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Of course it is. Bitcoin is just capitalism evolved, and capitalism is, of course, contrary to the interest of civilization.
Scary but plausible. I never assume that the richest and most powerful of people are also the most moral, ethical, or even viable. Seems to me it's more likely to go the other way, and that the richest and most powerful of people are that way because they're incredibly toxic and to them, even that is not nearly enough.

To someone like that, the only question about bitcoin is 'can I gain something off this in some way no matter who or what it destroys in the process?'

Sounds like a natural match to me, and so I'm unsurprised that some of the richest and most powerful people are all in on bitcoin. It's just that they have no intention of bitcoin, or society, ending up viable. They see a way to game it.

Period.
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Before berating someone in the industry for “source”, why don’t you try googling it? PCB shortage, ABF shortage, etc.

Scores of recent articles at your fingertips.
Another fascinating video on the prime "arms" in the Ulam spiral.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK32jo7i5LQ
Or they know they can’t, so they are moral grandstanding until they come up with a plan for the digital economy.
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I often did remote pairing over screenhero some years ago. We just got really good at communicating with each other who gets to type and who has to keep their hands off. The first few weeks were hard, we'd naturally just try to fix a typo or something and end up conflicting, but after a short while we got into a nice groove and it was never a problem again.
I totally understand the logic, but from a standpoint of "paying just encourages more of it" it shocked me to hear it from a security researcher.

If people like him are telling you to pay, then people are going to pay, which will just create more and more and more attacks.
I believe there are ways to solve this entirely inside of CloudFlare by having them host pages or code snippets that render a "Sorry we're down" page in the event of an outage.
The explicit purpose of bitcoin is to avoid government interference. In all other respects, it is inferior to standard government-backed currency, with slow transactions and huge amounts of wasted electricity. We should therefore expect BTC's primary use-case to be activity the government would interfere with, i.e. illegal activity.
When you say that hobby is ”another job they’re not good at” you are obviously judging them. Most of your examples are dripping with judgment. I am not sure why you even bothered to start your comment with ”I don’t judge, but...”

When you say ”I don’t get it...”, my interpretation is that you lack empathy toward people that face life differently from you. Not that is any sort of puzzling behavior, it’s just you failing to make an effort to understand other people.
The Proceeds of Crime Act in the UK makes it a duty for banks to know where large deposits come from. You walk into a bank where you haven't been depositing large sums of cash on a regular basis, with a clear rationale for having it (e.g. pre-Covid coffee shops), and you will very likely be asked to demonstrate where it came from. If you can't you're likely to have to forfeit the cash.
Unfortunately HN locks the comments after a while.

Mods: we need a way to fix deadlinks

Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1140283 redirects to wrong place.

Correct new link is https://lockhaven.edu/~dsimanek/hollow/tamarack.htm
If they bought the stock they are helping fund the business. The shareholders are keeping the stock because it represents their stake but the actual money paid can be used by the company selling its stock and that’s the primary purpose. Whether the buyer/investor votes, or knows what they bought, doesn’t change anything in that respect.
And here are the DistroWatch rankings: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=ranking&sort=vote...
... and yet you post no links.

Also: I wasn't berating anybody.
My mum only just stopped giving me cheques...
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But you would not be able to collect the cash from a bank without all kinds of due diligence, or process alarms going off.
Discussed previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26773398
It's a sign of decadence, the question "what's my contribution to society?" is out of sight. Becoming rich by the crypto lottery should not be seen as an achievement with pride, but as the shame of becoming a harmful parasite.
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I think there are two issues here. One is - turning your brain back on after over a year of low-grade depression, as it was for me with COVID.

But, I am talking specifically more about most of us going back to the office for 50-hour weeks. People have NO idea how jarring the experience will be. It will break you, it will ruin office work for you forever. And you know what? Perhaps that's not the way to live then.
> Nor do I like shoveling out a few extra billions and billions and billions of dollars to somebody who just invented a new financial product out of thin air.

Sounds like Munger doesn’t like that financial innovation is coming from outside the established club. — I mean this argument has nothing to do with the safety of children and everything to do with classism.
You and a bunch of others, and now all the supermarkets are out of toilet paper.
> The primary use of Bitcoin is as a currency

An intended hypothetical use, or actual use in paying for goods or services now?
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The primary use case of Bitcoin is to evade governments control over capital. Sometimes that’s good (governments disgorging kidnappers of their ransom). Sometimes that’s bad (Nazis seizing wealth of targeted groups). Sometimes it depends on your perspective (governments preventing the trade in illicit drugs).

Overall how you feel about this in aggregate will depend on how comfortable you are with government power. Let’s even ignore the fact that Bitcoin today is being used to circumvent unquestionably oppressive governments (Venezuela, China, Iran). Even as a hardened libertarian, I’ll freely admit that Americans and Europeans live under a generally fair and just government. Bitcoin is still worth it as a fail safe against future totalitarianism.

It’s the same reason I support the Second Amendment. Having a bunch of people run around with guns probably doesn’t help much today, and may even have ongoing social costs. But it would make things a hell of a lot harder for any would be tyrants. Not that it’d be impossible, but small frictions can have big impacts on the course of history. That’s a civilizational insurance policy worth paying.
We are f...ing good at killing ;-)
I'm the furthest thing from a technical analysis expert of price movement, but the BTC chart looks manipulated to me. I assumed at first that it was just people trading BTC between themselves to move the market, but this theory makes more sense. BTC miners are extracting USD from their mining, while the price is controlled by other coins printing and buying BTC. New buyers of BTC are providing the cashflow into the system.
I posted the WSJ article yesterday (these are some stunning claims!) which was flagged and removed within ~3 minutes.

I'm also quite suspicious as to why this has 21 points in new but hasn't surfaced anywhere on the front page.
I suppose it sapped energy in the way that any social effort does, but it was mostly apathy. I didn’t have any warm fuzzy feelings around babies, kids, puppies.

To say that I “softened” after my son came would be wrong as it didn’t feel like I was being emotionally “hard” before (as would be the stereotype for men). Something just changed and now I see/feel joy around young children (even if another part of my brain is saying god damn, they’re a lot of work).

Edit: All that said - try to stand on your own two feet. If you want to explore negative mindsets about kids, consider seeing a therapist. A good friend of mine made great strides sorting out his own hang ups with his childhood/his parents and is now a happy (tired) father. If you just don’t want kids - well, who gives a shit. Find a partner who doesn’t want kids.
If they could undoubtedly make a profit, why haven't they done so. What investment firm would miss making a profit on a sure thing?
At their ages they can barely stand on their own, so I'm not too worried about any grandstanding.
Also, when transcription programs (most familiar example: YouTube) fail, they usually fail on the words that a human listener would also have trouble understanding / telling apart. So the transcription is useful if you are deaf or forced to watch the video without sound, but if you're using subtitles because your English is not good enough to understand the speakers without them, their usefulness is pretty limited...
Ash is one of my favorite woods to work because of the smell! And the straight grain, and the pores, which are much smaller than e.g. white oak, and the color.

It's interesting to read the description of the smell of green ash. I mostly get white ash, and I think of the smell as being similar to really dark chocolate or red wine.

It'll be a tragedy when all the ash is gone.

Edited to add: your username checks out (for others: quercus is the genus of the oaks).
And herbicide too.

My barber won't listen to me, but he foolishly keeps a bottle of barbicide around.
As of now Intel/AMD will always be cheaper for the performance you get. So it guess legacy is the only logical reason.

In some benchmarks power is faster but instead of spending the extra money on power you can just buy more intel/AMD cpus and not bother with making sure your software work on power.
When the environment or climate is involved I think Warren Buffet is pretty far down the list of people who will be directly personally affected.
Remember when the Monsanto lobbyist/scientist said that their glyphosate pesticide Roundup is so safe you can drink it? To his surprise, he was offered a glass of it, and refused it, saying "I'm not stupid", and "I'm not an idiot", while insisting it's harmless to humans:

https://youtu.be/QWM_PgnoAtA

How about we release this waste water in Japan's rivers, upstream of their purification plants, if it's so safe. Surely it will be thoroughly diluted by the time it ends in the tap water, below the radioactivity of a banana.
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> It’s the same reason I support the Second Amendment. Having a bunch of people run around with guns probably doesn’t help much today, and may even have ongoing social costs. But it would make things a hell of a lot harder for any would be tyrants. That’s a civilizational insurance policy worth paying.

And how'd that work out for you guys on January 6th?
Just bear in mind, what he says you probably shouldn't take at face value. After all, he is king of shorting currencies that has actively ruined lives.
There are harmful, fringe, uses of those items but the vast majority of the use-cases fit a slow cooker aren’t harmful. The same cannot be said of bitcoin, where the primary use-case is facilitating nefarious business.
I read this as you do, but it's still a big win.

If you make a machine learning model explain itself to humans, you open the possibility to challenge the model's conclusion. It's not just the question of whether the model does its math right - it also means we, as society, can say, "I see your math and it works out, but because $POLICY, you're not allowed to take these inputs into account". It means adding control points to a previously opaque process.
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I love the idea of self host but my greatest fear is what you mentioned, being marked as spam. Have you had that happen to you where your emails wont reach people because its marked spam?
> "and once stayed late at his New York townhouse."

Is that a euphemism?
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Both of which were obviously not going to be sustainable at that rate for long :-)
Legacy. Do you really think they're only worried about profits at this point?
What does "manipulated" mean to you?

What does a "manipulated" chart look like?

(I'm not being cheeky, I am just trying to get a grasp on your perspective)
Those interested in this subject might enjoy watching "Into Great Silence", a documentary on day-to-day life in a French monastery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=094I4UVjyFg
Modern civilization is designed around mistrust. It's the reason we have police, contracts, lawyers, double-entry accounting, the SEC, and all sorts of other things. Blockchains are just a logical progression now that we have internet.
Data durability and high availability are two different metrics.

iirc, S3 SLAs availability at 99.99; durability at 99.999999999 and 99.99999999999999 for cross-region replicated buckets.
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If you wan my personal opinion I think HR exists solely to come up with reasons for HR to exist. Well minus the administrative part of handling employees payments (including stuff like maternity/sick leave) and the lawyers. But both of those functions could be branched into economy and general legal.

The entire branch of team-building/personality matching/management consulting/management training/management network facilitating is a fat unnecessary cow that enterprise organisations will never get rid of because they are very good at being “people skills” and positioning themselves with top management.

After a year of lockdowns, where they’ve been completely unable to execute their regular function, their absence have left no mark on our organisation though.
How many big computer sabotage extortion cases can you list that were handled by cash handover? That's an entire industry that simply did not exist prior to decentralised cross-boarder electronic value transfer. How long until this spreads to 20th century extortion schemes like point of sale product poisoning threats that never really picked up because transfer we such a headache?
Here's a list of the common malware URLs. BE VERY CAUTIOUS. Also note that DarkSide's onionsite is down and has been for a while.

Babuk: http://wavbeudogz6byhnardd2lkp2jafims3j7tj6k6qnywchn2csngvtf...

Dopple: http://hpoo4dosa3x4ognfxpqcrjwnsigvslm7kv6hvmhh2yqczaxy3j6qn...

Maze: mazenews.top

AKO: http://37rckgo66iydpvgpwve7b2el5q2zhjw4tv4lmyewufnpx4lhkekxk...

Nefilim: http://hxt254aygrsziejn.onion/

Ragnar: http://p6o7m73ujalhgkiv.onion/

Clop: http://ekbgzchl6x2ias37.onion/

Netwalker: http://rnfdsgm6wb6j6su5txkekw4u4y47kp2eatvu7d6xhyn5cs4lt4pdr...

REvil: http://dnpscnbaix6nkwvystl3yxglz7nteicqrou3t75tpcc5532cztc46...

Sekhmet: http://sekhmetleaks.top/

Pysa: http://wqmfzni2nvbbpk25.onion/partners.html

Conti: conti.news & htcltkjqoitnez5slo7fvhiou5lbno5bwczu7il2hmfpkowwdpj3q2yd.onion

Suncrypt: http://nbzzb6sa6xuura2z.onion/

DarkSide: darksidedxcftmqa.onion
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I would clarify that just a bit.

It's difficult to get a man to understand something if the value of his crypto stash depends on OTHER PEOPLE not understanding it.

This is what bitcoin is. It's not a mass delusion: it's a will TO delude masses. I suppose some manage to fool themselves but I consider it a lot more likely that the majority are fully aware of what they're doing.

But it depends on deluding another level of the pyramid, and there's no real way to tell how high it goes before it collapses, so people are all-in, to the point where even Warren Buffett is talking in code and messaging 'I'm not going to say what I think about this, but I am going to say outright that I'm not saying what I think'. Not terribly hard to work out the message there.

Of course they're right.
Same for bicycles manufacturers. At the beginning, nobody knew what's gonna be in the future, low orders and then high demand.
Government contractors have no power to make such demands.
> NOTE: the discoverer states "this vulnerability has no real-world implications."

Not sure if declaring this is standard practice, but I had a good laugh.
> And that's not just a naming thing. I talk about this in much more detail here: "Can Programmers Escape the Gentle Tyranny of Call/Return?" (https://2020.programming-conference.org/details/salon-2020-p...)

I've read the paper and to be frank: I'm taken aback at how you brush away FRP in Chapter 9. And with an example in Java streams, of all languages/frameworks.

Having to implement Builder methods? No named components/difficult to encapsulate because lambdas??

No, what you show with that example is not the "gentle tyranny" of call/return, it's the "gentle tyranny" of Java (which OTOH I find a surprisingly fitting phrase :) ).
If the graphs are publicly visible anywhere it'd be interesting to have a look
I was an early Simple customer but ended up leaving the service when I found out their policy on being a digital nomad (not having a residential US address) was very strict. As one of the first online banks (I know Ally was a little ahead of them), I found this policy strangely prohibitive and closed my account. I ended up going to Navy Federal because my grandpa served in the Coast Guard and my experience with them has been phenomenal. Really no issues at all, no fees, website and app work as well as I need them to. I liked keeping my car loan in-house there and will eventually open a mortgage with them. The few times I've needed to visit a branch have been painfree. And because they're a military bank, they aren't as rigidly opposed to international addresses (but I use my friends US address and other services for international transactions just to be safe).
A friend of mine once joked about hacker news that "if you mention any author, within three comments someone will recommend a Sanderson book."

I appreciated the joke without taking it too literally. But here we are.
Wireguard isn't doing to bad considering its not hardware accelerated like AES-GCM.

Also looks like AF_PACKET and AF_XDP are basically an alternative to DPDK with similar functionality but built into the kernel using kernel drivers, new to me.
I built this website, nearly 10 years ago. Crazy to see it's still up and running, without any maintenance. Got to give it to WordPress, it doesn't die easy.
> NOTE: the discoverer states "this vulnerability has no real-world implications."

At least they're honest about it with this CVE...
It is not on https
This is called a calque. After Latin became the prestige language if Western Europe, German coined new words on the basis of the Latin by matching the Latin prefix and root to German equivalents. There are many, many examples.
How the heck do you build safety for teams?
Yes, great logic there. Wonder why whataboutism is constantly used to defend crypto. I guess crypto does NOT solve anything.
Nobody does, but it’s a possibility, and we’re hoping that self-sovereign money makes for a more peaceful transition in those places.

If it’s total chaos, the criminals will have total control. We have seen this many times. To see why people buy it, understand their fear of what might happen to them if they don’t.
Won't happen. The billionaires will just buy Bitcoin.

Their investment managers probably already are.
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I find it hard to believe they'd say so in that tone.

That said, where does the GDPR stand when there is an API already in place that allows for data extraction?
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Clickbait alert spreading FUD.

> The safeguards are a work in progress

They aren't, the safeguards existed from day 1.

> After another 10 minutes, my heart started to race; still nothing.

Author seems to not understand how AirTags work by communicating with other devices?
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Many people are long Bitcoin, but other than holding USD, what opportunities are there to short Bitcoin?
Ooh brilliant. Thank you!
Once you go beyond ~7 words (= what people would utter to their virtual assistant), the quality of all off the shelf tools (both open source and offered services) is laughable. Sentence boundary detection, punctuation, speaker segmentation, and all those features you would need for good transcription are in a really bad state.
The "isolation" part is a bit sloppy: that's what happens if you are using the "serializable" isolation level in SQL speak. But that's often not the default, because guaranteeing a serializability is hard for the database engine.

As I remember it, SQLite enforces serializability by default (and maybe as its only option), but with a hard price: when a transaction is writing, the whole database is exclusively locked by that transaction; the other transactions cannot even read.

PostgreSQL allows serializability, though not by default (I think). It's more advanced than SQLite, as it can have more reading and writing transactions at the same time, but any of them might fail if at some point the database engine is not able any more to keep the illusion of serialization. So the application must be ready to retry the transaction from the beginning, if required.

Serializability is very desirable for the application, because it has the following property: "If each transaction transforms the database in a consistent way, the database will always remain consistent". But that's difficult to do with concurrent transactions (unless you're able to predict future), so you should be aware of the associated compromises.

PostgreSQL has some interesting documentation on this problem: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/transaction-iso.html.
Thank you - that is the highlight of my week
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How does the saying go?

First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. After that, they fight you. Finally, you win.

When a significant portion of established powers start claiming that new threat to power is (insert hyperbolic word here), I’d say we are on step 3 of the above process.

Bitcoin has a lot of issues, but cryptocurrency/blockchain in general are real, useful technologies. Don’t let the prevalence of scams and duplicitous individuals distract you from this fact.
Only a very small percentage, and even then, most of them can only throw a few dollars into it, so they know they won't become rich from it. I wouldn't worry about it. Like another commentor alluded to, there have always been and always will be outliers.
If someone would kindly explain this to google-java-format, life would be so much better for everyone involved.
C code can be as robust as you need it to be. So why bother with formal verification, safe C coding standards, Rust, etc?

The answer is that it can be robust, but the effort required to do that is so large that in practice it usually isn't.
Sure, I read that bit but I think it’s interesting that other coronaviruses are thought not to rewrite DNA.
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What value? Bitcoin goes up and down like a drunken rollercoaster and it's based on "look my computer did some maths that accomplishes nothing!" as its representation of worth. It's got no more value than conventional currencies no longer backed by the gold standard (did that ever mean anything either?)

Never forget that money is largely illusory, solely a social construct, and while that's a powerful thing there is nothing here that makes Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency any more worthy than the US dollar or the Euro.