skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Move far enough away you only have to deal with them when you want to. (Assuming they aren't assigning remote support tasks.)

I was surprised how drastically my relative's behaviour changed when my presence was conditional on me wanting to bother to drive for a couple hours to see them. Between biting ones tongue and not seeing their son/cousin/nephew for the next five years they picked biting their tongues, mostly. Your mileage may vary.
You're correct, but I think missing part of the point.

The point was not "raising interest rates at any level will trigger a recession" but rather "raising interest levels an amount capable of combating inflation will trigger a recession".

A 0.00001% hike may not cause a recession, but it also wouldn't affect inflation.
> stocks tend to fall when interest rates rise.

unexpectedly*

stocks tend to fall when interest rates rise unexpectedly.

many actual interest rate increases are followed by stocks rallying because a larger rate increase was expected & priced in.
I would argue that's the baseline disagreement right there. "No it isn't, and that's not a self-evident assertion" - I would say those on the further left think it is.

The premise being "Is there an amount of wealth one person or family can have, that is so exorbitant in comparison to the average citizen that it is unjustifiable on its face?" - and the easily marketable answer is "billionaire".

Do you think there is no moral limit to the amount of wealth one person can have in society, while millions around him suffer?
I don't think your comment addresses what I actually said. I wrote that I don't think there's a single correct answer to the question of "trust the experts or my own instinct" that applies to all situations. Your example about seatbelts is simply an example of a scenario in which you would likely want to defer to expert opinion.

edit: Also, the case of seatbelts vs no-seatbelts is a fairly easy example, because the evidence is readily available through life experience. I think most people know someone who was injured or killed by not wearing one (I knew a few). So you don't even need to refer to an expert opinion to make that call.
Digging into Julia's Package System
Ah, thank you, I didn't realise that and I appreciate the correction :)

And yes, I agree with the main point. $100b was wrong, but Coinbase still overwhelmingly proves the rule: namely that, setting aside the few Bitcoin millionaires who made irrational decisions and got lucky, the croupier is the only guy who goes home richer.
I'm making an editor, Freja, which is like a tiny Emacs with graphical support. Makes it fun to create gui apps and games. :)

Ultima Underworld inspired game I'm making for a game jam: https://youtu.be/1fWsV83P-S8

Demo of pixel editor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOBi805nxNc

Freja: https://github.com/Saikyun/freja

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My experience has overall been very nice. I come from Clojure, and comparing to that:

- so nice and small! Clojure is great but has a lot of baggage from JVM, for good and bad

- very easy to get started interoping with C. You need to manually wrap libraries, but I think it's pretty easy. As a benefit, you are able to throw exceptions from C that can be catched from Janet. The C support is what sells me on Janet over Clojure

- repl:ing works well, but you can get tripped up by early binding and lack of namespaces. There are ways around it, but when coming from Clojure it was a bit hard to wrap my head around

- many libraries that you'd want are already wrapped, like http-servers and postgresql connections. But ofc this is an area that is thinner than older languages. It's decently easy to wrap C-libs though

- easy to understand data structures if you've used JS / Lua -- "everything is a hashmap" (but there are also arrays and strings)
I seriously doubt that would be a problem OP would face, except maybe for an errant employer they wouldn't want to work for anyway.
I trust people who claim X, then let me come and test every bit of X myself to see that it is correct, and then I go and test a few bits of X and see that the tests work, and everyone I know who did the same on different parts also got results agreeing with X.

It is perfectly rational to believe X in this scenario even if I didn't test all of it myself.

I don't trust people who claim Y, get angry whenever I try to test any part of Y, the few things I test about Y aren't true, the people I know who tested other things about Y also saw that they weren't true.

It is perfectly rational to assume that Y is just nonsense in this scenario even if I didn't test all of it myself.
I don’t really get this article… it seems to make a good argument that dopamine is not the be all end all of addiction. Yet then it goes on to show that it is indeed a component of addiction, yet one of which is complex and still not well understood. So in essence, all this article is doing is complaining about pop science and how we often reduce complex behaviours to singular explanations. But isn’t that just a part of being human? The article argues that people are more complex and we need to look at addiction in a more complex way.

However, nowhere does this article speak about the efficacy of this pop science reduction. Perhaps it is human nature to try to solve complex issues by reducing the problem to something that can be explained to a lay person, even if such explanations are incorrect.

Personally, as someone who struggles with gambling addiction, thinking about dopamine in this “incorrect” pop science way has been incredibly useful as a tool to help me understand irrational decision making, even if such explanations are far more complex.

While we do need to guard against pop science reducing complex behaviours to singular causes, I am far more interested in whether it works or not. From listening to many personal addiction stories and hearing from clinicians, this simplified understanding of dopamine seems to be of major help to many recovering addicts.
From Figma to website with one click. Fully responsive
> worst of both worlds: SAP Hybris, customized to the nth degree

I've observed that nearly every customizable "off-the-shelf" solution will eventually converge to this end-state: dozens or hundreds of ad-hoc modifications to support an entrenched business process that incidentally makes upgrades nearly impossible. Non-customizable off-the-shelf software is rarely any better: all of the needed (or perceived needed) points of customization are managed outside of the software but rely on undocumented conventions.
Almost 15% of high-paying job listings are now remote
99% of it is this I suspect. And the other 99% is a backlog of "breaking" changes they wanted to implement.
Skepticism requires discipline to actually look at the outcomes of exploring that skepticism and reevaluating.

Sadly I see a lot of skepticism expressed that I think is just driving to a result people already believe.
In an ideal world, maybe. Problem is that measuring wealth is a very tough game.

Let's imagine you start a company. Things are going really well and you raise tons of venture money at higher and higher valuations. In your most recent raise, you raised $1 billion at a $10B valuation and as founder of the company and owner of 20%, you are now worth (on paper), $2 billion. But this is all based on venture valuations, not what's in your bank account.

Now say we tax wealth... how do we decide what you are worth? Maybe it's $2 billion, but you have common, not preferred shares. And in any case, you may not be able to sell shares to pay those taxes because it's not a public company.

In any case, billionaires will find ways to say they are worth less. They'll buy paintings and then argue that they overpaid. They'll buy cars and yachts and claim depreciations in value. They'll invest in Romanian forests and other hard to value assets. It'll never work in practice. That's why almost no one taxes wealth and almost everyone taxes capital gains instead.
Yeah, sure. I want to be happy though. Why can't we have our own pill?
> the fed is therefore stuck hammering news outlets and the government with hopeful rhetoric about "transient" inflation that will somehow clear up after Covid, despite rising unemployment, underemployment

These are demand side factors that would work against inflation (but also aren’t happening; unemployment and underemployment are dropping, though still above pre-pandemic levels.)

> and back-rent payments still due by millions of americans who will likely declare bankruptcy at some point.

What does this have to do with inflation?
>I respectfully disagree. The process is steeped in the belief that it will give you answers you can accept. It doesn't always, but there is a belief that it will eventually lead to a truth regardless.

That's a reasonable position. For myself, I'd modify that statement to read:

The process is steeped in an understanding that the
scientific method will give you results that inform
us whether as to whether the theories and
hypotheses that we use to describe the universe do
so better than others.
And there is a belief that such processes will
eventually lead to a more precise description of
the universe and its workings.

I modified your statement, not because it's wrong, per se, but rather because of its imprecision. Experiment allows us to describe the universe with more precision, leading to greater understanding, not "truth," which implies an absolute. And science doesn't deal with absolutes, it deals with data, and the theories (in the scientific sense) that best fit that data.
I don't claim to have all the answers, I'm just a software developer. For what it's worth, Jeff Bezos should pay taxes that match his lifestyle I 100% agree, but saying "he has 136B$ in the bank and we should tax that amount" is making several leaps in logic that I can't get behind.
Sounds promising, but titanium ain't cheap.
Let me this get out first - It's scummy.

However, by no means is this different from the store branded products you find at Safeway or Walgreens. They do the exact same thing. The vendors pay for shelf space, share their profits, only for the supermarkets to copy the product and sell it as store branded ones.

Like a lot of things a fresh perspective helps. People are talking about it now but it was a minor shock when I saw this the first time I visited the US (2012is). I was curious on how the brands were okay with it. I assume they rely on their brand sway. Apparently it's been a thing that goes back a very very long time.
I would definitely agree with that claim, then. It seemed to me like he was making a far stronger claim, but it's very possible I'm wrong.
This is nothing new.

For example, supermarkets have been in the generic brands business for decades. They contract out making some generic version a name brand product and sell it a lower price, giving it preferential space (both size and position) on the shelves. Why? To capture a greater portion of the profit for themselves.

Why is anyone surprised Amazon is any different?

I've said it once and I'll say it again: the current focus on antitrust in Big Tech is, at best, completely misguided. If anyone is guilty of anticompetitive behaviour, it's not Google or Facebook, it's Amazon.

Amazon literally controls online selling, logistics, distribution and delivery to such a degree that no one else can reasonably compete.
Sorry, not a native english speaker. I have edited the comment.
Interesting, I don't actually think there's much ambiguity in the statement "any attempt to raise interest rates at all."
In 2010, "quantitative easing" meant plowing a whole lot of money into various financial assets, which is a very different kettle of fish from giving people cash handouts.
There is no way the euro or the yuan will take over anytime soon.
Have to paraphrase Churchill: "Badly, but better than all alternatives we tried so far."
I probably need to add this to the start for context; I say the following not because I don't think people should earn more, but rather that it's bad, rather than good increases in wages, which will be eaten up by inflation almost immediately at this pace.

I just saw a notice on a fast-ish food place saying they will pay $3 more per hour than the last wage. So not only is poaching happening, this inflation is being baked in. For context that is ~$6,240 more annualized or $520 per month.

On the contrary, good wage increases would come from a restriction of the labor supply through things like a decrease in immigration. What is happening though is that the labor pool is now being flooded with quite literally millions of unskilled laborers on the southern border and soon enough even high skill sectors like tech will be flooded with foreign tech workers if the ruling class is able to pull it off and places like India and China, etc. don't put a stop to it in order to retain their talent rather than letting the US ruling class profit from their people.
What a poorly thought out and pointless comment.
If it's anything like the last time then Bill Gates is going to have to answer questions about "10 ought to be enough for anybody" for decades.
Makers is a Figma Plugin to help you build and publish websites directly in Figma. No code required.

For a bit of context, I'm a solo-founder and I started Makers after sharing my idea on FigmaDesign subreddit about how awesome it would be to have a button in Figma to publish my designs. A good amount of people seemed to agree, and that was enough to start working on it.

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nothing wrong with selling GPL software, in fact RMS intended people to charge money for GPL software
Seeing the comments here debating the semantics of taxes, now seems like a good time to mention Poe's Law. [0]

I personally took home the message that the "game" was satire and meant to contextualize Bezos' wealth. Saying that the cost of hiring 100k teachers for 4 years is a fraction of his wealth is a lot more (for the lack of a better term) impactful than saying Bezos is worth $xyz Billion. Of course, that does not mean that Jeff can write a check for $22.4B and we can address the issues with the public school system in the United States. It does, however, help drive home the point that some individuals in our society have such immense wealth that they could theoretically transform society.

I do not intend to comment on the nature of said wealth, but the game still makes good food for thought.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
Thanks, but this is a personal computer. Then again, I'm not sure I should rule out some kind of wacky involuntary cloud sync these days.
This seems like a terrible click bait article.

Judging a green light doesn’t seem like an accurate representation of “reality” when it comes to the complexity of an actual human existence.

And if someone can tell me objectively what reality is I’ll give them a million dollars. It’s literally impossible to arrive at (for a life situation) since every human filters existence through their own brain determined by genetics and their experience to date.
I'm not sure what kind of role you will have. But when I hear "private equity" I'd want to know how much I participate in any upside the firm realizes from its investments. Especially for a small one. What kind of profit/revenue sharing model do they have?
If they were desperate they should work a little harder. Maybe they're just the ones left who are too lazy to try to get a better job.
The line is: what does societies weakest member look like. How do we stop those people being exploited. You then apply the action to everyone above that point.
Image Processing is Easier than you Thought (Getting started with Python Pillow)
I don't believe this is true (disclosure: I'm about 2 years out of date).

Last I checked - you can distribute private & proprietary apps using an enterprise deployment provisioning profile.

It requires that the signing entity (usually an enterprise) is registered with Apple (and pays a $300 fee), but it does not require store review.
Your comment seems to imply that the MMT set is actually directing policy, rather than being in favor for a smaller subset of progressive politicians.

The fed isn’t run by Stephanie Kelton. We are still living through one of the most disruptive periods in modern economic history, seeing moderately elevated inflation in this context doesn’t mean the sky is falling.
Visual Studio was not a browser; on the Mac it was GTK. Now they moved it to Mac native (via Xamarin.Mac).
Problem is that science is sometimes expensive. Math usually is not, but physics sometimes requires building huge machines, and psychology requires giving questionnaires to thousands of people. You can check the logic of the study, but unless you have lots of money, you need to trust the data.

If we no longer can trust the data, and don't have money to gather our own data... well, yes, then the only option is to admit that we don't know.
You can use it from whatever you want; it's not just for shell scripts.

Although why you'd go for a lower level language if you don't have to for some specific reason is beyond me. GUIs specifically have been historically very friendly towards very high level languages - see Tcl/Tk.

Also, by your logic, shell scripts should never use pipes; you should always use pipes from Python or Go or Rust. But I suspect that's not how other people usually think.
> There is no way the euro or the yuan will take over anytime soon.

Who said anything about taking over?

A world without a reserve currency will be a much better place to live.
Perhaps a better source than the text and images on the website, sadly, is the 02006 documentary about the Venus Project:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1IXWnS6vwk https://www.thevenusproject.com/multimedia/future-by-design-...

Worth noting that Peter Joseph founded the Zeitgeist Movement as a sort of evangelical wing of the Venus Project, but then it got excommunicated some years later — the Venus Project folks didn't like the direction it was going.

In a sense Jacque Fresco was one of the last of a group of believers in progress who sought to design a better future for humanity from first principles, along with Paolo Soleri, Buckminster Fuller, Joseph Stalin, Walt Disney, Mao Zedong, Juan Perón, Falco, and Franklin Roosevelt. The failures of that movement have included some of the greatest tragedies in the history of humanity, arguably including the advent of nuclear warfare, but its successes have also been quite notable, including space travel, the elimination of polio and smallpox, and the modern welfare state.

I'm not convinced that strong, centralized states that can carry out such plans are a net good (and Fresco apparently had plans to sort of eliminate them, although I haven't been able to find the details), but if we are going have such a state in place — the status quo in developed countries — it would be better for it to carry out judiciously chosen plans for improving the general welfare than for it to spend its strength on limiting access to borax, toluene, and copyrighted information.
"That's the point they [mailgun] lost me as a customer."

I would have been mad about the suggested $1k+ cleaning service too.

But, you do have to consider mailgun is protecting their reputation and assets as well. Like an IPV4 range that could get blacklisted if your diy cleansing wasn't right. And you mentioned your first run with the new provider was over 5% bounces, so it wouldn't have been good enough.

I can see why Mailgun pushes that solution.
I suspect the 24h limit is to prevent angry calls from customers who buy spot instances because they're cheaper, then wonder why their VM randomly went down and blame it on Azure.

(I work for Azure but don't know anything about the policies)
Tsk, tsk. Not a single mention of Roger Penrose's Conformal Cyclic Cosmology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal_cyclic_cosmology
Just clone AWS down to the API endpoints?
What Is a KeyPath in Swift
At the Vintage Computer Fest last week Bill Mensch mentioned to the audience that no one ever hears about the 65C02 and 65C816’s use in defibrillators and pacemakers - life critical applications - unless he tells them!

Does anyone know of good write ups or explanations of what makes the 6502 so reliable and what competition it had in being chosen for medical applications?
The ‘Use’ Macro in Elixir
It's the scale!

A fire in a trash can is something easy to deal with. If the fire is a whole forest threatening nearby towns then that's a big problem.
Hey, the EU is talking with Albania and North Macedonia at the moment and even with a thousand Brexits, the UK won't get down to their level.

Point being - every bit helps!
eventually you have to sell the stock to pay off the loan(s), triggering a tax event. If you wait until death, you get walloped by the estate tax, which is even higher than income tax.
Vanity is probably one of the key motivators among scientists.
Weren't the projects already owned by the .NET organization?
The Problem with America’s semi-rich
The (capitalist) counter argument is that forcing people to spread wealth acts as an incentive not to innovate
While you wait, how about a book from a neuroscientist? https://www.drperlmutter.com/books/grain-brain-by-david-perl...
Somehow cold blooded murder of a defenseless person doesn't seem at all comparable to an unplanned pregnancy.
I think it's less about "reconsidering life priorities" as it's simply breathing room. If you have $0 in the bank and are hustling 3 minimum-wage jobs to feed your kids, it's financially extremely difficult to break the cycle, unless there's a windfall like a stimulus check.
Unprotected lefts have been widely recognized as one of the tasks that are especially difficult for autonomous driving to handle--which, of course, means that they can be relatively tricky for people too. And, yes, well-defined places to walk and cross streets help pedestrians--at least if they use those defined places which they often don't in cities.
> Why? It's not like Windows 10 will suddenly stop working for you.

While this is true, Windows 8.1 started to pester me about my hardware constantly on an older (but not old at the time) PC when it was getting towards EOL with an obnoxious popup.
How Come Tesla Builds Its Gigafactories at a Speed?
The math is simple. We need to first understand why Gigactories are necessary in the first place. Tesla is an EV company and EVs are made of batteries. Batteries are the most costly components of Tesla manufacturing and Tesla needs to scale up its battery production to reach the economies of scale and that’s exactly what they are doing with already 5 Gigafactories. These gigafactories have the largest footnotes in the world and yet, they are finished in less than a year. Ever wondered how it works?
I keep coming back to HN because of the informed commentary. I commonly see principal actors comment directly, as well as experts with direct relevant experience. I do think the worldview of commenters is a bit monolithic.
The most precise measurement of neutron lifetime
I had to come back to comment - I tried to draw the Batman symbol and the first thing that came back was The Silence of the Lambs poster.
> reconsider their options.

What are the options for minimum/lower wage workers? They still need money for food and shelter.

The ability for low wage workers to decide "this job is not worth it" was only made possible by the increased government unemployment benefit and stimulus.

I absolutely believe that if given the choice of getting over $1200/month on unemployment versus making the same but working, most people would choose not working. That seems so intuitive to me.
Really enjoyed doing the design for this site and helping our team pull it off. Hoping it helps PLG companies see where they rank and get a bit of fun competition going.
Portable as in a trailer, right? 1MW is around 1340 horsepower.