skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would a national bank be better than credit unions which already operate not-for-profit?
Rental markets and real estate costs are only loosely coupled.

A tidal wave of cheap money does drive up costs. Most home purchasers have a fixed budget to spend on a home, whether that money pays down interest or pays down principal.

Low interest = higher housing prices, because borrowers will borrow more money at the lower rate.

This is equally true for apartment construction -- if firms can borrow money cheaply, they borrow more of it, and bid more for land.
Ah, yes, that is an excellent example of that sort of misalignment. However, I think its also an excellent example of what's great about cryptocurrencies. Because in that situation, Bitcoin as an ecosystem has an out: A hardfork. If the miners and the users disagree, a new group of miners can form around a separate code-base that addresses this problem in a different way. Everyone in the ecosystem is incentivized for this not to happen, because it dilutes value. However, if the issue becomes salient enough to overcome that dilution, a fork will occur, and that has happened a few times now.

To me, this is a pretty awesome way of discovering the best way to do things. If two parties can't come to agreement, they simply go their separate ways, and organically the system comes to decide which chain is more valuable. I find this to be one of the most beautiful, elegant parts of the crypto ecosystem.

Consider the contrast to a government currency. If you disagree with how the Chinese Communist Party manages the Renminbi, or how the Federal Reserve manages the US dollar, you don't meaningfully have the option to create your own alternative, and let it be judged by the world. This is the truest sense in which crypto is decentralized.

Now, this model is not without its flaws. National currencies have done very well for a long time being managed in this way. The ability to homogenize everyone on a single national currency has real benefits. It's easy to build up lots of infrastructure around it because it's dependable, for instance. Thinking through issues like this are really what's at the root of a well thought out criticism of crypto-currencies, though, IMO.
There is no "theory of mind" and there is no philosophy that could explain the self or the mind..

This view may find some resonance with Buddhist philosophy and psychology.
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Don't know yet! But I expect to see between 100x and 1000x on a per-megabyte basis. Not evenly distributed across objects (objects between 40MB and 150MB), but as a rough estimate.

I'd be happy to talk further via email; it's not secret, just not public.
Really hoping this question gets answered. It seemed contradictory to me.
>"Fees earned for the bank were accidental and usually nonexistent,"

"Approximately 85,000 of the accounts opened incurred fees, totaling $2 million. Customers' credit scores were also likely hurt by the fake accounts.[43] The bank was able to prevent customers from pursuing legal action as the opening of an account mandated customers enter into private arbitration with the bank."

"The bank paid $110 million to consumers who had accounts opened in their names without permission in March 2017." The money repaid fraudulent fees and paid damages to those affected."[1]

That's 85,000 of what you call "non-existent" fees totaling 2 million dollars. And whether or not those were secondary effects of the fraud is completely immaterial.

It's a rather bizarre position to want to defend a bank that not only defrauded its customers but has also admitted to doing so. But you are entitled to that. What you aren't entitled to however is your own alternative facts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Fargo_account_fraud_scan...
Add a cache layer for read-only content which doesn't invalidate in case of a failure like this, so it allows your system to go into read-only mode.

Local copies of puppet/ansible can be very useful as well.

For logs and metrics, I'm not aware of an out of the box solution that could replay from the last, successfully transmitted line; this is something rsyslog, graphite, etc. could certainly benefit from. (Please let me know if you are aware of these kinds of buffers.)

However, distributed network block storage is usually something unavoidable after a certain size; local filers are really expensive.
The important question is if you think it's possible to create impervious functions of ~100 lines of code. I tend to think that with modern formal verification systems this is a feasible goal. Otherwise you have to stick with closed-source security-through-obscurity and rely on legal reversal. This seems pretty weak to me, though - ex, if a stock exchange was hacked, sure you could reverse it legally, but the market disruption would take years to recover. Regardless of the specific nature of crypto, I think formally verifiable open systems are both achievable and a worthwhile goal.
So these people are essentially poor and don't have access to trade and Banking, but they are going to have access to the blockchain, hardware wallets, and the various other technologies they need, and this will all happen before banks or mobile app payment systems are able to capture the market?

Call me a skeptic.
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Slide 1: Obviously you need to convert from and to Fiat since crypto isn't used by the majority of people duh.

Slide 2 & 3: Yes, 1st generation blockchains are slow and have high fees. That's why Bitcoin has just implemented the Lightning Network and there are 3rd generation blockchains like Nano and IOTA that have zero fees and instant transactions. Duh.

Slide 4: False dichotomy. Yes, there are a couple of scams in the crypto sphere, even 5% of the top 100 are scams, e.g. Eos, Verge, Veritaseum. Is 5% 100%? No. Duh + Facepalm.
Exactly! Google, Twitter, Snap and others are exactly the same. It's exactly the same business models as Facebook's. The whole focus on Facebook is pretty misguided. Maybe it will hurt Facebook but there will be a ton of companies ready to jump in and do exactly the same or worse. In the end we need privacy regulation and make the business of selling customer data difficult to the point it doesn't make sense for most companies.
To each their own. I don't like getting paged at 3am, so I choose to remove complexity and external dependencies where I can. And not operating at Google-scale, this is one of those things I can live without.
Agreed. I switched to Inoreader after several weeks of looking for an alternative to Google Reader and I haven't looked back since. I've had a great experience; their Android app is very good and they seem to have a reasonable business model.

The UIs on Feedly and Newsblur didn't suit me at all. As I recall Feedly made it very difficult to even read the articles. Inoreader has the nice two-column view Google Reader and mail apps like Fastmail use.
That's exactly the same logic my director applied to pentesting. If you don't test no vulnerabilities will be discovered.
I respect the NTSB, but I do not like institutional secrecy aspects to try to muzzle Tesla - facts like this can help people from placing excessive reliability on self driving abilities of Tesla's autopilot - as long as personal privacy is respected.
After all, calling it an autopilot is intrinsically wrong - as Tesla repeatedly asserts.
> deleting your reddit account

Ah, that's something completely different.
"history" "statistics" oh bravo you just said a pair of words. Here, I'll do the same thing: "History. Statistics." Now who's right?

"hatred for this subject"? Sure. I know a lot of people who had shitty parents. I know a pair of brothers who committed suicide because their father molested them. Many of my friends hate their folks. My own are terrific, incidentally. When I say those are privileged assumptions, that's because I have been reminded numerous times that I had a privileged upbringing.

Which, by the way, entailed parents whose life philosophy was hands-off, which further points out how vapid the notion that "parental controls would fix social media" is.
Will the day come when we're able to set the dns on smartphones too?
Why would this matter?

Your bandwidth pricing is a joke. Yes, you got a nice network and yes you pay premiums to get transit of providers that are "hard to work with". And yes, you have dark fiber between your locations, which is costing a lot of money, but even considering those facts you are still charging at least 10x as much as your bandwidth should cost your customers.

How have you even calculated those prices?
"Let's look at AWS and make it even more expensive"?
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I wonder how the x32 ABI performs. The x32 is a Linux ABI were amd64 is used, but pointers are 32 bit. I'm still wondering if some company is using it.

Now that we are at it, I'm wondering if there is something like x32, but for Aarch64? AFAIR Aarch64 is nothing like amd64 is for x86, but it could still be just 32 bit pointers, but all the registers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X32_ABI
Also have a Sony Smart TV, and I live in the EU. After updating the TV, it asked me whether I wanted to enable Samba, and I simply declined. Seems to be disabled now.
My parents' TV has an incredible anti-feature where, if the video gets dark enough, the whole screen dims temporarily. There's no firmware update for it so they've just lived with it for years.
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That blanket statement is absolutely not true.

With Ceph you can distribute data across hosts, switches, racks, rows, fabrics, rooms, datacenters. If you design correctly, you can have a very resilient storage system.

Source: I come from enterprise storage and have been running Ceph in production (successfully) for ~5 years.
The US has a lot more to offer than Florida, especially when it comes to the complaints (heat, health care and mass shootings) in the article.
Sounds interesting, got any sources for further reading?
Today the WSJ has an article with the opposite headline:

Silicon Valley Rivals Take Shots at Facebook
https://www.wsj.com/articles/silicon-valley-rivals-take-shot...
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Seriously? Both want walled gardens ajd keep your data as theirs. I dont see the fight at all.
Funny, the article says several times that the NTSB is unhappy with Tesla's release of information, but it never says why. It's not clear how it can interfere with the investigation. Maybe they just want to control the narrative? But that is no part of their function. Sorry if you're unhappy about Tesla's disclosures guys, but why, and why should we care?
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> We exist in a reality that is inherently chaotic. We can approximate but never reach. But our approximations help us move around, because as we can see the chaos also has some kind of structure

Yes, obviously models can be useful approximations of reality. I'm not rejecting all models, I'm rejecting the models which do a poor job of approximating reality.

But if they're too inaccurate, they aren't useful. The point here is that the coherent, singular "self" model of reality is too inaccurate to be useful any more. Neuroscience has demonstrated the idea of a coherent, singular self to be wrong. When we're asking questions like at the beginning of the article ("Did Anna Karenina really want to die?") the singular, coherent model of self isn't useful.

This shouldn't be taken as a criticism of those who believed in the singular self before neuroscience. They created hypotheses, and the experiments which tested those hypotheses and resulted in our current understanding of the self would not have happened without their work. We can remember them as history. But we can't treat these disproven hypotheses as equally valid to more nuanced understandings of the self, out of some sort of nostalgia for philosophy.

This isn't a rejection of the practice of modeling reality, it's a rejection of the models which our understanding has grown beyond, in favor of more accurate models.
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Don't worry about the possible "passive aggressive" interpretation. You are doing the best that can be done in your position. If they don't see it... well, that's their problem, not yours. You are already being more than enough accommodating by just accepting to work on such a mess of a project!
A lot of what you said was crap and it devalues ther correct things you said. That said I assume you used these as a visual aid and maybe delved more than what you posted here, a lot is very extreme.
Blockchains are moving away from PoW to PoS, which requires a millionth of the energy use, so that's not really an argument.
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I'm pretty confident that when 85,000 out of "more than a million" accounts earn fees, it's fair to say that fees are "usually nonexistent". You're talking about accounts that Wells Fargo didn't want and fees that it assessed by mistake. By a normal analysis, that wouldn't be a scandal of any kind, and it would call for no more than returning the accidental fees, without a 55x punitive damages award.

> "The bank was able to prevent customers from pursuing legal action as the opening of an account mandated customers enter into private arbitration with the bank."

That's really not going to work if the customer didn't intend to open the account. The fact that (by your numbers) average damages among those who were damaged at all were up to $23.50 may have had more to do with lack of legal action by customers.
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Also note there is fake news or a lame April fool's joke going around saying that Zuckerberg quit.
Hopefully not. One needs to stop working around crappy setups from crappy networks. Which X-over-HTTPS really is all about.
Aside from that, I'm pretty sure his very first sentence, "Apparently I am incapable of identifying street signs", is correct. He keeps clicking on traffic signs, not street signs.
Any idea what the underlying issues with Ceph were?

My story is a bit dated, but we went from gluster to ceph to moosefs at one startup. Gluster had odd performance problems (slow metadata operations - scatter/gather rpcs and whatnot I would guess) and it was hard to know from the logs what was going on.
Ceph was very very early at this point, but part of it ran as a kernel module and the first time it oops'd, I deleted that with fire. MooseFS ran all in userspace, had good tools for observability into the state of the cluster, and the source code was simple and clean. It didn't have a good story around multi-master at that time, but I think that is improved now.
Turns out, Ponzi schemes are illegal even if they are honest about it.
High fees are only a problem of PoW blockchains, not of PoS blockchains which are becoming the majority right now.
I find a renewable energy production of barely 3.4 Gthm (Giga therms) completely insufficient.
Okay, but as you can see from my first post, I agreed with you (opinion, not fact) that the self is an illusion.

What are you trying to say, exactly? It seems you are trying to argue with me but haven't found anything concrete to latch onto.
How did you get that beautiful traceroute output?
> “The arts are essen­tial to any com­plete national life. The State owes it to itself to sus­tain and encour­age them….
Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the rev­er­ence and delight which are their due.” -- Churchill, 1938

We could debate how much subsidy should be allocated for arts vs. science, but I'd prefer that the wealthiest countries didn't restrict arts. They/we can afford it.
I moved from London to Lisbon and then to Brazil. I get the same kinda "wtf" reaction from Brazilians. The bottom line is, with all that's wrong in Brazil and given my circumstances and my remote well paid job, I'm a lot happier living here than anywhere else in the world. I truly love this place.

I don't think one needs to try to make a place work for them. Sure you can try and adapt. But ultimately most people reading this have the option to live elsewhere. Don't be afraid to take the chance.
If you are relying on a single object storage provider and cannot survive downtime, data loss or simply being very slow at times you will never find a good one. Expect things to fail. Distributed systems are not that trivial for a random object storage provider to have enough expertise to run Ceph or any other open source solution at scale with no issues.
Physical ram is different from virtual address space — the larger address space lets you map in large files (>3 gig). The ISA for aarch64 is also somewhat cleaner than armv7/thumb, etc.

Also while I can’t speak for low end isa implementations the high end ones are all substantially faster than the old 33bit archs. Both reference microarchs from arm itself and the custom designed ones.
Do you mean Darwin? Or is there an actual Linux/non-BSD install?
Please write this up and share it on HN.
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How are you using an SPL meter to measure headphone audio? I've always been kinda worried about hearing damage.
I suppose any greedy person wouldn't mind "investing" in a Ponzi scheme at the point you can still make bank on it. And of course all ponzi scheme have such a phase, that's how they work.
Alright. This isn't Reddit, but: how do people find meaningful things to do (instead of addictive, unrewarding habits) when options, at any particular time, seem to be very limited (i.e. I have 2 hours, starting now - what's available?)? Is it even possible to choose particular meaningful activities consciously (e.g. why would I expect travelling to X to be a great experience if I haven't done it before?), or do they happen by accident if you just expose yourself to many different situations (like having kids)? It seems like the "just say yes" principle is key - don't plan how to spend time based on what you know, just try more things and stop doing what turns out pointless. And, like pg writes, do it now.

Practical result: it's probably better to go to a new club you don't know yet every time you go out, than to frequently visit your favourite one. Even if it feels wrong to habitual animals like us.

Apologies for the rambling.
this is not news.
Three of my friends moved in the other direction (all of them Americans by birth), one with his family in tow.

Having options is good, and it is fairly easy for American entrepreneurs to move to Europe (Germany works if you have enough backing and a good plan) or back again if they decide that's what is best for them.

Healthcare is definitely a factor and so is the climate but when you're young and working hard neither of those will likely move the needle much (but healthcare is a bit of a lottery in the longer term).

The paranoia angle wouldn't factor in for most people, though I can see how if you are prone to that that it will affect you.

If you're an entrepreneur and you wish to address the largest single market on the planet (one language, one currency) with your start-up the USA is probably the place to be if you can get in in an easy way. If not then the EU is likely your best bet but it will be substantially harder to address the EU market than the American one. You might even get a neat balance if you lived in Europe but treated your start-up like an American entity from day one.
It's funny that Florida has such a pristine reputation internationally. I'm from the Southern US, and my view of Florida is that it's where 80% of the crazies in the US live.

Anytime I see a batsh*t crazy headline? Florida. Check the articles you see from now on and you'll notice a pattern.

So to all the internationals: if you like the US but not its extremes, definitely don't move to Florida.
My strong impression is that they wouldn't give APNIC any data that can be used to identify users of their DNS service, but I'd definitely love a more detailed answer than what the site currently provides.
Can you explain the healthcare differences? From what I know it is pretty bad all over the USA compared to say France or Germany.
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I do have a static HTML site that I want to make accessible via user/password authentification. I have at least 500 private users. Which options do I have apart from Netlify Pro's Identification (99$+/month), using Lamba on S3 (0) or fiddling with NGINX/Apache Basic HTTP Auth?

Setting up a full Laravel seems to be overkill as well. Hosted solution with custom HTML would be best, but any framework (PHP, Python, JS) would work too.

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I’ve thought this for a long time, but the insanity of the US healthcare system makes is such that it erases the wage differences between here and countries with national healthcare systems for a huge percentage of the population long term.

You’re essentially gambling that you won’t be struck by a finance destroying health crisis for a long enough time that you’ll come out ahead overall. But when you think about the fact that 35-40% of people develop cancer in their lifetimes, or the “financial death by a thousand procedures” described in the post, that seems unlikely, at least for a good portion of people.
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You said, "That doesn't mean we should dispose of philosophy altogether."

I am saying we should dispose of philosophy as it pertains to modeling the self, because the models of self which philosophy has given us have long outlived their usefulness.
Of course widespread use of this will mean tweets are less useful. You won't be able to find that book/movie that somebody talked about or their great analysis of some topic.
ie also on the front page today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16727319

which links to a series of tweets, the top comment in HN is:

"I'm the author and linking to my tweets is a bad idea because they auto-delete after 14 days."
As genuine as your question is, there are no good answers. The way we ended up with a Big Four is that the Fifth member of the Big Five (Arthur Andersen) audited Enron, essentially telling everybody that it wasn't an enormous fraud, but it was. All the senior people at AA avoided jail but the audit firm was so obviously untrustworthy it folded. But that doesn't mean the other Four are fine, it just means the "Too Big To Fail" problem is far worse for audit firms than for banking. If we took down one of the Big Four it would probably tank the whole world economy, and they know that, which is Not Good.
How many hundreds are we talking?
But, most countries have no trouble organizing that kind of sacrifice.

Ouch, that hurts. Kick us while we’re down.
> Huh? How exactly do you play ponzi schemes conservatively?

Get in and out quickly taking the, presumably higher-than-normal, ROI with you. Typically with ponzi schemes, folks put in and keep their money in to compound because, on paper, they have insane ROIs. Their greed blinds them to the "too good to be true."

Still, Ponzi schemes do payout to some amount of people, those who pull out before it is too late. None of this is to say you won't be left holding the bag, but if you're an "in-and-out" player you have a better chance of not being the one left holding the bag compared to those who see fake numbers and let greed wash over them.