skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 4th amendment uses flexible, context-dependent language. It prohibits "unreasonable" searches. What is unreasonable? Clearly, the framers didn't mean border searches were unreasonable, because one of the very first things they did was create customs enforcement. By virtue of mathematical necessity, those border searches have always occurred some distance in from the mathematical line representing the U.S. border.

Put differently, border searches aren't a "suspension" of "constitutional protections" but a limitation on the scope of 4th amendment rights. If you shoot someone dead in public, a police officer can arrest (i.e. seize) you and search you without a warrant. Your 4th amendment rights aren't suspended, they just don't extend to that scenario. The same thing is true at the border. Nations have a sovereign right to police who and what goes past their borders. Borders are the very things that define nations, and nations defend those borders with guns and blood. Nothing in the 4th amendment provides reason to believe that the framers intended to just throw away that ancient concept.
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Curious, as a Google employee would you believe a Facebook employee, on HN making the same claim?
It's a GNU ;)
The indictment formulation is “assisted with”. It is really vague; publishing results can be interpreted as assistance.
I think parent means the contrived term "Nadallaissance" as a headline gimmick.
There are a lot of different views on the left, but the view of the Democratic leadership is unambiguously for border security.

Abolishing ICE is different from wanting open borders. You can disagree with the methods and still believe in the mission - much of the current administration’s stance is an attempt to conflate the methods they have chosen with the concept of border security, as painfully evidenced by the 2018 shutdown meeting between Pelosi, Schumer and Trump.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/11/trump-meets-with-pelosi-and-...

ICE is a relatively new organization, that many believe does not have a great track record of either effectiveness or respect for human rights. There are many ideas of how we would accomplish border security more humanely.
https://pelosi.house.gov/issues/immigration

> I guess Hillary Clinton wouldn’t have counted in 2014 either?

No, the clear forerunner and a senator would count. Herman Cain wouldn’t have spoken for the Republican Party though.
I think it's a lot more plausible that Microsoft could still do fine with Windows if they took out ads than that Linux would be doing much better in the desktop market if they started bundling in ads.
Where did you see mention of NTFS? I was referring to "As it turns out, the ticket comes from someone using a networked drive."
Link to x86 64bit .iso image:

https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-install-1.0.0.x86_6...

x86 32bit https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-install-1.0.0.i686-...

Gleaned from https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/USB-St...
Their compatibility with existing MS documents is not good enough yet. This is largely because you'd have to mirror many glitches and idiosyncrasies in MS's code to have full compatibility. Or as the say in the industry "bug-for-bug compatibility".
Mozilla announces ban on Firefox extensions containing obfuscated code
> In what way was MS sinking under Ballmer?

In a relative way.

If you are going to talk about operating systems, iOS and Android/Linux blew by Windows on his watch despite Microsoft's big head start in the smartphone space. I think that's directly the result of Microsoft not being exciting.
Uhh. The entire world? The internet doesn't run on IIS.
Ah, the self sufficient pyramid scheme!
How Chipotle Is Tackling the Food Industry’s Hidden Waste Problem
They didn't really change the engine too much. Lumberyard is based off of CryEngine. And I believe they did that to minimize work.
> I wasn't trying to excuse anything! I was pointing out that the problem is much broader than China.

> But you're right that I only read the headline...

Please don't do that. Your hot take based on the headline was identical in form if not intent to a propaganda technique called whataboutism, which is meant to distract attention away from particular abuses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Ayke van Laëthem – LLVM from a Go Perspective
The Future of the Strategic National Stockpile for Biodefense
I solved the problem this way recently as well. This solution would also work with multiple threads (you can probably set the flag in thread local storage, though I haven't done that yet - currently using a global map with thread id as key). Though still not with multiple different signal handlers.

That said, if I could do it over I wouldn't use mmap again. Especially since io_uring is around the corner (on Linux) that allows zero-copy reads/writes with no syscall overhead.
Understanding Maps in Go
Chess was given as an example of the ridiculous situation that not even a game can be removed by default. There are a host of other larger apps I would like to remove such as Home, Maps, News, Books, FaceTime, Messages and Mail. I never use any of them and would prefer they were gone from my computer.

Disabling system integrity protection to uninstall them should not be required and I'm guessing wouldn't be a long term solution anyways because likely they would reappear when upgrading macOS versions. There is also the issue of why does chess need greater protection from being tampered with than say Apple Pages.
The "policy-makers" are the people exploiting the loopholes. They are the same people.
I see this(others recent Gmail changes) as tactical measures that google is taking to save its image in light of steep growth of privacy friendly startups(proton mail, duckduckgo, etc.). But my take is that they aren't going to get too war with this until they really commit themselves to preserving users privacy. Unfortunately, likelyhood of this change in thinking of Google executives is very low as its an up hill battle against the revenue they earn selling users data.
Startups would be next to impossible if employees (which includes the founders) couldn't own stock.

Maybe you could limit the rule to publicly traded companies, but then people would have to decide whether to sell all of their stock or leave a company when it went public, which doesn't seem fair to the employees or good for the company.
> Environmental movement went anti-nuclear in the '70s for no particular reason.

NO particular reason?

> Nothing strikes fear like the invisible killer of radiation. Nuclear disasters get media attention like nothing else.

Other than that, maybe.
Blowing billions regularly on terrible acquisitions? aQuantive, Nokia, more...
> Why?

you know why. It's profitable. This information makes them money.
> Windows (likely) always could offer better privacy for a fee. You can buy a Windows computer incl.

IMO what I paid for my Windows Pro license is already that fee and then some.
Excel is actually an amazing product. Google docs is cool, but it’s nothing compared to excel.
EU Fines on Google Weigh on Parent Alphabet Profits
The Ubuntu fiasco comes to mind.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/07/stallman_on_ubuntu_...
Different architectures like ARM? Plenty of code will only ever run on an x86 chip, but a non-trivial amount will run on x86 and ARM at some point. I've certainly been bitten by this before.
You don't need DNA or familial tracking for that. A biometric would do, since that would catch the child traveling under two different identities.
Ask HN: What is your best advice to devs who want to contribute to open source?
Recurring payments scale well in good times.

No one really knows what’s going to happen in a recession. I suspect it won’t be pretty. Revenues will probably contract just as well in the reverse direction and I suspect many customers will look to cut costs by eliminating monthly recurring expenses.

Perhaps recurring revenue business will be more resilient. I can see a path for that as well. But no one really knows.
> What he's doing is nothing short of amazing. He's doing things people keep saying can't be done. Re-usable rockets that land? Electric cars? Cars that drive themselves? I'm willing to tolerate a little shenanigans in exchange for this kind of innovation.

Respectfully, I disagree. True, he has I think caused the spaceflight industry to think about re-usability again in a meaningful way. And arguably he has also generated a lot of hype for the battery electric car industry.

Having said that, his accomplishments often tend to be inflated by his followers. Tesla ultimately failed to deliver a $35k mass market affordable vehicle. Even Model 3, is out of reach for most people in U.S when the median household annual income is only $56k. At ~$40k, Model 3 essentially remains a luxury vehicle for most. Whereas the competition is quickly catching up. Arguably the Chinese electric vehicle market is now the global leader in electric vehicle market.

SpaceX still has yet to do a crewed launch to LEO. Rocket re-usability is great, but what we really need is a man rated launch vehicle. With the recent DM-2 anomaly, SpaceX won't be launching any people to orbit for at least a year.

Also, whilst propulsive landing looks very cool, it's been done before. SpaceX wasn't the first to do it successfully. Electric cars have been decades. Autonomous driving has also been conceptualized a long time ago, and hell, Tesla isn't even close to the leader in autonomous driving right now in terms of technology.
But what was the alternative before? Remember none of us could watch Netflix on Linux because they built the whole thing on Silverlight.
Sure, but if you do understand what a company is doing under the hood, you can make informed long-term investments based on that (which still pose a risk because of the reasons you stated). If you knew Facebook's history and engineering practices years ago you would have accurately predicted that the other shoe would eventually drop. If you paid attention to Microsoft's shift in focus you would either have thought that it was foolish to try to beat Amazon or it was a great space to invest in because AWS has many flaws. I dunno, I'm just trying to say that knowledge about this stuff can give you an edge in investing.
Yay, an F5bot alert on Clippy that actually is about the MS Office character!

I wish the MS Agent technology was still around. You could create a character, give it some animations, then feed it to, say, MASH, the Microsoft Agent Scripting Helper, and it would render the character on screen.

I once used it in middle school to give a short survey, where Merlin asked 5 questions about class or somesuch while 'writing the answers down'.

One of the big deals with these agents is that MS Office didn't DO anything with them. They had all of these animations and capabilities but unless you followed a rigid process (open new doc, type Dear, press enter), it would not trigger any agent reactions.

If it were easy to create a macro involving the agents to start a survey or 'agent-hosted guided wizard', the feature might have been more used in the LOB applications of the day.

Then again, easily defining actions or surveys is the main thing that stops current AI voice assistants from being more useful than, say, an internet connected Dragon Dictate with predefined scripts.

Hopefully Almond and Snips fix the latter problem long term.
At the same time the NRC is too cozy with the industry it has kept all nuclear projects in the US tied up in red tape for literally decades.
Basic Cyber Hygiene: Does It Work?
Is microsoft actually making a lot of money off Azure once you've divorced office 365 revenue from the cloud bucket? Clearly you made a good market decision but I've yet to see anything to suggest that Azure as a pure-play is a runaway financial success, and even where Azure is making money it's not been to AWS' detriment
Weather, an argument against simulation hypothesis
As you said - that's ideal. The home people trade-up to is usually more expensive than the home they move from (not counting empty-nesters) and - ideally - there will be a myriad of factors that can help one finish paying off their new more-expensive home within the same timespan, like more income or selling at a profit. But those aren't necessarily givens, as they're determined by things like your locale and the state of the housing market.
TIFU by ordering food online and setting the restaurant on fire
I don't understand why this post has to put "Chinese" in the title?! If the dev was United States citizen, would you rename the title to American dev jailed? Absurdity!
Pls let us know what you think about the results!
According to the article the author wasn't doing research when first downloading and installing the application.
Well, if it is the result of birth rates below the replacement level, the question is: Is it uberhaupt possible to later on bring these birth rates up again? There will still be a need to replace the entire population every 75 years. If the only way is down, for the birth rate, and it looks like it is, it means that entire populations are going to die out. Now, this could indeed be "a good thing long term", but some people may feel that it is not. Debatable ...
There are no ads in IIS or Windows Server.

By your logic every developer is a Windows user, since they use Stack Overflow that runs on Windows, IIS and SQL Server.
To be fair, nuclear power plants can also take a decade or more to build.
People I know who've quit dip did it by making themselves sick, packing a huge lip and swallowing instead of spitting. Usually ends in puke. Now just a whiff of the stuff makes them gag.
You can explore Stripe's website to get an understanding for their product size and scope: https://stripe.com/ .

Also, I promise you don't understand how much work goes on behind the scenes at payments companies around fraud detection and prevention. Fraud costs account for ~3% of revenues at large financial firms.
To be fair the comment says "I bought it because x, y, z", which is probably true; not "it has gone up because x, y, z", although that might be implied.
Making the redirect seems like a fun small iteration. We're on it: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/infrastructure/issues...
It deletes Column A, yes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18717406
acquiring LinkedIn brings cred...?
Then so are the entire stuff of National Enquirer, and to a much greater degree at that.
Isn't this more an IDE problem than a language problem?
Google's office software is a joke compared to the standalone versions of Office. Microsoft's web based Office is pretty bad, too, but at least they don't mangle imported documents quite as bad.

I know everybody thinks they're "good enough" for most people, but they're still crap compared to the regular desktop programs.
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People wildly overestimate how dangerous radiation is and how dangerous civilian nuclear power is.
This was worth my time:

https://sandspiel.club/#dac3ceca6a45502e8dc5

click play in the top right after it loads.
Renewables top coal in electricity generation; Cloverly loves that trend
US Navy tests underwater robots that recharge by eating fish faeces
I know these people. Some are family. I live in the Cinci metro. This article illustrates the reality of life for what I think is most of the country. They are constantly on the edge of financial ruin. Living everyday under that kind of stress is hard and hard to watch.
Over the long run, densification should result in more and cheaper space, but it is not clear whether or how the theater would get that new lease at a rate it can afford (new-construction premium counteracting land efficiency) and how it would survive the transition period. The risk might be worth the reward, but reasonable people could also believe that it isn’t. So little is known about how to create these nice little small-business districts, or whether it’s even possible in this day and age, that there is a strong current towards preserving the ones we have.
Why is the minimum lifetime of data set to 3 months? Is it because 3 months sounds like a reasonable period of time for users to look back at their usage or is it because Google needs 3 months to process the data, for marketing or other money making purposes?

The reality is whether they keep the data for 3 months or 18 months doesn't mean anything. It just gives you the illusion that they no longer use your data. I find it hard to believe there's good intentions behind this (other than deleting data AFTER it's used).
I'm an ex employee. There's actually a whole team whose sole job is making sure that all other teams have policies, measurements and alerting for deleting data. They'll chase you if any of the above doesn't hold. It's non-trivial work and slows down your development, if you believe in releasing early and fast. For everybody else, it makes total sense.

I bet it's not free to run, but it's cheaper and easier than elsewhere, because Google's infrastructure is built in-house and mostly integrated. I don't envy other companies that want to do the same.
There's a reason Tesla built the Gigafactory and has a second one coming on line in China. None of the other major western car manufacturers have invested in the infrastructure to be able to produce battery packs in volume. There's a lot of lip service being given to electric cars from traditional car makers but none of them can produce electric cars in any meaningful volume, and are realistically years from being able to produce packs by the tens of thousands per month. I guess their take is build the demand and then ramp up production. Then there's the issue insuring a supply of raw materials, Tesla has taken pains to insure they have a long term supply of Lithium, and have all but removed Cobalt from their batteries, which as far as I know is unique to their cells. The other manufacturers are going to have a hard time getting the raw materials in volume when they try to ramp up battery production, unless they've been making moves years ago to insure their supply.
I've worked on wipeout compliance at Google and IMHO there's no possibility that an outside auditor would ever be able to understand those systems to such an extent that they would discover a flaw in them that wasn't previously known to the many engineers who work full-time on wipeout. The systems are just too complex. One does not simply `find -type f /google` to figure out what data is available.
im curious to know how he got through the oral defence of his phd. would they grant an exception for these circumstances? pretty cool
The reason I don't use it is because it can make your browser fingerprint more unique.

As a result I use uBlock, uMatrix, Temporary containers.

More info about that configuration here: https://github.com/dngray/ghacks-user.js/tree/fx-desktop
the obvious problem here is that if you have a different minimum wage for teenagers, they will be preferred over adult candidates.

by the way, we do have special rules in the US for what kind of work you are allowed to give to interns. in general you are not allowed to give work to interns that would otherwise be performed by a full employee. this is intended to prevent adult employees being put out of a job by low pay interns. unfortunately, I don't think most minimum wage employers are interested in dealing with these complicated rules for interns.
Chess was given as an example because it is the most ridiculous thing that can't be removed. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19809880 for my full response to the other user.
>There is an amount of wealth (and I think it's substantially less than a billion dollars), past which gaining more wealth won't improve your standard of living at all.

That is based on a very narrow definition of standard of living. If you include the "goods" that are social status among your wealthy friends while you're on your Mega-yachts around the isle of Capri then power is itself a part of your standard of living.

Standard of living should be any good or service you have access to based on your income/wealth. Those goods don't have to be material goods but can be conceptual / philosophical goods.

Thus, reshaping whole industries, singlehandedly pushing the boundary on the privatization of space, etc can all be thought of as part of one's standard of living for the world's super elite.
Here is AWS's core weakness going forward...they compete with their own cloud customers. From video streaming, to online shopping, to groceries, to logistics...why would I (as a business consumer) want to fund my own competition? Azure competes with none of its own customers, outside of perhaps AI. Amazon is AWS's biggest enemy. Azure and GCS are going to catch up on features, and customers are going to start fleeing when they realize they are helping to fund their own demise and biggest competitor. Then there will be margin pressure. The next 10 years in the cloud are going to be interesting...and while people seem to think the Cloud already has huge adoption, it's just beginning; and I think Microsoft more than any other will be the biggest benefactor.
I was just about to say you should make some alts. Glad to see you've heeded my advice. Have a good day, Justin.
My first submission on Hacker News was the link below, 2 years ago. It didn't receive any upvote.

Click and see, it's fascinating.

* GitHub commit search: “remove private key”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14262124

Although most keys removed are just useless automatically generated test keys, but genuine keys do exist. Someone should write a crawler to monitor these commits, creates digital signatures from private keys to prove the leak, and notify the CA issuer to revoke them automatically.
> Do you think the instances “fleeing” is the bulk of the cases?

By definition, it's 100% of the cases that would be legitimate before validating the family relationship.
There are plenty of very successful 100% remote companies, including GitLab, Zapier, Automattic (Wordpress) etc. I think it's fair to say they've solved it well enough.

Traditional office space also comes with its own fair share of challenges and problems.