skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't speak to the Afghanistan example, but I can see some advantages to a land registry on a blockchain, with the ensuing difficulties as well.

For example, one of the places that had toyed with the idea of a blockchain land registry was the state of Andhra Pradesh in India: https://www.ledgerinsights.com/indian-blockchain-land-record...

As an illustrative example of the issues with the land registry in the region, a friend of mine wanted to settle some land he'd inherited in his village. He had the deed to several parcels of land owned by the family (registered in his deceased father's name, as the head of the family) in his possession, but it turned out an uncle who lived in the village had 'sold' possession of some parcels of land to somebody else. It took several trips (and bribes) to the district office to even be able to view the land records for the land - which had indeed been modified. Sure, with a legal battle he could have gotten it back, but it would take decades.

How might the blockchain help here? Prevent modification of the land records without the express wishes of the deed holder. Court cases involving land are severely backlogged in India, on the scale of decades.

I also agree that the blockchain would also create additional problems & burdens.
That's because the $50M were owned by a large percentage of the users of Ethereum, not a single person. It represented 15% of the total ETH in circulation, back when the currency was in a very nascent state and the flagship product that ETH provided that BTC didn't, was the DAO. When the DAO break happened ETH lost 60% of its value, so not only did 15% of people have their money stolen, but everyone across the board lost 60% of their ETH value. There was simply immense demand for people to get their money back, so people much preferred the fork that kept their money than the fork where the robber stole their money.

Simple as that, it's decentralized, that's the whole point, you fundamentally can't tell people which fork to believe, people use whatever fork they want. And the people mostly wanted the fork with their money in the DAO preserved. People who wanted the unaltered chain stayed there, no big deal.
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The DSL line could be fine but there could be congestion elsewhere in the network. I wouldn't be surprised if Frontier was doing all of the above and they knew they were doing it.
Is there a good article that describes how / why / when the startup scene moved from the South Bay to San Francisco?

I'm not too familiar with the startup scene before 2010. But from what I know, it was mostly established in its current form before the Dot Com boom.

It seems like HP, Cisco, Intel, Apple, Oracle, Sun, Adobe, Intuit, & Yahoo! where part of one movement.

eBay, PayPal, Google, Facebook & Netflix obviously added to that.

But now all the newer companies are coming from SF - SalesForce, Twitter, Uber, Lyft, AirBNB, Yelp, Splunk, Dropbox, Square, Instagram (originally), Slack, StichFix, Postmates, Instacart, GitHub, Robinhood, Coinbase, etc.

The only recent, pretty big startups in the South Bay I can think of are LinkedIn and Quora. YouTube - from San Bruno - is kind of in the middle. The rest are subsidiaries.

I mean, the OG companies like Apple and Google and Facebook are so big that they dwarf the rest of the startups in the Bay by themselves. So in a sense, the Silicon Valley still feels like the Peninsula. But the startup scene definitely seems to have shifted.
This information is just wrong. Air Liquide built automotive size LH2 tanks using multilayer insulation in the early 2000s that had 3 days of autonomy (time before first venting) and 3% per day boil-off after that.

For trucks where you need bigger tanks, both autonomy and boil-off rate improve by themselves due to the square-cube-law. And you can use the boil-off to charge the batteries in your hybrid electric powertrain, run auxiliary systems etc.

The LH2 trucks currently under planning have sophisticated fuel management systems where the driver inputs where she will stop and for how long, and the truck will optimize LH2 consumption and battery SoC before arriving at the stop point.

As for LH2 versus compressed: do you actually know how energy demanding a hydrogen compression train is? Compressing a low molecular weight gas to 700 bar is just fundamentally inefficient.

At the scale required for mass adoption of hydrogen fuels, both compression and liquefaction are talking 6-8 kWh/kg. For comparison the energy content in hydrogen itself is 33 kWh/kg. So naturally there is great interest in recovering as much as possible of that work before consumption.
I've been encountering a similar memory leak on Windows, so I don't know if it's really related to Linux.

What I do know is that the way Linux GUI distros deal with low memory situations is absolutely garbage. The new systemd OOM daemon that's shipping with systemd 248 will hopefully improve this situation, but for now I'm left running nohang[1] on my dev machine, where I'm consistently running out of RAM (IntelliJ + tons of Java frameworks + huge React code base + a web browser all take up way too much space!). Enabling zRAM also seems to work, but I haven't measured the effectiveness of that yet. On my home PC with double the ram (32GiB) everything runs smoothly, but the way Linux on the desktop deals with OOM situations is still atrocious. Besides, none of these tools should be consuming such ungodly amounts of RAM anyway.

For server situations, Linux handles OOMs better than Windows, IMO. On desktop, the same strategy just doesn't work and only makes working on it more painful.

[1]: https://github.com/hakavlad/nohang
Not accusing you of this, but the primary reason people run outdated software is a really problematic insistence, mostly by front-end people, on using the new-and-shiny instead of the tried-and-true. Breaking changes galore - so people stick with the past as much as possible.

Example: Office 365 OWA doesn't work well on modern browsers other than the latest version of Edge on Windows. But it does work fine on browsers that are older or pretend to be older! I'm technical enough to spoof my user agent, but Mom & Pop are just going to say "I don't like the new one, it broke stuff" and that will be that.
Very odd to see massively wealthy industries still struggling to provide stable operations.
I wonder if these cycles have been studied.
Ah OK, gotcha - I misinterpreted your comment as meaning things are fine in the Tenderloin.
Oakland night life isn’t that bad :)
Sounds about right to me. I can't stand this guy.
Then I’m sorry to say it pal, but you’ve got to get out more. Some of the most rebellious open minded people I know are in their seventies. Age is just about completely meaningless and ageism has no place in intellectual communities.
When the first thing someone asks is why isn't a collector cashing in they clearly don't understand what motivates a collector in the first place.
I got Frontier after moving into a house with no internet in upstate New York ("Upstate" being 100 Mi north of NYC). I ordered the 20Mbit plan and after missing and having to call to reschedule 3 installs (w/ 12 hour windows), the first words out of the installers mouth was "you got scammed". Indeed our signal was so weak we were only able to sustain about 0.5kbps. They wanted $75/mo for this and made it as hard as possible to cancel.

The basic history of Frontier in my area is that they bought up all of Verizon's old copper lines and have done exactly nothing to improve the capability. They don't even know what the capabilities ARE. Areas are either oversubscribed or so far from nodes that the signal is worthless. They're trying to squeeze every last cent out of rural houses with no other options and letting the underlying infrastructure slowly fail.

I ended up using a pretty performant (~50Mbit) LTE connection, hacked AT&T hotspot and yagi antenna for 2 years. Finally, as part of a rural broadband grant program New York State got Altice to come in-- probably in exchange for a monopoly in a more attractive part of the state. Now I have 300Mbit cable for $100/mo. Altice (aka Optimum) is also a terrible company, but Frontier still sends me postcards claiming to be "the best internet in <my town>".

These guys are selling a product that doesn't work. They deserve to be sued and I'm disappointed that New York State isn't involved.
Dollars are one of the easiest things to buy with Bitcoin, so how is that a problem?

I also need water to live my life, but that doesn't make me feel the need to price everything in gallons of water.
Isn't IE11 support a potential HIPPA violation?
I take it you've never seen Chrome's built-in autofill conflict with an extension that the user installed on purpose?
The problem is not in the autofill, it's storing the information in the first place!
Securing the network is useful work.
Cities are full of crime again today. Is it a problem with lead? Or is it a larger condition of cities in the Americas?
At the time there were a lot more tech companies out along Routes 128 and 495. This is still true today, but now the balance has shifted to Boston and Camberville.
Yes, we turn it off on the searchbox of our web page because browser's autocomplete gets in the way of our own despite being much less useful.
Keep in mind SF.citi is a policy advocate/lobbying group for San Francisco legislation rather than the Bay Area more generally.

But they blend in wider Bay Area population stats because this is really about jobs that generate SF payroll tax which gives these employers a tacit say and leverage. Remember if you live in Oakland or Redwood City but are employed in San Francisco city/county, some of your payroll tax is being generated to benefit the city of San Francisco even if you are not a resident there.

That's why SF City is worried about SF based businesses and SF Bay Area workers.

(BTW this is also why cities such as Mountain View and Cupertino want to attract large business campuses like Google and Apple but don't want to build homes - they get more income from growing payroll tax but don't then have to spend more on schools, services etc for a growing population - they shift the burden onto other cities and counties that house those workers as they then have to generate tax revenue from other means)
But an anecdote about a class-C storefront on 7th street is more reliable?
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Consider yourself lucky.

I don't recall the service, but one employer of mine had both the suggestions for the MFA token, and as an added bonus, the browser would attempt to correct the "typo" in my username.
No, because wiper fluid contributes nothing to the outcome, which is the car moving from point a to b. The car will move from point a to point b whether it has wiper fluid or not. But it will not move without fuel.
How to display terminfo in a consumable way?

What about non-standard features, like drawing, sixels, sound, mouse, touches, clipboard, fonts, true color, transparent background, color emoji, double size text, etc.?
This matches my experience as well. Sacramento is underrated IMO. It’s a nice city, and being under 3 hours to both SF and Lake Tahoe is great.
Can't they just take it behind the shed and put it out of its misery already.
> I can't speak to the Afghanistan example

The example equally applies to any country

> He had the deed to several parcels

> but it turned out an uncle who lived in the village had 'sold' possession of some parcels of land to somebody else

How is this a) different from my examples and b) can be solved by blockchain?

Blockchain automagically makes selling of something impossible?

> How might the blockchain help here? Prevent modification of the land records without the express wishes of the deed holder.

You don't need "modification". All you need is the next entry: "the rightful owner of X is now Y". How is blockchain going to prevent anyone from doing this?
> The idea is to have something that locally, if you look only at the surrounding nodes, always looks like a neat n-dimensional grid. But the global topology can be totally whacky.

Reminds me of those "Choose Your Own Advenuture" children's novels from the 80s.
Chrome does not respect autocomplete=off (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26309919 - March 2021 (74 comments)
Sadly, you are absolutely uninformed.

1. no, you cant get FX. capital controls.

2. USDC stablecoin actually has explicit sanction exemptions from US Govt to help people in Venezuela. They aren't easy to get at all, but I guess according to USDC does absolutely nothing in Venezuela, so it must've been a waste of effort.

3. transaction fees are measured in milli-cents on Lightning Network. They are also instant. Still Bitcoin, with the same security budget.

4. Why is using renewables super bad for the planet? Either renewables can power the planet and our industries - or they just don't work. Make up your mind.

If you think proof of work is waste and you need to lobby devs - you have literally everything upside down. very unfortunately it's a common situation on this board.

a. Proof of Work exists to remove any subjectivity from consensus. Longest valid chain with most work, period. Subjectivity = politics, and everything that comes with it.

b. devs do not have anywhere as much control as you think, and the ecosystem can trivially eject malicious devs. happened a number of times.

The entire point of Bitcoin is that it is objective and transparent.

As for "criminal" - people commit on average 3 felonies per day: https://ips-dc.org/three-felonies-day/

Everyone is a criminal.

Especially Turks, Venezuelans and Nigerians seeking to escape their broken systems and banks. Must be some savvy criminals - recording their crimes on a globally replicated open ledger, visible to the entire world.
Edge can't be automated via COM the same way IE could. I wonder what MS is offering as an upgrade path
Am I the only one who misread the word "Hadrons"?
If you have a BS in electrical engineer/comp sci/compE or PhD in biochem, patent law is a field you can get into and have job opportunities either as a prosecutor (writing patents) or as a litigator (trial lawyer arguing in front of a jury and judge). Both have their pluses and minuses. Note, you can get a job in patent law in other engineering/science/non-science fields, but the job opportunities are a harder to find or get the opportunity.
I don't really care much about the protocol myself. I'm never going to be speaking "raw IRC" at any point, so why does it matter? I understand that you want to keep protocol simplicity high to make it easier on implementers, but other than just enough to encourage implementation, I don't see the need. We're talking about human chat applications here. Machine chat can use simpler protocols of course, like a light layer atop MQTT, or the existing base XMPP spec.
How big does a neighborhood need to be / how many should it have?

The neighborhoods in SF as most people think of them are larger than the areas that many suburb residents tend to think of as defining their neighborhoods.
Also, are these figures factoring in things landlords are doing now to sweeten the deal without dropping the per month/sq price?

I.e giving months away for free or other incentives like that? Anecdotally I’ve heard office rent is way down as well.
The thick clients, though, seem heavily tied to mechanisms that still prevent local control.
Up 20x since 2018 is not that great?
They called my 7Mbps DSL "High-Speed Internet". And it was only that "fast" because we had two phone lines. Now I have Spectrum and get 200Mbps. A lot of people around hate Spectrum but it's been fine for me so far.
I have not read it. The black swan was interesting. But in the end I may have liked books from Mandelbrot more. I have met professional traders that did not know (and became very angry) when told that far out of the money options are underpriced because it is not a random walk but a fat tail distribution.

I have not read Thinking Fast and Slow ether but really disliked "The tipping point" by Malcolm Gladwell.

Most impressive book: Thus spoke Zarathustra.
FireFox?
Leaving Frontier DSL once we got cable (not even fiber, just cable!) a couple years back was so freeing.

One thing that was unexpectedly bad was their routing. It was just atrocious. Playing any online game would see ping constantly jump between 50 to 180 ms as their network did... whatever the fuck it wanted to do. I had to use a VPN while gaming just to get a stable ping. Getting the packets out of frontier's network ASAP was the most important thing to have a usable experience. I've never seen anything like it before or since.
Linux Foundation offers free WebAssembly online class
The title is misleading, because defmt is not a debugger, but a logger (with a twist). A better title would be "Cheap Logging with Embedded Rust", or something like that.

The cool thing about defmt is that it doesn't do string formatting in the program itself. The problem with logging is that many formatting operations - like formatting floats as strings - can be very expensive on small embedded microcontrollers, both the runtime cost as well as a big increase in binary size. Instead, defmt sends the memory representation of the logged values to the host (over an arbitrary transport like UART or RTT). The formatting / visualization of the logs is then handled on the host side.

This has the downside that you cannot simply connect a random serial console to your microcontroller for logging, because defmt uses its own non-plaintext format. But it has the huge advantage that you can do very efficient logging in the microcontroller firmware, and then visualize all those logs on your host with an appropriate client.

More details can be found in the article itself.
Why am I hearing so much about Pokemon cards in the past few weeks? Are they having a resurgence? What prompted it?
A seemingly significant part of it is because the young talent wants to live in SF and not commute 1+ hours to an office park in the South Bay. I think SF also offered incentives for tech companies to set up shop in the city in the 2009-2012 time range... https://www.wired.com/story/no-more-deals-san-francisco-cons...
Randomness in pixel values
>How much would it cost the Indian government to develop detailed coaching videos by IIT professors and upload it for free to YouTube?

That's EXACTLY what they did. Look at IIT-PAL on YouTube.
And copy. And right click. And text selection.
I don't think IE will self-implode, you just won't get "support", whatever that means.
Thank you for the link :)

Edit:
5693 gang members out of 10,3 million in Sweden versus 1257 out of 5,8 million in Denmark. Interesting.
only went up 400% this year. Terrible.

Everyone is wiping their tears with dollar bills right now, very bittersweet.
From a business standpoint, getting businesses who are dependent on IE 11 to adopt Edge is a great idea. This will certainly help Microsoft's browser share. On the other hand, A LOT of IE users do so because they are running version of Windows that themselves are no longer supported. I'm going to be very wary of what my grocery store's POS system is running on in about a year.
As an ergonomic keyboard, it reminds me the dear old Kinesis keyboards. [1] I've met two people who use them. One tells it's a big leap from the classic keyboards and that the ergonomic keyboards are far more convenient (when you got used to them). The other person is not as excited about it. In accordance with his experience, the Kinesis feels different, but the performance for him is the same.

I think when it comes to keyboards and layouts, the QWERTY type have become a user habit that is really hard to change. Yes, Dvorak might be easier to type, but as long as it is not common, software developers don't pay attention to such a low demand and you have get around all the shortcuts issues that you face. E.g. Ctrl + x/c/v are no longer in a row as well as the Vim-like "hjkl". And you have to put extra effort to maintain this matching.

Like the Dvorak layout, the Squeezebox Keyboard design is non-standard and I think a casual user would face challenges trying to adapt the keyboard to day-to-day tasks.

Nonetheless, I do like the concept of the Squeezebox Keyboard.

https://www.amazon.com/Kinesis-Advantage2-Ergonomic-Keyboard...
C is still by far the most dominant: even convincing embedded developers to use C++ can be a challenge. A subset of the rust community is focusing on it for embedded work, and it's very interesting for that in a few ways (relatively little technical reasons not to use it now: basically if it's an architecture LLVM can target you can write rust for it), but it's basically not even on the radar of most firmware designers (who as a group are fairly conservative and not likely to be looking for new languages anyway).
The professional "active investors" generally lose money after fees are taken into account:

"When performance is measured using before-fee model alphas and compared across the cross-sectional distribution, any active fund performance advantage is substantially less than one would conclude from benchmarking to average index fund performance. Moreover, any advantage of the top active managers over the top index funds is much less than the advantage of the worst index funds over the worst active funds. When performance accounts for residual risk, active funds no longer outperform index funds. " -https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...

JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL AND QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS Vol. 53, No. 1, Feb. 2018, pp. 33–64 COPYRIGHT 2018, MICHAEL G. FOSTER SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE, WA 98195doi:10.1017/S0022109017000904 Passive versus Active Fund Performance: Do Index Funds Have Skill? Alan D.Crane and Kevin Crotty

I'm sure there are better sources, but I'm lazy today.

Day traders get even worse:

https://mathinvestor.org/2020/07/day-trading-in-the-age-of-c...
This is an example from their docs. That's why.
Yeah this is my problem with a non-staggered layout. I have to use a standard laptop for work (and carry it frequently to different rooms), so getting the muscle memory to shift back and forth is just too much.

I wish they made a version of the moonlander with a more standard layout, I’d buy a few.
> Interestingly, unopened packs seem to fetch a fair amount, certainly more than their “expected value”

Yeah it's a phenomenon seen in a few different CCG markets actually. Roughly 2 years after a set's release the Sealed box price and the EV start to drift apart.
We relaunched a 12 year old SaaS app last month and dropped IE support. It was the most wonderful feeling to remove support for that dumpster fire out of the repos.
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That reminds me of a time I went to the pub with friends after work. I was sat at the table with my back to the rest of the pub. After a while I though "wow it's really quite in here tonight" at which point I turned around to find that the pub was packed, but with deaf people all signing to each other. Turns out it was a monthly deaf meetup at the pub.

It really demonstrated your point. I was quite jealous of their ability to hold a conversation with people all the way across the pub :)
I would argue that a species going extinct is neither good nor bad, so neither better nor worse. This applies to the human species, as well as others.
That's nearly 1% of the population of San Francisco. It's already shockingly high.
Can you elaborate why has Arch chosen to not support partial upgrades by design? They do work in Debian and it's saved my day a number of times. They let me roll back a broken upgrade without holding back upgrades of the rest of the system, and my computer then continues to be usable until the package in question is fixed.