skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A business is a structure of people, and my intuition is to achieve healthy dynamics, people should treat it like this kind of parasocial relationship.
If you fuck up, I should forgive you as long as you're not an asshole about it. However, it seems like a recurring theme, that modern tech companies don't actually provide support. If that's not in line with the economics of the situation, maybe I'm wrong to hold it against the company itself.

But maybe the cost of this model is hidden from the consumer, and I'd rather pay a bit to have reliability and fairness. I don't know how much I'd have to pay, but I'm willing to guess it's palatable, or at least in the neighbourhood. If we are being tricked by these hidden costs, it's better (if you can) to move on, there are people trying to compete even if it's a difficult industry to break into. Try not to get locked in. If I were running a small business, I'd definitely be discounting crypto payments and putting the extra work into handling whatever regulatory complications arise, vs yelling at the walls that are the infinitely scaling tech companies
Love the idea, will definitely try it out.

One bit of feedback I want to give is: when I'm answering questions on the iPhone app, there's a dialog that shoots up from the bottom... this is too much motion and I don't like it. Especially since there are multiple questions back-to-back, it feels a bit nauseating to see that dialog shoot up over and over.

I think a quick fade in (or no transition at all) may be better suited for that part of the app.
Add accessibility to that list. Screen readers, magnifiers, switch controls, etc. Usually game engines don't support these while your native OS UI probably does, and the web is also not bad in that regard.
Would this apply to unsolicited reachouts from recruiting firms?
Some of them may actually want that cycle to happen.
I didn't mean to say that "people are animals" in the sense that they are mean, or bad; just that humans are one species among many other species. People are one kind of animal, as are all other species.

Animals certainly aren't people; cows are cows, people are people, and we are all animals.

Also, it's not actually illegal to torture animals. It's illegal to torture some animals, sometimes. It's not illegal to pile up lobsters, a non-social and fiercely territorial creature, in small tanks, for months, and eventually boiling them alive, or to keep sows in confined spaces where they spend their whole life giving birth from constant artificial insemination, and crushing their pups because there's no room. Etc.
I found this very "white people in middle america" centric (sorry but I'm banging my brain to find a better way to describe it).

My options as a beginner are 'greek salad', 'spaghetti & meatballs', 'cheeseburger', 'deli sandwich', 'avocado toast'. Even on advanced it only added 'scrambled eggs', and 'tomato bisque'

To put it another way I found it very non-inclusive.

Not that I expect one app to teach me all the world's cuisine but it would be nice to at least acknowledge up front the bias of the app in its description?

There's nothing wrong with teaching these things but they are not the "beginning" things for a great many cultures including cultures in the USA itself. I doubt the kids of most parents of Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Mexican, descent would start with these items.

Sorry if I'm not making any sense. I'm not trying to be negative. I'm just pointing out that the selection offered clearly shows a bias.
> Copyright © 1969 Robert A. Hearn

The big story here is time travel.
Yeah, the nitpicky rejection cycles starts to feel like an industry wide mixture of gaslighting and almost intentional impostor syndrome creation tools. All the statistics of people in FAANG/GAFAM roles that feel stuck in them because they are certain they'd not pass the interview cycle again if they left. All the statistics of "dark matter" developers that are continually harassed by FAANG/GAFAM recruiters to interview but then continually ghosted without feedback following the interviews.

Lots of mentions of how much it resembles hazing rituals, and that also seems to be the intent of many hazing rituals: gaslight about the relative strengths of "the in group" and build survivorship bias among those that make it into "the in group" and survive the hazing rituals.
>I find it amusing that you dismissed this in a sibling comment as “just comparing spending to returns”… that’s literally what lobbying is: spending money to secure political favor. If our elected representatives simply agree that something should be a priority, companies wouldn’t need to bribe them to do it.

This is wrong. That's not what lobbying is understood to be. I think you're confusing lobbying with campaign contributions or PAC money. Lobbying is basically just advocating.

>I always assumed it was at least in part because there are a limited number of politicians competing with each other for the same funding sources.

That's kind of dodging the question. Why are there so few funding sources then?
I know. There always going to people smarter than me in more privileged positions than me. It would be weird if said people acted in a way that would incapacitate themselves. (Here, I am referring to the congresspeople)

There are laws in place that govern congresspeople's trades. These are ignored. They should be enforced. If congresspeople (or who?) are ignoring/not-enforcing the previous laws, what are they going to do with these new ones?
Technical Evaluation of a Startup
Plans for mapping/postgis?
Godot is effectively not accepting contributions, and masquerades as open source. List comprehension, one of the most sought-after features and requested by dozens of people, is repeatedly undermined by maintainers, because they happen to dislike the syntax. Godot offers nothing similar in terms of processing arrays, so it makes any code involving them ugly and more complex than it needs to be.

There was even a pull request implementing this feature opened, but they claim the assigned maintainer just didn't have the time to review it yet (over 5 years!). One person can effectively stall all progress out of spite. That's no way to run an open source project.

Just look at this discussion: https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/issues/2972
> The battery ... is made of at least one cell ... consisting of three inks printed onto a rectangular strip of paper. Sodium chloride salt is dispersed throughout the strip of paper and one of its shorter ends has been dipped in wax. An ink containing graphite flakes, which acts as the ... cathode, is printed onto one of the flat sides of the paper while an ink containing zinc powder, which acts as the ... anode, is printed onto the reverse side of the paper. Additionally, an ink containing graphite flakes and carbon black is printed on both sides of the paper, on top of the other two inks[: t]his ink connects the positive and negative ends of the battery to two wires, which are located at the wax-dipped end of the paper. // When a small amount of water is added, the salts within the paper dissolve and charged ions are released

The cell seems to be able to provide between around 0.5v and 1.2v, needing a few drops of water.

Article at "Nature - Scientific Reports":

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-15900-5

> We developed a disposable paper battery aiming to reduce the environmental impact of single-use electronics for applications such as point of care diagnosis, smart packaging and environmental sensing. The battery uses Zinc as a biodegradable metal anode, graphite as a nontoxic cathode material and paper as a biodegradable substrate. To facilitate additive manufacturing, we developed electrodes and current collector inks that can be stencil printed on paper to create water-activated batteries of arbitrary shape and size. The battery remains inactive until water is provided and absorbed by the paper substrate, taking advantage of its natural wicking behavior. Once activated, a single cell provides an open circuit potential of 1.2 V and a peak power density of 150 µW/cm2 at 0.5 mA. As a proof of concept, we fabricated a two cell battery and used it to power an alarm clock and its liquid crystal display
> they need to taste all the food

that's a good stand to have, and I would argue that the kid tried to concur:

>> eat that much fries and coke

>> try fish and chicken instead

"that much" (!= never) and "try" (!= have to) seem to be key in the dialog here, although from these excerpts only we get a highly decontextualised version. nonetheless to me it sounded like they always indulge in the same food

> experience the maximum of stuff ... need to taste all the food

Now replace food with drugs, how would you feel? coz TBH some food out there borderlines on being drug-like in terms of addictiveness, both when ingested and how they're being advertised.

The way we raise our child is try food, sure, but be mindful of what you eat. we're certainly not opposed to bad food once in a while, forbidding it would only make it that more alluring. also being healthy right now doesn't mean bad habits can't creep in, and healthy habits are tough to instill after the fact once bad habits have taken hold.
Backend: Software application(s) that run on the server that provide the service.
I've never heard of AppLab or SideQuest and didn't know there was any way to get games/software on the quest other than the main store, so I'll have to check it out thanks!
I meant that Tom vanishes from the story. He doesn't vanish from Middle Earth.
Yeah stagflation is a lot more scary and some think it's already here.
Exactly what it is. I don't know why this keeps popping up other than people trying to use it as a gotcha.
Isn't the issue with your city, then? It's not like the film crew just annexed your street without asking anybody. Your city council approved it, likely after several public hearings. At least that's how it worked in my small hometown 25 years ago when a major Hollywood film shot there. They made a mess scattering dish soap on the streets and river front to look like snow and closed a public park for a few weeks. Lots of people were angry, but at the city council, not the camera people. The film crew only did it after a bunch of people in charge told them they could.
Rebellion at DataRobot over insider stock sales
The stock market is comparatively highly regulated - Ponzi schemes are explicitly illegal there, for example. The US stock market regulatory body, the SEC, actually has teeth and uses them.

There is nothing comparable in crypto - so it's a sea of crime.

If you look at the early history of stock markets - pre-regulation - it looks similar to current cypto markets - crime as far as the eye can see. This eventually caused regulation to happen. But everything is playing out much faster now, because it's all digital.

It's also much easier to run a crypto scam than a classical stock market one - way less work and time investment - so the bar is much lower. So, in the absence of much in the way of consequences, we would expect far more scams in crypto, because it's lower effort.
And they keep moving the goalposts.
I always felt that Tom Bombadil was filler in order to bridge events between Crick Hollow and the Prancing Pony. Tolkien had already written The Adventures of Tom Bombadil as a separate piece with Goldberry and Old Man Willow. He just dropped that into the Fellowship and used it to fill the space.

I used to skip the Tom section and move right up to Bree. Now I read the books much slower, and I savor every section, even Tom.
Not parent, but if you need headers and footers on each printed page you need to make use of tables.
Also, if it's in house / on prem you can do a change freeze and actually mean it. With a SaaS that's a joke. You never know what the SaaS engineers might be doing. An in house system's downtime is more likey to be correlated with your other systems' downtime, so total downtime is going to be higher with a SaaS, especially since authz/authn is so critical to everything.

I don't understand why this is a SaaS and not just a software product you buy and run on prem. (In terms of business risk, buying this as an on prem product seems perfectly reasonable -- after this startup is bought by someone like Microsoft that can actually guarantee the features will stay around.)
You want to pay people in positions of power so much money that they are afraid of losing their salary by being caught up in a corruption scandal.

This is how America got rid of large swaths of police corruption. Go back 100 years and bribing police was trivial, they made so little money that taking bribes was how they kept afloat financially.

Now days? An officer making $120k a year isn't going to take a $100 bribe to let a drunk driver go free.
Sounds like this goes against the old saying "I may be stupid but I'm not dumb", i.e. I'm not book smart but I have common sense.
You are the original poster but this isn't the original post.
$ dig news.ycombinator.com
;; ANSWER SECTION:
news.ycombinator.com. 1 IN A 50.112.136.166

$ dig -x 50.112.136.166
;; ANSWER SECTION:
166.136.112.50.in-addr.arpa. 300 IN PTR ec2-50-112-136-166.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com.

saving couple keypresses just in case
More like bonuses for LoC . The idea is to encourage decision making and discourage gridlocks and not attempting to pass laws because they don't have support.
Main thing is that you don't get an image, but a single line of pixels.

Such a line taken of Earth is likely to have nothing in it but ocean and clouds.

If you sent a swarm, each would get its own line of pixels, as many lines as spacecraft.
I agree. Make them wards of the state. Corruption has been far more destructive than incompetence, because corruption filters for and protects incompetence. Let public servants make a sacrifice.
Just lost my email provider (https://status.postmarkapp.com/incidents/240161) to this and I'd bet my services are degraded/down. I know it's never a "good" time for an outage but this sure does suck for me right now. We've got an event this weekend and people can't sign up right now to buy tickets/etc.
Having seen the posted articles quite a few times in past years, this is the first case of a comment contributing a new idea to the riff. Thumbs up!
Prioritize advertisers who share their desk and fit their link and company description in the story.
In all seriousness, we've been deploying everything on us-west-2, and it seems to have dodged most of the outages recently. Is there something special about that data center?
I am in the process of writing my own scraper for recipe sites that grabs only the recipes and parses them into a machine readable (searchable) format.
Turns out you don't need much for parsing, because an incredibly large percentage of these sites use wordpress, and either the tasty recipes plugin or wprm (wordpress recipe maker) plugin.

The only tedious part at this point is writing the different search crawlers for each site - some are reusable while others are not.

I had assumed that this would have been much more difficult, but after a weekend of writing the cheerio utils for pulling the recipes only from tasty or wprm tags, I found myself nearly done. The frontend and search engine tuning will take much longer.

It would be really cool if recipe sites could just include a recipe instead of a useless blog post punctuated by ads every 4 sentences, but these people clearly don't want me using their site in the "right" way. Oh well.
Interesting to see it's been a loss of power that caused this. Usually the better datacenters have multiple levels of power redundancy including emergency backup generators.
The article argues that the effect of social media is to weaken democracy. And the comment to which I responded, as I understand it, argues that social media, in itself, represents a flowering of democracy.

My own view is a variation of 'the medium is the message': that social media molds the world to suit itself.

Online platforms all have idiosyncrasies: one platform incentivizes performative behavior, another incentivizes flame-wars, a third leads users to misjudge the prevalence of some subculture in society, and so on.

So I agree with the article that social media is weakening democracy, in as much as we have designed social media sites stupidly. And I disagree with the comment to which I responded, insofar as, if social media represents a flowering of democracy, it represents democracy based on people who are effectively in an altered state of mind.
This literally happened to my neighbour when a film crew came into our neighbourhood.

My neighbour was out of town, off vacationing with their family. They had a large family with several kids, so they had a good 2 or 3 cars parked around the front of their home.

The film crew had mandated that all cars needed to be cleared from the set. So absolutely no cars on the street. They went around asking people to move all their cars down to the school parking lot a couple blocks away. My neighbours weren't home to hear this or even be notified.

The set director (I think that must be who they were cause they yelled a lot at everyone) was cursing at my neighbour's home, waving hands angrily, and called a tow truck to move all of the neighbour's cars. A person came to ask if we knew where they were or had their contact number. We told them they were out of town.

They did not move the cars back. School re-opened after the long weekend, neighbour got fined for parking tickets down at the school. Came back home to missing vehicles, called the cops, freaked out, eventually found their cars down at the school, had to pay over $500 in parking fines, one of their cars had even been towed down to the impound lot for improper parking on a private space.

It was a gigantic mess. Doubt the film crew cares, they were long gone and probably not even in the country by the time my neighbour was capable of filing a grievance with them.
Yes, we'll have it. We need to implement proper extension system to be able to integrate GPL-licensed extensions. On our todo.
> at a time when cities are in decline

Do you have a source for that? Here in NYC things seem as popular as ever, with record-breaking rents due to high demand. Is it different elsewhere?

Regardless, even if it's true that some cities are struggling, that only makes it more important for them to focus on improving quality of life: a rise in WFH means people have more options, and a city that doesn't want to depopulate has to be an attractive place to live independent of economic opportunity.
Protein Folding Breakthough
Artificial intelligence firm DeepMind has transformed biology by predicting the structure of nearly all proteins known to science in just 18 months, a breakthrough that will speed drug development and revolutionise basic science
It's not just an unpopular opinion, it also shows an utter lack of critical thinking.

Do those with more resources owe them to chance, or did they do actual work?

Of those who worked for more resources, how did they achieve those resources? Are those ways actually in any way beneficial to society at large, or are they not replicable across wide swaths? Or are they possibly deliberately not beneficial to the country, but to those with resources?

Is it possible that growing wealth is easier if you already have access to wealth, merely by having that access?

Why do you think people with more resources actually know what they are doing? There is plentiful evidence to the contrary. (See e.g. Enron)

There is nothing inherent in a free market that means people with more resources are somehow more qualified to lead a country. Maybe they are, maybe they are not, but if you'd like to make that point, you'll need to go well beyond a simple declaration of faith.
Is it reasonable to assume that the wealthiest people are more interested in optimizing society for what is best for the country as a whole or optimizing it so they can acquire more wealth/power? How often are those two possible optimizations in conflict?

I think it is an unpopular opinion for two primary reasons. There are inherent conflicts of interest. Being good at one thing (often being really good at being born with the right parents) does not necessarily correlate with decision making on behalf of society at large.
As an aside it's pretty bad form to continue to try and draw a person into an argument they've repeatedly stated they're not attempting to make nor have interest in joining. Stop trying to make fetch happen.

I have no argument for, against, nor interest in engaging in the shaving of a yak that is bald. You're in a debate with a single participant.
So a plutocracy
>"You likely use "C with classes"

I do write templates but not very often. Also when I do I try to consume those in a single file so that they could be declared there as well without propagating into a header. Not a good idea for writing libraries but works for applications.

>"Chromium has 12 million lines of C++."

I am far short of that of course.
Are you suggesting that 100 LOC is a lot to maintain?
If the implementation was something like several thousands it would be a different story, but 100 LOC is a few functions as seen in the article.

I think there is a lot of merit to not using libraries. It might be a bit too strong to have a principle to never use libraries, but there are many libraries that provide way more than most projects need.

Also, who cares about future proofing for some unknow future. Write what solved the problem and then if another problem arises in the future - solve it then.
Lies, damned lies, and self-reported statistics that affect a company's SLA refund liability.
I would absolutely think it was notable because if I saw “Women Economists” or “Black Economists” I would obviously be concerned the women or black economists are being treated badly.

It’s shocking that you somehow think race or gender can effect the categorization by economists of economic conditions. It’s fairly quantitative situation and I’m at a loss how different backgrounds would effect that analysis.
Thanks, but I'm sticking with meat eating
If us-west-2 goes down in the next few days we’ll expect an explanation.
The fix for this was in the founding documents. We just jacked it up over the years.

Congress passes laws. They aren't supposed to pass a vague law and then hand over the actual rule-making to unelected government bureaucracies.

The House is the people's house. Each Representative represents some relatively equal number of constituents. The Senate is the States' house. The state legislatures sends senators. The Senators represent the interests of their State.

We jiggered with this, and this is how rich people and corporations can influence so much of what goes on. The original system encourages accountability.
There are many people, including me, that are happy with Trump's Supreme Court nominees. As originalists and textualists they are more likely to do their job of keeping the other branches of government to the bounds of the their Constitutional power. Biden's nominee also claims to be an originalist and a textualist. So, I really don't see the point of your complaint. Unless your complaint is that 3 judges were nominated by the red team so they must be red team loyal. Loyalty to a party is not a desirable attribute of a Supreme Court justice. Reducing party loyalty is the reason for lifetime appointment. Once a judge is appointed they have no reason to rule along their nominating party lines.
I see what you're saying as I reflect on the current landscape of media in general. To be fair I was born in the 90s, so no real idea of what the media landscape was pre-2000s basically. The media now is obviously much different, no internet back in the 70s, news sources were seemingly more trustworthy, there was maybe less political division?

To run a counterpoint though, recessions are self-reinforcing. I think what the Fed has tried to do with all its might is to keep the picture as rosy as possible. Once it is officially out there, companies start cutting budgets, people tighten their wallets anticipating harder times, and it just kind of goes in a few cycles like this.