skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not misleading, entering the country without authorization is quite literally against the law.

You are conflating immigrants with illegal entry. There's no problem with legal immigration.
Show HN: ELF2deb – easily package any executable as a deb
At work we prefer to distribute software as .deb packages in a local deb repo.

To automate the packaging process a bit, I created this software:

* https://github.com/NicolaiSoeborg/ELF2deb
A cute dog is dancing in video
Just watch this video and try to control your laugh
http://bit.ly/2ZK1XVs

See how a Turkey saved the life of his friends
Even those birds also have love in their hearts
http://bit.ly/2WhAiZS

Sometimes our feet smell are so bad even we feel ashamed due to our feet smell
Now you can get rid from this just follow this simple method
https://zoomtips.blogspot.com/2019/04/Smelly-feet.html

Guy made world record
He drive car on two wheels
See his video how he is driving
http://bit.ly/2ZOYaWX

See the friendship between cat and squirrel
That's so cute see how much they are taking care of each others
http://bit.ly/2VdHs4E
Not fingerprints, just facial biometrics from the photograph (UK at least).
It's called "spring". In Alberta there is a weather phenomenon known as the "chinook" that causes rapid melting of snow and ice.

The CBC is a propaganda outlet of the Canadian government, in case you are not familiar with the news source.

Is it true, that 20000 years ago, most of Canada was covered by glaciers? What man caused actions led to the warming back then?
She was the “queen of the mommy bloggers”
Why aren't there articles about big bad tech companies providing software which enables the control over the flow of goods at commercial ports?
I didn't have to give any biometrics away when I got my passport last year.
Absolutely.

To go a little bit more high brow.

Imagine being able to go through all the Horizon documentaries. Or the Open University Stuff.

What about being able to watch political discussions on joining the Common Market.

Quite why most of this stuff isn't viewed as a public library that we have the right to access, I don't know.
Perhaps Google, Apple or others have a product opportunity here: build a pre-border crossing full phone archive process. You pump literally everything personal to the cloud before you go, leaving a limited core of anonymous functions working, and then when you're back on a network in the arrival county the phone recovers the content.

It's not that much of a leap beyond current capabilities as switching to a new phone is quite like this when most of your files are cloud based, it would just need to take all the local files/settings and figure a reliable secure way to ensure only you got access to restore the content (preferably in a way that you can't easily be forced to apply at the border, so maybe a geo fenced reactivation element to it?) Keeping certain large files as "home country only" and not restoring them when "in country" could mitigate the volume of data needed to transfer.

Obviously is not going to appeal to people who don't trust those companies either but would be less easily abused than an in-person search of your phone by a dodgy border guard.
The article seems very UK-centric.
As citizen of another coutnry living outside UK I would love to try to subscribe to BBC IPlayer. I think I would prefer it over Netflix, if the price was the same / similar.
One wonders how much carbon dioxide USA lawns take from the atmosphere, and to what extent USA lawns postpone the dike that Miami will eventually need around its city limits?
I did a trial in 2018 and liked the product a lot. There were some simple metrics like "does a developer commit code every business day" and "how long do your PRs sit waiting for review". Other more complex things they produced from the git log were statistics about churn (how often you touch the same code), and new code vs. refactoring vs. bug fixing.

Overall, I thought they handled the "you can't make metrics for developers" type objections fairly well. To get everyone on the dev team engaged and thinking about their metrics seemed like too big of a hurdle given the cost per seat of GitPrime.
When the porn ban was being implemented they were saying for creators to upload their content to them (art etc), which seemed odd. They're really been following this for a while.
Well, they open sourced it as a bit of a gamble when it became apparent that they couldn't afford the programmers to run it profitably as a business, but if I squint I can see where you are coming from. OK, here's a harder one. Explain the business case for TempleOS.
Palantir Said It Had Nothing to Do with ICE Deportations
SA preexisted Bayesian filters by a year. Bogofilter, a Bayesian classifier, was inspired by Graham.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/bogofilter/bogofilter.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_SpamAssassin

Spamassassin's Bayesian classifier credits Graham.

https://metacpan.org/release/Mail-SpamAssassin/source/lib/Ma...
I'd hazard that the lack of nation vs nation wars over the last 70 years has led to a misunderstanding of what a "sovereign government" is primarily supposed to do.

Control it's borders, territory, and exert monopolist force / rule of law in that territory.
Even in your ideal experimental scenario, the laws of probability state that before the 10,000,000,000th such study is completed, we will see a case where the findings turn out to be incorrect.

We learn by experience, and we build weightings, and both our gut reactions and careful conclusions are simply the ones which win the confidence ratings. Logic may be an exception by virtue of it's mathematical nature, but any facts involved are not, and we fall back on judgement calls most of the time even when we think we're being logical.
The same article later states

> "We're basically capturing that picture at the boarding gate, providing it to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They're identifying the traveler," Farrell said. "It's actually the U.S. government that's implementing the biometric matching system that does all the hard analysis and crunching of the data."

So I'd say it's more likely that it is CBP who has the database (and not JetBlue).
>This is not right. We don't make arrests just based on harms to society, we also consider ease of enforcement and likelihood of winning in court. Governments generally don't pass laws that are impossible to enforce, as it hurts their credibility as a source of power.

Which is inconsequential to the parent's argument, as arresting illegal immigrants does not fall into that category.

>As a result, some types of crimes that cause far more harm to society go entirely unpunished, where easy targets face the full weight of the law.

That happens all the time, yes (actually there's an ancient quote about this "Laws are like spider-webs, which catch the little flies, but cannot hold the big ones").
This is not always true.

My last company had at least one client lagging behind by about 100 releases.

I think it was browser compatibility and their internal enterprise firewall.
The Chromebook’s user partition is read-write, and the system is read only (save for updates). The “powerwash” factory reset just wipes the user partition. The OS restore (if you can call it that) is not stored in boot flash, just standard data/nvme disk.

If you wipe the whole disk, you still need to use a bootable restore USB to restore it.

This has nothing to do with the fact that it is UEFI booting.
> Germany's attempts to move to renewable power have largely failed, but it does show large scale economic measures are possible.

I keep reading this, yet nobody bothers to actually explain how it supposedly failed?

> France demonstrates that a switch to nuclear, if others choose to go that route, is viable.

France didn't "switch" to nuclear, in the 70s they spent $330 billion of public money to build their nuclear fleet.

Since then the reactor fleet has been aging, due to a lack of private investments, and a lack of funds for decommissioning is also a very real problem, not just for France [0] but across to the EU [1].

Which is one of the reasons why France is also considering to phase out nuclear reactors, at least in part [2].

[0] https://www.powerengineeringint.com/articles/2016/04/france-...

[1] https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-europe-nuclear/eu-short-of...

[2] https://www.france24.com/en/20170710-france-hulot-could-clos...
More expensive - maybe, depending on how good you are at managing runaway costs.

More work - definitely not. No matter how hard managing your AWS workflows is, bare metal will always be all that same work plus everything else related to hardware, cooling, power management, ISP and more.
I think the best example to consider is the tobacco industry. Smoking is by any measure a scourge on society. Untold numbers of people have suffered and died because of it. Healthcare systems haemorrhage money they don’t have treating conditions that basically don’t exist without smoking.

The tobacco industry pulled every trick in the book to maintain their own interests. Society spends even more money on public messaging, education etc etc to try and reduce smoking rates.

Do we want more of the same, but with social media this time? They do us harm. The rule is we do not let anyone make money by doing us harm.
> The only real barrier is cost.

I feel like this could almost be a slogan for the human race at this point. Our grasp of science and engineering has reached a level where's there's very few things we might want to build where we couldn't conceivably do it. We could build the most outlandish megastructures, infrastructure and space bases if we really had to, but it all just costs too much.
Families are separated when citizens commit crime. This is a vastly overblown issue that seems to be overtaken by emotions than any rational discourse.

Also surveillance and other dynamic defenses are needed to keep a safe border. What would be the alternative?
I've same problem, it's now less bad with Quick Charge and Powerbank combo but still bad.
You might have better luck if you were to expound upon the ways in which you found the content to be mediocre and how it might be improved rather than personally attacking the author for what you perceive his motives to be.
Well, if I ever meet this Legender guy, I'm gonna kick his ass.

You can tell him I said that.
Clearly I have some reading to do. Thanks for the breadcrumbs!
Sure, but I'd differentiate somewhat between "open-source software", (i.e. ESR) and "free software" i.e. RMS. Which is why I did not use FOSS, but free-software explicitly. Maybe it's even better to narrow it down to copyleft only.

Open-source is not at all concerned with what's ethical. It's free-software made corporate-friendly. Free software certainly is a bit different, if you for example look at the sort of campaigns the Free Software Foundation advocates for, there's a lot of political campaigning that has to do with ethics.

You cannot reasonably restrict software for 'no evil use' as that definition is subjective and open to abuse, but the FSF is definitely more concerned with software ethics than the OSI.
Azure is currently experiencing DNS issues in all regions which is actively causing downtime for my GitLab repos[1]. Whether it feels like advertising or not, their numbers seem to support their claims that GCP is more reliable.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19812919
Secret backdoor found in networking gear perfect for government espionage
Why do people say go straight, when they mean go forward?
A Rogue Coder Turned a Parking Spot into a Coworking Space
The concepts and numbers and letters describing them are perfectly ordered.

H0 H1
alpha beta
Type I Type II

Because error is negation of truth, you get H1 result with Type I error.
> And many of the things you've declared as "innate" aren't even obviously such

I think your argument against my claim hinges on this belief, and I think it is pretty plainly incorrect.

If you have specific arguments against any of the things I have listed being innate, let’s have them. Otherwise, without that lynchpin, the argument against the discrimination boundary of innate/chosen falls apart.
Interest? Very few people care to build medical billing software or crms for free in their spare time. So you get products that aren't as good. Even with blender, there's far better paid tools because people need money to live, so they put their efforts into things that make money.
This mistakes the purpose of school. It’s less learning than childcare for primary school, socialisation and teaching children to do apparently boring and meaningless work as directed by superiors, and ranking and proof of intelligence and conscientiousness at higher levels. We’ve known most people forget almost everything they learn at school for a very long time and spaced repetition and the forgetting curve date from Ebbinghaus (1885) while mastery learning is probably older than writing though the name dates from 1968 and the earliest unambiguous instance of the concept dates from the 1920s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting_curve

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastery_learning
> You generally need borders if you want some from of universal heath coverage for example, that's not disputed.

Do you mean that the US can't afford to give universal heath coverage to everyone if the entire world migrated in or is there another reason?
But purging the content meant 30% of their users left literally overnight.

Those users probably consume some safe content.
Well, to private providers anyway. The preference for most things seems to be huge multinationals rather than small local companies.
The migration decision publicly announced months before Microsoft announced they'd buy GitHub?
If only we would've reached and saved Usenet in time. A lot of the current web is a bad proprietary replacement of it.
Maybe if they didn't send letters masking as police enforcement trying to bully you into paying for tv license you don't need, people would be more welcoming towards using their product.
I don't think it's just Americans, and in the case you cite, people were completely justified in their skepticism. The reddit account was apparently created for that single AMA post and had no activity before or since. The company he allegedly went to, Beike Biotech, was notorious at the time for using various forms of astroturf and deceptive advertising to promote its unproven stem cell treatments by testimonial, a problem that is rife in stem cell marketing. The Chinese government ended up cracking down on domestic cell therapy clinics in 2015 after years of ineffective enfprcement measures, which would be a very unlikely thing to do if it had faith that local hopsitals had developed an effective treatment for spinal cord injury.
If you wanted to sell them for general use you'd need to get the government stamp of approval on interference testing.
There's also a matter of whether a nation prioritizes its own people over foreigners that e.g. want to be immigrants.

If it doesn't (at least to some degree) then it doesn't make much sense for it to exist as a sovereign nation (in the trivial case, everybody could come in that wants it at anytime).

If it does, some discrimination and sending back of illegal immigrants is inevitable.

The situation is a little trickier for the US though, because itself is a hodgepodge nation made up of immigrants (were most conventional nations have a larger degree of homogeneity). So it can't in good faith say "no immigrants" (at best it can say, "no more immigrants, there's enough of us already here").

(Of course those immigrants first got to exterminate the natives and get their land, so the origins of the US is not exactly a success story for peaceful immigration...)
Lagos Will Not Court You – Novelist, Chimamanda Adichie Talks Living in Lagos
I'd put IBM and SAP as outside chances. The Red Hat purchase makes perfect sense for IBM: they're buying a competitor which has deep roots in the enterprise. Gitlab is less so.

On the other hand Google is in a struggle to catch up with even Azure, so Gitlab looks attractive as a foil against Github.
When the number of people who want to live in your country is more than the number of people in your country, border control becomes a necessity.

I'm an Indian national and have traveled extensively. The amount of border control in every country I visited was directly proportional to its economic status. The poorer a country is, the easier it is to get a visa for it, because everyone wants to live in richer countries
Measles and the Anatomy of Containment
$18,995 for a all-electric car is an amazing deal. It's got really incredible range (EPA rated 238 miles) for the price point. The other all-electric car at this price point, the VW e-Golf, has a mileage of 125 miles.

238 miles is close to the Tesla Model 3's EPA rated 250 miles. Here's an EPA comparison of the Bolt, Model 3, and Golf: https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?action=sbs&id=39786&...
Why is it interesting?
Because people are more interesting than goods, and software that controls the flow of people has more immediate repercussions...
Utterances: Lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues
I guess we can say they "got it" in regards to how bad a brand name "Oath" is.
>The panel found that Dr Carl had put a body of work into the public domain that did not comply with established criteria for research ethics and integrity. In any event, it considered that the poor scholarship of this problematic body of Dr Carl’s work, among other things, meant that it fell outside any protection that might otherwise be claimed for academic freedom of speech.
> Families are separated when citizens commit crime.

There have been reports of families being separated right as they cross the border. Is that the criminal act you're talking about? Because it in no way justifies separating families in my book.

Also, deporting migrants who were in the US since they were 5, know no other country but the US and now they're being deported say 30 years later, when they have families here etc. is another example of an inhumane policy.
I already do this. Wipe my iPhone just before landing. Hand over the phone at customs. When they see the welcome/configuration screen they know that there isn't anything on the phone so they don't have to investigate. When I arrive at the hotel I connect to WiFi and restore an iCloud backup.
If you don't watch broadcast TV and don't use iPlayer for anything but radio, then you can ignore those letters. Whether you own a TV or not is irrelevant. I own a TV but I only use it for Netflix etc. A chap from the TV licensing people came to my house and I told him we don't need a license for those reasons, and now we don't get the letters any more.
Thus advertisers are our adversaries!
There is also the huge advantage of not having to install anything. It's already hard enough to convince my friends to switch to any open source videoconferencing in-browser solution, I would never go through having them install a whole application.

"No install" is a major selling point, unfortunately.
I worked on a product sold in the financial industry, and we wanted to ship it with a built-in 3rd-party debugger. The execs complained, so we had to buy and repackage the debugger source as "debug utility".
It is numbers: if the cost of servicing those users in a non-safe content is X, they are worth it only if the revenue received from them in a non-safe content Y is either ~X or > X.

Unprofitable eyeballs leaving decreases the losses, making a business more valuable.
Vs. cryogenic superconductors is a radically different phenomenon.
It's an article about a UK company in a UK newspaper. Look at it in that context.
Ask HN: Why do/don't you market your SaaS through affiliate networks?
For my side projects, I was wondering if it would make sense to market the project through an affiliate network (i.e. through voucher codes or click tracking)

If you have tried that route, what are your experiences so far?
Border walls exist already, as do searches, and they are very effective you fascist swine
> Pablo Jarillo-Herrero is channeling some of his copious energy into a morning run, dodging startled pedestrians as he zips along, gradually disappearing into the distance.

Can someone please write up TL;DR about the actual science without the details on what kind of coffee did the author sip while taking the interview?
> Even in your ideal experimental scenario, the laws of probability state that before the 10,000,000,000th such study is completed, we will see a case where the findings turn out to be incorrect.

And yet by means of statistics one can model the errors, and obtain an experimental measurement with 10 significant digits.

And, guess what, it agrees with the theory! Ten. Significant. Digits.

> Logic may be an exception by virtue of it's mathematical nature, but any facts involved are not, and we fall back on judgement calls most of the time even when we think we're being logical.

That's not how Science works.
In CS related fields, in particular ML and CV, this is absolutely not the usual situation except perhaps in the beginning of the PhD.
Perhaps it's more common in fields where the research is done on top of a heavy investment in infrastructure/equipment that is lead by the professor, e.g. in physics and biology?
Choose the right sized steps.

Like for a new programming language: Tutorial > first example project > first meaningful addition to something existing > a small valuable first project > a project where you initially are a bit out of your depth but figure it out after reading the docs and asking around

Choose the steepest slope you can manage without giving up. This means sometimes giving up a project because you misjudged the slope, but that should be the exception.

I'm currently diving in to deep learning, I'm not sure yet if I'll make it. But I got an Idea and I already found some baby-steps that will be a lot of work as a noob, but should be doable for me. My biggest challenge is the width of the topic here, ranging from data acquisition, over math, actual deep learning, deployment to a production environment, web stuff for a front-end and so on.
Competition is good and I didn't know IBM had a bare metal offering.

(you might want to put some sort of contact method in your profile in case people want to reach out to you)
I believe Capita are still mostly responsible for the letter-sending – and unfortunately I suspect the bullying tactics work.

[0] https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/about/foi-about-tv-licensing-A...
So I take it that island at the far east of the map is Japan?

Its interesting how they thought the Nile came from Asia. And what's with Scandinavia missing?
> The experiment, conducted on anesthetized rats, may help us understand brain injury better

Maybe anesthetized rats process stimuli extremely differently, as the brain tries to determine location of input
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Not saying its right, but they have so many fingerprints of non-criminals. Anyone who has served in the US military has their biometrics and fingerprints on file. Jobs with children (teachers, daycare workers, church child care people) can and do require fingerprint-based background checks. Gun carry licensees in most states also require a fingerprint-based FBI background check as part of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System pre-screen.
False {posi,nega}tive
Type II? error

just 2 chars...........
I believe the moral question was asked much before AI brought realistic looking characters to the world. See this for example: https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/14/us/child-pornography-writ...