skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you read literally the next few lines:

> Citibank's procedures require that three people sign off on a transaction of this size. In this case, that was Raj, a colleague of his in India, and a senior Citibank official in Delaware named Vincent Fratta. All three believed that setting the "principal" field to an internal wash account number would prevent payment of the principal. As he approved the transaction, Fratta wrote: "looks good, please proceed. Principal is going to wash."
I can't speak to the legal options available and I am not a lawyer, but if there is a beneficiary you can put in your will/trust that you trust with access to Github, then you could put a couple copies of a keypass database, or even a text file on a couple of USB sticks and put them in a safety deposit box for someone to inherit. I would assume they have power of attorney. Perhaps you can make an agreement with them to periodically push a commit to a README.md file. This assumes you are not making payments to Github. If so, the executor / beneficiary in your will or trust would have to take over making payments. If that is not an option, then maybe the account will stay active if you make them contributors to your project. I don't know if Github will keep a project live if at least one contributor allowed read-write access is active. Everything I am suggesting may violate some AUP/ToS, but I have never been one to let such things get in the way when no other options make themselves available.

On a side note, something I do with VPS providers is to prepay them extra so that I have credit in my account. Even if I stop paying them, my services will stay live for years, if for no other reason than to have cron jobs email people I know so that my morbid bad humor can live on for some time. Perhaps you could do something similar so that your book continues to make money for your estate? Maybe another option would be to find a site that specializes in hosting static content specifically for this purpose and put in redirects on github to that site.
It is interesting to me how ready we sometimes are to dismiss others' self-reports. This is akin to doctors in early 1900's (and even now) simply ignoring women's self reports of pain.

When a person reports something about their own life and internal state, you need to have overwhelming evidence before you can dismiss what they are saying. On what grounds do you dismiss the author's claims about their life? He clearly has his life well-enough-together to get an essay published in a reputable science magazine.
Proof of stake is a solved problem, has a fixed block reward, has no ASICS or need for them, is no more complicated, is not in anyway subjective, and distributes coins just fine as both ADA and XTZ are doing right now.
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Safari appears to use a separate process for each tab.
Thank you. I always try to call out a fellow MMT'ers. Amazing how far this has come. Mossler said he thought it would take a hundred years to get to the point that the framework could be used pro-actively to create policy on a grand scale. Although, small scale stuff did come to fruition such as the Bush stimulus checks of 2007(i think) which I believe was MMT inspired.
To me this speaks more to the need for major money transfers to have more programmatic checks in place as well aa 2nd person signoffs.
Honestly if it's an issue they'd probably tell you you're also using their GeForce cards wrong and you need to move up to Quadro.
They might doing the same thing video games do to combat piracy.
No DRM is unbreakable, all games are eventually cracked, so why bother?
The thought is that it buys enough time during the critical launch window to sway people who will have pirated the game to buy a copy instead.

The case for this kind of video card "DRM" is actually stronger because miners either have to gamble and buy cards they know they won't be able to use until (or even if) a "crack" is available, or wait until a solution is available before buying them.

If the miners wait, this is a win for gamers and Nvidia PR because the cards will be bought by gamers since cards have a limited supply unlike video game licenses.
You might have misread that. A better phrasing is “no one gives you a 25 year loan in the middle of a civil war”.... for the exact reasons you listed
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Oh it absolutely serves a purpose, it's a shared value that speeds the exchange of goods and services. However as the monetary system exists now, is mainly as a tool of oppression to keep people locked in a cycle of working themselves to death. It doesn't work for anyone save a tiny minority of people, who have more of it than they could ever use.

I suppose instead of "moneyless" society, I'm saying we need a money reboot.
It's a continuous process that is already in progress and aimed at (mostly) completing in 2022.
For what is worth, ETH PoS alternatives are also gaining a lot of ground in the mean time.
Wow, what an interesting piece of UI to manage such a critical piece of financial process. Banks are probably one of the worst offenders of UI and UX design, and half the times, I can't even reason why.
Deepfakes may do this job for us.
Hey there! Hand raised, and happy to disagree =)

Giving people the autonomy to live their life, means there are many dangerous things you can say about things that are legal, and should be legal.

I believe people should be responsible enough to drive a car, drink alcohol, and with or without prescription take a drug without risking a prison sentence.

Now my advice is: It's not okay to drive while extremely tired, it's not healthy to drink yourself uncounscious (even if you're not an alcoholic), and you should probably continue to not treat heroin lightly.

I'm okay with all those things being legal. I'm not okay with people equating legal with safe. Of course words can be dangerous. That's why we call them out, but that's not a reason to send people to federal 'technically your life is not over' prison.
Given the idea of public offices allocated by lot to people who, virtually by definition, would have absolutely no idea what the job entailed, one imagines a "Yes, Minister" style class of civil servants with whom the real power actually resided.

I wonder if there is any evidence of that, or if the appointees genuinely winged it / learned on the job. I'm pretty sure I'd want a Sir Humphrey holding the hand of the guy in charge of the water supply, for example.
This is why everybody needs per-vendor credit card numbers: When you want to quit a subscription you just cancel the number.
The big draw of gaming cards is their resale value, when they become obsolete for mining they can be resold to gamers for significant fraction of their original price. Truly huge mining operations use ASICs anyway, but for medium sized farms gaming GPUs make more sense.
That would be interesting to see, indeed.

Never got a chance to work with Japanese.
Not sure how this is relevant. Company should look how to increase the supply instead of artificially crippling the product to squeeze more money.
The objective seems to be to stop miners from buying up consumer GPUs. Nvidia added a separate product line for mining.
I recommend David Nutt for more logical analysis of drugs and their dangers. Essentially the way drugs are classified makes no sense and is mostly a result of corruption and political, religious and even racist ideologies.

Drugs have had a profound effect on my life. Like many, I started with alcohol - the most boring and most dangerous drug there is. I later used cannabis, which I decided had an overall negative effect on my life, and MDMA. The latter I only used a few times but it changed me. I don't need to take it any more but it has improved my life no end. Now I only use caffeine (in tea and coffee). I haven't used other drugs for almost two years at this point (my last drink was around May 2019 and it ruined my sleep, as it always does, for the last time).
The vast majority of BTC mining is done in facilities that are colocated with hydro dams in China, so the CO2 emission is not what you might expect just hearing the number of KWH being used.
Who decides that someone is a responsible and healthy adult? Do we have any data on how many responsible and healthy adults try heroin?

Anecdata and broad brush strokes of course - In my experience anyway, the actually responsible and heathy adults I know haven’t felt the need to use heroin. The people who somehow are able to delude themselves into thinking they are responsible and healthy while obviously in crippling mental and/or physical pain, have - and it’s been devastating to them.

I’ve had prescription opioids before (hydrocodone, codeine, morphine) during medical emergencies. The feeling of peace and calm is amazing - which is exactly why it attracts people in pain and suffering, destructively so in many cases. It is difficult to know if that feeling is going to be magnetic or repulsive to you until you try it. It happens to be repulsive in my case (I know it’s a trap), thankfully.

It’s a complicated story of course, and bad outcomes tend to get the press. Better treatment (including in many cases mental health treatment) is definitely needed.

It is not the only substance like this - alcohol, tobacco, amphetamines, and others have track records of similar problems.

Pretending that anyone and everyone could self evaluate and go for it without a decent percent of them having major problems for them and those around them is unfortunately just not a good idea.
Looks like you probably also have SHARE_HISTORY set? [1]

[1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/396809/zsh-share-hi...
"Is there any non-zero number that's not too many in a real sense?"

No because he does not mention the denominator and is thus free to increase it ;)
I have worked for tier 1 banks for 6+ years in total and concur with the aforementioned statement about bad UI. My experience though is that no one wants to be bad obviously, and there’s plenty of effort to improve things, but big banks move slowly and corporate structures often inhibit swift innovation.

Edit: regulation doesn’t help either. Very often not enough time and effort is spent translation legal requirements into usable UI, and you have be both a legal and software expert to understand what you’re doing. If you get it wrong, you may well have just signed away all your money. Case in point: power of attorney features, pretty much everywhere.
I don't think it's overblown. I think it's spending $500 chasing that "perfect" typing experience and all the different switches that is overblown. I spent $50 on a basic G.Skill mechanical keyboard with Cherry Red switches and it's great. It's cheap, and best of all, it's very simple and repairable.

When I spilled a drink on it and gummed up a switch, I popped off the keycaps, took out a few screws, pulled out the board, desoldered the switch and soldered in a replacement switch. Good as new.

My favorite feature? The cord connects to the body with USB Type-C so even the cord is easily replaceable. The raised keycap design is nice too since I can just blow compressed air under all the keycaps to clean it and there's no raised edge around the faceplate to catch it.
This is an asinine argument.

The risk profile of Crypto vs an index fund is exponentially worse.

What you should care about is what asset provides you the best return with the lowest risk.

At any time in history you can look back at the past ten years and say "Clearly X stock was the best choice for investors and you're foolish to claim otherwise!"
You're right, I forgot they package up drivers for all cards in the same versioning scheme, so using 4XX version of the package won't support the card.
They should just add a checkbox that says "Dry run" to see if the money would be transferred to the right place...

I'll take $100,000 for this consultancy recommendation, thanks Citibank. ;)
I bet flexcube is extremely expensive software too. And I dont just mean because of the mistakes that must be made all the time.
Can you share your config file? I just installed my Hasu controller and I’m not sure where to start.
Indeed. My current board uses u4 silent boba switches and it’s as quiet as the pre-2015 MacBook keyboards and more quiet than the post-2015 MacBook keyboards.

There’s also Topre boards like the HHKB which are similar in silence to rubberdomes while offering a much more consistent keyfeel.

Noise in mechanical keyboards is a choice, not an immutable fact.
If someone is alleged to have claimed that ghosts don't exist, but we see them hanging protective charms over the doors and sprinkling salt on the floor, the objective observer will seriously doubt the allegation.
> We don't owe this money to some foreign planet with a death-star pointing at us

It's borrowed from the future. Literally, we owe the money to our future selves, like in human race.

To oversimplify it, we expect that the productivity (ie. the amounts of material possessions and services that are available to humanity as a whole) will grow in a geometric rate.

Those future money are an instrument on how this growth is to be directed, basically relying on the wisdom of the crowds to determine investment strategies. The opposite - direct planning of growth - was vastly tested (in communist countries) but it didn't go anywhere.
if someone drinks from 5pm-10pm one can of beer every 30 minutes thats 10 drinks. they could easily wake up at 7am, hold down a job and rinse and repeat. a 30 rack of miller light (my beer of choice) is $22 which is 73 cents a beer so thats ~$7.50 a day on beer. obviously there are cheaper routes (buying $10 handles of vodka for instance). so at least in america, price really isn't a factor here. and holding down a job most likely isn't a factor since they are stone cold sober from when they wake until 5pm.
i assume a lot of people silently live like this sadly
The entire story is the cost of not recognizing you're an engineering firm that handles money, versus a bank that bolts on IT at the lowest cost possible.

Citi learned the hard way, which is good, as it's the only way for such an org to learn.
Could they not still do that if they broke your window?

FWIW I have heard of many people having their window broken, I have not met anyone who had any of the concerns that people have about leaving their car unlocked actually happen to them.
This is also an issue I’ve seen with companies that began as startups, but then transitioned into the “big company” phase: Founders and early employees complain that “when we were getting started, we could’ve gotten this feature done in a week! What’s taking so long?” There tends to be frustration that employees won’t work nights and weekends, even though their work could “turn this company into the next Amazon!”

When you bring up the fact that the difference is that they have equity and you don’t, and that they would materially benefit from growth but you wouldn’t, they tend to get grumpy. But they never do have a better answer.
I mean I'm also disappointed by the slow pace of the transition, but they are clearly making progress towards it.

They've been _planning_ to move to PoS for ~3 years, with a much too optimistic timeline. In the meantime a lot of companies working towards that have collapsed or refocused on other efforts, delaying the whole transition. It will probably take another ~3 years (my personal estimate) until the transition is reasonably finished and core parts of the ecosystems have migrated, but at least it's moving into the right direction.
Your brain is physically changed the first time you try a strawberry. There is no going back to normal. There was the person who you were before you tried a strawberry and the person who you are after you tried a strawberry. If you manage to never eat another strawberry, ten years later you're still thinking about what a tasty berry it was. You will fondly remember that taste until you die ...
Unfortunately, insulin users in the United States are sometimes forced to turn to more nefarious means of getting money to support their body from dying. I've known 2 people who died that were unisured and broke who died from not being able to support their dependency on it. Universal Healthcare should cover those dependent on Insulin and Heroin
>all this article reports about is this anecdotal nonsense. I've too many friends to Heroin to know the reality of the drug

The experiences of your friends is anecdotal. This article discusses the mechanisms of the drug, both the physical and personal cause of addiction, the common factors that lead to death, and the rate of users that end up addicted.
She has truly brought MMT to the mainstream. She's why I supported Bernie Sanders ( and I am a former republican) who is clueless about MMT and thinks we have to tax the rich to fund Federal programs. Allot of people don't know this, but MMT intellectuals have said we don't need federal income tax at all. State taxes are enought to maintain demand for the currency. This from left leaning/progressive economists.
Happy to hear your disagreement! (Also, please have a wonderful day this fine Thursday.)

The thing is, wouldn't you agree that if something isn't criminal, then it should be fine to talk about the act of doing that thing? Because that's all this interview seems to be.
I liked the way you framed drug use as temporary happiness loans. That's very insightful.

>Now, I'm aware that this is quite complex, but still I wonder how many people there are out there who can self-control themself and diligently keep their debt in order.

The analogy breaks down a bit here for me.

Before I had a cat, I couldn't understand how people could pay so much for veterinary bills. After I got a cat, I could see myself spending more on her than I would spend on myself. Like, what's the point of having money if not to make my cat happy? My relationship to money itself changed. Self-control isn't a factor.

I'm stretching this analogy, but I wonder how many drug users with their happiness debts in balance have really just reframed their happiness finances around their addiction.
Not really - that site hijacks the browsers back button!
This man will eventually die of overdose, calling it now. It’s one thing to be a user, it’s another to be a delusional user that thinks they’re immune to addiction.
The dollar is backed by the petro-dollar, the fact that Saudi Arabia and friends only accept dollars when selling oil is one of the reason the dollar is strong. When you factor in that the US military protects the petro-dollar while at the same time being the biggest consumer on earth of oil, it starts adding up. Europe and therefore the Euro is also protected by the US army. All of a sudden, your fiat's energy consumption is probably much bigger than bitcoin ever will be.
Yes, it is. There is nothing magic about modern economy, increase supply of something more than there is demand for it and eventually it will lose its relative value. Many argue that real yield of T-bills is already negative. This is why the Fed has to buy them itself (thus effectively it prints money out of thin air), since there is not enough domestic or foreign investors which are willing to invest into them on such conditions.

I think we don't see big inflation (relative to the amount of the injected money) for two reasons:

- Slow velocity of money due to the effects of the pandemic. It's a temporary effect and we already see raises of oil and steel prices.

- Money distribution. The Fed (and the US government in general) policy mostly benefits the rich. Thus we do see inflation of real estate and financial assets (including cryptocurrencies). It works well for now (well, let's forget about the moral aspect of such policy for now), but such capital is very mobile and it can migrate to other jurisdictions very fast on the very first signs of danger, thus aggravating the situation which has caused this migration even further.

A bigger factor from which the "magic" comes in my opinion is the reserve status of the dollar, highly disproportionate to the global share of the US economy. There are signs that this status gradually being lost, which in 10-20 years probably will lead to big tectonic shifts in the global economy. I think that in 20-30 years, the US economy will be far more "normal" than currently, i.e. it will not be able to exploit the reserve status anymore.
My experience with drug users in the workplace is that the drugs make them seem more empathetic in a superficial way but in fact reduce their real empathy in the sense that they're less likely to help others in need; when they do help others, it's often to get attention to boost their personal image so that they can get more money and/or power.

I think drug use also encourages people to seek out more thrills in their personal lives. It takes away their ability to enjoy a simple life and makes them greedier for endorphins. I wouldn't be surprised if the current narcissistic, monopolistic corporate economic environment is a result of heavy drug use among executives. They can never get enough money or power because they can never get the life satisfaction that their brains need to match the highs provided by drugs; even given the fact that their regular life experiences are far better than the average person; it still doesn't compare to the drugs. The best possible life experiences they can get don't meet their new baseline for happiness. Drug use also seems to encourage cheating and other unethical behaviours since these behaviours deliver a natural high (alas, it still falls short of their drug baseline).
Vitalik Buterin on Space, Longevity, Mars and More (The “B-Side”)
I think people are missing the fact that the 3060 that NVIDIA is halving the hash rate on is not yet released. It is expected at the end of this month and different than the already-in-market 3060 Ti.

The 3060 Ti was already NVIDIA's mining efficiency leader (per W and per $). I think the 3060 would be in the same ballpark, if not better, which I assume is why NVIDIA is doing this.

Presumably they will do nothing to the existing cards (in part because it would solve very little if you could just use old drivers to get the unthrottled MH/s).
The part that is government debt, I think of as private funding of government:

* Government cannot cover its expenses through taxes

* There is plenty of wealth out there though, and its owners are eager to "invest" it

The problem is that with funding comes power. If a government owes you, you have some kind of power over it. There are many mechanisms — beyond the scope of this comment — but it leads to greater capture of government by the wealthy.

Who is wealthy?

* Retirement funds

* Companies with lots of cash sitting around

* Investment firms

An alternate approach would be to raise taxe rates on these entities instead (and hopefully lower the tax rates when the crisis passes) — then they wouldn't get the money back. In the case of retirement funds, you'd need to compensate with direct payments to retirees in general, which would be a redistribution of wealth.
My comment isn't an attack on banks though, it's just where mortgage interest more or less goes, into the banking system.

I suppose 'bank' can be bad shorthand for mortgage lenders, but whatever.
Security and stability is an other tradeoff: isolating code by running it in separate processes has a cost both in terms of memory and CPU.
Or a confirmation box with actual numbers: “Do you really want to send $XX to account A and $XX to account B”?

Even if you think you have an excellent, fool-proof UX, always make people confirm big things.
I guess the atmosphere would be too tenuous to try to blow dust away with it (max pressure should be a bit more than Ingenuity's mass/rotor surface, so not much).

How long before a commercial autonomous helicopter-based solar panel dusting service on Mars, I wonder?
What will happen after the Perseverance rover lands on Mars