skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I wasn't very clear about the split between my two sentences. Maven central runs a battery of tests on packages before accepting them into the repository, which I suspect would catch this kind of issue. In parallel, I believe NPM is genuinely a worse-run repository than those of other languages, because of their stance on those low-hanging fruit, even though as you say those low-hanging fruit are not relevant to this particular issue.
Right after college I worked with one of those stereotypical sys admins that were very smart, into IETF newsletters, loved Sun, etc etc.

He had 2 Solaris servers under his desk and I loved to listen to everything he said about them and Sun. Too bad his talent was wasted when his job was outsourced to cheaper locales, I mean RIF-ed excuse me.
When it will destroy their business if they do so.
Assange on one side and Sackler family on the other.

Eventually, the people rise up and separate the heads from the bodies of the Marie Antoinettes.
To illustrate how unnecessarily complicated and slow modern computing has become? You can still perform many of the computing tasks you do today on 50GB monstrosity OSs that take 3 seconds+ to start an application from and SSD.
I used to love my mac book pro. Sadly, it is not the same device which it used to be. The quest to make it thinner has actually made it a substandard machine. I feel Apple has lost a lot of developer love and brand capital since Jobs. I am hoping things would improve on the product front. Not all devs live in the US. For devs in developing countries, a mac book pro is a serious investment. We want a machine which is robust and long-lasting.
If things continue they way they have in last few years my next machine will not be a mac book.
> It's absurd

As someone who has paid a truckload of these taxes: I don't think it's that absurd. You're not double-taxed. And if you want to relinquish citizenship, you can.
Computer Scientists Who Made Computers Mainstream
It has to do with why Iranian IPs are being blocked by Google.
He was also only 16-17 years old at the time, completing an exam for university graduates.

EDIT: This was his second year, so he was 17-18 years old.

Also note this qoute: All in all, I probably only did about two weeks’ worth of preparation for the generals, while my fellow classmates had devoted months. Nevertheless, I felt quite confident going into the exam.
How many can keep affording expensive phones line iPhone X and planned obsolescence?
The most impressive thing about really smart people, to me, is how much they actually write down! I feel like writing is an underappreciated thinking tool. I should start doing it more.
IDEO competitor?

Why not just drop into a VP or C-role of such a firm than build such a company completely from nothing?
Can you tell a teacher that the demands they have of you do not match up to what they are providing in return?

Obviously not and that is the very skill that needs to be learned.
Yes, my tap water tastes bad so I buy drinking water with my groceries. I had about 7 gallons, which was definitely part of the decision.
> so "there is no reason to switch until we KNOW for sure"

Oh the painful memories that phrase evokes..
VB6
Colonialism tends to imply a shift of influence. A government bending to the will of foreign companies to keep their power. This is more foreign companies bending to the will of the Chinese government so they can keep their profits.
> I think this probably happens more often in other package repositories than we hear about it’s just that NPM is gigantic and people like to hate on JavaScript.

This is Hacker News... if other package managers had issues more often than the circus of errors that is NPM, we would definitely hear about it.

We don't, because NPM is qualitatively worse than all of them.
I'm trying to find an interview someone from Horseman Global gave with Real Vision sometime in the past couple of months that went into the percentage of profits from semiconductor companies that came from lines released pre-2000 vs after (not sure on the exact dates) but it followed the 80-20 rule.

And I don't think there is a lack of investment in general, just a lack of (successful) investment in companies that could use some of the newer stuff. Obviously they still have their R&D, but it means very little if they don't have successful (profits/revenue, not VC investment zombies like Magic Leap) companies buying their latest and greatest.

It would also have been extremely negligent of such companies to have ignored the monetary/economic security aspects regarding Chinese incentives. Last year, China imported about $270 billion worth of foreign semi-conductors, a lot of which came from the US or at least on US patents. Them solving that alone with a domestic industry by any means would increase their asset-liability spread to the USD by nearly 30%, and free up USD to put to work stabilizing their banking system.
Trustydns: DNS Over HTTPS proxy, server and query programs
Same applies to nukes, and now I'm scared
Yeah, but it's not ironic. Parties are fluid organizations, not internally coherent philosophies. And even if they were, people are allowed to rethink their ideas.
And also

https://github.com/denizyuret/Knet.jl

https://github.com/malmaud/TensorFlow.jl
Simple D3 Heatmap: Create Heatmap Calendars
It'd be because the original title exceeded the 80-char limit, so the submitter tried to condense it.
We have no reason to believe them.

They have a demonstrable history of lies and terrorist-style anti-democratic activities themselves for political and economic purposes.
I hope to see a follow up article in a few days about a flash mod dumping piles of spoons next.
And managing the JIRA queue!
Really? How? What? Where?
I honestly have no idea in what case / field the Chinese groups are miles ahead of anybody else in terms of genetics research. And I'm doing a PhD in the subject.

There are excellent groups in all countries, but in terms of superior tech on any side, I have not seen any.

There are great companies that facilitate genetics research, but the best tech in that case still is American (Illumina, Affymetrix, 10X genomics).
> Install Linux on it if you don't like Windows.

this is why :)
When discussing matters of states acting very much in the same vein as Nazi Germany, of course the Reich is going to come up. How can it not? Fuck Godwin's law. If people are acting like Nazis, you call them fucking Nazis. And then you punch them. That's how we make sure those kinds of atrocities never occur again.
RMS has been warning this for a long time https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
I've been looking for something like this. I really dig the aesthetic. Great job!
Visit it. While you sitll can.

It's an amazing country. A price of "more paperwork to enter the USA" was an absolute bargain in my book.
of course the NSA would not hide something that makes them look bad and show us what makes them look good... /s
A lot of this is Personnel (HR) trying to increase their status in my opinion.
While true, that is incredibly irrelevant to any current evaluation of fairness. It seems to reward an unreasonable start state for no reason.
What about the indigenous peoples of the present US? Did they choose freedom?
Debugging AI Bias: Margaret Mitchell (Google Research and Machine Intelligence)
Whats the marketing term for "practically unlimited for normal usage patterns"? Because I think that's what they are after here in marketing.

The majority of the population will use these "unlimited" plans/products in a way that they never realize the limit. However there is always the outlier person that sees "unlimited" and is basically using the product at the max 24/7

Its much easier to say to the avg joe you have unlimited X instead of. Choose from the following 27 plans depending on how much a,b,c,x,y,z you need or even a you only pay per x of what you use! The avg person isn't going to even know those factors.

I think "Unlimited(asterisk)" marketing is here to stay for those reasons and if you are the minority power user then its up to you to read the asterisk
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=gay%20agen...
2001: Linux is cancer, says Ms. 2019: can we join the official Linux-distros ML?
Have your friend checked with a lawyer? Because I have serious doubts that is legal in the EU.
I'm a billionaire with a better idea than a wealth tax. Use money to create jobs
I'd urge you to open it up sooner rather than later, since you state that it is your intent to open-source the code. There's no harm in declaring that it's alpha/beta quality, and also no harm (indeed I'd regard it as a strong positive!) in being strongly opinionated about the direction you're taking it.
But the battery life could be better if they would just keep the size and weight the same. How many people wouldn’t be willing to have a slightly thicker/heavier laptop for more battery life?

But battery life is good in ideal situations but when you start doing anything CPU/GPU intensive, battery life isn’t that great.
Validate product idea with landing page: CTA button to download or to sign up?
Hi!

I am currently working on a product idea and I want to test in the market whether people would actually like it that much that they would actually use it.
Now I designed a landing page (www.zuster.me)and added a download button which is not really downloading the app. This is my conversion indicator.

There is also the common practice to have an "early access" signup feature instead.

There are not that many discussions around the question which of the two works better to validate an idea. What are your thoughts? Also happy for any readings on that topic!

Thanks!

Fabian
Serious question - Has this trade war actually helped any U.S. industry?
If Chinese manufacturers infringe on patented technologies, then it will be easy to ban import of their products. If they don't infringe and make something innovative then there is no problem. Having more competition is better for consumers.

Also, as AMD entered the deal voluntarily, it means that it was considered profitable despite the risks.

And I don't see the problem with building a supercomputer. Is it a privilege that shouldn't be available to developing countries?
It is.

Client:
https://github.com/aws/aws-ec2-instance-connect-cli

Server:
https://github.com/aws/aws-ec2-instance-connect-config
> They have their own system for handling alleged copyright violation that has little to do with the DMCA takedown procedure

That system is such a scourge. No fair use, no distinction between different countrie's legislations, no appeal.

If you make an educational video, no matter how much effort and skill you put in, if you use some musical excerpt or images or scene, it doesn't matter how short it is, or what you're using it for. Your video will be "claimed", and any add revenue you used to have will go to whoever owns the rights to the excerpt. And if you didn't enable ads, the claim will do it anyway.

I wonder what happens when you use 2 excerpts from different major copyright holders…
This is a highly idealized view of journalism. There never was the era that you describe.

Only some journalists are (honest) investigative journalists. Most journalists are not investigative journalists.

There are even some journalists who write exaggerated or even untruthful news stories. Quoting from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism :

> Yellow journalism and the yellow press are American terms for journalism and associated newspapers that present little or no legitimate well-researched news while instead using eye-catching headlines for increased sales. Techniques may include exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering, or sensationalism. By extension, the term yellow journalism is used today as a pejorative to decry any journalism that treats news in an unprofessional or unethical fashion.

The term 'yellow journalism' is over a century old, so it isn't like it's a new practice. It's also called 'tabloid journalism', and it continues to this day.

As a case in point, Watergate involved felonies, and "resulted in 69 government officials being charged and 48 being found guilty".

The Whitewater controversy, despite three different inquiries, "found insufficient evidence linking them with the criminal conduct of others related to the land deal". (Both quotes from Wikipedia.)

As such, the Whitewater controversy is better known for the controversy - which can be influenced by yellow journalism - than any underlying criminal or even ethical/moral issues.

I think Scahill's "Dirty Wars" - critical of Obama's foreign military doctrine - and his further criticism of Obama's pressure to keep Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye imprisoned - would have been a better example of solid investigative journalism against a recent Democratic president.
Tech incubator Station F ‘putting France on the map’
I know it's about relevance. I'm making the unpopular argument that these ancient works aren't really all that relevant, and definitely aren't profound. Simply because something is old and was the first to do something, doesn't make it important.

We have our own culture now, we spend far too much time worrying about what the dead did with their limited free time.
The solution is to form cooperatively owned, democratically operated, companies.
Ask HN: Is this a security concern on the Atlassian single sign-on?
If you try to login to [1] Atlassian with an email that isn't on their system, it will present a signup form.

[1] https://id.atlassian.com/login

Doesn't that mean someone could run through and check if accounts exist for certain emails, then try a bunch of commonly used passwords... or worse run through leaked email/password combinations...
Sony called it i.Link
I believe NPM is at least an order of magnitude bigger than every other package repository, for what it’s worth.
Local map apps would probably fare much better.

Can't speak for Greece, but I've had a really analogous experience in Czech Republic - as a city dweller, I've used Google Maps for all sorts of things around Prague without issue. Once you move past the Central Bohemia region, however, the data gets just as spotty and unreliable as you described. Mapy.cz saved my ass and has impressive detail even in quite rural areas (then again, OpenStreetMap is frequently much better than Google Maps as well.)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-intelligence/germ...

Though I don’t trust this. I guess, this money will be accessible only to companies having dedicated departments writing grants (like the big car companies) and it will be wasted at the end. This country should start immediately increasing salaries in research institutions and stop that nonsense with many many 1 year contracts for scientific staff.
I highly recommend checking out Mark Zuckerburg's new podcast "Tech & Society". He's discusses in length the approach they're looking to take at Facebook. It's genuinely a really entertaining listen.

Obviously don't take everything of what he says at face value and realise that it is without a doubt a public face, but the topics he's approached and guests he's had on to debate him have been fantastic and engaging thus far (including: Jonathan Zittrain, a specialist in tech law from Harvard; Mathias Dopfner, the CEO of Europe's largest news publisher; Yuval Noah Harari, the author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, etc; and Jenny Martinez, the dean of Stanford Law). It's made me see him in a much different light then that of his uncomfortable public speaker persona.
From the article:

For home users, unfortunately there isn't a simple solution for preventing this type of attack, until or unless Apple releases a macOS security update to mitigate the vulnerability. Cavallarin describes a possible temporary mitigation (opening /etc/auto_master in a text editor and adding # to the beginning of the line that starts with /net).
Didn't know, thanks, i should ask if I am wrong about her father, though she has italian citizenship and she was born in Teheran, that was the reason for her being kicked out from the bank, that's what i know for sure.

Just to restate, i'm quite sure her mother is iranian and i thought her father is italian because in Italy ius sanguinis law is the rule, so one of the parents should be italian born to get the citizenship from birth, if i mixed up the nationality of both parents is me being dumb, so thanks for pointing that out.
Exactly this. I pay for Netflix, YouTube Premium, Amazon Prime, and BT TV. Recently all of my friends were talking about Chernobyl. It's not on any of these services (Sky TV exclusive in the UK). I take pride in paying for my entertainment and software but I'm not signing up to yet another streaming service just to watch a 5 episode miniseries.

So I torrented it. Same goes for the movies that I can't legally watch any other way.
Google maps simply does not know what it's talking about.

I never rely on it or any GPS.

One time in Martinique, it sent me down a road that had been closed for five years.

I bought a Michelin printed roadmap after that, it showed that the road in question was closed!
Everyone should watch the Louis Rossmann channel before lionizing, much less even saying anything good about modern MBP's they don't seem to understand what's been lost and what sucks. It's not been a long-lasting product for at least 5 years:

- the batteries are glued in, making them very difficult to change

- there's no locking slot

- GPU goes out

- the unencapsulated (motherboard) is very susceptible to any humidity, which leads to corrosion

- the JTAG shorts out traces

- the keyboards are crap: noisy, fragile and have to be ripped out violently with pliers

- display cable goes out

- no availability of official replacement parts

- no official component-level repair leading to unnecessary e-waste and unnecessary charges

- no longer has MagSafe

- thin, bendable and fragile

- extremely overpriced

- overcharged for repairs

- denied data recovery when it's possible

- community of unrealistic, brainwashed, tribalist fans who lack perspective and criticism

I have a Lenovo T480 which is 10x better than a T490. Snag one while you can, because it's totally ruined in the name of drinking Johnny's brand of Jonestown KoolAid.
The point is if you see a captcha you can actively decide not to use it. If the website has no such box then you can't decide not to use the captcha
You use Google to find a paper with a title that sounds like what you're looking for and then if it's on arxiv you read it.
Indianapolis is about to start a new electric bus service along a new line called Red Line:

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/transportation/201...

They are facing problems though with the range etc. So be interesting to see the long term result of this project and I'm hoping for the best. This area desperately needs better public transportation.
This is Hacker News... if other package managers that HN hates had issues more often than the circus of errors that is NPM, we would definitely hear about it.

We don’t, because HNers hate NPM the most than all of them.
You get USB c cables that are magnetically attached. Works well for tablets. Not sure if it's a good idea for laptop wattages though
A story I heard about Dickens was him landing in the US and finding his latest book already in print there, unauthorised.
> I can't imagine anyone trying to apply this logic to any field other than literature.

It's about going obsolete. We don't teach people how to use an abacus anymore, or even write in cursive.

I'm not saying there's not a place for history, but it's time to stop fawning over things that happened 200 years ago and focus on more modern things.
Not even that - what if they're bought out by another company who doesn't share their philosophy? (EA?)
But it gets very difficult to never declare your place of birth, which, as mentioned by the OP, can be the same problem as having an Iranian passport.
Ah, but Iran already chose freedom.

Unfortunately, they decided to use their freedom to take control of the oil in their country.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...

"The 1953 Iranian coup d'état,[..], was the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favour of strengthening the monarchical rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on 19 August 1953, orchestrated by the United States [..] and the United Kingdom [..]"

"Mosaddegh had sought to audit the documents of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), a British corporation (now part of BP) and to limit the company's control over Iranian oil reserves"
Yeah, I don't know why npm defaults to including everything in the folder for the production build instead of having it be a whitelist. It's not that hard to specify "include package.json, package-lock.json, and ./build" in your package.json.
I'm a bit skeptical there is a bubble as defined in the article as "when the market value of assets decouple from their intrinsic value and expectations of rising valuations generate investor demand." As a speculator where are these soaring AI stocks for me to punt on?

By the way you can read the article with a trial account from O'Rilley but there's not much too it beyond what's in the summary https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/learning-to-love/5...
Without a GUI: How to Live Entirely in a Terminal
JetBrains Released Their Marketplace
Very cool idea, and the founders have a way to realize their equity as well.
Tensorflow has pretty poor documentation. Looks like you've been reading the higher level stuff. It's pretty easy to make custom layers and such with tf if you read some of the source. Though, honestly, numpy might be the simplest method to create a custom layers inside an architecture. If you use TF 2.0 this is simple because it doesn't even have to be part of the graph, per se.
You’re just using a broader abstraction to define the original problem. This usually doesn’t help solving or understanding problems in general (you end up with general statement as « it’s wrong », which frankly doesn’t lead to anything).

As an example, it would be interesting to know if relocating to some other country, or give up your nationality solves the issue. In the case of racism, it wouldn’t for sure. In this case, i don’t know.
Surprise, surprise, the military-industrial complex is destroying our planet. How people can still support this is beyond me.
Actual followup article is here:

A giant sculpture of a bent, burnt heroin spoon, which was illegally unloaded in front of the Stamford headquarters of Purdue Pharma in June [2018], was placed temporarily in front of the Massachusetts State House on Friday and given as a gift to the state’s Attorney General Maura T. Healey to thank her for her leadership in the state’s fight against opioid addiction.

https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-news-giant-heroi...
> I just cannot understand why China building it’s own jets is a problem.

Even if China building its own jets isn't a problem, China building jets based on US designs (acquired through Israel IIRC) is a problem. That expensive design process was underwritten by the US government - i.e. by the taxpayers - to achieve the strategic goal of maintaining a certain balance of military power. If those designs then end up in the hands of our rivals, then the taxpayers' money was totally wasted.

BTW this has nothing to with whether the strategic goal is valid, whether that money should have been spent, etc. My own answers to those questions would tend to be negative. What I'm getting at is that having the designs leaked or stolen destroys even what value might have existed in the minds of proponents.
Don't use a router for a critical circuit paths.
Related: http://blog.rongarret.info/2015/02/31-flavors-of-ontology.ht...