skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's healthy or normal to feel uncomfortable without a
communications device. It's a sign of dependency. One should be able
to put it out of mind and focus on deep tasks, leisure, interpersonal
commitments and general real-life living without a neurotic impulse to
check and inhabit a digital world.

I don't have a smartphone (prefer a landline but keep an old Nokia
around too), so my life is more organised around emails and desktop
based communication. I recognised back in the 90s that it used to take
me hours to "decompress" from tech immersion. I would ruminate on what
messages I might be missing, and think through communications in my
mind in a quite obsessive way.

That was over 20 years ago. These days I'll go for a couple of days
without thinking about the internet. I can happily live without a
phone for a week or more no worries, and frequently do.

It's a long journey and there are constant pressures and temptations
to over-use again. I wrote a book about coping with that.

It probably sounds as if I'm talking like a cognitive behavioural
therapist. That's because I truly believe that smartphone use is fully
congruent with addictive behaviours - not just for a few people, as
was common thinking a few years ago, but for everybody, and as
mounting scientific evidence supports there are numerous genuine harms
both individual and societal [1]. In 2022 I no longer feel alone or
unusual in this regard, because I see the world is waking up to it.

The question then is how we raise awareness of this emerging threat to
mental wellbeing, and how we deal with it. Mobile technology certainly
has its uses, but we must balance that with social/technological
structures that give people ample space to control their own
technology, make space and abstain from it as desired. A truly
advanced technological society would meet this need. At present the
gushing convergence on smartphones as "necessary" panacea is
pathological in the extreme, and I am sure, simply fuelled by the
profits of the tech industry rather than any underlying "need".
Technology is becoming what is being _done_ to us.

[1] No I won't. Please have the good manners to Google for yourself
(or go back through my many well refernced posts here).
In theory, perhaps. But first consider whether the company gains value from workers sharing a time zone, language, cultural context, etc., all of which push against replacing employees with "cheaper" ones from abroad.

In many ways the ideal remote first company manages to address and eliminate these constraints (eg. by adopting async communication channels) to truly enable employees to come from and work from anywhere, but this is definitely not particularly common. For that matter, many of the companies that have embraced remote first principles tend to offer salaries that aren't adjusted to local COL, so an offshore worker isn't necessarily cheaper, unless you're comparing to the very highest COL labor markets.

So, if you're a fully remote SWE employee who lives in Manhattan or the SF Bay Area, working for a company that has embraced Remote First and making it work, and drawing a salary appropriate to those places, then you might be replaced with someone "cheaper" from elsewhere in the US or even globally, but I wouldn't lose sleep over it unless you think you're bad at your job.
It's not the same experiece as maximising on Windows. AFAIK, Zoom expands the window to match the content size, and many apps seem to not think you need the full screen.

The only way to replicate the Windows behaviour of truly maximising is to use third-party tools like Rectangle.
Kinda but observable is more because the notebooks cells reactively recompute. And it's written in javascript and ran in a browser so you have the languages proper development tooling integrated (e.g. chrome Dev tools). And you can easily share it as its the web.
If they do, you’ll see government requests for backdoors into them, and maybe Musk fights, maybe he doesn’t. But given that all cellular providers, Meta, Apple, and Google are all playing nice with law enforcement on wiretaps, I see no reason that Twitter would be any different, ultimately. The only safe encryption is one you control, and is not centralized to some giant corp.
Unless you go to somewhere with bad roads, a van might be better option for most tradesman. Unless you need to move something really bulky.

I'm European, but the whole use case for trucks seem overstated to me always.
I was permabanned from eBay. My only thought was I linked to the vendor website, maybe HTML links are nonos or something.
I would have bought so many devices like this, Vestaboard, etc. if they had a hardware local control option with completely open docs. I refuse to spend time engineering a data pipeline that’s dependent on someone else’s cloud service.
There are no reasons for the college to identify fake students, or event prevent it in the future. higher (apparent) enrollment justifies larger budgets and funding. And it's not their money being given away.
I've been doing this on purpose lately...
Really, for my job, it depends on the subject. Next feature: the CTO (small structure, so he has the PO cap). Small library dependency to add in our project, the dev that need it. Big refactoring: the one that had the idea validated by the whole team (to be sure it's the path we want to take). Process/documentation: a team specific meeting.
Usually, small nits to change to sustain all team members.
For current next big feature, it's the fourth proposal and we don't agree yet. So was have more proposals to come.
Thanks, but is there a way to do that without having access to the computer or having to try to walk the user through setting up a task in task scheduler? The users in this use case can do something as simple as download and install a .exe program, but there is no way they would manage setting something up in Task Scheduler.

I've used Task Scheduler via remote desktop (which itself was a pain to get them able to set up) to set things up for them before but that is not scalable.
Ah, yeah, we tried to push it out fast before getting it rendering well on mobile. Should work on desktop, if you want to try it there! No sign in or anything else annoying hopefully
Since you're in Seattle, check out bright light therapy as well.
The discussion is dead anyway now, so sure. To make this fun for you, I've written two lists and mixed them together. I'll let you sort out the sometimes justified from the broadly unjustified . I believe cyclists are hated for the following reasons:

Cyclists are physically fit.

Cyclists like to run redlights.

Cyclists are too poor to own cars.

Cyclists are yuppies with expensive toys.

Cyclists are drunks who lost their license.

Cyclists use the road for leisure, holding up people trying to work.

Cyclists ride on roads which are for cars.

Cyclists ride on sidewalks which are for pedestrians.

Cyclists lobby for bike lanes.

Cyclists moralize at gas burners.

Cyclists look dumb in spandex.

Cyclists act like they never do anything wrong.

Reasons I don't believe belong in that list (I don't believe anybody really thinks these):

Cyclists are too loud.

Cyclists are bad because bicycles have two wheels.
Google is optimized around showing ads, not returning relevant search results.
I think a sapling planter plants more than their salary in saplings, so a comparison to the human sapling planter is false equivalence. I also don't see the difficulty in waiting until a seed has germinated in a nutrition disc before releasing it if you want to focus on getting 80% germination.

Regardless of what choices are made it seems likely to me that someone's automation in this area is already capable of doing about as well as careful management in some places with high labor costs. From equality, an automated system can easily double it's yield every few years while a managed system is going to be lucky with 20% improvement?

Really improving seed performance and dispersion by orders of magnitude from natural with automation never has to get anywhere near as good as a manual system of trying to raise every tree.
It used to be that pay phones were everywhere, but because of the plethora of cell phones, they have all been removed. So yes, it's a little unnerving to forget my phone at home.
> real technical, political, philosophical discussions

Do you know of another good place for that aside from HN?
I try to move all Twitter conversations to Matrix, IMHO it's good enough, federated and supports E2EE encryption already. Not all people are ready to make the jump but an increasing ratio seems interested.

Also it's a bridge/bot friendly platform and Maubot is great.

https://anagora.org/matrix
https://anagora.org/maubot
Looking at the state of racial relations in 1922 and how they changed in the 100 years since then, I sort-of doubt that the situation of 2122 will be anywhere close to today. Someone will probably oppress someone else, but the overall balance of power and ideas will be totally different than today.
> He shows the bot automatically filling out a Contra Costa College application with fake personal information, and within seven minutes, he has enrolled at Contra Costa College as Ivan N. Atkinson for the fall 2020 term.

A honeypot or a captcha would probably reduce the scale of the fraudulent sign-ups quite a lot.
We shouldn't call it phone.

Who uses it as a phone these days anyway?

For many people it's their life's central information nexus and it's absolutely normal to get uncomfortable when leaving THAT at home.
To everyone in this thread, wanting work and home separation.

If you're doing well in tech, then you have cash to enable options. One is, a dual sim phone, and your work sim goes off at 5pm.

The same goes for fetching work email. Off at 5pm.

Loads of apps to help with this.

Without dual sim, there are voip forwarders, a second phone, loads of options.
Not parent but here's some, downloadable from the built-in plugin store:

- Advanced Tables: for automatic formatting and table operations of markdown tables

- Dynamic Table of Contents: allows you to include a codeblock that automatically renders a table of contents from headers of some level

- Natural language dates: insert dates in your preferred format using language like 'next Friday' or 'first Monday of June'

- Quick latex for Obsidian: autoformat and autocomplete common latex commands (e.g. 'a/b' becomes '\frac{b}{a}'

- Tag Wrangler: rename, merge, toggle and search tags easily

- Sliding Panes: changes notes to panes that can be stacked similar to the ui of Andy Matushchak's notes [0] (check it out, it's rather neat)

[0] https://notes.andymatuschak.org
The idea of those who favor "kings and aristocracy" is more that we'll always have people around with more power than others (elites), and that formal transparency about who these people are ultimately improves accountability. Would you work for a faux "anarcho-tyrannyist" firm where you have no idea who the CEO is and who the managers are that can fire you or cut your salary?
Like feudal post-Roman world couldn't repeat any large Roman infrastructure for a millennium.
Survivorship bias, it is totally a thing!

There are mountain tops that have cell service now days (great line of sight!). People get lost in the woods pretty often.

Heck just having a compass + map that works offline can get people unstuck. How many lost person stories used to end with "and he died just a few miles from the nearest town"?

Of course that sentence is now relegated to history because because almost everyone has a GPS in their pocket!
Anything in C:/ essentially, because there is no standard place to where different users keep their associated files.
There are also services that sell .edu domains to avail discounts on various web products.
Why use historically marginalized groups - which almost always means racial groups as your target?

If you want to put more money into educational support for children where neither parent went to college or makes more then $x - I'm all in favor. But when you can easily measure those things, why then conflate it with race? If certain racial groups fall into those disdavtaged categories, they will automatically benefit. But maybe poor hard working white, or indian, or Chinese parents are dubious about giving additional benefit to the middle class or rich people who happen to be of a certain race? To take a specific example, why should a university prefer to accept one of president Obama's kids ahead of the child of a Chinese butcher or shopworker, all other things being equal?
the reason we don't blame the victim is because it requires someone else to do a harmful action that wasn't necessary.

ebay's action and implementation is not necessary. this is a conversation about that.
This comes up periodically.

Generally speaking, events, meetings, etc. are fine in many countries with just a basic visitor's visa. (US, it needs to be a B-1 Business visa.)

However, as you point out, remote online work is hard to police. That said, you shouldn't say that remote work is the reason for your visit. And you should be somewhat discrete--e.g. not renting a co-working space.
It's for emergencies too. I've had to call 911 before. I also want to immediately know if my wife or kids are in trouble. This is not unreasonable.
> I don't suppose either of you have considered, you know, bookmarks in your browser ?

One commenter mentioned sharing some apps with other people, so browser bookmarks may not be the best solution.

I've actually been looking into self-hosted bookmark managers yesterday, some of which can handle sharing. These may work.

My use case is somewhat similar, in that I sometimes use PCs different from my main one, and they also use different browsers. But I haven't found anything that I felt like taking for a spin.
The latter is probably much more cost-effective.
It’s also just not required
It's a very good article. You should read it. Especially if you disagree with the title.
It really depends on the person. You just need to monitor your blood levels
I noticed your amount was in pounds. If you are in the UK, you could try a "Subject Access Request" which legally requires them to hand over all relevant personal info that they hold about you. People sometimes get lucky with these and it may include any comments that have been made about you internally. You can find out more about that here:

https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/your-right-to-get-copie...
I have experienced this as a Soto Zen practitioner. Easy to kind of "give up" on normal life, since it suddenly seems much less important
Student loan holders already received 2 years of paused payments and an effective 20%+ reduction in debt due to inflation over that period.

There is a lot wrong with our education system (including guaranteed infinite loans incentivizing high tuition prices -- a better system would be to just have some state schools be free, and like in Europe, more competitive. They would only be for people who really need them financially and have great potential academically). However, resetting student loans and letting the system continue is definitely NOT the solution.
Cygwin brings me a compatible-enough layer on top of windows that I can reuse scripts. It is comparable as it gives me a CLI, and to hen as it is not infected by Microsoftisms it gives me a warm feeling of safety..
"In studies 1 to 5, participants read various equality-enhancing policies that would provide additional resources (e.g., salary and jobs) to a disadvantaged group (e.g., Latino Americans, people with a disability, women, and ex-felons) without changing the resources provided to the advantaged ingroup (e.g., white Americans, people without a disability, men, and non-felons)."

That sounds a little too magical.

I understand policies might have that overall effect, at least in aggregate, but I doubt there would be widespread agreement on the "everybody wins" outcome.
> drag and drop files into the editor to create a markdown link

This is nice, but I'd really prefer being able to drag and drop and then have it uploaded to, say, OneDrive. Even better, be able to paste a URL and have it download the file and then upload it to OneDrive or Dropbox or whatever.

> find all references to header|links|files|urls inside of markdown

Sometimes this sort of thing is nice to have, but doesn't it add a lot of overhead when working with markdown files?
I have an opinion, that sort of conflicts with having an opinion itself - but hear me out. I have growing opinion that Americans (US) more often than not feel a compulsion to have an opinion. A family-member states an opinion or event, we read something in the news, etc. and, without being even _decently_ educated in the subject, choosing to hold an opinion and (pseudo) defend it. I'm outing my former self here.

How much easier is life if we choose a select group of topics to be informed on and debate those. Letting the other shit go, saying to ourselves "I'm not knowledgeable enough here to have an meaningful opinion. And therefore, I will stfu." That takes a lot of where with all and, aside from myself, I have not heard a single person say words along these lines.
I've used robocopy + task scheduler before actually for this use case but as far as I could tell robocopy doesn't have a way to search across directories to find files but rather just gets set up on a particular directory.

Maybe something in Powershell to find the files and then copy them into a folder which is then set up with Robocopy?

Note, I have no access to the computer itself and the users are incapable of doing much beyond downloading a .exe file and installing a program, so whatever is done has to be as close to simple as that for them.
Based on previous discussions here EV trucks are going to be significantly heavier due to huge batteries.
They might be fascist if there was private company running them writing the tickets and then the state enforcing and taking part of the fine... Otherwise not so much.
Under our current framework, power consolidates in sometimes-feuding, often colluding oligarchs and large corporations.

It is also, of course, all done in the name of the people.
I'm a remote worker. After an early morning standup I go outside and do yardwork in a big yard for a half hour to an hour, whenever I can. This is a pleasure that I've come to defend fiercely. When I sit back down at the keyboard my improved attitude and energy are such that I believe I make up that time in productivity before lunch. Don't know how much of that benefit is from increased vitamin D, from the forest bath, or from the exercise oxygenating my neurons. I doubt I could replace it with a pill.
I wouldn't bother. You need to enjoy and trust the process instead of staking everything on whether or not you complete some goal.
Google has become blinded by metrics focused on giving people what an algorithm things most people want.

It's the digital equivalent of going to a restaurant and looking for vegetarian food only to be inundated with gluten-free and other health-fad foods.

I suspect their algorithm is in a bit of a doom loop as it's being trained on people clicking worse and worse results of pages that seem clearly written to game the SEO.

This is not unique to google. Amazon keeps including things I didn't search for because they want to be "helpful".

Indeed, my experience at big box hardware stores is matching this as well. If you go for one simple thing that you know you want, you're presented with an entire aisle of absolute crap that sort of does it but for much more money while the one item you need is out of stock.
Yes, if we use "intelligence" as our metric when hiring, rather than using race. So why would we promote the latter instead of the former?
> And I couldn't use a phone because my hands were full

Sorry, but you could have used a phone.
People also didn’t live under the expectation of being reachable 24/7.

Similarly, people used paper maps while driving which were cumbersome, but didn’t live under the expectation or the opportunity of traveling to new locations regularly.
False dichotomy. You can do both, and an industry-wide effort to exercise our collective power would likely increase the salaries obtained via either route.
digging down to the cited source on US GDP point, honestly seems pretty reasonable

> We discover that closing racial gaps is a pareto improvement to both the U.S. economy and society. If racial gaps for Blacks had been closed 20 years ago, U.S. GDP could have benefitted by an estimated $16 trillion. If we close gaps today, the equivalent add to the U.S. economy over the next five years could be $5 trillion of additional GDP, or an average add of 0.35 percentage points to U.S. GDP growth per year and 0.09 percentage points to global GDP growth per year.

https://ir.citi.com/NvIUklHPilz14Hwd3oxqZBLMn1_XPqo5FrxsZD0x...
we dont know who the victim here is.

strange seeing all these old inactive accounts suddenly posting in this thread.

its like somebody actually took the time to create multiple accounts, to astroturf a given thread in the future. pretty pathetic use of time if you ask me.
> So phones? Not always a big help.

I don't understand how you came to this conclusion when you simultaneously say

> [Jessica] called my people, whom I couldn't reach because I left my phone at home

If you had a phone, you could've just...called them yourself.
Now instead of pay phones in gas stations, if you have an emergency virtually every other person you might meet can call 911 for you on the spot, without having to run off to find a pay phone.
I had similar - been on there for 19 years buying and selling. Recently mainly buying (£x,xxx in last 12months). Went to sell, had to go through some new steps - appeared new sub account for sales? Something pinged... boom blocked for life as apparently linked to a random account I don't know.

Several call backs over weeks that it will be 'looked at'. Total lie.

I can never sell on ebay again, but can buy buy buy.

Anyone from ebay reading this - sort your shit out. It is laughable.
Interviews with Six Collectors
I wish I could leave mine at home more often, but I need it on me pretty much all the time for my diabetes management.
Only if you have perfect information. And for the people for whom equality of opportunity really matters the standing of those near the top is, at least at the start, unassailable.
Sometimes men (and women, for that matter) happen to be exactly at the right place and at the right time to tilt the balance of long-range historical outcomes. What's wrong with acknowledging those folks as "Great", if only as to their influence?
As noted above their notion is not great man theory. It’s that elites exist and hide and we should make their power structures more legible.

It’s a solid concept imo. But also nothing about their podcasts seem so bad as to wash them away with one flippant comment.
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering [pdf]
I wonder what that looks like versus Purchasing Power Parity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)

My salary in Germany (€60K) and apartment in a not great neighborhood was €900 a month.

Here in the US, I pull $150K and spend ~3K a month on a studio. I think my standard of living in Germany (besides desperately missing air conditioning) was roughly the same.