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Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe by Simon Singh.

Flies easily fly through the window if it's substantially brighter than the room.

The sponge design of SHA-3 makes it a CSPRNG basically. You can keep draining it after you fed the data in.

It's already happening. For example, ECMWF provides experimental forecasts by their own deep learning model, plus models from Deepmind, NVIDIA, and Huawai.

They perform several model runs with slightly different configurations and then compare the predictions to a reference period, currently 1991-2020. When they say "above average", most model runs fell in the upper tercile of the reference period and the probability is derived from the fraction.

If anyone is interested in these seasonal forecasts, all major meteorological institutes upload theirs to https://www.wmolc.org, with new predictions coming out every month.

Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell. I finished it yesterday.

It's a collection of articles the author wrote for The New Yorker around the middle of the last century. The stories are portraits of weird, eccentric people and peculiar places in and around New York. Mitchell describes his subjects with dignity, without putting them on a pedestal.

The author is a very good writer and his stories are enjoyable, but only after I had read the book to the last page, I understood what makes this book so great. The stories tell you as much about the author as they tell you about the protagonists. I started the book to get a glimpse of the old New York and finished the book with a great curiosity about the author himself.

If I understand it correctly, you are only attending preceding tokens in your paper. Can the constant bias matrix be made symmetric for unmasked tasks?

They still publish all their data free of charge and are required to do so by law. For weather forecast, they dump all parameters of their recent model runs.

So I guess I'm saying that you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially...

The expensive stuff still bears the trademark of the brand, the lead designer, or the collection. It's more subtle, but ultimately the reason why people buy it. And some brands really just sell the logo at a high price, like Hermes or Louis Vuitton.

It's necessary to keep them sortable at byte level.

JPEG doesn't support transparency.

My rule of thumb is that once I start writing imperative LaTeX with loops and stuff, I'm almost always on the wrong path. Now, I might be missing some important corner cases, but by skimming through the blog post, I feel like the author's solution is too complicated. For example, I don't get why this requires auxiliary files.

I would create a counter for the affiliations, let the \affiliation command define macros that contain the name of the affiliation and the value of the counter and then append the output to two different helper macros, one for authors and one for affiliations, whose contents I dump in \maketitle.

dynamic snapping

This release adds alignment and distribution snapping, it's mentioned in the full release notes:

https://media.inkscape.org/media/doc/release_notes/1.2/Inksc...

Oof. Editorial illustrators are about to get automated.

Unlike nuclear power plants.

So basically modern Google without ads.

So cash not only grants people freedom and anonymity, it also creates local jobs instead of moving money as arbitrary transaction fees into the pockets of a credit card duopoly? Sounds terrible.

Also a Goosebumps book where the kids discover someone living in their school like this.

Memory safety is optional in Rust. It might not be obvious at the moment, because Rust is written by enthusiasts who enjoy fighting with the compiler until their code compiles, but once developers will be forced to use it on their jobs with tight deadlines, unsafe becomes the pass-the-borrow-checker cheat code.

The GDPR is a sensible legislation and no amount of FUD can change that. If you can't explain what you are doing with personal data, you shouldn't be allowed to handle it.

You are also confusing legislation with rulings. GDPR says your business interests cannot outweigh my rights. That's it. Now courts find that leaking my IP address to third countries is something that harms me more than it does your business good. I can live with that.

The easiest fix would be to have reasonable privacy laws in the US.

The problem is that the designers of small icons already work with pixel-snapping and for complex graphics, dumb quantization will look and compress no worse. If you want to work on path optimization, improve Inkscape's path simplification, because why bother with the alignment of a control point that isn't necessary in the first place!?

I must admit, I didn't consider that many US companies are incorporated in Delaware and otherwise hide their whereabouts. I checked the certificates of my bank and my tax authority and both provide sufficient information, which makes spoofing almost impossible.

I don't see what's fundamentally wrong with EV certificates, as long as the certificate authorities do the proper verification. The certificates contain more than just the business name, so I think the criticism should be directed towards browsers that hide the relevant information behind 5 clicks.

That's how it's done in Germany since the beginning of the year. Paying a price or providing personal data gives the consumer the same rights now.

Scraping protection. Advanced anti-bot measures. Defending them in CF thread is usually popular on HN, I'm shocked I'm losing my karma here.

HN and Algolia should block his script with captchas.

It's per claimant. That would be a $15bn Equifax settlement.

You can get the web fonts below 20 KB each if you subset them. You can also check if they are present on the system with `local()` before `url()` in the font-face declaration. You could also give the Apple system fonts a higher priority than Inter, because Inter and San Francisco are pretty similar.