skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO there's confusion in this writing between ownership (legal concept) and possession (facts on the ground). The two can get out of sync. That doesn't mean blockchain is an irrelevant tool for tracking ownership - although I personally think it is, but for different reasons. Any ownership tracking ledger is going to have the problem that it doesn't map with real-world ownership, but that's not a failure of the tracking system, actually that's the reason for people to want such ledgers in the first place: because it gives the right to sue or other tools to try to rectify the situation.
What do you think are the reasons the actual counts get out of sync with db?

I presume it's mostly theft, but are there any other reasons?
If it's officially represented by a blockchain, there's no power on earth capable of fixing it. Even if the government came and threw them in jail and confiscated their accounts, you couldn't get legal title to your car back.

Unless you include a backdoor in the blockchain, but that would make the whole thing moot. You could issue a new title and mark the old one as legally invalid, but again, that leaves you open to all the problems that the blockchain was supposed to solve.
"Tang’s target customers were desk workers who downloaded meditation apps and people who paid for digital-detox camps." They're selling virtue signalling.

If that's what you want, get a new unlocked Android phone, and power it up without a SIM card. When it wants you to sign up for Google, click "later". Then remove the Google startup app to avoid further nagging. Then connect to WiFi or use a USB cable, download F-Droid, and load what you need from there. Remove most of the Google crapware, plus any other junk that came with the phone. Then add a SIM card. I have a ruggedized phone from Caterpillar Tractor set up that way.

(Haven't installed a replacement for Google Play Services yet, though. I should.)
Traditionally, poor people did not have the means or access to invest money in an index like S&P.

Most people also aren't equipped to see their savings reduce in real value every month. This is a global phenomenon, not one isolated to first-world subdivisions.

You seem to be mistaking my seeking the reason why people might do what appears [to you and many others] to be such a wildly irrational thing to do. I'm arguing it's not irrational in their case, but one of the most rational things one can do as someone without much means when faced with the ready alternatives. It becomes no surprise.
> All in all: when your source of truth is the legal system, there is absolutely no point for a blockchain and you might as well record ownership in a database.

Crypto works well as a source of truth for things that start out in our imaginations but still have a large presence in the real world. For example, ownership of things like money accounts or even shares in group projects both come from and exist within our imagination, and crypto allows us to create rules and boundaries for those things easily and in a relatively trustless manner. I think the article focuses on objects that start out in the real world. If we want to manage the rules and boundaries for those kinds of things, then talking, writing, and violence probably work better than crypto.
This is really good stuff, even for abled people. For example, being able the use the watch one-handed is great if your other hand is occupied, like carrying something.

(The reason I still wear a watch at all is so I can see the time without having to dig the phone out of my pocket and turn it on, which is hopeless while driving.)

Just like although I can hear, I use closed-captioning when I don't wish to disturb others, or when watching a show at high speed (I can read faster than I can understand speech).
Thanks. Looks pretty fantastic.
Finally, a P2P fully featured password manager
The load issues were a concern with very early implementations around the turn of the century but they're really not now. Feeds are usually extremely cacheable and readers have supported conditional fetches using If-Modified-Since since the early days. These days the average site is serving considerably more data in JavaScript, not to mention the images and video which you're going to see in any case (they're just links in RSS).

The real reason why sites started switching to partial content is advertising. This is why personal or corporate blogs usually provide full content and some sites like ArsTechnica.com offer it to paid subscribers.
cool! Nice work
Aristocracy theme for the company and then make weird claims toward democracy.
Governments are the largest perpetuators of the "blockchain for real world assets" silliness. Non technical managers tend to push for these sorts of things to get a "blockchain project" to their name. For some reason the idea of lying to the blockchain isn't something that occurs to them very often.
You could boot BMC64 on the Pi: https://github.com/randyrossi/bmc64
They do, but I have never experienced one as laughably terrible as Frontier. My parents have them and I used to when I lived back home. I’m not exaggerating when I say you would pay for “Up to 12 mbps” and have to endure a few hundred kilobytes most of the time. Not high end either like 2-300 kbps on average. Their customer support is also the worst I’ve ever experienced from anywhere, you call saying you are only getting 2-300 kbps down and they say “you’re in a high volume area” which they said to me even when I lived outside of town with no neighbors. You ask if you can move to a better plan to get faster speeds and they tell you no, you can’t. They also tend to hang up, etc on you but I’ve dealt with that from other companies.
When is it ever not relevant? It’s all most humans can think of, arguably for valid if not good reasons.
At least in my area, most DSL providers derate their offerings based on distance from the DSLAM, so they're transparent about this... e.g. punch addresses in a small town into the CenturyLink website and you will see the offering decay from 15mbps to 3mbps as you get further from the phone exchange. I'm surprised that Frontier wasn't doing the same, or perhaps they were but being far too optimistic in their estimate.
>The court can then confirm using that record the ownership by going back into the blockchain, finding and determining who is the legitimate owner and then order the creation of a new asset.

- What if the legitimate owner (according to the blockchain) is dead?

- What if the last "legitimate owner" in the blockchain decided to give the item to someone else and never updated the blockchain? And if they can't be located to confirm as much?

- How does a court order the recreation of an asset such as the Mona Lisa, whose value lies in its history, how complicated it would've been to have painted it when it was painted, and the fact that the painter is certainly not alive to create a new one?
For the last 20 years:
- case shiller shows housing has gone up 4% every year on average
- Big mac index also 4% per year for the last 20 years
- Gas (tax was not inflation adjusted, so gas prices appear to be only 2.5%) but the underlying cost is going up faster than that.
- cars, one of the lowest inflation categories according to the CPI (real actual inflation is 2.7% for the last 20 years)-> pick your favorite car and see for yourself. those quality adjustments aren't worth nearly what the cpi boys say they are.

So, we've already got 3-4% inflation for the last 20 years. Now with the official CPI almost 2% higher than last year, it means real inflation is probably 2% higher as well.
3% + 2% = 5%

Treasuries are at about 1 - 2% and unless you hold the actual treasury, you're taking a pretty big risk if you're going into the TLT right now with very little upside gain.

European bonds are negative.

The highest yielding bonds, aka junk bonds are returning 3-5% but those will dip nearly as hard as stocks when things get ugly (look at the last two crashes 2020, 2018), so you might as well hold stocks.

Stocks are at record high valuations according to the warren buffet indicator.
Very cool. Honestly, I’ve been using a mostly vanilla Airbyte. There are already enough connectors that I usually don’t need to write a new one.

Pretty thrilled with how fast these guys have been going honestly. Only picked up their stuff a few months ago and there are already more and better connectors today than there were back then.

I’ve been slowly moving over my error prone sync scripts to my Airbyte instance. Life is already better.
> it was possible to bruteforce blocks until you were also the next generator.

This sounds exactly like a special case of the game of convincing people that your fork is the true fork. NXT stakers each have their own preferred forks (i.e. the ones in which they get the most tokens), and are willing to spend energy to make it so their fork is accepted by the network.

> He starts from the assumption that PoS uses exactly same resources as PoW and then shows it's true based on the assumption.

Maybe it's not well-written here, but his argument is that PoS ultimately will require the same energy commitments as PoW through the act of each staker trying to convince both other stakers and newcomers (i.e. with no a priori knowledge of how the chain evolved) that their preferred fork is the fork the network accepts. A PoS chain may not take the same initial resources as a PoW chain, but it will over time.

Source: I've spoken to the author at conferences.

> What does 'true' and 'legitimate' mean here? The whole point is to interact with other people, so naturally I'm going to use the same network that people I want to interact with use.

And how do we know which fork this is, out of all the alternatives? You either have to ask people (i.e. you need a priori knowledge obtained out-of-band), or you need a way to independently but deterministically choose the fork that the economic majority of people use (which is the problem PoW solves).

> PoW doesn't change anything here, it's an arbitrary fork like any other.

Except, this is not what's happening in real life. People follow the canonical chain, and PoW helps them all determine what the canonical chain is without having to ask around.
You can also enter fake data (for the things that aren't important: e.g. location), I do this all the time on the internet.
One question: who is your customer archetype?
Works for me on sway (Wayland).
The thing I would like to see is this making it into terminfo entries, meaning that it is possible to detect that terminal supports this behaviour, otherwise while great it is terminal emulator specific.
I think I had to wait about 6 months to rent an HTML4 book from the library.

It was massive. Maybe 6 inches thick. I devoured it, and later bought my own copy.
I'm actually surprised by that thread, every time I see an Elixir related article on hear the comments are usually all talking about what a joy it is to work in. (as you can see in this thread).

I have been doing elixir for the past ~1yr and from my experience it's the language itself is pretty good, but I really wish it had better tooling, static typing, and more mature libraries for interacting with common tools. Just my own opinion, but I would chose another language for future projects.
I recommend you re-listen to that song for their meaning of Squeezebox

edit: I looked it up and the Who claims there was no double-entendre; I call BS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeeze_Box_(song))
Just wanted to comment that your bot for Twitter is awesome. Do you have the code on Github or anything? I would love to do this for Xfinity.
Actually, that’s an important point. A person with an occupied hand is still disabled, but it’s a situational disability rather than a temporary or permanent one. Disability is society’s inability to cater to specific needs, rather than a physical state.
Show HN: Webm.to, convert webm to mp4, GIF, mp3 and an API
> For literal-minded folks like us, the idea that key properties of what we consider cold hard objective reality is in fact just squishy agreement can be unsettling. Hell, half of us got into computers specifically to avoid hand-wavey subjectivism.

Objective reality begins to falter even before leaving computing. For example: values for binary ones and zeros are hand-wavey down in the hardware voltage level. People believe it is as simple as: 5V is one and 0V is zero. In reality, (5V TTL logic levels) voltages above 2.7V are high/one and below 0.8V are low/zero. Details: https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/logic-levels/all
I have gigabit plan and supposed to get up to 1gbps speed, I have never seen speed above 150mbps.
Seemed to work well for Vanguard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vanguard_Group
+1 to the sibling suggestion of xkcd's "Lucky Ten Thousand", but also https://jvns.ca/blog/2017/04/27/no-feigning-surprise/

EDIT: Which, I see now, also quotes the xkcd strip.
This discussion has no value if you were the only one participating. Facebook has no value if there are no "friends" to interact with.

My point is, the same kind of network effects that make social media valuable, are also inherent to cryptocurrencies like BTC. Metcalfe's law applies. Just like fiat currencies, actually.

So yes, new entrants are obviously important to achieve an increase in value (and therefore, price). But does that necessarily make it a Ponzi scheme? I don't think so, because a Ponzi is fraud, a scam, by definition. It needs to be done with the malicious intent of stealing the money of new entrants. That's not the case here. Of course new entrants might be convinced by speculators seeking profit to buy in when BTC is actually highly overvalued, but, the same applies to any other investment really (look at what's happening to TSLA).
I don't think it's unreasonable to expect someone applying for an engineering role to know the technical terminology of their field. Especially if they've been "programming for many years" as this person has.
I agree with you.

Having credit destroyed and basically trading my home for my wife due to both her getting colon problems, and an employer who thought a trip to Spain mattered more than insuring people all left me in a zero fucks to give position at that time, so I let it play out. Unwise? Inadvisable? Yup. :D

(We really do need significant health care reform here, just saying. Mid 6 figure events are no joke)

There were some prior calls too. All initiated by me. Do this, do that, oh you want paperless billing? Sure! And on it goes.
This is different to hating tiltok though. Ponzi schemes actually hurt real people when they collapse. I think it’s reason able to think that pointing out the emperor’s lack of clothes is public spirited.
We don’t have a responsibility ethical or otherwise to protect adults from themselves. Any argument to the contrary is an appeal to emotion at best.
Congrats, that sounds like a fulfilling choice.

Wrt. the game, the music seems really catchy, I like that the bass has clear presence.

From a quick test try of it, was probably fun to make, and seems like a cool concept. Unfortunately have to prioritize other things.
Has there been any discussion on "nations" on mars? I just always assumed Mars would have colonies like ISS spread around.

I wonder if anyone is planning on marking territory
There is an SD card slot on it that you can use for storage.
Do you own a house in that city? If so, you would suddenly have a ton of house ownership problems your friends can't relate to. It is those sorts of things I am referring to

I can't help that one of my most active chats right now is speculative investing, and it simply is not a game for e.g. people with high rate debt

Then what about making someone feel shitty for describing your day? That you took a day off due to stress, and you remind them of their unchecked mental health crisis? I'm not saying you can't be a good friend through this, but that you need to be a good friend through this. This makes it much more doable with long-time friends rather than new people who you subconsciously pick as being like you
I think it's a good thing that there's enough information to easily correlate things like crash reports from the latest bleeding-edge packages with uploads of dependency packages:

> the libfontconfig1 package was updated on Debian on the 21st of April and the first crash we have on record was sent on the 22nd. Here's the changelog:

I think that's a good argument for this kind of crash-telemetry, working in conjunction with Linux distributions. And it helped, in this case, that the dependencies could be updated independently from Firefox.

On the other hand, the libdrm hurd patch breaking things on Linux seems like an excellent example of how portability to obscure platforms has a non-zero cost, and it isn't as simple as "just accept portability patches".
The list contains 2,963 books!
Looks tight so maybe it actually requires little movement.

Also, the key switches might require little force; there are no key caps
LOL. Love it. But wouldn’t it be dude/the dude/dude’s?
> A blockchain doesn't need to be decentralized

If it's not decentralized it's usually referred to as a "permissioned blockchain" which purists don't consider a "real blockchain" and at this point where "blockchain" becomes a marketing term.

But leaving that aside. What bothers me is the implication that only a blockchain implementation can provide sufficient transparacy. There are a million different ways to increase transparency within a computer system:

- audit logs
- access logs
- offside backups
- paper copies
- distributing data amongst a set of trusted but independent parties
- you could even enforce cryptographic signatures on all changes

But most importantly: policy

If you are losing your job (and get sued) because you changed data in the production database without authorization most people are less likely to do it. And in today's world it's really hard not to cover your tracks. The idea that we need to be 100x safer than that is just absurd.
I was thinking this was a data structure, but based on the patent it's actually more a user interface design to explore data

> What is claimed is:

> 1. A method for visualizing data on a display, comprising:

> ...

In other words it seems like it could replace a spreadsheet as a way to explore data, but not _necessarily_ by storing the data any differently
I would take a broader bet that is not tied to Beeple (i.e. that NFTs of significant artists will have long-term value in a similar manner as a painting).
It's absurd to expect any software change to somehow physically prevent people from taking your things. This "vulnerability" isn't worth talking about when evaluating software.
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Sure there will be middlemen trying to profit due to asymmetry of information / technical knowledge. But as technology marches along the barriers to entry of launching new things trends to zero. Smart creators are increasingly harnessing new technologies to cut out existing middlemen. Podcasts are a great example of this, anyone with a microphone can start an entertainment business now and collect money from direct relationships with advertisers.
It's a huge pain in Matrix with even a small amount of users in a chat. At least for me, I've never used IRC where I cared about e2e. There are other services for that, including just encrypting with the other party's public pgp key.
There's another thing you're missing: First Sale Doctrine. In the world of physical goods, once you've sold a copy of something, you have no rights whatsoever to constrain what people can do with that copy. Authors don't see a dime for used book sales, for example.
Wait please tell me more on this. This is news
It seems to me, self-help is mostly just people spouting ideas with little scientific backing anyway. People get caught up in famous person X wrote this book. It seems like sometimes the person is actually knowledgeable like Jordan Peterson given their credentials for instance, but then they just draw conclusions that don't follow, make logical leaps, write platitudes, state common sense, etc.

Also it requires a lot of conscious effort to change the patterns that make up yourself. The first step is to learn that skill. It seems like that is where everyone mostly fails.

Ironically, I could write a self-help book/blog using these observations and present myself as an authority, but I realize these are just my opinions.
Most people are sharing experiences with Frontier's FiOS/fiber-to-the-home service.

This complaint is about Frontier's decrepit DSL-over-copper service, which is the only service they offer to 80% of their customers, and varies widely based on loop distance (to the central office) and line quality. Very few of these customers get more than 20 Mbps. [1]

Hopefully Ars Technica will have a post about this lawsuit that contains more context.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/front...
> Some people just naturally improve when iterating on something

I don't know if framing it as "natural" is super helpful. I think you're right that some people stumble onto the right feedback loops for some activities. But that doesn't mean that the feedback is unattainable for others. You may have to hunt around, but it's still there. And once you find it, you can make progress on the skill.

My experience is that the most important tool that affects your success at building some skill is being mindful of your narrative around it and how it relates to your identity.

Humans naturally pick and fixate on identities. Once we feel an attribute is true about ourselves, we tend to choose behavior that reinforce that attribute even if it's an identity we don't like. If you define yourself as someone who is incompetent forever at cooking, then you will naturally overlook or avoid actions and input that doesn't confirm that.

You won't cook as often. When you do cook, you won't pay as much attention to the process or results. You won't remember the details of what you did last time (since it was such an unpleasant experience that you shut out the entire memory) and how it differs this time. Without that stuff, there's no way to actually get better.

But if you define yourself as, say, "someone who is not naturally gifted at cooking but wants to learn and is perserverant", you may find it to be a more attainable goal.
You’re are lucky to even get 3 if you pay for 12. In my (small) hometown most people have frontier so I definitely gathered a little more an anecdotal evidence when working on people’s networks/PCs and it was usually in the kilobytes 1-3 mbps on a good day (usually the lower end.)
Amazon did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13076821
I wish Canada would start going after our internet providers.. it's really a joke up here.
Euclidean has more axioms than absolute (one more). With more axioms you can prove more things (one of them being the axiom itself). So also, elliptic has more axioms than absolute.
The Verizon router won't support wireless speeds over 200 mbps, you need to connect the router to your device through Ethernet. I went through this same song and dance with Verizon.
But the point is that the blockchain is not a source of truth, the legal system is. So the blockchain is at best an eventually-consistent view.

But if that's the case, then why bother with a blockchain at all? Just use a regular database. There are plenty of ways to make that auditable and/or public without bothering with consensus algorithms.
The same that stops people from invading your house, caging you, and confiscating everything you own. Violence.

Either monopoly on violence in the state under whose protection miners operate, or private security for smaller threats.

Miners in China, Russia and Iran are essentially absolutely immune to threats from the West. and vice versa.

It's not designed to gamble and make a quick buck, but to survive even a nuclear war. Just like TCP/IP wasn't designed for streaming porn.
Really? I run Synapse for a half a dozen people, on an EC2 Ubuntu server with 2GB memory and it works great for me!