skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
5 hour detention is nothing - expensed vacation :)

Extraordinary rendition to the Guantanamo Bay is what concerns me.
So nothing for those of us still running 56 beause Quantum trashed our extensions (and there are still not equivalent availale)?
Also, "no evil use" restrictions are subjective, but so what? You could be quite specific here ("no military use", "no surveillance use"). Choosing not to engage here is itself a decision with moral and ethical components (I'm not sure I disagree with it).
I've always thought complex systems explained a lot of the world (ironically, how little we know!) and I've found it to be a great mental model for understanding the world.

Some of my thoughts are here: https://alexpetralia.github.io/2018/05/28/NL-2018-05-28.html
Not as bad as cockroachDB at least.
I am a huge skeptic of most of what we've done around "blockchain". Almost every new project that I learn about in the space confirms my bias that people are profoundly, debilitatingly myopic when it comes to the technology.

Content-free dismissals, however, strike me as more or less the exact opposite problem to poorly examined proclamations of panacea.
> For example gating new things which could become a stability issue.

And yet we were somehow able to ship stable software to millions of people in the days before telemetry/studies. What telemetry/studies truly provides is offloading QA costs to users.
What a fantastic list. Huge thanks!
"Many cults have very logical belief systems predicated on a few twisted axioms. "

Yeah well, I was once also part of such a weird cult which might be the oldest and powerful one - the catholic church.
I have only my memories, which is what IIRC means: “if I remember correctly”. A few seconds of searching offers no better answer, so you’ll simply have to downvote me and move on.

(For those who want to investigate further, I believe it was about a year ago and would have been on planet.mozilla.org at the time. No, I didn’t post it to HN because I don’t usually consider anti-adblock positions to be safe to discuss here.)
Yeah, in my opinion people often enforce business logic way too strictly. My rule of thumb is “If your boss told you to, would you?” If yes, the data model should support it.
Ah the classic story of the headless-horse man.
It's just another microprocessor development board.

I was hoping for a low cost PC board assembly service.
In some jurisdictions (especially civil law, I think) the DA has no discretion and must follow up on any accusation that could lead to criminal charges. There is no possibility for selective enforcement.

This way the legislative branch has pressure to amend the criminal code as it becomes obsolete---in this case, imagine if people had started accusing others of fornication and private lewdness left and right, and DAs through the state were forced to follow up on those accusations...
> DON'T FUCKING CHANGE THE INTERFACE

That's why it's important to have good UX people to help you get it mostly right the first time
SF rent was just an example. There are many examples of needing to move money in amounts greater than $5,000 but less than $120,000. For example, I can't pay a contractor with Zelle because they almost always need more than $5,000.

Yes, Zelle is a nice stopgap solution, except it is only supported by a few banks, and still has really low sending limits.
How often does an average US manager deal with a civil suit and the FBI?
It's worth pointing that "MySQL Cluster" is actually a different product[1] and not what is used in the article (Innodb Cluster or Group Replication).

[1]: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/mysql-cluster-overvi...
I didn't say I was an expert.
This article sums up all the issues with tor

https://restoreprivacy.com/tor/

In particular, silk road shutdown, and various pedophile rings successfully de-anonymized and operators arrested. There is good evidence that powerful enough entity (esp. entity spanning multinational geographic regions) can successfully de-anonymize tor traffic.

If you keep low profile and just use tor to browse regular internet privately, you are fine. But if you do wide scale illegal activity, you most likely will pay the price.
> . Say 5 hour detention then they ask again. Then detention again. Repeat.

Ok, and does this happen in real life?

The answer is no. It does not. In almost any western country in the world, the low paid border security guards are not detaining people in mass for days on end.

This stuff just isn't really happening to any large degree.
Can you link to one of these studies? I can't find them.
Why on earth are you running such a massively outdated browser? You should at least switch to pale moon, basilisk, or another maintained browser. God knows how many vulnerabilities in the wild there are in 56.
> other less-pubic successes

Freudian slip right there if I've ever seen one
Looks like. The comm layer is the value prop, really:

> By default and when possible, Elk runs a light node and communicates directly with the blockchain and not through a hosted service. Elk pushes decentralization to the edge!
I simply put an actual price tag on a doctors time. Dentists and Doctors both need receptionists, janitors, deal with insurance, and have an office etc. However, compare a few bills and a few different situations and some clear differences show up.

If you want an actual examples a famous one is the Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation issue. Each individual little bit is not a big deal, but they compound with inefficiency growing at each step.
A place most people associate with the largest amphibious invasion in history seems a curious choice of codeword.
I find it amusing that his final disclaimer how "This is a satire article" really falls under the "if you have to explain a joke, it’s not that good"...
Erasing efficiently – finding the best chalk eraser
Perhaps what you suggest is true. I don't pretend that I have done tons of research on this; I only say that it is not inconceivable to me that fictional CP increases demand for real CP.

> do we apply this standard elsewhere in society?

If there is a demonstrable link between them, sure. The same way real CP is illegal because it creates demand, which causes more CP to be made. Remember, owning CP does not directly harm anyone.

> If there were no research on the link between video games and violence, would you conclude that it is "likely" it indirectly creates a demand for videos of real violence?

No, because video games and videos are completely different things. People who play violent video games don't do it because they like watching violence, they do it because they like playing video games.

> isn't punishing someone for something they might do (access real CP) unjust?

They're not being punished for something they might do, but that they did do. If fictional CP is illegal and someone is in possession of it, then they've committed a crime.
> A good outcome of this certificate fiasco is that many firefox users learned about the "studies" and "Normandy" brain-damage and promptly disabled them.

I'm actually curious about how the common user reacted to this. There isn't a clue about this on (1) the add-on page, (2) Mozilla's home page, (3) no emails sent out (I get plenty of other emails from Mozilla).

Currently, when you try and (re)install an "unsupported" add-on, you get a cryptic message stating: "Download failed. Please check your connection."

So the only communication from Mozilla is that it's my fault and I need to "check" my connection.

Honestly... there's so much fail here - even at the communication level.
Won’t this make housing more affordable and allow people to live a decent life? At least in the Bay Area, even rickety shacks now cost >$1M to buy.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6595871/Online-porn...

Crazy
The problem is that Tesla wants to control everything tightly including parts. In general, distributed control (capitalism) is more flexible than central control (communism). However Tesla doesn't want to lose control.
I really like TiDB but I don't think it's a general-purpose replacement for any other MySQL deployment.

For what is described in this article specifically, TiDB would make you change the storage engine (from Innodb to Rocksdb), and if they have all their data in a single Group Replication cluster they probably don't need sharding either.
What's not cute about elephants? Especially fluffy ones?
cough cough land value taxes cough cough
Isn't the person you're replying to talking about saner use of land, not removing housing entirely..?
This is one among many reasons that almost nobody buys a Lamborghini or Ferrari (and among the people who do, for almost none of them is it their daily driver).
This seems like a textbook "good answer" from the book "Difficult Conversations".

Don't try and figure out how people will think in the isolation of your own mind. To quote Wittgenstein: look and see! Or in this case, ask and see!
Caring about phones as status symbols vs not really. (Which is, again, sort of the point of the article)
There are things with low differentiation. Average day care is fine. Average janitorial services are okay. Average checkout operator is okay.

No one needs the exceptional janitor.

Fwiw though, I think there's lots of room for the mediocre software engineer. Enough work requires little to no skill. I've done some of it myself b
The basis is that when people say "r >> g" they think "business owners and the stock market" rather than "the house my parents own", and they think about reforms to the business sector rather than reforms to the housing sector.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEconomics/comments/4w6reh/can_a_...
Just enable guest mode. Pretty sure they're not employing top notch cyber investigators for security searches. They aren't smart enough to know the difference and it'll meet their "requirements".
Fucking assholes
You can remove returns generated by the housing economy and while still providing housing.

Some cities and countries (e.g. Vienna, or the Netherlands) provide public housing through gouvernement and/or not for profit organisations (i.e. with 0% returns), to a large part of the population. These places also have some of the lowest inequalities, which seems to validate the parent's message.
Why is the real rate of return on real estate anything above 0? If so, it means we're getting significantly worse at producing housing/shelter. Sure, some of it can be chalked up to land value increase. But, much of america is not land locked in any way. If real estate really is returning greater than 0 real returns (not including rent/dividend) then that is quite concerning for society. It means we haven't achieved any progress in housing for 150+ years (sure electricity/sewage/pipes, but that goes in a different category, more like utilities). If this trend continues, greater and greater percentage of people's incomes will go towards housing and more and more families will need to live in a given living space: the complete opposite of progress.

EDIT: I'm talking about ONLY the capital gain portion, not the rent port. The rent portion of course should be greater than 0.
koa is great. have it running on a couple of production applications
I wish this guy had some data to back his ideas up.
> It would be cool if it worked though. sometimes I wish capitalism wouldn't pervert any system at the cost of society. Too bad there aren't any alternatives that actually seem to work.

Only if you adopt the mainstream, incorrect definition of what capitalism is. To put the correct definition into laymen terms, capitalism is essentially paying someone less than the value that they produce. A privately-held and operated Ponzi scheme with nearly everyone on the bottom. That's what all the talk about "mode of production" is about. The term does not hold exclusive domain on profit or enterprise. There were markets under feudalism.

To address your second point, there are plenty of alternatives that work. There's even one that's currently showing itself as being outright superior. Look into worker owned cooperatives such as Mondragon in Spain. Both Microsoft and GE have sent representatives there to figure out why their quality level is so high and so consistent.
https://sci-hub.tw/10.1086/704075
Prior to my life in technology I had similar experiences to the author. I was involved with multiple spiritual groups that could be classified as cults. One mistake that I have seen people without first-hand experience make is assuming that the people are in it to deceive or take advantage of others.

On the contrary, I have seen that people in these groups often have the best intentions. For a long time, it was a mystery to me how these groups could end up going so wrong, often devolving into gun battles, suicides, or sexual deviance. A few years ago I found a book called "The Guru Papers"[0] which does a fantastic job of explaining how these things occur, even in well-intentioned groups. If you have been involved in a group like this, or are just curious about the psychology involved, I highly recommend it.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007WL0JHE/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
Most (all?) cars have a keyed driver door. Otherwise you couldn't get into the vehicle if the battery died.
ipv4 isn't really growing so much, since RIPE, ARIN and APNIC have exhausted available large contiguous chunks of v4 IP space to hand out, as people are de-aggregating to much smaller prefix sizes.

ISPs that were previously announcing /16 to /20 sized CIDR ranges to their peers and upstreams are breaking them down into /22, /23 and /24 sized pieces used for smaller downstream customers, and announcing those in a deaggregated fashion.

I predict that the ultimate end state of ipv4 will be a huge number of /22 to /24 pieces all over the world being announced, and further FIB growth requirement for big core routers.
My understanding is that shred hasn't been reliable for many years now due to smarter and less predictable firmware in modern storage devices. Basically, you can't trust that your SSD deleted the data it said it did, or that it writes data to the place you told it.
Very well known issue among tesla fans. Been going on a long time so promises of a quick fix are just that unfortunately.

If you are a bit higher income / time is money type of person or situation, lack of parts avail for repair (and the time /hassle that causes) and/or an inability to get at home EV charging would be the only two reasons not to get a tesla I think.

I am very grateful for folks who have flagged this up. If you hate getting the service runaround on car repairs (waste of time / etc) then the heads up we are getting on this is critical really.

Currently drive an Audi - obviously planned on going to Tesla but holding off until this get's sorted.
But what's the difference? The end result is the same: your device(s) are confiscated and they attempt to brute force the password. Telling an officer that you cannot give them the password because you did some techno-mumbo-jumbo is just going to piss them off and make them assume you have "something to hide" because "no honest person would go to those lengths".
Everybody's biased, and I've certainly met my share of biased doctors. If you have a specific complaint, each doctor brings their toolbag of golden hammers that they know about and rarely has the ability to look beyond it. It's one of the challenges of being a patient to wade through that.

The FDA isn't really going to be very helpful with this, and they labor under the additional burden of being much more subject to politics. Sure, they may stop the obvious quackery, but remember that general anesthesia used to be considered quackery, as did prescribing antibiotics for stomach ulcers.
Because the population is growing, and people want to live in SF/NY/London/... not in the middle of nowhere.

Real estate prices in landmark places will continue going up, probably at an accelerating pace as more people get richer and bid it up.
The Census and Census takers have always worked on dealing with homeless, transient, and undocumented populations, and survey them regularly.

Trump's thing is about "asking the question".
Ask HN: Thoughts about the purge of influential commentators on social media?
What should be the role of the state in regards to the content of our technological platforms? Does it have a role in securing the ability for all opinions to be expressed? Does it have a role in explicitly restricting the opinions that are expressed? Should the companies decide for themselves?

As much as I have a fundamental problem with Facebook/Twitter banning this batch of influential commentators, I'm pretty surprised and disappointed with how many of them are immediately looking for this problem to be solved with legislation. I would expect them to advocate boycotts or find/make alternatives to these platforms. I understand that for a lot of these people their livelihoods are on the line, but when you're literally in the business of putting forth a system of morality that specifically advocates for the utility of liberty over the forcible use of legislative authority, to immediately abandon your principles and seek shelter from the state the moment it suits you is a complete moral failure.

That being said, there is an important consideration. When the state (notably, the EU) is attempting to make it impossible for platforms to not be responsible for the content their users produce (i.e. Facebook can be legally responsible for the content within a post made by a user, and is therefore legally obligated to censor in accordance with additional state mandates), the problem ceases to be one that can be solved independently of the state. But that does not mean we need additional legislation forcing these platforms to host any and all content, it just means we need to dismantle the state's capability to prevent the existence of alternative platforms that do.
How Firefox came to be like that? Which browser should I use now?
I think the article is very naive in building any sort of narrative on Israel's statements. Israel is simply bombing whatever they want (Hamas targets, civilians, hospitals, news agencies) and justifying it as a response to this or that threat or attack. What proof do we have of what they're saying? None whatsoever. When would the cyber attack have taken place, what was the target, how was it performed? No details. Was it a high tech operation or just someone doing a port scan on a random pc in Israel?
A Critical View of the Agile Manifesto
It's not so simple. The value of living in cities has increased because of economies of scale, population has grown and space in cities is limited. It's not like people want to build houses in the middle of nowhere. It does not follow that a positive return on real estate means that we're worse at producing shelter.
Prior art: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Lepus
It turns out people have this strange obsession with living within x miles of their family. While the number of people living in New York City has greatly increased the amount of land has not. The more people demanding the same thing, the more it costs. Hence real estate in desirable areas continues to return a significant rate. Well unless you invested in Detroit of course.
> And manufacturing in China has overshadowed that in Japan.

Not surprising since China is many times bigger geographically and wrt population. It's like 8 Japans glued together.
I'm planning a trip overseas sometime in the future, and I'm sorely tempted to write up some malware that will activate if someone attempts to download my hard drive in the wrong way. I'll provide the password, along with a statement that I'm not authorizing a search of the drive, and if they want to break the law they are doing so at their own expense. Any lawyers know if I would still be liable for the outcome?
When I was working for $Big$Corp, I was explicitly instructed to 1) always shut down the devices with full-disk encryption 2) never give up passwords 3) surrender devices without opposition or bargaining (cooperate) and 4) call company lawyers as soon as possible

Never have faced any search, but interesting stance there.
Because it's not working right now..
... it's literally the first sentence of the second paragraph of the introduction. The rate of return on real estate is the appreciation in its value plus the amount of rent you can charge for using it versus its cost to purchase. If you can buy a property for $100k and it yields $5k of yearly income, that's a 5% rate of return. You can't "not include rent", that's literally the function of a lot of real estate purchase.
Worst part about that name is that most Americans seem to be hell-bent on spelling it as "Mastadon".
>traveling to countries with weak or no privacy laws.

Like Canada?
I used this recently to pull the bios off a lenovo, use UEFITool to pull out one of the applications, used Hopper to find where it only allowed whitelisted wifi cards, patch that and rewrite the bios. Works perfectly! Flashrom is fantastic.
Because your mind heavily affects the environment in which your cells live through hormonal and other system regulation (epigenetics). A mind that is constantly stressed (for example) causes your body to be in a different hormonal state than a mind that is relaxed. This in turn can (perhaps) lead to or sustain cell dysfunction (poor immune system response, etc). Mind and body are a system. This is not woo woo, this is documented but poorly understood (placebo effect for example).

Also, none of the above implies that the mind is the cause of all disease.
But they don't stop people coming into the country or seizing their property. They are temporarily withholding the devices and copy the data. That's why you use full disk encryption - is they want to copy and store pseudo random data, let them.
Containers are notoriously finicky datawise.

I generally keep good backups of the non standard ~/.mozilla folder to compensate.

I think it was issue 339 on GitHub. They basically explain they won't add it to sync data because there is no containers on mobile.

https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/3...
Optimistic parsing
Mine seems fine. My currently open tabs are still in their containers, and when I open a new tab, my list of choices is still intact.
Unless you are under an active investigation, the chances of your mailed laptop or phone being intercepted and searched are far, far less than if they are on your person at the border.

Still, if you are paranoid enough you can mitigate the danger of your data falling into unsecured hands (at the border or by mail intercept) by using an encrypted shadow volume:

https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Hidden%20Volume.html
Doesn't using Chromium solve the same issue, as long as you're not signed in to Google?
I jumped to the conclusion (page 57) - but the bottom line is the rich get richer.

In summary:

- If you take more risk you get more reward - this is true based on their 150 year dataset and true across countries.

- Equity markets and housing provide similar returns (NB: I wonder if that will continue to hold going forward? But there's no reason for that change...)

- Housing is less volatile. (NB: Thats strange to me considering you can get a massive loan to buy a house but not so to lever up your 401k... the thinking is leverage causes more volatility).

- The return on wealth is greater than that of the economy - almost 2x growth rate over 150 years. (NB: note to self: save more...)
Syscall efficiency
Manage AWS Security Token Service (STS)
awsgen

awsgen is the software that manage AWS Security Token Service (STS) and enables you to request temporary, limited-privilege credentials for AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users or for users that you authenticate (federated users). For more detailed information about using this service, go to Temporary Security Credentials or take a look in cf-security-accounts.json

https://github.com/mvallim/aws-gen-cli

Peace out,