skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And blocked most of AWS in the process, I understand ...
Belgrade is not representative of all of Serbia and you should get out into the provinces. As someone who spends pretty much each summer cycling in Romania and Serbia, I agree with the OP: in so much of Serbia south of Belgrade, the tertiary roads (which were the pride of Yugoslavia) are often no longer maintained and municipal buildings are decaying. In Romania, conversely, a lot of provincial roads have been upgraded and municipal infrastructure renovated thanks to EU funds.
I wish I had had this when I wrote my 250 LOC jpeg visualizer!

https://github.com/aguaviva/micro-jpeg-visualizer
It's a continuation of an ongoing trend nowadays to elevate to a government level issues that should be solved in the family. Instead french government should spend its efforts on actual society problems that affect every child, like fixing french school system. But then they have to spend brain power and money while fighting entrenched interest groups, so as always, low hanging fruit is easier to pick.
The thing that cracks me most is that they suggested to mandate the use of e-government authentication tools for accessing adult content.

If they want to fight this, the most effective way would be a nation-wide ban of VPNs, ip blocking and deep packet inspection to discover and ban other tunnels/VPNs. Sure, you can rent your own server and run shadowsocks on it but it will complicate the process.

In Turkey, I feel like most VPNs are actively banned, it’s a roulette basically to get a working one. The only reliable solution is to rent your own server and setup your own VPN. I think in China, they can also find out and block those.
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Alcohol and cigarettes are restricted to people above 18/21 in most places. Yet somehow I see 14-15 year olds drinking and smoking (even weed, which is illegal).

I think I first saw a porn magazine before I was 10.

Where there's a will, there's a way. You can't use technology for this, because there will always be a will, so they'll ALWAYS find a way.
This is great!

The model used by JPEG is not that unusual in image processing, so this can help us to understand many types of processes.

This person has a whole bunch of this stuff! Gold!

https://github.com/corkami
What a miserable hopeless post - "they're going to fuck us and what can we do????".

Answer: quite a lot, if you have even minimal technical understanding (like, enough to use a blocklist or an ad blocker). Are you incapable even of that?
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>$250 million to acquire a minority interest

very very minor, they have >$15B valuation. They were making $50mil per month two years ago .. on iOS store alone.
> each call between WASM and JS has a hefty cost of about 750ns

Why is this the case? Can we expect it to go away as browsers mature?
And then you end up with explanations like "Gravity is like a deformation of a rubber sheet". Completely misleading. In a similar case (not physics), I literally wasted years on trying to understand something correctly because I wriggled from analogy to analogy instead of putting effort into learning it correctly.

> I would use analogies with things they already understand, such as the hydraulic control lines of steam-powered machinery

How many people from the 18th century knew how those worked? You would be talking to an elite engineer. And even then you would first have to explain to them how you can represent numbers and numerical operations with those valves. I am pretty sure that if you take a today's elite engineer and take the time to explain him the basics correctly, he would be able to understand theoretical physics. That's what's happening in universities every day.

> If you argue this point, first explain to me why physics is done with Greek letters.

There are probably some historical reasons for that, but today it's just because you are quickly running out of latin letters in complex equations, at least that's my opinion :)
Yeah you're right. Just because I would never touch crystal meth doesn't mean I should therefore stand in the way of people using cannabis recreationally (or even medically).

So yeah I guess it comes back to education rather than prohibition...
Hailing from a former communist state from which quite a few people emigrated to France I wonder what are your options as a French person?

What countries are France's France, or in other words, places where salaries are easily 2-3x as high and the general standard of living is proportionally better?
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This is absolutely not cheating; every hand designed algorithm can access and compare everything in the array!

The real point of what they’re saying in your italicized quote is actually that giving the net full access hinders efficiency, so they actually restrict it. Almost like the opposite of cheating.
that's true of LHR as well, there is a Concorde Room just after the priority security scan lane, and first class or top tier BA pax get invited. the place is insane in terms of 'premium-ness' with the experience being s whole level above the usual BA first class lounges - you'll find the full details on the ba.com site. sadly i only managed to use it once or twice, when my boss guested me in ;(
It is a police problem, and the purpose of initiatives like this is to make clear that our government is failing us and we need to start using other methods to get the problem of racism in policing under control, including pressuring the private sector to deny them tools that they are seemingly incapable of not abusing when given access.
We could do all that and kids would still watch porn. They would just share the downloaded video files.
Automatic proof checkers still have bugs in them. However, one nice characteristic is that, since its algorithms are so general, i.e. about the language rather than about the problem you're solving (e.g. sorting), any bugs in the checker are either so common they hit every problem solution and are easily discovered and fixed, or so rare that it affects no real-world problem solutions.
There's no such thing as blocking a site. You can direct DNS providers to block DNS, which doesn't help for anyone using Firefox. You can direct ISPs to block an IP but then you have hard decisions when the site you want to block is hosted by a foreign cloud provider.
This will never work, there are too many websites and too many ways of getting around this limitation.

BUT, there are plenty of parental control softwares for computers and phones, I think this is the only valid solution. So instead of passing some stupid laws, we just have to teach parents.

Otherwise, it's like trying to replace all knifes by platic ones; no we let parents teach kids it's dangerous.
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This is barely worthy a submission, but I thought those of you who like vimv might enjoy this tool[1] too.

https://github.com/danieldugas/vimcp

[1] calling the few lines of bash that constitute vimcp a 'tool' might be pushing it.
I appreciate your corrections and elucidations of this typographical mystery.
You mean Monty Python.
People in eastern Europe are way more accepting of censorship of various kinds and Americans. They also tend to be more pro-authoritarian.

So I don't think this is so valid.

What eastern european has more then that is utter shock over conflicts that arise when people speak their minds more. Plus, it is not like America did not had censorship of private kind in the past. It had. It did not had state one.

Because really, if some place is more at risk of dictatorship coming back, it is various countries in Eastern Europe. So much for people there being scared. Some are, but what others really want is strong hand to squash whatever is perceived of breaking the peace.
Zero-day in Zoom App for Windows 7 allows remote code execution
It needs to be universal so it doesn't penalize work. If there's any set limit, it'll create pathologies around it like people not taking up a job because it would lead them to loosing money/time.
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It's not even close to the Rotterdam metro area.
Private interests, both inside the country and multinationals? The EU's promotion of privatisation is probably its biggest drawback. Here's hoping the UK's departure will reverse that trend.

As of early 2018 the EU was still mostly on the "privatise all the things" train though, sadly.
I tried using Slackware since everyone said it was the most Unixy distro, but then I ran across a bunch of issues. I don't want to seem like I'm berating Slackware or anything, since I might not understand how to use it coming from Arch, but this was just my experience.

I remember needing to use Clang for ccls but found out that the version of CMake included didn't support C++17, then when I tried upgrading CMake I found that some library named libarchive was too old to use as a dependency, so I essentially had to spend hours of time upgrading things to versions not supported on Slackware just to get to the point where I could use Clang. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have to spend all that time if I was using pacman instead where the important packages are all up to date and I could get to work within a few minutes.

Honestly only the distros with a large enough community like Arch or Gentoo would probably have enough people to submit and maintain even the most obscure packages.

Also, there was no easy way to do a system upgrade. In Arch Linux, which is what I'm used to, you can usually do 'pacman -Syu' without too much fuss, but the Slack document for upgrading the kernel is a multistep process that I couldn't successfully complete. (It even wishes you "good luck".) Third-party packages on slackbuilds have no automatic dependency resolution either (!) which was very painful every single time I needed a package not in the official repository, which was all the time in my case. I could literally feel my heart sink every time I needed a slackbuilds package and it required upgrading a system dependency. Apparently this was a political decision instead of a technical one[1], which I don't understand because pacman handles it fine.

I also had integrated graphics issues that caused Firefox to hang on startup or Love2D to freeze, forcing me to kill the X server, for which I found no solution. Arch ran them fine. This was on a ThinkPad, by the way.

It could just be a philosophy thing, or that people with my specific needs are better served by other distros, or maybe I've been hopelessly spoiled by Arch and can't see the benefit Slack brings over it yet. But I have to admit I am still mildly curious about it, just not in the sense of using it as a daily driver.

[1] https://slackbuilds.org/faq/#deps
That's sucks.
For sanity, sustainability and fairness I would rather that read

It only takes a handful of extremely passionate engineers
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It only takes a handful of paid engineers, full time assigned to the task
Adult websites want brownie points and also don't like nonpayers, but mess with their revenue and you'll get a push back.

There's basically one company that runs all the major porn sites (Mindgeek). That company was going to be provider of the age verification system the UK government looked in to that's now been scrapped. The company also sells a VPN for circumventing blockers including the age verification systems. It's really a brilliant three-sided-market business.

The problem is that a lot people expect porn to be free now, because there are so many free videos it's enough for all but the most dedicate porn watcher. This move has nothing do with "protecting children" and everything to do with the porn industry realising that they've given their product away for so long that the best way they can make money now is by lobbying governments to make people pay again.
It looks like their algorithm can only modify the input list by swapping elements. This is guaranteed to result in a permutation.
I have tried LFS before because I thought it would teach me more about Linux (been a desktop Linux user since 2006, having tried a number of distributions, including Arch, and more recently back on Ubuntu, but never dug deep into internals).

However, I found I didn't really learn much and was just blindly executing steps. It's fun for a while to watch the magic, but maybe there is some better way to consume the material? I found that I wasn't really getting enough context around what was happening to appreciate what was being done and why at every stage.

Maybe someone can suggest something?
At the moment, offline rendering is still massively parallel, but you run into memory limitations when trying to render on the GPU. High end VFX scenes using Renderman or Arnold can push up to 100 GB+ of memory and run for multiple hours on standard 12-24 core machines. I believe some GPU renderers can do "out-of-core" rendering, but not all of them support that yet.

The high end renderers usually split up a large image into "buckets" and then perform path tracing on those regions of an image, and combine the results together. If you have more cores, you can increase the number of simultaneous buckets to evaluate.

To put this in perspective, a lot of the recent news around real-time raytracing is when a game engine does 1-4 samples per pixel and then aggressively denoises (in 2D) the result. That's why you often see splotches or errors. On the other hand, high end VFX renders will end up doing hundreds or even thousands of samples per pixel to get a clean, high quality, physically plausible result.
That's amazing ... thank you for the feedback!
> We tend to forget the damage that porn causes to young minds.

There's a fair amount to unpack here.

"We tend to forget" seems to indicate this is proven and beyond dispute. I'm not sure that is true.

"damage" is a very strong word that implies permanent harm - almost at the cellular level. Not everyone would accept that "damage" is even the right way to frame this. It's part of a complex social and behavioural pattern that is very hard to pick apart.

"young minds" - how young? Is it dependent on countering with good sex education or is the "damage" something that would resist all countermeasures?
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Are you talking about Finala ?
The kernel of an automatic proof checker is much easier to test and verify than the programs you verify using a proof checker though.
It is absolutely impossible to enforce. The internet certainly makes it easier for kids, but such age barriers are only a minor inconvenience really.

Officially 18+ video games and movies can also be only accessed by adults, yet in my school a 13 years old kid literally ran a black market for horror movies and games like Call of Duty. It won't be any different for porn even if the government goes as far with blocking as the CCP.
The Mk622 engine was still a turbojet, albeit improved. Primarily its gains came from a more efficient compressor, providing more oxygen to the combustion chamber.
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True, but it's much easier to put sunscreen on my ears than on my head (my hair isn't that thin yet!)
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The famous cities of the ancient world were surprisingly small and fragile
I don't mean to pick on you in particular, but I continue to be flabbergasted by the number of people who claim to suffer from the presence of the default touchbar interface.

MTMR (My Touchbar My Rules) took me all of 15 minutes to install and configure to my liking. Then another few minutes to tweak it (adding brightness and volume buttons on either side of their respective sliders) when I realized I wanted both control mechanisms available.

In the time it takes to complain about the default config you could have fixed 100% of the things about it that bother you.
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a sonic boom is a phenomenon that occurs continuously when traveling over mach 1.0 so supersonic flight is usually limited to over water routes and forbidden over or near urban areas.
Maybe I'm being unfair but (solo?) people get bored.

People get bored of maintaining, polishing or developing new features once the revenue stream is consistent. The product stagnates. Income stream starts to dry. People that once could manage frugally get used to have plenty. What do they do to get back on track? They increase prices. This is the beggining of the end. An order of magnitude smaller, but been there.
This seems like a very cool way to tap into the dopamine reward system to encourage positive behavior (saving more money). For people who don't have savings and have a very high rate of temporal discounting and high impulsivity, this could be a huge deal. Looking forward to seeing how this continues to develop.
How would one store the long, random passwords for these e-mail and blogging accounts, given TAILS is so reluctant to save anything to disk?
There are .deb packages in the non-free repo and it just works as long as the driver has no bugs regarding to card installed on the system.
For the purposes of this law, the word “address” only refers to physical location and/or it’s corresponding mailing addresses. Not at all how I thought this would play out. The ruling is linked below.

http://curia.europa.eu/juris/documents.jsf?num=C-264/19

> Interestingly the EU Court says that obtaining additional information on users isn’t completely ruled out but such decisions are to be made by EU Member States after balancing various fundamental rights, including acting proportionately.

> “The Court nevertheless stated that the Member States have the option to grant holders of intellectual property rights the right to receive fuller information, provided, however, that a fair balance is struck between the various fundamental rights involved and compliance with the other general principles of EU law, such as the principle of proportionality,” the Court adds
The claims in the article about lower operational upkeep are pretty disingenuous. They only talk about things that are easier in pulsar than kafka, but not about the complete picture at all. I'd largely ignore the article and go have a look at how to run both independently. As another commenter posted, they both require zookeeper to run (there are efforts to remove ZK from kafka, but until that's proven you'll still need to assume you need ZK), so the operational upkeep it going to be very similar.
I'm a bit suspicious of the qualification 'thermal' in 'thermal efficiency' which sounds like it's hiding something. From the wiki article on thermal efficiency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_efficiency, and I'm no wiser for reading it:

"For a heat engine, thermal efficiency is the fraction of the energy added by heat (primary energy) that is converted to net work output (secondary energy)."

Does thermal efficiency = actual efficiency in the case of jet engines? I find that difficult to believe.
I personally think the entire calculation of how much your free time is worth is pretty stupid.

There are things that I am willing to pay for even if it was cheaper to do it myself. There are also things that I'm willing to do myself even if it is cheaper to buy it.

You only do this calculation because you don't have any free time left so either you put it off until you can or you pay.
> so nobody thinks in terms of buying support for any office suite[.]

In my experience working in a repair shop, people only think in these terms when buying an office suite, regardless of if they'll actually use the official support. This only applies to individuals though, not corps.
Not really: the CPU costs more and can handle more workloads because it has more complicated control flow.

These days, arithmetic is cheap and control flow is expensive. GPUs and SIMD achieve high throughput by tying a set of arithmetic units together with the same control flow. As soon as you get complicated data-dependent workflows - as soon as you put "if" in your code or a virtual method - the GPU starts getting less efficient.

It's very much a "train vs car" argument: a train can deliver a large number of execution units , provided they're all going to the same place, whereas a car can re-route far more easily.
It's worth noting that there is an explanation for dark energy, namely quantum fluctuations of the vacuum. It's also worth noting that this explanation is off by over 100 orders of magnitude, which lead to it being called "the worst prediction in physics". Oddly enough we haven't come up with a better explanation as far as I know, the current assumption is just that the mass somehow almost cancels out.
No it is highly relevant. I’m “making” happiness by watching a film on Netflix instead of getting dressed, getting in the car, struggling to find parking, waiting for the order, and then driving back.

This is an economic decision just One that not easily seen by dollars. I value a movie more than running errands.
Living in the EU is worse than being in a jail. At least you have more freedoms in jail.
The point is that proportion of young adults that will access to porn will change from 100% to ~25%. Of course people will find a way, but the question is how much effort will they put in before they give up. If the effort barrier is too high, you will cull off some people - the purpose of this legislation.
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Baseball caps offer limited protection for the head as a whole, especially the ears, though. To say nothing of trucker caps and their mesh crown, which fail to even protect most of the head.
I'm not sure your CPU will be faster. I'm using Blender on a Ryzen 9 3900x with a RTX 2070S.

The CPU is never faster than the GPU. CPU + CUDA is way faster, but when I use OptiX (RTX) it is unbelievable how fast it is.

The GPU Raytracer just shines here.

The Blender benchmarks: https://opendata.blender.org/
Absolutely.

If you’re looking to just learn about Linux, you can’t go much further than Slackware. It’s as Linux as you can get: you can learn distros (which admittedly is easier now that many are built on a few different platforms - GNOME, xfce, systemd, etc.), but Slackware gives you a kernel, core-utils, and a bunch of packages - can’t get much simpler than that.

Also once you track -current and get around SlackBuilds you can install almost anything you want, it’s a full-fledged and modern distro. Without dependency management to be sure, but if you’ve got a well-made distro and you compile most of the software you install, who needs it?
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> Except that Ubuntu actually doesn't shit itself almost every time you add a 3rd party package/repo and comes with reasonable defaults.

I'm using debian testing for more than 15 years and it never shit itself for a 3rd party repo.

Debian comes with whathever the original software developers set as the default sans the wallpaper. For sensible default you can bug the software developer in question, not debian.