skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, except the Left is in control of the establishment. Through Hollywood, the media, and academe (all notoriously Left-leaning), it has elevated its own conspiracy theories and prejudices to the level of respectable opinion or fact. Except for a few minor politicians, stuff like QAnon remains little more than an inconsequential wacky belief, regardless of what the fear-mongering rags try to say.

Crazy ideas come about naturally, but the political opportunists know when to fan the flames of those ideas if it benefits them. You don't necessarily need a central planning committee to benefit from insanity.

In the case of COVID, the sad tactic that's used to discredit anyone, even highly respected people in medicine, when they depart in the slightest from the flaky "official narrative" is to either silence such people immediately across all friendly channels, ridicule them, or to dredge up some completely preposterous claim and poisoning the well, etc., essentially claiming that anyone who disagrees with the official party line is like the guy who believes that lizard people run the world.

Nothing you can really do about it. You can't pry the scales from people's eyes, especially if they like them just where they are. I'm pretty sure the inner coating on those scales is reflective.
Modern Ransomware's Double Extortion Tactics
At worst it would make people think "wow, I can't trust the government to uphold agreements 100+ years out into the future if some information comes along to suggest that they shouldn't be upheld", which seems like... exactly what the public should think?
> Minecraft is quite nice as it supports SRV records

Oh that's nifty!
@dang: Why did you change the URL from the original twitter thread?

https://twitter.com/APhilosophae/status/1402434266970140676
In that scenario it sounds like the person "forced out" would have received a huge windfall of cash, and could ostensibly buy their same house back for much less than they sold it for at the height of the mania.
To add to this the blockchain solution that's likely to be adopted will ultimately be multilateral agreements between democratically elected governments deciding to use a technology not designed to align with financial incentive/greed for its adoption, unnecessarily transferring wealth from later adopters weighted tiara towards the earliest adopters.
Interesting. So it's like lots of little ledgers, each channel stays open until N number of transactions between two people complete, then the finally tally is pushed onchain when the channel closes. Am I wrong to thing this sounds a little risky? Like, that channel could be "lost" after the goods/services were exchanged, leaving the seller holding the bag. I don't understand what kind of recourse the seller has to LN if LN screws up? It's kinda like escrow, but escrow agents are heavily regulated whereas is LN "trustworthy"?

EDIT: ah, I think "nicpottier" explains a little more, below. about having an account on LN requires a certain amount of a deposit (like a debit account).
> Vivaldi is exactly as slow or fast as any Chromium-based browser.

That is not my experience at all. I tried a few different versions over the years (including the beta with the mail client, but not yet this 4.0) and the UI always feels ... slow, and not quite snappy enough to be comfterable. It's really hard to describe this and I'm not the kind of person who quickly gets annoyed by this sort of thing, but for me personally it's too much and every time I tried it it was annoying enough to give up after a day or two. It's like using some remote connection with X or vnc (okay, maybe not quite that bad, but definitely reminiscent of that).

In comparison, Chromium or Firefox doesn't have this at all on the same computer.

Maybe it's a Linux thing; I don't know. I can imagine it's not the highest priority for them. A lot of it seems in the UI layer (and not the rendering layer), which is vastly different from Chromium. I hope they will improve this at some point (and I'll try out this version, too) because outside of this Vivaldi looks pretty neat.

I still miss Opera Presto :-(
RIM definitely killed RIM. The sad result of decades of computer/phone market reports using "market share" leads to people misunderstanding "installed base". As the iPhone and Android took off BlackBerry's market share dropped. As in their share of the total smartphone market sales per quarter dropped. Their unit sales (at first) didn't drop much. The installed base of Blackberries also didn't drop (at first).

Android and iPhone initially ate into the unit sales of feature phones. RIM had pathetic consumer offerings. I replaced a Pearl (8100) with the first iPhone with iOS 1.0. For all the issues that combination had it was a far far better phone than my BlackBerry.

RIM didn't understand the consumer phone market at all, and frankly neither did other smartphone vendors outside Apple and Google. RIM assumed their Enterprise moat (Exchange integration, BES, etc) and a fucking hardware keyboard was enough to halt R&D and just sit on their hands. Meanwhile Apple and Google added Exchange support to their existing (ok but not great) POP/IMAP/CalDAV/CardDAV support, good app stores for third party software, and maintained their vastly superior web browsing capabilities. Their software keyboards also improved significantly with just better keypress accuracy and better predictive type.

So Apple and Google killed feature phones and then got the features people wanted/needed for Enterprise sales. They were already good enough for a majority of "business" uses since a lot of SMB users of Palms, WinMo, and BlackBerries used zero "Enterprise" features. They needed e-mail and SMS which feature phones didn't support and iPhone and Android had from the outset.

So Apple and Google crossed RIM's moat and RIM had nothing to offer as competition. Everything about BlackBerries was firmly fixed in 2005. This was 2010/11 and iPhones and Androids were the state of the art. Instead of trying to meaningfully compete RIM doubled down on the 2005 phones.

No one should feel any pity for them. Their management seemed trapped in some sort of "we'll just MBA our way out of this" fantasy land.
> I'd give up housing before food.

Lack of food can be fixed in a day. Lack of housing can be impossible to overcome ever.
>Aerial drones are easily countered by autonomous weapons systems that fire on drones quickly and accurately

If its military vs military then the drones wake up the counter defense which is then targeted by more expensive missiles.
Actually it's a feature that rich people get.

We bought a house last year and I was forced by QuickenLoans to liquidate my Tesla positions, that appreciated 5x and incurred short term capital gains. Were I richer, I could have avoided liquidating my long positions and pay proportionally less in taxes.

The most annoying part is that in the end they didn't even need all of my stock portfolio liquidated, only about 30% to cover closing costs. Yet I got hit by a 5 figure tax bill because of it.

In short - the system literally setup to extract as much as possible out of everyone, other than the wealthiest/most powerful. And that includes banks, government and lenders.
I'm all for revoking the certificates, but feel that ample time should be taken to study what sorts of issues revoking would cause. It would not surprise me if this study takes approximately 90 days to complete.
> bid-ask spread isn't a property of transactions, it's a property of markets

The upthread poste by dragontamer which introduced it seemed to ascribe it specifically to particular transactions, and I responded to what waa described in that post, viewing terminological minutiae as less interesting than the concept being discussed for which there seemed adequate clarity in context.
It is more accurate to say property taxes are going up because government expenditures go up. That might be partly caused in the long term due to increases in land prices, since the services your taxes pay for are performed by people that may need to buy land, but it’s not a 1 to 1 relationship in the short term.

I have seen tax rates drop from 1.25% to 1% and the opposite also happens when the tax collections come up short.

I can give an example. I used to have land in NJ a few years ago, and the total property tax went up year after year. If I recall, the tax rate went from ~1.5% to slightly above 2%, and the assessment barely went up. The property tax went up due to government expenses coming in higher than expected due to all the debt NJ is in that was not counted as debt (underfunded DB pensions). In fact, I lost money on that land because it was worth less since prospective buyers know the property tax will continue to rise, so they have to budget for that.

On the other hand, I had land in FL at the same time, which has appreciated a lot and was assessed for more. But the total property tax paid stayed more or less the same, since the tax rate came down since the government’s expenditures did not move as much, and/or were offset by new payers.

The property tax formulas have more to do with what proportion of the government’s expenses is each land owner liable for, but the total tax collected does not need to rise in step with total land value increase.
So the person who transports those dollars to the bank doesn't get paid? The car that takes that person to the bank doesn't use gas? Just because you don't see the fee doesn't mean you don't pay it. It's included in the price of anything you buy.
Biden revokes WeChat/TikTok ban
Too much focus on Apple for my taste, though.
I use a traditional local email client: macOS's Mail.app. It stores a copy of every email.

What's the point of using mbsync?
It was just that way — a hardware version of dual-booting your tower into Linux for work and Windows for games.
That's a very good question. IMO it seems pretty unlikely that bitcoin will undergo another fork any time soon, the people that were fine with forking went to BCH and then had many subsequent forks meanwhile the people that stayed on BTC either believed in small blocks or believed in the virtue of not forking.
I have my own Digital Ocean droplet and have a docker_mailer smt server. Super easy to setup + you dont rely on big tech for basic email service.
Why is Greenidge bringing a natural gas power plant online to do cryptocurrency mining? https://greenidgellc.com/blockchain
> More people probably knows who Elon Musk is than what Sweden is anyways

Musk is like a weird combination of Michael Bloomberg and Donald Trump.

He tweets like Trump, but when he gets on stage he stutters and speak as badly as Michael Bloomberg.

Regardless of what one thinks of Trump people knew him for more than being just a rich guy, he was the CEO of the Apprentice and Yankees #1 fan for a long time.

He also speaks with the utmost confidence, this is a great social skill and you can use it at will if you don't need the academics and the high IQ people on your side...in politics it's one person, one vote
Yeah, this was a great read.

I think it also highlights the extreme importance of free and independent media for democracy.
Not quite the same scheduling/locking semantics, though — sure, it's "concurrent" and packet-oriented, but it's a token ring. It's similar to the original Redis model of concurrency: just have everyone make a series of tiny requests, and then loop around / select(2) from your clients, handling each client's latest request serially, with no request queuing because all requests are synchronous/blocking for the client making them.

N logistics bots are a much closer analogue to N scheduler threads each working in parallel to 1. take a message from a priority heap (really, to take a schedulable process from a priority heap and then run it to produce messages, but same difference) and then 2. synchronously shuttle that message to its destination queue.

I suppose you could get the same semantics with N parallel train tracks, one per scheduler-thread; plus an actual scheduler priority-queue implemented in circuits. But I feel like that's a "non-idiomatic case", in that, no matter how you designed your stations or where you put them, it'd be incredibly painful to design a loader/unloader for a "bus" of parallel train tracks. Especially if all the trains arrive together. It'd be a setup the devs would take one look at and say "that's too much of a kludge, and yet the kludgeyness is necessary, and that's our fault for not including a necessary abstraction. We'll just put in that abstraction."

(The alternative would be a mod that allows trains to pass through one-another on a track. Then you could have one train-line where each train cleanly represents a scheduler thread. No idea what would happen if they tried to stop at the same station at the same time, though. Ghost trains~)
Many frameworks and libraries (ActiveRecord, flyway, etc.) allow you to write migration scripts that get automatically applied during deployment. In that sense, you can version changes to your DB. Of course, it's true that you don't have a strict guarantee that your prod DB matches these scripts, but as long as you don't change the schema from outside such scripts and don't manually rollback/delete them etc., it should work out well in practice—at least, I've never had an issue with that specific part of migrations (of course, there are other issues you can run into with migrations).
When your phone is lost or stolen, you buy a new phone and go to your telco provider to get a new SIM with your number. SMS 2FA continues to work. Your Authenticator secrets are gone with the phone, and you're locked out.

(Unless you use a solution like Authy with multiple devices, which strikes me as the most sensible solution.)
Why aren't the crypto folks buying up all of the integrated graphics CPUs as well?
I agree. I moved to a suburban single family home neighborhood specifically because I like the environment of a neighborhood with suburban single family homes. That suits me and my family. Others might like low-rise apartment buildings and townhomes, and they should have access to neighborhoods with that type of housing. Others might like high-rise apartments, and those neighborhoods should be available too. Why is it so bad that many different types of neighborhoods exist?
that is because google and other companies derive more $ from your number than protecting your privacy/security
Inferior to what? It’s the first and arguably best technology that brought digital decentralized ownership to humanity. How is that not enough?

Personally it seems all the negativity comes from people who don’t get it or those who are salty because they missed the boat.
Devil as always in details. Dept of commerce is supposes to come up with rules ti determine which apps present national secuirity risks.
It definitely would be possible :) We hadn't gotten as many requests for public pricing until right now so we'll spin something up with this feedback!
> and wasn't this attempted by proposition a few years ago?

Yes, in the last election. And sadly it was defeated because as usual with state propositions, the side with the most money (developers in this case) were able to convince the public with inaccurate propaganda.
RFC 5280 says:

> The universal time type, UTCTime, is a standard ASN.1 type intended for representation of dates and time. UTCTime specifies the year through the two low-order digits and time is specified to the precision of one minute or one second. [...] For the purposes of this profile, UTCTime values MUST be expressed in Greenwich Mean Time (Zulu) and MUST include seconds (i.e., times are YYMMDDHHMMSSZ), even where the number of seconds is zero.

> For the purposes of this profile, GeneralizedTime values MUST be expressed in Greenwich Mean Time (Zulu) and MUST include seconds (i.e., times are YYYYMMDDHHMMSSZ), even where the number of seconds is zero. GeneralizedTime values MUST NOT include fractional seconds.

In other words, the RFC specifies specifically requires the granularity of the time to be a second, and the notBefore and notAfter are worded such that is valid for all t in the range notBefore ≤ t ≤ notAfter. Computing the number of seconds this is valid for as notAfter - notBefore is a classic fencepost error.
I believe that this claim refers to some of the more extreme climate alarmists. Claims that at least sound like this have in fact been made.
Makes me wish that they would increase property taxes for multiple residence owners & make sure to include residential conglomerates.

It should be that each additional house after the first has a tax penalty that increases on a logarithmic scale to make it financially unsavory for people to own more than one house. In an ideal world, owning multiple homes would be an ostentatious display of wealth and not a common investment vehicle.
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Proof of stake doesn’t use the energy because it doesn’t solve the problem that bitcoin solves.
I don't understand why banks and businesses don't outsource the whole authentication business to someone that does nothing else, and then does proper 2FA (maybe with a choice of security levels), and supports as many standardised solutions as possible.
Lappland is a part of Norrland, but both of these terms are used in a historical sense as cultural/geographical regions, and nowadays replaced by counties
> Everybody opposed the rezoning and fought to defeat it.

Why? That's kind of an important point.

For example, unless this is NYC or similar, 49 townhomes is going to need a minimum of at least 110 parking spots (just to hold the occupants alone, assuming no one ever has guests ever). A realistic parking minimum should be 2.5 spots per townhouse.

A lot of builders outsource their pollution to the local neighborhood, especially on infrastructure (parking, water, sewer, electrical, natgas, etc). It's a common reason to opposed development, and it's a good one.

It's usually done to save cash, and it saves literally just pennies. (Parking on these projects, for example, is always less than 6% of the total cost. Cuts to sewer and electrical are less than 12% of total cost). Builders do it anyway, builders will generally build the literally shittiest thing code lets them get away with -- they'd build buildings that fall apart in the slightest breeze, if it were legal to do so.

This is why zoning rules, building codes, and the large piles of regulations are so important.

> The project would have been the most dense townhome development in 4 counties.

Ok, that means it would likely carry the highest prices per square foot in 4 counties, which means it would immediately make that neighborhood the most expensive neighborhood in 4 counties. Could that be a reason it was opposed? Density isn't free, it's a form of financial pollution that the other residents will mostly have carry the burden of. Not everywhere is California, not everywhere gets free unlimited property tax lock-ins. If you built a luxury townhouse next to a generic house, their taxes will spike 200%+ to cover your luxury development, and all nearby rents would spike in a similar way against nearby renters.

I get that California and San Francisco specifically is it's own unique terrible experience. But here in the Midwest, generally speaking, locals are pretty reasonable. You can get away with building almost anything you want, so long as you don't screw over the locals. (And I mean that quite literally, we have almost 100 new developments here in our small city, including the worlds gaudiest ugliest castle monstrosity -- zoning never stops builders ever, you can build anything you want anywhere you want, as long as you don't hurt too many people)

What is actually happening in most cases, is that some sort of builder wants to screw over all residents, residents rightly complain, and then those residents get labeled "NIMBY". The only time a project gets cancelled is when it makes residents bleed so much, they push back hard. And even then, local residents only win that fight about ~40% of the time.
Then it sounds like changing bank is a better answer for many.
This has been rolled out and in use in British Columbia, Canada as well. We have a digital ID app for iOS and Android, which you verify your ID with first, then for government sites (e.g., health records), you login through this app instead - there are no emails, usernames, or passwords involved.
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Apparently it's a word list collection, and many of the entries do not come from breaches. There are no username/password pairs. Still, 8 billion unique entries is nothing to sneeze at.

https://amp.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/nuxd1i/where...
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> If the value then drops 10x, you won’t get your property tax refunded.

That's right. And why would it?

But also: your example is imaginary. When was the last time that house values dropped 10x or even 5x? It's counterproductive to make tax policy based on the extreme cases that have never happened.
While we do not know the probability of abiogenesis, we can make an educated guess as to the range of probable likelihoods. ie, the probability of the probability.

I read a paper on this a while ago, which I cannot find now, but it places the likelihood at some meaningful percentage per million years, which in aggregate across several orders of magnitude of planets, makes life elsewhere in the universe very likely.

It uses the statistical notion that Earth should not be modeled as a single data point, but as a series that you integrate over, and concludes that since life emerged so soon after Earth became habitable, that the emergence of life is likely likely (the probability of the probability) - within the lifespan of a similar star.

To give you a more clear example...

Imagine a handing a subject a bag containing a die with an unknown number of sides. You ask a subject to reach into the bag, pull out a die and keep rolling it until he gets a 1. ...and then report to you only the number of times it took to roll a one.

In statistics, can you infer a probability on the number of sides of that die, based upon how long it took the subject to reach a 1 - even if the experiment is only performed once? The answer is YES. If the subject only had to roll the die twice to get a 1, you can estimate that the die probably had very few sides. Similarly, if the subject that it took a million tries to roll a 1, you can very comfortably say that the die was not 2 sided (a coin).

In the same vein, since life appeared on Earth in the few hundred(s) of millions of years after it became habitable, then the likelihood is probably not close enough to zero to rule out life in the cosmos.

Treating Earth as one data point is an unwise oversimplification.
If the population is increasing and population density is prevented from increasing then housing is a good investment.
It's a perfect example of how useful it is to think in terms of what invariants should hold and why.