skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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A slightly safer way is to wash them:

"Is there then a way to spot a fake positive test? The antibodies (like most proteins) are capable of refolding and regaining their function when they are returned to more favourable conditions. So I tried washing a test that had been dripped with cola with buffer solution, and sure enough the immobilised antibodies at the T-line regained normal function and released the gold particles, revealing the true negative result on the test."
Wait can you not clearcoat it because it ruins the effect? Or is it somehow too weak to accept a clear coat?
A new way to get viral mRNA into cells
Not much an argument at all, if you ask me. There's definitely a benefit to only having to learn a single language (rather than R and C++), but the library/package ecosystem in R is hard to beat; unless you're doing truly bespoke computational work, the number of mature statistical libraries/packages in R is unmatched. Rcpp's syntactic sugar means most slow R bottlenecks can be written in C++ almost verboten, but without the interpreted performance penalty. One of R's best and under-emphasized features is its straightforward foreign-function interface: it's easy to creating bindings to C/C++/Fortran routines (and Rust support is coming along as well).

I've been impressed with Julia, but it's hard to beat 25 years of package development.
>>That's engineering considering the long-term effects of your code. Both direct and indirect.

No that is over engineering, and in violation of YAGNI (you ain't going to need it) an KISS (keep it simple stupid) principles. A lot of code my teams develops gets thrown away over time, as it is either no longer needed or replaced with an off the shelf tool. It is really hard to predict what code will survive AND becomes a performance bottleneck.

There is no point optimising prematurely. It is often best to tackle the problem when it occurs.
What benefits does loom provide vs using something like cats-effect fibres?
Apparently Apple's terms aren't that great for some users.
UCSC Cell Browser: an interactive viewer for single-cell expression
I feel like XML just needed a revision to remove a bit of cruft, simplify, add ways to handle certain characters, and a few other things. Instead we have YAML...
Configuring Ghost SSL with multiple domains
Yeah, it has been there for quite some time, but has really started getting off the ground in about mid-late 2019 which is strange, since like you mentioned, the advent of TS. But slowly a lot of interest has been brewing over it, it's growing faster than ever, and has been attracting users/contributors a LOT only since the start of last year.

https://academy.cs.cmu.edu/

This is Carnegie Mellon's academy website, running on Brython. See the Brython Wiki page on their GitHub, they got a list there.
I've felt the same way - as though not being able to shoehorn everything into pure unit tests somehow means that I'm not doing testing right. In most cases though, what we really care about is verifying the full functionality of an app. Maybe integration & e2e tests should be considered as the primary form of testing, with unit tests applying only in the specific cases where they make sense, like you mentioned.

Maybe the ulimate form of testing is something along the lines of Netflix's chaos monkey (now apparently an entire "simian army" suite of tools). Continuously test the real application, live in production, where it's not allowed to fail.
The utility is in the muddying. To use the broader term (WMD) instead of the specific (chemical weapons) is to imply the broader abuse. While the specific abuse is something the US turned a blind eye to a generation previously (chemcial weapons by Iraq against Iran)
> I disable location services except for things like Maps that actually need to know where I am

Fun fact: having systemwide location services on, even if you don't enable it for any apps, means that your location is sent in realtime to Apple/Google at all times (via Wi-Fi triangulation data). It's not just passive GPS reception.

If you want actual location privacy, you'll want to leave location services off systemwide on your smartphone, and consider getting an offline GPS receiver device. Good car satnav devices from China are like $60 now, and include continent-wide maps, though you lose realtime traffic info, being offline.
Is it really sublinear though? The data that the algorithm accepts is a number n, the size of the data is thus m=log(n), so the algorithm runs in O(m) time -> linear in terms of data size. I vaguely recall there was some nuisance related to this (pseudopolynomial algorithms ring a bell), but haven't interviewed in a while so may be misremembering it.
The body of the article gives some good tips for organizing and maintaining code, but it frames it in a way that would suggest these are the best practices, and that's it. The points given are just the tip of the iceberg taught in a typical Software Engineering 101 course in university. There's no reason to reference Google here, none of these points are original. SE is an academic field with 50 years of publishing, and while most of it is pretty stale today, it is weird to lead a discussion on it completely disregarding the body of knowledge we already have.

The introduction is also weirdly phrased, as the process of SE doesn't start with writing code - that's putting the cart before the horse. SE starts with thinking about what you want to solve, and how you can and want to solve it. Coding should probably come after these processes.
I am using Julia extensively since 2013, and I can say that it's awesome! But don't try to use it if you're looking for a general-purpose scripting language: Python is far better suited for this. Similarly, if you want to produce standalone executables, C++, Rust, Go or Nim are better.

However, Julia is perfect if you write mathematical/physical/engineering simulations and data analysis codes, which is my typical use case. Its support for multiple dispatch and custom operators lets you to write very efficient code without sacrificing readability, which is a big plus. Support for HPC computing is very good too.
Plot twist: These were all real but don't exist anymore because no man can step in the same river twice, let alone swim at the same beach
thanks for the answer Keno. i guess an example Stream 1 product is Pumas. i didn't realize it's a separate product from Julia.
my background is in finance and i am curious if you have any plans to break into that domain (examples on your website include julia language use)
Technical Analysis: Pegasus (2016) [pdf]
Modi is doing it now, and violating freedoms and oppressing people. Congress didn't. Changing the subject is convenient for the criminal.
Why are two Cabinet Ministers (Ashwini Vaishnaw and Prahlad Patel from Modi govt.) are in this list?
It happens to me every time I connect my QC35s to a 2018 MacBook Pro. It's extremely annoying.
One aspect of modern hardware products which contain a lot of software is that they need a steady stream of software updates in order to remain useful and functional.

Security updates are essential. Not only is a device full of unpatched vulnerabilities dangerous to use, but as we saw with the recent Western Digital scandal, is a serious risk to the continued functionality of the device.

Because the Shield is a streaming device, interoperability with streaming services is required for continued functionality. The set of useful streaming services changes over time and existing streaming services change their APIs.

Most hardware devices these days get a fairly short software update window and then the device is useless. Would you rather Nvidia/Google abandoned your device? Is funding continued updates with ads such a bad thing?
> After that experience, I'll believe the US government only when they make all their evidence public, and even then, I'll be exceedingly skeptical.

So who do you think carried out these attacks? Do you think that China does not carry out any offensive hacking? Do you think they do, but avoid the US for some reason?

IMHO, these allegations are plausible enough to believe without strong evidence to the contrary. Taking the experience with the Iraqi WMD allegations as your North Star (to the exclusion of all other factors) seems like a heuristic that will be wrong far more often than it's right, and more often wrong than alternative heuristics.
Life on the diagonal – adventures in 2-D time
It's about Scholze work on perfectoid spaces. A nice intro talk in Spanish is at https://cienciastv.org.mx/2020/08/el-mundo-perfectoide-adria...
Constant attempts to hack each other between rivals and even allies are not a big deal.

I'm not saying this is fake, our people should be doing their job mitigating this stuff and hacking them in turn, but it being blown up into a Big Deal is part of the propaganda.
> can't work without a Social Security Number except under limited circumstances

Something like 96% of human beings don't have a social security number. Many of them work.
Use the phrase 'god' or 'something magical' as a synonym for 'something beyond our understanding and control' and you'll realize we're a lot closer to that level of understanding than we are to having figured everything out.

Abstraction makes it much easier to reason about complex systems, such as the world :)
Technically, you can calculate the nth Fibonacci number in O(1) with the golden number.
iOS is currently the least worst mobile solution as a daily driver for the majority of people who are users before techies.

It doesn’t mean it’s good enough but I’d be curious to hear your ideas for what could work as easily for the masses.
Stallman actually helped bring this about. The ad companies all run their massive data farms on open source software.

Stallman and open source helped drive a lot of paid software out of the market because they could not compete with free versions.

For the most part, the paid consumer software market is dead.

Companies will always want to make money, so they “gave away” free software funded by ads and then used free open source software to run their servers serving and targeting ads.
DOJ bans seeking reporter email, phone records in leak investigations
There was a bug with Android Studio (and I think IntelliJ as well) on M1, not sure if there still is.

You can fix it by setting 'Prefer Tabs' to never - https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/jtbl4m/has_anyo...
Yes! Let’s stay in a present where Israeli hackers-for-hire can help dictatorships capture and murder dissidents.

At a minimum we should demand transparency and accountability from all of these scale-enabling organizations.
That does sound closer to the the relationship between the state and say a defence contractor company.

That doesn't mean everything the company does is to support the objectives of the state, or approved by the state, but it does mean they're not unaffiliated either.
I'd suggest we protect freedom of speech similar to how we protect civil rights.

Before civil rights, "private businesses" used the same exact excuse as big tech while refusing customers based on race.

In the current setup, big tech thrives risk-free via governmental protections separating them from their customers (or what their customers post on the platform). The underlying concept of social media has become a public utility, and should be protected as such. Once big tech began altering visibility of posts based on politics (in any way/shape/form), they crossed the Rubicon.
MC2: Secure Collaborative Analytics and ML
> Modi and the then Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, were pictured during the trip walking barefoot together on a beach. Days before, Indian targets had started being selected.

Wow! You are a genius! Do you want to apply for Director position at CIA?
> Or is the answer “yes, if you use the libraries are written in Fortran, C, C++, or Julia!”?

That's basically the answer.
Slow train across Siberia offers glimpse of Russia’s rail ambitions
In general, the community has discussed reviving the project (or at least the ideas and some of its codebase). Julia computing will also be contributing as part of that revival.
“Only” to write a very high amount of high-quality statistical and plot packages…
Out of curiosity, how does someone get into the work you’re doing? Do you just kind of fall into it accidentally? Get a PhD in astronomical computing (if that’s a thing)?
Great summary. I've worked with scientists that love Julia and more power to them. As a software engineer, there are still rough edges in productionizing Julia (yes, I know there are a few examples of large scale production code). As soon as you take Julia out of notebooks and try to build moderately complex apps with it, you realize how much you miss Python. Having used Julia for last 4 years and having to maintain that code in production environment, I am strongly convinced that Julia has a niche but it is not going to be a contestant to Python/Java/C++ depending on the use case. Which really is a shame - I want one goddamn language to rule them all. I want that and tried to give a fair chance to Julia.
Things that date me: Knowing the Hayes AT command set
>Absorbed on the red pad are antibodies that bind to the Covid-19 virus. They are also attached to gold nanoparticles (tiny particles of gold actually appear red), which allow us to see where the antibodies are on the device.

Gold appearing red when in small-enough particles is used to make stained glass: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stained_glass#Red_glass
> the best policies are that of the government in power

Taking away Indians' freedoms, brutalizing minorities, upending the rule of law, promoting corruption ... I don't believe for a moment that Modi's policies are 'best'. India did very well under Congress before his election.
>My hope is that Nvidia will just develop a launcher

I don't see that they have a choice. Nobody is going to pay for a premium device that shoves ads in your face. Roku has ads, but they are less aggressive, so I imagine they would start picking up Nvidea customers.

The bad review bombing hit both nVidea apps and Google's AndroidTV launcher pretty hard:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nvidia.teg...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
>Corporations aren't humans; they don't have free speech rights.

As a matter of law in the United States you are objectively wrong. This has been settled in a series of SCOTUS decisions starting with Buckley v. Valeo (1976). Corporations are legal persons, and further the individual humans that make them up do not somehow lose the free speech rights just because they decide to take collective action.

And in turn: as a matter of morality, common sense and the point of free speech you're also wrong. It's important that people be able to speak to power, and a core part of that for humanity is socializing, being able to form groups to support each other and pool ideas, skills and resources to have a greater effect than what any individual alone could accomplish. Seriously, you say "corporations don't have free speech rights"? Exactly what form of combined effort do you imagine most, say, NEWSPAPERS are organized under? So what, you think individuals should be able to investigate something all by themselves, but the government should be free to put the boot down on newspapers because they're corporations? You think that jives with free speech?

Oh maybe you only meant "the bad ones". That makes it very easy, but no reason to limit it to corps in this case, just stop "the bad humans" too and everything is great. Nothing could possibly go wrong with that plan, since everyone agrees who "the bad ones" are.....
> Your degree of fear though is irrational unless you are, in fact, a journalist in an authoritarian state.

You are putting words in OP's mouth. OP never said he was fearful, only that he didn't want to be tracked.

Someone friendly could follow me around in real life and watch what I'm doing - and keep suggesting products to me based on getting to know me. I'm not going to be afraid but I am going to be freaking annoyed, and feel like my privacy is violated when he says he isn't going away.
Speaking of this, YouTube changed recently for me and now unskippable ads are 15 seconds and if you watch them on a chromecast you can’t skip them from your phone anymore. You have to go into “remote control mode” and navigate the on-screen UI.

Nothing grinds my gears worse than stuff you buy and integrate into your life unnecessarily degrading in performance/behaviour.

I might actually be about done with YouTube, which was. Shocking realization.
Numba essentially does the same as julia, compile to llvm bytecode, in julia, that's a language design decision, in python it is a library.

You can get very far with these approaches I python, but having these at the language level just has more potential for optimization and less friction.

The debugability of numba code is very limited and code coverage does ot work at all.

Having a high level language that has scientific use at its core is just great.

Python has the maturity and community size on its side, but Jul is catching up on that quickly.
Was there ever a time when espionage and cyber warfare weren't fair game? To me the only difference seems to have been where a nation state did have the capability and where they didn't.
This entire project can be replaced in two different ways with just IPFS. You don't have to run IPFS to be able to add files or retrieve them (if you've added them on the same computer), so simply add the files without running the daemon and you're already "Offline and Private" and "IPFS without the Network".

If that's not enough, you can also run your IPFS daemon with `--offline` and it won't connect to any network, giving you another way of using IPFS offline and privately.

If you want to go one step further, when adding files with the IPFS CLI, you can add the flag `--only-hash` and IPFS will only hash the content without actually writing anything to disk, making it even more "offline" and "private".

All in all, this seems to be a project whose author missed to read the documentation for IPFS as everything mentioned is already supported in go-ipfs, the main IPFS implementation.

Edit: the title "IPFS-less IPFS" is fun too, since nebulus seems to include ipfs-core as a dependency, not really IPFS-less then I'd say :) https://github.com/skogard/nebulus/blob/480d43dc22ccd949c6ae...
> It could simply be because it is fun to try and secure your devices or to gather knowledge on how to do so

It could be the case, absolutely. But the OP doesn't sound like their having fun, they are in earnest.

> do not trust for a second that iMessage is securely E2EE

Ask a security expert, and they will tell you it has been verified by just about everyone who has inspected it that this is, in fact, the case, including the EFF. But it is proprietary code, not open, which is a downfall.

> are saved unencrypted to iCloud

And can be turned off with the flip of a switch in Settings if that's something you are worried about. For most people who aren't OP-sec (like my Grandma), having all of her messages deleted because someone stole her phone isn't worth it.

> "buggy parsing on data that strangers push to your phone?!"

Yes... Except that every other secure messenger also does the exact same thing. And they don't have BlastDoor sandboxing like iMessage does. Yes, BlastDoor has flaws, but at least it's there unlike other messengers which don't sandbox.
Consider the Experiment
I’d love a link on how to replace the launcher. I have enjoyed my shields and it is now gaudy like ads results on search.

Apple TV is less intrusive with ads in the interface and during the viewing experience.
it depends on a good deal of what you are working on.
If government uses its powers to suppress the opposition and prevent criticism of itself, then elections are not a check.

Elections also aren't a check for people who have already suffered from the oppression.

Governments operate under the rule of law and respect for democracy and human rights. 'To protect those rights, governments are instituted among men.' They serve the people with power delegated to them by the people. They aren't elected as temporary gods or kings.
As others have pointed out, this will only work until you touch it. I use the Das Keyboard ultimate, which is matte black and, while partially reflective (and moreso on the keycaps where finger oil accumulates) it's still pretty great-looking.
>You can set iMessage to not put your keys in iCloud like I said above by turning off iCloud Backup which makes it fully End-to-End

"Fully" smells like a weasel word here. Either it is E2EE or it isn't. iMesssage isn't by default from what you are saying and if it requires the other end to also turn off icloud backup before it is E2EE then I'd go as far as stating that it is a completely useless attempt to be E2EE. In fact I'd argue Apple is full of sh*t if they actually ever stared that it is E2EE (but I have no idea if they did).

Comparing Signal to such a mess is... well at a minimum it is disingenuous.
Take security a lot more serious than they currently do. They've had some seriously embarrassing security holes in their software the last few years.

Also, they could increase the payout for their bug bounty. Why report to apple for a 0-day when you can make $1 million from these guys? It's not like Apple doesn't have the cash.
My own view is that Julia Computing is distinguished a bit by a more product focus.

It's a bit less of a pure language / infra play and more a product play. Ie, docker / containers was almost a pure infra play in the end. These guys make actual things you can use.

The later sells better into business I think and is less likely to be competed against. Google / AWS et al are generally pretty quick to compete on the infra play level.
I’m torn on these apps - they are an absolute godsend for new managers (because the usual practice, as you note, is “sink or swim” with bonus sharks thrown in for free). But they can become an issue later on, because they are trying to mediate a human interaction through an app.

Given that most managers are relatively new, I’m still hoping you have vast success :)

But there’s also a key bit of feedback in there - you might want to ensure there’s a good solo experience in there, too. That will also help you get into entrenched IT departments at large companies - you might not get the sale to the whole company off the bat, but you can capture key internal voices (if they can run your app without security concerns and off the corporate network)

Either way, good luck. Managers deserve all the support they can get, and engineers deserve better management.
> The next PyTorch needs to be written in Julia. Will that happen? Maybe! I hope so!

The Two Language Problem makes this more likely than one might think. Those high level python packages that plaster over python's many mediocrities have to be written and maintained by someone, and while extremistan bears the brunt of the pain and has done a remarkable job shielding mediocristan, it's extremistan that gets to decide which language to use for the next killer app.

Of course, python has more inertia than god, so it won't go quietly.
Well technically a pinochle deck is different from a deck you’d play poker with.
Name-calling and blind assertions ("it's not because it's not!") is not a good-faith response.