skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a list of podcasts that touch on macro:
- Eurodollar University
- The Grant Williams Podcast
- Grant's Current Yield
- Hidden Forces
- Inside Baseball with Old Chestnut
- Keeping it Simple with Simplify Asset Management
- Library of Mistakes
- The Macro Compass
- Macro Musings
- The Macro Trading Floor
- Macro Voices
- The Market Huddle
- Money Sense
- On The Margin
- Real Conversations
- Real Vision Daily Briefing
- The Rebel Capitalist Show
- Super Investors and the Art of Worldly Wisdom
- Wealthion

The best thing you can do is be open to hearing all opinion/theories. Some people will contradict others, but over time you figure out who is right and who is not.

In addition, I also watch a few indices in my stock app for a high level overview. These are the treasury yields, corporate credit spreads, dollar index, s&p 500, nasdaq, etc. I used to follow much more, but it's not needed for higher level macro.
Growing apart and losing touch is NOT human or healthy!

Sure, you might run into someone who says "it's totally normal" to lose touch with your best friend from high school, but don't listen to them. It's not normal or healthy to lose touch with the people you care about most. If your best friend from high school doesn't know what kind of cereal you like anymore, do something about that! Reach out!

And even if you think it's too late for you—that you've let things go too far—you have to remember that it's never too late. You can always try again. And while it might be hard at first, and it might take time, the effort will be worth it in the end. You're worth it.
Isn't macroeconomics a good candidate field for being disrupted by deep-learning algorithms?
We are doing this right now. We run iOS in an enterprise B2B setting and Apple made it shitty enough for us to look at more open paths.

Our strategy for webapp involves nearly 100% raw vanilla javascript and some very unconventional techniques. One of my team members is about to demo it to a client.
I'm still one of those immature people who's really, actually friends with all my friends from high school, and see them all the time 20 years later

But they're all on facebook, and I'm not, so I always forget their birthdays. (No one reminds me it's going to be someone's birthday anymore, because it's assumed that everyone knows it). And they have to be friends with other people from our school who no one really wants to talk to. In fact, the reason I never got on facebook was to avoid those other high school acquaintances. Well, that and I had some work with their internal API back in 2008 and it was disgusting what kinds of derived metrics they were allowing any developer to get about people.

I'm not a believer that you have to let people go in order to move on with your life. I still talk to my exes all the time. We've moved on but we still love each other as people. On the other hand, do I want to see their newsfeeds every day? Fuck no.
This used to be the norm on older versions of Mac OS, and that was good. It would help enormously when writing blog posts (e.g. copy the descriptive text somewhere rather than transcribing it) or searching the web for the content of a en error message that popped up.
Ditto. Would be good to see over say last year the most popular sources for HN submissions (by topic).
However, presumably you wanted to test locally before deploying, so you needed a local install. Tools like XAMPP to simplify this were as relatively bloated as the modern create-react-app or whatever.

And then you find the software doesn't work because it relied on imagemagick to resize avatars to display the index page and your web host skimped out on the imagemagick module in their PHP deployment to minify resource use or it was just too much effort for them to deploy because it was the 2000s and they were using Slackware on their production servers.

Oh and the web host disabled .htaccess support so you need to turn off the pretty URL support in the config files. Oh and their default config (which you can't override - see .htaccess) is insecure as it means people can execute PHP files from the upload directory. So then you got owned because of that.

Oh and the MySQL configuration or old version used had some weird ideas about character encoding, so good luck with those € signs.

And then you wanted to install a plugin for phpbb or something and the instructions were basically a diff in textual form on a forum post.
When I read the headline "When Haircuts Were Illegal," I thought:

"Wow, that seems like a pretty basic human right. What's up with that?"

Then I read the article and found out it was about France after the revolution.

At first, I was like: "Dang, France. You're supposed to be all about liberty and whatnot."

But then I started thinking about how hard it is to change people's mindsets, especially when you're trying to get rid of centuries of a monarchical class system. It turns out that changing people's laws is relatively easy compared to changing their hearts.

And then I realized that there are many other common practices and industries that are also illegal in France. Like Uber, Airbnb, and genetically modified foods—even though they're totally legal in most places around the world. That made me think: "Hmm… maybe France isn't so bad after all. They're just doing their own thing."
Parental responsibility doesn't stop there. Parents can be jailed for failing to take care of their children; imprisoned for life if their children die through neglect or abandonment; or almost literally enslaved, told what jobs to take and have their earnings confiscated.

I haven't heard anyone seriously challenging the extent of parental responsibility, only when it begins.
It's Plaid in the US mostly, but other providers are used around the world as well. For example Salt Edge, with much wider coverage.
> This may be projection as well, of course, because I am not actually interested in most people.

Bingo. Not everyone is interested in medieval history, but some are fascinated by it. Some people don't care about the specifics of their friends'/colleagues' weekends, others are genuinely curious. To each their own.

And, yeah, some people are just socially engineering or, or just waiting for their turn to talk (John Mulaney has a funny bit about that)... but it's not all of us, I promise. And I think those people are fairly likely to identify themselves via other adjacent failings of character.
A lot of tech blogs are clamoring about a supposed "Tesla Model Pi Smartphone" that Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, tweeted about earlier this week. But we're not so sure it's for real.

Here are the facts: Musk tweeted a picture of the phone with specs (a certified shock-proof shell, fingerprint reader, and a 5-inch screen with a 1920 x 1080 resolution) and an email to sign up for updates on the product. That's it.

Not only has there been no announcement—besides the tweet—from Tesla, but there have also been no announcements from any of the suppliers they use. They're all denying they have any part in the production of this device. This is pretty standard practice when a product hasn't been officially announced, but most companies will tell their suppliers if they've signed an agreement—otherwise there would be no reason for them to be making parts.

So… what do you think? Is it a hoax? Or is something big coming our way?
Buttondown is a small, elegant tool for producing newsletters
> not rich white tech people living in suburbia, believe it or not.

Could really do without the racism. Tens of millions of non-white people have good phones.

It’s also a case of knowing your audience. If your app isn’t targeted towards Bangladesh, why optimize for those users? ForeFlight for example is native, iOS only. Should they release a version optimized for cheap Android devices? Of course not. People that can’t afford good hardware aren’t flying airplanes. Something like What’s App however, the audience is far more broad, so optimizing around the most users makes sense.

A non-native version of ForeFlight to me is a scary thought. Considering that it’s such a critical application being used by aviators in-flight.
The saying goes, "if you want three opinions, ask two economists looking at one set of data".
[Edit] The page was showing "We’re still preparing the notes for this release, and will post them here when they are ready." 5 minutes after the URL got submitted, a placeholder text.
The biggest knock against Cypress that the author cited has been addressed in a recent update: https://www.cypress.io/blog/2022/04/25/cypress-9-6-0-easily-...
The Curse of Monkey Island is my favorite game, I am honored to read this post and blog. Thanks HN!

I still remember the part of the game where Guybrush was stuck in a quicksand, I remember it took me days to figure the solution out.
> Business/Politics - Fire safety manufacturers have had more success in the US getting their devices into building codes and legislation

I think this is the most likely answer. We had that recently too and I have 4 smoke detectors in a normal sized apartment. A bit paranoid in my opinion. A carbon monoxide detector is sensible perhaps.

This is a clear case of corruption in my opinion. In my country there are 500 death by year through burning and that includes traffic victims. I would guess a single digit percentile from that would really be cause by a fire in your home.
> give up and ask the user which to pick

Isn't this the better choice, though? The cost of computer haruspicy when it goes wrong is far greater than the inconvenience of having to declare what you want when you're downloading something.
Not OP but its editing is also pretty advanced and with some YouTube tutorialling, it can muster some effects you might find in Adobe After Effects. Resolve has replaced Adobe Premiere Pro for me. I'm happy to have saved the subscription fee!
In my case, it's not that I perceive extroverts to be listening less, I just don't believe that in most cases they care about what I'm saying. Extroverts seem to me to live for the interaction, not for the content of the interaction. To me this is the essence of small talk - what is said isn't the point; it's the fact that words are being exchanged that gets and keeps the juices flowing.

Related to this, I have never believed that (at least extreme) extroverts understand introverts in any deep sense. They tend to see us as lacking something vital (this constant social exchange of what is often mostly meaningless information). Introverts do understand extroverts though - we know the interactions are feeding a need in them not unlike the need for a fix of a someone addicted to an addictive, although not enormously harmful, drug.
> You certainly lay out a possible case, but I don't think they available information warrants such confidence (especially naming a specific person)

That's absolutely true, that part is just speculation. (and FWIW, it's not my theory either, I just paraphrased the social media chatter)

But my point is that the number of candidates is limited. (and I disagree with you about the plausibility of a Republican leak, given that it was leaked to Politico)
> 2038

> living on Mars

I'd be surprised if we even land a single human there by 2038
A single memory is stored across many connected brain regions
I’m trying to compile from source, and since that needs xmake I’m now trying to build it.

Following the instructions, after `make build` I get “No rule to make target 'lua/lapi.c', needed by 'lua/lapi.o'. Stop.”.

I’m now reading more, and it will probably be some easy thing.

My advice would be to have some compact list of steps to get it up and running from source without having to install binaries. I think that would make it easier to try out.

I’ll now continue trying to figure out what’s missing.
I don't think you will be downvoted. HN is strongly pro nuclear.
Ton Roosendaal, CEO of Blender, tweeted:

> Largest Dutch tv news show illustrates the Spanish PM hacking story with bpy script! #b3d[0]

Thomas Kole later tweeted[1] a link to Blender add-on, which script code was used in illustration:

> It's this script:[2]

[0] https://twitter.com/tonroosendaal/status/1521203568270880768

[1] https://twitter.com/ThomasKoleTA/status/1521208885515890690

[2] https://github.com/fornof/BlenderAddons/blob/master/MirrorMi...
Maybe more remote work jobs could push us in that direction?
The first time I set up and configured a webserver from scratch, in 01994 with EIT's Webmaster Starter Kit (wsk.eit.com), I think it took me about 20 minutes; I just had to fill out an HTML form with some configuration data. I didn't have to compile anything. Later, I would spend many hours getting intimate with the Apache manual, but Apache didn't exist yet.

WSK didn't support PHP, of course.

Nowadays it's not that difficult; you can just run nginx or Apache with Docker, and a few command-line options later you have a server running. If you have IPv6 or can reconfigure your home firewall (and aren't afflicted with CGNAT), it's a globally accessible server. Hosted options are a little trickier but not much.
Microsoft Edge Overtakes Safari as World's Second Most Popular Desktop Browser
I reget I have but one upvote to give you.

I use different editors for different things and I could not agree with this sentiment more. I use Emacs almost exclusively for note taking and for writing software. But I use vim for editing config files, or for smallish files in /etc/. I really like Emacs for writing software, but I have used vim for this as well.

Over the years I've used many different editors and I expect I will use many different editors in the future.
Having read threads here on economics I can confidently say, don't start by asking a technology forum.

That said, Romer's Advanced Macroeconomics, Acemoğlu's Intro to Modern Economic Growth and Ljungqvist and Sargent's Recursive Macro Theory are good books.

But if you want to be a good investor, just put your money into index funds. You'll easily outperform a large majority.

edit: in addition, the topics you're looking for are only very loosely related to macro. You're looking more into monetary policy, asset pricing and financial economics. Don't take the advice of people who bundle them all together.
> The final piece of the puzzle came when the main witness recanted her testimony.

/Facepalm
Anything involving low latency, be it playing Pinball Dreams or anything to do with audio production.
Nothing. The entire context is absurd to say the least.

Australia is one of the most affluent countries in world history and hyper resource rich.

They should have a third of their energy supply coming from nuclear.

Nuclear is expensive (commonly said)? So what. Australia is hyper rich ($67k GDP per capita) and can afford to do it and can afford to subsidize it for consumers. What's a lot more expensive (risk) is having a weak, unreliable grid with a poor diversity of energy sources.

It's insane not to subsidize nuclear, if one believes even the calmer side of environmental warnings re climate change. It's extremely potent energy technology, we know how to build it, and we know we can keep improving on it yet.
> However, presumably you wanted to test locally before deploying, so you needed a local install

I wouldn't necessarily presume that. I mean I would want that now. But for my first forays into web development, I didn't have that. Precisely because it was hard to setup. I would just FTP stuff onto the "live" server (it wasn't exactly a critical site anyway, so if it broke for a while then that didn't matter so much). There were editors which could edit files directly on an FTP which made the dev workflow pretty seamless.

Stuff like imagemagick could indeed be a pain. But you could at least get started without that. In general there were lots of problems, but the on-ramp to some dynamic behaviour was really minimal.
How does one calculate an initial set of values for sin for using in a table in the computer?
> Be prepared to spend at least $50/mo and at least 6 hours in setup and 1-2 hours a month debugging if you do it personally. […] Unlike some people are saying, you should never do this off a VPS if you have an interest in keeping the email secure and functioning for a long time.

That’s simply not true in that generality. I run my mail server on a VPS costing ~$7 per month (have been for ~20 years, switching the VPS provider once in that time) and mostly only have to do something when I major-upgrade Debian every 2-3 years. (Security updates are automated.) Some of my friends do the same. For the initial setup I would plan for more than 6 hours, it can certainly take some effort to work through all the details.
Was that ever actually settled before Obergefell? My memory is that it was undecided, and Obergefell ended it pretty decisively.
In my experience, node.js won't run random files it finds in the current directory, and normally it won't reload them if they change after it starts either. And you have to configure your URL space separately from copying files around; it's not as simple as copying homepage.php to homepagenew.php, hacking on it until it works, and then renaming homepagenew.php to homepage.php.
Citizen developed a fantastic-looking, bluetooth-connected mechanical watch called the Proximity using its Eco-drive solar tech:

https://www.citizenwatch.com/us/en/product/BZ1005-51E.html

https://www.citizenwatch.com/us/en/product/BZ1000-54E.html

In theory, its capabilities included phone search/filter and visual/vibration alerts. Not quite a smartwatch, but at least some connection to the digital ecosystem.

I was excited when I heard about this, particularly the Eco-drive, as it meant no charging would ever be necessary. I have one non-Bluetooth Eco-drive which has been running continuously for 12 years without changing the battery.

In practice, the Proximity was a disaster. Owners reported dropped connections, late notifications, and a terrible iOS and Android app. The first two problems, from what I read, related to insufficient power. It wasn't enough to maintain a Bluetooth connection. The third issue is common to many companies that do not have mobile app engineering in their wheelhouse.

Citizen discontinued the models. They have a real smartwatch now (https://www.citizenwatch.com/us/en/product/MX0008-56X.html) but it is not Eco-drive.
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Overly dramatic. A lot of countries that are still countries have completely rewritten their constitutions a few times over.
It sounds to me like you're interested in "financial economics" or "money & banking."

Having an interest in these topics myself, I find that they are less about macroeconomics as a whole, which, in the mainstream formulation, is about national income accounting, aggregate demand, general equilibrium, production functions, the business cycle, etc., and are more about the microeconomics of particular markets e.g. the market for money, the market for bonds. I'd have a solid grasp of microeconomics, and then learn national income accounting (`C + I + G + X - M = Y` i.e. the sum of consumption, investment & government spending, less imports equals the national income (GDP/GNP), as well as the capital accounts identities), some ideas about the business cycle and maybe a bit about aggregate demand. Then I'd dive into something purely about money and banking. You'll have the tools you need to think about how markets work, and ideas like the efficient market hypothesis should make sense (within the frame of the model).

I learned this stuff in school, so it's hard for me to give great concrete advice beyond topics, but I've heard good things about Sowell's "Basic Economics," Malkiel's "A Random Walk down Wall Street," and then a personal favorite of mine Vernon Smith's "Rationality in Economics." The latter is truly insightful, but might be difficult if you don't have some of the ground matter (e.g. "what are supply and demand?" "What is a firm?") covered first.
At a higher level that that, it's cool that even in SML's already sparse surface-level syntax, quite of a bit of it is just sugar for each other: https://i.imgur.com/pkSg4xm.png
I'm generally skeptical of ethereum but i don't think this claim is quite right. First, they didn't lose 10k "into the ether" it just went to miners as a fee for processing their transaction. Additionally, the fee was paid for priority. There is a limited amount of block space so people can pay extra to make sure they're included. I know it's cliche but this is literally a feature not a bug
Ask HN: Do you believe in multiverse theory? Why or why not?
Yikes. This is a brave position to put yourself in; kudos. Is it tough to deal with deliverability, esp w/o control over what clients send out...?
PHP is probably the only language that makes it relatively easy for non-technical users to self-install a web application. It is not a quality inherent to PHP but is a consequence of the widespread adoption of PHP among shared hosting providers (no web server setup required).

This is a quote from Jeff Atwood (founder of Stackflow) about PHP (he's not a fan):

Despite the serious problems with PHP, I was forced to consider it. If you want to produce free-as-in-whatever code that runs on virtually every server in the world with zero friction or configuration hassles, PHP is damn near your only option. [1]

When did Atwood say this? 2012.

A decade has passed and hardly anything has changed. Server installation remains needlessly complicated. Current solutions like Docker, Sandstorm, Cloudron, command line scripts etc. are "easy" for developers but not for ordinary users. What is easy for ordinary users? Installing a web app by uploading files to a folder on a server using a GUI FTP app is one example for PHP. (And for some non-technical users, even that might be too complicated).

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-php-singularity/
I bought the special editions of 1 and 2 over the weekend with the sole intent of extracting the original game files and playing them via scummvm. Didn’t even try to play the special editions. And getting them working in scummvm was as much fun as getting to play the original games themselves!
Can’t say I ever heard it outside the context of SPAs, certainly not in the past. Back then you just had dynamic websites or dynamic content.