skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm getting increasingly agitated by this claim that rates were irresponsibly low over the prior decade. It's honestly shocking to me that so many people who should know better are even making this claim because I feel it's misleading people like yourself to believe there is some responsible level for interest rates.

The truth is were rates not "low" the US would have probably have entered a period of either extremely slow growth, recession or out-right deflation over the last decade. Reason being there is such a thing as the neutral rate of interest which is basically the interest rate require to keep inflation at a constant pace if you go above or below that inflation is likely to start increasing or decreasing.

What central bankers are basically trying to do is keep core inflation somewhere around 2-3% so the value of money is stable, but it also doesn't pay to horde cash. Then when you get to that 2% target you want to try to keep rates around the neutral rate of interest to remain at that 2% inflation target.

This idea that I suspect you're heard that interest rates were "ultra low" assumes that there is some normal rate of interest which there isn't - the average rate is different for different economies. The appropriate interest rate simply depends on the economic conditions - specifically growth trends. As real economic growth slows interest rates will naturally need to fall which is why they have been trending down in the US and other developed economies for decades now.

Now where I think people are specifically going wrong here is that there is no dangerous or irresponsible level for interest rates. What's dangerous about interest rates isn't the level, but the change. For example were interest rates closer to 5% over the last decade then they suddenly shot up to 20% in 2022, that isn't any better than what we see today. Because what matters here isn't the specific rate of interest, but how affordable debt is and that affordability can only be assessed in a relative manner.

So where mistakes are made imo is in excessively sharp cuts to interest rates followed by excessive hikes. I'd argue that yes, what's been happening since Covid has been so extremely irresponsible it's almost beyond belief. But if you're going to claim interest rates were "low" you need to explain what you mean. Do you mean relative to the neutral rate or relative to what they were during a pervious period in time when economic conditions were completely different? The former is a valid conversation to have, the latter simply asserts that the historic average, or the rate at some specific point in time is the correct rate for today which is an argument that holds little merit.
It might be your social cycles, or communities you are most attached to online.

People around me read, write, go to cinema and watch movies with commentary, paint, play sports, build legos and doing all kind of interesting things.

I personally draw and paint, am learning piano, practice photography, read, write, take various classes as a hobby and probably something else that does not appear as something special. Zero interest of changing career into any of those things, as I enjoy my long, more than 20 years, career in software, and do not see any reasons to switch fields.

When I was growing up it was called being well-rounded person. My observation about some folks around who are younger than me is that there are a lot of them who are a bit more shallow and not really interested in going broad and explore things around, I can relate to it thought, as it is really hard to be dedicated in this ocean of information we have now.

On the other hand I know non-trivial number of 20-25 year olds who traveled more than me, or have more hobbies or do more than one thing well and are dedicated to learning and self-development. Although, most of them are from privileged families, by at least the fact of being California based, or in extreme cases having parents that are doing really well.
Ah, I've never worked anywhere that uses Teams. In recent years, it's been mostly Slack and Google, with Microsoft products mainly used if you need the full power of Excel or if you need to exchange files with other organizations by email.
> that was literally front page news and was an incredibly unusual event.

My point wasn't about the specific case (obviously multiple horrific murders are not a common occurrence), I meant the general milieu of drug addiction, law-breaking, prostitution; the disgustingly dirty slum conditions that people lived in - all of which was accompanied by police corruption and brutality.

Naturally none of this is popular to bring up in front of Swedes nowadays.

As I see that the downvote of my Swedish-negative comments speaks volumes about how much you guys value freedom of expression.
> Looks like there s no shortage of good ideas to generate energy but how do we store it

The nice thing about solar and wind together is that they are complimentary - wind usually starts to pick up right when solar starts to fall off. Here is a helpful dashboard from ERCOT in Texas: https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards/combinedwindand.... Usually what happens is that when the sun starts to go down, winds starts to pick up. This was critical when we had near-capacity conditions this summer when it got so hot.
Thank you for all these details! You confirm my suspicion, which is that the pirate scene has a lot of really valuable knowledge built up from years of using codecs in a very practical way.
> people mostly trust that the items they can purchase won't harm them

The state of California has made it abundantly clear that practically everything you can purchase there will harm you.
A professor I had had a pretty good solution. Give homework, but only make it 5% of the score for the class. A couple of quizzes are 5% each, and the midterm + final are the remaining 85%. That way, if a student needs the structure, they get it, and on the other hand if a student is able to ace the tests without doing the busywork, they can still get their A or A+. The instructor also then gets lots of input points throughout the term.

Some students (particularly those who spent lots of time on the HW but didn't do well on the tests) found this unfair, but I think it teaches an important lesson: that you don't get credit for trying. Your performance actually matters.
> are not planning on selling in the next 10 years or more.

Most people don't plan on selling their house when they buy it. Life usually forces you into the situation.
Every word but the marked words, you can see an example of one being solved in this video.

https://youtu.be/da0GyuwaY_Y
Author here -- it is "free" in the sense that all the effort we put into DataFusion flows directly into IOx. But we do put a lot of effort into DataFusion
> Real estate IS A LONG TERM investment, not day trading.

US history over the last 3 decades suggests otherwise.
Yes, I think 4% is still relatively low and a good rate. I would probably take out the loan to have that money invested in the market or bonds.
yea, i just like reading articles about people falling 15,000 feet from the sky.
I evaluated InfluxDB with the Prometheus Kube Stack chart.

It didn’t really work.

I’m not stupid and I can read docs.

My feeling was it’s like Elastic. Default configuration is so flawed and inscrutable, on purpose, you can forget about using it yourself.

I use Thanos now. At least it fucking works.

I suppose if I need fast queries, I’ll use Postgres.

You guys need to focus on making stuff that works. It’s competitive out there and you don’t have the insights into people who try and wind up hating your guts for being annoying.
It's a bit of both. We discriminate with regards to groups, but the measure of crime shifts quickly. Drugs or sexual orientations become legal or illegal. Killing is legal or illegal depending on whether it is performed in an approved way. Certain types of non-consensual genital mutilation are legal, others illegal. States tend to clash when their conception of justice differ too much. There are foundational concepts that most legal systems seem to share to provide stability, but for anything more complex there are always exceptions. The right to pollute, employment relationships, defamation etc. as soon as you move away from basic disorder removal it becomes more and more relative.
Wood and peat will not meet the energy demands of a society on par with current western society, no matter how small. And I believe that you underestimate the amount of effort to recover natural gas today.
> I usually take much more longer to known what to write in those damns forms "Why you want to work here?" usually takes me at least 20 minutes to write.

I think this is only worth doing for companies you REALLY want to work at. for the other 95% just write a mostly generic two paragraph response and swap out the company name and your passion for the specific problem they are solving
$7GBP/yr for 5 kettles per day, every day. (Electicity is cheap in UK!)

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i2d=true&i=+3Divide%5BkW%...
I love the inherent contradiction of the existence of HOAs. Americans love freedom and small government so much, they have to invent a worse and more invasive replacement.
Video of it being played:

https://youtu.be/da0GyuwaY_Y
My personal top priority is no Jira or other project management software, no standups, no sprints.

Not because these are annoyances in the sense of feeling like I have an Office Space job.

It's because I have a certain psychology of how I work where I thrive and overperform when I feel I have space. I lose engagement and shut down when I feel micro-observed, -managed, -scheduled. I admittedly have a much more sensitive threshold than most people for feeling discomfort from these, and need more space to thrive. But it's who I am. I can't help that it makes a world of difference to my performance and engagement. I've tried to adjust, it doesn't work.

I love my job when it involves the process of fluidly deciding what to do on a given day, balancing fires, deadlines, maintenance, new functionality, ideas I woke up with, etc. And also I'll choose how to communicate rather than fill out rote status reports or go to rote meetings. I enjoy communicating when it's at its natural cadence and level rather than driven by process.

I shut down when I have to represent tasks or resolve them with project management metadata and process.

It's not that slowing down annoys me, it takes away a kind of agency that's necessary for me to have. When I don't have it, my job is a stressful thing that I only do for the paycheck. I can't over perform in that headspace and then it starts a spiral where doing average work makes me feel bad about my career and myself.

I also don't understand how people feel true ownership of systems when their work is carved up in tickets and sprint boundaries. I see so many things falling through the cracks because people do the minimum that Jira tells them to do. Or some common sense important change doesn't get made because it's no one's job to do what needs to be done to keep something working well, only to respond to tickets.

Maybe not everyone can be expected to perform well with full trust of ownership, maybe most can't, but others can only perform well that way. The most important development of my career has been learning my own personal psychology of work.

It's a tragedy that we expect everyone to work and communicate in the same set of processes rather than optimize based on the diversity of individual psychology. And I get that this is high maintenance and not scalable for a huge org. But these days even small companies have the cargo cult behavior of adopting the process they see at large companies.
> You need not intend for your actions to be malicious, for them to be. If you are willfully ignorant of malicious consequences of your actions, your actions are still malicious.

I think this is almost the same point as parent, albeit slightly askew from that one.

The hint is in your use of the word “willfully” — that is, you know what you are doing will result in harm, and you choose to do it anyway.

A difference is that “intending to harm” may be a differently intractable behavior because it is effectively sadism. That is a tighter reward loop than “pretending it doesn’t harm” which can just be avoidance.

Of course whether or not you can ever learn which of those (if it isn’t both) you’re dealing with is an entirely different matter.

We agree on the tiger, though I do wonder what she would say if she could explain her actions.
The US is not the only country raising interest rates. It's happening in developed countries worldwide.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/central-banks-raise-r...
Square sells access to your inbox. No one seems to know if the law cares
When I was job hunting the last time I filled out so many forms that my auto fill values in my browser(s) were just jacked beyond repair.

I just deleted them all and let the browser re-memorize them.

Somehow all the same and yet not same form fields just messed up the browsers I used.
InfluxDB IOx, the new core of the db written in Rust, built with ApacheArrow
Forget about all of that. Have you seen this thing? The WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) is going to be near zero on this one.
If house prices drop because of interest rates affordability remains constant.

They only become "more affordable" if you have money to buy without a mortgage. So if you're saying they're more affordable to the rich, sure. But I assume you mean the average home buyer.
> You absolutely can ban them from working at at a competitor at the same time.

How?
Not only that, new listings are down YoY while inventory continues to grow. That's a bad combination if you want prices to continue to go up.

There's so many predictions but my take is simple, the only thing for sure is that prices are not going up anytime soon again.

I'm still renting as I moved around a lot for jobs. I've saved hundreds of thousands of dollars, and intend to strike in 2023. I'm still looking for deals in the meanwhile, but most of these sellers are bitter that the market from even at ~5% in the summer is gone. And by and large the buyers disappeared in March in my region.

At a certain point, prices do have to match the cost of borrowing money. That's the trap of cheap loans. Those that got ~3% loans are stuck in whatever home they chose without a loss. They can't sell because most used that cheap money to pay ahead on decades of gains. Finding a sucker at 7%+ is going to be impossible, because short-term minded people simply don't have the money or means. And there's only so many generous and wealthy fathers to go around. Even those dads or investors don't want to take a risk in a market that hasn't bottomed out yet.

Once again, as always, cash is king.
When I lived in Denver, our data center would sometimes have HVAC trouble because cottonwood tree seeds would clog up the fins of the roof-top heat exchangers. They look like white fluff and some years would cover lawns looking like a light dusting of snow. The worst year, the fins were covered (on one side) with a solid white felt that clogged the fins enough to cause the HVAC to blow circuit breakers and shut down our data center (which was mostly a DR site for other branches of the corporation).
Putting all the current context aside, do you feel like 'big tech' does censor republicans?
Check for Maxine VM [1][2] project.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine_Virtual_Machine

[2] https://maxine-vm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Is kottke.org operated by Daniel Kottke?
> just send them to the hiring manager

Yes, please do. Spotting odd patterns in CVs is a good skill. Even with lots of garbage being funneled my way. The clearly hopeless or flat-out misplaced applications indeed do get rejected in seconds.

For one role I was hiring earlier this year, I noted how a few [recruiter fed] CVs had a striking similarity. Same set of skills in the exact same order. Same wording in the skill descriptions. All coming from the same geographic region. After the third I wrote a remark about the CVs looking either plagiarised or coming off of a weird template. Mentioned the similarity explicitly on the fourth one, with a slightly acidic comment about clearly being a wrong fit for the role.

Never saw a fifth one.
And a Word document is not running arbitrary code at all. Is running the code that was programmed in it. As for if that code gets to run at all, that depends on the configuration of the system. Do run it using a user that has no access to write/delete files and you'll see that the most malicious macro is benign.
It is a "stick and carrot" situation, that is the way I read the article. The higher the moral and emotional barriers there are, the more furniture and vegetables are required.

To your comment, that stick is required at all is kinda +1 for humanity.
I am highly skeptical.

The amount of energy you can extract from the wind is a function of swept area for a conventional wind turbine. I don't see how this is going to be much different, even if it is incredibly efficient. "swept area" in the video is, what, around 6 square meters? So about the same as a wind turbine of 1.9m in diameter. If it has the same efficiency, we're talking about maybe 1600W maximum.

The design may, or may not be good and dependable, and may, or may not require less maintenance than a conventional wind turbine.

But a lot of the problem is mounting it on a roof. There's a reason why the commercial units are being built bigger and bigger, and higher and higher. The higher up you go, the more steady and strong the wind becomes. At rooftop level, a lot of the wind is blocked by trees and buildings.

So I don't care how good the turbine design is, mounting it on a roof isn't a great solution for generating much power.
Oh, fuck - I had a good run I guess: I love Gitea, but this seems like a change for the worse.

I think there's an open source trap where successful projects see their adoption numbers, and billion-dollar companies using their projects and think "We're leaving money on the table" (which IMO is the whole point of libre software).

Unfortunately, this is the path to weird software licenses, open-core / community-edition product splits and a whole host that makes the software less useful to me as an individual user and occasional contributor. Besides, Gitea won't be able to make much out of individuals like me, so their roadmap will likely favor paying customers. I can guarantee that it will be too bloated to run on a Raspberry Pi Zero like I have it today, which means I'd have to choose something else.

I also suspect that switching to a for-profit company will decrease the number of volunteer contributions, after all following the same big idea that led to incorporation: who wants to work for free when someone else is making the money?

The good news about F/OSS is I have started my countdown to a community fork. After all, Gitea itself is a fork -it is the circle of life.

Edit: I forgot they are trying to pay contributors with some web3 scheme, perhaps to try and solve the inherent hypocrisy. But the cure may be worse than the disease because it further complicates the process of contributing to the project and reduces maintainer focus on actual product. Just give me pull-requests.
> It can't be a winning strategy.

The Fed is independent in the sense that monetary policy and related decisions are made autonomously and are not subject to approval by the federal government. However, its governors are appointed by the President and must be confirmed by Congress. (citation: investopedia)

In parallel, when you're running the government, ideally you're running for the long-term well being of the country...
A new spin on the perceptions, procedures, and principles of flight
I similarly bought about a year ago with a similar interest rate, closing just a month or two before rates started climbing.

The house isn’t the most amazing thing out there, just a run of the mill mass built suburb house, but it’s such a huge upgrade over the apartments I had been living in and the payment is much lower than the rent I had been paying, and more importantly it’s mostly static (no increase to brace for impact for each year), so for now I’m pretty happy to be “stuck” with it.
Python 3.11 is faster than 3.8
I agree about the over reach part. I am not an Apple apologist at all and agree with others that when device growth stalls (it will) and then services growth stalls (it will) Apple when then really start its ads push and a further push into getting it's 30% tribute on all app purchases.

But, This isn't yet a stretch into all ad spend - I do think Apple will go there too eventually.

In practice Apple is saying paying to boost an organic post is in effect an "in app purchase". They are correct. The purchase happens in the Facebook "blue" app. I actually haven't seen or done it with a boosted post but that is what Apple is saying. You post something via the Facebook "blue" app...get a notice that it's been seen by a few people, so pay a bit to get it seen by more and all of that is done via that one app....so an "in app purchse".

Regular ads are done with the Ads Manager app....a separate app from the Facebook "blue" app. So, ads themselves are not yet subject to this 30% bounty. Again I haven't done it on the app but in the web ads manager you can boost a post from there too so likely you can in the Ads Manager app...not sure though. If you can then you avoid the 30%. I suspect most if not all small businesses, etc have no idea what Ads Manager is or are not very familiar with it.

I have a particular disdain for the app store generally so I don't like this at all. But, you can see where Apple has been and will go...force everything to an app instead of mobile web browser (by nerfing webkit on iOS) than force 30% tribute on "purchases".

I have no idea how this escapes any anti trust scrutiny, especially compared to what M$FT did with IE back in the day and got dinged for it.
Are you serious? How long do you need this title to be?
This happened in 1963. Planes had only been flying for 60 years at that point; it really is pretty amazing how quickly we progressed on technology during those early years. We still fly 737s, which are descended from a design that first flew in 1967. As well as the C130, which was part of this story. And don't get me started on B-52s, which are even older.

We have made great strides since then, of course, but it does feel like 90% of the fundamental aviation technology we have today was created just in the first few decades.
From what I've seen it does not move. In my area winds come from the north and east, so it would work one direction but not the other. Also, how does the wind channel into the main duct?
I don't have enough comments to be able to downvote, so it's not me and it's far from certain that it's a Swede. This is a forum very few people from here frequent.
The company has not yet provided any real numbers. I want to know how much electricity is generated at a specific wind speed. The lack of this most basic number leads me to believe this isn't as good as it sounds.
There is not much good in making the data public. For example, information about salary helps scammers to pick "fat" victims. A perfect victim is someone in their 60s-70s who had a good salary once and probably has savings. The crime rate might be low in Sweden but this information can be used by foreign scammers.

Also this information can be useful for foreign spies (for example to find employees of companies doing work for defence).
Not exactly what you're thinking of, but Stirling engines and thermoacoustics can be made from scrap and convert solar energy into electricity.
These are still negative regulations (don't do this), which are fundamentally different than the COVID vaccine regulations.

A comparable analogy would be mandating, under penalty of legally enforced isolation, that you eat a certain amount of vegetables per unit of body weight.