skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it's happened to me twice, both times crossing from Canada to the US on a land border entry. There was a short period of time where the CBP was doing this in droves on Canada land border entries. The way it's generally structured is they ask permission, and if you refuse, they can't really do anything without a court order and can only hold you at most 72 hours. The time I was held up for 2 days was because they wanted to further inspect my vehicle, which I can't prevent. The only thing you really have any possible way to control is your digital devices, anything physically on your person / in your possession is open to physical inspection at a border entry point and there's no legal means to prevent it, so there's no point in even arguing. Your phone you /must/ relinquish to them, but you can refuse to unlock it if it's locked with a password. The only way to get around it is a court order, which they're not going to bother with if you're not actually suspected of anything.

Of course, YMMV, which is why I say the most important thing is realizing you could absolutely be arrested and charged for something stupid if you refuse, and should have 6-8 months of financial coverage. And of course, any non-citizen can be refused entry arbitrarily with no recourse.

FTA "(CBP) leaders have admitted to lawmakers in a briefing that its officials are adding information to a database from as many as 10,000 devices every year" this is not a rare occurrence, it's rare in the grand scheme of things because there's so many travelers in/out of the US, but it's not really that rare. If you travel internationally often enough, especially at land borders (I don't know why, but these get hassled more in my experience than airports), you will likely eventually get asked.
It's not just luddites, it's also the knowledge that these rules will never apply to them or their children.
Having worked under many security policies, they fall into three categories

1. Basically a startup with no security whatsoever

2. Security prevents you from doing your job, so people have no choice but to actively work around it

3. Security integrates seamlessly with developers workflow

1 and 2 were the most common. 3 was rarest. If you want good security, you also have to care enough about UX so people don't work around the security.

The answer is that bad security gets in the way of peoples jobs, and people have no choice but to work around it. Good security is effortless and cares about the UX. Frankly, that's hard, so many companies don't do it very well.
Having worked at the largest synthetic DNA manufacturer (at least they were, I think they still are)... a lot of his information is just wrong. There is a huge incentive to lowering the cost of producing oligos and synthetic genes. This is actually a very interesting time in the space (shoutout AnsaBio).

I encourage him to continue explore new ways of making DNA, but understanding the market is very different from building off an expired patent.
> no consequence for false positives

This could be the key point. Penalties for letting something bad slip past, but no penalties for falsely flagging. It’s a pragmatic solution, but it is almost by definition inhuman.
Most "professional" miners were actually undervolting to keep the power consumption down so it's really not that bad as long as the price is right.

Anecdata but, 3 years ago I got an old mining RX 580 4GB for ~120 CAD (about a $100). That card can run almost everything at 1080p and has been used a lot ever since.
Doesn't matter. Goggle will shut this service down. Moreover, Google is an ad company. It can never compete to customer focus of Amazon.
What is your ultimate goal? To be employed in tech? If so, what type of positions? What is your MOS (or equivalent)?
Quite a few one dimensional villains come to mind from my childhood:

Dora the Explorer's swiper the fox, G.I. Joe's cobra commander, He Man's skeletor, robbie rotten from lazy town

Still, I'd say it's a stretch to call, say, the oversimplification of the idea that stealing is wrong, propaganda.
It's more temperature variation that kills cards. In a conventional mining setup thermals are monitored and accounted for. A card running at 70C 24/7 will last a long time. Longer than a card that is constantly bouncing around in temperature.
Is the Guardian a far left publication now? Because they’re saying there’s bipartisan agreement on border security and that Biden approved a border security package, but the tenor of the article somehow bizarrely postures Anduril and CBP as the criminals, for enforcing immigration law.

And there’s the argument that enforcing those laws is causing “migrants” to cross in more dangerous ways and is therefore somehow immoral, which is functionally equivalent to: “defending against criminals makes the criminals dumber and more likely to injure or kill themselves and therefore, respecting the interests of the criminals, we should soften our efforts at enforcing the law”.

How did we get here? It’s just so absurd it beggars belief.
Not claiming that ACLU does nothing useful -- I certainly don't know enough to say -- but what do you think about this (which suggests to me a damaged commitment to civil liberties):

https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2022/01/30/the-aclu-reverses-...

What other organisations do you donate to along the same lines?
I can forward you the email if you like :)
Thanks!

For anyone following along, text at https://www.fincen.gov/resources/statutes-and-regulations/ba... > https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2020-title31/pdf/....

This is for SARs (Suspicious Activity Reports). (At least, that's the one I've encountered before, there may be other forms too).
Sites like Pricerunner compare prices from many online shops.
Yeah, no. Us normal working stiffs don't typically have a $20M windfall we're looking to invest. That's a whole other ballgame.
So what would it mean if Facebook were treated as the "publisher or speaker" of information they... well, publish?

This passage does something by preventing them from being so classified. Right?
Back when I was sixteen, I hung out with this kind of crowd and most of the usernames were about how dangerous/scary/bad the person was. I thought it would be funny to deliberately choose a username that was the exact opposite of all of that.

Thirty years later, I'm still using it.
You are right, but it is not very useful way of looking at the world.

Sometimes you just need to trust people on certain things to be able to make useful decisions having very little or no knowledge in the subject.

One useful way of dealing with this is to look at the past performance of the person.

Assuming you have no other information about the market, if you see a person having track record of well-reasoned, accurate market predictions it is probably as good signal as it gets that you should trust their predictions.

Ideally you would want to check this with other people having knowledge in the topic (and also good track record), check that their knowledge is still applicable to circumstances (if they were able to give good predictions in peace maybe they are not suited to doing this in the time of war) and hopefully also educate yourself just a bit to be able to ask clarifying questions and spot obvious problems.
Always great to come across a website like this that’s still online. Takes me back to the good old days of the Internet.
Man Says Tesla 'Locked Him Out' of Car Until He Pays for $26K Battery
If you hate AutoCAD then try out BricsCAD, or perhaps even Draftsight if you're willing. Otherwise, if you're not working in construction or architecture, move to a 3D CAD package. AutoCAD is simply outclassed by mid-range 3D options like SolidWorks.
I like to share an anecdote that at a professional conference, some agents from the ATF came to give a presentation regarding updated regulations and found that their laptop couldn't connect to the projector.

No biggie, I had just finished my presentation and offered to let them use my laptop. The moment they plugged in the thumb drive with their presentation, my virus scanner went apeshit about something on that drive.

I kept that laptop disconnected for the rest of that trip, and nuked it once I was back home.
> It's not uncommon for countries to have a system where you essentially have to convince a human border guard that you are no threat with no clear guidelines.

Canada is like this. I traveled to Canada with my father a few years ago. When we crossed the border I was driving; they asked both of us if we had any guns in the car. The answer was no and they were obviously free to search the car if they doubted that. But then they started grilling my dad about which guns he had at home, 500 miles away. How many shotguns do you own? What models? How many rifles do you own? Which models? How long have you owned these guns? What do you use them for?

They didn't ask me any of that though. I was 35, I could have owned as many guns as he did, but I didn't and they seemed to know that already. I assume their system had access to some sort of database that flagged my father as a probable gun owner but not me. And the young border guard seemed intent to ask him invasive and utterly irrelevant questions to 'punish' him for this. I think the border guard was acting on individual initiative, because a few weeks later we entered Canada a second time and the border guards didn't even ask if we had guns in the car.
No matter what you say, some person charged up on stats and emotion is going to argue with you. They will trot out "1 million US deaths" (ignoring the complexity of that figure) and various other arguments. Don't worry, you're correct, many aspects of COVID resemble the flu and anybody who is making strong arguments about how to prevent deaths is just making stabs in the dark at this point.
the difference is that amazon is an online monopoly with insane fees on sellers. Forcing them to use the pricing on amazon elsewhere, ensures people buy it on amazon, and ensures amazon can continue to bleed sellers for however much they deem appropriate.
Equality is out, equity is in.
> The cost of labor is ridiculously cheap (people become Vet Tech's for love, not money), and buildings need not be in commercial centers, so capital costs are minimal.

This is absolutely not true and it's a big issue in the field currently (my wife is a Veterinarian). This kind of thinking is also what is causing a lot of mental health issues in the field.
In Florida there are specific legal penalties for injury from this, due to prolific generator use. The simple solution is to turn off the main breaker before plugging in the generator to the home/building. Interlock kits [1] are widely available and can be used with a secondary breaker that an auxiliary male plug can feed.

[1] https://interlockkit.com/
I'd be mostly worried about the fans. IIRC the thing that really kills microchips is heat-cycles, so a continuous load seems pretty good.
How does one monetize and sell slack bots, is it even done?
Terms of service probably have a clause which says that if you violate their policies you forfeit your expenditures.
> That's an extra 600k of upside exposure.

It's also an extra 600k of downside exposure.
> The new “Intel Processor” will replace Pentium and Celeron CPU branding in 2023

So finally they are able to compute 486 + 100 with the brand new “Intel Processor”. Amazing.
I think there are the risks you described. But I keep a list to remember what I’ve read. I’m getting old and have found I don’t remember everything I’ve read decades ago.

I think it’s valuable to not use it for bragging or measuring purposes. But this is the same risk and value of any diary, I think.
Why does Twilio need to perform it's layoffs "with an antiracist lens"?
Yeah, I think there is. Usually you could find them by looking at third parties that did not have much stake in either alternative.

For example, the southern border. You have OpenBorders vs Close the border camps. But there has always been the guest worker visa program on the hoper but no one wants it. It would drive business costs up, it would drain the Ds and Rs of energy around that topic. If you look at many LatAM countries, they themselves implement controls so that locals have preferences for jobs even with respect to immigrants legally able to work. But CNN never mentions those aspects. CNN doesn't mention Bernie used to vote against having foreigners compete against the local workforce for jobs.

Or abortion vs Abortion bans. Let's look at the rest of the world, and if not the whole world, then Europe, and we see there a mixture with some consensus around some figures. But we don't get that coverage, it's all outrage one way or the other.
How is this constitutional?

If it is, why the hell hasn't the broken constitution been fixed?

This is fascism.
An interlock kit and appropriate aux plug box is also legal and code in many places. An expensive transfer switch is not required.
Thanks! I had similar thoughts as well. For whatever reason, having others around in coffee shops or bars seemed to give me the energy to focus on actually working. A very counterintuitive result for sure!
Which, in the case of COVID, is not exactly a great argument for the restrictions either considering that after two years of COVID the world has experienced less than 7 million recorded deaths [0] compared to, at a minimum, after two years of the Spanish Flu we were looking at 17 million deaths (though it could be closer to 50 million) [1]. And that's with a global population that is an estimated 3-4x greater than the world population of 1918 [2] and with far easier global travel.

[0]https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu
[2]https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-populat...
ACLU is a shadow of what it once was. Their unprincipled wavering on free speech ensures that I will not be donating to them. I would, however, love some new recommendations for where those donations can go.
Hi there!

Not quite. An attacker would need either your account password AND an already authorized device, OR they would need both your account password AND Secret Key. If you have 2FA enabled for your 1Password account, and the attacker doesn't have one of your authorized devices, they would also need your second factor (TOTP or hardware key).

Additionally our Principal Security Architect, Jeff Goldberg, wrote some thoughts on this subject, here: https://blog.1password.com/totp-for-1password-users/

- Ben, 1Password
A small portion of the public will react to almost anything in any way. The censorship regime here must surely have been created by more complex factors, like maybe:

- Dependence on advertising, exposure to advertisers who feel like their brands appearing next to anything controversial or upsetting will negative-halo upon their brand.

- Ideological uniformity amongst journalists, who highlight certain kinds of outrage and sink others.

- A need for moral validation amongst tech company employees.

And we could think of many others. Trying to distill a root cause is hard but it looks like the everything-is-connected-to-everything mentality appears frequently. Is it really the case that an advert appearing next to something objectionable makes people think less of the brand? Probably not but it seems to be a common belief. Is it really the case that Facebook is to blame for any video posted on its platform? Probably not but it's a common belief. In a thread just a few days ago there was a former Twitter employee arguing that Facebook was somehow complicit or at fault in the Rohingya genocide, which is a good example of this mentality.

You could go even deeper and ask, is this everyone-is-culpable-for-everything mentality a genuine belief, or is it a possibly sub-conscious cover for some other agenda? That is, this argument seems to work on people sometimes, so it is deployed a useful tool to advance one ideology or another? Who can really say.
Yes, the idea of canonical links is that they should point to the preferred link to use.
The Modern ML Monitoring Mess
Let's look at the full quote:

> As you all know, we are committed to becoming an Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression company. Layoffs like this can have a more pronounced impact on marginalized communities, so we were particularly focused on ensuring our layoffs – while a business necessity today – were carried out through an Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression lens.

This doesn't seem to suggest a concern about biases in the layoff process, it strongly seems like he's arguing that "marginalized communities" depend more on these jobs than "unmarginalized communities". Indeed, if he was talking about biases in the layoff process, why would he say "marginalized communities"? I don't even know what that means in that context. Biases in the layoff process affect the individuals laid off. Of course, it also affects those individuals' broader communities, but factoring those communities into the calculus is the definition of biasing the decision (putting aside the implicit assumption that individuals are necessarily members of race-based communities).
> I've got patients from Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft. I've had multiple patients from Microsoft.

Presumably MS has particularly high standing desks.
My knee jerk reaction was yours, but he does flesh out his argument in the piece, and it makes sense...
You don't need a pumpkin farm, just an ordinarily sized garden and $6 worth of seeds:

https://parkseed.com/dills-atlantic-giant-pumpkin-seeds/p/05...

A plastic kayak would probably not survive the mold-making process, but that's fine, you can get a kayak either used (abused) from a local livery for dirt cheap depending on your bartering/scrounging skills, or a low-quality new one can be had for under $200 at a big box store, and simply be cut off the pumpkin.

I wonder if it would disqualify you to coat the pumpkin in a thick layer of Line-X:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/adventure/a22652/bedliner-s...
The most prevalent type of security vulnerability in all of software is XSS. (If you count CVEs, which is admittedly a bit problematic).

I’m collaborating on an attempt to shift the responsibility for XSS from the developers and towards the browser. The current stage focuses on getting the use case "insert HTML but without any scripts" right.

There’s a public specification and prototype implementations in Firefox and Chrome. You can play with it here https://sanitizer-api.dev/

We think that we’ve made the best of many different tradeoffs, but we’re also keen to hear wide feedback.
What happens to your tolerance?
MSX Basic had "RENUM" or some such, which would renumber all the lines to for instance 100, 110, 120 etc. It also automatically updated all GOTO and GOSUB. So if you ran that all the time, it was almost like line numbers in a text file, but with an extra manual "RENUM" chore thrown in.
use manjaro. really, you get the benefits of AUR, stable rolling release, without all the headache of arch

I haven't had a single update issue so far in the last year
> they're not spending money, it's not a cost

I'm not sure I follow that. If you're getting those shares instead of a higher salary, there's no effective difference between that and a cost you paid out of pocket (except for certain tax implications).
The FTC considers certain exclusivity contracts as pro-competitive:

https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...
Very much agree, many people I've talked to about Hackers don't seem to get this "it shows what it feels like", and get hung up on interpreting details literally, like the favorite complaint "screens don't project a sharp image onto the wall behind you".

I also like Swordfish for this. Him dancing at the keyboard while programming is very much what it feels like when you have a good hack going.
The rationalizations before they happened are always very intelligent sounding, even in retrospect. If you have 100 intelligent sounding speculators lay out their reasoning and one hits the jackpot, it doesn't mean much.

The general problem is each has a mental (or computer) model of the world that is a vast simplification of the world. When they get it right it sounds like they understood and accounted for all the variables. They never did.
Wonder if you could make a case with travel insurance. After all the device was technically stolen from you, under threat of violence.
I don't think you want this. Even in a firm that is under 10 mil., if you are granted hard equity, you're going to be liable for taxes on those shares, which will be extremely illiquid. Options or RSUs let you have your cake and eat it too, at a small price.
>> the Home Owners Loan Corporation drew maps grading areas from "desirable" to "hazardous" --- the "hazardous" neighborhoods were demarcated with a red line, hence the name. Lenders refused financial services to any family in the redlined neighborhood.

The HOLC did not use the redlined maps to deny loans. For one thing, they couldn't have, the HOLC was a temporary program intended to deal with the Great Depression and the maps weren't completed until the HOLC had made 90% of the loans it ever made. And second, it did make loans in the redlined areas, and it made a higher percentage of loans to black borrowers than other lenders.

The HOLC did share the maps with the explicitly racist FHA, but the FHA didn't use the maps to deny loans. It couldn't have, the FHA insured loans, it didn't make them. It also focused on financing new construction, the redlined areas were already built up. And when it did refuse to finance black borrowers, it appears to have used block by block census data, not the HOLC maps. Outside of the FHA, it doesn't appear that the HOLC shared their maps with private lenders.

If you're using the HOLC maps to measure the effect of something, you're measuring something other than the effect of lending decisions. If the HOLC map of Chicago is a map of Chicago violent crime that is correlation rather than causation. There must be other factors that explain the correlation.
> The scores are low, because the schools inside the university are VERY selective. There are a large number of freshmen who do not get into their first choice major their sophomore year. This is because they don't have the necessary achievement to be competitive, not because the school sucks.

I'm going to pile on here and agree that while the school may not suck academically, this is a pretty shitty academic plan for students who may not have realised they might need to make a choice of taking a major they don't want or leaving to another institution to study what they want. Transfering between institutions is possible, but it comes with a lot of barriers --- transfer admission is usually secondary to direct admission; credits may not transfer well, especially between quarter and semester systems; sequencing differences may make scheduling difficult, etc. It's unusual to get a 4 year degree in 4 years total when transferring, unless there's a specific transfer program between the two institutions; if, after one year spent working towards their chosen degree, your students are told they can't get it there and they would have to spend four years somewhere else to do it, it looks like a wasted year.

Of course, maybe your institution does accept some students directly into their major and counsels the rest that most of them won't get their choice and they still accept your bargain. And it doesn't sound like a terrible place for an undesigned engineering and technology major, who would presumably be wooed into whatever specific major would accept them after the first year.

EDIT to add: from my experience as a student at an engineering school, almost all the students capable of succeeding in one engineering major would have been able to succeed in the others too, with the exception of biomedical engineering --- you needed to have a hell of a lot more drive to succeed in that. There was a popular belief that mechanical engineering was easier, but I don't think it really was; just it was a lot easier to get excited about it and being excited about your major is an important factor.
Actually there isn't, other commenter explains why.