skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've just gone through the process of selecting a new CI/CD provider, and I think GitLab CI is being let down by its tie in to GitLab.

I've heard great things about GitLab CI, but we aren't looking to move our version control and there doesn't seem to be a way to have hosted CI from GitLab without it.
Then it's still an interesting story because it demonstrates the creep of software like this. When you're vacuuming up all sorts of data there's nothing stopping that data being used for a purpose you never intended.
> Society has decided that undocumented immigration is harmful to it, it's as simple as that.

(Parts of) society have also decided that climate change isn't real and vaccines don't work. This is the 21st century, we could at least try having evidence of what the harm is supposed to be.
If you know th new place, you know the first rule of the new place...

A nice intro to superconductors
http://www.superconductors.org/uses.htm

the history of graphene, the "next best thing" since forever: https://graphene-flagship.eu/material/Pages/The-history-of-g...
(previous HN discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8751946 )
> It's this type of black and white thinking that is so poisonous to current discourse. There are many people that are okay with deporting illegal immigrants, as long as they are treated with some modicum of respect during the process, families are not separated, asylum laws are upheld, and children brought across the border at a young age that know no other place are allowed to stay.

Nothing I said contradicted any of that.
If you don't deport any undocumented immigrants, you have open borders. It's not a false dichotomy. It is the actual choice.
It's worth noting that nationality is a tool that can be used to justify imperialism.

Get enough people waving the flag and you can really take the quality of debate down a few levels.
You know, I always figured menial and low-skill jobs would be phased out first by AI. I never realized modeling might be one of the early casualties.
Clearly A's statement

I'm using contraception method X

could be true or false. If you are not verifying the truth of this statement, and have heterosexual intercourse with A, you are trusting A. How do you verify such a statement in practise?
They're honestly exactly the same provided you let them thaw slowly first. Forewarning, I once I tried freezing the eggs in their shells and they exploded all over my freezer. Would not recommend.

I don't eat eggs anymore, but when I did back in my bodybuilding days I'd have containers with raw egg which I'd dump into boiling water for my poached eggs in the morning. These turned out alright. For scrambled eggs or omelettes, putting them in the pan still frozen is a recipe for disaster.
Yes, good points. I think (but not sure) that the change from MS Office binary file formats (with their issues of being proprietary, undocumented, etc.) to zipped XML formats (for Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc.) came at the same time as when they added an "x" to the filename extensions, like changing .doc to .docx, .xls to .xlsx, and so on.

This was also probably around the time when there was that big public hoo-ha about MS XML formats vs. Open Office / Open Document formats. I had read some about it at the time, don't remember the full details.
> 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.

Government passes laws like that all the time. See: drugs and prostitution for two easy examples.

> In contrast, financial crimes, which often cause far more harm to society in both monetary value and trust in institutions, is far more difficult to enforce. The accused do have the means to a full legal defense, and they fight hard.

Financial crimes are actually much easier to enforce. Our system is designed specifically so that they are difficult to enforce. But that is a question of system design. Immigration is hard to enforce because of the fundamental physics.

But i'm not sure what this has to do with anything.
I really get the motivation. And id pay both convenience and money. But whats the business model, or why would the existing user data silo megacorps ever want to interoperate? Or is it just a new old third way of self hosting for the motivated minority?
The problem is that us here on HN can probably take the gamble on it and bypass it either by using burner devices, bringing devices which have been wiped and then restoring them from the cloud, or using plausible deniability encryption like you have. But 99.9999% of travellers to the US don't have the knowledge or access to these methods, so it's completely insignificant in standing up to the surveillance state that US is enforcing. It feels good to say "yeah but I know a way around it" - but the problem still exists.
Then what is enough then? Death?
Ya I guess. I mean, if they didn't have this Palantir thing maybe they'd have used Excel. But we've already sort of grandfathered Excel into the "tools taken for granted by civilization" so maybe that wouldn't have made the news.
Why don't you go to gay sex parties, if you want to have sex with men?

scnr
Please work on your reading comprehension. "Nationality", not "nationalism".
So thaumasiotes was sarcastic here

> Women getting together is fine. Not once have groups of women ever been known to rebel against the government.

I agree with the sarcasm. Women are generally less problematic than men but they rebel when it matters. Another example, Rosa Parks.
Worth sharpening up what a "border" actually is and what it means to be "open". Entry and residence are two different things, for example. There is also the "interior border" of work permit requirements, proof of social security entitlement, driving license, etc. Simply walking across the border does not make one an American.
Careful, we shoot the messenger these days.
Who said anything about forced integration? You suggested the idea of nationality was silly. If the idea of nationality has no salience, then there is no meaning to national identity and therefore integrating yourself into any other human civilization should be completely seamless.
I wonder if there is any good resources on hardware details for someone with a backgroud in applied math.
Whenever I find an article talking about cache/branch prediction, I find it hard to follow.
Hold on - I'm not defending Wakefield. I'm saying he did a lot more than falsifying data. The falsifying data alone would eb enough to strike him off, but he did a lot more than that.

> A doctor has to spectacularly screw up to get struck off. It's not done lightly. One obstetrician accidentally decapitated a baby during birth and kept her licence.

You're talking about medical error, and I agree you're right there.

I'm talking about dishonesty, and doctors (in England) get struck off for dishonesty relatively easily.

Mistakes happen, and can be remediated. Dishonesty is seen as harder to remediate.

No patient harm, but over charging the patient: https://www.mpts-uk.org/-/media/mpts-rod-files/miss-susan-li...

False expenses claims, no patient harm: https://www.mpts-uk.org/-/media/mpts-rod-files/dr-kirsten-te...

Failure to report to duty; not paying back a debt to the employer (no patient harm): https://www.mpts-uk.org/-/media/mpts-rod-files/dr-chokkaling...
Service Fabric.

Now, I happen to think Kubernetes is better, but you asked. Service Fabric was available to the public in 2016 but has been used internally since 2011.
Well, it seems we simply disagree about the meaning of basic english words like “border” here, so I’m going to bed.
Substitute nationalism for nationality and my statement remains valid. The difference between the status of belonging to a nation and ones self-identification with ones nation is not relevant, if my point is that culture is not necessarily related to nations. No reason to become personal. Especially if you are wrong yourself.
No because the pictures are randomly generated. You can control some things like age, gender, and in this case probably things like dress length, but there's no way to say "here's an item of clothing, make them wear this". At least not yet.
Totally agree. I'm even somewhat disposed towards arguments for open borders. I think there's a great deal of logic to the idea. However, I also recognize that there are some serious costs and considerations that would need to be thought through. And I think basically 100% of the people in this thread who are mad at Palantir over this have thought through precisely zero of them.
> Society has decided that undocumented immigration is harmful

No, it hasn't. The only reason the Dream Act didn't pass in 2010 was because of the Senate filibuster (despite Democrats controlling the House, Senate, and Presidency). The Senate, a wholly undemocratic institution to begin with, blocked the Dream Act with its effective 60% majority requirement for legislation.

In 2013, the Senate managed to pass a bipartisan immigration bill, but the Speaker of the House blocked it[1]. Despite there being majority support among members of the House. Why was it blocked then? Because of the Hastert Rule[2].

We should also ask: how did the Republicans have a majority in the House in 2013? Democrats received 1.4 million votes in 2012[3]. Yet, Republicans won because of massive gerrymandering[4]. Ugly, undemocratic gerrymandering.

So if the United States were a more representative democracy, most of the undocumented immigrants in this country would have had rights and freedom already. Even that hate-filled orange turd has become President despite losing the popular vote by 3 million.

Current immigration laws are rooted in racism and xenophobia of the ugliest kind. Grover Norquist said it beautifully: "Historically, opposition to immigration in the United States has been racially and religiously motivated in the ugliest, nastiest way possible"[5].

Pew Research studies have shown that the majority of Americans are pro-immigrant, and want to grant legal status to the undocumented[6]. Moreover, some pro-immigrant folk might still vote Republican due to wanting lower taxes, pro-life views, opposition to large government, etc.

The only reason pro-immigrant policy has not become the law is because a minority is allowed to dictate policy thanks to a bunch of highly undemocratic institutions and practices.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Security,_Economic_Oppo...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastert_Rule

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_United_States_House_of_Re...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering

[5] https://reason.com/video/grover-norquist-on-open-borders-and...

[6] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/01/31/majority-of...
Expectations.

People don't expect you to reply immediately to email.
In case anyone wonders why: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-27/gilead...
A lot of people think Marco Polo was the first European to travel to the far east, but in fact his father and Uncle at least had already been there and he travelled back with them. This sort of travel along the silk routes had probably been going on since Roman times at least, and if so why not the spice routes to India and beyond as well?.
> I just can't get behind the whole "abolish ICE" thing.

Not saying one way or another, but the argument is that ICE was only formed 16 years ago and that the U.S. was not 'overrun' before then. The Border Patrol etc. would still remain, just the Stasi-like tactics of removing people from their homes in the middle of the night and holding people in cages would disappear.

At least that's how I've heard the argument.
News previously posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19806373
It was actually already widely known thanks to the TTIP negotiations (see e.g. https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-ttip-fears/).
Show HN: Simpl – A minimal new tab extension for Firefox
[citation-needed]. Heck, I've gone as far as running Windows, a Linux VM inside, and running the old program in Wine: more likely to run that way than in Win10. I'm aware of all the impressive Windows compat work that went into keeping the Win32 ecosystem ticking, but recently (last ~2 years) this seems to have gone downhill.

In the long run, it always comes down to emulation, regardless of system (e.g. Win16 is no longer a part of current Windows). Perhaps ReactOS has some promise w/r/t old Windows executables...
Managing nested objects in Elasticsearch with painless scripts
How graphene is about to change your life
Ask HN: Internal Search for Enterprise?
Hey HN,

A lot of friends indicate to me that the organizations they work at have siloed sources of data and often find it difficult to find the specific information they're looking for internally.

My friends at VMware, for example, often use Google search to find their own documentation. Is there a service that provides integrations and a search tool, and perhaps even a virtual assistant for enterprise? I imagine the work is fairly scoped down as compared to general usecases and something impressive could be built.

I'm aware of tools like butter.ai, but they were acquired.
A nicer solution is to get a bag-of-pits, like magic bag. You stick them in the microwave to heat them up in minutes, they retain heat for hours, and there's no risk of spilling near-boiling water.
At least the calendar aspect of this has existed for over a decade. Similarly there are standardized protocols for handing sever-based contact lists and email and chats. Sure most of those protocols are crappy but you’ll just use a library anyway so that’s not an excuse. The problem is not on the technical side. Basically all the big providers have decided a walled garden is the best long term strategy and have been dropping support for any standards-compliant data sharing.

14 years ago I was syncing my contact lists from my personal server to a flip phone over vCard format (I think? Don’t remember exactly, but the contacts equivalent of CalDAV). Nowadays you either need to oAuth into Google or whatever other centralized provider a user might have, with whichever proprietary API they may or may not give you access to.

As with so many other things, a shiny new technical solution won’t change the reality that big companies are not incentivized to support interoperability.
(For posterity: and.. back to SVG. Shirley Wu's d3 courses are great!)
I meant it has been happening since the EU-wide regulation came out. London reaches the critical yearly level at the first weeks of January and only cosmetic changes have been applied. E.g. a 20-year-old, rusty diesel truck, that makes ~£500/day gets away with £12.5 fee instead of ban from Greater London. The actual polluters won't invest in newer vehicles, because the lease is more expensive than just £12.5 per day.
ok i will keep my opinions to myself from now on
It takes as much as 10 kilos of plants to produce a kilo of meat, so if you respect plant life the best thing you can do is stop wasting it feeding it to animals you intend to eat.

And yeah I do notice and appreciate plants a lot more since I became vegan.

This talk does a good job of addressing the common objections to veganism, including all those you have raised:

https://youtu.be/byTxzzztRBU
The outage brought down spotify, snapchat and others.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17552532
Hyperbole don't bring anything to the discussion.

The consequences was that he was ban from several services.
There is also a defamation lawsuit against him. That is how it work in a lawful society.

And whatever happen, yes mistake happen, and yes you can apologies. But nobody is obligated to forgive you.
I find it useful to answer questions such as this by turning to reductio ad absurdum. What would happen if absolutely all drugs were legalized? We'd probably see an uptick in addiction as well as an increase in premature deaths. I imagine soon after we'd probably see a call for regulation against more addictive drugs as people end up losing their life following one experience with especially addictive (or otherwise dangerous) substances, but the nation would probably not be changed all that much as a whole.

What would happen if we instead simply just removed all borders and let anybody and everybody in? One question that must be answered, to answer this, is what makes the United States what it is? Is it our geography, our resources? I mean they have to play some role for certain, but I think the overwhelming factor at play is simply us - the people. Our views, our values, our culture.

And of course views, values, and culture are not static. They change and migration can indeed help shape these views and values in ways that can be beneficial for all. But taken to extremes, as probably would happen if we simply did away with border controls, migration could end up not enhancing but instead simply replacing the views, values, and culture of the nation. This could be organic and it could even be carried out by hostile actors. China has a population of 1.4 billion. They'd only need send a small fraction of that over the US to obtain complete political control.

So clearly we need some sort of migration control, and deportation stems directly from this. Absence of deportation would not only reward unlawful migrants, but effectively punish lawful ones. It effectively turns into 'please don't enter unlawfully, but if you do - congratulations on skipping the queue, all paperwork, and costs - welcome to America!' In the process of trying to create a better world for everybody, you very much risk doing the exact opposite.
I'd say it's even simpler: Software as a Service is a lot easier to develop than software that a third party has to install: Integration of build pipelines that deploy the software immediately are a blessing for bugfixing and you can build an insane backend out of third party dependencies noone but you has to ever install and connect to each other.

I don't like the privacy problems this generates, but in a business environment I want my stuff to work for my customers, and that means I do the hosting.
Thanks. That makes perfect sense, I'd be very surprised if all the current plumbing was able to serve your current use-cases.

There's going to be cases where it sucks, e.g. what you point out with wanting both raw blobs and their diffs, you'd need to do that in two plumbing commands now.

But just on that example: Having poked at some of the diff code recently I can tell you there's no big technical hurdle to just exposing that sort of thing. I.e. spewing out machine-readable raw blobs and their diffs, it just happens not to be exposed now.

I think what a program like Sublime Merge would want/need short of C API access (which is unlikely to happen) is a git version of an open-ended "plumbing" IPC protocol of the sort that Common Lisp VMs tend to expose. I.e. being able to have one (or few) "git command-server" processes spawned, and ask them questions like "look up this blob" or "diff these two blobs" (where the previous blob lookup would be cached).

Obviously patching/coordinating/upstreaming those sorts of changes is going to take work, but so is duplicating and keeping up-to-date with the diff, pack, status etc. code.

I'm not trying to tell you what to do, just saying that the git project is definitely friendly to "we're a commercial product and need this missing plumbing for our editor" (unlike say, GCC).

The plumbing that's there now is mostly in the state it's in because it's what git itself needed in the past when it was more of a collection of shellscripts, as well as being biased towards what git server operators like GitHub needed (because they sent more patches), which is why plumbing for say batch blob operations tends to be better than the one for "status".

In any case it would be very interesting to have some post about the sort of read-only operations Sublime Merge is doing with its own custom git code.
We Must Fix AI's Diversity Problem
Interesting, but I really would love to see honesty and the drawbacks of the approach listed.

Saas software is not only an economic incentive, but also a UX win!

The user no longer need to update his software, you can deploy breaking changes (or security fixs) in seconds (as opposed to weeks, waiting that all users download the new release).

Security: the user no longer need to download random software from the internet, and a random malware on his computer will have hard time to access his online data.

I'm sure there is a lot more of advantages of the centralized model, but I feel it's unfortunate that they are never put under the light.
it doesn't help that the original topic is something that is specific to the US
We don't really need cure because this disease is mainly limited to gay guys who don't use condoms. So the solution is just to use condom. I don't understand why we waste so much money and effort on a disease which is easily preventable and affect such a small part of the population, mainly because their lack of responsibility.
> drugs and prostitution for two easy examples.

Yes, the other great examples where the amount of violence used might outweigh the actual harm, and the violence gets mostly used against people who might be considered to be the victims ...
Lost in the flutter of this discussion is Oath's absurd, borderline comical full-page GDPR notice that gets slapped on _every_ Tumblr subdomain. This was as much or more of a traffic deterrent for me than the content restrictions, which as far as I can tell were never competently enforced (but succeeded in driving off a lot of users anyhow).
Similarly one wonders how chilli peppers are so prolific in Asian cuisine, but were only introduced during the columbian exchange.
The changing career trajectories of new parents in STEM
And this is explaining why Tesla ignored more than century worth of automotive mass production knowledge again? Because they are a start-up?
The vaccine costs $0.01 per chicken. And no, that's not a typo. Labor is a bit more, but not much - it's done in bulk by spraying it.

Buy some here: https://www.valleyvet.com/ct_detail.html?pgguid=FBE23AC3-EB6...

$41.40 for 5,000 doses.
Creating MySQL8 Cluster from Existing Database
I find it frustrating how eager AI supporters are to dismiss legitimate concerns using the reasoning "Oh, well, it's always worked out before, I'm sure it'll work out again". What if it doesn't? And if it doesn't, it'll be too late to make changes and prevent suffering.
This is similar to saying books titled "Why ML is successful for image processing" or "How to meditate in a busy world" (both examples presumably don't exist) are clickbait because they state the question they are answering without the answer. It seems almost irresponsible to boil down an answer as long-winded as that in this article into a few words.
This makes me think about descartes' devil, if in such a short time we are able to generate fake bodies. What if we could generate fake people (not necessarily conscious but behaving as if they are.) in the future.

and with enough advances in brain/computer interfaces one could live a whole life without meeting a real human . In fact, in that case, one wouldn't even need accurate models since there would be no baseline to compare to.

Or maybe, we could implement surgical lenses that applies a filter on other people generating a fake person.

You can basically, eliminate _ism(s) in the workplace by making everyone look and sound the same.

People can pay to make their images in others' eyes different. Or one can pay to make their spouse look like a their true love in their eyes.
To clarify, HK$30k is around USD$4k. Is that monthly salary? That can’t be the annual salary for such an intense job in a city with a higher cost of living than San Francisco.
A common response to "full-on panic mode" is denial. Especially when it all seems inevitable. As this arguably is.
Abandon US for computer science conferences