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>Mathematics was never focused on proof until the formalization of math became popular approximately 100 years ago.

We are transitioning surprisingly fast from kinda explaining stuff to automatically and systematically advancing exclusively through rigurously formalized proofs.
> Then we as the tech community need to figure out tooling so that grandma and grandpa can use p2p / mesh networks.

It seems that the grandma/grandpa use case always comes up in technical discussions. I've never really seen the need to cater to those who aren't willing to learn how to use the tools they have.

Could a person born after 2000 figure out how to use a VCR? Set the timer so that it records the correct program? What about a rotary dial phone? Do they know how to make a collect call? What about directory assistance? Could they figure out how to use an 8 track player?

They probably wouldn't, but the motivated ones would avail themselves of the resources at hand and figure it out.

The same thing applies to current technology.
Creating more of a currency is typically known as inflation. Deflation is the opposite.
An article from The New Yorker on the same thing:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-day-the-di...

The big concern at the time was that nothing about this find had been published in academic publications, just The New Yorker, Fox News, and other news outlets. I haven' heard anything since April.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/9/20857451/tr...
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A friend of mine from grad school was very involved in legal issues related to cfaa stuff. According to him, weev really got screwed because he failed "the punk test", which discouraged lawyers from wanting to use him as a test case.
+2 != 4

Neither does -2.
Not to take sides here, but every earnestly held political belief is seen by its passionate supporters as a known, proven fact.
In addition to just using a thermometer, many recipes tell you to heat the oil until it starts smoking. So now you know roughly what temperature that is based on the oil used.

If you need to find a substitute for a cooking oil, smoke point is probably the most important factor with which you compare oils, followed by neutrality of flavor.
Not just millennials. I'm late 40s and factoring medical expenses into retirement (over a decade off still) planning is the thing I'm most uncertain about.
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Thank you for the kind lesson. I genuinely didn't know.
fwiw I pumped 'GPT-2 is not as dangerous as' into writeup.ai and got:

> GPT-2 is not as dangerous as the older version. The second issue is that the newer version of the MSA- 1 does not support the new EFI bootloader. This means that the old MSA- 1 cannot be used to boot the newer MSA-2. The MSA-2 is a newer version of the MSA-1.

Talktotransformer.com thinks:

> GPT-2 is not as dangerous as erythromycin and sulfamethoxazole and should be used with caution during pregnancy.

While this tool is not yet smart enough to comment on this debate, a future version of it might be.

Other good prompts are 'A good pasta sauce begins with'
um, seems in this case the court specified that it is NOT on them - if the info is public, the website/house-people are required to return it and create no obstacles to doing so.
My guess is that the current sweet spot is lower income ACA Silver plans.

OTOH, I'd say that the people who got really nailed with the ACA were the middle-class individual policy holders.
> it's just that with 51% of hashpower it becomes relatively cheap to perform such attack

The qualitative difference is that with 51% of hashpower you can sustain the attack indefinitely. Other miners might get the occasional block and temporarily take the lead but in the long run you'll always have the longest chain using only blocks you've mined yourself.

With less than 50% there's a chance that you can revert a transaction temporarily by mining two consecutive blocks (one to omit the transaction and another to make your chain longer than the original) in less time than it takes the main network to reach the same block height, but the odds of maintaining the attack drop by at least half with each additional block. The main network will always win eventually.

In any case no one controls anywhere close to 51% of the hashpower right now. There are pools which approach that size but they aren't monolithic entities; if the pool operators attempted to leverage their position as coordinators to carry out a sustained attack then miners would leave the pool.
Thanks!

>The structural weakness of democracy.

>While recognizing that the rise and fall of RWP movements reflect fluctuating social and economic circumstances, I want to suggest that recent developments are manifestations of something more fundamental. They reflect a basic structural weakness in American democracy, one that renders it ever more vulnerable to the threat of right wing populist alternatives. This weakness is that democratic governance in America (and elsewhere) has not been successful in creating the citizenry it requires. Thus it is left with citizens who lack the requisite cognitive and emotional capacities to assimilate its cultural definitions and norms, to function in its institutional organizations and to participate in its public sphere. The claim I make here about the nature of the citizens in modern democracies, particularly the American one, is not new. However a consideration of its structural underpinnings and implications is.

Earlier in the paper he described the characteristics of a citizen in a liberal democracy. It is very unlikely that they exist in any great number, and instead a liberal democracy operates by elites conditioning the thinking of the mass of citizens through education, media, and other means of swaying public opinion. Thus, liberal democracy is an oligarchic authoritarian regime that tries its best to not appear to be such. It current quandary is how to exert sufficient control without revealing its true nature.
Well, setting up so-called Barriers to Entry[0] is econ 101.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barriers_to_entry
Which powerful drugs and procedures are not available in Europe?
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In school I'd SSH into my home server and use lynx to browse the web.

(Sshing got me around the firewall at school.)
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Google Trends or other year-end reports on popular queries don't include navigational queries. For example searching for nytimes to go to nytimes.com. When I worked at a competing web search engine the (real) top 100 was full of navigational queries (and lot of queries that will also never show up in official reports, like 'sex').

When I watch family members I think it gets worse every year. Every brand name is typed into the browser URL bar and instead of just adding .com (or .fr or .de depending on country) it goes to Google and they click the first result. Often enough that's an ad and Google earned a few cents by users not typing in .com
>where are the thousands of people dying?

Currently, mostly in India, Africa and Middle-East.

>People need tangible evidence

And we'll have plenty of that, if even the most conservative/optimist projections will materialize. Patience.
End-to-end tests work, it's just that as I talk about it slows down the feedback loop a lot.

Smoke test: "Your Docker image is broken", immediately after `docker build`.

End-to-end tests: 30 minutes later "all your tests failed with timeouts".

An image with HEALTHCHECK could be one way to do a smoke test: check if the healthcheck passed. However Kubernetes has a different mechanism so I suspect people using Docker with K8s don't bother using HEALTHCHECK.
100% agree with the drain on hospital budgets, at least so far as I know.

Dunno how 'Medicare for all' will work out if you simply start paying providers what Medicare currently pays. Dictating a price might work in the long run but would be plenty hairy in the short.
I don't think so. My bet is on 'competition for resources', which is something that every organism needs to do. Every species needs to be competitive, needs to fight for resources.
The problem only is that we are so good at competition for resources that we've out-competed every other species on this planet. Don't get me wrong - any species that somehow hits on similar exploits as we did (tool use, cooperation) will find itself in a very similar situation sooner or later; the moment where they start destroying the ecosytem that supports them. For us that probably started with agriculture, maybe even earlier, when we killed off all other apex predators.

So, if there's something that's "selected against", it's our unexpected success. I don't think that there are many times in the history life on a planet that a species lands such a jackpot.

Unfortunately we're just like Joe Shmoe after a lottery win; we spend all the loot in one spree over the planet and wake up a few years later, facing the consequences of our reckless behavior while we were drunk on power.

Our monkey brains just aren't built for the life in paradise.
But look at all these new credit card offers available!
What I think most people should take away is that ghee (clarified butter) should be used more often if you want a high smoke point with buttery flavor.

Too often, recipes have you avoid butter or cut it with some other oil because of butter's low smoke point, but you can just use ghee.
Hi! I'm from the future!! The title should read:

"50 US states receive millionaire donations from Google as 2020 elections around the corner"
> I've found the "out of the box one stop auth" packages rarely deliver the experience that product managers / UX people have planned for. You're usually stuck with whatever workflow the library decides for things like forgot password, password expiration policies, 2fa, login methods, etc.

It's pretty effortless to override and/or completely rewrite the views/flow with something like Devise.
Eileen is a legend! Amazing work over there!
But it's a door handle that is MEANT to be turned by the public at large. It's like putting a big "Order Inside" sign above the door to a restaurant and being surprised when people try to gain entry.

You also never entered the server. The server got your request and served something back you to. You did not go inside the house and read the contents of a book on the shelf, it was read aloud to you while you are still outside the house.

I'm not saying that websites shouldn't have recourse against people taking all the contents of their sites, just that the CFAA is the wrong tool.
That's also why I added COBOL, that and to test some ideas on how to handle compiled languages on it. The backend service supports multiple files but I haven't finished the web side of things to handle that (I have a strange requirement to make it work without javascript).
If you build your own you'll have to debug it. If you get it from off-the-shelf and its built well, it'll be readable and small.
Pretty much any CUDA programmer can talk about how they got 1024 threads working on 64kB "shared memory" with their C++ compiler. That "shared memory" region is exceptionally fast, so its a good idea to hyper-optimize your memory accesses to use that region.

There are some very interesting constraints in GPU-programming. Fitting C++ classes and even some data-structures in the "shared memory" region is pretty nifty.
If you have an autoimmune disease, it helps greatly to know when your estrogen and progesterone levels are highest as they both impact the immune system.
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Hey all! Looking for some validation as to how important office furniture is for your startup and whether you would pay someone to design your office space?
> vaporized Rick

Poor Rick :( But yes, it took a while for the climate to go back to normal after that.
If the liquidity is enough,
1) Short Bitcoin to the tune of several Billion dollars.
2) Do a 51% attack and essentially prove it's worthlessness.
3) Profit
Creating barriers to entry is an antisocial tactic that harms consumers and society at large.

It is the responsibility of moral consumers to avoid spending their money with companies that use these regressive tactics.
This all seems correct, but insufficiently proactive, at least not enough to satisfy activists.

For instance, though it may not currently be economic, how about pre-cooling using renewable energy. Locating data centers next to hydro / geothermal sources? Larger UPS? Load balancing across DCs with available renewables? Other mitigations to get ahead of the issue?
Event if the relative increases were the same, the absolute costs are on a different basis. US health expenditures per capita is double the average EU nation.

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...
Before the app, there was the red felt-tipped pen kept next to the paper calendar.

One has to know when to carry additional supplies beyond the gifter spare and the emergency personal reserve tampons. And when to wear different underwear. And when not to schedule dates. And when to buy chocolate. And when pregnancy is more likely. And when pregnancy is less likely. And when to eat liver. And when to buy analgesics. And when to make travel plans and hotel reservations, and when to not go anywhere for any reason.
I swear I cleaned up my room so now I'm heading to choose to lift some sacrifices at the gym.
Are you talking about recaptcha v3?
Just curious.

But is this because you think vaping is more dangerous than smoking?

Or because you think enabling a harmful activity, even if it's a less harmful than the activity it's being substituted for makes you morally culpable? So providing methadone would be a moral wrong?
> I think the way a team/company handles an unusual high-stress situation is in many ways telling of the team/company dynamic in general

What sorts of signals do you look for in these answers?
this is a strange cross roads. isn't it?

my wife gave birth 18 months ago, we have good insurance and a lot of family that gave us a lot of stuff we needed as gifts. without that we would easily be on the very upper end of the 5 figures by now.
This is a non-issue for literally 99.99% of applications and considering it before being "at scale" is simply a waste of mental energy.
You gave yourself away as ignorant when you tried to explain that the system is optimized for doctors.

This is especially rich on a forum like hacker news, where we have many software developers who went to school for ~4-6 years and fairly regularly make as much as the doctors who round the hospitals, who also kept incurring debt and made basically no money until they were 30.
> People should really just assume every scrap of data they input into their phones is being sent to at least one company who will happily sell it to anyone who asks.

There are a number of apps that don’t let this information leave your device at all, or end-to-end encrypt it. You just have to find them.
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Don't have a good response other than that I completely agree. :)
> but europeans still don't have access to a lot of very powerful drugs and procedures that we do.

That's because of the impedence mismatch of legislation in Europe vs the US.

I'd say it's comparable to the story on how US eggs are illegal in Europe, and vice-versa.

https://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-heres-why-we-ne...
ok the eating liver part caught me... i don't know that part. fill me in?
Nobody wants to carry around paper everywhere they go.
Good timing on having recently began working with BPF + XDP. Here's my project: https://github.com/sevagh/ape, for those curious about what itches XDP can scratch.
I hear 'faggot' being used more often as a slur than as the food, with the term 'fag' used pretty much synonymously.

Then again, I'm a man who sleeps with other men, went to a crumbling concrete block of a state school and often can be found working in factory environments and hanging around with bikers.

I guess it varies greatly according to one's milieu.
jep.
it's more like having a public store and only letting some people into it. like only males, no womans.
because they clearly allowed the google bot.
I would say this is even common in technical companies.
Many tech companies suffer from NIH syndrome, and needlessly re-invent things that already exist elsewhere, or are not part of their core business. I've witnessed it many times. I would say this is especially common when the company has too much cash on hand and can squander it...
No I'm not saying most millionaires inherit their wealth. I'm saying that penny pinching isn't how you create it. Most people create wealth via entrepreneurship.

The amount you can create via saving is minuscule compared to starting a business, investment banking, being a lawyer etc. Work creates wealth.

Side note, many of the people I know who are wealthy enjoy spending it which is the antithesis of penny pinching.
> Making a transaction this large is a security risk. It effectively establishes a billion dollar bounty for any party who can rewrite enough blocks to erase it

... accomplishing exactly nothing as all that would do would be returning the money to original spenders. Really, the amount of misinformation floating here is unexpected.

> Now that the value resides in a single coin, any subsequent transaction faces the same risk.

Non sequitur. A rollback of such a block would, by significance be somewhere between "mildly annoying" and "introducing suspicion that future transactions could also be rolled back." In any case, coins would end up where they are supposed to, and no theft can be done. There would be increased risk of double spends, but worried parties could always invest in more (legit) hashpower.

> A consortium/trust has formed in which individuals pay into a common pool of money.

Speculation, but reasonable. It makes business sense.

> That money is then protected with a multi signature script (consistent with the P2SH type). Given a threshold of signatures, the money can be spent, subject to other constraints. These will remain unknown until the first payment is made. At that point we'll know the number and identity of all the eligible keys and the threshold needed to make payment.

Speculation, but too wild. Basically wishful thinking.

> Edit: to be clear, the "bounty" I'm talking about can't be directly claimed just by mining some blocks. Instead, it would have to be claimed as part of a double spend of either the transaction in question or as subsequent transaction of the now-enormous output. Most likely, there would be collusion of some kind between a miner and the owner of the keys. I'm not saying this will happen, but the bigger the transaction, the greater the risk.

Again, wild speculation. So the theory is that someone collected $1B in BTC just to pull off a massive double spend stunt? At that level, it's likely that rubber hose cryptanalysis would resolve the issue quite efficiently.
The Guardian has an axe to grind with Google and Facebook for taking over their market share of ad revenue.
We had $X billion dollars in bonds we needed to finance, that day. The traders thought they had to finance $X-1 billion dollars.

We had good collateral to borrow the the money, but it was the money we needed.

The legal-books-and-records system gave us the right starting number. The transferring it to the trading-book-dashboard was a manual process. So they traded all day based on the wrong number. No one noticed until operations called the desk with about a half hour left in the trading day to say “Do you guys realize you’re short a billion?” Ten minutes to figure out what went wrong. The clerk who keyed in the wrong number didn’t get dinged that badly, cause 8-9 people saw both numbers and no one else noticed.
> They aren't perfect, but they are much better than most.
People don’t declare bankruptcy for tax debt largely because federal taxes aren’t dischargeable in bankruptcy. But tons of people lose, for example, their homes due to tax related financial problems.
People have absolutely gone bankrupt from income tax. Let's say you receive a large amount of income in the form of an asset which is suddenly devalued before you sell it. You owe income tax on the original value you received. But the stock is now worthless, so you have nothing you can sell to pay your income tax.

This used to happen with ISOs during the dot-com bust. It can still happen with other volatile instruments, like cryptocurrency.
> Just a quick look at a dictionary suggests otherwise. "2: exclusion by general consent from common privileges or social acceptance". Ostracism has to be public, intend to be burdensome and punitive and employed against some 'common privilege' by, at a minimum, some broad subset of, if not society as a whole, some social group.

Did you even read your own definition? The word 'public' is not in it. Being excluded from donating to MIT precisely matches the definition you yourself just gave.

> Laundering your rapey reputation is not a common privilege nor is the private unwillingness of some party to enter in a financial relationship with another 'ostracism'.

Donating to MIT is absolutely a common privilege. Not being able to enter into financial relationships with people is absolutely ostracism. The definition just could not be more clear.

Let's go through it word by word, since you seem to be having trouble:

"Exclusion from common privileges or social acceptance".

1. Are we talking about excluding Epstein from something? Yes. Excluding him from donating to MIT.

2. Is the ability to donate to MIT a "common privilege"? Yes. Almost everyone on the planet is allowed to donate to MIT.

3. Are we talking about excluding Epstein from this "common privilege" for the purpose of limiting his "social acceptance"? Yes. The reason people want to exclude Epstein from financial ties with MIT is to prevent him from "laundering his reputation" as you say. Why does one want to launder their reputation? To acquire "social acceptance".
I think it's a question of models (the only classical musicians that are visible in most families are professionals) and ends (most parents directing their kids to music are thinking of college admissions and the like).

The idea that it's normal for most people to know how to dance, play an instrument, sing, and play a pick up game of ball is strangely lost.
Banning and demonetizing users is not an antitrust issue. Poor customer service is not an antitrust issue. Nothing related to politics or censorship is an antitrust issue.

Where I think google could be in trouble.

- Using google.com to push chrome installations when non-chrome browsers are detected.

- Forcing google services on android users

- Giving preferential search rankings to google services over competing services

- Ad network exclusivity contracts.