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>> People have a dislike for Mark not because he took risks but because he didn't let other people solve the problems they clearly had

I met Mark at the time of mtgox's (first?) public hack in 2012. Shortly after they'd moved to Cerulean Tower in Shibuya.

He seemed to realise what mtgox were up against, but they were ill-equipped to face it. Considering the immediate problems mtgox had then, he gave me more time than I probably deserved.

In hindsight, I believe Mark was hoping for a Hail Mary. Put another way, I believe that if I'd had the skill to get on top of those problems, he'd surely have hired me. Yet I just doubt that many of the necessary talents were around at that time.

It's easy to imagine that we would know how to do things right under exceptional circumstances. Mark was then the man in the ring, and he may become so again. Bonne chance.
Redefining the character set was how some text-mode programs like the old Norton suite got "graphical" mouse cursors and the like.
The asterisk symbol in C is heavily overloaded too; it can mean a pointer type, dereferencing a pointer, multiplication (of ints, floats, ...).
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The theory of blockchains might entail a distribution of trust amongst well-audited third parties.

In practice, crypto rely so heavily on centralised intermediaries of dubious quality that at one point 70% of BTC trades went through MtGox, a closed-source platform with well-documented problems with security, payment processors and regulators even before it lost 7% of all Bitcoins.
Google Wave ( later renamed into Apache Wave, and now retired ). Maybe i should just fork the thing and hack around the "next big email killer"(tm)...
I'm referring to the per-employee head tax.
You don't need JavaScript for voting.
It also rather depends on the level of UBI. If I can just live frugally on my UBI, but by getting a 20 hour-a-week job collecting rubbish I can afford to eat out and take foreign holidays then I would have a strong incentive to carry on doing it. I might demand that my boss treats me better in general though, which could lead to a labour market where the environment and conditions are as important as the pay
I know HN etiquette isn't to complain about downvotea, but the idea that a single person disputes either of those statements is disturbing.
> In the EU IP alone could be considered PII

that statement is wrong.
first of all IP Addresses are only PII if you store them to identify users, means that if you are user table has an ip_address field, it is, however...
if you store all ip's accessing your service in a database to find malicious logins it isn't.
so basically the statement is, it depends.
the connection of user to ip makes it PII.
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dcc sends and xdcc bots were pretty influential in the early internet. It definitely works.
Norway is wealthy because of oil

Right; you wouldn't compare Norway to the entire US, you'd compare it to Alaska.

People forget this about the US. You wouldn't compare "California" to "the EU" because that wouldn't make sense.
I consider most of that stuff to be trash. I think, according to common sense, bad things happening to you is actually bad (for a variety of reasons). Many people who make it out of difficult situations end up with minds and belief systems so twisted that they borderline can't function in human relationships (e.g. a relative who would borderline abuse his children by screaming at them until they were crying and cowering over minor infractions because he believes you choose how you react to external circumstances and his dad pulled a gun on him so this obviously isn't even a big deal and the kid needs to stop overreacting and just try harder)
To be fair, the screenshot does provide additional info, like the fact that they are using file://.. It's often better to include more in a screenshot than less.

I would imagine that the chromium teams probably gets a lot of tickets. That means they need a lot of bodies to triage them. It's not like any Sr. Dev ist going to be jumping at that job.
If I had to choose my ideal IQ I wouldn't go as high as 130.

It's very frustrating when most of the people you meet are dumb (out of your perspective).

Something about 110 IQ would be much better.
Having a high IQ has never helped me write awesome Java code. I get hired because employers find out I have a PhD and am “smart” only to find out that I’m really just average at coding. Drives me crazy! I know I need a differeng career but not sure what would evwn work.
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Are they changing it in some way? Or is this just “a random subset has problems and we will repair them as they emerge but we’re not changing the design”
You can't, but that doesn't mean you can't do the same for fully digital services like cloud storage.
Fortran does this (still does in F2008). But usually I end up using subroutines instead, since I want the code in question to modify more than one object. Functions can only return one object, and the overhead of packing/unpacking to a struct is annoying.

What Fortran really needs to get is first-class string handling and saner IO. Apart from that being a pain, modern Fortran is a nice language to use.
He signed a contract. Do you not value that?
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And Shield wasn't an option?
I don't have full conviction that the situation I described will lead to better outcomes but I am not convinced by the current system either, and it's worth considering how the system could work with the newer tools that we now have.

> I don't see how a Bitcoin bank as outlined above can be regulated to have a reserve requirement either. Arguably, this offers even less protection than a traditional bank, due to the inability of the public sphere to regulate it. And still, as long as a Bitcoin bank is perceived as sufficiently trustworthy based on past behavior, people would use it.

The reserve requirement is something set through the political process so is independent of the properties of the money, so that can go either way both in a fiat or cryptocurrency system. The difference with cryptocurrencies is that you don't have as much need to store them in a bank. One reason to loan them to the bank is to get some kind of return on the money. In this situation reckless behaviour might be driven out faster, just like in the hedgefund industry.

> Next, I don't share your view that interest rates being set by the market is a good thing. Economies were far more fragile and volatile back when they were backed by bullion. The vast majority of people who have income from labor comparable to their net worth prefer that their net worth not fluctuate so much that they may not consistently maintain their standard of living, and this is helped by a steady interest rate. A rational agent prefers this unless their net worth greatly eclipses their ability to obtain wealth from other forms of capital.

Since I get most of my income from labour, I can tell you that I would prefer to have a slight deflation in prices every year and maintain my purchasing power, without having to go through all kind of hoops and loops to invest my money in bonds, stocks and other risky things.

As to old economies being backed by bullion, I tend to agree there. Bullion can be a poor monetary base due to its lack of divisibility. But there were probably more things that lead to fragile economies than the fact that money was backed by bullion.

Of course, there are problems with limited money supply systems. How would governments finance wars? You would have to finance things through taxation which is very unpopular.
No I want Internet without the JavaScript fluff.

Websites that deserve it and I bother to use them, or lack alternatives, do get white listed.
For digital services like cloud storage, you can use cryptography. Have the storage provider give a cryptograpic proof that they are still in possession of the data that is under contract, and you don't need a third party. Either they are online and can build the proof, or they are going to get hit with a penalty for dropping their end of the contract.
"Serverless" (by the current way it is approached) is more of the likes of "Cloud computing". Someone's server is your server. It is not difficult to create real serverless apps today, that works disconnected and fetches cached data when there is new data available.
A business likely needs a reputation and such to get a loan on its own. In this case if it’s a new-ish startup, no one will be giving the company a loan without someone backing the loan. Which would likely be you.
Let's assume that the axiom is true, and despite bitcoin being declared illegal by all jurisdictions, people still use it.

What do you think it's market cap will be? What number of people will willingly use an illegal good with harsh punishments?

So yes, bitcoin will still exist. But it will be kind of meaningless if it gets declared illegal, at the fringes of society.
Which is a very reasonable assumption for an optimizer. Every major compiler has switches to turn that behavior off. I'd be sympathetic to an argument that perhaps those switches should be on by default, but if you change the language standard, you're essentially saying entire classes of optimizations should be outright prohibited by a conformant compiler, with no programmer control. That's a classic case of throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
The difference is entirely due to asians clustering in expensive coastal cities: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/12/29/the-a....

Adjusted for cost of living, asians and whites make the same household income, while african americans make dramatically less.
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I've heard the analagy used that "Servers are to Serverless what wires are to wireless", the main point being that they're still there, but they're no longer something you manage or directly interact with.

I'm also starting to see the term LaaS (Logic as a Service) used as an alternative to "Serverless" here and there.
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So you hate all builder-object methods that return the builder for further building? Ok.
My laptop makes a case for the opposite. I hardly ever use the built in keyboard on my mbp 2017, but some of my keys are not functioning properly. A colleague of mine has a similar but worse case and had to return it about half a year ago. In total we have three of the mbp's in this office that qualify to be serviced.

Perhaps it's the dusty office? We are located in a old ship hangar.
Except that the statistics show that smart people are happier, healthier, more successful, less prone to mental illness, and just generally seem to live better lives.
Why did you suggest a SEP? Only businesses can establish those for their employees. An employee cannot open one on his own.

Did you mean Roth or traditional IRA instead?
That's a function of an early industry, and increasingly the trend has been towards decentralization. There are more large exchanges, more small exchanges, and increasingly large parts of the cryptocurrency stack are being further decentralized and open-sourced (a great example is the BTCPay project, which replaced a closed source SAAS API with an open source wrapper around the open source bitcoin client).
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> it’s unfair that the stock market is used to decide how good the economy is

But the stock market swings in response to economic reports like unemployment rate. The government doesn't report unemployment based on stock prices.
I've seen arguments UBI should include pensioners, but never for it to include minors

It has to include pensioners. To make it work you need to take the cost of the bureaucracy out of the system, which means UBI supersedes all other welfare. There will be no pensions, no unemployment, no child benefits (children also get UBI, paid to their parents until they come of age), no means testing - everyone gets UBI, full stop. That's what the U is for!
If you have a high IQ then you will probably mostly hang out with other high-IQ people.
Indeed, in the UK we have a personal allowance of around £10k of income which is not taxed. If you either remove that allowance or add the UBI to your earned income (same answer), you collect a lot more tax and the budget is now higher.

I think we have to be clear though, we are expecting to have to increase taxation to pay for UBI. If the need for UBI is driven by automation removing jobs, then the extra wealth that the automation creates is going to have to be re-distributed. It is also time to revisit the special treatment that capital (especially land) gets in the tax system. Land Value Tax is perhaps a much more socially aware approach.
I am not the person you asked, but I might be able to give some input. My “credentials”: I have owned many many phones because of my job, and currently still use 3 smartphones on a daily basis: two Android phones and one iPhone. Cost is not at play in my case, so there is also no sunk cost.

I wrote up something, but I feel that it is both below the standards of HN, and not something I would want to publicly attach my personal name to. I’d be happy to send it to you if you’d like.
And who determines which new cryptocurrencies can be created and accepted? Because that risks runaway inflation again if anyone can do it and everyone has equal acceptance.
How did this make the front page? It's trash. It's an opinion, not fact and definitely not news.
Apple hardware does not come cheap, although the retina screens are great, so, do you reeeeaaally need a Mac ( iOS development is the only reason i can imagine ) ?!
For everything else, Linux should be more than fine, and the dell xps is a great solid line of machines...
I don’t think it’s remotely controversial that most violence is committed by young men. Most people in the world and in history would laugh at me for stating this, it’s so obvious.
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Chinese cities will open about 15 subway networks in the next 5 years. Let that sink in :)
You can still be well above 130 and not be in the genious range.

The only people I get the impression of "genious" level intelligence would be those I would rank at like 160 levels
Surely it addresses 24% of the shortfall? That is nearly a quarter in one answer. You are making it look much more achievable.
The actual gate pitch of a 7nm process is 54nm, and the interconnect pitch is 40nm. Though the name is "7nm", it's far from it.
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Which is why governments are waging all out war on cash! Look at India. Look at Sweden. Government wants to be your “partner” in every transaction. This is alarming and destructive to freedom because the only real freedom is economic freedom.
> "Do you think a Swedish employee group at Crédit Agricole is a problem?"

For the employees, I would think it strange that they group themselves as such within the company since their common interest in Swedish culture has nothing to do with Crédit Agricole. If they want to organize events around midsummer I would expect them to conduct all of that organizing outside of the business.

I don't think it's a problem for them, but I guess I just find it somewhat inappropriate.

For the company, yes, I think it's closer to being a problem. I would think there's a near 100% chance that there would be some kind of HR related issue that comes about because of the existence of this group. Doesn't matter how innocent it is. Someone, at some point, is going to have an issue, and there's just no good reason for the company to allow it. Employees can gather for their special coffee meetups and plan holiday events outside of the business.
At the moment there is post at #1 about people's notions of an ideal life. It seems to contrast with this article. People want a simple life with good health not to acumulate stuff.

But really you have to think what is poverty? It's such a vague word as is the word poor.

There are people who live a subsistence lifestyle and they're happy. But there are people with mobile phones, big screen TV, computers, in an apartment who are poor.

From my perspective we in a western society require more things to live too many things. For example Internet access for basic government services, by your employer and schools.

Wages haven't kept pace with life. Costs seems to be rising faster than the lowest pay can cope with.

My father is from a generation where you work long hours to make more money, simple as that. But these days the wage from any paying job may not be enough even working overtime.

Even 20 years ago most people didn't have a cell phone, Internet was not widespread, you weren't paying for Netflix or a dozen other things eating away at your paycheque.

To me it seems technology plus stagnant low skill job wages have amplified poverty.
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I wash my hands a lot so I don’t think I really had that issue very much. I tried not to touch my phone when I was sweaty without using a towel first. And I have the good fortune to not have a lot of humidity. So maybe I had an idealized experience for touchid and you have an idealized face for faceid. Ha.

I do lift my head but maybe it’s something else I’m doing. I’ll try different angles or maybe open my eyes wider. I just feel like this kind of experimentation kind of flies in the face of the Apple experience that I thought I was paying for.
At some point the fixed cost of real servers does become appealing.
That's what economists like to call a "Market".
If you're not tied to MacBooks, it is a good time. You have a nice choice of laptops with the new Intel CPUs, or Intel + AMD graphics, from 13" to 15", finely made.

If you want a MacBook, for love of God, wait! The current generation is seriously outdated in terms of hardware and disturbingly poorly made. I work with 10 colleagues every day who mostly use the current generation MacBooks, and couple of older ones. The newer are not bought at the same time, and we all had/have keyboard issues, external monitor issues, updating issues (mine was most severe, had to wipe the drive!), poor cooling... Quite disappointing.

The previous generation ones work like a charm.
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Well, yes, because you've just included a significant part of the solution (economic homogeneity) as one of the criteria. When you look back at Norwegian history over the last century, a lot of the shift happened in line with the rise of the labour movement and the rise of the welfare system, and a lot of the beneficial outcomes were visible before the oil revenue even started.

Norway as a result got one of the flattest income distributions in the world, and has relatively high degrees of social mobility, and a culture where the labour movement combined with religious groups (in what some might call a rather unholy alliance) promoted the ideal of modesty. E.g. in Norway sending your schools to private schools long held a significant stigma.

At the same time the US started moving in the exact opposite direction: Executive salaries as a multiple of workers salaries started skyrocketing etc..
Yes, but when they don’t, they really don’t.
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A clean solution would be arity of return values, optionally with a ≥ constraint on the original number of returned values vs bound variable names. E.g. a function returning two values can be bound to zero, one, or two variables, but not three. A function returning 1 can be bound to only 1 or none, and if you return no values, you cannot be bound to anything.

Aside: it is a common misconception that Python has multiple return values: it does not. It can return a tuple, which can be automatically destructured into multiple values:

a, b = (1, 2) # this could have been a function

and it has syntactic sugar for tuples which allows leaving off the parantheses:

>>> 1, 2
(1, 2)

Which, combined, makes it look like multiple return values:

def foo():
return 1, 2

but, it really isn't:

>>> foo()
(1, 2)
>>> type(foo())
<type 'tuple'>

so this would be hard to achieve in Python. :(
Pytorch does something similar, except with an underscore at the end of the name. As the arguments are tensors, it's a really handy convention and the API communicates whether a method or function modifies an argument.

I don't believe this was always the case, so it's probably caused a lot of deprecation warnings for some people.
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>It sounds like their sudden viral popularity created too many obligations to fulfill, but not enough to scale up sustainably. Truly victims of their own success.

The slashdot effect (do people use that term anymore? see also the reddit effect) for real life instead of web servers. The web creates very interesting problems in the rapid ability for demand to outstrip supply – websites were just the first examples but as stories like this illustrate, it can also be products – and Facebook, etc. show the social side where we often have too many things vying for our attention or social interaction and even compassion/things to care about. How do we smooth out those peaks and valleys? That's clearly part of what FB has tried to do with how they manage users feeds – and it's a dicey thing because that very thing has led to suspicion (rightly or wrongly)... some days it really does feel like we're at or just past that with which we are able to cope.
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Tell that to Bill and Melinda Gates.

Edit: to the person that downvoted this, Bill and Melinda met and dated while they both worked at Microsoft [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melinda_Gates
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Why do you think it is a compromise, and not an appeal to modesty?
I don't know. Maybe if you've been reading bad science fiction with immortal geniuses running around everywhere, it might seem that living to 120 and having an IQ of 130 is leaving a lot on the table, but when you compare those numbers to what we actually get, I think calling them "modest" is missing the point. Those aren't numbers that say "I'm more or less content with my lot", those are numbers that say you wish you were as smart as the smartest person you ever met, and that the papers wrote stories about your birthdays. They're an argument against the idea that transhumanism isn't something that people actually want.

And of course, the implication is obvious: If everyone did on average live to 120 and get an IQ of 130 on our tests, then everyone would be wanting to live 200 years, and quite a few people would probably want an IQ of 160 on the old tests. That is, unless that was the point where people just switched to transhumanism as simplified humanism: Having the choice to live longer and to understand the universe better are probably always a good thing, regardless of how long you've lived and how much you understand.
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> why the adjective vanilla refers to anything plain

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-09-18
You made me search for “genesis of the transistor” and I found this old gem: https://youtu.be/WiQvGRjrLnU

Here is a quote from that film that makes me a bit envious of those work environments: “Working in an environment which fosters the uninhibited search for answers to riddles of science related to communications’ needs.”

Wow, to work in an environment that has that sort of mission must be rewarding.
I have wanted for a long time to see some quantification of these security features, i.e. "What percentage of attacks does feature X prevent in the real world?" and "With all these features combined, how much longer can the OS survive attack vs without them?", but I don't think I've ever seen it.