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I'm not the OP but I have an answer. Here me out, I'll start off with some seemingly irrelevant details than bring the whole thing full circle. I start off with a system that is even more complex than finance: Nature.
Nature is complex due to natural selection. Random mutations occur and nature selects the mutations that aid with survival. If you iterate over this process over a long period of time you can have systems that are incredibly complex.

Note that natural selection can function at a higher level of abstraction as well. Not just at the biological level, but at the ecosystem level as well. Ecosystems that overload or are unbalanced are killed off. It's not a coincidence that most ecosystems still around in the world today are running in a steady state of equilibrium.

We can bring natural selection to an even higher level of abstraction and consider human civilization. Only the rules, cultures and behaviors that aid with the survival of the civilization live on to form even more complex systems of civilization. The global civilization that enshrouds the world today is the result of such evolution.

Which brings of full circle to FINANCE. The components rules and systems of finance are not some grand design deliberately created by an architect. The concepts you see today were formed organically and under the restrictions of natural selection.

Take banking. The theory is banking formed when people needed a place to store an abundant resource like grain. A business owner opened a grain shop and gave out paper certificates that represented grain storage. The certificates soon became so abundant that people basically began trading the certificates as cash, hence the formation of paper money. The storage owners realizing this now realize they can print these certificates out of thin air and loan it out to people. Hence the creation of loans and mortgages...

You can see how finance forms organically and the concepts that work continue to thrive while the systems that break are eliminated by natural selection.

Like biology over time this leads to more and more complex systems that somehow just work. This is the origin of complexity in finance. You will note that like biology such complexity is completely random and unnecessary like the platypus, the kiwi or the kangaroo. Finance is littered with things like the kangaroo.

Don't ask a finance guy why finance is complex. This question is better served to you by an anthropologist or a historian. The finance guy is concerned with how to out compete the other finance guy, he is not concerned with the how and the why behind the entire system.
Even better - you only need root on either device. Just set a higher initial TTL on your tethered device, or rewrite the TTL on the phone.

But carriers don't use that anymore, too easy to bypass.
Not sure how it works in US, but in France when you get FTTH, you actually get GPON which means that you don't have your own fiber between your home and the central office.

The central office is connected by a single fiber to a spliter that services up to 64 homes.

So when you buy 1Gpbs internet, it actually goes through a 2.5GBps fiber shared with up to 63 other houses.
I can't give you exact evidence for over-complexity as the way we're using it in this topic is sort of hand wavy and not formally defined.
Mathematics is different. It is axiomatic and exact. In the world of proofs and logic, I wouldn't call anything overly complex. Theorems are necessities that arise from axioms. There's even debate on whether or not these systems are actually designed. Maybe they're existing properties of the world that are discovered and therefore outside of the topic of this conversation as we're mostly referring to systems created by people.

Either way, I'm talking about the worlds outside of mathematics and logic. Science, statistics and design. This world is rife with over-complexity. I can't prove it, but it should be intuitive.

If your a normal person you can most likely think of many, many examples where systems created by people are seemingly over-complex. If you can imagine this, then I would say for this informal dialogue that is pretty good evidence for the case that overly-complex systems are abundant.
But PI/PI is rational!
Yes. At least, they work a lot better than the others.

‘We discovered that there are purely chemical factors, based on higher polymerisation reactivity and fewer side reactions, that might have contributed to this selection process.’
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I mean, that's the obvious answer, but I recall reading a thing about why it wasn't actually that simple, how swapping out the tRNAs didn't actually have the effect you would expect. Like, obviously the anticodons match the codons, no problem there, but there was some complicated confusing thing about how the rest of the tRNA matched the amino acid. Trying to find it. Hoping someone knows what I'm talking about.
$5k is hardly a bargain when your insurer refuses to cover it. For some people, $5k is about the cost of replacing their car 10 times.
Each dot is placed randomly within each patient's county of residence.
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> If a database engine is implemented as a core system service, along with simple tools

Windows has it, though user-level tools are lacking. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/extensible-st...
It isn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genetic_codes

On the other hand, once a certain layer of functionality exists, and starts being used to build on top of, that layer will resist change, because any variation will throw off so many higher level processes it's unlikely to be viable.
Yeah. It's odd. We use Tornado for all our API/microservices at work and it's been a pleasure. More and more libraries are getting asyncio support as well and they integrate well with Tornado.
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No, and that's completely orthogonal to what I suggested! Congrats on breaking the HN guidelines... again.
America is really fucked if we can't curb the spread of disinformation by bad actors. Does anybody know if any there is any action being taken by politicians and lawmakers to work on a solution for this? It's becoming increasingly clear that total freedom of speech does not work in the modern world.
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I disagree, I have switched from Spotify premium (HQ) to Tidal uncompressed and have noticed a huge difference. I usually listen on a wired pair of Senheisser HD-25 ii’s. Its very frustrating for me that Spotify doesn’t support anything better than 320 MP3, it truly sounds muddy.
How would you use fp16 to get it to work on a single GPU? And if you did, what GPU should you use?
I don't believe this is correct. That function isn't defined at 0. While it does have a limit, continuity at a point c requires that the limit as x->c = f(c), which obviously isn't the case here.
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The card has a magnetic stripe, so they must have some solution to the magstripe number being stolen
Why would you want something open source? You’re running a closed source OS that prevents you from making things like this.
Does this keep you safe from USB killers?
A Fair point. I'd prefer if arguments run on their own logical merits rather than my credentials. That being said I have studied extensively the anthropology, history and origins of finance. I have also studied economics.
I have not studied advanced accounting, how to read a finance statement or tax law. I would say from this perspective I don't know finance but from other perspectives I know it well enough to comment on things finance guys just don't know about.

Also I never commented on "restarting finance." I said no such thing. I commented on high level issues that are obvious like over complexity.

That being said you can very well comment on aspects of medicine even though you aren't an expert. Medical costs and quality are out of control in the united states. Surely as a consumer of medicine you can comment on it even though you're not an expert. Would you leave all the "experts" to exclusively control the costs? Well doing so results in the broken medical system we have in the United States today. A three day hospital stay in the US costs 30,000k. Medical experts charge you this because they know the cost better. Is it logical to defer to them? No. Not being an expert on something does not preclude your judgement from being correct. You also have the advantage of not being as biased as the expert.
+1 for FastAPI. It also has really good documentation
I only knew it only as the source of SQL-like data dumps. And people told me that it was more than an OS with DB2 as the default database. But maybe they were wrong.
Have you fine tuned 774 successfully using a single GPU?
I'm also working on a project called "Dashboard" [1]. But I agree - while the name fits perfectly, it's way to generic to find it anywhere.

[1] https://github.com/darekkay/dashboard
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You can have hundreds of cancerous tumors in your body, each of which is far too small to biopsy. The same is roughly true for borreliosis. You are not making a cogent point here.
I have no trouble getting websites with good web performance to rank above AMP results. I like to think I have beaten them even when I'm slightly below them, because they trap their visitors in the AMP silo, while I am offering them a full site with probably better performance overall.

The only reason to offer AMP is to get into the news caroussel.
you're being pedantic

I don't think there's value to retributive justice
> Apple and their ecosystem aren't saints, and their position on right-to-repair policies is reprehensible, but neither is Android, which runs on a Linux kernel

Mac OSX is built upon FreeBSD with a custom kernel.
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You say all of these things, as a probably-not-100-year-old-human, about a genus of highly advanced shapeshifting spirochete bacteria that have spent the past (perhaps) 500 million years living in the bloodstreams and bodily tissues -- and evading the immune systems -- of billions of mammals and reptiles (and everything between) across the globe.

We only found out about these spirochetes in 1981. That's 38 years ago. You're probably older than that.

Yet you have cited precisely zero sources, arguing by shooting holes in straw men. For the love of <God>, and all that is holy, Sooheon: please base your opinions on evidence.
When I still lived in Scotland, I did everything day-to-day with either Apple Pay or (on busses, which somehow didn't support it) non-Apple Pay contactless.
that's what eugenicists and 1930's science said about black people. science believed that black people would never outperform white people due to genetic differences in leg structure back then
I’m not sure that this addresses your question directly, but the x86 MMU is turing complete.

http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/accidentally_turing_complet...
Very nice example.
Solar City could presumably sue the local installer if they're to blame, but it makes no difference to the customer who bought a product from Solar City.
The Prisoner’s Dilemma, by Freeman Dyson (2012)
People who used it characterized it that way.
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I'm almost going to graduate in HS and hopefully can either get picked up by YC or theil instead of going to college. Given the high chance I do go to college, I'll just be doing whatever I'd be doing at YC anyways.

I also thought about doing academia for a long time, but realized its just a sticker mark on your resume. Given that I graduate from undergrad, I'll hopefully get a good sticker doing masters.
The price of the pinephone is amazingly low when compared to similar efforts. I'm getting one for sure!
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Related question that I've had for a while. I have 25 years worth of family pictures, many of them taken at my childhood home. The house is no longer in the family, and I desperately want a photorealistic 3D model.

I don't have a walkthrough video, let alone different videos; and I believe reconstruction techniques like these work on such sparse inputs.

What's my best approach here? I have partial floorplans, I made a reasonable SketchUp model (I counted bricks in the pictures to get accurate measurements) but I'm nowhere near my goal, which would be having a complete, photorealistic 3D model I can drop load in Unreal or Unity and make a VR walkthrough (I can only imagine how that would blow my mum's mind!)

I've thought of outsourcing this, e.g. find a talented game environment artist or architectural modeller and pay them to do this, but I fear the result will be "off". I dream of the perfect algorithm that will do this.

Any ideas?
You want colors to be meaningful, diverse, and stable. You also want the color map to scale gracefully (both in semantics as well as in code). Hash some meaningful value (e.g. class) to hue in HSV, and then you have your color. For distance, bucket by meter and lerp the hash-HSVs of the nearest bucket edges. Hash to color is the most flexible colormap.
Can someone describe the NEGATIVE aspects of having a database-OS?
I know they did/do. But when they characterise it that way, are they just repeating IBM marketing assertions without challenging them?
More speech? Maybe the older generation that fled after Tiananmen need to fund something with clickbait and memes.
Sure, for anything to even exist there must be a certain level of complexity. I am not saying all the complexity is unnecessary, I am saying that it is OVER complex.

You also break complexity down into two different concepts which I agree probably exists but we don't have an axiomatic theory of the complexity of finance so there's really no way for anyone to say definitively what is reducible and what is irreducible. For example, Which is irreducible... communism or capitalism? None of this is properly defined.

But the OP's claim of necessarily complex is completely wrong.

The spectrum of under complexity and over complexity spans an entire gradient similar to a number line. While Necessarily complexity sits on a single zero dimensional point on that number line. Referencing this number line, By probability Overly complex and underly complex is infinitely more likely than necessarily complex.

Literally GE is using complexity of their accounting statements to hide fraud. That is a case of over complexity in the world of finance. That is not a necessity. You cannot get more definitive than this. That's why I was able to use such hard language because it's literally completely true.
>> It concerned the nature of so-called spiral nebulae and the size of the universe; Shapley believed that distant nebulae were relatively small and lay within the outskirts of Earth's home galaxy, while Curtis held that they were in fact independent galaxies, implying that they were exceedingly large and distant.

When I read the title I thought it was about tabs vs spaces!

I have stop my world revolving around programming all the time!
Why not to trade a multitude of "custom" database managers for a single well-designed distributed database manager?

It's not clear whether the author is arguing that all existing OS data structures should be replaced with a single database system, or if they simply want all OS data to be capable of being queried/updated via a standard database style interface.

The former is simply hubris ("I know the perfect data structure for EVERYTHING!") while the latter is pretty much implementable as an interface layer on top of an existing OS.
Even things like USB are kind of database like. It's kind of silly that we have so many adhoc databases with their own query APIs (and different between every OS)
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Its likely to be the application. You can write pretty nice Django or horrendously bad Django. It's MVC - essentially the same patten as Rails.
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There is also usbguard-applet-qt, which I have found very helpful to navigate around the options. It also pops up a permission screen as soon as a device is plugged in.
https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/turbo
> we had introduced Git repositories, Git usage grew an order of magnitude almost overnight

Not sure what you mean. There weren't any git repos before so yeah usage of git grew. Or do you mean global usage of git, including outside Bitbucket? I doubt it grew an order of magnitude.
No. They just need 5v and increase it until it is high enough to blow something.
I noticed the same.

I wonder when the pen knife changed from being a simple folding blade to the multitooled wonder we have today?

Also does it say something about generals and the military that the two missing/broken tools are the scissors and tooth pick?

Edit:
Apparently they have a longer history than I would have thought

"The Swiss Army Knife was not the first multi-use pocket knife. In 1851 in "Moby Dick" (chapter 107), Melville references the "Sheffield contrivances, assuming the exterior - though a little swelled - of a common pocket knife; but containing, not only blades of various sizes, but also screw-drivers, cork-screws, tweezers, awls, pens, rulers, nail-filers, countersinkers.""

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Army_knife
Likewise. TBH this has all been done with NewtonOS:
http://preserve.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.09/09.11/Ne...

It uses soup unions to manage removable storage, and worked really well for the 512k memory available.

These days I'd recommend an embedded SQLite database for program configuration and data - somewhat standard, easily recoverable, backups are easy, uniform access from a program's API etc.

Lastly, I'd say the ultimate OS would have a bit more than this surely - minimal formally verified TCB, Arrow datastructures, Managed (but not GC'd) memory, native scripting language that blurs the distinction between users and developers, fully scalable auto-generative but skinnable UI, just to name a few.

I guess the trick with all of this is a suitable language which forms the OS base (think LISP OSes, Micropython, Squeak, AOS, NewtonOS), you get that correct and the rest can be layered on top.
It's weird that we lag so far behind in some areas, even when we help develop the technology.
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> Of course, one should change their database infrequently and deliberately,

I think this attitude leads to a lot of crappy code. It's "safer" just to add a bit more to the application layer than to change the database, but do that enough times and you end up with a mess to compensate for a database design that doesn't model what it needs to. (Learned through experience).
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Maybe OpenSSD would be functional enough to use:

http://openssd.io

http://www.openssd-project.org/wiki/The_OpenSSD_Project
In large organisations is unrealistic to expect technical employees to be experts with every system in use. When I can’t log in, I call the Helpdesk instead of busting out ldapsearch. And when I’ve consulted someone and been recommended to use some solution, when it doesn’t work I contact them again to check if I understood them correctly, or if they Walter aware of my intended use-case and the solution actually is fit for purpose.

I feel like if your opinion has the caveat that it only works in orgs where it’s possible to skill up in everything then it’s probably only applicable to very small operations.
Hm, the Mercurial wiki does mention that's it was/is a problem on Windows.

I was surprised because we've been using it for years at work, sharing repositories between Linux and Windows, and we have never been bitten by this. Maybe the latin-1 subset of Unicode works? Or all the files we worked on just happened to have ASCII names (despite us being mostly non-Americans).
What would the times of the median runners look like? Median isn't the right word, but when you look at record times your looking at extreme outliers in a group that are already extreme outliers relative to most of humanity. If we snipped off these statistical outliers does the gap grow or shrink?
Do people care about the brand of their consumables?
Hi All,
Do you people care about the brand of your consumables like paper towel, toilet paper, etc? Would you use a service which auto delivers such stuff when you are almost? All you have to choose is Good/Better/Best and Small/Medium/Large. Nothing else.
Or do people really want to use Downy, 409, pledge, etc?
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I constantly max my 1GBps connection when downloading from Steam. I suspect they have a CDN node in my ISP's datacenter.
It would be great if you manbun faggots would not post paywalled articles.
Apparently Rails and Django are pretty similar. Rails has a bit more magic, and Django is a bit more explicit. (I have only really used Django but was close to choosing Rails and that's what a lot of articles said when I was researching).
According to the comments on the OP they tried to make a tool but couldn't make sure it would work in all cases for all repos, so they decided to not make a tool (and delete our repos instead). Such a disgrace.

The funny thing is that github has an import tool. Since we are forced to move to the industry standard of DVCS, I guess many will use this opportunity to move to the industry standard of platforms as well. For my use case Bitbucket is now inferior or equal in all respects.
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I never claimed to be one. My comment is directly relevant to the parent, so is on topic. Also, good job demonstrating courtesy with your dismissive tone.
> In other words a "copyright takedown request" isn't valid, unless the author was in violation of the copyright of somebody else while publishing those packages and this was decided in a court of law.

The DMCA process is law. Maven Central (like anyone else who hosts things) have to respond to valid takedown requests (which means taking down content long before any court case; even if a counter-notice is filed the content still has to be taken down temporarily) or else they'd become liable for infringement themselves. It's less common than on github or NPM, sure (which I suspect has more to do with the complexity of maven central's registration process than anything else), but it happens and any host on the scale of maven central needs a process in place for doing it.
In case the authors read HN:

In the case of Achromatopsia, the low and high ends are ambiguous. Since the condition affects 1 in 30,000 individuals (or 0.00003%), Turbo should be usable by 99.997% of the population.

1 in 30,000 is 0.003%, not 0.00003%.
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That's a good point. And as you say, it's hard to know with closed-source stuff.
A lot of the time, you’d just be wasting the developers time. In finance the research quants are going to have to test and explore dozens of ideas before even one is suitable enough to actually deploy in production. It doesn’t make sense for the quant and developer to work closely together in C++ or whatever when there’s a high likelihood that the trading idea doesn’t work in the first place.

Also, the quant often isn’t good enough at computer science to actually develop a production system himself. And even if he was good enough, it isn’t his comparative advantage so he probably should be focusing on research.
It was very slow and resource hungry, and also very time consuming to develop things on. Imagine if you were only allowed to write or run applications that ran on top of Oracle. Even if you try to write a program that works on text files, those text files are stored as blobs in an Oracle database.
That's the beauty of the relational model, it doesn't specify data structures. Those can be added later by indexes.

For more info check https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2364452_Data_Struct...
Sounds like the expected (and intended, and most importantly efficient) outcome. Why is this news?