skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s really not though. This comparison is just a bad way to think about things. We have plenty of well established financial ratios that tell you something useful about an org. This is not one of them.

Interest expense hits net income. Actual debt payments do not. The ratio is out of whack if you didn’t make a profit last year or had a tiny profit.

What are we actually trying to identify here? Insolvency? Leverage? Long term Credit risk? If you tried to present this as evidence for anything you’d get kicked out the door by someone who knows what they’re doing.

Maybe they took on a ton of new debt. That is interesting! But the way you explore the salience of that fact is not by comparing the next year’s debt payment to the last year’s net income…
Dart / Flutter & deep dive into Rails hotwire
I believe Discord and Telegram may fill in the gap. WhatsApp is kind of personal, where you communicate with your real world friends.
Do you still do that routine with the 850nm LED? I tried it but I don't think it did anything for me.
Loom has zero impact on client, sure. But I disagree that async is better for client. It makes it much harder to debug and track issues.
My guess is such a study would end up recommending what is already known to be good for our health. Yet most people refuse to do it because it takes effort. Exercise your body and your mind. Keep your weight in check. Don't smoke. Don't drink much. Eat a variety of foods and avoid junk food. Once you've done those, then maybe there is some supplement that might squeeze out a little more benefit.

It reminds me of cycling "weight weenies" -- people who obsess every gram on their bike frame, eg spending 3x for their caliper brakes because it uses an alloy that saves 20g. Yet most of them are 30 lbs/15kg overweight. They should lose the weight and only then worry about a few hundred grams from their bike frame. Additionally, losing that weight would pay all sorts of dividends unrelated to biking.
No, inflation is not the same thing as increasing the money supply.

Increasing the money supply is one of the many things that can cause inflation. But to thing it is the only factor is overly simplistic, sort of Laffer-curve-esque. In that it makes a lot of sense in an economics 101 class but the reality is a lot more complex.

For example, if you double the money supply tomorrow but most of that extra money ends up in the bank accounts of the richest people in the world, it will have little effect on the price of avocados, for example. Rich people aren't buying more avocados because now they have $100m instead of $50m. But you can bet you would start to see inflation for yachts, private air

In other words, money supply only affects inflation in as much as it affects supply and demand.
That still doesn’t make bootcamps a red flag. Also, there are many self-taught programmers who complete a bootcamp just to gain confidence, make connections, etc.
It’s all about risk profiles. The failure of a bridge or an airplane is catastrophic and people will die. If a SaaS provider is down for awhile, people are frustrated.
I can recommend Apple Fitness+ because I believe they only offer exercises which seem highly vetted not to hurt you.

Biggest issue is that they don't offer long term training plans but everything is a la carte (and a bit repetitive because they always structure every video with the exact same overarching monolog).
Blind-XSS-Manager: Chrome Extension for Managing Injected Blind XSS Payloads
The Kalman filter. I felt like I understood it watching some videos but it always turned out I didn't really understand it well enough to put it to use or explain it to others.

Gaining a better understanding ultimately just took a lot of time playing with the equations and understanding how measurement and process noise/uncertainty get incorporated into the Kalman gain, and how that in turn affects the updated state estimate - e.g if you have zero noise in the measurement, you end up fully trusting your measurement. This tutorial [1] is the one I ended up studying. This is a case where memorizing the equations (with the help of Anki) helped me reflect on them and keep everything in my head long enough to improve my understanding.

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~welch/media/pdf/kalman_intro.pdf
You think that's cool? You should check out secret Ogham. Last section of the Auraicept Na Neces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auraicept_na_n-%C3%89ces

https://archive.org/details/auraicept00calduoft
Avoiding jobs that use [this/that os/dx] is not immature at all, it's reasonable. What's immature is joining a [this os] shop and demand to get a machine with [that os] and start to convert the team "to the right path" with a condescending attitude.
Linux hide processes from other users and ps command
I call those lockdown tests and they're a smell. You don't want to dictate the implementation, just the inputs and outputs. The former leads to very brittle code, the latter describes and validates the contract. It's also important where you put the logic of the test in the code base when you have multiple layers. This latter part is harder and system dependent.

In many cases mocks are now over used where previously they were important in say 2008. Especially now with languages that support functions as objects, better generics, and other features which weren't common a while back. Likewise frameworks are and languages are generally way more testable now which means you're doing less backflips like static injecting wrappers for DateTime.now into libraries to make tests work. This further allows more contract and less implementation specific testing.

As with most things there is a lot of nuance/art to doing it well and smoothly
That's a good point!

I think the point is 40wpm allows you to code. If you wrote at 10 lines per day, 80 char per line works out to 0.0333wpm.

You'll forget what you're doing by the time get a word out.

As in once you hit 40wpm you won't be slowed by your typing as you try to code.

(WPM is characters per minute over 5, i.e. assumes average word is 5 chars long).
Neither. I am daily driving Librem 5, with Pinephone as a backup. Works well for me.
Working with others.

Really.

I was super annoyed and insanely annoying to work with for years.

Then I understood that difference is hard to cope with, but more often than not, good. As it trades some short term efficiency to long term one.

Same with your output. If it is dumbed down to a level everyone can understand it, you really learned it.
> 4. You can't A/B test a farm (yet)

This is done all the time. When evaluating a new seed variety, a different seed spacing, a new nitrogen application, farmers will do a test plot next to the control. If things looks good then they'll expand the new change to more acreage.
> The other Android-based operating systems that do allow users to relock the bootloader

If you relock the bootloader with a third-party OS, won't you still fail SafetyNet since the signing key won't be the one that Google blessed for that phone?
which of the many Ontological Arguments?

(eg Gödel's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel%27s_ontological_proof#Ou... is an exercise in order theory, in which one proves that a certain axiomatically presented mathematical structure has to have a maximum, which then, for the religiously inclined, could be identified with God)
One of Joel Spolsky’s most coherent blog posts was called “Fire and Motion” and talks about how velocity != progress. We are often moving really fast in a big circle.
I think there’s a good argument to be made that lots of companies doing bad things and taking bad risks socialize their failure, thus learning nothing except they can get away with it again on the publics dime. Being too big to fail is an added bonus. How is the public better off in that scenario? Regulation can act as a bandaid but there is always another loophole to exploit.
> 4. You can't A/B test a farm (yet)

Pretty sure you can subdivide a farm however you want and use different methods across them. Iteration cycles are in the year time frame but otherwise seems pretty easy to test whatever you want.
Convict Conditioning is hands down the simplest, shortest, and most densely packed book on callisthenics I’ve ever read.

It explains how to work out your whole body and increase the load via harder workouts instead of increasing just reps.

E.g. how to go from kneeling push-ups all the way to one arm push-ups.

Great follow-up is The Naked Warrior by Pavel Tsatsoulin
Regarding b̶l̶o̶c̶k̶c̶h̶a̶i̶n̶ Web3: look at the fundamentals that could go beyond tokens et al:

- Identity/U2F/2FA: it is time to use private keys instead of credit cards, instead of redundant KYC/AML processes, etc. A new level of identity beyond the Googles, Metas, and Apples.

- Custody: it is time to have more methods to handle the custody of your identity and data that goes beyond crypto. For example, mechanisms that takes into account divorce, deaths, kidnapping, and other use cases.

- TSS/multi-party-computation: we need more of this, currently there is no up to date open source fully audited state-of-the-art libraries for this in several programming languages. See [1]

- Data privacy: computing private information without reveling it. More coopetition. Personally talking with big pharma companies and interested on this, the limitation is politics, not technology.

- b̶y̶z̶a̶n̶t̶i̶n̶e̶ ̶f̶a̶u̶l̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶l̶e̶r̶a̶n̶c̶e̶ blockchain technologies for connecting different organizations. A hub for real cooperation purposes.

- Declarative smart contracts to quickly orchestrate processes between organizations.

- Fully backed stable coins to push fintech beyond the power of the banks. Mostly regulated. Banks are slowly opening buggy APIs, we need a good global fintech hub.

[1] https://github.com/rdragos/awesome-mpc
Wow. I feel incredibly targeted by that list.
Isn't this what substack is? Substack writers making huge money. Even non-famous people getting hundreds of paying subs.
Exploiting Unpatched Vulnerability in TP-Link WR940N V6 Router
Not as stressful as reporting to bosses all your life and waiting for the annual review and promotions.
The practical problem is resource scarcity. We're already destroying our only planet with 7 billion people living only 72 years on average. If we manage to get through the problems we've already created, it'll be a miracle, and it is safe to say that without a lot of other problems besides longevity being solved, there is zero chance that a significantly larger population would make it.

The problem is not resource scarcity, it's pollution. For example, Americans pollute far more than Indian, despite having a smaller population.
No specific one comes to mind, but normally the comments move my position, not flip it on its head. This is most effectively done by the poster giving an example of something I didn’t know about along with a link to a primary resource.
Python is older. The article is based on bad data. I'm seeing a lot of growth and rekindled interest in Java thanks to latest innovations such as Loom, GraalVM, Valhalla, etc.
> I wasn't willing to play chicken and see if they fired me.

That makes negotiation harder.

There a number of books from the Harvard Negotiation Project which offer roughly the following advice:

- Make sure your plan B is good enough that walking is no big deal.

- Focus on finding a fair solution, even if you need to keep pulling the discussion back to that ideal.

Basically, 75% of your negotiation effort should be spent improving your plan B.

You want to be mostly saying things like, "I would love to work for you, but a 5 year world-wide, industry-wide non-compete is simply not fair. I knew a guy who basically got locked into indentured servitude when a private equity firm abused a similar clause. I'll tell you what. You have employees in California, right? California law strikes a pretty fair balance on this issue. What contract language do you use there?"

And if they say, "No, I don't think we can do that," you say, "Oh, I'm sorry to hear that! I was looking forward to solving your challenges with _____, but it sounds like we can't find mutually agreeable terms. No harm, no foul. I wish you the best of luck." Then you walk out the door and make the phone call to move ahead with plan B or C.
Custom emojis is something that exists since already quite some time in the matrix ecosystem, thanks to an unofficial im.ponies.user_emotes extension to the spec. Unfortunately, element only support displaying these emojis and not sending them. But various other clients does support them: Nheko, Fluffychat, NeoChat, ...

Disclaimer: I'm one of the maintainer of NeoChat
> they are "generously" offering one more upgrade

Their use of the word "generously" is egregiously wrong there, since the thing they're offering you is something that they already owed you anyway! That deal is basically "we're only going to give you a subset of what we originally promised you when you bought your license, and we're not going to give you anything else in return to make up for it."
It's basic math at this point!
> However, if prices are high as a result of supply and demand (ie. more people want to live in desirable places and we can’t build more homes to accommodate), then banning non occupying buyers won’t do much.

Non-occupying owners are a factor in supply and demand; banning them (or even just increasing costs on them, e.g., via taxes on long-term vacant units) reduces the number of prospective non-occupying owners buying and causes existing ones to sell. Similar factors applies to owners with residences used exclusively as short-term rentals rather than residences, which I would expect are usually more of an issue than units held vacant by non-occupying owners.

> Given how the overwhelming majority of home purchases are still done by owner occupiers

The share purchased by investors has gone up much higher than usual to 24% of single family homes nationally last year, with Georgia leading the nation at 33%: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/sta...
The updated weather app is a terrible downgrade for me.

My biggest use case is opening the app on watch for a quick glance at current data.

Especially on the watch, since the upgrade (I presume to incorporate / switch to Dark Sky backends or w/e), it can take up to 30 seconds of looking at “—“ before seeing any data.

This used to be instant.

I guess it works great in California tho, so, no problem!
That's what I meant by developing faster. Refactoring is an indispensable part of the building process.
Switching frequently is not a strong strategy for top compensation.

You're not going to get to $1M+ TC with job hopping alone.
Grey Rock Method: What Is It and How Is It Used?
It's a funny story, but now that we do understand better what entropy is it's clear that information and thermodynamic entropy are the same concept, so it was a very good call.
The key insight Silicon Valley lacks about agriculture is that there is little potential for a big win. Major improvements mean 10% of something, not 10x. US agriculture is already highly efficient.

On the down side, there's potential for a big loss if you screw up.
Before I started running myself I remember looking at Marathon runners and thinking "Oh they are going so slow, it's just a matter of enduring it". And then I started running myself and realized that the professional Marathon runners are basically running at a pace that feels like sprinting to me.

And that's why I don't try 1500 or 3000m distances. They are just really, really fast and unbelievably painful. A few times a year I might do a 3K as fast as I can, and I dread it. Maintaining a near sprint pace for 10-12 minutes is just crazy hard.

Also, almost every time I get some kind of injury it's because I'm doing a high intensity (fast) run.
Yeah that is exactly what I think needs to happen in a perfect world.

Allow a wage-price spiral of about 6% a year, which would raise long rates, allow short rates to increase eventually without a recession and that would cut off the cheap money supply. Asset prices would fall in real terms because of persistently higher rates across the yield curve. In nominal terms they would be able to maintain more of their price while wages would inflate to the point where people would be able to buy houses and be able to pay back debts (particularly college loans).

Instead the Fed jacking up short rates right now is going to cause a recession, create high unemployment and cap wage growth and break unionization. This will be combined as usual by massive tax cuts for the rich as a bailout package, which will be the only thing possible to get past the Republican House. And the Fed will have to then sharply cut short rates and the cycle will continue. I doubt we'll be able to maintain rates at 0% for another ten years, but they're firmly opposed to trying to wage-inflate our way out of this, so we'll probably see shorter cycles between boom and bust as inflation starts to come back faster. There are no signs that they're going to start to give up on the way they've been running the economy though, I don't think there has been a massive fundamental shift in the economy -- other than no more 10 years of 0% with no CPI inflation.
For the _vast_ majority of people, the benefits are not necessarily in "building muscle" but just getting _some_ exercise.

I would say that push-ups and crunches beat any other exercise combination in terms of unit benefit per unit effort. Distractions and shyness can be practically eliminated as you can work-out from home, you can work-out while travelling as you don't need any equipment, risk of injury is relatively much much lower, warm-up is quick, rapid (sometimes _very_ rapid) progress is almost guaranteed, etc. Combined, this allows almost anyone to get the physiological and psychological benefits of working-out cheaply, safely and rapidly. There is just no substitute for the confidence boost that you can now easily do X amount of push-ups after just a few weeks of training. Best bang for your buck for most people IMO.

Of course, long-term it's probably a good idea to have a more diverse set of exercises =)
Sometimes I wish I had more colors to put on functions to organize my program, storage, resources, etc.
It Is 2023. Update Your Website Footer
If a doctor would ignore a positive result if they saw one then they shouldn't order the test!
No, see, I was speaking literally as well.

Being unable to process the argumentative positions of other human beings and factor those in to your responses when interacting with other human beings is a behavior exhibited by developing brains that can't grasp basic adult communication.
The relationship between entropy and states of matter (including pressure and temperature). How “degrees of freedom” are calculated and compared for gas molecules, if they are infinite. All that stuff.
I am approaching 40 this year and i'm interested in this, i've been looking at treadmills to get started as it seems it might make it easier for me to get into the running habit, but I haven't found one yet at a decent price that is also ultra compact/folds away, space is an issue for me.
I semi gave up publishing tutorials on my public blog when I realized people would just copy them and republish for their own profits. Then I've read on HN how one person who had some HTML games on his site, had it iframed/proxied by others on their ad infested sites. That hurt me more even.

ChatGPT just cemented my new mentality.

People will consume content, that is a fact. But publishing new interesting things is just not worth doing for free anymore.

So now I resorted to publishing books on Amazon and building my own email list (while I do the usual freelancing).

Like it or not, the walled gardens are where it's at. You just need to make YOUR OWN walled garden and ask people for money to join and consume/enjoy it.

Also: ChatGPT can (almost) not produce anything new, it's just regurgitating/mixing things that are already online.
The problem i see with web3 as it was is that projects would show up with zero value and all speculation. I think many people just assumed it’s a magic black box that makes you money.

After all the scams of the last few years, I think that in 2023, folks will start approaching these projects more cautiously, only investing when the thing actually delivers some value.

I don’t know what a “valuable” (in terms of what it does, not token value) really means in web3 yet, though it seems like the building blocks are there.

I really want to see a web3/crypto project that has value outside of pure speculation, when we will see that (if ever) is what I’m not sure about
There are many people who haven't seen the internet before 2010. Their internet experience of limited to Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and WhatsApp.
I'd love to hear more about why your current systems are failing, and who you're trying to become!

Feel free to throw something on my calendar: https://calendly.com/taylor-town/30min
That is exactly what “spending your time dealing with advertising” means. See also cigarettes and food products with the labels turned out. Soap operas are literally named after advertising. At least they’re honest about it.
It's a silly question to ask.

Do you think about where you will go to the restroom 20 years into the future? No. Same thing with lifespan questions. You'll presumably die in some sort of accident.
These stories always make me wonder...what if we were flexible enough to culturally remodel or re-cast[1] "addiction to X" as:

- Yet untrained in achieving sustainable $temporary-positive-results-of using-X in life

- Still uncomfortable in sustained, nuanced work with X

- Very unskilled with X; in need of training and support ("X-101 level" or white belt model)

- Unsure of how to practically develop or act on a risk model with regard to X

In one of my professional areas, these are some examples of how I model the tendency to attach/detach in unwanted ways, and it works very well vs. "hey I'm really caught up in this mindset I don't like" or "I keep delivering myself to my fears" or other less-tractable models.

1. Speaking mostly in terms of modeling as an institution on behalf of such individuals, not so much telling addicts this and expecting them to take it from there
I like what the indieweb community are trying to do to promote this, at least in principle.

It couldn’t be easier to host a blog, whether static or through something like Wordpress or Ghost. But integration with native editors is pretty poor and writing a lengthy post into a blog’s hosted editor isn’t that nice if you already have a nice writing setup on, say, your iPad.

So, things like Micropub and IndieAuth are interesting solutions to that problem, but the ecosystem isn’t quite there. But if it was, it’d be a nice way to manage a blog without requiring too much expertise.
It wouldn't accept my password. I used an asterisks and then it complained not to include whitespace. There was no whitespace.

I gave up.
Ever heard of someone saying "fuck cars" in person? Where the conversation just stood on "fuck cars", and stopped there? When someone on the internet says "fuck cars", it's because he's expecting to get some dopamine from getting liked by similarly minded friends who also hate cars.

If his purpose was to have a discussion, to convince you, it wouldn't be "fuck cars", it would be "cars are polluting". And even if he's an arrogant asshole in real life, you could explain how cars are useful to you, and ask what he's suggesting to do. Maybe 1% are such total careless assholes you shouldn't be talking to them, but others will try to come up with an answer, and if they fail to give it, they will remember it.
Citations please. Especially for the stats on edgy communists. Or do you perceive this thread as "pro-Communist", hence all the edgy comments by you in this thread?
Does edgy communism track with a less than sunny disposition, asking for a friend