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Nobody has any credible story for how regulations would prevent stuff like this from happening. The problem is simple economics: with the current state of the art in software engineering, there is no way to push the cost of exploits (let alone supporting implant tech) high enough to exceed the petty cash budget of state-level actors.

I think we all understand that the medium-term answer to this is replacing C with memory-safe languages; it turns out, this was the real Y2K problem. But there's no clear way for regulations to address that effectively; assure yourself, the major vendors are all pushing forward with memory safe software.
https://hnrss.github.io/
I don't think that's what causes surface tension in water. However, it turns out that surface tension is more mysterious than I thought.

I thought surface tension was caused by inter-molecular attraction due to water being a polar molecule, which seemingly wouldn't apply to a neutron star.

But this thread https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/2615/are-there-a... contains a reply saying that surface tension is an inevitable result of the interface between two materials, and there are no liquids (even superfluids, apparently) that don't have surface tension.

In any case I don't see why we'd expect condensed matter physics to be generalizable to neutronium...
Cash mostly isn't allowed today, if you are transferring large enough sums of money. Probably for the better.
Quoting from https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc..., emphasis mine:

"Unlike the Public Domain Mark, CC0 should not be used to mark works already free of known copyright and database restrictions and in the public domain throughout the world. However, it can be used to waive copyright and database rights to the extent you may have these rights in your work under the laws of at least one jurisdiction, even if your work is free of restrictions in others. Doing so clarifies the status of your work unambiguously worldwide and facilitates reuse."

As I understand it, you can't just waive copyright on your own work - copyright is something you get automatically in most jurisdictions on the planet. Licenses like CC0 and WTFPL are operating within the copyright regime - they use the laws to make your work behave as if it was not subject to copyright - but they can't actually make your work not copyrighted.

It's like a difference between simulation and reality. CC0, WTFPL, etc. are simulating a copyright-free reality on top of the copyright system. No matter how close to perfect they get, it's still a simulation, and copyright is the underlying runtime.
> why so many people are obsessed with the idea that we need to completely burn down our system and start anew to improve it.

I'm not only not obsessed with the idea, but I'm not sure that would be a desirable way to go. That said, the healthcare system in the US is way beyond broken, and I don't see how it can possibly be fixed by half measures. Something really drastic is required. It's not hard to see why some people reach the "burn it all down" position.
IANAA (I am not an astronomer), but I'm wondering - what are the implications for cheaper commercial spaceflights and satellite launches on research astronomy?

Isn't terrestrial astronomy sort of limited by the Earth's rotation, atmospheric distortion, cloud cover, dust, light pollution, electromagnetic storms, electromagnetic noise, and limited availability of real-estate to place telescopes?
A "real world example" involving a single HTML file (not even a web site, just a bare file!) from 1997 is pretty weak.
Interesting! But the DHT of Bittorrent is filled with spam and fakes. How do you create trustworthy results?

(disclaimer: academic working on this problem for 15+ years, Tribler lab)
I've had my fair share of annoyance from situations like "I have between one and four hard-coded insertions into this vector, but the compiler yells at me if I try to store the resulting size in an int".

Also, tangentially related is the signed/unsigned business which tends to get in the way frequently. For example, OpenMP 2.0 (the only OpenMP version you get to use with MSVC) requires loop indices to be signed, but both std::vector::size and std::vector::operator[] deal with unsigned integers. Casts guaranteed!
You're already not allowed to move undeclared cash across borders, not sure why you can't have a rule that you can't have undeclared crypto wallets. That does not ban cryptography, that just forces people to declare their wallets.
There are different hards. I've worked construction: you come home at night tired, but your brain is awake and ready to think (which is why so many veg on the couch - it keeps the brain busy and body resting). In software the hard jobs leave your brain tired, but your body is ready to go - this is a hard place to be in as your brain can't figure out how to get the needed exercise your body wants.

Programming can be copy/paste, but the hard days when you have to figure out how to eliminate some mutex across some threads so the whole performs without a race condition - that will always be hard.
As I write that I know intellectually how self-centered, selfish, and delusion it is but I feel it intensely.

Almost as if there was some kind of flaw in the initial premise...
>> The new rules would also prohibit providing anonymous crypto-asset wallets.

Where should I send my Ledger to so i can be a good, obedient citizen and be compliant with this law?
Was reading Freud on the bus this morning and wondering why teenage girls are that way.
If I've asked something I'm hoping for an answer to, I will check the threads link at the top when visiting HN. Else I only look at that link when it looks like my karma has increased.

Sometimes karma increases due to an old comment, and I'm not sure if someone replied.
FYI it's still happening for me
Maybe a fat pointer llvm target ala SoftBound running on a machine with 128 bit bare pointers, like as/400.
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>it also signifies strong evidence that this a very powerful and effective practice

I still see no reason to think it's a beneficial practice though. PCP is also powerful and effective with effects on your psyche all over the place.
"As I lay there musing in the brisk darkness, I suddenly sensed a tightening inside me. It was as if I was being ever so gently wound. Then quickly, the pressure intensified, and I breathed in rapid-fire staccato and violently shook. I was a guitar string being tuned beyond its highest range. The string popped. A spike of fear slashed through my guts. And that’s when I split apart."

This has come up in a number of threads about burnout which frequent Hacker News. It's anecdotal per account and I've found weak evidence to corroborate its actual basis however... I think it's interesting that a lot of people report hearing the same thing: a guitar string, bending and snapping in their head. More specifically, a bass guitar.
I don't know why, but I've seen people becoming more anti-social lately in the past 5 years or so. I've always thought of myself as anti-social, but I wouldn't anymore. As I make an effort these days to be friendly to people I haven't met yet, they don't always reciprocate in kind. So these days, I feel less anti-social, but only because the bar seems to have lowered.

I'm not certain why, but when I was younger, I feel like the tenor of stuff on our screens, message boards, TV, etc. was more positive than it is now. People celebrated stuff they liked more. That definitely still exists today, but more and more people are excited to celebrate a shared hate in something: sports stars (I can't watch shows like First Take on ESPN), reality tv (which seems to mostly revolve around petty conflict), politicians, I even used to use Facebook to find people to go to shows with, but I've since deactivated my account because it's not very social anymore, etc. When the people we look up are famous for being argumentative or being jerks, it makes us think that is what leads to success, or something along those lines.

After realizing this, I've definitely tried to base my relationships on stuff that I like (OK, I allow myself some bashing of the Dallas Cowboys :D ).

A good friend of mine is a doctor ... I’m trying to get him to retire before he gets shot by somebody who was told they’d have to wait 3 days for an appointment.

I'll be honest, the receptionists at my PCP have very poor, whatever the equivalent of bedside manner is for them. When I try to make an appointment, or get a referral, I get thrown around a lot of technical terms that I don't quite understand and they don't seem to have the patience to explain to me what such and such a number is, and who I have to give it to and when. Healthcare in the US is very confusing, and when you're sick or your kid is sick, it's not always easy to deal with all that red tape. I mean, I wish I only had to wait 3 days for an appointment, but it's like, I need to make an appointment weeks in advance, give someone a number, but not too far ahead of my appointment's date, then no one can tell what any of this is going to cost, etc. It is very stressful.
Could be AUD but that's still $18. Australia has a high COL.
I agree with the GP. If you only have a single member of the pair, then you will see the same interference pattern in a double slit experiment than with a not-entangled particle.

It doesn't matter if the other particle has collided with a brick, went thru a double slit experiment, went thru a bad double slit experiment, or is flying to Andromeda.

(In spite that the calculation to get the correlation with any result in the other experiment may be much harder with the entangled pair than with two non entangled particles.)
|X(0) - X(a)| = 2, not 1 and X(a) != Y(a)

The subtler issue is that it's a counterfactual question. What would have happened if I had measured or been able to measure all three angles 0, a, 2a? In this case the bit string is the same except for the 1% difference. In other words, X(t) = Y(t), for all t.

The argument is essentially trying to construct a "hidden variable" model and showing that it can't work.
It's a tradeoff which I am personally OK with.
https://getintra.org/ is the only DNS client I know of that doesn't leak DNS connections over TCP, most other DNS apps (including the 3 mentioned here) do. Blokada is marked with anti-features tag by f-droid for telemetry: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/8536 (Note: Intra, though open-source, has telemetry in it too).

Disclaimer: I co-develop a Intra fork.
The only thing stunning about this, is how anyone ever could've believed that cryptocurrencies would not end in the dystopian future of a government knowing every single transaction of yours plus being able to confiscate every single e-penny at will.
The whole approach of regulating on the level of "please don't exploit vulnerable systems" seems reactive to me. If the cats out of the bag on a vulnerability and it's just data to copy and proliferate - not much a government can do other than threaten with repercussions which only applies if you get caught.

The only tractable way to deal with cyber security is to implement systems that are secure by default. That means working on hard problems in cryptography, hardware, and operating systems.
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Wouldn't it also be much, much more expensive than building the line on the ground?
Often tastes better too, tbh. Lots of restaurants overuse salt to make up for lack of flavor.
A great disadvantage of two-party systems is that you can often get better results by a smear campaign against the other party rather than doing something useful. This kind of system favors polarization and leaves no place for the center. The extremes become more vocal leading to more fighting and name-calling. Sadly, I see no light in this tunnel.
I think that the rise of hospital monopolies and the abuse by insurance companies are related.
Your response is helpful. Thank you.
If raising the prices drives away customers, you have now lost a notable value if you try to sell. Brand perception is (almost) everything. Unless you offer something truly unique or exceptional, you're replaceable in just about every market.

There was a local beer taproom/bottle shop that I frequented a lot for years. Even as craft beer became more prominent and there were more local options, I liked it enough to keep going, but fundamentally there came a point where they raised their prices enough that I started going elsewhere, and once I broke that habit there was never a big reason to go back unless I was meeting someone else there once in a while.

In this case, "enough" was in the 20% range, but given what's happened to food prices lately I don't think 5-10% is a realistic number for a restaraunt either.
Mozilla have been working hard on that for years now. Haven't you been watching their market share? One day they'll get to their holy grail of 0 users and no security problems.
Hilarious if it's glyphosate.
It just came online and I was able to get in. Is it still not working?
Our cafeteria at work is union. There is something about getting a decent wage which seems to inspire them. The food is really good (the best cafeteria of the 4 I've had at work) and they're quite pleasant.
> I get the "strip-mall vision of the WWW as a means to sell people things they don't need" complaint, but that does not seem related to the protocol discussion of HTTP and FTP at all.

Web pages that are profit-making ventures, with employees dedicated to working around the latest browser featurectomies, will have no trouble with this sort of constant change. Web pages that are just HTML files that someone uploaded to a server in 02003 will disappear into the memory hole. They're already hard to find, but now they'll be totally inaccessible.

FTP is a bad protocol. HTTP servers are generally easier to run than FTP servers, and especially to run in a secure fashion. None of that is relevant to whether we should break functionality that has been core to the WWW project for 31 years.
While you are completely right in your statements, I could argue that http and ftp are a means of transport and not part of UI or UX.
As far as I can tell, the actual point of arbitration is more to dodge the extensive discovery and subpoena powers of actual courts. If you're suing Amazon in small claims court, if you can convince the judge that Jeff Bezos' testimony meets the legal bar, you can compel him to testify in court. Or you can compel Amazon to turn over broad swathes of potentially damaging information. You can even force third parties to come in and testify, if it should be relevant.

In arbitration, you do not have a judge, so there isn't subpoena power, and discovery is extremely curtailed.
As a small SaaS company, Jon and I are concerned about climate change, but didn't know what do about it.

About a year ago Stripe came out with a really simple way for companies to contribute a % of their revenue towards fighting climate change by removing carbon from the atmosphere.
https://stripe.com/climate

We're trying to convince 25 startups to enable it on their account!
Hi, the author here.

Sorry for the late reply, I didn't realize people were actually commenting here...

So coming back to your question:

In my case, I'm lucky enough to work for a company that is entirely distributed and decentralized and doesn't actually tell me when and how long to work as long as the output is sound.

Obviously, in practice you most often have to put in some hours to get stuff done (that's what I'm being paid for after all). So while my work schedule isn't enforced, I chose for myself to work at these hours (not just for my employer) because I tend to function best at those hours.

Now... do I want to reserve several hours of each day for work for the rest of my life? Certainly not. But that's what work right now for me and it can and will totally change in the future.
People don't own wallets... whoever holds the private key owns the coins. If I don't have the key memorized or on my person, I don't own anything.
The waiters "don't care" about what?! Things you expect from another country's customs? That is a strange way of thinking. And complaining about a country because you have to ask for sauce if you want it sounds so.. entitled.

Although I'd never pay $25 for a burger. (Sydney here)
The only truths that I've known so far to be true:

1) Small patches with quick feedback

2) Automate the manual stuff, even if you're not doing it often you'll probably like having that script ready and tested when you'll have to do it again in one year.
There's not much point accelerating faster if it means waiting longer so everyone can find a seat.

Perhaps this would be interesting to you, "Passenger Stability Within Moving Railway Vehicles: Limits on Maximum Longitudinal Acceleration".

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40864-015-0012-y
The article says that although "you can't have perfect security," you can make it uneconomical to hack you. It's a good point, but it's not the whole story.

The problem is that state-level actors don't just have a lot of money; they (and their decision makers) also put a much much lower value on their money than you do.

I would never think to spend a million dollars on securing my home network (including other non-dollar costs like inconveniencing myself). Let's suppose that spending $1M would force the US NSA to spend $10M to hack into my home network. The people making that decision aren't spending $10M of their own money; they're spending $10M of the government's money. The NSA doesn't care about $10M in the same way that I care about $1M.

As a result, securing yourself even against a dedicated attacker like Israel's NSO Group could cost way, way more than a simple budget analysis would imply. I'd have to make the costs of hacking me so high that someone at NSO would say "wait a minute, even we can't afford that!"

So, sure, "good enough" security is possible in principle, I think it's fair to say "You probably can't afford good-enough security against state-level actors."
You have to burn down the current system no matter which other system you have your eyes on as a desirable goal. The reason is simple: the system fights change.
Business Insider, reaching into a new low of journalism. Zero facts, just hearsay from another source that is probably PR campaign.
Simple: The change in gravity is so small that it is not physically perceptible by the human nervous system.
I think it requires a "head" to record. But the generated scripts can then be run headless.
There's likely to be effectively the same law in the US sooner or later
Yep. It's the same performance ceiling. Borrow checking is not the panacea its made out to be. It's just enforcing single ownership.

What part of scanning through some immutable array of bytes to-be-parsed would be so definitively better in Rust?

Any sensibly written parser code would result in the compiler optimizing away all reference count operations. Only the most naive ARC implementations mutate the count for every reference pass implied by the source.

So again... why would it be a sensible choice to use Rust at Apple, where they created and use Swift heavily? Where the problem is that they're using some old unsafe parsing library instead of one written in a safer language?
Or not working with insurers at all. SF general chose to be out of network with all insurance providers which led to patients getting astronomical bills. SF has other hospitals, but SFGH is the only trauma center in town. If you're injured in a auto collision you'll end up there whether you want to or not.
Ex-deli/pizza shop worker here, you can leave it all at the store when you leave. Your slicer will not send you a message at 2am that everything is burning.

For some people, server jobs are a between what they're doing. Especially for artists/filmmakers it's money between the gigs that don't pay. I met tons of people as a barista doing exactly that.

Worked through college, and yes conditions need to be better overall. A concern would be if it's now a FT 40h something or other, it squeezes out people who take 6 months making coffee to get to their next acting gig. Also, barista jobs are a dime a dozen once you make some friends. Very easy to get rehired, people talk.
That reminds me, I really need to watch Pink Flamingos by John Waters.
I applaud your current open-mindedness, although your past open-mindedness could have used a tweak.

If you are serious about looking into meditation further, read Sam Harris’ book Waking Up. Sam Harris is about as far from a “woo-woo bullshit” practitioner as you can get. He was one of the leaders of the New Atheist movement, and has a PhD in neuroscience.
It's funny how bashing on "Big Tech" became fashionable, especially using anti-trust laws. But looking at healthcare, it's cartels, price gouging and rackets all the way down, from hospital construction, insurance to medical residents quotas.

I guess they must have better lobbyists than "Big Tech"!
You don't hand configure VMs, just like you don't hand configure containers.

You use packer and vagrant for that, and you bump base image versions, just like in Dockerfiles.
> So, not like a book, where if you have the physical copy you can generally read it

So like an ebook then. We don't have a good distinction in English between a) medium-length arrangement of words and punctuation and b) book.
>Its hilarious that you don't read the article to realize the comment is wrong

Sure, if you take the article at face value. The key argument seems to be "more than half of hospitality workers who've quit said no amount of pay would get them to return". On the surface that might suggest that people are getting out for non-monetary reasons (ie. not related to pandemic relief), I'm skeptical whether that's actually the case. It's easy to tell yourself and the pollster that "no amount of pay" would make you go back when the government has been paying you unemployment for the last 16 months. When unemployment ends and the bills pile up, I suspect a good chunk of them would eventually go back.
If you see the same people every day, it can become natural to treat them as coworkers rather than staff.

Treating people well starts with paying them well, but has to continue with respecting them.
your wallet == a BTC address, not the software or hardware you create or access it with
I'm 40+ spent a lot of time stressed out about work, family, etc. Rather than go the medication route, I decided to try to just find ways to calm and de-stress myself. Certainly exercise works to some extent. But I also learned meditation.

I'm not interested in any religious aspects of it, I don't pay any money towards it. I believe I started by reading a book on how to do it, then listened to some guided audio on what I was supposed to do. With that knowledge I was able to continue on my own.

Specifically, my mind would tend to get stuck in loops of problems or worries, especially right before bed. What I really learned from doing this is that I would consciously reset my mind back to the present once it started going down these loops about the past or future. I do this for about 10-20 minutes before bed so that I can sleep without my mind racing and keeping me up. Even now I've noticed I don't have to do it as much or for as long when I do because I've learned to control my thoughts a lot better when I need to.

I know meditation goes much further beyond this (as outlined in the article), but just having this level of skill is very valuable if you have this type or racing mind. I very much differentiate between meditation as a skill and meditation as a way of life. The skill part is valuable for anyone.
Everything has a down side. Exercise is the most helpful thing you can do for your health, but you can break your leg running... or even die of a heart attack while running.

This is a great article to highlight how little most people think about what the "healthy" amount of meditation is and how to know if you're over doing it or are suffering an injury from it.