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Turing completeness in layman's terms means you can write programs on it.

Traditionally a computer that most people are familiar with is a single machine, like PC or the device we can hold in our hands. Etherium is a swarm of millions of computers that anyone can add to the swarm.

When people claim Ethereum is turing complete, it means that anyone can launch a program into it, and the "swarm" runs the program. But which node's output is the truth? Without some mechanism in place, a bad actor could claim to have computed an output that serves them greedily.

Ethereum has baked in protocols so that the distributed result of millions of nodes running a program reaches a stasticial consensus.

Being turing complete means that any computable program can run on Ethereum.

So you can imagine writing a program that, say, runs an auction, or performs escrow for contractors, or whatever. You could run doom on it, albeit at an extremely low framerate because you need the swarm to validate each frame.

I hope this explanation helps.

Edit: I swear autocomplete is becoming more forceful over time.
Swiss army knife: https://www.microsoft.com/buxtoncollection/detail.aspx?id=19...

But no MS Trackball Explorer, nor Sidewinder Pro Force, input devices created by microsoft that had no or tiny market segment, and seemed to have been created solely because someone there wanted such a thing to exist.
how about

$vendor shall hand over detailed schematics and replacement parts to anybody
There still was a tiny bootloader happening on that floppy. I /think/ back then it was still lilo (slackware boot floppies) OR syslinux bootloaders
Fun article, great style. Couldn’t equality and lte be done more simply with a cross multiply?
Post grand kid photos else where. Grandmas will follow.

Turned off my Facebook for awhile. Losing access to photos about caused a family riot.
The problem is that a lot of people hired into sales positions shouldn't be allowed anywhere near it.. What I've seen: blatant lies in regulated industry with mandatory call recordings, refusal to do even the basic admin( I'm here to sell, not to fill in the info in the CRM system), fraud ( can't comment,as it's quite specific), lazyness ( watching YouTube/Facebook/Shopping while pretending your phone isn't working). The list goes on. Those people get fired. Normal people, who work, understand what they do and are willing to be trained or corrected if they do things incorrectly, are rarely,if ever, 2 paychecks away from being fired.
I think this is part of why the "Learn X the hard way" method of teaching can be so effective. It's forces you to solve a problem with foundational tools.
Facebook to Acquire Startup Kustomer as It Faces Antitrust Glare
Just the EULA. Whether that holds any weight with you is up to yourself to decide. But AWS and MacStadium are going to make you click-agree to Apple's EULA before granting access.
I would like to see a scenario where not one but several sovereign fiat currencies have utterly failed and yet ETH is still useful.
Just got my self a part time job being a TA at a coding bootcamp. Its not great money (6.5k) for 6 months. But it's part time and fully remote
Is there a summary of functionality for pinephone?

I’m not clear if for example the degraded mms support is an issue in all variants of mobile gnu Linux distros or oif only some suffer.
Don't get me wrong, I understood what that meant. I'm puzzled that the person I was replying to seemed not to.
Scale AI valued at $3.5B after Series D
Fair question; I shouldn't have ranted without proposing a solution. I guess what I'd like is for each student to have a Raspberry Pi, Pinebook Pro, or similarly cheap and open computer (and yes, I know Raspberry Pi isn't free enough for the purists), with which they are free to do whatever they want. And they should be encouraged to go as deep into it as their abilities and interests will allow.
I don't understand why this topic is in any way relatable to the Linux vs. Windows discussion, even as an analogy.

> But, if you are running Wikileaks, blockchain payments are superior because the credit card companies can't decide to stop processing your payments.

That's not a good example to justify any of this, in my opinion.

> But there are situations in which it is difficult to get multiple parties to agree on a trustworthy host for data and applications, and current political trends point toward that problem growing in significance.

Such as?

I don't read anything I can relate to.

> Who knows? These scenarios are unlikely, but then nobody in 1995 would have believed that in 2020 both the majority of the world's servers and the world's most popular personal computing devices would run Linux.

I think that's just false equivalence.
Ummm.... I hate to point this out, but Trump's base is rural America. "Many people live hundreds and hundreds of miles from the nearest DMV" describes the Republican base perfectly.

I mean, I'm not necessarily disagreeing with some of the big-picture conclusions, but the logic along the way is a long bit... off.
>What does this do for real-life applications?

You can lend dollars on ethereum for 4% APR at the moment. That's a good reason to use this even for someone not interested in other functions.
The interest comes from borrowers, who are mostly speculators going long on crypto.

https://compound.finance/markets

USDC is tokenized dollar that can be swapped to/from dollars in a bank account on coinbase. Recently it was even used by the US Treasury to transfer dollars to Venezuela.
So planetary defense relies solely on a few 1m telescopes. Interesting. Maybe the "Dish" (Australia) also.
The two remaining big ones, the chinese and the russian cannot do that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_impact_avoidance

The remaining bigs:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-hundred-meter_Aperture_Sp...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RATAN-600
Might already know this, but your phone's hotspot should pass through the location data. We used my laptop on a couple of roadtrips where we wanted to pull the map up larger.
A code dump is nothing remotely like obfuscated source code. They run competitions for obfuscated source code, take a look and compare.

Seriously, at this point I think you have to be just defending a position that you know is wrong but since you originally stated it, you’re not backing down. If not then let’s just agree to disagree...
I always find myself drifting towards night hours. I really wish I could shift my schedule by around 4 hours, starting and ending my day later.
If you can break this scheme you can steal billions of dollars worth of currencies right now. If that is not independently audited by all evil hackers out there I don't know what is :)
The US ACH system is extremely slow and still involves nightly batch jobs.

Many other countries have systems that allow for nearly immediate person-to-person money transfer without blockchains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster_Payments_Service This is not a good argument for cryptocurrency.

Regarding "trusting" an algorithm: in the real world you also have to trust the implementation, and the configuration, and eventually humans involved in the transaction. How often do we see some big data breach on HN? Very rarely has any cryptographic algorithm been broken, but often one of the other links in the trust chain has broken.
Considering that these are English language words, I don't think a linguistic analysis is going to give you insight into Chinese culture. The exact choice of words used in translation is largely going to be a reflection of the English language.

Also, what's the equivalent in other languages? In English, wouldn't we say 'self-sabotage'?
Difficult topic, but found it very valuable:
https://peterattiamd.com/bjmiller/
Agreed on lightweight formal methods. TLA+ and Alloy have been really eye opening to use, and it's almost at no cost. They're just tools for expressing logic and analyzing models.
The FTE employee-count alone underestimates the impact of national-scale science infrastructure. naic.edu is down right now (I suspect they're busy at the moment), but their data is used by tens to hundreds of institutions, each partially employing faculty, postdocs, and students.

For agencies like NSF, the science is sometimes almost secondary. What matters perhaps the most is that qualified and capable students continue to emerge from, and sustain, America's scientific institutions.

Arecibo has been fighting for its fiscal life since I was an undergraduate in the early 2000s. I couldn't understand then why anyone would want to cut funding to it, as the facility is unique and capable. As a more-mature scientist, I now understand that older instruments sometimes must sadly make way for new endeavors.

This collapse is a powerful moment for US radio astronomy. Will the community redirect the funds to promising new instruments, buck up and rebuild an upgraded Arecibo, or use the fleeting prominence of the moment find a way to grow the funding pie and do both?

It is embarrassing for the planet's leading scientific nation to have China's larger modern copy of Arecibo (FAST) come on-line in 2016 and our venerable telescope collapse without replacement in 2020. We owe it to ourselves to do better than this.
How can I be sure what you're selling me is in fact what you say it is? And if it's not, what recourse do I have?

A fundamental design in cryptocurrencies is that it's mathematically impossible to create "fake" tokens without some sort of quantum computer. What this means is that the DEcentralized Exchange (DEX) that you're performing the trade on will have liquidity for the pair of assets and as you click the right button to select TSLA for USD, you're getting TSLA. There is no mathematical way to get scammed.

For your example of FB marketplace/Craigslist, you want an Escrow service with a way to have you or a 3rd party validate you're not getting ripped off. That type of service exists via cryptographic primitives in both Bitcoin and Ethereum allowing a transaction to be blocked if there is something fraudulent.
The problem, I think, is pricing. If you have a reasonably good way to charge bigger customers more automatically then you can go with a low touch sales process. If you don't (and virtually every product doesn't) you have to do value based pricing which pretty necessarily entails sales people.
If you note, the paper has an enormous number of citations from pharma, since modelling protein dynamics, rather than static structure, is key to understsanding ligand binding firehose.

You can see another paper we published where attacking the problem with a firehose helped unlock a long-standing problem: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24265211/ in this case, showed that bond angles need to be 'free' to move rather than fully constrained,to build the most accurate models. This paper is also heavily cited amongst protein modellers.

It is correct that the MD simulations don't directly work for CASP- in a sense, the results they produce directly disagree with CASP's mental model of protein structure and function.
I think the initial work is impressive partly because of how broad the range of topics the partnership has tackled AND how young they are. They are barely into their post-doc studies and are already making progress on challenging problems in the graph theory and combi space.

Basically, its impressive to make this level of contribution as an undergraduate team AND if they keep up this level of productivity the "big" discoveries will come in the coming years.
Thanks for the comment.

I really like baku because of the straights and especially the fact of the narrowness of the track. But I believe with those very long chassis, it's quite hard to see wheel to wheel overtakes overthere.
In my experience, NewPipe Legacy is more stable than NewPipe. Its intended for Android versions <5 but it works fine on my Android 9 device.
Game over for the ‘Wargames’ hacking law? SCOTUS to hear challenge
He may be working in the wrong subfield of math to win a Fields medal.
There's sufficiently strong dislike for systemd in the ZoL circles I moved around, because ZFS was all about making sure its rock solid and stable, while systemd has well-deserved reputation for breaking things often.

As for external clients for the layers, LustreZFS is a separate project though it had started with certain intersection of ZFS devs. However the general division of labour between layer is pretty strict (except for - now extinct - FreeBSD TRIM support), it's just that there isn't any work being done to use it outside of OpenZFS.

The boundaries are pretty clear, it's just that ZPL and ZVOL build up on all of them. Linux has /some/ related features, but nothing that was feature-parity: SPA roughly corresponds with MD/DM subsystem assuming certain plugins in use, DMU is very roughly the equivalent of OSD subsystem, but that one supports only SCSI OSD which has incompatible assumptions etc. - in fact, an OSD implementation on top of DMU should be pretty simple (main differences are due to DMU being a bit explicit on redundancy features, iirc).
Ask HN: If you had a $100/month budget, which tasks would you outsource
Dear HN,

I have been working on a project for the past year of helping autistic adults find remote jobs (so far 1,400 joined).
I'm constantly exploring ways to support that and thought about a model in which an employer gives you a monthly budget to outsource tasks that others can do so you can focus on the the tasks that require your skills.

If your employer would do so, what type of tasks do you think you would outsource?

Thanks,
Arik
> what happens on the network is a matter of individual responsibility

That sounds like the opposite of solving trust.
Very well written. I always preferred mathematics to chess, because the competitive aspect of chess always seemed to hinder collaboration.

Seeing the same lack of collaboration in university was really disappointing. Friendly people listened passively, less friendly people liked to listen and contradict. The willingness to actually share knowledge seemed to be almost non-existent.

I haven't solved the puzzle yet why sharing knowledge is so hard. Some people don't have knowledge to share, some want to keep an advantage, and the barbaric instincts to reject unfamiliar ideas tramples the remaining few sparks.

Noticing my own barbaric instincts in action was enlightening.
I would recommend reading “Atomic habits” it’s a small and easy book to read. It has a lot of “aha” moments were stuff you already know click in your mind on how to develop good habits and remove bad habits, it provides good guidance.
You might have misunderstood. The term that is being described here is kind of like a meme-phrase/word. Like in the article said, it was likely invented years ago, probably in the Chinese version of twitter/social media/etc.

The revenge and retaliatory terms are more subversive than negative.

The retaliation is against losing control of your own time. The revenge is against your corporate-master, your boss, the pointy-haired boss, the Communist political officer, "the Man", late stage capitalism - whatever you want to call it I don't think the sentiment is limited to China and communism, etc. and that's why this article struck a chord enough for it to get onto hnews.

That said, the subversive nature of the wording is very very Chinese. Not just Communist Chinese, but this type of subversive back-talk has been alive for many many generations since the imperial days, where you had to talk in circles in order to not be executed.
> There's nothing stopping a recording artist from incorporating and listing shares on any traditional exchanges

There absolutely is: it is almost unimaginably expensive and administratively complicated, hence the only entities to IPO these days are companies valued in the tens of billions, who have exhausted all other options for raising capital privately and need to raise at least hundreds of millions or billions more.

I’m no expert on Ethereum or blockchain generally, but the potential for low-friction micro-investing in small businesses, artists or even individuals seems highly compelling to me.
The fees are a business decision, not a technical requirement.
Why not a vaccine that simply boosts Vitamin D production?
If your complaint boils down to not liking what Apple is doing then why are you still using their platform? If you are using it privately then it's on you. If you are using it professionally and your company is paying for it then it's your job and responsibility to put up with it but it also means you're not on the hook for the extra expense of renting a Mac.
Taking a particular perspective and not really talking about the legalities, I can see some not so savory “non-development” work particularly when no one is seriously going to try putting macOS as a production machine for running SAAS apps, except perhaps using some of those specialized, bespoke chips:

- running apps in the cloud, not for q/a, but as a farm for adclicks and fraud. People already do that
- farm for generating and submitting low quality games primarily to sell ads. People already do this.
- Use backup images on systems with Secure Enclave in order to crack the encryption. Someone security company whose clients are state level actors, and increasingly, law enforcement, are doing this with iphones. I don’t know if a mac cloud makes this possible for other hardware
- The M1 is an Apple exclusive SoC with a lot of bespoke, specialized chips, and unified memory, and is only going to get faster for future Macs. I can see people trying to access a cloud for that, while ignoring the branding that links consumer, end-user experience with “Apple”. (Esp since Nvidia has bought ARM, and that RISC-in-cloud is becoming a big deal)

I am not saying those are a good enough reason to set the ELUA the way Apple did, but that I get why Apple might do this.

The flip side from my perspective. A monthly dedicated host on MacStadium is much cheaper than running an AWS Windows 2019 Server ondemand, or even with Reserved Instance pricing.

Why does that matter to me and the company I work for? Because Unity is behind on their Linux version, so CI builds are going to run on either Mac or Windows. I don’t really care that much about elastic compute for this, though being able to use AMIs matters more. The main reason we have not moved to using Macstadium dedicated hosts is that I would need to set up something like Chef as configuration management for what would be essentially a fleet of pet servers.

But if our team wants to deploy to either Mac or Windows as production systems ... I would be discouraging them from doing so.
Have a look at https://mauikit.org/ and https://develop.kde.org/frameworks/kirigami/ - the main tech stack there is Qt
> really only Google, if you consider WebKit's ubiquity

WebKit is the rendering engine that powers Safari, and is an Apple project.

Did you mean to say Blink?

(Disclosure: I work for Google, speaking only for myself)
Just to add to this, hydroxy-25 levels alone are not enough. Hopefully everyone's doctor also advises them what is a normal level for a healthy person and understands that people that are obese or have insulin resistance will deplete D3, C and Zinc faster due to the heavy load on their innate immune system dealing with low grade inflammation.
> I only get energy from being alone and doing stuff on my computer, so I trade sleep for time every night.

I certainly understand the sentiment. But I'd question is this actually true? Have you considered doing a Gwern-style self-experiment to quantify the impact?

Maybe try something like your current routine for two weeks, then rigorously maxing out sleep for two weeks. Take systematic surveys of your subjective wellbeing and energy levels throughout the day. Then compare the two periods.

You might be surprised to learn that what you think is giving you energy, is actually taking it away. I think as humans we tend to have very bad introspective intuition about what actually improves our energy and mood. I know I certainly do. Being scientific about it can reveal some surprising results.
I could fall in love with such a phone. One where I can easily run Python processes inside screen sessions, which gather GPS and other sensor data for rapid prototyping, stream that data over a WebSocket connection, then some Bluetooth stuff in Go. Computing stuff.
Many years ago I ran muLinux (http://www.linfo.org/mulinux) on an old desktop that I was gifted.

It was surprisingly capable for being so tiny and eventually led me to install Slackware (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slackware) on a better machine that had a CD-ROM drive.
1. with crypto you go on dark net and pay some people to drop illegal chemical substances somewhere and message GPS coordinates of that drop place to you
2. you can break into computer network of large company, encrypt their data with ransomware and get ransom in crypto
No one told you you should care. It's not like I go rant in the Apple Big Sur release how I can't relate to any of it, you know?
At the current fee level and price eth is going to be deflationary after mining is gone (fees are going to be burned except for a small fraction).

https://cryptofees.info/
This kind of candidate would be handheld by a very specific part of the recruiting team who would no doubt realize that they are dealing with someone VERY exceptional...

This is not to say that they would get preferential treatment in getting through the interview, but this person would not be interviewed like a regular SWE but by a specialized committee (one probably filled with more research-minded engineering staff)

Similarly, the questions would be tailored differently because the expectation of a research mind would NOT be strictly coding features / fixing bugs, but probably doing research
That's just a mod of the Google YouTube app, if memory serves. It probably still relies on normal Play Services, and is likely nonfree anyway.
Facebook-Backed Crypto Group Libra Changes Name to Diem Network
Proof of Stake Will Kill Proof of Work (2018)
> Look near the end where he describes Trump helping a dictator as a good thing because "it brings the corruption out in the open".

I could not find this in the article.

> He goes on to explain that Trump has publicly done many corrupt and terrible things that you normally don't see because "they're in the shadows".

This is a statement of fact, what part are you disagreeing with?
Yup, and in the meantime there's a docker image https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core#opening-and-editing-... (hi Cyprien! waves in French)
Traffic to and from an HTTP site can be intercepted and spoofed by third parties.

Use HTTPS, always and everywhere.
No need to guess, they're in the table in the article.

The question I have is whether it makes sense to add a team commission variable where instead of just Geos, Verticals or Round Robin, there is a ~%5 redistribution of the sales commissions to provide a co-operation incentive for assists.
In a strictly competitive team, assisting on another sale comes with an opportunity cost against your own quota and commissions, where if you are going to get a few points for keeping your eye on the aggregate number it adjusts the incentives.

I once turned down the opportunity to move into a sales eng role because sales engineers didn't get a commission cut and it seemed like a dumb deal.

In general, do sales eng's get sales commissions in your companies?
> If you would develop better scheme, world will thank you.

OK, I will let you know if I come up with one :-)
Exactly, so stop worrying about recycling. It'll happen when it's viable, and not before.

Batteries are a way too important source of valuable materials to not be recycled.
Because we've tried it for Covid and other diseases. The benefit is small at best. Certainly not anywhere near 90%.
I think the level of productivity he has shown in just his undergrad is crazy! I think you are right that if he holds this up it will be exciting to see what comes next.
What's your take on off chain solutions like lightning as a solution to the high tx fees?