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The big difference is DeFi apps are immutable, humans are not.

If someone has deployed a DeFi app that can't be changed and hasn't been hacked in a few months, I'm fairly confident it's safe. With an exchange it doesn't matter if it's been running 10 years, it could start stealing money tomorrow.
As a user, nothing has improved about the product in years. As a shareholder, they're losing money.

Whatever all those devs were doing was not producing a profit and was not improving the user experience.
The concept of God in Abrahamic mythology isn't about ancient beings that colonized the Earth. It's about a being that purposefully constructed our celestial sphere for our benefit. And most polytheist religions used gods as a proxy for natural phenomena that they couldn't explain otherwise (such as lightning, seasons, day/night, crop yield, etc).
Replace hate with "are mildly inconvenienced by", if it makes you feel better :-)

It doesn't change the fact that the whole idea here is to replace human judgment with algorithms, with little thought into how the technology will actually be used by humans.

Trick question.

Let's say I'm not tech savvy. I can barely use my iPhone, I'm frequently confused by Instagram UI updates.

> Bitcoin

> Initial release 0.1.0 / 9 January 2009 (13 years ago)

How can I buy Bitcoin, sell it, use it to buy things with it, 13 years after the fact, in a decentralized fashion, just as Satoshi Nakamoto-sama originally intended?
Article doesn’t mention the influence of Harry Reid who worked to maintain the monopoly of Las Vegas.
> If we are creating minds in software

It's the opposite. We'll create software that'll run in our minds.

Install a plugin to overlay data in your vision, run shell commands by just thinking about them, maybe even run a mini neural net that's like a fully private assistant etc.
Is it talking about the wokeness cult?
This.

I've seen many other commenters lament the fact that "even though devs make a boatload of money, they don't want to pay for their tools".

This may be true.

But I think the biggest issue is that most developers are only developers "at work". And I've seen far too many people work with subpar tools (old, dingy PCs that would take ages to do anything). Management thinks this is fine, and that a 5 yo intel U laptop with 8 GB RAM is AOK for running heavy computations in 2022.

So, going out of their way to buy some "text editor" when vscode is free? Not gonna happen. Even if the devs themselves are convinced.
I only type a moderate amount, but I don't find that my watch is putting any pressure on my wrist. If I feel pressure I typically immediately loosen it a notch.
As I pointed out irrational numbers can easily have a well-defined structure. Here's the start of the Champernowne constant:

0.1234567891011121314151617181920212223...

It's not only irrational, but it's transcendental and normal.

Yet it has so much structure that you can easily figure out what any digit 'n' will be.

> The hobby of trying to find "the pattern" is

I have no idea what you are talking about with "the pattern".

> if there were an actual pattern, primes would not be useful in cryptography

Why do you think there are no patterns and that all of the following people are wrong?

* "Patterns in prime numbers" - https://mathsreach.org/Patterns_in_prime_numbers

* "Patterns in the Primes" - https://www.maa.org/meetings/calendar-events/patterns-in-the...

* "Math Mornings at Yale: The Patterns in the Primes, with Andrew Granville" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO7Egc5Dtqs

* "New Pattern Found in Prime Numbers" - https://phys.org/news/2009-05-pattern-prime.html

* '"Patterns in the Primes" by Stephanie Hanson - Week 5 - MathSoc Public Lecture' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkbPhjU-S9Q

Note that none of these refer to a definite "the pattern."

Primes are useful in the RSA cryptosystem because modulo exponentiation is cheap while in general factoring the product of two large prime numbers is far less tractable - as far as we know.

There are so many patterns in primes that cryptosystems have been broken by choosing the initial primes poorly. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem)#Faulty_key_... .
So Stunning and brave
Don't forget money spent paying employees, executives, buildings, leases etc. Mining is just one of the costs of the whole crypto world. It's an amazing industry that keeps providing nothing of value (or you can argue it creates negative value) while finding creative ways to spend money on it.

Burning thousands of GPU hours just to update an ineffective database is surely the most prominent one though.
> Having one neutral platform, controlled by no one, with standardized API's and immutable open programs that anyone can permissionlessly build on - is amazing.

Isn't that also an open door to bad actors?
Arbitrary predictions markets sound good in theory until you realize that, as the market grows, eventually you reach a point where there is an irresistible financial incentive for the market participants to intervene in the outcome of the event in order to claim their reward. The most egregious case is "will so-and-so be dead by such-and-such date", which is plainly just an assassination market in disguise.
Where do you wear a watch? Over your wrist joint or higher up your forearm?

I like to wear my watch a few cm higher up my arm, so that the metal band doesn’t scratch my laptop.

If you want features that need skin contact, you could keep a nice watch as a pocket watch, and then wear a cheap fitness band on your ankle.
There are a fair few devices out there still running old versions of Android¹ – particularly a number of ebook devices that are commonly rooted to do more/other than run the officially included software which may be inadequate², deprecated³, or simply dead⁴.

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[1] >3% of android running 6 or 5, according to several sources found in a quick search, of which https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/android seems to be the most up-to-date.

[2] Not supporting newer formats/features perhaps, or just being a very tightly walled garden of minimal features.

[3] So not supported at all any more.

[4] If they rely on external services that have since closed, for instance.
> hosting a webpage on top of it is bleeding edge

There's absolute nothing bleeding edge in that. The website is really pointless.
It's a little different, the F91W has a little light that shines from one side onto the front of the LCD display whereas (if it's anything like my Casio W86-1) I think the F105W is backlit. So they both have a light, but one is much clearer.

edit, just confirmed that this is the case:

F91W light: https://i0.wp.com/thetruthaboutwatches.com/wp-content/upload...

F105W light: https://media.karousell.com/media/photos/products/2021/7/19/...
Same as every online service. There's always admins (even on Twitter of course) who can read the DMs (unless you have proper end-to-end encryption).

FYI: especially now that Elon Musk owns Twitter.. And fired everyone who is not loyal.. The idea of reading DMs of employees at competing companies is not far fetched at all.
> If you do not do evil, then you have nothing to fear. If you have something to fear despite doing no evil, let's fix the government.

So - if I have to fear being being shutoff from the financial system by private actors who dislike me, despite not having been convicted of a crime, a law to ensure my right to be served.
Actually, most that I'm aware of are lamenting the loss of goal 2, in that they believe (correctly or not) that "poisoning of general social norms, discourse, and institutions by the ideological warfare" is exactly Elon's goal. Many aren't even worried about politics or ideology per se, so much as the stability of the platform going forward and their ability to maintain an audience.

I have yet to see an actual post on Twitter which laments any loss of political control over the platform, although it's a big platform so I could have missed it, and that can just be a bad-faith interpretation of goal 1 anyway.
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I was glad to note that this is available on iOS too, but it seems like it needs more time to mature and be trustworthy.

The site clearly states that a security audit hasn’t been done and that it’s planned in the future. The makers caution people not to trust it completely at this point, especially in war situations.
Termux together with WireGuard works really well.

I am easily able to use my tablet as a client to either one of my hosted machines or my development workstation. Can highly recommend =D

That said my use-case is basically either ssh or mosh, so I haven't really tested how capable termux really is, but it is enough that I don't get artifacts and such when connecting over ssh.
Should we fire every Russian engineer in the valley? How about force them to sign a declaration of some sort?

/s
"These [claims] would get picked up in different types of media, I would cite them, and they would become fact," Alex says.
> The processors in our laptops are over 1,000 times faster than they were thirty years ago. So it’s natural to ask, as Joe Armstrong does, why our programs don’t run 1,000 times faster.

I think the simple answer is that processing is only a small part of running anything, data fetching is what you're typically waiting for. Sure cache and RAM speeds have increased, but HDDs are still about as horribly slow as they always were. Only the jump to SSDs made a considerable difference in "general" speed recently.

But on the other hand I suppose we can in fact run the original Doom (released almost exactly 30 years ago) at about a quadrillion FPS these days so maybe I'm wrong.
No because even though a “mobile home” is suppose to be just that, in reality the cost to move your home also becomes unaffordable.
Oh, the tweet is certainly true. There is systematic risk.

I think the humor comes from the tweet being phrased as secret insider knowledge, when it's something that has already been happening, and obvious to anyone watching.

(I tend to enjoy both PG's writing and tweets, but this one is a bit of an outlier.)
We tend to overestimate our Future Selves: They will have more time, they will be less tired and more motivated and generally be a better version of our current selves. This is why we trust them to implement the New Year Resolutions we've come up with.

However, the opposite is true - and the article touches some aspects of this. We're under similar constraints, and additionally, we have forgotten a lot of what we had in mind while writing the code, having to re-learn it before we start working on the fix.

What makes things better (besides "fixing it now", of course) is being nice to our Future Self and leaving them with enough context to get started again on the issue should they find the time to do it. This also applies to future co-workers, of course.

The opposite is also true: We tend to underestimate the abilities of previous authors of a specific piece of code (sometimes including ourselves) because we do not see the constraints they have been under while producing it.
In many areas planting new trees without a stable source of already scarce water may be pointless. So, yes, desalination on a large scale will sooner or later would be necessary.
At the same time idea of "provide more water, skip the water use regulation" is quite mad. Growing alfa-alfa in CA to be shipped to Saudi Arabia is brain dead even if apparently commercially profitable. It should not be.
Or go for better, FOSS smartwatch :

PineTime : https://www.pine64.org/pinetime/

Charging one time a week.
I don't have account on stackoverflow or reddit because their authentication system is broken to me.
He's choosing to use his talents this way
As someone who has a MBP M1 sitting there and barely used, I’m asking myself the same question, but targeted to MacOS users.
Yup. Notably, these devices are pre-Treble, so there's no prospect for any sort of GSI support (which would open up things like Droidian). So Termux is pretty much the best you can do if you care about providing a sensible environment in a device-independent way.
We are in the market for an on prem OCR tool. Would you mind making a referral to your buddy? Email in my profile.
There's an association of train operators that guarantee that they'll honour your ticket if you miss a connection because of a delay on another one of them, but it's all voluntary rather than having a legal guarantee like you do with flights, and not every European operator is signed up.
Show HN: Ad free and minimal YouTube downloader with immediate downloads
This is an ad free, minimal and fast online youtube downloader with immediate downloads (No conversion time).
"The unreasonable effectiveness of checklists"
Open Source Day 2023
Question for any mathematicians here: are properties of numbers that relate to their representation in particular number bases considered interesting or useful by mathematicians?

I ask because the wikipedia page for repunit (a term I wasn't familiar with before) implies that it is in the domain of recreational mathematics. So my question refers to professional / non-recreational mathematicians.
You’re talking about two very different eras and this two different sets of people.
>I have a feeling a traditional manufacturer like Toyota would have been sued to bankruptcy after 3-4 accidents like this.

In the US market Toyota would absolutely get the kid gloves same as Tesla does.

Look at how literally any discussion about Tesla or Toyota here goes. There are tons of people that will cut either a pass on anything up to and possible including feeding puppies into a wood chipper because they like the product. There are also people who hate Tesla for playing fast and loose and hate Toyota for not jumping on the EV bandwagon a decade ago but they are not numerous enough to really drive the discussion/narrative. Regulatory agencies are made up of the same well to do white collar demographics as HN so the internal discussion there would be basically the same but in polite business speak. So the end result would be underwhelming because the unanimity and enthusiasm to do a thorough job just isn't there.

Now, if a bunch of Nissan Sentras or Chrysler 200s were catching on fire there would be no problem turning the enforcement screws to the fullest extent because nobody cares about giving the benefit of the doubt to brands that are stereotypes as building disposable junk for the poors.
Not really. Plenty of examples of companies where the employees were bought into a failed company.
The biggest privacy problem of Briar is it requires iOS or Android to use.

If you cannot control your endpoint, you cannot control your keys or your privacy.

Briar will become useful to me when it can run on open platforms like a Pinephone, Librem 5, Precursor, etc.
Yeah, but it's generally the kind of money that only allows having a mom-and-pop store. 1-2-5 employees, that's it. If you have a bigger initiative, you can't do it.

Instead, Mega Corp just buys you out when you burn out after many years of development, we see this happening regularly.
47.9KiB in fact, assuming we are using 8-bits to the byte.
> If you don’t fix it… and the code is working… what is the problem?

Two obvious problems: (1) more likely future bugs; (2) wasted time

Often "fix it later" means "de-duplicate this copy and pasted code later", where the copy is slightly different so there's some refactoring required to do that.

The future bugs come from changing one copy but forgetting to change the other. Sounds unlikely but very common in practice.

The wasted time comes from having to redundantly update both (or several!) copies. That's more work than it sounds because you have to understand the subtle differences in each, whereas if you had refactored them into one code base then the differences would be some obvious function/class/etc. Of course, each time, this update to all the copies is less effort than doing the refactoring, so the wasted time builds up gradually over time.
Cwtch: Surveillance Resistant Infrastructure
Ironic that they are giving up their actual realistic chance for a dignified retirement by blowing their money on gambling.
Not good.
Last I checked it was super slow
Yeah, Signal is definitely not a reliable messenger. I've also had messages arrive with hours of delay.

iMessage is way more reliable in my experience.
Check out my Python package for analysing Telegram chats
>heating an office space with 500+ people is much more efficient than heating 500 individual houses

Citation needed.
I would argue its very hard to make any general statement about this.
In my case the office is much more wasteful than the space I use for remote work for a multitude of reasons.
> according to Wikipedia, the US’s median income is first in the world

According to this page, the US's median wealth is 21st in the world: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_...
So you would assert that the use of centralized relational databases would would not reduce the cost and complexity of enforcing property rights, in comparison to the use of paper records? A database cannot do anything?
I would say 150mcg is a moderate dose, maybe pushing into the high dose territory. Anything beyond is high dose. And kamikaze at 500mcg? Beyond that you have thumbprints.

All subjective, and the lines become fuzzy.
Privacy is not a one dimensional thing. Just like security, it exists in context, relative to a threat model.

Think about the threat model for an "everyday" person. It is different than an American journalist contacting sources in the United States, which is different than a journalist in Russia or China.
Somewhat a clickbait title. The domain is 'dead', the server is fine. It's unclear how long the server will be fine for, with both of its founders and possibly owners extradited.
This is just a stupid and absurd article. Yes, if you want to you can go around and cherry pick articles and opinion pieces that are flattering to crypto and point out they turned out to be wrong in retrospect, but that's what a free press is.

You are going to have people with different opinions saying different things, and sooner of later some of them will be wrong, and some will be right and we'll all be better off for having heard the arguments. But to try and pretend there hasn't been media critical of crypto is just deliberately ignoring the facts. How could we have seen this coming? Maybe listen to the Bloomberg podcast where SBF genuinely just outright states they're creating ponzi schemes back in April. But what did you want? Bloomberg to storm the offices of FTX and drag SBF off in cuffs?

The core of what happened at FTX was that SBF ran an unregulated exchange- that's a matter for the government and regulators. Not the press. Ocassionally talented investigative reporters uncover a fraud- and often it'll be the most impressive story of their lifetimes. But it's not a reasonable standard to blame them for every one that blows up before they catch it.
Initially Android 5/6 was dropped[0] since 2020-01-01, but this year it was decided to bring Android 5/6 support back for app & bootstrap.[1]

Additional context: read-only package repos (as archived on 2019-12-09) moved to official site.[2]

[0] https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/4467

[1] https://github.com/termux/termux-app/pull/2740

[2] https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/4658
I have mains power available.
I don't think I remember ever playing a single game via split screen on a LAN party (except that one year someone brought an... N64?).

The server thing is true though, also just not paying for dialup by the minute.
https://www.reddit.com/r/F91Ws_on_NATOs/
It's a pretty common mod, the sidebar describes the process and mentions using 18mm nato straps, though apparently you might want to grind a little off the back of the lug to make it fit better. It also mentions using a paperclip or some other pin to get the spring bar out, so it doesn't seem like it requires much.
A whole language, a whole culture, a whole universe died with this man.
I also use Beethoven's 5th symphony when I really want to get something done. I also like the 9th as well as Mozart's requiem.
There's one where the A option is an input with sharp corners, and the B option is the same input but with rounded corners. Which one of these is 'correct'? And why is it a 'best practice'?
My best guess is that unless the rules around large-scale finance change, in the end permissionless composability will go away and the platforms will get controls of some sort, e.g, who can do what, reporting requirements, KYC, ... And that also does not have to come just from direct rules, but could come via capital requirements when touching such systems or users of such systems.
https://xkcd.com/978/

If a hoax or fake item doesn’t get caught quickly it becomes self perpetuating.
But there is no reason why 0 tolerance resistor couldn't exist or even being very useful for certain application like voltmeter.
Stupid broad brush articles and theories like this will screw everyone. The author thinks work is a game show.
Define bad actor.
> charges usage fees, that value accrues to holders of the native token, ETH

The trouble with that is that if the fees are negligible compared to the economic activity that is mediated (as crypto bulls claim), then you need to lock a massive amount of capital in the collective float of the currency.

For example, the M2 money stock velocity of the US Dollar is historically in the 1-3 range, so that each dollar either in electronic or hard currency form changes hands a few times in a year.

So for Ether to generate even something like a meager 3% yield to beat inflation you need to charge on the order of 1%-3% for each transaction, which is orders of magnitude over what is expected or competitive. It follows then that the vast majority of the holders of Ethereum, and the backers of the scheme themselves especially, do not expect to earn from the fees, rather they speculate on the token itself, they hold it because it will appreciate in the future. They are betting ether will replace, say, dollars in mediating transactions and hope to gain value by depreciating the dollar.

To be very precise, I'm not saying that Ether can't move much faster and accrue larger fees (as it in fact did recently), but that the preference of the vast majority of non-speculators is to hold on to currency and near money substitutes for periods much larger than it would allow holders of ether to earn trading fees commensurate to the risk of holding ether. So the flurry of recent activity (and the willingness to pay large fees) must be of a speculative nature, unsustainable on the long run.
I don't know about you but we still use the internet/zoom etc. in the office so you still need datacenters

>lack of commuting incentivizes un-environmental and inefficient suburban sprawl

I dont understand this point, IMO commuting leads to more suburban sprawl?
Also i think this is a very USA-centric problem.
Matrix is working on a P2P version, there have been a few demos but it's currently still very much WIP. See also https://arewep2pyet.com/
These types of articles are always biased due to being written by people who are generally not seen as relationship material by the other gender. That’s why they are still on apps and why everyone eventually ghosts them. It’s not because of Tinder or other apps.
The woman who go in tinder, go on 20-30 dates and end up in a relationship you never hear from because they are done with it and on with their lives.
In no part of the news article mentioned they were actually admitted into the building. They were just standing around outside in the cold waiting for who knows how long. Nothing happened. This is literally about nothing.