skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely interesting comparisons.

I think my sense that biology is more complex than human engineering is that our engineering seems much more homogeneous. Computer chips are certainly very dense but the individual number of different component types are very small. Biology on the other hand seems to have a huge number of fundamental building blocks, e.g. proteins, with different behaviors. I suppose that maybe that's the wrong comparison though and software is where our engineering diversity is present.

It may well just be the case that my lack of familiarity with biology makes it seem more complex to me.
They didn't build six executables that run on six operating systems. Rather, it's a single nativity compiled executable that runs on six different operating systems unmodified.

Cosmopolitan is an incredibly cool project that does more than you think.

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan
I will never vote against anyone ever again. I'm done.

I'll vote for ANYONE in any party, who promises to pursue Ranked Choice Voting.
So the problem is it is easier to edit wikipedia than creating ones own page or wiki? In that case, this should be adressed by better tools instead of convincing wikipedia to accept anything.
What metric do you then propose to optimize for to stop promoting "toxic" content?
This account is weird. Joined months ago, rarely posts and suddenly decides to become a forensic analyst to dig through someone criticizing Stripe?

I am seeing this weird behavior more and more on HN. Inactive accounts suddenly seem to come out of the woodwork to defend, attack critics when a YC company gets involved.

Even asking innocent questions like: is there an alternative to what this YC company is offering is grounds for flagging and downvotes.

I think the readers can make the call as to what is happening. I don't buy that these are just lurkers suddenly logging in after months of inactivity to focus on one thread, and I've counted roughly about 3 to 4 HN accounts that are doing it on this thread alone.
It's interesting that this description is apparently "evil", even if in this framing Tom predates all, and everyone lives on his unceded land. You'd become "particular" about your role after living through several ages of that, too.

Rather than evil, it's more "biding their time until that injustice can finally be rectified". In this post's framing, literally every humanoid race is by definition an (unwitting) invader.
Yeah, political engagement was likely near its peak during the Civil War. I don't think it's as positive an aspect of polarization as the OP suggested.
You're correct, the industry has not moved to C#. Not even close.

The biggest player that uses it is Unity, but even they have their own special fork of Mono to get it to play nice.

Full Disclosure: I work for a Microsoft/Xbox Studio.
They lost me at dwarf tossing.
Does that work when "x" is 0? under 10? under 100?

What was the first "x" you used in that message early on? How did you get that many of initial subscribers?

It seems to me that the only way to bootstrap something like this is with ad spend or viral social media content that inspires people to subscribe, but that's sort of a chicken and egg problem if you don't already have wide reach.
> creating a crisis for recruiters

Weird angle. Isn't the actual story the high levels of burnout in developers, rather than the inconvenience this creates for recruiters? The article is more balanced, but why lead with this?
Living in fear is no way to live, and most people here express no particular fear of violent assault.

This warrants introspection on your part: if you're afraid but the people actually here aren't (including every woman I know), is it possible that your idea of the situation doesn't reflect its reality?
I would hope that lawmakers' spouses would also be disallowed. Paging Nancy and Paul Pelosi.
Quality of 'their' life ... Their childrens children, however, have that much more of a mess to clean up. Life is hard for almost everyone. We all make choices between easy and right every day.
A reminder that if we go to get things from the '90, we also have the agreement of non-expansion of NATO to Russian borders.

When meanwhile NATO has been training in Ukraine on Russian borders for many years
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-military-success-years-...
Agree. Tom represented a couple of things for me when reading the books.

First, he represented all the small pockets of unknown magic that could exist in Middle Earth. I would stare at the map of Middle Earth in the front of the book and wonder about the parts not covered in either The Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit. What strange things might be there? Tom heightened my sense of wonder about the world.

But second, Tom showed up just as the hobbits seemed to have met their darkest hour. You can dismiss this as deus ex machina on the part of the author, but it was a needed break from the stress and anxiety that had been building to a crescendo at that point. And I thought perhaps Tolkien was suggesting that sometimes you have to trust in the benevolence of strangers — or that some higher power is watching over the most vulnerable.
Firstly, why specify 'erect penis' as though that's where the line is crossed? Does the question only apply to parents of girls, since they're less likely to have seen a penis before?

But yeah, I wouldn't mind all that much; it would raise a red flag for sure, given that many grooming operations work by starting out as raising children's curiosity, but I do not see any inherent issue with my child seeing a penis (erect or not!).
Hire a tutor. Much faster. Downside: cost.
If it's known to be a correlation, then it's disingenuous to say they're innocent for simply wanting to amplify engagement.
We had druid in production and this was our main weak link. Its really hire to find people who know how to operate ZK well in production.
Global Climate Disruption is (1) a looming catastrophe for human civilization, (2) potentially a major setback for us as a species with a population crash from billions to millions, but (3) barely a hiccup to the biosphere, just one among many pulses of extinctions.
> The steering wheel angle corresponds (although nowadays non-linearly) to that of the wheels

This is interesting, I always thought that it was linear. I was wondering about how speed impacts this (if at all) and now I will have to dig deeper :)
I read OP’s reply as a generic criticism about companies that scale beyond their ability to provide sufficient customer support, not a specific criticism of patio11. Silicon Valley is full of companies that scale beyond their competence and ability to operate properly: it’s practically a requirement of the “growth at all costs” mentality. I would argue that if you cannot handle dealing with customers without AI and automation with many false positives, then you have no business scaling further until you can. I don’t know if this is the particular case for Stripe since I’m not a customer, but we can all see this behavior across the industry.
Interesting! I have always thought this. R2D2 saves the day so many times across stories and drives change in ways that make Star Wars canon more than any other character.
Nielsen hopes to regain TV ratings accreditation this year
that sounds like a fun project, but you definately want to still automate its setup with something like ansible, saltstack, puppet, etc.

Because someday, you'll get a new pet, with much more CPU power you'll want to migrate to. Or maybe rather than upgrade to a newer version, plus reconfigure disks, etc, its just easier to move to a new system, etc. Or the system just plain dies, DC burns down, etc, and you need to quickly use DR to get it setup on a new system. Having all those configs, settings, application's you install, etc, defined in a tool like ansible, and then checked into git is just about priceless especially for pets or snowflakes.
What can $100k get you nowadays?
In my experience, the gulf between not understanding programming and any beginner language - say, Scratch - is much wider than the gap between any two languages in the same family.

Java is a terrible language to teach early programming: the features chosen to get to OOP get in the way of understanding basic control. Perl is better. Python is miles better. A dialect of Python with more explicit blocking instead of whitespace sensitivity would be excellent.

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As for constructing a toy system with the plan to throw it away after you've learned from it -- isn't that what an MVP is?
I'd guess that a manual review for the automatically detected out-of-policy transaction wouldn't be prioritized if it's been flagged as a transaction outside the seller's line of business that they mentioned in their agreement with Stripe when onboarding.

I kind of agree - I don't see why manually reviewing a transaction that probably violates their agreement with Stripe should be prioritized by Stripe - even if the transaction would eventually emerge as legit (not fraudulent and not chargeback-able). Because such a manual review would entail a cost to Stripe that is being forced upon Stripe by the seller's actions.
Good to know about the software vs hardware angle... I wonder how many readers feel the same? I'll look to add a poll in the newsletter soon to find out! :)
yeah, that was my reaction as well.

"We hear you, and just letting you know, we know where you live and have started targeting solutions. Just so you know, we're all armed down here!"
No, I'm not claiming that bank account balance itself is an indicator of anything. But when there are a bunch of other indicators, and I see my bank account balance going down (and I know I'm not alone on that) I'm not particularly interested in hearing why it's actually not a recession.
the point is that I didn't read it, good thing I follow cronix who reads the articles so I don't have to
Falling demand of non-necessities. People aren't buying "TVs". Which as you call out, is a stupidly strong recessionary signal.
I find it difficult to empathize with that reaction. Other languages have complicated corners that I can safely ignore, why not Swift?

Rust has its macros, Swift has its result-builders.

The latter wins a nice way to declaratively-describe UI widgets, but if that's not what I'm doing I don't need to think about it.
I'm floored this is at the top of the comments. But I guess "I didn't read the article. America bad." is what gets upvotes.

I have a feeling that sending nudes to a child's phone isn't exactly lauded as "natural" in Europe. Of course I'm a prude, unnatural, and I guess violent American though so what do I know.

Not to mention it's an opt-in parental control feature for children's accounts.
The proposed legislation extends to spouses and senior staff
How's that vaccine working out?
What world do you live in? Reading far left news too much?
Yeah the more I think about it the more ridiculous it is. Even if these guys had 3 million to buy the thing, who bid against them to drive it up in the first place? It has to be self-dealing right. It does a lot to draw attention to how corrupt Christies must be.
This feature isn't really aimed at nudity-in-general, but rather at specifically sexual targeting of minors. The scenario it's most totally thinking of is "a creepy older person tries to trade naked picture of themselves with your 8 year old". Though also "before you share this picture of yourself with your boy/girlfriend, think for a second first".

Can't speak for Germany, but in the US there's been a lot of furor around school-aged people having some pretty severe troubles after nude photos they shared with a partner got shared more widely -- suicides, etc. We could certainly argue that the fact they're facing trouble because of such things is itself a symptom of a problem in American society, but a first-level solution of warning people before they get into the situation seems like something Apple can do, whereas broad cultural changes are outside their power.
> How did we get to a point where actual data can be outright denied or absorbed based on your political viewpoint? It's really pathetic. People will go to the ends of the earth just to protect politicians. Worse, even if we're in recession it's pretty mild, so I don't even know why there is so much handwringing about it.

That's because all politicians are liars and the media spin doctors will ensure that their lies gaslight the general public into believing them. The problem is, they can't deny the numbers and they know it, hence why they are beginning to change definitions.

Given the last administration brought the US into a recession 2 years ago with the same opposition, media and critics screaming at them, there is no more denying that this is a recession with these figures. The difference is, the current administration is trying to escape by changing definitions, which doesn't give much confidence in them and indicates that it may get even worse.

Now you see the same ones down-playing the inflation fears in November 2021 are trying to down play this recession very poorly with lots of damage control to save themselves and their careers. In reality we were no better off, and it looks like this is worse than the last administration.

And finally, the indicators for this with surging inflation was there since November 2021. Instead we have 'Stock market up 1% today on both this news and decades-high inflation.' [0] and later 'We are most certainly not in a recession.' [1]. Not only you have to look at it in the long term - not in 1 day, but you also don't wait for the figures to come out for you to then prepare for the worst. By then it is too late.

The denial is indeed pathetic.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29508238

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31441710
He declined that... Tolkien said Tom Bombadil had been 'invented'. He considered his wife Edith: to have been Lúthien, so that would make Tolkien - Beren. "I never called Edith Lúthien – but she was the source of the story that in time became the chief part of The Silmarillion."

Tom Bombadil predates the story of the ring. It's placed there as a very powerful creature - still would lose to Sauron if all the world fell apart according to Glorfindel [and Gandalf doesn't object either]. That creature has no direct influence on the story, being more of a bystander... similar to the reader.
Some places try housing-first. Others go for the hot potato strategy.
Oh nice, a Milwaukee guy! Cool newsletter, for one reason or another I have always been interested in desk setups.
idk, I feel like the opacity of social media allows for the more direct control of the zeitgeist from special interests. Propaganda can be given the paradoxical credibility of a "concerned citizen" through mass bot campaigns or not even bots, media specialists being paid to disseminate scripted opinions with just as much verisimilitude as posts from either you or me. We are all highly influenceable, and we are weak to this because we all believe we aren't.
Nobody I know running a business has an MBA. The one or two people I do know with an MBA are reviled by their staff and doing a mediocre job.

Take this as anecdotal feedback but an MBA really isn’t necessary, and can potentially work against you.

you would do well to spend a few months / years working in a small / medium business. The hands on experience is 1000x more valuable than anything you’ll learn in an MBA program.
> Ergo, these algorithms often purposefully amplify toxic content.

"Purposefully" means that the algorithms were developed with the purpose to amplify toxic content. I seriously doubt this is the case. Amplifying toxic content is rather an unintended side effect of the metrics that the algorithms optimize for.
When you're famous and smart, you're likely to live to a ripe old age.

Cancer is an endgame disease, like gout being a disease of nobility. If you don't get killed off by violence or diet first, eventually you live long enough where you begin to seeing the result of running a copy through a copy machine a few billion times, which is cancer.

Our cells take damage every day, eventually that damage is just enough for some cells to lose control of how and to what extent they replicate, soon some of their friends join and soon before you know it they want their own veinous supply.
TruffleRuby – GraalVM Community Edition 22.2.0
>you can extend this to everything

Doing nothing until you can do 100% of everything is not how anything works.
Is this not common knowledge?

Pelosi is a fantastic fund manager. If she weren't a politician she would crush almost every fund manager out there.

You really have to be a die-hard Democrat to even pretend that it's a coincidence.

See: https://unusualwhales.com/i_am_the_senate/pelosi
I was reminded this week of the "Peak Oil" craze around ten years ago. No one really talks about that anymore.
> This isn't true, major retailers have been reporting falling demand.

As OP said,

>> and services.

> Wal-Mart

WalMart's issue is that they have a massive inventory/demand mismatch. They already have the headwind of a shift from goods to services, and then on top of that they also massively mismanaged a shift in consumer preference within goods. I have a feeling that they are also feeling the squeeze from Amazon. Many households treat Prime as a fixed cost but the 20 minute drive out to Walmart is a real expense that can be substituted with Amazon purchases. Tonight's earnings will be interesting.

Compare to eg Visa [1].

I expect that the "last hoorah" spending of this summer will grind to a halt in the winter and by Q2 2023 we'll be able to see a massive decline in consumer spending during Q4 in particular.

But we aren't there yet, at least in aggregate, because consumers are spending like mad on services.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/visa-quarterly-prof...
Popcorn Lung: A Dangerous Risk of Flavored E-Cigarettes (2016)
>And why we cannot just simulate protein behaviour and interactions using quantum mechanics?

If you wanted to simulate the behaviour of an entire protein using quantum mechanics, the sheer number of calculations required would be infeasible.

For what it's worth, I have a background in computational physics and am studying a PhD in structural biology. For any system (of any size) that you want to simulate, you have to consider how much information you're willing to 'ignore' in order to focus on the information you would like to 'get out' of a set of simulations. Being aware of the approximations you make and how this impacts your results is crucial.

For example, if I am interested in how the electrons of a group of Carbon atoms (radius ~ 170 picometres) behave, I may want to use Density Functional Theory (DFT), a quantum mechanical method.

For a single, small protein (e.g. ubiquitin, radius ~ 2 nanometres), I may want to use atomistic molecular dynamics (AMD), which models the motion of every single atom in response to thermal motion, electrostatic interactions, etc using Newton's 2nd law. Electron/proton detail has been approximated away to focus on overall atomic motion.

In my line of work, we are interested in how big proteins (e.g. the dynein motor protein, ~ 40 nanometres in length) move around and interact with other proteins at longer time (micro- to millisecond) and length (nano- to micrometre) scales than DFT or AMD. We 'coarse-grain' protein structures by representing groups of atoms as tetrahedra in a continuous mesh (continuum mechanics). We approximate away atomic detail to focus on long-term motion of the whole protein.

Clearly, it's not feasible to calculate the movement of dynein for hundreds of nanoseconds using DFT! The motor domain alone in dynein contains roughly one million atoms (and it has several more 'subunits' attached to it). Assuming these are mostly Carbon, Oxygen or Nitrogen, then you're looking at around ten million electons in your DFT calculations, for a single step in time (rounding up). If you're dealing with the level of atomic bonds, you're probably going to a use time steps between a femto- (10^-15 s) or picosecond (10^-12 s). The numbers get a bit ridiculous. There are techniques that combine QM and AMD, although I am not too knowledgeable in this area.

Some further reading, if you're interested (I find Wikipedia articles on these topics to generally be quite good):

DFT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density_functional_theory

Biological continuum mechanics: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005897

Length scales in biological simulations: https://doi.org/10.1107/S1399004714026777

Electronic time scales: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0601855103
Subsidized by America's spending on R&D for the rest of the planet, just like the military.
Whatsapp does have a desktop client, at least for Mac (also electron like Signal's) and you can use it on the web without even installing one. Much better than Signal which only has an electron client so you need to run a whole browser just for it.

If it's browser based just let me run it in a tab.
Indeed. I'd rather put my energy into solving unique business problems, rather than wiring up another standard table, form, or chart.
When I was a teenager I did html and PC repair for small businesses and game console hacks and random device repair for schoolmates.

Good luck. It gets better. Start learning how to choose good roommates. Find role models. Keep hard problems in front of you. Good luck kid.
I wouldn’t say they are related but a lot of things he was doing back then ended up in ES6. Great minds think alike I guess.
"Won't someone please think of the recruiters!"
I wouldn't give a # early on. Simply stated I was starting a newsletter that was highlighting creative workspaces.

I think these early guests simply loved the idea of being able to share their space with their community so probably gathered all of the content for themselves and then had no issue sharing with me as well.

I have never spent on ads or any sort of growth driver like that. All organic to this point.
Sick! I've really been wanting something like this as an extreme newcomer to cooking.
You can use your design system in two ways.
1. You can import your design system into Feathery via Themes, which apply cascading styles for different elements (https://docs.feathery.io/platform/build/themes)
2. You can apply custom CSS styles and classes directly to the form and its components via our embed SDK (https://docs.feathery.io/develop/react#form)
its advertising, and access to a network

and the people that bought in wanted some exposure, like really wanted some exposure
Pelosi's Nvidia sale was timed poorly. $NVDA is up about 8% in the two days since they sold.
> What ramraj is talking about: if you go into a competitive grad program to get a PhD in structural biology, your advisor will probably expect that in 3-4 years you will: crystallize a protein of interest, collect enough data to make a model, and publish that model in a major journal.

All of that is generally applicable to molecular biology in general, and I don't see how the field of structural biology is especially egregious, the way ramraj is making it out to be.
> If it's known to be a correlation, then it's disingenuous to say they're innocent for simply wanting to amplify engagement.

But if it's know to be just a correlation, it is a defamation to claim that this was done on purpose ("purposefully").
Awesome - downloaded it
Probably not the most efficient way to do it, but I setup test scenes for just the functionalities I wanted to test and run those manually.
Yes, people do that sometimes, perhaps with the intention of giving an intro to the article and maybe not realizing that it comes across as promotional.

FWIW this submitter is definitely a legit HN user - we've been in contact via email - and this is a good article!
Long ago I had a coworker that would fly to work a few times a week. He lived back east and could make it to the offices in the west coast fairly early in the morning. Of course, this was in the days when the internet was in its infancy and long distance phone calls still cost an arm and a leg.