skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for these! I'd seen the latter, and assumed that if the edge detection algo was refined, then it would be available everywhere that it's used. From the other commenter, it seems like maybe not. I wish I'd taken some "before" photos so that I could compare after updating.
It seems correct to me. I found a good analogy on a StackExchange answer[1]: pushing 'back' means pushing something away from the current point in time. Bringing 'forward' means bringing it closer to the current point.

So 'pushing back' school start times would mean that school started later in the morning, when it was lighter.

[1] https://english.stackexchange.com/a/157003
We do this in the summer at my work. We also release plenty of features in the summer. I don’t know if productivity drops at all - curious if anyone higher up in my organization would have any data that says otherwise.
That countries within the EU should be within the same timezone when they're on the same longitude, duh. Imagine West- and Southern Europe all having different choices on whether they observe DST and when it starts... Sure there are many places on Earth where it happens, but it's a major inconvenience. Hence, we need supranational coordination.
NIH to update online explanation of cancer risk from drinking
Ooh, gotta do this on my laptop! I have an Ergodox and have z and / set up to be control if I hold them, and the key left of a is Esc or GUI (I use GUI a lot for i3wm). I'll have to try this with the laptop, thanks!
This is just awesome, installed iOS 12 on iPod Touch 6 and my react-native app has stable 58-60fps during scrolling of the large list of messages!

Impressive!
Kenzaburo Oe, won the Nobel Prize for Literature. I've heard of him but have never read any of his books personally.
If you fire say 10% of those 20 to 45, and 20% of those 46 and up, you have some explaining to do. Assuming you fire people only on merit, which should be IBM's claim, then the percentage should be about the same.

I suppose IBM could make a case that older people are simply less productive, which may not go over well with a jury. They could also claim HR "inadvertently paid too much" for years spent at the company, and that they are now correcting it. That's also a hard sell. Going to be an interesting trial...

As an "older person" I find that experience has made me cynical such that I'm less likely to be enthusiastic about bullsh&t fads, and managers don't like people second-guessing their poor decisions (even if right). Ego often trumps merit of a argument. Maybe we oldbies need to take Fake Smile classes. "Distributed node.js microservice blockchains for a 7-user CRUD app? Oh wonderful, I'm so happy, I can fart rainbows!" I wish my experience-induced skills in spotting BS were more valued. (Yes, it's good to keep up on trends, but there's so many that one has to pick with care.)
Can you give out any more details? Can this replace a restaurant POS system like Micros, Aloha, Digital Dining, et all? My brother is a restaurant owner and is struggling with one of those scummy legacy POS systems and I am trying to help him out of it -- even to the point of rolling an open source POS system out for him
What is long term starvation in this context? Is a week already long term? The second point also goes against what I recall reading about cancer in calorie-restricted animals (I may be wrong).

The basal metabolic rate angle is interesting, did not directly come to mind.
I like ProtonMail. It does what I need it to within the free option. I have a domain name that I forward to my ProtonMail, so I'm not really worried about lock-in. I have slowly been moving my accounts over away from Google Inbox. Now that Inbox is going away, I'm about to kick the transfer into high-gear. I don't care to re-learn the 'new' Gmail when I was already invested in Inbox.
Not a fan of GDPR, I'm assuming? Or wait, is that what you meant by cookie laws?
Yep, for how much they are involved in the open source community, it's fairly disappointing this is not allowed:

https://www.datomic.com/on-prem-eula.html

"[The licensee will not] (j) publicly display or communicate the results of internal performance testing or other benchmarking or performance evaluation of the Software; "

I wish they wouldn't do this, it seems that they simply do not want to talk about this topic, even though the reason people usually choose Datomic is not performance but rather its abstractions -- so why the hostile attitude?
alt-f3 is burned into my brain forever.
Interesting, with recent force reductions I have witnessed a document was circulated that showed position and age. no other identifying information was contained. Of course since the numbers were small it isn't hard to know who was what age.
Well we could say right now it's 15:72pm on the 47th of Octember, nothing has changed but the assigned labels, right?
Its terrible for the consumer. Instead of a thousand affordable options for whatever kind of headphone you want, there are far fewer options and even expensive wireless earbuds/headphones suffer from latency, making them almost worthless. I've never had a bluetooth device of any kind that was even close to 100% reliable where I didn't occasionally have to mess with settings to get it to pair properly.
Did you have any equity in the company? If you didn't, why do you feel entitled to share in profits and success?
Amazon plans to release at least 8 new Alexa-powered devices
> And Intel, he said “is trying to make all the bets,” marketing traditional CPUs for machine learning, purchasing Altera (the company that provides FPGAs to Microsoft), and buying Nervana with it specialized neural network processor (similar in approach to Google’s TPU).

Actually Intel has even wider view of the things and interest to non-(yet?)-mainstream tech, like e.g. async circuit design. They has bought Achronix, Fulcrum, Timeless Design Automation. Fulcrum in 2002 made things like "a fully asynchronous crossbar switch chip that achieves 260-Gbit/second cross-section bandwidth in a standard 180-nanometer CMOS process" - https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1145012
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "e2e was found to be flawed"? Is the paper available online?
This is bullshit and reflects the bias built into your own views. This is a deeply rooted viewpoint of many like you, most likely based on your experiences with your narrow network of "older" people.
Yeah, and perhaps radiation per unit of power isn't a good metric. Suddenly rendering huge areas uninhabitable is qualitatively different than slightly increasing cancer risk over a long period of time. Anything that conflates the first with the second isn't a very good analysis. It's like how more oil seeps out of the floor of the Atlantic each year than was released during the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Doesn't make it not a disaster.
For the unfamiliar:

> The Licensee hereby agrees, without the prior written consent of Cognitect, which may be withheld or conditioned at Cognitect’s sole discretion, it will not: [...] (j) publicly display or communicate the results of internal performance testing or other benchmarking or performance evaluation of the Software; [...]

https://www.datomic.com/on-prem-eula.html

I.e., the Oracle approach.
So if you get a million dollars of equity, and it devalues to $10 before you cash it out, you have to pay taxes on the million? That's insane.
If seniority and experience do not add up for the majority then it makes software engineering a very dicey proposition.

A civil engineer who has built 10 bridges or a doctor with hundreds of operations behind them is much more valued than those entering the field.

Why would this not apply in software, surely someone who has built tons of products has valuable experience or is there some other factor at work that is devaluing experience?

This will also impact decisions to study more as that shortens potential career time, if this is the case then for those choosing streams in engineering maybe choosing another is a more rational decision.
I see no such comparison in the article. It may be so, or not - I have no idea. I know general crime rates are mostly declining (though it depends on place and crime - it's not universal) but I have no idea whether the drop in juvenile detention is the same as in crime, more or less. If it's the same, does it mean the reform described in the article had absolutely no effect and the reduction in detention is caused by other trend that was outside of reformer's control? Or does it mean absence of detention actually reduced the crime, causing virtuous cycle? If it's falling faster, how much this actually reduces the crime? None of these questions - which are vital for understanding the matter - were even mentioned, let alone answered.
Linux adds a code of conduct for programmers
The macro and type issues are orthogonal. As sabauma pointed out, the tricky bit is that you need one while statement per trace.
There was a post recently about how someone was able to set up his own vpn which bypassed it. Something about the server padding out its response with garbage data?
But if it shifts forward it's be dark in the morning till 9.30am.
I do support many of the data protection principles of the GDPR but not the pop-up requirements for consenting to very ordinary and reasonable uses of (typically anonymous) data.

The cookie law predates the GDPR and requires pop-ups to consent to cookie setting, something which duplicates browser functionality and is just really silly and annoying.
Well originally, it was of course the distance from the equator to the North Pole through Paris - which is the distance from the north pole to Paris, plus the distance form the equator to Paris.
How to be a kid. You've have plenty of time to study CS stuff. Enjoy your youth and do dumb shit.
Let's say the world decides to follow UTC. In Hawaii, Midnight UTC is 2pm in the afternoon in our current system. So in the early "solar afternoon" it will switch from Monday to Tuesday.

So if you're working late on Tuesday you'd have to clarify or use some other phrase.
Could Python’s Popularity Outperform JavaScript in the Next Five Years?
My larger point is, we already are, miles and away, a much bigger improvement than what most of our parents had. If we want to improve workers lives, let's start with the vast majority of workers, and not the top 5%. Isn't that the rhetoric around here these days? In essense, "we are the 1 percenters", metaphorically in this scenario. Restaurant workers, warehouse employees, factory workers, retail employees, delivery drivers, the vast majority of the US workforce doesn't even come close to the type of privilege and benefits we receive, we should probably start there if we really want to improve workers lives.

While SF/NYC/Austin type firms complain that they can't bring their dog to work, the mother/father/brother/sister over there working as much as they can and just had their benefits cut (and their employer gives them some catchall excuse like "because Obamacare!") because their hours were reduced from 40 to 35, and anytime they even get remotely close to 40 hours, they get sent home, let's start with them.
My intent was that computers (and programmers) need to adapt to how humans want to use systems. Not the other way around. I don't care if it's a PITA for programmers to deal with or not.
Property rights are important, but there's also something to be said of an industry that's benefited from billions of taxpayer dollars, failed to fulfill their commitments from that money, and is skirting the edge of antitrust laws. Capitalism unchecked is not healthy for 99.99999% of the population, and there needs to be limits to rights of corporations because of this.
The risks are real, but vastly overestimated, especially compared to (also real) risks of coal.
What do you eat?
I agree here: liking Murakami is no guarantee of liking other contemporary Japanese authors (as you can gather from the article in question).
It can be taken too far, but generally, if you paid for their device and you're legally responsible for their well-being and things they do on the internet, then I don't see the issue.

Combine this with the fact that the kid doesn't have to use the device for anything/everything.

It's like wanting to know where the kid is driving if you paid for the car, the insurance, and you're legally and financially responsible if they hit someone/something.

Again, I do believe this can be taken too far (and I don't know exactly where the line is). Paying for a phone doesn't give you right to spy on absolutely everything. I haven't seen anything that is beyond just app usage time, though.
Thank you. We were doing rather well by some metrics. Enough for the CEO to pay his first jet and for the yearly profit to fill a swimming pool in $1 bill. Not that we did that last part.

Humor aside. A few billions is actually fairly little for many businesses, remember that a typical margin is only a few percents of revenues (customer payments). A billion dollar company with a 1% margin can only afford 100 employees. You wouldn't be impressed if I told you that we were a 100 people company, would you?

Competing payment providers and banks are dealing in orders of magnitude above Stripe.
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The built in word processor had a lot of cool text effects. 13 year old me thought it was much more impressive than my mom's Paperclip. It has been very many years since I used it, but I recall multiple drives improved the experience, and these days I see it is popular to run GEOS with a ram expander.
the still make money hand over fist with the midrange and mainframe offerings. I know it is vogue to dismiss both here but the simple matter is many businesses rely on such hardware and they are companies many don't suspect.

I know the refrain, they need to switch to X, Y, or Z. Well the issue always comes down to, they don't know everything their current A, B, and C, platforms do. Then you look at all the touch points and realize that to swap X for A you suddenly need to get D through G to re engineer their solution too
I actually need a semi-racist spam filter. I get about 10+ emails a day from recruiters from India. So unfortunately, I need to filter by Indian names....
Can someone knowledgeable in the field explain to me what the implications of a deterministic universe would be for quantum computing? Correlated noise ruining any useful computation?

(I know about Bell's theorem but I think it uses circular reasoning so I am not a fan).
That's really cool. I'm looking forward to more sites implementing this. Imagine if every Amazon product had this.
I take it you don't live anywhere a fairly northern latitude. Up here DST or not makes no difference, it'll still be night at that time and kids do just fine.
People here in Southern California exercise and prefer extra sunshine. Farmers here are against the repeal as well. Even popular mechanic endorses DST as a good thing:
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a18011/...
Wait, what? (Reads) ...And if you, gentle reader, have never seen a nervous rocket mechanic, complete with monkey suit, being buzzed by nine thousand demented bats and trying to beat them off with a shovel, there is something missing from your experience. (The omitted part explains how there came to be nine thousand demented bats attacking said rocket mechanic.)

Oh. Yes. Indeed there is.

He also has a marvelously understated style. Read between the lines of the following, I was against describing the nature of the inhibitor in the openly published specifications, since the inhibition was such an unlikely— though simple — trick that it might well have been kept secret for some time. I had friends in the intelligence community, and asked them to try to learn, discreetly, whether or not the trick was known on the other side of the iron curtain. The answer came back, with remarkable speed, that it was not, and that, in fact, the Soviet HF manufacture was in trouble, and that the director of the same was vacationing in Siberia. So I protested violently and at length, but the Air Force was running the show and I was overruled. And when the specs were published, the gaff was blown for good.

The inhibitor in question was needed to keep nitric acid in storage and one can only imagine how unpleasant Siberia was as a vacation spot...
Countries in the north have long hours of light in summer and long hours of darkness in winter. Shifting time by one hour doesn't seem to make any difference, but I live in the south so I have no direct experience. We have light from about 5 AM to 10 PM in June with DST. That's very convenient. Maybe I'd go for double DST, even more convenient: people still sleep here at 6 AM. DST in winter would mean to get out in the dark at 8 AM, Scandinavia like. I don't look forward to it, but I don't look forward to darkness at 9 PM in summer and useless light at 4 AM. So I voted for keeping the current system (I lost) and for permanent DST (a useless vote because it will be decided country by country).
Turkey will not join the EU anytime soon because it currently doesn't have the required human rights track record and has destroyed its fragile democracy.
I believe the licence is what did it: Linux could spread because it was free, and it could not be stolen because it was copylefted.

If Minix (or at least the Minix kernel), used the GPLv2 from the start, I wouldn't bet on Linux.
Can this 56 qubit computer break DES faster than conventional computers? Could it break an arbitrary 56 bit block cipher faster than conventional computers? Or is it limited in a way which limits it to specific problems? I suspect the answer is the latter.
Representing memory hierarchy in a somewhat-HLL was the goal of the programming language Sequoia, presented in the paper 'Sequoia: Programming the Memory Hierarchy' [1][2] from Stanford University.

Abstract:

"We present Sequoia, a programming language designed to facilitate the development of memory hierarchy aware parallel programs that remain portable across modern machines featuring different memory hierarchy configurations. Sequoia abstractly exposes hierarchical memory in the programming model and provides language mechanisms to describe communication vertically through the machine and to localize computation to particular memory locations within it. We have implemented a complete programming system, including a compiler and runtime systems for Cell processor-based blade systems and distributed memory clusters, and demonstrate efficient performance running Sequoia programs on both of these platforms."

[1] DOI: 10.1109/SC.2006.55 [2] http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/sequoia/sequoia_sc06.pdf
Sharks are also real. Yet for an average person, living in fear of sharks is completely irrational, especially if that person never goes where sharks could actually harm them. The fear is rational when the probability of harm is substantial, with most nuclear developments it is not, and less than the alternatives.
Yes, Stripe's product is literally playing the middleman, but there are a lot of contexts where a middleman is nevertheless a net positive. That said, are your numbers for just the network fees or do they include interchange fees as well?

In any case, I remember the sort of hoops I had to jump through back around 2007 to setup a gateway through Authorize.net and a merchant account for a very small service (annual transactions around 150-200k). Every step of the process, from setting up the accounts to dealing with their API was a nightmare, and recurring billing threw some additional hurdles in for fun if I'm remembering correctly. Beyond that, there are a lot of ways to screw up with billing and payment processing. In my experience, Stripe's generally competitive and easy to deal with.

That's not to say that they make sense for all scenarios. They don't. But if you're a startup looking to make it to launch, there's a strong argument for keeping the billing side of things as straightforward as possible.
Seconded, how do you get started with quantum algorithms, architecture, etc...
> You don't fly somewhere 3-4 time zones away and stay there for a week and then come home and adjust?

No, never. I'm no great traveler, but across 8 countries only one of them was in a different timezone (+1h).
I didn't say that it is a problem. I'm just saying that it's a more likely explanation than Apple suddenly being sincerely concerned about everybody's privacy. If it benefits us, I couldn't care less either way.
Faster than ios 11. Unclear if it's faster than ios 10.
I'm wondering how decentralized systems based around ActivityPub plan to combat problems like spam and astroturfing? These seem to be easier to address in the walled garden platforms due to the administrators having a global view of the social networks. Decentralization on the surface seems to allow bad actors to more easily mask their activities from effective moderation.
So let's also switch to the International Fixed Calendar and make it dead simple to reason about time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
Re: guess young people are more eager to change/try new things whereas older people are more reluctant to change...

As I mentioned elsewhere, as I got older I am more skeptical/cynical of many fads/trends, and this "attitude" is often not valued by management. The thing is, I'm right more often than wrong and would bet my own money on such if I could. The fear of keeping up with the e-joneses has made our industry stupid. Fads/trends are poorly vetted for fit.

Warren Buffett has made similar observations about faddism in the financial industry, and he has the fat bucks to prove he's right.
Ask HN: Have you used Dokku?
I was considering using Dokku instead of Heroku. How was your experience with it?
Can it be used for an automatic small-scale chemical reactor? Many reactions requires heating anyway.
I've been looking for a system that lets me track replication of online/offline data, as well as a search tool + format obsolescence report on files. I once started writing such a thing using Python + SQLite. It's kind of trickier than it seems.
In many parts of the world it will e.g. turn from 23:59 Friday 17th to 00:00 Saturday 18th in the middle of lunch.

This means a simple term like "lunchtime on Saturday" is suddenly ambiguous/useless, since it could mean around 00:30 Saturday (shortly after local solar noon) or it could equally mean around 23:30 Saturday (shortly before local solar noon the following solar day).
Completely unmoderated is also not the right balance. I wouldn't want to be part of a completely unmoderated instance. Moderation is tricky. I am suggesting only that the most politically charged forms of moderation be toned down.

Changing usernames when you change instances is also a very significant problem. Are there proposals for addressing that?
Something I didn't know is that the US Library of Congress considers SQLite databases to be long-term storage formats, on par with CSV and JSON: https://www.sqlite.org/locrsf.html
Actually the impact on nations higher in latitude makes the time change more compelling.

The biggest issue is traffic accidents as a result of commuting directly into the rising or setting sun. It's especially acute if there are children crossing streets to get to school at the same time. It doesn't take many dead kids to make headlines.

If I remember correctly, Chile abolished DST, and then after they have a ton of traffic fatalities, they added it back two years later.

It's not as clear cut as people make it out to be.
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Not an unreasonable attitude, I'll grant.
Perhaps of interest: the Accutron 214 (released 1960) uses a tuning fork's ringing for both regulation and mechanical power, and was advertised to be accurate to 1 minute per month. They are reasonably easily obtainable, and are a great example of some really elegant engineering.