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> 1. Write you will;

I thought this was a command!

> 3. Force them to all come together to decrypt the will for fairness.

This seems like a good recipe for ensuring integrity of the will, but it's hard (for me) to see how it ensures, or even promotes, fairness.

(Also, compelling presence seems like a strange side effect: the sort of person who would skip the reading of a will might not be motivated to ensure the fairness or integrity of the will anyway, so requiring their presence to verify it seems counterproductive.)
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Yes, there was real apathy in the Perl community - an attitude that Perl is a better language than PHP so why should we lower ourselves to compete. The endless MOP debates didn't help either and for those waiting for Perl to sort it out Ruby was there with everything they needed. Moose, Moo, Mouse - talk about fiddling while Rome burns. Perl was in no state to compete with Rails' elegantly-packaged Omakase. Another factor which affected Perl 5 in the mid-2000s was the diversion of resources to Perl 6 when Perl 5 had 3 sharks (PHP, Ruby & Python) circling around it. Meanwhile newsagents' shelves were full of dedicated PHP & MySQL magazines and the more generic web dev mags invariably had an advanced section featuring sites buillt with PHP & MySQL. It was already game over for Perl.
Good luck with your new community
Qanon has made a few thousand posts. If one were to analyze it/them why not include some of the posts as evidence/criticism?
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I find the chan/hn overlap fascinating
It doesn't.

Like it says in the article, you only activate Autopilot in those situations where an accident is less likely anyway.

Also, accidents in Teslas without Autopilot but with safety features enabled are 1 in 2.2 million.
Didn’t realize they had a formal definition, thank you for linking that. Helps to formalize thoughts when we are working from the same definition.
The No Spinners thing seems to be my professional niche. Every job I’m tasked at cleaning up a poorly performing native app. And it’s always caused by developers writing views like web apps, posting their server requests as views open and fire up a spinner to wait.

It’s not that hard to have a caching strategy. And then your native app feels like a native app.
>On top of that e-paper readers so far have effectively been a fad, conventional smartphones and tablets have taken over pretty dramatically.

Yeah. I like my Paperwhite well enough for certain uses but I'm not even sure I would replace it if it broke tomorrow. And I'm a little surprised at the degree to which people have stuck with physical books even when it's just flowing text. I'm at the point where a new book means a book I have needs to be donated. I'd much rather books that are just text are digital. But then, in normal times, I'm traveling most of the time.

E-books really haven't ended up being that much of a revolution and certainly dedicated readers are not.
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> Interestingly enough liberals are more likely to know about QAnon than conservatives. I listen to both right wing and left wing podcasts+news and the times I hear about QAnon are on left wing ones. I'm not sure what to make of this.

Doesn't that just show that liberals are more likely to talk about it, at least in the sources to which you listen, than that they are more likely to know about it?

For example, one explanation—which seems plausible to me, but which I do not claim is the truth—of the observed facts is that conservatives who aren't QAnon believers don't want to discuss what they see as a fringe position within their party, whereas conservatives who are believers only discuss their beliefs with those they feel are, or might become, initiates. I can also believe that liberals would be both more frightened by these beliefs, hence more likely to talk about them, and more motivated to highlight what they perceive as fringe or embarrassing beliefs of their ideological opponents.
MRR or ARR? ACV or TCV? Bookings or Revenues? DSO?
Very much it, I can't say that anybody doing hardware for the first time would be anywhere close on "completeness" to what Amazon managed to pull out (probably with tons of advisers, and external experts, but still...)

I worked, work, and probably will keep working with tons of clients from Kickstarter/Indygogo space, and prime majority of them simply wrap up somewhere 6-9 months into the project because the "don't see the end to the tunnel," or realise that they picked a very wrong industry for easy money.

P.S. I believe I might have once encountered some of people who worked on kindle 1, and it was far from pleasant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18970281
On its way out... but.... synchronous XHR still works. https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/
My amateur observations, I wonder what others think:

English is already something of a standard for international communication I think, at least in some domains.
It looks like a successor to Latin in many regards.

Nonetheless I don't think English can function as an universal language because it is specialized in some regards. It is better for thinking about and capturing some things and ideas, but not for everything. Other languages, it seems to me, are optimized better for certain use cases.

Everything of course cross-pollinates and, thanks to that, flexibility of different languages increases. But some fundamental rules must remain in place to maintain coherence of a language. If you change the basic grammar rules, you get a different one. In this way achieving universality within a single lanugage is either impossible or very difficult. Hard to tell if lanugages are evolving towards convergence into a single universal superlanguage or if the optimum is specialization.

Programming languages seem to follow similar patterns.
You needed to join a real team to find out.
One of my favorite scenes in "Apollo 13" has a CO2 hazy Jim Lovell asking Houston to double check his math, and it cuts to a room full of engineers as they all grab their slide rules to calculate the answers Jim had just done in his head/scratch pad.
I am a native English speaker. The problem I have with English as the Universal International Language is that it gives enormous economic and political power to the United States. I am not convinced that the United States can be relied upon to use this power responsibly.
Their view on lidar is one of the few things I can agree with them regarding autonomous driving.

Lidar is essentially a deadend regardless of the cost of the sensors.

Lidar’s are good for rudimentary navigation where essentially you use them as high amplitude analogue signals basically is there a wall or a large object in front of me or not.

Beyond that lidars are extremely noisy sensors and extremely computationally expensive once you start to use them as a 3D lidar, then you have issues with contested environments, reflectors and many other issues.

And most importantly cant provide the majority of information humans use when driving, they can’t see shadows, they can’t see colors, they can’t see lane markings, road signs, car lights traffic lights all which are much more important to provide both human level and super human autonomous driving capabilities.

Would sensor fusion improve Tesla right now? Maybe but I’m not 100% it’s the way forward at least not with lidar as a primary sensor, and for emergency collision prevention secondary sensors there are better sensors out there including radars.
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Hardware is, in fact, exactly how the free software movement was born. Stallman couldn't service his Xerox copier due to proprietary software and license restrictions. Sound familiar? It has always been about combatting the artificial control companies have individually and collectively to dictate how users interact with hardware they own due to proprietary unfree software.
Qanon is a funny thing to me. The actual things written by the person or people under “Q” are almost completely detached from what I see people share and post on social media.

But as someone who followed the spygate saga, Q seemed to know just enough inside baseball to make it interesting and keep me curious. I thought maybe some foreign intelligence op or something.

To give Qanon credit though, they were taking about Epstein for two years, when Epstein was still considered untouchable. Apparently their cohort isn’t so untouchable anymore.
The more a podcast or news station talks about something, the more their listeners know about it.
I would concur with you if the latency of e-paper was similar to a LCD screen, but it is not. Typing in the Kindle PW is a really bad experience.
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Please don’t take offense at this my friend, it is genuinely constructive criticism. Slow down a little bit and re-read what you’re typing. I can’t understand half of what you’ve written here because it is so poorly done. It is a shame because I feel like you’re trying to share interesting information it’s just extremely hard to parse whatever it is you’re trying to say
Also Godot being 100% free, and while I haven't used it crazy extensively the 2d portion I have used it for was amazing.
It’s worse than that, because overly aggressive defence of trademarks isn’t punished yet not defending it could theoretically cost a business their trademark, it skews the system so, for businesses, it’s more beneficial to be aggressive.

(I certainly wouldn’t want to be the person that said “their fine to use our trademark. We have nothing to worry about” only to unexpectedly end up losing the trademark)
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We have an “enemy-centric” political environment right now. I’ve seen this with much more than just Qanon. The strong Democrats I know can rattle off a long list of conspiracies and crimes on the right, and the strong Republicans I know can rattle off a long list of conspiracies and crimes on the left. Meanwhile when I say “this is what the other side says about your team” the reaction is almost universal puzzlement. “Who? That fringe group of crazies? They aren’t part of (my party).”

It’s quite amazing to watch.
I can't tell what Tracy does because the documentation is so poor. Check out XRay for an older but still actively developed function tracing tool that generates traces which can be viewed in the Chrome trace viewer.

https://llvm.org/docs/XRayExample.html#debugging-with-xray
I would caution people from dismissing it as a too-crazy-to-matter fringe group.

Trump's rise was certainly boosted by his involvement in birtherism.

The Trump equivalent of 2024 or 2028 is probably tweeting about QAnon right now.
Regarding your point 2), yes: whataboutism is a real problem and an impediment to productive discourse. But in questions of moral authority, the "But America" whiners have a certain point. America's internal conflict and state-sanctioned misconduct is not a secret to the world. If our citizens cannot be seen making good-faith efforts (and progress!) towards justice and equality on our own soil, who would follow our example? With what credibility?

I view it as less "But America killed George Floyd, so let's give up on other oppressed people in the world," and more "But America killed George Floyd, and then peaceful Americans withdrew their consent from the violence conducted in their name." It is a way of leading by example in the spheres where we actually have influence. We can chew gum and stand in solidarity with Uighurs, at the same time.
I think it goes both ways: language shapes mind and mind shapes language. It's a feedback loop.
Q has made those posts. Qanon is the amalagamous sea of adherents who have theories totally detached from Q. It’s much easier to critique qanon because their theories are insane.

I would recommend checking out the Epstein stuff and the spygate stuff, since that looks like it’s unraveling now (will we learn soon that Cruz campaign was also spies on?)

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There is no such thing as absolute truth, its relative and subjective.
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I was active on the board back when it was on Morningstar. It helped me a lot, I contributed for a few years, and then I literally forgot about my investments for the next 15 years. Didn’t even look in 2008 and 2009. Highly recommended.
I miss having one of those
I think it's just putting releases in a git repo
Obviously.

Perhaps those companies in this 'boycott' did themselves a favour by saving money to get by the mounted losses due to the pandemic. Pausing advertising subscriptions to save some money rather than trying to pressurise Facebook to do a u-turn.

This stunt changes absolutely nothing.
This seems to be an evolution of a bachelor’s thesis, which provides some snippets: https://github.com/Duaiden/bachelor-thesis/tree/master/code (first author). And this looks to be some test code and results, as well as possibly their kernel image: https://github.com/2000jedi/checkedc-tests/blob/master/kerne... (2nd first author). I have not found any other code related to the paper.
He died, if he existed, trying to spread his bullshit. The right of others to spread their bullshit was of no concern to him.
If you want a quality partner then yes.
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I wouldn't say it's a waste a time, just that in tech industry people have a tendency to overrate "selling shovels in a gold rush" when they have about the same odds of success. ie. Making a successful game vs successful game engine
This was likely a net benefit to US citizens. Much better that this kid exposed these security holes. Imagine how bad it would be if a nation state did this close to the election.

Spearphishing is a real problem and tech companies have no answer. An annual employee training program isn't going to solve the problem. Simply making it illegal isn't going to solve the problem.
As someone who grew up in India in the 20th century: slide rules are unfamiliar, but we used log tables (calculators of any kind were prohibited through high school and standardized tests). For those unfamiliar, log tables serve to replace multiplication/division of floating-point numbers with addition/subtraction instead, making scientific computation a lot easier.

The main benefit of introducing this friction, rather than allowing calculators, is that it (a) encourages one to do simple calculations by hand, and (b) gets one in the habit of quickly double checking that log-table-based results fall in the correct ballpark. Calculators induce a sort of mindlessness where glaring orders-of-magnitude errors pass us by since we expect the machine to get it right.

With all that said, I don't know that I would recommend the use of log tables to high schoolers in the 21st century. That effort might be better utilized on more pressing needs e.g. statistical literacy. Many folks (including me) got entirely through STEM-focused high school knowing not even the slightest basics of statistical inference or causality.
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The US legal system is built in a way that prevents itself from ever being 'too sure' of something on purpose. It's a safety mechanism to provide some flexibility and protection in edge cases. Technology systems have a very different set of requirements for success.
Github actually has a "Allow maintainers to modify this branch" option.

If you set this, you could just ask the maintainers to push their changes to your PR and be done with it
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Birtherism was rooted in racism. It would not be a stretch to say Trump won partly because there are an awful lot of racists in the US.
Have you considered adding project templates?

For example, if your target audience is developers, a project template would include modules like authentication, authorisation, user management, logging, admin pages, payments, etc.

That way as a user I'll keep in mind on the things I eventually need to focus on, without wasting too much time thinking about them, and focus on the important aspects of the product instead.
I had the opposite experience with Dyson. A $350 Dyson vacuum I bought stopped working a month after I bought it. I determined that a faulty battery was to blame. When I called customer support, they tried to sell me a new battery (I forget the price they quoted me, I think it was at least $50). It was only after I protested that they agree to send me a new battery for free. I got the strong impression that their company policy was to first try to sell a replacement part to take advantage of rubes; only if the customer refused to pay would they offer a new battery for free. Really disappointing quality and service from such an intensively marketed brand. It was especially annoying since the vacuum came with this pompous little booklet about "the Dyson story", how Dyson represents British engineering at it's finest, etc.
I recently listened to a podcast from Sean Carroll where they talked about consciousness being like a jury. There are competing systems that speak as one. So an async process might be a good way of thinking about it.

Experiments where they detect the decision being made a second or two before the person becomes aware of it may be picking up on this. Perhaps if they measured different parts of the brain they might seen alternate decisions being made.
Qanon is the amalagamous sea of adherents who have theories totally detached from Q

I’ve been tracking this Q thing for years, since nearly the first post. I’m curious where this assertion comes from? Did Q name these folks qanons? No. In fact he calls them “anons”. Please provide a source.
Some of therm do,and some of them are. They should stop calling them protest and call them what they are.
I like my Kindle Paperwhite, but it's also a very frustrating product — slow, low-res, terrible UI, etc.

But my biggest complaint is that Kindle made books ugly. I love beautiful typography, and bad typography can ruin a reading experience. Reading Kindle books are like stepping back in time to low-quality mass-market paperbacks.

Using John Crowley's Little, Big as an example:

* Original print version: https://i.imgur.com/pLmQyja.jpg

* Kindle: https://i.imgur.com/xRu0eLo.jpg

* Kindle Cloud Reader: https://i.imgur.com/GDqCD9u.jpg

There's absolutely nothing stopping us from being able to render the book beautifully with the right font. In this particularly egregious example, they didn't even bother to include the ornamentations. That's one thing, but those underlined chapter headings? They didn't even try.

As I understand it, modern e-books are just HTML, designed to be reformatted to different screens. There appears to be limited support for fonts, and whatever Kindle uses to render text is awful.

Another frustration about the quality of the books is how a lot of older fiction is only available in very shoddily digitized versions that don't even use correct typography ("smart" quotes, em dashes, indented paragraphs, etc.).
Other than basic survival and sex, all goals now and in history are and have been "synthetic." It's irrelevant and certainly not new or noteworthy. Of course most people are ok with it. They've been ok with it since the dawn of civilization. Ted was just a whiny little bitch having an existential crisis who wanted to murder people for pleasure. His ideas were extremely stupid, delusional, and hardly new or interesting. The alternative is not the death of billions. The alternative is for scumbags like him to just shut the fuck up or kill themselves before they start murdering people based on their extreme stupidity and delusions.
I'm always surprised at the backlash against this stuff.

Is it the boldness of the claims or the name they gave it?

Because autopilot is really quite nice. It helps.

I wonder if people complained about antilock brakes or cruise control when they first came out? Anti-lock brakes don't work well on snow. Cruise control has to be monitored. But they both are helpful and I have paid to have them on my vehicle.
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Since he couldn't process numbers in any useful manner (when communicating, to remember his hotel room, to draw it, etc.) the simplest explanation is that it didn't reach the "central brain processing" area. While this might not be the same thing as "consciousness", it's unlikely that this visual recognition made it very far in the brain. (Maybe the brain damage blocked it from going anywhere at all.)
It was inevitable that the internet would birth a new religion or two...
>Interestingly enough liberals are more likely to know about QAnon than conservatives

probably because the kind of people who discusss QAnon as a phenomenon are more likely to be young, actively engaged in (digital) politics and possibly more educated, which correlates with political leaning, in particuar in the last election. As Pew points out, NYT readers or NPR listeners are also much more likely to have heard of it.

I wouldn't be surprised if liberals score higher if you question US demographics about pretty much any internet phenomenon just because of the make up of the group.
Very interesting observation, my own experience with GJP, metaculous, and other betting fora agree with this.

I wonder if an HN-like forum with prediction at its core would have legs? I always found the best comments in prediction tournaments at least as interesting as the actual estimates, but none of the platforms really support back-and-forth conversation.
> it is now technically possible for governments to enforce all laws

This change is underappreciated. As enforcement gets stronger it's becoming feasible to make stronger and more specific laws. I don't believe this is a good thing for society in general. It's also possible for governments to hold power with less and less public support by quashing opposition and shutting down protests more effectively with overpowered police and militaries.

I don't think the right to bear arms helps much with the growing power imbalance. It just doesn't make sense anymore for civilians to be armed with the same weapons as governments, now that government weapons are so powerful.

Technology is only accelerating these trends, especially AI. The governments of the future will hold unprecedented power over their populations. Democracy is supposed to ensure that power isn't used against the people, but I think current political systems won't be able to prevent it. We need much better implementations of democracy to handle the power that is coming to governments in the next century.
Not the author but hopefully I can shed some light on security aspects based on my current understanding.

The premise of FHE is that you send both data and code encrypted to a 3rd party system for execution and you can assume that an attacker has control of it. The attacker will see a series of seemingly random steps that mutate seemingly random data and send an encrypted response that can only be verified by the client. You don't have the answer in advance but you have a way of validating that the calculation was performed correctly as asked and the answer can be trusted. A statistical attack can be avoided since the client has the option to rotate the encryption keys without the 3rd party's knowledge although I'm not an expert so any mathematical comment is welcome.

My knowledge here is limited, but the short summary is that if done correctly FHE just looks like random execution on random data and that's what eliminates most attacks.