skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Making people sleep in cages

> There was a spike in the number of illegal immigrants in the last few years, facilities were swamped. This was an unfortunate but temporary measure.

It is still going on. It is not okay.

> It would be more irresponsible to just release people into the country without establishing their identity, criminal history, or a suitable guardian (for children).

They are not keeping people until they "established their identity". There is not a process where they keep people asking for asylum locked up only until they establish their identity and no longer, that's just not how it works.

These are weird excuses for taking people fleeing danger imprisoning them in truly abominable conditions, for the sin of asking for asylum.

"These things" are happening because the government intentionally decided to treat people asking for asylum _as bad as they could_, in order to discourage people from doing it, and look good to those who just want to treat them bad. This is all well-documented. It was not some kind of forced hand, the level of asylum seekers and other migrants was not substantially different from the past couple decades. Whether it was because of "white nationalism" I suppose depends on what was in the hearts and minds of the decision-makers, but it's pretty darn clear they consciously decided to treat migrants like animals (worse than you are allowed to treat pets really) and it is disgusting, and it is TERRIFYING to me that so many Americans like you think it's okay, because if it's okay to treat anyone like that, why couldn't any of us be next?

We are setting a terrible precedent on the international stage for how people fleeing danger are treated. That's a lot of false confidence that nobody we know will ever be in that situation. More and more of us will be though.
I give what I can, when I can (and when I remember!) to OpenBSD and Wikipedia (not directly OS, but close enough), but that usually ends up about every couple years.

OpenBSD because I use it primarily, and its always felt like they get the shit end of the giving stick despite their contributions and commercial use
I'd rather have some local backup of my photos, documents, conversation logs, emails than trusting Dropbox or Seafile to always be available to me. Even if I'm using a cloud backup it's still "a thing" to keep local backups, even if it's just for the speed of the restore.

A multi-layer backup strategy with local snapshots, TimeMachine, cloud backup seems like a more sensible approach.
Excellent points. For many reasons, economists are going to have to give up their fixation on 2nd-derivative metrics sometime this century.
What do you mean 'thus your question'? That's the first question everyone has, why would you ask it in an irrelevant chain of replies to someone who wasn't commenting on it in the first place?
Those mangeled protons are not anti-protons. They are not stable but only a Proton with damaged outer shell (the one that breaks at 5 MeV). Get it stable like the Proton and we talk again.

When real antimatter gets destroyed it looks like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Jupiter_impact_event
It's heavily team-dependent. I was on a team at Google where I was the only American citizen, with teammates from Iceland, England, Vietnam, India (4), Taiwan (2), and China (2). I was also on a team where there were basically zero non-citizens, and most of my teammates were from places like Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, etc.
The words you use have an effect on how others feel and how they're perceived. The word "illegals" can have negative connotations, and it's a dehumanizing word.
Heat radiates in all directions by definition.

It is theoretically possible to direct it to some extent (at the cost of raising entropy elsewhere) but it would require massive effort for no good reason.
Why? You only need more productivity than is needed to sustain the entire population to allow people to retire or have pensions. We already have that and productivity will only continue to increase because of technology.
The wording of this article makes e2e encryption seem bad and icky, which is a little thoughtless or the author
I recently set up Restic to backup my server to my local Synology and it was actually surprisingly easy. Before that I was using Duplicity which broke after a while and it all felt a bit more tricky to get going.

Documented it a bit here, mostly so I can go back and copy / paste commands if I have to:

https://blog.notmyhostna.me/backup-cloud-server-to-synology-...
Maybe everyone's read it already, but William Gibson's Neuromancer is a classic.
You’re right. One can’t assure that won’t happen unless you can ensure that every outgoing packet hasn’t been tampered with inside your computer. But that problem can also be tackled as part of a solution to reduce risk but not eliminate it.

How about simply using a new style of webcam that uses a physical shutter when active? Any reason I can’t go on amazon and buy one? Are these illegal?

Sadly you’d want analog push button switch on mics only. Latch as well ok if done securely.

You could jump through tons of hoops to minimize risk for the above but given the complexity of a typical computer, most won’t have a chance as you noted.

If you whitelisted all your activity and took the other precautions noted (and if you have clean hygiene) then it would be much more difficult for your strong adversary as your nation state would need to own your box remotely. And it is possible to defend against that sort of thing. Yes if you just have indiscriminate traffic coming and going, defense becomes astronomically more difficult.
> employees on a visa simply aren't going to speak out.

I know many people with visas that are against illegal immigration. Don't assume that everyone who's not from the US hates ICE and supports unfettered immigration.
> Although the language itself doesn't guarantee that the value is not used again after a move, good static analyzers will provide a warning in that case, so it can still be safely used.

Not soundly. Such static analysis can be trivially defeated using e.g. virtual methods.
Deep Sleep May Help the Brain Clear Alzheimer's Toxins
For the confused: this is about Apache Spark, not the Ada-based SPARK language. [0]

Perhaps I'm alone here but I'd prefer the title say Apache Spark explicitly.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_(programming_language)
That was one of the alternatives that I was thinking as well :)
No this is not relevant. Physical resilience to birth control is incredibly unlikely because the vast vast majority of people are born due to incorrectly applied birth control or with no birth control at all (including purposefully of course). Most forms of birth control are extremely effective and our bodies have very limited abilities to evolve past them (especially condoms). Fitness is resilience to birth control offers no practical advantage.

The desire to have kids is a social / cultural trait. We have plenty of evidence that it is fluid over time and changes with economic opportunities and whatever. It is very hard to maintain cultural cohesion in groups as they get larger. Even the Mormons would break ranks past some critical mass. The drop in fertility rate is due to changing culture and economic incentives. We have tons of data to support this and more of the world is headed in this direction economically and culturally.
> there seems to be people that are smart and yet still believe one race is more or less than another

then they aren't.
> I hear it is difficult to surveil through books.

Unless if you swipe your library card.
> How does a regular convnet do on another domain?

As far as I know, regular convnets have failed to outperform query-key-value self-attention models (i.e., transformers based on Vaswani et al.'s work) on pretty much every sequence task, including natural language tasks.

> Learning to do “reverse graphics” is only useful if you can show it is the reason behind performance improvement.

I would strongly disagree. Building systems that can learn "reverse graphics" on their own has long been a goal of computer vision. It seems a prerequisite for building machines that can build internal representations of the state of the physical world around them. Hinton et al.'s 2018 paper has a summary of recent efforts on this front on the "Related Work" section.

> What I’m saying is - no one has yet demonstrated a clear superiority of any capsules based model to the best available plain convnet.

No one is saying otherwise. :-) Convnets are still the right tool for most production systems in visual recognition today.

That said, I don't think a convnet can achieve 99.1% accuracy on smallNORB with only 272K parameters, after training from scratch without using any additional data or metadata of any kind -- like the model using my routing algorithm. If you think you can do that with a convnet, do it and put it up online (I'd love to see it :-)
Occasionally I ask what the world would look like if we had a web browser that was designed from the first to be testable. Would e2e testing be simple and repeatable?

I could just as easily ask the same about databases, or dozens of other tools in our toolchain. Makes me wonder if there's space for something like SQLite and testable.
This one:
https://www.amazon.de/Basic-Structures-Matter-Supergravitati...

Never could have come up with such a brilliant theory, took me a year to understand it. Now I understand 137 ^^
> The Windows team measures the quality of new software builds by scrutinizing 20,000 diagnostic metrics based on data flowing in from 800 million Windows devices

One of my personal metrics for the quality of the software I use is that it doesn’t send 20,000 metrics back to anybody.

Manjaro and Ubuntu have been good for everything but gaming
Is that apathy, or trust? The reason politics is quite samey is because our system is set up to generate more centrist politicians that the rest of the world. Mandatory voting and predictable seats gives a good idea of what the populace actually wants and cares about without having to beat down the voter's house to get voters to vote. The swing voters matter more and are a much smaller proportion, building a bunch of stability into the system.

When abbott and turnbull came to a political fight old-gold liberal voters turned against the party in a way that basically never happens. The voting population cares, blaming it on apathy is to interpret silence as a negative outcome when it is not.
NPR 2009: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112167...

CBS 2010: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8xTJ8WCGNU

Forbes 2015: https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2015/06/05/obamas-im...

The Nation 2007: https://www.thenation.com/article/what-america-owes-its-ille...

NY Times 2015:https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/magazine/the-unwelcome-re...

Brookings Institution 1996: https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/why-separate-legal-illega...
> The planet and its resources has a finite carrying capacity.

And we are nowhere near reaching it. Increase in economic output with population increase is what matters.

If you have people who can't earn a living and die from hunger, it's bad. If you have people who can cook porridge out of an axe, that's good.

Loonie idle intellectuals from places like Club of Rome are first to point "let's sterilise Asians," like as if they don't see that Western material consumption was bigger than that of all "dreaded Chindonesia" combined.

Remember, those loonie first dreamed of those Malthusian horrors long before even agriculture in the West was doing well, and their prime imperative was to plainly get more resources for themselves.

I do not doubt that when we will hit the feared "Malthusian runaway" at 40B-50B people, planet's economic output would be so great that people would have hard time imagining how nutrient scarcity ever been a thing, and we will be able to "simply throw more petawatt-hours" at the problem.
Ask HN: How secure is chrome's V8 engine?
Question: How secure is chrome's V8 engine?

Another question: Is there a consensus on weak points in V8 that can be mitigated on the client side?

Background: I used no-script and other alternatives for about 10 years, but stopped around 2015 due to tedium and other malware mitigation strategies. I'm assuming tracking remains an issue.

I'm unfamiliar with javascript engine internals but have found [0].

I've seen spectre based attacks and a few responses, primarily [1]. I've seen specific attacks [2].

Along the way I've found [3] and compared with [4]. These appear to be product based, as opposed to the Javascript engine specifically.

I'm hoping for an overview of current attacks and V8's security and/or comparison with other client-side browser Javascript engines. A survey paper or link/blog would be great.

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[0] https://github.com/danbev/learning-v8

[1] https://security.googleblog.com/2018/07/mitigating-spectre-with-site-isolation.html

[2] https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1224/product_id-15031/opec-1/Google-Chrome.html

[3] https://www.cvedetails.com/product/15031/Google-Chrome.html?vendor_id=1224

[4] https://www.cvedetails.com/product/3264/Mozilla-Firefox.html?vendor_id=452
Context-Aware Machine Translation
I know what you mean. Guess a helpful analogy for some might be to consider two objects of one class. Those objects can be instantiated with identical values, but they are, in fact, two different objects. They occupy a different, physical space and can be differentiated by that. Same with two identical copies of a person. Not the same space, not the same consciousness. I'm not sure why some overlook the space part in all of this.
Malthus was a while ago - what leads you to believe the planet now has an infinite capacity for humans?
This assumes a non-destructive copying process _and_ a mandatory destruction of original. Those two things might not be easy to reconcile.

A destructive copy is strictly more feasible (as far as such things are feasible at all). But it comes with a possibility to print copies once the reading is done. Then you can get multiple clones made and they will be you, but will start diverge from each other right away due to slightly different experiences.
Can we detect tiny amounts of blackbody radiation? Not that such a sphere would release tiny amounts, but I'm curious about this as well.
The referendum was totally out of control. I will always condemn the violent response of the police that day, but the referendum was a total nonsense. You can easily find images of boxes left on the street and people "voting" without any control. And the counting (and whole organization) was done by those who wanted independence. You cannot trust those numbers.

There were regional elections on December 2017 and the independentist parties put together got 70 seats of 135 (less than the 72 they had before). More recently, in the elections for the national government this April, they only got 22 seats of 48 (some of the independentists refused to participate in Spanish elections after declaring independence, but turnout was still very high, more than 75%). The independentists never talk about these numbers, only the 90%. And I think that, many of them, seriously believe they are the 90%.
How Many Digits Of Pi Do We Really Need?
There's a sync_all method that will make sure all data and metadata is written or else return an error. This may be used at any time, not just when closing the file, and it is expensive so it does make sense to have a separate method for that case.
Why would a racist care enough to specify the legality of their presence in the US? That doesn't even stand up to basic reasoning.

'Illegal', while possibly indelicate, gets to the root of the immigration discussion...people sidestepping the process of lawfully entering the US because it's too difficult for them or too slow for their circumstances or just impossible because they are ineligible.

Saying that everyone that's against illegal/unlawful/undocumented immigration to this country is also against immigration in general and is racist is a grotesque abuse of logic. Take a poll of people that took the long road to get to the US, I'm sure you'll find lots of 'racists' there.
Stripe (2,000 employees) is not really comparable to Microsoft (144,106 employees) when the context is corporate issues.
the site isn't blocked in China yet. Don't see proclamations like that often here without a VPN.
Facebook set a dangerous precedent with NSO
Mint MATE. Quite spartan. The Gnome part is more or less Gnome 2 and quite minimal. I cut down the panels to just one thin (24mm) strip at the top, and most that is filled with just my everyday launch-icons, date, and desktop switcher.

With my daily back-up, and a couple of scripts, I can completely re-install my system from an absolute disaster to up-and-running normally within about an hour or an hour and a half.
This isn't how I was expecting to be offended on HN today.
Including the author of the article!
I Left My Dream Job as a Product Manager at Twitter
I, for one, am not calling for perfection. But conditions inferior to those we hold convicted felons in for people who have been convicted of no crime are unacceptable. I don't think every country in the world is doing nearly as poorly as the United States is right now, but even if they were, as a citizen of the United States, I care a lot more personally about the legacy my own country is leaving behind.

"We're doing as good as everybody else" just isn't good enough when you're one of the richest countries on the planet. You can afford to be held to a better standard.
Taking care of the elderly is a labour intensive business. Automation doesn't clean an old person's glasses (real life example), make their bed or cook their meals.
http://archive.is/9pIAh
Of course, it did. It was only a matter of time. My surprise is that it happened so soon.
> It's a good time to actually be a founder right now. Too many people just want to sit around and write checks.

I’m uncertain about this. Clearly , not having money is bad but is too much money in the hands of founders really good?
It's obviously the small noisy minority. Most people don't have any expectation that their employer should have anything like a coherent moral vision; they just want to do their job, get their paycheck, and go home.

Even names on a petition don't mean much - the kind of people that like to solicit for signatures on petitions are often so insufferable that you sign to make them go away and leave you in peace.
How’s that different from selling weapons to them, though?
I'm same and same.
When we accidentally took a double booking for the same place, booking.com demanded that we arrange and pay for equivalent accommodation for the booking.com guests. That is what we did, I do not know what would have happened had we refused to do so.
There's a fairly active Slack attached to his Self Driving cars MIT course which covers his podcast too.

I'm not going to link directly, but Googling will find the invitation link.
Who fucking cares about swearing? Fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck
Based on my limited experience, Power Pivot has a maddening lack of smooth integration with Excel. Power BI is a separate install, I believe, so not currently an option.

I'm stuck with Office 2013 for the time being and can't upgrade or install anything. If I could use anything, I'd probably prefer to go back to SSRS. Maybe Informatica, or OBIEE or something.

I'm biased by spending so many years writing SQL, but I found it extremely cumbersome to do basic things in DAX even after I figured out how, and haven't seen any obvious advantages. But I do know for a fact that software newer than 2013 adds some crucial features that would make it better.
First Common Core High School Grads Worst-Prepared for College in 15 Years
> If you can pay, you can publish on Facebook

That's not true for Facebook or any other advertising platform. These platforms have entire sets of policies on what ads they will or will not run. Some restrictions are legally mandated, while others are based their own internal standards (i.e. they won't run blatantly racist ads even though they aren't technically illegal).

The decision to run political ads regardless of whether they contain lies is a specific choice they are making, not something that emerges from a universal principle of access to paid advertising.

And it's Mr. Zuckerberg's right to choose that route, as CEO of his company. But it doesn't absolve him of criticism for making the decision the way he did, whether from Mr. Dorsey, or a random nobody on this forum.
The "first name, last name" fields are worse, IMO.

- It doesn't apply for many cultures.

- The only justification to collect them separately is to link with third-party data.

- They should stop playing around and just ask me what they want to know, "How would you like to be addressed?"
At the present time only one chunk of matter in the universe behaves that way;

How do you know this is true? How do you know there isn't a John K Clark-ish person in Australia or South Africa or Alpha Centauri?

What does it mean to say there is a John K Clark-ish lump of matter in Alpha Centauri, why is it useful to say that matter is "you"? You can't meet it, you can't share stories with it, you can't experience what it experiences through spooky action at a distance effects, you can't feel full when it eats, you presumably wouldn't want your spouse abandoning Earth and going to live with it instead, you presumably wouldn't want it spending out of your bank account; in what useful way is it "you" just because it's a similarly patterned organisation of matter?

If you relax the accuracy in the organization a little, is this any different from saying "your twin sibling is you" or "all humans are the same person"? And if you don't relax the accuracy in the pattern, where do you draw the line? Isn't that a bit of a joke to argue that all "similar enough" people are you, while carefully and deliberately excluding every candidate until nobody counts in that group?
Huh? GitHub’s company culture has been described as toxic way before they were acquired - not at least here. The problem seems to be exactly that they’ve managed to preserve that. Kudos to the employees speaking up though!
> Overbooking airplanes means someone might be stuck sitting in the terminal for hours.

It also might mean you miss getting somewhere in an emergency, like visiting a loved one before surgery. And it also might mean you miss things you couldn't miss, like a job interview.

One of the worst memories of my life started by missing a flight (and it wasn't my fault).
Do changes to reservations not have to go through AirBnB already? I feel like they should already be able to audit accounts that change reservation details often.

Disclaimer: I have never used AirBnb so I have no clue how it all works.
> The big difference is that "illegal alien" really does refer to a person simply existing in a country they are not supposed to be in

Correct, I have no issue with the term: "illegal alien"

> shortening it to just the adjective "illegals" works

in a derogatory manner
Ask HN: Options for Publishing a Book Online
I sell my novel as a PDF but would love to have it available with chapters and highlighting online.

Medium doesnt have enough formatting options, Google docs looks cheap...
isnt this survivorship bias?

he started CDBaby in 97. He was 28. He lived this "rich" lifestyle all of 6 years. He also went to Berklee College of Music, which wasn't cheap. He's lived almost 88% of his life with money and 12% without.
Writing this comment as I 'actually run it and wait 20 min for it to complete.'
As long as there are immigrants, there's an easily exploited working class.
I'm sure most people have fine experiences, but this is more than just "reporting negative experiences". This is a probably super profitable scam, and I'm sure it's not the only one, since there really aren't performing any sort of checks on hosts or properties.
Not much harder than with a take-home challenge. Either’d be tough to do convincingly.