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They want 2% inflation, not out of control inflation.
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We need a mechanism to separate academic inquiry from a political tactic that disguises itself as academic inquiry. Unfortunately, the courtesy of extending good faith by default has been heavily exploited, so out of strategic necessity many assume bad faith by default. Naturally, this assumption should be revised once somebody proves that they're actually interested in details rather than fighting. If we had alternative methods of proving "seriousness" (e.g. academic credentials in academic settings), we could sidestep the requirement, but here on the internet it probably has to be this way.

It's a pity, but no, it's not the same as antimask/antivax rhetoric.
You should try the ergodox. I similarly bought the TECK because I wanted an ergonomic keyboard with a standard-ish layout and loved it, but it died in a couple of years. After that I bought an Ergodox EZ and have been very happy with it.
Hide, fix, deny, find root cause(s), fix - carry on as if nothing is happening, 'twas ever thus.
Typical draw-down rate is 3%-5% per year, so yes, very gradually.
I mean 4x8, but I guess 4x10 is also similar. Usually I negotiate for 4x8, and because it's 20% fewer hours, I accept a 20% pay cut, but I guess the 4x10 arrangement wouldn't involve a pay cut since it's the same number of hours.
"Stupid things" and "hangovers" are not part of my social drinking.
After this Ireland still has more restrictions than most US states currently since it requires masks in public places.
Almost every sentence in this comment is wrong.

1. The compiler has been speeding up a lot, it’s about as fast as C++ on large projects.

2. The borrow checker makes Rust usable by beginners. Imagine writing complex pointer code without it. In rust, a beginner can do that safely.

3. Rust is picking up a lot of steam. It’s getting adopted in a bunch of different industries. Rest assured, it’s not going to fail at this point.
I’m just going to add, because I want the same trust in the system but it’s f’d me up.

In early summer 2020, my mom passed in hospice from cancer. 4mo before that she had a fighting chance, but faced intensive surgeries (ICU for sure based on experience) and chemo — all in isolation. Literally the hospital made it that choice - family has to leave. They basically gaslighted her out.

I was furious, and because the hospital was not overwhelmed. there were precautions obviously, but no - it was not filled with Covid or people dying from Covid. Utter bs.
How did you learn it was a blood disorder?
This. I’ve been investing professionally for almost 20 years. You know those internet memes with the bell curve iqs…. For much of my career I was contrarian to this view but after watching the government responses to repeated financial asset crises, you don’t want to be positioned too far from what the voting masses will demand if they see their home prices or 401ks sharply decline. Can governments keep this up forever? Logic would say no but then again doomsayers have been arguing about the unsustainability of trends for all five decades of my life. The “smartest” investors I know always see a climax around the corner when finally all the accumulated problems come to roost. Guess what. Last fifty years you didn’t want to be sitting out of assets holding cash. This stuff is hard.

It’s really really hard as you get older and your hopefully accumulated savings are high relative to your current income and your expected remaining working life earnings.

In your 20s you can ride up a bubble, lose it all, and chalk it up to a cruddy learning experience. Later in life it gets exponentially harder because mistakes are permanent and irrecoverable. You can play the game and risk it in what seem like expensive assets. Or you can sit it out and fall behind without any compounding to create wealth and offset inflation. The latter option isn’t really an option unless you start with so much wealth that you can just spend down principal being eroded by inflation year after year and still have enough.

Good luck!
Or the job is grueling and requires more time commitment/energy. Or it’s a very niche technical problem. Or the person has an outsized impact on the company in other ways like bringing prestige and making it easier to hire more people.

There’s lots of reasons people get paid large sums.
If you're going to provide sources, read them first please:

(1) lists "Cataluña" as the first in revenue

(2) doesn't mention revenue at all, but transfers back to the region.
My main machine is an HP Elitedesk I saved from the dumpster at work (actually paid $30 for it). Upgraded with spare parts like an SSD and 32GB memory, it has an i7.

It's not the fastest machine in the world but it does everything I need it to do while being fairly compact and quiet.

Slightly surprised to find out it's 8 years old.
> Slowing it down is obviously helpful and anything we can do to accomplish that is important.

It's not that simple. It's not a matter of doing something good vs not doing it, that's what an oversimplified black and white thinking is. It's about priorities, and about looking at certain types of damage compared to other types of damage, and choosing the best path that causes the least overall damage.
Labor?
Public health has also traditionally worked in the interest of high-risk and vulnerable people. With COVID it looks like we'll largely abandon that - for not completely illogical reasons, obviously public health has a cost, but I think it's important to acknowledge that this is giving up and not business as usual.
Bitcoin pyramid schemes wreak havoc on Brazil's 'New Egypt'
Same here, in that I’m relatively good at slow thinking - pondering something over many days or weeks etc till I find a good solution.

I see prep for interviews as table stakes, and accept it as such. but I still regret that my slow thinking strength can shine in these contexts.
OK. Time to bite.

1. What's the horrifying precedent?
2. Assuming we can another pandemic one day which is more severe, how would you handle restrictions to protect public health - assuming you would at all?

(I think a lot of the debate around Covid stems from the unfortunate fact that it's too severe to ignore but not severe enough to get everyone on the same page. I can respect "we didn't need to this time" but I'm curious about people who argue "we should never do this")
When Spectre and Meltdown hit, the Linux kernel was forced down the path of adding mitigations which pessimised the generated code. Performance is no longer the primary driver of generated code. That is a change in technical direction and is hardly "marketing fluff". And it doesn't just impact Linux, it impacts languages that are implemented using JIT engines that virtually everyone uses. Thankfully Linux was able to badger the C compiler into doing what was needed, but these sorts of needs of system level projects are way outside of what ISO C permits, and they're hard technical requirements now that can't be ignored.
Finding an entire culture in multiple Martian ground samples, with different bacteria would likely rule out Earth contamination.
School busses are the norm for rural and suburban schools. City public transport or walking is more common in larger metro areas, but in states that get very cold, even metro areas still have school busses so that young kids don't have to risk walking to a bus stop.

TBH, I have never heard of a US school district where the majority are driven to school by their parents, though to be fair to the parent poster I can't sat that I would be terribly surprised if such a place existed.
> The wealthiest generation in U.S. history (boomers) are exiting the workforce, where will they park their retirement nest egg?

They will probably do what EU boomers in Spain, Greece, and Italy do, which is: suck as much money out of the younger generations as possible. Spain in particular is egregious. Older workers have every protection in the world, young have none. Pensions are 3x the salary of new workers. Taxes much higher on young people.
Competition at the government level feels like a big argument against trying to unify the world into a one world country.
Dependencies of software I didn't write (e.g. Graylog)
Do something of intrinsic value.
Depends what stock market you're talking about. The GDP is a flow-variable measure of how much money traded hands in a year in an economy (national). It's supposed to function as a measure of yearly production. The market cap of companies within the NYSE, LSE, etc are stock variables. Literally the sums of all the current trading prices times the number of outstanding shares of each company (roughly).

There's lots of noise in all those variables. i.e. You probably couldn't fully liquidate every stock of a company at the exact, same price in one transaction. Talking about GDP for a nation can be varying levels of politically manipulated or just noisy from messy data. There's further noise introduced when trying to figure out a GDP for something like the global economy.

i.e. taking a ratio of stock market cap to a GDP is more like creating a metric without too much intrinsic theory for why to create the metric.
It's widely reported in reputable media sources.

It's a bit rich to go on about being misled by mysterious forces and trusting the CDC and so on and then "do your own research" and fail to understand the basic reporting methodology of the source you land on.
It will be found: search for MH370 continues with experts
We’ve long moved past the zero rate bound being a hard constraint on monetary policy. Whether they should or not is a valid question, but money can always be created and injected into the system.
I’ve conducted many interviews that starts off with asking questions about projects. Many candidates sound like rockstars. They even nail all sorts of technical follow-up questions.
Then when I start asking coding questions, and I’m not talking leetcode here, more similar to fizzbuzz, they can barely write an if-statement. My conclusion is that some people are great at talking, but you really need to test the technical abilities too.
The answer is too complex.
I can safely say everyone in this thread knows shit about finance.

Short answer is a bunch of different uncorrrlated plays/tools such as:
-Volatility trades
-multi leg options on any asset class really
-credit markets
-algorithmic hedge funds

Etc
This is financial wisdom at its finest. Cooler heads prevail, and the only real way to lose historically is to panic sell. This too shall pass… HOLD
Wait is this article saying that there is no good/obvious/standard function to parse a string to a number and has the two obvious outputs of such a function (the number, and a bool or error code)?

Even a person in the 60s would realize that that’s the api for conversion from a string to a number (or any conversion that might fail)! What happened? Why do these functions even exist?
Just curious, what about medical insurance for the family if only one works? what about the signature thing when you need it most(e.g. in hospital that you need some signature), there are many inconvenience in daily life if you opt to not married but staying as partners with kids? there might be a long list of those things other than the marriage tax penalty.
> he can pass those interviews with no preparation

I've never had to prepare for an engineering interview in some 15 years of doing this professionally.

> the job takes way less effort compared to software

The easiest part of my job these days is writing code.

The challenging fun part is setting a technical strategy that aligns with the business and gardening the team around me with soft influence towards that strategy. Super challenging. Would've been easier to just do it myself, but there's only so much I can do on my own.

Ultimately, you should go do whatever comes to you easiest and/or is most fun. No sense grinding away at something you're not good at. Maybe your friend has an immense talent for business and strategy.
Anecdotally I sold all of my non retirement stocks and am sitting on cash. With climate change, an aging and contracting workforce, and asset bubbles due to the recent wealth transfers, I don't think we'll see these kind of stock market highs again without serious inflation.

I'll ride it out until there's more information on the Fed's plan to stem inflation, maybe wait for the midterms to shake out too.
> If I have inflation fears, and I think we are in a stock bubble, where should I put my money.

Invest in the one thing you have the most control over -- yourself. Open or buy a business in a sector that has a clear path to profits (think laundromat, not some tech startup with unknown product market fit). Or get a degree for a new, higher paying career.

Otherwise you'll always be taking a bet on the federal reserve board, or Fortune 500 CEOs or wherever you decide to put your money.
No, it can't be a science like physics. It is a science anyway. Just not like physics.
Doesn't your second statement

> All asset classes around the world dropped except for US treasuries

kind of invalidate your first statement?

> there is no such thing as diversification anymore
Even if it was 10x US GDP and it was only US stocks, there wouldn't be an obvious reason why that's a problem. The GDP measures yearly output. Why is it concerning for the stock market to be priced at 10 years of output?
Without marriage, you don't have a legal framework for breaking up. I know a couple who broke up after 25+ years, a mortgage, and a child together, who had never married. I think the lack of applicable legal precedent made it even messier to negotiate the split. It's been several years now, they're still negotiating details, and the lawyers aren't any cheaper.
We have tossed out some 5 year old HP laptops, but they are big, the power bricks are huge, the screens aren't the best quality, they make quite a bit of heat and have some fan noise...

Other than the dedicated GPU, a 3 year old slimmer version seems to work at lot better for most people. Not sure how good integrated graphics are right now compared to that vintage.
A segfault lets the user know that the developer made a mistake, and where in the code it happened. Blaming C for segfaults is blaming the tool.

C is a small language with a spec designed to adapt to new hardware while remaining fast. The spec is ambiguous in precisely the places where resolving the ambiguity would mean either limiting its portability or its speed. This increases the learning curve significantly and also requires diligence on behalf of the developer, so it's high effort to write.

It's a perfectionist's language, because, if you can steer clear of the known pitfalls, you get a working piece of software that's maximally portable and fast, and fast is still what we want our tools to be.

There is a place for Zig, and Nim and Rust in this world, but there is no world in which these tools make the same trade-offs as C and end up with a faster and more portable (across hardware) language.

They can sacrifice speed to make it more difficult for the developer to make mistakes. They can sacrifice portability to make assumptions that resolve undefined behavior, which would also decrease the burden on the developer, but they will never get all three - correctness, portability and speed, so in that sense, they will never replace C, they can only hope to starve C of developers.
I also ran Slackware on a 486DX. I remember it taking hours to compile a kernel.
I upgraded around 98' to a Pentium II and was blown away when I could compile a kernel in 2 minutes!
The market is full of bulls and bears, and a large portion of why the market behaves how it behaves is how people expect the market to behave. This is a persuasive piece, attempting to manifest the future.
Only about ~10% of corn is used to make food consumed by people. Of the remainder, roughly ~30% is used for animal feed, ~30% for export, and ~30% for fuel ethanol.

Replacing the cheap processed food production with grazing land will not do much to increase the amount of animal protein available to the population. If our goal is to have more pasture, it would make more sense to eliminate ethanol production, reduce the amount of corn we feed to animals, and reduce the amount of corn we send to the world.
People like getting fucked up. It’s not that confusing.
I quit drinking several months ago after 25 years relatively hard drinking. Was I an alcoholic? I guess so, but I am able to absorb alcohol quite fast, very rare had any hangovers and was a type of “high-functional alcoholic” with at least one bottle of red wine each evening. Of course, all social activities, celebrations, catch-up with friends always were combined with decent amount of alcohol. These my thoughts on challenges of sober life:

First of all, there are no crazy and adventure stories around starting with “we had a couple of cups of tea”, no. In same moment, it is extremely hard to be around drunk people more than half an hour being sober - endless loops in conversations, and jokes are not so funny as it were before. I definitely have less “party time” now, but I cannot judge my friends - this is their choice. Instead, I can offer them different type of activities - dinner at home at Friday or Saturday, outdoor trips, etc, to keep friendships going and be social. Interesting, people tend to drink less if you invite them on your activities. Just create this environment of interesting activities for your friends and comfortable for you. There is no reason to suffer in overcrowded bar at Friday night - too boring (tell me this year ago!).

Secondly, even with reframed social activities alcohol-free lifestyle releases a lot of free time. In my case I just overwhelmed with my old and new hobbies, all my spare time is already allocated and it is not an issue for me to spent Friday or Saturday alone in my cave - plenty things to do. Hard to advice something here, but maybe just learn something new?

Alcohol is a great social clue which makes you accept people you won’t accept.
Mostly because it's heavily subsidized for political reasons
This is one of the major reasons why I love Hacker News because of small side passion projects like this. At Hacker News we don't ask why, we ask why not!
That’s how I started out running Linux! Downloading a bunch of floppies from a BBS over a 16.8k USR HST modem. It was like a magical world when I first installed it. I also had a giant paper book that explained how to use it. For some reason the vi instructions in the book baffled me, but emacs seemed normal.

Six months later I finally got the disks for X11. My mind was blown. Real multitasking - not like DESQView or OS/2.
LL Bean used to always have super high quality products - stuff you could buy and wear for years, even decades. Sadly, now that they no longer offer warranties like they used to, the quality has decreased greatly.

I am on my second pair of LL Bean boots - first pair I used for 20 years before they cracked and started leaking - second pair I bought - after the warranty changed, broke the first day (loops on the back that you use to pull them up ripped off: 1 the first day, 2nd one a week later - and a few weeks after that, the laces-holes also ripped - this is for a $200 pair of boots.

Seems nobody can make money selling quality stuff anymore - it's all a race to the bottom.
> predicted, not-taken branches tend to have 0 cycle latency in recent CPUs.

This is not the case. Due to instruction level parallelism, the throughput could be unaffected, but you will always have latency penalty. The CPU still needs to run the check (access the length and compare it to the index) and this adds latency. On top of that, it also increases code size, which can impact the instruction cache and binary size. It’s a small penalty, but it’s not 0.
Personally, I'm tired of people bitching about C. At the time, the choice was C or assembly language for embedded/operating systems. There was no other choice in the 1970's. In fact, it wasn't even an option for most of the 1970's.

If you worked at a company and wanted a team of people to develop on a multi-user system, and port it to a single-user stand-alone system, you were out of luck. Our company sold test equipment based on the Data General minicomputers, and while DG had multi-user systems and single-user systems, they had no common programing language besides FORTRAN. It was so frustrating.

And then Digital came to us and wanted to buy a lot of systems, but it had to be running on a PDP-11. Trouble is, our test system was written in Data General assembly language. We had to re-write the system in a portable high-level language that could run on RSX-11 OS. But how?

We searched for a suitable programming language we could buy support for, and ended up using PASCAL - which was a P-code interpreter. The P-Code was portable across operating systems. So I "ported" an assembly-based system to Pascal, and was able to have equivalent runtime performance, because the DEC system had RAM-based overlays and the DG had disk-based overlays. Otherwise, performance of Pascal over ASM would have made it unfeasible.

A few years later, C was commercially available. Oh I wish it was a choice that was available then. The rule of thumb was that C would run with 90% of the performance of assembly language. And that was before they made incredible strides in compiler technology. PL/1 would have been a disaster, assuming it could run at all on a 16-bit machine.
I do not see it this way. Lockdowns have significant costs (medical, mental, economic). If we implement them, it should be based on strong causal relationship to health outcomes which should be observable on most countries.

I can understand a quick reaction for a week or two as we plan a strategy; maybe for a month. But two years is ridiculous. This seems to be driven by politics more than health. Which seems to be agreed to by most people in many countries who largely ignore it (except for countries like Australia and NZ, which imposed real, hard lockdowns). In the Eastern Europe in the summer where masks were required inside, most people wear them on the chin (even at the airports). And say "cannot wait when those jerks from the EU stop pushing those rules down our throats".

And last but not least: I know well two people who are immunocompromised. Their care took a definite turn for the worse, because in many countries there is at the moment a single disease worth fighting and everything non-COVID becomes a distant second. Whew. That turned into a rant. Sorry!
Maybe an article that takes 1:43 to read?
My first Linux install was in 1994, on a 486DX/2-66 with 8MB of RAM. At the time it was considered standard hardware and Linux ran really well on it.
If you can prove me mathematically that I am better off with the vaccine I will take it. Seriously. I believe I have sufficient background in math and I am willing to pick up extra if needed.

I could give you background info on me (age, health, covid status etc) but you said you could prove it for all possible hn commenters so I'd keep my privacy.
For me it was around 8-15% extra take home pay from preferable tax rates.
Yea, sounds like something compiled during an audit (or preparation for one) and now used as a stand in dependency matrix by someone down the line
> So if this system is so ideal, why is it that my cow hasn’t tasted a blade of grass since October?

Keep in mind this is absolutely not true in even the rest of the Western world. American-style cattle factory farms are almost unheard of in the UK, and practically all beef here would count as grass-fed, because that's just how we raise cattle. There is some supplementation over winter when grass doesn't grow (and even that depends on location), but otherwise pasture is the standard.
Agreed. And a huge strength of C++ is that you can write low-level classes like these and have them be fully performant and have reasonable native-feeling syntax. Almost no other languages provide that.