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max_··on Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't work in tech?
- Beekeeper

- Music producer

- Video director

- Astronomer/Physicist/Biologist

max_··on Perpetual futures, explained
Is there a good resource on how perps actually work? i.e a technical specification on how to implement them?
max_··on Molly: An Improved Signal App
The Signal discourages the use of Molly.
max_··on France is taking state actions against GrapheneOS?
This hostility towards privacy all over the world signals that there is a co-ordinated change happening in the world.

Unfortunately we still don't know what it is or what its goals are.

max_··on Mag Wealth (2024)
Unfortunately no one cares about the poor.

Inequality is a problem parroted by middle classes mostly due to envy. It has nothing to do with improving lives of the destitute.

max_··on Bull markets make you feel smarter than you are
I had the same problem so i just built a custom dashboard that only updates my portfolio once a day (at 6:00 am)
max_··on Making Democracy Work: Fixing and Simplifying Egalitarian Paxos
>Egalitarian Paxos introduced an alternative, leaderless approach, that allows replicas to order commands collaboratively.

This is exactly how bitcoin works.

Every 10 minutes the network elects a leader to assort & order transactions and also throw out fraudulent transactions.

If he fails to do this, he is not allow to claim his block reward (technically the "coinbase" transaction)

I keep telling people the future of politics is markets & Blockchains.

Its hard to explain comprehensively and what's strange is that no one has written a thorough book on the topic.

I am happy there are people actually writing such material on this topic.

Albeit its a bit too technical.

Computer science is the future of politics & governance. (I don't think AI is any useful but rather distributed systems)

max_··on The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (1987) [pdf]
"A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses."

Reminds me of people supporting the senseless bombings and genocide in the middle east.

max_··on Radiant Computer
love it!

I wish I could work there!

max_··on Lenses in Julia
Guys, What's you're opinion on Julia?

I am thinking of using it for data science work.

Any draw backs? or advantages I should know about?

max_··on You already have a Git server
Having to make a repo bare to not have issues with branches is definitely obscure.
max_··on You already have a Git server
I tried this and it is never as smooth as described.

Why is GitHub popular? its not because people are "dumb" as others think.

Its because GitHub "Just Works".

You don't need obscure tribal knowledge like seba_dos1 suggests [0] or this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45711294

The official Git documentation for example has its own documentation that I failed to get work. (it is vastly different from what OP is suggesting)

The problem with software development is that not knowing such "tribal knowledge" is considered incompetence.

People don't need to deal with obscure error messages which is why they choose GitHub & why Github won.

Like the adge goes, "Technology is best when it is invisible"

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45711236

[1] https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-Setting-Up-...

max_··on Chen-Ning Yang, Nobel laureate, dies at 103
I came to know of this guy though Jim Simons.

He once "leaked" the idea that Jim Simon's trading success came from his use of ideas called "gauge theory" and "fibre bundles".

I forgot the exact timestamp, but you will have to watch the entire interview to find that segment — https://youtu.be/zVWlapujbfo

max_··on Cormac McCarthy's personal library
I just watched "The Road" yesterday night.

Good movie.

max_··on Codeberg Reaches 300k Projects
Codeberg suffers from the same problem as sourcehut.

They are so fanatical that many groups are unable to use them.

Sourcehut for example is hostile towards cryptocurrency related projects.

Coderberg is hostile towards private repos.

max_··on Correctness and composability bugs in the Julia ecosystem (2022)
Any really, library, language etc
max_··on Deml: Directed Acyclic Graph Elevation Markup Language
Unfortunately I cant find the book "Graphs and their applications".

Is there a PDF link?

There is this - https://kix.fsv.cvut.cz/~demel/grafy/gr.pdf

But I was hoping for an English version?

max_··on Correctness and composability bugs in the Julia ecosystem (2022)
I hear similar bugs exist in python libraries.

Any recommended libraries (or languages) that have thoroughly verified libraries?

max_··on Why use mailing lists?
I use Gmail, but you have to turn on filters for that automatically label topics for it to work.
max_··on EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to undecided
> If it's all very safe and accurate, why is this exception necessary? Doesn't this say either that it's not secure, or that there is a likely hood that there will be false positives that will be reviewed?

Its all a scam! No one cares about you.

They are just setting up the new infrastructure to manipulate & control the docile donkeys more effectively (working class)

Unfortunately, they will be successful.

max_··on The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody
To the slaughter house ...
max_··on Signal Secure Backups
Signal has over $50m in endowments.

But their desktop app is built with electron.

It's extremely clunky (over 200 MB) very slow and probably inherits all electron's security issues.

I have noticed the same issue with desktop apps from Proton Mail.

Why is it that rich corporations with lots of money like shortcuts and don't care about the quality of thier software?

max_··on Ask HN: How to Harden Your Phone?
Stock Android & iOS are literally spyware.

GrapheneOS is very private.

max_··on Ask HN: How to Harden Your Phone?
At the bare minimum, ditch the iPhone.

Get a pixel

Install grapheneOS

max_··on Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org
Large Corporations think very slow.

Currently the are distracted by AI gimmicks.

max_··on Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team
The entire internet needs to be re-designed to stand up against attacks.

- DDOS attacks

- Spamming

- UK like surveillance laws

- LLM scraping

Why is it that there is almost not initiative for this?

max_··on WHY2025: How to become your own ISP [video]
Europe is a serfdom & always has been.

Everything is done to prop up the stature of "Lords" (the already big)

And sqeeze out or limit the ambition of serfs wanting to reach Lordly status.

Its a nice place if you are docile donkey that love's being taken care of by lords and have no personal agency whatsoever.

max_··on Monero appears to be in the midst of a successful 51% attack
Thanks.

"unsustainable"

max_··on Monero appears to be in the midst of a successful 51% attack
>Sustaining this attack is estimated to cost $75 million per day.

This is how proof of work systems operate.

They are very expensive to attack but very cheap to recover from.

$75m per day is clearly unstainable.

Soon they will give up and the network will recover cheaply.

The attack is more of a nuisance than the end of Monero.

max_··on Ask HN: Should brain implants be available for everyone as a productivity boost?
The brain is already perfect. We just need to know how to use it better.

We need better ideas & tools to assist in problem solving.

Not invasive implants.

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