I think you’d want to reconsider the assumption that there is a big downside to baldness for sexual attractiveness.

Just anedoctal evidence, but I have a group of older coworkers, most in late 40s-early 50s, all divorced, and by their reports on their attempts at getting back at dating, success pretty much track how much hair is left. That made me a bit upset, as I'm slowly getting bald myself.

there is a huge difference between balding and bald

nobody wants to see a guy in denial clinging onto something, lean in fully

and yes it is unfortunate that different people are attracted to the bald variant than the ones you already know, but you gotta show resolve and confidence

I’m surprised it’s taken this long to get here. Talking to a few friends up there, the country has been feeling economically depressed for the last couple of years.

The formal and traditional definition of a recession means a regression in GDP growth.

Economic malaise is orthogonal to the technical definition of a recession, though it is often correlated. And conversely, economic growth isn't always correlated with positive feelings (eg. South Korea and Canada in the 2010s)

This is not really true. Consumer confidence has a direct impact on GDP in terms of consumption. Lower confidence = lower consumption. Other components of GDP (Investment, Government spending, Net exports) can increase at the same time which can result in no net change, or even positive growth despite decreases in consumer spending. But saying consumer confidence (ie consumption) has no correlation with GDP is incorrect. This is basic macroeconomics.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/fundamental/103002.asp

I don't think this is dissimilar to the US to be honest. We just happen to have inflated and questionable revenue being reported at levels that gloss over the true underpinnings of the economy. I think this may be a leading indicator.

I really liked how Cory Doctorow framed what Canada could be doing with respect to digital sovereignty in his book ("Enshittification"). Doctorow argues that if Canada repealed its anti-circumvention law (Bill C-11), Canadian companies could legally jailbreak American tech products (John Deere tractors, the Apple App Store, etc) and sell those fixes worldwide, turning the right to tinker into a massive export industry and a form of digital sovereignty.

One can dream.

They’re great at generating alpha, just not for these users.

They’re possibly great at generating alpha in highly complex systems that compose LLMs with tabular machine learning and other analytical techniques at a large scale. So yea, certainly not for these users.

A more interactive Claude code would be great instead of 50 “here’s a tiny snapshot of a change shorn of the context you need to understand it. Yes or no?”s

It would make more sense to just use IRT for grading the responses than trying to add more complexity to the answers themselves.

Would be really awesome if you could fit 3 child seats in the back.

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I’m talking about cars in general, not this specific car.

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/731812

It reads exactly like "Ironies of Automation" by Bainbridge would predict.

Interestingly, George Boole did much of his work on Boolean logic in Cork, Ireland. He moved there as a math professor in the university in the depths of the great famine around 1850.

I personally have _no idea_ what the security posture of plaid is. I know they're a startup and made a bit of noise a few years ago, but if I was trying to buy something and a third party app popped up saying, "hey give me total access to withdraw directly from your bank account for a sec", why on earth would I say yes to that?

It also seems to go against common security advice. "Never log into your back account if redirected by a website you sort of, but don't really trust, except sometimes its alright and it's up to you to tell the difference" is a terrible way to secure banking.

In fairness they redirect you to your bank to login, you authorize the application (which can be revoked at any time), and then they redirect you back with tokenized information. (In fact it's kind of a pain point that when I use Plaid to link my bank for eg reimbursement deposits from my FSA/HSA, it has tokenized the account numbers so I can't actually tell which account is which.) I guess I get for less savvy users why that might look scary but the alternative is... keying your account number directly into a merchant's system for ACH, which is actually scary (and the default on many government websites which I actually trust less!)

Nowadays Plaid uses OAuth for many banks, but the real problem is and always has been that they get full access to your transaction data and pass it on to their users.

I’ve never seen names be big in the industry in this way before. It used to be founders, now it’s personalities.

I'll reserve judgement until I've heard what ThePrimeagen and simonw have to say about this.

This gave me a good laugh because we don’t know what to think until Jon Blow says, “Here’s the thing.”

I'll reserve judgement until I've read what HN commenters have to say about this.

At least in this case we're talking about someone doing something useful and providing tons of value to the field, not about people being praised for starting a company and raising money.