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> The Fed is rolling out instant payments in 2023, after which I expect checks to be obsolete and no longer offered by financial institutions.

We are at least a decade away from the time when checks are not used, probably two. For that to happen the baby boomers must be nearly completely gone from the workforce. The reason why we still use checks is because a lot of businesses are still owned and operated by the boomers whose processes are

send out bills => receive checks => mark payments on accounts in folders => deposit a batch of checks into an account.

Those are the lifestyle business whose owners/managers are in the last decade of retiring. They won't be either upgrading or selling them.
One that has a long and storied history of only investing their money in productive assets. Buffet doesn’t even buy gold.
Especially how at one point apparently a high percentage of US currency had traces of cocaine and other drugs on them.
You can write async/await-style code in C with a simple switch-case state machine. It's not quite as convenient as aync-await support directly in the language, but what's happening underneath is the exact same thing.

(meaning: blaming "state machine layout" on the capabilities of the implementation language seems a bit of stretch to me, since async-await language support is essentially just (very high level) syntax sugar for a function that consists of a switch-case block and takes a context pointer as additional argument).
> I am not sure whether https://settlenetwork.com is actually affiliated with the original settle.network written by spolu.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27082751
These are the ones who told us the financial instruments that crashed the world in 2008, had negative externalities, before they had crashed the world.

Seems plausible that these particular ones would be prepared to both spot, and tell us about, another impending disaster.
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Not really. I have a lot of musical equipment. The chips I have are relatively uncommon. Not toilet paper. I’ve only got enough to duplicate things and keep them running if need be. I suspect what I will have will last around end of my life. Enough to just keep things going.

I’m not a hoarder, I’ve kept my focus limited and goals clear.

But you’re an assumptive a*hat.
> It’s the same reason I support the Second Amendment [...] would make things a hell of a lot harder for any would be tyrants.

Yet, somehow the rest of the democratic world spins around just fine without millions of semi-automatic weapons sloshing about.
It is far worse than this. The complex is leverage on top of leverage. They’re pledging btc/eth as collateral to buy other cryptos. And in tether’s case it’s quite literally a circlejerk. Shitcoins exist to feed btc and btc exists to feed shitcoins.

You can’t make this up. The greatest ponzi in human history.
>Several years later, I'm pretty comfortable coding solo, but it's a nice tool to pull out when it's helpful (like ramping up on a new codebase).

Opt-in for both sides seems like the best option. You should pair program with someone with whom you get along. Joining a place like Pivotal where you have little control over it and have to pair from the outset with someone you don't know a whole lot about just seems like a bad experiment.
A better link is the research paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.02124

> The universal Turing machine is generally considered to be the simplest, most abstract model of a computer. This paper reports on the discovery of an accidental arbitrary code execution vulnerability in Marvin Minsky's 1967 implementation of the universal Turing machine. By submitting crafted data, the machine may be coerced into executing user-provided code. The article presents the discovered vulnerability in detail and discusses its potential implications. To the best of our knowledge, an arbitrary code execution vulnerability has not previously been reported for such a simple system.

> A common strategy for understanding a problem is to reduce it to its minimal form. In the field of computer security,we may ask the question: "What is the simplest system exploitable to arbitrary code execution?" In this article, we pro-pose an answer to that question by reporting on the discovery that a well-established implementation of the universal Turing machine is vulnerable to a both unintentional and non-trivial form of arbitrary code execution.
https://upvotetracker.com/post/hn/27104903

Was shortly on HN/best. Currently the 99th on HN/active.
So I recently posted an ad for a roommate, but I had to find someone else.

Dude:

- admitted he lied about his credentials to get his job

- said he does as little as possible always

- claims science (the scientific method) is "racist"

- spoke harshly to his mother on mother's day

- mooched at every opportunity

- was hours late to an appointment and didn't even apologize

- didn't even get a "thanks" for going out-of-my-way to accommodate them

- stood around glued to their phone while I was working on something and needed help to get it done faster so we could leave

- whining and wingeing about being a victim

I think he feels entitled to be a liar and a dick because of identity / chip-on-shoulder things that I won't get into.
in my opinion this is recipe for DDoS attack on mitre infrastructructure
Commodore VIC-20 sold for $300, Timex Sinclair $100. I didn't adjust for inflation, as computers also largely haven't, and I wrote "reminds me". Not "is the same" or even "is comparable".

The Apple ][ doesn't even have the "computer in keyboard" form-factor.

And yes, the Raspi is unimaginably more capable. In fact, I still want to do a "how it started" vs. "how it's going" putting the Raspi next to my >$10K NeXT cube. The Cube with the 256MB, slow, huge, washing-mashine-noisy optical drive that can "hold your universe" (no it couldn't), vs. the Raspi's equally removable but silent and infinitely more portable microSD with 16GB (or more after-market).

And both computers come/came with a copy of Mathematica. And I also still have the box for my copy of ParcPlace (!) Smalltalk for the NeXT. Maybe I should make a tiny box for ObjS just to have the side-by-side?
Yeah, that's makes it even more insidious.
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> How about we release this waste water in Japan's rivers, upstream of their purification plants, if it's so safe. Surely it will be thoroughly diluted by the time it ends in the tap water, below the radioactivity of a banana.

I understand and am sympathetic to the skin-in-the-game argument here. But it seems to me there are a couple problems: First, releasing waste water into an ocean would dilute it much more than in a river or stream. A back of the envelope calculation would show that the concentration at a waste water plant on some river would be much higher than the concentration in the ocean. Second, it's not clear that the people making the decision (like the Monsanto guy) wouldn't refuse to drink as well, whereas less wealthy Japanese would be subjected most likely to toxic water.

I get the argument, and maybe there is some way to enforce some skin in the game, but this is not it.
I implore everyone to read the full article and not only the headline. The paper that is being reported on was widely criticized in its scientific community for its weak evidence and should probably be seen (if you are very charitable) only as a starting point for other virus experts to jump into the discussion and do more experiments and not as something for general consumption.
Issues like this, in obsolete code, are a lot of fun. Even if they are essentially meaningless.

I reported CVE-2014-3423 back in the day, relating to GNU Emacs using a predictable filename when talking to the Mosiac browser. No choice, as that was what the browser required, something that wouldn't exist these days.
In Latin decidere also meant to fall down, probably where we got the modern sense, and also the root of "deciduous."
That's some of the rare philosophical aspect of finance/trading. Every body has sold assets that ended up exploding (Tesla or else, and bitcoin amplified this, many people had millions in their hand virtually but gave it up for a pizza).

It teaches you not to focus on regret and only care about risk/satisfaction ratio, and to keep moving.

This topic also tailor your sense of self too. When you made a few too many bad choices (job, relationship, location) you get a finer sense of what you want.
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True for a particularly dark interpretation of capitalism.

I think it'd be a good idea for capitalism to evolve in different ways than this. Not sure if it's a foregone conclusion, but if you end up able to say 'I told you so' then I won't argue :)
That's what I always ask when someone claims manipulation
So basically he's just in favour or secret or closed in transactions from regular institutions?
I've long had this notion that there are two kinds of content on a site like HN:

- temporal, like news, announcements, analysis and discussion on current events. It's usually irrelevant after a while, it gets stale fast.

- atemporal, like essays, history, theory, articles, knowledge in general that while it may get superseded, expanded or invalidated over time, it's interesting content that you learn from, from a current or historical perspective.

While the first kind tends to get more attention due to the clickbaity nature, I much prefer the second kind and wonder if a site focused solely on that would be more interesting.
At the risk of being downvoted I don't find Brandon Sanderson a very good fantasy writer. For me, The way of kings started well (even if the characters were all pretty 2-D) in book one. Interesting plot with it mixing ww1/dune computer game themes in a fantasy setting. But by book 3 it was an incredible chore to get through and I stopped after about 10% in. I even got bored reading the plot summary of the third book. I guess it wasnt dark enough for me. But I know other like it.

The king killer chronicles however. e.g. The name of the wind. I really like this book series.
More importantly, it doesn't appear to actually do what the title says? Did the privacy features (AirTag popping notification on iOS device and making a sound after three days) actually work?
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Sorry for the nitpick but virii is neither in Latin nor English a plural of virus. The Latin would be vira the English viruses. There are a couple of common variants floating around that probably originate from misunderstanding Latin.
So when I cut my finger when fixing my laptop, did I commit suicide ? Homicide ? Digicide ?
> but cryptocurrency/blockchain in general are real, useful technologies.

Whats the last time you bought anything (besides other coins) with cryptocurrency?
In Switzerland it used to be quite easy as the money belongs to you and you can do with it what you want. The only issue should be depositing large sums.

If the banks make it harder and harder to get your money out then of course things like bitcoin are getting more popular.
I enjoyed the first book in that series so much that after the first time I read it I immediately started it again. But every other book in the series was a disappointment compared to that. They all seemed to fall much more into his generic style.
The novel of Starship Troopers doesn't really work as a comparison, IMO. Verhoeven basically didn't read it and Heinlein had different goals. Even if you believe that Heinlein was writing satire, the satire is way more apparent in the movie.

In comparison, the popular consumable representation of the imperium is just straight up good guys. You have to dig into the novels (which only a small number of people read) before you find any of the satire.
“only” and “mostly” aren’t synonyms.
Software that adapts between architectural styles.

The Unix stdio library, for example, is an architectural adapter between the pipes and filters architectural style of the shell and the call/return architectural style of C.
It is interesting that Keynes predicted a 15 hour work week in the 1930s. There are many reasons why this didn't come to pass but part of it is our desire for a higher standard of living. The majority of people in the 1930s didn't have 4,000 sq foot houses. A lot of houses were multi-generational. But we wanted new cars and bigger houses and bigger vacations because we "deserve" it. This is fine but these things we deserve cost money and require even more work. I think our own selves would be incredulous if someone suggested in 2000 that we would be buying $50K "normal" cars and $1K phones every couple of years. This is the flip-side of next day shipping e-commerce, urgent cares on every corner, everything packaged for single use convenience, etc. Even something as silly as lunch, how many people pack versus go out in your workplace? We are part of the problem and we need to acknowledge our greed and its control of our choices.
Things also "work" if you are able to scale down a cost (employment of human labor such as teachers and counselors) while maintaining or scaling up a source of revenue (student enrollment.)

I worked for a company that offered this service (among other data-y things.) It employed lots of bright-eyed young people who were extremely happy they had found a tech job where they could do good, helping struggling students succeed at college. It was a dream job. However, the information we heard trickling in from the customers (public universities and community colleges) was pretty demotivational. They ones that were shrinking were panicked about their future existence, and the ones that were growing were basically like, yeah, hiring a proportional number of front-line staff to interact with students like in the past would just be silly. Nobody is going to do that. Run along, idealistic tech people, save these poor kids with analytics and text messages, because we're not paying to do it the old-fashioned way.
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> A common strategy for understanding a problem is to reduce it to its minimal form. In the field of computer security,we may ask the question: "What is the simplest system exploitable to arbitrary code execution?"

means that i will remove all security abstractions which were generated in past 40 years and i find that it is more vulnerable

this is not research, this is plain and simple trolling, BS feeding
Sure this CVE sounds like a joke but if you create a programming language that is non Turing complete it is much easier to secure than a Turing complete language.

Making a language that have the expressive power of finite state machines could be an example.
> However, as soon as the magnetic strip is completely replaced, wouldn't it make sense to store a more complex secret on the chip of the card that will then be transmitted upon entering the correct pin? That would be proper 2FA, I would say.

A more complex secret is stored on the chip. The PIN is used along with some input, the chip uses the PIN to unlock the internal secret, it signs (or hashes, whatever) the input with the secret and returns the result. Decent chip & PIN devices are even tamper proof to prevent the PIN from being intercepted in the input phase.

Note that the PIN is not limited to 4 digits. It's only 4 digits when dealing with legacy hardware (and magnetic strips). The PIN on my CC is 6 digits.
He is one of the key persons who managed to reduce the power of religious institutions. And thats a good thing. Religion created an exceptional cruel period in Europe for about 1300 years.
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The fundamental difference is that AMD respects exclusion domains even when speculating a thing intel is notorious for not doing. It's a fundamental difference.
Intel: speculate without checking rights and crush afterward if a violation happened. Gains some points in benchmarks but makes side channel exploits very interesting.
AMD: speculate only on allow if allowed. No need to crush afterward, no speculation violate security. Costs some points in benchmarks but make side channel exploits not very interesting.
Pairing people with the same skill set? Mostly
that’s just a waste.

Strong disagree in my experience. Even with two "evenly matched" developers:

1. The idea of "evenly matched" developers is a fallacy. They're never exactly equal in all areas. Each one is going to know technical things the other doesn't. One will be stronger on the back end, one on the front end, etc. One will know parts of the API the other doesn't. One is better at SQL.

2. Each will know tool/workflow tweaks the other doesn't.

3. Most importantly by far: this is how domain knowledge transfer happens. On any non-trivial codebase there are decisions and business logic baked into the code. We of course need to document these as well as possible via other means (comments, commit messages, whatever) but nothing compares to person-to-person knowledge transfer.

To be clear, full-time pairing seems rather crazy to me. My ideal (which surely isn't some folks' idea of "ideal") would be approximately several hours per week of on-demand pairing when it makes sense. In other words, a team that doesn't pair as a rule but is eager to pair when it makes sense to do so.
The submission link needs HTTPS. But the website itself supports HTTPS.
Well darn. All I want is something really thin I can attach to my Kindle, and track down where I left it in my house, using some kind of local wireless transmission. Something that could receive a signal and beep would work, too.

I thought Airtags might be a solution but it turns out it's trackable from miles away and reports to iCloud? I have no need for that and whatever safeguards they put in place, it's a potential privacy hole with no benefit to me.

What's on the market that does nothing but help you find it when it's kicked under the couch?
Haven't looked into this paper deeply, but this reads very strange to me:

> This paper reports on the discovery of an accidental arbitrary code execution vulnerability in Marvin Minsky's 1967 implementation of the universal Turing machine. By submitting crafted data, the machine may be coerced into executing user-provided code.

It's a universal Turing machine. Its whole purpose is running "user-provided code". That's what a Universal Turing machine does, it runs arbitrary Turing machines. This is a little bit like saying "we found a weakness in the Python interpreter whereby you can feed it specially crafted input that allows you to run arbitrary Python programs". Like... yeah... that's what it's supposed to do.
> "Tether printing is practically responsible for almost all the gains in Bitcoin"

It was a meme in the crypto community that when you see tether being printed, you long. Maybe it was true at some point that tether was propping up the market or maybe not fully backed[0], but AFAIK they are now doing audits[1] and transparency reports[2].

> "The day regulators finally ban tether"

I'm not sure how you would go about banning a cryptocurrency (it's been tried 100's of times) but, again, people have been saying something like this about tether forever. Every time someone tries and fails, it just gains more legitimacy (and is no longer the only stablecoin).

FYI I am in no way a BTC maxi/fanboi, but this kind of narrative has been the same since the beginning of tether and everyone so far has been wrong and the chance of a "spectacular crash" has become more and more unlikely

0. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/23/tether-bitfinex-reach-settle...

1. https://www.coindesk.com/tether-first-attestation

2. https://wallet.tether.to/transparency
One more pair to the list ITT: in Russian, reshit means "to decide" but poreshit "to kill".
I don't understand why you're saying that - it's contrary to the nature of symbols and language. Symbols are a unit of meaning, so their usage dictates their meaning. If Pepe was used exclusively by the right, then it would be a right wing symbol. If it was used by various people, but was particularly popular with the right to express right wing ideologies as memes, even then it would still be a right wing symbol when used as such. Symbols very frequently have multiple meanings, sometimes where one is dominant.

Anyway, I'm not commenting on where I think reality lands, just on your comment.
I don't get why we care what these random people say who clearly have very little knowledge on the topic. Munger demonstrates an amount of expertise one could have gained from watching a 60 Minutes segment about bitcoin. Buffet at least dodges the issue rather than discuss something he doesn't necessarily know that much about.

I can understand why many people don't like bitcoin. The argument against it is not stronger because of these soundbytes.
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hmmm, that's rather annoying as it still creates "whatsapp lock-in" :(
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The creator doesn't want it to be used by the alt-right as a symbol of hate, which doesn't mean that's the only thing it represents. On some twitch communities it's a nice mascot, with variants like widepeepoHappy that fits the message of love and peace that the creator wants it to have.
I was about to say this. All in all there are very few ideas in our heads. But time and space gave thousands of various twists on which word will root the idiom.
So they have 1 million of cubic meter of water at Fukushima ? Or they just want to wash the reactor ?
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If they printed more Tether than there is demand for tether wouldn't the price for Tether-to-USD tank ?
I've considered building the envelope budgeting system from simple using Plaid's free APIs. "Safe to Spend" and Expense budgeting are really what I enjoyed most out of Simple
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Meanwhile C# and Go keep being improved to play on the same place that D wants to be.

I also agree with the sentiment, the language issues with some not so well worked out features should be fixed, instead of trying to please everyone.
It did not because the author had not updated the user’s device (aka the babysitter) to iOS 14.5. Either the author doesn’t understand that 14.5 is required or they are being deliberately misleading for views.
I’m guessing you’re from a country with a reliable banking system and without rapid inflation.

In places where this doesn’t exist, crypto is a miracle.

Beyond that, crypto has existed for about a decade now. It’s absolutely absurd to claim that it’s “not useful” because it hasn’t been widely adopted by everyday merchants. Traditional currency has a ten-thousand year head start. Perhaps we can be patient?

And that’s not even including all of the other use cases blockchain has.
According to this thread from another virus expert [1], you can integrate pretty much every class of viruses in the system the authors of this paper used.

[1] https://twitter.com/ArisKatzourakis/status/13904196191696732...
It's definitely a good natural experiment on the efficacy of these types of laws.
>Just look at Tether volume versus Bitcoin volume and tell me you trust bitcoins valuation when it's backed by make belief tethers.

That's consistent with tether being "printed" (ie. issued without dollars backing them), but it's also consistent with dollar inflows to bitcoin exchanges that use tether. Without further evidence that's not indicative of anything.