skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, this article is really not surprising to anyone who isn't a boomer. I look around and see smart, hardworking people with some of the "best" jobs in the nation (doctors, lawyers, programmers, etc.) who can't afford to buy a home. Between student debt, the cost of living, nearly 50% taxation (and rising in CA), wage stagnation, and real estate greed... it's nearly impossible even for those young people who are doing well. If you ask me, the boomer generation certainly left it (far) worse than they found it.

Thanks, boomers, for de-regulating banks, leading to financial instability that continues to this day.

Thanks, boomers, for the 2007 Great Recession.

Thanks, boomers, for buying up homes in 2008 at a discount, and selling it back to the next generation at an exorbitant price. Your "investment" is literally why we have a housing crisis.

Thanks, boomers, for the massive mismanagement of federal, and local governments.

Thanks for the wars, boomers.

Thanks, boomers, for some historical wage stagnation.

It's no surprise that people are struggling to afford a home, and waiting to start a family.
Me too. Grokked JS promises but async/await threw me. Why is single-threaded async, eg. Node and Python/AsyncIO, such a big deal when we have languages like Elixir, Go and Clojure which have real concurrency and no trade-offs?
And after that one strip, it dropped back down to 0 pretty quickly.

It seemed to a lot of people that Tim Buckley realized "oh hey I don't want to have a baby in the strip" and decided to get a cheap emotional punchline while he was writing himself out of that self-inflicted hole.

But when your comic has less depth than your average Garfield comic, it doesn't work out so great.
In this case I believe it would have to be "fair" due to the political power of home owners in most areas of the United States. The fastest way to lose every vote from Suburbia is to lower the value of their greatest investment.
I don’t see Google getting the same kind of backlash as Facebook even though Google probably knows far more about me. For most people Google has real utility while Facebook is an indulgence.
> In India, there is the opposite effect: Because brides are scarce, families are under less pressure to save for expensive dowries.

So weird. Note that it says "less" pressure, not no pressure. Women are in short supply, yet their culture still requires the bride's family to pay the groom to take her? More evidence that those macroeconomic supply and demand curves are nonsense.
This is not what Wt was built for, but there's a similarity...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wt_%28web_toolkit%29
It would be great if this could be done with JUCE too!
Getting into the housing market a few years before the 08 crash and joining the workforce during the crash produce extremely different results. The envy i have for people 5 years older then me are difficult to explain away sometimes.
BureaucracyTube -- the creators get no support or feedback, the networks get no control over their clients, and the advertisers get played like a fiddle by the loud minority of the easily offended.

Personal agency is dying, and Silicon Valley is, sadly, complicit.
I'm arguing that the definition of "gender equality" you are advocating for is definitely a western one. You can't argue your definition of equality while trying to feign anti-colonialist attitudes, that's a disingenuous position. I personally don't take issue with you (or anyone for that matter) arguing for their own cultural values over another (at least then we are having an honest discussion). I can't tolerate a position that tries to feign an obviously western-centric position while virtue-signaling as culturally indifferent.
Doesn't Duolingo operate on roughly the same principles?
I understand that. The question was why people would make memes out of this comic strip.
Driving you to this conclusion is part of that plan:

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/11/identity-politics-an...

"A particularly potent political grouping would be for older people, particularly retirees, to team up with young people on economic issues. So it’s not surprising that some political mavens are trying to make sure that doesn’t happen. One of the strategies of the plutocrats comes from financier Jay Gould : “I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half,” except this time, they aren’t even having to hire one half to turn it against the other.

Just as I’ve noticed an sharp uptick in women’s identity articles, I’ve also seen a ramping up of generational warfare and anti-baby-boomer messaging (I have as much antipathy towards broad comments about baby boomers as I do women). This phenomenon admittedly has deeper roots, since billionaire Pete Peterson has been campaigning against Social Security and Medicare since the mid 1980s, and presenting old people as something society can’t afford is part of his strategy. But he’s been joined by fresh troops, such as Fix the Debt and billionaire Stan Druckenmiller’s overt campaign to turn young people against older ones, The Can Kicks Back."
I wouldn't call it "spoiling the fun", half the fun of Elder Scrolls games is that you can become transcendent.

In Arena, you start humbly, but rise high enough that you destroy Jagar Tharn, one of the most powerful mages in the whole of the history of the Elder Scrolls games.

In Daggerfall, you're the right-hand man of the Emperor, and seek out a world-ending superweapon, and may just take it for yourself.

In Morrowind, you are a god, or very close to. The reincarnation of the Nevarine. That you can become overpowered makes sense. Bandits should fear you. Ordinary people should.

In Oblivion, you're the right-hand man of someone who ascends. You walk into literal Hell and fight demons. The bare mysteries of the world are laid clear by you. You steal the book of spells of immortal characters.

In Skyrim, you're descendant from a man who became a god. You have a gift that can shatter the heavens, and break open portals between worlds. You kill the son of Akatosh.

You're right, it is design, because it makes sense.
The corresponding paper is at https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.00994 : Dynamics on expanding spaces: modeling the emergence of novelties
What Is It Like to Be a Dolphin?
> And yet, look where they are today versus blacks. How did that happen?

Some might interpret this uncharitably. To defray that potential, would you mind giving us a hint as to what you've found / are suggesting?
"the new kid on the block, Razor Pages"

I'm not sure that's actually true? I thought I did cshtml pages without all the MVC bits around MVC 3 or 4.

Is this perhaps just a branding/naming thing?

Update: Haven't found a good reference yet, but it seems to have been around when WebMatrix was still supported, but I don't think I actually had to use it to develop the site that was cshtml files.

Update 2: ASP.NET Web Pages with Razor Syntax was what it was called. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/web-pages/overview/g...

I'm not going crazy!
Swirling liquids work similarly to Bitcoin
Let me make it more clear for you. The feed back loop of getting paid, is that you are being productive in the market place for producing goods or services that are in demand in the market place. Handing somebody "free" money takes from the productive sources that earned the money and distributes it to people randomly. What did the person receiving the money provide to the market place, rather than simply existing? Truly, if UBI was high enough, there would be no incentive to work at all, and you might be able to live quite comfortably with not working if you pair it with food stamps and all the other "free" things the government provides. What's preventing unambitious people from not working, having children and perpetuating the cycle? Over time, this would drain further and further on the system because you've created a false dynamic in the market place that rewards those that do nothing. This is the same reasoning behind wanting to get rid of non essential foods (like hot Cheetos, ect.) from EBT cards. You should not be happy receiving welfare benefits or UBI, you should be uncomfortable enough to be ambitious to find a real job in the market place to better your living condition.
The price of a house goes up.
It’s called appreciation, but it mimics inflation much more. Except in certain volatile areas, housing has not been an inordinately good investment, but it is an inflation hedge. Housing is illiquid, does indeed depreciate, and often must be relinquished to be “spent.” Lack of savings or income so low it precludes savings are more important than housing as a source of inequality.
The only difference between "military-style firearm enthusiasts" and "hunters" that I've noticed is that the hunting focused crowd rarely shows interest in platforms like the AR-15 but they loooooove to talk about/argue about handguns. All the hunters in my family rareoy discuss their field guns (there's really not much to discuss about the differences between one .308 bolt action/12ga pump or inertia shotgun and another) but god forbid they get started on a 9mm/.45 debate or their umpteenth Wonder 9/1911 argument. Basically, the difference boils down to one of defensice ideology, tacticool people believe in the benefits of the modern carbines/rifle concept while hunters believe in the benefits of a CCW and/or bedside handgun instead.
> And yet, look where they are today versus blacks. How did that happen?

Generally I don't like to compare the struggles amongst minorities in America. There is a multitude of factors that come into play when analyzing these types of things..

But when you look at the history of discrimination vs. black people in America you need to go back and consider the effects all the way back from slavery, to Reconstruction/Redemption, Jim Crow, discriminatory housing policy, discriminatory lending, discriminatory policing, discriminatory criminal "justice", disenfranchisement on multiple levels, lynching, etc. etc. etc. This is 400+ years of compounding discrimination against black people.

I'm not saying the Vietnamese and Cambodians (and for good measure the Irish & the Italians) did not have it bad.. but I think we need to look at this with a broader lens.
Property title insurance is a great example. With blockchains it should be possible to reveal the owners of all properties and all transactions in order to remove ambiguity from the system. It is true that constructing and making use of such data implies trust in some sort of organization or process, but a robust store of ownership data is currently beyond keeping of property title records as currently performed by entrusted government entities.
This seems to ignore confounding factors:

- divorce/single head-of-household rate. Over 75 probably has a much higher marriage rate than younger. If you divide that wealth into two households, how does it look?

- shift to private ownership of retirement accounts. In 1989, pension plans, etc., were much more common. These wouldn't count as personal wealth as they are income-maintenance, rather than an asset.
> More evidence that those macroeconomic supply and demand curves are nonsense

You'll throw out reams of evidence because it doesn't match a marriage "market" in a developing country undergoing a cultural shift?
Now this is useful :O
Qt for desktop node sounds like a great idea. Because then it is native and fast. But qt in this case would not be webassembly but rather bindings to JavaScript.
There was a detailed article and discussion on that yesterday, and it isn't so straightforward: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16899541
Just got the same email. What a bummer. Detour is a great app that I always look forward to using in new cities.
They could, but they don't want to.
Yep! Looks like the silent hardware upgrade happened in v5.0.0 of the OS.

Here's a youtube video published March 13th talking about it: https://youtu.be/ZzsbDGDwg1U?t=5m17s

And here's a related reddit discussion on the nintendo switch subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/8588c1/50_w....
Sure i get that. But most cases global entry is a real time and stress saver.
> Yea, this article is really not surprising to anyone who isn't a boomer. I look around and see smart, hardworking people with some of the "best" jobs in the nation (doctors, lawyers, programmers, etc.) who can't afford to buy a home. Between student debt, the cost of living, nearly 50% taxation (and rising in CA), wage stagnation, and real estate greed... it's nearly impossible even for those young people who are doing well. If you ask me, the boomer generation certainly left it (far) worse than they found it.

Is this a national problem you're seeing, or one specific to CA/NYC/etc.? I suspect it much be a local problem, since I can't see doctors, lawyers, and programmers having a hard time affording a home outside a few very specific locations.
It's not quite as interesting as a lot of stuff here, nor is it something I can link to just yet, but I'm writing a book about interviewing for product management roles. I took a sabbatical recently and have just started interviewing, and already I've had very mixed experiences - some really well organized and thought out, and others that were clearly thrown together with no thought.

I started taking notes on what was good/bad, so I could ensure we have a good process wherever I end up. Then I started writing a book out of that. Then I realized there's not quite enough content for a book there, but I can still help improve the process by preparing interviewees. So that's what I'm doing now - about 20,000 words in so far!
"I'll go talk to the stakeholders to find out their requirements... in the meantime, you guys start coding."

http://www.modernanalyst.com/Resources/BusinessAnalystHumor/...
Being hired into a do-nothing job is usually considered a perk.
> advertisers get played like a fiddle by the loud minority of the easily offended.

It seems you can replace the first word in that sentence with many others and still accurately describe much of modern society.

I wonder if it was always so? Perhaps the same technology that brings offence to them allows the offended to shout loudly their displeasure with it.
You're right in that .223/5.56 is only useful for game up to your typical southeastern Doe or small Buck but milsurp rifles are a thing of the past. Not only is a decent Mosin ~$350 these days, they are awful, awful hutning rifles for a dozen+ reasons. A Savage Axis is the better comparison but it costs about the same as a budget AR-15 and either option is so cheap it's hard to argue against buying both.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/fcc-tries-to-mak...
Nv-Wavenet: Better Speech Synthesis Using GPU-Enabled WaveNet Inference
> “Homeownership is a gerontopoly. Most housing wealth is held by older Americans.”

So what? They worked hard for that, that is in fact how wealth works. You work hard for a long time to build wealth and by the time your old you hopefully have something.

This whole article shits on older people and effectively blames them and home ownership for wealth inequality. It is the most obvious study ive seen but blaming people will not fix anything.

I will likely get downvotes for this but that is fair. We will all get old at some point and if we don’t have anything at that point we didn’t do it right.

Just stop blaming others for shit, get to work this is the best time on the history of the earth to get wealthy. Better than any other period of human history. Just get it done.
> In my opinion there is a clear line from redlining, blockbusting, white flight & loan discrimination to the massive wealth gap among races we see today

Yes! And due to inheritance, wealth propagates within racial lines. White families build wealth subsidized by the government and have white kids, who have a huge advantage over non-whites due to the historical wealth accumulated.

It is a self-reinforcing and self-propagating process, and now, old whites use zoning laws to extract value from younger generations, particularly non-whites and poor whites, whose families don't own real estate.
Playing with CSS is easier than ever!

https://codepen.io/
As far as timelines go, Gwynne Shotwell is in an entirely different class than Elon Musk. If you haven't watched the video, you should, there's some interesting tension going on between her and Elon.

If she says it'll happen in the next X years, I'll put it at a >75% chance of being accurate. If Elon said something like that, i'd put it at 33% chance.
So why are housing prices rising? Maybe it’s the young people willing to pay ever increasing prices. Maybe they are responsible for shooting themselves in the foot?
>And yet, look where they are today versus blacks. How did that happen?

All blacks? Methinks you've tipped your hand.

I'll indulge you though and wonder, bemusedly, if immigrants have different social structures and expectations of a country than a formerly enslaved ethnic minority whose social cohesion and family structures have been systematically dismantled and obliterated. Whose social traditions and cultural ties have been intentionally wiped out for centuries?

Could an immigrant's cultural identity and ties to other immigrants with shared goals and expectations allow for a beneficial cooperative framework wherein alternative banking and lending structures are available to the newly arrived?

Could a society that still murders members of its citizenry disproportionately due to their ethnic and historical legacy (and a legacy no fault their own) really offer a framework beyond simple survival to such a minority?

Could the difference between being a foreigner in your new home and a "foreigner" in your own actual home country encourage different outcomes?

All these questions...
Levy solid capital gains taxes retrospectively, use that money to compensate recent buyers. Those that made a killing are still ahead (although less so), those that made losses are compensated.
We've also never had a nuclear war. So what was (is?) all the fuss about?
In this case I would read "check-boxing" as "reducing to a simple optimisation loop without considering the implications of what you're optimising for".

Granted, I'm doing some pretty heavy interpretational lifting there, but that optimisation loop is something I see as common to productivity, video games, social media, and many other obsessions of the nerdosphere. It feels good to give your optimiser a constant stream of feedback, even if trivial.

Of course, now our optimisers are being manipulated by much larger optimisers that run on engagement metrics rather than dopamine. Where did the intuition to build these myopic hyperoptimisers come from? Surely not the same people who grew up minmaxing character attributes or building spreadsheets for optimal daily task efficiency? When you gaze into the optimiser...

Weird that we managed to turn society into a GAN.
It depends on why you do a business in the first place.

If you want to have lots of money and retire early, you might as well just join a big software company. If you can't join them, then you'd do well making a lifestyle business.

If you want power, you'll want to grow as big as possible as fast as possible.

If you want to have a positive impact on the world, you'll also want to scale your solution bigger and faster.
I think the majority of businesses actually do bootstrap / focus on organic growth that is self-funded. The reason you don't hear more about them is due to an entire industry existing around startups and as a result they (i.e. those in the startup industry including those running them) end up 'talking their book' as often and loudly as they can. There really isn't a comparable industry around lifestyle/slow-and-steady types of businesses. So when you see people hyping startups, follow the money and you'll often see what their motivation is. Usually it is self-interest rather than altruism that motivates the conversation.
It’s all the white mans fault!
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A lot of these patterns have been in place since the 70s. I don't think it's as simple as blaming a diverse age cohort.
https://www.superteam.io/

I've been working on it for a while, gaining momentum with customer and freelancer base. We're at ramen profitability at the moment, still trying to grow.

If anyone has a project or wants to work on other people's projects for money, let us know!
$666.66 was bold.
How itch.io uses Coroutines for non-blocking IO (2016)
So you don’t think there would be any inflationary impact if you gave everybody, to use an extreme example, an extra 1 million dollars a month? I guess I don’t really see how that’s possible but I’ll admit much of economics is over my head.
What you musn't lose sight of is the effect of the prolonged low interest rate environment on asset prices. Money is cheaper to borrow so zero-sum competition for things like good schools drives prices up. The beneficiaries of this are older people who owned property before the low interest rate environment. The people who'll pay for it are those who are buying now, and will continue to pay well into the future. Thus the inter-generational transfer of unearned wealth.
It’s half and half. This scheme defeats Nintendo’s attempt to control what console owners do with their own hardware, it’s true. But it also allows console owners to be exploited by malicious hardware (say, a cheap charger).
> The author believes that writing, and especially writing in America, is devalued to such an extent that he personally feels a sense of loss and fear. His advice to himself and others is that writing and self-expression has real value outside of whatever the people around you ascribe to it.

I don't see why he would feel loss and fear. Do you think you could break it down for me? I mean, American culture is particularly toxic and anyways, one should not be influenced by it but rather think for himself. I would expect as a writer he would be aware that writing in itself is for the writer, first and foremost, then for anyone else. With that said, why would it matter if a particular culture devalues writing? A writer knows inwardly that words and words alone are beyond powerful. It just seems he is already aware of the falseness of American culture, so why feel loss and fear in regard to what it devalues? It's all gravy, just write.
Hope one of these helps with your problem:

https://github.com/step-/JSON.awk

https://github.com/dominictarr/JSON.sh
"Africa: Is an entire continent, and reducing its 1.2 billion inhabitants to "where to begin" is incredibly insulting to their individual histories and experiences."

Spare us the knee-jerk virtue signaling. I'm insulted that you fine such anodyne statements of basic fact insulting.
It's interesting that there is a similar imbalance in China and India (~35m). That implies to me that the imbalance was not caused by the one child policy, but by sonograms and abortions.
BenevolentAI: worth $2B?
I just signed up. I added one RSS feed (Reddit programming sub) and then tried to add another Google keyword.. it popped up trying to charge me..
Supply and demand curves are microeconomic, not macroeconomic. Also, they predict continuous changes to equilibrium (what we're seeing here) and not sudden jumps to zero (what, I agree, isn't happening.)
This might just be what it is like to be in the middle of a curve that will eventually reach 0.

Perhaps in a few decades the dowry will be flipped or gone altogether, but it takes a while to change culture - even when you have macroeconomics on your side :)
>However if you move along any line that's not parallel to x or y axis then both x and y value change simultaneously.

A third orthogonal axis is neither parallel to x and y, nor do x and y vary as you move along it.

Replace parallel with linearly indepent, and you are spot on.
I was not but would be interested in seeing the slides. Are they publicly available?