skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was mostly due to the Iranian hostage crisis. Every night on TV there was a count "Day 123: America held hostage!" - this was when the ABC news show Nightline with Ted Koppel got it's start. Also, the economy wasn't great. We had inflation - though to be fair that started during the Nixon/Ford admins and was largely due to 1) Vietnam war spending and 2) the Arab oil embargo. Unemployment was also fairly high (around this time the term 'stagflation' was coined.) Carter appointed Paul Volcker as Fed chairman in '79 with the full knowledge that Volcker planned to significantly raise interest rates in order to curb inflation - in fact, Volcker did not expect to be chosen as Fed chairman because he made it clear to Carter in his interview that he would significantly raise rates. By the time of the election the Fed rate was around 13% which began to slow the economy significantly. Add to this that Carter was very honest with the American people that they needed to consume less and develop alternative forms of energy to become less dependent on authoritarian regimes.

Well, it was all too much for most of the electorate. Carter did the hard things that needed to be done. Volcker raising interest rates was absolutely the right thing to do and it did quell inflation a few years down the road, but Carter bore the brunt of the immediate political fallout.

Carter was thinking further ahead than probably any president in my lifetime (from JFK through Biden). He was the first president to take climate change seriously. If we would've listened to him I think we wouldn't be in a lot of the messes we're in now. But American politics is a short-term game... and it's even moreso now than it was then.
I can't say that I see this as a common occurrence in my 20 years in US workforce outside of situations where there is familiarity with the parties involved.

Come to think of it, I know the marital status and if most of my coworkers have children, but I do not know the name of a single one of those family members. They are always referred to as son/daughter/kid/wife/girlfriend/boyfriend/husband.

I know the names of the spouses and kids of coworkers from my previous company, but I have met them in person.
The first few personal/friendly conversations they likely said "my girlfriend, Emma," but then it'll be assumed you remember that Emma is the girlfriend.

I think it's about building friendship and closeness - they are sharing their life as they see it through their own eyes and dropping the impersonal role-only description of important people in their life. It is also reflective of a more-casual culture than many (especially at the office). Many Americans like to actually be friends with their coworkers.

It's similar to narration in a written story - important characters are introduced by their role and name, but role gets dropped once they're familiar.
BTW I don't think, write micro framework is too hard. From my view (I seen really many things, tried nearly all wide known web frameworks), all worthy frameworks have similar parts, and most of parts are easy to get ready made and to bind to your project.

Most important difference, is that Ruby itself could been used as script language for declarations; Python is less suited for declarations, but also possible; most usable functional languages (Python is semi-functional), or languages with very powerful preprocessor (like most functional are); json is just subset of javascript.

But for C-like languages (Java, C#, Objective-C, etc), need to make compiler or interpreter of Domain Specific Language (lua, or some intermediates), which will be used to define system structure, or use some sort of XML/json/yml or binary editor, to define structure (as in Android and in Ios).

For example, Java Spring use boot assembler, specially created to parse declarative configurations of framework, and to apply some logic.
People have seemed to forgotten the phrase "starving artist". It's pretty simple either you're doing something passionate that's just for you and you want to create it and realize that it won't sell but it's just for you then get what you get don't be crying for more patrons.

If you want to make money like the rest of us put on your big boy pants and do what you need to do to make the money. You don't have to sell your soul to make money all you have to do is give the people what they want. Once you're rich you can do all your passion projects you want and not worry about the money.

YouTube hasn't become wrecked because of the algorithm and everything else YouTube is turned into trash because everyone is begging for patrons. That's what this entire clip is that you shared is you begging for patrons. Produce content that people want to pay for and you won't have to beg for patrons. Better yet since this seems to be some sort of passion project for you get a job and do this as a hobby. The world has seem to forgotten that hobbies are a thing.
• Zoom, without Zoom.
• Google Docs, without Google.
• Medium, without Medium.
• WhatsApp, without WhatsApp.
• Payments, without banks.
• Identity, without the state.

A few quick points

- The percentage of internet users who care that the above services are centralized is likely less than 1% and probably much less

- If the open source movement is any indication, the percentage of people in that small group who want to pay to build such decentralized services is also very small

- There is no mention of a moderation slash policing mechanism. The idea that "The State" will allow people to trade child porn or buy and sell ghost guns without interference is ludicrous

My intuition tells me that there is a network law that hasn't been formulated yet that says that decentralized networks trend towards centralized super nodes when certain contraints and requirements are placed on the decentralized network (or maybe there is one and I haven't heard about it)
What do you think “dual intent” means?
These updates would not be needed if the computer has any decent Linux distro with an access to terminal. How can be possible to have a browser which could not (until now) clear data?
The definition the author uses for colored function is too broad imo.

void green(int p)

void yellow(char k[10)

Under his definition, these are colored functions. The compiler will create colors for them, and you can only pass them to places that expect these colors.

I don’t think it’s a useful definition of color.

color != function signature.
I feel like it would be possible to write software to tell artists if a song is in danger of copyright infringement of other registered songs. Either by analyzing the raw audio like Shazam does or by feeding the software the transcribed notes on sheet music or something similar.

But I guess here the issue was more about whether or not the infringement was intentional.
People use names when they think you've been introduced or they've at least mentioned the mapping before. Sometimes you slip up and forget in both ways.

In a group setting, I think people skew towards using the name if anyone in the group has been introduced. So if you're on some Zoom call and you're the new person in the room, I wouldn't expect people to switch from names to pronouns for your benefit. Everyone else knows the mapping already and you just have to pick up these names from context.
I feel like these trends are waves and we are currently in the down trend. I think we’ll see a bigger uptrend once the economy stabilizes again. We are in a multi prong proxy battle between energy sources and work/life shift. Once people figure out this change I’m sure things will get better as they did for other cities like nyc. Things were really awful back in the day and got better, then got worse, then got better again.

Also, companies might move their headquarters to Texas or whatever but people deep down (workers and probably also the company owners) prefer the lifestyle and experiences that California offers. California coast cities are amazingly beautiful and offer diverse range of activities outdoors and venue wise, and no massive McMansion in 100 degree Texas heat where you have AC blasting and Have to drive eight lane highways everywhere will ever replace the fact you can just hop on your bicycle and ride five min to the beach. I’m just going off anecdote from friends here.
>some people seek out work that gives them some of that while they are earning money.

But do they find it in tech? I could understand if we were talking about doctors, firemen, artists, etc. But tech work is mostly just companies trying to push products. This isn't really evil or good, it's just economics. A lot of tech companies seem to attempt to adopt language which suggests they're doing good, but I couldn't name very many which do something other than push products. I can't remember what language they used years ago when I worked at the apple store, but it was something like "enriching lives." And a lot of the employees seemed to really believe it. Yes, if you just buy a mac rather than some other computer, your life will be "enriched."

I'm not trying to be cynical; I definitely think there are some tech companies which do objective good, but these companies are in the vast minority of the tech field. If most people in tech sought "meaning" then the field would suddenly become extremely crowded around the few companies which actually produce good for the world.
Or everywhere is the center of the number line. Some people argue 0 is the center based on symmetry. My original point is that it is non-trivial to reason about infinite spaces. Since we do not know if we live in a bounded space or not, we can’t assume there is one center. Furthermore, even if we do live in a bounded space, there are different ways of measuring center. Eg: center of mass vs geometric center of a volume. Knowing both and comparing them would be pretty interesting!
I generally never just use someone’s name unless I’m absolutely positive the other person knows who I’m talking about. I would just say, “my friend Jack” to a new person.

I’ve always found it odd when people use names but I don’t know that person or their relation to the one I’m talking with.

I’m from the US, so I really think it just depends on the person.
I'm not an American and would use "my friend", "the friend of a flatmate of a friend", etc instead of names.

However, this ends up being a bit cumbersome, it would probably more efficient to introduce names a first time and just use names after, and let people ask "Who's Emma already?" if they don't remember or if you forgot to introduce the name. This feels off to me however, so I don't do this unless it becomes to cumbersome in a conversations.
I've actually never heard that criticism. There's like a total of 8 Apple configurations and most of the time, Apple users tend to be on the latest versions of iOS and macOS. I love getting Apple bug reports specifically because they're usually super easy to reproduce. The "weird configurations" type stuff is in my experience some random sloppy Android device sold for $50 and massacred by its OEM.
The research is there, some promising results, too. It just never gets to the people who need it. OK, maybe it will in another 20 years.

"What if the side effects are bad, we need more testing". How about you let those who suffer decide? No? OK then.
i'm sure that your students are very happy to criticize the person that pays them, and who has a complex about them not being deserving enough, to their face

edit: if you expect to be able to use your own anecdotes as evidence against unionization, expect them to actually be interrogated. if this is how you handle conflict with a random person on the internet, i shudder to imagine how you handle conflict with someone who works for you.
Shape of You is amazing. Sheeran virtue signals about how he prefers to pick up women in bars (not clubs, heaven forfend), the whole song is about how he objectifies his partner, and the music video has him hitting on a woman at the gym while she’s alone and no one is watching.

The only way it could possibly be more unpleasant is if he worked in a stanza about how he has mastered the art of picking his nose and eating it while in a moving vehicle.

How is this person so popular? Is it because he eats with his hands and with his mouth open while on a date.
You seem to be saying it is normal to not have developed theory of mind. Which is true in people under 2 years old..

I think the explanation is that many Americans emulate higher classes and celebrities in a fake-it-til-you-make-it fashion and when you live in the whitehouse everyone knows the name of your dog.
In China, it's common to call relatives by their relationship to you, rather than by their name.

In the US, you probably only do that with parents and SO (mom/dad/honey/darling).
> IANAL but pretty sure it’s a loud “not unless you have a patent that they violated”.

If they have violated patents, trademarks, or copyright, you can sue them for that. For example, if they reused your copy, or if they reused your proprietary source code.

But you've constructed your argument around the "differently-branded" idea, suggesting that there is no copyright case. The analogue in music would be a different song. You can't sue Rihanna over Umbrella for ripping off Stairway To Heaven, because they are different.

And yet, you don't argue with that copyright lawsuits over software apps should be outlawed.

You won't deny programmers the right to sue, the way you would deny that right to musicians. Programmers are allowed to be first class citizens in your world, while musicians are relegated to second class.

> It’s like there’s an implicit patent of sorts on every melody.

That's incorrect. This is the realm of copyright. Patent laws are not relevant.
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Well obviously as an American* I can speak for all Americans. Obviously.

Anywho, the reasoning is simple. If you know who my tribe members are without me ever having to bother to tell you, you must be cool. Otherwise you are just not part of my tribe, an Other.

But don't worry, we invented social media (just like we invented everything else, from radio to the Renaissance) so if you want to be part of my tribe, you can do your research, depending on how private and exclusive I feel like being today.

*Don't believe those Canadians or anyone else who lives on either of the two continents in the new world, only US-ians get to claim American as a word!!

PS: this is all a rather bombastic attempt at a joke (potentially satire?). The real reason (I'd guess) is we aren't all uniformly well trained in polite etiquette like not being so self absorbed that we assume everyone knows who our family are.
Calling people with no institutional power that Congress can call in and berate "oligarchs" is to not understand/respect the meaning of the word.
It frustrates me that there are so many "information programs" like these that are computationally easy to solve but rely on the free availability of information. Sadly, companies like athome.lu have no interest in sharing this data and so here we are in 2022, still having to manually search multiple sites.

In Internet olden times, we dreamed about automated agents that would run searches on your behalf, scour the web to compare prices and hunt down things you were interested in. But user-centric fantasies like this don't make fortunes, so walled gardens is what we ended up with.
Claris Works on Macs in the 1990s is the best database product I’ve ever used. It was amazingly user friendly. I used it to make form letters & reports. Claris Works prioritized the application layer of the database and hid a lot of the complexity at the data layer.

DB Browser for SQLite is the coolest database product I’ve used recently. Similar to Mito, DB Browser generates SQL into a log as operations are performed in the GUI. Kind of a fun way to learn some basic SQL. I need to find a good GUI authoring layer for SQLite…
And we have uninformed comments on Lightning Network (LN - have you ever tried to run on its own? As Elizabeth Stark said Friday - “LN has its own native token called sats and it will be work stacking some”! Education is critical
I don't respect my kids? You don't know shit.

Anyway, "other adults" lie all the time. Every employer I ever had has lied one time or another. This is important information. Bringing kids up into some fairies and unicorn fantasy where everything is unthinkingly accepted, thats disrespecting children
It's an extreme example but you might enjoy this website, which is one of the low-key-greatest things on the web:

http://www.folias.nl/

A lot of the lawsuits that come up will I think end up resolving in this way -- pointing out that there are borderline-ancestral components to melodies and it's possible to come up with things that sound similar despite conscious effort not to.
The author is directly quoting the original description, from "What color is your function?" They even link it, here it is again : https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...
Boulder is California-light. Colorado doesn’t yet have the endemic corruption you get with uniparty states like California, but with all the Californians moving there and doing the same thing, it’s coming.

The rise in homelessness in Boulder in just the past few years is amazing.
Maybe it could be explained by each new generation asking their parents why nobody is dwelling near the coast. Meaning, the information is passed down because it is necessary to explain the current situation. The passed-down explanation may even mutate significantly, as long as it still keeps people away from the coast.
The OP says, "like we know them", not, "like we know who they are". It's unclear, but I'd assume OP is referring to a phenomenon regarding conversational intimacy, rather than a strange phenomenon where Americans use people's names before telling you who they are. Only OP can clarify, though.
I think from a politics standpoint yeah I’m kind of a doomer. I identify as liberal but the people running on liberal platform are really dumb and their opponents are insane/dumb in other ways. There’s no good options to vote for. Idk how we will manage to wade through that.
I'm looking for an apartment in Bangalore right now, and hope to be done with it soon.
Totally agree. The author is redefining color to mean function signature.

If color meant function signature, why define color?
I have seen this from people all over the world. It's not "like we know them", it's just a quip to make the conversation more intimate.
Canadian here, and I do this too.

Part of the reason is that it's like passively introducing the person, or reminding the listener of the person's name, without the listener needing to ask.

I have a horrible time remembering names, esp. co-workers' spouce/kids names. I appreciate it when they do this.

EDIT: Western Canadian, and Shauna does this too :)
Utterly unrelated, but it’s fascinating how the word film has gone from “putting something on celluloid film” to “recording audiovisual data”, just like tar has gone from “tape archive” to “archive of file(s)” and car/cdr have gone from “address part of the register” and “decrement part of the register”, to first part of the cons pair and last part of the cons pair. As technology develops, words lose their meaning as mnemonics of technological underpinnings and become signifiers of the functionality of a technology.
I think they might have been referring to things written in VB, not the quality of the language itself.
Reading my post again, I think to be fair we should say that Mexican unions can often definitely be corrupt in a way that doesn't serve the interests of workers. While this could result in people from there being very cynical about and uninterested in unions -- that is often my personal experience with people from former soviet countries -- my personal experience with people from Mexico (totally anecdotal and subjective sense, not proof in any sense) is still that they come from a culture where it's generally understood that collectively organizing as workers -- and collectively organizing for grassroots political power in other ways -- is a good thing, and a culture where they may have some experience doing so, very differently from most people in the USA.

It's just my theory based on my personal observations and thoughts though, yeah!
I doubt this though. Over the long term it’s about being competitive. The marginal value of a salaried employee hour is small. It’s the base availability that provides the most value.
I think there most certainly is something to run to. Lower taxes, less regulations to comply with, state-level offices willing to get on the phone and make things happen to bring innovative businesses to the state, lower cost of living, better weather.

Whether or not you think all these things are good things for a state to have, or whether you think Texas represents your values, it most definitely offers something to run to, even in a world without California.
This thing sucks. Why would I want to use my scroll wheel to navigate a 3D space? UX/UI designers need to get a clue.
If you look at what fills cabinets like the ones in your own kitchen, it is a collection of objects that never beckon to be thrown away. The 5 different BBQ spice mixes that you pick up every time you host a BBQ. The Avocado oil you bought but never use. The various kitchen gadgets that once seemed like a good idea.

All of the "enchantment", the food that spoils, the food that was once actually alive, now lives in a special dark, cool cabinet called the refrigerator.

The modern kitchen is a response to this paradox. If you've ever lived in a house without lots of kitchen storage, the clutter that accumulates in all the nooks and crannies is overwhelming.
Yeah but this is a "the customer isn't the user" situation. The tenant wants and deserves privacy, and it's their privacy that can be compromised by the listing.

The owner doesn't really have a reason to care, I don't think, and may even be incentivized in some situations to reveal information the tenants would rather they not.
I like to wash some things (a good knife or an aluminum pan) by hand - meditative yes - and let my dishwasher handle the rest.
Go to the videos page of the channel and sort by popularity.
I bought my house in the late-ish 90s before the web was really a big thing and certainly before things like Google StreetView. I spent a lot of time driving around to see places where I ended up not even stopping the car once I got there.

Today, there would be a lot more information available. However, as you suggest, I assume all that available information probably increases the efficiency of connecting a property with potential buyers/renters so you're less likely to luck into something that others just haven't found yet. (The funny thing is that the house I ended up buying turned out be being sold by someone I knew quite well at work.)
Yep, exactly. It’s been basically over in Arizona and Florida for more than a year, in NYC since Omicron, in Germany it probably will be after the present wave, and in Australia and China it may never be.

The duration of Covid-related disruptions depends almost entirely on how much a society chooses to sacrifice to prevent spread.
You just have to pay attention. I work in Rust on embedded, it’s not a problem. The smallest x86_64 binary rustc has ever produced is like, 145 bytes. I’m on Arm, we have space for a lot more, but still actively try to keep sizes down. Some tasks in our system are ~500 bytes, the larger ones are on the order of 10k.

You can’t just use the broader ecosystem willy nilly, and if you want truly small stuff, you have to know how to coax the compiler from time to time. But that’s just always going to be the case.
Couldn't agree more with this assessment. I'd also like to repost the top comment on Medium since it might be particularly germane to the HN community:

'...a spirit influenced by gnosticism (even if it doesn't know it): the body and the material world is bad, the spirit is everything. So the best space, becomes no space: the virtual space of the internet, for example. Meta, indeed.'