What advantage would the inside spiders have? Surely they wouldn't catch any bugs?

Or are they building a structure that's attractive for bugs to enter? What's the strategy for this web?

The article mentions that the caves are filled with millions of midges providing plenty of food.

I think they're referring to the spiders that are deep in the web, since the midges presumably don't make it that deep

midges can fly, so presumably they would hit the web at random points. as to why flying would be useful for the midges, if they consume biofilms on the surfaces, that's less clear. perhaps over time the midges will evolve away from flying and the spiders will have to adjust their strategy.

They may have more chances to change their skin unnoticed in the silent place.

Any ideas of where to invest just now?

Seems like there's lots of warnings about equity bubbles, bond/debt problems, economic issues that will affect inflation (UK/EU), and gold is mega high. Seems like everywhere you look it's doom?

Long term or short term investment? One time lump sum investment or investing a little each paycheck? What's your risk tolerance? The answers to those questions are needed to answer your overall question well

Long term. Like normally I do a mix of index funds wide diversification plus bonds 80/20, but even vanguard (despite always saying "get a plan and stick to it, tune out the noise") are all of a sudden saying they're under weighting growth stocks.. (Which I think is a bit strange that they don't acknowledge that it's different from their normal strategy)

Long-term is easy, and what you describe you are doing sounds fine. The hardest part is when you forget it's for long-term and worry about short-term events like recessions and bubbles. Don't let those short term things shake you! It's going to be fine

If everything seems too expensive, and you're confident enough the prices will go down, you should just hold cash and wait.

This is specious advice. Never hold 100% anything.

Especially cash. Maybe/likely the US Fed will pump trillions of new dollars into the economy in random places and cause massive inflation.

So let's say we hold 25% cash, or even 50% cash. We still have to allocate the other 50-75% somewhere. Where?

Allocate it to a bank account with deposit insurance and go long on "peace of mind". Losing 3-5% of purchasing power over 12 months' time is better than losing 15% or more in an overnight crash and have to wait for the government to intervene and prop values back up.

Just buy an all-world ETF (or another similar instrument, depending on your local tax laws) for the long therm.

Who cares if there is a bubble or not. The world economy will still grow.

Spain. $EWP. Also pretty much any other developed nation stock index.

It’s the new flight to safety after gold.

Why Spain?

Who knows. But thats the country up the most last year.

Ah yes, the good old investment advice: if a stock has been going up, it’s time to buy.

Good luck with that strategy.

I heard this about NVDA in 2020 and 2021 and 2022 and 2023 and 2024 and 2025 and now 2026… if the stock is going up it is 100% time to buy if you know what the F you are doing. if you don’t know what you are doing then you sell when the stock is going up :)

If you know what you are doing, you do not rely on external random and irrational signals like market price.

Also, past performance is not an indicator of future performance. Hindsight is always 20/20.

> you do not rely on external random and irrational signals like market price.

I don’t, but too many people do :)

Oh and what’s your strategy Mr. Buffet?

For one, Mr Buffet coined the aphorism “be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful” and here you are suggesting the literal opposite.

I don’t think one year of outperformance counts as greed. There’s a reason I didn’t recommend gold.

During the dotcom bubble, Alan Greenspan recognized that irrational exuberance was driving the market to unsupported valuations. He said this in 1996. The bubble wouldn’t pop for many years. In fact, the deepest nasdaq market correction was still above the nasdaq value when he initially made his comment. The point is, time in the market > timing the market (at least for most people).

He then went on to create the housing financial crisis.

the one Japan blog post recommended the Nikkei 225 while the yen is still dogshit

Any recommendations for a distro?

I've used Mint in the past, loved it until I spent a day trying to get scanner drivers to work. Don't know if that's changed now, was 4 years ago

Today I'd recommend CachyOS. While I haven't connected a scanner, everything else I've tried just seems to work.

You're going to get everyone's opinion here. Try a bunch of the major ones and see what works best. I did this and landed on Fedora but ymmv

Yes, Mint for most people.

I am using Fedora on machines with new hardware and liking it as well. It has small pluses/minuses vs Mint.

Omarchy is pretty streamlined for developers and you can play games as well as they work well.

I tried a number of distros and settled on Omarchy because it has a coherent design and nice aesthetics, but it has some weird quirks about messing with my dotfiles on updates. It's so new I suspect this will be ironed out soon.

cachyos is a good os that is also performant. arch though so there are quirks around the rolling update model but you always have the newestish packages and if you update regularly there seems to be less headache.

the Universal Blue project has got a great suite of distributions:

https://universal-blue.org/

Simple, Debian with i3-wm

So... What will the actual impact on groq services be?

I'm a fan, and I use Groq a lot for systems I build. I think they offer something different to most other providers (cheaper, faster, and until recently "we don't store your data by default") and it will be sad to see that fade.

It's going to be the same. It may never get better though.

I saw this plane out my window when it was landing at Prestwick. It was dark and windy about 60mph and I said to my wife "what's that in the sky". The airport is about 5 miles away, for some reason this one caught my eye - in the hundreds/thousands of planes that go by I've never said that before, don't know if it was pointed an odd direction but it appeared stationary. We thought it was like a star, but too bright. We looked it up on flight radar to see if it was a plane and it was the one that later came out.

I know this will not be relevant to anything but I thought it was a strange coincidence then I saw it on my hn feed.

Not sure if this will help, but a while ago I was thoroughly confused about all the AI options (and advice from other people) so spent a while experimenting, now make systems for commercial sometimes, but for a basic-yet-functional knowledge base, that you can expand with whatever tooling you want:

- Don't use llamaindex/llangchain etc. - fine to get started quick but you'll quickly get frustrated when you try to do something different

- Suck in all your files using public libraries. convert to text. Remove obvious crap like line breaks etc. Don't worry about it too much.

- Use postgres as vectorDB - cheap.

- OpenAI is fine, and the docs are great - gpt 3.5 gives fine results; cheapest embedding model fine.

- Spend some time optimising the prompts - that's the most important thing.

I wrote up basics for my specific niche here, has cost/time breakdowns and costs about $4 per month for hosting (and only then because I couldn't face setting up postgres on my other server) and < $1 per 50GB of text/xlsx/etc embedded: https://superstarsoftware.co.uk/ai-for-drilling-engineers/

(as in: dirt cheap).

I basically made it as a showcase for potential customers, was half thinking of open sourcing it so people can get up and running quickly including with decent frontend, but not sure if there's much appetite since it's basic.