skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
High speed trading is an effective route to achieve that policy as it reduces the need to keep resources tied up in market making, an activity that requires compensation.

Any other method to force a uniform price, i.e. a price that cannot quickly change in response to information, creates arbitrage opportunities that are greatly unfavorable to retail investors.
This may have been covered in the previous 900 comments, but...

Did security researchers leak the messages, videos and posts?
Or did they access them (i.e. Parler leaked them to the researchers)? Seems the headline is misleading.
Theranos paid this company "IncRev", and their CEO Shekar Chandrasekaran, $159,000/mo to host a database for them? That's an impressive scam! I wonder if it's money laundering or paying off friends, since any mildly competent technologist in the company would laugh them out of the room.
If we're talking public policy decisions, I don't think scientists should be punished when acting on the best available, but incomplete data, especially when two equally reasonable experts within the field can disagree on its interpretation.
There seem to me to be increasing examples of the law not applying to the wealthy and powerful.
I think Western economic skepticism is highly dependant on where you live.

I.e $100k a year in NYC = lower middle class. $100k a year in Kentucky = upper middle class.

I wonder if economic skepticism skews upward the closer you live to an urban area.
One of the most interesting projects I've seen on here in a while. Thinking of the massive efforts of thousands of developers who get Linux to where it is today, its a daunting undertaking, but definitely one that could be worthwhile, though I think it will depend on rallying lots and lots of skilled engineers.

In the early days of Linux, getting something like your wifi to work could be a hassle, I wonder if enough have changed in the driver space that we can quickly power through some of these challenges today.
U.S. Daily Covid Vaccinations Rise by Record 1.25M
Lesson to take folks:

Always prominently list your IP address! Further, go static, and v6! More than enough for everyone. The solution to centralized nameservers mucking up your visibility? Kick them to the curb. Build your own net location database and share it with your users.

Other tips:

Prominent standing out combinations of web content. Non-DNS sites do still get indexed by search engines. Keep something unique searchable on your page, and people will always be able to find their way back.

Set up a pipeline of communication to your users, and you can dynamically change what that content is in order to prevent trivial delisting by search engines.
Yes, that's exactly when we defend free speech — when it is unpleasant, disgusting, even hateful — because that's when precedents are set that will affect us all.
There's a lot in here, but the title may be better as "How the Canadian Tech Scene Encourages Finite Gameplay"
So is this romatizizing the bay area, or are these the true reasons for bay areas success?
I think it's fair for few reasons:

- Without a valid SSL certificate, there's no way to tell whether you're actually visiting your UniFi controller or a honeypot. Ubiquiti isn't the risk here.

- UniFi features that depend on WebSocket and WebRTC are unavailable when using self-signed certificates. This includes live stats updating, device terminal, airView, etc. (Those features can be used in the cloud UI... if your Internet connection happens to be working fine.)

- Valid SSL certificates would be easy to auto-provision these days with LetsEncrypt. There are some minor challenges around port forwarding / relay, but that isn't rocket science. If Plex can figure it out, Ubiquiti can figure it out :)
Disclosure: I'm an Amazon Devices PE, but not on Alexa devices.

Jeff (and others) have spoken publicly about this in the past, and this teardown is correct. The hardware is designed such that, if the privacy LED is on, the microphone is unpowered. In order to compromise that, one would need to physically alter/damage the hardware.
I've looked into it and they offer free PrEP to anyone in the trials that wants to take it.
Ask HN: Why does it seem like Rust is always on the front page?
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>First off, what exactly about AR15.com constitutes a violent hate group?

Certainly that would be the routine threats of physical violence against government officials.
hydra[1]. if you remove 4chan I guarantee you well get 3 in its place.

[1]: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hydra-Greek-mythology
The 1st amendment does not apply to private entities. The first amendment is a law restricting only Congress.

'Freedom of speech', however, is not the 1st amendment. It is an ethical precept, not a law. It's like how 'don't cheat on your wife' doesn't mean you get thrown in jail, but you'll generally be seen as a 'bad guy'.
In the scenarios painted here and by the parent (buying puts or calls), the losses are capped at whatever was outlaid in premium. The leverage is entirely expose to the upside potential.
Your talking about actions within a system. These days we are taking down systems.
If you are looking for 1984 levels of double speak, then this is it.
Promising Canadian tech startups need to stop selling out to America and global competitors. Shopify has the potential and likelihood to get to near the market cap of Amazon one day, and we need to encourage more of these types of companies to stay here and inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs here.
I've heard industry people tell of government contracts paying $300,000 a month to provide "support" for a WordPress site. They didn't get a single support request for over a year.
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Colour me impressed! I would have expected a digital pin be used to control the microphone in software, which I wouldn't have been nearly as satisfied to see. Really nicely presented breakdown too.
I think it's a fair description to be honest. Granted, it's not some always running process grabbing your keypresses across different programs, but it is still a horrible privacy violation that is operating without most people's understanding.

Accidentally screw up a copy-paste? ctrl-z as quick as you like, it's too late, one of your passwords has been sent out to google...

It's a bit of an impassioned description of the feature, but this is a comment on HN, not some company press release. How neutered do we have to be that we can't make a point with emotion behind it. It's clearly much more hyperbole than "immature" or dishonest, is all I'm saying.
Many ISPs ship their own routers to consumers. So they are mostly in charge of the tech stack. The fraction of users who use their own router is small.
> OTM is cheaper but much more riskier because your stock has to travel further.

This answers my question, thank you.
The piece I was missing was the difference in the amount OTM vs ITM needs to move, thanks
They seem to be purposely not returning results from Gab. I searched for Trump Gab, returns only news articles. Did the same on Bing, and returns the proper page as first result.
I searched when I heard he switched over. Was kind of surprised that Google is doing that. Basically returning negative news articles.
>The American middle class has slid down to the level of the global middle class

Which is not true. The average American earns more than the average European, let alone the average global citizen. Heck, even construction workers in the US make way more than in Germany or Denmark.

Americans still have the highest purchasing power in the world and, most importantly, the highest economic mobility in the world.

Whether that leads to a higher quality of life is up to the individual but Americans are still some of the most priviledged workers worldwide.
Good, altho RTR was always obvious until some foolish clowns got some laws passed to try to stop it. Good luck with that.

When I pay for some physical product it is MINE. If you put something fancy in there, you sold it to me, IT is MINE. I can't copy it and sell the copies, that's fine.

If it's a truly great product, I won't have to fix it. If it wasn't as good as you could make it, you've cheated me. If I can't fix it then you've cheated me in an attempt to keep not just the product but me tethered to your stockholders. Sad.

Sad for you. If it's worth fixing, and you expect to bleed me to fix it, I can fix it myself, or find someone who can. That's a LOT easier than before. And you've lost another customer for a lifetime, one who will spread the word at every chance.
How long ago was that?

> family friendly lobbyists approved programming for your minds

This has not been the case since self-hosting, home pages, tilde-accounts (~username public_html) ended quite a long time ago. No more customisation like in the earlier days - Neopets and MySpace both let you use HTML, CSS, and often helped teach kids them.

For a long time past that era it's been "insert your personal information into these well defined boxes and we will ban you if you enter anything false while selling all your data to as many people as possible". The internet for over a decade now has been built to _consume_, not produce.

Devil's advocate: you agreed to these terms that they can pull anything advertiser unfriendly or deemed abusive by posting your content on a third party privately-owned service; nobody is stopping you from running your own. "Oh we can't scale as much as AWS" is not a good excuse. If the Big Four don't want to touch you there are plenty that will.
Your free speech is not what others call free speech, hate to tell ya.
Absolutely! I often use cat in tmux instead of less because of this. Will try xterm now, too.
That's likely because restaurants have exclusivity deals with either supplier to get a discount - Coke gets you Coke, Sprite and Fanta, Pepsi gets you Mirinda, Pepsi and 7up. It's not the restaurant blocking you with fake advertising, but just stating that they simply don't have it.

Now if they were getting supplied by both, then asking the same, that would be a better analogy.
This is flame bait.
i realized recently that the only websites I go to that aren't controlled by one of the tech giants are HN and the links I go to from here. I'm guessing I'm not alone in this. We're in for a wild ride once they really start clamping down on speech that doesn't meet their views. we're pretty close already
The writers don't write for our amusement here and according to our criteria on HN, they writes as it pleases them. They went to the length to do a useful breakdown of a circuit, and write about it.

They don't owe us some nice title, or some convenient summary so we don't read their post...
They weren't paying for a database, they were paying to be forgotten.
Late reply, and the other reply covered it really.

Up until around a year ago I was on adsl2 with a highly symmetrical connection. I work from home mostly as does my partner, with constant syncing to various cloud services plus large uploads and downloads for work.

Maxing out the puny 1Mb of upload would render the entire connection completely unusable. Yes, you can manually limit various apps but it so much easier just to throw an edgerouter x in front of everything running stock smart queue or cake.

I'm on a faster connection now so uploads are not so much an issue, but even still it works a treat for things like gaming / VOIP.
A tangent but where could I find a good evaluation of Wayland stack (including Weston etc) security? I know the design is often brought up but most vulnerabilities are implementation errors and bugs, and there doesn't seem to be any mention of security (advisories, etc) on the Wayland web site nor does a web search bring up anything that woudl indicate there's any active security focus.

What I'd expect to find is some description of the security guarantees they provide, and some active work (such as fuzzing with hostile clients), and tracking of found & fixed vulnerabilities.
> She married Ramesh Balwani

No, she married William 'Billy' Evans, 27-year-old heir to the Evans Hotel Group chain of hotels in California. He's an MIT '15.

Very romantic about MIT?
Here, the red glowing eye turns off when the evil subroutine is activated.
>The difference here, as I see it, is that it's not being banned for the usual reasons, but because it's political speech the resource owner doesn't agree with.

Oh please.

It's political speech, all right, but the difference here is that it's political speech in the wake of a bunch of guys with knives, bombs, and zip ties trying to storm the US Senate to subvert the democratic process, and the political speech is advocating more of the same.

This isn't just someone saying odious things, it's calls to make a second attempt at armed insurrection.
There's just one line in the article about low wages, but IMO that's a massive problem with the Canadian tech scene today. You cannot have a thriving startup ecosystem when your best talent leaves for the US right after graduating from college. I love Vancouver as a city and would move there in an instant if it didn't mean taking a 50%+ pay cut for the exact same role (with comparable costs of living to the Bay Area).
nah, biggest difference is increased centralization of internet powers enabling the ability to mass censor with few switches.
This cognitive dissonance by people working in tech who should know better than supporting discriminatory censorship practices regardless of the political entity eschewing those policies is truly the most appalling thing i've noticed about the loud activists in the industry.

First, Parler gets kicked off because "They host violent, imminent threats". Never mind the sheer scale of terrorist groups organizing on Facebook, Twitter and enjoying free high quality encryption thanks to Whatsapp. Are we going to kick them all out of society unless they declare fealty to the ideas of their benevolent tech overlords?

Now, we have a forum of gun owners simply discussing things on a forum that they created to represent their connection through a shared love of a constitutional right.

Tomorrow, will it be okay to point a finger at any individual and have the equivalent of mass economic sanctions destroy their ability to be a part of society because they disagree with the broad interpretation of "values" these tech companies arbitrarily decide?

There is more power concentrated in Silicon Valley right now than all the governments of the world save for China and Authoritarian regimes. This is scary and intelligent people acting like political puppets is silly and dangerous.
So, what's the end game here? Can I not ever talk about my opinion to anybody? Can I share it with my wife? Can my wife look at what's going on in the world and disapprove, or is that not allowed? Are people who believe as I do simply to not exist? Should we be exterminated? Should our lives simply be made so miserable that we'd rather we were killed in Gulags? Exactly what are you attempting to accomplish here, because right now, I am not allowed to talk with people on facebook (group bans); I can't talk on reddit (subreddit bans); I can't talk in church (lockdowns). As we saw with Parler (which we were promised was safe, because now the central authority was not someone who didn't like me), I also can't make my own app or service with my tech skills, because they'll be banned too. I can talk with my wife and family, so I guess I'll just keep on breeding to make more people to talk to, until you decide that the school system ought to be used to take my children, nieces, and nephews away, as we've seen in other western countries already, or until we're not allowed to have kids, as has been proposed by some journals and implemented in other countries (to much applause, mind you).

That sounds like a really great world you have planned for us. I am so glad my parents fled a third world country where our ethnic group made us be treated like trash to escape to this! This is exactly what they had in mind when they left :)

I guess I just don't really get it. I've accepted that my ideology has lost; all I ask is to be left alone to work, garden, own my home, have my children, raise my children, and let them do the same. I have already unregistered to vote, and have no more interest in politics, other than to complain about it online. Am I allowed to do this? What more must I do to not be considered an evil monster? Honestly, my treatment on Hacker News over the past year has been worse than the combined effect of racism growing up brown in a mostly white neighborhood during 9/11. This is insanity at every level.
The key distribution and management problems make blockchain voting totally unworkable.
I believe you are conflating the definition of minority in this context. It means a disenfranchised portion of the population.
I banned people from public IRC channels on EFNet all the time. Google deplatforms SEO spam sites all the time. The internet is unusable without some kind of filter on participation.
It searches for an image only if the post doesn't have an image already. AVC and PG's in this case don't include pics so it made one. It will get better in v2. This is just the mvp version.
IMO the conclusion isn't that the scene "doesn't work" but that it's not producing a lot of "moon shots" and tends to focus on "roof shots". There is nothing inherently wrong with this strategy and it produces solid gains over time, but it's a lot harder going to accidentally create a billion dollar company. That said, Solect got acquired for 1.5B back 20 years ago, Shopify exists, it's not like there are zero Canadian unicorns, they just get produced a lot more slowly.
At the risk of coming off like I'm unloading on you personally (I'm not, but your post serves a point):

I am sick of reading this. Everybody already knows this, at least the "everybody" that posts on HN and I'd wager a good chunk of the rest of the country.

Anyone saying "free speech" is not necessarily referring to the first amendment of the constitution. Can we please, please stop parroting this "well ackchually" correction around as if it contributes in any meaningful way to any discussion? It isn't an interesting observation anymore, if it ever was, and it certainly won't be interesting the next thousand times its made.

Implying conflation of the first amendment with the principle it protects is at best a thought-terminating cliché, at worst intentional bad faith. At least on tech boards. YMMV on Facebook with your relatives.

In response to the edit above, which was a stealth edit instead of a reply for some reason:

Yes, you have repeated the exact same song and dance I complain about here. You have added nothing to the discussion that we haven't already heard hundreds of times here and elsewhere. The discussion is about "should", not "is". We all know what the law "is".
What are the odds the feds found a 4chan et al poster spoofing an armed protest and are just so on edge they are taking it seriously? Then some unnamed low level official leaks it to his press buddies and all of a sudden our country is in crisis again.
I'd say this is arguing semantics when, by large, we may all be in agreement that soviet style censorship is terrible.

Can we find one or two examples that go against the trend? Sure. Does that disqualify the argument by the commenter above you? I don't think so.
Yeah, I do hashing client side as well as server side. It's not ideal - what would be ideal is zero knowledge proofs for such a thing. But it's basically:

hash(static-pepper, username, password) * 250k

That + tagging the password with "password++" or something means that you're a lot safer against the major issue of leaking a password before it's stored, for example the mistake that definitely happens everywhere of "let me just add request logging, whoops there's everyone's plaintext passwords". You can always search your logs for the 'password++' tag and alert if you find it, and if that does happen at least you know an attacker isn't going to have an easy time extracting a plaintext password - it buys you time.

And if an attacker gets SQLi or whatever and dumps the passwords they're that much harder to crack - you've added hundreds of thousands of iterations of key stretching, and it's totally distributed to clients so you don't even have to worry about it blowing up your db/ auth service CPU.

And it's trivial to implement, which is the really important part. ZKP is a lot more work, but what I described is like 5 extra minutes and pretty trivial.
Not sure if anyone noticed, but according to the "login.js" snippet, Steam removes all non-standard ascii characters from the password, before encrypting it...

Doesn't that essentially reduce the password's strength? Especially if there's a lot of non-ascii characters in it....
With radial symmetry, thin lines, and a high amount of split (50+), any amount of scribbling turns beautiful.

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There are already many smaller chans, with varied attending demographics. I think this is referred to as "the webring." 4chan would sure be a shame to see go, though.
> If anything, in my book, it's more of a societal success to NOT be FAANG sized - and screw the VCs.

Agreed. I question the article measure success on wether you can attract angel or other money.

How about “no thanks, we have enough money to make this thing and we really like it, we’re happy, we make enough to keep the doors open and everyone gets a paycheck and no one suffers with or from our product”, that seems like success to me. Surely we have measurements besides how many billions of dollars a company is worth?
> Colour me impressed! I would have expected a digital pin be used to control the microphone in software

Yup, and even if the same pin drives both the LED and the microphone power switch, there's various attacks (e.g. high frequency PWM 75% duty cycle-- enough to light the LED to nearly full brightness, but also probably enough to keep the mic bypass capacitor nearly fully charged).

Since the SOC can only turn off mute, and not turn it back on, any attempt to eavesdrop would leave evidence (a mute LED left off).
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How much time do you sleep? Or when do you go to sleep?

I am usually waking up at 06:30 am and tried to shift to wake up at 05:00 but after a week I was super tired in the second part of the day.
Censorship was always around us. Being born in Soviet Union I was always taught not to talk about particular topics. Mostly politics and religion. Sexual orientation was also not to speak about. I went to Western Germany and it’s the same - a good tone requires not to talk about particular topics. At work absolutely the same - big Corp has code of conduct and there is clearly written what I can’t say. Freedom of speech lives in a small circle of friends where I can say everything I want.