skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd also recommend the classic "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" essay by Eric Steven Raymond:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral...

From Wikipedia:

>In 1998, the essay helped the final push for Netscape Communications Corporation to release the source code for Netscape Communicator and start the Mozilla project; it was cited by Frank Hecker and other employees as an outside independent validation of his arguments.

Netscape's public recognition of this influence brought Raymond renown in hacker culture.
again, suck a dick
You have to die of something eventually. We are not immortal.
What do you think warlords do with piles of cash? Sit on them?

Foreign aid essentially forever has amounted to delivering money to the least bad options, so that some of it trickles out to the people who actually need it.

You may find that morally reprehensible, but what's your proposed alternative?
Taiwanese people?
On the contrary, I've sat on Ivy League tenure panels where humanities members intoned solemnly about H-indices, oblivious to the differences in value of the Lira and the Pound. I also consider much of baseball statistics to be junk science, but at least they have "wins over replacement" that could help with the endless "does author order matter in this subfield?" debates.

I welcome a platform that could allow more sophisticated mind-mapping. I've argued to no avail for years that MathSciNet should be open to machine learning, try to make itself a premier playground for machine learning, but it's an AMS cash cow and leadership prefers a 19th century model. Out to lunch recently with a former AMS president, he suggested I should do this for the ArXiv. That's not the point; one wants to encourage significant existing projects to land on our data.

Math is pretty much bifurcated between tightly-bound field tribes, only reading papers within their field, and roving players who recognize ideas in any form and chase them across fields. Of course, tribal mathematicians would dispute this. Better mind-mapping would reveal the connections between what's out there, rather than imposing a tribal mindset on its organization.

It would be good for mathematics to change this culture. It takes more courage than one might imagine to be a roving player. At hiring time, most departments let the tribes take turns. Just like growing up on the streets, pick a gang for survival, if you want to get hired.
What is "virtue signal about virtue signalling"? If you don't need Whatsapp to communicate with your friends/family/colleagues then good for you. In my social circles Whatsapp is a must. Refusing to use it is almost like refusing to have a cellular phone, which is too high a price for me to pay.
so they don't rip your face off - understood
The economy that mobilized on a dime to defeat Nazi Germany and sent men to the moon had only 5% of adults with a college degree. Is it so much more complex now that kids need four more expensive years of education? And if it is more complex, is college as currently structured the cheapest way to develop those additional skills?
> These other ‘sins’, however, have at least some benefit.

Yes, that is a distinction that is true, but that is not why alcohol and gambling are permitted. It seems to me like the author is trying to brush this question aside rather than really engaging with it.

(Agreed that the oxygen comment isn't very helpful, and just responding to the part you quoted.)
Even crazier is that tuition went up at its fastest rate last year apparently -- _even during the pandemic!_.

People are more thirsty than ever for college.

This is one of the things I got most wrong about the Pandemic (the other being they wouldn't dare attempt a third lockdown).
The article is specifically speaking about Canada. I suppose Canada is a free country too, though.
Being subjected to the carceral system is indeed bad for your health, but there's a gap here: you haven't explained why banning smoking means we have to put people in prison.

I would have thought to just fine them, or tax purchases out of existence. No need for shackles.
To me, putting on a mask is acknowledging of a high risk environment, like using a mass transportation during a pandemic. Airborne virus spread fast in crowded environment with limited ventilation, and if one has to be in such environment then doing anything to limit spread is good. The problem is when people started to use masks in order to allow themselves to be in an high risk environments.

For my perspective here in Sweden, not much has changed from last time during the holidays and this year. People still seem to want something to allow them go into high risk environment, like Christmas parties, weddings, mass transportation travel, and shopping during rush hours. To me it the same people who went to those last year with masks that goes to those things this year with vaccines. Thankfully vaccines is at least more effective and thus the outcome seem less worse this year for the health care system.
Child safety and young game developer mistreatment at Roblox
And this is why we can't have nice things... because "we" don't "permit it". How does someone even write this sentence? Did they glance over at their crown, which says "King We", and think "thou shall not smoke!"?
So you want Database Version Control?
Hopefully by the time it becomes a problem, we can all just hide behind our avatars inside the Metaverse. /s
> Maybe after an EU council meeting denouncing the people of Crimea voting to be annexed into Russia

I think the problem there was that the vote came after the annexation. Or the voting method was so untrustworthy it might as well have been made up.
Farming is arguably more complicated and requires more domain knowledge than most service jobs today.
Wow, what fucked up high school did you learn your american/world history at?
Elderly man -- had possibly lived a good life. Why is this even a question. People can do what they want. In every other western country outside of the US, you might be able to argue that since Medicare is provided free by the state that it is an unfair load on the system -- but in the US -- you absolutely don't have that argument available in your pocket. Sorry. So -- to each his own.
I'm in a third group. I keep using WA or I'll have to call friends daily to keep up with them, until they block my number :-)

However I never accepted the new ToS. WA keep asking me to accept them and I don't (can't remember the actual wordings). It has been like that for months. I've even chatted with a business a couple of weeks ago. It seems they are doing like when they were asking for 1 Euro per year. They eventually gave up and never interrupted the service. The network effects of losing users work against them.
Because laws match social rules, not the other way around?
Office online?
Working in London you also get 5 weeks holiday. Holiday policy surely is not the main to not invest in France.

Your comment is rooted in a tremendous amount of arrogance and ignorance.
Most Chinese Americans are extreme right wing, and that includes ones who aren't specifically Taiwanese, or Fukienese Americans.
The special thing I’ve done is mostly being willing to sit with hard questions like “who am I” and “what do I really want out of life and a job?”, sometimes for years at a time (low-key).

The answer is always the same, and will probably always the same: I am motivated by mastery and autonomy. Thus I put lots of time into finding work that is interesting and has a lot to dig into.

I routinely annoy the institutions I work for because status and titles do not work for me. They are empty pursuits that hinge too much on the fickle perceptions of other people who may not share my values. My dream is to work for myself making software customers love. I have made some small steps[1] toward that this year, but replacing my current income will need a lot of work on the side, and that’s fine.

I’m playing a game of sorts, where I have a job I really like that is challenging and fits my goals as an individual contributor, whilst also dabbling in learning to make and sell things on the side. Both pursuits support the other, and I don’t have to win at either in order to feel “justified.”

This is just one way to approach the job issue. There are a bunch of other good ways to tackle it!

1: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/audiowrangler/id1565701763?mt=...
I wonder what would happen if you visited in a browser with it set to allow video/audio with no prompts? Would it bail out with a "oh crap, they actually let us" or would it actually try and do something?
> I did not say people believe reunification needs to be achieved by force.

Then this line:

> if the president lets go of Taiwan, the CCP would be overthrown tomorrow.

doesn't make much sense to me. Who would overthrow the CCP, if not the Chinese people? And if they would be willing to do that, why wouldn't they believe in achieving reunification by force?
Founder of https://www.whiteowleducation.com here. Undergrad dual major in Actuarial Science and Computer Science (with a MBA a long time after undergrad).

Without additional context, my guess would be that the Uber driver maybe focused on applications of math and statistics to the insurance industry, but maybe focused more on passing actuarial exams and less on using programming in order to implement the models. Some of the actuarial exams cover finance, statistics, and math; it feels like the driver would be suited to do data science work. It would be interesting to hear more about where the driver is located and whether he/she was only targeting the insurance industry or if that person was looking at other jobs in analytics.

EDIT: I started my business on the premise that universities teach a lot of "fundamentals", but that I don't believe higher education does not do as much as they should to teach the practical "day to day" skills (like data visualization or software version control / git) that are needed to get development work done. My thought is that a couple of online courses can quickly help to bridge the gap between theory and practice.
At least while I was applying to college, NYU was notorious for offering very generous first year scholarships, and being very stingy with 4 year scholarships, which led to students believing it was more affordable than it actually was.
Aka "How to be a White Male in Society". (as someone who is one, I can attest this was my socialization)
I know it does, but it's up to the extension's writer to use them properly.

> the neovim community does go pretty heavy towards lua

And that's why I like them.
I enjoy the plant. I grow it in my garden for the beautiful scented flowers, and then I dry it or buy higher quality pipe tobacco and smoke it in my pipe in the summer and fall. Or a nice cigar when I'm on vacation in a warm place.

The industrial cigarette product.. yeah that's something else. Gross.

But I don't see how the two can be reasonably separated from each other, though, and how you can realistically police cigarette consumption. You'll just end up with a black market.

Seems like the current approach in western countries of high taxation and intensive education and regulation is (slowly) working.
I don't know why people single out China for this when the US has invaded, couped, bombed, and otherwise helped install right-wing military juntas globally. Where was self-determination for Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos?

China's priority is national security, and given the track record of western liberal democracies it is not unreasonable. As I recall we had a civil war the last time states tried seceding.
I'm not sure it is allowed; that's not a part of the business I know much about. Since ads can run arbitrary JS it's hard to enforce policy programmatically.

On the other hand, it's not clear to me that whatever this advertiser is trying to do is having any real effect, aside from causing a console message that it is being blocked. Access to the mic and camera from cross-origin iframes is blocked by default, and you can't even trigger a permissions prompt.

As for installing an ad blocker, even with all the messiness of advertising, I still prefer it to paywalls.
As much as I think that GNOME is a joke at this point (and has been for well over a decade), is that really such a bad thing that they focus on supporting their graphical toolkit of choice?

Besides, the real solution here is for developers to switch to QT and stop using GTK. ;)
I'm a weirdo: I've been doing web dev since the 90s and made a very conscious decision NOT to go into the tech industry, primarily for my own happiness.

It sounds like what you've liked in your previous jobs are the ability to learn, and that your current goals aren't scratching that itch. I'm the same way: If I'm not learning and challenging myself intellectually on a regular basis, I end up depressed. Which isn't something society is very well set up for in my experience.

There are a couple of ways to proceed:

1.) Try to focus on career paths that allow you to learn/be happy. Going into research, returning to working at startups and accepting the stability limitations, etc. To do this, you want to look for positions where you learning directly helps the company. That way your interests are aligned.

2.) Decouple your intellectual life/happiness from your career path; whether this is possible depends on how much work demands from you. This is mostly what I do: I only work 20-30 hours a week in a non-tech job, so I have time to build terrible tech projects in my spare time + no pressure to learn or build for the sake of my career. I can just do whatever I want. It's very freeing, but of course, this has its downsides as well: I'm not well integrated into the tech community, for example.

Also consider that some of the stress may stem from your reliance on your career as well: Any situation where a single mistake/firing has devastating consequences results in stress. Minimizing this would involve building incomes, networks, etc. so you have a safety net.

Sedentarism, I can't help you, I'm reading the advice along with you, but that's my advice for happiness as somebody who prioritized doing work I like + makes the world better over money.
The article is word salad from a far-left SJW.

In communist Soviet Union, school and jobs were assigned, and if you didn't show up, you went to a gulag (remote prison.) If you protested in the gulag, you were executed. I'll take capitalism, thanks.
you dont always need arms to enact resistance.

-as in an environment can be made very hostile to interact with, no arms required

as for the poll it looks like western ukraine would be the most hostile.
Lots of good advice here. One additional thing to consider: why is your mind on stress from work?

How’s your marriage? How are your parents doing? Your kids? Who are some of your best friends?

How often are you physically active? Do you often go for walks, or play tennis, or garden?

How well are you sleeping? Do you love your mattress?

Any habits you’ve struggled to kick lately? Conversely, any hobbies you’ve really gotten into?

Personally, I’ve always noticed my personal happiness correlating MUCH more closely with the above than with work. If work isn’t it, you may want to consider some other angles.
> It’s already happening with companies like Lambda School focused on cultivating the next generation of software engineers by educating

Bad example. Lambda School had some pretty bad press on HN about having lower completion rates than advertised, etc.
What interesting software or locally producing electronics companies are there in Lithuania? I will by something from them instantly.
They’re highly addictive. Banning them turns millions into criminals.
Sure, but the last time they actually tried doing it we had a civil war in which millions died.
Governments are a reflection of the people. They're not some nebulous, abstract entity; they're literally made and run by people of each country. They're chosen–or in some cases imposed–to represent the people to the world. Even in dictatorships, it is the people that choose for governments to remain in power. When that stops being the case, governments are overthrown, and a new set of people take power.

The people of China choose to allow CCP to run their country. If they were so different ideologically the CCP would no longer exist. Countries with orders of magnitude less people struggle to remain united. The fact 1.4 billion people can be represented by the same political party speaks to the strong ideological ties that are shared by most Chinese people. I would argue that those ideologies were implanted by decades of brainwashing and totalitarianism, but how it was achieved doesn't change that fact.

So, yes, your experience and likely many others' is with good people. Countries are not exclusively bad or good. We can recognize those good traits that China has as a nation.

But it would be wrong to also not criticize the bad aspects, and sweep them under the rug as the CCP constantly tries to do. The rampant economic and moral corruption, overfishing of world's waters and general disregard for animal life and nature, disregard for human life, widespread racism and xenophobia, isolationism, etc.

These are not only governmental issues, but part of the modern Chinese culture that taints whatever good aspects we can celebrate.

Undoubtedly comparisons to the US will be made, but at least we can criticize bad US aspects (both government and cultural) openly, without random US citizens coming up with defensive arguments. The US government will persecute whistleblowers for airing its dirty laundry, but we've known that for decades.

I fear a world where the dominant superpower has such a culture and is closed to criticism—not only because of its oppressive government, but because of its people.
The issue was prohibition in the USA was that it indiscriminately criminalised selling, transporting, owning and consuming alcohol. With tobacco, modern countries could simply ban selling while allowing consumption. The risk is that the black market would flourish. I think the current policy of constantly hiking the price is a compromise: it restricts availability while limiting the development of parallel sell channels.
I think many people would like to see their loved ones live longer, healthier lives and die with relative comfort. That doesn't require being denial about their mortality.
A Man from Silicon Valley Moved to Colorado’s Front Range; Found a Place to Heal
> talking with a lot of people lets them see patterns an individual can't

This is a really nice distillation of the value of talking to a therapist. I really appreciate this comment.
Please take others in good faith and respond in kind - this forum isn't for low effort lambasting
Thank you for the feedback. I've publicly written a number of unpopular opinions during my 20-year career, and the only people it's gotten me in trouble with are those who I wouldn't want to be locked in an office with in the first place. Though I don't do it as much these days due to the rising generation of Internet creeps who will stalk you over a disagreement, I do appreciate your candor.
So they think that covid is over for them so they can go on? What about the unvaxed amongst them?
Taiwan officially withdrew from UN so that there won't be two China. Of course, it happened when Taiwan was militarily more advanced than China.
Generally I'd say yes at least for individuals with possession of substances for personal use.

There's a lot more justification to go after manufacturers like Perdue Pharma who engage in fraud.
> I dissolved the transistor-like package in boiling sulfuric acid

Well, well. Here's something cool to add to my list of home lab tools!
Nothing - because it's never going to happen.
And land armies without tanks! Last I heard the Netherlands had sold off all of theirs :/
I think you are approaching this from the wrong angle. You are assuming because the cream of the crop could achieve something (I.e. most certainly had college degrees) 70 years ago that we can still form society like that today.

But society is not the same as it was then. I don't think you can argue that the median job today requires the same amount of knowledge or skill then it did 70 years ago. And that is what college is for currently.

Of course you can still argue we don't need that many college graduates but your argument by itself is not convincing.
I'm pretty sure that an empty rational moral system would still be a rational moral system. You'd just have more freedom in it.

And regarding axioms, that's why you try to have as few as possible -- so that even though you can't prove them, you have at least the fewest possible points of failure possible.
This, to me, is the only compelling reason. Prohibition is almost always worse. Even just prohibition of production -- not use -- has substantial negative externalities.

Almost every other argument is absurd on-face. Even base appeals to "freedom" fall flat given the significant secondary and tertiary effects of smoke exposure, as well as the huge cost imposed on society by smoking.
Keep learning new tech. I would expect major retraining to be required much more often than even 10 or 20 years ago. Personally, I am a big fan of Coursera and eDX online courses, but any form of study is good.

Someone from HN just emailed me about this HN thread, and I will make the same comment to you as I did in an e-mail: “”” Every morning first thing, I spend a minute or two thinking of everything that I am grateful for, and having a useful job is on my gratitude list.

If I don’t do this, then sometimes I find it more difficult to be motivated at my remote job.”””

A feeling of gratitude gives me energy to keep learning and maintain curiousity.
> China would rather fight the entire western world than to let Taiwan go.

They already do. But now they do it via trade wars, strongly worded letters, Olympic boycotts. They ensure that the fight is China vs the enemy of the day (Today Lithuania). It’s unbalanced.
The “fight” vs the whole world wouldn’t be a hot war. It would be a more balanced diplomatic and economic conflict where China can’t bully one state at a time.
Well, one thing to consider, seems these days, it is OK to smoke marijuana but not tobacco.

So, I believe until it is illegal to put 'smoke' into your lungs, anything goes. But, as some US businesses are doing, increase Medical Costs for people who smoke anything. Hard to verify since I know of a few people who lie about smoking to avoid the increased rates. At least that is a start.
Happiness has not that much to do with a career, or anything external for that matter, once your basic needs are met.

It has everything to do with how well you understand yourself and can manage your mind.

Unfortunately, people are always looking for prescriptions for happiness, and ignoring this simple fact.
Guidelines depend on jurisdiction. Research conducted in the United States may have different requirements than other jurisdictions.

The underlying ethos is that researchers should respect the people who are participating in their studies. People should know that you are conducting a study, the aims of the study, and choose whether or not they want to participate.
And something else that needs to be said specifically about the Red programming language. I like the full-stack concept, ease of use, cross-compiling, and the goals they are shooting for. But, the lead developers need to get it moving. Like a small fire needs to be lit under the butt, as the competition isn't standing still.

The last stable release has been stuck at 0.6.4 since 2018. I know the lead developers have recent automated builds (December 2021), but come on, such is not going to inspire faith in casuals to join the bandwagon nor keep getting mentioned by the media. Many users like to see newer stable releases, until the project achieves its stated goals. A lot is to be said for maintaining momentum and enthusiasm.

That's another aspect of the hurdles for the newer programming languages, it's harder than ever to keep people's attention and whip up excitement.