skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Body cams are a little bit more specific to "actual interactions with police", and I think it's worthwhile for both the officer and the private citizen to have access to that footage.

LPRs is interesting because this falls kinda in a "right to be forgotten" territory. The car "saw" you, in a public space, and we're recognizing that it's really not okay for police to remember everywhere they've seen a car. As an RTBF supporter, I'm alright with that. They arguably still can have a lot of value to police, if only able to record plates of cars of interest. Since an officer can't read every plate on the road, much less compare it to a list, an LPR can look for plates from BOLOs or open cases automatically, presumably, and notify the officer if it sees one, without hoovering up and storing every plate it sees.

But there's also a lot of interesting value in being able to track someone's location during an investigation, even for exculpatory reasons. I do track my own car, and the police could issue a warrant for that data, though they'd have to serve it to me directly. Perhaps onboard black boxes is more the direction this should be heading. (Most non-base model cars likely have GPS already and probably record their history already, mind you.)
> As long as she is not actively involved in politics she is worthy of support.

One of the most effective ways of changing the broken system would be for her to get involved in politics. Yes, she's a communist, the current political spectrum around the world is almost wholly dominated by capitalists, (yes, even in China).

Having a few high-profile communists would certainly do no harm.
> Certainly, you're right that we depend on each one to say "no, I won't do that", but I feel like there's a difference in quality: evil intent vs willful ignorance/negligence.

Oh so you are saying that the willful and deliberate exploitation of people's private data, the willful and deliberate ignorance of laws by companies like Uber, the willful and deliberate "research" done by tech companies to determine the most addictive products to entice people to buy in and stay on particular platforms, the willful and deliberate exploitation of minors by tech companies to get them to spend their parent's money on whatever stupid game or product is the fad of the week, or the fact that there are tech companies running targeted campaigns to influence voter opinion based on stolen private data is all just ignorance/negligence?

I strongly disagree. There is just as much rotten in tech as is in finance, the only difference is that many of the shenanigans enabled by tech have not been outlawed yet. Borderline illegal tax-dodging by large tech companies is business as usual compared to the other crap that they do, but being disruptive and breaking things is hip and cool, and it's Us doing it, and not Them, so we let it slide.

You say that banks are willfully selling junk to customers, and this is true. But this is exactly the whataboutism I was talking about. Tech companies mining people's most private data to get them to buy stuff they don't need is just as insidious, if not more in my book.

I don't see Facebook openly admitting to their users that every single bit of their and their loved one's lives will be exploited to the max to allow thirds parties to influence their opinions based on the wishes of the highest bidder.

I don't see them warning their users that right now they are (maybe) not being profiled by governments for thought crimes, but the data is all there, so if in 10, 20 or 50 years time the government changes, this is a definite and very real risk.
Could the Internet Archive afford to do so?
Automation is definitely not the enemy.

However, automation that is designed in a criminally negligent manner is. People who create such designs should be put in prison, and we should not be using products from them ever again.
That will do more harm than good. In order to build such a device the feature would need to be advertised, which TSA can see just like everyone else. Then when they see such a device, it becomes incumbent on you to prove you’re not using the feature, even when you’re not using it. So you can never prove you’re not using it and therefor could be detained. You might think you have more rights if you’re in the US, but there are many regimes where you don’t have them.

Also: https://xkcd.com/538/
True to a degree. There are still some places left. I think it fascinating that people often wish for more content moderation...

I don't know why they don't just go to work or something like that. Anything that provides a rigid cage for anything that could be deemed controversial. But why force it on places that are optional to visit?
But none of that is specific to being from Idaho. None of it is specific to being rural. And none of it is specific even to being poor.

There can be poor, minority kids in North Little Rock, Arkansas equally unaware of these opportunities. And believe it or not, even a middle class kid from Lincoln, Nebraska can be unaware of the fact that they can get into Harvard.

My point is, no one is really special in this regard.
GS used to be nicknamed “the worlds largest hedge fund”. They have plenty of world class proprietary tech, but the OP is right: this is not likely to be secret sauce at all.
Yeah. The gun emoji being a water gun on Apple platforms is a prime example of this—I'm almost surprised there hasn't been a news story yet where a playful "Bring your :gun: to school tomorrow for water day" was badly misinterpreted due to platform differences.
As AdverseAffect pointed out, this is already happening to some extent with the scholarship plus extreme tuition system. If it went a little further in that direction, getting a scholarship would be the new "getting in."
Sorry. I am non-native speaker so very likely I am wrongly using 'what' in place of 'that'. After you mentioned I am feeling 'that' would be correct usage.
How to write the home address right?
Also, such a mechanism necessarily involves lying to law enforcement, which is generally considered a bad idea.
Agreed. Companies like Google (Alphabet), FB, Twitter, etc. are trying to be our moral compass, when they themselves are completely biased. Just stop. Silicon Valley needs to stop dictating the world.
Managed to find the archive button. It's not right at the top on the left, far away from the message.
In the early days Google wanted to make information accessible to anyone and that fit right into that strategy and goal.

Unfortunately priorities at Google have changed significantly, and the focus is on things that can help sell more targeted ads at scale. Actually providing value is not that important anymore I'm afraid.
Returning an error code or throwing an exception result in the same problem. In one case, the error code is ignored. In the other, the exception is swallowed. I bet that monadic binding (as now widespread with the use of promises) can be equally abused.

The problem is in the engineering culture, not the particular tool used.
Some discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19558161

See also Andreas Gal's blog post https://medium.com/@andreasgal/no-one-should-have-to-travel-... , the ACLU's press release https://www.aclunc.org/news/aclu-files-complaint-department-... , and the ACLU's formal complaint https://www.aclunc.org/docs/ACLU-NC_2019-03-28_Letter_re._El... .
Historically, when people have talked about desktops and laptops they have generally been thinking in terms of a stateful device that ran applications locally. Increasingly they're just a convenient form-factor to run a browser. They're effectively functioning as a modern-day thin client.

When people say the desktop/laptop is largely dead. That's what they mean. [ADDED: That, and that web access is increasingly through a phone.]
Much more succinct message. Thanks.
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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.

There's a perfectly legitimate argument that as cops have the ability to use deadly force, there's a lot of good reasons for the public to want their work to be scrutinized heavily, but it's also perfectly understandable why police aren't super fond of it.
Road lines are colored yearly or something like this on most streets
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You could on Android add a dummy, unprivileged account under your name and rename your real account "Guest" or something. Not that this stops a motivated person, but it may placate a border officer who really just wants to thumb through your photos and downloads folder.
Americans are outraged at student loans instead of tuition because you don't notice the price you paid until you have to start paying off the loan. In an ideally rational world student loans would not be a problem because students would only take them on rationally, but as it turns out extending credit is just asking them to make decisions they never would otherwise.
What do they do if you say no in this situation though? Escort you home and inspect your desktop computer there? If I were to tell them that I carry a travel laptop/phone with no information on, there's little they'd be able to do about it unless that in itself was somehow made a crime.
My friend went bankrupt and a bunch of us had loaned him a little money as a stop gap, and he submitted our Facebook messages as screenshots as proof of the debt he owed us.
I don't know anything about the game, but the premise reminds me of Creature Of Havoc - an 80s role playing game from the Fighting Fantasy series, where you play a monster. It was such a cool idea! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creature_of_Havoc)
Good idea for a cliffhanger: Do they perform convolutions as well? Follow the next episodes and watch the movie (the book) to find out!
It was actually subversion and that was part of the case against him, using the dictionary definition of “subversion” to prove malicious intent.
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This seems like a good idea, but it may land you in even more trouble. If it can be shown that you intentionally misled officers about content on your device, not merely denied questioning, you risk an obstruction of justice charge.
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Well, there are guides, but none good enough that I remember.
More generally, not specifically about humor, but about that kind of vision of human nature, read The Naked Ape.
Can they ask for online logins?
> The more features the language has, the harder it is to read.

So you're saying Brainfuck is a really easy language to read?

Surely there's a balance. The key is you want your language to convey the intentions of the programmer. Features can help do that, but they can also cause convolution, hiding the intentions.
As a would-be founder, this new move from A16Z makes me worry they won't focus on helping startups like this anymore.

Anecdotes like this help quell that fear a bit, even if wrongly.
I'm actually wondering what happens if I'm ever asked about Facebook credentials when travelling to the US.

Fact is: I don't do Facebook, nor any other Facebook product, so I'm really not able to hand over any such credentials.
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>I cannot even imagine what the designers of this thing are going through now. It must be terrible.

Their poor decisions led to this.
Single sensor as input to autopilot to augment the nose!?
Quick reminder: US citizens have an absolute right to reenter the country. Customs can temporarily detain you, but they cannot refuse entry. Any threat, whether implied or stated, that they will hold you until you unlock your device is not real. They can hold your stuff indefinitely, so be prepared to lose it if you go this route, but never unlock your device based on the idea that it’s the only way to go free.

Non-citizens are in a totally different boat. You can be denied entry for any reason whatsoever. Tread carefully....
Impeccable timing. Haven't read the article, but want to say something. i was watching a regional film 2 days ago. The plot starts with a doctor doing wrong surgery to hero's father and so he loses his father. The doctor, apparently, bribed himself into the university for studying even though he never gets any qualifying results in the entrance exams.The story goes on and questions the audience in the end, will you risk with your own life or your loved ones in the hands of them?

Don't know if there is any governance or other controls in U.S. uni's but that's not how it should work. Isn't it discouraging one way for a student who earned it after hard work, compared to the one who simply enters a uni just because he was happens to be born to a rich father. Don't want to question the morality or ethical side, but it just doesn't feel right and should be handled in someway. may be more stricter exams etc. But I don't think that's practical either as they can easily workaround the system same way.
Even that is not sufficient short of a full factory reset. It can be very difficult to impossible to clear all caches and logs, or even know about them.

Once the agent has your password and takes the device into their back room for an hour, you have to assume that all data has been offloaded and the device has had an undetectable rootkit added.

This gentleman's expertise is in security and encryption and now he works for Apple, a company that makes products that the US government can't always crack. He was clearly targeted in his encounter because of his current position, based on the questions they were asking. Surreptitious access to his devices is highly desirable to US intelligence services.

Any device that you lose physical control of during these encounters must be presumed to be compromised and should be physically destroyed afterwards.
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It's beyond me how you could ever show evidence for that, beyond reading between the lines of ancient text (which we know is one of the least reliable forms of historical evidence ever invented).
Say, "yes I wiped it in case it got lost whilst I was travelling"?
Love Mozillas engagement and spearheading these efforts! To be effective having guidelines be established via outside counsel is the right way to drive independent improvements at scale.
iSpy is open source, but it's LPR plugin is proprietary and costs money: https://www.ispyconnect.com/

OpenALPR has it's library on GitHub, but I think the completed "solutions" are all paid for: https://github.com/openalpr/openalpr
Has anyone read Albert Wenger’s http://worldaftercapital.org/ ? That’s my favorite thing about USV’s mindset.
Another important example seems to be the cavity magnetron in WWII. Developed in the UK, it provided about a thousand times more power than the klystrons the US was using at the time and let the Allies maintain a lead in radar technology: probably an important component of the Allied victory, though under appreciated by the public at large. UK designed, mass-produced in the US. The “Tizard Mission” that this was a part of sounds pretty fascinating and I’ve always told myself I’d pick up a book on it someday.
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"equal outcome" vs "equal opportunity".

Some people believe that we're all equal and therefore should expect equal outcomes (regardless of how hard you work). Eg, they expect that everyone gets paid the same, without necessarily putting the work in.

Others believe that we're all equal in the sense that we should be given the same opportunities, but what you do with them, is up to you. If you get the same opportunities to me, but you work on and capitalise on them and gain some beneficial outcome from it, but I don't capitalise on them, don't put the work in etc, then I can't complain that I didn't get the same things you did.

I think GP is talking about that and not at all about letting minorities into university.

Although, I've also heard stories of discrimination due to not being under-represented, that is, not getting a place despite having excellent grades in order to make space for minorities. That's not fair either. Its a difficult thing to solve fairly, someone will always be unfairly rejected when places are contended. (I do think the minority-person should get the place in this case, since the other person likely has other options that the minority may not). I think most reasonable people would agree that giving minorities more opportunities is a good thing.
I don’t think this is accurate. Regulators release the Volcker Rule to shut down prop trading at banks.
You can be as honest as you like. Or just say you don't take data with you when you travel. For security reasons. If it's work related, this is trivial to justify: company policy, trade secrets shouldn't fall in the wrong hands, etc. And even if private, phone theft and identity theft are serious concerns.
I'm imagining Jason Scott/textfiles on an Indiana Jones-like mission, where he finds a hard drive containing all of this, but then has to run to escape, including running from a boulder and jumping over snakes.
It's akin to Facebook open sourcing their social network framework, rather than the entire personal information of all their users. Of course it's useful to some people, but it's not what makes them money.
Those regulations are written in blood. Thousands of airline passengers died to get those regulations where they are today, and lessening them would likely cause more deaths.

I see this entirely differently -- the FAA was being way too lenient/cozy with Boeing, and took their word that the airplane operated exactly the same (even if it didn't). This to me indicates that harsher regulations are needed, not less harsh ones! In what other industry do manufacturers self-certify such safety-critical machines?!

Relax regulations and we'll just start seeing more of those crashes that have killed so many airline passengers previously. It's a proven fact across all industries since time immemorial; companies don't make things safe out of the good of their hearts, and are OK with shockingly high body counts. Governments have routinely needed to rein in companies that were playing fast and loose with safety.
The web has nothing built-in for archiving and versioning. It's a gaping hole in this technological platform, one that has been noted and criticized for a very long time. The reality of this problem, however, is vehemently denied by the current generation of "technologists". Of course, those are the same people who get six-digit salaries for managing complexity they themselves create - partly through hyper-centralization. Good and resilient archival, on the other hand, necessarily implies some level of decentralization.

I singlehandedly maintain a 14-year-old website that used to be a modestly popular web magazine. It's not very expensive, but it's a pain. DNS system is horrible and it's easy to loose domain names to some nonsense. (I lost one that used to be a free 2nd level domain when it was converted to a paid-for zone. Not a matter of money, just paperwork.) Server management is a time drain. Stuff like adding SSL certificate to a legacy VPS can lead to a cascade of updates and config changes that can take days to make and test.

BTW, everyone sings praises to archive.org (and it's well-deserved), but most people here do not seem to realize that they are also a centralized platform that can collapse and take everything down with them. Who archives the archives, etc. Fortunately, they are not the only one of the sort. Unfortunately, it's all very ad-hoc.

If W3C weren't a bunch of corporate shills, there would be a standard for creating versioned web archives, like, 10 years ago. It's obvious that we need one.
Well, we shouldn't have bailed out all those big banks.
I have one such PS/2 adapter and for me it works quite awfully. The key timing is all wrong, key repeat is especially prone, etc. Maybe I was just quite unlucky.
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> I don't know if that's true (it probably is), but personally I am glad that almost all of my old Usenet posts have vanished.

Same. If I could go back I wouldn't share any details about my life. Best case scenario, nothing happens. But everything can (and will) be used against you by the court of public opinion. The last few years shredded any '90s idealism I had about the internet.

> The internet is forever

That must be scary for upcoming generations. Now many of our early screw ups and thoughts are recorded in some form or another and there's little way to move on. There's no time/distance element that allows you to grow out of whatever you – or others – uploaded. In the worst cases (revenge porn, false accusations, lolcows) you can't put your old life behind at all.
It seems like we are determined to live in a Gilded Age Fantasy Camp. It's like the Titanic not having enough lifeboats.

I've been around the block. I know Big Corp will always place value on profits over safety, but we seem to be entering an age where they feel unconstrained.
The message it sends to me is, never visit America. I appreciate horrible things likely happen in my own country, but this is just disgusting.
I personally miss personal sites, and "under construction" signs.
Won't this basically end up in the same situation as the one here? You will be detained for a few hours and then released?

He wasn't FORCED to unlock his computer, he was just detained for three hours because he wasn't. Adding technical restrictions won't stop that.
> And if 10 years from now we haven't found a use for nanopayments I'll admit it was a silly idea

Why do you need another 10 years? Bitcoin has already been around for 10 years. The micropayment and tipping use case has been explored fully and has failed.
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In that example, fair enough. However often one unpacks a tuple or operates on a hash, where it's not immediately obvious what the inner values are. So we can bikeshed if you want, but I still think it's a bad idea (and looks very ugly).
For anyone who has 1Password, they have built-in support for doing this https://support.1password.com/travel-mode/
Most countries aren't that invasive, but it's pretty clear that a visit to the US justifies issuing a special "US" laptop now.
There are a few modern hall effect keyboards, but I don't know if the feel is similar to the old Honeywells.

For the keycaps, there is probably enough interest (given the amount of replica sets) to just cast a run of something extremely close to the originals with the usual mold injection techniques.
Most people find right-aligned numbers easier to scan than left-aligned numbers. Most tabular representations of numbers use right-alignment; disk usage listings, spreadsheets, SQL command prompts, etc.

If I want to sort the output of `uniq -c`, I use `sort -n`, which knows about numbers even if they're left aligned. If I want to extract out the number to do something with it, I use `awk`.

I think right alignment is the correct default.
That seems a pretty devastating critique. The model is so confident it takes hardly any concrete data points that don't match to disprove it. (Note I'm speaking math in that sentence, not English.)
They do all kinds of caching, image compression, etc. I think most of those are in paid plans though.

Just mentioning it as it's quite a simple, fast, free change that doesn't cost any developer hours.
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