skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But even that scenario would be quite a departure from what we have now, where banks have almost no reserve requirement and they can create as much money as can be absorbed in the economy, which in turn is influenced mainly by central bank interest rate.

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.

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.
Who's categorizing people into little boxes now?
It also kills more than half of the actual functionality.

If you just want the text, you can use Links.
Better headline: "Gullible butters will believe literally anything"
One method is to transfer the money if any two of three people agree: buyer, seller, and trusted third party.

If there's no dispute, buyer and seller agree and they have a nice cheap transfer just between themselves, without paying a percentage to the third party.

If buyer and seller disagree, then you bring in the third party, who makes a decision and takes a percentage.

I don't think there's any way to have fair chargebacks without bringing in third parties at all, but you can at least restrict their role to the transactions where they're actually needed. (This means they'll charge more for those transactions, but that's arguably more fair than charging buyers who've used reputable sellers, and/or sellers who've treated their customers well.)
With a $2000+ laptop you should really get an extended warranty, and all serious manufacturers send a technician to you.

Having to go to a physical Apple store implies that there's one nearby.
Deficits are not an intergenerational tax. They are funded by issuing bonds, which are assets that will get passed down through the generations.

There is not really any such thing as an inter-generational wealth transfer. There are transfers from poor to rich that the rich are (successfully) scapegoating old people for.
As per the FAQ, the claims system has been disabled until the trustee is ready to accept claims again:

"Further, due to the stay of the bankruptcy proceedings, MTGOX bankruptcy claims filling system (the “System”), which was being provided on its website, has been temporarily suspended. As in the bankruptcy proceedings, the Civil Rehabilitation Trustee is expected to accept the method of filing a proof of rehabilitation claim through the System in the Civil Rehabilitation Proceedings as well. Therefore, please take note of your user name and password registered on the System."

[1] https://www.mtgox.com/img/pdf/20180622_announcement_en.pdf
For near realtime systems that scale it is right up there with the fastest application servers. In fact, if you take the auto-scaling properties into account it probably beats those servers because it can do it seamlessly up to incredible number of requests / sec without missing a beat. If you want low latency you can replicate your offering in as many zones as you feel like.

People start worrying about throughput, latency and error rates when they become high enough (or low enough) to measure.

My personal biggest worry is that if your Google account should die for whatever reason your company and all its data goes with it. That's the one thing that I really do not like about all this cloud business, it feels very fragile from that point of view.
Track record of robust code review doesn't make as much difference as people like to believe. There is a great talk on ccc about this: https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8968-are_all_bsds_created_equall...
Dupe. Discussed earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17364899
Your comment resonates with me.

I work hard to improve things; most of it was worth it, some of it didn't went well but it was a constant fight with my boss. If I failed, he would bring it back for months.

What worked for me was to step back and get into super pasive mode. Give all the responsability to my manager. I didn't question any of his design decisions, gave support to all ideas even if seem plain wrong unless he wanted honest feedback (usually, he didn't because I would change the original idea). Never say or even insinuate "I told you this was not gonna work"; I just acted surprised and asking to him "ok, what do we do now?". It just took a few months for my manager to start reliying on me, more and more. Now I have even more space for improving things, with the full support of my manager because "he wants me to do it" not "because I push my ideas to him".

At the end of the day, it's not dumb if it works.
No. Smyte wasn't so business critical that they should consider a failure in the service a reason to stop the site. Netflix had an example where if thier authentication service was down, they didn't stop people from watching videos.

There is a popular C# package called Polly that has all sorts of fault tolerant strategies.

https://github.com/App-vNext/Polly/wiki/Transient-fault-hand...

In this case, use a Fallback strategy that responds to an API failure with some type of generic success response.
You might not use those features directly, but they're often used in library code. For example, attributes on functions are common technique for function decorators to store some associated data.
What is nuke rated? You need to be specially rated to transport a nuclear battery?
That just isn't true. For many companies the cost of their IT infrastructure is a very small fraction of their annual turnover. It all depends on the economics of your particular case whether or not this makes sense. For some companies it does, for some it doesn't.
You might have missed it, but in 2015, someone replied to you to explain that IRC of the 90s wasn't 7-bit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10490691
People genuinely have modest ambitions.

The "big ambitions" (and specifically, those not of the good kind, like e.g. becoming a doctor and such, but the "private pool", expensive car, lotsa money variety) have been shoehorned into the average American mind through over a century of indoctrination, advertisement, and propaganda.

It's all about making people never be content with their material belongings and thinking that the next purchase or achievement unlocked with make them happy.

E.g.
https://www.amazon.com/Captains-Consciousness-Advertising-Co...
130 would put them in the top 2% while that’s technically not some luminary super genius level that is for all intents and purposes “genius” as far as every day life and normal expectations go.

If your IQ is 130-135 statistically you are “smarter” than nearly anyone you meet in your life, in fact considering that 140-145 is at the 0.1% statistically you are unlikely to meet anyone smarter by a distribution point even at places that skew towards a higher IQ due to selection bias.
How Tidal Got So F**#&d
Not necessarily.
Parallelization has allowed better performance from chips. Adding more cores has allowed better throughput but the benefits are seen more on the application side.
They could make the chips bugger, but the problem with expanding outward is the routes connecting the transistors become too long and suffer increased time delay due the increased resistance of the long line.
Without being able to make chips larger the only way to get better physical performance is to increase density.
Its not the biggest hope.

We already have unlimited carbon free energy and some people already use it to power their country. Its only ignorance and political shit-show that prevents people from losing it.

Its called uranium.

Elon himself said often that space based solar power is a bad idea.
Said yuppie would have spent that $700 on a brand-new hand-made saddle ('with ecological naturally cured Yak leather from the Himalayas') for his fixie bike which would have provided the proverbial drop which made the Yak-saddle-startup succeed in its venture, starting a business which would have lasted for many generations and which would have created a market for Yak leather which would have improved the lot of Yak farmers in the Himalayas who would have realised the way they're treated by their overlords from China was not up to snuff, starting a popular revolution which would eventually gain support from the Chinese population who would pressure their own overlords for more democracy, ending up with the democratisation of both China as well as its former vassal states.

But no, this will not come to pass because of Apple's cruddy keyboards.

That cost of society is what was meant.
In many stateside jurisdictions, remodeling a building makes you exempt from many zoning requirements that were instated after the original building was constructed. To qualify as a remodel rather than new construction, you can keep as little as a single wall of the previous structure.
The answer is right above you. Universal Income. However I suspect that instead society will let the owners of the automation become staggeringly wealthy while 50% of the working population are on the bread-line. Then there will be riots, then perhaps we will get a more equitable sharing of the value that society has created.
Most (all?) of GP's points also apply to Finland, which is nowhere near as wealthy as Norway. Their government is able to provide their citizens with these services because it is massively invested in the country's economy; as of 2012, total market capitalization of state holdings in Finnish companies is $115 billion, against $256.7 billion GDP. For the United States in 2012, the figures are $6 billion in SOEs against $16 trillion GDP.

source: https://www.oecd.org/corporate/oecd-dataset-size-composition...
Don't watch TV while safety driving
Lifecycle of story in QA's Hand
Or the flip side; have you ever deleted a line of code that did nothing but cause problems, and the result of the deletion was that the product improved?
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It sounds like in his suicide note in the story that's exactly why he did it.
A higher purpose like spirituality, a tightly knit community of people similar to you, forming a family... something that some people are actively working against, so nobody can enjoy it.
Just took a good look over 2-and-something-years-old ZenFone 2. I've only noticed some very light scratches upon a careful inspection, only when looking at the display surface at angle where it had reflected daylight. Dust specks are way more noticeable.

I don't use any protectors, I put the phone in my packet together with my keys, my cat tries to chew on it every time he sees it lying on the bed (I don't know why), and otherwise handle it quite recklessly.

The only way I really got cracks is when phone fell out of my hands, face-down on a gravel. Happened on a second month after the purchase, had to replace the display (but still decided I don't want a protector film)

Now, reading about the scratches I wonder how bad it is with iPhone X.
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Fair point. Porting existing libraries is usually a bit of a struggle. Luckily for the particlar applications we use we get along just fine with the standard library subset, everything else is a mix of custom C++ and Python modules.
That's the irony of credit, plenty of it when you don't need it. It seems that the more money you have, the quality of investments that people approach you with increases too.
Three other questions of similar importance are "which exceptions might it throw?" "what are its exception-safety guarantees?" and "is it thread-safe?" (they do not all apply in all cases, of course.)
>And when people were invited to choose their ideal IQ, the median score was about 130 – a score that would classify someone as smart, but not a genius.

Which, given what we know about plenty of genius biographies, and how frail and paranoid their lives can be precisely because of their higher mental faculties, seems like a perfect compromise.
Same. Especially when coding, it’s one tab only and my focus is through the roof.
>Furthermore, people said, on average, that they ideally wanted to live until they were 90 years old, which is only slightly higher than the current average life expectancy. Even when participants imagined that they could take a magic pill guaranteeing eternal youth, their ideal life expectancy increased by only a few decades, to a median of 120 years old.

Part of the reason for these "surprising" results is probably the individualistic framing of the question. It makes a difference if only you have unnaturally long life, or if you are part of a family or society that is similarly long-lived. For example, the thought of lingering on after friends and family from my generation have died has no appeal to me.

In general, the implication that it's surprising that people didn't want "happiness" and "life expectancy" as the end goals speaks to assumptions of atomization among the creators of the study. Deep down, I think people want meaning and a sense of narrative structure to their lives, not just chasing after pleasures.

>And when people were invited to choose their ideal IQ, the median score was about 130 – a score that would classify someone as smart, but not a genius.

How was the question structured? I have doubts that most people get the statistics of what it means to be 130 IQ vs 150 IQ, etc.
now that their is a exploding feature, can i finally explode this annoying notification about not providing my full name and description.
This is based on the myth that poor people don't contribute, while rich people contribute more.

Perhaps you don't understand that many people in poverty have jobs. In fact many have multiple jobs, because it's the only way they can stay afloat financially.

Workfare is not a solution. The economy either needs to be reinvented with stable jobs and financial democracy, or essentials - not just cash, but education, health-care, and housing - need to be provided for free, and the cost of economic self-development made so low that anyone with an idea and a hint of a work ethic can try it out without being terrorised by the prospect of absolute economic failure and destruction.
>nobody even knows what "life" is, so how would we even know what the "ideal" life is.

Yeah, so we should never generalize, just point at individual things and say "this".

>people only go into the psychology field for the $$

So much for not generalizing.
Either one is possible. When the risk is cancer and other serious illness would you not think a multi-decade experiment is needee before feeding it to humans? Much like a regression and user acceptance test would be at a grand scale if the risk is extended app outage or significant revenue loss.
> the problem is that there are hundreds of them

It is a problem when writing general-purpose code in Lua. But why would it be a problem when deciding to embed it, and comparing it to Gravity in this context? With Lua, you'd pick one such system, and stick to it. With Gravity, the system is picked for you - if you don't like it, too bad.
Uber driver was streaming Hulu just before fatal self-driving crash
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are easier to store securely compared to bunches of cash, which would lead to less pressure to store them in a bank. Deposits would be incentivised using interest rates (set by the market). That and the banks not being able to create money would lead to them being more dependent on deposits; this in turn would put more pressure on banks that exhibit risky behaviour and favour banks that keep a healthy balance sheet.

And why would there be more pressure to adjust risky behaviour? Because people would take their money out of banks that exhibit that behaviour, which would re-inforce behaviour that has the right ratio of risk/return. This does not happen now because banks don't need almost any deposits to make profit.

This risk adjustment already happens in financial sectors that have skin in the game. For example, if a hedge fund looses money, sooner or later people will take their money out of it.
I received this letter for my web site too, for an article that was published before I bought the site. Since I didn't write the article and couldn't even say if it was true or not, I just deleted it to avoid a possible fight. However, I do believe that their claims have no teeth and it is just a scare tactic. I emailed them back at their generic company address because they didn't even leave a reply-to address in the contact form.
Language doesn't always capture complexity, but we're arguing about definitions, not about whether they apply wholly to any one person.

They do certainly apply wholly to ideas, though.
Kudos on a list where features HardenedBSD doesn't have but others (OpenBSD) do are also listed.

Recently I've become accustomed to seeing overly tuned feature lists where the product in question has, apparently, all the things you could want.
It's one of the small things about Scheme I love.

foo! for mutating.

foo? for predicates.

foo->bar for type conversations.
It's also close to the cutoff for Mensa membership (Wikipedia says they require 98th percentile or higher), so it seems to align pretty well with common ideas about what IQ qualifies as exceptional. That surprises me actually, since I'd expect most people to be unfamiliar with the meaning of IQ beyond "higher is better".
Glowroot: Open Source Java APM
Self: There is only 1 other 'programmer' at my workplace
A day in the life:

I work with many electrical engineers that took ~1 programming class or so it seems.

There is 1 contractor that is developing a tool but its entirely backend, access + excel mess. I'm currently designing an accounting database, so he's the best I have.

Unfortunately hes all backend and constantly is suggesting excel and access.

Other fun, I've started doing job automation and was explaining how I'm looking to make our Parts , classes. That way you could run methods off them to solve problems quicker. Currently trying to datamine current databases which is exported to an excel file. I do have a python script which writes to sqlite, but its very slow and would take a weekend to accomplish a task.

My coworkers have seen the job automation ive done and its exclusively met with laughter.

Go home, biphasic nap, work on my main project, currently laravel backend. Do this until/while my interns come over to collect food data. When I exhaust, I do the html and css of our non profit or mess with python toys.

I love programming :)
On the other hand, upgrading OpenBSD to a new version is just about as easy as updating the packages on any other OS. If not easier!

Also, yes, syspatch makes the paching between releases a five seconds task.
I am worried about how people will be affected by what we their ancestors ate and ourselves as well. By your argument polluting the enviornment is also ok since catastrophic events won't happen in my life time.
The DL4J folks are a joke. They make a ton of outrageous claims then and they tell you you're getting it all wrong when you try to call them on it. I know they need to justify their nonsense so SkyMind can sucker someone into an acquisition, but they're not fooling anyone. At best they can claim it's as fast as what one person built in their spare time....
It would be even better if it was a linting/compile or at least a runtime error to assign a variable to the result of one of those functions.

Python let's you do it, and you get "None" as the result, which makes such mistakes slower to discover.

This would require some way to mark a function as returning or void.
Git has never been anything other than a project management tool - who do you think had to organize code changes in the 1980s?
Except in the UK we have a government who think that you need to run the economy like a household budget. They have been trying to cut spending to reduce debt since 2010. This has decimated public services, yet the debt is still there and deepening!

A course on Modern Monetary Theory wouldn't go amiss...
It seems like you’re taking this a bit further than the parent comment said - e.g. there’s no claim that any major piece of software can be refactored that quickly, however the general process can be made simpler and safer with decent static tooling.

As a concrete example on a small scale of something common such as renaming a model field name. Given that ActiveRecord reflects the database and generates the methods dynamically there’s pretty much no good way to refactor that field easily. It requires a lot of manual searching/filtering to find possible usages and then time on that to ensure it’s not a shared name on a different object type. From what I’ve seen in many code bases it ends up manifesting as `delegate` usage and often just expands the API exposed by the model.

Compare that to something compiled, or even something like python that doesn’t encourage meta too much, and you can pretty much find all symbol usages with whatever intellisense engine you prefer (ctags, JetBrains, jedi, ...)
When will you just admit the initial claim about ND4J being faster than Neanderthal was bogus?
Stockbridge damper for power lines
JavaMelody: monitor Java or Java EE applications in QA and production environmen
Was it really necessary to add to the article the picture of a printer that clearly had been smashed by a sledgehammer or fell from the third floor?
That is a very very class driven assumption.
We tend to think of desires, ambitions, ideals... in idealistic terms. That is, as if they are concrete and a relatively stable part of a person's identity, the product of rational or religious contemplation.

I don't this is how our psyche works. I think our psyche works in more practical ways, relativity is what's important. We feel rich or poor relative to yesterday, or our parents, or neighbours. We feel satisfied with our IQ, sex life, life expectancy or health and such in a similar, relative way.

I think what these results speak to is where the default goal flag sits, not how motivated, how active or how "genuinely" ambitious were are. We want 10%-50% more money, intelligence, sex, friends and career successes. We can express this as 10 percent more or 10 rabbits more. The specific quantification doesn't matter.
Agreed. Mine is just amazing. No complaints at all and still goes like a rocket (I went for the max spec MBP)
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Julia does this too. It's brilliant.

Side note: I just tried solving an actual problem in julia for the first time. That language does a lot of stuff right, at least for my definition of right.
Realize in C and JS and most languages, the standard equality '=' operator, does exactly this.

For example, console.log(2*(a = 10)) would print 20 while setting a to 10
This is how democracies work. You don't always get what you want. Sorry to break it to you.