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Financial Advisor Predicts Boom for Bitcoin If Trump Cuts Interest Rates
President of the USA, Donald Trump, recently took to Twitter demanding another cut in interest rates; in fact, he called for interest rates to drop to zero or below. For Dan Tapiero, of DTAP Capital, the "debasement of the dollar," as he calls it, would potentially be a boom Bitcoin and other assets, such as gold.

The reason for Trump calling on the reserve to make such a move is to drive economic activity hopefully. However, it will also lead to people earning no interest for storing money in the safety of banks, or even worse, have to pay to store their cash.

If this is the case, there will be little benefit or enticement to store wealth in a bank, and people looking to gain benefits from their savings will potentially look elsewhere, and Bitcoin is becoming a popular choice in today's modernizing and uncertain world.

Read full post. https://news.u.today/news/financial-advisor-predicts-boom-for-bitcoin-if-trump-cuts-interest-rates
Totally agree. most new grads don't have anything better to show than their diploma and their grades. But some do. Many have open source projects or contributions, some have worked summer programming jobs, some may have even started startups.

All of that is better than just schoolwork.

And if you're still being asked where you graduated from 5+ years into your career ... something might be wrong. Have you really nothing better to show?
“Tieless Andrew Yang” – Body Language Expert Dissects Presidential Debate
The cost of medical equipment in the US often has very little to do with the BOM costs (Bill of Materials, the cost of the parts required to manufacture the product). Medical equipment providers have massive and onerous regulatory burdens on top of certification requirements. Even a relatively simple product an cost tens of millions of dollars to bring to market after design and engineering is completely done.

This is one of the key problems with the US healthcare system and why talk of this or that insurance scheme (regardless of content) is absolutely ridiculous.

To use a parallel, it's like talking about selling a $10 burger for less without changing the underlying cost structure that causes a burger to have to be sold for $10.

Anyone who proposes a "new and improved" insurance scheme betrays an utter lack of understanding of the most fundamental of concepts: If you don't do a thing about baseline costs there is no insurance-based solution that can ever "fix" the problem.

This means taking a very hard look at the cost (in time and money) of the regulatory burden as well as the other element of that cost structure: Tort reform. Both of those factors increase the cost of absolutely everything even remotely related to the medical industry. Fix that first and then medical insurance will magically become cheaper and better.
Brutal. Accurately brutal.
Given parents’ instincts and vested interest to support their children in any way they can, it’s inevitable. The only solution I can see is keep improving access to education and stable home lives for the others to ensure they don’t fall further and further behind
I can't stand weak types, so I prefer Ruby even if it is a little longer. Thanks for pointing this out.
Same when I moved back to New Zealand after years in Canada. The first trip to the fruit and vege store I went overboard...
I always try to give my essays horror-movie-style conclusions, which creepily undermine everything that went before.
The problem is how to measure that skill. For example, I've known very skilled individuals who switched over to my industry later in life. They neither had past experience, nor strong technical abilities when I first met them. But what they did bring to the table was the ability to learn quickly, and after investing in them, they were capable of delivering fantastic results. Furthermore, even early on, they brought their experiences from other industries with them, breaking up the group think that would have formed without them.

Some companies believe the most skilled people are the ones who have demonstrated certain technical abilities. Under this form of meritocracy, the companies delude themselves into thinking they've hired the most skilled people, but they haven't.

The inclusive meritocracy in the article solves that problem by expanding the definition of skilled, and by investing in a more diverse group of individuals. This results in more (in number) skilled people at the end of the investment.
Produce is sold by weight, and bought by appearance but neither nutritional content nor taste.
Wow way to add insult to injury, couldn't even spare a simple band-aid...
Same thing happened to me in the south of Bulgaria, just shopping at regular grocery stores. I couldn't figure out why the tomatoes tasted amazing.

It's like I'd been eating tomato-flavored potatoes all my life until that moment, and now trying a real tomato for the first time.
It's not out yet, the release date is April 24, 2020.
When only the top n% are allowed to "win" a seat at the table that comes with the implicit assumption that there isn't enough to go around. That might be ok when you "win" a fancier car or nicer clothes, not when you "win" the right to child care and medicine. And yet here we are.
Jesus Christ how did I miss that?

I’ll own that mistake and leave my original comment up unedited as a testimony to my unobservant off the cuff commentary.
It varies. The trucks tear up the slow lane pretty quickly but they're doing some repaving lately. In between LA and the grapevine, if my memory serves, it's pretty shitty, but they're doing a lot of construction through Santa Clarita/Valencia so maybe I'm just remembering that.
> And if you're still being asked where you graduated from 5+ years into your career ... something might be wrong. Have you really nothing better to show?

Sometimes, the fact that someone didn't go to a top-name school limited their choices. If they went to local state school far from Silicon Valley, and they didn't have money to move to the Silicon Valley right away, they may have worked at small, non-engineering-focused companies. So yeah, maybe they're really capable, but 5+ years into their careers, they haven't had the chance to demonstrate it yet.
In India, Subhash Palekar is a name you often hear these days. He was awarded fourth highest civilian award the Padma Shri in 2016. He is a proponent of Zero Budget Natural Farming- (which some agri bodies have claimed does not work as the claims would indicate).

A few links, if interested.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhash_Palekar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanobu_Fukuoka

http://www.palekarzerobudgetspiritualfarming.org/home.aspx
MP is like Uber and Lyft: a magical unicorn business model that consumers thought they could get something for nothing, e.g., it was never sustainable.
Note that this is mostly about saturated fat sources versus polyunsaturated fats. These polyunsaturated fats were all high in omega 6, which is widely regarded as less heart healthy than omega 3 oils or monounsaturated fats such as olive oil, avocado oil, or high oleic sunflower oil. Equivocating the results here as plant fats versus animal fats misses most of the nuance.
Stallman dragged in the Epstein s*tstorm
> IMHO, the core series focused too heavily on maximizing the experience for esports

I would argue that they bifurcated into "optimized for esports" and "optimized for whale revenue".

I have played quite a few RTS-like games on mobile which were cool and neat and it was fun to optimize for not spending money. Of course, when whales get beat by players with skill, the whales get angry. So, the games optimize out skill except at the pro levels--which very quickly makes for a really crappy game experience for the rank and file.

> And still, Dawn of War, Company of Heroes, Supreme Commander, Planetary Annihilation et al were not so long ago.

Planetary Annihilation is an abomination that does not belong in that list. And PA is a prime example of trying to optimize for e-sports and forgetting that you need a decent game at the core.
Exactly, didn't Arm add support for Large Physical Address Extension (LPAE) back in the v7 days?
> The best is defined as the optimum person to complete the required task.

What about long-term potential? Someone may solve the current task well, but will they grow in skill in order to take on larger challenges? Someone who can grow in this way may be better to keep on the same project because they will also have historical context while scaling with the project.

> The "best" is found by measuring his aptitude (tests, etc.).

Measurements for "aptitude", especially tests, are easily gamed and don't in any way guarantee actual competency.
You’d seriously invest in it at a 30B valuation?
Ask HN: What are you doing with your Raspberry Pi?
Ask HN: In general, prefer your abstractions vs. runtime ones ASAP?
I’ve been working on an http server in C as a side project, and while studying the code bases of other C projects, I’ve noticed that there is a tendency to start programming in terms of the project’s own abstractions (structs, functions) at the lowest levels, or “as soon a possible”; e.g., to use a custom file descriptor structs, custom versions of read(2) and write(2) or equivalent “enhanced” functions. What I mean is that I see for example the native FILE or bind/listen/accept once, but then they are either always wrapped or remain encapsulated at a lowest implementation layer.

The way I see it, this effectively maximizes the proportion of your code that speaks in your own abstractions, which certainly makes coding easier (working in your vernacular, so to speak).

Is this intentional, and is there a principle or pattern being applied? For reference, I’ve been looking at ngnix, libuv, livevent, redis and SQLite, the latter two a while back so they may not follow my description.
StarControl II remake: The Ur-Quan Masters
They were using high-resource nodes and made the mistake of shifting to low-resource nodes for fine-grained control over the total amount of resources provisioned -- i.e. a single 96-unit node vs 96 1-unit nodes. That was a problem because the low-resource nodes were much less efficient at processing the actual load; a portion of the resources for each node were allocated to k8s system processes, but also any idle pod consumed a higher proportion of the node's resources to do nothing. As a result the autoscaling functions provisioned even more resources than they were using with the high-resource nodes. The solution was to use medium-resource nodes that offered somewhat granular control but made efficient use of the available resources.
Paper Review. Gray Failure: The Achilles' Heel of Cloud-Scale Systems
You seen to either get games where the multiplayer scene is non-existent, or hyper competitive like SC2, where you feel a bit brutalized.

One reason I think I was drawn to the warcraft/starcraft custom games when I was younger was that it just seemed too much effort (and kind of tedious) to get "good" at the main game. Goofing about with strange maps seemed more attractive.
What do sociologists, spiritualists, and LSD users have in common? They love sharing viewpoints that, in essence, boil down to a critique of the Law of Identity. All is one man. Classic logic principles have been so deeply embedded in our culture and everything we do for so long, it's sort of like poking at the keystone of Western Civilization, while coming across sounding to many folks as an enlightened nuanced perspective.
>Do current patent laws and regulations regarding inventorship need to be revised to take into account inventions where an entity or entities other than a natural person contributed to the conception of an invention

Well, this seems a little dangerous. I would argue that any invention or innovation generated by an AI should be made public domain.

As we rapidly approach the possibility of genuine AI, the gap between the haves and have nots will increasingly be defined not by accumulation of capital but by accumulation and control of information. If the explosion of technical progress we've seen in ML recently continues, it's quite likely that future designs and breakthroughs will eventually come from neural nets themselves - and if we define these innovations as IP and afford the usual legal protections to the nets that generated them, as the question seems to imply ("other than natural persons"), then I imagine by proxy the ultimate owner of the patent is the owner of the net. Which forms the foundation of a dystopia defined by unprecedented "wealth" inequality where one or a handful of first movers become irreversibly entrenched as the gap between AI powered innovation and human powered innovation will widen exponentially once that door is unlocked.

I think much of the progress in the ML explosion is owed to the beauty of open source and open access publishing on arxiv, and I can't help but feel like getting neural network designs mixed up with patent law would stymie the iterative collaboration that defines ML research.
The "perfect storm" includes the fact that CO2 levels are higher today than in 1914.
https://twitter.com/AndrewYangsTie via https://www.newyorker.com/news/current/democratic-debate-201...
Read and fully implement Getting Things Done by David Allen. It’ll free up your mind even more.
Everything in SC2 is about the RUSH. Turtlers are not welcome.

I put SC2 down and never picked it back up after playing the third timed mission in a row.

Supreme Commander dealt with this by having genuinely large maps and resource flow rather than a fixed amount of resources. If you tried to "rush" someone or go after their resources, you generally ran into units a level higher and got annhilated.
One very important thing to know about the 0.05 threshold, and which I did not found in this thread, is that the ideal p-value for a problem is a function of the number of samples (and the effect size but it as a lesser impact).

0.05 is way to stringent if you have 10 samples and way too lenient if you have 1 million samples.

But, by force of convention, everyone is using 0.05 (a value suggested by Fischer when basically all datasets were small) independently of their sample size and in a world were we are sometimes reaching dataset size that would have been inconceivable when the threshold was suggested.

Here is a good article to start to think about how one would select a p-value for an experiment :
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
> tests, are easily gamed and don't in any way guarantee actual competency.

Dude...
I just read the whole thing quickly and while I cannot vouch for the data and reporting, the article seems to go wider than just that, including raising doubts against the cholesterol theories.
Normally I’d agree with you, but given this is all about verification it might make sense to distribute both trust as well as usage.
Tesla Has a Software Business and It's Big
I did with a hackRF and use it in our production line to test the GPS modules of our PCBs.

Project link
https://github.com/osqzss/gps-sdr-sim
In the 1980's I learnt to program on a Commodore 64 with one of Usborne's many computer books (see at the bottom of the page on [1]). Julia's zines remind me of a similar aesthetic and I hope she is also successful at inspiring the next generation of software developers!

[1] https://usborne.com/browse-books/features/computer-and-codin...
Oh, boo hoo. Quarterly profit of some 9.8 billion. My heart bleeds.

Maybe some of that can come back to the python community and an investment in open source tooling? Yeah right.
> It's really concerning that the whole point of an EV certificate is to contain reliable information yet with a little work I was able to find huge amounts of problems.

Certificate issuers will fix this problem by making it much difficult to find these issues.
Someone close to me had a rare stroke (intercerebral hemorrhagic stroke) and Medicare part A and B are covering 60 days of full inpatient stay at a state of the art ICU. I guess things aren't so bad for Americans over 65 on Medicare.

Good luck to your dad, wishing him a speedy recovery as I also sit next to my loved one also on a ventilator and in a medically induced coma as their brain recovers from the large hematoma left behind from the stroke.

Being in a situation like this really makes me come to terms with my own mortality and how short life truly is in the grand scheme of things. I think I'm going to start volunteering to help those in need and donate my time and professional skillset to nonprofits as a result. Good luck with everything friend.
Sleeper buses are huge in India. The railways are choked because they are run by the government. For overnight travels outside your city, sleeper buses are the most convenient options for the vast majority of the people - cheaper than flight, and more accesible/cleaner than the train.

There are multiple private operators which provide this service. Personally, I dont have too hard a time sleeping in one. It also offers more privacy than a typical sitting bus or if you are a couple you can book two beds.

There have been a couple of accidents though and people have died. Not too sure if the accident rate is more than normal sitting buses - sleeper buses arent perceived more 'risky' in India as compared to the siting ones.
This is a good reason to eat organic food.

The overall strength of evidence is good or moderate that, for many parameters, organic produce is superior to conventional produce.[1]

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/16546628.2017.1...
Most infrastructure folks love to talk about the expensive costs that occur from incidents like fires, the lazy infra engineers who don't do anything, hurricane shut down my data center, etc.

Devs like to focus on costs related to lost time. This is a pretty common trend and not really sure why you think that there's anything pathological about k8s. Maybe there's something pathological about infra folks in general and dev folks.
When I visit the site I get this "Our European visitors are important to us. This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance with applicable EU laws."

I'm not even in Europe!
> Others think it means making developers do DBA / SysAdmin work.

I've been in that spot many times. In my last job, I did engineering (networking, server, etc) / support for 7 data centers. We started to support of 3rd party "cloud" products, and then they dropped the DCs they gave me the title of DevOps Engineer IV. When they did that, I didn't have any Dev or Ops responsibilities.
How about disable JS/Cookies for Medium?
"Agile" is just an instance of "agile" which is an abstract concept. Hence you can't actually do "agile". Therefore every form of agile you see is "Agile" and they're quote "doing agile wrong".

Read the manifesto. It literally says handful of almost completely meaningless, unimplementable things.

Any attempt to actually take that and turn it into something is destined to be sharply divorced from reality.

But the real fun comes when you do "white water rafting" style development. This is when there is all the ceremony of "Agile" (read: a "fast paced environment") with all the planning of waterfall and absolutely everything is top priority. You and your coworkers are constantly thrown around trying not to smash into rocks or capsize the boat, meanwhile being pulled violent in every direction. Somehow you continue to make your way down the river eventually with fewer and fewer co-workers as she casualties mount.

Fun times.

The actual methodology is completely irrelevant. Working under terrible management is terrible. Working under terrific management is terrific.
Choosing the right size for nodes comes up often enough that I blogged some rough guidelines last year: http://cpitman.github.io/openshift/2018/03/21/sizing-openshi...
RMS has called himself "borderline autistic". I don't disagree. His socially clueless black and white thinking makes it look like he is far in the spectrum. On the other hand it's also his superpower. He does not care about social norms.

RMS is anal about meanings of terms and their use. That's not working well in the current climate where words carry perceived intent. I find myself agreeing with RMS with most of the terminology and it's use in this case.

On the other hand other discussions reveal that RMS has very bad understanding of developmental psychology, sexuality etc. and tries to to figure it out using reasoning which does not work when his model is broken.

The lesson:

If you are figurehead of some big cause, never talk aloud publicly about controversial subjects outside your field. Being a good figurehead means presenting a role to the public. All the stupid and loose talk paints the whole cause.
GE GEnx-1B 3D Printed B787 Jet Engine Model with Thrust Reverser
In particle physics there is the concept of "look elsewhere" effect, precisely to take into account that if you look for a signal, for example of a particle of any mass in some range, there is the possibility that just by chance you find some statistical deviation at some mass value.

It is very different to confirm a prediction (i.e. to look for a particle with a precisely predicted mass), than to fish for some unexpected signal in your data.

In some cases Economics could do the same: Looking for an effect in any age range could be post-processed to take into account that you are looking into many age groups.
It depends. If that beefy machine dies, needs reboot, or the kernel can't scale up to server all these containers?

But mostly if it dies...
Having a degree in computer science does mean you know more about computer science than others.
Were the transfers right before? The article mentions a transfer in 2009.
The brain remains slowed for several days after the high wears off.
They were talking about their special suspended cabins, which there are only a few of on each bus. The regular cabins are not as smooth.
In a sense, though, I think this is exactly the point of the article: when this study was run, we didn't know about omega-N fatty acid profiles of fats. So things that seemed "obvious" didn't pan out in RCTs like this one.

Today, most of the RCTs about things like omega-3 fatty acids show no effect. Why?

My guess at the root cause is a bit of scientific reductionism mixed with overgeneralization. Omega-3 fatty acids are a great example, and often it looks like this:

1. Shockingly healthy population X has a diet rich in foods A, B, and C. What do A, B, and C have in common? Perhaps it's some micronutrient in abundance (like omega-3 in high-fat fish-eating cultures). Logically, the cause might be that micronutrient!

2. Early observational studies that happen to pass publication thresholds show promising connections. People who eat salmon -- high in Omega-3 -- are healthier! They have lower triglycerides, or cholesterol, or whatever.

3. RCTs show no positive effect from supplementing omega-3 fatty acids.

What happens between 2 and 3? Observational studies can't really isolate the effect of a single micronutrient, because there are a ton of interactions happening. Probably one of those other interactions is also necessary, but we don't know what it is -- much like how "plant fats" vs "animal fats" misses a ton of nuance.

I'm not really sure what we can do about this, though, except stop getting excited in phase 2?
Ss1020
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/ss1020; my proof: https://keybase.io/ss1020/sigs/ui8bDYKk4mUtFGmp1EsA0XHhb1NxKbXqT1Bjza8wpI0 ]
Lenovo crams unremovable crapware into laptops by hiding it in the BIOS (2015)
https://www.offst.org : A decentralized credit card.

Still missing a reasonable GUI though.
What I really liked about Rust in this project is the peace of mind it gives about safety, the performance, async features and the powerful procedural macros.
> - Auto-generation of OpenAPI schemas from those models

Is there a package that can do a reverse? Can I give it an OpenAPI spec and get a code stump going?
The idle pots are so that your cloud provider maxes out its profit.