skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Facebook, Google and the rest of the industry were so driven by profit at all cost, and at the expense of long term thinking, they shot themselves in the foot."

If one subscribes to the idea that reducing spending can help curb inflation, then consider that the "business model" of online advertising-supported "tech" companies seem to require that consumers keep spending, in spite of inflation.
Also, I suspect that the bandwidth used by a typical X app was far lower back when it was invented. I remember seeing some greyscale X terminals, and probably not many levels of grey either.
> Perhaps as it's a text UI, rather than command line.

You must be completely confused with some other tool. notmuch is a command line tool.
In 1990 I worked with a lawyer to submit a patent (cool idea, although it never made me any money). We were both new to the process, so it was a learning opportunity all around.

A priority of mine was to use clear and transparent language. So, I'd write something up that was human-readable, he'd legalese it, I'd re-human-readable it, and we'd iterate. It felt like we were taking a walk through document space; he'd push towards the "Legally Tight" pole, and I'd push towards the "Intelligible" pole.

I think the result [0] was pretty good.

[0]: https://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=...

(P.S. Why isn't there a simple PTO URL for "show patent number XXXXXXX"???)
> We are looking for an injunction to apply to Bob for ......."

Is that an issue? That should be fine as long as the injunction isn't something like "quit game development".
The US school system seems different than mine, and although we have issues, if only for the socialization, being in school is better than not.

Especially, what my father explained to me (he directed projects and extracurricular 'homework help' (+ free food) for kids in the poor neighborhood of my city at the time) was that the most important for success in school was parental implication, and that if you compared kids in 'regular' school with present and interested parents (often children of teachers, or children with one stay at home parent and few siblings) to kids in 'special school' (Montessori at the time i think), there was no practical difference on their success later. He told us his job was to try his best to have his street educators bridge the gap between parents and school, and if it wasn't possible, to offer a more collective and affirmative way of learning/doing in his extracurricular center.

(weird translation, sorry if it isn't understandable, there is a lot of specific vocabulary i tried to simplify then translate).

It was only his impression, but I've worked with children from my 14th birthday to my 25th, and my personal experience (i taught science through experiment with an association both at public schools and at summer camps) tends to confirm that what's really matter in engagement from the parents.
> Some kind of reflection in Haskell

In Haskell you can only do that kind of manipulation at compile time. At run time, the source code is long gone. And even at compile time, expressions are a very different type than code that can be run. Haskell just isn't anything like a symbolic language.

As pointed out way upthread, it provides lots of hooks for programmers to have nice syntax for entry points to symbolic systems - if someone writes one.
I mean, do we believe any of this? An 8 year old isn’t running a business and selling to restaurants in a different state. No business would purchase from an 8 year, no business would ship goods from an 8 year old, no bank gives a loan to a 9 year old. The list goes on and on. Incredibly sad that a child has died, but this reads as pure fantasy.
iPhone 14 Pro camera shaking and rattling in TikTok, Snapchat, and other apps
For whatever reason when I saw this I thought it was going to be an archive of people's predictions of imminent hyperinflation in the West (still hasn't happened guys).
The Pitch Meeting channel has saved me so much money since covid started.
Prompted by a question on Twitter: it turns out that the puzzle is also NP-complete:

https://www.neeldhara.blog/posts/dogs-bunny-puzzle/
Recently I mailed a bunch of old phones to Noisebridge as a donation. I figured those folks will have better ideas than me :)

https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge
I’m surprised by the level of consciousness of matrix multiplication
Swimming is perhaps one of the most important skills anyone can learn regardless of where you live. At some point in your life you will probably fall into water too deep to stand. Don’t let yourself be at the mercy of someone saving you or sheer dumb luck.

Also, if you can’t swim, don’t be embarrassed! A lot of people can’t and honestly no one is judging you because you can’t swim. Go to your local pool and see if they offer adult classes and if not see if there is someone willing to teach you.
> I infer your complaint is misdirected at the taxpayers, and should be with mis-spending by the school administrators.

I never directed a complaint at the taxpayers-- though it should be directed at the voters. Society expecting/normalizing teachers to pay for supplies out of their own pocket is the problem.

Education keeps getting more and more expensive and lower and lower quality across the board. Especially in universities, but also in K12. Administration and waste gobble up more and more.

It seems like your responses expect teachers to paper over all the systemic problems. Their employer demands they teach excessive amounts of curriculum? Well, they'd better listen to parents, too, even if this is impossible, or else get no respect! School districts don't actually buy supplies or resource classrooms sufficiently? Well, teachers had better fix that!
Any opinion on Friedrich Hayek, particularly The Road to Serfdom? I had difficulty absorbing it and lent it to a book snatcher before finishing. I do remember admiring the bits I thought I understood.
I don't think anyone can reasonably dispute that Germans don't value great customer service much -

but it's ridiculous to claim that the culture that produced Goethe, Schiller and, to a large part, the Romantic era doesn't value aesthetics.

I think that most "popular" (i.e. charts-topping) German music is rather bland, but I feel the same about chart hits from other countries. Meanwhile there is some German music that is really good - though of course whether you'll like what I like will depend on your taste.
Sounds like a defect in the physical product. Hopefully Apple can compensate and deliver a software-only fix.
When I am looking to buy something, ads actively get in the way of that. Ads are why we don't have websites that tell you "these are the 3 options you're probably looking for" any more because people figured out that they can make sites like that where the three choices are just ads rather than good recommendations. There's been times when I've simply given up on buying something because I got sick of wading through ads looking for any actual information.
"Finally, what you have effectively done here, is monetized racism, sexism, and any other kind of ‘ism you can think of to your own advantage."

Everyone over a certain age has concerns for the future rooted in disappointment about the present, and this is one of mine. I grew up thinking that we were making progress on racism, sexism, etc. and that these things would slowly die out over my lifetime. However, people won't be able to make money off of these things if that happens. Hence, there is a direct monetary incentive for media moghuls, politicians, etc. to keep breathing new life into old hatreds. It actually seems like society is backsliding in some areas, and there are people who are gaining money and influence as a direct result.

Worse yet, you can know you're being played and still wind up being played. This stuff can really get your emotions roiling and influence your behaviour even if you know that's being done deliberately for someone else's gain.
Thanks and I do generally agree with your sentiment.

I read through the wikipedia but it didn't really click with me and I felt it definitely wasn't written for a five year old :-)

In my defence I wanted to hear how others would state the problem and was afraid of biasing the response by leading too much with what I may or may not correctly know. Though I had tried to provide some direction with my questions that I hoped would be addressed by others.

I thought the question was in line with the general HN guidelines of "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Or for more permanent use cases (since someone is signed into Chrome), Syncthing is an excellent tool.
The whole thing is incredibly vague. Unless they have some mind-blowing behind-closed-doors demo, I'm going to assume their ex-Facebook crypto chief did the same old "decentralization good!" routine that seems to catch all the other investors.
Why should it be divisive at all? Like when fans were in an uproar when the Titans cast a black woman to portray an orange alien from Tamaran as not being realistic?

I’m surprised their wasn’t uproar about Will Smith playing a blue genie.
Let's use the linux kernel as an example, since it does very few, well-defined things, and still doesn't work. This comes from an inability to imagine better, an unwillingness to use proper tools, and an attitude that kernel panics be acceptable.

It's fine to solve a vague problem by simply having the machine ask for human direction in a few cases. It's not fine to have the machine do something inappropriate or crash because a valid case wasn't handled in any way.

Everything below these vague areas can, and should, be perfect. People who claim this be an unobtainable goal are liars.
You looks like Russian :D

But you are blaming US in all problems. Typical.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220917134216if_/https://www.ny...
You’re probably alone in this.
A lot of those people with nasty names/pfps are the 12 year olds. I remember being that age in the gaming (and internet) communities. and all's sorts of rage bait go. There is even a well known word for this act: trolling. Let's not pretend it's all a bunch of 30 y/o racist groomers.

The real issue is that these 12 year olds hold this mentality into their entire adult life.
It's not that mathematical models make a theory more valid or sophisticated. They make it testable, which is why neoclassical economics > both Austrian and MMT.

If Austrian school economists want to gain mindshare, they should develop models, backtest them, and report the results. Same for MMT.

By the way MMT is a political phenomenon. There are very few professional economists who think it is workable.
This isn’t really true except for random edge cases. The people leading countries go to school and get law degrees. People leading business got college degrees or worked in business for decades.

You can pull edge cases like Patagonia’s Yvon Chouinard, but even then he spent a lot of time in his 20s running his business.
BART is the ailing infrastructure / life support before self-driving cars come online, and that should be immensely respected.
We should always remember where we came from.
We all know the ideal theory. I am talking execs that constantly change requirements, refuse to sign under any stable requirements, and think everything is "quick and easy", and take offense when you try to manage their expectations.

Reasonable people I easily work with. It's the rest who are the problem.
This hack of using freed memory is not what (at least as far as I can tell) the issue was about: the code calls realloc and then compares the old pointer value to the new pointer value to avoid recalculating some offsets and somehow gcc decides that this is undefined behavior and refuses to equate them; click the "Autogen" link in the article to go to the issue where they are discussing what happened... like, it is "a bug in the application", but it only seems to be a bug in the application if you have extremely detailed knowledge of undefined pointer behavior, not merely because someone was making egregious implementation assumptions about the allocator.
Front end-only contact form (React (nextJS)+ Google Forms)
Understanding the Snowflake Query Optimizer
Taking notes is really easy and definitely not rocket science. Just grab a piece of paper or open your text editor. I do this all the time. Retrieving notes and making use of them quickly and accurately is (I find) extremely difficult.

This post is missing the point. Complex note taking systems rarely focus on capture. They are concerned with organization, indexing, retrieval, and quick recall.
Maybe I don’t understand the problem, but I don’t see how that shows deduction failing. You can deduce that the time of the event will be a surprise and thus cannot be deduced from the available facts.
In many many European languages the term for a thousand million is "milliard". English is the odd one out here.

[1]https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/milliard#Descendants
> So in your view, it sounds like being able to perfectly diagram a sentence is more important than understanding tax law?

What's being described isn't the ability to diagram a sentence, but to write above a certain minimum standard. That skill is certainly more important for the average person than understanding tax law as most jobs that would require you to know tax law have good writing skills as a pre-requisite.

As part of my previous work in education I did a lot of interventions for "unschooled" children in the Bay Area and can confirm the results of even well educated parents were almost uniformly disastrous.

There's a lot of value in:

1. Being well socialized

2. Having the standard set of skills that are a base requirement for being a white collar worker

If you're missing either of these (as most homeschooled kids are) it can be very difficult to find your way in the world.
Europe must end energy dependence on Russia: ex-IEA chief (2008)
Why should there be any controversy that a Black lady is playing a mermaid. I don’t know about you. But I’ve seen as many Black mermaids in real life as White mermaids…
Is it really possible no one instructed them to wear life jackets? Or is it more likely he typically wanted to prove everyone wrong? Obedience is taught to instill discipline. Sounds like Kevin already had plenty of discipline, yet apparently self-taught himself to never listen to anyone. Sounds like a combination of both Daedalus and Icarus.
Aw, yeah it's possible but I hope he holds himself to a higher standard then that. It's gotta suck throwing away that FB high-profile compensation package to join a startup, would be a shame if it's the same old grifter scam.
Article from 2015: "23-Year-Old’s Design Collaboration Tool Figma Launches With $14M To Fight Adobe"

[https://techcrunch.com/2015/12/03/figma-vs-goliath/]
> To be fair, you should use different profiles for your work and personal digital lives.

Isn’t that victim blaming?
I've not been on BART for 25 years and it felt antiquated back then.
Very much this. Running the X11 protocol over the network is usually not a good idea anymore.

By the way, does anyone know of a VNC-like solution that can use MPEG compression?

Also, VNC could be better if it could increase the quality of parts of the screen once they stop updating. E.g. in TigerVNC setting a low bitrate doesn't improve the quality of text once the text stops changing.
It'd be great if you could provide the output.csv actually :D

I think there's a CLI tool for pastebin
I am in the same boat with you, but I am looking for something similar to FVWM, *twm or fluxbox. I really do not like desktop environments.
When I asked the author of the viral thread, he said he took the wording directly from a reddit thread a few days ago, then deleted his acknowledgment, hid my question, and locked down further replies within minutes. Something is very off about this story. https://twitter.com/tracewoodgrains/status/15716306207442452...
Not the same thing. The USD is a thing, as soon as it becomes the US$100D, we're all screwed.
Like the "small schools" movement, it turns out that all systems are fundamentally affected by the quality of their participants. There are some colleges that feel more like "un-schools", and go-getters who attend these can go really far, while ordinary students flounder and founder.

For the truly remarkable (and the subject here seems to fit that), sticking them in any factory-like school setting is a waste. Un-schooling the majority of children would be an interesting social experiment that I'd rather see in a different country first.

The brightest candles burn out the fastest, wasn't that they saying, roughly?
Wouldn't it be better to not create the pennies in the first place, if they're not worth the metal it's stamped on. And then use the money saved and either give that to the poor or create services for them/donating to not-for-profits
meli means honey in Greek
I mean…yeah the iPhone is a great example and the fact that you brought up that as an example shows that you are really close to getting it.
He acknowledged his wording was taken directly from the story, then immediately deleted his acknowledgment: https://twitter.com/tracewoodgrains/status/15716306207442452...
> they tend to treat people like a file system with a missing file, and stream the relevant data into them

Pshhhkkkkkkrrrrkakingkakingkakingtshchchchchchchchcchdingdingding

Connection established
Yes. Good information is worth paying for.
Consciousness in itself is an empty word, there are many definitions of it, and, most importantly, each definition equates it to a set of properties that you can test separately.

Such tests show that some arthropods rank high on the scale of consciousness!

Jumping spiders are the most popular example of exceptionnally smart arthropods, but bees, ants, or crabs have also well developped minds.
Yes this is what I am using.
Maybe it's simply a bug, and nobody in Google is motivated to fix it.
What concerns me is that there will be tensions between a federal decision, and what goes on in local jurisdictions. In a Jane Fonda interview recently, she opines that people should be paying more attention to local elections. "One Federal Decision" bill [1] seems to want to put a lot of power into federal hands (no matter which - if any - political party is in power). (I'd like to be wrong about this).

>Congress should expand One Federal Decision, a process that establishes a lead federal agency for the environmental review of transportation projects, to all infrastructure projects. They also should include more projects in FAST-41, a project of the FAST Act of 2015, which has reduced permitting timelines for certain infrastructure projects and capitalize on NEPA provisions that allow for “categorical exclusions” for certain activities.

[1] https://cms.ferc.gov/industries-data/natural-gas/overview/ge...
The problem is that there is no money printing beyond the physical printing of bank notes.

Money in your bank account isn't created through printing. It is created through accounting and the entire point of this accounting is to make sure that every liability (deposit) in your bank account is backed by an asset (the debt contract).

The entire point of this is to keep a mathematical identity. The net worth of the bank does not change when it issues deposits, deposits/savings and debt add up to zero. The only thing that changes is that the bank becomes more leveraged and less solvent which is why there are capital requirements which mandate a minimum quality of the assets that are being used to create deposits and there used to be a minimum reserve ratio to put an upper bound on the amount of leverage a bank can take on.

If you want to complain about the money supply growing or deficit spending or debt growing out of control you are free to do that but if you talk about money printing you are basically ignoring all of that and just think that there is this obvious element that everyone is overlooking. If the government bans cash it stops printing money but does it get rid of debt? Does it get rid of inflation? Not really.

When people save money, the currency goes up in value, to prevent deflation, the central bank loosens reserve requirements, lowers short term interest rates or if it can't do anymore it will do open market operations aka quantitative easing which is more or less just trying to replicate what a lower interest rate would have done.

Since there is a net increase of savings in real terms, either the interest rate must go down, perhaps even go negative to discourage people from saving too much, or more debt must be created to soak up those savings. This means if the private sector keeps accumulating more and more savings, the public sector must go more and more in debt if it wants to maintain a positive interest rate. If you don't like that, then you must somehow stop people from accumulating too much money and get them to spend it. Saved money isn't being lent on, not even in the case of a certificate of deposit, where it would kind of make some sense, it is just sitting there and waiting to be spent. Any time the bank "lends your money" it actually doesn't and instead creates new money in proportion to the debt.
Bitcoin is not a store of value
I'm genuinely curious where you picked up this mental model.

There are plenty of reasons to be critical of socialism, no doubt, but what you are describing isn't socialism.

Other comments have provided some things to look into, but if genuinely want to learn, I'm happy to explain and answer questions. Who knows, maybe it'll arm you to have stronger arguments against lefties like me, maybe it'll make you go, "oh that's all they want? Shit, I agree with at least some of that." Or maybe you'll still be (incorrectly) convinced that socialism is when "the government does stuff."
Now consider how this works out in C++:

int i; // i is a local int
int i(); // i is a global function returning an int
int i(0); // i is a local int initialized to 0.

Yes, there's uniform initialization now. But this whole thing was a problem in the first place because of poorly designed declarator syntax that doesn't extend well and is difficult to parse unambiguously.

It can actually get worse, to the point where it's impossible to tell whether a given line of code is a declaration or not. E.g. "a<b>c" can be a declaration "a<b> c", or it can be an expression "((a < b) > c)", depending on what "a" is, exactly. This can be taken to 11 with templates:

template<size_t N = sizeof(void*)> struct a {
template<int> struct b {};
};

template<> struct a<sizeof(int)> {
enum { b };
};

enum { c, d };

a::b<c>d;

The meaning of this code now depends on whether sizeof(int)==sizeof(void*) for a given implementation on which it runs. Now, granted, this isn't the kind of thing you'd find in real world code outside of IOCCC and the likes; but it's legal, so the tooling has to be able to process it anyway. And by "tooling" I mean anything that has to parse C++ at some point - not just the compilers, but also debuggers, IDEs etc.
If you look at the copper futures chart the current price is below a few peaks but it is still quite high, historically speaking. That is in the face of a real estate crash in China and impending global economic slowdown(a significant portion of which is due to energy malinvestment).

On a related note, the majority of new home construction does not use copper these days(both for cost reasons and performance reasons).
In relation to monetary policy specifically, or in general? There are still many concepts from the Austrian school that are foundational to modern economics.
As a 31yo just barely getting started in my own entrepreneurial journey, I find Dylan to be an inspiration. Everything I hear and read about him is so awesome, and how he really cares about the customers, users, and product. Kudos.
At least in Oregon this is already a thing

https://www.oregon.gov/ode/learning-options/HomeSchool/Pages...
Adobe-Figma deal: “I've never seen a level of investor hatred like this”