skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Wages are running high, the highest they’ve run in quite some time. And they are one good example of—or good illustration, really—of how tight the labor market really is, the fact that wages are running at the highest level in many decades. And that’s because of an imbalance between supply and demand and the labor market.

So we think, through our policies, through further healing in the labor market, higher rates, for example, of vacancy filling and things like that, and more people coming back in, we like to think that supply and demand will come back into balance and that, therefore, wage inflation will moderate to still high levels of wage increases, but ones that are more consistent with 2 percent inflation. That’s our expectation."

"So in principle, it seems as though, by moderating demand, we could see vacancies come down, and as a result—and they could come down fairly significantly and I think put supply and demand at least closer together than they are, and that that would give us a chance to have lower—to get inflation—to get wages down and then get inflation down without having to slow the economy and have a recession and have unemployment rise materially."

Implicit in all this is the idea that wages are currently too high, and need to be suppressed.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/transcript-fed-chief-powells-po...
IM is not a business for them but another data source for FB.
The costs for running WhatsApp must be astronomical yet it is a free service.

VR may become the entertainment platform but maybe it doesn’t. AR has a much wider application and is actually needed. It will allow our connected computers to see and hear what we perceive allowing for a much more direct input. I can’t wait for true personal assistants accompanying one throughout life. This data gathering may allow a machine to get to know us and finally even upload us for extended after life.
That’s philosophy difference Zuckerberg mentioned.
FB just came up with another way to sell ads.
Do you get HMR in Compose like you do in Flutter? Or does it do full build on each change?
What a load of crap.

>And yet no hobbit has ever heard of him.

Farmer Maggot knows him.

> Possibly the least liked character in The Lord of the Rings. A childish figure so disliked by fans of the book that few object to his absence from all adaptations of the story.

Nonsense. On all counts.

I won't even go on from here. Ugh.
Layoffs hit overvalued, bloated companies, and the majority of laid of people are non-technical staff, or junior employees.

None of this has ANY effect on competent software engineers. Most of my peers keep getting massive offers left and right. Nothing has changed for them.
>Perun's Youtube channel has been a great deep-dive source into the war economy in general.

You watch the Good Times Bad Times channel too by any chance?
> If you can't find a job with a "proven track record" in this market, you're doing something horribly wrong.

Can you define both what "horribly wrong" looks like and what "not horribly wrong" looks like? Because I can't.

The problem with a "proven track record" is that nobody believes what you write on your resume and nobody wants to bother looking at your code. That leaves hiring on "feel" and I have no idea what somebody needs to put in their cover letter and/or resume to "feel" right to a recruiter, an HR rep and a hiring manager all at the same time.
Living a bit more dangerously at the moment as HN is still running temporarily on AWS. (I'd link to the threads about this from a few weeks ago but am on my phone ATM.)
> radical polarization and is not healthy

agree with you on this, it is not healthy if the unit of analysis for health is society as a whole, which I believe is what you mean.

> There's a difference between subscribing to a particular viewpoint versus outright rage against the other 'camp'.

not really - I think it is only in a matter of degree!

> It fractures countries and allows for populist opportunists to fester.

democracies might just inevitably do that. If we observe democratic societies outside our own Western milieu we will observe political factions battling on the streets as much as the ballot box, or even in Parliament, as in former times we saw in South Korean and Taiwan.

What we are seeing today might just be the next stage in the evolution of democracy - this is what it looks like when we democratise mass communication, enabling not only freedom of speech but dispersing the power to amplify that speech to a much greater number of people so that many more alternative narratives can propagate and cohere. This dispersal is in itself arguably a characteristic of democratic systems.
Yeah probably gonna go with Compose after reading other comments as well. Thanks.
Every vaper I know is an ex-smoker. But I'm also 40 so I don't know many people that would be taking something like this up as a new thing.
Why are you assuming that our grandparents are pushing the narrative? Money / greed doesn't care about your age group.
"Some sophisticated applications of the expanded AlphaFold database might also depend on downloading its entire 23 terabyte contents, which won’t be feasible for many teams, Steinegger says. Cloud-based storage could also prove costly. Steinegger has co-developed a software tool called FoldSeek that can quickly find structurally similar proteins and which should be able to squash the AlphaFold data down considerably."

[FoldSeek Search](https://search.foldseek.com/search)

[Github:FoldSeek](https://github.com/steineggerlab/foldseek)
You are moving the goal posts right now.

Donziger didn't get convicted of bribery so at the moment its just an accusation.
Is that not worse?
That wouldn't be the implication of a title like that and I suspect you know you're being disingenuous. It would mean that some of our most important decisions are being made by people from a single background that doesn't reflect the makeup of their stakeholders, the American public.

As a thought exercise, would you think it's not notable if the 8 person board was entirely female .. or entirely black?
The Cold War Bunker That Became Home to a Dark-Web Empire (2020)
Customers shouldn't have to bother random employees to get support on critical issues. In general I think Stripe does a pretty good job with support compared to other big tech firms - the inability to reach humans is problem endemic throughout the industry.

It's a shame because a good customer support interaction can create a serious evangelist (hard to quantify but extremely valuable). Maybe Stripe knows this because they put a lot of effort into appeasing the HN community (many developers/entrepreneurs who make processor purchasing decisions). I wish they'd apply this attitude to all their customers.
I can’t help but draw a parallel to contraceptives/emergency contraceptive. Restricting access will reduce the potential benefit more than it will curtail new users (ie smoking rates will go up, with more cigarette use).
It is, but the lawyer gets endless free time (until they die), while the non-lawyer does not get endless free money.
I get seemingly endless messages from recruiters too but I don't think that's a very useful metric for the state of the market. Probably 1/3 of the roles they send to me don't look anything like my profile at all. At least another 1/3 match technically but are offering nowhere near what I already make. Of the final 1/3 or less that aren't immediately ruled out I am probably interested enough to respond to maybe half and at least 80% of those turn out to be snake oil one way or another. So maybe 3% of the recruiter emails I receive might actually be a real opportunity that I'd consider exploring. And that's before even speaking with a potential employer/client to see what the role really is and whether we're any kind of fit at all culturally.
> that number could fund about 8 people's salary per year,

At the first-ever minimum salary for Congressional (non-intern) staff (which actually doesn't go into effect until September), it could actually pay the salary for 22 people with a little left over.

And lots of work is done by interns, who now do get some pay ($20k is allocated to each House office and $50k to each Senate office of this purpose annually), but not much.

(Yes, any private employer doing this would have the Labor Department all over them for wage and hour violations. Guess who those rules don't apply to?)
Lots of issues in us-east-2 for instances for us but also other regions when connecting to RDS
and 900 AU is 0.014 light years. so you can get 10km resolution on a ~7100:1 object to focal-point distance (what’s the right term for this?).

seems pretty good.
My biggest mistake as a startup founder
In April of 2021, we started shutting down my startup, Simpo.

While we eventually sold the assets and found a soft landing for some of our employees, I have no interest in framing this as a success story for the sake of optics. Instead, I'd like to talk about the many mistakes that I've made.

This is the story of my biggest one.
> This "engagement" is largely by people who don't know anything about politics and have their emotions manipulated by unscrupulous politicians and biased reporting.

surely not unique to the social media age
What did it force you to do that you didn't care about? I don't have any other language skills but it offered me ways to test out to higher levels and such. I figured that would get people with knowledge to a better spot.
I don’t see any shilling in this comment in particular, and I have no relationship or awareness of this person or their company.

Unless GP comment was edited, I think you are the one violating the HN guidelines for not responding to the best interpretation of a comment.
There are lots of ways to skip directly to a recipe all over the Internet. Tell me more, what are you trying to find?

Our recipes are actually pretty simple and not particularly special in any way. It's about the journey, not the destination ;-)
You could mow peoples' lawns for a summer job
I mean, great, but that's seriously complicated.

Who pays the tax and how are you going to collect? Do you pay to receive a call? (I know this used to be normal practice in the US, but it isn't where I'm located)? If the call begins or ends in a different country, who pays the tax? Would this make calls unaffordable for poor folks - and what about services like google voice? Are some exempt (like non-emergency hospital, school, and police calls?)

Why wouldn't it just be a charge on your phone bill and included in there?
> I didn’t say anything regarding that.

I know you didn't - this was one of the claims of ramraj I was responding to.

> 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 don't disagree, though I would suggest that there's just as much grunt work, frustration, and hand wringing in other fields of molecular biology at the graduate level and above. Even if other fields have reproducible protocols established, that's not what gets papers published. With the possible exception of clinical samples, more often than not we have no clue if the analyses we're doing will yield anything, and the high risk zone is where all grad students live.
Yup, probably gonna go the native route
Indeed. And generally senators retire their terms as millionaires if they weren't already.
Studio apartments in DC are available for $2000 - $2300 a month, that's $27,600 a year, leaving them with $146,000 a year to secure a place to live within their home state, or roughly triple the median household income. For most Americans that would be a massive increase in their standard of living.

Rather than paying our politicians more to hopefully prevent them from being corrupt I'd suggest putting them in prison anytime we catch even a slight whiff of impropriety.
> Personally I think voter ID makes sense even if only to quash allegation of voter fraud.

I guess I just wonder how likely it would be to quash allegations of voter fraud. When we humans distrust a process, we seem to be able to come up with all sorts of wild stories to justify our fear and anger.
Jack Ma Plans to Give Up Control of Ant, Dow Jones Says
After completing "Scrambled Eggs", I unlocked the recipe but after competing "Avocado Toast" the recipe was not unlocked and I'm not sure what to do to unlock it. What am I missing?
Imho Adyen is surprisingly good. You should definitely check out their documentation.
There's always going to be some people who get into a bad habit simply because it's available, but barring one teenager everyone that vapes that I personally know are ex-smokers.

I think, (barring dangerous additives like the buttered popcorn flavorings), that vaping is probably 3-10% as harmful as smoking. Not harmless, but less harmful, if that makes sense.
They should not accept the payment and then keep the money. Why not reject it in the first place (too large of an amount)? $3000 reasons.
The tobacco companies.
And what is the code being used for? It's harder to be able to visualize something like code without knowing the purpose.
I don't get it. there are literally millions of people offering free cooking videos on youtube, and getting better at cooking isn't difficult at all - you just follow instructions (often in video) and try over and over again until you find something you like.

Is this sort of like a meal service without the delivery of ingredients?
> Severity

> Informational

lol
Not sure if I read this exact article but read another post on this topic yesterday. This is pretty goofy (and has its elements of cool). I’m not sure it’s really that novel other than the shock factor? Machines like backhoes already use hydraulic lines for actuation (yes it’s very cool spider legs actuate in a similar way).
I don’t know, am not in research myself (but my SO studies fruit flies).
Just everything about the title here “necro”, “reincarnated”, “robot” just seems sensational when the setup seems pretty straightforward.
ah, you mean GHP producing something like a sitemap.json for your repo, hmmmmm
>Senior devs are nowhere to be found through regular applicant pipelines. They seem to be leaving as a result of reaching out to friends/former colleagues.

Anecdotal, and I wouldn't call myself senior dev (though, with 10 years in industry, I'm not a junior any more), but apart from my actual first job, I've never "applied" anywhere that I haven't already been offered a position, and I know that's true for everyone I've hired/recruited. The need for engineers/developers with hands on skillsets who have actually delivered something is ridiculous, and I'm not even in the Bay area. Hell, the last time I had a technical interview it was in a pool at DEFCON, and that was only so the company could tell their board that they'd had a "rigorous and competitive interview process" (their founders words).

It's to the point where I'm a little cautious about how I talk about work outside of it, because if someone thinks you're unhappy, they'll set up a lunch in a heartbeat.
I think you're saying that the cure described is worse than the disease, and that the bureaucracy to maintain such regulation would expand beyond its original mandate.

I think that's assuming that things always go poorly, and that there is no possible way for it to go well. Sometimes things go well.
The goal is to remove an incentive to pass bad laws that benefit someone's personal finances. You're looking at this from the wrong direction - instead of asking "why shouldn't they be able to invest based on their knowledge", ask "why shouldn't they be able to pass laws based on their investments?"
Yes, completely agree. I primarily wear glasses now and I hate seeing 2 or three ghost images.
I haven't even unlocked the downvote button, and certainly don't have anyone on my small team downvoting you.

I don't think that anything in my 5 HN posts and handful of comments warrants a ban.

I've been posting less and less on Reddit recently, but I believe that if you block me on that platform my future posting should be hidden. Reddit posting was definitely big for early traction on my site, but I never used any inorganic methods to promote my work.
Hm? My understanding is that most of the "Big Tobacco" companies have gone all in on smokeless cigarettes and other nicotine delivery technologies, since that's where the young (and growing market is).

Philip Morris, for example, is the pinnace of "Big Tobacco" and is currently all in on "transforming" themselves into a "smoke-free" company[1].

[1]: https://www.pmi.com/
?? Gas is up in the rest of the world too so it's pretty easy to disprove that it's due to the direct actions of the Biden administration.
My pet peeve is cases like this where you mention the context of where you're from, but it's so broad as to be useless. There are places in the USA where it's popular to dye your hair bright colors and get tattoos, but I assure you there are also places in the USA where it is not. When mentioning being from the USA in the context of talking about USA culture, one should specify a state, metro area, or at least general region. The USA is a very diverse place, but since so many Americans rarely see the rest of it except through media (which naturally plays up the homogeneity or focuses on things that will be relatable throughout the USA, avoiding local quirks unless trying to emphasize a strange locality), they frequently mistakenly assume the whole country is a lot more similar to their region than it really is.
> You only want people as politicians because they feel it's their civic duty to serve their countrymen, not because it's a lucrative career.

We also want successful, competent people to enter politics and we should not be giving them reasons to avoid it, such as forcing them to sacrifice their financial freedom and success.

Also, there is a very clear correlation between low legislator pay and corruption in other countries. Let's not make bribes and kickbacks more attractive by taking away other options politicians have for building wealth.
Sorry all I jinxed it. Yesterday I was in a meeting and said "The only regional outages AWS has ever had were in us-east-1, so we should just move to us-east-2."

Now I guess we have to move to us-west-2. :)

Update: looks like it's only one zone anyway, so my statement still stands!
>Or retailers in general. Retail spending is down because services spending is up -- people are going to the beach and buying plane tickets instead of buying TVs and patio furniture.

>Regardless of whether we're in a recession, retailer numbers aren't a good indicator for the duration/depth/type. We spent all of 2020 hearing that demand was pulled forward. Well, it was pulled forward from somewhere, and now we are there.

All fair points.

>Best Buy missed by a lot; sales down by over 10%; forecast was a 1% contraction.

Ouch.
You expect to get warnings that your phone will optionally blur your breadboard photos, unless you prefer it doesn't? Do you expect this will be a frequent problem?

Not exactly a thin end of the wedge problem here.
GRRM really nails the politics, but Tolkien still has a hand up on the overall world building.
Hey please consider changing this comment to substantively add to the discussion. Empty snark, no matter how good it feels, really isn't HNs style and doesn't promote healthy discourse.

Yours truly, DIARRHEA_xd
Isn't that too late? I was looking to get code behavior feedback from the environment it runs on.
Everyone in this thread but you understands that the even if they are not optimizing for outrage, by optimizing for engagement you implicitly (and objectively) serve more negative/polarizing/divisive content.
In the long run, Google/Facebook/Amazon/Microsoft will reveal that they have real time surveillance of everyone's inner speech and hardware backdoors in all devices, leaving people in a "use our products or go back to the stone age" situation.

Democracy has been long dead.
Update from AWS: they lost power to (part of?) a single DC in the use2-az1 availability zone.

10:25 AM PDT We can confirm that some instances within a single Availability Zone (USE2-AZ1) in the US-EAST-2 Region have experienced a loss of power. The loss of power is affecting part of a single data center within the affected Availability Zone. Power has been restored to the affected facility and at this stage the majority of the affected EC2 instances have recovered. We expect to recover the vast majority of EC2 instances within the next hour. For customers that need immediate recovery, we recommend failing away from the affected Availability Zone as other Availability Zones are not affected by this issue.
Exactly. The question of recession is red herring and distraction.

More people are working and can buy less. This is not a good thing.

Lets talk about what we can do to improve things.
I think the parent post is using it as a figure of speech, as in, they won't ever vote to "drain their money"/bankrupt
I find the car signalling problem interesting.

Where I was born people trust the turn signalling and drive early. When I moved to the UK I (luckily) quickly realised you cannot do this here. Everyone waits until the car actually starts turning before driving. Even if it's signalling, no one trusts that, possibly creating less pressure for correct signalling. It makes traffic slightly slower but avoids the possibility of (this type of) accidents.

Counter-intuitively, worse drivers leads to fewer accidents.
Nicorette has the advantage of tasting bad. No one is going to buy it unless they want to quit smoking.
But demand for services and "experiences" is way up.

I think it's unrealistic to expect retail goods to maintain the same highs they had during the pandemic. For a big chunk of the last two years, people couldn't go to concerts, bars and restaurants operated at limited capacity, vacation destinations had travel restrictions in place, etc. This lead people to take the discretionary income they would normally spend on those things and put it into retail goods that improve their lives stuck at home. TVs, game consoles, what have you. Now that restrictions are essentially nonexistent in the US, people are returning to those pre-COVID activities.
I haven't seen an recipes. Do you only support US measurements (cup, pint, oz, quart. etc)?

That would be a pity.
I was just giving an example of common bipartisan issues.

Corporate welfare and bailouts are also big ones.
Yes it does. The amplified content is just content that attracts the most engagement. It is not a reflection on how "toxic" the content is. If someone considers the post to be toxic and does not engage with it, then that person is not the majority of users.
Considerations on Careerscienceability
It's a joke but I only knew that because Snap is/was (as of S1) hosted on GCP and not AWS. Crackle happens to be the name of a video on demand company.

It's a reference to the breakfast cereal of the same name.
> No, these algorithms (often) purposefully amplify content that increases the engagement rate or "average time on page" metric. It's just that toxic content coincidentally often has high values on this metric

Because people democratically choose to engage with it!
To answer my own question it looks like for folks who don’t want to wait 21 months for 21 terabytes, that it might cost approximately 1600 USD to download the full approx 20TB dataset assuming egress costs of .08 USD per GB as mentioned here: https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing#network-egress
It’s a pity it’s so expensive to download
Reading the mood of the room one is unlikely to procrastinate over house hold chores. The chair looks comfortable but the keyboard and mouse should be lower to compliment the chair. The urine bottle just doesn't need that much space - it just doesn't.
What happened to PCWorld’s YouTube channel?