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Great advice, thanks.

...also, you've called out a very significant pain point for lots of people in the American health system, i.e. managing and paying bills while dealing with the Kafka-esq processes. Your process is steps towards a solution.

Can your process of ensuring bills are paid correctly be turned into a business? Can it sold as a service - not to hospitals, not to employers, not to insurance companies - but to us? We buy the service and know we can trust it has our interests at heart, esp. when we are at our most vulnerable.

I've had to jump through hoops with insurance bills before, it isn't pleasant and I've got good health insurance.

Pricing structure would be challenging...monthly and use when needed, per transaction, etc?

(didn't do any deep searching before posting, so I'm betting a hospital billing concierge service already exists...)

Service should be called Auntie Kafka.
beautiful UIs but good luck teaching someone how to use any of those, maybe fictional users are much more sophisticated?
For complex instructions like vehicle repair, videos can be amazing -- especially with good focus and lighting.

For letting me know what Trump tweeted yesterday, I don't need a five minute video with commentary. Even for protests and marches, a few pictures and a paragraph will pretty much do. Most news I'm happy to just read about.
The EU varies a lot in personal tax rates.

The higher end of the EU is much higher than the US.
> Your threads are really spread out, so its bad for major workloads like Databases (which may communicate heavily, and also benefit from the "combined" L3 caches on the Intel Xeon Silver setup)

As soon as you add the second node for a workload with poor locality like that, half your accesses are on the wrong node. No matter how many more nodes you add, the worst it can cost is that much again.

The unified L3 is also probably immaterial when you have a large database like that which exceeds the L3 by hundreds of gigabytes and it's ~100% cache misses either way.

On the other hand, you have 60% more cores to make up for it.

I'm not saying there are no circumstances or workloads where the Intel system makes sense, but it's kind of telling that it's a matter of finding them as exceptions to the rule.

For the general purpose things like running a bunch of unrelated VMs that aren't affected by number of nodes much if at all (or benefit from them because one misbehaving guest or process thrashing all the caches and flooding memory bandwidth only impacts a single CCX/node), it seems like an obvious choice.

It's also going to be interesting to see how databases optimize for multiple NUMA nodes now that they're common. There should be ways to determine which parts of the database are on which node and then prefer to dispatch queries to cores on the same node, or keep copies of the highest hit rate data on multiple nodes etc.
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It's worse than that. In the web app use case, if the browser is sending cleartext passwords to the server, all an attacker has to do is hijack the server IP with BGP, get a DV SSL cert and slurp up all the passwords.
Now we see how the world responds, in particular the US government. Will we be leaders, or are we going to give up credibility?
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This[0] is a backdoor that was discovered _only_ through reading patents on the chip. It gave the highest possible privilege(ring -4) to the user by simply running an undocumented cpu register. It would be incredibly easy to hide something like this within one of the 100 of thousands of computers that go to the big 4 or even the pentagon.

I'd imagine people at the pentagon select randomly from a number of computers coming in and do some chip analysis like this[1] but I can only speculate and they probably can't stop all the hardware backdoors this way.

Anybody that would be caught disclosing highly classified information would probably be found and promptly hanged(or get in some sort of freak car accident). They probably have some serious counterintelligence to catch the leaks. Once again I am only speculating.

[0]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eSAF_qT_FY
[1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z4aF-qiziM
Quakers have been trying to implement a form of this on religious grounds.

At a used bookstore, I found a book(1) about Marian Franz that illuminated the history behind their attempts.

Weirdly enough, there was a personal dedication in the front by David Gross(2), one her colleagues and someone who wrote extensively about the 'War Tax Resistance'.

I'm not religious, so it kinda made me sad, but that book sent me down a rabbit hole. Could you live on 20k a year to avoid income tax and contributing to a war effort? Its impressive.

(1) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6553714-a-persistent-voi...

(2) https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/11/can-qui...
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9700k is in stock everywhere. 9900k (the i9 with hyperthreading) is still nowhere to be found.
I think the humor is in the irony, of an northern Italian saying "sheesh, I can't believe my money goes to the south, where it gets wasted!" and then a northern European saying exactly the same thing.

It's not about whether it's true, or accurate, it's just "funny" because irony can be funny.
Yeah, time viewed is really only a vanity metric that only someone building a campaign with no direct result at all would look at.

The kind of big business campaign just blowing money on branding is probably getting an even worse return on TV.
Your proposal is equivalent to sending plaintext passwords, because the client-calculated hash can be used like a password.
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Agreed. I guess video vs text is like most tools. Use the one that’s the best fit for the job.
No, the convention is that Javascript projects are distributed as source rather than as "binaries" (single minified JS files.) Source code generally needs a build tool. NPM is a build tool.
I guess we are entering a realm where the reverse of what happened in the Soviet states, you can remove yourself from history.

I am certainly not keen on archival systems or original stories being modified but search engine searches I can see being masked without too much issue. like a local no robots clause. the library/papers own search should not be affected.
On a serious note there seems to be many sub issues like PC mentioned. On the top of my head:
1 - lack of homes
2 - speed of population migration is higher than planned
3 - increase in price of property is higher than planned
4 - increase in labor cost
5 - fund mismatch between different localities
etc
6 - funding changes from Fed
and from the Mayor's article there seem to be a lot more. The issue needs a Product like approach of finding all the requirements and fighting it from different directions. Adding funding would certainly help temporarily but not a good long term solution.
No, it's not. You can capture the password-equivalent authenticator, but (assuming a strong KDF) not easily reverse it back out to a password that could be used at other sites, which is the only reason anyone cares about hiding passwords from servers in the first place.
It really depends. If you're conveying a dance routine for example, text is horribly inefficient, a short dance instruction video can be much better.

I have the opposite for news for example. Essentially, whenever people read text out loud which I could have read myself, I typically prefer reading. Moreso because I can skim through text, and move back and forth to make connections, re-read a part after a new insight or to check if I'd remember it clearly, with video this is quite difficult and tiresome.

Although I do enjoy audio/video played at high speeds, it's much more effortless to listen to or watch double speed video than it is to speed-read. Particularly because most written text is quite information dense and not meant to be sped through, whereas most video is more conversational, less dense, and can be sped up to a point where you can take in a lot of information in an easygoing manner in a short time.

Then there's a unique section of high-quality production material. Here I would say, video can beat most formats, it's really efficient and makes a long-time impression. For example, a $5m documentary with video material for every anecdote, beautiful animated graphs to illustrate every metaphor, every causal-mechanism explored etc, can beat 100 pages of dry text. But it requires tons of effort and resources. On the other end of the spectrum is simple video material you see on television (point camera at talking heads), which is really inefficient (safe for being able to speed it up, but even then... whenever people are reading out loud news or an opinion, I'd rather just read it myself then watch someone do it for me.) But this format is really cheap to produce, it's just a camera and talking heads, but inefficient, I dislike it myself.
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It's certainly better at some things, but in general, I think it's a worse platform for conveying information.

- find content within a video is difficult (I'd rather search text)
- you're at the mercy of the presenter's pace (you can adjust speed, but that's only part of the story)
- sometimes listening isn't an option
- sometimes presenters rely too much on visuals, so you have to watch as well
- video can't be as easily edited as text, so most people just put subtitles to point out errors (this doesn't help if you're not watching)
- less easy to link to additional information than text

In general, unless someone is demonstrating a step-by-step, graphical process, I prefer text.
Amazon doesn't even have the 9700k right now. Newegg does, however if memory serves they didn't earlier today.
Sounds good. How can we convince people sympathetic to the plight of the homeless that burdensome regulations actually raise costs and hurt the disadvantaged?
OK, what are the problems you have with password-authenticated key exchange?
Probably ethical violation to lie (lawyers)
There is such an API. It's called HTTP authentication. No one uses it.
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I'm on the east coast and I've gotten hit up by many of the big companies in SF this month (even with the option to allow recruiters to contact me off on linkedin).
I used to make one like the square plane, except at step 4 I would fold the outer points on more time toward the center line then fold the tip while inserting the previous folds into the folded tip so it makes a thick triangle. You could then fold the wing tips up or down to make the vertical surfaces. I'm not sure I'm describing it well.
One problem is that we don't really "commit" people the same way as we did decades ago. It's a lot harder to just declare someone unfit and lock them in an institution - and for good reason, but the unfortunate result is that mental institutions no longer serve the same function of cloistering these people away from the rest of society.

The reaction to unacceptable conditions was correct and justifiable, but we've thrown the baby with the bathwater in the sense that now, mentally handicapped people are homeless all over the place...
The likelihood is if a cancer drug isn’t covered in the US, it’s not covered in NZ.
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For on premesis installs, enterprise production systems seem to be converging on the ELK stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. However managing this at scale requires quite a bit or resources and know-how. It's frequently overkill for what you need.

For modern brand new production systems I always suggest to start with oklog until you outgrow it (if ever). Most of the time you just want to send your logs to some central location and archive them in files. Occasionally you want to tail them or search them. Oklog gets you all that in a distributed fashion and with minimal fuss.

https://github.com/oklog/oklog
The druid is Miraculix in German.
I find that saying the pledge of allegiance (when I visit my kids' schools for things) is an interesting affair. It's an opportunity to reflect on both the ideal of the Republic, and the ways / extent that the state of the Union has changed over time.

I find it poignant that I am pledging allegiance to the Flag and the Republic, rather than to the political party in charge, or to the federal government, etc. Are the differences meaningful? Why? What can I be doing better as a citizen? These are all questions that can run through my mind when saying the pledge with mindfulness.

You're right, there's probably an element of brainwashing there. However, one can also use it as an opportunity to meditate on civic duty. :)
Not a violation of privacy if you get the users’ consent first. And I’m sure that there are people who would actually want this as a service.
“Dark side of the moon” is a misnomer. Both sides of the moon receive equal amounts of light. A better term is “far side of the moon” since from earth we simply never see it.
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There's a distinction that needs to be made between brand advertising and performance advertising. Brand advertising is most of what we've had in the past (most TV ads excluding infomercials, most Newspaper ads - not including classifieds of course).

Why is a Rolex "worth" $10-20k? Why is an Apple product priced at 2x the price of an equivalent? In large, because they spend millions every year advertising their brand - with no measurable conversion mechanism. In my opinion, this is why online advertising is so obnoxious - it's mostly low effort performance advertising which tends to be much less enjoyable from an aesthetic level.
>You encounter it daily here.

I assume you’re referring to all the commenters with whom you disagree.
Or mysteriously "get hacked" and have everything uploaded to wikileaks...
Thank you for the extra context. The reality is much less harsh than the article would have me believe.
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As an Indian who lives in the US, I am constantly amazed that Asterix is mostly unknown here. Works out well for me though - every two years I walk down to the closest public library, check out the entire series and play Getmyasterixfix for a week.
The expense is in added support, not in software development cost.
I've once drank too much vodka and found myself totally unable to speak my native language (which I used everyday during those says and what everybody around was speaking) and only able to speak English (or French). That happened to be fairly inconvenient as the friend of mine that was drinking with me was particularly bad at foreign languages.
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Yerp. Here are a few links regarding the issue:

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-post-short-videos-of-sti...

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/social-networks/facebook-cr...
Very popular pretty much all around the world... except the us.

when i was a kid many school libraries (do schools still have libraries?) had all the tintin and asterix books but no other comics.
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Well, I don't expect distributed ACID transactions to ever become a thing developers expect. I see people try them, but leave unhappy because of the unexpectedly bad latency and performance. Hence the lack of growth in trends.

Furthermore, eventual consistency was never problematic, it was just a myth. It was never hard, certainly not harder than ACID transactions in all those MVCC systems. So not much to benefit from for an average application. And today with all the research in strong eventual consistency applications can have all that correctness without coordination and without sacrificing performance, latency and availability. This is where the opportunity for distributed databases still exists, performance and latency are sellable.
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embarrassing, or will they just ignore it and never publish a retraction? I have the feeling they'll just ignore it. Like they have with all of the other totally false Apple stories.

Bloomberg is unreliable when it comes to Apple.
Given how common SSL interception is becoming, I don't consider TLS sufficient protection for passwords. Your security appliance may have a legitimate need to see my network traffic, but not my password. And if someone pwns the appliance, they pwn everything. Client-side hashing helps a little, but not enough; you're still vulnerable to pass-the-hash attacks. Using PAKE inside a TLS connection avoids all of these vulnerabilities.
Unfortunately it's really simple:

1) extreme luck in what you grow up with, the hobby you pick (linux)

2) extreme luck in getting a job offer with stock that would x10000 in value.

3) extreme luck in accepting said job offer (it was the only one he got)

That's right. He didn't even have a non-obvious decision to make. Seriously.

4) on top of that also being very smart and dedicated

I mean all due respect for this guy, but he is like a lottery winner explaining how to win the lottery. The path he's laying out existed at one point in the past, but it no longer exists. He even says that, that it was REALLY hard to see that path was a good path. In fact, most such choices lead to disaster (failed startups), not success. He "chose" by being obsessed with other things than the choice ...

Well, perhaps the path still exists but it's gotten downgraded from "guaranteed multimillionnaire" to "good job, good living, good pay". Like factory worker in the 70s good living.

That said, the guy is still incredibly smart and that was certainly a necessary condition for his success. So I guess you can't say it's 75% luck and 10% talent and 15% effort, it would be more accurate to say it was 100% luck and 100% talent and 100% effort. If any of those had been a mere 99%, it would not have happened.

But for his path. It's cheaper and certainly easier just to buy a $100 mil lottery ticket.
Thanks for your post, rericks. I am feeling exactly the same way... I am so anxious about that that I have doubted what else could I do in life... But we should hold tight. In 3 months, you will know much more about parts of the system, you will be an expert of some of its facets. By then, you will be an example of the phrase "Fake it 'till you make it".
The continued experience that you exist. You literally have never known anything else, only the representations which consciousness allows.

The stuff itself is hopelessly metaphysical, the only good way I know to define is the above: since you have are consciousness, its easy enough to just say 'look around'. Its difficult to think of any material definition when there's not much of an understanding of how it relates to anything material. Obviously the images you see are dictated by physical rods and cones in the eyes, but what the hell are colors?
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You have 24GB, so we should squander it just for the convenience of developers who want to use the world's worst programming language?
In what way? There are billions lifted out of poverty across the planet over the last few decades. Every objective measure shows improvement. What are your counter examples?
And thanks, again. I will spend a better week-end, knowing I am not the only one, and that it has an actual "name".
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> Wouldn't that create a perverse incentive to get arrested for something if you want the thing to be forgotten?

I doubt it - if you were never convicted, you can probably sue the ones retelling the story for defamation.

> Or are we forced to not talk about ANYTHING bad that happened more than x number of years ago?

The whole 'right to be forgotten' thing is not even about forcing people not to talk about something. It's mostly about not having a mistake pop up as the first hit on google for the rest of someones life. You can talk about whatever you like, but you may not be allowed to publish whatever you want, if it would take away another persons chance at starting over.

> Wouldn't that create a strange world where we create this illusion that everything was perfect x+1 years ago?

No, and I have no idea why you would have that idea. Before internet search engines were a thing, few people would have the know-how, time, and motivation to look other people up in news archives. Did people believe that the past was perfect back then? Of course not! So why would that happen now?

> The idea of the law saying we have to deny facts that are unpleasant to some people sounds like a distopia to me.

But that's not what it is about! It's about not constantly bringing up old facts that have little relevance to the present so that people can improve their lives instead of getting in a downward spiral because of something bad in the past.

Suppose a long time ago you once farted very loudly (by accident!) in a very inappropriate setting, such as during a funeral, when everyone was silent. Someone catches that moment on video. They upload it online. They tag it 'cortesoft? more like corteloud! #fart', and somehow it ends up being one of the top hits when people google your name. At some point in the future you apply for a job, and another candidate is chosen because the company don't want to risk their new employee farting loudly during business meetings. So your career has taken a dent, to balance your budget you have to eat beans most days of the week...

Hey, it could happen. That funeral-fart is a fact, and therefor it must be published, in eternity! No matter that it was a one time thing, that you have been avoiding vegetables linked to flatulence for the past 15 years, and that you feel very sorry about it. To remove it from the internet is to create a dystopia. Any law that would permit people to take down such videos about them would lead to a strange world where the illusion is created that people didn't fart x+1 years ago.

Okay, perhaps the example is just slightly ridiculous. But the point is that just because something is technically a fact, doesn't mean that it's necessary worth repeating forever.
The wildly impractical parts are some of the specific details, e.g. the logistics of getting a specific board to a specific customer without involving enough people that it creates a high risk of getting caught.

But if you just backdoored a random 10,000 boards out of ten million and let them go to 10,000 random customers, you would get internal access to thousands of random companies, and at least some of them would be interesting.
I love this busdriver's videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e0OCwlaEZM

Yep, a busdriver. That's what he does. I find having these videos open during coding is pretty inspiring, too bad there's so few of them.
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User23 very kindly provided a heap of references in a sibling comment, but just for the record: I did not intend to claim that the HIC exists, only that my subjects talked about it, and it seems like a plausible hypothesis to me.
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As a long time dashboard designer, I love this site

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