skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it me or does it feel hypocritical of the US government when it constantly cry about cyber operation from China and Russia while conducting (probably a lot more than this certain case) and leaking cyber operation of US?

Like, if everyone including yourself is knee deep and slinging mud, don't accuse other people for being dirty.
The more illuminating question is "what is the need for anonymity outside of illegal activity"?

One answer is that you might someday like to say something which some other party would have a problem with.

We might say that if you truly believe in what you're saying, the principled course would be to say your piece and let the other party be upset. But if the other party has a lot of power (for example a parent, an employer, a university, a government official, etc) they can threaten retribution for your words. If the threat is serious enough, you will likely decide not to speak.

The ability to say things anonymously removes the threat of retribution. It helps people speak who otherwise wouldn't, increasing the range of perspectives and information the rest of us have access to. This doesn't mean that it's beneficial in every single case, but on balance it's a social good - in fact, it's a necessary component of a free society.
The author doesn't really seem to understand how serious it is though.
They're not interested in bringing the inking features over? Did they fire the team or something? Is there something about their code which makes it not worth porting on to Chromium or something?
I read the book years ago in college, and that's exactly what 10k hours is about. The whole point of the book, as I recall, is that you can master anything, but being successful is a horse of an entirely different stripe
It will be / is interesting watching this cult mutate.

Currently they are taking advantage of the fact we are reasonably lax about policing protest and punishment, which we consider part of democracy.

But it can be shut down. And will be. It will be a loss to society.

Like most cults they will adapt. They might splinter and turn violent. They might start things like self-immolation.

They are forming strong emotion bonds around a issue that they consider a important part of their being. You could see perhaps IRA style commitment. But because of the lack of a past history it is easy to infiltrate, unlike religious separatist movements.

You do see a large amount of mentally ill people drawn to these cults, which is sad really.
Journalists, whistle blowers, people in oppressive countries, unjustly censored information, the government, etc.

The Navy didn't Tor for criminals, so obviously there is a use case beyond that.
As the author stated in his story: "Credit card companies also play a key role by largely refusing to grant charge-backs to people who have been roped into a subscription without their knowledge, according to Baker".

Which should have been worded: "Credit card companies are ACCOMPLICES BENEFITING IN THE CRIME by largely refusing to grant charge-backs to people who have been roped into a subscription without their knowledge, according to Baker".

Obviously the cc companies are received their cut of the loot in every charge that goes through, a percentage of the ill gotten gains . . .

From personal experience, I had a merchant account in the 90's and I discovered even then that CC companies had TEAMS of well paid lobbyists paying off politicians to allow them the privilege to keep ripping off customers like this (THAT'S THE REAL STORY).

Many business people I know have horror stories to share about their merchant accounts, these CC people are on the level of telemarketers in smoke filled boiler rooms.

If it wasn't for Facebook and the CC companies, these scammers could not perpetrate their crimes.
Uh, the point is to provide feedback about the builds, why provide feedback for something you're not using or even have installed?
This for the most part is not a question of science and so this "expert" has no greater qualification than the average person.

It's a question of morality,ethics and politics.
This. My great-grandmothers all used to bake bread in the village Backhaus once a week, and the oven temperature was always checked by baking something pizza-like, for example a crude Salzkuchen [0], which is basically a very thin Quiche, or just a flat portion of dough which was eaten without or with a cold topping. I guess that basically every culture which developed baking skills has one or multiple dishes which resemble a Pizza.

[0] http://www.ebbi-world.de/brot/salz-kuchen-stueck.jpg
>This is not good for anyone.

Except those who don't support such a strike (e.g Iran).
I mean, there's a reason why Microsoft wanted to lock the typical user behind PKI-verified Windows Store apps with extremely limited access to the raw resources of a computer.
> I now see CNN as a media outlet largely serving their interest groups. But see RT, Project Veritas, etc., as "second-order propaganda" serving their respective interest groups by selectively "exposing" targets for their political utility, not because they care about truth, it's half-truth, half-falsehoold. Meanwhile, the accusations of the mainstream media are made against them, not because they care about truth, but because their existence damaged the mainstream's own interest. It's all biases vs. biases all the way down.

Wait. "Second-order" propaganda? What's "second order" about it? This is directly how these machines work. The only remotely novel thing about Project Veritas is that it has absolutely no news credibility at all, whereas CNN, Fox and RT can and do occasionally support real journalism as well.

> Since most video footage "exposure" themselves are propaganda or hoaxes.

I've yet to see a deep fake that holds up under scrutiny at high definition. It may be a matter of time, but I'm not sure we are "there" yet.

Its also worth noting that there is actually a cool use of blockchain-like technologies here. Until such time as deep fakes can be done perfectly in real time, a certification of video being taken close to the time of an event is still a very good indicator, and pubic blockchains are one of the best ways to do this. We don't even need proof of work to make this service! Outside of a specific time horizon (which you can tune), the trust is in the historical consensus which can't realistically be altered!
I would hope the same, and I definitely don't want to remove Python2 manually!
'Soli' is one of Google's research projects. It's a radar-on-a-chip, and has nothing to do with the phone's cameras.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_ATAP#Project_Soli

It'll be interesting to see how this works once it's in the hands of consumers; the videos they were showing a few years ago looked pretty cool, but it seems like these sorts of novel user interfaces need to hit a difficult trifecta of being intuitive, reliable, and responsive.
I don't think the size of any painting can make it better. Especially if it's something a 2 year old can and will paint. As an artist myself, I've always disliked and never understood why people like modernist artworks. Picasso's best work was his early work, before he gave up on painting life. That some people think they get this crap artwork is just hilarious and just goes to show you can hock anything if you pretend it's high minded.

And your statement "Anyone can technically paint like Matisse. But they didn't." That's probably because noone wants to paint like a child and wants to be considered a good artist not a joke.

Believe me, in 1000 years no one will care about Modernist artwork.
Depends on if it’s reactionary or provocative.
I hacked 40k passwords with Python. Yours might've been one of them
Interesting reply to all the points, thank you.

On the topic of Critical Information Requirements and Mission-type orders: sure, in either military or civilian settings a manager can request information and delegate tasks, and any particular decision will end up being made at a particular level which may or may not be optimal. Perhaps NVC affects those decision levels, perhaps it doesn't; other management practices and org structure will surely have an influence. And what about deeper aspects like defining which questions are valid to ask in the first place, and which ones we want to focus on asking? I'm reminded of a recent article which said that the role of a CEO is primarily to set a culture - they aren't optimally placed even for high level strategic decisions so have to settle with generating the context in which those are made.

Are flatter hierarchies more effective as the problem space gets more complex? How does direct vs nonviolent communication style interact with all this? I wonder if anyone knows, I certainly don't.
It's per family (residing in one household).

http://customsandinternationaltradelaw.com/2013/12/13/intern...
Why do we take this dispicable genocide denier and constant apologist for any socialist government seriously?

He is clearly incredibly idiological and all his conclusions validate his idiology.

People like Milton Friedman get rosted and attacked constantly for once going Chille during a dictatorship and that 'tarnished' his reputation amoung the whole left. Chomsky has been an apologist for many horrible regimns but he is an intellectual in good standing.
What would you say those intentions are?
It's not that what you're saying is uninteresting, but the "consent" in Manufacturing Consent is a reference to the concept of the "consent of the governed."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consent_of_the_governed
>> You can see yourself as a bristle on the brushstroke of the universe and still feel insignificant.

Why is feeling insignificant bringing you down? Understand that for yourself.
Ransomware can be hard to trace, which keeps risk low, and that means criminals can afford to ask for less money. It's also a benefit to keep the ransoms small enough that people will pony up instead of getting the FBI involved.
> Private

> Soli is not a camera and doesn’t capture any visual images.

This is a privacy misconception that really needs to die (something also discussed in the W3C ambient light sensor thread recently on HN frontpage). Sensing involves privacy implications. By. Definition.
> Here are some examples of products not currently supported by Google Play In-app Billing:

> One time-payments, including peer-to-peer payments, online auctions, and donations.

Source: https://play.google.com/about/monetization-ads/
For those who don’t know already, the “10,000 hours” to attain expert-level mastery in any field or endeavor is false. The study that Malcolm Gladwell cites by Anders Ericsson only applied to violin performance, which is a narrow field that has measurable and quantifiable performance levels and hundreds of years of teaching history.

I repeat this comment almost every time because 10k is both discouraging for the beginner and sometimes falsely encouraging for the “expert” who may have put in a lot of hours but in reality has been repeating mistakes and not really improving.
There isn't really a mainstream left wing in the US. Since the times of Reagan, the right moved steadily rightward, and the left "compromised" its way towards the center.

Note for example that the mid-90s GOP health care proposal was eventually the basis for the Obama plan 20 years later, which the more recent GOP called some kind of communism.

Chomsky is left of the mainstream American "left", and it is common in that crowd to refer to the latter as center-right.
I also have perfect pitch, and it was actually an article posted here on HN that made me realize no, I'm not crazy, my perfect pitch has gone flat with age (I'm 29) and having not played violin regularly.

Me and a friend figured it out, I've pitched down from the 440 Hz standard to 428 Hz.
Yes. I've read your US gun range footage comment.

Perhaps a potential solution would be: full freedom of speech, but less freedom of the press, e.g. you can post whatever you want online until someone sues you, just like today, but media outlets should not be allowed to do the same without facing consequences.
The worst thing is that Europeans take this attitude with them when they move to USA and then enforce it everywhere. They just can't imagine somebody working remotely properly and have the need to micromanage over IM, i.e. employees getting messaged immediately when one's status switches to "away" or similar.
Murica must control how the oil flows.
I'm a detective that works exclusively on online child abuse, I regularly arrest people who have downloaded and/or distributed IIOC over Bittorrent.

The definition of IIOC is provided by the Home Office and split into three categories. Ultimately it is decided by a jury although the categorisation is rarely contested.
The idea of swapping batteries comes up from time to time, and I used to be a big fan of the idea as well. But over time, I've developed a lot of doubts. It adds a significant amount of complexity, it adds logistics challenges, and it adds significant cost.

The alternative is more chargers in more places and bigger batteries. Chargers are actually pretty cheap, especially the 50 KW chargers (or less) that work well as destination chargers at offices, hotels, restaurants, malls, grocery stores and other locations. Increases in battery capacity directly lead to vastly greater #s of miles per day with lower charge times.

Swapping just isn't necessary or economic.
Don't do anything on your work computer that is not work related. I include reading tech news and visiting Hacker News in the group of work-related tasks because it is something that I can do and get away with at work. But I never use my work laptop to do anything I would not do in the office in front of other co-workers.

If you are working remotely you should bring your personal laptop with you or at least an iPad so that you can browse the internet as you would do in the privacy of your own home.
Undercover entrepreneurs: fearful Mexican tech startups shun spotlight
He overuses the "this is obviously true; actually that is wrong" device, but it's a pretty good explanation of LP for the layman.
Expedited court hearing before a magistrate?
Sure there is. Uninstalling Edge and Chromium are the easiest ways to provide feedback. You can bet your bottom dollar that there's telemetry tied to uninstallations.
If I manage to hop the fence into a gated community, the HOA is unlikely to offer me a free house and a pool key. Unfortunately that is exactly what the west is doing now. Whether this insanity is the cause or result of the west's decline is hard to say. Probably it is both.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Strange_Death_of_Europe
> But the same process happens with social causes. Let’s say vegetarianism or the anti-fur movement

Those are not "social causes" and they do exist within the same system. Some corporation hires PR firm to redirect consumption away from expensive fur things, because it sells non-fur things and wants to get in on some of those spending money or another corporation that sells processed vegetable-based foods wants you to buy it, instead of meat and so on. There are lots of forces at play that create and support those movements, it's pretty hard to find truly honest social movements and even if some start that way they will be mostly supported by those who share the same enemies. The government itself wants to divide and marginalize people to make it easier to control them.
This was exactly my experience too, but I would gladly do remote again still. No chance of "advancement" within the company though for remotes.
The web article seems to invite feedback.
That material could also be loaded on a flash drive and sent via the mail. I suppose the USPS and flash drives should be banned.
This makes sense. You can make terrible personal decisions (ie, starting a meth habit, fighting a bear) at any intelligence level.

But to make poor decisions on a scale that affects many others, you generally need the intelligence to rise to some level of power.

(There are of course exceptions, like starting a brushfire, etc)
The "dial" gesture is incredibly subtle. Kudos to them if it works reliably.

MKBHD doesn't seem convinced in the efficacy of the sensor* from his Pixel 4 video: https://youtu.be/sKJ4i7p-o-4?t=326

* from Analemma_'s comment below, the Pixel 4 doesn't seem to be running the full blown chip
They do. I started seeing my phone not getting fully charged during the night and driving on a bumpy road would make the screen turn on and off. Took me a while to realize that a small lint ball from inside my pocket had made it into the USB C socket of my phone. It was small enough not to be overly evident. Few minutes with a toothpick and it's good as new!
>You can be a master without being successful and visa versa.

There's an awful lot of skill-less, successful people out there, more than everyone would like, I'm sure.
A lot of "woke" is BS just like most political posturing. The good parts can be boiled down to "be wary of stereotypes because aggregate statistics don't work like that and our brains are biased" and "don't be an asshole."

Corporate subservience to China just shows that corporations (shock!) care about money and (shock of all shocks!) tend to lose all spine when big money is at stake. China is both a critical supplier and a huge market.

BTW a lot of "woke capitalism" is about money too. It's about not offending potential partners and customers, making people feel good, and in the case of social media keeping platforms clear of too much offensive material to make them appealing to a wide audience.
I mean I don't think saying that the unions in the US inflate costs is too out there..

Perhaps this is just my perception, but I would say the difference is that European unions (at least northern European, can't speak to the rest of Europe) seem less inclined to engage in dodgy behaviour than their US counterparts. I'm specifically thinking about construction, ports, etc.

I mean the fact that there are people employed to literally do nothing, "because that job used to exist and must never go away" is one example of this. It's not something I've heard of happening in Europe to the same extent it seems to in the US.
Its a good think Clark Kerr helped prevent this from happening in the 60's. https://bcdc.ca.gov/planning/reports/TheSavingOfSFBay_1972.p...

This idea is dumb, we can build more tech hubs in other spaces, we don't need to destroy the gorgeous wetlands of the South Bay.
Precious few mushrooms are truly poisonous.

And I've picked and eaten A LOT of supposedly dangerous ones, as well as other plants; something I suspect most people speaking out on the subject haven't.

As a matter of fact, I just got some red amanitas out of the freezer that I picked a few days ago. I'm going to fry them in butter with onions and garlic and make a lovely shroom sandwich.

Like amanitas, liberty caps have a very distinctive look. Soak them in water for a while if at all unsure, and only eat a small amount to begin with.

The really dangerous stuff is pushed by "science" and the people who come up with this FUD to sell their artificial, truly poisonous and addictive chemical cocktails for awesome profits instead.
Advertising. There is not much published about how actual money people get on their investment in the major platforms, including online. It's not tech that "doesnt work", but it "doesnt work half the time". But since a lot of online advertising is fueled by the wave of high valuations , people seem to be fine with not knowing whether it works or not.
My personal favorite is an Elecom left-handed model:

ELECOM M-XT4DRBK Wireless Trackball mouse for Left-Handed, EX-G series L size 2.4GHz 6 buttons Black https://www.amazon.com/dp/B016QCPRBM/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_0j...

I've got one at work, one at home: very comfortable and intuitive to use.
The US government and agencies are hardly pure and innocent, but they're not disappearing people off the streets for speaking out against them, or harvesting the organs from religious dissenters while they are still alive and without anesthetic.

Horrific tragedies have occurred in the US, like Kent State. But we know the truth about Kent State. We know the number of victims. It and similar events are included in our history textbooks. I know they are - that's how I learned about them! Tiananmen Square, we don't know the truth about. We don't know how many victims there were. The estimates range from hundreds to tens of thousands. And it certainly isn't included in history textbooks in China. It's likely one of the most fatal protest crackdowns in human history, but it is censored completely in the country where it occurred.

We're just descending into whatabout-ism at this point. The US has done plenty of horrific stuff. It shouldn't. We should be upset that it has. But that doesn't absolve China, and I don't think it's clear that they're even actually on similar footing.
Number of files shared
Because he is a full on Communist. Its not that hard to understand.
I lived in an older suburb near Detroit that was a mix of single family houses and duplexes. It was fairly walkable, but that's because the houses were built on small lots with very little space between the houses. I had 2 bus lines within walking distance from my house, and I took it into work every day. In fact, I used my car so infrequently that somebody thought it was abandoned and called the city who promptly came out and issued me a move it ticket.
I think the author of the article is missing the point of the book. And assuming everyone else is missing the point of 10,000 hours of intentional practice.
Ask HN: Grandfather in old SaaS prices or not?
Throwaway here.

I run a small saas service (~600 active paid users), and am planning on increasing prices next year. I think I have pricing laid out now, but the last remaining factor is whether or not to wholesale increase the prices for everyone already on the platform, or just new customers and upgrades.

Product is developer focused, and prices increase is just under 2x.
I would guess in some positions, like those requiring clearances, that it is more important to have cleared employees there when needed than micromanaging if they are working 40 hours per week.

You wont keep most employees around for part time work, but you want to make sure if your production systems go down or customer orders need to be expedited, or an emergency patch, etc... that you have a team that knows how to do the work, can get it done fast enough and is cleared to do the work (if applicable).

In some cases it might be cheaper to have employees that might be idle a bit than to lose money on downtime. Just a guess though.
Removing left wing governments in South and Central America by any means necessary has been US policy for almost a century now. A cyber attack on infrastructure is very much on brand.
Python Sleep(): How to Add Time Delays to Your Code
> The entire point of profiling is to spend less money

This totally misses my point.
Join a Christian church.
Is that your problem? Why?
The date picker is worse as well.
Harder to determine day line from list of data. Whole thing looks like raw data before a format/style is applied, minimalism at its worst.
Harder to determine last/next months dates from picker
Why up/down for past/future instead of left/right, maybe its a cultural thing of writing from left to right but I always imagine time as moving into the future from left to right.
Today button is an improvement over the dot.
One surefire ways to know if this is true or not is to see if the government makes a big deal out of "going after the leakers" and putting them in prison for 10+ years, while telling us how the leak hurt national security and undercover operatives.
WTF Europe is waiting for ?? We have to resurrect Meego/Maemo!
> Somehow, many employers have the perception to own every minute their employees are awake.

This is increasingly true from my perspective as well. Not sure if I was willingly unaware or what.