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omreaderhnon Ask HN: How to deal with markets down turn? Feeling down

The Federal Reserve launched Operation Twist on September 21, 2011.

It's only wise to buy stocks when the Federal Reserve is printing money or you know that they will print money.

omreaderhnon Ask HN: How to deal with markets down turn? Feeling down

This mentality worked for the past 40 years but it won't work for the next 40 years.

This looks amazing. This is something that I would probably recommend to my clients as a consultant as a tool they could use to build their own tools. Right now I tend to recommend Airtable but that has issues and deficiencies with building tools/UIs on top of it.

I guess a lot of comments here will be about low-code which probably speaks to the bias of HN but that's kind of silly since low-code is extremely powerful and pervasive in the corporate world now.

Can you explain why the emphasis is on the collaboration on tool building? The collaboration ability seems like a cool and valuable feature but it seems really confusing to make that so central to the marketing.

The tool building itself is extremely valuable and sophisticated on its own. That must have taken an enormous amount of work so I don't understand why the collaborative aspect is the main thing being highlighted.

omreaderhnon Colon cancer patient turned away from NHS – found success treatment in Japan

> NICE came to the conclusion that it is not a cost-effective treatment

Pretty terrifying to imagine being subject to such a system.

omreaderhnon The spam on Twitter

Financial Twitter (fintwit) is pretty good for keeping up with what's going on in financial markets. Everything else on twitter is gutter filth.

omreaderhnon Colon cancer patient turned away from NHS – found success treatment in Japan

> Spewing hate at the system or at practitioners is just fucking awful.

It's as awful as it is unwarranted.

> The system can’t afford to throw Dr. House and his team at every patient walking in off the street.

Telling a patient they're inoperable or not a candidate for immunotherapy or are going to die in 6 months from their disease is immoral and yet very common. It's really not difficult to just say to someone "based on my experience and the protocols we have at this institution, this is what I believe to be the case for your situation but you may find others with a different perspective".

There's a seriously depraved amount of egoism and elitism in the medical world, in particular among younger medical professionals.

> They’re essentially sitting there all day making trolley-track-payoff decisions.

Yes but that's precisely not their job in a non-emergency context. They're not philosophers, they're not Maimonides. Their job is to provide medical expertise, not make value judgements on behalf of patients or arrogate themselves to a level of expertise or knowledge they don't have.

omreaderhnon Senior engineers are living in the future

This skill comes from experience. If you're talking about experience in a particular subdomain, then yes for sure.

omreaderhnon Snap lays off 20% of employees

There was an enormous amount of liquidity pumped into the system by fiscal and monetary authorities. That all these companies massively increased headcount is entirely rational. Wealthy people and companies did very well during the pandemic because they were direct beneficiaries of the fiscal and monetary support.

omreaderhnon What to read to understand how economists think

These are some of the most regulated industries in the US.

omreaderhnon NAC protects from lung emphysema but induces lung adenocarcinoma in mice

For complementary medical diets for the treatment of cancer the idea is to reduce inflammation in the microenvironment around the tumor. Most complementary medicine anti-cancer diets promote high anti-oxidant, low inflammation foods and supplement regimens which include antioxidants such as NAC.

Patients on such regimens (which also included traditional chemotherapy) generally showed significantly improved survival rates compared to the control which just had the chemotherapy.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1524-4741....

omreaderhnon Dude, where's my fuel?

This is honestly one of the most impressive things I've seen. This is sci-fi levels of technology. It's very cool, inspiring, and refreshing to see such ambitious projects.

omreaderhnon Gut microbe linked to depression in large health study

I never said it wasn't a large set.

omreaderhnon Gut microbe linked to depression in large health study

There's an asymmetry in the risks associated with choosing either a) to restrict or b) not to restrict the set of foods you eat.

Overconfidence in (b) carries more risk than overconfidence in (a). The set of chemicals that are toxic is much larger (as in >>>) than the set of chemicals that are necessary for sustaining life.

omreaderhnon Multiple Sclerosis Causality

I skimmed through the presentation and I'm not sure how you arrived at that as your takeaway. The dietary advice given in there is much more complex than that.

omreaderhnon Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories

> It's found on chats where people can be candid, like Signal & Telegram

Can you recommend some of these channels?

omreaderhnon The Sound of Silence: A Noise Map of the U.S.

Yet if the beat of a metronome will depress intelligence, what do eight or twelve hours of noise, odor, and heat in a factory, or day upon day among chattering typewriters and telephone bells and slamming doors, do to the political judgments formed on the basis of newspapers read in street-cars and subways? Can anything be heard in the hubbub that does not shriek, or be seen in the general glare that does not flash like an electric sign? The life of the city dweller lacks solitude, silence, ease. The nights are noisy and ablaze. The people of a big city are assaulted by incessant sound, now violent and jagged, now falling into unfinished rhythms, but endless and remorseless. Under modern industrialism thought goes on in a bath of noise. If its discriminations are often flat and foolish, here at least is some small part of the reason. The sovereign people determines life and death and happiness under conditions where experience and experiment alike show thought to be most difficult. “The intolerable burden of thought” is a burden when the conditions make it burdensome. It is no burden when the conditions are favorable. It is as exhilarating to think as it is to dance, and just as natural.

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence. But in that helter-skelter which we flatter by the name of civilization, the citizen performs the perilous business of government under the worst possible conditions."

- Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion, 1922

omreaderhnon Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB” video now public

That would be 'Xoogler' because Google's engineering and broader corporate culture does not reward work like that and so when you realize that, you leave.

In general, Googlers have very little idea how far behind the rest of the industry they are when it comes to tooling.

I am a Xoogler.

omreaderhnon Show HN: vGPU and SR-IOV on consumer GPUs

This looks really nice. Does this work with Ampere GPUs?

omreaderhnon High schoolers are training to drive 18-wheelers amid shortage of truck drivers

You should actually read through that website. The gap between productivity and wages is only one of the charts on there. The thesis posits that both the 2008 recession and the productivity-wage gap is a consequence of the monetary regime that began in the early 1970s.

omreaderhnon VSCode deprecates Enable Telemetry, auto-enrolls you in Telemetry?

Check out https://vscodium.com

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium

Builds of VS Code with telemetry stripped out

omreaderhnon Slack is experiencing a service disruption

Based on that status page and the list-serve email link you posted it seems like they still don't understand what's going on (if that email is correct).

omreaderhnon ‘Every message was copied to the police’

As far as I can tell, An0m has the same marketing pitch as Purism.

omreaderhnon Why potato milk may be the most sustainable option

There's a brand called Malk sold at Whole Foods which is just water and almonds.

You can also make your own nut milks by using a masticating juicer.

omreaderhnon How I re–over-engineered my home network for privacy and security

Is there a company that these people are going to? What Ubiquiti/Unifi alternatives do you like?

omreaderhnon Voltage, Amps, Resistance and LEDs

I'm a software engineer that dabbles in electronics. I have been looking for explanations like that for about 20 years.

omreaderhnon Show HN: Free 3D virtual office in the browser

This is super nice. I've been looking for something like this. When working remote I feel like we sometimes miss out on visual cues which help us figure out what we should expect in terms of a response time if we have a question for someone

omreaderhnon Ask HN: Has anyone else seen TCP connection issues in AWS US East this week?

Yes I have seen sporadic connection issues with various site scraping functions my app employs. I figured it was a widespread issue but I'm glad you made a post about it that basically confirms that.

omreaderhnon Reporters are leaving newsrooms for newsletters

I built a service that allows you to read newsletters and RSS feeds on your Kindle: https://omreader.co

omreaderhnon Reporters are leaving newsrooms for newsletters

I built a service that allows you to read email newsletters and RSS feeds on your Kindle: https://omreader.co

I just launched this a few weeks ago and have had really positive responses from HN users so far.

omreaderhnon Ask HN: Which book helped you understand the world?

Fooled by Randomness - Nassim Taleb

Letters from a Stoic - Seneca

The Bible

Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche

Psychological Types - Carl Jung