skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would never suggest this out of the blue, but since you are asking: I recommend therapy. The Netflix comment is what makes me say this, as well as the “state of the world”. Most psychiatrists do online sessions now, and the first one tends to be free. I recommend trying 2 or 3 first sessions, and choosing one.

Depending on the diagnosis, eventually they might tell you to contact a psychiatrist to try some drugs. In my case, that helped. That’ll take time though. The therapist will probably start with the basics: sleep, food, social interaction, family, couple, exercise.

WRT the state of the world: you first have to accept that you are not going to be able to fix the whole world on your own. The cpu cycles you spend thinking about that is wasted energy. Concentrate on what you can do. That depends on your circumstances and your motivation. Donate money to charities or political parties. Teach children in the local school. Plant threes. Investigate and write to motivate others. Whatever you think will improve things.

Then (very important, but also difficult) transform those thoughts into action - don’t just them just fester inside your head. Take a piece of paper and a calendar and make a plan, and commit to it.

Also, beware that there’ll be setbacks and problems. Don’t be hard on yourself when those arrive. It’s part of the process.

Good luck!
None of that makes Starship an inadequate part of the plan, especially given the vision of making a very big fleet of them and the colony taking the best part of a century to establish.

(To add to your list: I wouldn’t want to be stuck somewhere where Musk was in change, but again, that’s not a Starship problem per se).
There's crypto "pop-jargon" and cypto technical jargon.

The technical jargon does make sense like any kind of niche technical jargon.
if you want to pay, get Cleanshot. Not affiliated in any way. (very) Happy customer. It now has a cloud version, but the shrinkwrap/standalone license is enough. You get one year updates I think, and then you can keep it at that version or buy more updates. The most ethical software license for a tool like this one. We’re happily paying to support them and they keep delivering great enhancement. A recent favourite was OCR. You grab a portion of the screen like you take a screenshot, but instead it keeps the OCR text in your clipboard. Quite accurate even in different languages.
Call me old and cynical...but my read of the letter was "We are financially dead & headed to the Chapter 7 chop shop". Followed by all the required-by-social-conventions things they're supposed to say, regardless of truth.

From skimming a couple sources, it sounds like the Symphony had profound financial problems, going back decades. Prospective local donors & sponsors tend to have long memories of such things. A little local non-profit can't play corporate name games to escape from a bad reputation. Nor count on attracting the best of board members or managers.

I agree that the nuances, details, "could it have been saved?", local cultural institutions, etc. are important. But unless some long-term insider from the SAS pops up here on HN, I don't think we've any chance to find out. :(
I wrote this up a few days ago to help remind myself what to do when things get bad. It's not really meant to be public, so please don't share. Maybe some of these techniques will help.

https://anxiety.vos.lol/
This is pretty cool; a very interesting way of displaying the information. The final grid and the information about the gods is underwhelming though. I would have liked to know what the reason for the structuring of the grid is, and would love far more information about each of the gods, but especially the major ones.
> slowly disappearing in favor of direct hardware acceleration

In favor of software rendering, because datacenters mostly don’t have that hardware. X11 is more likely to be replaced by Javascript apps than Wayland apps because even going through a browser to a canvas is a better remoting story than sending entire CPU-rendered video frames to a desktop with a GPU that’s nearly untapped.
Located in the "The Permanent Building", it couldn't be more appropriately situated. Steps away from the library too.

A great presence in the city!
You'd almost certainly do better to have the storage at a stationary off-track location rather than as part of the trainset.

Batteries are massive (in the weight sense), and frequent acceleration and deceleration as well as safety would be major concerns.
In Japan, is the "departure time" understood to be the time at which the doors close, or the time at which the train starts moving? This is a common debate in Britain:

https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/train-doors-may-close-3...

Personally I think that for the convenience of passengers the doors should not close before the published time, which is traditionally called "departure time" but I don't really care what they call it; the point is that people need to know the time at which they need to be on the train and the easiest way to tell them is to tell them directly without any bizarre offsets.
A metadata governance solution that uses graph database
Out of interest, what kind of state is software engineering in the rail industry in?

Watching a documentary about Crossrail the other day their testing seemed to consist of a driver manually driving a simulator in real-time through signals and recording when buttons don't work etc. I was kind of hoping that was just a misrepresentation.
>I believe nearly all propositions about people thinking are unintelligible.

Is human behavior governed purely by biological processes?

>Or are using the word “think” to identify some phenomena I can observe with a brain and a microscope?

Scientists have hooked up sensors to peoples' brains and sensed certain patterns of brain waves corresponding to certain thoughts.
> “battery prices shoot up due to lithium scarcity”

There is really no scarcity of lithium in the world. If more is needed then it’s easy to just tap new supplies because it’s pretty much everywhere if you go looking.

Battery producers are more constrained by things like nickel and cobalt, but there are alternative, cheaper li-ion chemistries (such as LFP) that do without these.
You don't think Americans have any valid reason to be mistrustful of their government or have reservations about it owning their communications infrastructure?

What is propaganda, exactly? The information brought to you by Mark Felt, Julian Assange, and Edward Snowden? Or media corporations assuring you that only dangerous conspiracy theorists would dare to question their government?
>none of those rights involve questioning the business decisions or administrative decisions of the management.

Tell me you've never seen a union without telling me you've never seen a union.
I'm not sure if this helps you but my goal is to earn enough money and then life on my own farm care free were.i can then make me self sufficient.

Perhaps you need a goal for your money as well?

Perhaps you already have enough to buy something which gives you the safety net to fall onto?

For me my own little farm means water storage and solar panels and wood and stuff.

But it also means creating a garden for more biodiversity and building the soil up and trying to build it sustainable.

The farm could also have enough space to provide shelter for the rest of your family if they desire to join you.
But I do recommend therapy first. You can use some online service like BetterHelp or one of the competitors. Better to give money to an individual though. But whatever is easiest for you.
> Why didn’t the employee go to the police?

You're calling someone naive, while also asking why an employee didn't go to the cops with an accusation of sexual harrassment against their employer who is the richest man in the world?
Priti Patel Approves Julian Assange’s Extradition to US
Not to mention there is a difference in criticizing the CEO of a company for unsubstantiated and unproven claims, circulating internal letters, and getting fired, and saying that a man is not a woman on Twitter and not being able to work in most academia or media ever again in the next 5-10 years or maybe forever.

The place is context and result is comletely different.
The cherry-pick quotes from parent and refute is the laziest form of argument on HN.

In this instance, it allows you to blow past the few concrete examples amongst many that I cited where Jai is trying new things in the language space. It’s not hard work to learn a little about Jai. Jai may be an utter failure, but it’s not a toy or hobby, it’s being co-designed with an interesting game engine that looks pretty hot. It’s at least as expressive as C99, compiles way faster on modern gear, targets LLVM and x86, it’s at a minimum interesting.

Calling someone who does their homework a “fanboi” is A-ok, but someone else is looking for an excuse for poor behavior?
For anyone else out there browsing hn and unaware of Citus...I will save you the search I just did.

Citus appears to be an extension to Postgres that allows easier distribution, replication, sharding, parrallelism etc.
> At the end of the day what prevents functional languages from being a good fit for low-level programming is that effective low-level programming cannot be referentially transparent.

I'm not sure I agree. "Straightforward" FP, e.g. a bunch of functions defining local vars and calling other functions, can be pretty hard to make low-level (it pretty much assumes a GC, and indirected closures; although tech like linear types can help).

However, the more abstract, point-free, pattern-heavy FP seems like a reasonable fit (e.g. pipes/conduit)
> You could just have used the time to release some new records.

If you were a soloist you could have used the time. If you were a 5 piece you could use about half the time depending on region. Larger groups had a lot of problems given time delays in remote communication.
In fact it might be slower than actually targeting a proper compiler intermediate language.
Over 13k Vivo phones found to be using same IMEI number (2020)
> In fact, they're typing so much that they can't possibly waste valuable seconds using a mouse. I must be misunderstanding what they mean because that just can't be right.

Yes, you are misunderstanding. First, it's not only about typing but it's generally about doing whatever you are trying to do without unnecessary delays, including navigation between functions, files, windows, etc. Second, it's not just about saving seconds here and there: the end goal is to stay in the flow state, avoiding unnecessary interruptions and context switches. Every time you reach for the mouse and move the cursor or scroll a document you stop thinking at the problem at hand because you're focusing on the motion, and when you're done with the mouse you waste mental energy resuming your previous train of thought, maybe even forgetting something.

> Even if I must look it up in a physical dictionary, how long are we talking here?

This is actually a good example because it seriously disrupts your thinking by forcing you to pause for some seconds and completely focus on something else. I am sure proof-reading a long document in this way is much more mentally exhausting (and slower, but again speed is not the point).
> but it's performant enough to run circles around a lot of high level languages and dynamic languages

It ain’t running circles around any managed language, with perhaps the exception of Python.

C#, Java, JS all have comparably good performances, sometimes much better - e.g. when GC can’t be avoided.
Julian Assange’s Extradition to US Approved by UK Home Secretary
https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1jpK this openstreetmap query finds a few (and probably be improved to find a few more)
Compiling a large number of files on Windows is slow, no matter what language/compiler you use. It seems to be a problem with the program invocation, which takes "forever" on Windows. It's still fast for a human, but it's slow for a computer. Quite apt this comes up here ;-)

Source for claim: That's a problem we actually faced in the Windows CI at my old job. Our test suite invoked about 100k to 150k programs (our program plus a few 3rd party verification programs). In the Linux CI the whole thing ran reasonably fast, but the Windows CI took double as long. I don't recall the exact numbers, but if Windows incurs a 50ms overhead per program call you're looking at 1:20 (one hour twenty minutes) more runtime at 100k invocations.

Also I'm pretty sure I've built LLVM on 16GB memory. Took less than 10 minutes on a i7-2600. The number of files is a trade off: You can combine a bunch of small files into a large file to reduce the build time. You can even write a tool that does that automatically on every compile (and keeps sane debug info). But now incremental builds take longer, because even if you change only one small file, the combined file needs to be rebuild. That's a problem for virtually all compiled languages.
Assange can be extradited, says UK home secretary
According to these benchmarks, pure Python is about 100 times slower than C and other fast languages: https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks
Facebook already uses coroutines pretty heavily in certain C++ services. Was kind of surprising to see, I haven't seen coroutines used much in C++ because of the lack of standard library support (no composeable promises yet)
Or just normal sized humans simulated on a supercomputer the size of a matchbox…
Quantum Encryption in a Box
As long as you know python is doing little to no computational work.
People like to talk in percentages when it's obviously unclear what it means, and they frequently get it wrong.

It gets even better when people start switching between percentages and "percentage points" referring to a measure that's in percentages originally.

Unfortunately, most of those things are easier communicated and harder to get wrong if you try speaking in a more natural way. This is now "twice as fast" or "2.1x faster" is much clearer and can't go past zero :)

Similarly, I think it'd help to switch back from percentages to actual factors (119% = 1.19), and saying "we reduced the time for the computation by 1.19 of original time" would clearly show what's wrong (and saying "by 1.19x" would signal how it's a small reduction, so it's wrong as well).

Finally, I am 94.8% certain people will keep using percentages even where inappropriate, and with too much precision too!
Listen to the jokers telling you you're worrying about things out of your control. You have access to things others don't. Remember your gifts. You can use them to transform into someone who can have a more effective influence on the world around you. The issue is we've been socially/culturally/linguistically programmed with busted mental models caked with denial. This cake is always made up of literal lies, like "I am white" or "There exists a sustainable way to cling to life without slowly killing oneself" or "A comment on the internet can't possibly be the stimulus for a heart attack."

What's the finite set of universal human needs? How can we show this? One way is to compile a list from all the lists online and see what needs you're not meeting. Work on getting those met. Sounds like you've got some acceptance going unmet, as well as some mourning. Do you have effective grieving strategies? Have you cried through envisioning the death of the last human? What about extinction by asteroid? There's a whole world of death to explore and accept! This is why we're starting a traveling circus meant for healing, grieving, and more.

Anxiety is normal for any beliefs out of alignment with reality/nature like "There's nothing we can do about it" or "I'm but one person." And no matter what your beliefs, if you have a chronically unmet need for something and you're making plans that continue to deny it, the parts of the body needing that thing may naturally get anxious.

Money literally isn't a human need, so if you think a collapse is coming and you don't know how to live without money, part of you is probably aware you can get pretty screwed pretty quick in that scenario. So go learn that. Consider a change in career. Have you considered running away to a weird traveling donation-driven circus, becoming a death clown, and learning what it's like to have 0 money and not feel anxious? Cause that's where I'm at and I wish this peace for all. The Caravan Stage Company has also been rolling this way for decades. Maybe check them out? If you do this kind of work on yourself, you may become a person who's equipped to help family through anything. That's the journey I'm on, or so I hope. I suspect I can show it works mathematically.
Thats… a… perspective.

The FDIC pretty much never uses the “deposit insurance” because the banks never get to that point of failure when the FDIC can instead just be a broker to a larger bank.

That means you and I never really have to simulate how many $250,000 balance bank accounts to actually open for our cash millions.

Even in 2008-2009 with the wave of bank failures, the insurance wasnt pulled. And so the behavior of the director composition doesn’t seem to have influence there.
Fair, but I think that is more of an exception than the norm. For people that may want to more frequently lock their password database, having a 40 character password would quickly become a PITA.
Well, the theory is that you use technology to provide the same services that a traditional bank does, but you do it better because banks have notoriously shit systems.

The practice is often that you use technology to provide a half-arsed subset of the services that a traditional bank does, but you don't have a risk department so when there's a downturn in the market it turns out you're providing services to all the people a traditional bank didn't want to deal with for good reason.
I came scross this utility a few months ago via a Reddit post and have been using it regularly.

The developer provides some insight into why it's free here [1]. To save you the click, they consider it a hobby project and decided the work to productise it is too great.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/s4uvpr/shottr_the_...
This is exciting. It seems like they're making another big push towards usability (I'm especially excited about the real, i.e. finger-following gestures).
Both types `List<T>`and `T[]` are `object` aka Rust's `Box<T>`. There's little profit most of the time for using `ToArray()` over `ToList()`, and in places where it does matter, there is a high chance that using `IEnumerable<T>` is bad idea due to its performance overhead.

I believe, the best implementation of `IEnumerable<T>` we have today are Rust's iterator types which provide the same functionality but with performance comparable or even better than manually written imperative loops.
It isn't just for getting in people that agree with them. It is often simply motivated by animosity similar to those with the other sign that want no immigration.

People complaining about too many white people aren't driven by altruism either. They are nearly as racist as those that have problems with peoples skin color. Well, having problems with skin color is common ground really.

But immigrants also won't vote for them. Why should they? Their culture would be as badly treated as the proponents treat their own. It is just some kind of childish crusade against those they see a more successful and it is despicable how much politicians courted and still court such positions.

That makes them a larger problem than real racists since the latter is no defensible position in modern society. Hasn't been for decades.
Your boss gets accused of something by someone’s friend who told them in confidence, never said anything for years, and then suddenly when your boss does something one side of the political spectrum hates, the other loves, this person goes to the press.

Not with proof, just hearsay.

This is political.
My reply was a little ambiguous - I simply meant that many anarchists would find the minarchist and libertarian positions you lay out to be self-contradictory. Namely, they both claim to (mostly) oppose state involvement in the economy, yet (generally) support a free market economy that needs to be enforced by the state.

I'm agreeing with your premise that anarchism consists of many competing strains, just adding a point of clarification for the audience here (...which is probably more familiar with the libertarian perspective than the others you listed).
I am going to separate my distaste for Assange as a person from this, and say this whole process stinks. The assymetric nature of the UK-US extradition treaty stinks. This guy should be tried for any crimes he is alleged to have committed in British courts
I stumbled upon this insightful comment in Reddit and I think you might benefit from it [1]:

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hi OP. Hey i am 66 (I still can't believe that number, haha. Luckily I am still super healthy). I was in 2nd grade when president Kennedy was shot in the head, live on national television. His brain flew out into his wife's lap. It set off a wave of assassinations (president's brother, MLK, etc).
I grew up knowing that the yellow and black triangles symbol meant "fallout shelter" and we were supposed to go there in case of nuclear attack. We did "duck and cover" drills in elementary school. Hide under your desks. Once, they sent us home with pamphlets about nuclear attack preparation. OK don't laugh, the pamphlet said "wear loose white clothing in case of nuclear detonation. Don't look directly at the explosion." They flew warplanes overhead once per week after bedtime, faster than the speed of sound, and we would hear the "sonic boom" which scared the crap out of me. It rattled the windows, shook the house. People were truly panicked, using their life savings to dig holes in their backyard, and building and equipping "bomb shelters" to try to survive nuclear fallout. It didn't feel like that stuff was ever resolved, it just faded from attention, it was buried by other distractions both negative and positive.
Wasn't too much later the government had a giant meltdown that scared the crap out of everyone. It was right as I came of voting age, haha! Oh my god. Watergate, it was called. Huge corruption scandal, everyone was just breathless with shock and disgust and fear. At that time people around me trusted the government to be solid enough to remain (seemingly) just, and we learned it could seemingly recover, at least back then.
Around this time we were also in a totally illegal war, and we had a freaking lottery to decide which 18-year-olds would be forced to go fight the Viet Cong in the jungles of southeast asia. High school grads coming back in body bags, kids running away to Canada to avoid getting roped into the army. And hippies happened, communes, free love, weed -- all of which caused the older ones to lose their minds because society looked to them to be coming apart.
Some of us died. Most of us lived. You are living the stories you will tell young people, when its your turn to comfort them.
None of this is to minimize what you are sensing around you! You are awake and aware, you are not overreacting. I am so sorry. I wish I could just listen to you for a couple hours. You are having one of those wakeup moments. We all will be each having our own wakeup moments. Our job is to comfort each other when we feel like this. We will all adapt and do our human best to cope with whats coming. Help each other not freeze in place, but take the most intelligent and resourceful steps we can muster. The system is unable to help, its unreliable
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[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/v9l0j6/i...
It would be far scarier if it was the other way around.
What's wrong with Jester, Prologue, Norm, etc.?