skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For anyone interested, this is a sad running joke of a headline in the DL community.

All that happened was that the models created an intermediate representation (think a latent space like an encoder decoder model) as intended by the researcher and then for whatever reason shut it down, presumably because it failed to get good results.

Then some jackass reporter decided to get some clicks by making a click bait title.
The latest data have Apple nearly dropping out of the Top 5 handset vendor. May be it should be the Top 4 vendor to complain first ?
That's the thing, though. Extremist videos are already against the rules, can be reported by users, and removed if the reports have merit.

Whether it's exaggerated "by the right-wing press" or not (I find it concerning despite being left-leaning and not the press), I don't like the notion of any politically-aligned parties having an outsized role in deciding what's "appropriate".
Unless it's Banksy's art in that bathroom stall.
EV batteries are at $227 / kwh and are on target to hit $100 per kWh in 2020. Because, costs tend to drop as production ramps up. Average american uses 35 kwh per day.

5% of US daily grid storage is an excessive goal, but assuming 100$/kwh would only cost 3,500$ / person. Assuming they last ~15 years that's under 20$/month which is clearly a deal killer, but not exactly impossible.

PS: Hydro storage is generally a much better option, but as a supplemental option batteries could be very useful.
Rights aren't natural, they aren't inherent, they are assigned (or granted) by a given constitutional context. In some systems there are rights that do not exist in other systems, even very fundamental ones.

Governments are extending their mandate and they are curtailing/"ungranting" certain other rights (principally, the uncodified "right to privacy"). Insofar as Parliament is sovereign in the UK and is the ultimate source of all rights, this is within their remit and requires no exceptional super-majority or constitutional amendment process.

Whether this is desirable or otherwise is quite another matter.
You can't. About a year ago I went looking for a big collection of at least the most popular ones, if not all of them, ready to drop $20 or so and fully expecting it to be available. They're not, so now I just have flying toasters.
Considering average tech pay in Seattle, Seattle's cost of living isn't much of an issue compared to say the Bay Area.
I hesitated before clicking on that link as for a second I thought it would start downloading that 200 TB proof.
Everyone already strongly suspected that the FCT was true. Nobody was surprised by the result, it just took a computer to prove it.
what will happen to test pilot after the non-webextension are not allowed?

As far i know must of these feature are implemented as extension and i don't thing webextension have the api to do a lot of thing that are in test pilot.
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> but YouTube is a private organization that _is_ being used as a platform by organizations like ISIS to radicalize random individuals who then go out and kill innocent people

by that logic they shouldn't allow US military recruitment videos either
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No that's not illogical, Why would I work to bend something like block chain, that was designed to be inefficent, to my will when I can just start from scratch using projects that were designed to be efficient first? That's very logical, the kind of decision that an engineer that's getting paid the make the best distributed system for the least money would make.
Yes, this is maddening. I had a Craigslister who would only pay for a transaction via Venmo. (She was willing to make the transaction in my presence and wait for it to confirm; it wasn't a scam on her part.) With great reluctance (I needed the transaction at the time), I changed my bank password to something else, signed up for Venmo, got the money, de-enrolled from Venmo, and changed my bank password back.

I think that they used to have some FAQ entry explaining why worrying about this is silly and nothing bad could happen, but I can't find it any more (probably because it's nonsense). However, just because they should be shamed for this whenever possible, here's a Slate article on their overall security: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/safety_net/2015/02/... .
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No, not a native speaker. I would consider my accent to be more British than American, but that should not make such a difference for easy words like "Wrist", "Fist", ... which gave me -1 points while I got a near 100 score on an accidental cough ;)
(And maybe the Federal tax credit)
I won't tolerate your intolerance towards ISIS. See how it's just a meaningless word game?
The commons can withdraw from the ECHR. I am not saying that Parliament is not a check on ministers. I am saying that there is no check on Parliament. A simple majority of parliament can pass anything and there is no entity that can stop it from becoming law.
Yeah, this sucks. Another example of this is Southern Poverty Law Center's "Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists". They include Maajid Nawaz and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, which is disgusting of the SPLC to do. https://www.splcenter.org/20161025/journalists-manual-field-...
The same is true of P != NP. And yet proving that would be a very big deal indeed (much as the FCT was).
And most importantly: Stripe does not randomly decide your funds are suddenly theirs for the next 6 months to a year.
Np...I'll add that Nim has an awesome book out "Nim in Action" and D has a free book on their site. Nim has several different backends (C, C++, Objective C, JavaScript) that it can transpile to that leverage the insane optimizations that things like GCC and Clang can offer. Nim has multiple garbage collectors depending on the level of performance you desire.
Some libraries change the namespace (package names) between major versions, specifically to allow transition from one to another in a gradual manor, or to start following namespace guidelines better.
Interesting thought. I agree, this kind of reasoning seems to be the flip side of the same coin. Meaning every opinion that differs from the 'mainstream' or even from what mighty Google considers to be morally or ethically wrong can be just cleverly labeled in a manner that allows them to redirect an individual to what Google thinks is right. 'Follow our politics and our opinions' - And who would be able to control if Google is abiding by the rules, when there are like billions of such difficult decisions to be made on a daily basis?
Smalltalk was able to do #1 in the 70s without static types.
I've worked with APIs like this. The email gets more complicated, and inevitably, the API starts breaking down. E.g., with this API, how do I send attachments?

To essentially every email endpoint in the world, I always end up wondering: why is there not just an endpoint:

POST /email?from=<sender>&to=<recipient1>&to=<recipient2>
Content-Type: message/rfc822

… the actual email to send, encoded according to RFC 822. I.e., an email.

i.e., these endpoints conflate two tasks: building the email and transmitting the email. I'm fine with simple helper methods like those offered, but once things reach their inevitable complexity (because lets face it, I'm sending an email designed by marketing. It's got tons of inline images and shiny design stuff…, and maybe an attachment) I really just want a "transmit this email to these people" endpoint.

(Of course, this starts to very much resembled SMTP. I'm frankly okay with the above: I have tons of readily available tooling for HTTP, and I understand how TLS works and doesn't with it. But I do also understand why some might balk at this with a "that's just SMTP!")

(And just to note: I don't want to trivialize building an email. Email's format is super complex. But I have in my standard library a module that handles that for me…)
Correct. It compiles to binaries without any runtime environment, so you have to manage memory. Apple did something with objective-c (forgot what it was called) that automatically frees your memory based on your code, but it actually inserts the free memory calls. That's the only language that does that AFAIK. Very clever though, memory management can be a pain if you aren't used to it.

The good thing about managing your memory is you don't have memory bloat and you don't have jitters when the GC decides to fire.
Only a 31MM dollar bug, nothing to see here, we're secure.

WAT?
So,I've got a cellphone with front and back cameras, a tablet with front and back cameras, and a laptop with a front camera, and a desktop device for which I could easily get a front camera for a far less than anything with it's own dedicated screen will cost, all of which have (or have available) both native and web-based video chat software (including versions specialized for group and one-on-one use.)

Whyever would I want or need a dedicated video chat device? Why would anyone?

Also, a laptop-sized (so, I guess, somewhere between 10” and 19”) isn't going to make people feel like they are in the same room.

I suppose if you wedded a 3D camera to a HoloLens-like AR system, with some clever software, that might make people feel like they are in the same room.
It all boils down to the fact that YouTube is Google's service and they can ban anything they want weather any of us like it or not.
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Interesting companies from an engineering pov?
Wouldn't the new virtual button use haptic feedback ("Force Touch")? If so, the lack of a physical button shouldn't matter. Today's home button (on the 6 and 7 series) is also haptic -- if your phone is dead, there's no click.

All this means is that they can use the screen real estate for something other than a button in some cases. If you're watching a video, I wouldn't be surprised if the home button still worked, it would just be hidden. (But it wouldn't be a huge loss if it didn't work, either, in my opinion.)
I really wish I'd known there would be an illustration of a naked woman in an advertisement on the right before I opened this at work.
> most french persons have no clue how to type the “ÿ” character

Of course we do. While ÿ is not common, you find it here and there.

Typing it on a keyboard is no different from typing ë (the tréma first, then y).
It is true however that some mobile keyboards do not have it as part of of the "y" family.
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Wonder how much that has to do with vertical integration.

If you already have a apple device you are already registered and anyone else on your contacts list that also have a apple device is also ready to receive your call.
My hope is they will not be acquired and will keep this stand-alone as a true alternative rather than be eaten and then to lose all their advantages. Acquisitions of companies like this usually spell the end of the line. Here's to hoping Stripe will IPO and will go on to acquire who could now potentially acquire them.
I think this is where reality meets theory. In reality, the developers are probably just taking the code as if they had written it, and the people that may know, such as immediate supervisors, don't care to point it out for the same reason the developers are stealing it, it's much easier than the alternative. The code vetting team is just left in the dark.

Employees take shortcuts around bureaucracy all the time. Sometimes (often?) that bureaucracy is for legal reasons.
I somehow find it really weird to see Canadian proper nouns with American spelling for Centre.
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"this can be very easily done fully client-side" : maybe, if you have the voice model and and inference engine that runs well on devices. Mozilla doesn't have that yet, so this experiment uses a backend running a Kaldi server and model that uses too much memory to run locally.

Once DeepSpeech is ready I'm pretty sure they will switch to that, and ultimately to on-device voice recognition with PipSqueak (PipSqueak is expected to be an inference engine usable on devices). Unfortunately none of these projects are far along enough to be usable.

Common Voice is mostly related to DeepSpeech as this will help getting data to train the engine.
Omg, Do you remember which word was understood as cough?
Because different graphics are shown are different resolutions, rather than purely scaling a highly detailed 1024x1024 SVG down to 128x128.
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But the washing and drying time at home can be used for other things - parallel processing with asynchronous dispatch of mutually exclusive washing and drying jobs.

Laundromat: Time and hassle to bundle everything in the car, take it to the laundromat, babysit it while there (you can't go anywhere else) and bring it back home. Completed sooner, but with more overhead and focused time.

Home laundry: take it a load at a time. Completed later, but you can do anything else (even leave the house) while loads are running. No transportation overhead.

Both models have advantages, and I've done both. Mostly depends on how much hassle it is to trundle everything to the laundromat, and how soon I need the backup cleared.
It's a mystery to me why police should be regarded as unimpeachable paragons of rectitude. It's like people haven't been paying attention to the news for the last five years.
> In reality, each one is its own little OS full of its own UI frameworks, testing frameworks, and nontrivial code.

Are you talking about React Native apps here as well?
>What's Send encrypting with? It doesn't show anything related to setting up a password during the video.

Likely a random string that is added to the download URL as Fragment (the part after # that doesn't get sent to the server).

The download URLs look like this:

https://send.firefox.com/download/50d43ef5f3/#GqCJXOUnCyxYGc...

I agree that there is very little explanation beyond "look at this cool thing".
The short version is that a component distributed with an embedded copy of its dependencies means a single legal review since it's a snapshot in time of a particular version of that component and its dependencies.

A component that instead references its dependencies and that have their own release schedule/versions, etc. requires a legal review for that component and each of its dependencies.

This has been true at multiple employers I've worked for, so seems unlikely to be a consideration unique to my current employer.
A lot of people I know, so this is very anecdotal, don't even like to talk on the phone anymore, they prefer texting. I do most of my video chatting at work with some of our remote co-workers and that's mainly because we want to screen share. If it wasn't for the screen share (we use google hangouts) then we'd probably never video chat.

My theory about why people would rather just text than voice/video chat is that it consumes to much effort and commitment of time. People want to be able to quickly switch contexts and apps. If you're talking or video chatting then you have to be more focused and your phone is occupied during that process.

Also I think there's just an abundance of ways to communicate with anyone around the world now that video chat is not as special as it once seemed. I tried counting how many ways I could be contacts and my list was long.
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Yes, I think you are correct. I looked at it, and I looked into it, but only to grasp the general gist of it. The point was that essentially they reduced the infinite opportunities for tiling to a finite set of graphs whose composition covered the full spectrum of cases.
My first part-time experience just started 2 months ago (not counting the odd freelance job once in a while). It's a contractor telecommute job for a small video game studio.

It's pretty good for the most part, but being gamedev related, it is not a very lucrative spot to be in. Initially I tried finding another PT programming job to fill in the extra time, but that proved to be fairly difficult, so I'm just riding out the rest of the contract while keeping my options open for a full-time job somewhere else in the future. I chose this job because it really spoke to some of my coding projects and it's a nice pivot away from my usual web development fare.

I've been using my extra time to pursue various topics and hobbies (both programming and non-programming related) and on errands for my mom (I currently live with her). I hope to go back full-time soon and live independently again.

The biggest difference to me is not in working part-time but telecommuting. Returning to an office will be a necessary adjustment. It can definitely affect your ability to socialize and communicate in-person, especially if you're more of a homebody like myself. I've found that to be more harmful to your career than even just idly surfing the internet, as people tend to hold certain expectations towards your network and ability to attain job offers at certain lengths of tenure.
"Terrorism is an attack on open societies, and addressing the threat posed by violence and hate is a critical challenge for us all." [0]

"Over the past weeks, we have begun working with more than 15 additional expert NGOs and institutions through our Trusted Flagger program, including the Anti-Defamation League, the No Hate Speech Movement, and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue."

Note the seamless transition from terrorism, to hate, to hate speech. Therefore, to protect open societies, we have to put censors to work on our users. How far we got in a couple of blog posts!

Note that the "No Hate Speech Movement" is "A youth campaign of the Council of Europe"[1] (so, not a movement at all), and the Council of Europe is an intergovernmental organization [2], so these are quite literally government censors.

Speaking of openness, is the full list of NGOs participating in the Trusted Flagger program available anywhere?

[0]: https://www.blog.google/topics/google-europe/four-steps-were...

[1]: https://www.nohatespeechmovement.org/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Europe
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I'm guessing but it seems logical that phones are not the place you want to do extra graphics rendering if you don't have to.
Cisco charges an arm and a leg for its videoconferencing devices, which are basically fancy versions of this. I'm okay with Facebook trying out a cheaper version for the average consumer. If they fail, it's their money; if they succeed and the product is game-changing, the world more or less gets better.

(I realize this is where people bring up 1984 which I think is just cynically off-topic.)