skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Investors were offered chunks of FTT token that would vest long before any company liquidity event, in addition to company equity. So they were also buying into a speculative directional bet with faster returns, that they’d almost certainly get to dump on the market when insider info hits their networks. Not sure what the original source is but it was reported by Barron’s today.
We have ECH (previously known as ESNI) now, is that not just domain fronting in a new form?
We have stable coins that can get you both.
>I think ultimately it all comes down to willpower

My annecdata agrees with this point.

>Can't tell if it transfers from exercise to my actual work

IME, it all comes down to whether I truly care about my work.
I love lifting, and I agree with this. Even running outside, though repetitive, causes you to constantly scan the ground ahead of you for obstacles (crack in the cement, puddles, dog poop, etc), you have the stimulus of the moving background, cars/people/stray pets to avoid. You may not have to think hard about theses things, but your mind is always processing and responding to the stimulus.

For me, I think I get the most mental benefits out BJJ. I'd wager any martial art with live sparring would give the same results.

When you're doing live sparring, as opposed to just drills, you have to make constant, near instant, adjustments to your defense, look for offensive openings, scan your rolling partner's movements and try to anticipate their next attack, all while being aware of other trainees on the mats (to avoid a random foot or falling body), and working to slow your breathing and maintain composure.
Never thought I'd see a nymph on a VC website.
I do regular value stock searches. Do you know what comes up frequently? BRK-A and BRK-B. Despite his decades-long track record; despite the monster profits regularly posted; despite book after book about him; his business is still undervalued.

Perhaps it is because he invests in unsexy things like chewing gum, insurance, furniture, and candy. (he has lately taken a stake in Apple, but that's the flashiest thing he's ever bought.)
The US has some of the best medical professionals in the world - the TSA intentionally chose to not care about who they called in to assist.
How many read-write services can you use to redirect traffic to your C2 infrastructure while almost guaranteeing organizations will allow outbound connections to it and not look too closely at it?
Interesting that Michael wrote that 11 years ago and that it is still a relevant partitioning and categorization of Lisp languages.

I love the Lisp ecosystem and my only real regret is that PicoLisp does not run on macOS because I think as a tiny Lisp that it is practical for some applications and there are several very interesting programs written in it.
Since day one, honestly. Otherwise most people here would have stuck $100 in to BTC at $10.
Reading the LinkedIn profiles for the leadership and employees at Alameda I’m struck by the fact they all have about five or less years of experience in the world. They’re all effectively children. Not at all surprising.
No, you can. It's like asking, "why make c# when Java already exists. Isn't it just another algol dialect with gc?"

The answer is, "because somebody made it because they weren't happy with what already existed"
nice work to whomever archived it in time... the significance of the internet archive is going to grow and grow as the bigots, sleezeballs, and grifters continue to multiply

and yes, i was playing league of legends while typing this monunmental reply
I'd forgotten about those horrible iframes! It makes me wonder what other horrors I've left behind.
He was envisioning getting crypto embedded into portfolios of pension funds and sovereign wealth funds. There's only so much you can steal from the r/bitcoin r/stonks demographics.
Welcome to a recession. You either wait it out or take less pay if you are desperate. Better to have some job than no job, yeh?

Surely you saved during those years of 270k tc

Also now your skills and experience are more relevant to your salary.
First of all I was doing all of this on my touchscreen phone, which made me give up soon, as my laptop was packed in the garage.

I used a program called Packet capture that registers as a VPN connection in Android and routes all traffic trough itself. I saw some external IPs with TLS data when visiting the captive portal: http://upload.4a.si/pcap.jpg

When I sent a request to one IP address, I learned from the response that I've reached a fastly endpoint. The response was an error page, claiming they host no one with this domain. I knew from a talk by reddit sysadmins that they use the fastly CDN, so I added a Host header with a value of old.reddit.com:

curl -ikH Host:\ old.reddit.com https://151.101.0.176/r/Slovenia.json

Then I added a rule in software AdAway for Android (this one is used for DNS blacklisting to remove ads based on DNS queries and requires root access - changes /etc/hosts AFAIK) to overwrite old.reddit.com to this IP address.

I can't remember how I tricked the web browser into ignoring invalid certs.
So the use cases you're going with are:

* Wire transfers

* Paying for porn

* Avoiding civil asset forfeiture

I think 99% of people watch free/ad-supported porn, and anyone concerned about civil asset forfeiture is likely either a criminal, or a conspiracy theorist and/or paranoid schizo (i.e. a small minority of the population).

Wire transfers are a legitimate use-case maybe. I don't really know much about that as I've never personally had to do it. But if that's the only legitimate use case for cryptocurrency, then it's probably a better idea to try and improve the efficiency of traditional wire transfers than to use fake money that's a magnet for fraud/scams/crimes.

> Blockchain tech is here to stay.

This I agree with. Blockchain as a general technology is useful, but not for financial products/services.
Are Java and C# different languages, or just a trick with the name by Microsoft to avoid the requirements of Sun?

(I think that the difference between Java and C# is similar to the difference between Common Lisp and Scheme.)
What makes an artifact okay to own versus illicitly trafficked? A government permit from the time it was excavated?
Did twitter TOS was ever ok with impersonating accounts?

I don’t want to be in a position where I’m defending twitter but need to remind federated instances are run mostly by normal people. Having the cake and eating it and all that.
Many of us don't want everything we do monitored and tracked. I understand this leads to more financial fraud, laundering, and terrorism, but if I were to list my problems in life, those are nowhere near the top. Privacy is much higher.

That's not a universal statement -- that calculus could change -- but this is the case for me in the developed world in 2022.
Big cheques, barely DD.
> system of recklessness that drove the price of Bitcoin to astronomical heights only to crash.

I am probably going to sound extremely naive and uneducated; but when we say "price of Bitcoin", don't we normally mean its value relative to fiat currencies? And isn't it true that our regular fiat currencies are inherently inflationary, and thus not a good long-term storage of value? Wouldn't the lack of trust in fiat currencies drive the price of Bitcoin too?
The dot com bubble is mentioned. Despite the mania leading up to the crash, I think all here would agree that ultimately the attention was justified, it was just perhaps a little premature.
adb shell settings put global tether_dun_required 0

Problem solved - your ISP now allows tethering.
Labels.

I read them too.

Understanding is a whole different thing.
That removes way less than all of the abrasive dust, and to some extent just turns what remains in to an abrasive slurry. You still get abrasion of the coating over time. And water doesn't help at all with damage due to solvents, glue, and the like.
> I think it’s hilarious that you think your wire was slow because of the geographical distance the message had to travel

I don’t see anything in the post you are replying to that indicates they believe this. They noted the distance, which makes clear many practical issues (it was not only another country but not in a trading or common regulation block like the EU).

It’s clear the amount of time involved is the obstacle the person had issue with. This seems like a use case for crypto (even if I personally would tend to just do the wire whenever practical).
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Sam was found to be playing League of Legends while on a call w/ investors at Sequoia for a $1B financing round. Their response was to declare him a genius, as clearly only a genius would be playing video games while in a $B business meeting.

These are the monied investment class showing their true skillset, which is mostly limited to "being rich".
I'd argue that habituating lowers the amount of willpower required. I'd also note that it is easy to lose habits of activities that require a lot of willpower to create a habit around.
I concur on FreeCAD having serious problems that appear almost immediately. SolidWorks has been a smoother experience for me, but the license can be expensive if you don't have an academic, military etc exception.

It's nice to hear about OnShape. Will keep an eye.
It's not sensible because it's £500 per year!

To put it in perspective, MATLAB is a similar "if you have to ask" industrial piece of software and their hobby license is like £125 one-off. (Not including any toolkits but still.)

Most hobbyists are not going to blow £500/year on CAD software.
Distributed systems are often message based systems involving parsers etc.

And making things work this way everywhere is a way to achieve network transparency.

So, it's pretty easy to defend if you care about network transparency above the highest possible performance.
The native-american generations population probably doesn't intersect with the population of teenage knife-wielding attackers in london, which is what we're talking about.

Then again, if you want to argue stone-age semantics: we can't ban anything and should just resort to continuous murder since rule-based society is too hard.
Let me rephrase then: what one calls censorship another might call moderation. The difference is authority to remove of hide content, if you have it then it is moderation. So, to be controversial for the sake or discussion then, Russia blocking Signal is moderation within the realm of their authority as is Iran blocking content they don't like or the US gov seizing domains. Either way, domain fronting was never an explicit feature anyone supported.
Notably, less than two months old.

If I was a financial regulator, I would be looking into the full nature of Sequoia’s relationship with FTX and Bankman-Fried’s other ventures. It’s hard to fathom such a massive evaporation in estimated value escaping the attention of one of his few hard cash investors.
Qcad is fine. I did drafting/autocad in High School (2002) and it wasn’t too bad.

I tried sketchup and it is not great for 2D. For 3D I didn’t like it as much either, I felt like you have to use the mouse a lot more. I had a ton of trouble just subtracting a volume in sketchup (creating a window in an extruded floor plan)
I think the same thing when I hear about rich techbros discuss "longtermism", like it's a real thing and not something dreamed up in a overheated tent at Burning Man.
You just make me laugh. Thanks for that, it’s a big ass universe, and you at least gave me that.
The press needs to stop using cringe acronyms for these people so the Internet Archive can do its job.
> I think it’s hilarious that you think your wire was slow because of the geographical distance the message had to travel (“halfway across the world”) as opposed to the fact that it had to travel across jurisdictions with different laws.

They meant exactly that. The claim that blockchain is faster because of technology is obviously a complete strawman.
Yes, and nuts and seeds are already absurdly calorie dense. If someone made peanuts with 1/10th the calories, I'd finally feel like I could eat as many as I actually wanted. As is, they're a calorie bomb.
How the hell did COVID, a period over which the dollar’s value has increased, reveal the USD as a scam?

What COVID did is reveal what a currency actually is. It’s a bet on the reliability of the backers of the currency. In the case of the USD, that would be the US government and economy.

BTC only has value because people don’t seem to understand this basic fact of a currency.
Markets move on speculative value changes.

It's not what they think about this, it's what they think others will think about this. It doesn't matter whether it's true or not; it's just market confidence.

Any movement is another data point. Nobody wants to be the last one out.
I have a theory that every 10-15 years or so we look back at the previous 10-15 years in medicine and wonder how we lived through it at all.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33549059 and the currently discussed at

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33571734
Once again, as usual, only negative things about crypto being talked about on HN, with only negative comments and nothing positive ever.

Despite dang constantly asking people to not boast.

Outside of the HN bubble, I see a lot of people into crypto who are all posting: "I told you so".

As simple as: "Your keys, your coins".

We're talking about Bloomberg, Sequoia Capital and oh so many others coming up with hit pieces up until a few days ago about how SBF was a "philantropic genius". The issue is not cryptocurrencies here. The issue is scammers and the financial world having, once again, turned a complete blind eye to people running scams.

Cryptocurrencies are just an excuse here.

Isn't the bigger story how, every single time scammers, be it people packaging synthetic CDOs and selling them to investors as AAA investments before the subprime crisis or the SBF of this world, there are big names lauding these products as creation from geniuses?

There were people calling out SBF as a fraud. A trader pointed out, more than a month ago, that the only picture of the CTO, called "Wang" (most common family name in the world: 65 million people have that family name), was a picture taken from behind.

That same person noticed that one of the person high up the chain in the SBF fraud was already linked to an only poker scandal where the poker site was defrauding users.

Meanwhile Bloomberg was lauding SBF as the biggest genius of our time.

Why isn't that the story?

Why isn't the story about Gary Gensler being accused by a congressman of working hand in hand with FTX/Alameda to allow FTX to acquire a monopoly on crypto exchange by regulatory capture? All the while a colleague of Gary Gensler is the father of Alameda's 28 years-old CEO.

Serious people: wake up.

I'm not the one making these accusations. A US congressman is accusing Gary Gensler, the very chair of the SEC, of allegedly working with (for?) SBF.

But, no, according to most of HN the culprits are... People who want something else than a currency of which the central banks can print trillions of at will?

We're talking about officials and politicians receving $40 millions in donation from a fraudsters and "respected" magazines presenting that fraudster as one of the biggest genius of our times.

That's the real story.

But, no, let's focus instead on the angle: "Cryptocurrencies are dead now".

I'm sure that the corrupt officials, politicians and the very dubious players who lauded SBF as a genius do love that angle.
Wayland and X compositors provide for tear-free video updates, which is what Carmack is talking about in those posts. Further progress will come from lowering the added latency, but that's a very different problem.
League of Legends player AND appreciates 2006-level Digg humor? Hire this man!
> whatever you can construct a Supreme Court majority to uphold

I find the same thing with liberal courts. For instance with the second amendment. We clearly have a problem here with the court system reflecting their own personal views instead of what’s written in law. But the problem is not coming from the right. Unless your point is that when a court doesn’t agree with you then they’re wrong.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33501487
The promise of crypto was that someone found a way to make a non-duplicable, tradeable token. First by proof of work and then by proof stake.

The problem is that they forgot the 1 against all adversarial nature of internet security. A trillion dollar empire set against one way of securing assets is in essence a trillion dollar bounty on breaking your security regime. And what was found? That the system was complex enough that most security "hacks" were mostly social engineering with a sprinkling of insecure gateways and passwords. Neither the users of wallets or the engineers of exchanges put in enough time and effort to secure their holdings in relation to the dollar values they held. Wild swings in the stability of coin values created arbitrage opportunities which made some users exceedingly rich, prompting more dumb money to enter the system. That's a bug, not a feature.

I still think there's value for crypto to evade censorship and manipulation of populations via legislation of the money supply. But that requires a whole slew of low level techs to maintain and verify transactions. At some level that may make it as onerous and bureaucratic as our current financial systems.

I just hope that this doesn't cause financial contagion in the traditional sectors.
Labels are un-fun but as someone who has a family member with the issue I can not dispute the definition. It is a real issue and quite challenging for everyone involved.
Well then hopefully tech people will soon wrap their head around the fact that political problems are best solved politically. You can't write tech that overrides the authority of governments but you can override or change governments.
You're missing the point of VC funds. Due diligence doesn't matter, incompetence doesn't matter, reality doesn't matter. What matters is if they can turn their 1 dollar into 2.

Doesn't matter if that requires breaking laws(airbnb) or stealing from naive people(shitcoins) they will do it, full stop. Once you understand that VC funds are literally robber barons who grouped together and gave themselves a new name it all makes a lot more sense.
And then pjax/Turbolinks attempted to address that more surgically, without giving up on server rendering.
I like learning, and entrepreneurship provides unlimited surface area for learning. The problem space is fuzzy, and complex, and building a successful business involves figuring out how all of these fuzzy things interact with and bump into each other.

I can jump in and out, and go as deep into any of the problem areas as I'm interested in going. Once I satisfy my itch, I can hand off the problem area to someone else and throw myself into a new learning opportunity.

As the company changes, solutions that worked previously need to be revisited and improved.

Unlimited. Learning.
The high fees made DEX impractical
You’ll find a lot of power in ownership and effort. If you can assert that you have done everything in your power to accomplish something, nobody can criticize you.
Zoom Buys Keybase
You think preventing fraud, money laundering or terrorism funding (the specific examples cited above) doesn't make society better?
Only for the legal stuff... so you will still get complaining comments.
Talk about a strawman. Knives have utiltiy which is a feature. Domain fronting is a bug not a supported feature.
What a ridiculous thing to bring up details of someone’s life that are irrelevant to the news event.
That is truly astonishing. How did he think he could get away with it?

I kept wondering how someone who seemed smart, wanted to help others, and admitted that crypto is a Ponzi scheme could end up in crypto. It broke my brain.

Now I see he was a brazen criminal all along and the world makes sense again.
It reminds me a lot of the 1998-2000 period where people were looking for hot stocks but not doing any research beyond Internet forums and seeing whether a number had gone up.

Some of the people caught out deserved mockery but many were well-marketed to and far out of their league. I’m thinking of a sales guy I knew who mentioned one morning that he’d “invested” all of their wedding money and was now far below water.
The point made in this article applies to your first point - companies like FTX playing fast and loose can tank your value even if you are playing as your own bank. Not using their custody doesn’t fully protect you from their actions.

Cryptocurrency does not settle instantaneously, in fact credit cards are usually faster. Nobody is “waiting” for settlement. The transaction is done very fast.

Defi collateralised loans have actually had several instances of losing money and whole schemes failing - ‘whales’ holding illiquid assets have taken out massive loans with no intention of repaying, and the collateral is sometimes only “over” on paper.
I'm in a similar space. I love OpenBSD for it's simplicity and consistency, but, to my way of thinking, it's missing to much to act at a modern desktop replacement. To that end, I've started running ChromeOS Flex on the desktop, taking advantage of it's Debian VM where ChromeOS falls short, while still using OpenBSD everywhere else that I can and makes sense.
Bitcoin was not created to run with CEX, blockchains as Bitcoin, Monero or Ethereum are built to run decentralized.
Blockchains are literally a public ledger.

It's the least private system you could conceive.
The degree to which crypto exchanges mimic wildcat banks of the nineteenth century is striking. They are basically unregulated "banks" issuing and manipulating proprietary currencies against real, central-bank regulated, national currencies. The biggest difference is that people used wildcat currencies due to scarcity of national currencies, and regulated banking institutions, whereas they participate in crypto exchanges purely to speculate, hoping to strike some great return on their money.
A 2018 English graduate, who predominately writes music reviews and opinion pieces, published on The Atlanic which has cherry-picked publishing only their anti-crypto pieces, explains how crypto is actually dead now.
Parasolid is really good and that's probably because it's a licensed product used in many commercial programs, so it's well supported. Maybe going GPL plus commercial could work, but it might just kill it.
One of those things is relevant to the article. The other is the sort of tone deaf shit that someone would say if they never read Harry Potter, thought they were perhaps “above” such lowly books, and just generally assumed that “childrens books are for children only”.

Context matters and the context of that statement was “I’m going to discredit this individual”. That you think “liking Harry Potter” is worthy of being discredited is glaringly obvious. The mention of her age and gender is also just not relevant unless you personally think that is discrediting information, which, yeah pretty fucking sexist.

I’m willing to guess you were raised in a fairly sheltered, wealthy environment? <—— This is a micro aggression.
Perhaps Mike Judge should be running a VC firm, instead of simply writing the playbook for future conmen.
Interesting, but my quick search of the Migadu site turned up nothing about support for "tags", formally "keywords" as stored in the Flags Message Attribute of IMAP:

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3501#section-2.3.2

See discussion elsewhere in the post for difficulties around tags with Fastmail and other providers.
didn't age well.