skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like it would work. I may give that a try. Now to find a VPN for Canada...

edit: Now that I think about it, what's the difference between using the Pi as an AP and using it as a DNS server?
If you hack somebody and steal their data, that'd probably count. If you've exfiltrated confidential data from your employer, that could count. For a time, exporting strong crypto was illegal; we might see a return to that.
I work as a paramedic, and on occasion have to sedate folks. I have never (and will never) sedated someone at the request of the police. I can think of two occasions where the decision to sedate was a discussion between the cops and I (trying to come up with alternatives). It's also common for me to ask the police for assistance physically restraining someone in order to make the sedation process safer. That's as far as the involvement of the police should go. I agree 100% with your assessment of Elijah McCain's killing.

That being said, sedation is an important tool, and often the safest course of action for a patient that would otherwise be a danger to themselves or others. A prolonged fight can be fatal for someone who is pushing their body further than it should go.

It definitely has to be done correctly though, and given the number of cases where it was very clearly done incorrectly, I do think changes need to be made.
Ask HN: Why Apple don't restrict any super-apps?
Some so-called "super-apps" are designed around payment system and create their own app ecosystem inside the single app. That is primarily use case for Asian tech - WeChat, Alipay, Go-Pay, PayTM, PayPay Rappi and etc.
How they manage to compile Apple's rules?
As a gopher dweeb forced to write hackarounds like an external helper to get Firefox into Gopherspace again (either a proxy server: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/overbitewx/ or an actual executable: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/overbitenx/), I'm torn. I would love to see the browser able to speak raw TCP again like I could when XUL/XPCOM extensions were still a thing. But this should really be restricted to browser extensions rather than arbitrary websites because we know someone is going to abuse it, and if we go full Windows Vista as proposed here and ask every connection to be confirmed it will eventually annoy people enough that security will be slackened (and then someone is going to abuse it).
Meters run backward intentionally when selling solar back to the utility. You need a switching system that will isolate immediately if the grid fails, and resync with the grid AC before reconnecting, if you want to be able to operate on and off the grid.
Don’t know why you’re getting so many downvotes. This is pretty general but there’s a lot of truth to it.

9/11 ushered in an era where the US government took pretty extraordinary steps to protect national security by undermining the rights of citizens (see operation “Stellar Wind”.) It was so aggressive that FBI director Comey did not want to reauthorize it due to constitutional concerns.

Fear indeed is a powerful and profitable emotion to traffic in, it drives so much of our current media and political landscape.

A prominent political pundit that shall remain nameless said relatively recently that what is true doesn’t matter as much as what feels true. And that mentality dominates our political discourse.
DFW and DEN come to mind.
Not a Facebook employee but I did interview there. There are a few reasons why I would, personally, not want to leave had I accepted that offer.

First are the people you get to work with. As I’ve progressed through my career, coworker tolerability is a huge must for me and they’ve managed to hire a lot of really good people.

Second, which I can speak to from experience, a large tech company that can pay 150% your target salary at any other company with fantastic benefits, retirement, medical, etc is hard to leave (Golden handcuffs). Not everyone has the luxury to just up and quit a job just because the company appears to do unsavory things.

As an aside, being in a large company, it’s hard to identify with a division different than your own. From the outside, you may see members of Facebook as equally complicit, but while inside you can always resolve cognitive dissonance by saying, “well that’s not _my_ team doing evil things, we’re trying to do good here.”
I worked in large companies where sometimes hundreds of engineers working on a few products and took a long time to launch(hardware+software).

I led a team of a few engineers for two years to build network products from bare-metal to UI in browser. two years that is.

now I work alone to build a product(software for hardware, I don't make the hardware) and it's very difficult, I have so many coding work to do and it just drive me tired, hiring others is not an option, I'm struggling to find reason to keep going on, before returning back to consult or a permanent job, neither I really enjoy these days.

on the hiring part, I probably can afford a few engineers overseas for a while, the problem is that finding them taking so much time, and it's hard to find good candidates when you're a little "start-up" with uncertain future, been there done that.

yes I'm stuck.
Wait... The police injected a ketamin? Does he have a medical license? Did they informed the patient... I mean suspect and got a consent? This is a whole new level of dystopia. How could this be legal?
Of course they do. I only said that a bunch of harddrives aren't going to be a real problem for them. Not sure why that's leading to so many extra interpretations of things I didn't say.
For light, simple GUIs, I've been using python's PySimpleGUI package. Actively developed and supported, and easy to work with.

Needs a target machine to build the output executables, but other than that, it's great!
Rings true to me. I have a lovely used bookstore in my area which has a variety of extremely eclectic stuff, and even he lists his whole inventory online now, as well as maintaining the in-person shop:

https://www.abebooks.com/old-goat-books-waterloo-on-canada/1...
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> Wearing a ski mask in public during the summer, although odd, is not a crime, either.

I don't know much at all about the McClain case, but your statement seems to have a flawed assumption that a crime is required before police can legitimately get involved. Policing doesn't only occur after a crime is committed. A big part of policing is about deterrence: being visible, talking with people in the community, investigating suspicious activity, double-checking that nothing is wrong, etc.
>I’ve reduced my information consumption to free up brain cycles.

This is so important and not discussed very often. It's so easy to get caught up with the insane amount of information distractions. It is pivotal to narrow down your focus and attention on the really important things (deep work). Eliminate and minimize the pointless information hysteria.

I've worked with people who claim they 'work 12-16 hour days'. Yet, watching them work, they spend most of the day reading news articles and on Twitter. It is easy to get caught up in all of this, and it gives an illusion that one is "working" as it is very stimulating to your brain.

The only answer I've found to remaining positive about the world and staying productive has been to ignore >90% of the information out there. Very little news. No social media. I even ignore most of the things people say, unless I know that they are knowledgeable on the topic. But I guess this is what HN is for... One of the only places for decent information.
Why do you expect that they would apply to non-citizens crossing an international border?
It’s interesting that the most socialist states pursue exactly the same objectives that the most capitalistic states pursue outside their national borders, often involving war, violence and exploitation.

The discourse internally is however one of solidarity, fraternity and equality.
The harm is your IP address and other information being provided to a company that's trying to extort you...
Two words: tamper evident packaging.
I think because people read the headline and assumed something that’s totally wrong. When the first of these stories came out, people also misread those and got whipped up over a nonexistent lawsuit. Now every subsequent story suffers from the baggage of that first one: “I heard that Apple’s suing someone, and now they’re also fighting in Canada, too? We should break them up.”

I’m not even on Apple’s side on this. I think they’ll lose the opposition to Prepear’s trademark applications. But I still think it’s a bad look for us that so many people are protesting what they think Apple has done, even though they haven’t.
Could we design one to mostly get energy from green light which plants reject anyway?
100k was estimated to be infected by early March.
What could well be the very last truly independent bookshop in London, will be gone soon. And I don’t mean Henry Pordes on Charing Cross Road, which I love, but Anthony Hall in Twickenham. He owns his entire building outright, and even though he is a specialist book dealer, has always maintained a small bookshop as a luxury addition to his main office, if you like. At one point, all nine rooms of the building were filled with books, but he’s in his 80s and is selling up. Most of his business is on the internet, as he says now. No need for the bookshop.
I think the rule applies to incoming travellers only, not everyone who happens to be near the border.

The Fourteenth Amendment doesn't just lose force for everyone living in one of the coastal cities.
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If you can wire the 2 AP via a LAN, then this is how I've used cheap consumer wifi APs which are usually combo AP+router devices:

The first AP is connecting to internet gateway through its WAN port. This AP does the networking stuff like DHCP, NAT, etc.

The other wifi APs are configured to be AP-only, i.e. disable DHCP. Use same wifi SSID and auth settings as the first AP. Then connect the APs using their LAN ports.

Client devices should now connect to the AP with the best signal.

But if the client is already connected to an AP and a better-signal AP is available, many clients won't automatically connect to the better AP. This is because the client don't know that the other AP is the same network. So if you move around you may need to trigger the client to disconnect and reconnect.

This can be solved with APs that have a "mesh" feature which can instruct connected clients to reconnect to a better AP in the same network using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11k-2008 but AFAIK mesh systems from different manufacturers aren't interoperable.
WxWidgets worked fine and it was very easy to integrate on small C++ projects when I tried. If you just need some basic windows it's the way to go.

Qt is good but it requires you to go fully into the Qt ecosystem (build tools, etc) not sure about QML though.
CBP does not have good data sharing with the NSA, hence building their own silo of stolen data.
Maintenance burns getting out of control has happened several times in the past. That's the reason they changed what they called them from "controlled burns" to "prescribed burns". They got tired of the "That fire wasn't very controlled hahaha" jokes.
All three words are generally considered OK when used by people in those communities, and generally considered as slurs when used by people who are not.
Hey! When we do the AB-tests, you will objectively see how much more money we make for you. The pricing can get a little bit technical compared to other solutions, but it all boils down to a simple fixed monthly recurring revenue fee based on the revenue uplift.
Apparently each of these structures stores 20 MWh of energy. By comparison, the US consumes 11.5 TWh of electricity daily. To reach the 12 hours of storage estimated to be necessary to reach 80% renewable generation we'd need 287,500 of these towers. To reach the 3 weeks of storage necessary for 100% renewable generation we'd need 12,075,000 of these towers.
I got 10 years and as many companies. It's never been relevant to my career. I know a bunch of people who moved from isilon to qumulo directly. They are direct competitors and no non-compete was followed.
This is HackerNews, so you're going to get called out on such nonsense. There is no technical capability to "spy on the entire internet". If you truly believe this, then you are probably consuming propaganda.
No, but it's not uncommon to find hotel internet that has a fairly low device count limit. The place I use WiFi repeaters is on airplanes, to avoid the hassle of re-authenticating every time I switch between phone and tablet and laptop.
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1. I am black.
2. There is no police brutality in my area, or crime for that matter.
3. I don't shrug and accept police brutality, those are your words.
4. I am not trying to spin a narrative, merely point out a narrative that is being spun by the media that directs attention away from actual solutions in favor of self-dealing sensationalism.

Cops are humans. It is illogical to assume that there will be no mistakes made.
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This is categorically false and borders on misinformation.

Subpeonas etc. can be challenged by US companies/individuals in the court when they are within the country. Innocent until proven guilty is the way of life within a country. During border crossing, system has been changed to assume guilty until proven innocent (for better or worse).

You are correct that if you are in such a situation (border agent asking for data), it's better to comply amicably. I personally would consider cloud backing data and cleaning up local drive before entering US as my best strategy. Carrying unsurmountable amount of data (10 TB+) is also another strategy.
I have a question that's related to something like this, I haven't been able to find a definitive answer through Google.

So let's say I want to create an app called "X this, not that!" But "Eat this, not that!" already exists and is an established brand.

Their product is in the health/diet space, while mine is in alternative medicine. Could this be considered copyright infringement?

My gut says it could be, but I think that if the product is very different then it should be fine.
Thank you, I was under the misconception that as a foreigner I wasn't afforded these right s.
Not sure if fastmail does. And I didnt know gmail does.

But, so does a twitter dev account. And they still lock me out like crazy if I use a non-gmail account.
As above, what's the cause of action?
Using language like "monstrosity" though, doesn't help.
No, but the person you were PGPing with would need to install something anyway. The thought that it might as well just be a separate client.
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Short answer is because they can.

Since the border has become such a focal point of our political conscious, the culture of some of these agencies is really being brought to light. Just look at the private Facebook groups of current and former CBP agents comparing migrants to animals and whatnot.

When the culture of an agency gets toxic, you start to see enablement of this kind of behavior.
A tiny tunnel was constructed that served as the entry point to the city through which supplies were transferred (and a few thousand civilians fled the city): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarajevo_Tunnel

It went underneath the airport (controlled by the UN at the time) and is now often referred to as the "Tunnel of Hope". Definitely not big enough to stand upright, but the city was fortunate enough that the Serb forces never quite figured out where the entrance is (a private home that looked quite ordinary from the outside).
The cops didn't "legally" direct the injection. The don't have the authority to do that. In my opinion (as a paramedic), that makes the compliance of the medics with the cops request even more disgusting.

Sedation (even involuntary sedation) is an important tool for EMS (outside the context of law enforcement). It was used totally inappropriately here, and everyone involved should be facing criminal charges.
What do you feel should happen, then, in the rare cases where medical personnel need to treat someone who's uncontrollably violent? Police on their own can be (and are) trained to just physically restrain the guy indefinitely, but paramedics can't treat someone if they're thrashing around.

(I agree it'd be dystopian if police were themselves carrying around sedatives, but that's not happening here.)
The article is misleading. It's framed as if police officers are giving Ketamine when in fact paramedics (medical personnel) are.
Many corporate systems already allow them to check your screen.

But I absolutely disagree that we are headed in that direction. Leadership that succeeds with remote work does so by trusting their employees to do their jobs well without micro-management. If anything, the tech we have is fine, but we're heading towards a management culture shift that learns how to work well remotely.
Make sure you have legally obtained copies of porn if you do this. Unfortunately, it does not seem unreasonable to me that doubly illicit images (copyright-violating porn) could lead to a cause of action against the holder of the hard drive.
Stores pay a hefty sum of rent to the mall, not sure thats a reasonable comparison.
Just to get a feeling, see screenshots of Sciter Notes application on major desktop platforms: https://notes.sciter.com/

The application uses exactly same code on all platforms: https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-sdk/tree/master/notes

It even runs on Windows 2000: https://sciter.com/necromancing-sciter-on-windows-2000/
I have totally accepted the fact that quality of code does not matter to stakeholders. That actually makes sense. No one got an infusion of VC money because they used Node and the LATEST libraries. They don't care what's under the hood.

What bothers me is that robustness and maintainability of code no longer seems to matter to engineers.

Believe me, the pressure right now to deliver working code no matter what is much less than, say, in early 2000's, when web development was very new and few people knew what they were doing.
Just in case any readers are taking the above comment seriously, there is no modern legal system anywhere that allows exceptions based on the above. It is absurd nonsense.
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I guess most people here have never been in public safety or law enforcement.

The number of drug-addled, violent, danger-to-themselves-and-others people encountered in the US is unusually high and increasing.

This is compounded by the inability (right now) of the justice system to either put them into either suitable treatment programs (with mandatory detention, essentially) or incarcerate them (a gradual but steady decline in prison space and willingness to hold and prosecute them - this is a real problem).

When you have someone crazed out of their mind, hitting/punching, shouting obscenities, spitting and biting at you and others on the street, being polite isn't going to cut it.

Of course it's worthy of debate whether administration of drugs like this are appropriate and desired by the public at large. But defined as a law enforcement tool just like non-lethal weapons, they are (currently) totally legitimate to use to subdue someone who's being violent and a harm to self and others.

The mistake here was the wrong dose, not the principle. Mistakes happen, it's our job to make sure they don't happen normally.

Please don't join the knee-jerk protest against some symbolism that police are using this to "torture" people or commit some atrocity. Especially if you've never even been near someone exhibiting psychotic rage (and who likely just committed property damage or violence against another person). You act based on a symbol - depriving public safety and law enforcement of tool after tool because you see one or two bad examples - but then don't ever have to deal with the consequences of your choices for the rest of the law abiding forces acting to protect you every day.
In the past, a human was required for most policing operations. Economically, that meant you'd need to be a person of interest or at least incidentally connected to one to be subject to an investigation. It meant that judges and legislators could say stuff like "it's fine for the police to run arbitrarily license plates, that's public information" because running license plates meant there was a cop with a pad of paper walking through a parking lot, bringing the notes back to a clerk to manually tab through the registration files. Storing the data and processing it used to happen at human speed and cost on the order of $20/hr, assuming they weren't working overtime rates on nights, weekends, and holidays, now it runs at gigabits per second and costs $0.05/hr to run 24/7.

I'm not in the know, but I know that all the email content I've ever written is trivial to fit on a $50 hard drive, and with that I can search through 20 years in under 20 seconds.

It's not a question of "could they do it" but "would they do it", your answer to that question depends on social and political issues, not technology. It's why I prefer technical solutions like encryption to political problems like privacy.
While I understand the frustration please don't make false generalizations like this. There are several people with a consistent track record of pushing back on this stuff, like Wyden.
I think the biggest problems with electron are memory usage, startup time, and possibly disk usage. All of which are because it's running a full browser instance.
Well, the day-to-day job of these armed people is to deal with other violent, and often armed people, before they go out on the general public.

Besides, there are quite a few cities that have considerably limited the police power by now. Minneapolis, New York, Chicago, Seattle, Portland for example. The safety of regular law-abiding people has considerably dropped. Murders are up, gun sales are up, almost every type of violent crime is up.

If you don't like police, go ahead, move to one of these cities. Or at least, search for some videos from them on DuckDuckGo.

I find it very disheartening and hypocritical to hear anti-police rhetoric from people living in 7-figure-property neighborhoods, completely shielded from the problems that the police is supposed to solve.

And no, I am not a human bot in a call center, I happen to be a Canadian that is actually satisfied with the way RCMP works here. And I don't understand why our southern neighbors would rather shoot themselves in their feet and have their cities burnt, than try to copy some techniques that do make police more efficient up here.
I think you missed the joke about long verification times.
Is there a list online somewhere of all the crazy shit that can legally happen to you in the US? How long you can be detained for, what data can be extracted from you, and so on? Like if you had a really bad day and the authorities exercised all of the powers over you they legally have.
Police cannot "order" a paramedic to do anything to a patient. They can phrase it as an order, and the paramedic _should_ tell them to get stuffed, but that doesn't always happen (clearly...)
The law works by judging intent, not by "actualllly technically i am correct here".
> limited to specific, known, legally prescribed situations

Not sure crossing the US border in either direction or being within 100 miles of it (the 'extended border area') is particularly 'limited'?
Take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7582482 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693640

If you have a minimal interactive prototype, you can make a Show HN. If you have only a clear idea you can make a blog post (or a text post) and make a comment explaining that you are the author and want feedback.