skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am using the academic definition of rational actor.

No you're not. You're assuming specific time and influence horizons for what can be considered an "outcome" of allegedly rational actions, and using that to retroactively define rationality.

If we consider "avoiding fucking up the entire planet so that the economy can boom by including more participants and economic activity, so that Amazon can grow even bigger and more profitable" to be the outcome that we are considering, then what Amazon does is highly irrational.
While we're at it, let's give lower priority to obese, smokers, alcoholics... or let's not. It's a slippery slope to start discriminating against people based on whether the admitting staff think they're worthy of treatment or not. We're better than that.
I think your last prediction is right, but targeting the wrong generation. The oldest Gen Z's are 25 which isn't old enough to be differentiated from the normal spending habits of broke young adults. It's the younger half of Millennials that are the ones to worry about because this would be the time where it's expected they would start having kids and buying houses and such but culturally they've got way more in common with Gen Z nihilistic anger than they do with Gen X or Boomers.
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Zstandard has very cool dictionary training feature, which allows to keep a separate dictionary and have a 50% ratio compression on very small (~100b) but repetitive data such as database records.
> Which streaming service do I go to now for the science fiction?

Exactly. Every company has segmented their content by company, not by type. Sure, I can buy a subscription to Boomerang and get a lot of cartoons, but it's just the cartoons owned by Warner. But not all of them, because they've moved some of them--like Dexter's Laboratory--off to be HBO Max exclusives.

There's no way to say "I want a science fiction themed service" that includes Paramount and HBO and the old PTEN and the like, because no company would stand for another service mixing their IP like that.
> median wealth is $8 and not the average as stated before.

Median is an average. [0] If anything the fact that it is a median makes it only more compelling, at least to me.

> thus not able to account for any spouse's income/wealth in the calculations for household net worth

Yes, maybe if more were married they would have double the net worth up to $16.

> This looks like the most critical reason for such a disparity.

It seems like a reflection of disparities in wealth, not the reason for it. My guess is there is a sizable historical component to the disparity, given that 60% of private wealth in the US is inherited [1], that would make large portions of that wealth inherited from either times where black people were actively enslaved or excluded from wealth acquisition mechanisms by law or custom. Such exclusion by custom is ongoing today, there is clear evidence for it in hiring and real estate markets.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/02/06/people-l...
Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings under UK law
Vortex86 implements i586, which should surely be IP-unencumbered by now? Why would they need a license?
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They have a speaker that plays a sound randomly every few hours when it hasn't been near the owner's device in a while. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212227
> in an absurdly inefficient distributed database

Suppose you wanted a distributed system where arbitrary nodes can enter without vetting. You'd need to be robust to adversarial nodes that lie and collude. Distributed consensus under asynchrony and adversaries seriously ramps up the difficulty of already challenging problems typically solved by Paxos derived algorithms. The first moderately scalable solution to consensus within such a hostile environment and with relatively few moving parts was built on a proof of work scheme inspired by hashcash. It's not inefficient, it's just a complex domain.

It should be noted that NFTs run on Ethereum which has been in the process of moving to the vastly more efficient proof of stake scheme.

> Patreon's been solving the problem of "open source funding" for about a decade without that part.

There are a number of developing nations whose citizens cannot participate on Patreon. For others, there are workarounds that involve hurdles like navigating providers with worse customer service rep than paypal, giving out sensitive identification, high fees, high withdrawal friction and chaining various third parties who themselves might disappear or be indirectly connected to fraudulent banks.
Elections in the US have never been entirely free or fair.
I feel you. I’ve been to programming since I was a kid and made a career out of it. Nowadays, I see kids doing shit that would blow many (most?) professionals out of the water, a seeming experts in very difficult domains. For as long as I’ve been programming, I haven’t made or done anything notable or worthy of any sort of intrigue by my standards. Most people I have immediate relationships with would probably consider me pretty damn successful, and most people on places like here would consider me middling hack. I don’t really want either of their ideas of “success”, but the dumb ideas I have of it.

Don’t get me wrong. I know a little about a lot. Mostly things that are of no value whatsoever, and only enough to make me sound like I have some level of expertise. But if I real expert stepped in I’d likely get schooled immediately (as had happened many times).

I don’t think I’ll be able to do more with my career in software than I already have, nor drive it in the direction I’d like. And frankly, I’m getting tired of the “a little more money, same bullshit” stuff. I still have love for programming, but the way I inherently approach it and work are just not going to ever get me anywhere.

I too, have spent some years bouncing across a handful of interests, typically only to find out I don’t have what it takes to even get a few inches deep into it (whether that be cognitive ability,focus, or whatever). I’ve seriously thought about going into academia for a bit to get the thrill of working on edge of something, hoping that the structure and resources provided might show me something new, but that’s mostly because of the implementation), but it feels like a distant pipe dream more than anything. By the time I’d be able to do to, I’d likely be to old to fit the profile of what that type of organization wants from somebody, and me doing anything remotely novel or innovative feels so alien. I don’t even want recognition or immortalization, or even money really. I just want to have worked on something that I’m proud of.
They most definitely threaten close and extended family members if they don’t comply. That’s the only reason I can see so many people buckling. It’s one thing if you shame/hurt me, but I’d rather shut up before you take it out on anyone close to me.

Peng Shuai can easily come over for Wimbledon or an Olympics and ask for amnesty and get it. But her family are at the CCPs mercy if she does that.

‘We’ll find everyone in your family, your family’s family, and so on, you will never be in peace’. There’s nothing more effective than that.
Afaik they got it from SiS
Private companies already build functioning financial systems cheaply. Many companies in developing countries have deployed electronic payments that work on cheap feature phones via SMS and WAP. They have massive adoption by the unbanked. None of these systems use cryptocurrency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_banking#Mobile_banking_...
Failure rate isn't the only metric that affects customer satisfaction. If the product works better than any of its competition, but has a 10% rate of complete failure (which is insanely high for a retail product), you're still going to have 90% customer satisfaction.
Sorry for the slow response!

I also tweak a bit after posting, and that Pony helps with that. I don't usually edit and edit forever, but it helps me get the message how I want it.

> Is there a way to interface Pony with email directly, so that an app isn't required?

Right now there is not, and I'm not sure it makes sense to add one. The first version of Pony was actually an email service, because I wanted it to be as accessible and useful as possible. It turned out that because email comes with its own set of norms and expectations, many people perceived the email version of Pony to be anti-social if not even borderline hostile. It was pretty disappointing because I wanted to make something that was pro-social. With everyone on Pony, everyone is on board and the expectations are totally clear.
Meaninglessness Starts with the Big Bang
I'm not saying it's right. I'm only saying that the supreme court has ruled on it. Frankly I think such a basis is completely absurd. We'd need to have at least four more black presidents to really show it's effectiveness. RBG once said that only once the Supreme Court happened to be entirely women would we know that we have achieved parity. And she's right!
There has been a study a month ago looking into B/T cell response for the covid vaccines. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm0829 Article is hypertechnical, fortunately there is a more approachable twitter thread from the first author, https://twitter.com/rishirajgoel/status/1448711946010710023. The HN thread is pretty bare, and I remember a more active conversation, so perhaps either that happened on a dupe, or there is another article along those lines. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28881923

"To summarize:

- Antibodies decrease but memory B/T cells are stable for ≥6 mo

- Immune memory is still effective vs. variants

- "Boosting" from memory = significant (but temporary) increase in antibodies w/ less impact on already durable memory cells"
You're talking about a piece of art that exists on a canvas, with its own bumps/grooves, versus a photo/scan of that art. There is still only one Starry Night in it's exact, original form despite us being able to pull it up on Google Images. It will age, and change with age.

A .jpg NFT can literally be saved/copied in it's exact original form an infinite number of times.
I'd argue that rents will fall as large volumes of "investment" housing starts to hit the market. The end of a decade (almost 2, actually) of quantitative easing and and resulting increase in interest rates is the death knell for asset value-derived investment. This includes any stock where the value is not correlated with revenue.
That is also my approach. It takes some courage to do, but makes for a much calmer workday.
Depends on the company and sector - companies that aren’t flexible enough during the sales process fail to win business (particularly on the enterprise side) so there is clearly a trade off here.
> If an elected body is planning legislations, actively blocking it means you’re suppressing the voice of the public and the voters

This is reductive. When the Congress was writing cryptocurrency reporting rules, the crypto industry asking for clarifying amendments (to avoid classifying miners as exchanges) wasn't suppressing anyone's voice. It was supplementing it with specialist knowledge.
Boycott.
Dark matter?
This person goes to great lengths to catch an episode of Survivor. They worry about how they're going to watch movies during a camping trip. I know it's not the point of the article, but maybe this problem would be less onerous if one could just unplug, and do something else for fun.
He is doing these takedowns in an attempt to help his company. Someone else is probably "selling" his company's services.

If people complain about crypto folks "talking their book", then the anti-crypto folks are also guilty of the same if their line of work is threatened by crypto.

If your grievance revolves around "bad things" happening in a new space, therefore new space is bad, I can't take you seriously, I will be suspicious. That's like saying early internet was mainly used for pornography and other illegal stuff.
I think you should read more about Facebook. Try e.g. the Damien Collins email dump, and read about how their android app tricked people into letting it record all phone call and text message records, knowing full well users would hate it if they found out.

Clearly they produce good technology. But the company is morally bankrupt.
Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it.
Thanks, that was a great read and watch. The progress made over a few weeks was immense.

I didn't know about computron until you mentioned it in the video, so I have to ask, would serenity run under computtron? If so, could a serenity port of computron run serenity in serenity?
This feeling is familiar to me as well, I'm sure almost everyone feels it.

It reminds me of drawing advice, people always want to know how to get better at drawing, and the answer inevitably is just "practice more", I'd bet drawing skill matches very closely to "time spent drawing" and programming is probably the same way too.
I hear you. I expect the bottom to fall out of this, abruptly and fairly soon. But we’ll see.
This is a fantastical claim when you think about it. You are effectively claiming that both (1) US citizens systematically choose politicians that are corporate friendly (because this is the more general truth—they are friendly to all entities with money) and that (2) this “choice” is so free that you can just “vote for someone else” (who?).

Another (less fantastical claim) is that most politicians are corporate friendly and in turn you don’t really have such a free choise.
It does that

> An AirTag that isn't with the person who registered it for an extended period of time will also play a sound when moved so you can find it, even if you don’t use an iOS device.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212227
https://unbuild.blog/2021/10/io/
This is done completely overtly here in Austria. Many job offers contain language like "bei gleicher Qualifikation werden Frauen bevorzugt", which roughly translates to "when applicants are equally qualified, women are given preference". Examples: [0][1][2]

[0] https://archive.md/YERoT

[1] https://archive.ph/R6agn

[2] https://archive.ph/3zrn0
It's not 250 million farm workers. The number you quote is the total strength of different labor unions that called for a strike in support of farmers.
Poetry still uses setuptools! It makes it a lot easier for mortals. This is the blog post that convinced me to switch away from my old build system: https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2021/10/setup-py-deprecated...
Genius is to be found in many shapes and forms.

From the incredible empathy my partner has towards colleagues going through personal situations (when many literally wouldn't care, let alone waste brain juice), to those smart programmers committing to open source whilst struggling to make ends meet when they could easily get a high-paying job, to those mustering the strength to work three jobs to pay bills, and so the list goes.

There's always somebody different doing great. To quote the great J Cole — "love yourz"
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TLH is real, but "sell yourself the same asset at a loss" sounds fishy to me.

Because with TLH its not "the same asset" in that its not
(a) the literal same item moved from one hand to the other.
(b) its not the same item ticker (basically a day trade across accounts)
(c) Its not buying/selling with yourself
US GDP is over 23 trillion dollars on an annualized basis, what you’re saying lacks any sense of proportion. Even assuming no growth, 3 trillion dollars represents 1.3% of gdp over the same period.

If you just want to throw large numbers around, why not just convert everything into cents? Imagine spending 1 cent per second for 3.2 million years! That’s a long time.
Well, owning an NFT is absolutely nothing like posting a link to a Google Maps view of a house on Hacker News. It’s hard to go into detail on why those things are not alike without having more information about where this misconception is coming from.
On Good Judgment Open there is a question about where the Fed Funds Rate will be in January 2022. I have a blog post [1] tracking my forecast of this event. Currently I have the odds at:

* 0% chance the rate will be lower

* 98% chance the rate will be the same

* 2% chance the rate will be higher

[1] https://kayce.basqu.es/bets/january-2022-fed-funds-rate/
Safe, probably, but hopefully isn't going through what Ai Weiwei went through; 81 days in detention with two Chinese state military personnel looking over him 24 hours a day - while sleeping, going to the toilet... https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Expo_SACRED_Venice...
It would make sense that military secrets like opting for right hand spirals would not appear in popular publications.

Even the 70/30 split mentioned in the article is telling. If it truly did not matter then you would expect a 50/50 split, so there is a thumb on the scale somewhere. Maybe some early famous castles had them and the feature was replicated in newer castles? But what if the original castles had them for defensive purposes? The newer castles could have been built with defensive features they didn't fully understand.
Thanks. The horrible thing is I came here to say that sometimes I find a project that I did a year or two ago and end up feeling shallow and dumb.
https://www.laprensagrafica.com/elsalvador/Uso-de-bitcoin-cu...

- First time large protests happened against Bukele in light of this law

- Adoption is low

- DUI fraud is through the roof
The Media's Verdict on Kyle Rittenhouse: why so many got this story so wrong
What you're describing is exactly what Matrix is aiming to be.
Whats the distribution of mining power in the bitcoin network right now? Like, what % of the total are the top ten groups?
Didn't understand if it stops but do not bounce back light or if it lets light to pass as there was nothing there. Those are different ways to be invisible.
.io Considered Harmful
Welcome to the eastern concept of "Mandate of Heaven"
I might actually buy one of these. Thanks.
> There are already many who don't pay, payment rates could fall by 90% and it wouldn't slow them down a bit. You clearly have no idea how hugely profitable ransomware is.

You misunderstand. Those who don't pay still have the problem. They will invest in solutions. Some (like good well tested backups) only affect them, but others like hardening software make it harder for ransomeware to get anyone in the first place.

> f less companies pay, the ransomware operations will just scale up their customer support teams and further automate deployment. This really isn't going to be a problem for them.

True. Though the less companies that pay, the more examples of not paying get out there and so the more likely it is other companies will get good protection for themselves.

Probably not enough to really affect profits too much, but still helpful to limit the amount of investment "big evil" can afford to do.

> Have you ever worked with formal proofs in a software context

Just a little bit. I'm looking to work with them more because for my area quality is important and we have reached the limits of what unit and manual testing can do. (but not the limits of other automatic code analysis which I'm also looking into)
China has a massive surveillance apparatus. If opposition is visible to us, it’s visible to the Chinese government and can be snuffed out. It’s possible that many people there disagree with the government’s actions, though.
Potentially you are talking about different things, the action and the organization.

I can read

> but I don’t believe they are that plain evil

so that the writer does not think the ccp is just evil, meaning they are more than just evil. So the writer might think the cpp does evil things probably including:

> disappearing someone in order to intimidate them into operating "on a short leash"

but without making the cpp just or only evil.
I really dislike this video. The voice is so loud and annoying over the oddly upbeat music for the message. It tells me nothing about why Waldo is like having a big QA Dept or why I would want to click the link. They sure named a lot of different things tho, it's good they know the different forms of testing
Random thought. Try replacing the “send” action in your brain with “stand up”. For me I think “send” is almost a knee jerk reaction, almost a fidget respond where the monkey brain doesn’t like to sit still so it will do the action it sees next. So maybe “stand up” could be an action that satisfies monkey brain while also buying you time to reflect and transition mental states to a reviewing mindset.
How can notifications, which appear in the upper right corner, end up behind a notch in the middle of the screen?
My prediction is that the FOMO thing will work the other way and there will be a stampede out of bitcoin in a 1930s style crash.
Mercedes EQS! Just kidding ;)

Nowadays you won't find anything new that isn't full of electronics unless they sell Lada Niva in the US (might be a bit too bare for you though).
I haven't heard of even one of the things you mentioned
You will be surprised how much you know. Comparing with others is almost always a losing game. Trust me because I do this a lot myself. There is always someone whom you want to be like. But remember there are a lot of people who want to be like YOU. So just focus on yourself and keep becoming a better version of you and most importantly, keep an eye on your Goals whatever they may be. Remember that there is a cost to everything. You may look at someone and say "Wow they are so smart or successful or whatever". But do you know what they don't have or what they truly desire ? You will never know. May be what they truly desire, you have it.
.. and death rates rise.
Disney+ is mostly for kids and Star Wars remake fans, right?

HBO, Apple TV+ and Netflix have all mostly fallen into this trap of producing really elaborate, super expensive drama shows that are mostly really depressing, boring and dystopic. Fantastic HDR cinematography though.
previously (compiled by csomar here[0]):

[0]2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25594068

2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21802596

2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18753859

2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16007988

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10809767

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8822723

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6994370

2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3395201

2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1970023

2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025681

And predictions for the decade:

2020s: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21941278

2010s: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025681
> No bursting of 'higher ed bubble' despite Covid

Do you mean students will keep taking on debt to go to school? Or tuition prices will keep going up? Or both?