skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unable to contact the client and with support requests pouring in, they blocked the client’s IP address in Expedited WAF.

> Using Expedited WAF, the team temporarily blocked access to the site from China and was able to remain online to their business customers.

Most used feature of Expedited WAF.
A more honest way to say "ideas are worthless" would be to claim that there's no such thing as a first mover advantage.

Here's a take that looks into that question fairly: https://hbr.org/2005/04/the-half-truth-of-first-mover-advant...
Finland is the only EU country where homelessness is in decline
I think most apple varieties intended for mass orchard production are clone cuttings grafted onto dwarfing rootstock. The clone produces consistent fruit, and the dwarfing rootstock produces easily harvested trees.
For point 6, as the article mentions in a different place, there will be fewer baby boomers "dominating the conversation". Sure, that's meant mostly politically, but it applies to other sections too.

Calling it a delicacy is a stretch, it not changing that fast.

But the "set in their ways" people are becoming the minority and those of us who are open to trying new stuff slowly change to stop eating meat and shifting towards plant-based.

I used to love a good steak, burger, chicken, etc. I stopped eating meat in early November 2019 to see how long I can go without it. Still going, and I don't have any need to eat it, so it's effortless.

When eating meat, I sometimes had this bad feeling in my stomach, and now it doesn't happen anymore. Sure, they use pesticides on plants and soy is said to be heavily modified and whatever. I get that from my family, who are set in their ways. I'm not trying to convince anyone, it's just what feels better for my body.

Also, I'm lucky to have a supply of home-grown vegetables so I can be sure of the origin. Tastes much better than the stuff they sell in stores too.
Ideas are not just cheap, the huge majority of them are actually bad. Most ideas are actually not worth the time to consider them.

If you want a repository for good ideas, I think first you need to find a way to filter the bad ones.
The major thing that I miss in NuTrek is the optimism. We have enough shows that are gritty, dark, and depressing. My favorite part of Star Trek was how is showed that optimism about the future is not naive.
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As it is evidenced in the comments under the announcement, many of us are disappointed about this change. We have started an open source project with a crowdfunding campaign to reimplement the classic Linode Manager: https://www.patreon.com/linodeclassic
In what way is that scenario not suggestive of a barrier to entry to the US market for the maker of the product already being sold in Canada?
In real world, most of our "pattern" become technical debt as codebase grows very fast. My solution is just simply using raw sql query. Hide complexity of query behind another complex "ActiveRecord" is not the solution.

The benefit is separation of concern when your team has a SQL specialist. And no more code technical debt as your project scales.
Why do you have an Android phone?
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Odd that nobody did it before Apple.
If you use Windows, [Logo]+[.]
Nitrokey Storage uses SD card, which AFAIK does not support TRIM. Before first usage it is overwritten with a random data.
Drive is presented to the OS like any regular (non-SSD) flash drive device, hence I do not think OS would issue TRIM on it.
Tech could mean your phone stops you from getting killed by a car
Kickstarter look at products which have good response and see if you can execute faster and better.
The quality has to be good, too. I was getting "enough" sleep, but it didn't matter until I got some pills (trazadone) that really knocked me out.
Keen point.

There was (is?) a live code editing capable browser which updates the source code. My failing memory seems to remember creating a project and mounting directories. Chrome? Great idea, but IIRC, also very brittle. And because it had it's own notions of "project", there was some impedance mismatch with the IDE.
Cloud flaws expose millions of child watch trackers
This is nice work. Summarized: by untying word piece embedding sizes from the hidden layer size + sharing parameters between layers, the number of parameters in the model are drastically reduced. They use this headroom to make the hidden layer sizes larger and given that layers share parameters, they can also use more layers without increasing model size.

Another interesting finding is that this speeds up training due to the smaller number of parameters.

However, my worry is that those of use that do not readily have access to TPUs will get even slower models when using CPUs for prediction due to the additional and wider hidden layers. (Of course, one could use ALBERT base, which still have 12 layers and a hidden layer size of 768, at a small loss.) Did anyone measure the CPU prediction performance of ALBERT models compared to BERT?

Edit: I guess one solution would be to use a pretrained ALBERT and finetune to get the initial model and then use model distillation to get a smaller, faster model.
Mass surveillance is privacy. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
The progress that has been made so far is already good enough to deliver tons of real business value. The tech is way ahead of application, as the tech has jumped forward so much in the last 5 years, and progress continues to be rapid.

I've direct evidence of that from my day job (building NLP chat bots for Intercom).

That business value will increase as we NLP progresses, even if we're moving towards a local optimum.

Even if we do get stuck, real products and real revenue powered by NLP will help fund research on successive generations.

Of course theres tons of hype about AI. But theres also a big virtuous cycle which just wasn't present in the setup which created previous AI winters.
It's not AI, it's a dynamic programming algorithm.
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I don't regularly test for the sake of testing. I regularly train for the sake of improving.

It seems to be an odd question, like asking a professional athlete if she regularly tests her speed and stamina. Most of the people in this forum are professionals who make money off their cognitive ability, and likely regularly improve theirs.

I don't have a perfect methodology for this. But every year, I solve harder problems and puzzles, read books I couldn't digest before, type and do mnemonics a little faster, find out which lanes on the road are faster, smile at more strangers.
Thailand has successfully put a lot of effort in exporting cuisine.

It's no wonder that Pad Thai and other Thai cuisine is ubiquitous in many countries, with the Thai government putting so much effort into 'gastrodiplomacy' [0][1]. I'm certainly not complaining!

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20130926085448/http://thailand.p...

[1] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/paxadz/the-surprising-rea...
I mean, it's probably more complex than what I postulated.

It was just the first thing that came to mind, since 270° is zero in a few trigonometric functions/identities.
And your username contains three vowels.

That is, I fail to see what your comment adds to the topic of how dogmatism in science is equal to that of religion, causing scientists to be too afraid to go beyond their model.

I'll cherry pick some titles from the 9000+ results of a search for "a new model" on Goggle Scholar for the last year, at https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2019&q=%22a+new+mo... :

> A new model for the biochemistry of pectin synthesis: GAUTs synthesize diverse HG glycans in structurally and functionally distinct plant cell wall polymers

> The needle model: A new model for the main hydration peak of alite

> Barriers to Hydraulic Fracture Height Growth: A New Model for Sliding Interfaces

> A new model for MR evaluation of liver function with gadoxetic acid, including both uptake and excretion

> A new model for esker formation sheds light on the processes within subglacial tunnels

> Theorizing Transgender Identity for Clinical Practice: A New Model for Understanding Gender

> Mutation of Murine Rpl5 reveals a New Model for Diamond Blackfan Anemia Characterized By Defective Erythropoiesis

How do I conclude that scientists are too afraid to go beyond their existing models?
Apple doesn't release any AirPod sales figures, so all analysis is going to include a margin of error.

Where would you draw the line in general for acceptable accuracy of discussion about unknown things, so we can keep the discussion above the line and take down everything below it?
I respectfully disagree with you. Learning the basics of programming is as important as fundamental math nowadays. Everybody must develop a basic understanding of how computers work. That's common knowledge these days. "AI does it for you" is a similar argument as "Wikipedia knows it for you". That's just false belief in technology. Hand writing and learning stuff by head did not get out of fashion, too.
if you run pihole or a local dnsmasq/unbound it should be possible to mitigate it by sinkholing any unicode domains, e.g. with dnsmasq (requires a patch https://github.com/spacedingo/dnsmasq-regexp_2.76) you can do this:

address=/:xn--*:/0.0.0.0

does anyone know if something like this is possible with unbound?
My killer Android feature is having a microsd card. Not supporting that is very inconvenient of Apple.

I've tried both Windows and Mac, I just like Ubuntu better.
Just that it used to be the opposite for most people.

When I was in my teens, I spent waaay more money on CD's than I ever did on my Discman and headphones.

The fact that it's now the norm to spend more money on your audio hardware than on what you listen to is just an interesting reversal.
I think you have to have a deep intuition about a subject area before you can easily determine if a paper is trash or not. Even then, people who are knowledgeable in some area aren't impervious to bad research.
Yes I'm well aware of that fact. I should have been more specific and said continental western europe.
Grandparent is right, though; everybody starts out as an ideas-first person. That's because having ideas is really easy and anybody can do it.

It sounds like you want the validation and esteem of your peers on the basis of your ideas. The cold reality is that having an idea does not at all entitle you to a reward; other people will also have your idea, and you'll feel like they have "stolen" or "made advantage of" your dream.

Many ideas are counterproductive; if they were carried out to fruition, they would either need to be retrofitted to the point of being a different idea entirely, or consume too many resources in proportion to the resources being saved. It is completely reasonable, therefore, to insist that ideas are not enough and that prototypes are required before designs can be considered for production.

Finally, consider a Kantian perspective. We can't all be ideas-first people. Therefore it'd be a lot more moral of you if you developed some programming skills.
I agree. I'd vastly prefer having a chance to continue experimenting with each new command until I choose to advance to the next step.

By just being a text document, vimtutor avoids this problem.
Gist is that they provide IP/region block.

> Using Expedited WAF, the team temporarily blocked access to the site from China and was able to remain online to their business customers.

Rest of it is generic API design advice
Synesthesia, an Inspiring Condition for AI Researchers
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A 737 malfunctioning and inadvertently setting off WW3 is very on-brand for Boeing right now.
You could take a route similar to how you train your brain to notice that you are dreaming.

Basically, start making it a priority in your mind to notice these ideas by creating a habit to think about them intentionally. Take some time everyday to write down any and every idea you have for a software that would help solve something, anything. It's not the ideas the matter, it's about training your brain to make them important. If possible, do it multiple times a day.

Fast forward a couple weeks and you'll be writing down that "insignificant" idea you just had!
Wtf? Are you saying that I can't use tools to make inventions?
Do you mean Punycode, or this joke?
And if you could do that reliably, you should already be a billionaire from your many successful startups.
Sure, you can find the repo in the site, here it is: https://github.com/vilvadot/money-is-time/

Only explicitily asks for storage access to set a flag when the extension is enabled and to save the hourly rate.

It does have access to execute the code on amazon too, which basically is reading info from html and inject another html node.
> As you said yourself ... the airpods are better bluetooth headphones than the ones you had.

Sure but we were talking about switching from bluetooth headphone to wired one, thus why I added that part even though we were on an Airpod thread.

> Charging is mostly a nonissue due to the case having a battery.

Which you still need to charge, the issue persist. Their battery life wasn't the issue, they could works multiple days without being charged, which just add to the issue because then it means I could go multiple days without charging then and then forgetting to do it.

> shutting down is as simple as putting them in the case

That's certainly a nice feature that would alleviate my biggest issue, that's for sure. I knew they would have fixed that or else they wouldn't be as popular, or at least, much more people would complains about that.

> not having a cable being in the way and pulling out the headphones is also something I'd consider a downside so there's that I guess.

Sure but that's a minor downside for me versus the issues I mentioned about wireless headphone. The only times I accidentally pulled down my cable was when I was training on a treadmill, which is also what made me buy bluetooth headphone in the first place. I stopped using them before stopping training...
Boarding is not the first opportunity to know this - the flight plan has the tail number on it.

Apps such as Flighty (and I'm sure others, possibly even those without subscription) will provide access to those well ahead of time and notify you about changes.

It is unfortunate that "changing the plane type" is not grounds to change your ticket however.
I only use FF on mobile because I can run the uBlock extension on it.
I totally agree with you and thanks for sharing the article. I'll read it later.
Samsung's tv app for plex is the reason why I've stuck with plex and become a lifetime pass holder. Is there something available for jellyfin?
Ending is better than mending!
In light of this research, I find it strange that after almost 40 years we still don't have a commercially available HIV vaccine. Could it be because charging people $1000++ a month for drugs, for the rest of their life, is a better business model?
> The customers still wanted them, still asked for them, the supermarket response was "fuck you".

There was no other place people could have purchased them?
Punycode? It's to allow non-ASCII characters in domain names without breaking compatibility with all the standards and software that specify that domain names only use ASCII characters.
Blank page if ad blockers turned on
People explained that it was [Shift] and [Z], which of course for you would have produced a lowercase 'z'.
Thanks! I didn't know the ENC28J60 could be that cheap. I had seen it in the past but it was always 10-15$ and with a microcontroller, that made it quite expensive. Next time I order a bunch of ESP8266 from China, I will add a bunch of them too.
I love the article's parenthetical explanation of its click-bait headline. In the U.S., "poll tax" usually refers to voting taxes used to disenfranchise black people. U.S. writers on tax issues thus generally refer to "head taxes" or use the Constitution's term "capitation."
In a lot of languages it is good to be able to render something other than us-ascii. In many places the Latin alphabet without diacritics will be well understood and no problem, but that isn't true everywhere.
There are a lot of us with the technical chops (and/or can get a team together) to make a good software solution/product/service that are stuck on step 1: Identifying a real problem that companies will pay money to have solved for them.

I wish there was a place/service that would connect businesses with real problems (that they either can't or would rather not solve in-house) with aspiring (tech) entrepreneurs. I'm sure there's a large number of such opportunities out there, probably in industries/domains most software devs don't have much experience in and wouldn't think to explore.
Curious about living and working in HK with an EU passport. Am german myself. Did you apply from overseas or have been living in hk before.
> I use what I know as the the "Bill Gates method".

Is there a good description/explanation of this?
For the vast majority of people, there is no downside to getting the flu vaccine. A gamble implies there's something to lose.
It's like saying every programmer should know assembly or know how to punch machine instructions on cards. Or in order to be able to jump-start your car you need to learn how to build car batteries from scratch. Silly right?

We progress by abstraction. Everything you are using right now is a complex abstraction of the base materials and instructions. AI that builds stuff for you (and possibly itself?) will be just another level of abstraction for "programmers".
Sooner or later we'll get laws saying that each electronic device MUST have a replaceable battery.

In most cases, whether intentional or not, only the battery needs to be changed, but because of the way products are designed now, you have to throw the other 80% of the product in the trash.

When world's governments become a little more environmentally-conscious, they'll see this solution as a no-brainer, just like the EU saw a single charging standard necessary to combat electronics waste.

It's a shame to see "green Apple" spearhead the exact opposite of this movement with products that become environmental waste once their battery drops below 50% or so their original capacity.
That's a good hack that I'll have to play with tonight. Thank you!
1. Clothing is king

2. 50% have their Best-Sold product >$50

3. Most load really bad on mobile
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Why don't we build ziggurats anymore?
> The next breakthrough may be made by someone academically untrained, but you can bet they'll have learned a whole lot of math, computer science, data science, and maybe neuroscience first.

I found this sentence particularly intriguing given that John Carmack recently announced that he was switching his main focus to AI.
Containerd and Runc
Punycode is the joke
Yes, that book.

Baran's full set of monographs written for RAND are now freely available online. I'd asked a couple of years ago if they might include one specifically, and they published the whole lot. Asking nicely works, sometimes.

Yes, there's interesting material there.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/b/baran_paul.html
not that much different if you show it cumulative (where there have been fires in recent weeks). Just not claiming to be a snapshot.

https://i.imgur.com/VKOZ12Y.png
> Not everything needs to be a platform

I couldn't agree more. I was thinking about a github repo so people can contribute via pull requests. I should have put more emphasis on the fun part and how I don't want it to be a Business Ideas™ because that goes against the spirit of my original goal.

I also like your list. Maybe I should put my list on my website as well. Thanks for sharing.
Yeah I think the AI's monologue from Metal Gear Solid 2 (basically an anime) cut closer to our present reality:

> "[...] You exercise your right to "freedom" and this is the result. All rhetoric to avoid conflict and protect each other from hurt. The untested truths spun by different interests continue to churn and accumulate in the sandbox of political correctness and value systems. Everyone withdraws into their own small gated community, afraid of a larger forum. They stay inside their little ponds, leaking whatever "truth" suits them into the growing cesspool of society at large. The different cardinal truths neither clash nor mesh. No one is invalidated, but nobody is right. Not even natural selection can take place here. The world is being engulfed in "truth." [...]

The full version is something like 20 minutes long, but basically the AI argues that digital communication leads to the decentralization of 'truth' and that the solution is employ narrative shaping algorithms against the general public.
We are actually cooperating with Librem Key, developed firmware and hardware they are using [1]. Librem Key is ours Nitrokey Pro.

[1] https://www.nitrokey.com/news/2018/nitrokey-partners-purism-...

Disclaimer: I work with Nitrokey.
It sounds like a more established company might be a better landing place. Established companies are probably more likely to accept the risks associated with relocating someone in their forties and have more experience with doing so. Those companies also are less likely to go under and large companies offer more opportunities to meet people.

In the end, if you want to move to California, decide to move to California. Make the tradeoffs. Figure out the details. Work through the problems. If it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out.
Both the plane that crashed, and the model referenced in this article, are the same family of 737.
Linksys routers will soon monitor your breathing as well as movement
There's plenty of bad light to go around. Say company A builds a faulty part, then a stack of ten subcontractors test it and fail to find the error, and finally company B tests and accepts it. Who is responsible for the eventual failure in the field? They all are, because they all had veto power.
Do you have evidence to support the hypothesis that cars equipped with aftermarket equipment are in general or with this specific system are more dangerous? Do you think such evidence should exist/be considered prior to banning a potential device?

The reason I ask is because there is a general topic of whether we should preemptively block new technology based on hypotheses, whether we should seek supporting evidence, or whether we should wait for confirming data before blocking freedoms to experiment. Said differently, do we ban everything until “proven” safe, allow everything until “proven” unsafe, or something in middle.
One word: Crypto.

Crypto is the next thing.
Wow, after searching for jobs for Elixir I found that the market is not so small as I have thought (even in for my region!).

I always wanted to learn it deeply, since I appreciate functional and the concept of Actors, but never thought I would find a job for it easily... I'm changing my mind now.

Thanks for the enlightening!
I thought they were questioning whether ISPs in general routinely hijack DNS. I've not heard of this happening in the UK, but haven't scoped around looking for it.
Off topic:
Very surprising to know that AirPods cost $250, $150 a piece and that people are willing to buy them.

Also, if they are detached from the iphone, wouldn't you lose them pretty easily?
Just a nit pick but the original Japanese version isn’t a dub, it’s the original audio. I totally agree it’s the best version though.

That being said the English dub is pretty good too.
I suggest going to https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim/issues and filing a bug report that sometimes one needs to type in a Scottish accent.
I love thinking of video game ideas, so much so that I made a website to publish the ideas in a rather fleshed out manner: http://creativeowlet.com/
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