skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I were a major, anticompetitive ISP, the minute I found out about this tool, I would figure out how to fingerprint it, and then artificially inflate results by giving priority and bonus bandwidth to its tests.

What is this app doing to prevent that? I don't see any mention of any awareness that ISPs have historically gamed speed tests and what countermeasures FCC has taken.

Idea: would it be possible to built an app that measured the speed of connections for other apps by using the platforms' VPN APIs to create a dummy VPN service that just measured bandwidth/latency?
> You pretty much need to go through a Know your customer(KYC) process to really trade in crypto

KuCoin? Binance?
Konsole has all of that
Those are both useful solutions that work together to solve the problem. This is a poor example.
It's also means your life isn't wrecked even further by years of incarceration and criminal charges. It also means that users won't die nearly as often from inconsistent doses, contamination, mislabeling, etc. It also means that gang warfare that is killing young people in our country and many others will stop over time.

Honestly what is it that's so hard to understand about any of this? It's so obviously a projection of biases held by a certain majority, most of whom probably have their own legal drug of choice. People who uphold prohibition have a lot of blood on their hands and yet were expected to tolerate these buffoons and pretend that they're not criminals and closet fascists. It's a disgrace!
Maybe first it’s time to add a generate secure password button to the iOS app?
AMP links, search results with ads at higher placement, reordered news feeds to drive engagement of viral content, streamlined interfaces (goodbye URL) that belie a sinister purpose...

Your filter is constantly being spammed.
Another day, another fork of Gnome 3. Even the freaking mockup looks like Gnome 3.
Seems a rather flagrant disregard for users/customers. The number one priority for any NAS is to never lose a user's files.

So what's a good alternative, preferably with ZFS support.
What was Herbert White then?
That’s not what I said: a mobile friendly cryptocurrency is a network you can query and that gives you a response you can fully verify: this is your account balance at this point in time, and it’s correct you can verify it with this proof of a small size (because in some coutries you’re paying for every bytes you’re downloading).

Now fast transactions (finality) is an upside for any type of currency really.
Why not someone else's bank...?

That thinking is quite shallow.
Is this going to work anyway? In the country where I live they have made speedtest site like fast.com ridiculously fast (using routes etc). But in reality all other website are too slow.

How does it handle the result which is inflated by ISP? The solution is to regularly connect multiple different asn and check the speed?
To people who're feeling like they are not able to understand or write something like this:

While the author is definitely skilled, please know that you're looking at a finished project that took what looks like ~10 months of work.

Do not compare what you know now with what the author has accomplished. They likely learnt a lot along the way and you would as well.

If you're really keen to understand it start with the first commits: https://github.com/maryrosecook/gitlet/commits/master?after=...

The first two (meaningful) commits simply create the .git directory and the tests for it. You can almost certainly understand that.
Or BSDs.
I think the charitable explanation is that they needed the funds now versus after the student gets their job.
Every Web game with sound uses AudioContext. Emulators use it. Etc etc.

Lots of platform features are useful for fingerprinting, unfortunately, because software, but they're not deliberate attempts to tear down privacy.
USPS should make bank by raise the price for marketing mail, it seems disproportionately cheap (p. 18 here https://pe.usps.com/cpim/ftp/manuals/dmm300/Notice123.pdf )
I’ve code reviewed over 750 pull requests at Amazon
Only in the destination country. Let's say someone in China wanted to move $$$$ out of China for whatever reason. They could use yuan to purchase mining hardware and use that to generate clean wallets with no identity attached. A good friend of this person is an artist in the UK. The artist cashes in the ETH, properly reports taxes from income, and now has a completely clean and clear source of cash. Now if the Chinese person wants to get out of China in a hurry, they can visit their close friend in the UK.
You don’t have to explain TLS in this manner, but you could comment the relevant specification paragraphs next to the code to facilitate audits.
This is a much bigger problem than just Counter Strike. I'm pretty confident there are 1000+ games on the steam store that have vulnerabilities where a simple link or network packet while gaming can exploit a user's machine.

Both MS and Steam really need to work on locking down Windows.
> Colleges are predatory, putting kids deep into debt that they may never be able to repay and can't even remove with bankruptcy.

We're not talking about colleges. The fact other scams exist in the world has zero bearing on whether one specific company is scamming people.

> Whereas Lambda aligns their interests with the student.

They align themselves with their investors. That's their fiduciary duty. If you want to understand how their model doesn't necessary align with students, here's a good starting point: https://applieddivinitystudies.com/lambda-lies/

> If their students don't get a job, Lambda doesn't get paid.

When a student signs an ISA, Lambda School is immediately paid by reselling that debt to hedge funds.
The environment is omnipotent compared to us. It's also superficial, reactionary and lacking introspection. Humans have potential to overcome some of it.
I think that's what SHAKEN/STIR was supposed to address largely, but he gave carriers a couple years to get it implemented.
I've got the chance to be one of the interviewed. I really like the way this is going. Their idea for extensions building and distribution is really clever and I appreciate how they've been tackling the developer experience.
I sense an 'Outland (1981)' scenario there.

https://imdb.com/title/tt0082869/
> they're so dumb they are too dumb to know they are dumb!

It’s really too bad Dunning & Kruger’s data didn’t show anyone being too dumb to know it, nor did it even show anyone being dumb at all. So maybe the meaning isn’t as precise as you think? All the participant scores were relative to their peer group (no way to know if they were dumb or smart), and all the participants were Ivy League college kids. That doesn’t mean there were no dummies in the group, but it is certainly not a random sample of the population.

> I’ve never seen someone cast themselves as the one that might be overestimating their ability.

The DK paper shows a positive correlation between confidence and skill. While I have seen people suggest they might be overestimating (in social situations where doing that might add credibility), if you believe in the DK effect and trust their data, then saying out loud that you’re overestimating your ability is the same as saying you think you might be dumber than you are, right?
Just realized that de-no is reverse of no-de
If you look at where they invest their resources, it's Firefox.

It's almost funny because Mozilla critics are about evenly divided between "Mozilla needs to move beyond the browser" and "Mozilla needs to focus on the browser". And both groups are adamant that their view is obviously correct.
It’s not “Social News.”
the societal problems are solvable only through technology. At least that is the main premise of Das Kapital - the progress in the tools and means of production is what drives societal progress.

I dare you to name a societal problem which was solved independently of the technological advancement state of the time, i.e. a problem that could have been solved the same way with a significantly regressed state of technology when at the time of its actual solution.
Coinbase Gifts 100 Shares Each to 1,700 Employees Ahead of Public Listing
I believe the FCC started moving towards requiring that with SHAKEN/STIR a couple years ago, but the telcos were given a few years to implement it.
You mean, like evolution, epidemiology, vaccines and stuff?

If you think about the gender thing, this is a social ideology. Biology is irrelevant to which bathroom someone can use.
I guess you don't schedule a lot of medical appointments or work with contractors.

I wish I could block all unknown numbers, but I'll miss the rescheduling call from the roofer who had to borrow his wife's cell because his fell out of his pocket, or I'll miss the "please confirm you're coming to your appointment tomorrow" and now I've lost a doctor's appointment I scheduled weeks in advance, etc.
"Linux on the other hand just doesn't have an alternative equal in features."

BSD?
I disagree, it's indeed "we" as in a big chunk of this community.

"We" just call it differently like "growth hacking" or "marketing" or "engaging" people to legitimize it.
i just pop some ritalin and explore that book with clarity and purpose. Just make sure you are reading it when it kicks in.
I would think that BTC is not used only for buying drugs. If my numbers are correct daily BTC transaction volume is 290K or 15B€ or 750 tones of cocaine at 20€/g. Thats a lot of cocaine. In 2018 its estimayed that worldwide 1.7k tones were produced totally.
I would love that someone investigated why Google pulled call recording API from Android 9 onwards.
Given that I was scammed by insurance companies twice over the phone and I could have lost substantial amount of money if I couldn't prove the scam, I think call recording feature is essential for a consumer to be able to protect themselves from distance selling scammers or even honest mistakes.
There are other benefits like being able to record your parents or other family members and keep their voice forever or simply being able to listen again your conversation with a doctor, so you don't have to bother the clinic if you forget something about dosage etc.
The official reason is that it is for privacy (oh good lord...) and that in some countries it is illegal and basic narrative is that they don't want people to secretly record others.
This falls apart quickly - you can record someone secretly using your built-in phone camera and microphone, but somehow that's okay, they won't disable the camera and in my country, for example, call recording is perfectly fine.
So who lobbied Google? Removing such API is not a trivial task, it takes time, planning, resources, developers and then dealing with the fallout. Who wanted people to be defenceless against phone scams?
I wonder to what extent people are substituting their estimated score with their estimated relative position.

Let's say a 50% score at a test puts you in the 1. percentile and 70% in the 99th. I would actually expect people to estimate their relative position roughly in line with their results.
I remember doing some windows 95 install from floppies in a lab in high school; but I'm not quite sure why. I remember we also wired the lab for Netware file sharing with thin net; I would think we would want to install from the network share to avoid so many floppy disks, but maybe the server was too slow for that to work well, or install from network didn't work, or we installed windows before we got networked up to the other room (went through the drop ceiling in the hallway). Or we have a bunch of kids with nothing better to do, and a bunch of surplus Banyan vines disks to overwrite.

I think the floppy disk count differed depending on if you had a Microsoft mastered floppy, or made a floppy set yourself.
The first thing is that Rakudo began technically shifting to a multiple backend architecture in mid 2009

Weird how almost nothing Patrick talked about in that talk panned out -- no JVM backend, no CLR backend (the one that Jonathan talked about in that blog post too), no JavaScript backend, no Tcl, no Perl, no Ruby, no Python frontends.

In fact, it's amazing how that fourth rewrite of NQP ended up not working at all for any of the backends Patrick showed on his slide. Or at least not working yet.

the record shows, commits to Parrot "fell off a cliff" in early 2011, about 6 months after Rakudo Star

How strange that that happened just after the developer summit where I said that the NQP strategy was going to leave Parrot developers in a dead end. Imagine that -- people don't want to stick around on a project that's continually undercut by bad technical decisions.

Thanks for finally confirming what I've been saying for years.
Even trying this with some toy projects I have it is NOT easy or straightforward. The dependency management alone is different enough to make this almost impossible.

I think if you want to use Deno, it would have to be from the ground up or a complete rewrite.
> I currently have XPS 15 with 4k screen and I can easily see pixels

Bullshit. Unless you literally push your face close to the monitor and view it from a normal viewing distance, you won't be able to see the pixels.
> But if I was a local drug kingpin in Baltimore, or a corrupt mid-level CCP official, or a Cypriot corporate money launderer, then Bitcoin deanonymization is probably a small risk in the scheme of things. Certainly orders of magnitude less risk than using the traditional banking system.

... for now.

The thing is, 2-3 tx/sec is basically snail mail. That's such a small number of transactions that there's not even a forest to hide within.

As the analytics tools improve the de-anonymization will be faster and more automatic, and that "tens of millions" figure will dwindle down to pennies. State actors can easily combine that data with actual fiat, and you'll be in court before you know it.

The problem is you're committing a ledger of your criminal activity to the cloud forever, and CCing your attorney general, smirking that they'll never figure it out. Of course they will. Either they'll figure it out or ban it. Or both.
But with cash you'd have an inflation tax on everything you earn.

And depending on where you live you wouldn't be able to make big purchases in cash (in France I think the maximum cash transaction allowed is about 3000€).

BTC or cash you would have to launder your money to make it look like legit and be able to buy a house etc

Of course the other problem of BTC is that transactions are stored forever (as long as the BTC network operates) so it might bite you decades later.
Hawkins worries about AI accidentally going nuts and destroying stuff. He ignores that it's an existential threat for the same reason nuclear weapons are: not because of potential accidents, but because of potential on-purposes. Do you really want Bezos / Musk / Biden / Putin / your favorite baddie being the first to get control of these things? It doesn't seem wise.
China warns 34 local web giant to comply with law, or they will end like Alibaba
How I understand it, please correct me if I'm wrong :

All transactions are visible, sure, but Bitcoin also enables mass dilution and mass money washing.

Let's say there is a bitcoin address A on which you have identified that 50% of the Bitcoins are legit, and 50% came from a suspicious flagged address B.

Now what? Do you also flag A as "suspicious". What if A also made thausands other payments, do you flag all the recipients as suspicious?

Let's say you are drastic and your external system only allows payments from the addresses with a 100% verifiable and clean history. Now all I have to do as an attacker is to make a payment to your address from a flagged address I own, and all your bitcoins are also now flagged for life.

You quickly end up flagging the whole address base as suspicious, because there is no way to :

- block deposit
- differentiate Bitcoin X from Bitcoin Z

I guess something like smart contracts could change the rules, but that would be a completely new network and token

Or am I missing something ?
By which definition Bitcoin is still not a "fiat" currency, since it is not government-issued.
There’s still the issue that you need to sync to the full history and look at all the outputs to see if they’re yours right? That’s a real challenge as a light client (which most people are).
100 shares? that doesn't sound like much.
Disproves? It's a stupid premise to begin with. But yes, you can look at the account's editing history. There is a timestamp on every edit. It is nothing like how Murray imagined.
Less than two months ago NASA landed a rover on Mars which is powered by Linux. I struggle to see how git (as important as it has been), can really do better than that.

And sure, Rust is great. It's lowered the barrier-of-entry to systems-level programming significantly compared to the alternatives. But, comparing it to Netscape/Firefox, and coming to the conclusion that Rust is Mozilla's greatest contribution is ridiculous.

In a time where Microsoft was much more hostile to the tech industry and open-source in general, the landscape of web-browsers was an absolute mess thanks to Microsofts insistence on developing their own way of doing things contrary to accepted standards.

Without Firefox and the work Mozilla did pushing back against Microsoft, there would be no Chrome. And while this may be a bold claim, there may have never been a NodeJS and the Javascript renaissance that the industry has seen over the last ten or so years.

From my perspective, when Chrome burst onto the scene and gave us Firefox vs Chrome, it did feel a little bit like Microsoft vs Mozilla, except this time the monolithic corporation won, and we're all still sitting here wondering if we are better or worse off for it.

Maybe I'm old or maybe I just don't get it, but this seems like we're rushing to throw away historical contributions because they aren't as cool and popular as the hot new stuff.
I enjoyed Alyx but ... I wish there were more AAA VR games that were not horror (scary) games. I almost didn't make it past chapter 3 of Alyx where you're in the dark with zombies and a flashlight. And, I think I played most of the game from that point on with the sound turned way way down. It's just too intense for me.

I don't know what to suggest. Even Boneworks which is not "horror" is too scary for me. I walk through it with my tension level at 11. I made to chapter 7 before I decided it wasn't worth it to continue.
How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler is a great resource.
Check out the blog post in the comment that's parallel to /u/fossuser above. It's also great.
Binance is a great example because you can just keep creating new accounts to circumvent their KYC limits heh. I'm sure they have no idea.

You just have to take it up with the government in whatever country they're domiciled in. Like any legitimate company, they simply won't tell anyone which country that is, of course.
ECB publishes the results of the public consultation on a digital euro
Mailman podcast: The missing item from your to-do list
I’ve been thinking it was about time to replace my current Synology device, and until seeing this was planning on sticking with them. Now I’m hoping to see recommendations for an equally low maintenance replacement in the comments.
the idea being that the schedule is known, and therefore, in comparison to something that can change and have large issuance, you can be confident that the particular cause of "because a whole bunch got printed unexpectedly" won't cause it to become devalued, as opposed to other options.

Doesn't mean that other things couldn't cause it to be devalued.

(and, of course, if the network consensus shifts in a way that changes the issuance rate... though perhaps it wouldn't really "be bitcoin" if that happened.)
You can certainly map clusters of BTC wallets. It doesn’t matter if you create a new wallet for that purpose, since those new wallets are contaminated by the transaction history. Basically, from the exchange’s view, they’d bucket the wallets into either “looks like mixing; hold the account” or “seems legit.”

Most wallets aren’t used for any high volume transactions; most account holders at Coinbase have no need for that. So it’s certainly possible to map out the network and partition it into known good / known bad categories, and handle the middle ground manually.

In other words, yes, XRP is very clever. That’s not the problem. The problem is, you’ll someday find it very hard to convert large quantities of XMR to USD without risking jail time.
The ground rules that we’ve decided on (at least here in America) is that agents should be presumed to be acting in their own best interest, unless you have specific assurance that they aren’t. You might decide it’s unethical, but if it’s literally standard operating procedure for industries like retirement planning and insurance sales, then either your definition of ethics is too narrow, or everyone is operating unethically.
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What dataset are you referring to?
I was comparing laptops in the price range mentioned above, MacBook air vs 1080p laptops. If you go up to around $2000, then the windows 10 laptops start to have 4k screens.
What is notable is that the government has an easy target to monitor or get rid of mobile coin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Foundation
Read their link?
Fast.com is owned by Netflix. It specifically tests your speed to a Netflix server. So if your ISP has a Netflix server on its network (many ISPs do) then it will be super fast.
> But with cash you'd have an inflation tax on everything you earn.

This has to be the worst reason a drug dealer would avoid dealing in cash ever. Inflation is literally 2% per annum. Drug dealers pay 20%-50% to launder their money. C'mon now.
Oh, don't get me wrong, the Sparkfun and Adafruit breakout boards are indeed a boon for prototyping. It's just that many hobbyists (myself included) get as far as the prototype working as intended, and call it a day. And with "Sparkfun spaghetti" and "Adafruit anarchy" I now have phrases to describe what the inside of those prototypes often look like.
Partly agree, but it's not like you don't have to use resistors anywhere else with Arduino and the likes.
Just to light up a LED you will need some and usually there are plenty included in starter kits. At least where I live there still are a couple of electronics retail shops where you can buy spare components.

Also arguing that desoldering smd resistors is easier than finding a through hole one and plugging it into a breadboard or soldering into a prototype board is a bit of a stretch.
With "Cummins-powered drivetrain" and "runs all day and all night", my naive assumption is fuel storage.
I agree. So now I'm on Linux Mint. Cinnamon is the natural extension of GNOME 2. It's really really good. It's just simple and clean.
We are implicitly comparing it to colleges and every other competitor. That's what relative words like the way "predatory" is used here mean. Predatory relative to the rest of the field. It doesn't really have an absolute meaning.
You actually almost fit point 20 now:

> 20 points for emailing me and complaining about the crackpot index. (E.g., saying that it "suppresses original thinkers" or saying that I misspelled "Einstein" in item 8.)
It seems the more advertising gets involved, the less we are able to express ourselves.

Want to talk about sex? Pfft not if you want advertising! PG-13 only! Depressing.
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Btw through Wine, Linux can also run Windows apps.
Yeah, I was amazed by good moby dick was. It's rare that a famous book so fully lives up to the expectations that society has set for it.