skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate you trying to get to a shared understanding. I don't have too much time, so just the short version:

> The volume of mortgage backed securities is based on who can and want to get loans. During the great recession it was hard to qualify for a mortgage even though many people wanted to do so.

"Want" is a difficult word. I want a private island, but I can't afford one. So my contribution to effective demand for private islands is zero. In the same sense, I don't think the effective demand for mortgages was particularly high during the great recession. But anyway, we agree on the observation that low interest rates and low mortgage volumes can go hand-in-hand.

One point where I think we differ is the direction of causalities in central bank behavior. My point is that central bank QE causes low interest rates (but low interest rates don't necessarily cause QE). The upshot is that while "low interest rate policy, no QE policy" is possible, "high interest rate policy + QE policy" is not possible. The two policies would be in logical conflict with each other.
Legal owner is not the same thing as CC permit holder, and CC permit holders to seem to be safer than other gun owning or carrying categories and rarely involved in altercations or crimes.

Australia is a highly ambiguous example of gun control success for numerous reasons.

It's also worth noting that the funding and law enforcement capacity to disarm the US were stringent gun control legal is borderline impossible, if not just impossible, from a purely mathematical perspective when compared to things the like the war on drugs and considering the sheer number of guns owned.
Try /"stray bullet" "neighbor"/ and you'll get the results you're looking for.
I think what OP meant to write: the zip encryption algorithm is a custom stream cypher that uses crc32 as the main building block.

(It's a very bad cypher, vulnerable to known plaintext and other attacks, don't use it for anything except light scrambling).
Property values are usually not affect by recessions, 2008 being the exception, and thus income from property taxes is not affected as much. Income is more affected by recession.
If prop13 is repealed California could raise larger percent of its budget from property taxes as opposed to income taxes, and it would help with variations of tax income.
Answered a somewhat similar questions before, hope you find it useful https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27641406.
Do we really need zoning, at all?

Avoiding things like heavy industry, or weddings, concerts, etc, near a residence can be done with noise ordinances.

I wouldn't want to leave near a Chinese restaurant, but not because it's a Chinese restaurant, but rather because of the food smoke - so regulate smoke output, not the type of business.

Etc, etc, for other reasons people give for zoning - regulate the thing the bothers people, not the type of business.
We should definitely add more tutorial/walkthrough type docs.
Arms and legs.
I’m not sure what that has to do with Section 8 recipients buying homes?
A low-cost brainer.
There are other studies with interesting results in the article and it is good intuition that we survived for thousands of years stark naked without sunscreen and vitamin suplements.

One interesting paragraph was:

"When you spend much of your day treating patients with terrible melanomas, it’s natural to focus on preventing them, but you need to keep the big picture in mind. Orthopedic surgeons, after all, don’t advise their patients to avoid exercise in order to reduce the risk of knee injuries."

We need to avoid tunnel vision when making health decisions. And this coming from someone (me) who had skin cancer in the past (not that it makes me a specialist).
Looks nice! Though I like a similar design from Xtia, where they put GPU parallel to MB, making the whole thing quite a bit more compact.
That's great, thanks for sharing! However you will soon hit the 2000 songs limit on the playlist, if Deezer did not remove it already.
Putting your code and documentation into a third party source code escrow is a common solution.
In that spirit...for php, you could just have "hello world\n" in a file, since it's a template language by default.
What do you mean by "subsidize"? Are you referring to the general progressiveness of the US Federal tax code, or are you insinuating that Oklahoma's state budget is X% funded by California in addition to Oklahoman tax receipts?
Gotta look good while dying early!
Don't you think it's a little hypocritical to force everyone to draw their acceptable risk line at exactly where you happen to draw it?

Longboarding is risky, downhill longboarding is riskier, doing it without a helmet slightly moreso, doing it naked probably slightly moreso.

Why is it okay for you to set the acceptable risk bar and steal boards from anyone that doesn't agree? Should people that think that downhill longboarding with a helmet is risky steal your board?
How do you sign up to AliPay?
Ah, the ole "we have more wealthy people than you" argument.
the rich (income) can move out state if mistreated, expecially once RE & Tech & whatever "advantages" dry out.
Alchemy and Artificial Intelligence by Hubert L. Dreyfus (1965) [PDF]
> it's a better gauge of what I can carry in my 2 tote bags

Why not use the tote bags directly instead of the basket? This way it calibrates for size but also weight & resistance. This also gets you into a habit of having your bag deployed before you start shopping so less chance to forget it and have to buy another one.

I shop with a single bag sized for my ride back, even the baskets are way too large.
Shouldn’t they instead figure out how to run cooler and with less power in general? That’s where it seems everyone else is going…
Yeah, I get people wanting HOAs to maintain property values (Though I am not one of them, I chose a neighborhood with no HOA on purpose). I don't get people who genuinely care for its own sake about their neighbors lawn having weeds. Or the house having an unusual paint color. Who cares??
We can reframe this article's hypothetical doomsday premise to any state:
"Iowa, the undisputed king of corn, will face a recession if there is a multi-year drought."
Yes, indeed this is credit card / bank signup bonus but it's actually giving you equity in the bank instead of pure USD.

Yield farming is usualled called "mercenary" because of this, as instead of specualting, some instantly just sell whatever "equity" or token back into USD.

Some prefer to keep the token and speculate on its value.

Everyone is making their own decisions.

>Learning that a non-crypto investment instrument was based on bank signup bonuses would be shocking to most, no?

What do you mean by this?
Residential zoning is just so wrong. It’s trendy on the left to say it’s “racist” and it is that, but it’s also classist and elitist and WASP supremacist (e.g. banning multigenerational families, which are common among both Hispanics and lower-tier whites).

I live in a pre-zoning code suburb in Maryland. The current minimum lot size is 20,000 square feet. Our house and most of the neighboring houses are on 2,900 square foot lots. At least on this side of the neighborhood, nobody tattles on each other for doing unpermitted work. The result is real diversity and a tightly packed community. (Though as housing prices increase, our neighborhood, being so close to DC, is under threat from PMCs.)
When I did Smalltalk in a corporate team environment we used a tool called Team/V. Code is stored in a shared repository. Everyone starts with the same clean image, loaded with the tools and options chosen for the project.

From your clean running image, you open the Repository Browser window. You load app code from the repository, make changes etc., and commit back to the shared repository.

There were many options for organizing “packages” and creating lists of packages and version numbers for a “build”. Also different options for ownership of code, locking code from changes, difference reports, etc.

Open source tools I have not used.
It's worse, they are not contractors but employees. The company should have a book thrown at them.
Sounds like a job for Marie Kondo, organising consultant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Kondo
Pretty sure it's the progressive tax code and the fact that California is (1) huge and (2) disproportionately wealthy.

I'm sure that wealthy Americans flock to California for the moral superiority of the average Californian and not, say, the weather. /s
Tangent but I'll be starting a new job in a few months where they use C++ (bank), do you have any tips/resources?
The American populists thought that the gold standard was a great tool to enslave the American population. Back then it was unthinkable that farmers would be able to invest to say, buy fertilizer:

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

The "goldfinger scenario" that goldbugs dream of is the collapse of the global economy which is orders of magnitude too big to be served by the amount of gold we have, they hope that they'll get to live like French aristocrats before the revolution.
I think it's often a poor focus for founders, until you have a real leadrship team in place and naturally have distributed responsibility. Companies dealing with startups are assuming some risks and should be aware of that. There are more highly probably events (going out of business for example) that your time is better spent mitigating. So my opinion is don't worry about it if you're a 1 person or small operation, just accept that there is a risk, and be honest with customers if it ever comes up.
So the status dashboard says it's up but the downforeveryone site says it's down?!
From this very article:

> And perplexingly, outdoor workers have half the melanoma rate of indoor workers. Tanned people have lower rates in general. “The risk factor for melanoma appears to be intermittent sunshine and sunburn, especially when you’re young,” says Weller. “But there’s evidence that long-term sun exposure associates with less melanoma.”
> you fail to note the creation of a market happens by destroying another

This isn’t true. If you go back to the origin of human civilization, economic “output” was limited to survival - food/shelter. Today survival represents an ever-smaller fraction of economic activity. Where did this additional activity come from if it was limited to replace preceding activity?

Similarly real gdp per capita has been increasing since the beginning of time. How can this be possible if the economy is zero sum?
Why are so many tech companies opening up an office in Texas?
Often cited, sure, but I don't see cyclists (myself included) put a helmet on and start taking on 18-wheelers. What I'm trying to say is it matters how true these studies are. Say we accept there's an increased risk of having an accident, the data also shows that if you have an accident you're much more likely to die without a helmet.

I think a lot of people —including experienced cyclists— would be surprised how easily a silly little fall, a knock against a car, can just kill you.

So even if a helmet makes you marginally more likely to be involved in an accident, being a professional vulnerable road user, all day is no joke. I'd like to have safety equipment when my number comes up.
‘Making History’ Review: Writers of the Permanent Record
Thanks!

On sunscreen, my personal impression was that people were sloppy enough that the impact would be mild at most (seems the subject has also been looked into [1]), and people going for really high blocking values usually do so for beauty preferences way more than health preoccupations.

[1 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30945275/
Open Source text-mode communication and file-transfer software for Unix (all varieties and versions): terminal connection, file transfer, and scripting since 1985. SSH, modem, and serial-port connections. Beta testing needed on as many different platforms as possible prior to final release.
The financial markets are a fantastic ecosystem. There are all types of players out there: short-term vs long-term, high-frequency vs low-frequency, technical chart readers, fundamentals, macro, hedgers, punters, speculators, 401k managers, retirees, r/wsb, retail, institutional.

For as long as there have been markets, there are people who think they can beat them. So active management isn't going anywhere and it certainly wont disappear. There will certainly be a time when the active managers win out over passive.

On a related note: I have this particular view that most active managers inside trade. (Look at Steve Cohen, SAC/Point72 - the insider trading was rampant, and I assume that if it was this prevalent and the largest most sophisticated of funds - then its probably pretty pervasive). I think the SEC's continuous crackdown on systematic insider trading is partly responsible for the long decline of active management.
At an old job I spent my first week on the job documenting the process from a wiki page into a bash script (albeit with some comment sections that said "do this manually"). A year later, one of our devs was up for a laptop upgrade and I convinced him to give Linux a try. I shared my script with him and he was up and committing code later that afternoon. The next week we had a company wide mandate to switch to linux for dev laptops.

Point is that just taking the tiny step of forcing this from a wiki page into code can tip things towards automation. The real difficulty is keeping those scripts up to date. I'm still working on a solution for that (hopefully I'll have something to share in the next few weeks).
You share a link to a tweet with a phot of an ATM. What is your point?

What do you think it true anti-fragility in a system? Something that is built form the ground-up in a regulatory too-big-to-fail environment, or something that starts from the wilderness, gets beaten down multiple times, yet grows back up stronger than before.

That is true antifragility.
Thanks for actually posting links, although none of them show that "US foreign policy exists to make corporations rich". They are just vague general warnings about concentration of power.

The US has a huge and robust left-leaning press. I would have expected extensive wall-to-wall reporting if "US foreign policy exists to make corporations rich". Yet I see none. In what way is this not a generic "america=bad" conspiracy theory?
I’m building an app for exactly this approach - FocusTask.app
About 10 years ago I would have agreed with this comment but now… not so sure. Seems everyday there’s a new law or initiative to push productive professionals/companies away, not a fan of the trajectory… but who knows, maybe I’ll be surprised in another 10 years ;)
I probably have over 10,000 items in Pocket. I say probably because I never actually open the app.
Skin exposure is quite different there because unlike the head they get a change in angle way more often. Sure you can get sunburn there too, but it’s harder to do.
>The rural american attitude towards guns is indefensible. It just is.

Case closed! Damn, all that time wasted arguing. lol
That's an illusion. It is not as liquid and there is no mark-to-market but prices absolutely do fall during a recession if real estate were to trade.
There is no empirical evidence the pills do anything. Did you read the article? It's likely one of those spurious correlation type of situations. Being outdoors or having sun exposure, maybe living healthier lifestyles... whatever it is it corresponds with higher vitamin D levels, that's all.

It's a bit much claiming those suspicious of pill pushing are part of the actual cult. If someone thinks taking vitamin D pills is necessary they're the one who has to provide the evidence, not the other way around.
They are structured text though so I don't think you can just do deltas like like with code. You'd have to treat them like binaries would you not? That's the way we always kept our XML files in git forced to be binaries.
It should not be a reasonable basis for denying their employees right to wear PPE.
Those are some pretty interesting websites of yours! I checked them out to see if they shared some sort of common Kirby look-and-feel, but you seem to put enough emphasis on design to offset any such thing. The projects look very interesting too.
> I don't get people who genuinely care for its own sake about their neighbors lawn having weeds.

Certain types of invasive plans are noxious, outright poisonous, encourage hay fever, or just spread so fast that they can end up destroying neighbor's yards as well.

Plants don't obey property lines.

Edit: Unkempt yards can also be breeding ground for pests. From mosquitoes in still water to hoards of rats. Most people don't want to put up with those styles of annoyances that are trivially avoidable if everyone in the area cares just a little.
> whereas the dedicated CRC instructions might exist on the high-efficiency cores

M1 has a heterogeneous ISA, FWIW.
Do you think tarot cards might counterintuitively provide the benefit (either by chance or maybe even by design) of overriding the minds tendency to form beliefs (premature conclusions, aka reality) based on heuristics and "facts"? In a sense, using one form of "mysticism" to cancel out another?
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One thing i learned from this article is if you have low vitamin D it's better to not eat any d supplements - as that is equal to putting little chips of ice on a thermometer to get it down to 98.4 when you are trying to measure your fever.

Those vit d supplements will only skew the one thing that actually tells you how much deficiencient you are in getting enough sunlight as it correlates quite directly with it (most other things look more long term).
Ha! I already hit it. That’s why the playlist isn’t any longer.

You’re the first person I’ve met who knows this limit. Every time I complain about the 2k limit in my social circles, I get these weird looks like they’re saying “who’d ever need more than 2k songs?”
It is so weird to see Americans talking about guns...

When you live in a society without guns everywhere, the notion that law-abiding citizens don't need and don't want guns is just plain obvious, like "water is wet and the wind blows". Civilized life is life with low crime so you don't need guns. They're far more trouble than solution.

But talk an American talk about gun control and they go full crazy on "socialist tyranny" and "from my cold dead hands!". They just can't grasp it.
I need… more powahhh…

No but seriously why don’t they build a 128-core atom server. That’s really all anybody wants. I don’t need the fastest most immersed cpu ever, just a bunch of decent ones at 30W or less.
It feels good to look good and younger though.

When i shave and look younger I always kind of feel like OK I might have a few more years of not falling apart
Why?

I don't think you would be in any relevant position at all to care about a startup which is run by you in case you die.

Your family can't run it, others can't just take it over and you are 6 feet under.

Get life insurance and stop worrying about this if you haven't brought the company far enough yet.
The talk version[1] of this article, like all of Toms talks, is equally amazing.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUhlNx_-wYk
Death Stranding relaxed me so hard I became a road-building madman (2020)
> I'll suggest anyone that disbelieves that to spend some 30min into a moderate/high UV intensity day outside without sunscreen. Especially around midday.

30 minutes? I did that today for two hours. My arms, legs, face, and neck were all exposed without sunscreen, and I didn't burn at all. It all depends on your skin type.
And just for "fun" (YMMV on that!), these correspond with the basic columns on a Kanban board:

- Now = in progress

- Soon = selected for development

- Later = backlog

Occasionally I've found it useful to bring work concepts like this into my personal life.
I would focus on the things that cause problems (if there are any), and solve those. Just ignore everything else.

The only problem you mention is storage, and as you mention it's pretty easy to solve by just buying more. You could also refinance and move the big (not-so-important) files onto cheap hard drives or other "cold storage" to free up space on your devices.

As to "read it later" lists and such; I would give up. It sounds a bit perfectionistic to want to consume it all and miss/loose nothing. Don't ask the impossible of yourself to go through all of it, at least half of it is outdated or not relevant anymore, I'm sure there are better ways to spend your time. Interesting and important things will resurface.

Generally my attitude is: If it doesn't impact me negatively, I don't care. I see it as organized chaos; minimizing time spend on organizing while maximizing utility. Storage is cheap and search is pretty powerful these days.

Those tools are there for you, not the other way around. Use the ones that help you or bring you joy, ignore (or delete) the rest.
You can work with a lawyer to put your business in a trust so that if something happens to you the trust and trustee take over operations.
Even without a rainy day fund, which is an inefficient use of capital, the state could buy financial instruments to hedge a recession. Is it prohibited from doing that?
> Why is it okay for you to set the acceptable risk bar and steal boards from anyone that doesn't agree?

For the same reason we enforce seatbelts in cars: Enough people died. Then those who saw them die decided on these rules so we don't need to go through the same pain. The fact that you don't get this shows that the rules work.
In the Fight over How to Teach Reading, This Guru Makes a Major Retreat
The kernel is a bit of a special case since very likely a syscall starts off with a cold I$, and also there's a lot of extra overhead if you insist on using SIMD registers.

In general I agree with you though, optimizing memcpy implementations only against microbenchmarks is dumb.
These are the sorts of 'style guides' that we need. I started boycotting 'style' meetings at new companies ages ago because it always turned into a bunch of people using up all of their time, energy, and social capital arguing about where the curly brackets go and how whitespace should be handled. These are things a machine can do for you. We shouldn't be wasting our breath on them.

As far as 'consistent' names go, there are multiple dimensions of sameness. Using the same word for all instances of the same concept, not using the same word for other concepts, using consistent pluralization. Using same adjective/adverb/gerund form for related concepts. You are telegraphing sameness in these cases, and difference in others.

We have tried things similar to what you describe before, we just have dialed it in wrong. New-ish, good ideas often fall prey to bad execution. Hungarian notation, for instance, dictates that the variable name stays the same when the sense of the data changes, but is supposed to change when the implementation details shift. Which is exactly the opposite of what we want. If I fix a Y2K bug or a 2038 bug in due_on, I'm going to end up with a slightly different structure, but the deadline it represents is still 12 midnight. And if it's not, well, maybe we need a different convention for calendar day versus business day deadlines.
Not to mention the risk of getting hit by another snowboarder or skier.
And the author is writing an article for Outside, which also has a clear bias in presenting a one-sided argument.
Who's being authoritarian? I'm suggesting changing how we think about housing
What does this do that I can't do in Blender?
This will sound flippant, but know people. You don't need to know them well. Former bosses, workers, etc. are fine. In a tight job market, many will be looking for people.

Random recruiters are fine too. If someone's calling you up to recruit, you can let them know you're not open to employment, but glad to consult. Many companies will be open to both. Indeed, consultants are cheaper on taxes and benefits, and easier to let go, so there are a lot of wins for the company. .

The bigger question is whether you should consult.

Why do you want to get into it?