skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly what I was thinking. It seems like he’s just taking advantage of the fact that CJK characters are a lot more information-dense than English letters, and has a turnkey encoder/decoder in the form of the pre-trained GPT-2 language model.

I am, in fact, currently involved in research that uses GPT-2 for format-transforming encryption and we follow the exact same recipe but in reverse. Encrypt a message, then "decompress" the random bits into English text using GPT-2. Assuming the receiver has the same GPT-2 state (model parameters and prompt) then they will reproduce the same random bits by arithmetic compression, which can then be decrypted with the shared key.
It’s articles like this that make me happy that I donate to ProPublica monthly.
More the pox on society than dangerous per se. Dangerous is a big category with nuance while always advising caution. A car which works perfectly can be dangerous but a car which randomly catches on fire without warning is also dangerous.

That nuance allows for far more room for debate.
The technical term is a funny word..."autovivification". Perl does this as well.
I maintain an old Mac for corporate purposes, but yes a Mac is just tedious. While things like printers “just work” in Linux they really struggle in OS X, requiring “drivers” like its 1999.

The other benefits of Mac hardware (MagSafe for example) have all been removed leaving not-a-lot.

YMMV.
Nobody really uses Safari except for on iPhones, and I suspect I will drop dramatically as they’re adding support for choosing your own browser in iOS 14.
Even among non-technical people I know, nearly everyone replaces Safari with Chrome or FF. Even my grandfather uses Chrome on his Mac and iPhone.
Hi

Kenneth here from Stripe. We'd love to know more about the reliability issues you experience with the CLI.

How can I best reach you?

My email is auchenberg@stripe.com or @auchenberg on Twitter.

Talk soon!

/k
I don't know about Palm as I never had one. But I can still code for my first Android phone. And I do not ask for support, but for opening up sideloading so users can install apps from PC when the shop closes.
Same place gitlab has them: somewhere.
The full app extension apis do let you do that (based on my installed as blocker), there’s just a bunch if restrictions that apply to those extensions to prevent arbitrary content manipulation (iirc).
In my experience this argument is BS. Maybe the computer on day one works OK, but it's downhill from there as you maintain and update.
i dont follow..
The only thing I saw sexist/racist in that video (first minute, since I wouldn't waste another watching it further after seeing her responses to a completely calm cop) was the woman's own commentary. She was obviously trying to provoke him. The entire "panic attack" is faked. It is so obvious.
LuaJIT is not sandboxed.

Mike Pall told me this in no uncertain terms: http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-02/msg01582.html

> The only reasonably safe way to run untrusted/malicious Lua scripts is to sandbox it at the process level. Everything else has far too many loopholes.
>Even if you don't use them they'll collect data on you in many different ways

They don't because I don't leave javascript execution on like grandma opening every email attachment she receives.

Other people's behaviors are their business but it's pretty easy to ask people not to upload photos of you. And if it happens, well, it's actually not a big deal.

Google recaptchas are super annoying and require whitelisting google javascript so I don't go to sites that block me with them.

So you see how taking responsibility for my own behavior works here and I don't need people with guns to coerce other people and cause far more damage than the original "problem".
And if you want to install a game or other program not in the limited Pop!_Shop?
As far as I know, that part of the UX will remain consistent with macOS Big Sur, and it'll still piss you off. :)

(You can hold down Option and use the green button as its old "Zoom" function, but I think there should be a system preference to reverse that so it's zoom by default and you hold down Option to go into full screen.)
I'm not the biggest fan, but the site seems functionally much faster on the massive repos I'm working with. Overall a net benefit.
> does anyone still buy a low-specced machine and upgrade it mid-lifecycle?

Yes, they do. Sometimes a technology like SSD itself gives a great boost in performance equivalent to a new costlier system.
HN needs transclusions and comment notifications. The folks that commented on the previous articles would have worthwhile things to add if they could be pinged.
Frustrating that it no longer shows the latest commit message at the top by default.
As someone who likes to save money by postponing buying a new phone, this has been a problem for me as well. My iPhone 4S became very slow with iOS 9 and had a quickly draining battery. I eventually stopped using it when the speaker broke as I could no longer use it as a phone.
In my country, the old school papers use initial capital letter, then lowercase, regardless of name.

I.e., IBM becomes Ibm, IKEA would be Ikea, and macOS would become Macos.

The reasoning is that companies shouldn’t be able to dictate flow and attention in an article by manipulating capitalization in brand names.

(Just an anecdote, obviously not applicable to comments here)
I think this is spot on.

It's not that this officer need to have gone after her for being black. The big issue is that he just simply can not comprehend - as he indicates from the start - why she would be afraid of the police if she hasn't done anything wrong.

And then everything goes downhill once he's made the decision not to believe that she's actually scared, and interprets everything in that light.

Unfortunately this problem self-amplifies - this woman got one more reason to be afraid of the police, and this story gives other people reasons to be afraid of the police, and the only way to deal with that is for the police to learn to deal with that fear.

What people also seem to forget is that irrespective of racism, police needs to be able to deal with people who get panic attacks or have mental health issues or are intoxicated all the time. If they can not understand that someone might be genuinely in panic without being a criminal, and acting accordingly, the racism or not those officers will treat innocent people in ways they don't deserve.
Either the heaviest-known neutron star or the lightest-known black hole found
Just curious, but what "error" did the original tweeter make? Did anyone really expect the model to accurately reconstruct the original photo starting from a pixelated mess? That makes no sense to anyone with even a passing knowledge of ML. You're always going to get craploads of bias and variance (i.e. blatant inaccuracy, over and above the bias) in such a setting, even starting from "ideal, unbiased" data. The problem domain is at issue here.
> It’s almost as if the browser should provide an method for extensions to identify things to block

Safari[0] has this and has had for a while now...

While maybe not as effective as uBlock Origin, I have extensions I use that leverage that API on iOS and MacOS that do a good enough job for my needs.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/cre...
This is getting cliche. With any modern UI redesign you can immediately guess what's changed:

* Removed/reduced visual separation between elements
* Flattened things more
* More padding

Modern UI designers are strikingly unoriginal.
Yes, but you can compress arbitrarily many texts of arbitrary size with that 5GB fixed cost. As the number of total bytes compressed goes to infinity, that vanishes in the numerator.
Any additional information on how Seattle police union is terrible?
An A12x has 10 billion transistors, and being a SoC the CPU, Neural Engine, ISC and GPU are all integrated.

And that was released in 2018. By the time Apple put out desktop class silcon in end of 2020, surely it will be significantly scaled up?
I don't do a lot of diagramming...But I've found Yed[1] to be nice. Free & Cross Platform.

[1] https://www.yworks.com/products/yed
How do you know you never had a fever you couldn't detect? If you don't check your temperature daily those by definition would have passed you by.

The real reason though is people tend to think it ain't that bad and go out. Fever checks stop those people before they infect your shop.
I didn't know Cloudflare offered that, looks nice.

Wonder how these compare to Ngrok?
China launches final Beidou satellite to complete GPS-like navigation system
Linux doesn't have a single desktop ecosystem. Apple very much has One Apple Way.

If Linux is going to get attacked for not having a single GUI, it would be nice if it weren't also attacked for having a repressive GUI monoculture. /s
Right, others have mentioned the WWW. But it doesn't look obvious to me how the existence of a high energy physics research facility was a necessary precondition for the development of the web. The idea of hypertext had already been floating around for some time (SGML, Xanadu, etc).

I was curious about things more directly related to the actual research done at CERN.
It's not just Italy... the entirety of the European continent sets a great example, even acknowledging the corruption that still takes place.

The question to the US is: how can they become less insular and more open to ways of living that aren't strictly 'American'? You would think the constitution is now set in stone: societal progression is at a complete halt after committing to a few rules 200 or so years ago. And I know that sounds hyperbolic, but even in that time it's still the case that race is a fundamental issue in the US.
> Even Homebrew works pretty nicely

It always surprises me when people cite homebrew as a plus rather than a minus in these discussions. Compared to the experience I have with Linux package managers, I've found homebrew to be extraordinarily slow even at the best of times. A simple "brew update" will generally take at least 30 seconds; in that time on something like pacman, I'll usually not only have already finished fetching the list of updates but also actually performing the upgrades, and that's updating my entire system, not just a few userspace packages that I have installed. I can understand that some people prefer MacOS and I don't think they're wrong for doing so, but it's hard for me to believe that someone has given Linux a fair shot when they cite package management as something that Macias does better.
I went to the protests myself and I support the cause. May be we should question all aspects of a problem, leave aside biases and understand the situation to make a better society? Getting rid of police control measures without proper authority is a good idea, but there should be reservations for when it's needed. I want to make sure those are not eroded or the society turns into something like Somalia.

I also found your comment distasteful as it condemns my intent without substantiation. It is like calling someone with "obsession for murderous things". I take offense in that.
They destroyed the one thing Github had over alternatives (like gitlab). An easily findable releases section.
Yeah please show me one single project of that complexity that didn't went over budget, just a single one...good luck.
An alternate perspective is cops are trying hard, and are succeeding, at making poor neighborhoods safer. However, due to gang culture, many people are heavily and illegally armed, and do not hesitate to shoot to kill. Cops, like all humans, are not fans of dying, so they are trained to respond very quickly if armed escalation is a possibility. As an unfortunate result, innocent people are sometimes killed in these neighborhoods, despite cops doing their best to protect people. When these accidents do happen, due to the high politicization of the issue, cops are very tight lipped about what goes on in their departments. So, a lot of what we see can also be explained as good intentioned human beings doing a very difficult and dangerous job. Why are we so quick to assume the worst about our fellow citizens who are putting their lives on the line for our safety?
Crowds, of people, absolutely have opinions. It's the entire foundation of politics, business, and entertainment. What is a political party platform other than a series of opinions?
Maybe someone more knowledgable on Apple history can correct me but aren't MacBooks being attractive to developers due to the Unix layer a happy accident? Apple never made a plan for that, and I don't think they really care more about that demographic more than before. I use Macs since nearly 30 years and I find it useful that I can now also develop on it, but I can totally envision switching for work, just like in the pre-Intel era. Apple always was about end-users, don't fight it.
Not necessarily. Apache Spark for example, prior to just released 3.0.0 did not work with anything later than JDK 1.8.x. Apache Cassandra in version 3.x.y does not work with 1.11. Version 4.x will support JDK 1.11.

Things are not that simple unfortunately.
Third party browsers for iOS wrap the same WKWebView that Safari uses. Safari isn't going away any time soon, even with the ability to change default browser.
Tried similar.

Typed in 你好吗 and decompressed it. The decompression was an entertaining read.
For some systems even with the Lagrangian/Hamiltonian setup your solving differential equations with numerical techniques that has error. It might be that the neural networks has less error than the standard techniques. This is a guess.
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And others are likely finding it offensive that you keep trying make us disbelieve our own eyes watching that video. There is nothing there except textbook police work. If you don't know how to interact with police, perhaps stay home...
I've been using a 'magic trackpad' for years now, it is the only piece of Apple-branded equipment I ever bought (by getting it for cheap from the 'net), in Linux, and have not had any problems with acceleration curves or cursor control. It use it with 1/2/3 finger click gestures to substitute for the lack of those other buttons. I configure the thing through xinput since I'm not using a 'desktop environment' (Xmonad, dzen, dmenu, conky and trayer suffice). What are those terrible problems which made you pull out your mouse again?
> “ There are also legendary venues where obviously they were 'in the know'.”

Could you elaborate on this?
Skip the online advice. Seriously, look for a counselor/therapist. (Take online advice as to how to find a good one, maybe...)
It seems like you're very self aware and also self centered. Read exactly what you wrote out loud and record yourself. Then play it back. Ask yourself then if this is a person you could establish a friendship with.

We as a society have become increasingly self-centered and our friendships/relationships have become very thin and hollow. I don't think most people have the self evaluation skills you seem to possess. If the actions you're taking don't lead to the outcomes you desire then you must change your actions. That's a simple statement that's difficult to achieve.

I would suggest finding a therapist may help you understand and view what changes could be made. Life is about balance, you must give and receive in a friendship. They cannot be your friend solely on your terms. If you want that kind of friend, generally you pay them and you're left with a hollow friendship.

In general if you be the friend you want, and you make yourself available in social situations you'll find friends.
It is both. There is a dependency in the sense of us going to China necessitated her getting the stamp. But if she wants to leave the U.S. to any country, Canada for example, and return to the U.S., then she needs to go back to China to do the stamping process to enable that. So it's basically required unless you want to just stay in the U.S. for multiple years straight, which is unlikely for international people and also for people in general that like to travel.
I gave negative feedback as well.
Ah, surprisingly good reason (:
There are two separate things here, interpenetration due how contacts/constraints are solved, and whether you do continuous collision sub-stepping or not.

For stability and performance reasons physics engines usually have parameters that soften or add compliance to contacts/constraints. A bit of compliance is almost always better than infinitely stiff collisions/constraints. There are cases where infinitely stiff systems either have no solution, are very expensive to solve, or would produce very extreme impulses (causing things to explode). Including some compliance fixes these issues. It is also often required to produces more realistic looking results since objects in real life aren't infinitely stiff, they either flex or break.

For performance reasons most physics engines also do not completely solve their constraints. They either use a fixed number of iterations (most common, including the demos here) or solve up to some specified error threshold. This tends to add some additional compliance to complex scenes (stacks/piles of objects for example).

With the right parameters a good rigid body physics engine should be able to prevent noticeable interpenetration in most situations, though the performance cost may not be worth it. In these demos if you max out Position iterations, velocity iterations, and frequency you should see significantly less interpenetration.

As for continuous collision detection/sub-stepping, this is a very common feature to prevent fast moving objects from clipping into or tunneling through other objects. However resting/continuous contact cannot be handled by stepping to the next intersection time and so have to be handled differently. Also multiple simultaneous or near simultaneous collisions can grind things to a halt in degenerate cases (such as multiple stacked objects that are almost, but not quite in resting contact). This is why physics engines that support continuous collision usually let you set a maximum number of sub-steps.
The window animation delays in mac are killing me - kind of in a month you lose hours of screen animation time. also macos has ZERO use case as a cloud OS. Any stuff you learn is meaningless except the unixy ones where linux rocks.
Agreed about the Windows feeling, though the reason I have a Windows laptop (which I use personally more than my MacBook) is that outside of development tools it does far more than Mac or Linux machines.
It's not too unreasonable to assume that a given ancient program would have logic to differentiate between "This is a jpg and I know what to do with it" and "this is a something else and I don't know what to do with it" so it will technically handle webp images safely while it may not safely handle something that claims to be a jpg but apparently is not.
Yes, it's pretty awesome tech. Got one a week ago too.

But the content is a bit lacking right now...
Wow, they rolled that out quick! I think they were pushing the beta just a week or two ago…
Static dictionaries or models in compression algorithms are not “cheating”. Brotli, for example, achieves amazing results with its [static dictionary](https://gist.github.com/klauspost/2900d5ba6f9b65d69c8e).

However, I agree with you on the real-world uselessness of a GPT-based compression algorithm.
Yes, I used it in a game engine for many years, on Windows and Linux. No problems on that part.

I don't really recommend doing it, unless you want to do it as a learning experiment. It was a fun thing to do.
The last T series Thinkpad has soldered RAM. Granted it still has one non-soldered slot, but still. It feels like the world is closing for of us that value power and control.
>> Nobody really uses Safari except for on iPhones

Have you got _anything_ to back this up? I’m willing to bet the majority of Mac users use Safari (given it’s the default browser). I use it and it’s a lot less clunky than Chrome and Firefox. I also repeatedly run into an attitude of “if my users don’t user Chrome then I don’t care about their experience” and find it very off putting.
I've never had an experience with dual booting that wasn't absolutely miserable.

> It's definitely gotten better over the past decade, and maybe the jab is a little unfair if you're using off-the-shelf Ubuntu on very vanilla hardware

> I'm sure officially-supported installations like those on the XPS 13 work just fine

That's fair, my use cases pretty much line up with that. I do view the XPS with Pop to be a MBP killer. I did install it myself (getting it on a USB drive is harder than literally the rest of the setup combined (did not dual boot, clean install,) and that wasn't bad at all) but Dell's Project Sputnik ensures Linux compatibility with the XPS line, and Pop!_OS noticed and applied firmware updates for my laptop. I compare the experience to choosing between a MBP and a Hackintosh. XPS + Linux seems to work better for dev work, better for software compatibility, far better for gaming, and is arguably a better experience overall compared to the MBP.

Now, I do also run Pop!_OS on a desktop that I put together (Ryzen 5 & GTX 1060) (no dual booting) and have had a similarly flawless experience. Pop!_OS installed my NVidia driver on the initial install. Better experience for dev work than Windows (haven't given WSL a shot yet though,) but a small number of gaming titles don't work. No where near the experience of setting up a Hackintosh, and compatible with far more software than Catalina.
Worst UI update to GitHub I've ever seen. Reminds me of GitLab. Who thought this would be a good idea? Shame, they could have used the resources for updates that would actually make GitHub better.
Also, Rosetta 2 doesn't support AVX. So it would rely on there being an alternate code path which would be AOT transpiled.
On the other hand, statistics can be arranged and presented in ways that can be misleading. At some point, if enough people are saying something, you may need to take a step back and say “what am I missing here that isn’t represented in the data?”
Don't forget:

* Added dark mode
Mac and Linux actually use the same printer stack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUPS
3DoF -> looking around

6DoF -> looking & moving around
That's the bs that Apple and Microsoft sell because today's Linux can meet the general needs of most users now a days, for free.
That is correct. Many content blockers ship with multiple extensions to try to get around this rule. (EasyList can compress a bit, FWIW.)
Honestly, quite poorly overall. It's a tad surprising given how much I usually enjoy working from home and what not, and how much time I now have for hobbies and what not... but I guess the repetition and lack of any real routine has actually got to me here.

I'd also say the following three factors hurt it too:

1. The feeling you're wasting your time. If you go by Hacker News/Reddit/Product Hunt/other sites, you'd think everyone and their dog has built some world changing product or service in this lockdown period, and that you're a complete failure for not having managed to do the same.

2. The lack of alternatives. Previously, working remotely was fun because there were other things you could do, and other entertainment you could enjoy if you were burnt out. In this lockdown, you basically can't go on holiday, visit any interesting places, buy things in most shops, eat in any restaurants, etc. There's nothing except 'do work' and 'work on your side projects'

That's left me in a situation where I feel like I'm just not able to do anything, and have little to no motivation to even try to do anything.
I use Safari. Still the best and most memory efficient experience.
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