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> Git lets you rewrite history

Not quite true. Git makes it possible to hard fork it’s internal commit tree, and easily move the HEAD marker to your new fork. But it’s obvious to everyone observing the tree that the modification has happened.

Same applies to all normal blockchains. Only difference is that blockchain clients will ignore that fork if the correct proof work hasn’t been provided, but you could add that to a git commit if you really wanted too.

The git commit tree is cryptographically signed, every commit is identified by its cryptographic hash, and that has is taken from the content of the commit, which includes the hash of the parent commits. So you can cryptographically prove that a specific git tree is properly linked together, and the each individual commit hasn’t been tampered with.

The ability to detect tampered commits, and observe forks is all you really need for a blockchain. Everything else is just deciding how you determine which branch is the “real” branch. But you don’t need proof of work for that, it could be enforced by courts or governments the old fashioned way.

As for your PR stuff. You can fix that by publishing an agreed set of valid commit types, which limits the types of modifications that are allowable. Then when validating a tree, you ignore commits that don’t meet that specification (just like more traditional blockchains do).

Ultimately the only novel thing blockchains bring to the table is proof of work algorithms etc which allow for supposedly decentralised trust.

But decentralised trust doesn’t really exist when dealing with physical assets. At the end of the day ownership is determined by your ability to physically defend your assets, or ability to convince the state to defend them on your behalf. So if the state says you don’t own your house (and the courts agree), then the content of your decentralised blockchain is irrelevant because it won’t stop the police from forcibly evicting you.
When somebody starts making sensational claims like "bringing power back to the people" it makes me think they are trying to distract me from something.
> because the devs can't be bothered to decouple code or maintain existing work

patches are welcome, I guess
Because it's the kind of thing high-salary workers do often without even considering it stealing. The headphones are used. If someone has a bougie enough job, they probably expect not to be assigned used headphones, and they don't think through whether the company would be selling them on because they certainly wouldn't bother in their own life. Alternately, there is a mindset of "oh, well, it'd be more money to clean them than they're worth at this point, they're just going to throw them out" (mentally estimating from the effort at the rate that that person is paid, not at the rate earned by the person who'd get stuck with the cleaning). Personally, I've seen people do this in ways I find shocking. The author is pointing out that she has also been affected by her environment, that she also has changed to act in ways she would have found unbelievable prior. I don't think it's trying to say "look I've advanced to act like these people".
Behind the Scenes of 1Password for Linux – By Dave Teare – May, 2021
Not surprisingly, that's the part that sold Mark Cuban on NFTs. The infinite money stream.
Keys activated by pushing fingers out seems like a trap; there's very little strength in that direction.
One of the best things the FCC did in the last decade has been the Measuring Broadband America program that named and shamed ISPs for not providing advertised speeds. For years Frontier was providing only ~75% of the speed that customers paid for. https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/reports/measuring-broad... (Chart 4 is my favorite)
Even people from remote Amazon tribes in the jungle have got covid.

Also in warmer countries outdoor/indoor is not all that different ventilation wise. It is not like I am magically getting covid if I am standing just inside the door and am suddenly immune standing on the porch.
Last time I was an Android user (and, for quite a while and for a couple different spans, an Android developer), that button was a ton of fun for when I wanted to see what random-ass crap the OS or application would decide to do when I pressed it. It was a "press only if you can't find something better to press" button given prime real-estate.

[EDIT] I think the fundamental problem with it is that, if an app screen deliberately presents a back button, there's nearly a 100% chance the current application will handle it in some way that makes sense for the current screen. With an always-on back button, the user has no way of knowing which of three handlers will receive it: 1) The OS, 2) The application, but not handling it in some way that makes sense for the current screen, or 3) The application, handling it sensibly for the current screen. You're rolling the dice.
Google Docs gets social justice update, “correcting” you as you type
> What does nVidia care if their customers are using their cards for gaming or mining?

Because it makes a lot of business sense to prioritize the long time gamer customer base, as opposed to the crypto market, which could disappear very quickly.

Prioritizing certain customers, that will be around in the future, makes a lot of sense.

It also helps build a gaming ecosystem. If gamers don't have graphics cards, then the gaming ecosystem as a whole suffers, and could hurt their future business.
I'm a fan of Matrix as a project, but I don't think that "the house is on fire, we must evacuate" is the correct moment to tell people to move to a different messaging protocol and ecosystem entirely. That's a big change for a community.
Show HN: Write and post to your blog from Gmail (a Hey World alternative)
Backstory

A couple of months ago, the Basecamp guys launched Hey.com and Hey World to bring a new email and blogging experience into the mix.

Hey World lets you write blog posts straight from your Hey.com inbox which show up on https://world.hey.com. Neat!

The Good:

* People love the friction free blogging experience of Hey World

The Bad:

* to use Hey World, you need a Hey.com account.

* your email address is visible to everyone because your posts sit on https://world.hey.com/<your-email-address>!

* you can't host the Hey World blog on your own domain (yet)

My Solution

I built https://moogle.cc which lets you write and post to your blog from Gmail.

Posting to your blog hosted as a subdomain of moogle is free. If you want to host your blog on your own domain, it is $5/month.

You can sign up for a free Moogle blog @ https://moogle.cc/account and start posting in minutes

https://moogle.cc/blog/post/1v6ouq/getting-started-with-moogle <-- here is a HOW-TO post (written from my Gmail account) explaining how to post and publish to your Moogle Blog.
Artist sells painting for $1k. Buyer then sells painting for $1M. Next buyer sells for $10M. Original artist only made $1k on a $10M painting. Shouldn't the original artist be able to participate in the upside of their creation?

I'm not seeing the "evil" here. Just a way for creators to cut out the middle men. Or, just a different way of structuring a contract.

There's a lot of moralistic FUD against crypto on HN right now. Feels very much like a coordinated propaganda campaign.
"You can leave the hood/trailer park but the hood/trailer park will never leave you."
When I think of "percentage $ cut off of every subsequent transaction" I think of Artist's Resale Right, or "Droit de suite" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droit_de_suite
Like-kind exchange doesn't apply to cryptocurrencies. Exchanging BTC for a stablecoin does trigger capital gains as does selling a stablecoin for fiat. In the BTC-USDC scenario it is a little trickier to calculate the basis in USD but capital gains taxes still apply.
You can see how people explain what they do. Does the explanation itself become massively complex? Is there a reasonable high level explanation, or is it a mess of ifs and buts?

As for actually keeping things clean there's any number of things that can be mentioned. Reasonable abstractions, issue tracking, version control, documentation, choice of frameworks, and so on.
Pretty good. Essentially just a way to save function executions and replay them later against previous evaluation results.

I would guess that Jupyter notebooks could easily be made into such a thing as well. Also doctests with editor integration might work like this already?
I was just reminded of Logitech Squeezebox. Might have a naming conflict.
One day, when I was 18 or 19, I was invited to a Mercedes dealership to try and fix a problem they were having with their site. I went there with the same mindset as the OP: I'll investigate for free, but a solution would cost money.

Unfortunately I didn't have the experience or perseverance to actually work my way through a highly custom CMS, one that seemed to be forced on most dealerships. I went in thinking there'd be a blob of PHP somewhere, or some code to look into. There was none, only an endless series of silver-tinted forms.

I gave up, said this was way out of my depth, and despite their insistence refused to bill them for the time. It was enough for me, as a young whippersnapper, to say that I worked for Mercedes (for a day).

Good to see OP had a similar-ish run-in but managed to see it through.
See Nelson's paper "A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing and the Indeterminate" https://andymatuschak.org/files/papers/Nelson1965.pdf

Edit to add: I just noticed that the last update to that page was in 2002. When I hit the box about CSS, Mozilla, Netscape Navigator 4.7, and WML I did hard double-take.
Most comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27207440.
For cable, probably, since those are shared lines. For DSL or dedicated fiber lines, I’ve never had the paid-for speed not actually get hit on a regular basis (with the obvious exception that your ISP should be honest with you about your distance from the telco).
Ah,so RSS is coming back to prominence ? nice.

Meanwhile, we have RSS-Bridge as a bandaid for those sites which dont support RSS.
here is post about it https://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_461
A year or two ago the Freenode admins were subjected to an intense and somewhat bizarre campaign against them where unsubstantiated and false claims about them were spammed into Freenode channels (also incredibly annoying for those of us trying to run free software through Freenode channels at the time). So I can kind of understand that they might want to remain anonymous.
do you feel the same way about royalties?
It's perfectly reasonable to see "up to 100 Mbps" (for example) and expect speeds on average approaching that value, not 50 or 10 or even 60 or 70 most of the time.

At best it's misleading. Frontier should adjust the contract and marketing language to reflect its true capabilities. If it can deliver "up to 100 Mbps", but on average/typically can only deliver 50 Mbps, the marketing language and contract should reflect that, e.g., "50 Mbps on average/typically, with bursts up to 100 Mbps possible."
> Not really Elixir, but I'm jazzed about Erlang/OTP 24 JIT support for better performance.

I'm really interested to see how the JIT effects our app. I've seen some reports suggesting that a 20% bump in speed isn't unreasonable to expect.
> It is meant to be a drop-in(ish) replacement for freenode

A drop in replacement for a place that was run into the ground by the people who now will run the drop in replacement.

Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains.

If the sarcasm is missed, there is nothing at all funny about this abomination. I would much rather trust Andrew Lee than this bunch.
In this context "mechanical" means "non-electronic". Mechanical locks are desirable because they have no unknown exploits, are not reliant on third party services, don't need batteries, and cannot be attacked remotely or en-masse.
Why the Crypto Market Is Crashing All of Sudden
China Has No Intention of Walking Away from Its Claims on Taiwan
I think you have it backwards. On git it is a social convention, and when it's a technical one it's only because some singular 3rd party (e.g. Github) has made it this way. e.g. an employee at GH certainly can rewrite history on the central branch of your repo.

Not true for a distributed blockchain.
Ok but if they lied about what they had the ability to offer, how do you interpret that as "not bad"?

I don't care if they had good customer service, or were working on a shoestring budget. If they sold something they couldn't do, then that's a crime.
The best way to produce smart kids is for smart parents to produce offspring.

Unfortunately, most smart and educated people are actually doing the opposite. That is, not having kids.
I got: for her it's a job, for the rich it's a hobby and a pass time.
The cashflow differences between buying an $8K car for cash and a $40K car with 20% down are the entire monthly payment [plus the required collision insurance], not just the interest charge portion.

I'd wager that poor people are generally running their lives on a cashflow basis, not on an accrual basis. When I was a near-broke college student, that's how I thought.

With regard to the savings of paying cash being offset by investment returns foregone, I also agree with that, which is all the more reason to save the $32K as above.
It's making my wrist hurt just thinking about it.
If outdoors is that safe we shouldn't be having lockdowns and stay at home orders. We should be happy for people to be outdoors doing activities.

Also sports shouldn't have stopped at all having audience
Introspection is expensive, and recognizing that behaviors that benefit you personally cause undesirable damage in someone else can be the most expensive of all.

Most people will actively avoid it, it just makes their existence harder for no concrete benefit to them.

Food for thought.
I absolutely don't understand why the CEO keeps talking.

Looks to me like the schools in the process of collapsing.

https://lambdaschool.com/the-commons/update-lambda-school-te...

Sometimes the best thing to say is nothing at all.
This makes no sense. Propagating a bunch of messages doesn't suddenly use a ton of memory just because you're organizing them as a graph rather than a linear pubsub-style stream.
> Most of the time, they do so by hiding their money.

They hide their money, in legal way. Specifically by misclassification. For example, you claim that a residence is your primary residence for tax purposes, but don't live in it. Or they claim a tax deduction on an art piece that was overvalued.

The issue isn't that the IRS can't collect money, the issue is that the tax code is complicated and cannot be automated. It requires interpretation, which is what lawyers do for a living.

For the average low-income person, the IRS could automatically do their taxes, but they don't. Not for lack of technical ability, but because of lobbying, which I'm not sure how blockchain would address.
I don't have an iPhone myself but do use hearing aids. I'm glad the big tech companies are paying attention to such details. There are a lot of little details of the hearing aid bluetooth experience that could be improved by all manufacturers. I just want instantaneous switching between multiple bluetooth devices.
> When you become a beginner, you are, as much as anything, training your curiosity—and the related trait of openness to experience.

Are the Big 5 traits something you can actually train on? I've never seen anything to indicate that. I thought they were considered inherent. Would love more info if I have it wrong.
Hmm, fish is approaching twenty years old and supported login the whole time. But, bugs still happen I suppose. I always kept OS CDs and later flash drives around for glitches however. Have one an old one in the tin right now.
Ooof. That is a great second-order observation: agencies profiling you and making lifer harder or easier based on your blockchain history. Not like this is new, as you point out, just even more difficult to expunge: there's no "blockchain" to expunge your blockchain habits! (yet??? I think I have a new startup idea for blockchain ... /bangsheadagainstwall/)
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Not sure what you’re getting at here. An uncharitable reading would be that you’re implying that Normway keeps political dissidents prisoner, but I’m sure you wouldn’t mean to claim something so absurd.
So all surveyed DSL providers are under delivering?
Firefox's New Site Isolation Security Architecture
This could just be pinned down to Frontier using fiber and Spectrum using coax, yes?
If the block chain is not the source of truth, and an external body can enforce changes on it, how is it in any way better than a database under control of the state?
Reminds me of a Reddit user who asked for the source of an apparently intelligent bot. They got a reply similar to: https://ftp.ensembl.org/pub/release-104/fasta/homo_sapiens/d...
Quite correct - everyone knows that blockchains are basically just an immutable database. I read it on hacker news!

Just to confirm - nobody has ever or will ever make a data entry mistake right? Good, I hoped they wouldn't.
> I can use Loopback to feed audio into the iOS or web version of Otter.ai on my MBP

I'm assuming you are doing iOS->macOS(w/loopback)->Otter.ai web right? Or can you have loopback feed into iOS and then use Mobile Safari+Otter.ai? I currently use a similar setup with Loopback and otter.ai to transcribe YouTube live videos and then do manual touch up before release. I never expected that other people were using Loopback+Otter.ai, I figured I was a fringe/edge case, but after some googling it looks like it's far from an obscure solution.
"Everyone" can't move from crypto. One person has to buy for another to sell.
> Posted on HN a while back.

Please link to the HN article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25788409
Yeah the Mega65 is also going to have these oddities. From reading though it does sound like it offers a nifty 32-bit single register from merging A,X,Y,Z. And I believe it also has relocatable direct page. So some tricks borrowed from the 6809.

When I was playing with the 816 I did use the technique you describe using the direct page. But I recall there being limits on where I could use that.

The 816 is a bunch of compromises. And some awkward ones because the opcode space was all eaten up.
When did people who aren't poor stop taking Advil?
I bet the input latency on this will be better than any other computer on the market
Just a data point but no, my ISPs have typically delivered within 5% of the 100- 200mbps plan speed the vast majority of the time, at least as a short burst.
An alternative is to consider that the design of email (everything* going into your inbox by default) is broken, and consider that simply knowing someone’s email address shouldn’t grant access to any attention. I’m a big fan of HEY for exactly this reason. Go ahead and send me as many sales emails as you like - they’ll never notify me until I explicitly grant the sender permission.

Besides incremental UX improvements over time, the email experience is not well aligned with the way things actually work.
The assumption that people are good actors is a poor one and almost everyone who uses email is stuck with an unmaintainable backlog of crap as a result. Instead of further incremental improvements to the same mess, switch things up.
Yes. They are assets and you must pay tax every time you swap them or even use them to make a purchase. It's like making a purchase with Apple stock or swapping Apple stock for Google stock. Pay tax.
I can think of about $9 trillion reasons that crypto markets, and other financials, are going bonkers.
Out of tech, into energy: Trader predicts further market rotation
> being a cis het white western man or be subject to all manners of harassment and offensive jokes.

Believe it or not but cis white western men were and still are subject to all manners of harassment and offensive jokes. As a cis white western man myself I personally have experienced harassment online.
Wireless-N Mini Router v3 now FSF-certified to Respect Your Freedom
Not all crypto assets are crypto currencies. Many DeFi tokens (ex. UNI, SUSHI, AAVE) govern projects with real cash flows and are poised to become more like equities on the blockchain
West LA is mostly old Verizon Fios infra.
My understanding is that frontier serves mostly rural customers using the POTS infrastructure. They were advertising internet speeds that they were never capable of delivering.
As I understand it, there's actually an explicit desire for more non-NV people to become involved with the SCT. There just aren't very many other organizations to fund it yet - SCT members need to eat too.
The history of cryptocurrency seems to be the re-discovery of why the global economy is structured the way it is from first principles.
Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022
Famed Darwin's Arch collapses due to erosion in Galapagos Islands
If I remember rightly, some of the things in /proc that look like symlinks don't actually behave like them - opening them opens the actual file that the process has open, even if it's been deleted and a new file created at the same location.
I think this is a good idea. If successful, it will create a stable platform for 8 bit 6502 people to target their creations and talk about as a community. Those involved are making compromises as time goes on as the ideas hit reality. From what I can see the compromises seem appropriate.

I can easily see a small island of activity around this platform. Plenty of scope for wikis, social media, youtube, etc etc.
The Anatomy of PLG SaaS (open report)
I assumed it was some sort of accordion-like keyboard that was partially air-powered.
A Canadian study gave $7,500 to homeless people. Here’s how they spent it
Thank you, this is the relevant issue:

https://github.com/aws/apprunner-roadmap/issues/9
By my understanding, 7% is average for any given year. Average for a year with positive gains would have to be quite a bit more to balance out even the occasional negative year.
DNA study sets out to establish true origins of Christopher Columbus
> Then why are staff resigning? What are they resigning from?

Freenode the vaguely defined project staff, not Freenode the company staff.
Is the device explicitly not allowed to use a single touch to establish UP for a few minutes?
They are mispriced as far as gaming equipment goes. Nobody will release a 2000 dollar game console because nobody would buy it. However, release a 2000 dollar game card that only those willing to mine with it for 6 months can afford, and you don't have a gaming market for long.
But the other side of that is that potential targets of harassment can't bring all of their experiences to the table. Many people who didn't experience harassment still had to self-censor to avoid attention.
The Architecture of Uber’s API Gateway
I have been an Opera user from v5 till v11 (it became unbearable at that point). It had RSS, Email, IRC etc support.

I seem to remember both internet explorer and firefox back then could open RSS feed albeit poorly in comparison.

Then came chrome. I resisted switching from Opera until it became useless, but we had Google Reader for feeds even though chrome couldn't read RSS. Reading feeds was not a problem until they killed Reader.

Then we were left with chrome with no rss support and no Google Reader. Feedly was to bloaty to keep using.

This how i see the progression of chrome killing rss.
The U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing will redeem burned paper cash as long as part of it is left.

https://bep.gov/services/currencyredemption.html
Part of the appeal of collectibles is that they hold their value through time (if they are preserved properly). It's not clear to me if an NFT of today will still exist in 50 years? I assume that it will, but it also implies that people will still be mining the same legacy blockchain then.