skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there stats on the "ethnic composition" of CBP? I must have developed some strange cognitive bias from crossing the border but purely from subjective guessing I would think that a very significant number of CBP agents are non-white.

So a question arises in me: why are they allegedly preferring whites over others in terms of extended screening measures etc.?
The fact that all these corporations with billion-dollar budgets cannot make their websites work I'll never understand.

California population is 40 million folks.

It's trivial to have a single dedicated webserver handle 10k requests per second as a starting point.

That means that it'll take 4000 seconds to handle everyone's requests in aggregate, should they be made at the very same time — that's just a little over an hour.

Of course, folks won't make requests at exactly same time, and we aren't limited to a single server, either, and each server is actually capable of handling way more than 10k req/sec in the first place, after some optimisation.

E.g., for 50 bucks a month, anyone can easily run a service where, on average, every single resident of California can get info from a webpage about the current status once every hour without any delay. Simple round-robin DNS, and for 500 bucks per month, we can handle 10 requests per hour from every single resident. Etc. (Keep in mind that a brief search indicates a single server is actually capable of handling 500k req/sec, not just 10k, so, I'm being very conservative here with the 10k number.)

Yet all these companies spends millions of dollars on their IT infrastructure and teams, procure all sorts of external CDNs, and yet cannot make their website perform to these most basic specs.

Why? Alas, that's because they gotta have all those fancy graphics, the tracking for user experience, and all the dynamically-generated and uncacheable webpages that costs millions of dollars to maintain and which can't withstand these most basic loads.
In case somebody did not know yet: Coherent is officially free software now. You can download disk images with the whole system, including full, self-replicting source code, here:

https://www.autometer.de/unix4fun/coherent/ftp/vms/

Udo's Coherent pages in general are worth a visit:

https://www.autometer.de/unix4fun/coherent/
How many of these mom and pop shops are 'venture-funded'? that's the point I think he's making. Venture funding and selling out takes all the passion out of the business and makes it into a greedy Mr. Burn's style enterprise.

Edit: Let me add -- just look at what happened w/ WhatsApp. The guys who sold it to Zuck n co, regret it fully but can't take it back. They know they sold their souls to satan, and at least now they're outspoken against the turn Whatsapp took, though a bit late and a few pay-days past.
How can "shades of" be inscrutable in any language? Genuinely curious. I think I picked it up immediately from context.
And it still sold 9 million units + god knows how much MTX.
Marriott sacks employee who ‘liked’ a tweet from Tibet independence group (2018)
Why 1km?
IMHO fish's history + autocompletion is even better because it keeps per-directory histories. You get the most likely match in the filesystem location you currently are while typing, and then can search for other matches on the fly with the arrow keys.

There's a plugin for zsh which implements the same behaviour (this is what I'm using now):

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions
> Yet neither does Alpha go. Finding solutions really is an NP-class problem, while proving them is much easier.

That's not really true. Proving that an already found solution is correct might be easy for certain solutions (that's the whole idea of proof certificates). But finding a proof for an arbitrary theorem is certainly not easy. And that is what mathematicians do. Here, finding the proof IS finding the solution.
Wow this is a cool map, very interesting!
See other post, there's a solution for most of your history search problems and it's called fzf.

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

https://github.com/kelleyma49/PSFzf
Do you mean 1st of Jan 2020?
So, I recently setup this system for personal use so I haven't had a full opportunity to use it and I don't have too much data so it might be a bit too tailored to my use case but here it goes.

I use Resilio[1] to sync my laptop, phone (on an SDCard) and Scaleway VPS, this works really great because i have my files at all times on 3 systems and there is a very low chance they will all fail at the same time. My photos get uploaded instantly from the phone and I can then sort them from the laptop.

And then I use Cloudberry to backup to BackBlaze B2 to make sure that if anything goes wrong with my files and it gets synced across the system I can still recover them.

The whole setup costs me probably less than 3€ a month(2.49 for the VPS and a handful of cents for the B2) and gives me the same functionality I was getting from just using Dropbox for 12€.

I can also throw a few more services on the VPS to enhance file functionality at no cost, which I would not be able to do any other way.

[1] https://www.resilio.com/
OpenSSH 8.1 released October 8, 2019
I like the "right now" there. Like, fingers crossed, that could change...
Break the lightning port and charge wirelessly.

“Yeah the charging port doesn’t work anymore sorry.”
It's not a FSM but a Turing machine. It is quite easy to prove if a FSM with 1919 states reaches a certain state or not. You just run it and within 1919 steps it either reaches the target state or returns to a previous state that it already visited, creating a cycle.
Ok, so then why not do routine maintenance? Why do you support PG&E ignoring maintenance while taking home profits for decades? Or are you a shill?
"The political status of British territories and dependencies is... _complex_."

Why is how (sadly false) ideas start like Berwick Upon Tweed still being engaged in a multi-generation life and death struggle with the Tsar's Russia:

https://notesfromtheuk.com/2019/02/15/is-berwick-upon-tweed-...
honestly, i already maintain too many open source projects (and quickly resolve bug reports) to be worried about people not using more of my free work.

i write open source code primarily for myself. doing anything i dont consider critical takes the joy out of doing it.

if people want features, they can fork and contribute code and then maintain that code, too...forever. of course, once you shift that burden to them, suddenly no one wants to get involved.

sorry for putting it this bluntly but it's the truth. i am one human, with a 9-5 and a life outside of coding. people seem to feel entitled to opinions on free open-source projects having contributed little-to-nothing.
#Toblerone-gate [0]

[0] - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37904703
Securing a single phone is a half measure at best, and your phone might get seized. Also, CBP, TSA and colleagues will do what they can to fuck you extra hard when sensing resistance to their ramming their noses up your cavities. The only true remedy is to get the US back on track with being a democracy and respecting the Constitution again.
In reality, no providers of service or product that you depend on are your friend. Extend these ideals to food providers, medical services, etc...Agreed that the choices of providers are little bit wider, but still the ideals are the same.
> Saying you do not want to see anything political, is apathic and shows you lean towards whatever the status quo is.

That's not what they're saying: they just don't want it on Hacker News.

> Here's how to deal with the issue instead: upvote stories you enjoyed and/or press hide on the links you do not want to read.

This is coincidentally how you deal with spam without a spam filter. At some point, it's not very productive to have to wade through a content stream that's 50% chaff.
It did have UUCP, I used to run a USENET leaf node back in the days.
In Japan, after the first six years of primary school come three years of middle school and three years of high school.
I think you've hit the nail on the head with the 'types of comms hams can provide' comment.

UK perspective -- there isn't much hams can offer here either. An emergency response team wants a local repeater, you can't set it up on a ham ticket (at least not without an NOV and the cooperation of the RSGB ETCC).

But the rescue squad can get their own equipment, a local radio supplier might subsidise the cost, and all they need to use it is an Ofcom Business Radio licence (£70 for - I can't remember if it's three years or five).

Police, fire and rescue are largely kitted out with Airwave radios anyway these days. So why are the hams needed?

Emergency response is a hollow-as-heck argument, the training and experiment side is a far better one.

(ObFD: licensed UK ham, de M0OFX ex M6OFX/2E0OFX)
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It might be that way where you work, but that's definitely not the case here.

In fact, I think what you suggest would be an extremely short-sighted "strategy" for a consultancy. Sure, you might get the next contract working this way. But once the customer could get rid of you they would, and they would never hire you again.
I fully agree with you, that is actually the trick being pulled. The words used make it harder for people on the outside to decide who is actually the villain and who the good guys are.
Command-Line Heroes: Creating JavaScript
Measuring the Ease of Script-Oriented Programming with Different Languages
Trusting your privacy on the moral and ethical compass of every individual at giant corporations is incredibly foolish. If this is a wide-spread belief at Google, it only further erodes my trust in the company.
>> If an individual is able to move his finances out of a country to a more competitive jurisdiction, isn't' that the fault of the original country rather than the more competitive one?

You don't understand how secrecy works. A simple way to evade tax is to set-up a company in the tax heaven and send "fake" bills or loans to the real company. Without cooperation of the tax heaven country there is little the on-shore country can do except to black-list the said tax heaven from the financial market. As it happens special interests groups from the UK opposed a black-list of Isle of Man or Virgin Island.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/dec/05/eu-blacklis...
Why is this needed in the codebase?

export const getFullYear = 'getFullYear';
export const getMonth = 'getMonth';
export const getDate = 'getDate';
export const getDay = 'getDay';
export const getHours = 'getHours';
export const getMinutes = 'getMinutes';
export const getSeconds = 'getSeconds';
export const getMilliseconds = 'getMilliseconds';

To be seen here:

https://github.com/leeoniya/uPlot/blob/master/src/fmtDate.js
See: NSA and mass surveillance
Studies actually have not shown that segregation is bad in every imaginable way. It really depends on what you want to optimize for. Segregation is excellent for letting intelligent kids reach their full potential. It's terribly for helping the children that struggle most.
A similar race is held in NI

https://www.northwest200.org/the-history-of-the-nw200/
New snooze feature lets you decide when to receive emails in your inbox
> One word: Chauffeur

But for people with normal incomes too!

> brake before there's anything in the frame to even detect

The scenario was slowing down a bit, but still needing to hit the brake in response to the child. So if the AI can brake faster it is extremely important.
My wife was a freelancer teacher for a few years. Her earnings moved between 'being able to pay rent and little else' to 'not being able to pay the rent'. Not able to see a way forward and with the market getting more crowded, she decided to have a career change.

Now she has a 'boring office job', but at least she gets a predictable salary and career progression. Many times passion alone doesn't pay the bills.
Scientific Papers That Were Rejected Before Going on to Win a Nobel Prize (2016)
Try again but ask about Romance languages.

Rome never forced Latin language on their members the way Mandarin was. Count the extant variants of Chinese and how they declined. In fact Greek was held in high esteem in the Roman empire.
“The most advanced MySQL raytracer on the market”
I can't verify this but a video game YouTube channel I subscribe to has reported that the following statement was released on Chinese social media by Blizzard representatives:

"We are very angered and disappointed at what happened at
the event and do not condone it in any way. We also highly
object the spreading of personal political beliefs in this
manner. Effective immediately we've banned the contestant
from events and terminated work with the broadcasters. We
will always respect and defend the pride of our country."

If true, the Chinese side of Blizzard is anti-Western values and the US corporate side is ultimately responsible for allowing the situation to happen.

As the US/China trade war drags on, as the HK protests continue, I think US corporations will have to choose between profits or values. Some brands and reputations will be reinforced, others--like Blizzard--will take a massive hit.
If someone secretly stole my key and made a copy of it, I hope the court would send them to jail, regardless of why they made the copy.
Your argument is flawed. How do you know that Apple protects personal data better than others? I think it has the least experience and probably Google is the best in that area. Microsoft is maybe second.
This tends to be a thing with fan-run groups. I've been involved (at various points) with SFF, comics, furries (yes...) and hams. The drama is not unique to any of them, it's often the same drama with subtle twists.

And anyone saying "we should be better" gets hounded out.

Homeowners associations seem to be similar from the reports I've read.. power play on top of power play.
> Coherent ran on the PDP11 and on the 80286.

And on the 8086 and on the Z8000.

Did not know about the disk driver bug! I guess I was lucky, because I used small MFM disks even when IDE disks became ubiquitous. Anyway, I wonder why I never heard about it. I read comp.os.coherent every day.
All I remember in middle school was the sheer amount of bullying. There was almost no bullying in my high school.
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Due process and a trial has not done Americans any good because the laws are unjust.
Well, the fact that Google scans your documents as you're writing them, and that they can summarily remove your access to the thing that you were working on for an indefinite amount of time, are both pretty scary for someone using Google Docs for work.

I'm sure it's just fine most of the time but I don't understand how people trust it for mission critical (or even just important) stuff.
It is not difficult to keep the notation sane in formalizations based on set theory. One way is to defer overloading of symbols to the presentation layer. You can see an example of that at [1] where the + sign is used to denote the group operation, right and left shifts on sets and the natural "addition" of subsets of the group derived from the group operation.

[1] http://isarmathlib.org/TopologicalGroup_ZF.html
> The experience makes me not want another dog for which I would have to go through the end of life experience again.

Sorry to hear, that’s tough. Our dog was 2 when our first child was born 7 years ago. She is slowing down now a fair bit. Used to be a 3 mile walk twice a day wouldn’t even drain her energy but now a 1 mile walk and she’s ready to curl up and go to sleep.

I dread the future decision we face about euthanasia but I am glad she is in our lives. Euthanasia will always be a complex topic - especially when and if it becomes more common amongst end of life care with humans. I think the conflict will never go, there is always more we can to to prolong life, or money to spend to improve quality of life. It’s something my wife and I discuss with regards to the dog. I believe it will be a very difficult and regretful decision no matter what. Perhaps that is as it should be.
When Apple removes an app from the App Store, you cannot download it anymore but it will continue to run on your device if you had it already. Apple also has the power to "blacklist" applications and prevent them from running on your device even if you've installed them (https://iphone-services.apple.com/clbl/unauthorizedApps), but this list looks empty for now. Usually what happens in the latter case is that the violation is so egregious that they will instead terminate the developer's Apple Developer account, which will have the same effect.
He’s not talking about on a risk adjusted basis. Moreover, EMH is a framework for understanding, not some magical law. There are funds who’s returns over time are like a 10 sigma event.
New Vector raises $8.5M to accelerate dev on Matrix.org
Another reminder that you don't own anything in this new "appstore" and "cloud" services world. You have no right to choose what to watch, what to listen or what app to use. Don't be surprised to have your device /app disabled one day(i.e Adobe/Venezuela case)
https://bellard.org/otcc/
it reduces code size.

d.getHours();d.getHours(); cannot be compressed but d[getHours]();d[getHours](); can compress to d[a]();d[a]().

do this enough times and you've saved 1kb.

you should see the kinds of compression hacks the Preact team does ;)
Yeah, but does it really matter? Blizzard in contrast knows very well how to present their stuff and they (should at least) know their audience well. Well, and then they presented Diablo Immortal ...
Then please answer why Elm was chosen instead of some mainstream programming language/framework. Choosing Elm seems like a very risky choice for something as important as railways.
"If we get rid of the hams, we can rent this tower space to cell phone companies for MEEEEELIONS".
Superbe joli appartement meublée climatisé
Ubuntu Bionic 'Docker CE' release relabelled to 'Docker EE'
I find that people with lower incomes are free-er in other Western countries. They can go about their lives without worrying about healthcare, parents can bond and breastfeed for a year without stressing about work, families can go on vacations for multiple weeks, people aren’t as afraid of being abused or killed by police, etc.
> It's exactly this attitude that I hate. Guy in a wheelchair can't get to class because the elevator is out? Swap rooms with another class on the ground floor or get a few strong guys together and carry 'em up the stairs or have someone hold a phone and livestream the lecture or have someone take notes and give them to him after class.

My father (RIP) has been in Venice twice. Once, he was healthy, and he even shot a picture (before my time, back in early 70s) which won a price (he had his own dark room where he produced the picture as well).

The second time he was in Venice, he was with his family (I was ~10). He was sitting in a wheelchair, was legally blind, physically weak, had MS, ... I have no idea how Venice is these days but back than (90s) it was not wheelchair-friendly as there where bridges with stairs everywhere. I will never forget how two man carried him, in his wheelchair, over every bridge. And there was a lot of them! Because of that we were able to do some sight-seeing as a family, and were able to see Basilica Cattedrale Patriarcale di San Marco. We also managed to get him (on our own risk) into a gondola, reliving his first experience in Venice (the picture he won a price with was of a gondolier).

As for your post, I'd like to agree (dislike defeatist approach), but we depend more and more on the Internet these days. Without power, no Internet. I don't know exactly how UC depends on it. What I'd prefer, though, is trying to work around it, but apparently for one reason or another UC did not want to, and I am curious why not. It turns out their defeatist approach was wrong anyway.

A few years ago the power was out here for multiple hours, and I was happy to have my e-reader charged. I also sometimes have something similar with battery devices plus thunderstorm (I tend to disconnect my laptops and smartphones during thunderstorm).
> Knowing there is a location ahead without a crosswalk that kids constantly cross at.

That's not based on reasoning. Most people driving by probably don't even know. And it might be in the car's database.

> Or knowing that the car in front of you is going too fast, implying that they're unaware of the railroad tracks they're about to jump.

If I'm behind them, and I'm going much slower because I know the layout of the road... I'm not sure how knowing this matters?
Artificial Intelligence: What’s to Fear?
For one, Apple, unlike Google and Facebook, is not an advertising company. Selling your data is not part of their business model
Can I ask how Mizar compares to Lean, Coq, and Isabelle?

I've wondering about that quite a while because I knew someone who was involved in the Mizar project, but never had the time to get into automated theorem proving myself. I was impressed by the semi-natural language proofs.
Hackers Must Eject the SJWs (2015)
Do we have any hn members who develop voor vxworks? If so could you please describe how and what you do?
> Capitalism is founded on the idea that the consumer is a means to an end.

No it's not, and repeating such myths only helps abet companies who act in such a way.
Thanks for the thoughtful response Scott. All the best for this next phase :)
I don’t think they said “more free than UK citizens”. Although, to be fair, US doesn’t have quite as intrusive CCTV. And I thought gun laws were pretty restrictive in UK? But “most ways” is probably a reach, and there are certainly things UK does do much better.

Edit: would appreciate feedback if my comment is not constructive or could be improved in some way.
The US did not achieve their goals is the bottom line. Perhaps another example, the korean war. In both cases the US had the overwhelming advantage including nukes.

Your point is wrong, or right, or needs tightening up so that it can be decided as wrong or right. There is validity in your point but it's not the whole thing, or there would have been unambiguous victory for the US in the cases I gave.

The problem here is not jets/technology but that you won't acknowledge when you're on shaky ground; the problem is now your judgement.

You know what, that's a metaphor for so many of the ills and shortcomings of humanity. You will lose nothing and gain much by just putting your hands up to it and rethinking, but you won't (we're all guilty of that to various degrees, me also).

Your position may be wrong or right or something in between, but it needs refining and thinking through first. Bugs in software are often seen as failings, and they are, but they can be turned into an asset. People's questioning your views here may indicate where you need to rethink (not necessarily change your mind, perhaps just refine and stabilise your position, or perhaps abandon it). Treat their questions and counterclaims as an asset too.
Depends on the kit you're running.

A Hytera RD985 DMR/Analog mixed-mode duplexer is 2RU in height and the duplexer (a diplexer is a different thing) is internal if you buy the fitting kit.

I have a Raycom analog repeater which is 1RU, including the internal duplexer and a basic repeater controller.

If you want to use a beer-keg duplexer then yes, that'll cost more rackspace. Probably another 5-6RU.

And if you insist on running an old, obsolete Motorola analog repeater (say, a Eurobase), you're into 3RU to start, plus the duplexer (the Moto standard ones of that era are usually 2-3RU).
Or your cat is always in all places but your experience only one. At least that one of you.
Is simply crossing a border a "reasonable" search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment? Is there a legal precedent for that?