skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The famous (wealthy) families were mainly involved in the trade, I guess. Not so much the common man:

> Prices could be high, but mostly they weren’t. Although it’s true that the most expensive tulips of all cost around 5,000 guilders (the price of a well-appointed house), I was able to identify only 37 people who spent more than 300 guilders on bulbs, around the yearly wage of a master craftsman. Many tulips were far cheaper. With one or two exceptions, these top buyers came from the wealthy merchant class and were well able to afford the bulbs. Far from every chimneysweep or weaver being involved in the trade, the numbers were relatively small, mainly from the merchant and skilled artisan class – and many of the buyers and sellers were connected to each other by family, religion, or neighbourhood. Sellers mainly sold to people they knew.

> When the crash came, it was not because of naive and uninformed people entering the market, but probably through fears of oversupply and the unsustainability of the great price rise in the first five weeks of 1637. None of the bulbs were actually available – they were all planted in the ground – and no money would be exchanged until the bulbs could be handed over in May or June. So those who lost money in the February crash did so only notionally: they might not get paid later. Anyone who had both bought and sold a tulip on paper since the summer of 1636 had lost nothing. Only those waiting for payment were in trouble, and they were people able to bear the loss.

> No one drowned themselves in canals. I found not a single bankrupt in these years who could be identified as someone dealt the fatal financial blow by tulip mania. If tulip buyers and sellers appear in the bankruptcy records, it’s because they were buying houses and goods of other people who had gone bankrupt for some reason – they still had plenty of money to spend. The Dutch economy was left completely unaffected. The “government” (not a very useful term for the federal Dutch Republic) did not shut down the trade, and indeed reacted slowly and hesitantly to demands from some traders and city councils to resolve disputes. The provincial court of Holland suggested that people talk it out among themselves and try to stay out of the courts: no government regulation here.

[0]: https://theconversation.com/tulip-mania-the-classic-story-of...
> One is more likely to read political/cultural agendas into everything they can when one primarily consumes media that compulsively frames everything it doesn't like in political/cultural terms.

Well, when one sees how much evidence there is that the corporate press has an agenda[1], one tends to believe that the corporate press has an agenda[2].

The medical arguments[3] given for why January 6th was a greater COVID risk than the BLM protests are quite weak. Each one of the arguments either relies on contested science (asymptomatic spread) or exaggeration of the facts (ignoring that the majority of the January 6th protesters remained outside). This is not the work of people who are engaged in the disinterested pursuit of the truth.

[1]https://twitter.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1348352300746731523?...

[2]https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1361011464513880065

[3]https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/was-the-capitol-siege-a-co...
My university (probably one of the top three in the world, especially for mathematics) had no mathematics department. It had a pure mathematics department, an applied mathematics/theoretical physics department, and a department of statistics and somethingorother (maybe economics?).
Gunnar,

I've been thinking about your "transaction" pattern more, and I was wondering - Why don't you stream the transaction metadata directly to a kafka "transaction_context_data" topic? Would writing some of the data to the db while writing some of the data directly to kafka make it less consistent during faults?

The reason I ask: I'm curious what it would look like to use this pattern for an entire application, I think it could be a very powerful way todo "event sourcing lite" while still working with traditional ORMs. Would writing an additional transaction_metadata row for most of the application insert/updates slow things down? Too many writes to that table?
It’s the GP’s domain.

Just kidding… probably literal meaning.
Blitz.js is a superset of NextJS that should do what you want
haha. i feel like everywhere i look, i see the power law in action.
Why someone might need a graph database?
Looka like the astroturf brigade is going strong today.

Newsrooms have collaborated on stories for a long time, especially when large amounts of data are involved. It's near impossible to do reporting on these issues (Facebook, Panama/Paradise/Pandora papers, etc) without bringing large amounts of journalists to bear, quickly.

Or, I suppose, you could run with the global conspiracy idea.
Are the rates of failure to marry that much higher?
Isn't startpage owned by an advertisment company? https://restoreprivacy.com/startpage-system1-privacy-one-gro...
misspell one word... and it goes of on a tortuous tangent ;-)
> It is based on them (you) driving up property prices and basic goods availability.

Sounds like where I am now. Near as I can tell, nobody wants my generation to settle anywhere, because we "drive up" property prices. Like we want to pay $1M for a home, or had any hand in the local zoning idiocracy.
So it had 3 math departments. That's not what's happening in the article.
I've only been near the ocean when on vacation, so YES!
It’s hard because subscription services hit a sweet spot in human psychology - cheap on a monthly basis so many are happy (can you go back to paying 400$ for software unless it’s something you are 100% guaranteed to want and use for a long time), and expensive in the long run so businesses are happy (also recurring stable revenues)

It’s unfortunate, but I don’t see a reversal any time soon. If I was a developer I would also want to do subscription based services, would you (put yourself in the shoes of someone running a software company)?

It’s criminal how many times I have paid for Microsoft Office though.
> Even the best CPUs today use ~15W. That's significant.

There are tons of microcontrollers available today that run on less than mA at 3 V. Sure, they don’t have the power of an M1 but with a bunch of them doing a bunch of lazy computing in the field they can do a lot of sensing and casual computing. Perhaps 60 years from now we will have solved the plastics-in-the-environment problem (and cigarette buts) but be plagued with stray processing power too expensive to clean up and still operating too.

And surely some hacker will be operating a garbage dump as a cryptocurrency mine.
You can build ground-source heat pumps by laying pipe in trenches in your yard, which is almost, but not quite, completely unlike drilling through kilometers of rock. It's true that they're sometimes called "geothermal", but they're still totally irrelevant to this article.
Molecular mechanisms and physiological importance of circadian rhythms
Sure. Win32 and Unix are good examples of OS's with a C interface.
Only if they have access to another source of energy to power the heat pump and the other machinery that doesn't run on low-grade heat.
Why is that relevant? Many of the people contributing significantly to CPython also have full time jobs elsewhere. Sometimes their full time job overlaps with their contributions and sometimes it does not. For example Guido works for Microsoft and is working on CPython performance there, does that mean all of his work needs an asterisk saying it's actually a Microsoft corporate initiative?
It’s a lot more practical than you think if you’re willing to roll up your sleeve and do the work.

Fortunately, people have already done the work for you. [1]

[1] https://github.com/coalton-lang/coalton
the random selections button is my favorite part. It's like picking things up in a disorganized pile at a used bookstore

nothing curated, nothing directing you toward a particular book other than the title

it gives you a chance to reckon with something that's not for you, to actually stumble upon something and try to reckon with it as you find it
Sadly, I don't think there really is anything out there right now that fits the bill here. You can try playing around with some WYSIWYG HTML editors/tools if you like, but I doubt that'll play nicely with the general SPA development workflow for building stuff like a react app (for example).

I was essentially in the same place you are about a year ago, and had to dive into the god awful hellscape that is javascript for a project. Ultimately I just had to bite the bullet and write straight-up JS/JSX. It's definitely a learning curve, and if you're like me you'll hate every minute of it, but once you get the hang of it in general it's not the absolute worst thing you'll ever do (or have ever done).

Not a promotion (I'm not affiliated and they don't pay me for this!), but I've found CodeKit on MacOS useful from time to time. https://codekitapp.com. I've used it to serve and automatically rebuild the SPA I'm working on whenever I change the source code. It does a hell of a lot more though, so maybe check it out (if memory serves they have a trial...I think).

In terms of frontend frameworks, I personally despise react. It's extremely bare-bones and you have to go plugging in a ton of other crap from all over the place to get the bare minimum needed to build anything actually useful at all. Routing, for example, isn't even included out of the box for react.

By contrast, I've found Vue.js to be MUCH more developer-friendly. It performs just as well as react, does NOT require that absolute shitstorm that is JSX, and unlike react, it's a "batteries included" framework that will have pretty much everything you need (probably more) to build out a very useful and feature-rich SPA right out of the box with libraries officially maintained, tested and integrated with Vue by the Vue team. No more cobbling together a frankenapp from tons of disparate libraries you've never heard of necessary! There's a learning curve to Vue as well, but I personally think it's worth your time (think about future career prospects vs. NOT having any front-end experience), and it's definitely a smoother experience than working with react, especially for haters like us. Personally, I used Vue Mastery video tutorials to get started learning it sometime last year, just before version 3 came out. I found the "real world vue" series EXTREMELY helpful in learning just WTF is going on. Commercial, but worth a limited investment to get your feet wet, IMO. https://www.vuemastery.com (again, not a promotion/not affiliated/not paid).

Front-end sucks, period. I don't envy you here, but I wish you luck!
You’re mixing up trading volume and inflows. Volume is just people trading back and forth. As a limit example, you and I could wash trade a single bitcoin back and forth a trillion times, for a volume of $60,000 trillion dollars. But that would pay no electric bills! It’s just money moving around.

Miners pay bills from net dollars moving into the system from outside. There are no stats which track such inflows in crypto: it’s a hard thing to calculate.

You’re also massively overestimating dollar volume. Bitcoin volume is 36 billion Tethers, which aren’t dollars.

Dollar volume is max $2 billion per day. Today coinbase was $800 million. It’s tiny.

https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/coinbase-exchange/
I remember when I first started using the internet, I would be absolutely fascinated searching up totally boring things and seeing the google search results. Finding a new flash game was the best thing ever.

All of the stuff I used to do is still there but it’s boring now. Just like most of the games I used to find fun seem to basic and limited now.
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Completely agree with you. I preordered both gen 1 and gen 2, and after receiving the gen 2 I passed my gen 1 around among friends interested in remarkable to help them decide if the device fits their usage pattern.

IMO remarkable already have extremely stiff competition from the iPads, and the only advantage is it’s eink display. The iPad is pretty much better in every other dimension except for the eink display, but then it’s different rather than worse, since it allows for much more applications (graphics, movies, etc). I truly wish the best for remarkable and for them to start the flood of more high quality eink reader/writer devices.
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This is a great one:

pissiwog (noun)

pis·si·wog

a large solitary mammal with a loud but misshapen sound, the dorsal shell having spiral rings of horny eggs
That's not an exposure. You keep using technical terms in order to sound knowledgeable, but it's obvious that you don't know what they mean.
Not sure where to even get started with this.

Could you elucidate your point a bit more without the clickbaity link?

Tim Pool is also a cherry-picker and propagandist in his own right. He creates a cult following by sowing distrust in the legacy media while pushing alt-media as a beacon of truth.

There are tons of fair and valid criticisms to be made of existing media, but this fails to hit the mark.
Right. The pyramid needs a base to stand on.
Start a local HTTP server without any tools, just open a web page
How many forks of Bitcoin have been as successful as Bitcoin?
What I learned from trying Linux Desktop as a WSL user
No, real interest rates are not (necessarily) the growth of the entire economy. Interest rates are the cost of borrowing capital.

Eg if we discovered that an asteroid was going to hit earth in ten years, you can bet that interest rates would go up like crazy---without any growth nor growth expectations.

Of course, real interest rates can be related to real growth in the economy.

> Look at the incredible growth in the S&P500 during a pandemic with all the economic carnage going on with that vs the bond rates.

I'm not sure what you mean here? Econ 101 says that the price of stocks is the discounted present value of all expected future dividends (and stock buybacks etc). If you follow that simple model, it would already predict that a short term disruption to the economy should not impact stock prices.

Of course, reality is more complicated. But even this simple model captures the phenomenon of robust stock prices while a pandemic is still going on.

> Bond returns are depressed by central bank policy and some capital is forced to allocate there when its a bad deal. (Pension funds mandated to invest in bonds and nothing "risky" like equity).

Yes, regulation makes things more complicated here. Also keep in mind that in most jurisdictions companies pay bond or loan interest with pre-tax money, but they pay dividends or stock buybacks with post-tax money.

The wider context of the discussion was about junk bonds from private equity. They benefit from the difference in tax treatment, but don't benefit from pensions funds' mandates to invest in safe assets or central bank purchases of government debt.

I'm not sure why you would cite 20 Year US Govt Bond yields here? If you are interested in inflation expectation in the US, just look at TIPS spreads https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10YIE which give you that information directly.

TIPS spreads are the difference in price between inflation adjusted bonds and non-inflation adjusted US government bonds.

> It's always "unanticipated" in most of the yield curve when it hits.

Eh, there's also unanticipated lack of inflation. The risk goes towards both sides. (A risk that only goes in one direction would be rather strange, if you have at least a few smart market participants who can benefit from correction prices.)
Sophomore: Hebrew Bible, New Testament, Dante Alighieri, Appolonius, Aristotle, Epitectus, Livy, Plotinus, Plutarch, Ptolemy, Sappho, Tacitus, Virgil.

You're right that Junior and Senior classes then learn more and stop worshipping just at the feet of Greek and Roman statues. That's a good thing. Education is more than these two cultures ad nauseam.
I never used it until I started working at a job where I find myself juggling multiple tickets at once on the regular. Now I make a Space for each ticket (browser window with the ticket and branch open, editor opened to the project directory, etc), and when I context-switch my computer context-switches with me. It's been great
Also in the same thread: it had been previously used in Win XP for SSDP, and (directly below) it has been used around the same time in early OSX for mDNSResponder (Bonjour/Rendezvous related).

So, yes, stick to 8080 and friends. There is a reason for this.
>bomb them or something

I thought we agreed that in principle the correct response to a deliberate attack would have been to bomb them in 1967? I don't understand why you keep intentionally misinterpreting this.

>who you think the US is not being neutral towards

I find the less you know about someone the easier it is to be neutral.

>the Palestinians

As I said before the Israeli/Palestinian intra semitic conflict is one America should stay a country mile away from.

>That doesn't seem plausible to me.

I've yet to hear of the Lesotho lobby and practically zero people in America care about Lesotho. How about Belarus or New Guinea? The link between lobbying and public opinion seems quite strong to me.

> anti-Israel rhetoric?

Please stop with the unfounded assumptions.

All I'm advocating for is for America to not get bogged down in foreign quagmires and for other countries to stop trying to drag us into their conflicts. It is beyond me how anyone can find this such a difficult concept. Mandatory disclosure of foreign interests would go a long way here.

If you are interested the Great War channel has a series that covers Mandatory Palestine. This is however entirely irrelevant to US foreign policy.

I always enjoy expounding upon my ideas in public discussion but when the conversation retreads over already trod points and the counterparty is disingenuous and intentionally mischaracterizes what I have plainly stated then I am forced to question whether their motive is discussion or to score cheap points in a discussion that no one will likely read.
*Clears threat*. Did anyone perhaps inquire about Bayesianism?

See, it can be explained by Bayes theorem. P(A | B) = P(B | A) * P(A) / P(B)

Look at all ordered pairs of people in a couple. Let A be the proposition that the first person is a Dev, and B be the proposition that that the second person is QA.

P(A | B) now expresses how common it is for QA people to have a Dev partner. And P(B | A) expresses how common it is for devs to have a QA partner.

What the theorem tells us that the difference is simply explained by P(A) / P(B), that is the relative commonness of the professions. Or to be precise the commonness of the professions in the subset of people who have a partner.
A decentralized money that government can't touch is the definition of a populous utopia in money terms. Bitcoin, by nature, is the most democratic form of money to ever exist on the planet. That more people don't get behind it and buy at least a little bit is mind boggling. Government fiat is and always will be a source of controlling the population and limiting their ability to build wealth.
Just denying something and tacking on but thanks for playing isn't a rebuttal.
#15 on the list:
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2016/01/18/there-may-...
Most of us did vote for quantitative easing. Certainly after 2008, for many years, in the USA and in Europe, people were voting any kind of stimulus they could get, and when it was impossible to get enough fiscal stimulus, most of us were willing to support any effort for monetary stimulus as a second-best alternative. It is, of course, an interesting point of discussion why it was so difficult to get sufficient fiscal stimulus, but that topic is too complex to get into in a comment on Hacker News.
This reminds me how absurd it is that OSS projects are bridging Matrix, Discord, and IRC. These all have vastly different ToS and forms of encryption and user privacy. By doing this you can be taking an encrypted message on Matrix and implicitly agree to the ToS and reposting their message to something closed-source and with sketchy privacy like Discord, which defeats the purpose on why one would choose Matrix.
You have a lot to learn.

https://www.amazon.com/Creature-Jekyll-Island-Federal-Reserv...
It's a real shame. I was seriously considering buying one of these when the next model came out but this is a hard "no" from me, and I don't think they could possibly regain trust after attempting this.
Mathematics was dispersed across several departments, and this was not a weakness but a strength.
William Stewart Halsted’s addiction and its influence on residency training
A very large part of HN is targeted content marketing
And Morse code is quite efficient!

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2017/02/08/how-efficient-is-m...
How low can CocroachDB go with resource usage?

Is the open source version viable for small hobby projects?
I thought Bitcoin was the money?
I don't think it's a stupid question, just oddly phrased (more on that later). I think there are two stable interpretations. "When did grass evolve" or "when were grass lawns invented".

Later:

Why isn't it an obviously stupid question? Because I think the accompanying "who (or what) invented grass" is validly answered as "by evolution". I feel the act of invention requires no intentionality and is simply the output of learning processes where generated artifacts have material and dynamic properties embodying deep knowledge of physical laws and help achieve some goal relative to an environment. Evolution learns in the sense that the mathematics of natural selection mirror that of bayesian filters.