skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Why bother with Bitcoin at all if you need a trusted third party?

This is a good question and we should always be asking "Why Bitcoin?" and think about the trade-offs.

For small amounts of bitcoin a trusted third party, especially an institutional trusted third party, makes a lot of sense. Convenience, availability and low transaction fees dominate the user's needs.

For large amounts of bitcoin, you probably don't want to use a trusted third party and you can afford to run your own infrastructure. For instance a national bank should not keep all its bitcoin on coinbase.

Bitcoin allows you to choose between these two trust models. It is very hard to remove a trusted party from a system which fundamentally relies on a trusted party. However it is often easy to inject a trusted party into a system to make it more useable or scalable. Thus, for maximum flexibility you want your base layer to be as trustless as possible and then add trust as needed to solve different use cases.
TOTP is marginally safer than SMS.

It also comes with large downsides. Security is an economics game. Marginal improvements in security posture are not always worth the cost.

There are a bunch of people who insist that web services should drop SMS completely and demand that all users use TOTP (at least). I question the value of this change given that TOTP only protects you in comparatively rare cases.
> I’ve ranted about this before but CA Prop 13 not only makes housing a good investment, but one that you’re extremely incentivized to hold onto forever and never move.

Not “never move”, just never sell. When you are ready and able to upgrade to a new home, you convert the existing one to a rental property with rents to cover costs with a suitable risk premium (but don’t worry about additional profit), and then benefit from the appreciation and protection from full-value reassessment on both properties, rinse and repeat as needed.
Germany was partitioned between rivalling occupation forces, and neither did dissolve the bit of German state they held on. There is little doubt that either party would have preferred the whole Germany on their side, but dissolution was never on the table.

And yes, plenty people do advocate for dissolution of Israel, it's in fact a mainstream (but not the only one) position among pro-Palestinian activists.
Basically every service I've used that requires SMS will use it as the sole authentication factor for resetting your password.. It's brutal
Just take it from flowers...
I didn't quite understand what's for. Is it a mod for things like Alexa? And how is it better then a hardware killswitch?
Looks convenient. I assume multiple servers share the same IP(s) on different non-default ports? I don’t see any info on how this works on the site.

I can’t imagine providing a free unique static IPv4 for 4000+ active servers would be a sustainable business model. IPv6 of course would be fine, if residential ISPs ever leave the Stone Age. (Looking at you, Bell Canada)
Precisely. Also, really, the vast majority of benefits from housing scarcity accrue to existing homeowners:

https://oregoneconomicanalysis.com/2021/03/16/who-benefits-f...
It may be fine for the faith in banking structures, but it's not that great it you like your dollars to hold value.
It can be costly.

I moved from Ireland to the US and kept my Irish number active - the cost was a €5 topup every 6 months.

Going in reverse is much harder - a lot of the budget phone providers in the US don't have any roaming offering. Best I can tell, you really need to have an account with a real provider, and that realistically looks like $20/mo (Google Fi), 20x more expensive than the reverse.
It will incentivize construction of dense housing, which distributes the same amount of land tax over a larger number of residents. People get displaced by gentrification because current policy encourages landlords to hoard old structures instead of building as much as possible.
People generally buy a house because they want to live in it. The nominal value of the house does nothing to benefit them.
> Where would they live? And how can they afford the $30k/yr property tax?

With proposition 19, approved in last election, seniors can move to a different place and carry their original property taxes with them.

https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_19,_Property_...
> if we add old articles for the last century from other sources, the HN will be flooded over.

HN has been doing it for... I think a decade already? The situation so far looks good to me.

* “Corn-Pone Opinions” by Mark Twain (1901)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10822133

127 points, 56 comments

* Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements (1908)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19968114

798 points, 147 comments

* G.K. Chesterton: The fallacy of success (1909)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6512288

198 points, 97 comments

* The Basic Problem of Democracy (1919)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21893486

206 points, 189 comments

* Why I Quit Being So Accommodating (1922)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14418877

866 points, 316 comments

* Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men (1924)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7437643

387 points, 264 comments

* War Is a Racket (1933)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22012255

336 points, 181 comments

* A Mathematical Theory of Communication (1948) [pdf]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23035107

197 points, 39 comments

* Claude Shannon Demonstrates Machine Learning (1952)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25919006

209 points, 51 comments

* Three-dimensional model of electricity consumption in Manchester (1954)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25959571

135 points, 31 comments

* Kurt Gödel's Letter to John von Neumann (1956) [pdf]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19281633

183 points, 85 comments

* An Algebraic Language for the Manipulation of Symbolic Expressions (1958) [pdf]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14885779

171 points, 12 comments

* America's Cult of Ignorance (1980) [pdf]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14778856

169 points, 113 comments

* How does a gas pump know to shut itself off? (1981)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24741029

384 points, 390 comments

* Will cable TV be invaded by commercials? (1981)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22977448

288 points, 354 comments

* Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4535611

273 points, 229 comments
You don't know that. There are places on the East Coast, namely Pennsylvania and Delaware that I can think of, that have implemented LVT. Normally they are hybrid approaches though.
In a lot of places, if not most, property taxes are based on the assessed "current market value" of your house and audited annually, which can change a lot from year to year. Property taxes are paid annually, not when the house sells. If the house goes up 10x in a year, the property tax also rises which makes it very hard on a fixed income when you're retired, especially when the gov't artificially calculates inflation at a lower rate so they don't have to pay as much in social security benefits to those seniors reducing their purchasing power over time.
This is true. I have often found that the people who are telling you "don't burn bridges" are the same people who have just poured a five gallon can of gasoline all over the bridge, and are now standing in the middle of the puddle holding a Zippo lighter...
Sounds like one of those tricky technicalities

For fun, I thought of a bad edge case: you create a certificate exactly 90 days before the end of the year (having your notAfter date of 2022-01-01-00:00:00Z) BUT you get a leap second on this year. Then it will last for 90 days + 1 second
Tinystatus – generate an HTML status page via shell script
> What if I told you that in many areas households don’t even need a single car?

That's in very dense urban cities. Given the numbers in question (low density 10 houses/acre) that's not going to be the case.
So.. investor helps other investors? Great. What about the common man?
US-bias is lame, but I can think of a couple counter-examples where it doesn't usually need to be mentioned: e.g. Shopify and Spotify. Could it be that once a company is successful then it doesn't come up as much?
google does the same thing

Protonmail is the best beacause it does not require backup emmail or SMS, just the username and password and 2fa being optional (but you must have the password), which is how it should be. So many people have gotten hacked through phones and or recovery emails.
The reverse problem is interesting. Consider Voyager 1- its high gain antenna is pointed essentially directly at the sun, a powerful wide-band noise source. How does it detect anything from earth? The DSN has to outshine the sun within the tiny S-band window that Voyager listens to: 20 kW and 62 dB antenna gain.

https://descanso.jpl.nasa.gov/DPSummary/Descanso4--Voyager_e...

https://ipnpr.jpl.nasa.gov/progress_report/42-175/175E.pdf
It seems to me one of these articles pops up every time there's an outage related to Varnish. There's plenty of poor error messages out there but "Guru Mediation" really grinds folk's gears.
Sorry if I came off a little strong. I used to serve on a school board. Things would get intense sometimes.
I don't think it is. Startups fail at tremendous rates and are well known for playing it really fast and loose, even if some of them are wildly successful. Not exactly something I'm interested in relying on for finances until there is a much longer track record.
Meanwhile whoever donated it is seemingly furthering adoption of it helping solidify the unnecessary increasingly large wealth transfer from later adopters to earlier adopters - a promise where the money is only worth the artificial price if enough of society adopt it to allow early adopters to be made whole again without crashing the price..
Looking at it in google maps with the aerial view turned on, it looks like there is (or was, at time of photo) a bunch of modular housing units for temporary accommodations, the whole terminal and apron is still there, and there's a dog park. The dog park has lots of cute user submitted photos of dogs.

There's also a 'private university' named for Sigmund Freud. I was hoping that some of Berlin's famous graffiti artists might have drawn a visible from space phallus on the roof, but no such luck.
Middlemen leeching off of middlemen. Allow car manufacturers to sell directly to consumers and the problem will sort itself out.
There's an achive link in the top comment, and I think replying to that with the original URL would help rather than making fact of the change burried in the comments, but I can't reply to that archive link post.
Thankfully, there seems to be guidance that allows for common sense to intervene.

"Mozilla recognizes that in some exceptional circumstances, revoking the affected certificates within the prescribed deadline may cause significant harm, such as...when the volume of revocations in a short period of time would result in a large cumulative impact to the web."

He does have a good point that something quite similar happened a month ago[1], and should have trigged a deeper dive that would have exposed this as well. You could interpret that as LE needing some better discipline around process.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1708965
I'm thinking 5 bed sorry, yes 2 spaces for 3/4, 3 spaces for 5 - at least in my local authority.

Given that almost always one of those is a garage which almost never has a car, reality is tons of on street parking (or rather on pavement parking)
Oil is also an energy storage medium, but I don’t think that distinction matters at all here.
So... in other words, exactly what I said: "agile only exists to explicitly prevent people from spending time on anything other than what they've asked for, and been granted, permission to do"?
Yes, I'm assigning a random port to each tunnel. I have been considering purchasing an IP space to offer a premium version but it's hard to make the numbers work at my current scale.

Minecraft is quite nice as it supports SRV records so the provided tunnel address doesn't need to show the port number. For other games you'll notice you have the non standard port.
Yeah, there is for sure a chicken-egg problem here. If the existing public transportation isn’t good then people will just not have enough parking. If everything is still spread apart, or there aren’t sidewalks or biking infrastructure, there won’t be walking or biking to the office or work site.

Although I will say, living in a neighborhood with very little parking, I am sure people who insist on owning a car anyway will think it’s a disaster too. But I love it because everything is close by and I can get around through a variety of non-car methods. But to get to that point takes time.
Black man fatally shot by deputies in MN but there's no bodycam video
It can reduce security if password can be reset with SMS
> often results in confusing, disjointed comment threads

It can, which is why I posted replies to the relevant comments in this thread. It's still usually a net win, though, to replace a secondary/derived source with the article it's derived from, especially when the secondary/derived source is adding sensational spin.

> Strangely, but anecdotally, the titles that I see getting changed are

I think you may be getting bit by what I call the notice-dislike bias [1]. You (i.e. all of us) are much more likely to see, and to put emphasis on, the changes that you dislike or disagree with, and to de-emphasize, or simply not notice in the first place, the ones that seem normal or ok. This leads to false feelings of generality [2]. Your comment is well above the median in quality because you at least said "anecdotally"; most users who post general claims about HN don't seem to consider that there may be any bias in such perceptions at all!

From a moderation perspective I can tell you for sure that there's no singling out of any topics over others when it comes to applying the title guideline. Of course, titles on divisive topics are more likely to be inflammatory and therefore linkbaity, and thus 'hit' the guideline, but that's a skew in the data, not the moderators.

As for "censorship", that word has gotten diluted to the point that it seems to just mean "change I disapprove of". You can use it to describe HN title edits if you like, but I think it's a bit of a stretch.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... - it would be great to find a less lame name for this, but it's the best I've found so far

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Hard to really say if it will negatively or positively impact yield.

You should be able to cram in more chips per wafer. But, you might see more of those turn out to be duds due to the more complex layers. This 3d stacking has an amplifying effect to flaws in lower layers.

We'll see if Zen 4 or Zen 5 has 100Mb caches... that'll be the true test.
> This was a red herring when prop 13 was passed, and is a red herring now. 49 other states don't have prop 13, and yet seniors aren't priced out of their homes.

Prop 13 is bad in at least half a dozen ways, but I'm not so sure this problem isn't coming elsewhere or even is absent. It seems to me California may have experienced a leading edge of metro dynamics that are going to come for other states soon.

> everyone's home gets reassessed for its value and then the tax rate is set so that the whole county goes up 1%.

That's interesting.

> And if you're still really concerned about old people losing their homes, at least support getting rid of Prop 13 for all non-primary homes

I think something like this is right (and wasn't this attempted by proposition a few years ago?). Residence-first real estate policy needs to include tax that increases on the number of properties owned (and maybe even more steeply in a supply constrained market).
>That in itself would be a godsend already though probably not what Bitcoin maxis vision looks like.

Bitcoin maxis have a very ambitious and grand vision and I don't think they should compromise it. It sets a high bar that drives innovation. I do think that over the short term any nation scale usage of bitcoin for everyday payments will look very different from that vision and that is ok.
> If you can't stop the building of new houses, what's their out?

Many areas have significantly slowed (or prevented) the building of new houses. Blackrock probably doesn't expect this to change. Supply is constrained and doesn't seem to be getting better. In their eyes, being in the market with a limited supply, high demand, and no major changes to supply production seems to be worth the premium.
See what WallStreetBets is pumping (it caught CLOV)
See the number of times each stock was posted about in the last hour/day/week and the percent increase/decrease compared to the previous hour/day/week
Good point. However, in this case the headline was chosen by Reuters.
> When you make housing too expensive, people just get up and move.

Not when all the jobs in that household are here.

> People are not surfs and are not trapped or stuck living in a house they can't afford.

They are when all the jobs in that household are here.

> It might not happen overnight but populations do migrate due to housing costing too much.

People who are facing homelessness this year aren't thinking about market corrections that are decades away.
Compared to 3.5bn in free money to private operators? Who were allowed to cut their services? When TFL lost 600m in the first 8 weeks?

Yes, London got hung out to dry as usual.
> I find it necessary to make even the most simple and obvious connections explicit

So, in other words - "yes, you do need permission".
My understanding is basically there's routing and there will be centralization of channels to some extent. One way to think of LN is that it is a wallet/debit card of sorts. You transfer some amount of BTC to a Lightning channel and that becomes your wallet. You can transact with that wallet quickly/cheaply but there's always the ability for that channel to be closed and put back on the chain with the last balance in the case of disputes etc..

But as you said, coffee shop needs some path to you to make that feasible. So then you get BTCVisa (c) or whatever, which is a channel provider that has built a network of channels open with lots of vendors. If you open a channel with them then you get to benefit from getting to use the wallet you already have. There is cross-channel routing of course so maybe that doesn't happen but it seems like a natural result.

LN is neat in concept, but I'm not sure I really see the point compared to Bitcoin cash or the like that just say scale on chain. I guess we'll see.
>Not sure what's stopping them from enabling additional text-to-speech languages or rendering a globe, though.

Text to speech uses Neural Engine as well. Rendering Globe likely uses newer version of Metal only supported on M1.
We were counting on you.
>And we have to admit that Bitcoin, ZCash, Ethereum (Tornado Cash) and other cryptocurrencies are facilitating that. ... After all, transactions are all public and once you can label one wallet address, you can perform all sorts of graph analysis and learn a lot. Contrast that with trying to subpoena banks to follow money trails.

The mainstream banking system has built up an infrastructure of laws and procedures designed to guarantee transaction and identity confidentiality (e.g., laws alone: RFPA, GLBA, FCRA, GDPR and many more.) These privacy protections aren't some quaint byproduct of another era, they're requirements for any working financial system. You can't have your private banking data oozing out all over the world: this is terrible for business and fundamentally unsafe for users. It's unsustainable in the cryptocurrency sphere as well, but crypto is mostly a toy that nobody uses for real applications so these weaknesses aren't a killer -- yet.

The traditional banking system squares the need for privacy and desire for AML by placing confidential banking data into closed systems which share it with law enforcement upon presentation of a subpeona. Most cryptocurrencies deal with it by, basically, YOLO. But none of that is sustainable.

Worse, it hurts the good guys and hides the bad ones. Traceable blockchains put you into a regime where the clever launderers will find ways to obfuscate their transactions, and everyone else ends up with an unusable system that dumps their business secrets into the hands of any competitor who can write a check to a tracing company.

(Full disclosure: Zcash scientist here. But we created the tech for a reason, and fear of a broken 'panopticon' banking system was a big part of that.)
I don't really have a favorite op amp. There are so many good ones. Some audiophiles like to swap out op amps and talk about how good different ones sound, but I think that's a bunch of hogwash. If you believe that choosing the right op amp for an audio project has an impact on the sound, I'm the wrong person to ask about it.

There are some exceptions, like if you need a microphone preamp with 60 or 80 dB gain, but I have no experience in that area.
We raised our series-A two months after our seed (deck included)
There we have ideas like executable choreographies (implementable by swarm communication) intended to be glue code at the integration level of the systems. Unfortunatly systems start small and dont need choreographies and when they become big is too late... The level of abstractions is also a bit high. But in general makes sense to break your systems in reusable bricks and glue code...
The underlying reason is that we don't actually need a unit for temperature. The temperature of a substance is simply the mean kinetic energy of its molecules which can be given in Joule. The problem is that historically thermometers were calibrated using the triple point of water and not by measuring the kinetic energy of the molecules. This is how the Kelvin scale used to be defined. The Boltzmann constant was simply a measure of the triple point of water in energy units (which could be measured). One problem was that the isotopic composition of water influences the triple point and was not well defined in the old SI system. Nowadays, we can actually calibrate thermometers by measuring the kinetic energy of molecules, so we no longer need to use the triple point of water. This is why the Kelvin is now just a rescaling of the Joule with a fixed coefficient (the defined Boltzmann constant). So the Boltzmann constant can no longer be measured. On the other hand, it is now possible to measure the triple point of water in Kelvin (this used to be 273.16 K by definition in the old SI system).
As a German living outside of Germany for 15 years I have an interesting perspective on this:

The rule-following in a work setting is all about risk mitigation and rules tend to help with that. Similarly for following established processes. I know this is pretty annoying but at least I'd argue the status of work is transparent and the outcome reliable (even if it may take a long time because too many hypotheticals were considered).
The unstructured working style of the US can certainly drive a German a bit crazy at times :)

In a social setting rules are also enforced to ensure that you don't negatively impact the personal enjoyment of others. For example, no mowing your lawn on Sundays so everyone can enjoy a quiet peaceful day. No talking loudly at your table in a restaurant so you don't bother the other diners etc

Compared to the US I find Germans and French to be fairly similar with the difference being that French are more relaxed in attitude but definitely complain even more than Germans haha