skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Amusingly, thanks to the magic of compounding, that actually only implies a 6.5% average annual inflation rate.

That's funny.

I wanna add some perspective on how meaningless that is though.

In 1623 most people you meet could not do exponentiation.

In 2021 you can turn a muni bond ETF into 6.5% return by levering it ~2x.

People harp about what you could and could not buy in 1623. Blah blah blah. That is a complicated argument to make about purchasing power. Its real limitation is the inability to model credit.
Cloudflare's Workers/KV is pretty ideal for a link shortener. There's a small bit of js to write, but the KV database is just short->long and it's cached at the edge. And it's either free (< 100,000 requests/day) or $5 for 10 million requests.

And the admin panel provides a simple way to edit the KV database, so you don't have to write a db editor.
It was in the back of a pickup IIRC. Quite common around the area.
It’s also used to talk about things like clothing made out of leather alternative.
Speaking of Suzuki, the Samurai is ripe for a comeback in the US imho.
Ah, RIP, my math is incorrect. Thanks.
No but I've seen similar dynamics play out at most companies. Broadly, "product teams" focus on customer feedback and delivering value to customers, at the expense of technical debt and lots of fickle requests. "Infrastructure" teams are heavily insulated from customers and deal with a more long-term roadmap and fewer changing requirements.
The preferences page itself should have a modal popup requiring the user to accept the website's terms prior to using the preferences page.
No. Documentation is for the code or the project, for any reader. Proper documentation can be read and understood by anyone that needs to interact with the project. I don't know when it was decided that "documentation is for yourself" but I very much disagree.
There are a few, here's one: https://clojure.org/guides/spec#_sequences
UK Government URLs are (practically) forever.
How much time and money do people spend on collecting music/movies?

How many times can a person watch Cars?

This just seems crazy.
You know the dark pattern of presenting a license agreement over and over until it's accepted? I predict one day someone will make the argument in court that they always declined the EULA (perhaps the one in their car) hundreds of times, but one day accidentally brushed "accept" with their finger, and that doesn't constitute legal acceptance, especially since they've demonstrated an effort to decline the EULA, but because of dark patterns, they never can permanently reject the license.
Browsing the web without a goal feels to me more like daydreaming than it feels like walking in the woods.

Sometimes I daydream while walking in the woods, but I am more likely to daydream while staring at a blank wall or while waiting for a bus on a boring street with nothing but concrete and asphalt rectangles to look at.

In fact, my whole purpose in walking in the woods is to stop the mental chatter, including the daydreaming. If I find myself daydreaming during the walk, I consider that a failure and tell myself that next time I walk in the woods, I should take along a friend or a dog to make the walk more engaging and consequently more effective at stopping the chatter -- or that I should find more interesting woods.

This comment could be extended greatly by introducing the concepts of "focused attention" and "involuntary attention". Very briefly, focused attention is how we pay the bills and contribute to advancing our civilization and all, but focused attention eventually tires the mind. The best way to recover from the tiredness and to restore the ability to focus the attention is to do things that engage "involuntary attention", e.g., taking a walk in the woods where there are things that attract attention involuntarily (without raising the blood pressure like the sirens and the horns of the city tend to do). That will restore the ability to pay focused attention (to whatever the person choose to focus on) faster than would being in a room alone and staring at a blank wall. Some people advise spending as much time as possible either engaging in focused attention or recovering the ability to focus one's attention and advise against daydreaming and aimless browsing of the web because those are sub-optimal ways of restoring the ability to focus attention. (Spending time with friends or walking in the woods with a dog are much better ways.)
tl;dr: people jumped to conclusions from a photo presenting someone out of context.
I recently started to watch youtube videos of painting restoration and cow hoof trimming.

I cannot draw a straight line and was never close to a cow but somehow I find it interesting to watch what others do (when they are passionate about this) and you learn plenty of things.

This is to say that what people find interesting is sometimes surprising (I am also a huge fan of French Middle Age sociology, not sure why after years of reading about the subject)
Just as you can get a live Passenger Pigeon, Dodo, etc in 2021 for ???

Inflation is a measure of the value of Money not other things.
I have all my media on a NAS (Synology) exposed via Samba. Kodi is running directly on a TV. This setup has worked great for me in the last decade or so, before Kodi I was using an external media player (Mede8er) that also had access to the same share.

When the time came to change media players I didn't have to touch the NAS at all.
Your argument makes sense when you provide another implementation of that interface. That's what Google did with Android.
because rail is used for things other than oil (the whole reason people in this thread say transporting oil by rail is better), and those things require it to be near populated places.

if you build a dedicated oil railway that doesn't go anywhere populated and just goes from the oilfield to the refinery, then you've reinvented a pipeline, but worse.
Has anyone else noticed that local news websites never put their location in a prominent place on the page? This one includes a Washington address in the footer, which I guess is at least within one state of the event? Half the time there is zero indication of where the station is in the country... or even the world, although US/Canada/UK/Australia is usually more obvious from context.
This is the US, anyone can sue anyone for anything. That said, California has very favorable employee-protection laws around non-compete, non-solicit, notice periods, at-will employment status, and ownership of work. It's very unlikely an employer will sue over $10-20k. So far, they all just fire me and move on.
There's two sides to the equation though (I work on Supply Side ad tech).

There's a huge amount of content that people are just not willing to pay for, but would gladly view ads. You may be willing to pay for Youtube Premium and Twitch Plus or whatever, but the vast majority of people do not.

Do I feel like I'm a horrible person because I help make websites more money so they can stay in business? Heck no. It's the only reason 90% of these sites are able to exist in the first place.
I know this is 9 hours old, but this is 100% not for me.

I want to leave items in my car for tomorrow: my face mask, (previously) CDs and tapes, etc.

I want to spend the extra money for 'grippy' tires on my car, or do other mods like use sticky notes on the dash. I want my seat to be in the same position I left it in: It can take a day or two to get it just right. I want to have the option to use a seat cover for comfort.

I want to eat my lunch in my car: I control the climate, I control the music, and I can vape or smoke to my hearts content. It's mine to do that with.

I want to put off unloading my vehicle after a long and arduous camping trip, It's already 8PM when I get home. It can wait for tomorrow, and doesn't cost me anything.

I want to let my muddy dog jump into the back seats, I don't care if they get 'ruined', that's my choice about my property. I don't want a cleaning fee.

Lastly, I want to know for sure my dog won't eat the used condom the last person left under the seat. People are animals, no amount of cleaning between uses can ensure cleanliness 100% of the time. But I can in my car.
The trade of the 20th century was shorting the dollar. How do you short the dollar? Take out big loans on fixed interest rate debt and buy commodities that don't depreciate.
I think what is fishy is the assumption that the 0.5% loss rate per year for new units would not change over time as the units got older. Hazard rates for products are not constant like that -- there is a period when the failure rate increases rapidly after the design life of the unit.
There is some trust there, but again, I can and have looked at what he's doing. Plus the fact that someone who has taken Google out of Chromium probably cares about privacy.

It's still less trust required than the trust required for Google.

It's not for everyone, not even close. But I am glad it's an option for me.
Nova Media – Publisher and discrimination testing
I guess I can't know for sure about any one particular feature. But as far as I can tell, the company doesn't ever backport any smart/autonomous features to older models. Whereas Tesla manages to do this continuously, and years earlier than other brands. I doubt that every single incremental improvement to one of these features relies on brand new hardware or sensors that was not available the year before. Some of them are clearly just software improvements.
The literacy and writing of my colleagues has always been good, but sometimes it's in a different language, and their English literacy and writing are not as good.
How much money do you have in dollars? I have an emergency fund — 6 months of expenses. Everything else is in other assets that store value after inflation (e.g. stocks, bonds, housing).

> How does that benefit you personally?

A little bit of inflation means more economic growth in the long run. That benefits me because services and goods will get cheaper and/or better.
> their failings are profoundly fewer than ours

Better start showing off some statistics along with that claim.
It's impossible that cross-cultural variations in societal structure or environment imparted a selection bias acting upon certain cognitive traits that would explain the observed disparities we see in modern data?
Muscle fiber variations across humans are pretty small. They're really only very noticeable as far as the extremes, or in quite small populations.

Similarly, hair types are barely different. But to tell you a story, the village my ancestors lived in for centuries had people with smooth blond hair and people like me with extremely stiff black hair. Same for eye color. Anyways, I digress, these are generally single-gene variations which is why you will find most of the variation in most populations.

Height and build is an interesting one. For most of history heights were very similar across populations. Actually, the only exception we know of were Anglo-Saxon settlers, and some peoples in South-East Asia.

This suggests that people even in extremely remote places had incredibly similar evolutionary pressures that led to almost identical heights. But nowadays, the specificities of the impact on a changing diet are different [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/20780389.2012.65...].

Skin is really the biggest one, because Vitamin-D deficiency and skin cancer are huge evolutionary pressures. But as we've seen, otherwise it's pretty clear humans evolved in broadly similar environments and found very similar tradeoffs. This is especially true for intelligence where the biggest load for intelligence was social interactions, and where social structures are very similar.
We have seatbelts and airbags. Dogs have their spines.

I recall a fellow who built what were effectively “wheelchairs” for his dachshunds after he was in an accident and their backs were broken, leaving them paraplegics.
Probably not to enforce standards, but they certainly have the power to create standards and incentivize their use. Much in the same way they can't control speed limits on national highways or the drinking age in various states, yet these laws are largely uniform across the country.
I guess this is what they refer to as red tape?

> `How to request a short URL*

> Submit a new feature request using the support form.

> You’ll need to tell us:

> - the reason you need a short URL

> - the content or page the short URL will link to

> - how your short URL will be used in marketing and promotion

> - the channels you will be using, the number of users who will be targeted

> - what the main message will be in your marketing and communications

> - how many government departments or organisations will promote the short URL
Which one?

Anonymous? They just found specific individuals to arrest.

Convenient? Maybe?

Global? China might be disproving that part, too.
Gmail can track when you cut the URL...
Mime steals and destroys an $18000 invisible sculpture
> How many times can a person watch Cars?

You don't have kids, do you? ;-)
From the original producers of the first Virtua Fighter. An IP that still resonates today. It's incredible to see the old school titles re-released on modern platforms, using the latest engines and netcode for online competitive play with almost zero lag. It must truly feel like a future spoiled with riches to the OGs ;)
Ironically, I got a letter from the NHS about getting my COVID-19 vaccination, and it included a bit.ly link to some official NHS guidelines document.
Our brains may use short rest periods to strengthen memories of new skills
But minimalist design is not unique to software. If you look everywhere in our industrial society you'll see that. Even buildings follow this trend nowadays. It is a trend that derives from industrialization, where the goal is to make the simplest designs that still retain their utility.
84 billion hours of driving[0] for 35,485 deaths[1]. That's one death per 2.4 million hours, so that's an indicator of the magnitude that's needed before even talking about it.

That number also means no situations where the computer gives up and hands control back to the driver.

If autonomous cars can never hand back (at most stopping legally, safely and out of traffic) and cause 1 death per 10 million hours, that would seem about right.

[0] https://www.volpe.dot.gov/news/how-much-time-do-americans-sp...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
It's pretty weird hearing anyone talk about CGI parameters these days, so perhaps that should also tell you something?
This seems like another high tech solution looking for a problem. I'm not heavy agriculture savy but it seems to me the same could be solved by having 2 or 3 archimedes screws on the bin which could keep grain moving over time and preventing it from forming the clods.

The bot could also be radio controlled and it would still remove the need of a human going in.

Another pet peeve of mine is the robot-as-a-service part - can't we just buy stuff and keep it anymore?
My approach to interviewing was basically reject any companies paying under X, and slowly increase X over time as I got practice interviewing with the easier companies. I was only interviewing with one company that could pay X, and they didn't end up giving me the offer.

I like my coworkers and the work I'm doing, but mainly my current company came in with the highest offer.
Show HN: Live Updateable Images from Figma
With luck the new nuclear energy will be fusion. I'd rather pour every dollar that could be building fission plants into fusion research.
This is so cool - love how much easier this makes finding great content from the best minds!
>And yes I've seen the diagrams and the theory behind this. But I've become more and more suspicious of bureaucracy and process that tries to fight the symptoms of lack of trust and human connection.

This resonates but what I have seen is when you engage a company that has this model you have to emulate their model to fit within their needs, then you get infected with it.
A Brief and Biased History of Computer Architecture (Part 1)
So they will charge 0.5% of my business to do my taxes? That makes sense until 350k per year more or less, but after that Quaderno has a 45 to 99 usd per month fixed price to do that.

It sounded outrageous the first time I saw it, but it actually makes a lot of sense for most small businesses.

I'm glad they rolled out this feature, too bad that they never announce what they are working on and it's a big bang overnight.

I was looking into integrating my app with a tax provider, I wouldn't even have started if I knew this was in the pipeline.

But now that it's here, it sounds great and just another reason for choosing Stripe. I haven't integrated with Paypal and I don't think I'm going to.
How to be a data detective (Tim Harford)
⏁⊑⊬⟊, ⏁⎎⎅⊬⍜⍀: Alien Languages in Science Fiction
Often, a simple common-sense understanding of the world produces better results than some complicated official narrative that all the important people profess to believe. It takes a lot of intellectual work to persuade yourself that some theory is right and that your eyes are wrong.

Here's a graph of money supply over time [1]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL

See the hockey stick on the right? That's going to cause inflation. I'm sick and tired of hearing about base effects, transient demand spikes, and other garbage. All of this complicated analysis amounts to a mixture of wishful thinking, deliberate public deception, and psychological denial of the obvious.

The obvious reality is that there are a now more dollars chasing fewer goods and services, and that's going to increase the general price level. Don't try to bullshit me with some complicated theory that says otherwise.

[1] This is the current up-to-date officially-supported M2 money supply series from the fed. It incorporates M1. Don't bullshit me by talking about the recent change in the definition of M1: it's all incorporated into M2 here.
I disagree. He's obviously more of a politician, otherwise how would have he climbed those ranks. Unfortunately that's how governments optimizes itself, by choosing those than can play politics instead of being the actual experts.

Labeling things as conspiracy just amounts to shutting people up at this point. At the very least there is a need to clarify and make sure people understand, not just dismiss things and appeal to authority. Anyone who thinks science can't go wrong is naive. Arguably science moves forward by being wrong (disproving theories based on more evidence), and at no point does an actual scientist claim to have found the "truth", only the best theory for the given evidence.

Personally, when you can't question something, it is a huge red flag. Not questioning is a property of religions. You can't question, you just follow. I'm sure the retort here is "but people are going to die", except we're seeing evidence to the contrary, but again, no questioning, just obedience, and that is a red flag for me.
Which ones? For the vast majority of human history societal structures were incredibly similar. And you can observe any societal structure in any general geographic area, more or less, controlling for very low population densities. So no, I don't see it.

Similarly, I don't see what kinds of environmental factors would have a huge impact of cognitive load. For the vast majority of human history they are staggeringly similar and less of a factor than social structure.
Random aside on marketplace tax and using Stripe Connect. It would be especially useful if Stripe had a field that allowed marketplace facilitators to ensure they are collecting the tax. Using connected accounts with destination charges allows platform account to receive the tax by placing it in the application fee field, but if you happen to also collect a commission that means you are combining your tax + commission and storing that value in the application fee field. Since marketplace facilitators are responsible for tax collection in the US having an extra field to put this tax in would be great.
I have very little experience with the existing medical establishment, so forgive me if I've imagined a scenario that is not relevant. I would like to be able to go to have a scan done, receive the scan data, then have the choice of submitting that to a radiologist of my choice or to an AI service of my choice that can read and recommend next steps. It seems like such a scenario is stifled by the existing way of doing things.

My experience with getting a sonogram was that the sonogram wasn't that expensive, but getting it read was hugely expensive. I understand that there are issues of liability, but it's really frustrating that I'm saddled with a high deductible healthcare plan where access to useful medical stuff is stuck behind 3-4 digit costs. Want antibiotics, inhalers, ADHD meds - all of which are pretty cheap in generic form? Pay $100 to the doctor for the privilege. People have very little agency in this system.

I guess at the end of the day I'd like to see open data (I'm able to get the images/data from all kinds of scans & diagnostics), and some kind of transparent system for submitting my data for diagnosis or analysis. There may be caveats & waivers, but I'd be willing to pay $10 to an AI service to tell me "You definitely need to consult with a radiologist based on the data presented" before I pay a radiologist orders of magnitude more to tell me that everything looks OK.
They'd be insanely popular in circles like HN. I think you have a warped perspective of what the typical buyer is enticed by.
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

interesting theory. I've always thought it was end of bretton woods arrangement (pure fiat monetary system)
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27460195.
There's plenty of groups on reddit that talk about HN all the time, like /r/programmingcirclejerk

Hacker News manages to survive!
Hi HN!

Figmage is a figma plugin I've been working on. I use Figma for every aspect of my websites. From blog post assets, open graph images to links.

Whenever there was a typo, incorrect image size or color tweaks, I had to export the images, re-upload and deploy all over again. Gets frustrating because these I never get the pesky images right the first time.

All the assets you see on our website are linked from this file: https://www.figma.com/file/fB4DAR2Pkhpz13Iy2hUl7z/Figmage?no...

With just a single click, I can publish my changes and the images update everywhere. It's really awesome when you're iterating super quickly. You can embed figmages anywhere you can paste an image URL.

TBH, I'm still figuring out pricing, so lmk if something works better for you, and I'm always taking feature requests.
"Why would you ever want them gone if they’re so useful and helpful?"

Good point. Netflix replaced cable for a reason. People can stomach ads up to a point but I don't think anyone likes them.
9/11 and 1/6
iOS: Optimize Your App for 5G
I used to use stuff like this when I had a TV. I didn't collect anything, in that I would delete things after I watched them. All of it was for easy sharing/streaming between computers and media devices.
No, I should have made that clear. Don't do it for links including tokens, user accounts, or anything like that. (Obviously.) Only on links you'd put out for mass consumption.

Still, it can eliminate lots of unsightly cruft in a link. It can replace this:
https://thisonecompany.com/productinfo/specs/?sku=sdfdf432&f...

with:
https://this.co/proddeets
After 20 years I realize managers are important to keep other managers away. If you have ever worked without a manager in a department you become the manager as other departments will need someone to meet with someone. More importantly secret deals, backstabbing and positioning are going on above you. Your department might be chopped up next, you need someone to fight those battles.

Project managers are a different story.
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