skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1km = 1000m = 100000cm

> 1m = 5280ft = 63360in

How many times have you ever needed to know how many centimeters in a kilometer? Is that something you do a lot?

On the other hand, suppose you have 1x1 km of land three children, and you want to divide the inheritance equally. What do you do? Give two of them 1km x 333.33m of land, and the oldest one 1km x 333.34m?

If you were using miles and you had 1 x 1 mile of land, you could give each one exactly 1m x 1760ft of land.
In the first example, is it possible to repay all the debt?
The bank has $100 cash and $11 promised. Customers have $10 cash and $100 promised. Assuming the person with $100 withdraws the money and wants to share it with the other person to pay off his loan, they end up with $99, but they started with $100. If they started at $0 they would be at -$1.
How is this resolved in a real banking system?
Well it was Frances first revolution. It took a couple to get right...ish.
It's not just the agents, as a foreigner, it's CBP as a whole.

I lived in the US for 3 years on an E-3 visa (like a weird H1B that's only for Australians). I wasn't eligible for any of the expedited entry procedures like Global Entry since I was an Australian without a green card.

The journey starts in the foreign airport. Did you know that the US has its own security in many foreign airports? After you've already been through the airport's own security and are waiting at the gate, just prior to or even during boarding, the US can have you pulled aside and searched thoroughly once more. They'll make you take off your shoes, jackets, go over you with a wand, unpack all of your carry-on luggage on a table and then make you pack it again. This happened to me on 3/4 international flights returning back to the US from Europe (France, Germany).

Then, once I arrived in the US, I had to go through the "foreigner that needs to see a human" line. Have a look at the wait times for that line, as reported by CBP [0]. I ran an average for October 2019 at SFO and the _average_ wait time was 26 minutes but depending on when you arrived, it could be hours. In my experience ~45 minutes was the norm (I chose unlucky arrival times I suppose).

When you get to the human, they basically treat you like a criminal. They take your fingerprints, make you look into a camera for biometrics and interrogate you about why a foreign peasant deserves to enter the utopia that is America. On each visit after renewing the visa, you also have to carry a massive pile of documentation with you (documentation that was already submitted to the State Department as part of the visa application).

And then, after immigration, you have to go through customs. Normally customs isn't so bad but every now and then you can get pulled aside for a baggage search. This means being told to stand in a line for easily an hour without any indication of why, no access to food or drink and of course you can't use your phone either.

I've travelled fairly widely and the US border really is the worst I've had the misfortune of crossing. When I enter the US the whole CBP process gives a sense of dread and makes me feel like a huge pile of weights is being dumped on top of me. When I leave the US it's like I'm finally free and returned to civilization. Even "oppressive" countries like Russia and Turkey feel better than the US.

[0]: https://awt.cbp.gov/
Meta: I can't reply to the parent comment by johnghanks, but this is what I don't like about moderation here.

I disagree strictly with their assertion, and the way they said it, but the comment is useful and opens a conversation I'm interested in.

Do people here really not want to talk about how/why origin of games might be pertinent, whether games are fungible?

Isn't it at least interesting that this viewpoint exists? Mind you I'm also interested that it's disliked; but I don't want to discourage such comments.

Strictly I'm against the site rules (discussing downvotes) but hey ...
I have relatives in the UK, and lived in London for several years -- the rage that the popular media was able to incite about metric (mostly through outright lies) in the older generation there is astonishing. Even more so they've managed to maintain that for some decades. I guess this is how they ended up leaving the EU.

In Australia supermarkets are obliged to have a pricing per 100gm for every packaged item on the shelves.

It's slightly smaller print, of course, but it's clearly legible and allows for a wonderfully simple price comparison.

EDIT: Btw, this story came out a while ago, and includes a fascinating montage clip from 1978 - a vox pop of UK citizens, obviously the most whacky people are chosen - but it's a magnificent blend of dumb (you'll use more petrol because you don't get as many kilometres to the gallon) and sad (I don't want to be part of a community).

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/shortcuts/2019/feb/05/w...
Unless I'm missing something, their benchmark graphs at the bottom of the report show that there is no significant benefit to using SCM with MongoDB! Their internal overheads must be high enough to swamp the few microseconds gained from the faster storage.
This is like lettersofnote.com, but with maps instead of letters - very interesting, feels like something you can dig into repeatedly, with many rabbit holes to follow. For anyone interested in this, you might also want to check out the book "The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands" which contains maps from various authors for use in their books (mostly sci-fi and fantasy, since those genres are the ones that need a map that doesn't already exist).
There is a fantastic book that covers this topic called "The End of Alchemy" by Mervyn King who was Governor of the Bank of England during the 2007 crisis:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30231791-the-end-of-alch...

It explains how banks work today in a patient and and accessible way that helps you really "get" it.
Slightly baffled by this comment; Mexico is not a nuclear-armed state and is not going to start responding to its cartel problems with genocide? Or are you suggesting that the US would engage in a first strike genocide in response to a single quadcopter bomb?
I couldn't connect to anything in the US (I'm in the UK) which broke a large chunk of the internet mainly due to being unable to access Cloudfront.
It's probably from the Russian CS.
Yes, of course. I'm saying there are no consequences for him, positive or negative. He'll never know what the outcome is of anything long term. Buying gold and energy has no more weight, for him, than just expressing an opinion. He not only can't lose anything, but he can't even be embarrassed, in the long run.
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The chutzpah of "big wind" profiteers! pushing their deadly renewables, part of a shadowy cabal holding back the nuclear future.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Jaczko

Seriously though, while he does seem pretty contentious as a regulator he does have a PhD in particle physics and the record of his actions aligns with his stated position(s) in this article.

I agree the article is more human interest than reasoned argument but it is nonetheless good journalism (in my opinion...) because the story is good.

I also agree it is a missed opportunity because I expect with his credentials and experiences it would be really interesting to see him defend a more quantitative argument.
Is pushing changes to contributor branches considered rude or friendly/helpful?
Early (cca 10.15.0 - 15.10.2) there was a problem mounting SMB share once it has been unmounted. Having to reboot just to get it mounted is not a fun.

Scanning with Samsung MFPs in color into PDFs is still broken, but this one is since 10.14 actually. 10.15 just made it worse, because the Samsung scanning app that could be used instead of Image Capture is 32-bit, so the workaround doesn't work anymore.
I would really go with regular Ubuntu for the best support. It really just works and you don't need to put any effort in getting things running smoothly.

I went from Ubuntu to macOS as my daily driver because the company switched to Macbooks. I really like the integration of everything. Especially for developers, though, Ubuntu is the perfect OS.
Why not just log to stderr?
A fun bug to track down, I'm sure. Personally I would prefer not to daemonize by forking, but instead set up a systemd unit for the service. The program will be simpler, and administrating it will be simpler too.
All the local events have switched to being online so you can still give talks. They are also a great way to learn new things. For example, I learned ES6 by.givong a tall about es6.
I mean this kindly: I highly recommend you hire a copywriter to go over your site. The spelling errors and grammar issues undermine confidence.
> All the people in all the nuclear accidents (or usage) ever that have died is

There is no consensus about it.

Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl:_Consequences_of_the...
Very much this. Do you have an ubsubstantiated conspiracy theory about the evil machinations of bigcorp? Congratulations - upvotes for your wisdom. An actual report of your lived experience of homophobia/racism/sexism/whatever? Hmm, are you sure it's not just in your imagination?
Crumbs - I've never heard anyone say "returns are certain" before everyone gets stripped, ever, in any financial setting.

Huge chunks of the indexes are now made up of a small handful of stocks, and as the stocks (FANNGS) go up so the indexes buy more, and guess what. They go up. And this will carry on, and on, until at some point a structural failure will occur. This may well be fraud, it may be government (not even the US government) intervention, it may be a supply chain failure or a market destruction. For example in November there may be a civil war in the USA... At that point the stocks will fall and if they fall disproportionately (which they will if the artificial pump that is floating them up turns off) then the indexes will unwind their positions... in fact they have to unwind. And this will glut the market, which will force more unwinding.

This is made worse by how the indexes actually track the market - you see, guess what! They (often) don't actually buy the stock! They trade synthetic securities over the movements of the stock with counterparties... and these counterparties never ever ever fail - they are solid players like investment banks, like Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, and Merrill Lynch and RBS. So - safe as houses.
If I'm not assuming people wake up in order to do a bad job, the more likely explanation to me is that

a) these instances are (seen as a percentage of dry land coverage) rather rare and

b) The test of being in water is simplified to `if height <= 0` instead of `if height <= 0 OR location.inside(some_super_complex_polygon_that_needs_to_be_looked_up_every_millisecond)`.

Done is better than perfect.
If you just log to stderr, you must have some other system hanging around to read that output and put it in the system log files for you. syslog doesn't do that, but systemd does.
It took about a year without mouse use for my wrist to heal. Now I use a mouse but I'm very careful with posture and mouse positioning.

How long did it take to familiarize yourself with the trackball?

I didn't really try other pointing devices because I thought that they won't be as good as the mouse, plus I liked the idea of using keyboard-driven navigation software.
Ethereum and Defi products are now creating money as well through lending.

Lock some amount of ETH up, get some amount of stable dollars out, which inflates the total amount of money in the system.
I think "fundamental" is a treacherous concept for explaining money creation.

Both this article and the stuff Atte is responding to end up with "X is merely Y" explanations. The (arguable, but widely accepted) reality of macroeconomic and monetary dynamics is that it is not merely microeconomics. A layer of emergence separates the two.

It's true that what banks do is not fundamentally different to what full tilt poker did. Even the "bank run" parallels the many bank runs in history, and associated monetary collapse.

You can find other parallels too. My favourite is employees. Say you have no money. You hire 10 people clean pools, with salaries due at the end of the month. They work. You get paid. If you get paid enough, you can pay salaries on time and make profit.

This is the same principle as monetary stimulus, where a government makes loans to stimulate economic activity. We do call that money creation, but it's not fundamentally different to what every employee does.

IRL, a poker site or pool cleaning business will (almost) always hit a point of reversal. Expansion becomes deflationary rather than inflationary. Further growth requires capital, rather than generating it. The business models that don't do reach levels where their money creation starts to have macro-scale effects. These tend to join the financial sector (eg, the stock market), where they are regulated in some fashion to curb monetary inflations and deflations.

What makes banks qualitatively different is stability. They can do this long term, continuously increasing scale, without bank runs. Quantity is a quality of its own. If banks expand mortgage lending, real estate will inflate... either with higher prices or with more building. This isn't money that was redirected from one sector to another. It's new money.

This is why monetary policy isn't just central banking. It's regulators. The regulator controls this sort of activity (eg mortgage lending) in order to regulate the supply of money.
"Who's right doesn't matter, who has the power does"--Thucydides https://www.quora.com/Which-caste-is-looting-India/answers/2...
Interestingly, as of the most recent edition of macOS, this is how macOS structures itself natively.

It will install the OS itself in read only mode (and encrypted) onto a dedicated APFS Volume, with all the data on a separate APFS Volume, both sharing the same container representing the entire boot drive.

As a user you will not notice at all unless you go looking.

This is mainly for security reasons, as I understand it. But, surely this also makes an OS reinstall or recovery much simpler. I have not yet had the luck to need to do either since this installation model was adopted so I don't know what the impact (positive or negative) to the user is in such a scenario.

Anyway, I find it amusing that such a model has only recently been adopted by a mainstream OS after so many decades of the concept being espoused as important in the general Unix-like world. I wonder if Microsoft will follow suit.
Relatedly, for sufficiently obscure historical figures for which a Wikipedia entry exists without any depictions in literature, we sometimes have images from the game "Crusader Kings 2" take the spot. r/crusaderkings are full of posts of these incidents, and at the time of this comment this is still the case for Cynewulf of Wessex.
“Just”. Depends on the number of tenants and how divergent they are.

I would incrementally bring tenants together into a single DB.
And we do not measure fuel consumption in "miles per gallon" , but "liters per 100km".
Can someone make a new series of Robot Wars with drones? That would be fascinating viewing.
Seriously, though: Audio or updates not working on Linux is a thing from >10 years ago.

I guess it depends on your distro of choice, but I haven't seen an Ubuntu machine with these problems in a long long time. You install it and everything just works.
My searches produce an inordinate number of captchas, thus proving that Google can't identify humans, even in the very limited environment of Google searches. Which doesn't bode well for the cars.

It appears that reasonably rapid use of inurl: makes it think you're a bot.
Probably not working very well since the bosses can't care less about the actual technical quality when making decisions. I.e. they don't know or care it's unmaintainable. So you build your fort and get picked off just outside the gates.

It might be revenge though, not job security? Or maybe "organic" local job security, i.e. the colleges of the perpetrator can't take over his tasks easily without management investment?

I guess most bad code is just bad/novice programmers or bad project management.
Yeah, once you introduce moving garbage collectors that happens. I'm sure ruby isn't the first language to have made that mistake (I believe some implementations of SQL actually have similar, a reference to the row on disk, and it turned out to be a short-term gain and a long-term mistake).
Cached version: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zB4HA5...
From wikipedia, about the author: 'He is an HIV/AIDS denialist, supports the 9/11 Truth movement, and supports a specific John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory.[2] He also believes that the Biblical Noah's Ark is located at the Durupınar site in Turkey.[6]'.
I would recommend learning from different sources.
As someone who grew up with metric measurements, I could easily use the exact same "practicality" arguments against the imperial system.

To me, an inch is a weird measurement that is slightly longer than 2cm, a mile is a bit farther than 1.5km, a gallon is about 4 litres, and I always have to lookup up what ounces are (let alone fluid ounces -- which I have to constantly remind myself are not the same thing). But that isn't because the imperial system is "less practical" in any meaningful sense -- it's just that I didn't grow up with it and so I have to constantly convert back to the system I know (and since the conversions will never be nice integer ratios, of course your "native" measuring system will appear to work better).

As for the whole "imperial fractions are easier to deal with" thing, I personally disagree but I suspect that's also because I'm not used to the idea. In everyday life I'm so used to seeing decimal quantities that from a young age I learned how to quickly deal with them. However, I must admit I struggle to handle fractions as quickly because it isn't as common as decimal division in my everyday life. I imagine the inverse is probably true for people who have dealt with fractional quantities their entire lives. I hasten to point out that most people wouldn't say nor think of 1.5cm as "1 centimetre and 5 millimetres", just as you wouldn't say nor think of 1⅝ inches as "1 inch and 5 eighths-of-an-inch".

Honestly this whole argument has always felt pointless to me -- is it not obvious that you will always find things you are most familiar to be the best tools for the job? It's almost like watching an Englishman and a Frenchman hotly debating which language is uniquely better suited to writing poetry -- all the while ignoring that equally brilliant poetry has been written in both languages.
Google should them by providing them with Google Earth data in order to compete with Microsoft.
That doesn't really explain why an updated to, say, .NET forces a restart. Far too many updates force restarts when it seems they shouldn't require it. It's not just the main OS updates.
At work we were asked to upgrade to Catalina for security/maintainability reasons. There was a list of "Known Issues" with Catalina linked in the email asking us to upgrade.

The list was comical. Had at least 5 things on it that, if they happened to me, would completely ruin my productivity.

I've spent most of my life on macOS but it does seem to be unraveling, while Windows and Linux are only getting better these days.
I wonder if it is possible to prevent updates by blocking connections to MS's servers via firewall rules or DNS?
Even Americans use decimal based systems in engineering. A lot of measurements are defined in thousands of an inch. Why didn't they go with a "superior" system with more divisible factors?

The reality is that metric is a standardizing measurement. There is one base unit, changes in scale merely involve a factor denoted by a prefix, it doesn't try to be smarter than absolutely necessary and just sticks to decimal.
Is Rust Used Safely by Software Developers?
He's not saying math is hard in base 10. Moving the decimal is easy in any base. The problem is the base itself.

Items were, and often still are, sold by the dozen precisely because 12 is evenly divisible by 2 and 3. One may split a dozen into 6 of 2, 4 of 3, 3 of 4, or 2 of 6. Quantities of 10, however, may be split into 5 of 2 or 2 of 5. Not as many options for subdivision. Had we evolved 6 fingers on each hand, this wouldn't be an issue.

Likewise, the original article is about harmonising the length of a mile with the sides of an acre, again for convenient subdivision.
This google tech talk is a pretty gentle introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJVL80Gg3lA
OSX was developed by NeXT
ZFS is great but aren't we better off focusing on something else like btrfs? The whole licensing situation makes me nervous to adopt this.
Related paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.00752.pdf
GBps, not Gbps! They were getting 12.6 gigabytes per second, which would be 100 gigabits per second almost exactly.

However, even their 6-DIMM test produces only 300 Gbps, which is insufficient to saturate a modern 400 GbE network adapter for either reads or writes.

This would be most relevant on a "single master" system storing some sort of simple data where consistency requirements means that the "writer" cannot be distributed. In a situation like this, the NIC and the storage bandwidth are the ultimate limits.

In general, Intel SSDs and Intel Optane have poor but consistent bandwidth, and consistently low latency. Coupled with the high price and small capacity, they have their niche, but they're not a clear winner in any category.

As a reference point for how crazy high bandwidths are these days, NVIDIA sells a turnkey solution with 200 GB/sec network bandwidth (1.6 Tbps!): https://www.nvidia.com/en-au/data-center/dgx-a100/
There’s an Orielly book too.
It is not a Latin word, it is a word from Old French which is a Romance language evolved from Vulgar Latin. A lot of words from Old French entered English after the Norman conquest. This is the major difference between Old English (the language of Beowulf) and Middle English.

You may not care about any of that, but my point is a translation into modern English is by definition anachronistic. Avoiding 20th century loanwords like sashimi will not make it authentic, at best it will make the text feel slightly old fashioned, but it would still be wholly anachronistic.
Feign unstable network :P

I've had friends who feign unstable electrical grids altogether!

Easiest way to get out of things you don't want to attend
(c++) template everything
> if rust ever settles down I think it would be great for aerospace 178b and other standards for aircraft. Also cars :)

I imagine the compiler situation would need to change before this could become a possibility. I doubt off-the-shelf Rust/LLVM is appropriate for compiling life-and-death code.

I imagine it would also be necessary to strictly control memory management, using pools rather than doing the equivalent of malloc/free. It seems Rust has a crate for that: https://docs.rs/heapless/0.5.5/heapless/

> I've only ever met one engineer who actually liked coding in Ada.

It certainly lacks many luxuries. For that matter, it also lacks basic examples. I tried to dabble with Ada recently, and pretty quickly ran into trouble (I was unable to figure out how to instantiate any of GNAT's 'bounded containers').
No, this is a non-standard definition of reality [1]. QM does not give us an ontology, i.e. a specification of what exists. That's what the interpretations do.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality
At the end of 2016, the volume of radioactive waste present in France amounted to 1.5 million m3. This volume increased by 58% between 2002 and 2016. High level waste (HA) represents 0.2% of the volumes but 95% of the radioactivity. The latter have been multiplied by 2.2 over the period 2002-2016.

Source: https://ree.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/themes/pressions-e...
Our managers had set Education KTs daily for 1hr because "you aren't spending travel time to come to office so let's use that time"