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While I agree that the fee might be high, the comparison between the two is is a false equivalency.[1] A transaction fee is something completely different from an interest fee. The first is a one time fee while the other is continues over time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence
My understanding is there is actually some risk. If they do the paperwork wrong, or if the regulations change randomly (which they have a bunch of times already), the bank could theoretically be on the hook. Some of this reportedly happened in the last recession/bailout, so the banks are a bit gun shy.

I am not a banker, so this is all second hand information I have read on r/smallbusiness and other forums while trying to figure out my own stuff.

Don't get me wrong, I think they are getting paid a ton, probably too much, but it is not zero risk.
Well, in this case movies happen to be pretty close.
Jeremy Howard (of FastAI) is doing a major metastudy on masks at the moment. Pretty sure they work.
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Who do you plan to trust for the intervening 50-100 years?
No, Post Bank was sold to Deutsche Bank. It was created by the Deutsche Post, who then spun it off, funneled a lot of their branches into it (so you have bank offices that also rent out a desk to the Post) and sold it to Deutsche Bank.
Why would annual interest rates be a relevant baseline for a transaction fee?
My understanding was that GP was suggesting a change in the function of the central bank. Did you have a different interpretation?
What's with hard-coding the installation to /usr/local?

I'd rather have another "dot directory" like ~/.occultist than have some random package manager take over my entire /usr/local.
The value of money comes from the fact that most exchanges are taxable and taxes must be payed in federal reserve notes ("Federal Reserve Note" is what is printed on the top of any dollars you happen to have in your wallet.)

If you were out in the middle of the woods self-sufficient except for some bartering with your friends, you would still have to pay property taxes and your barter transactions would be subject to taxation, which you would have to pay with Federal Reserve Notes or the government could come and take your stuff and imprison you.

Before the income tax (1911) you could live in the countryside and you wouldn't even have to think about the federal government, just your state and local governments, unless you were importing things. People didn't even used to elect senators, that was the state government's job.

Instead of big banks getting bailed out over and over again, before the federal reserve, you'd just call up the local rich guy, like Rockefeller who would bail out your company out of his personal bank account. People didn't need the banks to survive to move things along. These days, if there was no income tax, and the fed, you'd probably just call up some fabulously wealthy venture capitalist every time you needed some money. The low taxes on venture capital QSBS and carried interest have led to this phenomenon to some extent.
I don't fully understand the arguments in these kinds of pieces. Haven't businesses always been economically incentivized to automate everything, because that's just how labor costs work?

It seems implausible to me that the bottleneck to mass automation (or rather, more widespread automation) is the willingness of corporations to invest in it. The more feasible blockers—the fundamental technology even existing, the cost of research/production, etc—don't seem correlated to Coronavirus.
> What if we had the central bank give everyone an account that was interoperable with the rest of the banking system? Then if you want to hand out money, you just do it. If you want to borrow money, find a lender.

Except nobody knows if PPP money is a loan or a handout yet. The criteria for determining that is in the future, and central banks are as equally incapable of time travel as anyone else. That's why they're administered as forgivable loans. All PPP money is a loan right now.
Hospitals are extremely risk adverse, any billing/invoicing is quite complicated and getting pre-certified hardware you don't have to certify yourself is expensive and challenging.
Seems like an intuitively good idea to me!

Seems like getting rid of the middleman at a basic, physical level. Power is available for very low cost at certain times. So let's time-shift computation that doesn't have to be done at a specific time! Really, it's just the same trick as time-shifting your EV charging and other power draws. It costs money to run battery banks and inverters. Let's just take them out of the process, where we can.

"The best part is no part." -- Elon Musk
They have a "Reopen Closed Tab" action you can map in Settings -> Keymap. You can also use "Recent Locations" Ctrl-Shift-E to see recently touched files, the first one will be the one you just closed.
If we continue to live beyond our means, what's the point? It's like rats fighting for scraps onboard a sinking ship... sure, I'll fight for the bigger tastier crumb, but the ship's still going down. If it's not us that will drown, it's the next generation.

Alternative framing: rather than thinking of it as "subsisting on the minimum essentials", how do you build a legacy that will continue to outlive you in perpetuity?
These days, hard drives probably scrub themselves periodically, looking for and rewriting sectors with high error correction error rates.

SSD’s definitely do this.

Even if hard disks don’t do this, mean time to repair is a crucial parameter in raid durability calculations. If you spin the drives up once a year, the mean time to repair is 6 months. Most raid systems are likely to lose data if it takes more than a few days to repair.
"The 'stimulus' for the economy, routed around the entire actual economy, never reaching individuals or true small business."

How can this be true if innumerable number of individuals received $1200 checks and many small businesses also received varying amounts in the four and five digits?
But we do just that.

Every car has to pass a bunch of certifications to be legal to drive on the road. It has to pass a (4-, 2- or 1-)yearly checkup, has to be registered, insurance has to be paid, road tax, etc. Also the driver has to pass a theoretical and a practical exam, has to be of certain age, not be under influence of any of many substances, has to obey a bunch of traffic laws, etc. And we also have check for all that, from police controls, to speed cameras, alco-testers, etc.
It really depends on your application but you can come up with a lot of different aggregation schemes to rerank top results based on the whole document.
Hey Martin, this is super cool! Congrats on the collab!

Would you mind commenting on what your tech stack is like? Looking at your github repo it seems like you're combining a lot of data sources. Can you comment on your approach?
Also, considering this collaboration, are you running on GCP?
That looks like a good opportunity for an (at least tangentinally related) big shout-out to your great electricityMap (https://www.electricitymap.org/map) website!

I wish there would be more countries covered (in particular Switzerland), but I guess you depend on the live data being provided in these countries.
China is progressing.
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Imagine if you lived with an attitude like this...entitled to something just for being born. Genuinely curious: where does this come from?
A loophole is a loophole whether it's expressed in obfuscated language or not.

There's a reason why the administration fired Glenn Fine on 4/7 who was the inspector that was supposed to oversee the 2T rescue plan. The administration and their cronies are doing a classical "shock doctrine" move to even further concentrate wealth while the opportunity is hot.
Correlation doesn't guarantee causation, but the Asian countries where mask-wearing has been commonplace for a long time have done far, far, far better with this pandemic than nations where no one wears masks in public.
I learned SQL working on a "database as a product". The database was filled with medical ontologies. It was a perfect environment for learning. We were always looking for obscure things in that database, and rarely changed data, just selects for days. In the end I once wrote a query spanning about 100 lines that used common table expressions and found it quite maintainable.

Where can an SQL beginner find such a database to experiment with? I was fortunate because my job provided me this database to experiment with, but what about those who are not so fortunate?
Robosigning and NINA loans of the past lead me to be skeptical.
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Although it's static size, it could be a building block for bignum arithmetic. The last time I tried compilers were pretty bad at optimizing generic code for bignum addition, although it's pretty easy to hand-optimize in assembly.
It's somewhat lame but I love the idea. It can only get better.
That is nice. https://git-scm.com/docs/gitk
I had a similar thought. This project should have been named "Gitar".
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In what direction? I think part of the point of this paper is that most masks aren't taking things seriously enough.
They don't want you clicking away from their site.
There is no ad revenue in allowing you to follow a hyperlink to another resource.
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What most people don't understand about hotels, chain restaurants, or any business that runs on the franchise model is that the majority of such outlets are run by small businesses.

McDonalds isn't a burger and fries company, it is a real estate company. This is because they buy the properties each restaurant is located on and rent them out to small business owners who front the capital and run the operation (with stipulations). You may think there are flaws in this setup (which you could argue, though the exchange is a tested business model and logistics network in exchange for franchise fees) but the point is that small business owners are HEAVILY involved in these chain businesses.

It's the same with something like Dunkin Donuts. Here in MA, the profits from the coffee you buy at one location will go into the pockets of one small business owner while down the street it will go into another.
To be honest, I'd like somebody to explain to me how a lockdown would have prevented more deaths in elder care facilities in Sweden.
> it means that they found the overall compromise acceptable enough to vote for (given the circumstances).

For every $1 going to a good cause, our politicians add $2 of pork in order to find a “compromise”
Wow that's pretty fleshed out. I created something similar 3 years ago, but I lost motivation (named it the same too haha): https://github.com/LakenH/98css
Would it be feasable for the government to acquire a mobile first bank and graft it onto the post office? Either chime, bankmobile, moven, or simple.

Is it a space the government wants to compete against Apple and Google? If every mobile phone in the country comes with a free integrated banking service, how do you compete? Would the government better serve by using its resources to regulate interoperability and compatibility, and rule following, than by competing?

I totally get why a free post office bank would do great things to serve the underbanked. But if the government is going to get into banking, id like to see it go a step further, more like Singapore, and be some kind of new HSA type account offering, a forced savings account that can be used to pay rent and more.
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It's a duplicate of this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22946155
I agree very much, in any society it is as essential matter as legislation, representation, law enforcement and such. Must be a public service.
Sure there’s probably some compliance risk here but that’s why most businesses are only working with existing clients. Very few are approving applications from brand new customers they’ve never had a relationship with.
I wonder if the suffix could be Xn where n is an integer specifying the width.
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I wrote elsewhere: I know that there is nothing in the universe that is actually permanent. This is one of the insights from my meditation practice, things come and go. That includes my health and my life. So when I throw that idea out, I can see what they are really offering.

This isn't really meant to benefit you. This is meant to benefit our children. If the foundation survives longer than my own life, then I can put files that may be of value to my children and great-grandchildren. It would be up to them to value the preservation of their own digital history and cultural heritage to continue supporting this mission.

Both the founder of the Internet Archive and someone from the geaneology industry are among the board. I can see this idea being cooked up as, "hey, what if we were able to offer regular people their very own micro Internet Archive?" "What if we were able to pass on digital photos to be discovered by our descendants the way we have been able to discover photos from the late 1800s and 1900s?"

When viewed from that lens, about what happens to data after you die, $10 is a cheap gamble. This isn't really a promise made to me. This is a promise made to my kids. It may not be a promise that the foundation can keep, but I value contributing to my kid's heritage enough to risk $10.

I am still going to keep my Google Cloud and Dropbox, and whatever. But the 1 GB I have from this foundation is for a time capsule, stuff I really want to have a shot of passing it down. My kids won't care about my cat memes, or my passwords, or stupid videos. But they may want their baby pictures. They may want their grandpa's and grandma's dissertation.

When I die, my Google Cloud drive will shut down. But if things work out with Permanent.org, those files will continue to be there. I won't have to burden my kids directly with its upkeep. And perhaps, when they are older, they will come to value having access to it.

Maybe they have not sold their vision well enough. But I guess, they only need just enough people who gets it to kick this off. They are already 75% of the way there.
I don't follow, this seems like even less of an incentive to do due diligence.
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That's inspiring, for sure, and I know from personal experience that there are good people trying to do good in some local government agencies. Some of our best minds are doing good in small ways in the private sector, as well.

But there are systemic issues that you need to consider to make fulfilling, effective change. The problem is that without good regulation, might will make right and cheaters will prosper.

Elections are decided by a combination of appealing to people by telling them you'll do what they want, by advertising money to get the message out that you're the candidate who matches their interests, and by getting people who will vote for you into the polling place. Recent elections have proven that a candidate who's dishonest, who outspends on advertising, and who manipulates the voting population through voter suppression or gerrymandering can win over an idealistic candidate who's unwilling to engage in those tactics.

Those effects don't come into play so much at the local level, but without addressing that 'elephant in the room' a grassroots effort to change government from the bottom up will spend a lot of energy but hit a ceiling on its effectiveness.

I see no point in trying to grow grass when I know there's a lawnmower effect that will chop it down.
I'm not sure but it wouldn't surprise me. The DoD pays major league sports to have the anthem and the presentation of colors before games.
I don't think it makes much sense to say this is a state of affairs Marx would want to see in a communist society; to be honest, I have no idea where you get the idea that Marx envisioned a totalizing AI controlling society from. The Fragment on Machines is highly debated and analyzed in Marxology, but it doesn't imply what you think it implies. Marx's description of communist society is actually quite the opposite (from his TGI):

>He is a hunter, a fisherman, a herdsman, or a critical critic, and must remain so if he does not want to lose his means of livelihood; while in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic.

Post-Marxist authors and other Marxists have quite a lot to say on machinery and totalization of society to administered control (which they view as a negative thing) - see Marcuse for instance.
TorchServe seems to share code with MXNET. I think this is more AWS/Facebook responding to Google's power in ML with TensorFlow/GCP. AWS doesn't have a framework, and Facebook doesn't have a cloud. This gives PyTorch better feature parity with TensorFlow (TorchServe == TF Serving) and gives AWS a point of differentiation from GCP.
I don't think it's a good idea, the government sector is usually less efficient than private sector. It would only make sense if the banking market was not competitive but it's not the case.
Abbeel's new robotics company might be working on commercializing that prototype (https://covariant.ai/).

I remember him mentioning the project in his robotics class, found it: https://youtu.be/xWPViQ6LI-Q?t=4075 he claims it will be around $5,000
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Surprisingly, no.

When companies are making easy money, there is very little incentive to improve efficiency, and a lot of incentive to continue the status quo. It’s only during tight times do companies actually begin to seek out new efficiencies.

Example: automated oil rig machines have existed for quite a while, but they really didn’t see a lot of usage until the oil crash in 2016[0]. After this crash the number of oil rig workers remained at low levels, even as oil rigs starting to produce again. Those jobs were already vulnerable to automation, it just took a financial crisis to trigger it.

[0] https://medium.com/basic-income/the-real-story-of-automation...
Since ammonia and LOHCs face some overlapping constraints I don't expect an order of magnitude difference in cost. But you're right, it would have been more useful with an explicit comparison.

If you are seeing stuff that suggests ammonia will get very close to parity with oil, that's really fascinating, I hope it pans out that way. The IAE is more optimistic than I am about ammonia transport, while still listing some significant hurdles:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036031991...

I think it's a good report, and you could read it to be more convinced of either of our positions.

Sorry we're talking past each other. You did actually change my mind a bit, if it's any consolation. Agree it's too hasty to say electrons are always better than atoms, though I'm still optimistic about more supergrids. My main remaining concern is just that, as you change your power mix away from oil to generate more ammonia, or electrolytic hydrogen, or whatever, the case for shipping fuel erodes significantly, because you can just move generation closer instead.

Sorry we couldn't get to ground on this one. Thanks for your points all the same.
> These tools take C or C++ code and produce a transistor layout to be used by the FPGA.

Hmm, I haven’t been following that but it seems that...

> The result is massively larger FPGA/HLS programs than the programmer needed

And there it is.

Really seems odd to me to try and force procedural C into non-linear execution of FPGA. Like it seems super odd, and when talking about changes to C to help that... I really don’t get it.

This isn’t what C is for. What is the performance advantage over Verilog? How many people want n-bit into in C when automatically handled structures work well for most people.

Maybe I’m just not seeing the bigger picture here and that example was just poor?
> when I was brought up, the image of what a successful student was, was a very well rounded one.

I think this idea is dead, or close to it. Almost all the people I knew in college were there for a simple reason: to get a piece of paper that says they can now participate in the work force. Being educated was more of a side effect.

Plenty of people complain about gen eds or other requirements for degrees that are not explicitly related to the major.

> For non-Americans reading: private school = good, public school = bad,

This really depends on the university, the professors there, and the field. My school (USC, no, the other one) is #1 for international business, etc.

Athletics is extremely emphasized, though. I understand that colleges have to discriminate somehow to give people scholarships, and that sports make an insane amount of money for colleges, but it always struck me as odd that getting a full ride for being excellent at a sport is even a thing.
You plan on creating Tetris this way, or it is in one of the lessons? I have only created one small application in Forth for work over the years, but I love toying with it. Factor [0] and retroforth [1] are lots of fun.

[0] https://factorcode.org/

[1] http://retroforth.org/
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