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______-_-______on Coinbase warns that bankruptcy could wipe out user funds

https://nitter.net/brian_armstrong/status/152423348004071014...

In other words: We only disclosed these risk factors because we were legally required to. Please ignore our SEC disclosure and half-billion dollar quarterly loss, and instead trust my unregulated statements posted on Twitter. There are no risk factors, your money is safe, the music will never stop.

______-_-______on Apple is discontinuing the iPod

A very carefully worded press release. They didn't want to come out and say it, but the iPod product line has been discontinued.

______-_-______on Coinbase stock lost over 75% value

The efficient market hypothesis is a myth

______-_-______on AV1 Video Codec

We just need to hold out hope for the release of dav1e

______-_-______on Forget personalisation, it’s impossible and it doesn’t work

Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.

______-_-______on Forget personalisation, it’s impossible and it doesn’t work

The post is about marketing and ad targeting. For Spotify to satisfy their question of a "brand built through personalization", Spotify would have had to do something like sign up for google/facebook ads, target the demographic of "music listeners" and convert enough users to end up with a successful business. That's not how spotify built their business.

You're talking about their recommendation engine for users they already have, which is completely different.

______-_-______on Tell HN: I was permanently banned from eBay in one hour

I actually like Aliexpress, but I wouldn't expect them to sell parts for American market appliances. I searched now for the old part I needed, and I see "fits <model#>" and "compatible with <model#>" but not the genuine part. Call me old fashioned but I'll pay an extra $20 for first-party components.

______-_-______on Tell HN: I was permanently banned from eBay in one hour

The interesting thing is I still got refunded, about a week after my account was banned. Their backend must be a total mess, but it worked out in my favor somehow. If not for that I definitely would have done a chargeback.

______-_-______on Tell HN: I was permanently banned from eBay in one hour

I honestly think that's still better than most online bans. If you find out you were ticketed because a cop had a bad day, it's not justice, but at least it's closure. Now you know, and you can accept it or fight/appeal if you're so inclined.

If you're permabanned because of a google/ebay AI bug, you can't even get that far.

______-_-______on Tell HN: I was permanently banned from eBay in one hour

I got banned from eBay as well. I bought a part for my dishwasher and received a counterfeit part. I collected evidence, posted the photos, and requested a return. Next thing you know my account is banned. I think the seller reported me in retaliation.

I have no idea where to go next time I need something. AliExpress would probably be even worse when it comes to counterfeits.

______-_-______on Ask HN: Chrome says I have 83 compromised passwords. How do I fix this?

Bitwarden if you want a cloud service

KeePass or KeePassXC if you want to control your own data and use something like Syncthing to sync

______-_-______on Donald Knuth was framed (2020)

Traumatized minds think alike

______-_-______on Donald Knuth was framed (2020)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1700s

1700s may refer to:

- The century from 1700 to 1799, almost synonymous with the 18th century (1701–1800)

- 1700s (decade), the period from 1700 to 1709

______-_-______on Xilem: An Architecture for UI in Rust

I think Redux is similar enough to Elm that it's not worth mentioning separately. Redux plays fast and loose with types whereas Elm uses types strictly; that's probably why Elm is mentioned more often in the context of Rust.

He does mention Redux in passing if you expand "Advanced topic: comparison with Elm"

______-_-______on Xilem: An Architecture for UI in Rust

Big fan of your work, Raph.

One small typo:

> {anonymous function of type FnMut(u32) -> ()}

It looks like the param type should be `&mut u32`. And in that simple case the whole thing could probably just be `fn(&mut u32)` since the closure doesn't capture any locals.

______-_-______on Faecal transplants reverse hallmarks of ageing

If these results are true, "eat shit" isn't much different from "live long and prosper"

______-_-______on UK telecom EE blocks archive.org

There's also nudity on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and Wikipedia. Better block them too.

______-_-______on When I tell the Windows Terminal team something is simple, I am "misguided"

Yikes. Ego and open source do not mix well.

______-_-______on Where are the low level system engineers?

I'm in webdev to access any employment opportunities. Moving to kernel/embedded would be fun but it almost feels like jumping to another industry. I have no connections and no idea how to find a good company (e.g. what is the Joel Test for hardware companies?) I have gone on a few job sites and sprayed/prayed my resume, which so far has gotten zero interest from anyone. OTOH I'm lucky to have landed where I did so it might be for the best that I stay in webdev.

______-_-______on Microsoft 3D Movie Maker Source Code

The edit control was part of the leaks. It's in editec.c and a few nearby files. Don't ask me how I know.

______-_-______on The Crypto Elites Are Plotting a Wall Street Merger

One is mentioned in the article, JPMorgan's Onyx. But as always, if your system is not open to the public and doesn't need to protect against hostile actors, the overhead of a blockchain is a waste. The technology that JPMorgan is looking for is called... a database.

______-_-______on Considered "18+"

I wonder what the disconnect is that causes people to blame Vodafone for content requested over their network, but not Royal Mail for the content that arrives in their mailbox, or Google/Chrome for the content of webpages, or Dunder Mifflin for content printed on paper. Has that ever actually happened, or is it just corporate risk aversion?

______-_-______on Will Hare replace C? Or Rust? Or Zig? Or anything else?

Besides the standard llvm-based compiler, I know of at least two others:

https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs

https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc

______-_-______on Single Page Applications using Rust (with WASM)

WASM typically has very good startup time only because the binary WASM format is so much faster to parse than javascript. See js-framework-benchmark, "Consistently interactive", Yew even beats vanillajs by about 4%.

https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/2022/table...

Having said that, I still wouldn't try to use Rust as a React replacement for other reasons. Maybe in a few years.

______-_-______on Divergent Association Task: Fast creativity test

Same here. I don't think I or these words are particularly creative, but they got me to 99.17%:

  bacon trumpet motorcycle galaxy decimeter phosphorus plumber

Maybe "decimeter" is slightly technical, but the others, definitely not.

______-_-______on Fonoster: The open-source alternative to Twilio

You would need to sign up for a voip provider and use the credentials they give you. Your app talks to this software using the web api, and this software will talk to your voip provider using SIP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Initiation_Protocol

Twilio bundles both the web api and the voip provider into one product.

______-_-______on Buying Real Estate with Crypto: New Mortgages Are Backed by Coins

Usually crypto-backed loans are made by crypto-focused companies. You can tell BlockFi (for example) you bought $100 of bitcoin 10 years ago and that's good enough for them. But Wells Fargo would require some actual documentation, and (probably?) not even accept crypto as collateral to begin with

______-_-______on Buying Real Estate with Crypto: New Mortgages Are Backed by Coins

I'd be pretty surprised if crypto was widely used enough to have a noticeable effect, especially compared to the trillions of dollars printed the past few years. Though for some reason everyone has started blaming Putin for inflation, so maybe people will just blame the inevitable crash on him too

______-_-______on Experience Report: 6 months of Go

If you don't care about robustness for paths with invalid utf-8, you could try camino https://crates.io/crates/camino