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> You are both mostly right, as I understand it.

> If I had >50% hashing power of BTC(for exactly 1 transaction), I can make the current chain say anything I want, like give me all the BTC, and it would become valid and "permanent".

You clearly don't understand it, and it is kind of amazing that you think such a design would survive for as long as bitcoin has (going on 12 years) - by relying on altruistic miners not taking advantage of such a silly flaw. The Satoshi white paper is 9 pages long and written in very plain language... do like everyone use to do back in the day: read the paper and take a peek at the source, it goes a long way in inoculating you from misinformation that you subsequently repeat, accidentally (?) misinforming others.
Thank goodness we have... Fox News? Newsmax? OAN? Breitbart? to give us the real scoop.

The company you keep and all that.
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I can't believe that's real life for some people. I would never drink with someone who has "team player" in their dictionary unironically. That being said, the vast majority of my coworkers, all of them actually, are not robots like that. If they were, I would find a new job fast. If you are in a place like this currently, there are greener pastures my friend. Seek them out. Find people who don't care that you go home to beat traffic instead of hitting up the bar. They exist.
I'll give them a couple too: M1GHT, M1CRO*, M1ASMA (M1ASTHMA?), M1D*, M1FFED (with some 0xFFED somewhere?), M1GRATE (for some particularly pesky data extraction hack?), M1LES (for some unit conversion bug that makes the first MacOs-based spaceship crash)
You are correct, but the op is leading us in that direction. Just look at the top comment. All online communities have some group think, it's unavoidable. The HN group think is best represented by the top comment.
Why isn't the media talking about this thing I saw in the media?
Because the OS has no say. A running program issues an assembly instruction to the CPU to read or write this register, and the CPU complies.

For the OS to have a say, the CPU would need to provide a way where the OS tells it (usually by setting certain values in other registers) that the CPU should not allow access, at least under certain circumstances.

The article actually does go into certain situations where the access is more restricted (search for "VHE"), but also in how that does not really apply here.
For some reason it's perfectly acceptable to apply this logic to women being scared of men, but don't dare apply the same logic to race.
What specifically are you waiting on? It's not hard to find information on the recyclability on PV cells (e.g. [1]). They're eminently recyclable, although they're mostly made of glass which isn't exactly high-value.

Particular policy isn't going to be a global discussion, it's going to be jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction, and will likely follow similar lines to all recycling discussion. PV cells aren't made of especially rare minerals, so it's not likely to be a high-priority issue. That's perhaps disappointing, but given that's our default for pretty much all recycling, it's no great reason to worry about one particular technology.

[1] https://www.greenmatch.co.uk/blog/2017/10/the-opportunities-...
Video from the article: https://twitter.com/vincentkangnow/status/139344934049724416...
https://web.archive.org/web/20210526035423/https://www.inqui...
Retiring is about the money you have in a bank.

If you work in a top tech company like apple, microsoft,and etc. since you are 22 until 35 (probably end at a very senior engineer), you probably rack up millions of dollars in your bank and can easily retire.
Or if any of the students are from New Zealand
Some employers have plugs at work. Facebook has several hundred L2 charging stations at HQ, for example.
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Why WhatsApp is dragging the Indian government to court this week
You make a very good point. Regarding the Korean example, I’d conclude that Koreans are more likely to get involved in organized crime in Japan because of structural factors of Japanese society and economy.
You and Limor, love you both!
I came here to find out to get around the paywall as well and started reading about minority Olympics.
Check out the site itself - it's all this kind of garbage.
Look, I've found Freenode to be insularly run for the longest time and was no fan of the old staff. That said, this is bullshit. Being frustrated about having topics call out a new network is frustrating, surely, but you should not seize channels with no notification from their owners and move them to the off-topic namespace. You've hurt so many more than just the staff. Grow up.
How certain are we of this? Why could the big bang have not happened in space, at a point in some time continuum that started before the event itself? Why could it not be a relatively local phenomenon that we simply cannot observe beyond?
I think it’s more like... any race that endured systemic abuse and live with the limited opportunities will commit majority of the violent crimes.

Specifying the race has a tendency to make people correlate the violence with race, which can lead to racism.
You're a disgusting pile of shit.

Hope you're arrested and thrown in jail for that Mt. Gox shit.
You don't have to go to the pub. You can just say something like, "I better go home now and get ahead of the traffic, have a good time!" then proceed to find a new job if they actually give you flak from that.
Not officially, but the song has finally been pulled from various platforms as recent as 2 months ago.

The YG concert in Oakland a few years back actually had lots of Asian people there. As an Asian, I don’t want to excuse the song. It was just made in bad taste, before everyone became so sensitive.

What irks me is not the song itself or YG, I like his music, but the double standard and hypocrisy of people applying cancel culture only when it’s convenient to. For example, if an asian person made a song in the reverse. I’d rather get rid of cancel culture altogether
Probably this is the end of China mining dominance and for good reasons
Twitter link (with video, not taken down) https://twitter.com/vincentkangnow/status/139344934049724416...
Why mention men at all in the "MeToo" movement? Why aren't we allowed to mention black people committing more crime? Stereotyping men and some races is perfectly acceptable, stereotyping blacks is not. It's pathetic that people flag comments instead of giving any reasonable response.
So, every race, then.
pgBackRest is probably strictly better than wal-g for our use-case, but I already knew wal-g was at least satisfactory in solving our problems (from previous usage in implementing something Heroku-Dataclips-alike before), so I threw it on and filed an issue for doing a compare-and-contrast down the line. So far it hasn't caused too many issues, and does indeed solve our main issue: allowing truly-async replication (e.g. replication to DCs in other countries, where the link has a huge RTT, high potential packet loss, and might even go down for hours at a time due to, say, politics — without that causing any kind of master-side buffering or slowdown.)

> Does covalent maintain an engineering blog?

Not yet, but we've certainly been considering it. Probably something we'll do when we have a bit more breathing room (i.e. when we get out from under all the scaling we're doing right now.)

> Is dbt or a similar tool a part of your stack in any way?

Nothing like that per se (though it'd very much be a data-layer match for how we're doing infra management using k8s "migrations" through GitOps. Imagine SQL schema-definition k8s CRDs.)

But that's mostly because — to our constant surprise — our PG cluster's query plans improve the more we normalize our data. We hardly build matviews or other kinds of denormalized data representations at all (and when we do, we almost always eventually figure out a partial computed-expression GIN index or something of the sort we can apply instead.)

We are planning to offer our users something like dbt, and we may or may not use dbt under the covers to manage it. (Analogous to how GitHub created their own git library to use in their Rails backend.)

One thing we do want to enable is avoiding the recomputation of intermediate "steps" within long chained CTE queries (imagine: taking 10 seconds to compute A, and then using it in a join to quickly select some Bs; then, in another query, taking another 10 seconds to compute A again, because now you need to select Cs instead), without keeping around any sort of persistent explicitly-materialized intermediate, or writing ugly procedural logic. https://materialize.com/ seems promising for that. (Just wish it was a library I could shove inside PG, rather than an external system that is apparently going to grow to having its own storage engine et al.)

> Any Metabase or Superset at the end of the pipeline?

We've always mentioned to people that Tableau has first-class support for connecting to/querying Postgres. Given the type of data we deal with, that's usually all they need to know. :)
To be fair none of these actually involved a declaration of war, the US congress ha not declared war since ww2 - these have all been wars by stealth
You could give tig a try, for anything git related i use that, its an tui with vim like mappings, and very customizable
Again, if they don't control 51%, their new statefile would be pointless, unless they did a hard-fork, but if I have the resources for a 51% attack on the current fork, chances are I have the same capability on the new fork.

The only way what you propose would work would be if they could cobble together enough resources to break my 51% control.

So BTC would go 100% bust if someone managed a 51% attack. The question is, can someone with 1 transaction of 51% get enough converted to USD/etc before enough people noticed. Otherwise the financial incentive isn't there to try. I'd guess no matter what, it would be a huge fricking mess and if you did it in a country that didn't like you, it probably wouldn't end well for you years later when whatever govt you live in gets around to ruining your life, even if you managed to extract a few billion.

Because you know the exchanges like Coinbase as soon as they noticed would do their best to stop you(as it's in their best interest).
What good is a gun if you don't have any thumbs?
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It doesn’t matter whether the production of renewable energy is cheap as long as it cannot be produced on demand.

A lot of people seem to think that market prices are determined by production costs but that isn’t the case.

Market prices are determined by supply and demand and that’s where renewables (except for hydro power) are very bad at.

This is why Germany has the highest electricity prices worldwide. Because it has a large share of wind and solar meaning that a large portion of the electricity is not supplied on demand:

> https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/electricity_prices/

So stating that producing renewable electricity is cheap is rather irrelevant as long as the electricity cannot be produced on demand.
Are you sure about that we could get as high as 50% without storage?

I was under the impression that storage is the crucial missing piece?
I’m seeing the UK rate on Stripe’s site and the comparison is with Barclaycard’s UK POS debit rates.
I don't think rent control prevents an owner from installing a pay charging station or service.
Disagree. There are not formal definitions for these terms, but I don't think your definition here is what most people would think of as a blockchain.
Big bang is also just an reverse-extrapolation from the fact that the universe is expanding.

The universe expanding is also just another guess based on the fact that the light is red.

We also have all these weird guesses with dark matter and energy.

It all sounds flimsy... But to be fair this is probably the most difficult subject to tackle.

We are not due for a physic reckoning yet. We will need to probably wait for another 100 year (like a reckoning when we are convinced that Newtonian is inaccurate).

I think the reckoning will come when our technology is advanced enough to perform physic experiments on other planets, and we will see that some of our theories (especially around gravity) are wrong.

Right now we just assume gravity on Jupiter, for example, work in the same way like gravity on earth.

Another aspect is that our technology may be good enough to measure smaller particles or detect a very weak gravity force in particles.
Not to miss his YouTube channel where he does live hacking sessions. Invaluable for beginners.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLQKrEh6w7M
no it wouldn't, people make that argument on here all the time
I've been let go for "not being technical enough" yet I had the requisite current (mandated) certifications. So I don't buy their explanation. Actually I think it was culture fit. I was just "too" old and my boss was weirded out or needed/wanted someone younger. My hobby was FPGA, microcontrollers and general messing around along with hiking. I was also probably too fit for their view of how I should be. But in reality, who knows? I certainly didn't do an exit interview.

I got a job elsewhere doing elixir and nodejs programming (devops) and haven't looked back. I suggest that people, when told they're too old, just smile and get out of that horrible employer's reach. Life is too short. Plus now I can take my dog to work.
They also semi-affected #system76. I still have ops in the ACL, but there was a new ## opened (which is invite-only) and they added themselves to the ACL.
I wholeheartedly agree. There are so many different ways to set up a project in Clojure that it can be a little overwhelming. There is boot, leiningen and deps.edn for managing dependencies as well as project structure. Then with ClojureScript there is shadow-cljs as well as improvements made with ClojureScript embracing the Javascript tooling by handing off the output of the compiler to a JS bundler.
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Yes, this is their intro for beginners. To find more advanced topics, go to their home page and look through the courses.
I think part of it may also be that us "older" folks are not fooled by the startup glitz, and would rather work somewhere with a little more stability and work-life balance.

I did the startup thing a bit, it was fun, but I'm mostly over it. I have other things in life I want to focus my time and energy on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmRl0D-RkPU&t=1205s
It's hilarious that rasengan is complaining about Libera "fracturing the FOSS community".[0]

For example, #newsboat members decided to move by June 5th, and we've been deciding between OFTC and Libera. Then this happened:

20:05 --> freenodecom [freenode-placehol] (www.freenode.net) (~com@freenode/staff) has joined #newsboat
20:05 -- freenodecom has changed topic for #newsboat from "We intend to migrate off Freenode. What do you prefer: OFTC or Libera.chat? Details here: https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat/issues/1643" to "This channel has moved to ##newsboat. The topic is in violation of freenode policy: https://freenode.net/policies"
20:05 <@freenodecom> This channel has been reopened with respect to the communities and new users. The topic is in violation of freenode policy: https://freenode.net/policies
20:05 -- Mode #newsboat [+o freenodecom] by OperServ
20:05 -- Mode #newsboat [+impsf ##newsboat] by ChanServ
20:05 <@freenodecom> The new channel is ##newsboat
20:05 <-- freenodecom (~com@freenode/staff) has left #newsboat

Great. Now none of us can speak on #newsboat, making coordination to switch much harder. New users might get confused and join the wrong channel operated by a hostile party. The community is more fractured now.

To everyone with a freenode channel: whatever you do, do not mention "libera" in your channel topic. That's the trigger for this action.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210525231635/https://freenode....
NZ = Sux

Aus = Sex
Almost completely useless, this is like a history class. Checkout "Modern robotics" for something that is quantitatively rigorous
I think you might be correct.

I wonder what makes so many people - even here on HN - so furiously jam their fingers in their ears and go "Lalalala" whenever you get realistic about the impact of our predatory ecosystem exploitation or about the consequences of population migration because of climate change.

It is so strange.
well this is a new genre of satire
That’s exactly the point of VC largely - no really, that’s no secret at all.

VCs want unicorns. To get that big you often have to be the biggest in the space or big enough with enough moat to effectively be a monopoly. Monopoly status is the goal
> There's the wider goal of not wanting to poke the Russia bear too much while simultaneously not letting Russia run too wild (arguably they are..).

Excuse me, but the goal should be that exactly. Not leaving an inch of flesh of the bear unpoked.

If you resign your emotions, and try to think about it seriously, it makes a lot of sense strategically to conduct a massive provocation.

Right now, it's completely the other way around: Putin delivers one grievous provocation after another to NATO. NATO grovels, shivers, but does nothing, for the whole world to laugh on.

It earns him client states, and satellites. You absolutely don't want your enemies flocking together.

If you turn that around, the world, and his wannabe clients that it's him now who can't do anything, but throw adorable tantrums, his construct will melt away withing years.

2 birds 1 stone.

It's also the types like Orbans, Sisis, and Assads who are only showing the voice now, because they can afford to look brave when the West is intimidated. That will pull the carpet from under them too.
This matches the story I got from Reddit on /r/haskell and /r/emacs.
BTC has changed a bit since the original white paper, and I have read the white paper(though it's been a while). Back it up with sources to convince me I'm wrong, don't just say I am with nothing but YOU ARE WRONG, that doesn't accomplish anything.

To help, here is my understanding.

In a < 51%(i.e. normal transaction), if I win the BTC mining lottery and get to write the next transaction, I can make it say whatever I want, but then 51% of the mining network has to agree that what I said was sane(as defined by the current mining software).

If I control 51%, then I can make the transaction say whatever I want AND I can make everyone else accept it as sane, because a majority of the network agrees with me.

This is how BTC changes over time, > 51% of the network agree that they will accept X as the new reality, and it then becomes the new reality.
Facebook is facist as evidenced by them silencing dissenting opinions. FB is a toxic echo chamber.
It can be difficult getting hired as you get older. In the 80's programming was a relatively rare skill. It is common now and mediocre talent can get by because better hardware that allows them to write workable mediocre code. Frankly I like working on projects that solve real problems, not ones that take advantage of evolutionary quirks that hold peoples attention for ad revenue. Maybe older programmers just don't like what is being offered and move on to other things. Intelligent people can learn and grow in new directions. Aside from AI or Quantum Computing the industry is rather mature and not all that interesting. BioTech is hopping however. Much like the computer industry was at one time.
I am not sure what you mean by running in parallel.

On x86, to be able to determine whether a given byte is the start of an instruction, the start of the part of an instruction following the variable-number of prefix bytes or another kind of byte, requires information from the decoding of the previous bytes.

So you may have as many pre-decoders as the fetched bytes, all starting decoding in parallel, but they are not independent and the later pre-decoders need the propagation of signals from the first pre-decoders, so the delay required for determining the initial instruction bytes grows with the number of bytes fetched and examined simultaneously (16 bytes for most x86 CPUs, which on average may contain 4 or 5 instructions).

We do not know for sure where the exact limitation is, but despite the vague and inconsistent information from the vendor documentation, which in a few cases seems to imply better capabilities, until now no Intel or AMD CPU has been shown to be able to decode more than 4 instructions simultaneously (the only exception is that some pairs of instruction are fused, e.g. some combinations of compare-and-branch, and those count as a single instruction for decoding, increasing the apparent number of simultaneously decoded instructions when those pairs occur in the program).
This guy is a little flashy for my taste, too much sound and fury. I also think he's missing the mark on inflation.

With inflation, your/my dollar buys less than it did a year ago. Less at the grocery store, less of a house, whatever. That sucks, right? Value being ripped from our pockets. Consider the alternative though. With a fixed money supply, a dollar buys MORE every year, as a stable percentage of an expanding pie. Then society goes to shit as the "haves" bunker down in their rooms hoarding gold coins.

Besides, economics is just one cerebral, fiddly piece in a larger human puzzle. Better not to spend the best moments of your life loving money just to find it never loved you back.
Don't use the motion detection/automatic in bedrooms.
>assaulting Asian people has become a trope in hip-hop over the past couple of years (e.g. “ling-ling boppin’”).

It's hard for me not to believe you just made this up. "ling-ling boppin" doesn't return any Google results.

Secondly, a trend in hip-hop would be a trend in American pop culture. Hip hop, is currently the biggest music genre in America - if what you say is true I can't imagine how I would have missed it. A quick Google search doesn't mention anything from the top Spotify artists about it.
Because they won’t hit that button. Just look at how Vietnam won.
They will teach you bad habits, pay you little and never train you.

It's a good place to work on many projects and learn to not care if they fail.
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I'm not ncfausti so I think most of this comment doesn't apply to me. Nevertheless, I don't agree with many of your conclusions.

* The existence of films critical of the war does not imply that the mainstream "serious" political opinion of the day (that you would read in national newspapers, for example) went beyond calling the war a "quagmire" or "disaster", then with a justifying "but...", usually mentioning Domino theory or Containment as you implicitly do. I disagree with that assessment.

* The fact that North Vietnam (or Japan, or anyone) were awful in their treatment of PoWs doesn't excuse the US treating civilians in South Korea terribly. You are responsible for the foreseeable consequences of your own actions (or a close ally's actions), not someone else's. It's not "whataboutism" to focus on the effects you can actually control, even if it's historical. You can't change the past, but you can learn from your own history and understand what is "foreign propaganda" and what's actually just an uncomfortable truth.

* I can think of a few US interventions in the Cold War that seem to have hurt more than they helped, even with info available to decision-makers before committing to them. Vietnam is one of them.

Edit: I don't want to contribute to a pointless back-and-forth asking leading questions of each other, and don't have the time to go into major detail or link reading material, but I just thought I'd at least elaborate my thoughts more on the "blunder" comment, and the point about focusing on your own actions.
Should we rebrand REST?
The kernel doesn't get a say in what instructions a userspace program can run, other than what the CPU is designed to allow it to control. The bug is the CPU designers forgot to allow it to control this one.