skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
uBlock and uMatrix are a perfect addition to a setup with a dns based filtering system, though by themselves alone do not provide a solution for all use cases. Think smarttv's, consoles, IOS devices, apps, etc. Basically anything that is not android firefox browser or a desktop browser.

Additionally having DNS filtering in place will also prevent information leakage in case something goes wrong with one of your browser plugins.
>> What can you do for me that I might want to do but can’t currently do with DL?

I'm sorry but I don't understand this question. I'm not trying to do anything
"for you". It sounds as if you think I'm trying to sell you something. I'm
a researcher, I don't sell stuff.

But I'm curious: what are you currently doing with deep learning?
Meta: not being a native speaker, I stumbled a lot with "in the round" in this headline. Googling it was difficult, it seems to mean that this freezing is something that will happen on location, i.e. on the water, on board the fishing vessels?
He's saying that encryption protects every single person.
I think the belief is that if all your state is held in a transactional database, then your actors don't have any state in them and at that point it's not clear what they're doing with messages that the sender couldn't just do directly themselves by talking to the database.

My own experience with Akka style actor designs has been pretty poor. The problem is you lose the notion of a cross-machine call stack. Actors just have mailboxes and process inbound messages/outbound messages, which means you have to maintain state machines yourself and/or handle re-entrancy. Lots and lots of bugs in designs like that.

On the other hand, simply doing blocking RPCs across services where the RPC framework handles re-entrancy and stack consistency for you, it doesn't have that issue. That's how services like Google search are built. They shard across many machines vs talking to a database directly primarily for performance or to enforce team boundaries, not as part of an over-arching architectural design pattern.
I think you're committing a fallacy here related to demand for transportation.

The goal of building new transportation infrastructure is to provide more transport services and to reduce congestion.

As a matter of fact, there is huge latent demand for transportation services, so when you build new roads etc almost all of the benefit comes as more usage of transportation, and congestion doesn't go down.

But the fallacy you're committing is ignoring the fact that that extra transportation is a benefit. People wanted to take those journeys!

By the way, if you want to reduce or even eliminate congestion, there is a very easy way to do it. Charge for road use. Modern technology makes this feasible!
Depends - loads of those Blutooth speakers have 2" bass drivers, so the best they'll ever do is sound crap. Now granted plenty of cheapie boomboxes had lots of rattly plastic around the 8" woofer, and given a bit of volume sound like they're falling apart, or there's a bag of bolts in a washing machine.

Yet there was a decent selection from the likes of Hitachi, Sony and Grundig and possibly others that were more mini hifi with handle and detachable hifi(ish) speakers you could separate properly. It's where the whole bookshelf hifi thing started as far as I can tell.

Course you may still hate the kid's music taste. :)
> But it’s not their responsibility to account for negative side effects. That’s our responsibility, as citizens who are in charge of our governments.

Wait, what? We have a saying in the actions and decisions of our governments (context: EU and US)?

No we don't. We don't live in direct democracies. If Interpol or any police force wants to ban encryption and if that benefits who ever is in government, then that ban will come. Thus: that ban will come. (Western) governments have been eyeing bans and bypasses of encryption for decades. This is nothing new. What we as citizens think of that is completely irrelevant. Unless the majority of the population would really care about encryption and it would influence the 4-yearly vote-thing (elections). Which is not the case.

Every Western country has had headlines in their news papers in the past months about their politicians -all of a sudden and all at the same time- wanting to pass laws to allow them to bypass encryption (pressured by the US?). Just in case it would influence the 4-yearly voting thing. The synchronized timing of the publications to me is shocking but not really surprising anymore. Manufacturing consent.

the online kiddy porn and terrorism is really getting out of hand like right about now. Never been worse. Let's all ban encryption quickly and save the world from all child abuse
Welcome to 1975 mate. It must be tough fighting upon equal ground hey? As much as I'll stand right by you to the end, do have a laugh about it
The dubious justifications for using facial recognition software
I love the super clean design of your main website. Is that based off a template or made from scratch using UI library?
The negation of a rule or of qualities is an effective language acquisition technique: a tree is not a bush, they are different in X ways; a book is not a magazine, they are different in X ways.
They are called plumbers for a reason.
>who had an effect that writing lost a lot of overcomplication

I hope you're not referring to NewSpeak from 1984 which was an invention by the party to limit people's expression so that they could not verbalize disloyalty, and therefore not even think it.

A horrible example of state control.
I can’t imagine that a significant number of criminals who are involved in sexual exploitation of children would suddenly be unmasked due to any government imposed rules about encryption. At best you’d have a small wave of folks caught off guard.

The "question” is a false premise. You can’t stop people form using encryption. The people who are strongly motivated to use it to cover their criminal activity (the more heinous the more motivated they’re likely to be) are still going to. The knock-on effect is that you give the police and governments the keys to the kingdom against people who are probably not committing heinous crimes.

The abuse potential increases with little to nothing gained for the rule of law and the common person.

People have been committing crime and hiding them (the key component to not getting caught it turns out) since humans decided to implement laws. Weakening encryption isn’t going to stop that and it’s a hollow argument.
Yes, that's a great way of putting it, thank you!
> Start with Heisig

Isn't this book skipping the most important part of learning kanji, ie their readings? If yes, it's a total waste of time.
Terminally ill scientist 'transforms himself into world's first full cyborg'
You can just go to preferences and disable redesign, no need to change the url itself.
I think it is a America by far, by 10x really now that I think about it.
Illustrated: Self-Attention
At least in France, the low cost trains ("OUIGO") do charge for baggage larger than a carry-on.

But I think the OP was comparing a train to flying, you don't pay for baggage on a train but you would if taking a flight.
There's a companion volume for Spanish learners, i.e. The publisher likely just tweaks a chapter or two for each specific target language, i.e. English Grammar for Students of $X.

The 'surprising specific' bit is in how concepts in German/Spanish map to their English equivalents. e.g. the German edition might try and show how English emulates declensions with prepositions, while the Spanish might explain how the auxilary verb 'have' has multiple uses covered by tener/haber.

I'm not a native Romance speaker but yes, knowing 'French shenanigans' would perhaps help understand the other - when I learned Catalan on duolingo (from Spanish), I made more blunders in my rusty Spanish than in mistakes in the Catalan I was trying to learn!
> I think it started to die when Google decided the XMPP spec was not good enough for them and deviated from it

It was my impression that Google dropped XMPP support not because of the spec being "not good", but because they saw now advantage allowing the federation, since nearly nobody else federated with them, while it comes with a cost.

The XMPP specification is open and in large parts malleable, nothing would have stopped Google from participating in improving it.
> and there are a handful of very sick individuals among the seven billion

This is where you're wrong. Child porn is a substantial market, estimated to be in the billions of $ per year. It's a disproportionate amount compared to 'regular' porn because of the criminal element and the risks involved, just like illegal drugs are far more expensive than legal ones (in most parts of the world, anyway).

Politicians abusing this to push their own agenda's are effectively also abusing these children... it's a fucked up world, that's for sure.
Native speaker and I too didn't know the phrase. It sounded like a method to prep salmon from the way it was worded. I found online:

"Whole/In The Round: Whole fish or fish “in the round” are being sold completely intact, exactly as they were caught."
In the last year I had to re-implement one of the libraries for working with XMPP on another platform. It's horrible and not pleasant to work with at all.

I guess most of the developers that worked with it had a bad time. That would be my bet why it hasn't taken of.

IMO we need something simpler, websocket and JSON based. Less standards, less use-cases - for example I don't think xmpp should take care of vcards, nickname and tons of other things I forgot about. Programmer should be able to grok it realtively quickly and then specifics of your application should take longer to understand instead of having to spend ages on XMPP first and then ages on your specific hacks around it.
He talks a little bit about that in the (equally interesting) follow up post: https://rootsofprogress.org/cement-redux
So your criticism is that maybe, possibly, the reactor will be too big. I'll take it.
Hi! How many users do you have on your main pods (nl, de, jp and fi)?
> A complaint that you can't swap liver...

I'm not complaining! I'm grateful to evolution for providing me such a wonderful mechanism called body.

But, I suppose you don't work in software development, do you? I say so because you, rightfully, took "maintenance" in its literal meaning, like "maintaining it the way it always was".

Unfortunately, in software development (and maybe other professions) maintenance mean simply that people changed their minds or discovered a new business case and your product must adapt, WITHOUT CHANGING ANY OTHER INTERACTION!!!

In real life, you can say: "he died because he drank poison", and it is a sad but accepted statement.

In software development, the same sentence will be rephrased like: "he died because the crappy developer left an unfixed bug in his Liver plugin".

Again, life is wonderful thing, and evolution clearly has to optimize for maximum efficiency. But in businness there are several times when you must give up some (or even much) efficiency for adaptability.

It looks like the author of the article does not understand the need for this tradeoff.
There'll be plenty of quasars to act as stars, the big problem is they will be very hard pressed to measure any exosolar distances at all.

This particular star is not that big too, so over its lifetime of 1Gyr it'll make it pretty far in the local group. For fictional purposes you could therefore imagine a solar system being sent from one galaxy into another one, that'll make for some interesting astronomical history!
The timber sizes are different because you're buying planed dried timber. For some reason it was decided that measuring the timber wet and unplaned was a good idea.

On the other hand over here in metric-land if you buy a 44-by-88 piece of wood it'll be real close to 44x88mm, Whether you're buying it planed or not.
There are multiple transparent lcd (or maybe led - idk) screens layered on top of each other. A different image is rendered on each layer to appear 3D. A single 8k video stream is sent to the display. Each 8k image is subdivided into multiple smaller images, one for each layer. So the entire image is 8k, not 8k per layer.

I know one of the cofounders, Alex, a bit. He’s a really earnest and excited person. He’s been working on 3D led tech for a long time. It’s been fun to see how’s his ideas have progressed. I have no reason to doubt their claims.

FYI, they are not the only company working on these types of displays. There is also an Irish company (I forgot their name) working with panels made by Panasonic. I think theirs are higher res than 8k.
I have no knowledge about Ottoman Empire history, but my immediate thought after finishing reading was "This makes sense, maybe not as-is, but as an important contributing factor", and Twitter came to my mind as the new coffee shop [1]

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/07/exists-demobilise-opp...
Thanks for the tip.

It’s irrelevant now because the flooring people have just walked out saying they won’t lay on to the chipboard anyway. Need to run a thin layer of ply over the whole thing. Live and learn I guess!
And they did for a while, they worked on the VoIP features, called Jingle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_(protocol)

XMPP is still used in many places, including in online gaming https://xmpp.org/uses/gaming.html. Unfortunately without the federation support (which can be explained in those specific cases).
Yep. It's actually closer to a lenticular effect than a true hologram.

However - the effect can still be fairly magical and the distinction is lost on most people I've shown it to (we have the smallest 6" model).

It genuinely looks like a full-color animated holographic display in most likely viewing scenarios.
CFP is open for PyCon Turkey, Istanbul, May 2-3, 2020
The mobile apps don't have grammar, but the web site does, for most skills in most languages. Also, grammar is easy to get from other sites.

The sentences are not taken from corpora, but edited by Humans, mostly volunteers. The courses are improved using user data. Some of the courses are indeed not the best quality.

If TTS is used (many courses use natural speakers), it was OK for me, so far.

Duolingo isn't perfect but I think it's the most efficient way to learn a new language from nothing up to a certain level (A2, maybe B1). If used correctly. You need to decide yourself how much time you spend on repetition vs progress. And yes, you probably need something else for full grammar explanation or Chinese/Japanese Characters. Though they are reportedly working on better Character exercises.
Intel desktop board BIOS update end-of-life
Here you can find examples:

https://infothek.rotkel.de/rechtschreibung/genus.html

A well-known example is "die/das Tram" (rather a Helvetism; this words means the same as in English; the more usual German word is "die Straßenbahn). In Standard German, "Tram" is considered as an abbreviation of "die Trambahn" - so it is female. In South Germany and Switzerland, "das Tram" is used.
That's because historically it was cut then seasoned. What you ended up with a year later was somewhat smaller.
The initial drafts of the GPLv3 did contain the Afferro provisions, but there was a lot of backlash over it during the public drafting process (some argued it wasn't enforceable, many argued that it overstepped their views on what the GPL should be, and so on). So it was split off into a separate license to hopefully increase the probability that people would switch to GPLv3.

Given all of the other FUD around GPLv3 from Linus et al, it seems like they wouldn't have lost much if they'd kept it in (or maybe they should've gone with the LGPL model, where the main license has the restrictions but they have a separate license which reduces the restrictions). But hey, hindsight is 20-20.
How is this on the frontpage? An article about fish processing, from August 2017. It's also about an non-European area (Alaska and the Bering Sea). I'd expect the page to be flooded by Europeans this time of the day. Interesting to say the least.
> they often retain their potency for many years after the supposed expiration date

With the exception of few drugs that do go bad "often" is not good enough, AFAIU it's a statistical game of certainties- I want to be X% certain that the drug has Y% of its potency
https://de.movim.eu/?infos 409
https://jp.mov.im/?infos 133
https://nl.movim.eu/?infos 10669

Those are the accounts that already logged in on those pods. You can check the "currently connected" stats for real time numbers :)

FI is actually down at the moment.
How to reject a meeting request at work
I've used their Unity SDK and it can render most content you throw at it. It has similar limitations to VR - faux-3D but really 2D post processing effects won't work. Sometimes shader tricks will break the expectations of the renderer.

But most regular 3D content will display as expected.
- der/das Teller

- der/die Butter

- das/die Huhn

see e.g., https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/zwiebelfisch/zwiebelfisch-der-... (German) for more local linguistic peculiarities.
Billions of dollars per year? On a world basis, that's quite insubstantial.

And child abuse has always been around, unfortunately. Much of it probably goes unrecorded. Indeed, we only became aware of how bad the problem really was in the 1980s, due to the very fact that media of it was now being created and exchanged.
Oh captain my captain
IMO trying to attack dissemination of CP is like trying to intercept bullets midair (perhaps even harder). There are countless ways to smuggle porn, just as there are countless ways to smuggle drugs. Drugs are harder, and yet they still can't prevent it.

Maybe it's time to think of an alternative approach.
Hanzi Smatter is doing honest work that is making the world a better place. I have enjoyed the cringe-factor over the years, I'm glad the site is still around for people to refer to.
There is also a huge (unsolved) gender issue with e.g. occupations. Every occupation has a male and female form and traditionally the male form is used to address a mixed group. English only has this in a few (easily fixed) cases like businessman => businessperson, policeman => police officer, otherwise they are gender neutral.
Improving Coding Standards and Quality
I am not Turkish and neither write nor speak the language, however, based on how i see the Erdogan's first name with a 'c' ia pronounced, the two words are probably pronounced the same i.e. 'finjan'. I am Somali and we used to use the same word for a vessel bigger than a cup. I don't see people use the same nowadays tho.
"It is much easier for police in authoritarian countries to prevent crimes and find perpetrators."

Is this actually true? This sounds like one of those bits of received wisdom (like the trains supposedly running on time under Mussolini) that turns out to be bogus. I'm not sure that the expansion of police powers under authoritarian regimes has anything to do with making them more efficient at preventing or solving crimes that are crimes in all regimes (e.g. murder, rape, etc). I would at least need to see some evidence that clearance rates are better in authoritarian countries.
Hmm, actually a lot of the memes there are parodies of the English ones you find on Reddit. Just saying that a lot of them are almost nonsensical to someone not familiar with Reddit's English language meme culture.
As a non-chrome user things have been getting a lot worse lately. I've also noticed more and more pages using recaptcha even there's no clear way for bots to spam content.

Are people really that eager to send google all traffic information? Is this really the best solution? Couldn't one for example parse the actual content that the bots are trying to create and filter/ban them based on that? I believe spam detection is quite effective these days.

This whole captcha hell is making web really annoying for normal users and mostly just benefits google.
"salmon in the round" and "fish in the round" both give lots of helpful results, so apparently it is jargon.
http://en.thelec.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=350
Trade Forex
Off-topic: Can someone please write a Firefox extension that removes that _stupid_ fucking popover on medium "Pardon blah blah give us your money". Does that shit really need to take over the entire fucking screen?
Sea rescue NGOs: a pull factor of irregular migration?
That's not a stupid idea! Just keep the g forces to less than 2.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_driver#On_Earth

For personal drones, we could consider using railgun tubes to accelerate vertically and then glide. Without considering drag, a 100m vertical railgun could lift a craft to about 300m. With a 50-1 glide ratio, you could get to 15 km from launch without further propulsion.

If shot from a Burj Khalifa height at 2g, you'd accelerate for 9 seconds to 176m/s and reach a height of over 2000m in less than 30 seconds... allowing a glide of over 100km.
I think uBlock Origin with one of the annoyances lists blocks this
"fishermensnews.com". Seems funny to me to imagine a fisherman in his garments looking at this webpage once a day to see what's up
> the ridiculous boarding process

What's the boarding process over there? In Europe you just .. enter the train.
Docker over SSH
I was hooked until I saw `rake`, at which point I was triggered _big time_. I'm just imagining the memory consumption of this behemoth.
Of course, if a child predator really wants to conceal their communication and it's not built into the chat service, they can do so using, say, PGP and some sort of steganography.

On the other hand, that law enforcement agencies can catch criminals today using e.g. Messenger means that there are criminals that are not careful or savvy enough to do so.

IMO end-to-end encrypted chat should be regarded as private eye-to-eye conversation. It's understandably convenient for law enforcement if it isn't. In the end, that a criminal can say something incriminating to another in private is not a new problem.
I would imagine that a "real programming language" here means not only any Turing-complete language but also a language that has been consistently at the top 10 most popular programming languages in the world for a while (which javascript is, and typescript is its superset).
In Germany we frequently called them "Ghettoblaster". Only after my brother spent a year in the USA in 1990, I heard the name "Boombox" for the first time.
How were they called in the street during the 80s?

P.S.: Of course we all know this movie scene, right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHyPS1boeuI
My favourite video of all time.
The same reason email is the last resort for contacting someone online these days: centralized services can offer better UX, including antispam. Users didn’t care about federation or interop, which is why the default now is Facebook Messenger.

When you can receive messages from anyone, you will receive huge amounts of spam.
I hate to say it, but us (citizens of the internet), are fighting a losing battle. Gone are the days of the internet being an open, connected hub for worldwide culture.
> While that's going on, please someone make a game out of building tunnels, it would be super cool!

In a way, Minecraft is that game. At least when I played it couple years ago, I spent most of my time building metro tunnels.
I have an issue with the title, as Delftse is a Dutch word. The adjective version of (the city) Delft. The title is thus an ugly combination of Dutch and English (Denglish). I think 'Delft Foundations of Computation' would be better.
High-Tech Bed for Better Rest – Eight Sleep
As far as I can tell the big deal is they are completely sure it came from Str A*.

It is also moving too fast to be easily explainable, but for now I would bet on this simply being a very extreme event. The set of hyper velocity stars is rather small at the moment, something like ~20 in total, so I don't think there is any reason to believe we have an unbiased sample.

Amusingly they do use it to measure the position of the _sun_!

Preprint at: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.11725