skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Magnus Hjort, deputy director of Sweden’s new “psychological defence” agency:

> We can’t rule out that Sweden can be attacked.

> Authoritarian states have for years been trying to influence elections. The difference today is that through social media you have better opportunities to influence people. That’s why we need to have the capacity to monitor for an interference in our democracy.

> What we have seen lately is that the security situation has deteriorated in our part of the world. It has become more tense.

> We have to have something to analyse, to identify this and to be able to counter it and that’s why we are now establishing a psychological defence agency in Sweden.

> Conflict between states will be there after this year as well. This year could become particularly nasty and difficult.

> It will have to tread very carefully on controversial issues not to create the impression of the state trying to stifle critical views. Even if it is stated in the instructions that the new agency shall promote free speech, the line is not easy to draw.
indeed, or websub comments from other places. Or Activitypub…

Each microblog is a comment system – just reverse from what a blog wants.

The Fediverse really could help if just somebody would implement such a comment engine. But that engine has to be deployed decentral. On each blog.
This makes me think about a book I read a year or so ago called The Happiness Curve by Jonathan Rauch.

The idea is that happiness peaks in your 20s when you have great expectations and infinite possible outcomes for your life. As you age, you make choices, and reality sets in, and it inevitably leads to some amount of disappointment and dissatisfaction with life.

Fortunately, the happiness curve tends to trend back upward starting around age 50. The author's explanation for this is that happiness is based at least partially on your expectations. The idea being that your expectations are finally adjusted downward enough by the time you reach your 50s that you can be satisfied with normal life.
> All of a sudden I looked around and, where I was spending my time, everyone was a lot younger and I felt out of place.

I have the same feeling, and it's astonishing to me how quickly it happened. I went from feeling in the same age group as 20-somethings to feeling like their uncle in a year. I doubt I changed so much externally, but I'm amazed at how abrupt the change was.

It wasn't just a few things being out of place, then some more, then some more. I went from "I belong here" to "I don't belong here" basically instantly.
> You're moving the goalposts on what I'm saying, which is that I never developed symptoms.

Maybe I misunderstood you and I apologize for that, but I think you got my point - being asymptomatic says nothing about the efficacy of the vaccine against transmission and hence spread. There are asymptomatic Covid cases in vaccinated and in unvaccinated people. It has been found that there is no difference in viral loads between vaccinated and unvaccinated people who PCR test positive.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

A recent investigation by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of an outbreak of COVID-19 in a prison in Texas showed the equal presence of infectious virus in the nasopharynx of vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals.6
Similarly, researchers in California observed no major differences between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals in terms of SARS-CoV-2 viral loads in the nasopharynx, even in those with proven asymptomatic infection.7
Thus, the current evidence suggests that current mandatory vaccination policies might need to be reconsidered, and that vaccination status should not replace mitigation practices such as mask wearing, physical distancing, and contact-tracing investigations, even within highly vaccinated populations.

> This is called ending the pandemic, where this virus becomes just part of the background since there's no point wasting tests on otherwise asymptomatic individuals and it doesn't affect society as a whole.

Fully agree. People also need to accept the virus as part of their lifes and stop throwing a fit, because someone else is unvaccinated, because it is obvious (and not misinformation) that the vaccines do not prevent that almost everyone will be exposed to the virus.
The phase difference between light bouncing off two aligned mirrors is NOT random. This is what you are missing.

Non-coherent light only means it is made of many wavelengths at the same time (Think of it as the sum of many « coherent lights »). Interference does happen even for incoherent light, within each wavelength.

Example: oil iridescence on water is interference which works on « incoherent » light.
> Is web3 really based on blockchain technology?

It is specifically referring to applications built on Ethereum and doesn't actually have any technical connection to the web as we know it today.

Only that it wants to replace it.

> But is it really already accepted wisdom that it will underpin the whole web?

No. It will have as much influence on the world as Bitcoin has had i.e. it will be popular amongst tech bros, criminals, gamblers, VCs etc.

But won't really cut through to the mainstream.
There are people 50 years old with 5K who aren't as miserable as OP.
Let me rephrase that for you:

"You have lots of savings, so you could try working for an NGO/NPO or even volunteer, either in tech or working directly with people. This can give you a surprisingly strong sense of purpose."
You must be living in a different world than me. I regularly get spam even from large corporations, that I know I never signed up for anything for. I know it is actually them, because it's DKIM signed with their domain certificates. Walmart (which doesn't exist in my country), Unilever and tons or their brands.

Even a national division of Microsoft got hands on my email and decided to sign me up for invites to developer events (I know I hadn't signed up for it, because they didn't even use my name in the mails, which they certainly would have known if they had gotten it through any legitimate source).

I assume it's bullshit KPIs, or signup schemes. Some poor seller at Microsoft or Walmart who's ranked according to how many people sign up to the opt-out company promotions, and buys harvested addresses to juice their numbers.

I even got some very obvious fraud spam ("Your [expensive product] is waiting for you!", trying to get you to sign up as a "product tester" only paying $$$ per month) with full DKIM signatures from a site hosted at a Danish hosting provider, and Danish business info. You'd think this sort of thing gets shut down quickly, but nope. The only times I've tried to address this sort of thing through the proper channels (domain registrar's abuse accounts, etc.), I've only gotten markedly more spam.

At least DKIM signatures makes it easy to autodelete mail. No need to even go into the spam folder, I'm happy to forbid Walmart from communicating with me by mail forever.
The Netherlands have done just fine before Bezos's new yatch. Bowing down to contemporary kingship is not required.
I have one rule about my less than steller coding abilities: if it works, then it's good code.

Life is too short to worry about whether your skills measure up to anyone elses, as you'll always find someone better at it then you.
Yes, you can spend a lot of time and complexity on truly robust automation. But it's not always the most ROI move economically. Especially not in highly volatile businesses where your processes may need to change rapidly.
If you play an instrument as a hobby:

A proper König & Meyer sheet music holder (10068).

It's not foldable, but very stable. If you only ever used foldable sheet music holders, you don't even realize what misery you could simply avoid. Beside not dealing with falling sheets all the time, you can also properly write on it without descending into madness.

If you have to deal with larger pieces, something like the Berolina Manufaktur Magic Music Board will also come in handy.

Alongside with that: A magnet ring you can put your pencil into, so you can attach it to the underside of your sheet music holder. This way, it won't get into the way of flipping pages. Or, if you have to deal with the finicky ones, you can increase the stability of your sheets with it by fixing them with the pencil somewhat.
Make Capitalism Real Again
If the real number of cases is double that, then that would be a death rate of ... about 0.6%. And not everyone catches the disease in one pandemic wave, so the total population death rate in the US isn't going to reach that.

And the idea that the US is going to roll over and shrug when their hospital system falls apart is nonsensical. It is one of those sounds-scary-not-likely scenarios that doesn't play out at scale. The part people were initially worried about - ventilators, which can't be quickly scaled up in an emergency - turned out not to even be especially useful in managing COVID.

There are basic questions about whether the hospital system would have been overwhelmed in practice. People keep saying the response was bad, and yet there aren't any instances anywhere in the world I'm aware of where the hospital system really crumbled under pressure. There were lots of instances I heard of where where some people didn't get treated, and that is bad, but not so bad that death rates more than doubled to like ~1% in a local area. And even if the hospital system literally vanished, an order of magnitude worsening from 0.6% still wouldn't get death rates to 10% of the population.

It has been 2 years. We have the data now. 10% was never a possibility although that was less clear in the opening months. Even 1% appears not to have been reached in practice with the worst response policy response of any country in the world.
I think this is a pretty normal feeling to have. For myself it was a fine line between “accepting reality” and actual depression. Getting older and realizing half of your life is behind you is not the most uplifting topic.

So that would be my first piece of advice, get some counseling or other mental health help.

As for what to do beyond that, you didn’t really say much in your post. You briefly mentioned your relationship status, so it seems that might be a area to start in. The good news for you is that at 35 it is perfectly acceptable to be dating people in their mid to late 20s, so you still have plenty of time to start a relationship and have a family.

From my personal experience being married and having children will completely disabuse you of your current feelings. You may have other problems to deal with, but “what to do with the next 20 years” won’t be one of them.
Internal representation isn't the issue. Software can internally represent coordinates any way that's consistent (and so bug-free).

The conflict is about interfaces, specifically interfaces using unlabeled number pairs, between software and humans, or software and other software. It's unfortunate that anyone would implement software with lat/long inputs/outputs, and think that they have the privilege of defining that order however suits them; what they obviously should do, and should have done, is take a moment to think, "How have people communicated earth coordinates in the past? Are there any standards that might be applicable?" and used that order. Of course, if tradition and standards were bad for some objective reason, that might justify it. But not just because some programmer wants to export their way of dealing with coordinates in x, y coordinate order from a cylindrical projection. That's not sufficient reason to upend tradition and introduce confusion and ambiguity in cases of |longitude| <= 90°.
This is indeed very typical for many digital automation projects created by bureaucracies. As the head of a German airline said, "If you digitize a shitty process, then you’ll end up with a shitty digital process".
Get married and have kids already. The developed world population has been well below the replacement level, and you will have a new purpose in life, one that is very hard, but feels biologically correct. Kids are a way to try to "get right" all the mistakes you made or people made with you. Of course they will make their own mistakes, but we're talking about what will be rewarding for you. You sound like you have experienced a lot, and should pass on your skills and learnings. You also need higher day to day priorities than your own mental health in order to "get out of your own head" and finish maturing into an adult, IMHO.
(Speaking from experience)
Less novel but also true: you don’t own a boat, a boat owns you.
when the fundamental design goal of a tool is “if you don’t like it, change it, we won’t stop you and we’ll even show you all the knobs and dials”, and the tool has had that ethos for 45 years, there’s a lot to learn.

C-h t RET is a good place to start, and then eintr and the rest of the manuals help too.

Some people find that starter kits are good; i find that they add more confusion.
Thank you! Looks like exactly what I needed.
Static linking does not preclude separate compilation though. Go and Rust both use separate compilation with static linking by default (at least last I used them... it's been a while). I know Rust at least used to support dynamic linking too -- it just wasn't the default. And C also supports static linking of course.
> I am turning 35 years soon and I feel like I haven't achieved much

that's normal

with some rare exceptions, at 35 you are too young to watch at you life with the right perspective and you feel like you haven't achieved much.

It is also because it's true, you haven't achieved much in the grand scheme if things, like virtually everyone of us, but what you have achieved on a personal level will be visible in the future, it's invisible right now.

Look at it this way: you are at the beginning of the journey, things that are gard now get easier with time, things that now are easy get harder with age, but at 35 you have actually "lived" less than 20 years, while many more are in front of you and nobody can actually predict what's going to happen next. Life is full of surprises.
I am with you, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth-centered,_Earth-fixed_... would be my preference, too. Especially if we’re talking internal representation. My background is having to track objects that fly or go below the surface. Though as others have mentioned, asking “is this object on the ground currently” is a tiny bit complicated.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27764806 (46 comments)
I’m in my late 40s. Just gone through 15 years of absolute shit with an ex partner and financial chaos.

Decided I’d fix it in 2019. Three important things to concentrate on:

1. Health. If that’s off, fix it first. Everything depends on health. Sort out your diet, physical fitness and health and mental health follows. I’m fitter than all my peers and both fitter and healthier than I was in my 20s. Can run a half marathon now.

2. Social contacts. Get out there and make friends. In my case i signed up to Meetup and just attended random stuff until people stuck. This usually involves hiking, pubs and bars, restaurant nights out.

3. Invest in experiences. Go travelling, do new things and learn new stuff completely away from your usual area of expertise and comfort. So I’m usually desk bound in the middle of the city but a few weeks back I’m standing on a mountain in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night in the middle of winter doing celestial navigation course. It was amazing.

All positive, fulfilling experiences in life I have found require putting yourself in unusual and uncomfortable positions. Life where there is no normal but it’s not bad abnormal is where the fun is. Doing those things together with other people is where you make meaningful lasting friends and relationships too.
Your comment was deleted. Most people here can’t see it. Thesis denied.
> You seem to be genuinely surprised (horrified?) by the fact that there are such cases. Why is this so?

I am not horrified by the fact that vaccines do not prevent (and only slow) the spread of the virus, because as you said, that was always to be expected, but by the fact that people are trying to implement mandates on such a weak basis, while ignoring all the social fallout that comes with such mandates.

> The CDC director's comments are not misinformation, but your misrepresentation of those comments could probably be classified as such

"could probably be classified". So you acknowledge that you falsely accused me of spreading misinformation. Thank you for the discussion.
You mentioned travel - what's the longest stretch of time you have travelled for? I went backpacking for two years at 35 and it was the best thing I ever did for myself; the chance to just 'be' without any pressure on your time, the freedom to go and do whatever you like with whomever you like - it was wonderful therapy for me, and I came back recharged and ready for the next phase of life.

If you haven't ever had a very long travel holiday, consider it.

edit: if you want to make friends, I recommend SCUBA diving - I've never met a more welcoming, inclusive community of people
Great advice, learning another language gets your brain going and into social situations. He sounds lonely.
> E.g. in 2020 they quickly pushed for joint EU bonds to inject money into the eastern countries (and Italy and Spain)

Basically to subsidise buying german products. While Italy and Spain have a debt issue, east eu has an entry barrier issue, always playing catchup with expensive eu regulation. Take nuclear. We know what country pushes for an eu wide ban and thats a basic example of what east eu needs to lower costs.

The only “benefit” of german imposed economic policies is that they sunk south europe to a stage where if east europe is smart it can overtake it economically. But you know made in east eu is low quality yet made in china is fine, so say the germans.
The problem is named named values often come with significant performance penalties in terms of storage. With data points in the billions it becomes significant
although not quite the same concept as stumbleupon's, http://boredhoard.com/ collects cool (mostly) independent websites not known by the general public; there are over 500 sites listed so far, packaged in weekly box releases
Better to not let those kinds of ideas trick you. You'd be rich in some parts of the world. You're not yet old. Maybe it's time to get out of wherever you are and find happiness in a place where people will appreciate you. Personally I dream of this but my savings aren't enough yet.
On the Malleability of Ecdsa Signatures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_... actually passed in 01994.
Just to be clear, don't embrace the steam engine.
Also applies to cats!
LATitude is from the LATin for sideways.
Skillshare just pulled the same trick on me. I decided to go with the free trial. Was enjoying one tutorial and decided to get, what I assumed, was the first month of subscription. Nope, got slammed with 130 pound charge on PayPal for 12 months. I decided to keep it, but cancelled the recurring charge and just decided I will never renew it on principle.
I was just explaining the "jobs jobs JOBS" mentality. I disagree with the notion that people should be thankful to rich people for choosing to spend their money in a country for trivialities such as yachts. A few hundred jobs is not something to be fucking thankful for.
Rice cooker - so convenient

Ducky One S2 mechanical keyboard - compact but a delight to code on
Mystical Experiences of Arthur Koestler (1954)
My friend, you are not lost -- you are free. From what I can tell, you have your health, your youth (35 is still young) and you have some savings. If you don't have a mortgage, kids, a spouse, and a job you cannot leave, then you are free. The next step is to see the world. Get a one-way ticket to Chiang Mai and try to stay as long as possible. Learn the language, get a scooter, and talk to people. Live close to the earth, and when you eventually miss home, you will return a different person. Certain places are easier to reboot yourself than others. Pick some place warm and friendly.
>the optimiser decides to recompile the bytecode to improve performance, but the recompiled version actually ends up being slower.

I had that happen while developing a fast "exp(double)" implementation: for some reason casting a double into an int can be very slow (at least on some architectures) if the double is not close to int range, so I took care to put each of two (exclusive) occurrences of the statement "int i = (int)foo;" after special cases dealing with huge values, but the JIT reworked the code by factoring them above the special cases, making the code much slower for huge values. My first workaround was to replace one of the "int i = (int)foo;" by "int i = -(int)-foo;", which behaved the same in practice but was not factored out by the JIT.
Arch Linux Now Provides Debug Packages, Debuginfod Integration
How many good paying local jobs (not only in sales) would exist if cancerous companies like amazon would not destroy the local market?
35? You are still wet behind the ears! I’m almost 59 and I code all the time (Ruby on Rails, mostly). Age truly is just a number. If you feel confused about all the languages and frameworks, you are right to feel that way. It’s confusing as hell. Everyone feels that way. You just have to find your niche and become an expert in it. Let us know how you’re doing when you’re 60!
Agreed. The sort of reductionist takes in here that blame education or illiteracy indicate a lack of experience.

Unfortunately in these borderline cases the only way to know for sure is to wait a few days and try again or set up a doctor's appt to get a better test.
Most likely, the upcoming generation web3 big tech companies won't be founded in Europe. The US could go either way. Singapore, India and much of SE Asia will probably do well, though.
I'd try talking to old people other than your parents. By now he should know what to expect from them and he should also have found out how he differs from them.
I tend to think it's good code if future me would be could reasonably work on it.
Why are people angry about it then if it’s the same as what we have already?
My gut reaction is that this[1] looks like a NUMA issue. The flip-flop performance profile immediately reminds me of a very gnarly prod issue i lead the investigation of. I’d want to eliminate NUMA first from my investigation.

You can use “numactl --cpunodebind=0 --membind=0 <your original java benchmark command>” to pin the JVM to a particular NUMA node and immediately discount my notion as bunkum.

[1] all the reasons mentioned that make me think numa:

1. The machine affected has multiple NUMA domains
2. The M1 is a single NUMA domain chip and does not exhibit the behaviour
3. The real thing making me think this - the consistent performance flip flop is close to the ~40% performance overhead of accessing remote memory vs local that i’ve seen previously. You’re seeing higher overheads but your code is a much tighter loop of memory access than my previous experience so that could explain the difference i think.
(3) is a very negative way of looking at things. Do you think Bill Gates did it on his own? You don't have to be famous in order to play a small part of something impactful that's larger than yourself and will be respected for generations.
Simple test and reading them without error are important and life altering.
However if have to say I thinks devices like there should be prohibited. To me this is just throwing a lot of e-waste into a problem that is either still not solved or just hidden.
By not solved I mean, can't we makes strips that give clearer readings/results?
By hidden I mean that if we can't make better pee paper the the device is just hiding ambiguous or unclear result and leaving the user in a false sense of security.
Maybe not majority but a very high % of people in China would do anything to make money. And it's not just a few people in positions of privilege. It's your regular people working in state corps.