skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people who don't care about the truth and the people who will point out fallacies all day are the same people. Shouting "Ad hominem!" and pointing your wand at the opponent is just another way to "own people with facts and logic" (read: counterfeit the form of a winning argument without the substance of it). That's why pointing out fallacies to win an argument is called the fallacy fallacy.
Same happened to me except one difference. I wanted to get out for around 15 years then I quit my job and lived in another country and travelled to try to leave it but I couldn’t find something else I enjoyed. then I came back to the industry and still hated the stress around it. Due to the pandemic I was forced to, in a way, face my fears around work. I stopped avoiding the parts of the work I found stressful and instead challenged myself. I stopped trying to do things in a half ass way when I knew what the right way was. In hindsight I think I was a pretty mediocre software engineer. And just recently got a new job that is the most challenging I’ve ever had but I chose into the job and sought something that felt very mission driven. So it took me roughly 20 years to get acceptance around the work and my relationship to it.
Doesn’t mean work isn’t stressful but everything else around it has changed. I care a lot more about what I’m working on and participating in a deeper way.

So… the way out can mean being exactly where you are now
I always thought of Tom Bombidil as Eru, the creator, or at the very least was taking cues from Eru. Two pieces of evidence:

1) The song he gives, which seemed a positive one, and is not remarked upon as discordant or unpleasant. Eru created through song, and in that choir it was the introduction of disharmony that signified evil.

2) The passage where it's asked "who is he?" The answer is "He is." And then "he is as you have seen him". Tolkien was a religious person, and this passage has always seemed to echo that of the bible where a similar question gets the godly response "I am that I am". This echo always seemed to much to be a coincidence.
Before my comment gets dismissed, I will disclaim I am a professional structural biologist that works in this field every day.

These threads are always the same: lots of comments about protein folding, how amazing DeepMind is, how AlphaFold is a success story, how it has flipped an entire field on it's head, etc. The language from Google is so deceptive about what they've actually done, I think it's actually intentionally disingenuous.

At the end of the day, AlphaFold is amazing homology modeling. I love it, I think it's an awesome application of machine learning, and I use it frequently. But it's doing the same thing we've been doing for 2 decades: pattern matching sequences of proteins with unknown structure to sequences of proteins with known structure, and about 2x as well as we used to be able to.

That's extremely useful, but it's not knowledge of protein folding. It can't predict a fold de novo, it can't predict folds that haven't been seen (EDIT: this is maybe not strictly true, depending on how you slice it), it fails in a number of edge cases (remember, in biology, edge cases are everything) and again, I can't stress this enough, we have no new information on how proteins fold. We know all the information (most of at least) for a proteins final fold is in the sequence. But we don't know much about the in-between.

I like AlphaFold, it's convenient and I use it (although for anything serious or anything interacting with anything else, I still need a real structure), but I feel as though it has been intentionally and deceptively oversold. There are 3-4 other deep learning projects I think have had a much greater impact on my field.

EDIT:
See below:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32265662 for information on predicting new folds.
Based on this summary of the Gawker/Thiel story, it seems like they mostly brought it upon themselves: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/56kz4d/til_t....
Well, you have definitely a lot of leverage by being a Manager. For the better or worse, you have much more leeway and can push the developer out of the company if you want. But that would make you a terrible Manager, like others in many companies.

One think that might help you to digest that situation better is that... while he has to write features and make things work in your company, all you need to do is mostly play politics and you have much more time than him to make yourself look good and him... that is actually in the trenches making the company work, bad.

This is why you as a Manager, you should actually help him to work effectively. To me, he looks like the carries the company and you are just there to help him do it. You need people like this in a team and need to know how to keep them happy and motivate them to also move up the ladder. If you aren't able to do that, you aren't really meant to be a Manager.

I've this episode many times. Manager joins and already starts gaslighting the person who is carrying the team. Eventually person leaves and Manager is left off with an average team with silly output. Things get reorg'd and Manager keeps having a silly performance all around the company, but as they paint always with good words, things work well for the Manager.

As a Manager, you are expected to have the soft skills to handle people with different personalities and have more deeper social analysis of a situation. From what I've seen, you've already called him a "prima dona" and seem to need to work on those skills. You should also be able to call the developer when they say something not nice or toxic and learn how to build him and incentivise him to change.

He also must be under a lot of stress and you can only gauge that by working on the team and knowing the Developer a bit more personally.

Get his trust and develop him. I've said this before, but if you aren't able to influence people in that way, you can probably have even a considerable good management career in your view and of other peers, as managers get a lot of leeway with that. But you won't be a top manager.

The fact that you've labeled him like this before even getting a good gist of the situation is a red flag and tell me that there's a bit of inexperience on this from your side. Try to get this "prima dona" out of your head and instead find a way that you can both profit from this situation, He'll be helped by your coaching skills and developing people, which is, BY THE WAY, the #1 skill for a Manager. You in exchange will get a person that can perform well and grow with you and the company.
I'm still not sure if I'm built for computer science, but I do like playing with legos, and programming can feel like playing with legos sometimes.
Especially if you have a moody boss where you find yourself tip-toeing around them until they're in a good mood to put in the request.
How will larger batteries/extended EV ranges affect home charging requirements?
In the US, the NBER is the institution that calls recessions. The NBER has never once failed to call two consecutive quarters of negative growth as a recession. It's a foregone conclusion at this point.

But wait, according to the mainstream media now, we shouldn't listen to the NBER either, they're all just a bunch of "white economists":

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/30/economy/recession-economists-...
Taking a sleeper train "to work" ... ouch. How does that even work?
For people who didn't get what Tenerife referenced: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster
I bet you don't work mainly in C# or Javascript. (Or, well, Javascript SO has been downhill for a while, so maybe it's time to take it out of this list. I wouldn't know.)

On some stacks, you depend on SO for everything. Others have much more complete and usable documentation somewhere else that answers any question that SO would accept, so people don't need it at all.
I enjoy the power of greenbacks, very visceral too.
The barrow-wights are undead, things that were once living humans and were buried in the mounds they haunt. They're not primeval beings.

Shelob has a canonical origin story, as I recall, as daughter of the primeval spider-shadow thing Ungoliant. The watcher in the water doesn't seem quite spectacular enough to be truly primeval if you ask me, but then again, Bombadil isn't especially flashy either, and we know he is primeval. Maybe it's more relevant that the watcher in the water wasn't always there, it only appeared around the same time as the balrog was dug up. Which sounds pretty un-primeval to me.
Even if I am not a native English speaker, when I have read "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit", many decades ago, when I was young, one of the main reasons why I have enjoyed them very much has been the distinctive language in which they have been written.

I cannot say what exactly made me believe this, but while reading them I thought that these books contain some of the most beautiful English language that I have ever read (and I have read many thousands of books). I have not changed my opinion later.

The movies have been fine, but reading the books has been a much more powerful experience for me.
The problem with remote desktop is that you have more typing latency and I have issues getting a reliable and fast remote desktop of a Linux on a Mac. X2go just keeps freezing, VNC isn't really fast...
From elsewhere in this page:

> I used Stripe for about a year to run a small cell phone store in Denver, CO area. [1]

> We sold a cheap van in the company name. [2]

Yeah, that explains how they arrived in Stripe jail.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32261868#32264335

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/smallbusiness/comments/wa1zob/comme...
I agree. For visually impaired users, HTML/sceenreaders are simply wasteful layers between them and the core behaviour/data of an application.

In an ideal world, we could have entirely different clients that focus on audio-touch interfaces like a some sort of keyboard driven Alexa skill.
> pip freeze doesn't pin transitive dependencies

AFAIK it lists all installed packages and hence pins all dependencies.
What do you want to do?

I want to buy a backhoe and install septic tanks and dig house footers 2-3 weeks / month (around the weather) and use my software skills 1-2 weeks a month on projects / teams that have the same values I do around simplicity, clean code, automation, etc.
9% is exceptionally high for some industries (eg, commodities or retail). For example, Wal-Mart is closer to 3%. Its not unusual to see targets of close to 4%.

I do agree with you that it isn't unexpected during a period of sanctions on a country that produces ~10% of the worldwide oil supply, though. Profits naturally will rise for the remaining players.
I have come to sometimes like anchovies on pizza (or a salad) but I ordered one for delivery about 10 months ago and the place actually called me up and asked if I was sure. Maybe they get complaints!
I recently set up a new Python package and ran across the github instructions for automatically uploading the package to pypi. A month later I ran into a bug and needed to push out an update, man was that nice to have automated, and easy to set up.
This is a helpful clarification.
I used it at a college internship because it was the only dynamic language we were allowed to use to access an old Oracle database. At the time (almost 20 years ago), it seemed kind of luxurious compared to PHP.

I just looked it up and realized it's still around and still expensive.
Kind of strange that the only other two authors they talk about are Ursula K. Le Guin and J.K. Rowling. I don't think the use of depth by either was particularly noticeable compared to other authors, and certainly nowhere near what Tolkien was doing (and I'm saying that as someone who would rather read Le Guin than Tolkien).
And to elaborate:

Rather than his surroundings being a symbol of the true Tom, I take this to be Tolkien's allegory of divine intervention, God himself reaching in and tilting the balance slightly, a little nudge while otherwise letting things play out. An extremely rare occurrence both in Tolkien's creation and his own religion, which is why Tom is not more widely known, except by Gandalf who rubs elbows with the Valar when not running around Middle Earth.
The problem is that supply naturally reacts slowly and ~1/10th of the supply was removed from the global market. I've heard people act as if that's a small shift, but its really not small at all over the short term.
The economy may not have been "in good shape" in 2020 (and I would agree that it was not) but we're talking specifically about a recession here. By no measure were we in a recession in 2020.
Strange, but this was not my experience. I found it took me a while to wrap my head around the way SwiftUI works, and the documentation was really bad. But buggy, not.
2 consecutive quarters at -.0000001% is meaningfully different than 2 consecutive quarters at -10%.
That brought back memories for me, it was 1981 or 82, the company that I worked for at the time flew us to New Jersey for some meeting. But three of us "younger engineers" (I was about 22 at the time) wanted to go into New York City. Our boss let us use the rental car to drive into the city. He told us not to do anything he wouldn't do. In that case why go? We all joked later. We got into CBGB's on a weeknight, by the time we got out of there it was maybe 2 or 3 AM and we were pretty high and we were walking back to the garage where we parked the car when we came upon a filming in the streets. One of the security guys told us they were shooting Hill Street Blues, but who knows, we were told later they lie about that stuff to looky loos. But it was fun to watch so we stood there for a couple hours. We got back to our Hotel in Newark at around 6AM just in time to pack and head to the airport. Luckily it was a direct 5 hour flight back home. I slept like a baby.
/u/patio11 is publicly very skeptical of cryptocurrency. https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1536687513204625409
While the atrocities committed by Texaco and the Ecuador government in Ecuador are heinous, Steven is a class action lawyer that was trying to line his own and his backer's pockets. I agree that Chevron and US judges appear to have crossed the line and hope that is prosecuted. But you should really research the whole story before you honor the lawyer's actions in any way. And the whole suit was frivolous anyway as the Ecuador government had already absolved Texaco/Chevron of all liability. Their own documentary was very damning even before the outtakes where revealed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvrZRvgwBS8. This guy is getting way too much mileage out of this 20+ year lawsuit and should stop representing himself as the victim.
https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/boutrous....
'"Indeed, Maria Aguinda, the lead plaintiff in the Chevron litigation, admitted that when the plaintiffs’ lawyers originally instructed her to sign the litigation papers, she thought she was signing up for free medicine: in
her own words, the lawyer told her, “In four months, I will bring medications
so you will be healed. But first, sign this paper here.”'
Oh, I see. Arbitrary non hierarchical opt-in inheritance. Or perhaps a cascading inheritance opt-out, and you could add classes back as you please. That would be cool.

Not sure how it would impact browser parsing and drawing, but it sure would be useful.
Why do obituaries avoid mentioning the cause of death?
Yeah, and what about theft? If the truck is programmed to stop if there's a person in front (one would hope so), then how can you stop thieves lifting the whole thing?
As someone on the product side I am getting more bullish each day on low-code tooling as it gets increasingly hard to source and retain engineering talent.

Whist it might comes with downsides and limitations I think the positives in terms of time-to-market and cost outweigh these on balance for many types of needs (not all for sure).

Congrats.
A guide to contemporary classical music (2013)
The ability for another molecule (probably another protein) to "react" or interact with the protein depends not only on the chemistry but also the shape. An otherwise compatible sequence of atoms might not be able to react because it and the binding site are just incompatibly shaped.

This is hugely important for developing drugs and vaccines.

To see the effect of this look no further than prions. Prions are the exact same protein that are folded in weird ways. Worse, they can "transmit" this misfolded shape to other otherwise normal proteins. Prions behave differently just because of the different shape and can lead to disease. This is exactly what Mad Cow's Disease (BSE) is.

What we get taught in high school about chemistry is incredibly oversimplified.

One example of this I like is the geometry of a water molecule. When we first learn about atoms, we learn the "solar system" model (aka Bohr). The reality is instead that we have 3D probability distributions of where electrons might be. These clouds are in pairs. I believe this is to do with the inverted wavefunction really we're getting beyond my knowledge of quantum mechanics here so that's just a guess.

Well those clouds additionally form valence shells. We learn about these and how atoms want to form completely valence shells. So Oxygen has 8 electrons ie 4 pairs of electrons. When bonding with 2 hydrogen atoms we end up with a weird geometry of ~104.5 degrees between the two hydrogen atoms because of how these pairs interact. The naive assumption might expect that the two hydrogen atoms are 180 degree apart.

So back to proteins, you may have learned about hydrogen bonds. This affects molecular shape because when a hydrogen atom shares an electron, it is often positively charged. That positive charge pushes away other positive charges. This is the realy difficulty in protein folding because with a molecule of thousands of atoms and weird geometry you may find distant parts of the molecule interacting with hydrogen bonds.

So a single cell consists of thousands (IIRC) of different proteins. Figuring out those interactions is important but incredibly difficult.
Until rates are above inflation (now around 8%) I would say the Fed is still pumping up the economy, but it's hard to see the Fed push up rates to that level like Volker did the last time the US had high inflation. The Fed set the federal funds rate at 20% in June of 1981 when inflation was about 15%. If the US has to finance much of its debt at 15% something will seriously break.
> I think it is possible that the stench of failure from the Metaverse is going to start to infect their remaining successful brand: IG.

A quick search on Twitter shows the current feeling towards IG. That tone deaf "we're shifting to video" (meaning, "we're trying to be TikTok") announcement yesterday(?) went down terribly.

And that Axios article yesterday(?) - FB trying to pivot everything into seeing less of the friends/people you choose to follow and more 'content creators'. But honestly, pausing to watch a man smashing melons on his head because it's been pushed in your face is worth about as much as the native ads with a scandalous picture on them - super high click through rate, nobody backs out on the offer. Everyone ends up unhappy.
Not really, it's the velocity the "Breakthrough Starshot" probes would reach. They propose[1] that launching each probe would take 84 GWh, which is not super much (about 15 times more than a space shuttle launch), but of course the Starshot probes would be much lighter than this proposed telescope so it's not directly comparable.

[1] https://youtu.be/KIDuXQHt8pk?t=1562
https://archive.ph/CRSnv
(spoiler) i recently listened to a german audio drama "ki-mom" with a similar plot.
Heh, there's a South Park episode where a medium uses (roughly) that scenario as an analogy of what it's like for a soul to be trapped in purgatory. Couldn't find the clip, but see the second paragraph:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Celebrities#Plot

Edit: Actually, the whole episode uses that as a premise.
Bagger 293
Actually, 158 is greater than 157.
> But everyone here seems to be thinking that all companies have a magic "put person in prison" button on their desk.

No one said anything like this. We feel that the behavior of the judge and of Chevron are completely inexcusable, and it's a condemnation of the system in general that this sort of behavior is even allowed.

> Donziger figured that if he's being told to try the case there by an American judge, than it's OK to pay the bribes necessary to get the ruling he wants.

You introduce this as if it's absolute truth.

As you know, because you mention it later, there is absolutely no evidence that Donziger bribed anyone, as - if you had read the story - the single witness had received huge compensation from Chevron for his story, relocation to America, and still recanted his testimony. You later mention that maybe it isn't true, ending up "That doesn't exonerate Donziger," bookending your comment with a Donziger's guilt on both ends.

There's no reading of this that's OK in the slightest with respect to Chevron and the judge, period, the end.

All your talking seems to be an attempt to distract from this nasty truth, to carry water for one of the more evil companies of today, and that's saying an awful lot.
Accelerating a meter class telescope to .2 c is well beyond our current capabilities, but it's nothing like that fast.
Real earnings has been in a sharp decline since 2020, now mostly thanks to inflation: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q

I don't have the time to link the other stats, but they're not so rosy either, except employment. One good stat and several bad ones is still a recession.
"It's the United States, or North Korea!"

Hello from Europe. We exist!
I like the idea, but I'd recommend the name "ToffeeScript".
Customers are publicly asking for your answers for your what in their opinion is an ill conceived and/or villainous process. Not answering claiming that it violates your privacy process from which they specifically exempted themselves could also be considered even more ill conceived/villainous.

They are waiting for your answers, it is a public matter as per your clients repeated requests, it affects more people, money is involved, we are all waiting for your resolution and future mitigation actions. Or rebuttal ofcourse.
I understood Ciridan the Shipwright to be the oldest character but may be wrong.
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> There are 3-4 other deep learning projects I think have had a much greater impact on my field.

Don't leave us hanging... which projects?
What if it looks like a bug and it sounds like a humming noise?

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/12/opinion/employment-wages-...
Yeah, the broking model is responsible for the trucking shortage. You start paying for trucker time at origin/destination, and the supply chain would become a whole lot more efficient, and trucking wouldn't be (as) terrible a job.
I misunderstood that. Then the questioner is 100% not to blame in my view.
Lacking empathy is one of the major characteristics or symptoms of narcissistic personality disorders.

I think it is a weird semantical argument to say someone could have empathy but never showcase it.