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Can someone provide context on this journal, this article, and it authors?

It's seems what they are saying is verboten, and I am doubtful something like this would ever be published in the lancet or any other major journal, even if correct.

Which leads to my question about context for how this article came to be published. I'm interested if this is science on the fringe, or if the scientific establishment is now softening to allow dissent and views that could lead to vaccine hesitancy.
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This plus having a formula for how to answer. I like the star technique. It’s what people want to hear in the right order. https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/interviewing/how-to-use...
> The vast majority of companies I worked with recognized and rewarded simpler designs, the vast majority of software engineers I worked with would rather delete code than write code

What made up fantasy world do you live in, and are they accepting immigrants?
Great comment, because it hits at something fundamental, and something I also think about a lot when considering the state of crypto today.

Point (2) is very axiomatic in its claims:

> The fact that I can't park my money without it losing its value over time is asinine.

Money will always have some relative value to what you can exchange it for. The reason bitcoin's value has kept up with inflation, is because today its price is determined mainly by speculative demand. Not because there's some cosmological guarantee that bitcoin is immune to inflation.

A few examples: one 1btc buys a small car today. Twenty years from now, when the novelty of crypto has worn off, what is providing the guarantee you'll be able to buy another car with 1btc? Or with 10btc you can buy a house today. Will 10btc buy you a house 20 years from now? If not, does it mean btc lost its value, or does it mean land got more valuable?

There's really no known way to park money and expect it to keep value, just because of its inherent properties. We've been trying for 5000 years.

> I shouldn't have to be forced to play the market or spend if I don't want to

Actually, yes, you do have to, at least if you like to preserve wealth, you preserve it by growing it. That's what investing (and it's degenerate cousin, "playing the market") really is.

Point (1) does hint at some intrinsic value of blockchain-technology. I think we'll know in 5-10 years or so, when we've gone through this correction, maybe some more war or something, whether the technologic properties of blockchain are enough to prop up current crypto prices. Consider as a counterpoint: noble metals are amazing technologies, which have provided value for millennia; from mediums of exchange, to stores of wealth, to their use in medical technologies, for mundane applications like for dishware, or spiritual applications in churches or art, for jewelry ... Really, it's absolutely completely mind boggling how long, how broadly, and how consistently gold and silver have provided value to humans. Yet, they've been poor hedges for inflation over the long term, both gold and silver being very speculative assets, worse than stocks or bonds. How is crypto-technology going to be even more fundamentally better? What is so amazing about blockchain that it's going to defy all other asset classes?
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Yet France provides far more social services to its citizens with less money per capita than Mississippi. I guess the difference is mainly due to immense spending on defense and medical care.
Lots of people also buy sport motorcycles, thinking that because it has traction control and ABS means its safe, but then still end up crashing them and getting seriously hurt or dying.

Should there be in investigations for motorcycle companies making unsafe bikes? Or is it more the case of certain people in general being predisposed to taking more risks and not realizing the consequences?
Well, it has revolutionized pollution, speculation, theft, and crime. And those things have always been a major part of the world.
I didn't get that message at all. The length of time it took to add async sugar made sense given what they were trying to do. It was not a statement regarding the suitability of it for every use case not should it have been.
Too hard to use after trying for awhile. By way of example adding text, then moving it & truncating it to only appear over part of the clip I could not intuitively understand. Perhaps its me.
There is no crash. In fact companies which are actually proper businesses will get more VC funding since the funds have to go somewhere.

The crash is mostly in vaporware like Uber and Bolt.
That's been attempted for email too, not sure how far it ever went. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash
In the incidents I've seen it's been sensors/interpretation, things like simply not detecting a vehicle.
I didn't mean to imply that a blockchain is a good solution here.

And in a system where it's considered sometimes desirable to erase inconvenient history, an immutable ledger doesn't help with that.
I'm wondering, would it be possible to add a mechanism that would allow JavaScript to get information like the list of fonts, but make it impossible to send it anywhere? Have the list wrapped in some special type that infests everything it touches and things that perform requests will refuse to send it.
Batteries are the most expensive storage. They cost per kWh stored, while others cost mainly only per W inserted or extracted. Only a minuscule fraction of utility scale storage will ever be batteries, so even mentioning batteries only details discussion.
> You very clearly seem to think that the "hard" part of cache invalidation is how to implement invalidating it when you know exactly what needs invalidation. The "hard" part is actually in knowing what needs invalidation.

I acknowledge that both are hard. The former can't be avoided. And the latter is easy in certain cases (if you have a simpler data model, etc.). I am not saying the latter is easy. More details in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31676102

And I made the mistake of assuming the definition of “cache invalidation” as it means different things to different people. Marc’s view is a very good one https://twitter.com/marcjbrooker/status/1534944340266864640?... but it’s actually different than some people’s definition on this thread.

I will not defend myself; and you are welcome to speculate. I said it here https://twitter.com/uvdn7/status/1534978702609682432, and other places on this thread, and I will repeat it again.

I should have applied a narrower and more specific definition of cache invalidation in the blog post. The confusion it caused is not intended.

> how to implement invalidating it when you know exactly what needs invalidation

I stand by the claim that this is a hard problem, as explained in the blog post. When you deal with a cache you are inherently dealing with a distributed system (there's cache and the source of truth). And the contribution is making this aspect more manageable, which is common to all invalidation based caches.
sso costs time/money to implement, support, maintain,...
YouTube can be used as a host yet not as a platform. Make all your videos unlisted and just use video player on your website.
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Non-binary only makes any sense in a society where men and women are defined by cultural notions of masculinity and femininity, rather than by sex.

It's one step further down the line from men and women being expected to behave in what are considered, respectively, masculine and feminine ways - the typical conservative viewpoint.

I find it quite bizarre that this is regarded as a progressive stance. It's like they've internalized the conservative view and come up with entirely new categories to work around it. When the sensible thing would have been to just reject the idea of gender stereotyping entirely.
The biggest benefit touted of Blockchain based currencies is the ease and low cost of transaction. Both are anything but. Take cost for example. India's UPI supports 5B transactions per month which are _free_ to users at the cost of perhaps $10-20 million to the govt which subsidizes it. Compare that to the US restaurants (and gas pumps) which give you 3-5% discount if you use Cash. At some point a national payment rail makes sense though it offends my capitalistic sensibilities though currency violates that too.

The Federal reserve charges $1.28 (one dollar and twenty eight cents) to move about $100 million dollars[1]. That is before volume discounts. Cost of money movement is extremely small because you are just sending a packet. Cross border was hard but was due to interchange between different currency systems but has gotten much cheaper too. I can send payment for less than 1% to most countries near instantaneously and this will only drop.

[1] https://www.frbservices.org/resources/fees/wires-2022
Hi. ZT team member here.

Networks members will continue to be able to communicate with the controller down as long as they were online before the controller went down. Not a full solution, I know.

Otherwise, it's a difficult problem to solve. The only way we could let you run a network controller as a back up right now would be to give you the private key for the controller, which would allow you to change everybody else's network on that controller, too. Not the best of ideas giving that info away!
I had an opportunity to get something going on Amazon once they started hosting Hyperledger Fabric (the stack that I used). I could not come up with a commercially viable service to launch on there.

I've got some fuzzy notions on identity management and other non monetary things but it still needs thinking through.
I don't know if by "make their own life harder" you mean the maintainer (you) or the user, but, as a user, valetudo has saved me. The original Xiaomi app is buggy, slow, and phones home, but Valetudo just works locally. It's amazing, thank you!
What I wouldn't do to be done with (some of) "today's standards".
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Also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31630679
possible != "pretty easy". How do you do this with multiple devices in the same location?
I totally understand that as well. However, wouldn't the people with the most expendable money also most likely have the newest technology. Therefore the customers you are probably going to have the least issues with, would most likely have newer hardware anyway.

I understand you leave money on the table, but you would spend less on support and less money trying to get your website to be 200ms faster to load. This is speaking from an Indie Hacker perspective. This could be potentially worth millions of dollars for a bigger business.
How can that be possible? What if I made the worlds worst DRM and then sued everyone who bypassed it? How can bypassing DRM even be illegal? If someone owns their hardware then you can do any hardware or software modifications you want to it.
Mentioning batteries can only distract from sensible discussion, because only the tiniest fraction of utility-scale storage will ever be batteries.
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Yeah the 14” doesn’t move further than home office -> living room and back again, and with me on the occasional biz trip. So, all scenarios where I would benefit from the extra screen size of the 16” and not really care about the extra weight and heft. Everything else - couch, coffee shop, standing desk, etc, I use the Air.

Forgot to mention another bonus: the continuity features in MacOS are good enough to use the Air as a second screen for certain activities. You think you won’t use it, but it turns out to be surprisingly useful.
Funny, Windows on a Mac seems like total waste of time and hardware to me. Windows is ready to implode and stop being profitable with all of the CVEs and RCEs that are by design.
Yeah, when I said faster I was talking specifically about the trip taken in the article, not that rail is generally faster than driving (in the US). I don't know where you are located but I doubt you have a direct line to NYC or much of anywhere because US rail coverage sucks currently (this wasn't always true). To be honest if your in the Midwest I'm surprised you have an Amtrak station. Most of us have to take a greyhound for hours to get to one.
> California? What other states have wanted to secede recently?

California did not want to secede. A Russian-linked group tried repeatedly over the 2016 to 2020 period to get an initiative for an independence referendum on to the ballot in the state, but never managed to qualify the initiative, much less pass the initiative calling for an independence referendum.
Regulated securities also started unregulated, just like crypto.

They had boosters just like crypto and the same problems happened that led to the regulations.

It's just tech pressing a reset button on things and pretending like it won't end up in the same place - like it did with taxis and hotels.
It's concerning that Dropbox is scanning user data. I understand the benefits of doing that (CSAM/copyright). One of the selling points of Dropbox is offsite backup and if they can delete data at anytime then its obvious to me Dropbox is no good. I personally don't use Dropbox. But if I did I wonder if something like gocryptfs [1] can be integrated with the Dropbox folder.

[1] https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs
> The only situation I see where this would become problematic is if a state chose to stop sending tax dollars to the federal government.

When do states send tax dollars to the federal government? Individuals send tax dollars to the federal government, but states mostly receive federal money.
I'll bite! Why does it have to be crypto currency? Why couldn't I load ten dollars credit into YouTube, in exchange for 1000 credits - one of which I'd use for every video I watch? Google has my card on file already, I'd trust them to deduct one credit per video properly.

I'm pretty sure some startups have already attempted a micropayment content gate. You pay them 5 bucks, they portion out the money to the content creators every month based on the articles you choose to read.

Other than an immediate payment (in the case where you're not running it yourself), why does it need cryptocurrency?

Not for or against btw!
Many years back, Popular Mechanics (or one of those similar magazines) had an article about a 100mpg carbeurator.

My grandfather had a shop, so he built one. It worked, but if he tried to "gun it" or was travelling too fast (which incidentally wasn't very fast at all) it would stall, and take some effort to restart.

I don't remember much about it since I was a kid at the time, but was basically a box that collected gas fumes, instead of using the venturi effect with air and "wet" gasoline alone.
Oh man, the iPodLinux project was the first thing I ever compiled. It took me so long to figure out how to do it, as I was typing Unix commands in Windows and it wasn't working. Best time ever as a smelly teenager pretending to hack stuff.
Very bad article. The actual discovery was published yesterday in Nature, and claiming a connection to aliens is baseless. There have been 800+ fast radio bursts detected to date, but it appears that this is the first one discovered that repeats.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04755-5

https://news.yahoo.com/newly-discovered-fast-radio-burst-175...

https://chinareporter.news/tech/chinas-fast-detects-fast-rad...
A couple general points, not specifically about the GP account:

(1) moderation unfortunately has to go by the worst things an account does, not the best things;

(2) we do give warnings, but there are exceptions, such as when there's evidence that the user has been banned in the past.
We arrest criminals, throw them.in a torture chamber for years and then are surprised that they aren't rehabilitated.

If harsher prison sentences "deter" people from crime, why does the US not have a lower crime rate than Europe or Japan? Clearly other factors are at play, including, I think, the high degree of alienation in our society.

I think it's important that we think abour abolishing orisons and looking at the brutality ans arbitrariness of the system.
Gitlab spots opportunity for DevOps platform as revenue soars
Yes it is intriguing but similarly so in how it hasn't really caught on. Perhaps some killer app will come around and change that.
Yeah I guess that is what I was looking for. Like all questions the answer is more nuanced. I think if you are a luxury brand selling luxury products you can safely assume you don't need your website to run flawlessly on the cheapest hardware.
My most recent car has adaptive cruise control (tries to keep a speed, and break/resume if it can't). And it also has some lane detector that pushes the car gently back into the lane if you don't apply pressure. I used it for about 10 minutes before I had to prevent it from making a very serious accident. I would never compare that to Autopilot, which can go many hours before making a very serious accident.
Pretty funny! I don't get much that counts as 'thought', but it can certainly pass for twitter content as a service.
Reminds me a situation when all your databases are ransom-crypted, your PC is a part of a botnet, but more importantly the operating system is still safe and running.
I'm not sure he's lying on purpose. But it's pretty common that people just stop thinking further when someone tells him what they want to hear.

The article certainly dismisses the need for storage way too easily, imo. It claims that consumption can be adjusted to match supply. There are not that many uses of electricity where you can simply lower your consumption when the supply is low.

There are some cases, like car batteries that can, sort of, be seen as consumption, but unless your car has some extreme storage capacity, you typically want to be able to recharge it when YOU need to have that range, instead of when the power company has additional supply.

And if you don't want to use fossil fuels for heating, the power saved by not charging your car is NOT enough to keep your house warm for a few cold days with no winds (unless you live in a place with no real winter).
Here's an idea: offer one of these micro/modular reactors for free to a developer of a new residential division, and indemnify them by offering to remove it after at least N years in operation and up to M years after that.

I would consider living in a division that has extra low-cost electricity. It couldn't be zero cost because nuclear could only provide base load power, unless one of these micro/modular reactor types is so innovative that it can provide base and peak load power, in which case such a division could have truly zero-cost power for a bunch of years.

I.e., promote the darned things, loss-lead if need be.

If the manufacturer won't take such risks, then might never break through.

I bet that after a few years you could get such good press out of it that other developers might sign on.
I also have to wonder if the cash bonus is recession proof. Inflation aside, aren't bonuses not a guarantee? Most places I've worked, bonus systems rely on meeting some certain goal.

In my experience, if the company isn't doing well, they will essentially make it difficult or impossible to get your bonus (eg. put a 25% growth in share price in as a condition of full bonus or something).
Believe it or not, that's actually legally very difficult to prosecute. NSP and XCI files are unusable without a signing key that attests the owner has purchased the game, which makes them a perfect candidate for the "backups and archives" clause of the DMCA act.

On the other hand, what Bowser did was pretty much indefensibly a crime. He distributed Nintendo's private signing keys to customers for a profit, something he knew was privileged IP, but he continued to sell them anyways.
>By age twelve, 6% of all girls have gotten sent sexually explicit content from someone they did not know.

Depending on the number of 12yo with email accounts and cell phones that wouldn't surprise me.

Close to 100% of people have gotten an out of the blue sexually explicit text or email by someone meaning to send it to someone else.
There already was a time when you could only connect devices owned and issued by the phone company to the telephone network.

BTX and Minitel where very much centralized systems as opposed to the Internet.
I am getting patents for compressing cats videos and black cat videos right away!
> Producing a DVD is cheap, the seller can produce them for almost nothing per unit (not zero though).

That's true, although I was thinking more about retailers who presumably pay much more than the marginal cost (though still much less than the retail price). It's also probably true that copyright laws are responsible for the vast majority of the commercial value of physical copies of digital media. Perhaps an easier way to see the fundamental difference is that when you're downloading a copy of a movie from BitTorrent, all the parties actively involved are willing participants.

> It could be that this stolen DVD allows N people to discover its content and buy the DVD.

This is also a real possibility, and is a strong argument for copyright holders to rethink their business models (and, in my view, for societies to rethink copyright laws). But I don't think it's a strong argument for treating the theft of a physical DVD and someone torrenting a movie as being remotely comparable.
are you talking about hallucinogenic substances?
Mapping the Impact of Nightly Subway Closures on New Yorkers
You need to do the chargeback
at the time tesla announced autopilot, most people figured that meant you could press a button and it would take you safely to where you want to go. A bunch of pilots chimed in to say that wasn't a good understanding of autopilot, but remember: the people being marketed to by and large aren't pilots.

IMHO Tesla has repeatedly overmarketed their actual capabilities. It's clearly starting to catch up with them.
The environment matters. An aircraft autopilot will allow the pilot to safely disengage while in controlled airspace. A Tesla "Autopilot" will not let the driver disengage in any situation.
I wasn't suggesting that they need to make a profit, just enough to pay for hosting and maintenance time.
It's pretty similar to mine, you could improve yours by relying on an hardware timer/counter that can go faster and thus provide more entropy.

Also you should not reset the counter at every event, this would lead to a poisson distribution if event ever became of comparable time scale to the timer
I don’t generally do reviews when I merge a PR into a branch of my own projects
Should be retitled to indicate that the initial reporting was false.
> I do wish the images were visible on mobile.

While they are "visible" on my phone, it seems medium has disabled pinch-to-zoom; loading it via a non-medium frontend allows viewing the images in a new tab where pinch-to-zoom behaves normally: https://scribe.rip/how-terraform-works-a-visual-intro-6328cd...
You think a significant portion of the population has strong feelings on separating commercial from investment banking?
And it also a high-value feature for people who have money to spend.

And if you use Auth0/Okta to implement your SSO (on the SaaS side) shits expensive as fuuuck and cost is per integration.