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> but it is for sure possible to make money in it.

If it's a bubble, what that means is that almost everyone is going to lose money on it.

> It's just a different kind of market,

Would you say that magic is a different kind of science? I'd say that magic is simply false to the fact. I think it can convince people to do things, but it has no objective reality beyond that.

And cryptocurrencies have the same relationship to economics that magic has to science.
How well do those, now remote working, bankers understand computer security? How well do those who are not 'best in class'? How high do they prioritize it? That will be the limit IT can strive for.

Happy hacking!
> Actually, `sudo -e` forces VIM onto innocent users

No, it does not. It runs whatever EDITOR is set to (technically the first set of SUDO_EDITOR, VISUAL, and EDITOR).

> So presumably that means that it will have my environment, e.g. will run my .vimrc?

That is correct.

> Though that could be an attack vector too.

Only on the specific file, which would usually be a lot more noticeable unless the attack specifically manages to recognise and target sudoedited files while closing the buffer.
Are you sure you need to delete them? I don't know Norwegian law specifically, but it might be the case that you are allowed to take photos in public and you just can't publish them without subjects consent.
Eh. I remember reading the furor about the Linux scheduler[0], and that was by the hands of man, my man.

[0]: https://people.ece.ubc.ca/sasha/papers/eurosys16-final29.pdf
Javascript being fast as Java and coupled with Typescript the future of Java doesn't look very bright.
One huge difference between Bitcoin and gold is that gold can be possessed purely on one's own. Bitcoin requires the continuous expenditure of energy to maintain the record of ownership.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29330726.
WTF is wrong with this world? Is there anything we can do to prevent this deletion?
I can get many of your adventures from your old website. The readme file says that four of the later adventures are in SAGA+ format and are not included because ScottFree can't play them. Since this was written 24 years ago, is there now anything that can play them and if so will you be releasing them? (I'd think that at least it should be possible to play through emulation.)

Trying to google this is harder than it seems, and shows me graphical versions that are so different between systems that they look like they were written from scratch for each system rather than using the same data format with an engine.
I read or heard you talk about Mike Wise's Sphere before. I wish there was more information about it available online. I know there was a BASIC for it before Microsoft or Tiny BASIC came along. Did you have BASIC on the Sphere? How did it compare to other BASICs?

Any other info about the Sphere would be appreciated. I know BYTE magazine called it the first true personal computer.
Funny how crypto people thinking insulting everyone else will change our minds!

"It has to be your lack of curiosity" (because there's no otherwise explaining your bad judgement).
Yeah good point, I was thinking they'd cut your service off but on second thought that's probably not the case.
What got me off about VME when i looked at it was the immense amount of small market, single purpose hardware that had been thrown on it and was "technically" compatible. It enabled some stuff like timed traffic lights in a way similar to how Arduinos have opened up hobby level "printer-oid" mechanisms.

For reasons i cant articulate well I'm itching for a bus where CPU and GPU and RAM and IO all live together in hippie harmony. The hardware's all there and dancing to some little basic machine controller CPU anyway so lets open all that up and make everything a first class citizen, hopefully on some interconnect that will last a few years and gather some interesting surplus hardware to filter out to hackers.

As to modern hardware, if i had all my dreams coming true, I'd be grabbing one of the "mining" motherboards with all that I/O broken out into channels and putting SDR's on them to make pretty waterfalls of the biggest bites of the radio spectrum i could visualize.
We've come a long way since the time Microsoft was almost broken up. I can't believe HN are now calling for Microsoft to be more tightly integrated.
I once had to convert a Java program to C++ and once from Swift to Java (or was it the reverse, it's been a while). In each case it could/should have been done manually but I was curious how far I could get by automating it since the code bases came complete with unit tests that I could also convert to give some confidence. The challenge with the C++ one was returning heap allocated objects which I merely returned const references that were copied by the caller and that process could repeat through multiple call/stack frames. I was concerned about the performance of all the copying but it didn't factor in at all. I'd say that 95%+ was automated and worth taking the approach. The Swift one was way more challenging in that I didn't know it and got annoyed by the number of different ways that lambda functions can be written. Swift syntax is special.
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Why do I get the feeling that if the state is China, then it won't get reported as such. I assume their supply chain is more important.
sRGB is quite literally defined as "the average 90s CRT in an office environment", i.e. full-white sRGB on a HDR display should be around 100 nits or so in those reference conditions (i.e. display set to "reasonable" brightness).
How hard is it to imagine that an hn user is referring to "here" as hn?
> crypto is going to be a major force in global finance for decades to come.

Oh it'll stick around alright, and it will be a major force, just like drug dealing and insider trading and other illegal activities and scams that run rampant in the world. Ponzi schemes and promises of new riches will always exist, and there are enough suckers born every day to fall for new iterations of fancy digital woo-woo.

> this author doesn't understand the value of decentralized value transfer

You know what the original "decentralized value transfer" mechanism was? Cash. Those paper bills and metal coins we've been using for thousands of years. Nobody doubts the value of decentralized value transfer. Stablecoins, which aim to replace cash, are covered in that article. Personally, I think this is where crypto offers the most promise, but then it isn't really crypto at all, it is just a digitally managed Automated Clearing House for transferring value, i.e. an improved traditional finance, like most countries in Europe have had instant transfers for decades. Nothing "cryptographic" about that.
Are there any widely practiced religions which claim that humans alone were created in God's image?
> and those large enterprises would have very little use for something like "cap my spend at $20".

For the enterprise as a whole, probably not. But it would still be useful to be able to create sandbox accounts for experimentation with a hard limit on spend. Or give developers their own cloud accounts to run development and testing infrastructure that they can control, without having to worry about them accidentally spending way too much.
Yep. to use a quote I've heard about another resource: "No one would care as much about stability in the Middle East if they produced toothpaste instead of Oil".

Unfortunately at the same time for Taiwan, once the West's reliance on that area of the world for production becomes less of an issue, China's timeline gets accelerated much faster to the "No but really you're part of the PRC" point. Similar to how the PRC ratcheted up control over Hong Kong in 2020 when the rest of the world was basically "Sorry HK we got COVID issues k'bye"
The ledger gives you a guarantee that only you can spend the BTC that you have access to. Nobody can "freeze" your UTXO or forbid you from accepting transactions.

Sure, the state can declare that the Bitcoin you own is not legitimate. It might do so because you're unable to prove the source of funds or maybe because it doesn't like your race or something else about you.

The cool thing about Bitcoin is that it is money that is separated from the state, the same way like Gold is. So as long as you can find a jurisdiction that considers your funds valid, you can escape your state violence. Of course this has it's pros and cons, but that's how it works when you separate money from the state.

This is the 5th comment that I'm making with this throwaway account, after which, I believe, I'm going to be rate-limited and unable to reply for a day. So, sorry for not being able continue this conversation :D
Please don't take HN threads into generic ideological flamewar. We're trying to avoid the circles of internet hell here, and a comment like this points straight in.

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That's not what "illegal" means.
A very handy tool for this is https://www.nongnu.org/atool/
It's just a move to expand their voter base. Young people vote overwhelmingly for the newly elected parties.
> Who produces the goods & services that create value in a country/society when everyone is collecting UBI?

The people collecting UBI, duh. The events of the past 2 years have convinced me that even a small UBI can still have a large effect.

> And, when UBI causes baseline consumable prices to rise, we just keep raising UBI, right?

Don't be an idiot. "pure inflation" is multiplicative, scaling all prices the same. UBI is additive providing a base-line income stream. The interaction will be very complex.

UBI can be paired with simple-stupid regressive taxes like VAT and still come out net-progressive.

There will be some adjustments in prices but a new equilibrium absolutely can be reached.

> Can we just call it for what it really is... communism? Why keep pretending?

The idea is that "the first x dollars of consumption are socialism, the rest capitalism". It is not 100% socialism, don't be an idiot.

It is only bad if you believe society depends on sticks and workers will not work for mostly carrots. Is that what you believe?
The British government has a vague law on books which incite terroism... Of course they couldn't actually write an actual list because the book at the top of the list would be problematic.
> Directv owners (owners of FOX networks) secretly commissioned some hackers

It wasn't much of a secret.

Newscorp (the FOX assholes) didn't control DTV until 2003. Prior to that, however, DTV utilized the services of NDS for security.

NDS was owned by Newscorp, and run by ex-mossad hackers. For some strange reason DTV was constantly owned again and again while NDS was responsible for security at DTV.

In 2002, DTV rolled out a new access card without the involvement of NDS, and by golly, it was secure (and remained secure for years).

In 2003, Newscorp said fuck that, and bought a controlling interest in DTV.
Also if the state if USA...
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> The temp file is a feature but not essential to getting work done.

The entire point of sudoedit is to reduce the attack surface, without that it's absolutely useless since you can just `sudo` whatever editor you prefer.
>I've always wondered why the line is drawn at $5,000. It's mildly interesting that stealing $46M and stealing $5,000 result in equivalent charges.

A lot of those lines are drawn completely arbitrarily, and might be very old and haven't been updated to reflect inflation/rising prices.

A classmate of mine copped a felony property damage charge as the threshold was set at a mere $500 at the time, for a typical senior year high school rivalry prank and it really fucked up his life.
You probably already know that, but you should use WSL(2) or Git Bash to not lose your mind.
What if it is illegal to do so?
Over the years I managed several different online projects. Not too big, but without a budget for data team or enterprise grade analytics solution. With each project I frustrated over the complexity of data analytics process, how much time I spent on it.

I tried many technics, concepts and tools. Over and over I found myself jumping between browser tabs, comparing metrics (SEO, Ads, Revenue, Web, Social Media), exporting, merging data and gathering insights. All that so my projects could grow in the most efficient way.

The problem was, that growth, even when defined as increase in single metric, required improvement in lots of secondary ones. These secondary metrics were scattered across different dashboards and different apps. And it happened regardless of the business type I was in.

e.g. You want to grow your Revenue (in Stripe) → You find out that most of your paid sign ups come from search engines (in Google Analytics/Mixpanel etc.) → So you want to increase your CTR from Google (in Search Console).

e.g. You want more DAU (in Mixpanel) → They come from different channels: paid ads, organic, social media → You want to slightly increase impressions/CTR of each one (in Google Ads, Twitter and Google).

I wanted to change that and put all important metrics in single, easy to use dashboard. So over the last couple of months I found a cofounder and built MVP of our all-in-one analytics app — Raport. We've set ourselves on an ambitious goal — reducing complexity of web analytics. It's been fun and we're just getting started.

We recently launched public beta, integrating 5 data sources in one dashboard. We also deliver daily email reports and send alerts when interesting changes happen.

Test it for yourself or I'd be happy to explain more.
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So 83-98% of people are unsatisfied with life regardless of what country they're in. Maybe humans have evolved to be unsatisfied because those who are unsatisfied have outcompeted those who are satisfied.
> Assuming a stateless money, when/if someone then steals your crypto coin, which gov't backed law/judicial system are you gonna turn to ?

In many regimes where you can't trust the government, it's not really relevant what kind of currency is stolen, the police are probably not the people you'll go to for restitution.

There's an argument to be made that some cryptocurrencies (privacy-coins specifically) may also give you more protection from your finances being seized by a corrupt government, though you're generally SoL in such situations regardless of how you keep your money.
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I'm sure we'll get a lot discussion once the tabu is gone. People were reluctant to talk about it because of fear from stigma and prosecution. Most of the people you've heard talking about it were either "kids" or artists (musicians, comedians, etc.).
I kinda wish someone would organise a booster shot boycott until significant resources have been committed to covax. I'm happy for better protection and would like to avoid our hospitals being overloaded, but it feels perverse to be giving out boosters like this when so many people haven't had the chance to get a vaccine yet.
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Sounds like supply/demand is in their favor at the moment. Some readjustment is due.
Their population is the same as ours in Sweden, the biggest Nordic country, while Belgium is only slightly bigger and Switzerland slightly smaller and we're all richer (their GDP is 200bn less than ours for example.)

We all also have a very integrated high tech medical data systems with complete info on each person, medical history, doses, everything in one file (and works anywhere in the country.)

So there must be a difference in policy.
Or, morbidly from Planck, "Science progresses one funeral at a time."
You sound like you could use a puff from a joint.
> Now I just remember most of the definitions or quickly look them up and combine the usage of console applications like grep, find, sed, etc.

This sounds strictly worse than what IDEs have to offer (I am thinking specifically about C++).

> Now I just remember most of the definitions or quickly look them up

May I ask with which languages you work and how large the code bases are?

Personally, I work with what I'd call medium-sized C or C++ code bases (100k - 200k LOC) with hundreds of functions/methods. There is no way I can remember their signatures. When I start typing a method, my IDE will immediately show all the possible overloads with their parameters. When I hit F2, it immediately jumps to the definition. I seriously can't imagine how abandoning these features could make me more productive.

I'm always stumped when I hear people saying they are more productive in a text editor, even if they had already tried IDEs. I honestly like to understand how this is possible.
The other neat thing is that peer-to-peer PCIe transactions do not have to go through the root complex (the Pi in this case).

Say you have a GPU and an NVMe drive or video capture card plugged into a PCIe switch, which is then plugged into the Pi. If your software supports having these devices directly communicate, they can do so as fast as their PCIe links support doing, even though there’s only the tiny link to the Pi.

Peer-to-peer transfers are only limited by the smallest link on the path between two devices on the tree, rather than the smallest link in the tree.

A real world example is some of the big GPU compute servers. Some of the 4U chassis can house 20 or more cards. Many of them have all of the GPUs (320 or more PCIe lanes) plugged into an array of PCIe switches which may constrain them to 16 or 32 lanes from the CPU. The GPUs can all talk to each other a full speed, but only a few can go full speed to the CPU at a time.
Thanks a lot, I'll give it a watch!

Also, thanks dunham for the sixten suggestion!
CIE XYZ has imaginary colors, though.

I guess when I said "no color space is complete" I meant "no color space is faithfully bijective to nominative human visual sensory response." Because such a thing is basically impossible (or insanely nonlinear and unwieldy).

Also these color systems all or almost all assume a "norminal" (to steal a word from Everyday Astronaut, normal+nominal) average human vision system. If your system isn't norminal, average, human, or even visual (visible light), then your color space is an incomplete map of the territory.

So for any given array of pixel channel, there is either an implicit assumption or explicit color space of what those values "mean".
Damn, I needed 12
Hebrew speaker here. The old testament is readable, but difficult. The far larger problem is the lack of context.

Fortunately, the Jews have an unbroken chain of proficient Hebrew speaking Rabbis going back to the beginnings of the faith, and throughout that entire time they have written commentary. So like tracing photographs of a person back to when they were a baby, we have an unbroken chain of context to reference.

The amount of material is daunting. It really is a profession to comprehend it all - whether one believes it to be divine or not.
"The first R1T rolled off the assembly line in Normal, Illinois on September 14, which means that over about 48 days, the company was producing the R1T at an average rate of nearly 3.8/day (including weekends). ... Nearly all of these vehicles were delivered to Rivian employees."[1]

That's not production. That's debugging the assembly line.

[1] https://insideevs.com/news/544860/rivian-r1t-production-deli...
I wonder if this could be used to expose those that are in sensitive position. IE offer attacks at people you think are in important positions and watch how they react to the news. For example if you work somewhere sensitive and you have an accounts not tied the Apple account. The State Sponsored group is probably good enough to see your traffic patterns and to see if they change after you have been notified. Not that I think Apple shouldn't do this but I can see someone being crafty and trying to take advantage of this. There are always trade offs in security!
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Asking for a friend.
Oven timers aren’t much use if they can’t beep. And the inline switch is probably more trouble than what they came up with.
How so? Bitcoin is not a store of value, and sovereign currencies (I think I know what that means) are not backed by stores of wealth.
Right, it doesn't necessarily grind the economy to a halt; it simply forces investments to be worthwhile, because now they have to generate enough return to satisfy a higher interest rate. If money is not cheap, speculation is less rampant, but also risk taking is more expensive; this is a forcing mechanism for efficiency.

The interest rate (cost of money) simply returns to a supply/demand market equilibrium. The economy possibly smoothens out, rather than giving us artificial boom and bust cycles thanks to inefficient central bank policies.
> The events of the past 2 years have convinced me that even a small UBI can still have a large effect

Can you expand on this. What events have convinced you? Fwiw I'm trying not to be an idiot ;)
So something like PRISM that targets everybody won't trigger a warning?
The losers in a Ponzi scheme buy high and sell low. What did the winners do?
Just curious, if you already have NextJS, why support other frameworks like Svelte, Nuxt etc? Aren't they competitors in a way? Or is it more that Vercel is a platform that can host any framework so as long as customers use Vercel versus others, you don't really care which framework they use?
The link was to a rigorous meta-analysis in one of the top medical journals of several studies with combined n=389k that concluded that masks showed a 53% reduction in covid-19 incidence.
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Texas is the new choice for multinationals, they seem to be doing something right or is it that some states are a mess?
I'm surprised to see protection against state sponsored attacks implemented by a company as big as Apple. Is any other 'mainstream' company offering a similar feature?

Warrant canary [0] comes to mind, but that is usually a message to all users, as opposed to notifying an individual user.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary
A web browser is a huge and complex app. The argument it struggled with memory issues is moot if you can't show a comparably featured app written in Java to compare memory use.

Anyways, I've got plenty of anecdotal evidence where Java apps take order of magnitude more memory than their close counterparts written in languages that use manual memory management. Not browsers, but things like benchmarking tools, webservers or even duplicate file finders (shameless plug: https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones#benchmarks - there is one Java app there, see its memory use :D)
They are setting up fairly close to Tesla. Wonder if they are working on a deal for Tesla to provide battery backup. Interestingly enough Austin, TX appears to be rapidly approaching SF status as a tech hub and may soon surpass them. Its an interesting thing to watch and really gives insight into how politics and taxes affect business and growth.
Good catch! Fixed :)
thanks, I had been scouring the internet for something on this. Didn't expect to come across it on HN
>You’re just wrong about this. In cities like Seattle and Portland, life is pretty much “back to normal.” As a result, people are interacting with each other and “spreading germs” around like they used to be. Without a vaccine, this kind of behavior would have caused a huge spike in severe cases.

Oh, I've heard of so many cities/communities like these. Tell me in a few months.