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Bogleheads is great, and one of the more wholesome things on the Web nowadays.

When my consulting business was finally doing well (after way too many years of school, debt, and turning down better-paying opportunities), it took me a few tries of asking around and Googling, to find what people were supposed to do with excess money. I ended up wasting some of it on naive sector investing, and on funds/stock-picking, before I stumbled upon Bogleheads.

Then I quickly settled into a simple your-age-in-bonds mix of ITOT and AGG (was already at Fidelity), and followed the Bogleheads advice of not touching it, not even looking at it. I also do the solo 401K, maxed contributions, and the HSA bonus (though the HSA was more headache than it was worth).

One of the odd things about Bogleheads, however, is that, once you're up to speed, have your accounts set up, no unusual events, and you take the "index on autopilot" to heart... frequenting the forum then seems counterproductive, like it becomes temptation to tinker with financial arrangements, or just a distraction from better things to be doing.
I don't think it matters whether China is a democracy or not. The US has been a malicious player for the past few years -- Canada has similarly been labeled a threat to national security.

What does matter is that China is starting to become strong enough to be a regional power, which is a threat to American dominance in East Asia
I found this Wikipedia-style page on personal finance advice for "managing a windfall" so well-written, that I was really startled (by the quality!). I came across it earlier today on HN in an "Ask HN" thread:

https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Managing_a_windfall

I had to help my Mom with personal finance. She is a first-generation immigrant who entered her late 60s with no stock or cash retirement savings, but with a lot of home equity value built up by sheer luck of buying a house in a booming suburb right before it really boomed, and holding it for 40 years. She lived paycheck-to-paycheck her whole life, and, because she fled communist Romania when she was in high school, she had a real distrust of the US financial system. (Perhaps warranted at times!)

So, I had to help her manage the windfall from the sale of her primary residence as she downsized her living space and needed to tap the newly-liquid cash as a kind of pension and healthcare issue rainy-day fund. She wanted to stick all the money under the mattress (quite literally).

I was in my mid-20s at the time (and a college-educated programmer, so savvy enough to wade through the systems), so I tried to wise up to the situation to help her out. I dealt with all the issues outlined in this page (on her behalf) via a lot of haphazard ad-hoc research and through expensive advice from personal lawyers and accountants.

I am impressed with the way in which the page tackles not just the pragmatic issues, but also the psychological ones -- e.g. that someone facing a windfall will feel temporarily "rich" because they are newly in the money, and thus won't manage smartly toward a long-term future, and may also be more prone to frivolous purchases.

Financial literacy is a really hard thing and so much of the information you find is biased and is selling you one thing or another.

I wish I had known about this page -- and the wiki overall -- years ago. The "Bogleheads" philosophy aligns a lot with my personal outlook, which has a a lot of trust for the power of markets and financial management, but a whole lot of distrust for financial advisors and money managers. Now that I've been on this side of the table, representing my Mom's interests in retirement, it became really clear to me why fraud against the elderly is so common, and why it's a very legitimate interest to ensure they are well-protected if they don't have savvy family members who can guide them through it.
Signatures are bullshit. And the line:

> the probability that all 30 downstrokes should coincide in two genuine signatures was 1 2.666 × 10 21 {\displaystyle \textstyle {\frac {1}{2.666\times 10^{21}}}} \textstyle\frac{1}{2.666 \times 10^{21}}. That is one in 2,666,000,000,000,000,000,000, in the order of magnitude of sextillions.

is such outrageous bullshit that I'm saddened he wasn't immediately laughed out of court.
> especially when you have universal health care.

This is the key right here. It's the state trying to recoup their costs from you.
I might even take it a step further and say no product should be rendered unusable without an Internet connection unless the Internet is an absolute requirement of the product’s basic function. I.e even IoT devices ought to be able to be air-gapped and on their own closed network (unless, for instance, it’s a clock or something and relies specifically on things like weather/traffic APIs). And even in cases where there is a legitimate product feature that requires an internet connection, not having one should NOT render the other parts of that product unusable.
For the ateji case yes, but this is usually pronounced beikoku.
At the very end, there is speculation that things like this might get manual inclusion in these mitigations grounded in parts of Ivan Krstić's Black Hat talk from last year.
> anyone know the standard term for that?

I'm not sure what the standard term is either. I frequently use the term "tactile controls" to indicate controls that can be operated without looking at them.

For what it's worth, I think essentially ALL controls intended to be used while in motion in a car ought to be "tactile controls" by that definition -- the operator's gaze is NOT available while operating the vehicle.

(I'm OK if configuring bluetooth is done over a touchscreen, but NOT if turning on the radio or the windshield wipers is done that way.)
Max incomes and max wealth seem like excellent ideas. It should be gradual tho. I would like to see a basic income start at 50 or 100 bucks. That way we can see some of the effect and deal with it. It would at least reveal how hard it is to implement.
Yeah I've used cheaper rice cookers and the main complaint is they don't insulate or seal properly. Mine was like $50 and made okay rice but it dries out almost immediately.
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Many people, especially when you have average people on a jury, are not very good at drawing lines where the certain % or probability equals less than a reasonable doubt.
Nope, I've actually had people defend this. Not convincingly, but they try.

I believe the official argument is that the controls on the actual steering wheel are programmable, so you don't usually need the touchscreen. But I mean.. Most people don't bother doing this kind of thing... They're lazy... Hell, I'm an emacs user for 30 years, but I've only ever used the default keybindings...

This touch screen obsession is why I won't buy a Model 3 or Y, despite being a potential customer.
1. Joined HN because I was looking for an appropriate forum to discuss my coding project I'm doing during chroma virus lockdown. Show HN looks to an outsider like a place to discuss side projects.

2. Shouldn't have joined HN because it's actually an inhospitable notoriety contest which exists to promote the YC company position that startups can somehow make money through coding.
The thing is, dual-hose units could work great. The concept is theoretically sound, but nobody's trying to engineer them properly.
One would hope it was closer to 100%
My cable provider is Mediacom and their advertising used to say how much better than Dish they were.

But hidden from view behind their main building a bunch of satellite dishes. =)
German courts should prevent tesla from selling the model 3 in Germany for not having buttons and stocks for basic controls.

We spent many years to get these things right and then some company which thinks it needs to reinvent the wheel takes us all 2 steps backwards.

VW has started doing the same crap and it's just as bad. Try adjusting your mirror while driving in the new electric VW.
All depends on the locality, etc.

Many people don't understand the world of stupid they've joined when they buy an HOA property. Although I have to deal with the psychic trauma of a neighbor who doesn't mow often, living in a reasonable city on a normal block means that permitting nightmares and other bullshit don't really exist. :)
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Because (oversimplifying, but still) on one side Pakistan, and on the other Israel.
Have you not noticed that due to the disastrous covid response that the USA passport is basically worthless right now?
Where are you even buying computers that make secure boot mandatory? I know they exist but I’ve never run into them. Did you consider just getting a different model?
Can't say enough good things about my Mitsubishi split unit, installed a couple weeks aho during kitchen reno. It's quiet, efficient, powerful, and highly configurable / programmable.
> Don't have to, but unless the policy is seperate the people and the party and win over the people.

I am not sure why that would be the US's problem.

I have no doubt the that CCP will be able to control the media narrative within their own country. I just don't care. That was always going to be the case.
There should be some qualification, like "once you earn above $100,000, then you become rich when you earn more than you spend". Even that wouldn't be quite right for many expensive cities.
As somebody who is obviously not knowledgeable about why Tesla did it that way, but somebody who does own/drive a Model 3, I can only offer my conjecture:

It makes the controls simpler in a way that makes the parts and assembly cheaper. The Model 3 seems like Tesla tried very hard to streamline (read: cut corners) anywhere they reasonably could as part of lowering the cost to manufacture the car, in order to hit a more reasonable price point. The stalks already have a known history of breakage, many folks have had to have them replaced in relatively young Model 3s. I suspect somebody at Tesla HQ decided that having additional twisting elements or more control surfaces on them would have further increased cost.

Another potential rationale is that, from Tesla’s vantage point, those controls are vestigial. The automatic wiper sensor should handle wiper activation, rendering the stalk controls unnecessary. In practice, that sensor is still in need of further tuning. But if Tesla’s goal is to build the car of the future, it’s possible they’re willing to front-run the software in picking hardware choices.
There is no twisting part on the stalks in a model 3, so you only have the option of short press and long press.

It is definitely the least safe part of the Model 3 imo. Having the rest of the controls on the screen is not a big deal but adjusting wiper settings can be important for safety and its not very intuitive.
That's why device PINs are good - pretty useless without the device.
I would say that's a much more prevalent attitude in the Windows and Mac worlds. Linux tries to keep compatibility with really old software. It was only 4 years ago that major distros started to require at least a 686, aka Pentium Pro, released in November 1995!

But at some point you have to consider if it's really worth it keeping a 10 year old laptop around. It's painful to say them goodbye, I know, I have been there, but for me it's just not worth it.
This is an alt account for personal safety and privacy reasons. People have tried to dig through my account (as you have done) and interfere with my personal life. In the past, I have received messages that have been a cause for concern while using my personal account.

For future reference, insinuating someone is a shill or a foreign agent is explicitly against HN guidelines, as it degrades the quality of the discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This doesn’t sound different than the US at all.

If you get a DUI or are negligent and cause injury or accident you’ll end up in court.
OMG I love Blue Mail. That is so evil Google !!!
We’re really going backwards in car ui design. In my older car I can do almost everything by touch without looking.
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> then tiktok may simply provide a web version. Will US build some kind of firewall?

There is no need to do that. TikTok has significant US offices and operations. All the government would have to do is fine them/arrest them if they refuse to follow the law.

Thats how the law works. If you don't follow it, you get fined or arrested.
I have been running nothing but Linux since 1994. My last Windows was 3.1.

I just installed Windows 10 for the sole purpose of running this flight simulator.
Some education is good, but that much could result in paralysis by analysis. He'd be better off taking a relatively small chunk (say $25K) and learning by doing. Open a brokerage account and experiment with different investments.

Some people do not have the right "temperament" for investing. They're afraid to buy. Afraid to hold, so they sell too soon. They can't handle the volatility, so they get out at the first sign of trouble. It takes practice. Paper trading can help, but it doesn't get you the same feel as working with "real" money and markets.
Imagine your friend has to hire new people for his team. You just communicated to him that he sucks at "estimating technical competence" with his "unreliable excuse activities masking gut feeling decisions" and that his "overly simplistic tests only measure how good someone is in those tests, not how good someone will be in a position".

Of course, he would love to have a direct measure for how good someone will be in a position. Who wouldn't? So he asks you "well what should I do then?". What do you say?

To be clear, this is a hard problem. There are many dimensions for "how good someone will be in a position", and the interview process is designed to filter along as many of those as possible with reasonable effort.

Ultimately there's only one reliable way to find out if the candidate passes all the thresholds in day-to-day work: Hire them. But you can't do that with every candidate.
Eating lunch in San Francisco (SoMa) has really warped my brain. My answers to those four questions were way off the chart.
As horrible and cynical as this is, I feel like they probably should not publish this. I think there are more people who would abuse this information, than who could do anything about it.
Almost everything I've ever attempted to do on my own, once I did enough research into how to do it, turned out to be extremely easy. The only time it's been difficult is when some other person put arbitrary and/or unexpected rules or limitations in place. Examples:

"Oh you want to make a website? You knew how to make a website in 2004? Well too bad, the tools you used in 2004 are now hopelessly broken. New tools have arisen to take their place, but you have to learn everything from scratch."

"Oh you want to make a video game? You learned OpenGL? Too bad that won't work on iOS. Looks like it's back to the studying phase for you..."

"Oh you want to compile Hadoop from scratch? Too bad it's a 9,000-step process, and anything could go wrong along the way."

"Oh you want to add a feature at the company you work for? Too bad someone wrote that module in an unnecessarily confusing way, so have fun tracing through that mess to figure out how it works before you can add the feature."

I've found these cases account for 95% of programming. So I guess I'm saying that 95% of programming is hard.
‘false reports’ - what percentage of those are malicious is a question they should be asking themselves. False claims like that are bad as in such crimes, the mentality is guilty until proven innocent in the eyes of the public at large.
Matt Levine talks a lot about insider trading, and the emphasis he always puts on it is about theft. Insider trading, in the US, isn’t about trading on uncommon knowledge or inferences. That’s actually many professional traders job: information arbitrage. It’s about trading on information that is owned by your employer. Your responsibility as an employee or executive is to the company and using inside corporate information for personal gain rather than corporate gain is a form of theft. Here’s his piece on the distinction between thinking about insider trading as being about fairness vs theft.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/a...
Seems some simple filters on their reporting tools could help them more easily deal with inaccurate reports.

They note: "Do report only once for each web address – or URL. Repeat reporting of the same URL isn’t needed and wastes analysts’ time."

Well, surely they could implement a filter to only allow reporting the same URL once.

Further they note: "non-criminal adult material from pornographic websites"

Surely, there could a be a whitelist for major legitimate porn sites with an automated response that those sites are legitimate businesses not hosting illegal material.
This is ridiculous nonsense. A mini split is basically the evaporation coils mounted on the wall and a hole cut to the outside for the refrigerant tubes to run. It would be nice to have it on its own circuit, though a 20 amp circuit might be able to just have it added on. That's pretty much it.

Mount it like a TV, cut a hole in the wall, hook up electricity. No architectural designs needed. I'm not sure who told you that, but there are dozens of DIY youtubers who must have gotten free split units, because there is a flood of videos of people installing a precharged version with only themselves and a helper.
Can you elaborate? You essentially just hand waved over my points and said "because Pakistan, Israel."
> So Europe/India/everyone else should ban US apps? It becomes a slippery slope.

Are Europe and India concerned by a US company controls popular social media companies? Evidently not enough to ban them, and if in the future if they are then that's their prerogative.

> If you’re worried about a foreign company manipulating media then put in laws and regulations.

They did: The US put laws in place that allows the executive to block commerce when it is deemed a strategic threat. And now those laws are being exercised against a media company controlled by a geopolitical rival.
Just taking a hard pass on all pharmaceuticals developed in the last 20 years is not a highly optimized strategy.
This is called the “mist” button, a dedicated button to operate the wiper exactly once, and every car I’ve ever driven had one.

The button allows instant actuation of the wipers. There are times when you can get hit with water or mud unexpectedly so it’s nice to have. Any other adjustment can be made at a pre-planned moment with a single tap on the touchscreen, similar to checking blind spots or such.

Note that pressing “mist” also shows the wiper adjustment controls on the bottom-left corner of the screen, so you don’t have to swipe to navigate to them.
The Zeneca part is formerly ICI of toxic chemicals fame. Some things never change.
We wrote a Bluetooth mesh product before there was Bluetooth mesh standard. Don't call me lazy for not publishing a short spec when the actual Bluetooth spec is over 100 pages. BLE is "easy" managing a mesh network with transactions , droped packets, authentication, 100s of settings across different products is not. Instead we focused on the product we were trying to sell and things people actually bought based on like Alexa and Google support. We had lots of internal docs that heavily documented things including things that would damage the performance of the network and experiments that failed in practice.
Similar to will forgery, deed forgery is still a problem today. In fact, it is a growing problem, as forgers have the information and access they need through online land records. While online land records have greatly simplified real estate closings, this is one downside. County recorders are unable to stop these forged deeds, as they are legally required to record all deeds that are appropriately formatted.

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Wait, what? I am in Canada and I have a couple of 5pound CO2 canister for home brewing and a modded sodastream to accept any CO2 canister. Where did you find this information?

I even get it filled up at the corner store lol.
Quick counter-proof: Multiplication and addition are enough to implement neural networks, which could eventually implement logical circuits.
I think game theory can offer some insight. A tit-for-tat approach has been shown to be an effective long-term strategy over multiple iterations of the Prisoner's Dilemma. Player A will be discouraged from acting adversarially if they have reason to believe that player B will respond in kind.
Wow that's an incredible story. Thank you so much for your support. I have been thinking about open-sourcing the code because it could be useful for many other domains.
The browser hands that information over, even if you didn't want it to. a lot of info is just included with every HTTP request per the protocol.

You can to some degree massage what your browser sends, to varying degrees of success, but there is not an easy 'send only non-unique things please' button. Obviously the IP has to be sent regardless, the only way to get around that is VPN and similar tech.
Yes but only if people are convinced to make the call to consider interest rates to remain this low for a long time at once. If they gradually do it and the underlying businesses continue to generate the earnings and growth expected, the outcome is different. In any case if you have made your money today and investing it, 4% may still be quite reasonable.
I feel stuck in my “data engineering” job and I could use some advice
I am a Software Engineer in Data at a high prestige company in San Francisco. We maintain data pipelines like Hadoop/Presto/Spark/Flink for the rest of the company supporting everything from business intelligence to machine learning, discovery, content serving etc.

Problem is that my job has literally zero prestige within the company, it is extremely high-pressure with sometimes very unexpected bugs and things breaking in production that could be some of the hardest incidents to solve (at the company level). I feel more stressed out than some of my peers in other orgs who are not doing as much work. Promotions come easy for them since their work has more visibility and WLB is also better.

Although the pay is great but its to the point where we feel disconnected from the company culture. If you were to look at our reviews at glassdoor/linkedin etc. you would feel that its a great place to work at with amazing culture and decent WLB but that is only true for the product facing orgs.

I've only been in the industry for 2 years so I'm still figuring out what I have to do but I feel like its time for me to make a decision what to master in. What would you do if you were in my spot? Change companies and move to an entirely data focused company (like Databricks) where I would get to learn and work on data projects in detail, or change teams within my company and explore a new landscape like iOS/Web/APIs etc?
I wasn't sure if the budget "3" has the same controls the full-featured Tesla does, but it does (according to the article). There was no reason to use the touchscreen to turn on the wipers.
I've been in several single person accidents (all of them over 10 years ago, I was a super crappy driver as a teenager) that neither the police nor the courts nor insurance ever found out about