skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are not (active) noise cancelling!
Right, there are many languages, which give you "good enough" efficiency but are much better suited for development and stability.
Food processing, recycling separation? I can imagine lots of small parts moving fast
"BEGIN Japanology" is the official name.
tomato / potato sorting while they are on conveyor. bigger fps, more objects to dump on said conveyor.
Yes, there are lots of “sleep headphones” like these. But they are not noise cancelling.
It's sad that people apparently see as ok for China to break international treaties related with HK. It's just a matter of time until all our life is controlled by big tech.
> Oculus is a failure.

I wouldn't call it a failure. A failed product is one which the company has shelved and never to see again, no rebranding nothing. Like zune in msft for example.

I think fb is continuing to invest to figure out the right market fit
Electron lags chromium HEAD and mode+electron is a complicated architecture to secure correctly:

https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-17/thursday/us-17-Carettoni...

https://github.com/minbrowser/min/issues/440
The history and prehistory of LibreOffice [pdf]
Thank you, that's good to know. I always thought it was normal and people other than me just got used to the pulse noise.
I pursued this question in grad school [1], leaning towards symbolic logic:

Suppose we want to learn a "natural" programming language. Training data would be example programs that we believe should be easy to express in any language. Since each of those programs will be expressed in a particular language, we'll need a notion of program equivalence across languages. As a toy framework let "language" mean a basis of combinators in pure lambda calculus; this is convenient because we have a (Hilbert-Post-)complete theory of behavioral equivalence among programs (H*, see Barendregt's classic book), and because the combinatory basis problem has been well studied since 1950s. Applying machine learning we can try to "fit a combinatory basis to data" in the sense of finding a finite weighted set of combinators, giving more weight to language primitives with shorter spelling. Our loss function will be the Kolmogorov complexity of our training data, actually gradients will be better if we use a softmax-Kolmogorov complexity. I used gradient descent to update weights of existing language primitives, and used greedy sparse dictionary learning to propose new language primitives. Most of the work was in proving equivalence and approximating Kolmogorov complexity.

It was a cute experiment, but hopelessly far from practical.

[1] http://fritzo.org/thesis.pdf (2009)
That's one of the big challenges we've been running to at UrbanLogiq. We've built bespoke storage and processing pipelines for this data because existing options in this space both didn't fit our needs and also would bankrupt our company while we tried to sort it out.

Having "cost" on the board as a factor we were actively trying to optimize for during design pulled us in a direction that is quite foreign compared to off-the shelf solutions.

That last paragraph rings true -- one of our big challenges specifically was in ingesting and indexing data that needs to be queried across multiple dimensions, things like aircraft or drone position telemetry. But once we found a workable solution for that, it specializes quite well to simpler workloads very well.
Agreed. His “evidence” means nothing and his background is very shady. Those screenshots could be completely made up.

Can someone else verify with raw data?
Exactly and the OP has a strong past of making false and misleading claims before.
The article makes it sound like the alternative to white noise is luxurious, dead silence.

But, especially in the city, the alternative is usually just patches of semi-silence interrupted by loud or sharp things. Dogs barking, a police siren, the neighbor coming home at 3am, your partner flushing the toilet, inexplicable noises that start and then stop before you realize why you're up.

I listen to white noise like a fan because it smooths over those noises. I'd pick dead silence if I could.
Why would the outcome of the A/B matter? The writing is on the wall.

Maybe get out now rather than waiting for the frog to get cooked.
Ed Benguiat, a Master of Typography, Is Dead at 92
I guess not really your fault. We have KOLs that put out information on their site and channels ( in this case DaringFireball and Twitter ) and they, for whatever reason never really correct themselves. ( Even when they knew they were wrong )
Update: searched for a PR, didn't find it.

Initial commit[1] in the LocalCDN repo is Feb 2020; I don't see any PRs on either of the Decentraleyes repos in early 2020 or late 2019. Of course, it's still possible the author reached out

[1] For some reason, the project does not continue the git history from Decentraleyes. For me this is a red flag (much easier to sneak in a change this way) and I will continue using Decentraleyes.
Many people assume, rightly or wrongly, that Google isn't processing their mail content for business purposes.
"Now?" Has this not always been the case? I tend to use the web UI on my desktop which, IIRC, has always made links bounce through a Google. I use an app on my mobile device so I can't confirm whether links bounce through Google.

Is Google rewriting the links in the message such that if I forward to someone's non-Gmail address, they still bounce through Google?

Or is the client 'rewriting' links dynamically? This same thing happens all over the web. Drop a link in your Medium-hosted blog, and they'll front the link with their own and then redirect.

What's the new, surprising bit here?
It is interesting to note that OpenWrt originated following a GPL enforcement action by Software Freedom Conservancy that saw the release of Linux kernel, busybox and other code. Also just after OpenWrt joined Conservancy recently, Conservancy announced their plan to enforce the GPL again, in another area of the consumer electronics space, with the intent to again use the result to create an open source solution for the devices being enforced against.

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2020/oct/01/new-copyleft-stra...
https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/enforcement-st...
https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/firmware-liber...
Can't repro. Links in text/plain, HTML, and mixed survive round trip through Google. Suggests that whatever client the OP is using is confused by the data-saferedirecturl attribute in Gmail's web presentation?
> If they're rewriting emails that you send out

That's not the claim. The claim is that they're rewriting urls you receive. I suppose if the imap claim is true, and you reply, and you quote the redirector url in your reply, and someone clicks that link, they could detect it. That seems a little annoying and presents a slight risk, but it doesn't seem like the type of thing that would be intentionally designed in, even if I model google as completely amoral and short-termist. There just doesn't seem to be much advantage in it.

> And not every gmail user uses the webmail interface either

That's why i said the vast majority of cases, not "all." :)
I'm also unable to reproduce this. This feature could be behind an A/B test, but this is just one additional data point.
Honorable body of most prestigious establishments producing no output whatsoever.
I'm not sure a Supreme Court ruling that I'm prohibited from deleting blog comments actually represents an extension of my freedoms...
I have a tinnitus, so I have a fan running in every room of my apartment to (partially) cover it with a white noise. I live alone right now but I wonder how many women, if they were to live with me (in a relationship), would be ok with it.

BTW the biggest win in getting a good sleep for me has been making sure my bedroom is properly ventilated, so that I have low levels of CO2. Since I started doing that, my sleeping issues have been reduced to practically nothing - i.e. I almost never wake up feeling drowsy, which was something that happened to me a couple days a month before I started monitoring CO2.
I’m currently working as a data engineer. I used to be a DBA for 5 years. I’m thinking now that the role of Data Engineer is the combining of what were three roles at my first job: Data warehouse engineer, DBA, and software engineer: it’s really the best of many worlds. I really enjoy it. I get to write the Python I’m good at (was never really good at general software engineering and feature development), gate keep a bit to keep my DBA chops up (SQL code quality, query tuning, access control etc but without all the need to be intimately well versed in any particular database), and spend my time creating new ETL processes and maintaining various EDW’s and data lakes.

It’s my favorite role I’ve had to date and I’m really happy in it.
Software Freedom Conservancy: The Strategic GPL Enforcement Initiative
It's a fork / rebranding of Cadence, written by Uber, which they use extensively
1. Get Fastmail
2. Forward all your email from gmail to Fastmail. Use this time to update your contacts, etc.
3. After 30 days disable gmail forward. You will probably keep the email address for spam.

For Calendar - you can have fastmail pull your gmail calendar. Keep that in place to help transition recurring meetings to fastmail, and then eventually you can sunset that too.

Do invest in your own domain name so that if you need to leave fastmail in the future you can do that more easily.
Layoutit Grid – CSS Grids layouts made easy
> it means the website doesn't get to know that you came from gmail.com.

That's entirely solved by Referrer-Policy: no-referrer, so no.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re...

(Unless you're talking about someone using another webmail client that doesn't set the header, which would be a stretch.)
Most big companies find it easy to acquire. Building new innovative products from scratch in a big company is very difficult. They're just not setup that way
And for these wonderful few months, they have succeeded. Eventually someone will train a similarly sized model and release it, but the costs involved may well be high enough for long enough that the common spammer won't be able to for a little bit.
Had the same problem. Bought a radio which runs all night not connected to any channel. Got used to it myself. She sleeps fine, winter or summer.
The Point of Honor (1907)
Because you agreed to it.

Somewhere in the terms of service:

> This license allows Google to [...] modify your content, such as reformatting or translating it
It's better if people can reproduce it without your involvement so that the result is independent of you.

Perhaps some law enforcement agency has asked google to specifically track URLs in your messages and it's just you seeing this.
Not seeing how this observation addresses my question about the threat model. I mean you're absolutely right (and I think that assumption is also accurate), but I don't see how it's relevant.
> that's the common interpretation

Hardly an interpretation, it's stated in black and white :

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
AlphaZero and MuZero: "Hold my perceptron."
So just like Microsoft has literally done for years?[0] I don't know how many times I've clicked on internal documentation that has a link that went through Outlook at some point and was wrapped in a safe link. It's designed to catch bad links without safe browsing in your browser (which things like IE and old Edge didn't have).

0: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/offi...
We live in a system with groups jockeying for political power. The groups continue to maintain power as long as they continue to convince enough of the populace to vote for them. They do this in various ways. One way is to form a coalition of subgroups and promising such subgroups favors. Another way is to convince the populace that they are all in it together. One favorite technique is to raise the spectre of an external enemy.

Some current enemies: China, global warming, coronavirus, immigrants, racism.

The longer you live, the more you see these techniques repeated over and over. The situations are rarely as the political parties make them out to be. The political parties mostly lie since entities that don't are disadvantaged at obtaining political power. People as a whole are too easy to manipulate so it is to your advantage to lie.
Yes, hidden services are safe (well, no system is really safe). But if e.g. a hidden service includes a web resource from the clearnet, it can be traced.

I was talking about the "using tor to anonymize my IP" use case, where exit nodes get a huge amount of traffic per session.

In order to be really anon you would need a custom client side engine that randomizes the order of external resources, and pauses/resumes requests (given 206 or chunked encoding is supported), and/or introduces null bytes to have a different stream bytesize after TLS encryption is added.
Thank you very much! I was confused by the title to the point where I thought this was a sentence generated by an AI created in 1995.
Web standards are not laws. Would I be outraged if a car's design language would follow some aesthetic conventions (another set of "rules" that are not laws) but not others?

I'm certainly not happy with how Google is using their position, but is it illegal? Should it be? Even a Pixel phone can install and use Firefox. You might perhaps make a case out of how all SDK WebViews end up being Chrome (-ish), but as long as a third party app embedding their own web view would not be rejected by Play, that's still more open than significant other parts of the smartphone market. Sure, Google is using a position of power and everybody who isn't a major shareholder shouldn't exactly be happy about it, but itvit abusing? In a way assailable on legal grounds?
I know this isn’t what you meant, but social media changed quite a bit between 2008 and 2016. In 2008 both twitter and Facebook were in their infancy. If anybody called them “great democratizers” it was probably more about their promise than their results.
Trash sorting is probably better than self driving cars. I only see speed talk on this page and nothing about accuracy.

Musk needs like 99.9999% accuracy at near zero latency over several hours of operation. I think Tesla currently is at maybe 99.995% from driving my car. The last 0.005% results in phantom braking etc. It's actually a very hard nut to crack and I don't expect them to achieve the full self driving in all conditions for another 10-15 years maybe. The edge cases are just too many.

I like the trash idea though (or a Q/A robot at a factory etc).
Ok, I guess I misread that part.
Do you have a reference for this newspaper trivia? I've just mentioned this "butter smell" to a friend of mine who lives in Japan and got told that it's not a thing and that it doesn't exist.
This only works for inline images because Google caches them, and then you get the images from Google’s cache. It has nothing to do with external links.

If Google redirects you to a website, you’re still going to the website. Unless Google internally follows all the links in emails it won’t do anything to help spam. Not to mention all tracked links I’ve ever seen track primarily based on the URL itself.

Additionally, Google adding a redirection step won’t save anything, except show via HTTP Referer that you were linked to this page by Google. If you clicked the link from a desktop IMAP client you’d have no referer, so this is a net loss for privacy, not a gain.
Id you want to ban Uber, you don't even touch the internet, you just go to the banks.
Both nail scissors and nail clippers exist here in Brazil. I don't know which is more common, but both are easy to find.
We have hedgehogs in Netherlands, and they are curious creatures.

One can eat half it's bodyweight in wet cat food if the food is provided, night after night. And amusingly, they will actually nudge a cat out of the way to get the food.

They are incredibly noisy eaters, slurping and smacking so loud you can hear it through the walls if it's quiet otherwise.

And this I would not have believed if my wife's colleague hadn't posted a video, but a hedgehog can and will drag a chicken of double it's size out of the henhouse, kill it, and feast on it.
Yes, well aware. In-industry we call this "managed" and "un-managed" hosting.

All of my issues actually happened with "managed" hosting 10 years ago. I was in my early-20's and still getting my feet underneath me as a Linux administrator so having a backup was something I advocated when I was provisioning our hosting.

Frankly, it was probably pretty good for career development because their support staff was clueless with anything Linux administration, and if I needed an answer quick I was my only trustworthy resource. Like - basic LAMP (Linux, Apache2, MySQL, PHP) was completely beyond them even though that was the bread and butter of their business.

I haven't sprung for "managed" hosting ever since because it just taught me that I was the best person to handle my interests... and it lit a fire under my butt to get way better at my Linux chops!
That's BS, they own every single Data-center, never had to send an ID and my login name is the same since beginning.

I think you don't talk about hetzner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetzner
It is already annoying that they do that with search results.
Does anyone know a good/open source extension for chrome and Firefox that de-google the link before you click on it?
It’s an external contribution but it’s still coming!
“By 2029, computers will have human-level intelligence,” Kurzweil said in an interview at SXSW 2017.

That’s quite a bit more than TT.
Python and JS are our next language priorities
Productivity Apps for Android in 2020
> teaching the model what a human wants from a language

Yes, I think this kind of requirement would lead us to a very interesting specification exercise which would address questions like:

(1) what are the different use cases relevant to identifying 'as yet unaddressed' programming language design issues?

(2) what are the 'success metrics' of a new language design?

(3) what are the 'unresolved shortcomings' of existing languages?

(4) What are the issues related to 'non-human language design'?

This last question is kind of about the opposite to 'readability as we know it', where you could anticipate a language suited to creating non-human-intelligible code, which might require tools to translate it into human intelligible form, kind of like the assembly-language to higher-level language issue but kind of in reverse.
I'm hoping to visit Japan one day.
Interesting, but how do you stop a malicious actor from making the whole thing into their personal bitcoin miner?
Near enough everything is in my password manager. I use <service>.<month>.<year>.<nonce>@domain so I have to so to speak.

Using keepassxc + its browser and mobile extensions make this easier than typing the address in myself. I was astounded at how bad the ux the paid pw mamagers I've used is
Exactly, and the people that are aware of the data collection see it as payment for getting so many things of value (Gmail, YouTube, chrome) for free.
Is the another non chromium browser that can handle more than 5 extensions?

Ff extension management is terrible which i find unusable in an age where I need extensions to prevent sites from removing usability features like select, copy, and paste.

I'm using brave but I don't fully understand how it's related to chromium and if it's a true fork that they are going to be able to maintain independently. I have many many extensions in brave and an extension manager that let's me toggle them right from a drop down. Any suggestions?
Take a list of top X websites and enter it in every one.

The preimage space is finite and easily enumerated.
Built my first PWA that turns Reddit into Audio TikTok
> I am generally a very privacy-minded person, but serious question here: is there any legitimate use case for financial privacy from the authorities?

One might perform an action today that is legal and considered moral or amoral. When the authoritarian regime changes tomorrow, I would not want those legal/(a)moral actions to be retroactively criminalized.
Replacing FreshRSS with Miniflux
>It'd finally make me leave Gmail for sure.

If Snowdens leaks didn't make you leave nothing will.
This is basically impossible to parse out because HN is global, includes people from countries with various levels of trust and cultural acceptance for intrusive public health mandates.

If you look locally, where we’re at least disagreeing about the same things, I saw a lot of anxiety and a fierce debate about what measures were appropriate, but it was a lot more around whether it was premature to open indoor dining.

Nobody is rooting for the virus.
Flaskr – Intro to Flask, Test-Driven Development, and JavaScript
Presumably related to their linking of browser sync with the site-level Google login. That was an unnecessary change, and this is a good example of why a separation of concerns is important.
Outside of what we disclosed via case studies, Snapchat, Mitchell and Bob Muglia said publicly... I can tell you at least 10 fortune 100 companies run on our tech :)
OpenBSD 6.8 released (OpenBSD's 25th anniversary)
"ERRATA

The manual describes various platings that may be used for corrosion control including cadmium and zinc plating. It does not mention outgassing problems caused by the relatively high vapor pressure of these metals. The fastener manual was intended primarily for aeronautical applications, where outgassing is typically not a concern.

Issued June 17, 2008"

Heh. I wonder if there was a real incident that prompted the addition of this errata.
You put a gram of sarcasm on your simplistic reading, but I think you need to realize that anything people use daily, even hourly, needs to make them feel comfortable. For whatever reason, the poster you're replying to is bothered by him but for something he has to deal with so often, it's hard to override that feeling.

I guess what I'm really saying is that frequently used things probably involve human phycology and emotions just as much as someone's intelligence.
You're seriously claiming that the EU cannot compete with US companies because you can't credibly threaten to fire people to show that you're serious about a policy decision?
Toshiba targets $3B revenue in quantum cryptography by 2030
You could easily accomplish what the OP did by just using AI Dungeon which allows for collaborative writing with GPT-3. I've used it to write erotica.

AI Dungeon is still free to use, just with a cost to use their better model.
Not related to Elon but there is a company called Pellenc ST in the south of France that work exactly on this kind of problem. You can see a video of one of their machines here [0].

I work at an AI consultancy [1] that help them use deep neural nets in these high throughput and low latency conditions. It's an interesting challenge and the performance than can be squeezed from modern hardware are indeed impressive.

0: https://youtu.be/XLciSGE82DY?t=280

1: https://neovision.fr
Eh - this has happened to me. Literally word-for-word: "You can't quit! You're fired!"

I know it seems like it could be right out of a Simpsons episode or w/e but managers can have some pretty backwards egos. The same manager tried telling my colleagues that I had been fired and like 2-3 people were like, "Nope - actually he quit. Thanks for screwing us out of 2 weeks of project hand-off..."
Developing a SPA with Flask and Vue
Ruby 3 Adds Symbol#name
Is it amazing? Even on here you have people saying that they have to use Windows or Apple instead of Linux because of some minor issues.
That’s a pretty large AWS bill too. But I didn’t realize it covered a call center. Those are definitely quite expensive.