skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Americans are ruthlessly free spirits with a disrespect for herd mentality and overglorification of extreme individualism. No amount of COVID information nor misinformation has anything to do with vaccine hesitancy.

Being american is in many ways being rebellious. Vaccine mandates go in opposition to this very american spirit, a spirit of irreverance, rock and roll. Misinformation has nothing to do with why americans are refusing to get vaccinated. Informing them further wont change this fact, america would not have been founded without a rebellious spirit.

Your imposition of your beliefs by the way, are not to protect the other americans, its for your own "salvation". You want so desperately to be right, you're willing to only look at information that aligns with your belief system. You want your enemies to be wrong and you want them punished for not holding the same beliefs you do. If you really cared about the people who are not choosing to get vaccinated, you would let them be free to make their own choices, even if it means their death.

I repeat this over and over again. Everyone who wants to get vaccinated is vaccinated. Everyone who's willing to take the risk of not being vaccinated is willing to die for their freedom. There is nothing stopping us from opening up now. Its just theater for one side to blame the other for not being good little sheep. The anti-mandaters have been ready to open up for months now, and they don't care if they die, they don't care if they lose their jobs, they don't care if they are ostracized. Honk if your horny!

If only the ones pointing fingers saying we can't open up because of the unvaxxed, would stop crying and realize that we have been able to open up already for a long time now, we would be able to open up. But alas, it seems people aren't here to solve problems but to be angry, point fingers, and blame others for a situation which they can fix themselves. I'll repeat that one more time, you aren't here to debate or ameliorate or fix the situation, because if you were we would have been done with this a long time ago.

You're here because you want to be angry at the people who refuse stand on your side of the field like drunk men in a football stadium harassing anyone who wears the other color. And this is why you care so much about getting the unvaccinated vaccinated, not to save their lives. Oh no. you relish it when there's news of people who lie in hospital beds regretting not getting the vaccine. You relish in that schadenfreude, you relish in it because you are so desperate to be right, unable to realize its not about any information/misinformation/disinformation. Its about rebellion, you're just mad that some people just don't play along.
I'll raise you "Gold Diggers of 1933".

If you haven't seen it, enjoy! It'll change your mind about old movies. It was a long time before sexy movies returned.
It’s extremely likely that a few weeks or months off (paid or unpaid) combined with therapy (to process everything that comes up) will do wonders to your well being, outlook and future goals. If you can afford it, do it.
Maybe you should also look into eatmydata. It can speed up apt (when installing dependencies) by an order of magnitude. It will also speed up your builds in general. (I am guessing you don't care about a half built package in case of a power failure)
No, the first book I recommended.

The above commenter is very right - that's the role I'd intended the line beneath it to fill, though it clearly doesn't.
tongue in cheek

The dictionary! It’s THE book you need to write many other books!
There were many similar threads on HN in the past, and my recommendation is always the same: "The problems of philosophy" by Bertrand Russell

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5827/5827-h/5827-h.htm
In some ways, error messages are like crutches for the users. Some of the badly written error messages makes sense to the author of the code but not to the user of the code. For instance, this helpful reply on SO actually made me chuckle when I first read it, since the implication was that the error message makes sense when you understand what is going on, whereas a good error message is supposed to work the other way around

https://stackoverflow.com/a/43180701
i thought so too. but mockery is easyli misinterpreted and then sounds like more of the same unreasonable.
Agreed. The King James version especially is full of "Huh, so that's where that phrase came from" moments. If you like literature at all, definitely read The Book.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bible

In terms of literary quality, I especially recommend Ecclesiastes and the Gospel of John.
I build and compete with cars! You can do it very cheaply too, any stock car can do rallycross or autocross, for example.

I rallycrossed my daily driver for years before getting into stage rally. A skidplate is recommended, though. I've rallycrossed VW golf's, Toyota Camrys, Honda Accords, Civics, a Dodge Omni, trucks, anything really that I can get my hands on to compete with. Modern cars are tough, and you won't usually even scratch anything.

I very much recommend rallycross as it teaches you a lot about car control, and you can enter for ~$50. If you're in CA there's Norcal, Socal, and CRS series.

Norcal series:
http://www.norcalrallycross.com

Socal:
https://www.calclubrallyx.com/

My email is my username at Gmail, if you want to reach out.
Not scientists, not even mostly doctors, just 270 random medical professionals:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10418589/Most-270-s...
Dendrite is still beta, and is categorically not reliable yet - Dendrite 0.6 (released last week) has a tonne of major changes; switching from Kafka to NATS, refactoring a bunch of the microservices and general heart surgery as we knock it into shape.

Synapse on the other hand is mature and solid (if still a bit resource heavy).

Sorry that you got bitten by this :(
>I doubt you will find any example where minorities suffered from too much free speech.

people of minority X are subhumans and should not be allowed the same rights as the rest of us!

Yes, minorities did not suffer from having free speech; they did suffer from others having it.
War and peace by Leo Tolstoy
> And you got more information than they do, always

This sounds like a dangerous thing to think. If the rest of my team does not have more information than me, I have failed to convey the important things I know.

My team, on the other hand, has lots of information from the trenches that I might lack.

> In every discussion/project/problem/situation, it needs to be clear who makes decisions

While I understand where this is going, I disagree with the literal translation. Ideally, in a well-run democracy, people will come to reasonable agreement on the next step forward without one single person having to make a decision.

Only when the democratic process of discussion and negotiation fails does a person have to step in and make a decision. ...or at least force the discussion onto the relevant subjects.
I don’t think the bible is worth reading. Study it sure, but don’t read it cover to cover like a novel. Huge amounts of filler and many of the narratives, whilst early, are not very well told.
Also known as the Mother Of All Collective Delusions
The three books I clicked through several chapters of were unpleasantly focused on the features of the C# standard library and details of network administration in Digital Ocean (?!?).

Tim Roughgarten of Stanford has split his big algorithms book into four $20 paperbacks, so you can pick and choose an area you'd like to reinforce your knowledge of for not too much money.
Short story: I was lost during the early college days. I already had the book in my home for a while and decided to go through it. Once I finished it, I adopted some of the ideas from the book. Immediately, I realized how powerful the concept of acting (karma yoga) is!
Try flying into China and going to Xinjiang to "talk with the natives" to see what will happen to you.

Edit: language.
I was on a team at Amazon where I was in a role that had 5 peoople in and out of it within 2 years. The team had basically designated the role to be the one that they would PIP each year to help ensure that they could meet their UAR metrics.
Being an idiot us a varied and nuanced thing. Plenty of very intelligent people are idiots in one way or another. Being drawn to excessively risky behavior is just one aspect of idiocy.
Yeah, it was much better when it was just Bill Gates, Ted Nelson, and Jeffrey Epstein free-associating.
there is no need to fold clothes. a lot of clothes can be left hanging if you have enough space, or an efficient way to do that. i hang up clothes to dry on regular coat hangers, and ideally i'd just move them into a hanging closet. no need to take them down and fold. hanging clothes are also easier to search through to pick what you want to wear.
I agree with what you're saying but I don't think float is the right word here. You can, with great difficulty, maintain a peg to something; the US was pegged for decades, the Euro was preceded by a fairly broad system of pegs, etc. Though most currency crises start by trying to defend an indefensible peg.

Really the issue is restrictions on capital inflows and outflows. That bartender can say whatever things are worth in digital CNY at any given time but if they become unredeemable at any time they become totally useless. Any bank that starts restricting withdrawals is at risk of a bank run, and digital CNY would be no different. PBOC has a history of tightening the screws on capital flows, there's not really a reason to start trusting it with digital CNY.
Australia Reopens to International Visitors After Two Years
Another confusing facet of the debate is a significant number of participants who equate not being given an audience or a trivially-used press (in the form of a popular website) with being censored.
Meta threatens to shut down Facebook and Instagram in Europe
Journey to the West

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

..and not just for the fun Monkey bits.
Nonviolent communication is a very good one.

It’s not “the one book” but it will help a lot of people immediately.
And what degrees do you posess that you can say he shouldnt even be able to talk about the subject?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02483-w maybe you will find this article about Malone interesting.
I still cringe at the memory of my first webdev job out of university. I thought it would be a good idea to alphabetize all of the methods of the behemoth User.rb class of an ancient Rails application.

The other developers let me do it and, looking back, they obviously didn’t want to rain on my parade as a junior dev that was eager to help out and “improve” things, god bless them.
Work from home and be self employed is the best if you can manage it.

Saturday shitty weather, I work. Sunday shitty weather, I fix stuff at home and visit friends. Today wonderful sun, I get on my bicycle and go on the hills near home.
"While it can be easy to dismiss conversations around semantics, we need to keep in mind that communication is about influencing other people. If you use terms in an unexpected way, it will create a barrier making it harder or outright prevent you from influencing others and will likely add unnecessary frustration to all involved."
This. In many cases people dismiss key points in an argument because "it's just semantics". But sometimes the semantics can be the heart of the matter.
Read all of it.
Medicine Stories by Aurora Morales.

Refuses to accept the narrative of the colonizers, oppressors, slavers, winners of wars, and rewrites it, calling things and events by their real names.

Pulls the veil of lies and delusions. Gives voice to the people who survived and endured.

Exposes the methodologies of propaganda and oppression and offers roadmaps of healing from the normalized violence of poverty, racism, colonialism.

Incredibly well written - concise, unflinching and yet levelheaded.
If you don't mind me asking, do you suffer from any of the things he discusses in the book?

I'm just curious to know how our context differs if any, not trying to imply anything else.

For me at least, there were things he talked about which felt like there was someone/something that understood and that there was a chance to work forward through things. There were also a few things I read which... well, lets just say I added the warnings for a reason.
Hard disagree. Wearing a mask is not "good manners", it is a sign of weak minded subservience.
do you really expect an answer/discussion?

looks like you just want to voice you disagreement.
+1 for the problem of the translations.

Considering the room of interpretation it is outragous that some claim to take their (often random) translation at hand literally.

Nobody should take the collected stories of a far away tribe (time and space) and take it word by word.

Enjoy it as it is: a mixture of early philosophy, politics and mysticism.
God Emperor of Dune

The 4th book of Frank Hurbert's dune saga. Or I personally think it's THE ending of the actual dune story line. Not only it completes the cycle started in Book 1 titled "dune". The 2 later books are really spin-off that tells a much smaller story.

God emperor shows Hurbert's astounding depth and width in understanding humans as the building blocks of the civilization. And gave an unprecedented interpretation of humanity (and ruthlessness).

The words are poetic with a sense of intonation built-in that renders a supernatural feeling, and had made me rethink how humans should live together.

It's also a book that ends at the beginning, and used one sentence to reveal the climax of the whole dune story line. One had to appreciate Herbert's immense imagination and skills to bring those into words, that depicts minuate details that are enthralling yet always points to the ultimate idea. A literary genius and magnificent architect in human language at the grandest scale.

That's the one book Ill bring along if I am on an one-way trip to Mars!
Also, the bar for barring someone from use of a public system is much, much higher than the same for a private one.
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger.
> Then there are issues about how it was written by man, in the literal sense. Female testaments were left out.

Does the gender of a books author really matter?
Everyone should read a platonic dialogue. Plato's Republic in particular due to its influence on western thought. Although some of the ideas may seem absurd from our modern point of view, it's still thought provoking and a good example of old school philosophy. Also, Plato casually outlines why our current system of government is doomed to fail...which is probably pretty important to understand.
The Rise and Fall of Sony/Panasonic/Sharp and How to Survive Digital Darwinism
Indeed. Myself and many I know have simply stopped flying altogether for this reason. These days, if I can't drive, I simply don't go.
If you've got power out there then fibre is a much better solution
Not sure that's true. Isn't it the first amendment?

Private corporations have radically more control over what its members say and repeat, than the government does. Might be that other governments are different, depending.
Enchiridion of Epictetus (and other Stoicism works like Marcus Aurelus Meditations). I myself prefer the epicurism point of view, but this book learn you mainly than there is not point to be to much emotional on the many things in life than you cannot control.
> That HN is so fascinated by him is so disappointing. The man represents the worst of humanity in every way, we should be allied against people like him.

Agree with the second sentence, but I'm pretty interested in Thiel because he's one of the few, and maybe only, prominent tech billionaires who does not talk in PR-speak and pretend that capitalism is benevolent.

His well known "competition is for losers" point exhibits how he candidly rejects capitalist articles of faith that are held and espoused by the dishonest and the stupid.

> we should be allied against people like him.

Oracle's Larry E is also a multi-billionaire Trump supporting right-winger, but he hides his malevolence and ideology, so there's little talk about him.
The E-myth revisited seems to be one of those business books where they took something that could have been an article, or maybe even a paragraph, and dragged it out into a whole (extremely dull) book.
1. Currencies should first and foremost be stable, not speculation vehicles and they need to have really low transaction fees.

The main cryptocurrencies in use right now fail both of those tests and for the rest... Well, they have to be weeded out, too many experiments and scams at the moment. We need to check the survivors in 10 years.

2. Currency is a major tool for social stability and requires intervention occasionally. Yes, a free market for currencies is socially very dangerous.
One blatantly pro-Beijing journalist who writes for the HK-based South China Morning Post made an interesting point in an article [1] the other day: that the West is either an accomplice of the Uyghur genocide, by calling it a genocide but not doing shit about it, or it's not really genocide, so it's Western propaganda and lies.

So we're either cowards or liars. This point stuck with me. Based on these stories coming out all the time: we're the former.

[1] https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3164071/human-r...
After 3+ months, they haven't published any data, or I just couldn't find it. Which kind of makes the whole endeavor meaningless.
I've gifted copies of Six Easy Pieces [0] to numerous people now, it's the only book I can say that for.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5553.Six_Easy_Pieces
As a foreigner, can you explain at 2:40, which light is red? I can only see a green light on the right side, there was no traffic light on the road it came through. Also doesn't the US allow right turns on red?

I would totally drive on those train tracks myself.. it's pretty common here, and there was no signage. Curious to see what the AI would do next if the driver hadn't intervened.
Yeah, yet not even cool enough to get its own phrase in the zeitgeist like "Drink the Kool-Aid"
So, in order of what you listed: Social media, Country clubs and Congress.

We have basically every social platform we could ever want and we even invent more all the time, just not one that is literally central to everyone’s lives, and I’m going to go out on a limb and say we probably don’t want that particular one.
Censorship is inherently dangerous because it can be weaponized to silence dissenting minorities.
Are we really going to pretend the N word debacle isn't a result of character assassination directly from those pissed off about the controversial COVID stuff? Hardly anybody gave a fuck about these 70 episodes until it became fashionable to beat on Rogan for his questionable and controversial COVID shows. It's pretty clear people were just searching for some way to hurt Rogan, usually the best way to do so is to blame someone for sexual misconduct or racism which magically only appears once they're on the chopping block for engaging in some other controversial but less damning behavior.

Pressuring Rogan to remove episodes is just a convenient way to say "gotcha." It's a tic-for-tat from the ultimatum of the others threatening to remove their own stuff if Rogan didn't.
"the house always wins"
“The Scapegoat” by Rene Girard, which suggests that we are deeply vulnerable to imitating others; and that when we imitate, this tends to lead to deep conflict, for we often imitate desire for scarce objects (e.g. a certain role at work, a particular romantic partner, etc.). We also tend to imitate hatred for a given party, as we tend to imitate hatred, too; thus engaging in the process of scapegoating, when, in fact, scapegoats are almost always innocent.
It's hard to pick only one but "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" by Burton Gordon Malkiel gave me some much needed financial literacy in my 20s.
Books:

Most of you will know it, but to make sure: I wouldn't want to die without having read

"Gödel Escher Bach - An Eternal Golden Braid" (Douglas R. Hofstadter),

a 1000-page recursive poem about consciousness,
bio-chemistry, mathematical versus musical beauty, zen koans, recursion, symmetry, formal rule systems, AI and more. Every second chapter is written as a dialog.

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky)

In our time, media manipulation is at its historic peak, so perhaps everyone should know a bit about the political-economic underpinnings. How issues are framed and chosen, the influence of money, reporting biases.

Dining with Terrorists: Meetings with the World's Most Wanted Militants (Phil Rees)

A former BBC journalist tells about meals with 'interesting' people and the trickiness associated with the definition of 'terrorism'.

I'm also going to throw in some movies for good measure.

Films:

Meaning of Life
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085959/

Adam's Apples
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418455/

Harold and Maude
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067185/
From my experience in exactly this situation (except that I don’t have 500k :)

1. First few months of a newborn are extremely hard. Seek for any help whenever you can. Delegate as much as possible - from cleaning floors to cooking and buying diapers.

Eating well and sleeping as much as you can should be your only priorities (after taking care of the baby).

Career can wait for a few months. Just focus on what is important here and now.

Take unpaid vacation for a couple months or quit the job.

Looks like you can afford it, why then waste your energy on shitty job?

On the positive side just know that it will get better. And this experience will make you tougher and stronger.

2. If there are some psychological issues behind that - invest some time in finding a good therapist.

Not the one who would just drug you, but one, who understands deep mind-body connection and can properly diagnose if you just physically exhausted or have some anxiety-depression disorder to be addressed.
The flip side of that is that refactoring can be a surprisingly effective tool for understanding.
This, and also the power of tracking comes from being able to share data/track across domains. So the best way to mitigate this is not to dumb down our browsers but to fight cross domain access to this data. This can be done either by regulation (see GDPR) or technical measures (disabling cross-site scripting, cookies etc)
liberty and free speech tends to overly concern Americans when they have more pressing and bigger problems. The big mistake with the title is "way back to cultural health", stop looking backwards. If you do want to look back to the idea that founded your republic, look back and see a whole bunch of people trying to look forward. Do that. Fix your system of government, a two party system is bad for you, you've become religious about your politics and it has divided you along lines that don't make sense. You need much more varied representation so that free speech can manifest in political force, to represent the vast differences between the millions and millions of you. Just makes no sense that a 2 party system can represent that diversity.