skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before people start shooting the messenger (Project Veritas a.k.a PV), I highly recommend watching congressional testimony [1], [2] by Google lawyers & employees where, under oath, they've confirmed materials from P.V. leaks to be accurate.

Google's only defense in the testimonies was that seemingly partisan actions weren't company policy, but actions of a few individuals. That line of defense fails to hold muster when said actions repeat like clockwork.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX6LlEcJ4nw

[2]: https://youtu.be/zIniYSkAWo0?t=5074
Russia buries scientists after “likely” test of nuclear-powered missile
> Amazon exerts control over the product’s sale price, by dynamically pricing products to make sure Amazon’s prices are lowest.

I believe their automatic pricing checking engine only bothers to go to work when it notices a sudden drop in sales of a product. Otherwise, their 'dynamic' pricing seems to try to increase the price as often as possible!
Are you redirecting all the ingredient shipments from the restaurants and factories to the grocery stores?

If yes then the supply side of things is perfectly fine. Stores shelves might be low for a few days from the rush, but that will be over very quickly. All the interesting stuff is out of scope.

If no then I don't think the scenerio says anything useful about the places people eat. You're just deleting a chunk of the food supply, and you would cause similar problems no matter what random chunk you deleted. Even if it wasn't particularly big. So the scenario tells you nothing about whether any kinds of food are too popular. It just says that a sudden cut to the food supply is bad.
We do have case studies, but they are bad in the case of presentation. We are a small team so when we decided to keep our analytics internal facing, we didn't spend anytime producing marketing materials or prospectuses.

So, most of the case studies are loss values printed onto our engineer's console or .png graphs showing our walk forward predictions outputted from our engineer's notebook.

If you'd like I can dig through our slack channel to find some stuff for you. I'll check back in later to see If I can find something more presentable as well.
I know one landlord who rented several buildings to them and he understands the risks perfectly, but says the price per sq/ft he's getting paid is so good that even if they blow up within 3 years it's still a great deal.
startup without VC in SF, is this still possible these days?

bootstrapping can happen anywhere but not in SF these days in my opinion due to cost associated, It used to be a startup in your garage, nowadays it's called lean-startup with remote peers(sometimes overseas to save costs further)
People keep missing the rate. The effective annual rate of the loan is 2% because you don’t get the full amount payed out/ the principle is higher than the loaned amount.

This is effectively saying that someone is willing to loan you 1mil, and pay you negative interest on a loan of 1.1mil as long as you pay a fixed payback per month.
So end of line you still payed more than you got, but every month instead of paying a bit more than your fixed payback, it’s slightly lower. Bank still makes money selling you the loan, investors still get more money back than they invest. Only thing noteworthy is that some of the math that used to be related to the fixed monthly positive interest is now covered by the upfront rate of getting the loan.
Now we are stuck with Facebook, a closed platform. Or Reddit, which masquerades as an open platform, but is really closed shut.

There's only Twitter now. And Twitter kind of sucks.
Google has just become "The Internet" on the internet. Youtube is what the internet was. Tumblr is what the internet was. Facebook is what the internet was.

All those together are "The new internet" which is really just the new main stream media. We grew up with ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS. Now it's facebook, twitter, and youtube. Those new internet bootstrapped itself off the hopes and dreams of individual content creators and now that they are big enough, they are disregarding the individual and moving back toward the "mass brain" corporations.

20 years ago, the internet was the dream that now individuals could create and have as much visibility as big corporations. It was liberating. It was democratizing!

But the internet has gone the way of the airwaves and sadly, the content has too -- for the most part. Yes, there's still good content out there, but if ABC, CBS, and NBC won't show it to you, you have to work harder as a consumer to find it. Like at the library or from your friends and family, or idk, ddg?

We need a search engine that refuses to index any content with Google Ads on it. Or any ad network on it.

We need to actively disengage from anything associated with Google.
> Actually you can 3-D print a set of TSA keys now.

Unless that repo is backdoored and the code has been altered.
You are dancing perilously close to what-aboutism, though. The context of American slavery within global and historical slavery is an important topic, but within this context, it sounds like an attempt to minimize the effect and power of American slavery.
To learn how to deal with the security catastrophe that is hosting your own stuff. Just putting your things on other people's servers doesn't necessarily make it secure.
I suppose other search engines index YouTube all the time and they don't explicitly disallow it:

https://www.youtube.com/robots.txt
> every movie star

Is SAG-AFTRA prominent outside of the US?
Get the Ether Balance for an Ethereum Address with Web3.js
Great tool! Very useful.
- Normally as in almost everywhere in the world (apart from a few places like Sweden I think?)

- Buying a house is not a living expense, it is a capital investment. This is the reason why statisticians either only include rents (e.g. the EU Eurostat) or replicate the housing costs of owner-occupiers with an “owners equivalent rent” (the US BLS does this).

- Housing might be 30% or more of CPI in the US but none of it is house prices for the reason above. Most of it is rents and owners equivalent rent, some of it is furnishing costs, some of it is utility tariffs, some of it is costs of repairs and maintenance.
WiFi4EU – Free Public Wi-Fi for All Europeans
1TB is 3hrs/day of the highest-bandwidth 4K streaming Netflix at 25Mbps. The other streamers ask for even lower bitrate.
This focuses on hiring channels - but wouldn't an economist recommend competing on salary/equity or other benefits? Why isn't that a part of the strategy in such a competitive labor market?
UK Ad Watchdog Upholds Complaints Against 'Misleading' BitMEX Advert
To be fair, under the "Remote" section, they really are talking about outsourcing to a remote dev shop, not about remote full time employees.

I understand the benefits of having a fully co-located team, however in this article they did not address fulltime remote employees.

I currently work as a fulltime remote employee for a startup with a similar team size, and we are able to iterate rapidly on product.
What I like about being a developer at GDS (UK Government Digital Service)
'Punch in the gut' as scientists find micro plastic in Arctic ice
CVE-2019-1182: https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/ad...

Slightly more technical information from Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/dejablue-windows-bugs-worm-rdp/

TL;DR: Remote Code Execution via RDP on all windows versions, including 7 and 10.

Wired Quote:

> "Microsoft today warned Windows users of seven new vulnerabilities in Windows that, like BlueKeep, can be exploited via RDP, a tool that lets administrators connect to other computers in a network. Of those seven bugs, Microsoft's advisory emphasized that two are particularly serious; like BlueKeep, they could be used to code an automated worm that jumps from machine to machine, potentially infecting millions of computers."

> "Unlike BlueKeep, however, the new bugs—half-jokingly named DejaBlue by security researchers tracking it—don't merely affect Windows 7 and earlier, as the earlier RDP vulnerability did. Instead, it affects Windows 7 and beyond, including all recent versions of the operating system."
This loans effective cost is above inflation. Inflation is in the 1-2% range and this is net at 2.1%
There’s no free money just flashy marketing.
Client-side encryption is security theatre. If clients encrypt the password, then an attacker can send a log-scraped hash just as easily as a plaintext one. If anything, the faults (like the one above) would still exist and just become harder to spot.
No information can be conveyed by the wavefront and so nothing is actually moving than the speed of light. What you diagrammed is called the Lighthouse Paradox:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthouse_paradox

There are similar things that appear to exceed the speed of light:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light

See "group" and "phase" velocities for similar things to the lighthouse.
Nope: Remote code execution via RDP - https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/ad...
In pre-colonial America, many indigenous people of the Americas treated one another the same way along tribal boundaries. The pre-colonial Americas had slavey, war, fighting for territory, etc.

This is what humans do.
There was another post about a dump of google documents that PV posted today. It was removed within minutes. The rush to discredit makes me believe this all the more.
There is a typo on the landing page.

StoryTime enables developers to easily simulate a debugger-like visuals to tell or read a story about pieces of code.

There shouldn't be an "a" in front of debugger-like.
Here's a simpler version:

Lisp has mutable variables. Lambda calculus doesn't.
PowerPoint is worse than useless or all presentation software is worse than useless?

The argument seems to apply to the entire category of software; it appears unnecessary to single out or even mention PowerPoint at all.

It's just a name drop to provoke sensationalism in people who ignorantly refer to all sodas as Coke or all meat as chicken?
It is possible to pay with credit card (which also takes %).
Some nicely sleep 8+ hours a night before they're 12 weeks old, and then decide to kick this nice habit after 6 months.
I used to sell auto accessories in my spare time (around 5 years ago). I used both eBay and Amazon, but left Amazon.

First, Amazon's fees were higher (not sure if that's still the case). When you're selling low margin items, like I was, it was nearly not worth it. Second, the way I was grouped with similar sellers was madness. I had multiple returns because my item didn't match the picture. Well, considering Amazon used someone else's image and description on the listing, that makes sense.

eBay was many times better for selling items. I was able to use my images, customize descriptions, and ultimately pay less fees.
they weren't good culture fits
I get the concept, but the aural result is going to be quite boring because the timbral content is so limited. It can be achieved through simple additive synthesis with a handful of sine waves.
Hurricane and Earthquake Scales Often Confuse People – Why That's Dangerous
>So in a hyperinflation scenario, money could be losing value faster than the negative interest rate, so you're basically paying someone else to take on that risk/loss.

No, that still wouldn't favor this kind of lending, because the contract is specified in nominal terms, so you end up with less, even in that sense; it would always make more sense to buy something that holds its real value.

Now, if you were paying someone $1 to give you a can of tuna in a year, when tuna cans currently sell for $0.99, that might make sense in hyperinflation, because you'll get one tuna can worth of real value then, which you could legitimately value more than the dollar today.

But that's not what's happening here. They're paying $1 for $0.99 a year later. [1] There are very few scenarios where that makes sense, and especially not hyperinflation, where the $0.99 will only buy a hundredth of a can of tuna in a year.

[1] Not that specific ratio, just using those figures to keep the example simple.
If we lived in a lawful society, your argument would have some merit. Unfortunately in the case of the USA, agents of the state can literally throw hand grenades into the cribs of sleeping toddlers and face no consequences. We need to minimize the power of the state to harm the people, weakening encryption does not do that.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ex-georgia-deputy-acqui...
> Access to the internet is a privilege, not a right

How can you say this in a time when the president's primary mean of communication to the people is through twitter?

I mean, sure, the constitution doesn't say anything about newspapers too. Is the ability to buy newspaper a privilege? How about the ability to write words on a cardboard?
Thanks. There is step forward / backward icons next to play. Maybe should just kill play?
Interesting. You noticed that too huh?
Buzzfeed is not bound by HIPAA, because they are not medical personnel nor a medical institution.
They prefer inexperienced, 'cheap' workforce ;)

Joking obviously! I now a great dev under 30s! Not me...
Isn't that more about the solvents that are used when manufacturing them? I would expect them to be gone by the time they turn to such small particles
If you identify it with that trademark, ok, maybe that's new to me but seems plausible. You can sell it without mentioning the trademark though.
> Remote Hires

> When it was difficult to hire, we considered outsourcing engineering work to an external dev shop.

Outsourcing and remote hires are two completely different things.
“To better connect people” is the Orwellian horseshit phrase of the week.
“We spent less than $1,000 on hiring

And “I’ve had coffees or breakfasts with probably hundreds of candidates”

The real cost is over $1,000 unless the value of your time is $0.

Also, as someone else commented. So out of hundreds you interviewed, it doesn’t appear that anyone over 30 was hired. What did the age breakdown look like? Ageism does exist in tech.
Even the highest-bitrate 4K streaming takes 90hours/month.

If you have a family of screen-locked people never leaving home and constantly consuming more input that their senses can possibly absorb, maybe it's OK to pay a little more than 95-99% of households do?

Even if the per-person usage is normla or healthy, why should my sigle-person usage subsidize your 4-person usage?

> Or, just wait 5 more years.

When caps are higher? Comcat has been raising caps over time, from 300GB/month to 1TB/month so far.

> Netflix defaults to 4K for nearly all content.

Why would Netflix do that? It is epensive for them for 0 value for 95+% of consumers who have neiether the TVs nor the living rooms nor the eyes nor the content information to perceive 4K content.
>It's almost impossible to use hashes for fingerprints with COTS scanners

No, really, any source on that?
Would you work in a company with no one older than 30?
Huawei Employees Aided African Govts in Spying
>In both the real and hypothetical cases, the reduced demand for one material should result in an increased price for the other material, since the price of producing a cow is independent of the sale price of its byproducts. This would eventually reduce demand of the popular product (to a degree depending on how elastic its demand is)

Strictly speaking this is a reduction (left-shift) in supply of beef, which results in lower quantity demanded as the equilibrium moves left along the static demand curve (as you said, in degree corresponding to its elasticity).

Interestingly I can't think of a word for that sort of positive cross-price elasticity of supply, despite cross-price elasticity of demand being an Econ 101 topic (substitute/complementary goods). Here's a neat writeup on the dearth of attention given to that concept: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0f78/7d112ad2bd54ee6e604af6...
Hate to say it, but what do you mean by "stuck"? Stuck in what way?
A QC is Queen’s Council[1]

Actually your definition is not that dissimilar to what we’d understand too. I think it’s not too different to white collar vs blue collar. Attitude to education fits in there somewhere too.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen's_Counsel
Meh, that's like saying you shouldn't be in charge of business decisions, your customers should be.

Advertisers can react to Google's decisions by taking their business elsewhere, but it's up to Google to decide what does and does not make them money and to not engage in what doesn't.
WSJ: Huawei Staff Help Governments to Spy on People [video]
Yeah, I don't think this is an effective way to improve worker productivity, and I think it would also be pretty demoralizing.

With that said, there's already companies that track workers like this, so I definitely think there's a market for it.
It's actually very clever I think. I know exactly what it does, but I have had a hard time explaining it to people who don't know about analog gain, noise floor and such things.

I usually resort to "high ISO makes your camera more sensitive in low light, but the images get smudgy if on too high an ISO".
>it's an almost unrelated subject.

it is like insisting on discussing climate in one given country without referencing global climate context.

How slavery in America is embedded in the global slavery history is important because it makes it almost [relatively speaking of course] non-event having slavery in 16xx when everybody was having it (after all it was the dark times when witches were still being burned for example), while it underscores and highlights the fact that it took Civil War that late in the game to enforce the abolishment (comparison to Britain is especially informative considering that slavery in America started as slavery in British colonies) and the racism has been still reverberating into our days - through Jim Crow to War On Drugs and Povetry and prison inmates slave labor (btw, curious development after those ICE raids on the chicken plants - inmates seems to be replacing the arrested and scared away immigrants. Again make sense to compare to other developed countries on the issues of racism and the treatment of inmates and illegal immigration ).
Problem: What does it takes to hire 10 employees in San Francisco?

Solution: Don't hire in San Francisco.

And not limiting your hiring pool to hip millennials could also help.
The government might also have a lot of trouble finding programmers that have never done any illegal drugs, which probably doesn't help. Although that might only really be something the three letter agencies care about, I'm not sure.
mmm.. bad wording by calling people with mental health issues 'unusual' I agree. That's not going to make someone suffering feel better by being told they're not "normal"....who is normal anyway? Everyone appears normal until you get to know them.
ya, starting to think play is more distracting than helping.
It's a valid thing to complain about - same as we complain about the world's great polluters despite being way up there ourselves. The means and opportunity to say "hey, this isn't fair" is something not everyone has, and I think, since we can, we should.
This sounds outrageous. Would be awesome if that video is going to end up on yt.
I've never gotten a reply like this on the internet in my life and it's such a nice thing to receive! Thanks for that!

I actually appreciated the response because it made me rethink my assumptions. But I also appreciate this note.
Maybe that’s why they’re outsourcing a bulk of their work.
I don't think they had any applicants over 25 by the pictures. Funny how that works out. Probably not a culture fit.
This is happening all over American society
Howler Monkeys of Tikal
I see this as fundamentally un-American. To quote Benjamin Franklin

* Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.*

Additionally I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding, or lack of understanding, of Pareto[0] and fundamental statistics. At this point we are scraping the bottom of the barrel for safety. We are in the safest time in world history. We are in one of the safest times in American history too^. Certainly in the last couple decades. Yet for some reason we are treating issues of safety as if they are worse than the 90's. And if we can make a statement that is only 99% secure then we're pretty much screwed. 1% of attacks/opponents/people being protected (whatever that measurement of "threats" means) is really low. If it's attacks, well give it a few minutes (that'd be consistent with previous back door implementations). If it's opponents, then really anyone we actually care about is going to happen access (there are far more than 100 countries with computers). If it's people being protected, well there are 350m Americans. That leaves 3m Americans vulnerable. Any of these cases are unacceptably low and I'd argue actually set us back.

The other thing is that even implementing mass surveillance wouldn't help us. In many ways it has more potential to harm us. Like many in the thread have said, it isn't just personal privacy at hand. Politicians, high profile business people, etc can easily be blackmailed. It doesn't even have to be some kink (as others have suggested). Just something like sending nudes to a partner or a charged joke that is taken out of context (how many of you have dark humor or use jokes to illustrate a point?). Nation States will definitely gain access to these backdoors. It's highly likely hackers will as well. Additionally everyone does have something to hide. Banking passwords, sensitive information, personal thoughts and feelings^^.

So we are going to give up a fair amount of liberty for a minute amount of security? (Possibly negative security!) This does not sound like a good deal for anyone involved. I don't think it even helps law enforcement. They already can't handle the information that they have. We've seen that with data they have, or could easily obtain, that things are obvious in post hoc (like someone on 4chan saying they are going to shoot up a school).

How does this help us as American people? That needs to be honestly answered. Otherwise all I see this as a ploy on fear and overreach. We used to fear Big Brother. I'm not sure why or how we have come to embrace him.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle

^ the issues at hand I do not believe would be solved in any way by monitoring because monitoring does not fix the root causes, which are clearly solvable.

^^ lack of being able to share these will only increase our problems.
You're quoting statements that aren't there. Why? Was the parent comment edited?
But that's just an artifact of the available resources. There is no law that prevents you from putting a better lock on your home or even hiring armed guards to protect your residence. Are you arguing there ought to be?
When Daniel Bernstein sued the government, he settled the question over whether code is protected by 1A. It is. Publishing cryptographic algorithms, publishing ciphertext, and privately recording ciphertext are all constitutionally protected rights. Given the right circumstances the government may search your property to recover that ciphertext, or intercept it in some way, but if they are unable to find the keys, you also have a constitutionally protected right to not provide them.

If you think the government should have the right to regulate speech via ciphertext, then that would require a constitutional amendment.
Yes. But in one case its anti-competitive and trying to stifle a free market. In the other its trying to foster a freer market. Thus the different views on each on HN, every day and for good reason.