skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's just a statistical average. I've got about three grams of them, all collected in the method I describe, over about 5 years.
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Consider that if noone paid for their journals then Sci-Hub would not exist. Because noone would be able to share their accounts to log in to the content.
I don't disagree that this is a Bad Thing.

I like to use a BSD based router and a PF firewall. My solution:

match in on $i inet proto udp from any to !($i) port {53 123} rdr-to ($i)

"Any UDP packet destined for port 53 (DNS) or 123 (NTP) that is not the gateway ("$i"), redirect them to gateway ("$i").

The gateway has daemons listening and caching requests for performance. The client has no idea this is happening.

It works great for me.
Reminds me of this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2paoNvG5Nmo
With ELMo, the pretrained weights are frozen. Only the scalars for ELMo layers are tuned (as well as the additional top-level model, of course).
>Basically, pink slime is highly processed leavings of beef that cannot be used except by putting it through more or less a blender and a chemistry lab.

After butchering a carcass, you're left with a lot of fatty trimmings with small amounts of meat attached that are uneconomical to recover by hand. If you gently heat the fat trimmings and spin them in a centrifuge, you cleanly separate the lean meat from the fat. That process weakens the cell walls of the muscle fibres, which increases the risk of bacterial growth; to kill the bacteria, ammonium hydroxide gas is used to raise the pH. The FDA deems ammonium hydroxide to be safe, so it is widely used in US food manufacturing as an acidity regulator and antimicrobial agent. Other regulators disagree on the safety of ammonium hydroxide, in which case citric acid is used.

The production of LFTB is no weirder than any number of other food processes. It's a simple, efficient method for separating meat from fat. The media have made a mountain out of a molehill by sensationally revealing a "shocking secret" that is neither shocking nor secret. Personally, I think that a lot of consumers just prefer not to think about how meat ends up on their plate and recoil at any discussion of the process that turns live animals into hamburger patties.

We really need to be talking about the use of antibiotics as a growth promoter, which is a slow-motion catastrophe that the US regulators are largely ignoring.
Producing a collagen/cartilage slurry is also known as making a broth or a stew.
Haven't there been cases where parents keep the support checks for themselves?
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The BERT paper also introduced BERT Base, with is 12 layers with approximately the same number of parameters as GPT, but still outperforms GPT on GLUE.
Alan Turing's Letter to W. Ross Ashby (1946)
I’ve tried to think of a way out of this, but so far none of my ideas are very good.

1) Use my spare time to study a more lucrative field, and negotiate a four-day work week. The pitfall here is that I need to spend all of my spare time working, so that I may be able to work less in the future (and it’s not guaranteed that I will).

2) Move to a country where the cost of living is cheap, and freelance with international clients. The pitfall here is that I have to move away from all the people I care about. I may also end up introducing more stress into my life by living as a foreigner and relying on a freelance income.

3) Invest all of my time into starting my own business (for pitfalls, see 1).

4) Negotiate a four-day work week on my current wage, live a much more ascetic lifestyle, and only save a small amount of money for my future.

5) Marry into a wealthy family.

6) Find a duffel bag with a few million dollars in it.

Does anyone have any better ideas?
If you're ever been victim of bullying or abuse, especially by an authority, you'd consider the right to record yourself in public to be important.

The ACLU even has an app that can start recording by voice command. You should use it any time you are in a scenario with disproportionate inbalance of power (like when a police officer pulls you over).
Bill and Melinda Gates: Textbooks Are Becoming Obsolete
I'm in a similar state of mind. Would love to hear about what you're working on!
This is correct. It is a shame there are no music players that can do this natively. I have to do every track I wish to play along with by hand in Audacity (or if I'm using my Win2K laptop, Cool Edit Pro 2000.)

Alternatively (in theory, anyways,) you can do a spectral analysis, create a selection/range of frequencies to invert, and that can usually handle isolating individual instruments regardless of stereo isolation as long as the other instrument octave ranges do not overlap with the one you're isolating. I'd love a music player that could do that.
Replace the word fad with popular if that works better for you. There has definitely been a lot of buzz around it lately.
cloudflare?
This looks really cool to this casual observer. It actually uses optical flow to interpolate frames. The slow-motion demos are very impressive.

Is this the first open source software that uses this approach? I found a masters' thesis project, but it doesn't appear to be maintained.

Does anyone know if this is how slow-motion works on iphone cameras?
https://xi.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/267rzg/what_e...

> Churchill certainly did not engineer the famine in Bengal, but he was ultimately responsible for the lack of a relief effort for it.

https://xi.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/6zi5fx/was_ch...

> It is hard to say where British incompetence, obsession with the war effort, and active cruelty begin and end. My read of the evidence is that official rice production statistics were wrong, and the British let millions of people in Bengal die because the war was more important, but there's a lot of debate about what actually happened.

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/83oijk/was_c...
Balkans were not part of the EU when that conflict happened in the 90s.

The EU was a necessary prerequisite of the peace process in northern Ireland, as is being brought into sharp focus now With Brexit.
not the person you responded to, but someone with a similar perspective. i have a fairly tricky-to-fit body shape and prefer to try things on in person, since many things in my size don't actually look right on me. same goes for shoes - i fluctuate between about three sizes depending on brand and shoe type, so it's a pain to figure out which one fits without testing them out.

online shopping has gotten a lot easier these days, though, since most retailers post exact measurements and many also offer free returns.
Sublime 3, Atom or even Visual Studio code are great. They offer huge amounts of features. The ones I use everyday are multi cursor for selecting/editing multiple lines and regext for patterns in words. These features can make you seem like a god to a notepad user.

An example task, say you got a huge doc filled with numbers you could regex to select all co joining numbers of a phone number length then move them to the start of the line then multi edit and add [ ] around them. To do something like that just in notepad would be a nightmare but in of the others you could do that in 10 seconds.

Invest some time in learning them as they'll make you far more productive.
The Clock Is Ticking on Florida's Mountains of Hazardous Phosphate Waste (2017)
Yes, easily discoverable from the links under the search box as Tools -> All Results -> Verbatim. Ignore the sign about the leopard, I think that's just left over from some other project.
So they will have high net worth when they die prematurely due to stress and poor lifestyle.
Didn't expect this note at the end, but what a good move:

> Give back to the tools that make you successful - I give a percentage of my earnings every year to support software tools that help me do my job - iTerm2, Vim, Go, Postgres, Node.js, Python, nginx, various other open source projects.
Japanese Newspaper for Recluses, by Recluses
Razer Closes Its Game Store After 10 Months
Oh yeah... You "missed" that one....
Which is precisely why I included the word "margin"
That's damn cool.
You can build up a reputation on the side by creating educational "content" (ugh I hate that word) in the form of written tutorials, videos, etc. While you're building up that reputation + backlog of content, you can also be building an email list of people who like your stuff. Then you'll have an audience ready and waiting if/when you launch a product.

It's not necessarily fast, but it can work! I started in 2015 blogging, wrote & launched a book in 2016, and quit my job in 2018 to focus on my own products. I don't make nearly as much (yet!) but 100% of my time is my own and I can grow it at my own pace.
These models are really good at translating from one language to another and summarizing text.
I've had .dev domains for years. (Internally with Apache, virtual hosts IIRC?)

It seemed like the obvious choice of suffix for my localhost experiments, and I can't be the only person using it (e.g. https://headsigned.com/posts/setting-up-local-development-do...), will this new TLD break that?

I suppose I can always edit my hosts file but if I didn't know a new TLD was dropping would it screw me silently?
Descendants are subject to inflation though.
Just as a random tid-bit, I take walks after lunch through a shopping plaza.

There was a Payless store that opened around 2016 and stayed open for less than a year until being closed. Not sure what that was about. Guess it was never doing that well.
Daily Stormer never had a TLD. (And no, ICANN never will delegate .nazi)
>Nothing in nature produces food by treating in with ammonia!

We are the only thing in nature that "produces" food - every other species photosynthesises, hunts or grazes. We're the only species that can cook. Is cooking unnatural?

>made only with ingredients or processes endogenous to living organisms without human intervention

Where do you draw the line? Is wheat flour "unnatural" because we winnow off the chaff and grind the grains? Does a chicken leg become "unnatural" if you pluck it and skin it? Does milk become unnatural if you churn it into butter? Does butter become unnatural if you clarify it into ghee?

The whole distinction between "natural" and "unnatural" is meaningless in any practical sense. Either everything we do is "natural" because we're animals, or everything that we do that apes can't is "unnatural". Either only a raw food diet is natural, or everything is natural. There's no logical distinction between the complex chemistry we perform in our kitchens every day and the complex chemistry that occurs in industrial food production, just a vague squeamishness.
Nice job! Did you consider 3d printing any components?
In Granite State: Industry Groups Paint Dark Picture of Right to Repair
This is a primary core concept in mindfulness/meditative practices. That and to disassociate with our thoughts and minimize our ego.
Yet another: this is the whole compiler, but for a simpler language and target. https://github.com/darius/squeam/blob/master/eg/lambdacompil...

It's in my own Scheme variant, I'm afraid. I guess I should translate it to something people know. But, for example

;; Variable reference
(to (var-ref<- v)
(make ({.free-vars} (set<- v))
({.compile s k} (cons (s v) k))))

turns a source-code variable access into an AST object with two methods: 1. The free-variable set of this AST has just that one variable. 2. To compile this to bytecode, given a scope s and following code k, ask the scope what instruction to emit for this variable, and prepend that to k. (In general k is passed in for the sake of tail-call optimization, on line 33.)
This is all very good advice.
WSL filesystem performance is garbage, for one thing. Chances are good that if you're using Windows but you want to be using a Unix OS, it's your work that's forcing you to use Windows. And, if that's the case, chances are also good that the reason for that has something to do with a slew of legacy software that only runs on Windows. If both of those things are the case and you're trying desperately to develop a Unixy workflow, very clean integration with native Windows binaries is an unfortunate must. Cygwin delivers in that area much more effectively than WSL. Obviously Unix is my preference, but if I can't have Unix than I'd rather have Unix tools on the OS I'm being forced to use than a Unix sandbox will always be less than a real Linux/BSD install but fails to integrate properly with the OS I'm using by necessity.

The funny thing about both Cygwin and WSL is that, in my experience, many of the people who make use of them wish that they didn't have to make use of them. For me, Cygwin makes it a little easier for me to forget I'm not where I want to be (especially with things like winpty and apt-cyg). In Cygwin I can run URxvt just like at home, and run all the nonsense legacy software I need to for work, just like it were actually reasonable. In WSL, I can do none of that. It just doesn't work. I have a few co-workers who run WSL alongside cmd.exe. If I'm going to have to do that, I'd rather just stick to Cygwin.
I would rather be making less in a country with universal health care and subsidized housing. Making more but living on the knife's edge is not my idea of freedom.
I recall those times too, however I switched back to gopher because the web was click-click-crash if you were running windows or on the college unix workstations, it was click-click-hang.
Sci-Fi Author Robert Heinlein Was Basically MacGyver
After butchering a carcass, you're left with a lot of fatty trimmings with small amounts of meat attached that are uneconomical to recover by hand. If you gently heat the fat trimmings and spin them in a centrifuge, you cleanly separate the lean meat from the fat. That process weakens the cell walls of the muscle fibres, which increases the risk of bacterial growth; to kill the bacteria, ammonium hydroxide gas is used to raise the pH. The FDA deems ammonium hydroxide to be safe, so it is widely used in US food manufacturing as an acidity regulator and antimicrobial agent. Other regulators disagree on the safety of ammonium hydroxide, in which case citric acid is used.

That's a fine sell. Now sell me on, "this is so OK that we should have a statutory right not to ever mention this fact.

Which is to repeat the point that this tug-of-war isn't about "can you do it?" or "is it safe" but "do you even have to say anything?".

The problem is indeed how little consumers can determine about safety once it becomes obvious industry is throwing things all in a giant food processor and then mixing up things that appear simple. It makes people nervous even if, let's say, in this case everything is fine.

Because, suppose, in the case of antibiotics, everything is not fine at all? Do you want the precedent that "hey, once the expert decide everything is OK, then it's decided that things are sooo OK that you aren't allowed to talk about it at all". Which is to say, safe or not, problem or not, it's pink slime. That was what it was called before ABC and that's rather clearly an appropriate term.

And pink slime is shocking because consumers don't know anything. Keep the situation where the real processes of food production are shocking and hidden? Good idea? I believe not.
You do agree it shouldn’t be called be ground beef?
> Linux is a fork from MINIX.

This is false. Linux kernel even in the early stages didn't share any code with MINIX. MINIX had a restrictive license and this was partly why Linus decided to roll his own OS kernel.

Further, the two OSs differ fundamentally from an architecture standpoint (microkernel vs monolithic kernel).
All of this is a choice.

You can choose to live a different life. In 20 years in tech, its the rare person who asks "should we?" instead of "can we?"

Should you work yourself to death? Probably not. Can you? Sure. Was it a well considered choice to do so?
> There is no simple logical connective in ordinary language that captures that

Yes, I'd agree with this. I was trying to say something aproximately true to convey a point. In your post you did agree with my salient point - the electric field moves with the electron, it doesn't do something funny when the elestron has some spread in its wavefuntion for position. This seemed to be the what the article was talking about, that the gravitational field behaved differently for a superposition of states.

I will try a more concrete example.

Suppose you have an electron gun and shoot a single elctron at a metal plate. Suppose the wavefunction is such that it is uniform over the surface of the plate (So the electron has an equal probability of hitting anywhere on the plate.) What does the damage to the plate look like? Is it spread uniformly over the plate? No. It is a single small mark at some specific place on the plate. The electron is not smeared over the plate, the probability of finding the electron is smeared over the plate. The electron is still a point particle (to the extent of our current laws of physics) and it will only interact with the plate at one point. (Some people will not like my language and tell me I am wrong. But it is true the electron will hit the plate at a single point - not smeared out like the wavefunction is.)

In actuality the electron didn't cause the damage to the plate. The electric field did. The electric field moves with the electron almost like you would expect in classical physics. It's not like the electric field is smeared around because the electron is in a superposition of states.

I'd expect gravity to work the same way. But seeing how we don't have a theory it is possible it could violate the above idea. To me that would be a pretty weird violation too. (This short writeup doesn't really do that justice.) I'd bet against it.
Nalgebra: Linear Algebra Library for Rust
For others reading, the appropriate concepts are economic rent and rent seeking. The model espoused above (what people will pay) captures too few behaviours to be useful on its own in this situation. Certainly, the question of whether property taxes should be capped and whether governments should allow more buildings to be built requires tools beyond “the value is the current bid price”.
Finally. Options!! Back in the day we had 3Dfx (went under and sold to nVidia), PowerVR (They're still around. They're probably the GPU chip in your cellphone), Intel i740, and the AMD Radeon. nVidia broke in to the market with the Riva/Vanta/TNT cards. Hell even Trident had some Direct3D/opengl chips. For the past several years we've been down to just the big two (although Intel integrated has held up, even for some medium gaming and indie titles).

5+ was probably too many to support by most game devs, but 3 would be nice and solid. It's also nice that we'll have another player besides AMD that actually gives a shit about Linux/OSS drivers. nVidia might finally be forced to open up and contribute to Nouveau and bring it up to par with amdgpu. The future could be a team green, team red and team blue. Intel has killed the discrete graphics projects before though. So we'll have to wait and see.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say by that.
I feel like going freelance/consulting is such as "figure it out on your own" ordeal even though there are so many people who do it. Seems like there's opportunity to help people who want to go freelance transition more easily.

I think a good analogy is hair salons that sell a seat you can rent as a hairdresser...are there places where you can "pay" for leads/intros to clients as part of a larger remote software consultancy?
Tacit collusion still requires a tacit agreement. From your linked article:

>In an article published in the Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, I argue that such an approach would amount to a reversal of the burden of proof under existing case law, in particular on the prohibition of coordinated facilitating practices. Indeed, following the current position of the Court, in order to establish the existence of a collusive agreement solely on the basis of circumstantial evidence (such as the uniform adoption of an alleged facilitating practice), and without proof of reciprocal contact through direct or indirect communication, the existence of any plausible and legitimate alternative explanation must be ruled out.
Maybe because it is a) wrong about Stalin, and b) Staling killed far more people than Hitler, Churchill, and Ted Bundy combined?
> The article/directive specifically called out DNS account passwords on DNS hosting providers. If they were using support tickets and manually implemented changes by hand then there would not be an account.

I don't think it's difficult to imagine that, somewhere within the massive federal bureaucracy, there is a team that works on DNS record tickets filed by other parts of the bureaucracy, and logs into a web console with a DNS hosting provider in order to fulfill those tickets.
Sentencing is harsher the 30 minutes before lunch then after lunch.

We need to have AI run everything to prevent bias.
No, because that is not realistic for the exact reason you mention — that would break a lot of sites. Probably the vast majority even.

And I don’t see any real benefit in changing the defaults either. Most sites want to provide custom CSS. The point of reader view is to make simple articles consisting of text and images comfortable to read on your specific device. Device/resolution specific defaults would be at least as painful, and probably more painful, to override for every site that wants to use custom CSS.

Whereas an explicit meta tag telling the user-agent to use reader view is entirely feasible. Such a meta tag does not interfere with existing pages, requires nothing extra from sites that don’t want it, and would still fall back to something that works for all end-users whose user-agents don’t implement it (because browsers ignore meta tags they don’t understand so those browsers would render the page in the exact same way they would any unstyled page). And on top of that this theoretical meta tag would be really easy for browser vendors to implement — they parse the HTML, see the meta tag and trigger the reader view mode that they have already implemented.
I am probably just cynical but the title reads like a medium tech blogger is about to tell me why he started using React in the cloud.
Does this violate GDPR? You have a delete code .. man this is a long terms of service.
I get what you're saying, but apparently there is something special about tomato seeds. It's not that they're surviving a digestive track (by design) or my compost pile (something almost nothing else does...not a single squash, cucumber, okra, peach, apple, etc., etc. has done), they're surviving a sewage treatment plant. Bioreduction and chemical treatment. So...tomatoes are pretty cool.
> My recollection was that as soon as anyone - but especially techies - tried Google even once they never went back.

> The lack of fresh index surely was a factor but not sure whether it was primary.

I wasn't aware about index back then, but I saw broken links, at that time I thought that was normal, that it takes time to scan the entire Internet. With Google I generally got working websites.

I did like the boolean search in AV, it helped with obscure searches, especially when name was similar to a typo of a popular word.
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