skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used Sovereign for a while before making this. It just didn’t scratch my particular set of itches.
Propaganda may be the end goal but the global mind poisoning operation includes all kind of BS - from alternative medicine & anti-vax, the flat earth theory and chemtrails, to white supremacism and religious bigotry - all used to spread doubts, alienation and confusion.
NY-style pizza, lots of sugar and oil. Not the norm in the rest of the world.
Just being bigger doesn't make it more fragile. Yes we have more people to feed, but there's a lot more people who can grow food now (and of course we have leveraged technology to an incredible degree to reduce the number of people and amount of land needed to produce that food). The food supply could be more fragile, but you would need a lot more data to convince me. I think it is actually far more stable. Look up Norman Borlaug for an example of the kind of improvements we've made within the last 100 years.
They're already "broken" on Chrome for a few versions now, we switched all `.dev`s to `.localhost` in dev environments at my company.
Has a huge fan of the tiddlywiki project this is a welcome feature .
A native app would have full filesystem access. This API only grants access to files/directories you open in the web app.
Hm. this is next-level cherry-picking.

The Dow Jones is higher today than it was last Tuesday. It went up for a few days, and now it's going down by a bit.

It's still 1300 points higher than it was 2 weeks ago. and 500 points higher than it was a year ago.

A few stocks are doing poorly, others are doing well. Same thing as any other day, seems like?

Disclaimer: I'm not a stocks person, I'm just reading the graphs. So maybe there is something significant that a layperson doesn't understand... but it certainly seems disingenuous to make it seem like there's a huge problem with the Dow.
I have a serious medical condition. I have gotten off of multiple drugs, in part by getting very picky about what I eat. I am willing to eat pizza sometimes.

I absolutely do not need a total stranger deciding for me what is nutritionally appropriate for me, all Big Brother style.
I think its been around 7 years since a public exploit has been dropped for the apple airport extreme. YMMV though, as Apple has stopped selling them which means support is likely going to be minimal in the future if something does pop up. Alot of it is likely security through obscurity though as obviously the code is closed source and it uses a custom management interface vs web-access.

If you want to go the modern (better) route, enterprise equipment such as ubiquity or cisco with strict rules are likely your best bet. The budget option being a openwrt install with one of their recommended routers
People would need to go camping for weeks on end which most of the population is not interested in or able to do because of external obligations.
> Why are people still debating syntax when programming by example is clearly the future?

In your opinion, why is it clearly the future?

From the abstract of a paper about this topic [0]: "Programming by Examples (PBE) has the potential to revolutionize enduser programming by enabling end users, most of whom are non-programmers, to create scripts for automating repetitive tasks. "

Most of the professional programming I've done has been solving (relatively) unique problems, not automating repetitive tasks. While automating repetitive tasks is a great use-case for programming, I don't think that's enough to call it the future of all programming.

[0]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
A ‘Time Capsule’ for Scientists, Courtesy of Peter the Great
I have to admit that I find this result unsatisfying. I don't see why mathematicians consider that trimming the remaining pieces cannot trigger envy from earlier cake splitters.
(They call it dominating in the paper.) Once the remaining slice are modified, it's unclear to me why the original cutter would not envy the new slices.

For the three persons scenario and using integers, the first cutter divides the number 3 into 1/1/1. If one of the other participants change the ratio of two slices to 0.5/1.5, it's clear that the original cutter would not be happy to get only 1 in the new 1/0.5/1.5 cuts. The original decision was contingent on the original split. In fact, given this, it seems that being the last to act is the best position as other are locked into the previous choices. I other words, being last allow you to profit from any possible mistakes previous cutters made. This is especially egregious if each have a different way to value things, since once A has chosen, B could modify the remaining pieces so that A preference is now different.
Meh, these tests are just good ways to find obvious problems with your site.

Fixating on the overall score seems like an indication of a different problem.

For example, you can't change the caching behavior of google-analytics.js, and it's usually intractable to split apart your CSS to optimize for above-the-fold content. Oh well, you didn't get a perfect score. Stay practical.
And in a similar vein there's also Robert Tressell's "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists" which is an amazing story even for the modern labour movement.
I did not understand the paper very well.

1. It's theoretically impossible to guarantee a convergence to global optima using gradient descent if the function is non-convex.

2. The only way to guarantee is to start the gradient descent from different points in the search space or try with different step sizes if the algorithm only starts from the same point in the search space.

3. Also does "achieving zero training loss" mean the network has converged to the global optima? I used to know you will get zero training loss even if you are at a local minima as well.

Please correct me if I am wrong.
We tried to do this here. It's fairly functional, but there's a number of issues procuring enough exclusive-use hardware, and interfacing with devices - such as phones - is nigh-impossible remote. There's just too much latency to fully move everything remote. The heavy toolchains we use aren't actually THAT heavy - it's measured in minutes, not hours, so remoting introduces too much friction to make it work.
There are obviously classes of objects that we don't have hard-wired detectors for. The face is one of the few that I've heard claimed as wired from birth.

But I think "feature detectors" are exactly what the earlier comment was referring to, e.g. a Gabor-wavelet-style decomposition of the retinal image. Deep learning systems have to learn those; we're born with them.
You don't have to eat it, you can always bring your own food or eat something before/after. You're not "missing out" in the same way you're not "missing out" when you don't go pick up all the free junk on Craigslist.
Corporate America's blockchain and Bitcoin fever is over
the $48 ER-X is much faster than 99% of peoples' residential last mile broadband connections, it's good for up to about 750 Mbps of NAT and default route outbound to a gateway.
> That distinction is no solace if your copyright is being violated or you are being defamed in an unaddressable way.

Then send an individual takedown notice, or file a defamation lawsuit. Why should you get a special process that bypasses the legal system?
As an immigrant myself, that is certainly what my family thought they were signing up for when they came here. Indeed, we left Bangladesh precisely because it was turning away from western culture and values.

I think, for the most part, immigrants today feel that way too. (There is evidence that Spanish speaking immigrants are taking up English faster than German speaking immigrants did). What scares me are the (I think well meaning but misguided) liberals who deny that assimilation is imperative.
Where is North Korea not on this list? Right...they have nuclear weapons. The surefire way of preventing invasion & war. That's why the Great War isn't going to happen again. If WWIII does happen it's game over folks.
My 2 cents, if you are working an 8 hour day / 40 hour week than typically I'd expect realistically a 6 hour productive day from most people. This includes debugging, design work, refactoring, writing tests, design discussions, helping other devs on problems etc. But not daydreaming, playing on the web or getting coffee, that's what you do the other couple of hours a day.

This is exactly how I try to do estimating as well, plan on 6hr days for productivity, and tasks are never less than a 1/2 day no matter what anyone says. Even the ten minute task for updating that 1 line of code turns into a few hours by the time you have tested, deployed, communicated and documented the update. And in the few rare times it turns out to be a less time, the bonus time makes up for the some of the tasks that will inevitably run longer.
Minimal wage in Guangdong is around $9 per hour ($7 wage + around $2 from state assistance), not to say that living is still many times cheaper than in the west if you are just looking to get basics.
By "mix declarations with code", do you mean the ability to put local variables like `int x;` in locations other than immediately at the start of a function? I don't understand why this is a bad thing.
I use Safari on macOS and iOS. with its native password manager.Am I exposing myself to higher risks than by using a standalone password management app?
It is only if you buy into the denatured myth of "humanity" that has prevailed in modernity. The reality is that we (with all our capacities, including ethical cognition & emotions) did not evolve to exist in faceless societies of billions, spanning the entire globe.
These societies obviously are not feasible in the long-term - that they ever could be is a (false) consequence of that denatured superstition.
At least we don't use dowsing rods: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/26/iraqi_government_fi...
Get a job or volunteer helping people in need. Nothing changes your view of life like viewing life from the point of view of someone in need and you being able to help.
I hope this can be made to work securely. The main thing holding back web-based IDEs is file system access. It wouldn't be horribly difficult to port e.g. Emacs to Javascript (or more likely WebAssembly) if file access was available. I know this sounds ridiculous, but it would be doable.
I like the idea of a File API, to make it easier to for example search files. But I'm afraid we'll end up with the same problem as native apps, where apps would ask for all permissions, even if they don't really need them.
Plex has had a major forum breach for basic user data including IP addresses [1], around the time of the botnet's first discovery in 2017, which has me greatly wondering if Plex may have been an inadvertent bootstrap vector for this attack?

Worrying, if that's the case.

[1] https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#Plex
For what it's worth, I thought it was funny. HN is humorless.
> rendering the power of MAD and military alliances close to negligible

Are you implying you can destroy the enemy's nuclear arsenal in your first strike? If so, you don't understand MAD. Any submarine arsenal will be nearly impossible to destroy. If you first strike North Dakota (for example) to destroy all the missile silos, subs will simply eradicate your country.
Why not IndexedDB? Is that cleared also when you reinstall an app or something
My (admittedly uninformed and probably based on too many movies/novels) expectations would be less about traditional occupation and more about neutralization.

I can't imagine the "Red Dawn" scenario of Russian troops invading and occupying US territory. If anything, the goal would be to knock out critical communication/shipping infrastructure to effectively disrupt all normal activity--can't buy or sell, can't get food, can't depend on modern mass communication to organize and maintain order.

Alongside that, the use of modern weapons to do serious damage to centers of power would speed up collapse. That's the goal if your intention is to hit us at our weakest point: catastrophic societal collapse.

If it's our military against some other military, we've got odds as good as anyone else (and almost always better). But if you've knocked out electronic commerce, disrupted civilian use of things like cell networks and internet access, and made it hard enough to get food on supermarket shelves, all those armed people aren't gonna just keep calm and carry on while they're hungry and several cities are burning.

Sure, it's probably a bit too "straight-to-Netflix" but it's much easier for me to imagine someone applying force at the points we're weakest and letting things fall apart than facing off plane vs. plane, ship vs. ship, and tank vs. tank on the battlefield.
Ask HN: Why is there not more companies alliances in tech?
It seems to that companies would have so much to benefit by sharing with each other non critical part of their tech. For example, why isn't there a devops alliance between web services companies. It seems to me like so much could be gained by sharing, or having alliance, however I have never seen that. What am I missing?
No one asked for a $10,000 small as humanly possible trash can. What pro user cares about how small their desktop machine is? All we wanted was the cheese grater with upgrade components. Unfortunately for them, I'll be building another machine this time around. Especially since I've moved all of my dev environments, and resource intensive tasks to PC.
But specifically in the article, when they talk about a building being "30% affordable", they're talking about subsidized lottery housing. I.e. housing that is below market rate (the developer takes the hit) and is assigned via San Francisco's affordable housing lotteries to a small fraction of the people whose income is low enough to qualify.
What truth is there to the participation of the world banking system tends to lead to this sort of war ?
FWIW, the official Twitter desktop app for Windows 10 is a PWA and it works great (well, as well as any official Twitter app has worked in my assessment; not as well as third-party apps from their hey-day, but that's a different story).

I also use the Starbucks PWA (app.starbucks.com) and it mostly works well. Again, it seems to work as well as their native apps.
The difference in performance between Fastmail and the new Gmail interface right now is freaking stunning. I still load Gmail every few days to see if I have email there, and it's like waiting for Windows 98 to boot.
Unfortunately, any site or service whose primary appeal is "we keep users hidden and accept what others don't" is going to first attract the effluvial outflux of toxic "content" that other sites reject, which then makes the service utterly unappealing to anyone else.
The article and the comments here make it clear YouTube is saying the cost of following the law, not the cost of breaking it, is the thing that would be too expensive.

Following the law being the cost of following up on the copyright owners of every piece of content before allowing it to be viewed, unlike now where they let it upload and only take action if there is an infringement reported.
The free press and independent justice system makes the difference.

Those can and do make a difference. No system is perfect, however. Chinese culture has an extensive heritage of moral philosophy. Despite that, it's still been shown that it's possible to overturn the social order there with massive consequences. The west certainly isn't above that sort of chaos. France and Germany, the largest economic powers of continental Europe, have that in their history. The US isn't entirely above this kind of chaos, either.

The press in the west also follows a propaganda model.

https://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Econo...

Justice systems in the west have been known to cooperate with the authorities in miscarriages of justice, particularly in wartime or when subject to near-wartime hysteria.

When it comes down to it, there is always a struggle between good and evil in all times and places. The really tricky part of it is this: The worst evils disguise themselves as movements of good and justice. People and movements should be judged by their actions. Ask: Who is committing violence against whom? Who abets or tacitly accepts bad actions? Who is willing to call out their own side and their own tribe when they do wrong?

The left/right political spectrum ceases to have meaning when you look at it that way. The Authoritarian/Anti-authoritarian spectrum and the tribalist/universalist spectrums hold much more value.
There's a rifle at the Winchester.
I've switched all my stuff to .test, since that domain doesn't cause as many weird issues with some routers, proxies, OS networking bugs, dumb regex, etc.

Also, .test is reserved for testing/local forever, so it won't suffer the same fate as .dev.
Twitter, those ‘verified’ Bitcoin-pushing pillocks are pissing everyone off
Server seems to be down.
Learning to accept things you cannot change is one of the hardest things I've had to learn growing up.

Constant black and white thinking and cognitive distortions [0] all will increase your anxiety. Realize these emotions' utility and purpose. These feelings are meant to provoke action or change by you to improve your life. Constant negativity about things you have no control over cannot and will not ever help you.

It's good to practice questioning yourself when you're being crabby. Nothing in the world is 100% negative. The world is a lot more gray then black or white.

Try to challenge your assumptions about the world a bit more. Accept that maybe you don't know everything, and you almost never have the whole story, and use that to feel better.

For example, you may think that you're being ripped off constantly. You can challenge that with "at least it's keeping people working, and providing for their families". Maybe what you consider being "ripped off" isn't actually you being ripped off, maybe it's expensive to make these books. Don't think of it as 100% of the cost is a rip off. Maybe be like, well at least the books are worth 75% of what I paid for them.

In essence, if you cannot fix an issue yourself, you have to learn how to not care so much by either lessening the negativity of an event by challenging your emotions, either by turning negatives into a positive, or letting it just not affect you because it's not worth it.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_distortion
Yep that's our mistake (one of the web.dev devs). We auto added https to every URL. Oops! Gonna fix that as soon as we are out of our code freeze
> Two slices (1/4) of a typical, 13-inch cheese and meat pizza have been shown to provide almost 1/3 of the daily recommended allowance for protein, 12-15% for vitamin A, 30-45% for thiamin, 25-30% for riboflavin, 20-30% for niacin, 40-50% for calcium, and 18-25% for iron

Each slice has:

- 12-15g protein

- 16g fat (11g polyunsaturated)

- sodium 500mg

- carbohydrates 30g

- 2 to 5mg lycopene

Not bad unless you go crazy with a 'BBQ-sauce meatlovers' american pizza.
I just want to pop in and say that I am planning on moving from lastpass to bitwarden. I have significant problems with the lastpass android app, the biggest being my CORRECT password being rejected; also the app is just really buggy in general. I hope bitwarden is an improvement.
Right, but the key point is there were people alive who remembered WWI, and yet Nazis and Fascists came to power. The details are complicated, but the key point is that remembering the horror of WWI did not stop it from happening.
Ask HN: How much time do we have to get to Mars?
Looking over the revised dates for climate change impacts got me thinking about shocks to global supply chains. Getting to Mars is hard, but one thing we often ignore is how the teams running the effort are fed back here on Earth.

How much tonnage could SpaceX launch to Mars before supply chain disruptions caused by climate collapse (e.g. ocean CO2 reuptake halting due to acidification) prevent subsequent missions?
Annoyingly, LinkedIn's messaging system does this (both on mobile and desktop). I probably don't mean to send a two-word response to a long message from a professional contact.
Generally regulation like GDPR require a fair amount of engineering to comply with, so it is easier for larger companies to comply.
#Hacking the hackers
> It's unclear to me why the original cutter would not envy the new slices

The original cutter gets second choice of the "trimmed" section's 3-way split, so your 1/1/1 doesn't go to 1/0.5/1.5, it goes to 1.2/1.2/0.6 or something, but (crucially) the original 1.0 guy gets to pick 0.2 more before the 0.5 guy gets to pick the remaining 0.1.
> If you want to see REAL human suffering, look to something like the shipbreaking yards in India and Bangladesh.

Or the e-waste recycling done in Ghana:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/burning-truth-...
You think Uber is not giving the drivers a decent cut of the revenue?
It says so on a sticker underneath. You must ask seller to confirm or provide a picture.
Building more needs to be a part of the solution, but what if you built only market-rate housing and applied subsidies to existing housing?
I’m wondering how useful it is to save files on the local filesystem in 2018.

I can understand syncing Google Drive and saving stuff there. Or Resilio Sync or any number of other solutions such as Dat.

You Already have filepickers to open and read files. And you can save files as I indicated - via syncing to a service, where you have control of what goes where and it’s still there if you lose the device. And it can be encrypted where the local devices have keys for syncing.

The only new use case I can think of that this enables is overwriting existing files - which is dangerous!
NYC has plenty of problems, don't get me wrong, but I'd argue Brooklyn actually has a pretty straightforward model for this that would apply to San Francisco.

The general idea is figure out which areas have a core aesthetic that defines the area and is worth preserving, and landmark them. Then take the stuff that isn't in that category and basically let people go nuts with it and build high rise housing, and have some clear incentives for affordable housing that get it built into major projects.

Meanwhile make sure to take care of the parks and the waterfront, actually have real transit, and don't give a shit about humoring people who insist on driving.

Try it.
Heyo! One of the web.dev devs here. The new web.dev site is an experiment from our team to see if we can improve the interactivity of our docs. We link to developers.google.com/web in a number of places. Over time, if folks seem to enjoy the web.dev model, we may explore moving more of our docs over there. But for now it's just a fun experiment
Most of that is due to history and not zoning limitations. Williamsburg, Bushwick, Greenpoint, and LIC in Queens have all sprouted up.
Maybe a better ("local") geo-filter would solve that problem? Find local meetups to fund.
As time goes on, people adjust to the rule of law and societal standards. What happens in the west is that the "optics" are far better. Much of the corruption remains, however. Unfortunately, I think that's baked into reality and human nature.
Setup forwarding in Gmail to send to a fastmail address. Problem solved.
Prop 13 also allows people to sit on their land because they can still afford the property tax for ridiculously expensive houses. If Prop 13 did not exist, NIMBYs would not have the resources to keep stalling development.
Bridging the Digital Gender Divide [pdf]
The concept behind this is great, especially since this very closely matches how I usually estimate things — lower bound and highest expected bound, currently the user experience is pretty meh since you need to add a line and remove two lines to get additional "between N & M units" lines, but I can totally see myself using it once it matures. Would also recommend to others once it matures.

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