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Show HN: Most Penalized HN Stories(news.social-protocols.org)
19 points by jwarden 4d ago|5 comments
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by jwarden 2mo ago
That’s a lovely thought but that’s not how China works. China is not a democracy, the geopolitical goals of the Chinese government are clear, and no large strategic company acts without approval and heavy influence from the CCP.
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by jwarden 2mo ago
7stems.net: a Spanish verb conjugator and method for learning Spanish verb conjugation, where irregular verbs are just verbs with more than one stem. Also just self-published a book.
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by jwarden 3mo ago
This explanation seems very implausible to me. By lowering the rent by X%, and therefore reducing annual revenue by X%, you admit the building is worth X% less. But by leaving the building X% vacant, also reducing the annual income stream b
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by jwarden 4mo ago
Edward Abby wrote about southern Utah. Red rock country. Box Elder County is northern Utah. Night and day.
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by jwarden 5mo ago
I think this is right. More specifically, the problem is JavaScript function colors mean Sync/Async, whereas Zig's mean Non-IO/IO. Using function colors for async is fundamentally unnecessary, whereas for I/O it is funda
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by jwarden 6mo ago
Here’s an article I wrote a while ago about a hypothetical language feature I call “folded application”, that makes parameter-list style and folded style equivalent. https://jonathanwarden.com/implicit-currying-and-folded-ap
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by jwarden 7mo ago
I think we should avoid suggesting that other people on this forum are evil, even if you think their ideas and arguments are harmful. I think sometimes people are so certain about their beliefs that they perceive any argument that challenge
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by jwarden 7mo ago
What if the truth is that something is a lie? Promoting truth and opposing lies are the same thing.
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by jwarden 7mo ago
This writeup is very useful simonw. But the title of this HN post is extremely misleading. What happened is that OpenAI rewrote the mission statement, reducing it from 63 words to 13. One of the 50 words they deleted happens to be "saf
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by jwarden 7mo ago
It’s like being a manager.
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by jwarden 7mo ago
Capitalism just means private citizens can own the means of production (e.g. start a business, buy stock) and earn a return on investment. It doesn’t mean only the rich must get richer. It means anyone who saves and invests their money inst
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by jwarden 8mo ago
Right, so for a subset of functions, a language could implement an extensional equality test operator `==` for two functions by calling the functions for every possible input. It would be prohibitively slow for some functions, but correct.
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by jwarden 8mo ago
Yes that’s a good point.
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by jwarden 8mo ago
Reading the news and being informed are two separate things. Being an informed citizen, the kind that democracies need to survive, also requires 1) being informed of history and 2) understanding issues in depth. People who consume a lot of
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by jwarden 8mo ago
One case where a function is often not substitutable for an array is equality testing. In a language where any two arrays with the same elements in the same order are equal ([1,2] == [1,2]), the same cannot always be true of two equivalent
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by jwarden 9mo ago
Ouch! I don’t think that’s fair. It sounds like his professional life or personal interests naturally being him in contact with a social circle that isn’t fulfilling socially. Doesn’t mean there is anything wrong with him. I say, look outw
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by jwarden 9mo ago
Listen to them.
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by jwarden 9mo ago
Assuming a self-similar 80/20 Pareto wealth model (a fractal Lorenz curve), the headline number generalizes as: Just x% | % wealth held | × poorest half ---------+---------------+---------------- 20% | 80%
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by jwarden 9mo ago
This reminds me of the philosophical distinction between "sense" and "reference" introduced by Frege. https://www2.lawrence.edu/fast/ryckmant/On%20Sense%20and%20R...
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by jwarden 11mo ago
But you will never guess that the latest tik-tok craze will last another 50 years, and you'll never guess that Saturday Night Live (which premiered in 1075) will end 5-minutes from now. Your guesses are thus more likely to be accurate
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by jwarden 1y ago
It does seem like common sense that they would be linked. But there is also research: https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2008/02/06/correlation...
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by jwarden 1y ago
I haven’t heard that statistic before. And the formulation seems imprecise? Does continuously beating the market mean that every single minute your portfolio value gains relative to the market?
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by jwarden 1y ago
I am working on Community Notes for Bluesky: https://github.com/johnwarden/open-community-notes
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by jwarden 1y ago
I didn't realize "Juneteenth" was considered "Black-sounding" by some people. Juneteenth is a pretty culturally mainstream term (being a national holiday). And forming new words using contractions doesn't seem
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by jwarden 1y ago
Author here. @sokoloff also pointed this out in their comment. You are right, the example confuses by making the group sizes different. I will update the article so it reads like this: Ten wealthy art patrons each contribute €1,000,00
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by jwarden 1y ago
Exactly.
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by jwarden 1y ago
The authors of the QF paper describe it as "an extension of the logic of quadratic voting." They involve similar formulas and both are theoretically optimal (or efficient), and have a single equilibrium. These properties are prove
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by jwarden 1y ago
Yes, as you (sarcastically) imply people do indeed try to use QF to make actual decisions, not recognizing the proofs are based on assumptions that don't match reality. There's nothing wrong with making proofs based on simplifying
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by jwarden 1y ago
What straw man? The assumptions underlying the theory of QF are spelled out cleanly in the original QF paper. The article is just enumerating these assumptions and showing they don't hold in reality. The numbers in the example are inde

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