skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't always control much in life, but one thing I've learned that you can always control is perspective. Sometimes it's nice to be the "This Is Fine" dog, blissfully ignoring all that isn't right, and focusing on what is (that cup-o-joe in front of you?) Doing that can help when awaiting calmer seas.

Hang in there. I think the past two years have been rough for many, so you aren't alone in the struggles. If you haven't already gotten diet and exercise to a good point then that can also be good for helping both the body and the mind.

Additionally, I'm always up for a chat, if anyone ever needs someone to reach out to.
Looks like a perfect dream team of Chinese scammers and American business bullshitters
Tangent: I have years of academic studies. And yet it can be time consuming to truly understand where and how ideas came to be. I might have an equation but to understand how it was initially thought of or derived might require access to physical contemporary books. At least once I've had to resort to 18th century handwritten manuscripts. Wikipedia can be great. But I often wonder if historical scientific progress can be made even more accessible.
What constitutes an "excellent open source history"? People that code often don't want to be bothered by organization and financial matters, and vice-versa, community work is still often disregarded as not truly open source work. Some people did sit down, did all the leg-work of getting funding for a study, did a study, published it (open source under CC-BY) - including a plan for the setup of the fund, cost analysis, how many people to employ and their pay (btw: roughly 10% of the budget, which seems reasonable at first glance), legal analysis of three funding models (1) and then someone with a random new internet account complains about their open source history (2) and their gender (3)

(1) the government can't just go throw money at people without rules.
(2) they at least have a published 50 page study
(3) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29683265
You are young and not tied down by anything, so you are probably not lacking for options, you just don’t have an obviously optimal one staring you in the face.

The best thing to do is try some things that interest you.

You burnt out quickly doing traditional IT, so use that experience to learn about yourself and actually work on yourself. What mindsets and behaviors caused you to burn out? What changes would you need to make to be successful? IT can be at fault in this situation, but you can still learn from it.

Every job is this way, there will be things to learn in unexpected places.

Since you are young, it is a good time to take some risks. Maybe take a job in a completely different field? Deck out your resume as best you can and apply, apply, apply!

Have a backup plan for if you start to feel burnt out. Look at jobs at a golf course or arboretum, doing something easy and outdoors, but only as a short term thing while hunting for your next thing.

Try to show your value even in places like that. Take yourself seriously and do excellent work even in trivial things. Take pride in your work ethic, while also drawing boundaries and taking pride in healthy hobbies (preferably outdoors).

Meet people, ask about what they do. Bad with names? Add them on LinkedIn.

As I said in the beginning, you aren’t lacking for options, so you will need to get good at making decisions. Don’t worry about what’s the best, just look for things that sound interesting and give it a shot.
> Is Vietnam in any way "more independent" today than if the north had lost?

Yes.

> and is now mostly friendly towards the US.

Independence works like that. When you let a country decide instead of forcing by military power, they might even choose to like you -- or at least, not hate you.

The US and Britain are friends and allies in modern times, after all.
> But still, I cannot believe that people who are supposedly scientists start quoting the bible when they are themselves involved in maybe one of the greatest scientific achievements of our time. How does that resolve?

As atheist: even if you don’t believe in christianity, the bible is still a book with some stories that have made a massive impact and which can evoke deep emotion in many readers/listeners. Especially in such an emotional context as venturing out into space.
Unrelated: consider viewing ADHD/ASD people not in terms of deficits/disorder but as having a different cluster of characteristics instead (that can be both an advantage and disadvantage)
Organizing a Christmas virtual video drop-in meeting of folks feeling isolated sounds like a worthy way to offer some company
People still buy bottled water even though the container costs more than the water inside. But yeah, I don't inherently disagree with what you're saying, yes eventually it will might become cheaper to automate most menial jobs than to hire people to do them. However I think the harder problem is figuring out what the millions of people whose jobs cease to exist can do instead. Unless we do that unskilled labour will continue to be very cheap, in fact so cheap that hiring them might still be cheaper than automation (so it won't make much sense for companies to invest in it). And I'm not sure that every single person can be an engineer or the type of sales or management professional who would remain useful in a 'fully automated' society.
xpilot (http://www.xpilot.org/)

Back in the day (about 1993/4?) we had what we'd now call LAN parties playing this game in the computer labs at university. To the point where the admins banned any use before a certain time in the evening because it overloaded the shared 10Mbps ethernet.

Also there was a great Breakout game for X11 at around the same time that I cannot find anything about now.
Tried it again on desktop chrome with mobile simulation turned on and cache turned off. The Google.com front page still loads in about 1 second and it honest feels identical on an actual phone.

Despite what other comments seems to suggest here, the Google landing pages is actually pretty clean and not very heavy on the JavaScript.
I’m surprised this worked at all. Do you have a link?
I've had smaller hotels tell me they can't host foreigners due to some law that you need to have a star rating which they didn't. The only time I had problems booking a hotel was in Shanghai and Beijing though, in other cities there was never an issue.

Also I was always greeted with utter friendliness, so I don't get the everybody's xenophobic aspect. I do speak some (very basic) Mandarin though so maybe that helps with how you're treated.
I’m in the same position, but it’s okay.

Have a virtual hug back! And a virtual hug to anyone else who needs it!!
Ok? So we agree? I have seen American money. I find it particularly distasteful that we also carved “In God we trust” into the halls of Congress. I’m missing your point though.
The pace of innovation should slow, as innovations become increasingly more difficult. The low hanging fruit naturally is discovered/built first.

Fusion power harder than Fission, Webb harder than Hubble, bigger particle smashers harder than smaller. Sometimes earlier innovations allow you to accelerate the next innovation but eventually you get diminishing returns.

We older tech and science nerds need to be careful not to fall in the “kids these days” traps. The kids are allright, the innovations of the past were full of chaos irrationally and mistakes as well.
Getting your passwords requires two things: the master password (which should be strong) and the password file. Some pw managers add further factors.

Most people use simple passwords like cat12345. Or they use more complex passwords but share them between sites. Pw manager fixes that.

It's not perfect, but for most of us it's much better than most obvious alternatives.
We're not discussing the US, we're discussing the latest abuse of power by the CCP. That's where the link goes. Would you like to next make a false equivalence of US prison labor to slave labor in China? Because that's where this goes, every thread.

Submit a link of the US' latest atrocity to HN. A world of tolerance allows and accepts the stories of violence perpetrated by all actors. The reason you are seeing so many related to China is we have some new flagrant human rights abuse happening from the CCP every week, sometimes multiple times a week, that's why you see so many of these stories percolate to the top. Just two days ago, the CCP tore down the statue commemorating the Tiananmen Square massacre in Hong Kong. [1]

This is the screaming of the machine doing its work of control, every day of every week. The memories of them will be inhaled whole and exhaled as dust, a phantom of a thing that never truly existed.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-59764029
In our house it was like; they’re launching the Webb! Do you think they’re gutted about working Christmas? No, I think they’re enjoying the best Christmas present ever.

Congratulations to all involved.
Hang in there! Mental health is serious business, I hope you have a good professional you can turn to.

Programming is a great distractions, as others have pointed out. Make sure you don't use it to completely displace the pain you're feeling. You need to spend some time with it as well, that's how we humans deal with an it. Alternating between moments of distraction and periods of "dealing" is a good middle way, I think.

You're a great human being, never forget that.
How can you tell if a hotel registers you with the local government? I am not saying they are (never bothered to cross the Atlantic) but you have no way of knowing what they do.

My assumption is they all do, directly or not. I mean, 2013 did happen. Guess not everyone was paying attention
Sort of. The UN Security Council refers cases to the International Criminal Court for prosecution [1], and the ICC, both present and historical ad hocs, is a creature of it [2]. China isn’t a state party to the ICC, which limits its jurisdiction, and vetoes UN criticism of it, so pointing to either of these bodies as exonerations is tantamount to asking Beijing is the CCP is committing genocide.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome_Statute_of_the_Internat...
> IMHO, programming (the practice) itself doesn't require math.

Strictly that is incorrect, but I get what you mean and agree with the point you’re communicating. I suspect it’s largely due to the rather dysfunctional way mathematics is taught in America.

Writing C for example requires knowledge of order of operations, inequalities, boolean arithmetic, and something very much like mathematical induction if you want your loops to terminate. Most programmers with the math optional mindset just don’t think of all the math they’re doing as math. For me the realization was empowering since once I realized I really was using a lot of math it inspired me to start filling gaps in my knowledge.

Edit: This looks interesting: https://pimbook.org/
Maybe a bit of both? If my relationship is going on the rocks I’d rather it happen after 4 months or 2 years than after 7.
going through whimsicalisms posts, and it's actually hard to build a picture of state-run propaganda. They talk about Taiwanese independence like it's a given, for example. This could possibly be a cultural misunderstanding.

Never attribute to malice etc.
You don't need web3 to punch holes in The Great Firewall of China. I've got a tech illiterate acquaintance living there right now and they regularly finds ways around it.
In the pandemic’s early days, Dr. Fauci tended to cite the same 60 to 70 percent estimate that most experts did. About a month ago, he began saying “70, 75 percent” in television interviews. And last week, in an interview with CNBC News, he said “75, 80, 85 percent” and “75 to 80-plus percent.”

In a telephone interview the next day, Dr. Fauci acknowledged that he had slowly but deliberately been moving the goal posts. He is doing so, he said, partly based on new science, and partly on his gut feeling that the country is finally ready to hear what he really thinks.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/health/herd-immunity-covi...

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/90445
>the password file

I use the online version. There's a browser plugin.
Yes, somewhat stressful: "JWST has 344 single-point failures, 80% of which are in deployment systems"
Brahmaputra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmaputra_River is another notable river whose upper course was not well known till fairly recently.

What fills me with wonder and awe is that it is believed to be older than the Himalayas. Yet it cuts through the Himalayas, originating further North but traveling South, to eventually drain into the Bay of Bengal, sharing the delta with Ganges -- I would be hard pressed to find a more apt metaphor about overcoming Himalayan obstacles.

The river Indus shares the source, Manasarovar with Brahmaputra. Indus lines the subcontinent on the West, draining into the Arabian sea, while Brahmaputra lines it on the East. So essentially, one can consider the subcontinent to be encircled by water.
How did the vaccinated person ruin Christmas?
Not an IR astronomer, but this is a 'no'. The delta between the 'hot' and the 'cold' side of the telescope is very impressive if the sunshield is working, without that the mission would be a failure because the IR sensors need to be that cold to work. You might still get some visible light work done but the IR part of the mission would be over because the sensors would effectively be blind.

For reference:

https://www.inverse.com/article/42894-sunshield-rips-keep-ja...
I probably should have added the implied "in this particular way at least".

Also, the problems you describe don't affect all of the western world. And I would like to add, based on talking to a few chinese friends, those things are a problem in China as well. Competition in particular is quite brutal from kindergarten onwards there.
Ok, this makes much more sense than the click-baity title, i already knew that to a degree.They'll probably never ban steam because it doesn't make sense, even if you are "PRC"
The expansion of Chinese civilization in the south was also not entirely peaceful. It followed patterns of settlers occupying fertile lands and forcing indigeneous people to retreat to less fertile ones and to mountain ranges. The suppressions of the Miao/Hmong rebellions during Ming and Qing dynasty was quite brutal.

The spread of civilization and the establishment of the modern nation states was rarely peaceful, neither in the West, nor in the East, and in many cases required cultural assimilation. It is disingeneous to pretend it was otherwise.
Thank you. None of what you say is intuitive or obvious to me. I have no way of working out what goes on without these candid insights you shared. Thank you so much. What you say seems to fit with what I witnessed in my colleague so at last I have something to go on.

> the ADHD brain needs reassurance and dopamine hits. She wasn't getting ANY from herself

That sounds like the core deficit.

> but everyone pretty much with ADHD is a failure in their head. no matter how successful we are. no matter how many little wins we structure for ourselves. at the end of the day we are broken, physiologically, our brains aren't giving us what we need from the tasks we do.

I see. OK. I would not have dared assume that. At last I have a model to work with, of the voice in my colleague's head.

> "ugh i know i have all these fun hobbies and projects that i myself have set up for myself to do but i cant do anything. no i'm not depressed. i have absolutely zero in the tank for even enjoyable things. i have no volition left."

Zero in the tank, OK. So, if that's the case, I can't expect her to bootstrap or therapy herself. I need something else. At the time, I couldn't do as much for her as you suggest - giving her praise, stepping in to organise and structure her tasks. I wasn't available for that. But what you're saying, is that without the external assistance, the result will be failure.

> do you know what is the most fun for people on the ADHD spectrum (and i think just engineers in general but there is a critical difference)? planning out a thing. making that list. coming up with ideas. sketching it out.

Yeah, she loves that. So do a lot of people.

> everything up until DOING THE ACTUAL THING.

This seems to be where we fork. Other people learn how to get rewards from the doing and the completion of tasks. The rewards take time to manifest, so nobody learns straight away. It takes time and repetition and faith. Before we can learn, we have to learn how to learn. But most people learn eventually, because the rewards for KPI manifestation are the biggest of all. But it sounds like you are saying ADHD people can't go through this process.
There are more than two alternatives. Each has their own strengths and weaknesses. None are ideal.

encrypted password vault
hash-based password generation
paper-grid password generation
paper password pocketbooks
post-it notes on the monitor
Not enough KGB officers to tail them.

/s

There was multitude of reasons but the main ones were what you needed to have a good standing in the society[0] and the need to control every aspect of that society. People who would see a (even a little) better living could start asking questions. One could say that was a result of fear.

[0] the article provides one such example:

> Because of Dmitry’s active involvement in the communist youth groups, when he was 15, his school sent him to the Pioneer summer camp in Nordhausen near Erfurt in East Germany.
Tripsafe, Erowid, psychonaut and r/drugs are among the best ressources the web has been able to produce: thousands of actual trip reports, and empirically tested Risk Reductions procedures withtout stigma or judgement.

Dont do drugs as a illegal thing that give you the thrill of being a bad boy. Take a scientifi approach of risk evaluation, read testimonies and reports and ensure your own safety, as you would do for something like diving and skydiving.

Also never do drugs "because it makes you feel better when you are sad".

Dont hesitate to ask more question
I think that was after his first wife died. I do wonder to what extent his later somewhat casual sex attitude was influenced by the traumatic experience of his first deep love dying young.
I am not spending Christmas alone, but sometimes I wish I was. The holidays are the toughest time of year for me, because they bring up bad memories from my childhood, and the darkness of winter amplifies it and makes me feel dead inside. Every year around the holidays I have at least one really bad breakdown, and I'm just way more vulnerable emotionally, so everything hurts so much more and for longer. The pain generally has to do with relationships with other people though, so being alone helps. I don't know if it would be better to be totally alone, as OP is, but spending extensive amounts of time with family or a romantic partner is just terrible for me. Cheers OP, buy yourself a gift.
Bullshit.

Shit like this is almost exclusively a Chinese activity https://www.propublica.org/article/purdue-president-condemns...

You can find countless examples of groups of Chinese people engaging in downright horrible behavior like this, good luck finding many western counterparts.

Where are the western nationalists SWATting families of people who dare to say critical things of their governments?

Nobody will send the secret police to harass my family if I dare to criticize my government, but if I was Chinese they certainly would.

I’m sure it would be possible to indoctrinate westerners to behave in a similar way, but the fact remains that currently it’s the Chinese who are uniquely indoctrinated.
There tends to be a lot of negativity when discussing the USSR - there is an implicit selection bias here; in a US-centric forum, you are much more likely to encounter expats, and their stories will not generally be happy ones: in the end, something caused them to leave.

So it's good to see some contrasting views. Tell us about your life!
USA has a number of things in common with most totalitarian regimes, from forced labour camps, to the creepy “pledge of allegiance to the state” which all the school kids are forced to recite every day. It’s quite creepy from the European point of view.
Not just the risk of a crazy trap-setting knifeman attack, but the risk of other things that are likely to block a single exit (as fire sometimes does.)
They still honor it. I have to tell squid which domains to not MITM because some of Google's sub-domains, paypal, the EFF and a few others still use it.
Not only out of place but it even felt downright offensive for some of us European folks.
No different than quoting the Quran and praising Allah for the JWST.

How about praising NASA, CSA, ESA and CNES for this brilliant endeavor?
Which itself followed the Great Bullion Famine, where there was too little gold and silver available:

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

It's also amusing that silver was far more critical than gold historically.
Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]
>These mobile network tracking datasets have been commercially available long beforehand.

Hopefully not. Canada has fairly strict privacy legislation.
> I'd need to see specific links. It's difficult to answer that generically

Sorry, no links; I was asking generically. (Though a couple pro-PRC guys on this page feel pretty close.)

> the time-honored internet adage explains what do to: don't feed the trolls. I would never underestimate the wisdom of that advice. It may be the wisest thing the internet has ever said.

Yup. (Well, immediately after anything posted by me, of course.) Sometimes hard to remember, though: Provocateurs provoke.

Anyway, forget all that for a while, and have a merry Christmas!
Ontario shatters all previous Covid-19 records with 9,571 new cases
I'm confused: what did the `create_a_directory` helper do before it shelled out to `mkdir -p`? Just a trivial wrapper around the `mkdir` C function?
I use xeyes as a kind of "is remote X working" test. Quick way to test that X forwarding through ssh is functional and fast enough.
No one missed this because Americans are educated in these atrocities from their early years in school.

On the other hand, such a record of atrocities committed by the CCP is not taught in Chinese schools. The Hundred Flowers Campaign, the reconstitution of Tibet and the sending of its natives to work camps by the half million have been erased from the record.
Holy shit you were not joking. I’m trying to like the book, but while I like the story, it borders on unreadable.

I find myself trying to figure out what the author was thinking while writing something out, as only half of the words seem to make it to the paper.
Why mitigate against fire at all? If the standard is that most of the world has to be burning for that to be practical, it'll never be practical.
There's nothing wrong in being alone. Some (mostly narcissistic assholes) even pay for fancy "spiritual" retreats and what not.
i don’t know if this was intentional but the “process” comment is hilarious given all of its applications within the 76ers organization
Thanks, but no thanks: sounds a bit too close to Onan for my tastes.
If you ever had this feeling telling you "This can't be it, there must be more to this story...", then you should at least consider this avenue.
> a. Left China b. Are talking to a foreigner about politics

This is a weird form of racism I see from a lot of people coming from a Chinese perspective, and it's very arrogant and abrasive.

When a Chinese person is outside of China, they are the foreigner. Walking around the U.S. and calling people laowai is really a... questionable choice.
Lol “ he had just saved the lives of three people” typical crap from the guardian. No doubt almost none of these people would have come to harm from these keyboard warriors. It’s amazing that anyone reads this rag for anything other than a joke