skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reserve requirements are only a question of deposits, but they limit everything from paying expenses to dividends from the exact same pool of money used to issues loans. Which is critical to understand because banks don't just offer loans they also use money for everything else normal business do.

On the other hand, if they didn't need cash on hand to offer loans any random small bank could loan a 1 trillion dollars to someone. They can't because they don't actually have that money.

Consider a bank with 3 billion dollars total and 2 billion in deposits. They only need to care about reserve requirements on 2 billion and can use the other 1 billion for anything because it's their money. In effect cash on hand are assets and deposits are debt. Reserve requirements are just a question of how much leverage they can legally have.
Personally, as someone who prefers not to program as my sole job, it's hard to say since I learned in elementary school and not knowing about computers/programming would have meant I had a VERY different childhood.

As to the other question: In my observation the following areas have some overlap with a programmer's mindset:

- Legal: Particularly things like patent and copyright law.

- Technical writing, fact-checking, and scientific illustration

- Academia or labwork in chemistry or physics

- Chemical or electrical engineering
Funny thing: I just wrote about this in my blog. [1] Well, sort of.

Many thanks to dang for this ever wonderful forum, the best on the Internet!

[1]: https://gavinhoward.com/2022/07/lobste.rs-will-become-an-ech...
> difficult to […] comprehend

You’ll still have to fully comprehend the auto-generated regex to make sure that it really does what you want. So the tool may help with coming up with a suitable regex, but doesn’t remove the need for comprehension.
There wouldn't be huge benefits from where I stand.
Have you ever seen the drawings from the late 1800s of what the subway was supposed to be in NYC? The future has been disappointing people for a very long time.

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56200fcee4b020...
Artist - painter, landscape architect, stone sculptor, one of these things.

>So basically I am asking, what other occupation would the programmer's mindset and programmer's aptitudes lend themselves effectively to?

Although it's what I'd be if I weren't a programmer, I think artist is actually at odds with the programmer's aptitudes and mindset. In the words of one of the greatest programmers:

"It's an Asperger profession; smart but artless"

- Alan Kay on programming
The site mentions sustainability but then shows a wood burning stove. If everyone on earth who needed to cook or heat a home used wood things would be far worse than using gas.
> an ordinary visual text editor

Funnily enough, Vim is short for "Vi IMproved", and its predecessor vi is short for "visual"!

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Taking the time to learn Vim yields significant rewards if you're willing to meet it on its own terms. I certainly grant you that it's not for everyone. It's the agony and the ecstasy of deep tools. No pain, no gain.

> The frustration is that probably there are fixes for all these things, which if I were an expert I would know.

I would submit that if you were an expert, you would not have the same list of gripes. To wit:

> Like, why can't I hit right at the end of a line, and move to the next line?

This is a fair complaint, but one that's actually never occurred to me as a Vim user, because:

> Why do I have to have a special mode to insert things?

It's a core part of Vim's design! In fact, insert mode is The other mode (Normal mode) is where the real power is. It's not so much about moving chunks of text around with the keyboard as about moving the cursor.

Vim divides normal mode key commands into motions and operators. operators add/remove/change text, and motions move the cursor.

For instance:

- `d` is an operator deletes text.

- `w` is a motion that moves the cursor to the start of the next word

- `12w` does this 12 times (practically every motion can be repeated like this)

But the rubber really meets the road when you combine them.

If you hit `d` once in normal mode, nothing happens: you've started a command but Vim is waiting for you to finish it by entering a motion. `dw` deletes from the cursor up to the start of the next word (you can guess what `d12w` does).

> And why does the help system never tell me what I want?

Perhaps start with `:help help` :)
I have a System76 (not a Lemur, but surely the touchpad software is the same) and I've never once had a problem with palm rejection. For that matter, I never had a problem with palm rejection on any of the Windows laptops I used to use. Are there any laptops that do have problems with palm rejection? AFAICT it seems like a solved problem (unlike, say "smart sleep", which is an unmitigated nightmare everywhere, including on Macs).
I don't think there was any implication that the big buyouts before a crash are unusual - calling them "a feature of modern finance" seemed to be implying that they're inevitable.

Acquisitions become crazier and crazier as the market gets hotter and hotter, with ever increasing purchase prices - someone inevitably gets left holding the bag when the market comes crashing back down to earth, and it's often the greedier players who take bigger risks.

The blockbuster acquisitions that happen in the middle of the bull market also often seem insane in the moment, but if the market continues on the up after the fact then they're remembered as sound business decisions rather than as a symptom of mania.
Fully agree and I had similar experiences with framework. I think the majority of folks posting here are not typical users and find it natural to jump in the terminal, edit some setting, restart a service and tinker without realizing the effort involved and that that normal users don't -- can't -- do this.
It's just Dan now, I think. Scott no longer works for HN.
Does the MUJI Tiny Outhouse (sold separately) come with canalization and flushing water, or just a hole and "tank"?

Yeah, that thing is clearly not meant for people to live in, unlike the article suggests.
How does yours compare to shortcutfoo.com?
Wall Street escaped the crypto meltdown
"sinophobia"

That translates to "fear of china" which is almost always incorrectly applied. Were there a single word for "boycotting china" that would be more appropriate.
As someone who also does this, I'm glad that there's a name for this phenomenon. :)
Out of question

The out-and-out struggle is to salvage the truth surviving, establish it over every falsehood
It's impossible to generalize across a broad range of use because each person's needs are different and non-negotiable. We've had plenty of examples of totally tech illiterate people using linux with zero problems since 1999 but they're totally irrelevant because they happen to be the people who are on the narrow set of rails that don't touch linux's rough edges.

To make a convincing case, you have to move beyond anecdote to actual statistical analysis and the numbers are still pretty overwhelming that many common things that many common people need to do can't be done without the CLI.

And even if you generate data that 60, 70, 80% of people would have no problems using linux, that's irrelevant in the case of a specific person who has a specific common need that linux falls over at.
just a statistics I've gathered over openspace where I was working ~ 10 years ago - 50% or even more Windows desktops (not laptops by that time) had the same screensaver and default background which gave me a huge insight on how much customizations people really need, even for probably easiest configuration change.

For myself I count this way - 5% of population is a deviation for any given aspect - so far I think it predicts things very close.
It doesn't really make sense to talk about DNA as source code vs object code vs whatever.

Biology doesn't have the same clean levels of abstraction that we've developed in computer science. DNA functionally operates at many levels. It long term storage, local working storage, and it is used to compute. It's a single molecule that does everything.

Then you have to throw in all the secondary processes that modulate and regulate DNA replication, transcription, as well as activation/deactivation.

While it can be useful to lean on the abstractions we've developed to try to understand what DNA is doing those abstractions can only be taken so far.
I recognize the LaTeX theme, it's the Tufte-style book theme: https://www.overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/tufte

Everything else is probably just LaTeX magic
Nah, I heard someone on the internet saying it was an age thing.
I think this is not a biology-only phenomenon. I have the impression that chemistry and mathematics are also not taught well in many (if not most) high schools. Physics education in contrast seems to be in better shape.
> the real harm is in missing legitimate postal mail.

What the post office should enforce is properly labeled envelopes. Watermarks like "response required", "official correspondence", "winning x enclosed", " final notice" should be chargeable/fineable when not legitimate.
There is always a cost for subsidizing risk.

You shift the demand curve, but not the supply curve, so now more money is chasing the same asset, so buyers pay more and sellers benefit. Same as student loans.

You also increase money supply when taxpayers “eat” the loss for defaulted loans, lowering the purchasing price of the currency in general.

Finally, the decision makers can overshoot or undershoot how much to move the demand curves, resulting in a misallocation of society’s resources. Again, see student loans and even home loans.
Why do you want italics in a monospace font? I can't imagine ever wanting that.
The tool you linked uses a GA (not a NN) to find a short regex that gives correct answers to whatever testcases you provide. If your test cases are correct, it is guaranteed to produce correct output.

GPT-3 is known to be confidently wrong at things like basic arithmetic, so I really wouldn't trust it in scenarios like this. Maybe one day I'll be able to trust NN-generated code without testing it first, but we're not there yet.
Scanning that article I was blown away to see it said "the transmitter..." - then I realized the author is play fast and loose with the terms transmitter and receiver (surprise! They aren't interchangeable!).
It looks like a tube-based regen receiver.

In Europe, Allied POWs would build "foxhole radios" which had no selectivity and you'd hear the strongest signals best - and during WW2, that was the BBC.
> otherwise, dual boot windows and linux. work on linux, play on windows. this works great on most laptops and desktops.

Just use WSL and no need to dual boot into Linux at all.
Echo'd.

Respect and many thanks, dang.

Paul really should fund an AI startup focused on chatboard moderation based solely on learnings-from-dang.
It's also lawyer talk for “we’d like the recipient/reader of the document to think it happened, but we don't want accountability, e.g., in the case of a document intended to be made public, for defamation.”
I disagree with the linked article because it uses an a priori judgement. AlphaGo for example is a program and yet it beats us at Go, the humans who made it were quick to lose the game, and then the best human players as well. The argument that an AI "will not do anything that departs from its programming" is weak, the programming might be good enough to best humans. The latest neural translator can translate 200 languages, who among us can do that?

But let's assume we make an AI just as capable as a human in all respects. It will probably be more complex than GPT-3, which requires about 4 to 8 of the largest GPUs to run. If you want to replace a human you'd have to run it in the loop, 20-40 times a second. The energy required to run it would be much greater than that used by a human.

Besides energy, it would need some of the most complex chips which can only be produced by TSMC today, and depend on a single company capable of manufacturing the high end lasers. The cost of building a fab that can make these chips is huge even for a country.

What I am getting at - we can't replace everyone with AI because we can't make the chips and afford the energy. Not for a good while. And that's assuming we solve the hard AI problem somehow. What we can afford is to replace a few humans with AI.

I didn't even mention the cost of building robotic bodies for all these AIs to act in the physical world. We don't have that kind of mechatronics yet.

Some singularity enthusiasts think by 2030 all jobs will be taken by AI. I believe the timespan will be much longer, allowing humans to gradually transition into a different world. We can't even replace the whole fleet of IC cars with EVs until 2030's.
For most of us, these great awakenings come with age. They are rich, sublime flashes of clarity and intellect to be enjoyed (first and foremost) and nourished (thereafter) with more such awakenings. The simplest of deductions lead us to wonder how, what, and if. This is the tunnel through which some people end up believing, through disbelief and astonishment, that there is a grand design at play and that it is a thing of beauty and wonder.
Sure, LHV can explain QM if we accept that scientists in different labs make correlated free choices, or some other nonsense.

But why stick to LHV if you are willing to accept nonsense? There are infinitely many ways to accept nonsense without LHV!
Andrew Gelman wasn't impressed by the paper:
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2022/07/03/historical...

"But they don’t really have any measure of entire societies or depression. The above note by Schmidt discusses why the Google books collection cannot be characterized as a measure of entire societies. There are also problems with the depression measurement. Here’s what it says in the PNAS article:

For example, the 3-gram “I am a” captures a labeling and mislabeling distortion, regardless of its context or the precise labeling involved (“lady,” “honorable person,” “loser,” etc.). These same n-grams were in earlier
research shown to be significantly more prevalent in the language of individuals with depression vs.
a random sample (17).

Note 17 points to this preprint, which states:

Here, we show that individuals with a self-reported diagnosis of depression on social media express higher levels of distorted thinking than a random sample.

How do they define “distorted thinking”?

[W]e define a clinical lexicon of 241 n-grams that a panel of clinical psychologists deemed to form a schema involved in the expression of a particular type of distorted thinking according to CBT theory and practice. For example, “I will never” would be implicated in the expression of a cognitive distortions such as Catastrophizing or Fortune-telling, whereas “I am a _” would be used to express a Labeling and Mislabeling distortion.

This is like a parody of clinical psychology, reminiscent of those sitcom moments when the busy suburban dad is persuaded to go to a shrink, and everything he says on the couch is interpreted as some sort of neurosis. Only this case, instead of everything being a coded statement about his mother, everything’s a coded statement about a cognitive distortion. “I am a statistician.” “There you go with those Labeling and Mislabeling distortions again!”"
In this point, it is the interest of the CEO, board and shareholders to collect a fat check and let Mr Musk burn down with Twitter. It’s Musk’s problem what to do with an unwilling owner issues.
I think you need to go back and re-read the article, or maybe find some other explainer about the state of media encoding licensing, because you're completely misunderstanding both what AV1 and the EU are doing here. The EU is intervening to protect "patent royalty schemes" because Google/Apple/etc are offering their patents royalty-free (that is, for free). Offering your patents for free is seen as anti-competitive, because the existing media-encoding-patent-licensing industry depends exclusively on royalties from patent trolling to stay alive. So because AV1 is a new codec without patent encumbrance that is offered for free to everyone, it risks disrupting the status quo, and killing the media-encoding-patent-licensing industry. Does that help clarify things?
I wonder if it is time for Server Upgrade.

HN was running on Xeon(R) CPU E5-2637 v4 [1], that is SandyBridge era. A 2 Core CPU serving 6M request a day.

If iPhone had more memory the whole of HN could be served from it.

[1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/64598/i...
I admit one of the big draws of the MacBookPro is the screen. Well that and the trackpad.
If your business model is advertisers are paying to reach X amount of users, then yeah bots are a big fucking problem.
I bought an Oryx Pro last year and the screen fell off after one day of use. Got a free replacement and the exact same thing happened. The next time I contacted customer support, they sent me some adhesive strips and told me that if I applied them to the back of the screen and pressed it back into place it shouldn't happen again. I asked them why they hadn't done this properly in the first place and they had no answer for me.

I want to love System76. I really do. But the truth is that I don't think I will ever trust them again.
embryology made me realize that there's also an inherited context in how genes control development, IIRC the womb triggers some key structural changes in the very first days.
If you read it, it sounds easy. The "easy" things in their categorization are things like removing the bottom cover. If you're not comfortable doing it, I believe you can ship it to them and have them do it. (If you have questions about these things, I highly recommend asking them.)

Sure, it's not as easy as an external battery, but I've not seen those in a long, long time. But you also don't need specialist tools nor a 35kg custom kit to replace it (https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/21/23079058/apple-self-servi...). And you definitely don't _have_ to send it to them to get it changed.
We Need New Words for (Different Types of) Work
What would it look like to crack “work” into a list of more precise words?

A lack of words has practical consequences. Our words create our perception of the world. To take just one example, many countries have instituted a 40-hour “work” week. Imagine if we had specific words. Would we have a 60-hour “speerk” week and a 20-hour “merk” week?

Speerk: Requiring body movement and relatively low frontal-lobe function. Waiters, cooks (in their day-to-day cooking) and farm laborers engage in speerk. While physically exhausting, the energy of movement enables you, in my experience, to speerk much longer hours than merking (see below for definition). Speerk combines speed and work.

Abstrerk - An architect might engage in abstrerk: picturing abstract problems, how to organize a building. A software developer who isn’t coding at the moment - but instead architecting a complex IT system is also abstrerking. An interior designer might abstrerk about how a space could be organized in a new way.
Weedkiller ingredient tied to cancer found in 80% of US urine samples
Any moderately complex app is made up of so many moving pieces, I'm amazed that you can pinpoint those failures specifically to the web frontend piece.
N=1. Colleagues are not my friends. We share a revenue source and common body of work, but my friends are outside of work for a reason. Under exceptional circumstances, a friendship bond that lasts beyond an employer might be established, but in my 20+ years in tech, it’s happened so few times I can count on one hand. And I prefer it that way.
There are many awk implementations, so whether that reference is decent or not may vary. It looks like on BSDs, there's so such section at all.
If I'm interpreting "cutting whole lines" correctly, in vim that's "dd" in normal mode. Then you can paste (put) with "p".

I agree discoverability is not great; to be honest I can't remember how I discovered the plethora of commands I use, though I do have a habit of reading the help a decent amount. That's how I discovered "g?" (Rot13) :D
I read it as a quotation mark. of course there's no closing mark, but it could be a mistake
or just ask Alexa!
Yep. I use the VIM extension for Vs Code. I do a CMD-SHIFT-P -> Disable Vim whenever I need this functionality. Not sure if there's a better way to do it.
There are a lot of projects out there that are attempting to do this because of the impracticability of a human team to deal with the entire torrent of information.

For example https://playvalorant.com/en-us/news/announcements/valorant-v...

> As part of a larger effort to combat disruptive behavior, Riot Games recently updated its Privacy Notice and Terms of Service to allow us to record and evaluate in-game voice communications when a report for that type of behavior is submitted—with the goal of kicking this off in VALORANT first.

I believe it would be quite possible. Text is a bit dryer to work with but has the advantage of being all text.
> The touchpad was like using a Windows machine from 2010. It was so tiny, and had only the bare essential features of registering 1 finger clicks, or 2 finger scrolls. No gestures.

My experience is the opposite. My System76 has better gestures than the MacBook it replaced, particularly since the gestures are easily configurable per-app.
> Musk's lawyers are too scared to point out what they are lying about though and where they got that information

Their central allegation is that they didn't get the information because of Twitter’s refusal to uphold their obligations.
They are now, at the time the post was written ReScript did not exist and people used to refer to the combination of BuckleScript + Reason as 'ReasonML' for simplicity.
As someone who used to be a big proponent of matte screens, matte finish is largely unnecessary when the screen in question has a combination of high brightness and good antiglare coating.

My personal iMac and work MBP for example are glossy but have 600 nits SDR brightness with great coatings, and so have no issues with glare even in a brightly lit room while I’m using dark mode (which shows reflections more).

That said matte screens can also benefit from high brightness. The 500 nit matte panel in my Thinkpad X1 Nano is excellent.
It's still not really clear to me what the difference is between the two. The wikipedia page seems to use the terms interchangeably. What does it mean if a brand is listed as "GMP" but not "cGMP" or vice-versa?
I write C# three days a week. Is learning vim worth it?
There are TrueType fonts like MS Gothic that have embedded bitmap glyphs at small sizes.
Resolution doesn’t change physical text size. They’re independent. It makes text at the same physical size more readable. Which sounds like what you want?
Thanks for asking, I actually have practiced vim on shortcutfoo.

It is really good for remembering shortcuts for regular desktop applications, but I felt that it wasn't really meant for learning a code editor like vim.

It did not have an interactive code editor, with the ability to edit lines of code inside of it. In addition, it does not measure progress in terms of speed and # of keystrokes, so you aren't able to see how you could improve. If I recall correctly, it is just meant for remembering the command keystrokes and typing them out (kind of like using flashcards).

Also, as of right now, shortcutfoo is $8 monthly, but it allows access to all shortcut courses.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, I used shortcutfoo a few years ago.
I guess my problem with this statement is that, if you can sell the asset for more than <cost to buy + cost to maintain>, has it really depreciated? And, excluding external factors (ex, the area the house is in has declined), this has been possible to do in most areas for longer than I've been alive; half a century at least.