skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately such concepts are widely exploited for rather dubious purposes. I'd generally hope that people could learn to separate the informational content of communication from the emotional content of communication. The advertising technique of 'the trusted third-party spokesperson' (independent doctors recommending pharmaceuticals, etc.) relies entirely on this sense of trust and tribal identitarianism.

During the run-up to the 2008-2009 subprime crisis, there were housing brokers who relied heavily on identitarianism and trust to market adjustable-rate mortgages to various groups. Matching up sellers to buyers by race/religion/gender etc. was a pretty effective technique for getting signatures on loan agreements. The result was many trusting people ended up with loans that blew up on them a few years later, resulting in many loan defaults and resulting economic collapses.

On the other hand, using such tactics is helpful in getting accurate information to people. If you ran a public health campaign aimed at reducing infectious disease transmission, a positive goal by almost any measure, then matching the message to the group would likely improve adoption of various effective measures (handwashing & general sanitation, for example).

In general, though, people are better off if they can extract the information from a sales pitch and make their decisions on the basis of rational analysis, not on emotional resonance.
I can't speak for Walmart and Target, but the COVID supply chain disruptions caused my business and likely many others to over-invest in inventory because it takes longer to restock, and the inventory will sell at slimmer margins because I paid 2X+ the normal shipping rate to get it to the destination country. Many businesses are sitting on large amounts of inventory that can barely be sold at a profit. Now discretionary income is dropping, meaning demand and price points will fall. We have too much landed inventory we paid too much for and less people spending less to buy it. It's not pretty.
Why go for MicroITX motherboard in a case that has effectively unlimited dimensions otherwise? I buy small motherboards so I can stuff them into teensy cases that take up no space. What’s the motivation for micro with a case that’s macro?
The Taylor rule gives the math behind it, but the layman's explanation is that as long as rates are lower than inflation, you turn a profit by borrowing money and buying a basket of assets, since their price will rise alongside inflation. This incentivizes people to borrow more money, which increases the money supply, which further exacerbates inflation.

This is the first term 'p' in the Taylor rule, which corrects the nominal interest rate that the Fed sets into a real interest rate that accounts for inflation.
Rosatom started planning floating nuclear power plants in 2000 and in 2019, the Akademik Lomonosov 1 and 2 [0] entered service, producing 35 MW (150 MW thermal) each. Other than the RBMK technology used in Chernobyl, Rosatom built a PWR (pressurized water reactor).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akademik_Lomonosov
Why does Docker makes you feel safer here? Is it because you feel more confident there is no database process still running?
It was once maybe the richest and most densely populated place on earth.

http://cyberspacei.com/jesusi/authors/chomsky/year/y501_008....
It can be binary. In fact, the origin of flat files goes back to early data processing on mainframes. At that time there was no databases (as we know it today) yet. It was a collection of records stored on punched cards, and loaded on tape (later disks) for processing sequentially. Records were not just text; they were a mix of binary, text, and BCD encoding.
That's certainly the case for people with eyesight problems and conditions such as epilepsy.
Russian crimes are pretty well documented at this point, see eg https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2022/04/04/russias-bucha-fac...
Would you like to place a wager? I bet that the median home price in tech-centric metro areas (seattle, sf/bay, la, nyc) will decline by 10% or more in July 2023 versus July 2022.
Motorcycle helmets are typically also polystyrene, although with multiple densities for handling both light and heavy impacts.

Motorcycle helmets also have degrees of protection, from the useless DOT standard to the less bad Snell standards to the quite good ECE and FIM standards.
There's two key ways new stock can be created to avoid this risk: companies can issue it, or short sellers can create it. If the company sees its stock rising, it can and should see that as a cheap source of capital and absorb some of it through a stock sale to do more of whatever business they're in.
Why are there so many imitation Louis Vuitton bags? If Apple makes a fashion phone with an hourglass shape, and they make money, others will copy it. just as Apple copied bigger screens and batteries, but labeled it as "Pro" or "Max" so following a trend felt new.
Been sorta-following Barry for years (kind of Rob Walling's Evil Twin)

This seemed to thread an interesting needle between the VC model and the co-op model elsewhere on the front page. My question to him is all about the governance model. Sounds good what happens if the majority stock owner chnaged their mind?
Is there even a need for a helmet in most motor vehicles? Many safety features are already incorporated into the vehicle and the vehicle itself must meet safety standards. Contrast that to bicycles, which are often sold without legally mandated safety features and it is very much possible to purchase a new bicycle which should be considered criminally unsafe.[1]

The only reason why we are asking these questions is because things that are legally required for automakers is left, at best, as a responsibility to the consumer when it comes to bicycles.

[1] To be specific, any department store should be regarded as a death trap prior to a knowledgeable person verifying that it has been assembled properly. Even then one has to be careful since the components are typically intended for very light use.
Shrug. Russian news being shit is an issue on its own. What aboutism need not apply.
My dad essentially "designed" 2 houses using nothing but Excel with square cells. He's an Excel fan and an engineer... seemed to work quite well.

Of course then you' have to source measurements etc. yourself and there's no helper features, so some of these other suggestions look quite good.
> saying that computers can't actually play chess. It's just a well trained excel spreadsheet. But they don't actually play the game.

The code has no epistemological grasp of whether it's playing chess or calculating hurricane paths.

We are body, mind, and soul. Externalizing the mental rules of $ACTVITY into silicon for execution does not grant a soul to that silicon.

One might argue that coding chess for a computer is only "good" insofar as it helps the coder understand the problem space, or maybe produces better training tools for humans.

Computation is a means, not an end.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_consequences

I'd say that yes, we have a much bigger problem on our hands than the relative yield of a treasury bond.
> It's a common misconception amongst amateur cyclists that because helmets marginally increase the chance of neck injury and that head injuries are relatively uncommon on bicycles that helmets deliver negative returns in terms of safety but as others have pointed out the data doesn't seem to suggest this is actually the case.

The question is actually more interesting with public health. I have seen several studies that showed that mandatory cycling helmets decrease life expectancy. That's because less people will ride a bike if they have to wear a helmet and the benefits of cycling outweigh the dangers of not wearing the helmet. That doesn't mean it isn't good to wear one anyway if out cycling.

>Also in terms of common sense consider that all professional cyclists wear helmets when they're competing.

Mentioning professional cycling does not help your argument. The riders organisations were fighting strongly against mandatory helmets, and professional cycling was very late with requiring helmets they came many years after they were mandatory for amateur races. There is also the observation that professional cycling has become riskier, although I would not necessarily link that to cyclist wearing helmets, it would be worth investigating though.
I understand, but at the time I was extremely interested in those sorts of vac-formed items. In the same way, I was fascinated with the free-form houses that consisted of metal mesh being covered with concrete. I was simply a kid who wanted to live in a future I designed.

My 7x great grandfather was a french master carpenter by way of Germany built the first iteration of the modern St Louis Cathedral and Ursuline Convents in New Orleans and once found pirate treasure stuffed into the wall of a man's house while attempting to remodel, lol.
I linked to an article that I found on this in a sibling comment. It’s an average of 8.5cm closer when wearing a helmet. Obviously a p95 etc would be valuable here.

Personally, I believe the correct thing is to provide separate infrastructure from cars for bicyclists. One big nuance in the helmet debate is that the helmet is really best designed from mistakes while riding, ie when done for sport.
Just because raising rates is the tool of choice for central banks to fight inflation doesn't mean it is the only thing that affects inflation.

E.g. if supply chains were restored and suddenly there was a lot more product to purchase that would cause prices to fall.
Some rates are already rising.

My HCOL region is seeing a big change in the RE market as Mortgage interest rates hit >5%
I was viewing a different hacker news article and saw the id=.... at the top and realized it was very close to pi, so I came here, glad I'm not the only one who noticed this!
I'm still not sure why you'd weigh his opinion higher, he may be honest or have experienced more recessions than you have, but why not find an old columnist who doesn't lie? His lack of consideration for the other parts of the economy like real estate, etc. and his focus on startups to me seems like a handicap and not something that makes his economic predictions more accurate.
Would-be tyrant -- I'm guessing you have in mind the president in the US who didn't want to leave, after having lost the elections? (Could have made him a dictator at least, eventually, if he had succeeded. A tyrant? Hmm it means "a cruel and oppressive ruler" -- so yes, then, I'd guess it would have turned out that way. Cliffhanger ... soon 2024.) Or am I'm bad at guessing :-)
All asset classes are down though, both low and high-risk balances are seeing about the same contraction.
The chess/rimword/elden ring comparison doesn't really make sense. You're assuming any game that allowed NFTs would simply load ANY NFT?

Twitter, for example, allows some set of NFTs to be used on their website. Those NFTs are from a specific place (OpenSea) and follow a specific criteria (be an image).

Like that a single game would connect to some place (GameNFTs) and allow for example a user to select their chess pieces if they owned an NFT in a specific category (GameNFTs::Images::ChessSets::TypeA). But it wouldn't allow other NFTs than that.
My absolute favourite is Nara by E.S. Posthumus. For me it brings Frisson to a whole new level. It's not just (strong) goosebumps, but an almost overwhelming feeling.
The downvotes are probably because you're claiming that you walk 200m in a minute.
I remember scriptarchive, which I’ve browsed quite a lot, but it wasnt’t Matt. It was a german guy who had a similiar script collection, some of which he sold online. He reviewed and even tested my scripts and helped me along when I got stuck on incorrect cgi-bin file permissions or syntax errors and stuff like that when I was just learning things. Invaluable.
I think I have seen several studies that showed that drivers are more aggressive towards riders in lycra and with helmets, so it could still be true that it is riskier to wear a helmet even if you don't take more risks.
10% is like small correction comparing to previous increase, and doesn't offset mortgage rate increase.
And also Birdman
Florida is still too close for any party to take for granted. Also those anti-Castro Cubans in FL are single-issue voters, and also can’t be taken for granted.
We’re all one offs in the end
> ... what facts would have led you to correctly predict the massive divergence over the next 30 years? The events of 1914 or 1803 in Haiti?

The U.S. has been meddling in Haiti's affairs ever since, threatening leaders who dare to raise the minimum wage, among other things. Your skepticism of "history from 100-200 years ago to explain" seems more like a straw man argument. The comparison between Haiti (10 million residents) and China (1 billion residents) is kind of strange, for GDP per capita is not dependent on the work of independent individuals. You take the total for the country and divide by the number of individuals, so any country with a billion residents and the ability to produce and set wages without restrictions has a massive advantage over any country with 1 percent of their population. Lastly, your comparison with China could be done with a hundred other countries, so you could easily dismiss their history just the same. There's a lot going on you might not be aware of.
It’s absolute garbage. But so are normal Fords. Whether it’s the body panels thinner than a pop can, the mushy steering and road feel, or the tacky cheap interior, Ford finds a way to make quality their last job.

Ford also fought and lobbied against electric vehicles for ages. You’d have to be a moron to buy an electric vehicle from a company which officially not only hates them, but which has actual FUDded the Internet against them.

Ford and GM are good for making fleet vehicles for the government. Well, not even “good” but the government chooses them because of mutually beneficial kick back schemes. They are not good for consumers to own.
So basically a trigger warning for our teenagers to manage their suicidal tendencies?

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/fault-lines/2022/5/4/a-tox...

you're welcome

P.S : I agree with all the technical complications/impossibilities that comes with such an idea but the idea remains good.
Most of the internet ads I see are for stuff not available in my country, and if they even bother to translate, it's pretty random what language they choose. Just my IP adress or browser heathers should tell em both. That's assuming the product category is something I care for.

If they know exactly how effective their advertising is, they have too many dollars they want to get rid of.
Ask HN: What is the Ethereum VM's total computing power?
So according to https://ethernodes.org/ there are currently around 5154 synced nodes running EVM code. Based on this, how would you estimate the EVM's total computing power.
She lost her sense of smell. How Covid anosmia changed a life
Low interest rate doesn't mean low monthly payment
I haven't seen anyone mentioning the Ian Walker study on drivers' responses to cyclists with and without helmets.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00014...
There'll never be a shortage of people who think they can beat the market. Market beating is just such a compelling illusion. Also passive funds are not quite 100% passive. What does everyone do when they're broke? Stop investing. How about when times are good? Pile more into investments. There's also many different types of passive funds with slightly different biases. There's world passive funds (which have maybe 40% not in the S&P). There's passive funds that track other specific countries. There's ESG passive funds that avoid oil companies and such. There's passive that skips China. There's investor biases in there and prices being discovered all over.
https://archive.ph/Alp9f
What an interesting world view.
I worked with traumatic brain injury patients as part of my job in a neuroimaging research lab. Holy shit, wear a god damned helmet!
Old crypto joke: "Major STD outbreak; bitcoin users unaffected."
We're choosing Rust, and not Go, C++, or Node.js (Feb 2022)
She also has a number of talks on Excel (for the HN crowd) up on YouTube are worth the watch.
Advanced NanoTherapies, https://advnanot.com/
They ought to see my vintage computer collection! But no I’m not giving it up or feeling sorry about it.
I'd be interested to know too. My guess is that you're right that people would shop more often, but I think they'd focus on the essential goods.
He has a Youtube channel already, and not a blog. So his audience uses Youtube's subscription notifications. Most of his content (showing component-level PCB repair) works far better via video than text.
the genius thing about ETFs is they don't have to buy or sell the stock: others do it for them

have a read about the creation/redemption mechanism and you'll see why this won't heppen
“Risk” usually refers to default risk in financial terms. T-bills are generally considered to have zero default risk.

The inflation for two different assets traded in the same currency are equal, so there’s not much of a comparison to be made there.
Doug has his personal biases (as does everyone else), but does make an decent effort to be neutral (within his capabilities) while hitting his main points and remaining entertaining.

This [1] is a fairly great conversation with him which covers a lot of topics including the incentives [2] many other YouTubers/Car Journalists have (from getting flown out to launch events and the general pressures to not lose access to press cars by being too negative in a review)

That said, while I trust Doug far more than many reviewers he still has many relationships with car dealerships, often gets access to preproduction cars that he can't drive yet (but almost always does a full review when he can), and does have a car auction business so there's still room for that to have an effect on his judgement even if he's trying otherwise.

[1] https://youtu.be/pFGh-YqHT4Y
[2] https://youtu.be/pFGh-YqHT4Y?t=5155
>How is holding a bond risk free?

No asset is risk free. Bonds are a relatively less risky asset.

>The government constantly raises and lowers that scarcity at will.

Nope. Notes, Bills, Bonds are auctioned.
Even old.reddit.com is annoying enough that I head first to https://teddit.net/ Principle advantage being that Reddit URLs are rewritten such that once on the site, you stay there. This isn't the case for either old.reddit.com or the even lighter alternative i.reddit.com, for which reverts back to www keep occurring.
I personally believe the main distinction could be on the content side. CourseHero and Studocu serve great resources and provide almost unlimited choices but you have to take trials to find the best for you (if it exists).

What we wish to achieve is to have a selected set of high-quality and consistent-in-style contents aligned with specific courses at some universities. We believe that could benefit most of the students particularly at those universities.

Finally, I don’t think we “complete” cause we are a group of students sharing the same vision and not a corporation. You can find us open-sourced at https://github.com/flibrary
A lot of people just don't understand what art is, for the sole reason no one taught them that. The stereotype of “art” that “naturally” (i. e. out of general neglect) emerges from compulsory education process is not that different from anecdotal 19th century opinion of an average educated person on that, as whole education systems stem from that era and keep its sensibilities (like scientific reductionism, militant materialism, and so on). Left alone, people stick to informational, ideological, or decorative functions of works of art (see examples in other comments).

You can point to the crowds in famous galleries, but what do they do there? Move quickly through the halls as if competing to increase their ppm (paintings per minute) stats, when in fact you need to stand and think in front of each of them. It's the requirement for both “avant-garde” and “realist” works, no matter how old and “simple” they are. What exactly is “realism” anyway? Is this “reality”?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ilya_Repin_-_%D0%9A%...

Of course not, it's a virtual scene constructed by the artist to convey certain thoughts. And that's a very recent example. Many Renaissance paintings now require a commentary that is longer than those needed for contemporary works.

What can one see in, say, Gollum example in the article? It is collection of cliches, either recognized (the composition of the figure of a scribe with a book has been used in countless illustrations) or artificial (boulders? why this connection?). An artist, as opposed to an illustrator, would distance from that, making, say, a humorous image of an excited Gollum filling page after page after discovering his own talent, and poor hobbits carrying long stacks of paper (well, my approach is not that original either).

It's not hard to imagine that computers would sooner or later generate cheap fantasy novels (as people do now), add cheap illustrations (as people do now), and make low quality translations to other languages (as people do now). Then what is exactly new here, apart from production rate, and what does it all have to do with art?
> this sounds like a textbook example of a parasocial relationship

I really had to try and not use that word, but it very much was.
Technically, the compiled source published to NPM is MIT licensed (it's minified JS), and the end-user can reverse-engineer it however they like. MIT license does not mean human-readable source afaik :p

^ j/k fyi, since your comment sounded serious so I just wanted to ease the tension. We're planning to open-source the repo, but ATM we have not set up everything to welcome the community yet (CoC, contribution guideline, CI for testing, issue templates, etc...)

BTW, love your passion for open-source and appreciate the criticism (esp your effort in taking a deep look at the stuff we are building). The NPM page is nowhere ready for public view yet. The thought of slapping the TOS and Privacy Policy in the readme is so that if the user installed our CLI and managed to initiate some of the extra undocumented capability, we wouldn't be responsible for any damage to their hardware. But perhaps the MIT license should suffice for that case?

On the other hand, I am asking for feedback on the documentation, so if we can stay on that topic that would be much appreciated :D
If you bought in at the 2000 peak, it took about ten years to break even, and you'd have to have kept holding it through the 2008 crisis when you might have been losing your house.

Also, there were a lot of other companies that people believed in that didn't fare so well.
> it’s true that drivers are more aggressive towards helmet wearers

Citation, please?

> can't think of an accident where a helmet would help when I'm on the cargo bike.

Right hook.
If you think that there is some major economic turmoil ahead with dropping asset values across the board (and I personally this is fairly likely), the general advice is to aim for a positive alpha. That is, if you are moderately well off or better, invest to "go down less than your neighbors". Assets across the board lose value, but if at the end of the fall you preserved a higher fraction of your money to invest than your neighbors and are willing to pick the best assets after the collapse you can reap huge benefits.

The counter argument to this is that the above approach absolutely requires an iron discipline. And without experience non-professionals are prone to making very costly mistakes (e.g., invest on feelings, double down inappropriately, etc.). So, a general audience advice is usually: do not invest money you need within 5-10 years and do not make rash decisions; it is better to ride this train down and then hopefully back up than jump randomly. And diversify (across countries, economies, asset classes, etc.).

Just my 2c; not an investment advice!