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In case this is an earnest question: the Lindy effect is your friend. Don't chase shiny new things. Stay away from new projects until they have a track record of 10 years or more. This simple rule would have saved people from Mt Gox, Luna, FTX, and every other fly-by-night disaster.

Also not a network engineer. But I'd imagine first the Tier 1 ISPs (Level 3 etc) could enable jumbo frames and make sure they work smoothly amongst each other. After a few years of waiting, new consumer devices/OSs can start trying to send jumbo frames, while setting the Don't Fragment flag. If some router in the path doesn't support 9000, it will signal back ICMP Fragmentation Needed, and the device can transparently resend with 1500. Then add some local caching to avoid the roundtrip for subsequent connections to the same noncompliant network/endpoint.

And since it's a big change anyway, why stop at 9000? Why not 65000? Packets don't have to fill the entire MTU after all. If 65000 is supported, you can choose to send 1500, 9000, or 65000 based on your desired latency/throughput tradeoff.

IPv6 also required hardware in the wild to be replaced, but that's not a reason to give up and let things ossify. Over the next 30 years most hardware will be landfilled and replaced anyway. Let's get these improvements into the software stack of new devices now, and then let nature take its course.

> You can't roll out larger packets on the internet.

Devil's advocate: why not? We're in the middle of a long-term push for IPv6, and we have interim solutions to help the migration like Teredo tunneling. It's slow going, but we'll get there eventually.

Why don't we start a similar global migration to jumbo frames?

> preteens taking up to 10 mg

The doses you can buy in the drugstore are wild. I'm an adult and I take 0.5mg and it works great. You can't even buy 0.5mg where I live, so I buy the 1mg tablets and break them in half.

Also, no HN thread about melatonin would be complete without a link to gwern's writeup, so here it is https://gwern.net/melatonin

Zing!

But yeah, the blog is hosted on https://microsoftedge.github.io/ which seems to be an official Microsoft account.

Many corporations still use forced labor, even today, even in the US. If you want to fix the prison system, you'll be fighting against Walmart/McDonalds/others with deep pockets.

https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/uploads/legal-documents/2022...

It's described one paragraph earlier.

> I’ve written previously about a processor validation technique called Oracle Serialization that we’ve been using. The idea is to generate two forms of the same randomly generated program and verify their final state is identical.

At least Gotham City has someone working to fix things

It pairs well with the checkbox in S3 that you can tick to enable encryption with no other changes to your application.

Imagine if every time a large company launched a new SaaS product, some rando on Twitter exfiltrated the source code and tweeted it out the same week. And every single company fell to the exact same vulnerability, over and over again, despite all details of the attack being publicly known.

That's what's happening now, with every new LLM product having its prompt leaked. Nobody has figured out how to avoid this yet. Yes, it's worse.

The new implementations are more permissive than the old ones*. So if your program is rejected, it would have been rejected under the old, simpler implementation as well, and you can use your intuition of the simpler rules to understand why.

*excluding bugfixes, of course

What's actually hard to reason about is problem cases like in TFA which seem like they should be valid, but the compiler rejects anyway. These are cases where people's intuition doesn't match the current implementation, so I think moving the implementation closer to people's mental model of borrowing will make the language easier.

Ethereum has "difficulty bombs" about once a year which effectively force the network to follow along with protocol changes made by the Ethereum Foundation. They could conceivably use that same mechanism to exponentially slow the network below the point of usability by waiting for the hardcoded block and then... doing nothing.

Afaik bitcoin doesn't have anything like that.

> It appears your argument is "I don't like the law."

???

Read again:

> You mean cash? Bitcoin is no more or less illegal than cash. In either case, follow the laws, pay your taxes, and you'll be fine. I'd rather deal with the IRS directly than argue over the phone with a customer service representative from Chase.

It seems like you want to paint me as a criminal because I dared to use any currency other than USD, and then reported it on my taxes? If you're not able to engage with my questions directly instead of changing the subject, I'll assume you're not posting in HN's spirit of curiosity, and end the conversation here.

That is tax code, not a banking regulation, no? But on topic, nobody is preventing you from transacting with whatever quantity you want of your own cash. You just need to pinky promise to the government that you'll file the right forms with your taxes. Same as you would with bitcoin.

So again, why is cash able to "coexist with nation state regulations and desires to control the currency", but bitcoin isn't?

I paid for my car in cash, and nobody batted an eye. Car dealerships are not subject to banking regulations, only banks are. I don't know why people think that would suddenly change once bitcoin gets involved.

Governments pay companies to investigate people breaking the law with both cash and bitcoin. Cash and bitcoin are both coexisting just fine with existing financial regulations.

I've seen block/allow used. Same number of letters as black/white.

A bank freezing your account doesn't mean you've done something illegal. It means you've been caught in a bureaucratic machine that cares nothing for human outcomes.[1] If a bank tells me I can't move my legally-obtained money, and I have the power to say "screw the bureaucratic machine" and transact anyway, that's a win for society.

> An unregulated, distributed transfer of value system is unable to coexist with nation state regulations and desires to control the currency.

You mean cash? Bitcoin is no more or less illegal than cash. In either case, follow the laws, pay your taxes, and you'll be fine. I'd rather deal with the IRS directly than argue over the phone with a customer service representative from Chase.

[1]: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/seeing-like-a-bank/

You could say the same about SSL/TLS. Why don't we just pass laws that make spying/wiretapping illegal, and then send our passwords over the wire in plaintext? Privacy is a people problem, but we can still fight for it using tech. Tech won't solve all our problems, but it can definitely solve some.

I view bitcoin as on the same layer as TLS. The spirit of the internet was corrupted by Facebook/Google/etc, but the underlying tech still works. The spirit of bitcoin was corrupted by the exchanges and speculators, but the underlying tech still works. Both give you the power to take back some of the power that ordinary citizens have lost—if you know how to avoid the bad parts.

This comment seems to imply Omegle had no moderation, and that is false.

https://www.omegle.com/

> I believe in a responsibility to be a “good Samaritan”, and to implement reasonable measures to fight crime and other misuse. That is exactly what Omegle did. In addition to the basic safety feature of anonymity, there was a great deal of moderation behind the scenes, including state-of-the-art AI operating in concert with a wonderful team of human moderators. Omegle punched above its weight in content moderation, and I’m proud of what we accomplished.

> Omegle’s moderation even had a positive impact beyond the site. Omegle worked with law enforcement agencies, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, to help put evildoers in prison where they belong. There are “people” rotting behind bars right now thanks in part to evidence that Omegle proactively collected against them, and tipped the authorities off to.

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The real reason, of course, is that Facebook can afford an army of lawyers, but Omegle can't.

It's the calories. People have lost weight by eating nothing but McDonalds (and strictly counting the calories of course)

This is the reason I do a potato month once a year. It's like a tolerance break from food, except you're not actually starving yourself.

Does anyone else remember 10 years ago when Google would penalize sites for serving different content to GoogleBot than to normal users? Those were the days.

I could be wrong, but my layman interpretation is that it depends whether you pay before or after receiving goods or services.

If you pay before (ex. grocery store), they can refuse to accept certain payment methods.

If you pay after (ex. restaurant), you've already eaten the food and now you owe a debt.

I love how this comment subtly acknowledges piracy is the only true unencumbered free-market choice.

I can't wait to start getting my social security checks 30 years from now.

I use pre-commit and have a git alias for those wip commits.

  cmnv = commit --no-verify

When I first started doing web dev, everyone was using ".htm". But I haven't seen that used since the 20th century.

ollama is dead easy to use. It's a single binary that downloads models on demand, like docker downloads images.

  pacman -S ollama
  ollama serve
  ollama run llama2:13b 'insert prompt'

https://ollama.ai/

Is this open source? I don't see a Linux download link and I want to try building it for Linux myself