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The definition of fiat means by decree. In other words fiat currency has value because a central government authority (formerly king) decrees that the paper has value. Bitcoin has no central authority that decrees it has value - only demand by the people drives the value of Bitcoin.

Bitcoin may be a lot of thing, but it isn't a fiat currency.
What do you mean? The only reason this didn't exist is nobody did it yet. It doesn't contradict "do one thing and do it well".
Do you have any evidence to back up the causal relationships you're inferring?
Looks like Softlayer / IBM Cloud. There are some high numbered ports listening and accepting connections, including git/9418, which is interesting.
Gees yea that wont pass health and safety... impressive though!
I have a bit of an out there question but maybe you know the answer as I see you've done some piracy mapping. Is there any tech that's addressing the piracy issue that you think is just phenomenal (also thinking about unlicensed fishing in poorer countries territorial waters they can't defend but maybe the overlap isn't that great)? My understanding is basically this has been resolved by 1) ships routing through well controlled seas or 2) ships hiring additional private security for staffing on ship or as escorts. Is that correct?

Edited because I have no manners - congratulations on the launch too, I didn't see your pitch but the product sounds really cool and I'm sure shipping is top of mind for everyone right now!
Yes, they are considered firefighters. They get a state pension.
Not having HTTPS certificate is a nice touch :-)
On the other hand, we are a people of stories. Stories help to explain abstract concepts and elucidate our values.
Everyone has a belief system, even if they are unaware of it.
This is pretty awful, as in mean. Why would you deliberately want to insult someone who hasn't done anything to you? If it's getting them back sure, but as sport? Just cruel.

Despite all the equations, it seems to me that your work didn't require any real mathematical sophistication. Did I miss something? (This is an especially good ploy if you observe others struggling to understand the talk because they will not want to admit to that after you imply it was easy.)
Isn't this just a straightforward extension of an old result by Hartmanis? (Not even Hartmanis remembers all the theorems Hartmanis proved, but everyone else will assume you remember something they have forgotten.)
Am I missing something here? Can you identify any deep mathematical content in this work? (Once again, audience members who found the talk difficult to understand will be unwilling to admit it.)

Wasn't all this done years ago at Xerox PARC? (No one remembers what was really done at PARC, but everyone else will assume you remember something they don't.)
Have you tested this on the chip Intel got running last week in their lab? (No one knows what
chip Intel got running last week, but everyone will assume you do.)
Am I missing something? Isn't it obvious that there's a bottleneck in the system that prevents scaling to arbitrary size? (This is safe because there's a bottleneck in every system that prevents arbitrary scaling.)

Reminds me of low effort "comments" on Show HNs. Now I'm thinking that maybe people were deliberately trying to be insulting. But why...? Especially when people are being vulnerable sharing their work....
When you're using an ecosystem like Rails, Redis is assumed to be a basic part of the stack so you don't really give it a second thought. Between ActiveJob/Sidekiq and ActionCable leaving out Redis leaves some large pieces of the framework on the table.
I don't believe these tweets are aimed at the general public. At the time of these tweets they were in the final days of a union election. Amazon is trying to win over undecided workers from unionizing.
Exactly. E.g. remove this line, and incorrect optimizations ensure, so the compiler fails halfway through recompiling itself:

http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/tree/share/txr/stdlib/optimi...

The type is fine whether or not the line is present. It's all about that invariant.

None of the hair pulling I've experienced in compiler debugging had anything even remotely to do with type, which is something flushed out by testing.

Whenever doing anything, like an optimization test case, I put in print statements during development to see that it's being called, and what it's doing. You'd never add a new case into a compiler that you never tested. Just from the sheer psychology of it: too much work goes into it to then not bother running it. Plus the curiosity of seeing how often the case happens over a corpus of code.
Under attack how, exactly? By being asked to close during a pandemic?
That's why COVID-19 is diagnosed not only by rt-PCR, but also on the basis of symptoms, chest CT scans, and other nucleic acid testing.
Are you claiming that marginally declining religiosity is the dominant factor to be considered in the breakdown of "public morality"? Among such factors as 50 years of stagnant wages and the rise of social media?
Enterprise sales requires paying salespeople for their network of potential customers and time to reach them. The sales cycle is long and risky for companies that can't absorb the cost of the sales salary and time to get revenue.

Unless you have a ridiculously good relationship with a handful of organizations or a perfect system for fitting into existing infrastructures, it's a big mistake to care about selling something to those organizations.

AWS is popular because it's free for companies with a high potential for getting big (like YC companies) and they can absorb the costs of the sales cycle.
That link is about Methodists splitting over a fairly big issue (gay marriage) and not the minute differences referred to in the parent comment.
> But the vast majority of people paying NYC prices...

Those prices have already dropped and if there's a continued, long-term drop in physical jobs then those prices will drop further, attracting a younger crowd that values aspects of the city other than proximity to a workplace. I've been apartment hunting and a lot of brokers say there's already a huge influx of younger renters, and I have multiple friends looking to migrate from Brooklyn to Manhattan due to rent drops.
A bit surprised you sent the photos to Amazon. That person is likely to be fired. A bit of pee on the street is not going to harm anything or anyone (otherwise the streets around bars would be an enormous biohazard), although it's obviously gross.
Is meta tag outside of html intentional? HTML 2.0 was way before my webdev days.
And in the 90s CSS was unreliable and often difficult to use. Internet Explorer made it difficult to go full CSS for a long time.
> Public morality cannot be maintained without religion

Do you have evidence or arguments for this, or is this just a feeling? I can see an argument for the statement "religion can be and has been used to maintain public morality" but that's not what you said, so I'm curious about your reasoning.
It's hard for me to see how you're reading Ephesians 5 in good faith. Wives submit to your husbands, husbands sacrifice your lives for your wives (like how Jesus ya know, was crucified for his Church). And you read this as misogynistic?

This is not by far the most problematic Pauline passage in terms of male/female roles. Taken at face value this is some pretty deep advice for how to have a functioning marriage where two people need to make decisions for their family and don't necessarily see eye-to-eye on everything.
A carton would be challenging.
As a dumb smoking teenager I competed to smoke a whole pack and even then it made me quite nauseous. Took about 5 or 6 cigarettes back to back.
Ya, Amazon Prime was pretty smart. Ok, Bezos did two new things.
Ark Invest's ARKX space exploration ETF to begin trading on Tuesday
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.
This looks pretty great, thanks! (There do seem to be some dupes, within filter-sets).
It's an interesting argument that you lay out, and as agnostic that came from a religious family, it's something that I've personally grappled with. In the absence of religion, where do people find their moral and ethical compass? I wasn't raised atheist, and when I ask atheists this question they often dismiss it as not important or obvious. I feel like that's half the reason religion persists, because they actually attempt to answer such questions with respect.
Cloud CPU Benchmark Amazon, Alibaba, DigitalOcean, Google, Linode, Azure [pdf]
Best of Codepen #8/2021
I wonder if the account purposely changed it's source label to avoid any pee bottle posts coming from "Sprinklr."
> The native GUI toolkits are suffering form abandonment

SwiftUI is new.

Flutter is new.

Both have taken birth recently and have huge investments and usage.
May I ask if the approach you describe here was what you applied in the FAANG interview? I would be pleasantly surprised if it worked! :)
I 100% believe that drivers pee in containers - heck, my grandfather and I used to do the same when fishing - they make containers with handles specifically made for this.

That said, given that the firestorm has become very public, I would expect disgruntled (or any driver, they are wage slaves) drivers to be acting more conspicuous to draw more attention to the problem, which may temporarily inflate its visibility, but hopefully it also leads to change.

I'd talk about it (spread the word like here), but avoid being specific enough to affect the worker unless it looks like they were endangering someone - but that's just me.
Yep, I don't think buying a robot that just cooks 3 or 4 meals a day per household will ever make economic sense.
Gosh, this Repo is missing a Demo part so much...
> unfortunately we're not as good as our software at simplifying the explanation

You mean the software provides explanations for its outputs and decisions, in the classic AI style? Or did that mean something else?
One of my friends was a hired courtesy of Reagan's actions. He retired in the middle of last year (mandatory retirement). I know 2 other ATCs that retired in the last year. I bet you're right.
Amazon will tell you that it is a completely separate subsidiary and act like they have no control over it. I called them about a driver who blew through a stop sign and furthermore did a hasty 3 point turn in a driveway almost hitting my car. I had to blow the horn the truck was inches away. They too are at the mercy of whatever algorithm tells them they should deliver and are punished otherwise. Customer service could not do anything they directed me to the delivery subsidiary who stonewalled me as well.
Sorry, that comment was pre-caffeine and it probably seemed like I was dissing on the GUI. I meant to suggest git add -p as an option for those who don't want to use Magit or similar, or as an intermediate step between git add . and a GUI diffing tool.

Git add -p is still pretty useful for reviewing individual changes, but slicing finer than that, or editing patchsets directly as text, is definitely a dark art, but one that I'm glad that I have learned through repeated trial and error (e.g. recognizing that the first column must always be a space, plus, or minus). I would probably have added to my prior comment that a specialized diff editor paired with git add -p might be more useful than doing so with a usual text editor.
there may be reasons you wish to reconsider OpenBSD

https://isopenbsdsecu.re/
At their peak the Boomers were 1/3rd of Americans.
If God is the source of all that exists, then wouldn't He be the source of "daily bread"? This doesn't imply that the bread magically appears (though admittedly the OT has manna in the desert), nor does it mean that sustenance doesn't derive from human labor. All it implies is that God is all-powerful, the creator of everything, and this is a request that He look after our material as well as spiritual well-being.

Also, I won't concede that things in the Bible are not often rhetorical or metaphorical when they in fact are. The Gospels themselves are full of the disciples having no friggin clue what Jesus is talking about, and asking him to "speak plainly." I think for maybe a child who can only interpret things literally, the concept of God as wish-granter might make sense.

Also, your own citation conditions the grant on "good" gifts. What are good gifts in God's eyes?

Ultimately, this is a matter of faith whether you believe this or not. But I only ask that you reconsider your juvenile straw-man of what we believe.
> Forgive my possibly abrasive tone, but "given the emphasis on faith and belief that everyone is flawed" falls apart when the focal point of the church and the religion it purports, the god, is held to be infallible.

Not really. That only falls apart under particular assumptions (e.g. an assumption that a perfect thing will only create other perfect things, or that perfection will be the particular kind you imagined it must be).

> (In Street Epistemology the "Outsider Faith Test" is used to demonstrate this; broadly phrased, "If it is possible for a person of Hinduism to use faith to justify their belief in their god(s), and it's possible for a Christian person to use faith to justify their belief in their god, yet those beliefs are in opposition to one another, is faith a reliable tool to determine what is true?")

I've got a pretty clear sense that there are regions of truth that our "reliable tools" cannot access. Faith is basically the hope that some of those regions can be accessed in other ways.
I don't know where I got so misinformed. I thought Deno had stopped going for a TS runtime.
I use Amazon almost every day, and I feel bad about it every time, but apparently not bad enough to stop.

Imagine a Walmart that was several degrees hotter or colder than you’d like your house to be, with less bathrooms and a concrete floor. Now imagine running around it all day bending over to grab things off the bottom shelf and being timed by a buzzing iPad if you’re too slow. And say you’re you’re 65 and Social Security pays half your rent.

Now imagine that you’re the part of Amazon’s supply chain that the local jurisdiction that demands you’re treated better than the other 97% of Amazon’s chosen supply chain.

Refreshing is one word for a company being honest about the fact that they are lobbying hard to make your hypothetical life 0.001% more efficient.
... and what exactly are these two destructive regimes?
Because on the main point, they're all pretty much aligned: Salvation is achieved through Jesus's death on the cross. And fundamentally, it's the only thing that really matters in Christianity.

In that respect, shopping for churches is mostly irrelevant. What you see as fundamental differences are really more social than theological, in which case the shopping around makes a lot of sense.

"the bible specifically and religious texts generally aren't reliable systems to learn about the world."

I think most mainline Christians would reject the notion that the Old Testament is a factual historical record. (Less so for Evangelical and Pentecostal, however). Religion teaches us "why", not "what".
that's why we need everyone using their brains, even if they come to wildly implausible conclusions for any given topic, rather than blindly relying on 'experts'.

we the people must question and challenge the so-called experts publicly. that would constrain the mediopolitical narrative in a way that reflects the general wisdom of the crowds. where we go wrong is allowing the mediopolitical machine to lead with a self-serving narrative which preemptively correlate opinions along their preferred axis rather than the collectively wise one.

it's a age-old battle but one we must continue to wage.
I like the idea that you can use Twitch for kids and make it work. It seems scary to have a kid stream, but glad it is possible!
I got a fascinating perspective on this from the archeological museum in Crete. It proceeded in chronological order, so I was very confused to get to a room of clearly more primitive geometric designs.

It wasn't out of order. Everything clearly collapsed, and their art suddenly got a lot simpler and cruder. I learned a lot from that museum.
In Syria and Iraq quadrotors with bombs were used pretty extensively, first by ISIL and then later by the Iraqi state. They were used to target small groups of infantry and vehicles [0].

In another case, small CoTS RC planes did significant damage to a Russian airbase in Syria [1].

[0]: Death From Above: The Drone Bombs of the Caliphate https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/2017/02/10/death-drone-...

[1]: Russia Offers New Details About Syrian Mass Drone Attack, Now Implies Ukrainian Connection https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/17595/russia-offers-ne...
a note for many: yarn v2 provides '0-config' fully cachable dependencies (zips in lfs). This makes it possible to fully vet dependencies and enforce change approval and analysis in CI/CD.
Lifeguarding in LA is a combination safety job and entertainment job. LA depends a lot on tourism, and specifically beach tourism. Keeping the beaches safe is very important for tourism.
Wow this is awesome! I kind of want this integrated into Alfred though...

Edit: it of course already has it https://github.com/nikolaeu/numi/wiki/Alfred-Integration
I watched my ikea delivery driver pee on the hill across from my place right before delivering the package to me. it's probably not a solely amazon thing even though they are well known for it.
I take your statement to be a bit tongue-in-cheek, but if you're unfamiliar with Strauss-Howe generational theory[0], you'd think there would be another "good generation" right around the corner.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generatio...
I would agree the big difference is culturally, but I don't think it is really just the licenses that they choose. Free Software people value user freedoms, any license that allows that is good for them. There is no difference when a user uses a copyleft or more permissively licensed software because they have those same freedoms. Now when the code is a library, that is definitely a concern for the Free Software person because a permissive license can allow that code to be included in software that removes those freedoms from the user. So they might prefer a copyleft license like the GPL or a slightly more permissive license like the LGPL.

Open Source might be a bit more complicated to explain because there actually seems to be multiple groups under it. A big part of it is more about a development method where you develop the software out in the open, allowing anyone to contribute. This was made popular by Linux and is now pretty much used by all Free and Open Source Software projects. People in this community will often say this is a superior way to develop software over other methods and allow you to create better quality and more reliable software. Then there is the group that prefers permissive licenses because it is more business friendly as described by this post. Then more recently is this new group that wants to restrict a bit on the usage of their software with licenses like the Commons Clause and the Server Side Public License. I know many don't consider these open source, but it is a valid concern for these type of projects and they are originally open source projects trying to figure out a solution.
They built a computer model to try and manage the stress on the ship as they worked to free it. It was not straightforward as the ship could have broken if they weren't extremely careful. They also had divers inspecting the hull for signs of stress. This was a massive, complex operation.
> One of the most interesting things about software dev (I'm in my 50's) is that you never run out of puzzles or problems to solve.

It took me until recently to realize I needed to find new problems to work on to avoid burnout.

It feels like a paradox (avoid the well trod easy stuff to work on challenging stuff) that this adds to job satisfaction but I think it’s true.
Presenting source available licensing as a threat to open source as a whole or "open source done wrong" has always seemed a little dubious to me. Doubly so when it comes from the likes of Amazon or Google.
Fair, but as a defendant the trial is pretty much your only chance to tell your side of the story to the people whose decision actually matters. Police officers and prosecutors don't decide whether you go to jail so there's never a point to trying to prove your innocence to them.
Canada to recommend provinces suspend AstraZeneca use among those under 55
I feel like experimentalists have changed quite a bit in 20 years as big distributed systems have become more common. A good question might be “Sure your performance scales better than other systems but how does it compare to a single core, or a single big machine?”
Because you're pushing the cost on to someone else.

If your DNS hosting provider charged you per query (some do, especially when adding features like health checks & load balancing), then it might make a big difference.
Late delivery penalties aren't really an economic loss, it is a wash mostly. Similarly loss of revenue is mostly a wash

The freight costs are in the range of 0.6%-3% of the cost of the goods transported on average. This is for the amortized cost of purchasing the ships, maintenance, the labor and fuel costs. If you estimate the value of the delayed goods at $10b, and the freight costs at an extra 2% that's $200m in damages.

Most food transported this way wouldn't be spoiled by a delay of a week. If 10% of the goods were food by value, and 15% of them were perishable, and they were worth half as much after being delayed delayed a week that is another $75m lost to spoilage. But it isn't always a one week delay, many ships are delayed less to start, and there will be increased congestion in the ports and ground transport for many of these ships.
> to a higher-level view, that enabled Kasparov to find where Deep Blue was weak

I don't know if the same could be said of AlphaZero.
There are plenty of modern Christian sects where I'm certain men do get more of a voice than women.
So Amazon/Bezos are learning how to behave on Twitter by example of Donald Trump?
They seemed to have pretty much bottomed out. All of the good places and good deals get snatched up within a week or two of listing. The demand is still higher than the supply. Although there does seem to be more places available in the less desirable parts of the city (the northeastern bit) which suggests to me that a significant portion of the people who couldn't really afford to be here have left.
Is human pee any more gross than dog pee? This isn't a rhetorical question - I'm genuinely asking.