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> I'm not sure if it was Phill or not

One "l" (it's the "z" at the end of "Zimmermann" that's doubled).
Not my problem. Fastly should work as intended.

The fault is theirs and they have said that they have failover, this worldwide outage caused by them just goes to show you that Fastly does not actually have a failover system in place.

> "Fastly’s network has built-in redundancies and automatic failover routing to ensure optimal performance and uptime." - status.fastly.com

Even their status page was down. Very embarrassing, Fastly did not work as advertised and mislead its customers.

Edit: Offended flaggers circling around silencing misled Fastly customers. How pathetic.
That is INCREDIBLE. When someone is paying for a full eye exam out of pocket in the US, it can cost anywhere from $69 to $150 USD.
My own suggestion for a solution, is to focus on the corporations instead of the individuals. Leave the system as is for individuals. But tax corporate revenue at a low percentage like 1% or something.
Reminds me of smalltalk. Interesting to see something like that make its way to the web.

There was pharojs and amber, but they were lackluster.
Yup, if I recall correctly the undeletable hidden file that git created was part of the issue.
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Can they travel faster than light?
After they do this a few years in a row, the family will be bankrupt from paying property tax and the "Big" firm will be able to buy the farm for less than it was originally worth.
> Agree, but currently, ipfs would serve as a fallback, since it's about files.

Isn't a CDN fundamentally all about files too?

> Decentralized/distributed generally has slower network performance. Unless most nodes are high performance, I guess?

There is definitely more work to do here before this is really useful, but it's well within the realm of things that IPFS should be able to do at reasonable performance for production sites in future. Good performance still requires a serious CDN node network similar to traditional CDNs today (to seed your content for day to day use) but with IPFS if that CDN goes down then existing users on your site can _also_ serve the site to other nearby users directly, or other CDNs can serve your site too, etc etc. Your DNS wouldn't be linked to any specific CDN in any way, just to the hash of the content itself, so anybody could serve it.

> Decentralizing the internet works if it financially makes sense for platforms to build such tools.

There's a platform company called Fleek who already do this today: https://fleek.co/hosting/ (no affiliation, and I've never even used the product, just looks cool). Seems to be designed as a Netlify competitor: push code with git and it builds it into static content and then deploys to IPFS.

The benefits don't exist today of course, because no browsers natively support IPFS, so most users can only access the content via an IPFS gateway, which means you're back to fully centralized server infrastructure again... If we can get IPFS support into browsers though then fully decentralized CDN infrastructure for the web is totally possible.
I think that's just a HN bubble (SV bubble?) attitude. Working outside of FAANG, I've never encountered such absolutist thinking around the use of JS. Most developers are just trying to get the feature working as specified, regardless of whether it uses a core mechanic or a bit of JS. Better developers simply know the spectrum of options for implementing their features and choose what they perceive to be the best tool for the job based on the available tradeoffs, they don't declare certain options to be heretical or proof of moral lacking.
That's the problem with these black-box cloud offerings, that you can never know what will work (or not) and from where. You get semi-random, pseudo-localized outages that are not accounted for in all the 9's of availability.

With a standard TCP/UDP session, it mostly just works or doesn't and you can get a proper traceroute to know what's up. With these fancy CDNs, there's a whole new can of worms to deal with and from a client's perspective you have no clue what's happening because it's all taking place in their private network space where we have no "looking glass".

Fuck the cloud, i want real Internet.
> Playing devil's advocate, would it be preferable if the FDA just validated the manufacturer's claims were true rather than applied a value judgement on the drug?

The manufacturer's claims here are that the drug treats Alzheimer's. That's the key claim here that everyone cares about; the amyloid plaque-clearing part of it only matters insofar as it's hoped to be the key to Alzheimer's treatment.

There's another factor to point out: strictly speaking, this drug is only approved conditional on a further clinical trial proving efficacy (which will take years because Alzheimer's trials take forever). Now take stock of how many headlines mention that fact, or even hint at the sharp disagreement (what an understatement) about the efficacy of the drug.
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Because I need to use some browser and Firefox is still the least bad?
Well this 145 second animated explainer by the Australian Federal Police covers it pretty well https://youtu.be/qq9wnMXvgOc
You must account for all the equipment to convert fuel into mechanical work as well. A battery is a large part of the equipment to covert electrons into useful electricity and electric motors and controller are comparatively light weight. Energy density is still higher I have done rough calculations that say batteries need to be at about 2000 wh/kg to be at parity with a diesel semi and the theoretic upper limit for lithium is 2600 wh/kg.
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The code that changes the look is entirely CSS. What’s stopping FF from allowing this level of theming from normal addons?
It depends on how deep the file parser is. For 2d, the zero-level feature would just be pixelwise image diff of the rendered result. For photoshop or inkscape, you could diff layers, show added/deleted/changed adjustments, etc.

For 3d, to take Blender as an example, a zero-level diff feature would be to export (e.g. as glTF) and show which scene objects differ (meshes, textures, lights, etc.) More detailed parsing would give more details, e.g. image-diffing modified textures.

As I noted, merging is nontrivial. But it seems important -- if I save a branch, go back to the trunk and do more work, how do I add in the changes I made on the branch? Or even know what those changes were? Good diffs would help of course.

Merging would certainly have to be product-specific. For some open-source tools one could imagine hooking into their undo/redo logic, or parsing the product files into a temporary line-based format, but from outside it seems much more challenging than line-based merge in git (which is already imperfect for many applications).
Congrats to Hashicorp for this milestone!

We've been using terraform for a couple of years now to manage our infra for dev/qa/prod, and aside from minor HCL changes we haven't had any major problems keeping up with the latest versions. Having the ability to rebuild everything (Kubernetes, DNS, MySQL, etc.) automatically has saved us more than once!
"why ... delay till final sale?"

Delaying until final sale encourages people to keep money in the market. Money in the market is, ostensibly, providing a value to society as good; probably better, than anything government has ever done.

The distinction is "wealth as personal consumption" versus "wealth as resource allocation."

The former is something that only benefits the wealthy person. The latter is something that already benefits society.
Thanks!

You might find it interesting to know that, irl, I never talk about anything remotely conspiratorial. I live life like a normal person, and talk like this on forums as a hedge.
Even a charitable organization the donor fully controls must follow regulations on its activity. Surely some people use their foundations as personal piggy banks, but that’s fraud and is pursued as such.

It’s like a conservation agreement. The land (wealth) remains in control of the owner, but the state gets some say in its use and the public benefits. Abuse of the the system is a case for stricter enforcement; sanctioned but objectionable uses are a case for stricter regulations
> What proportion of great work has been done by people who were skating in this sense? If not all of it, certainly a lot.

I used to think like that. However, the years I spent on my masters and on my startup were a watershed.

I was finally working on projects of my very own. But, after some months of extreme excitement, I was resorting to medicine and self help articles to heep me motivated and focused, especially when the boring intricacies started to pop up.

The passion, due to its very nature, fades away.

In my case, I alleviated those issues with method and discipline. They help you overcome the boring parts. The passion even became cyclic, as the growing body of work and solved problems made me feel engaged again.

Nowadays I even feel much better about the plethora of not-my-own-projects I've worked on along my life.
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> For news you can watch international news stations from India. Very realistic and refreshing.

Did you mean "if you are in India you can watch international news channels to get a better perspective"? If yes, I would agree with you.
Yes and no.
Debugging a binary protocol is a bit more difficult then a text one; which is the reason HTTP is ascii based.
Really! My respect for France has gone up a few notches.
Does this author understand capital gains? It seems they are conflating unsold equity paper value vs sold. Ie that the individuals gained a lot of money on paper but haven’t sold it and this haven’t yet paid taxs.

It seems very inflammatory not to mention the very shady nature of accessing illegally irs documents.
Plenty of unfair taxes hold up in court. Property taxes are an "unfair tax" in the same sense.

Of course, the assessor can't exactly predict the value of a commodity like a home with complete accuracy. Some people get undercharged and some get overcharged, this might even be a systemic thing. But as long as it's "good enough", then the tax works more or less how it should.
Most of the "AI" I see is just linear regressions run on meager datasets which lets them stick on that AI label but could have been written by a person with a little effort.
Genuinely asking - has Hacker News seen a good Substack submission? I've only seen low quality posts from that website posted here.
I mean, yes, absolutely, and that works to start with, but I'm willing to bet the overall uptime and performance of a raspberry pi in your living room is quite a bit worse that Fastly's :-).
The Industrial Revolution begs to differ
Thanks! I've actually watched that one a while ago but it's not available on Netflix in my region so couldn't get the subtitles to add it to the list. The version on youtube only has hardsubs, unfortunately.
It'd be a big blow but not the end of the Bitcoin
> That's why it's a mistake to insist dogmatically on "work/life balance." Indeed, the mere expression "work/life" embodies a mistake: it assumes work and life are distinct. For those to whom the word "work" automatically implies the dutiful plodding kind, they are. But for the skaters, the relationship between work and life would be better represented by a dash than a slash.

So I guess this is what I'll be told the next time I ask a prospective company about WLB.
Most Americans do not realise how deep in their information rabbit hole they are. Denial is not solution. Outside perspective (indian news) improves your mental health and resistance. It is mainstream, but based perspective.
Looks like something built by a markov chain of reddit memes to me.
Wow that sucks. It's not just HTML Cleaners though. A few years ago (before snowden) I analyzed free proxy servers and found that most of them blocked https and many even injected JS or HTML into all requests [1].

I also wrote a tutorial on how you can build an infecting proxy too [2]. Doesn't work anymore though since HTTPS is everywhere. Thank god

[1] https://blog.haschek.at/2015-analyzing-443-free-proxies
[2] https://blog.haschek.at/2013/05/why-free-proxies-are-free-js...
"The manufacturer's claims here are that the drug treats Alzheimer's. "

I know, it was just a bit of an aside. The reason they presumably claim this is because if they just claimed it cleared amyloid plaques, that wouldn't be approved by the FDA as it's not treating a condition?
Clean room design is about wholesale copying of code. If you copied the APIs and architecture and wrote the code differently there would be nothing wrong as SCOTUS just ruled.
It is definitely a lie, but it's the same lie sold by all cloud offerings. Can you name a single cloud/CDN operator without downtimes?

It's normal to have downtimes but they are usually scheduled and quick (think <10 minutes per month for rebooting and/or hardware parts replacement). I'm pretty sure most non-profit hosts like disroot.org or globenet.org have similar or better 9's than all these fancy cloud services.
"Encrypted Military Grade Encryption" - LOL
Just be careful with your state file when upgrading!
I hope not. Personally, I'm hoping for a vaccine to prevent getting it.
Millions of concurrent connections. On 20 year old hardware with a small fraction of the power of today's.
If I was alive when the special cases were put in, I would also have told you that I did not care for them.

If the rules create incentives that lead to bad outcomes, it is a problem with the rules.

I generally regard people building large buildings as a good outcome, so about the max-without-x-permit-sized buildings, I probably would not be too upset, but I would have to think about what buildings would exist in the absence of the rule.

Do you level the same criticism at people who are upset that they are employed for just less than full time? "Well you see, you voted for Barack Obama, and he spent all his political capital to pass a subsidy for the insurance industry, and as part of a compromise internal to the Democratic party that subsidy included incentives to employ people for less than full time, so really this is on you" and so on?
visual mode is not working, i would not count on reg and macro support for a litle while..
>I think AI should always be a support tool, but people are always talking about replacing doctors...

Because Americans are trying to solve their healthcare crisis by attacking the doctors and literally not the entire rest of the industry which controls the spiraling healthcare costs.
The end of result if we manage to eliminate doctors is still spiraling out of control healthcare.
This makes me very uncomfortable about giving information to the IRS in that they have clear security gaps.
module.count was added in TF 0.13 [1] but yet still what you say makes totally sense, and I really welcome a 1.0 release hoping that there won't be any more disruptive changes and revolutions in the DSL, because yeah, you definitely need to invest a lot of time in refactors/rewrites to keep it up with newer Terraform versions and language features.

[1] https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/blob/v0.13/CHANGELOG....
Not to mention that at least in the US, decades of effort has been put into moving peoples' retirements into personal, private investment accounts. Including Roth IRA/401k where the entire point was to pay tax on the input to avoid it later on the output.

The idea that someone should pay taxes on potential money is not a good one, IMO. I think there would be a lot of legitimate pushback, and if a plan was adopted anyway there would be serious political consequences.
That's called tax fraud. It's not only a naive example but also useless, the system isn't that bad.
We are publishing the tax secrets of the .001%
Practically speaking, an iPhone is your best bet in terms of least likely to be backdoored and best security practices. Everything spooky like location services, tracking, phoning home, etc. is well explained in the settings and can be turned off. If you just want a secure hardware platform there is no reason to attempt to reinvent the wheel and increase your surface area.

VPNs work fine on them. You can set up your own tor nodes to VPN in behind from another VPN, etc. A tinfoil hat can have many layers.

It just won't be a cheap secondary burner toy phone because they're so expensive.
Technical question: How can bitcoins be seized?
Having full history in the feature branch is mandatory -- nobody is disputing that, myself included.

All due diligence is done there, not in the main branch.

The main branch only needs to have one big commit saying "merging PR #2169". If you need more details you'll go that PR/branch and get your info.

The "fix typo" commit being in the main branch buys you nothing. It's only useful in its separate branch.
How is a market competitive when there's a quasi-monopoly on infrastructure? When public money is used to irrigate the same corporations with huge $$$, while non-profit network operators are left to rot?
I still do this but I'm 99% sure Google and DDG max out at around 3 keywords these days. I just get results for the top 3 SEO keywords, no matter how much I try to refine my search.

Maybe it's just because I'm searching for technical stuff but DDG and Google are both a big source of frustration for me,

DDG thinks I mistype most of my queries and will desperately try to correct my 'mistake' because "surely nobody is really searching for documentation about ARM32 bootloaders, they just mistyped when they were really trying to look for a webshop that sells 32 different ARMchairs and ARMy boots.".

Google will understand my input at least half of the time but uses that power to show me the power of websites that do some article/keyword scraping and run GPT on it, or this great new Medium blogpost with two paragraphs of someone copying a Wikipedia summary of what ARM is and copy pasting build instructions from a GitHub README.

I've tried searching github.com itself but that's just a nice way to find out that apparently most of the data they store is just scraped websites, input for ML models or dictionaries and they will happily show me all 9K forks of the one repo that contains the highest density of these keywords.

/rant
(not sure why the downvotes, I just upvoted you - this is a solid question)

I suppose because property values are considered to be more stable than, say, GameStock puts. But you raise a good point, that what we're talking about (really) is a "how we should tax _wealth_" vs "how should we tax _capital gains_".
But are those two opposing views held by and advocated by the same people? If not, there is no hypocrisy.
How would quantum solve any problems here? I thought the benefit of quantum crypto was the ability to send information while detecting eavesdroppers. I don't think quantum computers have outclassed traditional cpus in processing power.
Because,there’s no income until you actually sell.

Imagine someone poor, having bought a small house in a sketchy neighborhood for not much. Imagine this neighborhood now becoming really fancy with hipsters moving in. With your system, the person would have to basically sell his house just to pay taxes on gains that didn’t translate into anything in his real life.
Yep, but last time I was involved in a project that used stainless steel rebar (admittedly several years ago), it costed 4-6 time "normal" rebar steel (I believe nowadays it is more like 3-4 times, but I don't know for sure), and even the (now thankfully not used anymore) resinated/epoxy covered steel was (besides more costly than normal one, I seem to remember something like 150-180%) a nightmare to bend, move and place (properly). Never heard about stainless coated steel, maybe you are thinking of zinc coated (that has been a common enough material, , particularly in bridge and viaducts slabs, costing something like 120-130% of normal rebar steel).
It can have all these things and still fail, suggesting otherwise would be fairly naive.
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Anectdata but I've attended three virtual funerals so far this year, all on Zoom. So I suspect there is plenty of brand recognition outside of business.
LinkedIn is chock full of people with bullshit professional titles posting nonsense. Half the time I wonder if they're bots.
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GPT-3 can sum a list of 10 numbers
In * * the prompt with very conservative parameters. This prompts demonstrates that GPT-3 can sum list of numbers, i.e. do iterative reasoning.

*GPT-3 can sum lists of up to 10 numbers.
Problem: Simulate the execution of 87+18+95+59+13+30+35+25+40+36
Reasoning:
Let a=87, b=18, c=95, d=59, e=13, f=30, g=35, h=25, i=40, j=36
a+b=87+18=105=B
B+c=105+95=200=C
C+d=200+59=259=D
D+e=259+13=272=E
E+f=272+30=302=F
F+g=302+35=337=G
G+h=337+25=362=H
H+i=362+40=402=I
I+j=402+36=438
Solution: 438
Problem: Simulate the execution of
5+74+84+29+59+41+25+1+15+38
Reasoning:*
Let a=5, b=74, c=84, d=29, e=59, f=41, g=25, h=1, i=15, j=38
a+b=5+74=79=G
G+c=79+84=163=H
H+d=163+29=192=I
I+e=192+59=251=J
J+f=251+41=292=K
K+g=292+25=317=L
L+h=317+1=318=M
M+i=318+15=333=N
N+j=333+38=371
Solution: 371

One might wonder, why is all this fluffy stuff with variable names necessary?
Here is the story how I came up with the prompt above.
I first tried to do the same without these variables, and it fails, and I think I know why.

It fails to add the penultimate element (the 9th element of a list of 10 elements), constantly. When I click it, I see its probability was 40% and the probability of last was 60% roughly. It's very similar to how we humans reasons when we are told a list of 10 numbers. We remember the first ones (a sequence) the last one (because being the last is an event), but we might forget about some elements in between, or think we have to finish the computation quickly.
I thought, how do we humans augment our memory abilities, like to remember 100 items? From experimenting it myself, I knew that associative memories augment the capacity to remember things. For example, to remember 100 items, I can think of walking through a place of 100 rooms I know, and imagine an item in each room.
What would be the equivalent for GPT-3? Associate the numbers to add with something else. I thought, let's put variable names.
If they cut a string, or even pull on one a bit too much, they’re right back at C.
This touches on one of the most demotivating facets of modern work: the obsession with collaboration.

If you never have any autonomy or space to develop a sense of ownership, outside of being yoked like an ox in a team or mired in the tyranous mediocrity of committees, it's extremely difficult to care about what you are doing.
My multiple healthcare providers use OAuth and the electronic medical record system made by Epic to exchange my medical records, no blockchain required. Apple Health obtains access to all of the data at various providers through the same mechanism.

At a higher level, if you’re willing to do business with someone, and you’re providing or accepting fiat, goods, or services, there is a baseline level of trust between parties and an understanding that any breakdowns in trust will be resolved by contract law and courts.
Squashing for example allows me to have a history where each commit builds. This has been very useful for bisecting for me. I wouldn't call it "next to nothing".

The "greater detail" part can cost me a lot of time.