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Pain is incredibly necessary, and I only hope the future brings more of it, not less. There are way too many conditions that people die from today that go undetected until right before death. If there were only some way to have some natural and instant mechanism for the body to signal something is wrong for these conditions people could get treatment sooner and survive longer. In fact, if evolution is correct it is inevitable that the longer a species survives the more receptive to pain it should be, since feeling a greater sense of pain means more motivation to seek treatment earlier or avoid dangerous activity, and thus survive.
It's a hard question with no good answer. However, if you are asking who the suckers are, you can be pretty sure you aren't a sucker. For the lurkers, if you are reading this on HN, odds are that you are not a sucker. That said, know your price and sell, don't try to game markets.
This all seems surprisingly similar to the argument about punishing "bots" based on technological features that are not known to be 100% accurate. Less trivial to those affected, to be sure, but similar enough that I wonder if the same thought processes and dynamics are at work on both sides.
With progressing automation and cryptocurrency acceptance based on PoW you soon well might be able to sustain yourself alone comfortably ;-)
I just to comment on this by saying

That whatever space powershell fills on windows
its not a niche .. not a niche at all

I agree with you, powershell is powerful and I guess benefit from being new .. it has amazing uniformity and amazing discover-ability

Anyway, I was saying, powershell fills automation on windows, it is THE automation tool on windows and has been for a while, there is hundreds of commands that you can you to manage and deploy and update almost anything important on windows

This is not a niche, not a niche at all .. it is as far from niche as i can think of

And now that it is being ported to other systems, it had the potential to be THE automation tool for many organization that have mixed environments

So you see, when it was primarily windows, it was not a nice, again because automation on windows is not a niche .. now imagine it beyond even windows

Powershell is about automation, not scripting, and not just the command line ... it is really about automation

Instead of following steps, you automated with one script ..or possibly a small GUI app
wait, you believe the global warming "narrative" began in 2014?
You can't put the cat back in the bag again.

Geopolitically making your own nukes is a huge win for a country. Sure every other country is angry with you and may even impose sanctions, but chances are you are already under sanctions anyway and now their rage is mostly impotent because you have the bomb.

You can have a big agreement for everybody to dismantle their weapons and live in peace, but it only takes one cheater to run it for everybody and it's very very difficult to verify that they are complying and/or don't have a secret facility hidden somewhere to make new ones.
But a message posted to a queue is a kind of API.
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If they were centralized they would most definitely have reversible transactions, and probably NOT be anonymous.
3, we still have win7 at work.
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I've been investigating the recent vulnerability mitigation gg-flip that mitigates a long-running vulnerability in Intel chips, Unflipper™. Upon starting this research I discovered that all bitcoin client are vulnerable to Unflipper™. The only known mitigation is to apply gg-flip.

A Office of Management and Budget's report details this. https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/legislative/omb-reports/. They used something called Xacta Flux. Xacta Flux doesn't have much public domain information, but it's an interesting Google. I was able to fully reproduce the Xacta findings with Shodan. www.shodan.io/explore There are over 23,814 vulnerable Bitcoin Clients at .mil addresses accessible from the Internet.

According to Price Waterhouse Cooper traders lose on average $32.49 Billion over each three week period. This PWC report is how we know that large Internet companies are have been aware of this since 2016. Go to https://www.pwc.com to view their report. In the footnotes of page 3 you can see who contracted PWC to produce the report.

The US Office of Management and Budget shows that HODLers lost about $1.479 Trillion - That's Trillion with a "T" in the last month and a half.

Unflipper is mitigated by gg-flip, which uses a table-drive Unary NOT approach. On September 1, 2017 I submitted a pull request to the main Bitcoin Client. After 4 weeks of repeatedly sending the same pull request to the BC team (and being ignored), I am now disclosing this Bitcoin Client issue for everyone to see and fix independently of the Bitcoin team's inaction.

Note: We have not yet tested the Ethereum blockchain, though in an emailed conversation with vbuterin@ethereum.org, I was told that the clients all need major rework. It's best not to wait for vendor patches. The safest action is for everyone to individually patch their cryptocurrency clients as soon as they want their wallets to be protected. https://github.com/avinassh/gg-flip/blob/master/README.md
I'm pretty sure you can convince someone in less than a day with a reasonably simplified version.
To your point 1- You are also likely to come across texts that don't do a very good job explaining some fundamental/foundational ideas, perhaps because they were explained so well in the original papers- the ones that your textbook author read- that your textbook author didn't think it was worth spending too much time on it. The original source can be a goldmine in these cases.

This also happens between editions of textbooks by the same author. On an update they leave out stuff to save space or something.
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The convention was chosen back when both CPU and memory were also many orders of magnitude less. Also chosen back when many principles of good software design were still in their infancy. Decisions made 40 years ago were based on entirely different constraints and with a lot less history.
I'm thinking losing a billion dollar spy satellite might play a factor here. Also the timing of the US government shutdown couldn't have been more damaging.
You should : even if I consider Powershell pretty alien as a language (coming from an old time Windows dev), Cmdlet is vastly superior to other various argument parsing tooling (optparse, argparse, argv, etc.) I've used in the past.
From aluminium, which for which the primary inputs are electricity and ore and a binder. There are numerous possible binders and many are not petrochemicals.
I don't think that this is quite true.

On page 189 of Volume 2 (Third edition) there are two paragraphs discussing previous literature, including bibliographies. I do recall prior to the publication of Vol 2 that there were numerous ACM articles discussing this topic.

But Knuth's exposition is certainly comprehensive compared to anything else.

(But I don't see anything about CSPRNG)
Who would rank facebook's censure ? Who would be person who listen ex bosses advice to logout inmidiatly from facebook??
I don't suppose you can name this magical institute that has more women applicants and staff?
As well -- only the last few blocks really needed rather than the whole chain.
see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8131785
Eric Meltzer is answering your questions
Speaking for myself, this is partly why I want to contribute to the kernel.

I tend not to take my own mistakes very seriously unless they come with serious consequences. Having someone I respect tear into me would, I think, force me to take greater care and apply more attention to my work than I already do.

I've heard similar anecdotes from people who have contributed. I even recall a female contributor say something positive about it.
Nuclear weapons are not banned because they are the deterrent. Ban on Chemical and biological weapons only works because no one wants to get nuked in response.
> it's an affirmation of human goodness and rationality

It's probably more of an affirmation that humans behave better when accountable for their actions. Two nukes were dropped when the enemy of the bomber had no way to retaliate in kind, and no more have been dropped since that stopped being true.
I always find it strange that people in the oil business talk about the "oil demand" without respect to price. Maybe this idea comes from when the West was pumping oil at maximum rates, fracking did not exist, and the OPEC cartel could control the price by fiat (and before OPEC I have heard the oil price was controlled by the output in Texas). At that time there was a price set by OPEC and they pumped to meet demand at that price. In that environment the using the phrase "oil demand" for "oil usage" made sense. But in today's world OPEC does not seem to be able to set the price very well. Peak "oil demand", where demand is determined by the peak amount of oil consumed, will depend on the price and uses of oil in the future.

Some crazy future tech in 2045 which makes heavy oil and tar sands profitable to extract and turn into carbon fiber at $100 a ton might replace structural steel. This could push oil usage up to a new peak, even if a previous "oil demand" peak happened in 2030, when we decided it was really stupid to burn this great chemical stock for raw energy.
Wells Fargo - multiple systematic fraudulent issues in the past few years

https://www.washingtonpost.com/realestate/wells-fargo-accuse...
Yeah exactly! Just look at DPDK for example.
It's not marketers. It's that it used to be free (baked into the plan) so there used to be no advantage to not get a phone every two years.

Do while the free phone went away (for this in the cell phone market, did plans get any cheaper?) the purchase styles didn't.
I'm with you and ready to sign any petition that stops museums buying Jeff Koons!
You don't need to explain the idea of paper wealth to me :)

Yes, marketcap is flawed, and examples like yours do actually pop up because of the usage of this metric, but are quickly smacked down if they're traded on markets with any liquidity. Ethereum isn't in that category. We can do a Wall St. pissing contest about what consitutes "real liquidity" but I'll stick to that statement for Bitcoin and Ethereum at the least.

It's just a matter of perspective: let's say you're invested in Google. You put in $1000 and now it's worth $100,000 on paper. Google announces they are closing their data centers and pivoting to cat food delivery: are they risking $1000 of your money, or $100k?
> It's not Intel's issue, it's a design flaw per se, affecting _all_ CPUs that use predictive branch execution that has effects on the processor cache, which are pretty much all processors produced in this millenium.

Just because other CPUs have this flaw, doesn't mean this isn't Intel's issue. Regardless of the state of other CPU manufacturers, Intel is producing buggy CPUs.
Or, just don't work in this space, and do something else. It's fine to reject job offers. It's OK to work on what you want.
We're very excited about this release. The Web IDE is a highlight. It is based on the awesome VScode from Microsoft. It has been a joy to work with and the ecosystem is great. No ETA yet on org-mode in the editor :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16198369

Edit: Also loved this comment: Fast forward + rebase workflow now in CE for @gnome. And with this, we are now ready to switch over all of our ~500 projects! Kudos to the @gitlab team for the big effort on bringing this to CE and the help and quick action on GNOME needs. Cheers.Carlos Soriano https://twitter.com/csoriano1618/status/955520662197690369
> I think the fact that we only dropped two nukes in anger is absolutely shocking

The United States of America was the world's sole nuclear superpower between July 16th, 1946 [1] and August 29th, 1949 [2]. Towards the end of that nuclear monopoly we had the means to vaporize the competition with minimal risk of retaliation. That we did not is the greatest testament I can think of to the natural temperance of our democratic institutions, ruddy and war-mongering as they can sometimes be.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project
I am too individual running my own mail server and gmail don't reject my mails. I don't even have SPF or DKIM on my domains.
I think most common mistake is making mail server out of cheap VPS. Don't do that. Your IP reputation depends your digital neighborhood. Blocks happen even /16 level, entire VPS provider networks are on special lists in some mailservice providers. Additionally, those IP-s are reused, so there is nice chance to get some hit-and-run spammer IP and that is lots of work do clean that up.
Actually, in proper French you're suppose to "link" the words ("faire la liaison"), so it's perfectly correct to make the "t" heard.
Been in the same boat where people pitch me a cryptocurrency job or I see job listing match in experience in cryptocurrency and I decline to even interview - I already know how I feel about it and it would be a waste of my time and their time to subject both sides to an interview.
The pronunciation of the "t" in this case is a result of liaison, not enchaînement. Enchaînement has to do with the syllabification of French phrases, e.g. "seize heures" is pronounced like "sê zeur," "moving" the word-final "z" to the start of the following vowel-inital word.
Around 2000, there was lots of email pump and dump spam in penny stocks. That's when small companies were doing IPOs. I used to get those and forward them to the SEC, which gradually made that stop. Now such spams are rare.

(My favorite two pump and dump spams from that era were BoysToys.com (GRLZ) and XcelPlus (XLPI). BoysToys.com was a strip club in San Francisco which did an IPO. Their SEC filings were detailed and very funny. XcelPlus sold some proprietary lubricant. Their site had a phony FAA endorsement. I sent a copy of that page to the appropriate FAA regional office, and a few weeks later, got a call from an anti-terrorism investigator. XLPI was claiming that the USAF was using their product, which, because their product wasn't approved for aircraft, attracted the attention of the military anti-sabotage investigators. I'm not sure how that came out, but XLPI is now valued at $0.0000010 per share.)
> We've been saying peak oil since the 70s.

peak oil supply yes, but this is peak oil demand, which is new
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> Consider TinEye, who first published reverse image search; later Google just poured engineers onto their own reverse image search platform and copied it.

I occasionally need to reverse-look-up images (mostly album covers without names) and tineye, in my personal experience, is vastly better. It finds matches for the exact image, with good context, etc. Google usually does pretty OK at finding similar images, but is less fantastic on matches, and if so those are joined in the noise of other 'close images'.

To get back on topic: google is best at pretending they're the best. in my experience there's better reverse lookups. ddg is less 'fuzzy', but offers a much better experience with !bangs, and because of the non-fuzziness they're quite good at finding things when you know more or less what text you're looking for. OSM is often better at local details, especially in smaller/rural areas.

Point being: google can throw whatever they want out there, and people will use it, and google says it's the best so people believe it. Because it's on their phones, because google suggests it, etc. I think the EU has a good point with their anti-trust/android business.
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That's an interesting summary but I predict that Linus will destroy him for completely avoiding the hard question: why the fuck IBRS_ALL would not be on by default on future "fixed" chips, if on such CPU it would not be somehow crappy.
And the risk of it becoming architectural (with that absurd default) is insane too.
> or it could be that they're so fundamentally complex that it's going to be difficult to grasp without context.

If it is that fundamentally complex, then it sounds like they need to find a better solution.
I have a friend running a cryptocurrency company and wants me to come work for him. I'd be more attracted if it weren't so far away but either way it's still just so sketchy to me.
> The ratings agencies didn't benefit from the "pump" in this case. They just did a poor job of assessing the risk by buying into the idea that the risk was lessened by pooling the toxic assets together. If the ratings agencies were not "pumping and dumping" then who are you claiming are the pumper-dumpers?

I got you. Ratings agencies are the affiliate scammers in this case. You're right, they didn't buy the scammy products or sell them, but they were paid by the product owners to represent the products as legitimate, which they did and made a ton of money. When the products turned out to hurt a lot of people, the ratings agencies/affiliate scammers threw up their hands with a "how could we have known?" while everyone who got hurt was saying "that is literally exactly what you said you were being paid to do, so if you didn't do that, then WTF were you getting paid for..."

Oh.
Everyone is pretty equally incentivized to migrate to the cheapest possible energy source, I would think. The problem is that the CapEx cost of migrating is nonzero, and usually prohibitive unless you have high confidence you can make it up in lower OpEx over a long period of time. I can say pretty confidently that banks and financial institutions are much more likely to stick around long enough to realize the full financial benefits of renewables than miners are. It's just too risky that you'll eat your renewable investment if bitcoin loses too much value, particularly given the recent huge swings in the market, and the added uncertainty of so many people forecasting doom.

I'm not in a position to estimate the waste energy of a financial institution either, but you're right that it probably is quite large, but it's hard to say which is more wasteful.
so who is going to replace all the oil that is being used in jets, diesel trucks in third world countries, tanks, humvees, non-nuclear powered naval ships?

Tesla built the largest battery producing plant and they are going to meet the demand? They can't even meet their own supply targets for their cars! Are they going to retrofit F-22s with batteries? How about a farmer in India, is he going to be able to afford a Tesla Tractor vs the one he was using since he's grandfather?

You seem to be absolutely sure that the oil will be replaced by batteries without taking into a lot of uncertainties around it.
Range anxiety is real, and you're underestimating its magnitude. Today, gas stations are practically ubiquitous along major population and travel corridors, so there's a huge install base of infrastructure when you're stuck in unfortunate or unusual circumstances and you need to acquire more fuel.

EV-related infrastructure has a lot of catching up to do, when your EV is one traffic detour away from being inoperable, because only dozens of charging stations exist in your area.
That's correct but a lot of people don't understand it. Same with germs. A lot of people think that having no germs is best which isn't correct.
Yup. Back in kindergarten it was just another Dr. Seuss book. Reread it in high school and the allegory was obvious.
It's required for the proprietary camera algorithm software. The camera still works.
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I don't see what this has to do with cryptography.
right the ingredients still rely one way or other on dinosaur juice. you made it sound as if NASA was able to produce their own fuel out of thin air and test beakers.

edit: my point was that the solid fuel still relies on oil dug out of the ground. parent seemed to suggest that wasn't the case.
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Wait, is this book not well known? My kid dressed up as one of the lab guys for his "literacy day" character (since we can't just have Halloween costumes...).
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You had me until you said climate change is a government conspiracy to hurt Russia.
It's US problem, f*cking carriers oligopoly
The issue is people like him who is right won't be rewarded. Hype and luck sometimes matter more than being right.
>serious discoverability problem

I find this an odd assertion since powershell lets you tab-complete cmdlets and argument options and has Get-Member.
So you wouldn't consider an opinion 'less serious' if the opinion is that directness and honesty is identical to saying racist, sexist, and homophobic things? Because that's what we're talking about, and I would absolutely write that off as 100% nonsense. Just because someone believes in something doesn't mean it's not stupid.
Yep, forecasting in ChartMogul is coming.

Source: I looked at our backlog :)
Hackers are terrible at predicting usefulness / explosive growth of disruptive technologies.
I did this with the word 'awry'. I read it as aww-ree. Interestingly I also knew the word 'awry' as eh-rye from hearing it spoken, I just didnt connect up that the two were the same word.
Nobody's going to be using crypto for direct purchases when you still have to pay taxes in local currency and the friction to get cash from crypto is just as high as today's friction in interbanking transfers or worse.
While I do not know the reasoning behind it, the term that describes that is Democratic Backsliding https://muse.jhu.edu/article/607612
Being decentralized doesn't mean that Bitcoin can't evolve, though. The process is just

- Someone proposes a change to the rules, effective as of some future block number

- Each miner decides whether to adopt the proposed rules

- The network is forked at that block number; some miners work on the original chain with the old rules while others work on a fork with the new rules

- The network converges as most miners, exchanges, etc. will end up honoring whichever fork has more traction. (Sometimes the fork with less traction remains somewhat viable; see Ethereum Classic.)
Who are these people? Do you have names? I don't see this at all in people with political power. Who are you 'dealing with on a daily basis'?
The majority of the interviews came from responding to ads on startup focused job boards. I send a brief, personalized message which usually gets a conversation started.