skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My entirely speculative guess is that the discrepancy is in human behavior that's not modeled. The tools assume the money is invested in a timely manner, but in reality folk procrastinate and their saving spend arbitrary months / years sitting around in low interest rate accounts.

My first 5 years of full time employment with a salary, I was making enough to live comfortably and contribute to a 401K, and finances and investing aren't inherently interesting to me, so I didn't really think too much about the money accumulating in my savings account. The money definitely lost value over those 5 years because of inflation. I finally figured out how to put money into ETFs, and 5 years later that same amount of money has at least doubled in value. A lot of that probably has to do with the economy being crazy, but I suspect I missed out on a lot of compound growth not investing those savings initially. That is to say, my savings over time didn't look like a "PERT" plot until I took concrete steps (and the associated risks) to invest in the market.

Not to say that sitting on money or being slow to invest in higher growth accounts is good or bad. There's risk and everyone has their own personal risk tolerance, and diversification is important. If all you have is $5000, dumping it all into the stock market would seem pretty risky and perhaps foolish. That $5000 sitting in a checking or savings account is losing value over time rather than growing, though.

I suppose that could be another example of it being easier to live frugally when you have money, i.e. buying a $100 pair vs. $20 pair of work boots. On the other hand, many folk with very little savings still seem to find a way to buy luxuries like iphones and vacations. In addition to luck, personal discipline and sacrifice must factor in to some degree when it comes to achieving a financial goal.
>> there are hunter-gatherer tribes living today that consume a significant amount of sugar (up to 60% of their calories) and don't have the same problems with obesity, diabetes,

The reason they don't have those issues is they are constantly burning calories and in constant motion. H/G is not an easy life and those tribes (both men and women) put in a ton of manual labor. In college I remember one film where a tribe in Papua New Guinea were shown climbing a 15ft tall palm tree. All three males they showed were totally shredded. Six pack, lean upper bodies, biceps and legs were all cut.

I would imagine the sugar gets burned up pretty quickly and it not only a source of calories but a primary source of energy - which is needed for how they live.
works very well. I had it on a Samsung Galaxy S7 and sending messages was wonky due to a known issue with that and a few other Samsung Galaxy phones. However it was easy to setup, use, and absolutely love it, well done!
KDE continues to impress.
As a side note, I just found out Kmail supports oauth2 with o365!
In JavaScript (specifically node / V8) if dividing multiple values by the same divisor, is it fastest to calculate the reciprocal and then multiply it?

How about other languages (and compiler systems)?

Are there binary tricks worth knowing about to quickly calculate reciprocals?
I see nothing on the site, nor in the docs, not even in the how-it-works about security. Is this not a huge security risk in the making? Controlling your phones and your desktops seems risky.
> Roku hardware and UI is superior to anything on the market.

I have to agree. I've used Apple TV, and while its UI is fancier, it lags, crashes and just doesn't have the same "ergonomics". Something as simple as toggling captions and changing picture modes while paying a video is so much easier on Roku. And, all the menus provide by the Roku OS just feel snappier.
Dipole – tiny reactive state management that just works
Yeah, maybe I can help here as I faced the same stark realisation some years back.

Generally speaking, higher testosterone levels are correlated with higher protein and fat intakes, mainly because cholesterol is used by the Leydig cells in your balls to produce testosterone. I am not saying you should start adding butter to your coffee or whatever other dumb things the keto people are saying, but going very low-fat and/or low protein is not good for your test levels.

I greatly increased the amount of animal protein I eat to roughly 2g/kg (roughly 1g/lb, if that's easier). I ignored fat, just consuming it with my protein sources. To make room for the added protein, which is now the centre of my diet, I eliminated most starchy carbs (pasta, rice, etc) as they are low-value foods. I still eat bread because, well, freshly baked bread is delicious and I am not a low-carb zealot. My main carb sources are now vegetables, lentils and beans, the latter two of which have some protein as well. But the best sources are always animal-based and this will no doubt irritate many people who read this.

I had my T levels taken before and after and I saw a pretty big increase in free test. But to be honest, test levels vary a lot even over the course of a single day so the best thing is to simply go by the old standby: are you consistently getting wood in the morning? If yes, you are probably okay.

Another bonus to the high-protein life is increased muscle protein synthesis. When you are young, this is largely hormonally driven but as you get older, falling test levels make it more difficult to build and keep muscle. This leads to age-related muscle wasting, also called sarcopenia. You can delay this process simply by eating a lot more protein to drive an anabolic response.
Masks are the only thing that might stop aerosols, which remain airborne for a long period of time.
A Markov Chain, but for bullshit.
I think this is a misconception. It's not about the fountain vs canned or bottle soda.

Carbon dioxide lowers the pH of a drink to 4.5, which is acidic. The acid pH level erodes teeth and one shouldn't brush their teeth too soon after drinking soda because the enamel can be damaged. (Edit: acid on your teeth is always bad, brushing or not.)

Getting a soft drink from a fountain often means getting a straw for your cup as well. Using a straw to drink does help somewhat to bypass the soda from making contact with the teeth in the first place.

Use a straw, save a tooth.
When people compare costs of building, they tend to compare to other large old cities like london, madrid, etc which still beat out NYC by a mile.
But it can’t be turtles all the way down? Isn’t a semaphore counter also shared state that needs to be protected if several threads want to “down” the value? Can it become negative?
> My main point is when the building is completed, and it's time for the developer to sell the shiny new building; the price you pay is exactly the same.

It is more complicated than that.

The way that supply and demand works, is that if costs go up, then there is less reason to create new supply.

And a lower supply of an item, means that prices, for the overall market, will go up.

That is how supply and demand works, and housing is no different.

> You the buyer will not receive a better deal ever. The market determines the price.

The market is determined by supply and demand. This is standard, 101 economic theory. If costs go up, supply go down (or supply increases a smaller amount), and price goes up.
Related to this, I've seen research showing that by the time a room feels stuffy there is enough CO2 to measurably affect cognitive performance. Now I'm much better about remembering to open a window when I'm coding and starting to drag.
Logged in specifically to agree and upvote this comment!

- on-demand preview of changes before i hit save

- source code is always embedded with the diagram and anyone can reference and edit

- source controlled history via confluence history

I've used mermaid extensively but ultimately abandoned it because it didn't have a good flow for sharing the source and history. Confluence + PlantUML is a great solution.
>async/await and friends (generators, callback-passing, etc.) all provide some clues that are sometimes useful for solving concurrency problems,

Exactly what I said.

>but they aren’t able to make unsafe programs safe.

Exactly not what I said either.
For the sake of clarifying further:

At least according to usage that I'm familiar with, if the phrase were, "no other person has ever been", that would be talking about before or since. But "no other person had ever been" is only talking about history up until that point. "Has been" is the present perfect tense, and "had been" is the past perfect tense.
Yeah, Microsoft commissioned Cascadia Code to be an open licensed font, so I'd also hoped this blog post ended with links to GitHub repos.
The Wrights' innovations are:

1. first mathematical propeller theory combining blade element theory with momentum theory, producing 90% efficient propellers

2. first lightweight aviation engine

3. first 3-axis control system

4. first use of wind tunnel to evaluate wing design of area, aspect ratio, airfoil section and tip shape

5. first research and development program using a series of prototypes to test each feature

6. correctly identifying that control was the primary problem

7. correctly identifying that an airplane must bank in order to turn

8. correctly identifying "adverse yaw" and the rudder as solution
A similar tool in this space is Jason Miller's (@developit) WMR:

https://github.com/preactjs/wmr
>prevents them from doing anything that would screw themselves over.

That was the case when App Store was born, it really did provide the security and curation of Apps. But now that is no longer the case, scam Apps and low quality apps / games are everywhere. They are not as bad as Android but still bad. Not to mention Apple doesn't care about your IP, if someone make an app that is 99% the same with look and graphics. There is no way to challenge that because Apple said they dont take side ( What ? ).

Especially when they hold the majority of market shares. Today, the iPhone has 66% market share in the United States, 75% of U.S. App Store revenues, and over 80% of time spent on the mobile internet. And these numbers are pre iPhone 12, judging from the trend it looks like the current number will only be higher. They cant hide behind privacy and curation forever.
Pathways into darkness demo is broken, please fix :)
Fantastic, love my FritzBox, I'll look into this. Stand happily corrected!
Maybe, but I love Aerons. I'm perpetually overheating and the mesh in the Aerons is unrivaled. They are probably too expensive, but I just love them.
Here's the announcement from the Microsoft Design Team: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2021/04/2...
That looks very cool and I like the security concept. Any chance you're going to open-source it?
I don't understand why this is controversial.
Tesla wants to diversify it's holding and decides to have x% of it's holdings in form of BTC.

BTC subsequently goes up sigfinicantly. Now, Tesla has y% of it's holding in BTC, with y larger than x.

Tesla now sells ~100M$ of BTC, which ballparks looks about right to bring y closer to x.

This is what many individuals and investors do all the time, it's just rebalancing and it's the smart thing to do.
I used GNU Typist to teach myself several years ago. https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/gtypist/gtypist.h...
Facebook ‘looking into’ hiding of posts calling for PM’s resignation in India
Then their customers should have the option to opt in. Is that fine with you?
On the "I have witnessed the CIA justify those wars" comment we have started what 4 wars since Iraq? Every drone strike is justified with intelligence. I can find some YouTube clips later of CIA directors justifying war in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria if you don't believe me.

> Also, do/should intelligence agencies generally come out and make public announcements of intelligence at all?

They did so pretty frequently during the Trump administration. Whistleblowers spoke up when someone came in claiming to want to end the war on terror, they didn't feel the need to do so in 2001 when that war was getting started.
The general way to measure value creation would be to sum the difference between what both parties would be willing to transact for something with what they actually transact for it.

In your example, the value creation is $0.2 ($0.1+$0.1) due to the existence of a perfect substitute.

In other cases the value creation may be 10x the turnover or higher. For example, if there's a single surgeon that can give me a life saving procedure that costs me $50k when I would've happily paid $500k, then the value creation for me is $450k and perhaps $20k for the surgeon.

In the case of Amazon, their numbers are probably an exaggeration, yes. They've assumed that the turnover = value creation, which is false reasoning, as we both recognize. It might be higher or lower. The real number might be 0.4x of what they stated, if I was to hazard a guess.

But since the whole idea of value creation flies over the heads of so many people (and this misunderstanding of basic economics has profound policy implications), Amazon's exaggeration here is not a point I wish to focus on.
> thus should know better

This reads as a very acrimonious, biased take. Authors choose the tools they use based on a number of criteria and personal preferences. It's one thing to disagree with them, it's another to project judgement without knowing the why.
> You put all of that effort into compiling this lengthy comment just to come off as a condescending, smart ass critic

The majority of my comment is a direct quote. I wrote very little.

> Constructive criticism would explain how his model can’t possibly give rise to the Lorentz invariance or Schrodinger’s equation.

His model isn't well defined enough for me to attempt that. It's wishy-washy nonsense, that betrays a lack of understanding of the fundamentals of QM. I never said it can't, I just asked the author to show it. It may very well be the case that a more well developed and rigorously defined version of this could give rise to the Lorentz invariance or the Schrödinger equation.

> But you physicists clearly have it all figured out.

Science and mathematics doesn't have it all figured out. That's the whole point. But there are standards and rigor that need to be applied. This utter horseshit doesn't have any of that, and it's astounding that it came from someone with a PhD, and not a poorly trained ML model.
“How isolated, how lonely those two space supermen appeared! But they had each other for companionship; and through television, they were held in the thoughts of viewing millions of men and women. To be really isolated, to fully experience loneliness, you must be alone. From Armstrong’s and Aldrin’s spectacular movements, my mind shifted to Collins’s lunar orbiting. Relatively inactive and unwatched, he had time for contemplation, time to study both the nearby surface of the moon and the distant moonlike world. Here was human awareness floating through universal reaches, attached to our earth by such tenuous bonds as radio waves and star sights. A minor functional error would leave it floating forever in the space from which, ancestrally, it came.”

Charles Lindbergh's forward in Carrying the Fire.
This is informative.

How is the configuration overhead? Is it relatively easy to get Vite + a custom react app template + tsx + testing up and running?

CRA is bloated, but still one of the fastest ways to get a "full app" up and running with React.
That's looks like a good read! Thanks a lot for making it available for free here !
I wonder how this compares to a proper manual Webpack configuration. Comparing it to CRA isn't really helpful to me, as CRA is already known to be very slow.

I would consider trying it if it has significant performance benefits over a manual Webpack config, especially one making use of esbuild-loader (https://github.com/privatenumber/esbuild-loader)
He's in jail for tax evasion.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/john-mcafee-indicted-tax-evas...
Wouldn't also some mass be converted into energy? Probably not much though
It's really well known that fiber interacts with the gut microbiome and the immune system. There's at least a decade of mainstream publications backing up that fiber helps inducing regulatory T cells. These are needed to avoid inflammation.
>2. People texting a lot (maybe other countries’ carriers used to just make texting too expensive?)

Yes. US mobile plans gave enormous buckets (thousands) of SMS messages a month to mobile users 10-15 years ago, so there was little incentive to move to other mobile messaging systems.

Conversely, the lack of such generous SMS allotments in most non-US countries drove widespread adoption of WhatsApp/Facebook Messenger/etc.
Frankly, I would pass.

The switchover of build tools in JS land is insane. I get that this has concrete performance improvements over alternatives, but I wonder if the same effort put towards improving an existing toolchain wouldn't get you a lot of similar efforts without breaking everything yet again.
Show HN: LearnMetaPost.com
Cullinet - if you had a blog talking about the technical aspects of photography/film, I would love to read it.
> It tracks what you watch and superimposes ads.

Tracking can be turned off in the settings. I have several Roku TVs and Roku boxes and don't see any ads "superimposed". The only ad (singular) I see is on the home screen.
Biden Targets $41B Tax Break for Rich Real Estate Investors
As a followup here's a paper on the various tribes. Sorry I don't have a download link to the full PDF: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24746602/

In that paper they also reference the Mbuti pygmies of the Congo. Specifically:
"The Mbuti of the Congo forests eat large amounts of honey. According to Ichikawa (1981), honey is their favorite food. At times, during the rainy season up to 80% of the calories in their diet come from honey."
I suppose you could also lose weight via the moisture in your breath, or sweat of operation. But yes, it’s pretty cool.
Usually, glucose is regarded as the worst from an insulin resistance perspective - makes it way directly to your blood causing a large spike in blood sugar.

Fructose isn’t as bad from that perspective because it has to be metabolized by the liver first. But with that in mind, consuming too much fructose can lead to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease which is basically cirrhosis but from other causes.
>I call the corresponding divisors ideal

Not a particularly good name, as “ideal” already has an established meaning in algebra: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_(ring_theory)
Reminds me of the more adult 100$ debt riddle. Found it at econlib.org by David Henderson, but I've heard multiple variations before, so I have no idea where the original comes from.

"It’s a slow day in some little town……..
The sun is hot….the streets are deserted.
Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.
On this particular day a rich tourist from back west is driving thru town.
He stops at the motel and lays a $100 bill on the desk saying he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one to spend the night.
As soon as the man walks upstairs, the owner grabs the bill and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher.
The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to retire his debt to the pig farmer.
The pig farmer takes the $100 and heads off to pay his bill at the feed store.
The guy at the Farmer’s Co-op takes the $100 and runs to pay his debt to the local prostitute, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer her services on credit.
She, in a flash rushes to the motel and pays off her room bill with the motel owner.
The motel proprietor now places the $100 back on the counter so the rich traveler will not suspect anything.
At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, picks up the $100 bill, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, pockets the money & leaves.
NOW,… no one produced anything…and no one earned anything…however the whole town is out of debt and is looking to the future with much optimism."
> The Wright brothers were the original patent trolls

Edison was not only a patent troll, but was besieged by other patent trolls. He spent much of his career in court defending his patents and trying to overturn others.
The image being a JPEG certainly doesn't help. The first font looks "thicker"/"bolder" than the second, but I genuinely cannot tell if that's a real difference or just the result of compression artifacts.
In order to bank in the modern era
> - It targets the rich, and marginally (if at all) impacts the lower and middle classes (replacing all taxes with LVT would almost certainly reduce middle class tax burdens and entirely eliminate lower class tax burdens)

The lower class still live somewhere. If you go to a land tax, their landlord isn't going to just eat that. It will be passed on to the renters.

- All economic activities ultimately depend on land in some way, so instead of taxing (and thus suppressing) those economic activities, it's ultimately more economically efficient to tax land itself

Here's a software-only startup that works fully remote. How does that economic activity depend on land? It doesn't, except for the workers' living places. But they'd still have living places even if they were unemployed.

But I kind of agree with your last paragraph. If you are going to go with a "land use" tax, well, Google owns some buildings with servers in them, but the most valuable thing they own is google.com.
Secret History of Microsoft Bob
In the right position, excellent SWEs have enormous leverage. A median SWE might maintain some line-of-business app for an insurance company, and an excellent one might create software that is used by an entire industry (say, Redis just as an example).

By comparison, given the physical and time constraints of the job, an excellent nurse might be able to spread their expertise to 2x as many patients as a median? 3x? I think even 3x is a stretch. Maybe they can make a life-saving catch in the hardest 5% of cases (definitionally, very rare opportunity to apply this level of skill)?
The last Bitcoin will be mined in ca 120 years. [1]
Maybe better invest in longevity research if you wish to witness this event.

[1] https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/10486/when-will-...
Do you recommend KDE Neon?
No, actually, that’s the point they allude to: that free will might be an illusion, a hallucination.

No one denies the lived experience of free will, the inquiry into it asks if we can quantify that qualia without resorting to complete determinism.

If we can’t, it is perhaps an illusion. There is ample precedent for lived experience being an illusory lie told to our minds by our brains - visual hallucinations are the closest example to hand.
> Collins was largely powerless to help if something went wrong. If that did happen, he would have been faced with the choice of abandoning his crewmates to die on the moon and fly back to Earth himself.

He would have died in orbit then, just a little bit closer to the rest of mankind. There was no was way for him to return to solid Earth unless the lunar module came back. He was dependent on the outcome of the Lunar mission and he was not even allwed to set his foot onto Moon. One of my heros since childhood...
My comcast bill is $70 a month for 1000Mbps down / 36Mbps up. Pretty happy actually... and my area has no municipal ISP, and the only other option is AT&T's DSL variant.
Because when it's your guy getting attacked, it's a conspiracy. When it's the other guy, it's righteous.
It's not the chair that's the problem, is the sedentary style.

You should really take time do strength exercises for your back, three or more times a week, always.

Since I started working out regularly 7 or so years ago (I'm in my mid forties), never again I had any back pains, and my sitting style is awful (I kind of melt in the chair).