skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is time it is treated as a utility and price regulated like one.

Having lived in an area that had Pacific Gas & Electric, who has infrastructure so old and decrepit that it literally exploded and destroyed part of a town, i'm not so sure that I want my internet access being treated like a utility.

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

also, their amazingly out of control prices, rolling blackouts, etc.

Seeing people say that they want the internet treated like a utility kind of scare me.
We all want to get rich by hoarding money. The only difference is, that the value of bitcoins compared to classical currencies is currently increasing. And because the monthly increase is so high, so many want to join the game.

As soon as everybody has some bitcoins the bitcoin value increase should slow down. At that point there would be no point in hoarding bitcoin more than any other currency.
it's a visa card that you send BTC to your account and when you spend they remove the amount of BTC at the current exchange rate
It's clear that PowerShell implements a more modern design, but that doesn't instantly make it better or more powerful. It's just different.

Unix still works fine; we know its quirks, and we work around them. We try to improve it in some areas, but back track in others. We might even tackle object passing some day, and some development has been done in that[0] area[1].

But that's the good thing: Unix (certain variants more than others) is open to change and anything (mostly) goes, and it's not produced by a single corporation. One that is embracing open source more recently[2], sure, but a corporation none the less.

[0]: https://plumbum.readthedocs.io/

[1]: http://xonsh.org/

[2]: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/powershell-is-open-so...
You think you're too good for a job, hence, you are unemployed.
Billionaires and even millionaires already lower their tax liability to the lowest possible level they don’t need to be physically mobile if they can be financially mobile.
Isn't this tautological? What does "adoption" mean if not "transaction volume"?
He's responsible for the form of Maxwell's equations that we use today.
You will definitely want to be doing cryogenic cooling of your receiver front-end to reduce the noise figure[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise_figure
Is that really the practical/reasonable thing to do? It's also going to differ per state whether or not you can ignore their requests and not unnecessarily escalate the situation.

And if you did brake a traffic law, recieve the ticket. Say hey officer, sorry about that thing we both know I just did. If they probe further or try to search your car then stand your ground.
Good thing they're based in VA and not actually DC, because VA minimum wage is $7.25 and DC's is $11.00.

I made more in high school. This is honestly pretty gross; no wonder they tucked that in at the very bottom of the page.
It is likely that volatility will drop a lot once and if it gains widespread adoption.
They also shot themselves in the foot gamifying the frequent flyer miles systems, which used to be a huge driver for brand loyalty, even if the tickets cost more than competitors'.

Now they've put so many restrictions on when and where you can redeem your points, how quickly you accrue them and when they expire altogether that it simply isn't worth sticking with a single airline to accrue points you can't use.
The demand for consistency across all examples before any action is taken is a very common canard to block progress on an issue pretty much forever.

Imagine if criminal law worked this way, where nobody could be punished unless everyone that violated a law was punished....
I assume the parent was referring to the trade volume, which is significantly lower than more established assets.
Has anyone else had the thought that physics is actually more fundamental that mathematics?

Also, read this article made me think of Feynman's advice which was something like 'look for symmetries and look for conservation'
Apple's security team is nailing this.
Right, but who says all that has to be in the Bay Area?
As a person who uses bitcoin as a store of value, i am quite ok with it being worth 10x what it was less than a year ago. More volatility for me please.
I don't know much about monetary policy. Why does adoption imply price stability?
>Sadly they're entrenched monopolies

Let's not forget, the monopoly exists because the FCC auctioned off the available frequency bands to these companies.

Let's not forget the US Govt blocked an attempted Sprint + T-Mobile merger to produce a viable third competitor in the space, ironically, in the name of competition.

We could have had a spread spectrum solution with open airwaves. We have with unlicensed WiFi frequency bands, and there's plenty of competition in that space. Well, at least until the FCC tries to meddle in that too.

https://www.wired.com/2016/03/way-go-fcc-now-manufacturers-l...

"Light touch"? Yes. How about "no touch" or just "get out". Everything the FCC touches turns to a pile of ash and ruin. Where's my fiber optics? It's almost 2018. I live in a metro area with more than 1M people. Where's my fiber optics? This is ridiculous.
You'd still need physical access to a logged-in machine to exploit it. I'm not sure what the latest default is as to Guest accounts and whether or not those can exploit it, but it's a significantly different story if it requires you to exploit it on an unattended logged in machine.

If guest accounts are enabled by default and a guest account can exploit it, yea.. that's pretty bad.
Although I would love to agree with you in theory, in practice in Silicon Valley everyone is selling first and building second (or not at all). It's not unlikely that 500 was fundraising with one hand and investing with the other, and when their master sales person left, the process got a little tangled.
The thing the specs have in common with your code is they represent entities involved in the systems operation internally or externally to as abstract or concrete detail as you require. They also typically represent the structure and/or order of your system's activities. The abstractions that hide messy details of the machine can let you more easily analyze properties of your system with your eyes, spec/model-checkers, or proof. Some can generate tests from specs. Then, the code's modules should map closely to those abstract actions so you mainky just have to analyze code for isdues that just show up in those parts.

The easiest method to start with is Design by Contract plus property-based and fuzz testing. By itself, it lets you specify key properties that are highlighted during a test or runtime failure. Combined with SPARK Ada, you can prove the code is correct against those specs.

https://www.eiffel.com/values/design-by-contract/introductio...

http://www.anthonyhall.org/c_by_c_secure_system.pdf

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_(programming_language)
I agree it's a big deal, in that it's serious - it's a security vulnerability after all, yes. But I disagree about its significance for Apple in the face of the sheer number of security advisories that come out across iOS and macOS each year. When we broaden perspective away from just Apple, this becomes absolutely miniscule. There's a lot of navel gazing going on, but there's not a lot of reason to read anything particular out of this at all.

It's very silly, and I would also be embarrassed if I was involved in it, but those aren't good metrics for judging the realistic frequency of bugs like this, nor their severity. I've had vulnerabilities I've reported picked up by a bunch of news media before even though they weren't that serious. As it turns out, the media just latches on to security headlines, and everyone sort of forgets about it except us grumblers on Hacker News, because we Never Forget.

Someone from Google Project Zero has probably been inspired to start fuzzing the macOS at the UI level now, and that's a good thing - they should. But that's about all I'm taking away from this story.

Moreover:

> on an OS that’s only used as a personal computer, not as a server

This makes it less severe, not more so. I'd rather have a Heartbleed impacting nearly every server on the internet than a...whatever we're calling this, impacting every macOS computer in the world. I guess I can make a botnet...except I still have to be local to it in the majority of cases, or do specific targeting, or chain this with another piece of popular, compromised software, etc. It suddenly becomes a bit more complex than just someone pressing enter on a root prompt twice. Plus, if the vulnerability is laughably silly, it's usually easier to find than a chain of them that evidences a systemic misconfiguration in the entire OS.

In fact, I'd posit that the reason this story is getting so much attention is precisely because the vulnerability is so easy to understand, and because someone disclosed it on Twitter. Frankly, the whole situation is really quite funny in a black comedy sort of way. But while it's fun to write stories poking fun at large companies for their silly mistakes, it doesn't meaningfully reflect their security competency or the long term perception of their security competency.

Really I don't mean to trivialize it. It's not a good look, and definitely it's worthy of being patched. But I think it's worth looking at from a much broader perspective.
As the memorable quote goes, "Updates are like vaccinations that have a large chance of making you grow an extra 3 ears, lose one eye, and turn your skin bright green."

Updates to fix specific and very important bugs are good. Updates that do more are not. Unfortunately, I have often pondered how to solve this problem, and come to the conclusion that it's not easy --- but perhaps if almost all the users take a stand and just do not update whenever it's not for the specific and sole purpose of fixing some important bug, even if it means leaving security behind, maybe companies will finally listen and stop making security an excuse to bundle in other unwanted changes; because then they'll know that any attempts to do so will be met with high resistance, and if their goal was to secure, they would only fix these security issues and leave everything else alone.

Although it's not Apple, the sentiment around Windows Vista and 8.x show that companies do care about their customers to some extent; but they're not going to care if the majority of users just slavishly accept whatever they get.
Then surely agree with the people at your work to never use @channel. It's basically the same as 'Reply All', it's a waste of everyone's time.
Silicon Valley has made it abundantly clear that they don't want conservatives in its ranks.
Communist dictatorships don't have the characteristic power structure of a close circle of oligarchs that overall decide policy?
> This is also security by obscurity.

I see this being claimed a lot, but isn’t all security by obscurity at the end of the day?

A simplistic example, compare (A) with (B).

A) I run telnet with no password on a random port. The changes for an attacker to guess my password are 1/65k.

B) I run telnet in port 25 with password being a random number from 1 to 65k.

How do A and B differ in security?
You are correct which is what causes the problem.
5K would not affect the price of luxury items it would however affect the price of common commodities since now their largest consumption base has much higher purchasing power.

Milk is cheap because everyone drinks it and for every billionaire who wouldn’t mind paying $1000 for a gallon of milk there are 100,000 poor people that wouldn’t be able to pay more than $5.
If those people would get and additional $60000 per annum to spend the prices for all basic commodities and services will go up.

UBI won’t affect the price of a $250000 car much but you should expect every basic commodity or service like food, communications, utilities, transport etc. to spike.
I guess my question is, why can't frameworks co-exist without this? Can't you just lazy-load them in?
I'm not an expert, but from what I've read it sounds like derivatives (i.e futures) might help.

https://qz.com/1144262/the-cftcs-green-light-for-bitcoin-fut...
> At that point there would be no point in hoarding bitcoin more than any other currency.

Oh yes there is. Bitcoin is deflationary, so your money isn't debased while you hold it. I don't ever intend to exchange my bitcoin for any other currency unless I'm purchasing something.
Which is better, a currency that's guaranteed to decrease in value over time, or one with a fixed supply that has historically increased in value consistently?

I think with the volatility everything tends to average out. And the economic theory that currency must be inflationary is widely accepted as correct, but I don't really understand why or what the first principles are behind that claim.
you might be a lot less happy when that means 1/10th of the value.
Damn your first line had me ready to go buy the man's books....

I yearn for historical writing with a good narrative, but you're 100% right, if you need to sacrifice the flow or the facts, sacrifice the flow.
For Voyager-like mission profile building useful network of such data relay satellites/probes would be prohibitively expensive.

For missions where that makes sense (mars probes, STS, ISS and IIRC even original Apollo moon landings) relay satellites or even networks of them are/were used. To some extent for such constructions to be useful it has to be constructed of satellites that orbit something which is near to target of the probe, which is impractical for probes that are on highly eliptical orbits around sun, not to say probes that are on exit trajectory like Voyager.
I hate being that guy, but if you use any reserve currency(USD,Euro) I'd argue that its those currencies being used in active drug/illegal markets.

If I show up to a drug transaction anywhere with a hardware wallet, I think I'd get laughed out. Yet that's not the same with USD. Or in the extreme case, If I went to Libya to purchase a slave it is safe to say they take Euros.
Or maybe the causal factor for both class and higher education is intelligence. The Bell Curve makes a compelling case that the transition away from agriculture toward knowledge work over the last 100 years has created a society in which intelligence is funneled into higher education and from there into high paying professions.
Because this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Zimbabwe
Clearly running BTC services are just a training ground for PwC infosec teams to better learn to secure stuff. Protecting consumer/business data is just so damn boring because nothing happens if you get it wrong. /s
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Comparing the Ecommerce Markets in Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia
We now need to focus on lobbying the FTC, since the FCC has made up its mind.

It's clear that with the effective monopolies they have, large telecoms need trade regulations.
See this commment elsewhere in the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15828513
YC and other programs require you to move there to participate. If you move away after your program is over, the value of the contacts you made goes way down, to the point of approaching zero. This will cause a lot of people to stay. They know that leaving could kill their baby.
you think there is stigma in being unemployed.
Currencies are the store of value of poor people, because unfortunately they don't have the sophistication to manage their wealth using assets that don't loose their value. And that is unfortunate because they are taxed the most by the continuous devaluation of currencies. Wealthy people avoid the devaluation of their wealth through various sophisticated method, which leads to increasing inequality. Of course, this is only one perspective in the nebulous economic system.
Interesting! Thank you for the info, I'll ruminate over that for a while!
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Every fiat currency is inflationary. Bitcoin is designed to be deflationary, so every Bitcoin will be worth more and more forever. Using Bitcoin as a currency makes no sense.
If i were you I'd be dumping my USD then.
There is no launch vehicle that is capable of launchibg anything remotely similarly sized as typical DSN antenna, not to mention of similar mass. Also station and attitude keeping of such an satellite would be non-trivial problem at sufficiently high orbits for such thing to be useful.

Edit: TLDR: for the amount of money required to design, build and deploy such relay satellite in geosynchronous or such orbit you can do several manned missions to mars or some other planet of your choosing
Read: it's a shit show across the board
The classic "how many gas stations are there in the USA?" type of interview question seem exactly like an IQ test and not at all relevant to job requirements.
If you're explicitly asking about USD vs. BTC, I'll definitely take USD, which has a strong history of stability. BTC certainly doesn't have that. Maybe BTC is going to appreciate or stabilize for the next century, but why would I risk that?
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Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He is Dead.
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

W.H. Auden

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I think this is half correct. Part of the reason they “don’t understand” it is because leaders in business and politics misuse the term to mean “back the fuck off and we’ll make things better.” It’s sort of a catchall diversionary term for deregulatory policies and Ameican exceptionalism, and I think millenials have a pretty valid reason to be critical of those things after getting the short end of the economic stick and entering one of the worst job markets since the 1930s.
The answer from the paper:

Theoretically infinite, but in their more realistic model they came up with 5 bits.
I'm not sure it could have worked out perfectly, but I'm sure, minus the Bolshevik influence on such committees pre-October, and their wholesale takeover of them afterwards, those same committees could have acted with a bit more sense and purpose.

I don't think the author is wrong to point out that they had more potential than they lived up to. He's not, I think, saying they add up to a cohesive strategy for a successful state.
Isn't Voyager on an an angle relative to the ecliptic that is large enough that a single satellite could have it in view at all times?
I'll take the iStockPhoto over a rounded off Ford Festiva any day of the week.
Irrespective of what is used, consider that in the vacuum of space, when you're not in a hurry, you'd only need the tiniest bit of propellant/thrust for an attitude correction. Even for a comparatively heavy vehicle like voyager. The other forces at play are so miniscule, that you only need a ridiculously small force to start it rotating (and the opposite when you want it to stop).
> What evidence do you have that this is what customers want?

The fact that coach seating fills up faster than first class? If the majority of people truly wanted comfort over cheap prices and lack of service, we should expect FC to be full on every flight, with airlines offering vouchers for downgrades.
NULL in SQL: Indicating the Absence of Data
The articles have to be long enough to include at least one word with a diaeresis.
It's a language thing. Many languages have genders attached to nouns, and the formulation is different for males and females. So in German, for example, a job posting might be for an Engineer (Techniker (m); Technikerin (f)), but instead of saying Techniker oder Technikerin, they will just write Techniker (m/f).

Edit: Maultasch beat me to it.