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GCM has exactly the same problem with respect to nonces (GCM, like CTR, has a nonce, not an IV, but the terms are unfortunately used interchangeably).

The secrecy/predictability/uniqueness rules for IVs and nonces depend on the specific cipher mode you're using, so be careful about writing generic recommendations. Also, be very careful with the word "ideally", because if you get an IV or nonce wrong, chances are your problems are much worse than "not ideal".
HEADLINE: Promote x32 to official status and recommend it as the default install.

DESCRIPTION: The Linux x32 ABI, for the most part, combines the best of both worlds in x86: the lower memory footprint of 32-bit software (and likewise, 4GiB process limits to go with it) by keeping pointer sizes and data types the same as i386, but still allowing applications to take advantage of the expanded registers, instructions, and features of x86_64 CPUs. For most systems that aren't database servers, this can result in large memory footprint reductions and greater performance as a result. Debian has had an unofficial x32 port for years, that is presently difficult to install and get running.

DISTRIBUTION: unstable
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Hah, that's a fair point, actually. Maybe I'm using a different definition of 'embedded system'. To me, anything that's a general purpose application processor these days (i.e. capable of running Linux) barely fits the definition. I wouldn't really call the iPhone CPU an 'embedded system' although, I guess, it kind of is.
I mean, that's not technically true, there's definitely a module system. In fact, in some ways Ruby's module system is more powerful than Python's since it's completely divorced from the concept of the file. You can split a single module across multiple files or create multiple modules in a single file. You can nest modules as well of course.

The problem is with the module import system, which as you alluded, imports the module structure in a given file into the global namespace. And it imports everything! There's simply no way to say which bits you want and where they should go.

I actually don't really see a reason why the import system could not be changed while keeping the module system in general as is. I wonder if anyone has ever tried something like that...
You know, I am homeless right now and I don't know how I will eat for the rest of this month. I am finding your remarks insulting, depressing, frustrating and obnoxious.

Are you doing anything to help lift me up while trying to prove your point that I am wrong and you are right? In my eyes, you continuing to argue this while doing nothing to help me grow my online income just supports my point of view that UBI will be yet another source of class divide.

I have $10k a year unearned income and I have been on HN for several years. I am the top ranked woman here. I still can't make the business connections I need to figure out how the hell to make good money online. I don't know a stronger argument for what I am saying than my life and you can't be arsed to even finish reading things I have written.

I don't plan to continue to engage you. I don't feel your argument is remotely in good faith. I think if you were right and I was wrong, then I would have long ago established sufficient income to get my sorry ass off the fucking street. Having $10k in unearned income in no way gives you the business connections you need and if other people for any reason don't want to make those connections with you, then trying to figure it out your damn self tends to involve painfully slow progress that has little hope of ever leading to a middle class income.
Not many. There's a Venn diagram to draw about academic cryptographers and practicing cryptographic engineers and people qualified to do cryptographic reviews and the overlap is less than you might think.
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> From the perspective of the speaker, free speech rights do not extend to such spaces.

The exact same free speech rights exist in those spaces as in any other spaces. The scope of those rights, irrespective of the space, extends only to freedom from content-based restrictions imposed by government. They don't include freedom from having private licenses you may have been extended withdrawn based on speech acts (such licenses can be withdrawn whether or not you are exercising them at the time of the speech act.)

Say, for instance, you don't like that someone is advocating neo-Nazi causes in a public space and choose to withdraw a standing invitation you had previously extended to them due to that conduct: this is legal private content-based discrimination for speech on public property. It doesn't mean free speech rights don't extend to public property, it just means that private discriminstion was never within the scope of what those rights protect against.
Also use 2 different locks, like dLock and a cable lock.
I think Amazon did try some stuff like having storage containers robotically come toward workers.

They bought that technology from Kiva, then bought the company, and all their current-generation distribution centers use it.
(Amazon has distribution center generations; they don't upgrade existing buildings while in operation, but build new ones with newer technology. Some pre-Kiva centers are still running.)

Automatic picking is still an R&D problem. Amazon has put some effort into that; they have an annual competition where people can compete to win a few thousand dollars solving a billion dollar problem.

Automatic mixed-case picking and palletizing can be automated. It isn't quite fast enough, quite general enough, and quite cheap enough to take over.[1] Except inside frozen food warehouses.[2] Humans are not very productive at -23C, but special-purpose automation machinery is. Amazon has the scale to push that gear into being cost-effective.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO7fvrdTCgs
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuvrP1QKsdk
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> Liberal western politics are based on individual liberty and free will.

> However, mainstream science maintains that we're neither individuals nor have free will.

You are conflating government control and social interactions. Liberal western politics is based on individual liberty and free will in the context of government policy. Such policies are focused on reducing the control that governments have on individual rights and not how individuals are influenced by other individuals within societies, which is the topic that Homo Deus and Sapiens focus on.
The irony is that The Outline is just like all the others, except that it has prettier ads.
I do this and it works really well for me. Can build out the barebones of a new feature in 3 ish days and bring it back to the team to iterate on for a couple weeks. Speaking of which...is about time for me to do so.
Hah, that's a fair point, actually. Maybe I'm using a different definition of 'embedded system'. To me, anything that's a general purpose application processor these days (i.e. capable of running Linux) barely fits the definition.

I'd say that's a bit myopic.

There's a huge range of devices between "a few kilobytes of memory" and "smartphone" that would be well-served by something like this.
Not having free will and being capable of acting on it are two very different things. That is, it doesn't matter if we have free will or not, we can't base any immediate decisions on it since we are not Laplace's demon.
I disagree. Cable companies controlled the pipes for a long time, but that didn't stop the content producers (CNN, ESPN, etc) from having substantial pricing power then.

Facebook controls the eyeballs the same way the cable companies did. Of course, there's been some consolidation of the distribution and content production side of things (Comcast+NBC, Disney+BAMTech, networks+Hulu, Netflix+Netflix, etc).

The question is to what extent there is a magic sauce in the organizations to produce quality content and if their brands are strong enough for consumers to demand.Think about ESPN, NYTimes, CNN and Buzzfeed. They all seem to have strong brands. Some people prefer MSNBC over CNN, Fox over CNN, etc. In addition to strong brands, they all seem to have at least a good level of organizational secret-sauce that produces good content.

-Can Facebook create its own content arm and become a competitor? Potentially, especially with some acquisitions.

-Can Facebook treat the existing content producers like commodities that it pits against each-other for limited compensation? Seems unlikely right now (and I don't see how Facebook would have more bargaining power than Comcast did).

-Does it make sense for Facebook to get into the content creation game? I'm imagining now how things would look with a Facebook acquisition of Buzzfeed or Vice.

-If the existing content companies are unwilling to work with Facebook at prices that Facebook wants to pay, at what point does Facebook get into the content game themselves?

-If Facebook gets into the content creation game itself, does that put the other media companies into a bad place?

-How can the content companies continue to live in this fractured world? People always have and always will want good content. The print content model came to the web in a very fractured way. If you had 10 physical newspapers delivered, now you have 10 websites you need to pay for. It makes no sense, and I think it will almost certainly change within the coming decades to be more of a Spotify model. When, and who wins and loses, will be a very interesting story (and also very socially important). If the media companies don't get their shit together, Facebook or Apple or some kids in a garage will end up owning what could have been theirs.
>Embedded systems, IMO, must be deterministic, reliable and consistent. Introducing garbage collection violates these three principals

There are a number of commercial real time JVM's out there.
The article (and several modern scientists and lots of classical philosophers) confuse free will with some external entity that can take decisions for our life while standing outside it (as some objective spectator).

In the end, those decisions, even if they were possible, would not be free will, but either arbitrary (random) or requiring some homunculus doing the thinking somewhere inside us.

Rather, I say, our will, and that's free enough, and as free as it gets, is mixed up in ourself: it is ourself. Our body, past history, experiences, brain structure, etc, define us, and their sum is what ends up taking the decisions.

Thus it doesn't even matter if our "conscious self" is not aware of a decision we've made as some studies say [1]. Our body is still us (in fact, that's all there is when we talk about our self, our body + our neural synapses as shaped by our life experiences from our trajectory in space-time). We are not some souls independent of our body/life story. We ARE our life story/body.

This means that determinism (that the universe makes us takes exactly a specific decision at every point etc), if exists, is totally combatible with such a notion of free will. Free doesn't mean "able to go random" but "expressing freely its owner" -- and since our will's owner is our body+history, it cannot but take a single decision each time, those that determine who we are, and thus our essence.

[1] http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080411/full/news.2008.751.ht...
I agree with you that there's many device in that range, but why are they not well served by using an operating system? When is a device large enough to run the whole Go runtime but too small for (say) Linux?
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My father got angry with me for scuffing my feet while walking - it would wear out the front of the shoe. So instead of buying me new shoes regularly, he said I had to pay for the shoes.

I still wore the shoes every day, but I stopped scuffing.

It's the same thing.

I've often heard people say "it's a rental car, what do I care" while treating the car badly. Ex-rentals have poor resale value. The same goes for hotel rooms, free housing, etc.
No it is not, and as far as crypto is concerned - mainstream media is almost always wrong. This really reads like PR for vitalik.

Eth is great as a developer platform, and it can/does have a future. However, btc will remain the true king because of its decentralized nature.
Interesting approach to getting at some dark spaces in our current understanding. What kind of computation time does it take to run against a single amnio acid chain? Can you get much (nice disorder predictions?) out of an amino acid sequence alone?

Our protein design work has its origins coming from a different angle. But there are some interesting thoughts we've had about utilizing (well, dreamed up) technologies like yours to quickly make up a lot of ground between structural prediction, and empirical functional design.

Starting to see such 21st century data standards for bio data! Yay for everyone!
"focused on reducing the control that governments have on individual rights and not how individuals are influenced by other individuals within societies"

The distinction here becomes very blurry very rapidly.

Governments are composed of individuals within societies.
Individuals influence each other within a socio-political framework.
Ethereum is an obvious ponzi pump and dump scam.

I like how they frame the DAO hack as an opportunity for growth rather than a gross display of incompetence followed by a breaking of the original promise of immutability of the platform, which is what it was.
The only stress I had in Amsterdam was "There are a lot of bikes here" and "Hard to pay attention to the road with all the great architecture." None of the "OMG that guy honking is going to murder me" stress you get in America.

I biked with the kids from Haarlem to Bloemendaal aan Zee. It was the best! Took me a while to figure out Bloemendaal aan Zee and Bloemendaal are different places, so there were some wrong turns, but it was fun all the way.
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Is it atypical to bring your bike inside at work/home?
Having spent a little tiny bit of time in the Netherlands in both Amsterdam and The Hague, I suspect it's simply the combination of a flat landscape combined with comfortable weather for strenuous outdoor activity and most people living in pre-car cities which are sized about right for pedestrian activities which fed into a virtuous cycle that both recognized these things and then built legal and physical infrastructure to support them, which in turn made cycling easier and more convenient and so on.

It's very hard to conveniently cycle around many other cities due to not having one or more of the three foundations needed to kick off the cycle. Even in non-optimal cities, putting a cycling infrastructure in place doesn't necessarily result in lots of cyclists and doesn't necessarily determine cycle usage.

For example, the entire U.S. state of Florida might be an ideal biking location. It's flat after all, but most of the state was built to support cars, and the weather can be mighty hot. It also has the highest cyclist fatality rate in the U.S. with Orlando specifically often called out as one of the worst cities in the world to cycle in.
It's not an excerpt, it's a new article (by someone else) that is partially about McPhee.
The Redskins also filed an amicus brief in this case, so even if they somehow managed to avoid hearing about it, they would have found out about it from this case.
I know what you mean.

I don't suppose you think differently, but in general: I think it's worth reminding ourselves that "a government" is made up of multiple people, which may be largely influenced by distinct cliques, whether or not those cliques are within the government. It may be the case that real danger lies predominantly within those cliques.
Congratz on paying down your student loan!

Have you considered coming up with a resource for those paying off student loans? Not so much a pity-party community, but more of financial resources + legal contacts + "life hacks" + community / forum. I'd imagine the potential audience is quite large in the US and the emotional appeal of getting debt collectors off your back is pretty enticing.

I imagine the next generation of resource websites like this will use "brain hacks" (concepts in BJ Fogg's persuasion techniques -- similar to gamification) and may even be able to charge a subscription if it can change habits and encourage positive progress on paying down loan debt.

I paid down A LOT on a family member [A]'s student loan to take the pressure off another family member [B]. I would gladly pay a subscription fee for [A] to learn to take control of their own finances and figure out how to save money on their own.
How am I conflating those things?

Also false on Homo Deus, it covers both and much of it is about governments, politics and policies. Happy to quote some, but really just open the book on a random page you'll probably see that.
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I've long heralded this as some of the most attractive things about interpreted languages like Python and friends, and what really draws me to them in the first place.

Take parsing a config file - it doesn't need to be fast unless it's truly in your hot path and you're doing millions of them. I like not having to worry about memory management when it comes to them. On the other hand if I have a hot path/slow operation having the ability to compile a library to do the heavy lifting and gluing it together in a higher-level language means that you spend a lot less time fighting your language and a lot more time solving your problems.
The problem with the "but they have mental illness to deal with" answer is that while it may be true, it's very much the edge case, and not the rule.

I know this because I've been homeless. I'd say greater than 90% of the folks that I encountered in my homeless period were there because they were content to be there.

If they wanted to change their lot, there was more than ample opportunity to do so, between available services and working nearly ANY kind of job.

It took me about 4 months of working to get off the street.
If we assume that free will doesn't exist (which I don't agree with, but for the sake of argument we'll assume it doesn't), one might still expect people to make choices that maximize their own well-being and it isn't too much of a stretch to suppose that such choices are more often than not good for society, or at least more so than a planned society where most choices are made for you by some authority.

One can argue for democracy, free speech, and other modern liberal ideas on the basis that they produce a more stable, prosperous society.

This assumes that we've already decided that stability and prosperity are attributes that society should have.

I think science is a great tool for figuring out what the consequences of a particular action are likely to be, but it's not a tool that will tell us which of several outcomes we should prefer.
Sure, though they generally achieve that by running on big iron, with lots of spare CPU and memory, and running a lot of big exotic software. That is, environments with the opposite of where you'd generally want to deploy any code bare metal.
I can configure my database to require a private key be verified before data is committed to the database.

Not sure why you think blocks are important, but if you want, you can have the entries to the mysql database be batched into "blocks" and inserted all at once. Being connected to another set by hashing that data and putting it in a single record of the database (the "chain" part) is similarly trivial.

The only efficiency provided by the blockchain in your scenario is that it allows you to use blockchain terminology in marketing materials.
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While I generally agree with your point, it's hard to make this into law. Do you think it should be illegal to have a company with only 1 programmer? If not, how do you prevent them from making catastrophic mistakes?
There is something called a Handy (I think) which is an Android phone; it works well for browsing and maps. I have gotten one for free to borrow in a number of hotels around the world. Usually I have a local SIM though.
What if an employee leaves, or gets fired? You will have to remove them from the Discord and see all their messages disappear.
Does nobody else find this to be time-wasting drivel? We do what we do because we're apes with hats.

Any thing that acts does so with a system. The system determines the actions. This is true for the laws of nature as much as a football game. Even if someone cheats, they're cheating because of the system of the game.

> "Sapolsky concludes that World War II really was the worst thing humanity ever did to itself."

Really? Really now? Thousands of years of slavery, war, discrimination, class struggle, superstition, genocide, and at least a few centuries having to wear really stuffy clothes in the summer, and six years of war was the worst thing that happened? I didn't read the book, but this is a farcical idea that requires aggressively downplaying all of both the atrocity and perpetual minor trauma of recorded history.

The worst thing humanity ever did to itself was religion, but second to that was politics, so WWII can take the silver medal. Ironically, the best thing humanity ever did to itself was war, as it necessitated the development of technology to maintain hegemonic dominance.
I thought their main customers are high-speed trading firms, not so much embedded systems.
BladeRF is pretty cool. It doesn't have quite the frequency range of HackRF, but it's full duplex, and uses 12-bit ADC/DAC (vs. HackRF's 8-bit ones). Also it uses USB 3 so the bandwidth is not limited to 20MHz. (I think it's around 40MHz.)
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Are you sure it wasn't just that you use an ad-blocker and your wife doesn't?

Every time I use a web browser without an ad blocker I'm surprised at how shitty the web experience is.
I wonder what the better source of information is:

1. anecdotes from exasperated civil servants who were not party to the state level discussions,

or 2. declassified documents about the discussions.
Law generally doesn't prevent catastrophic mistakes, it creates consequences for them which incentivizes those in a position to make them to find ways of preventing them.
You mean the article that refers to a few cherry picked quotes but not actual research on the topic of free will?

... "Sapolsky quotes American cognitive scientist Marvin Minsky in support of the position that free will is really just “internal forces I do not understand.” ...

I never liked this argument. By saying it's "internal forces", subconscious struggles within myself, seems to conclude we've learned all there is to know about "physical reality".

We can't see beyond the boundary of our own reality (universe). To say we're certain reality only exists within those boundaries seems dubious.
I've been thinking about this recently. My conclusion is that a good arrange would is a strong state together with a free society. This is what happens in both current world superpowers, China and USA, but the former have a state a little stronger than its +1.5bi population while the latter has a "free society" stronger than the biggest government of the human history.
You are correct, the K6 did not beat Intel. It was the Athlon/Athlon64 that had better IPC than the Pentium 4.
We wouldn't need to remove them from Discord, we would just downgrade their role.
Crystallographic structures are very useful in determining the functions of proteins. Structural biochemists are very aware that proteins are dynamic and believe the concept is covered in most introducing courses.