skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The forests are selfish and harsh to outsiders but wish merely to sit and be left alone. The evil of Sauron and Saruman is their wish to spread and dominate (which puts Saruman in direct conflict with the forest, to his loss).
Sounds like our system has become unsustainable.
I think the most valuable classes are going to be finance classes - there are really not a lot of other great places to learn the fine details about how corporate finance/bookkeeping work.

Other than that, the most valuable business classes I took:

- Statistics (should be mandatory for all humans)

- Business law

- Copyright law

- Principles of manufacturing
In the docs for Node.remove_child(Node node)[1] it says

"Removes a child node. The node is NOT deleted and must be deleted manually."

Do you still have to queue_free the top node that was removed from the tree, or else how is it being deleted. Or is there a different method to call for removing it from the tree.

BTW: I really like the `_init` / `_enter_tree` / `_ready` / `_exit_tree` lifecycle as was described.

1:https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_node.ht...
I would recommend "The Myth of the Rational Voter" which deals with this issue very systematically. Democracy is good for a lot of reasons, but that doesn't mean voters make the best choice for themselves every time. I think over time the system heals though. It has so far.
Can confirm based on what Metrist is seeing. Looks to be a larger issue in the US East, also seeing Cloudfare and Datadog with issues.
>I'd cite the WSJ but for some reason I can't paste the link in this box, just Google "falling demand Wal-Mart"

I'd rather not base my picture of the entire economy around a single retailer. What's going on with other retailers? Amazon, Best Buy, Target, etc? Have they more than picked up the slack that Wal Mart is seeing?
Lago actually use Gotenberg, it's very nice to manage the headless chromium state without any headache!
Here’s an past example of a sponsor pitch from April:

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Some quick numbers:
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Probably not a great representation for the whole field in general.
Why wouldn't this solve the problem? Phone calls have a real cost, however small it may be, to both the recipient and the carriers. Everyone accepts paying for stamps. What makes paying for calls different, and such an abhorrent idea that we shouldn't even discuss it?

EDIT: Parent comment was replaced with something completely different so my reply makes no longer makes sense, but I'm leaving it unchanged.
Elon Musk moved EVs to the mainstream. Starlink. Has the vision to go to Mars.

Amazon basically put malls out of business which are hugely environmentally destructive.

Bill Gates is doing stuff too I think.

Big tech does some good things.
We need a cultural spec sheet
Researchers Propose Freight Trains with Carbon-Capture Cars
Yeah, but this isn't about wage slavery.
> Java is a terrible language to teach early programming: the features chosen to get to OOP get in the way of understanding basic control... Python is miles better.

Absolutely. I managed to teach myself enough basic, procedural Python to make CLI games. I later took some courses in Java, and really struggled to grasp the OOP concepts that are pretty crucial there. I managed to figure it out by translating examples into Python, and learning how Python's OOP works; once I understood the ideas, it became straightforward to apply them in Java.
The old forest to me was always the Ent wives gone wild
I think it's more complex than just "burned out".

If Shopify had laid me off on Tuesday (as it did to a few great people I worked with) I'd have been given 16 weeks severance. I doubt I would have looked for a new job for at least 6 months. Maybe a year. Maybe longer.

I've been paid so well over the last decade in this industry that I don't have debts anymore (car, home, credit cards). I don't spend much or live extravagantly. I have a safety net of money. And I have a 5-month old daughter that I want to spend more time with.

I'm not burned out, but I also don't really need to work right now. I could get by a long time just playing with my kid without needing to write a line of code. Maybe I could even downsize, move out of the city, go live somewhere with a lower cost of living and a quieter lifestyle. If I ran out of money, I could get a remote developer job in a week or two, even if it didn't pay as much as I make today.

I don't think I'm unique in this feeling. Developers are free in ways so few others are.
Actually, when a company announces layoffs, its stock tends to rise (unless it's in such a bad shape that even major "cost cutting" can't make the punters more optimistic).
So many ways this could go socially wrong, just one example being that 200m wide is not a lot to defend if you want to create an impasse.

Also, unless everyone is more or less making and storing their own power, and water, locally, then the service conduits start becoming unreasonable because it's fundemental linear layout rather than star or tree distribution which allows distribution with multiple node failures (star/tree can be done in a linear fashion but at triple up, or more in parallel to get anywhere near same redundancy/resiliance).

I know some people working on parts of this design development, no way they can be housing people in 8 years time.
I don't believe so. I think the problem is the way social media platforms prioritize engagement above all else. They use clever algorithms to curate the content you scroll through to maximize time spent engaging with the platform.

This has a side effect of promoting fringe content, because it drives engagement. Even if the interaction is the user calling someone an idiot for thinking the Earth is flat, that is still engagement. It gets fed into the algorithm, and now that content gets recommended to more and more people.

Reddit is the only social media platform that I think actually resembles a direct democracy. It's algorithm is driven by the karma system, not engagement. Posts and comments that people mostly dislike or disagree with get hidden by their low karma scores even though they often have high engagement metrics for the few people who do see them. This direct democracy comes with it's own problems though, mainly in how it reinforces groupthink and the formation of echo chambers.
I too found credit cards scary to begin with, but that was down to my own youthful idiocy. But these days not so much (As I would like to believe I am now more responsible with money than I was at 18).

> I have to get it physically delivered to my snail mail box.

Same here in the UK, however the cards are not delievered "activated", so you have to verify account details to enable to the card so prevents against thieft of the card in the mail (as even if it was stolen from the mail and activated, you will quickly contact the card issuer to say "Hey, where my card?" at which point the issuer will cancel the card and cancel any trasactions made on the card)

> everytime I pull that thing out, someone could photograph or memorize the numbers on it and cause me trouble.

Same could happen with Debit cards too, however the card number alone is useless without the EMV chip for in store transactions here in the UK (Mastercard are even phasing out the magnetic stripe completely[0] - My accounts are set to refuse magnetic stripe transactions unless I enable them via the banks app) and online transactions offer lower fee's if you validate the 3 digits on the back of the card and the address of the card holder, so most online stores will have for all 3 pieces of info (card number, the CVV, and the card holders address) before accepting the transaction. Making it harder to commit the fraud.

My cards (which I recently had replaced as I misplaced my wallet, guess i'm not as responsible as I thought I was) all now have the card number on the back of the card (makes it hard to photograph the card number as the chip and number are onn opposite sides, so when you insert/tap the card into a reader the number is not facing you or anyone standing next to/behind you.

Most of my cards support Apple Pay (The exception is my PayPal Business card which doesn't whoever I don't carry that card with me anyway) So most of the time I'm not getting my cards out of my wallet when I'm purchasing items in store (Prob the reason I misplaced my wallet, Its prob in the house SOMEWHERE...). But granted Apple Pay/Google Pay are not as widely used as the plastic cards shipped from the card issuers are.

Replacing my cards was a piece of cake for me, granted I use more "modern banks" than the high street banks of old, so when I reported my cards as lost my bank issued me a temporary card to my phone so I could still do purchases while I waited for my new card to arrive (Not all banks do this, and the temp card had a max spend limit on it until my new card arrived).

And on top of that the credit card has greater consumer protections than debit cards anyway if something were to happen.

[0]: https://www.mastercard.com/news/perspectives/2021/magnetic-s...

EDIT: I forgot to say. Just because Credit cards have greater protections than Debit cards, that doesn't mean that debits cards have no protection at all.
> Nor can I support the assertion that structural biology students are subject to special abuse that regular grad students are not.

I didn’t say anything regarding that.

> This is true of pretty much any graduate work in molecular biology.

Just to elaborate my point: The process of protein cristallization is not understood at a level that allows the design of general and reproducible protocols. This inherent obscurity means that every new protein needs to undergo an ad hoc, heuristic, iterative process to obtain high quality crystals. This is an early methodological hurdle, at a stage where other routine procedures in biochemistry or molecular biology are usually successful.
I'd be _shocked_ if it contains diacetyl itself, though depending on the flavor, it might contain a similar ingredient. If you're concerned then look for a similar recipe at the site I linked in a sibling comment.
I am OP... :)
AWS us-east-2 outage
our alerts just went crazy, and we're having issues even logging in to the AWS dashboard

possibly related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32267154
that's interesting. seems to be a common theme in these answers, that an MBA = middle management forever. I always looked at them as a potentially good way to understand how to run a business successfully.

aside from just plunging myself into the depths, shouldn't i be somewhat prepared and smart about what it's like to think about company finances? or are people literally just doing and failing and learning on the job? seems very costly?
In my opinion, people are destroying the country, not just politicians (they're people too, after all) because they would do the same the politicians do if they have the chance, for the same reasons you have (if I don't do it, I'm the only idiot).

It is a "positive reinforcement" loop with negative consequences for everyone and there is no easy way out of it.

I agree that you cannot be the only one "doing it right". Of course...that wouldn't fix anything and you'd be screwed. But do you see the problem? Everyone has the exact same argument you have for doing it, this the cultural thing I was talking about.

As another example, my friend's father passed away a few years ago. As everyone over there he had all of his saved money hidden at home. His own brother stole all the money just hours before his dad passed away.

As I said on my initial comment, this happens everywhere on every country, but the proportions and the impunity on which this shit happens over there is just unbelievable. This is an example of what I mean with "everyone would do it at their level". It's just that politicians have more opportunities to do it.
VC partner lays out case for why crypto will stick
Yeah, and I bet after we send that, they stay off our lawns, right?
and here's that at night, seems like a similar resolution:

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/79800/city-lights-o...
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/4284.315122

It's "Thompson's Rule", submitted by Bill McKeeman of the Wang Institute (a/o Sep 1985).
I love this! Already completed the "Scrambled Eggs" series. I really enjoy cooking and this is a fun way to enhance my skills, thank you!
Fisher-Price Chatter Telephone ?
An incredible deal, would be thousands a month for much worse service with traditional satellite providers.

Typical 1G FTTP in uk is around £35 but you won't be able to get that in a RV half way up a mountain.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=how%20to...

It was fun, actually
What I really need is a browser extension that recognizes I'm on a recipe website and automatically scrolls past the recipe writer's whole autobiography to the section with the ingredients and instructions.
Whenever I want to try and understand what may be happening in the economy, I rewatch[1] Ray Dalio’s 2013 video on how the economic machine works.

Bits about a “recession” come up around the 12-18min mark with relevant info beyond.

That said, I don’t know enough to map/equate these simple types of economic explanation with current actual state.

[1] https://youtu.be/PHe0bXAIuk0
1000% agree. The whole narrative to non-stop discuss vaping as opposed to smoking is being pushed by the super powerful cigarette companies. Vaping MIGHT be harmful to a person but cigarettes are 100% CONFIRMED to be terrible for humans.

Anyone who tries to tell me vaping might be worse I send them to this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Pwj6BuS8Ds
Better Idea: $300k base and a performance bonus up to 100% more based on sponsored laws and an additional 100% for passed laws with an extra 100k for no votes missed or abstained. So a perfectly performing congressperson gets a mil.
The irony is that these machine learning algorithms are effectively coincidence machines. There's no rhyme or reason as to why they work once you have even just a handful of neural net layers, and people invest quite a lot into these magic recommendation machines.

As for toxicity, I don't think there's one magical root cause for all of it. And I'd argue that most features and designs to increase engagement _are_ one of the many causes for people to create lucrative polarizing digital content.

edit: Also I'm not sure how my original post was confusing correlation with causation. You can replace "correlation" with "coincidence" there without issue.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220727222556/https://www.paper...
You're describing an ORM, or perhaps SQLAlchemy, which has a lower level interface. .sql files work fine in version control as well. "create or replace …" pattern can make them idempotent.
How bad is our understanding of force fields?

It seems like that's the basic principle to understand.
Android is right here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tapforce.p...

Can you share a bit more about what made you think that? It's probably a bug or issue that we need to fix.
This is awesome. Would love to buy food-type packs from an app like this!

Like, “Teach me the basics of Salads”, or “Advanced stir fry recipes”.
I am sure we could find some Members who think this number inadequate.
that number could fund about 8 people's salary per year, is that enough staff to do the job? I don't know
Honestly, it seems like the association with iOS (or more precisely, the requirement for smooth interop with Objective-C) is what held back Swift from those other goals. I admit that I don't really have any Swift experience personally, but from my conversations with people who have tried to use it for non-iOS purposes, a lot of the pain seems to come from that fact that Swift kind of has this mix of fresh new ideas along with some unfortunate compromises for compatibility. There's a lot of support for more functional paradigms, and yet there's still OO/inheritance, presumably for interop with Objective-C; there are more modern string types, and yet sometimes you have to deal with NSString; there are ways of dealing with errors and optionals functionally, and yet there's still nil and exceptions. I recognize that a lot of people prefer OO and exceptions, but I think having to support both more traditional paradigms and more current popular trends watered down the language a bit and added friction to learning what otherwise could have been a much more streamlined alternative to C++. That said, it's also possible that no first-class support for Linux due to a lot of the innovative stuff going on in the language being tied to the Apple ecosystem could have been enough to stop it from mass adoption, but I can't imagine that it would have had to care so much about Objective-C interop without the Apple ecosystem tie-in, so it's hard for me to reason about whether having the dual paradigm stuff without the Apple tie-in would have been enough to hamper it.
Flower 1.0
yeah looks like us-east-2 has networking issues
Ah! Yes, my statement was incorrect. I had observed wage garnishment on the other side of the fence as an employer and had assumed courts would do this processing after a default judgement. This turned out to be a wrong assumption.
I'd take it further: $1M/year for life, have to divest all investments they own coming in to office (i.e., turn them to cash). Accepting any third party payment during or after being elected (and during campaigns) is treason.

If their kids accept their inheritance, the rules apply to them too. The rules always apply to spouses.

Let them invest in whole-market funds / ETFs, but only allow withdrawls 5 years after leaving office.
>How does paying a politician MORE than 3x median US pay make them less out of touch with the average American?

Being dependent on their salary for their lifestyle would make them more in touch than the current "use the power of the office to make money via alternative means" situation.
Similar request - would love this but am not bought into Google Play or Apple.

Is there any chance of a web version at some point?
Same here - we were finally able to log in to the console, but we're in us-east-2 and are having a ton of issues.
Maybe it would help to criticize the criticism. I think the current criticism is way oversimplified. It's not a social media problem per se. It's the current implementation and monetization of it. We have always had social media of some kind, even before the printing press. It is critical to democracy. We have even had an entity inserting themselves in between the speaker and the listener, filtering the discussion for their own benefit and using their own standards. That used to be newspapers, but now it's Facebook.

The difference is the filtering standard is now centralized by very few entities, basically Facebook and Twitter. Whatever standard they employ basically amounts to centralized information planning. Whatever is the resulting harm becomes greatly magnified. In the past if a few editors were causing harm to democracy in one direction or another, that harm was limited in scope. Now the devastation is total. Because the players have 100% coverage.

A breakup of some kind over this monopoly seems necessary now, before it becomes impossible.
> I believe because they're targeting users under 13.

This. The average age of people who watch cooking shows is ~11.
At the risk of proving the author's point, they reference another fallacy: equating winning an argument with being right.

Watching the format of many cable news programs in the 2000s+, they seemed to have fallen deep into this fallacy (perhaps intentionally?)

I've noticed that the format of these news programs (Fox, CNN, MSNBC, et. al.) is to line up a set of guests for a debate. It doesn't seem to be for hashing out ideas in front of an audience, but instead it seems to be debate training for the audience. The "correct" view (the one most in-line with the host's views) almost always leads, followed by a rapid fire of dissenting opinions and rebuttals. They're introducing the audience to a new idea, showing the common objections you'll encounter when you share it, and showing you how to defeat those arguments. This seems to be in an effort to prime you for going out into your social circles and sharing their ideas. I don't know if it is intentional or not, but it sure is a good way to increase the reach/influence of their news program by sending their viewers out into the world to spread the good news.

Anecdotally, at the beginning of COVID (right after I made the call to self-isolate) I stopped consuming all news and focused on work. I noticed that subsets of my social circles (many of whom were completely isolated from one another - no interaction) were all using almost _identical_ talking points. They'd spontaneously throw them out into a conversation with no prompt. Week over week, the talking points would change but these subsets of my social circles would stay consistent - the same people saying the same things. Once they brought up a talking point, you could nearly chart the conversation as a decision tree and I could fairly well predict what someone was going to say ahead of time based on previous conversations! Turns out - what these subsets had in common was the news network they preferred. They had watched someone ramble off a talking point on the news, memorized how the debate evolved, and were trying out the debates themselves in the real world.

I think the world was on fire and it was really important to them that they _figure it out_. What should be done, what should they do, what is safe and what is not. Intentionally or not, the debate format of these news networks was being used by the folks in my social circles to get to "truth" by winning arguments. The only problem? Winning an argument doesn't mean you are right! It just means you're better at arguing.
The film that demonised rural America: How Deliverance set a controversial trend
I Hacked a Bank and Got Arrested in 2012
> Like most HNers you are lacking imagination in what VR will do. Just like everyone who poo-poo'ed what is possible from Computers, Internet, Mobile Phones.

You seem to make a lot of these sweeping statements. They're full of stupid assumptions and generalities. It's a boring shtick and I'm not really seeing you back it up with your dizzying intellect.

Besides being casually insulting to a huge group of people you don't know, it's also a profoundly stupid assertion.

There's no subset of people on HN that at any point poo-pooed computers, the Internet, or mobile phones. A significant population here have been involved in building those things. You're trying to assert that because someone isn't fawning over wide eyed promises of some technology they're some sort of backwards Luddite.

History is littered with technologies that did not revolutionize the world. There's little guarantee VR isn't going to end up in that heap. It's had a lot of promise for decades. It's got fundamental technological, ergonomic, and physiological problems to overcome before it's going to be attractive to anyone but enthusiasts. Even then there's no guarantee that it will take off in a significant way. Even if VR takes off there's no guarantee and little indication that Facebook's vision of VR will take off.
...or afterwards for 5 years.
all the Lago' api, what we call backend is open source, you can check it out there https://github.com/getlago/lago