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Obviously, that's mathematically equivalent...
Some remote workers, but not definitely not the norm.
I still don't really understand how exclusive franchise agreements /aren't/ illegal, given antitrust laws.
Make all walls a Faraday cage / concrete. If you can’t get cell or radio reception inside, you probably aren’t leaking anything either.
You are conflating "less opressed" with "not opressed", and disregarding all of the actual opression that was happening to labor from both business owners and the government.

Also it was the industrial revolution when people were flocking to the cities to work in factories in part because working a farm was no longer enough to survive for most people. Other than a few periods of time when the government gave out land grants, a penniless immigrant couldn't just show up and get land.
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I would take a road trip to Denver just to get stoned. Think about it. Change of scenery. For the $100/hr + driving and hassle you'll be spending on pychotherapy with odds are the wrong therapist + meds, seems like a premium room and mj tour of Denver is cheap and effective. Seattle probably sucks though.
Cool. Haven't had that kind for a while. Should try it some time.
Would it be more accurate to compare Google App Engine (PaaS) to Azure Web Apps or App Service (also PaaS)? Docker is in a weird spot of not really being PaaS but yet too light to be considered IaaS... I tend to think of it as sufficiently PaaS-like except it runs on everyone's cloud as well as my laptop.
You are both correct.

Many Americans choose not to go into academia (at every level) because the other options are much more lucrative. It is true that many of America's best minds do not pursue a PhD in large part because of the paltry stipend.

It is also absolutely true that the one top CS PhD program I know of does not compromise in admissions and does not suffer from a lack of highly qualified applicants.

> Americans don't have a monopoly on intelligence.

I think it's possible to agree with this point while still believing that American CS Ph.D. programs -- especially those outside the top N -- are not as attractive to domestic applicants as they probably should be.
The technical speculation begins at 7:53 in the referenced video [so, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaQpvXSa4X8&t=473]
There's nothing efficient about keeping secrets and encrypting stuff. Our reliance on private key cryptography is horrifying. Keeping secrets is unsustainable, and making one mistake can break the whole system. This is far too fragile, and guaranteed to be universally broken in the near future.

The problems you described are authentication problems. It seems obvious that total transparency is the best (and only?) solution to those problems.

There will always be things we don't know. I don't think we'll ever become omniscient. That's fine. What I want is for people to understand how important it is to share and seek knowledge and resources. Tell people how you feel, share your medical records, open source your code, let people use your car. We can't work together if we don't share.
The real problem with US education is that there's an "inner city" phenomenon at all. In every other country in the world "inner city" children are just children.

Standardization itself isn't the problem per-se, it's that schools get put in the uncomfortable position of having to hit certain metrics or they lose funding. What they do to maintain funding is eject under-performing kids so they don't drag down their average.

This is what happens when you have metrics that encourage the wrong outcome and turn the entire education system into a game that has a meta.
Seems to be Warner Losh[1], previously one of the FreeBSD core team members[2].

[1] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=152883510311011&w=2

[2] https://wiki.freebsd.org/WarnerLosh
And this is why you build a shipping container house -- free Faraday cage, built right in. Not mention that it's not hard to convert shipping containers to meet California earthquake code, or so I've read.
Heaven help you if you have multiple accounts. Logging in and out remains dicey after all these years.
For what it's worth I found uMatrix easier to use than uBlock Origin's "Advanced user" mode. Both took a few minutes to get a hang of since neither have particularly discoverable interfaces, but I find the uMatrix interface just a lot faster to use once I knew both.
Great, as if I weren't already self-conscious about having my roommates overhear me, now they'll be able watch me masturbate through the walls too.
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As what amjith said -- however, I personally find myself working with upwards of 3+ different databases in a single day. I may not be the use case, but eventually I realized it would have been easier to write a single, consistent client that works across all databases the same, as opposed to learning yet another broken, random client.

Since usql is written in Go, it compiles to a single static executable, and as such you don't need any extra dependencies. {pg,my,db}cli requires pip + python, which is usually broken on many systems that I've been an admin on. Also, good luck getting pip working properly on Windows. Also, since its written in Go, its likely significantly faster.
Arguably, though, the ability to create straddles (and other multi-legged options) enables "recreational" traders to _lower_ their risk trading options. So while I agree with you in general, this particular change is specifically enabling smarter behavior.
Presence detection can easily toggle WiFi on and off based on if people are present.
> It will be like your typical Verizon plan where you sign up for a $50/mo plan and magically get a bill for $112/mo and all sorts of exceptions, nuances, and backstabbing legalese.

Do you have more than just a flippant accusation about this? I ask because I have a verizon plan that somehow includes no backstabbing or exceptions, and I consisitently pay what I'd expect to.
Depends on the training data and the room config. The system sees a difference in an empty vs occupied room, movement doesn’t seem to be strictly necessary. The heat map video looks more like radio spectrum signatures, which might even be working on still frames - which would imply that movement isn’t necessary at all. It would help the AI, though. Easier to classify moving bodies, the speed and gait is a signal.
Good lumber should do the trick just fine - a couple inches of wood will do a much better job stopping claws than the 1/8" plastic that port-a-potties are made of
There used to be an option in Firefox:
network.cookie.lifetimePolicy=1

It has been broken for a long time and was eventually removed: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606655
This is a no brainer. Should be huge in 5 years if it becomes THE destination for dApps.
Appx package names seem almost entirely uninteresting and most consumers will never look at them. Why would anyone bother changing them?

Disclosure: Microsoft employee, but not on Groove (or anything related to appx packages for that matter)
It's a huge problem for MS login flows and Google's login flows. As they absorbed various disparate products with various logins and tried to force a unified login flow on all of them they end up with a mess.

For Google, see the very many failings here: https://grumpy.website/post/0PU1U2r3v. Someone (me?) should do the same for MS.
> Replace your router every few years

How about instead of this, use open source software on your router? It will keep being updated, and with the manufacturer's proprietary software on the device you can't really trust it anyway.
I sure will.

The challenge here is social. The Web has fist-mover advantage. Also, I fear that doing it the right way would be equivalent to forcing standardization on a single operating system (or a family of systems).
It would be owned by the people in theory, but it would be just like a 'bloated' corporation owning it, except worse.
They could probably be the literal Netscape if they made Verizon the right offer for the brand.
The article concludes that you should spend $200 on Eero or Google WiFi. Is this an advertisement?

Also note that $200 in “value” is mostly covering the massive marketing budget of Eero and Google. You do not need to pay $200 for a secure WiFi solution.
The braking the embargo part is about the FPU issue that they published a patch for a few days before Theo gave the talk.

The part you're referencing is Theo speculating about the next bug. He suspects fixing it requires flushing a cash line but he doesn't know which one (because he doesn't know where the bug is) so he proposes flushing all of them until the bug is published and then removing the flushes that aren't necessary.

He then mentions the last serious OpenSSH bug. Instead of publishing a fix for the bug (and thus disclosing the bug) they decided to publish a patch that moved a bunch of code around and just happened to also make the buggy code unreachable. Then they told everybody to upgrade and once that happened they could safely disclose the bug and publish a fix for it. No embargo necessary and everybody got the fix at the same time. (I assume that's why he brought it up.)
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It's not really useful, no. But it's interesting. I read the readme and the five lines of code as a blog post. It makes a couple good points. First, there's no need to reset elements that aren't being used. Second, a reset file is redundant by nature since it's overwriting a "reset" provided by the browser, that's subsequently overwritten by any custom styling. But yes, in virtually every scenario it's more practical to not think about it and use normalize.
So does Linux allow .. as an interface name? If so, that’s nuts.
Not sure if your insurance has it, but my health insurance has a website where I can login to it to view my EOBs/etc and also has a section to lookup doctors in the area that accept my insurance.

Either way, sending positive thoughts your way and hope you can find someone helpful :(. Struggling with mental health can be a profoundly shitty time.
Anyone knows if it does NAT hole punching? I'm interested in such a tool for deploying to remote machines.
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Looks interesting! Gonna give the react + apollo and graphql-ruby tutorials a go.
Wi-fi has been researched for this capability since at least 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGZzNZnYIHo
Sorry, you're looking at that wrong - almost half of US households only have a single choice for ISP. That's not competition, it's a travesty.
This may be true, but the government also has the power to control inflation, which limits the purchasing power of those dollars.

See: Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Germany ~1920
Since I work for a startup ISP I am praying that AT&T will be dumb enough to prioritize their content over others.

You're going to make TNT fast and Netflix slow? You've got to be kidding. The amazing PR team at Netflix will be all over this and users will revolt. It will open up opportunities for the small guys to compete.

By all means big ISPs, please cripple a huge part of your service that is very important to your customers. I'll be rich in no time (and my customers will be happy).
Yes, I'm using that to see what bitrates are available. For the mentioned content, they range from very low to low (up to around 1000 kbps).
> It's not to late to switch away from JSON, it really isn't.

Yes, it is. People are already used that in dynamic languages (javascript, python, ruby), you can work with unknown structures in a performant way, and they will be mapped properly to the underlying data model.

They are not going to switch to something where you need to have a schema just to parse it properly.
I would rephrase the question as: What are reasonable bounds on the number of intelligent civilizations, given that we have observed exactly one in the archeological record of our own planet, and no others elsewhere with current technology?

So, tiny sliver of time over billions of years, and communications technology that only reaches to a few nearby stars.

Trying to use probability of certain chemistry is, I think, highly subject to errors and failure to consider some alternative possibilities.

Life itself, however, is a totally different equation because it’s nearly as old as the earth. This might suggest that there is a lot of it out there.
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>it is actually very hard to sell [tether] for USD

Kraken offers a USDTUSD pair. How is that hard at all?
https://blog.kraken.com/post/206/kraken-announces-support-fo...
Very true, but doesn't that make this basically a cost-benefit calculation, with risk-of-malicious-code vs. risk-of-reinventing-the-wheel(badly)? I assume the critics would say that container tooling makes it easier for reckless amateurs to put things up when they otherwise might not have managed to deploy at all without them...
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It's not only about money. It's about balance and fairness. You ALSO provide life-long friendship and love to your wife, AND also financial support (I guess it's about money after all). So she should also provide more that just the love... I.e. doing housework in a proper way and taking care of your kids.

Or do you think it would by okay for the (employed) husband to suddenly stop working and go into social welfare because he feels like it?

I guess you could still accept the unfairness if there is nothing better, because we only have one life and it is probably nicer with a partner... But still.
What freelancer visa options are available? I’m over in the U.K. at the moment on a Tier 5 and and I looked at staying longer as a freelancer/contractor, my impression was the closest option I had was the investor visas.
Even then, 720p from a torrent looks much better that what I get from Netflix. And I've tried Chrome, edge and even the win10 UWP app.
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I've noticed, recently, that literally every major chain store I go into blocks my cell signal. I get full bars outside, perfect LTE, and about 5 ft past the glass doors, I'm suddenly cut off. Specifically, Meijer grocery stores and Home Depot are the worst offenders. Coincidentally they offer free in store WiFi to track me with, so I turn off my wifi radio on both smartphone and smartwatch before walking in the door... Note, this was not the case in the exact same physical stores a couple years ago, and they weren't closed for remodeling in the interim.

Does anyone know if this sort of Faraday cage technology for large buildings is easily available for me to install in my own home? If so, what's it called, what does it cost and where do I get it?
How do you see them succeeding?
I like where this is going. But I already am pretty into VS Code. I don't really want to download another "IDE" per say. I have a loooot of JS projects though, I wish this was an extension or something (that dash with my projects is most useful) and with quick access shortcuts.
This scheme would likely have fallen apart when they were printing and BTC continued to go down...they were no longer able to keep the price rising, so they likely weren't able to buy more USD than the USDT they printed.

To me, it really looks like Tether was propping up a significant portion of the valuation of BTC for a few months; they were printing enough to buy roughly half of all miner output (and in a market where most coins are in a state of HODL, the miner output and demand for it determines the market price). Probably much of the climb up to 10k was market manipulation by Tether. Yes, lots of dumb money went into the market in response to the climb, but when the printing slowed, the market fell pretty fast.

So, I agree it was ballsy, but I strongly doubt it's fully backed even now. I think when they started printing a hundred million Tethers every few days is when the market began to tip against them, and they were desperately trying to keep the BTC price climbing. They're gonna walk away from this scam multimillionaires, unless they go to jail, but they've never been sitting on 2+ billion USD in cash reserves (I just checked, there are currently 2.5 billion Tethers in circulation). I find that idea literally unbelievable.

Frankly, I'm out of crypto until Tether is, or until there's an audit by a reputable firm which I'd wager will never happen. Somebody's gonna get hosed on the deal, and it's gonna be pretty much everyone involved in crypto who isn't running a massive ponzi scheme, I'd guess. If there's anyone left that meets that description.
Wow, talk about bogus headline. Actual bug: "3rd party security products don't validate signatures correctly"
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I at least chuckled at the "I'm not racist, I'm just a hipster". That said, I'm not a hipster so it doesn't personally insult me and I don't see how the image is at all relevant to the text.
If a container system were formally-proven to provide all of these:

- hard limits, priorization and accounting metrics of all resources, incl.: IO, storage, compute, mem, net, kernel structures

- provable isolation / no side-channel leaks

- SELinux

- Live migration of processes and storage to different hosts, suspend/resume

- Type 4 hypervisor containers for different kernels, OSes, etc. configured and managed seamlessly with the same API

Then and only then can the jumble and complexity of containers running on hypervisors go away and be more like SmartOS with an ability to run bare-metal without losing devops flexible capabilities of running T4 hypervisors under everything.
More people would move to the cities of there were more buildings built, full stop. The housing prices in Norway are absurd, in particular in the cities.

And much of that comes from leaving the market up to the banks, resulting in few but expensive buildings being built each year to maintain high price and the hot potato loan market.

Seriously, if you graph out the house prices and household debt, they line up perfectly.

On a different note though, different political parties have different stances on where people should live. Some wants everyone to clump around the cities, while others wants people to live more dispersed.

End result is that the rural population is turning gray and male, as the younger generations (particular females) move to cities to get higher educations and end up staying there.
I'm sorry for "bullshit". It is totally logically consistent, but requires explanation why such volatile substance as metaphysical consciousness has anything in common with our experiences.
> "I do enjoy targeted ads because when I am looking for something those ads could help a lot"

You said could instead of do. Have they ever actually? Do you really click on ads? I don't think I've ever encountered somebody who admits to willingly clicking on ads. The only ad clickers I've seen are people who do it by accident or people who don't realize they're clicking on an ad (usually older folk with poor computer skills.)
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Am I the only one who thinks HN is an awful place to ask for mental health advice? If you asked your GP and got literally no suggestions, please dear God, find a new GP.
This article is trash. If you really want to check, look at how many people from Amazon want to work at Google and vice versa. Comparing the perks and environment that Google employees get compared to Amazon employees would be a fair assessment.

I am questioning the mental capacity of HackerNew reader ship for letting this article into HN.
Research rather than speculation:
https://blog.bitmex.com/tether/
Great, we're all going to die from gradient descent algorithms.
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what other apps do this?
Pretty common in games actually:

- Deus Ex: Human Revolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WoaLJ10ZB8

- GoldenEye: Rogue Agent https://youtu.be/EV8xxZec4j8?t=6m39s
Can one just go out and get a job as a trader, with no related (formal) education, experience, contacts, etc?
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>There are only 200 slots available per year for digital technology, but the dirty secret is the 70% acceptance rate.

Something tells me that this year the acceptance rate is going to be much lower...
That appears to be correct author, all of the pieces are very insightful.
I'd say that an analogy with diamonds works: There is an infinite supply of lab-made-diamonds, however they are not fungible with real diamonds. Them being substitute goods, lab-made-diamonds may have negatively impacted the price, but real diamonds are still considered scarce.
Yeah, probably if I'm understanding it right. This one seems less correlated with OoO than Meltdown or Spectre. It looks like you're just issuing a load based on FP register state you shouldn't touch. The system eventually notices it needs to have issued an exception based on the access to the FP register and eventually does quash the load within the core but the the load has already gone out to the memory hierarchy where you can see its effects on cache levels even though it never completes. Larger cores are harder to stop all at once than smaller cores so being OoO should correlate with being vulnerable but basically any pipelined processor that can throw an interrupt on register access could theoretically be vulnerable to something like this.
The article explains one issue is that the investors in bond ETFs have an unrealistic expectation of liquidity.

When the ETF becomes illiquid and is dropping quickly, the conservative bond investor may rush to sell and cause the ETF drop significantly in price despite the underlying bonds still being sound.
I think your point is generally spot on, but I wanted to nitpick at this one:

> airlines needed it

No, they didn't. Regulation of fares, routes and market entry of new airlines kept prices artificially high until airlines were deregulated in the late 70s. Quoting from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_Deregulation_Act#Effec...):
"A 1996 Government Accountability Office report found that the average fare per passenger mile was about nine percent lower in 1994 than in 1979. Between 1976 and 1990 the paid fare had declined approximately thirty percent in inflation-adjusted terms. Passenger loads have risen, partly because airlines can now transfer larger aircraft to longer, busier routes and replace them with smaller ones on shorter, lower-traffic routes."
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Your odds might be better, but there's no guarantee that the software will keep being updated. DD-WRT for many models is simply defunct, for example.
My two choices are Comcast or shitty DSL. And, the DSL isn't actually "competition" in any conceivable way. It's like saying that the gas station is competition to a super market for food.
"My startup is the first to make parachutes out of concrete!"

Not every "first" idea is going to succeed.
I haven't used Bitcoin, and from what I've read I have two questions about it being a currency:

If I attempted to buy an ice cream cone with Bitcoin, will the money be transferred before the ice cream melts?

What costs more, the transaction fees or the ice cream cone?
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I'm not disagreeing with you. If its not a personal goal you are sort-of providing uncompensated value to your employer.

But I don't see it as bing HELD up as a personal goal. I read it more as IF it is your personal goal.

"Dev skills" are like a sport for some of us. You probably don't get paid to make three pointers on your friends playing basketball on weekends but would you find it so bizarre to work on improving your jump shot?

I was programming well before anyone was paying me to. I was just bored.