skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
could this have a positive effect for the introduction (technical, legal, societal) of autonomous trucks? I'd imagine that at least on the political side, there will be less pressure to protect soon-to-be-obsolete jobs when there are too few people wanting to do the work in the first place.

BTW, I don't buy the "we want to make highways safer, not cut the truck driver out of the equation" speak. If I just need personnel on site to handle on-/offloading and paperwork, maybe maneuvering into the loading bay, there is no justification to carry that personnel on the truck.
Except that the usual thing is to pay the new guy more and believe his story that the tech he used at the last gig, that he is now an expert in, is better than how you did it. Now management makes the new expert the boss. Next thing the old guy discovers the new guy was just in the right place at the right time in the last place and is useless, but, because he is the new boss you have to do everything again.
As a US citizen, US border control is OK, but for non-citizens, it seems bad -- the primary problem is that entry can be denied at essentially the whim of the border guard, without regard to the visa.

Also, in a lot of countries, being a border person is one of the best jobs available -- status, contact with foreigners, and a conscious decision by the government to put a good face forward by picking good people.

I've visited about 100 countries or autonomous regions, and I've never had a bad border experience in any country. The worst thing has just been getting visa in advance vs. visa on arrival, and in the case of Belarus, previously-restrictive policies which were loosened and a lot of people didn't know about it (transit via Minsk airport now doesn't require a visa)

The only places with on-paper bad border controls for US people seem to be otherwise-decent countries which are trying to apply reciprocal pain to US passport holders -- Brazil being the best example.
Outsourcing (and loosing the knowledge), almost always ends up more expensive in the end, compared to in house teams...
Yep, they do ! We actually learned about it in the same context "don't download too many papers, you can get us banned".
If letting this man starve himself to death could save hundred of others I wouldn't hesitate.
I don't know. I'm sat here creating UML diagrams in a JS-powered diagram editor built in to a wiki. It works, and it's great to be able to create diagrams straight in the editor.

But it's buggy as anything. Selection is unreliable, redraws go wrong. It's lacking lots of tools (align, size group to smallest/largest etc) that are standard in most vector tools. It can't save undo history between sessions.

I guess that's better than my Omnigraffle workflow of 5 years ago? It's certainly cheaper.
We don't have this system in Germany and it's clearly better.
Maybe this explains why the allergy was rare when yogurt used to be consumed daily in Bulgaria although I am not able to find reliable statistics and I'm basing this on anecdotal data.
> I can imagine radicals not buying your counter-arguments.

That is because they are not going be be buying any counter arguments at all, regardless of merit.

> While I abhor violence and believe in Enlightenment ideals, I don't take diversity as an intrinsic good, and I think being against diversity is consistent with other Enlightenment ideals, and is not coming from a position of hatred or ignorance.

If you wish to stake out this position right 'on the line' that's your problem, not mine, it's not up to me to supply you with arguments for your feelings. I'm a bit surprised you would use an expensive word such as 'Enlightenment' and then use it to promote a radically un-enlightened position.

Whether diversity as such is an intrinsic good or not is not even up for discussion, diversity is the direct result of having a society where everybody is equal before the law. If you feel that is something that you could argue about you're going to have a hard time finding a country where you will feel comfortable.

As for the root cause: it need not be hatred or ignorance, there is a much simpler and baser emotion at work here: fear.

Ask yourself this: why is it that you feel that you could not share a country with people with a different culture from yours and with a different skin color than yours?

On another note, earlier you made it seems as if you were just 'asking for a friend' ("Also, these are not my political beliefs.") or speaking entirely in hypotheticals and now you actually admit that this is your own position after all. I'm super interested in how you got yourself into that position in the first place, I've yet to meet someone who openly admitted to such a stance so if you could please try to make me understand how you arrived at your position I'm most interested.
I'm currently deploying Tectonic flavoured Kubernetes at a large organisation and I can vouch for how great you guys are at supporting users (who are not yet customers) at any stage of the process - love that, and can't recommend you guys for that more. However, as the comment above says, Tectonic (and Quay for that matter) documentation is... just horrible and if not the engineers support, I'd be pretty much stuck on quite few things. Why don't you push your docs to a public repo, so I could do some writing and send some PR's? ;)
> Passport, no passport, doesn't matter.

Well, it does matter. Why?

> Enforcing your borders and dictating the rules for anyone external crossing them to enter your country is the right of each nation to decide on its own.

Passports are part of that negotiation. An acknowledgement of the rights of the individual visiting.

As to what rights a passport holder can expect, the US is a signatory of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights [0]. Even if their implementation is incomplete, and heavily criticised.

However, here's some of the relevant points:

Article 9 recognises the rights to liberty and security of the person.

Article 10 requires anyone deprived of liberty to be treated with dignity and humanity.

Article 12 guarantees freedom of movement, including the right of persons to choose their residence and to leave a country. These rights apply to legal aliens as well as citizens of a state.

Article 16 requires states to recognize everyone as a person before the law.

The only reason that the US currently says they can ignore these rights and demand searching at the border without just cause, is because they say that whilst you are at a point of entry, you are neither a legal alien nor a citizen. Within the 100-mile border area, the US Constitution doesn't even apply. [1]

> Although the 100-mile border zone is not literally "Constitution-free," CBP frequently acts like it is. [1]

They actively manipulate the law to remove rights from not just aliens, but their own citizens as well.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Covenant_on_Civi...

[1] https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-factsheet-customs-and-border...
My favorite was Micro Cornucopia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Cornucopia). My local bookstore carried it and I eagerly awaited it every month. I was bummed when it shutdown in 1990 but by then I was in college and had real systems to play with.
The baker can discriminate against pro-choice customers perfectly legally, as far as I'm aware. The same thing - the boycott and protests - will happen to the baker who discriminates against anti-choice customers in a rural town, except their customers might actually have legal backing since being anti-choice is usually a religious belief. What the society that baker operates in chooses to do about it is entirely separate from what the Government should be allowed to do about it.

Yes, a "double-standard" exists in that people think that some forms of discrimination are reprehensible and others aren't. I think it's entirely reasonable that people use their freedom of speech and freedom not to interact with people they don't like in any way they see fit - to think otherwise is to deny people some of their core human rights.

At the root of it all, the state is in the position of ensuring a person's livelihood, not me as an individual, not any individual business.
If I report what you said to someone else, is that my free speech or your privacy?

Privacy isn't just about how wide the 4th amendment is and whether it applies to cellphones at borders, it's a broader construction which in some cases requires suppressing information.
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i don't think they make too many mistakes. from their perspective its about minimizing cost and maximising earnings and i think they do this reasonably well. some managers can get a bit fanatical about this, which can shoot them in the foot sometimes but that is not the case at any company i worked for.
> principally it should be applied to any entity with national or global power

It's ridiculous to call Cloudflare this. There are tons of alternative CDNs. They have as much "power" as your local bookstore.
It's all about cost and what users can accept. If a feature costs 10 times less, takes half the time to implement and is easier to maintain but produces the same result for the end user, why would software companies bother to optimise (if the end user does not care)?

Also, it seems to me that the optimisation on the web is done on speed at the detriment of memory usage.
Does it suprise you that on opinion which yearns to de-humanize untold millions and seeks to destroy them finds pushback?

That's not censorship, that's action begetting reaction and as long as it is limited to groups that aim to do bad things to large numbers of people I'm perfectly fine with it.

Note that this particular gem of a website is run by one of the worlds foremost trolls, a man who I believe is not exactly 100% in the head and who loves to watch the world burn. If you feel that he deserves a platform I suggest you make your own Neo Nazi friendly CDN and take some business away from Cloudflare, they won't mind.
Discipline is cultivated over time, and for me it is all about consistency. When I want to develop a new habit, I commit to doing it every day. The hardest part is just getting started The amount of time I spend on that task doesn't matter as much as starting the task does. One minute is better than zero. Over time, the time spent increases, and it becomes second nature for me to perform it.

gcheong's comment about environment is also spot on. Make it easier for yourself to stay disciplined. Reduce the amount of willpower/effort that it will take to start a task.
I believe developer experience on being introduced to a tool is paramount to its success. It gives a lot of confidence in what you're doing and keeps things moving forward. To me appear that the application is built on a solid simple concept instead of a convoluted complex architecture. Some tools sin on the opposite though, very simple to setup but very complicated to understand how to scale.
I think you'll find that US citizens don't have a functioning fourth amendment right at the border either. So there's no point distinguishing, unless you really like saying "aliens".
I have 32GB ram on my home machine because 16GB wasn't enough. I moved to 8 core CPU because 4 weren't enough.

StarCraft analogy is far removed from real life user and business cases, all of which pay for the hardware with real money and time.
Yeah, and in BYTE's case specifically, its always somewhat eclectic mix of mostly microcomputer-based topics worked OK for the hobbyists and early practitioners who tended to have pretty eclectic and wide-ranging interests themselves.

But, as you say, the whole space got generally more corporate and more specialized and BYTE's lack of a real identity showed. I recall being invited to a press event when they were trying some sort of reboot in the aughts but it obviously didn't work.
He didn't pick Nazi's, he just wants them to be free to speak. Consider please that your ideas on freedom of speech have the opposite effect to what you intend.

I posit that speech is a pressure release valve, and that you should not muzzle people you don't agree with. This creates resentment and anger in those people whose only other outlet might be violence and revolution. There are odious characters on the right and the left who are already spoiling for a fight, and I think your notion of how we deal with that just escalates the conflict. Smarter people than you or I set freedom of speech as the first freedom, and one reason I think it's highest is because we need free speech in order to live with one another.

Which do you prefer, diplomacy or war? Part of diplomacy is dialogue.
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> In most companies, a manager's status is determined almost entirely by how many people he or she manages

That's interesting. Not the total compensation of the people she manages?
I said "more terrorist attacks", which is accurate. I didn't make any claims about how deadly those terrorist attacks were. That Neo-Nazis aren't always good at terrorism is hardly a ringing endorsement or a thing to hold up as proof that we shouldn't be dealing with Neo-Nazi groups as terrorist organizations.

Then again, the Oklahoma City bombing was the deadliest terror attack on US soil in our lifetimes prior to 9/11, and was committed by a right wing extremist. It is sort of arbitrary to draw the line at 9/11 (though maybe reasonable since it was such a devastating attack, and kinda blows the curve for any sort of accounting of other kinds of terror).
All of the places you mentioned are places where you IMPOSE yourself to others.

A website is not such a thing.
This isn't so clear cut though. Religion is usually included in that list, even though That is pertly ideological. Recently, gender and/or sexual orientation/identity has become arguably ideological too. Racial identity has some problematic examples (are jews white? what about light-skinned hispanics?)
B.S. It was regularly but infrequently covered during the Obama era, and regularly but infrequently covered during the Trump era.

Take an arbitrary year in Obama's second term, count the ratio of border freedom infringement stories to political stories on HN, and compare to the same ratio in 2017. I bet the Obama ratio is higher.
Depends if they are a method actor or not.
I had a meger allowance of 0.25 USD per week. At the time, in my cohort, it was below average but at least it was something.

What really benefited me was having a before school newspaper delivery job. I felt a responsibility to my employer and the subscribers and would get up early in the dark to walk though the cold Detroit winters to deliver papers every day.

In retrospect, it was just the right level of challenge and reward for me as a kid. I saved enough money to buy some things I wanted as a kid: a new bike, a tennis racket, and a slide rule!
The ACLU of California is carefully avoiding saying this, and it would be incredibly controversial if they did. After the Berkeley violence where masked antifa grabbed peaceful students they thought might be going to Milo's talk, pepper-sprayed them and beat them with weapons, the student newspaper ran a number of pieces supporting this and calling for future violence. I've seen numerous people on social media blaming the violence in Charlottesville on not taking the Berkeley approach, calling for this to happen at future events, and comparing antifa violence to Allied soldiers fighting the Nazis - including from respectable people in tech I follow who aren't usually political. More mainstream news organisations like CNN shy away from direct calls for violence in their flattering profiles, but they still run them.

The idea that antifa violence is wrong seems to be a fringe one in non-right-wing political circles. When the father of the woman murdered in Charlottesville called for peace and forgiveness from all, it was fascinating watching people online try and word their disapproval in ways that didn't seem too disrespectful.
It's not from the anecdote, I had many many allergies and they appear much more if I'm in a stressful or unfamiliar context.
Lobster is okay.

Crab is where the flavors at!
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> while thousands of users shared it, only Jutaphat was found to violate Thailand’s strict lese majeste laws against insulting, defaming, or threatening the monarchy

What can we practically do to help with situations like this far from our normal realm of influence? Countries like NK get sanctions (rightfully), but we don't seem to do anything as a country against things like this.
Exactly my thoughts after Elon Musk's tweet: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/896163163581825025

Unless AI is constrained to pro player max pointer move delta, click rate, and vision latency, I don't really see much difference between AI and a team of kids running with aimbot shouting "cyka cyka".
The Big 3 in china will now also have control over the world's 4th largest telecom provider whose market cap is $23B.
What are you talking about? You shouldn't have the right to setup an organization to proactively further killing just because you're not actually killing all the time.
HOW in the world is a white supremacist different from a radicalized muslim american citizen who never wore a suicide vest but is strongly convinced that all the infidels should die?
Why isn't he allowed to express this thoughts freely? Do you see the double standard here?

This has nothing to do with 1984.
6) believing your technical opinion matters -- I've seen way too many VP's making technical decisions that they are too far from the work to make, trust your team!

This! It needs management people who understand their role as being "facilitators", rather than being "decision makers". And they are kind of rare.
> Arriving at the border doesn't mean you're inside. Until the country lets you in, you're still outside.

You do realise that "border" is not well-defined, right?

It's somewhere between 25-250 miles around the US... So when have you actually entered? The CBP certainly don't view it as having been processed through customs and immigration and regularly detain people who have been processed.

> all other laws in the USA apply to people after they're here.

When do they arrive?

You can spend your entire visit within the US's border region.
What does this do to Amazon's business model?
Really cool writeup. Enjoyed that thoroughly
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What is democracy without the freedom of association, which OP was proposing to undermine by jailing self-professed members of a group. We already have laws against the actual seditious acts, we don't need laws saying which groups you may and may not belong to.
Arguing semantics is usually a waste of everybody's time.
It's very cool, but I think it also requires a very specific "adversarial" problem with a well defined notion of success (winning the game). If your machine learning task is something more nuanced and harder to define, e.g. identify word synonyms, I don't see how you can get around having a training data set.
For this generation in the UK we were lucky in that the BBC Micro computers from the BBC Computer Literacy Project[1] were still physically in our primary school classrooms (early 90s). I have a very memorable young memory of programming LOGO on a physical turtle to get it to navigate a maze in the school hall, and an even earlier memory (perhaps aged 5) of playing Granny's Garden[2].
There were also a lot of the 8-bit micros cheap 2nd hand in the 90s, all of which booted to a BASIC command prompt. For me, I was also very lucky and stumbled across a set of INPUT [3] magazines at a school Fete.
At secondary school, we had PCs, whose programming languages were locked down to stop us playing games on them.

I totally agree with your central point. These small interventions at a very early age through school initiated a curiosity, and totally changed internalisation of future concepts in Maths and Physics.

The generation after me lost out, as the primary schools had got rid of the 'obsolete' BBC Micros, and programming lessons were replaced with 'workplace-orientated' IT tasks (spreadsheets, letter writing).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granny%27s_Garden
[3] http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/magazines/input/input.htm
Are you being serious? The Nazi party is based on doing horrible shit to minorities. That's the ideology, that's what the leadership believed and that's the reason why people joined them.
No scientist ever lost any money from their paper being pirated.

It extends access to people who previously did not have it.

In fact it would be immoral to shut it down at this time.
This is why it's logistics companies that are investing the most (and the longest) in fully-autonomous and augmented-assistance trucks (http://mashable.com/2016/04/05/mercedes-actros-platoon-europ...)

I remember seeing self-driving trucks being tested 15+ years ago on an episode of History Channel's Modern Marvels
>I'm curious, if you imagine a possible historical situation, let's say a German business owner in the 1930s that took a stance of not offering services to Nazi organizations, does that appear commendable, or bad in the same "slippery slope" way that you apply in the present situation?

How about the possible historical situation where a business owners doesn't offer services to the irish, jews, gays, blacks, etc?

Because those things have also happened -- and when you say it's ok to refuse those services to a group, you open a window for refusing those services to other groups too.

Just because consensus or power today is with the "good groups" (as far as you're concerned) doesn't change that fact.

It's even worse when what's right and wrong is even more muddy. E.g. someone criticizing their own country (like the Vietnam war protests) or in favor of a regime change etc.
That is indeed a tough question. And to Cloudflare's credit, they discuss it at some length. I'm quite impressed.

But in any case, it's Cloudflare's business, and so it's Cloudflare's decision to make. What concerns me more are censorship mechanisms involving DNS and BGP games. Which the US has been quite fond of using, to take down what it considers to be illegal content. That's a vulnerability of the Internet itself, reflecting continuing US dominance.

So hey, we have Tor and other overlay networks.

Edit: And just to be clear, I'm a communitarian anarchist. I'm not at all sympathetic to fascists. But I do oppose all censorship.
You still haven't acknowledged that you wrote something that has since been proven incorrect. I'm reluctant to continue the conversation because of that, but:

> So you don't think that singling out "leftist violence" in events where there were "alt-right violence" is choosing one side?

James's discussion of left violence is because Google is a left wing company.

If Google was a right wing company, then saying "Google has mainly right wing politics but has avoided the violence associated with far right groups" would indeed by apt.
> If Breitbart or /pol/ are hosting discussions [...] advocating to take terrorist actions and they do not moderate [...] they actually should be shut down.

> [...] shut down every communist site as well?

And you completely disregarded the conditions why?
My doctor regularly emails me any documentation we have, and in non-pressing cases I can email them, so as to not waste time when they could be seeing a patient.

Example: My regular, life-long, prescription has run out. Can you mail me another?
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People can abandon their religion at any time, but we still protect peoples' religious rights, no matter how odious their beliefs.