skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. In 1947.

"And it’s rare for there to be two consecutive quarters of negative GDP without a recession. In fact, George Washington University professor Tara Sinclair said the only time on record appears to have been 1947."

From: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/25/biden-adm...
people are paying $250 per month for a newsletter about wfh desk setups? not to be jest but i did understand correctly...?
Argo CD is one of those tools you use that you can't imagine living without.
US GDP shrinks 2 quarters in a row meeting bar some say is technical recession
social media or any similar technologies arent an issue. how they are consumed and misunderstood is an issue. an issue caused by lack of education and outdated educational systems at its core..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef#Environmental_impact
I don't like GDP as a measure of how well our economy is doing.

We need a whole new measurement. A quality of life index, which measures the real cost of living, not in dollars, but in number of hours required to earn the necessities of life: shelter, food, water, and by extension, the things required to get those: transportation (to and from work, avg distance), certification (aka education), and medical insurance.
Yes, to a vastly larger scope, imo.
Is social media and technology in general undermining the traditional democracy? Yes. And that's a positive. Well, as long as you're not an entity that benefits - financially or otherwise - from the status quo. Then of course you're going to want retain your power and its benefits.

The vast majority of those questioning the changes are those who will lose as we become more self-governed. The Atlantic included.
Which third party proxy companies you are using ?
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A lot of games are fragile, and have poor or no test coverage. So if the engine changes, it can break or have all sorts of unforeseen consequences. So you want to be building in an engine that isn't changing.
We very much are "made to be able to eat meat". I will point out that long term vegetarians often have trouble when they eat meat (by accident or intent) because the population gut flora don't support it anymore. I'd argue maintain the capacity is of intrinsic value because `modern society` is not something I take for granted in the long term, but I'm a crazy doom-saying prepper so feel free to disregard my concerns.
STOCK act 2012. I believe it was quietly repealed.
Love it! Shared it with my husband!
> Yeah. People are lazy. Humanity has known that for thousands of years.

What a disgusting attitude to hold. It should tell you that usera don't want to share telemetry and that decision should be respected. I'm very thankful I live in a jurisdiction that protects me and the public from people like you.

> Go home dude. You clearly have no idea how the internet works.

It's clear you don't understand the regulatory environment that browsers operate in. Hopefully you are not representative of the developers in Mozilla. Otherwise, it's time to jump ship to Librewolf or another privacy-conscious fork.
Unity has bug fix releases every two weeks so no.

That said, I would say a lot of changes can be breaking because backwards compatibility is a much lower priority then code speed or size.
I agree that it only really makes sense to consider when you have runtime concerns around performance that justify the added complexity. I posted that in a comment elsewhere. However, I think the benefit to modularity can be significant sometimes. Separating something into libraries is an exercise in organizational discipline, and in my experience it often fails. An inviolable boundary can be valuable for orgs who struggle with that sort of thing.

That said, even small apps virtually always have hot regions. Typically those can be ignored until big scale without impacting the users, but that doesn't mean it's efficient to do so.

I would also definitely push back on the idea that a monolith is inherently more compute/energy efficient. I'm not sure how you arrived at that conclusion, but it doesn't take much in the way of efficiency gained from individually scaling services to make up for the tiny additional costs of your orchestration/communication.

Personally I'm a monolith guy. I think the discipline required to build and release a good monolith is typically easier than the difficulty of maintaining services. I would rarely recommend a microservice architecture. But I don't think it's in anyone's best interests to just pretend that the benefits of microservices don't exist.
"the front page of HN" is not so sacred; the politics of Tom Bombadil have been done and there's those that are so over that, too. Allow others the room to learn the weary cynical wisdom you've gained. Be open to the possibility that there still banality you haven't witnessed; and the hope of originality.
Strong disagree. A solo founder working on the same product for years means they'll have in depth knowledge that few (if any) experts can match. That's a very strong technical moat.
Perhaps, but the Fed chair is a political appointment and the politicians learned a different lesson.

Carter appointed Volcker and put America on chemotherapy. He caught blame for both inflation and de-leveraging withdrawal symptoms. Reagan got to take America off chemotherapy and take credit in the popular conscience for both reduced inflation and the re-leveraging boom. The political lesson: putting America on chemotherapy is important but politically somewhere between "thankless" and "suicidal."

When Powell was confirmed, it was with this context in mind. Politicians were thinking "do I want to be the next Carter"? I am worried that they only confirmed Powell because they thought he would not be the next Volcker. Of course, now that he has been confirmed for the next 4 years, he has some freedom to diverge from expectations. We'll see.
Sponsors are paying $250 to get their message in front of 7,000+ subscribers who are interested in wfh desk content.

The individual readers subscribe for free.
Their proposed system was to scan stuff on your phone as part of the upload-to-iCloud process. I.e. only stuff that was about to be on their servers (where it could be scanned) anyway would get scanned, and you could thus completely opt out by turning off their iCloud Photo Library stuff.

To me this winds up feeling totally fine as a trade-off, particularly if it wound up paving the way for actual end-to-end encryption of the photos, though I see that it bothers some people.
> He contributed exactly nothing to the story.

He was in the books to add depth, history and verisimilitude to Middle Earth. He was an important part of world building. Tolkien could have left him out and the story would not have suffered but the same could be said for the appendixes and map as well.
Well not sure why you keep repeating name 'Elden ring' - thats a computer game completely unrelated to LOTR or incoming TV show from Amazon (The rings of power). It may sound like a jab on the TV show from you, probably hence the reactions
Yes, there is much more evidence. My medium blog also cites the Chinese CDC in early 2020 and the China-WHO joint report, both of which corroborate the fact that case definitions used in Dec 2019 to mid-Jan 2020 required a link to the market or at least that the patient had to be admitted to a hospital near the market or live in the neighborhood of the market.

See:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8393104/
https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-con... (pages 125 and 161)
Ask HN: At what point did you decide that CS research is not for you?
And what subfield of CS was this in?
This account, “Eleven_Wilson”, was created in 2016, but did not post any comments until 2020, and has only posted three comments since. All three comments consist solely of text copied verbatim from the linked articles. Also, all three of the commented articles are both submitted by this user, and are all on the same site, “Eleven Labs”, similar to the user name.
Wait until you hear about ESG which governs some trillions of dollars of assets. ESG is a way for politicians/elites to force ideology on the public without having to go through the electoral process and gaining public support. This power is exercised through the proxy of corporations. It is anything but democratic. It is totalitarian/authoritarian.

Mastercard is already experimenting with CO2 emissions based spending habits: https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/vision/corp-responsibility/p...

I am the last one to believe in these types of things but it is getting to a point where I feel like we're being boiled like a frog.

Climate/ESG initiatives have lost respect in my eyes, I'd like to support sensible things but this is how we'll get totalitarianism on our hands. Then there is the whole WEF agenda.
I've bought a few colorful items recently, 80's print clothing and a rainbow rhinocerous from Amazon (this for reference, because it's awesome: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09DT5NMB5?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_...) and it is strange how transgressive it feels.
I have known what a byte was for, um, let's see, about 46 years now.

In the days when I learned what it was, it was fairly common for machines to have addressable units larger than a byte. We said that these machines "did not address to the byte". That is literally something you would say. Because a BYTE WAS NOT THE SAME THING AS AN ADDRESSABLE UNIT.

A word isn't the same thing as an addressable unit, either; your machine's word size is the number of bits it transfers over its main bus at one time and/or the number of bits it can work on in one operation. Which is maybe a bit fuzzy nowadays.

If I recall correctly, I read somewhere, back in the 1970s, that the word "byte" was originally used to mean the size of a text character. But in any common usage, even by the time I learned about it, it had settled down to just meaning 8 bits, period.
> If things returned to normal, then you can't really blame the pandemic.

We're still dealing with supply chain issues, and will for a while. The idea that you can turn the economy down 30% and back up 30% in less than a year with no lasting effects is silly.

> When this thread started the war in Ukraine was the issue.

Yes. Starting from an already-disrupted screwed-up economic baseline certainly doesn't help.
"stupidity" I'd rather think of this as "wasted potential" the reason you reach for this pejorative label is due to frustration.

A wise man once said that there is nothing more common than wasted potential, in that sense I agree with some of this article.
Needs to be brought back for cases like this, where the legal system itself acts as the coercive agent of some rich corporation.
Do you know that or are you guessing?

Because my guess is it won't be that simple.
Probably not serious, just that it's the language used in unity
Kudos!

Although it's an entirely different type of content/business, this reminds me of Humans of New York. [1] There seems to be a broad desire for simple, consistent content about the lives of everyday people. I think it may be a reaction to the increasing unreality of most larger media outlets, which have become very contrived and overly-optimized.

If I were looking to start a newsletter, I would pick a similar everyday topic.

1. https://www.humansofnewyork.com
Isn't this seriously illegal in most countries?
They are still updating Godot 3, even backporting features from 4.
The decline and fall of the British economy
Confused as well. I read it as ban only applies to August and was wondering what was special about August. Think it’s missing at least an “a” before ban but ideally a comma before that too.
Stupid metaphors from microplastics to tobacco, unrelated grievances from Trump to teen mental health, no attempt to understand what social media is and how letting people talk to each other is undermining democracy.
Advertisers are paying to sponsor the newsletter, to reach the readers. The readers are not paying anything (it appears). The author went with a sponsorship model.
what is social media after all but picking a billionaire and his stuffy ruleset.

If we would empower the people to write on the web on their own behalf I'd say 'no', because that's the idea of the forum or the agora I guess.
Visualization of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, and Microsoft’s Consumer Product Lines
It was never intended to be a true democracy and there have never been true democracies that scale up. The New England town meeting is the closest thing to real democracy in the modern world and they don't have any real power. Maybe technological changes will enable true democracy, but I doubt it.

It's not really clear to me what a true democracy means since it's unlikely that best leader/best lawgivers correspond to most likely to be elected. In a small community electability is somewhat of a proxy for skill in governance but that's not true as the size of the electorate scales and the skill that elections select for becomes more weighted to marketability and salesmanship. Those are important skills for leaders to have but they are probably not the most important.
I have seen the word "sapient" used to delineate the ways in which humans seem to differ from most animals.
Perhaps that's the price for placing an ad, and the news letter goes out w/ 2 ads, weekly?
I agree with you up to a point.
However there are real limits to what the rich and powerful can do before the peasants revolt. The current American Elites have completely forgotten the concept of "noblesse oblige" and I believe we are currently seeing the start of a peasant rebellion.

It starts with rejection of the mainstream media, academics, and other "experts".

In the case of Peter Thiel, he is extremely hated among emerging factions of the radical left and dissident right.
> Let's get real...term limits

This is a proven strategy for tanking legislation.

Ten lawmakers on a linear political spectrum. Compromise is at 5. 1, 2, 9 and 10 said no; 3 and 8 grudgingly accepted. The measure looks poised to pass with six votes.

What can you do to tank it? Propose a sizzling 3½. 3 can't help but demand it at all costs. It's so juicy! And so close to the real intent behind 5! 8, meanwhile, horrified and betrayed, tells everyone to kindly fuck off. The centre holds. But the fringes have frayed enough to compromise passage.

We're in a rare state of inching bipartisanship. That mitigates the last decades' go-to strategy of lobbing landmines from the extremes, aiming to tear apart that delicate ground of negotiating space from the poles; to make moderation tantamount to treason. I suspect we'll now see more baiting of edges to chew away at the most-extreme moderates instead, an escalating game of No True Scotsman at the fringes.
The Beornings as well, though far from pacifists.
Everyplace I've worked that's used Unity has locked into a version at the start, and only upgraded (other than minor versions/bug fixes) between projects. New projects today would use last years version.

Adobe is less an issue because the new version of Photoshop isn't going to break your PSD.
Ask HN: MBA if I want to run a business one day?
I have about a decade of experience as an engineer and now about 2 as an EM.

My goal ultimately is to own a business, perhaps start one. I'm not necessarily hyper focused on doing a tech unicorn startup, and am interested in potentially small businesses, maybe boring ones, etc.

I've come to realize I don't know jack when it comes to...finances or business or funding or anything at all.

Is taking a few years to become business savvy worth it? It'd be nice to have a top MBA (if I can get in) on my resume I imagine, but I know that I can probably learn all of this stuff online too. I'm the kind of learner that would really love structure and some kind of curriculum with tests/quizzes to follow.

Does something like this exist outside of trad MBA programs? Should I even look at MBAs? Would love any advice
I agree that's a concern from an investor's perspective. But:

1. You benefit from the massive subsidy America provides for road transport

2. You can serve places that don't have good rail connections

3. If you're moving standard trailers, your 'hubs' don't need costly build-out like cranes. Your MVP hub is just a car park - or maybe even just a quiet side street. So you can serve a town that needs 2 trucks/week, instead of only being able to serve towns that need 40 trucks/week.
Only 1? I get at least 6 unsolicited texts and 3-4 phone calls every damn day.
Exactly! Sorry if that wasn't clear in the original post.
It's illegal in these here United States too unless you're a lawmaker.
There’s a Dr Who episode about a civilization trapped in an underground highway with a similar outcome.

Update: found it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridlock_(Doctor_Who)
Appreciate the honesty - speaks volumes about you and the company.

We're very much solving for the BI usecase right now but as we start staffing up the ops part of our company, we're not going to be able to build all those internal tools ourselves. Looks like Retool would step in there nicely.
Would love to try this out. Quick question: I have my own design system, so how would I use it with a Feathery form?
They submitted the post, and it appears as if they are giving a sort of one-line summary in the comments. At least that's what it looks like to me.
> Could it be that social media is giving us a glimpse of what unfettered (direct) democracy actually looks like?

If anything is giving us an example of how not to implement distributed/liquid democracy.
First line of the article

>>Democrats in the House of Representatives will propose a ban on lawmakers, their spouses and senior staff from trading stocks,
10k? That's a tiny amount to have to get a second payment processor. Additionally if you are dealing with physical cards you probably also need a second set of card readers?
I don't recall it explicitly making him killable? Eowyn still finishes him off in the book without (I assume?) an ambiguously magical blade.

I always thought it was more of a misleading prophecy, very like Macbeth (probably inspired by? Tolkien certainly drew some inspiration from Macbeth in other areas); "No man of woman born" and "Not by the hand of man" are both interpreted as "can't be killed" but really turn out to have very significant loopholes.
Proc macro support in rust-analyzer for nightly rustc versions
Yeah, I'm actually surprised that there's not a way to turn this on for non-child accounts. I've definitely known people who're in the dating scene who'd like to have a choice before seeing a nude picture from someone who has their number.

For that matter, I could see the appeal of just the blurring feature in general. Checking your texts in public might be a risky proposition even if the photo is totally wanted.
Note that this doesn't mean you can start eating chocolate with 30% simple sugars. Just cocoa with hot water, no sugar. Maybe a bit of milk, but not much since it has simple sugars as well.
Wtf, people make money from Newsletters?!

This is news to me.
> This reply is going to look monumentally bad if the customer ends up being right about how they were treated.

And will you say the opposite when the opposite is true? Other comments mention facts about how the OP tried to do something outside of normal and the response is expected for "abnormal" behavior on an account.

Anger against companies is one thing... but will you defend them when it turns out the company is in the right or is this only a one sided comment?
The algorythm doesn't care what its amplifying, only that the amplification increases engagement. Toxic is a correlation, not a causation.
Debugging Postgres autovacuum problems: 13 tips
I'll try.
Oil without humans, doesn't seem to do much of anything.
I think its moreso that Humans are the greatest evil that Humans have ever encountered.

"Hell is other people."
Or Kirill Eskov's The Last Ringbearer:

https://archive.org/details/TheLastRingbearerSecondEdition
The molecular epidemiology of multiple zoonotic origins of SARS-CoV-2
Agreed!

I think the consistent and predictable content is also what leads to the high engagement around it.

You don't have to worry about opening the newsletter not knowing if you will need to set aside 30 minutes to read an essay. Each newsletter is very visual and can be read in just a couple of minutes.
> if you have (say) 1M orders a day, you aren't able to put that data in Salesforce anymore

Could you clarify in what way you can't put 1M orders a day into Salesforce?
To add to this, the deep learning field has already moved on towards MSA-less structure prediction. None of this would be possible without building on top of the work open sourced by Deepmind.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.21.500999v1
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.20.500902v1

To be overly dismissive is to lack imagination.
Diverse mantle components w invariant O2 isotopes in2021 Fagradalsfjall eruption
It's a very nice product, and I've installed it before and imported my pool just to try it out. But since I already have monitoring, and my day job is automating all the things, it wasn't a good fit. For people who want an eminently reliable datastore with decent observability, it is perfect.

> If you're really interested I can pull-out the details of the Samba config and how the ZFS dataset is configured.

I would be thrilled to try implementing that, yes!
Social bubbles dominated by extremists has nothing to do with control by a privileged few.
Excessive consumption of red meat is not that great for our health. Heart disease and colorectal cancer are both linked to diets high in red meat. Beef is just the chief red meat people eat.

I think in terms of "good for you", it goes from worst to best: beef, pork, poultry, then fish/seafood.
> Businesses equate recessions with reduced demand for goods and and services, yet demand remains strong

This isn't true, major retailers have been reporting falling demand.

I'd cite the WSJ but for some reason I can't paste the link in this box, just Google "falling demand Wal-Mart"

> enough to push prices and profits to record levels.

Adjust both for inflation
July 2022 Web Server Survey
>Information storage and transmission over the next 1000 years should be quite a bit better

Yeah, it's a bit of a stretch to compare 1000 years ago to 1000 years from now. Things are radically different, and using the past to judge the future is rife with opportunities to make mistakes.

Some people have suggested that it may actually be worse, in that so much of our current knowledge is contained in non-durable formats (digital instead of hard copy, for instance), which is an interesting idea. Here a comparison could be made to inscriptions on stone and clay vs. on papyrus. It may be that when the Walking Dead happens, rebuilding our knowledge will depend on the large numbers of libraries that will still exist, but are less than up-to-date, since so much of the modern knowledge isn't contained there, but instead in a PDF on some cloud server.
I usually just read the AP or Reuters. FiveThirtyEight is definitely liberal but I appreciate their numbers perspective as well.
P.A. VOICE:
Trans-Stellar Space Lines would like to apologise to passengers for the continuing delay for the departure of this flight.

FORD:
Hey, weird.

P.A. VOICE:
We are currently awaiting the loading of our compliment of small, lemon-soaked paper napkins for your comfort, refreshment, and hygiene during the flight, which will be of two hours duration. Meanwhile we thank you for your patience. The cabin crew will shortly be serving coffee and biscuits… again.

FORD:
Zaphod! How long has this ship been standing here?

ZAPHOD:
Man, there’s a departure board right behind us and I’ve been looking at the flight schedules. Man this ship is late, man this ship is very, very late! Man this ship is over nine-hundred years late.

- Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams