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Although it is the first time that I have access to this document, it feels familiar because Claude embodies it so well. And it has for a long time. LLMs are one of the most interesting things humans have created. I'm very proud to have written high-quality open source code that likely helped train it.

For me, Hetzner, Starlink, and Tailscale are 2014-era startups: stellar products that turn you into a zealous militant for the companies. This is a very exciting development. I am very much looking forward to their dedicated offering extending to the US.

Ethereum has different client software, they must all use the same consensus rules: produce/gossip/accept transactions and blocks that follow a certain format and respect certain invariants. When that specification is updated, a hard-fork occurs. It's not a problem if all clients meet the new spec perfectly but sometimes bug happens and different clients disagree on what constitutes the canon chain. This is what happened here: the OpenEthereum client (11% of the network) has had a bug following the Berlin hard-fork (network upgrade). Nodes runnning this client are stalling at a certain block because they don't recognize the new "post-Berlin" blocks as legitimate because of a bug in the implementation.

But virtually all money is being made on being a broker for people speculating on Bitcoin as if they're buying gold, with no significant intent to use bitcoin.

You have to wrap your head around the idea that the main way to use a store-of-value is simply by holding it. Holding is using!

Short description: RAI dampens volatility (goes up slower, goes down slower) of its collateral (Eth). All thanks to some straightforward control theory tricks!

You can inflate the money supply and still be "deflationary" if the convenience yield of holding the money (tokens, UTXOs, or whatnot) exceeds or neutralize that inflation rate. You make an excellent point, Bitcoin doesn't have to overtake gold or become a global-reserve to change the world. It just has to be a plausible alternative that enables people to opt-in or out of the system. It has largely already achieved that and I'm hopeful for a future of monetary pluralism.

That's a really good point, this settlement is extremely favorable to Tether and Bitfinex. It's odd to see people persist in pinning Bitcoin's market performance on Tether issuance after reading this settlement from NYAG. Chunks of Tether collateral weren't fully liquid but my takeaway is that they operated on a genuine best-effort basis. As another comment put it, Tether definitely operated in a grey area legally - they hacked the system, but they're not the fraudsters some media, comments, or rumors made them out to be.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6916557 (2013)

Fashion is hardly an industry where it is easy to achieve fame or success, let alone "immortal" notoriety like Lagerfeld or Cardin. However, it is true that countries with a lot of luxury fashion houses are more likely to consider fashion as a proper art form than not. That's an important distinction from software. Successful designers are artists and that accounts for something in the way their legacy is celebrated.

I'm confused as to why they didn't skip a version release; for clarity's sake.

A couple years ago I attend this talk by Paul Wesling at Stanford. It's the most interesting, exhaustive account I have heard. It goes all the way back to the early days of Ham Radio enthusiasm in the Bay Area around the early 1910s, following the stories of three pioneers: Jack McCullough, William Eitel, and Charles Litton to modern days.

It was a special day that day... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRDB_W6POys you can see me sitting on the floor at 1:40 :^)

There's a lesson in all this: have one joint and keep it well oiled.

Protocol designers underestimate how badly people will implement their designs. Writing down how you think it should work and hoping that it'll work, doesn't work. TLS's protocol negotiation is trivial and the specification is clear, yet it still didn't work in practice because it's difficult to oil.

Rather one needs to minimise complexity, concentrate all extensibility in a single place and actively defend it. An active defense can take many forms: fuzzing the extensibility system in test suites and compliance testing is good. You might want to define and implement dummy extensions once a year or such, and retire old ones on a similar schedule. When extensions contain lists of values, define a range of values that clients insert at random. In short, be creative otherwise you'll find that bug rust will quickly settle in.

The table is correct. First because design intent is irrelevant. Second because the author clearly states that the focus of his comparative study is on *-preimage resistance vs collision. There is more to the article than the table :)

I was writing this exact comment. That article and title are in very poor taste, and hold zero intellectual value. That’s a tragic and morbid coincidence. The subtext of this piece along with the timing of this post are disgusting.

When did the internet become HTTP:80 and HTTPS:443

The parent poster also forgets about constant factors anyway.

The follow-up blog post is a gem: https://igdmlgd.blogspot.com/2007/03/empire-strikes-back.htm... (The Empire Strikes Back [2007])

It is a moving piece about quiet heroism, I enjoyed it a lot.

And it reminds me of another article about Lyn Ulbricht (https://breakermag.com/lyn-ulbricht-pushed-herself-to-the-br...). Lyn is the mother of Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road. The article goes at length about the war she is fighting to get her son out of jail. I have so much respect and admiration for this woman. It is quite something and they make a very compelling case in my opinion. You can read more about it here: https://freeross.org/

I don't know for others but personally, I think it's pure hysteria and scapegoating. If you don't like Facebook, don't use it. I don't think private property should be forcibly removed away because it is the current news cycle ennemy-of-the-day. The standards for overruling consent should be extremely high - if they should exist at all.

I got fed up with Facebook a while ago and deleted my account. No problem. If Facebook has influence it is because people voluntarily chose to give it to them.

It seems like lots of consumer products relying on advertising as a revenue model fall prey to the same problem.

They aggressively optimize for a panoply of metrics that make them appealing to advertisers. Often this means hacking the algorithms governing the interactions between users (viewership, timeline visibility, feed) until the outcome yields satisfying metrics, meaningful or not.

At this point a complex web of chaotic feedback loops has formed and it becomes hard to change anything. The system's stateful complexity far exceeds the engineering/product team's understanding of it. It's like trying to debug a neural network.

Wealth needs to be redistributed

It is not a zero-sum game. It would be more productive to facilitate wealth creation rather than devise new ways to forcibly take-away private property that offends you.

Reducing the countless barriers to entry that stunt human ingenuity is where the real fight is. People can learn, and they are already (e.g Make/Lambda School) when provided with cost-effective training that delivers on investment.

Wanting more of the same (tax + regulations) is not going to cut it now. We are past ridiculous levels (1:3 avg OCDE tax:gdp) and diminishing returns kicked in.

A bit more to understand Wiby: https://wiby.me/about/

Some queries that yield pretty good results: https://wiby.me/?q=hacker, https://wiby.me/?q=my+blog

Cool find! But this for the Livebox 2 (newer version), my "work" was on the Livebox 1.1 (:

I shall write something about it one day, just to immortalize it!

I found a pretty bad exploit of the Livebox 1.1 back in 2012. I was trying to find a way to replace the shipped firmware by OpenWRT. Never heard back from Sagem/Orange but the vuln was quietly fixed in a later release. I never knew if they never acknowledged it on purpose or fixed it by accident! Funny to see this on HN. Brings back good memories.

For anything you want other people to use really

A GPA of 2.6 at Waterloo is considered strong

The application looks awesome but there are so very little detail on the security/privacy guarantees that it brings (or not) that I cannot imagine using it.

Hard to answer without knowledge of prior background or exposure that you might have.

As a rule of thumb, I would advise to start with elementary linear algebra, statistics, and probability. Edit: As pointed out by a reply comment, these require a good grasp of calculus.

Notation is only syntactic, most importantly you want to understand the semantics (i.e the significance of the construction your are studying). To achieve this, you need to do the proper background work and the rest will follow naturally.

Here's a short-list:

- Calculating space by Konrad Zuse (See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18325689)

- The Annotated Turing by Charles Petzlod

- Introduction to Lambda Calculus by H. Barendregt (do the exercises/proofs)

- Propositions as Types by Philip Wadler

- Part III. of Languages and Machines by Thomas Sudkamp

I am a subscriber to all their publications through my library. I enjoy reading these.

I don't think the membership is worth it. Or at least it's unclear what are the benefits.