skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm confused here, but the blockchain basically will say:

Kolula Pushta Road 25 Kabul is owned by Ahmed with Public Key XYZ.

For it to be transfered to someone else, you need the private key that can pass validation for public key XYZ. Local officials do not have this private key, only Ahmed does, stored in his personal wallet. Local officials could try to temper with their node of the blockchain ledger, but other nodes would catch it and penalize them.

If you need to deal with an edge case, say someone claims Ahmed is dead and they are his heir. Local officials can initiate a transfer where the ledger says "conditional Amhed is dead and thus key XYZ is missing, transferring to his heir Mohammad with key HJL. This could be something that other nodes accept as a transaction. There could be many things here built into the system. You could have the nodes notify some associated email with the current owner Amhed and grant them like 60 days to cancel the transaction. Or you could let Ahmed show back at any time in the future and reclaim the possession, etc.

These are the kind of things that a decentralized trusted network running a blockchain could in theory be designed to manage.

If you narrow "blockchain" simply to mean a signed ledger of transaction that maintain history then no, it's not really that much better, since it's still centrally managed and operated. It's only once you distributed things and let the network define rules of operations that it can become beneficial in my opinion.

Edit: Now that said, even if it was centralized, in theory, the ledger could only be tempered with by people with access to the code of ledger database or its servers. Sometimes you might be able to trust those more so than say any clerk or local official which can only use the software, because they might be better paid or there are less of them and hard to contact and thus bribe. So even in that case, it might be a little better, maybe the local official can enter the transfer in the ledger, but et least if Ahmed goes to court after there is proof that local official X did a transfer on day Y and that Ahmed was the prior owner. Or you could still enforce the need for Ahmed's private key, etc. So there would be more trail or recourse for Ahmed in theory. Then without a blockchain, there'd be no trail, or no need for a key, or it might be possible for users to modify the whole history, etc.
I would have agreed with you a few weeks ago. I recently switched my browser to the new Edge and I stuck with Microsoft's default Bing search because fuck Google and all that. I had two occasions in two days where Bing's search frustrated me with their results despite many efforts to tweak the query. I switched over to Google and its first result was exactly what I needed. These were cases where the page didn't contain the phrase I was looking for so it had to interpret/translate it to find the correct information and it did a great job.

A few years ago I felt that Bing and Google search were basically on par. Google has definitely upped the ante regarding search in the last couple of years. It may just be that it does more interpretation than you've come to expect so you need to retrain yourself how to query it. There are also occasions where verbatim search is required for technical topics. But Google's search quality has shown real improvements.
They do.

Criminals are extensively aware of sentencing of crimes. Its one of the main subjects of conversion in jails.
I know this from being acquainted with many criminals as a result of taking drugs for many years.
"That's theft over 1000, Bubbles"
-Trailer Park Boys
if they can know about the warehouse, surely they can be charged with conspiracy to commit major crimes (like laundering those stolen items).
That has to be true because all sealed packs that are worth less than EV will be opened and then no longer be sealed packs.
He might be taken more seriously if he took his work less seriously. It's not obvious that it will be useful, but he's clearly mining a beautiful and fun problem space.
That only works until they actually try to sell, which crashes the market.
I don't know if you're aware of the details of the DA you mentioned previously, but he won't prosecute these crimes, so they'll be back to steal again in a few hours.

He won't even prosecute DUIs or home robberies; they're 'victimless'.

Someone who committed robbery was out committing another robbery, and DUI, on New Years Eve and fatally ran over two young women in a hit-and-run. [1]

A prominent investor, Cyan Banister, has delayed deleting Twitter solely to help the Recall Chesa campaign [2], because the DA is still in office, destroying the city and countless lives.

I genuinely believe that Chesa's parents being found guilty of murder and not being around to raise him [3] likely impacts him and his policy to this day; that's more than a kid should ever have to go through. I hope he finds peace, but not at the cost of an entire city [4].

[1] https://abc7news.com/pedestrian-safety-sf-san-francisco-hit-...
[2] https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-burglary-da-chesa-boudin-...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesa_Boudin
[4] https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/lawlessness-in-san-fra...
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Gold is a real thing. The value of gold and willingness to trade it for food and shelter is a figment of our collective beliefs. We can assign that belief to any other thing we want, the US dollar, Bitcoin, whatever.
Well you brought it up via apophasis instead.

Apophasis: the raising of an issue by claiming not to mention it (as in "we won't discuss his past crimes")
Wow. How did Matt Loughrey even think it was okay to actually ALTER and print historical photos? Insanity.
Connecticut was established before the industrial revolution, so most towns are pedestrian friendly and can support small stores.
They believe it increases the probability of a world outcome the publisher prefers (e.g. activism, advancement of humanity, ...).
it's just temporary until they perfect DADDY
Worth noting that those ancient astronomers weren't wrong so to speak: each additional epicycle predicted the data better. What they were doing wasn't fraud the way that, say, dowsing would be. Rather, they hadn't made the mental and cultural leap to the the much simpler model that made epicycles (almost always) obsolete.

I think it's fair to say that physicists are well aware of the fact that this could be like finding more and more epicycles. In the sense that they're hoping they one day find a much simpler model to explain all this stuff than a big list of particles without a simpler theory behind all of it.
The other 2 replies notwithstanding, I find your comment very interesting. Reminds me of "memory leak", the definition of which seems so completely backwards ... at first. As to whether absolute pacifism is more odious than violence, well, that's something to think about too. Hmmm, if everyone was A.P., the bar for "violence" would shift way downward, then ...
Satellite constellations are super expensive. How are they gonna pay for this?
That's right, I think it was part of Shrek.

I think my favorite was "Pleasant Valley Sunday". Although I did end up picking up a second greatest hits CD because the first didn't have "I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone".
I'm the most bearish person on crypto out of everyone I know, and even I can admit that gold only has value because of the value people assign to it. The value of gold beyond its niche uses in industry is a figment of our collective beliefs, in other words.
Durov is the founder of Telegram, and thinks 60Hx phone screens are Middle Ages. I guess the article is discredited Telegram by association with its immature founder?
> What are the conditions of sf's homeless shelters?

I don't live in SF, but homeless shelters are oftentimes disgusting and terrible places. I don't blame anyone that doesn't want to stay in them if they can figure out other accommodations. Nonreligious based shelters sometimes provide very little in terms of hygiene/necessities/food, sometimes basically nothing other than a small cot or gym mat (aka no food, no shower, etc).

Religious shelters often require religious involvement. Forced praying as an example.

There is also the issue of frequent abuse/sexual assault in homeless shelters.

> Being homeless or poor is only an excuse for stealing if you cannot reasonably get your basic needs met in a legal way.

I don't really think shoplifting food to survive is an "excuse". Again, they're not stealing CD players.
I find it difficult that Google wants search to be easier for the end user - for example I believe a very long time ago you could setup sites to exclude from all of your searches - I don’t think this is possible any longer.
And 50 years from now when I'm gone and the kids around here have grandkids, people will cherry pick shitty quotes from shitty people in 2021 about race or gender or whatever else suits their political aims and lots of people that remember 2021 will cowardly say "it was a different time" and yet there will be these problems of sexism and racism and whatever other isms. As if we didn't care about these problems in the 90s, or the 60s, or before. In fact, the Romans wrote about these very same problems. So then I think we are framing the problem in the wrong way.
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Windows XP and 7 had a way more advanced monitor adjustment tool and a better aesthetic.

Windows 10 new settings panel looks horrible, is way less user friendly, and in my opinion Microsoft just doesn't get it that nobody really likes to use Windows any longer.
You can crop images with JS. I've had to implement it a couple times.
Nevada Lawmakers Introduce Privacy Legislation After Markup Investigation
You can resell the items on ebay and Amazon. I used to know independent stores that would purchase merchandise to stock the shelves with too.

It doesn't necessary have to be fenced via a criminal org.

A certain pocket sized paint tube from hobby lobby sells on Amazon for 10$.

Criminals who are above the level of drug user/shoplifter, like a dealer, for example, can and do have to time to set up shops and sell online.

Its all part of the larger hustle.

If it makes money, they do it.

Traditional economics and game theory all apply, its not following the law that differentiates the criminal.
Is it supporting Trump which rubs people the wrong way, or that Trump supporters generally rub people the wrong way.

I know its a bit of semantics but I have found that many (if not most) of the loud and proud DT supporters are incredibly irritating. I find them just as bad or worse than the hyper politically correct/SJW crowd.
what about PAXG? it's a gold backed crypto. not much different in principle than a precious metals fund.
Are you comparing incomes in different locations without factoring in the cost of living difference?
Well, I'm sorry it seems no one could get my sarcasm today.

I know how semver works and I found the final naming ironic.
Parking lights are a lot older than the 90s. In Riverside, IL, they have "historical" streetlights that inadequately illuminate the streets (or at least did in the 70s). As a result, it was required if you were parking on the street in Riverside after dark that you left your parking lights on.
My thought also. Just tweeted about it:
https://twitter.com/misterremote/status/1395213302708555779

I don't want to share what app I'm using in real-time (Smiling face with open mouth and smiling eyes) Is this just me?

But ok, nice way to be open & transparent I guess.

Still my first thought is: seems like I always have to be mindful about what app I'm using right now as the whole team can see it when I read too much HN
To add to that, many things are tangible like real estate, but the notion of ownership is a figment of our collective beliefs as well.
> If we could just convince everyone to put in 10% of their savings into comic book collections

Satoshi did the hard work for Crypto, you can try putting the same effort for comic books. If it catches on, sure why not.
Europe fell in love with long pepper before black pepper (2016)
> The basic premise is that money is simply technology that makes our wealth today available for consumption tomorrow. Thus the "best" money is the one that will give its holder the most purchasing power over time.

This is absurd. A complete misunderstanding of what money is for. Money is a means of exchange. The "best" money is the one that's most widely accepted in places you want to spend it. It only needs to function as a store of value in the short term. Anything with less than 10% inflation per year should work.
Bitcoin can act as a store of value if people want it to. A big reason people like gold is because there’s very little new gold mined every year, something like 1% of total supply. So it’s guaranteed to not inflate(versus the fed printing 30% of total USD supply this year), same thing with Bitcoin.
That's exactly what a German speaker would do.
I guess what I'm wondering is, are there cases where there's no other option except a sandbox? I get that you basically are shipping apps to random computers that aren't secure, so this is sort of a big band-aid for apps that can't tightly control for how their apps are used. But in terms of merging something into the kernel, wouldn't the kernel devs prefer to improve adoption of least-privilege/MAC LSMs?
The licence mailthread in the LLVM list (pointed to in the article) is brutal.

Moving to a licence otherwise deprecated is a huge deal. For a "no compromise" community (OpenBSD), its huge++

But, the pragmatism appears useful: without this, modern hardware cannot be compiled to optimally. It was a least-worst choice decision.
On Freenode and its commitment to FOSS
It's not really that surprising.
There might be more independent mom & pop corner stores if looters didn't always get away with their crimes.
No, it’s an unsurprising outcome of a dysfunctional economy.

Social safety nets won’t do anything. They never did. Cabrini Greene. Pruitt Igoe. War on poverty. Decades of all of that AND MORE, and what is the result? Even more in poverty.

Give people a chance to work, build and grow, and find meaning in their lives, and the rest of these problems fix themselves. Unfortunately the oligarchs and plutocrats that run SF and the US at large have and continue to hollow out the lower and middle class way of life.

WAKE UP!!!
A Letter from ByteDance Founder Zhang Yiming
Oh honey....do you not know who is behind Hacker News? Peter "fascist" Thiel. You think this apple is free n far from the tree?
I can only give you anecdotal evidence, which is that myself and many others (per social media) are constantly appending "reddit" because the first N results are all e-commerce sites or thinly-veiled promos for them in the form of listicles.

e.g. Search for "camera with wifi" versus "camera with wifi reddit". If you're doing any research, you will find the latter more useful. Now I know some will say many people just want to buy the product and will be satisfied with a direct link to purchase, but the thing is a good search engine will mix in different types of results. What you get here is dozens of virtually identical results with any genuine info - e.g. a recent post on a reputable personal blog or a social media post - completely buried.

Do any other engines do it better? Maybe not. But Google itself certainly used to do it better, if only because it didn't have the majority of the internet trying to game its algo.
Applying Open Source contribution model at Xendit
You're still thinking of it in one big sort. That's the centralized method. That relies on metrics.

You want several gradual sorts from the bottom up where each sortation relies on personal accountability between the different teachers and administrations. It would probably look much closer to the European football leagues. You would have gradual promotions and relegations every year.
This is why I'm holding gold (as a hedge against the stock market in these weird times). There is a buyer who will buy no matter the confidence in it. Gold is an important ingredient in, for example, electronics. Your computer and smartphone all have gold in them.
Even though it's not headquartered in Silicon Valley, IBM's Cottle road site belongs in the early history as well. They invented the hard drive in Building 025...
> trained on 75+ languages, can transfer knowledge between languages

There is zero possibility that Google accomplished proper "language transfer" with the vast majority of Silicon Valley programmers being native English speakers.

In some languages, if you accidentally use a wrong single syllable in any sentence, you can end up saying something extremely embarrassing--and entirely different. This is the case with many Slavic languages.

This is a memorable "classic" [1]:

> "Tony Henry belted out a version of the Croat[ian] [national] anthem before the 80,000 crowd, but made a blunder at the end. He should have sung 'Mila kuda si planina' (which roughly means 'You know my dear how we love your mountains'). But he instead sang 'Mila kura si planina' which can be interpreted as 'My dear, my penis is a mountain'."

Many languages are much more grammatically complex than English, and also have an unbelievable amount of implicit contextual information derived from the grammatical morphology. For example, Slavic languages tend to be this way. The Slavic language that I speak, Croatian, tends to be very clean, direct, and concise, while being extremely complicated grammatically. Also, we have a lot of the same words for the same thing in Croatian, which in combination with the complicated grammar, it makes it a very expressive language. English, however, can be more expressive, in the sense that it allows for more figurative language, like with the usage of idioms.

[1] BBC: Anthem gaffe 'lifted Croatia': http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/7109058.stm
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Show HN: Import Your Apartments.com Search to Google My Maps
> Should be but prop 47 decriminalized property crimes below $950 a day

No, it didn’t:

(1) It didn’t decriminalize anything[0], and

(2) for the acts it reduced the severity of the available criminal pubishment for to which $950 is a relevant amount: (a) the limit applies per act not per day, a d (b) the scope is much narrower than “property crimes”, generally.

[0] try to satisfy anyone advocating decriminalization of X by reducing some instances of X from a felony to a misdemeanor.
might be region specific, but I can use it from my Google home devices. less useful when pandemic hit.
Well, if you can physically enforce your ownership of something via force, that is a tangible expression of ownership. Generally, we have outsourced this to the state, though, as we seem to have a better society when ownership isn't determined solely by who's the best at violence.
> The canary is pretty clever: it starts with a null byte so that it won’t be leaked by normal string functions

Doesn't that also mean it won't be overwritten by string functions, masking certain bugs? Would it be better to make the nul byte the second one, so that only one byte can be leaked, but certain program bugs that wouldn't otherwise will be exposed?
And also, a search engine with a greater bias on UX would be more personalised, so it would show those kinds of results to the people who regularly seek them.
Why do people keep pushing blockchain tech as store as value? As far as ETH is concerned I see it more like the web, dns, IPFS. It's infrastructure software. It's not meant to be store of value.

This frenzy looks more like the dot com bubble when everyone was thinking domain names will become the store of value of the future(i.e pets.com).

I can see value in ICOs just like there is value in penny stocks or other secondary markets but that depends by the company that offers the shares/tokens. Of course if you know that someone will pump it and keep it up(i.e like banks do on IPOs) then there is speculative value as well but that's a different story.

This being said I'm hopeful that some good tech will stick around just like the web tech did.
I don't understand how this can be your position when CA has both some of the highest taxes and best social safety net in the country, but also some of the worst homelessness and crime in the country.
Either a shared, individual private github repo, or just a zipped directory (this isn't good).
Any millennial who is using search for some time would easily know where to find what he needs.
This sounds like Google is trying hard to drive more money out of its search business.
How do we know those other practices effect dopaminergic activity? You seem to say this like they are a standard, but I am not aware of any research on them.
At first I snickered about how your comment implied that they were at par 20 years ago when the year of desktop Linux was upon us.

But desktop Linux with GNOME 1.x and 2.x were actually pretty consistent any enjoyable to use. It was still different enough from the early unpolished OSX releases, but had its own strengths and some nice touches. OSX 10.0 was arguably a regression from NeXT and OpenStep by then seemed pretty close to NeXTStep in terms of user experience.

Ironically as GNOME openly pursued a more Apple-like approach of reduced configuration and “smart defaults”, OSX just seemed to pull ahead. They couldn’t out-Apple Apple and yet GNOME sucked up so many resources and default installs from corporate Linux that other environments couldn’t really compete.

I probably also just got too old to unironically run Enlightenment.
Money only needs to be a few things.

1. Cheap, fast and easy to transact + broadly accepted.

2. Fungible.

3. Predictable.

4. Hold its value for exactly as long as it takes you to convert your earnings into either long-term value storage assets, or to spend on the necessities of life. Any longer is a non-goal.

5. [bonus] Flexible enough to respond to shocks, changes and externalities, offering mild, predictable inflation as measured against a basket of necessities.

Every crypto fails 1, 3, 4 and 5 - and all the popular ones fail (2) also - as a public ledger revealing a coins history makes each transaction quantum unique.

No idea why you got down-voted, the article is totally wrong.
> XMPP & Matrix bridge together fairly well these days.

I want to test this claim. After an hour of google searching I'm none the wiser:

1. Can I bridge private messages, or just MUCs? I use XMPP only to keep in contact with friends that use XMPP. I would love to integrate them into a single client, but afaict it does not appear possible.

2. Do I have to run my own XMPP bridge, or is there some automatic integration service I'm completely missing? For comparison, the experience of bridging a matrix room to IRC was as easy as clicking "add new bridge" in the Element UI.
Right. (Other) Animals can be much worse in many ways and their species survive. That’s not to say we want to be like savages, but it just is not a necessary ingredient for survival.
You could do that right now though:

Mitch McConnell -> click -> porn ad
Seems like Ethereum will win that one too, since Layer 1 scaling solutions seems imminent (and it is already much better than say BTC in terms of throughput anyway) and most "smart chain" crypto stuff is happening on Ethereum as well (DeFi, NFTs, ERC20s, etc)
Can you share some CSS vulnerabilities that would work in email but not in a browser? I can certainly think of CSS vulnerabilities that would not work in email because email can't execute javascript, but can't come up with the reverse off the top of my head. Genuinely curious here.
Served me well!
that salary is less attractive considering the current trend of blaming and even defunding police for doing their job.

who in their right mind would want to protect and serve when they are called "murderers" and "racists" on daily basis and any routine arrest can potentially lead to country wide riots and years in prison for the officer.