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> Edit: For all the cynics and doomsayers here, consider this: Tor has been around for a long time, but there has never been an uptick in arrests that could be correlated to cracking the core anonymity service. If you look closely at the actual high profile cases where people got busted despite using tor, these people always made other mistakes that led authorities to them.

During WW2, the British cracked the German codes. They would create pretexts for "discovering" where German ships would be, so that the Germans wouldn't suspect that they cracked their codes.

It's impossible for us to know if the US government have cracked Tor, because the world would look identical to us whether they had or hadn't. If the only evidence they have is via Tor, and the individual is a small fry, they will prefer they get away with it rather than let people know that Tor has been cracked.

I just assume the NSA are spending their budgets on something, although maybe it is stuff like side channel attacks.

It is configurable - with brackets.

I think the person you are replying to meant that the allies didn't occupy Germany after WWI (and therefore there could be few lessons from Versailles on nation building), your link posts to WWII.

This kind of mistake is easy to avoid. The problem is that there are a lot of potential mistakes that could be made, this is just one of them.

My experience is that when crypto was in the news, my non-technical friends, family, and colleagues would ask me what is bitcoin and were generally confused.

My experience with the AI boom couldn't be more different - everyone from my colleagues to my mum are using chatgpt as a daily tool.

I really don't think that AI and crypto are comparable in terms of their current practical usage.

> if you have enough coconuts you just drink the coconut water until rescued

Coconut water has high levels of potassium, and in excess, has been noted in case reports to cause severe hyperkalemia. This link has more information:

> A 42-year-old black man without any medical history presented to our hospital after a syncopal episode. He was playing tennis outdoors all day in temperatures in excess of 90° Fahrenheit. He reported drinking a total of eight 11-ounce bottles of coconut water throughout the day. He experienced the sudden onset of lightheadedness and was witnessed to have lost consciousness

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCEP.113.000941

A family member is a doctor and spends a great deal of time on continuous professional development (mostly reading journals to stay up to date on new approaches and best practices).

I assume as he gets closer to retirement the ROI for this effort will diminish.

Conversely, if Buffett made 10% more one year, the impact on his life would be negligible. If someone has $10k, an extra $1k can make a huge difference.

My experience with GPT-4 is that it's been amazing for python and mediocre at DAX. It frequently hallucinates functions, gives code that can't run, or does not fit the prompt.

It is still helpful, but there's a big gap between how helpful it is, depending on the tech.

A simple fix would be to change it to a multiple of 4 (e.g. 124 years). Then it would fail every 100 years.

I've been told downsizing can be very random. "We'll keep PersonA because they're in the middle of a project that is running late, and our client won't tolerate a change, but PersonB just finished their project".

I doubt it's as random as all that - and I've known people who were forced out because of their salary (he went from sales to project management, but kept the salary, and they let him go at the first opportunity).

Hanlon's razor is "never attribute to malice that which could be attributed to stupidity". However racism itself might be stupidity and not malice - much of everyday racism isn't the malicious KKK kind, it's much more similar to stupidity.

Closer to 0.32% than 8%.

If I recall correctly, the bet terms were a collection of hedge funds, which changes the odds - was what are the chances that if you pick 5 balls out of a bag containing 92 red balls and 8 blue balls that the majority of your balls will be blue? Much much less than 8%.

Thanks for your contribution to this discussion, it's helpful to have actual numbers.

There was a mixed metaphor that popped out to me in your comment (and I hope pointing it out doesn't break HN guidelines around tangential annoyances):

> I made my bed and slept in it, so I have no axe to grind

It reminded me of something George Orwell wrote in 'Politics and the English Language':

> A newly invented metaphor assists thought by evoking a visual image, while on the other hand a metaphor which is technically ‘dead’ (e. g. iron resolution) has in effect reverted to being an ordinary word and can generally be used without loss of vividness. But in between these two classes there is a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves. Examples are: Ring the changes on, take up the cudgels for, toe the line, ride roughshod over, stand shoulder to shoulder with, play into the hands of, no axe to grind, grist to the mill, fishing in troubled waters, on the order of the day, Achilles’ heel, swan song, hotbed. Many of these are used without knowledge of their meaning (what is a ‘rift’, for instance?), and incompatible metaphors are frequently mixed, a sure sign that the writer is not interested in what he is saying...

> By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself. This is the significance of mixed metaphors. The sole aim of a metaphor is to call up a visual image. When these images clash – as in The Fascist octopus has sung its swan song, the jackboot is thrown into the melting pot – it can be taken as certain that the writer is not seeing a mental image of the objects he is naming

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...

Agree with the general economics, but this caught my eye:

> a gym customer needs quite a bit more space compared to the retail customers in the rest of the high street

Where I live, the two gyms nearest to me are not on a high street - they are effectively in residential areas, which I believe has lower rents. The gyms that are on the high street are 'super gyms' that are significantly more expensive.

> I chose to not use the category of “Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing”, because it would include manufacturers of navigation systems (Garmin, etc.), which aren’t really what would come into my mind when I think of “tech companies”.

I very much think of Garmin as a tech company.

Of course not. I don't know how you got that I 'support genocide' from my post.

My point was merely not to romanticise the past.

> the jews lived peacefully in Palestine for centuries alongside christians and muslims before colonization

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1517_Hebron_attacks

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Ottoman...

There were periods of peace, but they were also second class citizens and occasionally the victims of massacres.

A better comparison might be China which has an extensive rail network.

I'm wondering how I could figure out that I was the victim of this. Perhaps if the booking was cancelled almost immediately after being booked.

Wouldn't the workaround for airbnb to be having a member of staff 'approve' the decision (where the member of staff has thousands to approve a day,and understands that their job is to just click approve all the time).

Is it possible that the walls around Jericho were there to keep out wild animals?

In the UK an unfair contract term or notice is not binding. It is defined as "contrary to the requirement of good faith, it causes a significant imbalance in the parties’ rights and obligations under the contract to the detriment of the consumer."

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/15/section/62?view...

Do you have a source for that? It's off quoted but I can't find how people arrived at that number.

Here's a counterpoint:

https://qz.com/694340/the-richest-families-in-florence-in-14...

Many developers don't spend time on hacker news or even any of the similar forums. To be stereotypical, HN readers seem more likely to be young, working for FAANG in Silicon Valley, and not a middle aged sharepoint integration developer living in the Midwest (although obviously they are also on this site).

I've had developers who treated it like a job, did it, went home, and weren't interested in the Mythical Man Month (but intuitively knew some of these principles).

ISLR/ISLP is free, was used in my masters and is excellent (and has an accompanying video series)

https://www.statlearning.com/

How many of these universals are shared with other mammals (especially apes)?

What about:

> Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it Genesis 1:28

In Orthodox Judaism (from the Mishna/Talmud) this takes the status of a commandment to try to have kids.

> what exactly is the standard Facebook is meant to enforce? Should it ban everyone who is responsible for pointless killing? That includes the US leadership apparatus - should it ban everyone who voted Aye for the Iraq war? Afghanistan? Wars like Vietnam? (yes, the people who voted for it knew better). They won't do that. We'll have a large, powerful company applying uneven and subjective standards.

I completely agree that Facebook isn't well placed to make these decisions, however the architects of the Iraq War faced almost no consequences. I wouldn't be upset if Facebook banned Bush. I agree with you in principle but the example you chose is exactly one that I would be comfortable with. Incidentally Facebook did ban a different former president, so I guess your point about Facebook's position of influence is true.

One thing that strikes me travelling in America is the homogeneity. I'm from the England and I've been to places in England where I genuinely couldn't understand the accents (I used to find the Geordie accent the hardest until I lived up north for awhile). But I took a road trip from Michigan down to Florida (through the 'deep south') and then back up to New York and although accents changed, I never had the same kind of communication problems. And that's without counting the places in the UK where they natively speak Welsh or Scottish. The dialects (which is a massive part of culture) are mutually intelligible without a huge struggle.

I'm however broadly aware that there are many Spanish speakers in the US, and that in parts of Louisiana they speak Louisiana French...