skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The iShares S&P 500 ETF has returned about 11.6% annualized over the past ten years. Their Ex-US ETF: 2.8%.

Point being: the third variable no one ever takes into account when considering Buffett's advice: "just invest in broad market indexes" literally only works in the US, and only has worked historically. It's not a coincidence that the US is the youngest developed economy on the planet.

In other words: How high would US stock returns have been if interest rates were near-0% throughout the 1900s? Have interest rate adjusted returns actually decayed in the past ten years? How long before the US stock markets stop behaving "historically" and start behaving "globally"?

I'm not asserting entire bearishness on the us economy. The US is still the nerve center of global finance, software technology, education, retail spending, every economic metric you look at the US leads in. That doesn't disappear. Just that: the story of the next twenty years may be the US financial indicators trending more toward historical global norms.
Switching to a new programming language is very time-expensive, so I would really like to know the advantages of this language over C#, Java, Python etc. What is the motivation. Why not use something that exists, maybe Lisp?
I say, start with the basics. Serve a few static HTML pages and use plain JS to make them a little interactive to find out how DOM manipulation and event triggers/listeners work. Try styling the pages with plain CSS to get a sense of how to use flexbox. I think if you dive straight into something like React, you'll end up being inundated with tooling.
One problem is a lot of things are moving in tandem. So for example, a lot of places are getting hit with very serious seasonal infectious disease, and Australia would have gone through that earlier. So is that delayed effects of postponed care from two years ago, or a rebound in seasonal infectious disease due to who knows what?

There are ways of modeling this all but it's going to be really challenging.
> The sliver of sky observed is about the size of the queen’s eye “on a pound coin held at arm’s length,”

So it can be seen by the naked eye? Granted, not at full resolution, but still, I'd have guessed several orders of magnitude smaller.
The only reason you need an SUV to keep your kids safe is all the other SUVs on the road. It's become a weapons race of ever bigger tanks. This really has to stop sooner or later.
Dark mode is slightly harder to read, but it's preferable to having 4 screens blearing bright white light at me all day.
UML The Good Parts: MSD (Message Sequence Diagrams) and Statecharts (nested FSMs). These two are the only useful parts of the UML, Class Diagrams are only useful for teaching, the rest is useless garbage.

But MSD is still can only describe a very basic behavior. Its only advantage over algorithms is that it’s more visual and adds a notion of a participant/actor.

If we’re talking about notation for describing behavior, then I prefer EventStorming for big picture, and Event Modeling for SW design. BPMN is also interesting, but much more technical and opionated. IMO it’s only useful if you’re already using a BPMN-based orchestration middleware.

Real-life workflows can be very complex, async, unordered, and non-deterministic. Just look at all manual bureaucratic processes that surround our daily life.
> It became the new normal, and the generation that entered Wall St. during this time is now disoriented, for they “do not know a world without cheap money.” [...] Whenever people are humbled by the melting away of things they took for granted, now that’s a topic worth exploring.

I'm trying to figure out parallels and implications for tech jobs.

Where in tech jobs will be first to decide they need to "rediscover the ways of our ancestors", and willing to pay to speed that up.
Pi number calculator in 146 bytes of 8088 machine code
Forgive your imagined mistakes. It was a handicap I chose and controlled, based on a very deep seated mistrust of authority, which led me to avoid taking on a small challenge that millions of other normal kids do all the time. Live and learn.

The 90's counter signal trope of success without school was as misleading as the trope you had to get a degree to amount to anything, which was contemptuous of the generations of working class families who created the culture that produced those institutions. None of it means anything so long as you own it, but it is a different life, literally, a different trajectory by degree.
I have bought almost all of my cars from CarMax in the last decade. Even going into their dealerships in person is not a typical experience. There is no negotiation on price and the only "upsell" was their extended warranty. They are also hemorrhaging money currently and hopefully don't go the way of carvana.
Do you have any favorite episodes you'd recommend starting with?
Here at Buzzard Entertainment, we value "great management." That's why we're planning six months of crunch time in order to lower productivity and reduce code quality while damaging the physical and mental health of our employees. This will, we understand, make it harder to hit our scheduled release date, so make sure to nerd harder so that we can push a barely adequate version of our next game over the finish line!
Whats the way to short binance? Margin trade with their BNC(?) coin as collateral?
> You have to explain yourself and there is the implication that wearing a suit is somehow inappropriate.

If you're the only one wearing a suit, you look overdressed. It's as simple as that.
LMAX and Kraken are similar.
Two strand singlemode already costs far less per meter than ordinary cat6 utp nevermind cat6a or shielded stuff. Copper isn't cheap.
un-habitable for us, as modern human using technology.
We're gonna be fine as a specie. Just not like that.

I think we should welcome it.
Didn’t someone introduce a law a few years ago to require laws to be short enough to be easily readable and/or not voted on before there is a reasonable enough time in which to allow the law to be read/reviewed?
I have rings in both my ears and sleeve tattoos on both arms. What does that say about me?
"Higher EV in that play allowing increased chances to mingle with rich class" means that your intended audience is the actually rich people because you want to mingle with them.
Still people can say "reading manhwa" when they read webtoon. Webtoon is still manhwa. I also say I read 만화 to my friend who read on Naver and Daum, who also often say 만화
> Trigger warnings, implicit bias tests, cultural appropriation, lived experience, micro aggressions and a few others come to mind.

All of those are now part of the public discourse, to the point South Park dedicated a season to it with PC Principal. I don't know whether they've been debunked and fallen out of favor in academia, but they sure are commonly used words today.
> Your attitude would be unthinkable in the UK or the US but is everywhere in German

No, it's the same. I'll just switch to English.

> I can see why communities like Turkish one are often considered as having failed to integrate in Germany

Das ist kulturel bedingt. Duolingo hätte jedenfalls nicht viel geholfen.
The pronunciation is not something I'm disputing. I'm talking about romanization of the Cyrillic alphabet. There are a few established standards, ж is typically zh or ž, and j has common use as a different sound.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Russian

In that table, literally none of the standards cited use j for ж. J is often used for й, or part of я, ю, ё.
Yes, sadly finding people who are willing to admit to knowing ASN.1 and who are willing to work on ASN.1 isn't so easy
True. In Korea, we never say Japanese comics, manga, but just say Japanese manhwa. It is only a generic term for comics/cartoons.
Thanks for posting! I enjoy your work and respect it takes some sort of income to make it worth the emotional-time investment.
It's not a foregone conclusion. Presumably you'll want something to do in retirement.
Libre Arts – Weekly-ish recap – 11 December 2022
> "What if your entire worldview was just because of near-zero interest rates?"

Worldviews typically include who we are, why we're here, what purpose (if any) we have in life, etc. It seems strange to me that someone's worldview could be thoroughly based on interest rates.
I find the manhwa format to be incredibly annoying because you have to scroll excessively thanks to the large gaps between panels.
Fascinating, so we're all fine? Business as usual, just what I wanted to hear.

I knew it deep down, it was all just college kids freaking out like in the 70's.

Silent spring and all that crap. Ha.
A lot of your "problems" are because you've spent years buying "Windows" devices indiscriminately. If you had been buying things that were known to be compatible with Linux, you'd have no problems getting them to work.

You didn't state which distro or package manager you were dealing with but there is a LOT more third-party support for DEB packages than the others, so that may also be why you had problems.
If it's not learning then how can you tell it abstractly why it's code is wrong then have it fix it? Without telling it specifically "change this to this"
Edit: This comment was not accurate
Not only bad English, but regional varieties that I as ESL have trouble understanding, which might formally count as own languages if held against linguistic standards. I just broswed Green's dictionary of slang so I feel I know what I'm talking about.

> As a native English speaker you're constantly hearing people speak bad English, so you're naturally somewhat desensitized

Reading middle and old English, I feel the onus is on you because it changed so much :')
The first option reminds me of the Netflix show 3%.
Ask HN: What practice by a tech team pisses you off to your core?
Mine is small startups letting devs push code on Friday afternoon. What's yours?
From an energy perspective, gas is a pretty terrible battery. It's 25% efficient for a car to discharge, and currently very inefficient to synthesize. EVs on the other hand are over 90% efficient for charging and discharging. Gas is energy dense, but it's hard to imagine quadrupling vehicle energy consumption being a good idea. For uses like airplanes and trans-oceanic boats, carbon captured gas might be the best zero emissions option, but for anything where a battery works, you would never go back to gas.
Slower props are usually larger diameter though aren't they? That to a large extent would offset the tipspeed gains by using a lower RPM. Or do they run slower props at a steeper root angle (more 'bite')?
Re dream interpretation:

Dreams are an idiolect -- a dialect of one person. The symbology in it has meaning to them based on their life experiences and much of it cannot be meaningfully guessed if you don't know the story behind the symbology.

This means it can be useful to keep a dream journal, say, in therapy to try to figure out what you really think about your life when no one else is around. It's generally much, much less useful to hear what other people think of what you dreamed. (There are exceptions.)

Re astrology/tarot/fortune telling:

The stock in trade of most fortune tellers is asking good leading questions and thereby getting the client to tip them off as to what kind of feedback you are hoping for. Whatever advice they give you is only as "wise" as the person giving it and in most cases has little to do with what the cards/stars/tea leaves/whatever supposedly say.
What is in a modern code editor?
I just found out about ChatGPT a few days ago. I tested it out by asking it to answer some stack overflow questions which I had answered myself on SO. In every case, ChatGPT worded responses in a much simpler/clearer way than I’d done myself. Really amazing stuff.
Good point, but at the end of the day it's still ultimately a political problem.
It's one thing to try and figure out the world. It's another to start with an ideological outlook and try to make the world fit that. To the extent people in academia and social science do that, it's a problem, because then it gets presented as scientific. Whatever the political slant might happen to be. Science isn't about how we want the world to be. Same with history. And yes, both right and left can be guilty of this.
I believe it is. Somewhere it's said that Y Combinator had plans to fund exactly such kind of project.
Btw I think you are describing "adverse selection"
I’d say that’s normal (studies being one-dimensional). The idea being to isolate as many complications as possible to get at the heart of one single matter.

I didn’t read the study itself, but usually the scientists (if they aren’t pushing an agenda) are aware of the limitations of their studies. It’s the people reporting and commenting on those studies that extrapolate unwarranted conclusions and generalizations from them.
On my view of the main disadvantages of go (however overall I find the language is quite good by itself), stopping me from using it in full, is it's very verbose language , where one need to write a lot of code for really simple things ... while in many other languages this always the case of few lines of code ... it get's tiring very fast ...
The first couple of responses seemed a bit dismissive and impolite to me. Quickly remedied by a courteous and professional response by Richard Hipp.

I'm talking about things like, "You should not expect this to get a lot of attention on a Sunday. That's a slow day here.". I didn't see anything in the initial post that implied OP was expecting an immediate answer. And then the snarky, "This missing return makes me think you dislike or ignore warnings, which makes me want to eagle-eye your code more closely.".

I don't know, maybe I'm reading more into that than I should.
This has already been done, for instance: https://www.reddit.com/r/WeirdWings/comments/6wch9q/narushev...
What about for discounting the false positives of objects which may be "closer in the mirror than they appear" ?

I would have thought the differential to movement and the accuracy of a 2AU baseline was meaningful there. And occultation, both of which comes from study of other objects of known distance, which are within the limits of resolution for a 2AU baseline. I believe the GAIA mission pushed to 10-6 arcsec. I can't find a more recent limit online, love to know what it is. (copied from https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/t/trigonometric+paralla...)
The tests don't prevent bugs, but they do make fixes a lot faster to get out, since you can be confident your fix doesn't break any functionality.
I believe Texas is like this as well [1].

https://eforms.com/rental/tx/texas-standard-residential-leas...
> Of course unrealized gains won't be taxable, but they can't be spent either.

They can be spent if you have a low interest LOC at a bank backed by your assets like stocks.
> Sadly, the number of people who will actually run for the exit is much, much smaller.

Doesn't matter as long as the number is growing. As it grows, more people will tell others that they switched and it's better. It's slow to start but eventually it becomes unstoppable. I think Microsoft will keep the business desktop but they will lose the home desktop. When that happens, Eventually, games won't even be made for Windows anymore, like Macs today.
In that case I think you want something that will 'vulcanize' with the material in the gasket, rather than being adhered... I don't know if that's feasible for your exact material but I know there are methods of rubber patching that are more akin to welding than glueing.
> This also implies the drawback of doing it this way: The UCC is created by private entities and then legislatures are pressured to adopt it as-is "for uniformity" even though they were the ones elected to set government policy and not the drafters of the UCC.

The schoolhouse rock version of how a bill becomes law is basically pure fiction at this point. Certainly at the federal level I'm not sure a single so-called legislator is competent to draft a bill. Occasionally they will have their staff draft some showboat bill that will likely never even pass committee, but almost all the bills that become law are drafted by some interest group or other, who then hire lobbyists to find a "legislator" willing to rubber stamp it.

It's surprising that it's not more of a well known fact that the USA isn't even remotely a real popularly representative democracy, given how completely obvious it is to all but the most casual observer. Princeton even published a study on the subject[1].

[1] https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...
Not all distros are created equal. Not sure what the best is in this regard but Pop!_OS seems to handle video card drivers well. It has worked well for me.
Yeah, I took issue with that as well.

To be fair, I’d say they’re both easy to see. However, given a daytime silhouette vs. a bright light at night, the silhouette has many other blobs competing for attention.
How can a person be this consistently lame and unfunny? It is truly beyond science.
It was nearly 12 years from Diablo 2 to Diablo 3, and they didn't have to deal with a pandemic.

I don't think waiting another year for Diablo 4 will be the end of the world.

Though I'd like to see a WarCraft 4 someday too.
Thanks for the feedback. I've updated the game to exclude individual strokes and single-stroke radicals from the character similarity search. I thought it would be interesting to drill all the way down to individual strokes, but it more often than not causes confusion and reveals too much of the target characters.
> but it makes me feel like the millions of tests sound better than they are in reality

What it should make you wonder is if software as well-tested as SQLite still has bugs like this, how much worse is the situation in software with fewer tests?
Within the limits of the prompt length that it can handle, it includes the prior history of the conversation as part of the prompt.

(Arguably, you could say it is “learning” but the learning is limited to the same conversation, with a very sharply limited depth.)
I have astigmatism too. Dark mode is a bit blurrier, but at least I can't see my floaters.
That's so many 100w bulbs, do you wear sunglasses indoors or soemthing? Very interesting.
I was a little surprised to see some lawyers at a recent medium-sized company who had tattoos. And not just small butterflies.
The UK actually has some of that (pumped storage, mostly). But not enough to last long enough.
Any functionality that is tested :)
It's unlikely even Coinbase will survive: they lost $1.1 billion with a B in Q2 and $545M in Q3. Their trading fees are well known to be far higher than the competition (because they can't juice their numbers by gambling), so they rely on unsophisticated mass investors who don't know any better, but those investors are wisely staying the hell away from crypto right now.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-28904-x

Proposes that black on white text stimulates a pattern of expression in visual system that may contribute to myopia:

> Using optical coherence tomography (OCT) in young human subjects, we found that the choroid, the heavily perfused layer behind the retina in the eye, becomes about 16 µm thinner in only one hour when subjects read black text on white background but about 10 µm thicker when they read white text from black background. Studies both in animal models and in humans have shown that thinner choroids are associated with myopia development and thicker choroids with myopia inhibition. Therefore, reading white text from a black screen or tablet may be a way to inhibit myopia, while conventional black text on white background may stimulate myopia.
Absolutely, I feel like most CI systems are much harder to configure than necessary.

If I were to build my own CI system, then it would have these features.

- Simple config format, ideally flat and not nested, so maybe toml.

- Ability to run any step, task, job, pipeline locally. It should be possible to do something like `ci run -t build` and have it execute the build task locally. This would greatly help with building CI pipelines and make it possible to just use the CI tool as the local build tool as well instead of having to essentially setup the same thing twice.

- Easy to self host, so not a million micro-services, but just one (or max 3) executable.

- Modular, it should be possible to extend it with plugins using webassembly or containers. Look at how Concourse CI does this for ideas.

Edit: I would pay for a license to something like that, maybe not a lot but I could justify up to $200 as a once off for a self-hosted solution like that if it's well made.
I had not heard about the donating to charity. Very interesting and tax efficient, but worth noting that you cant make money with it (you are still donating far more than you are saving in taxes).
The attractiveness of webtoons is that it can be read on the mobile phone screen without too much zooming in. Manga's format has to change because it is a pain to be read on the phone.
> No one reads the terms of service. Lawmakers want to fix that with 'TLDR' bill

Also and ironically, many bills aren't read by lawmakers. Maybe they're sympathetic.
I’d say it’s a religious issue for both groups. There are people on both sides of the fence who just want to use what’s comfortable (or use both situationally), and be left alone about it. Then there are those in both camps who want to convert others…
> away from the super fucked category and placed into a more reasonable one

So, we're reasonably fucked.
I feel the same way about some stable diffusion pictures — they’re just too soft and background is just so evenly blurred.

Someone should make a game where you are presented with pairs of images, one “real”, one generated and you need to pick which one is “real”
The alternative to monetary policy isn’t necessarily fiscal policy. The current situation seems to be a combination of fiscal (demand side) problems [0] and supply problems. Congress can, slowly, address supply problems. The Fed can only usefully affect the demand side.

As examples that have come up, various shipping laws make shipping expensive. Energy should be cheap to improve economic output, but energy prices are quite high, especially in places like CA. Medical services, drugs, and drug development are wildly expensive and inefficient, and government policies help keep them that way. Various environmental laws, while well intentioned, raise costs of all kinds of things while providing little or even negative environmental benefit [1].

[0] Hello, Covid stimulus policies.

[1] As an example in California, water is quite useful, and desalinating water is not fundamentally particularly expensive. But so many environmental groups have veto power over desalination that the cost of large scale desalination might as well be infinite. Never mind that CA has plenty of coastline, plenty of solar resources near the coast, and plenty of valuable goods that could be produced if cheap solar power and reasonably priced water were actually available. And never mind that actual peoples’ actual living expenses (hello, inflation!) would be reduced if their utility bills, their restaurants’ utility bills, etc weren’t so high.
Tether falling is going to make FTX look like a hiccup.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRO
It sounds like you have experience with Fossil; is it that "YOU can hide those commits" meaning you can omit them if you don't get value from them, or is it that "you can HIDE those commits" meaning "UPDATE commit SET hidden = true" so everyone in this "git push --mirror" world also benefits from you declaring the commits to be "of little value"?
> They have the ability to easily create tens of millions of dollars as needed based on their BNB reserves

Sounds like a huge red flag.
Contractor we use says they’ve got a 1-2 year lead time and very busy schedules. Who knows, maybe that’ll drop off in a few years