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Economics is a science the same way climatology is a science, or ecology is a science. While you can fairly accurately determine what will happen on very small scales on short time spans (microeconomics, in short), questions about what will happen on larger scales over longer time spans get exponentially more difficult as you scale up, since the system is so complex and so difficult to measure. It doesn't mean that it's not worth doing, it just means that there needs to be some epistemological humility there.

And contrary to popular belief, economists would generally agree that certain facts have established themselves and been agreed upon. For example, subjective value: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_theory_of_value

This is an essential insight of economics, and one that was not really systematically grasped until recently (and still not grasped by the majority of the public.) It is as close to true as a sociological/ecological thesis can be, and is almost universally accepted. But because it is so accepted, you don't hear much about it.

What you're referring to is the Laffer curve - based on the observation that, at both 0% and 100% marginal tax rates, no tax revenue will be collected (none at 0% because no tax, essentially none at 100% because of disincentive.) That means that, in between those two end-points, there has to be a curve of some shape showing the total revenue collected, with a peak (or peaks) somewhere on it where revenue is maximized. The discussion is about where this peak is, and how the curve is shaped. To say "does lowering income taxes increase revenue" is an incomplete question: lower from what rate? Under what macroeconomic conditions? At what overall national wealth level? Interacting with what other taxes? Considering what conditions in capital markets? Etc, etc. Teasing out these huge numbers of other factors is the challenge of economic study, and why so many seemingly "simple questions" are unanswered: because they're not actually simple.
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There's been a few; this one is built on top of mio, one of the most popular previous ones.
so what determines what a field is, or is not, about if we cannot consider what the practicioners of that field do in their professional lives?
> There's an important difference between "This is my opinion. You may contract me to express it at your venue" vs. "You may contract me to express any opinion you wish at your venue".

> The former seems completely legit to me. The lawyers just need to look around for a witness that already has the opinion they prefer.

I agree with you, but think that it's important to distinguish "No scandal here" (your words) from "no problem" (an easy apparent synonym). Getting paid to espouse your honest opinions is (almost by definition!) not dishonest, but lending the lustre of academic support to fringe positions can lead to bad policy and decision-making. (The general public is, or even just non-academics and non-specialists are, not in a position to evaluate whether the paid opinion is representative of the academic consensus, or a fringe opinion held by a few; and, though the latter opinions have every right to be heard, it may be important to be aware of their status.)
You know how they say "Generals always fight the last war"? Presumably this and other advanced technologies are an attempt to make sure we fight the war that we end up being in.
They spent over a billion dollars buying the land for this HQ in 2013... I mean, I guess it's good they aren't pulling the plug but yeah, there's no new news here.
DJB has espoused this point repeatedly - it's more than a motivator for the rest of the article.
You're 100% correct that the end goal is safe software in a way that's practical to achieve. However, having the computer check one's code is generally regarded as a great way (even the best way) to do this: NASA's JPL doesn't accidentally recommend[0] turning on all compiler warnings and using static analysis tools, and it seems a little unlikely that most major tech companies would be spending millions on static analysers and statically-typed languages if they didn't think it helped them write correct code.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_10:_Rules_for_Dev...
Oh god, I just realized I've been sitting here clicking a virtual spin button for the last couple hours. Thanks :\

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The supposed filter bubble theory is that I (and others) didn't vote for HRC because we are not exposed to the liberal point of view?

FALSE.
LAUGHABLY FALSE.
FALSE FALSE FALSE.

Let's make up a term called liberal privilege, the privilege to have your views reflected on all major US channels (CBS, ABC, NBC, NPR, BBC, NYT, WaPo... etc.) ALL OF THE TIME.
Because coastal liberals are uncomfortable actually admitting when they're being assholes.
That was not my intention.
One way of viewing it is that it's akin to the original neo-conservatives, who were Communists who lost faith in it. If you remember William Kristol trying to be the anti-Trump leader, his father Irving was one of its founders (note that this is decades before "neo-con" got its current meaning).

Lots of us are libertarians or conservatives who've lost faith in those, and are pursuing and defining a new Right that's by definition an alternative to the existing Right. Me, I was a paleoconservative.

As far as a strict definition, the best I've seen so far is former libertarian Vox Day's initial attempt, 16 points which you can find at http://voxday.blogspot.com/2016/08/what-alt-right-is.html

Note that as a matter of taxonomy, he divides it into the Alt White, such as the Daily Stormer types and a group he can't belong to, and a much larger Alt West, I can dig that up for you if you want, but obviously the Alt West isn't obsessed with the Joooos, is therefore unabashedly Christian or at least believing, well, here's his 4th point:

The Alt Right believes Western civilization is the pinnacle of human achievement and supports its three foundational pillars: Christianity, the European nations, and the Graeco-Roman legacy.

The total antisemite types, I gather they don't much like Christianity because of its Jewish origins, from Jesus to the Old Testament, they're certainly fond of a lot of pagan icons.

The combativeness of point 3 is a personal characteristic of his, but is pretty essential, and you can see how Trump is aligned with it (although, frankly, if implicitly telling the press to FU is what you need to enjoy a steak dinner with your family in peace...).

Point 12 is particularly important: "The Alt Right doesn't care what you think of it.", or more simply put, "We Don't Care." Note Trump's war on Political Correctness, which alone won him more than a few votes, lots of people are utterly sick of it.

Obviously many of the points will send anyone on the left screaming, and certainly there's no universal agreement on any of this---forget it being inchoate, humans being humans there never will be!---but you can take it as being at least somewhat representative of the Alt Right.
I meant this one which I saw mentioned recently: https://github.com/alexcrichton/futures-rs
Not in the web interface, no.

But you're free to use any client with GPG support – the beauty of open standards. There should also be browser plugins that add it to the web interface.
Give me a break. A guy wants to reduce his carbon footprint on the earth and save money and just enjoy a scenic view and that makes him a bad guy?
I prefer F# over C#, and I think it is a better competitor to Swift or Java or Kotlin.
This actually makes me question the utility of the site - the old is angular 2 production ready site had the utility that angular 2 was going to break angular 1.x so you might want to think about which you were going to use.

I guess it doesn't really matter, just the site seems less useful. The technology however seems more useful to me for that.
Any evidence here?

NT does a lot of things right.

I also know that I do not look forward to a world with only one dominant desktop/server OS kernel. We need competition here and Microsoft adopting Linux would ruin that.
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> simplifying the connections to all external add-ons

The problem is that Apple did not simplify the connections. They unified them. The focus on a single hardware port is all well and good, but in this case it's just glossing over the fact that there are a wide array of different protocols that talk over this hardware and not all of the hardware supports them.
That is a misunderstanding of latency.

"Very fast" is still latency.
Economists are in favor of carbon taxes because the alternative is environmental regulation. They favor open immigration policies because it brings flexibility to the job market. Leading to less job security for low skill workers and more profits for multinational companies.

Economists are not intentionally supporting multinationals interests over people's interests. They do so as a side effect of their belief in the correctness and practical relevance of microeconomics and neo-classical theories. This behaviour is in turn encouraged and rewarded by multinationals and investment banks, leading dissenting voices to be marginalized. Of course there are notable exceptions, Stiglitz, Krugman, Rodrik, and a few others. But the general point is that if you want to get an economics PhD from a red brick university you will have to support this viewpoint.
Sometimes older articles that are interesting are submitted. Granted, that may not seem like "News", but can be of interest to the community. As sibling noted, the title should include an indication of its vintage in these cases.

What was the second level?
Arcade games use a lot of the same strategies including using virtual currency swipe cards to hide the real cost of each play (and so you always have a positive balance causing you to put a little more on the card to try using it all).
I played WoW 40-50 hours a week in a "ranked" raiding guild for about four years. It was the exact same sensation for me when loot would drop in new raids that I feel winning a few bucks at the casino.

I eventually quit cold turkey. I'm not sure I regret those four years, I made some great friends, many of whom I still keep in touch with, but it was no doubt an addiction, and it cost me a decent amount of "real life" advancement imo.
Even given a retraction of “you're a Nazi sympathizer”, this comment qualifies as a personal attack and those are not OK on Hacker News.

Further, ascribing the downvotes, flags, and overall behavior of other community members to the causes of your choosing isn't substantive and forms a poor basis for the civil discussion that this site is here for.
Rust has libcore, which is, in many ways, more featureful than libc despite also having zero dependencies. From my perspective, the main advantage of C is the way in which chip manufacturers only provide (poorly supported/bug-ridden) C compilers, but this is likely to become less important as ARM takes over more and more of the world: it is only getting easier and cheaper to throw a full ARM chip into a device, due to economies of scale.
SSD speeds do not differ between the touchbar and the non-touchbar edition, however the non-touchbar edition has a removable SSD.

With SSD speeds in macbooks being over one GB/s for years I also do not really see where storage throughput is a bottleneck.
> If you're primarily conducting business using your academic credentials, then relinquish your chair to someone else, and take up some "fluff" title and pay your grad students out of your own kitty.

This may be fair to ask of the professor, but it is perhaps reasonable to consider whether it is fair to ask of his or her graduate students (who are probably not to be blamed for their advisors' extracurricular habits). I work in math, where corporate sponsorship is (generally) not an issue, and so my opinion may be skewed; but it seems to me that a graduate student of someone with a 'fluff' title might be perceived less seriously than a graduate student of someone with a grander academic title, and so suffer even if his or her work is sterling. (On the other hand, perhaps driving students away from working with corporate consultants is a desireable side effect …?)
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So you need something to manage workflow, not to jump on any bandwagon.
I'm a recovering gambling addict (since 22 June 1998), but what you described is why I shuttered my Facebook account. I had recognised for a while that the behaviour was compulsive and unhealthy but I still was self-justifying as to why I needed it. As of last Sunday evening I'm FB-free and the world hasn't caved in. I've also given up on Slashdot for similar reasons (I accept that I am powerless over other people's opinions). I'm of an age where my friends will still respond to communication via other means (e.g. the telephone as a device for real-time, synchronous, two-way verbal exchange).

If anyone is unsure whether they have a problem that could be described as an addiction, just google "addiction 20 questions" and apply what you find to your own behaviour. Bottom line, if your behaviour is compulsive even in the face of intellectual awareness that it is being done to the detriment of self or others, where weak rationalisations are used to self-justify excess indulgence in <substance/behaviour>, then you could fairly describe it as an addiction to <substance/behaviour>.
I agree with this. Also: what woodworking podcast is that?
Some games do target individual whales, at least according to one article on gamasutra.
Does using SRI (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...) defeat a portion of this attack?
It could backfire if the user could plausibly argue they were not in their right mind and that the casino acted maliciously in allowing them to rack up a big debt.
I don't think I can be a member of the NRx without a possessing a thousand times more patience than I have to slog through Moldbug's writings, but you make a great point in your tl;dr, "many beliefs about modern society are not just wrong, but not even wrong.", thanks for noticing that connection/formulation.
I kinda like this. Some big players are adding these to emails, and you can easily add the parsing to a third-party client (Inbox, where this appears in, hurts my head so I refuse to use it)
Link > https://voxy.com/jobs/?gh_jid=508397
They're identical ideas. The Irish-American community is the American community descended from Irish immigrants. The same is true of Polish-Americans, Italian-Americans, and German-Americans, all of whom have (a) museums, (b) pride parades, and (c) actual communities in most major US cities.

You seem not to be aware that these things exist. They very much do. African-American museums celebrate the community of Americans descended, primarily, from people brought here as slaves from Africa. They have an immense shared culture and heritage, stemming in large part from the way the law of this country segregated them until just a few decades ago, and thus have a cultural identity here more coherent than those of (say) Irish-Americans (who do indeed have a museum, and most of whom couldn't name 3 cities in Ireland or tell you what Gaelic is).
I feel like the best thing that can happen to anyone is to lose a few bucks their first time at a casino.
Well if it's solar powered, we can easily take it out with an inexpensive sticky black paint bomb. Second, while you won't run out of water, you will run out of other stuff for your hydrogen IED drones.

Now a much better thing to do instead of making IED drones would be to melt sand or rock into appropriately formed projectiles so that one has an autonomous artillery piece that does not require reloading.

There are much better explosives to use than hydrogen. One could use the haber process to make ammonia and use some biological carbon sources to make pretty much any explosive worth using.

Landmines are probably cheaper though.
The Linux Foundation troubles me a little. They have vested interest in making sure Linux's copyleft is not enforced. For example, VMWare is part of it, and has used its clout to refuse funding to Software Conservancy, due to the ongoing GPL lawsuit.

I guess the money from the LF is helping pay Linus' paycheque, but it has also become a bit of a lobbying group to steer Linux into more proprietary software.
Ridiculous of you to detach a factual counterpoint, but not the logically invalid parent.
So, when will cl support two-phase name lookup?
The name is familiar, but doesn't ring a bell. After a cursory overview of his Wikipedia page I didn't see anything that jumps out at me as disqualifying.
Twin bets aren't adult-sized, they're for kids. And full-size beds are basically obsolete, or just for short people. They're simply too short, given that people are taller now than they were 50 years ago. Queen size is now the minimum normal adult size bed in the US; that's why you see them marketed as the "average-size bed for two people".

If you're single and really want to save space, you can get "long twin" mattresses, which is exactly half the size of a king mattress, and also the size of the foundation used under a king mattress (x2). But most single people these days just get a queen size, because it's long enough for most people while providing plenty of space to spread out, but also gives you sufficient space in case someone spends the night with you... Limiting yourself to a (long) twin size makes it rather difficult to have a guest for the evening unless you're really thin, which Americans generally aren't these days.
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Not sure I would trust getty that much: http://petapixel.com/2016/07/27/photographer-suing-getty-ima...
FB is only a platform for social media, not the source of news stories, so I found it irking they were calling FB to task on this.

The NYT claims to be a news journal, a source of news, and then openly admits bias. Fact-checking seems to be in question too. Maybe not fake news, but wishful news at best.
I really expected this to be behind a registration or survey form but no - just a straight link to a dmg no questions asked, can't believe it's Microsoft.
I googled and it's probably this one http://www.thewoodworkingpodcast.com
The tl;dr based on this talk[0] by acdlite is that they're looking to separate out high-priority and low priority rendering, so you don't end up (for instance) with animations that are janking because item #12,141 in your list hasn't rendered yet. They're using requestIdleCallback and requestAnimationFrame to schedule the work. Sounds like the architecture of fibers themselves is very heavily inspired by the way a call stack is implemented.

[0]: https://youtu.be/aV1271hd9ew
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Pricey! And while the touch bar is an excellent addition, I wish they didn't remove function keys. Half of my IntelliJ IDEA shortcuts are mapped to function keys. :( Also, no CUDA. I understand it isn't Apple's fault to stick with AMD instead of nVidia, however, OpenCL is not nearly as popular as CUDA-based frameworks.

For the moment, for the same price I've assembled the ultimate desktop: Core i7 6700K, 32G RAM, nVidia GTX 1080, 2x512 SSD, 4K display. I don't know what else to wish for. OK, I'll have to live with Ubuntu, but the hardware is worth it.

I am keeping my thin Macbook'2015 for travel-related stuff: 80% of tasks I can do with that, and for remaining 20%, I can do remote desktop connection to my home machine.
I've seen a few domains for specific upcoming events like this lately. I wonder if it'll take off and inspire someone to make a "yet" TLD.
We aren't really having a conversation now. I explained why I don't think it could/should be interpreted as racist. You had an opportunity to share with me why it could be, allowing me to perhaps be enlightened and form a new opinion; however, you chose to throw insults and shut down the convo.
I'm paying as well for my personal account.

But, I am having a hard time justifying switching my entire family over. A family of 4 is $20/mth, that's 25% of the cost of my internet connection and seems rather steep.
Does Google Earth have some sort of real-time weather capability? That would really help us get the last mile.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12939547
I think this is the point that is obscured when discussing "manual memory management" vs "GC" languages and just focusing on the behaviour/life-cycle of an individual allocation: the former generally provide tools and features that make easier/more natural to avoid allocations, whereas the latter makes the assumption that allocation is usually OK (which is, of course, a perfectly acceptable trade-off for the domains those languages target).
I don't have suggestions for specific people but my favorite episodes so far were ones where the founders went more in-depth into their industries; eg Docker, Plaid, Flexport.

Also enjoyed the ones where they talk about how they got their first users. In many episodes the conversation I felt skipped this or spent too little time on it.
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Laughs aside, clearly there's a conflict of interest here. While I'm sure the vast majority of archeologists are ethical, it must still add some amount of unconscious bias to a question that already depends so heavily on interpretation.
They're not actually simple and we don't actually get to play god with populations of actual people interacting in the real world under different conditions. We can devise experiments that (imperfectly) try to compare the results of different legal and other environments on outcomes. And some compelling results in economics come about from creating especially interesting "experiments" in this manner.
That's a pretty good idea. I was thinking a reason why this may exist is because there is an organized profit motive on the publisher / advertiser side. They make more money by controlling the user experience, and they make no money by leaving it to the users, because then their ads will be dodged, their in-site links won't be followed and their users will bounce away.

Perhaps, if some sort of fully anonymozied microtip system was integrated into the pages as well then it could work. I am thinking essentially something at the protocol level, where when the HTTP request is made there is a microtip HEADER, the site would collect the tip and respond with simply marked up text. Otherwise the response is the ad riddled tracky garbage we all have to suffer through currently. It would give the publishers some sort of profit incentive to come back over to the users side.

There would be an expectation to provide a second tip automatically managed by the browser after some reasonable amount of time unless the user cancels it, because the article sucked. I think with time (or maybe right off the bat) only the second tip exists as publishers get to trust users more.

I don't think the tips would have to be very large to make it work either. I do think having it integrated right into the browsers ui is pretty important. I also think having a standard protocol and anonymous system (though one which a user could opt out of if they wanted to demonstrate patronage publicly) is also important. And I think that having the tip automatically go through unless the user opts to cancel it either immediately via button in the browser or within a day or a week (in some history blotter, where they could also just send pay it immediately) or whatever is pretty important.
That really depends on how often you write to the drive. I don't have specs for the mac SSD, but the EVO 950 pro which is in a similar category has an endurance of 400TB. Quite a lot but you can use up a surprising amount of data on temporary writes.
For the uninitiated, is there somewhere where I can read about Ember tooling? What are the pieces of tooling that you particularly rely upon?