skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think it's a bit far fetched to describe the current situation as a cartel.

Well, they did specifically say it's not a cartel. Yet. I interpreted the article as an early warning to prevent them from becoming a cartel, as the author believes they have the capability to become one if they decide to.

> First, what is the function of a cartel? It's to coordinate supply to keep prices high.

No, it's to coordinate to keep profits high. Prices could fall, but less quickly than they would otherwise, and it could still be due to coordinated action. One example is if costs are falling quicker than prices, and prices drops are delayed or reduced. If consumers are hurt because they've altered the economics of the market to prevent competition, that would qualify for me.

> Do we really think that anything the content players have done so far would indicate any of them are trying to set pricing higher? Hardly.

Theoretically, they could make the market economics of new cables harder to justify, while keeping enhanced capability for themselves. Does affecting the world market to the degree that it would take a nation state to have enough money to change the status quo enough to allow competition in the data transit space count as anti-competitive? It may be that the term encompasses a lot more behavior when applied at that scale.

Do the companies in question have enough resources and power to affect the global market in that way? I have no idea. It sounds crazy, but it feels like there's more consolidation of power in these companies (with regard to online content) than other industries have had in the past, and with an industry that's as large and lucrative as this, that seems to make them somewhat unique. The dark horse here might end up being China. If there was a cartel, China would have the capability and motive to bust it eventually. Of course, if the markets China wanted to reach were politically denied from specialized lobbying, that could counter them...
From the findings:

High intake of sodium, low intake of whole grains and low intake of fruits were the leading dietary risk factors for deaths and DALYs globally and in many countries.
There are far worse intellectual property offenders all around me, and I've never heard of a single person that ever got into trouble within my country. (Coincidentally, I've heard of dozens of cases of people from my country getting slapped with hundreds of euros of fines for pirating while being abroad, all of them in Germany).

The worst thing that could happen to me is that I could have my Amazon account terminated. Everything physical on Amazon gets slapped with an additional $60-80 of taxes (even if the item itself is $10-$20), so I really don't use Amazon for anything else but its bookstore.

Books take months or years to write, and I want to award that behavior with whichever percentage of my $10 ends up in the author's pockets. Don't get me wrong, if I see a book I want to read on Humble Bundle on Kobo, I'll click on it first. But if I don't, I'll pick Amazon over Google Play Books, this Microsoft's one, or any other DRM-enabled store. Not because Amazon is in any way better than them, but because I know I can break the DRM effortlessly and reliably, while still pitching in something to the author. If that wasn't the case, I wouldn't look for a different store — I'd still be pirating.
This might be interesting and valuable, but the ridiculous home page doesn't instill me with any confidence. Certainly not going to install anything from these people.
Did your drivers also give usermode code the ability to map arbitrary memory addresses of the usermode code's choosing, thus granting full rw access to all memory pages in the system?

Either Huawei's driver developers are both incompetent and stupid or they're injecting malicious backdoors.
Ask HN: Why would HN not seem to care about an interesting bug in YouTube?
Seriously, I'm trying to get some attention about a bug in YouTube's web site that allows to skip Ads without having to have anything special installed or mess with JavaScript... and I hardly get a "meh"...

I don't get it, will someone please explain? Isn't this "Hacker News"? Has something else changed in the world lately? Are people traveling in blimps now?
Windows services have a restart if I crash mode, why wouldn’t that be used instead. This seems about making sure the user can’t stop it from starting
Well there a lot of posts here decrying the legislation, as expected.

This is pretty ironic given Zuckerberg's recent request for more government involvement in regulating content on social media.

Anyway, I think this is a positive move. The government should start with an extreme policy, anything less and nothing will change. Social media businesses basically do whatever they like, and have monetised human attention and outrage without any regards to the consequences. Brexit, kids getting measles, what happened in Christchurch... it is pointless to run counterfactuals, but the probability that social media contributed to these events significantly is certainly not zero. Society needs to defend itself against these entities which don't have our best interests at heart.

Is it a well thought out legislation? Sure doesn't look like it. But then we aren't regulating schools or fresh air or hospitals, are we?
Im Guessing this is driven in part because it’s advantageous to the Murdoch empire. It pushes tech firms onto the back foot.

You need a PR storm to gain political leverage comparable to what Rupert Murdoch can bring to bear.
So what? So did MOTIF, Turbo Vision and a couple of others.

The point was how the CSS grid came to be, and which company brought it into the Web standards working group.
If I had bought all my books on Microsoft, I'd be very happy right now. I would be getting hundreds or even thousands of dollars back, that I could use to buy new books.
They can even in browser. Get an account on Twilio and explore their SMS API.
They tend to look like that in your Apache logs when they target at the web application level.

Once you're flooded and your process load spikes, you can't see what your web server has run out of workers to handle.

Netstat will give you a better picture as far as IPs/connections once you get the process load down so you can actually run anything.
Both electric and infrared stovetops can get hot enough to glow red, which means they have to be at least 550C: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_heat
I think it is pretty common to refer to Jews or Muslims as minorities, and it doesn't seem weird to me to call Mormons a minority group as well.
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Instead of focusing on that, how about focusing on issues that affect the lives of most trans people, not a subset so small to be statistically insignificant by any measure, not to mention the near nonexistant impact that has on anyone else?

Why play on the thin lines instead of focusing on the issues that have the largest and broadest effects on people?
Template-generators like cog are meant to run periodically, for example every time you 'compile' your project. Often they contain dynamic elements which can change between each run.

Using your emacs-command would defeat that purpose, because you would need to search the region at every run and re-execute it manually again and again and again. And you would need to documentate the command anyway, because nobody can remember all those regions. So why not automate this task then?
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Hope 10% of this might be useful to you.

1) the three most important metrics for any endpoint are error rate, lantency, throughput. So i hope you've learned to not be surprised that abnormal throughput (either via ddos attacks or friendly n+1 queries) is a common error condition.

2) banning ip addresses is useless and often counter productive. If possible, short-circuit requests from an ip so you can isolate them and then determine how much damaging knowledge they know (while letting them think they're still hitting your real service)

3) feature development is a great goal, but don't forget that the most important feature is availability. Spending an extra 30 minutes to consider things like pagination and so on, end up being worth it if you think you might get attacked more than 0 times per year.
That's not how it usually works, does it with Microsoft? It would be very limiting and annoying to be unable to read books without internet access (say on the beach on holidays, for example). Certainly not the case on Kindle.

There were cases were people's Amazon accounts were cancelled, so they couldn't buy new books from Amazon. The books they already bought remained on their kindles, though.

There were also cases of Amazon deleting books from kindles, when the books became illegal.

Any reason to assume Microsoft operated in a very different way?
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As an introvert, I disagree. Being introverted does not mean you lack the ability to be assertive, it simply means you don’t draw your energy from social stimulation (quite the opposite).

There is wisdom in the phrase carpe diem.
Weird approach by Huawei. If you want a program to stay up and running, you write a windows service; autostart with restart for recovery in case of crash. The service process can set its own DAC so that only SYSTEM can open its handle, hence the process in inaccessible/unkillable to ordinary users, even administrators.

The knowledge needed to do so is far less than what is needed to pull the hack that Huawei did.

So to quote another user:

> Problem: any well written exploit will be designed to look like a mistake.

and given the above, I'm inclined to believe that this was meant as a deniable exploit ("honest mistake").

What I wrote above is what I miss in the MS's analysis. There are cleaner and simpler ways to achieve what Huawei tried to accomplish. I would be astonished that the person(s) having knowledge to write a kernel driver don't know about DACLs and how to use them to prevent tampering with a process.

EDIT: The article does end with guidelines. However, I'd be more happy if MS explicitly wrote "They should have done THIS (using exising, well-documented, UM only OS functionality) instead to achieve their goal."
Yes and they enjoyed them and probably forgot about them already. If someone would buy my old books I'd be thrilled for most of them. For some selected others devastated, but these I would copy. If they wanted to chip in with another 25$ to pay for my sweet annotations I probably wouldn't even accept it.
I've gotten a good number of DDoSes sent my way. For the ones I've noticed, there's usually pretty good IP diversity. Volumetric attacks are either like tcp syn floods, spoofed from everywhere, or udp reflection spoofed from you to reflecting hosts, which have pretty good diversity. If you want to survive these, you need to have either a big connection, or packet filtering by someone with a big connection. As of a few years ago, 10Gbps was enough to ignore casual attacks, as long as your IP stack is up for it -- you may need to do a bit of tuning and make sure you've got recent syn handling. On the other hand, if you're running a 10Gbps connection, be sure you're not a reflection target -- be extremely careful about running UDP servers that send significantly larger replies than the requests, if they're exposed on public ips.

Layer 7 attacks are different; you can't spoof those, so you don't get perfect distribution -- but there are lots of ways to distribute simple requests. If the requests are coming from a botnet, there's usually a lot of control about what the requests look like, but if they're coming in through tricking other software (which is unfortunately common), then at least you'll likely have some identifying information; it's dumb to block things by user-agent, but it can be pretty effective. The way to handle these is really to try to make sure the effort your server spends is roughly on par with the effort the client spends; and try to make sure you're running the best optimized TLS handshakes you can (ECC certs are easier on servers than RSA).
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In general, You are defining minority group as minority ethnicity only
Why do engineers not care about application monitoring?
Isn't it protecting their reproduction rights?
Given the popularity of the topic I'm a little surprised that quality content independent of sponsorship has yet to surface. Quora is a big ad-fest so I wouldn't base my decisions on it.

I was particularly interested in travel-related up-to-date material, such as the one about komodo island closing down. Other such topics would be "Don't go to Townsville, QLD cause there's floods" or "The amazing festival X in happening next week in Y".

I had a look at Cluey and I definitely appreciate some of the key criteria you're integrating namely safety and the variety of activities. In fact I was just researching topics like "Is it safe to drive around Romania in 2019". A factual list of tips like "petty crime and muggings have gone up in Bogota, don't flaunt your 8k camera" depending on destination would be invaluable for me when planning a long-trip.

I would also like to see a breakdown of how my most compatible destinations were selected after the fact (eg safety score, environmental impact score, etc).

All in all I really like the idea and registered. I hope you guys launch something great so keep up the good work!

PS I'd appreciate info on where stats and info are collected from when presented with results so I can evaluate whether I agree with the facts used in the calculation.
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> Discuss things in the google+ community

google+?
Yes. He had read a significant amount of English literature by age 15, including the complete works of Shakespeare.

http://wmjas.wikidot.com/nabokov-s-recommendations
Yep, this is exactly my problem - I want higher standards across the industry, but I want it to be about substance, not merely additional process and bureaucracy, and I want training to not be so disconnected from real world practice.
Honestly, though, Falun Gong is barely even religious. Rather, it is Qi Gong practice with some "spirituality" bullshit. It's better compared to suburban yoga studios that sell smelly candles and "mindfulness" than Scientology, and it was actually pretty popular among PRC urbanites before the crackdown.
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I do the same. For a few of my books, the publisher imposed a max number of devices. Around 3 or 4 devices. That limitation especially pissed me off. Whenever I get a new phone or tablet, I make sure I always copy over the de-drmed ebook which previously had the device limit. Kind of a pointless gesture, since I'll probably never re-read those specific ebooks, and the publisher will never know I'm spitting in their eye. But it's a good feeling.
The article addresses it towards the bottom

> Don’t worry though — we are nowhere near such a scenario. Yet.
There’s no proxy for content quality.

Simply: it’s all content and it’s impact depends on the people who take the information in and then apply their beliefs and understanding to it.

Some content is simple - recipes for example.

Others are impossible to parse: “they want to reduce hate speech” translates as “they want to remove conservative/right wing speech” (this actually happened in a conversation yesterday. Suggesting that the term hate speech is being transformed/co opted)

Engagement in contrast, is simple, reliable and measurable.
Why should we grant your view on this matter equal attention?
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>To play devil’s advocate here: if social media companies were to desert a particular country, (unlikely as it is)...would it harm society in any significant way?

Society is made up of people, and a significant number of these people use Facebook. I imagine they wouldn't be particularly happy if it was taken away from them. How do you feel when somebody suddenly decides to take away something you like because they believe they know better than you about what's good for you?

>Facebook, in particular seems to be a cesspit...

Your experiences of Facebook are not representative of everybody's. The people in my circle of friends use Facebook to post jokes and memes, and keep in touch with extended family. I can't see how you'd accidentally come across extremist content unless either you're looking for it or your friends post it, in which case shouldn't your friends be the one you take issue with for sharing it?

>in fact I spoke to a colleague who is mentally fragile, and gets worked up by looking at extremist Facebook pages...

Mental illness is a tragic thing, but taking away Facebook won't solve it. Mentally ill people are distressed by many kinds of social interaction; would you suggest banning them all?

>Add the other issues caused by social media, and it might be a blessing in disguise if they shut down.

What other issues exactly? Trump being elected? Not everybody considers than an issue, e.g. the people who voted for him, and it's certainly not settled science that he wouldn't have been elected without it. Obama also made heavy use of social media in his election campaign; maybe he wouldn't have been elected without it.

Personally social media has improved my life immensely, making it possible to keep in touch with people I'd otherwise have lost contact with completely. I can't be the only one. But I imagine on a social network like Hackernews you won't get a representative sample of the broader population, as engineers are more introverted on average, and introverts may get less value out of large social networks, digital or otherwise.
It wasn’t announced on their News site, and when the press asked about it, their first on the record statement is ‘we’ve coincidentally reached the same conclusion at just this same time and will shut it down sometime’.

I do not give Facebook the benefit of the doubt here, but coincidence is technically possible.
2e-3s*3e8 m/s=6e5m. So no, you are not going to get 2ms transatlantic ping.
> ask a physicist to critically re-evaluate the laws of thermodynamics each time they perform a calculation

Perhaps not. But it is a good idea for scientists to periodically re-visit their assumptions about how things work. Like what Einstein did.
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Just be clear I don't share any view points with the person you're debating but the Olympics does(or did) have a testosterone limit for certain female sports.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2018/04/26/ne...
Layman POV:

- TSMC are the only company currently shipping real products at 7nm, and 5nm is a full generation ahead beyond that - nobody else is anywhere close to 5nm.

- Samsung will have a 7nm later this year that is broadly equivalent to TSMC's current 7nm (data point: the Galaxy S10 ships with either the Exynos 9820 on Samsung's "8nm" (enhanced/rebranded 10nm) process, or the broadly-similar-performance-with-better-power-efficiency Snapdragon 855 on TSMC 7nm)

- Intel will have a 10nm later this year that is broadly equivalent to TSMC's current 7nm. They are still shipping 14nm as their leading node.

- Global Foundries have stopped further investment beyond 14nm.
Even strong cartels like opec have to deal with “cheaters” - members who break the rules just a little bit to line their own pockets opportunistically. I’m not saying trust the content oligarchy but I do think there remain sufficient sources of independent providers and the strong likelihood that there will always be someone willing to sell off some capacity that the scenario above is unlikely... probably. Ask me tomorrow and I’ll probably agree with you more!
AFAIK a lot of steel recycling around the world uses electric arc furnaces.
Maybe manufacturers will pay a flat fee to carriers for all their devices in a country. Then when the manufacturer stops paying / doesn't pay enough / shuts down those devices become useless.
> I appreciate horrible things likely happen in my own country

Yes, I know (as stated above). By no means am I saying it couldn't. Still, it doesn't excuse Americas practices in any way.
The people I'm in regular contact with are actively moving away from any Australian services they might using. All are moving away from Bitbucket, Jira and Confluence. And yes, some have privately commited to not hire any Australian citizens.

And this is not because of some sort of knee-jerk 'protest' against Aus politics, its because regulations in our own countries prevent us from using compromised services, state-compelled or not.
Living in Asia, I tend to see news from an Asian perspective. So this piece of news from Singapore was interesting. Key quote:

> In India, Mr Sreeram Chaulia, dean of the Jindal School of International Affairs, said many regard Brexit as the latest chapter in what has been a "sharp decline in the place Britain commands as a great power".

> "They are not a gold standard to look up to," he said. "We get a feeling of a sinking ship and everybody wants to leave a sinking ship." India's economy is set to overtake the UK's later this year.
it's not difficult to understand

these are the same politicians who win office by exacerbating tensions between religions, class, ethnic groups and gender and then when things get bad solution is passing laws that impose greater censorship and restrictions on freedom.

for 20 years now australian politicians have flirted with the far right in australia. they have used the problems in minority communities and the immigration system to exacerbate tensions and divions and this fear has been instrument to in particular liberal party political success.

it's really appalling see level of discourse. 20 kids can get shot in a school and level of debate on national media is how we should consider changing law so instead of having 15 rounds in your clip you only have 10. i mean really? That's the debate.

Some white nationalist walks into a mosque and shoots 50 people and our response it lets control social media and ban guns. Problem solved.

That's the solution? Why does every problem we face like this only ever get solved by laws that reduce freedoms and impose greater censorship controls? No debate about effect reductions in quality of public education, mental health care, concentration of media assets, greater economic equality and it's causes are having on these type of events?
Social media companies aren't messengers mate, nor are they a basic human right, or a free speech platform. They are machines that optimise controlling your attention to show you ads so they can make money.

Also it is clearly fallacious to assume that the downward trend in violence is some kind of force of nature that won't be derailed by, for example, connecting a whole bunch of crazy people together across the world and helping them swallow their own perverse version of reality.
privately is worse thing they can do

only if its public and visible does it actually signal a cost to legistors whom pass such legislation
Too late to edit now, but thanks. :)
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Thats a good call in many cases, but it's definitely important to have more control when working to constraints. Generic family fallbacks can vary wildly in their box sizing.
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I have, multiple times but in the same company so let’s count as one. VBA is still a thing in banking/insurance and big consulting players are still selling VBA projects and/or XLLs in this world