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I see a lot of confusion in this thread (warranted, because it's a confusing subject), and I want to clarify a few things:

U2F is the old standard, it is only meant be used as a second factor.

WebAuthn is the new standard, it has different modes for usage as a second factor, first factor and single factor (usernameless). Only the usernameless mode requires state on the client side.

Usernameless strikes me as the holy grail of authentication, where we don't need to remember any usernames or passwords (or even have them), but I haven't seen any websites that support usernameless authentication, other than demo ones and my own.

If you want to see what a usernameless flow looks like, you can visit https://www.deadmansswitch.net/. You have to log in with an email link first, and then associate your FIDO2 credential with it. You don't need a hardware key, for example on phones you can use your fingerprint reader and it will work fine.

The problem with hardware keys, and which is not mentioned anywhere, is that because usernameless requires storage on the key, Yubikeys only support a maximum of 25 sites you can authenticate with.

In order to further my goal of some day ditching password managers, I also made a Django library for usernameless logins which you can use today on your Django sites:

https://pypi.org/project/django-webauthin/
Ah, you're one of those fools. When you're finished with history, try complexity theory [0].

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2284
You can start by not using the word: "Usefully" :)
The field of ML is moving too fast to be taught in schools. It's better to teach its foundations (linear algebra, etc) which are well developed and static.
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> If you're not, then the protections don't apply to you, regardless of your citizenship.

Yes, unless the company is itself in the EU, in which case the GDPR always applies, even if you're not a citizen, resident or even visitor to the EU.
I was reminded about the "debt is coming" post that was shared a couple of weeks back. This is a good example of that, I think.
Ex as a prefix does ultimately derive from Latin here but meaning "outside" (hence eg excommunicated or exclave), not "without". This makes sense linguistically because the entitlement to the dividend is outside the scope of what's being bought and sold in the trade.
>the salary that they offered was $0.50/hour too much for her to stay on food stamps, and was less than her current job

I don't understand. How was she eligible for food stamps, if she already had a job that paid more?
To whom or what? The expensive one not thrown away was replaced free of charge by the same model but not broken.
> So ignore performance, leather, safety, nav, 15" screen, and related improvements?

I’m not. Those are all reasons the Model 3 is still an entry-level luxury car, as is the price.
I just did an upgrade to a few keys a couple days ago using solo-python and it was a breeze. Note that you might need to add the udev rules to your Linux machine if they are not detected as explained here: https://docs.solokeys.dev/solo/udev/
That is legal construct to make rape prosecution and corruption prosecution remotely possible. Plus, generally institutions don't want prisoners to have consensual sex or relationships with guards either.

To the prisoner having that sex, there is difference between when he/she wants that sex, is willing to barter sex for something and is forced to have sex without wanting it.
> chasing a never to have come to reality Perl 6

Recently, Perl 6 has indeed become a lot less real, as it has been renamed to Raku (https://raku.org using the #rakulang tag on social media). But it is still very much a real thing (with regular releases since December 2015). And it actually has its own IDE: https://commaide.com .
> Can I apply the same logic the the one that added the UK to the EU?

There was no vote to join the EU, we joined when Edward Heath signed us into the EEC.

There was a vote a year later as to whether we should remain in the EEC, for which 'remain' won.
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Another threads post another opportunity to discuss what I learned building a joint (on the same memory) parallel app. server: http://github.com/tinspin/rupy

To fully use concurrency without monitors I think we need to accept the cost of cache misses. When Java rewrote the memory model of the JVM to allow for concurrent data structures they did something C/C++ still has not provided: a platform where you actually can build something that scales on many threads without causing more problems than it solves.

To me this has divided the programming word into two: Avoid cache misses or use many threads. Pick one?!
Heating with an electric heat pump is quite efficient in most environments. Electric resistance heat is inefficient.
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Hitler was so convinced that the Third Reich would be viewed as a great historical civilization he became absorbed with Speer's ideas on 'ruin value' and mandated that all state buildings were to be built with designs and materials that would lead to attractive, classical-style ruins
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Lightsail viciously throttles to something like 5% of original CPU after only a bit of use. Not suitable for much.
Oh no, anything but the devil's lettuce. Wont somebody think of the children!
You are comparing CO2 emission and use of metal and completely ignore the catastrophic systemic risk of nuclear power.

There has been many events where nuclear waste has been dumped in the ocean, misplaced, lost, improperly buried, leaked in rivers, caught fire and even deliberately used in projectiles and dispersed in the environment.

And this is nothing compared to the risk of exposing large amounts of waste during a war or terrorist attack.
I hope you are right. I know that the ribbon control in Visual Studio 2017 still refers to needing a license.
I get your point. However I recently encountered 5 year old javascript and it was horrible. Full out jQuery and the (function(export){})(arg) pattern. And lots of dead test in some some long gone test library. But your point is valid if it were CoffeeScript and jQuery. That would be even worse for sure.

There is no relief in sight and it'll suck for a long time because everything is very fluid everywhere. Legacy will suck.

But if you want to be as productive and confident as you can these days; my take it is to not engange in vanilla JavaScript.
If there’s a specific place with a different floor (and maybe dedicated ventilation), I find a little odd the argument that a dryer (which sometimes even stacks on top of the washer) is a waste of space.
This comment is accurate. Also, hardware keys can require biometrics or any other way of authenticating you. Currently, Yubikeys erase themselves if you get the PIN wrong three times (if I'm not mistaken on the number), so it's very hard to brute force.
> while at the same time being expected to provide emotional services to clients through small talk or writing flattering boasts about them. Like all enslaved persons, their bodies were also vulnerable to sexual assault, rape, beatings and even torture.

It makes more sense in context of "emotional services" as "writing flattering boasts" and "beatings and even torture" which are closer to the vulnerability.

The paragraph is not only about sex.
As someone who attended high school during the afternoon, I am not shocked.

Having to attend six am classes in college is the sole reason I didn't graduate cum laude. I had the gpa for it, but I had to repeat a subject just because it was that early and I'd rather miss the classes.
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I've always found PG's essays to be incredibly intriguing.

I'm working in a startup, and everything he says is just very insightful about running one. I hope that PG shares more about growing a company that's running on an experimental business model.

This is one of his other masterpieces. There is a certain art of communicating and he's sharing that with the world for everyone to learn. Not many people share their experiences and miscellaneous things in detail.

I for one am thankful that PG still writes and I hope that he continues.
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Are some of the board seats allocated by people trying to counterbalance Elon though?
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"some sort of virtue thing" sounds like cynical way to describe ethical values.

Yes, most people I know don't want to waste electricity on driers even when it's cheap.
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One thing this article doesn't mention is that in many cases databases scale poorly, and only vertically. You can throw a bunch of domain logic in complex SQL queries and see significant performance benefits, but at some point you may find that your application has grown and your SQL server is running into IOPS and CPU limits that are difficult to fix. At that point your answer could be, pull logic out of those complex queries and create simpler queries that ask less of the DB and run on the application side so you can scale horizontally.
Sparta was enemy of city Socrates lived in. And rich peoples livestyle and philosophy was possible only due to having those lower classes. Which matters.
> Creating more renewable energy is pointless unless it reduces/replaces the use of fossil fuels.

It does.

> The point the article is making is that because of the way the renewable industry is being funded (from taxes on electricity consumption), consumers are opting to continue burning fossil fuels rather then use electricity.

No, it doesn't. Renewable energy has a systematic preference and its share in electricity production has risen from 6% (in 2000) to 42% (in 2019).

> Investment in electricity production is guided by government policy goals and support, rather than actual demand

That's always the case. Energy policy is a government task. No nuclear would be build without MASSIVE government support and government demand.

Germany actually created an energy market, which before did not exist, since electricity production and distribution was in the hand of 4 big companies, each having a full monopoly in a large region.

> Germany is producing more energy than it needs

It doesn't. Far from. Also Germany is importing energy. Lots.

> reduce fossil fuel use are actually causing more environmental damage and preserving fossil fuel use.

This is not what is happening. The goal is to have more than 85% renewable energy for electricity production in 2050.
I’m wondering if some of the rise in deaths and hospitalizations were actually due to the (as yet undetected) virus.
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Hooray for the energy market being disrupted. It's a sign of the success of government subsidies to renewable power. Obviously adjustments are required as the disruption proceeds. Hopefully governments and private concerns in Europe can cooperate to make workable new rules and tariffs. I'm not so hopeful in the US because our federal government is the servant of big oil.

Here in Massachusetts USA I pay USD0.24 per kWh delivered to my home (generation + transmission + distribution + taxes). Our energy markets are generally mired in 19th-century ways of measuring, so it's harder to tell what natural gas costs (what is a therm???) But I believe it's about USD0.08 per kWh.

I've just signed up for "community solar." A developer is building a PV farm (in the median strip of a large highway, I believe). It will save me on generation costs, but not transmission or distribution, so my rate will fall to about USD0.18 I believe.

Here we have high generation costs partly because Hydro Quebec drove a hard long-term bargain ("take-or-pay" they call it) with our electric company long ago. Towns with municipal power usually pay less because they're not stuck with Hydro Quebec, but sometimes pay more.

I could go on and on, but here's the thing. It's expensive for generators to participate in long-distance grids. Why? If their AC frequency drifts even a tiny amount, the grid must disconnect. How can companies maintain the AC frequency under heavy load?

1. expensive and filthy peak-load generators (diesel-powered often) spinning ready to take load.

2. big batteries. Telsa and some Australian government utilities have had great success with this.

3. excess renewable capacity. But at times of heavy demand there isn't any.

4. SMART DISTRIBUTION: the ability to quickly and selectively shed load temporarily. Space- and water- heating are perfect applications for this. So is battery charging for transportation.

We aren't nearly done with the disruption yet. Now it starts to get interesting. Electricity companies are in the information business; they just don't know it yet.
Is there a tool that returns linux system information in json format, that works for most kernel versions and / is actively supported? i think it would be easier to pipe through jq in order to get a desired value, rather then pipe through grep/awk/sed.
Nice work.

Formal methods, automated theorem provers and safer languages have come some ways since I started in the era of staring at glowing CRTs and fiddling with keys. To me, if we can't prove we're building things on a solid foundation, we're just doing one order-of-magnitude removed from writing code without tests.

0) Prove the compiler is correct.

1) Prove the OS is correct. (seL4, for example)

2) Prove programs are correct.

I think we're rapidly approaching barriers in effort, error-detection, and cognitive abilities that even the best handful of highly-skilled homo sapiens sapiens have difficulty proving/doing/scaling. At what point (or tapering era) do we more seriously consider systems for autonomously generating code# with automated correctness, worst-case and timing analysis? We have massive, massive code-bases of Linux, LLVM, OpenBSD, etc. without formal proofs but with unknown-unknown numbers of bugs... just the other day, someone working in Rust ran into an LLVM bug involving bounds checking. (Yikes!)

# Let's first make it easy by constraining the solution-space to simplistic, imperative, SSA w/ liveness (lifetimes) logic.
> Writing is an art, not a science.

I agree with this, but avoiding writing nonsense is science, and not art. So there definitely is a scientific aspect to writing.
Discrete LED screens go all the way down to 2mm or even 1.9mm pitch (I have a few 2mm tiles at home). These are certainly discrete LED panels, not OLEDs. I'm not aware of OLEDs being used in "wall" applications like this.

When you hear LED walls, think millions of discrete LEDs mounted on PCBs (and thank China for making this low cost enough to be viable!)
That sounds forced, but might still be better than "we need to do an RCA", because if someone doesn't know what RCA means in that context, then they have to ask.
> policies are supposed to encourage the creation of new renewable energy production

The government is slowing down adding wind turbines for basically two reasons:

* market price

* infrastructure catching up. We need more power lines to the south to distribute the electricity and building them takes a few years. It makes not too much sense to build wind electricity capacity in the North and not being able to transport it.
Some shut downs were motivated by the recent increase of the CO2 certificate prices. Three years ago it was at 5€/ton. Now it is at 25€/ton.
An example from Hamburg is the Energiebunker. I went on a tour a few years ago which I can recommend. One comment was they had trouble with the local landlords not wanting to take up the offer resulting in poor utilisation.

https://www.internationale-bauausstellung-hamburg.de/en/proj...
It could go down much faster.
> AFAIK nuclear power has all sorts of problems, the main one being that nobody knows what to do about the waste

You're breathing the wastes of fossil fuel based energy sources every single second of your life and it will 100% reduce your life expectancy and quality of life.

The best case scenario of fossil fuel based energy production is worst than the worst case scenario of nuclear based energy production.
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American tax laws (like the FACTA) do apply to Americans in Europe, for example. A sovereign entity has jurisdiction over anything it wants. The question is whether it can enforce it, but there are many tools for that, from simple treaties to sanctions to full-blown military invasions.

In any case, parent is in fact incorrect since the GDPR claims no such jurisdiction. It only applies to people in the EU, or to people whose personal data is processed by EU companies.
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> market price of electricity is 0€/MWh,

The general market price is not 0€/MWh. That's nonsense. The price is on the short-term spot-market, which is only a small part of the larger electricity market.

Consumers who need to heat homes / buildings / etc. are not buying on the spot market, but have long term contracts.
> Wow, the responses to this thread are such an excellent marker for skin colour.

As is pronouncing the effects of bias and prejudice. You can almost guarantee the person is white without using any AI.

I was or still am pretty critical of AI since the quantification of every property of people will probably not be very enjoyable for anyone. What changed my mind a bit is that there are people wanting to employ it to improve reality. That is far worse and I hadn't had that on my radar before.
How fast are the refresh rates on projector lighting? A really cheap consumer LED can get anywhere from a few hundred Hz to tens of kHz depending on the LED and connection topology, enough to synchronize with high speed cameras with short exposure times and other equipment.
That’s not a niche, that’s a summary of the language.
It takes like 2 minutes to hang a full load of laundry.
Oh that is actually quite masterful trolling. I shall adopt it.
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It's probably me but I can never seem to get Zulipchat to work for basic things like pulling up the history of #jobs.
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> extremely difficult to cancel contracts here for instance

No, it's not difficult. Changing your energy provider is usually quite easy and there are a lot to choose from. I did it a few years ago and the new provider did all the paper work for me.

It's just that many end consumers are not prepared to do it. And no one does it on a daily base on the spot market.
That's a bit shortsighted. There are many valuable types of "work" in society that are not rewarded monetarily. Take for example, child rearing, community building, or caring for elderly/disabled/homeless people.

Should "the system" really push capable people into valueless jobs at the cost of meaningful jobs that have no monetary value?
The op-ed (or the author) is right, that when this kind of language is used for big corporate broadcasts it always comes off as slimy, fake, long, inefficient fluff filled around sinister double-speak.

And it also got right that when workers hide behind this language others (and the work too) usually suffer.

Of course there never is "all general business speak". Every big company has a local lingo full of bullshit, acronyms, abbreviations, phrases and so on. HR, legal, CSR, marketing and sales - so basically pieces of broadcast style communication has a lot of similarity in them, but .. that's it.
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It’s not the consolidation of power by one man. Congress could pass a law to stop any of his executive orders anytime they wanted to. The court could stop a few of them.
I think they care more about a working prototype with a few users. Also, they care a lot about the team. Are you a solo founder?

For an official answer try to send an email to info@ycombinator.com
There is now an option to compile a binary, it uses GraalVM native-image technology

We're growing a scripting ecosystem in Clojure now thanks to this, it's still relatively new

As a newcomer, I've made several native binaries for different operation systems
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Well, no, we don't need to accept that cost, it's just a constraint for a concurrency model to choose, i.e. maximizing locality. Apart from that another big one for massively multicore systems is minimizing cross-core synchronization. You can meet both, just not with threads as your programming model.
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Yes, that's why the paragraph after the one under discussion starts out, "Translated into essay writing...". So the paragraph discussed in this thread is about interpersonal social behavior.
Shitty page.

Can't open the examples in different tabs, because somebody thought it would be a good idea to "appify" simple webpages like this.

To everyone considering it: I beg you to stop doing things like that. Please!
That's something I learned in my 20s that I wish I'd learned as a child.
I think you may have missed my point. Human labor of 10 workers costing $ 1+ million USD in total OpEx isn't as scalable as sending out 10,000 drones to collect samples. Drones that can return in 45 minutes, don't need lunch breaks, and don't have to find parking.

Industrial-scale sample processing -> putting more people a little farther down the pipeline to actually look at what's interesting rather than doing unnecessary/low-skill field work.
which market price are you talking about? There are several.
It's good to ask those questions, of course small companies are affected too.

But, for example, if Dang selectively removed posts such that the remaining posts slandered someone in a way that none of the individual posters intended, I believe Dang would be the only one in the chain liable for the resulting slander, not the posters. But under current law, Dang has protection under 230, so no one could get charged for the resulting slander

That's an extreme hypothetical case of course.
> Don’t quote...don’t archive

The risk is that somebody else quotes or archives an encrypted email you sent.
> As per my last email

Isn't this just the "As I've written in my last letter" for the e-mail era? Maybe it's just a cultural difference. (In my native language - and probably because of that in English too - I try use the verbs corresponding to the medium, so if I wrote to someone then I'll refer to that communication as "as you probably read" instead of "heard", and so on.)
> An important story to remember about Germany, is how Fukushima led the country to stop using nuclear power. Merkel has a PhD in physics, so naturally she understands that nuclear power is green and just better than renewable and coal.

Merkel was also the responsible minister for reactor safety. She understands the risks, too.

> But after Fukushima, she was forced to stop nuclear plants

No, the exit was long before decided. The conservative government was trying to exit from the exit. But that would had created mass protests. Then Fukushima happened and basically everyone went back to the already agreed exit.