skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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The Best Code Is No Code
https://youtu.be/4Kwh3R0YjuQ
The beginning of the public gravitational-wave alert era
Imagine a hospital system where employees had unfettered and unloggable access to any patient's health data. That sounds like the workplace you are describing.
Small typo on the front page: "Postition From a Video" -> "Position From a Video"
If the Longshot ever occurred that some decade old posts surface, the simple solution is to lie.

Repeat after me: "no I did not make those posts"
Let's just say something breaks and we're in a recession (declining GDP, declining immigrants, declining production, declining population).

What happens then?
mikeash was talking about US citizens; Paracha is Pakistani.
Because there are two or more sides to every debate.

The “most appropriate tool for the job” is exactly what the article is arguing for.
Guilt isn’t the only emotion that can be described as terrible.
Production ready code is much more than error handling
Physically based rendering (PBRT) code ported to Rust
Nordic Valley’s brilliant, zero-budget solution to trail/lift status
Solar and storage projects drive utility-scale deployment of batteries: Navigant
"Justice delayed is justice denied." It's unlikely that it could exceed 24 hours and if it exceeded a couple of hours you could get a preliminary injunction (unfortunately of course you'd need counsel to know about the detention in order to act on your behalf).

As a practical matter, more senior officials at CBP should hopefully know about their limitations and if you request counsel and stay silent then they'd likely release you.
EU launches blockchain initiative to drive DLT adoption
Different Approaches to Linux Monitoring
It was my understanding that 5-th amendment protections against unreasonable searches are suspended at the border. That would certainly include customs at the airport.

So, in a strict legal sense, demanding to unlock a device does not violate the 5th.
The costs of centralization is starting to seep into people’s day to day life though. People tend not to act to abstract threats but rather tangible issues.

Tech people have been warning about this forever because they have a strong grasp of the consequences and they also better understand what we have (or had) with the internet and other parts of the economy and politics.

I’m starting to see far more ‘regular’ people outside of tech concerned about the top down centralization of communication and payment networks.
I think this would be a good opportunity for Apple's legal department to do something. Maybe help the ACLU with it's case against the Department of Homeland security.
> US citizens have an absolute right to reenter the country

Going to a prison somewhere in the US is 'reentry' I suppose.
Summary:

* Storage-plus PPAs are already less expensive than the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) for combined cycle natural gas in the United States, according to a recent report from Navigant Research. (My note: BIG DEAL, coal and natural gas [peakers and combined cycle gas turbine] will not be built)

* Lithium-ion batteries are one of the main drivers in the growth of the utility-scale energy storage market, accounting for almost 30% of non-pumped storage capacity developed since 2011, the report found.

* The report comes amid growing expectations that electric utilities increase their investment in storage-plus renewable energy projects as power purchase agreement (PPA) prices continue to fall and adoption expands.
Since you brought it up, I would generally agree with you and am not too concerned about free speech on the internet. More than just terrorist groups are being censored, but all of the speech that I have seen disenfranchised has been speech that is in my opinion objectionable in one way or another.

A lot of people in the US don't seem to realize how extreme we are as a country when it comes to free speech. We fetishize free speech in a way that I feel is not healthy. I don't think any country's laws are perfect in this regard, but all the other western democracies seem to be just fine with their laws against things like hate speech. I don't see how the US allowing hate speech is beneficial to the country or its people.

This opinion tends to be an unpopular on HN and I figured I would meet the original OP on their terms.
Simply put: It is not free to keep stuff up on the internet forever.
There still exist principal investing groups, as well as market making groups that can contribute to the bottom line.
I know that at least one big German chemical company is doing exactly the same for US trips, because they have evidence of industrial espionage attempts against then. Executives that have to go to any non-European country get a clean laptop, with nothing but the VPN client installed and access is only enabled after the traveler has reached the destination and has called and given a verbal "all good". On return the laptop is not connected to the internal network, but wiped clean.
The Long-Awaited Growth Occurred on the Cryptocurrency Market
It does. And we love it. But this is cool as well. Will work offline (which is still an issue in Asia)
UI/UX Patterns You Literally Cannot Design: Design Patents from Tech Companies
Olivia-An Elegant Music Player for Linux Desktop
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Or "where is my girlfriend right now?".
This looks really cool and definitely fills a need I've had when doing web front-end.

Does the UI viewer work with dynamic content such as that loaded from a back-end (or say, from a sample .json file in the event that we want to skip the API call)? I've done a lot of work in WPF/MVVM applications where everything ends up becoming a ResourceDictionary and breaks the Visual Studio UI viewer, so I'm curious how you handle it.

Also, do you have any plans to incorporate a compatibility view? It would be really cool if I could select an item from a combo box and see what my UI would look like in (say) IE or Opera
Here's a little secret.

Courts already rubber-stamp warrants. There is no court on Earth where the average request for a search warrant will be declined.

The purpose of asking a court for a warrant that it will 100% approve is to permit targeted investigations, while preventing fishing expeditions. If the police wants to investigate someone, or something, courts will rubber-stamp their request. This is by design.
>in what ways could this information be used maliciously?

Depends on who can get access to it and how. If there are organizations that get privileged access to such API it will give them knowledge that is easily translatable into political power. For example, if you know whom your political opponent targets with ads, but they don't know the same about you, it wold give you a tremendous edge in a campaign.

Also, it depends on how good this info is protected against data-mining for undermining someone's privacy.

From the article:

"The number of impressions that an ad received within specific geographic and demographic criteria (e.g. within a political district, in a certain age range), broken down by paid vs. organic reach."

I can see this being used to undermine someone's campaign by showing their ads are reaching "bad" audience. Eventually someone will figure out a way to make bots to "watch" ads and skew these numbers.
This is like when my 4 year old daughter asked if she'll be able to have dessert and I used to say "maybe if you're lucky..."

She quickly figured out this always meant "yes".
2019 appears to have lots of students who, although always on their phone, a good bunch don't have Facebook and consider it outdated. Instagram is the new Facebook.
You're correct. U.2 is quite popular in the server space. Both for hot-swapping and thermal performance, as manufacturers design drive enclosures to act as heatsinks for higher end enterprise grade drives.
> the average grade at Harvard has been an A- for some years now. So grades from Harvard are basically meaningless.

I won't deny grade inflation, but Harvard allows students to drop classes very late in the semester. For "hard" classes, it wasn't uncommon for less than 25% of the students present in the second week of class to still be around to take the final. I never saw anything like that at the public university I went to as an undergrad.

Some amount of the high average grade is because the students not doing so well in the course drop with little to no penalty.
What about stored securely by a private company with third party audit certifications in security, that is contracted to the local government to manage their data?
Quick reminder: Non US citizens only go to conferences outside the US.
There is no excuse we should put up with this.
Canada and EU are much better locations for this reason alone.
You've been given evidence ITT and you've shifted the goalposts. From your posts here it is very clear that you are making a concerted yet subtle effort to minimize an issue at least 4 other posters and myself have had direct interactions with. I'm sure you have subjectively good reasons for playing this game.

This isn't a problem, though. This is probably what happens when it turns out the Russian bogeyman was just a fever dream. Indeed, being in a public University in the North East as well as 2 of my 3 concentrations being in the liberal arts, I'm quite used to people ignoring actual fires as they continuously harangue everyone about potential fires.
As others have mentioned, lying to the agents is illegal. This isn't:

The password to this freshly wiped device is "Orwell1984". Feel free to have a look, but all you'll find is an app called "Secure Erase Free Space". This SD card I'm carrying separately? No, you can't have the password to that. Yes, I know, you can hold it indefinitely.
I'm not going to say you're wrong, but I can't make sense of your post and it seems contrary to my experience.

> It has something like 40% of web traffic now

I'm not sure what your metric is here so I've assumed volume.

40% of web traffic now is an order of magnitude more traffic than all web traffic a decade ago. I'm not sure how something which has an increased volume and still has 40% of the total pie can be 'dead'. I might buy 'dying' if it was accompanied with more data.

> ...despite those with desktop PCs being more likely professionals in the field...

I'm not sure what you are saying. It seems like you're saying outside of tech, businesses don't use desktops. That does not jibe with my experience. I have seen an increase in POS systems using tablets, but those are primarily replacing cash registers, bespoke POS systems, etc.

> ...so normal people simply don't really use a desktop/laptop anymore to browse the web.

With the exception of the people I know who own a laptop but not a television, it seems that all normal people do with their laptops is browse the web.
>Anyone with a platform whether it is sports, tech, culture should consider what message they are sending.

Sorry, "should" is not in my vocabulary.[1]

>Because there is a message, even from quiet people.

A very useful lesson I learned at a young age. You are in control of your words and actions. You are not in control of how people interpret them, and shouldn't stress too much about it.

The other useful lesson: People will interpret a vacuum, unless they've trained themselves not to. They will find meaning when there was none.

>If you have listeners you have a responsibility for what you are saying whether you like it or not.

Yes, but you are not responsible for things people are assuming from your silence.

I've been hearing this "celebrities have an obligation to speak up on things beyond their expertise" since I was a kid. In most cases, I believe the person saying it merely wants the celebrity to say something political that the person agrees with.

Along the lines of communication skills (the URL I link to below): Your message is devoid of almost any nuance, and is loaded with absolutes. I would recommend reading any good book on communications if you want people to take you seriously.

(And yes, I responded somewhat in kind. I could have taken it further, by pointing out that by taking your stance, you are contributing to the increased polarization in the world, and adding to the culture of no compromise deadlocks. If it is off-putting, you will have a window into how others see your comment.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19492234
Same here. In the late 90's I was involved with some other kids from college creating and maintaining a site called "The Crazy Zone", where I designed some of the first JavaScript games ever made (as far as I know), including a crude breakout clone and a magic 8-Ball. We even had a chatroom applet made in Java!

But it's just gone now. Can't find a trace of it.
Honestly, random strangers.

Their motivations will be far more transparent than those of gov't level entities. Also, you can respond to your house getting robbed by adding locks, bars, camera's etc. If a gov't level entity is abusing you, your options are much more limited. That's why nipping over-reach in the bud is important.
Ideally the Internet Archive stays out of jurisdictions that can force them to remove most types of content. The non-profit aspect won't help them in the least.

Being all over the planet in terms of business, infrastructure and physical presence is where Google acting as archive would fail very badly. They might be the absolute last organization you want serving as that entity.

The IA in theory could operate all of its infrastructure and organization out of a preferential jurisdiction (or a few, so as to have backups in case one favorable location goes bad legally/politically), and archive anything it wants to from around the world while entirely ignoring the local laws from a given place (eg the EU, or China, or Brazil, New Zealand, or Turkey, or wherever).
I think his technical contributions are much more relevant here than the dogma, which, as I said, seems to be scaring people away to this day.
There is no truth to that as it will be difficult for Indians to know which caste another person is from if they are both not from the same place. For example, I am from eastern India and I have no clue if Sundar Pichai is Brahmin or not as he is from southern India.
> Any device that you lose physical control of during these encounters must be presumed to be compromised and should be physically destroyed afterwards.

Seems unwise to destroy evidence. Find the rootkit, or have your employer or security researcher do so, prove it's existence, and sue the Government.

But yes, definitely get a new laptop.
How do I become a top-tier Software Engineer?
I have a CS degree from a 4 year University, but I did more fooling around than learning there. I'm now a slightly above-average engineer with 4 years of .NET web experience (mostly backend) and one year of backend experience that was more defect fixes in an old codebase than anything else.

If I wanted to be a top tier engineer, what's the best way to train myself up? Should I take online courses to shore up my somewhat-shoddy basics? If so, anyone have recommendations?

I have a family so I have some free time, but not a ton ... so I want to learn things that will have maximum impact on my career and my marketability.
Male Animals Might Benefit from Infecting Their Female Partners with STDs
Morphing metamaterial models take origami to a whole new level
A random zoology department somewhere in Canada??!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Spencer

That's like saying seismo was a random nuclear warhead detonation monitoring facility somewhere in Northern Virginia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Adams_(Internet_pioneer)

If utzoo was involved, then they probably mounted a scratch monkey, at least.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_monkey

https://edp.org/monkey.htm
What are these sources? If you can share.
Somehow, law enforcement once managed to do its job reasonably well even in the absence of pervasive surveillance.
And this is just web. Don’t forget that we also have Apps. Some of the newer startups / media company don’t / choose not to have a web interface. We have archive for web, but not for apps. I looked at the screenshot of the first Uber & Amazon app, and it was amazing how different they look compared to today (2019)
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Mozilla is clinton’s Bitch
I think it's kind of insulting to say that. More realistically, maintaining things in the Google environment has a cost- the products are always changing, so just keeping an existing system running well takes a ton of time, and that time comes at the cost of launching new features. Realistically, usenet search results never represented a huge amount of traffic, and traffic is what gets attention at google.
No, I'm not. I'm telling you that there are many interfaces and that expecting generalized tools to understand your specific use case out-of-the-box is unreasonable.
And if a US citizen refuses to unlock a device, what do you think the consequences could be?
Not sure which is was but the v2 is significantly better than v1 and they are constantly upgrading each year
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SEC Statement on “Framework for Investment Contract Analysis of Digital Assets”
For a lot of websites (like Facebook), that's a violation of their ToS and I'm not sure they can ask you to break a contract.
Perhaps, but finances aside, there's no questioning their outsize influence compared to just about every other video site, most of which have withered and died.

Meerkat, anyone?
Actually I think it would be painful. They could get away with it, but not without remorse.

There are just tons of people who watch netflix on their laptops and mobile, it's part of the promise I think.

It'd be bad.
Plz no more front-end GUIs. Save it for Wix.com.
I expected this to be about smartphones and tablets, not the resurgence of dumb terminals.

Microsoft Virtual Desktop Google's Stadia (both sited in the article) are both indicators of something big happening in the desktop computing market.

I suppose it makes sense. Plenty of us use elastic resources to power our web applications; why pay for a massive server when your typical use case requires much less power, and you can easily scale up with a few mouse clicks?

That concept translates to the desktop, as well. I just dropped a few thousand dollars on a new development machine, but I don't need that same power when I'm screwing around on Reddit.

Of course the sticking point will be whether or not it's actually cheaper to use a scalable remote desktop than it would be to just buy better hardware. Since the obvious goal of this is to ring out more and steadier profits, I strongly doubt this will be the case.
Yes, if they actually find probable cause to charge you with a crime, then they’ll let you enter but arrest you and put you in jail. Refusing to unlock your devices does not qualify, though.
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As with most other employees, police officers are not super fond of having every single action they take while on the job recorded, monitored, and scrutinized. I've heard horror stories about tech industry people who worked at offices where their bosses used remote desktop software to monitor employees work, and I think everyone mostly universally agrees that's horrible.

I hate to break it to you, but in any half-decently-ran company with an IT department, everything you do on your work computer, including reading this post, is monitored and recorded.
A tent on a ship? Knowing how windy it can get at sea, that sounds terrifying, how do you secure it? Or are we talking indoors?
Why though? If they see BTC as goods then it's the same as buying a piano; if it's currency then it's the same as buying euros. Is either of those things illegal in India?

Also I assume this would be a small amount, not something that would have a tax impact regardless of whether it's a good or currency.
It's also more complicated for cops than just "not wanting to be monitored all the time." There are interactions with innocent people, children, sex crimes victims, witnesses who need identity protection for their physical safety, etc. where they also need to turn off their cameras. There is definitely some funky stuff happening in a lot of places, but acting like it's a cut and dry issue of "watching the cops" or "not watching the cops," is underestimating the legal complexity here.
Fake cancerous nodes in CT scans, created by malware, trick radiologists
If you're being investigated, and they have emails sent to a domain you own (for example), then search your device, but you've given them a burner device with no reference to that email account, would that be considered 'hiding' evidence?
They don't get it from nowhere, though.

The public transit in my city is plastered with advertisements that have headlines reading, "Get a career in X!" These campaigns are being run by every one of the local universities, and quite a few ones that are further afield, too. It seems like the only ones still advertising an education rather than an income boost are the city colleges.

Like it or not, incoming students' perception of the nature of their college education is going to be driven by the admissions office's hijinks. Faculty don't get to talk to them until later.
Are AOA sensors really so prone to failure that they caused the downing of two airplanes?
Great article. And I love the site!

I love how non-intuitive everything is on the site, and I have to go looking for things, exploring. For example, the essays are listed under Archons. What are Archons? I love it! And I'm still not sure what lapsuslima.com is for, but it's really got my curiosity piqued.

I understand the motivation for good website design (inspired by "Don't Make Me Have to Think"), but unfortunately the downside is that almost every website I visit now looks, feels, and behaves almost identically. It's made the Internet so homogenous and boring.
I could've sworn that the CyberBoxingZone went pre-1994, but the earliest I can find is '95: http://www.cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/aolnws.htm

Great list you've got.
Well, that's the law of unintended consequences. Customers wanted so not pay for retraining, Boeing wanted to get to the market faster and not wait for re-certification, managers wanted a physical problem fixed in software - and in the end the envelope got pushed too far.

I am sure the company operating the Titanic didn't exactly strive to have a shipwreck either.
I forgot about SuprNova. That site had me pushing my 10gb cap every month
Here's the story: https://www.salon.com/2002/01/08/saving_usenet/

One of the interesting points the story brings up is that you never know what future people will care about. In this case cultural and political discussions are typically more interesting than arcana about bug fixes in long ago systems.