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> it costs $5 to send $5 worth of bitcoin

Not that this is a whole lot better, but the cost is $1.48 for fastest confirmation time, and $0.42 if a delay of 15-300 minutes is acceptable to you.

Source: https://bitcoinfees.21.co/
Doesn't sound exponential to me!
Turns out that after Clang got all the features GCC already had, compile times where even worse. At least for my C++ programs compiling with g++ is faster than with clang++.
Good catch - thanks, will be fixed later today.
The testnet is already online since a few weeks now.
But according to the segwit2x timeline this step should come tomorrow if they are still on track:

July 14 - Agreement Participants Install and Test Milestone
+1 I always had back problems, but after my now two year old was born it got much worse, due to lack of sleep, lack of sports and the permanent lifting of 13 kg. I tried a lot of things at home, the only relief were medical massages.

This book "Foundation: Redefine Your Core, Conquer Back Pain, and Move with Confidence" did almost magic to my problems. The exercises are dead simple and I'm still amazed how well they help.

Agreed, the infomercial nature is a bit off putting but don't let this distract you, the exercises are working
With transparent, market driven pricing, you don't have to negotiate.
No, that part was prefixed with "if Bitcoin were to skyrocket". A million is an illustrative number I pulled out of my nose. I think the minimal investment in Tezos was 1 Bitcoin, which is what I put in. That's on the order of 2000 EUR now, so it would have to skyrocket quite a bit more to get to a literal million.
I thought this already happens, as long as your voice app is being called. You have special analytics tooling.
I think that it would be a good place to develop ISRU capability, to enable us to do further exploration targets in the future.
OEMs will probably still ship systems without ECC too. Does not mean it should not be an option. I wonder as a side note on Bristol Ridge for example, for 8GB of RAM would you rather take dual channel or ECC? (the fun thing is that 4Gbit DDR4 is cheaper per bit on DRAMeXchange spot prices than 8Gbit DDR4 again, but...)
I never knew that they overbooked flights until recently. From my perspective, it appeared obviously wrong and immoral. So never imagined that an ethical company would do this.
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If you are a Linux user it's fine (had two months on a 1700 with Fedora and zero issues) unless you hit the particular edge case.
What I got out of the article was that the approach here seems to be that you create a small number of improved t-cells and inject them. Then these improved t-cells will respond correctly upon contact with cancer cells. At that point they will multiply to meet the required demand. The initial injection would be more like a vaccine than a drug.
"last month after running experiments in which particles within the LHC detectors collide about 1 billion times per second, with each collision generating a petabyte of data."

1 billion petabytes per second haha
Yeah, let's not feel bad for the airlines. They do it to themselves.
And given happenings like the death in captivity of Liu Xiaobo, that should scare the living hell out of you.
> how do tens to hundreds of senators or representatives collaborate

I'm actually curious to know whether this assumption is accurate. Do they really collaborate? Do they read their own bills when they're this long? Or do their staff handle all of this? Do they really read each other's bills? Does one senator's staff just write a bill by itself, and then everyone else agrees to the language? Or do they collaborate from the beginning?

I've read before that Congresspeople spend almost 100% of their time fundraising and very little time legislating. I imagine their staff must handle the rest.
Not sure what the fuss is here, the permission is literally called "Read and change all your data on the websites that you visit". It should be obvious what it can do.
This isn't removal of privacy. The article even says that the information would be limited to transcripts of interactions for skills that the developer owns.

Currently developers can only see what users are trying to do if they successfully invoke a registered "intent". For example: GetHoroscope what is the horoscope for {Sign}. The only information that the developer can currently see is that the user invoked the "What is the horoscope for" intent and provided the "Sign" parameter.

This would allow developers to handle all interactions with their skill, not just registered intents.
> It seems to me you just have to find a flexible existing pathogen

We can do that now. It's fairly easy for anyone to edit viruses or bacteria using non-crispr methods to make something more virulent.

The problem is there is an evolutionary trade-off. To be more virulent means dedicating resources to it, to the detriment of other kinds of fitness. The result is your virulent pathogen cannot spread, defeating the point of a weapon.

We are many decades away from achieving systemic understanding necessary to improve an organisms fitness using molecular tools, and also account for compensatory changes to fitness.

You can however use selective breeding to do this, but that's millenia old technology.

> I define "long way" as 20 years.

We don't even understand most of the existing proteins in databases yet, and it is going to take decades to meticulously characterize these sequences.

Worse, nobody has come close to a useful denovo protein sequence yet, let alone a genomes worth of proteins and their interactions. I feel safe in saying we are at least 50 years off from these goals, probably more.
If the bean counters at NASA read "Buy Jupiter!" by Isaac Asimov they'd already have the solution at hand.
Ok, building flying billboards is still a bit hard, but advertising is the point. What about sending probes and ships named after the highest bidder name/company? Of course they would have also a name for the scientific community and those of us who would never ever accept saying "Coca Cola has landed on Mars".
Electric assist bikes/mopeds will let most cyclists safely keep up with traffic in the kinds of places where you have to worry about those kinds of collisions, bike lanes will go the way of the dodo and car traffic will no longer have to take right turns across a lane of (bike) traffic.

Having a traffic pattern that requires a right turn (or left for certain countries) across a different lane of traffic is shitty and when a better solution shows up it will probably be implemented.
Everybody with a cell phone already does this. Why does it seem like this worry is confined to things like the Echo?
Society has an obligation to provide it, just as it does drinking water.
In the future, visitors to Disneyland will need to know Game Theory.
Narrow examples of this:

People with colds (virus) going to the doctor and demand anti-biotics. Ignorant patients who become consumers and find doctors willing to give patients what they want, rather than only what they need. And we have anti-biotic resistant bacteria as a result (in part) of this.

Another cause of resistance, patients who don't follow directions on prescriptions, to consume the entire prescription. They start to feel better, and stop taking them. The surviving bacteria is what enables future resistance.

Virtual addiction to sleep drugs like Ambien, which the PDR explicitly says should be limited prescription that comes with a sleep specialist referral, is routinely renewed for years way beyond what is ethical, because consumers demand it and will effectively punish a doctor who will not give them a prescription.

We live in a "why should I change my lifestyle when I can just take a pill?" society. There is no possible way to fix this with the system we have, where the doctor incentive is to say yes, which means profit, and no means a lost sale.
Even the modernest pointers unique_ptr and shared_ptr are dangerous (use after free/move and, e.g., ease of data-racing in the data, respectively). The problems with them are relatively fundamental to C++ and its idioms. The classes you define will need to avoid using fundamental C++ features like references too: anything pointer-like can lead to problems (including `this`)

The "you (and the standard library, including the completely new parts) are holding it wrong" defence is tired, when it is so ridiculously easy to do so: it is okay and important to acknowledge that a tool is powerful but also has a pile of hard-to-avoid sharp edges.
Actually, it's clearly much closer to 4 than 5 - So I'd probably start at 4.1 or 4.2.

There are 12 numbers from 4.0 through 5.0 inclusive - in steps of 0.1, and there are 10 integer numbers from 16 through 25 inclusive - clearly there's an uneven, but still somewhat smooth mapping from one through the other via the square function (or root function, for that matter). It's easy to see (note that python rounds down up to .5 inclusive):

for i in range(40, 51):
n=i/10.0
print(n, round(n**2))

4.0 16
4.1 17
4.2 18
4.3 18
4.4 19
4.5 20
4.6 21
4.7 22
4.8 23
4.9 24
5.0 25

Now, for a computer algorithm, the couple of extra steps by using binary search doesn't really matter, but I find that when doing math by hand, it can be a great benefit to avail oneself of intuition, to be able to skip a few steps - especially when working in this manner where you "check your guess" at every step - so you won't risk a wrong answer, the only risk is wasted work.

This is indeed a bit different when approximating a more complicated function, eg one that doesn't monotonically increase/decrease.
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Prosemirror's logo reminds me of : https://dribbble.com/shots/2054672-Neg-Owl-4
Well, when people are shocked that someone is experiencing 1-4 single bit errors a month across an expanse of 48GB, it's not hard to see why people think it's not something they need.
He is the only noble laureate died in jail after world war II. The one before him was died in a jail of nazi Germany.
Ha good point. Should have said hyperbolic growth.
It truly infuriates me when people insinuate that it would be A-Okay for the U.S. to cease to be the sole military superpower in the world. That change alone would trigger world war 3. I say this from Canada.

P.S. Voting on Hacker News does not change minds, if you want to convince people to agree with you instead of me, you will need to reply.
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NPR had a story this morning about why our budget never REALLY changes. And all the debate about passing this current budget is largely non substantive.

Basically it came down to special interest groups that really determine how our money is spent. If we want to not have 15-20% of the budget going to Helmand province, we have to start working against the lobbyists of private corporations who benefit from that...

Or instead of solving the problem, we could allow military contractors to fleece us for EVEN MORE money for developing Mars travel infrastructure. If we gave them a way to transition to a more profitable business maybe they would voluntarily make the shift.
> Our old house had a cheap, builder-grade GE dishwasher. We lived there for 10 years, and it never failed.

The fewer bells-and-whistles, the longer it will last.

We bought our house - pre-owned, built in 1973. We wanted block construction (not stick frame, chicken wire, styrofoam and stucco), copper plumbing and wiring, and no HOA (because I want to be able to wrench on my cars out front while having a beer, and leave them up on jackstands temporarily as needed, without some busybody measuring the height of my lawn). We decided to (mostly) buy pre-owned appliances while we were at it.

So we got this "package" of a washer, dryer and refrigerator from a local used appliance store. Nothing fancy about any of it. Of all of them, the washer died first after about 12 years (started to leak, probably could've been repaired, but it had already been repaired once before). The dryer is still running strong (15 years), the fridge works fine, but the water and ice-maker no longer work (not really worth repairing either, since we didn't use them much). Our washer at the time we bought a "builder special" - same with the range. The washer died about a year back (14 years) - can't recall why. But we were re-doing our kitchen, so we decided "why not" and got a new one (also got a new sink - hand-hammered copper, and I have no clue how much it cost because my wife paid for it).

The range is still going strong, although we've had to replace the heating element in the oven. That's about 15 years old too. We'll probably keep repairing it, because it is dead simple to do, plus it has actual electric burners (not that flat-top junk), which is something you can't seem to find any more, even at the budget end (when we bought it, it was the budget end itself, and the only one that had that feature).

If I really had my way, I'd get my wife a restored O'Keefe-Merritt Grillevator, but our neighborhood doesn't have gas, and to get it run is so expensive (nearest line is about a quarter-mile away at the end of our block), it'd be cheaper to move.
Deregulate. Let the market decide.
Vulkan solves a different problem though, specifically one where performance is the primary consideration and simplicity is maintained to the extent that someone who writes engines gets all of the options they need.

It's a bit hard to equate to assembly because the bulk of the complexity isn't so much "general purpose code" as "data processing pipeline." Additionally, graphics still has a very real "out of memory problem" that you can safely ignore for the most part in modern OSes and normal programming. The moment you hit "virtual graphics memory" your framerate tanks.

If you're looking for sane defaults, the answer is to use things like Unity, Unreal, etc. You can actually get quite far with their defaults and very little code. That's why I usually tell people to skip OpenGL, DirectX, or Vulkan and just go use an engine.

3d also just has an inherent complexity that at every stage you're dealing with the limitations of processing 3d data using 2d buffers. That's why any fancy effect requires you to manipulate primitives (buffers and shades).
I come to understand that its not legally/economically feasible to build affordable housing largely from this post

"I'm an architect in LA specializing in multifamily residential. I'd like to do my best to explain a little understood reason why all new large development in LA seems to be luxury development"

https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/6lvwh4/im_an_ar...
The headline is missing the part where it's the transcripts of your interactions with that developer's service. They're not handing over your full transcripts of all interaction with the device. Rather misleading.

My only reaction to this is that it's kind of weird they weren't already doing it.
that you know of

The problem I have with their closed off system is that you don't really know what's happening with your data.
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Read is not the same as send to external server. this is a big deal. it makes phishing incredibly easy and impossible to detect.

The ability of extensions to log form data to external servers allows for massive potential abuse. Not sure why Google would allow it. I imagine millions of logins have been stolen this way.
China kills people for speech. The US kills people for being poor and/or black. There's no shortage of cheerleaders for this in either country.

I have to note that most people will find it easier to control what they say, than to change their skin colour.
i.e. what is sometimes called the "Alabama Space Mafia".
Wow, that 18 core iMac Pro with 4T SSD and 128G ECC RAM could shot up to $15k. I can buy an army of Ryzen at that price.
> and system design there are several smaller linking steps instead of one huge serialized one at the end.

Have you tried the GNU Gold linker? It's makes those serialized linking steps very fast and even supports concurrent linking :)
> JavaScript has unequivocally made the web worse for everyone but advertisers and perhaps the people that run CDNs.

Do you really think this is defensible? That the web would be as popular or useful as it is today without the ability to run code in the browser? I'm curious if you think there is a majority of people that agree with this?

> Why, of all the proposals here, are you trying to shit on this one on particular?

I am not shitting on anyone - im trying to have an honest discussion about why you and the OP feel that javascript is such a scourge that it needs to be regulated. Not one person has addressed even one of my questions, you included. I'm sorry you're taking my challenge as hostility - its not intended that way.

I submit that its possible I am missing something - perhaps there is situations out there that I don't have to deal with. I'm asking for an honest view point that I can try to understand.

> ... pie in the sky ...

Theres a difference between "here's something thats easily accepted is a good idea but might be difficult to implement" and this. I'm asking for an explanation of the premise itself.
part of logistics is the ability to do something. It doesn't have to be practical for me to drop a heavy thing on you, I just need the ability to do it if you push me hard enough. If I'm governor of a space station I'm better off not turning half my space station into a bomb on your capital, but if you push my hard enough I might feel compelled to do that so you will treat me and my needs with respect.
Would you buy a pile of Ryzen CPUs under the assumption that AMD will be able to fix it properly with an update (without e.g. disabling HT or making performance worse as they did for their TLB fix in 2007)? If they take another 2 months, you're out on your return window.
>>>>Even worse, is when you have a really long line followed by a

>short

>>>>line that got moved because a word exceeded some unknown column

>boundary.

>>>>This isn't cool anymore, and anyone that implements it should be

>shot.
Those who interested in how to go from there to computer algorithm may have a look at http://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/inside/insidespacewar-pt6-gr...

This is part of an excursus trying to explain, how basic math was implemented on the DEC PDP-1, namely in Spacewar!, the first digital video game (1961/62). The excursus starts at http://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/inside/insidespacewar-pt6-gr... (there's a tab on the bottom right for an instruction list of the PDP-1, mind that the PDP-1 uses 1's-complement for negative numbers).
The problem there is that Lightning Network is as yet vaporware.
Fellow HR grad here.

There was a point in time where completely unqualified students memorized and gamed the admissions process. Someone who did the remote interview copy and pasted the answers around the internet.

This led to a very large amount of students that were just not prepared for the program in any way, and it also coincided with the window in time that HR decided that they weren't going to remove any students for performance issues.

It was a fucking mess. I know people who mock interviewed students from those cohorts and they decided to completely disassociate with the school because of the experience.

I know people who technically interviewed them at their companies and they blacklisted Hack Reactor after too many of those rotten apples couldn't write a simple for loop. Some of these interviewers were Hack Reactor grads themselves.

I know someone who hired one of the people from those cohorts and had to fire them for performance after trying to give them half a year and excessive mentorship to improve.

It's a shame that shit like this has happened, because in my eyes it's irreparably tarnished the Hack Reactor name. I've given away my hoodie/tshirt to Goodwill because it just doesn't mean anything special to me anymore.
That's a lazy dismissal. Apple has made specific steps to limit even their own access to the devices they sell - stuff like the Secure Enclave, end-to-end iMessage encryption, work on differential privacy, etc. Their business model also appears to function without selling user info just fine.
So malware. You wrote some malware.
I'd also be optimistic about a future with sane browser WYSIWYG editing, but it has been an uphill battle. I know the W3C Editing task force [0] has been trying to push the limits, but very few successful outcomes so far.

[0] http://w3c.github.io/editing/
Does not work for blockchain.info but does for reddit, hackernews, and facebook
This is fun! Does it learn the same from many short, low scoring runs as it does with fewer, longer, high scoring runs?
The assumption is that we will somehow "terraform" Mars so that it will be earthlike before Earth is destroyed.
> The US kills people for being poor and/or black.

The United States does not kill people for being poor and black. Poor black people kill poor black people for being poor and black. Overwhelmingly so; ask anyone who keeps or audits vital statistics.

You can stand around saying that there is some historical basis for this cultural problem, but telling people that whitey is keeping them down is a sure way not to solve any problems.

P.S. Voting on Hacker News does not change minds, if you want to convince people to agree with you instead of me, you will need to reply.
Not quite, there's some complexity involved here that was left out. For starters, it is only Westerners, and predominantly younger people, who believe such obviously silly things. Secondly, it is possible for Western cultures to be objectively worse, but(!) this in no means implies that there are differences in cultures. If that seems illogical to you, it means you just need more reeducation. It can often be helpful to feel about it, rather than think about it, thinking can fill your head with all sorts of crazy ideas.
It's not 10% of your disposable income for 20 years. It's capped at 10% of your disposable income for 20 years.

It's designed as a safety net for people who can't find a decent job after taking out student loans.

If you get a high paying job you're not going to qualify for the income based repayment plan because you only qualify for the newer income based repayment plans if it will lower your monthly payments below the standard repayment plan.
> Why it is not that popular, I don't know.

because using sha256 for proof of work was a mistake - it's too easily implemented in specialised hardware.

now mining power is centralising and small groups can manipulate blockchain policies in their own interest.

bitcoin should PoW-chain to a memory-hard hashing algorithm.
Have you tried GNU Gold? It's A LOT faster and it should even support concurrent linking.
Yep. This is where the hilariously negative though accurate stereotypes of my people (Armenians) come from. Take people fresh out of 80 years of communism, bring them to America and they go a little to hard on the old consumer culture and bathing in cologne
> They should be required to pay whatever it takes to get enough people to go willingly.

Let's say this suggestion was implemented in law. In civil law, they could always breach their contract with you, and refuse you boarding anyway.

You'd then sue them and be awarded damages because they breached their contract with you. But it'd cost you a ton of money to do that, and so nobody will do this.

The law that sets the compensation amount shortcuts this and gives you the money more directly.

"Be required to pay whatever it takes" is the default position of a contract. If you want to return to that, you'll be stuck with the situation above.

You could instead increase the statutory compensation amount. Then they'd be in an reverse auction situation. They'd rarely need to force anyone off because some passenger will cave sooner for the money.

In other words, you'll get what you want if you increase the statutory compensation amount, but you won't if you eliminate it as you suggest.