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> For simple terms since you’re obviously not in the field, ask yourself where is money created? If you say central banks, go back to Econ 101 and study better this time.

The Fed itself directly created 8T USD since 2009 (QE). Some of it in the past two years even went straight to consumer's pockets via the Treasury in the form of stimmies and forgivable PPP loans (helicopter money/MMT).

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...

That's a non-trivial amount, 41% of total M2 and 61% of the increase in M2 since 2009:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL

Where did the rest of the increase in M2 come from? Fractional reserve lending by banks -- at interest rates artificially suppressed by Fed policies specifically to encourage lending/money creation.

Before the Fed was created in 1913, USD was created by fractional reserve lending by banks at market determined interest rates and the marginal increase in monetary gold and silver from mining output (typically 1-2%/yr).

This historic monetary system was dynamically unstable as mining output was uncorrelated with natural business cycles and unbackstopped banks were subject to runs during downturns. The Fed was created to solve these problems, specifically the panic of 1907.

Over time it's mission evolved from being a lender of last resort to actively targeting employment and consumer prices. Since the 1987 crash however, this official mandate was effectively replaced with one targeting asset prices - primarily stocks and houses (wealth effect targeting).

Normal business cycles were now increasingly distorted by the fed Fed responding to (or not wanting to hurt) asset prices for fear it would psychologically affect consumer and business spending and eventually employment.

This lead to a new instability: bigger booms created or exaggerated by easy Fed money, followed by bigger busts during the tightening phase.

Each boom/bust cycle led to more micromanagement by the Fed and thus more instability. Since 2008 (QE), and especially after 2020 (helicopter money) they have gone completely off the rails as seen by the M2 chart above and soaring consumer prices. "Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon - Milton Friedman"
It doesn't have to be a case of a university signalling to the world that they are embarking on a formal partnership with government of Qatar, it just needs to be one of many indirect mechanisms through which they take a large amount of money that originates from Qatar, and a department or scholar or research foundation or a commercial partnership confers kudos upon a Qatari foundation or the royal family, or indicates patronage. There are a million ways of dressing it up, universities have PR departments and strategic communications consultancies to keep bad news at bay, and few students or academics are going to go to all that trouble to bite the hand that feeds them. You just end up with a state of the art new department building or facility that has been funded by a foundation with an Arabic name (perhaps an Emir or a sheikh's wife or daughter), and some dignitaries attending an opening ceremony on a Saturday morning to a hand-picked crowd while most of the students on campus are sleeping in. None of this is at all remarkable in today's landscape of intense inter-university competition. Also, they're not going to fund sociology departments; it's often directed towards the hard sciences or Arabic language/literature/history/cultural studies. And that's before you get onto endowments from Blue Chip companies that are actually vehicles for wealthy investors.
You do know the Fed has been raising rates all year, and have signaled they will keep doing it through the end of this year, right?

Or are you suggesting on a long enough timeline it's just going to go right back to zero again? If so, then yeah you might be right there.

At least the US never got down to negative interest rates, like they've had in europe for the past eight years. I can't imagine having money being taken away for parking it in a 'savings account' (of course inflation is practically the same thing, but negative interest rates still seem worse to me, especially since they also have high inflation over there right now).
80% of opioid addicts in Switzerland are in treatment. Switzerland spends a lot less money on drug enforcement, punishment and treatment than the US does.
Yeah I don’t think you can say that about GMOs - besides the issues of seed patenting/subsequent litigation and self terminating seeds - the EPA was just ordered to re assess the safety of roundup. And there’s plenty of studies that show round up probably isn’t great. https://enveurope.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s12302-0...
Because they are relevant on the context of Android, Apple OS, and ChromeOS respectively, as the main OS languages alongside C and C++.
Seeing ignorant comments like this, it’s not hard to understand why so much of the world is sick of Western hubris.
In that case, the best thing to do is to feel out the organization you're in, and make yourself indispensable.

Do most of the new hires want to work on server-side code; but your UI is challenging and pushes the browser to its limits? Lean more towards in-browser work; and accomplish critical in-browser tasks that your management has trouble finding someone to do.

Likewise, is your in-browser code trivial, but your application is visibly too slow to the point that management has heat on them to make it more responsive? Focus on optimizing the data access layer, and become indispensable there.

Where I've had success is looking for areas of a product that you just can't "open a book" to learn how to implement. The problem space should have a high degree of novelty to it. These problems exist in all layers of the stack. In my case, I became lead for Syncplicity's desktop client, a major Dropbox competitor. For awhile my code was a market leader. (We were the only desktop file sync product that could handle 100,000+ files.)

Another area of success that I've had is in young companies, where team sizes are too small to really specialize. In my current role, I'm doing "full stack C#" with Blazor in the UI. (We chose it so that it would be easy for developers to move back and forth between UI and server-side code.) As we grow I'll probably focus more on back-end work; but at the moment, "full stack" is useful because I can make an API change in a single pull request without coordinating with anyone else.

Edit: As far as money goes, you will need some flexibility. I've taken a few below-market-rate jobs because they were interesting; then when I saw money flow into the company I had to raise a ruckus in order to get to market rate. It's not something I like doing, but unfortunately, that's how the world works, and that's why I keep focusing on becoming indispensable.
This is asked often, and answered often. Lack of reply notifications are a feature. It drives community-driven discussion, as opposed to 2 people arguing with each other. Say what you have to say and let it be - other people will reply if they have something to say. Don't worry about getting in the last word, as it is perfectly fine for the originator of a thread to not participate in downstream comments.
A body of web standards they are still trying to expand right now.

The first step in saving the web needs to be to stop adding so many new standards that are only needed for "apps".
Weird. Both of these should be textbook examples of how to tell lies using only "scientific" truths.

It's very easy to look at both at these data points and think "oh, so it's okay to just go and support GMO and ignore organic farmers". In reality though, the criticism against GMO is how its wide-scale adoption destroys genetic diversity, and how this lack of diversity is a huge potential source of systemic risks.
Searing meat seals in the juices.

Wikipedia's only citation for this being false is a commercially published book[0], but there are various reports of experimental testing, e.g.:

https://www.seriouseats.com/perfect-prime-rib-beef-recipe

https://www.cooksillustrated.com/how_tos/5699-searing-steak

[0] McGee, Harold (1990), The Curious Cook: More Kitchen Science and Lore, page 13, "The Searing Truth"
I would have thought you would have been able to recover associated expenses in small claims court like the cost of your other hotel?
Unnecessary. There is a "threads" link in the header. It shows all of your recent comments, and their replies.
The way HN crops your link I thought it would lead to an article about the Irish potato famine.
> ... to allow the economy to unwind when it doesn't want to grow.

If our ecosphere had a vote, it'd probably oppose this paradigm of "we still desperately need a growing economy today".

What people do need is the basics: food, shelter, health care ... what they don't need is a turbo charged economy that is still based 80 % on fossil energy and on people being addicted to consumption of throw-away products.
I sometimes think Rails is one of the best kept dev productivity secrets out there.

Let the doubters doubt...
Updating My Favicon, Courtesy of Randall Munroe
I was born 10 years earlier and had much of the same experience simply because that's when things started happening broadly on a consumer level with the internet. I used Flash professionally for several years developing ads, mini-games and silly animations. Actionscript (an ECMAscript implementation) was great. Javascript is just now catching up.
People choose to do things to maximize happiness

https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/happiness-satisfaction-...
Great how to clone Facebook
At least they didn't say "just overthrow your government", I've seen that one plenty...
Inflation is in the same ballpark in the UK, Eurozone, and US... Clearly if Brexit has any impact it is indeed small at the moment.
I've been wanting to read this book, but I'm not sure how I should go about it. Are you supposed to read and type out the code examples? I'm just wondering if I will learn anything that way?
That is absolutely not true. Just because early compilers acted more like linker/loader doesn't mean they used the word compiler to mean "linker". When the term was coined it absolutely meant translating mathematical formulas into machine code. Compiler very much had the same meaning it has today.
WasmEdge, a lightweight, high-performance, and extensible WebAssembly runtime
Selling Android apps is really hard. I haven't met any indie Android developer able to make a decent buck (or anything at all). Rather focus on iOS development if you want to actually make a profit.

This is well known in the industry and a bit sad if you enjoy Android, but that's how it is and it has many reasons, such as user behavior.
This is nothing new. MSFT, Alphabet, AMZN, Oracle have all been making plays for years trying to get into the healthcare industry. It's a huge, bloated industry
> Every website ever has a boring unit test called “Is it up?”

Yeah, and it should come almost automatically from the tooling. If you are writting this, you have a tooling problem.
I definitely would recomend keeping it server side if you don't need any other firebase features. You don't use firebase as a normal database. You use it for its realtime featureset.
You did not provide any links.
I live in Soho, London as an owner-occupier in a building with 6 other flats (7 total).

Of the 6 others, 3 of them are being used permanantly for AirBnB's, in direct conflict with the Leasehold agreement, which explictly states that the accommodation cannot be used for short-term, hotel-esque businesses and directly against the law (London requires that a flat not be used for more than X days per year). These are operated by a company that manages 10s to 100s of them in the area

Having complained to the building management, they simply don't care/don't do anything. It's on my todo list to take it up with the council/lawyer up against the building management, but I just don't have the time. It seems like AirBnB has just completely outsourced the fraud elements as "not their problem".

Will never use an AirBnB again, and will aggressively advise against it for friends & family.
“a jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.”

I recommend doing a "deep dive" on whatever you're actually interested in, but have at least a more than superficial understanding of many other things. maybe once a month spend 4 or 5 hours trying out a technology being discussed on HN.

But once you have a job, learn as much as you can about all the platform technology involved. if you're doing web development, this could be apache, nginx, azure, aws, bash, powershell, haproxy, f5, routing, DNS, firewalls, etc. but it could also mean jenkins, docker, k8s, ansible, puppet, github, gitlab, blah blah.

Being full stack means you understand the full stack. If you're working on a project and there is part of the process you don't understand, that should be the next thing you learn. when you get a job you'll probably be mostly focussed on one thing, but you can ask the other engineers and admins questions. If they're any good they'll love to show off their knowledge.

Being full stack really means not being stuck in your ways and not being afraid to touch something because the person who normally does it is sick.

So learn what you want. When you get a job learn what the job is using even if it's not your immediate responsibility. Always keep your eye on things that might be a better way of doing it. Programming, and tech in general burns through people who aren't constantly learning something new.
You may be correct, but there is another model whereby the damage to the nerve cells is done by the build up of the plaque. Removing the plaque does not necessarily repair the damage.

I picture it as a clog in a pipe. The clog is large and strong enough to break the wall of the pipe. You can remove the clog, but you've still got a break in the pipe that was not repaired.
I know the author ended up with code that was the same speed at the end of all this, but if you're ever intentionally refactoring code just to make testing easier (and not to aid in the readability or overall architecture) isn't that usually a bad design decision? Further, if you're intentionally refactoring code that you know may slow it down 2x just to aid in writing tests, isn't that a bad reason to refactor that code?

> The result library is often slower than pure C (~2x magnitude) but still having a native Go port could simplify some aspects of the workflow like testing.
Did you know that wikipedia's tagline is "anyone can edit"?

That makes it not static.
I can't tell if this is sarcastic or not… backend isn't going anywhere.
Well I don't think I've shot myself in the foot, it seems a lot of people agree with me.

I'm not against the idea of ai coding tools on premise, but it did strike me as kind of funny to imagine someone using two such tools at the same time.

I'm more of a minimalist, and would generally prefer to have lean tools which get out of my way. The idea that every keystroke involves a back-and fourth with a server, and that my basic coding workflow would need an internet connection is not something which is super appealing to me personally.
I actually value anecdotal health stuff more than most folks. I just am not at my best and don't really know how to engage with this other than to say "Thanks."
Apps should fill some kind of utility for the user. Once I have my utilities covered, why would I want to get something else that does the same thing?

So, once I have my needs covered, I have very little desire to go hunting for something new.
> an anti-capitalist and anti-neoliberal globalization icon

It's always interesting to see how different politics can be. In the US, anti-capitalists are usually fervent globalists, opposed to any kind of nationalism.
As a disclaimer, I've done PHP (WP, Laravel, custom), Javascript (Node, JS, TS, back-end, front-end, full-stack) and Ruby, so I'm speaking from my experience.
What was elitist about what I said?
In terms of performance and size it's much better. Though it's more of a base component and you can virtualize any sort of scrollable element that you can render, vertical or horizontal.
Twitter has a significantly bigger audience than every other channel combined. It’s like saying who cares if you’re banned from tv, radio and telephones, just send carrier pigeons like the old days

This is classic HN “introverted programmers don’t use it so clearly it’s worthless”. The “normies” aren’t on HN or IRC or browsing your obscure forum - they’re on Twitter and that’s it.
I would argue the God concept is a poor explanation of why? because you're just kicking the can down the road: either God had a beginning and you have to explain that or God is infinite which puts us right back to the same problem of having a universe with infinite duration. If we're going to say God has existed forever then it's simpler (Occam's Razor) to say the universe has existed forever.

Honestly, I think trying to answer why? is a misguided effort. There doesn't need to be a reason why, and moreover inanimate objects don't have motives. Why are we here? Because we're here!
The HN post at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29440681

RevK is the owner of AAISP (an xkcd/806 compliant organisation).
Think of side-effects on the system user level instead of the hardware level. A functional package manager doesn't rely on, for example, globally installed libraries. It also installs packages in such a way as to not affect the operation of your system. Nix, for example, keeps everything in a private directory. If you have packages A depending on packages X, Y, and B depending on Y, Z, then A, B, X, Y, and Z will all be placed in separate directories in /nix/store. This can all be done without touching any system or user (or emacs) profiles. Hence, "no side-effects".

Of course, you probably want some side-effects, so you'll put symlinks to the stuff you want in your user profile, or into a .envrc file in the root of a project.
i'm also equally impressed by their background, and puzzled that they choose to target frontend developers rather than backend developers (who presumably they would be much better able to solve problems for?)
Interesting, although that is a proprietary system. Label color was not informative at the time.
Yes, there are people who rebalance when that happens. I'm not one of those people (I probably should be, but I'm not), but there are people who definitely do rebalance their portfolios whenever it gets out of whack.
"Blaming nature" isn't my read of this. It's simply tracing a source of ignition events.

We already know that much of the Western US is an absolute tinder-box. Absolutely massive historic blazes have been initiated by mowing grass, by catalytic converters on automobiles, by vehicles suffering blowouts and sparks thrown off by the rim, by broken glass. And by many, many lightning strikes.

We're also aware that other power-line related issues have sparked massive wildfires.

That birds are also a concern gives clarity on the problem. This may mean that further monitoring (detecting surge transients and launching rapid fire response or powerline management), or redesigning or retrofiting transmission equipment to reduce risks, is to be considered.

Science moves in very small increments. This increments is "yes, birds do spark some fires".

NB: brush clearing at the scale of remote powerline equipment is all but certainly not viable. Utilities are barely able to keep up with lesser operations such as tree-trimming near lines, and even that with equipment that looks like it came from Dr. Evil's laboratory:

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Pla06PO6Odk
How to get started with machine learning and AI
JavaScript is misunderstood, CSS sucks.
> Another asymmetry is that it's possible to hold scientific and religious beliefs at the same time (thanks to the above), but never two different religions at the same time.

That's not true at all. Religious syncretism is a very old concept, and involves the blending of religions.

There are Catholic Buddhists, for example, and there have been those professing to follow that since around the 1600s. You'll also find many blends of traditional Incan beliefs and Catholicism, despite the surface-level incompatibilities, in South America.

One specific example might be Caodaism, which blends elements of Catholicism, Buddhism, and Taoism. Caodaism has about 2.5Mil followers in Vietnam. One of the core tenants of the religion is that we are now living in a period of time called the Third Amnesty, the end of which will be marked by the syncretism of _all_ religions into one.
It's difficult to get pros to donate work. Even when they do, the work they do can be ... less than perfect ...

In the project that I developed, and turned over to a new team, we finally (after about ten years) got someone who is a professional UX manager/developer to step up, and he's been doing an awesome job.

In my case, my personal motivations run deep. I do a "better than pro" job on all my open source. I'm a passably decent designer and UX guy, so that helps.
Awesome, clear answer. Thanks!
Condemned and uninhabitable houses should be disposed of.
Roundup is an herbicide.
AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) 2.0.1
This is the first I have heard of TipTap, went to the demo and am very enthused about it now! What I don't immediately see is things around serialization. What does your persistence layer look for this? What is your presentation of this serialized data? I'm on the React end of things so I currently serialize to markdown and utilize `react-markdown` to display the contents.
> As an example, Google holds 18 of 39 seats on the Web Assembly Working Group. This means that if they whip their seats, they only need 2 additional votes to pass anything.

That's making big assumption: that decisions are made by votes, and those votes are done purely based on participation.

And they're not. For decisions within the WG, they're normally done by some notion of rough-consensus (frequently, lack of significant dissent); actual votes within most WGs are relatively rare.

For decisions at the W3C level, it is admittedly done by votes, but it's one-Member, one-vote, so in that case all W3C Member are equivalent in power: Google, Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla all have their votes count as one.

This is pretty normal within industrial standards development organisations: voting happens at an organisational level, representing the industrial members, not based on individuals participating from those members. (There certainly are negatives associated with a disproportionate number being from a single organisation, but that's mostly related to disputes in meetings ending up with one individual arguing against ten.)
you can put that on the server with postgres views in supabase
The more the merrier! I haven't tried it yet but I'm stoked there's movement around it. I love the "Rails defaults" convention. I do the same with Avo.

One problem I had with Paddle is that they haven't accepted me in their program. It would be cool if you'd be able to create some kind of partnership and fasttrack that process somehow.

Good luck!
What links do you need?! By definition, GMO crops all come from the same genetic seeds.
That might hide it from the caller, but the function that receives that IntoParam type will still need to explicitly call the conversion function.