skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Git lets you rewrite history. And I can easily modify the files on GitHub to show that actually I own all your money.

Also, I can make a PR that says that Joe gave me 100$. When Joe in fact did not give me 100$, in fact, Joe doesn't even know me. Yet I can still make a PR for that and how would you know to merge it or not?

Also, I can make a PR where I have 0$, but I transfer 10000$ from myself to Barbara. What is there to stop it? You could just go and accept my patch and I just created money that didn't exist.

Another example is I can have 10000$ and make 10 PRs all showing that I am transferring that 10k to a different person. You merge them all, and now with only 10k I managed to transfer 100k.

Etc.

Basically it's just insufficient in many many ways.

Blockchain requires everything to be cryptographically signed. In a blockchain, each dollar is cryptographically accounted for. Each person is cryptographically accounted for. And the whole system is redundant so that if you temper with one repo it doesn't matter, you need to temper with the majority of them.

Edit: And to your other question. If someone forces you to transfer your coins from your wallet to theirs, you got your coins stolen. Currently most cryptocurrency are designed to be anonymous. In that case, you're screwed. But there could be non-anonymous cryptocurrencies. Those would allow to track criminals much more effectively as it be difficult for them to hide the trail of money. Even in the anonymous case though, if there were processes around this, the network could decide okay this transaction was fraudulent, we agree, and the money trail would all be there, so it could choose to correct it, reinstitute you the fund, do charge backs, or whatever else it wants. That would be much harder with real cash, because the cash is gone, even if you say yup your cash was stolen, nobody knows where it is now. With crypto you'd know where it is, and you'd know which wallet stole it from yours. So that's already a little better.

For example, you could imagine that you'd have say 24h to claim a fraudulent transaction, as soon as you do, all stolen funds could be frozen in the entire network for 14 day, where an investigation would take place. Etc. The technology opens up this kind of things.
Here's the url for the list: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/figure/10.1080/09524622.2021...
All you have to do is believe the wrong things.
What is an OnCall IPhone?
It only works under GNOME officially and that only since January. And I have in fact never gotten it to work, and I'm not alone.
I get to your last line and all I can think: "Wow, it's so simple, implementation is the only detail we haven't figured out yet."
So...

The explosion of cryptocurrencies/blockchain and the sudden demise of monetarism (overstatement, but YKWIM) is clarifying a lot about what money & sovereignty are.

A property registrar, stock exchange or currency that isn't subject to state control, isn't really those things... it seems.

Nice concise summary of the problem.
Ma Bell kept and iron grip on the entire system until the Carterphone decision created a crack in their stranglehold. This is why when you see modems in old movies they have this crazy setup where you put the handset into a pair of rubber cones (acoustic couplers) because you weren't allowed to plug anything directly into the phone lines. You didn't even own the phone, you leased it from the phone company.
Now it would be cool if they didn't break the number inputs with Bootstrap's form-control class.

There's something wrong with the padding and the up and down arrows simply don't work.

I think it's already fixed on beta/nightly but this can't happen. We can't wait months to have our inputs working again.

Also there's another bug introduced a couple versions ago. If you select some text with you mouse and a the next line, when you open a new tab with the middle button it'll paste the whole thing you selected in the direction bar.

I usually select text or code when I read it and every time I open a new tab with my mouse, boom. I have to delete everything, or select a single word somewhere and close that tab to reopen a new one. And if I'm not looking and start typing I end submitting a long text to duckduckgo.
why not power per dollar transferred? transactions per 10 minute period is relatively constant over time. The thing that increases the energy usage is the price of bitcoin.

It's a dumb metric.
Congratulations! Good work!
I like RSS for serving users trying to get updates from the site. But I've heard that it requires creating a massive feed file containing many articles, including text and images, which can produce a large bandwidth load from clients that pull it frequently. As a result, some blogs (like christine.website) stopped serving article contents in the RSS feeds.

Is it a problem in practice (cannot be solved by removing images or similar)? Could it be improved through smarter polling or some "last updated since" header? Or by using an "active" RPC-like protocol where the reader specifically queries for "list of all articles since this timestamp" and can fetch them together or individually, with or without images?
TIL Usenet was in use in the 14th century.

What newsgroups did Chaucer post to?
Is there any proof that a blockchain is (or can be) more efficient than a normal database?

Seems like every blockchain I've heard about wastes a lot of energy and time to try to make stuff securely decentralized and if we are going to have special authorities anyway the least secure part will be their keys/access to the chain and the decentralized part isn't really true anymore.
you don't need a trustless way - the two mutually non cooperating parties could fork the repo, reconcile separately using traditional git tools and then have the new commit(s), representing the conflict, merged into the main branch.

this is literally already what happens with software development now.
True, but consensus on real-world ownership is a great use case for blockchain.
Because it can handle transactions without having to consult the centrally run database and is less likely to be down
Blockchain in Automotive
So in case you get mismatches, you can then have a bunch of humans figure out what happened and how to recover from it, and if necessary, involve a court system to settle disputes based on the evidence that exists.

This type of human resolution is needed even in blockchain systems: people will try and fork, people will try to launch 51% attacks, software will have bugs. In the end, a blockchain is a bunch of bits. People believing it and acting based on it is what matters.
Why are farmers markets BS?

"If you draw the food desert line at "no Whole Foods and no farmers market""

I don't think anyone is claiming that.
Previews of software updates designed for people with disabilities
We do gather symbol information on Windows too, but it's a lot less detailed than what we get from Linux. It also requires jumping through a lot of hoops. For example we get minimal information from Windows graphics drivers and we have to semi-manually scrape them ourselves.
I don't think that specialized hardware is a security feature of Bitcoin, and definitely not one that was addressed or foreseen in the Bitcoin whitepaper (one IP one vote or one CPU one vote).

In fact, it's quite easy to argue the opposite, that commodity hardware makes the decentralization/security of the network higher because anyone with extra space can farm. This is true today since Chia already has more full nodes than Bitcoin — you can run a full node off a Raspberry Pi :)
I think it's good not to idealize any community, but this comment needs a little more context if it's meant to convey more than just "Amish bad!!!"
Perception plays a big part in this. Remember most of this is based on irrational decisions
>Simply having a fraudulent piece of paper saying "Deed" doesn't go very far beyond getting you a free trip to jail.

That's exactly what MERS did. It tossed people out of their homes on the basis of a row in their privately run database.

It took a supreme court ruling to overturn this. Lower courts (e.g. the supreme court of michigan) LET them foreclose. The row in the privately run database reigned supreme.

>Further I don't see how a blockchain would help at all.

MERS was created to circumvent this whole legal system around property transfer because the system might be trustworthy, but is archaic, slow and frustrating.

A nationwide adopted blockchain system that didn't require private ownership by a party like MERS whom you clearly can't trust or an archaic, slow and frustrating paperwork system serves everybody's interests (except the people who used MERS to, y'know, steal people's homes).
Oops; either way, I was doing neither. They asked, I answered, then they had a hissy fit because it turns out they're apparently the CEO trying to score some users. Let's just end this line of discussion and keep it related to IRC and stop talking about Matrix.
Because it isn't fundamentally better at this task than existing solutions?
> I think the author's point about stealing has more to do with the way low-wage workers are assumed to be criminals by their employers, and have to deal with various invasive security measures their employer requires.

Assuming that all low-wage workers are criminals is obviously bad, from a "fellow human being" point of view. And yet, the author describes stealing $350 headphones in the last lines of the article because their employer trusted them to return equipment without any oversight. Honestly not sure what point they were trying to get across by leaving that in.
Yeah, but that's not how it works for most people. Because salary does not simply become 50% more if one add 50% more working hours.

You do seem expert in peddling wisdom of internet cliches without even a bit of thinking
Some of this is poor people stuff but some of it strikes me more as depression/low self-esteem. Of course one can lead to the other and that may be the case for the author, but it’s not only poor people who feel depressed or suffer with low self-esteem so some of it seemed out of place.

Obviously examples like the guy who didn’t notice his paycheque bouncing are a sign people around you are wealthy though.
You can certainly use par2 or something you cook up yourself using SHAs, but it'd be a whole lot easier if you just used a filesystem that handles this for you.

I wrote up a lengthy description of the problem and several different solutions here:

https://photostructure.com/faq/how-do-i-safely-store-files

I personally use a Synology and an Unraid box, both using btrfs, with scheduled data scrubs and periodic SMART health checks.

I also rsnapshot to an external drive, just formatted as ext4, as Yet Another Copy of my stuff.
For me on Safari, if I leave that tab open, ok, old for awhile. But if I open a new tab, I get the new garbage regardless of my “settings”.

Only option left is to find a content blocker for iPhone that auto-redirects www to old.

It’s really awful, but I’m hopeful these anti-patterns and other Reddit issues (because what is a preference cookie anyhow!?) accelerate alternatives.
As a former Debian enthusiast (I even helped staff a Debian booth at a conference once!) who also tends to be conservative with new technology and who is consequently also skeptical of all these random Linux distros, I eventually tried out Arch and found it ... super awesome, I really love it!

I highly recommend it to anyone else like me, who is generally cranky about new things. They did a really great job with Arch. This policy you mention is a great example of what I like about it.
I agree that "libre" does not roll off the tongue well. It's a rare pattern in English, shared with words like cadre, timbre, and macabre. Those are nouns, so they're not followed by another word in the same way as e.g. "libre software". We have other words like theatre or acre or lustre that we pronounce as if the e and the r are switched. That could work for libre, pronouncing it like "mediocre" (the only other adjective I know of that is spelled that way).

Libreoffice rubs me in a particularly wrong way, because until someone explained it, I did not know whether it was "libre office" or "lib re-office". Either one is strange (the former especially awkward because of the two vowel sounds back-to-back).
It just happens over many years and many successfully published and adopted standards. I don't have a good definition for you (although that's a really interesting thing to think about, maybe it's worth writing about) but I suspect most people know them when they see them.
I agree plenty of theft is happening on exchanges. But that's because most of the actual use has shifted to exchanges. Why? Convenience, sure, but also safety. Back when direct blockchain transactions were more popular, there we plenty of stories of thefts recorded right on the blockchain. Mt Gox was one of many examples.
I think I started scraping symbols from Fedora 34 builds on Monday, we probably haven't looked at those crashes yet.
No tenure until your office turns into a fire hazard of papers and books.
There is a YouTube channel from New China News Agency. It's the Reuters in China. You can find quite a few videos on the Mars rover.

https://www.youtube.com/c/ChinaViewTV/videos
>surely they should at least know what a "put" and a "call" is?

You do learn what this is, but the "i think its going up" is just the starting UI and tbh its more approachable and faster to navigate since you don't need to memorize turns.
What part confused you? If I can clarify I will.
I'm with you; you're not weird! (Or, maybe we're both weird!) I don't want a smart speaker because i can't see any worthwhile value that i get from it. I especially like your example of the 3-way switch...that seems a conscious decision that clearly added value for you without just trying new tech for new tech's sake, etc.
Crypto is climbing back up. Sticks not so much
the only identifiers i can think of are my height, gait, voice and clothing. Though i get your point and it does seem to be getting harder and harder to find local dealers willing to transact without seeing photo ID. I still think it can be much more private than cash-only purchases, depending on how careful you are about it
Very little information on that, though the article's heavy on "filtering water through the pool" and suggesting the technology's already been developed.

I've dug through the site a bit and looked online w/o finding obvious methods. There might be related patent filings.

Most swimming pools use multi-level filtration systems, making heavy use of sand, occasionally diatomaceous earth (https://www.homequestionsanswered.com/what-is-a-diatomaceous...), possibly activated charcoal, and perhaps a final stage using ozone or UV purification (ozone might pass the "artificial chemical" test, UV pretty certainly would). East River / Hudson River is pretty badly polluted, with contamination ranging from raw sewage to household and industrial waste, farming run-off, oil, various street run-off, and more. That said, people do swim in it regularly.

My read is that the pressure differential would be maintaine by egress rather than intake pumps, though both might be used. Egress pumps would be interacting with cleaner water.

Concerns would be particles, possible organic contaminants, and of course, biologicallly-active contamination (bacteria & viruses), as well as river/sea life. (The East River is brackish, a mix of fresh and salt water.)

Ordinarily, filtration systems require regular cleaning and replenishment, generally through periodic backwash cycles, and ultimately medium replacement.
Empty Platitudes Plastered on Important Men
In fact blockchains only exacerbate the problem. In your stock keeping system you can simply correct the error by entering a new stock number. In the blockchain you can... what? Ask every participant in the system to agree to roll back that transaction, pretty please?
This personally reminded me too much of being at the dentist to enjoy it, but it’s cool nonetheless.
There have been debit cards loaded with crypto for almost a decade now

Your fictional higher standard of currency would say that the euro is not a currency because my transferwise debit card converts it to dollars when I spend in the US

The peer to peer payment mechanism works and all crypto assets inherit that
And fortunately, RSS never really went away.

Yeah, there's some sites that have killed their RSS feeds, and feeds can be tough to find (though there's browser extensions that fix that issue), but most major news organizations, blogging platforms, etc, support RSS. And for those that don't (including Twitter, Instagram, Github, etc), RSS Bridge can often fill the gap:

https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

In short: RSS is my frontend to the web, and it's fantastic!
IBM’s Project CodeNet will test how far you can push AI to write software
You're still not going to look right, though. You will have the "wrong" shoes, or you'll keep them so long from thrift that they'll go out of fashion. Your one set of nice clothes is precious to you in a way that the one-out-of-ten is not to someone in the upper class, and that will make you wear it differently.
I have a caique that has a dark sense of humor. He laughs when he hears a put down or when something bad happens. His timing is hilarious.
I just looked it up and flights from SF to athens and back are almost 35 hours. Add in a few hours at each airport, an hour to/from the airport on each side and you're talking 40-45 hours of door to door round trip transit. That's insane.
There's an assumption here that you can get out in time. What if you can't tell when and you miss conversions due to any number of reasons (congestion, availability, liquidity, counterparty risk in defi, etc)

I ask because I don't get the sense that most risk-on investors in crypto regularly convert gains back to fiat.
One of the issues of running an open-source C++ project is the difficulty in obtaining stack traces from users - hoping to re-use the work that Mozilla did here for Firefox, so thanks team for paving the path there for others.
I think that the above was comment abour welfare queen discussion that actually happened in USA around 1980 in presidential campaign.
I can appreciate that. I can often be a perfectionist in some things, and when I can see I'm doing badly I get unhappy.

That said I started attending a pottery-class at local school a couple of years ago. Objectively almost everything I've made has been terrible. And yet? I'm drinking coffee out of a mug I made myself, and that feels pretty good.

It's unusual for me to both recognize that I'm "bad", and yet still want to go back. But definitely true in this case.
Read the book Inspired by Marty Cagan. If that doesn't get you excited about Product Management I don't know what will. Having 11 years of experience in tech will help tremendously but you'll need to have some awesome soft skills too.
On a more serious note. Public ledger is better than a private database because it's public, open to inspection and verification by all. It's especially important for government and court to open their records.
Lambda School and Outcomes Reporting
The only issue I have with Firefox(and a regular one) is that its UI seemingly cannot handle tiling window managers. Unless I manually resize each Firefox window after startup the UI won't properly adapt to the actual window size.

But that is really a minor nitpick compared to the tons of issues I have with other browsers; Firefox runs insanely stable, and easily handles a large number of tabs.
right, but there's no reason for that ledger to be on the blockchain - since property rights are always enforced by the government we should just have a public ledger that is akin to the ledger the gov records about driver's licenses.
The process of transferring real estate ownership is messy and expensive for all kinds of reasons that aren't solved by a distributed append-only database.
This helped change the way I think about the Amish: https://www.npr.org/2020/01/19/797804404/investigation-into-... https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=316371&page=1

Johnny Byler's sentencing brought out the largest crowd -- and the most tears -- not in support of Mary, but in support of the confessed rapist.
The parent comment said the Android UI was better; I took that straightforwardly to mean the UI in general. He does mention "since Material", so I can see how you interpreted it as a reference to design.

That just makes the downvotes more ridiculous! There's no accounting for taste, and it's easy to imagine someone liking any design over another.
I don't think they mean "Trumpian" in the sense of "a Trump supporter". But I understand your worry.
Welp, we had a good run, far longer than I expected.
Isn't that a bit like saying the media focuses on sports car crashes, because you can crash in any car, but sports cars are objectively better than other cars?
I'm not sure if RSA is a trustworthy authority on anything, considering the intentionally backdoored crypto they've produced.
Why is uptime such an important issue?

It’s not like you want to sell high value properties 1000 times a second.
(the internet suggests they may not have had the legal authority to sell off Freenode but taking it to court to prove that would be ruinously expensive for the volunteers; I don't know if this is actually the case or not though; maybe someone can provide them some pro-bono legal services since this network is such a core piece of infrastructure for so many OSS projects?)
10,000 Plecos
I wish people understood how much power and information apps installed on phones had compared to websites.

“Nudging” to install an app you use to collect a ton more data because you intentionally broke the website is fucking evil.

Maybe someone has a Reddit app that isn’t a data mining jerk. IDK. But if not, I still prefer to give no one extra data over just not giving it to Reddit.
This trope has to die. The Scandinavian countries are market economies with a social benefits and health care system not socialist countries.
Wow, this is so funny! Thanks for sharing!!
That's great, but what exactly am I meant to do with 140mil times my current energy ration?
Indeed, 3 months ago:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52821#c319
Personally I
Any thoughts on these observations?
Yeah, I had similar feelings about the self-help/personal development/business "literature" space, and it drove me towards learning more about philosophy. A big thing that frustrated me was a lack of critical thinking, especially attempts to understand or reconcile why seemingly contradicting principles each seem reasonable and effective in similar situations. (Given seemingly the same situation, book A says X is the correct approach to take, but book B says (seemingly) not-X is the correct approach.)

I think there should be a sort of academic-esque literature (in the sense of journals and critique) that analyzes these things.
Energy will negligible upon Eth 2.0 PoS merge
Can't you say the same for bitcoin? Anyone can make a bitcoin clone, just like anyone can code a ridesharing app in a hackathon, but your clone isn't going to be the one recognized by everyone.
Part of that is because a lot of space activity in the West is competing for public funding and so you get a huge amount of publicity around any event to ensure that the public sees where its money goes. A plan economy doesn't really have that problem, publicity is an afterthought and if it has value that is more on the international stage (so when it is successful) then nationally, where it is welcome but not a necessity.

So that's why you'll see the accent on success rather than on activity.
Firefox is great on Linux. It kinda whoops Chrome's ass for what it provides (though Chrome on Linux is a nice experience), and Mozilla has consistently been one of the most charitable organizations towards the Linux foundation. Here's to another decade of Firefox and an open web!