skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can take an unpaid leave if you need more. If you have temporary disability insurance through work (and I would imagine most US software developers do), you can file a claim to compensate you for lost wages due to a medical condition.
It’s not the biggest, but the most useful: Macnolo https://github.com/tfmoraes/macnolo . It’s Python script to create Mac applications (.app) from Python scripts. It’s working, but needs some improvements in code.
Is there anything stopping ICE from requesting the details and locations of everyone who has signed up for the app? I'm sure there's one judge in the country willing to sign off on the order.
Always fun waiting for Scott Aaronson to explain why the latest QC paper is bullshit. Until then can any Quantum Information experts here provide some background? I read the paper but don’t trust my intuition with these kind of things.
Define sick.

Contagious cold? A rough day with anxiety/depression? Struggling with the side effects of a new medicine? Hung over from a night of partying?

If the company’s policy is 10 days, then there is zero reason to negatively judge an employee for using those days.
Lumi by Pampers
How is it like to be a dev in Iran
And that order would be easily challenged.
…official terminology that is dehumanizing, then.
Very nice. I'm going to enjoy going through these - thanks!
Just needs to stamp registry with, ran this script on X date, so I can tell the user exactly when and what time they broke windows before reinstalling the OS.

Do not run these scripts they are always making it worse.
Pretty sure they'll loose cities before the US does. Most cities in India are at their wits end in water crises already
This was my immediate thought: "I bet she's sick for more than 10 days a year".

But who knows. Maybe one of his employees trying to work through being sick will come in and give him norovirus. A man can hope.
Thanks, I wasn't too conscious about those other examples of unauthorized presence. Makes sense now that I think of it.
> Believeing in evolution without believing that peoples personalities and abilities are predetermined is illogical and nonsensical.

"Believing in computer hardware without believing that all computer behavior is predetermined is nonsensical."
A new twist on fusion power could help bring limitless clean energy
Abandoned WW2 Fortifications
Visibility, for one. Legal aliens are likely more confident in their chances to not be deported (and in the past, for rightful reasons), which makes them low hanging fruit for ICE which generally has zero accountability [1].

This can be for reasons like having a conviction within the past few decades or for more nebulous reasons. Even if you successfully fight deportation, you're still dealing with potentially being jailed and taken away from your life for no reason [2].

[1] https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lawful-resident...

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kansas-professor-who-fa...
All valid points. Can you please elaborate on the final loopholes part?
If I were a spook, it's definitely a technique I'd try (the FBI has run honeypots before). But other commenters have mentioned that it's run by a reputable group, so it's probably not a massive concern (then again we know that intelligence sharing occurs between the NSA and other agencies -- if I were ICE I'd ask the NSA to get information about the users of the app).

I do imagine there is some legal red tape to get around if you actually want to use it as evidence in immigration investigations. Then again, you don't need to use it as evidence -- all you need is a lead and you can get all the evidence necessary when you detain them.
The good senator illustrating the noisy wheel syndrome. Ken Thompson's reflections on trust have been repeated over and over again, and is now a mainstream meme. But the fact that it's a often repeated common meme doesn't mean it's a practical threat. I'm not aware of it ever being responsible for an actual security breech. That's pretty significant - because there must be thousands of breaches each and every day. That isn't surprising, as it would particularly difficult for open source GNU, LLVM, and Rust because people are literally compiling code and comparing the assembler output to the previous versions.

He probably also isn't aware of how large computer companies like Facebook operate. Again, a single failure doesn't effect them like a single in a fighter plane. In fact a chaos monkeys that randomly knock out bits of production infrastructure are a useful technique for them. I'm sure the senator it thinking in terms of a chaos monkey randomly knocking out engines, airfoils, and computers on a flying plane.

The quality of compiler is a concern - but it is one the software engineer will be well aware. Asking a software engineer if he is sure of the quality compiler he is using is like asking a racing driver is he concerned about the quality of fuel he is using.
Because they're not white.

I mean this in all seriousness, and it's unfortunate that it's such a flamey argument, but you can see them doing things like questioning the birth certificates of people just on the Texas side of the border that, as you argue, make no sense if your goal is simply to go after people you already know beyond a doubt are here illegally, of which there is no shortage.

(Apparently one of the things they look at is baptismal records, on the grounds that there are allegedly people who live on the Mexico side of the border who get a false birth certificate from the US somehow. As a US-born child of Indian immigrants, who was baptized in India so my extended family could be there, this actually has me personally worried a little bit. I don't know how I could prove my citizenship if they questioned the validity of my birth certificate and therefore my passport....)

To your question of how many, https://jacquelinestevens.org/US-Unlawfully-Detaining.Steven... says, "Recent data suggests that in 2010 well over 4,000 U.S. citizens were detained or deported as aliens, raising the total since 2003 to more than 20,000." (And that's well before Trump, for the record!)
Bury it deep? A large part of the carbon should remain and turn into coal.
official in what sense, please?
Attachment Theory Deep Dive, 15+ hours, Dr Kirk Honda, Psychology in Seattle. (The series is paywalled behind their patreon.)

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji2QKcKqY7U

They are above the quality of a normal uni lecture, but not polished as a Teaching Company/Great Courses thing.

http://www.psychology.sunysb.edu/attachment/online/inge_orig...

http://labs.psychology.illinois.edu/~rcfraley/attachment.htm

For adult attachment Cindy Hazan is everywhere.
I have 2 Awairs - most of the time the number is over 90 (which is good) but it also measures individual values as well as that overall score

My company has a different one in the office in SF, and that one publishes to the net so the results are available to employees to see if they should stay home
While the story makes it quite clear that it is about the RPC-4000 (because of the next address encoded in the spare bits of the LGP-30 instruction format), your ideas regarding the LGP-30 in (2) may actually work. Instruction "u", unconditional transfer (jump), is 12 (%1010) and the next instruction code is "t" (13, %1011), which is "test" (branch if AC is negative). So a program may cleverly overflow (by adding to the gap in the instruction) from an unconditional transfer into a conditional one, which is then ignored as AC is zero or positive and the program "falls through"…

Similarly, we could overflow from "t" (test, conditional transfer) to "h" (store and Hold the contents of AC), but this doesn't make much sense, since we have a conditional branch instruction in place right from the beginning.
YAML (and TOML and even XML when it's being used in a tag-centric way instead of a text-centric way) are not markup languages. A markup language is one that allows you to assign meaningful annotations to regions within a chunk of textual content (e.g. "these three words are underlined", "this relates to footnote 3", etc.). YAML and TOML have both changed the meanings of their acronyms to try and distance themselves from their original misnamings as "markup languages".
There is no citation needed. Property taxes are one of the base costs in determining the revenue needed for keeping the accommodation provider open. It then follows that that cost must be paid by the customers if the establishment is to be profitable. If the business is being operated at a loss on purpose then this doesn't apply.

The tourists in aggregate are therefore paying the property taxes of the establishment.
So do those consequences you mention suddenly disappear if you're _actually_ sick? The fixation on "abuse" and that it can be easily determined doesn't make sense.
Is this actually "increasingly common"? Seems like a few instances posted on social media with mostly cursory descriptions of what happened.

The 2nd link is about an illegal immigrant mother who didn't want to come to the airport to pick up her children. They were released once she showed up, and the only reason they were stopped was because they were travelling with another person who had no legal status and was not admitted to the country.

The 3rd link is about preteen children who were told to "walk across the border instead" because the line was moving too slow, leading to questioning to verify the identity.

Not following the rules/law is the cause of 2 of those stories.
That's true, but the app was still not made with them in mind.

From the FAQ:

Who is the intended audience for Notifica?
A: Primarily, young people and family members of undocumented immigrants (a group estimated to be at least 16 million people). Secondary, attorneys and advocates that want to ensure their clients have an efficient and safe way to make contact prior to a deportation event.
‘(8, 1, alpha, beta, gamma) log’ isn't a posit; it just shares the encoding of the exponent.
Something on twitter doesn't make anything "increasingly common"

A child crossing the border alone might make any country worried about them.
Probably that such an order could still be too broad; even though the two main purposes of such an app are lawbreaking (and counsel to marginally-valid residents) and maybe some strange form of voyeurism.
That's not what my great-great-grandfathers service record says, or the extremely long list of Canadians killed or injured in WW1.

The German that shot him was probably just messing around, you're right.
This is the reason I remember being told as a kid. There was a lot of hate towards Germans from that generation for a reason. Mustard gas...
If time isn't an issue, those techniques all are fine and are proven to work.
Sadly, time IS an issue today, so 2 men on a paddle won't build the hoover dam.
Even if they could.
> but on many systems there has been a move to having the scrollbars hidden by default

Which is terrible for those of us without scroll wheels. The user agent can implement scrollbars in unpredictable ways to accommodate local needs. Reimplementing scrolling will always have compatibility and accessibility issues.

(scrollwheels were a major source of my RSI issues, so I have to disable the scrollwheel. I sometimes have it mapped to thumb buttons 8 & 9, but that isn't practical for scrolling long pages)
TBH, 50k wouldn't help. It's a petty amount of money when it comes to investments. On average you can aim at 3% per year. That should be enough to support your lifestyle which is 30k if you are ok with being frugal. Would you live like a homeless if you had 1M in your investments accounts? No, you'd be paying off mortgage on a nice house while figuring out how to make more money, deal with inflation and rapidly rising property taxes, so you won't end up on streets when you retire. If 50k could solve your problems, I'd give it to you now because I believe that fixing someone's life is worth way more than 500 hundred dollar bills.
Depends on the state - many (most? all?) states let people on temporary visas get a drivers license, and don't tie the period of validity together. But more importantly, since there is no system to revoke a drivers license if your immigration status is revoked, a drivers license can only be used as proof that you were able to show legal status in the past, not that you have it now.
The specifics of his case are irrelevant; they are using any and all opportunities to create an atmosphere of extreme fear.

Assange isn’t even subject to US law and doesn’t/didn’t have a clearance. They’re going after him on whatever grounds they can scare up simply for publishing.

It’s part of a wider plan, to shore up the fact that they are vulnerable, which Snowden most effectively demonstrated.
Excellent read! Never knew about this. Thanks for posting.

When i read stuff like this, i wonder how much knowledge has been lost due to the Western Press' quest to undermine/badmouth/putdown/hide and label everything Soviet/Chinese/Communist as "bad" simply because they follow a different form of Ideology/Govt. Propaganda is insidious and destructive.
There's nothing wrong with posting an interesting story after a year or two. Especially when the topic is as interesting as this one! The current thread is the best so far.
For e-commerce search, personalization with Elasticsearch takes a similar level of effort as with Solr. Don't re-platform under the impression it will make personalization easier. It still takes data collection and experimentation but can be accomplished on Elasticsearch. Feel free to contact me if you have questions.
Essentially it seems like they are exploring ways in which for certain computations a solution can be found before the computation has actually finished, approaching something like O(1) performance.
Official terminology is "illegal aliens" or "illegal immigrants." As people, they are not illegal: their alien status / immigration status is.

(The law, I think, just uses the terms "illegal entry" / "unauthorized presence" / "inadmissible" / etc. and "illegal immigration" to describe the act in general. But USCIS, ICE, etc. do use the term "illegal alien.")
Legal is an acceptable term right? No one bats an eye at "Legal Resident". What's the opposite of legal? Illegal. As far as I think, these are just states and do not imply anything about the person in question. They are terms I assume used pretty ubiquitously in most places of the world with a government in different forms.

Again, as far as I think, being somewhere illegally doesn't make you any lesser of a human than I am. But they are still here illegally. I could call them undocumented too, but they're still here illegally.
The plural of anecdote is not data. For example, in the Washington Post story (your last link about passport renewal issues) the only hard statistics provided in the whole story show that the type of denials they are discussing are at their lowest level since the practice started during the Bush years and continued through the Obama years.

Deportations overall are significantly lower they they were in 2010, and steady the last several years.

From the stories I’m reading (WSJ) ICE is not even able to successfully deport illegal immigrants where final deportations orders have been issued.

[1] - https://www.wsj.com/articles/immigration-enforcement-raids-b...
How can someone with legal status be deported without cause? Is there any proof of this?
You're supposed to use sick days to take care of a sick dependent, too. Most single parents I've worked with always take all their allocated sick days because they use them when they're sick or when they have to stay home with a sick kid.
But then it looks like everyone is using chrome in marketshare reports...
The app seems to imply it ... helps.

Does this really stop the inevitable deportation? and other than informing others.... what else is the outcome that the app helps with?

While I see the value of having an attorney the site isn't clear what else it can do or help with.
Sorry for not making sure to use the full term. My point was though, "illegal" is not a bad word and it's used officially.
You can have centralized / common auth using LDAP, even across platform.

You can have file sync with syncthing, or similar, again across platforms.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article21...
Carthago delenda est
The app doesn't facilitate lawbreaking. The app facilitates notifying people that you are entering custody of law enforcement, for a law that has (perhaps) been broken in the past.

It's basically a warrant canary. The purpose of a warrant canary is not to refuse to comply with the law: on the contrary, it only communicates something nontrivial if you intend to comply with the law!
Google maps let's me report speed traps.
Who is smarter: someone who was frugal, saved a lot of money, retired and died or someone who kept spending everything, got whatever he could get for the money, retired and died with 0 in savings?
Maybe a couple can survive changes in the housing and job market well enough that it they don’t mind the changes to their quality of life. But it very likely will be noticeable to their kids when other families have stronger finances and better access to housing and job markets. If you can’t save more than the difference to such markets what you get for the money is de facto less. It is sort of inflation by inequality. Then the theory doesn’t really hold and the frugality has just been to try and keep up.

I am all for frugality but in many places it hasn’t worked out in the last 10 years because you haven’t had the same access to growth. Unless you already had assets in the first place.
> the U.S. would not take

Other countries have not done anything either (lip service doesn't count).

This is a "lack of good alternatives" problem, not a US problem.
The only valid complains in this post are about Windows defender and updates notifications, all the others are indeed bloatware because you can reinstall Spotify if you want it that much, and the "accessibility keyboard" should just ask you if you really want to uninstall that, which 99% of users don't need at all.
"Documented immigrants can now be deported from the United States if they break the rules of federal and state programs that offer public benefits to immigrants."

Yes, criminal convictions can cause you to lose your immigration status, whether that's a visa or green card. Every legal immigrant knows this and it's been the law forever. This is not an example of surprise deportation of a legal resident.
I was unclear about what I meant by "increasingly common," but I did not mean "during the Trump administration." It has certainly been happening well before then, too.

And multiple presidential administrations ignoring the rights of citizens absolutely doesn't make it magically okay. I have my problems with Trump, but that doesn't imply that I think everything Obama and Bush did was good and just.

(In any case, even one US citizen unlawfully detained, let alone deported, seriously concerns me as a citizen. Either the rights of citizenship are guaranteed, or they're not. They can't be mostly guaranteed.)
The numbers you're quoting don't match your claims. You said "the cost of the hardware is pretty much a blip in comparison to rackspace, power and networking costs."

Then once you start listing numbers, the server costs $30k+ and the data center $400/mo. I'm pretty sure that $30k for a server is not a "blip" on ($30k + $15k) assuming a three year lifetime.

Trying to make out like I'm coming it from some kind of hobbyist market segment point of view is a puzzling straw man. These products, which optimize for performance over performance/TCO$, are built with very valid niches in mind, and where the math works out it saves you a ton of money in software licensing or software development.

They are not, as you seem to be claiming, positioned as sensible choices for wide deployment in datacenters. If that were the case, why bother with the rest of the SKUs!?
Off-topic, but this reminds me of a crazy idea I had and never worked on (like a lot of ideas): Time-locked device encryption for when you're traveling through borders that are known to search your electronic devices and/or install malware.

Basically, ransomware, but the good kind that encrypts all the data on your device and holds the key until:

A. You've passed the border (or checkpoint)

B. You've securely authenticated yourself

C. Are sure your device wasn't tampered with
Isn't that a Progressive Web App?
You only need to do so for Google sites. Maybe an enhancement on Firefox Containers that only do this for Google sites.
Sounds like Platonic Forms[1], but for applied computer science.

Skimming Naur's essay, the solution to this problem seems like it could involve building higher level code analysis into the language itself (making the linter part of the language and development environment).

Microsoft is doing this to some degree with compiler extensions on the .NET platform [2]. When used creatively, you can effectively deploy a custom linter with your libraries which emits compiler errors and warnings based on how the user is doing things (ie I think you're trying to do X, have you considered using this new functionality instead?). However, I think it is interesting to consider what it would look like if statically typed code and style analysis/suggestions were a first class citizen in a programming language, not just an add on for advanced users. If this exists now, I'd love to check it out.

It's too bad we won't all live to see the inevitable improvement in computational notation over the next few hundred years. Time to binge watch some Alan Kay talks and try to imagine it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_forms
[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/code-quality/r...
Unsupervised Task Design to Meta-Train Medical Image Classifiers
It's not bad as an adjective. It's bad as a noun.
This didn't come up in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20363705
earlier this month. That "FreeBSD - A lesson in poor defaults" post
said FreeBSD's OpenSSH port has "The NONE cipher is somewhat of a
misfeature, removing the encryption bits and only keeping the data
integrity. It allows users to accidentally shoot themselves in the
foot pretty easily. The trade-off in performance isn't really worth it
either, as the bottlenecks one might experience have a lot more to do
with the MAC than the actual encryption."

So, when someone uses 44.0.0.0/9 where encryption isn't allowed, and
they don't want to create and maintain their own OpenSSH fork, this
FreeBSD code might be exactly what they want.
I think Scott Aaronson already weighed in on this:

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4147
Oh, it gets worse than that.

Here's a case of a citizen held for more than three years in ICE detention. He's not eligible for compensation, because they held him long enough that the statute of limitations expired.

> There is no right to a court-appointed attorney in immigration court. Watson, who was 23 and didn't have a high school diploma when he entered ICE custody, didn't have a lawyer of his own. So he hand-wrote a letter to immigration officers, attaching his father's naturalization certificate, and kept repeating his status to anyone who would listen.

> Still, Immigration and Customs Enforcement kept Watson imprisoned as a deportable alien for nearly 3 1/2 years. Then it released Watson, who was from New York, in rural Alabama with no money and no explanation. Deportation proceedings continued for another year.

> Watson was correct all along: He was a U.S. citizen. After he was released, he filed a complaint. Last year, a district judge in New York awarded him $82,500 in damages, citing "regrettable failures of the government."

> On Monday, an appeals court ruled that Watson, now 32, is not eligible for any of that money — because while his case is "disturbing," the statute of limitations actually expired while he was still in ICE custody without a lawyer.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/01/540903038...