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by bArray 4y ago
Without embodiment, these AIs are just maximising some fitness function, which their creators have a hand in by selecting the data and manually tweaking (see the Fascism vs Communism example). The real answer here is that the "smarter&
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by bArray 4y ago
Thanks, but that only answers part of my question. I also want to see what the ratio is for contracted banks, it's no good if they outsource poor reserve ratios.
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by bArray 4y ago
> Once understood, it is self-evident that banks are wholly responsible for asset bubbles. Banks, especially large banks, create loans mostly for existing asset purchases, and not for new productive investment. Of course, they do this in
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by bArray 4y ago
I was literally reading this article just 4 hours before it was submitted to HN. It's a little concerning when my 'unique' search from 2014 isn't even unique. Some questions I am trying to answer: 1. What are the minima
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by bArray 4y ago
I understand that, I just don't understand why another committee didn't get created to implement a stricter subset of standards. Kernels, micros, automotive, aeronautic, and many more, all have very strict requirements for safely
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by bArray 4y ago
Fair comment. The one thing I never understood is why Rust was created instead of a stricter C++ compiler/standard? In some jobs I have worked some of this stuff has been enforced by purposefully making the compile crash if you try to
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by bArray 4y ago
> Linus Torvalds is one of them. And he is a hardcore C programmer, he was strongly against C++ in the Kernel when people were suggesting that. My interpretation of his stance so far was "I'm not going to block Rust support in
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by bArray 4y ago
> Yes. Your sentence misses a comma and a word: feed2imap is (more or less) unmaintained, therefore I rewrote it in Go, resulting in feed2imap-go Yeah I saw this after, no idea why I read that wrong. First thing I do when I see a repo is
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by bArray 4y ago
> Rust does everything that C does while making programmer more productive. Look at what Linux Kernel hackers say about it. They are the ones who know things about C. Anybody can submit a patch to the Linux kernel (which is great of cour
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by bArray 4y ago
I really like this idea! Using email to synchronize RSS feeds is an awesome abuse of email! > "It is a rewrite in Go of the wonderful, but unfortunately now unmaintained" Is it still working? If not, I might need to read up on
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by bArray 4y ago
I also worked on an RSS feed reader that was supposed to work on both desktop, mobile and low-RAM embedded systems (<64MB of RAM). It was also written in C, but the focus was on bringing a synced decentralised cross-platform experience.
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by bArray 4y ago
If they think that is bad, wait to see what 2023 brings. When the recession fully hits (and it will), a significant number of smaller FOMO investors will look to withdraw in favour of traditional liquid to cover basic bills (rent, utilities
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by bArray 4y ago
If you're going to pre-compute, pre-compute also a look-up table for your ordered data. I wrote something like this for a simple flat-binary key-value store [1] (that table is computed into RAM on start-up). That way you jump from look
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by bArray 4y ago
The account 'dang' often replies with a list of links and then produces some generated response with the topic as a seed. Given the frequency of responses this person would need to be using Hacker News full time. @mods Can we get
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by bArray 4y ago
I cannot speak for Harvard, but I can speak for other academic institutions. The bloat is very real. The weirdest thing is that lecturers are paid _only_ in terms of teaching students, but not for any time doing any administration (which th
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by bArray 4y ago
Could you not give input and output examples for the graphs? I.e. show networkx before and after your positioning? Also how well will this scale for large numbers of nodes, say thousands? Currently using networkx I have to perform tens of t
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by bArray 4y ago
> This isn't a developed nation, perhaps if the west is willing to do business your comment and sentiment has validity but sitting at Chinese workers and Chinese debt us better than sitting at a distance and pitying those poor peopl
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by bArray 4y ago
I thought what I wrote was quite clear. They import Chinese workers to do the infrastructure development and the local people receive some small temporary benefit from the net import of Chinese migration. In this case the Chinese workers bu
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by bArray 4y ago
They can just declare the local people as terrorists and send them off to re-education camps for free hard labour. It's not as if a communist Country has never done that before, or even that the CCP doesn't do exactly this today i
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by bArray 4y ago
> I wonder where they could have got that idea from It was done during the time of the British empire and was recognized for being bad. The entire idea back then _was_ to permanently capture Hong Kong - which is why it is troubling to se
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by bArray 4y ago
There is supposed to be due diligence on the issuing of loans, like a person getting a mortgage for a house, but for an entire Country. It is well known that the likes of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, etc, have been acting immorally in this reg
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by bArray 4y ago
You're being sold "work less hours, get paid the same". In actual fact: > “With many businesses struggling to afford 10% inflation pay rises, we’re starting to see increasing evidence that a four-day week with no loss of p
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by bArray 4y ago
So the success story here is: > [..] the yuan is now its main currency of trade. 1. They lost their own currency. > [..] it is also increasingly populated by many from across the border hoping to benefit [..] 2. The 'investment&#
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by bArray 4y ago
I don't know Ben Collins or why he is on the list. My claim was that the panicked tagging of Antifa accounts would suggest that the list does contain Antifa members, or people associated, hence the panic. I don't imagine it can be
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by bArray 4y ago
> You're simplifying the opposition to fascism too much. In much the same way that they simplify their opposition into a strawman. But you're not denying the violence and destruction. > For ex. when Antifa were destroying th
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by bArray 4y ago
> As, of course, is jwz. I have their RSS feed just for the updates to the xscreensaver and the occasional interesting topic, but mostly ignore. I see some drama happening there quite frequently and I really don't want anything to d
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by bArray 4y ago
> What I’m doing · I’m not closing or deleting my account, because Twitter might come back, who knows. > I’ll still use Twitter to post pointers to ongoing pieces because that benefits me, not Elon. So not really leaving. > Are peo
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by bArray 4y ago
Exactly. Take Tether for example. Every time BTC starts to dip, USDT starts to de-peg. They are not at all uncoupled. Tether doesn't have the market cap to cash out all of the BTC, and never will. The amount of apparent value in the cr
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by bArray 4y ago
From my understanding, this only solves one issue - exchanges holding crypto assets. I would expect an exchange to also hold traditional liquid money, which currently couldn't be captured by this. If you could get the US financial syst
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by bArray 4y ago
I think one thing to remember is the following: > The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said it was hitting poorer households hardest, as they spent around half of their income on food and energy, compared to about a third for those o

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