skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment contains a lot of info that is not the consensus view of economists and businessmen.

Yes, interest rates going up lowers the price of bonds because "interest rates up" is mathematically equivalent to "bonds are cheaper."

The notion that changes in interest rates, which generally correlate with inflation, would alter the price of stocks is not obvious to me. Not sure what mechanism you would propose that would cause that to happen.

The US Government has the right to print USD. The notion that they could someday be unable to pay USD-denominated debts is therefore obviously wrong. Also, it is very much in the interests of exporters like China that USD remain strong, and they will likely just add the newly-minted USD to their USD reserves.

When proposing financial disasters, you can take these same types of fears and make them more plausible. E.g. propose that the US Government will overspend, weaken the dollar, cause the dollar to lose status as a reserve currency, and force future US debt to be denominated in something other than USD. Or propose that a sudden increase in inflation might cause effective salaries to decline or be uncertain, leading to a decline in consumer confidence and a recession.

Inflation uncertainty worries me the most. But I don't think there are any nightmare scenarios coming soon.
> so I’m really not sure why they bothered to draw the connection to Office Space at all

Because the body of the article mentions The Office and the headline writer doesn't know the difference? (Office Space isn't mentioned in the body at all.)
Wine on Windows 10. It works. (2019)
I don't mind paying for e-mail personally. There's a lot of odds and ends stuff you have to deal with operationally if you self-host, and most of the places that charge you don't display ads.
My last job search was so frustrating it caused me to become self-employed.

So be careful, it could happen to you too!
Fascinating article - in my opinion, this is the real result of "find yourself" education and encouraging expressive individuality.

Instead of becoming a means of expressing oneself, these categories of identity and experience have made their way into institutions and become the primary lens through which institutions evaluate people -- increasingly more so than actual objective standards.

The result is that by tearing down objectivism in favor of self-expression, we've actually lost both.
The price difference between iPhones and high-end, official Android (e.g., Nexus, Pixel) phones is negligible.

It's simply not possible as far as I've seen to purchase a PC laptop with similar construction quality (when they're not plastic garbage they're poor imitations of the metal body and interior layout), but one can pay almost as much for a MacBook Pro to get a PC laptop with similar or somewhat superior performance characteristics. That construction quality is worth a premium price point.
Upfront-heavy design is a cost saving adaptation to the constraint that experimentation with large scale structures is expensive. Even then, traditional engineering disciplines are very much into prototypes, scale models, and intricate test and measurement apparatus.
Does anyone know how this works with "catch all" domain handling.

For years I have used FOO.org address with a legacy free edition. I always create service@foo.org email addresses, and they all drop through to the catch-all domain.

Can I just register the one address "patrick@foo.org" and have all the addresses still just fall through as normal? What a nightmare :(
I care about how media gets transcoded. Effective communication is based on clear communication.

Signal on desktop with more than 10k messages opens in less than 10 seconds for me. Similarly with Whatsapp web. The only time Signal desktop has "lost" my login is when I uninstalled and reinstalled it on my phone. Which makes sense because it means it refreshed the cryptographic keys associated with my account.

Signal doesn't have an easy way to transfer messages to desktop or messages to a new phone by choice due to privacy reasons. It's not a decision I agree with, but it's a decision I understand.

Whatsapp is fine in terms of transferring messages and is instant. It's better than iMessage because it has the same major features while being platform independent. The unfortunate thing actually is that iOS makes it harder to backup the actual database of messages for something like Whatsapp or iMessage because it intentionally hides the files from you. I know many friends that have gotten upset that they lost their messages, because their iPhone died for whatever reason. It's really hard to recover data from a dead phone without paying a lot of money, if it's even possible. On the other hand I use a microsd card in my Android and my Whatsapp database is mirrored to it. I have some messages going back more than 10 years without having to use any sort of cloud backup solution or rely on the good grace of itunes backing things up properly. You need root access to get the Whatsapp key on an Android, but once you have it, you can decrypt the copied message database on desktop.

As of Oct 2021, there's an option to make an E2E encrypted Whatsapp backup based on a key of your own choosing. That means I can use a cloud backup and still maintain privacy over my data.

I care about making it easy for others to be able to communicate with me regardless of what they use, you don't have to care though.
That's why it's mostly nickel.
> Presumably the trains are only in smaller segments

The trains are in longer segments than ever before with the move to "precision scheduled railroading":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqdsQ8pFM2s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_railroading

Sixty-eight thousand American railroad jobs were lost between 2015 and today due to PSR, from a local-maximum* of ~210k in April 2015 to ~142k in December 2021:

https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES4348200001?amp%25253bdata...

[*] Down from 2.2 million railroad jobs in 1920, but BLS data only goes back as far as 1947.
The weird thing to me that I've been seeing is VCs harping on inflation as a consequence of what they view as loose monetary policy with zero apparent sense of irony that the truly massive explosion of VC over the last 10 years is entirely because of not just all the top-end liquidity that's been frothing all over the place since QE began back in the 2008 financial crisis, but _also_ the fact that the net-negative interest rates on stable long-term investments effectively create whole new categories of LPs for VCs to chase that previously couldn't/wouldn't touch the VC ecosystem with a 10-foot pole.

Talk about looking a gift horse in the mouth. Or, perhaps biting the hand that feeds you? I dunno, I'm sure there's an appropriate colloquialism.

If QTmageddon is coming (something I personally think is a mistake since it seems like price inflation is being principally driven by supply shock dynamics, but I digress), then the first reckoning in the financial markets is almost certainly going to be VC. The risk profile makes absolutely no sense without a cheap money market.
Trump was a racist, without a doubt. But so was Biden: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/joe-biden-didn-t-just-co...
Is the fairphone available in the US? I would have bought the FP3 in a heartbeat if it was available in the US in the summer of 2020.
Since you used "absolutely" and "truly" I'm assuming you're being sarcastic? If not, you just need to look at OxyContin to know this isn't true.
Yeah but a broken clock could do the same thing
Ffcv: Train models at a fraction of the cost with accelerated data loading
If it was that bad in the 40s, imagine now with a mountain of student debt. Money is more tempting than ever.
I imagine that 1000 years ago parents too had to explain to their kids not to talk to strangers. Human society hasn't changed all that much on the basics.
I have very little political content on my main FYP these days, instead purposely confining it to the puppet accounts I set up just for that purpose. That said, it is very easy to fall into one of the political TikTok streams with just a few inadvertent likes or shares.
A lot of that was due to drug consumption "crimes;" there has been a reevaluation of the outcome of that and we've gone away from that.
That said, anti-social crime should have deterrents and consequences.
I have 1Password installed on my Mac and in my browsers. Yet for some reason I’m constantly asked to enter my master password. Like 20 times a day. Rarely does it accept just ny fingerprint. Rarely does it work without forcing a reload of the browser. It seems like the different apps and browser tabs are constantly competing with each other and making my day miserable. Anyone have a solve for this? Am I the only one?

I wish it just worked so that anytime I needed to fill a password, I just scan my finger and get right in. Why can’t it be that simple?!!!!!!!
So Apple is funding a metacriticism of itself?

It's like someone said... what's the worst thing about working at a FAANG?, and dialed it up to 11.
General recursion, yes however often the fixed point operator is added (and its associated judgements) to have interesting programs/proofs.

Hmm, that fixed point operator, rings a bell, can't quite put my finger on it . . . :-)
I never moved to the free GSuite and I'm glad. I have everything at my domain forward to me@mydomain.com and that goes to my gmail address. Then GMail is set up to send mail out through my domain's email server to retain the illusion.
I am a big naysayer, but compare the cost of a fully separated home office to this. To a lot of folks it makes sense
It is.

It shows very clearly why most software devs are not engineers. I know I'm not.

As a field, we don't "optimize within a solution space bounded by constraints".

We throw crap at the wall to see what sticks, hacking up something like what the users said they wanted, then changing it all to do what they ask for once they start using it.

It's normally done as a craft where we're using fuzzy human instincts to get to a good-enough solution and move on.

And for systems where lives aren't on the line, nor millions of dollars every five minutes (financial trading, massive server farms at Google, etc), that is actually the correct tradeoff. Engineering is overkill for most software.

NASA needs software engineers. Microsoft doesn't.
> most of the things made by humans that we found about the ancient world are made of gold

That is a bold statement. Meusums are filled with non-gold artifacts!
One thing that looked a little odd is the doc asks potential contributors to familiarize themselves with a fairly convoluted guide to 'unofficial' HN features but doesn't mention or link HN's own guidelines and FAQ. But maybe it's targeted at people who've read them?
> I am guessing the author was lead to this thought

The author of the article (assuming, as is usually the case, they aren't also the author of the headline) doesn't mention Office Space at all.
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Books recommended by successful and inspirational people.
Yeah, but the takeaway is that "coordinated responses" are the norm for even a relatively small tech company and we basically can't count on any genuine social media discussions about large companies. Disclaimer: I'm not saying you-know-who does or doesn't do any of this (though other pages on their wiki do describe some of what I talk about. You can read it for yourself.) At best what looks organic isn't remotely close.

"Coordinated response" is PR-speak for a company's PR team at best controlling the "message" and who delivers it, instead of half a dozen employees chiming in with "inconsistent messaging". Somewhere in-between: immediately calling/DMing certain employees known to toe the company line / have a good reputation publicly, and who are in a relevant department.

It's severely disingenuous, particularly since people interpret the quick appearance as the employee being active in the community, and never will you hear the employee say "well, actually, our PR team rang my phone off the nightstand and said "shmeddit is discussing _______, please immediately get on Slack to provide a response using talking points to some comments that are coming up."

At worst, it's also a company mobilizing, if necessary, a vendor who supplies an army of users (real or fake) on the platform to comment, upvote, downvote, flag, etc. They even have prearranged topics to boost/suppress, canned talking points, etc.

I think the most visible evidence of this is a certain electric car company, which routinely abuses the DMCA takedown process to suppress videos that are unflattering. Google their name and "dmca video" and you can read all about it.

The same technique has been used by a certain rich playboy who sucker-punched a restaurant worker while someone was recording him without him realizing it, and the video made it onto reddit. The video kept getting either removed by moderators or DMCA'd.

A large number of VHNWI's/UHNWIs have standing contracts with reputation management firms for exactly that sort of action.
Imagine yourself as an excited, enthusiastic young engineer working at a relatively big company. A blog post relevant to the product you work on comes up - what do you do? Should you post to HN? If it comes up there, should you engage enthusiastically? What's appropriate?

Having guidelines can help with this kind of thing. Of course, guidelines that advised a lot of astroturfing or disingenuous engagement would be pretty icky indeed…
Please add the nuance.

He admitted he lied about mask effectiveness to prevent runs on PPE.
Google's stock Android Messages app has been consistently good for the last few years. Simple interface that doesn't try to do too much - good search functionality and a web client if you'd like to send SMS/RCS from your computer.
On it: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/merge_request...
I feel like it would have been clear by now that anyone still expecting their Google account to be a safe store of any form of value was going to be dissapointed.

Moved everything off of Google a few years ago and much happier for it. I certainly don’t have to worry when one of these threads inevitably appears every 3 months or so.
It's too "real" for me, like going to Target and watching the returns desk. More sad than funny.
It's only about $25 worth of gold in today's prices. It's not a huge target.
Hi #hn-mentions
We can say both are equally important and divide our worry by 50%
Placebo masks can help in other ways:

https://cph.temple.edu/about/news-events/news/people-judged-...
>After the Second World War, the German research was effectively silenced due to perceived associations with Nazism

That's really interesting. I dug a little more into it[0]. Apparently the underlying reasoning was that the Nazis associated smoking with "degenerates" and damage to "bodily purity." So when the research hit the US, people must have associated anti-smoking with those Nazi ideas. I wonder if tobacco companies latched onto this momentum to keep their public image healthy?

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tobacco_movement_in_Nazi_...
> What would be more beneficial than calorie counting would be dietary education.

Not sure I agree. I think only some basic education is really required. Once you start getting into the weeds about how not all calories are equal, it's easy to get overwhelmed and give up.

Generally, refined sugar is to be avoided. Not too many other carbs. That's about all the education the average person needs to be an effective calorie counter.

With calorie counting, you typically stay aware of your caloric intake before each meal, which is the biggest battle - not mindlessly eating. Better choices
tend to naturally follow.
F#. It's functional first. Supports currying, HoF, maybe types, composition, pipelining and most of the functional goodies.
It offers a neat indented syntax for OOPs.

You can also do function calls with optional arguments with defaults.
Tocopherol wasn't used as an additive as far as I know, at least any any reputable ejuice vendor, and from I recall the timing on the flavored vape juice ban was oddly around the same time as first COVID cases. It is likely that they jumped to conclusions and then used "some" vendors adding vitamin E as an excuse for such a drastic terrible measure.
I do have the habit of talking in plural form. The site was built by my wife and I together, but I built 100% of the models myself. I did work on this full time for over 2 years before recently starting a new job. Now, I've got the models to a place where it becomes very difficult to improve them. I used to be able to make huge progress in a week, now I can spend 100 hours trying different theories and may not end up with any progress. That can be frustrating, so I decided, the models are fantastic right now, the execution framework is very stable, I'm happy with how they are performing, I'm going to let them run.

As mentioned, I'm not rich (1.4M in bot, ~2M total net worth), a SWE job paying 400-600k is quite meaningful to me even with 40-60% returns on my portfolio for the time being, just as potential profits from this website (also perhaps in that range within a year or two?) are also meaningful. If the website fails to generate significant revenue, I may shut it down. Also, I enjoy working on satisfying things, and now that the models are mature and the website is mostly finished except minor details, I'm happy to have a team and a project for now :)

That's also a good call out on the scaling problems--another reason our models trade the SPX futures, literally the most liquid financial instrument in the world. By my slippage calculations, the models don't need significant scaling updates until at least 1B+ is being traded.
I think it depends on the country. The US has very long distances and the margin on trains is very small and competition fierce. They're also not subsidized. The trains need to be as cheap to run as existing trains and they can't afford a massive electrification effort.
Until the property gets developed a couple decades later and they "move it".
Somehow, the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge comes to mind. Carefully engineered, it still fell apart in a stiff breeze (fortunately, no one was killed).
I realize this rail yard is an atypical scenario. I was responding to the analogy about leaving a laptop in your car. I know it’s unthinkable to do that in almost any populated area of the US, but the expectation of rampant theft isn’t a necessary part of life. I live somewhere that proves it.
> If I decide in the future (perhaps once my account is to that 50-100M range) that the site is more of a liability for me than an asset, I may close it, with or without grandfathering.

I'd like to offer to take care of it and manage all aspects of it if you ever get annoyed by it. These algorithms are life-changing and the more (and especially lower income) people have access to them, the better.
yeah this seems to be ignore the massive amount or pottery and ceramics we have.
gold pressed crypto
I basically never watched the Grammy’s. It always looked and felt like record labels putting on a show to sell more albums.

Just like what radio turned in to.

In the meantime I listened to more and more music from friends, the library, the internet, and all sorts of live venues. Great music is flowing like water it’s crazy.
I have two such side projects that run almost passively, neither is an app though.

1- An extremely simple habit tracker spreadsheet template that I also use myself - https://www.preetamnath.com/habit-tracker-template

Makes ~$100/mo but this month it's on track to make $200, probably due to new year's enthusiasm?

2- Learn Programmatic SEO, a straightforward course to help people identify repeatable keyword patterns and use that to drive traffic to their business, website, projects etc. SEO beginner-friendly - https://www.preetamnath.com/programmatic-seo

The course makes between $300-$500/mo.

I don't have any costs other than website hosting and Gumroad fees. I do think these projects have scope to improve and grow. Would love feedback from anyone who finds them interesting!
Present Latency, DWM and Waitable Swapchains
I think this is what happened in the Philippines. Crime was out of control, people got totally fed up, elected a "strongman" and he personified the electorate's desire to rid society of those who went to far. In a psychological sense, he took on the burden of society and did the work on their behalf --they could feel good because it wasn't them, but rather the personification of their desire in the form of the "stongman".

People want some peace --they will take a hit to civil liberties in exchange.
Yes, almost every company has automated alerts for mentions about them on any platform. It can be a great thing and it can be abused. A great way for a company to handle social media is to clarify confusion and to answer questions but not raid every thread with defensive or astro turf content.

Often people post online about their complaints about how a product or service doesn't do x when it does but they haven't found it or its newly added. When the PR team can drop in and give a quick update its quite useful.
> and most of the things made by humans that we found about the ancient world are made of gold

Pretty sure stone wins by volume.
Other recommend book: Humankind, by Rutger Bergman.
Bitwarden, over the last few years, has been focusing on enterprise features and has largely ignored more basic stuff. It doesn’t seem like that’s going to change quickly, since the pace of development seems slow.
Article misrepresents the scientific study. Better article: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/palomar-survey-instrument...

It's actually a positive report saying that the satellites aren't as bad as was thought. The media is spinning it for the opposite.
> A natural infection grows and grows and grows until the immune system finally gets going and snuffs if out, over the course of days or weeks.

Or you grow progressively weaker, miserable, and slowly suffocate until your body gives out—all without your family at your side.

(There's a reason we do not strive for even approximate mimicry of actual disease if we can help it.)
I'm being lazy, but what API does this use? Is it public or "partners" only?

Very cool app.
You're saying progressive taxation keeps people in poverty. The definition of progressive taxation is taxing the poor less and the rich more. Do you therefore see taxing the poor more as a means of elevating them out of poverty?

That's the first thing. The second thing is:

> I am against a tax system that punishes hard working individuals and gives a free pass for those already wealthy and big corporations.

This is exactly the problem a progressive tax system is supposed to solve.
The whole "woke" angle is just a case of admittedly convenient misdirection. Government schools have always consistently pushed for mediocrity and getting rid of any sort of accountability re: educational outcomes, and this latest instance is no different. Standards and accountability can only be achieved and sustained via meaningful competition (such as 'magnet' schools striving to compete with private educational offerings).
Like a lot of these shows this scooped up a large crop of the New York film production workers for many months. I know a bunch of people that worked on it, including my roommate. Funny seeing it on the front page of HN.
Ask how well this worked out for Scientology, who set out to do this with L. Ron Hubbard's works. Their efforts were essentially for naught as they used a now deprecated type of LaserDisc. (https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-scientologys-secret-bun... https://tonyortega.org/2013/08/31/the-history-of-scientology...)