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That's true, but I discarded it based on what I think Monty knew and counterfactual reasoning. The question is why "knowledge" or "luck" or "just accidentally" have an effect on what I should discard.

Another "more serious" related "paradox" is in scientific hypothesis testing. You can have different p values even if you observed the exact same experimental outcome but your stepping criterion was different. The only difference is the speculation of what you would have done if the experimental outcome had been different. [0]

These things are quite unexpected unless you've already worked through such examples.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likelihood_principle
That’s what I meant by “hell of a global adversary” :)
I have achieved similar results by similar means in both English and certain other subjects wherein one would assume a “true academic” would “know better” (picking out Sin[x]=2 as being “evidence of error in prior working” when x could merely be Complex, or marking “f[f[n]]=-n as “unsolvable” when it’s just requires a bit of lateral thinking). This always depresses me, like when (as a Brit) I hear Americans say “I could care less” as an indicator of disregard, when actually that indicates they are somewhere above the point of minimal regard.
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I tend not to leave any specific info about myself online, so the answer would be pretty broad - mainland Europe
When your data is public and immutable, this approach is very pleasant. The client becomes just another caching layer and worst case it's presenting a historical version of the truth. You can even extend this across tabs with things like local storage.

This breaks down quickly once you have data that could become private or mutate rather than append.
No, it's incorrect to say that running an email server requires just "a bit more work". Google basically no longer allows low volume servers to send mail.

I wrote more about this here:

https://www.attejuvonen.fi/dont-send-email-from-your-own-ser...
Clarke's first law comes to mind. Not an exact fit but pertinent nonetheless:

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
JFYI, what I often do for those functions I am not already familiar with both in Italian and English (it doesn't work for really all functions) is to use the English original I find in (the English version of) Spread32 (an extremely small Excel compatible program):

http://www.byedesign.co.uk/

then save the worksheet and re-open it with the Italian Excel, since the functions are actually saved internally as an "ordinal" (or whatever) and interpreted by Excel in its "local" language.
Well Dante is a completely different thing, but the NT describes eternal suffering in fire e.g. in the story of Lazarus and the rich man. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+16%3A19-31...
I think parent was referring to that "just"
It would be more ironic if integer constants had to be written as Roman numerals.
I want to use Fastmail, but their minimum price for using your own domain is $50/year. At that price I can get Exchange Online with double the storage. And given that they have an office in the US, I would expect them to follow the same laws that Microsoft and Google have to regarding requests from government agencies.
Biodanza is a system created by a Chilean psychiatrist that has worked wonders for me. It's a subconscious emotional healing technique where the process is experienced with a group of people and a person who facilitates the experience.
I feel every chapter from this book can be pulled out and can be converted into a blogpost in its own right.

This blogpost touches only on a chapter of the book.

Nevertheless, nice, short read.
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I agree in general, but Feynman’s books are different. I usually read textbooks cover to cover; then go on to solve the hardest problems I can find at that level (sometimes they are from the book, sometimes from different sources).

Most books, I make some progress on some problems, get stuck on others, and generally have a good grasp of the overall landscape and where I am lacking; then I go back and reread (and practice) the missing pieces.

But Feynman’s lectures are different in that they make you feel you understand a lot, without really giving you any tools to address things he did not address (and basically only address those things he did address in the same way).

I am not saying they are bad - 25 years later, I still remember (and occasionally use) some of them; most recently insights from the chapter on minimum principles. I am just saying that it only became useful after I already had a good (but not great) grasp of the material from other sources — despite giving that impression when read as introductory.
I must disagree with that.

Detecting if something is cheesy in the chain is not enough. The chain you see can be totally fine nothing cheesy you could "objectively detect" yet the chain you don't see is longer and everyone will switch there. Your "objectively detected" nothing is totally pointless in this case.

Or what about Tx censorship. A valid Tx with reasonable fee isn't included because miners/mining pools colluded to not process that Tx. You objectively detected nothing because everything on the chain is completely correct. You can't detect what isn't there.

You still come around with PoS lol dude I never in the whole thread compared PoW to PoS. PoS is totally irrelevant. If it would not exist PoW would still have the same flaws.
Company Dissolution
4-5 months ago i’ve founded a company together with a co-founder in Deleware.

The probation period went really well so we decided to go formal and found the company.

We agreed that (written in emails) that I take the majority of the shares. However after we have founded the company we never issued stocks.

The company has no IP rights transferred. It has 2 board of members, me and him. He is the CEO and President, and Secretary.

So in essence, its just a company with no legal ownership on a product, with two board members and no stocks issued.

Now the fun part; he stopped contributing after a couple of months. Stopped replying my emails and ignore every communication.

A month ago, he stated in an email that he’d not want to continue anymore but he never resigned formally. I asked him to do so, but as usual no reply.

If I resign, found a new company and the company becomes successful (currently we have two paying customers but had none when stopped contributing) is he going to impose a threat for the newly founded company?

Also, is it enough if I send him a resignation letter to him (as he is the secretary)?

What happens to company if he ignores the taxes and the legal stuff?

thanks...
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Hey! I purchased most of the tracks.
That's not a traffic jam. It's basically mass suicide after getting lost
But it should be a presentation thing. The formulas stored in the file should be the same regardless of language. There's no good reason not to.
I think the Firebase Realtime Database and Firestore have a good model for offline and being able to have private and mutable data. It does get complex but the Firebase SDKs do the heavy lifting for you here.
No pricing info right now but it looks like it'd be fun to try out. As it's free that may help build up a user base.
This is at best useless, and at worst harmful. If we start using languages other than English for code, then we'll end up balkanizing the software world. People in humanities departments can talk about things like "Chinese Poetry" and "Continental Philosophy," but in STEM, we should be above that nonsense. I should be able to read code written anywhere in the world and understand what it does.

This is the same reason that everyone uses FORTRAN. Can you imagine if people went off and created their own "programming languages" instead? You wouldn't be able to contribute to an open source project unless it happened to be written in a language that you knew. There would be so much duplication of effort: someone would write a library for Foo Language, and someone else would do the same thing for Bar language. Job postings would ask for "Foo Developers," and you wouldn't be able to just work anywhere. Fortunately, programmers collectively decided to all use the same language. Let's not go back on that decision.
And till fairly recently a gotcha for firewalls and when the firewall team is different from the requesting team oh the jokes
Humans don’t closely approach the theoretical limits of highway capacity. They encounter a much lower limit and get stuck in a range of suboptimal choices.
True, the founders can make out like bandits if they time it but the company itself will go down in flames if it's built on bullshit
My summary of this article: Ants knew TCP flow-control long before Van Jacobson.
Do you really wonder?

The answer would be "Of course!" and "Of course not!".

You don't need electricity to run a "computer". But as soon as you're trying to hook up this computer to the Internet, serving responses on an electrical network... I can't imagine how to do this without electricity.

Of course you're not looking for answers using a turbine, are you?
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They walk over each other too. We can't do that without causing minor or major injuries
> This is one of those rare HN moments that I wish more would notice.

Sorry to cut in... but I concur. Sometimes you read comment that makes you think 'wow this person is so similar to me!' but it's a single comment in the middle of a thread and that connection ends up being fleeting.

Hacker News' de-emphasis on Users (i.e. no avatars or extensive profile, or direct messaging) is one of its strengths as it forces the focus into the public discussions; but it can also be frustrating when you do stumble over a like minded person.

Personally, I'd like to see a sanctioned way to build on the HN community via other more real-time platforms, which ultimately could lead to proper friendships with real-life meet-ups etc.

Yeah, I'm a dreamer, I know.
I have written one here: http://loup-vaillant.fr/tutorials/fast-scalarmult

It explains various constant time and variable times ways to do scalar multiplication (assuming constant time point addition), and clearly marks what is constant time (like combs) and what is variable time (like sliding windows).

One big missing part is modular multiplication, needed to perform constant time point addition. I explain some of it in my Poly1305 tutorial (search for "Cheating at modular arithmetic"): http://loup-vaillant.fr/tutorials/poly1305-design
For my height 1.7 m I would have 10 weigh 115 kg to have a BMI of 40. Bloody hell, I count myself as overweight at the 74 kg I weigh now, BMI 26. Just can't imagine carrying an extra 41 kg!

Doesn't surprise me at all that it would shorten my life. Never mind that but the life one has must be worse as well.
Yes, I looked up the OpenSSL bug you referred to, and I think it's quite unusual. I'm not sure what those lines were exactly, but from the description it seems like it was intended to read uninitialized memory, something that (safe) Rust won't let you do, either. Also, it's probably wrong even in C, but it worked. So yeah, touching code in any way is not always 100% safe, but my point was just that sound static analysis is still cheaper than a rewrite, as it requires far less modification.

As to seL4, it isn't exactly similar to sound static analysis, as the work was extremely costly. All of seL4 is 1/5 the size of jQuery and it's taken years of work. But it also includes functional verification, not just memory safety. In fact, it is among the largest programs ever functionally verified to that extent, and yet it was about 3 orders of magnitude smaller than oridnary business software, roughly the same verification gap we've had for decades. We don't yet know how to functionally verify software (end-to-end, like seL4) of any size that's not very small.

Anyway, Rust offers a much more limited form of assurance, and sound static analysis tools offer the same, and at a lower cost for existing codebases.
It is for spreadsheet functions, VBA is English only, but there are anyway some quirks, as an example inside VBA the decimal point (separator) is actually a point whilst /as an example in Italian) the decimal separator is a comma, and this creates often the need to convert back and forth the numbers.
> but what if email is the only way to reach you?

I have no idea if it actually is, but it might be a legal issue too in some jurisdictions. German law for example requires commercial sites to have an option for quick and electronic communication - Email is generally a valid choice. If your mail server rejects incoming mail (be it because it's overly sensitive, offline, or you never bothered setting it up etc), that could very well be considered as non-compliant.
I think Lojban is the only language that could work (not just for computers but humans as well). I do not see it happening anytime soon though.

For anyone who does not know what Lojban is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban#Applications would be a great starting point. :)
There's some interesting work in considering blind faith in ideology as a kind of religion itself.
Is "landing a fish" the same thing as "watering a plant"?
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Fair point but beside terminology (my bad) there's some abuse about the actual use. Your hands are made to lift and operate. If I'd make a parallel with prostitution it would be to be paid to chew rocks.
The article does not define radicalization.

If kids have the same opinions on social issues like immigration, race, gender, etc. as their grandfathers or great-grandfathers, is it really radicalization? Or just a political cycle swinging back? The same logic applies across space as well: are you a radical, if your opinion on those same topics is roughly the same as the ~7 billion people in the world who are not yuppies living in western metropolitan areas?
I agree with you the pricing information is missing. Also, in a privacy focus era, what could be interesting is to know what kind of information is kept by Focusmate on its users.

[Edit]: just found [0] in the blog. Apparently, there is a free plan allowing you to have 3 sessions/week (12/months). You can subscribe for 5$ / month to unlimited session. The plan is setup to support the development of the platform and to keep it ads free.

[Edit II]: the privacy policy is available here: [1]

[0] https://blog.focusmate.com/the-next-chapter-of-focusmate-int...
[1] https://blog.focusmate.com/privacy/
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You ever read one of those interviews with a centenarian where they ask him what his secret is and he answers something like “I smoke a cigar every Sunday”?
Non native speakers would'nt be able to take those jobs anyways if names were untranslated and in local script.
Wait, was the last 30 years some Picard-and-the-flute dream? Thank God! Hopefully the next FORTRAN version will keep the name all-caps.
This surprised me a bit, on the creation of the corpus they use for training:

"We removed any page that contained any word on the “List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene or Otherwise Bad Words”."

I don't understand this decision. This list contains words that can be used in a perfectly objective sense, like "anus", "bastard", "erotic", "eunuch", "fecal", etc.

I can understand that they want to avoid websites full of expletives and with no useful content, but outright excluding any website with even one occurrence of such words sounds too radical. If we ask this model a text comprehension question about a legitimized bastard that inherited the throne, or about fecal transplants, I suppose it would easily fail. Strange way of limiting such a powerful model.
> I'm not sure which laws they're basing this on, but it's not unusual to see countries differently. For example UK's DPA allows storing data in countries with similar protection guarantees. I would expect that doesn't include China, but does include Germany.

It's not the ICO that sets that rule, it's the GDPR (and prior to that, the Data Protection Directive)
I have a feeling a lot of art projects in history have been described as “at best useless, and at worst harmful“. For example leonardo da vinci’s bicycle.

Even if that is true, here or in the other art projects, the purpose is to evoke some aort of response, to capture attention and to provoke discussion.

And by this measure and judging firom the comments here this has been a resounding success :)
> Anyone have recommendation on an online calc course for the math-insecure?

Honestly I'd say do one thing at a time, and do it well. It takes a year to stop being bad at anything worth doing, and a lifetime to get good. You're only two weeks into learning to code. Maybe you should go full-bore into that for the next year and pick up calculus some other time.
Fortran has «do» loops, no «for» loops (to my knowledge). do i = 1, N ...
The Trolley Problem is only a problem in theory. In real life no one but the victim of a psychopath who has carefully stage managed the problem ever has to confront it.

When one in real life has such a problem one doesn't have time for reflection, adrenalin and social conditioning take over.

People jump in front of trains to rescue other people careless of the harm that might be done to their families and friend should they die in the attempt.
I would add that in the beginning, a number of crypto libraries (I'm looking at you in particular, openSSL) made a design decision to support a huge variety of algorithms, options, modes of operation etc. This makes it very difficult to test the full functional surface of the software and means you just have to write a very large amount of code.

Some of the modern libraries take a different approach where they deliberately limit the functionality to a few select things that can be implemented easily (thinking nacl, libsodium, boringSSL etc here) and which guide the user towards sensible defaults that work rather than having huge numbers of levers to tweak, only some of which arrive at a secure and supported solution.
> As a gmail user, I 100% appreciate keeping my inbox extremely clean. Google's spam filter is a welcome addition.

But you won’t know if Gmail flags legitimate email as a false positive and you will remain happy not knowing Gmail is secretly losing your emails.
The problem is that Google errs too much on the it-is-spam side. Having to delete a few spam mails isn't a big issue if the alternative is losing legitimate mails because of overzealous filters.
Scala supports not just variables, but operators. * or + are not part of language, but methods in library.
APL is, I think, the only (relatively) common programming language without English. It has lots of characters instead, most of which have a form that hints about their function.
take a look at https://nextjournal.com

supports Python, Julia, Clojure, R & import from Jupyter
I think you are being sarcastic/ironic.
New capsule can orally deliver drugs that usually have to be injected
Can they refine diesel and build an air compressor themselves? And I mean in practice, not theoretically.
FYI, your TLS certificate is invalid.
I don't think anyone would use that particular construction, unless it's some weird dialect of pilot-speak or argot among anti-aircraft folk that I'm not aware of. It's just really awkward and unnatural. Possibly correct, but not the way that anybody actually talks.
Yes, Lockhart! This is why you shouldn’t post with jet lag.

He uses a similar approach in “Arithmatic”. He begins the book by describing different base number systems used throughout human history (the way different civilizations did “counting”). He does that in order to argue that a number itself shouldn’t be confused with its representation.

I might check out “Measurement” next! Thanks for the recommendation.
Their turbo plan is $5 per month for unlimited sessions. Their free plan gives you 3 free sessions a week.

It's a bit weird that as a signed up user I can see the pricing information but it's not publicly available on their homepage. Anyway I like the service as 1 or 2 sessions in a day helps me get into the rhythm.
I don't think OP stop replying, he seems pretty active on another thread of the same mailing list concerning another big player (MSFT) filtering out some messages for some reasons.
https://www.mail-archive.com/mailop@mailop.org/msg09066.html

As a hobbit* , I'm actually pretty happy this whole conversation is starting to gain more traction.

My domain is always green on every test I could run (mailtester.com & all) yet some of my mails go to the junk without any warning. At least warn postmaster when you decide to block a domain because of bad neighbour/hosting!

* This specific reply of the chain is a must read and is where learned that I'm actually a mail hobbit. https://www.mail-archive.com/mailop@mailop.org/msg08958.html
You are correct! Most people tend to say 1/2, or if they have some knowledge of probability but dismiss the Tuesday aspect then 1/3. It does rely on the problem being interpreted as equivalent to the dialogue I have posted below, but even when so framed, many people will refuse to believe it.
I’m working on a language for Japanese but it’s not quite in a useful state yet.
https://github.com/kayleemann/pinpon
Filet Americain is based on steak tartare. And American sauce is based on Thousand-Island dressing. They are adapted to local taste and customs, but they would be somewhat familiar to Americans.
As some empirical evidence, look at how few StackOverflow sites there are in other languages: https://stackexchange.com/sites?view=list#technology-traffic. Just three (Russian, Spanish, Portuguese), all were introduced 5+ years after the main site started.

Similarly, Github doesn't have localised versions.

There are certainly clones in other languages (e.g. https://teratail.com/ clones SO in Japanese), but it shows how little demand there is when these well-funded platforms for developers de-prioritise local versions. I couldn't imagine a comparable platform for lawyers or accountants doing same thing.
Sounds like they'd be better of physically buying the book, then scanning it manually for their members.

eg not needing to purchase the exact same file every two years because <reasons>.
I disagree, greater-than-human-average is not useless. There's a lot of room for misinterpretation in human language. We compensate for that by non-verbal communication (posture, expression) or by asking for clarification. On top of that, most places have local expressions or idioms that are not necessarily globally recognized.

So there's two ways in which a language automaton must be better than human: it cannot rely on non-verbal hints nor can it easily ask for clarification, and it must be able to interpret many different dialects and idioms correctly -- many more than an average human would need to.
You're not barred, you have to learn relevant combinations of 26 symbols. If you cannot do that, I doubt you'll become proficient in programming anyway. OTOH,knowledge sharing in the field would be severely impeded if every piece of source code was localized to the wim of the author/marketplace/whatever.
This what stopped me exploring couchdb further.

The "one db per user" model for private data made using other features like views etc more difficult when you have to upgrade,edit,remove them.

Mutability wasn't really a problem, either present the conflicts to user and pick one or write code to merge if possible.