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My 20s were spent living the single bachelor party life in London in the 90s. Noughties I had 3 kids and emigrated to Australia. Then I hit 40...then 50. Now I'm 52, still in good health. I have a job, a partner, family, a few savings. Sure I haven't written the next great novel or got a PHD, but I sure as hell don't worry about what might have been.
The standard argument about the role of demand and credit is quite straightforward: the economy consists of people buying and selling stuff. Capital investment plays a supporting role in ensuring a supply of stuff for sale in future (and in distributing money to buy that stuff with), but people will invest more if they anticipate lots of demand to buy their stuff in future and less if they don't. Both demand and investment keep the economy going, but anticipated future demand is essential to investment.

Therefore when demand is low across the whole economy, there is a rationale for govts/central banks either to directly boost demand by spending or indirectly lower the costs of capital investment by lowering interest rates. The evidence for and against the efficacy of certain interventions is basically the entire field of macroeconomics, but Keynes' General Theory is the starting point and something like Woodford's Interest and Prices: Foundations of a Theory of Monetary Policy or most undergrad macroeconomics textbooks more reflective of current practice.
This entire article is a conflation of two orthogonal arguments:

1. Austrian economics is right, Keynsian is wrong.

2. Central banks are introducing ledger based currencies to increase surveillance of consumers, using the strawman argument about China.

On 1), the pandemic has shown that government spending works to keep an economy from failing. The old inflation argument has been proven completely false. If anything, what has been proven is that a greater distribution of wealth is needed as Amazon and online wholesale and retail take over.

The boom in online sales is a superprofit, driven by a windfall that government public health measures closed other sales channels. Those profits should be subject to a windfall tax to reduce that concentration.

On 2) Central Banks are looking at ledger based currency as a way to allow more distribution channels beyond the existing retail banking network. It allows greater freedom for financial offerings by removing a layer of distribution.

In a way, ledger based currencies are the "Amazon" of money distribution by central banks. It allows them to push money out when needed to multiple outlets, while still maintaining regulatory control.

If anything, it's a "free but regulated market" at work.
Way too early to say whether or not we've got our way out of covid with Keynesian inspired stimulus packages, and some point we'll all have to pay for those packages whether through taxes or inflation and we'll have to see whether or not the boost to the near term economy will stick.

If we find that unemployment does not improve quickly enough coming out of this we could be in for some pretty hairy downward spirals.
I suspect for the majority of buyers the differentiator is the logo, then the OS, then maybe the CPU.
I clicked just to see what the op would say about warcraft 3 and the very first point is a clear indication of inadequate understanding of the game at elite level of play. Spacing is important and in fact a big part of the game but not in a Starcrafty kind of way. Different maps allow for different tactics around map control based on race and ability to creep and gain map control. Its not about holding a high ground as a strategy, its more about holding a high ground for a certain type of army composition and while trying to expand for example.

And on the subsequent points ,again op just fails completely to understand the game at a higher level or simply has not seen any high level tournament in the last 2 years. Warcraft 3 is a masterful piece and the reason its not popular is it is fucking hard to be even decent at it online. Micro is more important than macro and thats a big deterrent for anyone thats a causal player.
I'm not saying it would be easy, but I think it would be easier than Mercury. Even getting to Mercury is hard.

I think getting off Venus from 50km up wouldn't be too bad. If you've got enough flotation to carry a research station or city or whatever, with water supply, food production, life support, etc., you can carry a fuelled up Starship and Super Heavy (if your base is smaller, use a smaller rocket [1]). Launching them seems like it would be doable: drop in belly flop orientation, it glides a bit away as it falls, then starts the main engines and pivots to upright, and away it goes. "Landing" or whatever arrival would entail seems more complicated, but you might be able to make a platform a bit like landing on a barge (but one that can go down to cushion the landing).

[1] A fully fuelled up Falcon 9 weighs more than the ISS, so we're talking a big research station for this to be feasible.
This is about the same time a burned piece of bread was sold to an online casino for $28000. As a marketing expense, perhaps well worth it.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna6511148
Great comment. I am on that team as well.
More intense acceleration as well as more intense braking produce heat. Steel on steel is efficient, thus energy lost on braking is on the order of 50% of that used for acceleration. This is moderated by the top speed, grade etc and gain/loss in height. So the cases are complex.
I do not have data on the mass of the train as well as the live load, or the HP of the motors and what acceleration in fractional g is involved. In any event to move more people/unit time, higher acceleration, top speed and braking all increase the passengers/hour.
It may well be the major culprit is this move to more people/hour via higher speed/acceleration/deceleration/efficiency etc, all of which are additive.
Hard to say which was best, so I will list several good decisions:

1) quitting a job to ride a bicycle up the east coast
2) spending 6 months in New Zealand and Australia
3) buying my first house
4) buying my second house across the street from a park
oh I have it,
Falling in love with programming, my career.
> Only a die-shot, it's disappointing that there's no comment or explanation.

A die shot that Apple themselves showed at the event. Which has had the same level of annotations previously by Anantech.

Sure, the DFR in early 2021 will be much more detailed, but also expensive to the point 0.001% of HN viewers will actually be able to see it. As such, I think your skepticism of this being worthy of home page billing is not out of line.

For the record, this is not meant to be a dig at TechInsights. I’ve seen a DFR before and they really are good for what they are, it’s just not something most HNers would gain value from, even if it were free.
Full debunking of Austrian concepts here http://socialdemocracy21stcentury.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.h...
You know that all the central banks are actually saying themselves they want to track? It's not even a secret, you can read it right on their websites. The EU bank and Commission use China as the example, check it out: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2020/6487...
This is a clever idea. I assume part of the original idea here was "What if we could have the programming trains with signalling from Factorio and OpenTTD, but in the real world?"

It does sound pretty fun to have some kind of real world Factorio train network game...
This is quite funny. Testing LSD on British soldiers:

https://youtu.be/ziqpwkhqTRs
I think this is partly why Rubber Duck Debugging[1] can sometimes work, especially if you're vocalising the steps. I've often started typing a question on Stackoverflow when suddenly I solved the issue just by the act of verbalising the question as I type.

I've found this to also help when I'm doing any sort of creative work or brainstorming, simply talking and explaining as if I'm presenting to an audience helps me generate ideas. Never spoken out loud to myself in public though...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
This doesn't actually work if there's no immediate solution and you have to pick duds before you can make progress. But I think the way to brute force that is by breadth-first search for dud-prefixes and ending with the specific sequence searches. For now I fixed it by just assuming we can always solve the puzzle with a single "leap of faith" pick at the start (seems so from my own anecdotal experience?) :)

Note that the full puzzle isn't really solvable off-line (edit: I mean in a fully general sense) because of the case where you switch from solving one sequence to another and an extra prefix gets added by the game as a punishment!
No one likes to be manipulated. The data they gather is used purely to manipulate you. In the wrong hands could be very dangerous.
I'd think so, given the immutability, lightweight processes, and other Erlang-specific features baked into the BEAM.

That's one reason I like Erlang and the BEAM so much: it's an opinionated language running on an opinionated VM that are made for each other, not a general-purpose system that has to be all things to all people.

The JVM is perfectly adequate as a kitchen sink. The BEAM doesn't need to be.
The half dose being more effective than the full one is a potential red flag that the study results are off.
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Yes, that's the M1X rumor, but that isn't going to be enough to compete with high-end CPUs in iMac and Mac Pros. For those, we have the 32-core rumor (but that is a massive die).

And doubling the M1-GPU will not be enough to even surpass current Macbook Pro offerings. So they'll also need to do something more on that front.
You will not find people wandering around near the summit (or in the avalanche chutes, where the device probably ended up, buried in snow and ice) of Nanda Devi in the season when even the accomplished mountaineers who left the device there considered it too dangerous to climb - this is one of the tallest and more lethal of the Himalayan peaks.
The logo alone wears off after a few years.
Is the only option searching for someone more fit to do the job to replace them?

That only works until you have ground away any motivation the new employee has.
I think it's possible (and not impossibly hard) to overcome the security shortcomings of the language, but the real problem is persuading the ecosystem (starting with its leaders that design core libraries and infrastructure like npm) that security is something they should care about.

The way javascript ecosystem designs its products affects basically everyone with an internet connection. It's almost like they had a moral responsibility to improve themselves.
There aren’t many downsides at the moment because the safety is probably pretty ok and the efficacy is probably pretty decent, but the reality is that AstraZeneca completely botched their study and if this was not basically an emergency situation, the vaccine would not have been approved.
One is an iteration on a proven design. One is a completely unknown new design. I’m not being defeatist, just pointing out that I’m not sure the latter is easier than chasing SpaceX’s strengths.
The real graft was stealing that money from citizens in the first place.
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RL needs a supercomputer and its code is usually too fragile - making a trivial mistake anywhere (missing a constant multiplication, swapping the order of two consecutive lines of code etc.) would likely lead to your model never converging even if you got everything else right.
In your head > out loud > on paper > to someone else.

"First you communicate with yourself." - Peter Drucker

I remember Drucker laying out this hierarchy for communication in his tome on management. Each step is progressively harder. Something that made sense in your head, you might not be able to articulate on paper. Something you just wrote may not communicate to someone else.

IME, it is spot on.
Create a poll: https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
No, the mistake is not showing additional promise. The “mistake” is a clue that the study was completely botched.
From what I'm aware of, the cases to watch out for are companies that have an "all your base are belong to us" clause in their contract. Typically it is worded as "any invention, innovation or idea conceived solely by you or jointly with others at any time during your course of employment, and that relate to any current or future business activities of the employer". Of course I don't know how much such as broadly sweeping agreement can hold up in court, but apparently there are some companies (Google comes to mind) that have a department which will review their employee open source contributions and give them the green light (or not) to contribute.

For future employment, I always watch out for that clause. And then I ask questions such as "Does this include any volunteer work I do for charities, such as help them with their web site setup?"
> Costs? Data security cannot be subject to tradeoffs.

That's obviously ridiculous.

Should I hire an army to protect my server room?

Should I hire the entire NSA to do a 2 decade long audit on my code, hardware, employees, etc, before I launch the service?
Here's the pilot's YT channel¹, and one of the videos that triggered the fines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQx6xhSSKco

¹https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrLRWeZSXoTrDlZ5zfkWjQA
Yes. The original trial required a total number of X people spanning the full range of ages and co-morbidities. But with the blunder, fewer than X people were assessed. Until the missing portion of the patients receives the nominal regimen of two full doses, the study, as it was designed, remains incomplete. The diminished number of patients will reduce the statistical power of the results, presumably to fall below what was deemed necessary and approved for the trial.

It's still possible that regulators will decide that 1) a sufficient number and range of ages and co-morbidies have in fact been assessed and that 2) the differential outcomes of the two groups is big enough to show the necessary level of efficacy and safety. But the 90% efficacy group clearly does NOT yet satisfy constraint #1, so until more 55+ year old subjects are added to the 90% efficacy part of the study, I suspect authorization will have to be based only on the 62% efficacy portion of the study.
A complete resounding success until it burst into flames!
I don’t want ads that remind me that I’m being tracked online and my estimated persona becomes more detailed with every link I click. I don’t want the track-and-profile phenomenon to exist at all. It’s a horrorshow.
OK, fine. Let's remove all forms of regulation, shall we?

Someone joins your company and starts leaking all your intellectual property. It is all good, though, because legislation related to that doesn't exist.

A developer joins your company, and shortly after uploads your entire code base to github. That's OK due to lack of legislation saying otherwise.

A sysadmin changes all the passwords and asks you for a ransom to unlock your production database. That's also OK.

Your ISP randomly makes your internet 99% slower and then asks you for an exorbitant amount of money. That's also OK.

The accountant forged your signature and stole all the money. That's also OK.

Your customers randomly decide to not pay you. That's also OK.

Your employees start dismantling the office and taking furniture and equipment home. That's OK.

The mailman shows up wearing the company swag you ordered. Doesn't matter anymore.

HR people upload a spreadsheet with everyone's personal information and salaries to the Internet. That's OK.

Some larger company sends some gangsters to force you to sell the company for a fraction of its price. That's OK.

As you can see, saying "regulation is bad" is nonsensical. Without certain guarantees, businesses cannot exist.
ULA is doing it, and seems to be a commercial success. I’m genuinely curious why ULA doesn’t get more publicity.
Keeping hundreds of millions of people locked inside their houses or in a 5- or 10-km radius is pretty close to modern serfdom, I mean, it definitely quacks and looks like serfdom to me. How else would you define modern serfdom?

Apparently we must apply these serfdom-like measures in order to win against the current pandemic, but that's a different discussion (one of effectiveness).
Pure speculation: the word bionic means using an artificial body part. The A14 Bionic includes a new Neural Engine for Artificial Intelligence.

EDIT: the name Bionic has been used since the A11 when the Neural Engine was introduced. Fusion introduced big.LITTLE.
For me the fun of RTS is slowly discovering new units and their application.

After I know the full tech tech tree RTS games become fairly boring to me.
In large laptops, i.e. gaming laptops or mobile workstations, the CPUs with 45 W nominal TDP are actually configured with TDPs up to 60 W or 65 W (the steady-state value). The boost power is higher in those cases, e.g. 72 W or even 90 W.

This is true for example in my Dell Precision laptop, where the CPU is configured for 60 W steady-state TDP, because the laptop has good cooling, which can easily cope with that, unlike in thinner laptops.

Your sarcasm is misplaced, because the TDP is the factor that determines the achievable multi-threaded performance of any computer.

Given the domain of application for any computer, e.g. handheld, tablet, thin laptop, thick laptop, desktop and so on, you get certain dimensions, which, together with the available cooling technologies, determine the TDP.

The TDP, together with the characteristics of the CMOS process used for making the CPU, determine the multi-threaded performance of the CPU, if the CPU designers are competent and do not make mistakes leading to lower performance than optimal.

Therefore, while the high single-thread performance of Apple M1 is due mainly to its clever design with high average IPC, its multi-threaded performance is determined mostly by the newer 5-nm CMOS process.

The higher efficiency of the 5-nm process would have allowed a higher performance within a laptop TDP, but Apple has chosen, for now, to reduce their costs by using only 4 big cores, instead of reaching the performance that would have possible for them when using more big cores.

It is likely that next year Apple will introduce models that will be limited by TDP, not by chip size, like this year. Until then, Intel & AMD will be better for multi-threaded tasks and equal in single-threaded (but at much higher power per core).
> 4 ints or worse, using a string

Or worse, in one case I've had to deal with both (plus another surprise twist):

public class IP {
byte[] value
// if true value is a variable-length ASCII dotted octet,
// if false it is length 4 - with LSB in value[0].
bool isString
}
CPU speeds have been similar to competitors until around the A10 era a few years ago. The real differentiator has always been software + hardware integration happening inside the same company. The hardware team gets the insight of the software team on what areas of performance should be looked at, and the software team can optimize for the exact specifications of a future CPU line.
As others have said, for me it's more about the methods used or whether they're using data about me I specifically gave them or they've inferred from me.

Targeting me on a keyword search is fine, also location.

Targeting me because of pages I've viewed in the past several weeks, a verbal conversation I've had, people I know, via the contents of my email- not so good.
My layman’s understanding is that doubling the payload quadruples the fuel requirement. So it is much more efficient to launch multiple rockets with a small amount of fuel than one big one with all the fuel you need. It’s the difference between O(n) and O(n^2).
Central Banks will use a digital currency but not a cryptocurrency. They need to be able to create it at will.

The point is to be able to easily zero an account. Paper money in your possession cannot be instantly destroyed without your permission. A digital currency could be used to induce monetary velocity...i.e. spend the money by Saturday or it is deleted. Or, if you are arrested for protesting the Government, your account is zeroed.
Where would you put a 100 person LES? I don’t think a solid rocket escape system would work in the belly flop position anyways since you wouldn’t gain any altitude, you’d actually be making it more dangerous since you’d be increasing horizontal velocity. Airliners don’t have ejection seats or parachutes.
I am slowly reading this book. The author actually had similar issues growing up: https://www.amazon.com/Limitless-Upgrade-Anything-Faster-Exc...
It is primarily why I post on HN.
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For #2, what is the actual technical hurdle to more widespread distribution? I saw an idea that every citizen should just automatically have a checking account at their regional Fed. Why not that? It does not seem technically infeasible, and the fed could then do distribution by debiting their own accounts.
Particularly for payments, Open Banking in the UK should offer some possibilities for non-card based systems.

Adoption seems to be small though.
You do realize that scientific studies are not the same as an interview right? You have time to reflect on your observations and you also have sizable teams to discuss those observations with, including the wider scientific community.

Everyone understands pressure does funny things to people. That’s why, for example, making mistakes is not considered bad when doing scientific research. However, not revealing those mistakes is considered terrible form, in an incentive to encourage open sharing as opposed to secretive misleading.
You’re still spinning violently and then snapping to a stop. I wonder if the payload could be designed to counter that in some way? If it was suspended in a liquid, that might work, but that’s unrealistic.
London wasn't that great when it comes to tech jobs compared to US/Canada. Starting salary for grads at FANGs is around a third of what it is at large US cities when living costs are no more than 30-40% lower for example. Compared to rest of Europe London is a lot better with notable exception of Switzerland which is a non-EU country. So to me it would seem that membership in EU is not a necessary condition for good tech jobs with competitive pay.

I'd be a lot more worried about the general shift to working from home than leaving EU when it comes to London's importance as a tech center.
Which code is not fragile in that sense? I think that is a rather strange criticism.
Personally been very impressed with yandex image search lately. Their reverse search is like the good pre-ai google one where it actually searched for the image not just search for the ai defined content + color scheme.
Adaptive cruise control is one component of autopilot. Mercedes has "drive pilot" (and ACC is one of the features included in that package), why is that okay? To me that sounds way more autonomous than autopilot - sounds like I don't need to drive (I still need to drive with autopilot, both in a car and in an aircraft).
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> (OSP) is an open-source, RTMP streamer software front-end for Arut's Nginx-RTMP Module. OSP was designed as a self-hosted alternative to services such as Twitch.tv, Ustream.tv, Mixer, and Youtube Live.

Is anyone here running this? I was searching for a self hosted streaming+chat to use with friends and it sounds perfect.

Alternatively if anyone has recommendations for a simple selfhosted chatbox I could add to an existing nginx+rtmp setup. I'd prefer not to have to install nodejs or have a full database backend (the couple I found required both). User accounts and longterm storage of the chat not really necessary.
Get a 2FA code in a message, switch to app, code forgotten.

Get a 2FA code in a message, read it out loud, switch to app, code remembered.
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