skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of those resources only cover text-heavy books in paperback format. i currently write an astronomy book (many high res images and illustrations) in a large A3(ish) format. the whole process is completely different.

for example:

- you should NOT let a third party print the book for you without any control over the quality of the final product. amazone print on demand does a decent enough job with paperback text books, but should probably not be used for printing anything else.

- unfortunately there is no real (OSS)alternative to CS software like illustrator and indesign when it comes to actually creating the book. yes, you CAN do it with other tools - but if you want to keep your sanity, DON'T. ( I tried and ultimately gave up on the idea of using anything but adobe software....)

- color management is a nightmare. prepare for some real headaches when the first test prints come back and everything that should be "100% black" comes back in different shades and color variations of dark grey.

- if you want any layout-heavy book to be easily translatable into different languages, plan for it from the get go. text like small info-boxes underneath images tend to vary in length a lot from language to language. some languages produce much longer texts than english, others are more compact. this can become a significant problem if all your layouts rely on character-perfect text placement and fixed lengths.

- binding techniques vary from one printing company to the next. it is advisable to choose a company early on, so that you can adjust your layout process accordingly. a simple change to color management, paper format or line characteristics can become a huge problem, when you have to change dozens or hundreds of embedded illustrations.

- you dont need amazons print on demand at all: most printing companies let you put in a small initial order (like 200 books). sell those first, then use the money to order more. margins are great if you actually publish yourself, so you can easily scale up your orders without risk of financial overextension. if you do it with the same company this should not take longer than 2 weeks. that kind of response time is totally acceptable.

Edit: I should add that this only works for books with a high retail price (like 50+ dollar)
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You have seriously confused things, the EU copyright law isn't targetting YT, it's targetting all platforms that users are able to publish their own content, so you really aren't left with alternatives for content creators to switch to paid by Patreon supporters or not. Even Hacker News is targetted under the law and has to pay link tax when linking to content. So you should reconsider your nonchalant attitude.
> many of whom are Fortune 500 and government agencies

The new market, for SAP, would be academia.
> Germany wasn't attacking their home

There was some fighting in Africa, since Germany had colonies there.
Anyone who has a Mac should enable Time Machine and sync to an external disk. Or multiple ones. Connected to multiple servers. On more than one continent. ;-)

I never had a drive failure (one that was making funny noises was moved to a server so it could be tested until it failed and continued to work for more than a week of tests and it's still going today - I guess it didn't like being moved) but I had more than one laptop stolen and that alone justifies that kind of paranoia.
Now that other ISP would advertise Googles /24's, it doesn't help.
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It seems to me content of an event should respect causality: an event simply encapsulates the time and context something happens without any info about how it is going to be interpreted semantically in the future by the event processing components, one would be able to resolve any of the issues. The design needs to respect separation of concerns at the info level.
China Telecom is the 2nd largest domestic broadband provider, and the 3rd largest mobile operator, in China.

Lots of people live in China.
Nvidia researchers make it easier to train robots to pick up stuff
I come from a village in Punjab that has a memorial gate (not big on cenotaphs here 50-60 years back, so we build a memorial gate on the road that leads to the village - a practise that Sikhs follow from long) in remembrance of ~120 Sikh soldiers that went to World War 1. The stories that elders told me were about how British imperialists manipulated and threatened young Sikhs into signing up to become cannon fodder because they had quotas to be filled for village to village recruitment. Elders also told how British respected Sikh traditions to the hilt, they understood and had good amount of research corpus of the traditions too. This is why you will see in photographs, Sikhs in Turbans and carrying the holy scripture, Guru Granth Sahib on their head leading the procession. One negative effect was that Sikhs being minority, the population decrease especially young ones, had a detrimental effect later on while India was partitioned along religious lines. Sikhs could not save their most fertile and irrigated plains in Sialkot to Sahiwal belt (present day Pakistan) and were forcibly uprooted and forced to give up their own farms. One positive effect was that after partition, the returnees were able to save countless people from organised massacres along religious lines. They organised village defences, provided logistic know-how and were able to arrest quite a grim situation among the chaos.

Sadly, all this literature and memorial diaries are in Punjabi vernacular. Hopefully as new generation grows up, more of these stories will surface in English language. Also, there is marked difference between reporting of same story in Punjabi newspaper and in English newspaper of the same newspaper group: Punjabi newspaper of the same group reports situation more accurately while English newspaper biases it against the Sikhs and even edits direct quotes. So hopefully these stories will surface in either western sources or independent media with correct editing procedure and relevant checks.
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They are already solved, or at least safeguarded against to a highly useful degree. If you try to withdraw all of your money at an ATM, the ATM will say "no, that looks fraudulent." If you try to transfer your savings account to an unknown individual, the bank will say "no, that looks fraudulent". At worst, bank transfers are sent to people with verified identities, which makes crime hard. If you do this with crypto, it will say "ok".

If crypto is the main currency then it will be tied to your physical identity, because you will "use" it- and whatever medium you're using to convey that payment, be it a QR code on a physical card or a phone app, has significantly increased risk if lost or stolen or forcibly abused.

Much of the benefits of crypto for non major financial transactions can be solved with cash and a shady hoody. But laypeople still use banks, because what they really want is risk reduction, and for 99% of the population, banks provide that.
Oh, you again? This time crying about a neo reactionary who has consequences for his actions? You poor, poor put apon white men. We should all hold a protest so your marginalized voices can be heard.
I've had the same handle for so long, it's almost like my real name. The two are now so entwined that it would be hard for me to be anonymous as Jaruzel. So much so that a few years ago I just gave in and openly linked the two.

I rarely have a need to be anonymous online, and when I do, I do create a throwaway alias. i.e. i'm active on Twitter, but not as me. That place is WAY too toxic to openly tweet under your real name.
Fair enough, but you can't really trust what's posted as video/photo evidence these days:

https://youtu.be/Fm8FJ8la2VU

I'd go for sworn affidavits with independently verifiable credentials for things like this. Dr Greer has collected thousands of data points on this topic, however.

(Perhaps you haven't watched the 3rd link posted above, which is >1.5hr interview with a Richard Doty from OSI whose job it was to discredit/cover up/investigate all of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShZMgbXNSBs

Also, the news wouldn't get out anyway:

"So, every news agency, every television and radio station in the Albuquerque and Santa-Fe area had our snitches in there... we paid them good money" 1:24)

edit: added relevant quote from doco.
If you were really hustling, it shouldn't have taken years. A hustler like myself could have done it in months.

/s
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The paper states for the main result:

>In this section, we show gradient descent with a constant positive step size converges to the global minimum with a linear rate.

This is rather ambiguous: it sounds like it guarantees "it WILL converge to the global minimum, btw at a linear rate" but I suspect they are really saying "IF it converges to the global minimum, THEN it will converge at a linear rate" in a way to purpousefully sound like the first statement.

could you comment on if GD does or does not find the global minimum of the integer factorization cost function in the following comment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18439287
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We'll all laugh now but come the incessant infomercials (I'm guessing 2-3 years) and interstitials it won't be so funny.
Its just astounding how similar all these stories are.

Maybe having the machine just switch on to BASIC alone was enough to get people involved.

I remember telling my mom to upgrade to a iPad, and she asked what the difference was. She didn't really understand the benefits. The PC also had a browser, it also had netflix etc.

Finally, I told her there wasn't this long power up time. You just switch it on and it is right there, and it sort of clicked.

Once she got it, there was no going back.

That initial power on state -- to a graphical interface, to BASIC -- is just so compelling.
I had a similar problem and something that really opened my mind was to realize how angry I was. I was just an angry man waiting for the world to change in order to satisfy my needs. I read one book that completely opened my mind, probably one of my top self-therapy - Beyond Anger by Thomas Harbin

https://amzn.to/2RPEtcQ

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From the article, it wasn't China Telecom who made the initial misconfiguration - it was a small ISP in Nigeria. China Telecom just accepted their BGP update and rebroadcast it.
Could this be a not so subtle middle finger from China to the US? (considering the recent political turmoil)
Cosmism over Spiritualism
The cephs are better suited to space travel owing to their ability to survive cryogenisis, replication of their memories and intelligence throughout their bodies, no need for gravity, ability to breed i large numbers and transmit information to offspring. Hominids are a peculiarity of adapting to a given planet, where the cepholopods are adaptable to more common environments in the universe.
A dance that unites South Africa
Pray tell, why on earth would detecting porn be easier than copyrigtht infringement?
Goldman Sachs Bankers 'cheated' Malaysia Over 1MDB: PM Mahathir
4chan on holiday.
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[..]I think tech companies may have something to do with it too.
These companies basically create massive book assets (and income streams) without requiring much capital, or being capital constrained.

John Van Reenen talks about this in this paper [1]. He has been looking into how and why the giant companies have been concentrating all power in their market : Amazon, Google,...

His hypothesis is that to become a giant company you used to need capital to buy the best factory and the best machines but that nowadays to become big you need to have the best version of intangible capital : proprietary software, users' data,...

Markets become winner takes all and this creates the rise of "superstar companies". To become a giant company you can't just dump money at the problem anymore to build, say, a new factory. The only way to dominate search is to have Google's tech along with users and the data they generate. To become a retail giant you invest heavily in logistics and inventory control management.

This has several consequences :

- You don't need to borrow mass amount of money to become big.

- Changing the interest rate doesn't have as big as an impact as before (if you don't need large amount of capital to grow big, making money more expensive won't prevent companies to grow big).

- wages inequality rise (the few workers that produce the intangible capital in the have high wage while wage become stagnant for the rest)

[1] Increasing Differences between firms:
Market Power and the Macro-Economy http://mitsloan.mit.edu/shared/ods/documents/?DocumentID=504...
I think we have to distinguish computer science from engineering here. Computer science is a branch of mathematics, where theories are developed and results are obtained that in principle remain valid for ever. Think of theories of computation and complexity theory, but also logic, probability and so on.

Indeed, the observation that some Unix utilities have their roots in the seventies misses the point in this regard. I'd say this is a testament to the success of the unix approach or whatever you want to call it. It's not really about computer science.
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Maybe what needs to be fixed is our concept of copyright.

We've spent enormous resources creating a miraculous machine that does one thing: it makes unlimited copies of any information and distributes it all over the world, almost for free. But we can't use it to its full potential because we're stuck in a mindset that dates back centuries.
I find people's short term memory and myopia in this area to be amusing. Not to say that oversight and regulation aren't sometimes needed (probably more often than we get them in the US), but still, we should take a step back every now and then.

I see a lot of people fretting that companies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon are becoming so powerful that they're crushing their competition and taking over entire industries, and they just can't be stopped unless the government steps in.

Most of the companies people are wringing their hands about today effectively didn't exist 20 years ago. Back then it was another set of companies that were unassailable monopolies who were going to take over the world and rule with an iron fist for 1000 years, ruthlessly crushing all their upstart competitors.

And in another 10-20 years, no one will be concerned about Google, Facebook, and Amazon, and they'll instead be screaming bloody murder for the government to break up the otherwise-unstoppable companies X, Y, and Z before they destroy all that is good in the world.

Yes, yes, I know..."this time it's different!"

So it goes.
Getting a .dev domain
Well, everyone in some degree is selfish and narcissist.
Does this mean Atlassian products will be quick(er)? Perhaps they should concentrate there if not.
Don't you mean a Commodore pirate's story?
Someone who is left-wing economically? Are you just asking what values qualify as economically left-wing?
Ditto for the RU

Russia is only 55 miles from the US.
If I understand your question, you're asking about adding functionality to a webapp to make it feel like a webpage rather than enhancing a page to add new features. The best two examples are actually mentioned above.

1. Using history.pushstate to intelligently add to page history for meaningful changes to the page. This ensures pressing "back" in your browser is still reliable.

2. Using server-side rendering on the first render. This keeps SPAs fast while the payload is being transferred.

Regarding Wikipedia's definition, that's a more broad definition than I'm used to seeing (speaking as a web developer). I've always heard it in reference to falling back gracefully from Javascript - usually with a <noscript> tag.

Supporting mobile, weaker networks, accessibility, etc. fall into much larger categories. Many of these topics require their own discussion and best practices.

Those topics are of course still important today (if not even more so).
So, what would be an effective way of making censorship impossible?

I imagine a system where you publish news using your device (a mobile phone), and encrypted in a way so that only a small group of other devices, which you have explicitly trusted in an earlier step, can decrypt it, allowing only them to trace that the news came from you.

Then those trusted devices will decrypt and re-encrypt the news in such that they can forward it with only their trusted devices. When a device receives news from another, then it won't know whether the sender published that news, or is merely forwarding it.

Because all communication between devices is encrypted, a device can not be confirmed to be using this system, except by a device who he trusts.

When a device is compromised, he will only be able to see if another device is part of the system, if that device has trusted him. Also the compromised device will be able to read news shared to him, but he won't be able to see what device that news originates from.

To make sure that readers can filter news based on what publishers they like, there is the concept of a publisher.

Apart from news, devices can also share publishers. An publisher is a name plus public key. The creator of the publisher has the private key with which he can encrypt news (even before it encrypted for sharing), allowing readers of that news, who have the publisher's public key, to verify that the news came from that publisher. If a publisher is shared with a device while the device already knows a publisher with the same public key, then the device must chose which publisher to keep and which to delete.
I'm waiting for DDG to integrate dates in the search results. Date is crucial to understand how new or old the content is. This is one of the reasons why I'm not using it.
I don't believe salary will be equal-- the company will still pay out salaries; owning equity and receiving dividends from that equity is a different matter. Here's a source with much more info on the structuring: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/nov/10/wallace-gromit-...
KSUM invites Sebi-accredited AIFs to bid for fund of fund scheme
" the “long peace” of the 19th century "

The article lost me a little there. I think there as enough wars in the 19th century in Europe (Franco-Prussian, Crimea... [0]) so that using 'long peace' is a bit of a stretch

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_Europe#19...
Indeed, an old dog I had managed to eat a stash of easter eggs and she was very ill, on a drip. There is dog-safe chocolate available from pet shops
There has been some potentially revolutionary work at CalTech with respect to the link between intestinal bacterial and Parkinson's (see link below). If it pans out it could potentially open up entirely new avenues of treatment.

http://www.caltech.edu/news/parkinsons-disease-linked-microb...
Gaia spots a 'ghost' galaxy next door
7,000 chemicals when smoked, 250 of which are harmful, about 70 of which are carcinogens. 599 additives.
It appears to pool RAM from many servers. That would allow pool sizes larger than what fits in a single physical server.
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Here's a link with much more information on the structuring and other details: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/nov/10/wallace-gromit-...
"High-def" they are not.
> If is perfectly feasible.

Only when it comes to food. It's impossible to ascertain the source of cleaning products' ingredients.
Clearly I'm at fault here, my comment was pure garbage, I'm sorry(I'm not being sarcastic).

But I think there's a valid point there amid the nonsense, I see a qualitative difference between natural selection such as the elephants losing their tusks and selective breeding such as the bulldog example.

Mainly due to the fact that on the first case elephants are still choosing their partners and on the latter we're forcing dogs to mate which I see as a conscious interference in the process of natural selection.

Yes, bulldogs still exist, but were we to go extinct and they'd probably go with us as our selective breeding made them dependent on our technology which I think is true for some of the domesticated animals at least.

I say nature, as in natural selection, is incredibly smart because it seems to be a system to act based on pure, cold, although short sighted logic. The advantage our intelligence have over nature's, in my perspective, is long term planning, but given a bigger context there's no objective base to claim that's actually smarter as we might be running towards our own extinction, and I believe life will survive us.
So, would this be negligent homicide?
So China telecom would have been able to fix it real fast? Hmm
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It wasn't even CT that was the cause this time, they just propagated what they got from another ISP. There could certainly have filters in place but that only really works for stub networks.
People are “consistently inconsistent” in reasoning about controversial topics
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The 19th century (post 1815) didn't see huge conflicts like the Napoleonic wars, the 7 year war or the 30 year war which completely wrecked Europe.
Great article !

During my bachelor even teacher were mixing MVC and MVVM, this article would have been helpful
> The RAMCloud project is based in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University.

It's not by Atlassian...
> It can now only be sold if the majority of employees vote to accept the sale

Maybe I'd be wrong, but I feel like it would be far easier to buy a company from a group of middle-class minority shareholders than a couple wealthy owners. A big payout sounds easier to refuse if you're already satisfied financially.

Are we sure that remaining independent is the motivation here?
China has also made it their goal to bifurcate the internet in order to prop up their authoritarian state. I don't see why the rest of the world should play along with that. It's frustrating in the extreme to see big Western companies repeatedly bow to the Communist party's wishes only to get all of their IP stolen by a domestic clone with the backing of the government.
Original paper:

The hidden giant: discovery of an enormous Galactic dwarf
satellite in Gaia DR2

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.04082
like most too-big-to-fail corporations, their products are shit and they're fucking the planet as they make them

if you want chocolate, there are many superb fair-trade brands which use only (> 70%) chocolate and sugar
> That's why American and Southwest pilot unions are livid[2]

Wow, the information in that Seattle Times article is really damning! Differences training from the 737 NG to the MAX consisted of a one hour iPad session (plus crosswind training because the permissible roll is reduced due to vertical wing tips). Livid indeed.
In practice, Amazon is where people who will actually pay money for your book are.

e.g. Smashwords does a much better rate, but nobody gets much sales.

Founding an ebook store is easy. The hard part is getting the readers who will pay money to come to it - Amazon's completely succeeded here.
Ugh... that headline is abysmal.

It's just a BGP hijack. Get over it.
I saw 1 meteor over Dublin this weekend. It was on Sunday at about 23:30 and I was looking towards Ursa Major. I've seen a few by now to know that it was just that, a meteor. White and bright, moving fast and disappearing.
plants didn't evolve "to make ants" anything, and there's no such anthropomorphic relationship here, it's symbiosis like everything else in nature
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