skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Step one, set all your social media to private.

Step two, set your passwords to something horrendously complex and leave them at home when you travel.

Step three, create a list of your account names on each service and carry it in your wallet.

Step four, delete all social media apps, cookies, and sessions from all of your digital devices prior to traveling to the United States.

Step five, set up a social network email address used solely for social networks, and change your email address on all social networks to this new address. Apply the same password and logout rules as above.

Step six, when US border entry demands your account names, use the list in your wallet to provide them a complete list, including the email address linked to those social networks. When they demand the passwords, indicate that you use 64-character random passwords, and that they’re written on a piece of paper at home.

You may or may not be denied entry, and you may or may not be detained, but those are the minimum steps you must take if you wish to defend your accounts from access. By using passwords you cannot memorize, you can truthfully and under oath declare that you do not know those passwords.

If you have completed all of the above steps, you can only then proceed to delete your social network accounts. This will change nothing: you must still declare all of these accounts for many years, and adhere strictly to these rules until the reporting deadline expires. You will additionally then need to inform US agents that you deleted your accounts as they were being used by the US to violate your privacy.

Do any less than this and you will find your data used by the United States government without your consent, against you and against others. You may still find everything you posted prior to deletion used against you. Do not lie. Either tell the truth or decline to answer.

Best of luck.

EDIT: For bonus points, secure the passwords in a safe and memorize the combination. When asked for the passwords, tell them where they’re stored and what the combination to the safe is. You will openly have complied and given them everything they need to access your accounts, and volunteering the safe combination indicates that you have nothing to hide from any investigation. They may still capriciously deny you entry, but they will have a very difficult time convincing anyone that you were obstructive, since you volunteered your safe combination of your own free will, and they will have a very difficult time securing a warrant for that safe without cause.
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I've replied above.
> Postulate: how does the US being able to more accurately track people via facial recognition make me materialy safer as a US citizen?

I don't think tracking people via facial recognition will significantly help, but some similar technologies might. Recognizing camouflaged tanks (or disturbed ground concealing mines, or flares vs engine exhaust, or...) would, though. And I don't think those techs are separable, if that makes any sense.

> At this point, what is actually accomplished by the US military getting even fancier ways of killing people? From how things are shaping up, even if things come to blows b/w US & China it won't be a shooting war. It's looking like it will be similar to the cold war: neither adversary can dare attack the other, so we end up with a series of proxy wars and nitpicking at the adversary.

And if you think that neither country will be able to afford to attack the other and thus stop preparing to be attacked... Well, that feels like it'll invite an attack. Not to mention that some of those proxy wars might end up being "Korea mk2" or "Taiwan", both of which would make conventional military expertise extremely valuable.
I’ve spent a fair amount of the summer cycling around european cities and you can’t get even close to kind of work out you get on a peloton. What I’m realizing is that all of the years where I assumed that because I was cycling to work that I was at least doing something was completely false.

45 mins on the peloton is a completely different thing to even 45 minutes out in the country.
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(Europe / Tech)

1. HR is not tech-savy and most of the time does look for distinguished engineers at the price of an intern

2. Salary is always on the low side, and salary range is almost never included in the job posting

3. Companies are not considering their employees an asset, but a liability
The cost of switching to another platform should also be calculated into the price when you choose platform.
Then cite the GDP/capita of individual provinces or cities. Citing the GDP of the entire country is meaningless, though, given that it has 1.4 billion people. China is not more developed than Monaco, even though its GDP is thousands of times larger.

I haven't ever heard of the Chinese government claiming China to be a developed country - that was one of the original contentions above. I also think that by any reasonable metric, China is a developing country. There are pockets that are much more developed than others, but the country as a whole is still very far behind developed countries.
Which is ludicrous in it's self that they set entirely new domains rather than using a sub-domain with delegated access. But, we know how Microsoft works. That would require some kind of communication between departments and delegated trust.
On vacation in Copenhagen right now. OMG is it bike friendly.
I unlocked it myself. I got myself in secondary for a stupid reason: I was sleep deprived and I couldn’t quickly find my return ticket to show at the counter, and didn’t remember my return date (and you can’t search your phone for an answer).
I'm more wondering how we get the nuclear fuel in the first place and how long we can keep picking it up until it gets too expensive to find/process? And are we still using coal powerplats to process the fuel to usable quality? Then it's not very carbonfree.
>> That's great but it's not like this is even a US-only thing, this is a quite common occurrence these days.

I never heard of any of that except from the US and China.
The narrative that Hong Kong protests are primarily supported by poorer folks whom the economy failed in recent past goes counter to some recent reports—various Hong Kong accounting firms being requested to fire employees who express sympathy with protests, resignation of the CEO of Cathay Pacific (alleged to be a flashy gesture with which he admitted his support)—and to my anecdotal experience: among local acquaintances, those who don’t openly support the protests are either relatively not well-off or they agree with protesters on the goals but, like me, disagree on modes of action.
Before throwing the first stone I would look through my own accounts. The Facebook algorithm doesn't even show you what your friends are posting for years, only those you engage with.
Poll: Do you currently use RSS feeds?
With all the discussion regarding RSS feeds, I would like to know what proportion of hackernews users still use RSS.
That last sentence made me laugh, and it does ring true. Here's how I imagine he would answer that question:

https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/what-is-spacetime-re...

> So, OK, if I mounted a project to try to find the fundamental theory of physics, what would I actually do? It’s a complex project, that’ll need not just me, but a diverse team of talented other people too.

It's illuminating that, in order to explore the nature of space and time, he mentions Euclid, Einstein, but most of all himself and his work. The self-absorption encompasses all of existence.

That said, dismissing all of his writing as "arrogant content marketing blogspam" feels uncharitable and too reductive - I don't disagree, but still consider it arrogant self-promotion of the highest order, by one of the most productive and insightful thinkers of our time.
> Michael S. McCarthy, a spokesman for Customs and Border Protection, said he could not comment on the specifics of Mr. Ajjawi’s case because of privacy rules.

The irony of this statement is making my head spin
This is one of the problems the Librem 5 is designed to solve.
RSS and IRC I think have that timeless quality that may mean that it will not die
out, and hopefully have perennial resurgences. Not just the irritation of FB style
notifications and dark patterns, but also speed and uniform customisation play a
role. Why let FB guess what I want to see if I know which I need to see to be ha
ppy/productive/nonnarcissist?
With all the discussion regarding RSS feeds, I would like to know what proportion of hackernews users still use RSS.

I do not use them. But with the amount of votes some posts regarding RSS get, I assume quite a large proportion of HN users do.
Ah, gotcha. So then, would you say that nothing is literally carbon-free, and the phrase can never be uttered without being disingenuous?

I usually use it for any process that doesn't require combustion. Splitting atoms is carbon free, as is solar PV, but both require various lifecycle work that inherently emits carbon since 81% of our world energy is from fossil.

Nuclear or solar or wind could all become carbon free if we phased out fossil fuel. Biofuel and hydro (because of biogenic methane) can not.
Talk about anti-democratic.
Please let's not fall yet again into the black hole of Wolfram Derangement Syndrome. From that there is no exit.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=wolfram%20derangement%20syndro...
You've missed the part where they already allow yellow taxis to have tablets with ads.
My lousy one never let it go. RSS is a protocol, not something that depends on Web readers, browser extensions, native app, whatever.

Each one should use whatever they feel like, and I never understood the drama around Google's reader.
I found his relentless self-promotion really distracting and annoying. And presenting lambda calculus in terms of his own language only makes it more confusing.

However, I am impressed with the tenacity it took to trace the paper to its origin and there's a lot of interesting story in the process.
What if your mom is a outspoken communist?
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> "In NLOS (and traditional photography) the scene to be imaged is illuminated with N photons but the detector only receives M photons worth of signal back, where M<<N."

How about "averaging" several attempts to compose a single shot? Would it be possible to shine lasers of multiple wavelengths to achieve better results? maybe varying angles as-well?
It's nice to be Stephen Wolfram, people call you up to give you books owned by Alan Turing...
With regards your other points, I'll happily concede the energy density advantages, but refer you to the other factors that plague construction of new plants (design, economics, NIMBY, etc). It may well be a 'better option' by some assessment, but not by the ones that matter, unfortunately.

The article you cited [1] quotes min/med/max numbers for gm CO2 / kWh for nuclear fission as: 3.7/12/110

Following the references, I'm directed to an annex [2] that describes the metrics & methodology behind those figures.

In section A.II.9.3.2 Nuclear Power there is only one paragraph:

"The data on nuclear power was taken from Lenzen (2008) and Warner and Heath (2012). There is no basis in the literature as far as we know to distinguish between 2nd and 3rd generation power plants."

Lenzen's mentioned in the review that I cited, but only in passing. Warner and Heath is more heavily scrutinised -- in comparison to a slightly earlier (Benjamin Sovacool, 2008) meta-analysis, which identified a range of 3-200, with an average of 66 gm CO2 / kWh -- compared to the median in Warner and Heath's meta-analysis of 12.

Keith Barnham more fully explores the metholodogical peculiarities of the Warner and Heath meta-analysis in that article I posted above.

[1] https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5...

[2] https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5...
Or you know - Just not go to places that demand to look through your phone.
> $380 million they paid is no acquihire.

So, they're just shovelling the money into a furnace? Or perhaps you just mean that Google buying the company a member of the board founded isn't arms-length enough to justify the term, and this falls into some form of theft or bribery?
The simplest and most effective legal framework would be to just outlaw it. Of course the technology doesn't disappear, none of it ever does, but there are still plenty of technologies that are banned because they are a net negative effect upon the world. I still don't see any positives to allowing it.
Anecdotally this is a big factor when I talk with Chinese residents and how they feel about safety in everyday life.

When I bought a bike in China and asked about locks, the shop owner showed me, but mentioned that he didn't really see a need, he hadn't heard of a bike being stolen in a while, which he specifically attributed to pervasive surveillance. I bought a lock anyways, but was taken aback by how strong his perception was that he actually was weakly trying to dissuade me from buying a lock. And indeed I saw my fair share of unlocked bikes, although I also saw many that were also locked up, enough that I continued to always lock my bike.

And it gets to some really in-your-face levels. Some major cities in China have occasional electronic, public billboards posting somewhat redacted photos and partial ID info (first several digits of their ID card and their surname) of jaywalkers flagged by surveillance cameras, essentially naming and shaming in a very public way.

And anecdotally I also feel safer in many large cities in China compared to years prior. Drivers are a lot less crazy. In some, but definitely not all, large cities, traffic lights and crosswalks are essentially sacrosanct now with cameras automatically ticketing everywhere. As a pedestrian, cars will often preemptively stop for me at a crosswalk to let me pass. Pickpocketing seems far less of a concern. Most Chinese residents I see actually wear their backpacks on their backs now at tourist locations and on public transportation (as opposed to previously on their chest to prevent people stealing things from the back). It feels like night and day going to a smaller Chinese city where the old craziness of one or two decades ago still reigns (which is somewhat sad for other sentimental reasons).

Now this is both anecdotal and only based on perception. Even if there were statistics provided about this, they would probably come from the Chinese government which makes them suspect.

Is this scary how much power this concentrates in the government? Very much so. Is the Chinese government using this power to corral dissidents? Definitely. Does it make large sections of the Chinese population feel safer? I think so.
I think the point is it shows systemic bias, which may be very difficult to "debug".

It is important to apply ethics when developing technology, as rationality alone is not sufficient.
End of an Era: Air France to Retire All Airbus A380's by 2022
> lots of land.

How much in comparison to farming generally?

You're attempting a bait and switch:
1) Claim veganism is bad because it would reduce output if everyone switched now.
2) Claim veganism is bad because it would reduce output at the margin of an optimal policy.

These two things are quite different scenarios. Scenario 2) is tacitly accepting that most people would be vegan most of the time. But hey, if you want to argue that under both our optimal policies there would be many more plant eaters, fine by me.
Hangouts Meet (the core Google Suite version) isn't being shut down and is already pretty separate from the classic Google Hangouts in many ways.
I recommend you ask your parents where the acid came from when we last blew tons of sulfur into the atmosphere...
You think they have someone that reads Arabic on site?

They probably use some kind of translation service.
You can’t guarantee good people will always be in charge, even in “good” countries. Public opinion changes, new politicians get votes into power, etc. Which is why I’m against tools like this. Sure, it might mean I’m in favour of a few bad people getting away with crimes but privacy laws are about protecting everyone because one day it might be the “good guys” that depend on privacy and we might find it’s already too late.
If you haven't already read it: http://worrydream.com/#!/ClimateChange (2015)
A clean burner phone is doubly suspicious. To really avoid detection you would need a carefully constructed burner identity, ensuring that the people who get through are the most sophisticated criminals with the greatest resources backing them.
It was a long time ago, but have you read it? Because if I recall correctly, the surveillance happened inside your own home from your own TV. Other than that, the book '1984' wasnt really about surveillance, it's more about a system of lies and the transformation of speech into a political tool to control people.
In real time? Maybe. But their tools are probably all geared towards western services like Facebook.
>Don't know about air mail, but for maritime and rail transport, there is much more going from China to the EU or US than in the other direction by volume.

Where can I verify this? Thats looking at only the direct transport? Or also indirect transport?

Consider a hypothetical container from the US/EU going to Africa (bringing products, second hand goods, "recyclables", ...), then the container could pick up raw minerals and resources going to China, now theres an empty container in China and it has to go back to US/EU?
The US doesn't need a protector, because the US has immensely large natural barriers (the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean) that protect it from any other country in the world, except from Canada and from Mexico. Unless you think one of these two countries is an actual threat to the US, then I think in general you should be safe.

Now, obviously, there are intercontinental missiles, but why would anyone employ these against a nation if they would not consider that nation a threat? So the protector of the US can be the US itself - if it chooses to be.
OpenAI Said Its Code Was Risky. Two Grads Re-Created It Anyway
That doesn't seem completely fair. Much like blaming google for using normal commodity servers compared to Altavista using high end enterprise hardware. What matters is the reliability of the system, not some random part.

Backblaze is quite transparent about how they do things. They publish their drive reliability numbers (including brand/model numbers), storage pod design, and how their sharding/redundancy works.

Seems like most cloud storage vendors just say "We do object storage right handwave and we have lots of 9s". Backblaze says they shard your data into 20 pieces onto 20 servers and can recover with any 17 of those pieces. More details at https://www.backblaze.com/blog/reed-solomon/

Sure that's not enough redundancy for some, but at least you know what to expect and can plan accordingly. I've not see any other cloud vendor do that. Please post URLs for similar info from other companies.
I'm guessing people will soon start figuring out that privacy is important and that perhaps posting personal shit online is not smart. Today it's some kid who had some friends say something barred from entry in the US, tomorrow it's going to be you for some weird meme image you've posted online flagged by some algorithm.

Say it won't be so, but I can't see how that wont happen especially with the always shifting moral compass and laws around what's acceptable and not.
That would look utterly suspicious. If I was a border patrol agent I would not let anyone in who deleted their social media accounts just to get in into the country, who knows what they are trying to hide.
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Theoretically democratic? Protections against democracy are one of the only reasons that the US still allows unskilled immigrants at all. The majority of the US population would overwhelmingly support the visa denial of a brown-skinned Muslim-sounding guy whose Facebook friends had posted suspect content.
It’s pretty much the result of our trade deficit. Not only does China export more than is, they export much lower value products on a volume/weight basis. Heck, a big USA export to China are airplanes that can simply be flown there.

China exports plenty to Africa, no need for such circuitous shipping patterns.
Because "results" matter more than culture. Just watch a TV series "Succession" to see how the upper echelons of people treat/think about ordinary engineers and senior engineer.
The design looks beautiful !
Workarounds for Semantic Problems
Would you please not post name-calling comments or personal attacks (like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20809349 and, worse, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20709280) to HN? We ban accounts that break the site guidelines like that. If you'd review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and post only in the intended spirit or not at all, we'd be grateful.
As usual a lot of talk in these threads from people who have actually not used the product in question but just love bashing Google for "cancelling everything".
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I don't think it's fair to say they were "explicitly exempted of being impostors" - Intellectual Impostures focuses exclusively on the use of scientific and mathematical terms by philosophers, as it's often clearly evident when an author doesn't know what they mean, and/or is using them in a totally absurd way. It's easier to catch them in the act of perpetrating nonsense. The four you mentioned just don't happen to use mathematical or scientific terms in the same egregiously nonsensical way. That is very far from the only way of writing bad philosophy. For some of the many others, see David Stove's What is wrong with our thoughts? (which, by the way, features Foucault)

http://www.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/wrongthoughts.html
I think that as soon as facial recognition starts getting used to actually put people in prison, things like the Niqāb [0] are going to become extremely popular among criminal or criminal-adjacent populations. The side effects for the nominally law-abiding population will remain, and the program won't be rolled back, but the crime reduction capabilities will go away quickly.

But this might just be the pessimist in me speaking.

> Does large scale surveillance help with making individuals safer? I think the answer is obviously yes.

Until regime change makes some previously legal activity or status verboten. Your government collecting harmless data on your religion starts to matter a lot more when the wehrmacht rolls into town... (I don't think this is a serious possibility for the US, but for countries with less robust judicial systems or militarily superior neighbors it's worth considering)

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niq%C4%81b
Damn, thanks for sharing...
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Here's a fact sheet on it. https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/pdfExtended/S1550-4131(...
Need to rewatch Person of Interest.
> Since this is an article about an Android phone

It is not an Android phone. It is built on top of PureOS: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
It wouldn't be misrepresentation if it were true though.

Which then raises the question of where the onus lies regarding proof.

I suppose ultimately the US can deny access to whomever they please, so you have to jump through whatever hoops they please.
This is quite strange behavior for a company with colossal cash coffers. They could keep up a project like that alive for years, just to keep loyal users content.

The fact that they are not doing things like that, repeatedly, is a bad sign for me. Well, at least they seem to keep search, maps, and gmail around for some time, because these obviously generate money for their main line of business, advertising.
It’s not the TV. I stream 4k60 from YouTube quite happily.
If you knew someone was a spy maybe you would send them home.