skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I call it the "Ian Malcolm syndrome", in reference to the character (a mathematician) in Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park who tries to apply mathematical concepts to the dinosaur attraction to try to show why it is doomed to collapse.

There are a lot of similar posts online about people trying to use chaos theory (or what they believe chaos theory is), "systems theory", and other obscure concepts to explain why, for example, climate change will be the end of us all, or the global economy will enter a depression, or any other extremely pessimistic macro scenario. I see three reasons why these people are doing it. (1) To draw attention to themselves as someone with a superior intellect (which they actually aren't) (2) To construct an analysis no one has constructed before, in a "all these professional economists are saying the same thing, but here's why they're all misleading themselves, thanks to my ace card of a theory" kind of way, and (3) A love for the hyperbole, for dramatic outcomes.

A classic economic prediction like "Inflation pressures will potentially slow down growth in the short term, but the behavior of the economy over the next 12 months remains unpredictable" is not enough. It MUST be "A catastrophic economic collapse is inevitable", or "We are going back to the Middle Ages by the end of the decade", or "Hundreds of millions will die in the next few years".
Unfortunate name collision with the established (and still actively developed) 3D landscape renderer [1].

[1] https://planetside.co.uk/
Your source does not show how the numbers on Bitcoin's energy use published by Digiconomist are "garbage" and "FUD". In fact, the energy use of these blockchain networks is subject of multiple academic studies, like [1], [2] and [3] (just the top of a quick google). They all come to the same conclusion: these networks require mind-boggling amounts of electricity to operate by design. It is not garbage - it's an inherent fact of cryptocurrency.

The article you linked instead makes the argument that the Bitcoin network will use less energy in the future, because there will be less coins issued for miners. This argument is easily refuted by that the risk of a 50% attack will always require defending the network with stupid large electricity use. The verifier incentives will just shift from mining proceeds to even more ridiculous transaction costs.

[1]: https://ccaf.io/cbeci/index

[2]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S22146...

[3]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S18773...
It is a fine balance. Good luck doing that in JS which has zero
standard library on the browser.

C#, for example is in better shape and you can do a lot before you reach for nuget for
anything outside of Microsoft.

I prefer to not import tiny libraries but adopt the code into the codebase.
It went to shit but also enabled astronomical salaries for a lot of devs. There are tons of SaaS solutions out there that back in the day would have been downloaded once but now it's a never-ending stream of $5,10,15,50/month.
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Age as a Top-Level Project
>It seems obvious from your comments that you have no intention of downloading and actually trying the software so it seems pointless to try and address all your objections. If on the other hand you try it and run into a real problem instead of just a perceived one...then I will be happy to help.

My comments are aimed at your claims that either don't hold water, or where you try to defend your work as something brand new, when clearly other things already do what you describe :)
These are not very clever hiding techniques, for the most part these are the most basic techniques known to every 15 year old malware dev reading decades old literature.

Ars fell for marketing speech from an AV company that has every reason to hype their discovery.
Can't buy a house with a lawn in this market, so I'll do drugs ...
> Even if the base layer of Bitcoin is using energy, one can argue that the functionality it offers (trustless, borderless, permissionless, programmable, digitally-native money) is worth the energy cost.

The idea that Bitcoin (#23) is worth as much or more as all the economic and general human activity of Poland (25), Thailand (24), or Vietnam (22) is highly suspect:

* https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/
Back when i was testing so setup a startup I proposed a crazy idea to my cofounder: Let's setup an equity programme where every time a new person is hired, a chunk of equity would be taken directly from the existing employees(including founders!!), and would go to the new hire.

So that 2 founders would start with say 80% of the company (20% was for VCs) , and after hiring the first hire, he will get 20%, and founders will be left with 60%. After the 2nd hire 1st hire would give up 5%, and founders 10% to get 15% ...

My idea was that this would disincentivise hiring new people, so that new people
would be hired only when absolutely necessary .

I'm still planning on experimenting with this at some point in my life.
Yup. Above a certain height, you start drinking your own kool-aid, the people in even your closest circles turn into yes-men, and the world increasingly appears to revolve around you. It's impossible to avoid the hubris that comes from this. And this effect resists even the best efforts to "stay grounded".

Eventually your answer to the "why" becomes simply: because you can.
Unfortunately this is one of the things Firefox actually does very well even when you explicitly disable telemetry.
In this case the author (A) is setting themselves up as an authority in (T). The statement (P) in this article has not been revealed, but because (and I suspected separated) is in the followup (which I have now read). The followup does refer back to the "now you know about poles" -- the appeal to authority.
> It’s like you have to learn every raw CSS selector, and then also learned how it’s represented in Tailwind, and then scatter that all over your markup.

In my experience, tailwind is pretty close to the real CSS properties. What I found to be wonderful and freeing about it is that it stops the middle step of engineering and naming classes and naming elements with class names and let's you just do styling. There's also a really great plugin for VS code that adds intellisense. Personally I found the modifiers that allow you to target pseudo selectors like :hover to be a superpower. I totally understand the other side of the argument though. It's a lot.
I found my current job via LinkedIn.

I've also had surprising success cold emailing small companies in my research field. I didn't take the offer in the end, but I'd probably try again in the future.
> Bitcoin isn't a deflationary currency. It's emission is deflating to 0, after which it is neither inflationary nor deflationary.

There is no mechanism to replace coins to which private keys have been lost. There are most certainly deflationary pressures that are being compensated for by mining new BTC, but eventually new coin minting will happen less often than coin access loss, leading to an overall deflationary system.
> There is a vast amount of legitimate use on the Bitcoin blockchain

What kind of legitimate use? If the answer primarily boils down to "cryptocurrency speculation, wash trading, and attempts at get-rich-quick schemes", I won't be all that impressed.
I'm curious why, if it was first detected in November, it's just now making news over half a year later?
The whole article gave me the impression HTTP is something the author learned about last weekend. Good for him, I guess.

The article should be titled “10 things I didn’t know about HTTP”.

In his Twitter bio he describes himself as a “TypeScript & React Code Poet”.

Alright.
That's also valid for me, I auto-refile most of my "recurrent" mails via MailDrop, but most users are piler not filer, and even hardcore filers still need full-text search here and there... Let's say you look for a mail from a friend "a bit of time ago" (no certain date, many messages) about something. You recall some words in it, but your friend is not polite in mail netiquette so subjects are really bad, resorting to FTS is the simplest option. Having tags for casually mark messages with keywords to recall or group them in different ways is also useful because sometimes some messages belong to a certain maildir, but they might be meaningful together with other messages belonging to other maildirs.

Beside that classic IMAP search is HORRENDOUSLY limited and integrated search barely works, we have to deal with html emails, search inside docs attachments, have mails with (sigh) external contents, need full-text search results filtering by date, attachments of a certain kind, size etc etc etc...

We have seen the power of Google Search, we do have FLOSS maildir indexers who give them to us locally... Not having it in 2022 is honestly absurd IMVHO...
I lived it. It sucked. Only the dumb ones got cancelled. The smart ones kept their heads down or got new jobs. The team was defined by mediocrity. Mediocrity in hiring, in execution, in quality. But oh were they ever so woke.
I was thinking the same thing as GP. This particular article reads like a creepypasta, which makes me think there's nothing really to see here.
Can someone who is familiar with both this and mutt explain why one would choose to use the former rather than the latter?
Not sure I would want to work in a place with such intense rules!
Hey! It's not antitrust because Google is not a monopoly. Just go demo Resident Evil Village in your Firefox browser through a different provider. /s
Yes, as of 4.0.0
The article wasn’t doing that, and specifically distinguished poles from zeroes:

>> Control theorists like to classify the behaviour of dynamical systems based on what we call poles and zeros. … Again roughly speaking, zeros describe mathematically how a system reacts to some input in the short term, while poles describe how a system reacts in the long term.
Zephyr Project: A scalable RTOS for embedded IoT devices
We talk politics all the time here, and even heated comments don't always get flagged or downvoted.

Heated comments aren't flagged and downvoted, but unpopular ones are. HN just has a very unique profile of what it considers unpopular opinions that aren't the same as American political issues. There are plenty of downvote squads who will mass-flag submissions they don't like. The comments on such submissions will often be even-headed discussions with a wide range of views represented, all the while the sub is going from flagged to vouched over and over.
Aegean sea has seen a lot of military exercises with both Greece and Turkey, I remember the Medusa-10 exercise with Greece, France, Egypt and UAE (and yeah, these are the sides which clash against Turkey-backed official government in Libya) NATO Allied Land Command (in Izmir) tweeted the exercise with hashtags: #WEARENATO and #StrongerTogether. I would normally say such a weird timeline we live in but it has been like this for decades.
Have packaged food and fast food manufacturers been sued for deliberately making their products addictive, knowing full well that the addictive substances cause physical and mental harm?
We did the same thing for Rust. Regexes are neither in the language nor in the standard library. Go doesn't have them in the language either (although they're in the standard library).
I've played Diablo Immortal on my phone. As far as I can tell, it worked fine.

I used Wordle as an example of a game played by the masses. There are orders of magnitude more people who play things like Wordle than things like Diablo Immortal, hence my reason for using it as an example.

But still, gaming was poorly specified on my part; I should've mentioned that a $400 phone can play AAA titles, not that a $400 phone can play casual games.

Regarding the 525 dpi, you're correct, no $400 phone will have that. People who have trouble viewing a 300 dpi screen will have to pony up for a more expensive phone.

Where we've apparently landed is that $400 will let you play even AAA titles, but will not buy you 525 dpi.
“What Is It Like to Be a Bat?,” published in 1974 by the philosopher Thomas Nagel ...

One might try to imagine, Nagel wrote, “that one has very poor vision, and perceives the surrounding world by a system of reflected high-frequency sound signals,” or that “one has webbing on one’s arms, which enables one to fly around at dusk and dawn catching insects in one’s mouth.” But that wouldn’t help much.

“I want to know what it is like for a bat to be a bat,” Nagel insisted.

From that quote something crystalized in my mind, the essense of understanding other people. (I would guess Nagel intended that.)

Often we assume our own perspective is reality. When think that ours is just perception and we try to think of someone else's perspective, I would guess that the great majority of the time, we imagine ourselves in their shoes - 'what would I do?' - essentially, 'how would I apply my perspective to their situation?' To actually understand another person, we need to know "what it is like for a bat to be a bat"; what their experience is like from their perspective, with their prior experiences, emotions, needs, motives, position (physically, socially, etc.), distractions, concerns, perceptual ability, cognitive abilities, etc. etc.

For example, sometimes we tell drug addicts to 'get a job' or at least to go through recovery. That's our perspective. When we think of theirs, we often think that, in their shoes, we would do those things. But I have no idea what it's like to be a drug addict on the streets; and even more, I don't know what in their life led them there, and what those experiences are like. I'm fortunate, for example, not to have had parents who were drug addicts; I have a hard time imagining where I would be - would I be educated, for example. I don't have their fears, strengths, traumas, joys, emotional capacities, I've never been in the position of having nothing at all, I've never felt the drive of addiction.

It doesn't just apply to strangers, but even more to people we know - family, friends, co-workers. What is it like for them to be them?
Musk is on the short end of this stick. The deal as I've seen is fairly air-tight. I also don't think he ever had any intention of buying Twitter, and let his lack of impulse control get the best of him. Very intelligent people do stupid things all the time.

The $1B breakup was for a narrow set of cases, outside of those he's on the hook for the whole amount. Every move now is just part of the negotiation for how much he's going to pay get out of the deal.

There's also a moral hazard here. If Musk is allowed to walk away with zero consequence, he was able to hold Twitter hostage for however many months where they could have potentially had other suitors. It writes the playbook for other large companies to do the same.
Market value comes from a decentralised oracle. I don't want to write here the most famous decentralised oracle, but right now, it provides price information to various defi protocols why not also the market value...
Back in the day we used to call this being a workaholic. Old wine in new bottles as they say.
The argument seems a bit myopic. The author is talking about errors and vulnerabilities found in libraries while ignoring those same factors in bespoke code. At best that's a "security through obscurity" scheme.
> > Lacking viable uses outside of the criminal underworld and speculation

You gave numbers for criminal activity, but the original claim also included speculation. If you take that into account as well, how much do you have left then? If Bitcoin remains primarily a vehicle for transferring wealth from new investors to incumbent holders by building hype, is it really a benefit to society?
New versions of licensed proprietary software that you have to pay if you want to upgrade to a new version long predate subscription models and doesn't seem unreasonable in general. (Whether it really is justified for some little utility is another matter.)

The complaint I do buy here is that the OP can't transfer their old piece of software and license to a new system. Which they should be able to do--at least so long as an operating system upgrade doesn't break it. (i.e. I wouldn't expect old versions of software to be upgraded to run on new hardware and software except for some cases like OS security patches.)
> Good luck doing that in JS which has zero standard library on the browser.

The article is saying something more like vendor your dependencies (and cut out the stuff you don't use within dependencies).

> I prefer to not import tiny libraries but adopt the code into the codebase.

Yep that's what the article is saying.
Nodes rise because businesses that want to build on the chains require them unless they want to a pay far too much for a wrapper API. The number of wallets is literally unbounded, and it’s impossible to know precisely how many entities are attached to those wallets. I am one person. My tens of wallets are only for one person. I make a new wallet every time I try new wallet apps. I make new wallets to try new things. “Number of wallets” and “number of nodes” is a bad metric.
>Analysis of a New, Nearly-Impossible-to-Detect Linux Threat

Yeah, that's a straight up lie. LD_PRELOAD kits are by definition very easy to detect.
You should give it a shot, but IMO what makes it worth it is the Tailwind Intellisense plugin. I can design an element in just a few keystrokes, it's amazing.
Depends on what you consider legitimate or not. Many proponents of crypto hold the view that taxation is theft by definition, and any tax evasion, therefore, not only legitimate, but also a moral obligation.
How standards proliferate https://xkcd.com/927/
You have to learn the browser layout model, yes - you need to know what flexbox is, or how padding or transforms or line height works. But Tailwind provides sensible defaults for how those things are applied, which removes a lot of potential for screwups. It also removes most of the potential for badly “architected” CSS, where you accidentally end up with a set of classes that don’t compose together in a predictable fashion. This greatly lowers the cognitive burden, which helps when collaborating with others or even with your past and future self.

I get that it is aesthetically ugly, but if you can stop caring about that then you might find that it’s better on most other dimensions.
It certainly feels like a nation state's work, or, at the very least, an "advanced persistent threat" group. The packet capture pre-filter aspect, at very least, is strongly reminiscent of code I've seen from a couple of particular SE Asian APT-designated groups.
The thing is, subscriptions for 'big expensive software' like Adobe/Autodesk stuff makes sense in a lot of cases. Avoids a huge up-front cost, and gives everyone access to the latest version.

(Having said that, I bought a copy of Photoshop CS5 outright about 10 years ago, and I still use that version. Would have paid a lot more if I was on a subscription for 10 years, and I don't use it frequently or skillfully enough to need the latest+greatest version)

But we've got to a point now where the tiniest little utility wants a subscription rather than a one-off payment. And I'd blame it more on Apple than Adobe for creating the App Store model and then pushing subscriptions.

Apple have also created the requirement (and cost) for developers of having to constantly update their software (just to support new OS versions or new hardware), whereas Microsoft's focus on backwards-compatibility enables a lot of software a decade or two old to still run on the latest Windows and latest hardware.
But does it consolidate my data all over the devices and the web, tie to my real world identity, and feed to advertisers?
This sounds just like the great man theory in history [1].

I think we should be wary when a lot is attributed to a single person whatever the context may be: there are always people "behind the stage" as it were, without whom the show doesn't start.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory
The “37% rule” for your life’s biggest decisions – optimal stopping problem
I feel like the portable sawmill has a place in this discussion, given that the solution to how easy it is to cut something off of yourself with it is to sell them with an amputation kit so when your accident inevitably happens you have the tools to attempt to survive it.
That's great stuff! We have exporter functionality in the Databricks Terraform provider [1] and a lot of customers started to use Terraform for existing Databricks resources because they don't need to re-implement everything manually - just point to workspace, and wait few minutes.

[1] https://registry.terraform.io/providers/databrickslabs/datab...
Pickaxe Pete wasn't too shabby, either.
Without Bitcoin, Ransomware would essentially not exist. With Bitcoin, 37% of global organizations said they were the victim of some form of ransomware attack in 2021.

Even more statistics here:

https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/feature/Ransomware...

Beyond that, there are plenty of inflation hedges that don't require massive damage to the environment. Look into Series I Savings Bonds from TreasuryDirect.gov. Currently yielding 9.6%. There's gold, silver, productive assets like stocks and rental properties.

I think Cryptocurrency is one of the worst hedges against inflation anyone could come up with.
I have witnessed and participated in thousands of user-fork interactions and none of them have involved the user's eyeballs interacting with the fork.

There is a chance (in my estimate, negligible) that my anecdote is an extreme outlier, but I still dare state with confidence that most forks today are designed in a way that less than 99% of users end up sticking them in their eyeballs.

People using forks for the unconventional and usually unintended purpose of impaling their eyes* are a tiny minority of fork users and thus changing fork designs to encourage the intended method of use is not considered a high priority. Most people are naturally disinclined to pierce themselves, particularly in such a delicate part of their face, and as such the design of a typical fork with its pointy tines directs users to avoid this particular usage mistake.

The thesis stated above in the thread was, that cryptocurrencies are very commonly used in a way that defeats their intended purpose of decentralization. It seems reasonable to assume there is a flaw in contemporary cryptocurrency implementations that encourages this kind of use, or at the very least, doesn't discourage it very strongly.

* Excluding specialized forks for non-mainstream audiences such as very young children
Recruiter reached out while I was also actively searching (and I had been for a while) and I ended up liking the position and the team.

I don't know what "using my network" would even mean - just limit myself to a handful of companies (that I know nothing about) and cold-message people that I haven't spoked to in months/years so they can maybe check if there are open positions (which I could have looked up on the company's career page) and then can maybe refer me? Every part of it sounds weird, the whole "find a job through your network" is concept from an ideal world where I actively maintain relationships with many people in great companies that I want to work at. I don't know how many people are in that situation but I'm not one of them.
Whenever I buy I lifetime license that stops working I just start pirating the application. Happened to me with AVS Media Converter over a decade ago. "Lifetime" turned out to be about three years.
I was immediately reminded of this gem from https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/14/in-defense-of-not-...

“You know their motto? ‘Find the dependencies — and eliminate them.’ They’ll never go for something with so many dependencies.”
There's no link to the paper in the Phoronix article so far and the PDF download at acm.org also didn't show up for me. However, there's a copy (of a preprint, I think) available at archive.org:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220528123058/https://people.cs...