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Educate yourself please. This narrow worldview is disingenuous and does you no Good.

Black is positive in finance.
I've been using Fedora since Fedora Core 15 and never stumbled across dnf shell. What's an example of using it to avoid conflicts?
Another great one! Thank you for the great reads :)
Apple's has much better CPU core budget than Qualcomm's counterpart. Before 5G, All Qualcomm's SoC has integrated Modem within. Mean while Apple has Modem as separate piece of Silicon.

ARM has been very up front about it. It is not that they cant design much higher IPC CPU Core, they are designing around the transistor budget that their customers are focusing.
This timeless blog written two years ago still holds true and will hold true in the future

https://medium.com/@qroshan/block-chain-solving-imaginary-pr...
Also discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23819763

It's a pity there's no duplicate article button so that mods can be alerted to mark articles as such or merge the discussion.
... after dropping 80% from the peak
Light = white
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I didn't ask for an explanation. As this was one of a huge number of errors, much more than is typical, I skipped straight to making demands.
I see that Teams has full Linux support. I am glad.
FTA:

> In China, we use wheat, corn, and soybeans statistics to represent dryland crops that are grown more or less similarly (and at the very least, very differently from paddy rice). [...] Thus, we say “wheat” for simplicity, but this also includes crops like millet and corn.
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And a favorite derivative thereof, high fructose corn syrup.
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted.

Seropositive tests have show the vast majority develop an immune response, how long that lasts we don’t know, but even if it’s only 6 months, that will reduce spread. You don’t create an epidemic plan based on edge cases.

And it’s important to note that the tests are looking for viral RNA. Viral RNA can be found even if virus are inactivated in the absence of an active infection or the shedding of active viruses.
Bad actors, especially competent ones, already have access to this knowledge by way of their own networks, communities, and independent research. The only thing hiding it does is prevent the good guys from finding ways to defend against it.
Not OP, but I would say:

(1) Tether is largely orthogonal to bitcoin. It's a way to trade USD more quickly over the internet, which isn't really related to bitcoin, besides the underlying technology is similar.

(2) I don't know much about the 2017 run-up in terms of price manipulation. I think Ethereum was more impacted than bitcoin, but of course both experienced price surges and crashes. Is there any public info available on this?
Looks like my neighbors are huge fans of some nasty pr0n.
>18 of those will have permanent heart damage for the rest of their lives.

Adding critical context: Nearly half of americans are obese and/or have heart disease, and ~650,000 are killed by it each year.

How much lower would all those numbers be if americans simply exercised and ate healthy on a regular basis?
All true. Problem is that single-threaded latency minimization has been tapped out for a long time now. Physics says No. Memory is high-latency because of the speed of light. Larger caches have diminishing returns. Clocks can't go faster without melting the chips. There is no more prediction and pipelining to be dug out of a serial stream of instructions.

We can still add more transistors. But, there is nowhere for them to contribute but in going wider. High latency, high throughput. High concurrency and careful management of the memory hierarchy are the only ways to pull that off. When you accept that fate, you start out with the Cell processor and you pass through Nvidia's Ampere chip --which has somewhat more thread independence and better automatic caching than past GPUs, but also finally gained manual async DMAs to local SRAM like the Cell had. Where we'll end up, I don't know.
> In my experience, almost always the version that gets published is identical to the final "camera ready" version I submit after peer review.

This is actually a bad thing, and a sign of standards slipping. Even if one uses a LaTeX template there are all kinds of quality-typesetting nuances that many authors are not aware of: where non-breaking spaces are necessary, proper hyphenation of foreign-language names, en dashes instead of hyphens in ranges, etc. I have seen so many publications in maths and sciences where the author was expected to provide camera-ready copy and the final result was sloppy.

I agree that learned societies can do a great job of publishing journals and Festschriften, and it is the norm in my own field where our learned societies never handed over their journals to a for-profit publisher. But I am happy that in my own field one's submissions still get hands-on work by trained copyeditors and typesetters so that the final result is perfect regardless of the author's own typesetting competence.
I agree with you. I wouldn't be able to make a cellphone from scratch in a million years, but I have researched where they come from, and have settled on only using secondhand units, so that I am not directly complicit to everything which goes into making one.

I've developed a similar stance to most products, and have largely abandoned spending money, exactly because factory farming is not that much different from making a cheap T-shirt, if not worse, in terms of cruelty and environmental damage.
Different parts of the brain actually do different things. So... which 10%?

We're always using a % of our brain, but it's constantly shifting around which regions are active.
Odd that you should take the time to reply to me and not to the person who actually took the time to counter your argument in detail and with references. Why is that?
Thinks are very different here in Seattle. No one I know is gathering with anyone indoors. You might have a couple friends over and stay outside, but indoor gatherings with multiple people are shocking insanity and just wouldn't happen.
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Both the Bombe replica and Colossus are now technically part of the National Museum of Computing rather than the Bletchley Park exhibits. But yes, check the opening times to ensure you can just see everything unless you live very nearby.

Colossus is more interesting not only from a Computing History point of view but also cryptographically.

Engima, though more famous, was a cryptographic cul-de-sac. It's the ultimate expression of a way of encrypting things that had already become more or less obsolete. The Bombes likewise are the extreme end of mechanical brute force attacks on such cryptography. They're both fiendishly clever, but in a way were already obsolete when WW2 broke out.

Lorenz though is in some sense an ancestor of cryptography you're using today. It's a stream cipher. The key is used to arrange for a stream of random-seeming bits to be generated, you XOR the bits with the message to get ciphertext, your opposite number generates the same stream with the same key, XORs the ciphertext and gets back the message.

Now, for Lorenz each symbol has only 5-bits whereas today we think in 8-bit bytes, but that's not a big deal. The general shape of the system is almost what you'd build today.

And so likewise Colossus is almost a modern computer. It was digital and electronic, and even programmable, but since the programming involves essentially taking the machine to pieces it's not quite a modern stored program digital computer. In practice Colossus served one purpose, to break Lorenz as part of the Ultra secret. As Bletchley cryptanalysts understood more about Lorenz they could reprogram Colossus to try new things.
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One of the threads I read maybe a decade ago about Argentina’s financial collapse at the time, was that in hind sight they’d wished they’d bought gold and made adulterated rings out of it. There was a lot of bartering, and most gold jewelry was trading under the assuption it was the most common karet (14?) by weight, and having some rings at a slightly lesser amount (or even the same) would have been way easier than trying to trade pure gold.

I don’t have a sense for how bad things need to get before making your own rings becomes a viable hedge, but I don’t think the US is quite there yet.
Sure. I also wonder if Perrel is hitting on the idea of avoiding competition by Thiel.

https://mastersofscale.com/peter-thiel-escape-the-competitio...
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Note that there is a robust tradition of "student-centered learning" and after-the-fact "unschooling" that does propose some worthwhile answers.
It becomes really interesting once the other side of that bet can be crowdfunded.

Someone with half a million to squander already has the means to disperse of others. Whereas an enemy of the people may have 10,000 detractors, who while otherwise wouldn’t have the means, can pool together a seven figure bounty for $100 each.
FYI it's "flouting".
seriously!! they are annoying.
See Lafferty's The Primary Education of the Camiroi for a satire of the genre.

(Carver Mead's "tall thin person", or the IBM "T-shaped" knowledge, is still possible, however.)
I'm not entirely sure what you're asking/interested in, but my contact information is on the linked site/my twitter DMs are open and I'm happy to talk more.
As someone who came down on the other side of this decision, I agree with these points. It's something that I've lightly regretted, but I wouldn't have started the process without Manning. Also being published with Manning has given me career opportunities that I wouldn't have dreamed of without them.

Ultimately, I've decided to go with the traditional route because I don't have the audience.
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> Those constructs are part of the modern, legal features of corporations, but they are not the essential nature of what corporations are.

Maybe, but the corporations of concern to the public in most countries today are those with the problematic "modern legal features".
Angry? I enjoy the debate on HN.
How does this pass the sniff test (or am I misinterpreting it?).

Assume 1% fatality rate for infections (it’s actually lower), you’re saying somewhere 19% to 60% (depending on overlap of those categories) have permanent damage?

That’s clearly not what we’re seeing.
> Companies aren't altruistic, their only purpose is to provide value to shareholders.

Companies do whatever their owners tell them to do. What you are talking about one specific model of what some people think they should do and what purpose they should serve in society. A very popular and possibly even 'default' model, but only one of many.

https://blog.corplaw.ie/bid/317212/Shareholder-Stakeholder-T...

etc

that said, assuming altruism here even if there aren't immediately obvious benefits to the company would probably be a bit naive.
That's not right at all. Loads of stuff is inadmissible as evidence but not illegal. For example, in many countries phone intercept is inadmissible. For example, in The Wire, they might hear a drug deal being arranged on the phones, then arrange to be on patrol with a drug dog and find the stash. The phone recording would be inadmissible (even though it would help the prosecution), the evidence used to prosecute would have to be paralleled.
Food's a fun example, because there's currently too much of it. At least in my part of the world, the price of various foods is moderated by the government buying or selling huge stocks of it.

My bigger concern about that is all of the fossil fuels getting wasted doing the haber-process for food nobody's going to use.
What head start in driverless tech? Right now, Tesla isn't even among top companies developing self-driving car technology.

Also, it's would pretty naive to think that governments would allow a single company to have such sort of monopoly like you describe.
Your ISP is certainly using CGNAT, or maybe IPv6, so multiple subscribers look to be using 1 IPv4.
Oh god... you're not under the impression that bittorrent is a secure or anonymous protocol, are you?
So you're fine with money laundering as well? Because parallel construction is inadmissible evidence laundering.
‘Bought’ one of. I’m still bitter about TI buying BB tbh.

More of his app notes for the curious: http://readingjimwilliams.blogspot.com/
Critique is not helpful if you don't know anything about the feasibility of alternative approaches. "I want a pony!" is not a worthwhile critique of anything, it's merely a fallacy.
From experience I wouldn't call macOS a smooth experience personally, especially not 10.13, but I realize it depends if you ran into bugs personally or not.
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when conservative means conservation of the oligopoly, then yes.
This is a nonsense comment
Ok thanks for your quick answer, I'll ping you there.
It's different strategies for collusion, but it's more illustrative to discuss how they're doing it. Talking about collusion in the abstract makes it sound like a conspiracy theory. Also, the difference between collusion and collaboration is whether you think parties having discussions is bad or good.
I assume you mean Parameter Store's web console UI? I've never really used it; we use only API endpoints and command-line tools, and it works great.
The phishing link they have set up to get your friends IP is pretty shady, obviously this stuff is easy to do, but pretty weak to make it easier for folks. https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/link/

There are people with abusive and stupid partners who wouldn't be able to get this information without doing more work or paying money.
If there is a demand for something, somebody somewhere has most likely already cobbled together a solution to meet their own need, and then turned around and resold that solution to other people.

It's extremely rare to find a widely spread problem with zero pre-existing solutions or competitors in that field.
The video streaming technology used in NLS was based on analog CRT television technologies. Later, videoconferencing was done digitally over dedicated phone connections/calls.
It took a while before doing real-time video over the packet-switched internet became feasible.
That's like betting on the Patriots for the 2019 Super Bowl.

It already happened and we know the outcome. Hindsight is 20/20.
Don't forget that idea is inverted for lots of the US (like Florida and Arizona). You gather indoors during the summer, in air conditioned spaces. Winter is when you're outside more often.
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Am writing Yet Another Static Site Generator. In Github Pages, internal links must go to .md files, not .html. So for example page1.md links to page2.md like this: [Visit page 2](page2.md).

This seems a little odd to me, so mine expects the actual HMTL link [Visit page 2](page2.html). However, that breaks compatibility with GitHub pages and will probably annoy people. I'm thinking the better behavior would be to for [Visit page 2](page2.md) to look for the .md file at site generation time and if it doesn't exist, generate a link to an .HTML file instead.

Mind is a little fuzzy lately so I'd like feedback on this idea.
> While you're in a gulag?

Well if you are in a gulag, your Bitcoins should be the least of your concerns.

> There's an easy, correct way to do this that doesn't have the same vulnerabilities as the method you're describing

Sorry, but I don't believe you. What is this "easy, correct" way of smuggling your bitcoins over the border that a) won't raise suspicion and get you thrown into a gulag b) doesn't require you to memorize the entire private key?

Do whatever you want, you have to add obscurity layer(s) to the scheme at some point. It doesn't matter if you are using perfect crypto if said crypto draws attention to you at the border.

What are my chances of being caught if I (for example) encode the private key into several emails using a scheme only I know? Zero. I'm not saying this will work at scale for everyone, but it is 100% guaranteed to work for me.
I live over in West Palm Beach / Palm Beach. The security is nuts. Cameras and high gain antennas all over.
That was a nightmare. Millions of clueless people let loose on usenet. The flame wars and twit filtering were legendary.
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Yeah, I think that's fair. I've been plugged in enough that I don't feel the whiplash much, but I can't imagine how confusing it would be to understand what's happening from just scrolling through headlines in the morning.
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Does biotech only have to do with drug development? What about other areas like water cleaning etc, wouldn't that be considered biotech as well?
Let's put on the skeptic cap, because "environmentally friendly" packaging is rife with misleading statements. (For an example, the bottled water company "Just Water" notes their plant-based, organic, environmentally friendly packaging can be recycled, but they specifically avoid mentioning it cannot be composted. They even fooled their own PR team.[1])

Pulpex site 'about' page: "NOT Pulp wrapped around plastic"

Pulpex site 'about' page: "NOT Pulp-infused into PET"

Pilot Lite press release: "...first ever 100% PET free paper-based spirits bottle, made entirely from sustainably sourced wood."

Diageo press release: "...100% plastic free and expected to be fully recyclable. The bottle is made from sustainably sourced pulp to meet food-safe standards and will be fully recyclable in standard waste streams."

So it's not biodegradable or compostable, but it is recyclable. It doesn't use "plastic", but some component of it presumably does not degrade. So for any chemists: what wood derivative isn't technically a plastic, but is waterproof and does not decompose?

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[1]: https://twitter.com/JUST/status/1068686120995643392
I've got a problem lightning, I used to very bullish on the technology, but after trying wallets and reading about, the following make me think it can't succeed:

Easy fiat onboard do not exist, and none seem to be coming. All of them you need to do KYC and interact with the main chain, its super unuser-friendly, or require debit cards.

Taxable events get triggered when transacting with bitcoin. Really hard to manage and a really undesirable side-effect for a consumer.

The need for watch towers and inbound-outbound capacity make the technology hard to understand not usable by mainstream.

The lightning network seems to be heading toward centralization, then what it the point? Is the delta of Credit card transaction fees with lnd fees that big that it warrants it? especially if credit card fees drop with time.
AVX-512's richness to x86 is like what C++'s is to C. Linus makes a summary assessment for how he can leverage these technologies to his advantage and if the cost of learning the technology and all its intricacies outweighs the perceived advantage: that technology is garbage. This reaction from Linus appears to fit his conservative pattern. I think where Linus gets things wrong stems from his facts rather than his philosophy.

AVX-512's fantastic breadth is born out of an actual need to free compilers from constraints imposed by programs in virtually every mainstream language. All of these describe programs for an academic-machine rooted in a scalar instruction model. Without any further performance from increasing cycles over time the target has to become instructions-per-cycle and even operations-per-instruction. The limitations on ILP and the expense of powering circuitry to achieve it has been well studied for the past two decades. The failure to realize it is evident in the failure of Netburst. Linus believes that the frontend of CPU's have a lot more to give; perhaps best exhibited with his refutation of CMOV (https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/cmov.html).

Today's programming languages haven't evolved to make things easier on programmers to describe non-scalar code. On the other hand, power constraints, and now security constraints haven't made things easier for hardware to efficiently execute scalar code. Perhaps AVX-512 is as naive a bet as Itanium, if not it might be just the missing piece compilers need that they didn't have twenty years ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23825744
Given that Apple silicon is pretty new my guess it porting and testing , I would also add not all ARM chips are exactly the same , there will be some minor nuances for sure .

Perhaps it is also some funding and access to the kits and dev time , updating gcc is not a full time job for most of the contributors after all.
Of course another way to phrase this is “13% of my website visitors are actively blocking my support for google’s privacy invasive tracking”
If the evidence they're hearing on the phone is not admissible, there's a good chance it's because they're listening through illegitimate means as well, hmm?
Few years ago someone published a trojan version of ``colorama`` with a British spelling ``colourama`` that was found to be mining bitcoins on victims machines!
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With encryption, if anyone join as a peer NOT to join the torrent distribution, is that considered computer hacking under the DMCA?
In SONOMA County --

Virtually 100% compliance with all mask and distance restrictions, has been absolutely amazing. I have seen NOBODY not wearing masks where required. They had a increase in case load that the county has attributed to 75% latino and has said they believe it is due to crowded housing, cramming to people into small apartments, something that has been going on here for decades. The rest they have said is directly attributed to a massive spread through nursing facilities, which was entirely expected and predictable. Since they reopened bars and indoor dining about 2 weeks ago almost nobody has opened dining rooms and the bars have been mostly empty. Now today they have closed bars, dining and things like the bowling alley. Done absolutely nothing about where the problem is and have started putting people out of business. The Casino however is open for business ! You can go smoke and play 21 in a crowd of hundreds, but can't take a shower at the gym. It's absurd how blatant they are making it about just pretending they can help. No leadership, causing great damage to so many and yet they are about to claim a great victory. Pathetic.
No one yet knows whether the antibodies detected in seropositive tests actually confer protection against getting sick from this virus.

For some viruses, like, say, HIV, you can have lots of antibodies against it, but still be sick with HIV.

It is not yet clear whether SARS-CoV-2 is like HIV in this sense or if the antibodies produced by the body after infection with the virus actually confer protection against future infections.