skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Correct. It just makes them people that happen to have contacts with an especially competent spy agency.
It's probably going to supply the tech if Nigeria's social media bill passes - Death penalty for 'Hate Speech' on social media.
It would be interesting to know a few technical/regulatory details.

1- You say you're live in 8 states. Which ones?
2- Did you have to obtain 1 license per state?
3- How much time did it take to obtain each license? What it entailed? Was a prerequisite being a US citizen or being a US company?
4- are/will your employees that deal with the sales legally required to be individually licensed agents?
5- "Pricing depends on a variety of factors including policyholder location". Could you elaborate on the regulatory aspects, if any, of this?
Correct. A fire in a nice, completely unremarkable neighborhood about 40 miles east of San Francisco destroyed 4 units and made 35 people homeless. Almost 9 people to a home. And this is a solid 3-hour roundtrip commute from San Francisco or Mountain View. "Dickensian" is the word for it. Not literally, perhaps, because the housing situation in Dickens's time was even worse, but there is human misery on a broad scale.

https://www.independentnews.com/news/chestnut-street-fire-in...
The best time to have started was 3 years ago. The second best time to start is right now.

I would say to follow your passion. If it would be fun and easy for you to put together some sort of monitoring course I say go for it! I wouldn't worry about people being able to buy it on their own. I know that I could figure out how to snap together these monitoring tools, but if I can pay $8.99 for someone to do all of that research and spoonfeed me the info that is totally worth it.

In terms of expected payout, I wouldn't expect a windfall. I definitely think it would be valuable as a portfolio item, especially if you think you would enjoy a career in teaching/training. If you have a reader base from your blog/tutorials you might be able to leverage that.
Just saying, historically Han ethnicity is pretty bad at expansion and exert influence overseas otherwise WWIII would happen many years ago. Of course no one knows if that’ll change as China rises in modern age
"Getting leaders who are inspired by these huge challenges, rather than burying their heads in the sand, would be a big step in the right direction."

There are no leaders anymore. The world is being driven by a message-passing algorithm, called "the economy" (or perhaps, the political-economy.) This algorithm is one of the best AI algorithms we have, known as "belief propagation". And indeed, we have constructed wonders at its behest. But, as is typical of AI algorithms, this one does not generalize beyond a certain domain. Unless we demote this algorithm, we are very likely going to get into some serious trouble.
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> According to companies like Buffer, Gitlab, Stichfix, the answer is yes.

> Push back on these salary discounts and double down on the value you provide.

Another way to deal with this is to take advantage of the arbitrage and move to higher COL cities, yourself. You will be relieved of carrying the cost, while reaping the rewards that apparently make this place worth paying so much for. Whatever that is.

Doesn’t work for everyone, but it’s far less frustrating to deal with injustice when you can take advantage of it.

If enough people do it, companies will wise up, or get outcompeted by those who do. Until then, happy arbitrage!
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Position: Senior Software Engineer

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Email: andrew@syllable.ai

Technologies: AI/ML NLP, Python, NodeJS, React/Redux, AWS, Docker

Syllable uses a real-time machine learned NLP classifier built in house to provide automated support on the web and phone. We’re in production and working with large hospital systems.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be given autonomy and full stack ownership of projects, and be included in all aspects of product development. In addition, you will shape the technical infrastructure to support a robust system capable of handling tens of thousands of users a day.

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Speaking of one day per week, I've been thinking that I want to start that if just to do something for the climate strikes (even if it's to just one day to not be commuting).
Kind of. It's on GitHub, but not yet in the WordPress plugin archive (I want to test it more with my organisation and some friends first).

https://github.com/Academic-Labbook
Yep. I remember how at least JDBC and JWT libs were needed to rewrite using a native language (which we did until some point!). And the GraalVM has a weird API that is not JNA/JNI when you want to use the native-image. It is not very robust system for our needs, but it was a good learning experience.

What we did in the end is we rewrote parts of the system with Rust, plugged that to the JVM package and we had all our tests ready to use. First the database connectors and at the same time the other part of the team was writing the graphql parsing in Rust. We could all utilize our Scala integration tests which was crucial for our success.

And btw. we still have our tests in JVM, although the rest of the stack is Rust now.
So it's pretty much the story of the first Iron Man movie, but with malware instead of weapons.
What are they doing here? It's difficult to tell from the thing you've linked.
Not just propping up autocratic regimes, but they also infiltrate democratic countries by providing funding/support to naive and/or corrupted politicians in the West.
I'm thankful for my life with a lot awesome people in it!
Phone plans from outside don’t roam easily in China, and its super cheap to just by a local China mobile SIM, so most people don’t bother. Well, now it might be a bit more difficult, but typically foreigners just need their passports to get one.
I don’t have any special knowledge of enterprise firewalls; parent just asked how it was possible.
Was going to say that!
They are already monitoring the chat apps. If you say unseemly things, expect this: https://twitter.com/intypython/status/1200466904734785536?s=...

Edit: changed link to original source
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So how does Karma here work? Yes I am new to this place so no need to be rude and go off on me for asking questions that can't find answers to here.
I’m Fine with Flying – Mikael Colville-Andersen
>Would the authors of say nmap be liable because people can/do use it for illegal purposes?

Don't give them any ideas.
I mean, if its a bunch of very wealthy people throwing away money in civil torts, its their right to do so, I suppose. Its difficult to make a cut and dry line in the sand between a SLAPP suit versus two very motivated litigants.

Perhaps the limits should be placed on what can constitute a civil law case in the first place.
I searched for the law. They need a photo id for a new phone number to reduce phone scams. I think it is good.
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> There are other ways to success.

Absolutely. I've played with Forth many times, and enjoyed it. But when it comes to building systems that people pay to develop & maintain, I haven't found any use cases recently. No doubt there are some, but I suspect they're much less justifiable today.
This has always been true. If a poor persons bike is stolen, it's a misdemeanor. If a rich person's bike is stolen it's a felony. It's disgusting.
How do you propose we verify the transparency? I legitimately have no idea how I can verify what specifically is running on your servers.

It seems to me that the entire VPN industry has a huge inherent information asymmetry since it is incredibly difficult for an end consumer to confirm any claims a provider makes about the quality of their product. Economic theory tells us that results in a market for lemons [1]. We just end up with a bunch of low price and low quality products provided by shady companies because it simply isn't cost effective to compete against those options with a quality product whose quality can't be verified. For a technically savvy end user, you are probably better off rolling your own VPN with open source software you compile yourself rather than trusting any of these black box VPN providers.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
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I understand the business's motives.

I've been on both sides of the hiring process and to get a solid candidate into advanced stages of the interview process isn't trivial. Time is always an issue - time to screen resumes, engineering time for phone screens, for online interviews, engineering time for onsite interviews all the while continuing to release new features.

While the pool of candidates is virtually infinite, time isn't.

And so for a solid engineering candidate, that works to your advantage. So yes, push back on discounted salary requirements.

Or reach a middle-ground - offer a short term contract up front to ensure "you're a good fit for each other" and so that you can properly demonstrate your skillet. And then kill every task you're assigned.

Protect your value.
Afraid it's built from scratch, no theme available =(

It's open-source if you're curious about anything! Though it's quite messy. https://github.com/joshwcomeau/blog
Verizon TravelPass covers China for $10/day
I would gladly accept C# styled system language which has same safety and borrowing features as Rust.
i wouldn't know because i can't read through the paywall
For people who believe the marketing: why would a legitimate sysadmin tool include a cryptocurrency miner and a feature to turn off the webcam indicator light?

This was used to exploit people, plain and simple. While I don't think blanket arresting people who downloaded it is reasonable (someone may have fallen for the marketing and used it for legit reasons), shutting down the C&C servers to disable it from working and aiding in exploitation & blackmail is a net good.
Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN, and definitely not nationalistic flamebait.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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It appears to be in the early stages of development (not bootstrapped yet).
The startup i worked on was very similar to what you describe, most of us had comparable amount of shares, and we were happy to forgo our salary for multiple months when things were not going well because we knew that the result depended on the work we were doing, but there were also people who were happy to sell their work for money, and not bet the compensation they get on the work of the rest of the team. I don't think our non-technical workers would have been happy to bet the salary they were getting on the slim chance that the rest of the team would succeed eventually.

> similarly to how we don't allow you to sell your person (indenturement/slavery)

I rather like how libertarianism deals with this kind of contracts, it allows to sign any contract, but doesn't allow the buyer to apply aggressive force, to enforce the contract when seller changes his mind, that way the contract naturally changes from slavery to employment agreement.

> protect them from hostile actions against them by other corporations

Are there any hostile actions from which only some people deserve to be protected?

> capitalists will not go down without at least a political fight

i am not a capitalist, but i will side with them because knowing history of my country i can see that everything good i have is in large part thanks to them, and it's better to work with them to bring everyone up, instead of trying to bring them down.
Also yew. It's more web focussed, but it works great running in a WebView for a local application with RPC to a background server running locally.

https://github.com/yewstack/yew
Lol, yes, I could do any of those things if I chose to do so.. Should ssh be illegal? Or shall we stick with the principal that "commiting crimes" is illegal, not "producing tools that can be used to commit a crime"?

For what it's worth: "methods to disable the camera LED" was not a feature, that functionality was provided by an external plugin.
They will fail, but not without lots of damage to the world and themselves. All thanks to Xi Jinping's expansionist ambition.
Central planned economy didn't work traditionally because it is so difficult to get all the information to make plans. It was too slow to adapt. I think with the age of AI and IoT, it may actually is the time for central planning to shine.
Without agreeing or disagreeing with them, we should accept that people have said exactly the same things about the USA, about the Soviet Union, about Russia, about Britain... And on and on.

I am not trying to play “whatabout,” but I do ask: Is there anything different about China’s behaviour as a superpower? Or are we just seeing a shift in which superpowers have world influence?

At the moment I write this, the front page of HN has an article about China and facial recognition... But also an article about US schools monitoring student emails.

Which seems to me like training a generation of citizens to understand that they live in a prison without walls.
Random observations on the garage photo.

Nice collection of floppies (3.5" and 5.25"). I wonder how long floppies stored in a garage actually remain usable?

The cans that say "RePop" and BSW on them are microphone pop filters from Broadcast Supply World. For podcasting?

On the shelf below the floppy shelf looks like some kind of tape drive, and maybe those are tape cartridges to the left of it?

Is that a couple of motherboards in anti-static bags on top of the tape drive?

What is the box to the right of that? It kind of looks like an adjustable DC power supply, common in electronics labs, except I don't see any terminals on front...unless those two round things on the lower right are jacks? But the jacks are usually black and red, and I can't see any color there in the photo.

Based on the box colors, the top box of Coke is twisted mango diet Coke, which was introduced in early 2018, putting an upper limit on the age of the photo.

There is some kind of tablet with pen on the desk. Anyone recognize what kind it is?

That's a lot of pens. They should have bought 3 or 4 fewer pens (which would hardly even be noticed) and used the money for a taller jar.

Interesting file cabinet. What applications is that style of file cabinet designed for? I don't think I've seen one with so many horizontal draws that are that short before.

I can't recognize anything on the keychain sitting on the desk (well...anything other than keys I mean).
Sometimes one has to understand intermediate economics ....

For instance, in cases of inelastic demand and low liquidity (like housing), if prices are pegged at a maximum that buyers can pay, the actual equilibrium price could be much higher. In that case, a small amount of extra supply will not lower prices.
All: if you comment in this thread, make sure your comments are substantive and that they stay off the nationalistic indignation track. That is all too easy to fall into, and it's off topic here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sure, but fail "circuit open", not closed.
The Johanniter are not really a branch, they are a protestant offshoot. Also, they are really young, founded in 1952.

There is also the Malteser in Germany, and that's the real branch.
People who worked at Docker, Joyent, and Sun would be the ones to answer your question :). Consider the possibility that the kernel and the h/w are increasingly at odds on commodity server hardware.
The Rust code is here: https://github.com/prisma/prisma-engine/

And the old Scala codebase here: https://github.com/prisma/prisma/

The old codebase has parts in Rust, so counting the lines is not that straightforward.
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If wealthy are impacted by a crime in the same way as poor people, suddenly coming up with solutions becomes important.
This is simply false. First, "base load" powerplants are actually the most troublesome, because they don't adjust for load and predicting base load is actually hard (except when you just use a very small fraction of overall load). Second if you have a large grid (like the US) that is connected (and modern,) you could run the whole grid of variable loads like wind. This would require investment into the grid which nobody seems to want to do. However the technology is there
I can think of another superpower that’s been propping up “democratic” regimes across the world, not hypothetically, but for decades.

(Apparently dang won’t like this comment, and rightly so, so this will be my last comment on this thread.)
"Any company that openly advertises remote work as a benefit is going to discount your salary."

I have been working and hiring remotely for years, and that is generally false.

First, if I have a perk, I will list it. It is a competitive market for talent. This is just another tool at my disposal. Would you say that about "unlimited time off" or "generous benefits" being advertised in job posting? The same pool of money pays salaries as team outings and office beer taps, catered lunches, and other perks. On a basic level everything is zero sum.

Second, as for your "across the river" example, to the extent that actually happens, that view is a bit SV-centric. For talent that wants to avoid overpriced homes and soul destroying commutes, their frame of reference is local salaries that are guided by local costs of living. As a prospective remote, I don't care if you pay +20% in SFC. I am in another place, and if you can outbid my next best offer by 10% I win.

Definitely everyone should negotiate and be aware of salaries in NYC, SFC, Seattle, and DC.
The ORM has been essentially unusable from my perspective since day 1
Bad analogy in the UK where handguns are entirely illegal and all other firearms are subject to licensing.
Like with the last leak a few days ago, I repeat my point: I also blame ES for this as it doesn't enforce authentication. ES people just keep blaming the people who set up those instances ("well duh it should not be facing the public internet") but after we see incident after incident, as a reasonable dev you should try to do your part to make the world a better place. Yes, you were not the one who set up the instance personally, but is it so hard to move a little bit in the direction of "hey a lot of personal information of uninvolved people gets leaked over and over again because of our defaults that stupid admins don't change. Maybe to protect the innocent, we can make ES to require some authentication method to be configured."

Nope. No such thing, no empathy for the people affected by the leaks, all blame shifted, done.
Are we any different? I want to think so but drivers licenses and passports are scanned photos. The California DMV even sells this information.
Is there a lesson to be derived here or is it just to point out that oftentimes the thing that gains traction in the end isn't what they were originally working on? If there is a lesson, what would it be? Just work on anything to get your head in the game and into the mindset of solving problems? I can see how people overvalue the original idea, but it matters to some degree, no?
That'd be a big no friend, since 80% of America's population lives in urban centers.

It's a strictly factual viewpoint that you want to distort to fit your lens which is quite clearly in favor of your (likely) minority (rural) freeloading* living situation.

America has by far and away the cheapest/easiest country to buy a home in general.

* Most people who live in rural areas are subsidized in huge amounts by the government for things like telephone access, electricity, and roads. They says they "only rely on themselves" but it's bullshit.
Don't think that everything will be successful. Just accept everything that happens with gratitude. Happiness is not around you, happiness is inside you.
So much as I can tell, it’s a horribly editorialized clickbait title that probably wouldn’t hold up against a libel lawsuit if it weren’t a foreign country that was the subject (not that actually systematically trying to rape or impregnate Uighur women is beyond the CCP, though) covering a year-old story, behind a paywall at that.

Better link:

Uninvited guests keep watch for China inside Uighur homes.

More than a million local government workers have been deployed to ethnic minorities' homes to monitor their behaviour.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/11/uninvited-guests-watc...

Edit: for posterity, the title at the time of this comment was CCP sends 1.1M members to sleep with Uigher women