skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Americans like to believe that there exists some bright line between citizens and non-citizens. As a US lawyer, I'll tell you there is no such line. There are dozens of different classes of citizenship, each with a unique set of rights. These kids are at the bottom of that list.

The world is most aware of the two highest-level citizenship classes, specifically the line between natural and naturalized citizens. The former is the higher, with the later not being allowed certain high offices (ie being president) and that their citizenship can be stripped. The next set of lines is between citizens of states (Ohio et al) and those residing in non-states such as DC, Guam and like territories. Such non-state citizens have various subset voting right depending on local. Some cannot serve on juries.

The next line down are people like convicted felons (non-voting) children (can be forced into delinquency proceedings) and members of the military (subject to different laws/courts). Some jurists would even list males as a subset since, unlike females, males are subject to selective service rules and can therefore be forced into the previous class.

At the bottom of this pile are these kids. Non-state non-citizens, under-age without guardians, the are treated like chattel (property). Their deportation proceedings read like the comical cases brought against property seized at boarder crossings (civil forfeiture). But even non-sentient objects, specifically guns, sometimes have the right to representation. Any US person facing criminal conviction is due adequate representation, but not facing criminal action and not being a citizen of any state or territory, the US justice system has little respect for these kids.

Don't like it? There is an election coming up.
Do most manufacturers only supply manuals when legally compelled to?
But you want a connection to Big Brother, you want free super charging, you want software updates, you want free internet access and navigation, you want the free Spotify Account.

My Car wouldnt have AutoPark, Summon, Traffic Aware Cruise Control, Lane Assist, Spotify, Autopilot, 50 ekstra Horse Power and so on, without the software updates the connection to Big Brother provides. (Euro Spec S85D)
You requested the bracelet when you requested the URL and gave them your personal details yourself.
let me get you some tinfoil, you might be running low.
> the engineers should have stressed the point long before Jan 28, 1986.

They did. They argued that the booster was unsafe at any temperature, but were overruled when NASA demanded proof that it was unsafe - a clear inversion of the correct burden of proof. It was the breakdown in the safety culture at NASA that led to this inversion, and not anything that anyone at Thiokol did or didn't do, that was the root cause of the accident. That made some sort of catastrophic failure almost inevitable.

Having lost this battle, the engineers were left the night before the launch to argue on much narrower grounds, and with an extreme paucity of data, that the launch was unsafe at the prevailing temperature even if it wasn't at a more usual temperature. (Even today it's not clear to me how big this effect was - remember that the expansion rate of the O-ring was insufficient to deal with the opening rate of the joint at any temperature.) Once again they were overruled, and the rest is history.

It's possible to argue that the engineers should have brought all the data they had to bear and attempted to relitigate the safety of the entire booster design the night before the launch. (I think Tufte's case in Visual Explanations basically boils down to this.) But it's not at all clear that this would have been successful, or even permitted.

You're correct that Challenger would likely have escaped but for the windshear. I'm almost certain, however, that recovery of a booster with the entire O-ring burned through for the first time would have have prompted some kind of action. Whether that would have lead to a complete redesign or just launch temperature restrictions that would have only delayed rather than prevented a catastrophic failure, we'll never know.
With more and more network attacks and an increase in security breaches, I think we need to rethink some parts of the Internet for better security and reliability.

There's an interesting project going on - SAFENetwork[1] - similar to ipfs, which has the potential to render DDoS attacks obsolete for some use cases, if it gets adoption of course.

[1] https://safenetwork.org
Do you have any data to back this up?
How can a third party commercial 3D engine be a layer to writing your own 3D engine?
The compiler is a Frege app.
to be fair this is a common opinion the world over, not just the north-eastern US. the south has a pretty poor reputation globally - i'm pretty sure its an unfair assessment given that everyone i have met from the southern US seemed like a decent, normal person...

i think it stems from the perception that some of the stranger laws, viewpoints and customs are exceptionally backwards by the standards of most modern populations and are more popular than they are in reality. the religious fervour and gun loving being the two most obvious things that no other highly developed and civilised part of the world has and which are strongly associated with the southern US.

(p.s. i am from the UK)
Jacques, I actually didn't know this. It is a claim that has gone around and is often repeated, I'm pretty sure I've heard it used in "expert" interviews in financial & political documentaries, so I guess I assumed it was true.

This might be important enough of a point to include in your post? The actions of a CEO facing difficult decisions might hinge on which of several competing responsibilities they feel most bound or affected by, and removing the belief there's a profit requirement could push Some situations out of gray areas. I'm guessing there also are plenty of other people who also believe that CEOs are bound by law to pursue profits and shareholder values.
Which is why I said "a nation state trying to influence you".
Wasn't one of these health-benefits-of-chocolate papers revealed to be a deliberate prank?
I can definitely agree that commuting for a long time each day takes a toll on your psychological health. My first 'real' job had a 1.5/2 hour journey each way, right through the centre of London and then out on the other side.

It was absolutely exhausting, and utterly killed any motivation for me to actually do anything what I got back in each night. Oh sure, I had ambitions when I started the journey each evening, but they were damn well as good as dead when I'd finished it.

Fortunately, my current commute is much better, only taking about half an hour a day and not involving the London Underground in any way. Could it be better? Probably, but it's reasonable enough for now, and isn't anywhere near as mentally exhausting.

Living nearer work? Forget it, a lot of companies here are located in the most expensive areas of the city. Unless your family are wealthy enough to pay for a luxury apartment in the city of London, or maybe somewhere likes Mayfair or Knightsbridge, you're likely going to be commuting to any job round here. Even the cheaper places have rents high enough you'd likely end up living on the breadline with a typical developer salary.
This leads to unpleasant situations like a web server having to run as root, even if (usually) only temporarily, solely because it needs to bind port 80.

not on modern linux. see CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE in `man 7 capabilities`.
Root a Tesla?! Sounds fun.
Agreed, not saying it's an ideal or even warranted approach but it's also not a net negative, companies don't really have to do anything at all if they don't want to, though in the UK we have this concept called "Corporate and Social Responsibility" but afaik that only applies when you want some kind of funding/grant that is partially public sector.

You could (and people do) run a company absolutely ruthlessly applying only the metric of "What is the absolutely best way to make money".

Capitalism isn't nice it's just relatively efficient compared to other systems.
> I only get about one to one and a half hours at the most with my kids in the evening.

Does this include weekends? I totally empathize with your situation concerning prices, but as your kids grow into teenagers, they'll want their own independence so this time may decrease as it goes on, and the time you have now with them while they're young... it's not time you'll get back, unfortunately.
He last DDoS article from Amazon was a white paper which amounted to "we have enough capacity to let clients out-scale any attack." AKA it becomes a DDoS on your wallet instead of your server.

Edit: found it.

https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/DDoS_White_Paper_June20...
Also, the truck carrying valuable load could have a security guard sitting/napping in it.
The demand seems to be not that big, at least nobody started to seriously take on some out of the box Android support.
This is very troubling to read. I can understand that tampering with an automobile might pose safety concerns. I can also understand that Tesla is trying to protect its brand. That being said, the fact that Tesla is monitoring individual cars in a way that they can detect when you're used the Ethernet port is seriously Orwellian. I can only imagine this will get worse as cars become more autonomous.
There's no 100% way to know this (shoes don't come with labels: "Proudly made with low-wage employees"). But you can go off a firms reputation, and how they are positioned within the market.

Which is something else a CEO has to manage - the firms reputation.
Proactive Security and (re)discovering OpenBSD
Boom. I thought it was a requirement that every paper treating passphrases would reference the [xkcd cartoon](https://xkcd.com/936/), at least in the citations list.

If your passphrase is a sentence that is found on the internet you are toast.
I've had this happen in the US, but only if the phone is picked up again within 1-2 seconds. Presumably there's a timeout somewhere (whether deliberately implemented or as a side effect of reactance on the network) that can be different in different systems.
In theory, Google should be penalizing these sites left and right, however, since many of them appear to slip through the cracks, this would indicate that the problem is much more difficult to solve than it seems.
This is a good place to share this with geeks who may not be into cars: I drive a 1994 Mercedes (W124 chassis). One of the most reliable cars ever made. Simple to repair yourself. A TON of info available online for anything you could want to fix.

Pretty much (probably 100%) of all parts on the car are available super cheap as chinese replacements because the model was around for so long and so many of them are still on the road (I just replaced the car window regulator - normally a few hundred $$, got it on amazon delivered for $23).

Made to be serviced/repaired. Quite a bit of fun doing it too. You can pick one up for $2k and it will probably do another 200k miles no problem.

And the best bit? FAR FAR more environmentally friendly than a new Tesla. I'll leave that up to you to figure out ;)
> We have the highest standard of living in history and anyone with an idea has at least a chance at making a success.

Never mind that social mobility and income equality are in a sharp decline and have been for several decades now. The American Dream is true because it has to be!

> People like Bernie Sanders aren't in it for the money, they are in it for the power..which is just as dangerous.

As if any presidential candidate of any party had ever not been in it for the power. The question is what they want to do with that power.

> Socialism (or Democratic Socialism) removes all of these chances

The chance to be allowed to train your H1B replacements? The chance to juggle three minimum wage jobs to survive? The chance to experience bankruptcy because a standard medical treatment costs several ten thousands of dollars?

Silicon Valley is not the US. The experience of its upper class do not translate to the other 299 million Americans.
Everything in moderation, I read a report a while back about the people who provide food for post operative care (iirc it was mostly eldery people) where they threw out the normal diet guidelines and went for "stodge", pasta, custard, pies, cake - basically anything that was easy to digest and high in calories as they found that gave the best outcome post surgery.

It wouldn't be the diet you'd eat in other circumstances but context matters.
Yep. However static and runtime type checking are not mutually exclusive. Actually there's a TypeScript definition file included in the repo. Moreover such a runtime type checking brings additional features like refinement types and runtime type introspection
me too, please?
That was the first thing I went to find as well. It's too bad.
The optimization I'd personally make in that case, rather than moving, is wfh 1-4 days every 2 weeks, and staying near work (hotel, Airbnb, sleep at office, etc) 1-4 nights/2 weeks.

(I've seriously considered commuting to or doing a startup from Seattle, Portland, Las Vegas, or Austin even though I'd need to be in SF for work or to meet with people several days per week.)
Taking steps to avoid death is trivially a signal that in some way a person wishes to avoid death; whether that side of their internal conflict will prevail is another matter and, of course, not at all certain. But it is 100% within the bounds of respecting their agency (and, I'd argue, a duty) to help someone who is fighting to stay alive do so. The argument is that suicide hotlines don't imply a paternalistic "all citizens must keep breathing at all costs" ideology because they require the voluntary step of asking for help, and someone who asks for help can be meaningfully said to want it.

>Myth: People who are suicidal want to die.

I agree that this is not true in general, but to say that it is never true is more of a philosophical position (the topic of this thread) than the measurable science fact you're making it out to be.

> something that you clearly know little about.

I can find many responses to this, but none of them civil.
I think OP is referring to the origin, not the mirror.
What benefits does this have over Let's Encrypt (after it exits beta).
"Strictly conforming program" is a set that certainly includes terminating programs; I think you mean that it has a shortcoming because it doesn't exclude non-terminating programs? But a program that keeps running forever, servicing commands entered by a user, is nonterminating, yet possibly correct and useful. Nontermination doesn't constitute misuse of the language as such.

> you can shoot back at them with "it's a conforming program

Not really; retorting with a useless term from ISO C doesn't help in any way. You can only effectively shoot back by demonstrating that all the claims that the program is buggy are rooted in constructs and uses which are in fact defined on all the platforms which the program explicitly supports. (Just not ISO-C-defined.)

If you're doing something that isn't defined by ISO C, and isn't documented by your compiler or library either, then you do in fact may have a real problem.

But portability to platforms which are not specified for the program is a specification issue, not a coding issue. If the specification is broadened to encompass those platforms, then it becomes a coding issue.

I wouldn't listen to anyone who complains that, say, some program of mine only works on two's complement machines, not ones with sign-magnitude integers. My response would not even be "patches welcome" (a patch to "fix" that would definitely not be welcome).

On the other hand, merely calling a function which isn't in the C program and isn't in ISO C is undefined behavior, as is including a nonstandard header file like #include <unistd.h>. We can make a conforming implementation in which #include <unistd.h> and a call to fork() reformats the disk.

Simply accusing a program of undefined behavior isn't damning in an of itself; hardly any useful program can escape that blame.

Basically, I can out-language-lawyer anyone who criticizes my code from that perspective, so I'm safe. :)
smart edge, dumb core.

if edge networks implemented uRPF, it would put a huge dent in the ease of mounting DDoS attacks. unfortunately, the economics aren't there.
How list prices lost their meaning
>And yet despite narcissists’ flaws, there’s lots of evidence that people are drawn to them, not least because they tend to be very charismatic.

Is it possible to be both charismatic and not-narcissistic at all? I can't think of a single example, to be honest, of a leader displaying charisma and not being somewhat narcissistic.
it's a $100+k car.

it's a luxury, anyway you look at it, not a necessity for anyone.

it's not the same as a car but the same as a money pit Lamborghini.

stop trying to make Tesla happen so hard, internet yuppies.
there is a reason some folks call them blogflare. They have great engineering talent and a marketing team that knows exactly how to acquire customers and more engineering talent.

and that's through their blog posts.
Or visa-versa, let me tap into that data connection for free for internet access.
>I can make a study and get whatever results I wish.

I don't think it is a fair way to argue at all when someone links to an actual study, and you assert that all studies are worthless?
I think it's fair to say that email has had a big impact on the modern world.

I wonder how much the economy would break down, and have to change, if email suddenly went away?

And even if someone doesn't use it that much for personal communication, it's part of the underlying net infrastructure (think account-creation verification emails, password reset emails, bank statements, etc).
There's one citizen type in-between the natural and naturalized (and below), it's the natural citizen in a US Territory. No votes for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CesHr99ezWE
It is the same interface, and I believe all the implementations are compatible with it, it just filters the types of raw packets you are allowed to create.
If you pay for alldata or michelin ondemand you get access to all of that.
> Blocking ads is actual petty theft

Since when blocking content on the web is theft ? Providers don't own the web, don't own my browser. People don't want to see ads, it kill their phone's or laptop's battery, slow down their browser and make web experience in general poorer. Providers will have to move to a new business model because their audience are not willing to put up with ads anymore.
I run one of the largest legal bitcoin gambling sites (name in profile if interested) and was recently extorted for a whole week by DDoS's unless I paid (something that I never would do).

The specifics of our casino require us to have a pretty quality low-latency connection, so AWS was a first choice. I was recommended to use ELB which could mitigate the level3 attacks (primariy SYN floods we were seeing) and automatically scale.

I setup a test instances, and tried orchestrate my own SYN flood which it handled without issue (while a normal ec2 instance would just collapse). So I put production behind ELBs, and a few hours later the attacks started.

The first thing was that under stress ELB stops being able to make connections, and starts failing your origins for status check (even when they were getting no load), but was able to successfully scale to mitigate the attack within 5-7 minutes. The attacker tried again a few hours later, but it seems things were nice and pre-warmed and the attack didn't get far.

For about a day there was a nice calm, and ELBs was performing absolutely fantastic (in terms of latency/jitter), and then I got the email that he's about to throw everything at me. And within a few minutes, he took out all the ELBs and it wasn't able to scale to handle the traffic for over an hour this time.

During this time I was in contact with CF's excellent support, and they offered me protection for websockets. It has slightly more latency than ELBs, but is actually an anti-ddos service, and works wonderfully. Since being fully behind CF we've only had one DDoS related outage, and it was specific to Seoul for about ~3 or 4 hours.

Can't recommend them enough, quite literally my business might not be around if it wasn't for them.
Actually we've only recently created a marketing team at CloudFlare and hired someone to run it. Most of the blog posts you see are generated organically by engineers or others who want are interested in writing about something they've worked on.
I think it's UK specific. I've heard people in the US say it doesn't happen for them.
Anybody said Java is a failure? Or that Oracle "killed" it?
Even if they did, it would take a couple decades to get at the level Cobol today it.

What I said is Oracle screwed Java up.

By alienating the community,
By not caring for security (except after all the huge negative press each time),
By not innovating at a decent pace,
By falling back on promises,
By killing off the evangelists,
By ignoring the mobile space,
and in several other ways.

Not to mention the bloody Java "API" lawsuit...
How is the extra HP related to the Big Brother connection?
when DDoS prevention (traffic scrubbing, really) was just becoming a thing, many of the smaller and less scrupulous players in the market did precisely that.
The computer legend who invented email has died
Welcome to the 15 Second Song
Not to take anything away from his legacy, but isn't it a stretch to talk about the "invention" of email when we had telex, telegrams, heliography, scrolls of vellum carried by Roman messenger, and so on? What's left to invent?
Nokia CEO: “we didn’t do anything wrong, but somehow, we lost” (2015)
This is a great idea.

I love the UX and the simple examples of usage for the plugins.

Brilliant!.
None of this seems "throwaway" to me. It just means that rather than build a product that ends up being repaired by a distributed army of mechanics, they are going "full stack" and aiming to repair everything in-house. To me that seems like the ideal system - some people like the author might enjoy repairing their own cars, but I would rather not.
Isn't it unethical to lie to a patient? Isn't that grounds for a malpractice suit?
Why would we need to do that? If Google (and all of its advertising-based competitors) disappeared tomorrow, something like YaCy[0] would take over. So many business models that exist today based on advertising and central hosting could be replaced by decentralized, peer-to-peer, free software projects. The main thing limiting these projects right now is lack of interest due to the non-profit property.

[0] http://yacy.net/en/index.html
Yup. I did some quick notes and stopped after ten different classes. There are certainly dozens.
having a slight understanding but no direct knowledge of their network infrastructure, that's probably for financial not technical reasons (they can handle the largest volumetric attacks and then some)
Now a company is not allowed to be proud of their service? Cloudflare does a good job, and they're proud of their accomplishments, and they have a right to be. There's nothing wrong with that! I imagine you're also proud of your accomplishments.
I think you brought up a better point. Invading countries are going to have a hell of a time if sentries are set up. Booby traps and mines are one thing. But autonomous sentries are well, very hard to remove without risking harm
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I don't think anyone who buys a Telsa for 100 grand cares the slightest bit about being forced to pay overpriced dealer service rates.

And it's not like a 'worn out' Telsa is going into the car crusher. Every part is going to be pulled from it and sold on eBay.

I look forward to being able to buy a Telsa motor for cheap on eBay. Maybe in 2026.