skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would look at two things to see if they may be causing a big part of the feeling: personal health and external stimuli

1. "Mens sana in corpore sano". You do not need to be a fitness nut, but do make sure you get enough sleep and enough movement outside. Sleep at least 8 hours (unless you consider yourself middle age or older). Walk briskly outside (in an area you like at a time it is pleasant) for an hour a day. Or play soccer / beach volley / whatever you like.

2. Remove gloomy external data feeds, such as news. Currently most news outlets seem to sell gloom, disasters and anger. Read a book instead. Talk to people. Travel. If your job environment is toxic, change jobs, even if it means lower salary initially.

YMMV, but those two simple things may be all that you need to get that feeling of hopelessness out of your system. My 2c. Good luck!
On this launch, it looks like they offset the timings to reduce the chance of tipping over.

If you get time, go look for the first FH booster landings. The timing is almost perfect and the long exposure images looked beautiful.
The loan was agreed on the 21st of February. The article is from March.
I meant maybe the backend is the same? They probably have one content delivery system.
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The Autism debate is the chernobyl nuclear disaster of free speech in America. You can't even talk about why people don't want to talk about why they don't want to talk about what causes or treats autism without people starting to hyperventilate.
"The technology will not be used as an "enforcement tool", the forces said, but was instead aimed at educating motorists..."

I hope there will be enforcement tools in the near future and I believe the fines and other forms of punishment should be very high. First offence could mean no driving for a month along with a huge fine that is based on salary, second offence something along the lines of losing your license completely and having to go through the complete process of examination, etc after a year of reflection without driving, again with a hefty fine. Apparently you weren't that interesting in driving to begin with, in the bus you can look at your phone all you want. Third offence means you don't get a license for 20 years. Killing/injuring someone while using your phone in the car should result into some form of prison sentence.

In my eyes there is 0 excuse for being engaged with your phone in the car in any other form than passively while using it for navigation. The worst are people who are looking at messages and writing.

A few weeks ago I was almost hit by a driver who sped over the crossing I was walking on. I was paying attention enough to see him with his phone in his hand, looking at something on the screen, never looking up and I was just able to stop walking. I don't know if I'd been killed if I weren't paying attention, but it wouldn't have been pretty.

I don't even care that much about myself though, I already have little faith in people's ability to drive properly so I pay attention and hope that keeps saving me. What I worry about are my children, who are bound to make some mistakes when crossing streets, etc, them being kids after all. The idea of someone killing them because they had to make a lame joke in a group chat in order to earn some emoji-based kudos is insane yet somehow not impossible.
Assange is being brought back to provide testimony to US Senate investigations into Ukrainian interference in elections.
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I'll play devils advocate.

I like Slack, and having a group communication tool has only increased my productivity.

How?
- Having a place to easily search for issues others have had in the past. Sure, you can search emails or ask the same questions, but it's nice to search and find answers from other peoples conversations.
- Integration for production alerting, customer feedback, and deployment pipelines. Instead of manually digging through several different web UIs or using a bunch of different CLIs, I can just take a look at the corresponding channel.
- Notifications _can be_ non-distracting. Being the correct channels, snoozing alerts, or just exiting slack when you need the deep focus headspace, is easy.

I specifically don't want to be called/texted/interrupted in person unless it's something severely important. 90% of the time its not. I would much rather ignore a slack notification than answer a meaningless phonecall, or politely tell someone to bug off in person.

I will say, the "always on" culture is hard to face when Slack/group messaging is a companies main point of communication. Luckily, I've only ever been in places where its been understood that you are only expected to be responsive during your work day.

But, I think the negative effects of the cost of distraction by slack are overblown. There are endless ways to be distracted these days, and Slack is not the worst thing out there. You can always just exit the program.
I don't get the hate for web components. I think they are amazing. A number of times I just wanted a damn date picker, not a framework that changes how I'm making my website! Web components provide exactly that.
It should just turn on when there's a car as that will be equally effective as the system (with its flaws) and then they could save the £6,000
> Taxing income or redistributing wealth does not compel anyone to work.

It does compel, as you are essentially taking wealth away from people, therefore they will have work more to compensate.
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Discussing something and conspiring to do it are legally two different things. Their communications had INTENT to do it. They were planning to do it. Conspiring.

> To my knowledge, Wikileaks has never actively participated in the hacking or cracking required to access restricted info.

But that's exactly what this is about. There are records of Jabber messages where they were conspiring (planning) to crack the password for Manning. I don't know how they determined that Assange was involved and not an unfortunate pawn of his, but whatever evidence they have was enough to convince a grand jury to indict him.

And, btw, an indictment isn't a verdict. He still has a chance to defend himself in trial even if he's extradicted. But this would mean that the US has a chance to prove his guilt.

But now we just wait and see if they have enough evidence to convince the UK to extradite him. And if that happens we'll wait and see how the trial and sentencing plays out.
Also, this says it was a year before Hawking published his paper. Presumably he'd been working on it for quite a while before he published so I'm not sure it's fair to say Feynman was "first".
I mean, this is how case law is established.

We currently have the notion of exigent circumstances, that if the police have a lawful reason to enter your house without a warrant (such as believing that someone is in imminent danger) and they find in plain sight in the course of that entry evidence of a crime, it's fair game.

A case like this is how we determine if journalists are allowed to hack into government databases. This precedent will be instructive to future activists regardless of how it turns out.
Not for the people who are using their phone though. For them a push-notification would probably work best ;).
How do you go from "posting pictures of genitalia on user pages" to "having arguments over topic x"?
Too late for that - have you seen what passes for standards of accountability and standards where ignorance of the law is not an excuse - unless you are the police. I think the legal system has already throughly crumbled by those standards.

So much FUD and dangerous hypotheticals to justify /their/ crimes. At this point accountability and transparency need to be held far higher because the alternative is so much worse and corrupted.

If you don't want whistleblowers there is an easy answer - not being so fucking corrupt and they will have nothing to whistleblow on!
I've been pondering that the term "anally retentive" to describe a pattern of behaviour (totally unconnected to Autism) associated with strong disgust reflexes might itself be a symptom which happens due to poo retention, orderliness and extreme clensiness which reduces the diversity in gut bacteria.
I have a very mild form of autism but I would say that I suffer from autism. I'm very sensitive to which environment I can be productive in and I need very clear protocols for human interaction. It's fine for engineering but I want to work more with people too (that's generally how you advance career-wise) and I have big problems knowing when to keep quiet in meetings and what topics for discussion are poor choices, even though I'm close to 30 years old now. If I could just be "normal" I think my life would improve immensely.

I say "I think" because I'm not sure if I would like losing the things that make me "me". A friday night just reading all kinds of odd books to learn new things is totally fine by me right now and even though I have problems regulating my emotions I can now, after decades of coping, channel them into passion to get stuff done. I do however think my childhood would've been much easier if I was somehow treated as a young child; the years of being bullied and not making friends have taken its toll on me, something I struggle with to this day in business settings when I have to deal with unfamiliar people.
I haven't read the Stephen Pinker book, but it sounds similar to one of my favourite books "Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think" which sounds like it covers similar topics.

As douglaswlance says, the world is getting better faster than ever!
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Yes it is common in most states. This will probably shock people who have never traveled outside the major metro areas of the west coast.
Young people are more aware than ever, they are talking about real and important issues. You can chose to take seriously a responsibility to help give them a foundation to address those issues when they are adults, and you are retired. Listen to the people younger than you, and be motivated by their want to live in a better world.
The threshold for estate tax is over $20m right now for that same married couple. Your example takes 20 years of foresight and only gets you an extra 5% before hitting estate tax.
Haha, that escalated quickly ;)
> with lots of reliance on single hardware and software components

Are your saying you have inside knowledge and that's the architecture? (I'm guessing no)
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Can't you disable the sound, so that you know that when you think you hear it, it's not meant for you?
You complain about Google limiting choice yet your action of taking podcasts from their service removes my capability of listening my device or service of choice. The BBC obsession with the Sounds app is becoming tiresome, and worrying, given how they are now trying to dictate how you access public broadcasting.
You can submit a PR for that and make it awesomer :)
Many people overestimate the environmental impact of air travel.

It's "only" about 2% of global energy consumption. Not nothing, but also not that significant. There are much bigger energy wasters that can be targeted.
Except for the fact that you don't have to be there.
The article is missing information about how the preflight genetic and other data compared between these putatively "identical" twins. How genetically identical were they at the start of the study? Missing too is the within subject comparison of the earthbound twin's own pre and post flight data, which the study presumably collected too.
This is portable syntax, not a bashism.
Does it not also apply to Snowden then?
Don't want to sound condescending about drivers but on my street I see plenty of people who don't alter their behaviour with the speed bumps - either because they are not observant or it's not their vehicle (the council rubbish vans get thrown over them at high speed by their angry careless drivers!)
Prior to the study, 83 percent of participants had "severe" autism. Now, only 17 percent are rated as severe, 39 percent as mild or moderate, and incredibly, 44 percent are below the cut-off for mild ASD. https://newatlas.com/fecal-transplants-autism-symptoms-reduc...
I think its because autism is something that gets thrown around everywhere these days. Im sure many are diagnozed with ADHD or similar condition on the autistic spectrum when in reality its probably more related to diet, upbringing etc.

Autism can be genetic for sure. But I think many are diagnosed on the spectrum to hastely.
Yeah, war machine like this one:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/08/world/middleeast/syria-ch...

Pieces of shit like you responsible for this.
Lars Blackmore, who works for SpaceX, has a page about the techniques that are used here:

http://www.larsblackmore.com/losslessconvexification.htm

See also:
https://www.aa.washington.edu/facultyfinder/behcet-acikmese
Why would they need to deny EU access? Let the EU implement its own fascist firewall.
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Coincidentally, I was just listening a podcast episode with the creator of Level (https://level.app/), which was built to fix exactly all these issues mentioned in the article. I agree 100% with this - the culture of ASAP and the FOMO that's created if you're not always on Slack, prevents one from doing deep, meaningful work. I'm really looking forward to trying out Level.
If you don't think sex is important then you have a lot to learn, "bro".
I've tried to fix the Rust code, but I'm getting some lifetime errors. Can anyone spot the problem? (Note: I've used C++ for most of the time and am still uncomfortable with Rust)

use std::collections::HashSet;

fn main () {
let strings = vec![
"apple", "cAt", "cat", "Dog", "apple", "dog", "Cat",
"Apple", "dOg", "banana", "cat", "dog", "apple",
];

let mut set : HashSet<&'static str> = HashSet::new();

let strings : Vec<&str> = strings
.into_iter()
.map(|string| (string, string.to_lowercase()))
.filter(|(_, lower)| set.insert(lower))
.map(|(string, _)| string)
.collect();

println!("{:?}", strings);
}
Technology serves policy. You don't build anything without a reason.

If they said "our technology platform is cheaper if we track every user's activity and prevent anyone from accessing it without authentication" then at least that would be honest. I think it would raise some very legitimate questions, though.

FWIW I don't think this is the case. You can access BBC Sounds fine from other parts of the world, just with ads inserted. If they can geolocate non-UK listeners to substitute auth for ads, they can geolocate UK listeners without auth or ads.
There are a variety of communication methods:

- Face to face

- Phone call

- Text message

- Slack

- Email

- Publication/memo

The rank corresponds to distraction, synchronicity, time to compose/respond, latency, and importance. Done well, Slack is a nice layer between a 10-minute email that might be forwarded on to some customer, and an "OK for demo Monday?" text message. You can include screenshots, links, spreadsheets, etc.

The problem seems to come up when it's assumed to be lower-latency and higher-priority than it is. I can take a 30-minute break every couple hours and answer a couple emails and a half dozen Slack pings, or you can interrupt me with a phone call or text that I can ignore or take and subsequently answer a quick Slack query, or you can come to my desk and bring something to my attention right now. If you think Slack is like talking to me or calling to me (or treat it like it has that real-time priority) you're going to have a significant new distraction.
I imagine interstellar travel with some kind of Matrix-like hibernation. But all the problems with interplanetary are just a matter of stinginess. Low gravity? Make a 2001 style ring. Radiation? Make a big ass ship with enough isolation.

Is that astronomically expensive? Of course. But avoid gravity well. Start building a Moon base with mining facilities, then move to Ceres, and son on.

Current Mars fever is a distraction. We have no idea what Mars gravity could do to babies born there. Do parents have the right to raise their children in Mars? Even if they're viable, they might want to come to Earth and find out their bodies won't resist the gravity. What about waiting for animal tests?
how about no notifications for messages unless the sender specifically says "send notification"?
Not to mention that a lot of new cars have a GSM card built-in for communication and infotainment. My Mercedes updates its own location constantly for instance, so of course is transmitting over 2G/3G while moving all the time.

These signs are useless and a waste of taxpayers money.
This is interesting data, but it's a bit dangerous to do population stats on open ended populations -and anyone can create a cap table or name a series whatever they want. It would be interesting to see the same data normalized by number of employees or dollars in, instead of by the count of companies. (This happens a lot when app stores and platforms do stats about how many titles are on then platform, etc.)
Well I'm glad the parent posted that, because I'd not heard the info from your comment before, only that Wakefield was connecting thiomersal (a mercury containing compound) with autism; the compound then being removed in USA with no downward change in autism cases.

In response to the link, blaming Wakefield seems counter-productive, we need to take a more nuanced approach to disagreement and avoid "throwing the baby [area of research] out with the bathwater [discredited hypothesis]". Seems like there's a socio-political problem that needs fixing there and blaming Wakefield for our response to his fraud seems to go too far.
https://youtu.be/nun_d8bpzNI
Maybe the world needs more people like you. We have far enough "normal" people.
I guess outline.com doesn't work on NYT any more. Copy/paste here?
Remember grand jury is a very low standard - if the grand jury isn't compromised it is only enough evidence/ unopposed/ to start the process of prosecution. "We have footage of Tom Hanks brazenly robbing a bank" would be enough to get an indict. But as soon as his lawyers get involved the judge throws it out and censures the prosecutor because they lefy out key pieces of evidence - it was from Mission Impossible.
That’s not a legal claim, but a moral claim.

Stop trying to twist my words, you’re deliberately choosing the least charitable interpretation of what I said.

Why would I try to argue about whether or not what Assange did was illegal? We already know the US legal system is fucked, there’s no point in going down that road.
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Similar to the C++, all of those are addressed by inserting lower-cased into the set, which can be achieved via an extra method call:

set.insert(string.to_lowercase())

It also requires adjusting/deleting the type annotation on the set.

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
If the release of emails was indiscriminate how were they attempting to influence?
They've had a few "on purposes misses" over the years. The Falcon Heavy demo launch had the center core purposely miss the droneship as it was coming in way too fast since 2 of the engines didn't light.

IIRC it purposely missed the droneship by only a few hundred meters, but it was going something like 300 miles per hour!
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Relevant Bill Hicks video[0].

[0] - https://youtu.be/tGjuPJskNRE
This is a legitimate question. They are a special class of organization and have all kinds of policies to work to. A private company can do what they want.

The problem is the policies.
Have there been precious studies that look at generic changes in astronauts?

This article is great but it feels like everyone mentioned in it is making a lot of statements on an extremely limited sample size.
Kinda reminds of me Fermat's equation though.
I’m curious how obvious vs non-obvious social positioning like this is to people here. It all feels fairly obvious and intuitive to me, but I suspect some of the lessons have been learned over time and didn’t actually come built in but were learned gradually through observation. Thinking back on it, it was probably in my mid 20s that I started paying conscious attention to how body positioning affects people socially and making efforts to make sure that everyone is physically included in conversations. Now I am acutely aware of it all the time.
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For the avoidance of doubt, they do not automatically match up TV licences to your BBC iPlayer account. When you go to the website to watch a video, you are redirected to the login page. From there, you are asked whether you have a TV licence, and only then does the video start. I can only assume the forced login is to enable user tracking?

I don't mind paying the TV license fee as the content is excellent, but I browse the website and download what I want to watch with youdube-dl, because I categorically reject their creepy tracking, which they refuse to properly explain. If youtube-dl stops working, I'll keep paying the licence to support the programming, but will look for torrents of the shows to download instead.
Nature Scientific Reports, not the same.
> Professional developers achieve job security by doing great work and making themselves replaceable.

Wouldn't that be "achieve career security"? Because as I attest upstream in this subthread, in my most notable example of being a mentor, I was indeed fired as soon as my non-technical salesman background CEO decided I was replaceable. Although he didn't realize that wasn't quite yet true, and the mentee decided to leave instead of working in such a place.

I don't know about Estonia, but in the US conventional careers as a software developer start ending when you're in your 30s, with 40 being a hard limit in finding a new conventional job because that's when our national age discrimination law kicks in.

That fresh out of college except for one short job mentee? The only reason he's still a programmer a quarter century later is that within a decade he got a high level security clearance, which is sufficiently onerous for the company that pushes through that process, they have to "bench" or otherwise have the employee work on non-classified stuff for many months, that after getting it you're in a small pool that companies vastly prefer to recruit from.

This is intimately connected to being a good mentor since a fair amount of experience is required to do a good job of it.
If you watch the livestream for yesterday's falcon heavy launch on youtube the second camera angle is a rendering showing trajectory, and you can actually see the center core adjusting closer and closer to the droneship with each step as it gets more confident that it's able to land safely.
Is it me that's in the wrong? No! It must be everyone else!

I find it hard to believe that Mozilla, Google, StartEngine, PayPal, Stripe, Square, CashApp, Coinbase and BitPay, Azure, Joyent, GoDaddy, and Apple are all in having secret meetings to target a singular app. What a conspiracy!
They are supposed to be offset for radar purposes. The fact the first time was so close was a mistake, fortunately it worked.
I agree with the skepticism expressed in your comment, but the tone of it is a little aggressive, which is probably why it was flagged and buried.

Would you consider rewording your comment to make it less confrontational? I think it's important to challenge dubious stories like this one.
Just because something is natural doesn’t mean it’s optimal, nor does just because something is optimal mean it’s what people want for themselves, nor does just because something needs to be tolerated means everyone should want to bear such things for themselves.
this is just replacing framework a with framework b. It's not a "native, declarative DOM templating API yet"