Hacker News: stickac

New comment by stickac in "Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands"

stickac — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 14:17:30 +0000

There is a Financial Tyranny Index by Vexl Foundation published here:

https://github.com/vexl-it/fti/blob/main/fti.pdf

Among other things, it shows Cash Limits in various countries:

Greece 500 EUR, Spain, Italy, France 1000 EUR, Israel 1500 EUR, ...

New comment by stickac in "Open Source Outdoor Air Quality Monitor"

stickac — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 20:04:15 +0000

Open-source is mentioned 10x on the website, but there is no link to the actual source.

New comment by stickac in "Vast Majority of People Who Invest in Bitcoin Inevitably Lose Money, Study Shows"

stickac — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 16:44:59 +0000

The study finds that "majority of people who invest in crypto inevitably lose money", but the article puts "Bitcoin" in title to mislead the readers.

So:

Do people lose money when they invest into crypto? Yes.

Do people lose money when they invest into Bitcoin? No (if their timespan is 5+ years).

New comment by stickac in "Running GUI apps within Docker containers"

stickac — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 11:34:17 +0000

Exactly that https://subuser.org does

New comment by stickac in "Reproducible Builds in January 2022"

stickac — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 10:56:43 +0000

NixOS reproducibility effort is tracked here: https://r13y.com

New comment by stickac in "Ask HN: What Happened to Borland?"

stickac — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 18:04:29 +0000

This might provide some hints (or not): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg#At_Microsoft

"In 1996, Hejlsberg left Borland and joined Microsoft. One of his first achievements was the J++ programming language and the Windows Foundation Classes; he also became a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer and Technical Fellow. Since 2000, he has been the lead architect of the team developing the C# language. In 2012 Hejlsberg announced a new Microsoft project, TypeScript, a superset of JavaScript."

I can only speculate that lots of skilled Borland developers followed Hejlsberg and participated in creation of C# and later TypeScript.

New comment by stickac in "On anyone-can-spend Pay-to-Taproot outputs before activation"

stickac — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 18:22:43 +0000

The real artistry is to deploy updates without doing a hard fork. Taproot is one of these and it is very, very important.

Mixxx 2.3.0 Released

stickac — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 23:32:45 +0000

Article URL: https://mixxx.org/news/2021-06-28-mixxx-2-3-0-released/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27683134

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by stickac in "Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge"

stickac — Tue, 18 May 2021 17:41:57 +0000

It will also make it 99.95% less resistant to censorship.

New comment by stickac in "Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space"

stickac — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 10:03:52 +0000

Bitcoin did not have a premine

New comment by stickac in "Apple Introduces AirTag"

stickac — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 21:21:02 +0000

It seems you can add the AirTag technology to a 3rd party product via MFi program.

Would it be possible to send a custom payload? E.g. with a status report (battery percentage, etc.)

New comment by stickac in "Mining Bitcoin on the Game Boy [video]"

stickac — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 17:28:39 +0000

Gameboy is really slow when compared to modern hardware. One ECDSA signature that takes around 100ms on Trezor (32-bit CPU @ 120 MHz) would take around a minute on GameBoy (8-bit CPU @ ~4 MHz.

If we're talking about GameBoy Advance (32-bit CPU @ 25 MHz) - this more plausible but still 5 times slower than Trezor.

New comment by stickac in "ESP32-C6, a Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5 (LE) SoC"

stickac — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 10:22:27 +0000

They were not using ARM, but Tensilica chips with Xtensa instruction set - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensilica#Xtensa_instruction_s...

New comment by stickac in "One-Shot Free-View Neural Talking-Head Synthesis for Video Conferencing"

stickac — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 13:53:53 +0000

you don't really need very sophisticated model for this.

just use dlib to detect face landmarks and apply some very basic hue/contrast/brightness localized filter to imitate lipstick, make-up, mascara, etc.

that's what some software can already do out of the box (e.g. zoom) and the results are very good

New comment by stickac in "U.S. says John McAfee indicted over fraudulent cryptocurrency schemes"

stickac — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 18:41:43 +0000

Do you know he did not?

New comment by stickac in "FOSDEM 2021"

stickac — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 11:34:29 +0000

Rust talks always happened in the Mozilla dev room historically.

New comment by stickac in "GNU Guix 1.2.0"

stickac — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 19:16:40 +0000

Have a look at Nix/NixOS - it's full of wonderful people

New comment by stickac in "Ask HN: I have $450K cash, what should I do to maximize my return?"

stickac — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 23:10:23 +0000

20% Stocks

20% Bonds

20% Real Estate

20% Cash

20% Bitcoin

New comment by stickac in "Text-Only Social Network"

stickac — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 21:38:32 +0000

Emojis are used as avatars, they are not part of the posts

New comment by stickac in "A Man Who Found Stuxnet (2011)"

stickac — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 10:42:19 +0000

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