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Wow, thanks for this comment. This is a really insgihtful, intellectually involved, rational explanation of this topic (which more people approach extremely emotionally - almost like politics). I'll have to check the linked article (and any other resources) to make sure what you're saying is actually true (supported by data), but it sounds reasonable and logical, so I'm biased towards believing it. Favorited!
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I wonder how this theory squares with the relatively high percentage of women that are accountants, tax advisors, investment professionals, actuaries, etc.
Is this suggesting that girls do not choose STEM faculties because they can read better so they like more humanistic faculties, where there are more texts (as in literature books) to read? Or my text comprehension is that bad?
The main use of hardware TM at the moment I believe is lock elision--your threading library can try to use a transaction, and only resort to a lock if the transaction aborts.

Hardware TM I think jumped the gun for implementation. On its own, it has a simple memory model, but when you try to interact it with the usual memory model, the interactions are difficult and complicated (the paper here shows that ARM's proposal for HTM makes lock elision impossible). There is also the annoyance that you have a maximum size of transaction region, but predicting your transaction region size and making your code handle different hardware region sizes are both tricky.
As far as usable desktop XMPP+OMEMO clients go, Dino is much friendlier to non-technical users, but paradoxically, it's only available on Unix-like OSes. It runs on WSL and is probably buildable for X on MacOS, but by that point, you've lost non-technical users in both cases.
Probably because tourists are generally awful to be around.
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To be clear I'm talking about hardware quality, not compatibility with Linux. Though I still disqualify any laptop that can only run windows.
I think we're more likely to "accidentally" end up there via E2EE document collaboration tools that are in development now.

One day, a while after they become usable and common, people will just realize they've been sharing documents E2EE in place of sending email, and they'll be using it for basically everything that matters.

It would be a proper restart and allow for significant improvements in usability and security and everything else.
https://dev.realworldocaml.org/ is a good place to start.
They also deserve praise for achieving this without using scroll hijacking (at least not the egregious kind).
There's no reason that reading books, taking naps and nature walks couldn't be meditating as well. Meditation is about consciously moving your awareness into your higher self. And while some styles of meditation are good at teaching you what this looks and feels like, they are not the only way to achieve the "meditation" state of mind.

The highest level meditation is one that creates no separation between the physical reality and the higher self. A completely open stream of consciousness that allows the physical self to be happy with whatever physical reality is, at any given moment in time. That generally doesnt look like a retreat, instead it's a relaxed advance, an acceptance of what is, an engagement with the world around you, be that a good book or a nice walk through the earths natural creation, or a nice refreshing nap with a trip to the dreamlands.
Did you develop in-house tooling to expedite the process or do you mostly begin from a blank slate each time?
> they banned body-hugging or suggestive clothing.

Suggestive by whose standards? I wonder if the CES dress code will end up being more conservative than that of a university campus or even your average tech company.

EDIT: the TechCrunch article quotes CES policy:

> Booth personnel may not wear clothing that is sexually revealing or that could be interpreted as undergarments. Clothing that reveals an excess of bare skin, or body-conforming clothing that hugs genitalia must not be worn.

This is less draconian than "body-hugging or suggestive clothing" led me to believe.
That’s how I understood it but I feel the same way as you do about my text comprehensions skills.
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The problem is nobody uses this right
What's the "academic paper" Krebs was reading at the start of the article, and apparently forgot to provide a link to?
I think it might have been a pun relating to the phrase "Going Dutch"
That's certainly the image that the "motel" term conjures up. TBH, I'm not sure how broadly the term is used any longer. There are certainly more modern hotels/motels, many of them big chains, that are designed around people driving to them so you can usually park near your room.

The quality varies from pretty tired and not so clean, as you say, to--if not upscale exactly--to comfortable, modern, and clean.
Are you really active on all those websites? Otherwise someone is going to take some of your dormant accounts next year.
> ou will burnout. It will affect your brain and health in ways whose consequences we do not yet fully understand because the effect is cumulative over time. Even if you don't dramatically break down one day, you will be worn down in ways which you may find hard to reconcile with your past self.

This can be said about a lot of other jobs as well. Work in its current 40 hours per week form is generally not good for us in my opinion.
It really meant something more like "the part of the cathedral complex containing the cathedral's nave, the cathedral's attic, and the sacristy building".

The real problem was that both the main cathedral and the sacristy (a separate building adjacent to the cathedral) had attics; either the security employee got confused and told the cathedral guard to check the sacristy's attic, or the guard got confused and decided to do that.
This is the real sort of early application, and it’s also the least frightening.

I hope we see massive improvements in computer security in the next few decades because otherwise “jacking in” to any kind of computer with Internet access is a terrifying thought.
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The convertible roof STORES IN THE TRUNK? That is just an absurdly non-luxurious design decision.
But, if your database silently changes your data then the database should be considered broken.
Honestly, oil and hilarity aren't too bad, all told. I've heard stories of prisoners and mental patients using blood, or poo.
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Agreed. As someone who follows Terence's blog, I was surprised and disappointed to read about this nonsense. It certainly screams entitlement.
> That's what didn't happen with PGP.

Yes. And your software suggestions are excellent for 2019. I just wonder whether in 10 years it would be better to have a standard improved/developed, instead of a collection of one-vendor tools where the code is specification. That said I don't have high hopes for PGP given its maintenance problem.

Thanks for writing on the subject, even if the subject should already be clear to majority of technical people!
I agree with you. But I didn't make the Telegram policy - they did.

If you want to keep your username, the lesson here is to read the T&Cs and comply with them.

And, as I say several times in the blog post, I don't have the right to those combination of letters.
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Your story reminded me of my experience with my stepdad.

I grew up hearing his descriptions on every conceivable historical event, and I was amazed of how much he seemed to know about everything. At the time I felt that he was truly knowledgeable, and I couldn't even conceive of knowing even a fraction of what he knew.

Then, when I grew older, I finally asked how he managed to know so much. His response? Laughingly, he told me that he made a lot of educated guesses on how things seemed to him!

That was a decisive formative experience for me: so that's how he pulled it off? Now I'm much more relaxed with the degree of detail I can know about things, and I also take what anyone is saying at any one moment with a saltier dose of skepticism. We're all humans after all, and telling tales is deeply rooted in our natures.
>Exactly, every business hotel I've ever seen has had a fridge, kitchen-style sink and a microwave.

Not really my experience although a small refrigerator that isn't a minibar is more common than it used to be. Outside of extended stay hotels though, I don't see a microwave or other kitchen-related features very often.
I like that approach. To me the essential question of product-market fit is whether you are delivering sufficient value to your users. But I think "sufficient" has at least three characteristics that one can measure.

One is whether the user likes it enough to keep using it. I think that's well captured by the "how disappointed" approach (and actual usage stats). Another is whether they'll be evangelical about it, and I think that's measurable with Net Promoter Score (and actual viral behavior). And a third is whether you can build a sustainable business, which early on can be pretty simple, but eventually requires a fairly complex numerical analysis.

I think a numerical approach like this one is especially valuable if the business isn't self-funding. Because a) you need to be able to prove the value of the equity you're selling, and b) if you don't price your equity properly, it's just a gift to the VCs who do that work.
Terence, I love how you are throwing it back on others to protect their social media account names from being snatched by people like you.

[Edit] Corrected typo in Terence's name.
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So 70% of the vulnerabilities are still caused by lack of memory-safety, and that doesn't even account for all the defects that don't end up in a vulnerability. Imagine how much more safety and correctness there would be, if not only those 70% didn't exist, but no time had to be spent to fix them and rather concentrate onto avoiding the other 30%.
From my experience in Europe: hostels imply a bunk bed in shared room here too. I just made a quick search on booking.com for a hostel in Warsaw and nearly all of the offers were shared dormitories.
I used shotcut last year, even if it was a little crash-prone on windows 10.
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How's the investigation going? Who set the church on fire?
According to TFA, no, but they are nearly certain it was accidental. Top candidates include faulty electrical wiring and cigarette butts.
Kind of like a fever, heating your body up to fight off infections.

Or, in a chemical sense, chemo vs. cancer.
Because the Web won't work without running untrusted code.
Profits scaling were already discussed in a comment above, ofc, this assumes linear growth where substack is charging (as it is now) only on subscription without going in for revenue from promotional activities (internal promotion of content), advertisements (external sponsors), reader/creator data (google model) or digital/print publishing (leverage of user base substack reach out) in form of a (e)book. Yes, this can make profit multiplier really big (12M/yr subscription + 50x from else)

But what about integrity of service over time then?

All of this means losing initial flavor of 'doing-things-differently', a lot of other companies can provide boilerplate '-stack' for publishing newsletter (ie, recent yc news -https://github.com/knadh/listmonk - self hosted). So, in the end, the only edge of content hosting platform is how well it delivers it's content (UX, rec systems, internal ads), the bigger substack gets, the less of an edge for its creator base it will have - same as medium.com.

I risk a statement that substack is happening only because medium.com is ending.

Yes, as an author I would be interested in hassle free publishing, but after that, i am interested only in how service is helping me grow an audience, nothing else.
If you squint enough, that’s how CAs work too.
Wait you even have to physically remove it ???
What social contract? People keep saying this but can you please enlighten me as to what this is. Where it is written?
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If that top speed ("Over 250 mph") is accurate wouldn't it put it in contention for "Production car speed record" per:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_car_speed_record

Additionally I hope nobody ever tries to "red line" it on a public road for their own and everyone else's safety. 4.2 sec 0-100 and a 250+ mph max is a very temping but potentially deadly combination.

Does anyone who owns a Tesla know if you can configure it to reduce the acceleration or artificially limit the top speed (e.g. "teenager mode" in other cars)?
> so they like more humanistic faculties

Either that ("like more", ie preference), or they ask themselves what they're good at ("intraindividual comparisons of achievement"), and conclude that a career with words rather than numbers is better suited for them.
For real though, as someone who's finally starting a full-time job tomorrow for the first time in four years, the NYT is one of a handful of papers that I'll be subscribing to even though I know all the tricks to getting past the paywalls. I don't believe that I'd benefit from the disappearance of professional journalism, and I'd rather support them directly than indirectly via advertising middlemen.
The Road was implied to be a comet or maybe nukes.

This will look more like Paolo Bacigalupi's "The Windup Girl".
Alice and the EPC should be enough to make software patents invalid in the US and in the EU.
This would be a massive boost to the rust community as a whole as many would have a look at it!
Not op but I think he means that he would get flooded with login attempt/password reset attempt emails from other sites when a username is leaked. Even though his password is likely safe, he would still have to log into each one of these services and update the password to be sure.
“The first supercar to set every performance record and still fit seating for four.”

Where are the remaining two seats?
What's the mile range at 250mph?

Also, that picture look cartoon-ish... I wonder if it was modified in any way?
Can you point me to examples of such tools?
BMW, Mercedes, and Lexus, and probably other luxury brands made the same choice. I agree it has drawbacks, but it seems already established as a luxury norm.
>> Or my text comprehension is that bad?

That depends. Are you a woman or a man? /s
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>Paris has endured so much in recent years, from terrorist attacks to the recent violent demonstrations by Yellow Vest protesters.

Seriously? Putting the terrorist attacks in the same context as the Yellow Vest protests? One is an attack on civilians by extremist foreign groups, the other is those citizens protesting against a government decision that hurts them, which is a constitutional right in both France and the US... And this right to protest is what arguably made France a republic in the first place and led many other countries to follow on its steps.
And labeling the protest as violent is dishonest at best, the police were violent and started throwing tear gas grenades at people, which made many protesters lose a hand or an eye (only the ones I saw, I'm sure there are many others who weren't recorded and put on Youtube).
It may be that the advantage in reading simply correlates with stronger interest in people/'social' stuff and weaker interest in STEM - this would then be the actual causative factor. One could guess that being interested in people/stories/'social' things would incent girls to read more and get better and better at reading.
> There is perhaps, a cyberpunk future where crime syndicates mine Bitcoin in the brains of their victims, where malware pipes gigabytes of extremist political memes in seconds through the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of young adults.

Not bad, man. I'd read that book.
Putin did shit-talk renewable energy recently. I'm sure he's happy with all the gas that's being burned. The time when Russia runs out of gas won't be his problem.
Different compilers produce different binaries, different compiler settings result in different binaries.

The reality is that the source code is just an input, and even if it's correct or sensible, the control flow in the produced binary is the only truth on a system.

An example is when e.g. zeroing out a buffer containing secrets after usage, this overwrite is stripped by the compiler.
It would be feasible if WinDev had not sabotaged the work, as it became later visible with moving Longhorn design into COM for Vista, followed up by WinRT, with a .NET toolchain designed by WinDev, partially incompatible with standard .NET features. Sinosfky wasn't that keen in having .NET take the lead.

Now after Midori, and the way things turned out for UWP, we are coming back full circle with .NET 5, XAML Islands and WinUI.
Well, according to Wikipedia it's the same in polish: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostel ;)
"Anti-natalists"? That's a real weird flex. Surely it isn't that areas that aim to bring in the young and the creative are taking into account that kids cost money nobody's got.
When I started out doing this, I thought it would be a lot harder to grab the names. And I thought it would take several months. Frankly, a month isn't long enough and 48 hours is downright shocking.
Neuralink has ambitions to address those issues, but I think it will take decades. And I don’t intend to be an early adopter.
Any tips to switching, as in which app etc?
As I've mentioned in another thread, I think we're more likely to get there via the route of E2EE documents collaboration tools. Something that cleanly breaks away from the email model, and adds enough value to make the switch worth the effort.
They are claiming up to 70% of the vulnerabilities can be avoided in a language like rust, I think a good chunk of the other 30% can be avoided using a language with a type system like rust's. I'm continually amazed at how much an expressive type system can help minimize bugs
Sorry, I meant type inference. In python you could import all the data and deal with types later. Things that aren’t the expected type can be dealt with individually. It’s not pretty but it’s fast and it works.

Have you experienced any problems with static typing in these situations? I appreciate the value of static typing but I’m not sure if it offers substantial benefit when working interactively with data.

“The flexibility of dataframe largely comes from the dynamic typing inherently offered in a language. Due to OCaml’s static type checking, this poses greatest challenges to Owl when I was trying to introduce the similar functionality.”

“To be efficient, Dataframe only takes maximum the first 100 lines in the CSV file for inference.
If there are missing values in a column of integer type, it falls back to float value because we can use nan to represent missing values.
If the types have been decided based on the first 100 lines, any following lines containing the data of inconsistent type will be dropped.”

http://ocaml.xyz/chapter/dataframe.html
Girls are victims. They need help to be free of the oppressor. If they don't respond to the market price signals, is not that they don't care, but an invisible oppressor hand is holding them back.
I see management teams do this all the time with buyers/investors to their immense detriment. They are playing jeopardy- trying to answer the question as quickly as possible before hearing the whole thing (and often an essential element)
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Interesting. Could be that booking.com uses the US meaning of the term?

I must have stayed in something like 30 different hostels in Poland over the course of last decade; it was always in single bed or two-bed rooms, with the whole room rented for me. I never used booking.com, though, but always did a Google search for "hostele w $city", and reserved room via phone or web form.
Yes, you can via the app
620 mile range seems like a lot of battery weight for a performance car. Is that weight of batteries necessary to supply enough current and to reduce heat load on individual cells? Or would there be a smaller battery pack that would be even more performant due to reduced weight?
The french have an overly large fondness of protesting. If they would save it for things that actually matter, the rest of the world wouldn't find it so laughable. The Yellow Vesters are even protesting AGAINST climate action (higher fuel taxes). I wouldn't call it terrorism, but it's certainly not helping anyone.
If ability to breed meant same species, you'd end up with awkward results upon taking the transitive closure. I can't breed with a rabbit, but there exists a historical path of millions of organisms, starting with me and ending with a rabbit, such that any two steps along the path can breed with each other. So therefore am I the same species as the rabbit?
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Well, Apple say that they don't actually have the data in the first place.

For example, with maps, they chop your travel into pieces with no common identifiers.

So that way, they get traffic information and can understand which routes are busy or frequently used.

But, because there's no identifiers involved and it's broken into pieces before it reaches them, even if they wanted to, they can't tie that data back to you or recreate your actual journey on a particular day.

Which in turn means they can't build a picture of where you, as an individual, go.

That's a rough paraphrase of what Apple have said, anyway.

As far as revenue streams go, they make their money from hardware and increasingly subscription services. Differentiation is important - and because of their business model, they can talk about privacy in a way that their competition cannot.
Sports cars tend to be neither luxurious, comfortable nor practical.

One of the many reasons that I never understood why one would buy something like a new Lamborghini Huracan, when you for a similar price could be looking at a Rolls Royce Phantom.
620 Miles range?! that's huge! for an all electric car, and beats even a lot of gas-powered cars
It's probably not the first 6 figure supercar with dangerous specs.
The specific design is quite different but that's the approach Honda took with their sorta-convertible Del Sol in the 90s. It's not a big deal but it does make you make a conscious physical action and it's a bit of a scramble if it starts to rain.

ADDED: As others have noted, trunk storage is fairly common although it's usually not manual.
What a great film! Ilford are a fantastic company, they have managed to successfully ride out the rollercoaster the traditional film market has been through over the last couple of decades.

Some years ago I was taken on a tour of their facility, I was struck by how passionate about the product everyone I met there was. That passion seems to ride through to their loyal user base, I hope Ilford remain strong.
I always see creators popping up when something they made is mentioned. I find it too coincidental that you just happened to be on HN and happened to find the comment mentioning it. Do you use a service that scrapes sites and pings you of keyword mentions?