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The US deposit insurance via FDIC was created close to the start of the Great Depression and did _not_ prevent the rest of it.

For something that did stabilize economies, see eg the Canadian free banking experience in the 19th century (https://www.alt-m.org/2015/08/08/thats-right-famously-sound-...), or the Scottish or Australian free banking eras.

What made the depression Great were eg FDR's high wage policies, and the American Feds tight money.
This applies to everything in life !!! :)
Economic status is not a protected class.
In Emacs, you can use CIDER together with ClojureScript. By following these instructions[0] I was able to get the combined Figwheel+REPL functionality.

[0] https://cider.readthedocs.io/en/latest/up_and_running/#using...
I'm tempted, but one of the people involved in this story has threatened to sue me in the past, so I'm reluctant to make myself an even bigger target.
Ask HN: Hypothetically, could cancer be “controlled” to repair the body?
Would it be possible to introduce "controllable" forms of cancer to repair parts of the body that are otherwise too complicated to approach?
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It's impossible to empirically examine whether or not humility and reverse-Dunning-Krueger is important for trading acumen. On the other hand, it's demonstrable that domain knowledge and business acumen, or mathematically modeled market signals and statistical insight can result in reliably superlative returns.
> also read the excellent comment by Marty Tysanner on the same page.

also read Woit's sensible reply to that comment and MT's re-reply. I agree Woit is polarizing but maybe not unnecessarily.

because the problems he points out are not hidden in the dark corners of the internets but all over the mainstream media - and arxiv too, and backed with millions of dollars.
People who support authoritarianism claim it can run the economy more efficiently than democracy. But one of the problems in authoritarian regimes is you almost invariably get massive faking of economic data, and so the government lacks the understanding needed to make sound decisions.
That is perfect, thank you!
As much as I love this HN headline, I have to say that it would have been better to retain the original exactly.

My first reaction to the headline was "Oh, that's interesting. Who? Tyra Banks? Naomi Campbell? Surely not Cindy Crawford!"
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26551
Some of these are fair. But really, never run a manual command if you can ever help it, stage it somewhere. Always use config management, stage it in a VM.
Lying is not a good way to start off a business relationshiop.
Biggest problem that I have with NATS and why I can't use it is that configuration is all done in config files. So say you want to add a new user during operation, too bad. There is an issue about trying to add this sort of support and they are resistant to it the last time I checked. They still want to use configuration and maybe provide a hot-reload. But seriously, you need a run-time API that you can use to modify access to make it useful to me.
The Chinese government agrees the economy is slowing down.

You think that saying anything bad about China is being anti-China. So objective reporting would only say good things about it? And patriotic Chinese would think only positive things about their nation? You know, you can't solve problems unless you first acknowledge them.
Most of the ideas from Mozilla here I kind of like.

Decentralisation is a definite positive, and it is sad to see it being taken away by the ever-obvious tendencies of human nature to dominate and control.

If you have any doubts, remember when Facebook, likely bribed by a tremmendous amount of entities, tried to release a "super special kind of free nice generous internet access" service in 3rd world countries with access to "arbitarily" determined access to certain IP's? That's shocking, and they, like Google, will keep on grinding the stones of law with endless pits of lawyers until it crumbles to sand.
What new rights are you referring to, Citizen's United?
"According to theory theorists, a child learns by constructing a theory of the world and testing it against experience. In this sense, children are little scientists – they hypothesise on the basis of observations, test their hypotheses experimentally, and then revise their views in light of the evidence they gather."

Like training neural networks: a hypothesis (initial set of parameters), an experimental test (evaluation of the loss function) and the revision of their views (gradient descent).
I didn't know this "mini PC" category existed on AliExpress. This amazing, it's exactly what I need (standard parts, capable CPU for a home server, etc). Thank you!
One thing to remember with quantum computation is that "large enough to be superior" is measured in 10s of units of quantum resources. That doesn't seem so far away.
I somewhat agree with you, but I don't think the market is necessarily converging to weak EMH. I think it's more fair to say that as the market changes over time, the skills required to reliably beat the market fundamentally change. It used to be that you could spot market inefficiencies with an MBA and a solid understanding of specific domains. Nowadays, you model the market as a physical system and look for obscure phenomenon.

On the one hand that sounds like what you're saying - the market is becoming more efficient. On the other hand, I propose that there is no evidence the market will become more efficient continually, and the new normal is due to the rise of software eating the industry.
Makes sense. These small ARM-based boards might be to underpowered for my needs (capable home server, not too worried about power consumption, etc). Great insights, thanks!
Just to point out xTuple (ERP using PostgreSQL) exists and has a decent reputation:

https://xtuple.com

Haven't used it personally though. :)
He's joking about the rehab I'm sure...that's his style (I like it personally).

BTW, here are the video lectures to the graduate database course he mentioned in the presentation, where students were developing features for Peloton as part of the course (they're great IMO):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyQzjba1beA&list=PLSE8ODhjZX...
> single binary deployment

> Also possible in Java

Does not mean that's the default. Default matters quite a bit.

Not to mention the verbosity of Java that I guess you can use other languages on top of Java to deal with. But Go makes a lot of sense for these sorts of projects which in the past would be written in C or C++
I'd argue in most cases both the federal government and the various state governments have largely stopped governing. They make lots of noise about social issues and do some day-to-day stuff but I don't really see them as doing their jobs in the way they used to. Not making any comments or guesses as to why, just saying that seems to be the world we're living in.
It looks awesome, but it starts at 3,000.

Isn't that a lot for a Windows PC?

They're even more expensive than Apple, but with Microsoft's crappy software.
I think all your other points are good, but a response to #4. I think one issue might be that it's ambiguous to enforce. If implemented, could an employer not rephrase the question: "How much would you like to get paid?" and still get away with the same discrimination?

Is the final solution here a race to the bottom to normalize wages to prevent perceived discrimination based on non-quantifiable metrics?
> If I'm an employer, why ban me from asking some question to a prospective employee? It's a restriction on the employer's freedom.

Please see ch4s3's excellent itemized response to an earlier thread for a concise summary of the reasons why this can't be framed simply as an issue of free speech.

The key point is the power differential. While you may be lucky enough to be highly skilled and have enough cultural capital to refuse intrusive questions like this and still find suitable employment on your own terms, many people in our society simply are not in that position. Allowing large powerful corporations to insist that prospective employees disclose their earnings history will simply place downward pressure on wages.

I sympathize with the sentiment, and it is always important to question any limits on speech. But once you factor in the issue of power, pure libertarian ideals will cause greater exploitation of those who have less power to begin with.
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HFTs like Virtu are just front-running, scamming retail investors like you and I out of pennies on every trade. There's no trading or investing happening here, just arbitraging broken market rules. HFTs don't destroy the notion set forth in the featured article because they aren't involved in the same game.
Hm. The first two are pre-3.x, and that issue (#2647) is closed, seemingly because everything has been implemented? Not seeing any huge limitations mentioned in 3 and 4.

The "small amounts of data" issue apparently no longer applies to 3.x, which now persists efficiently to disk.

Not sure what "bespoke" data storage means? 3.x has pluggable backends.
I think I remember allowing them to watch Thursday Night Football on Twitter. I can't find anything about third-party cookies and tnf.twitter.com on Google though.
If the majority of investors "beat the market" wouldn't that just become the market?
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There are a lot of issues here that should eventually be lower hanging fruit, but required some infrastructure. EARLY_AP_STARTUP which gets SMP in order a lot sooner should allow for drivers to attach earlier. I vaguely recall some idea on deciding what and when to initialize being the next big opportunity.
I told the rep from Netsuite that there is no way we are buying Oracle products, if we can help it

I would be very careful of statements like this, unless you're the CEO. Standard modus operandi for Oracle sales people is for them to go around technical people and work relationships with C-suite types.

So don't be surprised if your rep is playing golf with your CEO sometime in the near future.
There is honestly not much substance delivered in this post; it's based around a rather oblique, long-form quote that posits illiterate and sheltered people were highly swayable by radio's spoken word, much to the surprise of an educated class raised on print, and suggests that more education may be an antidote. With the quote over, it declares that education was not a sufficient countermeasure today.

I fail to see how this rises beyond a deliberately obfuscated ad hominem. There is so much missed potential: one could muse about why messages spread on the Internet can be used to unite and divide, why classes and cohorts of people who (accurately or mistakenly) feel marginalized are attracted to rhetoric, or how a breakdown of trust contributes to a self-fulfilling cognitive dissonance about factually untrue reporting -- but none of this happens, just a quote and a quip.
Does anyone have large (PB-scale) deployments of Minio on premises? We have a need to store hundreds of terabytes of data, and we don't need a filesystem per se, so I was wondering how robust it is.
Massachusetts did this last summer. Seems like a strange trend. Not necessarily bad (though it makes things harder for me as a hiring manager) but I wonder what group is pushing for this. Laws don't tend to get passed unless they're backed by special interests.
I thought they might've meant to add pluggable backends but I can't find any reference to them? Do you have a link?
The same could be said for tyranny.
This seems like some form of the lottery fallacy: that because an event occurred (some guy beat the market over a long period of time), it must have been the result of some forces (his skill) overcoming luck.
sure, i agree, so in the spirit of free exchange of information, let's require employers to list their salary range in all job listings, and let's require employers to give salary statistics to prospective employees before salary negotiations. if an employer doesn't want to disclose that information, then they are free to not hire anyone.
Source is written in Elixir: https://github.com/nagasaki45/krihelinator
I think it’s more along the lines of “I have changed my personality before, so it’s obvious to me that it can be done; however, it may not be obvious to others without some evidence that it’s a recognised phenomenon”. In that case, “Science!” is intended not to sate curiosity, but to dispel doubt—and maybe then even pique curiosity.
If you want fully general functional FE, then no; constructions are based on something called "indistinguishability obfuscation", a crypto primitive that a) we're not sure exists b) has conjectured constructions that are ultra ultra ultra slow.
I believe state and local governments are unable to run a deficit. If the federal government had to play by the same rules it would be bankrupt as well.
The (typically salaried) people that get to negotiate their pay that this stuff affects do have those choices.
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Your analogy is a poor comparison. Winning the lottery is not like picking stocks because it's almost perfectly efficient. No player in a lottery has any insight about what the winning numbers will be that, let alone an insight that other players don't have. It's an absolute black box.

I know what you're thinking. "The stock market is a random walk! Efficient market hypothesis!" But the market is not a black box. You can legally gain insight that other participants don't have and use that insight to profit.

Other people have done the math in this thread. The human population would need to be orders of magnitude larger than it is now, and every human would need to be an active, failing market participant, in order for the successful traders we see being the result of chance.
Perhaps this can be countered by more free speech? Perhaps we should allow union representatives to visit workplaces and speak to employees in the parking lot without employer interference?
(as of today)

Are you stuck in November 2012?
Not disagreeing with you, but the replication crisis is happening everywhere, especially in the biomedical sciences. In fact, analyses have suggested it may be worse in certain fields, like cognitive neuroscience (whether or not you consider that a branch of psychology or biology is maybe debatable).
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"most experts have agendas that supersede the truth"

I spend a lot of time with education statistics, and this is absolutely commonplace. Most of it is spin; folks choose the metrics that support the point they want to make.
Agree with sibling comment, gRPC is nice as an optimization but terrible as a default or exclusive means to speak to an API.
YOU can get Nawk that runs on windows.-run it in powershell
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/nawk.htm
The problem is these days many desktop applications have mobile counterparts and some kind of service to sync the two. If that service shuts down, the application becomes a whole lot less useful. That, and iOS/Android have terrible backwards compatibility, so mobile apps that are not continuously updated often don't work correctly on new OS versions.
Most people who have recently been to a pro baseball game know that there are times to mistrust statistics. The home team likes to give attending fans something to look at during the long periods of relative downtime. For each hitter who comes up, they like to come up with a statistic that favors the home team to display on the screens. There are lots of options, so they can take their pick, even if they sometimes come up with things like "At-bats on a Tuesday against teams out-of-division".

However, everyone who's trusted any technology that accounts for quantum effects (e.g. modern computer processors) has trusted statistics. Everyone who's ever received a modern medical treatment (of any kind) has trusted statistics.

The hard part is knowing when you should, and when you should not, trust statistics. Frankly I don't think there's anyone who can do that 100% of the time -- but I think most people could probably learn to do well enough to benefit. The learning part is tough, though.
>Your argument is that the profits shared by early-stage startup employees should not be great even when the profits of the firm they were instrumental in building turn out great.

Firms that resell blue-collar labor are often very profitable. I'm not sure why you think they're not.

>How is that fair and why should anyone agree to work with you on those terms?

It's a marketplace, supply and demand is going to dictate these types of arrangements. There are many more adequate employees who want to work at an early-stage startup than there are early-stage startups hiring employees.

I'm not saying anyone should agree to work under these conditions, but as long as they do, others have to remain competitive.

I don't personally think it's fair. I think early-stage employees should get a much larger slice of the pie than they typically do. But I'm also not going to indulge the fantasy that being a non-founder and/or non-investor can lead to riches; it may have happened once or twice, but it's very unlikely to happen to you. In almost all successful startups, already an infinitesimally small quantity, the founders and investors get the proceeds from the exit and the employees are lucky to see a bonus check for $5k.

>You should really make friends with people who are lawyers, doctors, and in finance. I have friends in all these fields and your idea of these peoples' working hours is a deluded fantasy. They usually work around 50-60 hours a week and rarely take vacations.

They certainly want you to think that's the case. I'm not going to say that everyone in these professions works a certain way or another, but there are many who have a lax working schedule (admittedly, I don't know any who close their practice for 1.5 wks every time there's a bank holiday, that's called "hyperbole"). I know this because I have friends who are doctors, lawyers, and in finance.

>I don't want to address the rest of your [essay] except to say that you should think about why you go so far out of your way to rationalize what to most people is obviously unfair behavior.

I went out of my way to discuss because you seemed like you wanted to do that. This is a discussion forum, after all.
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This is a great idea! I love the fact that I can have both contexts in the same window. What would also be pretty cool is being able to move all windows in one context into a new window, if I want to separate things in a new OS workspace.
We use RSA signed JWTs for quite a few services and it's been a joy so far. Makes key rotation without downtime super easy and (obviously) doesn't have any of the dangers associated with a shared secret.

https://github.com/crgwbr/asymmetric_jwt_auth
IBM's research projects ( http://research.ibm.com/#featured-projects ) seem to include areas such as polymer research ( http://www.research.ibm.com/articles/industrialpolymers.shtm... ), semiconductors ( http://www.research.ibm.com/articles/chipchallenge.shtml#fbi... ) amongst other domains.

While there is certainly CSesque research in the list of areas, it is not the only area.
As a long time user of OpenRC, I was pretty sad when Debian jumped into systemd by default instead of sticking to something like OpenRC as the default. It's light weight, easy to use, embraces POSIX, and a good modular building block for both server operating systems and not over reaching on the plumbing desktop users want.

Cheers to TrueOS which is done by an astonishingly small dev team and part time at that as they are FreeNAS devs. If you ignore the hit and miss graphics story shared with FreeBSD for now, TrueOS has some of the best defaults and out of the box experience I've seen.
Oops, I might be confusing it with something else, sorry.
Tesla rolling out Autopilot to cars built since Oct, limits Autosteer to 45 mph
Not as nice is a pretty big understatement. Here's the article that Mozilla links to about how to do it on OSX: http://spf13.com/post/managing-multiple-firefox-profiles-in-...

/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin --profilemanager
Yep, I use Chrome mainly because I like the developer tools on Chrome better.
Hope they make sure their drivers are aware: "The car will not have Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB), where the car can apply the brakes in an attempt to avoid or reduce the severity of a crash."
Same with Typescript, never need to touch the browser, Types are enough.
Just download and run the binary. It's very similar to github actually.
And, which version(s) of the Kafka protocol?
How does such a law makes things harder for you as a hiring manger?
Not that I agree with the logical leaps here, but you skipped a step:

> you can choose not to work for employers

You don't have to work for any particular employer, and you also don't have to work for any employer at all. You can consult, contract, start a company, etc. But of course this is not necessary even if you're basing your entire career around avoiding that question, because it's not like every single employer asks it.
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Sounds like an opportunity to save it in a file! My $HOME/bin is full of shell scripts containing this sort of stuff so I can avoid retyping them.
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Thanks,thats a nice idea. Unfortunately their UK partner seems a little small and niche for our needs.
Exactly. So what we need to do is reduce the misuse and cherry picking in the statistics that make it to the main stream media (both sides) so that public confidence in science does not degrade further.
I have a small suggestion: if, instead of posting the videos of the AI's execution, you (re-)linked the rust-openai repo, you'll get a better response ;)
Yeah, but the intent of sending patches by email is that you do code-review by hitting reply and commenting inline. If you have to import the patch into your local git repo, or build tooling for seeing it in your email client, you're strictly worse off than with a web-based code review system.
RE: how does pull request/code review look?

https://try.gitea.io/gitea/gitea/pulls/2

Looks pretty much like github to me.
> We should also hopefully be in agreement that we should trust people who devote their life to studying an issue over someone new who merely has gut feelings about it -- and hence is even more biased in many additional ways.

Unfortunately this is sometimes untrue. For example: Long Term Capital Management was run by some of the most expert academic financiers perhaps ever gathered together and it blew up. Lord Kelvin thought X-Rays were a hoax. It is the blanket assumption that specialists in a field should be trusted that is mistake. Specialism has an important place but epistemology is a difficult subject and it is a matter for everyone.
The post seems to be a short rant on opinions concerning the idea of a "multiverse" published on various popular science news websites. Isn't this idea is just one of the several major interpretations of quantum mechanics? Any popularized discussion of quantum mechanics (or cosmology) could be labeled "fake physics", of course, but the point of this is not clear to me.
Is that one of the situations where subsidies make it worth it to grow in the first place? Or where growing it as use for fertilizer makes it worthwhile?

I'd note that the paper that your sibling comment posted breaks down waste into the different segments of the supply chain. The biggest single chunk looks like they're in the "consumer losses" segment, and that the PSAs I've seen are focused on how to interpret "best by" dates, eating leftovers, and buying only what you need right then, rather than trying to blame farms for waste.
Do you mind going into more detail, since most chatbots just use rules and keyword words.
"as a daemon".

The link shows how to run the app, not how to run it as a daemon. That said, the answer is platform specific, although it would be useful to have some common examples.
Such a great answer. I think it would deserve a little article on its own.