skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All those things are absolutely necessary to raise to an objectively higher standard like that of western Europe.

However, due to the hedonic treadmill, after people get accustomed to it and take things for granted, people will find reasons to be unhappy and frustrated and claim that they live in the worst possible times etc.

EDIT: just to be clear: I'm not saying that since people will complain there is no point in improving, nor I'm saying that you don't have to listen people's complaints since they just don't know how lucky they are. It's important to keep improving more and more, since there is still room for improvement. What I'm saying is that it's hard to compare the quality of life in different places just by measuring how many people are complaining here or there.
Was your ailment caused by events ? or something that creeped up invisibly ?

I'm often worried about neurochemical solutions if some part of your brain is still associating events/memories/ideas with pain.
Assange Fights Extradition to United States with Two Appeals
> money isn't the problem, it's that companies make it _not rewarding_ to work

Lots of people are fine making sacrifices for money, but it sounds like you think that "crap bosses, crap customer interactions, crap hours" are things not in the employers control. Be nicer, have sane schedules, make customers (generally) happy goes a long way.

> Raising pay ratchets up inflation, and isn't a response.

While pay raises have a slight inflationary affect, worker pay over the last few decades FAR lags modest inflation. IF you have to work TWO jobs just to cover rent, then your pay is too low.

> lowered wages due to the "expected recession". You would start looking for a new role

Unless this "expected" recession is fictional, employers do exactly this, but just not in the way you frame it. It's true they generally don't ask for pay cuts, but cutting hours and shifts, drop bonuses and even lay people off. And since it's a recession and many businesses are similarly affected, you just can't "look for a new role".

> pay increases can never go down

In absolute terms, sure. But if future pay raises are below inflation, you actually do lose ground in real terms.
There's a difference between expected malfunctions (due to common causes) and exceptional malfunctions (due to assignable causes) though.
You should tell my boss who was a refugee that "nobody has a chance in the US". She'd be fascinated to hear your reasoning.
I loved menthol cigarettes but in every social group I've found, menthol cigarettes have a way higher amount of disparagement than cigarettes (which people occasionally admit to smoking while drunk). I wonder why people treat them like coffee connoisseurs treat shitty coffee.
Metabolism and stress hormones both seem to play a role. It's going to be a very complex thing - the best treatment for a lot of brain conditions is just exercise.
> Likewise, it's not an audit trail it's a "history" or "undo".

Depends on the industry. The one I work in audit trail is a well-defined and mandatory business concern.
Imagine a kid growing up in the US today, they are functionally under house arrest as neighborhoods are built for cars and not people. Everyone is isolated to their family unit almost entirely and all activity gated on parents time and willigness (or control).
Also a massive vulnerability surface letting arbitrary websites write whatever they want to your disk.
This study shows (decide how convincingly) what has been suspected anyway. The causal direction of “chemical imbalance leads to depression” is just not a sensible assumption. SSRI are of course able to alleviate the symptoms as are other drugs or treatment that are not associated with serotonin. Tricyclic antidepressants, sleep deprivation, transcranial magnet stimulation, ketamine, exercise and many more. Also the efficacy of these other treatments does not depend on the performance in the Forced Swim Test. The multitude of different antidepressant approaches, the different and heterogeneous animal modeling leads me to believe that what we describe as major depression is a pathological alteration in the brain subnetwork activations, probably between frontal brain areas and formatio reticularis/pons. SSRI are a roundabout way of influencing network changes that take time to develop. And these chances happen to work via Sertonin paths but serotonin is not necessarily the cause of “depressed” state of the brain network.

Disc: Only peripherally me area of expertise. No sources because mobile
Developers vs. DevOps – the case for developer ownership
My bet would be that they chased that car not only because it was stolen.
If I want to achieve something then I find the joy in pursuing it, at which point I will naturally do it when I'm capable and will do other things when I'm not.

Letting my attention float around freely (within limits obviously) often looks like I have a low attention span. However, with a birds eye view on what I'm able to get done I look like I'm hyper focused.

And if I can't find the joy in a long term pursuit then it's very unlikely to be worth my time.
The empty bloatedness of a stinking, rotten cadaver. And countless vultures fighting over the last pieces. Or trying to sell them.
It's incredibly valuable to think of the system as a mixture, and work on both components of the problem in parallel. (Both increasing precision to narrow the width of the gaussian, and removing the defective interaction that causes the spikes.)
Jeff Bezos' daily income is about $175 million. Tax him at a marginal rate of 90% and that's about 1500 $50/hour workers compensated for right there.
> The only use cases for which the MBA is not sustainable are Pro ones e.g. 3D rendering, CFDs etc so it's hard to see how Apple is being unreasonable here.

It's not about Apple being unreasonable. It's just that what you call "Pro use cases" could reasonably be done with the Air if it had slightly better thermal management in the same way an iPad Pro running macOs could replace a current MacBook Air. Apple likes to use these design decisions to segment its markets.
How did you go about evaluating the non-technical freelancers?
I have to hire for design and marketing and I'm having a lot of trouble evaluating talent. I can tell who's obviously bad but beyond that it's a bit of a toss.

Also how much did it set you back, if I may ask? 2 weeks of a designer, we're talking 10 to 15k, right?
Software development topics I've changed my mind on after 6 years in dev
I ride the bike regularily for the past 25 years with 15 of those in cities. I never had a bike stolen up to now.

Maybe I am just lucky, but at least once a year one of my peers had theirs stolen. The things I did different:

- get the best lock you can get

- your goal is not to make your bike impossible to steal, just to make it mor attractive to go for the bike next to it

- bike should look like shit while being in excellent technical shape (e.g. my frame is a old slightly rusty KTM racing bike frame, but with Shimano Ultegra)

- never put the bike into an dark corner, where it is the only bike to steal and thieves can do so unobserved, instead try to put in the spot where a thieve might expect someone to observe them. Nobody ever took a bike dirctly in front of a store exit if it looks like you might return any second now.

- don't leave your bike anywhere outside for more than a night if you can't avoid it
For sure, there is also one other thing I forgot to mention which is access to affordable (and not unhealthy) housing. With all those in place people wouldn’t be so dependent on their employer. I see a lot of FI/RE stories focusing on the importance of having fuck-you money in order to be able to stand up to your boss. Well if you live in a decent welfare society you can do that without $4M.

This would in effect force employers to pay better.
We've gained a lot, but also lost a lot, from going from mouse+keyboard to touch screen only. There's no more hover to discover, or an ALT key to hold to guide us as to what we can do and what does what. Gestures feel like magic spells that are great if you know them, but completely hidden if you don't. Not everything in the early days was obvious or intuitive, but at least we had more clues to guide us, and failing that, a manual to reference.

Microsoft, IBM, and others did huge amounts of user testing and research to get those early UI conventions you mention, and it served quite well. I lament that it has fallen out of favor.
Of course, who knows how long Social Security is actually going to last, given the repeated Republican tactic of squeezing money from its line items to give to tax cuts instead.
Yes I kinda assumed that if someone was considering giving this a shot, they’d research the subject very thoroughly before to get a good understanding of the effects, preparation, effects, doses, etc.

The genera consensus seems to be that mushrooms (psilocybin) can’t kill you. You can’t OD on them. There is no known LD50 (that’s “practical” to achieve anyway), they dont cause addiction, and if you take them too often they actually stop having an effect until you take a break and use again.

There are risks if you have other mental health conditions like schizophrenia etc, but (according to my research), the only risk if you’re otherwise healthy is to have a “bad trip” where you’re basically experiencing negative feelings. By reading about the experience, you also learn that if you resist the bad trip it gets worse but if you look at it with curiosity (what is my brain trying to tell me?) then you’ll have an easier time.

About assessing te severity of your depression, there is a standard test (of which I forget the name) that is also used in the studies submitted to the FDA for approval of antidepressants that ask questions, you then add the points up, and anything above a certain number is severe depression. Although this is yet another flaw of the studies, the people running the studies don’t even agree on the score that give you mild vs severe depression.

Again, I have no medical training so this is just a random stranger’s opinion on the internet. To anyone reading: educate yourself about the whole thing, see if you’re willing to try, and make your own decisions.
Buy better printers, or change your expectations. I haven’t had problems with printers as long as I can remember, except a problem with large spool files created by PowerPoint.

I used to work as a technician running computer labs. This job extended to printer repair. I later wrote software to manage printers. Some printers are really very nice to work with and not too hard to repair. Some laser printers are built like tanks and give you glorious crisp text forever. Some inkjets produce vivid or subtle colors with fantastic durability and consistency (assuming you use decent paper). Some people have unrealistic expectations about what a cheapo inkjet can do, or unrealistic expectations about what kind of paper you can use, and some people just buy the wrong model.
Most do but many can also go into a “headset” mode in which they use encoding that is more suitable for speech. That said this is mainly an issue for Windows these days that does that automatically for some reason nothing stops you from switching to headphones and still using the mic.

In fact for voice and streaming apps that aren’t classified as telco apps it doesn’t even switch.
This is a weird comparison, given that the effects of climate change mean that weather in various places really isn't in line with the long-term average.
This might help https://www.amazon.com/Happiness-Trap-Struggling-Start-Livin...
I have a pair of Anker Bluetooth ear buds I really like. Fit nice, decent noise canceling.

They are just a fricken nightmare to sync. It took me half an hour of fiddling with them to get both of them to sync at the same time to my phone when I bought them.

My wife's headphones died and without asking she borrowed them. She messed with them and was unable to get them to sync to her phone.

Since then I have now been unable to get them both to connect to my phone reliably at the same time. It's been a couple months.

All that said, that’s the only real Bluetooth device that's given me more than 30 seconds trouble in recent years.
It seems very plausible that money printing has had an effect on inflation.

It also seems likely to me that supply constraints are also working to push up prices.

I'm not sure how to disentangle all the different effects, but I'm sure there's more than one cause. It's all interconnected I guess.
Isn't this an encryption key not a signing key? There are of course signing keys involved too though.
worksforme on Linux, MacOS and Android. I have a Bose QC35 and it just works, now for years, reliably.

On Linux, it used to work quite okayish with pulseaudio, even automatic switching between profiles, when an application requested microphone. Since pipewire came around, much higher quality.
I've had pretty good luck with phones and most things (audio has various codec mismatches if you're going for high quality, but that's all at least visible on boxes), but not computers and [nearly anything except HID]. HID works great everywhere, and battery life is amazing, I love bluetooth for HID.

Bluetooth headsets and computers seems like a special kind of flaky-hell. I tried ~8 modern high-end headsets on 4 laptops (2 windows and 2 macs, both pairs ~3-4 years apart age wise) while trying to pick one, and NONE of the headsets connected to every laptop without issues. EVERY headset had periodic audio drops at least after a couple minutes with at least 2 machines, if not all 4, and many had much more severe issues (disconnects, disconnects that wouldn't reconnect, not connecting at all, etc).

^ All of those headsets connected fine to two different phones, and used the codecs I'd expect... usually anyway. Good enough for the most part, and only 2 had periodic audio drops.

Since you seem to know the field somewhat, what the heck is going on with computer bluetooth audio stacks? Are phones just buying all the good chips and bluetooth-OS-integrating-engineers?
This is the problem with how most people deal with outliers. You should absolutely care about your code being scheduled away. If you care about speed and then you change your code in ways that makes it get pre-empted more often, that matters!

Outliers are still useful data!
I'm pretty sure a majority of AWS AZs globally are still not in AWS-owned-and-operated facilities.
Looks like a lot of fun. Will try it out!
to fail doesn't mean to fail in production
Cigarettes harm people. Is that the case for most products? Certainly not to the same degree, but I wonder to what degree buying different types of products helps vs harms people. What we truly need to live is very little. What we want tends to be much more.

Jesus said that it's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. To what degree is our materialistic society harming us?
I often have a chuckle when I see US companies bragging about their « generous » policies which are systematically bellow the legal minimum in France.

This being said, a lot of IT professionals here don't take all of their paid leave. It's not uncommon for me to see people forced into a vacation by their company so they don't get into legal trouble. I don't think they would mind working for a US company (I wouldn't). Working in the US is another thing, and very much an acquired taste.
I also had bugs years ago, now I have it make snapshots every hour or so as backups (but didn't need them yet)
Because mods permit that.
I bought a HP printer (scanner/fax/copier) 10ish years ago and since then I don't have printing problems. Before HP I thought the same as you :-)
It's less about the AC units, and more about the buildings. In places like Spain and Portugal, white painted outside walls, shading, and shutters on the outside of windows all help keep the heat out. My house has none of that, it just absorbs most of the heat from the sun.
MacBook Air: new midnight color does scuff super easily
Well yeah, when 25% of households have a wage earner who lost their job due to COVID that will send a much larger hit to the economy than those unemployment payments ever could. Even then they merely helped people float along.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/09/24/economi...
I find the idea that we are born defective to be inherently suspect.

It is quite illogical but very popular because well adapted people can just talk about superior genes and how everyone else has inferior genes and they can never change anything about that except with extensive medical treatment.
That's because there is no profile for that, as per the spec the hands free profile only supports Mono

This changes with LE Audio (spec released in March iirc) which is much more channel oriented (e.g. 2 channels stereo playback + 2 more stereo microphone), has a new codec (LC3) and has support in the upcoming android release
I think what happened was a lot of those low-tier workers had time to evaluate what they were doing during the lockdowns, and figured they didn't have to be treated like dirt anymore.
Some people of course retired, and Covid claimed people too ... so now those low-tier workers had job choices.

And bad employers found their labour pool was more selective. They thought the root cause was Unemployment Insurance and people sitting home, but even after those programs expired they still faced difficulty hiring.

So, I don't think people are siting home watching Netflix; but they are unwilling to work for a crap boss serving crap customer during crap hours for crap money, because there are options.
No, I wouldn't want to do anything Ukraine's leaders want right now.

Initially, they said they won't pull out of joining NATO. Then Russia invaded. Then they said they won't join NATO if Russia stopped the war.

Hence, there was no reason for the war except for the stubbornness of Ukraine's leaders.

Ukraine's leaders don't seem to be pragmatic at all. I, for one, do not want to send more of my money to Ukraine or have the world increase in inflation/conflict just for Ukraine's idealism.
Fleeting memories of youth and the increasing impermanence of culture (2021)
So take away some money from the 0.01% to compensate. Since that select group of people holds 20% of the total wealth in the US, there's plenty of wiggle room.
There's a lot of overlap between the Montage and the Genos. A lot of the "Performances" and "Arpeggios" in the workstation are derived from Yamaha's arranger keyboards. Arranger keyboards, though, are anathema to a lot of musicians because of their association with the kind of one-man-band acts that perform in nursing homes, airport lounges, Oktoberfesten, and so on. (It's no accident they usually have whole banks of presets dedicated to genres like Schlager and Polka.)
There is nothing in this article actually answering the question posed in the title.

Unless the answer is this paraphrasing "No clear agreement on how it should function was ever reached".
It's true, though. If you were to live many lives in a row, when would be your first time getting shot? "News" agencies are great at distracting attention from real issues: cancer, chemicals contamination, healthcare prices.
SSRI's are without a doubt the leading cause of divorce and mass shootings in America. The quacks in the medical profession handing them out like candy to people whom it is clearly contraindicated in, without any followup study and usually without any competent analysis of what the drugs are doing to these peoples behavior and brains. Getting my girlfriend off of SSRI's completely changed her life, as she was indicated bi-polar, and yet over 10 mental crisis hospitalizations with specialist psychiatry teams failed to notice the direct contraindication and continued recommending use of SSRIs. The kind of mental breakdowns she was having as a direct result of SSRI use is the type of behavior that in a male could lead to a mass shooting or other particularly crazy behavior. Uncontrollable flights of emotions and repeating panicked behavior.

After seeing her be "treated" by numerous psychiatrists who failed to take note or recommend cessation despite SSRI usage being clearly contraindicated on her pre-existing diagnosis, the last crisis we simply took her to another hospital, they concurred on cessation of SSRIs and all of these problems ceased. Of course, it's not possible to sue the previous doctors or hospital due to the laws that protect the industry.
> There is lots of data to suggest elevated LDL is a risk of cardiovascular disease and that high HDL lower risk.

There is zero data to suggest that once you adjust for oxidized/damaged LDL.

Smokers don't have elevated LDL but they still suffer the effects of inflammation/oxidization that ultimately lead to cardiovascular disease. If you want to guarantee cardiovascular disease just eat straight up oxidized cholesterol in the form of trans fats.
They projected 2 million loss. They lost one million. It's a win and their stock is way up today.

And really, losing 0.45% of your subscribers isn't that bad considering the macroeconomics, the huge boost that Covid brought, and the fact that they raised prices recently.
Ah! That explains it. I'm sure if my house were in the UK, I would freeze to death in winter.
> What about knowledge work? Employees in the tech, finance and any desk job industry aren't performing their job using an ipad or phone.

You might be surprised. I have several coworkers who are doing Olympic gymnastics to get away with using iPads as primary devices. There's only a few of them right now but they are multiplying rapidly.

> Wouldn't the tech industry have an incentive to also encourage a continuous supply of skilled labour that can use a pc effectively?

Yes, but that sounds like a problem for the Zoomers and Alpha. That sounds dismissive but I'm not sure we could solve it if we wanted to. It's too far away. By the time it becomes a problem maybe everyone can work on tablets, or phones.

I maintain that the current model of "software development" is more like "software manufacturing" and will be automated away in the future to the point we wouldn't recognize it today. In 50 years software professionals will look back on how we work today and wonder how we got anything done. Not too different from the way we look back on the 1970s today. How the heck does a slide rule work anyway? Can you imagine working with punch cards?
Which 'successful countries' do this? I can think of S Korea, but they're in a particular situation with their northern neighbour, and some odd European countries who mainly have it because they failed to get through the legislation to abandon it for idiosyncratic reasons.
> We know that a group of people who suffer from depression have lower serotonin levels when compared to someone who is considered... not depressed.

I thought the whole point of the article was that there is no solid evidence of a relationship between serotonin levels and depression?
The point is that getting paid that much is, for the average employee, purely a lucky result of having happened to choose the company that succeeded.
You likely know that there is an extension for PG that does this.
Can you share more details about the computer vision model and what makes it unique compared to some of the other vision-enabled connected fitness devices on the market?
Almost every printer sold in the last decade supports IPP Everywhere, which has robust support on Windows, macOS, Linux, *BSD, ChromeOS, Android, and anything that can run CUPS. It's completely driverless, too.
Bad audio quality with bluetooth on phones is mostly a myth. Todays smartphones only have cheap digital audio converters(DAC), so that you usually get higher quality music with a proper bluetooth codec like aptx.