skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The basic law of economics

It's not a law. It's a model. A very simple model. Of a very complex system.

Computer Scientists never invoke Turing machines or the simply typed lambda calculus in debates about specific pieces of hardware or compiler implementations, except in cases where those models are actually applicable and in ways that comport with the pieces of those systems for which the model is usefully faithful.

The Econ 101 "supply & demand curve" is way simpler than TMs/lambda calculi, AND it's modeling a much more complex system than a computer/compiler. Yet, somehow, the model is constantly invoked.

There's a really good reason that every single financial analyst in the world goes directly to "pricing power" whenever they are asked to analyze the effect of "supply chains".
There's so much to do in life, why not find a completely new skill to master? Or if you've got so much free time - consider becoming a teacher. It is arguably the most important profession that exists in our world and knowing you are shaping the future through the education of others might address your lack of self-direction.
People who are not lost are probably delusional.

First thing to recommend if you haven't already is to become a student of psychology. YouTube is pretty helpful with this. Some insight into what your brain firmware is up to and why you feel one way or another can be useful.
Probably drop the therapist since this was their job and they appear to have failed.

It may be that your self worth has been bound up in ascending a ramp of mastery. This works well until around your age which is the point where you've pretty much learned everything. The ramp flattened out and now your self-worth is abating as a result. If that's the case, adding new mastery challenges "just because" can help. Learn how to weld. Buy a bulldozer. Figure out Representation Theory. Doesn't matter what it is, only needs to be something your brain recognizes as difficult and it doesn't have to be work-related.

This also may simply pass with time. Once you're 10 years past the point of learning and understanding and doing everything, it's less of a big deal. In other words there isn't the continuous decline you perceive coming. More like a flat plateau.
This is very true. I think for young people it's very difficult to appreciate that we live on the knife's edge of peace. Peace is not the natural human condition, and vast numbers of people are ready and willing to commit incredible violence and atrocities in the name of their tribe. Absolutely nothing about human nature has changed since the uncountable wars we have fought since our very first moments as a species. Peace exists only in the liminal space between great violence and terrible powers.
Rari Capital’s Co-Founder Joins Chapter One as a Venture Partner
And, for example, a company might be interested in a slightly earlier post about using this "ambient authentication" setup for access to Grafana: https://tailscale.com/blog/grafana-auth/
Do you think Douglass Crockford didn't know that? He was being cheeky and doesn't care. This was also a huge pain point for JSHint and a lot of work went into undoing that by finding a single commit that didn't have the clause iirc.
Money is fungible. Every single dollar that goes for Twitter is exactly a dollar that does not go for what he used to say was important.

He might be heard to say those again, but dollars speak louder than words. Musk can say anything, anytime. What he does with his money demonstrates what he believes.
Support for Russia is not antiwar.

Boomers were famously opposed to US involvement in Vietnam.
Ritual drug use during Inca human sacrifices:Results of a toxicological analysis
Turning off Javascript on the Economist website also shows the full article. I'm using uBlock for this. Besides the paywalls, I find that turning off JS improves the user experience on the vast majority of news sites.
Time you enjoy wasting is not time wasted.

just because you feel work is the only thing that gives you purpose doesn't mean it's the only thing. Having material goods and producing material goods for others isn't the only purpose in life and a majority of people will not find true happiness out of this.

It doesn't mean that laziness is the way to go, but viewing having hobby's that don't produce something as a bad thing is an awful outlook on life and just makes you a slave to others.
We do have our crazies on the right, but for the most part they are pathetically irrelevant and easily ignored. Perhaps the best evidence of this is that I can freely criticize the excesses on the right without fear of retribution! Even staunch liberals in academia are afraid of criticizing the left or of violating their many strictures on free speech for fear of being cancelled.

Where I most agree with you is with regard to January 6th. It is shameful that Trump fomented violence, and almost worse that Liz Cheney is being ostracized for speaking the truth and doing what is right.
My father just retired from 35 years of "hard work" as a bread man. Driving around to grocery stores. Managing orders. Slinging bread onto shelves.

I say "hard work" in quotes because, as he puts it, he never had to make any decisions. He just showed up, did the work, went home. Yes, it was physically demanding, but you have to be pretty stupid to get it wrong (and yet, somehow, some of his coworkers did, but I digress).

He's going through a depression right now, and it's 100% not knowing what to do with himself. He doesn't have anyone to tell him what to do. He's 60 years old this year and has not lacked someone giving him orders since he was 18 years old and joined the Army.

I'm going on 20 years as a software developer. I've helped him on his route before. He's helped me build sales tracking databases. So we've gotten to have a bit of a peek into each other's worlds. We've had a lot of conversations about the nature of work. Being a software developer is a lot "harder" than being a ditch digger. As a manual laborer, you show up, do your job, go home. It might be physically demanding, but your body eventually adapts. You get stronger. You tolerate the pain better. Baring physical injury, you just keep on trucking.

But software development never gets easier. Nobody knows what is the "right" solution to any problem. Any particular task is potentially unbounded in the time it takes to complete it. You're always working at the limit of your understanding. Indeed, if you aren't, you're wasting time. And that's just the technical portion of the craft. There's also the office politics (which, BTW, blow my dad's mind. He says he's seen people get punched for far less than I've experienced in an office environment).

Or, at least, that's the ideal. I think, anyway. In reality, a lot of people treat software development more like ditch-digging than what I've described. Show up, do what you're told, body molds itself to chair.

How do you tell the difference between just showing up vs. actually doing the real, hard work of having to make risky decisions that might not pay off? I think a good litmus test is, in all that time, working at startups, working for other people, did you ever do anything for yourself? Did you ever make a decision--of any kind, on anything--that was not based on your expectation of how someone else would evaluate it? Your cofounders, your investors, the market, etc.?

In other words, are you the kind of person who gets bored and A) complains about it, or B) finds a box of crayons and some paper? Because option A is looking for orders.
Have children
>>far right or far left media, which tends to be much more pro-Russia than mainstream media

I wouldn't say pro Russian but anti-war. This kind of framing reminds me of GW Bush's "you're either with us or with the terrorists" accusation against people who opposed invading Iraq.

Also "far right or far left media" would be more accurately characterized as non-corporate non-MSM journalism. For reasons that aren't entirely clear, the MSM literally promotes every US war and foreign intervention no matter the cost or predictable disastrous consequences. It's as if they have become engulfed in the military industrial complex.
I too am a fan of free speech. In academia, in theory, that's what the tenure system is for.

It seems to me that the issue is one of society being less or more accepting, not so much twitter censorship.
TikTok would suck so much if they blocked you from your Follows recommendation feed and For You recommendation feed. The platform doesn't have a nonpersonalized feed so you will have to search for content you want to watch.
But he also used his stream to raise $200k for Ukranian relief efforts.
I wonder whether 18-29 year olds have more pressing problems to care about and are therefore more apathetic?
How is it stupid and unfair? You played a direct role in Tesla’s success - you supported them financially at a critical point, which helped get them through the bottleneck
> "Lauren Carroll Harris is a writer and curator."

Current generations were sold on the promise that you can be what you want. That you have the right (and almost the duty) to follow your passion. In reality the game is rigged. The article points this out correctly, in my opinion, and conveys the bitterness that comes from unveiling this illusion.

Among the writers and curators in my social circles (I would add artists, musicians, actors, …), there is a tacit agreement that if you want to pursue such careers, you have to (1) come from wealth, (2) marry a banker, (3) live frugally. I perceive some sense of happiness, or at least peace with oneself, mostly from the ones falling under option (3), even if they have by far the toughest lives.

Of course, there's always the promise of (4) become tremendously successful, but I don't know anyone who made it. And (5) give up and perform a job that people are willing to pay real money for.

Personally, I support high inheritance taxes to balance things out a bit. I think it's healthier for everyone. Those trust fund kids are in a permanent struggle to live up to unrealistic expectations and I'm not sure that's so great.

As for the natural wines detour, it feels quite weird for me. I don't see how they're much different from craft beer in 2005 or nutmeg in the 1500s. There are perfectly good wines for under 5€, drink that instead. If your friends are looking down on you for that, find new friends, seriously.
You sound burned out. Why don't you take a year off, travel, meet people and friends think about your life? You don't really need the money anyway.
I loved Phabricator but it's end of life. https://www.phacility.com/phabricator/
During that first server we were using a 3rd party minecraft hosting provider, so no way of knowing if that was the case. I'll double check my current server though, thanks.

Edit dug it out of my old emails, it was actually actually much longer than 6 years ago! The host was Phoenixerve, seems they don't exist anymore.
Did you fire them or they quit to take the opportunity? Unless it's the former you're just as guilty :)
Most OS's don't very visibly indicate whether the mic is muted or not, only the speakers.
I'm barely an hour outside of DC and nobody cares about 1/6. Partly because Americans are pretty used to nutjobs storming public buildings, and partly because they're also used to extreme rhetoric from politicians.
The offer is hostile because he made the offer at the same time he announced his intention to buy the company and he did it publicly.
I feel like you can change dolphin “into” any file manager you want. It’s so configurable and really is a pleasure to use.
Basically he's someone who only finds value by producing economic value for someone else. Their own wants, desires etc have no value to someone else so therefor should not be pursued. It's a pretty fucked up view of what life should be. I'm sure they're someone that views old people as having absolutely no value in life as well.
You say that, but the memes and quotes generated from twitter posts and threads spread far and wide. You'll see people who don't even use Twitter quoting things almost verbatim 3 months after it blew up. Same with 4chan and the fringe right sadly. The memes, like "OK Groomer" start out in some weird radical place but then catch elsewhere if they are viral enough.
We were using a 3rd party MC server host (this was before Realms). So honestly no idea, but I hope they didn't!

Edit dug it out of my old emails. The host was Phoenixerve, seems they don't exist anymore.
What are you trying to prove? And to who?

My guess (armchair psychology and know nothing about you) is that someone made your inner child feel sad and "not good enough". If you can find that kid in you and feel/sooth the pain it will free you from trying so hard to reach an elusive goal. Then you can figure out what you actually want and persue that.

No, I'm not projecting I've seen this before. My own inner pain and outward manifestation was different ;-)
We can't put it back inside, but we can create new silos within the web that are not built around Delaware c corps and instead built around communities with standards/culture so that we can choose the kind of places we want to be online. We need to move away from the "app" and platform metaphors and into something different that connects people together. I think Jack sort of wanted Twitter to be this but in realizing it wasn't possible to build this as a Delaware C corp itself, kicked off Bluesky.
Have you considered going back to school to pursue something more aligned with your interests/passion, or even a general program that lets you figure things out?

There are many midcareer programs operated by business schools, as well as specialized terminal degrees in technical and creative fields. I took such a route at age 40 ... going back to school full-time at that age was a shock to many people I knew, but it was the right thing for me. It really opened up a range of new possibilities, and introduced me to people from all over the world and from industries I would otherwise have never encountered.
Non-techy “annoying” people can and have learned to code HTML.

It just takes proper motivation. When the only game in town was Myspace, many people learned just so they could have an awesome page. Knowing HTML / CSS gave you more street cred, so to speak.

Now that incentive doesn’t exist. But the same people that would have learned are still posting online.

Being open to the general public isn’t a problem to me because sub-cultures naturally spring up. Hacker News is like a safe space for people that would have made these manual websites 15 years ago lol.
Having worked on adjacent problems every day for 10 years, maybe my opinion counts for something (or maybe not).

But I think the top game of the 2030s will be something like AI Minecraft or AI Steam, where everything, including the very rules of the game, is generated from a structured data set optimized for the player.

And I think the "metaverse" (as much as I loathe the term) is going to go down as the labeled training set for bootstrapping this, just like the open web was the catalyzing training set for the (already admittedly magical) AIs we have today.

Further, I think Facebook won't be the one to design this, because that is not what their share price incentivizes.
Echoing what other commenters are saying. Depression takes many forms, and some of them allow you to still function. Just like some people can be a high functioning alcoholic, some people can hold down a job and achieve high levels of professional success while everything else in their life is crumbling to their depression.

There's also like 5 classes of antidepressant drugs, and several more that don't fall into a specific class. Each class has several options. If the first one doesn't work for you, that doesn't mean the next wont. The biological causes of depression aren't well understood and it's trial and error to find one that works for you. I would encourage people who are depressed to talk with their doctor, and find a medication that works for them. And don't be afraid to tell your doctor one isn't working, they won't be surprised.

Depression isn't one size fits all, and the meds for it aren't either.
Was the nautilus business plan

1) create file manager

2) ?

3) profit!
I used Nautilus for a little while and ran into all of these same issues. Since I use i3 and not Gnome, I decided to replace it with another file manager rather than deal with the headache. I’m using xfe. It had the power user oriented features I want, but don’t love it either. The icons are rendered very badly on a HDPI screen. I guess I’m still searching for the right file manager.
Since when does popularity have a causality with quality?
Not for a man.
> How does someone ruin anything for anyone on twitter, when you can just unfollow/block on your own, and follow whomever you want?

So if we don’t ignore bots or “troll farms” (or whatever they are called these days) then it’s pretty clear how the experience of any user on the platform can be “ruined”. If you’re spending a ton of time blocking / unfollowing instead of engaging with others on the platform, then that could be one way that many “someone’s “ can ruin Twitter for others.
I have been to airbnbs the worked like a youth hostel. I was in a party with one other person and there were several other parties of 2 to 5 people in a huge house in Boston. The owner was there.

I had a great time.
If you have the IPFS Companion[0] browser extension installed (or use Brave, which includes it natively) then the dweb.link URL will be translated automatically into an ipfs:// URL and resolved locally. Blocking the CID at the public gateway, or even taking down the gateway, would have no effect.

[0] https://docs.ipfs.io/install/ipfs-companion/
Hit the nail on the head. Boomers grew up in an age without the internet, where government propaganda was spoonfed to them straight through their brand new living room television sets and doorstep newspapers.

Just imagine: the only bastion of information was your local library. Granted, information in libraries is curated and of substantially higher quality than the unfiltered garbage that you can encounter on the internet... but who was really going to libraries that often back in the day? Information was sparse, and that was exploited to manipulate people to an uncanny degree.
Does anyone care about small neural networks? What can a small NN do that XGBoost can't?
I had to take a second pass on it. I thought I was maybe onto something when I wrote that originally. Is it a V8 perf hack? Nope, just my brain not functioning correctly at the time :P
Would add cplusplus.com to this list. Cppreference is just a better resource in every way.
Then one must still consider demand and how buyers value the product.

Max profit becomes far more complex!

A second order view might be:

Say at $1.99 one gets X sales, Y sales at $2 (and yes, that is a real thing), Z at $3, $5 etc...

Clearly, selling for the $5 maximizes profit per unit sale, but if volume is more than double at $3.99, overall profit will be maximized by far higher unit sales.

The buyers will weigh product benefits vs their time, liquid dollars and competing products.

Fewer of them see a favorable value proposition at $5 than do at $3.99. Maybe more see it at $2.50, but not enough more to make more profit over the life of the product.

And a third order strategy could be:

One layer above that is time. Early on, if the product is well differentiated, has a strong value proposition, max money may in fact linked to a price ramp downward.

Start at $5, then drive new sales at $4.50, etc, until late in the cycle to sell against competition, one is selling down at $1.99. While this is being done, cost reductions and other product enhancements can keep margin high.
Some password managers have automation to change passwords, but it's... janky. I think they've manually implemented stuff for some sites (and it works for some sites and managers, not all sites).
Incomprehensibility? Where exactly is what I write incomprehensible? And the response to not understanding some points is that you don't address any points and declare victory? That's bad faith.

Meanwhile my post fades into grey soon to be invisible and then the next person like you can claim that they just don't see those science-minded vaccine skepticism comments / posts.

> You've shifted your argument from your doubts have been proven true

No, that's not what I did. I showed that there is actually evidence for each of the points you brought up.
Thank you for creating Nautilis, I've been using it since 2006.

Just out of curiosity, what DE do you use these days?
> You can’t take a company private and keep shareholders around

I don't know how customary, but technically it's possible to keep up to hundreds of shareholders around when going private.
That's what basic economics theory says, yes, but not what happens in practice to make Arizona Iced Tea $0.99. Nor why a baggie of 5 screws at Lowes costs $2.99. Supplier costs are important in commodities, especially where easily compared alternatives are readily available, but that's not true of all products.

There are a lot of factors that go into pricing, but for many consumer goods the vendor is able to set prices pretty much independently of the costs.
They might also have found that people just want sugar water. A lot of mass market food products get bastardized by being made blander and more sugary.
Your phrasing here is odd -- is it a moral wrong to have lots of money? Does having lots of money change the amount someone should be defended on arbitrary issues?
Most younger people are quite skeptic of mainstream media so they don’t trust the narrative CNN and Fox News are trying to sell them.With the elderly it’s the opposite.

Further, most of the elderly lived at a time when the USSR was the clear and obvious enemy of “freedom”, so it’s not hard to fathom Russia being back into its usual shenanigans.

Gen Z is also more diverse and broadly anti-American (or “anti-imperialist”) so they’re less willing to blindly support US foreign policy and feel less connected to European conflicts than previous generations.

Finally Russia has, in my opinion, waged a fairly successful social media campaign to muddy the waters. Those videos of Ukrainians discriminating against people or color were signal boosted everywhere on Twitter. Same with the Azov Batallion which some people believe are the entire Ukrainian army. You also have people bringing up Yemen, Syria, Palestine, etc to emphasize the “white-supremacist” support of Ukraine receiving overwhelming attention.

Gen Z has thus mostly understood this conflict through the propaganda wars that play out in social media and thus have conflicting and/or “both-sides” takes.
You're only a people if you have a blue checkmark.
How common are bids solicited?
Very neat, it reminded me of the below link, which shows videos of driving through cities, while playing you a matching radio station from the area. https://driveandlisten.herokuapp.com/
I don’t know about “future rich millennials” but the trend of millennials extrapolating from their circle of friends to all of society is one that I could do without.

Any data on whether inherited or gifted assets have become a larger fraction of net worth than labor for most Americans? (Or Australians for that matter? I’m sure Hacker News is full of people who are living proof that social mobility through wages exists. I don’t know if it’s up or down, but am sure it has nothing to do with the author’s friends taste in wine.

Also, all the talk of “inheritance” is weird in the context of millennials. The average person will only inherit their parents in their fifties or sixties, and even then split it with one or more siblings.
In Polish language it is flatly impossible, male/female/neuter is strongly built into grammar.

It would require remaking significant part of language, it is not a minor tweak like singular they in English.

Demanding this is a runaway imperialism.