skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Money is a perpetual bubble, a bubble that does not pop

The bubble can very much pop if people stop having faith in the currency and stop accepting it (or demanding larger amounts to compensate), making the currency lose its value.

This is a very large risk for most current cryptocurrencies, bitcoin included.

I would also argue that the Dollar has a very strong link to useful physical goods: it's the only currency OPEC oil is sold in.
> That's not the RTSJ solution. RTSJ uses arenas, which are great if you have regular allocation/deallocation cycles, like, say, a frame in a game.

So how do I get a user’s Oracle JRE installation to use arenas? The only realistic scenario is to preallocate and reuse.
In Germany, my ID might be a form of identification but only in association with the person in question, the ID's number or data itself is not considered identifying by a few institutions (postal service, banks, etc; you always need physical presence for identification or use post-ident)

The ID is government issued, cheap to obtain in case of loss (30€ and a bit of waiting until the new one arrives) and contains a photo of you so it's of no particular value to someone who doesn't look like you.

IIRC identity theft isn't a huge problem in Germany but it exists, however most credit agencies offer options to lock down or delete data concerning such theft, I haven't interacted with any of them yet though.
So, Brazil is not a Western country? I guess the entire Europe is The East now. Also, why wouldn't they? It's a big market. Everyone loves fast food even though you'll never see anyone admit it.
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Given that a bearish Bitcoin market sinks all cryptocurrency ships there's not a whole lot in the way of diversification benefit right now.

ICOs appear to be more like Kickstarter with tokens. Some are in it for speculation and possible wealth, others really like the underlying product/game/app.*

For example, French indie game 'Beyond the void' is integrated with an Ethereum blockchain. People fund the dev and receive tokens to use in the game. "Investors" win when the game is live. That their token can be changed for other currencies is secondary.

People will get burned. Just see the scammy ICO ads on your Facebook feed. As with Kickstarter (with its 21% tech project success rate), diligence is required.

But that any one of us can relatively easily exchange objects of value across hundreds of different projects is just about revolutionary.

* Currencies like Monero and Litecoin are more truly speculative in that their value rests solely in perceived future utility and adoption.
Reading from other comments: the 95% efficiency in "traditional" motors is only reached in ideal, fixed conditions (in terms of speed and torque). New advanced control systems increase efficiency at different speeds/torque.
Absolutely!

My first experience of direct customer contact was when the call-center rep phoned me and said 'We have no idea what has happened, can you just call the agent and talk about it?'

In the ensuing series of calls we progressed from one of the F-keys not working properly in my application all the way back to discovering that the phone-line into his building had been hit by lightning, damaging various circuits in the office servers and equipment.

I had never heard someone so appreciative of my help, that's when I changed from closing tickets as 'cannot reproduce' to tagging them with 'tell customer to call me on ____'. We found so, so many bugs and broken processes in our applications just by talking to the users.
I'd say in general you're better off not looking for ideological purity or perfection, here or in many places. We're human. We have foibles. We can, and sometimes do, change. Sometimes we don't. Sure, there are some things that we really can't — and shouldn't — tolerate. Yet if we only surround ourselves with people and things that we completely agree with, that doesn't leave much room for change, in ourselves or others. And no room to grow.

And I have both Cat Stevens and Rage in my collection. Some Rush, too.
Simplicity is closely related to education, and education is closely related to freedom.

How are we supposed to take education seriously when we create devices of such complexity that they are essentially magic, and hand them to students?

Before computers, complexity always had tight upper bounds. A watch could only get so complex before it wouldn't fit in its housing; and a car could only get so complex before it could not be efficiently manufactured/repaired. With computers, there is no upper bound to the complexity.

We are now overrun with complexity, but it's hard to see how to fix that. A business that puts blind faith in a complex system to do something slightly faster/better will probably win against a business that tries to truly understand what it's doing. An employee who just keeps adding to the complexity will probably win against an employee stepping back to simplify things. A consumer who makes convenient choices about complex things without asking many questions will probably find life easier.
Because the kids these days will enter their SSN and their parent's Credit Card into anything that looks like flappy bird to unlock the extra jump boost or something like that.
they claim that a universal income (bolsa familia) is responsible for poor people buying tons of sugary foods. in reality that universal income allows poor people to not starve. why do they buy crap food? because that's what middle class is also eating. why? because of recently unregulated and rampant advertising.
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> So it would a "Credit ID," Passport Number, DL #, or something related. What's the difference, it will need to be stored next all your stuff, awaiting to be stolen.

It should not be a passport number or driver's license number. It should be the original, physical passport or driver's license that you present in person. The physical object is much harder to steal or copy, and can be revoked.

You should not be able to open credit lines or accounts with a business without appearing at least once in person first.
How would you migrate a team from local-only, to many remote team members? I've every intention to get there, but could use some advice. Steps I'm doing to test/prepare/do the cultural shift:

* Hiring friends: Makes it easier for the first one, since they have someone here they can talk about problems with (I imagine all problems that are particular to remote working come down to misunderstandings or missing communication)

* Encourage team members to work&travel—if someone goes somewhere for a weekend, let them stay there for a week instead and work from there

* Go work&travel myself to get into remote shoes with my current team and see how that feel/what processes are broken

* Get feedback from and experiment with Sales team, which is partly remote

Any clear steps I'm missing?

Edit: formatting and added last step
title is completely off. its not fast food (Mcdonalds, wendy, etc) but junk food (nestle, kellogs, kraft, etc)
Yeah.... the question is if you agree that there is a line to be drawn, where do you draw it?

Also there's a matter of money. Orthogonal to the question of whether it's possible to separate some art from the particularly awful philosophies of their authors, there's the issue that paying them for that art is almost certainly supporting the philosophy I find so abhorrent.
Building the Robot Brain with Brian Gerkey
Precisely. I'd even wager that this is also why one shouldn't work for below-market wages in a startup.
> Jackson Palmer might not believe it has value, but clearly, there are people who own Doge that think otherwise

If there is one way you really can't detect a bubble, it's relying on "people thinking X has value". Also people buying tulip bulbs for a house worth thought those bulbs had value, as in every other bubble in history.
Google was founded in 1998, the dot com bubble didn't burst until 2001. Google had already established search engine dominance by then.
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Well, my issue with fruit juice is that one or even two aren't enough to not feel thirsty anymore. And any walk that takes 600-900 calories to get to my job is not one I'll actually take on a regular basis.

A good estimate is 30-50 calories per kilometer, so a single glass of juice requires, let's say, a 5 kilometer walk to compensate.

I'm a mostly sedentary westerner, but I don't think I've eaten 2000 calories in a single day for a year at least.
> starting with NPM modules first.

Creators of left-pad about to become millionaires off the backs of lazy devs everywhere.
I just built myself a dual E5-2696v4 workstation last week. ebay/taobao has loads of very affordable E5-2696v4, they are not ES/QS junks but the official version provided to manufacturers. I paid $1,000 for each processor.

Supermicro X10DAI motherboard is just a piece of art, as usual. They sell you this brand new beauty for $350 - it is more like running a charity given the fact that those so called "high end" consumer grade motherboard with one socket and 8 DIMM slots can easily cost you $500 or more.

RAM is pretty expensive now, 128G DDR4-2133P ECC REG RAM cost around $1,000 on taobao.com, unless you buy some shitty brands to save a couple hundred $. Then you need a EEB case, a solid reliable PSU and two heatsinks, that is another $250 to spend.

I can't afford a 3T RAM HP workstation, but the good news is every programmer in fact can afford a 44 cores dual E5-2696v4 workstation like the one I just built. ;)
It seems so. From the home page:

"When you buy a domain in our system, we're actually purchasing it for ourselves. We will be the actual owners of the domain, it's not an ownership by proxy as found with all other providers. However, you will still have the full control over the domain name. You can either use our information, our nameservers or you can go with your custom data."
The public certainly has the right to boycott an artist's work if they committed a morally reprehensible action without any sign of remorse. The public doesn't owe the artist anything.
No actually they're very quiet, thanks to helium and its doubly supported disk axis. Power consumption is also much lower than air drives.
It's when the last hold out is convinced that the bubble bursts.
Was that before or after the fatwa?
I don't think it's an easy question to answer, and one that I think will be answered differently for each person. I do think right now there seems to be a tendency to draw black and white lines too quickly and without really understanding where other people are coming from. And I don't need to agree with them to understand them.

I do know that I don't hold the same opinions and beliefs of a lot of people. It's unrealistic — and inhuman —that I would dissociate myself from all of them.

People have many beliefs and weigh them differently. Trying to figure out a single line or lines to separate myself from others is clearly not going to be an easy task. I'd rather find things I have in common with people and build on those. Then hopefully we'll be able to come to terms on those that we don't. It seems hard to imagine that we could do the latter without at least some of the former.
His historical account on container technology is to me very much a sales pitch for Joyent.

The container we talk today is more about packaging and cluster management/orchestration, which is completely independent to the resource/security isolation of what's been invented long before Docker. Note that those things are not important, it's just only a part of the pillars, and TBH, a relatively less important part.
100 Images from Cassini’s Mission to Saturn
Earlier this year I worked in the finance department for a major airline with significant B737 Australian operations.

As much as I would have liked these numbers to be false, they are sadly reality.
Ukraine is experimenting and slowly rolling out an oauth-like system called BankID, where you bank can provide information to third party.
You should clarify your terminology:

-- "context switch" (expensive) is the switch among active (running on this CPU) tasks/threads/processes.

-- switching between kernel and userspace would be "mode switch", much less expensive and of "constant" cost (see, for example, http://blog.tsunanet.net/2010/11/how-long-does-it-take-to-ma...).

Your phrase already carries this contradiction: "__can__ be fairly expensive" points to something depending on what is being executed, rather than a property of the mode switch itself. Then, arguably, the same need of that costly execution should also be present with unikernels?
No one needs to worry about YouTube, they will destroy themselves on their own!
The Resources, Events, Agents (REA) Accounting Model
I regularly see people make the mistake of believing that being empathetic is effectively being a universally-nice doormat, or that empathy itself is a universal good. Neither is true.

So Cantrill's behaviour isn't an indictment of his integrity in and of itself. I think it's more that you haven't considered the implications of empathy as a bias.
I see. So essentially it would make sense to get one with smaller memory and buy more when price goes down. Thank you for explaining.
If everyone took the time to really learn and understand advanced undo/redo, I wonder how that would change our thinking? Might we find all kinds of new ways to apply it in the physical world?

Maybe the reason people find it hard now is just the limit of natural languages as they exist today. We haven't made time travel, alternative realities, and hypotheticals a part of our ordinary speech (beyond trivial cases), but maybe we should?
I use a 2x12 core Xeon v2, 128GB RAM. I work full time on OS kernels, mainly FreeBSD. It helps a ton for building kernels, world, packages, and running lots of VMs. Thinking of doing the Talos II as the next step.

Imagine doing web dev in a language where you refresh the webpage to see if it worked vs having to run a long build. The former is better, even though it's not really as good as careful reading of your changes, but there are many times throughout the day when you just want the compiler to bark at you to clear any stupid type or syntax errors. The faster your machine and more parallel the build, the closer you get to that web dev experience.
"Accidentally"
Nice. I've used ThinkPads for many decades now. Love the retro look and keyboard feel. Might have to replace my W520 soon...
I will probably end up buying one of these because I am a complete sucker for the concept and that keyboard is to die for.

But I have a ThinkPad P50 right now and it is pretty much the ultimate laptop.. 4k screen w/color correction, trackpoint, 2x nvme storage, Xeon with 64G ECC RAM. It doesn't even cost that much if you do all the non-soldered stuff yourself off newegg.
Richard Thompson converted to Sufi Islam, which might as well be a different religion.
Maybe I'm missing something or I'm just blind but where is there AOT compilation in your example since you seem to run the same jar with the same command-line options.

That said I'm not that surprised that class aot compilation didn't really speed up a clojure app.
Well after.
Thanks for checking, even if the result is not as we hoped.
Is there anywhere in particular you looked for used workstations, or is it just a matter of just finding the right deal at the right time?
Gigantic useless trackpad. Looks like no status leds. Where oh where is the x60 of today?

Is there some place where I can just pay them the profit margin for this laptop and have the count added to their sales figures? This laptop is an improvement, but it looks like it still has a long way to go. :(
It sounds like he's saying "don't worry about getting fucked by the Equifax breach; you were fucked already." Which certainly isn't reassuring, whether or not it's true.
Wow, that really is some serious cost-cutting. As he says none of the Chinese manufacturers have gone that far in cost-cutting; even their cheapest mechanical watches have a fully metal movement that is theoretically serviceable as normal (and some of them are really cheap).
I can grasp the underlying point here (more code and more complex code both increase the chance you'll have a bug).

Again, this seems a bit like the assumption behind Rule 2 - that the time spent in figuring out the complex algorithm and ensuring it is bug free is not worth spending (just like saying "oh, it's not worth smashing a hot spot if it's only 20%). This will frequently be true, but not always. I suspect that most people would be happier to use OS schedulers, TCP implementations and compilers (to name a few things) written by people who don't get to "parachute out" when the easy solutions are exhausted.
I had a scare once and lost a few months worth of pictures. Glad it was only regular life instead of anything important, but that was what pushed me to always value backups and redundancy.
It is hell, for someone not used to it or someone over the fat line. Google "Japan fat shaming" for some idea of how abusive they are toward fat people culturally. They're not the only ones though, South Korea and China also have weaker variations of aggressive cultural fat shaming.
I find the title of this link quite funny: Brazil is a western country, even more "west" than Switzerland, where Nestle is from, and with very similar culture to that of Western Europe and the US.

Not only that, but Nestle has been in Brazil for almost a century now.
I love this--but no Monaco?
What makes it illegal? I mean, what specific law would make it so? Where exactly?
Professor Kay, it's an honor to see you taking the time to provide context to this interview. For what it's worth, I was skimming the article until I saw your comments on human universals, and that made me sit up and take notice. From that point on, it was pretty clear to me you were sounding a note of alarm about the addictive quality of our current consumer electronics industry, and the wasted potential of them as pedagogic devices.
Joyent is a joke. I wasn't personally affected by this but I'll always advice against giving them any money, even a single cent.

https://www.joyent.com/migration/migration-faq#terms
Technology is all like this.

A grant vision. A winding path. It's indispensable to address the migration problem. The idea that people would rewrite applications for someone's fancy new idea is not only stupid, it's actually never happened.
iPhone 8, iPhone X don't support new T-Mobile LTE network that cost $8B
Pretty sure EB-5 is available for residents of many countries, not just China. Its use is completely legal.

Also the US is hardly alone in handing out visas and residency to rich folks. Money is just another "desireable attribute" that countries look for in heir immigrants, on top of the more common traits like education, professional experience, etc.
> One can get their hands on the source code

Where?
Yep I was expecting you might mention user defined types. Numba supports them but with an object model which is more sympathetic to acceleration.

The other place where Julia might see better speed is when you have an optimization algorithm and the objective function both written in Julia, which allows for optimization across functions, whereas in Python you could write a fast objective function with Numba but couldn't optimize across function call with the optimizer written in Fortran.
This is a common story in many countries, a fear of the rich immigrants/expats "taking over" while simultaneously finding ways of profiting off of their money. I've seen similar situations in many Asian countries with much more overt racism. No reason to be hard on America here.
The purpose of Mining is not to hand out new coins, this is only done to incentivise mining. The real reason behind mining is to secure the transactions. Mining prevents people from double spending their coins.
"trying to profit through some loophole. Isn't that the American way?"

Your hatred of Americans and the American way sort of undermines the point you're presumably trying to make.
It always seemed that South Korea's attitude was harsher thanks to the manhwa (especially Lookism). But now that I think about it, Japanese manga do not even feature fat characters unless they are completely irredeemable social outcasts.
I don’t think there is anyone who doubts that the iPhone X would not look like it does if Steve Jobs was still alive.

I don’t know what it would look like, nobody does, but I am pretty sure he would have never approved the camera sticking out in the back, since 6.

Having said that, I still think it’s the best phone out there. Wish they didn’t have to bump up the price, but hey-ho.
Thanks for the reply. I should not have included Furthark with OpenACC.

The layouts I have in mind are ring buffer of arrays and ND arrays.

I think Furthark would work well actually but I simply had not the time to get accustomed to it.
Strange folks out there :)
I'm not even sure where I could go in SV to find this anymore. Our loss tbh.
Libraries pay authors in most countries (such as the Public Lending Right payment in the UK).
I can't speak for Harvard/MIT/Stanford, but the top-tier administrators at my state's flagship university would probably love to be able to engage in that kind of expansion.
I'm curious: How is "fat shaming" applied to sumo wrestlers? They are probably big (no pun intended) stars in Japan.
It doesn't even have to be in-person at that specific business. In Germany, the post office will authenticate your ID for any business that pays them for that service (either at a branch or during daily delivery). Alternatively, identification startups now allow to authenticate yourself via video chat without leaving your home. Video enables them to check most security features on the ID.

The national ID also has an embedded smart card usable for authentication but for some reason using that has never took off.
Do you think it sounds less serious than MongoDB?
> I am utterly shocked they have not moved into Africa yet.

Africa's (generalizing) median income has just begun to climb high enough in the last 10-15 years, to be financially interesting to the US fast-food companies.

Nigeria's GDP in 1999 was... $35 billion, for a population of 119 million people, or roughly $300 per capita. That leaves very little money in the bottom 2/3 for buying fast-food. Today Nigeria's GDP is closer to ~$400 billion for 186 million people (call it $2,000 per capita), a tremendous leap in economic capability.

Many other nations in Africa have seen similar results.

Consider that Kenya's GDP at a low point in 1993, was just $5 or $6 billion.... It's $70 billion today.

Or Ethiopia, from $7.x billion in 2002, to $72 billion today and still climbing rapidly.

Most likely these nations become appealing business opportunities for all sorts of foreign companies (whether US or European or Chinese etc), with the rapidly rising disposable incomes.
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I've never heard of anyone drinking 900 calories of fruit juice! Is this an American thing?
Where have you seen a glass of apple juice with 300 kcal? In my (European) experience it's barely a hundred or so. Is this some American version that consists of vaguely apple-flavored sugar or something? I'm actually slightly envious because I'm a tad underweight (and with a very low body fat percentage) and find gaining weight difficult.
This is really interesting: CUDA support out of the box[1]. I've never seen this before, does any other JVM do it?

[1] https://github.com/eclipse/openj9/tree/master/runtime/cuda