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I sometimes spend hours after work browsing HN and reading articles about tech, trying to keep up with new frameworks or concepts. Seeing everyone understanding stuff in comments is sometimes very depressing as I feel under pressure to match up to what others seem to grok so easily.

So, it can be quite the same as Instagram. The comments on HN are often similar in nature to the Instagram posts in that they only show people at their best, in the sense that they generally wouldn't post if they didn't have something smart to add. But there are so many folks in tech that don't necessarily understand everything.

I am exaggerating a bit here for the sake of argument. There is certainly a difference, but the core reason is often identified as comparing yourself with unrealistic representations of what life, abilities, looks, etc. of others is like. And that can happen in any forum.
There are some very intelligent folks making some very well reasoned arguments claiming we're about to see:

- inflation returning to historical norms

- transient inflation followed by moderate inflation

- transient inflation followed by a return to deflation

- hyper inflation, with or without a loss of reserve currency status for the USD

I'm just sitting here with a balanced portfolio and no leverage hoping to preserve my modest wealth. It certainly will be interesting to watch it play out. What is certain is that somewhere between 75-100% of all the predictions will be totally wrong and yet we will continue to believe the people making the incorrect predictions, especially when they reinforce our worldview.
Indian parent in Bay Area here and my 3rd grader loves math and is already into logarithms and enjoys learning these concepts.

After going through these articles, I’m concerned to say the least. Are there any resources or groups that I can part of to counter this - what I think will be dumbing-down of the next generation?

What are some practical steps to take other than just fleeing this environment?
In poker this approach can cost you a lot of money. "I will try to force the player into those positions" actually means you're now doing things that aren't optimal for you, based on a possibly false assumption about the world.

I suspect but can't prove that for the positions we're talking about here (opponent's pawn should be promoted, but promoting to a Queen is terrible) in Chess you're putting yourself in a very similar situation, ie. to pull this off you're obliged to deviate so far from good strategy that you invariably lose anyway.

For chess engines playing each other we already know it doesn't matter because the chess engines play far more games than it would take to notice, some of them have exactly this "weakness" and others do not, and of course for chess engines playing humans it's a joke, the humans aren't competitive in that scenario.
> Not anti-vax

If actually reading/reporting what studies say is antivax, then I am proudly antivax.
I am getting really confused, guys... These documents do not say anywhere "Math is White Supremacy", you are the only ones saying this. You are saying that these documents say things they simply do not say at all.

Maybe "white supremacy" is a trigger word for some people. Would this discussion work better if we just say "historic, institutionalized racism" instead of "white supremacy"?
Thumbs up!
Most video transmissions happen using protocols written over udp.
We tried Portal Plus at work to bring our two remote workers closer to the local office but it never really caught on in the office setting. The quality and tech was quite good though. Fb login required of course which was a minor nuisance.
> On the topic of "perfectionism" -- requiring perfectionism from your students is idiotic in a pedagogical setting.

For a subject which requires completely logically sound arguments to be correct (formal math), perfectionism isn't idiotic, it's the modus operandi.
> Not entirely true, and also not accepting that one person's "scalper" is another person's "bought this but decided I would rather have the money it seems to be worth now that I see how much this is".

That’s a bit of a straw man, literally no one considers that scalping. It’s generally understood to mean buying more of scarce product than you could ever possibly need with the intent to sell it at a massive markup.

Scalpers are parasitic rent seekers in the digital age. They do nothing to improve the logistics or liquidity of markets. They merely seek to monopolise supply to extract profit from consumers for a product they did not produce.
Agreed. Despite all the problems there are with cops, I think that it's better to leave law enforcement to law enforcement officers and not encourage random citizens to become vigilantes.
Is anyone else seeing a lot of accusations and invective with no actual evidence or other support here? I'm willing to believe that their theses are true, but I don't see them supported here. They just point at a lot of stuff and say "Look! This is bad!"
meanwhile, at AMD headquarters...

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-rdna-mining-graphics-c...

AMD isn't even going to limit performance on gaming cards, nor are they using a different node for their mining cards like NVIDIA. They are straight-up just going to shunt wafers over to mining cards, while letting miners have both the mining cards and the gaming cards.
>as evidenced by the 2017 blocksize debate where almost every large miner and bitcoin company wanted to change the protocol and it was fought off through grassroots efforts

Literally the opposite happened, although PoW isn't very relevant here. Grassroot enthusiasts tried to fight a cabal of developers sabotaging adoption of bitcoin - and those users failed, mostly because of massive censorship on major social places. The idea was that users would instead go to a centralized network called Liquid.

The sabotage succeeded, the Liquid part didn't, users went elsewhere. Now it's 2021 and bitcoin has lost all network effects it ever had. Did you know bitcoin used to have tokens and even dexes (although poor)? Google mastercoin and counterparty.

In the long run, it turned out well, as ethereum is a way better foundation.

It's indeed possible it wouldn't have happened with PoS, as contrary to PoW stakers are long-term oriented - miners don't really care about long-term prospects and acquiesced, dooming bitcoin in the long term, but it's possible btc stakers would be afraid of going against core developers too.
Own assets, especially cash producing assets with low capital overhead. You may already be too late for that party though.
Is there anything sustainable about Bitcoin?

But getting back on topic, Bitcoin miners long since moved to custom ASICs, you can't make a profit with GPUs any more.
Sure, and become permanently controlled by the founders, who control 60% of the outstanding supply. Proof of Stake enables any party who at any point controls more than ⅓ of funds to rewrite the chain from that point forward, so this is an objectively terrible idea from an engineering perspective.
Consider that a lot of materials we take for granted today (and throw in the trash when we're done) aren't renewable either and would take more energy to produce if replaced with renewable equivalents.

Consider also that in order to grow human population at some point you start to need large amounts of energy to colonize new space, be it planetary, on asteroids or spade stations.

If more energy becomes available, demand for it will scale accordingly because of new possibilities.
Hard to tell from an ebay listing whether it was used for mining or not.
"about to release" nothing

We use Eth 2.0 since December. Staking is even available with insurance on coinbase.

If you keep your copy pasta up to date, your FUD will be more believable.
> What is certain is that somewhere between 75-100% of all the predictions will be totally wrong and yet we will continue to believe the people making the incorrect predictions, especially when they reinforce our worldview.

Case in point, written over ten years ago, in November 2010:

> We believe the Federal Reserve's large-scale asset purchase plan (so-called "quantitative easing") should be reconsidered and discontinued. We do not believe such a plan is necessary or advisable under current circumstances. The planned asset purchases risk currency debasement and inflation, and we do not think they will achieve the Fed's objective of promoting employment.

* https://economics21.org/html/open-letter-ben-bernanke-287.ht...
Maybe he's talking about Argentina.
For one thing, it consumes more electricity than the entire country of Norway: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-the-power-consu...
If you want to help long term customers send discounts to people who have bought cards before. You don't need to cripple the devices.

I don't support companies making the choice to limit their compute. I think companies should sell general purpose computers.
It may be small, but it is strategic.
> Any "computer" is actually simultaneously running many, quite radically different, programs. We only attribute one program to it in how we rig devices (screens, keyboards, etc.) to interpret signals to mean something device-relative. If you "plug a speaker in a gfx socket" the output isn't visual. It means something completely different, and the GPU is computing audio now.

I'm sure if you spliced an animal's nerves to different places, that would make them "mean" something different. In fact we know that this kind of thing happens in nature, e.g. the star-nosed mole's visual cortex is connected to the parts of its nose that sense touch rather than to its eyes.

> Animals however have the intrinsic property of intelligence: it isn't observer-relative. We are, quite literally, the observer imparting meaning to our environment. Our brain states resolve to unique thoughts, not to "many radically different ones simultaneously". Gold isn't both gold AND something else, and neither is thinking.

How do you know? What would you expect to be different if it was? Often two people do observe the same piece of animal behaviour but disagree about whether it shows the animal was thinking/intelligent.
That has little bearing to *teaching* math. In teaching, perfection is little more than rote memorization. In teaching, you have to explore your errors and understand why they are happening. And in research math, some of the greatest insights come from encountering the errors in your own proofs. Yes, the final result is "perfect". Expecting the process (and especially the learning of the process) to be perfect is idiotic.
5% inflation per month would mean 80% inflation per year. Nominal GDP growth is about 3 or 4%.

So your statement implies that a typical American family is losing over 40% of its purchasing power year over year.

This is, quite obviously, not the case.
Thanks for the feedback!

We intended for each clip to be much shorter, which might have diminished the importance of a feature like the one you suggested. Even after we cut down the audio we got from the team, there was still a lot of great exposition, but not enough time to revisit that part of the design.

That said, I'll be sure to share this with the team.
Correlation does not deny causation, either. It's reasonable to postulate that it's a cause, and then study further to learn more.
Value that basically doesn’t exist without real money behind it? That can be used as… well, money without the energy waste?
AMD is actually going into this full-throttle, they are not only starting production of mining cards on the same node as their gaming cards (unlike NVIDIA, where the mining cards are on a different older node that doesn't compete for wafer allocations), but they aren't even limiting mining performance on their gaming cards

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-rdna-mining-graphics-c....

So if they follow through on their "no mining limiters on gaming cards" you can expect miners are going to get both the gaming and the mining cards from AMD, and that the number of wafers going to gaming cards is going to shrink.

(AMD cards already have the best value in terms of hashrate-per-dollar btw, 6700XT and 6800 are good mining cards, comparable to 3060 Ti mining performance for less money)
Not necessarily. GPT-3 for example can put out entire articles, even generate images or generate valid HTML, doesn't mean it has reached AGI, and while it's far from perfect, it can still have utility.

As per the demo, I can imagine learning about a topic through conversations with an AI. It would still be regurgitating existing knowledge, but in a conversational back and forth way, which to some can have value.
Sure we do. Anti-money laundering regulation is basically just the government outsourcing the front-line policing of financial transactions to banks and businesses.
Unpopular opinion but I think some parts of Facebook like creating events, groups (to some extent) and messaging are super useful. The problem is that the newsfeed (which is arguably the most damaging part) is what Facebook pushes the most because that's where all the ads are.
Uber has its own datacenters. They've self-hosted for quite a while now, with few exceptions.

AWS is incredibly expensive in comparison. Uber is /not/ a small company technology-wise, for better or for worse.
Reminds? this is literally it!

Also, microsoft did this a couple years ago, without fancy volumetric display, just face tracking on their expensive 8k(?) tv for meeting rooms, and it was a complete flop.
Take out a fixed-rate mortgage on your house. Your debt paying itself off would be a nice silver lining to inflation.
"Do as I say, not as I do"
Perhaps one drives the other. Availability of magical tech will drive adoption of best practices in all the areas you have mentioned.

In India, ISPs already advertise low latency and high speeds for "PUBG Gaming". The market evolves to solve the needs of consumers. Advertising for low latency for gaming was unheard of in Indian ISP scene, just a few years ago.

So having this tech, would induce customers to get better hardware, wiring, ISPs etc, and would induce ISPs to provide better service.
What are they providing if they don't own the cables? Are they shared with other non-ISP issues, or is it more like when a company builds an office building and then leases it from themselves?
I'm in much the same boat, ultimately this is why some form of stable money is required for a functional economy. The uncertainty causes one to think about hedging their bets rather than finding the next big thing, creating their own business, or simply planning for the future.

I would say that the consensus view in the U.S./E.U./JP that central banks can run negative interest rates indefinitely is leading to some unsustainable peculiarities. Stocks should not be viewed as the only thing that can be owned, and future growth shouldn't be priced in decades in advance.
Chrome does not "lock up", at-least on Windows without extensions. Individual tabs may crash or lock up, but the rest of the interface hasn't done that for a many years.
The only useful stat in the graphic is the bottom one "were injured in a suicide attempt that had to be treated by a doctor or nurse", which seems easily quantifiable and interpretable. Sadly, since they don't show longer term context it's hard to know the significance of a change from 1.9% to 2.5% (is this stat historically variable across years?). Language and what is acceptable to talk about change so much over time that the rest of the stats are useless.
A good and robust bot api and useful smart widgets based on url are a must. I've had chats go from discord to matrix and then simply die after a few days.
You don't get 2% a month unless there's a significant risk of losing your money. That's just basic economics- high returns only come with high risk. In other words it's nothing like a bank and should not be compared to one.
If that is true than that just makes me despise the current state of liability and corporate communications even further. We are so far away from letting people speak the truth, or even just their mind, it is scary.

Instead we get all this flowery ultra-inclusive PR nonsense that makes dealing with tech far more cringe-worthy than it should be

Smile, while social media milks you like the cash cow that you are! We'll throw in a cute mascot, a curvy font, and a bunch of highly diverse group photos if that makes you feel better! Oh, does this attitude make you feel worse, not better? Well maybe the studies you're reading are wrong! Chin up, suckers, we have more ads for you to consume!
I just use http://creddle.io/

I'd love to find a better one, but I don't want to spend a lot of time adjusting line breaks, formatting, font size.

Education at top. Chronological experience. Job lists responsibility, results, actions taken to achieve results.

Skills are listed separately in the form of years of experience. This is controversial, because I have 3 years exp using Node but still suck at it. But I've used this format because job requirements also use time to gauge value. I know a lot of people skim skills, so I give them their own section.

Projects and other eye catchers at the bottom.

I do have a professional freelance portfolio. Resume coaches tell me it's pointless to add because companies won't click it, but people who actually read resumes get excited when they see it.
"Yankee" and "Macaroni" for an older example. This stuff has been going on for centuries. (Stuck a feather in his cap and called it Macaroni)"
Despite the partial retraction this is great advice, hope I’ll get that level of quality feedback on a projects.
And very likely just like Lighting we'll hear similar excuses as to why it doesn't work.
Private school?
What about a timeline first interface?
> True, but at the point of a dictatorship, all is lost, unless you leave the country

Today's democracy is just a dictatorship in sheep's clothing, and I'm not convinced democratic governments were ever anything but.

> illegal activity like human trafficking, child porn, weapons trade, etc.

Boogiemen... Not that these things don't happen, but that they happen rarely, and the government doesn't even do a good job of stopping these things.

Worst of all good people believe the government stops these things and don't work to protect themselves and their community from them because of this belief.
I did Google and found a source contradicting your claim, as well as nothing supporting it.

As I've explained, I bring those up as examples that the sleep system is not 100% reliable, so I think it's a mistake to go from the general case of "most motor control is shut down during REM sleep" to "nobody in any species ever twitches during a dream".
> How can I as an individual compete with billion dollar companies that literally hire neuroscientists/psychologists to make something as addictive as possible?

If someone can't moderate their own consumption of something despite their best efforts, abstinence works.

Similar story with alcohol: Plenty of people have no problem moderating their consumption, but a small percentage of people really struggle with limiting their intake. For the latter group, not drinking any alcohol at all is a great solution.

I think this defeatist concept that social media is too addictive to resist sets a lot of people up for failure. It's not only possible to use social media without getting addicted, but it's the norm for the vast majority of people who use social media. If you're in the minority of people who can't moderate your own usage, then abstaining completely might be the best choice. But don't assume that addiction or uncontrolled doom-scrolling is inevitable.
I have to wonder how much of that is down to the way the driving habits of people who buy a car labeled "long range" differ from those who buy one that calls itself "performance". It doesn't really refute the notion that the difference between measured and claimed performance is due to the different driving conditions being tested.

IIRC there was some youtube video a year or two back that tested a few variants on a track using what they claimed to be a replica of the EPA highway test, and the cars came out almost dead on.
They certainly don't when they have have otherwise intelligent people using strong emotive language telling them that they're not important.

There's facing statistical facts, and then there's just being flat-out negative.
Flu Has Disappeared Worldwide During the Covid Pandemic
I am doubtful this will have any real affect of prices but I am hopeful. I need GPUs for deep learning and simply cannot afford the current prices if I can even find them available. I am so sick of cryptocurrency.
I don't know. Do you remember the Foxconn due to the low pay and abuse they were getting to make Apple products? Or how Apple is trying to restrict our software freedoms with walled gardens and lawsuits? Everything they do is about controlling the narrative, the market, the ecosystem. If they had beat Microsoft in the 1990s, we'd be in a very different dystopia right now. Seems worse than a company that makes optional ad-supported social networking products.
Visualizing SEP, and just dragging around text in general, is the only use case I can think of.

https://www.visualizingsep.com/#/entries/vico/ <- It's very annoying to drag around the topics.
Do you really think that's the only thing that changed in the world in that period?

I agree that smartphones could play a role and they are easy to point to as a new way to consume media (Was there a similar rise in depression when TVs were becoming common? When newspapers or tabloids became common?), but since the early 00s a lot went for the worse in terms of future outlook and expectations on what a happy life is or can be, not to forget wars, and economic depression, which all would maybe not immediately have an effect on mental depression statistics and slowly caused a rise from 2008.

But let's say it was the smartphone, then I'd still argue that the emergence of the smartphone (and the iPad) as a whole is likely more at fault than Facebook itself. Many many more people started to spend time looking at small screens doing all kinds of things as a distraction, including people who never had a computer or played games or browsed the web before for leisure.

I'm sure Facebook and Instagram were factors as common places where that time is spent, but there's also so much more than social media, for instance the fact that people are more connected in general via chat Apps and chat groups, where they also share photos or have discussions, though it's not really falling under the "social media" umbrella.
More often than not price gouging just makes things worse. During the early days of the pandemic you couldn’t find toilet paper in stores, but there were people set up one the road side willing to sell it you for crazy prices. Did these people manage to setup an international supply chain to furnish their road side store? Almost certainly not, they cleaned out the supermarkets ahead of other people.

The same thing happened with the colonial pipeline hack.
Generally, admitting that your product causes a medical problem makes it easy for people to sue you over it.

You’re right that they could be sued even if they don’t admit it, but then they would have a defense which would be far weaker if they had already admitted it.
Obviously Google search isn't going to give you an article about Oranges when you query for Apples, but when there's a ton of articles about Apples, having a website with better performance will rank higher. It's unclear how the knobs are tuned, Google's ranking algorithm definitely has a lot to it.

All that is a bit irrelevant, this whole thing is about the news carousel specifically, which is basically showing a bunch of articles in a carousel at the top of search results. Previously only AMP articles showed, now I'm guessing you need some minimum threshold of performance. Seems reasonable, you don't want really slow pages that would push away users.
Excellent. Connected with ya.