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by csense 14d ago
The Canadian government froze the bank accounts of truckers involved in a protest [1] [2] [3]. If a government is willing to go after the property of its own citizens without due process, foreign investors have to think: "What's
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by csense 14d ago
So...what happens to the money in the account? AFAIK normally when your account is closed, your bank gives you a cashier's check which you can use to open an account at another bank. But given that they're in OFAC, what if no ot
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by csense 23d ago
A complex application process is basically a proof-of-human-work to rate-limit processing costs (for all applications, successful or not) and benefits cost (for successful applications). In 2026, you can ask an LLM to fill out the applicati
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by csense 1mo ago
"Bosom peril" sounds like what someone in the 1800s would write in a spicy novel describing a character's experience being unable to breathe while being hugged by a well-endowed lady.
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by csense 2mo ago
I'm sorry, MASM? All the cool kids use NASM or YASM.
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by csense 2mo ago
This is technical writing for kernel developers who already know how memory management works. If you want to understand it better, you should study up on the x86 MMU and the kernel memory management subsystem. I'm not a kernel expert
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by csense 2mo ago
Jeff Bezos is probably calling everyone he knows in Washington right now. The big question is, does he say "End this war immediately to stop them from bombing my datacenters" or "Escalate this war immediately to get revenge
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by csense 2mo ago
It's obvious to me that writing "Give me a confidence score from 1-5" in your prompt will have disappointing results if you use that score directly. If you want self-reported confidence scores that are at all useful, you nee
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Microsoft's 90s Weapon That Made Windows Fast [video](youtube.com)
3 points by csense 3mo ago|2 comments
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by csense 3mo ago
Was this a jury trial?
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by csense 3mo ago
Perfect attendance is not a good goal to aspire to. Kids force themselves (or get forced by parents) to go to school while sick, which is probably bad for their health and also risks everybody else's health.
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by csense 3mo ago
This is a great link. The most interesting feature of the solar graph is the amplitude of the seasonal variations. It looks like we typically generating ~100% more solar power in July than December. If "we need to store solar energy
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by csense 3mo ago
> they shouldn't be allowed to? Anthropic addresses this head-on in the final section of the paper titled "What should we do?" If you convince the US government to slow AI development, you have to convince China too, othe
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by csense 3mo ago
Central control of heat pumps sounds like a dystopian nightmare. I don't want to give somebody outside my house the ability to shut off my heating or cooling. The real problem is that the price of electricity isn't high enough.
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by csense 5mo ago
Let's be honest. If someone did send in the troops to restore order, people would be screaming "How dare you invade a sovereign country" or "You're only doing this because you want oil" or "The President
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by csense 5mo ago
Miller-Rabin primality test immediately came to mind. But apparently he improved Berlekamp's algorithm, and is responsible for the pumping lemma [1] as well. I agree with other posters; Rabin deserves an HN black bar. [1] Basically, t
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by csense 5mo ago
"It’s not a safety movement. It’s a priesthood with an origin story written in fanfiction." Is that the opinion of the author, or an LLM? I feel like this is one topic where using an LLM detracts from the author's thesis; do
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by csense 6mo ago
From a layman's point of view antimatter seems like an ideal spacecraft fuel. It's as energy dense as E = mc^2 allows, and if you have infrastructure to make it, the only input you need to produce it is electricity. Being able to
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by csense 6mo ago
We used to believe in freedom of speech and freedom of association. Since the dawn of the Internet era, we've had a legal principle that platforms are relatively shielded from liability for what their users do. It's the Internet.
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by csense 6mo ago
I'm pretty sure you can get rid of the 0xFFFFFFFF / p and get some more speedup by manually implementing the bitarray ops. You can get another boost by using BSF instruction [1] to quickly scan for the next set bit. And you real
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by csense 7mo ago
Just in case your answers to the parent post's three questions were "Yes, yes and yes" here are some additional questions: - Have you ever uploaded a container to Dockerhub or Quay.io? - Does that container have an OS inside
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by csense 7mo ago
A lot of people people contributing to FOSS are volunteers. The calculus of working on stuff for free involves an assumption that your worst-case outcome is you make $0. This act's punitive fines change the worst-case outcome to some
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by csense 7mo ago
Here's my suggestion for an implementation strategy: - Keep the "Next" button greyed out until you add three forms of identification. - Ask the user to take photos of their 3 forms of ID with a webcam. Ask the user to hold t
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by csense 7mo ago
It seems like sound testing methodology to identify important theorems related to the code, prove them, and then verify the proof. Verification gets sold as "bulletproof" but I'm skeptical for a couple reasons: - How do you e
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The Currency War: Why Washington's Policies Look Chaotic (But Aren't) [video](youtube.com)
3 points by csense 7mo ago|1 comments
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by csense 7mo ago
This video has an interesting visualization of macroeconomic factors affecting US trade and foreign policy.
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by csense 7mo ago
An AI agent is doing some actions. Those actions must comply with "controls" like 'ALLOW transfer ON treasury WHERE amount <= 10000 AND currency = "USDC"' and provide public, auditable proof that actions co
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by csense 7mo ago
I don't understand how house prices are set. When I see a house that's $X I often think "$X seems reasonable" immediately followed by "$X/2 seems reasonable" and "$2X seems reasonable". How does
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by csense 7mo ago
> prediction markets should not exist If you don't like prediction markets, you don't have to use them. Why do you think other people shouldn't be allowed to use prediction markets if they want to?
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by csense 7mo ago
Israel and the US told Iran "Don't try to develop nukes or else." Iran tried to develop nukes and got bombed. Then Iran tried to develop nukes again. PotUS told Iran "Don't shoot the protestors or else." Ira

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