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> Dictatorships are hell.

Not necessarily, look at Singapore. A benevolent dictatorship can be the best kind of government, the problem is finding the benevolent dictator.
I just wanted to say I really enjoy these and thank you for doing them, it's very enlightened.
Anecdotally; I spoke to a person from "Norges Bank Investment Management" today at a careers fair about this issue, and apparently this example of using active external investors is something that they have been avoiding since, and that the magnitudes of their internal bonuses are far more restrictive.
Libertario Ad Absurdum
I'm glad they're putting money into medical research, but I kinda roll my eyes when people make big claims about curing X, especially when X is something incredibly broad like "cancer" or in this case, "all diseases." AI/ML has barely scratched the surface of its potential in medicine, however, I find it naive to think that you can throw AI/ML at any random disease and always get a cure. Even after a century. Will we have a cure for trisomy 21? For antisocial personality disorder? For obesity and addiction? These things are far more complicated than just creating the right drug.

But as much as I'm rolling my eyes at their blanket statement, the spirit of "yes we can!" does way more for science and progress than naysay of critics.
But which wouldn't have run the pre-installed OS any more
It's because financial transparency doesn't have allot of competition, it's a low bar to say and do some transparent things

Anyway, that manager needs to negotiate a better deal if they only get 60m annually with almost a trillion AUM
I don't fully agree with this quote/statement. There is something to be said about proper rest and non work hours as your brain does it things.

I'm sure most people here can attest to the anecdotal proof of having a difficult problem and leaving it. Then it suddenly coming to you some point later during non work. This also applies to developing skills. Not just problem solving.
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Have you opened up a bug with the new new PCI ID so they can be added to the kernel?
Why? Why should Lenovo let 99% of their users use sub-par drivers when they reinstall Windows?
$60m isn't exactly the real cost to the government, though? Assuming this asset manager is a Norwegian resident, he'll pay a ton of tax (income or corporate tax, VAT, stamp duty on property purchases, capital gains, etc etc) on that money, and eventually given enough time, most will just flow back to the government. The house always wins..

Also, it depends on how much he brings in. For example, there are US based asset managers with private funds that generate 20-30-40% per annum, for over 20 years. If the performance is there, they should get compensated well for that. Otherwise, why put up with the stress of managing billions of dollars?
It makes no difference whether you portray it as "poor methods are rewarded" or "good methods are penalized", either way the incentives are for poor methods to win out over good ones.
The basic Ivory is essentially only soap. The sunlight bar soap is sold for laundry but it's basically a pure soap made from vegetable fat (that was the big innovation, it wasn't made with tallow rather palm oil.)
I am a self-taught programmer in my 30s (with an undergrad degree in humanities) now back in school. One of the main reasons I decided to return to school rather than continuing to program on the job was that I wanted to improve my math skills.

When you say you know nothing about math, does that mean you have no Calculus? That was where I was starting. To prepare for Calculus, get solid in algebra and trig. Then do single-variable Calculus (Calc 1 & 2). My recommendation would be to do linear algebra before multivariate calculus. You can do Calc 2 and Linear Algebra at the same time.

If you have no Physics experience you might also consider studying it. Physics helps you learn by applying math concepts. Also, I think it is very good for teaching you to problem solve as an engineer.
This is not a good PR move for Lenovo and the whole meltdown has been terribly handled as we can clearly see.

However shipping a new BIOS that opens the option to run with less than optimal drivers for the majority of their users (Windows users) it is not a good idea. There are costs to ship a BIOS with and without the "band-aid" and to support it.
There are also costs for all the support calls they think they'll get if their laptop doesn't work well on Windows (which is again probably 99% of their user base) and all the returned laptops they'll get because [battery|temperature|performance|stability] issues.

Also, come on, Linux is not that important nor threatening on the desktop market for anyone to try to actively block it. We think we're super smart for catching big corporations red-handed with their conspiracies, but realistically no one gives a shit about Linux on laptops. No one would go out of their way to specifically screw with Linux. Linux has lost the desktop wars, but not against Windows: Against Apple.

Seriously, this whole clusterfuck has apparently been done to avoid Windows using its own drivers; not even Windows 10 can be installed unless you get those drivers.

As a long time Linux user (disclosure: I pretty much use every major OS out there) I tell you this was called Tuesday not so long ago. There would be a new piece of hardware and you'd be screwed. No Linux for you on this or that laptop or with that graphics card or external gadget. Printers, scanners, anything you could plug on a PCI port. Man, that was hell.

These days you easily get supported hardware because companies have been much better at creating Linux drivers or making it easy for someone else to do it. The difference is that before we were more humble and brought decent arguments on the table to push the companies to be compatible with Linux.

It was a bad decision, but it might not be good to unblock it either.
Poor methods which is a result of inadequate data/descriptions being provided by researchers to the publication (also an issue with publications not requiring it).

In many of the hard sciences there is not a requirement to list the products used such as chemical reagents or plasticware in a given experiment.
As it does to those who don't.
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Let's not blame Kissinger alone. Which government did the US support during the 1980s in Cambodia, the Vietnamese-backed one or the Khmer Rouge? <crickets>
If you are looking for actual data-based reporting start here fivethirtyeight.com/

If this is some kind of hipster feel-good rant about how you are only gonna read non biased news good luck with that
Tor is not, nor has it ever been, trustworthy. Hell, you can still try active deanonymization for youself: https://github.com/Miserlou/Detour

This didn't used to be a problem, as it was essentially run as a sandbox project for the academic anonymity community. It was very up front about its capabilities and limitations.

Unfortunately, in recent years, the US government has been bankrolling more "privacy" software development through its propaganda arms (OTF, RFA, etc.), and the Snowden revelations have led private foundations to follow suit.

As such, the organization doubled down on rebranding to be a "human rights" _tool_, as this is what grant giving organizations love to promote (free speech in Iran, activist publishing, etc.) This combined with a overly-enthusiastic do-gooders gaining more and more prominence in the Tor organization has led to the dangerous situation of promoting inherently insecure software as a security solution to vulnerable people. This is a general problem in the scene (remember when those activists in South America got vanned for using CryptoCat?) - and one that I've been guilty of myself in the past.

I really hope the new boards steers them back to the academic realm and slaps a big red USE AT YOUR OWN RISK warning on the tin. Unfortunately, I think the opposite will happen.
>The entire security of the Tor Browser ecosystem relies on the integrity of a single TLS certificate that has already been previously compromised.

Seriously? That seems like a really weird - to say the least - decision to make about something this important...
Ask HN: How do you dive into a new framework/project?
Last couple of weeks, I have been trying to learn Vue.js from docs and guides with some amount of scratch-pad code. I am not a very experienced programmer, but most of the times I have written a lot of vanilla javascript, trying not to introduce unnecessary dependencies into the project.

So How do you start investigating into a new framework/project? How do you probe its internal mechanisms and overall architecture?
EDIT: JWZ disagrees that this is all rainbows and puppydogs.

Archive.org link because JWZ dislikes HN- https://web.archive.org/web/20160818144913/https://www.jwz.o...
OK, fair enough. But just for the record:

> You only need matter with negative mass if you want to construct one by building a machine.

As I'm sure you're aware, things do move faster than light and/or backwards in time on the microscopic level. But that's not what most people care about when they talk about this stuff. They want to know if you can build a time machine. And the answer to that (on current knowledge) is a definitive "no".
I'm a bit puzzled as to how a low-karma user with no submissions is able to post so many comments, when there's supposed to be a timed comment limit to prevent exactly this sort of repetitive go-nowhere discussion.
How does one even define "disease"?
I don't think it's all that ridiculous, it's over 80 years in the future. 80 years ago we were dying of all sorts of [now] easily preventable and curable diseases. Penicillin was not used until 1942!
I think by 2100 we will have extremely powerful AI that will make fighting diseases extremely easy compared to methods available today.

Right. Just like the jetpacks and lunar colonies we have easy access to now, as promised in the 1960s.
No, but the sanguinary headline made me imagine a future where all biological stressors have actually been eradicated. Our species would be at its weakest.

I guess I was briefly taking the donator's unicorn propaganda literally. Sorry.
Almost. The numbers can be repeated, if N = 999999999 then Mun(N) = 9 * 9^9 = 3486784401 ~=3.5E9. But the general idea is correct.

[spoiler alert] If we assume that the number N has D digits, then

10^(D-1) <= N < 10^D

Now, N has D digits, and each one can be at most 9, so

Mun(N) <= 9^9 * D = 387420489 * D < 10^9 * D

If we assume that there exist a number N that is a Munchausen number with D digits, then N = Mun(N) so we can combine the left part of the first equation with the right part of the second equation

10^(D-1) <= N = Mun(N) < 10^9 * D

If we only keep the extreme parts of the inequality

10^(D-1) < 10^9 * D

And now we can take log (in base 10)

D-1 < 9 + log(D)

And put all the D in the left side:

D – log(D) < 10

Taking the derivatives, the function f(x)=x-log(x) is essentially increasing if x is big enough, probably when x>1 or x>2, I'm a bit lazy. (Remember to use the ln(10) in the derivative because we are using log=log_10 instead of ln=log_e.)

So we have only to find a value of D that is big enough. For example, if D=12, then

12-log(12) > 12-log(100) = 12-2 = 10

So if D is 12 or more, we have a contradiction, so there are no Munchausen numbers with 12 digits or more.

A more careful analysis can reduce this value a little, but a for between 1 and 10^12-1 to test all the cases should finish in a modern computer in a reasonable time, specially replacing the pow(n, n) calculation with a cached value.
The difference being that you don't have an army or the power necessary such that I'm going to consider your plans to be serious in the least.

With $56 billion, I'm inclined to take Zuckerberg a lot more seriously. He currently has eight times the annual R&D budget of Pfizer in paper wealth that has been increasing in value at a rapid clip (emphasis on paper, in that of course it may go up a lot more or down a lot, who knows). Tackling all disease is beyond grandiose; wiping out numerous diseases however is not - that would be an extraordinary accomplishment.
If I tried to mandate "cycling nights", everyone would think I was crazy. Not everyone can ride a bike! Not everyone's comfortable riding a bike aggressively in Manhattan traffic! Okay, but I can and am, and everyone should be like me! Cycling nights!

Well, not everyone can drink alcohol. Not everyone's comfortable drinking alcohol. But "drinking nights" are fine.
Well, with AMP users it's going from 22 -> 1, right?

That's at least marginally better.
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Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12551863.
I admit I spoil the boy... Perhaps he is ready...
Quick Summary: Probably safe but not any more effective than normal soap. Possibly harmful to the environment so not worth the risk of environmental damage.
Better are those winged levers you can close with your arm or elbow. Most of the staff bathrooms in the hospital I worked in had those along with proper antibacterial soap. Not the Triclosan kind, the high alcohol content kind that's actually effective in a 15 seconds application.
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JWZ has some referrer detection so you might want to open it in a private tab to get around.
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It's interesting to imagine a hypothetical future where something like this leads to genetically engineered humans that are far more fit for space exploration than those of us walking around today.
Wow. Man, come on.

The disturbing level of contempt is almost the sole property of the "Linux == Freedom" crowd. I mean seriously, the level of outrage about systemd alone is off the rails. Bring up Microsoft and I'm somehow complicit in oppressing people because I use their software? (But somehow the rare earth minerals in devices and the contributions to modern electronics of the defense budget don't somehow make us all culpable of far more. I mean, yeah the GPS in my phone was built for the military but how dare you not give me a compiler!)

I used to be such a hard core Linux fan when I was younger. Man I hope I wasn't as breathlessly shrill as the people I'm seeing today. There is so much wrong with the world that people complaining about this really make me think that we are all so isolated in our little worlds...
What do you use to hold your emergency fund?

Fidelity brokerage account, with very tight stops on any equities that are held in that account (to avoid a pinch should the market poop itself). It's not instantly liquid, as you'll have to wait three days after you sell equities. But my account is a margin account, so I can have nearly instant access to cash (at 7%-ish, IIRC) if I don't use the margin balance for trading (which I generally don't). IOW, I can extract cash from the account via wire transfer, check (if I can ever find the checkbook for that account), or debit card and because I'm using margin balance the equities don't need to get sold.

The caveat is that using the margin balance is for a short-term need, like maybe go buy a used car and pay the account back using other funds later. I would not recommend using the margin balance for, say, living expenses after loss of a job. For that you sell the equities.
I agree, and it's why I stop posting there, but I don't think that's necessarily a problem. Not every opinion needs to be expressed everywhere.
I always thought 'nothingness' was a central ontological concept in Buddhism, not just a concept as it relates to a 'self'. For Zen Buddhism, deny the substantial character of reality, assert that the only absolute is the void, existentially assume this void, and assert the sameness of the phenomena around you. I imagine something which encourages you to deny your desires must steer you in the direction of inactivity - in as much as desire motivates activity (not biological activity, but 'start a startup' kind of activity). Although I'm aware Western versions have squared it with work place productivity, even used by hard working CEOs at the top, it feels perhaps dishonest to claim "Buddhism" rather than utility for feeling centered (and it certainly is effective there).
I prefer react-css with react mostly because I can import styles and treat them like regular objects. I also find it much easier to do responsive styling by computing CSS values with js.

Another reason for this approach is that I believe React Native will be the universal framework for mobile and web development and it also uses this method of styling so I'm adapting to it.
The move from Weebly 2 to Weebly 3 seemed to be very rough - lots of unhappy punters. What lessons did you learn from that move, how did you handle thing differently this time?
> You can cite flaws, but it was an improvement over what we had before (yabb, slashdot, etc).

FWIW I considered /. to be a better system than reddit. But I mean, it all depends on what you consider "better". Reddit is certainly more popular, so clearly it's better by some metric.
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What sort of diseases do you suppose extremely powerful AI might be able to manufacture for militaries, terrorists, dissatisfied hackers, etc?
It's the certificate used to sign TLS for addons.mozilla.org. Since "Tor Browser" is a lightly modified Firefox that hasn't had its automatic addon update checking disabled, and Mozilla's addon signing process is an automated rubber stamp, that's a problem.

To be clear, I don't think it's so much a problem on Mozilla's part; perhaps manual review would be a good idea, but I doubt they have the resources. The problem here is that Tor Browser has claims made for it that aren't supported by the amount of work that's actually gone into making it secure. That would appear to be entirely on the people who run the Tor foundation, or whatever nonprofit structure it is that they use.
Hi! I'm Alec, I presented that Facebook password hashing paper at PasswordCon'15 and the video is here, slides included: https://video.adm.ntnu.no/pres/54b660049af94
Beware to anyone who follows that link directly (jwz isn't a big fan of HN referrals, for those who don't know).
Are the usage analytics available to package maintainers? What about in downstream taps such as Homebrew-Versions and Homebrew-Science? Would be nice to know when it comes to grant writing time.
Great post! You should post it to this 3DP facebook group[0] for feedback on slicer settings that could help with this. I think for liquids you might want to use additional perimeters, increase the infill density, and maybe even slightly overextrude to avoid gaps. I know /r/3dprinting would love this post too!

[0] https://www.facebook.com/groups/makerbot/
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It's about as realistic as Facebook (or any big company really) being able to fix all the legacy issues in their own codebases. Except way less achievable.
Wouldn't be surprised if the Finnish gov could make some decent money by selling the real deal (at market rate).
Exploring this in other bases would be amusing, maybe not particularly enlightening though.
The problem is that it's locked.

As a default it would be fine, if it could be changed without removing the BIOS chip.
Oh it's funny to see the comments in this thread talking down about people on reddit when the misplaced outrage was just as loud here. In fact, I got buried here for pointing out that the claim was BS and unrelated to SecureBoot where at least Reddit took it thoughtfully and realized it was probably just a bullshit statement from a nobody rep that got blown out of proportion.

Sorry to be that guy, but the elitism is pretty misplaced anymore...
> Well, if your main motivation for starting a company is having beer nights, seems like the company you should start is a bar.

That doesn't make sense - you would be working at the times you want to be drinking and socialising with your colleagues.
I've been struggling to understand double-slit.

I had thought the pattern represented interference between the probability distributions of where the photon might be found (which themselves follow "wavelength" and produce wave-like behavior). With two slits you get two distinct probability distributions that overlap spatially at the screen, which when added together cause denser/less-dense areas of photon detection and looks like an interference pattern.

That would have explained why streams of single photons "self-interfere" (they wouldn't--it's the underlying probability of their path that interferes with itself, so the pattern would eventually appear at any emission rate) but that seems so simplistic as to be unlikely to be the truth of the matter, especially with delayed choice and quantum erasure effects.

Do you happen to know a good layman's source for a solid explanation of what we know about double slit right now? I'd really like to understand it, if only at a high level.
discussion here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12548608
Retina MacBook Pro... yes, under two years. But lets see, periods between last updates, 247, 251, 280, 294. Average, 268. Current, 491. Nearly twice that.

Similar with the iMac - at 344, already beyond the average (which was only pulled way out of whack by one 577 day refresh cycle, otherwise it would have been in the 270 day range.

MacBook Air. Average of 350 days, now seven months more...

Mac Mini, similar.

There isn't any way that you can spin this in a way that says Apple isn't neglecting the Mac.
How does this Weebly compare to squarespace, wix and webflow? What's the differentiation?
"My understanding is that experimental support for the new RAID mode in Linux already exists."

That is not true, many users have tried using the very latest bleeding edge kernel. The drive is not detected at all by Linux when it is in RAID mode. The usual fix is to disable RAID mode and just use AHCI. On most sane systems (but not Lenovo), you can do this easily by changing a single BIOS setting.

Also, my understanding is that the benchmarks show no appreciable performance benefits of single-drive SSD RAID over AHCI.
Yep, Tom, that's the FB solution - or rather, halfway up the stack of hashing is a callout to a service where HMACs are involved. These bring their own challenges: https://video.adm.ntnu.no/pres/54b660049af94
So just to reiterate, taking the sha256 of the password before running bcrypt on it is recommended? Funny, this is the first I've heard of this. You'd think bcrypt would have just implemented the sha256 step into the algorithm?
By 2100 I hope we have a patchable structures that just need an electronic update to generate the new immune cell/protein/expression.
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Well, I think you're being overly generous with Singapore's human rights record, but even ignoring that, what happens when the dictator dies or hands power to his sons or whatever? You have no mechanism for a sane transfer of power nor do you get to vet the candidates.

Also, what if he's merely 60% benevolent, how do you fix the other 40%? For example, corporal punishment continues to exist in Singapore. Why would a benevolent leader allow that? Worse, what avenues do you have to change this? You don't have any in dictatorship.

Heck, Singapore has the world's highest execution rate relative to its population. It also executes drug dealers. Again, how can you change that in a dictatorship? Who gets to decide what is "benevolent" here?
Ha, I just came off a few hours of writing some, but definitely not my primary languages. A project I was committing some code to most recently was using Babel and Webpack and had like 20+ include statements at the top for some very rudimentary things.
Is there an index or ETF which follows this pension fund's investments?