skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is similar to what happens with humans. Females will use an app to quickly scroll through a lot of men, but because they are presented with so many options they will gravitate only toward the top tier men. But the top tier men can only be with so many females, so the majority of females will not get the top tier. However, their standards will still be raised and they will not settle for someone lower. So females will continue searching for this perfect specimen of men and refuse to mate with other males. The other males end up leaving the app and revenue is lost.
Like ∇^2 u = Δu = f? It's not really cryptic, it's taught in multivariable. And it's not done to look sophisticated, it's so that you can instantly recognize that it's Laplace, or Poisson, etc.

If I tell you B = (dA_z/dy - dA_y/dz)i + (dA_x/dz - dA_z/dx)j + (dA_y/dx - dA_x/dy)k do you instantly see what operator is applied? That's why you just write B = ∇×A.

People presenting ideas in shorter notation is not showing a lack of progress - usually it's the opposite. In old optimization papers people would write out the entire normal equations, entry by entry. Not really insightful at all, compared to A'Ax = A'b.
What’s the probability of being killed in a terrorist attack?

It happened a handful of times before in the US, then in 2001 reaction one attack spawned whole new agencies, onerous airport security changes, etc.—not to mention the longest running war in the country’s history. And for the most part, Americans were cheering about it.

Why is 9/11 revered as a national tragedy while ongoing murders by racist police are being downplayed?
Language simply doesn't work by the hecklers veto.
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Believe in the narrative of careerism, work at companies until you retire, all that. Lots of young folks are saying "it's all a scam", dropping out, buying RVs, vans, moving to farms, etc.
Exactly, it all starts with exceptions until it's time for "think about the children", "nothing to hide, right?" and it's easygame towards "safety of our people"
It’s a pyramid scam that the fed won’t allow to fail. But one day we will run out of money to print, and it will indeed catastrophically fail.

Young people are correct to outright reject this. We’re kicking the can down the road so that boomers can have one last hurrah.
I came to make this exact point. It is no surprise that billionaires, whose wealth is tied up in the companies they own large shares of, do worse when the stock market falls and better when the stock market rises than people who don't have has much wealth in the stock market.

The worrying part to me of the overall economic situation is that the actions of the Federal Reserve seems to help the stock market much more than the real economy.
Yes, I include myself in that. The system doesn't work, and it needs to be reconfigured. We've listened to decades of BS from politicians and rich people on TV telling us we just need to work harder, but the truth.

The more I learn about the financial system and how it works with government, the more I have become convinced that the whole thing is a scam, robbing the working class in a way that only benefits the very wealthy.
Couldn't you also solve this through better management? If someone isn't hitting their targets I don't think you need that kind of evidence to begin the dismissal process.
Svelte.js and Malina.js
The same web-app was built on Svelte.js and Malina.js, here is what way Malina.js is better.
What if you build your own phone with a Pi, or similar?
How would you reconfigure it?
It's not about quality, it's about freeing up frequencies for technologies that use the frequency more efficiently. DAB can cram more channels in less frequency space; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Broadcasting#Use... for details.
Budget constraints.

I know people like to fantasize that the national debt will be paid down eventually, but we are just sitting waiting for widespread budget crises and the municipal and state levels. The federal government can solve the problem with the stroke of a pen.
I've seen the opposite. I'm 35, but loads of people I know in their 20s are asking how markets work. I think they've seen markets go down and then 40% and thought "i could have made money on that"...
GP clearly said "Android flagship". Google is only selling Pixels, that's like saying iPhones are Apple's flagships which clearly says nothing.
Retirement funds are something boomers have. It's a luxury for a lot of young people if they can make it work.
Under section 1201 of the Digital Millenium Copyright, it would be illegal to install a custom ROM or repair your phone without permission from the manufacturer.

However, the Copyright office get to make official exceptions to the law and they made an exception for jailbreaking a phone. I'm not sure about repairing or installing custom ROMs. Those might fall into different categories.
> they will turn to specific performance if they think it's appropriate

Do you know of any cases with the GPL where a court has in fact done so? I'm not aware of any outcomes where code has been forcefully licensed as a penalty. Absent strange outside circumstances (like a signed contract) I'd instinctively (but without legal training) think that that a court would treat the violator as "acting without a license" rather than "had specifically agreed to the terms of a contract and then broken it".
I have noticed a lot of young people do not understand economic systems nor how macro economies work...

Anyone else seen this?
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Are the markets really "working" when the FED is making a habit of bailing them out?
The financial system as we know it today wasn't really designed but rather evolved in an era of genuine technical growth. Since we can't deliver the inputs (real innovation), but desperately try to maintain the outputs (economic growth), it has become more and more unstable (bubble prone).

There are people, like Warren Buffet, who do very well riding these waves. What I find weird is that some of them are revered on HN.
That is a vacuous statement.

Yes, profit is only a problem if money is a problem. But given money is still used by society (and will be used for decades), it is pretty obvious you cannot remove profit.

Do it, and only rich people will be able to create. No Harry Potter for us.
One promising continuation is WACUP

https://getwacup.com/
I guess the original poster is Italian...

Maybe it's about stereotypes still very strong against southern Europeans?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23718933
The young folk who say this are often ones who were sold on a lie that getting massive student loan debt for a degree from a university was a ticket to the good life and the right thing to do.

Unfortunately that’s not really true and they find they wasted a lot of time and money and have no prospects and mounting debt.
I am unsure what is meant by 'economic system' then, perhaps just the status quo? Buying RVs and starting new lives certainly keeps money flowing.
A lot of cynics on Hacker News tonight.
We need a system where a patent can be challenged in the initial period when someone applies for a patent.

For example, someone wants to patent "one click shopping". The USPTO publishes the "objective" section of the patent application. Then, during the challenge-period, someone else reads the application, implements a one-click shopping button, sends the solution to the USPTO and the patent is denied. Optionally, the person who found the solution (either by implementation or by finding prior art) is then compensated for their work by the original applicant.

The system could be extended by allowing the patent applicant to specify the expiration date for the patent, but a longer expiration time will also mean that the challenge-period will be longer and the cost for a rebuttal will be higher.
There's also the environmental issue. If you're environmentally conscious you can't work for a lot of companies, commuting becomes a problem etc. I don't know how much of a factor it is but I believe for some people it is.
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Probably the most obvious place to start would be to end programs like QE by the central bank, and replace it with UBI. Instead of giving free money to big banks and high net worth individuals, put that money directly in the hands of consumers and those who need it most.

QE can be thought of as a tool to accelerate the wealth transfer from poor to rich. Every time we go through one of these cycles the whole thing speeds up.

Additionally, I think we should reconsider the idea of making it easy to acquire debt. An economy based on debt serves only to inflate assets that are easy to acquire debt for (i.e., houses) and prices out everyone who isn't in a position to acquire debt (which is a huge number of people, mostly young and poor people, including myself).
Fantastic. DNA is not just a blueprint, it is also a state machine. I like the use of the word "methylome" to represent the state machine. The four stages of aging are intuitive; I'm pleasantly surprised that they map so nicely to the quantifiable methylome.

I think the four stages roughly apply to all vertebrates. Divers familiar with Humann and DeLoach's field guide Reef Fish Identification quickly learn that the Juvenile and Mature phases of many tropical fish (e.g. many angelfish) are drastically different.
It's a lot more visible on social media; I've no idea how well that translates into real life, and whether it also comes with disengagement from voting.

On the other hand, the Occupy movement appeared and vanished after the 2008 financial crisis without really leaving lasting traces. We've yet to see what post-COVID politics looks like; the US is bracing for the November election, and the UK facing the end of the Brexit transitional arrangements.

An entire generation of young people is going to have a disruption "fossil layer" across their education. If this isn't taken into account and employers expect business as usual, they are going to be really unimpressed.
Another good one is:

* Concrete Semantics by Nipkow and Klein http://concrete-semantics.org/, which is also an introduction to the Isabelle/HOL proof assistant and formalizes all of the PL content in Isabelle

There's also:

* Semantics with Applications: An Appetizer by Nielson and Nielson https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781846286919, apparently a newer edition of an older book I liked and which used to be available as a free PDF, but the link from my browser history is now broken
Indeed, so how can the situation be corrected?
Can just have the header always be visible?
The first one

It's similar to listening to a song over good headphones instead of crappy notebook speakers for example

You start hearing all the details that were added to the sound.

It's like seeing a movie on the cinema rather than in a small TV for example
I think I am qualified to answer this. It's harder to fool people when you can look at metrics compared to before. Information is widely available so adults can't make up rainbows to make me wage away for something that has no clear chance of a healthy life. Expectations are different for younger generation precisely because human productivity increased many folds but yet we have to grind more or less the same amount of time + spend more time in institutions which are not funded well except for the rich folks. Overall, world is getting better but that doesn't mean it is getting better relative to the effort everyone has put in for majority.

I support equal opportunity rather than bandids. The system is rigged and harm some people more than others. We need to find the core problems and fix them but I have no political power. By the time I do, I may become a grumpy old man who thinks people deserve what they got and it's their fault. Education system normalize this. Punishments are applied fairly but students are not equal and don't have the same situation at home or outside school. We need to stop punishing people in ways that only drag them behind. Be it students or petty criminals. Dragging people behind is never a good way to achieve progress and our society is riddled with it. Living is a zero-sum game for many.
I’m not a billionaire but I saw my wealth surge shortly after March, so I could only imagine billionaires made even more.

It is a shame that so many people are not financially educated enough to take advantage of moments like this in history. A financial crisis is a time when fortunes are made, and if you properly navigate each one throughout your life you can give yourself a major step up in networth.
The HN community has always been about finding ways to get rich. The startup/VC culture is entirely about getting rich. Pretending it's not is a big lie that SV has always perpetuated.

So, naturally, people admire those rags to riches stories.

For the record, I'm not against people trying to get rich, but I really dislike the fact that so many people try and pretend it's about something other than getting money.

Being a VC is not a charity, it's literally about growing an investment. Starting a company is not about charity, it's about generating revenue and ROI.
Definitely the case for some people but I don't think it's driving force for a large percentage (yet). Maybe a few more droughts and food shortages would change that though.
> No reasonable long-term user

There are a lot of unreasonable people out there. There are also people who get a kick out of causing a scene. All it takes is one Buzzfeed (or whomever...) article about this exact situation to make other advertisers run to the hills.

It's what YouTube's Adpocalypse was all about.
To me, the primary benefit of CDs over tapes was the ability to skip between songs easily and not having to rewind, it wasnt about quality (for me). The operation of a digital radio and an FM radio are very similar, especially once you've set up your favourite stations.
I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it.

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Ok all drama aside I can't help feeling like LISP is the best language you could have in this context because it's verbose, unambiguous, highly encapsulated and old school not to mention hardcore.

Anyone using a spreadsheet in emacs would be well versed in this sort of paradigm and I personally love lisp because it's how we cut our teeth in functional programming in university.

Not to mention it's perfectly suited to list processing..
Because people like Buffet say all the right things in public, like his famous line about this secretary paying more in taxes then he does

He loves to blast the system for which he profits from greatly. That seems to be name of the game today...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_meritocracy

I want a country where the median person is educated and grounded enough to make good choices about their community.
I wasn't very clear. One of the links mentioned that not only Yucca Mountain is a good solution, but also that the temporary storage that's used in the meantime is perfectly safe. That's what I objected to with that quote.
Of course it was designed. The wealthy pay an obscene amount of money on lobbying and political campaign donations, at every level of government from top to bottom. They don't do it out of charity, they expect a nice return on that investment, and they've gotten it. The laws are all in their favor.
No worries, thanks for taking the time to explain! I find commit messages help “future me” more than anyone else, I never regret the time it takes to flesh them out (and tend to regret when I don’t).
In theory yes.

In the early days of internet pirate sites there existed an argument that it was only the people distributing that could get sued for infringement. Similar when streaming happened it was argued that no copy was downloaded, and the users clearly did no distributing. With cable decoders (in countries without anti-drm) it was similar argued that no distribution occurred by the users or the producers of the cards.

Since then a lot of court cases has happened and as far as I know neither of those arguments have held up. There is usually a law or two that get digged up in order to have something to charge people with, and law makers has been quite diligent in address those kind of arguments in new laws.

But there is one major caviat. Those cases has all been by large media owners with both large teams of lawyers and "close" relationships with the legal and political system. A lone developer will have a much more difficult time.
You're right, Coca Cola does not care if KKK members drink their product; a sale is a sale.

They most certainly do care about being seen to be actively targeting the KKK audience.
Home ownership, consumption, idealizing material wealth, seeking that elite "career title", etc.
In my mind, abstraction is finding a single representation for various things that share traits. If those things happen to be chunks of code all performing the same task in the same way, then factoring the code into a method would be an example of abstraction. I'm not sure that this definition conflicts with the idea of abstraction being about higher-orderness as another commenter suggests, but I don't think it does.

I disagree with your claim that the 'bad' `average` method is an example of indirection rather than abstraction. Indirection, afaik, is about decoupling two things via an interface so that one isn't directly dependent on the implementation of the other. In this case you are still directly calling the method which will directly execute the code. Maybe the dispute here is around whether we should call these things 'the wrong abstraction' or 'a failed attempt at abstraction' but I think it's a spectrum where you can have a good abstraction but with some parts that don't really belong, and in that case it's still an abstraction.
not really navigation, but fairly prescient 1947 prediction of In-Car Entertainment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKfOcR7Qbu4&t=67
Retirement funds are something a lot of young people expect to never see if current trends of debt and healthcare prices keep up. I'm quite young (<25), we're not stupid and a lot of us understand basic economics, but rhetoric is important in these times because a candidate trying to tax the rich is better than one that doesn't try at all.

Future generations will be burned once they realise living like the baby boomers did is unsustainable, hence a lot of us have given up on the economy, whatever that means.
There's growth through technical innovation, which has pretty sweet positive externalities, and there's growth through through speculation, which is more like gambling really, looking for an edge in the game. I'm not opposed to the latter but I don't find it very impressive.
Occupy definitely didn't vanish. The same people who were protesting then are out protesting now. But now, they're more organized and zealous than before.
Yes, this is exactly that hearsay. Not public record, but unauthorized quote published years after Ehrlichman's death. The authenticity of the quote is often disputed.
No matter how much you detest them, how can the members of the ruling party, in a country that until very recently had their views enshrined in law, be off the end of the political spectrum?
> These days all baking measuring should be done by weight since it is far more accurate.

It also has no "tamping" problem e.g. volumetric measurement of flour can differ in the amount of actual flour by a factor of 2+ if the floor is tamped versus aerated. Volumetric measurements are supposed to use aerated aka first make flour fly everywhere then try to coerce it into your cup.
Consumerism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumerism
I don't think there's need to ascribe some "Want to use X like it's Y" intentions to people. The tagline "simplifies your development workflow" certainly doesn't make me think of Dropbox at least.

Maybe it's mostly aimed at people who like the features of GitHub Desktop?
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Really surprised to hear that you condescending on young people about the stock market and retirement funds (which they tend to feel should never have been tied to the stock market) isn't resonating with em.
Sure, but it needs lego - https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a32388863/lego-micr...
> males end up leaving the app and revenue is lost

The real tragedy.
The cost to train an AI system is improving at 50x the pace of Moore’s Law
Don’t let the app stores off the hook. They collect 30% and dictate tons of less meaningful design choices. They could make this go away. But then Apple would have to explain to it’s shareholders how a majority of it’s services revenue is actually generated by gambling addicts and children.
Disagreed, at least on Mac, while there are (free) apps like Fork.
"U.S. Billionaire Wealth Surged During the Pandemic" – Misleading? Let's define Pandemic. From the onset of the first official death. That was Feb. 29 according to news sources. So taking a starting point on or around Feb. 29 seems reasonable. Unfortunately deaths start occurring, lockdowns start being put into place, a lot of businesses grind to a halt, stock market begins tanking.

Between the Fed and Congress they deliberately pumped money into the market favoring top-down rather than bottom-up and large corporations over small to medium. Result? Stock market surge while millions (> 40 million?) remain unemployed and lines for free food grow all around the country. Why? Because let's say even if a large amount of pension funds are tied to the stock market that's of no benefit to someone suffering today through no fault of their own. And given that the top 11% (isn't it?) of Americans own 80% of stocks and I presume the tippy top of the 11% own a huge chunk of that in turn then hey presto it all looks a bit too much like a deliberate wealth transfer – crony capitalism taking advantage of a crisis as exhaustively documented by Naomi Klein in Shock Doctrine.

Far from being misleading, these statistics reveal what we all know. The US has turned into a virtual oligarchic kleptocracy.
What are some things you did to navigate this crisis thus increasing your net worth?
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While I'm not necessarily defending Buffett, he (like everyone else) is playing by the rules. The problem isn't the people playing the game, it's the system itself and the rules of the game.
You might be interested in mesh [1], which is sort of what you're angling at. The creator did a video explaining it [2].

[1] https://github.com/chrispsn/mesh
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEG9pFNYBCI&t=499s
Anthropologist Joseph Henrik has a theory about H.Sapiens vs Neanderthal using a Copycat vs Genius metaphor explained in the book Humankind [1]

Copycats are 10x more social
Geniuses are 100x more inventive

1 in a 1000 Copycats will invent a new fishing rod but will share this knowledge with 10 others

1 in 10 Geniuses will invent the new rod and only teach to 1 other

Given a 50% sucess rate for learning:

A max of 1 in 5 Geniuses will ever have the new Fishing Rod knowledge in a population (50% invented and 50% learned)

Copycats will get to 99.9%

[1] Humankind: A Hopeful History https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52879286-humankind

also

[2]https://aeon.co/essays/forget-the-lone-genius-it-s-copycats-...
I think that is the case especially with Smartphones and Apps. The Internet isn't about "Web" anymore. Even Hyperlinks points to "Apps".

However Web still has its place in Google, Wiki, and Shopping. The three things has one thing in common in that they need multiple tabs to keep data and Information.
Agreed, I really liked this one. Though if you right-click and choose ""Format C:\>", it does give you a Blue Screen Of Death :)