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What's so striking about all this is the sheer scale. There have been bubbles before, but not trillion dollar ones based on nothing.

It's not just Bitcoin and friends. Rivian, which is just starting out as an electric light truck manufacturer, has a market cap of US$98 billion. First vehicles will ship no sooner than January 2022. This is more market cap than Ford Motor, the #1 seller of light trucks for the last 44 years and with a good electric truck in their lineup.

This can't end well.
Skills transfer across frameworks and even languages. If you're good at Elm or Clojure, you would be great at React. Vue owes a lot of its structure to the original Angular (or at least it did when I learned it forever ago).
Now do the same for Amazon. I'd be surprised if the percentage is that much different.
Paying for what your users use, with no way to say no to the traffic, is exactly why billion dollar companies like Cloudflare exist - to protect people from "paying for what you use".

So yes, it is shady not to protect customers from that IMO.
Gotcha. Thank you for taking the time to clarify
> the graph you link shows deaths below all the past waves

and rising, which is what you said you didn't see

> and it doesn't discuss vaccination status

What is there to discuss? There are more vaccinated people in the EU now than at any earlier time, and yet the death rate has already climbed halfway back from to the November 2020 peak (which occurred when nobody had been vaccinated yet) and shows no sign of slowing down.

> Please read a bit more charitably, it makes no sense to post this graph as if it shows something relevant

However charitably I try to read this statement, I can make no sense of it.
The automated market maker design of Uniswap is useful even for non-blockchain based scripts to e.g. trade stocks digitally.

It's just a simple way of creating an orderbook and liquidity. So you don't need to be convinced of the real utilities of tokens to appreciate the brilliance of the design.
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This is something I’m stumped myself about. HN etc says crypto has no value and I wonder about other things in conventional finance that are of speculative value :

Gold - Sure it’s a good store of value as a metal but so is bitcoin. If Gold can be valuable because lots of people value it as a store of value so can Bitcoin. In fact bitcoin is arguably better than Gold.

The total wealth of the world is 1000 trillion. Bitcoin is easily worth 0.1 - 0.5 % of that because of its permissionless advantage. Bitcoin has a non zero floor price. I think anyone would agree with this.

This is unlike say NFTs which are not likely worth anything with a potential floor of 0.

Loss making stocks like Snapchat - A company that said in its IPO filing that we may never be profitable and is still struggling with profitability is worth 100B.

If conventional finance is 50 % a Casino based on social factors why can’t there be one more ? Are the purveyors of the current system afraid that they’ll lose their cut ?

What is the right mental model here ?
The question is whether what you're receiving is genuinely free, or a part of some squeezable marketing budget. In my experience it always makes sense to consider the latter. At some point that $595/mo. you're saving will appear on a lead sheet, whether it happens today or (similar to e.g. Google Apps) after 5 years. Also like Google, they're a public company nowadays and will eventually succumb like every company before them to the realities of reporting growth.

I'd always prefer paying for certainty than design a solution built on a lottery.
> "Just the fact that everyone on earth thinks that Bitcoin is crazy, and no one is telling me why, doesn’t matter,”

Says the biggest known victim of a crypto heist in a private person.

Ain't this ironic.

I guess I should spell out that centralization is a feature?
Nice, so they can be powered by Tesla's megapack / solar and ship chips directly to Tesla Terafactory via Boring tunnel! Cybertruck manufacturing is looking green
This bit me hard.

I love street photography and have been active for a number of years.
I have done some good work.

I never appreciated the freedom I had as a photographer in the US.

A while ago I moved to Norway.

I kept taking pictures. Working on two different concepts / series.

I got some good shots, the cultural differences in behavior, fashion,
what is considered polite etc was inspiring.

I shared some shots with friends back in the states including my mentor.
I got some food and valuable reviews, and one series was well liked.
I had put 4- 5 month of effort into it. (not all day every day)

I was starting to wonder about how to go about publishing them.

Now I hate social media.
I do not put my photos on Instagram, Twitter, or wherever else.
This turned out to be a blessing.

I was visiting a few galleries to learn about the local scene and
dip my toes in the water and see what it takes to get a few photos up.

I dont take along an iPad with photos, I stick to an old portfolio
with printed photos.

I got a couple of stern lectures about Norwegian law, and that all my
photos were to be considered illegal esp. if I were to show them anywhere.

It was fortuitous that I dont share my work.

I admit I was pissed off for a while and I have had to put Street Photography
out of my mind.

I am left with two folders on a harddrive with work that I cannot display.
I have not yet been able to delete all of them.
I have thought about showing them in the US, the legality of which I have
not been able to establish so that is off as well.
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This is backwards, you don't have to give up on container/process security just because AWS's own trust boundary is the VM. But to do that you can't assign VM-level privs. Something something eating cake.

Put yourself in AWS's position. Your customer is running a VM which you have only hypervisor level control over. Could be Linux, could be AIX, could be an appliance. How could you possibly implement user/process level security from the outside? How could you know what processes inside the opaque black box are the privileged ones?
> Not your keys not your coins.

so the same thing as "code is law", which is a fundamentally bad idea.
I think the closest you can get is using a VPS like DigitalOcean where you pay $X for a server and there's no autoscaling to worry about. But even with those, if you go over the bandwidth limit (although with DO the bandwidth limit is a lot higher) you would be charged more.

The unfortunate reality is that hobby developers that just want to pay $20/month aren't the target audience for GCP etc. They don't really care if you're using them less for your personal hobby projects. They target large enterprises, and those large enterprises would have very little use for something like "cap my spend at $20".

Even as an AWS employee, I sometimes use non-AWS hosting providers for my own projects. Even outside of the billing situation, AWS is often too complicated for my use cases. It's just not targeted at me and my hobby development projects.

disclaimer: am AWS employee but the above is my own opinion and not official position of the company, etc etc.
"Racy Photos Were Often Shared at N.S.A., Snowden Says" - New York Times (July 20, 2014)

In 2021, to take a photo with a smartphone is to publish it, worldwide and forever.

(Of course I still take plenty of pictures of myself and friends. It's just not a clear line anymore what we get to control when social media and corporate/government leaks are everywhere)
The irony is that this article is correct for “crypto” but not Bitcoin. Every “crypto” could be better done with a database.

But Bitcoin allows journalists like Wikileaks to be paid without it being censored.

You can call that “crime”, but your definition of crime doesn’t comport with natural law.

And censorship resistant money breaks the stranglehold of theft via inflation from the central banks.

It eliminates the primary cause if generational poverty.

I know this site is inhabited by government worshipping authoritarians, but bitcoin will fix that too, eventually.
Yes, this is easy:

- The current JBR is JDK11, not JDK8.
- You don't need to reinstall anything to use an alternative JDK with the IDE. Just set the IDEA_JDK envar to the JDK of choice.
- Ugly as sin is an opinion. I use the IDE with linux on a hidpi display. Looks perfectly acceptable to me...even running with JDK18.
- I just reported an issue while running with the JBR17 a few days ago. Jetbrains was perfectly responsive to my issue.
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> As an American, that speaks volumes about our lifestyle and culture, and I find it disappointing.

I wonder if the dissatisfaction started the tribal political wars, or if the wars precipitated the dissatisfaction. In the end, I think that much of the problem lies with politics at this point, regardless of whether it was the chicken or the egg.
> Sure, but how do you turn the lights on when the power's out and the router is down?

Taking this as joke as one doesn’t often turn on lights when power’s out …

But I used Caseta in a home with a generator since the Lutron light switches and dimmers are physical switches that happily work without any smarthome features.

Unplug your hub and they all work except for the ones that don’t get wired (the ones that are their remote, just stuck on a wall).

Pretty much the top selling point of Caseta for me, was working like normal switches. Gravy is how much more responsive than Hue or similar.
Do you happen to know how they manage that ahead of the small northern European countries?
This isn’t going to end. There is no point at which things will return to normal. If you think otherwise, I’m sorry but you simply haven’t been paying attention.

If vaccine mandates bother you, I strongly suggest moving to a rural area or to a region/country with less restrictions. Otherwise you will inevitably be forced to receive yearly boosters in order to participate in society.
~~The "100GB is actually only 1GB per region" thing is some sneaky stuff :/~~ Good move on CloudFront though.
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When someone says "use case" they mean something... useful. I think it's pretty obvious that the OP didn't mean "no one has tried anything with blockchain."

I wasn't the one who made that claim anyways, so let me make one: Beyond cryptocurrency, there is no problem that blockchain solves better (simpler, cheaper, more efficient, more practical, etc.) than "traditional" organizations and technology.
> So as we go through this whole exercise, a greater proportion of the population is protected and people are less likely to be carriers.

I suspect we should also be vaccinating the wider world in order to minimize mutations which might nerf our vaccine and natural immunity. I’m of the impression that most of the world doesn’t hasn’t had even a single dose.

That said, last I checked, the US had donated more vaccine than all other countries combined and committed itself to many times more donations than it had already delivered. Further still, it was committed to building out the logistics infrastructure to make sure those vaccines get delivered and in such a way that other polities (e.g., Europe) can donate via that same infrastructure. Now we just need other polities to step up their donations.
> I don't see any simple ways to fix this, interest rate hikes will slow price growth, but payments will still go up. Some incremental changes (additional taxes on empty houses, rezoning, etc.) may have small changes, but do not seem likely to bring down affordability.

That’s not how asset owning class uses low interest rate environment in their favor. Say you bought a house in SF in 2010. Well your market value of the house has already doubled if not more. So 5yrs later you borrow against that asset to buy another rental unit in even lower interest rate. Which in turn has doubled.

Meanwhile if a first home buyer like me wants to get in I have to not only have 20% down payment, but also clean credit and a secure job. Do I get to use the low interest rate in my favor? Let’s see credit card interest rates are still 10%+.
16 is also the legal drinking age for beer, so it's just natural that the voting age is adjusted accordingly ;)
You're really comparing an abortion ban to delayed algebra?

Also, that was just a single example. If you want to stick to education, Texas lawmakers have also been trying to push a book ban for public schools just this past month.

There's also a bill targeting the concept of critical race theory that would ban curriculum where “an individual should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of the individual’s race or sex.”

This is significantly different from pros/cons like high taxes... there's a fairly strong current of anti-intellectualism across Texan politics.
Especially since your compiler will make it a super magical optimised version.
> These GCs have a 1GB overhead when working with a 16GB heap. That’s 6% of your available memory.

6% memory overhead while preserving throughput is actually quite excellent. Just a little more than the average fragmentation overhead under manual memory management.

Manual memory management can "hold its own" because it can tailor the allocation/release profile to the problem and aggregate some of those overheads.
Not at all. The server allows for discovery of code actions and their parameters and the UI is displayed in response, by code that knows nothing about particular actions. It goes something like this (won't be accurate in the details, check the lsp spec [1] under Code Action Request if you want chapter and verse):

User to emacs: I want to perform a code action.

Emacs to server: The selection is this. What code actions can you perform?

Server to emacs: I can perform actions called "Extract Method", "Extract Base Class", etc.

Emacs to user: Choose an action from this list

User to emacs: I'll do "Extract method"

Emacs to server: We're going with "Extract Method", what info do you need.

Server to emacs: I need an item called "method name" which is a string and an item called "visibility", which is one of the following: "public", "private", "protected".

Emacs to user: Enter method name... Select visibility...

Emacs to server: Here are the parameter values.

Server: Here are the edits necessary to perform the code action

Emacs: Updates code.

No special per-action code is required. If you want to see an implementation have a look at lsp-mode[2].

I hope that makes it clear. I've spent more of my day explaining this than I should have now, so I'll leave it there.

[1] https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specifi...

[2] https://emacs-lsp.github.io/lsp-mode/
That's really disingenuous.

The complaint here is that Amazon offers a free tier supposedly for learning the platform, but it is a giant footgun that shoots a ton of people in the foot.

People are reasonably asking for hard limits to protect them from this highly foreseeable situation wherein a complicated cloud offering can go on a spending runaway.

It is literally as easy as following a beginner tutorial and selecting the database instance the tutorial uses and leaving it running. That could be a several hundred dollar mistake.
Also amounts > 20000 in a weekend? How much fees do you pay on that?
What an egregiously misleading title. The actual underlying facts are that South Koreans' resposes to a survey about what makes life meaningful were different (when placed in rank order) from all of the other countries in the survey. Not absent, just different. And also, if you actually look at the numbers, not all that much different.
You're most likely not going to get concrete evidence from China. So, we go with the facts we have which all point to a leak in the Wuhan lab. If you have a better theory feel free to posit it. This is how science works, you draw a conclusion based on evidence. If other evidence disproves it then you change. The animal/bat patient zero theory hasn't produced any evidence.
That's one way of looking at it, but most stocks don't pay dividends, so that "equity" is also not that tangible either, unless you're like a majority shareholder that you can change company direction. When you buy a stock, that money doesn't go to the company, it goes to previous investor, unless the company issues more stock (usually the opposite happens).

Also, Bitcoin's success doesn't mean those companies will succeed because it's decentralized and there's thousands of companies across the world and competition is very stiff. But those companies can't succeed without Bitcoin.
Great explanation :)
Bingo! I have tried to replicate and indeed, logging out of one browser closes all active sessions. Curious behavior.
So, debit cards?
> How do you work in a large C++ code base using only a text editor? You will certainly need a couple of plugins, e.g. for linting, definitions/implementation look up, auto complete, etc. Then what is the actual difference to an IDE?

In the beginning I felt I needed linting, definitions, etc, so I began by stuffing Vim with plugins. Then I discovered that I was much more productive when I didn't use any of that, but actually kept the documentation close by.

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. with Vim. I have about 3 custom made Vim functions that serve as shortcuts for at few of the things I need often.

Personally it's the most productive for me and the tool gets out of the way.
Bitcoin isn’t in a bubble on any time scale longer than 4 years. Bubbles don’t re-inflate.
> stablecoins subvert the ability of the Federal Reserve to print money and give it to their friends at Goldman Sachs et al

... and now the owners of the stablecoin can print money and give it to friends of the stablecoin.

I don't see how stablecoins are any better than the Federal Reserve. If anything they are strictly worse. The owners of the stablecoin are semi-anonymous and have no governing body. I get that "no governing body" might be a good thing in some people's minds, and I think the OP highlights exactly who those people are.
Remember, Skynet is Genisys.

Joke aside, I’m not sure whether the tradeoff between “automatically tune parameters” and “nightmare to debug” is worth it.

On the other hand it seems patterns like this are already deployed in hardware so maybe it will work out fine.
The flip side is deflation, though. Which isn’t exactly pretty.

If the value of my fiat money is increasing, then I will hold on to it, which is good for me. If everyone does that, then the economy grinds to a halt.

The stock/bond market is, although not always efficient, at least somewhat enabling of economic activity, whereas just holding your currency (including bitcoin) is not.
Since graviton is typically a reinvent announcement, I would guess you should wait a week.
I mean, if someone showed by some great new innovation to let HFT shops move faster, I'd also be a bit nonplussed. If the answer is just "well, this is no more useless other frivolous* money games", then I'm not really convinced.

*frivolous in the sense of real utility. Obviously they make boatloads of money.
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There's many reasons a "new guy" might not be able to set up a dev environment in what you might call a reasonable amount of time.

- IT doesn't have the hardware ready

- New team member is inexperienced in using an IDE, but the entire development environment setup is GUI based

- New team member is inexperienced in a CLI, but entire dev environment setup is CLI based

- New team member is working from home and hasn't received hardware for new start date on their first day

- New team member is a fresh graduate, and needs actual mentoring and training

- Link rot/outdated documentation on setting up a dev environment.

- New person may not be technical (I work in games, we have artists)

- Working from a location where internet speeds to download a toolchain, OS updates, docker images are slow.
SpaceX has 200 FS engineers, while DoD has 4k developers working on the F-35
So the correct answer is "Yes".
> No matter what people say the current situation shows that the vaccines do not work

This could not be further from the truth.
It's only right thing to do. Fingers crossed it won't get derailed.
What hardware do you use? And how were you able to get hold of something that doesn't talk to the cloud? There's nothing like that in the shops here.
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Why are “smart homes” always presented as either all in or all out?

We have a handful of Wemo switches that we use to turn on various lights, mostly on a sunrise/sunset schedule. They are reasonably reliable with no more than about 1 failure to switch in a month. My husband sometimes needs to repeat himself if he is using voice commands but then, he is a mumbler and I often have to ask him to repeat what he says to me. If I needed to switch one without voice or app, I can just tap the physical button on the switch.

When we leave town, they continue to switch off/on. I no longer have to dig out one of those Daisey-wheel timers and try to figure out what is on and what is off.

None of these lights are ‘critical’ in that, if they don’t switch now and then, I’m not upset. I don’t demand 100% uptime for decades at a time. At worst, I might have to unplug and replug in the switch to reset it. I don’t try to get complicated with them and have no particular desire to automate the rest of the house.

I feel like my home is smart enough at this level, not particularly fussy, and not a source of stress.
What a ridiculously untrue and narrow-minded statement. If you've only worked at companies where you're one tiny cog amidst ten thousand employees, sure, you may have a designer or psychologist who specializes in UI/UX analysis. However, that does not describe the VAST MAJORITY of tech teams, and frankly, any frontend developer who isn't analyzing their output or at least taking a moment to think "hey, maybe 39 scrolls is too much for this task," doesn't really care about or understand what they're doing.
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You weren't here in 2008?
Sure, but it's being presented as a reason to be excited about crypto, so any non-crypto applications aren't really relevant here.
> In an image with very limited colors you would have long runs of the same color and it would compress well from just the run-length encoding alone.

...unless those images are dithered. Which may be a relatively common thing to do in small color spaces!
In Germany, 52,000,000 out of 80-some million are double vaccinated. If these vaccines were effective at producing a sort of herd immunity, we would be beginning to see the result. So why aren't we?

Secondly, in this article we see "cases skyrocketing". But what does that really mean? If I am sick in hospital and tested every day, is each positive test considered a case? Likewise, if I was in a car accident and tested positive for COVID-19, despite being asymptomatic, is that considered a case as well? Or if I'm double vaccinated and have a breakthrough infection (which is increasingly common), is that also a case? 18 months into this, the word "cases" has lost significance for me.

I'm going to get blasted for this, but I just can't help seeing a connection between articles like these and the machinations of states to enact further restrictions, mandate booster shots, and largely close off society to the "unvaccinated", which, in my experience is people who've recovered from COVID and have natural immunity. My authoritarian government refuses to recognize natural immunity as a thing, with the guidance being to get vaccinated _anyway_, and heck, trust the science and get 3 shots, even though research on this is slim-to-none.

The most vulnerable to COVID-19 are old, obese, and infirm. Not young adults or kids. And yet state governments are treating this as a "black death" scenario for everyone.