skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think R&M is an unusual message, in that it tries to take a Nihilist stance on a lot of subjects. Combined with pop-culture references and technobabble, it can come off as more high-brow than it really is IMO.

Neon Genesis Evangelion, really did the Nihilist thing better though. No matter what Shinji tried, things kept getting worse. Rick is "too obvious" of an asshole. Gendo (Shinji's father) is better, because nominally speaking, Gendo is working on a project to literally cancel out the apocalypse that's occurring in the series.

So when Gendo says "Get in the mech and fight that monster", you generally know that Shinji (probably) should do that, you know, to save the world. The long-term effects of this decision (as well as the alternative decision: for Shinji to run away from this responsibility) are explored in the short 26 episodes of the series.

When Rick says "shove these 'Mega Seeds' up your ass Morty", I'm not entirely sure if Morty should comply with that. They have some foreshadowing going on for the "what if Morty stopped listening to Rick all the time", thanks to the "Alternate Universe Evil Morty" plotline going on, but we've had like 4 episodes so far with that character? And most of the time, that character doesn't interact with mainline Rick/mainline Morty.

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The show is randomly pretty good with some relationships. Rick x Unity was a good episode, as was Morty x Planetina. Otherwise, I think its largely just a comedy show where ridiculous things happen in a crude manner, with a mildly Nihilist perspective on events.

A lot of R&M scenes are due to incredibly poor decisions of the main characters: Rick outright lying to Morty and then hiding the lie through toxic interactions (its your fault Morty). Morty becoming so overly influenced by his sexual desire to potentially cause a world-ending (or universe-ending) event. Jerry wimping out of some fight. And these decisions are largely encoded into the format of these characters. These characters rarely "try something else", because doing so would break the serialization format (ie: the golden rule of American cartoons. Do not change the characters).
I remember always having to go java.sun.com (rather than java.com or Sun's java landing page which was the first search result) as the quickest way for a no-BS JDK download, and it seems at least Oracle still has that URL redirect to a JDK download listing.
> Don't all currency-issuing entities do that?

All central banks do. Coins aren't a liability of the U.S. Treasury's in the way Federal Reserve notes are for the Fed.
The issues happen because people cut corners to optimize performance. Even if it's just generating random numbers, they use unproven heuristics that seem "just as good".

An example from a few years ago: To find a random prime, the "correct" way is to generate a random number, and check if it's prime. However, for performance, people would instead generate a single random number, n, and then try n+1, n+2, etc. until they got a prime.

The result? Too many RSA keys used the same primes, because primes following "a long run of non primes" were much more likely to get picked than say the upper prime in a prime pair.

Once two RSA keys share a prime, you can use Euclid's algorithm to find out which. Get a large batch of badly generated RSA key pairs, and you were likely to find some collisions.

In conclusion it's not that looking for performance optimizations is inherently bad, but you really have to strictly prove that you don't change anything important.
>>How has consumer confidence been affected in older middle and lower class folks?

Broadly the same negative sentiment, according to the University of Michigan US consumer sentiment survey data broken down by age, income, education, region and gender.[1] I believe updated data will provided on March 25th in two days' time.

The Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) consumer sentiment and consumer inflation expectation data series[2] charts the UMich's surveys.

[1] https://data.sca.isr.umich.edu/charts.php?demographic=income...

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/searchresults/?st=university%20o...
Even if inflation spikes to 10% per year, if you have an emergency fund covering (say) three months of expenses right now you'd still have a fund for 2.7 months in a year. And, of course, there aren't any rules saying you can't top it up to keep it sufficient for whatever time period you set it up for.

It's infinitely better to have a buffer and not need it than to not keep any buffer at all and suddenly find yourself with an income and bills to pay.
This one might help: https://github.com/evilmartians/lefthook
I mean if Facebook losing %0.01 (or whatever it was) of it's users is enough to drop it's share price by 40%

I think that anything could pop this bubble at this point, people investing in these companies are expecting growth that isn't realistic imo

All these companies have hit their saturation point and are just fighting over the same shrinking pie at this point. Just look at how many social media sites have implemented tik tok functionality. That alone to me screams "too much capital and not enough growth"
This is actually a good idea: something like homebrew or a package manager but with a convenient way to fund packages you use, or donate money to a pool so that widely-used packages are funded, or maybe just pay a monthly fee like $5 like Coil.

But blockchain is not the way to implement it. “Every project exists as an NFT.” Does that mean I’ll have to pay roughly $500 (the price to create an NFT in Etherium) if I want to deploy a package? Will I have to pay gas fees to download packages? How will I, with no interest in cryptocurrency, transfer money?

Is actually a lot more straightforward to do this centralized without blockchain. There are already projects like ‘npm fund’ whose goal is to create a graph which you can use to figure out how to divide $X among package contributors, and how yo send that money to their bank accounts. If the developer actually cares about funding package maintainers they should realize that blockchain is overhyped and pivot to distributing real money, managing it through something like a PostgreSQL database instead.
One more reason to add to list "Why I recommend Debian over Ubuntu by now" (https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/why-i-recommend-debian-over-...).
On a related note, why do so many people on HN use "disclaimer" when they mean "disclosure"?
It's a form of Shadenfreude among maintainers of sites.
> It often seems like crypto is trying to take something less complicated and make it complicated.

That could be intentional. The more complex it is, the harder it is to “prove” the whole thing is nothing more than a twist on classic pyramid schemes and Ponzi schemes. The more complicated it sounds the easier it is to bamboozle people into handing over their hard earned fiat to earlier generations of holders.
That's possible, but a more likely explanation is that most people know better than to make inappropriate jokes about their colleagues. In my 30-year-long career, the number of people I've observed making such jokes is far outweighed by the number of people who maintain a professional demeanor.
Long hours is just 'the old lie' in a business context... Dulce et Decorum Est
I think it would be interesting to think about centralized systems in terms of agency and bundling(losing choice).

Spam, moderation and deception to me is another problem that needs to be dealt with. I'm using spam in the general sense of things off topic. If it's not dealt with at the system level then it will need to be dealt with in a higher level.

Who pays for the service? facebook wouldn't even be a thing if users wanted to foot the bill for a server(or service).
Wages were up 5%+ for almost all of the Pandemic: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/awidevelop.html
I think it's increasingly hard to live without a phone or without a smartphone.

Many businesses seem to be eschewing web access in favour of using an app. The restaurant I went to yesterday had it's menu only available by QR code. You cannot book an Uber. You cannot date on Tinder. You cannot buy food on too good to go. You cannot even find some podcasts because they stopped running an RSS feed.

But maybe this is just the march of technology. I had no complaints when things started moving to the web, but I guess that's because I liked the web. I suppose that's just me being hypocritical.
We are, it's serviceable, but its expensive to run and extremely difficult to debug or try to extend. Spinnaker was designed to solve a different problem (orchestrating deployments onto ec2) and its k8s functionality was retrofitted onto it, and it shows.
It's possible, we just don't know. The prosecution doesn't seem to be saying. Really, my point is (by example) if regular medications require 4 confirmations or overrides and this one requires 5, that's a problem.
The quantity of the printing was far lower during the Obama presidency.
The market knew about everything in 2007...
I wouldn't read too much into that narrative, as I find it often overstretched and coloured by stereotypes.
Shameless plug: If you want to hear a bit more history about the previous vulnerability on the LPC55S69, we talked to Laura about it in our podcast: https://unnamedre.com/episode/55
Things like this do happen to an extent in VR games, which is funny.

A classic example would be opening a locked door to which you have a key in, say, a zelda game. On a controller you just go over to it and press A. In VR you may need to sheathe your sword to draw the key and put away your shield to steady the door knob to unlock it and then push open the door and then pick up your weapons again.

The whole "Pick up your weapons again" loop at the end of little interactions is common in many games and is more involved than in traditional games that would abstract it.
What's the Deal with Masks on Planes?
That was a great video - thank you for the share!
Does anyone know a good dumbphone that supports 4G/5G in the US and would work on Verizon? I know an older person who was recently forced to get an iPhone by the lack of dumbphones, and hates it.
> Well, there's a risk of a Russian default now.

I think that risk is 100% as in it's a certainty that Russia will default. Defaulting means not making loan repayments. The ruble is basically worthless so they don't have much to repay their debt with and they can't sell assets to raise the money due to sanctions. Another aspect to consider is that they probably are eager to default at this point as doing so could cause financial damage in the West.
What worries me more is that it seems like the post-WW2 order is shaken. Large-scale war is back on European soil. Information and propaganda wars are intensifying. The defense architecture of the Western hemisphere now needs to cope with unpredictable dictators posing a nuclear threat.
Home equity line of credit (HELOCs) are pretty easy to get, assuming you have some equity built up in a home. Works like a credit card. The rising interest rates will make using it pretty painful though.
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/phenomena/geomagnetic-storms

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

https://www.ready.gov/space-weather#:~:text=To%20begin%20pre....
> Because open banking is regulated, consumers now have a layer of protection

I'm sick of regulated solutions and generally moving toward more governmental reliance.

I wouldn't need a student loan or a mortgage if the government wouldn't cause inflation and back loans for every milestone of adulthood.

College and homes used to just be affordable. Everytime we bring in governmental assistance and regulation, we all just lose--well, not the players in the regulated and Frankensteined market, but normal people all just lose.
So true. I just developed several sites straight from figma designs, giving estimates for the work as a contractor. And low and behold those estimates never matched, cause sooo much UX was just inferred by design.

For example:
This play button should be animated with a heartbeat animation.
A spinner should be shown after play is pressed and tons of UX requirements that were never put down but were just inferred by design itself ...
The point though is well made. A 1000 signing bonus is a HUGE improvement over no signing bonus and a wage that you can barely feed one person on. Remember - these jobs require no skill or prior experience.
What Epic's purchase of Bandcamp means for music
I am also aware of several Vancouver businesses (some of which are technically in other cities like Delta) that would also strongly oppose Point Roberts being ceded. It makes it easy to offer non-international shipping to US customers, by way of driving into it, dealing with customs in person (which can be less headache then the customs broker services offered by post or parcel services), and then finally sending from the post office, or one of the couriers in the US itself.

The same system can also be used in reverse, for people who live nearby. This is especially useful for buying things from company that won't ship internationally at all, or who charge excessive fees for shipping internationally.
They are green for good 15 minutes from first moment i see problems, not the first time, it happens actually quite often. Maybe that's the time they need to confirm/cross check/write status update, don't know.
The hallmark web3/crypto scams is that they will go on for pages and pages throwing in every buzzword under the sun, but will be unable to tell you – in simple words and under 3 sentences – what the product is what what it does.
How to setup your Mac for writing code in under one hour
You'll be okay without a job, money, maybe even housing and food.
It’s in France, it’s just for Java + React not rocket science.

Claiming $120k is a shit salary is really entitled, it’s among the top 20% of engineers in France and top 7% of an entire country. For Java and React. Glad I don’t have him among my employees.
That's how all 80s and 90s games were carefully designed with limited memory/cpu. They designed to avoid those limitations by limiting play or encouraging other actions.
> Is there any explanation for why previous stimulus during Obama administration didn't cause inflation

It did, compared to what would have existed without the stimulus.

But the underlying economic problem it addressed wasn't like the pandemic and the control measures directed at it, particularly in the rapidity with which things could spring back from it. What caused visible inflation wasn't the stimulus, but the rapid rebound in the underlying economy, which wasn't a direct product of the stimulus, though the stimulus mitigated second-order damage that might have prevented the rebound.

The slower emergence from the conditions prompting the Obama-era stimulus meant that slowly-tapering monetary response could buffer most net inflation effects.
Buy 1 Dec 16, 2022 SPX $3,625 Put

Sell 1 Dec 16, 2022 SPX $3,600 Put

Midpoint price is $3.60 for $25 max gain if SPX is under $3,600, which implies something like a 14.4% chance that SPX is down by 20% more on Dec 16, 2022.
> was there a point in time where “written in C++” was a similar “selling point”?

Notepad++ maybe?
So? Make sure you add at least inflation_rate to your emergency fund per year.
Sure, but how do you hold anyone accountable then? OPs language sounded like a rephrase of "just following orders"
> if a person is responsible and chooses not to open a credit line, then their credit is considered bad, and banks would consider them risky

If you have zero credit history, yes, you are risky because what's unknown (including to you) is how your personality interacts with debt and what's known is that you have zero experience managing debt.
On the other hand, that's the entire premise of Instagram and any other engagement-based business model. At least this guy uses the "profits" to acquire food as opposed to (another?) superyacht.
> yes, it's always worth checking.

If the error probabilities are low enough, it's much more likely that your computation is invalidated by atmospheric radiation.

On the other hand, some of the code could be wrong, so I agree it's good to have an independent soundness check.
I find that western culture emphasizes the importance of agency at the expense of community. Kung fu panda, and most animated movies are good examples of where we see agency exalted as a desirable trait, and acts of rebellion are portrayed as “brave.” While rebellion is a necessary part of growing up, it is merely a manifestation of becoming comfortable with one’s agency in the world and nothing more.

The article explains why kung fu panda is a great movie by starting with a quote highlighting the pandas desire to break away from expectations to pursue his passion. By the end of the article, there’s a quote about illusion of control. It’s contradictory, and ultimately I think we’re ingrained to favor sentiments of agency and discount any notion of loss-of-control which is a shame.

Societies are created by individual pursuits towards “happiness.” I submit that societies crumble because of the same forces. By prioritizing individualistic endeavors, and cherishing agency, we fail to account for the need to compromise, and collaborate to fulfill societal duties (whatever those may be in any given time)
My bike is actual not theoretical.

Storing it is very much my practical problem.

The solutions are orthogonal to the presence or absence of parking lots, quays, and hangers in my community.

For me, folding it up and putting it in a closet seems simpler than changing civilization. YMMV.
This has actually followed over into the NFT space as well--there are bots that put up paltry offers on every NFT in a collection (10% or 1% of floor price for example) and they are MASSIVELY profitable because some small percentage of people accept the offers. Then the bots just list slightly below the floor price for a quick profit so they hold minimal inventory. Quite the numbers game.
Pushed bond yields down, by pushing bond prices up.

If you believe in value investing, the same process has pushed stock yields down (where yield is measured in terms of earnings, ie the reciprocal of the P/E ratio).

A step change down in interest rates can drive a rapid price appreciation in stocks as the value of future earnings gets pulled forward, at the cost of slower long-term appreciation after that run-up.
NXP knew enough to not ask. To their credit, we got much less runaround on this vulnerability than with the vulnerability that Laura and Rick found a year ago.[0] (It should also be said that what Laura originally sent to them left little room for negotiation about the seriousness.) At some level, NXP seems to appreciate that we're helping them improve their products -- or perhaps they're just afraid of what we'll find next? Either way they were at least marginally better.

So all of that is an improvement, certainly, but it's still not what we need: the source code to the ROMs. We believe emphatically that we need transparency throughout the stack, down to its lowest levels. We need open ROMs, open FPGAs, open ISAs, open firmware -- not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it will result in more secure and more reliable infrastructure!

[0] https://oxide.computer/blog/lpc55
They do detect underground blasts, and they would probably detect a surface-level explosion as well. The Air Force Technical Applications Center looks at some of that data to determine if a nuclear bomb went off

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_Technical_Applicatio...
Maybe if you pronounce it but isn't it spelled with a b? Dumb, not dum?
There's a Swedish company that focuses on dumb and half-dumb phones for seniors, they're pretty easy to use for most elderly.

https://www.doro.com/sv-se/produkter/mobiltelefoner/
It didn't matter that they missed user estimates for 1 quarter. It mattered that their growth forecast went from close to 30% to 3% (over a medium term horizon).

Your P/E drops precipitously when your future growth drops precipitously.
This is the way. I don't even know what the camera app icon looks like. I've never clicked it.
We need more people working on things they believe are making the world better these days, I'm not sure what your comment is trying to accomplish
Funny that it happened since they were acquired by Microsoft... reminds me of Hotmail, Skype, LinkedIn, Rare, among several others.
Not a dumb question at all. JDK choice is intimidating when you're not in Java-land all day, every day.

IntelliJ lets you download + install + switch between JDKS really easily, which I've found indispensable.

As another person commented, the Liberica JDKs with JavaFX built in are my go-to for hobby type coding.
As a 33 y/o I am not sure if there has been a point in my life where I _wasn't_ worried about the economy.
Yikes, best to just uninstall it then. That's insanely hostile to harmless sites.
Equilibrium is local in your example. Globally, the rush of air from one side to the other would result in detectable oscillations whose released energy could be used to determine which chamber was initially empty, assuming one can find and isolate the information.
That plug isn't shameless at all -- that episode was great! Hopefully you'll have Laura back to discuss this one...
You are incorrect, though. The reason people advertise tools as being written in Rust is because having tools written in Rust tend to scratch a few itches that a lot of people have: speed, the fact it is native, the safety due to the borrow checker, the ease of installation, the ease of contribution, the possibility to learn something from the code, among other things. Those things matter a lot to me, and I assume to a lot of other people.

I am probably going to look into it, since I'm often annoyed by npm run as well. However if it were in another language I don't want my tools written in, I would probably pass. Something being in a certain language is not a guarantee that it will be great, but being in others is often a guarantee that it isn't. Which language tools are written matters a lot to me.

I understand how all this might look like to someone "out of the loop", however, but I wouldn't be too quick to judge other people.
Thanks. It seems extremely reminiscent of e.g. the Cobalt RaQ ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_RaQ ), but maybe "AWS Outposts for the rest of us" might be a more suitable contemporary parallel
I agree with you, and based on how adversarial the comments are on this comment, I think you have the real "contrarian take on working long hours."
I fantasize about Light Phone a few times a year. Their website has some confusing language:

"This is a pre-order for the black model, which we expect to ship in June."

June 2022? 2021?
No more absurd than the working conditions of the majority in the US

Sorry reality sometimes intrudes on your cognitive clean room
> I can't really imagine a real world event big enough that would shake up Google, Amazon, Apple, etc. all at once

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

Now you can
Perhaps not the best answer to facilitate discussion, but certainly the most "accurate" one if you want a sense of what the crowd thinks about the chance of a crash.
People I know who were recently unable to buy houses in California include a long-time staff engineer at Google and a heart surgeon married to a brain surgeon. I know this data is nationwide but the crisis in California has become so acute that even people with 98th-percentile incomes are looking around and saying how fucked up everything is.
A market crash would be at like #10 on my list of worries if he does that. Securing some potassium iodide pills would be higher.
This is terrible advice, and it seems you never went through a massive crash.

Imagine, market crashes 50%, you lose your job, and what? Are you going max out your cards with 20%+ APR? Are you going to realize your losses?

Emergency fund is there to help ride out bad times, so you don't have to take shitty jobs, realize losses in your investments, sell your home or not undergo medical treatment due to financial stress.