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You seem to be operating under the assumption that the SQLite database file format is an ad-hoc, dodgy affair that the maintainers might change on a whim. I'd like to try to dispel that notion.

The SQLite database file format has been unchanged (except by adding extensions through well-defined mechanisms) since 2004. And we developers have pledged to continue that 100% compatibility through at least the year 2050. The file format is cross-platform and byte-order independent. We have an extensive test suite to help us guarantee that each new version of SQLite is completely file compatible with all those that came before. The file format is documented (https://sqlite.org/fileformat.html) to sufficient detail that the spec alone can and has been used to create a compatible reader/writer. (I know this because the authors of the compatible reader/writer software pointed out deficiencies in the spec which I subsequently corrected.) The file format is relatively simple. A reader for SQLite could be written from the spec with no more effort than it would take to implement a ZIP archive reader with its decompressor from spec.

There is approximately 1 trillion (10^12) SQLite database files in active use today. Even without the promises from developers, the huge volume of legacy database files suggests that the SQLite database file format will be around for a long time yet.

The latest version of SQLite will happily read and write any SQLite3 database written since the file format was designed in 2004. Ancient legacy versions of the SQLite library will read and write databases created yesterday, as long as those databases do not use any of the extensions that were added later.
So you have to have trust that others will have continued trust in the currencies or values that your example currency is pegged to.

Ultimately it seems that any material you treat as a store of value, rather than as a commodity or material that is valuable to you for its own properties, includes this trust that others will value it. If others do not value it, it is not a store of value, its usefulness to you is reduced to its own intrinsic properties rather than the value others place on it.
> If language is figured as the original prosthesis inaugurating humanity, proofreading technologies become disciplinary apparatuses modulating neoliberalism’s posthuman subject.

My try to parse it:

If language made us human, proofreading tech makes us post-human.
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This is useful, but I can't imagine someone paying for it. I hope I'm wrong.
Actually we're simply using Puppeteer - see the source code at the bottom of https://www.apify.com/jancurn/url-to-pdf
For the lack of a better word, you seem salty. You make a lot of allegations that arent supported by any evidence. Everybody can design a perfect system, few can make the tradeoffs to build something that works.
If you want to ensure that there's no breakage, the only way is to use the same version of the compiler on all the Rust code.
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Not necessarily: https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/16/16483542/google-photos-r...
> The FTC or Congress should regulate these things, not a volunteer, highly self-interested oligopoly.

The Internet is not limited to the US.
Also existing attempts of gov regulation of crypto aren't exactly a success story. We had two major fuckups very recently of crypto that had multiple government crypto-certifications.
Wine prices, gold price and art prices are all driven by genuine demand for them. Why would something have a price if there wasn't genuine demand for them?

What do you base the idea on that only some of the price of art is based on speculation?

I don't think Bitcoin is an outlier at all. And if you don't believe Bitcoin is an outlier, as many people are starting to do now, you can understand why its price is going up so fast.

Gold prices don't do anything because they're "supposed" to do anything. Gold moons whenever the market decides it wants gold to moon, just like Bitcoin, just like wine and just like art.
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In Chrome, if you select the second line, right click -> Writing Direction -> Right to Left, it seems to do what you want. Does that help?
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> And you don't have the same problem with Chrome? I've found Chrome to be a terrible resource hog lately

I'm OS X and I've had some CPU issues lately if I have a lot of tabs open but overall not nearly as many issues as when I finally decided to give up Firefox.

I actually downloaded Firefox lately and it seems pretty nice. If Chrome gets works I may consider it.
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From a recent thread on "Why kernel development still uses email": [1]

"This is one of the things that web-based forums have yet to get right. Email (and NNTP news) clients from 20 or 30 years ago are far superior in this respect, because they can intelligently deal with threading and folding. These features alone makes large conversations much easier to deal with than on web-forums.

To add to that, email (and NNTP news) clients even from 20 or 30 years ago have other powerful features that web forums have yet to catch up on:

- kill files[2] (which you can use to filter out unwanted articles/mails based on content or metadata such as subject, user, etc)

- scoring

- user-configurable anti-spam filtering or other "intelligent" filtering (such as bayesian filtering not just for spam/ham, but for
interesting/unintersting content)

- tagging not just on a site-wide level but at the client level so each user can tag messages/articles the way they make sense to them

- other advanced filtering and scripting based on any of the above

Web-based forums are just incredibly primitive compared to this many-decade-old technology."

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15373179

[2] - https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Kill_file
The fees have nothing to do with how much money you’re sending, you could send $1 or $1,000,000 and it would cost the same thing. The fees are based on how large the transaction is (in terms of kilobytes, that is, not amount). Some transactions have more inputs/outputs than others (and thus take up more space in terms of kilobytes than others) but that’s not a function of the amount being sent.
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My university did, but since most CS majors did not care about GPAs, most of my classmates took the class and just cared about passing it, not actually learning anything or recognizing the importance of ethics. Hearing my classmates joke about some really serious ethical dilemmas kind of made me depressed about the state of the field.
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Many computer vendors have outlet sites, where you can buy cheaper laptops that are unused. And they often have intermittent sales, so worth waiting to see if prices drop even more.

E.g. http://outlet.lenovo.com/

Alternatively, Thinkpad laptops specifically are pretty well built, and easy to replace parts. They have a downloadable manual on how to do so even! So you can just buy one off ebay for $150 and it'll probably work just fine, and worst case you can replace the hard drive.

This is specifically Thinkpad; generic Lenovo consumer laptops are likely not designed for maintenance.
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Yeah, we're launching with those cities, but we're ramping up our internal toolchain that gives us the recommendations.

Good point about the one dollar sign! We'll make a note to change that.
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This is such a coincidence. I was looking for such thing today and found few projects that are from last year and abandoned. Wondered why this is and thought about doing it myself.

...

Aww, this is such a mess. I am sorry but this project is making me think twice before using it.

Look at the creators website... php tags visible
https://www.atyantik.com/

A lot of comments on slow loading and site not being available. I appreciate your desire to use and share new technology, but this might be too early for this project.

Wish you luck!
A useful trick: Omit the .pdf from ePrint URLs to bypass the PDF and get the summary page with authors, abstract, bibtex, etc.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/666
Fair point, if a touch aggressive
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> pay taxes in USD

basically, citizens dealing with the US government. I think it's the same category.
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The fundamental problem with advice is that it aims to get the listener to a point X but is phrased as a delta that presumes the listener is currently at Y and states what change to make to get to X from there.

If you look at basically every critique of some advice, it boils down to that core issue.

Often, people acknowledge this by saying, "Well, you need to know whether or not the advice applies to you." But that generally requires a level of sophistication the reader doesn't have. If they did, they wouldn't need the advice in the first place.

I'm not sure if there's a good solution to the problem. I think we tend to express advice in terms of a delta because it's more compact and because it's more directly actionable. Compare, "avoid passive voice" with "approximately 80% of your sentences should use active voice in most styles of writing however the fraction should be higher in narrative fiction and nonfiction and lower in academic writing."

In this case, "avoid passive voice" is a pretty good delta, statistically speaking. Most writers use passive voice too much. I have seen very little writing that uses too little passive voice. Those who don't overuse passive voice tend to be self-aware enough to know the advice doesn't apply to them. If you were to apply that advice to a large corpus of randomly selected text, you'd make more of it better than you made worse.
This is what we want to confirm. We believe that this can be useful when integrating on your own systems, like CI/CD, monitoring, etc.

What is the use case that made you to believe this is useful?

Thanks for the feedback!
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Just randomly clicking through blocks won't give you that much insights. You'll need at least a rather comprehensive list of address together with information what they are used for. Some of the block explorers provide such information to some extend, but I don't think any of them is comprehensive enough to be able to answer something like how many coins were spend in April 2017 to pay for food delivery services.
Wow... looking at it now I don't either. I don't know if they got flagged or deleted or editor of what. One of the comments in particular I can see was clearly edited to be more clear that they thought it was a bad idea.
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I think the trick is that you "get" that %7 as an account credit, but since you're never going to be able to withdraw the money...

these days all a ponzi needs to do is have enough shill accounts claiming that they were able to withdraw successfully, and drowning out those who complain.
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It would be good for btc to slow down for a while too. Otherwise the thing looks like a totally bogus Ponzi scheme.
> The government doesn't regulate the USD or NASDAQ shares...

Yes, it most certainly, unequivocally does. (I believe this reinforces your point.)
Running a database in Docker is useful if you think more broadly of containers and orchestration, and think less about nodes and more about the cluster as a pool of resources.

All our "system software" — Postgres, Redis, Memcached, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, etc. — run as containers on Kubernetes. Doing so allows us to start new versions without considering the host OS. For example, we can upgrade Postgres to a new release the moment it's out, without having to wait for Debian or Ubuntu or whatever.

It also allows us to run different versions (e.g. a new one for testing in our "staging" environment) concurrently without any concerns about which node is running what. In fact, almost nothing needs to be configured with information about "nodes"; everything is routed to the right place, and the client only needs a name to connect to.

Sometimes we start temporary instances of software, e.g. to experiment with. Bring the container up, do the testing, bring container down; nothing ever got installed on the host OS.
PayPal isn't obliged to accommodate all legal banking patterns.

If 1% of all customers are fraudulent but 5% of customers with multi-country bank accounts are fraudulent, that might be enough to tip their risk/reward balance.

And I've dealt with this first hand. I have paypal accounts and legal bank accounts in multiple countries, and when I've tried to move money between them I get a call from customer service saying they blocked the transactions, and "you're not supposed to do that with paypal".
Introduce a new API.
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There are certainly times when video is appropriate, but I feel like we can all relate to the times that it's not; when someone has a list of 6 things, and instead of just listing them, they make a snazzy video. The video is still text-based; maybe there's an image slideshow as well, but it's effectively the same information in the same format, just spread out over a 2 minute video.
Yes sorry misread that part
The perplexing thing to me about this paper is that "containers" are launched merely through a particular type of clone(2) semantics (and clone(2) implements fork(2) under the hood on Linux). So the process of launching a new container should take around the same time as it takes to perform a fork. The fact that it doesn't in their analysis is surprising.

So the question for me is, what is the paper measuring, exactly, when they talk about Docker's relative performance? Are they including Docker API overhead in their instrumentation? If so, that sounds like an apples-to-oranges comparison.
> SQLite databases have a binary format which is known to change periodically. An attempt to read a SQLite file in 100 years would have to know the exact version of the file, and be able to reach back through history to find that version of SQLite (or a compatible version), and find a way to compile it for whatever CPU architecture exists in 100 years.

I contend this is not as big of a problem as you make it sound. First of all, the sqlite file format states its version in a string at the beginning of the file, so determining the version of a file is trivial even without any special tools. The sqlite source code is extremely widely distributed. Between linux distros and the many projects which, for better or worse, embed sqlite in their source trees, there are easily over a million copies of sqlite3.c floating around. The chances of all of these copies being lost, even in a catastrophic event, is negligible. Even if we did somehow lose every copy of sqlite3.c, reverse engineering a binary format is far from impossible. In fact the old binary MS Office file formats were reverse engineered by multiple groups.

The chances of us losing the ability to compile C code are even more negligible. If human civilization has fallen that far, we will probably be too busy killing each other with sharp sticks over drinkable water to care about reading some hundred year old documents.
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The USD, in effect, does not. It's a reason I'm somewhat bearish on it.

In the 70s we made a number of agreements with a variety of Mideastern nations. We gave them what seemed like the world and asked that simply require payments of oil to be transacted on the dollar, and that they invest their excess revenues into US securities. In fewer words, the petro dollar.

And those agreements, for the most part, persist to this very day. A US dollar guarantees you access to oil. And so long as oil is the most in demand commodity in the world, the US dollar will remain the most in demand currency in the world - guaranteeing access to the goods and services of any country.

This is why the US dollar is the world reserve currency, or the money most countries keep under their bed in case of a rainy day. However, if this changes (renewables, Saudi Arabia deciding to switch allegiance to Russia/China, etc) what happens? We've a lot of debt that's only increasing and it's unclear to me how tall the USD would stand without its crutch.
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The $6000 "license" is actually a "Warranty of Title". It is a legal document that certifies that we developers have the right to release SQLite into the public domain (in other words, we didn't copy any part of the software from other sources) and a promise to defend the public-domain status of SQLite against legal challenges.
Ironically the closest thing I've found to the hey-day of the internet(~'99) for me is Ham Radio.

It's hard to explain but it's got the same feel of people who tinker and enjoy technology for the hell of it. With HF you get communication all over the globe.

It's also explicitly non-commercial so it's stayed relatively undeveloped. Granted you'll never see the exponential of communication that the internet unleashed due to limited spectrum but that might be in some ways a blessing.
CAS has no effect on the cache (other than guaranteeing that the cacheline to be in the exclusive state for the time to perform the load+op+store). CASs and other atomic RMW ops in general, in all common architectures are purely local operations that do not affect the coherency fabric (not any more than a store would, memory barriers do not even do that).

The only thing that can be said to be 'flushed' by a CAS (at least on a x86 where it has full barrier semantic) is the store buffer (which is not a cache), but even there the only thing it does is simply prevent more recent loads [1] to complete before any store older or equal than the cas has completed. The store buffer is not really flushed and is still drained at the same speed it would without at cas.

[1] or any other operation for simplicity of implementation.
It doesn't help that Google (the owner of the biggest video platform) is giving videos increasingly more power in its search engines.
"discovery" in the sense that the modern world previously had no understanding that it existed. It is the same logic that Columbus discovered America-- obviously it existed but the discovery was revealing it to the rest of the world.
I think it is the result of the reduced copyability of video compared to plain text. This makes it easier to monetize video. Since lots of writers don't have a secondary source of income and have to pay for housing/food/loans/etc, they have an incentive to spend the effort to write video scripts rather than essays/articles.
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Monero is Proof of Work, so it's not much better than Bitcoin.

Proof of Stake is far superior and Delegated Proof of Stake is another step up from that.

Delegated proof of stake is more resistant to forks since it's easier for delegates to reach consensus on decisions.
So, just trying to understand: how is that you find it useful but can't imagine someone paying for it? Could you elaborate a bit more?
I do check my texts for passive voice and turn a lot into active voice. However, sometimes I do prefer passive.

An example from the abstract of my (unpublished) dissertation: Exploiting special hardware is a well-known technique to lower energy consumption,
which is another important aspect that must be balanced with raw performance.

I don't want to use active voice, because at this point nobody cares who does the balancing. Using you (...that you must balance...) seems not suitable in an abstract.
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Your point was different from my point. I entered the thread to dispute that PoW schemes aren't weakened by forks. Here's the exchange where I came in[1]:

Original comment: "Also, with Proof of [Work] you get protection against an explosion of too many hard forks..."

My reply: "That's not what happened with the Bitcoin Cash fork though ... any given time, one of the networks is easy[er than 51%] to attack."

If you're not disputing that point, then you're not refuting my objection to that original comment.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15606486