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> I haven't seen solid evidence that that is the case.

(Note, I called this plausible, not correct or even likely.)
Terrorists would probably have an easier time exploiting this button, which isn’t exactly safe either, than update servers. Or not, but it does introduce yet another attack vector, or technology that could have a bug that makes it trigger by accident.
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>You are taking something that is fundamentally not-safe as a function of what it is

A plastic bag is fundamentally not-safe?

>You attempting to make solving all of the worlds safety problems my problem is bullshit. I explicitly stated that treadmill engineering is NOT my job.

And yet you have no issue claiming despite the fact NO treadmill manufacturer has been able to come up with a fix, that they should be able to. So "this is an easy problem but I have no idea what the solution is".
I'm brown and refuse to use any other emoji then the default one on principle. It pisses of some of my friends which pisses me off in turn because it is such a BS issue to devote any mental space to. Oh shit I just wasted 10 minutes of my day on this crap again.
I read the book when I was younger and later watched the Google talk. I remember thinking as I watched the talk that things just didn't add up. A simple search online could not verify that he had ever worked with the FBI. His answers in the Q&A seemed shallow. He admitted elsewhere that his book is lacking verisimilitude. I was left with the strong feeling that, "He's probably still just pulling a con!"
ESC isn't a control code like CTRL or SHIFT or ALT - so holding it while you press another key is weird, to me.

But pressing and releasing ESC and then pressing and releasing period works excellently. Thank you.
Ha, sorry, my comment was way too sarcastic. And yes, that looks to be what happened here.
Take a sick day.
I agree, but not with the "50%" number.

“Without technological breakthroughs in efficient, large scale energy storage, it will be difficult to rely on intermittent renewables for much more than 20-30 percent of our electricity.” Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy - 2010.

https://grist.org/article/2010-02-22-energy-secretary-steven...
Honestly if his IT team is that stupid to still use AWS, they deserve it.
They have mountains and mountains of real data signal to drown out your noise in the outliers
You raised my hopes and dashed them exquisitely.

Until we have better, cheaper, and less error prone methods of remediating prion diseases they're the #1 fear on my biological apocalypse list.
This is the one that would have helped you remember the others.
Thanks :

1. In distributed computing, there are usually minimal communication because nodes communication is costly, the bottleneck can still be the hot loop on each nodes.

2. When optimizing the hot loop only, it can be quickly written in Cython or C, since the scope is usually a lot smaller, so no need to use Go.
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Thanks! Yes, I used both, and one of the founders of Linear App was a staff mobile engineer at Uber, where we worked together.

Bugsnag is mobile crash reporting and Linear App project management (not specific to mobile, more like an alternative to JIRA). I see zero overlap between them.
Is there anything you would like to do that you need ETH for?

Are you looking for inspiration or are you looking to talk about use cases that you will never be in the market for?
why is this on the front page? shitpost...
> What benefit has Musk or Tesla received from fighting with regulators?

Same as Peloton.

Let's say there are two kinds of people. People who open Robinhood and buy shares at ask, and everyone else. As long as there are more of the former than the latter, and as long as those Robinhood users like spats, then obviously giant company CEOs will keep getting into them.

Buying at ask is as direct as it gets! You don't need this some complicated socioeconomic mechanical theory. It's so frustrating to hear about these indirect effects - how the news might cause an analyst to write something negative months later, that maybe some institution may trade on one month, that goes through a big committee... If many Robinhood users read Elon Musk tweets, open Robinhood, buy at ask, price goes up!

Like this is the same energy that got a lot of politicians elected these last few elections. The same energy that's making TikTok personalities real celebrities. VIPs have their hands almost directly on the levers of popularity contests nowadays, through social media and direct to consumer finance, e-commerce and subscription apps.

If your theory about regulation and capitalism and economics or whatever does not incorporate "more guys buy at ask than guys sell in spread," nowadays, it might not be wrong, but it's mediocre.
I remember my ISDN having closer to zero latency. It was kind of amazing watching Web pages jump onto the screen.
ran into similar issues a couple of times - hate doing business with anything that has the label "enterprise" attached to it...
AFAIk they are not competitors. Linear is akin to Jira/Trello. Bugsnag is akin to Crashlytics.
Making insane yield (50%-300% apr, depending on the time) on dollars
Some context: The author created https://quantum.country which is a text book augmented with spaced-repetition. It seems that Orbit is a toolkit for creating these types of flashcard/spaced-repetition learning webpages for anyone (with the user data being stored at Orbit's server).

I'll have to say that I'm still not 100% sure how useful this approach is. Most of the times when you're learning something you're not merely reading, but you're also actively using the knowledge in some way. If I'm learning about B-trees then the major part of that learning process is implementing them. If I'm learning some complicated math I will solve a bunch of exercises. Where does flashcards in a text book fit into this?

It was also my impression (from the Anki community) that spaced-repetition is far more effective when you create the cards yourself. A common "beginner mistake" is to download a pre-made deck and start memorizing from scratch.
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What was first clue Google went bad?

When they couldn't even maintain a motto of "Don't be Evil"

That should have been everyone's red flag right there.
They say they never received any notification either.
Good enough for government work used to be a high accolade, indicating a well specified, tested, compliant work item. It was a radical improvement.
His mistake wasn’t in taking the wrong amount of LSD. His mistake was testing it for the first time in an important meeting. But it seems this is a common type of mistake for him: taking unnecessary risks for himself rather than necessary risks for his company.
I suspect that much of Go's popularity stems from one thing that's completely unrelated to its language design woes: its ability to generate standalone binaries with minimal dependencies (and specifically none on Linux, which is prevalent for container use).

Go itself is not particularly simple, actually. It's simplistic, meaning that you have to jump through more hoops to do common things. For a concise example, consider adding an item to a slice in Go vs adding an item to a collection in pretty much any other modern language.
> Guess they spent all their money on software?

lol, no

https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/05/peloton-bug-account-data-l...
Having read the book cover to cover I can say that it is quite a well made, relatable list of challenges and how they are being resolved in the sector. Foreseeing these types of issues is hard especially if you never went through the process, and quite hairy to resolve as such I believe it is a very good resource to have.

On another note each section comes with quite a lengthy follow up material, which I found absolutely amazing to use as a starting point as well.

Absolutely love it!
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genuine question: why should we care?
> Am I seriously supposed to ignore the fact that nuclear metldowns have the potential to kill millions of people — because they didn't in 2012?

Can you elaborate on how meltdowns are supposed to be able to kill millions of people? We've already experienced the worst-case scenario in a nuclear catastrophe: Chernobyl.

I'm not exaggerating when I say this was a worse-case scenario: A complete reactor containment failure with no secondary containment. Burning fuel rods were directly exposed to the atmosphere for days. In the end this directly killed 50 people. A few thousand were estimated to eventually die from cancer related to the incident. But to date only 60 people are known to have died due to radiation exposure from Chernobyl.

So yeah I think you're several orders of magnitude off in your risk assessment of nuclear power.
Any reason why they didn't just buy a treadmill, add their IOT stuff on top and ship it ?

This seems like a really silly design choice
We are two chronic pain (abdominal pain & migraine) patients who support young migraine patients.

Migraine patients have to fill out a headache diary. Usually for young people that is too boring (even via app). So they never fill it out, only their parents do. We are testing to break up the diary parts in a parent section (like medication) & patient section (like pain severity).

Additionally, migraine patients often develop mental health problems. To spot trends early they fill out a mood diary. Filling that out regularly is gamified.

Doctors can get a PDF report.
As opposed to men who all happily choose someone overweight from another race.

But if you want to hate more than half of humanity, be my guest. But then don’t be surprised that someone from your hated group will not like you back...
So all non-violent offenses are non-criminal offenses in your book? Steal a car, burglarize a vacant residence, defraud a company, these are matters to sort out via civil action?
The arguments against are not based on any logical or rational footing

How convenient it must be to believe oneself to be in exclusive possession of logic and reason. This is not the way to charitably interpret an argument.

The biggest reason these features should never have been added in the first place: the more opportunities everyone has to notice and be reminded of everyone's differences, the longer those differences will remain divisive.

The saying used to be, "On the Internet nobody knows you are a dog." We were all brought together by the common language of text. I became friends with people of many nations, colors, and sexual backgrounds. Now, every single interaction has to be labeled with your "identity," as if a single color code point could remotely capture that, and it drives us all apart.

This is amplifying exclusivity in the name of inclusivity.
It's pretty easy to use C# (or even F#) to write excel add-ins that can be distributed as standalone XLL files.

The difference is that add-ins is installed at the application level instead of the spreadsheet level (like VBA macros).
The biggest problem is the opportunity cost, and you may not be aware of just what you're giving up if you've not done substantial work in other ecosystems over the years.

The two big places this shows up in golang, imo, is the lack of high quality data structure libraries, and the lack of widely used standard library for routine channel management tasks.

The former is a huge opportunity cost. If I'm coding on .net, jvm, c, or c++ I have a variety of state of the art data structures available. Some of these structures are extremely difficult to develop, so the "just write your own boilerplate" approach is completely insufficient. Point to code generation templates all you want, the reality is that this problem is preventing golang from improving much past using mutex protected hash maps and google's interface{} typed btree. Meanwhile, if we look at say .net, you have a very high quality lock free concurrent hash table available that scales to massive heap sizes. This is no niche thing: the bw-tree / cosmosdb storage engine is entirely designed around the capabilities of this lock free map. It's easily responsible for 100's of millions of dollars of value to software in that ecosystem now.

The lack of simple, clear, and useful channel lifetime management functions is another rough edge that bites many go programmers daily. The many abuses of Context make this problem quite clear.

I understand the sentiment of not wanting golang to turn into the Stephanov style C++ generics. But I think that's an imaginary fear. The golang generics design is quite different and far more "gopher" for lack of a better term. The problems golang is facing due to poor type flexibility in this area are not imaginary: they are endemic.
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WWS doesn’t work without your diverse and distributed sources being interconnected.

Which they conveniently hand wave off since that was a subject for another paper.

If they had confidence in their ideas, they would at least summarize the findings of that paper that justify their implying the grid as not being an issue in the practicality of their plan. For example: even if the grid is 100% reliable (which - spoiler - it’s not), what are the sizing implications due to transmission loss? How do you get power across continents to have true geographic diversity? This paper presents all upside with no downside? Ha!

Again, nice theory in a perfect world. We do not live in a perfect world.
The Unicode Consortium is a consortium, big enough to work on multiple issues at once. If you think the consortium should work on third world languages, then you should join the consortium and work on third world languages.

https://www.unicode.org/consortium/joinform.html
Unbuckling your seatbelt at speed when your car suddenly acts strangely is a very bad idea.
We do *not* want naval reactors!

Normal civilian reactors work on low enrichment uranium or even natural uranium--stuff that has no potential to go boom.

Even reprocessing isn't the danger it's made out to be. First, the plutonium from spent reactor fuel has a lot of Pu-240 in it. Bombs need Pu-239, too much Pu-240 will make them malfunction. (If you are trying to make Pu-239 you switch out the fuel rods much more frequently.) Second, the reprocessing plant has access to a lot of very hot stuff. All you actually need to do in reprocessing is strip out the waste products that poison the reaction, a fuel rod heavily "contaminated" with something like Cobalt-60 won't interfere with reactor operation, but it will ensure no thief will make off with it.

Naval reactors, however, are built to be as small as possible. That means very highly enriched uranium. Building a gun-type uranium bomb is easily within the range of what Al Qaeda can do, the limiting factor is obtaining the materials. Thus naval reactor fuel needs to be treated with extreme security.
On the other hand the valuation of the company was 2 billion so he did increase their investment. It’s a two way street. They give you money, you deliver profit. I don’t agree that just because you are uncomfortable with someone you get to fire them because you entrusted him with money. I agree that it happens a lot. :D
Yeah wipers are kind of a security feature, imagine if they stopped working while under heavy rain.
My wife had taken a couple infectious diseases courses as part of her anthropology degree so she was tuned into this whole thing and the first article she read about it end of December I remember her freaking out. "Oh, great, another SARS-type virus has been found, we're screwed" and me being like "honey, you're being paranoid. relax."

I hate it when she's right.
A carbon tax would be more popular at if it was redistributed to the citizenry.

Carbon tax is different from other taxes as the primary purpose is not to raise money for govt, it's to reduce carbon producing activity.

So take all the proceeds and distribute directly to every citizen to use as they want - e.g to buy petrol if that's their choice.

When people see those checks arriving they'll be more positive.
I'd be interested to see exactly how they use their blockchain as the backend. They have a link to github but nothing is public. The performance seems great right now but will it stay that way?
> Are you forced to use Go or something?

I mean, yes, most companies have a relatively small list of supported languages, whether explicitly or practically. If someone at our company wants to write a program that does some binary data munging that's even more frustrating in Java, and needs to do it faster than Python allows, they have to use Go. We will not let them use C or C++, because most of the team will not understand it and it won't be able to integrate with any of our standardized libraries or CI infrastructure.
As a spin bike, they are nice. Expensive, but nice. As an indoor cycling trainer, there are better options.
I mean, I've learned enough to have plenty of ideas for "how to use ETH" but nothing makes the cut.

NFTs are **.

DAO is too grandiose, especially to be hosted on ETH.

And that leads to my comment.
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Not with a bang but a #VALUE!

— T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men (1925)
Early in the article it states "Why does this matter?
Performance and security."

Am I now wrong in expecting results of performance tests?
To me, mirrorless format is superior. Anyone buying a new camera is probably taking a look at the newer models.
It seems to be using https://ctan.org/pkg/latexdiff, and maybe its wrapper https://github.com/temken/comparxiv.
This is misleading, the code doesn't send the $ETH, it's calling a third party API (infura) to do it
I’m not reducing anyone’s ethnicity because Black one ethnicity and Igbo is another.
Ending your career? It's called communication.
If you want to become even more cynical about big orgs, I have to recommend reading The Gervais Principle [1].

[1] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
Why are you assuming that S[n+1] takes S[n] as an input, rather than being completely unaffected by S[n]?

If different states would be independent, if there were not even statistical relations, it would just be a sequence of random states. It would not even really make any sense to say that S[n] evolved into S[n + 1].

Is n here a discretization of time or a "meta-time" that captures state progression?

I did not want to imply any discretization, I just could not come up with a better notation. Proper mathematical treatment would probably use some index set with some kind of order defined on it. This would probably also overcome the linearity of state evolution implied by my notation.

And I used n intentionally to not imply time so that time can be emergent. On the other hand the entire idea of the state of the universe evolving is very heavily influenced by our experience with things changing over time. So I am actually less worried about the details of the independent variable, whether it is time or true-time, how many dimensions it has, or what not. I think the real problem is that the entire idea of state evolution might be wrong, maybe there is no state or no evolution and our brains are just not capable of imagining the way the universe actually works

On the other hand we have quite a few very general results like Turing-completeness, incompleteness theorems, uniqueness of the reals, and whatnot. And all this is built on top of rather simple axioms of logic without assuming much so it seems not that easy that we are totally missing some fundamental structure that we are not only unable to imagine but where we also lack the necessary logical or mathematical tools to even describe them. But it surly might be that there is a third option besides x is true and x is not true that humans are incapable of understanding and therefore our logic and everything build on top of it is missing.
From what I understand, the theory is that the route was specifically designed so that nobody would have known where it went. No evidence, no crime. By just nose-diving, it makes it easier to find that evidence (like the black boxes).

At the time, not a lot of pilots knew about the feature of the satellite communication unit that would allow investigators to estimate a track over the southern Indian Ocean. Without that, nobody would have known where the plane went after it left military radar range.
This is how SimTower started:

"Saito had a background in architecture, and one day, he found himself fascinated by how elevators work – how they decide which floors to go to and who’s responsible for making them efficient. When he called an elevator company to ask, they declined to give him an answer. So with the help from programmer Takumi Abe, he designed a simulation to see how elevators operate in a crowded building."

https://obscuritory.com/sim/simtower-the-vertical-empire/
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>Should we just stop using computers?

Laptops and buildings are a necessity, while cars with wireless modems and always on internet connections are not. All the usecases are solvable with Apple/Android/Car with infotainment serving as a dumb terminal, without any connection to anything important in a car. Since we already always have government surveillance devices on us (mobile phones) why add additional ones, which have the ability to crush us into oncoming traffic? Cars also had perfectly functional navigation with SD cards.

>"over the air" security patches to laptops?

Yes. Over the air security patches are a very very bad thing. The fact that this issue still hasn't been solved is a disgrace, with all the formal verification advances. Still laptops are a necessity, and can't kill us directly.

>State actors can destroy buildings,

That's not very plausibly deniable method. Buildings don't collapse or blow up by themselves. It leaves lots of material evidence of foul play.

>with a gun or a poison or whatever.

Not if they want to avoid suspicions and make it look like it was something natural, which is almost all the time.

>murdering people is an incredibly low risk threat.

Not if you are an activist and are up against an authoritarian regime, which can even follow you abroad. There is also surveillance you can't turn off like you can with a phone -- i.e. you can't talk with people in a car about anything important.
These guys blew it. They should've sent guys to add guards to these things. It would've been cheaper than the recall and the lawsuits they might have to deal with now.

These fucking things could suck up a small dog and mangle the shit out if it if not downright spit back out pieces.

Imagine overpaying for a treadmill to begin with and it has a huge, possibly deadly design flaw.

Seriously, WTF.

Stick with your Precor treadmills people. Proven, cheaper and every bit as good.
Congratulation on the publication. I remember meeting you in Amsterdam Uber offices for a casual chat and coffee and really enjoyed our conversation. It was pretty neat that you were willing to nerd out with a rando from US over distributed systems and payments :)
Honestly, I don't have strong feelings about fighting over the covid shutdown (telling employees they could stay home and then firing them is bad though, and significantly worse than ignoring the county order). IMHO, fighting with the SEC over stupid shit reflects poorly on Elon and the board who refuse to supervise him, but not so much on the company.

Fighting with the NTSB has a bad look. Throwing shade on people who died using your product, is also a bad look.
Why do you need a car that can do 153mph?
It looks like the add-on has an option to "Allow referral marketing" which is off by default. If you install this add-on and feel like enabling this, it looks like you can.

That said, it still results in some level of tracking and given the add-on's purpose, having to opt in to affiliate links seems like the right choice.
But few of them have the ground clearance the Peloton has
There may have been some innacurate reporting, but FMD and BSE present very differently in humans so I doubt there was deep confusion.