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Great point! I think with captchas, some humans might be able to identify obviously made up facts and very poor sentence structure to tag a text as low quality. But I don't think you'd be able to give a reliable assessment on whether a text was AI generated or not. Especially if it's a random group of people (unfamiliar with modern content generation) filling out the captchas.

Is this even technically possible? To me, this reads like an empty threat.

I think "Paris sportif" translates directly to sports betting. So while in this context it's probably supposed to mean something like active/sporty Paris, I don't think the title works.

I've recently setup a multisite solution for localisation of a WordPress project. Definitely needs a bit longer to setup properly, but it's so much faster than wpml.

This is so true! When starting work on a new project or feature I nowadays actively try to embrace ugly solutions. Refactoring after you have a working solution is much easier than coming up with a perfect solution (which probably doesn't exist).

I really like the idea and the implementation looks nice! But not having any type of spam protection is a deal breaker for me. Even if links are set to nofollow, it's still a big opportunity for bots and spammers to abuse this system and spread their links, similar to what is happening to misconfigured wordpress sites.

I'd argue that headlines and images are worth a lot, especially coming from actual journalist and photographers (not niche seo news sites). It is almost considered normal for companies scrape the web and combine different sources into personalized feeds for their own user bas, as Google does. But it's not normal, you could probably say it's stealing.

I would like really like if news aggregators somehow indicated paywalls to users before they click. Reading and searching for news these days is incredibly frustrating. I understand that quality media comes at a price, but it's sad to see where things are headed...

You're right, thanks for noticing.

Very interesting study, but it's important to mention that all participants (n=30) had type 2 diabetes. I'm really wondering if stress played a bigger factor in their blood glucose levels, which has been observed to cause a release of glucose from organs into the blood. In this study participants played video games for 90 minutes after drinking the test beverage. I think playing video games can be very stressful for a lot of people, they also switched games every 15minutes. Participants also knew that the beverage might contain sugar, which if your a type 2 diabetic might be enough to cause stress(?). In figure 4 they show the effect on the blood glucose levels for the low vs high sugar beverage groups.

I think an easy way to learn about the effects on ones own body for this is to buy a blood glucose meter and test themselves before and after drinking beverages with artificial sweeteners.

I've seen a lot SEO motivated DDoS attacks in very high value money-keyword niches. An attack basically downs a site for an extended period of time. GoogleBot notices the slow speed and logs dozens of 500 errors, which can result in dropped rankings.

I did a quick check for usefathom.com though, the only somewhat interesting keyword would be "google analytics alternative", but fathom ranks on page 2, which imo would not really justify an attack. Maybe there is some other long-tail keyword with a high enough value though where usefathom.com pushed small niche players out of the top positions.

Also a DDoS is obviously bad for the user experience of paying customers, nobody wants their analytics service to be down or have missing data bc of downtime etc.

Thanks for posting this! Love to read about this topic and learn more about military advantages during certain periods of time, especially primary sources. The importance of highly skilled mounted archers in medieval warfare I feel has been discussed a lot on the internet already. It obviously required a level of dedication, commitment and toughness that can be rarely found these days, but was present in steppe and other nomadic tribes through history.

What made me really understand this better than anything else though was playing "Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord" (A kind of realistic medieval RPG, incl. a great Multiplayer option with Siege Battles etc.). In this game it's basically impossible to escape mounted archers in an open battle ground, especially when lured out of formation without a horse. It was eye opening for me to experience it in this kind of a way. A really lucky javelin throw or killing an attacking horse with an arrow to the head (when in range) could maybe save you. But in general mounted archers or armored cavalry would break the formation of front-line soldiers then attack them while circling around them, retreat when necessary, cut off supplies and basically terrorize the enemy on the battlefield until everyone is dead or has fled. Playing against other human players and not an AI gave it a very different feel too. Since winning strategies are abused heavily, which imo would have also happened in real-world setting, until the enemy strategies adjust to it.

There was an interesting write up in /r/askhistorians the other day, where they discussed military tactics of the Turcs and also Mamluks and other steppe tribes during the first crusades. Basically attack and retreat until the European enemies were exhausted from wearing the heavy armor needed for close combat. - https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/jkvcg4/did_s...

- Also highly recommend a book from Yuval Noah Harari "Special Operations in the Age of Chivalry, 1100-1550".

I was immediately thinking the same, but I'd assume there are certain rules in place for when users are eligible for a discount and the amount of the discount.

Yoast has an incredibly feature-rich free version and is very easy to use for content creators. Focus-keywords, schema markup, meta title and description lengths and so much more. They've also recently extended the plugin so you can access a post's metadata really easy when querying the WP REST API (or GraphQL API), this comes in handy when using WP as a headless CMS. I don't know of a comparable solution for React or Vue but I would be glad to hear about it.

I've played around with Hasura and HBP for a side-project and have to say I'm really happy with the developer experience so far. Great work and thanks for making it open source as well!

My personal favorite

>Following your bliss is a recipe for paralysis if you don’t know what you are passionate about. A better motto for most youth is “master something, anything”. Through mastery of one thing, you can drift towards extensions of that mastery that bring you more joy, and eventually discover where your bliss is.

I agree, totally fascinating. I've also heard numerous times now that oysters and other mollusca feel less than plants, which they could probably quantify better with this approach.

Also interesting to read what one of their research goals seems to be:

>One problem they hope to address is shade avoidance, which is seen in many species of plants when they are grown at high density. Such plants turn on a stress response that diverts their resources into growing taller, instead of putting energy into producing crops. This lowers the overall crop yield, so agricultural researchers are interested in engineering plants so that don't turn on that response.

I don't know much about agriculture (especially not at massive scales), but the end goal is to completely manipulate the plant for maximimum crop yield. If researchers are only now finding out about the communication pathways of plants, I'd assume there is a lot we don't know about plants and the chemical algorithms orchestrating them for almost 500 mln years. Just seems kinda naive to remove one "feature" without expecting something to malfunction at some point.

I personally really like The Economist to get a good sense of what's going on globally.

The way I understand you could use phaser and matter.js together, matter being the physics engine for phaser. Out of the box matter.js already has a renderer so I simply didn't want to learn 2 frameworks at the same time. Once I reach a point where matter is not enough I'll consider a bigger more feature rich framework like phaser or pixi.

I wanted to explore game development in the browser for a long time and I got no excuses now :)

Currently looking at matter.js which was very easy to learn so far.

As others have mentioned, at first sight, this seems like a crazy valuation at $235.29 per monthly active user. But customer acquisition costs for financial products can be a lot higher than that. Honey is close to the payment process, this must be very valuable to PayPal, maybe because it gives them a clear advantage over other PSPs or because they can offer merchants another way to increase revenues and customer satisfaction. The tech might also provide an easier way to enter new markets since it would distinguish PayPal from other payment providers, i.e., entering a new market as the payment provider that's secure and lets you save money.

I think it's a little too early to come to a full conclusion here. Google is constantly testing layout changes in SERPs and it seems like OP ended up in a test. The thread is 4 weeks old and I haven't seen or read anything on these changes anywhere but on this thread.

I still think Google's general direction is clear with more webmaster incentives for structured data, amp and also Google just straight up answering questions (nutrition, sports etc.). But this example doesn't prove that Google is removing URLs from SERPs, it is one version of many that are tested constantly to improve CTR and other metrics.

I have to be honest here, I was very disappointed with this episode. It's basically a very long monologue and feels like a marketing gig for his book and not like a podcast with Edward Snowden. For someone who's familiar with Snowden and his story, this had very little informational value.

I would've wished they talked about a bit more about other topics to see what Snowden and his opinions are like outside of the general theme of mass surveillance. At the 2 hour mark, Joe tries to switch and asks about his current day-to-day life. But they switch back to the main theme after about 10 minutes.

Page is down for me.

Interesting that the stock price of Activision Blizzard is basically unfazed.

I'm on a similar journey right now, learning about electronics and materials on my own. Can you recommend any books or courses? Or how did you learn?

Interesting read, but kinda sad that the runner in question was not interviewed for this piece. I think the points made are kinda vague and lack good examples to make a stronger case for this thesis.

I get the general idea that the S-Bahn ring is not actually a ring and the map should also reflect that. But the transit map is not intended to do this. It's not about highly accurate distances between stations (these are off in the official and this unofficial map), the curves of the rails and rivers of the city. It's about the train I need to take, where it intersects with other train routes, what is my next stop and what city zone is this station in. All of which I think are worse to read in this proposed map.

- Zone A is massively cluttered with station names, try reading the stations on the U1, it's not clear at all

- The ring itself is also quite hard to read compared to the old map, because I need to jump left and right to follow the path of the tracks

- Why add rivers to this map?

There is a beauty to the symmetry of the current map which makes it easy to read and most importantly it doesn't overwhelm the user with odd shapes and flashy colors. The article itself is quite nice though, especially the old maps, overall the presentation was great too. I just don't think this needed fixing.

For anyone interested here is a link to the official BVG Map (correct distances) and the official route map: https://fahrinfo.bvg.de/Fahrinfo/bin/query.bin/en?ujm=1

Thanks for clarifying that, never really got that that deep into Go.

I agree that this makes Lee Sedol's one win against AlphaGo even more impressive. But deepmind also felt ready to host this event and it chose European pros to compete with not Asian pros, who arguably have better micro and innovate a lot of the new meta.