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This is the worst part imho.

I can fight back. I can help a very few other close people who care but don't know how to fight back.

And every. single. other. person. I. know. is screwed.
Discord is where I go to get help with any technology. It's not much different than being on IRC when I was younger though -- same sort of scenario.

My Discord is half a decade old now, hard to believe:

> Created: <Day>, XX Oct 2016

HackerNews is where I go to keep up with things.
1 is correct because your house will sell for more later.

2 is incorrect and an obvious scam that uses societal progress to cover up inflating the money supply. (A virtual tax on progress).

3 is 2 but sort of in reverse.
I see critical thinking as a voluntary process. You have to be willing to violate your worldview - not just entertaining the idea that you are wrong. Additionally, the tools for critical thinking can just as easily be used to reinforce one's own worldview. I see the issue as an mindset problem rather than a lack of education problem.
There isn't a shortage of 3500 sq.ft. single family homes in suburban or rural areas in the way that there is a shortage of apartments/condos in high-rent urban areas. There isn't much opposition to this kind of new development. The major limiting factor for demand for this type of development is commute times (to everything, not just jobs). This is not the first choice of many people who would prefer to live closer to an urban center if not for higher prices caused by low supply of housing in such high-demand locations.
My housing costs went down about 15% from 2020-2021.
Thank you, this was very helpful.

> The axis of rotation is actually the vector "u".

Ah, I thought the vector was what we were rotating.
Misinformation looks a lot like being wrong. And we can't solve "being wrong". We're going to be wrong a lot before we're right.

The problem stems from the fact that we have to allow people to be wrong to get any sort of progress. If we must be 100% correct before pushing forward, we'd never push forward. Sometimes, it has to be "just good enough".

From the start, we thought the Earth was flat and all that ever was. We were wrong.

Then we thought the Earth was round and everything revolved around it. We were wrong.

The we thought the Earth was round and everything revolved around the Sun. We were still wrong.

Fast forward some time.

Now we think the Earth is an oblate spheroid orbiting a medium sized star in an arm of a spiral galaxy traveling away from the point of origin. We are likely still wrong about this.

But less wrong than yesterday. And that's what's important.

It's not "critical thinking" we need to teach. Such a loaded concept to begin with. We need to teach people how to be wrong. That it is ok to be wrong. That wrong often leads to right. We can't become so entrenched in our ideas that we can never move from them. Don't wait for the other guy to budge on their ideas. And don't concern yourself with them. Unless they're incredibly lucky, they'll spin their wheels while you eventually get to right.
Ask HN: Which important problem are you working on?
Important is subjective, what is important to you?
Probably, but there are a lot of other types of projects that I would also like to do instead
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r/solarpunk

r/permaculture

https://100r.co/site/off_the_grid.html

https://solarpunks.net/

https://medium.com/solarpunks/solarpunk-a-reference-guide-8b...

http://viznut.fi/texts-en/permacomputing.html

http://viznut.fi/texts-en/permacomputing_update_2021.html

https://www.sevarg.net/2020/05/23/on-working-from-home-and-j...
Yeah but "possible condition 20 - 40 years away" is very different to "contagious disease that could get you next week". Urgency is a motivator!
Does this include fighting to keep an oil well leaking?
> Advertising

I get a lot out of using Search, Youtube, Maps, Gmail, Drive and all of Google's other services for free. Advertising probably comes out as a net positive for me if you take all of those into account.
Mobile phones, and the expectation that people should be able to call me/text me and have an instant reply whenever they want.
So there is a price point, and I think we have reached it, where you can utilize raw sucrose to culture nitrogenous bacteria, which then is added back to the soil, not only increasing nitrogen concentrations but adding catabolizable biomass back into the soil. This is compared to anhydrous ammonia at $800/ton.
But housing costs money. If you're a homeowner, if you bought a house for $250k in 2019 vs. a homeowner who bought an identical house for $300k in 2021, its pretty hard to argue the second homeowner isn't comparatively worse off.

Of course, houses have to be maintained. At least where I am, the cost of plumbers, electricians, HVAC, etc. have exploded in the last 18 months.

Renters are a much more straightforward case. The costs of housing (i.e. the costs of purchasing and maintaining the asset) are passed on to them in the form of rent increases.
My rent dropped 20% (for the same unit) in the past year. That wouldn't be reflected on Zillow, but should be considered as part of the cpi, right?
Even though I love my friends, I just don't like being available or able to be contacted all the time. I kinda miss the era of basic SMS and, for real-time chatting, MSN Messenger (or IRC). Nowadays, it feels like I can never truly "log off".

That said, I have no genuinely good reason why I haven't tried going back to a similar personal setup. Maybe it's time to see how it would work out.
I once re-invented the whistling teapot while deeply engrossed in using Arduino for anything and everything. I had only saucepans to boil water with and wished they could alert me once the water reached temp, perhaps optically sensing the turbulance of the surface.

My roommate could not roll their eyes enough.
This is devastating news.

Seeing the injustice of how one of the greatest journalists of our age is being treated literally hurts. And not just by the US power system, but also most of the media, even people who pass as liberal like John Stewart are almost spitting in his face and treating the US repression as justified.
Yes, downtown Naperville is the closest condensed shopping area. And it's extremely walkable, by design, with three major parking garages well-placed to ideally allow you to park your car on the edge of the downtown area and then walk to where you want to go. There's still car traffic, but due to the amount of pedestrians and narrow streets, drivers in the area will almost always route around it.

Meanwhile, Ogden Avenue is one of the main through-roads in the area. Usually a road you'd drive up to to avoid going through downtown Naperville, in fact.
Its also just a gnarly problem to solve.

PCE might be the better measure.
It's not surprising that the code base grew when reimplemented in golang. It would have probably been even shorter had it been rewritten in Python itself.

Just the other day, I was able to condense over 15 lines of golang code into 3 lines (could also have been 2 lines) in a Python-like syntax, both reducing code length, and substantially increasing readability as it would make the underlying logic clearly stand out instead of having several loop and map constructs.
Humans are complicated. It's likely they're showing something else than understanding, it's just you're not noticing it
It's not true. If it were, nothing would be remotely rational in society. Facts can't force just anyone to change their mind if there are countervailing forces. OK. But there exist people for whom adhering to the facts of nearly any situation is in effect a kind of credo or top tier value they will not contravene.
>- calling him a journalist is a mighty stretch even before he started, let's call it his "full-stack collaboration" with the Russians

This is wildly unsubstantiated and at best fear mongering propaganda.

>- the alleged crimes were committed against the US, i.e his participation in the exfiltration of secret data from US government. Surely his physical location when committing these crimes should have no bearing on whether it's a criminal matter.

It absolutely should matter. Why should someone who's not a citizen and wasn't located in the US be held to US laws? Does every person on the planet now need to memorize the laws of every country and fear extradition if I were to accidentally view gay porn, which is illegal in Saudi Arabia?
>My general monthly bill on food is 600€.

This is crazy, are you on a meat only diet or do you go to very expensive restaurants? Otherwise I struggle to believe it.
Weirdly, I tend to only read things which challenge my thinking, and avoid things which confirm it, so I haven't read the 1619 project itself, only the commentary around it. I understand the behavior makes no logical sense but … it's just the way I am.

What I've found is that there is no disagreement over the facts presented, only interpretations of those facts. I've searched, in vain, for reputable historians challenging specific factual claims made by the project. I haven't read one.

The largest, credible criticisms are more or less either a tone argument ("Slavery was A motivation of SOME") or alternate fact discussions, some of which are interesting but none of which I'd count as discrediting anything.

The rest of what I've read is mostly Founding Father Worship which I have zero time for.
The WiFi will still work for a long time to come. That's the best you can do. There are plenty of apps to call through WiFi. I use Skype for most of my calling. I only use the cell network when I'm outside the home.
>If you've a house worth 200k and its value goes up 5%, then a year later you are 5% wealthier.

That doesn't follow. A nominal rise of 5% doesn't make you 5% wealthier. Asset PRICE inflation is a real thing. You're conflating value appreciation and depreciation (rise or fall in real value) with price inflation/deflation (rise or fall of nominal value).
Ah good point! Yeah. That is a definite issue then. I should link this thread on the code's github. The author is getting a free code review. haha.
> Further, I am of the opinion, being someone who was quite literally in Afghanistan when he leaked the information he did, that any probative value of the information Manning leaked was overshadowed by the indiscriminate way in which it was done.

It's funny to me that you were marauding around Afghanistan a couple of years ago and would use the word indiscriminate to describe Assange.
I found this to be a compelling counterargument to Blow's alarmism about forgotten knowledge in tech https://www.datagubbe.se/endofciv/

A related point: numerically there are far more low level developers now than there were in past he idealizes. No such knowledge is being forgotten, it is used and innovated upon regularly. It may be in less frequent use, but is still there if needed.
"Your reply suggests that you may have been part of the institution that committed and covered up the war crimes "

Oh no, you outed me! I'm a CIA plant!

How were you able to slyly prove my complicity in war crimes from a mere comment about travelling abroad?

A testament to brilliant and rational deductive thinking and logical inference, that must prove 'America is Evil' as well of course ...
>If I say it should be 750,000 vs you say it should be 1.5 million. There is no way to say what is correct.

Even this would be a vast improvement in over the current debate: is immigration good or bad. At least you can start to have a reasonable conversation about a number, why you support it, and what the results would be. Further, there are different types of immigrants. Some are skilled workers, refugees, and yes, even criminals. Should the number be the same for all?

when someone simply says it is good/more. what does that mean? 2 million, 10 million, ect?

>What's the misinformation here? Should we be looking to censor something?

When there are no details, there is no information, and if there is no information, how can there be misinformation?
> I'm not sure that it makes sense to trust their pricing models.

Zillow, Redfin, etc list at prices that may be inflated, but they always list the purchased pricing as far back as they can and raise estimate to last sale if higher.
If, say toilet roll, is smaller quantities wouldn't you end up buying more of it which will also reflect in your monthly budget?
Even in the most expensive cities in the US, rents are "only" up something like 250% in the past 30 years. And in most of the country, it's a small percentage of that.

https://paragonpublic.blob.core.windows.net/dash-v2-blog-ima...

Childcare's up by maybe 100%?

Tuition maybe 150%?

Not even sure what to do with equities.. they're a financial instrument not a good or service..
Information is entropic? Once lost it’s probably hard to restructure it to the original version.
Apple to reach US$ 3T market cap if shares rise 4.4%
I first encountered quaternions in the concept of abstract algebra. It's interesting to think of it as part of a spectrum starting with reals and continuing to octonions (and beyond). Interestingly with each extension we lose something:

Complex numbers (2-dimensional): No more ordering

Quaternions (4-dimensional): No more commutative multiplication

Octonions (8-dimensional): No more associative multiplication

Sedenions (16-dimensional): We lose the alternative property, i.e., with octonions its still true that x(xy) = (xx)y but with sedenions it is not.

We can continue this process indefinitely, although I know nothing of the characteristics of trigintaduonions or what comes later. I suspect that it might be the loss of the flexible identity next, a(ba) = (ab)a but I don't know for sure.
> It’s also possible he was an asset for a hostile intelligence service posing as a journalist.

Also possible he's the flying spaghetti monster. There's equal evidence for both (none)

Mike Pompeo sounds extremely salty about negative press coverage. Of course they're going to do their best to discredit Assange after he embarrassed them so thoroughly.
Unless he is eating less and less, it should control for that.
You should really read some introduction to economics to get a good mental model of how those things work.

Why wouldnt TV companies do this in the past when TV was in the prime? Just increase number of ads and get more money. Clearly there is some limit as to how many ads to show because I dont believe they want to decrease the viewership numbers
Thank you for summarizing years of inquietude. I thought that I might have ADHD, but my "symptoms" started when I realized that I could never catch up to all the information that the Internet is presenting me daily. I wish I had a solution to let it all go. Anyone?
Today's tech can be cheap and repairable.

Buying a PC in parts is not that more expensive than buying than a box from a retailer. The framework laptop is completely competitively priced with laptops of equivalent specs. DIY audio enthusiasts can buy speaker kits that have amazing performance for one third of the price of the "ready" one, and if a speaker or the amp goes bad, they don't need to buy a whole new kit.

It's consumers themselves that got that into that mindset that is not worth to invest time into building and repairing things. We need to start attaching a cost to disposing of obsolete tech, and you can bet they will quickly remember that they too are capable of doing things.
Von-Neumann Morgenstern utility is mathematically precise; there is a real-numbered utility function such that maximizing utility is equivalent to choosing the correct lotteries according to an agent's preferences. So long as every decision one can have a preference about can be stated as a preference over expected outcomes (e.g. 50% chance of ice cream over 30% chance of cake, or related to the article: 90% child-one succeeds and 70% child-two succeeds v.s. 85% child-one succeeds and 74% child-two succeeds) then the utility function exists.

Humans do not have utility functions. We have a lot of circular or contradictory preferences and other ancient machinery in our brains, and especially we do not reason about probabilities and expected outcomes accurately enough. We might be able to grow into having a utility function while still being happy about our preferences and without changing our humanity for the worse.
Truly thanks. I have Scheme and Racket editions, wasn't aware of JS version coming out.
According to Wikipedia similar devices were mentioned for example by Cicero, Archimedes supposedly wrote a now lost manuscript on the construction of devices like the Antikythera mechanism...: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism#Similar_...
It's always been that way. While I have never used Tinder (Been married during its existence) but when I talk to men that have used Tinder successfully and unsuccessfully, their stories sound just like my pre-Tinder dating life. To me, Tinder sounds like it just increased the velocity of success or failure.
And when Zillow goes bust or fakes the data etc, what do you do?
Icons. I hate icons. Every app feels impelled to use icons, and even worse, invent their own due to trying to be cool, and avoiding the copyrights on other icons.

I got suckered into that madness on my own website, and can't remember what the icons are for without hovering over then for the alt text.

Icons are a giant technological leap backwards. There's a reason that every hieroglyphic language evolved towards phonetics, not the other way.

For a simple example, there's no picture in the world that can clearly mean "run", or "menu", or "oil pressure", or "defroster", or "test", or "print", or "off", or "wash in cold water".

Of course, we can get used to what certain icons conventionally mean, but it is not intuitive, and not any better than learning what a word means.
Posting this article was a form of total propaganda mis-information.

I have noticed some people posting crap links with articles designed propagandize and push/defend establishment "mis-information" and agenda to on Hacker News. Proof for this article, the blatant one-liner giving absolutely 100% bias BS,

"The pandemic was planned. Climate change is a hoax. Joe Biden lost the election."

What a crock of $hit - article obvious calling these three statement false, without any evidence or proof and in full compliance of a easily provable corrupt mass media and establishment.

Anyone trained in old proper journalism practice know that (a) majority reader swill click on the headline/link (b) read the first couple paragraphs and drop out of article.

This post and others on Hacker News of late are nothing more than spamming political BS to naysay for establish. It happens on wikipedia and forum trolling and now happening on Hacker News. A shame.
Is wood back to pre pandemic prices?
Big guns policy. Whoever has the highest number of guns is in charge. We are still tribal monkeys after all with a thin veneer of civilization.
Two phone-related ones:

1) Phone calls sounded better when they were analog. Even today, after some improvements, this is still true.

2) Long distance charges turned out to be well fucking worth it for keeping phone spam from being a thing. This "improvement" has been strongly net-harmful.
Wages are surging too.
I have a game I built for a homework in university. After 5 years of react, I picked it up and try to run it on my MacBook. I just had to edit a few files and got it working again. C has this expressiveness in it where everything is exposed to the reader. No complicated abstractions, just data structures and code.
Do you mean building something like this software demo, or turning it into a real instrument?

In software, honestly the MDN docs for the web audio API is a pretty great starting point. Assumes very little prior knowledge, and goes into a lot of detail about how to do things.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Audio_A...

I've used a software synthesizer called SuperCollider through a wrapper API called Overtone.

https://supercollider.github.io/

https://overtone.github.io/docs.html

Lots of resources on those as well, if you're interested to learn.

In hardware, if you want to do the actual wave synthesizing... you've got analog and digital options. Pretty big DIY community around both, depending on your leanings. I find adding "arduino" to search terms gives lots of examples and tutorials of building instruments that you could adapt to non-arduino contexts.
I mean, it won't be, but it CAN.
Still waking up and it's possible I misread GP, but their comments didn't seem disingenuous on my reading. It's healthy to be skeptical of something that varies that much from one's personal experience. Your reply about data available for personal inflation was exactly the kind of information they needed to verify if the underlying data matches their personal experience.

I understand the sensitivity to folks spouting "fake news", but let's not discourage critical thinking in a time where there is precious little to go around.
>"Politically skewed reporting"

As a side note, have you ever noticed news stories about Joe Biden include photos of him with either a neutral or determined facial expression? Contrast that to all the articles written up about Donald Trump which constantly used pictures of him with his mouth open making the "ch" or "ooo" sound. It would be really hard to 'prove' this bias in an academic sense, but I personally have no doubt in my mind this is intentionally done to evoke either positive or negative feelings in readers.
Mainstream media is the media that is mainstream. I don't give a flying fuck if the GOP decide it means only corporate "left" media.

'Socialism', 'liberal', 'terrorist', 'torture', etc... Allowing brainwashed loons and their puppeteers to decide what words mean is a mug's game, and I suggest you stop playing.
The American empire.
> My rent is down hundreds of dollars year over year as is it for most people I know.

What static US locations are "the people you know" living in?

OFC you can get cheaper rent moving to more remote and primitive housing, but that's a misrepresentation anyway.

From California, to Seattle, to the midwest, all rents have increased at least every other year. Your statement is literally unbelievable.
There's also an element here people don't talk: Covid created insane amounts of hard-to-repay debts. If interest rates go up quickly, the Govrermnent will suddently have to spend a lot of its budget on interest - expected, of course, but not something they are used to.

In NYC, many restaurants and property owners survived thanks to debt which will eat into their profits for years to come and may even bankrupt them down the road.

What is the answer to overwhelming debt? Inflation. Inflation makes the principle that you owe a lot cheaper and if you have borrowed in fixed interest rates, it makes the interest payments cheaper as well.

It would help both the government and the businesses mostly affected by Covid to run high inflation for a few years. This may or may not be part of the Fed calculation but I don't understand why nobody talks about it.
Google “active measures”

Or watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR_6dibpDfo
True, BUT: Get your booster. "Three doses against omicron are almost equivalent to the two doses effectiveness we had against the ... original variant," Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said Wednesday
I was traveling with a guide who knew Greek and had visited Mt. Athos at least tens of times. It was very valuable as he knew monks from different monasteries and arranged visas and accommodations. But during my trip I also met few travellers who had arranged everything themselves and didn't speak any Greek. You can stay at a monastery one night without a charge, meals included but I think it's suggested that you book it in advance because some monasteries have limited capacity for pilgrims.
Ask HN: What Happened to Borland?
I recall early in my software development career Borland have a strong hold in the developer tool space (and largely loved by developers). What happened to them? They were the “JetBrains” of their day.