skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin is not a traditional investment, it is a speculative one.

Blockchain technology is not proprietary to bitcoin, so given this is fungible what value are you pricing in when buying bitcoin? Access to use bitcoin...
I think you just convinced me to buy bitcoins.
...or if you enabled root for some reason, but didn't set a password.
Ask HN: I’d pay X for Y
Google Project Zero does not support full public disclosure immediately- quite the opposite. They support full public disclosure after giving the vendor an opportunity to ship a fix to their customers in a reasonable period of time. Nobody's debating whether or not security flaws should be publicly disclosed- of course they should. The only debate is, what is the most responsible way to handle such a security issue such that it harms the fewest users.

Project Zero (and infosec professionals, at least all of the ones I've ever worked with) would tell you that this was the most irresponsible way to handle the issue, short of not saying anything and selling knowledge of the exploit to someone other than the vendor who could fix it. Publicizing something like this in this way is something people do because they want publicity for themselves. It is not something someone does if their biggest concern is for the users who might be affected by it. It is something someone would do if they didn't care about the users, and just wanted public credit for pointing it out.
Why? Why was this common sense? What other things should people have invested 1% of their portfolio in? Is every thing that has the possibility of increasing in value dramatically worth investing 1% of my portfolio?
I'm no financial advisor, but I'd fire the person who recommended I buy gold as a long term investment.
Definitely. How many people outside the infosec industry know that responsible disclosure channels exist?
Thanks, you are right. If he refers this post (which i believe he does), he is indeed right.

Anyhow, personally i wouldn't exclude something like this, e.g. suing, as a last resort. Anything that changes apples attitude towards security or at the very least, enhancing the value of security as a product qualifier.
I believe Apollo was abandoned in favor of Artemis[1] which is based on RedHat's donation of HornetQ. But yea, the community doesn't seem to have rushed to adopt Artemis so it looks like AWS is starting where the numbers are.

The Amazon MQ UI specifically mentions which "Engine" is being used so hopefully there will be other options in the future. Similar to how RDS and Elasticache support multiple DB/Cache Engines.

1. https://activemq.apache.org/artemis/
I don't think this matters, as long as the internals are completely inaccessible to a programmer. In other words, what happens inside is not what is usually called "architecture" (which is part of the definition of what RISC is).
Indeed. Apple often also gets flak for taking KHTML and running with it, but footing the bill for WebKit development was a good thing for the Internet in general.
That seems to resonate with me. I might want a little more time with my parents, but quite honestly, I'd rather they were less stressed and tired. Unfortunately, they are pretty headstrong so nothing I say would ever change their hours.
Intel, Nvidia, ARM etc have been shipping HEVC hardware since 2015.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding#2...
Seeing Ourselves Through Technology by Jill Walker Rettberg. It's a useful read for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of self representation through technology. Every time you tweet, take a selfie, like a facebook post or track your running, you're doing it to perhaps signal something to others or to document yourself. The book gives a good history on the topic and goes into people's motivations for self representation.
You can get undetectble remote access on most machines given "physical access once", so I don't think this qualifies as "remotely exploitable".
How is bitcoin different than other commodities or property in this regard?

The key distinction is that, mercurial though their price fluctuations may be - traditional commodities such as oil or real estate at least have some intrinsic value, and hence, an intrinsic floor to their valuations. Meanwhile, to the extent that any of these "coins" have such an intrinsic value - if they can even be thought of as "currencies" at all - it is extremely hard to pin down.

Which is Bogle's central point: to the extent that any of these instruments have "value", it's in the belief that ... that value will keep going up, and up, and ever up.
You don't have to spend a lot of time customizing the desktop. It works fine out of the box. The difference is that you have an option to customize the desktop and are not locked in.

In any case, customizing one's computer teaches useful tech skills. I've solved many problems that better programmers couldn't solve, because they didn't know basic unix stuff.
The first time I tried it, it just worked. I'm certain I've used root before. On the GUI portion it works with no password, but on the terminal it does not let me login as root without a password. Some weird OS magic must be going on there?
Another day, another alarmist article.

Nothing Jack Bogle says is not true. Yet, he is 88yr old guy, with all due respect, he has no idea what Bitcoin is.

I have yet to hear something from Wall Street that is novel and relevant to Bitcoin. It is a new thing they are afraid of, often not understanding it fully. When I say Bitcoin, I mean all crypto-currencies.

If you don't know what you are getting into, I would advise not to put any major sum in crypto. Go small and learn. Don't bet your life on something you don't understand.

And don't listen to these guys. :)
These will be quite nice when wrapping things like css grid components which must be on the same DOM level.
I lol’ed
Apple suggests the workaround also discussed in this thread until the issue is fixed:

"We are working on a software update to address this issue. In the meantime, setting a root password prevents unauthorized access to your Mac. To enable the Root User and set a password, please follow the instructions here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204012. If a Root User is already enabled, to ensure a blank password is not set, please follow the instructions from the ‘Change the root password’ section."

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/28/astonishing-os-x-bug-lets-...
I don't recall if I read Ann Leckie's "Ancillary Justice" this year or last year. It was excellent.

I have only a few pages left of Neal Stephenson's "REAMDE", which turns out to be better than I had dared hope.
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How do you do that? It seems hard to me to attach hard $ to volatility. If you go with a rebalancing approach like frequently done for lazy portfolios you'd likely benefit from volatility, would you not?
> I whole heartedly disagree. Erring on the side of caution got us the TSA, DHS, the War on Drugs, the Iraq invasion, and justifies the continued operations in Afghanistan.

That's nothing to do with the subject, which is an individual no longer comfortable with their online communications. Dragging all this other stuff in has no bearing on that.

Besides the fact that quite a few of those entries have absolutely nothing to do with 'erring on the side of caution'.
root IS an admin in macOS. You just cannot use root the same way you expect root to work in other Unix OS' without changing stuff in the BIOS (or whatever it's called for Apple) but you can still do most admin things with root. However root does get admin privileges, but when it comes to some system directories he is banned till you "fix" root privileges.

Edit:

See: https://stackoverflow.com/a/33272796 for a bit more information of what I mean.
What ? Users aren't paying licensing fees for H.265.

And the competition are all part of H.265 as well e.g. Microsoft, Intel.
It's common among a small group of Mac users to hold Snow Leopard up as the peak of software quality, but only because of rose-colored glasses [1].

[1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/2528936/mac-os-x/snow-...
Voting for candidates who support it and pass laws providing it.
That may be true for cisco and juniper where upgrades must be carefully rolled out across globally distributed critical infrastructure, but this is APPLE. They need no such help. They can push to everyone, now, and it will be fine. Forcing their hand is safer than trying to hide a flaw a 3 year old could find on accident.
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Moving GCs are fairly non-intuitive. It seems like the extra overhead to do pointer updates and data copying would cause performance loss, but the generational nature of objects helps a lot. Copying means you get clean pages a lot faster and have fewer OS level allocations caused by pages sparsely populated with gen2 objects.

The Microsoft .NET implementation use a copying GC. IIRC the HotSpot JVM GC is compacting as well. Conservative GCs are much easier when interacting with C though, especially if you have to share pointers.
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All those things typically have a potential DCF PV associated with them. Bitcoin is 100% speculative.
Bitcoin is becoming a value store. With slow transaction confirmation and high fees, what are the real-world applications for Bitcoin supposed to be now? And for those applications, are there not other cryptocurrencies more specifically targeted at being better at that application?
Gold is certainly the ideal model for something like Bitcoin but in terms of projectable value gold has time on its side. I will happily invest in Bitcoin when its history as a store of value and a medium of exchange is measured in millennia.
Thank you, I was wrong.
Ask HN: Why would anyone share trading algorithms and compare by performance?
I was speaking with a person years my senior awhile back, and sharing information about the Quantopian platform (which allows users to backtest and share trading algorithms); and he asked me "why would anyone share their trading algorithms [if they're making any money]?"

I tried "to help each other improve their performance". Is there a better way to explain to someone who spends their time reading forums with no objective performance comparisons over historical data why people would help each other improve their algorithmic trading algorithms?
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/riskadjustedreturn.asp
Paid $3,000 for an iMac. Can't even watch any video or have the kids FaceTime their grandparents because video freezes constantly. Rebooting fixes it...for 2 minutes.
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Looking at rt.rs:

sys::stack_overflow::init();

I probably don't know what this function does, because my initial guess is not very comforting. :)
Seems like you are splitting hairs here. Clearly, the point the commenter was making is that people that have now set the root password as a result of the tweet are more secure than they were before the tweet.
> you've made it possible for anyone to go to the fire, light a torch with it

And at the same time provided everyone with a simple, free, and perfect way to fireproof his/her house.

You could wait for the fire department, which may take hours to get there, and hope that no malicious party down the street saw the fire, or you can do this. It turns out that both are quite reasonable reactions in this scenario, and that the latter is much more obvious to the layman.

There is no good reason to get angry at the layman for taking a course you don't prefer.
Yes, Jack Bogle is down on gold too, calling it: "Speculation" with "no intrinsic value."

And to credit Jack Bogle, six years after making that statement, gold is trading lower.

https://www.newsmax.com/finance/InvestingAnalysis/bogle-gold...
We'll see how well Bitcoin does during the next recession. Plenty of investments seem great when the markets and economy are doing well, but turn into disasters when the markets crash.
I hate to underestimate the "average user," but there are legitimate things the average user could do with a Save As button in Netflix, like playing video on unapproved devices that they own. There are a lot of people who still don't have a smart TV capable of streaming Netflix but do have one capable of playing .mp4 files from a USB drive.

The last time I ripped a DVD was so my mother could watch it on her iPad over a long plane flight. If DRM didn't exist, I imagine importing a DVD or Blu-ray into iTunes would be as easy as importing a CD. Empowering users to watch media they own on devices they own would have a real impact. It might not be something the average user devotes a lot of thought to, but it would certainly be something they would do if they were allowed.
I recommend to all my friends and family Microsoft's Signature Edition program that vets OEMs for clean Windows installs with minimal drivers (it's easiest to buy a Signature Edition at a Microsoft Store, but some OEMs, Best Buys, and Staples can all offer it if you ask nicely).

So far that seems to be pretty sustainable advice for non-technical friends and family expecting to use Windows.
Really, "the power of legitimate violence" doesn't compute. If someone has the actual power to use violence against the population, what difference does it make whether it is somehow nominally illegitimate? Giving all the power to private corporations is not a solution to that problem, because then those corporations ultimately will also end up with the power to use violence. Your only hope is to keep power distributed.
Point taken. A closer look shows that about half of them are part of Apple corporate.
Excellent! Thanks for sharing
Shouldn't matter as long as the password is strong?
VP8 was patent encumbered.
Nobody knows if VP9 is but it is highly suspected to be.

AV1 won't outperform H.265 when there is no hardware support for it. That's the whole issue here. AV1 is dead when you have major platforms not supporting it e.g. iOS, OSX, PS4, XBox and almost every photo camera.
Over the past 7 years, Bitcoin has outperformed every security and portfolio that Jack Bogle has recommended.

Same deal (give or take a few name and parameter changes) as with the preconditions for every speculative bubble - and crash - since the beginning of time, basically.
@genbit, thanks for your answer.

You could say I am an expert (valuation and risk wise) in Interest Rate Derivatives and various other (more simple) financial products such as FX, loan/depos, stocks and bonds, etc. I have been responsible for translating the business needs into requirements for IT departments and Financial Engineers.

The roles I had were more informal than what you see in the typical business analyst roles in IT companies. I have also been training colleagues in Front Office, Market Risk and Product Control departments on these valuation and risk topics.

As an IT person you might think this is not real programming :-), but I have built various Excel VBA tools for the department.

Education wise I am educated in Investment Theory & Investment Management. Meaning that I should know how pension funds and asset managers should invest their money in the financial markets.

Also, I have been investing and later on trading on various products in the financial markets since the age of 13!, while I am now in my mid thirties.

I have mainly applied to business analyst, financial analyst, business analyst/project manager, risk analyst, investment analyst roles.
When scientists say "not entirely unexpected" engineers say "that's bound to be a useful hack"
> Doubtful Firefox and Chrome work just fine.

That doesn't mean anything. It just means that whatever is messed up affects Safari. It's not like the computer recognizes "oh those 3 apps are all web browsers, therefore if I'm going to screw one of them up, I have to screw them all up". Your claim would carry more weight if you were listing multiple browsers that all use the same system-provided WebKit.framework, but Firefox and Chrome are completely separate browsing engines.

Regarding the HTTPS issue, I believe Firefox and Chrome maintain their own list of root certs, so one possible way the computer could be screwed up is having the system-managed root cert list be damaged (you didn't specify what actually happens when trying to connect to HTTPS sites so I don't know if this is actually a plausible cause in this particular case).

> Brand new install of Mac OS on a new SSD. So Safari was clean no extensions, no custom configuration.

Well I don't know what to tell you, except to point out that there's, what, hundreds of thousands of registered Apple developers now? who've all had to go through that form, and there's only a handful of people on that thread, so it's far more likely to be a local issue.
In my work, I have never discarded outlier values. We investigate them to make sure we're not doing something boneheaded, but once I'm confident it's legit, I always include it.

I agree that trimmed-means are L-moments are better at characterizing a distribution. But! I had to look them up just now, and I have never seen a computer systems paper which used them. I don't know if most readers would be able to intuit meaning from them. My claim is not that mean and standard deviation is the best way to characterize computer systems performance data, but that for my work, it's better than mean and a confidence interval.
1) 'valuing' a currency is different than valuing other investments.

2) BTC is not being used as a currency, it's being used as an 'investment' and a (very bad) store of value. 'Stores of value' we should definitely be able to value - but currencies are hard to do that with.

3) As far as valuing USD vs BTC - it's difficult to value, but you can do it. Oil futures, Fed Movements, capital controls and flows - it's possible to predict within a range where currencies will go. With BTC, there's nothing to value it with.
I've been trying a few of them out. I had to look at which one I had installed. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any plans to put in the proper APIs to make anything nearly as useful as vimperator.
I'd pay 50USD/month to argue with thought leaders and well-known VCs.
"Your chatbot should be purposeful, reflective of your product’s voice, and simpatico with your users. One helpful design exercise is to produce an assistant persona and personality:"

For a business, a "chatbot" or any feature similar to it needs to do one thing and that is solve the users problem(s). If the user wants to do X within the app or learn about Y, the chatbot needs to help the user with that efficiently and better than a human can for the feature to be successful. The "chatbot having a personality" comes second to "solve the users problem."

If the users are completely happy with whatever chatbot they are using, then sure adding in some "personality" might be a good idea and increase engagement slightly, but a poorly-performing chatbot that can't help the user but has a personality isn't going to help the business at all.
> Now they're stuck with a root password when they could have not had one at all.

And many users will create insecure passwords, leaving them with a serious vulnerability after the patch. A password of "root" or "qwerty" is only marginally more secure than a blank one.
Yes, there's really nothing that gives Bitcoin value beyond new investors being willing to pay more for it than previous investors. Most people don't transact using it and the network is far too slow to support that use case anyway. It is a "store of value" that loses or gains half its value every few months. The community is torn with 3 separate forks & some of the earliest Bitcoiners have gone all in on Bitcoin Cash. The majority of the hashing power is controlled by a few entities and is a far cry from the decentralization originally envisioned. The communities online no longer talk about Bitcoin as a useful tool. They just talk about getting rich off of it. coinmarketcap.com, a site only for checking the price of cryptocurrencies, is a top 500 site globally according to Alexa, meaning there are a lot of people checking the price of bitcoin, few people using it for anything.
sure, but how many have this feeling that we're progressing, we're modern, we have everything but still some very important notions are hidden in antique books in your library
Digital currencies are something would have been great to invest in, in retrospect; but if you're in them now, continuously take profits, to make sure you come out ahead when normality kicks in.

There's no Bitcoin-only economy that requires you to use Bitcoin to operate in it, like currencies. There's too many competitor crypto-currencies, and the bar for competition is sufficiently low that it's unlikely that Bitcoin will be the long-term winner. That makes it a losing bet; maybe not this decade, but sooner or later.

Also, the slowness of Bitcoin transactions means that when the crash happens, and people start rushing out, they won't be able to get out very quickly. Hopefully people will see it as easy come, easy go.
I don't believe I have, I'll give it a shot sometime
I disagree with both points.

There may be highly probable harms which cannot be directly proven, or for which various standards of proof are thwarted by the monopolist itself. Since "wealth is power" (Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith), monopoly power itself conveys additional power. There's a strong argument for additional responsbility, limits, and/or oversight as a result, for which there's a long list of supporting argument (Smith, Mill, Marx, Galbraith, off the top of my head).

Secondly, consumers are only one of several parties potentially affected. The other groups may be competitors, suppliers, vendors, the public at large, natural systems, etc. I'd have to think over this at greater length.

The argument that price and "consumers" are the only factors of significance in considering monopoly harms is a distinctly modern one, promulgated almost exclusively by monopolists themselves. To rather great effect.

After all, wealth is power.
The usual argument relies on meteor impact throwing detritus into the upper atmosphere. We have rocks from Mars that got here by that means.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15793754
It's not a totally crazy idea to set aside a small portion of your portfolio for a bunch of long-shot investments that have huge upside potential (isn't that how seed funding works?). But I think practically speaking it'd be hard to come up with that list of assets in a rigorous way such that you expect some portion of them to succeed. (e.g. all crypto currencies? penny stocks? beanie babies? abstract art? water bottles, bullets, and cigarettes?)
The same can be said about war machines. This is a problem as old as human history.
They were already at risk. Now they can mitigate.
Hostile fork has a low chance of survival; for one you should wait until Google cuts all vital pieces off JetBrains as they are trying for the past few years anyway, yet making JetBrains people somehow flattered about it... MS is at least openly trying to kill them.
like almost everyone else, AWS adds services to it's list of PHI approved services that customers with a BAA can utilize for PHI. AWS has done a phenomenal job getting services added to the BAA Service List over the past 6 or 8 months; there is a lot of emphasis on it now.
Uber-Waymo Trial Delayed After Explosive Testimony About Uber's Tactics
DNS-over-TLS at SURFnet
My current favorite is I am Root.
Diversification. Preferably your portfolio will have a tech allocation and crypto could be part of it. Certainly there are many things that will appreciate ten folds in a year; and most things that don't.

Had I opted for diversification in my investment, I'd have seen my wealth even triple that now. And this is not in crypto only.
Agreed, it's fantastic. A little thing, would like to browse/filter by categories (or maybe see popular books).
*Significantly more risk
I am going to ask, do you want to try this scenario on your own in real life? Because often we make general statements while we don’t actually practice what we say to others when the issue is going to hurt ourselves.