skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is nonsense. What he describes is not a oroblem with the Blockchain but a problem with the security of the "wallet" of keys. That is a basic issue with any system that has security. If someone gets the "keys" (password, access etc. ) he can whatever he want.

The solution make the "locking mechanism" more complex. Add additional / multiple keys.

Methodolgies to secure system are all ready used. Wgat blockchain adds is a datastore that is more tamper proof (while adtionaly adding decentralization and fault tolerance using consensus mecahniam).

Any system can have vulnerabilities. Blockchain-like technologies may have the potential abilty to reduce and/or eliminate some of them.
Really? Because I just think about how impossible this would be on Windows, where shared or external libs are inscrutable, as are OS build chains, version differences, etc etc.
If you want IOT things that are fully under your control, it's definitely possible. Home Assistant with Tasmota/Zwave/Zigbee devices is very powerful, all without requiring any cloud connection.

I have so many minor automations that add up over time. When I get home, my Z-Wave lock on the front door automatically unlocks. If I open the garage, the LED shop lights turn on and the door in from the garage unlocks.
Mostly that it's terribly slow.
Crypto has a few stable coins
No bad idea is laundered by making it policy. 23 chromosome pairs = human. All ideas above that are vulnerable corruption, even the well-intentioned ones.

So, no.
Sure -- except that the deeply centralized password storage system is a MUCH more attractive target; you've put all the goodies in one place, which is part of my entire point.

There is a WHOLE LOT of incentive to try to hack 1Password and far less to try to hack my dinky email, or even, e.g. gmail to try to find what you're looking for as the hacker.
They do for some things. In many places whenever you transfer ownership of real estate, you submit a piece of paper that says "I am transferring ownership of X to Y" to a clerk/recorder/registrar. People can then go and search their database of transactions to verify that yes, someone did grant you ownership of X previously, and that that someone granted ownership beforehand, etc. (this research is usually done by a title company, who then provides insurance on their claim).
Completely possible, but that's not how it works ATM.

EDIT: And at the risk of stating the obvious, the fact that it doesn't work this way should be a hint that there are complexities involved that make it more complicated than "just" doing it.
the thing is, IMO, that once Christel shut down the PDPC (the entity behind freenode a long time ago), Freenode just became "Christel" owned. And Christel sold everything under shady reasons (without really saying everything was sold) to Lee.

Some resignations letters say that it seems to say this.
When you say accurate, do you count the number of available items on the shelf, or are you just looking for at least 1 of something?

It seems to matter more when there are only 1 or 2 ‘available’, but I have seen at Lowes where the packet has been ripped open and a piece of the assembly is gone, or it looks like it was returned, but with the wrong item in place.
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Yeah, but property is also enforcement. That's trust. Centralized trust.
I absolutely am anti-bitcoin, because proof of work is horrible for the environment and BTC seems to have no real plan to fix it.

I will only use proof-of-stake networks, and I think everybody else should do the same.
There are serious, devastating critiques of Bitcoin. There are no serious rebuttals to those critiques, but plenty of people "involved in the industry" are making a lot of money from BTC, so it's no surprise they've convinced themselves it's fine. I guess they suckered you in too.
Ethiopian and Indian are great options.
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Because a major national power is outlawing it.
As we were building Okteto (a cloud-native platform for developers), we saw developers complaining about the huge learning curve required to go from Docker Compose to Kubernetes. You need to create a new set of yaml manifests, manage template systems like Helm, learn new tools to redeploy your containers… and all this just to get your application running the same way Docker Compose does. At least, that was the case until today. We are happy to announce that you can now run your Docker Compose files in Kubernetes with Okteto!
"The is just trope along the same lines of black people can't get their own ID's or figure out the internet. It's an incredibly racist way of thinking."

I never said black people. That's your own bias talking.

I agree that people can travel to a supermarket (and that supermarkets have healthy food). It's much more difficult to take a weekly trip for a family's needs in public transportation as opposed to loading up a car. More frequent trips tend to incur higher opportunity cost due to the commute times.

IDs are a completely different matter. The need for those trips are about once every 4-6 years and generally lower expense too.
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Wow. Anglocentric much?

Just wow.
> Elixir isn't very memory efficient when it comes to web servers.

I'm serving (https://domovik.app) for a few dozen people on a few dozens MB of RAM. Sure, it's not Google scale, but I really can't complain about memory usage.
Crypto anarchism (the movement to move all the trust to crypto and leave nothing to the government) is suffering from Dunning-Kruger effect in their understand of the legal system, it's purpose and nuances and generally the fact that the real world has to base its law system around humans interpreting the law because there are simply no better solutions, and the legal system came where it is after years and years of evolution and if simple inflexible rules would be a viable solution you wouldn't need a legal system.

It's the same flawed logic that usually opposes government access to communications, even with warrants, as if they are something sacred (while the government can literally jail you up if you break the law, even freedom isn't sacred, and it's much more vital than communications). You need to respect the rule of law and the fact that there are simply no better solutions than the legal system - it is just like decades old code that has been refined to deal with all the nuances of the real world.
> The thing about singular they is that it only really became "perfectly good usage for longer than people think" within the last few years, well after the heyday of Usenet.

The singular "they" has been prescribed in manuals of style since the 1700s[0], continuously through the 20th century. That certainly predates the heyday of Usenet.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_(pronoun)#Gender
In practice the transactions you perform on the blockchain have value in USD whereas the transactions on your equally-technically-sophisticated git repo have no value at all. So there is no reason for the average person to choose your repo over existing blockchains.
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If you follow Andrew on Twitter it would probably make more sense. He's an interesting guy and very active on social media which brings a ton of traffic to his site I'm sure.
On further reflection, I just want to emphasize how much of an improvement RSS/PCBGROUP and the couple of minor tweaks made for this use case; with unmodified FreeBSD 12 and HAProxy and the load we had, there was basically zero conncurrency available, you could run as many processes (or threads) as you wanted, and the capacity would be the same, and it was sad, I think we could only get about 100k clients on a box before it would run out of steam.

With everything tweaked, we got to 2M clients per server, and actually it was hard to find the limit, because I wasn't able to direct enough traffic to the machines under test.

The software and configuration changes weren't big, but it was a huge impact. On the other hand, if RSS and PCBGROUP weren't in the kernel, I don't think I would have been able to add something similar, and we would have had to something wild and crazy (or try Linux and see if it would do the job). Now, I really did want to write a raw packet tcp proxy in userspace, but I knew it would be a lot easier to manage and quicker to get working with something off the shelf.

Of course, maybe there's a better solution to the root bottleneck, which was always opening a new outgoing tcp connection; even with all the tweaks, that was still the bottleneck, but fixing that needs someone more skilled than me, and I guess it's a pretty niche use case to be opening so many outgoing sockets. Accepting tons of sockets is way more common and way more optimized.
I mean everything that makes freenode freenode. I don't know what the contract say exactly, but by reading the resignations letters, especially this one https://gist.github.com/aaronmdjones/1a9a93ded5b7d162c3f58bd... :

What has become clear to us in the last few days is that we were lied to,
by both Andrew and christel. Contrary to public and private statements, the
sale included the network as a whole, something christel should not have
had the ability to relinquish, as most of the infrastructure is not owned
by her or any of us. However, Andrew has more money than us, and so we
cannot fight this.
What area do you live in? I've had the opposite experience in a few states.
FTC and several states sue Frontier Communications regarding internet speeds
> We are bringing power BACK TO THE PEOPLE

Strong claims require strong evidence.
yeah Ima have to update your file buddy
He said "real problem" so..yeah
I blogged about this twice;

Pro; Bitcoin solves the "principal-agent" problem that is common amongst governance in contemporary institutions [0]

Cons; The technology is still too primitive to be practically applied on a global scale [1]

[0]: https://as1ndu.xyz/2021/04/clarifying-the-blockchain-proposi...

[1]: https://as1ndu.xyz/2018/05/why-blockchain-is-not-yet-working...
”Amish women are not taught anything about sex, according to Garrett, which makes it even harder for a girl who's being abused to describe what's happening to her.

Mary said she didn't know how to describe what was happening. "I thought they were being bad to me. That was the only word I had to express it," she said.

In an Amish culture unaccustomed to women speaking up, Mary felt she got more scolding than sympathy when she told her mother what was going on.

She said her mother told her, "You don't fight hard enough and you don't pray hard enough." Mary said her mother made her feel as if the assaults were her fault. "Every time I would talk about this she would say that they have already confessed in church and you're just being unforgiving," she said.

…

"The funny thing is that they view drinking alcohol until you puke as bad a sin as raping somebody. They get the same punishment for either one," Mary said.

But Amish-style punishment was not going to bring Mary the justice she wanted. And for her, the final straw came when she suspected a younger brother, David, was molesting their 4-year-old sister.”[1]

—————-

MCCLURE: The majority of my sources never made a police report. They never had a court case. Whenever I spoke with these women, they had dozens of other victims that they told me about, dozens of other cousins and friends and family members that - they told me that this had happened to them, too. And, obviously, I can't put a number out there that's unverified or not supported or corroborated by a court case or a police report. It's very difficult to do a story like this where the evidence is limited. And so just anecdotally, just based on my conversations with these women and men, there are a lot more victims out there in Amish country that we may never know of simply because there is no paper trail.[2]

—————-

[1]https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=316371&page=1
[2]https://www.npr.org/2020/01/19/797804404/investigation-into-...
Wow! How did I miss this structure in Python in all the years I've worked with Python? Oh. I remember. Because it took so long for me move from Python 2 to Python 3. So I'm catching up.

Anyway, I enjoyed this article mostly because it jumped right into what it was for. It often takes articles just like this one to alert folks like me to one of the more interesting tools the language has to offer. I happen to have a number of projects I have to make changes to that might benefit from this structure. So kudos!
Indeed, but many other women experienced none of that because, while it may have been sexist, non-gendered nicks were assumed homogenous with the group (ie male).

It really was a lot more about what you brought to the table than identity.
Is it not apparent in the description that you were also assumed male by default, then? I don't recall 'cock and balls or GTFO' being a thing.

The point being that whatever noble intention was behind this anonymity, the simple fact of being a woman (or not a man) was enough to make you stand out. Therefore, a woman would have fewer problems if they either kept their own gender out of it, played along with the guys who would happily talk about women in questionable ways, or stuck only to conversations where all of that could remain ambiguous.
John Rawls had good reason to be a reticent socialist and political liberal
Isn't the "vote on remediation" basically a trial?

Isn't the jury you mentioned basically just a jury?

"modify the laws of the network" is basically an election.

It sounds like everything would be the same as it is now except in the case where everyone is honest and agree on the transaction which is a case that is somewhat simple in today's system.

Why involve a blockchain in this at all? I'm all for efficiency in our systems and a lot of those systems would be better if more digitized but I don't get why people seem to think a blockchain magically solves some part of this.
The vibe is the same: I worked at dotcom pre-crash and the owner used to give noob internet investors (like the "Small Plane Pilots Association" or some such) a tour of the company and say something like "Look at all those people creating value on the internet! The internet is changing the world"
> apparently, my astonishment was considered insulting

If you feel astonished that someone is unfamiliar with something, that is an emotion best kept to yourself. I have learned this the hard way when people reacted poorly to my own expressions of astonishment.

Consider how someone might feel after hearing you say something like this:

"What??? You've never heard of tiramisu???"

(I'm not saying that's how you put it, just giving an example of an astonished reaction.)

Instead, meet them where they are and explain without judgment the unfamiliar term:

"Oh, tiramisu is a delicious Italian dessert. It's made with ladyfinger cookies, mascarpone, and coffee. Mascarpone is a soft creamy Italian cheese, often used in desserts, sometimes in savory dishes too. Would you like me to send you a tiramisu recipe? You will be in for a real treat!"
That's fine, I don't think you have any evidence for your position though. You could easily make the opposite argument that Doge is basically a marketing campaign for BTC and will bring in more investment dollars than it sucks away. It's not zero sum.
By "destroying" are you saying that the seller is stockpiling the USD as if he is Scrooge McDuck? If so, what motivates the seller to hold onto USD despite 4% inflation?
The killer app for blockchain is, and always has been, a currency.

Immutability/trustlessness has a use outside of money, but we're just starting to scratch the surface. Most of the ideas I've seen could be executed better with a standard database or are still subject to garbage in garbage out. The stuff that's truly new and novel is in the exploratory stages.

Unrelated, it feels like there's a coordinated propaganda campaign against crypto going on right now. Many of the comments here, and in other threads, are repeats of emotional talking points that don't really make sense when you think it through.

My guess is institutions are looking for or trying to create a buying opportunity. Is that ETF about to be approved or something?

/tinfoil
What economic value does Freenode has?
Colleagues at work in the City didn't at least once or twice a month. Well not to Vegas/NYC (probably 2-3 a year) but Crete, Berlin, Ibiza for partying/clubbing many times etc. I can see it happening more now that companies are more open to remote work. You could work remotely from the place on Thursday/Friday and then party and come back on Monday morning

I have done it in the past went to Switzerland or Hong Kong for the weekend to buy things as it was cheaper to fly there then to buy the same product on the grey market in London (saved $3-5k).
You're right, everyone is doing that to some degree at some point through out their life. But consider that there exists people who feel they need to dress better just to get the basic respect they deserve. In the case where someone cannot afford the appropriate clothing, it ostensibly seems they are unable to show the respect you speak of and are deemed "less than" because of that, but really their minds and character is the same regardless of clothing. Being privileged is having the agency to pay for the kinds of clothes that impress people and causes them to respect you, and in some cases, without having much other than a nice suit to justify such respect.
It seems like a basic principle is that the court needs to be able to order the land registry to be changed? A blockchain that allows court orders to work might as well be a centralized database controlled by the court system.

Merkle trees are still useful, though. Compare with certificate transparency for DNS.
They already did the extinguish thing when they killed Google Reader to try to prop up the failing Google+ network. RSS never recovered from that inflection point. I'm still mad.
It likely originated there, but I observed it all over the place. MMOs, IRC, other message boards, etc. From my experience, it was a common fixture of the late 2000s internet culture.
Stores aren't a great example.

Let's take houses, where the buyer and seller both need a title company to validate and transfer ownership. This process is extremely inefficent, and costly. It's pretty reasonable to imagine a public ledger replacing this process.

The real world enforcement of such thing is really the only hurdle.
How does it know what to test? If I have a function named calc_potential_margin, how does it know what the output should be?
My country handles 5 billion electronic transactions a year (thanks to COVID cash practically died last year). Fast and cheap although to be fair not decentralised.
To this day I have no idea what cryptocurrency was supposed to solved.
I think they're also a bit under the thrall of being a bit on the spectrum and expecting everyone in the world to be terminally online and to behave like Spock all the time.

(And I pretty much am all those things, but I don't expect everyone else in the world to be)
The central authority (here, Github or the repo owner) can rewrite history by rebasing and then force pushing. The only way you can detect that as a third party is by cloning the repo and periodically pulling to make sure the history of the main/master branch has not been altered.

If it has been altered, how can you prove that you didn't just rewrite history locally and then make a spurious claim? You would need others with local copies to vote on which history was legitimate.
The last sentence struck a cord with me. Emergency-mode doesn't just have to do with money. Asking for constant status updates on projects has the same effect. I don't understand why some companies force this on employees/teams.
It's a fad[1]. It won't last.

[1]: https://Bitcoin.IsNot.Money
Strange.
I’ve never had an issue with Firefox crashing on Linux.

Firefox on Android is a different matter and is unusable on some devices.
That’s like solving the problem of snortleblast.
I totally agree.

Tulips was the first thing that came to my mind as well.

However as a technology NFT has it place, especially when crypto ecosystem evolves beyond ETH limitations
This is personal opinion and feel free to disagree, but I have zero trust in the government and I don't think central bankers and politicians in Washington care about me. I think the current financial system is highly corrupt, broken and fragile.

So naturally, ideally, I want to completely opt-out of their system. So far in human history, we never had an alternative, but now we do. Bitcoin price in fiat may go up or down, but I believe the Bitcoin network will keep ticking with the same mathematical rules and same transparency today and in 100 years from now.
We will be back at native apps with networking protocols by then. :)
The site is working for me.
Indeed.

I ended up reading quite a bit about congestion control while investigating a different issue (sending data from a 25gb box to a 1gb one over a 10gb/100ms latency link didn't work well since the bigger nic would saturate the smaller one which then dropped packets, and this caused the tcp window to shrink significantly ), and it was extremely interesting. The whole problem of having multiple agents competing with different strategies and incomplete information to maximize their network throughput also reminded me of economics.

Tcp pacing essentially solved the problem (and if not available brutally traffic shape).
Honestly this just feels like karma. I'm banned from some rooms for being too eccentric and making too many waves with some of the things I say. Those people then proceed to ban me from other rooms. I don't violate TOS, I'm not(usually) a troll, but I am a free spirit who is eccentric and chooses to express contentious views that are not de rigueur acceptable among redditors and sensitive greybeards. The fact that, anonymously joining some such rooms on freenode, I notice those who were hostile to me looking to leave- I find that joyously karmatic. By all means, andrew should take the network in a new direction.
They are when you refer to regressions tests as unit tests.
I feel like it's hard not to recognize the majority of the top 100.
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I'm not sure I agree. To quote one of the cases:

>For example, at some point, Debian updated the fontconfig package by backporting an upstream fix for a memory leak. Unfortunately, the fix contained a bug that would crash Firefox and possibly other software too. We spotted the new crash only six days after the change landed in Debian sources and only a couple of weeks afterwards the issue had been fixed both upstream and in Debian. We sent reports and fixes to other projects too including Mesa, GTK, glib, PCSC, SQLite and more.

That sounds a lot like Linus' "many eyes make all bugs shallow" idea working as intended.