skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wasn't it pretty secure at the time, though?
>The T34's were designed this way on purpose. They purposely skipped on making things perfect so long as they were functional. The guns worked. The engines worked. The transmissions worked. This is what they needed, nothing more. See the CIA document regarding this tank:
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/cia-rdp81-0....
The German tanks, on the other hand, were designed and built meticulously...at least in the early days of the war. The downside is they were expensive to build and maintain...and they were not reliable.

This way undersells the T-34 tank. It was a better designed and superior tank to the Sherman and Panzer IV tanks fielded by the US/Germany armies. It may not have been as good as a Tiger, but that's not an apples to apples comparison.
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I'd rather save my money and just not visit. I don't see anything that could out balance all the negatives. Many millions of Americans are lovely people who I'd donate a kidney to. I'd just not want to put myself through all that for so little gain.
I agree with you insofar that "inventions" seem to imply that they invented the concept of Search Engines and Mapping Software from scratch, which is obviously not true (both existed for a long time before Google entered the market) but in both cases Google managed to offer a superior service for free (for the end user at least). I wouldn't call them inventions, but they're better implementations of an existing concept.

Compare Google maps to the mapping and GPS services of yore, you'd have to pay a fortune to get the same feature set. I remember when you had to pay to add regions to your GPS and then pay again to update them later.

The word "disruption" is quite a buzzword these days but in this case Google truly disrupted both these markets. Everybody had to play catch-up after that. I remember how all other search engines started copying Google's slick interface when they realized they were losing badly.
Maybe starting a flame war, but isn’t this exactly what GNU Emacs & SLIME and for other languages, REPL, LSP/DAP protocols for? While I appreciate his/her effort (I appreciate everything related to developer’s ergonomics), I’m not sure what differentiates lighttable. Maybe I’m missing something? Can anyone explain?
Now we should expect a growing investment in battery production, right? Or does the sinking cost reduce the potential profit too much, i.e. who would now invest 1000$ into a battery factory that produces at price x$/MWh?
We lead the world in R&D, we aren't in a surveillance state like China (~1.3B people), we aren't undeveloped, we have the US dollar - the commanding world currency. We develop the best military technology, space technology, most all technology. We issue the most patents, by far. We (as people) have more rights than most all other nations and we led many other rights to attain rights for their own citizens. We protect Europe and the West. We will continue leading the galaxy in space development. We have the best talent in the world. We are Earth's shining civilization.
I think you're being downvoted because...

...because I hope that's the most uncharitable interpretation of someone else's words that I read today.
oh, for the love of...two hours into work and I read this thread and there's a fat-fingered spelling error that I can't edit anymore.

The url is obviously http://web.archive.org/save/https://<url-to-be-saved>
Very good point. The key here is to make sure your devices are all fully encrypted. Feel free to turn them on to prove they are real.

But never decrypt. If this results in you missing your flight, so be it.
Batman Arkham City was, in my second playthrough, becoming rather boring.

Then I changed the difficulty to the highest setting and it was much more interesting. I had to plan everything and take a lot of care to not to die.

In contrast, Alien Isolation is an unforgiving frustrating game in most difficulties. I hope it gets better on a second playthrough.
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Preach.

It's not about blocking ads. It's about exposing people who would abuse ads.

It's like saying: "The solution to human trafficking is for everyone to stop having sex. If no one has sex, no one will pay for trafficking."

As an aside: I would not want to live in an advertising-free world, if only because advertising pays for so much of the shit I would otherwise have to pay for myself. Online ads have entered into crazy town, so it's good that we're now exploring ways of reeling that back in. But I genuinely don't know how enjoyable an ad-free world would be once the revenue generated by those ads also disappears.
> 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.

This isn't true and has never been backed up by a court ruling, including at the Supreme Court. Currently there is no legal foundation to the premise that any rights for US citizens are suspended just because you're at the border (typically people refer to the premise as also including N miles inside of the border, eg 100 or 300 miles).

Right now what you have is a few government agencies attempting to write over the Constitution, without anything to actually support their doing so. They go out of their way to avoid an actual court confrontation with their fake / invented 'laws,' knowing that they'll lose.
That's debatable. Try going to law enforcement with anything non-trivial, and see how that goes. People routinely get murdered by someone that's a known and reported threat to them personally.

You might be shocked what the police are unable or unwilling to go after someone for. Things like aggravated assault, stalking, and breaking / entering. If you have a known address and whereabouts for someone, and you've checked there once (or a few times), what else can you really do? These tools can be used to automate things that would be extremely costly for an officer(s) to do.

I don't agree with pervasive surveillance btw, and there are other factors that cause law enforcement to be ineffective. I strongly disagree with your premise, though.
Isn't the device lock easily defeatable on the computer?

Hold shift or some other key combination when you boot and it boots into the 'real' machine, the other OS is just a dummy with generic search history and data.
Unless a dog is directed by its handler to bark. FTFY
Alternatively, prefer to avoid bringing your own devices with you when you fly. Leave your laptop and smartphone at home, and rent temporary ones after you cross.
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You can see all the TODO comments if you choose to; they are a grep away.
I worked at FB briefly so maybe I can explain. FB has a corporate culture that really discourages critique. When things are broken, especially internal things, people look at you funny if you speak up about it. A big part of that is that quarterly bonuses are given for "making an impact" and your group's status (and part of your bonus) is based on delivering a consistent set of "impacts" over time. So it is better for your comp to do things badly really fast since you get (1) did something super fast! and (2) get to record a big impact a few months later when you fix the obvious brokenness.

Pretty quickly, people learn to keep their mouth shut.

Also, many, many FB engineers are early-career folk who are fresh out of school. More senior folk are few and far between and are even more strongly incentivized to keep their mouth shut, because their bonuses are bigger.
Thanks for pointing this out. Seems to have instantly fixed my issues!!
Though the legal situation is a bit murky even in the US. After all, I can't set up a "Comics Archive" and start populating it with all sorts of copyrighted comic strips and expect not to hear from the publishers. But as a non-profit who isn't making money off the content it mirrors, respects robots.txt even retroactively, and will generally honor takedown requests that are remotely legit, it gets cut a lot of slack that a corporation doing this for profit-making purposes wouldn't.
I work in this space, building the tools to help LEAs seach their databases. I also have conflicting feelings about how this could be used. We built in access control down to the specific camera, auditing of every user action, requiring the reason you are performing an action, and mandating the user associate an open case in the same access group as the camera you are querying in order to view the data.

Its pretty locked down to help prevent abuse. I'm not saying abuse is impossible but LEOs or more likely, their administrators, but it is difficult to do it and get away.

I've heard from the higher ups, that abuse used to be rampant in other systems, but since switching to our software, only a handful of people have been found to abuse it.
still surprised I haven't seen any revenue shares of those kind of businesses on the blockchain, ever since 2013's crypto-securities bonanza

either the revenues are that high such that nobody has a desire to sell some of the company, or there is a language barrier in the host jurisdictions where these can legally operate, or nobody has considered it as the incumbents are so comfortable with their licensing/turf that they don't need to change a thing

the technology is so much better now than 2013 and nobody calls them crypto-securities anymore, it is such an obvious use case for price discovery, liquidity, and acceleration of public policy
It sounds like you're saying, "Act as if Big Brother is always watching".
It's Larry Ellison's Network Computer idea finally realized, 20 years later.

https://www.cnet.com/news/oracle-to-debut-500-network-comput...
I appreciate the fact I'm British, but not out of any patriotism. I certainly don't think my country is awesome. Considering life is a lottery, all things considered I've been incredibly lucky to be born in a 'developed' wealthy nation.
Traveling internationally with encrypted data you don't want to disclose to border officials is not a good plan these days. Much safer to transfer securely via network connection.

It's easy to single out the US but the reality is that most countries have pretty far reaching rules these days. E.g. the UK and Australia are hardly any safer. And forget about China, Russia, or indeed most countries with even less democratic regimes.

The bottom line is that if you are not willing to unlock your device at any of the security checkpoints you will pass on your journey, you should leave it at home or just wipe it preemptively and restore over a secure connection after you arrive. In case it does get unlocked or taken from you, consider the device burned. It may come back to you with all sorts of malware. The people doing this are not thinking you are a terrorist or a child pornographer: you are being targeted and under attack by a hostile entity. Assuming otherwise would be a mistake. Wipe it, sell it on e-bay, never use it again.
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That isn't what happened here, and why would your companies location make the acts worthy of more or less prison time?
If another country were plan well, they could create opportunities that would attract and welcome the smart people from the US and elsewhere. If they made it economically attractive to tech businesses, they could set themselves up as a dominant leader of the world within 20-30 years, regardless of their current size.

I don't know enough about Estonia to suggest they would try this, but they do seem progressive in this regard. I would vote for Netherlands, Belgium, or Portugal just because I like being in those countries.
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As I recall it, they tried to incorporate Usenet into Google Groups. It was a mess, and instead of fixing it, they probably discovered that adoption of not-Usenet functions was more used and abandoned it.

This is a feature of development based on sprints vs. a bigger vision. That design/development model has alot going for it, but it only works well when the scope of the system is narrow.
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I enjoyed your comment because I’m particularly interested in Tesla’s Autopilot system and your mention of “graceful degradation and clean handover” sounds like it should apply to driving autonomy levels as well.
Yeah, their new motto might more accurately be stated as "to organize the world's information, to feed it into our machine learning models, and to throw away anything we deem unprofitable."
Right, he meant to say that 4th amendment protections are suspended at the border, and, while you might quibble with that wording, it's a valid point: border searches usually don't require a warrant, owing to the border search exception, which has precedent going all the way back to the founders.
Yay for getting protection from your local Lord or Knight against the King. Sad if it’s come to this.
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> ...but the wave of full-screen smartphones had already started.

I’ve heard it argued that someone would have gotten there eventually, but my suspicion is that without a big player committing all their resources to marketing and selling it a similar device would have failed to make headway. Phone manufacturers would never have pushed like Apple did against the headwinds of physical keyboards and flash and operator-managed app distribution (and phone crippling).

But I’ve never heard someone argue that the design was already established and going to become a tidal wave. There were a few devices which vaguely resembled a few superficial elements. What examples can you provide to illustrate a wave was already underway?
Turning them on doesn't reduce the security. The issue is unlocking them.

As far as the security of the data on the device is concerned, a powered-off device is equivalent to a powered-on device that hasn't been unlocked since it was powered on.
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I don't think so. I know many gates cominities that have a guard that verifies identity for those comming and going from the subdivision. And logs are kept.

If you can hire a human to do it and it is fine then I don't think any automated systems would be violating privacy.

Also there is no privacy in public places and you can probably conclude that you are in a public place before you enter. Eg. Their is no privacy at the checkpoint.
Given their reported membership in the Five Eyes, I don't see NZ as a place to be. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
> but we also want law enforcement to have useful resources.

Speak for yourself; this is certainly not a universal sentiment.
That would rock for chess tournaments. Webcam next to the board and run analysis for the audience...
Properly used, it's just a short-hand for small expressions, where adding formally declared parameters adds 50% or more bulk to the code.

{|a, b| a + b} versus {@1 + @2}

type of thing. Note also that a and b are not more informative than @1 and @2.

Both these examples convey one message: "I'm a function that adds two arguments".

Here is a useful power: omit the smaller numbers:

# TXR Lisp:
5> (mapcar (aret @3) '((a n 1 10) (b m 2 20)))
(1 2)
6> (mapcar (aret @2) '((a n 1 10) (b m 2 20)))
(n m)

aret: a)pply list to function, which ret)urns an expression.

Simply by using @20, we get a twenty-argument function with 19 don't-cares.
I basically just want a simple app to schedule reminders at given times. I need to add recurring reminders as well.

I liked the simplicity and UI of Todoist, but I had to pay to get the reminder feature. I don't mind paying, but I had no way of testing the feature first.

The main thing that I miss from Inbox (except having everything at the same place) is for the reminders to only show up on the specified time. Ticktick, as many todo apps (all that I've tested) will show me all reminders for a given day.
I hope not. It's a very lousy and frustrating illustration program. I'd rather design whole interfaces in Adobe Illustration that draw even the simplest shape in sketch.
So really,

"Apple employee gets mildly harassed at airport because of proprietary confidentially agreements" with

"A terrible, terrible tragedy, non US-citizen travellers agree" as a byline.

The main thing of interest here would be that maybe Mozilla should employ better hiring practices.
Browser-based Visual Basic, you say? We built one! https://anvil.works/

(Mind you, our visual layout tools aren't this powerful at the HTML/CSS level. We have a fairly simple drag'n'drop system, and if you want to get lower-level than that, then you'll be editing HTML and CSS as text. Gimli looks awesome.)
It can be derived using static ports that measure air pressure at several locations.
Note that that often will be doable just as an expression index. Say CREATE INDEX foo ON bar(my_function(cola, colb)); which then can answer questions like SELECT * FROM bar WHERE my_function(cola, colb) = 'zaphod'; if my_function is immutable. That has the advantage of not needing additional space in the table, just the index.

Of course, there are plenty cases where one still wants to have generated columns.
The Black Panthers did the job reasonably well too.
I don't feel that anything is wrong with it; it's just not the whole answer for many projects. You end up bundling tons of middleware for things like logging, metrics, tracing, authn, etc. If you use typescript, you inevitably end up wanting more type safety so you'll reach for resolver codegen, which Apollo does not do on the server (they do do it for the client). And it doesn't assert any opinions about how the rest of the app should be structured, such as business logic, dependency injection, etc.

Apollo Server would be a great component in a broader, opinionated server-side web framework.
It is always a question of who will watch the watchers?
Yup! Not sure why Canada gets to slip under the radar on things like this. They are demanding access to devices as well.
Laws and precedent are one thing, but "law enforcement" behavior is another. You might indeed get your stuff back, but they can make it unreasonably difficult, expensive (in legal fees), or time consuming if they want.
A lot.

I couldn’t find hard numbers, but the range appears to be about a billion barrels of oil per year for the US, maybe higher.

Interestingly, we used a lot less fuel per soldier then. The normal back then was 1 gallon per soldier per day. By desert storm we were up to 4, and by 2007 we consumed 16 gallons per soldier per day[0].

Now obviously we have a smaller army now, which goes a long way to explain the lower total consumption than in WW2, but it is mildly terrifying to consider what a WW2 sized engagement would consume at 16x the per-soldier fuel consumption.

0: https://www.forbes.com/2008/06/05/mileage-military-vehicles-...
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A provocative title, but I'm not mathematically sophisticated enough to make heads or tails of the content, nor to grasp its connection to computer science. Would anyone care to elucidate?
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>Mozilla could block all ads for Firefox users, except that this would be somewhat insane, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19563427

If Firefox had the 65% market share that Chrome does now no sane website would block them.

>Mozilla can't block ads for non-Firefox users, nor does it aim for establishing a Web browser monopoly, so the original problem still exists.

Firefox should be aiming to be the dominant web browser. If they did that instead of spending their effort dicking around on unrelated projects and poking Google they could actually solve the problems they complain about.
> but it's also perfectly understandable why police aren't super fond of it.

Only in the sense that people aren't super fond of doing their job right.
I use that Basic HTML version ever since that weird reply popup panel appeared.
I made a post upthread about it, but no, this isn't actually unusual, particularly for Boeing. Their design philosophy generally revolves around granting the pilot maximum authority over the plane. There have been various models that have had the same type of compensator built into their controls. The 727-300 I believe is the most notorious I've come across.

McDonnell Douglas also implemented something similar one of their DC' family of jets. I believe it was either the 9, 10, or 11. In that case it was to accommodate a smaller tailplane to decrease drag.
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>One might think that Google would see OWNING the world's information as part of their mission

FTFY

But also, I do like the theory that early high level Google hires, across the org likely have embarrassing Usenet histories -- I mean, c'mon - I've bee 'online' since the early 90s...

I've said some cringeworthy stuff: for example - I used to actively participate in the Haiku thread on Craigslist in the early 2000s -- and I thought I was /r/IamReallySmart

It was fun at the time - but I put way to much time into writing long Haikus, and once spent a ton of time attempting to write my masterpiece, a palindromatic senryu...

((HAHAH I just went back to CL and read some of my Haiku I wrote on there... from 2003!))

EDIT: for self deprecation, here is what I wrote on 9/11/2003 ABOUT 9/11/2001:

https://forums.craigslist.org/?ID=8734800
> 1500+, 4.0+, 12+ AP course student

What does that mean for people unfamiliar with US school system?
Yay! Cheating now will be so easy :) Is the engine in use stockfish?
Not all human societies have had writing and even fewer had it in any significant way. Secondly, oral traditions are not always about entertainment nor are they only recorded by writing.

There's a very common trap when considering the past to look for "logical causation". It's almost always incorrect to do so and leads to this sort of wild speculation.
Btw, who picked up after TrueCrypt left? VeraCrypt?
VC has historically done slightly better than the stock market, but returns over any time period are inversely correlated with how much money is flowing to VC (ie when everyone wants a piece of the action more bad deals are done, terms are better for companies etc) - so you'd expect the current period to produce okay returns (but probably less than the S&P). People imagine VCs return 100x or something, but if that really happened it would reveal an absurd amount of under-investment or really bad negotiating by founders.

And given that these reasonable but not stellar returns put them in the top quartile (and VC has high variance even relative to hedge funds), you can guess how well things have gone for other folks.
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Honestly this is one of the best use cases for multiple profiles on a device.

They want entrance, just grant it to a sandboxed environment.
Pretty sure this will be (ab-)used for cheating in online-chess.
The audience here is not uniform. Andreas Gal is definitely in the target audience for HN and was able to stand up to the border agents.
"I'll usually take a collection of "xs" and iterate over each "x" without any pretense that I'm coming back to make it better."

Those can be perfectly fine names!

xs indicates you are writing a generic method or function applicable to just about any kind of collection, and x is an item in xs. So for functions like map and reduce or anything else that deals with arbitrary collections, these names are very clear in expressing the intent and far better than @1, etc.

This is similar to using "i" as the index variable in a for loop, an almost universally recognized convention.
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