skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The exodus of tech talent and lack of startup creation in Italy has worried investors

From my experience I can tell that most people here don't want to waste time in a startup with its high risk factor, and it's even more worrying if you come from a college environment where you expect that _Let's do this, I don't care_ kind of attitude. The majority of new grads prefer a secure (and most of the time underpaid) position to pay the bills at the end of the month. It's saddening to see but a lot of my friends, super smart ones included, just opt for low level companies that will never make them grow and will give them the minimum amount of money to make a living (that's what they tell me) while in pretty much the rest of UE they will pay 3x that amount.

I think the mentality in Italy is totally different, I know only one person that would have jumped in the startup world at the time and quickly got discouraged because he didn't know how to get funded (probably not the first thing I would consider if I think I have a great idea). The rest of my colleagues wouldn't even want to listen to startup ideas.

Also, I think we Italians don't have the market for new tech related startup, our population is very old and they don't really care about new stuff/services coming out as you would expect, launching in the US would be a totally different story.

It's a multi variable problem, the lack of ideas is just the tip of the iceberg. It's not that there is a startup creation problem, it's that the few people that want to try out the startup world are smart enough to do it elsewhere where higher chances of success lie.

And don't get me started on the bureaucracy part, I'm not well informed on that because I'm pretty sure it would just waste my time.
Thanks for telling us. Do you know if Kipnis characterization of the backlash Jackson suffered is correct? "All hell broke loose on social media. ... The university swiftly announced that an ad hoc committee would be convened to investigate. Its members found Jackson guilty of bullying the grad-student editor into publishing views he disagreed with, and the journal guilty of editorial mismanagement (although, Jackson said, the editorial practices followed were the same as they’d always been). Jackson was removed from the journal, and its funding was cut." Some writers have a way of magnifying things. 3-4 people complaining is enough for "all hell broke loose" according to some.
I'm a software developer by trade, but for the last 2 years I've been studying with the focus of becoming an organisation director / coach with the ultimate goal of a consultant in the next few years.

So I need to learn a whole range of tools to be decent in such a position - facilitation, psychology, therapy techniques (not therapy though!), communication, public speaking (which I hate). Few people in software have these skillsets so I'm trying to attack a niche and hopefully make a decent living off it in the future.

I agree with what you say regarding releasing all the other stuff. Two things happened to me:

1) I started a family. Now I don't have the luxury of spending my evenings procrastinating on youtube and half-reading books. I have hard constraints of time and energy and need to be very deliberate with my time.

2) Focus on everything = Focus on nothing. I am the breadwinner in my family and want the best environment for them to flourish. This means earning a decent amount in a job I (hopefully) enjoy that have potential to grow in the future. If I don't focus on 1-2 key areas in my life everyday, I see they do not improve nor progress.

Prior to having a family, I knew and understood the points above. But the constraints and responsibilities now means I no longer have the luxury of waiting around to get to it tomorrow.
Not looking for success, if I were I wouldn't still be packing boxes. Just trying to be more constructive and exploring various ways to make that happen.
What is Redi?
Why not read the reasoning once?

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseFor...
I'm really wondering if being on Sourceforge is being a deterrent to developer attraction or not.
One thing to keep in mind is that eyesight is a continuum between better than 20/20 to completely blind like you.

That means that without going the only-the-perfect-survive route, there are always going to be issues with how the world operates. For any given human problem, it's probably rare that it's optimized for even half the population.

Doesn't help you, being on the extreme of the eyesight problem, but the fact that we need to accommodate blind people also helps a bunch for people with vision issues and (commonly imperfect) correction.

So while you can consider yourself to be in the small percentage of completely blind people, you can also consider yourself to be in the majority of people with vision issues. Should we have avoided all of them in this world?

And that's wherein lies the issue with eugenics or any sort of artifical selection of our descendants: where is that line?

And just judging by this single comment, you are at least capable of eloquent, reasonable discussion, which is probably untrue for at least half the population.
One problem that the Weimar Republic suffered from is that there were too many small parties. Absorbing them is easy if you are the trump of the 30s and are willing to use violence behind the scenes to intimidate anyone who opposes you. Also, it helps to have connections with people who hate democracy in important political positions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_political_parties
man - the amount of headphones I go through, there's no way this is worth it! $1,500 a pair!!

What if there was a way to get the perfect fit (ie just a piece of rugged rubber) and then be able to attach any old headphones to that?

It would be the best of both worlds, much cheaper, more resilient.
> "video does not requires you to concentrate"

My English is not enough eloquent yet, so I share my anecdotal evidence. Some sentences in books is not understandable if reading only once, and we usually do not go to next one if the previous has been not understood. It is OK to read a sentence 5 times and to read another 2 places in previous parts of a book in order to understand that sentence. Going to a special place from previous parts of lecture might be a pain because of needness to re-listen some extra materials.

While watching video it is too easy to skip that hard sentences especially if professor is too charismatic to let us feel the needness to stop his lecture for a moment in order to think. And it is too hard to re-listen only the part is needed for re-listening, like when you can not parse one word (0.5 seconds long), so you press backwards and you realize that you need to relisten extra 4.5 seconds each re-reading.

That circumstances leads us to just keep listening while the pyramid of non-understanding actually grows on.
Or it might be just a typical American. in Europe they are rare, but over in the states or on airports you are constantly small-talked about nothing. And then you can easily torpedo this small talk by actually being honest. that's what they are not used to at all.
Interestingly, there used to be an option to block domains: https://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/02/block-domains-from...

I currently recommend Kagi.com, it can block but also pin selected domains at the top of the results list.
Is that the game that had this in its soundtrack? https://youtu.be/fuYL-keoGvU

I still listen to it on occasion. Don’t even remember how I found that song because I’ve never played that game, I don’t think.
1. Have an exit plan

SSRI can be life changing for some people, in a very positive way. But definitely not for everyone or at the first time. Have a plan with your doc on what to do if things get worse, and if needed on how to stop taking the meds in a safe way.

2. Schedule a follow up

Maybe 1 month after you start taking the medication schedule a follow up to review the meds. You may need to change a couple of times before you have the right ones. Have a doctor who understand and agrees with this plan. Then schedule a follow up something like 6 months later and so on regularly maybe yearly if everything goes well. Don't see it as a one off thing. Psychiatric meds are often hit and miss.

3. Don't rely solely on meds

There are many interventions that help with depression, including psychotherapy, mindfulness, and lifestyle changes. All this should be considered for the success of the therapy. Meds at their best will help you with the change.

Also if you feel a tight stomach, after ruling out organic illness, you may consider massage therapy to help you with anxiety. Learning massage therapy actually helped me a lot.
From a user perspective the high level problem would be merged directories. Which dpkg apparently already supports. Just not the way the committee wants it done.

> deciding to drive development of the package manager

Which is the hilarious part: No one seems to be working on it. The package maintainer for dpkg isn't required to it as long as he accepts reasonable patches, but only half finished patches (that identify themselves as such) are coming in when the reported issues are not outright ignored. Seems liked Debian suffers from the same issue every open source projects suffers from: A bunch of lazy and entitled as fuck users insisting on features without putting any effort in themselves.
Had children too?
I got the 9600XT for Half-Life 2 which was kinda silly in the end since HL2 took so long to come out that I could have gotten a newer card. However I believe it also came with a copy of Counter-Strike Source Beta which I enjoyed greatly. My card had tiny LED's on it that prevented me from sleeping with my computer on. Great times.
> But no author captures the sense of euphoria like Kerouac.

In that book only.
Edit Wikipedia. It will improve your writing ability and get your writing to a broad audience. It's the easiest way to get your content checked if you don't do this for a living or in an educational institution.
Apple patched critical flaws in macOS Monterey but not in Big Sur nor Catalina
The late Derek Parfit explores numerous answers to these questions in his paper “Why Anything? Why This?”[1]. It’s hard to give a quick summary of the paper, but basically a lot of different views are considered—theism, atheism, brute fact view, etc.—and in the end Parfit seems to suggest that the existence of the universe would be somehow non-coincidental if one appeals to simplicity in ruling out or deciding between competing explanations.

[1] https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Why-Anything-Why-This-...
Design Systems Aren't Cheap
You could checkout the polihub incubator/accelerator in Milan, most of the startup they fund are hardware/mechanics related.
No unstable, just regular release. Same story with ubuntu and friends. Ironically I've had better experience with rolling release distros.
More virtue-signalling corporate dick-headery
OP here. I wondered about this too, it's a possibility...
The Dutch city testing the future of urban life
> serif fonts

Can't understand why websites choose serif fonts. I find long passages of text a chore to read when the font is serif. They're less readable than sans-serif, as the little feet on every letter adds up to unnecessary visual clutter.

And when rendered as white text on a black page, with compacted line spacing, the contrasty serif fonts won't be inviting to the reader.
I don’t regret any of the relationships I’ve been in. They’ve all made me into the person I am now, and I’m sure that at the time, starting and ending them made the most sense to me.
I think I didn't understand the point the article is trying to make. Finns are more open to NATO than before, but joining is a long way off? Was that what it was saying?
CPU frequencies didn't go up much in the last 20 years
I don't know the difference, but I'm not sure why it's surreal. I mean, the whole point of what they did in the wake of World War 2 was to try to prevent World War 3 (since Hitler's rise was largely dependent on the punishment inflicted on Germans for WWI). And they did that by building up the Japanese and German economies. And during the cold war, the former Nazi scientists were crucial for helping to build up the U.S. space program. Operation Paperclip was an initiative that recruited 1,600+ former Nazi scientists and engineers for that effort: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
I think parent poster is actually only partially blind
> We use a lot of camel case but please remember it's Smalltalk (instead of SmallTalk).

Thanks, correction registered :-)

I agree about preferences-war, I generally tell my preference not to start flame but to give something for a positive discussion, witch means "how many in a community prefer $this more than $that and why" but less about the "similarity" with a natural language: in nature we use words as tags, so "objects" are natural, message passing is "natural" in the sense of collaboration between humans, but not really in the OOP sense. Also Smalltalk syntax to me does not look much similar to natural language.

The most similar language I found so far is Python, imperative programming is not so effective but is easier than functional for newcomers and it's syntax is very easy to read, IMVHO that's the reason of it's popularity especially compared with very similar (in targets) languages like Perl or Ruby.

Lisp is easy once you have learned a bit, and probably that's one part of why is not much popular, the rest, in common with Smalltalk is that both are designed for user programming, while "modern industry" want to lock users depriving them of any possible freedom and free usage of a desktop. In the past that was the IBM doctrine, thereafter the GAFAM doctrine: they all born out of Xerox tech, small part of it, wrapped in ways that put a product, a service at the center instead of the human. It's not only about liquefying intelligence but a mean to make hard doing certain things.

A stupid example: we have Wikidata, SPARQL is not that a great and digestible language but it's there, why the hell it's not normal just for a middle-school simple research query Wikidata form "a buffer" (in the Emacs sense of that) and see results in various forms we can manipulate to plot graphs etc at a level easy enough for a middle-school small student research? That's because IMVHO making easy doing so means users have power in their own hand, they can move not only in pre-defined and controllable paths but independently.

Why aggregators vs personal aggregators with RSS+Xerox style scoring? Again because aggregators might satisfy users demand BUT matching them to their hoster desire, for instance silencing or discrediting some news and enlarging others (try to see the recent polemics about Meta vs TikTok PR campaign) while a personal one can't be tweaked from remote so users might find their own path with their own ideas and tools.

Why "internet banking website" instead of a common standard API (like EU OpenBank, but open for all) with a desktop client? With it, users can have their transactions digitally-signed on their own desktop, having multiple banks and banking services in the same place, with the same UI etc without we have surveillance on crappy banking websites, crappy authentication, nothing in our hands etc.

All those things have a common ground: modern/classic software development is compartmentalized with any human layer religiously separated from the others, ancient programming languages are designed for a coherent unique environment without barriers.
Investing might be an area where you can profit from being the way you are.

I am very similar, having read way over 1k books in the last ten years or so, on a perversely wide array of subjects. I’ve also done everything from tinkering with Arduinos all the way to marriage counseling. But I quickly get bored and move on to the next field.

An early disciple of CG Jung, Marie Louise von Franz, wrote that the life of our personality type looks like a never ending track of fields sown but never reaped.

But while you may never stay long enough on a field to reap its fruit, what you do reap is a very interconnected, multidisciplinary way of understanding the world, which comes to you not so much in the form of explicit knowledge but in the form of a very special “intuition”.

That isn’t to say that you are infallible. In fact, you should always be careful to question that intuition and to try to make as much of it as possible explicit, even just to yourself. But if you do that, you have a good chance of being quite successful with a Peter Thiel style of investing.

Just always keep in mind your three biggest enemies: The mimetic reflex of wanting to follow the herd and get approval from others. The seductive illusion of superiority or infallibility. And the general tendency of wanting to be right, and of fooling yourself.
Why did you trust them from the beginning? Serious question.
2 questions:

If I don’t want to pay $1500, but want a custom earbud set for the office including a mic, are there any options?

Are these 3D printed or do they made a single mold for your set?
travisgriggs doIt.
> a small icon with the three flags

this does not address the main problem that flags do not correspond to languages. German is spoken in more than "the three" countries, and in these countries there are more languages than German. Thus, using flags is insensitive and alienating to German speakers from other countries (e.g., Belgium), and non-German speakers from these three countries (e.g., Lugano).

And this is just for German! The situation is even more complicated for nearly all other languages in the world. Please, never use flags of states to identify languages. I have been on the receiving end of this unnecessarily offensive thing, and it did not feel nice.
Seems like you have a tool (an intellect), and you're looking for something to use it for. Kind of like "has hammer, looking for nails".

Furthermore, you seem to dismiss advanced degrees as well as science, so it seems you attention is fleeting. Did you consider if maybe you have ADD?

Anyway, "intellectual pursuits" in itself is nothing to build a life on, especially if you have children. At some point, it may help to leave the "search" mode and instead try to figure out what your fundamental values are. If you know what you value, you are in a much better position to set up a life path to maximize that.

If taking care of a familiy is not pretty high on your list of meaningful activities, starting a familiy may be a bad idea.
I think you would enjoy the Wolfram Physics Project. They've been able to get quantum mechanical behavior to emerge from some very simple mathematics. It's also not the type of mathematics that is traditionally used to describe quantum mechanics, which is more descriptive and mysterious than emergent.

I don't really know if ultimately there's any "there" there, and Wolfram is pretty widely regarded as a bit of a blowhard, but take a look and let the work speak for itself.

https://www.wolframphysics.org/
> Gwern's website is a good example of minimalist design

Eh, disagree. hypertele-Xii's website gets out of my way when I'm reading, and that's key. Gwern's website litters the body of the post with all kinds of stuff that the average reader won't use.
Much of product development is about having a Product Owner, much like a BDFL, who makes the calls when a call needs to be made.
"Just like jQuery dominated the front end yesterday, React dominates it today. There will be something new that dominates it tomorrow. Your design system team will continue doing the same work and incurring more and more costs to keep up with framework churn. And let’s not forget the cost of updating tomorrow’s legacy apps, who are consumers of your soon to be legacy design system."
Correct. Legally blind, meaning, for example, that I can't drive, but with enough sight to read text up close if it's large enough. Edit to add: I do increasingly depend on a screen reader, though not yet for my actual programming work.

ETA 2: Sorry for the confusion in the original comment. I've become wary of terms like "visually impaired", because they wreak of over-sensitivity and political correctness. But there's also something to be said for accurately and clearly communicating the actual condition.
If you define majority as 50%+1, and minority as 50%-1, almost all democracies in the world have the minority in the power (unless they get 100% turn out rate with all votes contributing to parliamentary seats). Winning 60% of votes with a turn out of 70% voters is only 42% of the population.
I personnaly did not like the book and found enjoying Scott Alexander's review quite a lot : https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/02/book-review-on-the-roa...
You could start your own business, perhaps. All of a sudden your day job will have constant suprises needing your diverse knowledge.
Norway’s Skiing Soldiers Deprived the Nazis of Atomic Bomb
Thanks for the advice/encouragement, it's appreciated.

This got a lot more responses than I anticipated but by and large they have been very informative, supportive and I'm very grateful for everyone that has shared their journey.
Smaller chips, bigger packages, even bigger headaches (2021)
> what are some problems companies in Europe would have to deal with? What liberties are exclusive to the US?

1. Market

US: a rather unified single English-speaking market of 300 million people.

EU: 27 different markets in the EU + half a dozen markets in countries freely associated with the EU (e.g. Norway and Switzerland) in different languages, cultures and expectations

2. Money

US: unlimited unchecked runaway money. All the "unicorns" we keep hearing about can easily lose hundreds of millions and even billions dollars a year for decades, and still considered a success

EU: less money, and you are expected to actually turn a profit at some point
I wrote a post about it
https://muhammadraza.me/2021/Oneliners/

But I’m constantly finding new ones
Nice to see that yesplan is still around.
First of all I think Eugenics would/will quickly lead to something akin to runaway selection: people will make increasingly absurd decisions mainly driven by status markers / perceptual drift and the human race will breed itself into some mad corner. So I don't believe Eugenics is ever going to do what even its most ardent supporters imagine.

Second of all the human race does not have some over-arching goals we need to meet like a business. It is or should be like a club run for the benefit of the members: let's create good conditions for people. We can tolerate a bit of complexity and diversity.
I just looked through my emails, in 2008 I bought an "Ultra DIMM 2 GB DDR2-667 Kit" :D
> Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, all within the very recent history, plus countless more US-backed color revolutions - including the one in your very own country, which realistically is the very reason for the current state of affairs in there.

Oh God! You and your conspiracy theories are annoying. If the U.S. is so powerful, why hasn't it organized a color revolution in Russia or at least in Serbia, maybe in pro-Russian Hungary? I was at both revolutions in Ukraine and I know why they arose, they were supported by the Ukrainian people, self-organized. And it's been like that all through our history. You don't know shit about the political situation in Ukraine and its history, but you think you have it all figured out. I'm sure you don't even know your own history. So don't talk bullshit!
I find cover art very useful (especially for young kids).
The first two pages took up my whole screen, and for a second I thought I had achieved enlightenment. Alas, ink appears page 3.
For SPID I'm also trapped in some loop where I can't get it easily from abroad, and I still don't understand why.
What does Jobs have to do with software.