skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's not like you need to 'smuggle' any form of data physically.

Because most people don't have the technical know how, or desire to spend the effort to ensure that the data they _are_ bringing across the border is safe to disclose.

Even elsewhere in the comments here is a long debate about the "safe" way to deliver data across borders, some of which are actually terrible ideas.

Yes, theoretically, people could avoid bringing any sensitive data physically across the border, but most do anyways and I bet you do too.
“How dare Firefox check for updates from a remote server” is a real thing that’s been said in support of many “privacy” guides that disable all Firefox and addons autoupdates, so I wouldn’t bet the farm either way.
The UniElec U7621-06 is interesting: https://openwrt.org/toh/unielec/u7621-06

I would be interested in a 5G "as open as possible" chip. I was considering the RTL-881x family before (https://github.com/nazar-pc/rtl8814AU and https://github.com/astsam/rtl8812au) but a standalone ath9k like the AIRETOS AEX-AR9590-NI could be even better.

Where did you buy your device? It's not on ebay or amazon.
I bought my first house in 2015 in Utah, about 20 min from downtown Salt Lake City. Was not anything special.

1976 construction, 2000 sqft, 0.2 acre, 5 bed, 3 bath, 2 car garage, average condition, just under $200k.

Glassdoor average salary for "Software Engineer" (not Senior, etc.) in Salt Lake is currently $89k, 14% less than national average. [1]

Single-income house ownership is extremely common here.

[1] https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/salt-lake-city-software-e...
People in South American countries have as much agency as people in the US. Among other things, they are capable of corruption and destruction on their own. The solution for preventing natural ecosystems loss in South America is to be primarily found in South America, not in the US. Or China for that matter.
You might also know http://quepy.machinalis.com/

I have been working on similar stuff. I started with a graphdb in pure Python file-based then switched to EAV and bsddb. Nowdays I work mainly on https://github.com/amirouche/hoply/ and https://github.com/awesome-data-distribution/datae.

I have not touched yet the NL to database query part because there is no silver bullet. At the end of the day, one need a use case, existing problems to come up with a solution. I learned the hard way that coming up with an elegant solution is not enough it must help with an actual need. For that, there is no silver bullet either. Experience helps. Being curious helps too.

I thought that the chatbot mania would stir new tools. Chatbots are narrow.

See also:

- https://github.com/opencog/

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept_search

- legaltech
The article says, "To modern science it is, if anything, the hard problem of consciousness, also commonly thought to be the province of just one species."

That's as good a definition as any, doesn't require religious belief, and it doesn't depend on whether Chalmers is right, Dennett is right, or whether your soul (i.e. phenomenal consciousness) survives your death.

Do any scientists claim only humans are conscious though? I can't think of any.
Interesting how the developer gets downvoted for an honest and forthright response to a grammar troll's obviously sarcastic comment.
The number of people running sup720-3bxl or similar on the Cisco 6500/7600, with total FIB capacity of 1 million, is still way too high. Way too many of those things out there taking a full table. We ran into this with people who had not adjusted the balance between RAM usage on ipv4 vs ipv6 when the global routing table hit 512k distinct v4 routes, causing many peoples' 6500/7600s to lock up.

You might say "okay, but the v6 table is not really big right now, so adjust the balance to 900k v4 and 100k v6 routes". But in reality on these ancient platforms each v6 route takes up a great deal more RAM than a v4 route.

If you have a router with 1 million FIB capacity, the time to replace it was five years ago. If you still have one running now, time to hit the panic button and replace it urgently with something like a Juniper MX80, MX104, MX204, etc.
IPv6 routes also take more TCAM space than IPv4, so IPv6 growth (unless strongly aggregated) is actually more expensive than IPv4.
I've been waiting to see this. Just updated from 65.0 to 66.0.3. My addons are still disabled. Tried to install ublock origin, and it's not letting me. I'm getting a "Download failed. Please check your connection."

This is crazy, and I'm really disappointed with Mozilla. I'd leave firefox right now, but I don't want to contribute to the destruction of one of the last good pieces of software not owned by Google.
Has anybody tried that? It seems like a fun software problem.
Your graph shows spending in constant 2009 dollars, just as mine shows spending in constant 2015 dollars, so your comment makes no sense.

They are literally presenting the same information, just pegging inflation to different years.
It’s always “engineers” cooking up the engagement algorithms, or offensive representations of women in games, or whatever other evils there are in software.

Engineers do what business people tell them to do, for money. If they don’t, they get fired.
I've been an employer in NL for close to 30 years and the 2-3x fully loaded is not supported by any data that I'm aware of. 1.5 or so is more like it.
Two things need to be answered in order to answer this question, in my opinion. 1.) Define a soul, and 2.) how much of a human can you remove, or how far can you zoom in before what you're looking at doesn't have a soul?

I would argue that cells don't have souls, and by extension, humans don't have souls. But if you disagree, do atoms have souls? If no, and humans are made of cells which are made of molecules which are comprised of atoms, where does the soul come in? At any rate, I accept that's a very scientific perspective - but it's my perspective.
I would love to see Facebook, Twitter, and (much harder but maybe even) YouTube replaced by distributed systems, so they would be more like email, RSS, or the web. You would have many different options for hosts, including self-hosting, and you would subscribe to the feeds you cared about that would be passed around via an open protocol.

You would get the "addresses" of other participants the way you get their email addresses today, and various directories would probably spring up to allow you to put your address on a list of people willing to be found. Your own apps would format your content for the feed and draw from the various feeds to construct your "timelines".

I think that for Facebook and Twitter, the value due to network effects is far more important than the benefits that result from centralization. Everyone wants to go where everyone else is more than they want whatever specific features might require centralization.
> Now, if I asked for more rights that is probably a political statement.

That's literally what the ad in question is accused of doing. The link leads to a petition to ask the government for _more_ rights in regards to protection of privacy at the border.
I’ve seen this before. It’s not common practice as far as I can see but it does happen. I blogged about it here as ‘discounting the future to zero’

https://riskfirst.org/Evaluating-Risk#discounting-the-future...

Although it’s sometimes reasonable to not write tests, this kind of thing usually happens when everyone is being threatened with the sack on a daily basis, rather than lacking engineering skills
And 10-12 in Poznan or Warsaw.
Mental countermeasures effect on neuroimaging‐based concealed information tests
I switched to Chrome before this after Firefox started randomly requiring me to close it out and re-open when switching wifi hotspots too often, and connecting/disconnecting from VPN too often and this was on multiple laptops and fairly recently.
Uber and Lyft drivers planning strikes over work conditions and pay
Short answer: no.

Longer answer: You cannot fully disable the ME (the system won't boot) but you can use me_cleaner https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner to remove parts of the ME firmware that you don't want. "However, ... flashing back the modified [ME firmware] is usually not trivial, as the Intel ME firmware region is often non-writable from the OS (and it's not a safe option anyways), requiring the use of an external SPI programmer."
> This was viewed as a better alternative than something like TrueCrypt with decoy passwords since if the government can ever prove you did it then that's obstruction.

If that qualifies as a type of legally actionable obstruction, it would seem that intentionally wiping your device before you cross a border and then reloading data onto it once you arrive at your destination would also qualify.
New, portable, open source password manager for Windows
is the majority of people with Dextro Cardio w/ Situs Inversus Totalis on average left handed (handedness innate) ? or right handed (handedness cultural)?
We have an adversarial system by design. We generally think it's a good thing that defence lawyers will defend even a guilty person as vigorously as they can; shouldn't the same apply to prosecutors?
My car maintenance people just seem to keep every possible part they could need for my car in stock on site. I've had quite a lot done and it's always on the shelf ready to go.

There's only three models of Tesla! Can't they keep a stock?
> because of systemic corruption.

Citation needed.

> 15 minutes of a doctor’s time making 300k total compensation directly costs ~40$.

So the nurses, administrators, technicians, lawyers, accountants, janitors etc that are needed to allow that doctor to see you don't factor into that cost? I'm not saying the pricing of healthcare in the States makes sense, but neither does the argument you present.
If only there was some other way to use the carpool lane.
The problem is not about the tests but the long working hours. Do not give your time for free, the company just gets used to it and they will fire you the same when they do not need you anymore, or you get personal responsibility that don't allow you to work for so long.

When you get a better job then think about tests. Your health is first.
I've seen people expecting such a switch since... Firefox 6 or so? I wouldn't hold my breath.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/13/17446660/mozilla-firefox-...

This sounds a lot like pushing it as an alternative to RSS to me.
If that's a sincere inquiry and not witty criticism of the implicit assumption in the title that they do, you might look for the book written by/about the first heart-lung transplant recipient.

I saw an interesting interview with her many years ago. She talked about experiences where she seemingly channeled the personality and preferences of the donor for a time following the surgery.
Don't sleep with contact lenses in place
Or high school has always been the "baseline" shared social model for all the different subgroups/subcultures in America.
It certainly is not brain-damage, but it is however very user-hostile.

Are you the unlucky one that ended up with the broken A/B testing change? Well, sucks for you and nobody will be able to help you. Do you want to try a specific testing change because you like it/something is broken on your end and that will fix it? Sucks to be you again, you get no choice on this. Do you want to analyze the change to see if they have something bad in it? Nope, not possible unless if you end up being one of the lucky ones. In addition if Mozilla were to get compromised (either as an organization or in software side) could use it as a backdoor on unsuspecting users or even do targeted attacks.

None of that would not be an issue if they depended on nightly/beta for changes and error detection, nor would it be if they had a list of possible tests somewhere that the user could manually enable and possibly ask some users explicitly if they want to enable one on the browser startup.
My favourite somewhat obscure data structure that I didn't see on the list: Hash Array Mapped Tries.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19830505
It's much easier for a policeman to demand the password to decrypt data when he has you in custody at customs than when it is searched by the mailman.

You're confusing "not perfect" with "not good". There's an old saying: when outrunning a bear, you don't have to be the fastest guy, you just have to be faster than the slowest guy.
> have depression to fake having chronic fatigue syndrome for two months- eg watch tv on a couch

If you think this is what CFS is, you clearly have no idea. Have you even fallen asleep while eating a meal, despite having a good night's sleep the night before? Have you even slept for 18 hours because you have had the audacity to go to collage for three hours? Someone I know does on a routine basis.

> Would we finally declare their ufo sighting reports to be accurate?

No, but we might ask if there is some underlying connection that causes them to perceive UFOs (also, comparing probably illusionary UFO sightings to obvious, observable [regardless of cause] symptoms is rather insulting).
Genetic background may alter effect of autism mutations
If there are no parameters on what needs to be shipped at all costs, ship some output from /dev/random and go home.

If you need to ship some functionality in particular, you need a way to check whether what you've written is that functionality.

If you're only releasing once, then maybe a manual/interactive session with the artifact is good enough. But if you're making and releasing frequent changes, then automating the process saves time.
It was introduced to Europe in 1740s.
Dragnets tend to catch more people. This is less than 1% of 1% of travelers. It is a very limited program.
Disabling all add-ons doesn't help security either.

So far I have neither an update on ubuntu-desktop nor on android (with default package managers) so without this option I'm supposed to use the internet without adblock & umatrix? lol no thx
> Just updated from 65.0 to 66.0.3

The fix is in 66.0.4.
Reading this, and looking at the pictures and discussions about range reminded me of a time years ago (when I was a kid) reading the journal of a WWII combat vessel captain.

He was captain of a large battleship (akin to the Bismarck or Tirpitz) and I guess these ships were mainly used in long range stand off attacks, because he would talk about seeing the muzzle flashes of enemy ships through his telescope, then waiting 30 to 90 seconds to see where the shells would land near/on his ship.

I was always enthralled by the fact that you knew shells were heading your way bringing death and destruction, but you had to wait around a minute to see if they missed you or they impacted your vessel, and in that time, you had to plot an evasive manoeuvre as well as return fire solutions.

The distance and isolation of sea combat somehow makes it more haunting than the land warfare equivalent of an artillery barrage.
> no better off than those in Xinjiang.

This is false equivalence.

While treatment of many groups is disgraceful in the US, the level of surveillance, social control and repression is nowhere near what happens in China.

China has locked up millions Uyghurs and other ethnic groups in re-education camps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps

Yes, America's wars are shameful.

Guantánamo Bay, the FISA "court" and domestic concentration camps for asylum seekers are contemptible.

But these things are not on the same scale as what China is doing.

The fact that we can have this conversation without censorship or fear of arrest is evidence that the US and China are far from equivalent.
>some of which are actually terrible ideas

Which ones?
Great insight. Soft systems approach understands that all social systems fundamentally contain people, who act within the system. In other words, meaning is created within ourselves (psychology), and within a social context(sociology). SSM is an approach to understanding the various internal representations or mental models (psychology), and gain shared understanding (sociology)
Pretty sure this can count as lying to / misleading a boarder agent.
New version doesn't show up while following the instructions on: <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/update-firefox-latest-r...
I have been in a similar situation and to me it's one of the main reasons why we need cryptocurrencies.
I really like brave, but right now FF is still my main. Brave is still needs some features. The whole syncing bookmarks and wallets thing is really annoying. I'm glad the way they devised is secure, and privacy sensitive, but it's still a pain in the ass.
Has bracket work moved over to StrixDB? I’ve been looking at bracket but don’t see any commits to the bracket repo in over a year. I’m looking forward to checking out StrixDB
Switched to Chrome and Brave.
FTA:

> The "bomb-back" response took place on Saturday when Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched an air-strike against a building in the Gaza Strip they claimed it housed Hamas cyber operatives, which had been engaging in a cyber-attack against Israel's "cyberspace."

> After dealing with the cyber dimension, the Air Force dealt with it in the physical dimension," said IDF spokesperson, Brig. Gen. Ronen Manlis. "At this point in time, Hamas has no cyber operational capabilities."

Pretty much the entire article is about how this particular bombing was a response to the cyberattack in particular (and the implications as another milestone of cyber-warfare becoming a first-class part of global warfare).
No shop respectable enough to be Tesla certified is going to try and put “chinesium crap” in your car anyways.

The good thing about those cheap parts is they don’t try to pretend to be good parts, they’re “You get what you pay for” exemplified.

So if a Tesla certified shop can fix a Tesla with a reputable aftermarket part (which they do for non-Teslas already) why not allow it?
In a world of abundance where you can (by definition) do whatever you want, you will need to prioritize the things that you want to do vs not. There is simply not enough time to do everything so there is less "weighing" of decisions.
I think the key reason to present min wage vs ridesharing wage is to ask how much pressure is there to raise wages for drivers. The article presents some data that wages for drivers in these countries is high relative to other jobs (or no previous job in many cases). Uber/lyft are in trouble in USA because even though the pay is not much higher than min wage, people keep demanding that uber/lyft pay their drivers higher.
Canada is successful 38% of the time when checking electronics. Common scenarios are seeing text messages showing someone has accepted a new job and will be working while on a visa waiver/tourist stay, or planning to get married while on a work visa.
> If you're starting with TDD and unit tests, then you're doing it wrong

Source?

Please. This is just plain wrong. Integration tests also belong to TDD.

Unit tests are very focused, individual, component level tests. Suppose, I want to test my mortgage calculator logic, without bothering about caching, data storage, network IO etc. Then, unit tests are the way to go. But, if I want to test the functionality, just like an end user then Integration Tests are the way to go.

You might also use Integration tests to get your stories approved.

One might say Integration tests belong to BDD. I'll say that is just a lower level categorization. At the top, it's just TDD.
> This action can be flagged as suspicious as well, triggering a deeper investigation into the traveler.

More and more people are probably doing this so this is going to stop being suspicious.
India was also communist. Just India and China alone is already something like 40% of world population. USSR + Eastern/Central Europe is another 400+ million people. There were also many communist countries in Africa and Asia.

As for the standard of living, I know the realities of communist Poland:

- The "everybody could get a house" is complete falsehood, at least for Poland. In fact, almost no one lived in a house - people lived in small, overcrowded flats (2 rooms for a family of 6, 1 room for a family of 4 were not uncommon), and even getting those shitty flats in drab housing projects required serious sacrifices and often years of waiting in the queue.

- As for higher education, only around 15% of population attended university, and not for the lack of wanting - it was clear that far from anyone could go.

- Healthcare was bad, but probably on par with the general underdevelopment of the country.

- Throught the fifties, people worked 28 days a month - yep, they only had a couple of Sundays off and that was it. The salary they got for such exertion was barely enough to cover rudimentary living expenses. My grandmother had to take a loan to buy a winter coat (to not freeze, not because it was pretty), and she paid that loan off over months. Over time, the living conditions gradually improved, but even in the eighties it was mandatory to work every second Saturday IIRC.

- What's probably most important and probably unimaginable for some who did not live under communism, were that obtaining just basic consumer goods was a challenge at times. Tens of millions of people at times stood for hours every day after work just to buy toilet paper or meat. It was an unimaginable waste of human time and energy.
Tailor: Working for 2 Months on a Failed A/B Testing Software
I noticed that after posting. :o
EDIT: "gorhill"... I was seriously just on your GitHub account, like 15 minutes ago. I knew I've seen that username before. Thanks for making uBlock Origin!
Isn't that the entire point of the nightly and beta branches?
You’re looking at 1% population growth, but much higher real estate growth costs. Looking at real estate demand is probably a better way to measure demand in cities since it’s so hard to build new homes these days.
The media in general hypes up Tesla way more than any other automaker. Like every Tesla crash makes headlines. Name any other automaker that faces the same scrutiny.
> Hopefully they were powered down and used proper full-disk encryption.

What exactly is full-disk encryption? How do I do it the way a government lab won't be able to crack it?
>The more end-to-end encryption is used the more interesting the ends become.

That is such a great line that encompasses about why more and more the ends of the end-to-end encryption are being attacked.
Racism on TV in the UK (1979 Documentary from the BBC)
I recommend to at least enable uBlock Origin as it will save you a lot of resources whilst browsing the web. There's a whole bunch of other privacy and resource related addons I also like, but it goes a bit too far to mention those.
I installed Opera yesterday. So far so good. Hope others will chime in with more alternatives
Never use a tightly spaced san serif font to tell users to "click" or "double click".
It is also to do with the doctor-patient relationship. The surgeon-patient relationship is far more limited. A patient is refered to a surgeon by a doctor for a specific treatment.