skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back to the point of this article: if someone steals my private key, do they now own my house?

What about liens? Will I as the owner agree to let an unpaid contractor put a lien against my title? Or can they somehow do it without my consent? If so, how do you stop bad actors from putting liens on everything?

The court is the authority on this. Title companies provide the valuable service of ensuring the state of the world matches what the seller claims.

We don’t need blockchain for this, a regular DB is sufficient.
Not all of us went to schools that have "much wealthier people" attending, of course.
Yahoo Hack Together 2021 Winners – open-source Hackathon
None now that all of its team and channels will move to another network.
I used stock check at QFC with their app a few weeks back, product wasn't there. I asked an employee "we haven't carried that product for months."

Not a very good experience!
I've used it for a couple of years without it resetting
> But I've heard that it requires creating a massive feed file containing many articles, including text and images

So a) no, it doesn't contain images, just URLs to images where necessary; an RSS or ATOM feed is just a text XML document adhering to a certain schema, and b) the feed file is only as big as the site decides it needs to be.

For example, a typical blog or news organization could generate a feed containing the last 24 hours worth of new content. Feed readers will poll that and pull in new content while ignoring existing content.

In short: this should be a non-issue unless you're turning out massive amounts of new material on a regular basis, in which case you're probably a major news organization and can afford it.

> As a result, some blogs (like christine.website) stopped serving article contents in the RSS feeds.

This isn't because of bandwidth concerns. This is because they can't advertise in an RSS feed so they want to drive eyeballs to the site.

Personally, I run ttrss and use a plugin that scrapes the content from the source site and embeds it right in my feed. As a result I only have to leave my feed reader if I really want to for some reason (e.g. to read comments on the originating site... like, say, HN!)
"While we believe in the concept of freedom of thought and freedom of expression, Libera.Chat does not operate on the basis of absolute freedom of speech". Ah I see: https://libera.chat/policies

I would feel way more confident if they defined all the terms used in this document e.g. "various forms of antisocial behaviour are forbidden", "discrimination", "any other behaviour meant to deliberately put upon a person harassment, alarm or distress".

The vagueness is rather alarming and distressing to me.
Tell that to the Bernie bros.
As somebody who has "purchased" NHS Digital data, this author is trying very hard to make it sound like NHS Digital is selling data to private companies for commercial use.

The vast majority (if not all?) of NHS Digital's "sales" are to NHS organisations (getting back aggregated data on their own patients), research institutions, local councils or commercial companies contracted to provide services to one of the above.

The costs they charge are public, and from discussion with staff there seem to actually be roughly aligned with time taken to process and link, but are very high for a research project, on the order of £10k per extract if you need anything beyond cookie-cutter data.

If they were selling to commercial companies they would be charging way more, £10k is nothing to someone like Palantir.

Please don't just arbitrarily opt out of type 2 usage (now simply called the National opt-out). The UK has some of the best health surveillance (as in knowing why people are dying, not spying on people) in the world, but as the % of opt-outs creeps up the quality of our research goes down.
XMPP is actually managed by the IETF. The XSF just develops extensions to the protocol (but it's not the official steward of XMPP, confusing as the name is)
Not to mention that most blockchain enthusiasts don’t even consider Hyperledger a blockchain (it’s not public).
FTA: "He felt a surge of excitement every time he saw a green number indicating that one of those stocks had gone up in value."

I think that is the issue. There is a tighter feedback loop that amounts to "gamifying" stock trading.

It's telling to me that the new investor cited in the article didn't take his dad's $1K, put it into a Vanguard index fund and call it a day. No, very much a day-trader type of customer is drawn to RH.

I'm not saying it's bad or good, but that seems to be the difference between RH and your Schwab brokerage.
The main advantage is that if you screw it up or an update borks the shell itself, it's easier to fix if it isn't your login shell. At one point I decided to set Elvish as my login shell, and it turned out to not function as a login shell. As in, won't start at all. Any time I logged in, it would just immediately exit, ending my session. Work doesn't allow us to have root access (annoying), so I ended up having to boot into single user mode to set my shell back. I've done a similar thing with bash and "set -e".

Being new increases the chances of doing something like that that breaks the shell. It's annoying to fix for those of us with experience, and extremely difficult to fix for those without experience. It gets even worse when you consider that some distros like Ubuntu don't set a root password, so you can't log into the root account without sudo, which requires your user to have a functional login shell. I wouldn't want a new user to paint themselves into a corner where the only way to get their desktop working again is to remember how to boot into single user mode or boot from removable media and mount their hard drive. Doubly so if their Linux desktop is their only PC; it's going to be really annoying if the only way to write removable media to boot from is the machine that's currently broken.
The real world problem in real estate titling today is the pervasive need for title insurance. In a typical real estate transaction, both the buyer and the seller will have an insurance policy to cover losses stemming from a sale based on an illegitimate title.

In theory, because title registers are public (at least in the US) and run by a the local government, you could have higher trust in a title (and therefore lower title insurance premiums) if you could query the current holder from the appropriate government.

That said, I'm not sure why blockchain makes more sense for this use case than, say, a read-only API at land-register.<city/county>.<state>.gov.
This is how I view the handling of the "well what about complex transactions..." game. You can create a totally separate branch to process that complex beast and then attempt to merge it back into the main. If there is a merge conflict (someone debited/credited the account line between branch & merge operation), the transaction would be aborted. Rebasing of transactions on top of the main branch would be possible and the semantics of this even make sense for real world use cases - "We attempted to reconcile your transaction into the main flow, but there was a change in the circumstances of the various basis accounts. Can you rebase your transactions on these circumstances and resubmit?" As part of that rebase operation, you would re-run your biz constraints on the complex transaction and then resubmit if you could still satisfy them all.

Depending on how you use and understand git for software, it is either a hauntingly-similar facsimile of any arbitrary blockchain tech today, or a completely alien technology with no practical relationship to blockchain whatsoever.

There also seems to be some notion that the time domain must flow in a continuous way. The time domain in git is discrete, but this does not violate any of the semantics. Just hypothetical processes around them.
Can you point me to a reference that gives a “perfect correlation” I.e. corr(IQ, poverty) = -1.0?
A database can be public. Data in it can be signed. Keys for signing can be stored securely on hardware (for example many ID cards are smartcard capable, which would fit well for interacting with the legal/government systems). None of this is unique to a blockchain and has been around since way before blockchains.
The thing I don't see mentioned in this thread is how incongruous Robinhood's image is (a professed goal of fighting inequality by giving the working classes access to the same return on capital as the wealthy enjoy) in relation to their business model.

Say what you will about Wall St, but customers of traditional brokers tend to know what the brokers are in it for: the money. Robinhood's big product innovation might be zero-commission trades and a gamified UX, but their big marketing innovation is to wrap themselves in the ever-dingier cloak of Silicon Valley "changing the world".

I can't help but think of this absolutely spot-on parody from "Silicon Valley": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8C5sjjhsso.
Because NFT's have nothing to do with collecting digital trinkets and everything to do with money laundering. The only thing that is remarkable about NFT's is how absolutely brazen they're being about it. The only positive is that hopefully it will keep them from screwing around with the housing market that has real life consequences for people although now we're just throwing away electricity rather than empty houses.
You've got it. The entire concept is incoherent, and if you're confused by it or if it seems useless, then you're correct. It's incredible seeing people constantly shift their position and contradict themselves trying to reconcile the relationship between blockchains and the state.
Are you thinking of the NSA?
Not op, but I assume op means chemicals that are refined from naturally occurring material or synthesized from other synthesized or naturally occurring materials.
One thing that most of these items have in common is that you could reasonably recreate them from scratch if the modern manufacturing base disappeared:

- Axe: The pole is made out of wood, and the blade out of metal that can be smelted from ore or scrap with some effort.

- The stove: Same, or build one out of stone.

- The camera: that one's more difficult, but optics or chemistry aren't that new. You may need specialised equipment to manufacture this, but it's still possible.

- Nails: Smelt from ore or scrap into a mold.

- Books: Wood pulp and printing presses, both of which are several centuries old.

- Garden seeds: Literally will self-reproduce, bar any messing about with making them sterile via cross-contamination with commercial varieties.

- Window glass: Melted sand, likely doable with a well-stocked workshop.

It's more akin to a graceful degradation than lengthening the umbilical cord.
I've never had an issue with it crashing on Linux, but I've had this bug for months that causes the scrollbar to jump around. Usually it jumps up 10-20px every couple of seconds. I've tried removing all plugins, refreshing, changing mice, etc. until I had to switch to Brave.

Anyone else come across this issue? I'm using Solus.
Yeah... I don't know if this works the same on Android, but on iOS I find the Google Docs app ridiculously confusing to the point where I often find myself clicking back and forth by accident through various dialogs in a loop trying to get to the "I just want to edit this document" step as it is so not what my brain expects that unless I stop entirely and stare at it and go "what was the stupid thing they expected me to click on at this point?" I just automatically click the wrong thing every time. Like, there is even a dialog that pops up in one of the loops I often get caught in with a "cancel" button that seriously cancels my attempt to cancel something, which my brain just can't wrap itself around fast enough :(.
londontrustmedia.com

I read that as "I on don't trust media" the first time.
He acquired a site I built which I used to operate on user donations. Today the site no longer exists.
A LOT of sites only serve the article headline and maybe just the intro sentence for exactly this reason. Also by forcing you to click through, you land on the site proper and feature in their visitor counts, AND get to look at ads on the page too.
What type of engineering?

A few years back I got a job at a university cancer center doing bioinformatics. It required a massive paycut (I had savings), but was super fun to be on the steep part of a learning curve again learning a new domain and being a key part of a good team (I brought a decade+ of software engineering experience to a team of mostly biologists). 100% worth it. But did require saving a lot beforehand.
Network + personal info, I guess...? But a catch here is that most people in the network are proficient in technology, which makes it difficult to abuse them like how Facebook does to its users.
Google is certainly not without faults, but it does not read your email. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603?hl=en "We will not scan or read your Gmail messages to show you ads."

Disclaimer: I currently work at Google.
Prompt Engineering with Large Language Models
> But to claim RH is the target of SEC investigations simply because they're good? Come on.

You make it sound like this is outlandish, but it happens nearly every time a disruptive player comes into a heavily regulated market full of old players.

It is much easier to cry foul than to deal with the fact that the competition just got hard.
Next month I will have been in Austin for 13 years. I was moved here by IBM. I was working at one of their sites in Dallas and my team was relocated to Austin. I nearly didn't relocate, because I thought it would be too hard to find another job in Austin.

That turned out to be wrong. I've found there are lots of job opportunities here. Seems like there are more every day.

Down side is that out infrastructure is built to handle all this growth. So traffic is going from bad to worse. Real estate is appreciating like crazy. I like in suburbs, and my house has increased in value by 50% in 6 years. So that is making the city unaffordable. Another downside is my property taxes go up every year.

I've never live in Bay Area, but about 7 years ago I did some work for a company based in San Francisco. So I traveled out there a fair bit. Austin feel more corporate that SF. Companies move here once they are established and are looking to lower operating costs. SF felt to have a better startup and innovation culture.

Texas doesn't have the worker protections that California has. Mainly the prohibition of non-competes. Until we get that Austin will not be a replacement for Silicon Valley.
The comparison to SPY is unfair since it’s so diversified. A comparison to a correlated sector of stocks — like EV stocks, which can dip 10-25% in a week in unison — would be more fair.
Why not 10% in comic books or any other limited non-productive asset? If we could just convince everyone to put in 10% of their savings into comic book collections, comic books too would become incredibly valuable.
Speculating on why DKMS and other Linux things are large shell scripts
They dont happen randomly, they happen on high-volatility and high-volume days. Days where I want to re-balance my portfolio, or hedge. They happen at the worst times.

Taking a guess as an Engineer, they seem like load issues. Because page response times degrade from 2s, to 10s, to 30s, to timeouts.
Open Source WebRTC Server
Being in the tech field, platforms like LinkedIn though very helpful with getting jobs and connecting with people, also creates a huge sense of self-doubt and always makes you feel you haven't achieved enough, even though you actually have. Can't even avoid going on there when looking for jobs with all the notifications and everything. Not sure what could be changed on LinkedIn to change that.
California considers declaring common pain killer carcinogen (2020)
But many (most?) counties have already digitized recorded deeds, at least by index... so it's just a matter of logging into the clerk's system and searching for the situs address or APN or whatever's handy and you get the deed history, out of a good old fashioned relational database. How does blockchain improve on that?
Is it a positive story? Sounds it!

But... aren’t hate crimes already illegal? Was there some Asian Exclusion that is being removed? Is this feel good legislation? Or is this also an example of “world on fire” narrative?
The NFT thing seems to be settling out. It's for collectables, like Magic, the Gathering cards.

I've been following this because I'm interested in virtual worlds. There are at least four virtual worlds that use some kind of NFT thing to register land ownership. Nobody does much in those worlds, and the graphics aren't all that good. It's all about trading land and speculating in some minor cryptocurrency.

The newest entrant - Zero Space.[1] The actual 3D world is promised for 2024. They already have five cryptocurrencies of their own, plus an NFT system. Their "3D world" is a simple un-shared Unreal Engine demo. They claim they will have a high-resolution metaverse, but show no indication that they have any idea how to build one.

[1] https://www.zero.space/
Nikon F3 with DW-3 waist finder [YT]
It's certainly not for lack of trying. Fail0verflow, one of the largest and most successful CTF teams in the world, spent nearly 2 years trying to reverse engineer the bootloader, and ended up never finding any real security exploits in the process. There were warmboot attacks (see Fusee-Gelee) that involved code injection, but even then the machine would still recognize it was running in debug mode, and block the user from access to certain functions. Besides being a great anecdote here, the history of Switch hacking is really interesting, and well worth looking into if you have the time.
Here's a question... does that 'follow' button actually just extract the RSS feed tag from the page, and store it locally for use in your new tab page... OR does it do a round robin to Google so they can track which feeds are being fetched?

If it's the latter, then no-thank-you.
Donald Trump is as high class as it gets. From upbringing to the way his career developed. To the people he socializes with.

> Being rich and well-connected for long periods ... which can persist even when the wealth doesn't, and continue to confer benefits. Preferring golf or tennis to say, bowling, doesn't necessarily come with a major difference in affordability. But being good at golf might help your career more than bowling

He was literally rich from the day he was born to old age. He was getting those benefits whole his life. He plays golf.

What he is not, is not being good person.
Very different in 90s AOL. "a/s/l" was the norm and everyone had a profile
Scientists should know transmissibility of Indian variant next week
Qurt: A Kazakh “Cheese of Resilience”
> We're not talking about people who disrespect waitresses

Right, we’re not. We’re referring to behavior in the workplace.

> There are many well intentioned nerds who try their best to be considerate and kind that can't help but be impatient in technical discussions.

This is true, but I don’t think that accurately describes pg’s definition of a “fierce nerd” in the article. Also, Netflix would probably still classify someone like this as a “brilliant jerk”. Maybe they would give this nerd a chance to change their behavior, since it’s unintentional.

> Some organizations don't tolerate that and some do, and those who do are at a natural advantage.

These days, no one could confidently make the claim that Netflix has a “natural disadvantage” in this respect. They have the strongest technology in their market and have no lack of talent in any of their technical departments.

Companies that win have top talent, but this talent needs to be able to work with the team effectively. Whether you want to use the term “jerk” or “fierce”, if a team member is being disrespectful to other team members then the team breaks down.
For example, if your lines on the matrix side are long it converts them into urls. So people on IRC end up seeing you talking with 1/4 of your messages just being urls to some random server's pastebin.

When the matrix gateways go up and down you'll have 1000 random users thunderously join and part the channel at once.

Matrix comment edits flood the channels.

Matrix is unhelpful with abuse reports, in my experience.

I generally ban matrix from IRC channels for these and other such nuisances.
I’m suggesting that maybe we shouldn’t be getting our life pro-tips from a rape cult.

The Amish Keep to Themselves. And They’re Hiding a Horrifying Secret.
A year of reporting reveals a culture of incest, rape, and abuse. - January 14, 2020 by Sarah McClure

https://www.typeinvestigations.org/investigation/2020/01/14/...

EDIT: I shouldn’t be surprised that pointing out Amish sexual assault makes HN spitting mad. Few things make HN angrier than implying rape is a problem worth caring about.
I think most people take issue with this:

> informed adults

I believe there are many that don't understand that NFTs don't represent ownership in anything yet they are billed as such. From NBA Top Shot: "you get to own and show off the highlights that matter". Except, the NBA owns all the footage and the rights. Do you get to sue the NBA if they bin Top Shot? If so, what would you get? Nobody was angry with Crypto Kitties. It was clear what exactly you had. But NFTs are simply a means for people to strip the token of anything of value and yet get to market it behind a veil of complexity to prey on those who don't understand.
Consensus on what?

The last time I checked we don’t have a democratic process for private ownership.
Property deeds are more authoritative than blockchain records declaring ownership.

Okay, now we've each made a claim, they're in opposition, but mine has the advantage of currently being true in every jurisdiction I'm aware of.

In what sense do you think that blockchain is "more authoritative" than the existing legal system?
Not a web site, but terninfo and termcap databases, normally present on a Unix system, have this information.

I would hazard to say that some basic subset of VT100 commands is "universally" supported, even on Windows if one uses Windows Terminal.

Various obscure high-end features from 1980s, like programmable font bitmaps, or sixel support, much less so.

Also, modern terminals support Unicode, including emoji (as double-width symbols), which was unimaginable in 1980s or 1990s.
No. The security issues is an arbitrary example. The actual problem is that when a disagreement between the legal system and the database, whether or not its blockchain.

Courts are the source of truth concerning ownership. The legal system needs the ability to overrule or edit the db, otherwise the blockchain is inaccurate.

You can think of "security problem" as an armed robber forcing you to reveal your password. With Bitcoin, they now have the coins and there's no going back. It doesn't matter that a court doesn't consider the robber to be the owner. Bitcoin doesn't represent anything outside of the blockchain. With a painting, stock or deed, something outside of blockchain needs to honour your blockchain claim. If the blockchain is unreliable, they won't, and it no longer reflects true ownership.

If your blockchain isn't the fundamental source of truth, there's really no point. Instead of a centralised db, you have centralised control over a distributed DB.
Happily, Nelson's patent has finally expired. :)

https://patents.google.com/patent/US6262736
Wow, I did not expect the Apple Watch to be able to detect those gestures shown in the video. Impressive.
I don't know about the `/proc/self/exe` but I think it would work if they use the same binary (I think they do). I don't know how many other config files or libraries may also be read, but maybe those have better comparability.

As for the template process one major issue is that this means that you only get ASLR once on browser start, instead of for every content process, which somewhat reduces the benefits.