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Prefer the hackerly style of quotation punctuation: the period ends the sentence:

> Dr. Johnson kicked a large rock and said, as his foot rebounded, “I refute it thus”.

This is one big sentence which contains an embedded quote. The period ends that big sentence.

The quote contains a complete sentence. Therefore, arguably, it deserves its own period.

> Dr. Johnson kicked a large rock and said, as his foot rebounded, “I refute it thus.”.

So this matter revolves around the idea that we want only one period, and so the question is which of these two periods do we elide.

I'm arguing that if we are going to elide, the one we should elide is the inner one, because it's of less importance. Eliding the outer one leaves the entire sentence unterminated, whereas the quote is obviously terminated by the closing quote.

(What is the sentence period for? It's for indicating where sentences end, so that the reader doesn't get confused parsing the end of one sentence together with the start of the next one. A closing quote has a solid end indicator already.)

If there are multiple quoted sentences, then those except the last preserve their terminating punctuator:

> Dr. Johnson kicked a large rock and said, as his foot rebounded, “How shall I refute it? Ah, I refute it thus”.

What if the quoted sentence ends in a terminator different from the one of the embedding clause? Then we cannot elide either one:

> Dr. Johnson kicked a large rock and said, as his foot rebounded, “How shall I refute it?”.

Except if the inner one is a period. We can establish the convention that a missing punctuator inside a quote is an implied period (if the quote is obviously a complete clause):

> Did Dr. Johnson really say “I refute it thus”?

Something like that. We should strive, in some halfway rational way, not to leave the overall sentence without terminating punctuation.

(I do not agree that .". has a redundant period. Two different sentences are ending, using their own punctuation marks which are not related, and could potentially be different. I agree that it's ugly. Eliding the inner period is not the same as eliminating it; we are making it implied. Something implied is still semantically there, just not as a visible syntactic token.)

Note that whatever." does not indicate the end of a sentence; it can plausibly continue:

> Dr. Johnson said "I refute it thus." and kicked the rock.

As soon as we have additional words after the quote, we have two periods unless we elide one. In this case, we definitely must not elide the one after "rock". Whereas eliding the quoted one according to the hackerly style leaves a clean result:

> Dr. Johnson said "I refute it thus" and kicked the rock.
Not too different from my grandfather: As a farmer, he gave everything to his first son and retired at 70. And worked well into his 80ies…

Clearly it wasn’t for money. I would say our sense of purpose was built into us for years. His wife built the stone stairs leading to the main door, 3 months before dying. Brave people from ancient times.
Because you’re clearly the one risking being around a bunch of sick people all the time.

You should probably avoid the grocery store too.
Those people might appear healthy but under the surface they’re just dirty people trying to get everyone sick.

Really we should lock up the unvaccinated until they get with the program.
My point is, the service simply hosts HTML, ostensibly this is the same as any consumer web host. So whatever attack vector you can think of exists on Dreamhost or Godaddy pages, for instance.
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Thanks, I think I understand now. I thought there was a distinction between the mathematical idea of what computation is, and the engineering we've invented to implement that computation, and so I didn't really get the significance/literalness of what you were saying about mechanization.

It does seem weird to me though that we're letting our engineering limitations determine how we think about these things mathematically.
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You hit the nail on the head - this type of problems is exactly what we try to solve. Someone like N26 would ofc be a dream customer. If there are any N26 employees here, hit us up ;)
What would be the problem with gitlab.com/index.html username? There's no rule that a web server must serve up index.html from some /public/ folder just because that's the URL. This screams poor engineering to me.
Alloy wheels don't need to flex, though. If a rock wedges into nooks and crannies of this, perhaps it could mess up the performance. And perhaps it could cause damage since you'd have a harder material (rock) rubbing against a softer one (rubbery airless tire stuff).
Perhaps analyze for the combination of dogs + poop? The dog probability will be transient/a spike, whereas the poop probability will be constant (after appearance of the dog).
There's RGB which is built on Bitcoin Lightning Network. [0] It's not ready for use yet.

[0] https://www.rgbfaq.com/what-is-rgb
I completely understand avoiding Facebook; I haven't deleted my account yet, but I've been off it for the past year and a half. I also understand it not being your choice for a people meeting platform. But there is such a variety of users there - I think it's a bit silly for you to think that there's no one there you'd be willing to befriend on Facebook.
> Facebook is also specifically used in countries to rally violence against ethnic minorities.

If you banned all accounts from these countries you know what they would do? Switch to something else and keep doing the same thing. It's a cultural problem.

> In addition, Arab spring isn’t even a positive example. What have the aftermaths of that been?

Before the people had dictatorships and a rotten culture. Now they only have a rotten culture. Social networking can't fix every issues...
That's fantastic, I miss those ideas and tools. Modern computers are boring, sterile and devoid of humour.

I mean it's actually useful, a little overkill perhaps, but then again so is mounting Raspberry Pis on everything. Perhaps I'm just getting old, but computers aren't as fun as they used to be, and while much software is of lower quality, it's also much more complex.
Yes, racism is sadly very real, it is based on perceived ingroup/outgroup differences and as such is only one of such ideologies (I come from a territory where people used to kill each other if they belonged to different branches of christianity, or later if they belonged to different nationality). They are all based on false beliefs and propagated by people who are trying to profit from hate and conflict.
The name “Bib mousse” was created by Michelin - Bib is short for Bibendum, which is the name of the Michelin man, and mousse is French for foam.
"If you go parachuting,
and your parachute doesn’t open,
and you friends are all watching you fall,
I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming."

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>How do we know what GDP would have done if Hacker News didn't get markdown?

We do not, but that's not the purpose of a prediction market.

The purpose of the market is not to prove that the change caused the result, but to choose the best path forward in a world of uncertainty.

You don't have to have a perfect crystal ball to make useful predictions about the future. Yes, sometimes a black swan event will cause a "good" prediction to not pan out, but on average if you can make better-than-chance predictions about the future and policies based on those predictions will personally gain predictors value, then people are incentivized to make good predictions on average.

Just like someone who can count cards won't win every blackjack hand, if they play for long enough, they are a favorite.
> She said that’s because the company’s workforce has many people in the 18 to 24 age range, which she said is more likely than other age groups to claim work-related musculoskeletal injuries.

> Interesting if true since I would expect the opposite.

Hypothetically, I can imagine that older workers (who potentially have a harder time finding employment) under-report their own injuries, given at-will employment.
It is of course intended for use cases where your real identity is needed, e.g. bank account opening, self-checkin for hotels and airlines
Criminal charges can end in fines and no jail time. Prosecutors can negotiate plea deals (including fines) to avoid going to court.

I don't know enough to comment on if this is something that happens often (it certainly doesn't feel appropriate) in cases like this.
Under ITAR you can't even sell your own submarine props to foreign countries, even if you were never exposed to classified designs, right? That's why ITAR originally applied to PGP.
Fawlty Towers ran for two series, but your point remains.
Basically, all interpunction characters have started as "some guy's opinion".

All graphemes for the characters, too.

I know the "rules", but I've been also intentionally writing it in what I refer to as "functional style", e.g.:

"""
Greg's reaction was "But what of the otters?!".
Mary's "Nobody cares about otters!" was received with a stunned shock.
Joseph calmly said "I'm ambivalent.".
But Ophelia just "didn't care".

After hearing about the whole ordeal, Mary's brother was livid: "«Nobody cares about otters!»?! She's a bloody otterologist!"... and then he visibly shook, and his face blanked as he slowly collapsed into his armchair, looking broken, repeatingly mumbling to himself "Illogical... illogical...".

"""

First three are verbatim restated statements; fourth is a partial and/or summary statement (no quoted punctuation); fifth is a very complex example (and a long [but fully functional!] sentence.

We also need light-, mid-, heavy-strength commas. :p
I was going to leave a comment complimenting you on your awesome HN username, but I try not to go off on too many tangents.

However, I notice you have exactly 1337 karma right now. So the combination of hunter2 + 1337 is too irresistible not to mention. :) https://i.imgur.com/PM1T8DM.jpg

(It's strange that http://bash.org/?244321 "only" has ~40k upvotes. I remember upvoting it when I was in high school, and it still seems to be working today, so you'd think a famous bash.org quote would accumulate more than a mildly popular Reddit post worth of upvotes...)

Anyway, have a great week!
Is there an intro you can recommend? I’ve never heard of CP, would love to read about it.
The significant result would be a multiway-graph that represents say the evolution of electron in a vacuum. He has not got this result yet. I think he started down this path to try to further physics by going beyond traditional analytical mathematics.
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Big tech never had that power versus advertisers. There's no possible scenario where major mass market advertisers like Coca-Cola or Toyota would ever tolerate having their ads displayed on highly offensive content, like say a Facebook group for white supremacists. If the social media companies hadn't imposed stricter content censorship then the advertisers would have simply dropped those channels to protect their brand images.
Why not just write thoughts on notion?
What seems to be missed here is that the constitution is a inherently conservative entity. Not in the sense of ‘right wing’, but in the sense of conserving certain principles of governance and the relationship between the government and the people.
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I think that's why we're on here so much.
It's open source. If you are capable of making such decisions on encryption with founded confidence you can also vendor the library and adapt it.

The reality is most developers (almost every developer I know) won't spend particularly much time on deciding settings for encryption - and honestly if they spent 10x the amount they did doing research they would still only base their opinions on things they find online like blog posts (not mathematics or government whitepapers).

I don't believe the approach is bad. It doesn't take the ability away from you to choose. It just adds a hurdle (vendoring the library), which imo stops a lot of bad decisions from overconfident developers.

[edit]: typo
You mean, "typograhicl redunat".
You're just being argumentative. You know the answer.
How would you verify there are no logs kept?
It occurs to me that the opposite of this would be a "Lunar Crater Laser Weapon on the Near-Side of the Moon" used to terrorize the population.
> Because the most important attributes are very hard to gauge and almost impossible to prove — Grit, dedication, responsibility, excellence and loyalty.

Devils advocate- isn't this a bit like arguing peanut butter shouldn't be uniformly priced, but you ought to negotiate the price of every jar based on various attributes of the farm where the peanuts were grown: soil acidity, use of pesticides, as well as farmers grit and dedication? A jar is a jar, and ideally, a job is a job. An employee can either do the job, and be paid what it says on the can, or they cannot do the job and have to be transitioned out.

Sure, jars come in different sizes and brands, but we should stop pretending each job is bespoke when employee organizations function on the basis of them being similar, empirically workers are replaceable.

My biggest problem is information asymmetry: even if I were to accept your argument at face value (that important attributes are hard to gauge); the employee has much less knowledge on how much they ought to be paid for their skill-level, but the employer will have that information up the wazoo (both internally, and through industry surveys and back-channels)
I think there have always been powerful people that feel this way, in all countries. The problem is thinking it's something new or unique to here, which leads one to think it can be solved if we just look for what changed to make them that way.

No. They've always been there, they've always acted this way. It's not a problem because of increasing lack of patriotism, or a divided populace, it's just power and greed and people that see themselves as not beholden to to any one state. Thinking it's something it's not will just lead to proposed solutions that don't actually do much to affect the problem. Any solution needs to be internalized and divorced from the idea that this is a recent problem that we can stop caring about once we "solve" it.
Oddly enough, in financial markets people do not rely on self-correction for manipulation, but rather there is a tendency for it to be illegal. Market manipulation is in general not believed to make markets more accurate.

Any kind of the suggested self correction here relies on the other traders having sufficient funds/capital/risk taking capacity to overcome the manipulator and to coordinate their views to some extent. In the CEO example, how would other traders even now that the CEO was making the bet? What if some other informed party made that bet? In small, open, and rather serene settings that might work out, but in a real market with fast movements, market makers, etc.?
I'm in the same boat. Though I actually do trust my VPN provider Mullvad. Highly talked about, based in Switzerland, and Mozilla also uses them for their VPN service.

Edit: Sorry. Not Switzerland. Sweden. For some reason thought Switzerland.
But then you have to trust that the VPN service is built and operated the way they say it is.

Or have we already forgot about Zoom's "end-to-end encryption?"
I tested the water during late Spring and early Summer. I didn't find it to be harder, but the processes got longer. I find the interviewers and companies are far more "arrogant" than the last time I job hunted (2018). I pretty much stop any interview process that requires take home exam, or more than 5 rounds of interviews. I got a couple of offers, but the experiences with them were so bad that I told them no. I can't imagine working with people that behave the way they did.
I think it goes without saying that pricing is negotiable with high volumes. This is the starting price for self-service with 0 commitment
Hi, Atomist co-founder here. We developed a feature that checks if a pull request introduces _new_ critical vulnerabilities in order to catch them before they get merged and deployed. Emphasis is on "new" vulnerabilities added in the PR, not pre-existing vulnerabilities.

This is for AppSec and security-minded engineers who want to make sure things don't get worse, but also don't want to block shipping because of existing vulnerabilities.

It's in early access mode. We're interested in feedback on this approach to preventing new vulnerabilities.

You'll need a personal GitHub account and a Docker Hub account to try it out.
It's a SOAP so flush down the toilet should do the trick.
400 series codes are for client errors. 500 series codes are for server errors.
It's not just tax optimization. One of the key differences between the two are that buybacks reduce the supply of the stock. As there are now more buybacks than there are new stock issuance in dollars, this means that stocks are a depreciating asset. Any argument made of depreciating currencies like the during the gold standard or Bitcoin today is equally valid towards stocks when buybacks are allowed.

> doing investments with the money

They are induced into doing so. If their competitor is doing tax arbitrage, they have to in order to compete. It's actually much worse than it seems, as investors mostly invest through index funds now. If you buyback your stock, this increases your market cap and more index funds will buy your stock, pushing prices up further. If you don't buyback your own stock with debt, the index funds will sell your stock to buy the stock of companies that do. Virtuous and vicious cycles that end with only buyback companies surviving.

The volume of buybacks and indexing is such that smart money who calculate companies values through what they actually do has no chance to move the needle, and thus smart money is reduced into betting which company will do buybacks. There's no price discovery anymore.

> they have borrowed

This is just interest rate arbitrage. The Fed has set rates at an artificially low number, and as such there are benefits to these corporations taking out as much as they can to simply buyback their stock.
Yes, while you don't get such extreme drops, surge can drop from 1.6x to 1.4x by crossing the street if you're in the right place, which can save quite a bit on a longer journey.
He refused concede the election like he was supposed to, and continued to question the validity of mail in ballots and challenge the election results.
Probably not after he found out the military was going to fumigate him out.
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I hope spring moves to compile time di like quarkus and ajave inject instead of scanning the classpath at runtime.
I don’t see you answering the question. You don’t propose any mechanism for rating productivity, and you come up with some potential problems.

> Developers aren’t really that different from bakers.

I suspect very few people would agree with this.

Only with an answer to this question does what you have argued so far apply to knowledge work.
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Jürgen Schmidhuber forging on in his never-ending quest to slay historical misattributions and generally right all wrongs.

We can count ourselves lucky this time: at least, the topic isn't himself.

On a positive note, he can't be accused of being inconsistent.
I came here to say this. Best podcast ever btw.
One nit: You're not comparing the top 1% of physical strength men to the top 1% of physically attractive women. You're comparing them to the top 1% of models. That's not apples to apples.
So Wolfram has initiated two of the four scientific paradigms
I find most offensive that someone can decide what to do with my money, or make international commitments for future fiscal spending even though the amount or anything else for that matter (including benefits) is completely unknown and there's absolutely no recourse for getting my money back in the case the plan doesn't work.

Does anyone but public governments make spending decisions like that?
I really don't think deferred prosecution is warranted here, this should have been a plea deal. I'm ambiguous on whether or not these guys should serve jail time, but they deserve a criminal conviction and a criminal record.
Efficient way to buy crypto without KYC?!
Hey, I'm looking to buy crypto and keep myself anonymous, what is the best way to do it? if i try to buy throw a wallet it requires me an email and after that some personal information.
anyone is familiar with a way that could be helpful to buy crypto and stay anonymous? ( no ATMs)
Couldn't agree more. Debugger support in modern codebases has become a huge after-thought which is such a shame.

It is an amazing way to discover how a codebase works. You pick a point of interest, and then you get the entire path from the beginning of the app's execution to that point as your stack trace, and every variable along the way too. Watches are great too for tracking a value changing over time.

Micro-services and Docker also took debugging many steps backwards - one advantage of a monolith is that you can easily step-through the entire execution, whereas if you have to cross process-boundaries it becomes a lot more complex to properly debug.

I'm working on a monorepo template at the moment where everything is debuggable with a single-click. This includes debugging native addons in C++ and Rust for Node.js projects. It's not easy - which is why people avoid debuggers so much.

I recently setup debugging in a Rust project for IntelliJ was the alternative was adding `dbg()!` statements which involved 10s recomplilation. The difficulty was implementing the right pretty-printers in lldb so you could see the value of various types because support is quite immature at the moment.
This has changed over time. In early computing, the people mentioned were Eckert and Mauchley, who designed the ENIAC, and von Neumann, who figured out how a practical CPU should be organized. Also Shannon, who figured out that relays basically did Boolean algebra and could be analyzed formally.

Bletchley Park work was still classified in those days, so not much was known about that. Much to the annoyance of Tony Flowers, who built the Colossus code-breaking machine but couldn't mention it in post-war job-hunting. (Incidentally, Colossus was not a general-purpose computer. It was a key-tester, like a Bitcoin miner ASIC.)

As I've pointed out before, the big problem was memory. IBM had electronic addition and multiplication, with tubes, in test before WWII. But the memory situation was really bad. Two tubes per bit. Or electromagnetic relays. Or electromechanical counter wheels, IBM's mainstay in the tabulator era. To store N bits, you had to build at least N somethings. Babbage's Analytical Engine called for a memory of a ring of rows of counter wheels, a mechanism the size of a locomotive. Access time would have been seconds.

Much of early computing was about kludges to get some kind of memory. The "Manchester Baby" had a CRT-based memory, the Williams tube. That was the first computer to actually run a program stored in memory. Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn, and Geoff Tootill, 1948.

After that, everybody got in on the act. Mercury tanks and long metal rods were built. Really slow, and the whole memory has to go past for each read, so twice the memory means twice the access time. Then there were magnetic drum machines. Magnetic tape. Finally, magnetic cores. At last, random access, but a million dollars a megabyte as late as 1970. Memory was a choice between really expensive and really slow well into the 1980s.

Turing was involved with one of the early machines, Pilot ACE/ACE. But he quit before it was finished.
If you’ve got blood and urine handy, you have water. If you have water, you don’t need blood and urine.

Now using the fluids of the deceased, that’s a plan!