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I was specifically talking about the Lightning Network, a second layer that facilitates Bitcoin's smart contract capabilities to enable off-chain payments via so called payment channels. There's no mining involved during transactions in the channel - only for opening and closing a channel, making the transactions almost instant. Thanks to proper routing you can reach most of the peers even with a single channel. It even adds some privacy because it uses onion routing, and the payments are not less secure because each off-chain transaction can be used as valid on-chain transaction should either party wish to do so, closing the channel.

There's much more to it, many smart people have put a lot of thought into LN, so I recommend reading the whitepaper and other documentation about it.
Yeah i've managed to stop all emails with my active LI account, they do occasionally add stuff that triggers them again so I just go into the settings and they're gone.

LI are awful for many reasons, but they do honour these things.
I find it interesting that Google tries to stress website performance and even goes to such extremes as creating a new, stripped down HTML spec (AMP) while simultaneously shipping bloat-ware enabling products like Google Tag Manager.
I use typora. Im not exactly sure whether it works on linux.
also you could use a vscode extension for live previewing (vscode works on linux right?)
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Censorship resistant electronic, financial transactions.

The evidence shows that it is much easier to censor a credit card payment, or bank transaction, than it is to censor a crypto transaction.
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Note also that kerosine and plane tickets are exempt from sales/value added tax, but train tickets aren't
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Oh, did they stop asking for nudes yet?

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-44223809
I have a question since many years that I am afraid to ask so straight. There is the AF447 and those 2 Boeing MAX that I remember where people will always talk about redundancy of the sensors, or their maintenance.

But really, I want to know why the software and hardware of the aircraft fails to understand that whatever actions it has performed automatically or inputs/actions by the pilots, or any other important event, are making the damn aircraft loose altitude really really fast. In the case of these Boeings, how can your software keep pointing the nose of the aircraft down WHILE it is CONSISTENTLY loosing altitude? How is this not a huge design flaw? I understand that for stall recovery you actually have to loose some altitude to regain speed/lift and recover from the stall. But if you STILL KEEP loosing altitude and there is no turning point, then damnit, whatever caused the loosing altitude should be stopped at least at 500m AGL, no? Switch on a huge yellow light to the pilots „you are 100% on your own now, the computer is out of luck and is shutting down“ and the pilot jumps on the gas pedal, 200% power to the engines, and starts to figure out how to gain altitude. Both Boeing flights were in daylight, no? Pilots should be able to see the ground/water and be able to pull the thing back up just by visibility without any sensors? It‘s a bit of a different case with the AF447, though.

How did the AoA sensors and MCAS won the authority here over the only important data: altitude change. Who cares if the AoA shows 30 degrees or -271 degrees, as long as the plane is climbing we are good! No need to point the nose down or do any other stall protection stuff? And that seems to be really what happened with these 2 Boeings. They were climbing but some stupid AoA sensor failed and some even more stupid MCAS decided to dive. And they kept diving until they reached the ocean and MCAS was still confident it was a good idea to dive?

In some planes my iPhone is able to get the GPS reading and some free app I got 5 years ago will actually show me ground speed and altitude. Which I always find very exciting. It usually matches with what the entertainment system is showing on the pax screens. Give or take <1%. So reliable altitude reading is solved, no? You have 300 phones on your plane (though only the window seats have a chance for it to work, but still...). Not sure if the GPS is gonna work if the plane is rolling and spinning like crazy, which I dont think happened in any of these cases.

I hope I don‘t make it sound stupid or even i-know-it-better, but I really just want to understand.
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Tell HN: Situation at Unbabel (YC W14)
I've been working at Unbabel for a long time as an engineer. I've seen it grow from a few dozens of employees to almost 200. I've never seen such a mess of a company and I'm afraid to work at a startup again.
In 2018, we saw the first signs: engineering was being forced into working overtime, developing products without specs and doing a lot of requirement guessing. This came about because the sales team was running the company at a very high level due to the incompetence of the rest of the C-level, two inexperienced programmers with heavy egos, incapable of stepping down and hiring more suitable people for their respective jobs. Our platform had big scalability bottlenecks (Python/Relational Mongo/Roll-your-own NLP) that were being hit by clients on a daily basis and plans for refactoring the architecture were repeatedly rejected. Then, in December, a lot of VP-level people left. HR, Ops, Finance, Engineering, all gone. All because good professionals were hired to bring process and structure to the company, while having any proposals put forth rejected and scrapped.
Then, in the midst of the mess caused by the lack of clear reporting or company vision, C-level decided to move everyone into product verticals, when there were not enough employees to fill all the newly created positions. Morale dropped because everyone felt they were being forced into changing teams and seats, but kept working on the same projects they were before, as there were no goals set for the new verticals. People were on their own, setting their own goals.
When the morale dropped and the watercooler conversations started, some people left, others were convinced to leave, others were convincing others to leave. Meanwhile, the yes-men in the ranks were being promoted. They were friends with the right people and the company needed more managers for the newly-formed teams.
In conclusion, Unbabel was a great idea very poorly implemented. I hope it's not too late to save the company now.
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Not sure when you were using Elixir, but releases are a good option for deployment now. This is supported with the distillery library (https://hexdocs.pm/distillery/home.html).

The master version of Elixir also has support for releases https://hexdocs.pm/mix/master/Mix.Tasks.Release.html
> we would see similar sized investments in open and decentralized platforms focused on free speech

This is already a mostly solved problem. There are lots and lots of places on the internet, when I can engage in speech and it won't be censored.

Yes, the big platforms might censor you, but there are still lots and lots of small platforms that won't or can't.
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Same, and few days ago my native country blocked the website and mirrors. Hopefully I'm living somewhere else now, but still, it makes me angry.
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>>> There’s a lot of power being generated by, and flowing within and between, various organisations throughout the world.

Could you clarify? Do you mean flowing as in transactions between major banks or major manufacturers? Or something less obvious?
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Aw, well i'm glad you wanted to try it :)

Too answer your question though. I've been working on Gimli for the last 18 months now. Using up my own savings, and the reality is that I can't afford to keep working on it for much longer.

I would have loved to be able to present a finished and polished product but i'm just not there yet.
> just use gold parity - but somehow no country uses it now.

Thats fine. If you don't like deflationary currencies, then feel free to not use them.

Other people disagree, though, and are preferring deflationary currencies.

Everyone can get what they want.
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I'd like to see someone ask: If you were to redesign Linux from scratch right now what would you do differently?
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>What used to be a UNIX clone decades ago is now a testbed of all new technologies you can imagine in an operating system.

But most of them are still copies of FreeBSD, Solaris, and Plan9 stuff. Something particularly innovative in Linux?
I agree with you. Nuance is something you don't see acknowledged and used sufficiently. Everything is made to be black or white when it's mostly grey all of the time. At the same time, constantly staying in nuances prevents you from moving forward, so there's that.
>They never asked for anything, but were always ready to jump in instantly when we needed anything from sales intros to offices in Palo Alto. When we got an offer from Facebook we founders wanted to accept it. They initially disagreed with us, but once we confirmed our decision they supported us 100% in the negotiation process. That's what I call class.

As an outsider, I'm curious as to how bad the VC situation is in SV that doing your job is called out as exceptional. How common are the "Russ Hanneman's"?
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Censorship resistant financial transactions.

It is much more difficult to censor crypto payments than it is to censor credit card, paypal, or bank transactions.

Crypto payments being censored just isn't something that is happening, even though crypto has been around for 10 years. The evidence proves that it is more difficult to censor.
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>Bitcoin is a perfectly functional means of financial exchange

Okay. So where is the Venture Capital going, and where will the returns stem from?
Yeah. Sometimes when you get a bus to X it'll stop saying 'this bus terminates here' after about one stop, well short of X. When I asked the driver WTF he said it's the computer system and if they have too many empty busses going down one route they'll reallocate. There's nearly always another bus a couple of minutes behind to take you to X.

I was thinking someone could build quite a lot of the functionality into a free phone app if the drivers were willing to use it.
You kind of forget the fact that the language has first class functions. That alone qualifies it as a functional programming language in every sense of the MF word. It also has interface and (like you mention CSP). Its more than a strictly procedural language. I'm afraid I am going to have to standby what I said.
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USD-BTC and BTC-USD (or any currency) have a cost and a delay as well
Intel does provide 28/40 lanes on HEDT, at least starting with x99. I'm not sure about previous generations. The 16/20 lanes is for general consumer CPUs.
I don’t think stackoverflow is a problem at all, I think it’s much better to have people ask stupid questions than to call them stupid.

That being said, I do think people owe it to themselves to read the documentation first. I’m extremely rarely in a situation where the official documentation isn’t monumentally better than every other option. There are a few exceptions of course, when the official documentation flat out sucks.

I do think we have a general issue with how we teach CS though. Especially outside the hardcore CS degree, because we’re really not teaching young people computation anymore, we’re teaching them how to produce results. This is especially true for places like Udemy and YouTube, but it’s frankly also true on more UX centric or academy/bachelor level degrees.

I do external examinations on academy levels, and earlier this year I went to a place where they teach associate degrees in CS. Only they opted to build their places as a “gaming education”, so they had a heavy emphasis on Unity. And sure enough, the students were pretty good at unity, but only a handful of them knew how to calculate Big O of a few simple examples and only a single student knew how a computer actually works.

When I did my own freshman year, one of my first tests was to decode a hidden message by altering the contents of a bitmap file using C. That’s pretty useless, sure, but it teaches you a lot of things, including how to read the official documentation for a bitmap, which is a much more useful skill than knowing how to use a certain version of some framework. At least in my opinion.
$10k wouldn't even come close to enough money for creating a prototype, let alone production.

SOC suppliers would be looking for a large MOQ, more than $10k would cover
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No, it's objectively garbage to take yourself out of the equation and accept fascism like it's not going to hurt anyone. I'm not going in retrospective here and say my judgement would have been perfect 80 years ago. I say we need to learn from past developments and mistakes made in the course of history. Stop abstracting away the problem at hand which is White Nationalism and other fascist thought becoming more and more acceptable.

> By paying attention to what the real source of that distress is (e.g., post-WW1 misery)

You think you have it all figured out and you 'get it' now. That's naive in my opinion. And I'm not talking about good and bad, some kind of universalist dualism that informs my every action; I'm talking about being concerned about my friends that may or may not fit certain views on human existence that fascist thought provides. At least try to get where I'm coming from instead of throwing out useless internet jargon ('strawman') without even understanding why I'm reacting so harshly.
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> it would allegedly require me to be active to not accept a code of conduct. I would disagree with that.

Once you reach a certain amount of attention, the question will be raised, and at that point not adopting an explicit CoC will be met with questions and seen as an active political stance. I don't know if I think that's fair - but it's the way it is.

> I wonder why people that tend to argue that everything is political are so keen on my and others conformity?

I'm not sure who you mean or which conformity you refer to here.
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And USV, among the top ones.
Would he use C++ or Rust?
Sure, but we have the research and the only research that shows significant effect size for exercise would, if were done on homeopathy, show similar effect sizes.

Since we know homeopathy is bullshit we can conclude that these low quality trials should be removed from our meta analysis.

And when you do that the effect for exercise as a treatment for depression almost disappears.
Maybe it depends on what type of real estate.
I'm not positive, but Groovy may in turn have been inspired by Perl's $_, as in 'map { $_ + 1 } (1..10);'.

If I recall correctly, the canonical name for that parameter is 'it' as well (though I've never met a Perl programmer that calls it that . . . er, calls it 'it' . . . er, you get the idea).
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You don't have to visit Stackoverflow, if you are in a regular work environment it is likely you encounter this mentality every day. Heck I have coworkers who won't even ask the question!

Yet this may be a broader issue, an education issue. As in, if we don't teach children to do and instead tell them they deserve or are entitled are we forever hampering their progress?
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> Your shell, sshd, and networking stack have probably all been exploited many times.

Yes, I've exploited them myself with script-kiddy tools. Its not hard. Remember those your average libos application may not have any of those things (if not only an simple IP stack).
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Sure, but the internet can't solve all your problems. Especially not for internet points
>You don't have any freedom if you have to beg VISA or PayPal for permission to spend your money. That alone should be enough to justify the existence of block chain technology and we should all be cheering on its eventual success.

Where is it you live that Internet service is provided by a free market, that can't be disabled?
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Nitpick: Leela Zero is the go program, Leela Chess Zero is the chess program.

Curiously, there's been some discussion lately in LZ's discord chat about whether its search, or more precisely its evaluation, should be made a bit more minimaxish (i.e., alpha-beta-like). Perhaps the optimum is somewhere in between the two.
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Coulthard kinda trashed Mansell's effort compared to Senna in this clip:

https://youtu.be/9U_K76vPGYo?t=329
I'd also love to see some detailed information on this. I recently flew within Germany, probably saving a few hours over the train, but much more importantly it cost half the price. Seems that for the vast majority of people who are price conscious, this is simply too significant to outweigh the environmental consequences.
IIRC, I think he's said previously that he doesn't want C++ in the kernal and doesn't think Rust is suitable.
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For that solution to work, you need to be extra cautious about ownership.

If you are the sole contributor, no issue there.

But if you start receiving contributions from outside (Pull Requests on Github for example), then part of the code is owned by the external contributor.

It means that if you want to change the license, either you made the external contributors sign some (digital) papers stating they give away ownership of their contributions, or you chase down each individual contributors and manage to make them agree to the license change, or you remove any code from external contributors.

The first is doable but is a bit of of barrier to external contributions, the middle one can work on a small project with few external contributors, but is a bit risky (the external contributor can say no, or more likely be difficult to contact), the later is somewhat impractical.

Changing the license of a project is not impossible, but it can be somewhat of a nightmare, specially if there is a lot of external contributors.
Not in the slightest. I am, however, demonstrating that I was raised by lawyers and writers.

As a point of clarification, I'm all for emoji men and gifs in personal communication. I'm probably the biggest giphy user in any given slack group, but only once I feel comfortable with the other channel participants. One of the first things I do is install the cult of the party parrot emoji pack.

But for any communication with outside parties, or where money is on the table, there is no place for emoji, as they're too imprecise.
Hoping for Live Share support in Jetbrains IDEs.

There's Floobits, but it's proprietary and uploads your code to their servers.
Last I checked distillery was Linux only (e.g. does not work on BSD), which is a deal breaker for me. But I wouldn't consider using distillery (and thus Elixir/Phoenix) on any platform given the haphazard nature of the support for distillery. There's exactly one person who knows anything about it and he supports it when he doesn't have anything better to do. Sure, in a smaller shop you could dig into distillery and try to fix things up. But when shit hits the fan, do you want to discover the hidden dependencies (e.g. bash vs POSIX sh)? I wouldn't want to bet on a single point of failure like that.

And the big problem for Elixir is that you don't see that level of mess or siloed knowledge with other languages. Say what you will about something like Capistrano, but it's an order of magnitude easier to dig into and support because it's not mashing together a variety of languages (erlang, bash, elixir). Some languages like anything JVM based (that compile down to JARs), Rust, and Go compile down into single artifacts quite easily. Others like Ruby and Python can be moved around with standard system tools easily enough.
Yes, Definitely. Having multiple active maintainers really help to push the project forward.
You forget about the UK. There are ferries from the Netherlands, Belgium and france to different ports around the country
Does this mean they are going to try to syndicate IPOs as well?

Get your portfolio companies coming and going.
I'm not sure, but in re-reading what I posted it occurs to me that it's possible to read it as suggesting nowhere else starved (or not as badly as Britain) whereas what I was intending was that Britain's big threat turned out not to be aerial bombardment, rocket attack, or straight-up beach invasion but simply starvation. Invading Britain proved completely impractical, bombing it into submission was too costly to be continued, but starving it was close to working.

Culture varies, and it seems unlikely that the British "stiff upper lip" would have carried on through starvation rations as the Japanese did. Certainly the government of the day is recorded as having expected to be overthrown once the reality of starvation was felt by the common people, unless the next shipments of food arrived (which they did).
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I too am a founding backer, also totally lost interest.
There are express services but only on the metropolitan line (which uses above ground tracks shared with non-TFL trains).
If you have the time to consider what you're going to say, like in written communication, then yes, you should be able to do it with just words. Take your time, figure out what you want to say.
Clickable scroll wheel works fine, it is mapped to the same button.

I can't, however, imagine left+middle chord on modern laptops, there are not that many laptops (mostly ThinkPads as far as I can tell) that have three physical mouse buttons.
I've used this plugin for all of five minutes now, but I'm loving it so far.
The search and compose buttons are a little bit out of the way compared to default. But that turns out to be a positive for me, as it got me to finally look up the keyboard shortcuts!
I think that a Web framework such as Flask (without the ecosystem of its plugins) or even Falcon can be replaced by a Rust app, as of today. But, I totally agree with the rest of the website. Before replacing a Django or a Rails project, there is some work!