skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What I don't want is everyone in the school parents group to know my personal phone number thank you very much.

The usernames are in the works.

>I don't care if the chat is encrypted or not, if some malicious actor intercepts our plans for the bake-sale I think we can live with the consequences.

Perhaps double check which historical figure said "you have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide".

Sure, you have nothing to hide, but don't expect others to not have anything to hide either. And realize when you're only reachable over Telegram, that forces other people to reach you over Telegram.

>What we wanted was feature parity (moderation and bots).

That's totally understandable, apps like Signal do support both however. The way I see it, is Telegram's TLS equivalent group encryption is like upgrading your 1988 IRC to 1995 Telegram. That's how old client-server encryption is. E2EE for 1:1 IMs are introduced by OTR in 2004, and roughly 2013, we get E2EE group chats with Signal.
> Apple and SIS have a qualified law enforcement privilege that allows them to err in store security-related accusations and not be sued for it.

Can someone smarter than me explain what this line is referring to? Sounds scary.
The problem is still persistent now, I wouldn't talk in the past tense. Update sizes are positively ginormous.
I was hoping to see something like in Contact where everything looks normal except something is weird. They made the waves run in reverse so they appear to be originating from the beach.
Thanks for this. I needed a chuckle.
> They have tortured Manning for decades

You need to check your timeline

> She already had full access.

No. These are basic facts.
I think your question presupposes a lot of assumptions that may not be right. For one, I don't know that Julia is like a "big deal", certainly Python is the big deal in this field and I doubt Julia is looking to displace it wholesale. That said, Julia is a great addition to the scientific computing landscape because of its performance compared to other languages and its use of modern programming features. Python is just really really slow compared to Julia and parallelism in Python is a huge pain. Fortran is really really fast but that comes at a cost of being awkward to use and coming with a great deal of baggage. Julia is fast, feels modern, and has pretty easy parallelism.

Then there's Matlab, Mathematica, and they are also pretty good but they're closed source/proprietary, so their ecosystem is mostly limited and driven by commercial interests. Nothing wrong with that intrinsically and they're all widely used but it's one way Julia differentiates itself, by making the language open and making money through services.
> Senet is the oldest known board game.

I was always under the impression that a form of backgammon was on the ancient Mesopotamian/Sumerian scene around the same time -- though, now that I actually come to look for a good source to support that notion, I'm struggling to find one.

Wikipedia and other sources just say "backgammon can be traced back nearly 5000 years" [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backgammon
We know it was the NSA because of leaked NSA documents that admitted to the affiliation. Not from the tools themselves.
From what I understand, Julia is dynamically typed and similar to a scripting language like Python or Ruby, but is also compiled, so it has performance similar to C/C++ (it's also written in itself). It also has built-in support for parallelism, multi threading, GPU compute, and distributed compute. I'm sure others can provide more insight. I've only dabbled in it and haven't used it extensively in any sense of the word.
Of course you're right. But the rules are not entirely unknown. For example, archeologists found the pieces. So, they know the dice are involved. And they likely correspond to rules for other similar games (roll and move, like backgammon or Ur).

So, it's not entirely black and white. Historians are pretty sure about some of the rules, but it's possible there were other rules we don't know. The rules played today are a balance between historical accuracy, and just trying the different theories and playing the one that seems the most fun.

That might seem like just making things up, but that's what the quote is referring to. It's hard to say what set of rules was the most common, but there is some reason to believe that the current set of rules is as least similar, and might have been played due to the way that these games didn't have 1 concrete set of rules. "House rules" meant that there was often many different sets of rules in place. Think how checkers has sets of rules that allow for non-forced jumps, flying kings, etc. Maybe your can't tell whether your set of rules was the most common set, but if your rules are based on evidence, it's likely that it was played similar to that somewhere.
Why not investigate starting with IPCC reports:

https://www.ipcc.ch/reports/

These are reports based on peer-reviewed scientific papers, that yes sometimes have to discount and dispute eachother. The presence of conflicting information does not change the overall picture of greenhouse gases like CO2 which can be tested in any simple lab. It does not change how solar input has increased over millions of years, making the planet much more sensitive to warming due to greenhouse effects.

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwtt51gvaJQ

If you put water on the stove and max the temperature, it is not hard to predict you don't want to keep your hand in that water for too long.
Small molecules produced by gut microorganisms can influence human physiology
Time for a cyber security focused smartphone?
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.
A video game with two hundred thousand lines of code doesn't seem like an apt comparison to a board game.
That’s not what I mean (your point has merit)

If I ask a designer to design a website, he has to send it of for implementation, or is confined by html breakpoint/accessibility options.

PDF can go straight from designer to document and do everything in a program like designer, indesign and so on.

It’s a designer first paradigm.
> Bezos

Bezos' phone probably wasn't hacked.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-05-05/how-jeff-...
For the earliest details, see the press release from our DARPA project: https://juliacomputing.com/media/2021/03/darpa-ditto/ . This is being done in a way where a fully usable software is the result, so that those accelerations are not just a one-off prototype but a product that everyone else can use by the end. For more details, wait until next week's JuliaCon.
I see you 'helped build' Digital Ocean, so I can understand your personal reasoning, but really - it's not at all important to anyone else.

Also, wasn't that a bit of a fad back in the late 90s early 00s? I know my wee business followed the path of concatenating words for brand ...something... , but I honestly couldn't care less how other people deploy it in their own space, as long as they remember the name.
It is paranoid for the average person to think they're sufficiently interesting to be a surveillance target.
I guess that would depend on whether the failure was due to malice or incompetence. Maybe also on whether it was a failure of individuals or a failure of the system. But yeah, something obviously needs to be changed.
Short answer is that it is (imo) by far the best language for writing generic and fast math. Multiple dispatch allows you to write math using normal notation and not have to jump through hoops to do so.
Oh, I suppose I should add if you're looking to use something like this in a commercial setting, please feel free to reach out. Either directly to me, or just email info@ and you'll get routed to the right place.
It’s a solid combination of performance, easy syntax and flexible environment. A big drawback of Python is that any performant code is actually written in a lower level language, with foreign function calls.

That’s not to say that there are no disadvantages to Julia. I personally see Julia as a beefed up, new and improved R.
Everybody is coming down on NSO but why aren’t we asking more about the clients?

Who is spying on “CEOs, politicians, religious leaders, union bosses”? And once these people are compromised, what are they being asked to do?
But it also depends on what kind of journalism they're doing, right? Not all report on criminal activity, or on investigating the government. It's kinda like threat-models, no need to be super secure if your work brings no risks to you, your organisation, or those you come in contact with.
This looks sleek, but isn’t that a _lot_ of glass? I had read something recently (e.g., https://www.wired.co.uk/article/stop-building-glass-skyscrap...) suggesting that too much glass was bad for the environment.
> You're missing the point. Even a relatively computer-illiterate person can easily save a PDF to my hard drive, and it's significantly more difficult with HTML. At a minimum you're probably going to get an HTML file with a sidecar directory (or I believe a sometimes browser-specific archive, it's been a long time since I tried since it works so poorly), and even that may not have the content you want to due to dynamic sites.

Ctrl+P -> Save as PDF

You don't need the page to be a PDF to save it as a PDF.
I have never signed a non-compete. An employer sent me home with an envelope full of employment paperwork once, and it included a non-compete. I shredded it, and returned everything else signed. They never noticed until they attempted to enforce it against me when I found a new job, and then they had nothing to stand on.

It's one of the first questions I ask when interviewing now, and I treat it as an absolute deal-breaker.
Chinese citizens cannot even mention recent historical events on in private messages on the internet without approval from the government, and you're trying to tell us that some "kids with computers" were able to carry out a sophisticated years-long cyberattack? "Kids with computers" might be plausible in a free country, but not in China.
Would it actually have more resources that say Apple? I think if Apple can not do it, I am unsure if anyone else could. All supposedly secure smart phones are not, but they are at least obscure.

I think that one should probably buy an Apple (at least they control everything rather than the cobbled together android clones) and disable basically everything except exactly what is needed. At least that reduces the surface area. And keep personal stuff on a separate phone.
I personally don't find it important. And I have seen that the demand of having numbers match exactly comes from a misunderstanding of how floating point calculations work.

Sometimes this is understood by the banks and the solution is to implement a tolerance in the comparisons. In other cases other solutions may have to be used, such as forcing certain reports to be computed on certain software/hardware.
Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads in Android TV
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-05-05/how-jeff-...
> You can do anything with a physics degree. That's what they told us at Uni at least...

I became nihilist after physics degree.
https://grapheneos.org ?
author's title is misleading - maybe include the words "the book" or quotes around Software Engineering at Google...
If you are doing very high-performance numerical work, your choices¹ are Fortran, C, C++, or Julia. Julia is way more fun to program in than the other choices. Also, it has some properties² that make code re-use and re-combination especially easy.

1 https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/julia-joins-petaflop-cl...

2 https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/10/the-unreasonable-eff...
> What's the difference in value between writing tabs in your notes and simply not closing them?

Well, one is indexed, searchable, tagged, and available whenever and wherever I want.

The other is ephemeral and maybe, hopefully I can find it and maybe hopefully I didn’t close it out, and maybe hopefully I remember the name so I can find it in my search history.

Managing tabs with useful info instead of writing them down sounds like a living nightmare.
Being in a unique position of renting out properties that I own while simultaneously renting, it seems like some of this is taken a little out of proportion.

My net experience is that the burden of dealing with said landlord to get something fixed or maintained is roughly similar to fixing it yourself with equal pros and cons on both sides.

Consider a $150 repair for your AC going out in 95F weather, 70% humidity. Landlord can and is allowed to take 2 weeks to fix that. (even with the best of intentions, he might still take 2 weeks) Whereas you can easily call and have it fixed within 5 hours if you owned it. Also, many repair companies will refuse repair if you are a renter unless they receive authorization. Also, consider that you want to upgrade to a smart thermostat, because your mercury-laden thermostat is from the 1980s.

Also worth noting that a home warranty program helps a lot with these things both for my landlord and for myself as a landlord.

Also, seems like some of the conversation implicitly revolves around “renting an apartment” vs “buying a house”. I own 2 apartments and rent a house. I don’t have to maintain the yard for the apartments I own. I do have to maintain the yard for the house that I rent.
Heck, even the $10-15 cheap Chinese cameras I've purchased lately have this feature (you can hear them "chunk" as the filter is pulled aside when the light level is too low). So it's not even expensive to implement anymore.
Composability via dispatch-oriented programming, e.g. [1]

It also pretty much solved my version of the two-language problem, but that means different things to different people so ymmv.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc9HwsxE1OY
Would the AI technically own the copyright to the work they just produced?
Hahaha. Have you ever clicked the "Random Article" button on Wikipedia? I learned the world has a _lot_ of tiny villages no one has ever heard of.
I wonder if this could be done for Rust?

VC funding could staff full time roles for UI tool kits, distributed build caches, and other big pieces that will take time to come to fruition.

CI/CD can be a profit driver and also a boost to the community.
Although this is not surprising at all (because Modi is a mass murderer), what took everyone by surprise is the fact that the govt planted evidence in multiple activists' devices and arrested them under a draconian act called UAPA. So many political prisoners are currently in prison without any trial for years
Okay, she's clearly talking about misinformation as it relates to public health. Do you think it should be up to the individual companies to discern the same dozen or so identifiable sources of anti-vax propaganda that's getting people needlessly killed?
This is true, but it really only applies to someone with a pile of money laying around. It's nice to have the option to remodel your kitchen. The percentage of new homeowners that can afford to do it is likely small.
The Israeli government classified Pegasus, the software by NSO currently in the news, as a weapon, thus restricting its exports.

If you look at the list of customers, it quickly becomes clear that they are the same organizations that make the laws.
I actually think static HTML is not a "crazy" solution at all. For like 99% of blog there is no need for a Database for dynamic page view. Modern CPU and SSD is so fast just regenerate all the page. Not using something nerdy like the JAMstack, go back to good old FrontPage or Dreamweaver style.
"If you have nothing really valuable, you have nothing to fear from burglary."
Biology or no, there are problems with living in giant hives as we do now. We simply don't know (personally) the people who rule us, so there's no question of rule by consent. We don't even know people who know them.

Dunbar's Number squared seems like the ideal population size. Enough people that some level of privacy/anonymity is possible but not so many that rule by a sociopathic elite can emerge.
Too bad we don't know the rules. Also, I think it's one of the oldest board games including Go and Backgammon.
If you fling a chess set out into space, once it is disconnected from it's environment, does it enter a macroscopic superposition of states and start playing itself?
So dark it makes difficult to note relief. Maybe it is a good choice to paint telescope tubes' interior.
Does terrorizing citizens through illegal spying and mass surveillance constitute terrorism? Or does only setting off bombs in public spaces count?
Revealed: Murdered journalist’s number selected by Mexican NSO client
Is this supposed to be some kind of "gotcha"? Both are despicable.
I've spent entirely too much time "printing" sites and articles to PDF to save them to read or reference later. Your PDF style was perfect! No need to fuss with anything just save it!
The intelligence community ties between the US and Israel - and the private security companies is so tight, that there is no way this doesn't link back to the US gov't.

"five eyes" is nothing compared to the level of cooperation between the US and Israel on cybersecurity.

One of the very first things I noticed when I started in cybersecurity was the prevalence of Israeli accents.
> One academic's theories led to some failed governments, therefore academics are bad at country-building?

No, that’s just the most egregious example. Circling back to my original point: I spend a lot of time thinking about what makes countries rich and how do you turn poor countries into rich ones. Academicians spend tons of time studying psychology, culture, politics can etc. But I can’t think of any of those theories that has ever been implemented in the real world to help a poor society develop into a rich one. 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.

> I want smart people with good ideas, integrity, and communication skills running the country.

No. Ideas don’t make countries successful. Integrity, yes, but academics don’t have any special advantage in that regard. And the petty bureaucracies and box checking environment of academia selects against many of the other traits required for good leaders.

> I couldn't care less what their background is.
The US succeeded because the early leadership was of incredibly high caliber and integrity.

The US succeeded because they were English by culture and departed little from the Anglo system of government and society, which was not created but evolved organically over centuries.

Revolutionary France is a good example of a society structured by “smart people” according to “good ideas.” It ended in disaster and bloodshed.
Show HN: HubDesk – Receive and respond to emails with GitHub Issues
Hey HN! HubDesk is a Github App that allows you to create Github issues from emails. You can also respond to those emails with an issue comment that starts with "@reply". It saves and add links to the issues for any attachments as well. I built HubDesk for a few reasons.

#1. It was a product I wished existed. Having run engineering teams for small startups, it's always nice to have one less thing to manage and Github issue was my bug tracking of choice. However, it was always difficult to get non-developers to create accounts and submit bugs or help desk requests with Github. HubDesk solves this problem by letting people without Github accounts send emails to create Github issues.

#2. I wanted a side-project that would let me dive deep into React, state management without Redux, Next.js, Tailwind, and Firebase. The app uses Firestore with Firebase triggers to coordinate the interactions of Github, Mailgun, Firebase Storage, and Stripe.

#3. I wanted a side-project I would actually finish and the scope of this project was just right :)

HubDesk is still new and I'm looking for any early/test users to try it out. Let me know what you think! Thanks!
needs better description than 'chatops' - more like ..framework to implement CLI functionality in chat platforms or something
The USA hasn't yet provided evidence of Huwei spying for Chinese government.
I would be happy to believe them if they released more technical details. Otherwise, just sounds like a typical "best-guess" based on geopolitical considerations.

For example, the NYTimes just published a piece about a "Rogue" section of the Commerce Department that used racial profiling targeting Chinese Americans:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/16/us/politics/commerce-depa...
That "Housing" in the chart is the housing component of inflation (rental, household furnishings, etc.)
He's definitely joking
That makes a lot more sense. I was trying to figure out how you take the time to write an entire book but then throw together a short blog full of grammar mistakes to promote it.
Julia Computing is not a services company. There are commercial products built off of this stack which are the core of Julia Computing. For example, https://pumas.ai/ is a product for pharmacology modeling and simulation, and runs on the JuliaHub cloud platform of Julia Computing. It is already a big deal in the industry, with the quote everyone refers to "Pumas has emerged as our 'go-to' tool for most of our analyses in recent months" from the Director Head of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics at Moderna Therepeutics during 2020 (for details, see the full approved press release from the Pumas.ai website). JuliaSim is another major product which is being released soon, along with JuliaSPICE publicly in the pipeline.

But indeed, Julia Computing differentiates itself from something like MATLAB or Mathematica by leveraging a strong open source community on which these products are developed. These products add a lot of the details that are generally lacking in the open source space, such as strong adherents to file formats, regulatory compliance and validation, GUIs, etc. which are required to take such a product from "this guy can use it" to a fully marketable product usable by non-computational scientists. I will elaborate a bit more on this at JuliaCon next week in my talk on the release of JuliaSim.
https://membership.theguardian.com/event/the-pegasus-project...
Passive surveillance being a thing means everyone reading this text is a target.
It's like one of those sci-fi time travle movies or docuseries showing the evolution of the earth/techtonic plates/etc.
My understanding is that it runs faster than native python and R. That said with Numba and other libraries, see no point.
Not a single researcher or data analyst I know of would prefer "discoverable" content to be in PDF format, regardless of just how awesome the OCR is (which it often isn't, especially for tabular data). Even for all-text, non-tabular documents, OCR does not provide the metadata needed to make sense of the documents. Why PDF is claimed to have superior "discoverability" in the OP essay is a mystery to me. For the sake of "discoverability", PDF is definitely not the way to go.
Scientists Detect a Moving Photon Multiple Times Without Destroying It
Spiel Des Jahres 2021
This is actually an area where the current trend of allowing anyone to identify as/wear anything and it not being acceptable to ask questions comes in handy. If anyone questions your fashion sense while pulling this off, just scream a bit about your pronouns and/or racism.
I lost it at the quoted text, haven’t laughed this much in days. Classic HN sentence fragment of middlebrow dismissal with just enough obliviousness to social norms that it might be satire, but with such deadpan delivery you just don’t know. Pure gold.