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Well, since we live in a deeply racist society, the backgrounds of people of different ethnicities are often quite different. That can produce diversity of thought in a similar way to differences in educational or geographical background. Race is only one part of GP's suggestion about diversity contributing to product quality, but you seem to have stuck on it.

As for the fact that many important innovations were developed before diversity was valued as much as it is today, I am reminded of a blind inventor, who achieves great things in spite of disability: imagine how much more he could do if given the power of sight!
This may not work for everyone. If I must email documents that I do not wish Google to see, I call the person and say "The password to that 7-zip file is fartbubble, all one word, lower-case." I can put a text file in the .7z file that has additional context that would have been in the email body.
Imho social media apps should be researched and designed by universities.

Let companies do it, and you will only get more of the same crap.
> Chia is basically turning wasting electricity into wasting silicium (or whatever tapes/harddrives are made from).

Does this apply to filecoin?
Game over for who? Binance?
That's a good point, I was rather assuming school kids missing physical education lessons than kids not being able to accidently exert themselves while playing with others. I thought it was about having to replace sport lessons with other activity.
"Ironic. They could save others from fractional reserve banking, but they could not save themselves."
"Paltering" is another one, with an "Artful Paltering" psyc paper differentiating it as:

* Lying by omission - the passive omission of relevant information.

* Paltering - active use of truthful statements to convey a misleading impression.

But knowbody will know what you mean if you use the word paltering, so "by omission" would still be the go-to phrase.
I don’t understand why this comment was downvoted. USDC is just as undercollateralized as USDT. Everything you’re reading about USDT also applies tO USDC, just lagged.
Unfortunately thanks to the S&P 500, we’ll have no choice but to invest in them and support running a business poorly.
Parlor was literally taken out by the tech / cloud companies banning them (without justification) on all their hardware. They were getting millions to sign up.

At the time they (Parlor) were working with the FBI and there were a few posts regarding Jan 6 (nothing compared to what was used on Facebook with thousands and thousands of posts). By pulling their hardware they actually impacted the FBI investigation.

They also pulled them from both the Apple and Android app stores.

After crushing them, they then removed all these restrictions after a few weeks.

So yeah, they’re too strong. Then again, we should be building decentralized apps at this point.
What do you mean by "bad"? If you're asking why it makes sense to structure society with an eye toward avoiding disparity, then it's enough to just observe empirically that people have an aversion to unfair treatment. And not just people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_inequity_aversion

If you're asking why do people respond the way they do to disparity, then I can only speculate that it has something to do with the meaning of life.
After Libyan and Syrian civil war do people think that 3rd party involvement is a good thing?
There’s a series of Greg Egan stories (in the book instantiation) about preparing and viewing images designed to exploit the simulator graphics library (when viewed) as a way to transfer between simulations, that considers these problems
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It's at least a 50% chance. The god-believing-people would probably say that we are for sure.
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And now we have a dyad. Great job. Do you have any idea what just started?
Phooey. Turtles then. Because that simulator runner would also have a simulator runner, and so on.

Let's leave the cultural baggage of self-existent platonic forms for ultimate power at the door, it's an ultimately overtrod path of philosophical inquiry.

If you constitutionally can't leave it at the door, read David Brin's crystal spheres (and enjoy!).
This is are a meaningless questions. One cannot calculate any such odds in principle. It is an application of a wrong concept.

The real answer is that in cannot be known, again, in principle.

The first such answer has been given by Upanishadic seers back then, based on the principle that intellect, conditioned by perceptions, cannot know. Observations of effects is not enough to know the causes and "mechanics".

The modern answer is that abstraction barriers are impenetrable (yes, in principle). There is absolutely no way to even guess an actual wiring of a processor from the level of code (separated by a few layers of abstraction barriers).
It's context-specific whether recalculation is a code smell. I've definitely gotten feedback from senior developers to just do len(x) repeatedly instead of "littering" (their words) the code with `xCount=len(x)` assignments (because they knew len was constant-time).
The point apparently being, the people complaining the loudest about cancel culture seem to be the people who were most likely to do these things before the twitter mobs. RE: McCarthyism, Freedom Fries, the Satanic Panic.
The new ProtonMail has passed its independent security audit
> These guys aren’t stupid

I don’t think Musk’s brand suffers because of what he’s doing in DogeCoin. Crypto and the broader economy continue to have limited connection. Nobody reasonable will turn down Cuban’s business or term sheet because someone else lost money on TITAN. The networks are mutually exclusive.
The point being missed here is that no algorithm can tell you whether a string is a valid email address, because that's not a property of the string in the first place, it's a property of the world.

Having a fairly low entropy Gmail address, I get an intermittent drizzle of messages of the form of 'thank you for signing up to Acme!' whose content is such as to make it clear that an actual Acme customer typo'd their email address, and Acme thought you could validate it by checking the form of the string.

The only way to validate an email address is to send email to that address, asking the person behind it, are you the one who just signed up for Acme. And once you are doing that, there is no point checking the string for anything other than containing an @.
Isn't disease another lifeform trying to survive? Isn't God responsible for all life? Why do you think your life is most important in the eyes of God?
Some resource needs to be consumed, but we have payment systems that are currently multiple orders of magnitude more efficient than Bitcoin or Chia, so that is kind of a baseline. (Think Visa or Mastercard)

Secondly, Chia is a small coin, it did not make a dent in the global market yet. I can believe that so far nobody really bothered to invest in storage.

However, imagine Chia would be as large as say Bitcoin, then Chinese Chia miners would be filling warehouses with tape drives to the effect of millions per year. The costs they are now making burning electricity would be replaced by the same cost at installing computer memory of some kind. Compared to the current financial system that is really wasteful. But even as compared to most existing proof-of-work crypto, it is arguably more damaging to the environment as there are more toxic chemicals involved in tape than in burning electricity.

Overall, you traded wasting time for wasting space. I do not see how that is helpful.
Also: Reading journalists about something you know well makes you doubt about what they write when you don't.
The UK has 5 wind farms under construction with a capacity of 5125 MW and 4 proposed wind farms with a capacity of 5454 MW (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_offshore_wind_farms_in...). There has also been an increase in solar farm applications (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jun/28/solar-farm-...).

On the flipside a number of UK nuclear plants are reaching EOL with only 1 currently under construction.
And yet we'll continue to treat climate change as an inconvenience that can be addressed in 20 years, when - to quote Alex Steffen - we're not yet ready for what's already happened.

https://alexsteffen.substack.com/p/were-not-yet-ready-for-wh...
Remittance. Moving suitcases of money back and forth is hard if it is not an equal flow back and forth. Do you own every location?
Just until the software at the bank is rewritten using CoPilot and suddenly they can’t withdraw any money.
> He’s “just playing around” with peoples’ life savings

Not sure how much sympathy people putting their life savings into DogeCoin deserve, on the grand total diligence of a tweet no less.
Have you ever watched anyone play RollerCoaster Tycoon?
Someone will definitely be quick to reply with the "AI is a moving goalpost, things stop being called AI when they work, for example..." - so I'll offer my counterpoint up front. These things were never AI except in marketing lingo and in connection to the research in machine learning. The common folk definition of AI doesn't change - it's still the same vision of computers in science fiction, with which you can converse, and which can think better than you (except in some specific ways in which are super-dumb - this is necessary for the story to have any plot).
Have you never played SimCity or Populous?
Isn’t this basically impossible to prove? see Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel-incompleteness/

Effectively we can’t prove a higher level of the simulation because we are encoded in it?
Yea, I see those but only the first time I visit a website. Lucky you... thinking that a notice that a web page is storing data on your computer is fuckig up the internet.
Is it more innovative than for example: tab9?
No dev up against a deadline is going to implement a Higgs Field. Those masses would be hard-coded.
Well ... yeah, it has worked pretty great? The last 30 years has been the best 30 years ever in terms of the minority view vs majority view power balance. Powered mainly by the hyper-liberal environment created by the internet. There has been a maybe 2 year rough spot and there is no reason to assume the market is not going to deliver.
Race has played a huge role in slavery throughout time, but to your point it depends on when and where that time is. My original point was someone can be racist without believing in slavery (and the other way around), and they can not like a particular culture/class without being racist. These differences are important because once we start making blanket statements about what people really think it only encourages that tribalism they're trying to fix in the first place.
Rupy is awesome. One team within my org uses it and they love it.
I see both issues as independent from one another.

Solo devs can use the cloud too. If the customer wants the kool aid, let them pay for the extra effort.
I am using Optimal Control Theory An Introduction from Donald Kirk and Modern Control Engineering from Katsuhiko Ogata.

Both are heavy in math, but are not that difficult (I studied theoretical math some 20 years ago and I can read them).
Apologies for this — the website features some pretty heavy WebGL visualizations. I've pushed an updated version with more aggressive code-splitting and a <noscript /> version of the website. If you'd like, try it out and let me know if it works any better.
Yes, you are not on that "most" category. (But that 2500km is close to it, so trains may still be more comfortable.)

to be fair, even for short trips trains require a minimum passenger flux before it's more efficient than planes. So even strictly talking about carbon emissions, trains are a net loss for most trajectories, but a large gain for most passengers.
That shit’s all over the internet already and is usually explicitly there for people to perv over.

Funny that you choose to get upset over some pictures of old guys on holiday. Also you have no idea what the permissions are around these images, you’re just confecting outrage here.
That is a very broad question. Can you mention a specific attack vector? Then I might be able to explain how I do or do not avoid it.
I don't use the Ian knot, but Ian suggests using the same motion as when tying the loops, but pull the loops all the way through
I believe Grant Thorton is as reputable as an accounting corp can be (and funnily enough, the only ones who would be wary of them are crypto guys...).

https://www.centre.io/hubfs/pdfs/attestation/Grant-Thorton_c...
Oh good, I'm not the only one who laughed about that.

SO much awesome in everything there.
Not complete without linking to Georg Hotz (geohot) talk at SXSW: "Jailbreaking the Simulation"

He's taking the hacker's perspective and exploring if the simulation would be hackable from inside.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESXOAJRdcwQ
The premise of the article clearly isn't "white equals bad" though, it's "ancient Rome wasn't as white as white supremacists make it out to be". That's a pretty uncontroversial take imo.
I also enjoyed the implication in the article that she is an avatar of Saraswati.

But you're right, she faces risk, which the Prometheus story, while overused, better captures.

Her name Alexandra also brings to mind the Library of Alexandria, which is a happy coincidence.

And as for risk, we also remember her predecessor, Aaron Swartz.
I’m bipolar and I feel like this all the time. Coworkers asking how my vacation was just pisses me off. I can’t tell them why without risking all kinds of problems.

I haven’t had a vacation or break from anything since I started my job. All my PTO has been burned on medical problems. And now I’m looking at having to disclose I’m bipolar to get unpaid medical leave. Right after a three day weekend.

At least my manager has my back here.
I've always had bad social anxiety (and depression) I've always thought of it like this too.

to constantly think about how other percieve me or how they react must be because of some sort of extreme self obsession right?

I don't care what people think of me and I've strayed far off a typical life path but idk how else to explain my social anxiety
That's exactly what I meant with "all crypto holders pay for it": in the state of equilibrium of costs and rewards, the huge costs are effectively paid by devaluing existing crypto holdings and via transaction costs. Is that good for crypto holders? No way! It's also not too good for miners of course, as they are in it for profit, not for rewards equaling costs.

But fortunately for the miners, crypto mining is rarely in that state of equilibrium. In reality, mining does allow for a hefty profit margin to be reaped most of the time. Ask the miners if you don't believe me, they're not exactly used to just making "small profits". And who pays for that profit margin? Crypto holders and those making transactions with it - again!

However you want to look at it, this coin looks crappy from both sides. Unless you're a miner.
> seems to have the same security guarantees as Bitcoin

It doesn't though. While the PoW in a block commits to all its transactions, POST cannot and does not. Instead the winning farmer separately commits to the transactions with a signature. Which means that a collusion of all recent winning farmers can rewrite tx history at zero cost. Which is not possible in PoW.
I’ve had a reoccurring dream since childhood about our universe being a B+ assignment in an extraterrestrial middle school classroom and that in effect I’m a npc in that effort.

Whenever this subject comes up I’m always a bit interested but it seems like an impossible thing to know.
One of the big benefits of running simulations is to test horrible things in a safe and contained sandbox. The fact that each data point has become sentient is a byproduct of the level of detail in which this simulation is constructed.
Why do you believe that a higher entity would care at all about your suffering? Why would they step in and intervene? You’re projecting human qualities (empathy, caring) on something you know nothing about, but which certainly isn’t human.
https://endthefud.org/

There's a Proof of Stake section describing all of its shortcomings compared to Proof of Work.

Plus a lot of bitcoin fud debunking.
Unknowable.

And no, you'll have no way to break out of simulation and access api of the simulator, because if it's in place it works similarly to this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8
Not sure why that is although, admittedly, I've had little time to do much in the way of cross-browser testing. The website features some pretty heavy WebGL visualizations. I've pushed an updated version with more aggressive code-splitting and a <noscript /> version of the website. If you'd like, try it out and let me know if it works any better.
Some people value having a more complete picture for its own sake. It can also potentially influence some decisions at some point - e.g. an increased focus on looking for computationally cheaper shortcuts in the nature of reality or slightly decreased extremely long-term outlook if a simulation comes with a higher chance of being shutdown before the heat death of the universe etc.
I totally expect this will happen. I bet this is already happening. As long as they continue to train Copilot on third-party code that wasn't thoroughly, manually vetted by them, this vector of attack will remain open - and mitigating it falls into the domain of... spam filtering.
> flowing freely

Another reference to Saraswati.
If you otherwise are reasonably healthy, I promise you that if you get out every day, in your running shoes, for ten minutes and run a bit and walk briskly when you can’t run, you’ll run those ten minutes within a few weeks.
i did not. i'll have to look into that
That small fee is usually ard 2000$.
Thanks for the reply, that's kinda what I thought. I can see the advantages keeping some things around, but man I like a complete remove all option and not something vague.
> you’re just confecting outrage here.

Bullshit. If these were pictures of women in underwear being spammed by conservatives on Twitter hashtags without their permission we'd all be outraged. I'm upset by the act and by the double standards.

Response to post below: this discussion is turning into a pointless argument that isn't appropriate or welcome on Hacker News, so I won't add another post to it. If you find spamming pictures of people in their underwear without their permission acceptable, I can't change your mind, but don't try to tell me what I find outrageous.

> you don't even know if the photos are being posted by the individuals in the picture themselves

unless permission is verified, the photos should be removed, even from a free speech site.
computers as we know them are pretty limited in simulating anything in real time. I mean we are limited to double precision most of the time. If we are in a simulation, it isn’t a piece of silicon and metal running on electricity with all the finite math. Maybe if you redefine computer to be reality and have a model for dealing with singularities and infinities.
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I don't see how adding a simulation/God solves your issue?

If a system cannot be self prescriptive/be without axioms/ (whatever you think the issue is) then adding another layer of systems is not going to solve your issue. If it can be, adding another layer is not necessary.
Not necessarily, there might be bugs in it.
If it is a simulation, what are the odds that it's a game? The great majority of simulations that we know about are games.

If it is a game, what are the odds that you are a non player character? In games, the vast majority of characters aren't the player.

So if we are living in a computer simulation, odds are that we're non player characters.
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The world certainly feels as if it was hacked together in C++ as a side project by an incompetent demiurge.
> This is really quite a big claim, I'm not sure it's that cut and dried, personally.

If you want to deny the obvious reality that's fine, but there is a huge demand for this from plenty of non-deplorables who aren't ever going to be ok with some jackass at twitter determining what is ok to say. They showed their hand, they are willing to lie and censor and fake fact check enough true and relevant things they don't like that creating alternatives is the only path forward, however long it takes. This is not about allowing _actual_ hate speech, _actual_ harassment cyber-stalking, pedo shit, or planning violence, but if it's not one of those there is demand for a platform that shuts the fuck up about it.
Sometimes I have days where I'm just really focused on work problems.

Sometimes I have days where I'm killing it in the gym or on the track.

Sometimes I have days where I just want to work on my garden, or sit and read, or spend 4 hours on an awesome dinner.

I assume most people have rhythms or cycles like this.

Thankfully I have a job that doesn't measure daily output, but instead looks at productivity over a longer period of time, so I can work towards a life where I'm always doing the thing I'm best at, at that moment.

A day where the work I've been doing just comes together like magic isn't transferable to a personal project.
> Isn't disease another lifeform trying to survive? Isn't Nurgle responsible for all life? Why do you think your life is most important in the eyes of Nurgle?

Fixed that for you.
Yes, but if nothing really exists, then pain and drama are more than necessary (and kind of make even more sense).

To borrow a few pages out of the ancient Indian playbook, creator was really bored with perfect perfection and invented a way to entertain himself, otherwise it's a huge bland perfect nothing forever.
Is it impossible for software to prove it's likely in a VM just because it is 'encoded in it'?

It depends on the implementation but it's definitely not impossible a priori and especially not because of Godel.
Mocks and fakes are used to test your code under isolation - like an experiment, only one variable should be under test at one time.

In addition, most stateful code that can fail, does so intermittently, is susceptible to load delay at scale that can effect your customers and your wallet, may not be at the released version you expect, requires clean-up so that your storage isn't clogged with useless test data, which may or my not be mocked, effects downstream analytic services, etc.

Isolate your unit tests with fakes and in-memory test-local storage, run proprety-based tests with generated data for both inputs and returns that confor to the constraints of your domain, including possible expected error conditions, and unit test in parallel. If you do these things, you can and will have many of the benefits of integration tests, and won't waste time writing carefully crafted test data/scenarios.

Integration test when you get a bug in production, and run the integration tests in an isolated environment identical to the one you deploy to prior to deployment to a place where your users will be interacting with your code. Cleanup can then simply be destruction of the test environment. There was a talk on blue/green deployment the way AWS SRE does it a few years back that was great. While I have the notes, I can't find the talk, but it's a much more complex process than running tests against your up system.