skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Covid-19 Made Americans into Super Savers. Now They’re Hoarding Cash
One day in the late 90s or early 2000s a friend and I were playing Madden. My dad walked into the room and announced “huh, why are they playing football on a Friday.” He hadn’t noticed at a casual glance that it was a video game- John Madden’s voice was coming out of the TV and it looked like football, so it must be football. That has always stuck with me as an impressive level of immersion.

Sports video games, and Madden in particular, helped mainstream gaming and computing in a very real way. I hope EA brings him back to the cover one last time next year.
Central KS USA here. Moved here five years ago after 20 years in DC. Paid off my house in four years.

Day to day it’s not all that different. With kids you cook, clean, watch movies, read books, and exercise. COVID lockdown didn’t really happen here. Kids missed a total of a month of in person school. We do have to drive 40 miles for sushi, but that takes a reliable 35 min - no traffic and speeds to the city are 80 MPH. My internet is 200 Mb and could easily double that if needed.

There are things I miss but nothing I can’t get with a drive or some travel. Cities are now enjoyable for me to visit.
I'm not arguing the point you're arguing against, but I felt the need to point out that those two extremes are not what we are talking about, we are talking about a new "balance" that is known to have supported life in the past.
On that note, why isn't it called the Mideast?
I don’t know if it was an expectation so much as an observation which was then put into comparison to help explain it.
Again, I wasn't trying to slander Mr Madden. I was just countering the comment about wealthy people "just wanting to be left alone".

I actually met Mr Madden, and he was not an asshole at that time. So definitely not insinuating anything against him.
You mean like the people paid to wait in line for other people at US gov hearings?

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/13/18223836/p...

Sounds awfully similar to "completing tasks contrived by a game designer"
At least for the sample questions on the article, you could easily answer those after taking an intro stats course.
As a math Ph.D. dropout who took the first two exams: the trouble is that you have to solve them quite quickly. The tests weren't too hard for me, but I did have to practice the sorts of problems I would see so that I didn't have to spend too much time thinking. Even then, I didn't walk in feeling like it was a slam dunk.
I dont know if it's safer, but as a smoker, when I lived in a vaping friendly country and switched to it, I immediately noticed a vast improvement, and when I moved back to cigarets in my current vaping-banned jurisdiction it went back down.

Just the ability to gradually reduce the nicotine dosage while keeping the ritual is liberating (and possible to some extent with low nicotine cigs that I smoke now) and I think it's sad there's no middle ground between "our blond angel children will become addicts in a vapping wild west" and "smokers gotta cancer happily in a vapping-free paradise". And forbidding the cigaret isnt possible, no. Or if we try, I ll he the next Al Capone smuggling them.
Ok, I'll bite. Why is sport not intellectually interesting?
It’s a guess, but an educated one.

Let’s put it this way. If you do well as a YC admissions engineer, and you dedicate the next ten years to growing YC, what are the chances you’ll walk with less than a 0.01% share? It wouldn’t make sense for YC not to offer that. Your work will help make or break YC’s core investment decisions.

And ten years is just the maximum theoretical upper bound that I can think of — e.g. the initial role doesn’t include equity, and then you ask for equity a few years later. (That scenario seems far more implausible than them just including equity vesting in the offer. Yet even in that case, you’d still end up with your 0.01%.)

Here’s something closer to a proof: YC is a startup. Startup jobs come with equity compensation. YC’s portfolio is approaching $1T (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29064559). 1% of $1T is $10B. And 0.01% of $10B is $1M.

That’s the lower bound. YC likely has a higher stake than 1%, especially when you consider the Continuity Fund. And they’ll likely be granting more than 0.01% to a product engineer on the admissions team that can provably grow YC’s portfolio over ten years.

So the absolute lower bound is around $1M over ten years from equity alone. It’s hard to estimate the upper bound — exponential investments are counterintuitive — but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was around $10M, and I wouldn’t rule out $40M. After all, $10M over 10 years is $1m a year, and top engineers at top tech companies make ~$600k in total comp. so $10M is just keeping pace with Google, and $40M is keeping pace with YC’s tremendous growth.
I was searching for someone to mention Gemba. The Toyota Manufacturing system is so amazing: its tenets keep somehow following us into the tech industry, reminding us that all of these have been tried and tested in the grind of the shop floor.

I spent a few years at a motorcycle parts manufacturing plant in India, and while I am in software now, I keep seeing how effective the Lean Manufacturing system would be here. We need more of it.

That being said, how would a company like this deal with Gemba if their employees can't drive anything. I can't drive a car or a motorcycle. So how would I be able to join the Gemba walk?
Also, insurance just doesn't have much interesting space for innovation.

In life insurance, for example, products other than simple term insurance really shouldn't exist. They're mostly just Rube Goldberg tax sheltered savings accounts for the wealthy.

In theory there ought to be some opportunity in the area of incentivizing people to improve their health behaviors. But carriers have been much slower to move on that than to futz around with the latest financial engineering and tax avoidance techniques.
This play to earn title is a particularly annoying dig at the recently blown up phrase where users can play to earn Blockchain tokens in nft based games which has actually enabled young men in the Philippines to quit their jobs as taxi drivers and involved them in an ecosystem which otherwise has exacerbated inequalities and trampled on the rights of humans in their country as historically corrupt government has minimsed the earning potential of the working class not and left the upper class eternally skeptical of their own government.

To make a dig like this and then not even acknowledge it in the content is exactly what I would expect from a white American who has no concept of how certain trends impact anyone other than themselves.
I would apply just to interview with dang
Schrodinger of Wave Equation fame said he regretted ever having anything to do with QM, for example. Here's a good short write-up:

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/einstein-schr%C3%B6din...
Microsoft is now adding a Games panel to its Edge browser
SidifySpotifyMusic. Good enough that I pay for a license.
Play-to-earn would be a coherent concept if the playing produced something of value.

HN is play-to-earn. Except all you earn is worthless non-exchangeable karma.
From the link in README:

> the concept is to modify the Python bytecode interpreter to sit directly on bare metal. It therefore acts as a kind of micro-kernel with the rest of the operating system written in Python.

Looks like the C code is the (modified) Python VM. Whether it should be seen as part of the OS or as part of the (virtualized) hardware platform is a matter of convention.
it is really a shame that Lua was chosen as the language to embed in TeX, instead of something sane like a Scheme, Common Lisp or at least Python (today, maybe Julia)

I personally find Lua to be a completely sane and easy to program language. But, to each their own.

Let’s look at these options and some others:

Scheme/Lisp: It’s true that Scheme and Lisp-like languages are pretty compact and easy to embed, but the syntax of Lisp is, for most modern programmers, pretty esoteric. Asking today’s programmers to program in a Lisp is, for better or worse, like asking secretaries to use Vi to edit documents.

Python: Python is a big, bulky language and one which is not really suitable for embedding inside another program. See this recent discussion for more on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29700947

Julia: A somewhat non-mainstream language, and, like Python, it doesn’t look to be a language designed for embedding the way Lua is.

Forth: Like Lisp dialects, Forth’s completely stack-based syntax is not intuitive for today’s generation of programmers.

Lua needs batteries, which I know is off putting to some programmers. It turned me off from Lua for a while until Roblox made me give Lua a second chance. Here is my own set of public domain Lua batteries: https://github.com/samboy/LUAstuff (stuff like a Lua copy.deepcopy(), sorted table/dictionary iteration, split strings based on a regex, etc.)
The GP's stated benefits are listed directly on the main page of the NixOS website, and was in reply to a comment about Nix in NixOS. You seem to be talking about using Nix standalone; if you are, the GP's comment does not necessarily apply to you.
As someone who suffers through winter smog caused by people in my county heating their homes with wood, please please please use a modern efficient heating source instead of this neopasotral quackery.
Ask HN: How to go from contractor to agency owner
Hello! I'm struggling to make the move from contractor to agency owner, and wondered if anyone had any advice. I have been working as a contract SDET for a few years through a limited company and I want to start expanding. While I've worked across the stack in both SDET and general dev roles, I have found a niche in testing blockchain products that has gone pretty well and I've easily found my own work as and when I've needed it. What I don't know is how to take that to the next level.

Has anyone taking the jump from contractor to agency owner? How did you go about it?
Totally agree. I still remember some trips to Point Reyes. In Marin County there were BLM signs everywhere. I bet most people in Marin County rarely see a black person and certainly never poor people. They live in this bubble of virtue signaling while profiting from the inequality in the country.

California political leaders also are basically hypocrites. They are for masks but when it comes to their own parties in super luxury restaurants masks are a little too cumbersome to put on.
Title insurance covers things like property line disputes, mistakes made by titling companies, etc.

It’s far more than “who actual owns this parcel of land”.
This is strange, you’ve asked the same question repeatedly and had multiple answers

From the answers There is no package comes with a dependency, there is a pkg depends on a well dependency

Either you are asking a deeper question or comes with a dependency is an unusual terminology
The amazon app for Samsung TV's does not tell you if you already rented a movie or not, it just displays the price. Will someone here get this fixed? Its not worth even explaining why this is horrible.

Edit: If it was included with Prime and not for rent it would display "resume" or "play from beginning".
And those who browse YouTube will remember him as JOHN MADDEN of critical acclaim from Moonbase Alpha videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B488z1MmaA
There’s a fork of Emacs itself that can run scheme, by replacing the internal lisp engine with Guile (which can run both scheme and elisp). It doesn’t seem to have gotten a lot of love in the last few years, but did mostly work at one point.
I don't know the technical answer to your question but I do think that us humans have continuously underestimated the complexity and intelligence (in the broadest sense) of animals.

First, we see them as emotionless objects. Then we acknowledge that some animals seem quite smart, such as dolphins, dogs, pigs and cows, and of course other primates.

Then we discover that far more animals have complex systems to communicate by language, signs or color, have advanced courtship rituals and actual emotions, such as an elephant mourning.

And still we keep getting it wrong. Recently it was discovered that tiny earth worms, considered some of the "dumbest" and most primitive life forms, show complex behavior and have actual learning ability. For example, they drag leaves into their underground "den" to feed on them and over time learn which way is the correct way to drag the leaf, as the other way would block the den. That's a stunning interaction for such a simple creature.

Because it isn't a simple creature. Nothing is.
From the guidelines:

> Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Apply to ScriptDrop, we’re remote-friendly! Bonus: we use Elixir.

https://scriptdrop.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=10
Totally agree. And if health care deductibles and copays can easily add another 5-10% or more off your income.
Google Maps' “Satellite” was almost named “Bird Mode”
Your assumptions about the term "bullshit jobs", as mentioned in the article, are completely wrong.

You should read about Graeber's work, it's interesting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
Just historical usage, as the nation settled on the East coast and headed West.
I Took Ketamine for My Depression. Things Got Pretty Weird
https://archive.ph/Pitz2
The experience range for that position is so wide that the pay range won't be very meaningful.
As sidpatil says, that's a write-protect tab. If you bought blank VHS tapes and recorded something you could rip the tab off to stop you or someone else accidentally overwriting, say, your wedding video. Of course, all retail tapes were tab free.

And you could simply use masking tape to bypass it, because it was only designed to stop unintentional overwriting, not intentional overwriting.

I'm pretty sure as a kid I wrote over a few (bad) retail VHS movies this way, tapes that served more value as blanks.
The article's point was to say that these grind games are not actually adding economic value, because it required existing wealth to come into the system to pay out the grind (and the company sucks out some transaction fees).

The game itself may possibly be fun for those that pay (instead of grind), but that's hard to judge.
I was homeless for years, not by choice. My relationships with homeless people did and still do go a lot farther than "spoken to a number of them" and I don't think this is accurate at all. I can't speak for anyone but myself but this was never my attitude and I doubt anyone I know now would endorse it.

I don't know what dynamics were at play when you asked this question or what you specifically asked, but those things can affect the answers quite a lot.

It's generally not "they really aren’t interested in housing" but "they aren't willing to accept the terms on which that housing is offered."
It was a joke, the funny part is that the US newspapers would lie 50% of the time so you'd never know what to believe (because the newspaper and the truth were uncorrelated), but the Russian newspaper lied 100% of the time so it was perfectly correlated with the truth.
I wonder(worry) that this dump is actually a key honeypot.

May have people thinking: "I already have a <STREAM-SERVICE> account, but with this I could at least get 4k."

They put their legitimate key in, and maybe it phones home the key before begining the download?

This comment from a previous thread illuminates some concerning oversights concerning public repository etiquette:

> I also noticed it provides part of the functionality with a .pyc file, without including the normal python source.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29704610
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Yeah, I couldn’t read the article but saw the first question… I got 33%, too.
> “An over reliance on solutioning”

Why the hell are software articles inundated with these non-words? The proper word is SOLVING!
Occasionally I do dumb shit that probably comes off as a jerk move, but it is unintentional ... and I am neither wealthy nor old enough to claim dementia. I try to cut people slack, and even famous people can't be Mr. Nice Guy 100% of every day, even if it seems like that should be their personality.
People working the same level job should probably fall within a range for that position. Outside of that range should land them in a different level.
Buy more videogames and digital movies
This question was pointedly directed at the community, not HN moderators, employees, or officers. I do not feel it violates the guidelines.
https://archive.is/1jzLs
To elaborate on my above comment ...

Remember the fine balance between Idealism and Pragmatism. Given the current state of the World/Economy, taking unnecessary Risks when you have a Family dependent on you is absolutely not worth it. "Safety First" should be your current motto. Don't listen to rah-rah/gung-ho/YOLO folks and ruin what you have now. The proverb "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" is more relevant now than ever.

That said, staying in your current company and trying to move up the Management Ladder will come with its own challenges. Confidence is good but not Recklessness nor Foolhardiness. As others have pointed out it will not be easy but Persistence, Hard-work and some "Smarts" will see you through. "Stick it out", "Don't rock the Boat" and you will be good.

Good Luck!
“Since I've left LA every aspect of my life has been outrageously great. Had a girlfriend within a month”

I had no idea that women are more willing in other areas of the country. Good to know :)
that's a strawman of the parent comment's argument. and yes, if enough people believe something, it takes on real significance. e.g. enough people believe in the full faith and credit of the US Gov that backs their printed paper with numbers on it, so it takes on real significance.
The year in math and computer science
Nature vs nurture is really a non issue at this point. Basically everyone (that I have run into, short of a small percentage of undergrads) knows that its both nature and nurture.

I'm also not sure what you would get out of a study just throwing some kids on an island with apes? That's super uncontrolled. Plus is this morals or research ethics we're discussing and what is the difference?
I did trial and error with some possible numbers until I got really close with .55 and .275… then I used those and got .32625, which was really close to 33%
you mistakenly assume that A16z has the requirement to maintain a reputation in the same way you personally would.

Their reputation doesn't come from being moral. It comes from being able to make lots of money, and if this allows them to make lots of money, their reputation (as a VC) would only grow.
I won't even apply to jobs if there's not a range somewhere (ad, glassdoor, levels.fyi).
> Most academic professors in CS are mentoring much more than one PhD students over the course of their academic careers, yes?

Let's take a look at this oft-repeated claim. If we consider the Taulbee CS department survey [0], we can see the breakdown of the CS faculty population. Based on the survey, we see 32% are old-guard full professors, 16% associate professors, 20% assistant professors, 20% teaching faculty, 5% research faculty, and 5% postdocs. These are all positions with a PhD as a requirement.

This tells us that about 49% of the CS department faculty has tenure, while 51% is either working toward it or will never have it. Within that 51% there's a lot of churn. Many in that group will fail to achieve tenure. Others will work for a 3-5 year contract and move on afterward.

That's also not to say that tenured faculty never quit. Some leave academia for industry. Others go on sabbatical. Others leave for the NSF or some other institution. Others are poached by another department for a chair position. Some will leave once their spouse gets tenure at a superior institution. Others will go home to their native country.

So while it is true there are only so many positions, openings are happening all the time.

If you look at where CS PhDs are going after they graduate, we see that ~55% are going straight into industry, while only 30% are sticking around to find an academic job. This is a testament to the draw of industry in the CS field, and doesn't even capture the draw for faculty, which can be much stronger (much higher comps offered for experienced researchers as opposed to newly minted PhDs).

[0] https://cra.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2020-CRA-Taulbee-...
The mentality in Los Angeles is that nobody is from LA--it can be surprisingly true within a lot of social circles. My suspicion is that coastal elitism comes from people who chose to leave those center states. There seems to be waves of comedians that have affection or derision.
My bad. It was a rhetorical question. I don't find anything intellectually interesting about madden though and I suppose that's why I got a little snippy.

Supposedly "Hacker News" is intellectually interesting news for "Hackers". I'm not convinced this is.

edit: I see am I getting a ton of downvotes, I suppose there's a lot of american football fans on "Hacker News".
Woodard said the same splits ran through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.[1]

[1] http://colinwoodard.blogspot.com/2012/04/presenting-slighty-...
If they did that then scammers would coax people into giving them access to the push token and the victims would be receiving spam notifications that would be very hard for them to get rid of. We already see that kind of stuff with spam calendars. I don’t see Apple enabling such kind of push notifications.

What kind of use cases do you have in mind?
What ends up happening is the smooth love potion becomes used as transactional currency in Philippines besides being a game currency to purchase Axies. This is not going to be what the government wants and who knows what can happen next, but as you see this automatically gives people a way to transact digitally by using the underlying infrastructure without a fintech company

however price of smooth love potion has been on a downtrend according to the chart https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/smooth-love-potion

the hype is over, and players are mainly selling every tokens they earned whether from the game or through transaction
Let them use a single, tiny file from Keepass as an alternative to self hosting.

It's doable. I managed to teach a 50+ year old to do it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fartsovka
The distinction is that you would never pay someone to learn how to beat the Orphan of Kos for you; the pleasure is in getting your ass kicked to the point where you throw the controller across the room, only to pick it up again a couple hours later. That's exactly the experience these Bullshit Games aren't creating.
Your description of banks is correct. Your description of BTC is wrong. You're missing an important fact. The price of BTC can, and does, change. When it changes, the market value of all BTC changes. If the value of all BTC goes up, new value (not money) has been created.

Also, lots of people take loans to buy BTC. This is called "leverage".
I'm not sure there's much to disrupt in that industry.
That's not a fundamental property of fiat money. There is no fee for exchanging cash.
You can just update rates after the fact if necessary. I don't really see the problem with that. People with a bad history may get higher rates, just not based on risk analysis but based on their actual history.
The resilience of the human spirit captured in 29 images
Have you ever seen any of the comedian Man on the Street interviews? People so don't care about geography any longer than (if that) it takes to get past the subject in whatever school grade forcing it upon them. I've always had a fascination with maps/globes/etc, so I spend a considerable amount of time with that stuff. Even I couldn't place the exact location of cities within states I've never visited. Absurd is not the word I'd use.