skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, we do give a lot to private companies in order to get the benefits of their products, and they're constantly pushing for more. I just feel that the internet as a utility is still too new for us to know exactly what the right regulator regime is or the optimal role of government in actually providing internet services.

Ideally regulation would be more reactive than proactive. Rather than defining explicitly the terms and services that ISPs must provide, we'd let them compete with each other and try different products and business models. The government would only step in when they do something that turns out to be harmful. The trick would be to actually step in where needed and not just let anything go.
So, the Bitcoin price rose because people bought it (via Bitfinex). The price fell when it was sold. I imagine doing a similar study on transactions from Coinbase (which has a big user base and volume) might reveal similar results.

Is there evidence that this was orchestrated or was done maliciously by a small group of actors. The headline is written like there is more to it.
> you can’t build incredible software systems alone

Is this really the case? My guess it would depend on the magnitude of the project. With the growth of developer tools available to us, it seems that the team size is shrinking and indie makers appear to be on the rise.
The one open PR is a self described "first go" at a polyfill.

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-temporal/pull/57
I wonder how much the ISPs will invest based on the current regulatory rules. Net neutrality could be revived, especially in a few years after the next U.S. presidential election.

Businesses usually want certainty so that they can invest in the future. In the state where net neutrality is repealed, there is far more uncertainty; it could be revived any time. If the ISPs accept the state that net neutrality is implemented, there is stability and certainty going forward.
Does it matter if our WiFi points are always on?
T-Mobile soft cap at 50gb, that’s on LTE. With 5g speed going up 10x I wouldn’t be surprised caps going 10 x as well. We’re nearly there.
One problem with the market price for tethers is that it is actually very hard to sell them for USD. For example, Bitfinex does not allow USD withdrawals, only Bitcoin withdrawals.
It's a serious pet peeve of mine when people use arbitrary statistics instead of just saying "most" or "almost all." What's the point of quantifying something if it's made up?

That said...yes, most profitable options trading (especially on intraday time resolutions) is focused on volatility and pricing inefficiency, not forecasting the directional movement of the underlying price.
>loitered around the coop when I replaced them and strenghtened the structure of the coop.

How does one bear-proof a chicken coop?

I once saw a port-o-potty that was literally torn in half down the middle. It looked like a car after an accident. When I asked the ranger what happened to it she told me that a bear cub had fallen in and the mother bear just ripped the thing open like a cardboard box to let her baby out.

In other words, seems to me like a sufficiently determined bear could probably make quick work of anything short of a bank vault no?
>how could such a determination be possible?

At the start of 2017 there were still lots of uncertainties and risk about how the Bitcoin ecosystem would handle certain waring factions inside of it.

Will businesses be able to write closed-door agreements and coopt the digital asset
or
Will the protocol remain immutable, continuing it's value proposition to the market.

The second option succeeded, risk was removed: that's a reasonable thesis to a price appreciation. Markets hate risks/unknowns.
Netflix isn't necessarily trying to reduce the bandwidth on _their_ side. They want to be able to deliver higher quality to users on lower bandwidth connections. The better that goes, the larger their prospective customer base.
> 2. Encourage everyone to participate equally

...

> Your opinion is as valuable as your education, so if you have not educated yourself, your opinion is not valuable.

Some people participate more equally than others I guess.
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The even shittier thing is, assuming your muni get the efforts going, it's not uncommon for comcast to all of a sudden have a competing product at a cheaper rate. Where the didn't have bandwidth they suddenly can support the increased rates due to competition. It's just nuts.
the same is literally true for a nuclear-armed opponent and the dollar. piles of cash would still exist in bunkers and wallets around the world, and would retain some value.

a more interesting evaluative plot-element might be something like:

how many developers would need to die for bitcoin to be exterminated?

vs.

how many economists would need to die for the dollar to be exterminated?

frankly, if some gov wanted digital coins (or their supporting networks) destroyed... I think it would be easier than reducing a traditional, national currency to rubble.
I use the "Linus Test" when reading articles on how to be a 10X developer. Linus is obviously one of the most productive developers both as an individual and as a leader of a team. If the advice in the column is something that you could see playing a big part in Linux being a 10X developer, then it is reasonable advice. Otherwise, it is advice about something, but not about being a 10X developer. This article fails the Linus Test.
>The next step beyond the mail was the telegraph and then the telephone. Those were built out by private companies

Yes, and no.

The electric and telephone companies built out the cities and big population centers, but left 50%+ of the nation without service. Much like today's ISP's would like to do.

Some places only got wired because they formed local electric co-ops and what were called "rural telephone" cooperatives.

Even then, it wasn't always enough, and the feds had to add a Universal Service Fee to every phone bill to redirect that money to the big telephone companies so they would serve the entire nation, and not only the most profitable areas.
They can also make partnerships to zero rate or accelerate partners, netflix pays a little more than hulu and now it costs to watch hulu but not netflix. So now you're picking winners based on who already has money.
It seems like it would actually be "better" to indicate (audio and/or visual alert) to the driver actions that should be taken rather than taking them automatically.

1. Indicate to the driver that they drifting out of their lane
2. Warn about possible slow or stationary object ahead

If the driver knows that car won't take action on it's own, but will help them but telling them about things that can't see (or when they are distracted), then we wouldn't be blaming Tesla but the driver.
>Yeah I don’t understand people who short

You know who the biggest short sellers are of Tesla? People hedging their long bets.

That said, the stock is still down ~20% from highs, so I don't understand the hubris of rooting against daily price changes.
Is this Spectre v4 or something new?
Yes, I've already been thinking about constraining type parameters to an interface. Internally, the type-checker considers type parameters to have underlying type interface {}. A constraint on a type parameter should be as straightforward as changing it's underlying type to a specific named interface instead of an empty one. The only tricky bit I can see is thinking about how this would work with generic interfaces or whether we should allow other kinds of type constraints (e.g., union types).
Just go the Finland route, and declare high speed internet access a basic right. Maybe add it onto the constitution. That should pave the way for getting back NN and keeping it for good.
...but empathy might help prevent the war and that particular situation in the first place?
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I'm going to repost the same comment I made on Reddit:

This is quite interesting. It certainly sounds like this does dissolve the Fermi paradox, as they say. However, I think the key idea in this paper is actually not what the authors say it is. They say the key idea is taking account of all our uncertainty rather than using point estimates. I think the key idea is actually realizing that the Drake equation and the Fermi observation don't conflict because they're answering different questions.

That is to say: Where does this use of point estimates come from? Well, the Drake equation gives (under the assumption that certain things are uncorrelated) the expected number of civilizations we should expect to detect. Here's the thing -- if we grant the uncorrelatedness assumption (as the authors do), the use of point estimates is entirely valid for that purpose; summarizing one's uncertainty into point estimates will not alter the result.

The thing is that the authors here have realized, it seems to me, that the expected value is fundamentally the wrong calculation for purposes of considering the Fermi observation. Sure, maybe the expected value is high -- but why would that conflict with our seeing nothing? The right question to ask, in terms of the Fermi observation, is not, what is the expected number of civilizations we would see, but rather, what is the probability we would see any number more than zero?

They then note that -- taking into account all our uncertainty, as they say -- while the expected number may be high, this probability is actually quite low, and therefore does not conflict with the Fermi observation. But to my mind the key idea here isn't taking into account all our uncertainty, but asking about P(N>0) rather than E(N) in the first place, realizing that it's really P(N>0) and not E(N) that's the relevant question. It's only that switch from E(N) to P(N>0) that necessitates the taking into account of all our uncertainty, after all!

[Note afterward: Over on Reddit, hxka points out that that should be P(N>1), not P(N>0). Or really it should be P(N>1|N>0)...]
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> This type of comment implies you think the world is static. I'm not saying that this good, but what makes you so sure market and social forces won't produce a better model?

They already are: multiple low or modest cost, high speed satellite providers are targeting the US market for deployment in the next four or five years.

The dumber Comcast and AT&T are about the situation, the more money SpaceX is going to make on Starlink. Amusingly, Comcast is probably going to help get us to Mars.

Regardless of the rampant cynicism about competition (plenty of which is warranted), the low earth orbit competition is coming fast. Nothing can stop it at this point.
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> Personally, I think that private buildouts are a better way to go than a government-funded network infrastructure.

If it is government-funded, then the people own it not some bloated corporation.
Sounds like the value of the stolen property was $0 if it can be recovered by simply saying "We'll just give our money back to ourselves". I imagine the police wouldn't be very interested in such a case.

Maybe the crime was hacking into a computer system? But the perpetrator was using the system's public interfaces exactly as intended. Is it criminal to call a method on a smart contract on a public distributed ledger?

There's no criminal act. The Ethereum community just wants to see themselves as victims instead of accepting that they were hoisted with their own Turing-complete petard.
How do both options here differ from the numerous options out there today? (One Google hit gives a long list)

I remember my company used a service, forgot the name, where you could also specify which type of users you wanted to test. How many of each, what devices, etc.
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https://www.psychologytoday.com/ Search, randomly pick one close to you, call. Loop. You're probably trying to come up with excuses not to do this because that's what depressed people do.
"Entertaining" might not be the right word, but I'm definitely intensely interested in watching it unfold.

This article is particularly interesting to me. I know the author - not well, mind you, but we have a few mutual friends and I've spoken with them at conferences. More importantly, I respect them both socially and professionally.

I have to wonder if my impression of the article is colored by this personal knowledge. In turn, that leads me to ask if my impression of other articles is colored by my lack of shared experiences.

For what it's worth, I think it goes both ways. I feel like I'm often seen as part of the "culture in power" in this field, though from my perspective I'm definitely an outside and make a constant conscious effort to moderate my speech.
The secret to application processes like this is that criteria are more guidelines than requirements. There is a 70% acceptance rate because of a dearth of applicants, probably because people read the criteria and think they don’t qualify.

I would imagine that many people on HN can frame their experience to fit the criteria, as I was able to do.

Also, if I were looking for full time employment and had the choice between UK and US, I would not come to the UK. I imagine this drives away a lot of non-self-employed or non-entrepreneurial applicants (though the visa isn’t really targeting them anyway, since at that point your employer should just sponsor you).
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Not a constraint per se, but having too big of a neural network (or any statistical model) can cause it to overfit and generalize poorly; of course, generalizing better is a good objective for text generation.

You can use 512-cell LSTMs if you have a lot of text, though.
That’s their pitch for future Autopilot functionality, I believe. They (probably intentionally) make future claims in a way that they can be interpreted as current functionality.
They don't care because once the signal hits analog the quality will be much lower.
Those kind of dos (while true do end), actually we handle quite well already, because we don't use LuaJIT but plain Lua that has hooks that allow Redis to detect such conditions. But in general, it's a "can of worms" indeed.
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For the sibling comment, are you referring to this comment?

"10x developer is absolutely a thing, in the easily observed phenomenon that some developers are 10x more productive than other developers. The "other developers" are earning good wages and doing good work; the 10x developer is usually found making 2x or 3x the norm.
That said; I just can't believe that a team can perform 10x by the actions of one person. This claim is so outlandish I may just have to skim the article. It is often the case that having a 10x developer nearby can greatly improve the quality of a product, but that's not the same thing as improving the team."

I don't agree that some developers are "10x more productive" than others. I agree that some developers are more/less productive than others but I agree with the article's premise that teamwork is a much more important metric than individual talent. I understand the spirit of "10x developer" in that some individuals are more productive than others.. but the quantification of 10x seems very unrealistic, and IMO is overshadowed by potential productivity gains by having a well-functioning team. Again just my opinion here so feel free to disagree with me on this.

The relevant paragraph in the article is this:

"Software engineering today is a team sport; like water polo, you can’t build incredible software systems alone. So when I first heard the concept of the 10x engineer, I was confused. How could someone be so talented that it overshadows the power of teamwork? In my experience, individual excellence is necessary, but not sufficient, for greatness. Focusing purely on individual achievement misses the larger picture that teams are required to build great software. So I decided to change the definition of a 10x engineer to this: "

It doesn't give a very clear definition of what a "10x engineer" is. Again I agree with them here that the "10x" number and lack of a clear objective "individual productivity" metric makes the term hard to clearly define. Since most work is not done on an individual basis, but rather in teams.
Yes, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17305563
Please remove if it is a repost.
Reminds me of this Steve Yegge post: Why I left Google to join Grab

https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/why-i-left-google-to-join-gr...
A core security principle is Secure by Default - arguable that's something Apple can improve here.
I see what you mean. I’ll keep this in mind.
Was just thinking that this reminds me of the alien weapon in Perfect Dark: https://youtu.be/8DlVQ6OjRcA?t=6s
sometimes managers and clients are fools.
Headline is very misleading. The article is just describing a bug which happened to be present in several different 3rd party security apps, not necessarily every 3rd party app. The article also notes that no tool built into mac OS ever had the issue.
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What kind of bear/where in the country was this? It's grizzlies & kodiaks that you'd want for breaking into bank vaults.

Black bears are comparatively a little less adept at the whole can-opener thing, though I'm not surprised a portapotty (aka plastic box) didn't stop a bear, regardless of breed.
I wonder at what point the number of domains and subdomains that you can log into becomes its own phishing vector. At least with most services, you can look in the URL and pretty quickly know whether or not you're in the right place!
> only a matter of time before they group together and get their leverage

it's already done. see, for instance:
- the impact of digital campaign outreach in the 2008 election
- various 3letter "cyber" groupos since early 2000s
- anonymous circa 3 years ago
- btc manipulation last year

there are probably more
Oh, ok. Now I understand your point. I understood the comment you were replying to differently.

To explain where I'm coming from: one typical argument made by some religious people (not all!) is that atheists will inevitably degenerate into criminality, since -- the argument goes -- if you don't have religion to tell you something is immoral, and there are no consequences in the afterlife, what's the point of behaving well to others?
This isn't true. You can use disassembly tools to trace through code, and you can see what imports/exports there are, as well as what API calls are being made using static analysis tools.

You can also use all sorts of runtime tools to see what a binary is doing at runtime, so I imagine it would be pretty easy to see if an application is phoning home, and where home is located, although the data is probably encrypted.

In fact, it might actually be easier for an end user to audit a binary using such automated tools instead of looking at the source code itself. At least with the automated tools, the tools can flag suspicious constructs in the binary that may indicate that it's up to no good, and do so in a way that is more understandable to the end user.
I wrote a bit about my opinion in a reddit thread a while back. It is here if you are interested, but a fair warning it will probably be quite an unpopular opinion with the hacker news crowd:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/7xq7mp/comm...
The really sad thing is that all this data is not available for academic research. Instead of understanding human nature to make a better world, it is being used to make better targeted ads.
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>Those were built out by private companies, but operated under a regulatory regime called "common carrier,"

No. "Common Carrier" classification under Title II of the Communications act of 1934 comes more than 30 years after the introduction of the telephone, much longer than the telegraph. More than that, it could be argued that that, along with the Kingsbury Commitment were the contributions that led to an AT&T incumbency in the first place.
No one should ever feel bad about seeking help. It's a great sign that you even want to seek help. Burnout is universal. I wrote about this recently:

"As I’ve gone through my 30s and 40s, I’ve been surprised at how many of my friends have suffered some kind of burnout. In fact, between the ages of 15 and 45, I would say that everyone I know personally has had at least one bad year. Back when I was in school, it seemed like some people were reliably happy, and other people were reliably depressed. And yes, many of those personality traits turned out to be consistent over several decades. But it was a surprise to realize that even the happiest people could fall into a dark spot. Some people are highly resilient, but no one is infinitely resilient."

http://www.smashcompany.com/philosophy/burnout-is-universal-...

Also:

"If you feel you need a therapist, the question then becomes, "How to find the right therapist?" If you are lucky enough to have the money or good insurance, I strongly recommend that you go to 3 or 4 different therapists, at least once, and see if you click with any of them. In some sense, there are no "generally good therapists" there is only the therapist who is good for you. One therapist might be great for someone else, but terrible for you. It's a very unique relationship, and it takes some work to find it. But if you lack the money or insurance that might provide you with the option to try several therapists, then another option, not quite as good but cheaper, is to go online and talk to others who suffer your particular version of burnout, and ask them if they would recommend someone in your area. Also, if your struggles overlap with the kinds of struggles that are addressed by any kind of 12 Step program, then going to the local chapter of that 12 Step program is almost always going to be your best bet."
Right, but if they acquire $6000 for 20000 tether (that they paid $0 for), and promise that tether is full redeemable for $20000, they are $14000 short when the tether holder comes knocking.
> haven't created an issue for

You have one now: https://github.com/albrow/fo/issues/7

:)
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Washtrades and Bitfinex's tether were no doubt a huge factor. Someone wrote a great article about it back in November-December, but I can't for the life of me remember where/who.
Why not prosecute the telecoms under current anti-trust legislation?

I'm as troubled by the zeitgeist's two proposed solutions, more big companies or more big government, as I am by the merger.
C and Python's compatibility aren't comparable.

It's quite hard to write a C89 program that isn't C99. Basically any Python 2 program that uses 'print' won't be valid Python 3. Even after fixing that, I always find a bunch of string related problems.
Please see my other comment / writeup.
We're in quarantine.

To other life forms humans look like H.R. Giger's xenomorph aliens from the movies.

We're obviously intelligent, yet we absolutely refuse to communicate with other life forms. we're not even interested in the possibility.

We consume other organisms with rapacious abandon, converting them into more of ourselves as fast as we can. We are strip-mining the oceans of protein, our chattel livestock out-mass all other land animals by several times, and still we consume. We clearcut forests leaving patterns visible from space.

We cover everything with asphalt and concrete to create huge sprawling nests that are inimical to life other than our own (and a few species that can live with us.) Again, this is clearly visible from space.

From orbit we look just like a disease.

There's a place in Washington (state), a lake, where the UFOs take off and land (underwater) and the cheeky fuckers will wave back at you from windows in the ships.

We're not alone. We just suck.
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