skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sea mines placed miles apart during the second world war sometimes end up settling right next to each other, several miles away. Sometimes tens of miles away. Sometimes next to a leftover mine from the first world war that arrived the same way.

The environment in which they exist subjects them to varying pressures and forces, making them move. When do they stop moving? When they reach a point at which those pressures and forces cease. That point is the same for all items that get swept there. Wait long enough, and if another one is part of the same system of forces that directs towards the same null point, it'll turn up.
Happens with sea mines over the course of a few decades. Could it happen with skulls over tens of thousands of years? Sure could. Happens with lots of objects.
Selling products and services would make them a hybrid (for-profit/non-profit) organization. The sales would be subject to sales tax. Without a 501(c)(3) status, they also wouldn't be eligible for many grants to secure larger fundings.
I like to imagine sometimes how these kinds of "revelations" happen in tech newsrooms.

Reporter: Tell it to me straight, do you listen to the recordings?
Google: Well yea, that's how we train the...
Reporter: WE GOT 'EM!

It's like the "Apple admits throttling CPU when battery starts dying" story all over again. It wasn't a secret, you just didn't ask before.
> I never understood the logic behind taxing large internet businesses.

Why have 20% of Taxi revenue (or whatever it is) leave the country if basically all of the service is provided in country, and the internet taxi company takes the large cut over a sustained period through a combination of first-mover advantage an network effects? (Not that that's what's going on completely in the case of ride sharing, as Uber may still be subsidizing things at this point)

For other things it doesn't make sense, but in the case of many of these companies it is basically just citizens banding together through democratic decision making to not get taken advantage of through network effects that lock in certain services and shield them from competition.
Between the larger phone bill and the decreased performance and battery life I feel like most people would notice.

Not to mention most phones heat up when they stream anything.
>(can't quit your job and travel the world if you have kids to support).

I think the real reason is that there will be someone to look after you when you're old and sick.
Would they exclude US companies doing business in US?
Thanks but it's far from impressive. It's been years. I've gone back and forth and did no-carb a few times (lost 30 lbs once and then fell off the wagon) which helped me break the habit. But then someone stressful would occur and I was back to 1-2 Cokes a day for a while.

Finally I scared myself enough that sugar drinks cause pancreatic cancer (no evidence but I'm still scared) and high fructose corn syrup causes fatty liver disease, which I actually do have, which in turn can lead to cirrhosis and/or liver cancer.

From that I basically scared myself straight. I started drinking a lot of unsweetened tea actually, and then substituted a little sweet tea for Coke. Eventually I've just broken the habit of drinking Coke every day and drinking tea instead and these days a lot of water as well.
The article is well written, and easy to understand. FTA:

> Norway has found a radiation level 800,000 times higher than normal at the wreck of a Russian navy submarine.

>(Snip)

> A sample showed radioactive caesium leaking from a ventilation pipe, but researchers said it was "not alarming", as the Arctic water quickly diluted it.
The irony of an account named smallgovt making this comment.... Personally, I'd rather risk get nuked by a crazy guy in his garage, as you say, than live in more of a police/surveillance state than we already do now
I deleted my LinkedIn profile a few years back and haven't looked back. It's cathartic. I honestly don't see the reason to have it unless you're actively looking for a new role. Speaking of obnoxious - they don't let you hide your profile either, you have to completely delete it.
The conclusion of the article is the exact opposite of the title. As long as it is 9 and over characters and not on password list, it's safe.

There is a rise in sim hacking and still MFA is not a solution if you lose your MFA device. We always go back to passwords, even password resets rely on a password protected email. Until quantum computers make passwords obsolete I have not seen a better solution.
To be fair, founder/CEO means pretty much nothing on its own. Anyone can start a company for a few hundred bucks, put up a website, and call themselves a founder/CEO. You'd have to make the effort to actually look at what a person founded, and that's a level of effort that recruiter spam is never going to reach.
Wondershaper [1] should make it easy on Linux. On *BSD there is AltQ for this which also has PF integration (or well, back when I looked into this in 2004).

I'm curious to hear which use cases didn't work out for you.

Regarding BPF, is it possible to convert IPT rules to BPF for backwards compatibility?

[1] https://github.com/magnific0/wondershaper/
If we start thinking passwords don't matter, we go back to single-factor authentication.

What makes the "second" factor in 2FA more secure than the first? Is that it's usually a time-based generated key? Or is it that users usually use a physical device for this second key, hence removing a lot of internet-only attack vectors?
Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez the warrior we need to drain the swamp?
To add to this, Shopify is the equivalent of Medium for blogging vs WordPress.

Sure, it's easy to get started, but once you're locked into their platform and you need a more custom solution, it's going to be hard to move out of it.
Is it possible to contribute a patch? How should I do it?
I really like the Daodejing on this topic.

Chapter 17:

The greatest of rulers is but a shadowy presence;

Next is the ruler who is loved and praised;

Next is the one who is feared;

Next is the one who is reviled.

Those lacking in trust are not trusted.

However, [the greatest rulers] are cautious and honor words.

When their task is done and work complete,

Their people all say, "This is just how we are."

Chapter 29:

Those who would gain the world and do something with it, I see that they will fail.

For the world is a spiritual vessel and one cannot put it to use.

Those who use it ruin it.

Those who grab hold of it lose it.

[...]

(Phillip J. Ivanhoe translation)
Yes it was asked already. What we know:
1- Yes we can sell
2- Secondary market is the way to go
> If Google and it's outsourced partner can listen to the recordings, 3 lettered agencies can too.

Just to be clear, if this were true, it would only apply to specific queries you make, not all audio data in your house. There is no evidence of any of these devices recording/sending voice data outside of when a query is going on.
Yes, I agree- but what fo you mean by "merely scoping the problem in a novel way" and how does it differ from the way I describe scoping?

(Not attacking, genuinely curious because I'd love to find new and more useful courses of action when it comes to problems...)
former Magento employee here...what you're describing is a TON of upfront technical investment for an e-commerce merchant who is just getting started. The platforms you've mentioned are ideal for merchants who are starting to hit $5M to $10M in annual revenue and need to innovate on their storefronts in order to continue achieving growth.

For someone at the beginning of their ecommerce journey, Shopify is the BEST way to start making money almost immediately.
They are supposed to. Whether such safety procedures are actually used is another matter. Submarines, like everything else in the military, are great at looking very professional on the outside while being total chaos on the inside.
Also the x86 emulator in JS that can run windows 2000 on a browser canvas.
Ethics aside, you'd think a company concerned about simply covering its ass would explicitly remove demographic information from the analysis, to avoid the possibility of it influencing the categorizations.
How successful were those companies where you still own share?
Does Software Quality Have a Size?
Were these some sort of deterrent? Or just an inadvertent hum from electronics that were designed and QA'd by people who couldn't hear it?
This seems to be more common than people would believe. I had a colleague many years ago, who managed his remote offshore contractors from his workplace office, while spending his free time finding more work for them.

There's always money to be made from market inefficiencies.
Well it will make patent attorneys more productive which may mean they can take on more customers at different prices or even allow smaller firms etc...

Patents get really interesting when litigated because 40% of patents are found to be invalid.
Vat isn't paid on the ad space these companies sell to other foreign businesses.
So you bought via one of those platforms?
I was on the same search and ultimately gave up and applied them directly to my lid after finding Isopropyl gets the residue off nice.

I would love to know how they cut it so clean so I can attempt to make one for the XPS 13.
Where is the best coffee place around you? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Stack overflow jobs board thing is the best place imo to find remote Dev positions. Harder for new grads.

Angel list might be a place to find remote AND newbie friendly jobs.
He's probably worth $300-$500/hr if not $1k...
C stdlib
It's illegal here in Canada under CASL (Canada Anti-Spam Legislation).
They have to provide an "unsubscribe" link right in every one of the emails they send you.

https://www.fightspam.gc.ca/eic/site/030.nsf/eng/home
Just a thought, is there a way to capture all out-going traffic from one's phone at least when it's not been used?
Google does not pay VAT. The buyer pays VAT, and Google collects and remits it on behalf of the buyer.

Google only pays VAT on purchases (for its own use) that it will sell on to customers.
Not impossible, just unlikely. Collisions can exist in theory in any hashing algorithm (though it may be a 2^2048 large address space or something)
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I have both Home and Alexa in my house. If I give Google the full benefit of the doubt and believe that they only record when I say 'Hey/OK Google', what about Alexa? Does it send the recording to its server all the time or only transfer them when I invoke its service?
And who needs Shopify fulfillment?

Just set up 10-20 warehouses, hire a few hundred workers, train them, get an HR rep, IT, finance, and support, and you're off to the races!

Kids are so lazy these days, with their long hair and their rock'n'roll music.
Curious what ”The cycle removal algorithm only uses the reference counts and the object content” means in practice. Is it based on some well known algorithm?
I’m actually skeptical about data being the new gold. Even if it is true now and we ignore the ethical implications, I don’t think it’ll remain gold in the long term. People have a limited attention span & wallet. There’s only so much advertising they can consume, anything after is worthless. Overall, anyone cashing in on data is diluting the pool for themselves & everyone else until there’s so much that the entire market is no longer sustainable.

The other issue is that there are 2 very strong competitors (Google & Facebook) that I’m not sure it’s wise to start a new company based solely on data/analytics/advertising.
Show HN: Chrome extension that changes "AI" to "A Bunch of Dudes"
That's great information, thanks.

To be honest, the range of activities allowed it's fairly reasonable.
The posted article did cite their sources; the original report was made by vrtNWS [1]. I recommend reading the discussion which occurred yesterday for an array of arguments [2].
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One thing I personally believe — and find apparent about these discussions revolving around data privacy — is that the general public (at least in the USA) doesn't understand the capabilities of modern apps and other tech they use. Sure, there's news coverage of tech giants and adtech firms mining/utilizing user data for profit — the picture painted, though, seems to only show a black box to most people who aren't involved with the tech industry, and who don't have the background to really understand certain concepts (eg networking, ML, etc). There are definitely growing concerns about personal privacy [3][4]; continuing forward, however, the availability of user data and the growth with social media will probably rise and have an even larger impact on society as my generation (and younger ones) has already been tied into using these platforms [5].

I'm hopeful that this can be changed with changes to the education system. I would love to see computer education added as a general topic covered (ie it would be a very clear example of how useful math is...it would help others understand why they should learn beyond add/sub/div etc).

There is already a push to modernize schools and prepare students for the adult world; chromebooks are very common in schools that receive grants and funding for tech initiatives. Home econ, carpentry, and other courses used to be common (maybe still common in some places?) in highschool. How about computer education, specifically?

[1]: https://outline.com/2PmPtH
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20402070
[3]: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/03/27/americans-c...
[4]: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/05/americans-a...
[5]: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/04/10/share-of-u-...
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The logic behind taxation is that if governments are able to extract money from any activity without causing a revolution or foreign invasion they do it.

I doubt French people will revolt against taxing Google or US Marines will invade France.
Why is that questionable morals? The company got their work done. The offshore developer got more money than they would have otherwise. Basically the guy found an inefficiency in the system (companies not believing that the offshore developers themselves were capable of doing the work).
You joke but many of these sonic weapons in the UK have been replaced by speakers playing musak versions of opera. Bad classical music deters young people more effectively.
I believe they are donating the money to organizations that plant diverse native trees.
It would have a much lower memory and binary size impact. If your program is short-running, it could also be faster.
Head meet desk!!

Yes of course, got confused by several articles by cert re sellers claiming to have disabled TLS 1.0 & 1.1.

Forced the protocol on Nginx seems to be working fine now.

Thank you very much for pointing me in the right direction!
It's a neat idea, but if you sign up for a service and just cancel the card rather than canceling under the terms of the contract, can't the company still legally attempt to collect on the payment if they want to?

I suppose most 10-20/month fees wouldn't bother to collect, but they might pester you a bit with automated emails.
It had the same status as present-day French Guiana (which is similar to Hawaii or Alaska in the US), the only difference is Algeria's indigenous population was opposed to it.
Amazon claims to only send speech data home when you invoke it with a 'hey alexa'. Whether they're sending home just your query, or everything the echo has heard since the last invocation, they are very careful not to say.
> So any taxation is justified?

A corp will raise prices to whatever level the market will bear. Why shouldn't a society do the same with taxes?
> Aside from 3/4 of your post being a gigantic ad about your own platform

I mention what I think is necessary for a platform in any vertical to work. We just happen to already be doing it for our vertical.

> how is it really a race to the bottom?

- Just about everyone has a 4.5+ star review, so the cheapest 4.5+ star review looks objectively better to a Co trying to cut costs. Just like any review system, it can be gamed.

- Customers get preferential treatment. That's not a fair two-sided marketplace -- that's a race to the bottom, for whoever keeps the customers happy, including the bad ones.

- Look at average salaries/hourly fees for different fields and look at UpWork. That should be the clearest "race to the bottom" evidence.

> Maybe the vetting process could be better, but Upwork is the best contract to hire marketplace for a variety of work, IMO.

They're the biggest. That's about it. Read OP's write-up, ask other freelancers, ask other customers. UpWork is a lame excuse for what part-time, remote work has the potential to become in the economy.
Simple.

France informs their customers that they need to withhold part of or even all of their payments to said company under penalty of criminal sanction. Customers comply, non-French company receives less money.

Non-French company then has 2 choices: accept defeat and pay the French tax, or cut the French customers and accept less revenue.
Before tech I did a stint in recruiting. We had a client demand only "white sounding" names. We ignored that and provided any qualified candidate. They complained because they mistook the recruiters name for an applicant. We fired that client the same week. It was a truly disgusting thing to be asked and I'm glad my company made the right call. Any future client that asked that was immediate grounds for client dismissal, i.e. didn't require management approval.
For example, there is no option to cancel a Wall Street Journal digital subscription on the web site, unless you change your billing address to one in California, and then a cancel option will appear.
They do, but I think they are considering moving off of Shopify. The reality is that shopify has a ridiculous amount of down time, and any high traffic store will actually be losing real revenue as a result. Just scroll their status page, they consistently have several outages a month.

https://status.shopify.com/
>There is no evidence of any of these devices recording/sending voice data outside of when a query is going on.

This isn't an example of a google device doing so, but there have been multiple cases of these "smart" home devices recording and/or sending audio when not prompted

https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/24/family-claims-their-echo-s...
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If I were Microsoft, I wouldn’t consider tech news furor around “the word telemetry is present” to be relevant or worth discussing. Either it’s truly security content in which case they’re not going to discuss it, or it’s truly telemetry content in which case they’re not going to discuss it. The OS is discontinued and they probably have an edict forbidding the press team from spending time for the topic “Windows 7” altogether.
Same goes for all sorts of elements, like Gold.
I didn't know you could eat them! I'll have to try out this recipe thanks!
As far as I understand VAT's role in the economy, the Value Added Tax is offset to the last link of a value-adding chain: the consumer.

This creates the incentive of further adding value to a product/service and thus creating more economic output.

Amazon may be paying other taxes, but VAT is paid by the consumer.
Ask HN: Has NH become too well-known to provide any signal?
I'm obviously thinking of signal vs. noise here.

This is obviously tongue-in-cheek, but I feel that there a lot of noise these days. Fight me! :)
I'm trying to follow the argument in good faith, so bear with me...

> This gives you an unfair advantage over, say, a brick-and-mortar store or a physical ad agency in Paris that's trying to compete online.

Are you sure it's "an unfair advantage" and not just "an advantage"? Doesn't your position presume that the brick-and-mortar business model deserves special protection? If so, why? If not, what then is unfair about "jurisdiction arbitrage".

> Taxes are not just about revenue, they are often about changing incentives

What is the implied incentive in this case? It seems like it's just incentivizing a brick and mortar business model, but it's not clear why this is inherently virtuous.

> This addresses an additional edge Amazon has versus local retailers.

Doesn't this all point to a fundamental problem with "corporate tax"? Wouldn't it be better (fairer) to reduce or remove corporate tax and raise sales tax or similar, such that it doesn't matter whether the business has a presence in the country in question? I'm not very knowledgable about the topic, so I'm hoping someone can set me straight.
Yes, but not necessarily Oct 2019. My Nexus 5X is running Android 8.1.0 with security patch level: December 5, 2018, so it's likely Pixel will also get updates after the guaranteed dates.
Sure, facts are important. You started here:

The problem is that Apple appears to have made an exception to its own rules in this particular case. If I understand correctly, they used a first party system update mechanism to change third party software.

I don't think any of these are established facts and I don't understand how you, a fellow fact-fancier, haven't acknowledged that before breezily moving on to a discussion of the precise definition of the term 'malware'.
It’s quite different as windows is closed source. The OEMs don’t build their own flavour of windows from source.
More and more carriers are moving to "unlimited"/throttled plans. The days of worrying about data usage will soon join the days of worrying about how many minutes you have left.
Sorry was typing on my phone and didn't clarify. I have a friend who works at Allbirds and told me they are strongly looking at migrating because of the down time issues.
If the privacy policy was written in a language I could read (just because its english doesn't mean its readable english) then maybe I would have known that
> we have a hiring process that really, really finds people of high future potential

Did he elaborate on the details of this process?
The account of pessimism and optimism which the author begins with is too simplistic.

What matters for our outlook is not, in the first instance, whether humanity's failures in the past are attributable to malign motivations or technical incompetence, but whether the problem - whatever it is - is soluble.

If our major failures are ultimately the result of ill will, but humans are inherently malign creatures, or our collective endeavours are always undermined by the malignant actions of some individuals, then this would be little comfort indeed.
There are three types of lies: lies of commission, lies of omission and lies of influence.

Just because nobody "asked" Google (your example) doesn't mean Google didn't lie (and/ or mislead) about it (lie of omission). Most people assume machines are doing the voice processing. The game changes when there's a human with a, potentially, subjective thought process to what they're hearing.
My name is Jeremy and I thought someone hacked either HN or my computer to change the title of this to match the viewer's name.

It's like the time my friend Tyler discovered that when you do 'shutdown -h now', if your username is Tyler, it says, "Hello Mr. Tyler, going down.....?"
What’s the margin of error on these dating methods? Seems like a simpler explanation is that one of the dates is wrong.
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Extremely low: https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/23/1859813/-Students-C...
Before that, there even was a third party demo of QEMU running in the browser using PNaCl. Right after PNaCl died, jslinux popped up to continue the legacy, but with even more awesomeness.
Litmus is an Elixir library built at Lob for validating user input. We use it to validate API parameters are in the correct form. If you’ve ever used something like Joi in Javascript, Litmus is similar, albeit not as feature-rich yet.