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This is reminiscent of the plot of Cixin Liu’s “Three Body Problem” trilogy of science fiction novels, where an alien race actively interferes with particle physics experiments on earth in order to limit the progress of physics research. Highly recommended for fans of hard sci-fi.
Delusional. Bitcoin can’t survive now. Does anyone think power-hungry crypto nodes will survive and get priority for electricity after a real disaster?
Yeah, Muphry's law at work. Corrected version:

sed -n '/^x/s/foo/bar/gp' <input

This may be an inadvertent argument for the ‘connect simpler tools’ philosophy.
WhatsApp's message forwarding limit raises privacy concerns and mostly useless
Any reason to not download it? Do you mean to support Peterson or for some other reason?
IMO you are putting the cart before the horse. It's kind of like
asking, "I want to learn programming, should I buy a Dell or Mac?"
Buy a cheap, used DSLR. Hopefully one with a bunch of accesories.
Whether that is a Nikon or Canon is another post entirely. But don't worry about that now.
Take lots of pictures! That old camera takes just as good of shots as it did 10 years ago when it was new.
Local community classes have photography classes. Keep shooting, make friends, edit the photso onyour PC.
After some time passes, you'll handle other cameras and find out what YOU need. At this point, buy.
Worst case, you tire of the hobby in a few months, you're only out $300 instead of $1500.
Right, that makes total sense for fully open source projects, but I'm particularly interested in understanding developers' perception about partly open-sourced organizations with open programs and everything but the company as a whole is commercial.
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This is unfair. Obviously our knowledge is incomplete. We have yet to make that all important connection between general relativity and qft and as far as I can tell, next steps towards that process are not clear. So banging shit together even harder to see if it can produce some anomalies doesn't seem like the worst possible idea, and at the very least it might rule out more possibilities.
Seems like the next logical step in the instaface generation quest for total inauthenticity. Maybe we can use "AI" to create "influencer couples" who are well suited to pushing specific corporations' products.

Eventually we can even tune the algorithms to match couples who are most likely to give birth to "influencer babies".
TLDR: Old Thinkpads are powerful and rugged, but the screens are terrible.

A wistful story:

I used a Thinkpad X201 (2010 model) as my primary laptop for 6 years. I called it "lappy" (yes, a homestar runner reference). That thing took at serious beating. I worked on solar power system monitoring and control, and this involved a lot of field-work to debug problems. Lappy was exposed to a lot of dirt, dust, moisture, heat, cold, grease, and spilled coffee. Yet, after I upgraded the HD to a SSD it was the fastest build machine on our little software team.

It did require repairs, but Thinkpads are designed for repairability. The most fragile part is the power connector, which will break if the laptop falls and lands on the connector while attached to the power cord. This repair requires taking EVERY part out, but I followed the instructions and was able to replace the connector.

After taking a break from Lappy for a few years and working on a Macbook with a retina screen, I have to say the biggest deficiency of the Thinkpad was the screen. When I read about using an 11 year old Thinkpad as a primary machine, this is the first thing I think of. After using a modern laptop display I can't go back to that washed out, fuzzy display on the X201.

2 years ago I took it on a "last mission" when I was building an installation at Burning Man, which is probably the most hostile field environment I've worked in. It had started to shut down randomly, but it kept running reliably enough for my week-long dusty hack-a-thon.

[edited to fix some typos]
You should also read the RT pieces on how Crimea liberated itself, and how Putin won every election fair and square
Heh.. forgot that startup I worked at and ended up at Rackspace because of that :)
It gets worse than that, I'm still on spinning rust, although I do have 21gig of RAM so I can keep my VM's running.

Looking forward to putting an inexpensive linux workstation together when this Mac eventually bites the dust.
I recently tried a free month trial on Amazon Prime because it looked like they had Good Omens. They only had the trailer and very little else. There's a cute kids' show that my youngest son loves, but I don't think we're going to extend this trial.
Out of curiosity, what distro, display server and GPU drivers do you use?
It's still there, but because the BBC didn't get a lot of traction with it in the UK they canceled further seasons.
It is a helicopter then.

Unless it is significantly cheaper to operate or quieter, I don't understand the benefits of these new vehicles/ form factor.

Maybe the hope is that cities will not regulate them, but I am not sure why they would. Please enlighten me if there something else obvious I missed. If both Boeing and Airbus are working on it, there must be something else.
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Yeah, they've got that covered too. The second paragraph of the paper says that they're working with the notion of "deniable encryption" introduced in a paper by Canetti et al: http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~naor/PAPERS/deniable.pdf

Here's the abstract of the Canetti paper:

"Consider a situation in which the transmission of encrypted
messages is intercepted by an adversary who can later ask the sender to
reveal the random choices (and also the secret key, if one exists) used in
generating the ciphertext, thereby exposing the cleartext. An encryption
scheme is deniable if the sender can generate ‘fake random choices’ that
will make the ciphertext ‘look like’ an encryption of a different cleartext,
thus keeping the real cleartext private. Analogous requirements can be
formulated with respect to attacking the receiver and with respect to
attacking both parties.
Deniable encryption has several applications: It can be incorporated in
current protocols for incoercible (“receipt-free”) voting, in a way that
eliminates the need for physically secure communication channels. It
also underlies recent protocols for general incoercible multiparty computation (with no physical security assumptions). Deniable encryption
also provides a simplified and elegant construction of an adaptively secure
multiparty protocol.
In this paper we introduce and define deniable encryption and propose
constructions of such schemes. Our constructions, while demonstrating
that deniability is obtainable in principle, achieve only a limited level of
it. Whether they can be improved is an interesting open problem."

I'm not sure how the paper under discussion relates to those applications, if at all.

I'm not sure I buy the argument you appear to be making that a single principal can use a fake OTP to achieve deniability with any encryption scheme, but that this breaks down when both sender and receiver are coerced. If the fake plaintexts don't match it comes down to one person's word against another. The consequences of that scenario are outside the scope of "deniable encryption". It sounds a bit like a prisoner's dilemma situation.

But the key defining feature of "deniable encryption" is of deniability within a specified encryption scheme.
In some scenarios, the lender has more incentive to let someone make years of mostly-interest payments, then foreclose.

An underhanded contract isn't going to be obvious to a borrower with a high school dropout's education level. Even your run-of-the-mill credit card contract is written to an eleventh grade reading level, on average.
The fact that you have numpy like matrix manipulation directly out of the box is really cool, and it's even better than numpy because if the dot operator for element wise operation, which is just awesome
The main problem with Travis was that is stayed with the CI part (as the name suggests) while people wanted a CI/CD solution that helps with deployments and monitoring as well.

F.D. I work for Codefresh a full CI/CD solution (competitor to TravisCI)
You can remap any keypress that reaches Windows by editing the registry, as described here: https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/2155/Keyboard-Rema... (2011, but works with Windows 10)

Unfortunately many "Fn" keys are handled purely in hardware and Windows can't see them. But it might be worth a look, if you haven't already tried it.

AutoHotKey is also useful, especially if you want more complex hotkeys.
"Private transports are efficient at delivering individuals to locations"

Not all locations though - I wouldn't dream of driving to work in central Edinburgh as the drive would be a pain, take longer and the parking would be more expensive than getting the train.
I would have thought this too, but most of them are reporting that they can no longer hold paper clips or other small metal objects. It has to be either quality issues, or some third cause.
Genera concepts
Yes, this is why I said "without Python".
It says at the end, she'll rent out the rooms. San Clemente is in prime beach front Orange County. 1) She will be able to rent a single room for at least $750-$1000. 2) The property is in a highly desirable, wealthy area and will likely continue to grow in value over time. 3) Her earnings will grow over time once she graduates.
Ask HN: What's the overhead of forking and maintaining an open-source project?
If we create an internal fork of a popular open-source project, what maintenance overhead are we looking at? Particularly, when pulling security and optimization updates?
> Does Circle-CI offers Mac runner for public/open-source projects

Yes, but you have to ask them to enable the thing. I used them for ArchMac before I migrated to GitLab. I am contemplating moving back to GitHub and CircleCI, unless I can get my hand on some decent hardware again to run the CI builds.
Hahaha. Thanks, I was actually trying to picture what a helicopter car would look like, and now I know.
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Well, I was mainly hoping to get samples of different possibilities given by different people here rather than a specific advice for my case, since I'm not inclined on sharing too much about it.

But by a flexible job, I meant something you could ideally do as an independent, and grow as much as you like without having a big hierarchy above; things like consulting, or R&D possibly...

(and thanks for replying!)
I just don't understand how inequality can be truly eliminated in a world where people are motivated by money and power. Until you can build a society where people actually love and care for each other instead of themselves, a certain percentage of the population will always try to become more equal than the others.

And, they will become more equal than the others, just like the pigs in Animal Farm, because once you have power, you can change any rules.
Interesting. Doesn't this solve the problem then for people who can't get into 1-indexed arrays?
Then get some medium stiffness linear switches. Near silent unless you bottom out, and the added stiffness helps with that.
All of it, honestly, if that's what you want.

There's no hard and fast rules on what makes an experience worth living. If automating and outsourcing everything makes you happy, do it!

Life is short.
The difference is run-time (semantically) vs compile time. If you had overloading at runtime in C++, you wouldn't need virtual functions or any of the thousands of OO "patterns" (visitor, factory, etc.), that are working around the lack of this capability.
It takes a truly reactionary definition of "standard model" to claim that it's inconsistent with neutrino masses. The extension is straightforward and was not part of the original formulation simply because there was no experimental data requiring it when Weinberg first wrote down his model of leptons.

He also didn't include quarks, so by the same logic, the "standard model" is inconsistent with those too.
The ssd is actually needed. My employer encrypts the drives. It’s too slow without the ssd
This is Derek.

We shared a bunch of stuff in this video:
https://youtu.be/4FLFcWgZdo4

One of the interesting benchmarks was GridMix performance at scale. And overall performance for throughput-oriented workloads like Hadoop was generally strong. Most cloud benchmarking I have seen sticks to micro-benchmarks and single-node benchmarks, so they miss this.
If you like that, you'll love the 'all_urls' permission which most apps request.
Well, how often do you recompile the whole project from scratch? Incremental builds are a thing.
Colorado police are known for altering video evidence, and for outright framing people for murder. Encrypting their comms will simply make it easier to continue this behavior in the future.

https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2018/12/22/mother-man-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Hettrick_murder_case
I was talking about the rent part on top of the costs of those systems, nonetheless they are trivial compared to the revenues. If there was an international agreement on a single payment system with mandated interoperability, we could find out what those costs actually are in a competitive market, probably fractions of a cent per transaction.
It means the licensed lender has a higher standard to abide by and not take advantage of the borrowers needs

Such as creating a claim on everything the borrower will ever have and turning them into a debt serf

But hey maybe housing prices go up really really fast
lol, I'm sorry but no a 1GB machine will not cut it even for a hobby, never mind in a real business environment.

A good IDE like PhpStorm is going to use 1-2GB.

A browser will consume 1GB+. Want multiple browsers for testing? Add another few gigs.

Most devs now use a VM or container with PHP, MySQL, etc running inside it. Add at least 1GB, maybe 2GB.

You probably need Slack or HipChat running. 0.5GB to 1GB.

A mail client. 256MB+.

Your company probably has Office 365, so you'll need Outlook. 1GB+.
"Google is proposing a solution that offers more privacy from the extension, and it seems very similar to what Safari has done (and which is very widely viewed as a great design)."

It would only provide more privacy if ad block extensions go solely with static lists of uris. If they want to retain features like right-click block, or allowing users to customize the list, static blocks don't work.

These changes do nothing to inhibit the ability to log/store/etc requests anywhere you want as an extension author. They are only removing the ability to cancel in flight requests.

What's your source that the Safari ad blocking approach is viewed as a great design? Everything I look at shows it was a regression in effectiveness. Certainly the various adblock authors weren't thrilled. How well, for example, does it work with YouTube ads?
Packaging small proportions of subprime mortgages with lower risk mortgages means that the bank is spreading risk across their mortgage portfolio while still giving people the opportunity of breaking the cycle of poverty by investing in them. Packaging all high risk mortgages together with a higher interest rate increases the probability of default on that portfolio while helping to keep those in poverty there by increasing the burden of the loan on them.

So on one hand you've got a bank that enjoys massive profits spreading and thus decreasing their risk while assisting those in poverty to claw their way out by allowing them the benefit of lower interest rates.

On the other you've got a bank that enjoys massive profits increasing the risk of one of their portfolios while making it extremely difficult for those in poverty to keep up with interest payments.

I'm not discounting the fact that packaging large volumes of those mortgages as AAA and selling them on to other companies was fraudulent, it was, but the reality is, doing so was far less predatory than the alternative if you look at it from this perspective.
>Maybe it made sense when you had fragmented countries with their own separate distribution networks (and cinemas) but when it's one provider direct to the end-consumer it's really just a relic of legacy processes being incapable of adapting.

But you are wrong, the vast majority of Netflix content is licensed and not an original product.

These licenses are sold for regions and countries the same way cinema, DVD or terrestrial programing licenses are sold for specific movies and shows.

They are sold by major distributors like say MGM to clients like Netflix (not really, there's a literal global hierarchy of distribution houses). So say for my country of Croatia, a distributor will offer to sell licenses for their new movie to all the cinemas, and after that to say ALL the digital distribution channels: pay-per-view, Netflix, HBO GO and others.

Basically its not a "a relic of legacy processes being incapable of adapting",why would they adapt? Its literally the business model of the 5-6 major american distributors which makes them boatloads of money even as Netflix tries their hardest to disrupt them. It took decades to build and spread across the world and works perfectly for its purpose: sell loads of movie licenses to all kinds of distribution channels.
Most Devs don't want to deal with hardware restrictions. Its a lot easier to just get a good, general all rounder instead of coding on a dinosaur. Many lightweight distros barely have any meaningful functionality and usually require all interaction with the console to get even basic things usable. And quite frankly, even though you can do more with a console, its a lot easier to remember how to do things with a GUI then without one.

Older hardware generally means older, unsupported, unsecure drivers as well.

Also, I'm confused as to why you claim that you shouldn't outsource to someone else, yet you're fine with working in the cloud...
He says he wants a new narrative, but makes no suggestion of how we can curb inequality other than the standard Valley tech-bro "government is hella inefficient" statement.
Completely depends on how you change the code, from easy to very painful.
Likewise, I use a now 8 year old Dell XPS laptop. With any reasonably high quality hardware, maintenance is not hard to do. I upgraded the screen and RAM a few years ago, and that has precluded me from needing anything newer. I've changed the thermal paste and blew the dust out of it. The only things I have consistently had to replace are the charger and batteries. Both are <= $30 on Ebay.

I think replacing a laptop that's 4 years or less old is pretty wasteful, especially with how little the performance demands have changed in that time. We should treat computers more like we treat cars: knowing they can't last forever, but still a long term investment that requires some maintenance. Just like with a car, if you can't perform the maintenance yourself, take it to someone who can.
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> I wonder; has the demand for gold ever been lower than the cost to mine it?

It has definitely happened that mines were closed because of a decline in price:

https://www.cdfund.com/en/gold-mine-closures-due-to-current-...
You do realise that the two platforms are being merged, with .org projects being migrated to .com?
It's an asset secured loan. If you have a 600k house, and the bank is willing to give you a 550k loan on that house - because it's backed by the asset - let it.

Just don't let the bank then resell this loan as a prime AAA loan to others, so if it bombs someone else gets the shaft.

It's just like organic food. I don't think it should be illegal to sell "conventional" eggs. I only think it should be illegal to sell a tray of organic eggs - where 1-2 of the eggs are "conventional" and hope no one notices. (Especially in a case where the farmer has an inside relation with the FDA inspector that is checking for the organic nature of eggs)
The lender has incentive to ensure that the value of the debt is greater than the initial outlay. That could be via a steady stream of payments, or via a handful of repayments plus a repossession and resale of the property.

If the loan originator thinks the latter is likely, I don't think it's unreasonable to call the loan predatory.
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My opinion:

The article implies the hardware is fine, it's your workflow that's too heavy. I want a machine that fits my workflow, not the inverse.

Even though the article implies that there isn't much difference, the difference in productivity can be HUGE. Specially for workflows that depend on crappy^H^H^H^H^H^Hdemanding applications.

From the perspective of a company:

The cost of laptops relative to salaries is minimal - Salaries are usually close to six figures/y, a very good laptop is $2~3k, and can last multiple years. The productivity increase will most probably cover the investment (not only in terms of direct return, but business value: could be time to market, fulfilling a tight deadline, etc).

From the perspective of a freelancer:

You are selling your time. A laptop that costs $2~3k will free some time (time saved) and be used for years. Time saved = FREE MONEY.

The only reason I see to don't upgrade a laptop/desktop used to work is if it's performance it's already close enough of a new one.
BONUS REASON: newer versions have keyboards that self-destruct.
This protects the privacy of victims, offenders and innocent suspects. All of them should have a right to privacy, except convicted offenders in matters affecting the public.
If you choose to take it in your hands, to manage it yourself, you gain more, a good circumstance for self reflection you won't meet too often.

If you see it as a service, sure, if you are very successful and don't have time that someone literally has to manage your dating, then more to you I guess...

On the other hand, for people who are bad and incorrigible at self reflection, a serious matchmaker who knows you well can do a good job in finding you a suitable partner. But somehow I distrust this kind of online service, and that's me. "Local" matchmaking seems to be working in smaller communities.
He literally said that some people need faster computers and some don't

> Some of them don't – but some of them do

What is wrong with you?
> As soon as GOT is done, I'll likely cancel HBO

Is GoT currently running?

For years, I got HBO during the months GoT was on, and cancelled afterward. During season 7, they stopped offering in Netherland except on one cable provider (not mine), so I had to resort to alternative means. No idea why they decided they didn't want my money anymore.
This is very interesting. We are seeing a shift of browsers from being neutral tools to actively influencing the content that users see.

* Firefox about:newtab pocket links

* Brave browser replacing ads

* Edge shipping NewsGuard

With this content curation going on, will there be one day a Fox news browser and a CNN browser?
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