skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean this is the same guy who camped out at the factory for like 3 weeks to iron out all the production issues with model 3 and scale production up to meet demand, and it more or less worked. Perhaps you don't need the Toyota production system after all
Is the threat of long range attacks in PoS any worse than PoW in practice?

Bitcoin for example still relies on a list of hardcoded nodes for bootstrapping clients. Not to mention very few people actually bother to verify the full chain (360GB and counting) from genesis.

As for auditing the the integrity of the code or binary, it is signed by GPG keys hosted on public key servers accessed using X509 certificates pinned by a a couple of trust anchors preloaded in your OS. So much for distributed consensus...
I'm blown away by how quickly this rose on HN and how unconvincing it is.
Why do unsophisticated, redundant, vitriolic takes like this get upvoted on HN so much? Is there some common ax to grind here?

The strongest point here is the strawman presentation of the altered security model that PoS can be proven to form consensus under. Reading the source he cites is far more informative: https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/11/25/proof-stake-learned-lov...

The majority of the article frames distributed consensus mechanisms in an extremely sophomoric understanding of asset value and the PoW security model. All of these topics (including valid ETH criticisms) are discussed in much better ways in many other places.
FYI since you mention Lease Documents. Specifically for Lease Documents Zillow has an upload and sign ( or in some states a free lease builder ) you don’t have to list a property just go straight to the leases section
Ya agreed, understand it's not your title. Seems like NPR is grouping it under "those krazy krypto kids" so it's all the same.
> structured my finances and my life to be able to take time to do it

so you do agree that it takes time to buy and sell real estate. The reason liquidity is better for market efficiency is that liquidity allows the price of the asset to move towards the "true" price, where either party of the transaction doesn't feel they've been cheated.

If you claim that house flippers are "cheating" the long term buyers, then you must also agree that the market is currently inefficient, and that the long term buyers is paying above the "true" price. Liquidity would actually alleviate that problem!

if you don't agree that flippers are cheating their price higher, then you must also agree that the long term buyers are getting a better deal.

So either way, liquidity makes the market more efficient, and results in the "true" price of the asset to be revealed sooner and easier.
Occam's razor points to sour grapes
How exactly were they hit hard during pandemic? Their main income stream is the funnel of services they provide (or get a cut of) through lead generation (agents, title, insurance, etc...).

During the time of the pandemic, the house prices rose and so did the volume. If anything, they made out like a bandit.
IANAL, but the law says in France, anything with a written name as a signature is valid, although I suppose with limitations, but it is very clear that an email with a signature is enough for child custody agreements, and theoretically an SMS would be enough too, although I don’t know if the SMS has been tested in court. Apart from harassment cases.
I'm 40 too and this is why I left the software engineering field and went into medicine. Just started interning in fact ("co-schappen", which in the Netherlands takes about 3 years, after which you can call yourself doctor but don't have a specialism yet). I'm loving both the experience of learning an entirely new field with its own quirks and ways of looking at the world, as well as the technical challenges.

I realise it isn't for everyone, but there's no shame in acknowledging that software engineering is sadly structured to be a field for mostly young people, and moving on to greener pastures. I mean, I can still enjoy programming, just as a hobby instead (which is what it started out as anyway).
Exactly, a public company that skirts KYC/AML laws and securities laws.

I'm not saying I necessarily agree with those laws, I just see much of the "DAO revolution" as designed to "free the people" into investing anonymously and without accredited investor requirements, without directly trying to change the laws.

One thing I think it does that most don't talk about: allows people to register a global company/org. Right now, I think the highest level to register an org is the nation-state level, not much, if anything, exists at a global level.
Ten Thousand Mistakes
It's only as bad as memorizing the usual quadratic formula. While most people are taught the derivation of the quadratic formula, few remember it, opting instead to memorize it. Likewise, you've just derived the b^2/4 aspect. Most people don't want to rederive it every time they solve it, so they just memorize that they should add and subtract b^2/4 and complete the square.

BTW, if the notion of adding and subtracting the same amount bothers you: Yes, this is done all the time.
> Imagine if drinking water was treated as a speculative asset, with large percentages of a countries water supply being stored in tanks

then you'd see people not waste any water at all, and fix any pipe leakage, and conserve water, and use water efficient agriculture methods etc.

The price of a commodity determines how much and how easily it is available. The fact that water is so liquid (both in terms of the price, as well as being an actual liquid) is because of the high amount of investments made into obtaining it over the past centuries. Liquidity of any asset (or commodity) is a good feature to have imho.
If it's not a security, what is it? A lottery ticket? I've ready your subsequent posts in this thread, I'm curious what you're trying to get at here.
Couldn't find the year this was posted, but it isn't recent. If anyone knows, let me know so I can fix the title.
'Policy changes' and hard forks have about as much to do with PoW as whether the Federal authorities should ban cryptocurrencies or not - they're outside the realm of consensus algorithms. In PoW there are no friends. If your blockchain is incorrect (i.e not the longest) your transactions on it are invalid and will be rejected by the rest of the network.
It's a tricky thing to think about. I'm very near to 30, after 10 years or so kind of in a software career, but will be entering my 30s with no money saved or invested. Not because I'm a poor spender, quite the contrary, but because I've lost jobs and burnt out, leaving me in the absolutely comical interviewing gauntlet for over a year, multiple times. During this time, I've just drained my savings completely supporting myself. The way things look, unless I find a way to keep a job of any kind, I'll just continue this rollercoaster of making about $30k, going to zero, and restarting. Someone who's been in a low to middle income non-tech job for the last decade—with the same spending habits—will have made more money in total by this point, and have more to show for it. The other likelihood is I'll just find a way to embrace this flux and ride it as well as I can.
It seemed to work Ok.

I found the number of tags far too many to be really useful. I'm searching for an answer/not more problems.

UI wise I was irritated, that clicking the tag only had a visible effect after I moved the mouse away. First time i clicked (toggled on), then clicked again (toggled off).

I was thinking about a search engine that would help me chose the right direction of there are multiple interpretations.

My test was searching for "quasar" and seeing if the vue js framework would be offered as tag (which it's not). But it's actually result number 3?

How are the tags related to the results?

I've also found it irritating that selecting the tags need to be "applied" without having an idea of what it will do, or how many results there are.

Maybe apply the selected tag immediately and keep the tags in the same UI location (don't reload them, like you currently do after applying).

I'm not sure what's the perfect search example is for this. Because narrowing down by keyword is easy. Here it's almost like it helps you discover keywords/tags that are yet unknown?
I just assume that could be possible with a gofundme or kickstarter platform if they were allowed to sell ownership shares to the public. I think why it doesn't happen on those platforms has more to do with the securities laws than tech challenges.
Sounds like you know what you're talking about. What do you think of this idea of a DAO from a legal perspective? Are there any DAO models in particular you find attractive?
Find someone who will lend you their tokens (if it’s on-chain, you will need collateral) and sell them. Later you can buy same amount of tokens from the market for a lower price - if price indeed goes down.
Yeah it feels good! Having a satchel of gold would be fun but it’s just so expensive!
I wish French lawmakers would realize their broken copyright system is why Notre Dame won't ever be restored to exactly how it was, and then fix it so it won't ever cause a similar problem in the future.
Should we also ban clothes dryers, Christmas lights, porn, and video games? Each of those uses significantly more energy than Bitcion. If not, who gets to decide what a "good" use of electricity is?
First, the difference is that it's trust-less because people votes are backed by crypto.

Second, you're aware the "congrats, you've just invented" argument is a ridiculous fallacy that can be used against any kind of innovation. It's also has a very bad record as it's been used against the internet, smartphones, social media etc.
Rest easy:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5388725/

> Additional human inner aluminum exposure through the proper use of aluminum moka pots is negligible. Even under the worst-case scenario of washing the moka pots in a dishwasher, the uptake amounts to only 4% of TWI [total weekly intake]. The manufacturers expressly warn not to clean the aluminum moka pots in the dishwasher.
Well, how many times has it been delayed? Clearly it's not all sunshine and rainbows.
Yeah. To me, that suggests that either people are "visualizing" the silly machines they draw or they aren't visualizing. Since I produce the same silly (or abstract) representations with no visualizing I tend to think that other people are doing the same thing I am but with the delusion that they visualize something. Although, admittedly, I cannot explain exactly what the difference between visualizing and thinking you visualized something would be.
I'm pro-cryptocurrencies, but I also don't really get what's so amazing about DAOs. Are there any references or explanations from people who love them?

Here's a piece by Vitalik I found compelling: https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/08/16/voting3.html
Indeed. And even if you posit a PoW currency which never has policy changes, unlike Bitcoin or any other major cryptocurrency…

And you assume that attackers will never have enough computing resources to execute a 51% attack – which could happen because the currency’s value falls enough that people stop mining it, because an extraordinarily well-funded entity decides to attack it, or because someone manages to hack the miners…

Then you do gain the security guarantee that if you see multiple competing branches of the blockchain, you’ll know which branch is the correct one (namely, whichever is longest). However, you’re still relying on phoning your “friends” (nodes you’re aware of) to tell you what blocks exist! If they all keep the true longest branch a secret from you (or, say, someone blocks your Internet connection to the nodes that aren’t willing to do so), then you will think the next longest branch is the correct one.

To be fair, that isn’t the most practical attack. But none of the risks being discussed here are remotely practical. In practice, nobody wants to connect an outdated client to a blockchain network because it risks (a) getting yourself exploited through known vulnerabilities in the client, (b) not working due to backwards incompatible protocol changes or bugs, or (c) missing a hard fork that might have happened over disagreements in policy changes (because there are always policy changes). So you update your client, and that means you have to rely on a “friend” to tell you which software you should be running.
You can't simply say to "learn" to cure yourself from aphantasia and leave it at that. Please elaborate.
The fact you're being downvoted for this correction just goes to show how happy and proud the HN crowd is with being ignorant to crypto
Do people deploy PoS chain clients that are ok with blocks that totally ignore the historical leader schedule or use a leader schedule that could not have resulted from the distribution of stake in the network at the time? If not, how will the attacker who wants to swap out a single block a year later get all the other validators to sign a year worth of new blocks?
You could convince a blind man that you could see quite easily, by doing things that require vision and that blind people couldn't reproduce. Since the alleged visualizers don't seem to be able to do anything aphantasia-people can't - it makes me think visualization isn't real.
I really appreciate this critique. And I'm grateful for your cynicism. So long as that cynicism isn't used as a reason not to take tenuous steps toward something different from the status quo.

With that said:

> How much value does a consensus system like this truly have in finding the truth of a subject matter

There's maybe some things to hash out here. If the value of consensus is seen as finding a "truth", then yes, I agree this tool is suspect for that. But if the value of consensus is simply finding enough agreement (on feelings/facts/whatever) to take a step forward together, then maybe it can survive truth shifting under our feet a bit. What matters is whether we maintain commitment to moving in some direction together. And my experience is that Polis creates the stability and trust required for this.

Unlike the hyper-division fostered by social media platforms, Polis helps build stable common ground to stand on. It can be used to elevate and incentivize people who do the work of offering bridging (aka shared) sentiments. Other tools don't do this. My mental model is that the availability of these bridges in the opinion space, this stabilizes middle ground on which long-form deliberations can take place. [1]

> might be used as a tool by people with bad intentions to gather data about what the population superficially thinks and then be able to shape your media campaign

YES. This is a huge concern to not just Polis' creators, but many who work around big data. The capacity for abuse or manipulation is huge. My personal hope is that we can all build tooling like this together, to make us as a population legible to ourselves (symmetric, self-knowledge), rather than data simply making us legible to powerful actors via asymmetric knowledge (which is what's currently happening). This is why imho tools like Polis should be run openly by governments or other trusted partners (journalists). Cryptographic and data trusts should certainly play a role in future iterations.

This whole effort needs people thinking about safeguards in the same way that those designing/maintaining a democracy think about safeguards. imho the process of running these processes must [eventually] be comparably sacred to those of running elections and parliaments.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrRRvqgYgT0
You seem to have mapped out pretty clear logic here. What's important to you about refuting this as a possibility?
> I expect most people will become millionaires at some point in their life, probably 30s.

The people on here are so out of touch with reality, lol.
>This is a game theory problem, NOT a statistics problem. In my case the utility of losing -$100 is zero, the utility of gaining $100K is very positive, the utility of missing out on the $100K is extremely negative.

Calculating utility, or the expected value, is entirely statistics.
Isn't this his third or fourth "one last movie"?

I believe he's one of those people who won't be able to stop working until he's dead
Escapism ? + self hypnotizing to the max.

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

> Escapism is mental diversion from unpleasant or boring aspects of daily life, typically through activities involving imagination or entertainment. Escapism may be used to occupy one's self away from persistent feelings of depression or general sadness.
This is not what is happening on these platforms. r/thedonald had millions of subscribers and not a single one was forced to listen. Then it was banned by reddit for thoughtcrime.
In the late 1990s, W. Curtis Preston wrote a book called “Unix Backup and Recovery”. A later version was just named “Backup and Recovery”. Both were published by O’Reilly.

He was saying similar things at that time (e.g., “Backups are worthless, Restores are priceless”), and I’m certain he wasn’t the first.

But you’d have to ask him who was saying things like that before he did.

Disclaimer: Curtis was a co-worker of mine at the time, and I was a technical reviewer of the book in question.
The only blog I really love and follow is Paul Graham's. So I'd suggest you do what he does: http://paulgraham.com/simply.html

There's some good advice on writing on his blog. Namely write a draft quickly, meander towards interesting part of a topic, and edit slowly. Keep editing until there is nothing left to remove.

Write about things that interest you. Pick a topic that you suddenly find interesting and dive into it. It might take you a few days of reading to come up with one article worth of content.
HN comment faqs: “Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity”

*Anecdotal* reports of select political groups having <insert bad habit or hypocritical behavior” doesn’t spur worthwhile discussion.

That comment itself even admits to be a non-sequitur to the article, so it really is just a post looking for excuses to take potshots at politics groups.

The article is actually about internal migration within the USA
The videos from a class the authors gave in 1986 are available online (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2Op3QLzMgSY). I highly recommend those, if reading the text is not your style.
The naive assumption is that the people making that choice stand to become much richer from the change
Media Theranos: The End of Ozy
Obsidian is working on replicating Typora: https://trello.com/c/pXHHXIzj/18-wysiwyg-editor-like-typora and https://twitter.com/obsdmd/status/1458523572448727051

Having tried both tools, I'd say that the "venn diagram" between Typora and Obsidian is one small circle almost completely overlapped by a huge one.
Archived: https://archive.ph/A63im
>We are not good at accepting criticism, especially valid and accurate criticism.

That's not quite how I would characterise it. I am not particularly good at accepting valid and accurate criticism if nothing actionable follows from the critique.

Thanks for the information. I already know all that you've told me about myself. I just don't know how to fix it (and I've tried a bunch of things that you are likely to recommend next).

Said differently: I have no tactful way of telling you that your feedback is worthless.
The cope is strong with this one.
In a ternary system, wouldn't 1.222... equal 2?
https://archive.md/Oz2mv
Is this FUD from Bitcoin maximalists?

> That key is valid to sign any number of versions of, let’s say, block #200, and there is no objective, system-internal standard for which version is legitimate, other than “the one that was published first”.

The real block #200 will have hundreds of attestations courtesy of randomly-selected validators, each of those signatures attesting to its validity and finality.
Renting out equipment for miners is dangerous, as an attack on the network can wipe out all their sunk costs. Bitcoin miner farms are very strongly incentivized to be aligned with the long term health of the system, so they try to play nice close to the ethos of Bitcoin (they learned enough from the blocksize wars that they can get burned if they go against Bitcoin)
Yeah that's a pretty fair assessment of the state of play here in Oz, and I'll add the point that most Australians have no idea this stuff is occurring.

The media landscape in Australia is extremely consolidated, to the degree that there are only a few major media players, and they are almost completely aligned in their agenda and messaging.

There is an incestuous relationship between the media and the politicians - the hyperconsolidated media acts as kingmaker, which gives an incentive for the government to coddle them. In return for favourable legislation, the media runs stories (or doesn't run them) to the benefit of their favoured political party. That party is almost always the conservative LNP, if you're ever wondering why Australia has such a prominent right-wing authoritarian streak, know that the Murdoch media has a dominant print market share, a monopoly on cable TV, and a large majority of the free to air TV market is ideologically aligned.

I would bet real money that any random HNer who has clicked on the recent posts regarding Australia's incursions into digital freedom has heard more about it than the average Aussie.
...or the Reddit CEO who goes into the backend to invisibly edit your posts.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170720143148/https://www.reddi...
Visa complains to U.S. govt about India backing for local rival RuPay
But won't each of those take up significantly more energy once they use Bitcoin than today? I.e the costs will be additive , and crypto aims to replace fiat. So crypto would need to be more efficient at the same scale as fiat to make sense.

Also aren't each of those used by significantly more people than Bitcoin? So the per capita use is less and they scale better?

Also how are you estimating cost of porn? Viewing cost? Generation cost?
What specifically might they be likely to complain about? I’m unfamiliar with the idea of regular tests (in Australia I don’t think you ever need a roadworthiness check if you keep the vehicle’s registration) and don’t know what they’d be looking at.

“Because it’s not safe to drive” is nebulous; I’m interested in details.
No-one tell Scott Morrison that the bots and trolls are all promoting the cause of his side of politics :S

Own goal anyone?

Also his stupid religious discrimination act is worse (or at least as bad) as this stupid law.

This is like the stupid movement from conservatives in the US against "big tech" despite the fact that social media manipulation is a core part of their political strategy, and they're against government regulation.

Right wing politics has become so muddied with libertarianism that they can't do anything now without hypocrisy.
https://archive.md/DsS4T
this forum is actually retarded. Either you dismiss both or neither given there are literally no differences
> Best done with extreme caution, as near boiling water will do your fingers in if it goes over. I set the bottom on a grippy surface, wind the top on, and only have to get a grip on the base for the final cinch.

Pro-tip: get yourself an ove-glove or equivalent knock-off and never burn your hand again:

https://www.amazon.com/Ove-Glove-Resistant-Resistance-Househ...
FWIW I have aphantasia, but my abstract visualisation skills such as imagining and tearing down machines in my head, or even daydreaming, is on point. Which is why software engineering is my career path, as most of it is keeping a complex abstract idea in your mind to flesh it out and think most of the corner cases before sitting down to write code.

I just do all this visualisation without seeing anything, but I describe myself as a visual thinker.

I describe aphantasia as not being able to literally see things with my mind's eye, but still having the feeling of seeing them. Like running a headless browser.