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Here is a perfect problem with crypto: people understand just enough tech or economics to be dangerous, and not enough to truly understand the system.

This is of course absolutely not how things work. The risk isn’t with the dollar holders in the banking scenario because a dollar isn’t backed - it doesn’t need to be backed. This is the essence of fiat currency.

The risk is with depositors (creditors), and as you say they do not value their deposits at 8 cents on the dollar just because that’s what capital reserve ratios are. We have tons of regulation and insurance and centuries of mistakes that have led to the current system. But your argument conflates one core thing: assets vs liabilities. The dollars that banks lend are real dollars, and the people who receive those dollars don’t care what the bank’s financial health is. That’s because the dollars they receive in a loan are liabilities, whereas when people receive Tether, it’s an asset. Let’s explore…

People don’t deposit dollars in banks, and receive a certificate of deposit and use that in lieu of dollars. This is what is happening with Tether. Tether doesn’t take USD deposits and turn around and issue USD loans, it takes USD deposits and issues USDT certificates of deposit, which the market trades at par with USD.

This difference is crucial though. Banks are fundamentally limited in the number of loans they can make versus the amount of deposits they hold. So they might be overlevered, but borrowers don’t worry about the dollars they receive being fake. And if the bank collapses, who cares, I’m a debtor, not a creditor. Reserve ratios matter to creditors, and don’t impact the legitimacy of any loans of they’ve made.

Tether on the other hand takes deposits and issues certificates of deposit that they call USDT and claim are redeemable for one USD. These then trade on the open market as fungible USD. The problem is that this makes USDT holders creditors, whereas in the bank example USD holders are debtors. So this means as a creditor the solvency of the issuing institution is of paramount importance. If Tether implodes, USDT are worthless, just like if a bank implodes, its certificates of deposit might be worthless (ignoring insurance). But in the bank scenario, the dollars that it loaned out aren’t worth any less.
"Triggernometry"? really?
You gained the suffering of dealing with split-brains in Consul and Vault ;-)
> Both are resolved so that you can have an SPA that basically starts out as an MPA and upgrades itself to an SPA, though it’s common for scripting to still be required where it shouldn’t be.

Yuh, I guess my disconnect is that I tend to avoid sites that don't work at all without JS. I'm willing to enable JS if I care about the site (and it at least renders something without JS), but I'm not prepared to drop my pants for some random sales site that gives me a white screen if JS is disabled - someone else gets my business.
There is a difference in someone collecting some stamps or cards and then reselling them later in live. And someone hooking a ipad game to a crypto coin which can be directly exchanged to USD.

One is a casual thing people do and another directly links you playing a game to generating income. You farming your virtual garden for gems every 15 mins which can be translated to USD over time is a impact on society, and not a positive one. Random guy collecting stamps on their spare time is not. And once that happens you'll have people playing 24 hours and setting up all kinds of scams. At some point politicians will get involved and treat it as a threat, thereby banning it. It's a hypothesis and nothing more, but I wouldn't be surprised if it happened.
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I think the screen is what I look for the most. Its specs needed to be <15", >1080p resolution, >95% DCI-P3 color gamut, prefer OLED, prefer touch-enabled

Also mattering was lightweight and easy to travel with (including power supply), respectable battery life, >=16GB RAM, processor preferring performance over price, Thunderbolt or USB4

In a different world, I would want something from an OEM with Linux focus, Coreboot, and repairable, but the screens on all of those machines are trash. Last year I picked up a ASUS Zenbook Flip and slapped NixOS on it. My only complaint is that the body isn’t very rigid and got crack in the glass (not over the display) when my bag fell from a shitty bathroom stall hook.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/08/covid-19-...
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The glass back of a phone needs to be thicker than an aluminum back for equivalent strength. It wouldn’t be much width, but modern cellphone batteries are thin.

Going beyond that for the camera on the other hand would add more bulk.
The point isn't money, it's market share and monopoly. Then money flows on its own.
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The compiler can figure it out. But that doesn't solve the problem constexpr was created for. Without constexpr compile time evaluation becomes very brittle. Constexpr is there to help the compiler and developer reach an understanding of the stuff that has to be evaluated at compile time.
I call bullshit. Your source doesn’t address the efficacy decrease at all.

Yes, there are lasting changes from the vaccine, no that doesn’t indicate much about level of protection.

I definitely would never get a flu shot with its ridiculous efficacy numbers. If you forced me to get it to remain a part of society it would require my resistance by any means.

If you didn’t respond like an asshole id give you a couple sources. But, bullshit and all.
A beautiful UI that comes out of the box that I don't have to spend hours tinkering to get it just right. A Unix-like kernel (WSL2 comes pretty close). Not too bulky.

That realistically only leaves me with MacBook Pros.
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> I could possibly be convinced otherwise if the trackpad is particularly good.

Genuine question: what about Macbook trackpads? We have a MBP 2013, and it runs leaps and bounds over my Windows laptop which came out in the same year. I'm not sure if other laptops have caught up with Apple yet, but Macbook trackpads are commonly referred to as the best in the business.
I was a Lead Dev for EA Sports for a while. The obsessed gamers will locate your email and/or phone and harass you, accusing of some personal conspiracy to ruin the game for them, or some other convoluted nonsense. It was surprising at first, and then a deluge of harassment. One of the many, many reasons I left that corrupt to the core shit show of an industry.
> If Steam were to disappear you could easily un-steam your games.

Speaking as someone who actually does this (because I despise the Steam client), it’s not easy. Different games need different Steam emulators to work, and titles that seem to run initially will break in weird ways mid-game.
> Before thinking of improving specific skills, just being able to be focused and working without distraction all day every day would be an order-of-magnitude improvement for me.

I solved this problem by going to a psychiatrist, getting diagnosed with ADHD (at age 35), and starting medication.

Not an exaggeration—I struggled with compulsive video gaming for almost my entire life; now on medication that issue has just completely vanished.
Some other commenters have pointed out: huge difference between artificially mandating this sort of wage through legislation and a company deciding on their own to do so because of economics, generosity (such do exist, not all), etc.

It also ignores whether it is sustainable long term, and economic impact should it continue. For all we know, this could put the company out of business financially. I hope not, but it could. And, should it become a trend or government mandate, the impact on inflation and other economic factors is a question.

In the end, likely pros and cons, and hard to balance:
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55681
Can I drop it, that's number one for me over the years, imagine, your most important meeting, you need your laptop, you get there and it works, or it doesn't, the biggest factor out there in the 'real world' is can it handle real life, baggage gets thrown around without your choice, if it doesn't work when you need it then it doesn't matter how nice the keyboard is or the screen is :)
Which is especially hilarious in low-income countries like mine. The cheapest latest iPhone (I don't remember what the current number is) costs about 3 median monthly incomes. Most of the population cannot afford one, so what do you do? get a loan and pay in monthly installments until the next one comes out, of course.

This isn't a rare occurrence, I'd say ⅓ of my acquaintances do this. The power of marketing at its finest.
https://time.com/6092630/covid-19-vaccine-card-design/
A very interesting insight into management tactics that use woke policies a) as intimidation to suppress speech in general and b) to show that they are "doing something".

Especially widespread in U.S. corporations is the method of keeping employees in a state of perpetual uncertainty.

Given the background of Brin and Page, I would like to know what they think about white privilege in the Soviet Union before and after the collapse.

I'm also sure that a number of Swiss labor laws have been violated (is this kind of indoctrination legal in Switzerland)?
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> I don't think it's the fault of the streamers' fame as much as it is the broader gaming community's tolerance of people with absolutely no empathy, social skills or basic human decency[1].

What would you suggest they do? As long as you play games and post about them online you are a part of the gaming community, it doesn't have the power to exclude anyone.

The problem is just that you have a lot of very opinionated customers in gaming. Customer support hates opinionated customers in every field, not just games, they just have more of them in gaming, and even more the more "hardcore" gaming you get. There is nothing you can do about that, gaming as a medium has potential to create way stronger emotional connections than any other medium and the customer support woes scales directly with that. Games that creates less emotional connections has fewer issues as you say, but people who makes games people connect stronger with will always face issues. The Last of Us was one such game, people really connected with it and then when the sequel didn't turn out as they wanted a lot of people reacted extremely strongly. But the rest of the gaming community can't do anything about that, if a million gamers hated Niel Druckmann then they will post about it, create forums about it, and some of them will harass him, just like any other huge emotional mob.
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Maybe. It could be a fear of anybody who is talented enough and ambitious enough to potentially disrupt the pecking order within the company. Unfortunately, it feels like almost all the big companies are like this.
With Home-Manager (HM) you can "bake" your dot files into the config [1]. That means they are stored in your "generation" and then get symlinked to the right directory.

Either you write the dotfile directly in your config (Nix syntax) or you write the file like normal, and then tell HM to store it. I like the second version better, as I find it more natural.

The problem with the "baking" approach is that it is very annoying to do a small change to a config: you have to rebuild the system every time.

[1]: https://rycee.net/posts/2017-07-02-manage-your-home-with-nix...
I can't confirm in this specific case but, more often than not, the reason for these redundancies is a fraction of the committee felt uncomfortable with the implicit solution, so the keyword got added.
It feels like I have no laptop to choose form right now in the market, but here's what I'd like:

1. WiFi+Bluetooth and graphic cards which don't suck on Linux. No Broadcom or Nvidea.

2. Good body without any deck flex, and no flex in the trackpad either. Love the taptic keypads on macbooks.

3. Good power management. Since I expect to lose some battery performance running Linux, I'd prefer to have the laptop be slightly thicker rather than have a tiny battery backup. Also, S3 suspend.

3. Both USB-C and USB-A ports. Preferabel HDMI, full-size SD card reader too.

4. Upgradable RAM and SSD. This is a major one, as I've often doubled the life of my devices by increasing the memory a couple of years into the machine.

5. No 16:9 displays. Nope. Too tiny. At least 16:10. Never used 3:2 but shouldn't be too bad. And they should be able to get bright enough.
1. Hardware driver support in Linux/bsd. I’ll never suffer another broadcom wireless nic.

2. Accessibility of hardware. Is it easy to open and swap parts? Or do you need to dismantle the whole thing?

3. Availability of replacement parts, and history of availability. Ram/HDDs/NICs are universal. Screens, keyboards trackpads are not.

4. Runs off battery? Or adapter when plugged in. In a few years when the battery is toast, will this be a brick?

5. Everything else.
Until everyone stops buying it and it becomes a premium thing which the little man like myself simply cannot afford.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21074134-vaccine-car...
everyone talking about that stuff which not as much important. just play pokemon and chill. you can now generate random pokemon for fun . try your favorite pokemon.
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I recall using SLIRP back in the day with an dialup ISP that provided shell accounts in the base package, but charged extra for PPP (IIUC this was a fairly common business model). With SLIRP I was able to access internet directly from my PC without paying for PPP access.
Nice work. Thanks for releasing it as free software.

If I understand the design correctly, one can provide a custom argument parser by specializing lexical_cast?
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Yes.

Using NixOS as a personal desktop for doing development can take a lot of work. You can expect it to take more work than just making the same setup in Arch linux, or whatever.

My experience with Nix is that it's 95% wonderful, 5% very painful. -- Navigating the painful parts of Nix requires understanding what's going on with the Linux parts, with the Nix parts, and with the parts of whatever you're trying to do. (Whereas with other OSs, you can generally get by with copy-pasting from StackOverflow).

Especially given that Nix requires use of a pure functional language, and that there are few tools developers are willing to put effort in to learn, Nix really stands out as unfamiliar.
Why is that the case?
What bothers me about these discussions is that rarely does anyone present an argument for their own opinion.
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Will be starting as an M&A lawyer and especially now the volume of emails is massive. How is the best way you all have found to organize in outlook? As reference: usually there will be ~ 10 matters (deals) going on at the same time. Previous jobs have been mostly blue collar/physical labor so I don’t have much context on how to proceed.
The underlying assumption of all of modern cryptography is that one-way functions exist (implying P != NP), and further that the algorithms we use in practice are actually instances of these theoretically hard problems. So there provably always exists an algorithm that breaks any given PRNG, it will just always take you very long to compute and/or a lot of queries to the PRNG. ANNs are nothing special in that regard, they are just algorithms and have the same theoretical lower bound on their runtime.

So yes, an absurdly large ANN will break any PRNG, but so will other absurdly long-running algorithms, some of which are quite trivial: Just try every possible seed until you get the same sequence as what you observe, repeat until only one candidate seed is left.

EDIT: To add to this, you seem to be referring to the universal approximation theorems for ANNs. These theorems state that for any function (subject to some conditions not relevant here) and any arbitrary approximation ratio, there exists a finite ANN that approximates the function to within the desired approximation ratio. It says nothing about whether it's possible to train such an ANN, merely that it exists. Which in this case is a fairly trivial results, you could feasibly create a look-up table of PRNG sequences to seeds and encode that as an enormous ANN. But finding/training this ANN is prohibitively expensive.
I'm reminded of another story I read (probably on HN), where they showed architectural plans / designs from either 19th or early 20th century, from a time when houses where decorated with intricate stucco. The plans showed none of the beautiful stucco. The plans just showed the layout, and left the detailed design of the decoration to the craftsmen.

I think we often have it the wrong way around, nowadays. The project outline may specify to use Twitter bootstrap or Google material design (are those still a thing? It's been a while since I've done client work) but the important design, like UI flow etc is often left the implementor.

Then you end up with a crappy app that looks nice on screenshots, and people wonder why nobody lkkes it.
We're still talking about a few dozen kilobytes of data here. A dozen or so bytes worth of global state per player, up to 200 units per player with a few bytes worth of state (position, order, action, action target, hitpoints), maybe a hundred projectiles, order of 1000 static entities with just hitpoints.

Gotta keep in mind that these games were written in languages that did not have modern garbage collection, so almost certainly stored entity information in arrays to avoid heap fragmentation and malloc costs.

A few dozen Kb is far beyond what you can push over a modem in real time for sure, but memcpy:ing a couple of kilobytes' worth of arrays was still plenty fast in the late '90s/early 2000s.

They weren't running these games on a 6502.
The term "first world" comes from the separation of countries aligned with the USA (first world), the communist countries (second world) and whatever remained (third world). Its origins have little to do with wealth or social development.

South Africa and Morocco aren't exactly the wealthiest countries in the world, but they're still decidedly first world. Ireland and Sweden are third world countries, despite their relative wealth.

Now that the second world has mostly fallen or become capitalist, the term "third world" is often used to refer to developing nations (which is silly, as if not aligning with the USA inherently makes you poor) but its origins explicitly make it impossible for the USA to be part of anything other than the first world.

And let's be honest, even with its terrible labour laws, unmaintainable healthcare system, two-party political system and income inequality inequality, the USA is still far ahead of the developing nations people call "third world". Compare the poor American states to the poor European countries and the USA still comes out ahead on average. America is a country of extremes, where the rich are extremely rich and the poor are extremely poor, especially given the wealth that surrounds them. I'd much rather be homeless in Europe than be homeless in the USA, but being middle class in most of Europe leaves you more budget constrained than being middle class in much of the USA.
> In fact, he warned against the use of the surgeries at all because of the questionable results.

No. She said blocking puberty at the 1st visible signs had drawbacks for vaginoplasty later.[1] This isn't news to people in the field. Not blocking puberty has drawbacks too. Doctors, patients, and parents have to weigh the pros and cons.

[1] https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/top-trans-doctors-blow-the-...
The Mac version of Visual Studio is closer to a fork of MonoDevelop than mainline VS. Rider is a better experience than either though, IMO.
Or maybe there are few startups with real innovation that is safe from excessive competition, so now software has become merely a fashion as a substitute for innovation?
Most batteries on laptops are worn out by heat. They really do not like heat, but will take lots of it, when placed and used in unfavorable conditions, which most laptops probably are.
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1. 13" , 14" laptop

2. IPS matte good quality display with similar resolution to 2560x1440p, Superb colors and peak brightness.

3. At-least 32GB RAM but pref up-gradable RAM to 64GB

4. Linux full support, preferable AMD

5. Keyboard similar to old thinkpad 7 row style. General going back to retro style with proper keys, Topre switches or why not a mechanical keyboard if possible.

6. Trackpad of high quality. Atleast similar to Apple. Not seen any that have it yet on pc. If not possible, add a trackpoint and remove the trackpad.

7. Ports! Please have many ports. As many as possible.

8. Hardware quality. hinges, case and overall. Make it durable.

9. Battery time, make it last.

10. No spyware or bloatware. Published schematics of the laptop and help the open source community.

11. Good quality parts in chipset for wifi, bluetooth, sound. Latest AMD. Should not be a issue.

12. No intel inside stickers or other stickers on my laptop. If have to put a logo on it, make the logo very small and not in your face.

Okey, so what can i be without to make the above possible and

- No frills or extras.
- No touch display.
- Medium powered CPU. ( think road warrior not full fledged desktop replacement )
- No discrete GPU needed if it makes my laptop warmer, or make battery go down faster. Integrated GPU is "good enough"
- No need for fingerprint sensor, even if convenient.
- No magic bars or other innovation someone thought would be good.
- Weight and thickness is less important then manufactures seem to think. To a degree. Slim laptops get warmer, rather have it a bit ticket with more room for battery etc.

Do the basics correct. A modern take on the Thinkpad x220. Remove things that don't matter and make a classic awesome laptop for the ages.
I don't see why that would happen. ANC plays an inverted signal to counter noises. It's not just perception that it makes sound quieter. When the original sound wave and counter sound wave collide they physically cancel out.
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If you use your laptop near a power outlet a lot you might want to require it to have smart charging capability.
100% agree.

A lot of people asking for ARM based machines do not really realize that the reason is not because of ARM, but they just want faster/more efficient machines. I think to make a analogy for HN frontend sw devs, imagine a non-technical marketing person going to a developer and saying "I want this website in AMP, because AMP is fast.". And sure, a lot of sites with AMP framework are fast... but that doesn't mean that you have to build a site in AMP to make it fast. You could build a simple site with similar principles and get it fast too. Similarly, not all ARM laptops are fast. Even if the laptops hw is fast, you want something that can efficiently run x86 code as well for compatibility purposes for many years.
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Thanks. That makes a ton of sense now.
Wow that's a product name horribly prone to typo/auto-correct awkwardness.