skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why all of the furor exists over a group of commercial properties doing this. The reality is that there are so many entities collecting this same information at so many places, and selling it to private parties, and keeping historical records for years - that there's not a good way to unring this bell. We just happened to find out about this one and the media is highlighting that ICE purchases the data.

Scores of police departments and other government agencies run ALPR cameras, and share the results with Vigilant and other companies so that they can have access to all of the results that Vigilant holds. Philadelphia PD even ran unmarked vehicles with ALPR equipment bearing a Google Maps logo a few years back.[1]

Repo companies and others are sending out drivers in vehicles with ALPR cameras who patrol mall parking lots, apartment complexes, etc and then upload all of that data to one of several companies including Vigilant. These folks can scan 15,000 plates a day without a lot of effort.

Homeowner associations and apartment complexes (or their security companies) also frequently have these ALPR cameras along the paths of ingress or egress.

Universities are using ALPR for parking enforcement (and then selling the data to companies.)

[1]https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kb77dm/philly-pol...
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They can pay for it. They just don't want to increase taxes.
There are much more effective ways you could protest the TSA. Mouthing off to random employees in a grocery store was clearly not chosen based on effectiveness but laziness, so don't lie to yourself about the lack of venues.
It's cowardly because you wouldn't use fighting words like this in a context where you believed they might respond like many reasonable people would: with a punch in the mouth.

You're hiding behind their own civility and restraint. The same way many women think they can freely attack a man under the assumption that many men don't want to hit a women. It's cowardly to use someone else's self-control as a weapon against them.

And you should realize that your personal opinion that they're fascists and child molesters is not even close to a proven fact. It's a slanderous and exaggerated characterization that very few reasonable people would agree with, even those that do not like the TSA at all. Try reporting their "child molestation" to any law enforcement anywhere in the world. No judge and no jury would convict them of your charge. It's not so much different from calling a doctor that checks a child's testicles for problems a molester. Context makes all the difference legally and ethically. You disagree with the ethics but that doesn't make you right. Legally there's no question that you're wrong.
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I think there was a problem in that it is difficult to get good performance from games written for Direct X ported to Open Gl. If graphics performance is always worse on the same hardware, it is hard to offer good value. Now there are some alternatives (Vulkan) but the concept has essentially failed and would be hard to restart.
You have to be dumb to believe the employers and their lobbying industry that there is a shortage. By definition, there cannot be a shortage. This is basic economics 101. Workers exist and they want to work. If business owners won't pay them, that's not a shortage of workers, that's a shortage of competent business owners. In other words, these business owners are not competent enough to run their own business. I hope all of them go out of business because of that. What a bunch of inept, greedy scumbags. Instead they go on the internet and other places and cry about shortages like babies. These people have no human decency at all. They will do anything for their greed. I wish the masses weren't so dumb to fall for this kind of stupidity. This particular article is rather refreshing as it cuts through some of the bullshit. Here's some ideas for these incompetent business owners of how to get and retain employees:

* higher salaries
* work from home
* 25 - 35 days vacation to start, increasing every year
* guaranteed 2-8% raise to compensate for inflation every year
* bonuses
* Fridays off in the summer

I could go on and on and on but it's stubbornness that makes these business owners so greedy, not the lack of good ideas in how to hire. I hope the market turns against them and they go bankrupt.
Assuming the problem can be mitigated in software[0], it is far more realistic to expect OS vendors to supply updates and people to install those updates than it is to expect Intel to fix their CPUs and people to replace their CPUs.

Conveniently, a software-fix is also much, much cheaper for Intel, but it is also much, much more convenient for me to install an OS update than it is to replace CPUs in servers and desktop machines; in laptops/tablets, that might not even be possible without sending the devices to the manufacturers, which equals massive downtime.

Of course, if Intel were to release their next generation of CPUs without fixing those problems, that would make a lot of people really angry. Some interesting litigation might ensue.
Wait..so, a federal employee, if they are not a law enforcement official, can punch you as part of their job and not get into legal trouble?
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The tax base just isn't there sometimes. I've seen community budgets where everyone is hanging on by a thread. Not quite as bad as Native American reservations, but up there.
Would this be the same airport police that drags bloodied fliers from planes?

I’m a magnet for random checks in the EU - getting my laptop swabbed for bomb-making material because oooh scary stickers or something. It may very well just be my luck, but regardless I’m staying the hell away from the US just on the basis of these TSA horror stories.

You can keep your legal weed and I can keep my teeth.
Note the date. There have been some changes in tools in the last 40 years.
"Maybe direct your ire at the people at the top who make these policies instead."

These agents still choose to carry out those policies.
I live near a fire station in SF, and see them practicing raising a huge 20+ foot ladder monthly out front of the station. They're pretty impressive ladders, and it looks like it takes quite a lot of coordination to raise them up.
The documentation for the macOS version of clang seems to be non-existent as well (sans the man/info page - but even that seems incorrect as some flags simply don't work).
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As far as Nintendo64 goes, https://github.com/yupferris/rustendo64/blob/master/README.m... has a bunch of good documentation links to get started with.
This is just one of the many problems with the TSA: their policies are randomly and inconsistently enforced.
Man, having a job on the East Coast seems like a fate worse than death. You'll pry my jeans and T-shirt from my cold, dead fingers.
Got any more information about "Manhattan burned to the ground"? I can only find two "great fires" that may be relevant, and neither of them gave Manhattan a do-over.

The Commissioner's plan is the reason Manhattan has a grid system, and the page for it doesn't reference any fires.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commissioners%27_Plan_of_1811

Finally, the streets before the Commissioner's plan took effect are still rather small and twisty.
Very interesting as a pedagogical technique. This was never included in the curricula in any of the programs I've taken, except in those that are explicitly designed as adversarial, but those were more from the security perspective. I love the concept of teaching "tinkering" and black-box investigation as part of fundamentals. Is this is an exclusively Brown thing?
I used to do this - it's nice but it does come with some downsides. Like paying for the domain and hosting in perpetuity, and having to (at least nominally) manage whatever system you use for email.

Still, the only 100% secure way to do it.
The question is about the "th". Neither one I pronounce voiced.
Which is why I said capitalism, as currently practised
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No, a federal employee can punch you while carrying out their job and the federal government does not get into legal trouble. (Is the way I understood it from reading the post above.)
> Now there are some alternatives (Vulkan) but the concept has essentially failed

I don't think so. DXVK is extremely promising, as a way for running DX11's crap API on Vulkan.
Typically, stats seems to have different usage and teaching by field. Psychologists have their flavor, physicists another. Econometricians, epidemiologists, nutritionists, etc, all different. They're pretty much all asking causal questions, but they're coming up with different techniques to solve the specific weird questions that are unique to their field.

Some fields get to randomize everything. Causal inference is is as simple as asking "is this difference real" when the difference in your experiment would be causal by design. This is what is taught as stats 1 to everybody who starts learning stats.

Many fields don't get to randomly do things :(. Maybe you want to know the effect of a disease, but we as a society have decided that harming people to learn for the eventual greater good is bad (hello "rush out the self driving cars!" proponents!). Or maybe randomizing would involve merging a few multi-billion dollar companies and grad students don't have that budget. For whatever reason, you can't intervene in the same way. I give those two examples because epidemiologists and economists have really extended the state of the art of causal inference because their data doesn't look the same as many other fields. Inference is harder (but still possible!).

Those niche developments have been happening for a while, but haven't been cohesively un-niched. Big (non-randomized) data is becoming a big thing and everyone wants to use it to make decisions. Decisions require causal statements and most people only know how to make those statements for cleanly randomized stats 1 stuff. People seem to be picking up on the fact that some of this previously niche stuff is much more broadly useful.
+1 clojure/closurescript are both very nice.
The Ubiquity routers use a self signed certificate, which Chrome already marks as insecure. There's ways to change it to use Let's Encrypt though.
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Yep it is the plugins' revenge, the only way to be competitive against native apps it for the browsers to become yet another general purpose VM.
Or perhaps it's the "Peter principle" at play.
> or wrap the index to a valid one (like Python)?

Python doesn't wrap indices to a valid one. However, it does allow for negative indices which are shorthand for the length of the list plus that negative index.

>>> a = [1, 2, 3]
>>> a[3]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
IndexError: list index out of range
>>> a[-1]
3
>>> a[-3]
1
>>> a[-4]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
IndexError: list index out of range
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>> A huge point of frustration was that a single broken test caused tests to fail across all destinations. When we wanted to deploy a change, we had to spend time fixing the broken test even if the changes had nothing to do with the initial change. In response to this problem, it was decided to break out the code for each destination into their own repos

We went through this painful period. Kept at it devoting a rotating pair to proactively address issues. Eventually it stabilized, but the real solution was to better decouple services and have them perform with more 9s of reliable latency. Microservices are hard when done improperly and there doesn't seem to be a short path to learning how to make them with good boundaries and low coupling.
This is the same Banerjee of "Poor Economics"[1] fame. Really fascinating work.

[1] https://www.pooreconomics.com/
access to low level gpu apis, vulkan and cuda for example.
Ah, right. Wreathe: me neither.
I doubt you're working on the wrong systems, but working for the wrong people.
Adding this cert to your trusted certs file marks it as secure, even if self-signed. This is better than usual.
How is that different then when the state, with the threat of force, enforces private property claims?

I think you are confused about what owning the means of production means.

Since lots of people have different opinions on what socialism actually is I can only offer my opinion. Here is a good real world example where the workers are democratically involved where they work: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation
Oh no, someone's going to MITM my shitty blog posts. "Secure" is a word that only makes sense with context, and without that context it only serves to cause irrational panic. I wonder why Google's really doing this.
Yes, that's the root cause of 2+3.
Every alternative I tried for Gsuite handling email for some domains ended up being less user friendly, more expensive, or both.

I love my iphone but Google Maps is better than Apple Maps in almost every way.

I could live with DuckDuckGo if I didn't mind being annoyed 1 out of every 4 searches but I do mind. I mind a lot.

Google's Nearline cloud storage is silly cheap and always works.

From a security standpoint I have a hard time using firefox when I know chrome exists.

In short, I've decided I'll just accept privacy is dead in exchange for not being slightly angry each time I use a computing device. YMMV.
It's not part of TSA duties to arrest someone either, but they did it somehow, so that means they could pack their own gun and kill people too or do any number of things that is not part of their duties.

https://www.tsa.gov/blog/2016/07/03/tsa-myth-busters-do-tsa-...
Yes, plus it gives the feeling that https://chase-very-secure-sign-in-1024-bits-certificate.scam... is perfectly secure when it’s not.

Good education >> Browser gimmicks.
"There is a difference between exercising your freedom of speech and the social justice warrior crusading that the parent commenter is advocating."

Tell us, what exactly is that difference? What's the difference between going up to Scott Pruitt (when he was the EPA director) and telling him what an awful job he's doing, and when Trump tweets out a gif showing him performing wrestling moves on a personified CNN? Or when he calls journalists the "enemies of the people"?

"Nobody is above criticism, that much is certain, but we shouldn't cross the River Styx into a world where random acts of violence is the preferred method of political expression."

And where the hell is violence being done? Last I saw, the calls for violence have been from the Trump camp.
And the M68000 didn't have an MMU, nor privilege management. The M68010 had support for external MMUs (and privilege management), but no built-in MMU. It wasn't until the M68020 that a built-in MMU was added. So any attempt to have virtual memory on an M68000 would have necessitated hacks not too dissimilar to the inc bp real mode Windows hack. Indeed, the Amiga OS (which also was a cooperative multi-tasking, virtual memory OS) had a segmented 64KB addressing mode precisely so as to support virtual memory even though the M68000 was properly a 32-bit CPU with 32-bit addressing. I don't know the details of how Amiga implemented virtual memory beyond that though.
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Self-made is a huge stretch here...she is literally the product of her mother's intelligence. Put her in any other situation and she'd be yet another bratty 20 year old.
Not only is suggesting that this project change its name, but that the oath keepers are a racist extremist group are both absurd. From a little reading and watching of YouTube news clips it was quite easy to see that 2nd amendment and constitutional politics are not the same as racsim and extremist groups. The oath keepers have African American members.

It's the same smear campaign that real extremist groups (the Marxist identity politics left) do to Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro.
It makes it seem like RPM is an incredibly difficult packaging system, when in reality the author has deliberately chosen an obscure and unusual way of working with it.
Why is HN so anti-Bitcoin?
I've been on HN for as long as I've been into Bitcoin (about five years). At first, I thought I understood, you guys didn't like how "popular" Bitcoin had become I guessed, but even through the 2013-2014 down turn, you continued to hate on or ignore this incredible new tech.

My best/only guess is that if Bitcoin were a valley startup you guys would be gizzing yourselves over its valuation, but the fact that it came from outside the valley culture you guys just hate it?
I work at a power company. For portable ladders, we use both wood and fiberglass. However we don't fight fires so we don't take fire or heat ratings into consideration and we maintain a minimum distance of 10' (or OSHA minimum approach distance for qualified electricians/linemen) between a ladder and anything energized.
Who are the firms selling your data?
Nobody's saying it does - including Chrome. The browser will simply (and correctly) show "Not Secure" in the address bar when next to the url viewing your blog. If a user doesn't have an expectation of security, they won't be bothered or perhaps even notice.
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I was simplyfying to make the example clearer. The overall point I was trying to make is that adding marginal workers can raise average wages if employers pay the new workers more. (And thus, they don't, and complain of a supply shortage)

Is there a word for that?

Pointing out the "fallacy" in an incidental point I made isn't really constructive. Because I think you're agreeing that if new hires get more pay then so should existing workers.

You took as arguing that that shouldn't happen, but I wasn't arguing that.
The resignation of Scott Pruitt.
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No results found across range of queries. DId they nuke their database?
A comparison to old european cities would be interesting.
Fiberglass is reinforced plastic, though, so that might explain why it isn't used in FDs even if it's heavily used in other domains. How well does it hold up to heat? How does that exposure effect it structural properties? I honestly don't know and don't have time to look it up, but I could see thermal plastic deformation over such a long run as potentially hazardous.
> Waiting years seems like a pointless waste of time.

They have a long running stock. They are not wasting time anymore, they may be wasting storage though.

Something could be said about the stock fire risk exposure, but hey, they are the firemen after all.
Not very related to the article, but I'd like to get some opinions from HN community (if I may). I've read quite a few books and short stories of Kafka (I think all(?) his novels and some short stories like The Metamorphisis, A Report to an Academy) but most of them were really struggling readings for me and some incomplete (I never got to the very end of The Trial). His short stories, I read cover to cover in one sitting, and they were very enjoyable readings. I also read Amerika (his first novel) cover to cover pretty fast and it was very enjoyable too. His other works, I find very challenging for reasons unknown to me. Kafka has a certain literary style that feels very enjoyable, reading it gives me so much joy, so it's definitely not that I didn't like them. It's also definitely not boredom, some Kafkaesque "exaggeratedly long" scenes were pretty interesting and reminds me of Tarantino (not that there is any direct artistic resemblance, it just gives me similar type of enjoyment). Deeper ideas argued in novels are also interesting, and I like reading other authors trying to express similar ideas. But overall, reading Kafka is for some reason really hard for me. It takes too long relative other books I read, I lose focus very easily and it eternally feels like I'm missing some pieces of both the plot and the artistic structure etc... I also read authors that have been major inspiration to Kafka like Dostoevsky and never had the same problem. Did anyone else have this problem? I'd like to hear some tips from literary folks here to help me read Kafka better.

EDIT: As absurd as it sounds, I had similar feelings when reading his letters to Milena. I read that book twice, it's one of those books I really like but I had similar problems mentioned above.
If punching someone* is within the scope of their employment by the federal government and the person doing the punching is not a law enforcement officer, you cannot sue that individual for intentional torts.

*not sure why it would be, if you weren't a law enforcement personnel
Debian under-engineered, Redhat over-engineered. In perfect hindsight, Debian probably made better tradeoffs, but that's only with decades of hindsight.
Employers are already paying more and more for health insurance and so are employees, it's eating up this country. 20% of GDP on healthcare is absolutely ridiculous.

They're not really focusing on the root cause of the problem: the sky high medical bills. We need to figure out what's causing such high costs and mitigate it. There are many causes: limited number of doctor/nurse seats available, monopoly problems, etc. Healthcare is not something that should be merely governed by the free market. This is the one area where govt can be a force for good. Step in and put some cost ceilings on the most predatory pricing: for example pills and ambulance service for 4000$ should be an absolute no-no.
"They ask for respect and equality of others but don't wish to give it to anyone who doesn't agree with their ideology."

In this case, "doesn't agree with their ideology" actually means, "Believes that many classes of people don't deserve human rights".
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Yet that crap is being adopted by Khronos and Google, as a way to entice AAA studios to use Vulkan by having first class support for HLSL.

Crap is having a 3D API and respective shader language stuck in a C world in 2018.
Maybe a Pentium IV then? I don't think RISC-V -- or any processor really -- gets taken seriously in the desktop/laptop space unless it can compete with one of Intel's earlier chips.
Appears to be down as of this writing. All queries return no results, though autocomplete appears unaffected. No messaging on Twitter yet.

Is anyone aware of a status page?

Update: It's apparently a network outage: https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1017095240581308417
Relevant bits:

> “On their face, they’re less than a third the price of building a new coal or natural gas power plant,” Ramez Naam, an energy expert and lecturer at Singularity University, told Earther in an email. “In fact, building these plants is cheaper than just operating an existing coal or natural gas plant.”

> There’s a 30 percent federal investment tax credit for solar projects that helps drive down the cost of this and other solar projects. But Naam said even if you take away that credit, “these bids, un-subsidized, are still cheaper than any new coal or gas plants, and possibly cheaper than operating existing plants.”

(emphasis mine)
Most consumer routers use self signed certificates which will be marked as insecure by the browser.
> You mean like when the now president of the United States did it?

Is this in regards to the "birther movement" or was he harassing politicians in the real world?
They all are!

Normal people just choose another job.