skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to look at a Jepsen test which shows a system mostly working as designed, the etcd 3.4.3 one (https://jepsen.io/analyses/etcd-3.4.3) is a much nicer read. Quoting from the discussion section, "etcd 3.4.3 lived up to its claims for key-value operations: we observed nothing but strict-serializable consistency for reads, writes, and even multi-key transactions, during process pauses, crashes, clock skew, network partitions, and membership changes"

That's what a successful test looks like. Sure, they found correctness issues with the lock api, but they were able to lend some confidence to etcd's core api. There might be bugs, but jepsen didn't observe any.

Sure, that's not proof that systems don't have tradeoffs, but it's proof that jepsen doesn't literally always find consistency issues or other core problems. Said another way, Jepsen is testing for correctness issues in systems. They either find some or they don't. These results are interesting, even if they are not a panacea.

There are other tradeoffs, but for most systems, correctness is important enough it merits consideration on its own right.

I don't think readers of jepsen misunderstand what's being tested or what it means, nor do they misunderstand that there are other tradeoffs to consider, so I think your comment is off the mark.

By analogy, if we were reading a post about "I load-tested this bridge which claims to support 50 tons of weight, and it broke at 5 tons", no one would be saying "yeah, but there are tradeoffs for bridges. This post just makes it clear that there's tradeoffs. If you make the bridge stronger, it would be more expensive, and to imply there's not tradeoffs is misleading. An astute reader might deduce that they should never drive on bridges again".

I don't think that would be a reasonable interpretation of such a post, nor do I think the interpretation you espouse here portrays an accurate sentiment.
I expected something more than "they removed the subtle shadows". Very disappointing.
Dollars have serial numbers does that mean they're not fungible? Does the author know what fungible means? Banks block transactions all the time to/from flagged sources.
The difference between this and YouTube/Twitter is that those two aren't paying a hundred million dollars to publish content like that.

Anyway, I'm not pretending anything; I'm just answering GP's question.
https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/01/docker-makes-comeback-reac...
It’s little known that, in the bad old days, subscriptions subsidized the ads in newspapers and magazines and not the other way around.

The subscription also qualifies the viewer as someone who has money and is committed and is a better prospect to advertise to.
That's the great span thing going on there. The house where my parents live has always been in my family had as its original residents my father, my aunt, my grandmother and my great-great-grandmother (yes, that's the number of correct greats there). The last of these was born before the establishment of the Austro-Hungarian empire in what's now the Czech Republic and was at the time the Austrian Empire. Family history in the old country is a bit murky so I don't have any dates for her ancestors, but she would have known people who lived under the Holy Roman Empire.
If you enjoyed this I'd recommend Simone De Beauvoir's book; The ethics of ambiguity. It's short and accessible and describes a number of character traits, which hinder personal and collective freedom, focusing on the outcome of projects rather than the ongoing process is discussed, but additionally she wraps an ethical framework around these discussions so that it becomes more about how to live in general.
What about the collapse of civilization or the apocalypse? How much will block paper be worth if all law, order and economies break down?
> I do expect that it won’t pass judicial review. However that is a discussion for another time.

So then you have asserted this, without any reason at all, which was my entire point. You have no reason or justification for thinking that the law is illegal. You just said "Its illegal, and I have no reason why I think that!".

And before you say it, when I said that Quote, I am not literally saying that you said those words, instead I am saying how you didn't give a reason, and just asserted that it was illegal, with no justification.

> So you’ve now wasted comment

When you make a completely unsubstantiated comment, with no justification, it is important to keep it on point, so that you don't just shrug your shoulders and ignore it. Because you have made multiple false statements, and then when I point out the false statements, you just ignore that.

You similarly disagreed with me, that there were other countries trying to pass similar laws, by just saying "no they aren't", when actually they are, and you can easily google these EU laws that people are writing.

When you keep on making completely false statements like that, it is important to point out, so that you are aware of how little you know about this topic.
I started receiving warnings about mine, which has been unused as far as I know for maybe 10 years. Out of curiosity I tried to login to that account to see what site was using my old adsense code and was unable to login without adding a phone number, despite verifying through my backup email account.

No thanks Google.
What Rogan said is not the important thing here (I don't even know what he said, because I've never listened to any of his content). What's important, as Greenwald said, is that the White House Press Secretary asked Spotify to "do more" to silence people like Rogan. That disregard by the government of basic press freedom is troubling. It could be Rogan today, but someone you care about tomorrow.
Wow lots to unpack there.

For those reading, the title says "Trezor Ditches a Controversial KYC Feature, Plans Features to 'Cut Off Regulatory Overreach'"

Apparently Trezor added a KYC system called AOPP. Then backlash. Then they said they would roll it back (as of the article).

Have they rolled it back yet? They said it will be rolled out in February. Edit: Trezor blog post about the rollback here: https://blog.trezor.io/a-decision-on-aopp-789540c2930b?gi=f3...

I always wondered what Trezor's fundraising plan is. My guess is once they started to see the money come in from taking fees they started to say "we'll be the next Coinbase!!!".

Do you have any more analysis of this addition to Trezor? As a Trezor user, this reminds me of Apple's push for on-device scanning. That Trezor even added this feature temporarily has me looking for alternatives. Anyone have suggestions?
Yes that's right. It's all viewable - it's the only physically observable blockchain (that I'm aware of). Also I'm not really sure what a blockchain is, but I'm confident this qualifies.
Meta threatens to pull Facebook and Instagram from the European market
Makes me wonder if the bot comments like this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30220886 was a ploy to strategically silence this story somehow (by using abusing the flame war disincentivizer feature).
There are both US and EU sanctions on Belarusian individuals and entities, but no broad sanctions that would apply to all developers in the country of which I'm aware. This seems like it might be an error.
When talking about labor management, there is a big difference in it from the perspective of someone making 40k a year with a more demanding job, where they depend on that job for basic necessities and family support, and from the perspective of SDEs that have very kushy lives with very little risk, ESPECIALLY at MAANG level.

As such, if some Amazon manager wants to fire, PIP, overload with work, or do whatever he thinks is necessary to its not imorral or makes him an asshole. An employee can just quit and find a different job quite easily and retain his kushy life.

And to be clear this works both ways - if SDEs want to avoid Amazon or share their experiences, thats all fine as well.

But to start going after personal qualities of managers because someone cant keep their 200k/year position makes you the enitlted asshole, not me.
It’s completely different. If no exchange will let you withdraw or accept coins from a mixer, how do you “take measures to obfuscate the trace”?

Gold is literally untraceable. Nobody can stop you from smelting and selling it as you like.
Should a conservative landlord be able to evict anyone who voted for a progressive? Or deny renting in the first place?

No, but housing is already protected. How can you possibly think GoFundMe and housing/food are the same thing?

I simply struggle to understand why a decent person should have to serve someone who wants to kill minorities, or who wants to end democratic government in this country.

Furthermore, you act like if you don't enact this protection you're defending, no one will serve people of different political opinions. The truth is you're making a mountain out of an anthill. Most places serve people of differing political views. I go to a bar with a "Fuck Greg Abbott" sign at the front of the bar, and they'll happily serve a Conservative as long as they aren't being hateful. I happen to go to a bar owned by a Trumpian, anti-worker, anti-vax conservative (I happen to respect some of the bartenders, and the food is good). I am allowed to eat there despite the lack of your proposed legislation.

P.S.

>How else can a democratic republic preserve the diversity of viewpoints required for such a society to function?

It's functioned for close to 250 years, and the more I read American history, the more I realize that the current tumult and animosity is actually the norm, and the "peace" of the postwar period was the outlier.
In the American legal system, if somebody spends the money to take the time to have their lawyer hand craft and send me a letter about something such as this, I'm going to take it as a threat whether or not it specifically contains one.

The implication is that if you do not do whatever is demanded in the letter, the next step will be the client of said lawyer escalating the situation to paying their lawyer to actually sue you.
To quote Kenji Lopez Alt - "A BLT is a tomato sandwich, seasoned with bacon." It is a simple concept, but it was the small twist in thinking that helped me shift to eating more vegetables.

https://www.seriouseats.com/blt-manifesto-how-to-make-best-b...

Side note: I made friends with several people mastering in horticulture at the University of Florida, and they were all working towards breeding flavor back into tomatoes, blueberries, strawberries, etc. Decades of research have focused on frost resistance, pest resistance, hardiness, and increased yield, all at the expense of flavor. We are starting to see bespoke flavorful produce at the store, but if the fruits my friends brought home from the experimental fields are any indication, we are ~10 years away from a total shift away from bland produce.

One thing that surprised me was the fact that their research is funded in part by selling the best experimental fruits to Japan to be used as gifts. I'll never forget being at margarita night and learning that I just blended $100 dollars of blueberries. And yes, they were the best blueberries that both the experts and I have ever had.
So anything challenging orthodoxy needs to be substantive to be tolerated as free speech? Who decides what is substantive? Even shit clickbait-y speech deserves tolerance just like "substantive" speech, whatever that means.

I really don't like Joe Rogan and his brand of wishy-washy pseudointellectualism, but based on the sheer variety of people he's had on over the years, dismissing all of his content as clickbait and contrarian for controversy's sake is a mischaracterization. Who else has interviewed both Bernie Sanders and Alex Jones? Even if you don't like him I think he at the very least deserves respect for having such a wide range of guest on his show, and it's disingenuous to dismiss him entirely as unsubstantive.

"In addition to inducing people to harm themselves and others". Again, who decides what is harmful?
> If you have an income it’s because of economic activity, most likely derived from advertising.

That reasoning can be used to justify any shitty practice.

Concerned about global warming? If you have an income it’s because of economic activity, most likely derived from emitting carbon.

Concerned about human rights in China? If you have an income it’s because of economic activity, most likely derived from trade with China.

Concerned about American workers getting fired for unionizing? If you have an income it’s because of economic activity, most likely derived from interacting with sales behemoths like Walmart and Amazon.

Therefore, I suggest you come up with a better rational for bad things. Or frankly stop trying to justify them. That also works.
Similating a Lava lamp with ML doesn't affect the security of RNGs in my view. You could do a computer simulation of a Lava lamp with the Navier-Stokes equations for a long time now. Chaos theory would mean that predicting the long-term future of a particular realization would require extremely high precision measurements of the initial conditions and boundary conditions of the lamp, certainly beyond what is feasible and possibly beyond what is possible. ML doesn't change that fact. It is possible, however, to predict statistics but that wouldn't be useful to break encryption.
> On the about page the author says they run two Monero nodes.

Running a node is not the same as mining. You are not rewarded financially, and you don‘t need to hold Monero to run a node. Nodes just maintain the ledger and transaction pool.

Running a node supports the network through decentralization and participation in consensus.
It’s a nice idea; perhaps something along the lines of a mix between Kerbal Space Program, SimCity, and Satisfactory. There’s a big problem for making this a practical step towards Martian colony planning, though; making a simulation game accurately reflect the real world is hard! If you’ve played any of the three games I mentioned, and have even general knowledge of the fields they simulate (rocketry and space travel, civic engineering and economic management, and manufacturing, respectively) you’ll see immediately that they misrepresent reality to a huge degree, and that as a result good ideas in the game don’t at all translate to reality. (Arguably, KSP reflects its subject matter best, but it’s still limited enough that discussion of the game often involves talking about “very Kerbal” designs that would be outright absurd as real aerospace engineering.)

Even if you can map out the elements of a Martian colony’s technological, social and economic underpinnings, having a game reflect those elements realistically is likely to take a heavy toll on its quality as a good game- simply because the world is very complex. There’s only a limited amount of complexity even the nerdiest gamer wants to deal with. If you doubt me, try playing some of the older Paragon Studios games- and even then, e.g. Victoria 2 was a downright impressionistic take on 19th century geopolitics. An accurate rendition of a 21st Martian colony would be far worse. Your player base would be limited to extremely wonky enthusiasts, and those people are likely already writing papers on the subject regardless.

Regardless of all the above I like the idea and have thought song similar lines myself in the past. But I can see why it doesn’t stand out to Musk as an important use of his time. He seems to feel someone else will come along to solve the actual colonization problem, as long as he just provides the rockets.
From Wikipedia:

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In-Q-Tel (IQT), formerly Peleus and In-Q-It, is an American not-for-profit venture capital firm based in Arlington, Virginia. It invests in high-tech companies to keep the Central Intelligence Agency, and other intelligence agencies, equipped with the latest in information technology in support of United States intelligence capability.[4]

The name "In-Q-Tel" is an intentional reference to Q, the fictional inventor who supplies technology to James Bond.[5]
Last I heard, the convoy organizers put a bounty on the Nazi flag guy for any information leading to his identification. There is also video of protesters calling out the confederate flag guy and telling him to leave. Two assholes showing up to a protest don't represent the agenda of the entire group. The BLM riots had a much higher asshole ratio last time I checked.
Why pay $995 when you can have it as a free bonus on your next flight?

(Having been there, done that, I feel it's over-rated. But it's just one of those things most people generally have on their "Life's Bucket List" that deserves to be marked off.)
Pretty sure that facts can be checked in an unbiased way
Note, this analogy is slightly off for using the phrase "some actually being it". jepsen cannot prove "earthquake proof" (correctness).

Rather, it would be "Builders claim their buildings are earthquake proof, and jepson was able to show a subset collapse in earthquakes. The rest may or may not be earthquake proof".

That's still very valuable. It's really valuable to know when something is wrong. It would be more valuable to know that something is definitely right (correct / "earthquake proof"), but jepsen cannot prove that.
> It's impossible to cash out a tainted bitcoin since it cannot be deposited at exchanges. Its value is essentially zero.

Given the limitless number of cryptocurrencies coupled with the limitless number of exchanges, there will always be some series of hops that someone can make between cryptos such that by the end, there is no amount of algorithmic analysis your exchange can perform that will automatically connect the coins and block them. Manual intervention would be required, by a privileged law enforcement expert who is personally tracking that value across novel and disparate networks using domain-specific knowledge.
> Do you control the inflation rate? Do you control how much currency is being minted?

You don't control any of that with bitcoin.
BlockPaper will likely cause the collapse of civilization as it will be the most sought after physical item in the world and will cause massive cross-continental conflict once the chain reaches critical mass. So, I mean, it's gonna be worth a lot. No other blockchain can, or will, make this claim. When the grid shuts down, BlockPaper keeps ticking.
... the scale is smaller
No, that's a consequence of fungibility in the context of some privacy uses, not its definition. The definition of fungible items is that you can mix them without altering their properties.

Fungible items can be used as a commodity, for instance: if two people buy cereals, they may use the same silo to spare on warehousing costs.

Fungibility is always true within a limited context, though. Examples of failed fungibility include Amazon comingling genuine products with fakes, or, to draw from the previous example, cereals from different areas will likely have different gluten or humidity rates, and while producers from an area may share a silo, the buyer may keep the same cereal from different geographic areas separated. Another example is electricity, with power being fungible in terms of who puts it in, but absolutely not when it comes to when power is provided.
> it all boils down to drafting everyone to act as fences as a condition of partaking in the system at all

Indeed. Monero uses ring signatures: every transaction is signed by 11 users and it's impossible to know which signature was responsible for the transfer.

https://www.getmonero.org/resources/moneropedia/ringsignatur...

https://www.getmonero.org/resources/moneropedia/ring-size.ht...

> You can always move value in, but out is another matter.

The ideal outcome is we start using Monero for everything. There should be no need to ever move value out.
This is so good. Another one of those 'is this a hilarious joke or just another blockchain project pioneered by your next-door crypto bro' challenges! This was a close one, almost got me.
If you want to be that pedantic, you're right. However, at present most dollar cash transactions don't record serial numbers or ownership. It is possible to remove all tracking of your cash by getting dollar coins instead of bank notes.

In fact... I made an NFT on this basis (the non-fungibility of US Dollar Notes) a while ago, here's the blog post about it

http://mikewarot.blogspot.com/2022/01/whats-all-this-nft-stu...
Joe Rogan is what happens
python3 is (relatively) slow to startup, and this is something that got significantly worse with 2->3 migration:

$ time python3 -c ''
real 0m0.029s

$ time python2 -c ''
real 0m0.010s

$ time bash -c ''
real 0m0.001s

Which means - you probably don't want to have python scripts on a busy webserver, being called from classic cgi-bin (do people still use those?), or run it as -exec argument to a "find" iterating over many thousands files. Maybe a couple more of such examples. For most use-cases though, that's still fast enough.
Surely anyone associated with this 'restricted party' should also be locked out of iCloud not just developer accounts.

Bricking half a country's phones might create some negative publicity.
I can’t imagine the us right trusting a publicly funded news source. The future is two or more well funded agitprop news sources in front of paywalls, amplifying the news stories that their benefactors care about politically. This was basically the way news always was in America (federalist and anti federalist news papers).
My wife is a perfectionist, she spends unreasonable amounts of time even in little tasks (like making the bed) to make sure it's "perfect". We all talk about perfectionism in the workplace or job-related activities but in reality it's a PITA in every aspect of life.
Anyone with a legitimate use isn’t going to create large numbers of emails just to do this. It’s a complete waste of time for any professional.
> People complaining about cancel culture is like people complaining about traffic jams.

This is a great analogy.
This is all I needed to hear. Thanks.
> I haven't seen any mass protests about at-will employment. Why not?

The cases are not comparable because if an at-will employee loses a job with one employer, the employee can often find a job with another employer.

> Vaccines have been required in other jobs, tests have been required for jobs, and yet no mass protests. Why not?

The cases are not comparable because, as far as I know, there is no testing option in the Canadian regulation. Also, as far as I know, there is no exception made to the 14-day quarantine period for those who cannot be vaccinated because of either a negative reaction to a prior vaccine or deeply held religious convictions.
> Does a filesystem that never deletes/overwrites anything exist?

> Obviously once space runs out it would start overwriting the oldest versions.

You can’t have both.

Also, your system wouldn’t prevent data loss on hardware failures.

What you describe is/may be a WORM device (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_once_read_many)
If a comedian/UFC commentator is communicating more effectively than the CDC, my first thought isn't cancel the comedian.

What is the end-game here? There is amount of "canceling" that suddenly leads people to be more rational and critically thinking.
Growing up in Southern Norway, during winter it'd usually be pitch black when I got up, and I'd not only not see much natural light in the first hour after waking up, but it'd still be twilight until the first school lesson was underway.

It might be nice, but it's not that important.
That is a major pain/inconvenience, and also who knows what setting the antitainting mechanics will look like in the future, can very well make all your money compromised in the future.
The Right-Wing Conspiracy Theorists and the Butterflies
This work is mindblowing me to me. Also I love the README!

You did mention that you pretty much implement pages 14-39 of The Optimal Implementation of Functional Programming Languages. Any idea why the authors of the book didn't implement it themselves?

Also, what lead you to this recent memory layout breakthrough. What was the journey of thinking towards this end?