skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm just old, but my 101 econ texbooks made no mention of behavioral economics and very little of welfare economics. Those were in the wishy washy electives bucket.

I'd actually like to try this experiment, irl. My guess is that the majority of micro teachers today would deal with "What was Keynes' mistake" in the "tweak and defend" way. At most traditional economics schools, LSE or whatnot, I'd put money on it.

Look... I think what you're describing is an effect, not a cause. Social science theories, when faithfully implemented, have had some terrible results.

Formal, orthodox economics still holds a lot of power in the most formal bureaucracies like the IMF, central banks, UN agencies, etc. They like legible, citable orthodoxy. They like to have a beyond reproach "scientific basis" or expert consensus for policies.

There's a noteworthy principle-agent-ish aspect to this. Social science strongholds tend to exist outside of both market and electoral discipline. A municipality or HR department isn't, so social science doesn't thrive there.

All this is a matter of degrees though. Social sciences still do have influence, certainly at the national-political level.

Slight tangent: I'm not actually very familiar with Romer, beyond the basics. Was Endogenous Growth Theory the basis for higher education subsidies, or is that a different flavour of human capital theory?
Yeah, right. Everyone is unhappy when they are the underdog, had the Store not been a failure and the tune would be something else.
What serious business, be it B2C or B2B, in today's software world, doesn't require a mobile app on either iOS and Android or a desktop app on Chrome/Windows/macOS?
This is such a great idea in a country where healthcare is so expensive, giving peace of mind for kids of aging parents, and for hopefully parents themselves. Good luck with this app!
What does understand mean? Notation is just that, notation.

I think that the single biggest advantage one can have (in programming that does something "non-trivial" - loaded term I know, rather than as a person) is to have a firm grasp of the mathematical basis of their work. It's so much easier to start something new when you can derive it yourself.

If you have the time, I recommend "Advanced Engineering mathematics" for the gap between calculus to applications and other topics like Linear Algebra, analysis, and graph theory.

If you just want a mapping of symbols to words try LaTeX documentation

A la https://oeis.org/wiki/List_of_LaTeX_mathematical_symbols
This is really interesting, thanks for the comment.

When I see things like drawings of genitalia on walls drawn 30,000 years ago, I tend to not think of humanity as some juvenile species but rather feel very connected to our proto-selves. It's fascinating to me that a lot of the things we thought about or conceptualized then are the same things we do now. Obviously our experience is much more expansive now, but like you mentioned, a lot of the base motivations are the same.

I always wonder too if people 50,000 years ago laughed when someone farted like we do...
> radioactive weigh that will melt the ice over a decade?

I've thought about this as well. I think there are "Prime Directive" type concerns with this approach though.
How about we regulate them instead? We can force them to change using the power of the state.
For anyone who didn't immediately know it -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-FI6D8ZXpc
There should be a way to integrate RSS with a payment model. People should be free to get content they want in any app of their choice based and still be able to pay for it.
For sure whomever is in charge of their DNS found out about this the same time we did.
You mention the word merit. Are you advocating for meritocracy?
TBF this is an academic article though. Why should total accessibility of language to non-experts be a goal in that venue exactly? Isn't it reasonable to expect that other educated people will check the citations?

Also in this case it looks like the authors are from business schools. Business buzzwords are a well known and common absurdity. On the other hand, I might be freaked out if random names for stuff started coming out of logic or maths circles.
The issue, I think, is not that Apple sets draconian rules in their store. Their store, their rules.

It's that I, a user, cannot choose to sideload an app I want to use on my device or choose to use a different store.
I hope you're right, but this is an extremely optimistic view that does not have much historical precedent.
"heterodox academy" Seems like a bunch of conservative hacks trying to launder their beliefs through the language used by liberal types ( whose "safe spaces" campaigning and constant woke-scolding I am not particularly fond of either... but I know whose side I am on. ) .

That someone would try to trot out "cognitive ability" as support for "free speech", aka supporting "heterodox" viewpoints is laughable. "Science PROVES conservatives are smarter!"

Free speech for whom? Safe enough for whom?

https://xkcd.com/1357/ comes to mind. I realize it is a trite observation, but the fact of the matter some aphorisms contain a lot of wisdom.
It feels pretty widely used to me, I mean yeah slow start and all but that's to be expected
How does that work exactly?

If anything there are tons of examples where the presence of a gun played a big part in the shooting ...
Honestly, I don't think that's as crazy as it sounds. AI/ML-driven feeds often promise more than they actually deliver and by now more and more people are starting to realize that AI/ML is not the holy grail it was made out to be, at least in situation where you cannot throw massive resources at the problem.

Maybe not exactly in the form of webrings, but who knows, why wouldn't it be time for the pendulum to swing from the whole AI hype back in the other direction? There is a lot to be said for conscious curation on your terms and your devices vs algorithmic decisions made in the cloud for you.
We need the same solution as the one Microsoft implemented in Windows N.

Once you set-up your new phone (android, iOS whatever), you get to select your default app store. Different stores will have different cost / curation structures, but it will be the user’s decision to make.

The OS manufacturer can still require that all of the apps need to be digitally signed to allow them to be installed, regardless of the store, to guarantee system safety.

Mobile App stores in 2020 are what browsers were to Windows in 90’s.
Any shortseller with a lot of money would have an interest in bringing them down sooner rather than later.

Their financial trickery was exposed in early 2019 and then was overwhelmingly confirmed by the end of 2019.

If you were trying to make some money on their stock tanking, timing it would have been anywhere from extremely difficult to impossible.
On macOS at least, Zoom has a list of accepted virtual cameras. I think it has something to do with code signing. You can disable code signing in Zoom, and it will let you use OBS / unsupported virtual cameras, but it then won't be able to do screen sharing.
Whilst it’s true that fewer and fewer consumers use RSS, it’s still a very powerful way for aggregators to source stories and drive readers to the original publisher. Think about it more as an api for building a “shopfront” for your news stories and the fact that most publishers still provide RSS makes much more sense.
You're not a user in any meaningful way of every subcomponent of a product.
Apple is not a monopoly! They have a majority (not monopoly) on a very specific US-based market. They aren't the only US market, and they are a small international market.

Apple isn't even the #1 handset manufacturer (they are #3 or #4 depending on who you ask), and far and away isn't the #1 laptop manufacturer.

The attitude that it is a monopoly is exactly the disconnect between this article and your comment. The article thinks your market will just move without different revenue models. That is difficult, it's probably better to find a different market and revenue model.

Your comment is saying that it's worth trying to get Apple to change. That is difficult, near impossible, where they have no incentive to change unless you threaten change yourself with a different market/revenue model.

It seems like your hand is forced - you must do both. You must have a compelling market outside of Apple somehow, and you must petition Apple to change so you can keep access to their market.

I have strong feelings about Apple & Google making "markets" that are not fair/regulated the way I would like - but this idea that it's a monopoly to be "broken up" is not representative of reality.
Annotation systems don't have to be public. The default should be private with an option to make parts public as necessary. Comments in some sense are annotations that are anchored at the wrong place and with the wrong visibility (public instead of private).

The main value of annotations is as a personal knowledge system anchored on top of public knowledge. As one's private knowledge grows it eventually reaches a point where it needs to be summarized. A good annotation system helps with this summarization process (which mostly comes down to having a good search and navigation system).

I think annotations can be made to work but the starting point has to be about personal use and not public use.
As an alternative solution that doesn't depend on defining what a monopoly is, or how to boycott a large brand, how about forcing companies to apply the same terms to everybody?

I think at least part of the core of the problem is that Apple applies their subscription requirements differently depending on who owns the app. That is what I think needs to stop. If Yo has to do it one way, then Google, Microsoft, Netflix and Spotify should have to do it the same way too.
Yeah I'm not really taking issue with what the study does or doesn't say. More a hypothetical about what happens in a more every day setting.
It is common in modern history for the opponents of free speech to use it in order to quash it. As far back as the French Revolution, royalists were happy to take advantage of the free speech guarantee of the 1793 constitution with the express purpose of destroying it.
Cool! I'm glad you read my comment. I appreciate that you went through the effort to make a blog post (my comment is very low effort in comparison). I hope it came off as constructive.
Isn’t the Wikipedia current events portal just that?
You can do that question for anything. TCP, HTTP, DNS ...
100% this.

A website is exercising their own freedom of speech when choosing not to publish or carry something.

If we oppose this idea then we need to create an alternative to that monopoly. Either in the private, or the public sector.
> Back before the age of SPAs we had those "dynamic" apps which updated parts of the DOM by firing requests to the backend, getting a piece of rendered HTML and just throwing it there.

> It was an absolute nightmare to maintain and I'm happy we're past that.

Yeah, this model was adopted by noted failure GitHub and look where it got them.
No one wants 255556 notifications/news per day.
I disagree that Apple has a monopoly. The iPhone doesn't even have 50% marketshare in the US, and globally it's significantly less.

https://www.counterpointresearch.com/us-market-smartphone-sh...

Not only are there alternatives, the alternatives are extremely similar to the iPhone.

Another interpretation for users who complain loudly but never switch: it just doesn't bother them that much. It bothers them enough to tweet and blog about it, but not enough to actually inconvenience themselves by switching phone platforms.

Apple knows this, and that's why it doesn't change. And it won't change until people actually act instead of just talk.
Most people probably don't push their definition of free speech that far. If I kick someone out of my house because they are being an asshole, that doesn't feel like an infringement on their free speech to me.
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How is it better (or worse!) than Delaware? Reporting requirements for Delaware C Corps are pretty lax from what I have seen. I even recall reading somewhere that few Americans were ensnared by the Panama Papers scandal [1] because they could just register in Delaware.

p.s., Sorry any Delaware residents. You live in a very nice state.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers
This argument has been made back and forth many many times. Private property rights vs. privatization of public spaces. Quantity becoming quality. Etc.

Surfice to say that when a corporation controls more "territory" than most state governments, when a very small number of corporations control the vast, vast majority of communication channels, the rules must change to maintain the access of the people to the new public square.
Apple :D, for long time you've been doing whatever you want.
Hogwash

Email works fine. I am in months long conversations with academics and thinkers around the world.

Signal works fine. Same story as above.

What’s dying is your historical connectivity to specific ideas.

That’s hardly a sign fascism and censorship are settling in.

And really you’re saying it was impossible for anyone to blindly get addicted to an RSS feed, just reading whatever is posted to it?

Good grief. Your brain is experiencing chemical shock over one of thousands of epistemological inventions going away. That’s akin to the dark ages literally returning?

Perhaps your connection to current events is coloring your thoughts here. RSS still exists. History wasn’t sucked into a black hole.

This is what’s deflating about the tech scene. All these weird hills to die on, as if some favored bespoke language that is only 10-12 years old anyway losing popular favor means 1984 is upon us!
Ideally ordering would be assured by construction, as if units were listed out in one file. But that would not compose easily.

I'd start by adding an optional priority number to each unit, which if supplied would form an ordering that units were always executed in. A unit having the priority number should also be less likely to be chosen for dropping, as they'd likely to be distribution-supplied units that were better debugged. This would make it much easier to narrow down the source of a logical conflict, and drop sensible units.

That only addresses the one gripe I brought up as an example though, and not the general pattern. For instance another issue I've run into is this automagical hacks that parse fstab crypttab etc and make units at boot time, while not actually supporting all the customary options of those files.

In general it feels like if systemd were written in a modern language, traditional distribution responsibilities (eg initrd/cryptoroot) could have been comprehensively replaced. But instead they bit off more than they could chew in C, so completeness and elegance were cast aside, and we're left with a hodgepodge of the old and new systems.
The mission study page for Europa Lander: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/europa-lander/

Europa Clipper, an orbiter, is an approved mission expected to launch in mid 2020s. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/europa-clipper/
> If you can lose your livelihood for a political opinion, you don't really have free speech, yet that's increasingly the precedent set by Silicon Valley as a reasonable consequence of unpopular political opinions.

A hypothetical for you. Let's say you're married to someone. That someone later down the line turns into a massive jerk, frequently spouting obscenities at you and has changed politically. If you divorce them, are you violating their right to freedom of speech? Should we as a society not allow divorces lest they censor someone's opinion?
The psychology behind the Supreme Court is interesting too. They seek compliance with their orders and won't rule in a way that nobody expects. They will rule in a way that many people disagree with, but it will match a possibility everyone had in mind, or they won't take the case at all.

They don't want constitutional amendments, or the need to revisit cases over and over again because the people and the states aren't satisfied. They are fine with the legislature simply changing narrowly tailored laws to avoid people from encountering the disagreement again.

So you see this in obscenity. It won't ever clarify this because it doesn't match the social contract people have with the government anymore. ie. Gore and explicit sex is so commonplace in media that it will never clarify.
AP and Reuters have excellent twitter feeds.
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Not OK with any of that crap which is why Firefox + uMatrix is the daily driver.
Stop whining, just stop buying from the company store.
RSS isn't dead, it's just not popular (never has been). Teletype wasn't popular either, still it was essential to some. And while teletype clearly requires costly specialized hardware, RSS doesn't.
I mean lets be honest. Developers actually like the iPhone as a development platform. They like how much money they make from it. They like the products themselves. They just don't want to pay the Apple commission or be restricted in any way by their rules.

Unfortunately those things are tied at the hip. The very rules and product decisions about the platform is what made it the popular and lucrative market it is in the first place.
Not e-ink, but Nokia 800 does have Google Maps.
You send emails to Google and Apple email servers at least.

You may also be recorded by Assistant or Siri when visiting friends or relatives, or even just when their phones are near you.

You likely hit Google's cloud every day when visiting websites on its platform.
I think you are using satire to make a point although you may be serious.

To play devils advocate to my own point:

There are some jobs that between those hours of 9-5 it is a dream come true. I ran an R&D team, we could buy any technology, kick off any project, success wasn't "Making a unicorn" but merely understanding something and providing guidance/insight to our executives.

It went well for several years...the party ended after leadership changed and they had new opinions on what R&D meant.

It was my dream and theirs for a period of time...then it was no longer my dream, just theirs.

I left to find my dream....I now make 5x as much doing something I love.
It certainly would be pleasant if I never heard "abolish Whiteness" ever again, yes, but I am just not so sure how far my feelings should be taken.
> "But they're wrong!"

I'm pro-free speech, but this is a pretty disingenuous take on the other side.

Pretty much without fail, the argument to restrict speech is not merely, "but they're wrong!", it's some variant of, "but they're harmful! Their speech is hurting people!"

And the truth is, quite often they're right. Not in the sense of "people's feelings are hurt by bad speech", but in the sense of, "this speech openly displayed encourages X, which is associated with actual, tangible harms to people". E.g. maybe that one racist dude isn't himself inciting anyone to violence through his screeds, but he's encouraging sentiment that does lead to real world violence and other harms.

One of the more understandable restrictions is the ban on Nazi imagery in Germany. Yes, it's a violation of free speech, but given their history one can see why they would consider this a special case.
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These gTLDs always have baggage. No one takes them seriously. If you spell it out IRL, people will append a .COM no matter what. There are also no price limits like there are for the traditional TLDs. The registrar of .SOFTWARE or whatever can squeeze you for $100k if they wanted and you were stupid enough to build a brand around the TLD. There are exceptions like .DEV and .APP which resolve fast and are owned by an entity not desperate for cash. But the random person will still append a .COM in their minds.

And the problem with ccTLDs is you never know when people might start randomly hating that country or the West goes to war with that country.

Just pay up for the dotcom.
RSS has nothing to do with notifications. In many ways it is actually the antithesis to them.
Ask average joe what IMAP is? People don't need to understand the technology they use. Anybody who can use an email client can also use a feed reader.
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This debacle is peak popcorn. "HN Darling Reinvents Email Except Really Expensive Without SMTP Support And Asserts That Apple Is Being A Meanie For Enforcing Their Revenue Model"

Yet no one is going to divest from Apple because profit/weird consumer ideology.

Also not precluding the possibility that it's all (or mostly) a big marketing act from what is clearly a marketing-first product (Hey).
I have seen mainly three groups of people who continue to use Apple products. Those who want their phones, computers etc to just work together and don't want to spend time on this. Then there are those who want to get out of the walled garden but there is too much lock-in to bother spending time on it because they have other things to do. And finally those who think Apple products are aspirational/status symbol.

So when it comes to switching from Apple, the first group doesn't need to, the second can't afford to and the third doesn't want to. Nothing much we can do about it.
Basically what @mrkwse said.

Another use case would be for esports, where spectators could potentially vote which team they want to spectate each round.

In SimRacing it could be used to select Cockpit camera, Track Camera, ...
Please. You can argue it's bad for developers, but saying it's bad for consumers is unsubstantiated and just an appeal to emotion. Whether or nor other not the cut is fair, Apple has done an amazing job running the app store - as well as the broader platform in delivering a platform used by millions that is both free from malware and spyware.
This is such a great solution in a country where healthcare is so expensive. It helps kids of aging parents, and aging parents themselves take care of their health. I bought this app for my mum on mothers day, and she's been using it!
You mean outside of that time when they crippled your Windows 7 with perma-nagware so you didn't have any option but to upgrade to Windows 10?

https://www.amazon.com/Winning-Against-Windows-10-Microsoft-...
This is a good idea actually. Figuring out a way to make HN comments visible next to the content that is being commented on would be very useful.
Hidden RSS Urls already exist. Publishers are just lazy to implement it.
One thing I really liked about their show, even when I disagreed with their conclusions, they explained how they came to them rather than call people stupid for not believing as they did.
Well, Danger, Inc. had products before some people splintered off to form Android, so it's not at all shocking to consider they had a homegrown embedded kernel and brought up a JVM on it. It's also not really shocking to speculate that experiences with that could have influenced the team of ex-Danger people when they later decided to build Android on Linux.

Whether or not this Quora user has any insider insight on this, I don't know.

Probably they could not have used Danger code, since it was owned by someone else. But you might say they replicated a similar design.
Isn't that what a PWA is? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_application
Notation varies depending on the author and subject area but a good resource for "programmer/computer science" notation is to skim through Concrete Mathematics or the preliminaries to The Art of Computer Programming -- I find this notation to be common.

In more specialized areas like type theory, first order logic, predicate calculus, temporal logic, etc you have to pick it up as you go.