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>commit/reveal algorithm or multi party computation

Which is out-of-band work that erodes the claimed 'savings' of PoS, relative to PoW, and would have been better spent increasing the security of all transactions on the chain. It also means that I have to be online see those orphaned blocks and to ensure those solutions algorithms acted.

Example:

US Government to Coinbase: "Thou Shalt never honor a block that originates from an 'IP out of' Iran"

Coinbase to miners: "Hey Sorry we can't sell any eth from blocks that originate out of Iran"

Miners: "Ok well if you promise to use the new chain, I'll create a costless alternate version, But you have to promise!!"

Business A to Business B: "Wait I just got two chains, Which one is the real one? Has to check news hmmm this USGOV edict is bad. So which chain are you going to go with? Hmm I dunno Coinbase is so important, I Dunno maybe the coinbase chain. Ok I'll go with the coinbase chain if you go with the coinbase chain, But you have to promise!!"

Move social consensus churn that erodes social scalability

Business B: "Well, we're going to have to compensate the miners for this roll back some how"

Business C: "Hey wait I accepted a transaction (15 blocks deep), shipped my products and then went offline and now had my payment rolled backed!"

Total Not Centralizing Foundation: "The Foundation will cover all losses....again"
I really don't understand why a social media site so large and influential is spending so little on their own product.

These companies hire the best of the best. QED.
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I think what you’re seeing is characters not being so one-dimensional. You harken back to simplistic characters who have no depth (A-Team, G I Joe, Rocky) and dismiss more complex characters (many of which are not actually new) for not portraying simplistic morality. But this isn’t moral bankruptcy. Real people are complex and portraying hero’s so idealistically makes them less relatable and frankly, yes, boring.

You call Iron Man a selfish, rich asshole. But this is the character who shut down his defense contracts worth billions because he found out that his weapons weren’t being used the way he thought. He also sided with the UN (or whatever equivalent) against his team, in deference to traditional hierarchical authority. If anything, his morals are simpler than many other modern characters. He’s just not as flat as the Superman written for Reeves.
It depends - the "v^2" term quickly passes the linear "m" term for some scenarios. If I've got a choice between making it ten times as heavy or capable of spinning 10 times as fast, I don't want more mass there.
You have hit the crux of the matter, it's almost entirely outside our control at the local level. Not using plastic as much has no effect on whether or not an Asian man throws his garbage in the river in China, or if the company contracted to deal with the waste does, but lies about it to us.

What you are proposing ends up as "don't do business with Asian countries because they can't be trusted to deal with the trash properly."

It's really easy to find photos of waterways all over the world, and it's abundantly clear which countries and cultures value clean water ways over cost/time to deal with the garbage. Where it comes from seems to be irrelevant.
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Exactly. Human language invented by speakers actually communicating over critical issues (trade, war, sex) over thousands of years.

Don't trust a single set of new glyphs, cobbled together by designers, basically unilaterally compared to a huge marketplace of speakers, whose purpose is not necessarily to communicate, but sometimes, "to look good" or "match aesthetic" of the context.

Something developed without the same selective pressure cannot be trusted the same to be as effective.
Ok, you got me. I'm going to give it a shot. :-)
Out of curiosity, how do you know the Jan 5th onward posts are a different person? To an outsider they all look like vague cold reading. I guess what I'm asking is what difference so you see between the two versions?
Sales funnel + psychology. Imagine you are using PHP4 and, 100 candidates out of your pool will totally hate it. As You know that in a face-to-face talk you have about a 10% chance to convince a PHP4 hater to still go ahead and take the offer. Now consider 2 strategies:

A) Write "we use PHP4" in the job description. In this case, 98 candidates will nope out when they read this (say 2% won't notice PHP4 or will be desperate) and 10% out of the remaining 2 gives you 0.2 people on average.

B) Be as vague as possible. Write that you use modern tooling and technologies, don't give any details. Now 80 candidates proceed to the next stage. If you only convince 10% of them, you still end up with 8 instead of 0.2.

It's similar to spam - even though >99% people will delete it without even reading, as long as there is a tiniest chance of someone actually buying the advertised product, the spammers will be in the black.
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He's just old. Go to Tumblr, Facebook groups, Instagram. There's thousands of places to waste your time with vapid, unyielding streams of barely entertaining content. I recently spent hours going through bad geography memes. Geography. Memes.

Or you could go old-school. Fark.com is still around, as is SomethingAwful. Reddit has tons of content. And if you're not at work and looking for a horrifying thrill ride, 4chan. IRC is just kind of depressing after you've been away from it for a while... like, a decade later, these same people are still sitting on these channels every day, all day? Then again, I'm still on this waste-of-time news feed...
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Chattel slavery is illegal. You could argue that other forms exist legally, such as prison labor: prisoners are explicitly exempted from the 14th amendment. It’s the eighth amendment prisoners rely on. Note that they’re paid? So have many types of slaves, including roman and american chattel slaves.
Isn't this why you need to dry your clothes on the hottest setting?
I did this too! A question about how they were testing Quake. John responded with some detail about how to set up a simple proxy server. Very helpful and relevant to what I was working on at the time; thanks John!
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Everyone's information is public on there with autoincrementing ID's. I am not sure if this is intended, but I didn't realize my information would be public.
And, frankly, many strong undergraduate programs, perhaps especially ones which are also very large (my school has 500 person class size even in your second-to-last and last years, so you need to go above and beyond to distinguish yourself enough to, say, get a professor to write you a recommendation)
It is true, the salaries keep going up and the rent goes up to match it.
Only after signup too :|
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The east side is the San Jose of the Seattle area. It isn't hip and happening like the city is. Ya, the rent is cheaper (though not much anymore), houses are bigger, it has a very nice clean suburban feel, you don't trip over needles or homeless people, but many young people find the east side to be too boring.

Course, Microsoft has a bunch of buses they use to move engineers from Seattle to Redmond, but like Google does between SF and Mountain View. I guess that could work, but it doesn't really make the traffic better.
I’m not sure your point. That doesn’t really help you unless you’re near the water. On a local level, especially across a single year, water levels are finite and exhaustible.
How’d you buy yours? I emailed them and also looked on their site but never saw where to purchase.
For an energy storage system, you probably don't want a synchronous machine. You want to be able to deliver (or absorb) rated power over a wide range of rotor speeds, since the difference between your lowest and highest speed is what effectively determines your energy storage capacity. To do this with a synchronous generator you'd need a big, expensive high-speed gearbox similar to what you see in synchronous generator wind turbines. So we used an induction motor/generator + back-to-back converter to tie to the grid, which is a common design very similar to what's used in most modern wind turbines. Therefore, from the perspective of the grid, no rotational inertia is coupled to the power system and the machine doesn't exhibit the inertial response of a synchronous generator that I'm sure you're familiar with.

However, if you have a fast enough control and communications system, you can provide the desired response for both frequency and voltage control and that's a big part of what we were trying to do. You can ramp from minimum to maximum active or reactive power very, very fast (like 5 AC cycles), which is much faster than any traditional generator. Due to the fast ramping capability, we also researched the possibility of using flywheels for large unit trip contingencies in small power systems (e.g. Hawaii) where operating reserve is very expensive.

At the end of the day, the biggest problem is that anything flywheels can do, batteries can do too - and batteries are getting cheaper every year.
My rent is high, but my cost of living isn’t that high relative to everything (not that different from pricier parts of the Midwest). My salary is high to keep the cost of living maintainable, so I don’t become tempted to move back to the Midwest where my rent was medium and my salary was high, and the cost of living was similarly medium.
Other than disturbing the beauty sense of homo sapiens, do stray plastic bags cause any real damage to eco systems?
I use “cat -“ so that my code makes more sense to people. I want STDIN declared somehow, and the dash is effective. Technically I shouldn’t have bothered with the cat at all in an HN code snippet, but it was a courtesy to provide a familiar environment for the block I wanted to convey. It worked so well that you linted it! I really appreciate the thought.
Unless they are the fancy unbleached 100% cotton organic tampons, I doubt they would compost. Tampons and other menstrual products aren't required to have an ingredients list, so who knows what's in there. I believe most tampons have synthetic as well as natural fibers. we

Personally, my menstrual cycle has been 100% reusable since 2003, and I much prefer reusables to disposables on a comfort level. I mostly use cloth pads, but I use a cup sometimes also. I used to be the opposite - mostly cup, sometimes cloth pads.
Yes, but since China lacks much rule of law its not like there was any hope they would act accordingly in the first place. The only kind of regulations that really work in China are heavy handed ones (ban to-recycle-waste from entering at all, ban coal from being used at all, etc...).
Rent in SF has been going down a little last I checked.
It's that arbitrary distinction that I am responding to. I don't agree that you should reserve source control for the complex.

A shell script can be the appropriate tool for many important tasks.
Well, they try to. There’s certainly room and profit for those invested in alternative revenue models.
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How does this relate to Thread?

This seems less for meshing actual devices and more for meshing access points... Is the idea to make regular devices access points? It doesn't seem so from how it's described:

> Wi-Fi EasyMesh is a certification program that defines multiple access point home and small office Wi-Fi networks that are easy to install and use, self-adapting, and add multi-vendor interoperability. This technology brings both consumers and service providers additional flexibility in choosing Wi-Fi EasyMesh devices for home deployment.

> Wi-Fi EasyMesh uses a controller to manage the network, which consists of the controller plus additional APs, called agents. Establishing controllers to manage and coordinate activity among the agents ensures that each AP does not interfere with the other, bringing both expanded, uniform coverage and more efficient service.

I guess this doesn't proclude using additional devices as meshing access points but the spirit & animation on the page[0] seems to.

[0]: https://www.wi-fi.org/discover-wi-fi/wi-fi-easymesh
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You can change what you purchase. Don't but so much temporary plastic, look for alternatives. Shop at markets where they don't wrap everything in plastic.
Practicing your craft? Honing your skills? Keeping sharp? Exploring domains you can't necessarily get support to work on at the day job? Something to feature on your resume and demonstrate/discuss in your next interview?
Python does address those needs with librares. In other languages it’s not necessary because they fit the mold out of the box
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Slavery is perfectly legal today in many countries, including the United States. The Constitution permityls slavery as the punishment for a crime (which is why prisoners can be worked for essentially zero pay).
This guy seems to have not spent any time on Youtube, Reddit, wikipedia etc. It's easier than ever before to get trapped in curiosity vortexes of various kinds.
That could be interesting.
Most people wouldn't have spent that money during that time either.

The reason this story is told is because it's pretty unusual. Carmack's success is a result of him doing fairly exceptional things.
I have a less dramatic but similar story. In Portland OR, there is a lot of Asians (ie, non-American born) and during a conference, we went out to lunch, and we saw a group of Asians, very nice clothes, gold watches, get in to a Lexus and just leave all their lunch (takeout) bags in the gutter. Their cups, straws everything. Just set it down and drove off.

This was in the mid 90s, we were all pretty shocked. But I have since learned, that is what is common in Asian countries, just set your garbage down wherever you want. I even read a blog article where a dev when to a tech convention in some large Asian city, and there were no trash cans anywhere, and that the only place to put garbage was on the ground, and there were people paid to pick it up.
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That just means you haven't come across any new ideas or personalities in a while. There's a podcast I've been enjoying recently- last night I listened to a podcast about that first podcast. I'm not suggesting any of this, I'm pointing it out because it's ridiculous, we're talking about wasting time here.

I'd say this person is standing in a grocery store complaining of hunger, except I sort of see what he means. A lot of energy goes into just a handful of websites like Facebook and Twitter, where in earlier years those people would have ended up on a crappy phpBB forum, each with its own weird sub-sliver of internet culture. Still, I'm pretty sure the internet has more bounty in this area than ever.
Be careful with sh library! It runs the programs under tty by default, so you get random effects like ascii color sequences and truncated git output. There is an option to change this, but it not default, and it is easy to forget it.
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Note that "help the homeless" and "reduce homelessness" are two different goals and they are often at odds with each other.
Except undoing "Archive" is a feature that gmail has had for as long as I remember, and it is exposed to you by an immediate notification after you have archived it.

What I am less confident of is what happens when that notification goes away.
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It is amazingly terrible. 3D software competes heavily on interface. Both Softimage and Maya have great interfaces for most things. Houdini is not lacking for interface refinement and well thought out design either.

Blender is another story. Its interface is a hazard, I can't even understand why it is SO terrible. Even saving files becomes a rabbit hole of nonsense due to how buttons are positioned and assumptions you make about what would be sane. It almost seems like an elaborate practical joke.
>my take home is quite a bit over 170.

I hate you so much. I have been clawing and scratching my way to $100k/yr for over 20 years and I am still nowhere near it. I do more work than my peers, my peers come to me when they need a solution designed or created, and I am the go-to guy when someone has a technical question of any kind. I work for a company you are all familiar with, no matter where you are in the world.

I am getting fucked. Hard.
>"But on the other hand, a lot of people just don't give a fuck."

I had a religious minister talk about Ghana, there were these plastic baggies everywhere, they were sold with water in them on the streets. So they got all the kids together to pick up the garbage.

One lady was in charge of the final collection, she took all the piles of garbage they collected (spent hours) and through it out the back of their shop on the ground.

Japan has lots of trash cans, and is incredibly spotless. Downtown Tokyo, hardly any trash anywhere. (if any) I saw 1 single homeless guy there. One.
It was a loaded question, but that doesn't mean that the post was necessarily unbiased. It could have been an attempt to get Zuckerberg to like him, say. Not a likely possibility, but one nonetheless.
See also: Google v. aap re: orphan books.
Not on the topic of the article, but why would this post get over 30 votes in two hours? Is this news that exciting?
The rotor spins in a vacuum to reduce standby friction losses, and it requires power to maintain that vacuum. The bearings also need active cooling. Without these support systems you won't have a catastrophic failure, but you'll be damaging your equipment and reducing its lifespan.

As for using the flywheel(s) themselves as the source of backup power, that was our original design and definitely feasible at a conceptual level, but there's a lot of engineering in getting that to work properly while maintaining grid code compliance. You need your grid-tie inverter (which also provides the 60 Hz AC used by the support systems) to disconnect from the grid and transition to island mode /without interruption/ very, very fast (since utilities have standards on how fast generators need to disconnect during a system fault) and basically it required us to write our own firmware for the VFDs we were using which in turn invalidated their safety certifications. So definitely a solvable problem but we just didn't get there.
I have made a lot of DNS products and doing the same thing happening here is a few lines of code in most any language. This code, while entertaining, cannot handle very simple DNS packets because of its "compression encoding.
I’m going to try and fire something up this week. I’ll do some research on software for it, I’m fine spending money on xenforo or vbulletin but it looks like there are quite a few options out there.

I’ll announce it here when it’s ready!
The amount of dumb things I hear coming out of Seattle lately blows my mind. Every other city that wears it's "progressive"-ness on its sleeve should take a wait and see approach to what Seattle does, so that when these terrible policies do nothing to fix their problems and exacerbate others (like blaming tech companies for housing shortages in SF) they can hopefully avoid it.
> RNA stores/caches the response

tomato / tomato -- right?

what is storage/cache if not memory?

I would argue there is no "standard definition of memory" as it relates to beings / consciousness / qualia.

Even if we limit "memory" to what people have when they reflect on past events.. we don't know /what/ that is; where it is stored, why it is so error prone, etc.

we also don't know much at all about the mechanism behind RNA; we have mapped some genes but afaik, the mechanism for how those sequences actually do anything at all, yet alone things in particular is a huge mystery.
It's 11am there now. Why would it not?
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Is the noise truly random, or is it just unpredictable? Does the maximization of entropy indicate no deviations from equilibrium will spontaneously occur? Does the lack of memory indicate a lack of consciousness?
Isn't that fairly typical turbocharger turbine speed though?

I saw a Mazda RX3 Sport Sedan (a circuit racing class here in Australia ~25-30 years back) spectacularly blow a flywheel/clutch at the end of the main straight (at Oran Park) a long time back - it pretty much perforated all the bodywork in the plane of the flywheel - bonnet and both guards - as though it was a tearoff line on a set of stamps. We could hear bits landing 10+ seconds later hundreds of meters behind us in the parking lot. Depending on what port job he had, that could have been up around 12k rpm (if my vague 30 year old car modifying memory serves...)
Interesting. Now I truly have no idea what the actual meaning of that sentence is. I still read it as talking about programming language, but your interpretation seems at least plausible.
Yeah, that's a fair point. It is certainly less edgy than downtown Seattle. That said, living in Seattle and commuting east is far more doable than the other way around (although that could be subject to change). I also imagine that the east side is more desirable to employees with families, though I have no idea how much of the workforce that actually makes up.

Preferences aside though, the one thing the east has that Seattle City doesn't is abundant space.
> Fuji just can't get their act together, and to be honest they've never been a very well-run company.

This is a more than strange statement to make in a thread mentioning Kodak, where one of those two companies successfully managed the transition from film to digital, and the other went bankrupt.

https://leaderonomics.com/business/kodak-vs-fujifilm-success... is the first hit on "fujifilm vs kodak", but there's quite a few there with the same message...
Indeed, see here [1] for some examples.

[1] https://www.google.com.au/search?q=battlefield+command+menu&...
My washer actually reminds me to do that. You can use their tablet things or just add bleach to the bleach dispenser.

Before that..... NEVER DID IT EVER. I had no clue.
There's not a good way to get more revenue to cover the infrastructure needed as companies hire more employees. We don't have income taxes here. If we did, as you hire an employee you'd get more revenue to cover the fractional cost of bus service, etc. A head tax is a way to do that. Are you against income taxes? They could accomplish the same thing.
The article explicitly said it was "bootstrapped" - ie not dependent on outside investors.

If I had a great idea for software that I could do on my own with the only investments being my time + some AWS resources where hopefully I could make enough money to pay myself a decent wage and pay for the operating expenses, why not ride the wave, make some money and when the bottom falls out, shut down the AWS resources, close shop, throw it on your resume and get job.
This doesn't need to be done with actual ray triangle intersections.

There are many techniques relating to relief mapping that deal with ray marching through a depth map. Here is a pdf:

http://developer.download.nvidia.com/books/gpu_gems_3/sample...

This technique would actually make it run very fast on a GPU, likely with better quality as well.
> Archive of Operating Systems mission is saving the great job of many great people whose created Open Source and/or Freeware operating systems.

That leaves out a couple of couple of interesting ones :(