skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well, having a process around multi signature would mostly solve it. The blockchain alone won't solve any problem. Blockchain + process may improve some processes. Last time that I checked, Brazil was/is using blockchain quite successfully to authenticate official documentations, but they still request ID validation before operations. Just the signature and registration that the operation happened, are stored in the blockchain. In their use-case, nobody will steal your wallet and transfer the asset, but in another hand it helps to take paperwork out of their way.
> Now this is a bit of a stupid example obviously.

Obvously. For some reason, no one can come up with a real non-stupid example for blockchain that would work better than whatever we already have.

> But say the laws of France were such that

Let me give you an actual concrete example. Some time ago someone mentioned that someone decided to create a land registry in Afghanistan based on blockchain because reasons: https://unhabitat.org/un-habitat-oict-and-lto-network-releas...

I came up with a very simple use case:

- Ahmed is registered as the rightful owner of Kolula Pushta Road, 25, Kabul.

- A month later Mohammad appears and is also registered as the rightful owner of that same place.

- Half a year later Zahra, who has never even lived in Afghanistan, wins a court battle and is registered as the rightful owner of that same place.

Questions:

- Who is the rightful owner?

- How does blockchain help here?

To skip long discussions, all of the below are possible, and are not solved in any way, shape, or form by blockchain.

- Ahmed is the rightful owner. Mohammad bribes local council which enters him as the rightful owner. Zahra is Ahmed's daughter, and has the money to chalenge this at court.

- Both Ahmed and Mohammad bribed the local council to become the owners. Zahra inherited this place from a relative and had to win a court battle to prove that she is the rightful owner.

- All of them bribed local councils and courts.

- All of them are rightful owners, they sold or gifted the property to the next person. However, at one point local authorities intervened and didn't allow Mohammed to transfer the property to Zahra, and she had to go to court.
> The thing that increases the energy usage is the price of bitcoin.

This simply tells us that bitcoin has a dumb cost structure. Apparently its inventors didn't think about that either. But that's not our problem. Our problem is measuring efficiency, and for that we need a measure of efficiency. And a measure of efficiency needs to be chosen in terms of how good it is at measuring efficiency, not in terms of how good it is at hiding that a certain payment system has a dumb cost structure.
> "Guy doesn't have a clue." -- guy is a pronoun (you can tell because "he" also works grammatically)

You don't think that's merely people being lazy and leaving off a word that can be inferred ('That')? This is something I often do in casual conversation, particularly vocal conversations:

"I am wondering what you mean" - 'I' is a pronoun

"Wondering what you mean" - 'Wondering' is now the pronoun??? Clearly not. It's just a way that people are lazy and sloppy with grammar when correct grammar isn't important.
I would venture misplacement is more common than it'd be intuitive to layperson.

Whether an individual item that was returned or moved and is on the wrong shelf on wrong bay or underneath the shelf or in some weird corner; up to a whole skid of stuff mislabeled (skid group SKU is not accurate of the individual SKUs inside) or in the wrong place or not accounted for or counted twice.

A lot of human error during unloading trucks, scanning, counting, inventorying, etc.
Even that would not work very well against miners in China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela...
So pay for open source. Or volunteer.

As engineers we have no one but ourselves to blame for this one
I was really hoping they were going to dunk on the technology itself, like how the media of the NFT is lost if the platform hosting it is ever compromised - only the meta data is stored on the blockchain.

Instead, they just attacked the contents of the NFTs, akin to my mom telling me my pokemon cards are a waste of money all those years ago. Value is only whatever someone is willing to pay.
Yes it was validated and had like 7-8 paying customers. The guy who sold the project was an excellent content marketer which really helped early on as I had no clue how to market :).
As of bug 1702301 [1], and Firefox 89 currently in beta, we are shipping hardware accelerated WebRender by default on Intel (Mesa 17+), AMD (Mesa 17+) and NVIDIA (Mesa 18.2+, Binary driver 460.32.03+) GPUs, as well as lifting the desktop restriction. KDE and XFCE are allowed by default in 88. Wayland anything for a while. There are some particular GPUs with issues which we block, and there are a few more coming due to reported issues (mostly older/weaker GPUs).

There are open bugs I know. Some of which that are getting attention, others we haven't gotten a chance to prioritize. Is there a bug filed about your particular problem?

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1702301
Virtual value/shared belief are the same thing. The fact remains we are destroying something of utilitarian value to create something that has no utility past being tradable and valuable because people follow trends
Does anyone have some mid-long-term feedback on the use of the community edition of Airbyte in particular?
I wonder if this benefits people with Arthritis with the little movements.
The central database would be verified by the same authority that would have access to modify it, as talked about above.
I feel like the HN community, who are more tech literate, should have a better understanding of Bitcoin and crypto. I don't like all the ignorant comments that focus purely on the financials. Is cryptocurrency space not full of technological marvel?

Bitcoin has always been an application for demonstrating the engineering achievements behind it (solving byzantine faults, fungibility of data), so we can build even greater tools like smart contracts, programmable money, trust-less p2p networks, etc so many things. I think labeling bitcoin as a scam is a huge insult to those engineers involved. Engineers like Hal Finney who dedicated his life trying to make a brighter future for everyone, I don't think it is fair to call his and others work an elaborate ponzi scheme.

The bitcoin space has so much history, a lot of battles have been fought on bitcointalk, over mailing lists and pull requests, etc. I feel that as developers we should focus less on financial markets and more technical discussion. Bitcoin has a lot of new things to talk about with the Taproot activation, like schnorr signatures and private lightning transactions. I'd like to see those discussions more on HN but that's just my opinion.
I'm still optimistic for Python Netlify functions: https://answers.netlify.com/t/python-lambda-functions/3423/1...

If they were JavaSript only I wouldn't hold much hope, but they've been both JavaScript and Go for ages now - and I would expect Python to have a much larger user-base than Go for this.
Seems like this is the first real HN thread about this, but it has come up in comments over the years, including by people who worked on it:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Awesome! I'll look out for these numbers.

Do you need more data? If so, what's the best way for me to add to it? Would that be installing Nightly, setting fission.autostart to true, and enabling some telemetry?
This isn’t entirely the whole story.

Every ISP oversubscribes. OP is correct.

Overprovision is a different thing. You are talking about getting 680 so that when you speedtest, you have NOTHING to complain about to them. This is basically part of their boost and oversub plan, where it isn’t hurting them so they toss you a bone to preempt speed complaints.

What you aren’t told is that Spectrum also does short term speed boosting. For 30S-1min you’ll get 680, but it will fall in PRIORITY after that. This also conveniently helps speed tests. At 3am, you’ll get a solid 680 real world. At 6pm, you’re more likely to get a sustained 680 for a bit, then fall to 400 or so. You need a transfer at max speed to show this. Newsgroups are good for maxing a connection and showing the fall-off decline of a boosted connection. Spectrum only started this in my area a year ago or so. After an initially great move to DOCSIS 3.1.

Oversubscribing means that if Spectrum has 2TB of bandwidth, they’ll sell 3TB knowing that all their customers won’t concurrently use it. It would be a statistically unlikelihood. TRUST ME, they do the math on this.

If you add all the 600Mbps users up, you’ll get to a number they can not possibly support. This is OK.

What the issue that Frontier seems to be in trouble with is they went way too far, and couldn’t hit the base numbers they were offering.

But YES, every ISP out there I ever felt with while in telecom does in fact oversubscribe.
I recovered the investment within 12 months. I would not create from scratch if I could find similar deals. I love the idea of buying businesses :)
Good question, I'm not sure if you can programmatically check if an address belongs to a smart contract but it wouldn't be surprising if you could, and prevent transferring ownerships to those addresses.
No, you really aren’t understanding just how ridiculously terrible frontier as an ISP is. I’ve lived all over America and I would choose Comcast or Mediacom over frontier in a heart beat. It’s more like when everyone’s a thief they are arresting the dude who steals way more than anyone else and does so in such a brash way that he thinks the law doesn’t apply to him.
I wouldn't say that tiramisu is that common. I myself probably only learned of it 10 years ago or so. I can only think of one place that serves it, and I live in a very large city.

As for the animals, yes, it's pretty normal to bond with them and care about them, especially something like a horse.

It's definitely a completely different culture, though, no doubts about that.
In the real world almost literaly no one "tempers with the database" directly.

And blockchain solves literally zero problems with the actual tempering that is happening: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27212564
I wrote up a blog post on an idea of what if google had a site that looked similar to youtube, but was links to webpages instead of videos. Like youtube it would let you "subscribe". Also like youtube if would recommend other articles based on your subscriptions and/or clicked links.

My "aha moment", assuming it was an aha moment, was noticing the number of views on certain youtube channels and believing that blog posts generally don't get a similar number of view. At first I thought the obvious reason is people like videos more than blog posts. But then I thought, well, maybe one reasons is because youtube recommends more things to watch as well as lets you subscribe and blog posts don't.

https://games.greggman.com/game/google-like-youtube/
Om Malik: Weapons of mass (value) destruction [telecom companies]
Been waiting for some practical uses since I read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26650493. I forgot to ask back then if someone had experience with Apache Camel, Spring Integration, or similar and could compare it to the crop of SaaS offerings like Fivetran (that Airbyte itself is taking on by providing an OSS offering).
Data engineers, data scientist & analytics engineers. People that be users of Airbyte but also can be contributors.

For data engineers, the objectives is to help them empower other roles to be data fluent and have the freedom to move data without bugging data engineers
So true. I wish that the Bitcoin community had seen that fundamentally BTC would only become inequitable as it grew. If early adopters knew that it would eventually reach $50,000, they would be billionaires, and that it would be used far more as a Ponzi scheme / bubble than for anything useful, I think they'd be more horrified than happy.
If I pay for data centre resources, I don’t want their opinion regarding what I use them for.

Crypto mining (running SHA2/Keccak/RandomX = evil)

Is it ok to crack passwords using Hashcat for the same?

What if the document is a password protected zip of the last picture of my grandad.

Fuck off with your virtue signaling.
Do you feel the same way with collectible cars? Every time a 69 Thunderbird is sold, Ford should get a cut in the upside? How do you feel about the inverse? If a painting goes down in value, is the artist on the hook for the downside of their creation? The answer is no, the creator handed over the creation on sale. Anything else would need to be hashed out in a contract which would drastically reduce sale price.
So the eternal question remains, what problem is blockchain solving here?
It's been a long time since I have seen a firefox crash on Linux.

What's killing me is the memory leak that just renders the whole computer unusable and almost frozen. Almost because if I can grab a terminal and killall firefox then I get the machine back.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1597028 something like that, not sure about the root cause. But I don't let imgur tab with running vid opened for too long now.
If wealthy people are going to use artwork to launder money, I'm happy with the original artist getting a cut. This already supposedly happens in meatspace, just with the artist making nothing after the original sale and missing out on most of the eventual value.
> The surprising thing is how many people are falling for it.

I don't think they are falling for it, I think they are mostly trying to talk up their speculative investments. (Be they direct I-own-coins financial investments, or indirect I-make-money-by-consulting or I-am-building-a-startup carreer 'investments'.)
The first DAO iteration got promptly hacked and drained of funds. That's all you need to know about such ideas where "code is law".

https://www.coindesk.com/understanding-dao-hack-journalists
Unsure about fiber but for cable, usually you need to make sure your modem is a docsis 3.1
> For example, being able the use the watch one-handed is great if your other hand is occupied, like carrying something.

Surely... it's a requirement to use a watch while one-handed anyway? I'm not familiar with the Apple Watch but I am not sure how you would use a watch with two hands anyway? Can someone explain?
Mistakes or mis-sorted inventory. Customers move stuff too.

Busy staff, staff that don’t care or don’t know better.

Managed bookstore logistics.
You can pry my terracotta Elmer Fudd with lush green hair from my cold dead fingers.
Our lives are shocking similar to those of a 1400 merchant. We have houses with a few rooms, a coach (car) or two, we eat meat a lot.

The big differences between us and those merchants (healthcare, communications etc) are matters of technology not energy.

Proper sewers and drinking water has added much more to our lives than cars vs coachs.

And that's what I see going forwards too: I want a longer healthier life. But that will be a matter of medical discovery, not a CAT scanner than uses 1 million times more power...
Imagine a magic chalkboard that can never be erased, and is very large, and you can write on it with an infinite number of colors of chalk. No two pieces of chalk are the same color. Put this chalkboard in a public space and let people write on it with their uniquely colored pieces of chalk. What uses could such a chalkboard serve?

This is how I like to imagine blockchains. The magic chalkboard and a blockchain solve, or fail to solve, the same problems.
You are correct; that is the consequence of taking the definition to its ultimate conclusion. Either our definition of terrorism is incomplete or our idea of money is.
MRR when acquired was give or take $2000 but it was only 3-4 months old so there was huge risk. Code quality was garbage and mostly built with WP plugins duck taped together. I along with my CTO rewrote the whole thing after 12 months.
Not quite. Copyright prevents Bob from misappropriating Alice's work. E.g., Bob purchases a painting from Alice for $100. Bob can not legally now use that painting as a source to make and resell copies.

But Bob can sell the original painting to Charlie for $200 and pocket the entire $200 from Charlie. Alice has nothing to do with that sale, and does not profit from any subsequent sale.

But if Alice sold Bob and NFT instead, when Bob sold it to Charlie, perhaps $180 of Charlie's money would go to Bob and $20 would also go to Alice.

And this would hold true for every future sale, so when Alice died and became a famous dead artist and her works sell for $200K, her estate gets $20K, etc.

To me, this is the sole redeeming value of NFTs, but only if artists can actually keep those rights and revenue streams. The usual path of such things is that middlemen insert themselves to engage in their usual rent-seeking behaviors.
Terraform Plan “RCE”
While gamifying trading is dangerous for society, the onus for that is more on society's current obsession with memes overlapping into reality. Uneducated retail investors will lose a lot on Gamestop and Dogecoin and Shiba Inu coin, and whatever the TikTok, Reddit, etc., community hype up next, not because they haven't learned options terminology.

When I was young and started investing in individual stocks, I would've appreciated "I think the stock is going to go up/down" (as an intro as Robinhood uses it) instead of needing to google and memorize put/call. Knowing a put vs. a call added nothing useful as a retail investor. It didn't change my hypothesis about the stock or my decision to trade.
Transfers are not necessarily sales.

Transaction fees for the Topps MLB cards on WAX, for example, are only taken during the sale when the sale occurs on a secondary Atomic Asset marketplace. There are no royalties to trade or transfer between accounts.
I had two jobs in high school and learned a lot from them.

In the first, I was a temp worker for a P&G re-packaging facility. This means some temp agency was paid $12/hour and they passed on $9/hour to me. The job was backbreaking, in intense heat, and with very strict management rules (e.g. no lunch break, sitting down for even a moment was grounds for being fired).

In the second, I did lawn mowing for individual families for $20/hour. I found them by referrals and networking, and could control my schedule for when I went to do jobs.

This taught me that being creative to find good jobs was super important.

In college, I found a series of high-pay, flexible or comfortable jobs. A few examples:

$1000 for one week's work to hand out 2 pallets worth of coke zero to college students. I was allowed to keep the extras and ended up with a 1 year supply of coke zero for myself and all my friends. Oh, they also gave me coupon for 1,000 free burritos and despite a very diligent effort to hand out as many as humanly possible was left with ~300 burritos and told to just keep them. Qdoba was my primary diet for quite some time.

A job selling cameras on eBay for a camera shot that went out of business. They paid me a 25% commission and had one of the largest private collections of highly collectable cameras (I sold one for $8,000). I only did it for a summer, and probably should have taken a semester off college to just do this full time and could have made enough money to significantly reduce my college loans.

A freelance role, for a German re-insurance company to write white papers for $50/hour and could create my own agenda for what I needed to write, and work whenever I wanted.
FlutterFlow 1.0 Is Here
Was hoping for something about rapid prototyping of electrical connectors.
Did these people make it clear that blockchain enthusiasts consider any action or modification by "the courts" and "the legislative body of the government" to be "corruption of the database"?
Just on the hiring point. There are three companies to my knowledge using Elixir in Toronto. I applied at two and the responses were 1. Not enough professional experience using the language. 2. Very low salary expectations on their end. Pretty bad for Toronto but especially poor for hiring in what is essentially a niche language.
They don't. Neyond some very small applications anything with "crypto" in it ends u reinventing all the institutions of trust that people have had for thousands of years.
A good addition is still a good addition.
Why do you think Google is so slow to "innovate" new apps for Google Workspace? Like why doesn't Workspace has its own version of Trello, Asana or Airtable?
Android looks more and more like a VTech learning toy.
You just seem to be making many negative claims with little substance behind them.
In a similar vein, if you haven't seen the game Speaking Simulator, check it out. It's quite hilarious. https://www.affablegames.com/
When I worked for century link briefly their customers barely got above dial-up speeds. In fact many were using dial up (this was probably almost a decade ago)

Line attentuation can be a huge problem because a lot of rural homes are far down dirt roads away from infrastructure.
No I don't see the relationship. Let's assume no intrinsic value for the sake of argument. How do you get from there to "additional coins steal market cap from existing coins"?

Seems easy to craft some counterexample, like "Doge acts as a marketing campaign for crypto as a whole and will lead to net-inflows to the BTC market".
It is almost impossible for someone to physically steal my house. Certainly improbable. And it would be easy to recover with the help of the police.

It is by comparison easy for someone to steal crypto keys, or for them to be lost.

If we add a solution that allows us to fix the stolen or lost keys issue, then we eliminate the primary values of the block chain, decentralized trust and immutability.

So now we’re using a really complex database (potentially with POW energy use) for something that seems equally well solved by simpler tech.

So why would we want to use the block chain for this?
I take seashells every time. You can’t decorate your hut with ethereum.
Energy per transaction is not a very useful metric since each validated block helps secure previous blocks as well.

Put another way - each validated block helps secure every single transaction that came before it.

I'm not going to argue that the energy consumption is worth it (I don't think it's sustainable myself). I'm only pointing out that energy per transaction is a bad metric if you want to have an honest debate. It's much more complicated than that.
I would take that broader bet that NFTs will have zero long-term value.
Ever heard of a thing called counterfeit?
Now combine blockchain with your favorite collectible, and you have a trustable, secure way to prove ownership of an original.

Sure, you can transfer ownership on the blockchain and still sell the physical counterfeit. But what is your "stolen" piece of art now worth without the private key to it? Probably much less, combined with a much smaller and illegal market.

Now take that concept and imagine some tamper-proof or difficult to tamper with hardware inside certain items like expensive designer clothes or bags or watches or whatnot, and you can probably make that possibility even harder.

It's a real world use case, and digital art should be self-explanatory I assume (although NFTs have a lot of problems (though probably solvable ones) to figure out..)
That's part of the definition of the word "state". A polity that isn't the ultimate arbiter of ownership within its territory isn't a state.
Bitcoin Hitting $100k Doesn’t Matter. Many People Have Missed the Point
It wasn't awful. I was a new grad though, so I had a grocery store job, some volunteer experience and then fluffed up with whatever skills were on the job posting.
Are You Afraid of Success?