skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am on DDG, but I think until a search engine gets to at least 20% of the market, it won't make any difference. It's just too niche. Big G can still do whatever they want and lock in more of the internet with services like AMP.
It's just a new, separate research system which has somewhat similar goals to Rust. The headline is basically wrong.

There are also Microsoft teams starting to use Rust, e.g.,

https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/11/07/using-rust-in-win...
You don't really need high res for face recognition. In fact, the high frequencies are probably noise that you'd want to remove with a low-pass filter.
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Computer languages should default to fixed precision decimals and offer floats with special syntax (eg “0.1f32”).

The status quo is that even Excel defaults to floats and wrong calculations with dollars and cents are widespread.
This might have something to do with Russia banning the sale of smartphones without Russian apps today:

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/12/02/russia-bans-iphone...

It's a tit-for-tat response, showing that if they want to make this a trade war, their companies will get hurt too. So yes, national grandstanding.

Edit: Wups, dates are wrong. This FBI release is from November 25, so the Russian law is likely in response to it, not vice versa. Still national grandstanding, but the idiot party isn't necessarily the Russians.
Shades of Dickens.

Now all we have to do is to remember this 'very carefully done' study, so that it doesn't have to be repeated in a century.

"We learn from history that we don't learn from history." - Hegel
If you'd like to explore Unicode characters, you can use the Unicode Character finder, a web app I built some years ago: https://www.mclean.net.nz/ucf/

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Thankfully that doesn't happen anywhere else in the world.

Australian government metadata requests was well over 300,000 last year, nearly 1000 requests a day all warrantless, can come from tiny local councils or horse racing orgs. Trust us, they say, there's oversight in hidden tribunals, they say.
Just to be clear, you’re saying that FaceApp has a yet unfound component that lets them remotely jailbreak an otherwise un-jailbroken Phone via a published AppStore app? and that they’ve done this in the open on one of the most politically criticized apps short of Facebook?
You are assuming that high resolution details of a face have value in a world where surveillance doesn't capture faces in high resolution.
You hit the nail on the head; and articulated this very well.

It's akin to a cheater who suspects everyone else is cheating, including their partner.

Prescient, upvoted!
An increasing majority of the average person's everyday computing needs have consolidated into smartphones, perhaps even moreso than other countries. This ate into the markets of both home consoles and gaming PCs. (Though, since Japan already as a console-centric country, the latter weren't really big to begin with.)
You are missing the point.

The point is that with DDG, you have a uniform syntax for searching multiple services that doesn't require any special cooperation from your browser or those services, doesn't require any setup apart from using DDG and only requires you to learn one new concept.

And this will work anywhere where webpages work (like, say, lynx), and will work consistently. There are thousands of !bangs, from things ranging from amazon, to wikipedia, to maps, to dictionary definitions... You aren't limited to a handful of hand picked services that your browser decided to support out of the box, or that you decided to manually configure.

Also, there is generally decent support to switch languages and regions for services that support it. For example, "!w" gets you "wikipedia", "!wsimple" gets you the "Simple English" version and "!wpt" gets you the Portuguese version.

IMHO, this is all extremely convenient.
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I so don't like when DDG presents me with SO links and previews at the top, instead of Github issues and official library docs. 95% is garbage.
I pull the gas lever intermittently until the gal goes up but the cents don't. It takes about 5 tries, but always makes me smile that I beat the game.
> My first result is not your first result.

It would be if you both used DuckDuckGo, though :)
Total Commander was the recommended replacement a while ago when ES started to become shady.
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A More Natural Stackless Coroutine in C That Maintains Local Variables
For all intents and purposes; cars must stop instantly and there are lines on the road but nobody knows what they're for.
Airbus considering production of hybrid airplane by 2035
I think the author intended for "rumor mill" to refer to posts about RMS, not by RMS.
If I could be a shareholder of the things they're talking about (CA HSR / NY MTA / non-HHMI scientists), I would be better served by switching to Facebook or (if they were public) Stripe.

Facebook, especially, with the Oculus stuff, their tech stuff (React, Thrift, etc.), Instagram. They're damned good. No way around it. Facebook is absolutely on top of things.
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The best measure would be for “good actors” (universities, government research agencies, the New York Times) to provide a free FaceApp-type app. It’s like a weekend-hackathon of work and can be prioritized by the app stores.
I’d hardly call it inflammatory. It’s merely a humorous story about over-complication in engineering problems.
Southern Europe, yes, but in Scandinavia, pretty much the only widely available & used native herb was dill.
How does it work as self-deprecation? I don't see it making sense in the way that "I'm a Hugo nerd/geek/slobbering fanatic" would.
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If you only use decimals in your application, it actually is a fix because you can store the numbers you care about in exact precision. Of course it's not really a fix if you're being pedantic but for a lot of simple UI stuff it's good enough.
The thing i really like about bangs is that i can often just assume one exists, with zero setup, across all my devices. I don't search IMDB frequently enough to bother manually adding it in a menu somewhere, but on both desktop and mobile i can do `!imdb Brad Pitt` and get directly where I intended. It also works with less common sites, like I've been using `!stardew` lately to search the Stardew Valley Wiki directly.

The most I've had to do is search the bangs documentation if i can't find the search engine i want. (for Terraria stuff i sometimes wanted `!terrg` rather than `!terraria`, and ended up searching to find the former)
Unicode definitely has flaws but that doesn't mean we should throw the baby out with the bathwater and go back to "ASCII and other character sets." There's a reason we moved on from that world. However, I bet we will see another encoding coming up eventually (within 30 years) which solves the problems Unicode currently has and introduces a new set of problems as well. I saw this comment [0] about how that encoding should get started.

> Greek, for example, has a lot of special-casing in Unicode. Korean is devilishly hard to render correctly the way Unicode handles it. And once you get into the right-to-left scripts, scripts that sort-of-sometimes omit vowels, or Devanagari (the script used to write a bunch of widely-spoken languages in India), you start needing very different capabilities than what's involved in Western European writing. _The better approach probably would have been to start with those, and work back to the European scripts_

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/b09c0j/when_zo...

Funnily enough, URLs still can't do actual Unicode.
A picture, that has no good associated data about the user, is a real threat? Heaven forbid Russia figures out how to take pictures in public places
Direct3D used to have a Z-bias for a similar problem: rendering pictures hanging on walls at a far Z depth. Their whql tests even tested for it.

It was fun discovering all the corner cases while debugging drivers.
I'm still a member, at least for now, but have been through two price increases: first from USD $79/yr to $99, and again recently from $99 to $119. I'm glad it works for you, but I doubt I'll renew this year due to the increased price, the horrible ways Amazon treats its employees, and the way the Amazon marketplace itself has become a wasteland of counterfeit products.

[] Not even talking about the warehouses, but literally every SWE friend of mine who has worked for them has a horror story.
1) I am saying that your assertion that "There is no threat model for an iPhone app to do nefarious things in an App Store distributed app on a non-jailbroken phone." is a misleading statement that is making a very broad and entirely inaccurate claim about something that I personally don't want anyone confused about (the safety of users jailbreaking their own phone, particularly on these newer devices where the jailbreak developer has very limited ability to mess with the sandbox).

However, 2) I would imagine the probability that FaceApp does not have a vulnerability in it somewhere is extremely low, as in my experience essentially every single app has security flaws in them; the problem in your mental model is that you think someone would "find" a "component" that would be a smoking gun of some form, whereas only an idiot would make a back door something other than a security vulnerability (as essentially every single app has security vulnerabilities). Were any placed there on purpose? No one would ever know.
I've browsed hundreds of thousands of websites and used a computer daily for the better part of my life...and it took me ten seconds to figure out how to even scroll the horizontal version. PLEASE stop breaking scrolling, people.
How do we verify that PIA is adhering to it's stated policy? Like, what is the actual process for that? Is there a link you can post that instructs us in this verification?
https://youtu.be/dMnPM6z6z40
I'm sad this post hasn't really taken off.

I just grabbed the first listed Cray XT2 crashdump. I managed, just barely :), to not read the README file until I was done looking through everything else.

The (apparent) root cause was determined after an engineer pulled a couple of 64-bit hex strings that were apparently the wrong magic values out of 310MB of text. A definite case of having to know what you're looking for.

As for looking through dmesg et al, it vaguely reminds me of the PlayStation/2 developer system... but bigger, and with awesome networking and compute instead of graphics.

Google isn't finding any hits for some of the XT2 kernel's boot-time text strings :D
Amazingly, 3.com apparently didn't want to exist.
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For people who are a fan of Huxley's work, I would recommend taking a look at Island[1]. It contrasts well with the dystopian view of Brave New World by providing a look into other reasons a successful utopia might fall.

Of course, the constant theme of experimentation with hallucinogenics is apparent in this book as well.

1: I listened on Audible while driving, I highly recommend https://www.audible.com/pd/Island-Audiobook/B01L0LZWVO
I use TaskPaper synced via Dropbox to achieve a level of organization across my tasks, notes, and deadlines: https://www.taskpaper.com/

The beauty of it is that I have a GUI when I want it, but at the end of the day it's all stored as plain text, so I'm not bound to the GUI and can fall back to any text editor effortlessly.
Kinda yes, kinda no. While the user account locking and several other things only happened due to regulators there are other similar issues which the industry fixed itself (e.g. intentionally delaying withdrawals which regulators did not give a fuck about but after one company offered it everyone had to) and reducing the number of sensitive documents necessary to collect (the regulators do not give a fuck about user privacy).
I'm not sure what you think is happening then. What do you measure economic growth in, Dollars or percentages?
UTF-8 isn't such a bad encoding (although it isn't ideal for fix pitch text; I invented a character set and encoding which would be better for fix pitch text). But I was not talking about the encoding; I was talking about the Unicode character set.
I've seen this rule stated in various ways, but it seems to always be a fixed value, which presumably is derived specifically for the information-density of the English language. Is there a resource on what this number should be for other languages with different information densities? (I can't imagine that you should have 60 characters of Chinese per line, for example.)
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I think it is also worth examining what type of production load and its importance within the business.

For mission critical production usage, I think to use high performance systems/languages is pretty good starting point. With the assumptions that you update your model conservatively(not often), there are enough engineering resources to maintain and 'port' models from python, since most data scientists are trained with python. I think in this type of workload and context, it makes sense use Rust for deployment.

Another type of workload I think it is much more common. It is the experimental projects that data scientists are trying to discover does those have enough ROI to be part of the production system. Those projects and deployments are requiring a quick turn around on iteration cycle. I am not sure Rust or even Swift are good tools, when typical data scientists are not well versed in those. Not to mention, usually in this setting, they don't have a lot of engineering resources they can use. Python is still the go to option for this type of work.

I think the article has the right intention, speed up ML production. For the experimental work setting, I think we can have the cake and eat it too. Data scientists, still use python and generate production ready deployment service without help from engineers.

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Aw man, I had no idea! Time to delete. :(
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One of the main devs from SecureScuttleButt is working on something called Unwalled Garden [0] which is very similar to this but decentralized (you can host your site from your home computer and other people can seed it so it's still available when your computer is turned off).

If you have a few friends who will seed your page for you out of the goodness of their hearts, I imagine your site will have pretty good uptime without anyone having to buy a VPS.

[0]: https://unwalled.garden/
It’s a fairly basic premise of macroeconomics that a dollar injected into the economy produces greater than one dollar of net GDP increase. The money multiplier is usually discussed in terms of government spending, or the central bank printing money, but it is true at the consumer level as well, for example, when measuring the economic impact of a tax cut.

And interesting side point is that the multiplier (obviously) is much lower as the savings rate increases, and also if the cash infusion is used mostly to pay down debt, because neither will translate into further spending cycles.

So when confidence is high and interest rates are low, the money multiplier will be at its highest.
Here's a related story on why Microsoft might not want to believe the result of a query of hardware capabilities:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040211-00/?p=40...

>In other words, whenever DirectX asked, “Can you do this?” they answered, “Sure, we do that,” without even checking what the question was.
If proximities are that closer then surely the answer is that it should be a pedestrian friendly zone.

I get what he’s trying to convey and mechanically he’s not wrong. But seems like a fundamentally wrong transport paradigm
When I lived in Columbus, Ohio, I too had my car broken into multiple times, saw shitting in the street, passed out drunks on the bus, screaming in the grocery store, the works. Of course, none of this happened in the WASPy burbs.

The insane is in every city in the U.S., whether or not you find it during your daily life is another thing. It depends on whether you live in the rich city or the parallel working class city, and whether those two cities interface.

In cities where the rich are well separated from the working class (most of the east where the rich live in suburbs separated by distances only traversable by private car due to chronically poor transit), homeless is ignored because it's never seen way out in the suburbs.

In cities like the west cost and the few growing cities in the east, where rich people are moving into formerly working class inner city neighborhoods, of course there is now friction. The rich and working class cities are suddenly face each other directly and constantly, and the end result is the working class is pushed out as housing prices increase, or the rich leave again and it all collapses again.

Take LA. Way more homeless. Yet you get neighborhoods like hancock park, smack dab in the middle of the city, where you will just not see any homeless people, because there is no reason for anyone working class to set foot in that neighborhood. You are priced out of housing and priced out of even lattes. It's a rich suburb full of mansions, you aren't gonna get much panhandling done and will stand out like a sore thumb to police and private security who love doing favors to nagging rich white women without jobs.

But there are parts like downtown la, that used to have flophouses where drunks and addicts could actually rent housing. Or echo park that was a gangland in the 90s or a thriving working class latino community depending on whose reality you consult. Now 1brs cost 2k, the flophouses are bulldozed or renovated (or just get a new coat of paint), people commanding high salaries now interface with homeless and working class people and compete for the same apartments; the two cities merge in DTLA and echo park, as well as other neighborhoods in LA with increasing gentrification.

NYC has the most homeless of anywhere, 90k, and nearly half a million more living in public housing below market rents, but you don't see homeless encampments because NYC builds shelters and housing without NIMBY fuss; something like 95% of homeless are housed in NYC.

In any city you see these problems, and in cities with any semblance of demand that refuse to build supply to match, resulting in unaffordable housing for everyone not pulling >60k a year, you can see how this problem can grow exponentially larger. Never forget that the problem is present in every city, be it Columbus, NYC, LA, or Tulsa. The solutions are there and accepted in academic circles, but whether or not you see these solutions and their effect is directly reflective on the local political climate.