skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a great lead. Spoiler alert: I've been to Four Corners.

I've also flown over Labrador, and would never say "I've been to Labrador" as a result. While I have also visited Indiana, I have travelled through it by rail or car much more often, between Chicago and Michgan. If I had only done this, I would probably say "well, technically I've been to Indiana, but I drove right through it".

Leading me to the "boots on the ground" theory of visitation: a place has been visited if your feet/footware make firm contact with the ground, or an object anchored to the ground in a durable fashion.

At Four Corners, it's quite possible to step directly from New Mexico to Utah, and from Arizona to Colorado, without setting foot in the other two states in the quadrant.

At most, you fly over Arizona and Colorado, on the way from New Mexico to Utah. As we've established, flying over a place is not a visitation.

Which brings us to the fun part! Every tourist who visits four corners walks a circle around the States. Only some, and most children, do the jumps!

If you don't do the jumps you can't say "I've been to Utah straight from New Mexico", which is too bad, since that and its dual are the only topologically interesting part about Four Corners! The other pairings share long borders.

Also, Monument Valley is breathtaking. Truly a wonder of the world.
Threatening withdrawal from NATO, withholding Ukrainian defense aid, and not promising to defend Taiwan are not positive features for many in the USA.

As a personal example, the Russian invasion of Ukraine was obvious back in 2014 (read accidental superpower). As is the eventual annexation of Taiwan. Both are not the kinds of actions I like to see in the world and support efforts to reduce the occurance of those actions. European nations are aiding Ukraine as well, this not a unilateral US action.

I also don't support prolonged invasion of Afghanistan by the US, just in case you're wondering.
> 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.

The best way to fool yourself into thinking that the country is moving in the right direction is to look at money metrics such as wages, GDP, savings etc. They deteriorate in a matter of weeks when shit hits the fan, so they are only backwards looking.

The sad reality is that we are not using any new or novel products/services compared to 5 years ago. If you exclude the mRNA vaccines the pipeline of innovation is also empty.

Where will the next bump in quality of life come from? We are still milking the internet by making copies of apps and websites .
That's right. See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusion...
I have long considered him to break the fourth wall, but I lean toward Tom being an oblique author self-insertion, irrespective of Tolkien’s claim to not be embodied within his works.
But getting engagement on HN, even criticism, is marketing :)
Jim Thorpe reinstated as winner of 1912 Olympics pentathlon and decathlon golds
You're right about the meme but "Simpsons being bad is just a meme, the last few seasons are actually good" is also a bit of a meme at this point. I don't think there's ever an end to it and I think everything in pop culture gets the same meme treatment.

You can always find people who are for or against something, but past a certain threshhold, shared identities seem to form around these kinds of memes. For example, The Big Lebowski turned hating The Eagles into a meme. Plenty of people didn't like them already, but the movie provided something to rally around.

I can only presume lots of people got burned out on The Simpsons for one reason or another and started amplifying each others' voices online, leading to the meme.

The interesting thing to me is how people with little-to-no firsthand experience on which to base an opinion in the first place then simply adopt these meme opinions and identities.
Both of those are up to the consensus of the group of economists. They regularly talk about it with each other and compare with historical data mostly. Keep in mind economics is a social science, not exact science.

It would strike me more as "feeling it out", but they are not in a rush to announce it is or is not a recession until they have a better feel. Everyone seems to be rushing to call it a recession as early as possible. The economist I heard talking had a "wait and see" attitude on the podcast which was refreshing to hear.
On that note: has anyone ever tried to archive SO?
A random thought just occurred - and I welcome speculation. Do you/we think Lord of the Rings will have staying power in human history 1000 years from now or only last one century or so? Inherent assumptions: humans will survive 1000 years and so will books.
I managed to sleep and snore while watching some music videos on my phone in bed. I could swear that I didn't sleep, but my gf had other opinion. It's also common for me to do midday nap and still hear everything that goes around me.
And in typical Reddit fashion, the post was removed for bending the sub-reddit rules. It's frustrating that a popular and highly upvoted post like this is just _removed_.

Anyone have the original content?
I believe they are getting quite a bit of ridicule for it.
https://www.rickcarlino.com/2020/keeping-an-offline-copy-of-...
Rewriting is quite an effort. It's a no-brainer when the existing code is buggy, slow and it's acknowledged by everyone that it needs to be done. On the other hand, not rewriting might mean nobody wants (or is even able) to work on a particular code base. Postponing it too much in the future can mean the project fails and if management doesn't understand in time there's a problematic code base that means devs have no support for what they do. From OP's description it's not possible to see if there are any objective points for the quality of the code (e.g. linting, test to code ratio, uptime)
Have you had any second opinions? It sounds like your evaluator has given up on you, perhaps you shouldn't give up on you and find someone else who hasn't to help you.
You are absolutely right. Many languages, libraries and tools are crucial for the software industry and the whole world.

And yet in 2022 we still have to beg employers and donors to keep those projects running.
back many many years ago, i was into the whole lucid dreaming thing and boy that was amazing. then when inception came up, the two connected and it felt quite great but it petered out somehow and i have yet to get that mojo back... sad
>We don't know what relevance it might have

Seriously? It has absolutely no bearing on the transaction in question.

Hashcat? OpenDNS? A question about Elon? I mean I know HN hates cryptocurrency with a fiery passion... But that has no influence whatsoever on this specific transaction for which OP claims to have all the documentation for (it wasn't a cryptocurrency transaction, so why would interest in BTC be relevant to the transaction?)

This has to be one of the worst sides of the internet. User posts issue X, and other users spend all of their time looking through post history so they can shame them and come up with some twisted reasoning that X is justified.
There are dozens of spam sites that do.
I've noticed, and absolutely hate that every furniture store or any new building today is basically white, grey and beige. I had to order my furniture custom-made because I wanted a blue sofa and yellow armchair and it's impossible to find, every furniture store used the same small variation of textiles.

I believe this trend was primarily driven by economies of scale, and over time it turned into a customer preference by the offer vs. demand paradox.
CHERI-based computer runs KDE
That's orange. (I like it)
It was a really boneheaded question to be sure. I feel really bad for “Gary” who is getting dragged in the media left and right now however. Can you imagine? I’d be mortified.
Memes don't really go over well on HN, especially not 20yo memes, and especially not non-obvious memes where you can easily be seen as being pointlessly flippant to the OP instead.
You're approaching it from the standpoint that it's an exact science, but it's more of a social science and you can't really pin down exact specifics, but only best guesses. Unfortunately (and I fell into this camp for a long time) many people see economics and see the mathematical models and assume that it must be scientific or precise, but the marketing campaign to legitimize economics unfortunately confused many of us into that misconception.

It's helpful to think of economics as a field under the branch of political science, which itself isn't very scientific.
> Surprise, I would not.

Yes, I find it surprising. Seems to not compute.

>But back on topic: if you offer a waiter 2,000 euros / month + tips

This is poverty wages. That waiter would never be able to afford a home and family of his own. The waiter would find time to go to the beach around his work schedule if he was properly compensated.
Scientists reanimate dead spiders as robot gripping claws
And they have a driver in the cab to take over whenever something goes wrong.
Are you confusing CNBC with MSNBC?
So it depends on if it's an election year and how much pressure is on them? Got it.
They're misdemeanor charges, though. I don't believe he was criminally charged in the US for the (alleged) fraud/bribery, only for contempt because he refused to produce documents as ordered by the court. Regardless of the evidence for or against his alleged past actions it's excessive to confine him to house arrest for 18 months when the maximum sentence for the charges, if proven, is just six months.
> Possibly the least liked character in The Lord of the Rings. A childish figure so disliked by fans of the book that few object to his absence from all adaptations of the story.

I've been a fan of Tolkien for decades, and this doesn't match up with my experience at all...Tolkien fans seem to generally love Tom, and many were deeply disappointed that he wasn't in the movies (even though his exclusion makes perfect sense). Did I just run in different Tolkien circles than the author?
better analogy is if they decreased the weight limit of vehicles your license allows you to drive, you could say your suv hasn’t become illegal, it just needs modifying (that is, changing the bodywork & the wheels)
Kersten led amazing research and MonetDB was really ground-breaking in many ways (columnar, shared memory interaction with client languages, etc.). A sad day.
Employment is higher than it was before Covid and unemployment is down at around the same level. To put it in terms of your metaphor, the bank has given you back $10.10 or so for your $10.
Not sure which one the OP had in mind but if you're into more theatrical audiobooks / podcasts check out "An Unexpected Journey" by "Samwise Gamgee" on Spotify. Absolutely top-tier audiobook of both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
But when you give back the $8, you just need to tell them that "bank account growth" only matters week to week. Boom, they're now $8 richer thanks to you!
There are people who can see with but only effort. Screen readers will allow them to browse quickly without becoming exhausted. For example, only being able to see when they have their eyes almost touching the screen.
It's possible that the van sale was what triggered the fraud team to take a closer look at the account. I don't know if Stripe bans weed sales but if they've been selling normal quantities I doubt the algorithms would have them pop up as suspicious.

Then a huge sale goes through (company van) and an actual human of the fraud team looks into the normal products sold through the account. If they then find that the products sold violate the terms and conditions, they've got a reason to lock the account.

They don't have a good reason to block the sale of the van, though, especially if their ex customer has provided the necessary paperwork. They can lock future transactions and even all pending transactions if they have to (and demand proof that they don't violate the TOC for them to go through), but after filing all that paperwork the $3300 transaction should just go through.
> but other famous labs have already moved to ML predictions and are competitive with DeepMind now.

That's great! AlphaFold DB mas made 200 million structure predictions available for everyone. How many structure predictions have other famous labs made available for everyone?
You can download the data dump they publish regularly if you want to, so you don't even have to scrape the site.
the irony here is python packaging has sucked forever, and this is just another example of it. "Do more with less" has never entered the average python developers mind.

you'd think herd mentality might help it but it only creates more packaging solutions.

Now days, I've stopped using python outside of tiny scripts and I will never touch it for a large project.
cool - there's a lot of overlap with the "Hypermodern Python"[1] so if anyone enjoyed this and wants to read more, they might also enjoy that.

[1]: https://cjolowicz.github.io/posts/hypermodern-python-01-setu...
> Another important aspect is that the color I like today is not the color I like tomorrow

This is a pretty big one. Every time I look at buying something colored, I really need to think hard about it. I like the color now, but later I may not. And I'm not going to replace something that isn't broken just because I no longer like the color.

There's also a matter of getting things to match. You're basically stuck with your original color choices going forward unless you're okay with a busy set of clashing colors everywhere.
many people jokingly say that their work stops if StackOverflow is down. Surprisingly I barely use SO, I refer to docs and Github source code and issues much more often.
Well, no.

The difference is that we can look at other R+D of technologies (which cost less than that), the rate of autonomous piloting in drones and cars, and have reasonable idea that $100B-$1T over a decade will allow us to reach the level of freeway driving for trucks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge

https://www.tesla.com/support/autopilot

https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/self-driving-car-trial-lau...

There are already most of the key components — and we’re ball-parking (on the high side) what that will cost to productize.

You haven’t presented any basis for why you think that won’t happen, other than you just don’t like it.

I understand you want estimates based on existing technologies and unit prices to be the same as your gut feeling — but they’re not.
Jokes aside, why does Mark look so strange? He really does have this... I wanna say Alien franchise android feel about him. I can't think of anyone else who has this quality. It seems to be his skin mostly.
Yes, so that you can make people chuckle when you tell them 4 bits is a 'nibble'
I’m really surprised by this as well. Every fan I’ve spoken to also believes that he was sorely missed as a point of perspective to the story.

His contentment with his place, and his power. That he was here before this war, and will be here afterward.
Every day for a year, every single business leader in every single industry, has been on CNBC warning about inflation.

The only ones who didn’t get it are in the present administration.
To be fair, there is very little point in saying we are headed towards recession.
What is interesting about this is that the whole thing continued to rumble along after it was pointed out to them they had bought a manuscript thinking they had bought the rights to the IP. At that point it's hard to see why anyone would continue pushing on, so it's difficult to see anyone involved at that point onwards as anything other than a grifter.
Facebook and Instagram are going to show even more posts from accounts you don’t
In January of 2007 President Bush said the economy was doing fine. Much later in the year the NBER said that the recession began in January. Was Bush lying or did he lack foresight? Determining when a recession began usually happens after the fact because of how “recession” is defined.
>How did you swing this?

Mostly luck and timing. I was in a combat unit that was deploying to Iraq in a matter of weeks as part of the troop surge. They didn't have the time or interest in court martialling me for the AWOL charges when I came back. So they busted me down to E-1 private, put me on extra duty, and told me I was still going to deploy.

At that point I knew I had to get out. My first thought was to go for Conscientious Objector status, but that only gets you reassigned to non combat duties. So I spoke with an army doctor about why I went AWOL, and convinced him that it was part of a bipolar manic episode. Bipolar disorder is one of a few preexisting conditions that can qualify you for an honorable discharge, so as soon as the diagnosis was made, I was put on the "do not deploy" list and processed out.
There is even an active sub-reddit of fans: https://old.reddit.com/r/GloriousTomBombadil/

And his absence from the films was remarked upon, negatively in my circles.
Not completely cold. I would just be mildly surprised if someone lingered around for 5-6 minutes and then ran.

In any case, this is all supposition. We aren’t being allowed to review the actual evidence, so for all I know SpotShotter is just telling the police what they’re asking it to.
This reminds me of the fan theory that Tom Bombadil is secretly the Witch-King of Angmar: http://www.flyingmoose.org/tolksarc/theories/bombadil.htm
A lot of human "choice" is actually just a neuron firing or chemical in the brain going off
According to this article (https://railinsider.co.uk/2020/10/27/making-london-undergrou...), it occasionally has to even fall back to effectively level 2 operation (i.e. operator at the front of the train) because increased passenger usage makes level 3 operation as originally built (no platform edge doors or obstacle detection systems) unsafe at certain stations during peak times.
They went a bit crazy with Covid rules too... curfew, etc..
If I had to guess it was short term vs long term color preference, and focus preference.

Lime green is nice when it is short lived, but lime green isn't as nice in year 25, after your tastes have changed.

Hot pink is very eye catching, so it got the votes. On the other hand hot pink is very eye catching, who wants their toaster to be the center of attention?
Are you saying there can't be a standardized definition of "recession"?

What your alluding to seems to indicate that the definition of "two quarters of negative GDP growth" is incorrect (according to Yellen). It doesn't mean there can't be a more accurate definition.

That's where the kg analogy fits. There was one definition that is now considered incorrect by consensus.
Lithium ion battery production is inching up close to a TWh/year already:

https://www.energy-storage.news/europe-and-us-will-shave-c-1...

And production capacity is continuing to scale exponentially. Other estimates for 2030 production are much higher than the 4TWh/year in that article, I've heard 20-30 TWh/year from others with serious skin in the game.

Plus, there are plenty of other battery chemistries that are closer to production than, say, SMRs, like the much-hyped Form energy's iron air batteries. And that battery cost and discharge rate were designed around current electricity market economics from the very start.

As you point out, there's a tradeoff between overbuild of renewables and storage; with more renewables overbuild there's less need for storage. And with more storage there's less need for renewables overbuild.

If you overbuild renewables 10x, it's simply 10x the cost, plus you have lots of zero-marginal-cost energy nearly all the time.

And I think that this total system cost is probably the Best way to look at the cost, rather than cost/kWh decreasing as more is added. We as a society pay the total cost, not a marginal $/kWh price.
Yes, I meant PEP 621. Thanks for the correction!
Reminds me of Data from Star Trek playing the role of Julius Caesar
First, that's a random chain nobody cares about that recently had a massive controversy of them trying to steal a user's fake internet "money".

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

Third - even if we assume those numbers are true, I don't see a comparison with Stripe's per transaction CO2 emissions.
So why does the US justice system allow this? It's occupying the whole legal system with time wasters.

I'm glad I don't work in legal, it sounds so drawn out and boring.
One time I boarded a 12 hour long international flight. The plane taxied out to the runway just as a dense fog was descending. It was deemed too dangerous to take off and too dangerous to even taxi back to the gate. It took all night for the fog to clear (over ten hours) so I definitely fell asleep and woke up again while we were still on the tarmac. Then we had to wait for them to restock all the drinks and food that had been consumed overnight before we could finally take off.
This was the initial evaluation, but it is the English name used in Germany for dysthymia, which is long-term persistent depression, and has a low rate of remission (indeed they actually class remission as "has been given the mechanisms to cope with the illness" in the literature). Very few people recover from it, they just learn to live with it

The actual diagnosis was double depression, which is dysthymia ("permanent depression") + major depression (acute depression)
Because it’s such blatant gaslighting. It’s been well established that two quarters of negative growth signal a recession. Everyone sees the two quarters of negative growth but our economists are going “well actually we’re not in a recession, we’re experts, believe us”.

And this isn’t the debate over Covid where you could make an argument one way or another. This id plain as day in the numbers and our leaders actually expect us to buy the “well actually we’re not in a recession” bullshit.
I used LiveScript for some time, but I went with the crowd eventually.
> I believe that the first AlphaFold release was mostly human and mouse proteins,

More than that. The press release actually contains an infographic comparing the amount of published protein models for different clades of organisms. The infographic shows that the previous release (~1mln proteins) contained proteins of some animal, plant, bacterial, and fungal species.
> This doesn't even touch on the self fulfilling prophecy of hearing that the country is in a recession.

That's not how recessions work. There is always people predicting a recession and always people predicting a turnaround or growth. It's quite simple, however, to engineer a recession when you raise interest rates for such a heavily indebted economy.
As I have observed in other contexts ( https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1463749947858165761 ), many people who say "Ugh, I cannot reach a real human" have in fact spoken to several humans, repeatedly and at length, and are 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.

We offer (human-powered, somewhat obviously?) support via a variety of methods 24/7; time for us to reply to email is generally a few minutes. Could we do this better? Yes, and I hope we continue doing it better; if anyone ever has an interaction where we don't meet the bar please flag to us.
Why does it seem like everyone wants it to fail? It is almost like everyone has deemed it to be a disaster without watching one episode. I hope that is not the case and critics go in with an open mind, why sap all the fun out of it right out of the starting gate