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>what is the selling point of an ARM server? .....Are they significantly cheaper per GHzcore?

In the context of AWS.

They are cheaper per some / specific workload* on AWS.

Especially when ARM Graviton 2's vCPU on AWS are actual CPU core while Intel / AMD instances are CPU thread.

And in general AWS offers the G2 instances with the same vCPU core at 20% discount compared to AMD / Intel instances.
No problem, it's a fantastic way to use SSH, I'm just glad it exists.
Use hey.com to create burner emails and start spamming DHH with them
The way to make yourself safer is to move to one of the few American cities and towns with walking and transit-oriented development.

Seriously!

You'll spend a fewer hours in the car risking car accident death. A family can easily downsize to one car or less.

You'll also spend more time getting light exercise by walking to the bus/train, walking to the store, walking for enjoyment.

You'll also save from no longer buying an expensive, depreciating asset. Sure, maybe your housing cost is higher in a city like this - but your house doesn't lose value like a car.

It's also more pleasant to live in. I love the rural areas, and I love the cities, but the suburbs are just the worst of both worlds.
No Propeller? No Problem. This Blimp Flies on Buoyancy Alone
While there has been so many pushes like this to remove the words of slavery from our consciousness, it's important to be conscious of the fact that there are more people living in slavery right now than ever before in history.
Yawn. Boring. I'd rather discuss his actual ideas than his misuse by party politics bullshitters.
I think this is a pretty solid acquisition by google. I have doubts that the tech from North will be able to match the tech in the "upcoming" apple ar glasses, but things will probably eventually match up, like Android and iOS.
I went with the commercial C-frame with a 60” desk and I think the 4 legged version would be overkill. I have a 27” iMac sitting on a 4U rack monitor stand filled with devices and probably around 30 pounds of music equipment on top of the desk and it feels consistently stable with no strain when changing heights. Unless you are putting seriously heavy stuff on top I don’t think you need 4 legs.

No CPU holder, but I got the retractable keyboard tray. At the lowest height (under 24”), it collides with the crossbar when fully pushed back. This never impacts me because it is well below the lowest height setting I use for sitting and can’t imagine it being an issue for anyone else. If the CPU holder collides with the crossbar, though, it’d probably happen at an unacceptable height. I would check the dimensions of everything before purchase.

For my purposes, I have an an additional desktop machine I simply keep on the floor by the desk.
I would assume the agent caches the key for signing.

Would someone please confirm this? If it did require another key press that would be pretty huge.
Sure. The basic idea is that signer can choose a ECDSA nonce (k) that they know, and leak the private key. If I choose a known nonce for my signature, I can recover the private key from the published transaction instantly. With some ECDSA magic, you can even produce a nonce that is only recoverable with another key that you hold. So a hardware wallet for example can backdoor transactions to leak the seed through the signature, or a specific key, or put any data there that they wish. The "offline signing" defense is only good for one way, as there's always data leaving the system which you can't easily audit.

This is only detectable if you have multiple signers signing the same transaction using the same private key and the same method for generating the nonce, and you compare them before broadcasting. So perhaps using hardware wallets from 3 manufacturers which all implement bit-identical implementations of the signer (with RFC6070 deterministic signatures), and treating the signed transaction as a private key leak until you've verified they all match.

For ECDSA a single bit bias in the nonce, or a single bit leakage of the nonce through other methods is enough to completely break the cryptography. So we could have hardware wallets that produce otherwise impeccable transactions and signatures, but leak a bit of the nonce in the ordering of the outputs, the lock time, the sequence numbers, and that would still be enough to steal all of the funds.

This stuff is trickier to get right than most people imagine.
I wonder what happens if you compare driving to other activities, by stretching them out to the 3-4 trillion miles - but in time and then compare death rates. E.g. taking swimming 2hrs per day (maybe equivalent to the 2-3 hrs spent in cars daily). Higher or lower death rates?
An interesting instance of the self-selection problem seems to show up if you select small 4-door 2017 cars. The Nissan Juke 2WD has a death rate of 12; the 4WD version of the same car has a death rate of 65. I have trouble believing that there's a significant difference in the cars themselves, so it seems likely that people who would buy a 2WD small SUV are a significantly different demographic than those who would buy a 4WD small SUV.
Is there a self-hosted alternative to Substack?
That strikes me as more of an implementation detail. Day-to-day cryptocurrency use still requires a level of technical sophistication my grandma isn't comfortable with.
I don't buy it precisely because I worked in high-trust teams back before videoconferencing. We only had telephone and fax/email.
The URL structure of my blog has changed so much over the years and I have subjected my subscribers to so many 404s that it made me put everything in a self-hosted pastebin for peace of mind. All I have to do is keep that pastebin alive and the domain renewed and my content will be preserved well into the future.

I've still yet to find a registrar that promises to keep a domain renewed past the 10-year limit though. The closest service I found is Mark Monitor but that seems to cater for large companies / corporations who need to protect their intellectual property (and it's expensive!). Can't have someone registering apple.com when it expires!
Drug companies don't charge american prices outside of this country - they barely charge sticker price within this country. Whatever country you live in in the developing world, the price that Gilead sets for you will undoubtedly be used by politicians here in the US to attack Gilead for overcharging here, asking how it is that they charge thousands of dollars in the US while they only charge a few bucks or even zero dollars through royalty free licensing in [insert country here].
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> In Emacs, it's enough only to remember basic movement shortcuts. The rest of commands could be discovered easily with M-x and which-keys.

afaik every modern IDE has this discoverability functionality. I use shift-shift and control-control autocomplete command menus all the time in JetBrains.
No. All the examples except the Karl Marx one are ridiculous, yet you can find ample evidence of them all via Twitter.

Is there a logical fallacy for 'adjacent?' It probably falls under straw man but it might have a specific name.
> First of all, you are not allowed to have a German account if you are not a resident of Germany.

Of course you are! Have you never heard of N26? And even some traditional banks will happily have you as a non-resident customer.
Thanks for the mention! The book is free to read online and was updated to ECMAScript 2020 last week.
It does check the code signature. However, it's not a "deep check". The problem with doing a deep check, including all of the apps Resources, is that this can be very resource intensive, depending on the app. It's the reason why Xcode takes forever to "verify" on first launch. If there was a deep code signature check on every TCC check, you would see a lot of very long pauses.
This reminds me of an essay on Ribbonfarm about legibility[1] and the construction of cities based on a false sense of order. See [2] for a discussion on this.

[1]: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-call...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21996377
Contemplating the Python Range Function
Yes. Here's what AWS' page says

> deliver significant cost savings over other general-purpose instances for scale-out applications such as web servers, containerized microservices, data/log processing, and other workloads that can run on smaller cores and fit within the available memory footprint.

> provide up to 40% better price performance over comparable current generation x86-based instances1 for a wide variety of workloads,

From what I read, it's not terribly hard to tell your compiler to compile for a particular instruction set, you just need to do it. Cost savings and better performance are great incentives, as well as Apple moving their Mac platform to it will drive more market share for developers to take the time to recompile.

Edit: Forgot to add the source of those quotes: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/
The idea here of how you furnish a place in the US doesn't match my personal experience. He does mention Craigslist in passing, but simultaneously dismisses it, but I think that's a bit trite. We bought a ton of fixtures, furniture, and even construction materials from Craigslist, St. Vinnies, and our local Habitat for Humanities and saved a pile of cash. We didn't deal with the whole big-box experience. Furniture is similarly dealt with.

Even before Craigslist, there were old fashioned classified adverts and garage sales which weren't as convenient as a single giant market, but gave us options.

From the sounds of it, our luck with Craigslist/ second hand sources was just about as good as his was in Ecuador with one out of our many purchases being a bit of a disappointment.

Also, this paragraph bothered me:

> Here, the process always involves a drive to a big-box store (few of these are convenient via transit, especially if you need to make multiple stops), a credit check, some paperwork to commit to a multi-month payment plan, a scheduled delivery a week or two out, and often some hassle with the delivery company requiring a phone call in which I sit on hold.

I don't pay for anything other than my car/ house on monthly payments and nobody should. This article is more a criticism of the US culture of debt rather than looking at what options we genuinely have. We've always had the option to pay in cash and not deal with the financing, it's just a bit less convenient. Likewise, if you are willing to deal with second hand goods, we have the option to get second hand goods, you just have to search a bit harder to find them.

Really, the big difference between experiences is the expectation in the US that you will have your own transportation, and that is the real story here in my eyes. In Ecuador public Transportation and casual truck rental works. In the US, it's quite a bit tougher to exist without a reliable car or truck.

I also don't understand why he dismisses CL, yard sales, and recycling stores out of hand because they are right up his "Inefficient, but Smart" alley.
Not that I know beyond the stack I mentioned in my article. Ghost is another one that comes to mind.
Oh is that what the "anonymize this key" is? If the website requires attestation, authentication might fail, but no website should require attestation, maybe unless you explicitly got the key from them (like a bank).
> Forget Google, time to end the Visa-MasterCard duopoly

It's bad idea to forget "issue 1" and focusing on "issue 2".

Both issues are major.
Not taking a stance is sort of weak. Most of the time bureaucracy exists to crush those who don't have the time and money to play by the rules; think of regulatory capture. Similarly in CS, you'll see a lot of companies with "standardized" overly complicated Java business code so they can hire fresh devs out of college and not actually have to invest a lot of money in hiring and retaining a development team. Something that could be written in 1k lines takes 400k and is actually very difficult to work on, but at least they don't pay any devs over $100,000, which is really what they're optimizing for.
Why not use something like onnx?

https://onnx.ai/
They did with Intel Custom Foundry. They tried and they failed. And they currently have no intention to try that again. At least not until they admit defeat. Which is going to take at least another few years if not longer.
TBF if single sign on is implemented correctly and you use the same email address across your accounts then it shouldn't matter which SSO you're using.

When you log in for the first time it should request permission to "see your email address". Then you authenticate with your provider and get redirected back at which point the website should create an account for you on behalf of that email address. If next time you log in again via a complete different provider which has the same email address then it should just work. I mean that is the whole point of this...
Alright man and piss is stored in the balls
Yes, I have a PhD in cryptography and designed two of the first privacy-preserving extensions to Bitcoin. Bitcoin provides pseudonymity. If no other information can be inferred about a transaction from other sources, users may be able to protect their privacy. In practice this is extremely challenging, and the information leakage this post is discussing is highly unnecessary, and a weakness of Bitcoin.
Hong Kong security law revealed – violators may face life imprisonment
Of course! The red LED is actually fairly dim, it's designed for pilots trying to read charts while flying at night!

I got it for use with a telescope for looking operating a telescope without losing night vision.
> humans should be as free as capital.

Capital doesn't put a drain on the social welfare systems of the country you're sending it to.
OT: Indeed, a good dictatorship is better than any democracy, but it doesn't work in practice because for every Augustus there's 10 Caligula.

Democracy is just the least worse political system.
It reads more like a patent description than telling me what it's for.
Reading the docs, snapshotting/versioning doesn't strike me as a major feature of perkeep. It's more important and appropriate in the domain of backup software (e.g. restic/attic/borg) and where you'd want it together with delete functionality to reclaim space.

But perkeep's focus, as I understand it, is more on managing an unstructured collection of immutable things (e.g. photo archive), rather than being a tool to back up your mutable filesystem. So I'm not sure they made a good design decision to chunk the sh*t out of my files, which really kills the performance on large files and especially on spinning disks.
Ghost.org has membership features and email integration.

Could use the substation theme: https://substation.rdnthemes.com
You can always report the event to the FBI if you feel threatened. They often can't do much, but I had a GF who was being harassed. A llquick call from the FBI agent to inform him he was borderline illegal behavior stopped it in its tracks.

But if this is how their CEO operates, they won't last long. I've been hearing only negative reviews and news. Hey is a fad and will go away, probably like one of those startups that never quits their idea even though they lost from the get go.
Agreed. I'm tracking a 7 year old bug to support `<input type="month" />` that's probably an easy win, given the foundation work is completed by supporting other date input formats.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=888320
The article reminds me of a story from a friend that was an engineer at a major water heater company. Modern electric water heaters are already fairly efficient, but every model gets tested by the government to be given an efficiency rating.

The test consists of replacing the anode with a rod that has a series of temperature probes to measure the water at different levels in the water heater. Since water would form layers of different temperatures you needed measure at multiple locations to know the overall energy in the water. Then a series of water draws are performed with pauses between them and the total energy used is compared to the energy delivered.

Our engineer realized that if he could put the temperature layers at just the right locations then the calculations with the limited number of probes could be skewed. And this can be done by tweaking the height of the 2 heating elements. Just moving them a few inches.

The first time he tried this, an internal test came back at 101% efficiency. At little more tweaking and the test returns a consistent 99.x% that was respectable.
> My impression is that the people who argue against central planning always rationalize backwards from a pre-established conclusion.

If you study the origins of central planning and the birth of the progressive movement in the early 20th century, you'll see that private capital loved central planning. Notions of ultimate efficiency through experts directing organizations through central planning went hand-in-hand with a lot of evil stuff. The obsession with perfection through "science" and tending to the "societal organism" was really contra the idea of free markets, individual rights, etc. They drew on evolution in precisely the worst way(narcissism and hubris).

Whereas Hayek draws on evolution to say that culture and society develops through independent actors discovering traditions, organizations, etc. Through the observation of many people/organizations attempting things and either failing or succeeding, society picks up things to copy and reproduce - the lesson being that we can't direct evolution, it emerges!
Does anyone know of a way to objectively compare safety ratings between different eras of cars?

The standards for safety ratings change periodically, and great strides have been made in safety. I'm curious how much risk I'd remove by upgrading from a 2010 to a 2015 or 2018.

Driver death data [1] mentioned below may be the best source, just curious if there are any others.

Also, [2] is a really interesting crash test between a 1998 Corolla and a 2015 Auris (rebranded Corolla).

[1] https://www.iihs.org/ratings/driver-death-rates-by-make-and-...

[2] https://youtu.be/IVEjsvip8kc
Decade of sun: NASA captured 425M photos of the sun and made a time lapse
Are you saying Joe interviewed a white supremacist? Who?
Show HN: Funny, Human-Memorable SHA-256 Fingerprints
Some of it may be woo, but searching Google Scholar for photobiomodulation does seem to bring up some legit looking journal articles.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5215795/
This is a really solid piece; it's unfortunate that it's written in a way that pushes a specific narrative view; and I would be interested in what the writing would have been like on another 'intellectual' site like Nautilus or Aion.

While he doesn't outright say that anthropogenic climate change is a thing, it's there. Hidden behind a paragraph telling you how he was supportive of the Sandinista movement in Nicaragua - which, unfortunately, for a large portion of quillette's audience puts him in the camp of "I was a radical anarcho leftist, I've defected." Hidden in the weeds about how we've taken institutional and systemic steps to reduce emissions. Hidden behind a reasonable common sense path to reduce carbon emissions (wood -> coal -> petrol -> ng -> nuclear).
Swedish Covid-19 study: 220% higher mortality in immigrant communities
I pre-ordered this after seeing Kanna speak at DevFest Memphis -- solid advice for anyone trying to break in to dev!
Yeah, if you're fully buying into BTC, doing BTC transfer makes obvious sense.

I was trying to see which is cheaper for the use case of "I hold USD in the US, I want to spend it locally as HKD in Hong Kong", which I think is what pbhjpbhj is asking.
You can guarantee that the system apps haven't been tampered with, at their system file paths, because of System Integrity Protection. But all bets are off if you make a copy of a system app elsewhere on the disk.
Qualcomm Announces New Snapdragon Wear 4100 and 4100: 12nm A53 Smartwatches
What's the demonstration trying to show here?

Those things frustrate me in interviews, I can think of 4 ways to immediately do it but I know for a fact they only have 1 way written down and it's my job to guess it. If I say "you can make a field" and they have zero knowledge of number theory well my chances go right out the window.

To them I obviously have a "wrong" answer. They ask you to be clever but only in some proscribed secret way that they have no intention of disclosing. Nonsense.

If instead I respectfully show them the multiple ways, it's still naturally "combative" because there's no other way to reliably answer the question.

They're just asking for experience to fail. They're looking for something who coached themselves, not someone who actually knows anything.

No wonder silicon valley is awash in cargo cult driven shit software. Look at the process.

Yet again an interview process that selects for dimwits.

Might as well guess what number they're thinking of
> Programs like the "war on drugs", the "war on cancer", the "war on obesity" and the "war on terror" would suggest otherwise

Because declaring “war on something” isn't political action in itself, it's electoral communication. How many times did the US government perquisionned Ivy league colleges or trading desks to seek cocaine? Why not ? And why are the US still cooperating with Saudis and other gulf states if they really cared about terrorism? And for the health issue wars you mensionned, the government has zero political will to shut down the huge agro-industrial complex which has a big responsibility in both.

Hitler once said to somebody complaining about the inflation risk caused by his policies: “I'm gonna send the SA in the grossery shops, and will'll see if there is inflation”.
"I’d challenge you to remember what Demetris urged: listening to others with empathy is not about debating or questioning someone else’s experience."

A great quote, very well summarizes most of the discussions I had with borderline argumentative developers.
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 on my laptop and desktop. I haven't tried in the browser, but the installed app seems to work well for me on both.
(speaking only for myself, not my employer)

I truly do not care if someone goes through the effort to MITM my curl of ec2.shop to inject fake prices or something like that.

There's nothing here that's going to be executed, it'll just be printed or grepped.

In theory you could exploit a 0 day in curl or my terminal or something like that, but I think if you truly think about the risks and tradeoffs here it's really not worth worrying about.

If curl had an hsts list to make this irrelevant that'd also be cool.
Redis is extremely simple to scale. Treat each instance in a cluster as wholly independent from other instances, and build a thin layer on top to implement whatever sharding and availability requirements your use case requires. I've done it many times and it's always been simple and worked brilliantly. Redis's predictability makes it a joy to operate.
Compared to scrum, pretty much any other, quite honestly. The majority of teams I was in did not used named process and for the most part I was alright. Usually there were bigger tasks assigned to people or smaller areas of responsibilities.

For the record, I did not liked when leader had micromanagement/dictatorship tendencies either.
Building relationships with brokers that allow you to move billions of dollars "for free" is hard and expensive.
Maybe switch to tea?

https://www.packet.com/cloud/servers/c2-large-arm/
I'm definitely a "do something early in the morning" type -- whether it's working out or writing. I'd rather wake up early, do some writing, and then go for a workout afterwards.

And to your point -- I'm one of those people who can't nap. Napping messes me up. I can feel my hormones sloshing and bending me around.

To each their own, of course.