skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This action can be flagged as suspicious as well, triggering a deeper investigation into the traveler.

It's not always feasible, but the most secure way to protect clients'/employers' data is to encrypt the laptop and phone and ship to your destination via standard shipping services, then ship them back the same way before leaving for home. Carry a well used but non-critical burner laptop ($50 Chromebook off Craigslist) and/or phone ($20 Walmart smartphone) with you that won't wreck your world if it's confiscated and searched. If it is seized, take your receipt and go on about your business. When you get to your destination your actual devices will be waiting for you. You can safely forget about the burner devices.
Well... A "solution" is to run Linux Mint 19/FF 66, disable any further updates of Firefox, run the patch. However, this does not solve the Windows 10/FF 56 issue. I'm real pissed at Mozilla for this HUGE hassle
This is something I struggled with a lot. Internal me would scream, show me the numbers!!. But when I go into mathematical modelling, too many assumptions make the model very.. basic. (Like you say)

However, if you aren't trying to control the system, but merely influence it - this helps figure out the leverage points, and what will happen with perturbations on said leverage points.

As far as understanding a system goes, that is good enough to use it to your advantage.

A formal discipline gets detached from reality (mathematical modelling). This I think rests somewhere in the middle.

Or, atleast, that's what I've come to see.
There are a few possibilities.

No souls: you take a definition of "soul" as something supernatural and reject it's existence.

Binary souls: souls exist in some beings in an absolute way either existing or not. A body gains a soul at some point during birth or development and loses it at death. Some creatures have them others do not.

Continuous souls: everything has one, some more than others. A rock has a tiny bit, a tree some more, an intelligent animal more, and a human the most. Soul develops as you gain consciousness in childhood. A philosopher has more soul than a comatose person.

Souls can be an emergent phenomenon out of certain kinds of complexity like consciousness. Souls can also be something outside physics as we understand it now. You can accept or reject either one.

Whatever elephants have, there is quite a lot of it. You wouldn't be so wrong calling it soul.
Why doesn't everyone simply refuse to share passwords, as is mentioned numerous times on various Canadian government websites? Basic search finds tons of pages from all sorts of departments https://www.canada.ca/en/sr/srb.html?q=share+password

A few samples

> 95% [of polled Candians] know not to share their passwords

https://www.getcybersafe.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/vds/nln-sft-stck-p/...

> don’t share your PIN, password or personal security questions and answers with anyone, not even family members

https://www.canada.ca/en/financial-consumer-agency/services/...

> If you’ve shared passwords with friends, now would be a good time to change them

https://www.getcybersafe.gc.ca/cnt/blg/pst-20180913-en.aspx

> Protect your password, don’t write it down or share it with anyone and change it often

https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/progr...

A few days of every single traveler saying "no" would force them to either begin seizing all electronic devices or to drop the entire endeavor as untenable. This problem doesn't need a technical solution beyond making sure locked devices are actually secure.
I have a friend who believes that it is genuinely possible for a life to be net-negative expected utility, making suicide the right answer sometimes, and that he either is or may eventually be in such a scenario.

He is too afraid to talk to anyone about this except under an online pseudonym, because he is too afraid that if he actually talked to a psychiatrist about this, he would be immediately and involuntarily hospitalized for suicide risk.

He is terrified that he will soon not have even the option to commit suicide - even if it is truly better than continuing to face a life not worth living - because of precisely this kind of well-meaning ubiquitous monitoring and predictive warning. I'm really worried that he might just try and kill himself pre-emptively while he thinks he still has a chance.
Not to get too "whatabouty" here, but it always feels a bit less poignant to call China out for the same things the United States, and massive private US corporations, are doing. Censorship, collection of private data, public data, biometrics, DNA, monitoring and incarcerating ethnic minorities. At least in China they have public healthcare.
>Statins, anti-retrovirals, common availability of antibiotics, treatment for TB, vaccines for many population-decimating (in the traditional sense of the word) viruses.

Those are technological innovations, not really relevant.

We could have had smartphones and anti-retrovirals AND affordable education/housing/healthcare/job prospects.

Like how people in the 50s and 60s could enjoy all kinds of technological and social innovations compared to 100 years before (electricity, TV, improved medicine, vaccines, etc) AND have cheap college tuition, affordable housing, etc.

Spare some catastrophe technology is monotonically increase -- it advances with new inventions.

So not really relevant as to whether we are more or worse off than the 50s and 60s in economic aspects.
As a non-US citizen I would trust US apps, especially those by companies like Google or Apple, any day over Chinese apps.
> Not sure what we’re actually paying for.

Less government.
How true. If one's parents skinned puppies and sold their pelts for a living and one grew up to be a vegetarian who hated them for it, one would likely still have a hard time tolerating other people later in life ridiculing or criticizing them.

I think it's because we see our parents (usually) as ultimately good people, and when people criticize or ridicule our parents it feels like they are suggesting the parents are not good people, even if that's not what they mean.
If you arrive at the US border and you say you're coming into the country for a short vacation and your text messages/email is full of conversations about employment in Seattle and your browser history is full of apartments for rent in Seattle, then they use that information to deny your entry into the country. It's mostly looking for "story checks out" kinda stuff like that.

There's TV shows that follow border agents for various countries during their day-to-day work.
I don't think he was specifically referring to the american or canadian or australian or <insert country X here> definition of probable cause, but rather the concept itself.

I don't know why you're trying to make a point about Canada vs US and how one is better than the other. Just because he's free to tell his story and wasn't prosecuted doesn't mean that the CBS is off the hook for seizing upon his electronic devices - without reason - and even threatening that they would be sent to a lab to be cracked.

I'm neither an American or Canadian citizen, but when I do travel to these countries I would expect that my privacy not be breached, especially not without reason and when I've already cooperated and consented to my bags and other personal items to be searched.

Now the next time you travel, and the CBS or US CBP decides to seize your devices, are you going to just surrender your devices, given that they've explained everything nicely and will let you go on your way?
You can surely search for 3+ decades of books, studies, and articles on the declining US middle class, stagnant wages, increased housing/college/healthcare costs, etc, right?
You're less depressed, not "not depressed."
NYT's Zuck-hit-brigade probably couldn't come with the 7264th permutation of the same article, so they had to do something else.
Gondwana
What do you care if it is common for? Just start improving the situation. Set up Continuous Integration, add high-level smoke checks to catch the simple silly things, then make sure to always create a reasonable set of automated tests for whatever new you build. Does not have to be TDD to give benefits.
Yeah, I'm not talking about Germany. We're talking about why border patrol might investigate something.
I use containers too. I didn't loose any data after I enabled dev mode and added the extension back. Perhaps you removed the existing extension first and lost data that way?
If you're starting with TDD and unit tests, then you're doing it wrong.

You have to start with integration tests, then go down the stack if you have time and resources.
Yeah, but you still get beat with the $5 wrench. And if it was going to work in compelling you to give the password, it will still be pretty effective getting you to provide access to the cloud storage and the encryption password to it.
Interesting! Yes, I've never considered a "soft system" view as you mention.

Thank you.

Pardon my ignorance, but the soft system approach sounds a lot like Psychology and Sociology(psychology applied to more than one person). How are they different?
Okay thanks, would need to change the example and add it to the token checker before inserting elements/attributes...
Yes, this is all sadly common. And those traits you mention all go together!

Let’s be clear, most of the software empires of the present day were built on this style. It is possible to ship software like this!

But if you do neither testing nor code review, you almost certainly have a team that thinks downtime is for losers and heroes are coding 24/7. I believe they get addicted to the twin dopamine hits of cranking out code and saving the company from disasters that their code causes.
Is this common practice in the industry?

Yes, and so are burnout, abusive interpersonal behavior and the physical / mental problems that inevitably go along with such working environments.

But there's no reason you need to put up with it any longer than absolutely necessary. Do yourself a favor and find another job as soon as you feel you've had enough.
I actually had better luck with cheapest SOIC clips from eBay, than the Pomona clips.

While trying to seat/reseat on the package, the lower pins in the Pomona clips would tend to get pushed in, bent, and pop out of their channels.

The cheapest clips, with the pins that go straight through, however, didn't seem to do this. To make space to attach individual header hookup wires to the pins at the top of the cheap clip, I bent the pin tops left and right, in an alternating pattern.
Even though it’s not considered best practice to tie your RDS with your EB stack, part of the wizard for EB is setting up a database and it will create your RDS cluster and the security groups for you. It also automatically sets up your CloudWatch logs. EB can use Github.

Again, I’m far from a dev ops expert, but I cringe at how much EB (and Heroku) does that’s magic and I would much rather use CodeStar with the templates that create a standard CodeBuild/Code Deploy/CodePipeline/CloudFormation set up, but I am comparing like for like.

I’ve never deployed anything to Azure but I have used VSTS (aka Azure Devops) with various combinations of hosted builds, on site builds with agents on the build servers and deployment servers and that’s even easier than AWS’s offerings. Even if the GUI setup would make a real Devops person cringe.

Yes I realize Heroku for all intents and purposes is just another managed service that sits on top of AWS and that you can even buy Heroku services from AWS Marketplace for consolidated billing (https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/seller-profile?id=0112b5d...)

I’m also not arguing not to use Heroku just because it cost more. We always choose a managed service over having to manage things ourself even going as far as preferring Fargate even though regular EC2 based ECS would be cheaper.

But, I haven’t seen anything that Heroku gives you that couldn’t be duplicated with EB or if you need a more traditional approach a CodeStar generated template.
Nice perspective, thanks for sharing.
I still remember when every piece of news about Bitcoin had a kindergarten explanation regarding what a Bitcoin was. Not everyone has a PH.D in climatology.
Maybe that works for Levandowski-level celebrity engineers. There are, maybe, a few thousand pro football players in the world, and a few hundred on the top teams. (For comparison, there are 450 players in the NBA.) The tech behemoths each have tens of thousands of employees, so most engineers are a commodity.
I wanted to defend Tesla by pointing out that spinning up a maintenance network will have substantial lag, since it's a second-order operation.

But I read this and I wonder if they're really thinking it through, or doing any modeling of their business. From your description they seem to be doing everything they can do to gum up their own works.
a) EV cars are doing just fine in the rest of the world and definitely aren't being used purely for Halo/Compliance reasons:

https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/electric/best-electric-cars-an...

b) Rivian has the backing of Ford who will be using their platform for future pickup models. Don't lump them in with Tesla who truly started from scratch.
> UX should be a mindset, not a step in the process

Every specialist in every branch of software engineering thinks like that. Designers, architects, testers, compliance people, everyone seems to think the software development process should be framed according to their priorities. Who knows, maybe this is a healthy way to establish a balance of power.
Me too, the consequences are less severe. (For now).
During WWII, ‘rumor clinics’ were set up to dispel morale-damaging gossip (2017)
> How long can you be detained? And under what conditions

The answer is not very long. I'd call "a couple days" to be not a big deal, and not at all equivalent to being tortured to death, like the person I was responding to was implying would happen.

So yes, encryption does work, and all that will happen to you is that you could be moderately inconvenienced.

But even that I would expect to be rare. Most border security would just look at your computer, or whatever, not find anything on it (because the thing you show them just looks like an empty computer), and move on their way.

The narrative that I was responding to was this idea that technology solutions can always be bypassed, by torture or something, therefore technology solutions are worthless. And that's just not true.

An extremely effective technology solutions to an incompetent border guard that is interrogating you is for all your devices to just appear like there isn't anything on them, like a new factory default computer that you just bought.

A guard will just look at that, not see anything, and then move on to the rest of his crappy job.
There is no dangerous CFS militant movement that threatens to kill psychiatrists. There are just some psychiatrists who can't handle criticism and get their journalist friends to write these smear articles in the hopes it will silence their critics.

https://me-pedia.org/wiki/PACE_trial#Allegations_of_harassme...
yep, inventaire.io could help there, to some extent: they could scan books barcode in bulk from the webapp https://inventaire.io/add/scan , which should find data for most books. But then it gets tricky for books without barcode/ISBN has they would probably have to fill the data manually, which can be quite some work for large inventories. No plans to add OCR, yet ;)
The article claims the mushrooms break down heavy metals. How do they do that?

I know there are marine bacteria that can convert mercury into a less toxic form, but I am surprised some mushrooms can convert ALL the toxic heavy metals in our bodies into something less toxic.
It's hard for me to read this in a US newspaper and square it with the real world. It bemoans race riots and military police in Xinjiang - in China. From the context of the Baltimore race riots three years ago I cast my mind to Xinjiang Muslim radicals within China - right next to the Afghans who American troops and military police patrol 18 years and counting, on the other side of the world. Radicals in Afghanistan who the US had originally armed in the 1970s and 1980s to overthrow the then secular Afghan government incidentally.

Then from Facebook Google and most of the surveillance San Francisco establishment, in lockstep with government PRISM, we look East to see the Chinese doing the same?

Africans in the US, native Americans at the Standing Rock reservation being water cannoned, are no better off than those in Xinjiang. More African men in the US are in the prison system than college.

The demonization of China by Americans for what Americans are doing, with less reason, is silly.

It is like the hypocrisy of telling Venezuelan military to revolt and cheering street protests in Venezuela, then going back to hearings about Russian interference in the US or condemnations of yellow vest protests. Macron praises the destructive protests in Caracas and condemns yellow vests in Paris in the same press conference.
Does it seem likely that the "Super App" model will survive the next decade? Why would we expect 1 vendor to make the best experience for many different products?
I think they updated too many parts of Windows at once, not too many computers at once. And I'm not certain that a delayed rollout would have fixed it. Is it fair that a random sampling of people are given the problem?
Personally, I've switched to waterfox -which is a fork of an older firefox branch, and it supports addons (at least the ones I use).

I'm pretty happy with it, and I'm strongly considering staying with it even after firefox is fixed.
Good to know about the natural gas. It now costs less to make a new solar or wind plant than it does a coal plant for the equivalent energy. However it costs less to maintain an old coal plant than it does to replace it with a new solar or wind plant.
Conversely, there are plenty of organizations who rely only on unit tests and no QA team of any kind. This is bullshit. Plenty of bugs slip into production and we have thousands upon thousands of unit tests.

I for one believe unit tests are not the be-all, end-all that most of the industry has swallowed hook, line & sinker.
Beijing’s one-child policy is gone. But many Chinese reluctant to have more
Elk is the easiest way to start building decentralized hardware projects
Plenty of neighbors but I don't think wireless sound systems were available in the mid-80s. Maybe they were though.
> Souls can be an emergent phenomenon out of certain kinds of complexity like consciousness.

This is the one I like. If you have a self, then you have a soul.
So, neglecting ocean wave power?
You don't necessarily need to plan everything up front. You can identify critical decisions points within your project as you go along. Personally, I try to keep interfaces between modules as simple and restrictive as possible (as simple as they can be while still meeting business requirements) but I keep the option open to add more flexibility/complexity later if it turns out to be absolutely necessary. Often it turns out to not be necessary. Having simple and restrictive module interfaces is extremely valuable if you can figure out what the right restrictions are.
"Average rents may have been pretty high, but crime rates were high and many parts of New York were more than gritty. As such, there were a lot of cheap places to live, especially Downtown and in Brooklyn. The Lower East Side offered a lot of options for the $300 price range; June 1982 ads show a Ludlow Street studio and a two-room East 2nd Street apartment (in a "well kept locked building") both for $275. For a real bargain, one could rent a four-room unit at 332 East 4th Street for $295. Across the river, a "charm 4 rms" on a "beaut blk" near BAM was listed for $325, while units in a Williamsburg walk-up were asking $275 to $325."
While the OP may have inadvertently committed a "No True Scotsman!", I think he's nonetheless correct: I think experience often comes with a better appreciation of what's out there, what's still unknown to you. Before, you might have taken X somewhat for granted, but if you delve into and research X, you learn it's a complex interaction of A, B and C; now you have 3 things you're taking for granted / need to learn. A fair number of people have felt stupider after learning, which is of course the opposite of how it should be. Imagine having never seen the inside of a modern car hood, and you open it for the first time. Perhaps all you need to do is "change the battery" (simple, right? You've changed the battery in other things before) and upon seeing the inside of the hood for the first time, one might reasonably be overwhelmed by the amount of stuff crammed inside there.

Questioning your own assumptions, I think, falls out of repeatedly learning that often things are not simple, and the experience making your own mistakes and getting burned: it teaches you when to proceed (you don't want the project to get bogged down with "analysis paralysis"), but with caution and the knowledge that you made an assumption. (Whereas a less experienced person might not realize they made the assumption at all.)

I would also point to the Impostor Syndrome[1] as a sort-of evidence of that, though it's certainly possible for someone to be an expert and not feel that way.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
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He's also translating his youtube videos in english.
Here's a playlist of videos about his model that have been dubbed by humans [1] if you ever want to dig deeper.

If you're more interested in what he has to say about Hossfelder (and I think he's the only source on this story) you can watch the last ten minutes of his latest video [2]. Funny comics included.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYIurRmmnsU&list=PLfdj8oy5ze...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQRS0aF2G9M&t=29m55s
Yeah, this also worked for me on Android. Not sure why the downvotes.
hmm ok, he says everyone ignores him and he gets no money from any NG0, and that his system could regreen the entire planet.
I guess there really isn't anything about it that makes it a reference to Neuromancer. It's just my own personal death-of-the-author interpretation; I've only seen the idiom in Neuromancer. But apparently, as you said, it is common and predates Neuromancer.

I really appreciate the country love-song context; it is both interesting and amusing.
There is no basic agreement as to what causes climate change; bear with me...

- Climate scientists think it’s CO2e emissions

- Environmentalists think it’s deforestation

- Conservation biologists think it’s over population

- Neoclassical economists think its failure to internalise externalities into the price signal

- Marxist economists think it’s the pathology of capitalism

- Sociologists thinks it’s because people are poor/because people are rich depending on their mood

- Development economists think it’s because societies are not rich enough to invest in environment as a luxury good

- Bankers think it’s because environmental management does not produce investment opportunities

- Policy makers think it’s bad policy

- Game theorists think it’s prisoner’s dilemma

- Evolutionary psychologists think it’s our evolutionary mindset

- Technology dystopians think it’s bad technology

- Technological utopians tell us not to worry

- The Daily Mail thinks it’s immigrants

- Donald Trump thinks it’s fake news

- And Jordan Peterson thinks it’s cultural Marxism

In a sense they’re all right within a certain context (except the climate scientists who have the easiest diagnosis and Peterson who is definitely not right on climate change).

But increasingly climate change is one of those issues that we throw our welt anschaung and tunnel vision at.

To paraphrase: “we don’t see climate change as it is, we see it as we are”.
Well, who said the best experience will necessarily win? I can think of many markets where that is not the case.