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XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding
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arXiv.org
XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding
With the capability of modeling bidirectional contexts, denoising autoencoding based pretraining like BERT achieves better performance than pretraining approaches based on autoregressive language...
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Show HN: An old terminal HTML template
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GitHub
GitHub - victorqribeiro/oldTerminal: an old terminal template for html pages
an old terminal template for html pages. Contribute to victorqribeiro/oldTerminal development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Why Monzo's bank transfers weren't working on the 30th of May
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Monzo
We had problems with bank transfers on 30th May. Here's what happened and how we're fixing it for the future.
A technical problem at the company we use to connect to Faster Payments caused issues with bank transfers. To fix it, we’re bringing everything in-house instead.
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Why I don't use web components
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DEV Community
Why I don't use web components
For my first post on dev.to I thought I'd write about a nice, safe topic that's free of controversy:...
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Getting 2FA Right in 2019
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The Trail of Bits Blog
Getting 2FA Right in 2019
Since March, Trail of Bits has been working with the Python Software Foundation to add two-factor authentication (2FA) to Warehouse, the codebase that powers PyPI. As of today, PyPI members can enable time-based OTP (TOTP) and WebAuthn (currently in beta).…
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Support for right-to-repair laws slowly grows
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Ars Technica
Hackers, farmers, and doctors unite! Support for Right to Repair laws slowly grows
The right to repair battle trudges on despite a record amount of legislative proposals.
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Basque and Armenian share a baffling litany of words and grammatical elements
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Bbc
The surprising story of the Basque language
Though the Basque and Armenian languages share no superficial resemblances, they do share a baffling litany of words and grammatical elements.
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A Growing Problem in Real Estate: Too Many Too Big Houses
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WSJ
A Growing Problem in Real Estate: Too Many Too Big Houses
Baby boomers and retirees built large, elaborate dream homes across the Sunbelt—only to find that few people want to buy them.
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Airbnb likely removed 31,000 homes from Canada’s rental market, study finds
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The Globe and Mail
Airbnb likely removed 31,000 homes from Canada’s rental market, study finds
Short-term rental sites are ‘having rather large impacts on our housing markets,’ McGill researchers say in groundbreaking paper
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Ramroot – Run Arch Linux Entirely from RAM
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OSTechNix
Ramroot - Run Arch Linux Entirely From RAM! - OSTechNix
This guide explains what is Ramroot, and how to run Arch Linux entirely from RAM. Ramroot loads the entire root filesystem into RAM at boot.
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US tells India it is mulling caps on H1Bs to deter data rules
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Reuters
Exclusive: U.S. tells India it is mulling caps on H-1B visas to deter data rules - sources
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The United States has told India it is considering caps on H-1B work visas for nations that force foreign companies to store data locally, three sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, widening the two countries’ row over…
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Everybody Be Cool, This Is a Robbery
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Blackhat
Black Hat USA 2019
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Two new papers explore the physics behind bubbles and foams
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Ars Technica
Two new papers explore the complicated physics behind bubbles and foams
New insights into the formation of gas bubbles in liquid and how foams collapse.
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AMD EPYC “Rome” Server Processors to Feature 8 to 64 Cores
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TechQuila
AMD EPYC "Rome" Server Processors to Feature 8 to 64 Cores
At Computex 2019, AMD demoed the Ryzen 3000 processors and the 64-core EYPC “Rome” chip which seemed way faster than the competing Intel Xeon part, all the while keeping the power draw within acceptable limits. However, they didn’t talk about any of the lower…
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When Chinese students were given the uncensored internet
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South China Morning Post
Breaking China, Asia, HK News, Opinions and Insights | South China Morning Post
News, opinions, infographics and videos on China issues: geopolitics, diplomacy, economy, technology and lifestyle.
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Firefox zero-day was used in attack against Coinbase employees, not its users
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ZDNET
Firefox zero-day was used in attack against Coinbase employees, not its users
There were actually two zero-days -- not one -- combined into an exploit used in a spear-phishing attempt. Other cryptocurrency organizations were also targeted.
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Show HN: Reading list of popular Hacker News users
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Librem 5 June Software Update
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Purism
Librem 5 June Software Update – Purism
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Al-Maʿarri
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al-Ma'arri
medieval Arab poet and thinker
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In Japan, It’s a Riveting TV Plot: Can a Worker Go Home on Time?
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NY Times
In Japan, It’s a Riveting TV Plot: Can a Worker Go Home on Time? (Published 2019)
On this show, a 30-something project manager in the famously overworked nation wants nothing more than to get out of the office and into her favorite bar for happy hour.
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AT&T lays off thousands after getting billions in tax breaks, regulatory favors
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Techdirt
AT&T Lays Off Thousands After Nabbing Billions In Tax Breaks And Regulatory Favors
Back in November of 2017 AT&T promised that if it received a tax break from the Trump administration, it would invest an additional...
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