skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think early retirement is at odds with Stoicism, certainly not if its method includes a large amount of introspection about what you actually want and why. Read the forums first and then come back to say if they are Stoic or not. Especially the Lifestyle and Inspiration subforums, :)

In any case the request was for "more Stoic-oriented" forums, not necessarily "the most Stoic" forum.
> In Finland, people might have similar fears or anxiety, but in lesser degree since most of those situations are covered by the society.

True. Although Finland is on a downwards trend compared to 2 - 4 decades ago. Not dramatically and still very far from a US level, but clearly visible. Influence of parents' status to kids' success in school is growing again. Some schools have bullying and violence problems. As a family you need to select the place where you live with schools in mind if you want avoid problems. In the countryside because schools getting closed and and the city because social problems are growing. Nothing compared to the US I repeat, but getting worse instead of easier.
Even simpler: gron is a tool made in the spirit of Unix while jq is not.
My friend's wife texted me recently to talk to her very unhappy husband. During my conversation, he mentioned that he has a really good relationship with his skip level manager. Based on what he told me, I advised him to work to replace his bad manager.

If you want to be successful (however you want to define success) and anyone or anything stands in your way then make it your job to overcome it.
I properly got a genuine HP printer and cartridge combo for what seemed like a good deal ($70) in Singapore.
It worked fine for about 6 months until when the cartridges had run out of ink. So, I went to a store and bought a pair of genuine HP ink which was crazy expensive (combined with black and white, it almost amounted to 80% of the printer cost for the XL size at the time).
Still, I wanted to be a genuine user and I paid for it.

When I replaced the new cartridges in the tray, the printer insisted that I connect to the internet and I refused to connect it because it wasn't necessary I thought. It wouldn't let me even print a single paper despite the tray being fully loaded.

So, fine with it, I connected the damn thing to the internet. Suddenly, I got a notice saying the ink cartridges aren't genuine. I was puzzled, went back and fought with the store manager and got a replacement and they made sure it was 100% genuine this time.

So, I went back, set it up and nope. Still the same issue. The cartridges were full and brand new, and I really wanted to print some flyers for a business convention, which is why I was willing to invest the money because of the shortage of time I had.

The printer absolutely refused to print anything at all. HP support left me running around in circles like a headless chicken. I had to take a lot of heat because of this stupid printer for no fault of mine, simply because it was "smart" and needed an internet connection to do an offline job.

I was so mad that day that the first thing I did after I came from the business convention was took the damn thing apart and remove all the parts for arduino projects (motors, rollers, display, PSU, etc) and threw everything else away. I wrote a very rude note to their unhelpful customer support and went back and even apologized to the store manager who replaced my genuine cartridges.

It was an expensive lesson for me to learn not to trust any printing company, especially HP that relies on the internet to do an offline job. I follow this rule of thumb for coffee makers and every other hardware that shouldn't be "smart" and should be dumb. I'm even ready to pay the premium these days for the dumb version of a product offering simply because..it is so much simpler.
Never had an issue with https://postmarkapp.com/ As part of the signup you need to do an API call, I think they want to make sure a technical person signs up.
I gave up on HP after a properly applied firmware update bricked a very expensive piece of server hardware and they refused to replace it.

This is essentially similar to the death of QuarkXPress. When one company abuses customers for long enough, the first viable competitor to show up will eat their lunch.
As a practitioner of Stoicism, some people do seem to naturally jive with this philosophy. It might seem obvious to you because your inner life is in alignment with what it is arguing. That being said, lots of people struggle to "get" Stoicism, because they grew up believing that happiness and worth reside in something they can't fully control. For many people, it is not remotely obvious that your life is valuable if you're not rich, or handsome, or successful.

It's also important to understand that Stoicism is a serious, well-argued philosophy comprised of arguments that dialogue or disagree with rival philosophical schools, like Epicureanism or Aristotelian philosophy. It contains many arguments that I feel are decidedly not obvious:

* Virtue is the only good
* Happiness resides in only what we fully control (our response to external circumstances), and not in things that are outside our control, or partially under the influences of things outside our control
* Wisdom (the ability to exercise reason to make the wisest choices) is the most valuable faculty
* We are fundamentally cosmopolitan, and see ourselves as part of a broadly human polis, instead of seeing ourselves as only Athenian, American, Indian, etc
* We must act for the social good, even though we are not guaranteed success (i.e. Stoicism is NOT quietism; this particular claim puts Stoicism against the Epicureans)

In fact, many people would find the fundamental framing of Stoic ethics dubious. If you're a deontologist, you'll be irritated that Stoicism often doesn't give an exact answer to a particular ethical question -- it instead emphasizes crafting a good character, and deducing the right response from what a good person would do, given the circumstances. Surely you'd want an exact answer that obtains in all situations -- none of this wishy washy virtue ethics stuff.
My understanding is that "foo/bar/" is considered a short form of "foo/bar/.". Interpreting that forces following the symlink.
Absolutely. It’s about aligning incentives. If you don’t both empower and incentivize practitioners to make cost efficient decisions, rarely will it happen out of the goodness of someone’s heart. Top tier talent will, because they’re top tier, but they’re also getting compensated at the requisite rate for their skills and experience.
It's certainly a two way street between a manager and team member to work well together, but in my experience the best managers in Silicon Valley/tech retain great people for a long time. In fact, many bring former team members with them from company to company, being a talent magnet.
Well then we must kill the ad and analytics industries for that spyware surely must waste a lot of electricity and bandwidth, hence be a polluter.
Out-of-This-World Additive Manufacturing
> Doctorow's novella "Unauthorized Bread" explains why we have to fight DRM today to avoid a grim future

> Salima has a problem: her Boulangism toaster is locked down with software that ensures that it will only toast bread sold to her by the Boulangism company… and as Boulangism has gone out of business, there's no way to buy authorized bread. Thus, Salima can no longer have toast.

https://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/doctorows_novella_una...
There are plenty of companies from which you can buy printers that don't do this shit. Just don't buy HP products. Problem solved. Of course I also think that this practice should be illegal, but you're overstating the problem by a fair margin.
Typical mind fallacy: thinking what is obvious to you is obvious to everyone.
>If there is nothing you can do about a particular situation, why beat yourself up about it?

because people who have a stake in things going a certain way, would prefer it to go that way. Otherwise why bother trying if you have no control over the outcome. If we're all going to die, which is h ultimate and final fate of everyone, why do anything? The problem with stoicism is it is kinda a dead end and it creates unrealistic expectations. Ideally, people would not worry so much about things outside of their control, but that is not how people work. Much of modern scientific progress hinges on people trying to control their environment, such as treating disease. Should we just give up on that.
And if you need network connectivity a raspberry pi connected to the printer via usb is the best way to breathe life into old printers. CUPS has been really solid for me.
The NSA can see what pages you read, and men in the middle can modify the page to insert malicious JS or ads or whatever without HTTPS.
Small claims court. Add up the total costs for the rest of your life (at 15 pages per) and sue them for that. Then have as many un-busy people that you know do the same thing.

I know people who managed to get around $5000 when Equifax leaked their data. They just added up the monthly cost of the most expensive credit monitoring that they could find for the next decade and sued for that amount (then kept the money and didn't bother with the monitoring).

It's honestly not very difficult to file and right now the meeting is virtual so you barely have to put in any effort (with the downside that in the past you had a large chance the other party wouldn't bother showing up and you'd win by default).
The post I replied to logically argued that people are not harmed when their community improves and they are priced out and forced to move. (Note, I never claimed they were illogical, but instead that they were "too logical" Pure logic will not explain why people feel the way they do, because people are not always logical).

They then ask:

> Can someone explain what this description misses and where the harm comes from?

In answer, maybe no harm is actually done. But even so, people will perceive that they have been harmed. And in the larger context of this thread, that is why people are sometimes unhappy with their community being improved, because they believe it will price them out and harm them.
Interesting to see how Democratic party has been captured in order to win elections.
Yeah, certainly consequences matter. The more they have to change or else X (which they really don't want), the more likely they are to change. That said, unfortunately, many will only do just enough to not get fired.
State of Wayland Support for Chrome/Chromium
Exactly, dont think its that complicated.
There's always that manager that wants to get away with no equity in the compensation.

"But it's not the norm in our -regional- market"

I was expecting the downvotes.
If anything, I would argue that management in Silicon Valley is better than average. A Silicon Valley manager knows that if they mistreat their underlings too much, those underlings will quit and go somewhere else. A manager, at say, a manufacturing plant in a Rust Belt city faces no such restrictions. If they fire a worker, that worker has nowhere else to go, and as a result, the line workers in those locations and industries put up and shut up.
I think it's about that the natural selection applies only to the current environment. We are not to be fit to live in caveman days, but in the modern society. If having a condition does not present an obstacle to navigate the world and mate, then it won't be selected against.
There are vastly far more bytes transferred and data processed for porn than there ever will be for bloated HTML/CSS/JS.
Calculate out the highest ROI activity on time to improve a city and share it everywhere you can including with me. Don’t listen to the other answers because they don’t know the math
>- all of this is pretty obvious stuff, why all the books and discussions

money, and people are always looking for self-help and the "one simple fix" that will make their lives better. Ryan Holiday has made a lot of money selling books about stoicism, as evidently there is a lot of interest in the subject.
I my Epson EcoTank ET-14000.

What HP is doing should be made illegal. Worldwide. In global trade agreements.
Ask HN: Doing things which don't scale and it's taking forever
Maybe, I think this is an occupational hazard being an engineer that I can code my way out of the schlep work. I feel like I am trying to boil the ocean and it has been overwhelming with the amount of data I need to sift through. I decided to focus on single category (MVP) and build a report but even to do that it is taking me forever.

How do other people cope with this kind of syndrome?
Like it or not, the answer is probably OpenGL. If you go with version 3.3 (a good choice in my opinion) and then it's really only a few function calls and you're submitting vertices, and it's going to be supported on any platform. Use glfw and you don't need to worry about platform stuff (creating windows is a pain otherwise).

Counting the lines of a renderer I have lying around it's 300 lines (including much whitespace). That's very full functioned, it correctly positions the window in the center of the monitor, handles errors properly, takes mouse and keyboard input, sets up the view/projection matrices, uses shaders, etc.
My current approach to technical debt is not mentioning it, and instead attempting to make small refactors and/or writing tests for uncovered sections of the code as I go along. Also adopting an attitude of letting it go if my attempts or suggestions are stopped.

That latter thing is more difficult as it means efforts to help go to waste sometimes so my first instinct is to insist, but ultimately I tell myself that it's the clients' code and their decision, not mine. Besides, cleaning up code, sometimes by trying different ways to clean it, is always a teachable moment.

Fortunately, my current clients have been far more receptive and open to improvements than some other people/companies I've worked with before.
> Also the post says that Firefox doesn't work on Androids older than 5.0 which according to the dashboard are still 5.9% of devices.
For those older devices, the only option is to install the new root certificate.

Microsoft Edge still gets updates on Android 4.4 KitKat
There is an underlying assumption here. You seem to be running with the theme of making the review process more objective without considering the psychological aspects of being a human. As much as an employee’s productivity depends on how talented, hardworking, and skilled they are, it also depends upon how stress-free the environment is; with the conventional review process I had to worry only once per year of the “recency” bias, but with this I now have to constantly be on-guard about not upsetting anyone otherwise it will be a blackmark on my career. Plus the additional reckless usage that could happen as a result of anonymity and instant feedback. For eg. Think of a sick employee(who is not open abt their sickness) or a new joinee that is taking more time than usual to ramp up(within the probationary period) or any two employees with bad interpersonal relationships. This constant worry of who is thinking what abt me can make the office a pressure cooker of sorts.

Feedbacks are good. I am not saying they aren’t, but when you are designing a system that deals with organisational productivity I expect it to be a thoroughly designed system that covers most of flaws of the previous system if not all. It seems to me that by focusing only on recency bias and instant feedback, you are making way for more such people to run with a single idea without catering to the potential side-effects that could arise as a result of your implementation such as immense pressure of having to constantly put on mask for everyone around you, be on-guard 8 x 7. And as the saying in the medical field goes “even if you do no good, try to do no harm”, but I feel it(the anonymous + instant + peer review process) has multiplicative prospect of damaging the employee’s mental well being in the long run.
https://github.com/google/filament and ThreeJS are probably the closest
oh thank you - here's the full URL https://doc-0s-ak-mymaps.googleusercontent.com/untrusted/hos...
Vigil: The eternal morally vigilant programming language
I like this take
>There is a direct correlation to wealth and rights in this country. Language really has no meaning anymore.

There is a useful counter correlation in that it's a lot more costly for a wealthy entity to fight thousands on tiny lawsuits for a few hundred dollars each, all over the country, than it is for these suits to be filed, especially when almost every court proceeding is virtual.
I am a patron of the writer of this article. He's a fascinating dude, having practiced as a evolutionary biologist for years before pivoting to philosophy.

His patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MassimoPigliucci

His free blog, which is now deprecated (but has a ton of existing content): https://howtobeastoic.wordpress.com/
Brave browser's Tor private tab has problems
Yeah, HR cannot help you be a better manager, especially considering many of the worst managers and experiences people have at their companies involve HR.

Those training sessions are also terrible. Even if they did have good content (instead of rah-rah and feel good BS), you can only remember so much at once, which even has a name for it: the Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve https://peakmemory.me/2013/06/29/hermann-ebbinghaus-and-the-...
The First Amendment and Mandated Creation of Computer Code
I've had two babies while working from home at my current gig, and both of them spent plenty of time strapped to me while I bounced on a yoga ball and wrote code.

I went with a sling/wrap, and could easily snug a bottle under it for them to nurse on while I worked. (I'm a man, making me ill-equipped to do so otherwise).
Foursquare CEO David Shim Steps Down
I suppose one argument might be versioning, (some) fonts do get updates (and js libs should, you'd hope), they'd either have to ship those with OS updates or let them rot. And of course it would make those updates bigger, which would use more bandwidth and thus energy...
> (2) it will hurt people who would prefer low quality and lower price.

Uh... poverty isn't a preference. Sure, at the margins people can choose to spend the money they have on different things, but you're positing an equivalence here between things that aren't remotely equal. It's not like suburban professionals simply choose to spend their money on expensive housing and infrastructure where their inner city compatriots have different priorities. Poor neighborhoods are poor because the people there HAVE LESS MONEY.

You fix that by fixing the inequity, not imagining a fantasy resident who decides to put all her money into bitcoin or whatever.
Ask HN: What is it like founding a tech company outside of the Bay?
As lots of people are starting to consider leaving the Bay Area during the pandemic, I sit here wondering what its like to found a tech company in other cities outside of the Bay Area tech bubble in which I live?

I am often told by founders here that the bay is the best place to found a tech company because the talent is here, and so is the venture capital, but I wonder how true that really is.

Tech founders in other cities, what is it like?

Is hiring really that hard? Is getting VC really an issue?

What are some benefits you’ve noticed that might be unique to your city/area?
I work at a tech company on the east coast, and the managers I've talked to don't like managing west coast dev teams for all the reasons you mentioned. They said they'll refuse to show up to meetings, won't answer phone calls/emails/slack, don't document anything, etc., because they think they're code artisans and won't do anything that they think is below them.
The slow regression to serfdom.
That specific style of cartogram is pretty bad because it distorts shapes in quite odd ways and humans aren‘t that good at judging spatial relativity.

I prefer hex maps. http://blog.apps.npr.org/2015/05/11/hex-tile-maps.html
Nice. Smaller, less networked geographical area, but maybe a longer time scale to accrue them all? All signs point to "at least same order of magnitude" here.

Edit I'm seeing 6 figure conquistador estimates and a 3 figure number acquired so far? Do you have a cite for 50k? Seems like a likely enough number just curious if anything has been refined since this https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5893933/The-...
Supporting Auto_increment in Dolt
Sounds like France is getting the better end of the bargain.
I think the point of this is one can use intermittently available renewable sources of power (wind, solar, tidal) to electrolyse the rust to produce the iron powder for on-demand burning. The rust produced by burning can then be re-electrolysed to make more pure iron powder.
neanderthals might be our ancestors, atleast in part.
The only reason you'd think that's what communism is is if all your ideas about what "communism" is come from capitalist propaganda.
General recursion is equivalent to goto. It is nicer when recursion can be wrapped up in a higher level combinator (map, fold, etc.) or other even higher level abstraction. That's one thing the array languages (APL, J, etc.) got right.
Tracking Hacker News history in Git
My brothers have all come with regular full cartridges
> I disagree that you should refactoring code "so that the entire team can understand the code". Teams turnover much more frequently than a code base should

I didn't read it as saying the code should be refactored every time the team changes. I read it as saying that as the organization's understanding of what the software does evolves, the structure of the code should evolve with that understanding.
Not in the EU, with the 2 year minimum warranty.
> buying a whole new printer costs less than simply buying replacement ink.

Because they sell the printer at a loss to get you to buy the ink, the ink is their real business. This is exactly why HP is so concerned with forcing you to buy only HP ink. See also razors and blades.

But I agree it would be nice to have some kind of FOSS printer without DRM etc. This came up recently on another HN post, and people had various hypotheses for why this hadn't happened, but I don't recall the article to find it now.
The Aborigines in one area tell a story of a hill in their lands that one day spouted fire which created the land they live on. It’s actually an extinct volcano that extended the coastline 37,000 years ago creating their wetland habitat. Details linked.

https://www.earthdate.org/the-oldest-story-ever-told
no, he confused him for Ryan Holliday
If I remember correctly, this is only true for European population. That's where Neanderthal lived, and several times bred with Homo Sapiens.
read-only - getting older it sure feels like that.
You try because there's a chance of getting the outcome you want, but you don't tether your happiness to that outcome. You accept the limited control you have -- this is how Stoics reconcile the pursuit of mental imperturbation with the pursuit of outcomes. To Quote Cicero, remaking on the Stoics:

“If a man were to make it his purpose to take a true aim with a spear or arrow at some mark, his ultimate end, corresponding to the ultimate good as we pronounce it, would be to do all he could to aim straight … whereas the actual hitting of the mark would be in our phrase ‘to be chosen’ but not ‘to be desired.'”

So a Stoic might try to effectuate a particular outcome in, say, her political life -- choosing actions that align with the outcome, but does not "desire" it -- meaning her self-worth and happiness is tightly bound with whether she gets it or not.

It's a fair thing to ask how psychologically tenable this is. Some people may struggle with this kind of framing. I personally have found it liberating.
Sounds a lot like the true story of Juicero, that $700 juicer which only squeezed Juicero-brand juice packs, and only after connecting to WiFi and validating a QR code printed on each (rather extravagantly expensive) bag of pre-chopped vegetables.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juicero