skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the paper I linked, section "Content of Censored and Uncensored Posts", here's one example:

> we now highlight the obverse condition by giving examples of two posts related to events with collective action potential that support the state but which
nevertheless were quickly censored. During the bombings in Fuzhou, the government censored this post, which unambiguously condemns the actions of Qian Mingqi, the bomber,
and explicitly praises the government’s work on the
issues of housing demolition, which precipitated the
bombings:

> “The bombing led not only to the tragedy of his
death but the death of many government workers.
Even if we can verify what Qian Mingqi said on
Weibo that the building demolition caused a great
deal of personal damage, we should still condemn
his extreme act of retribution.... The government has
continually put forth measures and laws to protect
the interests of citizens in building demolition. And
the media has called attention to the plight of those
experiencing housing demolition. The rate at which
compensation for housing demolition has increased
exceeds inflation. In many places, this compensation
can change the fate of an entire family.”

---

A more recent example. Jerry Grey is a Canadian who lives in China and who opposes the Xinjiang narrative in western mainstream media because he has travelled to Xinjiang and saw a different reality than described in the media.

On Chinese social media he posted a criticism of Adrien Zenz, one of the people pushing the genocide narrative. Grey's criticism was that Zenz has never been to Xinjiang, and Grey says that Zenz should go and take a look. This was then censored, because "it's not China's place to encourage other's to change their minds".

https://twitter.com/Jerry_grey2002/status/131872917977329664...
Exercise! Can’t emphasize this enough! Makes you happier and healthier. Also a harder habit to adapt later in life.

Don’t do drugs, gamble, drink, or watch tons of porn.

Do read. Books. Not kindles. Books.

Be part of a regular community. That could be church, a sports team, chorus, etc.

Invest. Put money in an SP500 index fund. Especially if retirement accounts available.

Don’t be an asshole.

If you need therapy, get therapy. Take a Carnegie course. Even taking etiquette lessons can help.

Learn to cook. You’ll save so much money and eat much better food.

Get a pet. Having a pet is a lifestyle, and a good one.

Consider having kids. It’s rare people say “I wish I never had children.” Early 20s might be too early, but there’s no perfect time.

Also, have fun!
Find something to stay curious about.
This is my theory. Humans are the most successful primates because their superior ability to adapt. Adapting though also means that whatever state is reached it becomes normalcy and its virtues no longer appreciated (e.g. the benefits of living in our modern times are taken for granted). Therefore, for it there be happiness there must be pain. Work provides the necessary pain from which happiness emerges. Without it, I suspect there would be only existential crisis, depression, and war. Ask yourself: do you think the average insta-citizen would settle into a state of content if left with little or no work to do, free resources (i.e. universal income) and to their own devices? I posit not.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20931307
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8836324

Interesting that it hasn't been commented upon much, and the project seems to not have had any updates since 2018...
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Warning: focusing on your retail job during school to reduce loans is a local optimization, not a global one. Minimum wage is low and a high salary can make very short work of loans. Study hard and work even harder on your internships. Career relevant experience is king.

Debt is a tool and nothing to fear if you know how to use it. Many fortunes have been made with debt. Many lost as well.

And the drugs, yeah that's pretty spot on. Careful with those.
Holy heck lots of boring adult advice in these comments on how to be sensible.

Get wild, just don’t make permanent mistakes like taking hard drugs or getting killed in a car accident.

Apart from that, break all the rules kiddo.
I agree with the weightlifting but honestly most trainers are garbage and most reasonably smart people would do equally well just finding good resources on youtube and making an effort not to be a dumbass.
I always avoided exercise and sports...a lot of the reason was I never played sports when I was younger, and by the time I got to HS I was literally a decade behind my peers in basic skills (passing, dribbling, shooting, etc.)

When I finally started strength training seriously, it was eye opening. I wasn't far behind, and it was easy to see progress. Putting 5lbs on the bar, every time you squat, 3x a week, for 10 weeks, is pretty encouraging, and pretty obvious.
Both are important. My elderly father's doctor recommended he start lifting weights. My father already gets a reasonable amount of aerobic exercise, but they do different things for the body.
Guess I've gotten better-than-average at reading fine print, since the word ‘eligible’ is immediately suspect to me.
Why, in your opinion, was her name censored on the PRC Internet? Why have international broadcasts in China been dropping out when her case is mentioned? Why did the CCP deny any knowledge of her situation, only to later say "she will be making a public appearance soon"?
Get your first business experience done. E.g. start some sort of online business, set up the company, do your taxes, deal with customers, lawyers, etc etc. It might not be successful but its a good set of skills to learn early if that's something you plan on doing throughout life. This is optional advice. Other things are more important.
Because folks in their 20s are usually in a process of self-discovery / growth / change, try to develop the habit of making sure you are investing in friendships that matter and are aligned with your goals. This sounds cold and calculating, but learning to step away from toxic/misaligned friendships and double down on friendships / connections / mentorships that dovetail with and proactively (and symbiotically) support your goals is one of the most difficult-to-measure super powers. It doesn't pay immediate dividends, but if you look at most successful / accomplished people, you realize they're skilled at doing this (implicitly or not).

Also, yes, therapy, although this can be expensive. The difficulty in explaining therapy is that until you've committed to it, the benefits / aspect of it as a tool aren't super grokable. You may need to try out many therapists. They're essentially a pair-programming decompiler. You and this technician work to make sense of the machine code of your mind. Incidentally, therapy also helps realign friendships since you can use therapy to deconstruct personal / social / work issues, and use time with friends to build / elevate one another. Many folks misconstrue a friend who "listens" as a form of therapy; it's very much not. A good therapist will be a master pattern matcher, and will help you build habits to extract yourself from negative loops.

Speaking of negative loops: personally, I found removing alcohol from my diet to be one of the simplest and most profound overall quality-of-life upgrades. I wish I had done it sooner. (I did it around ~29.)

And don't worry too much about investing. Open a Schwab / Etrade account and put $100 in it. Just break the "investing seal." Treat it like a little savings account to start with. And then slowly add to your portfolio. The critical step is making the account. This will allow future decisions to flow more easily.
I would say finish university (if you haven't), it should give you good theoretical knowledge in the field you want. Also learn other languages. These are things that are more difficult to learn later.

In general, in those years, you should take biggest risks and try to do/learn the most difficult stuff you can find and you are interested in. Do not prematurely tie yourself to a job that doesn't provide a sufficient challenge. (You can always make more money later.)

The life is a negotiation with reality about what you can accomplish. Do not set your initial offer too low.
The boosters seem to help quite a bit. Perhaps higher effectiveness even than after the second dose.
If we didn't have these drives would we still be human
This is advice for your 30s and 40s, not your 20s.
did you get involved in bitclout? it approaches decentralized social media from this “monetize everything” angle, with one click to mint NFTs from any post. I actually like the micro-tipping and fundraising potential, but honestly the drama just gets cranked up to 11 once people’s financial solvency is tied to randos’ reputations.

i’m of the opinion that everything monetization touches dies, tho i’m sure META will be full of content creators getting their royalties as people have no choice but to buy an NFT of any MP3 they want to play in their zuck-sanctioned surveillance-spaces, I still believe in the old cyberspace declarations [0] where government regulations and copyright law are considered quaint anachronisms.

[0] https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
Well, that was actually what I wrote first for benchmarking, but I gave up waiting for it to finish. eval is slow.
Could not agree more. I also strongly disagree with the use of highly emotive words like "horrific" mutations. Exactly how are they horrific, given how little anyone knows about this variant? In my opinion, it's incredibly irresponsible public fearmongering.

FWIW my trust in academia, and specifically medical, will never return.
I think you can distinguish between "trainer" and "strength coach", and should prefer the latter.

Going to 24hour Fitness, and getting training sessions from those folks...not worth.

Finding a strength coach at a powerlifting/weightlifting gym...probably worth.
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Children aren't as important as friends (including family, or a spouse, that you're friends with) for mental health.
Thanks - just saw his wikipedia page - very interesting.
https://phys.org/news/2021-07-parents-children.html As many as one in eight (13%) Polish parents may regret having children
For the life of me I never got Image Builder working in a decent state.

I opted for Packer and I've been very happy with it. Though with that said I'm still using AWS SSM Patch Manager for a few outliers that are long lived.

Like. You, Okta AD agent that can only be programmatically installed using AHK. :-/
Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom talks to this. highly recommend reading it.
Refugees? Is France that bad now?
You skipped over what I said:

> if you're, for example, re-rendering your entire VDOM tree on every keystroke in an input field

> This part can be optimized around fairly easily if you know how

The framework can render them, just not update them in the naive way (so in some sense, yes, it is possible you're "programming it wrong").

> the next barrier is number of DOM nodes

The other problem is the browser itself, not any particular framework.
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It really does not matter

Who in their right mind would conflate the two
Unless you have a good network of friends in the area where you plan to live long-term, start making more friends or find a social hobby which can give you an instant network where you move. (Dancing worked for me, but sport clubs or other events should work too)

It's much harder to make friends in your 30s when people spend more time with their families. No experience with 40s yet, but extrapolating, I suspect it becomes close to impossible :)

Otherwise, I'll just +1 early investing and dentist others mentioned.
Agreed. Here's Nikola Tesla's autobiography book called "My Inventions"
https://www.kevinsworkbench.com/teslasautobiography/my_early...
> "selling excess stock" narrative in America

That wasn't the narrative in 2002, my first Black Friday.
Those who have already had COVID are fertile ground for a variant evades the immune response from previous exposure.
House arrest isn't the punishment it used to be!
True. Having children is the most meaningful thing anyone can do in their life.
> AMD would need to run this as a loss leader for a while, and engineer this at a level to get this competitive with NVidia.

Their problem has been that as little as five years ago they were a dying company. They didn't have the resources to do this right.

That's no longer the case, but once you have the money there is still a lag between then and when the release funded by that money comes out. And even then they're fighting an uphill battle against the perceptions created during their dark age.

Probably the biggest thing they have working for them is Nvidia's behavior. Proprietary everything and single vendor lock in makes everybody chafe, so as soon as they can produce something usable, everyone will want to use it.
No, it's not that one, but I'll check it out. I use Firefox Multi-Account Containers by Mozilla [1], which is what many other container related extensions depend on.

I also use Temporary Containers [2], Facebook Container by Mozilla [3], and Google Container [3]. There are also container extensions for Twitter, YouTube, etc.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/multi-account-conta...

[2]: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/temporary-container...

[3]: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/facebook-container/

[4]: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/google-container/
The „boring things“ that compound over time like
- a fitness routine
- yearly check ups with your physician and dentist
- invest 10% of what you earn (no matter how little it may be but make it a habit)

Learn how your mind works (eg. read „waking up“ by sam harris and know that people don’t think as much about you as you might think. Therefore don’t spend money you don’t have to impress them.

Keep learning in general and have fun in your profession - not in „fun every day“ but don’t become one of those people who drag themselves to work just to make ends meet.

Travel within your means. There is a lot of fun in learning about different cultures. The best way is not so sit in a pricy hotel room.

Keep strong relationships with friends and family if possible. A supportive network of people that care about you can be very hard to build when your older and might be worth more than money some times in your life.

You‘re going to do better than a lot of your peers with these simple things.
We don't even know what it does - bit early to say things like this.

FWIW, coronaviruses have been around for a very long time. 30% of common colds are coronaviruses.
3 things:

Build a reading habit. Books have evolved as a central tenet of knowledge preservation of societies for a reason - they contain a lifetime of wisdom in a few hours of consumption. Read books that are 10+ years old, like High Output Management, The Mythical Man Month, and Good Strategy / Bad Strategy. They’re written by people who have done great things and condensed great lessons, don’t underestimate the depth of the words and revisit them often!

Make at least 2 really close friends that you can tell anything, preferably outside of work. You can make friends at work, just make sure you keep the friendship and hang out afterwards since work can distort relationships. As you get older it’s generally harder to make friends, but just as important to have them - so make them young!

Exercise is great, has been mentioned multiple times. Carve out an hour a week, start small, but be consistent. Healthy body = healthy mind!
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The problem I found (on Centos 8) is that audit sometimes denies but nothing is logged. I found this is the case when an apache script tries to kill another process. It required 2 separate policies: one of which audit2allow came up with, and another I had to figure out myself after a whole bunch of time scouring stackoverflow. After that I just gave up on selinux and turned it off, as I just couldn't trust it.

If it actually did what it was supposed to do in a reasonable manner, people would use it.
As someone who just entered his 30s, here’s my list of things I’m glad to have done or wish I had done (sooner):

Start investing. You don’t have to learn a ton about picking stocks — start by consistently putting money into a robo-advisor like Wealthfront or Betterment. This compounds; a small amount of money invested now will be more impactful than a large amount of money invested later.

If your job offers a 401k, contribute as much as possible. If you can afford it, max it out. This also compounds.

Appreciate your body. Years down the line, you will have to expend a lot of money and effort to look the way you look right now for free. I used to love having long hair in my teens and early 20s; now I need to take hair loss drugs.

Related: start exercising. The aforementioned money and effort will be much less if you build up good exercise habits now.

Learn to cook. Cook a variety of things. This saves money and becomes more important socially as you age.

Take a hobby seriously. I’ve played guitar for almost 15 years, but haven’t tried to really up my technical skills until recently, and now there’s a long road ahead of me until I can play what I want. Whatever you decide to do, when you get serious about it you’ll wish you had done so years prior.

Related: if you’re in tech, finish your side projects. It takes a lot of dedication, especially in the home stretch, but it’s much more satisfying to be able to point to one finished thing you made than a dozen abandoned works in progress.
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What's the purpose of this?

Means it's TECHNICALLY possible, and Microsoft actively takes away the option after 10 days?

Do people not hate this?

On macos the only way to revert is through full machine backups. That at least lets me think the upgrade is irreversible without backups, and then I am fine with it. :)
What feature of the virus does the anitgen test detect? If this one has so many mutations, it's not a ridiculous question.
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Same in southern Europe, cultural imperialism becomes apparent when one notices that all local festivities (often of Celt, Roman, and Greek origin) have been replaced by commercial crap.
Yeah, all this damn investing advice. Don't suffocate your youth with frugality. You will have decades to chase money and career and the money will come much easier later. Spend it, but aim it on improving yourself or opening new doors in your life, not on vanity. Invest in yourself now, the index funds can wait a few years.
Why should there be consistency/commitment? Other than for the sake of itself? Genuinely curious where this desire for things being the way they 'should' be comes from
This is a very clear illustration of the inequalities between the northern and southern hemisphere’s.
I think for large monetary units, newspapers and reporters should always use millions. Ask a guy off the street, what's larger, $500 million or $2 billion? I bet most get it wrong. That infrastructure bill that just passed? 1.2 million millions. How rich is Jeff Bezos? 200 thousand millions. The total US national debt? 29 million millions. Say it that way and it actually sounds like a large number.
I am not kidding when I say that you can probably use Factorio in your technical interview as a company, lol.
> The point I am making is that people are unable to sceptical in China because they have no choice, the question you are posing makes no sense in a US context.

This is staggeringly naive.
> I can assure you, the people who used emacs 20 years ago are still using emacs

And there's new users too! I for one am only about 20 years old :)
I guess it’s rather a clear illustration of shopify‘s international reach
> I believe that you earnestly feel this is an okay thing for the CCP to do

This is a wrong characterization.

China has different values and practices. Freedom means something different in China than in the west. China values other things more than western-style freedom of speech. For example there is a greater emphasis on responsibility.

The practice you quoted is unacceptable in the west. That's fine — for you. Chinese think differently and believe that such practices are sometimes necessary to prevent rumors from running wild and causing social instability. That's also fine — for them.

I just want you to know that Chinese genuinely have a different opinion and a different perspective. That you disagree with them is fine.

To each their own. The Chinese way would work disastrously in the west. The western way would work disastrously in China. Let each country decide what they value and how they want to do things.
I think you just gave a compelling case for why there should be multiple units. It's much simpler to just write a small number and a whatever unit identifier, than have to read large or unwieldy numbers.

I just cooked a recipe where it asked me for 100 grams of a paste, 90 grams of a liquid, 70 grams of a powder, 30 grams of a spice, 15 grams of another liquid. Do people in other countries have measuring spoons in gram size? And do you always tell people whether you meant by volume or weight? Tablespoons, teaspoons, cups and ounces just seems easier than having to measure a fraction of some large number.
15 years ago we had Altiris SVS, which I believe did the same or very similar. Wonder whatever happened to that...
I’ll believe it when they stop their “self-charging hybrid” nonsense
Isn’t that the same behavior/pattern for traits though? At least it’s consistent.
.NET has most of this. Love it.
Or not! Not everyone can have or will have kids. Your life can be awesome without marriage. Your marriage can be awesome without kids.
Well I, and many other Chinese people, don't think that "CPP will deny her further career aspects". We'll see in a few weeks whether she continues playing tennis.
Async/await isn’t something to hope for. It’s a terrible pattern languages should work hard to avoid.
Output to html, meta refresh page every second. Pretty much real-time results.
Influence operations... such as this? https://twitter.com/manyapan/status/1454346638596743173

This is the typical level of Chinese influence operation. I really don't know why you're worried about it.
Usually when I’m browsing hacker news.
First I used a VS Code extension for formatting.
After getting into my thesis I switched to Zotero[1] to manage my resources. Its extension BetterBibtex[2] can export into a prettyprinted *.bib which refreshes automatically on change. Works on Zoteros subcollections too.

[1]: https://www.zotero.org

[2]: https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/
That's a bit of a special case there as Poland is unlike any other western country.
...or of how much or little "Black Friday" is a global thing. (It sure is being marketed in Europe now, even if my country-fellows in the Netherlands don't celebrate (American) Thanksgiving.)