skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The fractional reserve system

The fractional reserve system does not exist:

> Fractional reserve banking is the idea that banks take their reserves and lend them into some fraction based on the quantity of reserves they hold. This idea has been largely debunked since the financial crisis. In reality, banks do not lend their reserves, except to one another inside of the reserve system (which is a closed system, ie, reserves don’t even leave the system). They don’t even lend based on the quantity of reserves they hold.

* https://www.pragcap.com/what-is-fractional-reserve-banking/

* https://www.pragcap.com/r-i-p-the-money-multiplier/

* https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/page1-econ/2021...

Some countries don't even have reserver requirements:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_requirement#Countries_...

Tobin called the relending of deposits the "Old View" in 1963:

* https://ideas.repec.org/p/cwl/cwldpp/159.html

> Remove usury (loans at a profit) and base the national currency on something […]

There was more instability in the US under the gold standard than in the recent (7+) decades under fiat:

* https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/why-the...

* https://archive.is/FWKcL

And if you think fiat encourages financial speculation, and the gold standard reduces it:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1873
I agree. And it's not just about monetary value. There's just something beautiful about a 40 year old computer still working perfectly. The fact that it's all original is almost a necessity for me to enjoy it to its fullest. I love programming these old machines in assembly language, while at the same time doing my best to understand what is going on inside the machine with each instruction. Replacing original parts with microcontrollers would take away a lot of that pleasure.
Google teases Project IDX, an AI-infused code editing thing
>That’s common with people used to languages which provide poor parser generators.

lmao
In China, It’s Already Cheaper to Buy EVs Than Gasoline Cars
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37060775
A decade after a disastrous launch, is Apple Maps finally good?
Good question: because we’re not handling payment processing or anything, just emailing users your content, we think Easyful can be default-free forever. If we get a bunch of usage, we might build some more advanced pro features and sell those features as a paid tier. We’ve had success with that model before.
https://archive.is/2023.08.09-003715/https://www.bloomberg.c...
This is definitely not what I'd be ready to approve:

"Intel provides a long list of the types of data it collects" ... "Those include the types of websites you visit, which Intel says are dumped into 30 categories and logged without URLs or information that identifies you, including how long and how often you visit certain types of sites."

Emphasis mine. I surely don't expect that from a GPU driver company. Damn.
Yes, I've heard ppl make this response all the time that "its just like what people said in the past". It makes sense but I really think that "smart devices" in particular are different and a lot worse.
We need to be first on the Moon, uh, again, says NASA
It is probably not too late
Maybe, but I can give a much more concrete example: Russia has nukes on Europe's doorstep in Kaliningrad which can reach Berlin in a couple of minutes, do you hear anybody in Germany, Europe or NATO whine about "escalation"?
I went the ER, was treated, and was sent a bill that must get turned over to god knows who if I didn't pay it. They took an x-ray, a blood sample, sent me home, and I got billed $4,800.
Side projects that became big
How a startup loses its spark
Are you implying those cases aren't valid health issues? It's more like people will work with chronic pain if they can, but if there's no work they'll sign up for the disability. Depression is also deeply unsurprising in the situation you're describing.
It's a shame they don't apply the same concern for safety to their externalities.
We’ve run Smallchat, a default-free saas app, for a few years now, supporting millions of users. Our experience: with low-operating-cost saas apps like this, you can add a paid tier with pro features if you get a lot of traction while keeping the base app free.

With Smallchat, for example, a small percentage of paid users more than covers the operating costs of our mostly-free user base.
This is from a very long time ago, but if you dig deep enough you can still find this gem. From memory, and not the precise wording:

The Canonical jobs page used to say you should only apply if you have accomplished something extraordinary in your life. If you haven't you should apply here, where here liked to the US government website.

EDIT:

I misremembered the site, it was not on canonical.com but http://markshuttleworth.com/work.html

Around 2004 it said:

"Brilliant. Tell me about things you've done in which you have truly excelled. I don't mind if you did brilliantly at school and then crashed at university because you were more interested in something else, just tell me about the something else! It could be an open source piece of software you wrote and which has been widely used. It could be a small business you've setup and run. It could be that you were consistently in the top 10% of your class at school or university. It could be that you are a natural leader or organiser. If you haven't done brilliantly at something in life, try applying here, you'll fit in just fine"

The very last "here" was a link to http://www.whitehouse.gov/

https://web.archive.org/web/20040606095703/http://www.marksh...

https://archive.is/o2rJa
I don't understand the point you're trying to make here.
I didn't say the Z was relevant, it's just how most people I know identify this layout, but fine. "German ISO keyboard?"

And no, it's also not "just" the big enter and pipe (and the left shift). It's different, and cool if it works for you, I'm thrown off nearly as much when switching to a US layout on one of those as when I had been typing on US Intl for a while and then switch to the German layout.
Atic Atac 2 when
Yup - there's no "multi". You either live in a country that's aligned with the USA. Or you live in some sort of authoritarian hellhole.

There's no democratic and prosperous country that isn't aligned with the USA somehow.

Russia had the chance to become a country like that in the 90s, but they chose to have another tsar instead.
Only logical if you accept the CCP as a legitimate government, which barely any politician in Europe, the USA and the rest of the west does (privately).
MGS2 Colonel vibes
Workers are the physical store are also subject to these same issues. Consumer side activism doesn't work.
> The current price for solving a js captcha is $3/1000 https://2captcha.com/ . The cost of cpu time for your PoW captcha is probably much lower.

The cheapest AWS instance I can find with a dedicated CPU costs $0.000565 per second. So running four cores for two seconds already makes it more expensive — and much less effort and time for a human to solve than a traditional CAPTCHA.

> It might stop the really low effort attacks of people who are spamming billions of pages where the cpu time becomes expensive, but i don't think the ecconomics work for most scenarios.

How are regular CAPTCHAs any different if they cost $0.003 for an attacker to solve?
The domain of writing software against an API?
You can’t run away from technical debt
I mean my family has lived for at least 300 years in a region close to where the neanderthals were first discovered. I assume I have some of those genes in me
I assume he just meant running binaries compiled for the same ISA / processor architecture.
You're asking Mullvad to give outsiders access to their customer's connections. That's something they've promised to never do.
MilkyTracker 1.04
Will data served as language models overtake the role of semantic/linked data?
The only time I've heard the expression about multipolar was from Chinese and Russian Foreign Minister playbook.

Add "NATO", "Russophobia", "Nazis", "Western" and other keywords in the soup and you have the perfect anti-Western speech.

It's not even a Western tool.

Sanctions are a tool to refuse to trade with opponent regimes, and it works both ways
(China has sanctions on the West too, for example on semiconductors. Russia has sanctions too against the West).

It's not perfect, and it has side-effects, but overall it deters other countries / terrorist organizations to follow the same path of taking an hostile posture against you.

If you let people go around sanctions, then becoming hostile will simply have no consequences.

If there are no consequences to actions, and there is a big prize to win, then the politics will do it, no matter what.
There are 2 things you can get from classic computers - a piece of history as you say, but also nostalgia and a return to childhood. I don't think that replaying old games is a pointless exercise. It's just a way to escape from the day-to-day grind and go back to an earlier part of life where things were just a lot easier. So I hear what you want from computers, but there is a lot more to retrocomputing than just hardware preservation.
> The real question is, why are other cloud providers not working on similar chips?

I suspect the answer is simple; they are nowhere near as flush with cash to buy up a CPU company and invest years to make their own chips. It's no small endeavor that AWS has gone through to get here.
> However, this lowers the appeal for new entrants to enter these markets to compete for these excess profits through better and more efficient products and services.

And how many de novo banks have there actually been in any country recently? In the US, the land of plenty (banks), there's been one in the last twenty years.

Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast just had an episode on this (including the topic of de novo):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lPFHWgxq5c

Banking is low margin, and it takes decades to get any kind of return: few, if any folks, have the patience for that kind of ROI when there are alternatives.
Yeah this is not such a great signal once you're past a certain maturity level

But hopefully it stayed in the past
Brilliant summary here of how Apple often focus on 'Why' you need something - rather than pushing the 'What' it is. They smashed this for the ipod, the iphone and the ipad - and more recently with headphones. Will be interesting to see if they can manage this for VR.

'Start with Why': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4ZoJKF_VuA&vl=en
In which she talks about this link which was discussed the other day

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/claims-of-room-tempe...
It's also easy for chinese names when you know the very limited number of possible surnames. But then you must assume the citator knows some chinese, which they don't.

Japanese is a bit harder as their firstnames are written in myriads of western styles. (e.g. Miu, Miyu, Miyuu, Miju, ... a common female firstname, for "Beauty, Gentleness & Superiority". Mi=Beautiful, Yu=Gentleness, Superiority). Also Miyu can be written in myriads of ways in japanese, with only some being the common female firstname, where yu can also mean Bind, Friend, Eternal, Dream, To exist, Yuzu (a lemon), Sorrow, ...

You need to persist on consistent ordering, even if westerners have no idea and continue ignoring it. Even if everybody writes Itō Mima as Mima Ito, she is still Itō Mima.
The prominent Wang Manyu and other chinese table tennis players did establish their correct writing, they just call her Wang Manyu instead of Wang Manyü ("man-yue"), which is equally embarrasing.

You insist on correct gendering, but still write the names wrong.
There definitely seems to be a lot of assumptions being made the AI won't have qualia, let's hope the assumptions remain true, but I don't imagine it will be the case forever?
Zoom orders workers back to office
So ”3 large useful PRs” have the same expectancy as connecting with a recruiter on LinkedIn ?
We started building Easyful while looking for a platform to fulfill orders for Standerd, a Figma UI kit our team uses that we sell:

https://www.standerd.co/
Yeah...I applied when I was job hunting at the beginning of the year and I hard stopped on the high school question. I've got over 30 years of relevant experience and if that's what they're asking, I'm obviously not the sort of person they're looking for.

Implicit ageism describes it well. Was it age discrimination? I wouldn't go that far based on what I saw, but they either don't want older/experienced people or they have no idea how bad that looks. Either way, I had options so I didn't go any further with them.
The world’s biggest law firm is splitting off its business in China
Which immediately leads to layoffs:

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/sage-braces-layoffs-pi...
Capitalism doesn't have desires outside of those of the people who participate in it that hold the most power. The desire of those people is more power. Not resource allocation as an ends, but as a means to more profit.

It has been shown time and time again that the majority of the powerful players in a Capitalist economy inherited their wealth or opportunities.

Capitalism can only function in an economy if a government allows it by setting up the necessary structures and allowing private property ownership.

Society can certainly be Capitalist by extension of the economy being Capitalist due to policies and strucutes set up by goverments.
> The spectacular collapse of a company once valued by SoftBank at $40 billion has been years in the making, but is still surprising given the number of large commercial buildings around the world that don the company’s name.

Is it actually surprising? If you too many assets that you bought with variable interest rate debt, then going bankrupt in a higher-interest-rate environment is exactly what I would expect.
Yeah I've seen comment that but I am not convinced. It's expensive, it hardly has more space to bring stuff than a normal bike, and the rain doesn't really bother me most of the time. I am not claiming to be rational here, but for me personally I hardly see any upside besides "arrive a bit quicker and dryer (if buying a closed model)"

Not even sure where I'd park it, maybe my building's small motorcycle parking lot has some space.
This type of LCD are custom made because of the particular segment layout. See the /screen/ section in the linked page.
Are they all investing just to prevent one of the other big players to get an upper hand in Arm or what is the play here?
It's honestly very sad the way the world moves :(

There was a real possibility that Russia could have joined Europe, but something got broken along the way.

I'm not sure that USA is really a strong ally of Europe. It's something in-between. US has its own interests before all.

They would lend us (Europe) money and sell us weapons in case we go to war, but a friend giving you a loan and making profit out of you isn't really that great friend.
At least for the DC compromise, you can multihop through servers from different providers.
I've never managed to build the screen. A smartwatch without a screen is not great :)
It's also that those discoveries brought turning-points in what we traditionally see as history (wars, epidemics, etc). Inventing CPUs, RAM, hard-disks, and spreadsheets, has probably been as influential, on human development, as inventing a couple of terrifying weapons; but they came staggered, as progressive refinements rather than "aha" moments, and they altered our parable in the background as a slow burn, rather than in a big flash...
The population of _all_ of Arizona is only 7.2 million. Just within 100km of Dresden you've got 5 million. Add in a much easier, faster immigration policy (esepcially from the rest of Europe) and a higher (although still not high) unemployment rate and they're probably gonna have an easier time of it than Arizone does.
This looks like something that targets independent developers. I know this won't be allowed in my organization. There are so many unanswered questions. Where would the code (or git repo) be hosted? Can we host on-prem? How will Google use our code - to train their AI models, or to make outright clones and keep them forever? What about the T&C and what about privacy? Who can see our code? What prevents Google from just cloning a project that is innovative, since their AI would already have the dataset and code?

Would it work like the no-code platforms where you're 100% dependent on those providers to even make your software run?

I only see red flags for corporate use. Sure, this may be nice to play with a few ideas, but I would definitely not trust it to host and build production software.
Great video explanation

The Hidden Geometry of Error-Free Communication - Another Roof
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmx-v4FiP6I
A lunar base "for all mankind" means the US are in charge and act as gate keepers.

For lunar exploration to really be "for all mankind" any missions to build bases should be truly international and include everyone on an equal footing.

This is not going to happen any time soon, though. But we are also quite far away from a situation where a country is even able to enforce any claims they might make (which remains to be seen) so this is largely FUD to increase budget.
Thanks, that makes sense. In my town the usage of either one is so marginal I don't think it matters which I use. And even if I decided to visit the nearest city and start from scratch with KartaView, more recent data wouldn't obviously hurt. And I've got time hah.

As I'm just a beginner I don't think a 360 camera is worth it just yet, they are quite expensive compared to regular ones. And I can imagine putting it on my helmet would get some attention from bypassers, unlike a normal camera mounted on the handlebar.
I'm sure they are. But Amazon has a multi year lead.

Amazon took a gamble on server ARM chips. Not a bad or blind gamble, but they had no idea if their customers would take to them at all. I'm sure if they hadn't, we'd all be sitting here saying what an obviously dumb waste of money.
Totally agree with you; my point is that for replaying old games, RPi is well enough. No point in making what is esentially a hardware emulator and calling it "the real thing".
Thanks for the recommendations, fsloth.

For anyone interested in this, I found a couple of excerpts of Caroline Alexander's Iliad translation[0] that were published in The Guardian as well as an article by Emily Wilson (the Odyssey translator also mentioned above) about the engagement of female scholars and translators with the classics[1].

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/09/new-translatio...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jul/07/women-classics...
I honestly can't say if you are joking here or not.

In case you are not, then I am glad you don't get to dictate laws where I live.
The story of WeWork is fascinating and sad to watch (for the employees). Adam got his but his employees didn't.

The financial numbers are pretty sad too.

- Market cap below $500 million.

- Lost $700 million in 6 months this year

- Lost $2.3 billion in 2022

- Roughly 3 billion in debt

- Total liquidity of only $680 million (only 1/3 is cash).
Therefore, it is high time that you establish an online store if you have not already done so. Numerous Internet business stages let organizations set up their web-based store. Shopify is one of the most well-known brands.
At some point of paranoia people should really look into selfhosting a VPN service. Sure, your VPS provider can see one side of the traffic so its not bullet proof, but that can be mitigated.

Mullvad is a nice middle ground for those who don't see that as worth their time or don't know how. Its good to see they're at the very least trying to keep up appearances.
A controversial US drug policy could be harming cancer patients worldwide
precisely my point. I would certainly buy an Apple-1 if it were not as pricey as it is now.
At least it's an easy way to weed out companies early in the process. Behavioral interviews work both ways, after all.
“Less critical then”

Than. Not “then,” than.

I point this out because I’m pretty sure lazy reliance on spellcheck and autocorrect are to blame with about half the internet using then when they should be using than.

I shudder to think what a few years of ChatGPT is going to do.
I knew this would be Simon Roper from the title.

His videos are fascinating and have helped me to better understand how Scots and English have diverged and evolved to sound they way they do now.

I'd recommend researching the great vowel shift, if you're unfamiliar, to learn more about why English is not pronounced how it is written.
You want to limit access to education because of dating? In the 21st century where you can meet people from thousands of miles away within minutes?

I heavily doubt this is a justified incentive to prescribe quotas. If university was for dating, I probably wouldn't have picked computer science and electrical engineering.

Even if it may feel different some times, universities aren't a breeding ground where dads can put their daughters to get engaged.
Mullvad looks like one of of the best VPN providers out there. However the use of a customised Linux Kernel and Ubuntu distribution gives pause for thought. Are they going to be able to integrate security patches quickly? Wouldn't it be better to use a standardised security focused OS?
Around 11am BST everything I have in LON1 across all DO services (droplets, Kubernetes, App Platform) disappeared for about 10 minutes.

It resolved but is now showing intermittent issues an hour later.

It's the first DigitalOcean incident in memory that has caused me any problems though.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35768615

Perhaps dash now has these features but does NetBSD sh or FreeBSD sh have them.

What's the point of "pure sh" if it's restricted to specific versions of shells. Opinions may differ but I'd rather learn the "lowest common denominator". I use the same scripts on both Linux and BSD so I need portability. I do not use bash for scripting. It's larger and slower.

One source I consult is https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/bourne/

It is sometimes submitted to HN, but not IMO enough

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=in-ulm.de

I'm using the latest version of dash. I just tested it and it does have these ternary operators. However, I'm not going to use them in scripts unless I know they'll work on older dash versions, OpenWRT sh, Android sh, NetBSD sh, FreeBSD sh, etc. The process of updating these shells is generally very slow. It can take years.

"Pure sh" implies there is some advantage over "bashisms". I thought maybe it was portability but perhaps it is something else.
For me there was no "after" yet. Psychiatrist suggests to be on meds for at least a year or so. Combine with therapy. Going off meds should be very slow and take a month or so of dosage lowering.

I guess body should have be adjusted to increased levels of serotonin and lowering the dose very slowly should help the body to adjust the levels by itself. Nothing that was not done by millions of people already.
Just seem like Canonical in a nut shell. Burning energy on nonsense going nowhere.
Once upon a time I briefly looked at symlinking rubygem install dirs from global to project-specific directories (because a project-specific $GEM_HOME avoided functionally all the problems with just about any other approach, and is still what I use today). Functionally it worked, it just needed some tooling to make it easy.

It sounds like what you might want is a shared global dir that uses hashes of feature flags to separate crate installs in the same target directory, then some after-the-fact GC to hardlink matching files across different builds of the same crate. Then you can symlink from there into your local project target.
Already woefully out of date by the time the video was put out.
Honestly surprised WeWork is still around after that documentary on it in 2021