skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've long felt like doom & gloom is somewhat key to a strong economy. By tempering that "irrational exuberance" that leads to the development of bubbles that eventually cause recessions.

To answer your question: yes, in the USA at least, consumer confidence in the economy was low through the early to mid 90s. The country had a recession in the early 90s with oil prices rising and real estate prices remained quite low throughout much of the decade.

The Consumer Confidence Index throughout the 90s maps almost exactly to the CCI from 2008-2020. With lows of about 60 in 1990 & 2009 to peaks of about 140 in 1998 and 2018.

Not sure about Europe though. But seeing as oil prices are global, I image y'all didn't much like the early 90s either.
> Public perception matches people's experiences.

It really doesn't; confirmation bias, recency bias, propaganda, etc. all play significant roles. Eyewitness testimony is remarkably inaccurate.
Europe also largely adopted the bullshit austerity policies that everyone screamed for Biden to adopt, and their economies are languishing for it.
Past performance is the only data available to help predict the future.
I'm confused - if I had one of these and they replaced it, is it safe or not?
Your post would be much more useful with links to what you feel the "better things" are. Help us "avoid garbage tier corpo-blogs" by giving some examples of quality content.
> tubinate reduction surgery

I've read horror stories about that. Apparently a lot of the problems could be solved by teaching kids how to breathe (no mouth breathing), having a proper diet (chewing), &c. of course once you're fucked you're fucked and you have to go to these extremes to get your life back. It's like our lifestyle is slowly evolving us out of this planet
They would just jack up prices to account for the additional costs and then they would never actually pay you that $10
The first function is supporting the immune system. The appendix has a high concentration of immune tissue, so it's acting to help the immune system fight any bad things in the gut.

The second function that it serves is what we refer to as the safe house. So this was a hypothesis that was put forward by a team from Duke University in 2007. And they argued that the appendix may serve as a safe reservoir for the beneficial gut bacteria that we have.
Yes, that would work. The paper has a note about excluding districts like this:

> "Valid districts are contiguous and have equal population. Strict constraints on compactness, geographic splits, or other restrictions are not necessary, but such limitations could be included. However, valid districts may not include “donuts,” where one district entirely encircles another."
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Obviously this type of visa is aimed at getting people to spend money in the country. Why would they want people with no money?
Can you make a Japanese bank account while on visa? If not it’s pretty useless
Not sure who is downvoting you, but you're absolutely right.

Just like Meta/Instagram, they're playing lip-service to the concept, but not really taking action.

Frustratingly, out of all the platforms & BigCorps, Microsoft's parental controls and support for child accounts seems the best.

For many parents this might be no big deal. But there are genuinely children who've ventured into self-harm, eating disorder, etc. content on account of the wild-westness of the Internet combined with weakness of this crap. And it's absolutely maddening to see how pathetic they all (including Apple) are treating this.
So much this. I used to love playing games as a kid, but now I watch game demos now and all it looks like to me is work. Someone/thing telling me to go do this and that. Keep track of all my work so I can be assigned more of it. I might as well just go code something.
> But who am I going to believe my own lying eyes or the honest upright and trustworthy government?

Some people believe their own eyes and come to the conclusion that the Earth is flat. :)

Edit: Downvotes? Sheesh people, lighten up. :)
My experience with Bard has been totally underwhelming- I can’t imagine paying for it.
Seeing subscription uptake numbers would be very interesting.
Not going to engage with the hyperbole (except to say that things are actually pretty good, historically, and party-based democracies have outperformed other forms of government almost universally).

But this has to be addressed:

> Abolish political parties now

You can't. "Parties" are just agreements. I want something, she wants something else, you want something different still, etc... I decide to vote with her because she'll support my stuff in return, where you won't. Now we have a party. That's all that a party is, they naturally arise any time you have any kind of collective decision making (not just democracy: treaty coalitions are just geopolitical "parties", etc...).

The two party system, likewise, is a natural evolution of first-past-the-post/winner-take-all voting. If you need 50% to do anything, then you need to get your party to be bigger than that. And the folks left out need to band together in order to get what they want. So the two sides naturally seek (via compromise, coercion, etc...) to an equilibrium where they both win about half the time. Anyone in a "third party" never wins anything.
One of the best pieces of software you’ll ever use. And if you do find a bug, the maintainer will fix it within hours of your Github report.
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There are things I usually skip in single player games. Inventory management: If your game allows to pick up junk everywhere (Skyrim, Cyberpunk, Witcher, ...) your UI is shit I will look up ways to cheat these.

The last two Zeldas are awful on Switch. On PC I can fix everything I dislike about the games and tweak them to make them enjoyable.

On PC I can fix games. This is likely the main reason I'll never be a console/phone gamer and why I have a Steam Deck.

I have never enjoyed crafting. Grinding for material is also on my list (games like Monster Hunter)
Walled gardens keep attention-span-harvesting profits on the inside.
Right, won't someone please think of the poor little underpaid corporate behemoth.
You might want to say your budget, otherwise it’s hard to give relevant advice.

Also, do you prefer Linux over macOS? If so, I would probably not pay the premium for the Apple hardware. (It’s very nice hardware though…)
As usual the 'growth' was retail etc. People who maybe used to have a job in engineering or management or technical jobs, selling shoes now.

The 'labor market' sucks as a measure of how people are doing. "Hey, the slaves are all pulling at the giant stone blocks! The economy is booming!"

Cue folks suggesting people should educate themselves and get out of retail etc. That's 30 million Americans for instance. They cannot all be trained as Engineers, even if we needed 30 million more Engineers which we don't.

It's maybe time to reconsider 'slaving away at futile activities' as a measure of societal success.
Japan legislature seems to spend a lot of time passing these kind of laws that only ever affect a few people. But with some of the other ones after a few years of no one using the residency statuses, they loosened up the requirement a bit.
TIL

the Italian "semola di grano duro" is called durum wheat semolina in English

this is what I was talking about

https://www.giochidigusto.it/en/product/remilled-durum-wheat...

Specifically what's important is that it has to be re-milled so it's not as coarse as the one used to make couscous
I recommend watching the videos of friendlyjordies, he's been at it for years, pointing out the hypocrisies, corruption etc, he's certainly opinionated but he does come at it from a comedians perspective also.

He rubbed some people the wrong way in the political world and things escalated wildly. You're right about Australia not being a third world country, but that proves his point about how ridiculous the behavior of some politicians is.
With "freedom", you mean the ability to exploit customers and disregards any responsibility when it comes to protecting customer's private data?

Yeah, let's hope so.
I've tried a bunch of headsets/straps... and this is just me, but I could not possibly imagine using any for 5+ hours. I am curious about Visor from Immersed (at least once it's a real thing that people can try). After 5 hours isn't that a relief to remove?

The AVP pitch is really one that is more integrated into your life/work... and I think as a first gen they can make a pretty good case for it. But I cannot get over the weight and suspect that it's really going to be the impediment to any sort of real societal adoption. Or maybe 15 years on we'll all have veiny muscle-necks.
Definitely early adopter neighborhood though
Hmmm can’t speak to the likelihood of their actual inflows but tens of billions of usd from global participants that are functionally shut out from usd pipes is really very reasonable. It’s 0.25% of M2.

What amuses me a bit is how shocked it can seem to people for them to “sit” on 80 bn dollars. It’s literally what they’re supposed to be doing! And no one can imagine they’re actually doing it. I don’t know. I like to think that’s what I’d do if I said that’s what I was doing… I feel like I would. But apparently we now think when someone is entrusted with a pile of money to keep as such they’d be irrational not to risk their customer funds and yolo into mismatching risk to try and pick up some yield… when did that become the expected norm?
You can gerrymander a tiny district just as easily as you can a giant one. Fundamentally it's just a software problem and modern computers are really fast.
Agreed, I learned the hard way that complicated constraints, those that are really good to keep data integrity, are really hard to test and might have unintended consequences.
Communist China has a political party but only for historical reasons. If they dissolved the Party and kept the Government, it would work just as well.
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Urgh. Cool demo, but to everyone considering Slint - please don't make general purpose websites using tools like this.

Slint's web target does completely custom rendering of its UI components to an HTML canvas element. This will never look or feel like a real website - where the browser can use native controls and native keyboard shortcuts. This also makes the browser's dev tools totally useless, and obfuscates how websites work. And this page is completely invisible to screen readers.

If I'm on a mac, I expect that in a text box, all my mac specific keyboard shortcuts should work (cmd+arrow keys, cmd+A, copy/paste, etc). This page doesn't support any of those shortcuts. If I'm on mobile, I expect text input controls to use my configured keyboard and autocomplete. I haven't tried, but I suspect none of that works either.

This is fine for embedded devices. And maybe desktop apps, where you at least know the OS and you can set up keyboard shortcuts to match. But in a web app, its truly awful. Its like all of electron's jank backported into the browser. Don't do it.
> None of the countries using PR suffer from the sillinesses arising from FPTP

Frankly, I'd be surprised if they did. It seems much more likely that they'd suffer from the problems of PR instead.
25% of job growth in government

You sure can buy a lot of nice stats for $1 trillion per quarter in new debt!
I feel a bit doom-and-gloomy, mainly because I'd like to move into a bigger house as my family grew over the past few years.

The problem being, I bought my current townhouse almost a decade ago and refinanced during the pandemic to an incredibly low rate. Since I would need a new mortgage to buy a new house and rates are significantly higher now, I feel like I'd end up paying twice as much per month for a marginally better house. I'd always heard that housing prices have an inverse relationship with interest rates, so if rates go up, actual housing prices should go down. In reality (so far), prices seem to be much stickier, and people just aren't listing many houses at all.

So essentially I'm whining that I'm paying a shockingly low amount of interest, almost borrowing money for free, and if I take out another loan I'll actually have to pay a (historically) normal amount of interest. But it would still really hurt to make that jump, and it does feel like weird/unhealthy stuff is going on in the housing market.
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Looks useful for gradients. Strange that nobody mentions Paletton. It's my go to tool when picking colors:

https://paletton.com/

You start with the base, and then also get gradients to adjacent colors in the palette. Especially the triad and tetrad ones are useful.
- In biology: unknown -> useless.

- In archeology: unknown -> religious.

- In egyptology: unknown -> tomb.

- In astrophysics: unknown -> dark.

- In mathematics: unknown -> x.

- In computing: unknown -> NULL.

;-)
In 1912, that's 1 representative per 207,000 people.
I think this is fine as a criticism of the survival-crafting genre games, they are not for everyone. Personally I never liked them, not because of the crafting but because of the sandbox style. I rather follow a long quest, a story or anything else than build a world from the emptiness. But once again that's fine, each to their own. Probably the Dragon Quest Builders games the only one I enjoyed because they are like a good mix of Minecraft but also having a long story quest and goals to follow.

On the other hand the demand for these games still shows that the survival-crafting genre is still not 'done'. There is a huge market for them. Yet AAA studios for some reason don't want to touch them, most of these games are made by small studios and indies released in Early Access.
i tried using an e-ink tablet (Boox Note Air) but found it cumbersome compared to my iPad mini on greyscale mode with night shift enabled.
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Matt Mullenweg is taking a 3 month sabbatical from running Automattic
Has anyone done the digital nomad thing with children?

It'd be great if childcare/schooling was easier overseas, maybe even an opportunity for kids to get an early mind opening experience
This entire comments section is a poignant example of the spiritual dichotomy present in our society: those who have ever been immersed in 4chan-and-adjacent culture, and the bitchless and cringe.
Dirt don't vote, so why are we drawing circles on a map? Just section off a list a of eligible voter' names or IDs. After all you're not representing area, you're representing unity.
why is a Japanese bank account so necessary?
Not entirely true. Political parties are enshrined in many state governments, in the form of Parry registration and primary elections. Its frankly unconscionable.
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It's hard to find technical details on how Apple's "Fiend Friends" functionality works: is the location details encrypted between your device and your friend's device? Or is there some database table at Apple with locations of everyone who uses Find Friends?
I hope FPSes (and 3rd person action) that you can play without a damn controller come back in style.
at that point, they can send you a text, an email, a letter, ...

robocalls are never necessary
Eh, it's unclear how AI would actually influence this dynamic. If you are already a generalist and AI is good, would the AI make you closer to a middling specialist in a lot of things?

Personally I don't think AI is quite good enough to help anybody but the most unskilled. Its output is less credible than a dubious forum post by a stranger. I'm just making the argument as if it has already improved enough to do what you're suggesting.
how do you like it? Any issues with jaw pain or change in your bite? Also did your insurance cover it? I heard they are similarly priced as CPAPs.
How would one abolish political parties? What does abolish mean?

Fundamentally, political parties are based on freedom of association.

Freedom of association allows people to form their own groups, for whatever reason. A group of hikers, model railroad enthusiasts, or a group seeking political ends.

Political parties also cross into advocacy, which is/can be petitioning government for redress. Another constitutionally protected thing.

Best option that I can see is having elections ignore party affiliation. Basically the jungle primary thing.

But in my experience, with nonpartisan elections, everybody still knows what ‘party’ the candidates are.
This is an explanainability library to unveil information on neural networks.

It proposes a large variety of attribution methods, they support diverse data types (Tabular, Time Series, and Images) and diverse tasks (classification, regression, object detection, semantic segmentation).

You should have a look to the tutorials or the documentation to know more.
> Is this evidence that micro plastics are a serious health concern?

Don't we know that for a while already ? The endocrine disrupting effect alone is a major concern.

I feel like we're back at the "is lead in gas really _that_ bad?"
Decided to watch Farscape on a whim after watching Ben Browder and Claudia Black in Stargate. What a great show! It starts off on an awkward foot, like most sci-fi shows do. But it eventually comes around to a really amazing show with great performances both by human actors and by puppets. Scorpius is such a great villain for John Crichton. Pilot is one of my favorite characters ever, and sometimes he feels more human than the humans do (yes, I know only John is technically human but I mean the human actors that play some of the aliens).
>, just add the cable company to your contacts

No, people don't want to pollute their contacts listing by adding every company they have a billing relationship as a new entry to "manage spam". It's visual pollution to have "Comcast" as a useless entry alphabetically in between "Charlie" and "David" just to offset a new spam rebate scheme because Comcast is abusing the law. And if Comcast has multiple identities such as creating "Comcast Updates" and "Comcast New Channels", etc to further abuse the spam rebate scheme for more customer "engagement", you're doing even more digital housekeeping and adding more entries to the contacts listing.

Another problem is that the smartphone's "contacts listing" is a special area that has downstream interactions with other smartphone settings to manage/filter notifications and sounds. E.g. "silence notifications not in contact listing" or "block calls not in contact listing". By adding Comcast into the contacts listing, they can become even more invasive in your life by polluting alerts on your home screen and making your phone ring.

The spam rebate idea can have some weird unintended side effects if such a scheme (or law) is not crafted carefully to prohibit abuse and make life worse.
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EleutherAI as well.
They were a loophole nobody expected so they didn't mitigate it. Robocalls would not have been affordable in the 1970s as long distance rates were so high - you would have needed to setup a call center in each city you target as long distance rates between cities was hundreds of dollars per hour. That means pay big city labor rates not cheap foreign labor.

Only with IP calling is calling from country to country cheap enough that robocalls can be worth doing.
not with a temporary visa like that one. hence the reason why they want them to have overseas revenues
I think if we set out to understand "Autism" itself we will get hopelessly confused. My complaints are part of a more general complaint with the DSM-V rather than Autism specifically. I'm not hung-up on trying to understand what we call "Autism" scientifically, I'm more interested in addressing the symptoms people have.

Here's a paper on the subject, which promotes RDOC instead
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5154554/

"it has become increasingly evident that many central features of the DSM-ICD model do not map adequately onto the state of nature (Sanislow et al., 2010). The high levels of covariation among putatively distinct categories, the large number of intermediate cases, and the substantial phenotypic and etiological heterogeneity of numerous diagnostic categories, among other vexing anomalies, suggest that something is deeply awry with at least some core presuppositions underpinning the neo-Kraepelian model of psychiatric classification. Moreover, these problems have proven stubbornly resistant to repeated efforts at amelioration across multiple DSM and ICD revisions. The shortcomings of the DSM-ICD edifice therefore appear to reflect an inherent deficiency in its architectural floorplan that cannot be fixed merely by adjusting some of its walls."

"During his tenure as NIMH director, Steven Hyman expressed his concern at seeing preclinical researchers attempting to develop animal models that would mimic DSM-based diagnostic criteria. As Hyman put it “The DSM system…created an unintended epistemic prison that was palpably impeding scientific progress…Even animal studies that purported to develop disease models…were often judged by how closely they approximated DSM disorders.”"

Autism incidence as you brought up went from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 30. If Autism diagnosis has NEVER been stable, isn't that a red flag that there's something going wrong at a conceptual level?

When you see the richest man in the world and some of the most disabled people in society diagnosed with the same condition, isn't that odd?

Why do Autistic people say "If you know one person with autism you know one person with autism" and seem to emphasise the heterogeneity of the condition? Why is there so much overlap with other conditions like ADHD, OCD, and Anxiety? Why do people diagnosed with comorbid conditions not seem to act like people with each condition independently?

Things like we're seeing with TikTok autism is examples of the reification of Autism and Autism presenting itself more as a social contagion than a neurological disorder.
> People (tech people at least) have lost sight of the fact that writing should happen in "word processing software", and Word is the best-in-class.

It depends on the person. The best way for me to write is on paper, on a desk with lots of empty space, with paper versions of all reference material.