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I know HN's sentiment around cryptocurrency, regardless, how is this the top comment in this thread?
Except crypto is less firmly anchored in the real world than in the digital realm. It's fundamentally harder to regulate it than a physical currency, which needs specialist equipment to generate.
There is a tutorial on the site where you use rules to extract mentions of side effects from forum posts: https://dataqa.ai/docs/tutorials/medical_side_effects/ner_me.... You can use this tool for NER.
It really is interesting. Apple could potentially claim that they didn't connect Personally Identifiable Information with the leaked health data, but a third party app, which gathered that data, did.

Depends on what exactly was in the logs. Did it contain my emergency contact from Apple Health? Or my own contact data? That would be bad.
“Linux” (as in Linux based operating systems) are attractive because they’re community maintained and you can hack around in the OS with minimal skills and no special tools or extra computers. Android is almost the polar opposite of that.
It depends on whether you're aware of this issue or not.
Except gold is not a currency. It's a commodity. Gold coins used to be a currency in certain times and places. Insofar as they're not recognized anymore, at least where I live, they've actually failed.
FWIW, Dell replaced my mainboard on site and in a timely way, and without asking any stupid questions, especially not about whether it had been in a bag or the like...

Once I convinced them that no, their crappy machine is not broken because I'm running Linux on it.

I made the mistake of buying a 7390 2in1 just before the pandemic and got stuck with it. It's my favourite personal soapbox ever since. Needless to say, I won't be buying Dell again either...

Edit: there, a lengthy rant about this piece of crap and how misguided it is to give it the near-same model number as their linux flagship: https://ssb.muchmuch.coffee/%25xCjWwwuseVVLq%2F4FYbf1KUc5vHz...
Isn't this the 26th time China has declared crypto illegal?
I don’t think that it’s “a sure fire thing that it’ll collapse in N years” or anything, but I do have to wonder if a system that concentrates power that significantly would be less long-term stable, as all you need is one less-competent supreme leader to send the whole thing tumbling.
OT, but I see a lot of these archive links here. How do I go the other way? If I see an article I want to read, how do I find it on archive.is?
This is not true, saturation points on staking pools exist to encourage people moving to other pools, this causes more decentralization not less. Additionally, from a hardware perspective setting up a pool takes significantly less capital compared to PoW mining.
Not true, you need capital to mine. Capital begets capital even on pow.
Isn't it sad that a company that totally dominates modern email, plays so fast and loose with email standards?

And not just obscure standards; email addresses are very much public-facing elements of email. The expectation when you register an email address is that that address is now uniquely associated with you. The public does not expect that an email might be delivered to other inboxes than their own.

Why does gmail elide dots again? There must be some reason why a big email provider would deviate so egregiously from the conventions all other email services comply with.

/me not a gmail user, except for certain account recovery purposes.
> It's rather sad to dismiss Matrix (or even Element) as a whole due to bugs on one specific app on one specific platform.

I still use Element/Matrix because I like the mission but I have a Linux computer and an Android phone, so I use the clients that are available.
I believe in free market capitalism and you are incorrect. Please see my recent comments history for the "why PoW".
I am not fine with having every one of my transactions being 100% transparent to my government. Because that's the only alternative to Bitcoin^W cryptocurrency, given that real cash is on its deathbed for some reason. Bitcoin may very transparent, but other currencies like Monero are much better in that regard.

As to why >100% transparency is a desirable property, see recent regime changes and imagine how easy it would be to persecute the friends of the old regime by simply looking at their purchase history.

Edit:
If the EFF doesn't suggest something the people who propose the ideas the EFF objects to will continue to have all the influence over politicians.
That article is just a load of rubbish. The GP's point still stands.

If you check out the other HN submissions from the same site, it becomes clear that the author is ignorant on most of the topics the articles whine about, and also that there's an agenda behind it. The usual anti-user-freedom agenda that supports "modern" stuff like Wayland or Android.
Bitcoin wanted to be the world's currency, with a techno goldbug understanding of what money is. That shades a lot of what we think of as crypto.

There are a lot of different versions of the idea though. A lot of variety exists in crypto now, and very little is deterministic. I don't want to rule out the positive possibilities, and outlawing is broad brush. The PCB grunted at crypto here. We can do

That said, the variety of possibilities also creates danger. Underregulated stable coins, for example, get very sketchy once you reach a certain size. If they keep growing, start embellished with dolaralized interest payments and such.... you now have a rogue banking system issuing its own US dollars. Good luck with that. The scale of fraud, and treacherously borderline fraud can be epic. I don't think we should downplay these.

OTOH, this is true of every part of the financial sector. Lets not pretend the current way the financial sector is structured isn't riddled with the kinds of problems crypto poses.

A country with some clever CB people, even a small one, should be bold and bring crypto into the pax. There's a lot you can do with a designed-4-a-purpose currency, and crypto is a very viable way to do many things. Bitcoin's origins, and much of crypto's present, is secrecy oriented. But, it's actually more natural to design a cryptocurrency for transparency. That's useful in a lot of circumstances.

Take time to understand wtf is going on and regulate, ban or encourage specific things for specific reasons. There's a lot to be gained, not just a lot to be lost. A properly regulated stable coin might be a great idea.

Keynes has made a comeback during the pandemic, and people are relearning war era ideas about controlling inflation. In that context and considering 2021's low interest rates, national savings bonds will probably soon be considered in various places. You don't need crypto to do this, but it does give you more flexibility in how you do it.
It's not inconceivable that we could wind up in a period of hyperinflation where bitcoin (or some token) could be used to in a way similar to the Plano Real in Brasil back in the '90s. It could actually have a stabilizing (mostly psychological) effect, should things go haywire with fiat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plano_Real
Just ban the fiat exchanges.

The hardcore crypto types would carry on using it but like 95% would give up - that's sufficient.
Can you clear the app data via adb?
I’ve been hearing exactly this since I started messing with crypto in 2011.
Goto https://archive.is/

Enter your url in the second field

If that doesnt turn up anything enter it in the first
How did this failure mode happen then?

Even if the computer isn't monolithic, it seems that some failure higher in the stack can make the car into a brick. Does the real control system depend on the infotainment system or other higher level systems for UI interaction? If so then that's basically the same thing.
> The only currency that has stood the test of time is gold, a private currency.

I'm curious about what leads you to claim that gold is "a private currency". Can you elaborate on the rationale behind your claim?
Did you try installing the Dell apt repository and drivers plus tlp?
Nitpicking based on your definition of "investment" isn't really a dig at Bitcoin. I would argue that even fiat currencies are often used as investments to hedge against various types of risks. Bitcoin is not "supposed" to be anything, it's just a technology that has different uses for different people. Something that outperforms a majority of investments is certainly an investment to anyone who isn't gatekeeping.
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> I thought this "asset" was supposed to replace cash.

When you can buy food, house/rent and the doctor accepts bitcoins it will become cash.
but rather go with Lenovo

I went Lenovo, and it was not an improvement over my previous Dell. It wakes up and kills the battery when the lid is closed all the time. And at essentially the same spec I get less than half the battery and twice the fan noise compare to the Dell.
On the Gnome bug tracker? Yes.
So you are against investment in renewables. That is not as progressive as you think.
Facebook AI and the Index Factory
JB dev isn't really that responsive. I've subscribed to certain bugs that have been in the backlog for years.
HN has a well known hatred for anything crypto. I’m not really sure why, to be honest. Very odd that an authoritarian action by an extremely centralized government is being applauded on here.
Of course, but the idea here is that in all likelihood, the indigenous people themselves took the land from another group in prehistory, so I don’t understand why we talk about various places which were long since colonized “really belonging” to the indigenous group. What’s the point? They were likely neither the first to the land, nor were they in control of the land when the music stopped (i.e., when we developed international norms for not colonizing other peoples). It doesn’t seem like a particularly convincing claim.
They banned crypto mining before, but did they really ban crypto transactions before? This seems like the last step to make crypto coins 100% illegal in China.
I haven't had ONE problem of this kind with ThinkPad

My P series ThinkPad does this all the time.
Ask HN: Do you try to understand the root cause for already solved problems?
I just solved an authentication issue between Git and Jenkins using a lot of trial and error, semi random advice from SO and rolling back some code. It works now but I still don't fully understand why it works.

This is not uncommon in devops and test, but happened to me more than once in embedded code and even in other places. Sometimes I spend some official or private time investigating it, sometimes I put it into a backlog and in some cases I don't even bother due to lack of time.

How much time, if any, do you spend investigating something that is already working? Will you loose sleep over it?
BPF-Based Linux Firewall “Bpfilter” Shows Impressive Performance Potential
Oddly enough besides the hard-core aficionados and techies that would mostly leave the criminals, who would operate street level informal exchange systems.
FWIW I pay for YouTube Premium and it's so worth it. No skipping ads.

I wish Google would do that with everything. Allow me to see zero ads by paying.
> Grain format provides an opinionated code formatter tool for Grain source code

I think this is a great idea; for the lang devs to provide such a thing.

After using black & isort in pythons, the option of automatic consistent formatting for shared code really cuts down on manual formatting work.
That has a lot of…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruin_value
If you liked this article, check out the book Moonwalking with Einstein.

I doubt it will revolutionize your life but it’s a fun read.
This is mostly where I am.

I was 4 when the first DOOM came out, 7 when Quake was released - I LOVE me some fps games.

But I don't find playing online fun anymore - The first 3 days are great, then you've ranked up a bit and start hitting the rampant cheating, and you realize it's just a waste of time sitting for 20 minutes in a game where some 12 year old (or much worse, some 30 year old) has just bought hacks to feel good.

To be honest - I actually blame the automated matchmaking systems more than anything else.

Give me the good ol' server lists back, where a real person is an admin, and you can make a group of friends. This monotonous, automated, matching bullshit sucks the soul out of most games. It's not fun anymore, it's designed to be a chore to prove that you're "better", with an intentionally game-ified rewards systems built to trigger gambling impulses.
They banned crypto mining before, but did they really ban crypto transactions before?
Why does Bitcoin have a clear advantage in solving double spend over a centralized solution?
+1 for Pixelmator Pro. I just looked through my tool set (Figma, VSCode, Notion, a default browser, Pixelmator Pro), and the only Mac-specific app is PP - and it's awesome.
I find it interesting to hear what kinds of information people find usable to memorize. If there are people here that utilize the memory palace (or any other memorizing method): what do you put inside the palace?
>A country that mobilized over a billion people to almost completely control covid.

What do you mean by completely control covid? What intended result have they managed to arrive at?
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Huh? Bitcoin records every transaction you make on a public ledger that anyone in the world can view. Anyone who knows your wallet address can track your purchases
Smartphone Apps are universally shit.
I know this is old fashioned, but in a free society, I don't think you should have to answer to anyone, unless you commit a crime.
What's the percentage of failed to non-failed? Are we pushing close to 100% ?
Performing 51% attacks in the hope of discrediting an asset would be a waste of resources. Such an attack on the Bitcoin ecosystem would nowadays cost several billion in hardware and electricity, and all the community has to do in order to repair the damage would be a hark fork. 51% attacks happened in the past and most of them had little to no impact on major assets.
Steelmaking is useful; you can build stuff out of steel.
I guess I don't understand why it's a continuing thing :)
At least we don't have to see ads.
Other than white listing and black listing transactions by the miners and exchanges, and governments declaring it illegal, Bitcoin is 100% censorship resistant.
I sincerely think the main motivation is to protect people from losing too much when the bubble pops.
Good question, it is slightly nebulous but to do with how much the course requires students to deeply understand the underlying concepts, and how much independent effort it asks of them. For example...

Easy: Lecture contains an algorithm for diagonalising 3×3 matrices and an example. Tutorial/exam has students do a very similar example (e.g. both matrices have lots of zeroes in the same cells).

Harder: Lecture contains an algorithm for diagonalising 3×3 matrices and an example. Tutorial/exam has students do a matrix that is structurally very different.

Hard: Lecture contains an algorithm for diagonalising 3×3 matrices and an example. Tutorial/exam has students extend the ideas of the algorithm to a specific 4x4 matrix.

My own undergraduate experience was largely in the "hard" category, whilst as a lecturer at a different university there was pressure to move increasingly towards the "easy". It was even fairly explicit: student feedback surveys would be aggregated and you'd be informed that the students are unhappy because the tutorial exercises cover things they "haven't seen" in lectures.
You have not been looking hard if you haven't the crypto fawns here.
>>>Frankly "taxes are theft" is a narrow-minded point of view

Frankly the rationalization that taxation, specially income taxation is anything other than theft because of "democracy" is absurd

The fact is that the government, like a theif, says to a person: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.

The government does not, indeed, waylay a person in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side, and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets. But the robbery is none the less a robbery on that account; and it is far more dastardly and shameful.

The theif takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own benefit. He does not pretend to be anything but a robber.

He has not acquired impudence enough to profess to be merely a “protector,” and that he takes a person's money against their will, merely to enable him to “protect” those infatuated travelers, who feel perfectly able to protect themselves, or do not appreciate his peculiar system of protection. He is too sensible a man to make such professions as these.

Furthermore, having taken your money, he leaves you, as you wish him to do. He does not persist in following you on the road, against your will; assuming to be your rightful “sovereign,” on account of the “protection” he affords you. He does not keep “protecting” you, by commanding you to bow down and serve him; by requiring you to do this, and forbidding you to do that; by robbing you of more money as often as he finds it for his interest or pleasure to do so; and by branding you as a rebel, a traitor, and an enemy to your country, and shooting you down without mercy, if you dispute his authority, or resist his demands. He is too much of a gentleman to be guilty of such impostures, and insults, and villanies as these. In short, he does not, in addition to robbing you, attempt to make you either his dupe or his slave.
Social Security Numbers Aren’t Secure: What Should We Use Instead?
With these Apple-related vulnerability annoucements on HN, usually we see response from a satisified Apple owner along the lines of "This is fixed in [some new version number]". The thing is, the problem isnt whether something is fixed, its that it was broken to begin with. It passed "QA" at a trillion dollar company and its a pre-installed fixture^1 on some relatively expensive hardware item. If there is such an "it's fixed" response, it usually rises to the top comment. The underlying message seems to be, "No worries. You can safely forget about this and keep loving Apple hardware running the crappy but user-friendly, irremovable (work-in-progress) software that comes pre-installed on it."

How long till this "It's fixed" comment appears. Might come in a different submission. For some folks, Apple can do no wrong. No amount of truth can change their views. The only issue to these folks is "fixing"; they are content to use software that is a WIP but marketed as ready for primetime and to dismiss any ideas about using software that is considered finished.

The best place for important data is external media not a "smart" phone running an OS and software that the user does not have control over. "Everyone else is doing it" doesnt transform a stupid practice into a smart one, it just means no one will criticise the choice. That of course also opens the door for those following the herd to attack anyone who dares to suggest deviating from the mainstream because "how can the majority of people be wrong".

1 The purchaser cannot remove it and install their own replacement.
> challenge existing economic power structures

That's quite a polite way of saying "facilitate tax evasion".
Trump-supporting tech mogul

First sentence of the article is inaccurate. Thiel was a supporter in 2016 but was uncertain in 2020.

Why is The NY Times considered quality journalism, again?
I’ll take good faith bugs and missing features over the pathological psycho warfare in closed software any day of the week.
Maybe if he meant less than 5% of miners make money. I could potentially believe this, given the competitive nature of mining.

However, as an investment, as of right now, there is only a span of a few months where if you bought Bitcoin you would not be in the green right now.
Sigh. Patents should really be use-it-or-lose-it.
Has anyone here used scripting languages on a microcontroller? And if so why? For user-scripting? I can't really think of another practical use case but there are multiple implementations of pretty high-level languages out there so someone must be using them.

You'd have to build some hardware abstraction to use with the scripting language anyways at which point you could just use the language you wrote the abstraction in imo. Is it so you can have inexperienced (cheaper?) devs do the maintainence? For all the embedded projects I worked on the high level program logic wasn't the thing that took the most effort.
The GDPR explicitly disallows "annoying" users into granting consent. Here are the ICO guidelines about it: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...

If you annoy users into clicking "accept" then you are in breach and may as well just track users without asking at all.
I'd say that cash transactions are less transparent than BTC's public ledger.
> I realised that I can't select things based on how much I liked the good parts (because I like so many things) but rather, how annoying I found the dull parts.

One thing I've noticed about myself is that I'm never really sure what makes me happy, but I definitely know what makes me unhappy, so I try to do the opposite of that.
Good interview with the author here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os1cOynbY8M
I’m giving the parent comment the benefit of the doubt that they’re not an agent working to preserve the current financial system, at least not deliberately. Especially since their sentiment is so frequently expressed on these boards, it is bordering on consensus.
I had a 13" XPS max specced which when sleeping suddendly sounded the alarm when the fan did not work. The sound was the same decibel as our smoke detector - in the middle of the night next to the bed.
Ah, then the cynical part of you will recognize that selling a widget is more lucrative then avoiding the loss of someone else's private data.

Or at least that's what I just realized.
rustfmt does not delete vertical whitespace in that way.
No, actually this has been a known thing for years. There have even been topics asking why HN hates crypto so much, which appear every six months or so.
That doesn't sound as reassuring as you think it does.
Doesn't mean the law is bad.
Ah I see. I guess, as with everything, it depends :) the lines are also so blurred - you can now have container-orchestration-as-a-service e.g AWS Fargate.
I think the issue with billing is the same issue you get with OOMs - which services should go down first if we’re out of money? In practice “OOM” (Out Of Money) is even worse than OOM because with Out Of Memory you are just above the available memory threshold, but with Out Of Money you are literally at 0 capacity which means every single service needs to be killed.
Also, the valid signature and invalid one that’s based on a one-bit error are indistinguishable by the checker. Access to the secret key is required to detect the problem.
I'm not a cryptophile, cryptobug or whatever crypto nuts are called, however I do like to see HN turning so extremely negative on crypto. A few years ago such negative sentiment about crypto was rare on HN, now it's common.

Why is that interesting? Because popular sentiment (in the comments) on HN is very frequently wrong. HN is a tremendous resource for contrarian purposes.
Actually all the euro area currencies that were removed from circulation in exchange for euros; franc, deutchmark, lira etc. did not fail at all.

Thus, not every currency has failed, although it could be argued that they still exist in a 'shadow' form, thus have not yet existed to the end of the infinite timeline.

Either way every failed currency has indeed failed, thus every currency in the future that fails will also be considered to be a failure, maintaining the 100% record for failure.
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