skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only regulation we need on the internet is congestion control. The culprits of this issue so far aside malicious botnets DDOSing seem to be corporations like Comcast and Spectrum overselling their nodes and causing an intermittent denial of service to everyone using it. Maybe multiregional corporations do some of it themselves as well.

There should not ever be restriction to access or price for data.
How about this:

I opted into FF telemetry and "studies" with the understanding that some extra data would be collected and experimental features or specialized debugging tools might get pushed to my browser (like the last "study" I saw for collecting JS errors).

This addon is none of those things. It is an advertisement. Call it an "alternate reality game" if you like, but it's an advertisement for a television show. It has nothing to do with making FireFox a better browser.

Using the Shield Studies program to deploy extensions and advertisements that have nothing to do with the original stated purpose is an abuse of the tool and a breach of trust.

That's all aside from the fact that there's been numerous reports of people receiving the addon who never opted in to Shield Studies in the first place.
I was in your boots when mozilla dropped ALSA and announced they were dropping extensions.

I have since found waterfox and have been very happy with it.
As a hiring manager I appreciate a cover letter that suggests you have read the job description, a bit about the company, and thought a bit about what skills you bring to the table. So for managers like me, getting one gives the candidate a slight edge over those who don't write cover letters.

That said, just like boiler plate recruiter emails that try to interest me in a job that I'm clearly not going to be interested in based on where I am in my career, a cover letter that is clearly just boiler plate can be a slight negative.

Bottom line, bad cover letter (-1), no cover letter (0), good cover letter (+1) in terms of impact. Regret minimization says you are always safe not sending one, but min/maxers would have you tailor it to the job to give you that extra edge :-).
The bitcoin open source development team doesn't control the node i run. If you want centralized chinese government controlled crypto, there's bcash. If you were actually interested in just cheap fees, you'd use litecoin. It has been around for years. It even has segwit, unlike bcash.
The prediction gain of audio codecs is <1, which basically means that if you start at a random packet, once you play enough packets it'll converge to sound the same as if you had started playing from the beginning. It'll sound bad at the beginning though, so you usually crop off the first bit after seeking (80ms for Opus, much longer for other codecs).

Another source of delay is just the length of audio packets themselves (have to wait for the beginning of one) and radio limitations.
Here is a link to the blog post when the Stellar Consensus Protocol was released. It includes a summary in Stellar's own words and a link to the white paper: https://www.stellar.org/blog/stellar-consensus-protocol-proo...
> they’ll have the exact same problems down the line

But it could be years later; years in which other scaling solutions can be researched. If you only accept scaling solutions that can scale to infinity today, you will never accept a single one.
Arthur C Clarke at 100: still the king of science fiction
Word. An educated guess would be something more coherent and this was a word salad of architecture jargon.
If it works like Stellar (which it sounds like it does), it's still a decentralized network of nodes, but each individual user isn't a node. They pick a node to work with, and that node is then connected to a set of other nodes. Anyone can run a node, but there's just not any point to it for most users.
Okay, I figured this was probably a policy thing, but why?

Not trying to be critical here. Just curious.
I don't like EME either, but not implementing it would've killed any chance of regaining users: "Oh look, Firefox Quantum looks awesome, I should try it. ... Never mind, it doesn't play Netflix".
Implemeting it, but disabling it by default was a good choice. People will have to consciously click "I accept DRM" to use it, which might get them to read more about what it is and ultimately raise awareness about how terrible it is.
Not only the steroid quote is whole lot of bullshit but running is not really competitive in the same way basketball and wrestling/boxing are.
True. Apart from financial aid, the motivation it might bring to see so many people appreciating and showing love seems far important.
I understand the motivation but I disagree that NaN should not equal NaN. The es docs even explicily mention that "to ECMAScript code, all NaN values are indistinguishable from each other."

I'm writing javascript and I don't want to need to care about IEEE 754 floating point (all I know about is `Number` anyway).

If you compare two NaNs in C that happen to have the same binary representation, they are equal. Which means that a typical javascript runtime will need to check for that case, no? So if they have to make the decision between making all NaNs equal or unequal, and there's going to be a runtime check either way, why not make NaN == NaN and save us a headache?
It's funny how trying to stop closed mindedness towards anyone/anything aggressively, ends up over time creating another version of closed mindedness as a reaction.
To be honest, now that you mentioned this, I'm really curious how warm a squirrel's tail is.
> It occured to me recently, why don't they talk about the holes in the multiplication table?

Because there aren't any. The prime numbers would be gaps if you pivoted the table into a division table but, alas, that's not how it's presented (even in the context of teaching division.)
Bitcoin prune node still downloads the full blockchain, just does not store all of it. It trusts the local file system, not other nodes.
Definitely not, start dressing like a crazy person and use drip instead.

https://d.rip/
> "9. Bob's MobileCoin node sends Bob's client a message, which can then calculate the private key that corresponds to the generated one-time public key."

>" 10. Bob has now successfully received a payment."

If I'm reading this correctly, Bob's client (e.g. mobile app) must be in contact with the node for his address to receive the payment. This is pretty different from what I think will be Mobilecoin's closest competitors (at least from a UX standpoint), Venmo, Google Wallet, etc.

DDOSing Bob's mobile device or otherwise preventing access to the node would, at least temporarily, prevent the transaction from going through. Are the funds in purgatory during that period? If that client never gets in contact with the node, does the transaction ever get reversed, allowing the sender to regain control of the funds?

There are probably a host of other repercussions I haven't thought through yet. The idea of a cryptocoin as easy to use as Venmo/Signal is definitely intriguing.
Natural social interaction means transmitting specific information that is relevant to all parties. You have limited time to interact, therefore you condense.

Social media has no such regulation, there is no longer a filter.

We won't need facial muscles or body language anymore.

How awesome.
We ban accounts that cross into incivility in arguments like this. If you want to keep posting here, please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take both the spirit and the letter of the rules to heart. This is necessary to preserve the container for discussion that we all benefit from.
First of all, Google and Netflix together are around 80% of all bandwidth use. The amount of cost on them is so insurmountably higher, by the time anyone could ever rival their bills, they would be in a better position to pay it.

And it doesn't have to touch on the anti-competitive aspect: The FCC is not an antitrust regulator. The FTC is. And revoking Title II places ISPs back under the FTC's purview. Anticompetitive behavior should be addressed by the agency charged with ensuring competition.
You're in your fifties and you're running a sub 1:19 HM? Color me dubious on that one. Possible, but not likely.

Although you're right that it would be a piss-poor treadmill if it were built to max out at 8 minutes/mile pace or slower. I suspect none are, but I think the fellow reporting it was at heavy weight, so perhaps that affected things.
I think the ridiculous overdeployment of software might be some kind of elaborate joke. I mean, really, hackers can take out the heating systems of schools from across the globe? That is too stupid to have been done by accident and too convenient to not be made up. Somebody is laughing their ass off over this. Aliens maybe?
It's mostly related to properly complying with OSS licenses of other projects and we also had some pieces of code that were for Twitter specific use cases.
Indexing with Postgres: when less is more
Kasparov on Deep Learning in chess
See also http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/roads/2016/0...
We, the people with ADHD are always annoyed by them, people writing 25-page-long articles and we are also very jealous of others capability to read them :-)
Please only post civil and substantive comments to HN.

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Most people who push the chinese government controlled bcash don't want to talk about lightning, and refuse to learn how it works, yes. It's probably why they forked bcash before the malleability fix of segwit. To ensure the privacy and decentralization enabled by lightning is never available for their government controlled implementation. Lightning is private by design, implementing onion routing natively. I can see how that would have been a problem for chinese government.
Being a good scientist at one moment does not make you immune to corruption at another.
I'm tired of these so called "phones" that do everything well - except being a phone. My "phone" is a great camera, plays games,etc. - but how I hate talking on them. I suppose a good part of the problem is the network, not my specific phone.
Not all of the important games we play are zero-sum, fortunately.
Microinteractions by Dan Saffer
Well, if you want to refuse to refer to married gay people as married, or call transgender people by their pre-transition pronouns, AT WORK, you're going to get fired. If that's a problem, you probably shouldn't work at a company where the HR manual says you should treat co-workers with respect.

On the other hand, if you're OK with being respectful to people even if you disagree with their very existence, you're pretty much good to go in the Bay Area.

As an example of this in action, I have a gay friend who eventually moved to New York City with his husband. He works in a big bank in a mid-level job, you'd recognize the name. His manager constantly refers to my friend's husband as his "partner". My friend thought he was going out on a limb when he corrected his manager with "Actually, he's my husband." It's fine to be forgetful; it's not fine to be disrespectful. So far nothing bad has happened, but who knows how it will turn out.
It does rely on sgx being unhackable. Just hard to hack.
Yeah that's what I meant, I updated my comment to be clearer.
Personal attacks break the site guidelines. So does using HN for ideological battle. The combo of the two is particularly ban-worthy. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and please don't post like this again, regardless of which ideology you favor or how wrong the other one is.
wow! When did this come in? Looks good as a Patreon alternative.
Raising awareness about security and privacy relevant issues from a TV show seems to me like it (indirectly) makes Firefox a better browser. An AR game does nothing to improve the browser by itself, but think of the big picture. Cultural awareness is a big part of it.
This is significantly stronger and harder than what that paper suggested
this is like saying 99.9% of the time cause of death is either due to sickness, old age, or accident.
As funny as this is, I'm actually really looking forward to the day I can generate an entire, unique fantasy epic on par with the best human authors of today with the push of a button.

AI-generated entertainment in general is going to be awesome.
AT&T Launch Project AirGig Trials to Bring Ultra-Fast Internet Over Power Lines
> When we apply net neutrality principles of the 2015 regulatory framework to wireless networks, such proposed equal treatment of all network traffic could have the unintended effect of interfering with the quality of our communications

Choosing to bash an imaginary law instead of a real one, but not being particularly clear about that.
It reads like "Bored of the Rings", but without the sly humor.
The "alpha proof of concept" enables a certain amount of sandbox playability that no other game can replicate. Even in short play sessions, I've had an insane amount of fun figuring out if I can do things that simply wouldn't work in other games, and plenty of others on YouTube have done crazier. (A personal favorite was someone boarding an NPC ship.)

I can't speak for everyone else, but I backed an idea. I gave money to someone who wanted to assemble a game with an unprecedented amount of flexibility and realism. Whether or not that actually makes a "good game" in the end. I invested in something I want to see happen. If it does not happen, that will be unfortunate, and I will be sad. But given that what they are trying to do is borderline insane, it will not be totally shocking if they fail.
Are you asking or stating the obvious. Answer is yes to both.
I like how the 3dB point for engineering papers is 4 years (that is where 50% of the papers remain uncited). I am a bit surprised it goes down from there. I have always felt that a big chunk of the engineering or technical papers out there reference technology that is obsolete after 5 years[1]. There are the seminal papers of course, the ones that it seems are always cited, but a huge chunk which were useful when published, are much less so later.

[1] No I don't have a citation :-) but having written a few papers and looking for related work I found the chance of finding something relevant dropped precipitously when you got into papers that were more than a few years old.
>https://xmr.to/ looks waaaay too complicated for the average person to use, which is a nonstarter for the average person.

OK, that's fine, but services like that could - and will - get much friendlier. I'm just rebutting the quote which is the blanket "no one transacts in cryptocurrency" which is certainly not true for me, even though I felt that way just 2 months ago. Now that I am an active miner of various currencies, I find myself using it quite frequently for random goods/services, even though the plan was really just to convert it quickly into USD fiat to continue reinvesting into the mining operations or to pocket it.
> "In related news, unknown website developers can distribute programs and run them in your browser. Additionally, it's been determined that browsers sometimes download changed versions of themselves without your permission. Worst of all, we've determined that sometimes the program you download and run yourself on your computer does stuff it didn't say it would do!"

No they can't, despite mozilla removing the option to prevent this, I have an extension preventing website to run code in my browser without my permission. it happens to be one of the most popular firefox extension: noscript. (also umatrix and request policy).

No the browsers do not download changed version of themselves, they do not have the administrative permissions required to install programs on my box. I get my update from the official distro repository on my terms.

I do not download and run programs, they come from the distro repository. This is a matter of trusting the package maintainers but up until now this has served many people well.

It seems you guessed wrong and it does not work the same for everybody, some of us have chosen to take the extra step required for this kind of misadventure to be unlikely.
Seriously, you should write a paper on it when you learn
Complete reference link:
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/06/more_on_feuda...
ARPANET refers to a specific network that was decommissioned in 1990. And for 13 years of it's 21 years in existence, it was using NCP rather than TCP/IP.
Bitcoin cares about decentralization. The Chinese government doesn't. So that's why there is bcash. If low fees were important, you'd just use litecoin. It has been around for years. They even have segwit, which allows atomic cross-chain swaps, which even further enables privacy. It is no surprise that the chinese government controlled crypto bcash didn't want that.
I feel like someone should post this: http://algassert.com/quirk
We could start using 'Side chains' today you might as well just create a bitcoin bank where everyone has an account hmmm hmm i mean a channel and all transactions can happen on your bank network and not on the blockchain. See i solved the problem. But first i need to convince everyone to use my side network, sooo if the main blockchain is like a stream what i need is for this stream to be blocked so that i can channel everyone to my side stream. Maybe i will call my bank blockstream.
It's cryptocurrency secured by DRM.
How might this project grow out of its dependence on Intel hardware over time?
Would you believe that if I cherry picked a few examples of left-leaning people being censored or harassed out of their company that there exists large, right-leaning groups and companies whose sole purpose is to censor people even slightly left of center?

For example, there are a fair amount of liberal channels being demonetized on youtube as well.
That wasn't an honest question by the standard commenters are expected to maintain here. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this. To fix it should be simple if you want to.

Of course it's not so simple to avoid seeing others through the filter of our own past experiences, especially online where so little information is available. Most of what we're all doing when we read online comments is massive curve-fitting to our own pre-existing conditions. But the rules in the guidelines are designed to mitigate at least the worst effects.
IDIOT: "earth is flat!", YOU: play this video
Because you can't get rich building it and you can't get rich hodling it and the press won't create much buzz.
First off, I really like your framework of "lizard brain"/"rational brain"

>We should continue to push the limits of what we can successfully repress, but we should also be willing to admit when repression has failed.

I think we are there already to some extent. This movement to try and repress implicit bias, and to hold people accountable for their implicit bias is a radical failure. Consider that since this movement got started in the West we have become more divided, and more militant about it. Micro-aggression, sexual harassment (becoming very broad and ill defined), and the general expectation that everyone be hyper-PC has riled up the lizard brains of many and even the rational brains of some. You could argue that this is an application of tribalism for good, but I think the problem is that it is too much too fast and is therefore a force of evil. Gay marriage just became legal. Now a certain population wants to normalize in-your-face transsexuals, a spectrum of genders, and social slights as criminal behavior amongst a slew of other wants; hard pushes like this radicalize people, and that's what we are seeing on the right at the moment.

This sexual harassment campaign is especially alienating for a lot of people specifically because sex requires you to disengage your rationale brain and give over to your animalistic desires. I'm not saying all of these men should get a pass, some of them appear to have committed truly heinous acts, but when things are said like "Even though my situation with Matt was consensual, I ultimately felt like a victim because of the power dynamic." [1] It is going to alienate a lot of people who would call that poor willpower. Like, Mr. Lauer is giving in to his lizard brain when he does this and cheats, but so is she when she accepts his offer.

Going back to the main point, I think that this in particular is driving a huge wedge between the sexes in America because it comes across as a double standard, and I think that in order to effectively utilize tribalism for the social good, it is critical to eliminate double standards.

[1]https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/inside-matt-lauer’s-secret...
I look at a lot of cover letters. The best explain why you want to work there. The resume will show the experience and background. Show some passion. Say if you use the product. What you admire about it. It is a chance to speak beyond the resume and show how you stand out.
The context for that quote was missing I think (that is, missing from the original article, not your comment), but it makes more sense if they're talking about turning rock into fertile soil.

You would have had a whole succession of different types of plants to slowly work the rock surface. Then humans show up, rip out all the trees that kept that hard-won top soil in place, and it all runs off out to sea in no time. Basically it's about places like Iceland, not Iowa, I guess.
OK, but look at the context - out of nowhere we have obvious diversity at all costs propaganda. I'm watching the BBC's Christmas trailer now which involves a brown skinned single father and his daughter. This in no way represents the average in the UK in fact the UK is almost 90% white - so what message is the BBC trying to send? Am I one of the bad guys to recognise the colour of the skin? Because you can bet that whoever came up with the idea certainly had race at the front of their minds. Is the UK really so racist that we deserve to be subjected to this type of manipulation? Is it beyond the realms of possibility that the people behind this agitprop are in fact the very same nefarious forces you mention?
Contact Hypothesis
Facebook just admitted that using Facebook can be bad for you
You're assuming that yellow is permanently bound to a single particular wavelength. What if it's possible to rebind yellow to a different wavelength? What if it's possible to rebind purple to a single wavelength (rather than dual wavelength)? Color doesn't happen in the eyes, it happens in the brain.

Mirimir wouldn't feel surprised about the absence of purple if they understood color in the context of phenomenology (rather than engineering), which is the spirit in which the post was made.

I understand the difference you are pointing to. It's not a novel or interesting position, it's the default position. If you insist on binding colors to wavelengths, you probably didn't get anything out of the blogpost.
Political power does seem to be one, and it's a pretty pervasive and contagious one.
Dude, you haven't provided any usable criteria to declare any particular
block as "agreed upon". All you said was "eventually", and even that has
flaws. It's not something to argue against well known mathematics.
I thought exactly as you did. But then I read this book. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/189989.Finite_and_Infini...

Your conception of "Reality" doesn't even include Zero Sum Games. Once you incorporate that, you can then look at the Finite and Infinite distinction.

The book is a tough read, but I guarantee you will love it, and will conclude that your model here explains 25% of "reality" at most.