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> The whole point is that you're allowed to move, manage, and spend your assets as you see fit, without any government's ability to freeze your assets or block you from accessing financial services via sanctions

That’s a selling point advanced by crypto advocates.

Frankly, it’s ok to make that point. What is not ok is pretending that crypto isn’t also a high risk environment full of scams.

I’m not trying to police anything. I can’t stop crypto advocates claiming it’s a good place for regular people to invest.
Well I hope the bill for legal services is as well received by Teixeira as he claims the unknowing participants are receiving his "research"
I think a low effort, high value step in the usability direction of a REPL is cargo-script

I've written some on it [0] and there was a recent reddit thread discussing it [1]

[0] https://epage.github.io/blog/2021/09/learning-rust/

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/rddokp/media_most_up_...
I go to a lot of classical concerts here in the Twin Cities, MN, and the audience basically gives a standing ovation every time. I don't mind it. I'd much rather be part of an enthused, appreciative audience who celebrate the incredibly hard work it takes to get to the point of these performance (literal decades of practice).
Wo dude, not at all. But you are literally saying exactly what my gramps used to say "but you are wrong." I figured his brane was too old to tell me why I was wrong. Computers are really fast now. Why cant they just give the answer right away?
"I have never in my life length matched the two lines of a differential pair, including at 10 GHz. Never." - Rick Hartley

https://youtu.be/QG0Apol-oj0?t=2765
In the U.S. the issue isn't a taxable event, as in a gift. The issue is 'independent' contractors working on equipment supplied by their 'client'. This is one of several tests the IRS can use to reclassify them as an employee for tax purposes.

This tends to be more of an issue for solo contractors rather than contract houses as the IRS tends to look the other way on most of the larger contracting outfits.
That's an interesting read, and I personally am a fan of Scott's somewhat radical views on college education in America, but surely you recognize that you are directly side-stepping the question? The problem at hand here is not about "how to decide who to get into undergrad", it's "how to decide who to train for the 'elite' jobs in society".
I'm not aware of any significant cultural test bias (which I'll define as differential prediction).
Light is slow, not exactly 1 foot per nanosecond but it's a reasonable mnemonic. Think about that, if you had an optical cable running a reasonable (these days) 40 Gbits/second link and it's 3 feet long, that's 120 bits in transit from end to end at any given moment. And that's if it is optical and ignoring the slightly slower speed of lighit in glass; any sort of actual wire is slower.

For a transmission line i.e. one limited by distributed inductance and capacitance, the standard practice is to drive a powerful transient into one end, which then travels along the wire, switching any receivers along the way, and then absorb it in a termination resistor at the other end so it doesn't bounce back and glitch the receivers on the return trip. Again you have to consider an actual traveling wave; there's no such thing as "instant" on a wire of any length.
Yeah, that's very outdated and no longer the case. The tooling has improved a lot the last few years (I was there!).

Today you would install 'ghcup', which manages compilers and build tools. Default installation includes the compiler (GHC) and build tool (cabal). Then you create a folder, run 'cabal init', add 'websockets' to your '.cabal' file ('build-depends'), and you're good to go (run 'cabal build/run'). I think it's pretty reasonable now, far better than other alternatives.
Reminder that the cloud is just someone else's computer.
I assume that is their main database for everything, not just for pub/sub. One of the big benefits of doing it that way is that you have proper transaction handling across jobs and their related data.
Serious question: why should academic institutions be held to a higher standard than commercial ones? Google and Facebook, to just name two, routinely perform human subject research without informed consent as a matter of course. That's what A/B testing is. Ethically speaking the fine print in the ToS obviously isn't actually informed consent, even if the law says it is.

I don't see why being a for-profit company should somehow lower the ethical bar.
Sure but if both parties freely decide to engage in this time money trad what do you propose to do?

Do we want some congressional committee to sit around and decide which jobs are bullshit? I sure don't.

It turns out the Nash equilibrium of the world is that some people have jobs that seem silly on the surface but end up being the optimal move for everyone involved. Out of all the problems in the world this seems like a weird one to fixate on.
Plus IconFactory would absolutely have contacts over on that side.
Enlightened middle way: Custom software keyboard configuration that works with any keyboard and that doesn’t have to solve invented problems like “No man there is no Home key why would you need that just use this QMK module bro and—”

I am intrigued by your key chords though. You can’t get key chords like that with a stock keyboard. Does it rely on the key-up event to distinguish between “cv” (one keychord” and “c” and “v” (separate)? Or does it rely on timeouts?
Glad they got rid of this but legacy admissions are alive and well.
This regulation explicitly tasks everyone with responsibilities. The human consequences of those tasks are something we each simply have to be aware of as citizens. I like this study because it renders the obligation explicit, and it raises awareness of the society we are building. It should happen with all regulation.
I'd love to see this guys Twitter feed, DMs, and email inbox right now. How many death threats do you think he's gotten? What's the over/under? 5?
Not having an opinion on everything feels great. probably because it’s much more “human” than constantly having to engage with everything all the time.
> they're beyond what a fact checker--or anyone else--can help

I'd disagree. I think a literal huge 'satire' flag on the post would help.
Normally syntactic sugar is fine and has a near-zero cost, but in this case I don't think that's actually true.

Given the way hooks are structured, if I want to use both `setState` and `extendState` in a `useCallback`, I'd need to pass both to the dependency array, which is just extra effort (which defeats the purpose of the syntactic sugar imo).
Every bit helps, right? Even if you're using retrorockets by the time you're that low, atmospheric drag should still be helping.
What about perf counters for these things? Some did exist. My i7-4770K has many not present on newer models, especially in regards to uncore dram control.

Did they get removed or are they just not populated in the perf binding for the kernel?
Beyond pedantic. Very few people are in positions of legitimate control in early stage situations. It is generally good advice to not give more than you are worth.
For me it looks even worse. Netflix, instead of creating civil lawsuit against this guy, that they would have to pay for, silently bribed the right people in the justice system to charge him with some crime instead. This way Netflix punishes the man that did them dirty without paying a cent of their taxed legal money.

Instead now every taxpayer pays for salaries of prosecutors and judges and whoever else is necessary to help one corporation exact a little vengeance.
People say "I'm from Texas, not the US" all the time and no one cares.
In the same way that Uber is just someone else's car.
Engula is a serverless storage engine that aims to help users build reliable and cost-effective databases.

The idea comes from that when you want to build a serverless database, you have to build the storage engine from nearly scratch now. For example, CockroachDB and Pebble, TiDB and TiKV, etc. We're aimed at an adaptive storage engine that can be adapted to different workload.

We have published a design document[1] to introduce concepts and architecture.

Engula 0.2 comes with one engine and three kernels:

* A hash engine that supports simple key-value operations.

* A memory kernel that stores everything in memory.

* A file kernel that stores everything in local files.

* A gRPC kernel that stores data in remote gRPC servers.

The release is a join force of our community. Welcome to the discussion forum[2] and share your thoughts. A contributing guide[3] is present describing how the community works.

[1] https://github.com/engula/engula/blob/main/docs/design.md

[2] https://github.com/engula/engula/discussions

[3] https://github.com/engula/engula/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
Closing my eyes on 2CB projected neon patterns like the geometric patterns you find on central Asian mosques. It was incredible and I could really concentrate on the details.
Might be worth reaching out to Princeton's IRB?

https://undergraduateresearch.princeton.edu/compliance/human...
Under specs:

> Function Keys reside in new “Fn” Layer

> 10-Key resides in the traditional “Keypad” Layer
I guarantee you that they don't even know what all the information about you they have is and even if they wanted to they couldn't actually delete all of it because their systems have so many levels of redundancy to prevent data loss that even intentional deletion is impracticable, at least if you want it to be comprehensive.
Nothing in this change says that a kid like you wouldn't be able to get into Harvard under new policy. They won't REQUIRE SAT scores, they aren't saying they won't use them if you submit them.
If we found microscopic life forms in the water though, would we create a settlement or not? It would be so easy to contaminate stuff with a settlement there. I could see people pushing for it becoming a reservation, only to be studied from very far away using hyper-sterilized robots. At least for a while until we are sure we've exhaustively cataloged everything.

Finding life would be huge, we're not going to just go settle on top of it willy-nilly.
If you're willing to run your own instance, Pleroma is the way to go. Maybe Misskey, haven't tried yet. You can specify arbitrary (including one-way) federation and content propagation policies.

I'm also assuming that the support in server software for non-moderator users to have better control (assuming trust in the operator of course) will continue to improve over time.
Fair enough. I believe I can mitigate enough of these to continue the utility of password-protecting my keys, but I take your point.
Okay, part of the subject was "legal repercussions" and i thought it was related to that.
I can’t imagine that while the whole world moves towards merit-based university admission, the US moves away from it.
star wars is the quintessential example here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFMyMxMYDNk&ab_channel=Rocke...
I just hope there is some incentive for other researchers to not follow in this study's footsteps.
So then what do you make of the studies that show that SATs are culturally biased, like the one OP posted [1]. I decided to go ahead and buy it for the 10 bucks and review it. It's a surprisingly technical study that seems fairly robust and it has been replicated several times (original study in 2003 and replicated in 2010).

The findings are that much of the disparity between minorities and whites goes away for harder analogies that are more technical or scientific in nature, in fact contrary to what I expected, the recommendation of the study is to simply eliminate the bottom third of verbal questions (ranked by difficulty) involving analogies or sentence completion, as those are the questions that are most likely to involve cultural bias.

If my understanding is correct (and I'm sure I have some subtle details wrong), the idea is to let students take the SAT, then go over the verbal/analogy/sentence completion portion of the SAT and order each question by the proportion of white students who answered it correctly, and then eliminate the easiest of those questions from the final score. The most difficult questions are still part of the test, but apparently most of the cultural bias is among the easiest questions to answer that minorities get tripped up on.

If your hypothesis were true, that it's mostly a matter of bad parenting, it's kind of hard to see why bad parenting would make minorities struggle to answer the easiest questions for white people, but not also struggle to answer the hardest questions as well.

[1] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/06/21/new-evidence-...
TLDR: Veritasium is wrong and misleading, current actually flows in wires and is the main way energy is transported from source to the consumer, energy does not generally flow in the space "between" the wires.

Yes, very long wires behave like capacitors/antennas and transmit a certain amount of transient power instantly by coupling, but most useful energy is transferred after the speed of light delay, when steady state is achieved.

Nonetheless, by carefully selecting the AC frequency and the physical configuration of the lines, you can create a situation where most energy is transferred nearly instantly by the electromagnetic field and the far ends of the line are more or less irrelevant. So you obtain the Veritasium effect, but it's a very particular arrangement, not the general case.
And how many more kilotons of fossil fuels would we need to burn per year to make up for the loss in hydroelectric power those dams give us?
If electricity doesn't travel through wires, why do resistors dissipate heat?

I'm having trouble understanding what is even being claimed. Electrons are moving, without the movement of the electrons there is no electricity travel, without the wires there is no flow of electrons, so what does it mean to say that electricity doesn't travel through wires?

Is the claim just that the electricity, by way of fields, travels at a rate much faster than the electrons themselves are traveling? That seems like a reasonable claim. But "electricity doesn't travel through wires" seems rather suspect.
Well it is not really a war, so much as a rebalancing of power dynmics within Tradfi circles. You can look at the impact of computer on capital markets since the early eighties through the evolution of the social structure of investment banks labor force. It slowly became less and less blue blooded thanks to the need for quantitative skills.

But there was still a massive moat for institutions due to the need for trust, backed by a regulatory framework. And entrenched institutions means entrenched elite. What crypto provide is a temporary workaround for a faction of the financial elite to build rival institutions.

But the crucial thing is member of the new "crypto" elite are for the most part "junior" (in the status sense) members of the Tradfi elite. So for the rest of us peons, it will stay business as usual !
I had something similar but it was DMCA complaints for a forum I ran. I complied with the deletions but after a handful they just deleted my stuff. I moved to OVH. What a joke.
Is there a more up-to-date example? The SAT hasn't even had an analogy section at all since 2005.
Didn’t he represent himself on this?
Reviewer needs to lighten up. I'm the senior software engineer on a lot of reviews lately and I see a lot of things I wish were different -- but they're not important. I won't let _bad_ style stay, but if it's just personal preference and their way isn't actually _wrong_, I should let it go.
Learn How to Run Flutter Widget Tests as Integration Tests
Yes and the shoppers find one, the trend is that the unit they find and pick - no matter what the shopper lands on - was rented higher than the last time, because the landlord set it higher than the last time. This didn't have to occur, the landlord could have done the prior price, the lower price, even in the face of demand and people willing to close quickly at the new higher price.
Don't worry vfulco2, you've reached the front page of HN, the official support portal of Digital Ocean. Your account will be restored within two hours.
How does elimination of objective admissions criteria do anything other than increase accusations of bias?
I had a 3m ad a while ago where a mom takes her kid to the bus in the dark and pats him on the back where his backpack is, and its glowing- implying it is safe- the ad is like " at 3M we worry about how your kids backpack shines so you don't have to!"
Tritium. It shines from tritium.
One of the more infamous examples is Vincent Gallo's "The Brown Bunny". Roger Ebert panned it after its initial screening at Cannes, Gallo responded by wishing Ebert's colon cancer would relapse, and Ebert retorted by saying that his recent colonoscopy (in which Ebert was allowed to watch the footage of the medical camera as it progressed through his rectum) was more entertaining than "The Brown Bunny".

Gallo eventually went back into the editing room, and emerged with a new version of the movie. Ebert watched this new version, and afterwards was quoted as saying "It is said that editing is the soul of the cinema; in the case of "The Brown Bunny," it is its salvation."

Source- https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-brown-bunny-2004
I'm 19 now and sort of feel robbed. The first year if this thing, I remember being rushed home and thinking this would blow over in a week, then 2, then a month, then just settling into this perpetual feeling of melancholy while I missed prom, graduation, welcoming ceremonies at university and having to stay in a shitty hotel because of social distancing overflow. I generally have a numbness to this feeling of missing out and have realized that not having these moments will remove the romanticized feelings people often have for this time later in life. I've mainly used this time to do all of those side projects I never finished, plus some new things. So in short, I've grown in my knowledge, but have become more cynical to a fault
Woah, I thought it was just the support portal for Google
I'm a bit older than you and I agree with almost everything you said, but I would put the blame on people. I'm already tended to dismiss a huge portion of the population as dangerously stupid, but the epidemic made me realize that portion was even larger than I thought.
> I'm wondering how other providers handle that?

Depending on what you mean by "booted off", any and every reputable provider will do the same. They all have AUPs that allow them to stop routing for your, at a minimum, if you're found to be sourcing traffic that's against their AUP.

That's all normal. You can't expect a company to keep you online when you're causing problems for them and the rest of the internet, and their contracts/AUPs are all worded so they can take action if your systems are found to be a problem.

What can you do to prevent this? Don't let your systems be part of a botnet or get hacked in general. More feasibly, stay up to date on all security issues and take multiple system backups so if you have to restore from a good prior backup, if that's possible.

> I took more measures by now, but i think the actual culprit was a contractor that did some work for me.

Could be, but my guess is not. Botnets survive on having massive numbers of servers in them, and are often automated exploits. More likely, you were running some exploitable software, and it was exploited. Updates need to be run, daemons often need to be restarted after updates because of older code still running in memory, etc. And if you were running some CMS like Wordpress or Drupal, well if you aren't doing it yourself and keeping on top of updates and new versions, you either better have someone on retainer to do it for you or give up and do something else, because you're a perfect target for a botnet at that point because those generally have problems on a regular basis (as well as the problems introduced by different modules they each might support).
>illegal copying amd stealing ideas

I find the notion that ideas can be owned to be anti-humanist. We finally invent something that costs nothing to share or copy, and we immediately invent reasons why we can't.

Imaginary property was invented by and for lawyers.
I will also admit I gave up on it and frustration and didn't make it in the end. Maybe there was some magical nugget of wisdom on the last page.

Your evaluation seems fair to me but it's still not clear to me what he's saying should be done or even why this is a problem.

My suspicion is that people find it exciting to read a book with a curse word in the title that tells them they are right for hating their job
Please explain why this is unethical. The worst case is that you’re simply subject to the law. Presumably you’re abiding by the law. edit: I'm playing devil's advocate. I think the law sucks, the study is weird, and I empathize directly with the blog author. That said, downvoting to 'disagree' without explaining your reasoning is below the grade of this fine institution.
That appears to be a purely statistical argument - some questions appear to be disproportionately hard/easy for certain racial groups. That has some value, but it would be nice to see some concrete example(s) of how this bias is expressed.
That'll be irrelevant soon, thankfully.

https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/oculus-quest-2-headsets...
Support for external disks massively increases the attack surface of the security-sensitive iBoot bootloader, and anything messing with USB (nevermind Thunderbolt) is almost guaranteed to have exploitable attack surface. This was absolutely a technical decision. iBoot is a lot simpler not supporting external storage.

The SecureROM boots iBoot1 from NOR flash, then that has the SSD driver code. It would certainly be possible to add support for external storage, as long as it still fits in NOR. But I doubt they will.
Under that system a young German scientist who wrote about the photovoltaic effect would be ignored and classified as non-reputable. Just saying being part of the institutions doesn't make on right it makes one prominent.
Considering how little good software (or any software at all) is available on the Mac App Store, I would think Apple would be happy to accept mostly anything
There are countless options.

Another option is that both the EU and Putin know Russia does not have the conventional strength to attack the EU, but does have the manpower to attack other unaligned countries. And so, the EU has decided to prioritize their other interests over standing up to Russia.
> double/triple diversify between solar and wind

How would doubling / tripling help you when there is little wind and clouds for a few days?
I'm confused by the last paragraph, out of my own naïveté, do HKers 'identify' as 'Chinese' then, just not 'from China'?

I suppose it's not surprising when someone's when someone adopts their parents' culture etc. despite being born abroad (e.g. self-describing as Indian without being a citizen/born there) - so makes sense, I just hadn't realised.
Agreed. I’m especially disappointed with Veritasium because Derek’s originally PhD thesis was how these sort of “controversial,” clickbait-y popular science videos are actually really terrible at teaching anything.
Author of most opinionated framework writes opinion piece about not having opinions.
I'm 45 and even more contemptuous of my compatriots than I was before. I think it has further accelerated the potential collapse of the United States as a functioning state and find myself very alone between the people who want to deny reality about vaccines and the disease and the one hand and the others who refuse to hear anything except bad news.
If you would have told me 2 years ago we'd still be in this, I would have left the country and stayed.
I think the most interesting part is from 16:45 to 18:00