skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having a red notice issued against you is a real pain in the ass:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/03/the-scourge-of-the-red-...

It's not an arrest warrant, but countries tend to just blindly trust them and they percolate down to street-level police automatically. Yeah, they chose to trust them in the first place, but there's often no case-by-case judgement happening until after the target has been detained.
Scientists explain why we (probs) won’t rebel against totalitarian rulers
I didn't know that a person can simultaneously have two valid passports of the same country. I thought you either have to declare the old one as lost or bring it to the passport office to have it invalidated, when you apply for a new one.

How does this work?
> the simple but powerful guidance “Don’t be evil.”
> ... I joined Google in 2008, when those words still mattered.

Oh, sure, sure. You weren't saving everyone's private information forever. You weren't sending a copy of everything to the NSA. You weren't lobbying to get regulatory breaks on data centers. No, Google was perfectly saintly 10 years ago.

... (reading further down)

Ah, so, this guy is telling us the problem with Google is in _China_. Hilarious.

> But each time I recommended a Human Rights Program, senior executives came up with an excuse to say no.

Ok, so - perhaps I can give the author the benefit of the doubt and believe he is a very naive man for believing a corporation like Google would allow for something like this.
I sat next to her on a plane. Every girl I'd dated for 7 years previous I met online, so I never thought I'd meet someone in real life.

So it was luck, but the part I view as important was after exchanging a little conversation, we were quiet during the flight. When we deboarded, she was walking in front of me, and I could've just let her go. I consciously made myself catch up to her, continue the conversation, and then ask for her number at luggage pick-up. Meeting her was luck, making sure I didn't let her get away was my choice.
in private consortiums, instead of having data locked up in silos across organisations, everyone can have a copy of the data and build their own view on top of it.

you don't have to trust any party as to the authenticity of the data as you can see every change that has been made.

I wrote about the supply chain use case here
https://medium.com/twohands/lobsters-on-the-blockchain-df599...

and how I approach looking at distributed ledger tech here
https://medium.com/@ben_longstaff/my-framework-for-how-to-lo...

:)
I just don't see their upcoming success. They haven't kept pace with the industry in technology, their styling has not just been behind, but dated from release. They killed off their hero franchises. They've re-segmented almost every one of the line, leaving brand fans and previous buyers without upgrade paths.

- Pathfinder 4x4, a capable cult loved offroader, now a luxury SUV

- Navara Utility vehicle, industry and consumer favorite - Now a gigantic Americanized "truck" unwanted by other markets, and better served in America by local manufacturers

- Skyline, middle market sports Car variants, inspired a generation of enthusiasts, now pedestrian cars on a slow platform, and an entirely separate franchise of unaffordable supercars

- Silvia affordable sports cars - as above, but with no replacement

- Stagea sports family wagon - no replacement

- Maxima/Pintara/Ciefro/Laurel affordable family cars - Somehow now their flagship aimed at people who would rather a Eurocar

Their only line I think will continue to be successful is the Leaf. But I suspect EVs are going to be getting pretty competitive over the next decade.

It would be sad to see them go, but I also don't think we'll be missing out on anything from their future if now was when they died.

This is from a Nissan fanboy. I have had 7 Nissans. At one point I had a Nissan to tow my Nissan to go race other Nissans. I've downsized, and now have just the one car and some bicycles.
https://dariusforoux.com/ on productivity, self improvement.

https://fs.blog/ mental models, critical thinking.
We can explain "go press that button" or "lift your leg" fairly well. We can't, as yet, put a dolphin through something like an elementary school level education.
Aside: Not exactly this, but Amazon, Google(signup page) and few other big infra providers still use squiggly textual captcha. ReCaptcha is used by small players(no offense intended) as ux is often not main priority. You can try to spam amazon/google et al. signup pages and you'll be greeted by those sqiggly of olden days. :)
Free trade is not a law of nature.
Yeah, there is a subtle distinction between “there are no neutral points of view” and “there is no such thing as objective truth”. Postmodernist arguments applied to contemporary politics serve to blur that distinction, which is where the bad faith comes in.
No, historically carriages have held the right of way, and the higher their occupants social status the more right of way they had.
We all break innumerable laws everyday, the goal for the government is to make everything illegal so that when you start making waves, they can put a magnifying glass on your life to throw the book at you. You should have a lot of money before you try and change things, so you can defend yourself through the never ending lawsuits. Look at any major corporation’s quarterly filing and see how many lawsuits they are mired in at once.
I have a crossing signal. Cars going the same direction as me also have green lights. They make right/left turns into my path ALL THE TIME. I should have the right of way, but that doesn't do me any good when I get hit by a 2-ton metal machine going 40mph. I guess my ghost can take solace in my wife's victorious wrongful death suit?
If you can't manage 2 weeks of work, you can't manage 6 months worth.
I grew up in suburbs that did not have a consistent network of sidewalks. Some existed but you really need 100% of roads to have one or you're suddenly walking 2 miles extra to get around the missing link. Nobody complained because why would you want to walk miles to the closest grocery store anyway?
How to grow as a developer without driving yourself crazy
It's pretty cool they've been able to discover and image galactic Birkeland currents. Alfvén's work predicted that such things exist and, sadly, he didn't live long enough to see today's cosmologists continue his work.
Dispatches from Asgardsrei: Ukraine’s Annual Neo-Nazi Music Festival
Trump signs law increasing max robocall fine to $10k
No right on red is the default here in Hungary - I assumed it was the norm for much ( most? ) of Europe.
One thing you seem to have overlooked is that the rules have already stopped applying to those in power. CEOs make murderous mistakes and leave a company with millions. Police regularly kill innocent people in the street (and their homes!) and walk away scot free. Politicians are completely unaccountable and can flaunt the law with no regard. I’m struggling to see how things would be any different in a bottom’s-up revolution.

By the way, I don’t believe such an action is the right way to make change, I just think that it’s a very privileged position to take that most people have something to lose by the demolition of our current institutions.
Oslo city center is doing great economically, and lots of good connections to there with public transit for commuters. Also despite tolls etc. there is bad commuter time traffic and downtown parking shortages, not clear what extra economic benefit would arise from adding more cars to the roads.
France does not extradite its own citizens. By saying that they wouldn't extradite him they have just repeated the legal position.

They must be relieved that he didn't fly to France as that would have been quite embarrassing for them. He probably calculated that he was safest in Lebanon, though.
Parents? I have to worry about my spouse...
I'm not sure why firefox thinks I need DRM enabled to play the video on there.
What was so wrong with the author’s chosen article title that it had to be manually sanitized? I get that HN admins may not like the snark, but it’s the author’s title, it’s his snark, his tone, his article, and by sanitizing the title, you are basically making an editorial decision on his article.
Normally it should be a fine at most.

Now crossing the border with no passport to escape another country's judiciary system is a whole different aggravating circumstance.
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Could it also not mean that many guilty but hard to prove are let free earlier in the process? Before it goes to trial?
> Sprints have deadlines and a set amount of work...

Well, they shouldn't: https://www.scrum.org/resources/commitment-vs-forecast
I think ordinary journalistic skepticism should apply here? He's telling a story from his perspective, but you can't judge a political situation by listening to only one of the people involved.
Robots, Creativity, and AI's “Human Problem”
I agree with you and it is sad. The most depressing thing is that people, by and large, don't really care. They don't want to pay even $1 a month and would rather sell their privacy if it makes it free. VC funded companies are selling out to FAANG because it is too hard to build a revenue model. SMS is free today, few people will pay for private SMS. The same holds for email.
> You shouldn't even need to show a passport to fly through a country's airport if you transit through

There are all kinds of manifest declaration requirements that would need to be ignored.
Yea, and Beta was technically superior to VHS.
Look... the are bunch of us here who recieved a scientific training. While we don't claim that science can explain everything at the moment, we do claim that there are a lot of crackpots out there with appealing ideas but zero capability of explaining them in a credible fashion.

For some reason these crackpot theories appeal to people who feel for one reason or other that they are "missing something". Then charismatic personalities gravitate towards these communities and spin out yarn that feels right to the specific people listening to them creating a belief. Feels right and belief are the keywords here. There is no proof that would withstand rigorous criticism.

With science, you should love your pet theory, put also put the hard labour in to prove it. And if your testing creates evidence to the contrary, you should be cognitively able to abandon it.

These crackpot theorists start from their pet theory, don't actually study physics or what ever their theory is about, and spend all the effort in spinning yarn about how great their theory is, instead of actually proving it.

If you want to learn about actual physics, there is great introduction lecture series by Leaonard Susskind called "The theoretical minimum":

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL47F408D36D4CF129

Grab a pencil and paper and start watching :) !
Typically for business travel. If you have to send your passport off to get a visa from an embassy, you might still have to travel to another country while waiting to get it back, for example.

https://www.businesstraveller.com/features/apply-second-uk-p...
Same thing in Portugal, for decades now. Similar to The Sound of Music.
Why Did One-Quarter of the World’s Pigs Die in a Year?
That's very fair. Anecdotally my Japan-living friends speculate it is a mix of both the (positive) effect you suggest and confessions manufactured under duress.

During my travels I was advised to be particularly cautious about treating police courteously and following rules to the letter because getting arrested is a much bigger deal than elsewhere.
The idea of "governing morality" was a key discussion point in the series, not my phrase.

The crux was that alcohol was incredibly popular throughout the country, but a growing political, largely puritan faction gained enough to support to ban alcohol consumption on "moral" grounds (i.e. society should rise above the immoral vice of drinking because drinking causes immoral behavior.)

Of course, alcoholism was systemic back then (the average American consumed 3-4x more alcohol back then than today IIRC), and this did cause societal issues. But the conservative ideology of "creating a more moral society will solve all problems" turned out to be a huge failure that was soundly rejected by society.
AFAIK Martha Stewart wasn’t found guilty of SEC violations but rather the specious “lying to the FBI”.
Another World was _astounding_ when it came out. Although the Amiga was considered a high spec machine at the time, its graphics hardware was oriented around scrolling, sprites, and rectangular blits. This is good for the typical platformers and shoot-em-ups that dominated gaming at the time but useless for the type of full motion video the AW was attempting.

The Amiga's blitter could write almost 4Mbs per second (if you set things up juuuust right and you had the wind behind you). On a modern monitor (a modest 1920 * 1080) the Amiga's blitter would take almost 2 seconds just to clear the screen.
Ten Scientific Discoveries of the Decade
Couldn't this be solved by having constant-time and regular multiplication instructions?
In a meritocratic competition like the one in the experiment, each miss puts you behind in comparison with those that got lucky.

And if a success provides exponencial growth, any failure to win the lottery places you far behind the luckiest winners very fast.
Every aircraft-building company is mature enough in its engineering practices. Not every company is ethical enough in its management practices.
Many other potential variables as well. When experiencing this event, how long does it take your heart rate to reach a point it can be identified as worthy of triggering the switch? Is the laptop still in range of your smart watch at that point? Then there's the reliability of the wireless connection and the watches ability to accurately read your heart rate (make sure it's seated correctly).

If this is a situation you're actually concerned about, the approach in the article seems simpler and more foolproof.
Celebrating 2019 Biomedical Breakthroughs
In the US, you are generally safer crossing the street anywhere other than where there are painted crosswalks. They are always in terrible locations where there is guaranteed to be traffic and typically sight lines are poor.
It's both.

Right-on-red is a huge problem in areas where pedestrians want to cross. If memory serves, the UK does not allow turns on red. That makes more sense to me.

On my walk to work, I have to cross one 8-lane suburban street. 4 thru lanes, plus several turn lanes in each direction. The radius of the corners is smooth. Stop lines are far back from the actual apex of the corner. So, cars can easily roll through corners at 40mph. They do this when I have a walk signal because they either have their own green, or they're turning on red and only looking for oncoming traffic (to their left) and not for pedestrians (to their right).
They show ads to visitors from outside the uk
A/B Testing as a Beginner
I will sometimes go to the university library to do some work and I'm always amazed at people who will go to the restroom or something and leave their laptop sitting there without a lock or even logged out.

I always use a kensington lock and lock my screen whenever I have to leave my laptop. If I had a macbook I would be taking it with me. I know the locks won't stop someone who really wants to steal it but with so many unattended laptops sitting around it makes it less likely they will go for mine.
I have a couple VR headsets and, like someone on reddit recently observed, they sit mostly gathering dust - but, when I do put one on, I will use it for hours. Most times it's such a totally immersive experience that I'm usually shocked to discover that I'm actually at home when I take off the helmet.

IMHO VR (and AR) has moved on from being at a high risk of dying as an overhyped fad (e.g. 3D TV) to having enough niche utility that its uses will grow as people get exposed to it.

Using VR is a fun regular diversion at the moment, but not a highly useful tool - but I'm hopeful that will change. I would love to be able to easily use a VR helmet in conjunction with a keyboard/mouse/hands vs. holding controllers to do more intensive computer tasks like programming.
NAL, Likely still illegal as you would be misrepresenting that you surrendered your passport and it is not lost nor stolen
The BBC website absolutely does serve ads outside the UK, it's serving them right now:

https://imgur.com/a/acF8BqB
2FA doesn't matter if you're already logged in.
Only the requester got it.

You could go the government’s list of Completed Access to Information Requests page, find Canadian Forces and ask for an informal copy.

They may send you a copy.

There may be a lot of rédactions though.

It may not be up yet, might be a few months.
Apparently there's React Studio, BuilderX and tools like Sketch2React and Figma to React. Ionic Studio will probably support React in a close future (maybe it already supports).
How all HR works: protect the company, cut out the person that reported the problem.

You are always taking a big EV- gamble if you actually believe that HR is there to help you. If you experience adversity at work there is no help for you, income is the EV+ bet.
Another solution would be to just remove the battery and plug the laptop in. While this removes the portability, it is still an alternative solution.
I’m not sure if drugs are so un-normal in Japan. Walking around Osaka at night, I was offered drugs multiple times by I guess either African drug dealers? That has never happened to me in NYC or LA.
> simple... they call me first.

This… seems a bit naive to think your parents will call you first every single time they want to do something special with their computer. It makes me think of parents that assume their teenagers aren't doing anything stupid because they are confident the kids are sharing everything with them.

Anectode: My in-laws are renting their property through Internet. They occasionally receive calls by interested renters and they successfully manage it by themselves. They are almost in their 70's. One day someone had a payment issue and asked to pay them differently, asking for account information so they could send the money directly. They managed to trick them into putting their card number on a fake website displaying the agreed-upon amount. They lost about 100€, the bank couldn't revert the transaction for some reason.

Parents only call you when they are unsure of something. The problem is when the scammer manage to convince them everything is normal, which is exactly what they are good at.
100% this. I'm wary of getting too invested in this with no guarantee that I'll be able to keep my stuff if I choose to not pay on whatever arbitrary date that is pushed.
Assuming they’re built with the same safety technologies, larger cars are absolutely safer. https://www.edmunds.com/car-safety/are-smaller-cars-as-safe-...
Database Nation (Simson Garfinkel, 2000) was a nice intro to the topic. I agree that the abstraction into a computer jargon renders the topic more distant, somehow, to people than the Violent Femmes bit: "I hope you know that this will go down on your permanent record."
How long does it take RAM to lose that data though? Most laptops take far more time to remove the ram than a PC and it's soldered down in a lot of cases.
It is not as much the government but your fellow citizen that requires laws. Even a small percentage of them can make your life miserable.

Laws are complicated because behaviors can be varied and circumstances complex: someone getting sick and peeing on your yard is different from someone going potty in your backyard every day ... etc

long story short, societies need laws, people themselves don't fully understand the implications of the laws. People make the laws in the end, it is just inconvenient when most people have different opinions than one particular individual.
A Quantum Physicist Recommends the ‘Rule of Three’ to Simplify Complex Ideas
36c3: Emergency VPN, Analyzing Mobile Network Traffic to Detect Threats
Sure, but the constant-time instructions would presumably be defined in an extension along with other constant-time or crypto-optimized instructions.
The VeraCrypt guide recommends "You should use the decoy operating system as frequently as you use your computer. Ideally, you should use it for all activities that do not involve sensitive data." You don't need to fake it per se, but section off what needs to be in the hidden operating system (rather than a standard VeraCrypt partition). You are therefore revealing real, thus plausible, information, but not the actual subset you want to hide.
Reminds me of video game art: every game has two sets of art, the “real” art which is part of the mechanics of the game world, and the “pretty bits” which dangle off the game objects and try to trick you into believing there’s more to the game world than there is.

A lot of gameplay involves testing for this boundary... Trying to figure out whether you can actually do things that are implied by the art.

Are there any modern games where 100% of the art exists inside the game world?
Every Like Makes the Dino Run Faster
> Just as I did with the 'experts' who pushed the lipid hypothesis using precisely the same 'peer review' and 'scientific journals'. Over time that turned out to be a fallacy.

The lipid hypothesis is still accepted, mainstream medicine.
This is a great example of how people just want things to happen to them. I really don't feel like I gained anything at all from reading this, though.
Browser developers, please stop honoring these meta tags. And generally stop giving web designers toys they can't handle responsibly.
Rational Wiki is a bit of a weird joke site where quasi-intellectuals go to troll and shitpost. Dang can correct me, but I think HN's rules, at some level, prohibit linking to such sites as a way to criticize someone.
I believe it's not too hard to do in some countries. It's usually to partition your travel history somewhat to avoid incidents. I know in the past, I'd heard that people in the US who had to do business in the middle east would often have two passports because there were enough countries that would take issue with you having visited Israel or Iran that you needed to keep them separate.