skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The ultimate goal of the left is to abolish the state altogether and replace it with something more local and participatory.

That's the ultimate goal of Marxism, not the left. The left is not synonymous with Marxism. In the context of this conversation, which is American party politics, leftism is considered to encompass, by default, every political and social movement not in the camp of laissez-faire capitalism or conservative Christian ideology, and what gets called the "far left" in the US would be considered at best center right anywhere else in the world.

And that "leftism" would include things like UBI, socialized healthcare and education, established rights for gay marriage and abortion, free and open source software, CRT, wage equality, labor laws and unionization, and any number of other things which have no interest whatsoever in abolishing the state, but which rather depend upon the preexistence of a state with strong regulatory power.
If you're thinking about doing like this guy did, please don't.

Film crews are incredibly overworked, underpaid and work in absolutely terrible conditions. Film production is an intricate machine that requires everything to be perfectly in place in order to get a shot and things very frequently go wrong even without random people walking on set and gumming up the works.

Distracting people or touching / moving things can absolutely hold up a shot and bring the entire set to a halt. The result of that is you'll end up keep a very tired crew out for much longer than they need to be. It can also easily cost a production assistant their job.

Film production isn't a secret. You can watch a documentary on it, read about it in forums or even get permission to observe a film shoot where they'll place you safely out of the way. There are much better ways to satisfy this curiosity than just walking onto a set.
Eating meat is good, says the philosopher
They do this kind of thing more than you'd think :) Due to my double life as an aspiring actor [0], I was an extra in a series [1] set in futuristic New York, but filmed in Madrid. They had a fake hotdog cart, a fake bus stop sign, and even a fake NY police car! You can see me for a second, somewhat blurry, having a heated argument in Italian, while Betsy Brandt [2] (best known as Marie of "they're minerals, Marie!" fame) walked past. Very cool experience :) Photos here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZmT11SFV3xWe5gft7

Also in Madrid, I was an extra in The Vault [3]. Near the beginning, the main characters meet at a London pub on a rainy evening - filmed in sunny Madrid in summer! I had never seen fake rain on set. I also was within a meter of Liam Cunningham [4] whose Ser Davos was one of my favorite GoT characters :)

[0] http://gabrielgambetta.biz

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11695350/

[2] https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1336827

[3] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9742794

[4] https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0192377/
The NBER has called a recession every single time we had two back-to-back quarters of negative growth. The news media is known to aggressively jump to conclusions to produce headlines. It's a notable exception that they are so cautious all of a sudden about what is really a foregone conclusion.
I think this criticism is called for. The customer tried asking them nicely and it sounds like they did not try very hard to fix it -- which is an experience I can empathize with 100 times over. If you've ever dealt with companies, you know that they often have policies and procedures that intentionally screw customers and they only back off if it blows up publicly. Because they can. Our accountability mechanisms suck.
Just not needing to deal with "the railroad" would be a huge plus all else being equal. They're like the DMV of shipping.
I find that Github is becoming a better place for more focused questions, mostly in issues, sometimes in the new discussion feature.
Warning: spoilers!

They also made the pretty good (and of course prematurely cancelled) 2014 mini series "Ascension" out of a very similar plot.
Admittedly, although it stars absolutely top notch, it goes a bit downhill afterwards, but they could have saved it very easily instead of taking the easiest path. I wonder why aren't there incentives to prevent premature cancellations when the public likes the material? It seems they're eager to kill even profitable series if starting a new one from scratch brings more money, which seems logical, however, besides angering viewers, that way the cancelled series loses appeal and value also as a later DVD edition product.
Technically they have no legal right to tell you to move/stop somewhere on a public sidewalk in New York. You could’ve just strolled straight onto set if you wanted to.
Aye - same here. Was once just a novice who had no idea how an application could hog up 62Gb of ram - and have weird changes to objects that shouldn't. Then I learned about references, and what a biological messaging system really means (thanks, Alan and NotificationCenter!).
It's a 'billion dollar valuation'. That can mean a range of things.

In this case, small by rapidly growing.

In the case of a thin margin retailer, cash constraints, working capital etc. imply need for funding.
The weird thing has been how much content Facebook has been feeding me that is overtly political. LOTS of depressing nihilistic anti-capitalist kind of stuff.

Is this what people go to these platforms to consume? Who cranks out all of this miserable content?
it would seem that you are basing aspects of argument on feelings, perceived individual benefit, and speculation. That's not a debate I'm interested in engaging in. I prefer to look at the facts as they are at present.
> An alien society would not have the same physic or math

They would have the same math. They might have a different number system.
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> It's possible to communicate without relating everything back to pop culture.

That's a fair point
Square is one option. https://developer.squareup.com/reference/square/payments-api
The user experience of the people in the 1% (the 90-9-1 rule - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule ) is diminishing. Existing systems showing their age and failing to scale, processes and norms that work in tandem between technology and people are straining as times change.

In these cases, the technology needs to keep pace with the systems (both computer systems and people systems) that it supports. Failure to do that means that the people who are creating content are having to expend more effort to make up for it.

Be it people leaving, or needing to spend more effort to attain the same quality - the result is the same. The quality of the site (questions and answers) is diminishing as people are less able to provide good answers and curate existing material to make good content more visible.
The moment I realized how much I hated and sucked at writing with pen and paper as a child. Little did I know the whole world would use computers for work and move away from papers to the most part in a few years.

My handwriting was so bad I couldn't even read it myself sometimes. I was the bane of teachers.

What got me hooked was some random book about HTML. I read it and learned all the basic tags in half a day and put together a page. That did it for me.
If you mean the through sleeper to Penzance then yes, that still runs and the down train still seems to be booked to stand for almost an hour at Exeter, but it now departs around 4-ish, so quite a bit earlier. Going the other way it stays in the platform at Paddington for quite a while, so while it's booked to arrive shortly after 5:00, you can stay on until around 7-ish.

One interesting thing I've seen in older timetables (late 70s / early 80s) is that in some intermediate locations (e.g. Carlisle) they apparently did the same thing with through carriages which were then shunted onto/off the main sleeper train in order to let passengers from that station board earlier/sleep longer than would be possible based on the arrival/departure times of the main portion of that train.
This is the case for all transit, known as induced demand. Increase the number of lanes on a road and you'll get as bad if not worse traffic than before as the increased capacity results in more people driving.
I was screwing up in high school algebra and I discovered I could program my TI-86 to do my math homework for me. I distinctly remember struggling with FOIL (first, inner, outer, last) and I would mess up one of the calculations doing it manually so my end answer would be wrong.

I always got harassed for not showing my work. I had a better way I didn't need to. The calculator did it for me.

This was one of my first experiences being punished for my gift. The teacher hated me for this creativity and instead of working with me to figure out how to get the program to show the work so I could get full credit, she just dismissed me as "doing it wrong". Awful teacher.

I love programming but I am having a tragically awful time trying to find work in my career after a few years of underemployment and unemployment.
Anecdotally I was still smoking when they brought in mandated gore on British tobacco pouches, very quickly people were joking like 'I got the bloke with a hole in his side, just need the curious baby with a cigarette and I've got the lot' etc. Those who were really bothered by it just got a baccy tin or if they smoked straights, a cigarette case.

What led me to quit wasn't any 'nudging' by the government but simply that vaping is a lot more convenient than smoking and lacked the finger-wagging inherent in other nicotine replacement approaches, and once I was only vaping I could turn down the nicotine over the course of six months or so to spare the worst of the grimness of quitting.
The graph presented in the source doesn’t quite give it off, but my dad, an industrial designer and professor, always mentioned how innovations in plastic, materials and manufacturing in the 1960-1980’s made everyone in his field just crazy for all the new colors and shapes that were suddenly possible.

I’m sure a lot of us can recall something similar in more recent niches like UI design. After a period of excitement with all the new possibilities comes a more sober minimalistic function-first approach.

I don’t think this is something to lament - color has become cheap and widely available so it has lost the meaning it had in the 60’s and earlier. If anything, we could be talking about a brief color-heavy time period that is just ending. One in which everything became unreasonably colorful thanks to unrestrained consumption and petro-chemical innovations.
Florida is a two-party consent state. Everyone featured in a recording not happening in public must consent to being recorded. Both Hogan and Heather claim they didn't know.
Those do seem irrelevant to me. The cannabis one caught my eye though.
I am in no way built for it. I know people who are and there is a marked difference.

Though it does keep me stimulated, I’m not hopeless at it, offers great flexibility, and pays well. There is lots I could do well without, but that’s a tradeoff I’m willing to make.
> I ended up moving back to Stripe because the alternatives suck even more, or at least the one I picked.

Did you try Square? https://developer.squareup.com/reference/square/payments-api
This would also work for radio waves, right? We would be able to listen in on radio broadcasts from a distant planet.
> Are people just browsing these shapes and seeing patterns in them

That's one approach.

The thing to understand is that proteins form "binding sites": areas that are more likely to attract other particular regions of proteins or other molecules, or even atoms. Think about hemoglobin. The reason it holds onto oxygen atoms is because it has binding sites.

Binding sites are great because they represent more freedom to do things than molecules typically have. Normal chemistry consists of forming strong electronic bonds between atoms, or forming rigid lattices/crystals.

Binding sites allow molecules to do things like temporarily attach to each other and let each other go under certain circumstances, for instance when another binding site is active/inactive. This can happen through "conformation change", where a molecule bound/unbound on some binding site makes the protein change shape slightly. This is how proteins can act like machines.

> What do the "ribbons" signify

Different regions of the protein have different sequences of amino acids. Amino Acids have somewhat different shapes from each other. The ribbons are actually broader than the spindles (or threads), and less flexible. Not sure about the different colors, maybe someone else can fill in.

> Also, is that what proteins would really look like if you could see at sub-optical wavelength resolutions?

Not really, it's an abstraction. They're big molecules, so if you look closely they're made of atoms, which are (kinda, sorta not really, quantum stuff) spherical.

> So wouldn't they be "thrashing around" like rag doll in blender at room temperature?

Yes, but the attractions between the different parts of the molecule keeps it somewhat under control. So more like an undulating little creature, jellyfish perhaps.

> It seems strange to me that something like that could be so central to life

Yep, gotta remember that it's all statistical. These things are getting made, do their job, breaking, and getting degraded some insane number of times per second. Swarm behavior, sort of.
With names like the Stripe founders and the GitHub founder on the list, perhaps fundraising is also a way to get those well-connected people's skin in the game? They might be good routes to new customers or other connections good for growing the business.
And one of the comments below that one explains exactly why this is a problem:

"When you sign up for your Stripe account, you had to state what business you were using it for. If you're doing business with your Stripe account that is not related to what you sign up for, then there are reasons why Stripe is now holding your money."

It's listed in Stripe's terms and conditions on Prohibited Items:

"Use of Stripe products to facilitate transactions on behalf of another undisclosed merchant or for products/services that were not disclosed in the merchant's Stripe account application."

https://stripe.com/en-au/legal/restricted-businesses
In addition to /u/dekhn 's excellent description, this phenomenon is referred to as a protein's "secondary structure" [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_secondary_structure
Before I even had a computer. Working my way past the bugs in that ET: The Extraterrestrial Atari game and others, I wanted to make things like that, and heard I needed a computer to do it.
Have you tried Square? https://developer.squareup.com/reference/square/payments-api
Ok, well same thing. Hogan was invited over to have sex with Bubba's wife and Bubba secretly filmed it and sent it to a media company.
The difference is if you're running tests from your root project directory, the package is importable regardless of whether or not it is installed, as python picks up packages in the current working directory by name. src/ prevents this.
You can board the sleeper in Glasgow any time starting 2200, with the expected departure time 2340, and arrival in Euston 0707, last vacate-the-train time 0730. If you are used to using the service and want to get a reasonable 8 hours sleep then it's totally reasonable to board and go to sleep well before the expected departure time -- indeed, that's part of why they let you board early. Plus, suppose that it was 2340 or later, and they informed you that the train wasn't going anywhere -- by that time of night "sleep on the train and figure out a plan B in the morning" is probably your best bet anyway.
That sounds great, but my biggest complaint with Free/TrueNAS is its insistence on the GUI. I expose a ZFS pool running in Debian to my network. All configuration for it an any other VM is handled in Ansible, and the OS images themselves are built with Packer + Ansible.

I suspect the "Purpose: Multi-user Time Machine" selection is doing a lot of heavy lifting, but it's hidden away under a shiny frontend.
I agree, pay them more. Nowadays, the best "bonus" is switching jobs.
Kiwix is what you want.

I keep offline copies of Wikipedia and the major StackOverflow sites.

https://www.kiwix.org/en/
No. Who are you referring to? How is that relevant?
Is This the Best Semiconductor Ever Found?
RIP Martin Kersten. I took his undergraduate course at the University of Amsterdam. MonetDB was his professional baby. Nice guy.
I was 12 years old during the Soviet era. I randomly saw a short vignette about computers in a pop-sci film on TV, and it clicked right away. I knew instantly that this is what I'm going to do for life. I had no idea if I'm built for this, or whether I'm smart or not -- and I didn't care. The books and projects came years later.

BTW, my dentist of 20 years is the same. At twelve, she knew that she will have her own dental clinic -- and she did open her own clinic about 10 years ago (she previously worked for hire). She's the best dentist I've ever had, and even though she doesn't do much work herself nowadays, her hires are excellent.
One factor you can't discount is that we are also getting older and so are more capable of challenging both answers and question quality.

I am not sure if SO is less useful or just has become less useful _for_me_ over time.
I really like this, the Dropbox career framework, and the Monzo career framework. I synthesized all three recently into one that I keep for our company, and the work pays such dividends. We do quarterly performance reviews and not only does having a consistent standard make these fair, but it reduced my time to write them from 1 hour per report to about 30 min.

https://dropbox.github.io/dbx-career-framework/
https://github.com/monzo/progression-framework

And my nascent adaptation..
https://kevala-progression.herokuapp.com/
> What's the OP/your alternative?

Square is one. https://developer.squareup.com/reference/square/payments-api
The Fed has no mandate to generate or maintain economic growth.

The two areas in which it does have a mandate are price stability and sustainable employment. Usually, recessions are accompanied by a loss of jobs, so that's where the Fed would intervene; that isn't happening thus far which is another reason why economists are split over what is really going on in the economy.
Yes, the problems with the economy remain the same whether we attach the label "recession" or not. Yes, job growth is a counter-indicator, an unusual feature of an economy having the problems we are having.

However, there are separate problems with the government scrambling to focus on messaging/spin instead of the actual issues, and the magnifying problem of the whole media complex jumping to toe the party line.

Current statements differ dramatically from previous comments, such as two years ago, when global events also caused a downturn, or even months ago, before the white house started messaging "other factors".

For what it's worth, 2 years ago, NPR stated, 'The standard definition of a recession is "a decline in economic activity that lasts more than a few months.' while noting the covid effects on the economy were broad and deep enough to declare a recession earlier than usual. https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...

Yes, let's get the economy going, but let's also have the press play their watchdog role, and not just be boosters of the administration.
In the Silmarillion, the universe was created by the music of the Ainur. At first it was in line with the mind of Iluvatar (God) but Melkor sang louder and then in discord. Some fans theorize that this discord created Tom Bombadil, along with barrow wrights, Shelob, the watcher of the water, and the ancient creatures that Gandalf saw while chasing the Balrog under Moria.
I will venture further out on the speculative limb, and predict that in 1000 years when virtual reality subsumes reality, that Middle Earth (and the larger Tolkien world) will become the dominant reality - as it doesn't and may never have any competition for that role.
Heh, I'm somewhat the opposite, as I went from a degree in biochemistry into bioinformatics (protein folds and structure) and have an amateur interest in maths.

I often recommend the book 'Cats' Paws and Catapults' by Steven Vogel, which discusses the differences between human and biological engineering. There are very different constraints, as well as the more obvious difference between intelligently directed design (by humans) and evolutionary design.

It's not totally true that our engineering is simpler than biological systems. After all, we can now manipulate matter down to the atomic level. There have been attempts to move towards self-assembling systems, or even self-repairing ones. Not quite on the same scale or sophistication as biological systems, of course.

Is a modern computer chip more complex than a virus? Is a large connected system of computers more complex than a mycelial network? Are there more parts connected in more ways in a nuclear power station as there are in a simple bacterial cell?

I think it is definitely worth considering the similarities and differences.
There are many uses for structure. Personally, I find the 3d structures to be useful as a mental guide for picturing things, and certainly people do try to "dock" proteins that have complementary structures, but unfortunately, the biophysics of protein complexes suggests that the conformation change on binding is so large that the predicted structures aren't super-helpful.

Certainly, in a corpo like mine (Genentech/Roche) protein structures have a long history of being used in drug discovery- not typically a simple "dock a ligand to a protein" but more for constructing lab experiments that help elucidate the actual mechanistic biology going on. That is only a tiny part of a much larger process to work on disease targets to come up with effective treatments. Genentech is different from most pharma in that their treatments are themselves typically proteins, rather than small molecules.
At first glance thought this was a case of a zealous flagging system but upon careful re-reading, I realize this doesn't seem to be an isolated case meaning this guy isn't the only one that had this happen.

Which makes me question just how credible Stripe's market valuation is. It's far likely that as we exit the era of cheap capital and expensive debt, the dominoes have begun to fall and companies are doing everything they can to horde cash. Especially when margins are razor thin.

I could be wrong but this is NOT a good sign. Any other payment processor that pulls this will immediately be sued, so why are they risking this knowing that TOS isnt the law?
House Democrats to propose ban on lawmaker stock trading – report
How many of these "private" phones turned out to be a sting operation
by the likes of the FBI? Can I look at the code and schematic? No?
Take it away. Come back when you have a product based entirely on
auditable open source hardware and software, whose operation satisfies
the Kerckhoff-Shannon principle that the only secret is my private
key.
this is incorrect you're mixing several separate facts into one false narrative

gawker repeatedly offered to settle with hogan, but for some strange reason* hogan refused to and kept appealing and moving venues. during these appeals and negotiations a judge required gawker take the video down which they did. the judge then also required gawker take the post (ascii text) down as well, which they refused to do.

* it turned out hogan was just a front for thiel and taking down the video was not really the goal, bankrupting the parent company of valleywag was.