skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I enjoyed the article and appreciated the information on ISBN numbers in particular. In addition to the suggestions in the article, I would also add Scrivener and Vellum to the list of important writing and publishing tools.

For the most part, I think this article is full of excellent advice. I do disagree with three of the author's tips on how to write well though.

Specifically:

1. There is no need to avoid alliteration. You shouldn't drown your work in it, of course, but skillfully employing alliteration in your text can help your sentences flow and can make certain aspects of your content more memorable. I'd say it is better to learn to use alliteration, and use it to good effect, than to eschew it altogether.

2. Comparisons are not bad, especially in technical writing. When teaching, it is helpful to tie new concepts to existing knowledge and comparisons are one way to create these mental connections.

3. Generalizations aren't bad in technical writing either, especially in code samples. For example, telling a programmer how to print "Hello, World!" to the screen is a helpful generalization. With that knowledge, the developer can now use that same print statement for console output, messages, debugging, logging, and other tasks. Developers can take this deceptively simple generalization and use it for all kinds of specialized needs.

I think the key here is to learn to use alliteration, comparisons, and generalizations in a way that strengthens your writing, rather than detracting from it.
Related to https://twitter.com/thousandeyes/status/1062102171506765825
Google's IP prefixes routed via China, Russia and Nigeria due to a BGP hijack
In my view, unfair competition practices begin when investors make a huge pile of money to "out-money" any competition.

For example, how is it fair that a bunch of investors make a pile of money so big that it puts small bookstores out of business?
I don't see how nationalism includes international cooperation. At best, it seems to me that international cooperation is a choice a nationalist might consider amongst protectionism, isolationism, imperialism/colonialism, and outright xenophobia.
You don't strictly need a cloud storage service to keep multiple devices synchronized with Keepass, there are also options such as Syncthing or rsync.
They weren't alone.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/22/aws-ceo-jassy-follows-apple-...

Apparently that was debunked.
There’s Less to Private Equity Than Meets the Eye
It isn't outdated, it is an economics definition of a monopoly, and isn't even that: a monopoly is perfectly fine, AS LONG AS the economic power isn't abused to prevent competition which harms consumers.

What the author is proposing is that regulation is no longer based on economics and economic power, but on a vague definition of monopoly, and people are absurdly trigger-happy when calling something a monopoly.

The reason why anti-trust is based on precise economic definitions is that it leaves as little room as possible for the government to favor friendly players. When you need to prove harm to consumers, the bar is high, as it should be.

Otherwise, any government in power will simply abuse their own monopoly on regulation to favor and transfer wealth from society to friends.

The classic example is: Coca-Cola has a 95% market share of the cola market in some countries. Does it mean it has a monopoly? No.

If it had 100% of the cola market, would it have a monopoly? No.

Because the cola market doesn't exist in isolation. Colas compete with all other sodas, with water, juices, etc. for a share of wallet and a share of stomach.
I don't like the race / gender articles on the Guardian. So one sided and are more like trolling.

Not a monthly donor
The "Ryzen forced Intel to get off their asses" portion is definitely in full effect here. It got Intel to move from 4 to 6 cores on the *700 i7 part.

However, both in the SC Mixed results on the benchmarks you linked, and in individual benchmarks at Anandtech ( https://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/2255?vs=2127), the single threaded results track previous generations.

Intel still had to go wide to increase performance due to competition from AMD. They didn't increase generational improvement on their individual cores.
Wow, nice! That is definitely the most similar project to HomelabOS that I've seen so far.
Do you have a guess why those assets are not cached more aggressively?
Sure, but we can agree IOTA hasn't made anything "fashionable" again right? If it's not being taken seriously by the research community and it hasn't otherwise driven material innovation, it's not setting any trends.

There has always been research interest in ternary computing. But I don't know a single serious research institution or group (even if not academic) which concurs with IOTA's approach.
In the UK the suicide rate amongst University students (young, often healthy, in education) is significantly higher (2017 95 suicides[0], about 2 million students[1]), about twice as high. I don't think this is an uncommon number in any western university system (I hope it is uncommon).

It is a bit off that we are shocked and appalled that a companies suicide rate is so high, when it is around half that of young students with their lives at their feet.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-44583922
[1] https://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/facts-and-stats/Pages/highe...
WHLSL: Web High Level Shading Language
Will they protect my IP somehow?
Looked it up, it's 14 weeks which I guess isn't great.
I slowly migrated into LastPass from 1Password but could never be convinced to just give up on 1Password. I've heard many say 1Password is inferior for a variety of reasons, but it also works, which is important. And my wife uses it, which adds value. And then LastPass just started fading. To the point I really only keep it around to recover passwords that I didn't put in 1Password for some reason.
Hey,

I'm 23 years old and in the same boat. Was always a cheerful person, but I've found myself becoming ruder, more curt, and always on edge as if everyone is out to argue/fight. I'm finding it tough working in an office environment where lots of things are annoying me and making it hard for me to not snap at people.

Good luck to you and hope we can figure something out.

In addition to This is Water, I really recommend How to Win Friends and Influence People, and Slaughterhouse Five.

Cheers :)
I haven’t heard of the business you linked to, but the great books program definitely includes math. That’s how I did the Elements and it was transformative.
I find it interesting that your examples involve the case where the US is under attack. Let's turn it round: do you find it equally implausible that the US would not believe they have a capacity to thwart the second-strike capacity of say, North Korea? I'm not saying this is more realistic, I'm saying it is this perception of first-strike capability that is dangerous, and any country can believe themselves to be invincible, not just the US.
Wow, someone didn’t like my comment!

So I’ll try again...

What the article is discussing is an effect of civilization. Humans invest in things to create lasting effects.

Perhaps the best documentation on this theory is Porter’s Diamond [0], which helps explain things like Silicon Valley for tech, HOUSTON for Oil & Gas, or car builders in Northern Italy.

If we didn’t see these effects, then there would be no way to advance civilization. Put another way, there have to be lasting effects a good part of the time, or we’d still live back in the Stone Age. My frustration is that the author seems to think this is amazing place, despite the fact that it can be found all over the world. Another example would be London for finance, and Switzerland for banking.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/porter-diamond.asp
It sounds like he did try to change course by moving and applying for other jobs and positions. The tragedy, well one of them at least, is that the system doesn’t value poets (or librarians). This guy had to die for his work to make it out into the greater world.
Congratz, you have a grasp of Apple's business model
In general, I am cautious of running my own open source thing without being an expert in the relevant area (or interested in becoming one) -- having to put something together (and maintain it) yourself seldom, in my experience, ends up _more_ secure or _more_ maintainable, when you don't know what you're doing.

However, routers may be an exception. Apparently the industry has basically no business motivation to keep consumer-grade networking hardware secure, at all. Irrelevant to their profits or reputation.

I'll consider it. When I bought my router I intentionally got one that can run OpenWRT, but never ended up installing it, cause, who's got time for that? But perhaps there isn't really an alternative, unless you want a bot-net-ed router. Which honestly, and with shame, I'd just ignore the botnet sending out spam to other people if I didn't think it was compromising the functionality (and security) of my router for me. Last thing I wanna do is spend time becoming a network engineer after a day of getting paid to write software, but i guess that's where we're at.

(Oh crap, I just realized it could be my DSL modem instead of or in addition to my (wired and wifi) router. I know even LESS about that thing. I think none of these consumer products, owned by people who know a lot less than me, are ever gonna be protected, if even I am intimidated by trying to figure it out).
I like that there aren't any "likes" or "claps" in WriteFreely. These always feel like argumentum ad populum mechanisms, designed to give a false sense of legitimacy to the content.
Okay, I had to do some extra digging. And I was a bit off in my original comment: accept returns a socket only when a connection is fully established, that is, after the ACK from the client. Until then, the application is oblivious to the connection attempt. So sending SYNs by themselves is it too hard on the servers.
Youtube doesn't create video content. Youtube is a video content reseller - and if it can't afford to buy people's video content, it's unlikely anyone else can. You're shrinking the size of the video provider market!
Love the idea for the app. There's something else that I've just noticed about your profile as a creator that's certainly captured my interest, and now I'm wondering what kind of story there can be behind it.

If you don't mind my asking, how did it happen that Barack Obama follows you on Twitter?

Again, really cool job on the app:).
I run Webstorm in VM environments with 2-4GB RAM and 2-3 vCPUs and for the most part it's pretty smooth even with image editing programs and multiple browsers open.
China/US are probably pretty close to a MAD situation. How many minutes do we have to decide if an oncoming Chinese missile attack is nuclear or conventional these days? And vice-versa. Fun fun.
Interesting. What country/state was this?
Yea it has the same problems as web storage.

Also it's too opaque so the typical user won't understand that clearing their browser data means losing their work. They have already been trained by other sites to believe that their data should be persisted to the site's servers and that they should see their data even if they open the site on a different device.

Forcing them to choose where to save the data should hopefully clear up where their data lives. If they need multidevice they can sync their filesystem folders with one of many third party cloud storage of their choosing (such as dropbox).

I think it's a perfect fit for webapps like as photopea.com (photoshop clone in the browser) that came up on HN the other day.
Quantum Compass is a no-drift navigation solution
Goal #1 should be high quality search results while respecting privacy. Everything else should be secondary. The biggest thing DDG could do to improve their product is make it quick and easy for users to provide feedback about bad search results. I'd be happy to report searches that Google gives better results for but they don't have a mechanism to do so.

For example, search DDG for "odroid". The official domain is hardkernel.com. The first result from hardkernel comes up at #6 for me. I'd love to have a way to suggest the official domain for a product like that so it shows up as #1.
You can explicitly forward the ports used by Plex.
Whar happens in case of war, when data centers are destroyed or just access to internet is limited?
Can you imagine massive desire to switch back to cash/gold/stones?
Fair enough! Thanks for the reply.
By the way, I suspect this means that Google is undercutting the competition:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing
Does Calgary Really Want the Winter Olympics? Does Anyone?
A shameless plug for my own.

Publish on Kindle by Joel Dare

Explains how to format and publish a book using Libre Office. The book is short, getting strait to the point quickly. I don't see a lot of sales but readers that have reviewed it seem to like it.

https://www.amazon.com/Publish-Kindle-write-ebook-software-e...
Yea. https://www.apple.com/mac/docs/Apple_T2_Security_Chip_Overvi...
Electronic music gets me going. Anything that resembles The Matrix soundtrack brings me good memories because I was spending a lot of time tinkering with low-level stuff when the movie came out.
I had a case of “trackball thumb” that pained me for years. I went to myofascial therapy to deal with a shoulder that also pained me for years — enough to drive me to therapy. Shoulder took 3 treatments. At one session, I asked to have the thumb looked at. Thumb took 10 minutes — an astounding result. Pain gone.

YMMV but as the software engineer said: “It works for me.”
Wouldn't this just result in more of these people being unemployed rather than exploited? And if those are the two options, is the former a better outcome?
I don't see how you really addressed the concerns. You say that the paper is "trying to argue a bit about why neural networks generalize well," but in fact I don't see anything in this paper about generalization or test error. The first line of future research under section seven is to look into test error instead of training error:

"The current paper focuses on the train loss, but does not address the test loss. It would be an important problem to show that gradient descent can also find solutions of low test loss. In particular, existing work only demonstrate that gradient descent works under the same situations as kernel methods and random feature methods [Daniely, 2017, Li and Liang, 2018]."
I love this UI
1. > It's theoretically impossible to guarantee a convergence to global optima using gradient descent if the function is non-convex.

This is false. See, e.g., [0][1].

2. I'm not really sure what the question is here.

3. If your loss is bounded from below (it is a square norm) by 0 and you achieve 0 loss, this means that 0 is a global optimum, since, by definition, no other objective value can be smaller than this number.

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[0] Theorem A.2 in Udell's Generalized Low-Rank models paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.0342.pdf

[1] B&V Convex Optimization (https://web.stanford.edu/~boyd/cvxbook/), Appendix B.1. In fact, I can't find the reference right now, but you can easily prove that GD with an appropriate step-size converges to a global optimum on this problem when initialized at (0,0), even though the problem is non-convex.
I wasn’t old enough at the time to remember the relative pricing of those things as a consumer, but things like walkmans, televisions, and IBM laptops seemed much more affluent then compared to now.
Some people might find that too creepy or think Google is "reading" their emails.
The US now has the two fastest supercomputers in the world
Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 iOS app
It's illegal because it isn't fair.

https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/youll-never-gue...
It's hard for Duck Duck Go to deliberately put themselves in a position where they're unable to collect IP addresses.

You could, however, use them via their Tor onion service: https://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion/

It took me a while to find out somewhere where this is really run by them rather than a third-party proxy, but this seems to confirm it: https://www.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/1hdqs6/weve_upd...
Yeah, I looked at that. If memory serves, I didn't end up using it for reasons that amounted to me wanting finer control then it offered and not being convinced that I definitely wanted to install updates automatically. (I've been working under the model where the system checks for updates and if any are found it automatically downloads them and notifies me that they need to be installed)
It's hard for me to understand why the fact that Google's autoreply exists is objectionable. If you don't like the response, don't use it. Nobody is the poorer. For those looking at a more nuanced critique, the Baffler published this:

https://thebaffler.com/latest/nudging-the-lexicon-haigney

I think it captures the effects of autoreply more accurately, at least the effects of a writer living outside of Silicon Valley.

While Google's suggestions may often be off-base, they are also often reasonable, but they may shift your register a little. That is, they are designed for people using email to make quick decisions and respond in a professional way.
I'd heard part of the problem was that Nestlé lied to mothers to make them think they needed it, gave them enough for free that their own breast-milk dried up making them dependent on formula to feed their child at which point many were stuck with an expense they couldn't actually afford leading to things like diluting the formula. Certainly not as bad as outright poisoning formula, but a shitty thing in general to poverty stricken areas who were more than capable of feeding their own babies for free before Nestlé took advantage of them to take what little those mothers had.
> And more than that, I honestly wonder about the motives of an advertising driven company these days.

I wonder about ulterior motives too.

But in a world where even local apps increasingly try to make me store files in the cloud, I can only consider this as a move in the right direction.

All web apps can offer today is either (1) re-download the file (as the article mentions) or (2) save to GDrive/iCloud /OneDrive.

Working with local files is a win for user freedom.
Easy way to verify this, right-click on the ads, paste link
Validating that user feedback is legitimate and not from a bad actor sounds pretty hard.
I agree here. I am not a fan of comic books nor superhero films. My wife loves them though so we have seen most Marvel movies and it id probably where I know Stan Lee from.

Though IIRC he appeared in "the big bang theory" as well.

Of course - his legacy are the characters and stories and not just the cameos :)
Ugh soo many companies do this now. They've since fixed it, but you used to be able to browse the entire HP Enterprise landing page and not be sure they actually sell computers.
I recently uploaded a video in youtube from Jay Trimble's talk about Open MCT from the Open Source Cubesat Workshop 2018 that took place in Madrid. Feel free to check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Dh74INR_I
Is it really surprising that in the wake of multiple platforms that refuse to interoperate that an OS that runs on top of every other OS is massively popular?

It doesn't matter that it's clunky and bad, CS people love working with hard to use systems, it just matters that it works.
Should we bring back atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons?
Not frequently, but once every 10 years or so, should we just wipe an island off the map? Spend 9 years documenting everything we can about it, and then build a tower and carefully place a hydrogen bomb on the tower, and detonate it?

I keep hearing people worrying about another "great war" but it will not be a war remembered. There would be death on a scale that remakes evolutionary history. So, maybe we should make it more visceral for people. Worth it? 10 islands per century?
Stan Lee has died
Stan Lee has died
Pretty cool site. FYI the page turn animation is unstable if I grab it near the center of the page (it rapidly rocks between angled-down-from-top and angled-up-from-bottom).
> The problem is that, even with 393 millions of guns, USA can't stop recurrent fireforests year after year.

Not exactly true.

The problem is that nobody wants to pay the money to do so--especially the people who live in those areas.

In addition, you only get to burn those forests once. After that, they are no longer a threat because there is no fuel.
Out of interest, what was the stack and what were some of the aspects that made the pipeline so great to work with?
> But, if you pull up the manual page for something like grep, you will see that it has not been updated since 2010 (at least on MacOS).

Well, GNU grep was last released 16 months ago, and the last change to its master branch was 4 weeks ago: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git

FreeBSD's grep was last updated back in August: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/tree/master/usr.bin/grep

OpenBSD's grep was last updated 11 months ago: http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/grep/

Oddly, it looks like the Darwin grep was last updated in 2012: https://opensource.apple.com/source/text_cmds/text_cmds-99/g...

Strange that Apple would be shipping such an ancient grep.
Noticed a strange protectionism of social media. Personally I agree research of 143 people is not credible at all, it’s just one person opinion. However my experience tells me using social media makes me much more depressed because I’m constantly comparing myself with other, all those led to broken world perception when everyone around you is living a better life than you, and it doesn’t matter how hard you are working there’re plenty who always sunny. The big issue there is social media shows only top of iceberg - shine happy people with their vacation, fancy restaurants, weddings, nice child’s. But it’s all 100% wrong - it’s hides 9 months of pregnancy, 2 years of reproductive treatments, or long working hours without vacation for the last 6 years and constant overwork. Social media hides all those works witch must be done BEFORE this shiny photo can appear. None interested in real life posting aka 9pm am still at work, 11pm driving home. We are all trying to show up a better part of our life, make an illusion of success, happiness for other people who don’t know you.
I'm wondering if this is overblown, in that while it is clear that rights clearance is an issue the technical solution is essentially moderating all posts. And while that probably breaks the current YouTube business model, as I understand it from Alphabet's quarterly statements YouTube isn't even breaking even today.

I get that it would massively reduce the 'new content stream' but for their commercial clients things wouldn't change all that much. It would also eliminate unlawful video completely since everything would be pre-screened.
> pizza is the least worst option

On the contrary, it's makes almost every group unhappy for different reasons: keto, gluten-free, "paleo", vegan.

(Not that I dislike it personally)