skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because tobacco use is deeply engrained in culture, economy, politics, etc. There are tons of social and economical interests tied into all of that.

Tobacco use has a long history. Archeological finds indicate that humans in the Americas began using tobacco as far back as 12,300 years ago, thousands of years earlier than previously documented.

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

Also, society doesn't consist of people who all share the same mindset or the same faculties to come to a particular notion. There's a wild amount of diversity which defines people's identity. It is said that you can't reason someone out of a position they haven't reasoned themselves into. If you were raised in an environment with tobacco use, there's a high likelihood you're going to be a smoker from a young age as well.

Wholesale prohibiting tobacco use sounds like an easy fix. But it really isn't. Prohibitionism as a legal philosophy has its fair share of criticism as well:

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

Consider the complex history of Prohibition in the U.S. during the 1920s:

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

That doesn't mean tobacco, alcohol or any other drug consumption is problematic. It very much is, and it comes with immense suffering and a massive societal cost which shouldn't be ignored. But instead of approaching consumption as a singular law enforcement issue, the bigger challenge is to approach the education, healthcare, social, culture and economical issues that lead to the promotion of such consumption.

Even then, it's a pipedream to assume that the entirety of humanity will ever stop using tobacco. Or other substances for that matter.
Short answer - everything is expensive due to supply chain issues - at every step, videocards are even more expensive due to crypto miners using them. Unless you are price insensitive - wait a bit.
Not really, I read the article and saw the thesis, and I took exception to the "tobacco has no benefit", hence what I was saying about the beauty of the plant and the pleasure of some of the product. Many things have no benefit when taken from that same angle of medical analysis. The tobacco plant has benefits like many other pleasures, and a long social history on this continent of North America and in this region, among the people who were here before my people.

Despite people's dubious health claims about anti-oxidants and resveratrol, wine also has "no benefit" when taken from this angle. Alcohol generally, beyond its anti-septic/cleansing properties. But it has at least a 10,000 year history of pleasurable and social use, like tobacco.

It just has to be taken in the right context and the culture around it one of education and management of risks and context.
CS programs vary pretty widely in how much they focus on the theoretical/mathematical side of computer science vs. practical software engineering. I was in a similar boat to the CS majors in your comment at one point; I only started learning Git after talking with some fellow students who had practical experience.

Some programs, at least, are conscious of this problem. MIT built and shared their "Missing Semester" [1] course to help with this. There are also some schools developing more practical software engineering/computer engineering degree programs.

[1] https://missing.csail.mit.edu/
And for the politicians that are courageous enough, we use this widespread hysteria to remove them from office.
Back when I could use emacs for email, I was quite happy. Unfortunately, I have the advanced protection on in my Gmail account, so I haven't figured how to get that back, yet. App passwords aren't allowed on my account.

I have considered moving email accounts, but also don't have enough motivation for all that entails.
alias

.. but exa is not backwards compatible with ls OOPS

Which is why I stick with ls (and grep instead of rg and coreutils instead of shiny rust equivalent), I can't deal with the cognitive dissonance that arises from these differences.
> Why do we let politicians rather than epidemiologists make these decisions?

I think you got it exactly backwards. Politicians have successfully scapegoated themselves via epidemiologists (who's first and last consideration is to minimize infections) and people who refuse vaccination (even though the vaccinated are still just as epidemiologically relevant.)
I aliased `ls` to it… I don’t know how long ago. It’s been great.
The past 100 years of wars have show precisely the opposite to the observant.

Great distance stopped many, many wars. It is the reason the US is so rich, right now.

Economic consequences did not stop actual wars, yes. But in the event that an embargo is the only realistic alternative, it is a very powerful factor.
You're certainly a very inspiring person!

"Professionally there is nothing special about me except that I really enjoy working"

I think you may be underselling yourself a touch here ;)
I'm close to 250k range, with bonuses in the range. And I'm from Eastern Europe.
But yeah, your second paragraph is key for enabling that. Or being very lucky.
The parent you are responding to has a very colorful comment history too, with a certain theme to it. Strangely only in political threads.
Of course there is. Of course the West would still try to dispute it, but just like how the world saw through WMDs in Iraq if present with adequate evidence they would see through a thin denial.
I frequently hear about how amazing the experience of coding interactively with lisp is. I learned a bit of lisp (at the level of Practical Common Lisp) and scheme (via SICP) once upon a time, but I never coded interactively. Is there a way to demonstrate the power and utility to someone like me? Perhaps there are good videos or streams or materials specifically on or using the interactive development?
The rest of the world has been giving on this issue for at least 30 years. How's that going?
I'm self-taught. I would never recommend anyone go this route.
Because the required level is shit. And it has been downhill since the implementation of modern math and the rejection of math in the modern era or elitist path at school. We see it everywhere and especially in France or Switzerland. 10 years old native kids who can't read fluently. 15 years old who would write 1/2+1/3=2/5. They will keep this level of skills through the end of high school and master degree thanks to grade inflation and/or curve notation.

Public school is at at least 2 levels if not more. Elite will remain in their own world. Rich will just pour money on their kids education, middle class and the poor are fucked.

In France, most 18 years old would fail the brevet (end of middle school degree) as it was given in 1950s/60s. All the exams are pure jokes, and we see it in international education survey (PISA or even better TIMMS, level are dropping beside for the top 5%)
The only way to opt out is to stop using it - clicking accept/reject will most likely make no difference at all especially given Facebooks past behavior - I believe you can't trust them to honor any "opt-out"...

Its my opinion its just a box ticking permission for what they are doing already....
I think immediately calling names proves my point...
> People who support lockdowns aren't interested in facts; their viewpoints are shaped by marketing.

Sweeping generalizations aren't really adding to the discussion here. Please assume the best of others. We're all trying to find the best way forward with incomplete information. And tying ideas too closely to ones identity, or that of others, won't help us adapt as more evidence come to light.
Stop spreading nonsense.

Xi Jinping studied chemical engineering. Zhu Rongji studied electrical engineering.
This is so true. I was recently interviewing grads for a job that, while not development, had a number of applicants with CS degrees (in UK). I couldn't believe how little coding they had done. Their main projects were mostly machine learning based, and all were using Pandas and Scikit learn... Great for data science but hardly a coding challenge!
Yes, but his point is that the society that marshaled those degree-holders only had a pool of 5% of graduates to draw on. There's no question that some jobs require college education; the question is whether there are enough of them to justify pushing the majority of 18-year-olds into 4-year colleges.
> I'm afraid none in the West. Speaking, and writing Taiwanese Chinese is something really needed to get onto the cutting edge of device fabrication.

You should take a look at
http://opencircuitdesign.com/
You don't need "to get onto the cutting edge of device fabrication".
You need to search for a VLSI design class.
Sadly this is true. I've had conversations with very smart people who can't find a job. They often attribute it to some hiring shortcoming or bias, and sometimes that's the case. But for a couple of these people the reason was obvious: they were not "presentable" and didn't have a personality that would enable them to function well in a team, i.e. they didn't dress properly, didn't look after their personal hygiene, and were quite unpleasant to talk to.
Are you happy with the area of work you are working on or is it just a job? Working someplace where you feel like you have an impact on something meaningful can also help a lot with happiness.
How do you accomplish that? Does your manager just don't care about you? Do you work for yourself? Are you retired?
You should have sympathy because those individuals were lied to in terms of employment opportunities post degree.
>Not sure why people think otherwise.

Because stock compensation can be vastly different experiences therefor not just as good as getting cash.
I don't even know if this is arguable. Most service jobs likely could be trained within a week at most. The most complicated part generally involves learning how to operate a point of sale system. Most of them could be operated by anyone, which is why self checkouts are a thing now.

Farming on the other hand, especially modern farming, must take a lot longer to learn. There is a lot more to learn about your equipment alone, nevermind your crops, fertilizers, rotating fields, weather patterns, etc.
I would just buy a pre-made machine with the GPU and CPU and RAM you require.

I build my own and have done for years and years and these days I am considering just buying one from https://www.acom-pc.de
curious to know where you were going with this comment
Maybe tangential but that makes me think how opposing mathematics/science/rationality to art/intuition/emotions with people falling in one or the other category seems a relatively recent phenomenon, whereas in the past (Ancient Greece or Renaissance with Da Vinci being the obvious example) that distinction was not present.
>unification is Chinese core value, which is valued more than western freedom of speech, and that this core value has been around for thousands of years.

I don't have an opinion on that. Just want to point out that out of the previous 2500 years, China has been unified for only 500 years, and 300 of those 500 years was spent under the yoke of a foreign invader (the Mongols).
> who you know than what you know

Yeah, the world is a social place. There's a reason European royalty sent their kids to etiquette classes, and even these days fraternities and sororities have formals. That's how the world works. Someone that's surprised by this in their 20s or 30s was failed by their parents or immediate community and this has nothing to do with college.

You need to be nice to people, you need to be friendly, you need to know people, attend events, be fun and jovial, etc. Politeness and relationships are the underpinning of our entire society.

But if you're introverted (like me), this takes very deliberate practice. Over the past few years, I've posted in every monthly "who's hiring" thread here on HN as just an exercise and to meet people (mostly local to LA). I've met dozens of really cool entrepreneurs, fellow engineers, VPs, C-levels, and other smart folks. Most of these connections will go nowhere, but I wanted to practice being more outgoing by grabbing a beer or coffee and talking about life/technology/anything with strangers. I was able to put together an investor I met with a friend of mine that's trying to raise money; was able to pitch some startup ideas to folks that worked in that domain; but more importantly grow my rolodex and become more comfortable with the art of networking.
Why should ads be so free to run arbitrary code? It seems to me that in the end Google should be held responsible for anything they serve to others. If they'd be fined for this lack of oversight, perhaps they'd block javascript as a whole until they do have proper oversight in place?
Don't believe that, he got special treatment and he does not understand a thing while studying there, that department in that university was full of people like him(youth who had powerful parents need a diploma quick after culture-revolution gap) for political assignments. Xi himself even claimed he got a PhD degree for that matter, it's so embarrassing that he eventually pulled that claim off after internet was full of his PhD jokes a few years back.
One of the highest-growth jobs for liberal arts graduates (which make up the majority of graduates) is human resources. I'll plant a flag in this conversation right now and say that no part of the human resources job requires a 4-year college degree.
Have They Endorsed NFTs?
I would much rather see Guix or Nix become the standard than Flatpak/AppImage/Snaps.
This goes a fair bit beyond “disproportionate imprisonment”, as I’m sure you know.
Both exa and lsd[1] are amazing ls replacements. I personally stuck with lsd as it was easier to alias to ls but great work by exa.

1. https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd
> Chinese vessels regularly violate territorial waters, and there is an ongoing spat with India around their borders.

If you are talking about India's spat with China in terms of territorial waters, I think the general consensus is that India is in excess of international law with its claims and China is conducting legal freedom of navigation operations just like the US does.

The SCS is an entirely different issue, where both China and Taiwan have made territorial claims that are largely illegal under international law.
The “bailouts” are for students of community colleges and state universities.

Definitely a worthwhile policy to pursue.
Could that be youre anxious because youre not getting __all__ the "special" attention you think you deserve? If yes, then trying everything in terms of career to get enough attention wont help, getting "attention fix" on hn either. Are you capable of being alone or does that makes you miserable?

I dont know what it is, but its not your career. Youre telling it yourself, youve been doing everything right.
What about a tree which automatically fills the available height of the console, while staying balance ? Look at https://dystroy.org/broot/tricks/
What are some examples/places you've seen that have simultaneously allowed marijuana smokeing but discouraged tobacco smoking? In my country the signs are just "no smoking" they don't say what
Best observed while grocery shopping in chinatowns or dense Asian marketplaces. I'd say 95% of canned and packaged products stocked are imports from China.
> So much about protecting the children…

At least for covid, this has never been about protecting the children, mostly about protecting old people. I remember a classmate calling it "sacrificing the mental health of the youth for the physical health of the old".
In the UK we closed schools, universities and workplaces during lockdowns while keeping heathrow airport open - the busiest in the country. Business travel was allowed, but nurseries were closed.

Back in September 2020, there was a big campaign in the UK press to get everyone back to work. Celebrities posed next to quotes saying you'd lose your job if you didn't go back to the office. The works. Many people went.

We chose to re-open universities, too, even though the movement of students back and forth between home and dorms was likely to be a constant flood of superspreader events.

We could have chosen to keep nurseries and primary schools open during much of the pandemic, and avoided crushing women under domestic work (which is now well documented) while harming the development of children by pulling them out of stimulating environments designed to help nurture them.

We always had a budget for transmission that varied by age group, and we decided to blow that budget on students and workers at the expense of children.

As a society, our choices and priorities are absolutely ghastly. Lockdowns were and still are right, but not for children.
> I can use websites to videoconferencing.

> I can use websites to compress images, to compute tabulated data on various Excel clones, remotely control devices or play games.

You sure can, but you probably shouldn't. These use cases are much better served by native apps. Shoehorning hypertext documents with macros into being applications will never come close to writing proper applications, in terms of both UX and performance.

I really wish we would undo many of the "advancements" of the web technology. This scope creep needs to stop, yesterday.

I wish there to be an answer to a simple question: when is a web browser finished?
Is it that different than the US complaining about Iran/NK/flavor of the week?
Because you need a special type of mindset and already be good in a school environment. If you are a drop out, not hard working/studying, you will most likely fail your endeavor.

And catching back a good degree might be challenging depending where you live.
Flagship state universities are an expensive luxury product. Means-tested relief is worth pursuing, but "state school graduates" writ large are not an especially sympathetic cohort.
>"So there is the conundrum: tobacco has no benefit, yet it can’t be outlawed. So, as a society, and as health care professionals specifically, we are driven to what remains for us to use as tools for smoking cessation: rational or emotional arguments, structured cessation programs, drugs, patches, e-cigarettes and gum, among others. And these are working, albeit slowly."

>"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."

The above conclusion in the article and your conclusion in your comment are identical was all I meant.
Tried uploading official id. I am apparently also not allowed to upload official id. Not sure if it's the 24 h limit for that although that seems to contradict the other info about first having to wait 24h to get confirmed.
If we cared about up front treatment as much as we cared about vaccinations and stopped seeing one as preventing the uptake of the other we'd see a lot less hospitalizations.
There's already a massive black market for people who want to smoke in the form of tax stamp fraud. It used to be even bigger than it currently is, but there are two forces working against it: the overall decline of organized crime starting in the 1980s, and the overall decline in the number of smokers.

Black markets are a reality under current economic conditions, and they're a reality even in completely legal markets (there's always someone willing to pay XX% less in exchange for YY% more legal risk). Putting extreme taxes and/or fines on smoking might pour gas on that market, but long-term trends just don't support its survival.

And as for fines: we already have a legal structure for that[1].

[1]: https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/wages/garnishments
You may be right, but then shouldn't the standard route for most developers be vocational rather than academic? How many developers do we need in the workforce with this academic background?
I presume you’ve never been stressed out about anything?
The decision to purchase something or not, in the context of discretionary spending, is fundamentally an emotional one. Sure you can describe it in rational terms, attempt to constrain your own impulses with rationality etc, but at the end if it it's a heuristic. That's all I meant.

In case you didn't get my larger point. Take two people both with $10k in cash. One has $1M in the stonk market, the other does not. The first will spend that cash like a millionaire (because they are), where the second one is likely to hold back because that cash is their emergency fund. Even though they have the same exact amount of M2, their purchasing powers are defined by the amount of non-monetary assets they hold.
Myths about Teams
This is not google, but a third party ad network serving ads through google.

Google tries to sandbox the creatives in an attempt to prevent issues exactly like this, and develops browser features to prevent issues exactly like this.

This is likely a script that somehow avoided google's malware scanning pipelines.

This is definitely not google's malintent.

Disclaimer: Ex googler, worked in ads, dealed with problems like this all the time.
> Nothing is free

That's what taxes are supposed to be for. What's the different if I pay 10k a year to an insurance company or the government for my family to have affordable access to healthcare? With the current system, I'm not even getting that, my entire family has never exceeded our crazy high deductibles. We have some form of control over who gets to run our government programs, no matter how small that form of control is, it's better than the zero control we have over the practices of private companies or the terrible choices private companies make about what insurance we get to even have in the first place.
Unless you can prove that my actions are directly harming you, you have no claim to control over what I do. My skin demarks the beginning of a sovereign dictatorship ruled by me. Your rules and desires do not apply here.

Second hand smoke = direct

Economic impact = indirect
Calling disproportionate imprisonment (and racist imprisonment by ethnicity) "genocide" is genocide-trivialization, in my view.

It wasn't a "genocide" when we imprisoned 1 in 3 black people in this country, even though it was pretty awful.

The Holocaust was a genocide.
Those of us who are immune compromised or obese are people too. I don't expect the whole world to stop for me, though would appreciate if folks take some precautions until hospitals can manage the flood. (In the US over 40% of adults are obese.)
>Nobody, except the misled population (who are being propagandized) or extremely dim-witted subsets of elites (who are doing the propaganda, and go high of their own supply so to say) actually care about these issues.

IMO, this is a much bigger problem for Western nations. They want to pressure Hollywood and the NBA to take a stand against China, but that is exactly what China wants. They don't get any economic value from importing entertainment, so they would much rather that money circulate domestically. This is exactly what happened in with H&M and Nike when they started to look into Xinjiang forced labor. China had an excuse to encourage a consumer boycott, but they happily continued to manufacture for them, widening our trade deficit.
First part of the analysis is correct. But I care to disagree with the second one starting from here "For all the talk about COVID unlocking the global marketplace of talent, I don't see any evidence of that happening yet."
I work exclusively remotely for around 4 years, and I was able to find good remote jobs previously, but after the pandemic started I noticed a large increase of offers and especially noticeable were offers from US companies/startups which were less common before.
I'm based in Eastern Europe, but I do spend a lot of time abroad also traveling and I'm happy that a lot of new companies have embraced remote work.