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Regarding inflation: Ray Dalio has a bit in his latest book Changing World Order where he points out what nations/empires in the past have done when faced with similar situations t…

Thank you for sharing a counterpoint. IMO this act of skepticism is the most important trait of the HN culture. That being said, I read through the counterpoint article and found i…

All software is an abstraction and that’s what makes it useful. It sounds like you have a particularly vindictive axe to grind against all the “pointless abstractions” people have …

It is an abstraction that can save any users from having to think about shell scripts. This is incredibly valuable. We should not waste human time on writing and thinking about she…

The article and numbers are right, it’s just not clearly worded. I had this same question a couple years back when I read this stat, so I messaged the Cornell Lab Ornithology and o…

I find it hard to sympathize for the poor plight of the $200,000/month healthcare-less twitch streamer working 2 more hours a day than the average person. Was this article written …

This was an informative counter-argument to what I normally read about US healthcare, thanks for taking the time to share this info. This site gives several survey findings related…

It says in the abstract that this data is preliminary, and the size of the sample was 950 American adults. I don’t think we can take much away from this study, except that it deser…

To any Fe developers reading this: please put a non-trivial code snippet of Fe, with code comments that highlight the improvements over Solidity, front and center on the README. I …

This is very well done. I've been hobby researching learning tools for the past couple years and this looks like one of the best. @ai_ia have you seen Andy Matuschak's Orbit projec…

Yes. Check out this article that is half an essay on quantum computing and half a call to action for using spaced repetition (the main idea behind supermemo) as a new medium for le…

This study is from 1987. Might it it be slightly outdated? This article from 2009 addresses the lower age estimates from the 1980’s era, saying reactors could last for 80 years or …

Any source for this statement?

How often do you need to be the filter? I’m genuinely curious because your experience is very different from my own, where I’ve been using DDG for years and I only notice poor resu…

I will soon begin working on a somewhat similar problem involving personalized self education. So far I've thought of it as a search engine for YouTube which allows a user to looku…

You can give this article by Chip Huyen a read. Mayhaps you will find a niche for a solo or small dev team. Though it is focused on MLOps if that makes a different for the type of …

This was a good read about an area of computing I’ve only heard about in passing (specifically crypto miner design). But it was definitely over my head as someone who has never had…

This is an important but deeply tragic point. I have friends who I would bet heavily will be unwellbeing their entire lives. Even if it is true though, is it worth the total loss o…

TIL that “ hupomnemata” is the term for when you take personal notes on the important happenings in your life and periodically you review those notes. I’ve been noticing recently t…

I cannot find the original paper anywhere, if anyone finds it please post a link here. Thank you!

Can anyone grow why in the first 5 minutes of part 1 he shows a 3 by 3 matrix multiples by a 1 by 3 vector yet verbally he pulls out of no where this idea that if you have _two_ 1 …

> this is terribly useless for for anyone else I bet this was terribly useless for you, but for the wider set of readers here its near impossible to generalize as you have done. I …

Thank you for sharing this! I’m always grateful to read some of Dalio’s thoughts on the future.

This is very cool. This is faster than postman for me if I was to use something like you showed in the jq example for quickly playing around with a public api’s json response.

Thank you for posting this, it made me look up narcissism of small differences and it sums up this article well. Maybe it would be a better idea to start infighting once bitcoin an…