skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take a look a Signal, which the whole of Signal is to be a private WhatsApp alternative not a trojan horse to introduce a cryptocurrency pump and dump scam. [0]

So for Session, I am unfortunately also sceptical on them as well, I would say they are arguably worse since their project is embedded within cryptocurrencies and it won't be long until they force their Loki/Oxen coin in their apps.

[0] https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/signal.html
How much of this is still applicable?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14810008
I see a lot of evidence in the article that the current system (capitalism) doesn't work as well as you pie in the sky idealists like to say. You can attribute it to dishonesty and corruption - I'm not disagreeing, but a system in which those thrive is a bad system. Any system that relies on key players to act right and doesn't have counters to collusion between those players is doomed to be gamed like this. (See for example all the problems with the internet that have come from assuming everyone will act right, and the problems that come from groups deciding to not act right together).

What I don't see presented is any evidence for your claims, just a random set of "these guys are even worse so my not quite so please stop criticizing the problems with my bad choice"... it's not a counter, it's deflection.
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OK well there you go, it's more funny than offensive (at least to you). That's "fine" I think.

If the person you offend laughs as opposed to being angry, it can't be that bad.
4 months in detention without access to a lawyer and no translator sounds like something you'd see in a 3rd world country. It's up to the police to tell us why those conditions existed and who should be held accountable.
That’s true but I don’t know of any pitch that would convince “the masses”. It’s easier to argue why someone should not do more of something they aren’t already doing, rather than stop doing something they like and have been doing for generations.

But maybe we can still make a dent by increasing the price to include negative externalities like carbon emissions, or at least ending subsidies for meat so substitutes might be able to compete better.
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Unclear to me whether "better languages" is the issue or just better type systems. We should be able to express "untrusted input" in any sufficiently extensible type system (e.g., Rust would probably let you express this). Typescript may let you express this; I don't know because I've never worked with it.

At a high level, I agree - our tools should do this for us, we shouldn't need people to be experts in untrusted input handling to work effectively with it.

Google internalized this and built their own modular library that they use for all UI development that just makes this completely opaque to the developers. So they don't have most frontend input handling bugs, or if they do they get fixed for everyone at once in the framework layer.
or inheritance
How tho? How can i get my crypto into dollars without paying tax or using an offshore business that facilitates the tax evasion.
How Much Would Bach Make on Spotify?
"Born in the USA" continues to be a staple of Republican rallies.

Michael Douglas' "Greed is Good" movie speech had a bigger cultural impact than the actual plot of the film (Wall Street, 1987), where the exploitative nature of private equity takeovers is shown, and where both Douglas and Sheen eventually land in prison for insider trading.
Indeed; as [1] says:

What is the formula for difficulty?
difficulty = difficulty_1_target / current_target
(target is a 256 bit number)

I simply used the fact that the difficulty_1_target (the MAX Target as you call it) needs an expected 2^32 double SHA256 hashes to meet.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty
One word: Duke's

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What's the average amount of loss that gets rugged crypto individualists begging for an intervention from Big Daddy Government?
I used to lament “they’re doing it wrong” but I’ve come around to the fact that sometimes, that op model really is best for the size and way the company operates. If they don’t have technology product management as a skill in-house, it’s a seriously hard capability to build. In those cases, being able to work with an experienced vendor is great — but usually requires either time-boxed T&M or a deliverable-based contract (which is effectively timeboxed to protect the consultant’s margin). So you need to do handovers as your MSP / internal IT may not have the expertise to execute every project, and those (expensive, specialized) resources need to go away after the project is done.
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Someone already posted the archive of the WSJ article. But also the actual leaked documents don't seem to be paywalled.

https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/teen-girls-body...

https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/teen-mental-hea...

https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/appearance-base...

https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/social-comparis...

https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/mental-health-f...

https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/teens-young-adu...
Maybe the problem is too much generality?

An industry-specific ontology seems a lot more tractable than a general purpose ontology for all industries.
At least in the USA/Canada, the community element is heavily manufactured. Sure, you talk to your co-workers but you won’t speak to 90% of them again after you leave.
Good news, you can sue. Regulation is applied in some circumstances and there's a lot of movement for further clarification at the moment.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-sec-sues-bitconnect-fo...

https://www.courthousenews.com/class-claims-securities-backe...

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/coinseed...

https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/white-collar-...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/youtube-twitter-bitcoin-scam-pr...

Somehow I don't think you'll read those and decide it's not a pump and dump anymore, are you saying that it's not actually a condition for beliving it's something other than a pump and dump, but rather a mechanism that might reduce the desire to participate in a pump & dump?
If a phone explodes, many businesses outlaw that brand and maybe narrow that to a model. With prior example, do you think the same won’t happen with a self-driving car?
Thanks for sharing the site!

As for the name it's a historical accident as far as I know. Our CEO began dot big bang as a hobby project back in 2012ish and wanted to call it big bang at the time but obviously that's a very hard name to get a good URL for. So he prepended a dot which has since stuck. I think we're keeping it for the foreseeable but other URLs are definitely worth a thought.
> Why don't everyone buy into index funds then (genuine question) ?

There's actually been a bunch of articles over the last year or two talking about how the large number of passive investors in index funds is causing an issue for price discovery of individual stocks.

And everyone doesn't do it because some people are ok with taking more risk for more return.
LLVM 13.0.0
From the OP:

> OTP Agency customers would enter a target’s phone number and name, and then the service would initiate an automated phone call that alerts that person about unauthorized activity on their account. The call would prompt the target to enter an OTP token generated by their phone’s mobile app (“for authentication purposes”)

What are you saying is the distinction that an ordinary user should be expected to distinguish, between a phone call that says it's from your bank alerting you to fraud and asking you to read back a 2FA code, and... a different kind of phone call that says it's from your bank alerting you to fraud and asking you to enter an OTP code in a different way?

It's a pretty similar thing. In these particular cases, you and I could realize that a bot asking you to use keypad to enter the code is more suspicious than a human asking you to read it. But it's not like humans can't scam you too, as in the other story I linked to from krebs. And it's all a bit subtle and overwhelming for the average user (who of course encounter bot voice systems all the time when dealing with 'legitimate' businesses these days).
Back before the "Carterfone" decision https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone
in 1968, the phone company had a rule that you were not allowed to connect anything to their network of your own. You could only use equipment they provided that you leased from them. Hence, the acoustic coupler was used to connect your fax or computer to the phone network. The exception were special services private lines, since this device is circa 1965, it was probably intended for that. Before the internet, big companies would set up big private networks, typically Bisync or later for IBM SNA. Those private line networks were like a big conference line, sometimes referred as shout down circuits. That name came from the original use which, a common example would be a bunch of junk yards would each have a shout down and they would yell into it things like "we need a 59 Chevy Radiator" and then a guy at another junk yard would yell back "this is Bob and we have one" or whatever. These circuits were basically a giant conference bridge but not switched, it was permanently wired. These circuits later got used by computer companies by putting a "master " modem at the head end which would send out a message here is some dat for Terminal 123, which all of the modems would receive and then modem 123 would respond with some data, the protocols used were polselect or bisync but there were others. I am guessing, based on the date, that is what that modem would have been used for. Some of those goofy lines on RS232 ( or RS422) like DCD, RTS, DTR etc were used to control the modem and tell it when it was OK to raise it's carrier and reply, otherwise it would just listen for it to be called on.
There are people out there that make your wife's problems look paltry too.

You can safely dismiss almost every problem in the world with your approach.
The (politics playing) scientists behind this editorial are missing the proverbial forest (nay entire ecosystem of forests) for a single (or couple of trees) they focus in the article. They think that people following the argumentation of B. Shapiro et. al., are just in need of "only-if-you-were-so-educated-informed-as-all-of-us-good-fellas-here-in-the-ivory-tower"...

Framing the dialog as 'Shapiro' vs 'Us-morally-and-intelectual-policically-correct-science-fellas' is adolescent and why phys.org is boastful about it is just telling a much deeper story on its own. Calling to arms an army of like-thinking fellows... simply misguided on a fundamental level.

* no implied support for anything that B. Sh has to say on any topic. It is reaction to the principle behind the reaction to B. Sh. by these pseudo-intelectualls.
Your very language belies the ingrained attitudes we have. A single family unit is a "home". An apartment is ... something else.

In reality, both are homes.
The web is already decentralized (minus the DNS), the web isn't really distributed. But it's a bit funny for cloudfare to talk about decentralization when everybody with a website hides behind their proxy servers.

Should the web be distributed? I'd like to see a good distributed search engine for instance. I know there are a few peer to peer ones already, although the content isn't high quality and there is a need for a way to deal with the high volume of spam.
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Having played neither, is the simulation better or worse than something like Farmville back in the day?
Hey, I agree with you! Even though I think it's bad etiquette to write a comment like that, I was kind of relieved to read it.

I have almost always been impressed with Cloudflare's blog posts (and documentation). Good and explicit marketing, clear language, interesting and smart products. Just really attractive stuff that demonstrates competency.

This one feels like a mumbo-jumbo of cryptocurrency buzzwords that no one needs or even wants to hear. Just thinking about the term "Web3" pains me to the bones.
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The distinction between countable and uncountable infinities also stems from the liar's paradox.
Unity can target web as a platform. AFrame is a web-native engine built on top of three.js
You try and define decentralization in a way that accounts for multiple independent hosts of content coincidentally using the same cloud service.

If some people host content on GCP and others Amazon is it suddenly decentralized?
Ask HN: Who’s Been Hired via HN?
Each month there’s a who’s hiring and a who wants to be hired thread. And YC companies can also advertise on HN with special posts.

Personally, I was recently job hunting and I used a combination of HN and LinkedIn, often getting straight through to execs. It all seems so different from mass mailing CVs in the nineties.

So I’m curious who has good and bad stories to share about how good or bad HN are for actually finding a job? And any tips and alternatives for hirers and seekers?
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> At Cloudflare, we are embracing this distributed future.

Cloudflare is, like, one of the most centralized parts of the web. How many sites/apps route all of their traffic through Cloudflare? How many TLS terminations do they do? How many DNS zones do they control? How many crosswalks do I have to find over and over because of them?

They seem to be going quite long on centralization.
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I feel the same way whenever I touch my mouse in a code editor like Sublime or VS Code.

I think about how there's some emacs/vim pro out there never using their mouse and modifying multiple lines of code within seconds while I click and drag and select from menus.
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Meh, I think this console generation is actually going to be pretty boring in that respect. Simply put, the concept of "optimization" doesn't really exist in a traditional sense for these consoles anymore. Both Sony and Microsoft have PC versions of their games (and exclusives), they just target the PS5 or Xbox Series X and edit some ini files before shipping it out. It's not like the PS3, where we have some incredibly esoteric/powerful GPU that took decades to learn, or the N64 where there was an all-new graphics paradigm to learn. Now more than ever, your console is just a less-robust PC: even the Nintendo Switch uses relatively standardized hardware.

I think the real thing to be looking out for is how developers utilize the crazy overhead they have. The Touryst leverages newer consoles to perform 6k/8k supersampled antialiasing without dropping a frame. Minecraft with shaders is finally just... viable. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised of Sony introduced some emulation layer to play PC games (a-la Proton) if their competition with Microsoft really starts heating up. Really, the hardware is the least interesting part of this console generation. Building a robust software experience on them, however, is where things get interesting (at least to me).
How anyone could side with the ISP here is beyond baffling.

They're essentially making the point that if I build a website, spend large portions of my own money hosting it, and it becomes popular, I should also be charged extra by the ISPs of the users who access my site.

We're in clown world at this point.
Eh? I'm in favor of YouTube banning anti vaxxers. So I'm definitely not libertarian, where as you seem to be in favor of anyone at all being able to post on YouTube without censorship - doesn't that make you more the libertarian? What a confusing conversation we find ourselves in! Good day!
All Spectre/Meltdown attacks go through the same 3 steps in this order:

1) taking control over transient instruction execution

2) controlled transient instructions access a legal data (but illegal for us)

3) controlled transient instructions exfiltrate this data through a side channel between the microarch and the arch

For Spectre V1: Step 1) is performed by the Branch-Predictor, step 2) depends on the gadget targeted within the victim code, and step 3) is completed using a FLUSH+RELOAD or a EVICT+RELOAD triggered by a transient load.

If one of these 3 steps is not met then the attack is impossible. The brucehoult proposal (obviously not the first to suggest this) is to eliminate step 3): if no transient execution side effect/microarchitectural state is made observable, then there is no way to exfiltrate data. All Spectre/Meltdown attacks are therefore made unfeasible.

The problem is that brucehoult's proposal does not guarantee that all side-channels are infeasible at all, it only guarantees that side channels based on branch prediction or caching are no longer possible.

Furthermore, microarchitectural optimizations are made to have an observable effect on the execution time. Therefore, it's likely that other timing side-channels will be exposed/discovered/used.
It would be interesting to find out how many times over the millennia the Gods (aka random astronomical rocks) have bestowed superior weaponry to their chosen (also random) people. Even King Tut's dagger was likely from a meteorite.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun%27s_meteoric_iron_...
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But isn't the point of smart contracts that "code is law" and therefore there are no accidents?
You have to find the address of the call center, and go there and ring their bell.
Ooh... I just realized the name is a subtle play on words