skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or, damn near every household bought a new TV during the pandemic lockdowns using their stimulus checks and now no one needs a new TV.

I think Walmart's story in particular is one of stupidly bad demand forecasting.
In a world where we pay for stamps, why didn't bulk unsolicited mail go away? This won't work.
Agreed. It's gonna get bad for the next year. There's just no way around it.
* https://pdb101.rcsb.org/motm/

* https://ccsb.scripps.edu/goodsell/

* https://pdb101.rcsb.org/sci-art/geis-archive/irving-geis

* https://www.digizyme.com/portfolio.html

* https://www.drewberry.com/

* https://biochem.web.utah.edu/iwasa/projects.html

* http://onemicron.com/

* The art of Jane Richardson, of which I couldn’t find a link

* This blog has plenty of good links: https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/psquared/
Would normally try to resist but, just as FYI, from https://brians.wsu.edu/2016/05/30/palate-palette-pallet/:

palate / palette / pallet
Your “palate” is the roof of your mouth, and by extension, your sense of taste. A “palette” is the flat board an artist mixes paint on (or by extension, a range of colors). A “pallet” is either a bed (now rare) or a flat platform onto which goods are loaded.
I was very happy when swift was introduced and it solved many classes of bugs that were very popular in Obj-C. It was very much a big help for external developers.

Swift apps are not crashing randomly, you don't have nils running rampant because of type safety.

You can create types that nicely convey reality using rich enums and you don't have to define objects with 18 fields that are mostly always nil, but when propertyA == 16, then this field has some value.

Swift also is not an official superset of C, like Objective-C, so you don't have all the footguns of C language, like integer promotions and assignment being an expression.

You just have so much improvements over objective-C if you want to ship an app to hundreds of thousands of users and be sure that it works correctly and that unhandled edge cases won't blow up.

Maybe it is more complex to write a compilable piece of swift, that a compilable piece of Objective-C, but I am happy that this is the case, because it means that the compiler has my back and finds bugs and issues for me.
One of the comments is about how this is subsidizes the wealthy;

If the senate is listening; work with the taxis and rideshares and public transit; if the host vehicle is electric, extend savings to end users; It's a working alternative to the infrastructure and time requirements of public transit.

Personal mobility leads to economic mobility; and without a public transit option, insurance + a monthly payment is a high bar to enter.
Try sending emails with E2E encryption. Good luck.
A Flight Emergency (2009)
There's a bit of selection bias going on w/ Tolkien fans vs readers of the book in general. I know many people who read the and loved the book, disliked the sections on Tom (at least, beyond a few pages of it), and have never participated in any Tolkien fan community. I suspect "fans of the book" meant more the casual rather than the hard-core fan you are alluding to.
I'm not questioning the idea that the transaction was outside the sellers normal line of business (and tbf to Stripe, would imo be a valid reason to be extra careful with the transaction and may be justifcation for account termination, even if account termination seems a bit harsh for a first time "offensive" imo, but hey, thats ToS for you), just the idea that "used car seems extremely likely to cause a chargeback" thats all.
If we’re being very charitable, we might believe that. But this is also how I’ve seen many bot accounts behave, i.e. submitting random snippets of text from the featured article.
Actually he is advocating for peace. The suggestion of breaking the rules of the game balances the playing field. As it is a few can initiate bureaucratic violence against others basically free of consequences.

If we were to judge which act of violence is justifiable a few broken ribs is nothing compared to losing your life savings or going to prison. The issue here is that physical violence is a taboo. There are good reasons for that though it's undeniably that the cowing of the masses is beneficial to those that practice other forms of violence.
You do not necessarily need a separate metric, you can filter out toxic content from other engaging content.
I get around 60 calls a day, many of them are repeat attempts. T-Mobile's app blocks 99% of them. I get around a dozen texts a day for the real estate nonsense. Messenger does a good job of marking those as spam.

I've tried a number of times to get identifiable information from those folks with little success. Friend of mine went through the process and met with someone on site at the property he was contacted about. He first had to let them send an inspector. The inspector was paid by a proxy which was not linked to the company that wanted to buy the property. The person he met with on site representing the property buyer was a lawyer, and that's who he had to go after. He ended up getting the $1500 after all of that effort, and told me the lawyer laughed and said the cost was just passed onto his client. It was a lot of effort.
Life’s hardships for the laptop class != the hardships for this group of working class people

It is remarkable watching the level of contempt our industry treats them with. That We should put our children’s children’s hypothetical lives above the economic well being of an existing group of people is a mindset you find in religious groups, not highly educated tech.
Milwaukee!

Yeah... when people started tweeting pictures of their spaces I was instantly drawn to them for my own inspiration. I figured others might be too!
We offer native database integrations (https://feathery.io/integrations/postgresql). You can also send the data to your backend directly from our embed SDK (https://docs.feathery.io/develop/react/onsubmit).
There is a classic SF short story to similar effect, "The Wind Blows Free" by Chad Oliver. (Unfortunately, a quick google search didn't turn up the text, though it exists in a number of printed compilations.)
Yeah, I guess that's true. I suppose it's the way Matrix gives you control to manage multiple sessions that gets confusing. I can understand why it's good to give users that control -- but for non-technical users it gets confusing quick in my opinion.
The example using qsort illustrate how good was the lambda proposal for c23 that was rejected.
Scientists Turned Dead Spiders into Undead Zombie Robots
Now do Apple/Google/Facebook.
Wow the scale on the historic chart on that page is just nuts! Looking at Q2 & Q3 of 2020 - it just dwarfs everything and nearly makes the chart unreadable for the scale of numbers that we usually think of as important - where a full percent is real and two percent is big. I mean it makes sense given the pandemic, but seeing the economy shrink at a 30% annual rate one quarter and then bounce right back by the same amount the next quarter is insane. I wonder the last time it changed that quickly.
Increased polarization may be a form of engagement but it's certainly not the only way to engage and very likely not the type of engagement people were hoping for when lamenting political apathy. If anything the apathy problem was probably better viewed as "only polarized people care" not "we need more people polarized so they too care".
Exhausting, yes, but I don't see how it can be blown out of proportion. The existence of social media is definitely undermining democracies, just like all previous mass propaganda machines, except with a larger and more accessible reach than ever before.

There's nothing for researchers to study to reach this conclusion. Have we all forgotten about Cambridge Analytica? As a reminder, they used targetted ads to spread disinformation on social media, the effects of which have surely influenced the status of dozens of "democracies" around the world. It's certainly not the only company in that business, just one that happened to be widely publicized.

Social media is not a unique tool in the arsenal of rich megalomaniacs, but to claim it doesn't have a major role in undermining democracies is willfully ignorant.
Perhaps there really was a part of the script that it had just rained. Oftentimes, they will wet the street in production because you get better light off the street. Once you know this fact, you will see wet streets everywhere in TV/Film/Commercials.
Recruiters are just barely part of the managerial class so they are more easily emphasized with by others in that class.
Since always
> not at least without a detailed blog post / postmortem.

Can they legally give that considering its, most likely, private customer information? If they give detailed information out in a "Detailed" post mortem... isn't that proof that they are an untrustworthy entity?

Just seems to me this is a damned if you do, damned if you don't attitude against Stripe (or, any company in general that has a complaint but can't do a "detailed" public response because, well, that's private information... .. . )
Of course we have a large drop off of workforce participation. Baby Boomers are retiring en masse; they’re reaching retirement age, and many of those who are close were offered buyouts to leave early.

It’s not the result of decreased hiring due to economic slowdown. It’s the opposite entirely; this is a contributing factor to the labor shortage.
This comment fails to account for the fact that communicating via software is different than communicating offline.

If a drunkard wanders through a (physical) town square, verbally harassing everyone he meets, it is possible a mob will assemble and physically remove him. Such an outcome may be illiberal (it deprives the drunkard of his voice), but since it fulfills the wishes of the majority, it is highly democratic.

If a drunkard wanders onto social media and harasses everyone, what happens next depends on the design of the social media site.

Social media, like most online media, causes people to behave and to think differently than they would offline. There's a low limit to what we can correctly extrapolate about humanity in general from the behavior of humans on arbitrarily-designed social media websites.
Yes, or they are free’d automatically as the parent is free’d recursively. If you have called `add_child` on a node you created dynamically, godot will handle its lifecycle from there.

If you don’t add a dynamically-created node to the tree, you are responsible for `free`.

That almost never comes up, because I eventually figure out how to decompose everything into a tree Node, or! A Resource.

Resources are managed in a separate memory pool, and don’t need to be added to the tree for godot to take care of it. Go ahead, you just try and `free` a resource! ;)
The naive reader’s expectation of conformity to dramatic structure is an expectation that plenty of authors have played with, for reasons including stylistic effect, subtext, and for fun. It’s not a flaw, bug, feature, or other arbitrary and inappropriate use of software jargon.
For single projects, it's possible to build such caches and it's done by some, e.g. Firefox uses it.

But for the "any project" use case, the combination of Rust's compilation model and how crates.io works makes this hard. Due to Rust's compilation model, if crate A depends on crate B, then the version of crate B it's been compiled for can't be changed: you have to use that version. It also means that the features of the crate that have been enabled can't be changed. "Normal" Rust projects can quickly get into hundreds of crates.io dependencies in their DAG. Those are the very dependencies you want to use ssccache for. However, due to how crates.io works, basically every day you get a new updated crate in your DAG, and this invalidates all the crates that depend on it, including your own.

In a single project use case, this is no problem because everyone uses the same Cargo.lock so they use the same dependencies and the same features of those dependencies. But if you don't share a Cargo.lock, the problem is too wide.

There are some solutions like freezing crates.io according to a schedule and only pushing out updates once per week or so. But this still leaves the feature issue unsolved. Plus it is probably against the idea of crates.io to have updates available immediately. Another solution would be API only dependencies, but this is harder to pull off.
The Fed does not have the mandate to do what is convenient for the budget. That's not their problem. Obviously this is naive and I'm sure the Fed is under all kinds of pressure, but the Fed is supposed to kill inflation by raising rates to whatever it takes, as long as they don't kill jobs at the same time. The government is supposed to figure something out themselves.
I like Tom a lot but my own theory as to why he is in The Lord of the Rings is because Tolkien had already created him. You get a sense that the world-building Tolkien did began with a somewhat more fairytale-like world with characters like Tom Bombadil. First The Hobbit and then The Lord of the Rings took the world up to something less childish, more ... Arthurian?

Tom was at that point a round peg in a square hole, but Tolkien shoehorned him in nonetheless.
Reminds me of; ‘Loads of men are killed in war, women most affected’
Your comment made me think of when I used to work on desktop computers, and you couldn't uninstall the pre-installed McAfee Antivirus because it says it can't be uninstalled while it's running, and there was no way to kill it from the GUI. So you had to be tech savvy enough to kill it from task manager. Still angers me to this day.
Alternatively, I use Stripe as a payment processor for my small business and it works flawlessly.
> you can filter out toxic content from other engaging content.

If this is your stance: what algorithm do you propose to separate content that is "toxic" from content that is "non-toxic"?
The comment above is plainly false though.

Pelosi's sale of Nvidia was timed incredibly poorly, if the goal was to avoid short-term price movement around the CHIPS Act news. $NVDA is up about 8% in the two days since the sale.
The average american does not know the technical definition of what a recession is. They just know recessions are bad. Whether or not it's acknowledged we're officially in a recession can itself have negative economic impacts due to panic.

Also, Powell himself has been iffy about whether or not we're in a recession
I know a guy at Meta who makes $400k and admits to working “no more than 4 hours a day, ever.”

I’m sure there’s lots of inefficiencies like this being revealed by the recession.
Anybody can already create their own web page or wiki following their own policies.

The reason people want their content on Wikipedia is because a Wikipedia page signal a certain notability compared to a random web page. So the inclusionists want to eat the cake and keep it too.
>>>but $3300 is a pretty ordinary amount for any retailer.

Really? There are entire classes of retailers where that would be a truly exceptional event. I don't know if that's true of the OP (post removed), but if their average transaction is $27 or something this would rightly trigger alarm bells. If they are in fact being stonewalled on support that's pretty inexcusable though.
*> Is it just me or do a lot of famous software people meet their end by cancer?

If you live long enough cancer is one of the biggest concerns, and people who don't have particularly dangerous lives generally live long enough for this to be an issue.

Heart disease is the other top dog on the list. In many places this is still the top killer over-all, but it tends to take people earlier (obviously talking averages here, either can strike at practically any age) and is more deadly among those with lesser access to good health care (the non-famous) so the better-off may experience both, survive the “heart problems” cut, and get hit by cancer later.
His boots _are_ yellow, though. Truth is on his side!
Principles for Reading
I have never heard of worklife.news before, but it seems to be a site more targeted at managers, recruiters, HR folks, and the like. Not surprising or even necessarily bad that they would frame a headline to highlight the story's connection to its audience.
Major version bumps with major features are still a great marketing tool; like this article making it to the HN frontpage. That attracts users and developers, both desirable for FOSS.
Is it your position then that since the developers had neutral intent, therefore the algorithms do not need to be adjusted?
You already posted this.
Pieter Levels is a solo entrepreneur who makes roughly 2.7 million a year, largely from running Nomad List, but he runs several other businesses too.

https://nomadlist.com/

Other businesses he runs are listed in his Twitter bio:

https://mobile.twitter.com/levelsio

Here’s a recent interview:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V0ej29G7ZGg
Some years ago in a startup we had a 10k subscriber newsletter for event locations and made much much more per month than $2000. You might be too cheap.

[Edit] Especially with that backlog.
So it's a beefed-up colorful alternative to `fzf + input + ncurses-like prompts` where you would use English descriptive subcommands instead of shell redirections.

Nice! Kudos.
Web Scraping with Perl
Sorry for the edits. One time I'll hit reply and have it say what I wanted it to, but this was not that time.

The benefits of choice! I use Traefik because the config is through labels in docker-compose.

I'm also running it at home. Ryzen 3 2200G (4c/4t), 32GB RAM, $100 Intel NVMe. Running roughly 40 containers in my docker VM, plus a few extra VMs. It's enough for my family and a couple of friends.

You'd be amazed at how low impact a small PostgreSQL or MariaDB instance is. I/O is the largest bottle neck. You can feel an HDD holding you back with a bunch of DBs churning simultaneously.

Of course, YMMV. If we're talking about a Raspberry Pi, disregard everything I've said. I'd run as few DB instances as possible too.
The fastest-growing (and largest) category of that debt was mortgage debt, which is probably a positive economic indicator if anything, though note that that's based on Q1 data. Household debt servicing costs as a percent of disposable income are still lower than at any point between 1980 (the earliest data available) and the start of the pandemic. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TDSP

Also keep in mind that those debt figures are in nominal USD. One positive effect of inflation is that it reduces the real cost of paying off debt.
Cloud services have a real problem, they don't all have nice emulators for data or seeding. I'd love to setup a sandboxed test database automatically, and seed it with random data based on that schema (and perhaps some heuristics, like intentionally breaking some entries or random incomplete data sets)

and I'd like do it without incurring the cost of maintaining this fully in house. I know in some cases, like with GraphQL, I can do this somewhat easy if I use a 3rd party service, I know with something like AppSync there is some potential to run it locally via an emulator, but honesty the DX story around Cloud services is kind of crappy, and this would go a long way in solving that story.
That sentence could've been re-written to the equivalent:

> Launchdarkly wants you to remember that they have a product that intends to help with deployment errors

The rest is window dressing.
Many thanks to Deepmind for releasing predicted structures of all known protein monomers. What I'd like next is for Alphafold (or some other software) to be able to show us multimeric structures based on the single monomer/subunit predictions and protein-protein interactions (i.e. docking). For example the one I helped work on back in my structural biology days was the circadian clock protein KaiC : https://www.rcsb.org/structure/2GBL, that's the "complete" hexameric structure that shows how each of the subunits pack. The prediction for the single monomer that forms a hexamer is very close to the experimental https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/Q79PF4 and in fact shows the correct structure of AA residues 500 - 519 which we were never able to validate until 12 years later (https://www.rcsb.org/structure/5C5E) when we expressed those residues along with another protein called KaiA which we knew binds to the "top" CII terminal (AAs 497-519) of KaiC. If we would have had this data then, it would have allowed us to not only make better predictions about biological function and protein-protein interactions but would have helped better guide future experiments.

What we can do with this data now is use methods such as cryo-em to see the "big picture", i.e. multi-subunit protein-protein interactions where we can plug in the Alphafold predicted structure into the cryo-em 3d density map and get predicted angstrom level views of what's happening without necessarily having to resort to slower methods such as NMR or x-ray crystallography to elucidate macromolecular interactions.

A small gripe about the alphafold ebi website: it doesn't seem to show the known experimental structure, it just shows "Experimental structures: None available in PDB". For example the link to the alphafold structure above should link to the 2GBL, 1TF7, or any of the other kaic structures from organism PCC7942 at RCSB. This would require merging/mapping data from RCSB with EBI and at least doing some string matching, hopefully they're working on it!
> If a drunkard wanders through a (physical) town square, verbally harassing everyone he meets, it is possible a mob will assemble and physically remove him.

Let me introduce you to Reddit.

Although on Reddit, you may be digitally removed for merely saying something unpopular.
Missed opportunity for deliberate typo, 'gone rouge'.
> Does society need gatekeepers to control who has reach in order to remain stable?

This is the unspoken part of these sorts of criticisms of social media--people aren't responsible enough to form their own opinions. I actually believe that's the case, but I also believe in free speech, and I'm not sure how to reconcile those things.
> He doesn't advance the story in any way

He advances the world and builds context for many elements in the later story. Fangorn has many parallels to the Old Forest, and much of the storyline involving Ents & Huorns benefits from the context given by the earlier encounters with Tom's neighbouring spirits (and his enchantment of them).
Damn, I didn't know that. Time to remove queue_free from my project :)
> who's avoiding saying it?

No one is avoiding saying the word "recession". The current Executive Branch and Federal Reserve are both avoiding saying we are in a recession.
Been thinking it might be time to up prices! The slots have been sold out months in advance so it's hard to factor in growth when booking.

I do pause new sponsors from time to time when I book out too far to give myself a chance to reevaluate.
Strange. That sounds almost exactly like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascension_(miniseries)

I actually enjoyed that.
File history says it was deleted due to the uploader not having rights to it:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MarkRonchettiNM.png

Most likely it was taken down due to a notice from the copyright holder:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Volunteer_Respons...
... why are we being obtuse here? They designed Unity. Let's not skirt around the truth here. Unity set the entire community behind a few years and put a lot of projects on the suboptimal paths they're beginning to suffer from today. Gnome 3 users may disagree, but Unity ostensibly through Ubuntu's influence destroyed UI paradigms that were there for good reason, just from sheer hubris and the will to be different.
But people bought more TVs than normal during the pandemic, so it may also be part 'satiation' signal.
idk is it worth it though? i wonder how much they charge? is oss argocd that bad on its own?