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So first of all I think home-ownership is bullshit for other reasons. So I don't really want to defend it.

> In other words, the buyer will have roughly the same monthly payment regardless of interest rates. Those rates will determine how much money goes to the seller vs the bank over 15 or 30 years.

Yes

> Low interest rates cause artificially high prices which don't benefit society, just the sellers.

Private ownership of land is a racket, yes, but you as you just said the mortgage payment should be the same as effects bank vs seller's cut. The payment structure matters more than the total price.

> They also lead to banks not paying interest on savings, which discourages savings.

Was there every a time when working class savings amounted to something in aggregate? I suspect the whole "the holloi polloi needs to learn to be frugal" has been all moralization not economics for quite some time.

> The current cost of a college degree is due to government guarantees on student loans, which largely didn't exist when I got mine (at a much lower price even adjusted for inflation).

The problem here isn't rates, but the moronic guarantee without strings attached. This is classic privatization -> regulatory capture. The government should just fund public schools and private schools can go fend for themselves.

> And finally, something I think is true but haven't worked out all the math. It's not lower interest rates that stimulate the economy, but the act of lowering them.

Certainly monetary policy is overhyped and not neutral as the neoclassical ones believe. (Anybody with half a brain can see that the COVID stimulus payments had affect that a decade of QE didn't.)

Maybe check out https://jwmason.org/slackwire/the-natural-rate-of-interest/ I think that is pretty close to what you are saying. If there is no natural rate, but many different equilibria, then we do care more about changes to the rate than the rate itself in some sense.
Well, in large part it has to do with how Windows loads libraries. For example, if you have two Electron apps running (eg. Discord and Slack), both will load separate libraries, effectively doubling their load on your system (scaling for each app you open). The solution is to enforce dynamic linking, like how Linux handles it. You can have Spotify, Discord and Slack all running on the same Electron library.
It still amazes me that most animals can hydrate themselves from the water content of what they eat. I was thinking either there’s something wrong with what we eat (not much water content), or we really just require more water than animals.
I definitely agree with you there.

If my child came to me sobbing that someone abused them, I would not wait for a court to decide the "truth" before I started caring for and protecting my child. Whether the person who hurt them was ever convicted wouldn't me material to my opinion on the events.
Modern <noun> is mostly worse than <noun>.
The brain does not process information and it is not a computer (2016)
I had joined Amazon as my first job out of school. I was super excited and would not mind working the long hours as the project was interesting. I enjoyed working with my team and manager. Just near the end of the year, my manager quit. The new manager ran my performance review and assessed that my performance didn’t meet expectations. I was not put on PIP. Instead, there would be a development plan that I had to complete. I was shocked and tried hard to not cry during my review. I had never been told earlier that there were any issues with my performance.

This review crushed me. It destroyed my confidence in my programming abilities. To be fair, I had made some mistakes during my first year at Amazon - had fewer commits and SLOC compared to my teammates. Being on a work visa meant I could not quit immediately. I had to endure working there for almost a year before I got a new job.

I took me quite some time to gain back my confidence. To this day, my time at Amazon makes me dread performance reviews.
I don’t think it’s zero sum, there’s no reason most districts couldn’t add 2-weeks to the school year.

That being said, they fact that reading math scores are so low in many places my pre-supposed “advanced” topics life financial literacy.
I understand your argument and it is an interesting given the technical source of demoralization.

What I submit to you that this level demoralization already happened. He already has very limited good will ( won't do anything extra unless there is a clear benefit to him ). I won't touch loyalty, because I myself have been through rounds of layoffs and have long accepted that in a corporation, that is merely a 7 letter word with little to no meaning.

I guess what I am saying it is not a new trend. Just a stepping stone in corporate America. The only difference is now, we don't get Mr. Burns choosing this, this and this one ( keep the egghead ); this time is a blackbox algorithm that won't ever touch the real decision makers ( cuz someone with enough forethought will add an exclusion list :P ).
That is fair, it is less commonly advocated. And further, as a political matter, I don't think social security is going anywhere even with UBI.

But just from a cost standpoint, it seems unlikely that we could actually afford a UBI would that actually provides universal-net-income. In practice those making above a certain threshold (from actual work, investments, or pensions/social-security) would have some kind of claw-back baked into the tax-system. The system still needs to be universal, everyone gets UBI payments, so that we don't cause the perverse effects of current means-tested programs, yet in practice, many individuals would just pay-back the UBI in taxes.
I appreciate the irony of your second paragraph
Largest "patent troll" in history was brainchild of and founded by former Microsoft CTO. The person who coined the term "patent troll" helped him start the company. He came from Intel. The saddest part of the idea of "trolling" as a "business" is that it has spread into other areas, outside IT. "Patent trolling" is easy to spot when the patents are software patents as so many software patent are low quality. However, the patent quality problem is not nearly as acute in other industries.

There are in fact legitimate small inventors who must approach large companies, and that situation predates the hardware and software industries, but it was software and hardware people that created this idea of the "patent troll". If there was a "bad" situation that existed before Intellectual Ventures was founded, no solution was offered by those who were negatively affected. Rather, the approach taken was "If you can't beat `em, join `em." One could argue, as a result, the situation went from bad to worse.
> When the stock goes from 200 to 3500 in 10 years, and consistently goes up and to the right, you won’t find too many of the workers complaining no matter how bad the job conditions are.

Tell that to the guys in logistics who don't get any options and bear the brunt of Amazon's bad management.
Exactly. It's clickbait fearmongering. You can use almost anything imaginable as a communication / command & control / subsequent-stage host. Pastebin, tweets, domain names, blockchain transaction data, reddit and HN comments.

The goal is to just put it somewhere online that security software and appliances are unlikely to block or flag as suspicious.
Have you seen the current interviews and speeches he's done? Its not looking good at all for him cognitively.
> Hey, I've heard there are people out there who think math is racist, so I'm sure someone out there has proposed teaching advanced racist spotting to children.

Among the many problems packed into this sentence, CRT is not “advanced racist spotting”.

Also, its a pretty big leap, like literally conspiracy-theory level, to go from “I’ve heard X” and “Given X, Y would be unsurprising” to “Y is true”.
Ah yes, the imfamous antiwork news site controlled by a venture capital firm.
>It might be wise to moderate that position by also objecting to people taking pleasure in seeing/causing the suffering of animals. You may not care about the experience of those animals, but you should still care what effect it has on the human who indulges that side of themselves.

I wouldn't object to people taking pleasure in seeing/causing the suffering of animals, as long as its only limited to animals (does not harm other human).
Clearly I cannot drink from my glass as the one in front of you is poisoned knowing that...
USA members are what the AR-15 was made for.
Reading the headline I got really excited, but looking at the images of the product I'm pretty disappointed:

* There's lots of glass, but the actual lens appears to be 1/20th the size of the cosmetic glass surrounding the lens

* Only one lens/sensor - I think most of us are used to having a few different cameras ganged in software to one digital representation of the camera - to mixed effect. This usually comes with some meddling ML algorithm that fluctuates between "better than my point and shoot!" to "looks like FaceTune app dialed to 11". The single lens/sensor makes more sense from a "accurate photography" standpoint but I think the balance could have been struck better with a few lenses and minimal pixel interpolation.

* Other posters are commenting it's a potentially modified existing Sharp phone. With the amount of resources available to Leica, I was hoping for a ground-up engineering project

Traditional photography companies looking to move into the smartphone realm have real opportunity available; as paulgerhardt commented - the connectivity and apps are where the real potential lies. Half assing it wastes corporate resources and makes consumers less likely to be excited if a real killer camera-first hybrid were to come out.

At this point they seem to be doing more harm than good.
I think I might order this book.
Some way the two of you can do a blog or soenthing outlining the main points when dealing with such a threat?
>Tumblr is doing fine though.

Citation needed. My impression is their MAU and time spent on site went to the floor.
What's the mechanism? Sounds unlikely to do much.
From a US perspective:

Most "rec sports" are self-funded university-affiliated student clubs. I was the treasurer of one such club for three years.

My school's cycling team ran about a $20k-$25k/year budget to cover race transportation, motels, entry fees, coaching and an annual 2-night training camp. That was for a full collegiate road season with an average of 6-8 riders and about 75% of a MTB season with 2-3 riders.

Funding came from sponsors (mostly selling space on the team jersey), selling jerseys and bibs to alumni and donations. Most of the sponsors were alums with local businesses, but we also had a couple bigger brands (energy bars and cycling clothing) who gave "in-kind" donations of steep discounts on merch (>50%).

Team members paid for their own equipment. We did discuss buying a couple team bikes to bring in people who could not afford them, but budget constraints and concerns about damage/jealousy/competitiveness nixed the idea.

I'd guess that you could run a competitive "varsity" cycling team, including everything I mentioned above plus mechanics and equipment but excluding scholarships, for around $40k-$50k/year (assuming mechanics are paid a day rate at races and piecewise for maintenance and the coaching staff is not full-time university employees).
You can't attack another user like that here and we've banned this account. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

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> So, as a serious question, what would Facebook do if it's owners woke up tomorrow and decided their only priority was providing thoughtful, substantial discussion and helping people avoid an unbalanced relationship with social media?

In the case of Facebook, it's not immediately apparent to me how the platform might be changed to facilitate more thoughtful conversation. But on the other hand, Twitter is an easy case: get rid of the comment limit and let people express their thoughts using more than pithy snippets.
Ask HN: How are neural networks used for contextual multiarm bandit problems?
I am trying to understand how the algorithms behind Facebook, tiktok, etc work.

What function are the networks approximating?
Why not fork instead of pivot?

Why do we have to do this other thing too, instead of having a subsidiary that does that other thing?

Is it because we've vastly overestimated the power of the network effect?
Okay, counterpoint. Say you were 50yo a restaurant owner, and launched a party for the arrival of your new cook. At the end of the party, you proposed to the 19yo apprentice to drive her home while she was waiting at the bus stop. As she live outside town and don't really want to wait an hour for the night bus, she accept. In the car, you managed to rape her, then throw her out. Devastated, she go home to her then boyfriend, who drunk, said something like "with how you dress, i wouldn't be surprised". Oh, also, this "boyfriend" work in your friend's restaurant. She managed to get herself up three day later (two and a half), but it is too late to take a sample, and since you threathened her, no bruising was found. Even if a sample was recolted right after the act btw, it would not have been a clear evidence of a rape, as she could have given her consentment (after all, she was in your car).

So you can sleep easily, nothing to fear. Well, until somehow, people keep shouting "rapist" when then pass in front of your restaurant, and tell your client to call the cooking institute and ask them about which restaurant in town their female apprentice to avoid. Oh, and the girl you raped shared her story on facebook with your 18 yo daughter, who is not estranged to you. All that, that's gross injustice, too?
Ask HN: How are your developer team meetings going?
For marketing reasons, we want to know if we should spend a lot of time explaining the problem of developer team meetings.

I've always been aware that these meetings are time wasters but until recently I did not understand how ineffective they are for making plans or giving status.

What is everyone's experience with meeting driven process?
"Some users reported . . . " does not equal "bug-ridden".

Windows Phone has been a very stable platform with stunning UX. The only real problem it had was the developer marketshare.
Unfortunately, oligosaccharides (including raffinose, stachyose, ciceritol, and verbascose commonly found in legumes and often result in flatulence in humans) are heat stable, no matter how long you cook them.
2 processes that help you breakdown these include germination and fermentation. Other herbs like hing, epazote etc only allieviate the symptoms a little.
I always worry that if I were to go through the process of buying a gun, on some level I'd feel compelled to use it in order to justify the time and expense. I've yet to be in any situation in my life where I need one, but I feel like if I had one, I'd start looking at things differently and asking myself: "Is this a situation that calls for the gun?"

And that scares me much more than the potential for an intruder.

(I say this not as a criticism of anyone else. It's just an observation and concern that I have for myself.)

If I was a hunter, the concern would probably go away. Because hunters have a legitimate/legal reason to regularly use their firearms. But if I owned one for the purpose of self-defence, I'm pretty sure I'd go looking for situations that called for it.
These speed issues are annoying but the thing that kills my experience is the lost clicks - and when one is missed, because it's quite common that Windows is just being its usual useless self, you then don't know for sure if it really missed the click or not. Invariably the time you think "it did miss it, try again", you'll click again only to find that now your slow Windows machine is stupidly struggling to do the damn task twice!

The other issue doesn't sit completely with Windows: in a corporate environment, there are numerous remote activities that get hooked up without much thought or care and it only takes an occasional slow response with one or two of them for Windows to become unusable.
These do not seem sufficient in my opinion. The reliance of history class to teach media competency in modern times for example very much depends on the quality of instruction. For an average teacher the history class would be filled with historical facts without reference to the modern times.

Similarly, science class tends to teach knowledge (including knowledge of the scientific method) but not actually applying the scientific method to any real-life scenarios. Even with science labs, students might use the scientific method during class only, without extending it to decision making in life.

Negotiations and stuff can be learned from group projects? No way. Group projects are primarily cooperative and students share the fruits of their combined labor. How does that relate to life scenarios like, negotiating a lease agreement with a landlord who has very different incentives? Or negotiating a job offer with a prospective employer when there is a clear mismatch in power between the two? It doesn't.
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The US is fairly self-contradictory about the legitimacy of taking up arms against your own government. It isn't a new problem - see the Whiskey Rebellion.

I think there's very little principled about it. About fifty years ago, the leftist Black Panthers decided to openly carry guns into the California legislature's building, and they didn't even invade, they just walked in as visitors. In response, Ronald Reagan, the Republican governor of California who would later be US president, signed a law that made it illegal to openly carry loaded guns. And the National Rifle Association supported that law. None of the right-wing people who idolize Reagan today and also support the events of January 6 seem to think these positions are inconsistent.

Part of the problem, I suspect, is that the vast majority of the populace has no intention of taking up arms against the government. That mans that those who are even thinking about it are necessarily not advocating for a representative government for all people. The concern over January 6 was that it would be a coup - putting someone into power who could not win by established democratic means - not that it would be a popular revolution - taking people out of power who gained it by established non-democratic means.
I worked in Endicott, NY for a while which is where IBM started and I always wished I could see "Upstate" New York in its heyday. Eastman Kodak, Corning, GE Research, and IBM all located in generally the same area. It basically was the Silicon Valley of its day.
I can never relate to these posts. I always update all my stuff pretty much immediately when I see an update available. I run Windows, so I'm talking Windows Updates, browser updates, drivers, anything and everything. It actually gives me a pleasant feeling knowing I get bug fixes, security fixes, maybe some new feature every now and then. I'm definitely naive enough to hope for performance improvements rather than worry about performance regressions. Historically, it's extremely rare that an update messes something up for me.

Maybe I'm not as quick to update as I think I am, giving vendors time to fix broken updates before I get them? I dunno. I'm also privileged in that I update my hardware quite often. Maybe that hides any worsened performance from my perception.

I'm not sure if I understand your strategy correctly, but disabling (security) updates on Windows and browsers sounds like a recipe for absolute disaster. To me that sounds waaay more risky than any risk taken when installing (potentially broken) updates from MS/Mozilla/Google
This just sounds like excuses for incompetence. This could easily be done in 6 months at any functioning org. Yes, I am calling Google dysfunctional.

I really don't care. I've never wanted to work there anyway.
As an older person, the issue i see is most of these aren't really a problem until later in life. E.g. adolescents can eat all kinds of bad food. It will have little real impact until roughly late 30s. Earlier financial literacy will help to a point, but bolsters are needed every decade. Same with family relations. Motivated people like me fine, but many families and people just don't get the right push and it hurts to watch people suffer needlessly.
At least part of the blame goes mass media for not supporting a constructive dialog, but instead enforcing bubbles and amplifying mutual insults.
Monopoly conglomerates what your money and are indifferent to your life. See cigarette companies or the recent Texas power issues. Or health insurers.

It's going to be businesses cutting people off if they don't fit a mold. Because being outside the mold costs extra upkeep they don't want.
Lol. I couldn’t remember his name from his HN comments.
I see. But then why the record that structure in the index? Isn't it enough to have it remain in the working directory? Or if you need it in the index, just the canonical empty .gitignore?
This comment only shows that you have no idea what a manager does or that they are responsible to their bosses as well.
Are athletes students or are they employees? I would bet that none of these athletes are paying tuition and have special privileges in regard to course work so they trade this for that, playing for the school. Let's just stop pretending that they care about getting a degree and revoke their student status. They can be full time employees if they want to get paid.
> From my end it's you, prospective remote colleague, selfishly offering a raw deal.

This just strikes me as not at all the same thing.

People wanting to work from home does not remove the world of office work from your list of options. Depending on how extreme your particular company wants to go with remote work, yes, that might mean you'll have to find a different job to get the office experience. But that's the breaks.

I think it's the height of selfishness to require that your colleagues continue to waste hours of their lives on a commute daily and deal with inflexible office working arrangements just so you can get the "working relationships" experience that you want.

Your side seems to want the status quo, and our side seems to just want more flexibility, flexibility that doesn't preclude office work, at least some of the time. Seems obvious to me here who is being selfish and unreasonable.
Could also have something to do with inflation. High house prices and high cost of living in the big cities in the US (where it's also more likely you can find 100k+ jobs) effectively make a dollar worth less there. What keeps the overall inflation lower is that this fast increase of housing prices doesn't apply to more of the non-big-city areas of the country.

1 USD is just under 0.85 EUR at the moment, but if you convert the price of a beer or hamburger in a place like New York or San Francisco to euro and compare to Paris or Berlin you get 1.2 or so beer/burger there for that same dollar. Suggesting that in US big city terms maybe a dollar is only worth maybe 0.70 euro in buying power.

I'm not an economics expert, but I think this results in a built-in wealth transfer from "countryside" US to big city US. Because wages in San Francisco and New York increase with the high prices but the rest of the country doesn't do so as much.
I haven't really followed this since the initial blowup. Did more information come out about her conduct there?
Ask HN: To what extent is Transhumanism an ideology promoting genocide?
I get that Amazon is known for their cold, calculated workforce, but it really takes a special kind of person to execute a, "hire someone just to fire them no matter how they do" plan over the course of like, an entire year, and honestly it's not even in that manager's best interest if the new person is actually pretty good.

Are we really suggesting that's the norm at Amazon? Maybe, but wow.