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I think ML approaches are not well suited here - or at least there are still huge problems between non-germanic/Latin languages that have yet to be approached.
(My background: white Australian, not a linguist, know a little Vietnamese, know a very tiny bit about indigenous Australian languages based on chatting with friends who studied that area)

I continually see consumer-facing ml approaches (FB, Google) give terrible Vietnamese translations because they assume all of the context needed for a translation is available in the text. In general this is not the case. In Vietnamese this is hugely obvious because their pronoun system is largely based on 3rd person relationships ("sister walks down the street", "boyfriend loves girlfriend"), which is impossible to map to/from English 2nd person ("you walk down the street", "I love you") without basically a full conscious intelligence. Even FB, which is in a unique circumstance of actually having a lot of the requisite relationship data between people available to it, does a terrible job at this.

My (tiny) understanding of the incredibly rich kinship systems in indigenous Australian cultures suggests that this would be a huge issue there as well, assuming these complexities are also present in their languages. (...OP? :) )
> b) that by not separating the definition of an integral from its evaluation, you're not able to manipulate it directly as an expression or to evaluate it via different methods (e.g. symbolic vs. numerical methods).

I was mostly referring to this. Mathematica is simply my only experience with this kind of approach.
I reckon the one thing "Project Moonshot" actually demonstrates is how much media coverage of Covid-19 is partisan horseshit. It's basically identical to what the New York Times and other American media publications have been claiming the US desperately needed for months, and they portrayed it as a neat, easy solution that the US would have had months ago if not for Trump's incompentence. Yet when the UK government and Boris Johnson - who is seen as our equivalent of Trump - attempts something similar, suddenly there's a wave of news articles in the UK context about how it's impossible, the tech doesn't even exist, it would have far too many false positives, and so on. Pretty much the exact same plan is being spun in the UK as a delusional distraction by right-wing populists that pushes a quick fix where none exists, and in the US as a easy fix that would've happened if not for the incompetent right-wing populists refusing to do it as part of an evil cover-up. (Needless to say, pretty much all the problems with false positives, inadequate technology, the diffculty of scaling up, etc would have been much bigger problems in the US a few months ago given the much larger population and the improvements in Covid-19 testing technology since then.)
With Vimium[1] I consistently get 0 ms from hover to click. :)

[1] https://github.com/philc/vimium
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I'm not a linguist but that to me is more a list (a sequence of qualifiers) than a recursion (a nesting). However, a quick browse shows I'm wrong so for those who also aren't sure

https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/3252/what-is...

https://www.thoughtco.com/recursion-grammar-1691901
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A modern take on the movie Hackers
I don't believe this blog post paints an unbiased picture.
> Do we really have to go to asinine level of detail given that freedom of speech has been a constitutionally protected right for over 230 years? We have plenty of legal precedent for what should be protected.

We have plenty of legal precedent on what is protected in the US.

There is considerable debate, even in the US, as to whether this captures all of and only that whic should be protected.

One should not confuse even well established US Constitutional law with universally accepted moral principles.
Did anything interesting come out of the RAS' press release?
Probably lack of volume and competition?
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It was only published along with her paper.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MN996532 (2020)

Some quick google fu shows no hits before her paper, either for the virus name (RaTG13) or for chains of nucleotides.

Then another point that seems suspicious to me is that, in her interview with Nature, she states that RaTG13 was only found in 1 (one) bat poop sample, as in, ever, and that all of the sample was used, so there's no virus isolate available, which is too convenient.

Edit:

It was previously called RaBtCoV/4991, and only a single gene was published in 2016.

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/983856042
Handtrack.js, at least after playing around with both for a bit, seems to be significantly better too.
Entertaining irony; I couldn’t resolve the A record for that domain from my pi-hole and nearly wrote an embarrassing comment here before I checked another resolver. All sorted now though
They could allow a NGO/consortium in each country to do the moderation. No reason it has to be done centralized by Americans, based on American values.
Fair enough. You've my upvote. I live in Australia. While, it's not legal, it's pretty common here. Yes I don't live next to someone who smokes all day. I do know someone who smokes and bakes cookies. Their house smells pleasant though (from the butter I reckon). I could be wrong.
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"Thus, craft guilds provided the goods and merchants fed the need: the beginning of real capitalism."
Good piece but please allow me to nitpick :
Not blaming the author because it is a very common and well established narrative that capitalism arose from the development of a merchant class but Ellen Meiksins Wood makes a pretty good case for an agrarian origin to capitalism in The Origin of Capitalism. She argues that the roots are instead a combination land rental and the reliance on waged labour IIRC. If the subject is of interest to you I recommend you check it out.
The TL;DR; is in the next few days, 1 hour session, going through the docs & guides, and giving your experience. Conducted over Zoom and recorded.

We can offer a $50 Amazon gift card as a thank you.

Happy to also answer any questions.
Both are faster build then chrome or Firefox ;)
I honestly think of him as a political actor, in the "chess player" sense of the word politics, rather than in the idealistic sense; so I wasn't particularly sympathetic. You know the game you're playing, and all.

After reading he's headed for ADX, however, I'm sympathetic. No prisoner of any kind should be exposed for anything remotely resembling that, in my opinion. It's a horror movie come true.
Even if this is a bandaid solution attacking the wrong problem, it's great to see people caring for speed for a change.

But isn't it dangerous? How does it know you re not preloading the "please delete everything" link?

It would be nice to have a standard html tag preloading="yes" so that one day browsers can have it as standard feature. I'd much rather have this than AMP
There's a double-quote character missing.
This is interesting.

I was scrolling down and when I got to pagination I assumed I’d reached the end of the page and clicked on “2” ... which took me to the article on pagination. Not a bug, just an unexpected consequence.
You guys are all amazing, and thank you in particular.
> perhaps also that this article is a little US-focussed

Most reporting is, since the USA is the biggest cultural exporter out there. It's incredibly difficult to convince people that the prominent US figures aren't always the ones who achieved things because their work is documented better and got more spotlight.

Also, I've actually never heard of the Roundhay Garden Scene and was dead certain that Lumiere brothers originated cinema, so that's a lesson for me.
This is just a coverup. Otherwise they're confiscating one Chinese manufactured wireless ear buds to protect another Chinese manufactured ear buds.

Actually Apple is moving some production of Airpods to Vietnam. Because why manufacture in one Communist country when you can manufacture in two? :-)
I still regularly use Wifi, e.g. on trains in rural areas, because mobile data is a lot more unstable there compared to the train wifi, especially at speed in rural areas. (Trains here usually have better antenna and often uplinks to multiple carriers)

Then the mobile carrier/ISP is the threat. I personally do not really trust those DSLAM boxes scattered all around my city, often readily accessible by everybody with the right key/lock pick. E.g. I know the DSLAM box that is serving my house, and I can just walk up to it.

And every other hop between you and the destination is the threat as well, and every person having enough access to any such hop, from company employee to external attacker. Also, did China route half the internet through China again, by "accidental" buggy BGP routes.

And don't forget your own router, which is a threat (once hacked). Or that "smart" lightbulb or other IoT device in your LAN that may be able to listen to your all your Wifi communication at home depending on your setup.

TLS isn't "a lot of effort", it's a minor computational cost e.g. compared to the energy you use to display ads you don't want to see, and end-users do not have a hard time using it. It's a tiny bit of burden for server operators, tho letsencrypt/ACME made it a setup-once kinda thing for a lot of people.
With all due respect, you probably know more about software than plumbing, maybe leading you to simplify a bit. Because the same logic could be applied to plumbing, but any plumber might see more variables, the way you do with software.
I completely agree.

It takes a lot of guts to make this kind of announcement. When faced with younger, faster competitors, it's natural to try and fight your corner. This is rarely good for a software project.

The devs have put their hands up and called it off. They can move on to more exciting projects. The rest of us can make better decisions now that the thinking behind this decision is out in the open.

Congrats, moment.js, on a great project!
You can do that in C++ by wrapping he type in a new class although it requires some boilerplate depending on which operators you want to support. [0]

You don't have to use all features of C++ - if you prefer a more C like style you can have that.

[0] https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_48_0/boost/strong_typedef.h...
AWS appsync, firebase, etc. Both nudge you to use their proprietary nosql database through integrations.
Changing the pinning of dependencies is still a change to a project, if only a minor change.
Miles Guo is also part of Trump's Mar-el-Lago resort
Facebook is rotten from the core because it is rotten at the head. It is a very sad state of affairs that the one company that would have been able to be a force for good in all this ended up being run by someone who is so morally disconnected.

At this point in time it will take an act of God to fix it, the lock-in is very strong and their ability to buy up anything that even begins to compete with them serves to cement that lock-in to the point where I don't see a way of ever dislodging it.
In the current environment, why would Western scientists be worried about funding issues if they prove the virus was manufactured in a Chinese lab? The US government would probably bombard them with money.
> No reason it has to be done centralized by Americans, based on American values.

So let's handle moderation in... let's say Saudi-Arabia, by having them silence LGBT and women's rights advocates?

And who is responsible for Saudi-Arabian citizens in exile? Saudi-Arabia? The country where they live in? The country where they are currently on vacation?
Not really, if I’m being honest.

I think it’s gone on too long now, and needs resolution - which I believe is one of the important aspects of judicial systems beyond “justice” - simply drawing a line under things so society can move on.

Julian poked a sharp stick into the US military, intelligence and political system - I expect a few years in a US prison will be the result - something to be anticipated if you had a normal amount of ego and wisdom.
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Thank you for introducing me to this wonderful service. I have been trying to make services like ngrok work for the past few days. But Tailscale is way eaisier.

I have a small question though and I would be very much thankful if somebody answers it.

Say I use tailscale to get my RPi's torrent client webui to be accessible via LTE on my phone. I run tailscale on both devices and access the webui by typing 100.* IP that tailscale provides. My question is that since it is running like a VPN, is my torrent traffic also getting routed through tailscale servers/relays or just the traffic that gets sent/received from the 100.* IP addresses.
I think part of the larger argument is that modern FPTP politics is so partisan its very hard to judge anymore what criticism is valid and which is just mud slinging. _Everything_ the opposition does is the _worst_ thing ever and nobody ever congratulates the other side on anything they do that could be good. This makes it hard to separate out hyperbolic criticism of borderline cases and legitimate criticism of clear outliers.

At its core I personally believe the issue is the "side taking" but its rare to find positions that are not explicitly called in advance of the news hitting.
Automatic transcripts are surprisingly useful for this as you can simply search for key words. Their far from perfect especially when multiple people are talking, but all you really need is a time stamp.
Yup, definitely a head scratcher! So far I've been able to thread through an open window but when the weather turns I'll need to drill a hole somewhere at some point :)
I wonder if the autopilot has special emergency modes for driving in half-duplex tunnels like this. Could a following car be instructed to push a disabled vehicle to safety? Can the autopilot drive backwards out of the tunnel? There's no room for escape from a fire, flooding or various kinetic failures. Imagine a defective wheel letting go in that little tunnel.
> Even if the particular part of the device is unreadable, the operating system is supposed to try to write the correct data over the top.

According to md(4) man page, that's what it does. Only if the write fails, it is added to the bad block list.

FWIW, I've also encountered an issue related to BBL - in my case multiple RAID6 components got bogus bad blocks (no idea from where, maybe a lower-level controller issue or driver bug?) so there were logical sectors that had insufficient non-"bad" backing sectors and the RAID array reshape process code was seemingly not prepared for that, entering an infinite loop with 100% CPU use and locking all use of the array.
I guess viewing the point as quite high is pretty subjective. Plenty of important business practices rely on them, so in that sense you are correct.
Profit maximization. You make the point that companies can choose to hire employees that aren’t the bottom of the barrel but then you’re selling a different product to those who really are squeezing every penny. CostCo and Walmart are both successful superstores but one sells many more products, in smaller minimum purchases, and hires lower quality employees while paying less. These kinds of differentiation factors lead to what’s called oligopolistic competition[1]. They’re not in separate markets but they’re it selling the same product either.

[1] https://www.monash.edu/business/marketing/marketing-dictiona...
> You could also argue that the original rise of Fascism was enabled by mass propaganda becoming possible where it wasn't really previously

Genocides and other war crimes have been a staple of humanity since Ancient Greece. Authoritarianism, of which fascism is a subset, only depends on one thing, and that is masses willing to be led.
That's your work style then. In many cases, I got the documentation on one screen, and my IDE on the other. Other times, it's more a distraction (i.e., whenever I just have mail or WhatsApp on the other) -- I'll turn off the second monitor then.
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The certification is enforced by having a trademark on the logo, that’s the easiest way to put conditions on the use of a mark.
> what makes you think they magically will develop one now?

Nothing magical here, the culture shift will/should happen exactly because remote work is now the default.

The same way companies adopted Internet and digitized their workflows.
You are correct about how it works.
Well, /etc/mdadm.conf is supposed to describe the running system.

Now, the installer doesn't use md, but from a strict philosophical perspective this makes sense.
The top comment started off with the argument that you can't know the relative importance of the work. 6 lines of code can do a lot. 600 lines of code can do little. To measure productivity you have to measure how difficult the job is compare how valuable the job is. Most of the time both value and difficulty are unknown.
At the Yunohira observatory they were selling "Volcanic Coffee" produced somehow locally, complete with a picture of Sakurajima on the bag. :)
That answer does mention that GCC permits it as an extension. If the author uses GCC, maybe that’s where the confusion comes from?
> what it advertises itself as visionary-wise

All puff. The amateurs over at /r/osdev are much closer to running directly on hypervisors or bare metal than Urbit will ever be.
The fact that we now "expect" journalists and whistle blowers (to war crimes) to be prosecuted and imprisoned is very upsetting and unjust.
Windows Defender flags the exe as a Trojan.
The conspiracy theory presented in this paper is that mainstream medical journals around the world are "strictly censoring" evidence that COVID19 was developed in a lab.
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I pasted Japanese text and it turned into Mojibake.
Security teams generally have policies that require dependencies be up-to-date within a certain time frame. This is especially true if the dependency has a CVE somewhere within it - even if that CVE affects functionality that isn't utilised by the project.
Yeah I wonder what it's like being on the 'spying' end - many probably won't realise they're doing it.

I've come across a few comments on other threads where people justified monitoring software, but there must be some out there who are told they have to spy on colleagues and feel awful doing so.
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An omni-directional "Poynting 4G-XPOL-A0001":
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They make lots of different types:
https://poynting.tech/antenna-category/antennas/
Not only programmers, many of us tend to look at progress as an end in itself. Progress is the process of measuring if we achieve the objectives, it can not be the objective. Many times we do not achieve 100% of the objectives and that is fine, we need to consider the law of diminishing returns.
That's basically why I dislike languages like this. I used to write World of Warcraft AddOns in lua. Refactoring was a pain. There'd often be some edge case I'd only notice days later where now a function argument was missing, was not passed in, or was mistyped for example.
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AsmJit was designed to be able to integrate well with C code bases. It uses C-style error handling (no exceptions) and provides easy to use API. I don't think it's a big deal to use it in a C project - there are other C projects that use AsmJit without any issues.
Also Wedos here in Czech republic; https://www.wedos.org/en/
One more issue when going somewhere: not all places have useful 4G offerings.

In France, Germany and Italy for instance I couldn't find a monthly prepaid 4G offer with unlimited data, especially in France you frequently even need a local bank account and in Germany 4G is so bad in many places that it wouldn't make a difference how much data is in the plan. Other places like Austria offer monthly prepaid as low as EUR 20, though speed may be limited to 25-40Mbps, which should suffice for 1:1 video calls.

My solution for now is to at least have my workstation connected somewhere with a fast connection and someone who could reboot it if needed, connect to that from where I am and have that do all the heavy lifting. Doesn't solve the video conference issue though.

Having flexible and reasonably quick connectivity, or an EU wide subscription, would really lift the value of locations outside of cities - I don't understand how badly this is done compared to other infrastructure investments (e.g. roads are pretty amazing in Western Europe and not that bad in places I've been in Eastern Europe compared to the US). I hope non government actors like Starlink manage to close this gap.
Yes, most of the time you only need one screen, two screens mostly generate distractions. But I have noticed that switching workspaces is a context switch for your brain, just like passing through a door. You often forget what you were doing right after leaving a room for that reason. And when I truly need two different windows in a shared context, like some documentation in the browser and my code editor, it saves effort to have them truly side-by-side.
Then why doesn't easylist add google.com and facebook.com to their list? I'm sure G/FB track every single click you do on their pages. Huge privacy violation. Not even theoretical. Block youtube also, they are tracking your viewing habits, how much you watched, where you skipped, etc. Just block all this.

I wish there was a way to easily override individual entries in easylist/ubo.
> Blood/urine test =/= testing. Also from the link you provided: "Screening is the process of identifying individuals who may be at higher risk of a disease or condition amongst large populations of healthy people." People who are not at risk might want to do blood/urine test to check if they currently have underlying issues.

This sentence doesn't make much sense.

> Blood/urine test =/= testing.

If the patient has symptoms then it's a test. If the patient does not have symptoms then it's screening.

> People who are not at risk might want to do blood/urine test to check if they currently have underlying issues.

But this is screening, and screening is often harmful, which is why it's strictly controlled.

The blog is not only about covid-19, it uses Covid-19 testing as an example. But the information about screening, especially false positives, applies to the type of blood testing you're talking about.

If you want a different blog: https://understandinguncertainty.org/node/1279

> Last time I checked that was the thing suggested, can you please clarify and elaborate why you say so?

The problem is of "over testing", "over diagnosis", and "over treatment". https://ebm.bmj.com/content/23/1/1

Your claim is that early detection means that treatment can start earlier, and that this reduces side effects and prolongs life.

My claim is that often screening sometimes does not prolong life, and sometimes causes harm.

https://www.hardingcenter.de/en/early-detection-prostate-can...

Take 1000 men aged 50. Give them yearly screening for prostate cancer. Take another group of 1000 men and don't give them prostate cancer screening.

In both groups about 7 men will die from prostate cancer, and about 210 men will die from any cause. But in the screening group 160 men will have a false alarm and needless biopsy, and 20 will have needless treatment. (And the treatment for prostate cancer can leave people incontinent or impotent).

See also this for a discussion of 5 year survival rates and why they're problematic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24022426