skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taxation is theft.

If you're looking for something not political, I'd go with something like:

1. The web-browser shouldn't try to be a knock-off operating system, and should delegate many things to native code using protocol handlers or some-such.

2. Groovy is a totally badass programming language and is way under-appreciated today.

3. The Semantic Web vision remains alive and is continuing to develop and is one of the most important initiatives out there, short of us developing AGI.

4. An AGI might have "human level" intelligence in dis-embodied form, but I believe an AGI would need to be embodied and sense the world somewhat like the way we do, to truly have "human like" intelligence.
It's not just supermarkets.

For most of recent history in the West, it's been fairly normal for homes to maintain a larder, root cellar, pantry, or other long-term food storage as a buffer against both economic and supply-related hardships.

Prudently doing so in the modern era, however, is a fairly surefire way to get branded a crazy prepper. And supply chain buffers at home are becoming even shorter with the advent of DoorDash, Uber Eats, etc.
Why Do You Keep Dreaming You Forgot Your Pants?
> Effectively, yes.

No. You can always create a market where a company has a "monopoly" (in the market share sense of the word).

> Why is the market so disfunctional that a single company has effectively swallowed all competition?

Where did you get that from? This is a sign that you don't understand the market you're talking about.

> And AT&T wasn't a monopoly, since you could just walk to the person you want to talk to. Oh, wait..

That doesn't make any sense, you're not even wrong.

It isn't just because you can create a mental analogy about a subject you don't understand, that the analogy is actually valid.
Kelloggs cornflakes were developed to prevent masturbation
I have a hard time envisioning full-fledged macros coming to Swift, but moving Equatable/Hashable/Codable synthesis to a library should be possible with more restricted meta-programming capabilites. See Joe Groff's talk for details: https://www.skilled.io/u/swiftsummit/swift-s-reflective-unde...
I'm not an expert in web, but isn't WebSockets better for this purpose? What's the advantage of using WebRTC for text-based terminal over WebSockets?
Nestle marketed the formula heavily as a safe substitute for breast milk despite the fact they knew many Africans didn't have access to safe drinking water to make the formula, they sold it heavily discounted.

Mothers bought it and used it so their own breast milk dried up. Then when they couldn't afford enough of it as the baby grew and needed more, they were forced to ration the formula.

Millions died.
> And if Coke had 95% market share in the U.S., it could easily be ruled a monopoly.

Nope. Because monopoly isn't just about market share. That's what people here don't seem to understand.
ish seem to work in macos as well...

There’s also this interesting project:

Noah is a Darwin subsystem for Linux, or "Bash on Ubuntu on Mac OS X". Noah is implemented as a hypervisor that traps linux system calls and translates them into Darwin's system calls. Noah also has an interpreter of ELF files so that binary executables of Linux run directly and flawlessly without any modifications.

https://github.com/linux-noah/noah

https://events.static.linuxfound.org/sites/events/files/slid...
If approvals were about science, one approval would be good enough worldwide.

In reality, approvals are also about politics.
You forgot to mention Israel's aggression on adjacent countries Lebanon and Palestine. Would Israel's constant belligerence start a war?
London Lib. discovered books Bram Stoker used for research when writing Dracula
"But right now in current conditions something like this is needed."

This just seems like a scheme for closeted nazis to publish eugenics articles without criticism. That's never needed, and particularly not right now.
Robot scientist dreams up new materials to advance computing and fight pollution
The law extends to videos beyond the front page
Most interesting apps run as multiple containers (e.g., a database) and then you need to provision volumes for application's data and configuration files. It doesn't seem clear to me that this is a strictly simpler state of affairs than local installation.

The real wins from Docker (for this use case) are:

1. Docker is a better process supervisor than systemd and friends

2. Simple, fast deployment (no manage ansible scripts or rebuild/reboot a machine image)

3. Built-in, standard logging
I don't know about the US, but in Europe the big one was taxes: Due to loopholes in tax regulations, weird accoubting practices, etc. Amazon pays next to no taxes, whereas small bookstores who can't afford to "Double-Irish with a Dutch" their taxes pay way more.
This is an intriguingly aggressive comment.

1. No, it's impossible. Actually, the theorems in this paper do not claim to reach zero loss either, as they're all inequalities on the size of the loss. The paper you cite refers to converging to zero loss, as do you in point 2. Perhaps you're referring to error, which is not the loss that is directly optimized.

2. This paper certainly isn't talking about generalization. It doesn't appear to be mentioned once. Your other paper is talking about generalization. The parent asked if this paper is super important. I gave a reason why it isn't super important for most people.

3. Massively overfitting is antithetical to generalizing. Overfitting means fitting to the extent that you're generalizing less well.
This site didn't load properly in Firefox on a Samsung Galaxy S8 just now, and the accessibility section is "coming soon". I'm sorry Google, but if you're letting key basics like this slip... Accessibility is not a bolt-on for afters, and chrome isn't the only web browser. Deep down you know this too. Those who preach are held to higher standards, and you've let yourselves down badly here.
That's not contrary to what they said, since it still stands that most people like pizza.
Pseudonyms are good for joint contributions, position papers, summarizing/expanding the available criticisms, fundamentally new research. Anything else get you get dox'ed: too many references to a set of authors can lead in the direction of one of this set being the author.

We are in a sad state where we can't even discuss ideas.
Little talk, a lot of writing, up to date portfolios, a few references, a lot of web scraping for opportunities, a lot of tailored e-mails, active participation in industrial forums and local guilds activities, attending fairs and conferences and exhibitions, funnelling interactions into proposals to which you can answer with a written quote and terms of contract. No need to be an extrovert for many of these?
Good to see someone else mention this, and also for the Google web.dev.dev to reply.
That's why it's important to use k8s (and various abstraction layers, standards APIs, etc.), which helps with portability, and thus you can risk load balance between cloud vendors, and you can even throw in on-prem into the mix.
Selective Openness
https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18616/why-is-a...
Ha! Before I came back to reread it that's exactly what I was thinking. Usually it's "摔" for a person who fell.

To use the verb "掉" on a person is unusual, but I think it's exactly the author's point -- that the person is treated like an object.
Cutting corners to make items cheaper and make more money without govt regulation is capitalism and the end goal for the ruling American party (GOP). See their recent attacks on the EPA.

> poisoning Americans is part of Chinese culture .

WTF is wrong with you? Why are there humans on HN like you?

BTW the Chinese who poisoned their own countrymen in pursuit of profit were put to death, while the Americans who do the same to this day in Flint, Michigan and other places are still alive and they're still poisoning Americans. Is it American culture to poison your countrymen?
Exactly: you can absolutely always define a market here a company has a close-to-100% market share.

That's why, to actually talk about a monopoly, you need to very precisely define the market.

Take Facebook: Facebook has a monopoly in online, blue-themed social networks owned by Harvard dropouts.

It doesn't have a monopoly on social networks, on communication, on online networks, on online ads, on online ads in social networks, on blue-themed online social networks, and even on blue-themed online social networks with a timeline feature.
Found a bug: If you select a country from the drop-down, then navigate to a different back, and then go back to the events list, the country is still selected, but all events are listed.
Saltie: Rocket League Distributed Deep Reinforcement Learning Bot
I wrote an article on my blog for this exact same topic. It's voice and video, but text chat is quite a bit easier.

https://suldashi.com/dead-simple-webrtc-explanation/
I don't see why we need 400 hours of video uploaded every minute when the vast majority of revenue and views is comings from a handful of videos.

What a depressing statement. So there's no value in having a diversity of choice, points of view, taste, etc? Or in allowing anyone to share what they've made, without gatekeepers? Do you only listen to the top handful of musicians, or read the top handful of books? Hell, HN is not in the top handful of sites with the vast majority of revenue and views, does that mean it has no value?

I'd say it's actually the only value it has; it's what distinguishes it from TV, which is otherwise a better system in other ways.
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> startup culture has always been far-right (through the lens of Europe and South America et al)

I’m South American, and I’m curious about what you mean by this.
> chrome right now is the only one which supports PWA as "native" app..

What do you mean with "'native' app" exactly? When I use my PWA with a Firefox on Android I can't see that it is a PWA. It just looks like any other Andoird app.

Granted that is only one more browser and on the desktop side Firefox still has a lot to do, but at least there is one more player in the race ;-)
> Also, in your example, Coke definitely has a monopoly on the cola market, even if it doesn't on the entire soda market.

No, it doesn't. At least not by the economic definition of monopoly, which, when talking about regulation, is the one that matters.

And even then, it is irrelevant, because the cola market doesn't exist in isolation.
Down the block. If it was built next to your Victorian would you feel the same? We don't have a housing crisis. There's tons of land and cheap home in the US. We have a capital problem, folks are going to SF because that's were the owners and controllers of capital are not because they can't find a house in other parts of the country
Yeah, that'd be one possible solution. Point is it's not a solution yet because it isn't yet widely implemented, and may never be.
Juno (a Jupyter client), Prompt, Textastic, CodeBucket, Working Copy, Pythonista, Coda and Cloud Console.

But I’d love a VSCode app for iOS to write code and submit to git from one single app.
To be fair, it's entirely possible to criticize an anonymous article.
Ask HN: Who is on the front edge of sci-fi?
I feel like you may have not read the article.

"The British author Norman Angell would immortalize himself by suggesting, just a few years before World War I, that what we would now call globalization had rendered great-power conflict obsolete. War, he argued, had become futile because peace and the growing economic and financial linkages between the major European states were producing so much prosperity."
For papers and presentations at work (ones where i have time to do it right) I write the text, then run it through the xkcd simple writer (https://xkcd.com/simplewriter/), then make a new version with that output, then compare the two side by side and either edit the original down or the simple one up.

It is a fascinating lesson. Some names or terms are understood and should be there. Sometimes a more uncommon word is still clear AND more precise, so it stays. Other times I find complete sentences that I can just remove and my points are more visible.

I try to anticipate counter-arguments and head them off with detail, and/or add qualifiers to statements at the cost of my main point. This technique makes it clear when that happens so I can pull such out entirely or move to a distinct section. Do it a few times and you benefit even when not using the tool, though I need to refresh my brain monthlyish.

I removed "tend to", "most", "some", "often" and three sentences from the above. I also broke my second paragraph into two, just from habits I've learned this way.
Yes, that's fine for images like that, that's several GB in size, but there's a cut off point where tiling becomes less efficient and slower than just downloading the whole image in one request, I'd guess it's around 1/2MB, which a lot of images on this art site are.

Even if the actual efficiency is no where near that, a 1080p jpg fits in that so it's not like people would want the IIIF functionality on images that small anyway.
Ask HN: Designing your own PhD?
Hey HN

I'm just wrapping up a double masters in neuroscience and machine learning, and I was wondering if it was possibly to basically do the equivalent work of a phd, publish 5-6 papers on your own?

The topic I'm really getting interested in is at the intersection of Wetware Computing (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetware_computer), Neuromorphic Computing, and Deep Learning. I've found some programs like the iPhd at University of Washington, but I can't find too many professors who would be willing to allow me to work on these topics on my own.

Would it be feasible to work on my own for a few years, assuming finances weren't an issue, and publish a few noteworthy papers and open source work? Would that basically be the equivalent of what a PhD is supposed to signal?
> Accessible to all - Coming Soon

Probably the frontend joke of the last two decades... And a bad one too.
"everything works until such time as it doesn’t"

That's true. I was running email, personal web server, and VPN with soverign and that worked really weell for years until it didn't.

Still, that is a long time of pretty functional work.

At this point, I know enough professionally to run my stuff just fine, so I do. But seriously, although I will never get the 3-5 hours of time that it took me to debug my mailserver setup back, that was spent almost 5 years ago and I haven't had to touch it since, really.

A lot of this stuff really does run just fine once you have it setup. I didn't find the maintenance burden all that high even when I knew less about these systems than I do now.
Could you clarify what you mean by this question?
Anyone think overaggressive monopoly laws can sometimes harm innovation? For example when Intel was way ahead of AMD by natural instinct it should've wanted to push ahead and "finish off" the company. But perhaps because it feared being labeled a monopoly it took the foot off the pedal and expanded elsewhere instead, harming x86 innovation. However, that's not to say monopolies are ok. I think regulators should do more to stymie their powers but it's difficult for sure.
Constant-Time Discrete Gaussian Sampling
Now if we can just get around to fixing why we need such anonymity in an academic journal in the first place... It's absurd that there's such danger in saying something that doesn't entirely align with either the left or the right (at least in the US). It feels quite a lot like McCarthyism to me (or what I imagine it was like at that time, since I'm not that old).
Casus belli doesn't matter that much. There is something else that, in lack of a better term I'll call it "salesmanship", is usually at work. It shouldn't be so hard to imagine a crafty sales plan, with ideas catering and hitting the right demographic groups with the most potent methods for each of them, stirring enough force and demand for change on a scale so large that... well, would make handling things in a peaceful manner too difficult, to put it mildly. That scenario is old as humanity itself (or probably older). Sure, that can be prevented (as the article mentions) but that means work and determination, which are more and more difficult to come by as the time passes and the hard lessons fade from memory or loose meaning. People get comfortable, start taking more and more things for granted, and with that less and less thoughts are given to the truly disruptive situations as plausible events. (And speaking of thoughts, unfortunately the reason isn't always at helm; most of the time it gets called there only after, to clean up the mess.)
I think you have a point. It certainly can be interpreted that way -- as a reference to the suicides of his peers. The more I read the his other poems in the original article the more I'm leaning towards the "suicide" take.

But poetry is always more fun to leave things ambiguous. Original words matter -- the hardest parts is to translate poems precisely, and try not to let your interpretation of its meaning overwhelm the original.
Looks like this - https://webhint.io Why not collaborate with the people who’ve made this first, google?
If you are not in to what you are doing in life, definitely consider change. Mindfulness is great, scale it up a bit. Add some yoga beforehand. Do you exercise?
To some extent. It’s nothing like San Francisco. And rents in Brooklyn have actually been falling noticeably, precisely because a massive amount of new apartment stock has gone up in the last five years.
y, cool idea. When we have an event we are organizing we contact potential sponsors and they give us a check ahead of time or bring a check as they usually want to give a pitch at the event and we use it to purchase drinks, pay for the pizza or other food, plates, etc and sometimes give-a-ways. This could be easier, but usually we purchase more than just food with the sponsor's money and usually the sponsor is attending the event.
Logitech unit? Those suck.

I've been using Microsoft's (long discontinued) Trackball Explorer and it's fantastically comfortable to use. The ball gets rolled with the fingers and the thumb does the right-click and scroll wheel.

I've laid in spares for the inevitable time when this one dies.
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As a DevOps guy I find the biggest hurdle Dev education and stubborn management.

Right now 90% of the end to end tests could have been run during unit testing. Instead they are run after a full code deployment. This adds an extra hour of testing. :(
this sort of suffering is unfortunately necessary and endemic to capitalism, conscientious consumerism or not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism
Are DDG users comfortable knowing that their search results are always going to be inferior?
Yeah these are really good questions. I'm going to dig deeper, it seems very interesting and it may hold outcomes that could be significant.
Many don't know that overtime you can curate the thoughts you allow in your head. If you start thinking a complaining thought just don't let the thought continue. This is by no means easy but as you build up the habit eventually the thoughts won't even pop up.

It's a positive feedback loop. I feel negative I think negative thoughts, that makes me more negative. So you have to break that loop. I feel negative, I think a negative thought, then nope not listening to that. What's something positive I can think about? That coffee I had this morning was pretty good. Oh that's right tonight I get to finish the next episode of that show I like.

Eventually your outlook gets more positive.
Your reaction is actually a perfect example of the reason this is needed right now.

And you didn’t do it ironically (AFAICT).

“Oh they need true freedom of speech? They are probably Nazi’s”
> This site didn't load properly in Firefox on a Samsung Galaxy S8 just now

Check your extensions. It loads fine for me.

> you've let yourselves down badly here.

...because an article on accessibility is "coming soon"?
Solving Tic Tac Toe with Alloy
Because liberalism is a religion and people that expose the flaws in the ideology are modern-day heretics. Fortunately heretics are no longer burned at the stake. Instead you just get fired, socially ostracized, your career ruined, etc.
Actual link to the tweet that has all the actual content:

https://twitter.com/IrishAero/status/1061669444093730820

Direct link to the audio:

http://archive-server.liveatc.net/einn/EINN-High-Nov-09-2018...

Side note; including a screenshot of a tweet with out a link to it, is pretty lame.
Artificial general intelligence
It is sometimes said that McDonalds business model is not in selling burgers but rather being in real estate. They rent out a building and a model for using it, with the goal to rent out more buildings. I don't know how true it is but I have heard that McDonalds as a company don't earn money from any profits from burgers, only from rent. Would be interesting to know how true that is.
You compile stuff if the binary doesn't exist, regardless of OS.

It's very normal on Arch Linux at least to pull build files from the Arch User Repository and build the software locally.
If anyone from DDG is watching this thread, please stop "auto-correcting" my queries!!!!! "you" "know" what I mean
I can't wait for one of the executives in my company to run into this, understand nothing but the numbers, and then complain about our numbers not being higher despite the fact that half of these metrics aren't applicable to our web app.

I already have a boilerplate response to "why isn't our google pagespeed score higher" that I copy and paste.

I know Google's happy about performance nagging, but I wish they were better at knowing what is/isn't applicable.
I’ve been called crazy by my own family for buying 20 cans of baked beans for stock so yes indeed you are right.

This is despite having nothing to live on for 3 months once. Short memory they have.
Even if it doesn't result in executable code, there are dangers - browser-based ransomware attacks.
What I love most about the EU and Europeans on this site is that they think that all these regulations will mostly hurt companies like Google and Facebook, and sure they'll be hurt. But the US is the largest market for most US companies, so they're unable to really hurt them like they want to. Instead, the people most affected are European companies that become successful enough for those onerous regulations to apply.

There was a Hacker News thread about a new research paper that showed that GDPR is hurting European investment, and there were plenty of Europeans in that thread saying "Good, stop using my data." Like really? Wouldn't it be better to stop data usage without hurting investment? It's such a self own.
Not according to https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=378566...
Christ, we know eating red meat is bad for you. We know that a balanced diet favoring vegetables is good for you. Why are seemingly well educated and intelligent people on this awful diet?
PyScripter IDE
> 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.

No, they're saying a company can have too much economic power without being a full monopoly.
That's where I am now, following my parents like a parasite.