skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reasoning there would be that you could use bitwise operations to mask inputs from two vectors into one (think vectorized conditional move), which effectively allows you to easily achieve performant branch predication.

However, you can trivially achieve this the normal way by including simple instructions that allow you to select or combine vector inputs. If that's not a path they want to go down, it's also doable to take a slight performance hit and achieve the same with the use of multiplication instructions.
Libra is not a rival to bitcoin. Libra is created to be used to exchange goods. In contrast to Bitcoin which has turned out to be a gamble and impossible to use to exchange goods. At this point, bitcoin has made a niche for itself and will be here for many more years but it's impossible to change and develop it since it's almost impossible to get agreement to change due to its inherent user self-interest. Other currencies will move forward with the development of cryptocurrencies.
Limited? That describes about half the applications I've built in my career!

In all seriousness, there is a big difference between static content pages and full-blown applications; the cost to make the latter work properly without JS enabled is almost never worth it. But the same is true even for some static pages; for instance, I would never expect that NY times election forecast page to work without JavaScript, and don't see any reason that it should. (The "JS-based fakery" is pretty irrelevant to the discussion, IMO.)
> Note that in the UK, some forms of consensual BDSM have been prosecuted as serious assault, and the person on the receiving end has been prosecuted for conspiracy to commit assault because they consented to it.

Can someone versed in UK law clarify how such a stupid system emerged out of their laws? I'd guess that's an unintended consequence of how laws were worded, but it is mind boggling.
> Or you can send an email and maybe they’ll answer on the “weekend”.

If a SCUD missile isn't headed toward the office, what makes one think people in working four days a week will answer email on the weekend?
guys, the word is elicit

To your point, i think there is no comparison. Famous athletes/artists have earned the public's trust due to being very talented and working hard. I don't think most social media promoters have earned the same kind of recognition and thus trust, especially when it is obvious from the get-go that they are going after monetization ASAP, they are not in it for the fun of it. It's not equally inspiring
Here is a detailed post which covers the specifics: https://www.alexirpan.com/2019/02/22/alphastar.html
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Remove the Google logo from the Golang website
Most people don't decide what they're interested in. Certain things grip your imagination.

I tried to get into guitar, but after I found skydiving I sold my guitar for my initial training and have been jumping ever since (20 years). That led me to wanting to drive airplanes when I could afford it.

Flying touches my imagination some how and was always interested in it. Being able to leave my local airport and bust out of the clouds hundreds of miles away safely despite the weather and lack of vision is rewarding.
We had huge success with metro advertisements (in the actual trains, on one line), and no success with radio, despite having massive coverage.
Mileage definitely varies with your product.
I think that may have been true in the past but I would not at all be surprised if modern smartphones can record 24/7 with negligible effect on battery life, and upload the audio while being charged.
> Scuttlebutt (decentralized social network / protocol) has a tool specifically for this. It's called Dark Crystal. the basic summary is that your secreted gets securely divided among your friends. none of them can read it, but if you get enough of them to send their "shards" back to you you can rebuild the "crystal" and recover your secret.

> The web site isn't great but... https://darkcrystal.pw/

> and here, of course, is the Scuttlebutt site: https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/

Sounds like a variant of Shamir's Secret Sharing [1]. Here are some other variants of secret sharing mentioned [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_sharing
The Desire for Full Automation
It’s more about personal preference. Some pilots hate the airbus as the flight controls are not linked up so they can’t see or feel what the person flying the aircraft is doing when they are in the other seat. Others much prefer the airbus design for example during assent they can simply let the aircraft deal with the specifics to avoid a stall and just go all out on the controls.

Really it’s not just different aircraft but also different design philosophies.
What are we defining as "Hollywood" here? Is Netflix really considered the same thing as the studios that produce the blockbusters?
> ... but to my best knowledge, this behaviour isn't part of the standard.

To the best of my knowledge, Python isn't one such language with a standard, is it?
Yeah, recent experience with other drivers in my area is convincing me that the only reasonable thing to do is ban cars.
SF has the notorious 38 Geary that had 55+K daily ridership (boardings) in 2017 [1]. It has many of the problems of an overloaded bus line (traffic causing buses to run together, etc). Oddly, the SF Muni metro lines (what they call the light rail, runs underground downtown but on the street elsewhere) don't seem as congested, but I can't find the ridership numbers.

People have been complaining about the 38 for years, but I don't want to criticize the SFMTA (local agency that runs buses/trolley buses and light rail) because it does seem to get the job done without much expensive investment (cost of most recent underground metro in SF was $1.6B for 1.7 miles [2]).

[1] https://sf.curbed.com/2017/9/19/16302396/sf-worst-bus-transi...

[2] https://www.sfmta.com/projects/central-subway-project
what are you working on or would like to do?
I just put a hard shell case on my MacBook and cover that with stickers. The MacBook stays pristine and unaffected underneath.
What are examples of such systems?
Should be noted that Netlify provides a lot of tools for JAMstack sites, like their Netlify CMS (which you can self-host if you're determined) and Netlify Functions.

If you need the SPA framework for productivity reasons, then you could use something like Gridsome to have it generate a static site.
Depends what you mean by "instantly...all over the battlefield." It essentially uses the monitor/keyboard/mouse for its input and output, rather than some nice API of the game state. Thus, like a human player, it can see things on the minimap roughly instantly then use the keyboard or mouse to move the camera and start responding.

If you watch the first-person view of top human professionals it already looks pretty instant or "mechanical," and is sometimes hard to follow for me even as a semi-competent player and avid spectator. What's the TTFA for a pro when an enemy drop appears on the minimap? I would guess somewhere around 200ms at the quickest? That would be similar to the latency of the DeepMind neural network (supposedly 350ms). And, of course, Starcraft 2 already has an approximate input latency of 200ms (so that all players can receive all other players' inputs and run them against their game state).

At the end of the day I don't see pure reaction speed as being a huge issue in Starcraft 2. Perhaps it would give a computer an "unfair" advantage in some rare cases like two cloaked ghosts running into each other and trying to snipe each other.
CORS can be used to define exceptions to the same-origin-policy.

By default, the same-origin-policy doesn't allow all requests to other origins (domains/websites/ports). But if you want to allow another website to send requests to your site you can use CORS to do so.

So for example, if you have a contact form on one page (example.com) and the API for processing the submitted forms on another domain (processing.com; different origin), the receiving server tells the browsers via CORS that submissions from example.com are allowed.
It's fun to play around with the algorithms in JavaScript.
https://codepen.io/collection/AkoojL
Depends on where you are. Outside of the denser places like NYC, SF, and LA, street parking is often undesired and seen as something like a sign of blight (only the poorest neighborhoods don't have space for off-street parking).

Bike lanes remain horribly under-provisioned even there, but it's not really a street-parking thing. It's just a car-first thing. A two to four lane road with no street parking but still no bike lane is not meaningfully more friendly than one with street parking.
Yes, nickel is more of a concern, but manganese is still toxic. Comparing heavy metal toxicity to human lethal doses can be misleading, however.

Invertebrates are much more sensitive to heavy metals. Again toxic doses for many marine invertebrates are in the ppb-ppm range.

Copper for instance is commonly used as a treatment for marine parasites on fish. However the dosing needs to be done carefully, since a doses in the range of 5ppm can start to kill the fish themselves.
Yep, definitely is. Have been getting 503s for the last 15 minutes.
Usually this reduces waste. I bet we'll see the next panic about food waste.
This article doesn’t address the power law of influencers. Audiences are engaging with a smaller number of super mega influencers such as the Bucket List Family (1.8M followers).
Have you seen the doorstop 2ds? Same logic by Nintendo and it sold well I believe.
I bet Louis Rossman would have some thoughts on this. He had a customer who became a local meme after having a tantrum about sticker residue. These things can be trivial or impossible to remove depending how much you know about the adhesive and removal methods.
May be we need to fix the gums in stickers to peel off easily - then it could work for all laptops/devices. Another option could be put an easily peelable tape and then sticker on top of it.
Indeed, this is the canonical way of avoiding CSRF (= XSRF) attacks. I intentionally only explained the header method because I didn't want to confuse readers with another concept, and because it's a really nice example to explain CORS.

https://github.com/OWASP/CheatSheetSeries/blob/master/cheats... is probably one of the best documents discussing this, including the drawbacks of the header method that I used (and warned against) in my example:

https://github.com/OWASP/CheatSheetSeries/blob/master/cheats...
A short article about money creation in the modern economy by the Bank of England that will probably answer your questions https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
To be clear, I don't have a problem with people seeing his designs as amazing. I just think there were multiple amazing people racing to bring out home computers at the same time, and so while each of them did amazing things with what they had available, we'd have done OK with any one if them.
Calca is excellent
Trees get mentioned a lot for mitigation (as they should), but should we also be looking at kelp plantations too? A bonus would be addressing ocean acidification.
Game Source Code Collection on Archive.org
Oddly I’m seeing this packing creep in in places like Trader Joe’s and some other (small) independents, not so much the big chains, thankfully.
Firefox 67.0.4 Denial of Service
I use a hard case on my work laptop for similar reasons - it's not my laptop, and when I give it back I want to keep the stickers! (I get a bit attached after using a stickered-up machine for a while.)

The framed set of stickers at the bottom is kinda what I have in mind.
you should build out a wrapped ethereum smart contract version of this
Not any of the shows I enjoy watching. Two seasons is often not enough time to do proper justice to the characters arcs and the overall story.

Now that maybe true once you get beyond five or six seasons for many shows. However, the final two seasons of GoT suffered from rushing the story to a conclusion, and should have gone about 10 seasons to do it proper justice. But GoT is admittedly an outlier with a very complex story and tons of characters.
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It does not appear so, this seems to be a dedicate partnership not something open to the public.
Yes. See The Bucket List Family.
This is definitely something I want to see. I can't get that excited about a bot that clicks faster (I suspect spell units---high templar, infestors, and ghosts---are the best way to leverage that in a reliable way). What I do get excited about is: what can AlphaStar teach us to help us play better?

Another way to formulate this is: if you made AS as broken as it could possibly be by micro, what macro strategies would humans have to discover to beat it?
I'm skeptical that the company is worth a real billion.
cookies are needed to “frequency cap” ads (avoid showing the same ad over and over and over again) and for enforcing user’s ban on specific ads, (yes google’s ad choices this so, if an ad is annoying you can ban it even if you are not being targeted by that ad). While the former is more for the benefit of the advertiser, the publisher also sometimes tries to avoid annoying the user.
We're seeing a spike in error rates and we're working on a fix now. (We've updated our status page: https://twitter.com/stripestatus/status/1149065544399609856)
Thank you for the comments.
Probably due to Mergers and Acquisitions. Sad.
I too enjoyed David Foster Wallace's account of his trip to the Illinois State Fair.
Python startup time can be significant for non-trivial programs as well, and it's been a big problem for Mercurial and other projects. For example, see these threads:

- https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-May/134528...

- https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2018-May/153296...

If your script is expected to be run interactively on a frequent basis, then Go, Rust, C++, or even Bash (for simple stuff) will give you much lower user-perceived latency than Python.
The AI they so proudly showcased last year learned to beat the limitations put in place. It was really funny.

The DeepMind team put a cap on the average APM it could perform over some period of time. Being a micro intensive game, having a perfect micro even for a short time is a game changer.

The AI just learned that by dropping it's APM low it would be allowed to have insane and inhuman bursts during critical fights and still be within the "rules" made up by the DeepMind team. It turned out it was one of the most successful way to win games.
Source for the fact that plastic will decompose in isolated environements (dry, no sun light, constant temperature, no radiations, only plastic) ? Because else you will have to engineer a system that risk leaking into the environnement (dirty water, particles, vapors, etc.).
Just get one of these and build a custom chassis for it:

https://shop.ford.com/build/chassis-cab/#/chooseyourpath/
You should be able to make REST requests anywhere, without caring about origin.
The challenge I've seen is time. If a teacher has a 50 minute class, and 25 students, that's less than 2 minutes per student, if each needs individualized instruction.
Ah, I misread 6 day week as 6 day work week. The Babylonians chose 7 days because they could see 7 planets (sun day, moon day, mars day, ..., Saturn day). Really hard to shake off our Babylonian heritage (Eg very non metric 24 hour days, 60 minute hours).
Yet another explanation of CORS.

The basic security in we browsers is based on SoP: Separation of Origins. To simplify, there are number of actions that can be done within an origin (a domain, to simplify) that are prevented across origins (across domains, to simplify). CORS is way for bridge 2 different origins, i.e.e to allow some specific actions between 2 different origins.

One example: by default, XHR requests can only send a specific set of HTTP headers to a different origin. If b.com want to accept the header X-Special-Header from a.com, it has to whitelist it - Access-Control-Allow-Headers: X-Special-Header, Access-Control-Allow-Origin: a.com. On a.com, before the web browser makes an XHR request to b.com that includes the header X-Special-Header, it has to check whether b.com authorizes it or not. I sends an OPTIONS request to b.com and check for the HTTP response headers Access-Control-Allow-Origin and Access-Control-Allow-Headers.

Since CORS is a way to bypass the Separation of Origin basic security model, you should be careful with it. For example, you may allow any site to get read your content, i.e. trigger a CSRF request on behalf of the user logged in to bank.com, and with Javascript be able to read the page content, including the account number because bank.com set the CORS to authorize any remote site to do anything, basically putting bank.com in the same origin as any other domain.
Oh wow, 2017. Finally...
I guess one limitation is that "we can make this work for a couple of weeks" doesn't imply "we can do this indefinitely".

On the other hand, you might be able to fix most of the pain points for a fraction of the price of the tunnel.

(also, hi Adrian :)
For me it was how the AI seemed to actually fight back against you in FEAR (and the horror movie setting and the matrix slow-mo thing is cool).
The point at which my neighbors would have seen enough, is the moment you add about 5 or 6 dockless rent-a-bikes to the trailer.
3M adhesive remover is amazing stuff. It beats Goo Gone by a wide margin, I recently used it to remove PETG residue from my 3D printer bed and that stuff is gnarly.

3M 38983 General Purpose Adhesive Remover - 12 oz. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004EBNTYK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_cU...
I've read it; I vastly preferred "the third chimpanzee". Guns, Germs and Steel was a bit on the weak side in terms of data to support his claims.
I also err on the side of never re-writing things, and pros and cons must always be weighed on a case by case basis. It's not possible to say in general that re-writing software in a language not prone to many important classes of bugs would "create more bugs than you could ever possibly fix." We won't know the decision is wise or unwise until it's attempted and studied maybe even a few times over.
To be faire, that is not everywhere.

The design team always has nice conversations with me, in spite of my schizophrenic view of C++ vs Rust (like both languages, see some negative issues in both), and there are places with joint community events between C++ and Rust.
I'm not sure Google devices can make calls, but if they could, the only part that would be sent to Google (which is what these people would have to analyze) is "hey Google, call bank"
For hobby sites, I guess the owner might be fine with grepping logs or installing webalizer anyway. Those who really need this are developers at companies where the boss thinks they need it. I've tried to push for Statcounter just to stay away from Google, but bossman eventually wanted Google. This is yet another tool in the belt for being able to work without Google, and for a company (even a small business), 9 euros a month is very little.
Sure, but then again a nefarious browser could just record and broadcast all your interaction (including password etc) with bank.com directly.

No web standard can protect you from a nefarious browser, since the browser could just decide to not follow the standard.
Just as Tim Ferriss's "4 hour workweek" is a simplified tagline used to convey a more complex point (there are more possibilities than ever to escape the 9-5), in my mind the "4 day workweek" term is the same (a work week need not be 5 days): it's not the precise form of the reduced workweek that matters, it's the shattering of the unchallenged acceptance of society's ideals with respect to work (full-time = 40 hours/week; hard workers work more and are better employees; aspiring to work less means you are lazy/lack ambition/will never achieve anything great etc.).

What surprises me (VC backed founder topping out at 40 hours per week) the most is how having an aspiration to work less is seen as a goal that needs to be in some way defended - why does everyone (feel they have to pretend to) love work so much? I literally felt the need to create a blog about the perils of overwork [1] just to help justify to myself why it's OK that I don't want to spend more time working (result = peace of mind that I'm not letting the entire world down by not working myself into the ground)... Of course, a lot of this pressure is in my head, but these standards are informed by society's . I have worked jobs where 60 hours per week was the _aspiration_, where leaving at 6PM was met with snide remarks of "taking a half day" and I could count on one hand the number of senior business leaders I've encountered in my career who paid more than lip service to any notion of work-life balance.

I look forward to the continuing changes in and challenges to the work ideals of high performing businesses as the composition of the workforce changes over the coming decades and (politics aside) commend movements like 4 Day Week campaign and 30hourjobs.com for their role in accelerating this progress.

[1] https://thefreedomseries.com
And you have to be thoughtful with removal methods too, some like rubbing alcohol for example, can damage certain surfaces.
Bad day to launch my new GAN book. damn it!
Brief Introduction to ML with Gradient Descent
It's an upside down A... or at least that was the idea, which frankly wasn't the very best one. I still wonder how many sales we routinely lose because of the name.
I used to put stickers on my laptop, but I lost them all when I had to bring them to the genius bar for some work. Would this be re-aplicable? I would think no, right?
> Flask apps also struggle quite a bit with performance, and the only way to do things asynchronously is with something like celery.

I present to you, Quart[0], a flask-like web framework using Python 3.7's asyncio framework.

It works pretty well in the single production application I have tested it in.

[0] https://pgjones.gitlab.io/quart/
The constraint language described in SICP (AFAIK began as a paper by Gerry Sussman and Richard Stallman, continued in the PhD thesis of Guy Steele) is indeed an inspiration / precursor to Alexey's dissertation on propagators.