdown is not a secret operation.

Anyway, I think the world should take a different view on lock down now. I would imagine technology in next 10 years would enable average person to launch bio attack in any city, and we need to have a way to deal with it better than 2020.
Move to a much smaller company where you will be valued more.
Respectfully, I disagree. Sort of. You can't solve the environment issue in therapy but it can help you develop different actions you can take and ways to cope with the situation.
I live in Houston and I think this is cool. Trains might be over for the US just because of how we built the country around the interstate system (we're the only country who has one) and so trains don't really work well for passengers here.

There are two cool things about this project: First, it's the only new rail proposal I know of that actually goes between two cities people want to travel between. The Houston-Dallas corridor sees millions of drivers a year (Houston has almost 8M population by itself). This won't be a train station in the middle of nowhere like CA has built.

Second, it's an actual high speed train with world class stats, not a second-rate train that we designed from scratch. One problem with American rail has always been NIH syndrome. We've been averse to using foreign-made locomotives or hiring someone who knows what they're doing (like SNCF) from another country. The investors in the Texas project insisted that it use Japanese hardware. Of course, the investors' being Japanese had a lot to do with it, but the net effect is that this project doesn't have to figure out the train part of the equation and we'll get a much better train than Brightline or other recent attempts in the US.

On the downside, the Houston station is in a strange place so actually taking the train requires going somewhat out of the way, but the trade-off of not having to drive (Highway 45 is famous for terrible accidents daily and shootings quite regularly) could make this one a winner.
One of the big added value of Wikidata imho is that each Wikidata page mention the identifiers for the same item in several other datasets (OSM, wikipedia, geonames, etc).
Given the fact that SPARQL allows cross-DB queries, Wikipedia becomes an interesting federation dataset.
Thank you :)

Hopefully my choice of VCS wont hinder the user, git mirror being the compromise.
> Is education no longer “a great equalizer of the conditions of men,” ... but instead a great divider?

The article is very "feet on the earth", it reviews existing data and arguments, and generally advocates for a "no" as an answer to that question.

But what if education were a great divider? What if--like wealth--the education gap were self-reinforcing, even across generations?

To the well-educated, that seems far-fetched, but it's easy to find examples across the world where some people choose to believe or live according to X, which results in less emphasis put into "modern" education, which in turn makes it easier to keep believing in X, and so on.

On the other side, learning skills A, B and C may require a considerable investment in time and money. Right now is not that bad, but just imagine for a moment that ten or fifteen years of education were needed for job K, which pays three orders of magnitude more than the jobs that people who live according to X have access to.

Still, death would seem the perfect equalizer (not education), except if expensive life-extension is added to the mix...
In many sports, there’s selection for the level one competes at. You won’t see Messi play in third division football, for example, or me being offered a job by a top team. Top athletes want the challenge/fame/money of competing with better players.

In other sports, there’s a rating system that effectively places people with competitors at their level (ELO in chess, tennis rankings)

Either would work in any sport, except for the fact that huge classes of people wouldn’t ever be represented at top level. Prime examples are women and people with disabilities.

In para-athletics, they try to solve that with an elaborate classification system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Para-athletics_classification)

Problem is that training can sometimes move you between categories. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T42_(classification) has “impaired muscle power or impaired range of movement” as criteria. Those can get better with training.

For women, it seems easier, but even ignoring transgenders, there’s various genetic rarities such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/46,XX/46,XY that can put women at an advantage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foekje_Dillema) that we may or may not choose to call unfair (we don’t think it’s unfair for men over six feet to compete in basketball, though, even though that’s largely genetic)
The big drawback with Plover-type stenography is that it requires a massive base dictionary for the language it's going to be used with. That's a big up-front investment unless you're lucky and someone has already done the work.

In Europe, stenography usually works on a slightly different orthographic principle, meaning you still chord words, but generally you're explicit about each character. That makes it much more flexible in terms of new languages.

I'm still waiting for a solid, free QWERTY implementation of that. I started working on one[1] a while ago but I just can't find the time to get it done and maintain it.

If anyone would pay me competitively to work on anything I wanted, this would be it. Hugely important for marginalised groups in society, seems like it could be very convenient for regular people too.

[1]: https://github.com/kqr/qweyboard/
No, UBI plus current progressive taxes is basically identical to the negative income tax idea. You might want to adjust levels or whatever but that's not strictly necessary.

Some people, mostly people who don't like the idea of UBI seem to think you can't tax it back again and everyone needs to always get X extra every year on top of what they would have before. I'm not sure if they dislike UBI because they think that, or think that because they dislike UBI.
Sure. I can agree with that. The point being that, with the current schooling infrastructure, the amount of money needed to do what needs to be done isn't there.
Last I checked mix-n-match was using CSV, while this is okay, it still would be nicer to have direct RDF ingestion. And yes, I realize the reason why Wikidata does not have it, but it is not impossible to provide, just really difficult. I would work on it if I had more time and would likely sometime in the future.
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My dad worked in DC three days every week (so that's two nights he wasn't home) and still managed to teach me and my siblings math (we were home schooled) and find time for fun with us. I don't want to sound harsh but being away for short periods of time isn't an excuse for bad parenting.
There are quite a few apps that can do this. Nobo comes to mind.

They just don’t feel that useful. For complex work, typing on a keyboard and using a cursor at the same time is much more productive.

(this comment typed one-handed using the iPhone’s swipe keyboard)
In a lot of European countries, a robust social safety net is the great equalizer. You don't get locked up to work in order to afford healthcare, food, etc. - and are thus more free to take chances.

Furthermore, strong labor laws have compressed salaries towards the mean, so people are not locking themselves into poverty by working low-wage / low-skill work, but there's a difference enough that people are incentivized to get educated. I think it's a decent harmony - compared to other countries, where you have a poor working class and rich/wealthy middle/upper middle class.

I think that if education is the only ticket to a better life, then you get stuck with the problem that not all educated people are equal, and only certain educated people get to climb socioeconomic classes (too many schools, too many graduates, i.e inflation)
I've had similar problems. Turns out my vitamin B12 and D levels were extremely low. Found out from a blood test. I get B12 shots now and take vitamin D daily. You might want to go to your doctor and get that checked up on.
Are you hinting at the Overton Window? It's notoriously small in the US.
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I love what you said here about the money side. Investment in your mental is so worth it and if you have the money, it's definitely worth considering.

Edit: It's worth it always regardless of money I should say. But if you have the means, you definitely should.
Yup, from what I can tell the US has one of the highest per student spending amounts for primary and secondary schools.