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> I don't like dubs because the voice is out of sync with the character, and removes you from the story.

What about having to watch a slightly mismatched mouth say "pe pe pe ba ba ba", doesn't that remove you from the story?
I remember when I was in college and told my friend that I just spent a sizeable (for a student) amount of money on an electric guitar and couldn't be happier.

His reply was: so, how are you planning on making that money back with it?

I had no reply to that.

There are people who, as zombie fiction for teenage audiences author Jonathan Maberry put it "think like insects" - they have but one overriding goal in life: maximize their total wealth.

This is an approach to life so foreign to me yet so often rewarded that it makes me wonder who's really happier.

One thing I know is that I hate working with such people - reading their code feels like listening to muzak - it works, but there doesn't seem to be any actual thought or design behind it. Long term it becomes unmaintainable, but that usually doesn't matter much, because projects get rewritten all the time.
The main takeaway from the article is an old one: play and learning are very closely related and perhaps our instincts for play have been honed by the evolutionary benefits of that relationship.
FWIW EDUs typically use an external service like https://www.barracudacentral.org/rbl
Worked well for me, thank you!

Top bar menus won't stay open and can't be used unless I hold mouse down and navigate with arrows. Linux and compiled from source.
Just to be clear, from the article:

- "HashCow said it would halt buying new bitcoin rigs"

- "BTC.TOP announced the suspension of its China business"

- "Huobi suspended both crypto-mining and trading services to mainland Chinese clients, adding it will instead focus on overseas businesses."
That recall has nothing to do with the fact that it's a touch interface. The fault was a flash memory chip that would fail after a few years of use.
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Thanks for making that, I spent a fair bit of time checking them all out before settling on a Dactyl Mini - https://github.com/bstiq/dactyl-manuform-mini-keyboard

Just about got one half all wired up... a hell of a project to jump into when you can't solder to save yourself :D
1. P2P exchanges can happen in cold hard cash. No bank account necessary.

2. Bitcoin is barely a decade old. Ethereum was launched in 2015. Most of the DeFi core projects were launched in 2019-2020. This is extremely early stage and comparing it to the ease and convenience of legacy financial systems is a little disingenuous. It might be complicated currently, but it works.

I give up. All I see on HN are people who’ve somehow dismissed an entire new tech sector without even being curious about it. The arguments are trite and shallow.

At the very least, if you are on HN, I expect you to be curious about the technology and make up your mind after satiating that curiosity.
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Everyone I’ve ever spoken to who is in equities is in it to make more USD which really says it all.
For anyone that hasn’t discovered a new mathematical formula or founded a billion dollar startup by age 22, take heart. Bacon didn’t really start painting until his late twenties and his first breakthrough came in his mid thirties. Now he’s probably in the top 20 of well-known 20th century artists.

Another interesting aspect of Bacon was his work schedule. It’s a miracle he lived as long as he did (to age 82.)

From Daily Rituals:

To the outside observer, Bacon appeared to thrive on disorder. His studios were environments of extreme chaos, with paint smeared on the walls and a knee-high jumble of books, brushes, papers, broken furniture, and other detritus piled on the floor. (More agreeable interiors stifled his creativity, he said.) And when he wasn’t painting, Bacon lived a life of hedonistic excess, eating multiple rich meals a day, drinking tremendous quantities of alcohol, taking whatever stimulants were handy, and generally staying out later and partying harder than any of his contemporaries.

Edit: just adding to this, because I’m sure someone will mention it. Bacon did indeed paint in his early twenties and even had an exhibition or two, but reviews were bad and he gave up art for a ~decade. So, I count that as “not really painting.”
All over the world, this was in Kuala Lumpur I did some rereading up on the country and decided to pass, I would have had to cut my hair short for one.

One of my co-workers did this but his asthma could not stand the humidity and he had to come back.
Where can we read about your food choices?
hmm, someone tell them about NFTs and BelleCoin, sky is the limit
Can you recommend a good book or other resource as an alternative please?
if i only knew enough science.. :D
"Sports car" and "luxury sports car" don't mean the same thing, the same way "passenger car" and "luxury passenger car" don't mean the same thing.

For a practical example, a Miata is a sports car (and a well-loved sports car for good reason), but it's definitely not a luxury sports car, what with the wobbly cupholders, the minimal storage space, the plastic dash, the uncomfortable foot space for a passenger, etc.
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> most software is written to solve ambiguous and nebulous business problems that even the business doesn't necessarily understand

Obviously if you're not deliberate about what problem you're trying to solve in the first place, no amount of deliberate effort will produce a good data model. Designing business processes must be done with the same deliberate effort, and also need to be constantly refactored.
Nope, this article isn't exaggerating about these being difficult decisions. I watched it unfold over the years -- because wikipedia is somewhat of a democracy, the amount of bikeshedding behind the scenes over the years was insane. Every little detail of these preview boxes had to be perfected or else someone would come out with objections. It is actually a miracle that this feature was able to be shipped at all.

I'd bet if there was a top-down leadership hierarchy from day 1 of opening the website, rolling out this feature would take less than a month.

But Wikipedia would be Microsoft Encarta if it had top-down leadership from day 1.
Huobi has basically no US business and no China business lol

Imagine paying them millions of dollars of “not-listing” fees to have your token listed there

CEX is bad mmmmkay
This actually makes reading comments tolerable.
A few days before this hijacking occurred, I was wishing that I knew Russian better, because I knew that I was going to be missing out on the guaranteed show that was going to occur this summer. Yeah, nobody is going to do an invasion over a couple of journalists getting killed. However, one should be concerned about the Belarusians that might not align themselves with Russia, when things go down. Those people easily could be persecuted and thrown into concentration camps.
It costs me $15-$25 to do a bank wire with my credit union, and afaik, that's on the lower end of things compared to banks.
Another two cases needed to investigate is a) whether many of the cases are along the railway between Wuhan lab and the airport to where the bat lived and b) there was a case of infection well before that on bat to Human during the bat study.

The whole thing is sad that it is humanity at stake but we have a country so powerful it is in the way to prevent further study.

Sigh. Let us see.
I'm not in charge of hiring people but I think your project is awesome.

I do DFIR though and from time to time I help with interviewing potential security analysts. If someone has the skillset needed for the job and on top of that they are so passionate about technology that they work on even tangentially related projects outside of work its largely regarded as an excellent indicator that they'll be a good hire. Obviously that's not the only type of good hire but its one of them.

If I was the person you responded to afterwards I would have come to the conclusion that the interviewers were genuinely stupid people. Even if you don't know anything about OS development you should understand as a person that works with computers or a recruiter that hires for the industry that its a non-trivial project.
This seems to be one of the problems. The other is just a weird contrarianism -- many on HN want open source software and systems, but in no way do they want an open economy or money system.
With the recent attacks, particularly supply-chain attacks, B2B buyers would be asking more security questions to their vendors.

Vendors will soon be competing on the quality and reputation of their security features.

Finally, I think regulation night be coming down in the area soon. My read is that this will be welcomed by big enterprises, and they go to market touting their "enterprise-grade security features". Eventually, all B2B teams will have a Trust/Assurance portion to their GTM playbook.
So far, none of these exist yet in the real world, so we'll see which one actually gets produced and sold first. I wouldn't be surprised if it's around the same time (sometime next year).
I think it’s a different thing but an interesting analog. In conventional information theory you can add another channel. I guess the social media metaphor is like crowded wifi or if I’m being clever alohanet... question is, how do we add another channel here?if you’re talking about social discourse rather than a physical medium are we talking about the necessity of class hierarchy? Is this what the Tower of Babel was about?
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The decentralized applications don't need to "win" (in market share) to be successful. They just need to be viable alternatives for a non-insignificant number of principled people willing to use them. This is enough to ensure that big players are kept in check. It's a basic application of Taleb's "Minority Rule" [0]

I don't care that gmail has the majority of the market. I care that Google can not simply break compatibility with SMTP/IMAP and force everyone into their version of it. And no, "it's hard to self-host" is not enough of an argument. There are plenty of smaller professional hosting companies and as long as there is an option this is enough to stop Google from monopolizing the market.

Likewise, I don't care that Matrix still doesn't have a perfectly polished client. As long as it lets me talk and have video calls with my family and friends without being forced into WhatsApp or iMessage or whatever closed solution is popular, I'm willing to deal with its inconveniences and shortcomings. Bugs can be fixed, privacy violations can't.

Crypto as well. For all the talk about "investment opportunities" in crypto and the "get rich quick" schemes, there are still a good number of people working on it that understand that the important thing is to have an alternative to the existing financial system.

The worst part of the article though is not that it presents a problem that does not exist, it's the proposed solution: political intervention and regulation always works out in favor of the status quo. If you really want to kill whatever grassroots movement or attempt at breaking away from the big players, just throw the political/bureaucratic apparatus on top of it.

[0]: https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
"Demoscene" refers to the movement & community of people. Specific contributions to the demoscene can be called with the catch-all term "production", or by their particular type: demo, intro, mod, music, wild demo, etc or even generic ones like sketch, experiment...
One area where "decentralised" not only doesn't work but it's actually dumb is business corporations. A prime example of this are DeFi protocols and DAOs in general. In the context of decentralised organisations, decentralised means some functions (often times critical business functions, such as credit approval in a lending institution) that are usually performed by the organisation, and specifically by some specialised workforce, are instead outsourced to the shareholders. In effect, paid professionals are replaced with shareholders who likely lack the skills and resources necessary to do the job.
> I don't think we'll ever see that kind of quality again.

Some companies still make new "psuedo-SLC" drives [1] which store a single bit per flash cell. The downside is they're expensive: $1/gigabyte instead of $0.1/gigabyte.

And at that price, RAID mirroring starts to look like a great deal!

[1] https://uk.farnell.com/c/office-computer-networking-products...
Kyria was on my list to try before I went down the route of building a Dactyl Mini. Might have to build that next :D
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Decentralization is derived from centralization...
The seller paying it once.

It's the same in Sweden, that the seller does and pays for a survey. Still common for the buyer to request to be allowed to get a second independent survey done. Of course the seller can refuse to allow a second survey, but that in itself is quite telling.
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That is not a matter of concern of Apple. This is just one of several examples of Apple forcing behaviour changes outside its own walled garden.

Whether or not it makes business sense to restrict the use of Apple ID elsewhere is a matter properly left to the app developer and not Apple.

I should have added - this is based on my own interpretation of the App Store guidelines. If I'm wrong, I'd like someone to point it out, since I don't want to be spreading misinformation.
> If they want to sit out the development of this new tech it just gives everyone else the advantage.

Au contraire-

China is leapfrogging Western Banking with the DECP "digital yuan", and Bitcoin is competition to state-sanctioned currencies (digital or otherwise). https://www.coindesk.com/china-is-opting-out-of-us-run-finan...

Any news of other Central Banks "contemplating" digital currencies is just their way of suppressing weeds (competition) it can be worked out how to do such without killing the golden goose that is the established banking system.
you’re very probably right. would still be ideal to have the option
> fundamentally micro services are meant to enable teams to work on them without worrying about how some other micro service is storing its data

What exactly is it that microservices bring to the table to achieve that, that doesn't already exist out of the box in every single language in common business use?
> Doesn't that feel like a repeat with whats happening in social media and news media these days? Or is it just different things.

Maybe. It can feel like this, but applying mathematical models to social phenomena is tricky. You have to map formal parameters to fuzzy, poorly understood factors. How do you define, precisely, what is a "channel" on a social network? What is "signal", and what is "noise"? People can and do prove anything by using slightly different (or inconsistent) definitions here, getting the numbers to line up just like they want them to.

My understanding is that a better way to approach such mapping would be to shove in probability distributions in place of hard-to-map exact parameters - abstracting away choices and measurements lets you see the wider context here. This pushes the problem to defining the appropriate distributions, but I think that's more tamper-proof. Unfortunately, the results may come out next to useless - e.g. probability distributions so wide you could sail a carrier strike group through them.

I'd love to know what's considered the correct, robust approach to such problems.
The timing is a little less funny if you know that I listened to the podcast shortly before finding the IEEE article.

The podcast was great! I would think that many on HN would find it interesting.
Free instant P2P bank transfers in India. Maybe blockchain isn't the only solution.
it’s not insufferable, it’s just not the ideal user experience
Wow you're right: http://www.nackerhews.com/item?id=27262151 even invents an entirely new kind of assembly language.
That’s really nice looking!
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Just so you know nacker is a term used describe Irish travellers/gypsies and is usually considered derogatory.
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Btc is an environmental disaster and a trash currency. But Don't let the btc/doge/elon fanatics scare you away from exploring the other (real) technologically impressive cryptos.
I think US banking is the outlier here. I've never paid anything like this anywhere in Europe, the vast majority of transactions (for example SEPA) are free, or very close to free.
Also 'A Room of One's Own'. It's got an excellent narration by Juliet Stevenson on audible.

https://www.audible.com/pd/A-Room-of-Ones-Own-Audiobook/B005...
So you need to make / order sieves, then get the counting person to sort, bag, weigh the items, calculate results. This will have a lot of mistakes too. And you end up with a process working only with that type of pearls. (Edit: forgot the solution debugging time)

The alternative here is to point the phone at a table.

The labour costs are relatively high and dominate most business costs. $100/mth is a rounding error in comparison. If you saved 4h of median-us-wage of work a month, it's free.
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Hashing power moving out of China is good for Bitcoin. There's also conflicting reports about the mining bans. The consensus seems to be that China wants to ban mining with fossil fuels, which is also good news.
Exactly my thought when I started working on LadyLua https://github.com/tongson/LadyLua
Do I understand correctly if you keep the middle portion? You remove both the water, and what settles immediately? I have a hard time visualizing.
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Refreshing to see a Java app trending on HN.
> Another nice extension (that we are yet to implement) is anti-aliasing, but I think that requires extra geometry to vary the opacity over.

There’s a way to do it where you pass one extra vec2 from the vertex shader and use that to determine how much of the pixel is covered by the lines. (This has the effect of thinning the line, so you may want to thicken it to compensate)

Here’s an example of a pair of shaders that do this: https://github.com/paulgb/experiments/tree/master/2021-05-20...

Here’s a demo: https://twitter.com/paulgb/status/1394824275635408907
Thought the source code is not IP bounded and that is why we can run mvs older edition with the ibm emulator.

Software as busy is mainly bill gates idea. Control the hardware (like ps2 ...) you have the castle is the mentality of yesterday year. Or meter the punch card (the first anti-trust case against ibm?).
> if you were to not push the pedal at any of those instance

That's the key to it IMHO. There has to be isolation for identifying causal relationships. Science is the work to be sure you're measuring the thinnest partial derivative.

I'd generalize it to "All else being equal"

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On another note, I believe there are classes in causality, arranged in a hierarchy. If you're studying the 'physical' class (level 0), you'll end up with causators in the same level or higher ('system' class, level 1).

In our case the 'all things being equal' has to take account of an instance of a higher class (the human 'system' regulating the fuel input with the pedal)

The level 2 would be system of systems; for example processes like the Darwinian evolution.
And many hours delay and only once per day (most banks).
Apparently this isn't a very old phenomenon at all: https://web-japan.org/trends01/article/011005sci_r.html It seems that polishing mud balls became a trend among kids/educators during the last two decades.
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That's a highly optimistic read of it. China move fast and brutally when they decide to move, but often their motivations are approximately identical to what applies in the west, we just take a more gentle approach to changes in our extremely fragile financial system.
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Is ML here needed? When I was working in a lab we used the opensource ImageJ for counting cells. It seems like it'd do a great job here too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageJ
I think you overestimate how much political freedom matters in commercial film making. Most blockbusters are not political. Hollywood wins because that is where the money is. If a film is successful from an alternative center, in general Hollywood will do its own version with bigger budget, better distribution, wellknown actors etc. thus drying the alternative center.

China has the internal market to break that.

But time will tell.
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