skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The GDPR still applies in the UK, even after brexit. The EU has kind of a weird system IMO.

The main EU body decides on a thing. Then each country in the EU reads the thing, and enacts legislation that does the thing. Notably, each country in the EU write their own legislation such that the main EU thing is satisfied. The EU itself doesn't make laws/legislation.

What is the legal drinking age in the United States? Trick question: the US has no legal drinking age. The interstate highway act stipulated that if the federal government is going to spend money to build freeways in a state, the state has to enact a drinking age of 21 years. There's a crapload of money tied up in this, so all 50 states have set the legal drinking age to 21 years.

So if a state seceded from the union, while many federal US laws would no longer apply, the legal drinking age of 21 years would still apply, because that is a state law.

The thing about the EU is that every law is like that. They're national laws that are mandated by the EU. The UK has a GDPR law, France has a GDPR law, Germany has a GDPR law, etc. Presumably the UK will go through its books at some point and make adjustments as they see fit, but that hasn't happened to the GDPR.
My biz partner would kill to have a 4-6% boost. If you're spending 100K+ a day on ads thats a significant ROI lift.
At the very least, turn off Google account creation pop-ups on every other random site:

https://superuser.com/questions/1414410/how-to-disable-pop-u...
> I don't see how you "reform" a culture like that.

You do it through hard work on real reform at the local level, something that BLM (the organization) isn't really interested in. I don't agree with everything but the ideas outlined here https://www.joincampaignzero.org are a good start. Some communities are in much worse situation than others and I think new leadership is urgently needed in many of these places (i.e., vote for change).

The rhetoric that you are using is supremely dangerous. Look what is going on in Portland as the police and local political leadership have withdrawn from the basic goal of public safety and ensuring a peaceful, civil community. It is devolving into warring tribes. It is actually astonishing to me that it hasn't escalated further than it has but I see that this weekend things have changed a bit as some new tribes arrived resulting in brawls/skirmishes/fighting between the tribes as opposed to with police.

To advocate or even suggest that policing, as a system, is irredeemably flawed and can't be reformed is to actively invite in chaos and civil unrest. Instead of a civil police force you will end up with an ad-hoc collection of private security, thugs, violent gangs, protection rackets, and so on. Due process will not exist and whatever problems you attribute to the current system will be much, much worse in this new "system".
> restoreDatabase

It may do anything because it was probably written by an intern
If it's encrypted it will probably end up in blob storage, which is low cost. If you want to hit them where it hurts, generate tons of fake text (stored as emails, documents, texts, etc.) with GPT-3 to clog up their elasticsearch server and/or NLP classifiers.
Random data is indistinguishable from encrypted data, modulo attached metadata.
I'm going to start traveling with a 10 TB Encrypted NAS full of static. They can download that and save it if they want.

What sucks is that I know this is probably being stored on AWS. Tech companies enable this kind of shit, and even push sale of larger and larger systems to governments. And they are massively rewarded for doing so.

This isn't the government... this is a sales guy at AWS pushing them to store things for 75 years... he knows he gets a helluva commission check on that deal.

Gross oversimplification, but not really. We, as technologists, have to take responsibility here.
Ever stay at a hotel that charges for wifi access on a per device basis?
66% of americans oppose government data collection. Obviously neither party is anywhere near the ‘middle’ and other political forces are driving what legislation gets passed.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/11/15/key-takeawa....
If done properly encrypted data looks like random data. That means that if you have a Raspberry Pi pumping out random data (no need for encryption), they'll probably just store it thinking it's top-secret encrypted data that they'll decrypt later.
The alternative cynical view (which I subscribe to) is that this small-to-medium amount of pain can sometimes tip the scales in the right direction.

There are of course other tools, but they require a bit more dedication: regular donations to think tanks and lobbyists who agree with you and can spend time schmoozing/convincing congressmen, regular donations to legal foundations who challenge overreach in court, and of course voting when the time comes.
There are reasonable arguments that Facebook is worse than other companies, but this isn't one of them. All big companies engage in and respond to political pressure; it's an occupational hazard.
As long as it builds as a module, uses only the standard filesystem apis and doesn't have code changes outside that, code review is far less important IMO...
Because people follow the news and know about the UN mandate that the French forces (and all the other Europeans there) are enforcing.
Sound like you have ad-block or avoid sketchy (pirate) websites.
If you're comfortable with the web stack and still want to stay lightweight, you can look into webview library[0]. I've used it with Go, and it also has bindings for other languages. It loads the platform's native browser with chroma-less window, just like an Electron app except perhaps lighter.

Another option is to look into Flutter. There are many available iterations for desktop applications, one of them is the go-flutter[1].

[0] https://github.com/webview

[1] https://github.com/go-flutter-desktop/go-flutter
Are there places to read about this field ? journals, websites, discord anything ?
Similar to how Bash usually doesn't have current directory on the default PATH for executables, you must explicitly reference it ./local-executable for similar concerns.
>if you're a non-american traveler, all the constitutional rights you're afforded as an American don't apply.

False

https://www.maniatislawoffice.com/blog/2018/08/do-non-citize...
Remind me to travel with terabytes of encrypted garbage data. Just to be a costly pain in the ass. I'd love to watch an incompetent CBP agent try to figure out how to move 10TB of disk images with USB thumbdrives.
Would you support them seizing data from someone who owns a legal marijuana cultivation business in San Diego (because he's so close to the "border area") and then sharing that information with the DEA to federally prosecute him? The definition of "law-abiding" there would get a little murky.

What if it's someone who grows weed for his personal, medical use in an illegal state?
For a while I was getting tons of ads for asian mail-order brides and porn featuring almost exclusively asian women. Nothing that I was interested in; I kept my browser pretty clean so I figured it was just background noise. Never considered that I was sharing wifi with my neighbors -- a white third generation canadian and a first generation chinese canadian. When they moved out and I got my own account with the same internet provider, those ads went away and I learned a lot more than I ever wanted to know about that guy
This why you keep the stuff you can't show people in the cloud encrypted with a password only you know. Once you get to the border you can't really argue any longer. That said, the US really needs a new amendment spelling out digital freedom and privacy rights. The old farts in Congress don't see information on devices as information portrayed in the constitution. Information is information and the Constitution laid out methods for handling it long ago that are far superior to what our current idiots in charge seem to be able to handle. About the only ones we have paritally on our side are judges who actually know the constitution rather than pay it lip service; those types are also becoming rare.
How do you square that with the rise of the Tea Party and the Alt-Right? It seems like they've found that they can motivate people to vote by moving _further_ from the center, and the moderates continue to vote the party line of whichever party they prefer.
My concern is more that a “criminal mischief” sort of misdemeanor being classified instead as some kind of terrorism.
That is more often a configuration issue than a technology issue. MITM proxies can be configured to reset connections to sites with invalid/expired certificates.
I believe pretty much none of these protections exist at the US border if you aren't a US citizen, which isn't that much of an edge case considering that's like 96% of the world's population and a lot of people may want or have to visit the US at some point.
What was the control in the A/B test?

I've seen lots of recommendation algorithms fail against curated recommendations. It would be really interesting to see where / what this approach beats.

Would also be really curious to how stores have reacted to the revenue model. Is that a one-time fee based on the A/B test results or are you capturing a cut of the uplift in perpetuity?
Yes but this isn’t the NSA, this is the border patrol, operating with a fraction the budget and expertise of the NSA. The people doing the copying are basically security guards that couldn’t pass the police physical nor find work as teachers.

I really like the idea of a hacked hard drive or phone which generates a never-ending series of files containing terabytes of random data. I bet any given boarder crossing will only have the ability to scan two devices at a time, so bring a couple and you can probably shut down everything as they scramble to figure out what to do when their local storage fills up.
what's the difference between this approach and shell scripts? Thanks.
Yes, carbon-14 is only useful for "recent" samples. The next section of the article discuss other radioactive materials that have a longer half life, and are useful longer ranges.
There are multiple valid pushbacks against an immoral law:

1. Try to educate and reform the lawmakers.
2. Create a situation to bring out the absurd.

2 is often easier than 1 for the common man and has been used in many past revolutions.
> a federal judge in Boston ruled that forensic searches of cell phones require at least reasonable suspicion “that the devices contain contraband.”

outside of illegal porn, what exactly constitutes digital contraband? is this defined anywhere? any well known example cases?
I understand how that can go "bad". For instance, I worked with a really ugly connection manager written by Qualcomm. It was C++ code (object oriented with classes deriving from abstract bases and implementing virtual functions and all that).

At the bottom of the class hierarchy were methods that did their work with a hodge podge of system calls and invocations of external utilities like "ip" and "iptables" and whatever else.

The thing would react to netlink events in the kernel, paste together commands and pass them to system: not even using fork and exec to do it cleanly.

Just, eww.
For a start, half of US adults are married, so aren't dating anyone at the moment. So that by itself seems to prove it right off the bat.

But beyond that, half of US adults are over 38, so likely many of these aren't dating even if they aren't married.

So seems obvious that fewer than half of US adults are dating at all, and obviously the only a proportion of that group will have also been dating ten years ago, as they won't be that old, or will have been previously married.

So how can half of all adults have an informed opinion on this?
Many politicians quoted in the article are quite explicitly calling on Facebook to be the Internet police. Senator Warren says that Facebook has a responsibility to ensure people have the right beliefs about climate change.
Yeah, land is not at a shortage. The best land for solar is also worthless for other things, so it tends to be dirt cheap. There's enough unused space in the Southeast US to power the entire world off of solar. Obviously that wouldn't work for other reasons, but underscores nicely how land isn't the issue at all.
Interesting. So I guess Merkel had the right intentions (keeping nuclear seeing it was the greenest / lesser-evil option), but also the expected characteristics of a politician.
Are you asserting that they never collect data from anyone who isn't crossing illegally?
Mostly true, but they don't like gun owners in the past decade or so. In for a penny in for a pound you can pick and choose amendments.
There are MINIMUM a dozen comparable scandals revealed in those emails.

This community's depth of political reading is super disappointing.
In the southwest, I'd imagine dust would be the biggest hindrance.
Arrest these people.
Do they grow enough grass to produce enough oxygen for the building?
Keep in mind that these reactors are only that safe because they're operated in an environment that's very different from your typical utility company.

RCOH procedures alone would make civil use prohibitively expensive.
the tricky thing is attributing causality to random noise. if normal noise is +/-1%, then yeah sure 4-6% is legit. but if you get 4-6% variation normally, then its kinda hard to tell if the recommender is doing anything or not. ofc, if it persists over an extended period, then that's cool.

im not saying this has no value, im saying people without a baseline (like me) have no idea how to assess this tagline and maybe there might be a better one to pursue.
Yes, the capacity is increasing. But there's still a massive disconnect between the amount of battery storage required to make renewables usable and the capacity that exists. The link I posted already factors in increasing demand, but the amount of battery production in these projections is still orders of magnitude lower than what is requires.

3 weeks of energy storage in the US works out to 240 TWh given its daily 11.5 TWh consumption. Even if we assume that the projections are accurate and that global battery production will reach 1 TWh in 2023 and 2 TWh per year in 2030, we're still talking about several decades worth of global battery production just to supply the United States' storage requirements. Even just reaching the 12 hours of storage required to reach 80% renewables is going to be difficult to achieve.

The reality is that storage even remotely close to what is necessary to run a country predominantly on intermittent sources has never been built. This is totally uncharted territory as far as energy infrastructure goes. And none of our current solutions are capable of delivering the required scale, save for geographically limited options like hydroelectricity. By comparison, multiple countries generate the majority of their electricity from nuclear power, and one has generated over 80% of its energy from nuclear. Between building a wholly novel solution and simply replicating an existing solution, the latter is almost always the easier task.

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> 1. Instantaneous excess can electrolyse water, producing hydrogen which can be converted into methane and stored/used in existing natural gas systems.

This is much more difficult to do than it sounds. In order to convert hydrogen into methane you need a source of carbon. The fraction of a percent of carbon that exists in the atmosphere cannot feasibly be used. The plans to use synthetic methane as energy storage are contingent on somehow capturing the carbon from burning a gas turbine. California tried to do this by pumping the exhaust into mine shaft, but a leak was sprung and the gas escaped. Not to mention, places without mineshafts nearby have to construct structures to store the exhaust.

> 2. Overcapacity in good times implies proportionally higher production in bad times, lowering the storage requirements.

No it does not. Overcapacity of solar doesn't make the sun shine at night. Overcapacity of wind somewhat increases production in less windy days, but a totally windless day still generates zero energy regardless of overcapacity.
I think that's all broadly untrue or nonsensical, but I'm not going to argue it point by point.

Basically, I think people should try to have some empathy for people who are having a bad time. I don't really get why so many people are so adamant that that should not happen. But I get that I'm not likely to change your mind about anything at this point.
They probably don't even have to ask because they have a direct pipe.
This is an... interesting idea of "straightforward" in the case of bash and to a lesser degree, perl (although I hear perl 6 is nicer).
Very cool! Most ecommerce stores don't have enough data to do product recommendations with the existing tools. This is much needed.
If you're seriously concerned about the security of the information on your phone, you could look at the NSA's Security Configuration recommendations. [1] These recommendations are intended for "Apple iOS 5 Devices", and many of the recommendations sound like they would not be appropriate for the average traveler.

[1] https://apps.nsa.gov/iaarchive/library/ia-guidance/security-...

What I would recommend is to keep as much information off your phone as possible. Save emails on your personal computer, and delete them from your phone before traveling. Log out from online accounts like web-based email accounts before traveling. Don't have sensitive files on your phone; encrypt them and download them from a server somewhere that you control.

Finally, as "sumanthvepa" recommended, "keep all interactions with (Border Patrol Agents) on a cordial basis and cooperate immediately and completely when ordered."
First I’ve heard of solar thermal. Any good links?
PyQt is "GPL but allows you to link from popular open source licenses" what is this supposed to mean?
Why does it matter what I support?

Marijuana is federally illegal and comes with plenty of risks. I don't think CBP should be abusing border area privileges for drug-related offenses but technically the fed govt can use the support of any agency. It's highly unlikely that CBP/DEA would waste time if the establishment is legitimate given state laws unless you're helping a cartel or personally known as a major dealer.
> Yup. I use ProtonVPN on account of its Swiss jurisdiction and no-logs policy.

Can switzerland even be considered "non-cooperative"? I mean, most people probably think so because of their reputation as a an "offshore bank", but that's been eroded due to the passing of FATCA.
I hope so. We'll find out either way.
They are not 100% identical, but they do agree on a huge number (a majority?) of important political issues, particularly in defense, foreign policy and economics, and make a big show of arguing over the other topics in order to try to differentiate themselves.
Lazarus already comes with tonnes of components (over 200) and lots of libraries but yes, it is still possible that you want to access some functionality which is not provided natively by the built-in components. But then, you may not.
It’s a poor form of argumentation to find a technically “absolute” statement someone makes and entirely invalidate the argument because nothing in this world is absolutely true.
I personally believe that everyone in the USA should be protected via their Constitutionally mandated personal rights. That said there is nothing in the Constitution about giving asylum and that is the mandate of Congress. I personally believe that a well thought out quota system is needed. We can't take everyone in the world who wants to seek asylum here. That's simply not possible. No one who isn't a US citizen has a right to live here, it is strictly up to the US government to say how many in what time span.
I've completely forgotten about this page of the site, but it's nothing but polite fiction. We didn't really have any choice in the matter, it was that or be dragged in court by Microsoft lawyers and after spending some of my own money (and I was a student back then, so it wasn't a small amount for me) on a consultation, I was told in no uncertain terms that this wouldn't result in a good outcome irrespectively of whether we could use "wxWindows" as the name or not.

As for "modest financial compensation", it was really modest and was meant to compensate for registrar fees/changing hosting/stuff like that. It was a couple of thousands at most, I think, nowhere near enough to sustain anything for any period of time.
IIRC most issues were caused by problems and delays with fuel fabrication, mentioned in my post. And changes in fuel fabrication is one of the main reasons for postponing BN-1200 construction (i.e. it does not make sense to build a reactor, while fuel production line is not ready).
Thank you! That makes much more sense.
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Hi! Congrats on the launch!

Using content based recommendation is interesting but requires a constant scraping for more data. Plus the whole cost of curating the dataset and guaranteeing data quality can be extra challenging. How are you getting around these problems?

Also, your approach with A/B Test is interesting, but how would you do it for smaller shops? Wouldn't it take too long to give appropriate results? Or are you using a Bayesian Test Methodology?
Businesses are first class citizens, unlike real people, so you should be ok.
Maybe we should also consider using / making a progressive enhancement image format. FLIF for example can be downloaded partially to get part of the fidelity. (Which, unlike other interlacing, increases ~linearly with size.) https://flif.info/
How to Use Traceroute and MTR to Diagnose Network Issues
I can totally understand the need to protect your citizens, but I rather think that this kind of behaviour damages the reputation of the US deeply. In the long run, you might have gotten your hands on someone's data that would like to harm the US (but are these guys so stupid to put their malicious plans on a handheld device they use at border crossing?)

Actually after the Snowden revelations: aren't the three letter agencies able to access our data without us knowing it anyways? If we are on their radar, they can get whatever info they want from us anyway. That's my understanding. So why harrass the normal person crossing the border?
https://archive.vn/r90cf
Ask HN: The future of Remote Worker (WFH) technologies
Back in early 90s I had a software consulting gig with a telecomm company down in Austin, TX. I have completely forgotten the software project itself. What made a lasting impression was the attached small call-center (of the same company), and the fact that the operators were monitored down to strictly scheduled "toilet break".

In my opinion, it is inevitable that one day WFH software will be required to be always on, and "remote workers" subject to the same regime essentially as those of the above call-center workers. And that "surveillance free" jobs will replace "corner office" jobs as the new status symbol of wage earners.

https://activecollab.com/blog/guest-post/make-sure-you-workers-are-working-full-time

What is your opinion of the evolution of WFH technologies? For example, how far away is the "feature" that allows managers to randomly check a video feed of a remote worker?
Tk is probably also native since version 8 or so. But somehow the tutorials for Tk usually have ugly examples (not pleasing the eye).
Our area of Oregon recently banned new solar farms on the grounds that it detracts from the beauty of the landscape – a wine region with lots of tourism. Ironically, that very beauty is threatened by the changing climate, which clean energy could help mitigate.
Corporations cannot outsource "thought policing" to "the State", as the State deems social media platforms able to effect elections. A tiny percentage, but not most, is covered by Law.

Shunning accountability only go so far. Sooner or later it is optimized into a closed, shrinking circle.