skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Non-American here.

This is how I expect media to describe the US External Politics

If President is Democrat:

* If President Raises Military Expenditure: "he is helping protect the people of the world from tyrant governments"

* If President Lowers Military Expenditure: "we cant afford this many wars, we must instead focus on our own problems, we must focus on (insert recent catastrophe, that's inevitable in the US like a wild fire in the West Coast or a tornado in the East Coast)"

If President is Republican:

* If President Raises Military Expenditure: "he is being imperialist, we don't want this blood in our hands"

* If President Lowers Military Expenditure: "he is letting the tyrants like him do their bidding, remember the little kids in Africa, if we don't step in, who will?"

Beautiful!
The last set of certs I did was around 2010. They were the six certs required to be a Microsoft Certified Architect (?). I was transistioning from a decade of C bit twiddling with some VB6 on the side to becoming an “Enterprise Developer” and had just gotten a job where they were transitioning to from a VB/C++ backend to .Net.

My thought process for the certifications were the same - a method to get on an organized learning path. But, by the time the company folded two years later, the certs had already expired and I never bothered getting them renewed. I knew it wouldn’t matter when looking for my next job. So they have never appeared on my resume.

Looking back, I don’t think that the AWS Associate certs were any better or worse than the Microsoft certs. But I will keep these up to date.

The second part of the story is that after seeing how much these “certified consultants” were making - I was the dev lead after all - I realized where the money was. Especially since I already had a long development background and some Devops experience I could be much better at AWS consulting than some infrastructure guys.

When I changed companies, I negotiated not to be a team lead. I wanted to be an IC to fill in some technical gaps and get hands on experience so I could be an overpriced “digital transformation consultant moving companies up on the cloud maturity model”.
Sad if the last act a person can do is to sue someone. Craig Wright is crazy.
From the article:

> Further research with a placebo-control arm is warranted

IIUC they don't have a control group. They don't have a control group!!! Reading again your comment, you wrote this in point (3) and (3b), but it needs a few more exclamation marks.
No, that wasn't for soundness fixes. This is from the discussion surrounding syntax changes like turbofish or chained if-let bindings.

Can you point me towards an authoritative post in the turbofish discussion that says that it can't happen because of backwards-compatibility changes? Because before it was locked it seemed that the language team wanted to go ahead.

I've been repeatedly told by language team members that the policy you're promising people doesn't exist. I would really appreciate it if there was further clarification.
That sentence seems to suggest that the study includes (also) "autism-like behaviors". I am not trying to redefine Autism Spectrum Disorder as I don't have knowledge to do so.
what helps me personally (I'm too easily triggered so I've got my work cut out here too) is disconnecting from the news circle and read long form instead. Reading more books again (not work related ones) does have the added side-effect of being able to concentrate again and immerse myself (instead of jumping from headline to headline).

If you deal with people who suffer (ex veterans, or people who went through trauma) or even working through trauma yourself this is a great read:

PTSD and Complex PTSD Symptoms, Syndromes, and Diagnoses https://www.guilford.com/excerpts/wilson5.pdf?t

I strongly believe that we are mostly products of our own suffering (which is unique to every individual but true for all as a collective), so spotting a behavior that might point to a history of trauma allows you to better think of more than just the message but the whole of the person who delivers it. For me this only works irl online it's back to square-1. In the end I have to constantly remind myself that online we're all just randoms on a market square yelling at people totally removed from our own thought process.

Online pseudonymous discussions are valuable because people tend to speak their truths which when it is the truth, is often offensive, ugly and raw. On real-name policy sites you get everyone posing and pretending so participation doesn't produce any healthy benefits there for me mentally. With pseudonymous communication I have to be aware that people just spill their thoughts.

We constantly pretend that online conversations are real but they aren't so much conversations we would have with people we know. Also they're not 1:1 or 1:5 but 1:many so social media as currently envisioned is always going to outrage. It's a short jump from disagreement to outrage online which doesn't exist irl.

Reminding myself that we either a) haven't invented the right technology yet to meaningfully replicate communication into the digital space and/or b) haven't as a society we haven't yet learned that there are major differences in these forms of communication and we need to overcome them

the push from industry and society is towards b) to press us into the chaos and just force us to learn how to be better communicators.
Exactly. You can think of the stock close price as having two components:current value + expected future value (of cash flows).

If a company grows more slowly, you’ll see the 2nd decrease, but the first will stay the same.
> What I mean to say is, even if this were Nature, it'd be a super high-impact journal that isn't actually read by clinicians who would be best positioned to criticize the study.

More importantly, the peer-reviewers are likely scientists, not physicians. This can make a subtle difference in how and what they review.

But you did a great job listing out some of the shortcomings!
Capitalism does not require growth. Many markets are stagnant or even shrink as technology evolves. Capitalism incurages growth, but does not require it.
Blossom Snow – VJ Vlog 02
Hiring Top Talent for Your Startup: Lessons from Andela
http://archive.is/6N9jR
I agree, your examples seem to be prime use cases of Web Components. The original post though makes the claim that WCs are ready to replace your entire framework.
The two side boosters were landed close together on dry land. The core third booster was landed down-range on a sea platform.
You are talking about organizations that have GPG private keys used for signing laying around and those that have Jenkins exposed to the outside world.

Dynamic IP white listing and port knocking are perfectly adequate for 99.9% of the organizations.
I recently took my daughter to a Falcon 9 launch (the launch that included the moon lander that failed yesterday, actually). It was a night launch, and the exhaust was almost painfully bright.
This is a wild take though, because seeking information (details, clarification) from something a source gives you is not the same as asking the source for the password hash of a DoD server so you can crack it and gain unauthorized access to classified military documents.

If they don't pursue this crime I can literally start hacking people/companies/governments and publishing my findings because it's just "journalism".
Mostly (there are some projects to do Scala not on the JVM, but I have never seen them be more than a toy). That said, the JVM GC is the (IMO) best GC out there, it is really good for many many situations. And then there are some paid JVMs if you want to trade latency guarantees.
Force yourself to do something tangible, local, and meaningful. Turn off/drown out the media and create the culture you want to see by voting with your money, time, and effort. If you have a yard, you might try researching, ordering, and planting a variety of zone-appropriate edible perennial fruit trees. This approach led me to organic gardening, which:

- Gets me outdoors in the sun, which makes me feel better (Vitamin D, etc.).
- Increases biodiversity, helps pollinators, offsets CO2, and helps remediate soil damaged by construction.
- Provides a hobby that my young daughter and I can enjoy together, while also teaching her essential life lessons.
- Will eventually provide me with tasty fruit.
- Beautifies my neighborhood and increases the value of my home.
I know I have to get it under control like you, but it's super hard and it looks so effortless for other people. They can just sit there, take in all the nonsense people are spewing with a straight face and then send an email to the appropriate people about it. It takes me all the efforts in the world to do something like that, and it would exhaust me for hours afterwards.

It is easier doing it now at 29 than it was at 19, though. Maybe 10 more years of practice is all I need.
Maybe, and certainly if we'd seen an unmanned booster land on after completing a successful launch in the early 80's we'd have been very excited, but the shuttle just caught the imagination that bit more. Justifiably or not.

Anyway, the question was, "how do they compare?". Personally, emotionally, they're pretty damn cool, but way less exciting. More so than can be hand-waved away as simply being older and more cynical.
I stand by the assertion that it indicates the Matrix people are clueless.

If this is a design constraint, then the security model needs to accommodate that the user keys are the pot of gold, which means that there needs to be a service provided by a dedicated server which is inaccessible in the course of normal operation via any means other than a well defined braindead simple protocol <keyid>:<command>:<message> providing the message manipulations/key store functions from only other authorized production hosts that need to be able to access this functionality.

The server running the service should have a security policy that would prevent one from running any software that is not supposed to be already present on a server ( use SELinux enforcement policy ) to minimize the attack surface; have its own SSH keys not generally accessible during the normal operation, be accessible only from specific IP addresses, etc etc etc. If it is on AWS, it should probably be in a separate account.
Note that a 64,000 kg payload LEO launch doesn't cost $90 million because it would have to fly expendable.
It wasn't instructions. Manning gave the hash to them so they could crack it and gain access. In that case WikiLeaks were the ones cracking a password to access classified DoD documents.
Biological age on which date?
If you wanted to do more than just a straight tree: For any pair of subreddits draw a line between the subs weighted according to the number of commenters that commented in both subreddits. Maybe doing a similar graph with people that post in both subreddits would be interesting too. I expect both variants to yield a somewhat more natural grouping of subreddits than an artifically curated list, but making it readable and explorable would be a challenge.

0: http://files.pushshift.io/reddit/comments/
I've heard a couple of similar stories from people who spend a lot of time in VR and forget that the rules don't transfer back. One guy smacked his head into the fridge door trying to look inside it because he forgot that he would actually collide with the door.
That does not always necessarily follow. The VC runtime, for the C portion of the library, is now written in C++ internally.
The world only appears bad if you approach it with an a priori expectation of the good. The world is neither 'good' or 'bad', it simply is. Evolution is amoral; the cosmos is amoral. It is not set up to teleological satisfy human interests and values. If you recognise that fact, the kind of question that you are raising dissolves.

One of the great challenges of the Christian tradition was the problem of evil: how could a benevolent and omnipotent God allow the manifest evils of the human world? But of course the problem is built into the assumed premise, i.e. that there is a God and that the world is divine. Without those a priori expectations, there would be no problem to begin with.

That is not a counsel of complacency or quietism. It simply means that your ethical field of view should be defined by the problems immanent within society today. You should start from the concrete, instead of the abstract. If you feel complicit in a destructive form of hyper-capitalism, then do something about it. Get a new job; become political; think about how you can redress humanity's problems.
Just launched Teamvote for teams to share and vote on ideas
> Current Mars fever is a distraction.

Yes, but it's a distraction from doing absolutely nothing at all with humans in space. I agree in a saner world we'd have built a Moon base first, and then moved on from there. But it's apparently not how we as a civilization operate.

Instead we set lofty and slightly impractical goals. If we meet those goals, we usually take two steps back and wait for a few generations. But if we are not successful, we usually never try again.

It's not ideal, but yes, I'd absolutely prefer an ambitious Mars program over nothing at all. And for decades, until recently, nothing at all was where we were comfortable.

> We have no idea what Mars gravity could do to babies born there. Do parents have the right to raise their children in Mars?

Historically, we have been very bad at predicting these things, and we usually mispredicted on the side of doom. Yes, there will be a physiological impact, not just on babies, on everybody living there. However, there is no reason as such to assume babies in particular would be unviable there.

Today, parents can and regularly do make decisions about their children's mental and physical health that are absolutely known to be detrimental. For better or worse, we generally accept that children are brought up completely powerless over their lifestyle, their healthcare, their economic situation, their education, their belief system... Compared to that settling on another world with unknown dangers seems at least on par.

I'd wager that a child born on Mars today is way more likely to die of things other than gravity or the lack thereof. We already have animal test data in microgravity.
Taking a break is also hard work
They're reportedly seeking outside funding: https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/11/report-googles-waymo-seeks...
I had the same feeling, so decided to take Jesus at his word in Matthew 6.24-34, quit working for money, and started working for God. He has provided for me for over six years. Life is much more satisfying and I have about 95% less motivation issues.
I don't think languages deserve any special protection. People do.

Also, I think that all languages are supper weird, and because of that they have their own unique cultural value that can't be measured. But in terms of economical value:

1. English happens to have the most speakers if you sum L1 and L2 speakers (1.132 billion)

2. English has by far the biggest non native speaker representation (753.3 million)

3. Speaking English gives a lot of economical opportunities, because English is widely spoken among the richest people in the world. By rich people I mean top 1% with more than 30 000$ income per year i.e. people living in USA, Western Europe, Australia etc.

Because of these 3 points I do consider all other languages, including my native Polish, inferior as a tools.
And I say this even tough I'm fully aware that millions were dying across world and history in defense of their native speech.
History of my own nation and my native language is a perfect example. Millions of Poles died in defense of Polish language against Germans and Russians.

"We won't forsake the land we came from,
We won't let our speech be buried.
We are the Polish nation, the Polish people,
From the royal line of Piast.
We won't let the enemy oppress us.
(...)
The German won't spit in our face,
Nor Germanise our children,
Our host will arise in arms,
Spirit will lead the way.
We will go when the golden horn sounds.
(...)"

But I think it is exactly the fact that we were not able to communicate with each other that lead to the World Wars in the first place.

I'm studding now in English in a super diverse Dutch university with Germans, Russians, Chinese, Koreans, Arabs, Belgians, French and many other nations, and thought that some 100 years ago we would be all trying to kill each other while living in trenches is just unimaginable. English facilitates that and I would want more people across the world to participate. Being defensive and overly proud of our native language will not help with that.
When I read these kind of pieces I wonder if people know that just because your company has Slack, that doesn't mean they expect you to read everything in it.

Company wide/support channels, your basically at liberty to completely ignore these. Some people crack the odd joke in here, camaraderie in a team is nice, but don't feel its compulsory. I mute them, though they're are great places to be able to search!

The channel for your immediate team/specific projects, your not obliged to monitor this but it'd probably be helpful for the team if you checked in twice a day or so, you might be able to guide or unblock a teammate with knowledge they don't know you have.

And direct messages. Again, its up to your to triage these, if its unimportant just mark unread and come back later.

The important point of slack is that communication is open, which brings network effects, I cant count the number of times I've stumbled on information that's been directly helpful to me. However, just like any other open information portal, most of it isn't directed at you, so don't worry about it.
This also causes a lot of over engineering. ( Which maybe good for Boeing right about now)
Those things didn’t happen yet. I’m talking about the ones that did happen.

My understanding is that, again, some lang team members want a different policy. That doesn’t mean that it’s actually different.
Topics are not the same as channels. In Zulip each conversation in a channel would have a topic. A channel would be a collection of topics. You can ignore the topics you are not interested in and focus on topics that are relevant. So for catching up all you need to do is go through the topics in a channel instead of going through all the messages.

https://imgur.com/UMBuOuh
the fully reusable falcon heavy can IIRC only lift about 8000kg to LEO. expendable is volume-limited but if you want to lift a concrete block, you can :)
Of course, for low values of N the constants dropped from the big-O notation start to matter. For very small values of N and a random-access input, even an O(N^2) approach may be optimal (for each input element, check for equality against previous elements of the input, output if no hit).
I guess salt water isn't that much of an issue after all?
I use TransferWise, but their debit cards are not available in Canada.
Ugh. I have an anecdote in which I was brought in by a great niche technical contracting firm, as a developer who was also supposed to repair a client relationship, after a previous developer quit. I learned that the problem on client site was not quite what was expected (they already knew the client's manager didn't want contractors). It turned out that a significant part the problem on the ground was simply that the contracting company's on-site manager was bombarding the contractors with instant messages they were required to monitor. There were a few other things (including no onboarding/documentation for client's unique SCM and build environment, some strong personal styles, and a factor that was doing the opposite of what it was supposed to do), but the frustrating message interruptions alone might've made the morale difference that led to the person quitting.

In lieu of Slack, one lightweight pattern that often works is something like:

* Email for things you should see, possibly urgently (ideally with simple filters/actions, for when/how to alert/expose different messages, which the individual can tune over time, to their needs).

* Lightweight chat (maybe IRC/XMPP/etc.) for things you don't have to see (such as questions you don't want to interrupt anyone over, but they can answer if they're available enough to look at chat; and perhaps watercooler chatter for personalizing everyone, especially when you have remote workers). Be careful that this doesn't turn into fear-of-missing-out compulsion or an operational must-see -- emphasize that turning it into must-see is counter to the goal of the medium, becoming a burden for people.

* Agreed-upon simple in-repo/wiki/other for capturing information that people need to see in the future. Try to make this lightweight enough that it's not a burden to capture this information in a way that's accessible/usable to people when they need it.

The organization can evolve this over time, but the above is not a bad start.

A possible side benefit of rolling a lightweight solution on your own is that you don't need to trust a third-party with your company-confidential data (nor inside 'analytics' of your people and company), nor deal with possible goal misalignment with the third-party. (Of course, you can decide any third-party is worthwhile, and sys-admin is usually not what you want to be spending time on in most startups, but you have many options.)
Slack is not a good product fit for every company . To be honest I think it can work for organizations under 20 people because startups were targeted first . If you want something that can scale then use discord or email/IM etc..
Can you clarify what you are saying about the method of measuring results?
I was going to ask, this sounds overly dismissive, but then I read your last paragraph.

Also I know SciRep is fairly new but isn't it still under the Nature umbrella? ie. There's still some peer review; the study is likely to be legitimate.

The authors are pretty explicit about the weaknesses in their study and I think that the flaws are reasonable for a pilot study.
I'm surprised the authors didn't say anything about their conflict of interest though.

Showing a link between autism and the gut microbiome would be incredible. Obviously more work needs to be done before anything is concluded but this is a really interesting result.
I find it has utility in the fact that it's a searchable record of technical conversations I have had with my colleagues where I can go to recover details I might not remember from a month ago. Then again email also does this just fine, and doesn't cost as much.
> hird parties can iterate quickly to find useful patterns, then browsers can just standardize the best/most popular ones.

I'm looking at hundreds of date pickers, carousels, autocompletes, customizable selects, data tables, modals (e.g. for media previews). They've been around for as long as there have been browsers (so, thrity years or so).

Can you point at any standardisation effort around any of these commonly repeated patterns?

input type="date" and input type="color" are only now barely making it into the browser.
The boostback burns in that video are amazing. Lots of dynamics in what looks like a shock-induced interface of the rocket exhaust and hypersonic atmosphere.
But two years is a very short time. I have a mild form but it still took me decades to get to where I am today. People don't suspect I'm autistic and are surprised when I say it, but I'm absolutely exhausted from a day of masking it at work if there's a lot of meetings with new people.