skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were screaming bloody murder about Japanese investment in the 1980s. Most of the complaints were the same, and some of the characters were even the same:

> We should have Japan and we should have Saudi Arabia and we should have all of these countries who are literally ripping us off left and right.... They should pay for our $200-billion deficit.... We are supporting -- we are literally supporting -- Japan, which is the greatest money machine ever created, and we created it to a large extent. -Donald Trump

> There is going to be a tremendous backlash against what Japan is doing in this country -- sucking the lifeblood out of it because of our stupid policies. Our policy is to have free trade, but Japan is not reciprocating. -Donald Trump

There were complaints about Japan not opening its domestic market to American products, about Japan buying up American companies, about cheap Japanese knockoffs of American products, and about Japanese companies being tightly connected with the government. The phrase back then was "Japan, Inc.," rather than today's "China, Inc."

Interestingly, while Japan was criticized for copying American products, the hysteria about Japan really took off as Japan began competing seriously with the United States in high-tech sectors. There's a clear parallel to China there. Now that Huawei has invested heavily in R&D and leads in 5G equipment, we suddenly hear about Huawei stealing Cisco IP in the early 2000s (the two companies settled in 2004, and one of the major claims was that Huawei copied an implementation of strcmp). China has become more serious about protecting IP and now invests as much as the US in R&D, but the issue of IP theft is suddenly urgent.

Given the demographics of HN, it's probably difficult for most people here to imagine this, but in the 1980s, there was palpable fear in the United States that Japan was taking over. There was a general angst about the United States being displaced as the #1 world power, but there was also fear of the rival's inscrutable and ominous culture.
Really? I evidently know nothing of the matter, but you're saying that the auditors only get involved when they become a larger operation?
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Linking to the domain was banned. I doubt reddit has the technical capabilities to effectively prevent them from continuing their alleged bot/vote-manipulation activities.
Python is making some inroads in shops that have been using SAS and/or R, but it’s a hard sell. Jupyter is even harder to push because of the server element.
As the commenter said, they rotate IPs. It is not that easy. I've also been on the other side of a sophisticated attack like this. The really savvy adversaries do the following, at least:

1. Rotate through several thousand to several hundred thousand noncontiguous, geographically distributed, residential IP addresses,

2. Associate each IP address with a single user agent and suite of cookies,

3. Associate each IP address with a particular target username,

4. Only attempt a few incorrect logins at a time, and a somewhat random (albeit realistic) number at that, within a given time interval,

5. Use random, apparently human delays between successive requests,

6. Issue requests using extremely high fidelity simulacra of web browsers, customized to the sequence and structure of HTTP requests on the website.

When the stakes are high this is the kind of opposition you'll get. Bank account takeover, social media account takeover, ticket scalping, automated sneaker buying, financial research, market research, etc.

Recaptcha introduces unpleasant user friction, but it usually works well. To invert a popular turn of phrase, it makes stopping simple attackers easy and hard attackers possible. The most sophisticated attackers will still lease reputable Google accounts and mechanical turk time to bypass Recaptcha challenges, but it will be expensive for them.

Technical sophistication is only one dimension of this game. The other is making adversaries spend more money than they can gain from being successful.
Focus follows mouse obviates this feature. I'm not sure why it hasn't gained any popularity outside of certain Linux WMs.
It can't just be turtles all the way down.
If so, that would be convenient. It would save having to arrange for it yourself.
Ultimately, all surveillance, if used, ends up used for some form of extortion.

It doesn't matter why it was collected. It's the spooks' counterpart to "information wants to be Free."
If people didn't have enough reasons to close their Chase account already, this is a pretty good one.

I would actually like to see that service. A website that closes your bank account for you. They can be very tricky when you try to do that.
This is pretty much the PassKey idiom
Achtung Infinite Tsukuyomi is being casted in 30 to 60 minutes or so.. hmpf
So what realistically can we do?
And now you celebrate it as a success story?
I didn't mean "mail" as in "literally drop off the envelope in the post box", I just meant "mail" as in "write the letter to be mailed". And no, when I say "write" I don't mean it necessarily precludes voice recognition or whatever new counterexample you might be trying to think of now either.
Yeah probably more forward compatible to send/bounce wet effects to their own tracks and print all the tracks as audio.

Then in worst case scenario you can load the raw WAV (or whatever format) tracks in a future DAW.
> If your car has parked far away from your location you need to "request" it just like a shared car.

Sure, but you'd be the only one requesting it, as opposed to a bunch of other people requesting it, too.
Yep. Card networks can also unilaterally decide your level.

https://www.pcicomplianceguide.org/faq/#4

Disclaimer: I work in governance/risk/compliance, but have not performed PCI compliance work in the last several years.
In this case, I understood the rapids to mean things like production incidents necessitating a coordinated incident response system with well-defined roles and responsibilities.
Most do, Prices and service vary.

Backblaze does as well for their B2 service

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/solutions/datatransfer/fireball...
Unconscionable contracts, especially when one of the parties is a taxing jurisdiction, have no ethical force. I'm not certain that this was an unconscionable contract, but you have to at least make the argument. What consideration did the people of this municipality receive in exchange for this encumbrance placed on their liberty?
Hi, thanks for the response.

On the business model – we charge a commission currently set at 15% of whatever compensation you recover. Hopefully that's from a negotiated settlement with the company before a full arbitration process is necessary. (More details at bottom). We currently process against 20+ cable / ISP / wireless companies.

Re: PII, first I want to make clear that I can't speak with legal standing about the terms & conditions as written. That said, if someone checks the (optional) box giving us permission to do so, all we plan to store is an e-mail address (plus an anonymized token?). We at Radvocate don't have current plans to use that e-mail address, but it is true that it likely would be most useful for the purpose of putting together a future class action against Chase. We'd only partner on that with firms we trust and who will make respectful use of the information.

We think this could be of interest and beneficial to someone opting out of arbitration. To repeat a point on this thread, it's another way to take action against Chase. Additionally, while we all have experience with a class action of being mailed a gift card three years later, if someone does make direct contact with a lawyer on the lawsuit, that may put them in a different position (though I'm not a lawyer).

More on our process: The way arbitration works is you usually have to send the company a notice letter (which we automate) 30-60 days before filing. When you do that a lot of companies suddenly want to negotiate, instead of ignoring your dispute, and we provide data and process guidance to help you negotiate most effectively. If negotiation fails then we automate escalating your claim to arbitration by filing with the American Arbitration Association, and we continue to provide guidance as the case moves through their system, including preparation for the hearing (which will typically happen by phone).
This is not constructive feedback; explain your solution and why you feel the trade-offs you prefer are better.
I would be worried that the deep neural networks would fill in the blanks with prior information from other patients, which might be incorrect. In other words, the neural network imagines what should be there, and does not faithfully represent what is there
In Haskell, I usually find the quality of error messages to be much worse without top-level annotations.
There's probably a good point there but to be within the site guidelines you need to express it substantively and without snark. This comment is better than the GP that way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Look at the time, it is hair-splitting o'clock! >_>

Stop! Pedanto-Time!

^_^
>They also force you to pick up the bike from designated racks and drop-off at designated racks which is a pain in the ass.

I mean it's pain in the ass when I have to move the crap from the front steps of my building or out of the driveway because people aren't courteous their dockless transport widgets. I'm alright walking a little ways to dock a bike/scooter as a user, but I'm firmly against any company or city that lets users dump crap on the streets without penalties. It's littering.
We hardly have any servers and are using an old version of JDK 8 under the old license. It does not keep me up at night.
Some parts make you pay 0% of health coverage. It varies.

If you were told to record no more than 40 hours in my timesheet, then that means you DO NOT put in more than 40 hours. You're supposed to go home. If you were told to stay and this was for a government contract, it's a violation that you're supposed to report. Unless this was decades ago, you got training that told you so.
I have several ZFS Servers in my Homelab, using both consumers and gasp referb drives....

I do not have a higher drive failure rate in my homelab than the enterprise gear I manage daily

at the end of the day the mechanical parts between the drives are very similar, the biggest difference if the firmware loads on the different types of drives.
Extreme claims like "That the sea will become a killer is a given." require extreme evidence yet nothing is cited.

Overly alarmist article from 2017 lacking actual substance.
Seems cool, but it's not clear to me exactly what this board does.
If they're going to sue Chase someday, more power to them.
Ask HN: Where in the US are software salaries around or above national average?
I periodically look around on Glassdoor for software salaries around the country, and it seems like vanishingly few cities have software salaries at or above national average. SV salaries are well above, but NYC's are only 4% over. All of the other major cities I can think of are double-digits under. Are the software jobs really so concentrated in SV that it skews the whole national average so dramatically? Or are there other pockets as well?
By that logic, basically nothing is ever new. Almost everything can has bits and pieces decomposed and traced back to something else. At the end of the day, new ideas come by cleverly combining existing ideas.

In this case, it's mixing eye tracking, tagging system, a side scrolling array of panels.
I read the contract as being about the use of publicly owned space for the docks. That seems more like a municipal corporation making a stupid agreement than it does an encumbrance on anyone's liberty. Rent private space for your bike racks...
Non-layman here, no it's not an misinterpretation of the statute.

It makes electronic signatures as good as regular ones in interstate commerce. Period. Full stop.
Caselaw supports this in spades.

The only meaningful case otherwise is where statutes explicitly require in-writing signatures (a good example is copyright transfers).

There is an intra-state version of this is UETA.
> Are robots emulating people from an iPhone?

Many of the more sophisticated ones prefer emulating mobile application requests to web requests, so yes.
Microsoft – A History of Anticompetitive Behavior and Consumer Harm [pdf]
> automated sneaker buying

???

Please ELI5. I mean, why are sales bad, even if automated? Are they using stolen cards?
When he had the summit with Putin he definitely was weirdly nice to him. I don't think he is controlled by Russians but I am sure Republicans would have thrown a complete fit if Obama had publicly stated that he trusts Putin over the CIA like Trump did during the press conference.

Again, the point is that partisans willingly accept the same behavior from "their" guy that they would condemn from the "other" guy and they don't even notice how inconsistent this is.
Aren't hidden form elements are a major issue for accessibility?

Admittedly, so is ReCaptcha, so the trade-off may be necessary as much as it sucks. But, it's probably at least worth a mention?
From a French IP that usually gets flagged by everybody as potentially a robot, I see exactly 0 JS on the HN login form.

Are you sure it is HN that uses ReCAPTCHA?
> Moreso with a driverless car, which is going to be able to avoid having to find a parking spot nearby.

Only if wasting energy is acceptable. Loafing about doing loops around the owner will very quickly be more costly in terms of energy expenditure (plus opportunity cost of "now I have less energy to go to my next destination") than parking for awhile, especially if we get to a point where every parking space is capable of EV charging (which is exactly the direction in which I'd like to see the world gravitate, since that'll significantly alleviate the problems with EV range relative to ICE).

Thus, I'm far from convinced that this will ever actually be a significant problem. Only way the "perpetually-circling autonomous vehicle" problem would be realistic is if we lived in some Nikola-Tesla-esque utopia where wireless electricity is abundant and constantly charging cars as they drive (or maybe if it's a sunny day and solar tech gets advanced enough to be able to meaningfully power a car on solar power alone).
Even if there are multiple routes, I still remember by location. What I remeber is "The forks are on the top left kitchen drawer" -- not "to get to the forks from the fridge, turn around and walk two steps to the right; and to get to the forks from the table, turn left, then walk around the cabinet"
The same could be said about any other online merchant...
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Y'know, this would be a great project for Mozilla, if they have the resources for it. They're already doing that crowdsourced voice training data thing.
Vegan meals do not help to stall climate change, especially those consisting of soy-based alternatives. This is a marketing ploy by soy producers who profit by shifting public focus to meat and away from monocropping and agricultural emissions from monocrop cultivation. In addition to the fact that very few people have even seen, much less worked with, livestock being grazed and harvested outside of a CAFO and you have an effective marketing strategy that is “natural” enough to justify selling a single meal for more than most people make in an hour.
It will also ignore people who use browser's autofill form function. Realized this after receiving a dozen complaints.
Matrix has been on my to-do list for some time - I'm interested in exploring it as a replacement for team Slack.

As a side-note, I think the copy on the Matrix website could use some love - it's a little wordy and not immediately clear what Matrix is, and why/how you would use it. I've read a few other commenters make the same point.

Are you open to some suggested wording? If so, how would you prefer to receive it?
There's already an OSX version though.
Fair enough.

I'm not sure what that means though. If I printed off the form from the website would that count as me writing the letter to be mailed?

In any case, in the stuff quoted up top, I don't read this concept that it must be done personally. For example, it seems like it would be fine for my accountant to do it for me (though they may need me to sign it? maybe they can affix a seal or something)

There must be a way for a business to opt out of this clause, right?
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If you are willing to wade in gray, you can make a virtual machine Mac for this.
Move to cooler parts of the world.
Bulma.io does most of this (web site tables!)
Yes, the narratives keep on changing and there are various political camps that have different opinions because... politics. I had no idea my view was dated, thanks! I guess the pendulum swings back and forward every number of years. But to get to the main point about the "Olympic committee from recognizing Taiwan as a separate nation", there's definitely no overwhelming consensus yet, even by the Taiwanese themselves, that their government should form an independent country!
How are they worse? If he's stuck in a cycle of corruption allegations, appearing unintelligent or poorly prepared like you claim, and is openly and blatantly buying votes I can only imagine the alternatives must be incredibly poor for you to consider voting for him again. Somehow I doubt the alternatives that bad or even that different from. It's like religion, the more two religions are the same the more they hate the other.

Or have you bought into the negativity that every party sows against their opponents in the hopes of securing peoples votes against their better judgement.
Yeah. Who would think that almost half would share their data with... Samsung.
When cyberspace asks for real name – and it rejects it despite legal name
Recently, a website asks me for real name ! And as usual I submitted it -- problem was, they insist on real or official name and despite that was an official name; it refused to acknowledge it-and lost a good business. How bad logic and cultural non appropriation could damage business; a copy-book example?
They are definitely an issue for accessibility. I make sure to put "Hey! Don't put anything in this field!" as a placeholder.
A consistent workflow sounds like something you’re going to find more regularly on a server than a mobile device or home computer.
I don’t think China, the people or the ruling party, care much at all about YC. Of course there would be minor caring if something hit the front page of the journal about “YC quitting China”. But it would have to be such a minor thing. I wonder why you think China would care about such a tiny organization, relatively speaking (wondering in earnest).
Are you technical? Why not build it yourself, or hire someone? What validation do you have it's a good idea?
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The Ford e-bike fleet got pulled due to some bikes experiencing too strong a braking force on the front wheel. They've been working on a redesigned e-bike and that will be coming soon.
Honest question.
What's stopping Matrix from being adopted by, say, Google or Facebook, and then pulling a XMPPEEE?
Imagine Matrix gets really popular, more even than Discord. So they offer their own "version" but add features like free 250GB on Google Drive or things like that. After they get everybody on board they do what they do best and cease control of it.
I presume chaseoptout.com is not a scam.

Tomorrow, an enterprising scammer might clone the site to chaseoptoutservice.com, and do all the nefarious things mentioned above, and they'll be neck-and-neck in SEO.
It's a standard HN (and wider society) complaint that makes very little sense: the best case for corporate behavior is having incentives that are aligned with the consumer or whatever your definition of societal good is.
Thank you. I like precise answers!
It's not incoherent, because the issue with China never was about human rights or censorship.
Effective antennas are reasonably easy to build from scratch (depending on the frequency band), and are commercially available in an insane number of variations. Either way is very cheap - as little as a few dollars.

Software defined radios can be had for as little as $10-20 for simple receive only types, up to several hundred for substantially nicer transceivers. They can also be $1000+ for special applications or R&D.
PCI DSS assessments are signed by natural persons, not arbitrary HTML content.
A good heuristic is that they're parked illegally in the bike lane.
Hollywood and hyper-surveillance: the story of Gorgon Stare
That sounds like something bots could easily adapt to if the practice become widespread.
I've seen multiple comments suggesting HN uses ReCAPTCHA, but I have never encountered it myself, and I even have Javascript disabled and login through 'anonymous' IPs such as tor, so I'm unsure what these users could be doing that is 'worse' to trigger ReCAPTCHAs.

If most users don't even know that ReCAPTCHA is used, that's a good sign that it is being used as little as possible, though.
I hate both Excel and SQL. Well, SQL isn't half-bad, but something like a composable GUI with a proper AWK plugin would be far better than that laggy and shitty "spreadsheet".
I have seen it sometimes.
You can randomly generate the "name" of the fields and autofill will never fill them, another option to disable autocomplete is to leave them without "name" and handling the submit using JavaScript.
Conjugate Gradient
There's a great 5m lightning talk from Pycon 2019 explaining the difference between pytype and mypy[0]. It's great that there's different libraries approaching the problem from different angles. Speaking of which, I'm also curious to see how Facebook's Pyre[1] differs from the former two. I'm surprise there's isn't a comprehensive comparison of the 3 libraries yet.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFcCuinRVnU&t=38m25s

[1] https://github.com/facebook/pyre-check
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Could I ask which part of this "case law supports in spades"? I imagine you're not claiming they have to accept emails (?) and otherwise I don't even see how you could e-sign this to begin with; you have to write the letter that ends up in their P.O. Box somehow, so you have to make the statement yourself and put your personal signature on paper (via ink or toner or otherwise is not the point) and mail it to them. But here you don't even write the letter or sign the letter yourself in any sense of the word. Like if a judge asked you "you need to have written and personally signed this letter for it to be valid; did you do that?" would you just give a straight unqualified "yes" and believe that would fly?
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Problem is, nothing elides the presence of these obtrusive badge parameters in the source code.

A few bytes of stack is the least of my concerns on some file system device registration function that is called five times when the system boots.

If we imagine a software organization "going to town" with this badge approach so that there are badges all over the code base, it's not hard to imagine how it would be a nuisance.
The idea of panels can be realized today on Linux using a tiling window manager, and is superior in my opinion because it allows you to slice your screen as you see fit, has workspaces and you can have multipe windows in a single slice snd switch between them using a variety of wsys (tabs, etc)