skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought this was going to be about how the brain functions, as in how new neuron connections are created and then reinforced. Although the author talks about his approach to using guided and unguided/independent learning it it could be reduced to 1.) use guided learning to establish the initial connections in the brain and 2.) do things independently as a way of recall which strengthens the connections and causes new ones to form. A third option would be to teach others; nothing like having to explain something to someone to trigger the recall of material and exercise those neuron connections.
It's not about the specific allegations, it's about the posture and priorities of the security state.

A few years ago, we ran out of fear and urgency on the Islamic terror thing and now we need a new top dog bad guy.
The Battle to Breathe: Chile’s Toxic Threat
Certainly over longer distances and highway driving, driving faster will get you somewhere faster. In city driving though, where most people drive, it is correct that speeding up for certain portions of the journey will not get you there faster since the increased speed over short spurts can't make up for congestion, stop lights, etc.
You will definitely see both. You'll see things like Iphone being written by media sources that pride themselves on good writing, such as Dagens Nyheter.

If you go to https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikea the first sentence can be translated to English as: "Ikea Group, written by the company as IKEA Group, is a multi-national furniture company founded in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad"

Words such as TV started out in upper case because it's an acronym, but once it becomes a normal word, it's written in lower case.
This is Apple's fault how?
Just bear with me here.

Wouldn't it be funny if people only knew him as the guy famously slammed for getting a monopoly on Vantablack? If at all.
I really don't want any more frameworks. I just want a chatbot that just freaking works without me having to "build it". You know, kind of like these things called "applications" that some people use on "computers", and don't need to assemble like a poor software developer's IKEA table.
In that case, you would still need to trust the mostly proprietary drivers and hardware. And if you aggressively remove features, I guess the question becomes why you would even need a phone. Maybe for some use cases it would be better to simply use a laptop.
Auto Racing Drives Toward an Electric Future
The JS required by Phoenix is included in the Elixir dependency, and relatively referenced by the build script.

As for other JS dependencies, if you need them, you can add npm, webpack, or whatever you need. But they're making the statement here that not all web apps will need that. LiveView, for instance could get you pretty far.

But this is distinguishing between JS in your app and JS in your build system, which until recently was necessary even for just bundling your CSS and JS.
That's a quotation, as indicated by the ">[0]" and even explicited mentioned in the associated footnote.
CopperheadOS is an open source OS that builds on Android and can be used on the Pixel devices. I've found it to be quite secure.
Or maybe it's because they're doing their best to make every iPhone the security-focused phone, while not doing anything that would anger the FBI enough to try to pass legislation. When you are that big of a company, the things you can get away with are much more restricted than a small company.
This is different from the recommendation "channels" that each app can provide. You can choose whether or not each one shows up on the home screen, re-order them, and so on.

This is a giant banner at the top of the home page that shows ads from random streaming services that you may or may not subscribe to or have installed.
How many FTEs should they have dedicated to triaging security complaints from (relatively speaking) randos on the Internet about their customers?

Also, would you take that job?

Some poor support person probably got this and punted because they couldn't pattern match to something in their handbook.

For every thoughtful, detailed security report there are about 500 others that involve voices from appliances, self-xss, csrf on logout and 5G coronavirus. It is extremely difficult for L1 support to make sense of these. Having a support contract or attracting attention on the forums are decent ways to pop out from the background noise.
What's the best alternative launcher?
The article really rubbed me the wrong way. It feels like the writer was insanely judge mental of interviewer, immediately thinking that he was so much smarter than the guy that he was afraid to embarrass his future boss. All this confirmed by a brief moment if body language? Give me a break.
Nothing complicated.

Stream 1: Build amazing products for particular domains, charge license fees

Stream 2: Build a great SaaS platform for running Julia, charge for compute

Since all of our domain products are built in Julia and often involve significant compute cost for their intended application, hopefully both at the same time :).
people can do and be two things at the same time
The Motorola 88K probably should be on the list too. The instruction set was good but the implementation sucked. The 88K was abandoned pretty quickly and replaced by the PowerPC ISA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_88000
Richard Garfield (mathematician and designer of Magic the Gathering and others) used to give a talk about randomness in games.

He talked about the history of chess, and how there used to be a lot more variants of the game (some even being a 4 player game with dice!), and over time competitive players naturally will want to remove random elements from the game.

But on the other hand, some amount of wild unpredictability is important to attract players - there's a softening of skill gaps.
Four Chinese Nationals Working with the Ministry of State Security Indictment
To be fair it's probably the most secure environment for the average Joe, you're just saying that it's not perfectly secure, which would be impossible in this world.
Whats the difference between goroutines and project loom? Is their any?
I have a custom wrench in my toolbox. I forget what the issue was, but 15 years ago I think I was working on someones skis or something? Anyway, I had to cut the handle in half and welded it back together at a different angle.

Quick and easy hack job. I'm not a machinist, mechanic, or metal working professional of any sort. But I had access to a shop at the time, so I was able to take my tools that were almost what I needed and turned them into exactly what I needed.

Literally no biggie. I feel like I'm hanging out in the kind of crowd that unironically asks "why do you change your oil yourself?"
There is the idea of multiple discovery[0] — that they tend to occur simultaneously and independently within a short timespan.

It’s often just time for the discovery to be made, because of all the proceeding work.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery
If someone gets access to the housing reporter's systems, that seems a great way to move horizontally or vertically to get access to the other reporter or to the entire organization.

I don't envy your challenge. Security must make it more expensive to the attacker than it's worth. Even the housing reporter's data could be highly valuable; with inside knowledge, someone could make a killing on real estate. The value of the national security beat information is astronomical.

I don't grasp why, with all the news about breaches, reporters still don't care.
The Soundtrack to a Lost Country: Rock Music in the GDR
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/software-teams/what-is-chatop...
Pushing people to use "apps" instead of the web where poor behavior just makes your own product crappier.
Except for physical attacks. No root of trust means that if your phone was ever stolen, installing a PIN guessing app is easy. Extracting the encrypted data for attacking it elsewhere is also easy.
About higher CO2 in the past, this is covered in video about top 10 climate change myths, myth #3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBF6F4Bi6Sg
But then where did the list of numbers come from, if there is no "access"?
https://archive.is/82fjN
Exactly this. When I interview people, I also consider it a HUGE red flag if I can't get the interviewee to say "I don't know" at some point.
Hmm, so it seems. Well, I've been looking around and there seems to be only one open-source launcher I could find. I'll give it a try.

https://gitlab.com/etienn01/flauncher
Conceptually, why must a kernel require unsafe calls or actions in some routines?

Is it too expensive in terms of performance, or time spent digging through the guts of ancient code? Is there some inherent property of the low level functions that require unsafe code?
> arguing that NSO Group have had a bigger impact on innocent people, suppression of speech, etc. than the NSA?

I'm not the OP, but maybe a way to put it is that impacts are more variable or chaotic?

Generally speaking, the "impact" of a US government entity is reasonably predictable based on US policy and interests. Something like NSO, where tools are sold on the market to many entities are probably less predictable and thus more impactful. I'd expect a lower level of operational discipline from <random mideast state> than from the US military.

The other factor is who are NSO Group's masters, and what do they know? If <random mideast state 1> compromises <random mideast state 2>, does <third party> get intel?
> There is such a thing as real attribution. Just not from IPs and tools that are easily faked. You need more than that, and indeed there were many cases were we got more than that.

And there are most likely a lot of cases where:

1) "...we got more than that," and...

2) ...data from "IPs and tools that are easily faked" is the only information that could be released publicly without compromising sources and methods.

It's a hopeless wish to want to be able to independently assess (as an amateur!) intelligence findings in all cases. If trusting the official assessments isn't acceptable (cross-checked with general knowledge of the situation), about the only reasonable alternative position is to remain agnostic.
Plenty of people have "beaten" Apple for security, though oftentimes these hardened phone OSes are only secure through obscurity.
Threadpools are probably better on CPU-bound bound (or CPU-ish bound tasks: like RAM-bound) without any I/O.

Coroutines / Goroutines and the like are probably better on I/O bound tasks where the CPU-effort in task-switching is significant.

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For example: Matrix Multiplication is better with a Threadpool. Handling 1000 simultaneous connections when you get Slashdotted (or "Hacker News hug of death") is better solved with coroutines.
If your point is that the primary argument _should_ be "deal with it" or that anything else is "manipulating people", I disagree with such a binary assertion.
In common usage, "or" is usually taken to mean exclusive or (XOR). Logical OR is non-exclusive. In most cases you can infer which is meant from context or it doesn't actually matter (much).

On a test for a gun license, it could get a little squishy as there are likely questions about the law (which only sometimes aligns with common sense) translated into lay English (which lacks the degree of precision you would likely find in the actual legal phrasing).

From Reddit ELI5:

"Cream or Sugar, in coffee is OR it means one the other or both

Fish or Chicken, for dinner is XOR it means one or the other not both."

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/4v6dcd/c...
Systemd Socket Activation
Anything that will change a stock price is enormously valuable, for example.
America is in a honeymoon period with remote work. Most people do not have separate dedicated workspaces in their homes, or worse have roommates, kids etc and must make office space in the bedroom. Rolling out of bed to your desk every day will warp your psyche over time (from experience).

As companies shutter the big HQ to save money on leasing empty square footage and workers disperse to distant cities, a desk in a cowork space, or even better a small private office, will become a very important need for many people.

Maybe not in the form of WeWork rebounding but the conversion of office towers to cowork is almost certain to be a trend in my mind, well before conversion to residential.
And what’s the name of it and where can I get it?
When those libraries are fast, it is because they are using Numpy routines written in Fortran or C. And you can get a lot done with those libraries, of course. But they’re only fast if your code can be fit into stereotyped vector patterns. As soon as you need to write a loop, you get slow Python performance. Python + Scipy would not be a good choice for writing an ocean circulation or galaxy merger simulation.

EDIT: And last time I checked, Numpy only parallelizes calls to supplied linear algebra routines, and only if you have the right library installed. A simple vector arithmetic operation like a + b will execute on one core only.
very nice idea; I've used Workflowy for a long time for todo-lists and keeping my "done" list is something I have to do manually as a workaround there. Having just played with donel.ist I can confirm it's quite compelling, satisfying and rewarding to note everything I've completed today, definite dopamine hit.
I'd suggest you automatically colour new tags differently, and the UX for adding a new tag is a teeny bit clunky - you have to create the tag and then apply it. Also it might be nice to have the ability to add tags to an item just by typing "#work" into the main text entry box.
https://www.wired.com/story/bezos-phone-hack-mbs-saudi-arabi...
You're right, Python and R are good choices if your goals happen to align with what those libraries are optimised for, but outside of that you normally need to start writing your own C or C++.
https://web.archive.org/web/20191216021703if_/https:/twitter...

A fascinating exchange. It seems like Netblocks has no answers and starts attacking you?
And? U.S. and key allies install backdoors in device firmware and imbedded chips from manufacturers to spy on their own citizens. Why should we care at this point? We've had over 20 years to have this conversation, too late now. lol
The learners permit was just evidence being used to ID someone. Everyone is getting moronically hung up on the fact that it is or isn't an ID for legal purposes. The fact that it has ID info on it is immaterial. It could have been a debit card and the same thing could have happened. It was just a document that a with a name of a guy who matched some superficial criteria. Following up on the lead was where everything went off the rails.
Heard a story from a secondary school teacher during the second lockdown about one of her students that wouldn't enable the video camera because "it's pay-per-minute on their computer".

And sure enough, in the age of everything-as-a-service, that was just about believable to the teacher.
A Polynomial Time Algorithm for 3SAT (P=NP?!)
I know someone who did something similar in analog electronics. The teacher asked them to come to their office, and asked them a few questions. As the student couldn't answer them, the perfect score was commuted into a failing grade.

Regardless of how you approach this, an exam is here to evaluate your level of proficiency on the topic at hand. If you sidestep this, that would be called cheating.
> I don't want to engage with right wing people and conspiracy myth spreaders in the meatspace and I want to do the same online.

I’m really glad that you’re not in charge.
> If it is the U.S., then obviously no, the NSA is an arm of the state.

Some here in the states don't exactly feel like the people running the USG have the people's best interests at heart. Common folk across countries probably have more in common with each other than with the ruling elite.

State-sponsored terrorism is a thing - and has been for a LONG time. And US citizens are targets as well as non-citizens.
It's a great project! I use it to power the Python interpreter for an in-browser backend of an app I'm working on.

I wrote a bit more about my experience using it (and a guide for others) here: https://datastation.multiprocess.io/blog/2021-06-16-language....

My biggest gripe is that so far I haven't been able to get good stacktraces out of it on errors. It also wraps all objects in custom Brython types that you have to rewrap in Python types to do stuff like get `.keys()` on JavaScript objects.
One nice thing about electric though, is you don't get stuff like this:

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/13/647621382/multiple-explosions...

And while that's an extreme example, fire departments in areas with natural gas tend, from what I've seen/heard to go out on a lot of "gas leak" calls over the course of a year. Sure, some are false alarms, or very small leaks that are quickly and easily mitigated, but any one of them could turn into a catastrophe. And it's not exactly rare for that to happen. Not common-place, but it happens more often than anybody would really like. And when gas explosions happen, they tend to injure/kill multiple people and destroy lots of property.

This is not, of course, to suggest that electricity is without danger as well.
The video made me seasick
MC²: Secure collaborative analytics and ML
So it's Security through Obscurity. One of the most mocked security methods online. Gotcha.
Seems like the gate is electronic:

>“We start by tuning the photon and magnon with an electric pulse so that they have the same energy level,” said Zhang. “Then, the information exchange starts between them and continues until the electric pulse is turned off, which shifts the energy level of the magnon away from that of the photon.”

It seems like more of a mechanism to use this as a bridge between two media types and this is a mechanism to control it at a much higher bandwidth than the previous mechanism which:

>However, such tuning has depended on changing the geometric configuration of the device. That typically requires much longer than the magnon lifetime—on the order of 100 nanoseconds (one-hundred billionths of a second). This lack of a rapid tuning mechanism for interacting magnons and photons has made it impossible to achieve any real-time gating control.
That's shit though. That can be said of anything. Moon landings were faked but the CIA is very good at what they do.
I think it is the Steve Neeley one, actually
That's absolutely not paranoia, so I'd suggest you leave GP alone instead of burning karma and making yourself look like a fool.
Fair point, I don't know. I wouldn't be in favor of the carve-out either way, because I can't imagine it being sustainable to preserve it for long.
That sounds wrong. Quickly googling, https://www.c2es.org/content/international-emissions/ says the US is around 13% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/energy-and-the-environme... says gas is around 44% of U.S emissions.

so that random WSJ comment is pretty hard to believe.
Surgeon general: No 'value' to locking people up over marijuana use
Revolving Door of Temporary Workers Has Hidden Costs
Yes! In our newsroom (which isn't perfect by any means) - I have been testing using Qubes for really sensitive/untrusted documents. We also open un-trusted documents (from e.g. FOIA responses) on a machine live-booting from a CD.

However, it adds enough friction (especially with remote work) that it's hard to get it right 100% of the time.

If you want to share really sensitive documents, one way to ensure proper handling of your documents is to use a service like SecureDrop [0] which for e.g. only accepts submissions over Tor and requires the use of a secure viewing station [1] (air-gapped machine live-booting Tails w coreboot rom + webcam/networking card physically removed) to decrypt/access leaks.

That being said, I don't think there's a perfect tech-only solution because nothing is stopping folks handling it carelessly after they access the file.

[0] https://securedrop.org/directory/center-public-integrity/

[1] https://docs.securedrop.org/en/stable/set_up_svs.html
Painting your car white is the least you can do for the planet.

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/painting-r...
Well this sucked to read on mobile. I'll stick to HTML.
"The real reason everything is happening is there’s too many people.."

Bingo. I believe that excessive human population is the root cause of many global problems.

But what defines a "Star Trek Future" in the context of this question? The level of technology? The utopic society and healthy human relationships? Or just simply becoming a space-faring species?

I believe, and not necessarily because of environmental issues, that the species has much less than half of a millennia to be dominant, and much less than 100 years of the modicum of stability that we have had from 1946 to 2000.
Gen Z may never know 'stability' in either society or economy.
I do like the UI but is there also a way to store the config as a text file (i.e. a dotfile that I can commit to my dotfiles repo and restore if need be)?
Interoperability between libraries that expect your code to be pure R / pure Python. If you use RCpp or Cython or CPython then you lose much of the magic behind the language that enables the cool (but frequently slow) features. My biggest pain point in this situation: you can not use SciPy or Pillow or Cython code with Jax/Pytorch/Tensorflow (except in very limited fashion).

Differential equation solvers that need to take a very custom function that works on fancy R/Python objects is another example of clumsiness in these drop-to-C-for-speed languages. It works and as a performance-nerd I enjoy writing such code, but it is clumsy.

That type interoperability is trivial in Julia.
The reason people don't think it's bad to lose their privacy, is the same as why they don't take climate change seriously: the effects are more than a year out. Most likely they won't even feel the effects directly in their lifetime.

On another note, have Chinese citizens ever been "free" since the one party system?
Terminology mostly :D

I've not looked into the goroutine implementation, so I couldn't tell you how it compares to what I've read loom is doing.

Loom is looking to have some extremely compact stacks which means each new "virtual thread" as they are calling them will end up having bytes worth of memory allocated.

Another thing coming with loom that go lacks is "structured concurrency". It's the notion that you might have a group of tasks that need to finish before moving on from a method (rather than needing to worry about firing and forgetting causing odd things to happen at odd times).
The Royal Game of Ur is another very very very old game.
Software Architecture with C++, Book Review
In fact, in (most/many) advanced democratic countries intelligence agencies can and do exactly that.
Abstract:

> By creating new concepts and methods—the checking tree, long unit path, direct contradiction unit pair, indirect contradiction unit pair, additional contradiction unit pair, two-unit layer and three-unit layer—we successfully transform solving a 3SAT problem to solving 2SAT problems in polynomial time.

> Each time, we add only one layer of the three-unit layers to the two-unit layers to calculate 2SAT paths, respectively.

> The key is as follows: in each 2SAT path, any two units cannot be a direct contradiction unit pair and cannot be an indirect contradiction unit pair and additional contradiction unit pair.

> This guarantees that all of the 2SAT paths we got, respectively, can shape at least one long path without contradictions.

> Thus, we proved that NP = P.
> Is any of it really specific to the JVM?

Not for languages with go/coroutines (e.g. Go, Clojure, Crystal) as those were designed specifically to help with the thread-per-IO constraint.
It’s not sure if you’ve used assembly before, but it can be a little more work than high level tools like docker and kubernetes.
In English,

Also, Marty McFly is not Marty Mc Fly or McFly. Internal capital letters are OK.