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Swift is a messaging system, but it absolutely does manage trust. Swift messages can be used to transmit contracts and other financial obligations which are nonrepudiatable.

When using Swift, the financial institution crafts the content of the messages, some of which describe the state of their systems (like an account balance). So as a counterparty, you are trusting the institution, the jurisdiction the institution is based in, and the laws and enforcement in that jurisdiction.

If you introduce ZKPs, perhaps you could take the human out of the message authoring for some message types, but those messages would still be based on the state of systems controlled by that institution, and really a lot of the “trust” involved with Swift transaction is the trust that an institution will meet its future obligations (something ZKPs don’t help with at all). So the end result is that as a counterparty, you would still be trusting… the institution, the jurisdiction the institution is based in, and the laws and enforcement in that jurisdiction.

There are other payment systems that don’t have the same features that Swift has (like the ability to send bank guarantees, or proof of funds letters, etc…) like ACH and SEPA. But if those things are needed, you’ll just use Swift, or a different system entirely.

The delay in processing Swift transactions is also a feature not a bug for large institutions. If I send you a Swift payment for $100, unless one of us is on a watch list or something, it’ll just go through without any additional input required from either of us. But if I wanted to send you $1,000,000,000, at that level the banks want the opportunity to scrutinise the transaction for AML and anti-terrorism reasons. There is no definition of what a transaction that is involved in money laundering or financing terrorism looks like, so these checks cannot be automated in any way. If you want your transaction to go through, you have to answer whatever questions the bank officers ask, provide any material they ask for, and this can include literally anything they deem necessary. If the transaction is successfully completed it is not because you met some statutorily defined requirements, or somehow proved you weren’t money laundering or financing terrorism, it is because you convinced the appropriate bank officer that the risk of them being implicated in money laundering or financing terrorism was small enough to be acceptable in relation to processing your transaction. So ZKPs can’t help you here either.
I guarantee that no job applicants want to be handled the way they're proposing.

And no hiring manager worth their salt will put up with HR's insistence that they use this tool either, for that very reason.
Non-fungible ones
"Did they cut ties the same way they cut ties with "Cambridge Analytica" ?" This is completely nonsensical.

Cambridge Analytica was a company that used personality quizzes on Facebook and took advantage of the open-to-everyone social graph API when it existed. They then claimed that people answering shitty personality quizzes somehow unlocked secret advertising magic to elect Trump.

So no, they did not "partner" with Facebook. And their data was all bunk, too, as a professional digital advertiser I can promise you they didn't move the election one way or the other.
It's nuts that we treat LTCG and income differently. We should adjust LTCG for inflation and then charge the amortized taxes whenever folks realize gains.

"but then taxes would be too high!" yes, so we should also reduce income taxes when we do this.

Quit flogging the upper-middle class to pay for the technically unemployed rich.
I cannot fathom that this is a sanctioned traffic move. What is to stop someone driving straight from also gunning it on green?
> covid peak in 2018/2019

That was before COVID though so I think you mean 2021/2022. 2018/2019 was a perfect time to have gone through a boot camp and get just enough certifications to get hired in a 6-figure job in 2021/2022 and then to get laid off in 2023/2024.
It's not linear, and the curve is not the same for all people and tasks.
Mitochondrial Differences in Sedentary vs. Active People at Rest and Exercise
The mathematical pedagogical design isn't bad. But the presentation is terrible -- out of order (linking to sections ahead for explanation), and written awkwardly with minor technical errors (like multiplying by 0) that show the author doesn't fully understand what they are saying or how to express it. They are using stilted English as an attempt at formal mathematical writing.
Volkswagen considers historic German plant closures in cost-cutting drive
I have a friend with Ehlers–Danlos syndrome, a rare connective-tissue disorder. She spent years in pain while the doctors told her there was nothing wrong, and that it was just in her head.

It was only seven years ago that they updated diagnostic criteria to include her form of EDS, and it took her a few more years after that to get diagnosed. Now the doctors take her very seriously.
As I understand it, there is a shortage of decent working conditions for skilled trade jobs that don't involve writing code.
I'm a little ambivalent on this. Sometimes the body says "I don't feel good!". My body says that quite a bit. Mostly (just math) it's something transient. A sore throat is probably not cancer; a bruise is probably not that either. If there's something to be done, then do it. But, don't perseverate about what it could be. You'll drive yourself mad.

Telling someone not to worry about something, particularly from a position of authority, when the chances are (again, math) that it's not serious seems a charity. "You're fine, and come back in a week/month if it persists. But, stop worrying." is a fair approach. Nobody wants someone else to worry unnecessarily. It's pointless.
I always find it fascinating when the very people oppressed by the system defend it with these kinds of comments.

Is there anything special about working 5 days a week ? Why not 7 days like we had back in the good ol days ?

And what about kids ? They use to work at 10 years old now they just sit on their asses until 18+...

Do we even need or want vacation days ? Think about the productivity !!!
NASA astronaut reports 'strange noise' coming from Boeing's Starliner
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Maybe!

But I checked Unihertz's site and it seems like their newest upcoming release, the Jelly Max, will be lacking a headphone jack too: https://www.unihertz.com/products/jelly-max

To their credit, it appears to come with an adapter.

My guess is that Unihertz, among others, is probably either reselling an existing design or contracting minor changes to an existing design. So unless you're voting with your wallet hard enough to shift the tides of the entire white-label phone manufacturing industry, I think I'm still doubting the impact here.
After much thought I have decided that thought is central to this whole thing. Anybody who disagrees is dreaming.

EDIT Satire is lost on you people.
IP Ratings Explained: What do the two digits in an IP Rating mean?
I used to care, but eventually got good Bluetooth earbuds and haven't looked back. Credibly waterproof phones are a big selling point although there's still fine print on warranty coverage.

I think it's still the case that Bluetooth headphones cost more for the same quality, though.
well 37.5 hours to 30 hours is 5 days a week to 4 days a week. You work 20% less but get 50% more off days, sounds like a great deal.

4 to 3 days, your productivity would go down 25%, and your vacation up 33% (3 to 4 days), so it's still interesting I guess but seems more balanced.

3 to 2 days, your productivity would go down 33%, but you only get 25% more off days (4 to 5 days).

My incredibly scientific analysis says that it would make sense down to 3 days a week, or 22.5 hours, but not so much after that.
Im confused of your point.

Power is power.. of course a bilionaire or even milionaire is gonna be "more powerful" than some nations.. there are some with < 50M gdp.

But at the end of the day its just about internet. X has every right to say fuck off to some countries its not based in, while countries has the "right" if they decide it to censor some parts of the internet.

Thats not really the point in the end. The point is really "is free speech, including hate speech and disinformation should be right or not in your country"

Its a very hard question that im not sure i have the answer. Someones's hate speech is always someone else's "speaking the truth" but ibknow some cases where censoring made sense.
I've had Quantum Fiber in Seattle for a year or two now. It's fantastic! Symmetrical upload/download, no data cap, 1gbps, and I pay something like $75/mo.

I was paying $100/mo to Comcast for the same thing, though I had 1.2gbps down/35mbps up.
Are we sure there is a difference?
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Sleeping to solidify memories and concepts is like when you were a kid and you just slept off the entire 8 hours car journey. Not only you get the sleep, not only you get the result, but you also didn't even notice it happen
Not mentioned here is the lady’s name, Muriel Bristol.

I have also heard that this is a different way with 6 cups. This matters because 6C3 = 6! / (3!(6-3)!) = 20. That 1/20 chance of getting all 3 cups right is said to be the basis for the 5% significance cutoff for p values.

Another basis for the 5% cutoff is the (even earlier) Poisson distribution, with zero expected events, 3 observed. In this case, the probability of occurrence by chance is 1/e^3, which is just under 5%. In other words, the 5% p value is analogous to “3 strikes you’re out” because the probability of 3 uncommon events or exceptions is <5%.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel_Bristol
Sounds like an interesting concept, a "work as you please" approach where compensation is unrelated to your hours worked (and ofcourse it being at least some livable amount).
Shocked to see so much criticism here of up-to-now god-like Ted Chiang.

https://archive.ph/QVg0P
What a 160-year-old theory about coal predicts about our self-driving future
I enabled ad blocking on my iPad primarily because a webcomic I read put one of these fucking ads at the top of the comic page, and it seems to be “optimized” to load in just as I’m about to click the comic image to zoom in on it. I must have clicked that ad on accident a hundred times and I hate it. How many cookies is that? How many networks now know how much more about me. Fuck that. You’ve gotten a lifetime of ad revenue from me boyo and we are done. Everybody is done.
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Something I've been wondering about - but have been unable to find any solid research on - is if it would be "optimal" to sleep immediately after any learning/training session, whether it be mental or physical, instead of just resting while still awake.

If sleep is the best state for the body to be in to consolidate memories, reduce fatigue, etc., then it would seem logical to try and be in the sleep state as much as possible.

Obviously the difficult part is actually being able to fall asleep on command without using some kind of pharmaceutical, but I do think falling asleep quickly is something that can be learned:

https://www.inc.com/melanie-curtin/want-to-fall-asleep-faste...
> Here's a close-up of the 1,200 pair cable.

Terminating that must be a lot of fun. Please tell me they have some clever device that makes this task easier.
> stealing from someone bigger [than] you is no crime.

Although it's finely said, in a related worldview, I would adapt it to say:

> stealing from a publicly traded corporation is not a crime because they're not a person anyway

This takes away the pain inflicted on someone when stealing from that individual. Traded corporations carry no pain.
To bill my hours, I estimate them within a range. Then I move the needle depending on my productivity and the value I delivered.

I'm afraid it's not precise. It's more of a happiness-based metric (for me and the client).
The case was made. The solution that was determined was to add Rust to the kernel. What you’re suggesting should happen is what has been happening, for a few years now.
A small team now :)

(not back then though)
I think you are right for the moment; maybe now they will put in more effort?
Now go ask the factory worker, truck drivers, delivery drivers, &c. who are tracked minute by minute up to the bathroom break

As code monkeys we have it easy but it's far from the norm
What is Macintosh HD now?
Space is not a constrain in many flagship phones. Check this comparison of (unofficial specs) s24 vs s8 (0.5mm appart. S8 also had sd card slot)

https://m.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=12773&idPhone2=...

This is the datasheet of a generic 3.5mm
It is thinner than that: 3.2mm.

https://www.cuidevices.com/product/resource/sp-3530.pdf
You didn’t know that because OP just made it up.
That's an absolutely terrible goal!

How can you expect someone to learn exactly what you present?
No motivation for extension. No context for understanding.

It's supposed to be a textbook, not an exam crib sheet.

The book was meh, but seeing that stated goal frastically lowers my respect for the GA Tech math department. It shows the clear disdain that the professor has for the students and the material they are teaching.
Nothing else I like gets all my best hours for even three days a week, let alone five.

It’s nutty to me that if I like my job I must want to spend more than half the week doing it. There’s nothing—nothing—I like well enough that I want to devote more than 50% of my best hours a week to it… every single week indefinitely.

I can love my job and still not want to do more than 20 hours a week of it. Those aren’t contradictory feelings.
https://darwin-containers.github.io/
Of course there is a difference. You are probably conscious right now of more things that you don't even register, like the movement of your chest while breathing, sounds outside of your window, etc. It's indeed the difference between consciousness and metaconsciousness, the latter being the ability to re-represent an experience to your cognition (which remembering is an instance of).

A very doable experiment. Whether you remember your dreams or not, next time you wake up, ask yourself whether you were conscious just a moment before waking up.
MS runs a grant program that awards $10K each month to one open source program. There's a vote each month to decide which project will get it, and you are only eligible to vote if you contributed to a OSS project not affiliated with Microsoft or were a maintainer for an outside OSS project that received contributions from some threshold number of devs within the last 30 days.

Very much a token reward, but I was surprised to learn when I first got notified about having a vote that: A) Microsoft actively tracks my outside activity on GitHub[1], and B) that they encourage it.

[1]: This would have been creepy if I hadn't agreed to it by linking my GitHub account to my corporate identity. I make a lot of contributions to official MS open source projects and didn't want to make a separate work account.
Sweden tells parents – toddlers shouldn't be allowed to watch TV or screens
'Educability' sounds a bit like the ancient Chinese saying, of how only empty cups can be filled:

> The "Empty Cup" or "The Empty Vessel" parable: 'A cup that is already full, whether with knowledge, opinions, or experiences, cannot be filled again. It is only the empty cup that can truly learn and absorb new information.'
This is a framework for building things that run on DOS (yes, that means running JavaScript on DOS). If what you’re running DOS on has a working parallel port, DOjS can use it.
You could self-host bitwarden on a $5 a month instance (or free-forever, if you choose to trust oracle or gcp), and then put TOTP 2fa into your bitwarden instance. Still requires a little maintenance on the instance, but this can be 99% automated.
Did you know the average human spends 2,555 hours a year sleeping? In a country like America that is 851,581,500,000 hours wasted. Think about the productivity !!!

There is commuting to and from work - but we can't optimise that one out ...
Marginal utility of time off, perhaps.
Haha, yeah sort of!
VMware Cloud Foundation Automation – (Formerly VMware Aria Automation)
If a human parses 5.2 papers a minute thats unfeasible but for a piece of software it wouldn't.
You say this is open source but I don't see a license on it. Did you mean source available?
This is blogspam for a book:

Leslie Valiant, an eminent computer scientist who teaches at Harvard, sees this as a strength. He calls our ability to learn over the long term “educability,” and in his new book, “The Importance of Being Educable,” he argues that it’s key to our success.
It 100% is if you live in an economic prosperous state. The middle died in America and the wingcucks are in control of the parties.

Of course, you can point to some centrist flyover states, but in anywhere worth living, it’s either extreme blue team or extreme red team policies.
Here is a recording of the sound

- https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=61434.msg2...
The absolute best feature that OrbStack has is debug shells. Essentially, it lets you attach to any container with all of your favorite tools already present, e.g. vim.

https://docs.orbstack.dev/features/debug

OrbStack is well worth the price IMO
I've volunteered for and served on the boards of several small, youth-oriented nonprofits. They all had this weird idea that you can't spend any money on operational stuff. Yeah I get that you want to minimize it, and you should. But payments for necessary services should just be part of the budget. There is overhead to running these orgs and not every penny can go straight through to the kids. If you make things a PITA for the volunteers, eventually you won't have any volunteers. People are giving their time freely to help, but most are busy and don't want to f*ck around with complicated solutions that waste that time.
Thanks for the heads up, but I'll probably just keep throwing my dirty plastic into plastic bags and letting the recycling facility figure it out.
What sucks about networking/making connections?
I can feel very awkward at in-person events. And don't think online platforms/systems have been that useful. What do you think, what sucks about networking/making connections?
The old slogan was 8 hours work, 8 hours rest, 8 hours for leisure
This is in breach of the tos though, right? Great example to set for the kids.
> electron/light speed

Tangent, but changes in the electric field travel at the speed of light (in a copper wire, which is slightly slower than in a vacuum). The electrons themselves move much, much slower. The speed of light is what matters for speed of information transfer.

It is analogous to a pipe of water.

If you increase or decrease the pressure of the water at the input of the pipe, you can detect that difference in pressure at the other end long before the water molecules at the beginning of the pipe get at the time of the change get to the end of the pipe.
Nvidia Takes an Added Role Amid AI Craze: Data-Center Designer
That is an incredibly complicated way of working.
So many moving parts for the sake of moving parts.
Over my ten-year journey as a co-founder, my partners and I have twice decided to hire "expert" senior managers with proven track records from renowned companies to help us grow. Both times, this not only resulted in a waste of money due to their high compensation but also a waste of time and energy. Onboarding and managing them took significant effort, yet they failed to deliver meaningful results. Eventually, they left, and we realized that while they had been successful in large organizations with thousands of employees, our smaller, 100-person company may lacked the structure they were used to for delivering results.

We concluded that they were high-level managers with little hands-on experience, accustomed to having large teams to execute their plans. They were often slow to recognize their lack of progress, or didn’t recognize it at all, and frequently spoke about the need for more "strategic" actions when what we really needed was to focus on executing key priorities.

So I related to PG's post.
PolyMeme: Fine-Grained Internet Meme Sensing
The 30-Year-Old Problem Still Haunting Developers
Crucial M4s certainly had one around 2010/2011. They would “fail” after 5,000 hours.
Expertise doesn't equal immunity from the streetlight effect.
Climate Change Can Cause Bridges to 'Fall Apart Like Tinkertoys,' Experts Say
https://archive.ph/C69VC
Well, what shall I say without sounding snarky...

I'd choose a smartphone that offers wireless charging because that is the state of art and it just works. It makes my life easier. I can just rest it on a little charging pad and move on. No worries about broken cables, broken USB ports and whatnot. Yeah, maybe there's inefficiency while loading, but we're talking about so little energy that gets lost, I don't really care.

Just like Bluetooth just works and makes my life easier. My little Anker earbuds charge in their case, they can live in my gym bag without getting lost, sound quality is fine, no connection issues at all, even across the gym (like 20 meters) with dozens of other BT earbud users around. Oh, and the case also has three LEDs to show me how full the battery in the case is. Charge it an hour with a USB-C cable and I'm good to go for weeks.
Probabilities are not physical laws of the universe. A disease having a 0.01% chance in no way is an actual measure of you having or not. If everyone with cancer wrote it off based on probability many more people would go undiagnosed