skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The targeted nature of it screams ‘state actor’

Even if Kaspersky is somehow working with Russian intelligence, it’s a good thing that there are groups out there willing to call shenanigans on US-aligned intelligence operations.
IAUI the major threats historically were booth takeovers, stolen vote forms and bribed vote counters, and from what I've head the machine has a good record on defeating all three. Is that correct, or have there been developments I've missed?
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It depends on who you are and where you are. If you are in a small community where you know everybody and you write/release something related to that community, then probably you have a good amount of "clients" or readers there. That's my experience and it worked good so far, and I never did anything simple, short, fun or sexy.
For compare, articles say $2.4BN USD spent in 2016 Presidential Election, with 137.5MM voting. That's $17.45 per capita. But I don't know if I'd swing a vote for a single bottle of wine!
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Though Indian voters also cast their ballots on electronic voting machines, they are much simpler and arguably more reliable than the ones used by their American counterparts. Unlike the machines in America, which are manufactured by private companies, differ in each state, and need proprietary ballot paper, the ones used in India are made by two government firms, and are battery operated—a key detail in a country that struggles with power supply. (Plug-in machines caused problems in the latest US election, as some workers forgot to plug them in). Each machine holds up to 2,000 votes, so large-scale hacking is highly unlikely.
> If you have power then water is straightforward. Just dig. We’ve been doing that for hundreds of years.

Spoken like someone who's never had to rely on a well in marginal country.

My advice: Drill your well carefully, put in a cistern, and buy a truck which can haul lots and lots of water.
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That's true. But it's not people sitting in different chairs each day that saves the space. It's increasing the utilization which means you need some critical mass of people who are out of the office on a given day. (Some have also promoted hoteling for other reasons but those reasons are mostly dumb.)
When they remodeled a building I used to work in, they converted it all to open office space (minus the manager's fully enclosed offices, of course). What we were told was that every person had to have a view of a window. Something to do with the LEED certification? Maybe they were saving electricity by allowing the light to reach all the spaces.

Then our team lead decided we needed to have a morning stand-up meeting every day in the middle of this space, seemingly completely oblivious to the fact that we were bothering all the other teams in the same shared space.
Millenial here. Did this happen with other generations? Where the term was just used as a derogatory way to refer to young people?
Although the most effective would be to have some kind of liability for spreading/posting fake news

The market cannot do this, at least as currently constituted. Right now, fake news which pleases the sensibility of whatever group gets rewarded by that group. The same group also fails to punish the fake news. The surprising fact, which shouldn't be surprising, since Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman have been calling this out since the 80's, is that the mainstream does this too. The differences in 2019, are that pushing narratives and differences in emotional language play a much larger role, and factual accuracy is much less important to the public now than it was then.
In general it is standard to put the unit after the quantity though.
Bank trading floors also usually have significant sound dampening/soundproofing in the ceilings and other surfaces which makes a big difference. They spend a lot of time thinking about the acoustic environment.
Looks like IE is nice enough to run it in a separate process.
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He said "almost anything that India does is at an impressive scale". Nowhere he talked about elections.

Also elections in India are pretty much rigged especially because of people buying votes.
> It's a type of supermassive object formed in the early universe from the fermentation of rye bread.

Stop being kvazy!
False equivocation all over the place. If you need to shift the language to extremes to persuade people you are doing so by "borrowing" from those extremes. Ie., fascism is widely regarded as "bad" so the tactic here is to borrow its badness and spread it around without actually arguing about the situation at-hand.

When you work for someone, as in many areas, you trade sovereignty for wealth. Freedom for security. And so on.

This is always a tradeoff in your interactions with others. A promise is an obligation; commitment, "slavery" etc. if one wishes to put these things so inflammatorily.

The relevant question is: in this particular situation, how serious is this tradeoff?

In the case where there are many jobs you are never "starving", likewise when welfare exists. The governmental and economic context of a system isnt something extrinsic to the system that you can just dismiss: it is part of its functioning.

Yes, welfare may well be a precondition of a free market system to ensure that in extreme cases it isnt "starve or else". Or equally, a big dynamic economy might be a predoncition. Maybe our sorts of markets don't work with monopolistic employeers for the reasons he says.

However this does not generalize to work for a company as such which is always particular and always situated in an economic and political context which turns it from "slavery" to "having to get in by 9am".
> start talking to the FCC about modernizing regulations for the 21st century

I would have thought that HAM operators need to fight to keep the regulations that they have, and that trying to make big changes would lead to worse outcomes?
Well, also so that businesses don't monopolize the free ham bands instead of purchasing licenses for bands that allow encryption.
From the article, it sounds like they only started paying them minimum wage after they were legally forced to in 2018. This wasn't something Northwest Center or Amazon decided to do on their own.
Don't totally mean to sound rude about it, but institutionalized religion, like the Catholic Church, approaches these topics fundamentally in the wrong way in my opinion.

I could get into it, but honestly fuck these places and people running them. They've been a large factor in what I would consider "holding back" the human race and evolution of technology in the modern age..

I recently asked a Priest if a sentient artificially made intelligent system (AGI) could have a baptism, a conscious thing, would get through Turing test, all that...

His reply was short "absolutely not" ....I think he considers humans "playing god" to be satanic
I recently launched a backup service for Borg – https://www.borgbase.com. Also big on monitoring (email, pushover, webhook), as this is a common concern for backups.

It just lacks terminal-based registration. :-) You could use the GraphQL API to manage everything from the command line if you really wanted.
Ironic, because nobody can read his shit due to Wordpress crapping out.

Use a static site for static content!
The real motivation is that wounding is at least as good as killing, and wars are won (or lost) mainly by logistics.
Cheers mate, I love reading about history.
The fee is paid by businesses, not the end-user customers who use PayPal. Thus it doesn't even enter the equation when users choose PayPal.

I personally like PayPal because then I only have to update my card info in one place as opposed to 50 different websites. Also when some random website gets hacked, I can be sure that my card info isn't getting leaked.

In addition, some sites only accept cards that have been issued in a certain country, usually the US. When they also support PayPal, I can usually bypass this restriction.
You’re assuming that a publisher would be willing to put enough money into a prediction market to make a profit from the market machinations rather than advertising or subscriptions.

This is also assuming that prediction markets are actually useful in general, and useful in this specific case. Both of which are open to discussion, but even for this specific case, it’s not even clear what the the prediction market would even be predicting. The Politifact meter? What about all the stuff Poltifact doesn’t bother reporting on? Poltifxt (or any other org) aren’t perfect, and can be played as well.
Then that's a failure of the clickbait author to apply the principle beyond the headline. Certainly there's an epidemic of that, but it doesn't mean the advice is unsound.
Wow! Thank you for looking.
No GANs just a bunch of specially crafted convnets.
Like all lessons, it depends on the student. Personally, the author's way of thinking has been immensely helpful. I grew up an optimist, not able to understand why others couldn't see things the way that I did. After a few failed product/content launches and a few years of grinding later my self-bullshit meter is way more sensitive. This has led to me producing better products, features, and generally more success in my work life. Like the author, I assume no one wants to use my stuff at the outset, and this forces me to fight to overcome this.

But again, it's probably more a function of who this advice is given to. I've seen plenty of people get discouraged after making this realization. The key is to be aware that no one cares and then do it anyways.
They say unlocked (T-mobile), unlocked (verizon). What does that mean?

My understanding of unlocked means free to use any carrier. Am i missing s
Thank you, went to the comments to learn this. So the universe actually expands pretty fast then! Faster than the speed of light? Strangely...
Thank you. I should've stated my position more extensively. By financial decisions I mean decisions that can be directly correlated to increased margins. The original comment was speculating that Apple might not sell the iPhone SE because they have lower margins, and that might make them more money in the short term, but if some people switch to Android for a smaller device, they'll lose long term market share. In that regard you're right and I'd rather call these kind of decisions short sighted or something along those lines.
Indian voters don't swing their vote for the money. They know it's a secret ballot, pocket the money, and tell the buyer they voted for them.
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For scale, you could just about give everyone in the US an Acre in Alaska and not even touch the lower 48.
What are the chances election campaigns become a thing of the past?

I know zero about politics but... why don't citizens get presented a list of what each candidate supports, where there is overlap between candidates, and where there is disagreement?

Why do candidates need to "spread the message" and "go on tour" and "win people over" when we as citizens are supposed to, at the root, be voting on what policies they believe in (which seems concrete + fact, instead of something like leaving a wooing/lasting impression with a speech/appearance)
> because € does not render on xterm,

It does for me?
You would be interested in my old project using `$` as a way for reducing parentheses: http://text.cirru.org/ .
Again, not with currencies in English.
Hey HN!

I made this crowdsourced map of possible workplaces around the world.
Why?
Because I've recently struggled to find a solid venue(s) to do some work: https://twitter.com/petrnagy/status/1105366693327458305
Also, it's a little boring to commute to the same place every day, isn't it?

Cheers!
Well written article. My company follows the same patterns, operate what you build.

The point worth reiterating is that you have to properly staff your teams for this to succeed. Adopting this approach purely for the sake of cutting head count doesn’t work, and I’ve seen that happen at multiple companies on multiple teams.
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I turned down a job to create a rigged voting system in an African 'republic'. It was for something regional, not the majors. They wanted the voting system to have two lights outside the voting center, one for each candidate, where the brightness of the light indicated the number of votes for each, with the ability for remotely overriding and setting the brightness for each light. That was an eye opener.
> They don't allow any prototyping or experimenting on the amateur bands either. That is why this is using the unlicensed ISM bands.

What do you mean? This is running on 433MHz, which is within the 70cm amateur band (420-450mhz)
I've often found myself procrastinating when working on a project where I've been thrown in not knowing enough and thought I could figure it all out. Often the solution is to step back and learn the technology/library/tool first, then I dont procrastinate any more and get the job done. I haven't seen this explanation, but I suspect it occurs often.
Seems to ignore the idea of competition between companies to provide good working conditions and pay in a free labor market. The choice isn't between staying and being abused or starving. The choice is between a variety of employers offering a range of working conditions and a range of pay and benefits.

Chomsky's take is interesting because it makes you think about it in a different way than you might normally but as a practical matter I don't think his take reflects reality at least not in the US.
The parent is a transcription of the video, and I think it should be pinned to the top of the thread.
It's hard to guess who could be behind this or really anything about it without a world map portraying the rough geographic distribution of devices.
I believe OP has created an ingenious way to qualify early users, which is also the stated purpose of this release.
It might be interesting to split out Paypal the company from Paypal the product. Here's some armchair quarterbacking:

Paypal the company (PayPal Holdings, Inc., NYSE: PYPL) has done well in recent years, where I think they've executed well on their inorganic growth strategy, where they've acquired 19 companies in the last 10 years, probably valued north of $10B. Venmo, Xoom, iZettle, and others are strong businesses in their own right, and Paypal hasn't done much to mess with them.

It would be interesting to see the growth of their primary "Paypal" product. From their 2017 Annual Report[1]:

> PayPal continues to drive the majority of our total P2P volumes, enabling both domestic and international P2P transfers across our Payments Platform. Our Venmo app in the U.S. is a leading mobile application used to move money between friends and family. Xoom is an international money transfer service that enables our customers to send money to, pay bills for and send prepaid mobile phone reloads for family and friends around the world in a secure, fast and cost-effective way, using their mobile device or personal computers.

They don't offer detailed financials, but it may well be that "PayPal continues to drive the majority of our total P2P volumes" because it started out so large. This is the "first-mover advantage" mentioned elsewhere in this comment chain.

I'm surprised as a consumer that Paypal hasn't done more to leverage the strength of their component brands (e.g., Venmo) with the strength of their network.

[1] https://investor.paypal-corp.com/node/8556/html
I am not sure about it can never be authoritarian. It went through an emergency situation, because the ruling part lost the election at the time. The current govt is whipping up mass hysteria, and might just succeed, based on what I see happening on the ground.
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Taking a total shot in the dark, but I imagine AAA video games constitute a crap-ton of C++ codebases larger than Firefox, but I wouldn't know for sure.
Boomers were very critical of GenXers, and vice versa.

I have no doubt that that pattern repeats into history. What one group uses as a slur, another uses as identity.
Interesting review of non-drug approaches to depression and mood:

- Alterations in thought (meditation)

- Exposure to bright light (outdoors)

- Exercise

- tryptophan supplementation taken WITHOUT food for greater uptake

- α-Lactalbumin found in Milk but not really a great option

Definitely can speak to the exposure to light, and exercise ones. Nothing lifts my mood more than going for a run outside, in the heat of the sun.
> “It’s self-harm,” said Dr. Piers Steel, a professor of motivational psychology

I'm in the unfortunate position of being a layman who disagrees with an expert, but isn't it a bit inaccurate and confusing to call it "self-harm"? Doesn't that term already have a specific meaning?

As I understand it, self-harm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-harm) is a behavior where someone seeks out pain (such as by cutting themselves). It can be because focusing on pain allows temporary escape from other thoughts, or maybe for other reasons, but in any case the pain is something the person seeks out and is an essential part of the process.

It seems like "self-destructive" might be a better term to use when talking about procrastination. If I put off cleaning my bathroom, I'm avoiding something I can't/won't face, and that is going to come with feelings of guilt or shame, but I'm not seeking out that suffering as a tool for dealing with something else. It's just a side-effect of the choice to avoid something.

Or, if it really is (a non-physical form of) self-harm, can someone explain how? Are they saying the feeling of guilt over not cleaning my bathroom alleviates the feelings of unpleasantness associated with having to scrub the shower?

That doesn't seem right, but maybe there are two types of procrastination, a "light" one where the task is just unpleasant and says nothing about you (cleaning the shower) and a "serious" one where the task might reflect on you (learning to do something you don't think you're capable of)? I could imagine how self-harm might fit in with the "serious" form because maybe guilt over not trying could serve a purpose distracting you from the more-unpleasant feeling of doubt over whether you actually can do it.
I'm not sure that's a problem. Humans are terrific generalizers, and it would probably be a good thing for human civilization if human intelligence remained an essential part of the control loop. We can just continue developing ever-more-useful intelligence amplifiers and employing them as extensions of human cognition, instead of replacing ourselves by building minds like our own.
I don't think people who create things are generally dissuaded by this advice or they probably wouldn't be creating in the first place. You kind of have to be an engine of positivity to self-motivate in the first place, which is why falling in love with your own bullshit is a common trap.

And the point isn't that what you made is shit, it's that hearing/reading about it is shit. I don't think that's a negative mentality if you frame it right: how do you get them to see your creation is valuable to them in the fewest words/least effort? So much good comes from that mindset, including finding your product's key selling point and competitive advantage.
You can bag check when you leave a hotel for the day...
I don't think the ML-upscaled scenes will compare favorably to the new 35mm scans. They don't really look a whole lot better to me than the DVDs upscaled with a normal high quality scaling algorithm.
FTL makes it worse. The only tech we need for us to Dyson up (95%?) of our entire visible light cone is self-replicating factories that work in a vacuum on (for example) Mercury: http://ukspace2015.co.uk/presentations/36

FTL makes that 100%, from beyond out cosmic horizons, even if it turns out that FTL isn’t automatically also a time machine like we currently think it is.

Pocket universes might help? I don’t know though, I’m saying that only because I’ve not seen them ruled out.
Or the other way around. Something that helps a long way picking up a good habit is to make it easy to do, by removing all possible obstacles/annoyances to just doing it.
I have chronic pain fortunately I manage and can work full time as SE. However, I know others who could not transition from physical field into something else.

Most people with disability genuinely want to work, but they usually get fired due to missing days or jobs that lack flexibility and cannot accommodate doctor visits for example.

Many are just as good if not better than healthy employees. I thought about creating some kind of non-profit to help connect disabled employees and employers(have not researched the market, not sure if that already exists). I think if people had clearly defined limits employers would be more likely to hire them. In western nations, with disability often comes feeling of not being worthy, as worth is often attached to work. Ability to work remote and flexible hours could really put many people back to work.
I had an intership where the devs were next to the trading floor. The noise level were very annoying and most work was done after the market had closed for the day
> It’s normal and unreported.

There is no question that victims of sexual crimes needs to be heard out more. However, your statement is an exaggeration to say the least. Groping is a frequent and well-documented topic on Japanese news. But as is often the case with sensational topics like crime, it is not as commonplace as you make it sound like.

I also doubt that the people around you were "unsurprised" to hear such things happening to your friend. It's just easy to imagine Japanese people displaying seeming indifference because of the sensitivity of the topic. At times, Japanese people can be reluctant to clearly express their opinions.
What does SE stand for? Software engineer?

What kind of chronic pain do you have and why do you have it? How common is this?
> Use a static site for static content!

Far easier said than done.

Is there a "user-servicable" static site generator? I'm not aware of one, if it exists.

Wordpress may be a pile of junk but as a CMS you can hand it off to almost anyone and they'll be able to use it.
How do the people buying votes make sure that the voter is voting the way they want? Do they not have a secret ballot?
Who is "they"? Unless I'm confused (which is certainly possible), the 433 MHz ISM allocation doesn't exist in the US. There's only the 420-450 MHz ham allocation.

Is there also a ban on encryption in the countries where it exists, or is that an FCC-only thing?
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Not to mention that for some people, noise-cancelling headphones are nausea-inducing. I had this after a single day of using Bose's headphones, despite not getting nauseous from other common things (reading in a car, roller coasters, etc.).
guess, to whom the business is passing these 5%?