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> So, it’s [Ethereum] a big operating system powered by crypto tokens, for the purpose of moving around… crypto tokens.

This is the thing that few authors understand about Ethereum. The main use case is creating new tokens and trading them, and this was clear from the beginning when Ethereum was created as an alternative way to do Bitcoin colored coins. This is not entirely useless. Speculation is a "use" after all.

But as the article lays out, such uses are likely to be dwarfed by uses around censorship-resistant base money. Especially with the ways in which the worlds major government-backed currencies have been weaponized.

> Ultimately, it partially depends on what governments want. Smart contract platforms with centralized attack surfaces can only exist at the pleasure of the government, so it comes down to how much regulatory crackdown they get vs how much regulatory approval they get.

Another point that authors seem to really not get. It's all memes and good times until governments discover there's a casino operating out back that's not paying tribute. We haven't so far seen the effect of a western government clamping down hard on this, but if it comes, it will come to "stable" coins first. And as the author notes, the probable success of such clamp downs positively correlates with the degree of centralization.

Many seem to have forgotten Liberty Reserve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Reserve

That precedent should give the oligarchs running a proof of stake chain such as Solana, or eventually Ethereum, reason for caution.
Also consider enabling S3 gateway endpoints:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/privatelink/vpce-gate...

That avoids paying NAT Gateway charges for traffic to S3 and in my testing also made a bit of a latency reduction, which came in handy once when I had a one-off data small file migration.
> and Nginx

Does nginx now have this too? I know Caddy and Traefik do.
> x86 code is never actually marked as executable from the CPU's point of view, since that CPU does not know how to execute x86 code. The pages which contain the translated code are, but those are not something the x86 code knows about.

No, pages and the executable bit are something that the processor knows about.
The only thing changing slower than expected is humans. We resist stopping digging and burning fossil fuels.

One thing we know reduces emissions and pollution: stop digging and burning fossil fuels. We're using every excuse not to. Everyone has their thing they want to do that delays capping the wells and closing the mines. Beyond overconsumption, we can't even talk about overpopulation without losing our shit (though a few people and nations have made great progress, see Mechai Viravaidya, for example).
98% seems like ireland & ireland alone has made gdpr impotent. glad to hear some outcry registered.

this problem with legalistic regionalism sure seems to keep reoccuring. certain texas court jurisdictions being ultra pro IP & pro business has been epic megascale dead rot eroding the mandate of law in America for decades, for another red hot example.

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/move-over-marshall-ther...
And I definitely agree about Stereophile. They tried to clean up their act in the latest years, but. They are just too tied down to those advertisers, to ever put on a hard stance. I don't take the magazine anymore. Highly recommend ALMA's Voice-Coil magazine still, if you want to read about the industry.
There are songs with billions of views on YouTube.

We are not that unique, some sounds tickle us all.
Dang. I had this image of Tut collecting all his old gum wrappers then fusing them in a hot fire.
>sign in was broken on Firefox, but worked on Chrome-like browsers

I've seen that, but it was related to hardware keys. If Firefox cannot be bothered to support keys, why should anyone be bothered by using it?

More importantly though, it seems like the whole world is in this mess, because browser developers develop monoliths. If the browsers were split into small reusable parts, any developer could assemble one, and there could be lots of competing parts. The number of available browsers would explode to infinity. Why is everything lumped under a single massive code base known as "Browser engine" like gecko or blink or whatever? Why do they keep making monoliths? There could be parser engine, css layout engine, svg render engine, etc etc etc. But there isn't, there's one giant lump, browser engine.

If anyone made a focused attempt at a new browser ecosystem, it seems like it should attack the glue layer between these disparate parts.
Honestly, I've become a bit scared of growth, as that just means more work, more responsibility, more hiring. Whatever happened to my nice little lifestyle business!!?!?
> Those things are clearly ~not~ universally seen as evil in the corporate world

I mean, we're getting pretty deep into the weeds of what we mean by, "seen as evil" or even "evil" at this point. Which is kinda what I was getting at. I think stealing is universally understood to be evil, even in the corporate world, but people will differ on what stealing actually is, or whether a particular act is stealing. A recent example that comes to mind is the Citibank/Revlon situation. I personally thought that was theft by Revlon, but there are a lot of people who see it another way. I understand that Revlon's employees did not view their behavior as evil, even if it seemed bad to me.

Nearly everyone is righteous in their own eyes. And adults understand this. That's part of why it's my view that most people will understand Google's former motto to not be inclusive of being an activist against Google's interests, even in morally ambiguous cases, and even after being asked not to. I don't really have any way to convey this more clearly, so I guess we'll have to let time, that great prover of claims, tell. Maybe I'm wrong and the court will hand these people a willion dollars. I don't think so.
What work was Google doing for CBP? I didn't see that mentioned.
Isn't the vast majority of the true problems caused by not enough supply of all KINDS of NEW housing being built to accompany both massive population growth (including immigrants in some areas), massive wealth increase among the global rich (who can now own multiple empty properties in marquee cities), landlords eating up more of your income AND in the US case government rules and regulations creating a predatory medical system that consumes over 18 percent of GDP.

In the 70s a blue collar worker could buy a house and look after their family. Now we have massive asset price inflation due to low interest rates and not enough growth in housing assets. This can lead to future social unrest on a massive scale (not just occasional riots/protests).
>> If they were in doubt, they could have asked.

Would the fact that they were disciplined repeatedly for their actions and told they were unacceptable be construed as guidance that they were out of line with the intent of "don't be evil"? It doesn't sound like they were fired on the spot but rather reprimanded on numerous occasions which Google most certainly documented. This would all be shared openly in a trial which would likely paint a pretty poor picture of the individuals.
Ah, that significantly reduces my distaste.
The GUI library that demo uses is pretty slick: https://github.com/pmndrs/leva
Feel free to reach out (email in profile) if you want to chat. I grew an e-commerce distributor to 8-digit revenue with in-house fulfillment and software development.

Edit to add: It can be such an isolating experience. We had no clue what we were doing half the time. Hard to find anyone willing to talk that had been through it.
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>I suppose the target groups of people studying his introductory book is not any random junior student at a random CS department

I have never understood this take on CLRS because I was basically this archetype - I went back to school for a MS in CS, at a mediocre state school, after a BS in math during which I never took a single programming class and my first algos class was out of CLRS. So I literally taught myself how to program the summer before by going through the Django tutorial and jumped straight into algos. I wasn't some kind of math genius either (or else I wouldn't have jumped ship after the BS). But there's not a single proof in the back that spans more than a page or two so I cannot fathom what people find difficult about digesting it. And the exercises are basically Leetcode problems, well known to everyone by now.

After many years of referring to the book over and over (during prep seasons for interviews) and helping other people through parts of it I think the reality is most CS students just don't understand that there's more to CS than JavaScript and Django and CLRS is a real shock more so than challenge.
What was not so nice about Apache?

Mentioning without context sounds like an emotional one.
Is federal obscenity law enforced? I doubt it can be enforced either, with the decision in Reno v. ACLU that struck down similar provisions of the Communications Decency Act as violating the First Amendment.

> If it's illegal to posses something, the government can ban offering to sell and distribute it.

This is begging the question, because first you would have to show that banning the mere possession of adversarial images doesn't violate the First Amendment. Otherwise you can make it illegal to possess books in a way to prevent the sale and distribution of literature.
good for you! what kind of thing are you selling? how much expertise did you have in it before?
Sure, but how many bits of information are in those modifiers you mentioned? Maybe you can modulate it in 200 different ways?

Surely way less than in the actual sentence, since you have millions of different posibilities for the words: go/store/soda
You need to turn off news notifications
> the industry trying to

Perhaps, but the Frontline episode didn't play like an industry point of view. It was pretty anti-industry.

Aviation Week is more of a pro-industry publication, and their coverage of the MAX seemed pretty even-handed to me.

Cars are designed for people who don't read the manual. Airplanes cannot be that way, but I get the feeling that non-aviation people expect this to be possible. An airplane cannot just pull over and call AAA.
I've observed similar things as a musician who plays an amplified instrument. I'm also quite curious about the inner workings of gear, and am a measurement scientist by day.

I think there's a social custom in the community, that relates to "you can be your own expert." That is, opinions are weighted by some function other than technical knowledge and expertise, such as status as a musician, enthusiasm, cost of equipment owned, etc. Nobody wants to come out and say: "You're imagining things." Technical discussions often erupt into flame wars.

And there are some areas where things are probably measurably different, and it boils down to taste, but the measurements are hard to do. I can hear differences between the two instruments that I own. Does that mean I'm bonkers?

At the same time, engineers who aren't immersed in this field tend to be polarized into two extremes: Some are audiophiles. Others simply dismiss everything as audiophile nonsense.
thats what a small business is, just making ends meet. world over. same story. its where a decent lunch comes from.
I host my own recipes in txt format... but of course it doesn't automatically order the ingredients
Have you ever considered the alternative to "allowing your workers to be exploited"? Should China have gone the way of Africa instead? Would that have led to better outcomes for the Chinese people? There is nothing better that can be done if you are already a victim of colonialism initially.
JDK is modular now and ecosystem is moving towards jlinked application. So no need for jdk on the target machine.
I’d recommend Terraform ahead of Cloudformation.

You can import resources into terraform, I’m not sure how much progress they’ve made in exporting configuration to match current state.

It is well worth the effort to get your infra codified. Makes additional changes trivial.
Right; "Modify the programming". I assure you that Rip lifts different now than he did 50 years ago.
> The retreat by much of the Right into localism or an exclusive focus on personal virtue is a tacit admission that individuals simply have to look out for themselves, an equally empty response

No you can't just take your ball and leave!
Zuckerberg by all accounts bullied Kevin Systrom out of the company and now it prompts you to sign in when trying to browse photos; doesn't seem independant
But for how long ?
There are many places in the US where a skilled blue collar worker can buy a house and look after a family. But HN users tend to have a distorted perspective since most of them live in the SF Bay Area and other expensive areas.
At last count there are 5 major operating systems with >100M users, how many are required in order for there to be "competition"?
Sell the excess business downstream :)
Despite being presented in language which suggests that this is somehow settled science, it's actually trivially false given the existence of obvious counterexamples, eg music which provokes an emotional response without any lyrics to be evaluated for truth, or music with lyrics in a language the listener doesn't speak and cannot evaluate the truth of. This is pure, unfounded speculation masquerading as insight.
or a normal progression to microtransactions to actually pay for content of value rather than let the msrket of doom scrolling and "engagement" dictate the hellscape that led to trump style media.

remember, 20 years ago they wanted microtransactions to enable content production. this coule of course be done in a open way, but the idea that this is worse than the current landscape of abhorrent conspiracy fueled hate med8a parade is silly.
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I agree, and both have their place. But I would argue that some underlying concepts are the same.
Indeed, without a good audio reference it might be difficult to tell if the additional harmonics on a note played by a violin are the result of harmonic distortion or simply a more "harmonically rich" violin.
Gotta love how they categorize this as "machine" right after listing every single imaginable characteristic of living beings.
Even if you give up the JIT, Apple will still not allow your custom browser on iOS.
Have you talked to an angry redneck in a dank pub ? He'll do the same. And not just him, but whomever is expected to speak but has no high value things to add, and is a little bit dumb/drunk to count how many times he said something and stop at 3.

Maybe information, to be interesting to us, has to be novel, while GPT-3 may not model for listener's interest (like you when you re drunk) and only produces the best it can express in a given input context ? And sometimes, maybe repeating 34 times the same thing is good if no new input changes the fundamentals, just not very interesting for a signal dampener like our brain who starts losing focus when novelty disappears from the signal?

It s like imagine a political debate around building a bridge between a truck driver who wants to go faster and a bird watcher who wants birds to keep their habitat close to his home. There's no input that can change the fundamentals and it would be expected that after a few loops, no brain could find anything to add and just repeat forever the same thing: but the birds must be close to me or I lose my life's meaning, but the bridge must be built there or I cant optimize my route. The only thing we do is put a time stop and say "ok we got it, now everyone in the public can map their own constraint to the discussion and vote".
Maybe a red flag came up when checking references?
We’re just outsourcing our pollution.
> One of my biggest complaints about internet health and fitness discourse is how much it exaggerated the time commitment for exercising.

Also exaggerating how much of a chore it is. Find an activity you like and it will never be hard to stay active. Of my 5 favorite things to do, 3-4 are different physical activites.
Plex also phones home, I thought. I could never understand why anyone uses it. What is wrong with mplayer running purely on a local client?
or produce content people actually find valuable and ensue the decades long desire tomactually pay for valuable information, rather than swim in bullshit and pretend quantity will just "bubble up"
My rephrase of a key take-away point: As long as the underlying incentives remain misaligned, individual policy changes aimed to disrupt the competition landscape across the board would inevitably play the whack-a-mole game.
I'm defining feminism, as defined in literature such as _Feminism is for Everybody_. It's a pretty objective definition, as these are the grounding principles of the movement.

> feminism as a movement isn't really for equality, they say they are but they aren't really or else those wouldn't get accepted in the movement

You keep bringing this up, but you haven't provided proof. Whereas people blaming women (instead of cultural sexism as a whole that's practiced by both men and women, and therefore the target of feminism) for their problems has plenty of proof in the comments here.

To be fair, there are people who call themselves feminists while being toxic, such as Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists. Mainstream feminism decries these groups, as evidenced by the backlash against J.K. Rowling. This kind of exclusionary behavior is _not_ acceptable.

And finally, if you believe in equality, then let's champion it. Even if you believe that women are making it hard for you, positively commend those who are behaving in an equitable way, and the same for men who are behavior in an equitable way. _We_ get to decide how the world should be. Let's make it happen!
> What operator would you have used?

Qt does it right: fluent-style interface which does string interpolation.
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When the distro updates Firefox out from underneath it Firefox's options are; crash because API call does not match, detect the API incompatibility and prompt the user to do a clean restart, or spend a monumental amount of engineering work to maintain API compatibility while running mixed Gecko versions.

Using the Mozilla build in /opt, the Snap [1] or Flatpack [2] versions will avoid the distro updating Firefox out from underneath it.

[1] https://snapcraft.io/firefox
[2] https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.mozilla.firefox
Jack Dorsey did something similar too to Noah Glass which doesn't get talked about much:

https://youtu.be/p8N0xN0ihMA
I believe the part in quotes (that include master) is a reference to a scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail[0]. In this case, master refers to Guy de Lombard[1].

While the OP may not contribute to deeper discourse on the topic I believe it does point out an issue with press releases vs the research proper. Most often I prefer the research paper to the PR. Then again, in this case, the paper link is right there at the beginning of the second sentence.

If there were a takeaway, it might be something like "submit the research link rather than the press release.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYcopzJ-T9w

[1] http://www.mit.edu/afs.new/sipb/user/ayshames/Python/FRENCH....
I've been mostly successful in removing likes from people I'm following by using (on the desktop) the ... > I'm not interested in this tweet > show fewer likes from X. Though sometime likes reappear and I have to reload the page once or twice to get a chronological timeline. Though that doesn't do anything about retweets.
I bought a 55" Sceptre 4k "dumb" TV about 2 years ago still works great, bought it directly from manufacturer website. Only manufacturer I could find making them other than some outdoor tvs (not recommended for indoor viewing use). Monitors could be viable but pricing goes up steeply with size of course. Downside with Sceptre is their website is out of stock at moment, I've heard that Walmart in some areas carries them occasionally on their website / in stores dependent on what part of country your in, just gotta keep looking. Buyer beware though if you get one, you will want to pickup a set of speakers or sound system as speakers are usable but tinny.
It’s certainly possible to offer as much as possible. The question is how much is possible?
If housing were the problem you wouldn't see parallels in other countries that have vastly different housing landscapes.

Big societal problems don't have one simple solution because if they did they'd be solved and they wouldn't be big societal problems.
i specifically used 'progressivism' rather than 'progressive' to avoid that exact identity issue. identifying with an ideology, particularly with an amorphous one, devolves into tribalism and partisanship.

progressivism in US politics is largely defined by mediopolitical interests anyway so it's entirely detached from any principled stance. Democrats now tend to use this term because 'liberal' has gone out of fashion, so they co-opted another term that had less existing baggage. for politicians and political parties, principles are simply tools to be wielded and bent in the service of power, not the other way around. that's why there's no agreed-upon definition.

but none of this has to matter at all for the majority of voters who have little power outside of their tiny vote. if such voters would stop identifying with ideologies, parties, and especially politicians (and ignore media who push this upon us), we'd actually collectively have more sway over the platforms they ran on, because we'd be resistant to being railroaded mindlessly into sets of policy positions shaped by more highly motivated (but numerically tiny) moneyed interests. we'd make amassing and deploying power harder that way.
> In particular, people never musicalize conversational speech.

An incredibly wrongheaded assertion made without a lick of evidence.
Coincides with the rise of the FIRE movement as well.

It appears that humans want to not subject themselves to endless politics and meaningless bureaucracy in corporations. Given a choice, people want to live and die with dignity.
I wholeheartedly agree with this. I ended up starting my own sound company to help lessen the divide between engineering and the end-user, where I get to go out and try and use our products for a number of real shows every year. But it's not really the same issue, as the non-sense the pervades in the audiophile industry.

In my typical setup, I try and work as a stage hand, and let normal FOH and monitor engineers work with the products, where I can observe all the issues that crop up. That way I can get clean feedback from band members, and production staff without, being tainted by association with the brand.
Again, C++ solves problems it itself created.
More to the point, I’ve had trouble using Siri to speak in certain titles in iBooks on iOS. It would drop words or entire sentences or paragraphs. It was unusable for those titles. Not sure if it was bad OCR on the source file or what. I haven’t tried it on titles purchased from Apple, so I can’t speak to that.
Given how easy it is to lose a job if the demand for work dries up, it seems rational to switch to selling work on your own terms.

At least while the market is good.