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Could you please explain why Interledger uses XRP in its marketing,[1] and why Interledger has a co-founder of Ripple (Chris/Christian Larsen, who was sued by the SEC in December 2020)[2] on its board of directors,[3] if Interledger doesn't have any connection to XRP?

[1] https://interledger.org/developer-tools/get-started/overview...: "Using Interledger, you can send XRP to someone who wants to receive ETH, or you can send USD to someone who wants to receive EUR."

[2] https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-338: "According to the SEC's complaint, Ripple; Christian Larsen, the company's co-founder, executive chairman of its board, and former CEO; and Bradley Garlinghouse, the company's current CEO, raised capital to finance the company's business. The complaint alleges that Ripple raised funds, beginning in 2013, through the sale of digital assets known as XRP in an unregistered securities offering to investors in the U.S. and worldwide. Ripple also allegedly distributed billions of XRP in exchange for non-cash consideration, such as labor and market-making services. According to the complaint, in addition to structuring and promoting the XRP sales used to finance the company's business, Larsen and Garlinghouse also effected personal unregistered sales of XRP totaling approximately $600 million. The complaint alleges that the defendants failed to register their offers and sales of XRP or satisfy any exemption from registration, in violation of the registration provisions of the federal securities laws."

[3] https://interledger.org/about-us/:
"Chris Larsen, Chairperson of Ripple"
Some NFT platforms use IPFS, which as I understand it is basically hash of the content plus a mechanism for finding it as long as someone keeps hosting it. Of all the things associated with web3, IPFS is the only thing I’ve found that I think is kinda neat.
> When you talk rent in London the first question asked tends to be "bills included?".

is this something new? i have been renting in London for almost a decade and I have never heard of a landlord or agency offer to pay my bills.
Lots of downvotes but no counter argument? Please HN, let us do the right thing by disagreeing by argument rather than downvoting someone into oblivion. The only reason I value HN is that it (generally) is open to debate without taking hardline positions. Let us ensure we can retain this culture even when our emotions try to get the better of us.
It’s not just Daszak either, 26 of the 27 signatories had links.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/10/revealed-scienti...
It can go a lot lower than zero, and there are quite a few airfields where this matters:

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/56894/why-is-0-...

Besides: you can't fix stupid, if someone switches on the autopilot seconds after wheels up without checking what altitude it is set for it could be anything, including below ground level. Autopilots aren't magic, and pilots have a very large amount of discretion in how they fly the airplane, but these pilots weren't really prepared to fly the plane for one second more than they had to.

There is a reason they got sacked. Oh, and as to this being a Boeing issue: this setting can be entered on any autopilot. I'm all for giving Boeing shit when they are the ones that messed up but here they didn't.
People often make "predictions", whereas they just list their wishlist.

But, I'll do a prediction or two:

Climate: The climate continues to become more and more disrupted. We see beginnings of food and water unavailability in various places.

Coronavirus: 2022 will be like 2021, lockdown here, lockdown there, new variant near late autumn.
Driver training should be updated to include what to do when self-driving modes are used (ie what do you actually do to supervise the vehicle, which checks to do, etc).
AV Herald thread about this: https://avherald.com/h?article=4f24b2d7
I'm not talking about code performance, I'm talking about human time of having to step through extra things while using a debugger to work out what's going on.
> Digital self-custody of scarce assets is a new thing.

How so?

This is how "web1" operated all the time: People have a cool idea and fire up a webserver to host it. Self-Custody in its purest form.

Sure, others could copy it, but they can also do that with whatever someone generates an NFT for "digital assets" (the certificate cannot be copied, the thing it certifies ownership for can).

As for "scarcity": Digital assets are either shared or scarce, there is no in-between. Distributed Ledgers allowing NFTs make the certificate of ownership scarce, not the asset itself.
Yes, when combined with ENS, I believe it does.

An Ethereum wallet linked with an ENS domain name is:
1) human readable
2) has an on-chain history that is verifiable and reviewable (important for establishing reputation in social applications)
3) benefits from UX improvements in Ethereum wallets, such as Argent's social recovery feature (https://www.argent.xyz/blog/argent-secure-decentralised-ethe...) as well as secure hardware wallets (which address the concern about losing a cert)
4) builds on the network effects of EVM-compatible wallets which makes the experience more familiar to more users
5) can integrate other features such as ENS-linked profile pictures, NFT verification, payments, crypto-based crowdfunding and donations seamlessly
6) user-owned

Can also drop the ENS altogether and embrace anonymity if the user or application desires. Still benefits from most of the above.
Around London that would be “pre’y” (most of the time; you can hear just about any accent in London). From my experience, Ts are harder in Yorkshire, for example.
I think they're needed so your DNS resolver knows who to talk to. But I agree they're kind of useless from a user point of view.
> I'm of the opinion that the pseudonymous nature of public blockchains is very beneficial to society.

Have you tried to “steelman” this? Because I don’t think it will pass basic scrutiny.

The same companies and governments you want track have more incentives and resources to hide their transactions than any individual, so, either all transactions are public or they’ll be able to hide while most individuals won’t.
You decide for yourself, but generally shitcoins are regarded as forks without any technical innovation who are not credibly trying to solve any problem or try out a new idea - just make money. They're often meme-themed (though not always, and there are many legitimate projects that are meme-themed).
I don't write Java, but a good way to deal with this might be to cast to int (a larger type) immediately after loading a byte and before working with it. So, complexity-wise, the overhead of signed byte vs unsigned byte should be at most two casts, and often casting to a larger type would be required anyway even for operations with unsigned byte values.
Using a Hyundai hybrid and it got all these. It helped quite a lot as long as you consider yourselves a driver and in control.

Still it is very weird when the car turn the wheel for you with your hand being guided.

No hand up display and not sure if just voice to tell me to drive to lake would I do that.
This seems a lot like the young people in my family not knowing how computers work despite using them daily.
> Monero gets listed on a major crypto exchange (Coinbase, Gemini...).

Lol, we can dream. But I'd wager, it is likely to be delisted from existing CEXes. Actual cryptocurrencies that act as actual currencies can't be tolerated for much longer.

We'll be left with surveillance coins like Bitcoin and Ethereum still listed on CEXes.

I'd also wager that actual, real world usage of Monero is going to continue to sky rocket
Literally every online game has been doing digital scarcity forever. Let's see if any of the NFT collections end up having the success and lifetime of Eve Online or World of Warcraft.

I realise there are hypothetical advantages to NFTs over in-game items, but I am not yet sure they will be worth it in the long term.
It sounds like a nice day for the US but the comments don't look optimistic. I cannot help to continue to think that we, as humanity, need to remove perverse incentives for critical infrastructure. How can an insurance company, which needs to make profit, have your interest at heart? I am for state Healthcare without insurance and sure, I know a lot of people whine about the quality in countries where they have this, but it seems people whine about stuff in their bubble regardless. They don't actually compare with countries that do not have this. I had a young-stroke (as they called it) when I was thinner and fitter than I had ever been, but I was stressed at that time (company was burning over 1m a month and our biggest clients left; shortly after the 2000 crash). They did not find anything wrong with me and the team of experts (what I had was rare apparently so I am a university case study) spent 100s of 1000s euros of perceived care (where I live now this costs a fraction of that) on me to prove it was not stress. I am sure it was and they could not find anything else. All was practically free for me (total was less than 300 euros for tons of mri's, blood panels, hospital bed and 15 experts visiting me daily) but I cannot get private insurance because of it. Hopefully someone will jump in there as I now have the same chance as anyone of this returning but whatever. It's one of the first exclusion boxes on the form for insurance. In Spain and Portugal I had much better care without insurance; I know people cry how bad it is (see above). As someone who had things (including cancer) I can tell you, it is lovely compared to the nhs or Dutch healthcare; far less clinical, overstaffed, you can have a fecking beer when they told you it's going to be rough etc. And you can view the sea from your bed (where I am) instead of an airconditioner filled wall. It feels just nicer even when you are ill. And that helps making you better I think, at least it helped me. My wife could sleep there 247, screw visiting hours. You just need to know how to navigate the system. The surgeons, oncologists and internists working for the public Healthcare might moonlight for the private ones, but the care is most excellent.

I like the US for obvious reasons; nature, freedom, startups, VCs but without this fixed, I would never consider it and that's a shame. I would love to live with the many people I know there and build companies.
The thing is,

While Nuclear is not cheap, it will be cheaper than the effects from un-softened climate change.

While Nuclear is difficult to maintain and if an accident happens it is bad, but the damage and affected area can be easily calculated.

While Nuclear waste storage costs money and has to be secure for a long time, the chance that we as humans will be able to recycle the nuclear waste in 200-500 years is fairly high. On the other hand once shit hits the fans with climate change shit really hits the fan but with the quantity of New York City's total sewage from the last 5 decades.

The thought that we will be able to recycle nuclear waste in 200+ years is more reliable than any promise Elon Musk has ever given.
At least VB.NET is part of the list.

I guess the only modern environments where we could replicate the experience would be something like running MicroPython on an Raspberry Pi 400.

Or the Swift Playgrounds (assuming an external keyboard).
> Moreover, Brits will more often say "I've got" and American will more often say "I have". You can find this in ESL textbooks and by talking with people. For such a fundamental verb, I consider this a big difference.

You shouldn't. There might be differences in frequency of use, but "have" and "have got" are fully synonymous. Even a significant difference in how often one or the other option is chosen would only add up to a tiny difference in the languages. At best, this is a difference on the level of how Americans say "math", but the English say "maths".

> Brits will say "I've lost my keys" using the present perfect to indicate something in the recent past. On the other hand, Americans will says "I just lost my keys" using the past with 'just'. These are grammatically different tenses and I think this constitutes a significant variation between the two. This is often overlooked.

I'm not sure you've really grasped what's happening here. Either option is fine in American English. They mean different things, or more accurately they focus on different aspects of the situation. That means the choice between them is not arbitrary but heavily context-dependent.

My view of "I just lost my keys", with just normally used to mark the immediate past, is that it's a strange example of marking the recent past, because losing an object is something that might have happened in the recent past, but it's not something you're likely to recognize as happening in the recent past. If you lost your keys a minute ago, you probably don't yet know that you've lost them.[1] So while "I just ate" can only refer back maybe an hour or two, "I just lost my keys" could easily refer back a week, if e.g. it's an excuse for why I'm having logistical difficulties.

[1] Note this fully natural American usage of "you've lost your keys".
Fixing stutters in Papers Please on Linux
Expanding a bit on my comment: truth has not been established, that's one thing. The other thing is that there is no significant hope that truth is ever established. It is said that all the archive of Wuhan's P4 have been destroyed. That would not be surprising at all. A large part of the world is under very stringent information control, far more stringent than in the USSR at any period of time. It combines social control, total control over electronic communications, and a huge PR influence thanks to a wide spread diaspora. In this context truth has become relative.
You seem to be really convinced by your analogy. I did not see the part in the Nazi timeline where the Jews were offered a free vaccine shot like every other German that would restore all of their rights.

I checked wikipedia and did not find it there either. It would be a real shame, if all the Jews had to do escape the holocaust was to accept a free vaccine shot like everyone else. Looking forward to references that expose this detail - because I couldn't find any.
Also it’s not because there aren’t extradition treaties that one cannot be deported. A country can always ask for a one time favour, and the US usually gets most head of state’s attention.
Overcoming loneliness is hard for everyone, not just for nerds.

It is difficult to overcome loneliness because the entire society is affected by several megatrends which enhance loneliness, perhaps even leading to positive feedback.

In no particular order:

On economical level, neoliberalism and privatization encourages loneliness.

On community (City) level, urban planning is designed to make inner cities more inhabitable, at least the common spaces (again by privatization, surveillance, optimizng cities for traffic flows, the need to have a car, increasingly long commutes requiring people to spend more time alone). Urban Living spaces are unaffordable requiring people to work more. Rural areas are also affected. This has lots of consequences for loneliness.

On workplace level, remote work, outsourcing; more and more jobs hat require constant screen-staring; modern management methods and the digital whip, union busting and many other innovations increase loneliness.

On individual level, stress, e.g. from constant pressure at work, and too high performance levels expected, increase sickness and then loneliness. Aging societies and decades of accumulations of unhealthy lifestyles do their part.

Long-Covid is a mass-disabling event leading to more loneliness.

You get the idea. I could go on. And I don't have a recipe to "overcome loneliness".

It's like overcoming wetness. It is impossible - when everyone is swimming in a sea of loneliness.
you’re correct that the pitot tubes had malfunctioned, and this was a significant factor.

but the gp point has validity.

if the controls were physically linked, like they are in boeing aircraft, the pilots who were putting in opposing inputs would have realized what was going on pretty quickly.
I haven't watched this video but I want to say that this movie, written by Dave Sirota, the editor of In These Times magazine from many years ago has spent so long working with climate scientists and journalists that this movie he created is a reflection of his career trying to get people to care about environmental and labor issues.
How about we use the same principles that we use for lead, arsen... Those have to be stored indefinetly, so an infinitly more difficult problem.
There's also Filecoin too from the IPFS Protocol Labs.

Also arweave is looking interesting.
> The ecological problem is, in my opinion, what should lead the conversation.

I don’t because it’s a very weak argument. You could conceivably run all crypto on renewables and excess energy.

The fact that the main purpose of the network seems to be running ponzi schemes, even in poor countries, is much more damning IMO.
Well, Western people generally dont know ANYTHING about Chinese culture. Ask them to name 3 pop stars, 3 polititians, 3 Chinese brands, 3 cities (excpet Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong), 3 rivers, 3 philosophers and 3 Chinese concepts.

And YET, they have an opinion on China.
> Because it is widely believed

With good reason, I might add. There is a climate emergency caused by greenhouse gas emissions after all.
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I am not sure you will see my message as I’m late to the party but I would like to reach out to you.
What fans of unsigned integers seem to really want is array access in the form of x[i %mod% LEN]. While signed integers "kind of" give you an error on overflow (Except your unlucky or somebody was malicious).
Is there a way to combine both? As in give me an error on overflow for "debug builds" and always mod-LEN on "release builds"?
thank you for those terms. I was sure I am not the first one who had this idea but I didn't know any projects. Now I know and I definitely try to join the forces with them.
I use sticky notes and a pinboard like others with a twist: sticky notes are placed on paper, not directly on the board. Each sheet of paper works like a room, contextual frame for notes. Move paper to top to switch context. Doing the same in computer screen doesn't work as well.
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> They are only if you include subsidies and neglect to account for storage.

Hey, nuclear energy is heavily subsidized by government, and it badly needs batteries for storage too.

For example, insurance for nuclear stations is provided by government for free, because its price is sky-high. If we include cost of insurance into the price of nuclear energy, its price will be too high for economy.

Nuclear can support base load only. For day-to-day management, a hydro, gas, coal, or batteries are necessary. Nuclear is not an option to reduce CO2 emissions substantially without hydro or batteries. We use nuclear power for decades already.
That page has the best footer I’ve seen in a long, long time.
How ridiculous that the main feature is to "sign" the document but it asks for name and email instead of a cryptographic signature
Range types are not a panacea, especially combined with other arithmetic operators. There are essentially two options: [lo1, hi1) + [lo2, hi2) can result in a new type [lo1 + lo2, hi1 + hi2) and so on, or any operation reverts back to the base type. Only the former provides a static type guarantee but can be extremely annoying to use and you eventually have to constrain the type back with runtime checks. (Interval arithmetic also shares this problem.) Probably for this reason, to my knowledge, both Pascal and Ada implements the latter, which is more usable but also arguably useless: if your intermediate type is ranged you have to manually calculate correct bounds (a failure to do so will cause a runtime error), and if it's unranged there is zero guarantee even in the run time.
Rice's theorem is applicable; the paradox is the usual trivial case,

if symflowerSaysItsBroken() {
DoTheRightThing()
} else {
DoTheBrokeThing()
}

I have no doubt that symbolic analysis can find a large class of problems, but if you write stuff like "we promise to find errors" you will a) dupe a lot of junior devs who will genuinely believe your tool is doing impossible magic, b) alienate experienced devs who know that's 100% marketing fluff and find nothing more specific on your site.

I'm pretty much the ideal customer for a product like this - staff+ with final say about toolchain decisions on a product with a lot of data-driven behavior. But what I want to see isn't a vague "promise" (really? is it in a contract, that you're liable for bugs your tool misses? of course not) but some actual comparison to quickcheck/fuzzing. I want to see your approach finds a superset or at least mostly-disjoint set of what we already have invested in, or finds the same set more effectively. Like, survey through the bugs fuzzing found in go stdlib and show me your tool finds them all faster.

I'm also skeptical of some "purely" coverage-driven approach from the start - coverage-driven fuzzing already has a tendency to miss interesting cases that don't come from branchiness - a classic example is subnormal value handling. Fuzzing usually still finds these eventually just by virtue of exhaustiveness; a tool driven only by symbolic methods better come armed with a _lot_ of encoded knowledge about the language semantics.
> Can someone recommend places to read or be involved in non partisan discussion about these topics?

The ethereum developers mailing list or something, I'd expect? I agree with your sentiment, I find the cutoff is "programming crypto stuff" vs "not doing that".

Actually I find the same is true of AI, if you don't know how to train a classifier or what a vector space is, your comment about AI is probably dumb.

Everyone's got opinions I guess, I just find builders have more varied, interesting things to say.
Signed integer overflow causing undefined behaviour allows the compiler to make significantly better optimisations. Here is Chandler Carruth, and clang developer, talking about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG1OZ69H_-o&t=2356s&ab_chann...
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The interesting thing about that flight is that I don't think the pilot knew how close to crashing we came whereas I had a 'front row seat' to what would have been a wingtip ground strike if we had been just a tiny little bit lower. I've flown 100's of times per year for a decade and I've never had a landing that bad. This was a short hop from Berlin to Amsterdam on Lufthansa.

I'd love to hear your dad's stories, there isn't a pilot that I know that doesn't have an evening's worth of material, so if you have the time to write that one up that would be great.
Very true. I have heard and seen this truth at work down through the years
> Solar + Batteries/Storage are cheap to build today.

That claim is baseless.
My experience with CBT was that it eschewed chasing down causal issues from your past, and rather worked more towards understanding how you’ve ended up, and to give you the tools to counteract your automatic thoughts and behaviours.

I found it incredibly helpful, what I thought were my issues turned out to be symptoms of a more foundational issue and understanding that gave great insight into why I do things the way I do.

Run a mile from anyone practicing Freudian nonsense.
British English sounds fun, kind of like stand up comedian making a parody of normal English. I’m not sure how Brits can speak it with a straight face.