skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take a look at economist C. Northcote Parkinson's books. He points out that when tax rates are 10%, people happily pay their taxes as their duty to live in society. People who cheat get ostracized. Various things start going awry at 20% and 30%, and at 40% tax evasion becomes the national pastime. People regard as fools people who don't evade taxes.

Think about the people who are running away from California due to their confiscatory taxes, and then California goes after them claiming they still are residents. Think about the people in government who openly want to dismantle the wealthy - like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.

What do you think will happen?
XMPP was created to provide an open alternative to the proprietary instant messaging systems that popped up in the mid 1990s, but wasn't usable until several years after several of those had gained significant popularity. I suspect the number of people who tried XMPP and rejected it in favor of something proprietary is tiny in comparison to those who never heard of it.

IM may be the first category where an internet application first appeared in a modern, user-friendly, full-featured form in a proprietary implementation before there was a standardized implementation.
Most ordinary users have no idea. But there's a cultural generation of developers who tried to use Jabber in their high school / college years, found out how much it sucked, and carried that experience consciously or unconsciously into their programming careers.
>One way to sidestep this: every few minutes, post the longest hash to some distributed medium that can't be edited, like Twitter. Then the threat model moves to "do we trust the person with the keys to this twitter account?"

The XRPL does this by broadcasting. Every node tells everyone what they think is right, therefore everyone can see who lies and more importantly no one can see who you listen too. Its hard to trick me if you dont even know whom I listen too.
And you cant test it because once you lie to me you lie to everyone and that the last time anyone listened to you.

The "zero trust" thing is an illusion. All decentral systems trust that the majority of something does "the right thing".

Some system use the majority of hashpower other use other metrics and some lets you pick and include or exclude participants.
BTC for example doesn't give you any options you simply trust that from 100% hashpower more than 50% is controlled by honest people. Its not zero trust its more like zero choice trust.
Isn't this basically Resilio's Sync ? I've been using it for years on smartphone backups that otherwise wouldn't be able to hold a sustained transfer.
Also using Teams on Linux, but this one happens to all clients.

There's an authentication bug that causes a log in loop for anyone who signed up for a personal account using an email address that they also used as part of another MSN/live.com service (eg- as a secondary address), especially if your original Teams/O365 account was converted to a domain/business account.

If you log into live.com with your Teams email, add a different fallback email and remove your current one, that may help.
Its his style to feign ignorance, do something stupid, then explain what happened. He has a masters degree in electrical engineering and, well, does so much bad stuff that it has to be on purpose.
The major difference of course is that the flight originated in the country ordering the return. Not to mention that they were not inventing a fake bomb to justify it.

The Ryanair diversion is a straight-up airplane hijacking.
I thought they fixed that in the latest version, but I haven't been following it closely.
Agree, that's the different between decentralized (like github and gitlab) and distributed (peer-to-peer like ipfs and zeronet)
If you try to leave the US, no US official will stop you. If you tried to leave the DDR, you got shot. Or mauled by dogs. Or blown up by the minefield.

Watch the movie balloon to get a feeling how it was to live there. Not the same, at all.
Ramsey's success in spite of mediocre/bad/wrong advice is evidence that luck and connections is more important to success than actual merit, at least for him. By being a pioneer of personal finance radio, so by being early he was able to get a large following and be hugely successful without having to have much talent.
Because it was mostly Canadians murdered on that aircraft.
Who are they? There's even no ABOUT page, only a link to GitHub repo. Who's Joshua? What's Natural Selection Lab? Is there some missing link between biology and RSS?
> otherwise developers will implement workarounds to avoid charging in the App Store altogether

That's fine. Apple have this amazing review system that is really thorough and that is funded by every single developer paying into it. That's the main reason Apple considers their store to be so safe and useful for customers.
> I think it’s immensely problematic that a seed can fall in your farm, and you can be sued for illegally growing Monsanto’s IP.

It would be problematic if that's the case. That is not the case however. What you're probably thinking of is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_Canada_Inc_v_Schmeise..., where the farmer originally claimed to have had accidental contamination of the Monsanto seeds (this defense was dropped before the actual trial itself, and if you read the actual depositions, it's really hard to actually believe this claim). It's difficult to find any other case that comes close to falling under the claimed situation here (due to the notoriety of this one case), but I don't think that any of them actually do.

Incidentally, I should point out that the underlying issues of plant patents are actually far older than GMO cases (early-mid 20th century). It's not anything actually new.
I suppose nowadays it means "not mainstream" as many have pointed out, but historically many of these computer scenes have been called part of an "underground" simply because they're part of something illegal. The demoscene itself was born out of the warez scene, as its sole purpose was to advertise pirated software distribution groups. It branched out fast, but those scenes have always been heavily linked together.
What if decentralized services help to keep the centralized ones in check? Companies are less likely to screw over their users if they know they can easily switch to a different, maybe slightly worst UX but more free alternative.
Those are also capitalist.
>Vitalik is consistently one of the most interesting people to follow

Really? He has consistently argued for on-chain scaling and for people to not validate the blockchain state much like Elon Musk, with his seemingly 101-level understanding of blockchains. This post is a strange 180 from Vitalik's usual "do the opposite of Bitcoin because that is good marketing".

Now Vitalik is aware of the importance of running a full node and validating the blockchain state, and how blockchains can't scale, and how keeping blockchain bloat limited to allow easy verification is important? I'm convinced Vitalik has been replaced by some Bizzarro version of himself because of how astonishing this 180 is.

It took creating an entirely new separate altcoin, complete with massive premine for himself, and the greater part of a decade, to finally realize Bitcoiners were right all along.

Such a strange mountain man fantasy!
The solution is to use the hash power between points of consensus. Aka everyone thinks node A is state last year and here are the next N transactions resulting in the current state X. Sybil attack says no it’s actually B and here are the next N transactions resulting in state Y.

You can compare the effort it takes for history A vs History B. Now, unlike traditional 51% attacks you don’t just need hashing power that instant but instead for very long periods. As such you can compute a minimum history such that actual 51% attacks are significantly cheaper.

That might seem weaker, but Bitcoin’s trust is simply an economic argument. The actual consensus risk is from someone hacking a few nodes thus enabling a 51% attack at near zero cost.
He appeals to people who want solutions and answers that sound obvious or affirm one's preconceived beliefs, but such solutions are often not optimal.

He is stuck in a 70s mentality. Assets are appreciating faster than ever and interest rates are lower than ever. This makes debt more attractive.
> their prohibition on adjusting prices to include Apple’s fees

I believe that credit card processors include this policy as well. Otherwise, I’m sure a lot more places would offer a discount if you pay by cash.
Agreed. I spend over $1,000/mo on various software for my business. Occasionally I'll trim the fat, but saving a few bucks here and there isn't worth it when energy spent elsewhere makes far more.
I picked up the habit of capitalizing FED from my Econ 102 professor.

Fuck you for assuming I’m an “alt-right nutjob” because I’m disappointed in the CDC’s handling of the pandemic. The CDC had a reputation as a world-class institution before they made several well-publicized mistakes (e.g. https://www.npr.org/2021/05/21/999194177/early-cdc-coronavir... I personally had a much higher opinion of them two years ago than I do now. How am I an “alt-right nutjob” for remembering high profile mistakes like that?
I believe that's the goal of Cranelift [1] and rustc's cg_clif [2].

1: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/tree/main/crane...

2: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/77975
This seems to be a rule - “inbound” decentralized systems are susceptible to the spam problem - but “outbound” ones like DNS seem to work OK. Nobody cares if you create fifty billion sub domains.
What I am inviting into the room is the ability of people to run what they wish on hardware that belongs to them. This argument that general purpose devices used by an appreciable amount of the general public must be arbitrarily locked down and beholden entirely to the arbitrary, often greed-based whims of multinational, multi-billion-dollar tech corporations because tech-illiterate grown-ass adults might hurt themselves on sharp edges is both paternalistic and offensive, and I'm really quite over it.

Make the unlocking process something equivalent to rooting a modern android device (something that requires PC software, terminal commands, a number of steps on the phone, and a data wipe - i.e. something absolutely nobody will do accidentally and vanishingly few will do just because Facebook told them to) and both concerns are allayed.

This isn't some dichotomy, and treating it as such is playing right into the hands of the tech corps. This "for your own protection" thing is marketing. We already know that no principles are in play. Besides, mitigating forced obsolescence (and so, e-waste, carbon footprint, etc) is more important than Facebook getting another data point from a minority of users, and this can be addressed legislatively anyways.
I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. Student loan debt is not dischargeable in bankruptcy, so it would be terrible to take out $120k in debt on the assumption that a job paying $160k/yr would be waiting for you. Also, where does the $12/hr figure come from?

edit: thanks for the downvote, but could someone explain what I'm missing? I literally stared at it for five minutes trying to understand it.
In the absence of a state, personally jailing someone who violated your rights would be morally just. With the establishment of the state, we still maintain this right. We just delegate its exercise to the state, to ensure it is subject to due process.

It is unjust to delegate moral rights we do not have, and could no not legitimately exercise on our own in the absence of a state, like jailing peaceful people, to the state.
‘Tracked’ – New Privacy Ad from Apple
Not a virologist, but according to Root Claim the strongest evidence for a lab leak is:

1. Furin Cleavage

> SARS-CoV-2 has a furin cleavage site - an amino acid sequence that causes the protease furin to cut the virus in a way that facilitates its entry into cells. This feature is missing in related coronaviruses, and its placement in the genetic code looks like an insertion rather than a mutation, making it less likely to develop in nature.

2. Adapted to humans from 1st known case

> It appears that there was one index case of COVID-19, rather than multiple jumps from nature to humans, as was the case in many other pandemics. Additionally, SARS-CoV-2 was already well adapted for human infection from the first known cases.

3. Wuhan Lab

> There is some weak evidence regarding lax security and procedures at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

> The WIV explicitly stated that they were not working on SARS-CoV-2 prior to the outbreak.

> However, on December 30, when Dr. Shi Zheng-Li was informed of the COVID-19 outbreak, changes were made to her bat virus database, making it look like she was trying to dissociate her lab's research from the COVID-19 outbreak.

> Then, in January 2020, WIV researchers published a paper claiming to have found a previously unknown coronavirus named RaTG13 that was a 96% match with SARS-CoV-2.

> But RaTG13 is a new name given to BtCoV/4991, a coronavirus that the WIV discovered (along with many other viruses) when they examined a bat cave after six miners contracted a pneumonia-like disease and three died.
This, and other anomalies surrounding WIV’s handling of RaTG13, are indicative of attempts to minimize WIV involvement.

BTW, if you think they’re wrong, you can contact them here and win a potential $100k: https://www.rootclaim.com/think_rootclaim_is_wrong
>the whole system is only as durable as the increasingly-enormous data centers which hold all that information.

That is exactly what Ethereum's direction has been for years now. It is centralized on Amazon AWS via Infura's nodes (which they charge access to, mind you). It's not a world computer. It's EC2 with additional complexity (and fees).
I'd be concerned about laws so onerous that a police state is needed to get compliance.
Security theater is a great comparison. People already have an opinion before they look into the facts, if they ever take an honest look at the facts. As a final step that no one does, do you check how the facts evolve over time and go back and revise your conclusions when things change?
>You can have that type of finality with centralized protocols built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain — Lightning Network being the standout example.

Whats the point? No one wants that beside that LN needs BTC on chain Tx which if you dont arbitrary define as final after some blocks makes it exactly the same - not final.

PoS/PoW is rather irrelevant. we already have solutions to make blocks/ledgers final its doesn't need PoW or PoS its just a properties that BTC doesn't have because it was designed without. There is no fundamental reason why it cant have it.
In my reading, the article was arguing not decentralized v centralized one-or-the-other, but just that decentralized is failing.
Anyone who thinks github code should be polished and supported or hidden from view is going to be sorely disappointed in my island of misfit experiments, but I really couldn't care less. I didn't put it on github for fame, exposure, or resume fodder, I put it there because they host my repos for free.
This is not standard advice for anyone looking to buy a home. Any loan officer or broker advising this is doing their job incredibly poorly.
Not OP, but curious why stencil is not a viable option for mass production? You don't have to roll compound over the stencil manually. Stencils are still used in applications like solder paste.
Elon Musk Has Become Bitcoin’s Biggest Influencer, Like It or Not
The 80 per cent also includes the large rent seeking corporations. It is in their interest to stifle innovation as well, or if not, then be in a privileged position to aquire it once it has been de-risked.
Deepfake but real-ish lip-sync edition.

With things as they are now, I prefer original dialog with subtitles usually because the lip-sync is so bad, forced, and doesn't sound like the original actor. (Anyone remember how bad the sync was on some Spaghetti Westerns?) If this can do "deepfake" alternate language dialog using AI processing to change the language and the accent but in the same voice as the actor, I'm all for it. Although, the talent should get compensated because it's taking money out of their pockets if their jobs are being replaced digitally.
Useful iOS Things GitHub Repository
It hasn't stopped the government from subsidizing these polluters. It doesn't have to be clean(er), it just has to be under state control.
Wow, I would so not do that without rubber gloves or something. I've always been pretty hesitant working on CRTs knowing the voltages present in there (and they could linger for a long time due to charged capacitors).

Was the failure mode of tubes always such that it would stop glowing? I'm surprised they always failed in that way. I suppose the main issue would be that the heater filament would burn out and stop emitting electrons. Just like the filament in a light bulb.

When I was young tubes were already becoming uncommon. If a device still used them it was only for some high-power stuff like an amp final. Though of course the CRT itself lingered much longer.
I've watched a few episodes on Youtube.

For sophisticated people:

1) his advice is not for you

2) he is a bible-thumper, so most of his advice doesn't apply after 1970 (post-modernism). His tune would change after a divorce.

3) He says school debt should be shared, which is even worse than paying for foodie calls. Legally, school debt in the US remains with the borrower and is not shared in divorce settlements, so there's no good reason to pay for somebody else's school debt.

For people with no financial knowledge:

1) Dave is better than nothing.

Personally I find watching his shows useful to understand societal financial illiteracy at large, rather than for anything Dave says.

I once dated somebody who was innumerate (couldn't understand numbers or budgets.) That's a level of financial illiteracy you don't want in your life, trust me, since they can make a financial blunder at any time that will end your relationship: "Hey, I bought (got a loan) a new car yesterday. Can you just pay for the expenses?"
Then if you allow “off by one” or 2, or 3, you can shrink it down further.
The coin mania will end once Bitcoin crashes back down for awhile and it’ll migrate to something else.

The underlying problem is paying for things. So many of the successes in decentralization come directly from universities where cost wasn’t really a factor.
A magician not performing when politely asked? I’ve never heard of such a thing.
How Hacking Became a Professional Service in Russia
Economies of scale, which are huge in computing, lend an almost irresistible force to centralization. The only countervailing force is communication costs. The most successful decentralization effort in computing, the replacement of mainframes with personal computers, occurred because networking infrastructure was immature and lagged behind advances in miniaturization.

The notion that the internet would decentralize information is completely wrong. The internet restored the client-server relationship from the mainframe era, with the real power being with the databases. The internet recentralized computing after the PC era.
I remember I listened to one of Ramsey's radio shows about a decade ago. A caller said that they had about $50,000 of credit card debt, and was asking about the best way to lower that debt.

Dave gave a few basic truisms about the "debt snowball", but shockingly he then mentioned that this person should increase the amount of money they're giving to the church, since without Jesus's help you got nothing. I'm not religious, but that always seemed so baffling (and dangerous). Surely a deity would understand you are hurting your long-term giving-to-Jesus potential if you're constantly broke.

That led me to research him a bit, and this guy is a borderline cult-leader, and it's a bit upsetting that he'll be worth more than I ever will be.
>No IP violation is a theft unless it involves "a person intentionally takes personal property of another without permission or consent and with the intent to convert it to the taker's use".

How does selling physical parts that were manufactured for someone else in violation of a contract not fall under this definition? Is the seller paying for the manufacture of these parts, or is Apple?
> Wrangling with domain registration, DNS configuration, hosting, building the actual damn site, and deployment, that is a lot. Not to mention that for much of the world’s population, the costs of hosting and domain registration are prohibitive.

There is an entry cost to building decentralized tech, and it’s way too high and confusing IMO for mass adoption. The “cloud” is the easiest way to get up and running for both consumers and developers. But I don’t think it means dApps don’t work.

The beautiful thing about decentralization is that it doesn’t have to be profit aligned - it should be significantly cheaper to compute on your machine. We just need a better user experience to cross that barrier. I don’t think a decentralized platform that can overthrow the cloud experience exists yet. But that’s the hot opportunity and why it’s still emerging tech.

It always blows my mind that 1mb is 500 pages worth of information. Why do we pay $10/mo to store information that can fit on a thumb drive?

[0]Amna -https://www.getamna.com/blog/think-local-first/
Thanks. I've learned that a group of lawyers from Germany are filing a massive lawsuit. one of the lawyers took on VW a few years back for the whole Dieselgate thing and won.
Regarding (b), I often wonder whether Satoshi of Bitcoin fame is deliberately anonymous for this reason.
And when grandma gives all of her retirement money to scammers by hitting the wrong button, she will get her rightful comeuppance dying on the street instead of taking up your guest bedroom.

In the real world, avoiding mistakes is more important than people suffering the consequences of mistakes.
I made a few of these out of playa dust one year.

It was fun, they made great gifts. They're extremely fragile, I think one of the three I kept has survived, but won't know for sure until I get back into my storage unit.
So what's the political solution? Someone has to force interoperability on greedy walled gardens that hold back progress?

The idea isn't unlike competition / anti-trust laws. But would it require making new ones?
When I was ~14 I used to take out the caps of disposable cameras, bend the legs down its sides, and convert the rest to be just a charger.
It was a big hit in school! You could leave the caps at friends desks and they would curiously pick it up. Toss them at somebody at yell “catch” ect.

IIRC they were rated at 600v, and would leave black indents in the skin.

Kids are effing stupid…
I was in a SF CVS today and a known shoplifter walked in with a backpack. The register paged for security within seconds, which was impressive, although I think they were short-staffed, so there was nobody.

I didn't hang around for the drama. Sigh, seen enough incidents for a lifetime.
Wouldn't it benefit you much much more because, well, you premined a billion dollars worth of ETH for yourself and designed Ethereum to benefit wealthy people?
If a user chooses to sign up using Apple’s SSO, how are they supposed to also use your desktop or other apps if those don’t also support Apple SSO?
You are suggesting rolling out all of those things yourself will take only a one-time investment of "hours" (meaning fewer than 10?), with no ongoing maintenance?

I think at minimum "hours" per month seems more realistic, no?