skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No.

They are basing it off facts. The NBER is the one who defines a recessions. They haven't done so (that I'm aware of) as of right now.

It might be that it will eventually be the case, but the arbitrator of this hasn't ruled on it.

Calling it a recession officially now would be the alternate fact.

Basically, it's like how someone can be guilty of something, but you still have to say "alleged" before referencing the crime.

Yes, you might have a million witnesses, but they aren't guilty until they are guilty.

And I'd much rather have a government that abides by these rules than not. Offhanded remarks based on willful disregard to order should not be encouraged.
Computers are more accurate than humans in a number of the things that matter for trains.

As the other poster said, the main need for humans is to fix mechanical problems. If the door jams, unjam it (why can't passengers use a different door or figure out how to unjam it>) If someone is having a heart attack do CPR until medical crew arrives, then stop the train until the medical crew is off (central dispatch can teach anyone CPR over the phone and stop the train). If someone is attacked - stop the the attack (unless you are a trained police office you will probably make the situation worse trying to stop an attack)

In short there actually isn't that much that a human can do that a computer cannot do better.
Except your usual configuration don't necessarily work for your pre-commit hooks. A prime example is mypy.
To the argument within my comment, the purpose of the money is of no consequence. It is merely fact that the money was injected. The moral consequences or beneficiary of that money don't have bearing on the fact that the money was injected, and would have negative long-term effect.
I was so baffled by reading this opening paragraph that I assumed the entire post was meant to be read as a tongue-in-cheek or "edgy" theory, not a serious discourse on the books. Was I wrong??
I read that and was like, "wait what? I must be a loser for liking him."
Before debian I used TAMU distribution. After Debian I switched to Red Hat 5.something and stuck with it through the extremely weird Red Hat 9 era, which had its ups and downs. Next I switched to ubuntu and have mostly stuck with it, mainly because the packages are fairly well done and it gets an LTS every few years. I have dabbled with debian (missing some features in ubuntu), and several other OSes, but these days, i stick with what represents the least-effort path for dev compatibility (ubuntu). I admire arch but it's not the standard.
Oops. I had only residential property in mind, perhaps because the title is "home ban", but my phrasing covered both kinds of property. Sloppy of me. Sorry.
That's a close proxy, but the realist definition is "whatever is on this page"
:

https://www.nber.org/research/business-cycle-dating
As in incentivize users to post things that will engage best, which is known to be posts that incite outrage/anger? You’d turn HN into everything else that is bad about social media.
https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/
Makes you wonder who the audience for the original comment really is.
The fact that this is the quality of journalism that The Register pushes these days, is just sad.
>the amphibians, the wave of extinctions have been traced to the rapid spread of a fatal fungus

Chytridiomycota (aka) Chytrid fungus : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chytridiomycota
This is what I remember too. The author lays out a lot of the "why" detail on the business/legal side that I didn't know. But what I do remember is waking up one day in 2009 or whatever and discovering that everyone had drank the tablet/convergence Kool-aid and that Unity and GNOME3 were both going full modal/dock. At the time I actually just assumed they were doing it to stay relevant with the impending Windows 8 release (heh), which was shooting for all the same goals with mostly the same ideas.

I also recall being annoyed that they were ripping away something (GNOME2) stable that worked just fine, but also that Unity was an absolute cinch to learn and a true joy to use.

In the end, though, I ended up on KDE Plasma.
US Economy Dips into a Recession: GDP falls at an annual rate of 0.9% in Q2
It's impossible to really put a number on it, because the task itself was impossible. PHDs and the field's top scientists simply couldn't figure out many complicated protein structures after years of attempts, and the fact that there's so many (200M+) mean that the problem space is vast.
By that logic the 1970s recession was not a recession since it was caused by OPEC's precursor.
The way around this is by 'no, but'ing.

You're not playing that game, you're going to play this other, better one instead. It requires some eloquence, charisma, and social intelligence to pull off such a redirection, though.

In defining the played game, the other person is expressing social power. Either playing along or refusing still allows them that power, whereas changing the game is addressing that expression of superiority directly.
> premature hyperbole just slows down adoption

Wasn't it intentional euphemism in this case, however?
In Australia, 4 weeks is the legal minimum for any full-time employee, regardless of the job.
"Significant evidence of Donziger's Fraud" seems to only be backed up by the following line from the article you cite:

> showed an environmental scientist present at a legal strategy meeting of plaintiffs' lawyers; the same scientist was later appointed by the Ecuadorian court as an ostensibly impartial expert to write a report on technical issue

So the evidence shows that one scientific expert wasn't fully independent.

Contrast this with the clear evidence of conflicts of interests from the US judges, the bribing of the oil company's star witness and their eventual recantation of some of their testimony.

It sure looks like there's far more evidence of fraud from Chevron than whatever the documentary crew caught.
>That's not how recessions work.

I am unsure the point you are making. My point was related to mindset and I should have clarified. If a group of people, normal non economic expert citizens, believe a recession is here they change their behavior. The media plays a part in amplifying it. At that point it doesn't matter what is happening at a macro economic level.

I am for introducing nuance to the judgement of a recession or not. I am not for doing it right before numbers are released the admin saying, "Well, there is nuance in the determination" before the numbers are released. At best all you are doing is introducing confusion to the non economic expert citizens and at worst you are attempting to gaslight people.

I hope that helps explain my thoughts.
What was wrong with the question? There is no bad time to ask about your worker rights, especially when layoffs are in question. Seems to me like mark can't read the room, even when he's the one controlling it
I had been feeling that way until I worked on a project that uses modern React and realized that a lot of other stuff is becoming this way. At least with Swift the compiler helps you along a lot and you can lookup most language concepts easily without them being so out of date.

That said I really wish the tooling would keep up. Debugging stuff like SwiftUI and async/await code is really painful right now. It feels like they keep adding this stuff without updating the tools we need to have available to really support it. This is in stark contrast to what was/is available for Objective-C and UIKit with the debugger and instruments. I'm not sure it's a good tradeoff... The high level code becomes a lot easier to read and write but keeping a mental model of what's happening is a lot harder and it becomes very thorny when things go sideways.
> I have always been able to get a service rep on live chat within 5 minutes

That's neat and all but try to get them to actually fix anything. They will 100% move you to email once you explain your issue (assuming it's not "I can't find my password" or equally basic) and then you will be in limbo. I hope you enjoy no one responding to your ticket for days/weeks at a time even after you provide them with all the info they ask for.
Based on a skim of your Twitter, it looks like you were accused of committing a lewd act with a minor. You believe that this was an unfounded accusation. The police seem to agree because they have decided not to charge you with a crime, but the stigma has hurt you personally and professionally. You want to be charged with a crime so you can prove yourself innocent in court. It also appears that many, many people you know have urged you to seek mental health care, which you perceive as attempts to gaslight you.

I won't discuss the mental health component further because I don't see why you would trust an anonymous HN comment on this topic if you are skeptical of the motivations your friends and family.

Due process and right to a trial don't apply to your situation, since those are rights for people who have been charged with a crime. There is no constitutional right to be charged with a crime on request.

I understand your desire to prove your innocence in court, but even if you were able to do that, it is highly unlikely (read: near zero chance) that it would reverse the damage to your career and personal life. Based on the lack of potential benefit, time spent on trying to be charged with a crime is likely to be time wasted. I suggest that you move on and try to rebuild your life in other ways.
Though not unprecedented, they're typically not fighting inflation and a recession at the same time.
Regardless of what you think about the question, just think about the narcissism required to be one of the richest people on the planet and even in the history of mankind but yet respond to questions like this.

Like, there's not one iota of empathy in any of his recent statements. These people treat their corporation like it's a machine and that the people are completely expendable.

For example, look at his recent statement about people being at Facebook that probably shouldn't be there. Well, Mark, you're the CEO. Why is Facebook hiring people that shouldn't be there or not putting them on performance plans prior to the announcement of "turning up the heat"? The fact that he needs to make that statement reflects poorly on him and the leadership, and the fact that he actually made the statement shows that he has contempt for his own employees.
If there is something on the track the only option is hitting it. You cannot switch track (even if there is a switch on the tracks, it can't safely operate in time) You can hit the brakes, but your braking distance is so long that you won't be able to slow down much before you hit it.
> recently had a massive controversy of them trying to steal a user's fake internet "money".

This is like saying that Ethereum stole from AnubisDAO contributors.

> Second, i don't trust their numbers - how could they possibly know what type of electricity is used by their validators?

I think most of the validators are hosted at Equinix through a deal negotiated by the Solana Foundation, but not all of them.

> Third - even if we assume those numbers are true, I don't see a comparison with Stripe's per transaction CO2 emissions.

If you can find any published numbers on this from Stripe (or any other Ruby shop) that would be great.
Yes - startup, growth, maturity and renewal/rebirth or decline
Disagree but a morally commendable position.
The first half is by Oscar Wilde, the second half from my brain - although I cannot state beyond doubt that I didn't pick it up somewhere else in my 40+ years of life.
> Deep Learning is measurably out-performing previous algorithms, and making falsifiable predictions.

If you'd care to quote the entire thing where I was telling you you cannot verify it unless you have enough "mana" (i.e. money) to try it, you would also see you have answered your own rebuttal with my original post.

> if you read HN and can't think of progress in the last five years, then you must be incredibly cynical.

Perhaps! But I don't see you refuting me in any way, so perhaps I'm just correct :)
I don't think your prescribed solution will work.

I haven't done formal research (and actually, that might be a fun exercise for someone to do... Scrape HN and categorize keywords in low-comment articles vs. high-comment articles), but the interesting stuff seems to tend to be technical and generate low engagement (because the only people who could add to the technical content would be those with focused knowledge in the field), while the "TMZ but for Silicon Valley"-type stories tend to be high engagement (because everyone's got an opinion on Zuckerberg, or Bezos, or Pichai, and they're more than happy to share it).

As any site becomes popular, regression to the mean is a predictable outcome.
> imprecisely stating their desire to speak to a person who would agree with their view of the facts and swiftly enact the resolution that they prefer.

Wow, one reply in and we're already seeing open contempt for this type of troublesome customer. What nerve, expecting a payment processor to promptly process payments and make funds accessible to the account holder.

This reply is going to look monumentally bad if the customer ends up being right about how they were treated.
https://serverfault.com
Firefox's chatty un-opt-out-able start and exit
Here's the traffic from Firefox 102.0.1 on macOS with all extensions disabled and every possible telemetry feature opted out.

On the left, start, on the right, exit.

I would like Firefox to be completely silent on start and exit. I would even lazy-load certificate-related updates.

Firefox developers have already told me they have no interest in implementing a feature to disable all this phoning-home to Mozilla, even through an advanced or hidden config.
The NBER defines when a recession starts. That's how it's always worked.

You can disagree with how that is done, sure, but that's meaningless to the discussion.

Officially, we aren't in one.

Claiming otherwise is like me saying you are guilty of a crime before you are found guilty of a crime.
Famine and disease drove the evolution of lactose tolerance in Europe
In this case, the Fed is stimulating a (hopefully mild) recession, by raising interest rates, in order to bring inflation down.
The way that the White House, and by extension the administrative branch of the government has decided to redefine "recession" and imply that the economy is doing really well right now is actually scary.

These people do have huge levers that control our lives that they can pull. Their actions do have massive effects on the American economy, and by extension the economy of the rest of the world. The actions they're taking are legitimately horrifying.

I seriously don't think these people understand what the lives of normal people are actually like. The white house had the gall to put out a tweet bragging that gas prices had come down, and that this could be saving people $35/mo, and how much that is helping.

Gas if still $4.2 national average per gallon. That's HUGE, and the direct actions of the administration are to blame for this.
I'd be very interested to know what your issue was that they helped with. I'm 0 for 3 (potentially 1 is fixed now, 1 fixed itself, and the last I gave up on). Unless your issue is trivial you will be thrown in limbo and go days/weeks without a reply.
Original source: https://www.theverge.com/23277797/mark-zuckerberg-meta-faceb...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32246799 (87 comments)

NY Post: "according to a recording obtained by The Verge"
TypeScript: Typechecker-Assisted Runtime Data Validation
He posted pictures of himself cavorting with naked young men on a public website. Is sharing those publicly outing him?
https://archive.ph/IIIQO
Yes, very much so. Even for proteins that seems like they are just scaffolding for a catalytic centre can have important dynamics.

A classic example is haemoglobin, that 'just' binds to oxygen at the iron in the middle of the haem. Other binding sites remote from the oxygen binding one can bind to other molecules - notably carbon dioxide. The 'Bohr effect' mechanism is outlined here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr_effect#Allosteric_interac...

Even at the lowest level, there is some evidence that ligand binding can affect the structure of the backbone of the protein. For example, peptide plane flipping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptide_plane_flipping although I'm not sure where the research is on this nowadays.
I would argue it's the one piece of fiction from the last 100 years with the highest likelihood of staying power for the next 1000 years. If any piece of fiction from this period of time is still important in human culture in 1000 years (taking for granted that humans still exist), I think it would be Tolkien's work.
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Clearly stated by someone who has never run a legitimate small business.

As someone who has run them for decades, it can be a SERIOUS issue at the wrong time. Sure, there are good times where it'll hardly be noticed, and can be dealt with in due course.

However, there are OFTEN other times when $3K failing to show up when expected can create real problems. Cash Flow is key.

To even suggest that it is OK for a company to arbitrarily cutoff funds, merely because it might be resolved sometime next year and "shouldn't be a problem" is massively ignorant and ethically bankrupt.

For your own sake, and for others on HN, read the room. Stop posting such 'hot takes' that only broadcast your bad assumptions based on massive ignorance of the topic and distract from the actual discussion (or if you're just trolling for responses, pls take it elsewhere).
My understanding is that protein folding is a major cost bottleneck in drug design.

Researchers can come up with candidate molecule formulas that might work as good drugs, but the problem is that these proteins organize/fold themselves physically in a hard-to-predict way. And how they fold directly affects their properties as drugs.

If AlphaFold can accurately predict folding, it’ll allow researchers to prioritize drug candidates more accurately which will reduce research time and costs. Supposedly the major pharmaceutical companies can spend up to billions when designing a single drug. Optimistically, predicting protein folding better will allow for much more rapid and cheaper drug development
Recession is called by NBER. And NBER has never failed to put the recession stamp on back-to-back drops in GDP. So …
I mean there are a lot of people (me included) that have to use windows because of program exclusivity (e.g. visual studio, adobe suite, AutoCAD, etc.). Usually switching to linux is not an option in these scenarios.
My thoughts exactly. I loved Tom Bombadil when reading the book as a child!
I live in the Apple ecosystem as a user. But as a developer, I could not imagine tying myself to it. It would put my career too much at the whims of Apple.
Payments over FedNow are required to settle within 8 seconds of the receiving FI being notified of the transaction. Launching next year, FedNow is positioned to replace ACH and wires and do most of the things that folks want lightning network / L2 / Zelle / Ripple and other RTP solutions to do, but for the entire USD-denominated market.

FedNow also replaces ACH debit origination and its Good Funds Period with a Request to Pay architecture that IMO is far safer and has fewer edge cases and lacks the hilarious infinite loop in ACH debit exception handling.

So, yeah, good question, sorry you're being downvoted.
If you want me to actually engage with any of this you're going to have to give me a little help understanding how someone arguing in good faith can imply the US government has ever been held accountable in a way that changed anything about how it operated. From where I'm standing, that descends so far into fantasy we may as well be playing D&D.
Yeah, the solar lensing point is WAY the hell out there: since 1 AU is 8 light-minutes, so the 548 AU minimum works out to 73 light-hours away. When LIGHT takes half a week to make a one-way trip, you're in the deep space boondocks, folks.

I haven't read the paper yet, but this thing would have to have a fair amount of nuclear power, and comms would be a challenge as well. As the abstract mentions, though, while the project has a high degree of difficulty, there appear to be no complete technology showstoppers to actually doing this, so it's at least as doable (and considerably cheaper than) a von Braun-style centrifugal space station in Earth orbit.

It'll be interesting to see if the idea gets any traction...
It was floating over HN last year, I guess gp has kept it.
The signup flow seems to have a bug. If I refresh the page it works, but until then it hangs on the spinner.
Doesn’t seem odd to me; I’ve slept through customs stops and other events on sleeper trains in the past. I’ve fallen asleep in busy hotel lobbies and often fall asleep on planes before takeoff.
I think the more harmful thing this extreme political shitfighting is doing is stopping just seriously getting on with doing everything possible to improve things.

"We're not actually in a recession." So what?! Just acknowledge things aren't good and get to fixing them, be honest with the public and have some bloody integrity for once.

The US (and UK, and Australia, etc) partisan political playground fighting is ridiculous and the media (inc. social media) spends far too much time supporting it.
Turning Earth into a Telescope – The Terrascope
the reason for the weirdness is that it doesn’t look like a recession in the labor market. Layoffs have been almost exclusively limited to tech, and within tech pre-profit or highly speculative (cryptoshovels) companies. This is important because in the US economic system labor power drives income drives inflation. (This isn’t true in all countries.)

When the employment outlook changes, and I expect it will, we will be in a traditional recession.
Today I had an issue and I also had a solution in mind, but I still used SO to find alternative solutions, in the end others had same workaround solution as me but sould have been great for my case if the workaround was not needed.

IMO "use the documentation" is not enough, many times you have much more complex question or bugs/problems where if lucky other individuals hit them before you and were kind enough to share their findings. I upgraded my Ubuntu version and now some people decided that is safer and smarter to move the /tmp in apache to some other place but at the same time hide it from me, I am not sure what man page search query for "my file is not in /tmp but the system is telling me is there" will give you the results.
Germany rethinks nuclear power exit due to threat of winter energy crunch
Hi all, founder @ Retool here. We've made a lot of progress over the past few years, but we first started on HN, and certainly wouldn't be here without all of you!

For example, here's when we launched: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14515494. Hilariously, we described Retool as "Excel with higher order primitives", and people understood it! (Only on HN!)

After that, we spent around a year polishing the product and getting customers, and we launched officially on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17725966.

Today, we have tens of thousands of paying customers, are ~cashflow-positive, and have substantial revenue. But we are yet still so far from changing how internal software is built. Our thesis is that a Visual Basic-like application builder is a better way of building a certain segment of software (namely, internal CRUD apps). If you have any feedback or ideas on how we can improve the product, please do let me know (in comments or via email).

Oh, here's our blog post too: https://retool.com/blog/series-c2/. It has some details about our weird fundraising strategy (smaller rounds, lower valuation), which we think is more employee-friendly (lower dilution, more upside for employees). Happy to talk through that as well; here's another article about it: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2021/12/22/retool-un...
See also, sales.