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> Am I the only biological man who doesn't like discussing his emotions?

No and that's the problem. You should direct all of this tangible communication energy into emotional communication energy. Get comfortable with talking about them. It's incredibly useful. You aren't highly evolved and in the end you can't logic or reason emotions. Deal with them. Confront them. Be mindful of them.

> Sometimes I wonder if what's toxic to some may not be to others

Yes. What you are entirely describing in your reply is what I consider toxic. You are doing a lot of explaining and rationalizing and not much empathizing.

Setting an example and ending the stigma of guys talking about emotions not being useful is toxic.
There is no runanaway inflation because it is specific to asset classes, and, critically we have managed to export a great deal on inflation abroad.

Look at asset prices outside of the US. A cursory look at home values in specific markets within colombia, Mexico, Russia and Argentina tell you a lot of where things are going, post COVID
QE and the repo operations the Fed does are “providing liquidity” to activity that would (presumably) normally happen anyway. I’d assume this would be the reason. You can argue the activity wouldn’t happen if interest rates weren’t kept artificially low.

Another thing is these security purchases are largely insulated from what is used to calculate inflation. These are exchanges between banks and funds and similar.
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I agree… but you only need strategically placed “hubs” that you can connect to. Similar to our previous hub and spike model for previous travel. This can bring a trip to New York -> Tokyo down to 3 hours.

I still suspect that the number of issues for overland super sonic is going to have similar issues as starling landings…
We should just port wine to webassembly and be done with it
Another way to put it is that as you get older you start prioritizing things better that are of value to you as your time in existence is being depleted. Less time means more focus, which results in less fucks.
>Why are the rules not also applied to hedge funds?

Because the idea is that people who have enough money to invest in a hedge fund have enough money to lose it all and not end up on welfare.
I love your theory. Resonates with me.
... you're aware a variation of this was tried a century ago, yes?
I'll bite.

For starters, a binary blob on your computer can be prevented from "phoning home" to collect personal data much more effectively than a web app can. Additionally, the vendor is often forced to compete with their own old software because they can't always force you to run the newest binary blob. This prevents the wholesale loss of features from products you rely on at the whim of the vendor.
Worse - it's gambling with other people's money and then charging 2-and-20 on it.

Actually, now that I think of it, it's even worse that that! - its taking other people's money, then leveraging it, and then charging 2-and-20.

Who needs to be a criminal when you can just do this instead?
Suppose a real AirTag owner is wondering where their lost tag is. Although it would be ideal to learn where it is right now they'd be somewhat happy to know where an iPhone "saw" it two hours ago, or indeed a week ago... and Apple's system deliberately stores up to a week of data.

A week is about 700 keys to check. For one "lost" device, but as you note Apple are happy for you to buy more than a dozen, and of course you wouldn't be happy if Apple tells you that you must only track one of those.

Apple has no way to know if your check for 7000 keys is, in fact, ten devices for a week, or 7000 unrelated queries, it deliberately doesn't know how to relate the keys to one or more tags.

So while yes, that would mean if you have a long term sensor network Apple could block you using it to move more than a few bytes per hour per Apple ID (Apple IDs are free) if you have a more nefarious motive to move say a kilobyte in an hour or two, once every few weeks, that should work fine.
It's basically Flash [1]. What's old is new again.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash
It basically just means that he pumped ARKK with debt and/or gains from leveraged investments. You could say that the implication is that ARKK's main investments, e.g. TSLA were also pumped.

Given that most of ARKKs investments started to tank around the same time this fiasco happened, it could also imply some level of interconnectedness that investors were not explicitly made aware of (and they probably should've).
check out seafile. It is really performant.
The business will compete with a range of international companies, including Boom Supersonic and Spike Aerospace, vying to become the first commercial supersonic jet to enter service since the Concorde. Pretty challenging.
Inflation reduces wealth inequality. inflation is good.
The book mentioned "simulations" a couple times. I would love to know who wrote the simulation.

edit: maybe "simulation" was ksp and the wrote their flight controller as a plugin haha
U.S. consumer prices post largest gain since 2009 as inflation ramps up
That much:

https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/tree/trunk/www/firefox/patc...
> Friends say bands are "awesome", long meetings are "excruciating", guys in mock turtlenecks say products are "magical" or "revolutionary". Boys cry "wolf". What does it all mean?

Do these exaggerations, or use of flowery language, carry any real world consequences? The words "abuse" and "violence" (and other vernacular that people are using around problems they face) carry consequences under the law, reputational damage, etc... I suspect the people who replace, "So and so said something that offended me" with "So and so said something that was abusive to me" know they're participating in deceptive language that carries real consequences.

I lean in the direction that these folks believe the ends justify the means but I've yet to hear anyone speak in earnest about why they do this. Usually when they explain themselves it involves a lot of imagery and mental gymnastics as well as a wide array of unprovable assumptions you must accept in order to understand their point but always conveniently skips over their language choice.

In fact, there's entire rhetoric designed to avoid this subject called "tone policing" whereby someone is allowed to make outrageous claims because they feel some way about something. It's then on the rest of us to sort out their emotional baggage from the hard facts and produce something from it.

Generally, I've noticed humans will use flowery language when bullshitting, speaking abstractly, or trying to sell something. When we talk about problems we tend to try to be more concise, as being concise lets us address the problem more directly while using flowery language is both deceptive and distracting.
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My login specifically? Probably a lot less than "admin" "root" or similar common things script kiddies run. But if it is on port 22, the dictionary will probably be attempted.
Stories are relevant if people find them interesting, and that’s about all the rhyme or reason there is to it. Somebody losing $20 billion in a matter of days is very eye-catching.
You are definitely on the wrong end. HN is for any articles that are interesting, with a bias towards tech but not exclusively about it. This is a fascinating article and I’m glad that it was posted.
I said "claims to" because I don't know how I can verify if it is. The other person responding to me correctly mention how they suggest tools to scan for accessibility issues on iOS and Android, but they don't say how to do that on the web... have you managed to somehow figure out what is not currently working, exactly?

Regarding performance: Chrome uses Skia to render the DOM, why do you think rendering Flutter, also based on Skia, should be so much worse?
Math-heavy documents using MathJax seem to take longer to load than PDF versions of similar documents, and don’t look quite as good. I would say, for highly mathematical content, you might as well just use LaTeX and link to PDFs. You can use hyperlinks to go back and forth between PDF and HTML documents, so the experience can be basically seamless for the reader. It helps to format the PDFs with web reading in mind, rather than using typical journal paper styles.
The NRA was able to get this as the standard for gun sales records in the US. By law such records are on paper in an unsearchable format. I hadn't heard of any other type of info being treated in this way though.

[1] https://www.thetrace.org/2016/08/atf-non-searchable-database...
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> I want to put in my best effort then I am done.

Your best effort at what? A few years ago if I had said that I would mean I want to do my best at imposing my idea of good code and products on the company. I've recently given up the fight and now give "my best effort" towards being pleasant to work with, helping others, kissing ass, doing bullshit, and almost never working overtime and standing up for myself when it's time to go home. I'm happier now.

And what I used to consider kissing ass or doing bullshit I now consider to be selling myself to the people who pay me and just doing the work they pay me to do.

I do still push for changes I think would be good, but much less aggressively.
Absolutely, Quantum was a big leap. But many people are devoted to chrome and so are developers. Many sites are still worse on Firefox than Chrome.
Sodium-bromide in particular looks like a cheap, highly available, easy to handle pair that can fill every one of those niches that don't really care about energy density.

But current batteries use metal compounds, where the metal itself is never completely oxidized or reduced. Those are much easier to design, as you can simply place an ion exchange membrane separating the poles. AFAIK, nobody has any idea how a metal-halogen battery would work.
How will it work, if they are sending binary WASM blobs? This is akin to saying "pi hole can block ads in .exe files"
4. "Call me when you've built an actual plane and not just a PowerPoint deck."

And in this case, I think this would be a valid complaint. This is just an announcement that some people might look into some things. It's also a company that has wanted to build a spaceport in Australia for 20 years, and... hasn't.
Off topic: blog posts [...] and other reading material

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

It's a fine HN submission, just not a Show HN.
But that was all scraped, was there a financial transaction?
Yes please link some other scandals, i'd want to get into it more, thanks
ARKK has been declining heavily lately, and according to some analysts it has been the culprit of a bunch of Nasdaq crashes the past 3 months.

Seemly ARKK is focused on tech stocks, and as they keep losing share price they keep selling FAANG stocks to buy their own shares or smaller companies shares in an attempt to stall their losses.

There was lots of speculation they were going to crash hard like Archegos did, and that was BEFORE the Archegos involvement was known.
> I think this is just the beginning and I don’t think there’s anything they can do...

What prevents the government from eliminating Trump's trade war tarrifs and increasing immigration?

Yes, there are unorthodox ways to defeat inflation.
I hear this take a lot. Why is HTML + JS awful for developing applications?
You're talking about very different issues of accessibility, one of which is the financial accessibility of client technology and reliable web connection.

That is attacked through very different means. For example, FB being free and ad funded addresses that issue; but this is a business model and not a technological standard. Society subsidizing technology is another possibility. But these very serious issues of access and the solutions to negotiate with them are very different from purely technical solutions to access.
Recommend you experience 17776 [0][1] if you haven't, it explores this theme in a pretty hilarious way.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17776
[1] https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football
Btw for NASA css is shorthand for Control Stick Steering, which is something you did at later stages of landing with a space shuttle.
We have to be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater here, though. Obviously accessibility is an important issue for both commercial and ethical reasons, but if you're talking about writing laws and severe penalties for breaking them then you will always have to choose what minimum standards you will always require and then accept that it might be unreasonable for a software developer to go further.

For example, suppose the entire purpose of a certain office application is to draw some clever visualisation that helps the office workers to understand complex relationships in their business data. Maybe that presentation style has been chosen based on years of experience and saves a lot of time and avoids a lot of mistakes compared to a simple text report or table of figures. However, maybe it also doesn't work for someone whose vision is too limited to usefully see or interact with the visualisation.

Perhaps you could present the same data and relationships in a different way, a format that would be more amenable to sound- or touch-based interfaces for those with severely limited or no vision. In reality, that might mean writing a second entirely separate application, one that might cost more than the original to implement and support, for an audience that will usually be very small and often empty.

So where should the line be drawn? In an ideal world we want to be as inclusive as possible regardless of anyone's individual limitations, but we also want to provide the most effective presentation possible to those who don't have the same limitations. In general doing both might be prohibitively expensive, so how do you make realistic, ethical decisions in this space, and given that every software application is different, how do you codify the standards you want to make mandatory for the accessibility reasons?
> Sounds like a lot of work to display a bloody list.

UI is complex? Who knew!
SpaceX have to walk a fine line here... They have a massive fan base which is fairly important to the success of the company (if the fan base turns against them, they will probably lose public funding and regulatory support).

Yet a small proportion of the fan base is a little too enthusiastic. If they prosecute these people too aggressively it might not look good from a PR perspective.
> F* are reserved for important matters like arguing on HN about the superiority of Linux :)

I thought you said you were tired of chasing fashions. ;p
Cab I be facetious and factually describe the current state of affairs simultaneously?
> China tends to be left out of these discussions

Volvo is a Chinese-owned company. While the company is headquartered and led in Sweden, it is safe to assume that the Chinese market is a strong consideration in everything they do.
Ignoring all the ways that tech and finance crisscross one another these days and focusing specifically on HN: Y Combinator is a venture capital firm, and startups are businesses. HN is inextricably tied to finance.
The DOM was always a WYSIWYG editor – albeit, for HTML, not text. Though, back in the day, HTML was a subset of text with image and table support; none of this fancy `line-height: 1.5em;`…

I wish the web had evolved in a more documenty way.
I think I agree with most things except easy to learn... Every time I want to get back into programming, the complexity of javascriot frameworks, the infinite variety of ephemeral choices, bounces me right out.

Of all programming languages now and past, javascript as it is used today (as opposed plain language) would not be my first choice for "easy to learn". I feel there's huge effective gatekeeping with it but that's just an outsiders perspective :-/
I've heard this before, but you could argue that corporate welfare in the form of stimulus is a thing.

Personally, I'd argue that if what you're saying is the actual position governments take, then there should be way more scrutiny towards organizations, given that they'll come screaming for help in the form of tax cuts or stimulus if they fail (either the failing organizations directly or those affected by the failing organization).
The one sort-of thorny piece with Mnesia is querying the DB. The syntax for select is not super straightforward and involves writing matchspecs (http://erlang.org/doc/man/ets.html#match-specifications) which are non-trivial.

Mnesia lets you do a lot of cool things (in memory DB by default! Super fast!) but it also has some pitfalls (Doesn't write to disk by default! Lose all your data when you restart the BEAM!).

Generally, I think it's a fine system if you're willing to put in the time to optimize it.
It also depletes savings of the poor.

You can’t say inflation or deflation is universally good or bad. They have many effects.
Batteries already hit the wall with trucks; otherwise the industry would be all over them. It's highly more likely that hydrogen infrastructure could be built out faster than battery technology could improve for batteries to be effective for trucking.

Hydrogen's biggest benefit is you can quickly tank your vehicle up on energy - as fast as with liquid fuel. Also hydrogen fuel cells haven even less maintenance than battery powered EVs, and while fuel cells do require some maintenance they don't require wholesale replacement like battery packs do. Batteries degrade even faster when under heavy use - and freight puts big demands on a drivetrain.

And for those proposing battery swapping - where you going to get the batteries from? We can barely keep up with EV car demand and EVs are far from ubiquitous. These are serious issues: batteries just don't scale - on multiple fronts.
But the time in-flight isn't wasted anymore. Planes have wi-fi now, you can be doing other work or even attending other virtual meetings during the flight. Being on a plane for 13 hours doesn't mean 13 hours of thumb-twiddling anymore.
I've been running it on my server for a few years and haven't been hacked yet (well, at least as far as I can tell). I just update it every few months, and followed the recommended security settings when I set it up (the management page in the UI will list some issues).
Oh good , Flash is back! Or maybe java applets. Or silverlight, but this time it's gonna be different
Jeffrey Epstein was killed in a maximum security prison while under extreme surveillance.
> The web implies hypertext, the web implies user-agents that fulfill the user's desired agencies.

That's entirely valid for many things people put on the web, but clearly not all. A document editor is not hypertext with agencies fulfilled by the user-agent.

The web now supports a wide range of user experiences, and the "text + links" model is great for a subset of those, but not all. The fact that some apps are moving to a different model to me does not imply any existential threat to apps/sites that do fit well as hypertext.

I see a lot of comments in the thread as essentially arguing that now that UPS using jets to ship packages means that soon they're going to take our cars and bicycles away from us.
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I think this product is cool, but honestly you should charge more. The lowest tier after the free should be at least $19. Maybe more. The folks who are purchasing this product are likely not paying for it with their own money (business expense) and therefore can justify a higher cost.
It's a bit different because the mov-only compiler would be taking advantage of the multiple addressing modes available for mov. Those act more like many instructions. You couldn't build a compiler/machine that only does copies.
Lithium fluoride sounds like battery chemistry that makes things even more fun when things go wrong...
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I don’t think it’s the building that creates gentrification - it’s the lack of supply. Increasing supply to meet demand should reduce prices.

Over long enough time-spans and large enough areas of a city, I agree. But, that doesn't change the impact on individuals who get priced out of their specific apartment (where that apartment was rented below market because it was run-down, and was replaced with a market-rate apartment).

Which isn't to say its right/correct that the individual can potentially block development to the detriment of the city as a whole. We would all be much better off with a different approach to zoning/development.
Definitely niche workloads or when the performance benefit from a UX perspective is worth the cost of implementation. Start out with virtualizing the DOM so only the visible parts are showing, if the framerate isn't acceptable after that then consider switching to canvas.

Using the terminal as a case study, its DOM renderer needs to swap out many elements per row in the terminal every frame (the number depends on text styles and character widths) and we want to maintain 60fps. It's also not just a matter of maintaining low fps since more time rendering means less time processing incoming data because they share the main thread, which means commands will run slower.
I'd love to be able to use this sort of editor to produce a static site that I control. My websites are currently static and deployed via netlify, but it would be awesome to create some pages with a tool like this.
That's fine, but you'd have to argue with somebody else. I don't work for the SEC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ark_Invest

A layperson's summary:

ARK funds are actively managed funds that invest in sector-specific "innovative" companies. For example, ARKQ is their autonomous + robotics ETF. ARK funds have been doing extraordinarily well in the past few years, despite the fact that highly targeted sector-specific funds tend to underperform because of the difficulty of evaluating early stage companies launching risky technology products. Cathie Wood, the founder, has been heralded as something of an investment genius for her ability to grow her funds so rapidly.

Personal opinion:

I'm scared of investing in the ARK funds because there appears to be a cult of personality around Cathie. She hit it big with Tesla, but most of her popularity seems to be built around her youtube channel fandom. There's an entire ecosystem of youtubers pumping ARK funds the same way there's an entire ecosystem of internet users pumping dogecoin. If her first four funds were heavily bankrolled by Bill Hwang, it would make me even more hesitant to ever invest in an ARK fund.
Hey I would be very interested in touching base with you to hear what you learned in your research as I'm working on opening up a coliving space at the moment.

Please reach out to the email in my profile if you are open to it.

Thanks
Andrew
Why don't we ban criminals instead?
When have hedge funders been bailed out?
What's next, a Canvas rendered web browser?
The problem with all those calculations is that storing hydrogen requires a lot of weight.

If hydrogen were such a great idea, trucks would be already migrating to the in-between solution that is natural gas.
> That's fine, but you'd have to argue with somebody else. I don't work for the SEC.

I never claimed you did, we're having a discussion, no? lol.
Economic viability can be massaged through subsidies or taxes, if the break even point isn't too far away from the current point.
Common Sense Skeptic has better arguments against Elon Musk though.
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Yes, but tech has improved a tad since then.

In every flight you take, the wings are filled with highly combustable materials, and yet we find ways to keep them from exploding. The same is true for all those batteries in electric cars, and of course gasoline.
Oh sweet, it's the first time I work on something and someone else post the link to Hacker News :D