skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So they put 3 guys who seem to never had done such a thing in charge of a $1B transaction, that requires special parameters, and they didn't even checked if their assumptions were right?

And here I am, tearing out my hair, sleepless nights, wondering if using iodash instead of pure JS incurs in needless overhead for people I don't know from anywhere visiting my website.

(probably someone got a nice check out of it though)
That's a fundamental thesis of systems safety work. "Human error" is a convenient, but fairly useless, designation for the cause behind something. Why was the human able to perform the erroneous act?

If the person went out of their way to perform the act, for instance they manually turned off all alarms because they wanted to take a nap, then sure, it's (largely) human error. But then you can still ask, why were they even able to turn off critical alarms? Why was there a single person involved in this apparently crucial position? What allowed us to hire someone like Homer Simpson into the nuclear power plant in the first place? And do we really want to rely on eeny-meeny-miny-moe to solve our problems? Maybe training needs to be improved, including evaluation of training results through simulations.
Yeah, I've done heroin, morphine, oxycodone, opium, and a few others in the past and never felt any pull to do them.

But I love cocaine, psychedelics, and weed though, and I have been somewhat addicted to all three at different times in my life. I specifically wouldn't ever get drunk if I didn't have weed to go with it, as that's the only way to make alcohol any fun for me.
It's very relevant. In fact I would argue that type systems only address the simplest possible errors and do absolutely nothing about the most complex, time-consuming errors such as those related to unpredictable state mutations caused by multiple events being processed in parallel or having different parts of the code operate on the same instances.

In fact, I would argue that static typing encourages developers to define more complex function interfaces which creates stronger coupling between components in the code and this leads to instances being passed around/shared between more different files and this is more likely to lead to unpredictable mutations of those instances' state. It makes it easier for developers to neglect good separation of concerns.

Dynamic languages make it more difficult to keep track of complex instances between different functions and files so they encourage developers to pass more primitive 'pass by value' arguments; this results in looser coupling between the components.

Dynamic languages encourage more modular, more interchangeable code. This is why the most popular package managers of all time are based on dynamic languages like JavaScript (npm) or Ruby (RubyGems) and not on statically typed languages; it's not a coincidence.
Clearly the solution for everyone is to either make a popular computer game that matches the signature of cryptocurrency mining, or develop a cryptocurrency that is mined by beating computer games that require high quality and frame rates to maximize the mining rate.

The graphic card manufacturers would, of course, have to optimize their hardware and software for these situations, to make the gamers happy.
Well, PG&E isn't the only electricity provider in California. Doesn't mean the numbers are correct, but pointing out rates in Silicon Valley doesn't mean the numbers are wrong.
How is that any different from someone deciding to opt out from society and move to... I dunno, the mountains? There's still a lot of places on Earth that are sparsely inhabited or completely uninhabited.
The CBECI tool estimates that bitcoin consumes about 15.24 gigawatts.

There are approximately 2 million employees working at FDIC insured banks in the United States.[2] There are approximately 330 million people in the United States.[3] United States food production uses about 10 quadrillion BTUs per year (about 332 gigawatts = [10 quadrillion BTU / (365246060) sec to gigawatts]). 332 gigawatts / 330 million ~ 1kW. That's approximately 1 kilowatt per person in the United States. There are probably some good arguments about exports etc but we will hold that aside for now. In 2019, total U.S. primary energy consumption per person (or per capita consumption) was about 305 million British thermal units (Btu).[5] = 305 million btu / (365246060) sec = 10kW. So, we get around 11kW per person for the total food and primary energy consumption rate.

11kW / person * 2 million people = 22 gigawatts

So, we come to the conclusion that if you look at the people employed by FDIC insured banks in the United States alone, they have a larger impact on the environment than bitcoin. If my calculations are correct, maybe we don't need this complaint to be the same first post in every thread on crypto.

Maybe I'm missing something or have done an incorrect calculation, if so, please point it out.

[1] https://www.cbeci.org

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/193286/number-of-employe...

[3] https://www.census.gov/popclock/

[4] https://www.chooseenergy.com/blog/energy-101/energy-food-pro...

[5] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=85&t=1
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All the original compilers like Lisp and Fortran were written in assembler. But that doesn't mean it was easy, or that the resulting language was very capable by modern standards. The thing about Forth is that it is easy, and you get a full-featured Forth when you're done.

That's not to say it can't be done in Lisp but Lisp needs a lot more runtime support than Forth. If I was going to bootstrap a Lisp, I'd bootstrap a Forth first and then write the garbage collector for Lisp in Forth.
My Model M was built in 1992, but still looks and feels brand-new.
Poor people largely aren't in debt. It's that rich people use massive amounts of artificially cheap debt to their advantage - and people without debt and assets pay for the bill - because the Federal government keeps devaluing their earnings and savings to pay for the party.
Most existing buildings can be retrofitted:

https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/report/united-states-b...
> Let’s think from other side.

You’re not thinking. You’re fantasizing and projecting. In your fantasy you basically stripped the Russians of all humanity to the point where they would intentionally poison a river with highly dangerous nuclear waste to stop a NATO conference and basically kill off an entire city.

Rather than these complicated conspiracy theories, a far simpler explanation is that Belarus needs energy and Russia has a nuclear power industry. Russia have sold these power plants all over the world, not just next to the EU border. If Russia really wanted to do something so horrific they don’t need to go through all the steps of building a complicated nuclear power plant to do it. They have plenty of weapons in their arsenal to do it already.
Not enough appsec people relative to engineers?
Yep, was thinking of the same thing when I read it. I have 2 gmail tabs in Safari, each taking over 1GB. One twitter that's about 1GB, one Slack that's over 1GB. Some of this is shared memory.

Is it that they don't realize Safari is a multi-process architecture, and they're only measuring Safari's main process?
Not true for gov debt. Its complicated. But its an infinite cycle of issuing new treasury securities to 'fund' the accounts to service existing debt. Those funds are then spend back into the economy and then used to purchase new treasuries again.
It comes down to the difference between b2c and b2b business. In the case of b2c, you’re selling to consumers, who themselves use your UI and will leave if it’s bad.

In the case of b2b, it’s more complicated. You’re selling to office administrators, whose goal is to score the best deal for the company. Since they aren’t the primary users of the product, stuff like UX doesn’t matter as much as cost.

Best illustrated by Slack, which thought they could sell to businesses based on a beautiful UI, but their market was dominated by Microsoft Teams, which could sell better to enterprises.
Wealth can't be produced out of thin air.

The best way to think of it is 356% inflation that will hit us slowly.

I'm this case because the printed money is going to people with lower income it can be thought of as wealth transfer from richer people to poorer people. Poor people get printed cash, wealth people lose more due to inflation. Most of us as software engineers should be losing money if our wealth is stored as cash.
Sorry I don't meet your intelligence level... clownpenis_fart.
Did you read the context of my reply? I know the article is about bad internal UI/UX. But my understanding of what the person I am replying to said was that businesses have to put up with terrible UI/UX for their banking portals. Which I anecdotally know to be true, at least with Canadian banks.

The business banking portal is often much worse than the consumer one.
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> The actual work of entering this transaction into Flexcube fell to a subcontractor in India named Arokia Raj.

> 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.

The names of these individuals seems like an unnecessary detail, especially since the article names the software interface as the culprit. I can't help but think about the recent NYT/SSC incident.
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Biden needs to be gitmo'd fucking hard!
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The lead times for the machines used in fabs are in the years.
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This is not the only class of accidental-but-plausible transactions. Why not just use "reason to believe the payment is valid" directly rather than singling out creditors?
This is the reason we need journalism. Somebody posted something on an image posting website and all the comments on HN go one way. Why is it so easy to manipulate people these days? Is HN going the same way as twitter, FB, or other SOCIAL sites?

I just canceled NYT's subscription, and it took two messages. 1. I want to cancel. 2. I don't want your discount.
Doesn't really make sense to blame Turing's sales on this when it was also a pretty bad generation in general (price hikes, poor performance, RTX gimmick turned out to be a flop).
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So can you allocate more memory than what is available in this way?
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You're looking for something with choc mechanical switches. I personally use a Lily58 but there's a bunch of other boards you can potentially find with them.
My county conservation district has a great native plant program. They have an annual native plant sale with amazing prices. I am picking up an order of 25 mock orange this weekend that I paid $10 for. They also do a 3 week, 3 lecture and fieldtrip course for $25 geared towards sustainable native landscaping.
I think AxisOption wallet and exchange platform is the best. For one, I earn passively while holding my crypto on the axisoption from their wallet systems and when I sell bitcoins on their platform, I receive very fast payments.
I spend my day on a Macbook Air and a MS Surface, and a Dell. The Dell keyboard is squishy and horrible to type on. I ordered a Logitech mechanical keyboard but it came broken, so I returned it.. and didn't get a chance to try it out.

Anyone have a recommendation for a low-profile, relatively quiet mechanical keyboard that will not feel disruptive to my Mac & Surface keyboard habits? Something akin to those, but mechanical, would be nice.

EDIT: OK, I'll edit my request for a recommendation: best keyboard of any kind if you're spending your day on Macbook and Surface keyboards.
I earn as high as 10% interests for holding my bitcoins on the AxisOption bitcoin wallet platform.
This is also a big concept in the medical world. There's an influential report on this from the 90s called "To Err is Human." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25077248/
Housing prices have gone up in response to demand, which spiked because of the pandemic -- in other words, new information entered the system (a pandemic can turn a desirable city into an undesirable place to live) and the market worked exactly as it should. It may be that suburban housing is more valuable because we are going to be dealing with pandemic-related messes for many years.
> Your suggestion is that if somebody wants to sell things to users who happen to be on smartphones without paying into the duopoly's protection racket

Obviously not. It’s not a protection racket.

I’m suggesting that it would be better for consumers if we had more competition at the platform level - then we wouldn’t have a duopoly, and we would have more pressure for the platforms to compete an innovate.

You list a bunch of technologies that have already been developed and can be integrated. I said it would take a billion dollars, so we’re on the same page.

> because then they'd have to buy a phone for every app.

Don’t be silly. Popular apps are available on more than one platform.

Yes, there would be exclusives - games especially, but that is no different to how it is now.

For all your complaining, you seem to be arguing very hard that we should be stuck with the duopoly you claim to dislike.

We deserve better than forcing both users and developers alike to deal with a bunch of additional middlemen within the duopoly.
Facebook did something shady? I know most of the stuff coming out these days is in the past, but I really hope they are turning the corner and starting to act like they poses a spine and want anything but more dollars. Otherwise I see a dark future and a lot of litigation in their future.
Buy and read The Unwritten Laws of Engineering by W.J. King.

It's a bit dated and somewhat sexist but has a lot of helpful advice - I wish I had read it when I started my career.
Thank you for this. You managed to put fairly specific words to something that I constantly struggle to define, which is the process by which one affects and influences the culture they exist in. I think it's important to bring these things up and talk about them, especially with people who are not exposed to echo chambers like this one. Talking about these issues on HN is important, but only matters if you take the subject matter and expose it to folks in other contexts. You describe this process really well.

I wonder, too, how we as tech-minded hackers and programmers and doers can use what we have and what we work with to strengthen these signals. Like, facebook and twitter et al have optimized for things like raw engagement numbers / advertising exposure etc. Are there things we could do to optimize for engagement / cultural development? I pose this question in earnest. It's something I have thought about a lot without many good answers to show for it.
Not original more like 2x more.
Most people owe at least 400% of their yearly earnings on their house, at least initially.
Sure they are; look outside the USA and you'll find many the world over. For instance, Canadian telecoms must provide access to their networks at minimal wholesale prices for competitors to enjoy.

The USA simply isn't a leading innovator in this regard.
Whoa, do you live in their data center? ;-)

Even my ISP's next hop is 2.5ms, 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1 are both at 4.7ms.
The instrument to regulate that is called the price. You increase the price until there is a steady supply. That would help funding new fabs and in the long run increase the supply so that it could be available for a broader range of consumers. The way they do it is not sustainable. They will not generate enough money to pay for new manufacturing plants this way.
Wonder how many other times this has happened with smaller amounts of money and noone noticed.

That form looks like it's been around a loooooooong time.
Hey! I'm on android and have tried both. Currently liking Grey Matter a bit more. Whats your username! I'll follow you!
I haven't R'd TFA, but if I ever wanted to cancel my NYT subscription I'd just close the associated Privacy.com card. It really makes daily life a lot easier.
I own a bar so I figured I'd chime in with some personal observations of my customers:

The bulk of my customers drink 5-7 nights per week. We call them "regulars." They come every night when their shift ends, and most of them stay until close (although they are primarily service industry, so this is 5-7 hours per day). If they have a day off, they often show up earlier.

For these people, I think that one drink every half hour is an understatement. They're having a beer/cocktail every half hour or so, and mixing in shots, jello shots, etc. If they have limited time, they will up their rate of consumption. They're after a specific result.

I have no idea what percentage of the population they represent.

We have a lot of other customers who we see maybe once a week, every other week. Some folks come in to eat our food special and just have a couple beers and go. Stuff like that.

I think that you are probably in the latter group (or the non-drinking group) and so you don't see the former group. I very much agree that the heavy drinkers are not living normal lives; they ARE in fact permanently hungover (or should be--they learn to deal with it in various ways). It's a continuing problem with my own staff, actually.

Anyway, they're out there, they're holding jobs and making children, and they undeniably have a problem with alcohol. But again, I have no idea what percentage of the population they make up. Maybe I'm seeing the worst of the problems--but I don't actually believe that.
Can you give an example where you can put real dollars in and only get tether out? The major American exchanges have ACH withdrawals (obviously). Coinbase + Kraken + Gemini have massive liquidity in real dollars. You could cash out millions per day without moving the needle.
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You can call it populist if you want, it's just mechanically true. For money to be lent out it's coming from somewhere where the money is existing or the risk can be handled, and in both of those cases where money exists or risk can be handled you're typically looking at richer rather than poorer. If you're a shareholder, you are more able to afford risk than if you're just throwing your money at paying the bills. If you're in that situation and borrowing from a bank, the bank's shareholders mechanically are benefiting from your activity. You're borrowing to get by and people who have a better cushion are doing better for it, I don't see what's so shameful to point out.

Your explanation doesn't explain anything away but to try and put some sort of weird blame on poorer people for borrowing, it's just as usual of a narrative as the populist thing to be infantilizing poorer people. There's however a pretty big difference between borrowing at your limit or sometimes beyond because you're trying to get through a pandemic or have a place to live, and borrowing at high risk because you're playing with huge sums and can in fact afford the loss. The latter as a group made more money during the pandemic from any possible source you could look at, the former as a group lost money and jobs. I won't insult you by throwing Oxfam reports at the situation, especially since you might be keen on calling it populist too and calling it a day.
So Bitcoin is a weight in addition to all the banking weight?

We’re running two banking systems right now. It’s inefficient and stupid.
Well the underlying issue was that they accidentally sent the money in the first place. The fact that they were on bad terms with their creditors meant that they couldn't correct the mistake after it happened.

> The mistake wouldn't have mattered much...

Accidentally sending nearly 1 Billion dollars is a pretty big mistake and it matters a lot. You can't just be throwing hundreds of millions of dollars into people's accounts and think its not a big deal because they will "probably" give it back.
If you think this, you clearly don't read the NYT regularly.
Flexcube was developed by i-Flex Solutions which was originally called Citicorp Information Technology Industries Ltd (CITIL) and was actually spun off Citibank. Citibank invested about USD 400,000 in it and though I don't have direct details of how much they paid to use it, it wouldn't be a bad guess to assume that as the original/founding investor in the firm, they probably got a very sweet deal. Oracle buying Flexcube from i-Flex happened much later.

I remember using Infosys's Finacle in 1998 (it was called Bancs2000 then). It had a TUI interface and was very snappy until they moved to a web based version and called it Finacle. We hated it because it couldn't keep up with muscle memory everyone had developed on the TUI. Flexcube came a bit later and started to gain momentum around 2005-2006.

PS: also wanted to add that most of the issues I've seen in these banking software are due to never-ending customizations demanded by the banks. The core products are usually well designed. There is basically an entire industry around core banking customizations and a lot of people working in that are basically old-school bankers who have migrated to technology (nothing wrong with that) - a good portion of them have excellent business knowledge but not much idea of UI/UX.
It's tsmc if anyone who needs competition. Without solving the supply side, its unlikely that the situation will improve meaningfully for the consumer.
What do you mean by incorrect? Because you're asking us to prove/argue that Left policies are incorrect. By correct/incorrect do you mean:

Moral/Immoral?

Right/Wrong?

Fair/Unfair?

If we can agree on judging policies, platforms, ideologies and beliefs on a shared set of criteria, then we can move forward, otherwise we're just shouting at each-other.

You can tell me all day long that it's fair for me to get my stuff taken away without my consent by an entity because I got born within it's "borders"; but that won't make it fair for me within my moral framework, irrespective of how much I deplore the suffering of the poor and unfortunate and want to help them.
I just noticed that they've taken the arrow keys off the HHKB! It always had an inverted T.
In France I am sending an email to the company, and then cancel my direct debit agreement. Total 5 minutes.

Of course you may have timing requirements (engagement for X months, or cooldown period, ...) but beside that it is very simple.

Once you cancel the direct debit, the bank is not allowed to send money anymore and it is now a problem between you and the company if they do not get paid.
> I and my bank don't have any debt, considered as a group.

The way this figure is calculated, the amount of debt you and your bank have between you is your mortgage + your bank account.
To be honest, is what I expect someone with a drug problem to say.
My essentially perfect rubber dome keyboard finally gave out last summer (after more than a decade of service) so I decided to finally jump onto the mechanical keyboard bandwagon. I'd cut my teeth on a Model M and old spongy domes so linear switches where out. I considered getting a model M but I wanted the feel of building something myself (and let's be honest, the endless customization is fun!) I ended up putting heavy Zealios on a barebones 10kl board and couldn't be happier.
That's putting it lightly.
Any serious audio transmission is going to be done over UDP as otherwise you get ridiculous head of line blocking issues where a single lost data packet can cause a blip in the audio at least as long as a full round trip. NAT--even broken symmetric NAT--is not an issue, as the client is establishing the channel to a fixed, public endpoint.
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