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When people call investments a ponzi scheme, they implicitly discount the fact that said investment is _producing_ extra stuff.

A real ponzi scheme is one which is not producing stuff, but requires new investment to pay out old investors.

Stocks are not ponzi schemes, because a stock does not require a new investor, because the company behind the stock is earning profit. A new investor is willing to buy the old stock for a higher price than originally sold, because the company is making more money (and is expected to make even more in the future).
So why do we repay the debt at all?
> Would definitely like to hear more about their dev environment, how it is different from prod, and how they handle the differences.

It's honestly quite boringly similar (hence why it's only vaguely alluded to in the article)

Take out DDoS-Guard/External LBs (no need for publicness of it), pick a cheap-o cloud provider to get niceties like quick rebuilding with Terraform etc, slap a VPC-like thing to make it a similar private network (do use a different subnet so copypasting typos across dev and prod are impossible) and scale down everything (ES node has 8 CPUs and 24GB ram in prod? It will have to do with 2vCPUs and 2GB RAM in dev)

One of the annoying things is you do want to test the replicated/distributed nature of things, so you can't just throw everything on a single-instance-single-host because it's dev, otherwise you miss out on a lot of the configuration being properly tested, which ends up a bit costlier than necessary
This is very cool. This will make scraping the web even easier!
Check if your PC has TPM 2.0 compatible with Windows 11
How to tell if pc has tpm 2.0 compatible with Windows 11 requirements.

Windows 11 requires TPM 2.0 or it will not install. Other software vendors might follow Microsoft allowing only their software to run only on tmp 2.0 enabled computers. Secure boot and TPM 2.0 might soon become a requirement for many programs.

TPM 2.0 stands for Trusted Platform Module 2.0 and the tpm chip can be used for encryption and the BitLocker.
Perhaps this could lead to less political polarisation and extremism? Perhaps Western society could come to terms with the idea that an observation of the state of the universe might not necessarily imply some kind of political or moral position? That is at least what I'm hoping for.
>Math notation is very consistent and it’s optimized for convenience.

Hard disagree. The most important thing I learned is that it is all made up on the spot to the point that the lecture material explicitly says that books have used 6 different forms of notation for the exact same concept. When you understand that you drop any pretense of "design" in the notation. That helps you abandon foolish ideas that it is "consistent" and that the only thing it is optimized for is the author. When you understand that then it's just a meaningless barrier to overcome but it also becomes easy to overcome precisely because it is that trivial. You just get used to it and e.g. learn the alphabets of the dozen languages (including klingon because the lecturer had to make that joke) from which the variable names where sourced from. Once you did the meaningless grind the barriers are gone.

> People who complain about notation usually actually have problem with the substance, and the complaints about notation is just a coping mechanism, to deny hurtful reality that one can’t understand something hard, blaming external factors instead.

No it is quite simple. You can't understand an easy or hard concept if you can't read it. I still remember how I understood nothing in the first semester. Then when I was preparing for the exam everything was extremely easy because the notation was understood by that point.

>If you have some concrete suggestions about mathematical notation, ways it could be improved in more than superficial manner, I (and the rest of mathematical community) is very much open to hear them.

As I already said that is meaningless because there is no universal notation. "The mathematical community" will adopt a fraction of proposals and further splinter into separate "factions".
Should be HQ . . .
Your GP didn't just mention Rust, they also mentioned C# and Java, so when your parent refers to GC the more charitable interpretation is that they were using C# or Java and responding to that part of the message.
CBC is pretty much obsolete. Modern TLS uses CTR based ciphers (AES-GCM or ChaCha-Poly1304). CTR can be more efficient than CBC, because encryption can be parallelized, while CBC has no advantages over CBC for this use-case.
Call it "hq".
How does the NFT thing work? I do not have Polygon tokens but I wonder what have you envisioned as the functionality of this to be?
when you "contribute" bricks to a house you don't get to come back later to reclaim "your" bricks
I was able to get one recently from one of their authorized resellers, albeit at a bit of a premium.
I think number of features have little to do with the situation.

Nowadays, everybody insists on putting stuff on K8s regardless of how large or small it is.

An application is an application for the purpose of running it on a server. It doesn't really matter how much functionality it has.

It is microservices "revolution" (quotes intentionally) that caused larger applications to be split a lot of small ones and complicated the execution environment to the point that a lot of people spend a lot of time just trying to figure out how to run their applications reliably.

That is not necessary.

If you can have multiple microservices, more likely than not you can have them as separate libraries used by single application or a separate modules of a single application. Just make sure to put the same thought into modularizing it as you would designing microservices APIs and you can have the same but much easier and with much better performance (no serialization/deserialization, no network hops, no HTTP stack, no auth, etc.)
A Poly1305 tag every few 64 kilobytes. An encrypted chunk in age is thus 64 KiB + 16 bytes.
I think you are mixing two different points.

1) Of course indexes are biased. Lots of good reasons for that as you point out.

2) But that makes indexes unrepresentative of average returns. Average returns include all caps, or a good estimate could be had from a random selection, weighted by their individual caps (as you correctly point out).

(That is what it means to have an unbiased estimate of total returns on total cap of all companies. An accurate estimate cannot have biases: not a bias toward smaller companies simply because there are more of them, nor biased toward large companies, as most indexes do.)
Since it was for a ETHGlobal hackathon I thought it would be fun to experiment with the feature where we mint an NFT where the metadata points to the IPFS link. You could then do whatever you do with an NFT.
The Chekhov's gun and why life isn't as simple as tech blogs and books tell us
>You can't pay your groceries by taking a loan from yourself,

pay using credit card and then repay the the cc (with interest) over the next few months / years.
Hmm, my Firefox here on Ubuntu does not trust that CA for some reason. And clicking "Accept the risk and continue" seems to just land me back at the "Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead" page.
> I wonder what sorts of social media we'd see if it wasn't dependent on selling ads.

This is why I got interested in Gemini. It's a modern take on Gopher and the network already has a lot of folks posting content and sharing ideas completely free of the normal commercial goals you see on most http sites. I even made a small Twitter clone, Station, which has about 260 users right now. If you're a Gemini user, come hang out: gemini://station.martinrue.com
The language of marketing is so imprecise as to be almost meaningless
It is for many of us, but we're more than willing to accept that our lifetimes are not a useful yardstick for what was "long ago" ;)
A browser is an application, one of which you can have multiple versions installed (even so modern OS vendors try to prevent that). If the system default browser in Android/iOS has a vulnerability, that should be patched. No one forces you to install the latest version of that browser as a security mitigation.
I think only www.xirva.org has valid certificate, maybe Firefox strips the www for some reason.
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https://www.danielgm.net/cc/
It's a point cloud editor, bit of a learning curve, but imports and exports wide range of formats, and will work fast on huge files.
>E[X] notation,

Sorry, but I didn't learn E[X] notation. I learned E{X} notation. Notations aren't even consistent across the lectures I have attended.
> from obese tendency

Which should make you rather skeptical of inferring just how innate IQ really is (assuming it's a valid concept).

The heritability correlations for obesity are only slightly weaker than IQ. Yet we know for a fact the logical complexity of losing weight is simple (doesn't mean it's easy). Anyone can and people do lose weight, even if statistically it may be rather unlikely.

It's completely plausible to me that intelligence can be simple but hard to increase too.

If it's not a statistical anomaly and the genes truly do contribute to obesity, the causation must be very indirect and situational.
Your solution still answers the wrong question and even results in a contradiction: the initial statement was "say there's a [power] saving of 2W." Your conclusion would be that there's a power saving of 0.167W, which in incoherent with the initial assumption.

Context is very important.
> Forget not having a great gender ratio, it is often hard to find a lot of candidates for my openings.

Is your company paying a reasonable rate? I know a few people looking for entry level jobs in tech and they have trouble getting callbacks
That may be in terms of managing general security, especially with regards to the attack surface of the solution, but here we are talking about DDoS, which is mostly a separate topic and handled on the network level (for volumetric attacks) and load-balancer level (for non-volumetric attacks) or a combination of both.
Was gonna day exactly this.
YouTube venced is amazing.
In the Marvel Dr Strange movie, the Master was converted from the Tibetan of the source text specifically to accommodate China.
that's fine. Maybe then for a better user experience have grey-out or removed the IPFS download button for the articles that haven't been uploaded yet.
Exactly. That twitter thread is just pure rage based on no data. Sum up resources from that page - we are talking around 6500GB* of RAM worth of servers. That is no homelab.

* Maybe a bit more/less, because it's not clear to me if DB RAM is per server, or per cluster. Likely server, as on other servers. There is also no data on how big is their haproxy.
> ...but as a former math educator my experience also indicates some people are genetically limited in mathematics.

You sequenced the genomes of your students and correlated their performance against their genes?
The problem with the C64 (and the Amiga later) was that it had games which depended on the exact timing and other details of the hardware, so it was hard to create a downward compatible improved system. Arguably Commodore also wasn't really interested in that - the Amiga certainly had a window of opportunity to survive as a platform, but when Commodore decided to invest into new models, it was too little too late...
> Thought experiment: English Prime but also excluding any constructs expressing intentionality.

I like this idea of a "deterministic" language. In fact it reminds me of Nonviolent Communication, and is probably a good tactic for discussions that might otherwise devolve into personal attacks.
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You ignore the weight of requests and general situation of this project. This is not your average mommy-blog whose does not care much how many downtimes it has. This is a website with illegal content, under constant attack, with a some pretty dynamic content on top and likely the main goal to satisfy their community. So most of their budget will go to security and redundancy, to protect themselves and allowing a high uptime.

Where you can use 1 server, they will need to have something around 20 servers. Where you can use a cheap VPS provider, they must use an expensive shady provider who will take the heat of legal attacks. And so on and on... because of their situation they have a bunch more requirements which eat their budget than your average website, leading to a rather heavy, complex and thus expensive architecture.

Surely there is still room for optimization, but it seems this is a rather new redesign from scratch(?), so not details need time.
I once met someone that (allegedly?) ran a poker bot ring in the mid-late 2000's. The basic idea was that you get as many bots per table as you can and share information between them. Suddenly you have much more information about the cards in play and it significantly increases your chances of winning. No machine learning back then, just pure stats and a set of rules to follow on how to play vs chance of winning. You didn't care which bot won since you could equalize stack sizes as soon as the human player folded.

I think back in those days, the poker companies didn't care too much since they were happy collecting fees from bots passing chips back and forth. I'm assuming now days it's different. I also don't know how true it was, since it was a random drunk guy in a bar, but it passed my sniff-test and he was buying beers so I didn't care too much.
I'm surprised it hasn't been brought up: Those people might just be shy.

When I was younger, some of my friends had problems keeping eye contact (both with guys and especially with women) and instead they were naturally inclined to look down or scan our surroundings. That was before everyone started carrying phones around, so maybe that "shyness" behavior has just shifted from looking down to looking down on your phone.
In fairness, living longer has both positive and negative effects. So it's understandable why some people would complain about it.
Perhaps I was being a little dismissive but it doesn’t have the same features of something like Facebook or LinkedIn or google
My favourite example of confusing notation that nobody seems to have fixed is conventional current flow being the wrong way around.

Admittedly, that's from physics, so we can't really blame mathematicians for it.
Well, I’ll be damned. Apparently the famous product designer I borrowed the “fact” from also mentioned the quote was “dubiously” attributed to Henry Ford.

I believe my point still stands, but yes it was incorrect of me to use the quote as if Henry Ford said it.
> why not just default to armored?

I assume this is because the author really does not want people to use age to encrypt e-mail because e-mail encryption is hopelessly and unfixably broken. By making armored not be the default, it's an extra little thorn in the side.
There's some intelligence difference between population groups, let's say Group A and Group B. Lets say that Group B is measured to be on average 5p more intelligent based on whatever arbitrary measure we took.

The debate here is about whether we should try to change the environment in such way that Group A and Group B would be more similar. We know that Group A in general has poorer environment however there's an argument that improving those conditions won't bring Group A to Group B level anyway since it's mostly genetical. Progressives want to change the environment, conservatives think it's a futile effort.

How would you determine in the following scenario whether levelling the playing field would cause the averages to be the same? Would 70-80% imply that, yes, it's likely and under what circumstances?

If the variance for a single person's measurement could be around 40p, then if genetics is causing 75% of it, then it would be responsible for 30p of that and environment 10p, then can we deduce that Group A given similar environment would actually be 5p higher in intelligence?

In this case while genetics describe 75% of the variance, environment is still enough to make naturally more gifted group less successful. So without knowing the other variables the 70-80% is still not meaningful.
EE programs tend to focus on electronics, not electrical systems. But learning how house wiring works is a simple book away. But be careful - unlike electronics, house electrics can kill you.

On the other hand, electricians have weird gaps in their knowledge. If I ask them to do something slightly out of the ordinary, this becomes apparent. For example, none of them understand inductive coupling, or even know what it is. When I ask them to do certain things to avoid inductive coupling, they give me this indulgent smile, and do what I ask, although it's clear they don't understand why.

I eventually wound up doing the low voltage wiring myself, because I simply couldn't explain to them why you don't run low voltage wires through the same holes as the A/C wires. One of them tried to run a 12VDC wire in 25 feet of conduit with a 120VAC wire.

They also simply did not understand how generators worked, and botched up the wiring for mine.

It's the same with roofers. They have no idea what galvanic corrosion is, and will invariably use the wrong nails for anything metal.
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Careful with such “obvious statements “. Chewing gum is illegal in Singapore with an exception for therapeutic, dental, and nicotine chewing gum, which can be bought from a doctor or registered pharmacist.

The answer is “it depends”.
From examples, this is only like jq in the sense that the q stands for the same thing. Even the way it does that is different.

An xmlq that was really like jq would be fun, about 20 years ago.
I wonder how much information do you get from arxiv regarding the dependency graph via citations. Could there be a way that I, as I upload my own manuscript, to tip the authors of the people I citated and conversely someday have the possibility of also generating revenue personally as such? It would be much nicer, I think, if the fees that are currently paid to journals to instead go to the authors that also contributed to my work.
You must have bad information because FAANG companies compete over hiring black software engineers. They want to get their numbers up and there aren’t many to hire.
Nevertheless, it is true that Stack Overflow has focused on backend performance and scaled vertically a long way, further than is fashionable. Just not so far as only using two servers for everything.
The challenge is going to kick off with a live launch event at 6pm UTC on Zig SHOWTIME [1] this Saturday, featuring special interviews with Brian Oki, who pioneered consensus through his Viewstamped Replication dissertation in 1988, and James Cowling, who revised the protocol in 2012 (and who was also part of some incredible storage infrastructure at Dropbox called Magic Pocket).

Above all, we want to pay tribute to the protocol and to the people who designed and revised it, with the spotlight on Turing Award-winner Barbara Liskov, the person at the center throughout the history of VSR.

Hope to see you there, as together we see Viewstamped Replication Made Famous!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jlikdtm4OA
> The gov't owing it to a department is the same obligation as owing it to a foreign entity (or a domestic, private entity for that matter).

No, it isn't. Sorry, but this just isn't up for debate.
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Banks can and do rollback fraud and theft in most cases; that’s the advantage of working in a system supported by law and regulation. The alternative is trusting that every component in your crypto tech stack has perfect security (which is impossible) or else risk losing all your money in a manner that can’t be reversed. I’ll choose banks, thanks.
If you trust your guests - or have trustworthy friends over - there's nothing wrong with playing a video game or going to sleep before the party is over. I did that on a few parties which I hosted in university and I don't think anyone had strong feelings about it. I mean they still have each other to party so one guy less isn't much of an issue.
Can second this recommendation. We're running OpenShift and Nomad clusters - the former makes my eyes bleed, and the latter I can mostly get my head around. (Note that I'm not involved in operating either of those platforms.)

You'll still get layer-upon-layer of abstraction - for example Consul for key-value and service discovery, Traefik for load balancing, Terraform to build up the service discovery rules, etc - but it feels somewhat more intentful, less boilerplate.
I couldn't agree more on an individual level.

These difference in distribution though start to appear when you do statistics. And often an extreme percentile is used as a measure of whether there is discrimination (top engineer at google, board member at an international company, olympians). And it only takes minor differences in distributions (mean, standard deviation) to have big differences on such extreme percentiles.
Retail shops have to deal with similar. Basically they used you as a rental service, but used ebay's policies to force it through.

When I worked retail, we used to get people buying cameras or lenses and using them for a weekend, then returning them under the 7-day "no quibble" refund policy.

It wasn't uncommon for a camera or lens to come back with 10,000 shots taken. Best we could do with them is clean them up and sell them on as refurbished. A few went back to the manufacturer and came back as "factory refurbished".
Apple is becoming like Bentley (or similar higher-end car manufacturer), where the improvement is not in the feature but in the overall package. In other words, the package you get is the feature.

Some improvements like fit & finish, tolerances, endurance, so on are not visible on paper. Others like battery life and weight are visible on paper. When these combine with the xOS (where x={mac, i, iPad, tv}) ecosystem, whole thing becomes visible or palpable, one may say.

It's not an ubiquitous thing to have in technology space, and only possible with tight integration Apple provides, and strives to keep.
And FTP for putting your PHP scripts into production.
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Knowing how much storage an app uses, or how much battery power an app uses isn't relevant to users or developers?

Have you heard of mobile computing? Of course people care.
> Phone numbers are becoming increasingly useless.

What living in a bubble looks like...
And yet the main point stand : they don't need K8s to manage this application running on 23 servers.
Plenty of that misinformation is being swallowed and spread by people who went to college, so it's not clear that helped.
There are for sure interesting ideas related to new forms of scientific funding. The issue I have and why the project is currently on standby is how to combat spam/hoax articles
This argument is nonsense
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That was my point. Physical bills are not debt - everything else is!

Update for clarification - initial response was a bit flippant and not very well considered... Technically phyisical bills ARE debt (they are a liability of the central bank, after all) but they don't _behave_ like debt because they yield 0%.