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> The problem comes from privacy coins like Monero, which arguably should be outlawed (if not already)

Are you also in favour of outlawing Tor, E2EE, HTTPS? I am always surprised that some people want privacy outlawed.

Disclaimer: Monero contributor
IDK if "veiled from reality" is helpful here. Our job as software engineers is to build abstractions so like, glass houses and all that.
Restic doesn't support compressing backups, and kopia does. Otherwise, the architectures appear to be very similar.
It can be for sure. I've built a few PCs with tasteful (relative to a crowd, I'm sure) RGB lighting. This is my current one where the doors and other glass surfaces are tinted to reduce outgoing light, and the lighting is static: https://imgur.com/gallery/U2KZD07
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law

This is a good way to detect fraud.
Basically, any number set will tend to have more 1,2,3's vs 7,8,9. Fraudsters will use random data that doesn't follow this.
The physics of the simulator would have to be totally different to support a simulation with exponential computational costs. You probably couldn’t have anything like conservation of energy. Polynomial overhead would feel much more plausible.
Yeah this reads like some nonsense wankery, and subscribed to nonsense ideas like “Great Men of History”, eg in the part about preferring the output of sexual harassers over the output of many more less problematic researchers.

There’s a reason the saying is “Science progresses one death at a time”, and not “Science progresses by being sexual-harassment apologists”
The second order effects may be that they wouldn't want to even try to develop a drug.

What world do you want to live in? (Rhetorical)
What could be benefited by not approving it with all the pertinent disclaimers about effectiveness?

And to turn it around, what harm would it cause society if it’s not approved due to inconclusive evidence and helps only some people? (Assuming no hard side effects)

Keep in mind, there are already ineffective treatments that sell hope and don’t help.
And companies, states, ... What is a company? The contracts? Then it's just paper with ink. The buildings? It's just concrete. All of that don't exist naturally, it's a shared narrative. That these concepts can be enforced doesn't change that fact. That's not to say these concepts are not useful, civilization is built on them. The book Sapiens does a better job than me explaining that idea if you are interested.
Hackers breach gaming giant Electronic Arts, steal game source code
That was also my reasoning to go full RGB. I just didn’t know that the RAM default is Rainbow puke. And these things are the hardest to control.
> On all the recent c++ polls the average language revision used is between c++14 and 17.

Polls of hobbyist coders, or software houses? I would be surprised if most software houses migrated to C++17 yet. Tensorflow is stuck on C++03 I think.
Did you know that if you buy a 2021 BMW M5 and paid $120k for it in cash (no financing), then let the warranty expire (or hypothetically signed an opt-in waiver forgoing your powertrain warranty), you still can't flash your own calibration map to increase power into the engine control units?

I'm sure there's a ton of good reasons why liability wise. Just seems crazy to me.

I guess it's the same when you buy a $1k iPhone and can't run your own unsigned software.
Does the state accept them directly or does a third-party do a currency conversion so the state is receiving the value in Swiss francs?

That's a key difference because it's only in the latter case that taxation creates demand.
> It sounds like that should be non-negotiable requirement number 1 for any job you consider.

You're right. Thankfully I'm finally in a position where I can do that moving forward. Before my current point in life, I was more in a position where I had to take what I could get, which is where the lack of flexibility became very frustrating. Just like we let engineers listen to music and wear hoodies, I think it's reasonable to let engineers work from home or the office as desired.

> office work is not a conspiracy by management to torture you: it’s by far the best work environment for many people and many kinds of jobs. If you could understand that - while also understanding yourself and that it’s not a fit for you - you might be able to let some of that anger go and find a more comfortable fit on a team.

You're right about this as well. It's not a conspiracy to torture, and office work is best for some people. But again, I think people underestimate how much people want to have the option of working remote, and overestimate how important in-office presence is for a huge majority of cases.
That sounds like a decent primitive to accelerate arbitrary bit permutations in software. It's known as GRP in, e.g., [1].

[1] http://palms.ee.princeton.edu/PALMSopen/shi00bit.pdf
My biggest stay up too late things are when my wife is out of town and I am lonely and start some tablet based entertainment thing, whether Twitter or Netflix or just Wikipedia. (Usually hacker news is somewhat self limiting as far as time goes.). Since COVID I drink so much caffeine but also I am working like 7 am to 7 8 or 9 every day but weekends and just exhausted. Error prone too. I have to force myself not to do changes later in the week; not because of not wanting a Saturday incident but because I can’t trust my own judgement as much.
Well its incorrect to the extent that the post is specifically about issues concerning things like pre-made meals an sausages, and your rebuttal is that these concerns don't effect things like flour or sugar as ingredients.

It's rather like me saying gun control is an issue and you pointing out that iron ore seldom kills anyone.
Like maybe there are more pressing problems than making bitcoin with this electricity supply. I dont know but it feels wasted on a fad.
The moment any economic argument is made that relies on human altruism is the moment it should be rejected. Some people may act altruistic some of the time, but in aggregate people refuse to be scammed to help the “greater good”.
Yeah, there's a bunch of research showing that people learn better with concrete examples of mathematical problems first, rather than the abstract conceptualisations which tend to be more useful to us.

This was in college 15+ years ago, so I don't have any citations unfortunately.
One imagines that the source code just makes those variables, and they're configured server side as required.
As someone who has actually interacted with the FDA during a drug approval this is actually the opposite of how it works.

Going to add this comment to the pile of “written in a tone of absolute certainty but completely wrong”.
I had this back in the pre-AWS days where our datacenter provider had such a system and I called them every couple of weeks when we needed a disk replaced or something. I memorised the 20 char random string and put it as the answer for all the questions. "The brand of my first car? Wel... [20 char random gibberish]" got even funnier when their policy became to ask at least 3 questions.
According to the article "those messages have never really been considered to be a part of the kernel's ABI"
Wow I legitimately never noticed before.
I could still go on the dates. I'm pointing out that you've solved no problems and instead opened the door to several other ones.

You've just made a bad/even more exploitable OkCupid/Tinder/PlentyOfFish clone.
See results here for all the threads on this in the past week:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
No, money has value because the government makes it law that debt is payable with it; that's what gives a government's currency legitimacy. If the government made a law that debt could be paid with bitcoin, it would no longer fit Shiller's description.
Maybe the incentives for universities are all wrong. In the early 1900's only 4% of the US went to university. There ended up being a big push to get more people into college with the assumption that it would benefit society. Eventually we ended up with a notion that everyone should go to college and this has been buttressed with government support but what if this idea is wrong? What if the incentives created lots of university departments that were superfluous, producing nothing that was actually benefitting society. This may show up as lots of superfluous/unreproducible papers and journals many not even based on the scientific method. Maybe the incentives focused universities on creating more "education" so they could rake in the cash made readily available through government subsidies targeting those who could not complete STEM degrees. Have we reached a state of elite-overproduction?
Works fine if you want to auto-unsubscribe recipients who don't interact with your emails.
An externality is a side effect or consequence of an industrial or commercial activity that affects other parties without this being reflected in the cost of the goods or services involved. Removing redundancy to increase profit margins affects other parties (ie users) without affecting the cost of the goods or services involved. If and only if the MBA's decision to increase risk to the user is reflected in the costs does it cease to be an externality.

And we are specifically talking about an industry over-relying on a single provider of a service. If there were a variety of competing services, the entire point would be moot.
Half of this instruction is present in AMD64's BMI2 extension as PEXT, and the reverse operation as PDEP. Unlike "sheep and goats", PEXT just extracts the sheep into the LSB and ignores the goats.

If I recall the Knuth lecture correctly, given a "sheep and goats" instruction where one of the sets is packed in reverse order, you can implement any n-bit permutation in something like log2(n) instructions. I don't remember if this is true if they're both packed in forward order. But it would be nice for some hardware crypto designs, like DES or more recently GIFT.

PEXT has at least two additional use cases I know of: manipulating bit indices for databases, and binary (GF2) matrix manipulation. I've used it in a (non-crypto) project to select a subset of columns from a binary matrix, to convert it to systematic form. This subroutine also used popcount.

What I really wanted in that project was another "NSA instruction": bit matrix multiply. Cray supercomputers can multiply two 64x64 binary matrices in one instruction, though I have no idea how many cycles it takes. With AVX2, the best I could do is 6 instructions plus precomputation for 8x8 x 8x32, which is 1/128'th the work.
I think past a certain point it's reasonable to expect that your repair operation may also involve some scrounging for the parts— for example, the classic frankenstein procedure where a laptop with a dead motherboard is married to another of the same model where the screen is cracked. I think for most electronics, past 5-10 years is pretty reasonable for this kind of thing. I mean, the GameCube came out in 2001-2002, and many circles now consider that to be a vintage/retro machine at this point. Would we really expect Nintendo to still be supplying repair shops with the full BOM of whatever's in there?

Anyway, the real trick with this of course is forbidding the serial number based lockouts.
On top of that, we currently have a grossly overburdened healthcare system that in no way could support this. This presents so many clear problems that I wonder if the people are thinking critically about the long term effects of an unregulated drug market.

1. Knowledge -> How will doctors possibly keep track of the knowledge of all of these new drugs? If they don't need to be verified beyond a claim, they could be getting thousands of options. How do they pick between one drug with no proof, and another drug with no proof -- especially if they all have negative side effects?

2. Data -> All of the data for these drugs will be extremely if not impossible to derive. This will probably result in it taking even longer for evidence of the drug's efficacy to be built.

3. Resources -> Hospitals across North America are understaffed and overworked. How could they possibly find time to not only learn the entire treatment path for new drugs and all the necessary information, but to do this countless times across all their patients? MRI machines are already backlogged quite a bit, do we really think they could weather the storm of an unregulated drug market?

4. Liability -> Whether we like it or not, this adds quite a bit of liability to a hospital. Insurance will absolutely be against this, and would likely greatly increase the number of people trying to sue the hospital.

5. Fallout/Complications -> Can you imagine the strain of the additional complications that arise out of allowing free use of untested drugs? Imagine how much more expensive a patient would be if they got a brain bleed from a medication that they would never have had previously. This isn't just like "I tried a drug and it did nothing", it's more like "I tried a drug that had the potential to kill me. I had severe complications that required me to be in the hospital for 2 months but the drug still did nothing to help my problem."

Effectively, we'd be breaking our own healthcare system by breaking down our regulations. Regulations are written in blood. They're there for a reason.
Plus it gives Apple an out as soon as they release a car, which is extremely weird.
Dad of record-breaking 10 babies is 'love cheat' and 'married to another woman'
We have so many doses in the US now that it doesn’t really matter if we “wasted” them as early second doses. We now have doses sitting on the shelf expiring. We haven’t had lines for vaccines for over a month, and I’m in one of the highest demand locations in the US. US vaccinations peaked mid April, and the decline after that has been 100% due to demand.
Matterport will also work with a phone, so the fancy camera is optional.
Ximalaya funded one man’s podcasting hype house dreams
The point was they risked some much for so little. So little that in their case, price gains a few houses around them would have netted them more and not risk jail time.
Its an acute issue that is rare. In this case, its rarer than the normal rate from getting COVID isn't it? The chance of catching COVID is high, not low, without the vaccine. The vaccine does not guarantee protection in the sense that no vaccine does, but thus far it appears to work at least as well or better than any other vaccine. For the health issues, most of your same concerns apply to COVID which by definition carries at _least_ as much risk as the vaccine given its modus operandi. For the symptom in question the risk appears to be lower -- by a LOT -- than if people were to get the virus naturally. Its only being reported at all because the monitoring is good -- did you look at how few cases and the deviation they detected? Its on the order of normal: 100, now: 200, amongs _millions_ of vaccine doses. And presumably that's _after_ they rule out COVID. Per your "not guaranteed protection" line of reasoning, these cases might not even be from the vaccine in the first place, but from people who got COVID right around the same time. I can understand apprehension about new medicine.
You previously brought up El Salvador’s murder rate as though that has anything to do with or diminishes their Bitcoin experiment.

It is really odd until you reveal below that you have a pretty clear bias against Bitcoin because you personally worked on some traditional payment processing software.
You also have the problem of writing dozens and dozens of seemingly engaging and individualized messages only to get no response back. So eventually, you start putting less and less effort into each message and even start to repeat old ones. It's a sad fact of life.
Article leads with momentum for Tubman Twenties. Good news! You don't have to wait:

https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/10/12/turn-your-20s-into-tubm...
Young men reading this, don't let it get you down or make you hate women, that path leads to ruin. In my experience once you become the sort of man who chooses not to participate when someone expects more from you then they are willing to give, the sort of women who is willing to be a equal partner comes out of the woodwork. They don't want to be with a loser either.
Looks interesting. I always liked the borg concept, but never actually used it for backups because it lacks windows support and a nice gui.

Will give it a try.
I think by 2021 most people will understand this simple reality:

Other than Apple, every other hardware company is _not_ a software company.

Yes, they write software. It is universally garbage. If there is anything well-done about the software, it will be because the hardware company licensed (or more likely, just ripped off) someone else's software.

Google (a software company) cannot make any of the hardware companies in the Android ecosystem produce anything but garbage. Samsung Bixby anybody?

And this should not surprise anyone, as the leadership at a hardware company does not care, at all, about the software. Once you plunked down your coins and bought the hardware, the leadership at the company only sees software as an endless cost center. They want you gone as fast as possible.

It's a classic race to the bottom, and this is the result.

It's also one of the most potent forces driving people to use OpenRGB and every other free/libre open source tool.
Do you have a source on this I can look into? Caffeine really keeps me up. I thought small amounts would do that less, but it sounds like that might make it worse.
>White-boarding new systems/features.

Although tools like Google Docs actually replace whiteboards well for many purposes, I'm not sure why someone hasn't developed a better tablet-based collaborative tool. I admittedly haven't looked at what's out there recently but you'd think--even given admittedly limited surface area compared to an in-person whiteboard--someone could have given a better run at this.
I struggled with a very similar situation 2 years ago and my heart goes out to you - it can be brutal.

But I did want to offer a ray of hope. After trying everything under the sun for months (including benzos), someone told me about CBTI (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia). Rather than go into all the details, just Google it. Its really the only proven successful (non-drug) way of dealing with insomnia (notice I did not say 'cure').

My only advice for those looking into CBTI is DO NOT TRY TO DO IT ON YOUR OWN. Its a very rigorous program that should be supervised by a doctor who specializes in CBTI. If you try it on your own, you are likely to fail - it can be a challenging program to follow through on.

Be careful about the benzos. They are extremely habit forming (again Google it) and can be difficult to stop.

One key point that my CBTI doctor talked about. Sleep is generally a combination of 2 factors. Your natural daily rhythm (day = awake; night = sleep) and how long its been since you last slept (ie. nap at 6PM is bad idea). If either one of these gets out of whack, sleep will be difficult. CBTI helps you align these two factors.

Lastly, in my case, I believe the insomnia was a symptom of a depression that I found myself in. Treating the depression along with CBTI was (literally) a lifesaver for me.
You could, but I don't really see the incentive in it. At least, I don't really see how it is any easier than doing basically the same thing on any other dating platform, except those platforms put you in contact with the person before you actually have to meet them.
Everyone saying it would be computationally expensive to simulate our universe is failing to put their mind outside of the box of our universe. Imagine for a moment that there's a universe which compares to our universe similarly to how our world compares to one inside of Conway's Game of life.

Granted, this scenario doesn't provide us with anything we can take action on, but the idea that we're in a simulation at all doesn't, either.
The author of that post (magnet) mentions the amyloid debate later in that same thread.

https://forum.quartertothree.com/t/wtf-is-going-on-at-the-fd...
>is a right "real" when merely conceived of, or must it be exercisable in practice, necessitating either highly effective personal power or highly effective power of a society on your behalf, to be, in any sense, real

Yes, it's real when conceived of, just like drugs are legal until there is a law against them. There are limits on exercising one's rights, but that doesn't mean the right itself goes away or as you put it, never existed in the first place.

>moreover, what does it mean for a cave-dwelling loner in the state of nature to have freedom of speech, for example? Not much, I'd say

So rights only exist where they are useful? How about if you don't exercise a particular right, do you still have it?

>rights aren't even useful or sensible constructs absent society, from what I can tell, and within society they're basically just freedoms we've decided we like a whole lot and want to provide with a powerful label

I think it's more that they are freedoms we have recognized exist rather than something society has created. While freedom of speech might not have been particularly useful without a society, you certainly had that freedom before society existed. It's not really possible for society to be the creator of freedom of speech if it existed prior to society.

On the other end, if society collapses and you are again in a state of nature, you again have freedom of speech. So it's really just that society limited your ability to exercise that right, it didn't remove it entirely.

For me part of the importance of inherent rights comes down to an understanding that given societal ability to decide for a person what rights they possess, they will, from time to time, decide that a person possesses no rights at all. If that is actually true, and all rights come from society, then there's no real moral way to rebel against that. Individuals need to have an ability to balance against society and if society is the source of all power as well as all moral standing, there is no possibility for the individual.

If rights exist at all, they must by necessity be inherent to the person and not granted by society.
> Every time someone asks you a question, they are highlighting a gap in the documentation.

This is a sensible statement assuming that the question is about the domain or system you’re an expert in. Not “what time is it” or anything like that.

> Take the chance to write the answer down

Perhaps the author should have qualified this advise with “take the chance to consider”, but I think the advise stands well on its own and I understand to apply common sense to it.
Again, a lot of disinformation is spread to create envy. The current average profit tax rate in Switzerland is 15.1%. Here is a recent article on this: https://www.organisator.ch/steuerreport-2020-vergleichsweise... There are a lot of places with lower or even zero taxes (even some within the USA).
How you average numbers matters (2015)