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This particular name originates from BSD 4.2 [1], which was released in 1983. (For some context, GCC 1.0 is from 1987, pcc was used to build BSD 4.2. The first Linux release was 1991).

1: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/0f4556f...
What are you on about? While I don't really disagree with what you wrote, this article and interview has nothing to do conspiracy theories and their propagation through social media.
I think that was explained quite well in the article, and while the symbol has had a long history I think it is fair to say that these days the majority of people would see the symbol and think "Nazi".

Removing it feels like a reasonable thing to do, though I'd probably draw the line at chisel it off old-buildings, etc.
Which of the first 12 did not have a noble goal?
I just found my Aiwa HS-JX779 in perfect condition the other day. It was maybe the best prosumer portable cassette player/recorder ever made.
As somebody who is a descendant of slaves I feel like it's 1918 again and communist commissars are back with changing the language to support their delusions.
I really like the intention and good will behind the post but almost every part is incorrect (even on an abstract level not restricting to bitcoin).
I feel like OP is yet another someone who needed the keyword "blockchain expert" on his/her linkedin profile and trying to justify it now with misleading and incomplete information.
But then what do you do with that if you don't understand the causes? It could be a systemic bias in your algorithm. It could be that the apparent disparity is just confounders you haven't accounted for. It could be that some of the hosts are overtly racist. It could be any combination of any of these.

You can just A/B test it with random changes until it goes away, but that doesn't mean you solved the problem, only that you made the metric a target.

If the problem is that some of the hosts are overtly racist, you could make the disparity go away by creating an algorithmic bias the other way, but that's only increasing the overall unfairness. The racists are still there harming the people they harm, then you introduce an additional harm to some entirely different innocent people in unrelated transactions. That doesn't help the people originally being harmed because the undue beneficiaries of your changes are completely different people who just happen to be the same race as the original victims, which makes the numbers balance even though overall unfairness has gone up rather than down. The equivalent of "solving" cops killing disproportionately many innocent black people by having the cops kill more innocent white people.

Meanwhile if the problem was algorithmic bias to begin with then you still have to understand the specific means by which the bias operates, otherwise you're susceptible to doing the same thing. Your algorithm was improperly disadvantaging Chris to the benefit of Chaz, you modify it to additionally improperly disadvantage Anna to the benefit of Alicia, and now your numbers balance because Chaz and Anna are the same race and the harms cancel out for your metric, even though they don't cancel out in real life for the people affected because they're different people.

And if the problem was that you weren't correctly accounting for confounders then there wasn't a real racial disparity there to begin with, and by making the un-adjusted numbers balance you created one.

You have to actually understand the causes and mechanisms before you can devise a solution. Just having aggregate statistics doesn't do it.

I'm inclined to think that it actually makes it worse, because then people only care about the statistics. But the statistics can show a disparity when everything is fine because it's just confounders, and the statistics can show balance when everything is not fine when you're making multiple errors in different directions that sum to zero in aggregate but not for the people affected.
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Thinking Germany is homogenous just makes it obvious you've never been there. Germans in Germany are barely homogenous between east and west Germany not to mention the influx of immigrants from different time periods.
Yes. "Look at this cool thing MS/Google is doing!" and "Look at this evil thing MS/Google is doing!" can both be seen as trolly agenda comments and relevant ones, depending on where you stand.
Only prohibition, the war on drugs, #metoo, and BLM had noble goals. The rest were "the enemy is among us" fear based.

I suspect that the fallout from virtue signaling and bad actors taking advantage of #metoo and BLM probably won't be too bad; certainly not on the same level as the rest.
That's an interesting view about it being hostile to copying. I suppose it often is because it needs practical experience. I often hear that "real world" term used to prop up the status of uneducated people by making their knowledge seem superior and inaccessible to educated people since they can't compete on conventional valuable knowledge such as scientific, engineering, or business.
Slips first eeprom into the tube. Falls out the other end. Another 5 minutes of life gone.

Dijkstra would have been even crankier if he'd lived an another 15 years.
I think the author has got it all wrong.

You are supposed to trust Google.

And when your browser says 'Google' - you know it is all good.
Yes, this is a point that is usually neglected. People search for recipes online and assume they will all work. The flour is very different across the world. You can easily get Indian flours in the UK, but it's quite hard to find French and impossible to find American (it is considered not fit for human consumption due to the bleaching process).
Thank you. That makes much more sense to me. I found this[1] video with an efficient explanation and visualization.

[1]. https://youtu.be/Ziz7t1HHwBw
Hey. Johnny-as-in-Decimal here. Thanks for the mention, I'm always happy to see someone making use of the system.

There's lots of work in progress on the site and the system, I just need to find more time. In the mean time, always happy to help. Contact details are on the site.
Good point. Structural Engenieers don't tend to follow newsletters written by someone without a degree living in his parents basement.
Well if you find someone doing a math newsletter or paper without a degree but a certain knowledge that one quickly climbs academic ranks.

This leaves me thinking that economics is more about assuming and musings than about verifiable facts
NYT article is paywalled
I'm much more likely to upvote a post if it's grey, and much less likely to downvote it. I think you'd see a lot more downvoting if you removed the grey effect.
As a german, I think this is mostly a problem with American culture and law being exported globally through their monopolist tech giants. I used to think that the german youth protection laws regarding sexual content where over the top, but now the disconnect between the lived sexualized reality of teenagers and the public and the representation of it in the "social" media is bizarre.
Option 1 is people forgot, option 2 is they reserved judgment, finding it inconclusive, and option 3 is they don't regard Bloomberg as a monolith.

At least, those are the possibilities that I can think of, and I think they could plausibly cover most people.
The parent commenter may have meant why not use a low-power FM transmitter for your own mobility needs (source to FM transmitter to any FM radio)? They are cheap and ubiquitous now.
With an average utilization of 10% of ICU's during this flu season this argument is moot.

More likely is that they did better nursing homes protections, or just had less dangerous Virus variants than in the west. I don't see any other advantages of the German system affecting this year's flu pandemic. It's better of course. But mostly irrelevant.
I wish there was more commander keen games
AMP is disliked by privileged people who have never experienced how truly awful browsing the web with a bad internet connection can be.
Scuba diver accidentally discovers prehistoric industrial complex in Mexico
Just hearing about this from the thread, I'm getting a IPFS vibe from this. It would be interesting to see that tech get more native integration with the browser from this idea.
This is hard to understand for someone not familiar with Gopher, but I’m interested in how menus are handled.

I’ve always wished browsers handle site menus in their chrome, so that the document can be focused on content not navigation. It’s the browsers job!

For a while Opera supported these related links in the head for some pages but the dev was unable to add their own, it was limited to a small number of standard items such as Index. These were shown in a browser toolbar.

Nonstandard navigation have always been a point of friction for users as it precludes universal access by having to relearn how each site works.
AMP is faster? I’ve never been on an AMP page where I didn’t eventually need to go to the actual site to get the full content. So it’s really just an annoying step between me and the content I searched for.

It’s been one of the primary things that’s driven me away from google and into DDG. I don’t really care about privacy enough to leave google, but I end up leaving more and more of their services because their competition is just less annoying.
Honestly I would advise against this for beginning coders. It's very "magical" -- there's no easy way to see how the text translates into a UI. It gives them no additional understanding of GUIs at all, really.

Whenever you encounter a new programming topic for the first time, it helps a lot if you encounter it in a fairly universal format.

I'm not sure about Python, but in most languages, there are simple GUI libraries that accomplish both of your goals: exciting students with interactive programs and helping them more deeply understand how GUIs are usually built and maintained.
When you characterize a perfectly easy-to-understand analogy as "equating" you leave room for only two possibilities: 1) You're bad at analogy, or 2) You're making a bad-faith argument. I don't see how that trick would work ever, but of all places, it won't work here. The thing to do would be to argue the point, not to argue a fake point based on pretending not to know what an analogy is. Moving on. I actually liked the idea in your first paragraph. Too bad you had to spend the middle one alienating me.

Finally, it's not a 180 someone would be turning. Things are never, if you'll pardon the expression, so black and white. Surprisingly, racists are actually complex human beings with whole lives and shit, not some shallow caricature of pure evil who needs to turn 180° to be "good." Probably I'm some kind of heretic already just for suggesting a racist might not be pure evil, and I reek of, and it smacks of, and the vibe I'm getting is. But yeah I'll bet it's more like a 10° turn in most cases. And it's a turn of a vessel that, at age 18, really doesn't have much weight or momentum to it either. And yes I firmly believe exposure to the people they're biased against is one of the few things that will change them or make them see that racism makes no sense. Call it osmosis if you like; it's how humans learn from each other. Shrieking & judging just makes them hate you along with whomever they already hate. I've certainly done enough of that myself, though on other causes, but with predictably bad results. I still like the "prove you've reformed" thing though.
Interesting, though the barrier for users to install a new app seems to be very high these days. Most people only install a few necessary apps and thats it.
In addition, we are talking about publishers here. There are thousands of news sites, no user has more than a couple of news apps. That’s why they have to keep up their website anyway, with or without amp.
You being interested in that flight while others aren't isn't an example of socioeconomic inequality, exposed or otherwise. And your responses are full of personal vitriol. Let's end it here.
Each node independently comes to the new difficulty on their own in an entirely deterministic way.

After 2 weeks there should be 2016 blocks mined, 1 block every 10 minutes. After each 2 week period every node recalculates the new difficulty based on the actual number of blocks mined in the last 2 weeks. If the actual number of blocks produced was 25% higher than the target of 2016, then simply increase the difficulty by 25%.
I believe that they exist today.

They leverage their power and connections to remain anonymous and away from public scrutiny.
> unless cardiac function is correlated with covid susceptibility

Chronic heart disease is a factor associated with higher risk of COVID-19-related hospital death, https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.06.20092999v... gives a hazard ratio of 1.27 adjusted for all the many other factors they looked at.

So yes, it looks to me like at least some of what this Ford study measured was indeed that difference between people with pre-existing conditions dying at a higher rate than people without.
The klaxxon one is pretty good.
My understanding of QM is very naive, but Schrodinger equation seems really simple to me. I could probably even explain it to a 5 year old. I'd show a few pictures of standing waves on a drum surface: the first two energy levels create simple shapes, higher levels create more sophisticated shapes. Then I'd say that an electron is such a wave. Then I'd introduce the idea of electric potential: I'd put a heavy thing in the center and say that this is how the atom's nucleus warps the electric field; and this changes the wave patterns somewhat, but the idea remains the same. Then I'd say that often multiple standing waves mix together and we get a quasipattern that oscillates between a few standing waves. That's really it.
That's always the go-to argument (I literally had someone say "rock crushing business" when talking about this issue). The standard should be are they disturbing your quiet enjoyment of your property?

If not then mind your own damn business.
In a French bank 10 years ago, their e-banking system was recording the actual values you typed in, their order in your 6 digit PIN, and your username. The logs were dropped on a share drive so that backup can pick them up. The shared drive was read only to "Everyone".

IT fought hard and long on the risk of this whole 'setup'. They agreed when I reconstructed 5 PINs (I stopped at 5, point was made). CTO was cool about this, insisting "what are the odds of this happening?" COO & CEO had a totally different (more sensible) opinion.
It is computed using only information embedded in the block chain, specifically the timestamps of blocks 2016 * i and 2016 * (i+1).
I don't want to detract anything, I just find it absurd. You can call me what you want, don't really care at this point.
How strange that "Seeing is believing" still holds even with gravitational waves, which aren't electromagnetic phenomena. Human nature :)
This has already happened in China, where Baidu (The Chinese equivalent of Google) can’t crawl any articles from WeChat (The Chinese equivalent of Medium), as a result, the usefulness of its search result has deteriorated significantly. Recently, Baidu has been trying to start its own publishing platform with little success.
By reading the source code?

def divisors(n):
for d in range(1, n):
if n % d == 0:
yield d

n = 1
while True:
if n == sum(divisors(n)):
break
n += 2
print(n)

I don’t know if this program halts. But I’m pretty sure it won’t steal my data and send it to third parties. Why? Because at no point does it read my data or communicate with third parties in any way: it would have to have those things programmed into it for that to be a possibility. At no point I had to solve the halting problem to know this.

Also, if I execute a program and it does exhibit that behaviour, that’s a proof right there.

The same kind of analysis can be applied to Google’s scripts: look what data it collects and where it pushes data to the outside world. If there are any undecidable problems along the way, then Google has no plausible deniability that some nefarious behaviour is possible. Now, whether that is a practical thing to do is another matter; but the halting problem is just a distraction.
I think the first question is:

- Do you want to pay fair

- do you want to maximize value for your money

- or do you want to hire from the pool of the top 10% world wide?

max value: you hire for little money from poorer nations

top 10%: you adjust to local rates

fair: here it gets philosophical... I'll probably go with you pay everyone the same, which probably again means you'll not hire from rich countries.
> The term "virtue signalling" is a derogatory term for something that every person does in pretty much every form of communication.

There are different virtues though. A lot of online debate is between those who want to signal intelligence and those who want to signal morality. I'm on the former side, as intelligence signaling gave us civilization, while morality signaling is mostly about painting targets on people.
A common slogan these days is "Silence is violence.".
Ask HN: Is there any interest in a “curated” online store?
I'm currently working on a side project. Is there any interest in a website that directs you to trusted online stores based on what you're looking for? For example, if you search "oven mitt" it will bring up results from Bed Bath & Beyond and Target (or some other "trusted" store). If you search for "headphones" it will bring up results directly from headphone manufacturer websites.

My motivation for this project is to solve the problem of fake products on Amazon and eBay, but I'm not sure how big a problem this is for other people. (Please be as skeptical as possible!)
Another vote for Ian Stewart's book, or any other of his books. I discovered them at the end of high school and devoured them during the summer before college.
Did I just admit I was a nerd? Tough. I'm proud of it.
> How is a network protocol proof against being used to transport CSS files? Does the network stack inspect what you're shipping and ensure you're only sending 100% Pure Plain Text?

It's just like the web, the transport protocol (HTTP/S) can be used on any file. But there is a separate spec for the document format (HTML etc.). You could transport CSS over Gemini, just don't expect any of the browsers to render it. Just like how web browsers won't execute alternate scripting languages natively.

> Isn't that TCP's job? Is this person saying Gemini doesn't use TCP?

I didn't really elaborate on this point while writing, because I had nothing to add. I will quote from the projects FAQ:

>> Gemini has no support for caching, compression, or resumption of interrupted downloads. As such, it's not very well suited to distributing large files, for values of "large" which depend upon the speed and reliability of your network connection.

Hopefully that clears up what I meant.

> Back in the Gopher days, my "Gemini browser" would be my Web browser.

You might be interested in Castor[1]. It's a browser for the minimalist internet. Rolls support for Gemini, Gopher and Finger all in one.

I can understand why FF removed support. But hopefully smaller applications, like Castor, can fill this gap.

[1]: https://sr.ht/~julienxx/Castor/
Thanks. Given that this relies on subjective timestamps, is this really entirely deterministic? I can imagine that one node counted 2014 blocks in the past two weeks, another 2015. What happens in such cases?
Quote from project FAQ:

> Gemini has no support for caching, compression, or resumption of interrupted downloads. As such, it's not very well suited to distributing large files, for values of "large" which depend upon the speed and reliability of your network connection.

https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.html
I feel like the lack of image support is a missed opportunity.

I know it is an idealogical choice to only have text, but being able to embed standard image formats (on a totally plain, non fancy way) would increase the utility of this hugely. They mention blogs and tutorials and recipes here - those would benefit hugely from having simple inline images within the body of the text, just like you expect in a newspaper etc.

I guess I am not the target market then.
But aren't blockchain timestamps unreliable? It was my understanding that difficulty was based on subjective node timestamps..
If you discard any quantum computing, this is similar to the plot to the series of novels starting with "Off to Be the Wizard" by Scott Meyer. A fun, quick little read about a person who discovers the source database of reality, and then promptly starts messing with it.
One of the issues with modelling queue semantics over a database is performance. All that locking, key lookups and mutating of B trees is expensive.

The latest generation of durable messaging systems that offer queue semantics do so by modelling those semantics over a distributed, replicated log, such as Apache Pulsar and RabbitMQ's new replicated queue type called Quorum Queues.

A queue is different to a log in that reading from a queue is destructive, but reading from a log is not. So if I have two applications (shipping and auditing) that want a queue with all the shipping orders in, then each needs their own queue - so they don't compete over the messages. Whereas a log can be read by both, but both need to track their independent position in the log.

Apache Pulsar offers queue semantics to shipping and auditing by storing the shipping orders in one distributed log (a topic) and creating two separate subscriptions (also logs) that track the position (like Kafka consumer offsets). The destructive read of a queue is simulated by advancing the cursor (offset) of the subscription. The performance improvement this append-only log data structure offers compared to a mutable B-tree of the RBDMS is massive.

Quorum queues do it a different way, but still modelling queue semantics over a log.

Of course some future RDBMS storage backend wouldn't have to use B-trees and read_past locking etc, it could also use a log based data structure for message storage too.
It's like a cosplayer thinking they really are Luke Skywalker or whatever anime thing they love. No you just spent a lot of money on a fantasy. It's good the cosplayers don't forget this. Sad the billionaires do.
Gemini documents can contain lines that are text or lines that are links - so a menu looks like a list of links, one per line.
That was really not my point, my point is that once you’re a wizard in azure operations those skills won’t transfer to AWS. Similarly to how a windows admin can’t automatically use his/her skills as a Linux sysadmin and vice versa.

Maybe the switch isn’t too bad for small customers, but in enterprise where people spend years specialising and obtaining and renewing certificates you can’t just transfer your staff members between the cloud services without a major retraining investment, in which you’ll likely loose your best staff because there is a reason they chose to spend all those years on your previous service.
But the real target is google.com.

I just made https://sites.google.com/view/whalefacts, took me literally ten seconds, confirmed it was accessible from multiple IPs and multiple browsers.

Google wants to be a content host and an ad broker and a search engine. Each of these is reasonable in isolation. Yet you can search on google, and Google will serve you an ad linking to a google.com site, and that site scams you out of money. This isn't theoretical, I know because my family was hit.

Screenshot if it gets taken down: https://i.imgur.com/T6hVHr5.png
Could you give some examples of what is incorrect?
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