skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inflation and interest rates are rising (for lots of reasons), which means money is getting much more expensive. This means that high-growth companies and unprofitable companies are going to get burned hard in the near future, because their very existence relies on access to cheap money.

The wider economy isn't terrible. Inflation is rising and GDP is pulling back a little bit, but unemployment is low, and wages are mostly flat.

But the NASDAQ (comprised of mostly tech stocks) is down 26%+ year-to-date and falling. People on this forum mostly work in software, and this downturn will almost certainly shift the balance of power from unprofitable high-growth companies (especially crypto, Web3, etc.) to companies that actually make real money.
Bear in mind though, a complete reversal of policy could be contested via the https://ballotpedia.org/Arbitrary-or-capricious_test

Sure, this isn't a revised law, considering how hard that is to pass today, but it is a useful piece of official text from the highest law enforcement body of the land that should be taken to indicate what the government considers acceptable behavior. Proving you were abiding by what the government declared permissible is a pretty solid defense.
It's not really as much about freeing up the supplies as much as it is about whether or not the supply chain can ship that food from someplace else. From what I've read, we don't have nearly as much of a food problem as we do a food shipping problem.
That track was almost impossible to get hold of back in the day. I had heard of it, but never heard it. After years of asking around in record stores I finally found a really scratchy sounding cassette tape (no doubt a pirated copy) in a German record shop in East Frisia the summer of 1985.
Could it be that you're at the point in your career where you've hit the limits of your own scalability?

No matter how well you perform, you're always you. The single one of you. Carrying the burden of excellence, knowing people depend on you to know the answer can wear you out, i empathize with that.

Maybe try finding a role where you aren't contributing individually, but where you are helping others become their own little centres of excellence. Find a new way to scale your abilities, beyond coding yourself. This might mean mentoring, leading a team, if you're up for it. This could be something novel and fresh to do, without entirely abandoning software.
Chromium technical presentations summit: BlinkOn 16
and the auto loan business is shady a.f.

We ended up invovled with the state A.G.'s office investigating our dealer. They 'accidentally' put a typo in my wife's SSN when pulling the credit report. That justified a higher interest rate - which they offered us without explaining why.

We weren't super worried because we were going to pay the car off in a couple months anyways, we just wanted the financing to shift some cap gains taxes to a different year. Then we got a letter in the mail from the lender explaining why our interest rate was so high.

We called the dealer - and almost no questions asked they offered to send us a check for the difference. Red flag raised we filed a complaint with the state A.G., and it turns out it was a common practice at that dealership.
I am a Putin hater through and through…

…but be reallllll careful thinking through the consequences of “any means necessary”, because a lot of those means end in a huge escalation of the conflict which further reduces access to minerals and food. (And, like, human lives.)
stablecoins don't promise to hold the peg 100%. they promise to be able to repeg in times of severe distress. even some money markets broke the dollar. they had to be bailed out by the government.

what about makerdao makes it reliant on dao goodwill? the incentive to restore the peg is the expectation of profits from liquidating the overextended.
You should probably avoid seed oils anyway.
> that is not how a 401k works..

Sure it is.

Yep, I agree with your investment advice.
Your local zoning board might object. I live in PA, and one of the neighborhood vigilantes immediately ratted me out to the local government when I started growing corn, squash, and beans in my backyard while raising a couple of chickens for eggs.
He could be an entire orchestra not just a band yes

He had an album based on Greek folk music (Odes, 1979). This is a cretan dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc9_qVAflzk
resale value for all used cars could use some damage right now
> The core of most arguments against C++ boil down to those two points too. If a large percentage of the engineers working in the language have a problem understanding it, they are going to have a hard time proving that their aren't any unexpected side effects.

That's true for C++ but not for Rust, because Rust will tell you if there's some kind of unexpected behaviour that you didn't think about, whereas C++ will allow UB or whatever without telling you.

That's the big difference between (safe) Rust's complexity and C++'s complexity. They are both very complex, but in Rust it doesn't matter too much if you don't memorise the complexity (complicated lifetime rules, etc.) because it will just result in a compile error. Whereas in C++ you have to remember the rule of 3... no 5... etc. (that's a really simple example; don't think "I know the rule of 5; C++ is easy!").
This is the way. In addition to `$` and `$$`, I usually have `$h` for creating elements:

/**
* @param {string} name
* @param {HTMLElement.prototype} props
* @param {Array<HTMLElement|string>} children
* @return HTMLElement
*/
function $h(name = 'div', props = {}, children = []) {
const el = document.createElement(name);
Object.assign(el, props);
el.append(...children);
return el;
}
> People didn’t challenge them because it was exhausting, because they knew best, despite their constant churning out of garbage code that the business didn’t have the guts to address.

That doesn't square with how people are going out of their way to query OP though, no? If people drag you into meetings tangential to your work, it seems unlikely that they hate working with you...
It also takes well over an acre to support a single person, and that's if you know what you're doing and have the time to manage a garden of that size.
That is a carefully roundabout argument for something, no doubt. And I'm sure that the experts all agree.
There's a trend of global economic inflation, caused by supply issues in energy (oil, gas in all forms) related to the war in Ukraine, supply issues more broadly related to a hangover from COVID's supply/demand shocks.

Interest rates are rising, to appease inflation.

As the interest rate goes up, allocators of capital have less appetite for risky allocations. This makes access to capital for VC firms becomes more competitive. This makes access to capital for "startups" becomes more competitive.

There's also a bigger macrotrend, which is another hangover from COVID: investment poured into the tech sector, which was booming during COVID. Investors over-bullishly priced-in the idea that this boom was, in fact, a new baseline or indicative of future exponential growth. As we recover from COVID, these pricings are increasingly revealed to be wrong as companies generally report post-COVID numbers that are closer to pre-COVID numbers.

This is bad for investors leveraged on tech. Therefore, it's bad for VCs that raised LP capital on the basis of COVID performance. Therefore, it's bad for companies that raised >20x ARR multiples on the basis of COVID performance.

Basically, it's a single or double whammy for most of the economy, but a double or triple whammy for unprofitable startups.
Right, I do think you get diminishing returns once you get to "high end and well maintained early 20th or very late 19th century" buildings, a lot of these can accommodate more or less modern lifestyles quite well (albeit not all of them and they'd have to be renovated with stuff like adding elevators to 5-6 story buildings).
those numbers have also been in use for quite a while and have not adjusted for the inflation of other parts of basic living expenses.
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Or he just bangs out a ton of crappy code in the name of "pragmatism", while everyone else has to clean up after him and thus takes longer. I've seen this many times.
If you follow The Economist they consistently have very clever artists.
Don't just look at the "big 5". I know people there. A lot of the things people get frustrated about are things MDOT requires them to do.

Not long ago I was listening to someone at one of those "big 5" companies complain about how new state rules were radically increasing the time it takes to pave a road while increasing costs, too. All with no quality difference in the end. As a tax payer, they were frustrated by it.
Fireworks, and michelin-star meals.
let else and let chains aren't new traits, they are syntactical features that make things that people would expect to work, Just Work™. People keep bringing up the complexity of Rust (a valid argument to be made there) but then point at some feature that is removing an arbitrary limitation from the language. And even for cases where a new feature is being added, I can point at the case of ? for error handling that was a new feature, that "complicated" the language, but that very clearly improved the ergonomics of the language for reading and writing. Should ? have been left in the cutting floor because it didn't look like anything else and was a "redundant" feature?

Let me put it another way: what Rust feature would you remove to "simplify" the language?
IT is full of impostors. You're surrounded by them. You like writing code and solving problems. Your coworkers want to get by. Many people working in IT are like that, that's just how it is - it's a field that pays well and it's hard to catch an impostor. Entry barrier is easy.

However, why do you want peers? Why don't you make the most out of the situation? If you're pulling such weight, you're worth a nice sum of money. Use it, create stable life, start something as a side-gig, OSS project or anything that can attract likely-minded individuals you'd like to spend your time with.

The situation you're in is not grim, it's the opposite. You're the one who gives praise, not the one who gets it. You grant approval, you don't receive it. You're the one who is relied upon, and you yourself don't have a "safety net". It's not bad, it's good.

The hard part is realizing how old we are and what our roles became with the passing of time.
10 years is an artificial horizon. I chose it because it's the number of fingers and toes we have, and most people won't invest for 100 years.

The article is about retirement and how some generations aren't saving for it. How, then, are you going to use that purchasing power today to help yourself in 40 years, with the caveat that you can't save that money for retirement?
Ask HN: What can be done to persuade Russia and Ukraine to “food peace”?
Russia and Ukraine are significant exporters of wheat and other basic food related supplies (https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/05/19/the-coming-food-catastrophe, or unpaywalled https://archive.is/hobUN).

What could be done to persuade Russia and Ukraine, as well as all related sanctioning countries, to agree on free trading of food related supplies despite the war?

I cannot imagine that either country would disagree, or even the sanctioning EU or related countries like Britain. But no news outlet I regularly consume reports on talks regarding this, as if this wasn't an option at all. Why? There are unrests worldwide at stake, and lives obviously.
I have to question that claim. Poor countries eat plastic two, yet we don’t see the same cultural phenomenon‘s here.
We'll have to get back to a world where developers actively minded about how their code came out of the compiler

I think that's about it. CPUs haven't gotten notably faster. They've become more dense.
I hate the term 10x as well. I just didn't know how else to phrase it.

If you go to my profile...and translate it you will find my email address. Ping me :)
Show HN: Actually Automatic – Get notified when Apple releases a new iOS update
It seems like Apple has seen the error of their neglect, between this, the new desktop machines, and brining back thicker MacBook Pros to address the lack of ports and battery life.

Seems like they may be brining their focus back to the creatives that built them up in the early days.
Change job.
I am happy with the build quality so far. It feels sturdy and lightweight. The laptop is noticeably lighter and thinner than my old ThinkPad. With the lid open it is about the same height as my 14 inch but there is more vertical screen real estate because there is less black around the display area. I have read about issues with the hinges but I think this has been fixed now. I have not had hinge issues. I opened up the laptop to take a look inside when I first got it and everything came apart and went back together nicely (my only surprise was one screw does not come out all the way by design which I had to Google about). The expansion slots are maybe a little too sturdy and require a good amount of force to remove.

For battery life I think an average user can expect 5 to 6 hours. I use mine for about 5 hours with Firefox (around 10-20 tabs) and a few terminal processes and will still have about 20% remaining.
Aren't the Iowa Caucus' days numbered? They've been a complete disaster the last few cycles – it seems to take days/weeks to determine a winner. Their last competently-run caucus was in 2008.
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Which completely misses how people use C++ as a systems programming language. For the most part those users treat it like a better C, only reaching for C++ features when its an overwhelming advantage over C and generally banning significant parts of the language.

See arudino for one example.
From what I've seen here: you have a family life you enjoy, at least a few competent coworkers that you are actively engaging with and learning from, you're successful and sought-after at your place of work in a field you seem to enjoy, you have a hobby that you're consistent with, you have consistent and not overly-demanding work hours, you've tried challenging yourself by changing sectors, etc.

You're hitting all of the points many people are still striving for.

Perhaps it may be worthwhile seeking a professional's opinion, as the problem may be deeper-rooted than can be explored via forum.
You should consider stepping back and spending 25 or 50% time mentoring instead of coding. But what I've found is that it's REALLY hard to do something 20% without doing it 100%, so perhaps a few weeks (months) of NO coding, then starting to code again.
Did she object to the chickens or the garden? I suspect just the chickens, rather than your back yard garden.
In the context of kubernetes ingress caddy isn't really there yet, at least compared to nginx (which has two major k8s ingress implementations, one maintained by the core k8s devs themselves).
> this is really dangerous

People repeat this a lot but really it just seems dangerous. Can you give an example of a scenario where offering a download via `curl | bash` is more dangerous than "download this installer with the hash 01234 and then execute it"?
You don't have to grow 100% of your food to benefit from a home garden.
Haven't ethanol fuels been introduced to have a buffer for this situation? If we don't turn grain and corn into petrol then there should be some reserves.

Additionally, if we stop rising live-stock, where roughly 10 units of plant create one unit of meat, there should be even more calories available.
Why change the subject constantly? I was responding to-

ask the average person who Snowden is

And I told you who Snowden is. A coward, and a traitor to his former nation and people.

He's easily exposed by looking at his actions. I have no position stated here on your various rabbit holes of whistleblower vs espionage, etc. I'm not a Constitutional scholar as you believe you are. What I can assure you, the ACLU and others would be more in front of abuse of power than you or some nerd here could ever pretend to be. Should he return "home" to show his courage, to follow through in his beliefs like actual national heroes have done throughout history.

He harmed US and UK national security. He won't admit it (why would he, he won't even face justice in the "nation he loves") but they believe he handed over his harmful material to the Russians and Chinese for their protection. The guy is a Benedict Arnold, a scumbag, no matter how you slice it. Just because you like part of the information he exposed on surveillance doesn't change the rest, nor what the whole of his actions have revealed about his intentions and character. You've been duped by a false prophet.
It's not what I meant. Let me rephrase.

Most people will end up with an ordinary life (the "median path") - you simply can't have say a hundred million extraordinary people in a nation of 300m. Unfortunately, with the current programming which shows being average/ordinary as something lesser, a lot of them are going to end up seriously bummed out by where they end up in life.
I just took a stopwatch to mine and it spun for 10 seconds. In real life you would give it another whirl after a couple of seconds because it starts to slow down, but the short answer is clearly yes.
Hey, HN. While I was helping a friend set up their new iPhone, I noticed that they were prompted to upgrade to a newer version of iOS. When I checked my own phone, I saw that the update had been released more than two weeks earlier — but I was still stuck on the old version even though I had the iOS "Automatic Updates" feature enabled.

As a result, I started working on this project to make it easy to get notified whenever Apple releases a new iOS update. It can send notifications via Discord, Email, Signal, Slack, SMS, and Telegram.

It's free and open source. There are even a couple of no-setup options (just scan a QR code or text a toll-free number) for people who want to try it out first or who don't want to self-host it themselves.

Whether you care about security and want critical bug fixes fast; or you get excited about new features and want to try them first; or both — my hope is that this little tool can help.

Thanks for taking a look!
Bleak.

"No one cannot predict how bad the economy will get, but things don't look good."

Clif notes:

- Plan for the worst ... cut costs within 30 days... get to Default Alive[0]

- Get money if you need it, and if you can

- With or without money you must survive 24 months

- VCs are people too, and subject to the same downturn. Adjust your fund raising expectations in the same direction. Expect lower valuations, lower rounds and many fewer deals.

- Disproportionate impact on international, asset heavy, low margin, hardtech, high burn, long road to revenue companies

- If you get a meeting, don't take that as a good sign, we still take a lot of meetings.

- Future fundraises will be much more difficult than they have been in the last 5 years.

- Don't expect more money until you demonstrate product market fit.

- If you planned on raising money in the next 6-12 months, we recommend changing that plan, or you may be tryng to raise at the peak of the downturn

- If you survive, and your competitor does not, you may pick up significant market share.

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/aord.html
Desoxyn is brand name methamphetamine, just fyi
> Hopefully some of these crops are harvested and make it to market.

There are unfortunately a lot of problems here which make me seriously pessimistic:

- Ukraine will need a lot of the harvest for itself, given how Russians raided crop silos [1] and what they can't raid they bomb to pieces [2]

- No one knows if Russian operatives didn't poison crop silos - there are a number of poisons that are very stable in the environment and very hard to detect if you don't know what you are looking for, and Russians have proven over and over that they have an awful lot of skill in dealing with poisons

- Russians looted a lot of agricultural machinery, and a lot more got destroyed or seriously damaged - and the Ukrainians repurposed a lot of stuff either to tow off Russian tanks or to convert into technicals

- fertilizer is made of natural gas which is in short supply, which in turn will massively impact yields

- similar to the post-war situation in Yugoslavia, fields will need to be de-mined extensively, and they need to be cleansed off of shrapnel and fuel

- even if there are quantities to export, you need a way to transport them. The railroad track width is different in Ukraine (Russian wide-gauge) and Europe (standard), there aren't many re-trackable cargo wagons, a lot of rail equipment and bridges got blasted by Russians or by Ukrainians for sabotage. God knows in what state the sea ports are, there has been heavy fighting, not to mention the sea mines that are already causing chaos [3]

All in all it will be years if not decades until Ukraine can be a serious player on the crop market again.

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/05/europe/russia-ukraine-gra...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/exclusive-photos-show-russian-...

[3] https://www.dw.com/en/experts-warn-black-sea-mines-pose-seri...
When unfair laws are enforced uniformly, the sons and daughters of the legislature, or even the legislature themselves become subject to the same laws they create. This applies the necessary pressure to repeal unjust laws. The alternative are laws that are only applied against 'bad people' - as determined through some inscrutable belief system. You should be able to imagine how this can be used to discriminate against entire classes of people.
I didn't know about that command line invocation. Thanks a lot!

That's just the UI side though. I'm wondering what is actually happening on the wire when I run that command. Is there some TLS opcode which lets a client request certificate from the server?
Interesting. More evidence that CoD copied the film, then, I suppose.
Because it’s very unlikely that we know everything there is to know about making computers work faster.

It’s the same reason people like Malthus are typically wrong. He thought the world would be out of food by this point.

But he never predicted (nor could he predict) the advent of fertilizer and modern growing techniques which vastly boosted efficiency in food production.

People like this think the future will be like the past. But the future is never like the past because people solve problems.

As long as people are solving problems they are creating new knowledge and making progress.
> Can you convince me that end-to-end connectivity is desirable in most cases?

p2p communications can be nice for latency sensitive communications. Sometimes it's faster to communicate from user A to user B directly instead of going from user A to server Z to user B (although, sometimes it's not faster... if latency is important, you really have to try all the accessible paths and use the best one, keeping in mind that paths may have asymmetric latency, so maybe you want A to send to B directly, but B should send to A through an intermediary; and path latency isn't static, so for a long session, if it's important, you need to probe throughout and change thigns around)

But, maybe you don't want your connection to be a full peer capable of receiving as well as initiating connections, you can run a stateful firewall on your end and drop incoming initiations. You'll still benefit from having end-to-end connectivity because it means your ISP can process your packets with basically no state, so there shouldn't be problems with connection state timing out and your connections being dropped without warning. If you run your own stateful firewall, you may still have that problem, but you might have less state required for a stateful firewall instead of a NAT, so maybe you can manage more connections.
Been practicing since 2020. Never ceases to amaze me how LONG it's taking society to fall apart.
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