skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The conditions have been met" refers to the colloquial definition of a recession as 2 quarters of GDP contraction, which is not a technical measure, not respected or entertained by economists, not used by policy-makers, etc.

It's like saying my camera is better than yours because mine is 40 megapixels. The experts know that this comparison is wrong, but for the lay person, it's easy and quick to use it.

Regardless, the cooling off is engineered and necessary. The central bank created this "recession" (not yet? but probably soon regardless?) by raising interest rates extremely quickly because inflation is out of control, because globalized shipping has collapsed sufficiently that demand can't be met here or in most major economies.

With unemployment at 3.5% and dropping and hiring still going strong, wages rising faster than at any point in most of our lives, I'm personally not worried about what will hopefully be light and necessary recession, even if the "2 quarters of negative GDP growth" is a bunk line, cooling off the economy until the global supply chains can resolve is obviously the only solution to inflation.
I had the same thought.

I think a big reason why trains aren’t used more (and why highway trucking is booming) is because the industry is sclerotic. In the US at least, it is one of the most conservative industries there is at all levels: regulators, companies, and workers. And because of the difficulty of switching, it’s hard to incrementally innovate on the system.

That said, there ARE companies innovating in this space. This seems like an obvious improvement on the status quo: https://moveparallel.com/

With battery-electric systems (enabled by lithium-ion), there is no massive benefit from centralizing motive power in the locomotives (thermal engines gain a lot of efficiency by scaling up, electric systems can operate efficiently at any scale), so you can just have individual packet-switching-like rail cars. Containerization systems (such as cranes, etc) open up the trade space for switching payloads without requiring complex and land-intensive switching yards for everything.

And there should be more room on the freight rail system as we decarbonize. Coal was 25% of rail volume in 2009 (much higher, if you go by total originated rail tonnage). There will be room on the railroads for more volume.
I'm struggling to understand the mechanics of being disturbed by stillness.
Try commitizen.
hmm.. right.. if the angle of deflection is low and the star is close enough that its light and deflected light show up very close together. My intuition is this is not the case... remember Eddington's test of relativity was for deflection of starlight around our Sun. We're really close, yet it was observable with the moon obscuring the main sunlight.

the article[1] says "For light grazing the surface of the sun, the approximate angular deflection is roughly 1.75 arcseconds." So, what, we take the arcsin of 1.75 arcseconds to get the apparent divergence ratio, and multiply that by distance to stars? As long as that value is larger than the aperture of your camera, then you don't get competing light? Or maybe you'd need something like the TESS satellite, where you have a screen specially created to only allow certain beam transits into your detector.

I've worked with a nearest 10k stars database (https://celestiary.github.io/, zoom way out) and the edge of that is about 2k light years away. So very roughly, let's say there's 1/8th of those in a certain direction... so you get.. what? some 2k sample points towards some distant object? But really most of them wouldn't deflect that object's light towards Earth, but usually over or undershoot.

Don't really know how to put these together quickly, but is giving me some good food for thought!

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddington_experiment
I'll root for the dragon in this case, at least according to various myths we managed to defeat them many times in the past.

Squaring with aliens would be a first, they are a curveball
That's exactly what happened for me as well. Except I went with i3 (window manager) + Mate (gnome 2 fork) for the desktop utilities.

Overtime the stupid choices of gtk3 are getting on my nerves more and more. Now I have to patch the crap just to be able to navigate in the file browser by typing the begining of filenames (the default now starts a laggy and buggy file search. they removed the old code).
Unless your significant other is a literal child and marked as such on their iCloud account, this'll never affect you in any way. No data is sent to anyone anywhere.

> Messages now includes tools that warn children and provide helpful resources if they receive or attempt to send photos that may contain nudity.

> Messages uses on-device machine learning to analyze image attachments and determine if a photo appears to contain nudity. The feature is designed so that Apple doesn’t get access to the photos.
There are more books than the HP series and War and Peace. I do not have advice about how to optimize your reading for upvotes on HN though aside from maybe books about topics that are regularly discussed here?
That isn't actually clear. While trains claim they are the most efficient, they use measures like ton-mile that make them look much better. Trucks are often used for light things which means the ton-mile would go down. Trucks are often used for small loads, trains to all those different destinations with small loads would be less efficient. Sure steel wheels have less rolling resistance than rubber, but it isn't that much less. Long trains are more aerodynamic, but trucks already have a fair amount of length to spread that would over.

As such it isn't clear how much more efficient trains would be in the real world of freight.

Note that the above is about freight. Transporting humans as a number of different factors making the above inapplicable.
Weird, fix didn't work either :( Just use the imgur :)
The lying is the present attempt to tell us we’re not in a recession.

And her failure to appreciate the scale of the price inflation problem was not just a case of being “wrong.” She was unable to see the worst inflation in 40 years when it was standing right in front of her.

She’s a miserable failure.
Only because they don’t care to put in the work necessary to fix it.
The kilogram is a quite poor analogy. The GDP is not an objective indicator of recession for the exact reasons you see around you right now. Contraction of economic activity caused by supply bottlenecks doesn’t fit the pattern of recession. The labor situation is still white hot, prices are going up etc.
Can you refine “legal battle” further? Does it imply a complete immediate capitulation on all matters if the opponent is a lawyer, or does it imply something else, like one’s best advantage in this case is to stay out of the courtroom?
I think you need a holiday.
In my experience they kinda do.
Government forcing people out of their jobs and then allowing them to come back into the work force is not job growth in the sense of anything meaningful. So no it probably hasn't been seen before, but it's irrelevant, if I took your 10 dollars today and gave you back 8 dollars next week, your bank account isn't growing unless you only look at this weeks balance and choose to ignore the extremely recent past.
He bribed judges
> Kind of anazing...

Get used to it. We're back to the status quo (of incompetent media). In fact, it was the same for the previous admin, just in a different way.

The System doesn't like outsiders. If you haven't paid your dues, sucked up, kissed the ring, etc. then you're marginalized. Put another way, how would it look if someone with no experience was decently effective? Say about as effective as the current highly experienced (politician) that's POTUS?

I'm no fan of Don T, but given humam nature and The System, he was doomed to "fail" no matter what. As in, perception is reality (and most people now have a bias that isn't going to change).
Maybe if the company had some way, any way at all, to reach an actual human being, this wouldn't be a constantly repeated problem on HN and elsewhere.
Can an expert in the field dissuade me of my pessimism about psychology as a science? From the outside looking in, it appears to be a field populated by grifters and incompetents who churn out junk knowledge.

Power Posing (Amy Cuddy)
Priming (Bargh, Kahneman, and others)
Outright fraudsters (Diederik Stapel, Dirk Smeesters)
Precognition (Daryl Bem)
Disgust & Homophobia (Yoel Inbar)
Anchoring (Kahneman and Jacowitz)

Or is it all of human sciences (the scandal of Alzheimer's research comes to mind)?
It seems like both are about to suffer greatly.
Director of Software Development.

I run a team of ~30 (down from ~45). I'm one level down from the CEO.
This take almost makes him sound like nature inherent. Quiet in the background of all the activity of humans, elves, orcs etc but always ready to take over the world again as soon as those creatures depart or diminish.
> but other famous labs have already moved to ML predictions and are competitive with DeepMind now.

it seems obvious this was going to happen, because https://github.com/deepmind/alphafold
> Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 0.9 percent in the second quarter of 2022 (table 1), according to the "advance" estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the first quarter, real GDP decreased 1.6 percent.

That makes two back-to-back quarters of real GDP contraction. To some, this is a recession, but it's the NBER that puts the stamp on it. AFAIK, NBER has never failed to put the recession stamp on back-to-back drops in GDP.

It's worth noting that yield curve inversion predicted recession four months ago:

> The 2-year and 10-year Treasury yields inverted for the first time since 2019 on Thursday, sending a possible warning signal that a recession could be on the horizon.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/31/2-year-treasury-yield-tops-1...

It's also worth noting that 2y-10y yields have been deeply inverted (~20 basis points) for most of July and are in that state today.

Still one more thing to note: the earliest warning signal of them all appears to be an inversion of the eurodollar futures curve:

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/eurodollar-futures-...

It started inverting last year. The inversion steepened. It is now in a very deep inversion in the long end that is marching steadily to lower maturities.
Oh no, I can't google things.

https://solana.com/news/solanas-energy-use-report-march-2022
May the "How do SO engineers fix SO without SO"
Yeah it's much better to call this the "fallacy fallacy"
Ask HN: At which moment did you realise that you are built for computer science?
Was it some course?

Was it a project?

A book?

What?
As another Redditor commented:

> The "chat" and "have us call you" options get greyed out once they have frozen your account. They do not allow such users to have them call. You can only receive a call if they have not frozen your account.

I suppose you can create a second account and then contact support from there, but they'll probably flag you for ban evasion and make your situation worse.
Every major cloud provider scans their hosting for CSAM automatically. It's the cost of doing business. Either you do it or the feds do it for you. The automated way is a lot cheaper and easier.

If Apple could do it on-device reliably, they could encrypt their storage and there would be no "think of the children" -reason to allow government agencies access to the files anymore.
The problem isn't that Thiel could destroy Gawker. The problem is that you couldn't if they did the same thing to you.

Thiel didn't take down Gawker by being richer and more powerful. He took them down in a fair trial because he was right and they were wrong. You would never get that fair trial because it would be millions in legal fees before you got there.
My problem with that is:

> significant decline in economic activity

What is "significant"?

> more than a few months

How long exactly?

All I gather from their description is that they basically just get a "feel" for it. That's why so many people choose to follow the two negative quarter thing - it's objective and clearly defined, but maybe less accurate (particularly in cases like now where unemployment is still really low).
> These people don't tend to be very positive about it, yet they feel the need to say something about my appearance, because I wear colourful stuff.

That's odd, I dress in colourful clothes and I get positive comments both from people who are themselves dressed in bright colours and from people very drably dressed. Perhaps it differs from place to place.
Sounds like you have a talented developer on your hands without enough experience for the business sense. Maybe for the inter personal sense also.

Sounds like a mid level developer since they have the code skills but lacking experience and inter personal skills. I myself have been in this phase once, although I achieved significant improvements in UX, performance and maintainability though changing structure.

I would say just low key ask them what's the business case or engineering justification for the rewriting. Ask them to justify the justification, just probe their process. Over time hopefully you can converge an agreement.

You mentioned his views are binary but this isn't very important. Maybe he's just being to the point or concise. A bigger issue could be if he's hurting other people's feelings with comments in which case that just needs to be brought to his attention if he doesn't realize.

All the code there was likely written by existing members of the team so criticizing that code could be taken badly by other people, well intentioned or not. Ask him to think about other people hearing somebody criticize the projects they worked on.
>> We both know no one opts in to stuff.

> That should tell you something, then.

Yeah. People are lazy. Humanity has known that for thousands of years.

> Even IP address, even if never stored, is too much telemetry to be collected without consent or other lawful basis, which doesn't seem to be present.

Go home dude. You clearly have no idea how the internet works.
What a great article.

We start with learning that we absolutely need this Poetry thing because… it's what everyone else uses. It's refreshing to see author who can skip usual badly argued justifications and just plain admin that he does not know shit and is just following rest of the herd.
Then we continue by "solving" depependencies by usual way of ignoring them and just freezing whatever happens to be present.

Then there is inevitable firing up of virtualenv, because that's just what you have to do when dealing with messed up dependencies.

Next one is new to me. Apparently, one does not just set up git hooks nowadays but use separate tool with declarative config. Because if you ever happen upon something not covered by the Tool, that would mean you are no longer part of the herd.

Then we push our stuff straight to pypi, because of course our stuff can't possibly have any dependencies outside of python herd ecosystem. It's not like we knew our dependencies anyway.

Then comes the fun part, pulling in tox, because when you have special tool to handle dependencies, what you just need is another tool with different environment and dependency model.

Code quality section I will just skip over, seeing what pass for code quality these days makes me too sad.
What follows is setup of several proprietary projects that modern opensource seemingly can't exist without.
What is more interresting is "tyding up" by moving code from git root to subdir. Now, this is of course perfectly sensible thing to, but I wonder why is it called 'src'? Maybe some herd memeber saw compiled language somewhere and picked it up without understanding difference between compiled binary and source code?

Now don't take this as if I have problem with the article content in itself. No, as a primer to modern python packaging it's great. It's not authors fault that his work is so comprehensive it lays out bare all the idiosyncrasies, herd mentality, cargocultism and general laziness of python ecosystem these days. Or is it?
The problem with the argument wasn't the argument itself, but rather that the other side of the conversation doesn't want to hear it. Therefore, pointing out the strengths and/or weaknesses of arguments won't matter.

The basic issue is better stated as such: we have globally accepted non-truths, dogmas if you will, and found it acceptable to punish people for pointing these out, even where no harm to individuals is meant by them.

Which ones? Obviously they multiplied over time, and we all know. They relate to racism, sexism, non-binary sexes (whether the biological ones or the non-biological ones), global warming, ...
It’s probably safe to assume that consciousness exists, as it’s what carries out this line of reasoning in the first place.

And no, I don’t think an elegant explanation is one that magically conjures up the existence of an entire universe that’s not directly accessible except as a representation within said consciousness.
dont know.... i have read about sleep paralysis but i cannot remember any of the symptoms.

in our culture, we have the story of the sleep entity which is akin to sleep paralysis in all of its symptoms but i've never felt that.

the "shutting down" thing for me is because in the morning, like most people there is no sense of passage of time but generally no dreams also. its like you wink and boom, 8 hours have passed.

my mum has the lightest sleep on the contrary. we can walk outside their room, on tiptoes and flick a switch and mum is out in 2 seconds. polar opposite.
Seeing as initially, inflation was primarily driven by Covid-related supply chain issues, which itself would have been 'transitory', I think it was quite reasonable to call the resulting inflation 'transitory' as well. Crucially, inflation is in part also a social phenomenon, as far as I understand it: if I expect prices to rise, I have to try and price that in, resulting in rising prices. Therefore, the initial attempt of keeping people's inflation expectations in check might have done us all a favor, because it could have worked out.

The situation changed when a war broke out in Europe at the end of February, and I don't think it's fair to hold Yellen et al accountable for not taking that into account beforehand.
They are though, whether they want to or not. If someone says "in europe people do X" then "europe" includes UK.
Poetry uses non-standard dependency specification formats. PDM is like Poetry but faster/more standards compliant.

https://pdm.fming.dev/
Rocket Candy
You name only negative side of democratic system. Which is good, because you can. That is one of visible principles of democracy. You wouldn't be able to speak publicly like that in China.

But... Do not forget about positive aspects of personal freedoms, individual rights, etc.

Btw, what is a perfect system for you?
Basically this generations Rush Limbaugh. Very popular Youngish conservative commentator that hosts a successfully podcast/radioshow.
Senate passes chips and science bill aimed at better competing with China
They will have to look StackOverflow to fix problems with StackOverflow?
Native grown in hydroponic tanks under Area 51.
Yeah communicate to me through my banker.
"Attempts"
Exactly what I needed, thank you again very much!

My old idea was to perform planning after some of the work has been done, because remaining statistics can be different. These papers are of great help!
> I'm not sure why you wrote this as if it'd be a grand technical challenge to implement.

No, I meant that as literally "somehow" as in "has some logic to"... no implication of difficulty. But I can see how that may sound that way.

> Well, from my vantage point I see 2 people claiming it gets greyed out and 1 person (you) claiming it doesn't. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

3 people is not a large sample size. I did notice an issue where it is grayed out until you select a topic. Which may be partially at play here (which is a UX issue).

My accounts got temp locked because they needed to verify some KYC information. Maybe there is another more severe level of lock that does gray it out. But then I'd need to know way more details about what Stripe thinks the OP did to get that lock before I start blaming Stripe or the OP.
A hilarious example is on the topic of race and intelligence, where it is stated that moderns science has proven it to be a social construct. The citation given is a survey conducted of anthropologists. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence#cite_not...)
Ice Age human footprints discovered in Utah desert
>Grey, steel, white and black will work in basically every kitchen.

I don't understand that argument. My toaster only needs to work in my kitchen, not every kitchen.

From a manufacture's point of view I get it. It is cheaper to produce 3 colors than 54.
How much does Stripe charge for this service?

Say you are a vendor who sells 1000 products a month for $100 each. So $100,000 in monthly revenue, split into 1000 payments.

How much would you pay to Stripe per month?

And how quickly can you move incoming payments away from Stripe?
Ask HN: What open source software do you want to see built?
I'm having a small itch to contribute to the community again with a project that others find useful. Is there a software/project/framework/template/tooling that you have been looking for or desiring recently that isn't out there today? Is this project an idea that you'd donate to if it existed (ie. Github sponsors)?
I don't really think you do. Even poor rural communities have working rich like doctors and lawyers. There are rich rural folk 5 hours from every city. Adding a developer here and there is just a new face of the same working rich, the top 1-2%.

In fact, concentrating developers in one place like SF is pretty clearly the far greater social evil than ~evenly dispersing them around the country and letting them live in states/cities that perhaps desperately need the benefits of highly trained skilled workers who will pay a ton of taxes.

I would say that packing most developers into SF and California is far worse for America than letting educated and productive workers find communities around the country, potentially growing tech industries all over. Likely far better for equity, diversity, tax outcomes, and social good. I really can't see any argument for packing them all in California and letting all the other states rot.
>her failure to appreciate the scale of the price inflation problem was not just a case of being “wrong.”

If ever there were a case of 20:20 hindsight, that's one of them.
It's almost like a journalist or novelist not knowing there are 26 letters in the alphabet.

Sure you might not actually need to know it to do your job, at least most of the time. But sometimes you will, and honestly it's a bit ridiculous not to know it.