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Fully agree, I bet somebody will reply that Bitcoin is like the early internet soon...

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2018/04/05/debunking-bu...
Just go with hosthuddy.com
They are cheap and reliable and provide support.
>Even if someone did want to help in this role, the developers on most projects would probably ignore them.

This is the lion's share of the problem, I suspect. OSS projects are driven by the people who write the code, and they don't take orders, and they don't massively value making things easy to use - or even necessarily have much connection with what that means. Current computing is such a pain in the ass that we've basically selected for inhuman levels of persistence and patience, and placed a large cultural value on those traits to boot. "Read the docs", we say. "Use the source", we say.

We don't have any idea how many human factors experts are out there, willing to help, because there's no process for them to contribute beyond "submit a pull request" - and even then, a purely UI tweak will meet with huge resistance. The UI expert is going to have to be a diplomat as well.
But the public does adjust to changing opening and closing times.

We just all change the clocks as well and pretend that we didn't. And it's stupid.
It drives me crazy that "official" sounding package names like yaml are seemingly given basically first-come first serve, with no oversight. Publish anything you want, but call it Mark's awesome yaml library, or companyName-yaml or something like that so that people are aware that's not an officially supported project
whats the intrinsic value of anything. currency is just an idea that a group of people all agree to abide by. I wont accept French Francs for payment - 30 years ago they were worth something - now people have agreed it should be replaced by the Euro. there is nothing physically different between the Frank and the Euro beyond the combined trust of the group. BTC is just another example except it doesnt have a physical existence
Having taken a stab at getting into that language, I can tell you the package landscape is freakish. Either you get on the Jane Street Train, or you slum it with packages from 2003 that don't have support (and probably dont build anymore anyway) Good luck getting things working on Windows. Honestly even Haskell is a better choice in that language space even though its getting eaten by Rust (and for good reasons).
Check out Screeps a MMO strategy sandbox game for programmers - you program your units in javascript that is ran on the server.
> Bitcoin is now considered by some important for our future finance system

Yeah, but those people are wrong. It's perfectly reasonable to judge them for doing harmful actions in service of a wrong belief.
The biggest advantage of Rust is that the liner types and the borrow checker forces one to structure the application in a way that is much more manageable long-term and less error-prone even with occasional sprinkle of unsafe code.

Surely one can code in such style in C++, but it is very unnatural there with a lot of boilerplate, so one just would not consider it typically.
Latest Firefox on Manjaro - pretty sure it's to do with with the graphics driver and Firefox not playing nicely (fine on Chrome) - so I wouldn't worry too much! (There's some webgl config settings I think...)

Using a mouse, so the scrollwheel to move it seemed ... off ... but then changing the blur intensity made it do what I would expect (letting the mouse move the image) so that's all good! :D
Go with hostbuddy.com
They r cheap and reliable.
> ... I struggle to think of what could be a good store of value.

Land.
It was pico then, nano came out a bit later. But I used it because it was what pine used and I got used to it. Then I decided to learn vi and emacs sometime later.
I believe some of Ubuntu's early marketing materials (from the days of Warty Warthog) actually depicted 3 people holding hands. See link:

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/geekfeminism/images/9/94/S...
For those who have the freedom to decide what to use, I recommend looking into rolling your own. Especially if you're writing back-end services for your app anyway.
After Google shutdown Fabric.io, we asked ourselves why even rely on 3rd parties for analytics. All we really wanted to know is basic usage statistics, like uniques, sessions, events. Turns out to be just a few days of work for what amounts to a CRUD service with a worker. Small bootstrapped HTML page to view the stats, no pretty graphs or anything, just numbers. The client code is around 300 lines, basically a simple network request queue. For comparison the latest libGoogleAnalyticsServices.a comes in at ~35mb (wtf?).
I disagree: the problem is not that package managers make things easy, it's just that several of them are poorly designed.

The fact that pip/npm/gem etc. look for packages in a fallback location if not found in the private repository is a terrible design flaw. One which not all package managers have.

For example, when you add a cargo dependency from a private registry, you have to specify the registry that the dependency comes from, so cargo will never go looking in some other place for that crate. I'm sure many other package managers also have designs that are not vulnerable in this way.

Similarly, many package managers do not support pinning of transitive dependencies (with hashes), or pinning does not happen by default, so that many people are still using floating dependencies.
Yea, pretty sure theres some webgl config settings that I need to tweak - works fine in Chrome, I just use that as fallback in case something doesn't work in FF.
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You even see Microsoft offering those types of install one-liners. e.g.

curl -sSL https://dot.net/v1/dotnet-install.sh | bash /dev/stdin <additional install-script args>

See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/dotnet-in...

There are other examples I've seen from time to time.
Yes, but not always true with investments.

Such a strategy is dangerous when you're looking at a Ponzi scheme, or a pump and dump, or anything else that is designed to leave the late entrants as the bag holders.

I'm not saying that's what Bitcoin is, just that it's dangerous to be a late entrant to an investment and you should be more wary
https://security.googleblog.com/2021/02/know-prevent-fix-fra...

At Google, we have those resources and go to extraordinary lengths to manage the open source packages we use—including keeping a private repo of all open source packages we use internally
> $X is now considered by some important for our future finance system. While not everybody agrees, this may be more important than countless other ways we use energy, for much more trivial reasons. [...] Being judgmental about how others use energy they pay for reeks of hypocrisy, virtue signaling and holier-than-thou attitude.

Et voilà!

"Some" people think $X is now important, and thus, the rest of the world shall no longer be able to produce judgements on either $X or "those people".

I think it is definitely up for debate, and we can ask questions such as how absurd $X actually is (or is not), how absurdly wasteful (or not) $X is, how many "some people" is, whether the assumption that $X is important for $Y is true (or not), etc.

Please...
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Having even a quite high false positive rate would be totally acceptable, if the process involved humans on the Large Faceless Company side.

You'd get an email, "Hello, there might be a problem, here are the details" and if you made some good faith attempt to reply, be able to talk to an actual person, who could potentially escalate your issue.
FYI: water _is_ a solvent :-)

What's the problem with using CO₂ extraction ?
>Ok, I have to admit that I am one of those people who knew about BTC very, very early but never bought any.

I was too. I told a friend who owns a data center about it, and mentioned maybe he could stress test servers by mining bitcoin (this was before 2011, mining was very reasonable on consumer hardware). He never did to my knowledge.

December of 2019 I ran into him and he thanked me for telling him about bitcoin all those years ago. He sold one for around $16,000, and still had 11 more. He literally didn't care if they dropped to $0, he considered it a win.

I should reach out and see if he has sold another one this week. He could buy a new SUV outright.
when reading about these considerations i always wonder if it really matters at which point i could discern single pixels from one another. i think there is more to it when we are talking about what we can see in the image. maybe we wont be able to benefit in the way that we see less of the pixel raster but i feel like having more details will benefit image clarity non the less. even if it is impossible to effectively discern the pixels the combination of them might still affect what i can see....
> While we'll keep building the native macOS application as a first-class citizen, we're introducing today Paw for the Web, Paw for Windows and Paw for Linux!

Straight from their announcement.
Governments around the world need to start taxing the O&G industry to pay for cleaning up their mess and seeking reparations for multiple decades of irreparable damage caused by their products (oil & gas and their derivatives such as plastic), and false climate science that inevitably delayed action.
log5j.online is on sale for $5 / month. What's the expected ongoing cost of a package? If it's $0, then it's literally infinite. At $0.01 / month it's merely 500x more expensive. The real cost is somewhere in-bewteen.
I am very interested in actual real-world applications. Because I'm following HN and I haven't seen any.

Currently, it seems to me that Bitcoin is mostly an enabler for crypto-ransomware and other illegal stuff.
My favorite supply chain attack is still the chip vendors. Even if you come up with a hardware security module in your chip to verify the code that's running on it, that can be (and has been) hacked too. Sleeping dragons could be lying in wait in billions of devices and nobody would know unless they went out of their way to do a low-level analysis.
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I thought I'd finally nailed it with _RomemoR_
Kudos to Nikolaus Baumgarten and Sophia Schomberg, who seem to have won a Webby Award in 2019 for it:

https://nikkki.net/
When the alternative is simply just using Proof of Stake and lowering the energy consumption by an estimated 99%, yes, we can be judgmental of how others use energy in this specific case. It's not Bitcoin/PoW or no cryptocurrencies at all, that's a false dichotomy, if that's what you're implying.
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> Or are you proposing manual controls?

That's what we do. Dependencies are committed to our repository, so changes show up as diffs which are looked through then.

Then again we don't use libraries for padding strings and such...
But how do you set differential electricity prices by type of use? That seems nightmarish to try to enforce. So you criticize the miners, but what can actually be done about it?
And what is the cost of the massive capacity for and monopoly on violence that nation-states derive this capability to print money out of thin air from?
> governments can print fiat money at will, with virtually no energy

I get what you're saying, but that's not really true. You have to account for the military spending required to preserve the legitimacy of your fiat currency. Any nation-state can afford the same printing presses you have.
> This feels just a little like complaining to AOL that your dialup is slow.

It is not. He is complaining he cannot switch off his current technology to a faster one while remaining at his address with ATT because there are no options.
If Bitcoin uses that amount of energy now, imagine how much it will consume when a large amount of the population actualy uses it for payments.
I tried to make this point on Reddit, and was downvoted to a smoking hole in the ground by people who were complaining that they can't get GPUs to play games, and that it's not eco-friendly. Of course, playing games on high powered GPUs is super eco-friendly, as are many other ways of making money...

Half of them think people are mining Bitcoin on GPUs, and almost none of them know about Proof of Stake coins. Not that I want to excuse the egregious power consumption of PoW coins, but I do wish the holier-than-thou crowd would at least do a little more research.
There is absolutely nothing about bitcoin that sucks. It is exactly what it needs to be: the world's hardest store of value.

Every design decision comes with trade offs. All the right trade offs have been made. If you'd reinvent it from scratch, you'd end up with the exact same thing.

The only thing about bitcoin that sucks, is that nocoiners don't have any. And they won't have any until it's $1M.

Nobody wants to be the first. But everybody wants to be second.
This is happening now in hospitals with Covid-19. I know, because I'm married to a nurse. Nurses call them "happy hypoxics" because they have no idea their SPO2 levels are dangerously low -- but a pulse oximeter clearly indicates they need additional oxygen.
Gold is potentially useful AFTER things get back together again. If there is a major disaster - US falls apart, as does the rest off the world. 95% of the world population dies, but by luck you are one of the survivors (this luck seems to be a factor most survivalists don't think about). For a few years there is chaos as people try to figure out how to get food without the supply chains in place. (worse in the cities, but even rural areas are dependent on the supply chain for fuel, fertilizer, seed, repair parts, and lots of other things)

After a few years things start to settle down. Trade with your neighbors becomes possible for some division of labor. However trade works better if there is a currency. Paper money is either degraded (the most common bills last a couple years), and the replacements are all obviously bad copies. What is needed is something that is easy to verify, that is hard to copy, has some intrinsic value, isn't so common that you need vast quantities, and something you are willing to trade. There are many choices for this, but gold is one of the better ones. Even if something other than gold is chosen, it is rare enough, and valuable enough (for good looks, and it is somewhat easy to for into useful shapes) so you can expect to find a market for your gold. Many of the things you can choose instead are either useless (computers without the entire power grid can't do anything), or so common that nobody will care (why would I want your iron when there are junk cars everywhere with plenty)

Note that in order for this to work you need to actually have the gold in hand. If you invest in gold without a safe to store it in, then it does you no good. Even if you can get to Fort Knox, whoever is there first won't recognize your claim to the gold inside.

You also need to consider inflation, thousands is a nest egg. millions is more than the local economy needs. People don't need to accept your gold, unless you are the local warlord, and then you don't need gold.
The language basis for threading is now the C11/C++11 memory model [1], even if you don't directly use it--it's baked into the compiler IR. I would argue that in the 2020s, you should be using C11/C++11 threading instead of direct pthreads if you're writing new code.

(And yes, Hans Boehm was one of the people instrumental in getting the threaded memory model adopted.)

[1] If you really want to be pedantic, it's the current verbiage that rules, independent of the actual language version you request. This is one of those situations where trying to describe the semantics more formally is challenging, so a lot of the changes in the specification aren't supposed to actually be changing how things are compiled but how things are described in the text.
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Hey there. I'm one of those people who read Schneier's Applied Cryptography in highschool in the 90s, and immediately recognized the groundbreaking potential of using asymmetric cryptography for currency.

I work in information security, and have seen first hand how our existing financial infrastructure is held together with string and scotch tape. For 10 years or so, every time I heard about some big credit card theft, or wire fraud, or SWIFT hack, I would go see if anyone had figured out how to do cryptocurrencies yet. Then 2009 rolled around and I got an email forwarded to me from someone named Satoshi who had apparently figured out a really solid mitigation for the double spend problem, and had actually released some working PoC code in the form of Bitcoin.

Yes, there are a ton of problems with Bitcoin. I've been extremely critical even since that first email, but those problems are nothing compared to the existing systemic problems plaguing traditional finance.

Getting rich was never a draw for me. I'm not quite retired (though this year has been pretty good) but I have spent 10s of thousands of Bitcoins over the years building up various aspects of the economy in order to maximize the utility of the network. I could easily be living on my own private island if I had held onto the coins I CPU mined in the early days, but I have no regrets at all about how I spent those coins. I'm more passionate about this than most, I know, but I 100% believe that legacy finance is a massive hindrance to the sustainability of our species, and crypto-economics will be a key aspect in building healthy incentives for a technologically driven society.
1) 4K TVs are virtually the only resolution available for purchase today. If you buy a new medium or large-sized TV for any reason, it will be 4K.

2) HDR works for any size and distance. TVs that do a good job with HDR will look a lot nicer than old, less bright models.
Maven is/was huge in the Java world. For years it was pretty much the only way to resolve dependencies, until people got fed up with its many idiosyncrasies.

> “we are getting .jar files individually and not using maven because it's a fucking mess”

That seems odd and a bizarre edge case. Nobody worked like that with Java projects, and I bet nobody does today either.
Presumably it wasn't used for everyday payments before, and obviously the global price was unaffected, so when you say it become useless, in what way do you mean?
What would you imagine that oversight looking like, who decides who gets the name `yaml`, and how do they verify it, and who pays for that time?
10 years is longer than a government and company balance sheet period. And the profits obtained in those periods will let you comfortably live through the ugly consequences of doing nothing expensive now.

The ones not getting rich from that delays will be the ones getting the worst effects, and also the ones that can't do anything regarding it.

Putting this in terms of money hide this asymmetries, because puts long term optimizations for non players to short term players. Is not about money, is about what must be done if we are still humans.
> interrogating whether the benefits outweigh the costs

What does this mean, in practice? Who investigates and what is the outcome?

Do the things OP listed above warrant a similar investigation?
Ah, makes sense! Thanks!
There’s still good, old fashioned antennas that deliver much less compressed video than cable.
It says that it does not store the submitted data. If true, then it's essentially just a trained model that we get to invoke for a dollar per API call to get the output from.
There have been projects like that.

The problem is that potholes do not exists because cities do not know where they are.
They exist because of lack of resources or priorities.
There's no typos in this attack.
Not to spoil the initial ones, as they're quite fun, but I like level3 from the source:

var level3 = [
containsEmoji,
hasPi(),
MD5,
]
just post all your financial statements on the web for everyone to see.

you've got nothing to hide, right?
It is covered under copyright. Here in Europe there is no patents for software.
I just tried this very naive query:
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=linux%20editor%20opene...

And the first hit teaches how to close vim. No need to know what is called.
What, morning sunlight is worse than evening sunlight?
The key selling point of Nano for me is displaying the core controls in the footer at all times

This used to be a fairly standard thing in the days of DOS, shame it is not more widespread - my memory for keyboard combinations is atrocious
Wait until you hear about how much funding the Python Software Foundation has in yearly donations... Quite a bit less than that.
This is not correct.

Installing packages only from a trusted (and signed) source protects against typosquatting, misread or confusing package names and many other risks.
Thanks for your reply. I've elaborated some in the grandparent. I am willing to pay for quality once it is rigorously demonstrated.

The safety issue comes down to this paragraph in your FAQ:

What is the filter material and how is it tested? Our filters are made in the USA with material tested to >99.997% VFE (viral filtration efficiency) by Nelson Labs. Another metric is PFE (particle filtration efficiency). The N95 standard for 0.3-micron PFE is >95.00%, while Narwall's filter material is tested to >99.50% 0.1-micron PFE. You can learn more about these particle sizes here.

The way I read it, you test for 3um (VFE is that according to https://fixthemask.medium.com/the-standards-for-face-masks-i...) and 0.1um, but not 0.3um. I'd be happy if you could point me to papers that those two sizes cover 0.3um and saturation issues.

Is there some kind of independent verification of efficacy and safety of the whole device, not just the mask?

As a minor point - the sticker price is closer to $820 (4 persons times mask and 6 months of filters and international shipping).

I am legally required to wear a medical-grade mask (FFP2 or surgical). Do you have an official-looking document to show to the authorities?
That's more for availability than security. Assuming you keep the crypto checksums / author signatures of all the source code and packages, you don't need to keep a copy of the source / packages. Just verify them at download time. Many Linux distros don't even have a copy of all those binaries, they rely on HTTP mirrors of random organizations.

It's also useful for your organization to rebuild all of the source code from scratch (for reproducible packages anyway) and compare the new ones to the old ones, looking for things like compiler or hardware injection attacks. Secure build systems are definitely non-trivial.
yes, most people are invested in crypto because they wanna get rich with that 355% increase FULL STOP. No one with a brain uses it as currency. For the same reason that inflation is ALWAYS better than deflation. you lose money using bitcoin to buy something.
I am kind of jaded, but despite the interesting approach, I predict that this research will not end up being deployed in time to make any difference. The real world pipeline just takes too long.
Hi, I took the liberty of putting your code and the remarks here in a pretty wrapper: https://github.com/pforret/remac

In short: "remac -p ibm set" will set your MAC address to a new MAC adress with an "IBM Corp" prefix
We do that somewhat by limitations in the grid itself. A simple example is that different kind of outlet you use for your washer dryer machine.
It's really interesting to see the things you can do with nation-state level funding... it just takes political will.
banks in the UK are operating a charity? someone pays for all those skyscrapers.
FYI. On a related note - I was downvoted a couple of days back for an almost similar comment on the ABP uBO combo.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26058260
It seems ABP is shady that they let some businesses bypass their blocker.