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So does it make sense to put in some money that I’m okay with losing now or have I missed it?
My wife had one of her research projects get some media attention. For one interviewer, she wouldn't give the quote that they wanted (essentially a value judgment that her research couldn't possibly answer), so they got the quote from someone else who had nothing to do with the project. I can't say that is what happened here as the quote seems quite innocuous.

Alternatively, they do sometimes want to get a view from someone unrelated to the project in order to get a feel for how important/interesting the result truly is.
>The privilege, in many respects, often simply comes from the assumption that members of your group are in some sense considered the default type of human, and that other humans are the exceptions (even if they actually outnumber the 'default') that the world may or may not choose to accommodate in various ways.

Sure, but obviously the modally-raised examples of privilege are not stuff like "'flesh-colored' crayons correspond to white skin tones." It pertains to perceived social norms and such that benefit white people as a class at the expense of non-white people. But if you posit that those social norms may constitute a shared cultural experience, then you've crossed a line? I don't buy it.

If you go on Twitter and find someone talking about hating white people for whatever reasons (shouldn't be too hard), I'm sure that many of the critiques will be cultural in nature (eg. look at all the culturally-laden digs towards "white-girl feminism".) But again, this shouldn't be taken to imply the existence of white culture? Why not?

I'm not particularly hung up on trying to prove that white culture exists in particular, but I just don't think the arguments for why black culture exists but not white culture are very good, and I think they are clearly subverted by how woke narratives collectively treat white people in pretty much any sort of critical context.
The opening sentence:

> There is something about social media that human beings are not psychologically prepared for.

I would state it: Engineers and business people have distilled what creates craving and then satisfies it by creating more craving.

No different than distilling the sugar, heroin, or cocaine from otherwise healthy, innocuous plants. We regulate some of that distillation. Even what we don't regulate, as a society, we generally look down on people that addict others. Why we reward programmers as we did the Sacklers doesn't make sense to me. I would think we would consider employees and investors of antisocial media companies villainous pariahs.
That's so amazing to me. Most of the Bitcoin memes are about dudes who get rich selling half of their stash and buying a lambo with fiat.

How is this gonna change human history more than dudes getting rich selling some stock?
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This. Cryptocurrencies in general seem to have potential for being used in day-to-day transactions in the future, but Bitcoin itself mostly seem to be used to store value.

The planned limit on the total amount of Bitcoin in circulation, transaction fees and long transaction times seem to be quite a blocker for using it to buy a cup of coffee.
They date the twine used, not the actual beads themselves. It could be the case that the beads were put on some old twine. Or that the twine and beads were old, but landed in Alaska at a much later time.
When everything is going up, you can feel like everyone is winning but you. There's many get-rich-quick-schemes available right now and if you put in the effort to know where to go, you can get "rich" quick too.

Or, you can continue enjoying your life the way you are without worrying what others are doing. Many times, they are only projecting one side of the story.
To see if it could parse the phrase better than I ...

(There are probably better grammar checkers/advisers, that was what came to mind.)
The Ars article mentions copycats only fleetingly, despite it being in the headline/title of the piece.

This article from Bleeping Computer, published four days ago (but not, as far as I can tell from searching, on HN), has a bit more detail:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/copycats-imit...

Edit to add that Ars has now changed its article headline/title to read New type of supply-chain attack hit Apple, Microsoft and 33 other companies, which almost echoes what we knew when the story broke last week. Perhaps Ars will change it again later.
>and things like DOGE are like currency. The value will be pegged to BTC, making it the foundation for the ecosystem.
I disagree. It is more realistic for existing currency based stable coins to become the currencies. For example countries like the US will create a cryptocurrency pegged to the dollar, China with the Yuan, and Europe with the Euro. Currently USD pegged stable coins are the most popular.
It’s to demonstrate that other experts in the field, who don’t have a connection to this particular study, found the results significant. Seems useful to me.
I also tell some of my cousins to get less of their news from Facebook and, in general, use Facebook less.

On Facebook.
That enough people have bought into the idea doesn't change the merits or issues that lead people to take their position on it in the first place. I didn't like the original iPod, I still don't, a lot of people did and do. I don't think either group is "wrong", just that we each value things differently.

The same applies to Bitcoin. It doesn't offer me any tangible benefits over traditional currency and it has some major drawbacks in areas that I value. The only reason I would purchase is if I felt like gambling on speculation.
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That’s too strong of a statement.
Those that do ask themselves might then moderate and thus not become the subjects of people’s outrage.

They might also be so far down the road of evildoing that every time they do ask themselves, they cling to any excuse that they’re not the baddies.
If Bloomberg had written about "this is happening according to sources" people would not be reacting as they do to an "this happened, look at these pictures that are obviously fake" article.

This is nothing like a pre-Snowden talk about NSA where someone theorised what was happening. This would be like if Snowden was quoted anonymously in an article and proof that was clearly fake was shown as actual leaks. Sure hardware modifications like this is happening (we know NSA does so) but this particular article (well, two now) is pure fluff and FUD pretending to have real proof. There's an interesting discussion to be had about this topic but those articles would make anyone a laughingstock if used as facts in the discussion.
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Download Rider, and use it to generate a dotnet core 5.0 web api in F#.

That will give you a restful api using F# that you can immediately modify to build out an endpoint. Figure out how to add in authn/authz using just regular aspnet core and you'll be ready to go. I like dapper for data access in F#, but plenty prefer a more traditional ORM like nhibernate or EF6.

You'd be surprised how much you can do with F#, the only caveat is learning to read docs in C#. Since that's considered the lingua franca of .NET, almost all docs will be in C# and need to be transliterated into F#. This is a skill that only takes a day or two to learn.
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> I actually tremendously enjoy hearing a well constructed negative argument against Bitcoin/Crypto that presents a perspective I haven't heard a 100 times before and/or hasn't been debunked in depth.

Me too! /r/Buttcoin is a nice place for that, but you must already know (as your nick looks familiar to me)

My personal favorite well constructed new negative argument: like India and Nigeria, governments will try to ban crypto since it endangers their total control.

It will come as a coordinated attack by OECD countries, who will need to inflate big time after Covid: they will ban all transactions to fiat accounts, and all exchanges on their territory.

Counter argument: politicians (and the 1%) need to protect against inflation/taxations, so they may not all be in favor, and will leak the plan. It will cause a huge Streisand effect, as "there is no such thing as negative publicity": random Joes will buy crypto, making the plan politically undefensible.
My programming-related usage was four years on Mac, then two years on Linux (a quad core Dell) and now I'm back on a M1 Mac.

I believe that there are people who have their Linux boxes configured just right with carefully crafted dotfiles and custom tiling DEs and whatnot, but it's usually people who do coding or writing or some other single thing.

You don't hear often about people who would use their 12-month-uptime-no-crashes-whatsoever machines for coding for a living, a bit of gaming on the side, some hobby-level photography stuff, maybe a bit of music production, and all of that without a single issue.
What was the mortgage interest rate in 1989? As rates go down, prices go up, so unless the interest rate environment of 1989 was similar to 2021, I don't think it's fair to compare only the home sale price.
This definitely seems like bubble territory, but on the other hand will the next crash follow the "this time it's different" line? Bitcoin has seen extreme price crashes many times and far exceeded the price later on. I doubt the likely next crash is somehow special.
Using curses also allows it to work on terminals that are not ANSI terminals (even though most of the actual hardware that still survives understand most of the VT-100 sequences).

Also, not all terminals have uniform coverage for ANSI codes. Apple's Terminal.App does a good job with double-width and double-height, but lacks the SGR 53 overline that VTE, Konsole and Microsoft Windows Terminal have (and that makes status lines so much better).
You'd think Microsoft would have automated perf / regression tests running with scenarios for large amounts of files.

But then, there's so much variability with Windows that it's impossible to think of all scenarios to test for.
Traditional VC is a red flag for me to avoid a project given they are dumb money. Crypto VC is a different story though, they can be very helpful. And they are 100% nothing alike so if you are reading this thing crypto VC is just like traditional VC “except crypto!” you are very mistaken.
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> For 12 years, just bubbles?

Counterfactual: asset prices and incomes have been rising, almost uninterruptedly, for 12 years.

Exhibit A is Tether being able to publicly admit that they don't have the cash they said they had and keep going.
I've met folks who bought houses with fiat too. Moving millions across "money transfer unfriendly" borders sounds like money laundering to me.
I think this is how AI takes over humanity.

Humans are so short-sighted, we don't even need a superintelligence to outsmart us.
We happily stand by and collect profits while letting the AI do whatever it wants.
Really, we need regulation that makes companies care about side-effects of their AI technology.
All the Y Combinator companies combined have created value.

What has Bitcoin created?

I struggle to come up with an answer which isn't overwhelmingly just a way to fund illicit activities, for which sure there's always been a market, but it's a far cry of it's origins. Who actually uses bitcoin for transactions today other than extortionists hackers and drug dealers? Everyone who owns is just planning to HODL and hope that it will become equivalent to an infinitely high fiat equivalent. Had bitcoin succeeded we wouldn't be talking about insane valuations. We would be using it every day no different from a credit card.
Ask HN: Does anyone find it strange that sport is part of daily news?
I just realized isn't id odd that worldwide there is a sport section as a part of daily news?

Relic of ancient times "bread and games" (panem et circenses), time when people were politically
manipulated with biggest distraction. I am thinking there is no cooking news, or musical news... Sport news are about what other people do, not what we personally do. There is no science block, gaming block, music block ... but along weather there is sport section?!

I do not in this moment, I do not know, it just feel strange and off, is there anyone else who shares similar feeling?

Update: Sorry, for not being clear, I specifically meant TV news, you know prime time. News, from country to country the one it is on around 8pm each day...
I have never heard this so-called “maxim”
I would like to know which movies had to be edited to please US Armed Forces.
Restraint is a great tool for engineers. When you can't to everything, you focus on what matters the most.

I used to have an IBM 3151 terminal on my desk (I wish I could afford a 3278/9 or 3290) connected over 9600 bps to my workstation. It's a great to remind me to keep things simple.
I would go through zero-day bug instead of this. If one can build a single chip which read sensitive data from hard disk, steal private key from main memory, and send data via the ethernet port, that chip must have a lot of pins connecting to pcie bus, qpi etc., and super complex. This super spy chip must use the latest technology to build such as TSMC which is not possible in mainland China.
See also ZDNet article about this:

Apple patches severe macOS Big Sur data loss bug

https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-patches-severe-macos-big...
> ...for practically nothing

> I know practically no one around me...

I recommend reading a bit more about its use in countries with poor fiscal/monetary policy.

https://qz.com/africa/1947769/nigeria-is-the-second-largest-...
> offline-first

But subscription based.
Wow this letter is brutal!
Can you even fit a Guitar in the overhead luggage bins in economy on a full international flight? It's difficult enough to get one suitcase up there.
> processor caches, branch predictors

You can't "take this into account" because it requires state that isn't visible to you and also requires you to know the design of future hardware!
This was published almost one and a half year before the Bloomberg story:

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-severed-ties-w...

Why do you completely cut tie with a big supplier over security concerns and at the same time don't disclose why? I'd say this is exceptional in the business of IT-security.
Whilst I think bitcoin will be around long term, it will be in somewhat of a precarious position once the proof of stake and high TPS blockchains start gathering steam.

Sticking with PoW long term is my only concern about Bitcoins ability to remain relevant.

I'm more bullish on Ethereum, pending successful transition to V2. Also bullish on some of the emerging competitors to Ethereum; heterogeneity provides a healthier ecosystem.
Reddit's redesign. 'Less addictive' for me. I'm sure there must be some target audience for whom this is more addictive, but I'm not the one, I just want to read the comments of the thread I choose myself in peace.
What helps me sleep at night is that even had I entered all this time ago with BTC I would have exited 100 times by now. There have indeed been many 2x,3x,5x multipliers with BTC but there have been so many instances when it was unclear how everything is going to turn out which would personally prompt me to consider exiting with what I had.

As my friend nicely put it: only way we could have gotten rich from BTC is had we bought it when it was pennies and forgotten about it up until last year
Hardware + software is a physicalist view. Dualist view is material hardware + astral hardware, ironically they don't quite believe in software.
I’ve definitely missed the opportunity to get rich but I still jumped in.

I started putting a small amount into BTC each month on Coinbase. It’s money I can lose and that I would have spent on a vacation this year if not for COVID. I figure I’ll pull it out at the end of the year and if it’s gone up, then next year’s vacation will be a bit better.

I don’t understand BTC at all and consider it gambling. But like Nick the Greek said, the next best thing to gambling and winning is gambling and losing.
Yes. At previous job where we were making a desktop Win32 application we experienced this. Our automatic pipeline is: Build server compiles all the .EXEs and .DLLs, creates an .EXE installer and sends it for testing. Test agent grabs the installer, installs the product and runs various test scenarios (pokes buttons, menu items, etc). One of those scenarios is HTML help (.CHM file) displayed inside Windows built-in help viewer that started to time-out. The solution was to go to Control Panel, Internet options, Clear Cookies. Also the product's check-for-updates-in-background feature on this machine was very slow because cookies. Both features are using Windows' (or IE's) high level HTTP library containing functions such as fetch-this-url-and-figure-out-TLS-and-redirects-automatigally.
I just dowloaded Inky on Ubuntu and got a

299792 segmentation fault (core dumped)
Given how malware has been demonstrated that infiltrates the Intel ME firmware, reads main memory and covertly exfiltrates data (through introducing packet jitter), I think it is safe to assume that Intel has the same abilities.

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2013/Fahrplan/events...
Luckily I'm absolutely terrible with money. I was talking about bitcoin to everyone in 2011, but didn't invest myself as I thought I didn't have enough to put for it to matter.

Had I invested, I'd have wasted the coins long time ago, and would be just kicking myself daily or on suicide watch.
I think you are referring to my comment that said guthub.com is owned by Github, not guthib.com :)
You could be excited about the purchasing power of 1 BTC being 100x what it was a few years ago. No fiat currency has ever deflated more than a tiny percentage in our lifetimes.
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I'm interested in what you find lame about the climate change arguments?

They seem fairly appealing to me, cryptocurrency is a fraction of the size of current payment processors and is already consuming a small country's worth of power. How much more power will it consume if scaled further? How will power efficiency strategies affect the utility of the network?

I think there are some reasonable arguments for mining farms that draw from excess power during periods of low utilisation, but even that power seems like it could be put to more productive use.
Yup. That reminds me, I need to sell the free Stellar Lumens I got from Keybase. If I can work out how to do that without a scam or a disaster, I might consider touching the rest of the ecosystem.
> As an economics grad

This perhaps explains the rest of your comment :-) Often in economic theory it's assumed that people are totally rational, and often rationality is assumed to include sociopathic levels of self interest. Daniel Kahneman, the author of Thinking Fast and Slow, uses the word "econ" to describe the mythical creature that statisfies these properties. He makes the point that most people are not econs to some lesser or greater extent (either because they don't fully act in their own self interest or otherwise don't act fully "rationally" in the economic theory sense).

I often leave online reviews because I feel it's the right thing to do, even if I personally don't benefit from them. In part, I feel like they're payment for reviews others have left which I've used, even though an econ wouldn't bother because those other reviews would exist regardless of my "payment".

I do get your point towards the end of your comment that it's easy enough to come up with fake reviews, either by paying some econ-ish people or just using a machine. I'm talking more about the earlier point about recommendation from your neighbour only being reliable because of the consequences of a poor review.
If my brain was in a jar, but all my sensory perception linked to a robot body on the other face of the planet (without my brain knowing), I would probably consider that robot body me.
If the phrase "diamond hands" became a meme is because those who just held their bags and ignored bubbles ended up with 40x gains in a couple of years
Dunno, accepting that you're a sinner and that you need to shape up runs throughout Christian theology. I'm not as familiar with other theological schools, but I believe Buddhism and Islam both recognize dysfunction, including outright baddiness, at least as part of the conversion or enlightenment process.
From MW

Definition of illustrative
: serving, tending, or designed to illustrate

illustrative examples

art that is illustrative of provincial life
Your feeling is IMO the norm for lots of folks.

I have had this conversation with many a friend, who actually view Bitcoin as a Ponzi, and therefore decide not to play the game (a ponzi ca be lucrative if : a) you know it's a ponzi b) you're smart in your timing and not too greedy but it's still a crapshoot).

The real questions are:

- what if it isn't a Ponzi ?
- how much will your "won't touch it with a 10 feet pole" attidude cost you then ?
AKA : no risk, no rewards.
I don't have an example handy, but it's useful in exactly the same cases where you would use a Lisp "cond" construct; testing a bunch of conditions one after the other. Using an "if / else if / ... / else" construct can do the same thing, but it can be less clear sometimes (both to intent and because it takes up more screen real estate, which makes understanding the overall code harder).
When it reached 100, I thought, this is the apex, it is not gonna grow anymore, it is too late to jump on.

And I've repeated that thought on 1.000, 10.000, 20.000 and again now.

So yes, you are not alone in feeling this is a missed opportunity.
> They might also be so far down the road of evildoing that every time they do ask themselves, they cling to any excuse that they’re not the baddies.

This describes nearly all of us. You can semi-honestly ask yourself if you are acting good, and mostly about non-essential stuff. But deep down it's just a rhetoric exercise. It is essentially impossible to question your fundamental beliefs. Also, it is easy to verify that this is the case: have you ever held contradictory fundamental beliefs? Not at the same time, of course, but along the years? Like, something that you thought was an immutable basis of your opinion when you were 18, and when you become 35 you think about it and it is obviously wrong. Do you think you were capable at 18 of asking that question to yourself? Do you think you are now capable to do so, regarding your current fundamental thoughts? I may lie and say that I do, but I'm actually incapable to really question my deep beliefs about justice and fairness (even if at some time in the past I held the opposite beliefs!).
> I'm retired thanks to crypto. I'm glad I eventually saw how HN was wrong

I don't understand this argument. Becoming rich doesn't prove you right. A technology becoming popular doesn't make it good.
LibreOffice doesn’t format all Word documents the same. They’ve done an amazing job, but AFAIK, they haven’t solved every quirk. Also, if you use Excel, Calc doesn’t support everything from VBA. So esoteric VBA macros won’t work sometimes.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d love for LibreOffice to become better, but having Office on a second install is also a sortove “insurance” for when LibreOffice doesn’t work 100% on old documents.

(The Office XML based file formats are a lot better here. I’m mostly talking about the old OLE-dump pre-XML formats)