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> Can anyone explain what "blockchain" brings to the table here compared to traditional banking? If you want to distribute money to everyone, you want to verify real-world identities, which seems like the exact opposite of the typical use case blockchain is paraded around for.

Private, permissioned "blockchain"-like technologies (the kind being discussed in the enterprise market) would give you exactly the type of identity solution you need.

A shared inter-bank ledger that individuals could register accounts with, which also incotporates the appropriate level of privacy and authorization, would enable seamless verification and transfer activities at scale.
I think unreal engine’s pricing model is more suitable for me as an individual developer.
Awesome and probably my favourite example of kinetic typography...

Can I ask how much one could hope to earn from such a project?

First I thought... $5000 on the low-end, as an after-hours hobby project for beer money, beats burger flipping.

Then I thought, well, this is equivalent to a one-time three-months full-time highly specialised consulting gig, has an audience of 50 million people, probably a highly integral part of the success of Al's song, included some subcontracting (to his brother), not a lot of people can do this... so this gotta be worth at least $50k (coming to $100/hour which again, seems just about right or again on the low-end for something like this).

He clearly massively overdelivered, I mean you can watch this thing frame by frame a dozen times and still discover tiny little details and jokes he included in the graphics, that's insane (in an awesome way) and you probably can't expect anyone to do that in a project spec up-front.

But then again, he's not doing this full-time, he's not a specialised business with a dozen GFX artists and if you'd quote $50k on this to a major corporation, they'd probably outsource it to a guy overseas (...) who'd be happy to try his luck for a thousand bucks or so.

What do you think? I'm just curious.
Not really. The sentence with the King was used to mean that the new King immediately got into function.

> Le Roi (Louis ##) est mort. Vive le Roi (Louis ## + 1) !

Using the sentence with Deep Learning and Differential Learning just suggests that Differential Learning is the heir/successor/evolution of Deep Learning. It does not imply that they are the same thing.

As a French person used to the saying, Le Cun probably meant that.
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And that characteristic is the ability to sweat. That's what made the human species "stand out from the crowd" and be able to outrun the prey.
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I installed webex recently and was also surprised because I didn't even sign in to webex, I just ran it as "guest" and it still pulled across my calendar from outlook somehow.
Why would it be any harder to have this tooling support in Rust (if this becomes popular)?
Would you rather optimize for people succeeding or optimize for people not failing? They are not the same thing.
Nim is maybe the best alternative right now next to Julia, still think there may be a better numeric language yet to show up
I am very curious about this ideology.

The whole world seems to see indelibility of data as a problem in this context. Yet immutability is seen as a generally good thing for a lot of other software cases. Further we cannot manipulate past events and there even is something about repeating history when you don’t know it.

So why would we really want to delete past data? From this standpoint wouldn’t deleting data be similar to trying to cover up the past? Sure we might also try to label it “humankind’s childish try to assert itself over the unstoppable arrow of time” but that is just too Freudian to me.

Is there some big idea I’m missing that explains the favoring of the “mutable past” view?
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https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Myst_series

https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=User_Manual/Quick_S...
> If you have never used Jupyter notebooks instead of an IDE, give it a try for a few weeks. It was the biggest boost I've seen to my coding productivity in literally decades

Really? I seem to shoot myself in the foot a lot with jupyter notebook. I can't count the number of times my snippet was not working and it was because I was reusing some variable name from some other cell that no longer exists. The amount of bugs I get in a notebook is ridiculous. Of course, I'm probably using it wrong
This is actually the root of my italicized "may"; I've seen Tramp do surprising miracles in terms of working remotely with things like this, but I've also seen other things not work because of the various complexities involved. It's at least worth a try, but I've never actually learned elisp to speak of so I have no idea how hard it would be to fix any issues you may find.
Isn't Swift an Apple 'invention'? Surprised Google is going for such a 'niche' language ...

This reminds me of the initial 'Dart' hype and promises.
That sounds like an over-generalization to me, though.
New Zealand isn’t just flattening the curve. It’s squashing it
Perhaps it could be this: if my value comes from running some crazy interesting high level
Math derived machine learning model on data and I’m highly paid the opportunity cost to invest the time and effort to both become good at and write C++ is higher than if I can do the same thing in a few lines of python and just throw some more compute at the problem since that’s a fixed cost.
What's the correct way to say 'R0 with social distancing?'

That is to say, R0 in a hypothetical place that was always practicing social distancing?

Because as I understand it, R0 is used to calculate herd immunity, but a lot of people are curious about what the herd immunity numbers would look like if we continued to take measures such as 6ft/2m distancing and wearing masks (efficacy debated, I know) and face shields.
15$ is a bit too much to ask for
The "startup" phase of private industry has flourished by unprecedented amounts of VC over the past 5+ years. VC, in turn, has been backed by record PE levels and exits.

Does anyone think these $ highs are coming back in the next 2-3 years, minimum, maybe 5+ ?

Full circle, startup capitalization has peaked
This concept of an economy as some sort of Platonic ideal, disconnected from the processes of the polity in which it exists, is very odd to me.

It seems like having your heart stop and saying it isn't a "real" emergency, because the organs are all still there and ready to get back to work as soon as oxygenated blood starts arriving again. Sure, that's true for a minute or so, maybe two if you're young and healthy. After that...
They maybe do not speak a perfect English but know it enough to read docs, blogs etc.

France has an obsession about its language (which is wonderful) and believes that the whole world should adapt (which is dumb in tech). You should attend some union meetings where all docs are expected to be in French "because that's the law". The reality of the world is not a concern of theirs.

Source: I am French, work in tech and see how much this illusion of "everything in French" hurts us.
If you do not speak English then either learn, or work outside dev.
Just because the cause of a crisis wasn’t financial, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t trigger a financial crisis. Financial systems are not impervious to medical disasters just because they aren’t financial in nature.
I've been running multiple deployments of it on Azure, on VMs with as low as 1 core/2 GB. I literally set it up every few days from scratch using https://github.com/rcarmo/azure-ubuntu-jitsi

For my use case (around 10-15 friends, for informal meet-ups) it has worked spectacularly well.
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This is doubly strange because “recounting dreams” is, in modern society, a pretty surefire way to bore other people. But it may be that when you live this kind of pre-modern life you don’t have all the random coins of so much life, media, and other humans around you, so the most reliable source of surprising material is dreams.
isn't the loan forgiven if it's spent on payroll during the shelter-in-place orders?
https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/

If you want a more grid based layout.

You can then use flexbox within your grid to place columns/rows
Even worse, macOS is tied to hardware years, so even though I've got 3 working Macintoshes here, only 1 of them can run the current version of Swift (and just barely). My quad-Xeon can't run the latest minor upgrade, even though the compiler is faster than the previous one.

I'm sick of this pointless and never-ending upgrade cycle. I started a new project this week, and it's in Clojure. I find it a much more productive language, and I'm confident I can run it on nearly any computer from the past 20 years.

(This is probably not my most productive comment ever, but I'm pretty frustrated right now with having chosen Swift in the past.)
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> The purpose of taxation isn't to fund government operations, its to maintain demand for dollars.

Yes, taxation is one of the ways to create demand for an otherwise worthless fiat currency. So are legal tender laws. This still does not explain your assertion that the government destroys dollars through taxation.
Previous discussions in 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5134023
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> Java went three years, from December 1998 to February 2002

Oh hell no.

Sun was widely criticized for that boneheaded move, and for the whiplash everyone experienced in Java 5 when they changed that policy too fast.

The mass of changes in 5 left a lot of tools and thus people stuck in 1.4 for years. I started on a project a bit before 6 came out. It was processing data and I couldn’t use the collections API, because it had to run on an embedded system and Aicas was taking their sweet time catching up with all those changes. Four years later I was still using arrays for everything.
> have to use in-process parallelism for some weird reason

Needing shared memory paralellism is a weird reason now? Pretty much any parallel algorithm that's not embarassingly parallel is going to perform better with threads able to share memory than with message passing between processes.
They fled religious persecution. They and the people they associated with were treated like crap by the Tsars and then the Bolsheviks showed up and cranked it to 11. I think that fear of persecution was the real motivator that kept them from going back. I think it's easy to see where the expectation that "If we show back up after years they will instantly take our kids and throw us in jail" comes from.
there is no way that's happening, outside of silicon valley practically no one is using Go, there are millions Java developers who are quite content with language...
You should look at statistics about how many countries are rising out of desperate poverty and joining the rich world. It's gotten so good that we've forgotten what desperate poverty even looks like.
What's to look up?

Firefox studies was called project Shield before.

Disable studies and it's gone.
Does that really matter that not many people use it? Apple's carve-out of Objective C from the broader C ecosystem spanned something like 25 years.

Sure, the 90's were a rough period for them, but I think a series of failed OS strategies and technical debt are more responsible for that than just what language they used.

You could argue that their ambitions re Swift scaling from scripting all the way to writing an entire OS might never grow substantially outside Apple, but there's also the teaching aspect to think about.

"Objective C without C" removes a whole class of problems people have in just getting code to run, and I'll bet it shapes their mind in how they think about what to be concerned about in their code v what's just noise.
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Should I then be worried about the "pet grooming service" van that I see in my neighborhood now and then? Seems improbable.
In fairness to the poster, this is the refrain you’d hear from many CNBC hosts all day, political appointees, etc. I’m old enough to remember the same positivity as the financial crisis unfolded, so I try to remind myself that public officials have no incentive to tell the public “the economy is going to be fubar till 2020. Hang on folks.”
6.61 million new unemployment filings last week bringing the total to over 16.6 million.
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Hum... No they didn't. People were creating new languages by that time just to reimplement them correctly.
Well, back in those days, styling choices could be incredibly limited (depending on whether you were using a green screen vs gui), especially if the word processor's output was limited to a daisy wheel printer.

I think the vast number of styling and formatting options these days can easily distract writers from... writing, which is probably why Markdown and focused writing tools have become so popular.
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Back in the day, I had a mobile writing rig consisting of a Handspring Visor PDA, the wonderful Stowaway Keyboard (see http://danbricklin.com/log/stowaway.htm), a word processing app called Wordsmith (http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/2182/review-wordsmith-20/), and a modem that plugged into the Visor’s Springboard expansion slot.

It was great! The whole package fit in a couple pockets, you could turn it on and be typing practically instantly, and the modem made it easy to transfer your work (and also let the setup do double duty as an e-mail terminal). You could print from it wirelessly to any printer that had an IrDA (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_Data_Association) port. And the whole thing ran for ages on a couple of AA batteries, which were cheap and universally available when you needed to replace them. The only downside was the Visor’s low-res monochrome display, but for writing that wasn’t too serious a limitation. I still miss that rig.

The AlphaSmart products seemed like an attempt to bundle this kind of cobbled-together DIY rig into a single product with everything included in one box. I never had the chance to use them, but I was disappointed they never seemed to find an audience.
Banks really aren’t the focus this time around: the changes since 2008 were quite effective in bringing down risks. The bank-specific measures now aren’t aimed at stabilizing them, but at using them to, for example, use their existing personal knowledge of smaller businesses to direct funding.

Nor would I worry too much about Fortune 500 companies. Their scale makes any graft less meaningful, in relative terms. And since most support seems to be in the form of loans, it’s likely that most of it will be recovered. Boeing just isn’t going to go bankrupt.

The current administration seems to be filled with a specific sort of serial fraudopreneur. Like Saul Goodman, gut without the humor and remnants of decency. With oversight already gutted, I’d expect recently-founded LLCs with beneficiaries that just happen to be endangered-wildlife-shooting-buddies of anyone with a secret service pin the main artery of funneling money. I other as loans quickly spent before the company folds. Or, more directly, by being middlemen suddenly required to do business with the government, earning a 400% markup.

Remember that 3-person electrician outfit from the Interior Secretary’s home town in Montana that somehow got a no-bid contract to rebuild Puerto Rico’s entire grid after the hurricane? That’s this admin’s world.
how do you get formatting to work in hn?
Still use my old Newton eMate as a distraction-free writing device.

The keyboard is great, NewtonWorks is a capable word processor, the battery life is amazing and it makes cute beep boop noises when you touch the screen. Plus it looks like something David Cronenberg would design.

I've occasionally thought about modding it to house a rPi, but it would be sacrilege to gut something like that when it still works.

Incidentally, if anyone has a broken eMate knocking around I'd be very interested.
Avoiding rust atm myself. Just seems too clever for its own good.
I’m not sure how serious you are, but that gate-keeping formulation (that another community is “leaking”) is just about the most Reddit-esque thing you could say.
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All just proposals, showing interest, hope, guesses.
Hi!
Php, laravel, rest apis, machine learning, git, java, python.

And yes, marketing and business development is a huge part.

Trying a new marketing technique and the technical co founder should be very good at tracking user’s behaviour to promote sales.

Let’s connect if you are interested or recommend someone?

Cheers, stay safe!
> Using the sentence with Deep Learning and Differential Learning just shows how Differential Learning is an evolution. It does not imply that they are the same thing.

... where did I imply it means they're the same thing?

From my comment:

> indicate it’s not a totally new thing but a significant shift in how it’s done

You could say, an evolution?

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A snowclone is a statement in a certain form. The relevant form that English speakers use (I'm not a French person, and this is an English article) is "X is dead, long live X", where both are X.

That's where the "joking" the above comment is referring to comes from, it sounds "nonsensical" if you take it literally.

If you change one X to Y, suddenly there's no tongue-in-cheek aspect, you're just saying "that thing sucks, this is the new hotness".

I suspect the author just missed that nuance or got caught up in their excitement, but the whole point of a snowclone is it has a formula, and by customizing the variable parts of that formula, you add a new subtle meaning or tint to the statement.
In the parlance of the Rust developers, a "feature" is often just the addition of a single function to the standard library. The only remotely paradigm-shifting feature to be added since 1.0 was async/await; the other things mentioned in the blog post are minor QOL nice-to-haves.
I don't know if I'd qualify the addition of Generics as a "minor change"
Surviving in the wilderness for prolonged time is really, really hard. Even more so in a cold place like Siberia. Shows like Bear Grills are fun entertainment, but have little to do with actual survival. The show 'Alone' paints a more realistic picture: most contestants are airlifted because of medical reasons, and the winners end up emanciated in less than 3 months. And bear in mind that these are trained survivalists.

EDIT
Also reminds me of the story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier that hid in the Phillipine jungle for 30 years after WWII, not knowing Japan had surrendered.
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Hi! Php, laravel, rest apis, machine learning, git, java, python.
And yes, marketing and business development is a huge part.
Trying a new marketing technique and the technical co founder should be very good at tracking user’s behaviour to promote sales.
Let’s connect if you are interested or recommend someone?
Cheers, stay safe!
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"There's so much optimism around a quick recovery, but we've also gotten really bad at using poor KPIs (like the stock market) to judge economic performance." = fully agreed, and further wondering: what KPIs would you use?
Not sure if this plug is welcome here, but I'm seeing some comments suggesting that people are looking for this sort of thing:

If anyone is looking for a practical, distraction-free typing environment, check out my freemium app called Cold Turkey Writer: https://getcoldturkey.com/writer/

Writer locks you into the app for a certain amount of time or until you type a certain number of words.

It's free, but the pro version also lets you disable the backspace/delete key, arrow keys, selecting text, etc...

I hope it helps someone here!
I'll admit as a web dev I sometimes take some of the "omg JavaScript" a little personally. Some of the usual pile on articles (granted their complaints aren't technically 'wrong') sometimes imply the browser is a bad place for a lot of things that are happening there privacy wise and etc.

I always wonder ... "Uh, do you want platform specific desktop apps? You're not much better protected there man... and app availability becomes limited / a pain."
Very true. WordStar gave me headings, bullets, bold, italic, etc. But not much more. Kept my focus on the words.
I was thinking more in line with the actual ODM: https://aliexpress.com/item/32955679364.html

But it does indeed not matter, paying 50 or 100 more over 5 years is a rather small amount.
You know, at this point, I probably would. But I'm a depressed person about to graduate into the middle of what looks an awful lot like the end of the world as we know it, so...
Well of course but Javascript is in unique position to do those kind of things, other languages have to be careful not to alienate its communities.
Parent presumably means if the person in the moderator position ignores new cases.

To which it seems like a fair response would rely more on free speech perspectives.

Essentially, can it be said that the majority of the platform is used for illegal activities? Or are the illegal activities a minority of some other, lawful activities?

I'd want a system where Reddit is in the clear, but CreditCardSkimmersChat is not.
> So why would we really want to delete past data? From this standpoint wouldn’t deleting data be similar to trying to cover up the past?

This assumes that data is always true and accurate, which is not always the case. Say Bob was convicted for pedophilia but a couple months after the charge was retracted because it was an error. Now Bob can’t find a job because “the data” says he’s a pedophile, even if he’s not.
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Since today morning, I couldn't login to the AWS Management Console. Is there anyone facing the issue?
But he's not saying "everything's currently super" he's saying "things are truly crappy right now but they will get better".

I don't see what's tone deaf there. He's pitching a message of long-term-reassurance at a time when many people might find that comforting - specifically the younger folks who've never seen cycles of down/up/down-again/up-again.
CPI includes owner-occupied housing as well, not just rent.

If you are going to define bull markets as inflation, then you are ruling out the possibility that the economy can ever just do well. We had a horrible crash a decade ago. In the last couple of years, the economy has done well with record low unemployment. Of course equity prices went up.
My brief experience has been similar. Elm is a dictatorship that could be wonderful if it didn't exist in the realm of messy html/js. I experience an icky feeling of stockholm-syndrome part of the time, and just plain frustration at other times when dealing with Elm.

What's infuriating is that I do see the benefit of some degree of strict stewardship. It's just that it's too much in this case.