skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Individual bots in a botnet usually don't have their own credit cards.
I think a third more plausible answer is that the companies in question are simply sending ultra cheap junk to random addresses in the USA as a way to pad their perceived business. This has been going on for years.

see:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fake-orders-brush-up-online-sal...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2019/10/25/american...
True.

The tech employees of these corporations are aware and enjoy the profits. When do we start holding them accountable.
The disconnect is that we disagree on how to establish causation. I follow what I believe to be the generally accepted standard that when dealing with only two people, it’s not valid to assume that medical intervention x, later followed by health status y is not enough to establish that x causes y. It appears you do think that’s a valid way to establish causation, hence we disagree.
Yeah, active Pinboard user as well, coming from del.icio.us a number of years ago. Have 35,549 bookmarks in Pinboard as of right now, will almost certainly be a bit higher by the end of the day. Definitely a personal knowledge repository. I can't tell you how many times I'll be talking to someone and say, "You know, I read an article about that a few months back... let me send you the link" - really useful. I also like when I save a really good link and see that others have linked it too, and then I can explore what else those folks have bookmarked with that same tag; it's a great way to find other high-quality pages. Kind of "social bookmarking" :)
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There was a local district election in November, in which the pro-Democracy party won. Do you believe that those election results are real or not?
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Were the armed guards there to keep the western trains from stopping or for keeping easterners from escaping via the tunnels?
Ford to use Boston Dynamics’ dog-like robots to map their facilities
I'm ramen profitable at this point. Sales are increasing each month. And yes, one person operation. There are only a few players in this market, and their solutions cost upwards of $500 per license, plus yearly support/maintenance. Right now I'm selling licenses for $47.99 one-time. In other words, there is some room to increase the price of my product, or move to a different monetization strategy. The low price today helps me get users/feedback.

I'll sell my 1000th license sometime before the end of the year. There's a lot of interesting roads to take... for example, I could become more serious about selling a bundled solution where I'm the only label printer distributor to own their own inexpensive software. Or maybe move to cloud? Or a portion of the functionality to the cloud. Or start targeting mobile/tablet more seriously. I don't know, yet... the future seems bright.
I hate to defend someone who unironically wrote "read the room", but breaking up the big tech firms is also hugely popular: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/18/20870938/b...

Everybody hates congress and loves their congressman, everybody hates 'regulation' but strongly supports some forms of it.
> To me, again as an outside observer, it feels so counter-intuitive to _invent_ a new type of matter you can't observe than to just say that your calculation is close but not right and to start over. Is it not a crutch?

Physicist here. If you're doing applied physics or engineering, this certainly would be a crutch. But when we're talking about fundamental physics, talking about new kinds of matter that nobody has seen before is not a crutch -- it's literally the core thing we do. That's what makes it fundamental!

Saw a track in the bubble chamber curving the wrong way? Invent a new kind of matter: antimatter.

Saw short-lived particles in the bubble chamber that shouldn't have made it there? Invent a new kind of matter: mesons that decay into the observed particles.

Problems with getting solar reactions to work out right? Invent a new kind of matter: neutrinos.

Amount of neutrinos detected not quite right? Invent multiple neutrinos and neutrino oscillations.

Saw some weird long-lived particles? Invent a new kind of matter: "strange" mesons and baryons.

Want to explain the pattern of mesons and baryons? Invent a new particle: "quarks", along with the stipulation that they can never be observed, even in principle.

Standard Model seems a little off-balance at this point? Invent a new particle: "charm" quarks to balance out the strange ones, at an energy high enough that nobody has seen them yet.

But the mesons and hadron patterns still aren't consistent with the Pauli exclusion principle! Invent a new force: color charge, carried by "gluons", which are also postulated to be unobservable.

Some particular meson and baryon decays acting weird? Invent a new force: the weak force, carried by "weak bosons", which are too heavy to be observable at the time.

Can't get the weak bosons to have mass? Invent a new interaction, the Higgs interaction, carried by an invented new field, the Higgs field, which gets a vev from an invented new function, the Higgs potential, whose elementary excitations are an invented new particle, the Higgs boson.

Of course, not every weird thing is explained by a new type of matter; many anomalies fade away after careful checking. But the anomalous observations that motivate dark matter persisted for almost a century, they're been only building in strength as we get more data, and all attempts we've made to explain them in terms of "normal" physics have failed. So the case for explaining it in terms of something new is at least as strong, in fact far stronger, than the examples I gave above.
Yes, they do a lot, but not at the moment of, or as part of, processing a transaction. What work do they do specifically for a transaction so that they get to keep 30% of it?
Or maybe BBC thinks it's readers are more familiar with the size of a football (as in soccer, of course) than the size of a basketball (although they are the same, but someone who doesn't know the size of a basketball wouldn't, of course)
How does that apply? In hypothetical this thread has been discussing nobody is damaging the contractual relationship itself nor is anybody preventing either company from fulfilling their contractual obligations. In fact, it's the strength and continued operation of the contractual relationship that would cause the economic harm. I don't think tortious interference applies here.
Sure, that's why I said "if" - if they don't have a public presence then give them a test.

But frankly I don't really buy that excuse. Those people have time for multiple coding tests but they don't have time for a (small) public project? Ehhh. Not convinced. If you can get away with no portfolio to begin with then you're not going to be inclined to accept coding assignments.
You've completely missed my point. It's not about being perfect. I want to work with people who leave code better than they found it but I can't expect perfection. I don't care if they can't find all the typos. I'm sure most software has typos.

Whiteboardimg a solution to n=np or building full applications is crazy and not realistic. Most interviews do that yet most work is fixing bugs and adding mundane features. Why can't interviews focus on the actual skills needed?
Instagram ads are better but TikTok is way more entertaining to me. I almost always get a chuckle or even a laugh every time I use TikTok, last time I opened Instagram all I got was boring food pictures, pictures of dogs and a friend's family picture...
You missed all the nuance. I have heard that argument thousands of times and i disagree with it. What I'm saying here is that long term, wider surveillance implications are the threat and they're happening in all countries. A random Chinese data mining app is irrelevant and individuals are still safe to use it. Probably only matters to people here because of the country of origin, and not the broader implications, otherwise we'd have this discussion about Linkedin too.
Most likely, but the fees are more like 30p + 2.9% (atleast in the UK, on PayPal) or something similar, which on a 99p app would be 30%, but on a $15 app it's obviously nowhere near 30%.
They do silently truncate account passwords greater than 32 characters, but what's (arguably?) worse is they only do it in some places and not others.

I use 1Password and sometimes when it pastes in it works, sometimes the UI complains the password is longer than 32 characters.

I sent them a screen shot on Twitter [0] figuring their US support people would see it, but they didn't seem to care that much (got some generic response).

We just shouldn't be using them: https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/06/13/zoom-in-china.html

[0]: https://twitter.com/zachalberico/status/1257910514966908933
I may have been misled, but here's my source:

> "Nintendo Switch is powered by the performance of the custom Tegra processor."

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/10/20/nintendo-switch/
To further that point, the current global trade regime is essentially US-style capitalism writ large. Individual countries don't play that way -- state owned CCP corps in China, for example -- but the US is the bulkwark of the system.

If the US dollar totally fails it means the global economic system is in upheaval, and if that happens I'd rather have reserves of water, salt, seeds, and ammo...
Perhaps they have accepted that consumers will not notice the DRM encumbrance, and are selling to libraries? The post mentions libraries quite a bit, although I'm not clear about the relevant licensing terms when audiobooks are sold to libraries.
I don't believe Redox fits the bill for this--so far, the kernel is only written to support x86 architectures at the moment. I do think there's been a couple of Redox Summer of Code students who have been funded to work on porting it to ARM over the last couple of years, although I don't think they've pushed it over the goal line.

The BDFL seems to mainly work on x86 (he's at System76, and I don't think they have any ARM offerings at the moment), so not sure how much of a priority that is at the moment.
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Shocking that a regime in which, "the communist leaders of the Soviet Union were responsible for no fewer than 15 million deaths." could be painted in a bad light.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_...
Imagine what proponents to heliocentrism such as Galileo had to face explaining their theory and how it explain a simplified elliptic orbit for the planets rather than the strange curly orbits known by geocentrists.

They'd be confronted with basic question from the audience: Why would things fall down if it was not the center? (That was before Newton) Wouldn't we see paralax in the stars (stars are much further away than what was believed at the time). Wouldn't we feel it if earth turns so fast? "Maybe that explains the tides" said Galileo (but it doesn't)

The previous model was also explaining the observations quite well at the time. Why should we care for another theory? (God works in mysterious ways.)

I'm not saying that MOND is correct. ("they also laughed at Bozo the Clown".) Just that the fact that there are some unexplained missing piece does not mean one should reject it so quickly.
I believe the article originally posted is referring to TikTok’s valuation as a standalone product, should it be spun off. Whereas the link you posted is about the valuation of parent company ByteDance.
The only reason we have mass surveillance is because we don’t have a way to surveil only those who should be surveilled. But I agree, once there’s a way to do so, mass surveillance will end in favor of highly targeted surveillance.
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No, I don't believe it would apply. Tortious interference is when you interfere with the contractual relationship itself. In this case the continued obligations is what would drive the economic harm, thus tortious interference wouldn't apply.
It's actually quite easy to strip the DRM on Audible using ffmpeg - which I do to keep an archive of all my purchases.

There's a script on github to get the encryption key for your account by letting it sign in for you.

Then from there it's easy to get ffmpeg to turn the DRM aac to a mp3
I think that the size and activity of it made for the vibrancy however that size also is antagonistic to his goals, which is to charge for it.
I think webs is more palatable than chains.
Since the acquisition I think LinkedIn is just starting to make moves towards even using Azure.
Bytedance is the parent company. It has apps other than TikTok. Douyin, basically the Chinese version of TikTok is one. Toutiao, a news aggregator, is another.
The Hang Seng Index isn't new. The Hang Seng Tech Index is, but I don't think it contains any companies not part of the broader Hang Seng Index. I have no idea how that is supposed to demonstrate the power of the CCP.
I see stories like this constantly:

https://www.wsmv.com/news/mt-juliet-man-says-even-with-no-te...

It's sometimes someone driving to a testing site and then leaving the line. If that's true and they're not rechecking your personal information at the swab, it's unsettling because then everyone's results are now off-by-one (or more).

There are other cases where people have been told they have COVID after never even having been in line for a test. Not that they might have it via contact tracing, but that they tested positive from a test they never took (or got in line for).

Not to mention there was the cast of a Goat and an Orange testing positive in Tanzania:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/coronavirus-...

What is going on with these tests?
I suspect that poll is skewed because of wording. If you ask people if they want more or less of something vague (govt, regulation, etc.) you're baking their preconceptions into the poll.

Some people see "more regulation" as restrictions to abortion, while others see it as less.

A better poll for this context would ask directly about breaking up or regulating Big Tech, which is very popular[1].

1. https://thehill.com/policy/technology/456221-majority-suppor...
Those P/E numbers clearly show that Intel is in decline and AMD is killing it. Why do you think otherwise?
Face Masks Thwarting Facial Recognition Tech
Weird term, pizzas are usually too small to feed someone. Or do they have giant pizzas in the US?
Apropos of Saudi, one of the big BTC spikes was correlated to be when MBS took over and started cracking down on rivals and dissidents. Whole lotta folks turned to BTC to get cash out of the country and then GTFO.

Similar trends with Xi's anti-corruption campaign in China.
Interesting. Is there documentation on how to programmatically validate Jason against a schema?
I doubt any of Microsoft Game Studios seriously use Blender, although I'm sure some individuals might use it for specific workflows. AAA games almost universally use Maya (and ZBrush, Substance and Houdini), for example this presentation on Gears 5 workflow specifically mentions Maya and Houdini (https://cdn.gearsofwar.com/thecoalition/publications/The%20V...). This donation specifically mentions digital humans created for Microsoft Research, and MS Research as the user, not Microsoft Game Studios.
Kodak's stock soars nearly 300% and trips more than a dozen circuit breakers
They could take 70% or 95% and there will still be posts saying that the market is 3.5 billion people and 5% isn't bad because Apple/Google do all of the marketing.
Yikes, the name of the website is right there. How did this post title get so screwed up. @dang can you fix the "There" in the title?
The project has ties to the Mozilla Foundation, and the author also works on a project funded by the European Commission. It's either bias blindness, propaganda, a deliberate way to secure funding, or some combination thereof.
That’s a fair point.
Fair enough. I am definitely pretty curmudgeonly :)

That said, I tend to think social/cultural incentives are more than just social programs and government spending. Right now, I feel like I live in a culture that I don't have an affinity for. It's an awful lot like workplace culture – you can't manufacture it entirely by implementing programs or throwing money at people. Those things help, but only if there's a foundation of good culture to back them up. It has to be earned, cultivated, and grown.

In a fairy-tale version of America where I wasn't jaded and grumpy, who's to say I wouldn't want a big family?

>Pandas and white rhinos aren’t the only creatures that are unsuccessful at mating in captivity.

The pithy lede to the article says it better than I can.
I think that's it in a nutshell and it's something I've decided to do...pay a couple bucks more. Or, in a lot of cases, re-evaluate the purchase and pass altogether. Many of the things we pick up from WalMart aren't really necessary.
Would it be easier nowadays with CORS and CSP ?
71,716 video tapes in 12,094 days (2019)
All the TikTok people are gonna move to Triller
Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon CEOs Testify at House Hearing [Livestream]
>Lol most of the stuff that goes viral on Tiktok is essentially that. People scaring cows ffs (look up "kulikitaka challenge"). Can't get much more "crap" than this.

That's not what my FYP looks like and I don't think most people would agree TikTok and IG content aesthetics are similar... but even scaring cows sounds more entertaining than a picture of an influencer on the beach.
I disagree, it's not a common view. It's common for physicists to think string theory might be empty theorizing, but it doesn't look at all like epicycles. With epicycles, you start with an existing model and than add complexity. That's not strings. Strings starts with something entirely new, that's already complex.
This happened 10 years ago btw.
Depends what you're looking at, on mobile it absolutely is. Not sure what the situation around the world is but in the US pretty much all LTE connectivity is via v6. T-Mobile at least doesn't even dual stack, if you need to go somewhere that's v4 only they do NAT64
You're trying way too hard to spin this fairly typical food article with a mildly provocative title into a propaganda piece. The text literally calls sushi Japanese multiple times, including in the first sentence of the main text. But I guess that doesn't count if we assume no one reads that far and if they do, they probably won't understand it?
> due to geopolitical factors

They kind of dug themselves in hole with how sketchy the app is
I don't like whiteboard interviews and I don't know if they work.
Sorry, I don't think I communicated my point properly. I agree with you that the average user doesn't want to deal with separate credentials. What I mean to say is: why is this the case?

If a signup page auto-fills with your email, name, and suggested secure password, and then your browser stores and syncs that information, that's basically as frictionless as clicking a "Sign In With Google" button.
Hang Seng itself is an HK company, has been ever since its inception. HSBC has owned a large part of it for a long time, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_Seng_Bank
I appreciate the defense, but I don't mind being asked.
For me it’s less about privacy concerns and more about not wanting to support an oppressive regime. Whether that be through financial boycotts or in the case of TikTok, through my data, which will help them perfect their products and give them a competitive edge which ultimately gives them more leverage to enact more oppressive and anti-democratic campaigns.
Quality is part of scope.

Is it in scope for this to be maintainable? To be stable? To have a nice UX?
Sure I alluded to sequence numbering multiple times
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None of those matter.

Neither does the fact that you can buy a Linux phone, today.

The people downvoting you just want to punish the wicked.

It's like the digital content distribution discussions where even a single inconvenience or a perceived lack of value is met with "YARR ME MATEY SAIL THE SEVEN SEAS".

When you point out that all of this (waves hand) is an optional luxury and if they want open culture they can choose to consume open (and public domain) culture you are looked at like you are a goblin and downvoted.

They don't care about open culture they just want to punish music and film distributors.

If they did care about open culture they would only consume culture that had been voluntarily released as free and open. There is plenty of creative commons, public domain, open source, and other free content for them to consume but they want the good stuff.

They don't care about competitive app stores they just want to punish the app store owners.

If they did care about open app stores they would all buy the PinePhone and support developers on that platform MAKING MINOR PERSONAL SACRIFICES until it was a success.

But the people downvoting you don't care and will tie themselves into knots and find every hollow and vapid excuse why you are wrong and they are right.
Thanks for that. At first I thought his isolation was insane, but his age does put him in a particularly bad risk group.

My father is over that age, and he's also near Atlanta, but isolated in a suburban home, wears a mask, gets food from other family members that are being very careful, etc.

I'm glad he's at least in a place where he can get outside (in his yard). Being in an apartment building and never getting out sounds like prison.
> However, Gold could displace it if people lose confidence in the Dollar's value (ability to safely store wealth).

Bitcoin is spiking like mad right now. I trust gold more, but if you're willing to tolerate the BTC risk, it maybe more lucrative.

And I'm staying this as a notable BTC skeptic.
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> but bias against other desirable candidate qualities such as experience

Won't you see, in the code submission, at least some evidence of experience? The way the candidate organises their code; the overall style; the third-party libraries they choose to use (or not to use); the tests they write (or don't write) — doesn't it all, combined, speak of experience or of lack thereof?

There are still other stages of the interview, where you can assess candidate's experience more directly, by asking about what they worked on.

I agree that it's useful to know when a task that should have taken x long takes 5x or 10x; but it may be because the candidate set a higher bar for themselves.
Everyone removed the orange "XML" and blue "RSS" images from their sites and people assume RSS was removed as well. The link tags to the feeds still exist so feed readers and browsers can still easily find them.
Can someone else from the UK verify this? Still seems crazy to me.

Edit: reading around it seems like they're standard, but have no legal weight regarding termination? I.e. you're entitled to 30 days pay regardless. This seems very weird on all sides.
given how downvoted the parent comment got after just a few minutes of being in the positive, I would definitely count it as a pretty hot take.
Google, FB and Amazon I understand and absolutely agree that they're monopolies and need to be regulated.

But why Apple? Android has a very substantial market share and provides a good hedge against Apple iOS, same for the MacOS/Windows market.
> The Patriot Act has been a big deal politically multiple times.

It has? I must have missed it. It's regularly scorned on HN, but I haven't seen much mainstream concern about it at all. Certainly not the level of concern that it deserves.