skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is ATT really better? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
Does the US not do any of those things? e.g. https://gizmodo.com/the-nsa-actually-intercepted-packages-to...

Dude called out the US for generally lacking on the mobile front, and I don't think he's wrong. Our mobile broadband speeds are terrible for a developed country largely because of the mobile carrier (and wired broadband) oligopoly.

If the CEO of Nokia said the same thing, would it be any more or less valid just because of the policies of the country that they're based in?

edit: typo
Can we please stop referring to tittle 2 regulations as Net Neutrality? Net neutrality has been a long standing principle in the governance of the internet that everyone agrees with. This debate isn't weather we should have net neutrality or not it's over what regulatory instruments should or should not be used to ensure it. All of the examples pro tittle 2 advocates being up about Comcast, Verizon and other Isps where resolved in favor of the consumer Under Tittle 1 regulitions f the 1996 Tellecomunications Act. https://youtu.be/8dY-g823g04
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If they are saving a little bit on the side for the short term, inflation will not noticeably hurt them (I am speaking of a well-managed monetary system with mild inflation such as the US). If they want to save for the long term, then they should invest it if they want to maximize gains. That’s what’s best for the individual.
First of all, discriminating against the currently dominant demographic is indeed a stupid way to "fix" anything.

But "reality" does not seem to be sexist, rather our biases and tribalism is sexist (and racist and plenty of other -ist). When high-quality reproducible research has observed phenomena like "stereotype threat" and "implicit bias" it is worthwhile to spend some of our idle time on thinking how to address this unfairness. Even if we do it simply so that we have a wider applicant pool from which to pick high-quality employees.
In my experience as a non-American, a lot of younger Americans have adopted a sort of dark, distorted view of history that casts the US as a villainous entity. For these people, any suggestion that other states, particularly non-Western ones, are even more villainous is met with scepticism.

Maybe they understand the differences between a representative democracy and an authoritarian regime in theory but believe there's no real difference in practice. It's a deeply unfortunate type of cynicism.
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The higher number of men in senior positions isn't necessarily sexist. I think it's because men are more likely to accept insane work-life balance in exchange for the status, because it increases their attractiveness more than it does for women. A women who is a CEO is not much more attractive to a man than a women who is a dental hygienist; however, a man who is a CEO is much more attractive than a man who is a welder. Take it as sexism or not but lots of men are hellbent on getting that high-status, high-stress job.
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The fact that some South Asians rise to high ranking positions in tech in the US does not mean that Asians in tech overall are not disadvantaged in practice in advancement in the field in the US.

(I have no real opinion about whether there is a bamboo ceiling effect in tech, not having done any study of the question, but the two examples you point to are far from even a strong reason to doubt the effect.)
Since December 1, 2017, they can't be sold locked and phone bought before that can be unlocked for free.
“The military movie industrial complex is strong in he young one”
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As someone who has had those opportunities, they are often not that good. Your limited to a certain percentage of your vested stock, and there is a pool which quickly gets oversubscribed.

And you can't do it in an adhoc manner, it's usually organized by the company to one buyer.
Maybe, but these are people who also voluntarily gave benefits in excess of minimum wage before it was raised.

Clearly the change increases their costs and lowers their profitablity. Whether they are billionaires doesn’t matter, it’s a business, not a charity. It’s easy to tell others they don’t need to make as much money, how would you feel if told the same?
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That's a good thing. Well-studied protocols are safer protocols, and significant money can pay for the best expertise in the world.
Ask HN: Seeking ideas for a C/C++ side project
I would like to spend some of my spare time working on a C/C++ side project which may exercise a lot of multithread programming and unix/linux network programming.

I am an average C++ engineer who has a lot of free time somehow. I am hoping to complete the most of the fundamental parts of the said side project in 4-6 months.

Any suggestions?
I don't understand how you think that answers his question, as being in a container wouldn't magically add any more protections against these exploits than being in just a KVM VM. I'm also not sure that "Borg task" means it's in a container, vs. just being something scheduled by Borg, but it isn't particularly important either way.

If the question is 'How do they guarantee their customers aren't using bad binaries', the answer is they don't, and has nothing to do with VMs vs VMs in containers, etc.
Armchair opinion, probably gene editing. Not in people or animals, but I'd put money on it becoming "easy" in plants before much longer, as CRISPR gets more accurate and people apply it to already-understood micropropagation cloning strategies.

There was a startup trying to make autoluminescent plants with jellyfish genes before CRISPR even existed, just using ordinary plasmid creation and transfection techniques.[1] That particular effort failed commercially, but I believe they recently reincorporated as 'GLEAUX'.

Anyways, Biology is messy and difficult, but I really think that we are getting to a reasonably solid understanding of genetically engineering plants. And once someone turns that into a '1, 2, 3' process...well I don't think you need more than a 5-figure investment for equipment/space.

[1]: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
I disagree with most of the advice here. There's only one thing you need to be able to do: buy the "Elements of Programming Interviews" and be able to solve any problem in it within 30 minutes. Cracking the Coding Interview's questions are way too easy. If you buy the book and study those questions you're just going to be disappointed that the questions you actually get are much harder.
Any update on what they did with the $257 million they raised[1]?

Did they convert it to fiat or keep it in crypto? Between Sep and now there's been some big shifts in value. Be nuts if they have over $1 billion to play with now.

[1]: https://www.coindesk.com/257-million-filecoin-breaks-time-re...
The melting pot is what makes America strong. We are stronger together than any of our constituent parts.

If you wish to become an American, I wish you all the best of luck (sorry for all the paperwork) and welcome you to our country with open arms.
From what I understand, thats not what its about. AWS and all of the various centralized hosting providers are still valuable.

The idea of web 3.0 and the ethereum/ipfs structure is that you have a fat client and thin server. This means that all the business logic sits on the client and the server is just utility.

Filecoin and the ifps structure allows content like text or images to be stored in a place that the smart contract based client could access.

Some recent examples are:

- Marketplace that uses ifps to store data: https://demo.originprotocol.com

- Game (not sure if this uses ifps) http://cryptokitties.co
> Hilarious, but not really surprising to read, as a non US-ian.

Why is it hilarious? It's hard to argue that net neutrality isn't about commerce, because most of the common talking points in favor of it explicitly refer to commercial activity ("paid lanes", etc.).

While I dislike the implications of this argument for net neutrality, legally, it's actually a pretty solid argument. The Supreme Court has already ruled - many, many, many times - that states have very little power to restrict interstate commerce. These cases all happened around the turn of the last century, so the precedents are pretty well-established. And the ability of the federal government to regulate interstate commerce is an enumerated power, so there's pretty much no way to deny it.

Conversely, the Supreme Court has also expanded the scope of the Commerce Clause so far over the course of the 20th century that it's basically given the federal government the authority to regulate absolutely anything that happens in the states, because anything has the potential to impact interstate commerce.

To give you an idea of how new this idea is: at the time Prohibition [of alcohol] was enacted in 1919, it was a Constitutional amendment enforced via the prohibition of "manufacture, sale, or transportation" rather than posession, because it was believed that the federal government did not have the power to outlaw possession of a substance. Similarly, the original ban on marijuana wasn't even a ban at all - it was a cleverly-worded tax act which made it illegal to possess marijuana that hadn't been taxed, but also made it impossible to prove that you'd paid the tax.
It's my understanding that Spectre needs to share some address space with the victim, which isn't the case on containers, other than the host address space?
> enforce US IP

...

Even if it was, how is this relevant to Bitmain, run by Jihan Wu, who is not American?
Absolutely - if the cost you pay offsets your cost to the economy it's win-win. My question/concern is primarily around the students who receive some form of net subsidy from the US economy.
Interesting! Last Jedi was quite disappointing for me, so I'm glad the authors here managed to bring some meaning to it.
Maybe the authority figures don't need to respond by obliterating entire civilizations?

I think it's enough that a guy like Snopes or Palpatine wanted to control the galaxy to rebel against that.
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I would pay to host a server (in my basement or in the cloud) on which to run a node in a decentralized social network. I might pay a one-time fee to join such a network. I would not pay a monthly fee for it, or for any social network.
That's exactly what it would take to get laws passed to prevent it in the future.
Don't neglect the non-coding parts of the interview, as well. Be pleasant and friendly, be engaging, smile and laugh, tell stories of past projects, show real interest in the work.
Not sure, I’m going about it anecdotally, since I’m aware of foreigners in power at German companies, so at least it isn’t “hard pressed.”
In this study [1] the experiments were replicated in Hong Kong with 4034 high school students and in US with 95 students.

[1] "Why Do People Overestimate or Underestimate Their Abilities? A Cross-Culturally Valid Model of Cognitive and Motivational Processes in Self-Assessment Biases" http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022022116661243 (paywalled)
Very interesting to contrast with competitor Sia's latest status update.

Sia quietly developed a fully functional network over the last 5 years, and has now stated they will begin big marketing efforts.

Also, no reason IPFS cannot integrate with Sia.

https://blog.sia.tech/sia-triannual-update-september-decembe...
> if I have a group with 10 users and it's encrypted and then another person joins and can see the old messages, was it actually securely encrypted in the first place?

Sure, why not? Assume, just because it's the first thing that came to mind, that message history is encrypted using GPG and every message is encrypted with everyone's individual public keys. When a new user joins, one user just encrypts the message history with the new user's public key.

Or am I missing something? Do the existing users in the group not have access to their own message history?
I'm sure they could still manage to get into some side adventures.
You seem to use a very narrow definition of "distributed system" compared to most people. Could you explicitly state your assumptions? Your "distributed system" seems to coontain assumtions such as trustlessness and openness towards new participants. (No sybil attacks with fixed entities)
The same way you prepare for any job for a single specific company. Read everything the company has published so you can convince them you buy into whatever their vision is. Don't propose any ideas or theories or preferences for anything that deviates from it. Learn their every product and how they all work and discuss the details in the interview so they know you "get it" and are already familiar with everything.

Aside from this, getting accepted is merely about convincing your interviewers that you have what they're looking for. Build a rapport, be confident, don't be nervous, be funny if possible, but don't come off as arrogant or annoying. Most companies prefer experience over technical mastery, so don't focus on explaining technical details - though obviously you should fully explain it when they do get technical. Answers you give should touch on every topic that the subject would typically involve, with as little detail as possible, and if they ask more specific questions, dive into it. You have to show a broad understanding as well as minute attention to detail. While not being too serious. Don't voice any negative opinions, nor any preferences.

Obviously ambition is important to you, so definitely get some books on management and business so you can rise up in the ranks quicker. Being able to speak to the business side will endear you to managers and executives, and if you can impress them in an interview you're basically a shoe-in, because politics. Yay for big companies.

Big companies generally think all they need to do is follow trends in order to lower costs and increase productivity, so study up on every modern trend that tech companies latch on to. Big data/machine learning/automation have been in vogue for a while, as is obviously agile methods, devops processes, product lifecycles, etc.

At the end of all this you may realize, hey, this sounds like I have to support ideas or practices that I don't agree with. And that's because you're trying to work for a company, rather than trying to work for yourself. Eventually you may realize you'll be a lot happier not trying to get hired by a specific company, and simply try to be hired by the people who value who you are, rather than who they want you to be.
It is probably opt-in and a crippled version of the default chat interface.

This way the few users of the feature will be visible like a Christmas tree in a dark forest and the general userbase will think it's their laziness not to use encrypted Skype.

That's also how Facebook implemented it in messenger.
> If you want to prove something about code, you probably have to prove microop semantics upward from verilog

What if your chip fab doesn't obey the HDL's instructions?

You're always "trusting trust" at some level. See also this horror story:
https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/.
If you are not already self-medicating or a whiner, #4 is a sub case of #1.
You can have it both ways. Maybe you don’t get college credit for learning how to interview, but a college could offer a free seminar on interviewing well in the evening or something.

Colleges very much care how well their graduates do in the workforce, as it’s a key way they’re measured. It’s a tough balance to mix mind-expanding academia and direct preparedness though.
They don't, but it doesn't matter.

Something compiled with retpoline is resilient from it's execution being impacted. Once KVM is recompiled with retpoline, guests cannot attack it via spectre variant 2, and as such, cannot attack other guests.

The hypervisor being compiled with retpoline, however, does nothing to protect from intra-guest attacks - if you have untrusted code running in your VM, and you don't have IBRS and the other microcode features on, or your sensitive apps compiled with retpoline, you are still vulnerable internally. Just not from other guests
It's just a question of definition. Instead of "consciousness" being unmeasurable, the word would get redefined to something that can be measured, like a particular volume and/or type of calculation.

If that happens it will be in good company; at one point people thought that temperature and heat, for example, were fundamentally subjective and not measurable.
Foreigners as in British, American, Swiss or Austrian? Or people from bulk of the immigrant population (Turkey, Romania, Poland, Greece..)
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Maybe it would be better for China to be allowed to spy on our phones.

China is halfway around the world and many of us will never go there.

On the other hand using phones provided by US carriers means the government here is probably spying on you.

China, however will probably never send people to knock your door down based on intel they gather from your phone.
While I agree to some extent the "old methods" of teaching still work. They may be slightly less efficient or effective but they do work. IMO having the same approach for every grade matters more than the approach itself. It's perfectly possible for a school to teach new math with old books. Books are just a source for example problems. There's no reason you can't skip around to fit your curriculum.

What's your describing is having a good understanding of how to play tricks with numbers to make problems line up with your strengths and preferences. Teaching students that notation and "how" you attack a problem is arbitrary and they can do whatever they want with the numbers as long as they can clean up the mess and get the right answer is far more teacher dependent than curriculum structure dependent.
I think explainability is a red herring.

Commercial AI is not about winning a Kaggle or ImageNet competition, it is about meeting requirements.

For instance, if a image recognition model says that a black person looks like a gorilla, it matters very little why the model says that. What does matter is that you don't want to insult users, and that is an entirely different problem than visual recognition.

A sign at my local gas station says they will not serve alcohol to "(i) someone under the age of 21, or (ii) someone who is visibly intoxicated".

(i) should be implemented with ordinary code. Try to learn it and it will learn that the age is 20.95 or 21.03333333333333. (ii) has to be learned but it will never be perfect. Over and over again I hear this drumbeat about interpretability and very little about the software engineering techniques that it takes to do things reliably.

Similarly if it comes to giving credit fairly to minorities, this is something built into the "real-world" evaluation process. You cannot know if the model is "racist" at the beginning, but after you have made some loans then you can prove the model is or is not biased by seeing if the default rates are the same for different groups.
Unproven tech. There's nothing but a whitepaper to analyze its claims.
I made a script to compile all his blog posts to .mobi ebook if anyone interested, just in case his site goes down.

https://github.com/tienthanh8490/aaronsw
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I am not certain whether this is sarcasm or whether you are just a troll trying to provoke a reaction, but in case it is neither: How is it not bad that when two people are equally qualified but one of them is treated poorly based on gender/ethnicity/orientation?

You can try strawman arguments like "they are not equally qualified" or "reverse sexism" or "they are doing it to themselves by not negotiating", but a cursory look at any reproducible social sciences review disproves those (laziness to not use google or google scholar is a tiresome excuse).
No, quote stuffing can be used in latency arbitrage between different exchanges, but it is literally not possible to peek at an order before it arrives on at least the primary exchange of origin.
Oh I skipped over the word party
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The state changes no matter what; time makes actions out of no-ops.
Would be cool if MS would just drop Skype and adopt Signal.
1. Not all cryptocurrencies have ASIC mining. Ethereum has GPU mining. If a government attempted to attack Ethereum with GPUs that it bought, the public would likely react by turning their own GPUs toward Ethereum to protect it against the attack.

2. No one said that proof of work based cryptocurrencies can't be attacked. Obviously there's no such thing as an invincible protocl. The point is that it is much more costly/difficult to stop a proof of work based cryptocurrency than one that depends entirely on a small set of known and trusted third parties.

>>The mining has ALREADY been centralized in a small number of mining pools.

Already been addressed in my previous comment.

>>But anyway tell me again why it's not rational behavior for someone to mine Bitcoin Cash in secret and then unleash their far longer chain, after shorting Bitcoin Cash on the exchanges?

It would be much riskier than simply mining honestly. If they short it and their attack fails, they would lose a huge amount of money.
If by "perfectly fine" you mean highly likely to get into your recipient's spam folder - you're probably right. Having tried to self host my own mail server I can tell you it's never an easy task to actually get your message across.
The Empire did nothing wrong!!!
> Can we please stop referring to tittle 2 regulations as Net Neutrality

No, because the repeal of the Title II-based Open Internet regulations ends meaningful enforcement of the net neutrality principles.

> Net neutrality has been a long standing principle in the governance of the internet

Well, in the FCC regulation of ISPs, yes.

> that everyone agrees with.

This is manifestly false; if everyone agreed with it, there would be no acts in violation of net neutrality principles except by accident.

> This debate isn't weather we should have net neutrality or not

Yes, it is.

> it's over what regulatory instruments should or should not be used to ensure it.

Which is equivalent with whether we should have it, because it has repeatedly been shown that ISPs will not provide it unless compelled to do so.

> All of the examples pro tittle 2 advocates being up about Comcast, Verizon and other Isps where resolved in favor of the consumer Under Tittle 1 regulitions

The courts struck down the FCC’s ability to use Title I regulations to enforce net neutrality in 2014, which is what prompted the Title II regulations adopted in 2015.
>The answer is "not fascism."

And yet they are continually giving birth to it.

The clone army becomes the storm troopers of the empire.

The senator of the republic becomes the emperor.

Anakin becomes Vader.

Luke trains Kylo.

It seems a negative statement is not a viable solution, which is what Luke realized.
Just look at the updates of some of those famous crowdfunding projects (or "ICO+whitepaper" if you want)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/torquing/zano-autonomou...

"we have all been flat out working" "Getting a high speed shutter and minimal jitter from the video feed, testing the camera with the motors and all RF devices running at full power"