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> US has fought wars to retain dollar as the global reserve currency. Why would the US give up this advantage ?

Not true, the US has been trying to reduce the usage of the USD as a reserve currency (it's the largest such currency but not the only one) due to it not having any real benefit to the US while exposing its economy to the effects of financial crises around the world.

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Ben Bernanke (ex-FED Chairman) - The dollar’s international role: An “exorbitant privilege”?

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/ben-bernanke/2016/01/07/the-d...

> A great deal of U.S. currency is held abroad, which amounts to an interest-free loan to the United States. However, the interest savings are probably on the order of $20 billion a year, a small fraction of a percent of U.S. GDP, and that “seigniorage,” as it is called, would probably still exist even if the dollar lost ground to other currencies...

> The safe haven aspect of the dollar is actually a negative for U.S. firms, since it implies that they become less competitive (the dollar is stronger) at precisely the times that global economic conditions are most difficult.

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The ‘reserve currency’ myth: The US dollar’s current and future role in the world economy

https://www.ussc.edu.au/analysis/the-reserve-currency-myth-t...

> This safe-haven bid for US dollar assets means that the US dollar often behaves in ways that seem counter-intuitive relative to US economic fundamentals. As Figure 2 shows, the US dollar appreciates in response to economic policy uncertainty. A 1 per cent increase in the Global Economic Policy Uncertainty Index raises the real value of the US dollar by 0.2 per cent, controlling for relative interest rate, inflation and economic growth differentials with the rest of the world.

> The appreciation exacerbates trade tensions between the United States and the rest of the world by weighing on US export competitiveness, setting in train a protectionist spiral.

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That the USD's role as a reserve currency isn't really very important doesn't change the fact that Bitcoin is a moderately interesting solution to a niche CS problem, and not the solution to financial problems nobody actually has, either because they were solved decades or centuries ago, or because they're not and never were real problems in the first place.
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Hiya,

I can't speak for robotdan, but am also an employee.

My opinion: we have been so busy heads down building things we haven't put together an about us page.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/fusionauth/ is pretty transparent about who works there, though.

HTH.
On the positive side, the focus on bats has led to a lot of research into their genomics. For example:

* "Comparative Analysis of Bat Genomes Provides Insight into the Evolution of Flight and Immunity": https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1230835

Bats are believed to be the reservoir species for a number of nasty viruses, though. As the abstract of the above paper says, bats are the "reservoir hosts for some of the world's most highly pathogenic viruses, including Nipah, Hendra, Ebola, and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)."

I haven't heard any virologists who study bats call for the eradication of bats. In fact, the Ecohealth Alliance, which coordinates a lot of the fieldwork to gather data on viruses in bat populations, says that conservation measures would help reduce the risk of spillover.
The train will be moving. Good exercise.
> Even doing well isn't sufficient in pandemic times.

Ask anyone hiring at a FAANG co and you will find that it's a massive struggle to hire now. Pandemic isn't making anything harder for applicants and, given the relative success of tech during it, may be making it harder.
Huh, I'm pretty sure it's present by default (not behind a flag) in current versions of Keycloak - would have liked to use it but our setup is so heavily firewalled tokens wouldn't make it over ;)
For the vast majority of audio needs Rust is portable enough to cover x86, ARM, MIPS-based platforms. Probably 99% of users that need this kind audio/video multiplexing.
> a rotary-dial desk phone from 100 years ago would still work today

This still amazes me, even though every time a call comes in on the landline, the 50-year-old rotary-dial phone in my living room rings alongside the cordless phone. It doesn't get used much, except for the loud ringer and during extended power outages.
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the flawed assumption that we can't work on more than one problem at a time.

that throwing all of our resources at a problem will speed up the solution to that problem without reaching a point of diminishing returns of investment.

that all scientist, engineers, researchers, doctors, etc are interchangeable and are equally motivated and capable to productively research problems in unrelated fields and that if their chosen research were de-funded and were to be moved to another field they wouldn't just quit and do something they are more interested in.

ignoring that knowledge gained in one field might also advance progress in another.
The question is not whether you can define it in terms of addition in some abstract way, but whether you can define it in terms of repeated addition, i.e. something of the form x + x + … + x.
I can't be certain, but I suspect the real problem was that the original contract was signed without requiring the technical data rights and/or delivery of the technical data. This is a common mistake made by the DoD, and can lead to extraordinarily high costs later.

Just look at the notice: "The deliverables will include all technical data related to the heat exchanger disassembly, all technical data related to the cores, all technical data related to the stack up, vacuum brazing, and installation of the cores on existing units. The deliverables will also include all technical data related to the tooling needed..." It's clear they don't have the technical data.

Here's how this can happen: the government asks for proposals, and the prospective contractors say "we'll create it for you for cheaper if you don't require the technical data & its related rights". The government program manager (PM) is under a lot of pressure to "get it cheaper", and this is cheaper in the short term, so the government PM agrees. The PM will be around for a few years, then leave. Later on, the contractor is the only one who can make the parts (because they're the only ones with the technical data & the technical data rights to do it). The government procurement system is all about competition, but now there is no possibility for real competition. Thus, the parts will cost 10x or more, and the government PM who approved this is long gone (probably with a promotion), and the contractor is happy with incredibly large profit margins.

I don't know if that's what happened in this case. But it's very very possible.
My employer didn’t send me a W2 this year which caused me to seek another method to access this information. I created an account on irs.gov and was surprised to find a single PDF for each tax year containing W2’s, 1099Ints, 1099Divs that I assume were given to the IRS on my employers/bankers behalf.

Now it would be great for a tax program to ingest this PDF and auto-populate your tax return. Unfortunately no PDF for 2020 exists yet and it says it might not be available until October? I don’t know if generating this PDF is a slow process or if this information is intentionally withheld until after the tax filing date to make sure you are “honest” on your taxes.
I feel like I'm not understanding something. Isn't "n·0 = 0" the demonstrandum? I would have written something like

n·0 = 0 [we seek to show this]
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n·0 = n·(1 + -1) [definition of additive inverse]
n·(1 + -1) = n + (-n) [multiplication is distributive...]
n + (-n) = 0 [definition of additive inverse]
QED

(Sorry, but what you have above makes me slightly queasy, and I'm hoping the fuss about rigor can be acceptable in a math thread.)
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You've misinterpreted that greatly.
Pokémon Go enters the chat. Seriously, we picked the worse games to pass time during lockdown.

Edit: I mean it, lockdown was weird and it looked like it would last only a few months, so many of us picked casual games to fill the time we would spend running errands. It took me three months to switch to more interesting passtimes.
This really looks amazing! I saw your post describing your product in relation to Auth0/Okta at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26070302 and it makes a ton of sense. Many (most?) enterprise-facing startups don't start out that way, and it's painful in practice (and in principle!) to be power-sold to "lift" your existing users into a solution like Auth0, just to accept SAML logins for new users. And pricing per connection is infinitely more justifiable than pricing per user, especially in that context, especially with today's acquisition removing any downwards price pressure on that per-user pricing!!!

I might reach out to you with some questions about our use cases - we're in early conversations with an enterprise client who uses Auth0 for their user management, and ideally we'd be able to use their Auth0 as an IDP for SSO into our existing Django application. Would also love to pick your brain on potential solutions for B2B2C use cases - your Admin Portal concept reminds me very much of a page I've written far too often in the past :) Feel free to reach me as well at btown.hn@gmail.com.
Right. Subresource integrity checks eliminate the need to trust the source of the subresource, but not the main resource (the HTML response that bootstraps the app).

But I'm willing to bet 1Password and the like never trusted third parties to host <link> and <script> assets anyway.
I like the M1 in theory but my work’s weird crusty express app produces an empty response on localhost on the M1. It works on everything else of course and even all the microservices work (also express) but at this point I’m stumped. Maybe I should just try x86 node for now?

I think my point is, for developers it’s not working out that great in a lot of cases, especially docker and so on. Performance is not everything if you were hoping to get some actual work done!
Even in that case, you are doing more work but 40% is excessive.
Indeed, it's easy for the execs raking in top salaries to say "everyone cant get raises now", yet when the profits roll in they don't reverse course and now your salary is deflated by one or more annual cycles of non-adjustment. This is a permanent deflation of your salary vs pre-COVID expectations at this same company too.

This phenomenon definitely has made me want to leave my job. I would consider myself the most important member of my team but would guess I am making a median salary on it. Time to brush up on my political speak and whiteboarding
I haven't heard anything about Shockley wanting to explore germanium. My understanding is the "Traitorous Eight" left both because of personality conflicts with Shockley and because he was focusing too much on his 4-layer diode instead of transistors.
I know someone using Gulp today for a successful web site. They don't have any worries.
That can be solved within hours on a GPU cluster... Looking at a single core is usually not a great idea when you have billions of cores available.
Had a quick look at your docs for integrating with Azure AD SAML https://workos.com/docs/integrations/azure-ad-saml and wondered why you don't make use of SAML metadata URLs that contain all this configuration? For example the signing certificates, ACS, Reply/ACS URL, EntityIDs are all in the metadata xml docs, so you could boil it down to:

* Here's the SP metadata URL - upload it into Azure dashboard here ...

* Grab the "App Federation metadata URL" from the Azure dashboard and paste it into WorkOS here ... (where your app can parse the XML and grab certs, URLs etc)

And you're done.
I hate this. We moved from Okta a few years ago after we were basically received almost no actual real support for a bunch of issues, even though we were paying a premium cost. Nobody cares about issues on their Github, the kicker was a when we received a support response as suddenly something was no longer working after an update, we got help in the form of "We have no plans to address this anytime soon." when asking for an ETA.

We ended up switching to Auth0, after we had a few calls with them. We shaved a decent amount off our costs with Auth0's Enterprise plan, and their webtask based rules worked. While the migration sucked for a bit, in the end we were much happier.
A friend of mine looked into building a P-51 from scratch, as buying a real one was too expensive. He ordered the blueprints, which are readily available. But then he talked to some P-51 owners, who told him the blueprints wouldn't be much use. The airplane was defined by the jigs used to build it, and the blueprints were just drawn up later as documentation and never checked. The jigs were scrapped when the airplane went out of production.
I'm a native app developer too (iOS and Android) and I've got some experience with Flutter.

I agree with most of your comment, but the only thing I'd add is that from what I've seen if your concern is the quality of apps then Flutter definitely is not where you'll go to find that. If anything, Flutter developers seem to care even less about the end-user experience and instead simply focus on their own productivity. The end results are often horrible with a ton of jank, UI weirdness, etc.
> If you mean it can, with appropriate software, do symbolic manipulations of general formulas that are valid for real numbers, yes, of course. But that's not the same as doing specific concrete computations with them.

No, I don't mean computer algebra systems, if that's what you mean. In something like Lean, you can set up an actual construction of the system of real numbers (in mathlib it's the Cauchy completion of the rationals, which in turn are a given by a numerator and positive nonzero denominator that are coprime; an integer is essentially a natural number and a sign bit, and natural numbers are inductively constructed from zero and taking successors). Maybe this will convince you that these are "the" real numbers: you can prove there are uncountably many of them, and more importantly that it is the unique complete ordered field (up to isomorphism).
I'm saying that may be without unions Norway would be even richer? It's kinda similar to "my grandpa was smoking two packs a day and lived till 102".
Yes, you can do that. But libc can't use that as an implementation strategy without also having this linear-turned-quadratic behavior.
I work at Ghostery. Yes, Cliqz bought Ghostery for the Human Web data, since we have so many more users than Cliqz ever did. What gives you the impression that any data we are collecting is not appropriately anonymous?

The Ghostery extension is open source, so feel free to link to anything in the code that looks suspect to you
>I'm yet to find something I could possibly gripe about.

Have you experienced the accelerated hd degradation? An odd story that popped up recently.

(Not the greatest link....https://www.gizmochina.com/2021/02/24/apple-m1-mac-users-fac...)
this is really misunderstanding the dynamics of belief. from climate change to covid lockdowns to election results, what's going on are quintessentially political acts: trying to coerce the world into being the way you (i, we) want it to be by spouting what you (i, we) want to be true, not necessarily what you (i, we) actually believe to be true (which you may not even be cognizant of because you haven't self-examined enough on the topic).

supposing validation--or even worse, idiocy, ignorance, or idolotry--as motivation for rhetoric/belief, is really just adding fog to the theater, not clarity. you won't understand the world better through such beliefs.
Phones are heterogeneous multi-core devices these days, with sophisticated memory architectures. They don’t have infiniband but that’s not too far from cutting edge HPC node architectures from ~ a decade ago. I am sure you can use MPI on them as well. Sure, nobody needs to run ScaLAPACK or $random_simulation_code on a phone, but AFAIK there’s nothing stopping them.

The difference between a phone and a cluster node is mostly one of use cases, not technology.
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It looks like Android-only, while Flutter is cross-platform.
Can wait for experimental WebGPU miner hitging you on every page =P
One is reminded of the JC Penney teapot that looked like Hitler.
Meh, that's a weak argument. The software industry wants to benefit from the fact that data can be copied for free (a unique property of our world), but also wants to put a sticker price on each ephemeral "copy" as of it's a material object.

In the world if matter, things have copies and we can count them. In the world of knowledge there's no such concept and it lives by different rules. RIAA and other luddites try to turn ideas into stones to sell them.
I had GCP kill my servers without warning because they claimed someone was mining crypto on them (they weren't). That alone was the permanent end to my business relationship with Google.

I should have known better though. Like I said, I've been through a lot of Google shutdowns and various screw jobs (remember the Google App Engine price hike?).

AWS is a professional product. It has warts but it's much more solid than GCP, technically and from a business perspective.
I wouldn't be surprised. It has happened with a lot of different acquisition programs. That was actually one of my first thoughts on reading the article, as I know people who've had to do this kind of reverse engineering for other aircraft due to a lack of tech data in the initial contract and refusal of USAF to purchase it later.
You mean you think these people are dumb?
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It’s fascinating that you’ve so casually compared people to dogs.

Out of curiosity, of the groups of people that are impacted by affirmative action, which groups remind you of which breeds and why? For example, are women border collies? Or some other breed?
Going to Mars is slowly changing from insane to possible to likely.
This is a major problem when trying to make delineated categories, it helps in order to get the concept across but reality is always more nuanced than that. The hybrid type you mention might as well be a third category altogether and should be mentioned.
Regardless of your level, just remember to set your pacing expectations. It's perfectly okay if you are going slow, it's really information-dense.

I have no background in abstract math. It took me three days to make it through the first paragraph. I'd still recommend it.
Yeah, but also the industry knows for DECADES that RSA will likely be broken eventually. Not having reacted yet is not the researcher's fault.

We know that Quantum computers can break it too, yet nobody really acts on it with any urgency. If suddenly there is a breakthrough and we can reach this state within a year, then there will be no time to adapt as well.

It all boils down to the general corporate attitude of not fixing catastrophic problems without precedence. We see the same with climate change and once it hits hard, it will be too late to adapt.
It will all make it to n-gate.com. Don't worry.
Climate was a factor but not the primary factor in their extinction.

Like the vast majority of all ice-age megafauna, they could not co-exist with the rapidly expanding human population and were driven from the land that sustained them and/or hunted to extinction.
And it was a success!
That’s certainly fair - you’ve got to build out the cloud offering anyway. Makes sense, even if the toy idea is in some ways simpler from a technology point of view; dev resources aren’t free.
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Arguably if you need to prep that much it might not be a good fit. YMMV.
No? You're not complicit with fraud if you suspect someone of fraud but don't go public with your suspicions. I don't think that's up for debate at all tbh.
Honest question: Do they kill off GCP services/features? Often? More or less than AWS?
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Among Us has been holding on longer than Animal Crossing at this point. In some ways it has fewer annoying design problems - Animal Crossing feels like it's forcing you to slow down and relax, but they did this by making all the loading times and menus at least twice as slow as they should be.

Inventory management, selling bugs, visiting islands, etc, it just takes too long.
This inspires me.
Megafauna are going to have low birth rates and be easy to track and cull. So the risk seems fairly low compared to say insects or seeds or bacteria that can never be reigned in once they are out in the world.
Still rubbish, though.
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I struggle to imagine this royal of an unforced error happening under Bezos. "Poor" Andy Jassy will certainly have his hands full, I reckon. Not that anyone doubts his prowess (he's historically known to be a very effective win at all costs businessman) but dare I say that he maybe will lack some of the foresight, acumen, and product instincts of Bezos?

I am reminded of Gates/Ballmer. But maybe I am overfitting here.
By "better" I mean some magical quality that makes them better than others.
Good point, thanks for the added detail.

Note that one still must fully trust the root resource (the HTML response that bootstraps the web app). Whatever generates or stores that response up until it is wrapped in TLS is just as vulnerable.
Agreed.

To add something useful to the conversation & giving the benefit of the doubt: maybe the parent was describing a situation where an org didn't have a cohesive security plan. If half your people are using one service, and the other half are using another, you've got a problem. I suppose this can blow out in complexity, and maybe risk(?), once you're stacking services (IdP, MFA, ...).
This seems accurate to me. Not sure why they'd be forced to remove it.
That's probably a good thing. ;-)

I've found, even when I research the meaning/origin of popular memes, that I still do not understand them. AMOGUS is one of these.

Incidentally, TikTok is also really disturbing to me because practically -nothing- on it makes any sense to me... almost as if it were from another planet. It's disturbing because it makes me realize how little I understand about people in the very society in which I live.

Get off my lawn?
> I feel like Toyota is wasting its money. Maybe I'm missing something.

There looked to be two problems for hydrogen EV's. One was storing it, and the second was the platinum in the fuel cell.

It's now looking like storing Hydrogen as a compound of some sort is going to be a thing. There are several compounds out there now, Ammonium making big strides recently.

The platinum in the fuel cell's is still a thing, where "a thing" means we need more platinum to power the world's electricity needs than we have platinum, and not by a small factor. They've been reducing the amount needed but not by enough and there is no hint anyone's found another catalyst doing the job. Yet.

Maybe Toyota's bet is there has to be one, surely? That sounds like a bit bet, but batteries aren't there yet either. They have to drop in cost by a factor of 2 of 3. We don't know how that will be done, but it's looking it will happen and these announcements of "we will only be making EV's in 2030" are essentially bets that will come to pass.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/china-makes-anal-swab-cov...

Duly noted, this is slightly superior in quality, I suppose.