skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin has a public record of every transaction by every user, with every users' current balance made public (the former might be possible to reduce with Lightning, but the latter is not since you have to settle everyone's balance on-chain at the end of the day). Can you please clarify by which token VISA and banks (and GNU Taler) are "government spyware" and Bitcoin is not?

I happen to think that none of these systems are "government spyware" but if you want to argue otherwise, it would be nice to have substantiated statements.
I think gp was concerned more with not leaking internal dns names as DoH isn't using the system resolver and hence requires each application to be configured individually to point to an internal DoH server.
"most real world applications" is a meaningless phrase, I doubt anyone can quantify "real world applications" one way or the other

also the result is still interesting, why wouldn't goroutines scale just as well, but apparently didn't?
Having worked at several start-ups, I'd say the employment risks are not worth the cost. In most of my cases, when the start-up hasn't raised enough money, you end up with a poor work environment - pissed off/stressed bosses, weird work hours, "do anything" to save the business mentality... Generally layoffs/firings occur pretty abruptly and you're left filing for unemployment without a "thank you". My advice would be to wait for a start-up to be "derisked" / 3-5 years old with a solid run rate above $100m in revenue.

The few success stories, such as Airbnb and Facebook, are the extreme exception.
Depending on where you're from, the individual is the bottom line. Money mediates individual exchange. In the US the Fed has a very specific role. Bailing out companies is not actually part of that.

In fact, if the Constitution were taken seriously any more, someone would have noticed the bit about "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

I suppose this is Canada we're talking about, so the above doesn't mean anything in this context.
You are correct and that is my point as well. I have yet to see a company that manages all proxy settings for all browsers, operating systems, API clients, etc. At least, not very well. Shops that are strictly windows can enforce this from AD. Everyone else will have to shim something in. We are a mix of Windows, Mac and Linux. Mostly Mac.

Without a decent path forward, I could imagine that many corporations may go the heavy handed route of blocking all the known DoH resolvers. I envision IP and DNS lists like firehol and various RBL databases to eventually contain these if they do not already.
That's a good point, and accessibility of science is a big issue across the academy, as the Berkeley captioning case shows. The DRM/subscription piece of digital publishing is still probably the biggest cost of their model.

I remember but can't find a citation for an apocryphal story that the administrative overhead of metering, tracking and billing phone calls in the Ma Bell days was more than 50% of the cost.
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>> Technically there are 23 questions but I grouped the last one together as a question for new potential teammates. Also 23 questions to ask before joining a startup didn’t have as good a ring to it.

Actually, I'd argue 23 has a way better ring to it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_enigma
The whole feature is clearly an afterthought. There are so many issues with it you're much better off getting another app that's designed for offline navigation.
an OS is so much more than an application, amen.

just a simple google would help:
the low-level software that supports a computer's basic functions, such as scheduling tasks and controlling peripherals.

this poor author of the post. >.> and then to think critisism gets a downvote :'D.. must be some angry kids mob who found where on memory mbr is put from some youtube1337hack0r..

The accepted answer was correct:
"You place your binary code to a place where processor looks for after rebooting "
That was a good anwer to the question.
the rest is just filler nonsense.
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Cops (as a group, not so much as individuals) don't want to go chasing racist white guys for the same reason they don't give tons of tickets to blue collar white people with in-state plates. It's hard to make someone who looks and acts a lot like you the enemy. This is on some level a human and empathy problem. The cops have the same haircuts, wear the same boots and live in a culture of the same "people like us are superior and everyone else is second class". It's no surprise that they don't go all out trying to hunt down neo-nazis and similar.
so are you saying you’ve ever been able to get those numbers? i never have.
The evil seller doesn't ship the item but signs the product shipped message anyway. Who's gonna stop them, it's not like the blockchain knows if they actually shipped it or not. Or maybe they shipped a fake or non working item. Then what?
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The only valid reasons for working at a seed-stage / series A startup:

You are a founder.

They are working with a technology or in an industry that you specifically want to work with and it is very hard to work on it professionally, and doing side projects are infeasible.

You need experience and you have no other option to get experience.

You are getting a significant title bump that moves your career forwards.

Invalid reasons for working at a startup:

Equity (getting rich off stock options) - this is very likely to be worthless unless you are a co-founder.

Salary - you would make (much) more at a big company.

Work life balance - you will work harder than you ever have.

Stability - does not exist.

Benefits - very bad.

Learning - they will not have any formal training nor time to train you, so be prepared to self-learn.

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All that said, I enjoyed my time as an employee at multiple startups. Just go in for the right reasons and your eyes wide open.
The UK is not the United States.
I'm glad you said this. Many got burned including myself due to dilution events. When your 2% stake turns into 0.25% over time and you get paid last, there needs to be a very large buyout/IPO for you to get anything substantial. Add in the taxes paid on that and I would have been 10 times better working a corporate job with less headaches.
It was parliament (or at least a parliamentary committee), not the government, that did this though wasn't it?
>I also hope an option to force "type hints" is going to be introduced in future versions of Python

Have you checked https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_line.html#unty... ?
I hope that's not all you had in mind when you wrote your comment. All of that shows no proof that it's the genetics that propels the disproportionate level of intellectual achievement. Both of those cases can easily be explained by sociocultural influences within families of various races propelling more intellectual endeavors, and if you don't have peer reviewed references showing otherwise it's probably a good idea to stop thinking that way.
I would be interested! the.angrybaby -at- gmail
Well, keeping in mind the reason why video games are still sold in physical format is that they require enormous binaries which downloading is very problematic for people in remote locations (plus it gives a physical object to wrap for a gift). But even that is going away. There are rumors of a disc-less xbox [1]. This binaries size problem isn't really relevant to anything that is meant to run on a smartphone.

https://www.thurrott.com/xbox/192184/microsofts-building-a-d...
The linked story seems to have been updated to remove references to the Volt being cut:

"The company also plans to stop building several models now assembled at those plants, including the Chevrolet Cruze, the Cadillac CT6 and the Buick LaCrosse."
"Although Wendelstein 7-X is not designed to generate energy, the device is intended to prove that stellarators are suitable for use in power stations. With Wendelstein 7-X the intention is to achieve for the first time in a stellarator the quality of confinement afforded by competing devices of the tokamak type."

This was at the very end.

While competition is certainly a positive, this doesn't sound like they're interested. Therefore, given the importance of fusion (read: there's a massive immediate need on the order of saving the planet), shouldn't the time and effort being put into stellarators be devoted to something that's important in the immediate?
I dunno how anyone else feels, but I'd add a 21 that's pretty important to me. How is the startup planning on earning revenue?
I'd treat the specific questions here with a grain of salt but directionally the emphasis on making sure you inform yourself about the things you care about is good. I wouldn't expect that asking questions of the prospective employer is the best way to inform yourself about a lot of things though. A lot of devs for example could use some advice about options, how they work and what the tax consequences are when you receive or exercise options. Your prospective employer really can't give you this advice in any credible way - you need to seek it out independently and do your own research.

Some of the specific questions are not great depending on cultural context. For example if someone joining my dev team asked me to pay to ship their car somewhere I'd ask them why they needed a car to code. But I'm in London, where having a car has marginal/negative utility versus being essential in other places.

On the equity side, if someone asked these questions I'd know they don't understand equity. What would really help is to see the cap table so you get liquidation preferences etc but you're not going to get to see the cap table most places if you're just going for a dev job. As it is, he says you might not get told the strike price on your options, which in many/most countries your employer would be legally obliged to tell you as it's part of the valuation of your comp for tax purposes.
> Is it common for there to be 3 full pages of authors on a paper like this?

Some subfields in physics have a specific culture around authorship. For example: In experimental particle physics, the authorship list can be similarly long. Despite the long list, there is an implicit assumption of a working particle accelerator, which is run by another large number of people who publish separately in their own journals.
Also, what made this interesting wasn't the question but that the question won the lottery of someone contributing substantial time to craft a great answer.

I don't think you could've done a better job than linking that moderation queue of "toobroad" to make your point. It was a never-ending channel of straight shit. Ranging from "here's a copy and paste of all my unformatted code that won't work, whatever that means" to "how do i use python on windows".

Everything looks easy to someone that has no stake in the solution. We get so used to being end-users that we take everything for granted, as if our experience is the natural ordering of the universe, rather than the result of all the work that goes on behind the scenes.

Read enough posts from HNers condemning Stack Overflow and you'd think they believe Reddit/HN's "new" queue is the ultimate browsing experience.
I know your pain. This is a big issue especially with GDPR kicking in.

Security teams have competing directives.

Board & Investors: “Prevent customer data exfiltration”

Privacy / Legal: “Employee activity monitoring Violates our regulatory obligations”

HR: “BYOD is essential to talent retention, cultural comfort, and workforce optimization”

Employees: “I refuse to use VDI or Jump Hosts”
Well, I know people working not only in Berlin, but also in USA, just not in SF. One blockchain startup from Utah wanted to develop some advanced stuff, got investors hyped, ICO and stuff.

They paid their employers quite well, really good rates. All of programmers (besides 2 founders I believe) are contractors - no equity. They negotiated their hourly rates pretty high, because they knew that even if it will be a great success, they won't get anything else than a salary.
> and unsurprisingly, gas prices didn't change with the removal of the program

While that might not be completely true...gas prices are down. I'm talking $1.45 to $0.99 / L.

As someone who drives ~ 3 hrs a day (and all my friends do too) - We do appreciate the reduction in the gas price.
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The price is low compared to the high-end, low-volume, RISC workstations of the past. Those started at around five digits. On the not-quite-as-performant end, there's even more ARM solutions showing up. Escaping Intel and increasing ecosystem diversity has never been cheaper.

Sure it costs something, though.
Firstly, if you're ingesting alfalfa, you deserve whatever happens to you.

Secondly, you realize that regulatory agencies raise and lower the acceptable limits of chemicals as the evidence accumulates that they are or aren't particularly harmful, right? Some go down, because we find out they were way worse than we thought they were, some go up, because it turns out we were too conservative initially and they are safer at way higher levels that we previously thought. Science!

Thirdly, that article is confounding crops for human consumption with crops for animal consumption. We are way, way less worried about whether a pig is going to develop cancer later in life, for reasons that should hopefully be obvious, and we also conduct a brief autopsy on nearly every pig ever born, which as a side effect gives us pretty good data on how healthy the average pig is over time.
I just read the article you linked, and it says the opposite:

"The company also plans to stop building several models now assembled at those plants, including the Chevrolet Cruze, the Cadillac CT6 and the Buick LaCrosse.

GM said it will shift more investment to electric and autonomous vehicles."

That reads like they're investing in the Volt.
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Years ago I read an article or paper about writing a lisp compiler. The compiler started with regular looking lisp, then through macro expansion lisp primitives were defined in terms of each other. Then the small subset of lisp primitives were expanded to goto's and conditionals. The gotos and conditionals were still expressed in lisp S Expressions. Finally the gotos and conditionals were implemented in terms of assembly looking lisp primitives. Then they removed the parentheses and it left an assembly program.

I can't remember the name of the paper. Any ideas? It was such an elegant way of walking through a compiler implementation.
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It’s easy to imagine that somebody raised by apes or otherwise totally isolated from humans would not be conscious, but without teaching them to think consciously how could we ever know?
It's not quite as straightforward as you're implying either. If you graph the total value of an employee's shares over time, dilution drops the value of that graph. You can say after the fact "look, after six months your total share value was higher than it started" but it doesn't change the fact that that graph has a big drop somewhere in it. If share price is constantly growing, dilution is always a bad thing for an employee. The pretense that they care about what percentage of the company is owned is specious.

The real reason employees should put up with dilution is because the share price doesn't always grow. Sometimes, the company runs out of steam and it drops to zero. They should put up with dilution because it gives the company a better chance to end up profitable and for their shares to be worth anything at a liquidity event.
Experiments like Wendelstein remind me that the only thing holding back fusion power is money for research like this. Every year, we spend billions on fossil fuel exploration because the return on investment is quick - just think about all the wells going in to extract shale oil.

What if we collectively had the will to invest this much into fusion?
I agree with you, though I'd say that this may not apply fully to late-stage startups in Series C or Series D.
General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics are incompatible with each other. You can't get GR out of QM or vice versa. Yet, annoyingly, the predictions of both continue to be shown to be correct. The grandparent is hoping for a discrepancy somewhere to provide a hook to base further theoretical developments on.
That has nothing to do with what I was commenting upon. There are no deer or elk to hunt on the BART that I am aware of.
>If they lose money by staying in Ontario, they do no one any good (not the taxpayers who foot the bill, not the government that transfers money from the taxpayers to the corporation, not the people being paid by the corporation).

You duplicate your list by listing taxpayers and government, as the government is the repository of tax money. You also assume the government would have to send any money to a corporation. And how would someone benefit from NOT getting paid at a union auto job instead of getting paid?

I know businesses need to make money, but as another poster said, society is the bottom line.
In defense of the parent comment:

It's absolutely a deliberate choice to include an attractive woman in that slide's background photo, just as it was a deliberate choice for the doors to be gold.

I'd guess that people looking at the slide most consciously notice the conspicuous gold doors.

But we all also notice that there's some sort of person standing there. That person is greeting us with a smile.

We may not process it consciously, but many viewers of the slide are definitely also attuned to the attractiveness of the person. We might notice the bare legs, the skirt, the shoes, the braid of hair casually laying on the shoulder. The bit of midriff showing.

Many readers will think "sexy" even if we're not aware of the thought.

This choice is intentional, because sex sells.

The majority of the intended audience is straight men, so this is probably an effective sales practice, but at the same time it strikes some of us as cheap. The body of the woman in this photo is being used as an object and simply as a means to an end. And the audience is being appealed to on a basis unrelated to the value of the product for sale.

Try these ideas:

- Imagine the same photo, but where the woman is dressed in [more modest] business casual attire, holding a binder with notes for an important meeting.

- Imagine the same photo, but with an attractive sexy man smiling at us. Maybe he's showing some toned biceps or perhaps even a glimpse of abs.

- Imagine the same photo, but with a middle-aged white man dressed in a suit and tie.

- Imagine the same photo, but with a large black woman beaming confidence in formal business attire.

In all of these cases (except maybe the abs), you probably wouldn't consciously notice the details, but they would definitely all color your subconscious impression differently.
>lisp machines were expensive workstation computers

In most cases, yes, but the language also found its way into some very unexpected places. For example, a subset of Common Lisp, "L", was at the core of Prof. Rod Brooks' Subsumption Architecture which enabled the amazing mobile robots built in his lab. He ran Lisp on 16mhz 68332 embedded processors. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2949173_L_--_A_Comm...
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> But if the off-target effect is random, then its not really any worse off than an unmodified embryo, with around 30 random mutations naturally. Of course, the actual numbers matter but in principle this isn't a worse situation.

There is strong evidence that high mutation rates are selected against, to the point that some have speculated that driving down mutation rate is one of the key functions of selection[1].

Point being that increasing the number of germline variants is an extremely important consideration. The fact that the underlying biological replication mechanisms are not 100% perfect does not alter this point, and certainly doesn't mean that when you artificially increase the number of mutations that "this isn't a worse situation".

1 = https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg.2016.104
We have plenty of laws from centuries ago that are still relevant and useful today. What exactly is "sneaky" about using them?
Regardless of how strong the government's case is, we have a right to face our accuser. The existence of the FISA court, and all its decisions, are, if not illegal, morally bankrupt. I don't care how strong the government's case against me is, I want and am entitled to my day in court. No quantity of legal talmudicry by government lawyers can change this fact, and therefore can't change any right-thinking person's mind that FISA, or anything like it, has no place in a democratic society.
I haven't thought of it that way. That's a good one. It seems to tie into fear porn.
I think you've missed a key word in the comment you're replying on: fictional Constitution.

It's just a process that would lead to some interesting outcome. Nobody's suggesting anything about enforcing that outcome to anyone.
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I wonder if the financial incentives (i.e. bribes) to avoid China also stipulate buying Cisco or Motorola. If not, I wonder if this will backfire and create a great opportunity for Fujitsu/Ericsson/Nokia to advertise their relative safety and independence.
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Crystal is interesting-- I've followed it at a distance-- but from what I understand, it's not really functional. Persistent data structures aren't a first-class citizen, and it seems to prefer blocks to lambdas. Also, (unrelated to the functional thing), the compiler isn't super fast. I think a really fast edit -> save -> compile -> reload time is one of the defining features of OCaml and Go.
> real SSL interception is not at all stopped by this

I wasn't aware that SSL interception was possible without a CA trusted by the victim, which is trivial in Enterprise and nigh-impossible elsewhere.
What about ZTE?
There's still ways to go.
If they manage the same confinement as a tokamak they (hope to) have the advantage of continuous operation.
corollary question - if DNS data is not authenticated then how does the client distinguish between police and attackers?

much better to authenticate the policer.
Is it hard to imagine that this is truly 100% backdoored by China's secret services? Nope. Avoiding it is the smart thing to do. Yes, NSA will try to do the same but China will also ask it's citizens to avoid known NSA backdoored devices.
Does anyone have any idea how do they take pictures of the plasma?

That seems quite hard considering the temperatures and the strong magnetic field.
Exactly. If DoH included a change or extension to DHCP or could leverage an existing feature of DHCP, then this could be solved for corporate use. I would imagine something like the Proxy PAC "option wpad-url" using a different code to signify DoH. Even then, only browsers would be addressed by wpad. There would still need to be a mechanism to set DoH for non browsers.

We would also need all OS providers to get in front of this and have a package that supports internal DoH easily. i.e. AD snap-in for windows AD controllers. Perhaps an extension to sssd and/or Unbound and/or dhcp for Linux. That needs to happen before all the browsers start supporting this.