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The blockchain is just technology. It makes all this more convenient, and possibly scale better.

But what people really argue for is that it makes the system much less prone to corruption and manipulation, because the system of tracking is much more resilient to being tempered with.

For example, right now Joe Shmoe could fabricate a fake paper deed showing that his great grandma owned the Mona Lisa, and it is thus his. And then sue the French government saying they need to either buy it off him or return it to him. Now you'd need forensic experts and all to try and check the authenticity of that deed and all that.

Now this is a bit of a stupid example obviously. What if the deed was real? Would the government still say well oh crap here you go? I guess that will depend on the French government and their laws.

But say the laws of France were such that yes, it should indeed therefore be returned to Joe.

Well with blockchain, the idea is that this wouldn't happen. First the "deed" would have never been lost, the ledger tells you who owns what, there'd be no confusion. Second, Joe (if he was lying), wouldn't be able to create a "fake" entry in the ledger as easily as maybe he can fabricate a deed. Now that's up for debate, but in theory a decentralized ledger need you to temper with all the nodes, so it's possibly much more difficult to scam with.

And back to the example in the article, the Mona Lisa would be transfered from the government to Joe, there'd be a record of this. Now the question is no longer, is this record valid? We know this happened, the question becomes was this transaction initiated fradulently? Obviously the computer doesn't know why the transaction came to be, just that it for sure did, not tempered with, no fake claims, this did happen and we know exactly from where and to where, and exactly what was it that was transacted.

Now you need people to investigate and asses if the transaction was fraudulent. Until there's a way for machines to with 100% accuracy read intent, this has to be handled by people. But in theory, a decentralized blockchain might make that process easier and more resilient to scams.
You’re talking out of your ass.
NYSE does the same when there are big drops. If there was a 20% intraday drop in SPY they’d halt trading for the rest of the day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_curb
The savings of not having a car might make up for that. I definitely don't miss having one.
Prosecutors in “Deepfake cheerleader Mom” case retract claims of DeepFake use
Doesn't Voice Over do that?
Looks a bit like the Datahand, been using those for the past 20 years.

One difference is that the Datahand also has keys on the left and right of each finger for a total of 5 keys on each.
There's a hypothesis that we'll eventually find more stable superheavy elements as the number of neutrons increases in the nucleus [0]. Perhaps we'll find something like that in hadrons (not counting protons and neutrons of course)?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability
It sounds like you took a particularly closed off and insular view of the ‘you control your own destiny’ meaning.

You left - you took control. You didn’t take control early enough however it sounds like, and started interviewing and looking for better options before losing emotional control and exploding.

You could have done that at any time. We often close off our own options and don’t really look to pursue things due to perceived risk, lack of experience, etc.

If you’d come in with a resignation letter, you might have walked out with a raise - and for sure either way had a better deal. If you’re not willing to walk away, you’re never really properly negotiating - you’re asking for favors.

The more you’re able and willing to walk away, the more of a real negotiation it is.

It can take decades to save up the capital necessary to be in this position. Some people have it by nature of who they were born from. It is what is is.
Well, China was very close of getting over 50% of hash rate, so this news is good for Bitcoin... /s
Deep Learning’s Collision Course with Particle Physics
Adding voice control to lights is surprisingly handy.
From this Wired story, link found in another post above https://www.wired.com/story/google-project-starline, there is this passage: Move to the side just a few inches and the illusion of volume disappears. Suddenly you’re looking at a 2D version of your video chat partner again.

This implies, AFAIK, that it either uses lenticular lenses (which is the tech 3D-cards typically use), or a parallax barrier (screen tech from 3DS). There are a thus sectors from the screen to the viewer, and you need to have your head placed so that your one eye sees one sector, and the other eye sees another. What the reporter describes is when both her eyes end up in the same sector, which immediately makes the result 2D. Note that there might be more than two sectors, so that you can move further sideways and get a realistic view, but each eye must all the time be in a different sector. It can also use head tracking to achieve such correction of your view wrt. movement of your head, since it evidently constructs a full 3D scene of you and the other side, it can render that from any angle.
You can not like crypto and still acknowledge the very real technology powering crypto.

Whether it's Byzantine fault tolerance, or cryptoeconomics, there are some good solutions there. People's issues tend to be whether the solutions are applicable to the world, and/or useful.
I can already picture cities full of forever inhabitable houses because somebody died unexpectedly or lost his private key.
As said, this isn't collectibles. This is pyramid schemes, pump & dump and money laundering.
> they are clearly gamifying trading.
> If you want to make the claim RH isn't gamifying trading and therefore the criticisms are off base, please, I invite you to do so.

I have used RobinHood just a little bit, and it's not my main brokerage. However, I take issue with your phrasing. You start with the premise that whatever it is that RobinHood is doing is bad, it's impossible to argue against this where you are standing.

I hate the app that my main brokerage provides, but it was even worse before RobinHood existed. When I bought my first set of shares on RH, I was amazed by easy it was, and how well designed the UI was. IIRC, it is also super easy to find information on the stock that you're trading, so it's not like they are making the UI dumb.

I have read criticisms like how they make buying a stock seem inconsequential, but that's frankly pretty absurd to me. Do they need to make their UI flow less smooth, or give some big warning that people are dealing with real money?

If there are any parts of their app which encourages gambling, I agree it should be removed, but the actual criticisms I read are things like "they use bright flashy lights like slot machines" which seems very unconvincing.
> With VoiceOver, users can explore more details about an image with descriptions, such as “Slight right profile of a person’s face with curly brown hair smiling.”

I'm imagining some older family members, whose sight isn't so great anymore, listening to descriptions of old photos being read to them. That's stunning. Wow.
http://archive.is/sdR0k
Also tax avoidance. My friend exchanged all his ETH to DAI at the top, doesn’t have to report that to IRS.
A better system would have some agreed upon holding period. Two weeks perhaps? Enough time at least that the buyer has received the goods. As much as I hate Paypal, that's essentially what they do. They hold the funds until they've confirmed the item was delivered.
I think the problem is conflating "dreaming big" to "no restrictions." A large part of the strength of the current terminal approach is specifically its limitations.

That is to say, a large part of what makes the automation capabilities of most terminal applications so strong is specifically that the idea of character streams over raw binary streams being the default.

Can I dream of a lisp machine that lets me do what you are suggesting? I mean, sorta. Early HTML based apps came pretty close on this, but folks regularly refuse to limit themselves to a base set of constructs. Is why it would be easy to user style HN, but basically impossible to do the same to gmail. (gmail, amusingly, created their own theme capabilities...)
It still requires blind faith and trust, but now you're trusting a combination of computer code that cannot apply common sense to transactions, and human programmers and bad actors, who can through accident or malice do a great job of fucking up your day.
looks like the freenode staff confirmed it here: https://twitter.com/freenodestaff/status/1395046345145307140
Note that it's illegal in the UK and being scrutinized in the EU: https://www.ft.com/content/3254a7c5-3c9b-468c-9ed4-a324f5e42....
if one were to actually implement what I'm describing, the transactions would need to be signed by the participating parties, so it wouldn't be possible to do what you're describing anyway.
You're explaining why it's an impossible problem to solve perfectly, 100% of the time. That might very well be the case, but it is not the case that this means "it will lose all semblance of usefulness."
Mindfulness, treatment/therapy, etc. can go a really, really long way though. Speaking as someone who’s been there.

Investing in yourself is absolutely key. It’s something most folks from our background have been taught to not even attempt. Not doing it just reinforces the cycle.
I recommend you try out StreetSmartEdge for Schwab. While the UI is definitely Windows95-like, it's been reliable.
The Schwab website + mobile app are not very good though.
Before there was chrome, browsers use to have native RSS support. To this date chrome does not support RSS natively. They are responsible for killing RSS. Now they are bringing it back with a social media buzz word 'follow'.

This is a shitty play.
Frontier doesn't invest in maintaining its wires. They just pocket the money and let it all rot. I had their service years ago in their home base of Rochester before they went on their expansion spree and could only get 4Mb. Water in the line forced me to a new pair that could only get 2Mb. They wouldn't make any effort to fix the issue.
For Firefox I use Awesome RSS:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/awesome-rss/

For Chrome I can't vouch for anything recently but I came across this a while back:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/get-rss-feed-url/k...
That is a whole other level. Impressive - the watch stuff kinda reminds me of the rotor control in a way where you can activate system actions and swipes.
Same story here. Was working for a manufacturer doing help desk/support. One of two people in the dept. First task was to help someone in a different dept sort through PDF files, and rename them to the company standard format. I wrote a python script to do this instead of renaming one by one.

Got reamed because "there's no way that is accurate and it might mess something up".

They where renaming the file based on the date of review, and the creators name.... Both of which were in the damn metadata.
I think you assume I don't know what I'm talking about because you are intellectually insecure and didn't bother to read my post, as demonstrated by your man-splaining. Rock on, bruh.
Amish have that luxury because they're in their safe bubble in rural America. Any other communities that tried to live that lifestyle probably got wiped out by their neighbors through out the history.
I can’t believe I haven’t noticed it - I’ve been using !hn forever.
I think McD's uses liquid oil, so not hydrogenated (trans fat). You hydrogenate oil to make it solid at room temperature, as a substitute for animal fats. If you're going to fry in it there's no point in not starting with an oil that is liquid at room temperature.
Title insurance is very inexpensive because there are few actual title disputes. Those that do arise are usually of right of way claims, encroachments, or survey issues.

Actual cases of someone defrauding someone of property is astonishingly rare.
There is a lot of tech and financial higher-ups who are transitioning their field and expertise towards cryptocurrencies. There will be many of them who are going to pioneer the mass adoption of digital currencies in future trade.
The wallets are the issuers of the transactions into the blockchain. The wallets can be used as the identification and representation of the real world entities.

It's just like the court's stamp on a piece of paper carrying more weight than your and my stamps on a piece of paper.
To be transparent, I looked up what the preferred term seemed to be because I didn't know offhand and I wanted to offer actionable advice. Most resources seem to recommend "person with intellectual disabilities" ("intellectually disabled" being the adjective form of that, although I could be mistaken). The NIH doc recommends “learning disability” specifically to be used in place of the r-word.

So yeah, I'm also happy to use a better term if you know of one. I’m not really trying to prove a point here, per se — I just know there is widespread consensus that the r-word is a slur and I’m trying to gently help us move past it :)
Indeed, why would anyone want to protect their homeland from invasion?
Easy, affix the tag to the item with a blockchain so you know it cant be removed or tampered with.
10-20% of pulls of Docker Official Images coming from Apple M1 machines
Are you confusing RSA the company with independent speakers at a conference sponsored by RSA? They're not the same thing....
https://matrix.org/foundation/ at the bottom of this page, you'll find the people who are actually in charge with accepting protocol changes (the Spec Core Team). It's true that most are part of New Vector, the for-profit company behind Element and Matrix, but Alexey Rusakov is not as far as I could tell. So there is at least one non-New Vector voice.

It honestly feels pretty likely that this is just a maturity thing - as more products are built around Matrix, the Spec Core team will likely become more diverse.
The game theory, incentives, and costs are not the same
What did you sell it at?
>China has a pattern of not talking about their space missions unless they go well

Not only space. This is the reason it always feels like the west is collapsing while Chinese hegemony is inevitable. Western news outlets publish hyper-critical editorials about western governments that wouldn't be allowed on state run media in the east.
Yeah me too, my childhood friends are all still struggling financially (early 30s now). After a few years in tech I can finally afford vacations like Europe or lazing in Hawaii. My friends still view a vacation as driving to another friends house in a different state and crashing on their couch for a couple days. I don't want my vacation to be sleeping on a couch in a room with 3 other people.
Crypto Investors Scheme to Gain Control of Tesla as Bitcoin Markets Tank
It's not even that. The two main problems are that Bitcoin in non fungible - that is 1 BTC != 1 BTC, and that comes from the second problem - BTC isn't anonymous, in the sense that all transactions are publicly available and there are tools already that give great deal of deanonymisation capabilities. Now if you use a tumbler to get "fresh" coins, it may be that some of the source coins were involved in hacks or drug deals and are blacklisted. This means when you'll try to withdraw you likely get them confiscated and get yourself in trouble.
And who is the authority whose job it is to update the blockchain? Why have a blockchain if a deed for property is already recorded in the courthouse on signed paper documents?
This highlights why “slow, expensive database” has not been a common need: you can handle that in an append-only style by publishing correction records but that puts even more strain on an already struggling system.
Since when price speculation news are relevant to this forum?
Why do you think it's negative? It isn't a piece diagnosing the roots of inequality, and it doesn't pretend to be. It isn't a piece about "how I got here", and it shouldn't have to be. It's a piece about the weird aspects of not having a very, very specific background in tech, and her internal experience of those. It's not "here let me lay out the Nature Of The Thing Universally". I don't understand why you're holding it accountable to "advancing the conversation" about social mobility.
When I got the asl question i found it rude and told them i don’t like answering the question. It often had a sexual / dating connotation in my mind, which i didn’t like.
That's like saying I payed for my new house with stocks. Which is not the same thing as stocks being a currency. What actually happened is that you liquidated some crypto and used the proceeds to buy your new computer. You even say that directly in your parenthetical. (since I converted some crypto to do it)
I agree. The author likely meant that Lee is acting like Trump in the sense that the method being used is mean and destructive.
It seems Lee actively sought to take over the operational access to the network, brought in staff outside of the existing staff process, and started exercising editorial control over the Freenode website.

So if you mean "is there actual end-user operational impact to the network", it seems that there isn't so far, but the way Lee took over everything does not bode well and I completely understand why the existing staff resigned. When staff processes change so suddenly and abruptly, end-user visible changes tend to follow, and in any case this warrants significant loss of trust.
I kept looking for a connection to the Squeezebox media player. I don't think there is one.
Wow so smart and clever
European renewables giant sues Texas for the loss during Feb ice storms
> ...Matrix has more rough edges than IRC at the moment IMHO...

You might be right. Yet, I'm still hopeful for the matrix network and protocol. Also, irc has had a bit of a head start, having had the benefit of decades of eyes looking at it, and hands helping to improve it. Then again, 2 or 3 decades from today, I might be the one holding onto my matrix network world when someone else on a forum discusses the merits (warts and all) of some new protocol for communications scenarios (not limited to chat). :-)
That is too optimistic of an opinion for me. It has done very well so far
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Or since this is tech we’re talking about, just work from home then live where you want, no need to be stuck in a tiny apartment in a big city.
Those comments are either an aid to visual scanning or to the search by providing an increased search surface.
I have Frontier gigabit fiber and I have zero complaints.

At the peak of Zoom school, I had 3 kids on zoom calls, my wife and I both on zoom calls, and the 2 year old watching Netflix all at the same time without even a blip.

I'm 90% certain the gigabit download isn't that important, but synchronous upload and download speeds that make all the difference.
Show HN: BugMuse, Detect When User Clicks Broken Button
Covid is not the only thing masks help to prevent /contain.

Most people wear a mask in SF because they want to, not because they have to. You are free to not were them if you like, no one is going to stop you .

I wear it and then forget about it, it is lot more hassle to remember to remove in some contexts sometimes that means wearing while driving alone. It doesn't bother me, not sure why people get winded about it.
Blessing and a curse. With a flexible monetary supply, politicians can help ease the pains of boom bust cycles. They also can print currency and inflate their debt away. With a static monetary supply, they can't dampen the pain. But they also can't leverage the financial system for their short-term gains.

The last 60 years on a macro level have largely proved the Keynesian model. I think we're right to put faith in politicians in general. The solution might just be holding currency from another nation instead of your own.
no, its been there for almost exactly 10 years.
+1 for the grokking algorithms rec.
It's a great summary/refresher/at-a-glance resource.
I don't mean to distract from the main conversation, but I want to talk about how insidiously evil it is that NFTs can be coded to send the original creator a percentage $ cut off of every subsequent transaction for all time.

If that's not hard coding wealth inequality and a new class of asset owners, I don't know what is. This is disturbing, along with the whole thing itself anyway.

Imagine if cryptocurrency started doing that?
> Back to the point of this article: if someone steals my private key, do they now own my house?

> We don’t need blockchain for this, a regular DB is sufficient.

If someone makes you sign over your car title to them under duress, do they then own your car? In most jurisdictions (let's use the USA for now), of course not. Assuming you have reasonable access to fair treatment by the legal system, that transfer would not be considered valid, and in fact the whole act would likely be a very serious crime. This is true regardless of how the ownership is officially represented: whether a blockchain, or a government database, or a pink slip with names written on it, etc.
I have always preferred the cleanness of android over thr imho weird ui design of iOS. I get that people loved the hardware esthetics of iPhones over android phones but not the software esthetics. At least nog since material design started. The weirdness of ios having to put blur on everything rather than just having one clean background color. The weird need to have everything be a rounded rectangle with gradient. And Id also give android the lead in whitespace use and a slight edge in font.
One of the significant and first ones is compound.

https://compound.finance/

Uniswap being another

https://uniswap.org/

A more comprehensive lost of ether based defi apps

https://www.blocksocial.com/ethereum-defi-platforms/

There are also other blockchain ecosystems with their own defi projects.

In general, you have some cryto assets, you loan those to someone or some decentralized system that uses those assets to make money(like banks, financial institutions, and market makers).
Yeah, nobody gives raises anymore. The only place ever got raises, they were tied to a union contract that just happened to benefit me (a non-member). Every other place would give bonuses or 1% "raises" that didn't cover the increased insurance costs. Pay scales were only used to hold down salary, "we can't bring you in at the top of the pay scale".
I think they mean BACK TO THE PEOPLE IN MY MANSION.
When was freenode's power taken from the people? Who are "the people" anyway? Who took away their power? What exactly was freenode's power anyway? Other than chat.

So many questions.
Long ago, I was a department manager at Walmart. Keeping the database even within the ballpark of real inventory was a labor-intensive, annoying, never-done task. My full-time job was struggling to make the point-of-sale replenishment work just tolerably well. It went in waves. Periods where most of the counts seemed pretty good, then periods where it was a mess. After all, it was just me manually locating and counting everything. Too many items with too many places for them to go missing “in the back”.
#libera-cloak is the place to go now, by the way.
Augmented Reality’s Applications in Healthcare
Because when you're actually getting a tech sized paycheck it's much easier to justify keeping your head down and continuing to make easy money, you're compensated well enough for what you have to put up with you don't care.
Andreessen Horowitz backed firm, Labelbox, threatens Court open source Diffgram
Apple's campus cafeteria is not a free perk for anyone, including engineers.
People actually do it!

https://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/gift/gift.htm
You just decided that "Bitcoin pricing is on a log scale"? Because it sounds cool to talk about logarithms? What does cost averaging have to do with it?