skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no 'splitting hairs'; to compare migrants in detention seeking to come into the country as 'concentration camps' is not only wrong, it's deeply insulting.

ICE detention is just plainly that, and that's all. Some conditions are poor because facilities are overflowing, not because they are designed that way. Most migrants are economic in nature, there's no pressing need for them to try to cross, and they know it's illegal - moreover - all of those economic migrants clog up the system to the detriment of actual refugees.

Of course, the migrants can leave any time - there's a policy in place such that they can chose to return home without having any mark on their record with respect to future ability to migrate to the US, and it's processed generally quickly, within several days.

There is really no comparison at all between those detained trying to enter a country, and 'concentration camps' - in terms of motivations, lawfulness, conditions, effects, legal recourse, fallout, etc. - they are in every way different.

The PRC camps in China could be referred to as 'concentration camps' because people are arbitrary detained on the basis of their culture, for any duration, they don't have legal recourse, they cannot leave, there is no judicial oversight, there is no freedom of information or freedom of press, they are not allowed any contact with the outside world, and they are put through some very aggressive 'thought control' programs that in many ways is worse than physical torture or confinement. To boot, the system itself is corrupt and prisoners organs are being sold through irregular channels.
> Wouldn't you expect the default action of SecuROM to ENABLE all installations if the contract goes bad?

Wouldn't this mean that you could theoretically bypass the DRM simply by temporarily turning off internet on your laptop?
Exactly this: People who respond with the benefits of having a security camera are arguing a false dichotomy.

IP security cameras are inexpensive and readily available, and support things like remote access fine. (And I say this from first hand experience)

When you narrow the counterargument to the actual differential features of ring-like solutions-- that they automatically store video offsite mitigating by default the fringe risk that a thief takes the recorder--, the argument in favor of handing this video feed to state and corporate surveillance apparatus alike is much less interesting.

It would be trivial for ring to encrypt the video with a password only known to the device and your remote client never to the server... and would avoid a lot of trouble dealing with requests for video and potential civil ligation for leaks. The primary reason these products don't is because surveilling the user is the business proposition.

Aside: I have lots of security cameras, I like security cameras. Yet at the same time people radically overestimate their usefulness in stopping crime: The positioning and lighting have to be nearly perfect to get a shot that you can identify a stranger with and it's easy for people to conceal their faces against an unmonitored camera. Even if you do get a clear face shot the police often can do nothing useful with it. With the low prices today I think cameras can well worth their price, ... but where they create mass surveillance risks, the case is far less clear.
I have a private ZigBee network, a Z-wave net, another home brew 868 MHZ net and Philips Hue (also ZigBee). All connected to OpenHAB. Which of these IoT networks is a botnet?
Thoreau, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King... There is a path that isn't destructive. It does require actual sacrifice on the part of those protesting.

If one were to make this level of sacrifice would it be at an ICE office, or the Whitehouse? Where would the protest be more effective?
People riding the bandwagon and generally talking about it like they're in on it when they don't know what a qubit or bell state is (or how to read braket notation).

It's a similar line to AI - if the people talk about it like it has the potential to (and eventually will) destroy the world, they probably don't know much about it (in that case they're conflating sentience with intelligence, and ignoring the word "artificial).

The people who are working on it right now will - like with AI - tell you that it's in its infancy, that its current applications are more limited than they are made to appear in pop-culture, and that (generally) things are harder and take longer than people pretend.

Which is exactly what the author of the WSJ article is getting at (because he's not a hawker - he knows):

> "There’s little doubt that, in the long run, computers that exploit quantum features of matter will dramatically enhance our ability to address useful problems. But we’re not there yet, nor is success guaranteed. For the foreseeable future we will have, at best, a “quantum advantage” in well-chosen applications, not “quantum supremacy” along a broad front."
You could have just kept searching?

argparse4j has existed forever and its a port of python's argparse [0].

[0] https://argparse4j.github.io/
Good to know, but I don't need to write anything on OpenBSD. The protection is just enabled by default. That is more comforting to me as a user.
Why would anyone hate Twitter? I mean, I don't care for it either, but it doesn't really affect me because I simply don't use it. I don't have an account, and really don't pay attention to it, except for all the "tweets" from Trump in the news.

Facebook is different. It's pretty hard to avoid using Facebook without being an outcast in a way, if all your friends and family are on there and they use it to communicate, schedule events, etc. There's also Facebook Marketplace which seems to have taken over for Craigslist for selling stuff locally. I'm one of those people who has an account there, but never actually posts anything, but I keep it because I have a few people who insist on using it to communicate; I've met lots of people like this.

Twitter just isn't like this at all. I think it's dumb, but it's easy to ignore.
Even with a fully private corporate-owned media industry, banning political advertisement can very well not be politically neutral.

If the most dominant media (visible above-the-fold by default on phones, computers, TV) predominately favors a specific political party - then the opposing and third parties will lose the ability to have their say heard via ads.
Indeed -- I found it difficult to read the post after studying the first mangled diagram.
For most problems, no performance gains whatsoever. There's no expection for quantum computers to replace or improve general computing.

You can get immense speedups for a very particular set of problems, turning them from "can't possibly complete ever" to solvable; so it would be like an assistive device for these niche tasks, but it would be very important for them because otherwise they're not really practical to solve.
If the advertisers can't tell if you're using this app or a traditional podcast app, are you really supporting the makers any less by using this app? The advertisers won't pay them any less because they won't be able to know that x% of users didn't hear the ad.
Slightly offtopic, but it's getting harder and harder to get a surveillance equipment that's not connected to "the cloud" all I want is to be in full control of my own data.

I would install Ring if it was closed loop system. Same thing with other technologies to make a smart home. Why so many people (especially the ones that understand technology) seem to be ok with this? This attitude causes that there are less and less options for privacy conscious people.
Assange also met with Americans and got deliveries from Americans. Does that mean he's an asset for the CIA? There is equal evidence there. I don't understand how people make these giant leaps to conclusions one way but not another.

>Julian Assange received in-person deliveries, potentially of hacked materials related to the 2016 US election, during a series of suspicious meetings at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London

It could also be Chinese take-out. But CNN is going to speculate it's POTENTIALLY HACKED MATERIALS. Literally any delivery is potentially hacked materials. This is ridiculous.

Also, what makes meetings suspicious? There's no follow-up here, no substance. Why does CNN simply describe them as suspicious rather than provide evidence that suggests it might be?

Why is it a bombshell that he allegedly got hacked or leaked materials by courier? He clearly got them somehow, does it matter whether it was over email or in person? It's also possible it was a carrier pigeon - there's pigeons in the UK after all. And if he's getting materials from a courier, why does he need fancy hardware to get it digitally? This makes no sense.

There is absolutely nothing in this article other than speculation with a clear, logic-defying bias. And none of it is credible evidence Assange is working with the Russian government.
Optional chaining moves to stage 4
This can become a challenge when you want to scale a dev team. You either have people conflicting in the DB, or each dev needs to set up a local DB and deal with DB migrations. Containerized DBs help with this to some extent, but it's still a maintenance headache.

There's also a tradeoff around testing error states, but that can be a wash. Some errors are easier to create with a mock, some are easier to create with the actual driver.
Yes you can. It's called a small business loan. See https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans and https://www.bankofamerica.com/smallbusiness/business-financi....

You'd finance your dry cleaners with debt rather than equity because (unless you are starting a chain) you are not shooting for the massive, near-zero marginal cost scaling that the venture capital model focuses on. Instead, the bank looks for a modest, predictable return through interest payments.
Generating electrical power from potential difference of fresh and salt water
Next you could make an app that lets you go into small independent stores and shoplift things without getting caught.
The first two have much more to do with NSA just having too much unilateral access (re: Snowden leaks) than anything Ring specific. I guess it can be argued that any company that collects any data whatsoever is making NSA more data rich, but what's the alternative, but again the root issue there lies with the US government itself.

As for the third one, I'm not sure what your point is. The specific article only speaks of a heatmap of doorbells. The article also states the the precise location of the doorbell isn't even given, let alone footage.

I don't think anyone considers that data to be anywhere equal to giving access to video feed. You can simply drive down the road and see which houses have a Ring doorbell, or probably even detect them sniffing packets.
He plead guilty and was convicted for hacking Nortel in the 90s, and more recently was convicted and sentenced to ~a year in prison for jumping bail.
That's sort of my point: publishers seem mad at the temerity that they can't festoon their web pages with tons of stuff and then not also be put in a category that is meant to be fast.

There are other parts of AMP I am less okay with, but tbh I trust the publishers even less than I trust Google with respect to sketchy tracking bugs and data collection and useless javascript ux.
️ Good question. I see it as a moral/ethical line more than a technical one.
That's how we're going to end up with tracking in podcasts :(
I saw this on reddit a few weeks ago and it actually had useful comments: https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingBros/comments/dwj7i3/a_...

tl;dr; the mouse is nesting
I have to wonder if there's some missing detail, because I can't imagine a 4-year-old sitting down and doing counting exercises for two minutes without being distracted, boy or girl.

In fact, if it was a boy, many people would have chalked it up to "Well of course boys like to move around and be active. Who likes to sit down and count things, anyway?"
Certain programs have default protections applied to them, such as most App Store apps.
I've read a lot of documentation, and I've never been convinced. Maybe it's because I've just never been involved in writing a large Java project, and so never seen the advantages?

Many other languages do just fine without them. What makes Java so different?
I didn't say it was law enforcement directly taking down the domain name, I said that it was collateral damage from law enforcement operation against botnet.

As the original operation was run by interpol, europol etc i think this was a fairly accurate description, especially in context of a tldr; which gives some constitutional rights to simplify things :)
I loathe the fact that you need to invent a new class Just for passing some data along or piggyback on strings whenever you do a .map(). Maybe records are going to ease that pain. But why can we just have the compiler be able to construct a container to pass along some data to the next step in the stream?
back in the day when i started java, which was its early days(90's), we didnt even have a package manager type solution for java libraries (i.e. maven) - UNIX had a massive head start on java in some respects
Sure, but there are no actionable metrics re. response time.

The closest is a suggestion from prior documentation[1] that Lambda "can scale by an additional 500 instances each minute" for a given function, but that's phrased like a promotional claim, not a commitment or even an objective, and it's even unclear whether that's a floor, a ceiling, or some average measure. I wouldn't doubt that PC lives on the same control plane as Lambda's regular scaling, but assuming identical behaviour is unwise unless documented.

Guess I can suck-it-and-see.

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/scaling.html
How the NY Times Mines Data to Pick Articles to Promote on Facebook, Twitter
Has someone demonstrated that if you make a static page with similar characteristics to AMP on a different CDN, that this doesn't get similar placement?

I'd be more inclined to side with publishers here if AMP was the only way to get this. But as an awful lot of content sites are run by folks very mad that they can't run their own invasive tracking and analytics, my sympathy is limited.
I waded through those articles - and whilst I don't like the idea of 'cameras' everywhere, didn't actually spot the alluded to smoking gun that was going to blow the whole conspiracy open.

Obviously aspects like "black people getting reported as suspicious" is unwelcome, but this isn't a problem with Ring/cameras. I presume the people clicking the suspicious button are the same people traditionally calling in 'tips' whenever they spot somebody with a tan. (Or if you're in the middle of Baltimore it's black residents reporting black people being suspicious). But - I've no real idea/evidence, so I'll leave that.

What did appear to be deliberately misconstrued, was the police being directed to reach out on social media to their residents, to improve residents opting in to share their footage.

If "the government" asks me to provide a video-feed, my hackles would go up. If your local cop says "I'm trying to reduce crime near you and your footage would help me" - well.. am I going to tell them I'm not going to help?
Free symbolic-math-software class: Dec 5 (tomorrow)
Thursday Dec 5 at noon I teach a free symbolic-math-software class at the Palo Alto library (Mitchell Park, 2nd floor). We will cover topics in Mathematics and software, SageMath, which allows you to do symbolic calculations rather than just numeric. A simple symbolic calculation might be factoring a polynomial or finding the derivative of a function. I invite you to join us.
If ICE facilities qualify as concentration camps, then so does every prison. At that point it's no longer a useful term.

Except politically, of course, which is why terms like that are abused so often.
But plenty of people would download a mobile app that would unlock someone else's car for a free joyride.
By the right of sacrifice? Is this a veterans-only warehouse or something?

The US created a bunch of billionaires, but it also created the richest middle class. Let’s cut back the drama a bit and maybe discuss a law to improve safety?
Ahhh, yes -- being a contrarian. How very HN of you.
A thread from 2016 (with a comment from a friend): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11211682

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7856339
As a podcaster (Mixergy.com), I love this.

My listeners should never feel guilty about skipping ads.

If my ads aren't interesting or don't improve your life, you owe it to yourself to skip.

I keep working to improve my ads. Most recently: I hired a copywriter (Neville Medhora) to go over my ad reads. And today I recorded interviews with 10-second ads, instead of 3-minute ones.
Any bets on when people who are "shocked, shocked" about Amazon's treatment of its workers are going to put their money where their mouth is and actually forgo the convenience of next day delivery & rock bottom prices?

Americans have it tough in so many ways (health care system, lack of public transit, kleptocratic federal government), it's sad to see us making it even worse for our fellow small-guys like this to buy ourselves some convenience and save a few dollars on consumer goods. (Notwithstanding the many people for whom home delivery etc. is a godsend without which they'd have a much more difficult life. It's complicated.)

We vote with our dollars and currently we are telling Amazon "this is OK, keep doing it" loud and clear.
Your work is straight up stealing money from your pocket. Who cares if you can survive it, its still wage theft. Your workplace sounds toxic AF with completely out of touch total piece of shit management.
Can you talk more about the prerendering? I thought that was a thing Google does to many pages, not just AMP, when possible.
Anything that is prefixed with 'smart' generally already is a surveillance network
And Microfocus
awaits the Ring-minigun
So, should we assume that Carbonite's home plan will eventually be kicked to the curb like Code42 did with Crashplan?

Who's still left in the home backup solution ring? Besides iCloud/Google Drive/Dropbox, I count...Backblaze? And that's it?
I thought we were done with seeing old articles complaining about AMP. I feel like I should set up an account that just reposts anti-AMP articles once a day, and see how many points it gets. Clearly HN demands more opportunities to rail against it.
Cool idea? Yes. Good idea? No.

If we do stuff like this, the podcast industry will switch to a closed system which would require you to install proprietary apps to listen to stuff. Likely several different apps for different shows and companies.

As it exists today, it's a very open system, with publicly accessible feeds and the ability to use any app. Don't ruin it. It's not hard to press the "skip forward 30 seconds" button when an ad starts playing.

Edit: also, it's super unethical to have a paid app that profits by taking away any scope for content creators to monetize. Leaves a very bad taste in my mouth.

Didn't realise it was a paid app at first. Shame on you, OP.
well that would be illegal... there is nothing illegal about me seeking past a portion of my podcast or taking out my headphones for X amount of seconds.
Dow Chemical / Agent Orange. But like all things, it's complicated. We didn't know quite the fallout. Human life was simply valued less back in the day - this was a time when many cars still didn't even have seat belts.
No, because they were dying but that someone picked up the corpse before the end of the day. So it's no biggie. It's not like someone didn't notice or anything.
Has there been any records/stories of police actually catching and holding the assailants accountable using Ring?

I know that there's a lot of (possibly astroturfed) youtubes out there about thefts being deterred but what are the actual stats?
The answer depends a lot on what your personal view of the police is and vice versa.

Of broader interest: the neighbor agreed to "help" and your family's movements are henceforth subject to surveillance without consent.
Really interesting post, thanks for highlighting all of the inflection points in your journey to sale. Inspired me to think really hard about what pain points I have when I freelance.
Illegal immigration is a prosecutable offense replete with fines and prison sentences. As I understand it, a judge hears the cases and can sentence an individual to deportation, fines, or prison time depending on the defendant's circumstances. IANAL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Ac...
Microsoft didn't miss the boat on either web or mobile, they were one of the first to both. They just fundamentally misunderstood the value proposition of each because of how successful they were with Windows on the desktop.

For the web, they thought the browser was key to the web and would be what would hold all the APIs because the browser was like the OS for the web. The most valuable thing about the web ended being the graphs and connections you can create through data rather than the browser, which is why Facebook, Google, and Amazon had the most success because of the internet.

For mobile, they released Windows Mobile in 2000 but it was just a slimmed down version of Windows on the desktop. They didn't understand that mobile required a completely new UX experience and just tried to fit what they knew (desktop UX) into mobile.

They viewed both opportunities through the lens of the desktop, which makes sense, that's what made them so successful. But because of their success, they weren't capable of looking at the opportunities with fresh eyes.
I mentioned ISO 27001 because you mentioned audits, that it doesn't hold to much is clear.

Where can I read the Cloudflare audit that Mozilla got? If I can't then there is really no difference between them and the audit from an ISP.

CA audits are somewhat different, so I don't know why they should matter here.

That still doesn't answer the question why Cloudflare should be more trustworthy then an ISP.
Except every single one of the dozen+ female engineers I personally at FAANGM+ has a first-hand account of something vile that a male collegue did. In one case an internship mentor asked someone to come to their house, stating the wife and kids aren't home at night. Maybe you're a great man, and you only know other great men . But you can't dismiss a whole group just because you don't experience what they do. Just because it's not happening to you, doesn't mean it's not happening.

Similar situation is when my non-minority friends are surprised that racism still exists in <area>. "I know racism exits, but that kind of thing cannot happen <here>!" Well, my friend, you wouldn't feel that way if you looked like me.
How to Fight back against Google AMP:

1. Don't use Google search. Other search engines such as Qwant and DuckDuckGo don't rank AMP sites

2. Don't use Chrome browser. Firefox has built-in adblocker and a Reader Mode so any site can be fast and clutter-free without AMP

As a site owner/developer:

1. Don't use AMP on your own site

2. Make your site lightweight on its own: lazy load images/videos, restrict unnecessary elements, restricts third-party connections and scripts
This tweet thread reads as half her shaming McKinsey, half her patting herself on the back.
Perhaps there could be an alternate history where Android is collaboratively developed by phone vendors, but in practice Google does almost all the work and phone vendors port it and add some proprietary customization. Because of that same dynamic, no one phone or SoC vendor could have afforded to unilaterally add ARM64 support to Android.
Logging patterns and their performance impact
da wut??? apple actually allowed this?
Study that argued EVs aren’t cleaner gets an update
If your listeners use this app they won't know whether the ads are interesting.
It's not an exclusive club.