skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like you understand enough about DID's to start incorporating them into an actual product. You'll have a bunch of users, and you want to give each of your users a DID.

Congratulations! I certainly wasn't able to get that level of understanding from the document.

In Section 1.1, it says the DID "did:example:123456789abcdefghijk" resolves to a DID document.

Would you then be running some software with all your users' DID's on some server identified by a subdomain, for example identity.dns.xyz? And then the DID for one of your users, let's call her Alice, would be "did:identity.dns.xyz:123456789abcdefghijk"?

And then if I run a totally different company, and Alice wants to use my website, instead of registering a separate account with my website, she can instead type "did:identity.dns.xyz:123456789abcdefghijk" into my website? Does my site's software then contact identity.dns.xyz to ask it something? Or is all the information my site needs to do its thing contained in the DID itself?

Is "123456789abcdefghijk" the hash of some document that's returned to my website by the identity.dns.xyz server? Or is Alice running some identity management browser extension that knows to present a document whose hash is "123456789abcdefghijk" to my website? Or instead of being the hash of a document, is "123456789abcdefghijk" the hash of a public key which signs something {returned by the identity.dns.xyz server | presented by Alice's software}? Or is "123456789abcdefghijk" just a string your webserver happened to generate to identify Alice uniquely that came from /dev/urandom or a PRIMARY KEY column in your database that has no cryptographic meaning?

If Alice's DID document is cryptographically linked to her DID, how does she update it? If the DID is the hash of the document, does that mean Alice gets a new DID whenever she edits her profile on dns.xyz?

What if Alice updates her dns.xyz profile because she accidentally pasted an Ethereum private key into a forum post, then generated a new address that wasn't compromised? How does my website know that the user presenting Alice's DID document is Alice sending her most up-to-date DID document, rather than Eve sending an outdated DID document with the compromised Ethereum address that once belonged to Alice, in an attempt to get my website to interact or send stuff to the compromised Ethereum address?

Is a DID like a generalized Bitcoin address, a generalized IPNS name, a generalized email address, or something else entirely?
That's a lot of upvotes. Do you folks really spend hours going through the whole blog post? I for one can never go through the whole blog post. My brain would be shouting at me the whole time to work on something that can generate passive recurring revenue instead.
Corona Warn App is the most successful implementation of a Covid tracing app in Europe.
Italy's Immuni was good as well, but unfortunately politics and demented policies basically mangled one of the best pieces of Public Administration software my country had ever produced.
In this regard, I can't be anything but satisfied that the Germans are taking the lead on a EU-wide policy.
Also, I got vaccinated here in Berlin and since a week I already have a perfectly usable digital pass that I validated at the chemist's counter.
For one, to be honest, let's give all the kudos to those who deserve them.

Side note: we're so generous that I hear of Americans here in Berlin who are getting the pass too by showing their American vaccination documents and a proof of residence in Germany.
Meaning: the system is solid, but surprisingly flexible.
I don't think name and date of birth are enough for identity theft anywhere in Europe...
Did you segment this for presentation purposes, or were there only 3 ranges to choose from? I‘m asking because the latter could also mean that most people work 4h. Deducing [4;8] = 6 would not really work.
H/t: Sacha Chua [0]

[0] https://sachachua.com/blog/2021/06/2021-06-21-emacs-news/
Why is it not available in Israel?
Depends what sort of pay you are looking for. What have you tried? Have you browsed remote job boards?
Nearly every state thought they were having a budget crisis a year ago because it looked like there was going to be an unprecedented economic crash.

Most of them are doing much better now since the pandemic-related economic downturn turned out to be much milder than originally anticipated.
Another area where this will be needed is digital identifiers for digitally owned and transferrable objects in AR/VR. The DID family of specs is designed to help make this a reality.

Full disclosure: I worked on the XDI and XRI specifications that paved the way for DID, and also very slightly on the DID specs (contributing thoughts and inputs, I did not author any part of the DID specs).

It's a good set of specs, written by people that know identity and have a good vision.
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This is a very similar situation to student loan forgiveness, and for a very long time I shared your attitude.

You are correct in the sense that programs like this incentivize being irresponsible, on the surface. I went through all of college working extra-hard to make sure I came out debt-free, while other people racked up debt partying - and now they maybe get to get these loans completely forgiven?

It feels similar. But one thing I came to realize is overall, the people who are actually being benefited here are typically not people who wanted to not pay rent. They are people who wish their livelihoods weren't necessarily uprooted due to an unforeseen pandemic.

It punishes the "responsible" in the same vein that a libertarian might view taxes as punishment. But this is overwhelmingly helping those who got affected the hardest in society - so I think "punishment" is the wrong mindset, and it could really be viewed as just "helping" those who need the help the most.
I really think server-side styling was a mistake. It's too late now of course.
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At a minimum they should at least force you to submit a financial report and show that you couldn't pay your rent. Back when the housing bubble burst, I knew people who stopped paying their mortgage because the only way to qualify for a short sale was if you weren't paying your mortgage. They could still afford to pay it, they just felt like moving and didn't want to lose money on the house.
I stated

>Bing is one of many sources from which duckduckgo derives its results

You stated

>Not true.

I then backed-up my statement with a source.

You still haven't made clear what part of my statement was not true.
I'm sorry that came across as a vent - it certainly wasn't intended that way. I'm not trying to make you the villain, I'm trying to gently point out that the logic you're using on the surface would excuse a lot of people just not trying. Now you've expanded on that I agree with much of what you say - everyone needs to take things at the page they can handle - and my life sounds similar to yours, so I totally get the lack of bandwidth.

There's a podcast that my wife listens to quite a bit call Outrage and Optimism about the climate crisis, and it's essentially my approach - I am angry about the lack of leadership by governments, but I also feel like people need to be optimistic about what we can achieve together, including pushing governments to act.

I took part in the initial Extinction rebellion protest in London, and although I don't think it achieved much in immediate concrete terms, and I feel like the organisation is going backwards now, I do think it galvanized a lot of people into believing there are enough people out there who want meaningful action that speaking up is worth it. I was handing out leaflets to people from all walks of life - from a guy in a sharp business suit to a local building foreman who runs a vegan group - and only got one person out of hundreds who thought it was pointless. Most were actively enthusiastic and felt glad that there were lots of other people who shared their concerns.
It would be ideal to have more homeowners but right now we have Blackrock et al buying up real estate to rent out.

'in the future you will not own anything' #WEF
https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2021/06/is-blackrock-buying...
My point wasn't about whether you can get into to the nitty-gritty leaf nodes of complex structures in the fully-decoded data; it was about whether the representation it outputs losslessly represents unparseable data elements while still doing best-effort to decode what it can, such that you end up with a representation that was decoded "as much as possible" where the decoded parts can be used to figure out why the non-decoded parts didn't decode, while also not obscuring what the non-decoded parts "say".

I'm using "high-level" here to mean "was successfully transformed through all the decoding/lexing/parsing/cross-reference stages", and "low[er]-level" to mean "failed to be transformed by some of those stages." Which is non-normative, I guess, but this sort of "layers of decoded-ness" representation is what you expect from tools like Wireshark or binwalk.
I don't understand why landlords would be in a class by themselves when the pandemic hurt businesses/ventures across the board. Why are restaurants forced to close not made whole? What about factories that lost productivity? What about people that lost their lives being "essential workers"?

CA is already the biggest landlord/homeowner friendly state by far with Prop 13 screwing everyone else. Not sure why landlords charging $4000 a month for a 100 year house gets off scot free when we have business shutting down permanently from COVID.
Yes that’s the one
Please don't start posts with "No." I find it undermines constructive discussion and attempts to find common understanding.

It is not hard to show a 2020 tax filing and demonstrate income, or lack theof, and should be a reasonable request before giving someone 10s of thousands of taxpayer dollars.

What do you think would be an appropriate level of scrutiny? Should anyone be able to apply with no fact checking whatsoever?
Something other than "mens' rights activists", because that name is already taken, by a malign group.

It's a bit like how you, if you were ran an electricity network, you wouldn't call a committee set up to improve public safety warnings and protections on your pylons the "Committee of Public Safety", because, while that might seem on the face of it an innocuous and descriptive name, they did do the Reign of Terror.

There are groups who sincerely advocate on mens' issues, but they typically use different names.
For many (not all) their holy books are not seen as inspiration but devine instructions. Not as fallible words authored by men but as devine revelation transcribed my men.

I totally understand that many would argue against that but if you are trying to understand the motivations for understanding the authors intent this explains why some do it.
Being snarkily dismissive of mental disorders isn't a great look, especially when OP stated that they also went to therapy for anxiety/depression and also stated they work less now than they did before because they're able to properly focus.
Sure, I've tried to answer all your points below.

>How would the smart contract confirm the decryption works... without having access to the key and data (and therefor making it all public?)

The encryption is symmetric, and a sample of the encrypted blob is included with the smart contract, eg the first 2048 bytes. The 2048 bytes and hash of the decrypted original are included in the smart contract. The encryption key is the parameter supplied to the contract. This ensures that the key used to solve the contract is valid to decrypt the encrypted payload sent to the client. IE...if the contract can be solved, then the payer can use the same key sent to the smart contract to decrypt the blob you sent him.

> How does this protect against meaningless data being sent - all you've confirmed is that something can be decrypted... but says nothing about what is being decrypted.

See above. If the person who stored the data retained a checksum of the first 2048 bytes, they can compare the decrypted 2048 byte hash to the hash they have stored. Now they can be assured that key will decrypt the entire blob you sent them. You could mix it up, and use an arbitrary offset of a 2048 byte block size if paranoid.

> What use case do you have for this. What situation is there where you need data from someone, but so little trust exists you can't pay them before or after the data is sent?

To incentivize one or more peers to store encrypted data, with the expectation they would be paid for supplying it later. The peers would have no knowledge of the payload. A use-case could be that I have _very_ sensitive data, and I want to make sure it is available in the future, but do not trust anyone to store it in plaintext. I could encrypt the data, and ask peer(s) to store it for me. When I request the data back in the future, any peer that has a copy would be incentivized to under-bid other peers(if there are any) to set a price we agree upon to transmit the data back to me. The end result is my data is resilient, and the people storing it are doing it with some expectation of payment at a point in the future.

disclaimer: this is a contrived example....but do you remember the wikileaks "insurance file" in the past? If that insurance file was stored in the manner above, it would be even more likely to exist far in the future when the people storing it have the possibility of being paid for storing it. It also gives them plausible deniability of _what_ exactly they were storing if it is encrypted.
I can write a client side CSS that turns your website's background to red and there's nothing you can do about it.
> Nobody is being harmed by having unpaid rent paid off.

opportunity cost?
> A good driver accelerates on that ramp on beats the truck by 2-3 car lengths and merges at speed

No. A good driver stops at the yield sign if an approaching vehicle is 2-3 car lengths away. It is dangerous to play guessing games with your car's engine and another driver's attention. If anything goes wrong (tire puncture, engine dies, slippery road, truck driver slams the gas) you have successfully managed to put yourself into the direct path of a speeding brick wall 5x as heavy as you. There is never a safe merging scenario where the right choice is to slam the gas pedal to beat another driver to the punch, especially not when merging onto an active freeway.

If there is a yield sign at the end of the onramp, that means prepare to yield. If there is not a yield sign, then the expectation is to keep merging. There wouldn't be a point to the yield sign if everyone treated it as if it didn't exist.

> leaves its front end sticking out into the oncoming traffic,

I also agree with you but this may be a byproduct of the camera's perspective and maybe it would look normal in the driver's seat. We don't really have a great view but the truck could also have been hugging the curb which would have brought it closer to the car than it should be.

> dangerously merges sheepishly without accelerating fast enough

Fully agree here. If you merge you have to commit to matching the speed of nearby vehicles or else you're creating a dangerous situation. Mobileye should have sped up much faster than it did.

I'm not a neural network, fwiw.
I mean now we're getting into human psychology. You're right that people don't care as much but I'd argue that they don't really understand what is happening and how that data is used.

I'd wager that the vast majority of people think the machine only checks if the ID is valid and doesn't do anything else.
Public schooling was created because the government was threatened by catholic parochial education being widely available.

Catholicism has fewer cultural proscriptions than what the predominant waspy culture wanted. For example, Catholic schools in native American reservations didn't seek to undo Indian culture. This state of affairs was not acceptable and there was a chance said children would become catholic.

Thus, the WASPs, unable to organize schooling in their own churches for their children at an affordable price (a problem which still exists today.. catholic schools are empirically cheaper than other christian schools), turned to the government as the only way to combat the papists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_public_education_in...

I am not anti public school, but I just take issues with the idea that public schools original purpose was for equality. As Thomas Sowell points out in "education in america", catholic schools do better than public ones for minorities even when accounting for socieconomic factors. This is probably why minorities disproportionately favor vouchers.

Public schools leading to equality is today a 'fact' asserted with little empirical data and any attempt at refutation is met with all kinds of accusations.
It's smaller, but not actually negligible. An old but oft-cited 2002 study said a laptop with a three year lifecycle took about twice the energy to manufacture as operate. Silicon is much more energy intensive than other materials, with fab energy consumption apparently relatively steady over time on the order of 1 kwh/cm^2 of silicon processed.

So, there is a high bar for replacing a computer with a new one to actually save net resources, but an actual 10x reduction in power consumption like replacing a P4 desktop with an RPi is big enough to pay off reasonably quickly.
The Levenstein distance to either "Fasm" or "Fshasm" are the same, at three. I don't think that's too close.
I've been working on this private search engine https://private.sh/ for a while. It encrypts your query using client-side javascript so only the Gigablast search engine can read your query. And your query is delivered to Gigablast through an anonymizing proxy that is not in Gigablast's control. So you get TOR-like privacy. Also Gigablast's privacy policy https://gigablast.com/privacy.html shows that your query is not transmitted to 3rd parties or used for anything other than to return your results. Gigablast also has 0 dependencies on Bing or Google.
No, I didn't blank out. What Russia did talks louder to me than what you said.

So Russia has the right to intervene if Ukraine elects an anti-Russia government? Really? Russia gets to decide which governments of Ukraine are acceptable?

And why doesn't Ukraine get to decide what governments of Russia are acceptable?

> US does much worse things for much less - look at CIA getting rid of democratic governments as soon as they decide not to play in US's favour and installing a more favourable regime to their interests.

So, do you think that's morally right, or morally wrong?

This attitude of Russia's - that they have the right to remove a neighboring government if they don't like it - is exactly why so many of Russia's neighbors are desperate to get into NATO. Putin couldn't do a better job of creating and installing anti-Russian governments if he were deliberately trying to do so.
Fees are dictated by the user and the time they have for the transaction to take place. The fee could have been much lower.

I think we are well past the point of debating if bitcoin layer one will be used for day to day transactions however. A custodial service or lighting will have to be used for that. Additionally most people treat bitcoin closer to gold than a dollar currently.
I'll leave the difference between "skim" and "read" be. I've read quite a bit of the documentation from court listener: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17442392/epic-games-inc...

I'll leave it here.
I use the radio (BBC R4). I occasionally recollect 'a really interesting conversation I had'.. before realising it was 'with' Melvyn Bragg on In Our Time.

Sundays can be, er, alarming though! (Hint: at least, for someone not often awake in time to physically attend an early mass.)
What happened to the lightning network? (Serious question, I am out of the loop.)
You seem to want a life where you don't have to do anything and everything is provided for you by others. In other words, you want to be the people that you're jealous of.
You have to compare the destination railyard instead of the tracks. The tracks are equivalent to the sea and the port is equivalent to the railyard. They can distribute closer to the destination though but the tracks are more of a throughput limit point to point than the sea is.
You're making a normative argument; I'm making a positive one.

You ought not try random usernames/passwords on someone's public server, I agree. But if you expose a public server that lets someone type a username/password, you had best be ready for someone to guess values.
> It's basically saying there is an incentive to stop paying rent if the government will just pick up the tab.

Well, no, its not; its saying that if the government declares an eviction moratorium (which is extremely rare) without a rent moratorium, it might also, later, if finances ard convenient and it otherwise feels it expedient, retroactively decide to pay off unpaid rents before the end of that moratorium gets you evicted for unpaid rent.

(OTOH, the Fifth Amendment litigation already happening around the eviction moratorium itself might make that non-optional, anyway, and mooting that by providing full compensation now potentially saves the additional costs associated with litigation.)
I had totally forgot about that util! Thank you for reminding me! The sysinternal tools are great. They should just bake them into the OS.
"If you want something done quickly, give it to the busiest person."
If this continues, we could see increased multifurcation of the Internet. Consider the possibility of retaliation against western outlets by China, Russia, Iran and others within their respective spheres of influence.
Yes, I assume as well.

I think "government bailout", while technically true, is a bit loaded, however. Landlord's hands were forced by the eviction moratorium - so it's a bailout for a problem the government caused.

Now, that "problem" is probably better then the alternative (a bunch of people suddenly becoming homeless in the middle of the pandemic), but the state did force landlords to not evict even if rent wasn't getting paid (not allowing them to find new renters who could try to).
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> I wish this were talked about more.

This is talked about all the time in Bitcoin dev circles.
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No, iOS only for now. Depending on the usage, we might expand to Android and Web
You could also read it for fun, curiosity, and/or because you already have enough recurring revenue.
That’s neat, as a case study for implementation at the very least. Thanks!
Unfortunately, "the feminist critique of patriarchy" is itself incoherent, so that doesn't really help "men's liberation movement" proponents. Coming up with a scary, thought-terminating cliche ("patriarchy") that itself conflates a huge variety of institutional/social arrangements, a vast amount of which are supported and maintained by women far more than men, is junk social science, and is hardly a satisfactory foundation for any social movement.
> Judging parents is much easier than actually raising children.

I have seen this line used often. However, from an anti-natalist perspective, actually raising children is a mistake. Therefore, no one should actually expected to actually raise children, and simply judging those who do without that firsthand experience is perfectly reasonable.
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