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> Ideally currencies aren't supposed to have value per se,

According to whose ideals? Currency is a thing used as a medium of exchange. Like any thing used in trade, it will have value determined by supply and demand, both to individuals and in broad markets, and like all things that value will vary individual in ways that are subjective but in some broad patterns predictable (e.g., declining marginal utility is true of money as it is of anything else, though the fungibility of money suggests that the decline should be slower in terms of how much additional utility you can derive from money, compared to other things, before losing any given proportion of starting marginal utility.)

> You and I might disagree about the relative value of a product, but we express our own disagreement in terms of dollars.

That's not because we agree on the value of dollars ($/util) but because we agree to use dollars as a currency of account and/or medium of exchange.

> We don't disagree about the relative value of the dollar itself.

Relative to... what? I mean, the entire idea of mutually beneficial trade requires disagreement on relative value of the goods exchanged, and that doesn't change when one side of the exchange is dollars. So, yes, we probably do disagree on the most relevant relative value of dollars to the exchange, otherwise the exchange wouldn't happen.

I don't care how you value something (in terms of how much utility it gives you), I care how much utility it will cost me to get it from you. I don't need to concur with you on the value of the dollar to exchange dollars with you for goods.

> This is why inflation is usually measured in the shift of common goods and services in terms of dollars, since measuring the value of the dollar itself is a fool's errand.

Measuring what you can exchange something for is measuring it's (market) value, which is the only measurable (on a ratio level) kind of value. Subjective utility can be measured (with difficulty), but only to an ordinal level (x > y), and only for an individual.
Things are what they are when you interact with them. You can't learn how to ride a bike by learning the theory. It's no different for software.
No, Andrew Torba is a racist asshole who uses the guise of "free speech" to peddle hate. And I say this as someone who knew him many years ago during YC.
caveat to enjoying a wondrous life in OK of course is don't be a BIPOC
I still remember the first one or two hundred digits from high school. I guess I could say I cheated by going back in time and memorizing it. Perhaps I'd just insist that I didn't cheat at all, wink wink.

In high school, it definitely crossed my mind that I could hide earphones under my hair or wear a bracelet with a different color of seed bead for each digit. That's one of the slower methods, and it's easy to catch if you're looking for it, but it works in person and doesn't require a screen.
I don’t think I’ve ever laughed so much on HN. May the doge be with you
An issue I see with this is that not everyone has the time or will to customize their OS to their specific needs. In this regard, it might be arguable that Apple has done a reasonably good job at advertising/showcasing the ease of use of macOS out of the box.
Nice article.

I was never a walker, but went to gyms for many years. Since covid I've skipped the gyms, but started walking.

With a Fitbit and an iPhone full of podcasts, I find it very relaxing. It seems good for my body weight, too.
Brokerless Task Queue for Python
doesnt samsung create thousands of jobs in the community with this? not sure I share your outrage. this isnt about some one trick pony YC startup hiring a dozen backend devs
Of course. However, between the close to sweet f*ck-all support we used to get on Linux for some software vs. a decent enough Electron app, I'll still take Electron. But I admittedly do have some RAM to spare.
Dashcam video contradicts UM student claim of police harassment
Anyone else skeptical of their claim that the benefits of the plug in and the hybrid are the same? It assumes that electricity production remains the same as it is right now, whereas in reality it will likely become much more green (and electric car charging is a candidate to be even more green than general production since you can charge at peak solar hours very easily).
If the deal never really made sense and was just a ploy by the Governor to drum up support, then a change in administration would mean that the new administration has no interest in paying off Foxconn for their part in the charade.
Yup, just did. Thanks for the tip
Minutes? Now way! I have a Crystal code base with 10s of thousands of lines and it takes like 10-30 seconds.

The solution is to start breaking up the monolith so you only compile sections at a time.
I think the ‘free work’ idea is just a misapplication of a trend from another context.

It’s a relatively recent thing to call out unpaid work on social media. The bar that runs entirely on trial shifts. The media giant running unpaid internships.

In those cases the work really is valuable to the business. You can do bar work or proofreading at close to the output of an experienced person right off the bat. So those are rightly called out when abused.

On the other hand, the idea that you’re gonna come to an established engineering or product team with novel and valuable new insights, after a random Saturday of you thinking about it, is patently silly.
> They kinda build the cleanrooms around ASML's machines instead of bringing them in afterwards.

I know they're massive, but do you have a source for this? I was under the impression that construction and tool installation are two distinctly separate phases of construction due to the requirements for an immaculate environment. Also, my understanding is that companies like to bring the tools in as late as possible to shorten the delay between capex outlay (tools are expensive) and first production.
Look at it from the local government prospective, they could get 0 in tax income or they can settle from the tax income of thousands of new high income jobs.
That's like dropping support for firefox or edge or safari

Chrome 69.28%
Edge 7.75%
Firefox 7.48%
Internet Explorer 5.21%
Safari 3.73%
QQ 1.96%
Sogou Explorer 1.73%
Opera 1.12%
Yandex 0.90%
UC Browser 0.37%
You are right that wouldn't make for a good store of value. But Bitcoin actually does not get attacked "continuously" so that is not an applicable criticism. It is conceivable that such a thing could happen but we can expect it to happen approximately never given the incentives in place.
I'd recommend to disable iCloud for the offending apps in System Preferences -> Apple ID -> iCloud. I like macOS, but I don't like iCloud at all.
> we have the discussions and promotion efforts surrounding bitcoin

The best promotion for BTC is simply its price, the ease of setting up a Coinbase account, and mooning memes of $100k/coin.

> Why would enthusiasts and bandwagoners sink money into bitcoin in order to support tesla’s stock price?

Tesla, currently less than 1% of the global auto market, is worth more than several of the largest automakers combined. Musk pushing "to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity" by buying into an asset which is currently in a bull cycle is a good way to attempt to justify that price.

> Why would a ton of people be interested in trading an asset? What indication do you have that they are unaware of the implications of the asset trending higher and higher relative to fiat?

Simply compare the price of BTC now to where it was a year ago, and take a look at its trajectory on the chart.

> Your alternate hypothesis is more complicated, so Occam’s razor does not suggest this.

Animal spirits are self-explanatory.

https://qz.com/1971100/buying-bitcoin-after-an-elon-musk-twe...
By resources do you mean hardware resources or expertise or what?

Cause running more than 2 processes on a 2-core server just sounds weird.

I thought Node's doctrine was "One process per core", and (async) Rust and Go seem to do fine with managing their own thread pools. I haven't _tried_ to do a realistic benchmark of Hyper, but I've never seen it struggle with concurrency either, even on long-polling applications where concurrency was the norm for all clients.

More processes would work, but it doesn't seem like the right layer of abstraction for 2015, now that Nginx and Node have made the event model so popular.
Event Pages for Clubhouse Events
Last updated doesn't tell you a lot for finished things.

That site instead displays usage metrics, which are much more useful: they tell you whether other people find that library useful right now.

I don't care whether a flac decoding library was updated in the last decade if it does its job.
Memorizing ten phone numbers isn’t hard, and those are perfect size! Give these fake phone numbers to 10 fake friends starting with A through J and you’re golden.
Our computers (intentionally) don't have mice.
Although Python seems to be the exception to the rule here, your example isn't exactly right. In your example, you're performing integer division, not floating point division. In most languages, integer division by zero is indeed some kind of exception (or UB, which will most likely result in a hardware exception, causing a signal sent to the process). However, floating point division by zero is well-defined, as per definition of floating point arithmetic (in some RFCs), and most languages don't throw exceptions in this case. Python indeed seems to be the exception to the rule.
> I’ll bet people like flexcuff guy and pipebomb guy weren’t discussing _their_ plans in such public forums.

I dunno, some of those folks were pretty brazen. Remember they thought all this was, if not "legal" exactly, "sanctioned" by their sitting president. They weren't trying to hide.

But even if we grant that the premise (which is clearly true) that serious criminals will always have the ability to hide from surveillance, the presence of an easily found public forum is still a prerequisite for real insurrection.

Flexcuff guy and pipebomb guy may have been hardened experts, but they couldn't have sacked the capitol with only their militias behind them. The preventable part of this is the mob violence. And mob violence requires a mob, which requires that the members of the mob (by definition amateurs) be able to find forums to radicalize them.
Of course! I should have mentioned that I absolutely agree with the thrust of your original comment :) I should have been less confrontational with my opening statement.
A Search for “Dog” on Instagram Surfaces an Emoji for a Chinese Takeout Box
Plus, both Corellium and Asahi Linux are porting Linux to the M1 MacBooks. I have Ubuntu installed in a separate partition and boot into it occasionally. The main issues right now are audio and graphics support.
Verizon’s ‘One Fiber’ Scam for 5G Wireless
Hmmm looks fun.

I'm a mobile app (not game) perspective. For many years, I always want to make cool 3D game like GTA, unfortunately due to it's complexity it's impossible to write such game alone.

Probably I'll learn writing smaller games, instead :D
False dichotomy. I'm sure Stanford cruses its CS students with theory and math already. Nothing wrong with a course that is purely practical and can help people get a job. Most employers would rather see "built and iOS app" in a resume than "took this difficult theory class".
Signal PIN currently serves a different purpose: it enables registration lock, which is a defense against number porting attacks. https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059792-Si...
That's less of macOS itself and more how it fares on Intel hardware. My M1 Pro hasn't really had that.
Foxconn negotiated a deal with members of a political party that was in power, that deal was an empty promise, and those power brokers used that promise from Foxconn as part of their political messaging with the hope of being reelected.

Had those politicians stayed in office, it's possible they would reward Foxconn for participating in the charade that helped them obtain reelection. Is it certain? No, I won't say it is.

But, what else was Foxconn's goal if not to actually realize those incentives without having to make the investment to justify them? They knew they were promised an enormous incentive by the state, and they knew that they would not fulfill their end of the bargain. If they also knew that they wouldn't realize those incentives, why did they pursue them? The simplest answer is that they fully intended to realize them.

Surely at least some of the negotiators of that deal legitimately believed that the other party - the Republican Governor and majority legislature in the state - would play ball?
Hardware manufacturing for ASICs is indeed mainly from Bitmain and a few others - how does that matter here?
So useless for a stolen cracked phone like this case?
Bricks and stone provide abysmal thermal insulation. North American drywall with insulation is far, far better thermally. It's not even close.

Also... what does "much more solid" windows mean exactly? Like, are you saying European window glass is... thicker or something? Which wouldn't make any sense, and I'm not even sure what a benefit would be?
Interesting. Tells us something about the maturity of the products seeing unanticipated demand.
It says the riscv rust gentoo packages are missing. That seems plausible.
Where does this number come from?
> about SV founders who are viewed as hustlers

Well this is likely an age thing. And to be honest, in my 10 years reading HN, the use of "hustler" to describe a Silicon Valley founder on the front page (and second) is pretty thin on the ground. There is no ambiguity unless you're a bit deficit in the history department (which is not our problem).
I'm not hyping BTC, btw. I'm correcting misconceptions about it, so we can fix the very real problems with PoW causing pollution. I personally have zero exposure to BTC.

Regardless of how we both feel about BTC, it's here to stay, so we might as well figure out a way for it to continue to exist without actively harming people.
Of course replacing "hustler" with the name of another company wouldn't produce the same confusion, because most other companies names are not also adjectives commonly used to describe people in the tech world.

You're so intent on being offended by imagined offence taken by someone else that you're ignoring them telling you first hand that you've misunderstood them. The irony is astounding...
That takes maybe a couple hours. I memorized the first ~50 one day in math class when I was bored. It's been 15 years and I still remember most of them. (Yet, I still can't remember where I left my keys just this morning...)

It would definitely be more work to prepare a method of cheating.
I really like the idea of Étoilé, but a lot of the docs are outdated because of the death of Gna!, and right now the focus is more on the CoreObject framework rather than the UI.
Been there, done that!

And it was a blast.
He did an unknown amount of sketchy and questionable stuff, but when it came to defending our right to say things the government disapproves of, Flynt was an absolute hero.

Thanks for everything you did for us, Larry. You’ve done good.
Ultralearning: I Became a Top% Chess Player in Under 50 Hours
I am not sure if this actually works, but, I've always steered clear of "Learn x in y days" kind of learning.
Total guess: I assume they could claim unauthorized access to a computer system under the CFAA.

I’m fairly sure that the police can’t hack a random server then claim “I’m a cop so it’s okay” without a warrant. At the very least any evidence gathered may be deemed inadmissible. Accessing a system without permission may, I guess, fall in the same bucket.
Covid-19 Will Change Public School Education Forever
It's a great movie, I can highly recommend. Especially seeing Falwell getting put in his place (fictionally of course).
You'd have to talk to a laywer. I believe it is OK as long as you're playing it for friends and family.

If you're broadcasting it electronically, like radio, it's OK as long as you have a blanket broadcast license.

Given the cop specifically asked and confirmed that there were people listening, he probably should have had a license.
It'd be interesting to get a true measure of the performance opportunities from WASM.

Every app has performance opportunities, but they usually not quite related to the raw performance of the language, usually, it's loading and backend latency.

People don't realize that V8 is really, really fast and always getting faster, and that WASM was never really super fast.

As V8 gets faster the delta opportunity for WASM is reduced at least in terms of raw, algorithmic performance.
I think there's confusion here about personal data collection vs ad serving/metrics. Publishers have no reason to be fraudulent about the first one.
I see articles like this with a semi-conspiratorial angle and I just roll my eyes. They had a bug, and they fixed it. Not everything is part of some master plot.
The article mentions you cannot use the app until its been updated
Funny thing about software is it costs money to produce and maintain. Another funny thing, is it runs on hardware which also isn’t free to buy or maintain. At Apple scale, that means for every new app or update, they need to compile it, scan it, pass it off for checks and then distribute it globally. That will be done many many many times a second.
On top of that they have to maintain a payment system that I’ve not once seen go down or had a problem with. Then they need to handle fraud, payment refund requests through support etc.

All I’m getting at, is it’s naive to boil what they do for that 30% down to “they automate some software”.
It is the same in any language post here or on reddit.

Language designers all optimise for different needs and if they find an audience they are doing something right for someone even if it isn't you.
Right, but the idea and comment I'm addressing is "If you don't like it, create a fork".

This "do it yourself" mantra doesn't apply to Signal, and they have a history of rejecting community work. It's much more valuable to advocate for changes and fixes to the main app.

> If your fork of Signal in better, then you should have no difficulty it convincing people to switch to it.

This isn't true. Signal has a marketing budget and millions of downloads of inertia.
That would be very interesting indeed. I never thought of that!
He obviously didn't read the article.
Tired of seeing Rome pulled out as an example for everything. Lazy thinking. Similar to how the only example of a ‘bad’ leader is Hitler.

I’m sure, in the 2000 years since Rome, that there is probably another political system more suitable to use as a comparison to the US.

The truth is, the US has nothing in common with Ancient Rome. Not it’s religion, view of civics, concept of citizenship, law, property rights, economy, nor ideals.

In fact, the two cultures are so dissimilar, that one could just as well hold up the Incan or Mayan empires as valid (or, I should say, equally invalid) comparators.

Just because the Romans left a bunch of cool statues and buildings laying around that were copied by uncreative city planners and architects, does not mean the US has any particular similarity to Rome.

Just my opinion.
Never got as far as their podcasts. I have given up on their news though — just feels really partisan and stale (and I’m saying that as someone who leans left)
Some people seem to be so invested in the boogeyman of "cancel culture" and other people being "snowflakes" that they invent things to be upset about.
it's not a big deal, it just highlights that Google has stalled over 2 months on pushing out updates for its flagship apps, because it seems they don't want to add iOS privacy "nutrition" labels. Like Facebook did (and suffered some[0] pushback[1] for). Edit: interesting that this is getting downvoted.

[0] - https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1339174301564604418
[1] - https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1347165127036977153
Fluffy Chat, Element, Syphon, etc.

You actually have to go out of your way to customize the server part
The biggest advantage of foregoing a GUI is that the experience of programming is totally modal: you're either in the shell, editing your program, or running your program. That allows students to focus on what they're doing without distraction.

A secondary advantage is that the tools are so wonderfully simple. On the first day we introduce ls, touch, nano, and cc. That's all you need to write your first program. The tool reference fits on one page. And that toolchain will do right by you for anything up to about a kiloline, and in an introductory course, that's about the biggest thing you'll write. So there's no more mussing with tooling. You can focus on algorithms and data structures.

A tertiary advantage is that it forces (and allows) the students to muck around with unix in a way that's oddly less threatening than a graphical user interface. Eventually they start rooting around in /etc and /var and /bin, and learn a whole lot about how computers are organized. So there's some serendipitous learning as well.
I'm trying to reverse engineer how it works..

It is a static webpage, hosted on Github Pages
https://conwnet.github.io/github1s

And, here is the static webpage source-code:
https://github.com/conwnet/github1s/blob/gh-pages/404.html
Hm, I don't think I said that. I think this is more of PR issue than anything else
Per-transaction basis is completely meaningless math. Both systems can be scaled as I said. The point is that it's more expensive to run the US dollar system than Bitcoin.
> but you just can't bring yourself to believe it could ever happen on a bigger scale

What I asked was for what would make your position falsifiable, in terms of time that an attack does not happen. How many decades from now do we need to wait.

My position is falsifiable, on the other hand. If a major attack, on the scale of the whole BTC network gets broken for weeks and weeks on end, then my position is falsified, as I do not think such attacks, on that large of a scale, are going to happen, therefore if one does I would be wrong.

Yours, on the other hand, does not seem to be. It seems like there is no possible timeline, for attacks on that scale failing to materialize, for which you will admit that such attacks are not coming.
Now that the party FB supports isn't in power? hmmm
Only in that the lack of typographic options for HN titles prevents the clearer Hustler from being used in the title, which might suggest he's a mere “hustler founder”.
The number of lightning transactions and channels rounds to zero, so in a way, I did include them. Same number of channels, about half the capacity per channel, same quantity of locked up value (about 1000BTC total) and the same number of users since 2019. [1]

Of course it's not a solution to scaling, because it requires one on-chain transaction to open, one to close, and if an intermediate node happens to go down your funds are locked. It's garbage. Vastly overcomplicated garbage.

By the way to just open a single channel for everyone on earth today and close it will take about 70 years, so right around the year 3000 if you (very optimistically) factor in births and deaths. And about $265 billion dollars at current fee rates - $18.99 as quoted today. Elon better pony up! This of course assumes the blockchain isn't used for anything else in the interim.

How small can the transactions be if a channel open/close costs almost $40?

The only L2 solutions that scale are permissioned, centralized and/or trustful. Because that's how you scale. And you can back those with anything as none of the guarantees of the underlying asset are conferred to these L2 networks simply because they notionally operate on top of Bitcoin for net settlement and the (soon to be unlawful) non-custodial wallet.

[1] https://bitcoinvisuals.com/lightning
>First, cars. Enough said.

No not really. Cars are wonderful, not everyone who lives on this planet wants to share space with strangers.