skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The paper mathematically disproves Prospect theory, which won a nobel prize. It belongs in Nature.
Space structures?
Ah, now I understand. Seems a bit convoluted, but then so is almost everything in GA ;)
Ah the RAM pack. This resulted in a life of wiggle wiggle crash crash.

I managed to get my hands on a beeb eventually. Thank goodness.
> Is there a field that is similar to economics but is empirical and about building working systems rather than just theories, and incorporates recent high tech advances, and accounts for sustainability by incorporating things like finite resource tracking?

Yes.

It's called "economics".

Empiricism is absolutely central to modern economics. Here's the latest AER, the top journal.[1] 7 out of 8 articles are empirical. 4 out of 8 actually use the word "Evidence" in the title; by now this is practically a meme.

Incorporates high tech advances: interested in machine learning? Here's an overview for you: https://www.nber.org/system/files/chapters/c14009/c14009.pdf

Accounting for sustainability? First, environmental economics is an entire subfield. William Nordhaus won the Nobel prize[2] for estimating the costs of global warming, oh, and have you heard of the Stern Review? More broadly, the field of economics was famously defined as "Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses" (my italics). Sounds like it might be relevant to finite resource tracking.

Lastly, I'm not sure why you think economists support the current level of inequality. I'd wager most don't. Maybe you've heard of Capital in the 21st Century, which put inequality squarely back on the political agenda. It's by Thomas Piketty, an economist.

[1] https://www.aeaweb.org/issues/625

[2] I beseech you not to tell me how It's Not Really The Nobel Prize. Everyone knows. Nobody cares.
China is convinced that 100% surveillance will reduce moral hazards.

Unfortunately, this is likely true on average, but the western value system says it is too high a price to pay for freedom.

I wonder how this will play out over the next century.
I'm making a series on coding an advanced game AI if anyone wants to take a look
To the OP, I’m just curious what was the problem you were facing that inspired this project?

I haven’t run into a scenario where I would use something like this before
In many ways, it already has. Zig has been under development for several years now and its syntax and semantics have change a lot since its first iterations. There are still some breaking changes coming that you can find at https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues.

One of the cooler aspects of Zig's breaking changes is that its formatting tool can automatically update your code to the new syntax.
I dont know the history of tea in subcontinent. We have one more form of Tea called Doodh Patti (Milk Tea) where tea is added directly in milk, no added water.
Badly, it seems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piggate
I took one look at this and realized you could do the same thing in C++17 using the perfect-flat-reflection.
> Fundamentally expected utility is wrong.

Do you say this because EUT currently doesn't handle ergodicity? Why do those two things need to be mutually exclusive?

> whole band of less to more aggressive options

Right, and which option I pick will be based on utility preference considerations both over the lifecycle of the decision making process as well as over the terminal outcome's distribution.

Expected utility is still inextricably part of this.

Older people are going to choose low aggression options on their retirement portfolio because the utility consequences of ruin are much different to a 20 year old's.

Expected utility is the point. Handling ergocidity just tells us how to get there correctly.
Stock ownership is backed by the legal system. It also has a ledger that must be settled and sent to the government.

Stock ownership gives you dividends and votes, too. You can sue for these things if they aren't given to you.

Cars and homes are things I can physically interacg with.

Digital certificates of digital goods have none of those qualities. If you do get any legal rights when you own them, it's not any different than copyright, which we've already seen is essentially impossible to enforce for digital works.
Well Uphold ( the wallet i personally use) seems to require some documents before withdrawing money, probably to satisfy KYC requirements, so it seems legally possible. Not to mention, the sums involved are rather small, so maybe there are some thresholds ?
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There are hundreds of chips in cars related to the computers that control every major system in a modern vehicle, even in a system with only knobs and buttons without a touchscreen in sight.

Modern vehicles are a network of ~20 different independent computer systems. The UI (regardless of touchscreen) is only one of them.
I tried this a couple years ago and I found the quality to not be as good or as flexible as jekyll with a Netlify cms.

(Not that setting up Jekyll is easy though)
There’s a limited supply of Bitcoin
> When you blow up the transaction limit you physically centralize the verification process.

What numbers are you basing that on? Bitcoin is 1.5KB/s. A $10 vps is 80,000 times faster than that.

> because fractions of a second make a big difference

No they don't. The examples you are talking about are rare and have very little impact. If the entire network makes blocks once every 10 minutes on average, each miner finds blocks much less frequently.

> Bigger blocks propagate more slowly, and magnify the advantage of employing those kinds of undesirable behaviors. This is why HFT boxes end up as physically close to Wall Street as possible.

Where are your numbers here? How long do you think it takes to send around 900KB ?

A single twitch stream will propagate more than that around the world every second to thousands of individuals. Cryptocurrency only has to send the same tiny amount of data every few minutes to miners.

High frequency traders trying to be physically closer to a connection are operating on the scale of single micro seconds. You are comparing that to something 600 MILLION times slower.
> GoatCounter claims to be GDPR compliant

It claims it's probably GDPR compliant, but it's pretty transparent about various possible caveats and such on the GDPR page[1].

[1]: https://www.goatcounter.com/gdpr
The energy used to secure PoW networks is indeed wasteful. But just a heads-up, Ethereum is currently transitioning to Proof of Stake consensus mechanism which will reduce electricity costs by an order of magnitude.
One could imagine it being a kind of emergent community-organized event, somewhat modeling a decentralized peer-to-peer network itself. There will still technically be at least one intermediary of a sort, but hypothetically the only real intermediary could be restricted to the single person or group who initially proposes the event and issues the batch of ticket NFTs.

There are plenty of major concerns here, like how security and access are physically enforced if there are no official organizers or designated volunteers, but in theory you could maybe distribute a phone app so everyone is automatically scanning for unauthorized people, and just rely on physically capable attendees and police to deal with potential security incidents. Still probably a recipe for utter Fyre Festival-esque disaster and lawsuits in many cases, but feasible in theory.
Yes, this resonates. I am living in Brazil, but have fewer direct relatives because I am not brazilian, and my wife is.

We buy a couple of dozen cestas básicas and give them away to a friend to feed families in a neighborhood nearby. We are paying for college and school for a handful of friends (father won't buy food for his kids but will drop off food for the dog in his new Jeep) and family - so many people are constantly hustling and churning through jobs.

At the current exchange rate with our apartment and school, this help costs less than my rent in nyc did, and it's ridiculous how little help there is here from institutions in the midst of a pandemic.
I’m not shocked to see this. I’m bullish on bitcoin overall, but at this point I believe the Geo-political risk caused by the insane power requirements of current day mining are the biggest danger to bitcoin as a whole.

Obviously the network and operate fine with less power, but if that reduction in hash rate occurs because most of the world has banned mining, you can imagine a situation where the remaining miners can much more easily centralize and control the network.

On the other hand, with China already home to > 70% of mining (per this article), perhaps it’s more surprising this hasn’t happened already.
The entirety of two fields don’t understand modeling but luckily we have Computer Science, and of course Physics, PhDs to solve all problems in all fields.

You have to be aware of how this comes off, right? This is all tongue in cheek?!? I mean your comment might as well have said “So, why does <your field> need a whole journal, anyway?”
this article is ripe for an ig Nobel award. well done to the authors. they should be nominated.
Same here.

I’m experimenting with the following method:

I know exactly what I do to avoid working gaming, youtube). I could literally waste a whole day in one sitting switching between csgo and random youtube videos.

I know doing that will get me nowhere.

I know doing the tasks may help me get somewhere.

So whenever I have to decide what to do next, I look at the task at hand, and investigate how I feel. If I feel weird, I’ll think through whats wrong. My current task makes me afraid I’ll break something. Then I think trough, that even if I break code, I have backups, so nothing can really go wrong.

I’ve been sitting for like 10 minutes getting to the end of it, then I’ve been able to ease into doing the task.

It all comes down into not letting myself instinctively jump into some instant gratification, but being brave enough to think myself to the bottom of the issue, then it will no longer be a beast that I want tk avoid, but just “well this is what I do next, and it’s fine”
Page 17 of the appendix: https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/downloadSu...
> In traditional economics a rational actor will make decisions that maximize the SUM of the 1,000,000 rational actors money

??? Have you not heard of competitive equilibria at all? Is game theory outside of the realm of traditional economics?

> Prospect theory for example is written off.

Yeah, it's so written off that the authors received the biggest award in economics for their works in behavioral economics.
So why not ask for donations or sell prints?
I wish they would expand on what's wrong with Qt or GTK. Flutter support on both Windows and Linux is pretty bad. In my opinion, electron is a better choice for cross platform desktop UI--VScode is a shining example of what that can accomplish. And they're in for a lot of work if they want to customize Flutter so it doesn't look material or cupertino.

Also, their big contribution to Flutter is getting it on the snap store? Quit trying to turn Linux into a walled garden with your app store. If you are considering snaps, please consider Flatpak instead.
The author's argument doesn't say anything about (or anything about anything like) 'the "black tax" as a form of reparations'. The "black tax" of the title isn't a literal tax, but the extra costs the author finds associated with being poor and having friends and family who are also poor: it's difficult for them to support you if you need to raise money, and if you get money you need to use some of it to support them.
Uh, personal question here. Where does your ~10G number come from? I pretty much run my life on the Apple Notes app. My Notes database is about 12G and now I’m scared.
I think what is meant is that while some electron apps are popular in the developer demographic (i.e. VS Code) the average desktop user does not run many of then, and is more likely to use desktop apps written in non-web technologies (VLC, Transmission, Office, and whatever it is people use these days)
I'd love to read the linked ISO document but it's hidden behind paywal :(

https://www.iso.org/standard/73224.html
I run a Saas platform for many years that hosts for a few thousand customers that are definitely not the HN crowd.

Individuals are not blocking. It’s the browsers that are heading in that direction.

I’m just reading the tea leaves brah.
“ Zig is a young project and unfortunately we don’t have yet the capacity to produce extensive documentation and learning materials for everything” - documentation as an afterthought. Thanks, I’ll look elsewhere.
I'm thinking Halloween prank.
How about headless mode with validating response by parsing expected output? I don't have a lot of experience so not sure if what I'm saying is feasible.
Trying selling software commercially online for a few years. Your skin will soon thicken up a bit. ;0)
Interesting idea! You’ve done a great job on documentation. I’ve been thinking about cancellation recently and missing Golang’s Context type, so it’s cool to see some other approaches.

How does Typescript deal with replacing `await XXX` with `yield YYY`? Can typescript infer the type of the yield expression?

How cancellable are these flows, really? My issue with most libraries that promise (no pun intended) cancellation in Node is that at the bottom of the call stack is someone else’s callback code where cancellation is impossible - cancellation is always “cooperative”. So, other than avoiding a tick - couldn’t you get the same sort of features by wrapping all your `await` calls with a special `await ctx.checkpoint(someAsyncOperation())` that throws CancellationError?
If you don't like bitter, but also don't like strong, the key is to brew strong, then dilute. This affects the bitterness/ result more than blooming (pre-wetting).

Then different roasts can be brewed independent of bitterness and strength. The last flavors to leech are the most bitter.

But most people don't know any of this type of knowledge, they just know how they do it, and want to tell you why it's the "right way."

That's why talking to coffee and tea drinkers is often insufferable.

On the otherhand, talking to people with actual knowledge to share can be enjoyable. There's just not an easy way to screen for it.
I think you may be able to integrate modules, and thus reduce ICs by having general compute rather than a module for each purpose (Engine Control/Transmission Control/Body Control etc); however, the sensors have to exist in physical form at distinct locations on the vehicle, and those sensors will require chips.
TBF it doesn't make much sense to put much effort into detailed documentation as long as the language isn't stable yet. And what's already there of documentation is more then enough to be productive, at least if you don't mind nosing around the standard library's source code a bit (which is very educational too, so win-win).
I stopped reading at "snap" ...
And you're seeing less and less people having JS enabled at all? Are you actively steering people to use Lynx or something?
I'll provide my answer: work in high stress low supply work and build capital. I've spent a decade in infrastructure. Beyond the ego lift of working on big things, it's not fun work.

The good news is the grind is open to all skin colors! Slap that pager on your hip and prepare for a rough night!

Once you have enough capital, you can leverage the market to provide an infinite funding stream. PLUS, as a disciplined engineer, you have the highest cost skill along with the ability to not make mistakes.

The risk is that you may find yourself giving into avarice and enjoying that high income stream from the enterprise market.
Really? The latest random string of numbers for a gazillion dollars isn't a wise long-run investment?... Look, I know this isn't very HN-ish, but the Pope is a dangerous Catholic, and the woods are full of dangerous shitting bears.
It is possible to add washers to cameras - some high end models already have them.
Defending Computer Science and Engineering in a life raft debate
I quite disagree, but it’s fair to say that the issue of how to close gaps between Black and white people is a complicated one with no clear answers. What’s more important here is that lots of affluent Black people disagree with you—and therefore attend and send their kids to HBCUs. If Google, etc., want to recruit more Black people, the answer can’t be to overlook HBCUs based on conclusions about whether “they remain necessary in 2021.”
Woah woah easy there pardner
Well no, thanks - my ad blocker works just fine. Instead of begging for support of a broken business model and/or trying to come up with technical solutions to what is a problem in economics, find a new one that works. That’s how real businesses operate, you know?
Depending on the size of your house/apartment, you'll use up that oxygen in a couple of hours and will be back at 1000+ levels. Plus, there must be some ventilation in OP's setup already, as the CO2 levels are at 2000, and without ventilation they'd just rise until he passes out...
Intriguing, explain.
Could be a "test fire" of a paid service - showing it works and will do what the customer wants.
Yes. I use VS Code and it works really well for me. The fact that it’s an Electron app is of no concern to me.

RStudio is also web-based tech — which enables it to run in a browser when remotely hosted.

And these are some of the most widely used IDEs out there (IDEs are also a class of desktop apps that have an above average UI complexity). I don’t think a majority of users are “less keen” just because they’re web based tech.

Maybe the only nitpick I would have is the odd web debug menu that would pop up on occasion when one right clicks on certain UI widgets.
I think it's slightly different. The "tax" is associated not so much with being poor oneself, as with having all one's friends and family also poor.

Whether being black is a better predictor of that than being poor, I don't know, but I can imagine how it might be.

(The author may also be suggesting -- it's not 100% clear -- that part of the "tax" is a cultural difference where black people are more likely than white people to feel responsible for supporting their friends and family who are poor.)
I agree totally. And, as a one-man-band indie developer who is totally dependent on sales of my software to make a living, the pain of low sales is much greater than the pain of any criticsm. Also a lot of the comments have been incredibly useful, even if they were a bit painful.
He Sold His Business to Target for $500M
While it's a good article, it was written in round 2 of the NIST standardization process.

Of the four Microsoft cryptosystems mentioned none made it through to become round 3 finalists, some are listed as "alternative" candidates. SIKE in particular has promise as a reserve KEM.
I just posted a pic of my highly modified ZX81 here

https://mobile.twitter.com/njcw/status/1368566103933337603

In honour of the #zx81 40th bday I got mine out the attic. I modified it heavily to have external keyboard, programmable character generator and easy access to swap the ROM. I killed it trying to upgrade to 48k RAM but I haven't the heart to dispose of my first computing love!

In those days I obviously had no fear cutting into the case and soldering stuff on the motherboard! I'm not that brave any more.
This always comes down to how you understand value.

How valuable is Jimmy Hendrix guitar pick? How valuable is a lok of Justin Biebers hair? How valuable is a book owned by Charles Darwin?

Of course NFT is a bubble just like about every other thing humans create, but humans will always attach value and meaning to dead things even digital ones.

And so NFTs can be used for many things including allowing people to buy something overhyped that will depreciate in value.

That's all good, the more of this the better.
I really like how the font looks, but with that comically small glyphset it won't work for any language other than English.
> allow access to your site through their browser.

So what? Google has no right to tell falsehoods about your website as a whole to your customers, though.

I'm pretty sure google will not blacklist github.com if one malicious file is hosted on there, either.

None of the links provided by Google in their console were said to be malicious, either. So what then?
Also see this review: https://danluu.com/su3su2u1/hpmor :)

And an interesting sequel: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11174940/1/Significant-Digits
The Great Button Purge is continuing unchecked. In the future we will ask ourselves how we could be so foolish to exchange the wonderful tactility of buttons merely to have slightly cleaner and infinitely more frustrating cockpits. Other issues with computers in your car include annoying beeping noises and every once in a while the car thinks it knows how to drive better than you. (i'm not really being fair, without ABS i'd probably be toast by now)
Pardon my ignorance but is this overpriced, or does a (seemingly simple) machine that moves cardboard boxes around really cost $50,000?
This is one of the most scary insinuations I've read in a while.

Careful, friend. This road does not lead where you think it leads...
Introduction – OWASP Cheat Sheet Series
These movies require you to use meta-cognition to reflect on why the main characters are doing what they're doing.

They are a psychological antidote to the the hero's quest of unrequited love.

If anything propagates the fiction of unrealistic standards it would be Disney movies.
Westerners are crazy
I suspect this has more to do with Chinese internal politics ("We're tired of spending money on industries in Inner Mongolia that aren't part of the national industrial plan or whatever we're calling it this week") than anything to do with the environment. They still added a lot of coal plants last year. They just want to spend the resulting power on something other than businesses in Inner Mongolia.
In Roth's novellas Zuckerman Unbound and The Ghost Writer, there are outspokenly offended parents and I suppose uncles and aunts. Some years after those were published, I read a piece by Roth saying that his father had never complained about his fiction, had in fact always supported him.
What guarantee is there that this will reduce ads in any way?

If cable TV taught us anything it is that you can charge outrageous amounts of money and still force your customers to watch ads. Paper newspapers are also full of ads, even the ones the reader pays for. I can not think of any reason why the web should be different. Ads will stay, monetization will just be income on-top.
Since most governance schemes favor entrenched players, there's a natural tendency for policies resulting in pyramid schemes to emerge.

The first step is to educate enough people around this issue, so that some opportunistic countries/cities can become competitive at attracting residents using fairer policies as a differentiator.
> Zig's comptime permeates the language thoroughly and in fundamental (and IMHO very pragmatic) ways.

TANSTAAFL. Compile-time evaluation cannot truly "permeate" a language because most practical languages preserve a phase distinction between compile time and runtime. (This phase distinction is somewhat softened, e.g. in interpreted languages as well as in advanced PL's which include such features as dependent types). For a system programming language like Rust which relies on this clear-cut phase separation, macros and proc macros (as well as `const`-marked expressions and functions) are ultimately more elegant.
Shielding of Electric Fields in a Residential Bedroom (2018)
You're not wrong, but there can be more than one thing playing such a role. Bitcoin is Beanie Babies, Ethereum is a varied ecosystem of pet rocks, Monero is Pokemon cards with traces of white powder. Can't hurt to diversify your speculation.