skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The demographics of border crossers has changed dramatically over the last several years. We never used to have so many families and unaccompanied minors crossing.

I believe this is a direct result of the incentives we provide by allowing families to stay, minors to be provided free transport along to waiting relatives (who may be in the country illegally themselves), and ultimately the promise of deferred action and citizenship. But all of this is contingent on having a child with you when you cross, or children crossing alone, which is totally ludicrous.

Over 50,000 unaccompanied minors in the last year have crossed over that we know of. Assuming these children are not being returned back home, they obviously need to be sheltered while their relatives are located and screened. This is an incredibly vulnerable population which has grown exponentially and therefore now greatly exceeds the capacity of the network of non-profits which used to provide temporary shelter and housing.

Parents in the US who leave their kids unattended in the car while they run in for groceries risk having their kids taken and being charged with child endangerment. Parents who cross into the US illegally with their kids get a free pass.

Even aside from the question of “first safe country” - we have a legal system for processing asylum claims, and historically (going back several administrations) the types of people crossing do not qualify because they are mainly economic migrants.

The best way to stop kids dying at the border is to stop encouraging their parents (or coyotes) to take them there.
I'm sorry to disappoint you, but it's not hard to get unbanned if you want to use the site as intended. You just need to email hn@ycombinator.com and say so in a good-faith way.
I think thats a bit naive. Sites will track you even when you pay for it. Do you think anyone would ever give up such a lucrative technology?
> SSL Labs will start giving “F” grade to the server affected by these vulnerabilities from end of May 2019.[0]

This is due to the server supporting cipher block chaining (CBC) cipher modes. Almost everyone has been moving towards Galois counter mode (GCM) ciphers for several years.

[0] https://blog.qualys.com/technology/2019/04/22/zombie-poodle-...
thedrive.com and bloomberg only use stock photos here. Photo of a cracked autobahn surface, apparently it happened 2015: https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/wetter-in-deutschland-hitzes...
First off, I agree; this is the attitude of the ideal future, the one that we aim for when we make "progress" as a society.

But. As a programmer and as a founder of a digital (non-physical) company, DHH is in a bubble. He's living closer to that future than billions of his fellow humans.

The idea that "hard work" is correlated with success comes from the context where papers don't sort themselves, bricks don't build themselves, and water doesn't pump itself. In that context, working hard for someone else's benefit signals that you care about them, and working hard alongside someone else strengthens your relationship. All those associations with hard work are deeply ingrained in us.

It's only when people have access to systems which do function on their own that they can "work less". Those systems are still being built (and debugged!), and not everyone has access to them, or the time/tools/knowledge needed to build one themselves.

This post seems like it's an expression of DHH's frustration, but it's a message that needs to be targeted to a particular audience: leaders of large corporations. It's too easy for them to weigh the costs and benefits of scaling up a low-paid, hard-working work force (and being rewarded for "creating jobs"), vs. taking the risk of jumping to a new and expensive technology or system (which might not even work out!), and opt for the former. These business leaders aren't necessarily risk takers, but they should be, and we should reward them for that.

As a random postscript, I'd like to point out also that "hard work" isn't always time-correlated, but also effort- and energy-correlated. For instance, moving a heavy sleeper sofa up a narrow staircase with a low ceiling and a right-angle turn could take only 10 minutes but requires a lot of strength and energy.
24" 1920x1200 is not bad. 8K is still a massive strain on hardware so I'm planning to get something like 32" 4K. Retina is nice, but real estate is useful.
I used to think "people would just go somewhere else". This is wrong. In my mind, there is a demand, and the user would just find a new supply. With suicide from bridge jumps, this is not the case, and there is quite a bit of evidence that suggests intervention in these acute situations can save peoples lives, and they will go on to live 90% of the time. http://seattlefriends.org/files/seiden_study.pdf
> destroy their tech or use it against them

This seems ethically suspect, possibly illegal. Can you elaborate?
Yeah. Personally, I think Peterson is in the business of offering false hope to the condemned. A useful service to the elites.
But the evidence is the evidence. Suppressing the truth is not a good long term strategy in the age of the internet.
Comma ai has a bunch of car related repos that are open source, one of them interfaces with can via the odbc jack under the steering wheel. Might be able to glean some information there.
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Scaling and resolution are two different matters.

If you use a 21''@4K with 200% scaling text is sharper than a relative bigger monitor at 100% scaling.
For what it's worth, I've seen (and used) those in gyms and bike lockers at offices as a hair dryer. It's possible the person/company who bought it and installed it did not know what they were buying.

I don't know that there's really any difference between this and a hand dryer, but I've certainly used them as hair dryers too.
Can confirm this - the hand driers I've seen in japan were generally pretty small, yet very effective and quiet.
From wikipedia:

Parallel construction is a law enforcement process of building a parallel—or separate—evidentiary basis for a criminal investigation in order to conceal how an investigation actually began. In the US, a particular form is evidence laundering, where one police officer obtains evidence via means that are in violation of the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, and then passes it on to another officer, who builds on it and gets it accepted by the court under the good-faith exception as applied to the second officer. This practice gained support after the Supreme Court's 2009 Herring v. United States decision.

...

In August 2013, a report by Reuters revealed that the Special Operations Division (SOD) of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration advises DEA agents to practice parallel construction when creating criminal cases against Americans that are based on NSA warrantless surveillance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
I think it's important to note that a "scriptless page" does not literally mean "give me a blank white page unless I turn on JavaScript".
I've made hundreds (thousands?) of batches of chocolate chip cookies. They're my favorite dessert!

I think this is a great article but I wanted to highlight some of what I've found to be key points for making the best cookies, at least for me personally.

1. Butter should be soft, not melted. Melted butter makes flat cookies. (Some people like flat cookies -- you can melt your butter. Heathens.)

2. Follow order of operations in the recipe. Butter is creamed with the sugar, then add wet ingredients, then add dry ingredients. Stir after each stage. Batter should be extremely smooth.

3. Ideally, batter should be chilled in refrigerator before using. But this is not required, unless you melted your butter.

4. Once formed, roll cookie dough balls in sugar before putting them on the parchment paper. Adds slightly crunchy, brown outer layer.

5. Sprinkle some coarse salt on top, to taste.

6. Use multiple types of chocolate chips. Specifically, I like a mixture of milk chips + semisweet chips. This makes the cookie flavor less boring.

edit: In terms of the base recipe, I use the Joy of Cooking recipe. Tollhouse chocolate chips also have a recipe on the packaging which is basically much the same.
I have a 31.5" 4K display that I use at native resolution, and while I love having all the screen real estate, I hate the jaggies. The rest of my time I spend looking at a 15" MacBook Pro or iPhone retina display, and having everything be so pixelated really distracts me and makes text harder to read.

I would love a 31" display at something closer to 8K resolution so I can run it at 2x scaling and get true retina.

If you need scaling at 31"... How is your vision? Do you use glasses? Or do you sit further away from the display? I had a friend who thought native 4K at 30" was too small, but it turned out he actually needed glasses, and once he got a prescription he joined my side.
> There's not much point to a 27" 4K monitor if you have to double the scaling just to read anything.

Of course there is! The higher pixel density means everything is significantly more crisp and easier on the eyes. Resolution is not only about how many things you can fit onto the screen.
Blade Runner background wallpaper cyberpunk ambience website?
Blade Runner background wallpaper cyberpunk ambience website?

Been looking for it for a while now. It's this website where it plays cyberpunk cityscape sounds on a loop on a Blade Runner background, and it's pretty awesome. At least one person here has to be into cyberpunk enough to have come across it, and if so, I'd appreciate it if you could share it with me.
Sounds like the Houston airport where people complained about waiting too long at customs during international travel, and the successful response was to simply elongate the walk to customs.

Nothing changed, except the customer perspective.
That's a Windows OS issue and it drives me crazy too, I raised an issue for it on the official Windows 10 feedback site, will try to find & post the link for it later, can't right now...
It's assuming that "a pixel is a point sample" is a better model, even of pixel art, than "a pixel is literally a small square". Checkerboard patterns are also used quite often for simple dithering (in pixel art with smaller-palettes) which is perhaps the polar opposite of your example! (And if you really don't want blurring, most pixel-art-specific scaling algorithms will nicely match nearest neighbor on that particular pattern, while still doing their best to smooth out "jaggies" elsewhere.)
The Indiana University Social Media Observatory created something similar: https://fakey.iuni.iu.edu/

It's interesting to play through, and they've created other tools such as Twitter bot detectors to help curb disinformation: https://osome.iuni.iu.edu/tools/
> Maybe there could just be little grass roots reddit-esque communities that are indexed/verified

Verified by who, exactly?

I know, I know... "dismissive comment", but it's an important thing to think about: Who decides what goes in the library? It's an evergreen topic, even in real, physical libraries, as those tedious lists of "Banned And Challenged Books" attest. It seems every time a copy of Huckleberry Finn gets pulled from an elementary school library in Altoona everyone gets all upset, so can you imagine what would happen if the radfems got their hands on a big Web Directory and cleansed it of all positive mentions of trans people?
It made a rough transition for me because all of the things going wrong were all too familiar.

Then when it wrapped up very nicely I felt like I was bad at my job. "Wait, how did they fix it so fast!?!" (hyperbole here but it was sort of a gut punch)
As smackay mentions, there are different 'definitions' of twilight [1], I went with the 'civil' one, which is the most widespread.

The page could be modified to present a gradient, since it only requires calculating the sun's altitude and solar time, which is not that complicated.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight
...is there some reason you can’t get a $40 adapter instead of a new monitor every three years? I’m still using a 27” Dell display I bought seven or eight years ago; I connect it to my Mac Pro via a little box that turns one USBC connection into a couple of legacy USB ports and HDMI. I will probably be using it for at least another decade if it doesn’t break.
There are pros and cons of that culture though, Japan takes it to the other extreme from what i've read.
What they really need to do is come up with a "preferred tourist visa", where people (regardless of national origin) are only able to get this after being interviewed to make sure they're properly respectful of the local culture and environment, and if they get caught doing something wrong (like littering, going into off-limits areas or past safety barriers, etc.), get their good-tourist visa revoked. Interested countries like Iceland can then only allow people with this visa to travel there.
Number of times I remember seeing an an app using `<div onclick>` with proper aria attributes: 0.
There may be some signature that identifies real-world fakes, in the same way that the Onion, well smells like an onion.

But, I have a general criticism about this area of research, which seems to conflate the semantic truth. value of content with the content itself, for example in statements like "fake news spreads faster" (veracity is an extrinsic property of data, and not one that is cognitively accessible to its consumers, and so can have no causal role in it's dissemination). Instead, the relevant variables can only be things like: sensationalism, accords with priors, emotional response, etc.

Still, when it
Does OpenAI's GPT-2 Neural Network Pose a Threat to Democracy?
Modern cars are so sound-insulated that the volume of the motorcycle isn't going to have that much of an impact in normal operation. Fit a louder horn to the bike if you need to draw attention in specific situations.

Loud exhausts are definitely not designed to make motorcycles more noticeable to cars.
I understand what you're saying, but in specific instances, this isn't about a "feeling". I won't generalize to all travel booking sites, but I will say that my former favorite booking site, Hotels.com, has clearly made a decision to embrace mendacity wherever they think it will benefit them.

The most glaring example is their complicity in hiding "resort fees" for some properties by moving notice from the room selection page (which is misleading to start with) to the summary page under an opaque "mandatory fees" line item.

Regarding car dealers, consider "doc fees" and "destination charges". It's not about feeling we're being taken advantage of - it's about an obvious attempt to mislead.
Japanese corporate governance does not work quite like in the US, either legally or culturally. Shareholders actually generally have more decision making power than in the US but tend not to exercise it very often and basically trust the existing leadership.

Toyota has been publicly traded for 70 years and their shareholders (which are primarily other large Japanese conglomerates) have never even tried to make these kinds of short-term-over-long-term pushes and keep electing Toyoda family members into the top leadership positions.
My personal opinion is that Questrade is terrible. I have been getting one of their customers emails for years and notified them about it and nothing has been done by them. If you want to risk losing all your money, go with Questrade since if I was a scammer I could use this to get access to this person's account.
Were you inspired by Hiroki Sayama's swarm chemistry?

http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~sayama/SwarmChemistry/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9psDJIWBnp8
How can I check if I am infected?
And yet some contend otherwise. It would be a great presidential debate question, fill in the blank: Diversity is _______
Your fundamental assumption is that all nation states do not engage is such cyber activities.
Glenn Gould's U.S. Television Debut: Bernstein Conducting (1960)
Technologically the singularity has already happened. It's not evenly distributed yet.

We have artificial nitrogen fertilizer. Since it's invention we have been converting oil into human biomass. As a side-effect there has been an acceleration of science and technology.

We have split the atom, we have automated thought, we read and write DNA, our words and images circle the globe in an instant. The singularity has already happened.

We just have to notice and calm down. We actually have all the answers and solutions we need already, the issue is purely psychological or spiritual now.
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Unless I missed it, it looks like they didn't control for the effects of their own survey. For all we know, taking 15 minutes to drink tea between ranking news reliability.
There's no difference between RSU and salary compensation except that one only comes twice a year.
All of the above should be prosecuted. If you want markets to be anywhere near efficient you're gonna have to force the capitalists into it. If we don't we'll eventually be back to kings.
wreak?
My approach to answering this would entail:

1) Determining what percentage of search engine use is driven by the need for a short cut to information you know exists but dont feel like accessing the hard way

2) Information you are actually seeking.

My initial reaction is that making search engines irrelevant is a stretch. Here is why:

Regarding #1, the vast majority of my search activity involves information I know how and where to find but seek the path of least resistance to access. I can type in "the smith, flat iron nyc" and know I will get the hours, cross street and phone number for the Smith restaurant. Why would I not do this instead of visiting the yelp website, searching for the Smith, set my location in NYC, filtering results etc. Maybe I am not being open minded enough but I don't see how this can be replaced short of reading my mind and injecting that information into it. There needs to be a system to type a request and retrieve the result you're looking for. Another example, when I am looking for someone on LinkedIn, I always google the person instead of utilizing LinkedIn's god awful search. Never fails me.

2. In the minority of cases I am looking for something, I have found that Google's results have gotten worse and worse over the years. It will still be my primary port of call and I think this is the workflow that has potential disruption. Other than an Index, I dont know what better alternatives you could offer.
Do you really think "false hope" is more common than "false hopelessness"?

(Related: https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/09/all-debates-are-braver... )
Isn't Liu his family name?
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That message is a blatant attempt to reduce the load on their customer support by discouraging callers and making it a painful to use channel

This was my precise experience implementing analysis software, interactive telephony ("Your call may be recorded for quality and training purposes") and going through the business case with senior management at an east coast call center ten years ago for a major consumer electronics and home appliance manufacturer, you probably have one of their smartphones in your pocket right now--call takers were saddled with what I thought were obscenely short call windows to resolve a call and be ready to take the next; three minutes to troubleshoot, diagnose and help a customer fix a washing machine, for example. One second over and the agents score went down, and they would face penalties.

What got implemented was a maze of menu options that (and I can say this authoritatively and quite honestly) were not captured beyond the second level to filter and properly triage calls into hunt-groups or queues, or even do any sort of business analysis to determine where the most of our calls were going, but were deliberately designed to give agents more time on their existing calls and keep the hold queue artificially small.

This is what exists at the root of my suspicion that this "menu options have changed" maneuver is all about numbers and stats that are ultimately meaningless in every practical definition that could be applied here.

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parting note:

Ten years and a different telecom company later, I find myself staring at an email last week with the call center company's name on it, we've just signed a strategic partnership with them. Is it irony? Who knows. Am I chuckling morbidly? God yes.
Are ideas alive? They are the replicating units, after all. The concept of capitalism is certainly alive and well.

Both genes and DNA are alive?Red blood cells are as dead as hair. But still as alive as a non reproducing grandma.

James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis is relevant here -- even the earth's air is as alive as our body's the intercellular protein matrix.
They stole data for years and didn't try to blackmail the companies for money. What other possibilities do you deduce?
Sure, I just meant the fiduciary responsibility doesn't necessarily always mean "short term profits at all costs."

Yep. Arguably an over-fixation on "short term profits at all costs" would be a gross violation of one's fiduciary duty if it puts the long-term viability of the enterprise at risk.
Yes, I'm the author. Happy to share.

The dispenser is a "dry food/cereal dispenser" like the kind you would see at a hotel breakfast bar. They can be found on amazon in various configurations. (e.g. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=dry+food+dispenser&ref=nb_sb_noss...). A continuous-rotation servo is attached to the crank, allowing the Raspberry Pi to turn the crank to dispense food.

The scale is a cheap kitchen scale (also amazon, I think mine cost $9.) These scales contain a device called a Load Cell. I cut the four wires to the load cell (bypassing all the other electronics in the scale) and ran them to an HX711 chip, which can be had for a few dollars. If you google "raspbery pi hx711" you can see the people's instructions on how to make a Pi scale for various reasons (weighing people, luggage, etc.)

So the scale, the dispenser, the servo, and Pi Zero are put together with a few pieces of wood. Most of the work has been getting the software side working.

Hope this helps!
> Viewing "pages" and "apps" as wholly separate and mutually hostile paradigms seems to be a recent cultural development born more out of frustration with advertising and modern complexity than any technically meaningful distinction between the two.

Well there is a pretty fundamental tension between programs written in a Turing-complete language and a program written in one that is not. Resorting to too much power too early is dangerous and messy.
Probably a preference for non-finance fields of study. Might be different at hedge funds doing longer-term trading, but at the short end, academic finance is very far from anything being done in practice.
You are correct that the size of the screen has nothing to do with data rate, except often larger displays have higher resolutions (which does affect data rate).
The "zero maintenance" is part of the problem. Any hand dryer should have an air filter, and that air filter should need to be replaced frequently considering the nasty things that happen in that room.
It could largely fix the negative consequences though.