skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point is that if the decentralized economies are used then there's no need for centralized entities like banks. Aka don't need to regulate the banks holdings if they don't act centrally.
I don't know that the poor were any better off before the Federal Reserve system; in fact, it made the possibility of monetary rescue even more exclusive.

Part of the reason why the Federal Reserve was formed was because in 1907 J.P. Morgan got his boys' club together and coordinated a financial rescue, but tough luck if you weren't benefitting from that.
Government is a service, and services work harder when they have to compete.

Tax competition is a good thing. When raising taxes is hard, government has to work to justify its spend. If it doesn't, the business and talent goes elsewhere.

The proposed policy seems to be one thing pretending to be another. It is selling itself as a crackdown on big tech tax minimisation. Your description of it as a cartel arrangement is much more fitting.
Going horribly wrong is somewhat typical for large software projects.
lol "new financial system", bitcoin is literally useless. take of your tinfoil hat
This whole legislation is a huge waste of time as a way to fight fraud and fake products. Do you really expect the consumer to try to track down some person via their address (which may be a PO Box) and try to sue them, only to have them say their merchandise was actually mixed with others and so they are not liable?

The much better version is to make Amazon fully liable for everything they sell, even third party merchandise. Amazon can then figure out what it needs to do to fix the issue. Consumers shouldn’t have to worry about it.
Isn't QFT limited to 0 (or otherwise negligible) gravitational interaction between particles/space-time?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27454418
Being selfish and cooperation are not exclusive.
Opinions and options for dependency management in Clojure
The key issue for “Free Silver” is not paper certificates,
nor unlimited coinage, but the fixed exchange rate between silver and gold, in which the two metals were considered
primarily as money, and not as commodities with separately
varying supply and demand patterns.

Imagine briefly a market in which APPL and TSLA
common stock were subject to a fixed price ratio.
Crazy idea, yes? But a 16:1 ratio for silver:gold
makes just as much sense from a market point of view.

For the consumer, investor, banker, a fixed ratio is a nice
convenience, but if the supply or demand for either gold
or silver were to change significantly, opportunities for
arbitrage could become very profitable. Now think of
the California gold rush, the Comstock silver lode, and
the hundreds of other mining booms between 1850 and 1896.

Who benefited, and who paid? Were WJ Bryan and other orators and politicians champions of the masses or tools of the robber barons?
A more historically supportable outcome would be a coup by a military junta and/or a civil war.
I mean, those are still awful. This would be a two birds with one stone kind of situation.
perhaps a transfer from the future to the present
Glacier pricing can be hard to grok...

With Glacier as it is usually used you dont read data directly from the Glacier storage, it has to be restored to S3 where you then access it. That is the restore charges and the delays, so you can pay a low rate for the bulk option that takes up to 24 hours to restore your data to S3. But the real cost is the bandwidth from S3 back to your NAS/datacenter/etc, which brings it up to about $90USD/TB.

Other fees would include request pricing, some low amount per 1000 requests. So costs can go up a bit if you store 1 million small files to Glacier vs 1000 large files. There is also a tipping point (IIRC about 170KB) where it is cheaper to store small files on S3 than Glacier.

Depending on your data and patterns it can be better to use Glacier as a second backup which is what I do. All my data is backed up to a Google Workspace as that is "unlimited" for now. The most important subset (a few TB) also goes to Glacier. Glacier is pay as you go, there isnt some "unlimited" or "5TB for life" type deal that can change. If Google Workspace ever becomes not "unlimited" or something happens to it, I have the most important data in Glacier and its data that I have no qualms paying >$1k to get back.

But for me restoring from Glacier means that my NAS is dead (ZFS RAIDZ2 on good hardware) and Google Workspace has failed me at the same time.
I'm guessing you missed the whole point of who I was replying to. They weren't defending anyone or talking about an aggressive dog, they were talking about a dog that walked up to a man and he shot it. That was the example. That is a by definition example of a sociopath, dog owners not putting their stupid dog on a leash is probably irresponsible or selfish, but not sociopathic.

I've already acknowledged there's nuance to the idea of being able to shoot a dog, much like there is to shooting a human. You were so desperate to argue your silly little point about defense that you forgot you, and some of the other folks here, are defending someone who shot a dog for no reason.

That's who you defended and voted for. That's what I was upset about.
Looks like El Salvador is on a mission to make itself the world's fool. crypto "currencies" have no use case except for gamblers, stop wasting everyone's time. There is literally nothing more useless that this electricity could be used for
The biggest harm is going to be people getting side effects with no benefits. I suppose you could argue that Alzheimer's is so bad that who cares about bad side effects, but usually you would not want a drug on the market with no real benefit and a bunch of potential side effects sitting out there.
Why didn't you take those monitors home with you? Wouldn't they otherwise go sitting unused at the office?
> A lot of physics seems unnecessarily expensive to compute.

Sure, but look at the state of frontend web development :)
>Calling them all "Black" is just reductionist and frankly racist.

But you just said actual racists care about statistical groupings of traits. Seems then that the "anti-racists" would be more prone to that kind of reduction.
When I don't need the impulse control I got from my meds, I flush them out of my blood¹ with alchohol-free IPA style beer²

1- Amphetamines are mostly eliminated unchanged in urine, methylphenidate needs to be processed be the liver before excretion so this anecdote isn't relevant to Ritalin and Concerta

2- IPA style because hop is a diuretic into itself and 0%ABV because it doesn't have the problem associated with daily alcohol consumption.
Another one? Ten years ago I had trouble finding anything, then over time I learned of duplicity (2002?!¹), bup (2010), restic (2015), borg (2010)... all basically solving the same problem of encrypted incremental backups.

The landing page doesn't mention why they made yet another solution. In the comments someone also mentions bvckup2. Is there an overview somewhere of all the different solutions? Any selling points here?

¹ That's way older than I expected, but it's also the first one I found and I stopped using it because it took many gigabytes on my then-250GB SSD for a local cache just to be able to do incremental backups. Maybe that's why I had the feeling I couldn't find anything good at the time.
Not at the moment. We always post in the Who's Hiring thread when a position opens.
I have observed that purported STEMlordery is more of myth than reality, or a caricature created by the media. I have found that on many stem-centric communities that people employed in STEM have great respect for the humanities, such as history, philosophy, or writing. Look at how many non-STEM articles get voted to the top of hacker news, such as articles about literature or philosophy.
To a degree you have to have something to put up to have a loan in the first place.

The finances of some freshly minted doctor loaded with medical school debt look a lot different than an unbanked poor person who's never qualified for credit.
Why wouldn’t it be acceptable? People aren’t available all the time either, nor are stores. In fact software is unique in its availability.
The floor plans for every house should already exist in some database. Planners/builders at some point must had acquired them from the architect.
This is true exactly to the degree that landmines reward efficient blood donation.
We _love_ side projects --- that's why we started our company, because we didn't want Bezos to own our zombie card game.
It seriously flipped my view of the world on it's head for a bit. Then I read it again right after lol
Plaiceholder.
PLAICEholder.
"Plaice" "Holder"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaice
I think where people commonly confuse it is because most often when they see a M.2 device, it is the variant of the slot that exposes PCI-E pins to the NVME SSD, such as for a $100 M.2 2280 SSD from Samsung, Intel, WD, etc. As you mention there's lots of other things which can be electrically connected to a motherboard's I/O buses in a M.2 slot.
You won't hear any here. HN, while libertarian-leaning on many issues, is overwhelmingly in favor of government regulation on this topic.

I'll be downvoted, but here's a few real potential downsides (which exist anytime a small group of people with good intentions THINK they understand a complex issue enough to fix it). All regulation has unintended consequences:

Ineffective at stopping E-waste - The main reason people throw electronics away is not because they break, but because they become obsolete. In electronics, the next generation of products is almost always faster, smaller, and more energy efficient. Hence why we have landfills full of old beige computer towers that are fully functional and user-repairable, yet nobody wants.

Dampened innovation - When you tell companies they have to build things a certain way, you remove the option for something better to evolve. Once you pass a law, it's almost impossible to get it removed, and who knows what the future will bring (eg. biodegradable electronics, miniaturization on a microscopic scale, etc)

Increased costs for consumers - baring the extra engineering/documentation costs (which aren't trivial), any requirements to supply spare parts for X years would be insanely expensive. Forcing companies to create small quantity B2C supply chains and retail channels for consumers to purchase individual parts on obsolete models would be an absolute nightmare.

Disincentivized R&D - if you're forced to create manuals that tell your competitors how to clone your products and also let them easily buy all your parts, why invest in creating something unique? You'll just be cloned by an army of chinese competitors even faster. Just sell commodity crap hardware and focus on branding.

Entrenching incumbents - incumbent big companies may simply use this regulation as an opportunity to entrench their position in the marketplace. If they can make it harder for upstarts to get off the ground, that's good for them! Anytime a company is coming out in favor of legislation and "restrictions" on their business, beware.
There is quite a lot of reason to doubt that is the case in the long run. What I think dnautics is saying is that stability is trading off short term gains for long term gains. What about the stagnated real wages in the last 50 years? Is that good for the poor? What about seigniorage? Is that good for the poor?

When someone says something like "undoubtedly/obviously X" or "its commen sense that X" 99% of the time they haven't put much thought into it.
Learnings from a Kafka outage caused by on host maintenance
Research Fellow- TEV&V
I'm not telling anybody anything. I'm saying a lot of people with bad sleep, including most of the ones I've met, have terrible sleep habits. Just like a lot of people are fat because they have bad diets. If you're unable to walk or have some metabolism issue, that can make it really hard to stay slim. For you, perhaps you have an undiagnosed sleep issue (in which case seeing a sleep doctor would be helpful); but your experience does nothing to change the fact that other people have poor sleep for no reason but their poor choices.
Clickable - https://www.bvckup2.com
It's ok. The workers refuse to unionize though, which is a real problem.
Your team is now working 10pm to 4am est every Sunday, and anyone who uses your services in any time zone around the world is without your service. 10pm est is lunch time in Australia. 4am est is working hours in many parts of western Europe.

You don't have to be huge to have customers all around the world.
Trader Joe's is the closest to Amazon in this regard. They introduce new products as the name brand, the best sellers are cloned and then replaced with the store brands.
Awesome thought :) Originally we were just frustrated that there was no way to send voice messages like one would do in iMessage for email.

This is a good point! We've also been quite inspired by Loom (and even better than Loom, you don't need to open another app to listen to the voice note, it can be listened to straight from within Gmail)
Hopefully this means we'll finally get dedicated servers from the community for these games.

I'd love to contribute to something like this.
TF is at least C++11 from the first header I opened in the repo: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/tensorf...

I'm referring to e.g. the Jetbrains and cppcon polls.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/clion/2020/06/dev-eco-cpp-2020/

https://youtu.be/JYzDpXI-vWI?t=137
Could you share what domain your company is in? Just curious what has such HA requirements
If this experiment works, it should benefit the people in El Salvador because they now have the option to transact and communicate their purchase preferences all around the globe instead of just to the people they meet in person. As for using normal banks, I reckon we had the whole 20th century to try that experiment. Now, banks seem a bit like hope-cope such that it seems like a matter of shitting in one hand and "could have been done with just like a public bank" in the other.
We must make these judgments and trade-offs all the time in society. We surrender freedoms regularly: You aren't free to drive on the wrong side of the road; you have to surrender personal info for a credit card, passport, plane/train/bus ticket; if you have another deadly, highly contagious disease, you can be quarantined.

I don't love the tone, but the number of deaths is an indicator of cost when considering the trade-off.
What are the fines for social gatherings, breaking Covid-19 rules in Ontario?
> Better would be for the only role of the FDA in decisions like this to be determining if the manufacturer is making fraudulent claims.

Let us recall some of the key facts about the drug in question here. There were two trials. One of them showed such little benefit that it was halted midtrial on the basis that it would be unethical to continue giving people a drug that didn't work. The second showed marginal benefit.

Biogen argued that there is a rational explanation that explains the two trials that points to the drug working. The expert committee at the FDA had 10 people vote "that's bunk", 1 person vote "unsure", and nobody vote "I agree." That's a pretty strong endorsement for saying "Aduhelm treats Alzheimer's" is a fraudulent claim, and yet the FDA decided that the claim is merely disputed.

The only way you can look on the FDA's decision favorably is if you know nothing about how drug development works, which is unfortunately true of almost the entire public. (Here's two facts that are important to keep in mind: most drug candidates don't work, and placebo effects are very real and surprisingly powerful).
Interestingly, this is unacceptable in the US and probably most of Western Europe. However, I know of more than one bank in Eastern Europe where online banking simply doesn't work after midnight, until about 6am.
The error in the 'Variance calculated using Statistics::Descriptive' is ~0.0002% of the mean (and of each value).

As the OP says: "One saving grace of the real world is the fact that a given variable is unlikely to contain values with such an extreme range"

My point is that 99.999% algorithm is going to have a cost over the 99.9% algorithm (more complex code, more resource usage), and depending on what you're doing, you may have to consider that cost.
You are right. Unfortunately in my experience the average manager averages closer to terrible than good, let alone great.
I usually have a libertarian bent, but I'm finding it hard to muster much sympathy here. If these companies have generally angered the "small government" crowd, I don't know who they expect to protect them from the "big government" crowd.
Hey, would you please read the site rules at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? Your account has already gotten involved in flamewars in a way that contradicts what the site is meant for. We want people to use HN for intellectual curiosity [1]. We don't want people to use HN for ideological battle, because that kills curiosity. It does so in two ways: one by being super repetitive [2] (people bash each other with the same points over and over again, which is tedious and predictable), and two because such flamewars are so divisive and linked to such intense feelings that they quickly turn nasty, which is terrible not only for curiosity but also community.

It's in principle possible to have curious conversation about divisive topics [3], but it needs to be done in an entirely different way: respectfully and with a certain gentleness towards the people on the other side, even though you strongly disagree with them, and with the motive of actually receiving information rather than lashing out in the hope of smiting and vanquishing enemies.

Because flamewars destroy the intended purpose of this site, we ban accounts that do them, regardless of what they're flaming for or against. Normally I would ban a new account that was doing this (I'm a mod here), but because you've posted about other, more on-topic things, I thought you might appreciate an explanation of the intended use of HN instead. If you read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and some of the past moderation explanations I've linked to below, you'll be in a better position to make valuable contributions instead of damaging ones.

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They are just afraid banks will be running out of business with exorbitant fees and useless charges. They will need to evolve otherwise lots of other startups will be replacing their need.
The reasons are far too numerous to list all of them here, entire books have been written outlying why Fiat currency is bad over all for humanity

however for me, I am supporter of extremely limited government, as such commodity based money is a natural limit on how much government a civilization can have, as government can only directly tax soo much before the citizens revolt, fiat currency allows them to tax by inflation and take on far more debt than a commodity currency would allow.

Also fiat currency makes War between nations far more economically possible.
Unless... wouldn't it be funny if new FIFA releases were auto-generated from a config file? The developer would only need to update the roster and provide paths to new art assets. Boom, new retail game.

It almost seems possible...
I wish there was more rigorous discussion of monetary economics - or economics in general. Most people are economically illiterate, and economists are doing a real bad job of teaching it. The most famous ones seem to be constantly on the bleeding edge of whatever semi-verified theory they've pushed for decades without considering that they might be wrong sometimes.
Nvidia has always been known for the quality of its drivers. In fact, early Radeon GPUs were often better on paper but poor drivers dragged it down. It is also no wonder that Nvidia is protective while its competitors tend to play better with the open source community. Intel is also decent and AMD upped their game.

But when it comes to user experience, yes, hardware manufacturers tend to be terrible.
Building a Version-Controlled Data Platform
One of my favorite podcasts is ostensibly economics, but I've noticed that the topics tend to really be only tangentially related to economics. What they really seem to be are statisticians, not economists particularly.
pg_upgrade with --hard-link option will upgrade the db in mins, I've done a 2TB db in less than a minute.
Yes, there is no rollback, but if you do enough testing prior it can be really smooth. Am in the middle of doing this across an environment where we have tens of hosts from a few GB to couple TB.
Everything is stored client-side -> so the voice message is stored in your browser first and then it's attached to the email (so stored in your email).
You say statistic. Is there a document regarding this?
"anything but this" is a compelling direction, when people don't subscribe to a least-worst model of governance. 'Anything but this' is an utopian path. There's really no justification or even rationalization, for compromise, online. 'Anything but this' is a form of 'cures whatever ails you'.
paranoia... you could do cp + diff md5/sha1sum src/dst + rm
I’d argue that it does apply to cars as safety inspections don’t apply when you keep a vehicle within the bounds of private property.
Frankly, because it can be. Weekly scheduled downtime is arbitrary, manufactured, and lazy.

Of course, having to schedule the occasional downtime for a database migration is fine. There's probably a few times a year that you'd need to do it if you don't have the bandwidth to do fancy zero-downtime solutions. It's the weekly arbitrary downtime that I'm firmly against.
New Simulation Sheds Light on the Sun’s Mysterious Cometary Cloud
So they're moving up the Chrome OS release pace to match Chrome itself. Really, the only surprise is that they didn't do that right away (hence having to make a slight correction to get them back in sync).
Mother of all that is holy!

After years of trying to find a way to disable the annoying bright red LEDs on my MSI Ryzen mobo in Linux, I had to give this a shot.

AppImage, sudo, done. Fucking finally!

Thanks for posting this. I owe a you a beer.
Ditto. I haven't had the same intensity, but I always take office lunch in isolation somewhere, take a lot of bathroom breaks where I'm just sitting on the toilet, etc, just to get some solitude. It's a real drag having to interact with people
> which is probably true.

Hm, is it? My guess is that government spending on college probably is probably a net positive investment in terms of revenue for the govt due to downstream growth, likely also lowers the cost to do other things in industry.

There is extensive evidence that further public spending on healthcare does not have a size-able impact on outcomes, unfortunately. [0]

> the level of resources devoted to it can be spent to better effect elsewhere

But why the focus on education? Why not increase, say, inheritance taxation and then use it to fund those additional things? Couldn't we make better use of the resources our society devotes towards making sure that the kids of rich parents are also rich?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND_Health_Insurance_Experime... You really can't beat social science research like this and the followup in 2010.
It's basic 12-factor aka cloud native thinking: "Any data that needs to persist must be stored in a stateful backing service, typically a database."
> im a member of the racial majority so take my words with a grain of salt I guess.

In that case, I probably will, unfortunately. The incidents I encountered directed at me almost never involved a witness who belonged to a racial majority, so if I had to guess you wouldn't have witnessed a representative number of them either. I suspect that's because most people are (thankfully) afraid of being seen as racist in public, so they're usually in a more one-on-one setting.