skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This wasn't "discovered" by any kid. That observation has been around for a while and its source is people who looked for reasons to discredit the meaningfulness of that test.
> If someone were to use NSO paid hacking to attack Apple executives's devices and then release everything they found, I bet Apple might take this more seriously instead of having some PR flack write marketing copy.

That's not why Apple is skittish about this. Any action from them would invite the question "What about China?". And Apple loves China('s money).
A good IT service from government is like communism, it was never tried, but everyone dreams about it, hoping that it will happen by itself.
> Isn't the line due process of law, though?

For state actions, yes. For private actors, if I suspect someone is using my services to break the law or engage in terrorism, "but your honor, I didn't have a court order confirming they were terrorists" won't cut my liability.

Parler was a free speech question because it was almost purely speech. NSO Group isn't just speaking. It's doing, and it's doing things that will bring liability for people around it.
Flagged this article for being a disinformation piece (labeled as opinion by the site).

More relevant details can be found elsewhere[1], along with the context that ivermectin has never been shown to be effective at treating Covid and has had no effect on population outcomes when used widely in any country.

1. https://in.news.yahoo.com/indian-bar-association-vs-chief-09...
You might be thinking of Ur, which is roughly 4,500 years old. This is an interesting video from Dr. Irving Finkel on it and its playing rules.[0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZskjLq040I
Since someone linked both standards elsewhere in the thread, this is the first valid, self-contained example XML document appearing in the XML spec:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE greeting [
<!ELEMENT greeting (#PCDATA)>
]>
<greeting>Hello, world!</greeting>

The first example of a complete, self-contained yaml document in the yaml spec looks like this:

# Ranking of 1998 home runs
---
- Mark McGwire
- Sammy Sosa
- Ken Griffey
# Team ranking
---
- Chicago Cubs
- St Louis Cardinals

I think that is quite representative of the user experience as a whole: Yes, there are a ton of dark corners in Yaml that only a tiny fraction of people truly understand, but the default user experience feels just like writing a slightly more convenient JSON, whereas XML by default is a garbled mess.
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Everyone in the global west (and China, and Russia) is subject to mass surveillance. That's documented fact, not paranoia.
Partially true, but moving away from proprietary hardware and software and especially cloud services would still greatly reduce the attack surface, and is something I committed to fully half a year ago by purging Google/Play services from my phone, having already wiped Windows off my drive five years ago, replacing it with Arch.

This still wouldn't protect me from a targeted surveillance attempt like Pegasus, but it does protect me from automated mass surveillance in the cloud, and at least partially reduces the attack surface, by getting rid of unvetted, unreviewable, backdoored proprietary software.

0 regrets, only privacy vibes every since.
How to Leverage Bot-Led Testing to Accelerate Digital Transformation?
Wolf Launcher, seems to do everything I need from a homescreen. Lets you hide apps and has some basic customisation. Not amazing, but it has no ads.
It is obviously a joke ... and that's about as obvious as it gets.
I’ve had government agencies claim it’s not a refusal/rejection if they refuse at the moment and claim you might (with no guarantee) have success if you try later.

I call it a “constructive refusal”.
That's a little silly. The iPhone is a "cyber security focused smartphone" and Apple has billions in R&D money going into its phone. That's a nice thing to say but it doesn't really mean much unless you have some way to achieve that in a way that Apple's vast resources can't.
How does 4 makes sense? Property can be an apartment too in downtown, in case you pictured buying a house in the suburbs.
Please link to an article where the journalist's point of view on surveillance tech was what you claim.
Unfortunately I think that hatred also caused otherwise rational people to place more faith than should be in the media - likely those that are on the other side of the political side taking you mention. “My tribal out group strongly dislikes the media and I need to align as opposite from them as I can rationalize”.
Snapchat claims to be end to end encrypted, last I looked.

Signal does not escrow endpoint keys in an iCloud Backup, so your first statement is incorrect.
Thanks

Your Text: 97 bytes, ~2 seconds to read

Youtube video: ~45000000 bytes, 5 minutes to watch.

I'll never understand it.
> Apple is seems almost as bad too. There's recommendations that I don't want.

The main AppleTV UI doesn’t have any recommendations for streaming apps you don’t own - the only thing that’s even close are when you highlight one of the apps in the top bar.
Also useful: https://pypi.org/project/html2text/
A typical home gas stove isn't even that good for wok cooking in the first place. I mean yeah it will work, of course, but it's nowhere near ideal. It's a little ridiculous that this thing it's not even that good at is the go-to defense of the gas stove. It's almost like if people who didn't like EVs always brought up cooking food on your engine.
Apple really doesn't help them. the marketing (lying) that iOS is secure is pretty intense.
> > So should we considered the NSA a terrorism-aiding organization

> If it is the U.S., then obviously no, the NSA is an arm of the state.

Its perhaps worth noting that “terrorism” originally exclusively denoted action by the State against its own subjects, though it was within a few years expanded to include other activities.
>many people are fine trusting Telegram and with the security it provides.

So here's my concern: They would not be fine with waking up one morning with their entire message history out in the open after a massive hack. Surely you can't argue Telegram will never be hacked. Facebook has had multiple data breaches and I've never heard anyone be happy about that. This is what I've had to be second hand witness to https://www.wired.com/story/vastaamo-psychotherapy-patients-... I've seen the devastation someone's most private life out in the open does to them. I can't think of many things more terrifying than that.

There's a reason I made TFC (my work) E2EE by default. There's a reason Signal, Wire, Threema, Element, WhatsApp, Session all felt they didn't want to be liable or user data.

>Personally, I cannot wait for Matrix to become more widely adopted, and to see the UI/UX of their clients to become remotely comparable with the one of Telegram.

Yeah, Element is improving and will gether, and Signal's polishing the UX, hopefully adding the usernames etc by the end of the year.

>Thank you for the chat, I liked how we managed to stay polite even though we completely disagree :)

Likewise!
I agree GC doesn't necessarily mean more CPU. Just more RAM. My reason for thinking Rust code generally uses less CPU is based on it using a more sophisticated compiler.

That said, when Rust code spends a lot of time on allocations, it's usually fixable:

* You can switch global allocators to jemalloc or, for short-lived programs with acceptable total allocation size, bumpalo.

* You can often restructure code to borrow/reuse buffers instead of having per-iteration allocations.

* You can use slabs or arena allocators.
"(e.g. database normalization) while also considering things like cache lines and latency between networked participants is how the magic is done."

I wouldn't put abstract domain modeling or database normalization alongside a first principles back-of-the-envelope approach.

Abstract academic terms are certainly useful insofar as they provide a shared language to discuss systems and discover research, but... it really does actually seem to be the first principles things, the physical facts, like cache lines and latency ("practical engineering constraint solving" as you put it well) that drive the best designs, and far ahead of things like database normalization.

This is also the approach taken by Data-oriented Design [1], which is more similar I think, than the abstract domain modeling approach. In fact, abstractions and domain modeling principles can often lead one away from the ground reality of the machine, or "mechanical sympathy".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-oriented_design
That these issues occur demonstrates a problem in the Wayland ecosystem, whether with compositors or individual apps. Compositors are supposed to be interchangeable from apps’ perspectives.

I believe the problems listed with Firefox, Audacity and cq-editor would apply to any Wayland compositor. I will note that once you’ve done MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1, the remaining Firefox problems are likely to be significantly less obvious in a non-tiling, purely-client-side-decorations window manager. That doesn’t stop them from being bugs.

For the Krita one, in a high-DPI environment you’ll either need to use unsupported patches on XWayland and worry about QT_SCALE_FACTOR, or use the stable version and get a terrible result that will be nigh unusable for certain purposes (though normally you’ll just call it ugly and annoying); whereas if you use X right through, you can have proper high-DPI.

The Zoom crash, who knows; I certainly don’t, since they don’t make it easy to inspect what’s going wrong. There’s a good chance it’d work properly under at least GNOME.

For comparison, under i3 I don’t think I ever experienced general issues like these (that would apply to all WMs), and experienced WM-specific issues only a few times, minor and workaroundable each time.

The distinct impression I’m getting is one of immaturity. I’m still using it, because it does solve a couple of things that X didn’t do well that I consider moderately important, and more importantly because I’m an intrepid idiot willing to put up with a lot in the name of daily-driving the future to help iron it out for others. (As another such thing, Firefox Nightly has been my daily driver for just over a decade except for a cumulative total of about a year.)
>Why use it, when there are so many other good languages out there with more community/support? Honest question.

Such a question seems sort of in bad faith (or loaded), since the selling points of Julia have been hammered time and again on HN and elsewhere, and are prominent on its website. It's a 1 minute search to find them, and if someone is already aware that there's this thing called Julia to the point that they think it's made to be "a big deal", they surely have seen them.

So, what could the answer to the question above be? Some objective number that shows Julia is 25.6% better than Java or Rust or R or whatever?

But first, who said it's a "big deal"? It's just a language that has some development action, seems some adoption, and secured a modest fundng for its company. That's not some earth shattering hype (if you want to see that, try to read about when Java was introduced. Or, to a much lesser degree, Ada, for that matter).

You use a language because you've evaluated it for your needs and agree with the benefits and tradeoffs.

Julia is high level and at the same time very fast for numerical computing allowing you to keep a clean codebase that's not a mix of C, C++, Fortran and your "real" language, while still getting most of the speed and easy parallelization. It also has special focus on support for that, for data science, statistics, and science in general. It's also well designed.

On the other hand, it has slow startup/load times, incomplete documentation, smaller ecosystem, and several smaller usability issues.
Stallman told you so.
Hange the way we party in today's world
Motivo is an app that allows users to find, host and manage their own party
Would love to see some blind study on what people actually find "uncanny" vs. what they think is uncanny because they are told it's a generated image. Maybe I don't fully understand the concept of the "uncanny valley" but simply saying This Looks Shopped isn't uncanniness.
New Shape Opens ‘Wormhole’ Between Numbers and Geometry
Apple needs to make it possible for users to choose other ways of sending and receiving messages and listening to music, or of choosing not to do either of those things if they don't want to. Obviously, you can currently install and use other applications that provide the same functionality, but you cannot uninstall or disable defaults.

The most shocking experience to me in trying to evaluate the Mac ecosystem when they released the M1 and I bought a Macbook Air is being in meetings where I'm using bluetooth headphones, take the headphones off and put them back on, and music.app automatically opens and comes to the foreground of my desktop. There is no supported way of disabling this user-hostile anti-feature. I look on Google and StackOverflow and all of the suggestions for how to disable it dating back to 2014 or whenever no longer work. Apparently, the likely answer is turn off System Integrity Projection, reboot, rename or remove the file containing the application launcher, turn SIP back on, and hope that doesn't break anything else and hope Apple doesn't revert your changes on the next system update.

That did not seem worth it. The fact that Apple Music can and has been used as an attack vector makes it even worse that it is so tightly integrated with the audio subsystem of the hardware as to take over your device thanks to movements you are making in the physical real world even when you may not be touching the device at all.

I just can't understand what the thought process was in making this a default behavior, let alone one that cannot be disabled.
He was noting in his specific locale, where it's entirely possible that there aren't any toxic/poisonous variants.
With a standard heat pump (excluding initial installation costs), costs should be appreciably lower than any other method, except when temperatures approach -20 or so (I may be wrong on that number, but I'm reasonably confident it's in the ballpark). And air conditioners are just reverse heat pumps, the same device can and should operate both as a heater and cooler.

I live in an area where those low temperatures occur seasonally, but heat pumps absolutely can improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions, even here, especially if tied to non-air-source heat pumps, or just massively increased renewable energy production (including base load sources like geothermal).

The capital/installation costs are the real problem, and it will take some toothy legislation and expenditure to get it done.
No, then you use gpg email or xmpp.
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Best I can tell, the best good-faith summary of the progressive stance on housing/gentrification would be that we can't afford to wait until supply & demand sorts this out. If most people can afford up to $1500 rent, but the cost of the median unit has gone up to $4000, realistically in the very best case scenario it might take 10-15 years until supply increases lower the median price to that level. And there are people hurting right now so we can't afford to wait that long.

Granted, I've never actually heard anybody say that, but that's an intellectually honest claim that seems in line with their views and that I think that is reasonably true. If they would say that, and they would commit to increasing supply in the long term in addition to proposing short term relief measures, I think we could have a much more productive debate.

The frustrating part is that what the vast majority of these people actually say, is that supply & demand have zero bearing on housing. And they've been saying this for decades. Failed progressive policies are a big part of why we have a housing shortage.

It's like if there was a small spark of a wildfire, and I were to claim that water won't work, we better just wait and see what happens. So we wait and let the fire keep getting bigger, and keep saying water won't work. At some point it actually becomes true that water alone won't work, once it is so far out of hand that there's possible way to deploy enough water to bring it under control. But the takeaway for the next time there are new sparks somewhere else should not be that water doesn't work!
Like enabling the 30-second skip forward on Comcast DVR remotes.
> “How does this architecture relate to the model-view-controller pattern?”

It's an ambiguous question.

One answer is that all the mvc code runs on the application layer. This correct in a nearly tautological way (the code is where the code is).

The other answer is how does it relate. The model relates to the database in their three tier example.

Indeed, I think this question definitely implies something other than "where does the mvc code exist?"

I really don't think his answer is even a pedantic one. It's bending over backwards to read a question in a certain way that his preferred clever answer could be considered correct.
'It happened as his son, then 4, dug into the sand and raised his hand to show his father a fresh find.

"What do I do with it?” the boy asked. In his fingers, he held a cigarette butt.

“Not good,” the father thought.'

Not good, but could have been a lot worse (used needles).
> When Lee Kuan Yew, who made Singapore rich in a generation, talks about development, he doesn’t talk about academic theories. He focuses on the culture of the ordinary people.

He (and most national leaders, elected or otherwise) works at too high a level to talk about academic theories in general conversation. You don't think he and the people working in his government studied economics, history, and politics? They just made Singapore prosperous by getting everyone to work harder and study more?

> academics don’t have any special advantage in that regard

Neither do "farmers".

> And the petty bureaucracies and box checking environment of academia selects against many of the other traits required for good leaders.

That's just broad stereotyping. We can do that for any of the professions you think should be in charge. "Military officers are rigid, hawkish, and overly inclined to action". "Businessmen are short-sighted and focus on the bottom line above all" and so on.

> Revolutionary France is a good example of a society structured by “smart people” according to “good ideas.”

Not really.
In case some of the community members are not fully aware of the background of the comment about mass murder: Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat when there were religious riots in 2002 [1]. Of course, him being a Hindu nationalist it's pretty obvious that many Muslims were persecuted/killed. Since then he's tried to clean his image internationally while systematically taking the world's largest democracy's democratic values to the brink. The Bush administration had denied him a diplomatic visa in 2005 [2] for his role in the riots. Finally, the UAPA [3] act that was referred to the parent post is a way to imprison activitsts/journalists/political opponents etc. A strategy long developed and honed by all sorts of autocrats.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Gujarat_riots

[2]: https://2001-2009.state.gov/p/sca/rls/rm/2005/43701.htm

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlawful_Activities_(Preventio...
> Consider a $150 repair for your AC

These are precisely the examples I was cursing after I bought my house. They were the ones existing homeowners always talked about.

A $150 repair for the AC is nothing. The prospective homeowner needs to think about things like:

"Your roof is shot." The lowest bid is $15,000. Check is due before they leave your property.

"Your trees are dying." Cost of cutting them out and replacing them is $2000. When you give us the check, we'll start the job.

"Your water heater needs to be replaced." And what you learn is that it's a special type of gas water heater that costs $2500 and up. Payment is due before they leave your house.

On any of these, you call the landlord (or don't even need to in the case of the dying trees) and you don't think about it again.
The if statements are just cpp, executed at compile time

> Many of these are so custom to the webkit codebase, you won’t even find any results for them in Google

It's on Google, you just searched incorrectly
because that's the difference between:

- supporting a platform

and

- hopping everything is compatible

will they hook and reimplement EVERY WINDOWS APIs?, what about Windows 11? what about DX 12 and DX 12.1?

Oh, now imagine that windows 11 now requires X security features that are impossible to emulate with proton, how will that work?

native vs non-native

that's the difference

i'm not against Proton, i think it is a very nice idea to SUPPLEMENT my library

nothing can beat native games, built for the device and its constrains

and and an other WORSE thing

CONTROLLER SUPPORT in steam

valve never encouraged people to support controllers, WORSE, 99% of games expect you to use XBOX controller, as a result XBOX controller are displayed even if you use a DUALSHOCK one

valve could have provided APIs so they can feed games with proper icons etc etc, but nothing

so many wrong things, including the focus on proton as main selling point

that's part of the reason why you'll see majority of people install Windows instead, and "the year of linux on the desktop" will yet again be killed due to poor decisions

i'm kind of tired of trying to provide arguments, i reply to that kind of comment on a daily basis, it's painful to see linux people stuck with their WINE, it's WRONG, it's BAD, it's COUNTER PRODUCTIVE

microsoft helped a lot to drive linux adoption up with their crappy Vista/Win8/10 releases, but yeah, let's focus on emulating a bloated OS instead!

you don't come up with such a device over night, they had years to think about that, they focused on emulation

we will see who was right in the end, i think i am
Only slightly related. But I went to the bahamas about a month ago. One of the "hooks" they used to make tourists feel comfortable with coming to their resorts was that if you got COVID ( tested positive on the way home test). They would either pay for a hotel and accommodations for a 10 day quarantine or fly you back in a private jet.

All that being said when they administered the covid test on the way back to the US. I'm not even sure they stuck the Q-tip, what should qualify as, in my nose.

Point is, its not just children trying to spoof covid tests.
I'd ask that we be more thoughtful on this and evaluate separate allegations on their own merits. Why do you think invoking Cheney's statement is relevant to this discussion?

As an aside, I'm not sure what's more frustrating:

Witnessing the Bush administration circa 2001-2004 be called out on these lies, by numerous entities, and still march inexorably toward armed conflict, or...

having to witness these lies being used to disingenuously discredit any future allegations made by the US.
That's, I think, a deliberate facet of Kapoor's art.
In case people thought mouthbreather is just an insult, it can cause serious medical problems and even change the structure of your face. There are videos about it on the internet, with dramatic before and after photos (in both directions).
Exactly, lol. Not sure if the GP comment is trying to imply some sort of good comes out of the NSA.
Numba is great for pure functions on primitive types but it breaks down when you need to pass objects around. PyPy is fantastic for single-threaded applications but doesn't play nicely with multiprocessing or distributed computing IME. Numpy helps for stuff you can vectorize, but there's a lot of stuff you can't (or can but shouldn't); it also brings lots of minor inconveniences by virtue of not being a native type - e.g., the code to JSON serialize a `Union[Sequence[float], np.ndarray]` isn't exactly Pythonic.