skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh, weird. That disappeared from my devices and my friends' and families' devices, so I thought it had been resolved. TIL.
gitpkg: using git as dependency registry
Hello!

Link: https://github.com/ramasilveyra/gitpkg

A year ago I've published a tiny concept (or hack) to be able to have a private registry on a git repo that:

- Works with projects with build steps.

- Works with projects with multiple packages (monorepos).

- Creates lightweight git tags (only the files needed are included).

Some people told me that this can be a good idea and are eager to help me to build more stuff around this, like a tool to create a website from the gitpkg registry.

What do you think? Should I give more time to develop this idea and build a more usable PoC?

Example of issue that this concept could solve: https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/4725

Thanks!
This part of that article is concerning:

> After the site broke the story, Google confirmed the engineer had been sacked in July after his actions were reported to the company via email.

Sounds like he was only fired after one of the victims reported him.
China Calls for Borderless Research to Promote AI Development
They list a whole bunch of services built on top of AP, except for events. Please give me decentralized events (including the rsvp option), and I might be able to leave Facebook.
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I didn't go from 10 to 11, and I think it was a justifiable decision.
China urges AI elites to unite in ‘global village’
Sounds like we've taken a step backward. ;-)
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>Others in this thread have pointed out that "milk the SNAP" program is a very disingenuous and deceitful statement. SNAP is a wellfare program that subsidizes food purchases and both wallmart and amazon sell groceries, and somehow people like you spin the fact that supermarkets sell groceries to sound like these companies are stealing money from the government at the expense of poor people.

Walmart is stealing...it’s not like Walmart happens on $14B in SNAP benefits a year. It not a coincidence Walmart has more employees receiving SNAP benefits than any other employer.

Is it not disengenious and deceitful that you are pretending Walmart just so happens to sell groceries and benefit from SNAP in the amount of $14B/year vs acknowledge walmart are one of the largest drivers of the SNAP program?

Nothing about having Walmart reimburse taxpayers for their employees that receive SNAP Bars SNAP recipients from shopping at Walmart, so the point you are making is disengenious and deceitful...as if Walmart had to payback taxpayer funds their employees receive that has anything to do with Walmart revenue from SNAP benefits.

Let’s say there was a major arms dealer who was making $14B/year in government contracts so long as the US War of Terror continued...is there a problem in your mind if that same company successfully lobbied every year to keep the war on terror going and maybe even paid a little of the revenue from US contracts to fund terror groups? You know like a corporation who is benefiting from suppressed wages with corporate welfare, and then lobbying for said corporate welfare and using its power as an employer to surpress wages giving rise to the need for said welfare
The BBS scene is still alive. These days, people "dial in" via telnet via WiFi modems (among other ways) using their old 8-bit and 16/32-bit hardware (e.g. Amiga). And, as long as you set your stuff to 9600 baud, it's absolutely fast enough.
My body, however, does not update automatically to a one-hour loss in time.
I've asked this before on here and didn't get much of a response. If Apple truly believes in privacy, does this mean that they have a strict policy against using the data provided by companies that have a lower ethical stance on data collection? Is it more ethical to pay and benefit from the data for targeted advertising than it is to collect the data yourself?

Edit: On re-read I thought it might be unclear what I'm asking. Does Apple use Facebook and Google data for targeted advertising?
MIT CSAIL designs AI that can track objects over time
Also several of the iCloud services are E2E encrypted and designed to withstand adversarial clouds. They talked about it at Blackhat.[1]

Doesn't help things like mail or photos, of course, but it is extremely notable in the China context for one big reason: it does E2E encrypt messages. WhatsApp was banned from China when they implemented this. Apple stands out in this way... although they're probably getting away with it because most Chinese don't use Apple Messages.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLGFriOKz6U
We had 4 hours of night in the highlands and that was hard to sleep through.
I don't know what gripe you have with the metric system, but people don't care about what the base units are based on, but that the relationship between the units make sense.

Also, the original definition of the metre did use exactly the distance from the north pole to the equator. It's just that the earth is not completely round, so you need to define this length along a meridian. The Paris meridian may be as good as any.
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This is wrong. Stripe passes 2% or more of it's 2.9% on to Visa/MC and the card issuers. And larger Stripe merchants can negotiate that down as well as enter into an "interchange plus" arrangement which would be measured in BPs.
> I'm curious if you could just as easily convert inches-feet-yards off the top of your head?

For me that's a relatively easy case, because I regularly do that. When it comes to ounces/quarts/pints/gallons though, I'm completely baffled.

Give me microliters please: even if I have no idea how to conceive of that now, I know how to convert it trivially.
I've witnessed a teenage girl just grabbed a store item on the shelf in Starbucks and ran away. On another instance I've seen the video of a night break-in with a girl just used a hammer to break the glass on the door to open it, came in, and cleaned out the cash register. Yeah, they are very brazen.
In the country I grew up (Turkey) 6 day work week was pretty much the norm, my dad worked 6 days a week. Fast forward 15 years, now I work in the US, and apparently in Turkey 5 day work day is more common (and normal) than 6. Considering that Turkey is the most conservative country in Europe, this is one datapoint that this sort of things can change. I'd expect in the next 500 years, things might change in US too, unless you have some other argument supporting otherwise.
Can you fix the kerning on the key fonts? The kerning and overall font choice is poor mainly because of the space constraint. Try Univers Next Condensed with 16 degree italics like the old Mac keyboard! If you want something normal then you can try Swiss721 or DIN in their condensed formats. Geometric sans (with Futura-like "O") such as the one chosen __does not__ work for keycaps.

Looks like the kerning is manually adjusted by someone who just wanted to cram the letters in the keycap space. For example, "CAPS LOCK" - P and S are merged whereas on the "TAB" key, T, A and B are nicely spaced.

This would drive me nuts and would never able to "unsee" the kerning issues.
Why the downvote? Is it such heresy to say that many users care more about performance than security? I’m not suggesting that security is unimportant, just that it’s not very compelling if it’s at the expense of performance. For example see all the recent Intel processor exploit patches. Personally I would take an obscure attack vector on my private desktop computer over a ~5% performance loss.
The GDPR is effectively irrelevant here unless your goal is to host Perkeep as a service. Yes, if you upload your own personal database to Dropbox then Dropbox does still have GDPR obligations to you but those obligations do not extend to managing your files for you also, as an analogy if you were to upload a zip file to Dropbox it would not be reasonable to expect them to remove a file from within that zip file at your request.
Ok, I’ll admit: difficult for parents too! ;)
Solar Foldy just launched a Kickstarter
> In the end we invent DST again.

But without many of its cons :)
Yeah I tend to think this is the more likely explanation, as opposed to the idea that there is some ageist conspiracy at work. In any case, as a 57 year-old working engineer it is somewhat against my nature to delegate responsibility for my being able to make a living to any company. I learned a long time ago to take responsibility for it myself by constantly staying engaged, challenging myself, and learning new things. If I'm let go by an organization for whatever reason I will have the skills needed to land a new position, and I'd much rather spend my time keeping them sharp and acquiring new ones than wondering why BigCorp (who I probably won't work for anyway) didn't keep me around for the rest of my working life. The only security is what you create for yourself, in my opinion.
Children will walk to+from school in the dark regardless of summer/winter-time in Sweden.

So glad we are about to get rid of this nonsense.
Helping computers fill in the gaps between video frames
Or at the wrong time
Hmm, tricky, as first-hand perspectives of a current IBM employee can be dangerous to one's career prospects :)

That being said, my dad was hired by IBM Canada at age ~55, as a developer, and he retired of his own free will at 70 3-4 years back. The clients respected his knowledge, experience, approach and output tremendously; and in turn IBM management recognized his value. His local management begged him to stay in any capacity - part time, consultant, anything - but he felt he could not easily keep up with daily demands anymore, and that time has come for him to hang the keyboard & mouse.
During his tenure he received a promotion/band increase, and was frequently encouraged to go for a second promotion/band increase, but did not want to go to management track.

Note that he was in consulting services, which may have completely different culture than in-house development, with which I have limited exposure.

----

I myself am a current IBM employee; for my first decade, I was constantly the junior member of the team - if anything, we had a reverse issue where we weren't hiring new grads but instead prized experience and leadership skills. Eventually recognizing this gap, last few years we had a flurry of programs to bring in fresh blood. At 40, I'm still probably near the median and average age on many projects I've been part of. Occasionally I get a bit jealous at rapid career progress of some of the brighter new hires, who are taking advantage of paths, programs, and culture of promotion we didn't have when I was in their spot, but I recognize that if things are getting better, that is an overall good thing and just because I missed out / didn't have that opportunity, doesn't mean nobody else should - quite the opposite :).

I've been called an IBM lifer before, and the nickname is somewhat likely to stick. I'm not particularly worried about age, I see it as up to me to demonstrate my value, and have a lot of good role models and examples in technical and technical leadership roles around me who are senior in age to me to gain some confidence I'm not deluded.

That being said, this is a personal anecdote and not anecdata; milleage will differ in different parts and situation of IBM. It's a publicly traded technical company that's survived for a century, and it (we? they? whatever the appropriate pronoun is:) did not do so by being overly emotional. I've seen IBM cut commodity hardware (HDD, Thinkpads, then x-series), and I've seen IBM cut commodity business units and teams; so I'm actively trying not to be a commodity person that's in the crosshairs, I suppose - would be true in any company as I'm actively aware nobody has guarantees of job for life anymore. I've trained youngsters and off-shore replacement several times to take over my roles, and just had to keep swimming up to keep my head above the water :-)

- My 100 Turkish Lirae :->
Jupyter Enterprise Gateway graduates as a new Jupyter project
It's ironic/diabolical that SOP for a benefits provider is to deny benefits to their employees due to the horrendous healthcare/health insurance system.
> Is this what being a hipster feels like?

I hope not. I hope everyone, not just "hipsters", would have such strong preference for standard, time-proven, open protocols like IMAP and SMTP.
For instance if forced by law.
Now I'm wondering if they would have to make all of the salaries part of the court record if they tried using that defense.
No it's not illegal, in my not-a-labor-lawyer opinion. Just douchebaggery that should possibly be illegal. It's only undisputedly illegal if they refused to hire new devs based on age alone. Or if they used age as their metric for letting people go, but why would they do that, since they undoubtedly know what folks make. I do think though that this douchebaggery would have a disproportionate impact on older folks, just give years of experience = higher salary and all that.
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New Member here in the South Bay
Note that in this case it's conditional on Congress because Florida wants to move to permanent summer time, which, if we imagine that as of tomorrow DST were abolished everywhere else, would effectively put them in Nova Scotia's time zone ("Atlantic Time").

(I'm personally sympathetic; I live in the northeast US and I'd much rather go to work in the dark than leave work in the dark. Summer time or bust!)
BCAA are not zero calorie, contrary to popular wisdom, so you can't consume them during a fast. It's a regulatory loophole that amino acids don't need to be counted towards the caloric total.
Microsoft Managed Desktop lets Redmond handle your desktop devices
There seems to be a distinct lack of evidence that the veto powers are actually used, though; the backroom deals are alive and well?

A dearth of legislative vetoes: Why the Council and Parliament have been reluctant to veto Commission legislation
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2016/10/25/a-dearth-of-leg...

Legislative Scrutiny? The Political Economy and Practice of Legislative Vetoes in the European Union
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jcms.12252
Not quite true. First, some fraud gets eaten by the processor. Second, the merchant underwriter is on the hook for a merchant who goes bust before fulfilling what has been paid for.
I think these research based on hours is misguided and useless. What matters is production. Not everyone is in consulting milking billable hours.
Nuclear power does not play well with renewables. It's a steady baseload source, but solar and wind are highly variable and need something that can switch on or off to fill in the gaps. You can't turn on and off a nuclear plant throughout the day. So even though (ignoring disposal challenges), nuclear is a clean source of energy, it probably has no place in a highly VRE dominated future.
You left out a key bit of information: It's for Google Cloud customers with Platinum or Gold support.

Most GMail and Google Drive users can't see the access transparency logs.
Something I hadn't considered, but you're right, that'd be a right pain in the ass.

Sure, 3rd shift workers deal with this regularly, but they're a relatively small percentage of the workforce (in the U.S., anyway).
And the Hopi Nation that is an enclave in the Navajo Nation follows Arizona. That got really confusing when we drove the 264 during our holiday in our way from Grand Canyon to Canyon de Chelly.
I'd categorize crash course as "edutainment" along similar lines as Dan Carlin's hardcore history. The series doesn't really teach topics and skills so much as it presents information in an entertaining format. Not to mention , like Dan Carlin's shows, Crash Course often puts forth popular culture views of history that have are no longer accepted by experts (one example of the top of my head is the claim that Communist Chinese forces did more to resist the Japanese in WWII than the KMT, another was the Crash Course geography debacle that got the whole series cancelled).
Of course it would. School starts at roughly the same time as normal work hours. Most schools start a little before here to allow parents get to work after dropping off their kids.

You couldn't just change school hours in isolation without causing a lot of disruption.
What I thought was cool is that it was machine generated.
The risks are real (as we have seen) and I think they should be insured accordingly.
So the keycaps are 3D printed too? Or are they something like dye-sublimated PBT? Are they intending to use "mechanical" (e.g. Cherry MX compatible) key switches, or something truly retro but unpleasant like foam-and-foil?
This is quite surprising! I'm quite surprised at the fact that no one has thought to put tracers on leidenfrost droplets until now. Really makes you wonder at what other interesting phenomenon are happening in plain sight we've yet to notice. More practically it will be interesting to see if this work generalizes to other multiphase systems. In particular supercavitating propulsion, where you surround say a torpedo or boat hull in a layer of air so that it can move much faster in water. The problem of course becomes steering such things, which right now can be solved by having fins which extend out of the bubble. The importance of this work shows how you can get interaction between the fluid and the gas, so that potentially one could steer without need for fins that go out of the bubble. Although this phenomenon, may not be relevant over the scales at which supercavitating systems operate.
I second this, also if you're just skimming it, at least read the end.
Maybe not typical, but I take many trips where I am literally not available for at least days or even a week or two at a time. Before ubiquitous Internet, I took a number of trips where I was totally off-the-grid for a month at a time. Didn't work for small companies where I was the only person who knew something (though that seems poor planning in the event that person falls off a mountain someplace) but it's what I did.
People have been saying that for decades and the CC companies are as strong as ever. It's proven to be a great solution and remains the best user experience.
It depends. If they keep wintertime, that won’t happen
Because some times, when there's a way A and a way B, it's better if all are doing B, rather than some A and some B, even if A is better than B.
> They are benefitting because they are having their labor subsidized by taxpayers because they don't pay enough.

That's not a labor subsidy, and if it was the simple fix would be to make employed people categorically ineligible for federal benefits—we don't do that, because we know it's not a wage subsidy, and all the hyperventilating about it being a wage subsidy is (at least on the part of public officials and other people that know anything about policy) dishonest grandstanding.

(Now, work requirements in benefit programs do make them wage subsidies, because then the threat is “work at whatever job will have you or lose public benefits in addition to the marginal benefit of pay”; that's easily solved by removing such requirements.)
Note to the architect: this is irrelevant now to my reality. I let her go and won’t see her again. She will no longer be rendered in my reality.
Well you're not holding credit card details, so no there should be no need to worry about PCI.
Valter Longo's work has shown that fasting causes a destruction of immune cells that get renewed from progenitors (absent the autoimmunity) after the refeeding phase. The mechanism has been shown to help with an animal model of multiple sclerosis called experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis.

It's a very elegant, most likely conserved mechanism that may generalize to virtually all diseases of autoimmunity and not just multiple sclerosis. However, that obviously needs to be proven clinically before you can say that and it might take a while.

Also, the conversion of animal research to human has another challenge: rodents have a faster metabolism. To have any hope of recapitulating those type of effects, you really have to go a while without food.

There seems to be a more medically safe way of probably tapping into mostly identical effects though, which is a "fasting-mimicking diet." Ultra low calorie, fits a specific macronutrient profile.

Read the show notes for this episode or watch the video...
https://www.foundmyfitness.com/episodes/valter-longo-2
>>> I promise that Stripe is doing very well off their 3% charge.

I will tell you a secret. Stripe is not doing very well because they have a small volume of payments, all clients combined. A percentage of peanuts is peanuts.

I looked at them when I was working at a startup 2 years ago. The volume of transactions we were processing yearly was a 2 digits percentage of what Stripe was processing yearly across all their clients.

Needless to say, they're not adequate as a payment processor for any medium or large company.
It took years to prepare for the year 2000 transition. Is it really wise to make that transition within several months? There should be plenty of systems that have to be updated.
On top of that, if a board has utterly gave up the ghost and let the magic smoke out there's still a large market for donor boards, probably owing to the fact that they were such well built, documented, and repairable pieces of equipment.
I have a delayed circadian rhythm. Managing to live on time is already really hard for me. Changing the clocks twice a years for me means a few weeks of jetlag every year. I wish I lived in the EU.
Good thing they've got Watson. "Hey Watson we need to lay off X,000 employees but need to control for age." "I'll get right on that, Rose."
That makes sense to me. The company can't unpay your taxes for you, you need to do that (and there are many options to do that, which vary from underpaying your next estimated taxes[1] to just waiting for a larger than normal refund).

And if I recall, if your income increases a significant amount, you aren't penalized for underpaying estimated taxes, so there's ways to "protect" yourself (and also to not overpay).

But making your taxes correct is your responsibility, not your employers. Why would your company reimburse you for taxes that you don't owe?

[1]: For example, when I was interning, the "trick" was to set yourself as having some large number of dependents in the payroll tool. The tools assumed a year long employment, but as a fixed-term employee, you would owe significantly fewer taxes than the estimation. Careful massaging of the number of dependents was a knob you could turn to make your estimated taxes more in line with your actual taxes. This was, according to people I asked, legal as long as it wasn't being done fraudulently.
The maze example required a special shaped substrate to achieve motion, this work achieved droplet motion without a shaped substrate
Of course, we'd be long dead before that. There's plenty methane in the ocean to drive up temperatures before it combines with atmospheric oxygen (driving them up a little bit further in the process).
Mozilla advises: Restart Firefox periodically to workaround high memory usage
This is indeed a consequence of tracing. The problem is that traces are associated to loops in the program, and since the map function contains only one loop, all traces for map are associated to the loop in its implementation.

When you manually write a loop, there is only one 'body', so a tracing JIT turns that into a single or small number of traces.

For the loop inside of map, you need to produce side exits and new traces for each function passed in. The more times map is used, the slower it gets. This is made worse by the fact that traces out of side exits tend to not be optimized nearly as well.

Pycket has this same issue with its builtin (or hand written) looping _functions_ like map. Fortunately, Racket provides many useful looping macros which allows Pycket to generate unique traces for each loop, ameliorating this problem somewhat in Pycket.