skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Satoshi got it extremely wrong, to the point that if he had any economic background at all I’d suspect the first wave of crypto currencies to be a sick joke

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>coming off [the Gold Standard] heralded the greatest period of economic growth in Western history.

You got this extremely wrong, to the point that if you had any economic background at all I'd suspect your comment to be a sick joke. The US saw average growth rates of over 4% in the 19th century as it industrialised. By the time the Gold Standard was abandoned, most of the west was already thoroughly "developed", and could not grow as fast as before due to there being fewer lower-hanging fruit. This is the same reason places like China and India see growth rates of 6-8% in recent years (compared to 2-3% in the west): there are many more low-hanging fruit in a developing economy (e.g. moving the 50%+ of the population engaged in subsistence farming into more productive factory or service work).

As an aside, such language is unbecoming of anyone who wishes economics to be considered a real science. Even in physics, where it's possible to craft exact, repeatable experiments that can prove a statement true with 99.999% accuracy, practitioners still try to avoid bombast and smuggery because of how easy it is to make mistakes. Yet in economics, a field where it's difficult to even repeat the same experiment twice, and no model can predict the future anywhere near as accurately as a simple model such as Newton's laws can in physics, many practitioners seem quite comfortable making grandiose, bombastic and mocking statements with complete confidence in their own correctness. To me this smells like a consequence of economists never having been exposed to the humbling experience of having to validate their models' predictions against the real world, and not being held accountable for bad predictions.
Well, apparently this was a real question.

W3C members are visible here: https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List

Those are the members that decided that WebAssembly is now an official web standard, not the testimonials.

I'm investigating more about the voting system here, https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/ERB.html.
I think that people are fundamentally trying to find ways to love and approve themselves. They think that's found in Being. (It's not - Bob may not have it, either, but people think he does.) But they don't have that, so they try to buy it with Having or fake it with Image. And it works, a little bit... but not really.
I guess maybe they only care to deal with people who want this report badly enough to jump through some hoops?
Be able to buy something with it
Thanks for the heads up. I'm going to read it soon despite your warnings, but I'll keep what you're saying in mind while going through it.
The parent poster didn't say they weren't there, but that they are under-weighted, and I'd agree with that assessment personally.
The reason that works is that the people actively streaming are sitting right there, in front of you, interacting with you.
The worst imo are sites that mess with how opening links work.
Left click should open the link in the current tab and scroll click or Ctrl+left click should open it in new tab (without switching to that tab). Sites that mess with this and refuse to open links in new tabs really annoy me.

Thankfully floatplane doesn't seem to change any of that but you can't scroll with Vimium's [udjk] keys which kinda sucks.
Just trying to figure out what problem this project is solving.
That argument sucks. Yes there are sites with poor accessibility, but there's also a lot of sites that are fine. It would be a huge step backwards if they switched from DOM to Canvas.
No it's not, it's bigger on every dimension.

That list isn't in order of size.
"If this post becomes greyed out than it's obvious that I've hit a nerve"

Or it could be just a reasonable reaction to a conspiracy theory presented with absolutely zero evidence.

Rather than intelligence agency involvement, who are unlikely to care about debating formats, I find it far more credible that some students are just lazy, and would therefore prefer to rattle off nonsense or memorized text too fast to follow than actually do the hard work of persuading the judges with arguments they can understand.

I do wonder why the judges let them get away with it, though. I'd personally just fail whoever tried anything remotely like that.
Businesses only become profitable in a almost completely artificial human made financial landscape. There is really no reason to believe much more than a successful businessman is someone who was smart, sure, but also lucky at some very particular niche. And as bad as economists are, they're the few which are studying how that landscape's construction affects how businesses and people grow within them. That isn't to say we should blindly follow their advice, but to throw out all economists in favor or successful businessmen is looking to implement cargo cult surviorship biases.
Yes, airlines want them, airlines run on small margins and 8% better fuel efficiency is a big deal.
> we have always accepted what we see because we've assumed that things are more or less as they've been presented to us

Even this is too simple. Many people have lived under propaganda regimes, yes, many have bought into them, and many people have seen through them.

Each new wave of information technology provides new ways to “pull the wool” over peoples’ eyes.

And though a propaganda machine has power... like all things it creates and equal an opposite power that eventually destroys it. The question for individuals is only: where am I in the cycle, how long will this cycle last, and what is my role to play?
Could we be outgrowing the scientific method?
Ok, great - yes, I imagine multi-word titles are the issue. Thanks for giving this a go!
>Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms

no hits for "arbit"(ration)
One thing that might have happened to me earlier this year is I had a use case come up where I could not access my paid subscription service in the environment where I needed/wanted it most.

The (this is imaginary and made up for legal reasons) use case was I was in a limited network environment, trying to watch game of thrones when I paid for an HBO subscription. The HBO subscription offered my access through the app on my phone, but only streaming it, and with a horribly designed buffering system. It would only buffer a small portion after the current part of the video, so basically, and I could not download it to my phone through their app, so it was impossible to watch game of thrones when I wanted on release date and risk possibly running into spoilers the next day.

I would have had to resort to downloading it illegally over torrent because the subscription systems "say they solve your problems" and offer a completely legal way to watch your episodes, but miss the use cases for the small few of people who want to watch in limited internet situations. I am not a common user, I am power user, and I have not just had this type of situation happen once.

So my question now is, why even pay for the subscription service when it doesn't work when I need it most?
Clicking on the link "Power capacity limits" brings you to nothing useful. Are you looking elsewhere?
Whenever a site has text selection disabled it raises a huge red flag for me. It's pointless and screams incompetence.
Yet Again, the Actual Deficit Is as Big as the Entire Discretionary Budget
I think it’s pretty core to my thesis that economics is a practice/study that provides little to no value to anyone, so why would it need to be replaced?
Per Wikipedia, where you can follow up on the sources: "In a medical context, alcoholism is said to exist when two or more of the following conditions are present: a person drinks large amounts of alcohol over a long time period, has difficulty cutting down, acquiring and drinking alcohol takes up a great deal of time, alcohol is strongly desired, usage results in not fulfilling responsibilities, usage results in social problems, usage results in health problems, usage results in risky situations, withdrawal occurs when stopping, and alcohol tolerance has occurred with use"

Many of these don't apply to wealthy people who drink regularly, simply because they have more resources to avoid the consequences. Thus they may not be classified as alcoholics, where the same degree of consumption would classify them as such if they had fewer resources.
Nope, that wasn't my point obviously. Just highlighting it was a different time for media and analysis.
WASM is like the exact opposite of Flash. Flash was successful because of its ability to put things on screen. The ability to write code in it was secondary to the powerful vector graphics & animation system and the tooling around that.
That sounds like the idea behind Brave and BAT. But instead of crypto, you use US dollars, which I guess might work better.
This is also nice for breaking in/out of Docker containers with bind mounts.
You have to pay taxes on houses and/or vehicles forever (depending on the state).
This is a generic argument that can be used against any sort of proposed improvement. “If you don’t like the status quo, use something else”. It also comes off as defensive; I’m not sure if that’s what you intended or not.
Good questions. WASM at this point seems more a locus of JS hate than anything practical. To create something cool, novel, and useful should be the goal, not avoid or use a certain language.
Show HN: CSV file merging
I'm hearing an echo of Francis Schaeffer here. He said (circa 1980) that we didn't really have philosophy anymore, we only had antiphilosophy. We had existentialism, which dealt with the big questions but was an antiphilosophy because it did so in an irrational way. And we had linguistic philosophy, which was rational but was an antiphilosophy because it didn't deal with the big questions.

In effect, Schaeffer said, our chairs of philosophy (at universities) are largely vacant. The real philosophy is being done by people outside of academic settings.
Totally agree. And I do have an issue for this:
https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat/issues/21

Just trying to sort out how to make it work, make it look.
I'm no CPI expert, but I don't think this statement is really accurate.

Rent is including in CPI; home prices are not. See https://economics.stackexchange.com/a/4779. The sidebar should provide links to multiple other questions asking why that is the case.

Tuition and fees are included in the CPI as well. See https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/college-tuition.htm and https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/elementary-and-high-schoo...

Finally, some measure of healthcare is also part of the CPI. See https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/medical-care.htm.

It includes "out-of-pocket" expenses which in the BLI's definition means:

* patient payments made directly to retail establishments for medical goods and services;

* health insurance premiums paid for by the consumer, including Medicare Part B; and

* health insurance premiums deducted from employee paychecks.
> The US already has a big debt problem

I’m going to stop you right there. You see a large public debt and you presume, because you view debt as all household agents do (i.e., as something that needs to be repaid and that limits future discretionary spending). It’s not necessarily that way for a nation-state that (as the article seems to recount) can literally print money to make good on the debts it is running up.

The US has a big debt. A debt is, for households/firms/private individuals usually a “problem”, so a big debt would qualify as a big problem. But that doesn’t apply here.

Who would be most alarmed by a true “debt problem”? The bond-holders, one presumes. And yet there’s apparently no limit to the willingness of market participants to lend money to the US and, judging by the yields on those bonds, no suspicion of default.

There is no debt problem. There is just a big debt, because lots of money needs to be in circulation to support the massive amount of economic activity going on.
It is both. The app takes your attention and divides it up into (A) things you want to give your attention to (people you follow) and (B) things you don't (ads).

It's not just about (B). There is a tricky balancing act involved. A company that does too much (B) ends up with an app that users don't like and stop using. A company that does too much (A) produces a beloved app right up until the point that the company runs out of money and folds.
Drag and drop. It's annoying when you go to drag something and end up selecting text instead.
They're certainly not cash equivalent but I don't think it's disingenuous to include in rankings. The fact is people evaluate that number and even use it as 'competing' offers. It does sway the market liquid or illiquid. I remember when Uber was on a hiring spree a few years ago and was throwing eye-popping numbers. I had several friends switch to Uber or other companies and use the Uber offer for negotiation.
I spent three months at the beginning of this year learning Esperanto. This is the first time I speak about it in a detailed way.

My motivation was manifold: I somehow couldn't manage to learn the language of the country I was currently living in, so I wanted to try a simpler one; I was curious about Esperanto ever since I was a child; I was fed up with people learning languages because of job-related issues or infatuation with the culture (yes, they bothered me equally); I wanted to have a hobby that didn't involve my work or my friends.

My path was as follows (I am writing this as general advice for a potential learner): I first did the whole Duolingo tree, working ~2 hours per day, which took me a month, then I read the novel for beginners Gerda Malaperis by Claude Piron which everyone recommends (there was only one or two words in it which I didn't already know from Duolingo), then I read for a few weeks from Piron's Vere aŭ fantazie. This is a very nice book of stories (a work of genius, I may say) which is written carefully as to start from a limited vocabulary (smaller than Gerda, since it also aims at learners which started with other texts) and then to slowly add 8-10 new words in every chapter. I read one story per day, underlining words I didn't recognize (not caring whether I had learned them before or they were actually new) and then looking them up in a dictionary. When I finished the story, I reread the sentences which contained the underlined words. Then, the next day, I reread the last day's story before embraking on a new one. This way one slowly absorbs (almost without realizing it) a whole lot of new vocabulary. I would love to see someone doing this kind of project in a non-constructed language. After finishing that book, I started reading from Boris Kolker's Vojaĝo en Esperanto-lando, usually presented as an advanced reader, one chapter a day (I think it has three-four new words per chapter), which I abandoned somewhere in the middle.

At the end of it, I could read an advanced book written in Esperanto which felt enough like an achievement. I don't know about conversational skills, since I never talked to anyone. But even if I initially hated culture-related motivations, I longed for having a country and a culture to read about and apply my skills. I found the same problems that wccrawford is complaining about in another comment - almost no media produced in Esperanto got my attention.

There is some stuff I like about it: it sounds very cosy (even the sentences I read on the blog post above); the fixed endings make it easy to parse a sentence even if you don't know what the words mean; it has very powerful means of enriching its own vocabulary (when I was a child, I loved English because of this, let's say in this regard English is to Esperanto as Unix is to Plan 9 with regard to the Unix philosophy, so it kinda rekindled that enthusiasm). I recommend it to anyone identifying with at least one of my motivations above.
We can see one landing from the office I work in once in a while, it really looks like a flying whale over Hamburg.
Figma uses it for their design editor.

PSPDFKit uses it for their pdf editor.

Unreal Engine/Unity uses it for their browser support.

It's used in production in many places either as modules or entire apps.
https://www.fullwsj.com/articles/economists-got-the-decade-a... ;-)
Performance, primarily. Hiccup that is generated _at runtime_ is incredibly wasteful; you allocate a bunch of immutable vectors and maps, then parse them into React elements and throw them away, every time your component is rendered.

This is a constant performance tax on your application and makes Reacts tradeoffs re: virtual DOM worse. React Elements are already data (they are POJOs), so you lose nothing in terms of declarative-ness using hiccup vs. functions/macros.

If you're very attracted to hiccup syntax, you can still use hx's hiccup parser with helix (docs incoming) or try out a library I wrote called thump[0], which uses reader tags to parse the hiccup at compile time into React Elements.

0: https://github.com/Lokeh/thump/
> They would be remiss not to include this when making a statement about total compensation.

Ideally they would be separated out. But if you have to make a single ranking, it's way more misleading to include RSUs/options for private companies than would be to ignore them.
(2018) - previous submission at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18688619
L.L. Zamenhof's original dream was that other languages would eventually die out and be replaced by Esperanto

I think you're doing him a bit of a disservice here. His idea wasn't to kill other languages at all. He felt that if you only had to learn Esperanto to communicate with the rest of the world, you would, in fact, be able to spend more time enriching your own language. As he wrote in "Unua Libro":

"How different would the case be, had we but two languages to learn; we should know them infinitely better, and the languages themselves would grow richer, and reach a higher degrees of perfection than is found in any of those now existing"
Yeah, we should all write js on the web and cobol on the server. Think about how good cobol could have become.
High heels forces a posture similar to human lordosis behavior and is therefore very attractive to men, so it isn't that strange for women to wear high heels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lordosis_behavior#In_humans
My mother always told me that having kids was a sucker bet. My ancestors sacrificed for millions of years to have offspring and the first one to figure that out and cash out their chips is the winner.

Note: I was my mother's only child and an accidental baby, which caused some resentment from both parents. I got snipped in my early 20s.
Formation Flying could revolutionize transatlantic flight
The solar/RV/golfcart world has and entire ecosystem of standardized 12v DC power distribution and the appliances that use it if you really feel the need to have DC. Works pretty good...last year wired up a friends mountain cabin with 12v solar, batteries, inverter for AC, led lights, fans, dorm room sized DC fridge. Different manufacturers and everything popped together fine.
You'd have to shove awfully hard -- hard enough to crumple the metal shell of the USB connector, since it's wider than the opening in 120VAC socket. (I just tried it with a spare electrical outlet, and even with a fairly hard push and wiggling it around, I couldn't make it fit)
>200k in the bay area is scraping by

What a gross exaggeration. Had you said 90k and for a family, then sure, but unless you consider "not having a new Tesla" as scraping by, this is disingenuous.

Source: Lived in Bay Area all my life with under $200k salary, not homeless, not scraping by, saving (a little bit) of money, able to go out with friends and my hair isn't falling out from being unable to pay bills. Maybe some of the big earners out there would consider my lifestyle "scraping by" but I like to think I know the difference between "scraping by" and "living within your means".
That was one of the things I liked about the MS Sculpt Keyboard, the numpad is its own separate device. You can put it wherever you want it.
Ironically, GraalVM might end up being one of the better WASM VM: https://medium.com/graalvm/announcing-graalwasm-a-webassembl...
Can you think of some examples of photoshopped pictures which have changed history in significant ways?
It takes power away from the government. Printing money is a wealth transfer from currency holders to the printer (hence why counterfeiting is illegal), and the government has unlimited ability to do this, which in the case of a bad government can result in hyperinflation and mass impoverishment, like happened recently in Zimbabwe and Venezuela. It's harder for the government to do this with gold.
Danny Cohen, Inventor of the First Flight Simulator, Dies at 81
Input, a new tech news site
Bing Visual Search Integrated into Windows
You could hear it IIRC. The soundtrack was relatively muted, building up tension before the explosion (mostly some lightish kettle drum I think? "Stand by" Bum bum, bum "Stand by" [exterior shot] BOOM) and even after is mostly a kind of light tinkly thing, no bombast.
I don't disagree that it'd be bad, I disagree that a lot of sites won't do it anyway.
Painted Bronze Age Monkeys Hint at the Interconnectedness of the Ancient World
This is why I think people's obsession with taxes as a means for supporting public services makes 0 sense.
That doesn't work here

> because if you have multiple lines not separated by an empty line,
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> even with a "quoted" extra line, it's not formatted on hn as such, and everything collapses into a single line.
They can't carry much weight. Airplane parts are really light for their size and are basically entirely hollow.
Sure, and Time Warner is currently the only (practical) reason I can access the internet, though I can imagine a better way.
If you click through to the company page, we have a graph with breakdown of salary, stock & bonus (ex. https://www.levels.fyi/salary/Lyft/).
>, but why do I have to provide my email address to read the full report PDF?

... because the people who made the PDF content want to make a trade: your email address for their PDF whitepaper.

The industry jargon for this technique is "inbound marketing".[1]

>Is this a viable strategy?

Yes, it often is. But I do get that it annoys a lot of people. That's why 99.9% of the time, I also don't bother giving my email address just to read pdf whitepapers.

It's a voluntary trade -- and like you, I usually choose not to do it.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22inbound+marketing%22
Including YouTube views in Billboard opens door to manipulation and corruption
This is literally what YouTube Red (membership) is.
WASM isn’t very practical yet because it isn’t fully formed. There isn’t support for DOM access or parallelism, never mind the ecosystem. It’s a really ambitious project, and writing it off as “locus of JS hate” because it hasn’t completely changed the game in such a short time frame is really short sighted. It would be a fairer test to give it 5 years.
I think it's probably just that if you wanted a general-purpose large-volume cargo aircraft, this isn't what you'd design. They wanted a thing that fit very specific, odd dimensions for a particular aircraft wing, and also didn't need very many of them, so they wanted to graft this all onto an off-the-shelf airframe. It ends up having what's probably an aerodynamically suboptimal shape, but Airbus doesn't care because at their low volumes, taking the hit there is easier than designing a new aircraft from the ground up that they'll only ever need a few of. Elsewhere in the industry, this particular shape probably isn't common, and if it were, there would be demand to design something better.
Can you elaborate? Intuitively, no one I know has a "savings glut." If anything, people in my generation are saddled with debt.
The Netflix library is awful, and continues to get worse and more limited. There are multiple channels I follow that I get more watch time and utility out of than Netflix