skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has never happened to me, and I have crossed borders 100+ times, mostly Europe to UK and South Africa. Worst is Israel, and their checks were believably focused on finding explosives.

It’s important for people to know that such behavior is not the norm among civilized countries.
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Imagine if we could of used some of that money to educate children, provide healthcare, and other things.
I'd love to hear more about the Live Share issue you ran into, and make sure we're tracking it (https://github.com/microsoft/live-share).
Sure, but you live in a city in Tanzania, which is already going the way of "Western City", so it already has all the bad stuff.

Get out into a town or village, or better yet, get to a country that isn't overrun with tourists like Tanzania is. Gabon is simply breathtaking, Congo is wild, Burundi really is the heart of Africa, Djibouti is like a different planet! There is a lot to explore, a huge part of me wishes I could turn around and drive south right now!
That’s true, there’s no real reason to “leave” a city. But if they need to stop bleeding cash in an expensive city, they’ll need to raise prices during a hurting economy. Doing this at scale is going to severely dent their ability to cover fixed costs long term.
At the risk of incurring HN's wrath: Docker is an option. Another is to use C/C++ instead of Python and statically link it. Either way, if you want to use the GPU you'll have a world of pain with NVidia stuff.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_bunching
That's just "fake it till you make it" 101.
Sorry, but it just doesn't gel. You are not important. Jeff Bezos might be important, but I really couldn't give two shits if the Saudis know where Jeff Bezos is at all times. They're not going to expend real or political capital to worry about Joe Whomever.

Certainly, if you're Jeff Bezos, you may have something to worry about from foreign governments, but you are also only .000000000167~% of people. Forgive me if I don't have the concern to expend on that proportion of people, especially when they are rich enough to buy a country.

Contrarily, I am terrified that in the event I am somehow wrongly charged of a crime, or rightly charged of a wrong crime in the United States, that my entire history of movement will be used to exploit me. The FBI and CIA have run many discrediting campaigns in their histories, to speak nothing of the McCarthy era.
You should probably find out/ask whether Apple has guidance regarding how you should behave in such a situation (and if you are concerned that following that guidance could cause you problems personally, you may want to get an independent opinion regarding your rights).
Even Discourse is ok but you have to go offsite to post, something their owner has been adamant about not supporting. Perhaps there is a big market opportunity here to take the best of what's around and what customers are asking for.
I'm not conflating anything, you're just mixing subjects. You said that gig jobs would get better or there would be more, and I countered that was not the case since a business cannot sustain that number of people if it's not profitable.
I just looked up my own employer's policies/guidance, and they say:

1. Comply with legal government requests (in any country; there's also a pre-approval form for international travel with a corporate laptop, and a list of countries that they will not let you take your corporate laptop to at all).

2. If you are a US citizen, the US must let you back in even if you don't consent to a search, though they can seize your devices in the process.

The "legal" qualifier on #1 means I'd want access to a lawyer, which they denied....
"Victory" is the entirely wrong way to look at it. A serious scientist would not crow about a result like this in a paper, and anyone interested in the success of science should be very sad about such a majorly incorrect statistic being pushed out into the world.

As for the tweet, Baron-Cohen's language in that tweet seems to be a cry of triumph, using language that he presumably realizes (or ought to) would be inflammatory. There are good reasons that this is a sensitive subject. And how you present and talk about the results is a big part of why.

Science--particularly psychology and neuroscience--has a long-established history of unscientific lies and willful misinterpretations about differences due to sex (and race and other things) that have been demonstrably harmful to millions of people. Only the confidence of ultimate privilege could make you think that now we've finally turned a corner and can be totally objective about such things.

When the biggest names in such research lecture other people about how important it is to be serious about studying oh-so-scientific proof of sex differences while simultaneously cheering on their long-preferred outcome like it's a sporting event is... unprofessional at best. A good scientist should be humble about their own instincts and should be thoughtful and careful about succumbing to confirmation bias. But here we had Simon Baron-Cohen crowing over a single result in the most obnoxiously oversimplified way possible.

There's a huge amount of context here that I am (and probably you are) missing, and I certainly can't judge these people's motives. But I'll say it again: serious scientists who really care about finding out the facts about sex differences in brain development should probably not be crowing about single studies on Twitter in inflammatory ways.
Thanks for the sirtrevorjs link.

Looking at the structure I was thinking how similar it is.
Just south of Marfa, TX on the way back from a camping trip in Big Bend. CBP closes the northbound lanes of the highway and has a checkpoint that everyone has to pass through.
I also enjoyed "Cornwall, one of England’s sunniest corners" though it was admittedly mostly nice last time I was there. That said, might have been a useful option when I did a coastal walk last summer.
We ahould be doing exactly this in opposite:

Anti ad exit node proxies.

Basically an ecryoted proxy connection to a powerful ad stripping instance that will randomize and pipe all that shit to dev null, and reply to trackers with addesses of their competing ad systems.

So that every ad for “microsoft” appears as though its being used by apple users...
Out of curiosity, what were the most irritating problems you faced there, that in the end you decided to start looking for a replacement?
As good as this sounds in concept, price wins at the end of the day, and while I lived in Europe RyanAir, SAS & Norwegian were a similar price to trains, but faster. The exception is when you travel to smaller regions with no major airport.
Thanks, that actually clears it up very well.
I propose the systemic dismantling of the Zuckerberg empire, hard prison time for the execs, and industry banishment for its employees and collaborators. HN is just a news aggregator with social-media like comments section. Its not social media.

If the unwashed masses (instead of whatever Technorati that hangs out here) decided to call this home, im out! ;-)
This is the part I don't get. Surely they realize there are a large portion of people that will avoid that county just on principle that they may be hassled at the border. I can imagine that these policies have cost them millions of dollars. Imagine going to a county and being turned around all because you had an employers laptop you promised not to unlock for anyone. Or how about a personal laptop with naked pictures of your wife and kids bathing. Especially when we know it is all security theater. So I am with you. I will avoid the USA for now until the climate changes.
I travelled in a such a cabin in 2012 from Denmark to, I believe, Munich. Very relaxing, and with a complimentary bottle of sekt from the conductor.

Sleeper cars are great—I have fond memories of travelling up the coast of Norway in 1990, as well as travelling in the seventies in Sweden with my father.
Re: Central and Eastern Europe, I took an overnight (sort of, 5AM to 5PM) sleeper train from Lviv to Budapest a couple years ago. It was quite pleasant and they managed the journey in a way I never would have expected. Instead of passenger layovers and shuffling between trains at subsequent stations, they just designated a whole car bound for Budapest and then detached & reattached it to different trains along the way. Made the long ride a surprisingly pleasant and restful experience.
I'll second that overnight ferries can be great, and not just for Europeans. I've been on the one from Bari, Italy to Dubrovnik, Croatia which worked out really well. Another time I took one from Helsinki to Stockholm. If you take the ferry in the summer time you get an hours long never ending sunset.

Then of course there are the local ferries like you mention. IMO, one of the best ways to visit Venice is to stay in Rovinj, Croatia and ferry over for the day.
I'd assume that they also revoked Global Entry, which they can do arbitrarily and I'd be surprised if "you didn't comply with our arbitrary demands" wasn't explicitly listed as one of the specific examples of reasons for revoking it.
Since much of that is subsidizing wages, which are the most highly taxed form of income, we are using some of that money to do those things, more than if the business were operating with costs in line (much less profitable) with revenue.
I once took a sleeper from Budapest to Munich and the problem was the jolt of the train stopping waking me up. It was OK-ish otherwise. I do not know how people would sleep through that.
I’m a longtime Windows laptop user that will buy a £2k MacBook Pro as soon as they fix the keyboard problem. Until they fix the keyboard there’s not a chance I’d buy any of them. I’m sure I’m not the only one.

Even if they have to put the price up by £50 and make it thicker, they need to sort out the keyboard.
Taking a laptop through airport security as a carry-on doesn't involve letting it out of your hands. (I assume they do not hire hobbits to hide inside the X-ray machine and implant hardware on your motherboard.)
> I think it's unreasonable to assume the government is lying about vaccines because you would have to establish a rational reason for the government to do so.

Same reason as any: money. Pays well to ensure vaccines of dubious quality are fast-tracked [1].

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-merck-gerberding/former-c...
Your post echoes the infamous comment on Dropbox's announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

There is a difference between building something that works for you, a technical person, and something the general population will trust and pay for.
It's always surprising to see how much relatively recent stuff is lost on https://www.lostmediawiki.com/
Ignoring what you don't understand is arguably valid, dark mode would be illegal..
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> There are hundreds of people throughout history that quite literally gave their lives for privacy, as recent as one generation ago.

No trolling at all; can you give me a few pointers about how to research this? Thanks.
The hing about trains in general though is the pricing around it.

In Sweden a flight from the northern parts to the southern is about $100 and takes an hour. The train cost $100-200 and takes about 16h depending on where you depart from.

I believe a requirement for people choosing to take the train is that they add some facilities (you feel pretty nasty after 16h on a train) and reduce the price. Raising the price on flights won’t help unless it’s drastically, around 2-300%. And if you do this on domestic flights then nobody will afford international flights.
1 and 2 are fine, because if enough people need parking spaces then someone might develop their lot with a parking garage that there is market demand for.

Structured parking is extremely expensive; 19K per spot for an aboveground structure [1]. I've heard 30K per spot for underground parking. And parking garages are generally terrible for the streetscape and building, and are difficult to convert to other uses if say, autonomous cars get rid of the need for it later on.

If you're building parking based on demand for free parking you'll never build enough unless you want buildings too far apart to walk to the bus stop or their house, which just drives the need for parking up. Pricing parking is a very effective way of managing spaces so that some proportion of them is always free; in my current city, Seattle, new buildings cannot hand parking to residents or workers free with the unit or job, since many people are car-free and all bundling does is socialize the cost of parking. As a result even with no parking requirements many garages are overbuilt (out of town developers not used to developing for local conditions) and the well located ones do a brisk trade in monthly passes and day parking while the residents are out parking their cars at their job.

[1] - http://denver.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/20...
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The right to an attorney is actually limited to criminal defendants, so if they don't charge you with anything, you aren't actually afforded that protection Constitutionally. So if they just detain you, they can credibly ignore this. I'm not 100% sure on how Miranda rights apply to border detainee situations, but if they do apply, you'd get a phone call. If they don't, your options are basically to wait them out.
I took an overnight train from Paris to Munich. Got on the train from Paris in the evening. My private stall had three seats with a folding table and a sink. The seats folds down and you can unfold three beds from the wall. I had a good sleep, woke up, got some breakfast delivered, took a shower and I was in Munich.
For reference: I finished AP Calc AB (derivative calc) and BC (integral calc) my junior year in high school, audited multi-variable calc at a local college my senior year in high school (and tested out of it in real college freshman year). Also took AP Stats in high school. Took linear algebra and diff eq my freshman year in college at which point I was done with math classes for my major (electrical engineering /w CE emphasis). I'm certainly no math prodigy, but I'm not bad at math and find it pretty easy.

Yet...I don't use much of any of this in programming, it's mostly just not applicable. Calc is vaguely useful in the sense that understanding at a high level what derivatives/integrals are is a good thing to know, but if you tossed an AP calc exam in my face I would fail it. The most important ideas there (rates of change) are not hard to teach without the rigor of calculous. You don't have to pass calc 3 to have an idea of rates of change or gradient decent. These are pretty simple ideas you can explain to almost anyone as long as you avoid math jargon and get to the point.
Having worked with YOLO, I really recommend this intro: https://blog.paperspace.com/how-to-implement-a-yolo-object-d.... And in general, YOLO is performant and at the same time, it has a simpler architecture than the Fast(er) R-CNN family.

And in general, due to its head, it is WAY more readable in PyTorch than in TensorFlow; to the point, I use it as an example in Keras vs PyTorch example https://deepsense.ai/keras-or-pytorch/ (was here at some point).
I thought that I was being clear enough. But ...

Why did the government lie about the health impacts of fallout from above-ground nuclear weapons testing? It's because they felt that above-ground tests were necessary for weapons' development. Also because they cost less.

Why would the government lie about the risk of vaccine injury? Because they want people to vaccinate themselves and their children. To protect the public health.

As a wild-ass guess, the public-health benefits of universal vaccination are likely great enough that appreciable injury risk is acceptable. But individuals don't really see evidence for public-health benefits. All they ever see are their kids being injured. So it's in the government's interest to reassure people.

But what dominates social media are reports of injuries.
I'd never consider myself a socialist, but I am all for hacking away at the military budget to raise the standard of living. It'd ease foreign relations considerably, like the drunk uncle who's loads of fun provided he only visits every few years. I mean, the USA armed forces constitute the most expensive and expansive venture in world history, but nobody wants to fess up.

I agree on today's socialists. ACO's heart may be in the right place, but she's either too young or too starstruck to understand what leading by example means. Personal sacrifice is the least popular thing in the western world.
I had the exact same thought. Love it. Stealing it.
These power-tripping thugs don't think that far ahead. They only care about exercising authority in their tiny little hundred-foot-long kingdom.
My guess is that that sentiment arises from the meritocratic attitude that if you are disproportionately talented you should be compensated much much more. And I get that. To a point.

I don't like when corporations collude to artificially suppress wages either. Or when information asymmetry is used to keep an engineer's salary low or prevent negotiating higher salaries.

I'll read that discussion.
yeah, search is really bad. Not sure if it's still possible, but a few years ago when trying to find something I knew I captured, I just wrote my own SQL against the local DB - found what I was looking for pretty quickly.
In the article, someone mentions that a union between managers would have solved the issue. Why? You can't shift difficult decisions to the union, just because you don't want to deal with the uncomfortable decision of firing someone.
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So this is mostly challenging for imperative languages? So a dataflow heavy language, like functional programming, might be easier to compile?
The counter example is Amazon with Prime.
Just because it doesn’t neatly fit the normal left/right axis doesn’t make it non-political.
Hi! The author of this article here :) I hoped you liked it (cause your message can read both ways :D)

You reminded me that I was planning to refresh it a bit since it's over 3 years old now. I'd like to cover the rise of modern rich-text editors like CKEditor 5, ProseMirror, Draft.js and perhaps dive a bit into what we've learned when developing CKEditor 5 (because after 4 years of work it's actually out by now [1]). If you have any questions or you're curious about some particular aspects, please let me know :)

[1] https://ckeditor.com/ckeditor-5/
It's an administrative complaint with the Department of Homeland Security, not a legal case. Not sure if this is an area where there is an administrative remedy that needs to be exhausted before filing a lawsuit, or if there is some other reason for the decision to take this approach.
Yolov3 is about a year old and is still state of the art for all meaningful purposes. It's fast and works well. You might get "better" results with a Faster RCNN variant, but it's slow and the difference will likely be imperceptible. Using map50 as pjreddie points out, isn't a great metric for object detection.
i love how “the time is long overdue”. everyone says that when it happens to them. he’s not wrong, but we need more folks that don’t sit around as if it’s someone else’s problem.
> Why is there no privacy focused Facebook or Google?

The tongue-in-cheek answer to this is that they all eventually get bought by Facebook or Google. Anything that poses a threat to Facebook or Google will fold for the right price, as a simple matter of serving the fiduciary interest of the investors.

The only platforms which can hold out are the ones explicitly designed to resist centralization. They have no pitch to make to investors, no funds for promotion, but the technology is there. Mastodon and Matrix are proof.

The technology is dead simple. Facebook, Reddit and Twitter are nothing but glorified shiny message boards. WhatsApp, Discord, and Skype are nothing but glorified shiny VoIP apps. The only thing that makes them special is the branding
>> They say that elephants never forget, and Silicon Valley is no different

I'd say this statement is both incorrect and accurate.
With absolutely no expertise in the subject, I would expect any sufficiently large land area to have no net oxygen production. It's not like oxygen levels fluctuate wildly, and it seems unlikely to have such a uniform O2 level on Earth if it's coming from just a few big producers.
Most of the techniques he describes for competing in a commodity business make you a non-commodity business, by definition. A commodity business with a network effect isn't a commodity; it's a business whose key differentiator is the network. Same goes for a commodity business with an exclusive partnership; its differentiator is the partnership. Branding is a way to differentiate in consumer's minds, user experience is a way to differentiate in consumer's hands, access is a way to differentiate by consumer's feet.

A commodity business is usually defined as one where products are essentially interchangeable between producers and the price is set by supply & demand in the market as a whole rather than for any one manufacturer's product. And therefore, there is only one way to compete: be the low-cost producer. That way, no matter what the price is, you will still be in business and still be making more than any of your competitors.

Companies use all sorts of techniques to be the low-cost producer. Southwest Airlines did it for many years by turning planes around more quickly, using only 737s (to reduce maintenance and ground crew costs), and flying into smaller airports where they could negotiate lower landing fees. Walmart did it by negotiating heavily with suppliers, taking advantage of economies of scale in their superstores, and investing heavily in logistics. Amazon uses many of the same techniques, plus a heavy investment in automation. Vanguard became the low-cost producer in investments by piggybacking off the price discovery of all other investment firms. GEICO became the low-cost provider in auto insurance by only insuring people who were pretty good bets to begin with (indeed, if you have a clean driving record a number of insurance companies can match GEICO).

The key for all of them is that cost is crucial and quality is secondary, because consumers don't make their purchasing decisions on quality in a commodity market. So if you're going into a commodity market, you need to have that same maniacal focus on controlling costs.
I see this repeated as an article of faith but how profitable? Uber is billions in the hole. If they make a billion in profit every year for 15 years then they will have repaid their investors money at nominal rates. In real terms they will still be down.

How much profit can Uber make if it cuts 'certain' cities?
It is also worth noting that in real life passengers are not uniformly distributed through time. When school lets out, or a train arrives at the station full of transfer passengers, etc. you can get a huge burst of traffic at one stop that screws up everything.

This can have knockback effects, because if buses show up late to their terminal they have now also started their return trip late.

EDIT: edited a word
If you look at the way most people use social media, they absolutely have no concept that they provide permanence. It’s exactly the opposite.

People saving images solely to Flickr or videos on YouTube is a different usage pattern than the ephemeral likes and comments they make on the social platforms.
Thinkpads generally do better with Linux than your average PC or laptop. It's partly self-reinforcing - they have that reputation historically, so people buy them to run Linux on them, and thus problems get reported and fixed faster.