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Even under a gold standard, savings don't have to be in gold.

We don't all carry our savings in fiat cash (or central bank reserves) today, either.

You can save in bank deposits (denominated in gold, or fiat money, or whatever your bank offers), you can save by buying stocks, you can save by buying a house, etc.
Great video. It shows how much climbing (and lot of other things) is in your head and your repeated experience. The route (5.9/5a/VI) must be laughably easy for Midtbø who climbs 5.15/9a/XI+ yet he is quite understandably fighting for life while Honnold is walking around, enjoying no-hand rests and recording.
Gradual exposure takes some of the scariness away I guess.
Monetary policy is still very much possible. Though it's perhaps best left to the private sector.
If I understood correctly, the problem you're describing is essentially the following. The locks have a timeout to them to avoid zombie locks etc. However this means we can have system A obtain a lock (or a lease, if you prefer) and begin a long-running process on the given resource. However, during the long-running process, the lock times out and system B can acquire a lock, thinking it's the only one using the resource, leading to a conflict. Did I understand you correctly?
I went back three pages of OP's comment history and didn't see OP mentioning that at all, so definitely not "every thread".
> I'd argue that SSDs have done more harm than good

I can't imagine the thought process that would lead to a statement like that. SSDs are the single best thing to happen to personal computing in the past 15 years. Absolutely no question and not even arguable.
The jobs are things that needed doing, yes.

Doing them in a dangerous, cavalier way? Not really. A bridge isn't really improved in any way if 20 people die falling from it during construction.

And yeah, maybe that kind of thing made the bridge noticeably cheaper, but was it cheaper really when you account for the effects those deaths had? We pay less for the bridge, then pay more for funerals, compensations, negative effects that workers dying had... it's just nowhere in the bill for the bridge.
It’s an interesting comment, and a nice line about Coca Cola that I’ll definitely steal!

But the conspiracy theory part is obviously untrue. A less educated population is a less productive population, and a less productive population is a poorer population. Less income means less spending on products and less tax revenue. A group with sufficient skill to implement this conspiracy would know this, so wouldn’t do it.

(A counter is that the group could be made up of advertisers pushing inferior goods (income elasticity of demand is negative) and government authoritarians - but why would they be so much more competent than the luxury goods pushers and libertarians?)
Honestly, I thought the images generated were actually pretty good. The shadows of the paper folds, the types of folds typically used. It all felt "close enough" to be very impressive for an AI model.
It’s a lack of transparency. A CEO has a very different set of motivations than an employee. Just like saying they are telling you they are an employee chances you perspective on what that have to say so would telling you they’re the CEO.
No, it's not Sentient – Computerphile [video]
Developers are people so some are more superstitious than others. But why antagonize any of them or stigmatize the language itself unnecessarily?

Is the name intended to convey something of relevance other than a bad omen or a warning?
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Very interesting to see the cross-reenactment renders.

In that case, I think FOMM's interpretation is more recognizable but Bi-Layer David Spade, is particularly entertaining.
Graeber said that maintaining and repairing software is a bullshit job because you can just write it correctly the first time.

Yeah thanks genius, we're all out here intentionally writing bugs just to keep ourselves employed.

This from a man who developed his theory over a decade from a short essay to widespread social research to talks and interviews then finally to a book. Why didn't he just write the final book the first time?

Graeber's theory is the only thing that is bullshit here. May his theory rest in peace with him.
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I fought inflation in SimCB and my economy produced 258789
An A/B test with two bad options will just lead to the least worst option but OP correctly points out that to design a new way of doing a checkbox etc. with no problem to solve is a dangerous exercise in vanity. In some cases these unecessary changes get put upon users potentially ruining muscle memory, overload people with sensory disorders and not achieving much more than a simple checkbox.

I don't necessarily think we should never try for something better but it should be based on data. It should also recognise the physical metaphor that these controls were based on for a reason. Ask a question on a paper form and a checkbox is simple for cognitive load. That's why I get annoyed at these flat designs where buttons don't look like buttons and tabs don't look like tabs so you end up having to explore to use something that would be 100 times easier in a paper form. Using hover for feedback is perverse both because it requires you interact with controls to work out whether you can interact with them and secondly that it doesn't work instinctively (or at all) on touch devices.
Be dark enough that your impersonators fail due to take/insufficient info on you.

Don't let this happen to you! https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-daniel-blackmon-romance...
It's surprising just how good plain text can look.

The site is also available as a Gemini capsule: gemini://rawtext.club/ and gopher gopher://rawtext.club/
same here, set it to 0.25, around 440k...
Thanks!

Yes, "pip uninstall nodejs-bin" will remove the full nodejs install from your python environments site_packages. It won't remove node_packages however, you will still need to handle that yourself depending on use case.
>>The cost of what you're proposing is that some jobs won't be done at all. Maybe that is acceptable to you.

Interesting.

I think that it is acceptable, and actually inevitable - only the threshold of [won't get done] changes.

At some point, if a thing has so little value that people won't pay enough for it to be done, whether the threshold is living wages or prison wages, why should it be created?

We already have far too much junk in the world.

If the thing is sufficiently valuable, then its cost can increase to a sustainable level. E.g., water used to be free also, and paying for bottled water when tap or stream water was right at hand was mocked. But now, people are happy to pay often stupid-money for bottles of water.
That is fine for things that serve an obvious function. If you need a checkbox, use a checkbox, it doesn't need improving. If, on the other hand, you create a new type of control/interaction to solve a problem better, great. Also, what iOS did was not a single control but a completely coherent set of controls and interaction that might have lots of people working on it but which all had to pass muster with Steve Jobs before it was approved.

I haven't used iOS but have used MacOS and although I would argue that MacOS to me is not a good UI (you have to learn what most things do before you can do them), the consistency is somewhat comforting.
> You seemingly are portraying people who worry about long term risks of ai as members of a religious cult.

Strictly speaking, we can limit that to people who rearrange their lives around reacting to the possibility, even in sillier (yet not disprovable) forms like Roko's Basilisk.

People who believe having a lot of "intelligence" means you can actually do anything you intend to do, no matter what that thing is, also get close to it because they both involve creating a perfect being in their minds. But that's possible for anyone - I guess it comes from assuming that since an AGI would be a computer + a human, it gets all the traits of humans (intelligence and motivation) plus computer programs (predictable execution, lack of emotions or boredom). It doesn't seem like that follows though - boredom might be needed for online learning, which is needed to be an independent agent, and might limit them to human-level executive function.

The chance of dumb civilization-ending mistakes like nuclear war seems higher than smart civilization-ending mistakes like gray goo, and can't be defended against, so as a research direction I suggest finding a way to restore humans from backup. (https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2000)
Agreed, and being a bit of a religiophobe, the thought of living through some sort of butlerian jihad scares me enough, regardless of whether the machines can actually kill us all.
Watching this was like watching some kind of horror film where society fore. Keep watching to the end where one of the alumni calmly explains how there was at least one death and serious injury! He did note that going up to the highest section was voluntary, at least..
This is the new iteration of my chrome extension, intended to help people avoid low-quality gpt-like content on the web, pivoting the extension to focus more on the search aspect (though of course, you can still see likes/dislikes on the pages themselves, and that's the only way to rate pages, so people don't rate pages they haven't visited).

Also, the client-side code of the extension is now available on GitHub (minus the extension key / oauth2 client key / firebase key, of course), so you can see exactly what data is being written to the Firebase database (basically authentication information and the likes + dislikes, not searches or any user analytics).
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Notably this page is HTML and not plain text.

Here I fixed it for you ;)

https://earthly-tools.com/text-mode?url=https://rawtext.club...
I had the same on Duolingo, getting unnecessary animations after getting a question correct was not only tiresome but very slow especially when you are on a time-limited bonus. Fortunately, they have accessibility mode which disables the animations so at least there was a way out!
The "Goto Statement Considered Harmful" paper kinda overshot its mark, IMO.

It made perfect sense back when people were writing BASIC full of "GOTO 110" and "GOTO 520" that resulted in a tangled mess. Unfortunately it caught on so well that it resulted in people being really obsessive about it, and rejecting every single instance of it in C code, even in places where it makes perfect sense and makes the code cleaner.
> I've abstracted the text rendering to replace Harfbuzz and Freetype with platform native libraries on Apple and Windows.

I hope your UI designers are happy with some text wrapping on one platform and not another because they have slightly different metrics even given the same font - for me this has never flown and I had to work to make things pixel-perfect across mac / windows / linux a few times now which definitely does not work when using the platform renderers.
There is also the Black Tom explosion by German spy in 1917 how have badly damaged the right arm because of the earthquake it had created.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Tom_explosion
So, you do agree with my opinion.
Deciding which camp is practical and which is religious is left as an exercise to the reader.
Quantum computing is not everything he does, so even if you're right it wouldn't explain this.

Going on a sabbatical is not that weird.
> When one of my physics class mates told me he was reading topology at the age of 7

Oh man, everybody with a physics degree met a guy like that, the sort who claims to have learned differential geometry at 2 or some such bs.
TreeView is what I need too, and Fyne is (AFAICT) about the ONLY Go widget kit that includes one. And it is ugly too, but let's see what the Fyne 2.3.0 facelift brings :-D
DoWhy is a Python library for causal inference
Adobe is one of the most frustrating website when dealing with password. Its requirement leaves me scratch my head to come up with any usable password that I can remember, to the point that I may be required to reset it every time I logged in (which, though not frequent, cause me to forget it).
I much prefered the original with good line wrapping and clickable links.

(Although for some reason a few of the paragraphs in the original were too wide for my screen)
> C++ is a low-level language, meaning that theoretically, it cannot be beat; given unlimited time, you can optimize C++ code enough to beat anything.

That's just untrue right? You would have more room to optimize writing assembly directly?
In my most recent role I wasn't on-call, but would keep an eye on monitors out of hours and if around, fix issues as they arose (I guess it was unpaid, but would just take hours off in-lieu). That's perfectly fine to me, I'm well paid, should (probably!) have written more resilient code the first time around, and if I'm not doing anything much anyway then it's not that big of a deal to hop online to fix an issue.

I would never accept on-call work (even if paid), even if no incidents ever happened because of the infringement that has on your lifestyle. Realistically it means I won't be able to attend church the Sundays I'm on, go for a long run, on a hike (if we have one of the only nice Saturdays of the year), or even visit family (some of my family have a terrible internet connection!), because even if nothing happens then there's the risk something _might_ happen: and if it did, I wouldn't be able to respond if I were doing one of those activities. And for me, no amount of money would be enough to compensate me for that.
I found the following file size for library files on my system:

816K /usr/local/opt/freetype/lib/libfreetype.a

1.9M /usr/local/opt/harfbuzz/lib/libharfbuzz.a

2.1M /usr/local/opt/sdl2/lib/libSDL2.a

I don't think people really mind a 20MB executable if it was a self contained application with good performance and UI.
Financial Times and Bloomberg. While I'm not a fan,the Economist gives good coverage on global events.
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The Economist is owned by a few ultra rich families, 43.5% by the Italian Agnelli family
> The Russian Empire suffered losses during WWI but survived as the Soviet Union.

I think you would find it interesting to read about the peace treaty of Brest-Litovsk, where the Russians lost about as much as they've "lost" now. Hadn't it been for the other Entente powers after the war, it would have been a done deal already then.
My experience is mostly in a company of about ~700, working in a regulated environment (payments).

This guide is how we ran incidents, or at least at the top end of the complexity of each section.

So if by small you mean companies under 1500, then I'd agree. But also, that's a lot of companies, in fact the majority of them!

We definitely see success with our customers up to the 1500 range adopting these practices, and often throwing out more convoluted or obscure processes that came before.
Except that Austrian economists are not supportive of central banks and thus not supportive of negative interest rates?

On wars, it's quite the opposite: this is often supported or prolonged by a central bank monetary inflation, or governamental debt.
Putin?) where do you get these from?
Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find? (2020) [pdf]
Free stuff and gambling, the cornerstone of any sound economy.
I'm wondering what SW is used to design these notes.
Satisfying for whom though? The person who made it? That's fine.

I'm not too fond of these over the top animations, to me they feel like time wasters on a micro scale.
In comparison yes, but in absolute terms that's mostly true if you were born in the first world, and yet you still have to put a considerable amount of time into doing stuffs you dislike, like working (in most cases)

I agree with you that we have had progress, and it's been net good by far. But I was answering to someone who its answer to the question "What would look like progress to you?" was something that is multiple levels above of what we consider basic needs today.

The whole point of progress studies is that, in the long term, the best way to improve whatever we consider today "basic needs" is to "grow the pie" as fast as we can
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Basically we claim to live in democratic societies where free speech is a founding value, then proceed to spend the majority of our waking life in highly undemocratic environments, where expressing the wrong opinion can cause loos of your livelyhood, where you have no voice when it's time to take decisions that will affect your future life.

You can vote for a new government but in the end what happens in your workplace will have more consequences on your life.
War in Ukraine?
True. Except for in this specific case, where the checkbox is in the centre of attention instead of it's usually supporting role. Other than that I completely agree!
What to say?

They can do that and I would do the same if discussions about a pronoun would hinder work.

While everyone can add their pronouns to whatever status they want, besides internet discussions this had 0 impact in my real life.

And I wrote it somewhere else already: for the real impact this topic has and daily discussion it is too much.

I would prefer to talk about female rights and equality and and not about a pronoun and not about trans gender female compete in female sports.

For me this weird super woke discussion which just has nothing to do with my real life leads me to believe that I would prefer to tolerate people who would talk like this in comparison to collaborate with them.
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It's because you know Vala that you don't see the problem.
Nobody has had negative interest rates without policy prescriptions that may show up as a negative rate, but on balance sheets do have costs.

1. There have been negative yields for short periods of time, but a yield isn't the same thing. Yields can go negative for technical reasons related to trading, but the if you look at rates on fresh bond offerings, they'll still be slightly positive.

2. There can be government laws that require lending, penalties and reserve requirments, etc that all change the cost to carry. So while the interest rates shows up as negative, after adding in these other items the adjusted rate is still positive. For example, German mortgages went negative a few years back, but it a requirements for some banks to original home loans to increase ownerhsip and the penalties would have larger the the rate charge, so they loaned out at -0.5% instead of taking a 1% hit (can't remember the exact numbers).

I don't know anywhere that there has actually been negative interest rates without some other sort of interventions pushing towards them.
If you're just starting out with electronics, then I HIGHLY recommend these teardowns of specifically these kinds of devices. Like start with old HP/Agilent, Keysight, Keithley bench multimeters... That stuff is just engineering art. This video though is about alien technology though for me, 256GS/s is basically magic as far as I'm concerned.
Structured programming makes perfect sense in lieu of the rather silly rejection in this article that holds no more water than ‘Fortran has goto and no structured programming and that is what I’m used to’.
I saw a Keysight scope in this range (might have been the same one) at a trade show a few years back. The salesperson said people were using them with 77 GHz automotive radar systems. The display showed the scope doing real-time FFTs at that frequency.
I missed this "debacle" as well, the HN story on it in October only had 59 comments, of which about half a dozen were actually about the topic itself. Not much outrage here apparently.

> ... if any other language platform was withholding features like a debugger, ...

Except "withholding a debugger" is not the same as "a complex new feature that builds on top of the existing debugger will only be released on one platform to begin with" is it? Features in beta releases aren't guaranteed to in the final release, even if some users really liked it.

Visual Studio already had a lot of code relating to editing program state when the debugger is paused after hitting a breakpoint. Seems plausible that Hot Reload in VS would be able to leverage some of this code to reduce the amount of work required to build, test and deliver the feature on that platform. It would also mean getting feedback and issues more relevant to the core of the feature, because the integration and UX is an evolution of code that's been there pretty much since VS was first released.
> See also this answer:
> https://stackoverflow.com/a/48046118/1593077
> to the question of why C++ doesn't have a garbage collector.

The shared_ptr is an optional garbage collection based on reference counting. Slow, leaky, deterministic (that's an advantage and a disadvantage). C++ needs optional garbage collection if needs shared_ptr.
If spacex employed more than 50% of people in America, then...
I've rarely seen crypto shills here. The vast majority is skeptical of it, and those that do speak out about it, usually speak nuetrally.

I have suggested Monero a few times in the past when appropriate, and I've never talked about price action, just utility. I don't think a reasonable person would call my couple of comments, "shilling".

There are definitely some shills in the other crypto posts right now, and they are rightly being downvoted.
> It's much more boring and unfashionable to think that people are a little more complex and have more agency and that companies push it because it makes them sound more sophisticated than they are.

I wonder if, when it comes to marketing at least, the opposite is true.

Facebook have x million data points on each person, but at the end of the day everyone fits into a very finite number marketing buckets based on gender, age and location. In terms of selling you a netflix series, razor, theragun or some other gadget people are predictable with just regular data, it just sounds fancier if you call it big data with a twist of AI and a quantum neural network chaser.
this is the most amazing and inspiring comment i have read on hackernews, and it just made my day

thank you
In some db storage engines like sqlite and innodb there is no way to lookup the storage location in a heap because the table itself is an index using the primary key always. This is normally called an index organized table or clustered index. Some db engines like MS SQL Server and Oracle allow you to choose if a table is index organized or just a heap. Postgres give you no choice, tables are always heaps.

If the table is index organized then the very common operation of looking up a row by primary key is a single operation and there is no duplication of primary key columns in a separate index which can save significant space on narrow tables with only pk indexes. However secondary index must store the columns in the pk to identify the row and must do two index transversals to find the row vs storing a physical row location and jumping there.

I like having the choice of table layout and use clustered indexes more than not so would prefer them if I had no choice, vs PG having no option for a true IOT.
Strong math and programming school? OpenCV was largely developed by Intel Russia, for example.
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hilarious

> Electronic mail on the Arpanet is indeed a nice gizmo, but it is unlikely it will ever be diffused outside academic circles and public laboratories—environments in which the need to maintain confidentiality is scarcely pressing. Laboratories with military contracts will never communicate through the Arpanet! Either normal people or small companies will be able to afford a VAX each, or the market for electronic mail will remain tiny