skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's talk about pedantry for a minute. Did you notice the comment I was responding to? It was an individual who thought orbit had something to do with escape velocity. Like many people he probably thought that orbit was about 'escaping' Earth's gravity and then just floating in 0g. In other words he knows nothing about orbital mechanics and, most likely, next to nothing about physics in general.

There is no vernacular in my post. When I use the word force, I am stating it in a purely colloquial sense. And in this regard everything is completely cogent and clear description of the forces (har har) in play. By contrast look at the top post. It provides a couple of sentences along with a link to Wiki for further elaboration that immediately jumps into orbital mechanics, assuming an understanding of delta v, etc. There's nothing wrong with the comment in and of itself, but it's an absolutely awful comment in regards to the audience it's talking to.

And I think this pedantry a big part of the reason that so many individuals are completely scientifically illiterate. Most of all science is relatively simple, but one of the biggest issues is vernacular. And indeed within a field there is extremely good reason for this vernacular. It is not only vastly more concise than trying to obtusely explain every single concept from the ground up, but it is also more precise. Do I mean force? Do I mean momentum? Speed? Velocity? Every concept is entirely different, but in the world outside outside of the field -- none of this matters. Theories are just ideas, speed and velocity are same thing, and so on.

The point of this is, do you think my post would be clear and accurate in what it is understood to mean from the demographic that the message was directed at? I think the answer is absolutely yes. And the casual use of terms that have more precise meanings within a vernacular is in no way going to mislead them as to the meaning of what is said. Far from it, in my opinion - using more appropriate terminology is likely to lead to a less elucidating post!
+1 "Principles"
I'm curious - I've never seen tech books that short that people actually buy. Could you link some example?

The closest I know of are the Julia Evans' zines, but I think you meant something different.
The whole concept that "Linux is just a kernel" sounds like some kind of whining pedantic hair splitting, unless you understand that almost all the stuff that ships in a Linux distribution including all the FOSS stuff we call "the desktop" runs perfectly well on all modern Unix-like systems like FreeBSD et al. xorg, Firefox, Gnome/KDE/foo/bar, yada yada. Admittedly there are fewer and fewer Unix-like systems left (I cut my teeth on OSes that are now dead and buried), but it's a massive disservice to all these wonderful projects that we don't have a better ways to describe this stuff so that we don't have people talking about "the Linux desktop". Get off my lawn, etc.
Anyone who uses Excel for any kind of serious work quickly gets frustrated by the LibreOffice limitations.
The Power of Habit (Not recommend it) << Why not? :)
As I mentioned, Intel BootGuard has firmware keys burned into the CPU so that only firmware signed by Intel can be used as a bootloader. This is done to avoid boot-kits, but results in users not being able to flash their own firmware on their devices (so CoreBoot cannot be used on OEM machines with newer Intel CPUs). Note that enclaves can be used for things other than HSMs, and could be used in far deeper parts of the stack than just as a HSM interface.
Some of my friends ended up trying Linux in the Vista era. What happened was interesting.

I don't think any of them became full-on Linux users, but some of them continued to use Linux alongside Windows. What this signifies to me is that Linux has some strengths that people really want, but it doesn't do a great job of replacing Windows in its current state.

I find this to be my exact problem, too. Windows does a lot of things right that Linux may never, and the app library on Windows is probably going to be the best on the desktop for at least another 10 years if not longer. Linux, however, has a beautiful experience for developers and sometimes even for power users. You can turn on and off almost any feature you want, there's a ton of alternative setups. You can even run a different libc if you really want to.

I still use a Linux desktop as my primary, but I have never managed to escape dual booting or virtual machines entirely, and I'm not sure when it might be possible.
I'm a self taught programmer with a very weak maths background. What's the best learning path for me if I want to be able to understand and create ML based applications?
can you point to some good examples of how that looks like?
if they had added turn-based PVP with an AR overlay for other viewers to 'watch' on their phone, with crazy effects and real life sized pokemon,,,,, would have been a HUGE hit with initial snowball of people flocking to that app.
+1 "The Phoenix Project"
One of my favorite techniques for implementing VMs is the "computed goto":

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/07/12/computed-goto-for-e...

Consider this example for dispatching instructions from the article:

while (running)
{
uint16_t op = mem_read(reg[R_PC]++) >> 12;

switch (op)
{
case OP_ADD:
{ADD, 6}
break;
case OP_AND:
{AND, 7}
break;
case OP_NOT:
{NOT, 7}
break;
case OP_BR:
{BR, 7}
break;
...
}
}

That code has a lot of branching. The switch statement has to jump to the corresponding case, the break statement branches to the bottom, and then there is third branch to get back to the top of the while loop. Three branches just to hit one instruction.

Now imagine we had written the above as:

static void* dispatch_table[] = { &&OP_ADD, &&OP_AND, &&OP_NOT, &&OP_BR,
... };
#define DISPATCH() goto *dispatch_table[memory[reg[R_PC]++] >> 12]

DISPATCH();

OP_ADD:
{ADD, 6}
DISPATCH();
OP_AND:
{AND, 7}
DISPATCH();
OP_NOT:
{NOT, 7}
DISPATCH();
OP_BR:
{BR, 7}
DISPATCH();
...

Now there is only one branch per instruction. The handler for each instruction directly jumps to the next location via the goto. There is no need to be in an explicit loop because the interpreter runs until it hits a halting instruction.

Many VMs now use this technique, including the canonical Ruby and Python interpreters.
I think Nix and Guix are going to solve this problem better than snaps and flatpaks. Not only are they really good package managers, but they were made to work on other distros.
+1 "Deep Work".
No it will not.
I wouldn't say it's less trouble than Windows, just different trouble that people are not used to. Trying to get my 2013 Brother printer/scanner to work in Ubuntu involved tweaking and running shell scripts found on Stackoverflow. Desktops should just work, yet sadly none of them really do.
No, only one pc, mine.
But I think is the same they will spot the destination of the vpn tunnel.
What about chaining more than one configuration like this?
I mean, if so, the VPS Provider will see in the ending of the softether vpn tunnel another vps provider chained so may this configuration help me in terms of anonimity?
Maybe chaining 3 or 4 configuration like this could increase a lot the time one potential attacker will spend to resolve all the node.
In your opinion chaining VPN (VPNinception) could give me more anonimity?
I like git as well but UX wise... just look at the number of different syntaxes to delete something.
That's not what happened. Google mailed this out to anyone signed up for a Google Trends alert about New Zealand, which is a lot of people, most of whom are presumably in New Zealand where the name suppression order is in force.
Git has a learning curve, yes. Everything has a learning curve. It helps to actually read the documentation, to go through a few tutorials and to generally play around with Git.

Is it intuitive without prior experience? No. Nothing nontrivial is.

As an example: I have not grokked Blender though I have tried a few times. But I have tried it fully intuitively, just exploring the UI without really reading documentation at all (when I have time I will study it more). Does the UX make sense? No, not to me. Does it mean Blender has a bad UX? No, I don't think so! It has a learning curve like everything else, and learning it is something I have to do if I want to be able to use it. I cannot expect someone else to learn it for me.
Google One
Egypt’s Halan actually raised $4.3M in their recently announced Series A
What is the .NET IL linker and what does it do?
I present to you: The Worst Roommate

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid...
Billboard.js 1.7.0 release
Comment below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18678713
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Merry Christmas to Jon Bois
+1 "The old man and the sea"
>the app library on Windows is probably going to be the best on the desktop for at least another 10 years if not longer.

The app market will very quick shift if linux really starts to get the ball rolling.

Just look how quickly developers jump on the mobile train.
Also in Thailand and Laos. These games are hugely popular. Called a "share" in Thailand and "houay" in Laos.

It's some basic banking services for the unbanked in essence.
You could look via seismographs and small explosions, as is done for some kinds of resource exploration.

Plain old drilling is pretty effective though.
Oath that owns AOL and Yahoo, is worthless, said parent company Verizon
this is what keeps a lot of people with Apple, their OS generally does "just work" for everyday stuff, even if it is far from perfect.
It is different but very important.
'LeifCarrotson didn't say "DRM", though it's kind of implied as a part. Third parties preventing device owner from operating the device is a cornerstone of information security, justified by observing that regular folks are very prone to selfpwning themselves if a little of social engineering is applied (+ it's hard in general to distinguish user-initiated actions from sofware-initiated ones). It's important to remember that legit security needs and user freedoms start to be in conflict pretty much as soon as the device in question gets connected to the Internet.
>It helps to actually read the documentation, to go through a few tutorials and to generally play around with Git.

Yeah, that's the problem. People don't want to do that. Keep in mind, you're not talking about people you find on HN. You're talking about Grandma Sally and Aunt Susan. These are people who can barely use Gmail. They don't want to crack open the documentation
If you're far enough away you'll suffocate before reaching the ground.
Google OneDrive?
The search box with hamburger menu is visible by default. You deliberately hid it to get to the state in your screenshot. It is two clicks to disable 3D from the default state. This is entirely reasonable.
I assume that publically traded companies can't legally create new shares of stock without announcing it to their investors, and so trading on that nonpublic information sounds 1)insanely illegal and 2)very frustrating to rewind for regulators.
Is resume FRAUD a thing?
Answered by Kathy Brooks on Quora:

----------------------------------

This actually happened to someone I knew during my college days.

So this guy, 4 years my senior, graduated with a computer science degree and got a respectable job at a reputable software company. During his college days, he cleared a course on programming by copy-pasting a chunk of code from StackOverflow in one of his major assignments. So 1 year into professional life, his professor back at the college finds out that this guy passed by ‘cheating’ through that assignment.

Man, was he mad! He went through the archived records, found this guy’s transcripts, and changed his grade for the entire core course from a B to an F, officially rendering his degree void! That’s right! The guy working in the company had no idea that his degree was no longer valid.

The professor then went a step ahead and reached out to the CEO of the software company where that guy was employed. He explained how his degree was void, hence his resume, a fake. And it can only be corrected if that guy enrolled in that course again, and cleared the assignment honestly to get a brand new, valid degree.

The CEO had to agree since officially, their employee’s degree was fake, and so was the education information on his resume.

That guy had to suffer a break in his professional career, and definitely learned a life-long lesson: Don’t ever cheat in assignments!

Read more about it here: https://www.quora.com/What-happens-when-resume-fraud-is-discovered-after-the-applicant-is-hired/answer/Kathy-Brooks-65
> I personally know people who hate the Linux desktop experience but use a Chromebook daily.

Google nailed that UI and everything just works.

Settings are just bundled in with your browser settings, no cli anything to run.
Man, before Prime shipping in Spain was a pain, at least anecdotally. It always took 3 business days, whatever the shop.

My mum was mad at me for paying for 1 day shipping (eg Prime Delivery - 20€ in Spain - crazy cheap) because "You know that this won't work in Spain!!"
Apple China to push software update in bid to resolve Qualcomm case
If printer was my only problem with linux desktops, I'd be so happy.

My terminal and/or browser windows will randomly flicker a few times a day, for no apparent reason. Nothing stops this short of a restart. Oh yea, and then when my computer restarts, sometimes half the screen is strobing. This is persistent across monitors and apparently video cards.

Sometimes moving my mouse across a terminal or browser window will cause it to flicker a lot.

Last week one computer stopped responding to input devices (ssh was still fine).

Half the games I play don't work on linux, without resorting to some very ambitious scripting and configuration. And even then, most of them don't really work, due to performance issues. Don't even get me started on the joystick :\

It's a lot better than it used to be, for instance my second monitor doesn't randomly go completely haywire anymore. And audio kinda mostly works usually.

Same hardware on Windows though? No problems at all.
Ripple Partners Another Asian Business to Begin Blockchain Payments
I can provide an anecdote too. You can go to Japan, and get treated with terribly good service (no tips there).
A vegetarian diet is not made of broccoli.

Calories per dollar list: https://efficiencyiseverything.com/calorie-per-dollar-list/
Umm, no.

The only time I use W10 is reading ppts by profs because Impress really messes the rendering.
I'm using Paketsafe for 1.5 years, pretty happy with it. The welcro came off the lid with time but I just glued it back with silicone. The bag itself is steel-lined.

https://www.amazon.de/dp/B01L7DYJD2
That's funny indeed, but China is stealing intellectual property also from the EU.

And many EU companies still haven't learned the lesson - they continue doing business in China and sharing intellectual property willingly.
It uses React Native Web which allows to share more UI code. Pretty cool!
Their support site is far more valuable than the landing page.

From the main support index at https://support.google.com/googleone/ here are various tidbits of useful content that the surrounding HN comments wished for (sorry, none describe the "expert help" available):

"Get Google One":

https://support.google.com/googleone/answer/9004013

> With Google One, you get more storage, help from experts, and extra member benefits. You can share your membership with up to 5 family members.

"How your existing storage works with Google One":

https://support.google.com/googleone/answer/9004014

> You'll get storage through your Google One membership, which will become your new storage limit. You'll no longer buy storage through Google Drive.

"Claim a Benefit":

https://support.google.com/googleone/answer/9003266

> Google One hotel deals depend on the day, time, and other factors. There might not be a deal for every hotel search.

https://support.google.com/googleone/answer/9080668

"Learn where Google One is available":

> Create or join a family; Use Google Play Family Library; Subscribe to the Google Play Music family plan; Use a family calendar
That landing page was too busy and did a weak job at selling what "one" was if it's really more than a cheaper drop box.

Expert access for $1.99/mo? Huh?
Cats are much smaller than humans and better prepared to absorb impact after "floating" to ground. I assume breaking the fall would actually be dangerous to cats because it disturbs their approach.
>Just look how quickly developers jump on the mobile train.

Interesting. I don't feel similarly about the progress of mobile apps.

Like sure, there's a lot of mobile apps, but I feel like they are a lot less mature and developed than desktop apps are. I would guess by development effort spent, desktop apps still outpace mobile apps.

Don't get me wrong, I get that games and apps must be adapted for the amount of system resources and for the input devices users will be using. But that doesn't mean PS Touch is the same as Photoshop. It feels like a toy version of Photoshop that you can use in a pinch between having access to real Photoshop. I doubt the same number of people hours went into both.

Linux ports couldn't work that way. You would want the same thing you have on Windows.
Considering what KDE has achieved with Plasma 5, I am really happy. I use Plasma 5 on all my machines that are capable enough to handle it. Gnome 3, consequently, has never found a place. On old machines, I use Xfce only. Xfce is, in no way, for the masses. Plasma 5 could easily be the Desktop Environment that everyone loves, if they continue to improve.

I have helped people migrate from Windows to Plasma 5. They loved it. However, getting\installing software and general system management is still not straightforward enough. We also need system management tools that are solid. No terminal gymnastics at all for the common user on distros targeted at the masses.

Flatpak is all cool, but we need core user-space applications to be standardized. LibreOffice, for example, needs to become the industry standard office-suite. How can we achieve that? People I know just do not want to move away from MS Office. Even government agencies invest heavily in MS Office. This might just be the most important impediment.

I think, the Linux ecosystem shows us what a real "free market" looks like. Lots of small players and no monopoly. People love choices and they have. You want a minimal Window Manager, you got many to choose from. You want a full-blown Desktop Environment, you are spoilt for choice. Not a bad thing in an ideal world, but...
Do you know if an optimizing compiler will ever make this transformation?
I'm confused. What is it? A storage bump? Paid support? A discount plan? A consolidation of all these offerings from different places into one home?

This is such a bad landing page. I have more questions than answers.
You are right that hearsay and anecdote are not useful for determining the empirical validity of a theory or therapy. However, hearsay and anecdote have been useful a million times over in helping people solve problems or challenges they've faced at certain times and in certain places (whether fully or partially).

People you don't know will tell you things like, "Do crossword puzzles. That will keep you sharp." I'm someone you don't know, and I'm telling you, "If you've decided to do some cognitive training, you should give N-Back training a try in the manner I described."

Maybe it will help you sleep on a night where you have trouble sleeping. Maybe it helps your mental acuity. Maybe nothing. Maybe it will be a waste of 30 minutes for you.
Ask HN: Losing anchor client. Scared. What now?
I'm a freelancer who's been doing automation coding for the last few years.

Just found out that my anchor client (who makes up >90% of total revenue) isn't going to renew me for next year.

I'm the geek behind the keyboard, and don't know how to sell.

I didn't have to sell to get the gig in the first place, because I was in the right place at the right time.
"Most" is not a stretch here. It is synonymous with "majority" in this case, which 57% certainly is. You might be thinking of a slightly different usage of the word
Based on what I know about it, it's a one subscription plan for everything. Storage, mail, photos, music, videos, everything.
For a moment I thought it was going to be another chat app.

Instead it's... something? A one sentence description at the beginning of the page wouldn't hurt...
It's a googlier Google.

It's Extra Google.

Could've been called Google Extra, but the word Extra has a negative connotation to it at this time.

...actually, even that interpretation seems applicable here.
Click something in the sidebar... that revels another sidebar...

Back to UX how am I going to know that clicking "Globe" is a toggle state like a checkbox? (https://i.imgur.com/rvLdzM8.png)

I've been using Google Maps for years, I preach it. These things make me feel like a heathen.
> This course [Strang] is apparently the holy grail course for Intro Linear Algebra.

I haven't watched his lectures, but I TA'd a linear algebra course that used his text book, and strongly disliked his presentation. I've heard that's a fairly common reaction actually - it's one of those love it or hate it books. I'm bringing it up because if you (or someone else reading this) turn out to be in the group that doesn't love it, you should not give up on loving linear algebra! You are definitely still allowed to have a different 'holy grail course'!
By the end of the page, I wasn't even sure what "one" is.
Exactly. If I remember correctly, the older Opera browser was more standards compliant than any other browser at that time.

But since developers were primarily coding for IE, Firefox and Safari, each with their own quirks, it just didn't work out for them.

I remember doing web development back then and don't recall ever testing for Opera compatibility myself.

At the end of the day, you only have do much time. So although my primary browser was Opera, I knew I was in the minority despite all the standards compliance
The improvements in GANs from 2014 are amazing. From coarse 32x32 pixel images we have gotten to 1024x1024 images that can fool most humans.
Those look to all be used 3gb cards
Why not actually read the page?

Google One includes

100 GB storage

Access to Google experts

Option to add your family

Extra member benefits
Martingale and Fibonacci Systems are for dummies
I have cracked the Roulette code.
There's a long history of cycles in this field.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

The plateau comes from the problems with vanishing gradients.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanishing_gradient_problem
Remember that billboard puzzle google put up in 2004?

I think this might be the same thing.

If you can figure out what Google One is you are a genius!
After Google Plus comes Google One
First thing I thought. Wonder what he's been using to animate Google Earth in his existing stuff - manual camera movement and screen recording?
It’s, like, Google plus more Google. What else would you possibly call that?
I couldn't find anything about availability (24/7?), response times, or issue escalation for their 'experts.' If I got locked out of my account, would I still have access to an expert to help?
Why SiteGround Tops All Other Hosting Sites
keep voting left and you may not even have to worry about having phones or an economy
Google experts?