skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm absolutely pissed about it. I couldn't believe it when I saw it and I spent 20 minutes trying to find the setting that I thought must be there somewhere. It's such a seemingly small thing but in. lot of ways it's the equivalent of waking up in the morning and finding that someone came into your house in the night and stuck a flyer to your fridge.
Definitely did stuff like this in school. I was in a honours social studies class, and would consistently say "We're the honours class, there's got to be a better way to teach this" whenever our teacher decided we were just going to take notes for the day. He was always very excited about it, and would come up with huge class exercises to teach the topic. It was really awesome but would end up taking the whole week instead of the one day worth of note taking. We ended up doing about 1/4 of the curriculum that year, and the final was incredibly short.
It's very disturbing to me as an ordinary Indian citizen that a foreign private company was given the carte blanche to spy on prominent individuals in India. India's history is replete with incidents where seeking the help of foreign agents to subdue local opponents compromised India's security and Indians' liberty.

Traitors don't necessarily have to set out to commit treason against their country - they can be just unsophisticated simpletons greedy for power. And they can commit treason and sabotage the nation in the name of patriotism.
That foreign adversary would have had great timing then.

> The selection of Indian numbers largely commenced around the time of Modi’s 2017 trip to Israel, the first visit to the country by an Indian prime minister and a marker of the burgeoning relationship between the two states, including billions of dollars in deals between Delhi and Israeli defence industries.

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.
Haven't seen this either. Both my wife and I are on M1 MacBooks.
He was thrown in jail several times (he was released relatively quickly, but that shit still fucks up your week) , and this crap made it difficult to get or keep a job for several years. That's not even considering that online articles which state he did it still exist so background searches are still problematic for him. His life was destroyed pretty thoroughly by this ordeal,and he was never even convicted of anything.
I wanted to paint my laptop with it but seeing this answer on their website made me sad :-(
I'd rather give the correct answer, if they are going to fight the answer despite being wrong then it's a good sign I don't want to work with these people. Interviews being a two way process and all, this seems like it was an excellent opportunity to test their character.
I agree. To break apart from the Android/Apple world, surely a team of people could disrupt the ecosystem. It wasn't that long ago that flip phones were state of the art. Somewhere in between then and now, we passed all the barriers to lose privacy.
BlackBerry, blackphone didn't succeed to be profitable, but perhaps that was not the right time. Perhaps privacy was not so completely lost yet, to be relevant to the public. Perhaps there is enough of a market to sustain that model?
Intelligence agencies don't force people to do things, their operations are covert. It's the DoD/FBI that will force things and issue gag orders. Think of the intelligence agencies as Ninja, and the FBI/law enforcement as Samurai.
> Most of it actually wasn't FWIW, hateful extremist content is generally perfectly legal free speech. "Incitement" gets used way, way too often on the internet, almost nothing that gets posted online is legal incitement. But neither "Big Tech" (such a dumb term) nor Hacker News nor a random forum on birds needs any violation of law or anything else to moderate what gets posted on their sites. It doesn't have to be "negative" or whatever at all even. There is nothing illegal or objectionable about someone who likes discussing trains for example. But if you post lots just about trains on a birder forum they may delete all your posts and ask you to stop because they want to focus on birds, and if you continue to do so they can delete everything and ban you. Why would there be anything wrong with that?

I don't think anything is wrong with that.

What I don't understand is why AWS is justified to shut them down; but Google or Facebook is not justified in preventing their platforms from being propaganda distribution channels?

Specifically here on HN, people were outraged about Google's actions, but at the time I posted my original comment, nobody seemed to be upset about AWS's actions against NSO, at all.
Yes we do.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/four-chinese-nationals-workin...
It's current $1.37, which isn't too bad. Depending on how the next couple of years go, it may go either way. Sadly (for me), I think it's going to head towards $1 rather than $2.
You can try with different teaching methods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_education
I thought what I meant to imply was obvious enough, but maybe not. The idea that you can't cook Chinese food on an electric stove is nearly always made as bad-faith concern trolling and it is not correct.
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Agreed. And building out the variety of schools / teaching styles required to make a majority happy would probably be cost prohibitive.
This is not even a free speech problem in the first place. We are talking about actions. To draw up an analogy: If I own a gun store and I sell you a rifle and ammunition because you want to hunt deer and I learn that you started shooting at journalists instead, I can decide to stop selling (an act) you further goods because of your actions.

As pointed out elsewhere, this is a business relationship.

In any case, the grave human rights violations that are the result of the use of Pegasus - including loss of life and liberty - weigh much more than an abstract notion of a corporation's freedom to act and impose their will on other corporations.
I think that's just being clumped in with "Use C++," which he mentioned as an option
What I learned reading “Software Engineering at Google”
Most news stories from the late 80's/early 90's don't seem to be available outside of paid archives, so I don't have any links to provide.
Change your name to the teachers name and tell everyone that class is cancelled for the day.
> I strongly prefer the Apple TV UI approach over all the rest.

> unsullied grid

The only thing "unsullied" was the brief period of time you could get everything on Netflix without everyone stuffing their grubby hands into the cookie jar.

I'd swear Apple is paying for astroturfing everywhere on the Internet. I know you're not an ad, but I'd honestly never know it with the way the Internet works these days.

A lot of folks have Nvidia Shield because they don't want to be beholden to the FAMNGA monopolist giants. And yet, here we are.

I'm tired of being sold to by companies that want a bigger market cap and more user lock in. Apple probably wants their 40% cut of all ticket sales and streams, and Google wants to beam ads into your skull.
Congrats to the Julia team.

I am a python developer who has dabbled with Julia but it never stuck for me.

I think Julia was built by academics for other academics running innovative high performance computing tasks. It excels at the intersection of 1) big data, so speed is important, and 2) innovative code, so you can't just use someone else's C package. Indeed, Julia's biggest successful applications outside academica closely resemble an academic HPC project (eg Pumas). I think it will continue to have success in that niche. And that's not a small niche! Maybe it's enough to support a billion dollar company.

But most of us in industry are not in that niche. Most companies are not dealing with truly big data, on our scale, it is cheaper to expand the cluster than it is to rewrite everything in Julia. Most who ARE dealing with truly big data, do not need innovative code; basic summary statistics and logistic regression will be good enough, or maybe some cloud provider's prepackaged turn key neural nets scale out training system if they want to do something fancy.

I think for Julia to have an impact outside of academia (and academia-like things in industry) it will need to develop killer app packages. The next PyTorch needs to be written in Julia. Will that happen? Maybe! I hope so! The world would be better off with more cool data science packages.

But I think the sales pitch of "it's like Pandas and scikit but faster!" is not going to win many converts. So is Jax, Numba, Dask, Ray, Pachyderm, and the many other attempts within the Python community of scaling and speeding Python, that require much less work and expense on my part for the same outcome.

Again, congrats to the team, I will continue to follow Julia closely, and I'm excited to see what innovative capabilities come out of the Julia ecosystem for data scientists like me.
>$116/mo for television

The link you posted says that's cable and internet, not television.
If I understand correctly you exposed an interface that was too general (AKA low level) for the user's semantics. It seems to me that this interface was fitting for you as the developers to write new features on top of though?

In other words, if with think in terms of simplicity then maybe the right approach was to have the general interface as your abstraction layer and on the higher layer you have something that is semantically close to what your users understand. The general layer would be simple as I understand it and provide the building blocks for the more specifically designed user interface.
I didn't understand what it meant. I thought it was a euphemism for gentrification. None of their knee-jerk, dilettante, low-effort rant clearly identifies what they're really mad about, or if they're just mad to be mad.

It feels like a waste of everyone's time.
Sure, and I'm not saying that something like database normalization is not useful.

I just don't think that the "Habits of Expert Software Designers" like Jeff Dean or Martin Thompson are to be found in how they would design normalized SQL schemas when asked [1].

Rather, it's in how they would build things like LSM-Trees or Replicated State Machines. And I think if one looks at that design process, one would find that they reach for back-of-the-envelope calculations far more often than most other tools. They appear to take a first principles approach.

Again, that doesn't mean that database normalization is not a useful tool. I just wouldn't put any kind of abstract modeling approach alongside a first principles approach when it comes to systems design.

[1] Regarding normalized SQL schemas, I wouldn't be surprised if people like Jeff Dean or Martin Thompson went denormalized where it made more sense, or eschewed database indexes in favor of learned indexes, to optimize not only for performance but also for cost or time to recovery etc.
I think I'd sign that, yes. I wonder if there is a road back to this era…
The hacker who spent a year reclaiming his face from Clearview AI
Is there a distinct name for this form or relative of whataboutism where some supposed superiority over some other group on some axis irrelevant to the issue at hand is raised to derail criticism of a regime or other group’s abuses?
Yep, anything is hard to write. What's more important, YAML is hard to read, and it's by design as its markup was intended to be as invisible as possible.
> Saying "deal with it" is not at all how I would communicate the issue to the average consumer

Manipulating people isn’t a sustainable solution.
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https://github.com/ipfs-rust

Maybe some of the building blocks you need can be found in there somewhere.
"you don't have an expectation of privacy and can be filmed by any passerby"

That's not true in every state. Many states require consent, or at least implied consent through notification of recording, or have restrictions on how such recordings can be used/broadcast.

Do stores (or government buildings) need a license to play music? They are public spaces/entities and know that people can hear and record the music. Do you need a license to play music at a family BBQ even though the neighbors can hear it? No.
The Cost of Complexity
"So continues the endless, exhausting and unwinnable battle between wages and inflation"

That's how it seems to me as well. This article also mentions it towards the bottom in reference to restaurants in New Orleans...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/is-raising-the-minimum-wag...

Do we have any examples / models where people having figured out how to raise the bottom without raising the entire ladder?
One thing this reminds me of is the use of "Compute the nth Fibonacci number" as an interview question. The interviewer may expect you to show off your knowledge of dynamic programming by memoizing the function. But you take a risk if you implement the matrix exponentiation algorithm [1], which is actually optimal in that it only uses O(log(n)) arithmetic operations. I had an interviewer once who seemed a bit skeptical when I mentioned there was a sublinear algorithm for Fibonacci.

[1] : https://math.stackexchange.com/a/867404/165144
Greenwald became a common punching target after he criticized the 2008 administration for continuing to significantly expand executive authority and brought black budget activities into a whole other level. Something that Bush Jr also massively expanded and people were much quicker to criticize from various sides.

By 2020 Greenwald was basically persona-non-grata for not pulling either US party lines and his strong support for people like Snowden. Despite his great work in Brazil on human rights and anti-corruption which is something that goes beyond partisan politics and should be lauded.

The problem is people trying to put him (or everybody) into convenient boxes - representing singular view points - without shades of grey, like the 24 hour news talking head guests pushing sound bites.

The type of pressure on any person who dares to enter political news for a living. Which to me seems like a never ending gauntlet.
PDFs aren't really meant to be read off a screen, they're much better suited for stuff that's meant to be printed out.

And you can have a single self-contained file with a webpage, it's called a "web archive", with .mhtml extension.
There is value in having a personally curated, offline collection of documents. You can search, annotate or otherwise manipulate it to your heart's content, all without having to be connected.

Of course the Internet Archive serves other purposes for which it is (currently) irreplaceable.
DOJ Adopts Policy Restricting Use of Compulsory Process to Obtain Reporter Info
Subaru upgraded my telematics unit in my car for free when 3g was ending in my area.
Yeah I think this is way overblown- The way to approach this is "Well typically MVC is presented as such and people think its represented in typical architectures as blah blah blah, but from an actual theory perspective what actually happens is that blah blah blah..."

You cover both bases, give the blogspam answer that most view is the "right" one, but also show that you have a much deeper understanding.

My favorite question when interviewing node.js candidates was around this type of ambiguity- "Is node.js single threaded or multithreaded?" and most would immediately shout back "single threaded!" but the reality is that its a bit more complicated than that, its a single threaded event loop backed by a thread pool, and I wouldn't ever hold a "single threaded!" answer against them, but start to ask leading questions as to what happens when we have say 5 requests all come in more or less at the same time to see if they really understood how things work. And the point is not to gotcha! them, its just to start a discussion- though if they reply back "well its complicated..." then I know they probably are already there.

In the context of MVC though, I feel this is really overly pedantic. MVC is an idea that is never actually implemented in purity, and understanding the basic idea is all that is really needed, outside of maybe very specific roles implementing web frameworks.
Israeli courts have not allowed the case by amnesty international for suing the company saying that ministry of defense supervises the company so yes they are absolutely connected.
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Most of human comfort (which isn't pharmaceutically induced) comes from a sense of familiarity. Unfortunately, this is also where most people get their sense of "truthiness," but that's another story.

Anyways, if you were raised in a machine with these images and then shown the real world, I wonder if it would be a relief or also uncanny?

I know that when it comes to sound, it's really hard to create organic sounds. And that part of our ability to hear sounds happens (theoretically) before the brain, in the form of grouping harmonic series together into isolated sound sources. Perhaps eyes do something similar? Some sort of pre-processing that functionally works for all natural phenomena, kind of like the harmonic series does for sound.
Nope, I’ve never had this happen to me on my M1 machine, Bluetooth or 3,5mm headphones. If you don’t have another media app focussed or active, pressing a media control button/key will open Music iirc.
Interesting; could you share your source on that?

I had only previously heard [0] that similarities in the tools were discovered by Kaspersky, not that there were any leaked docs that pointed the finger back at NSA themselves. Are you maybe thinking of PRISM/Wikileaks?

[0] - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/02/how-o...
Same argument as python.

In other words, you can (empirically) get a lot done that way, but there is always friction.
This is the bar we have? If you don’t murder your citizens for being gay you are a good guy and if not then you are bad?
Two things:

1) I wonder why this wasn't written in a language that can compile to wasm, so it could be used on both native and js without reimplementing.

2) Can someone contrast hypercore and IPFS?
The file format restricts the possibilties. You know what to expect when you see a PDF - static, JS-less content. With HTML on the other hand, it depends on what the author decided.
> some axis irrelevant to the issue at hand

Someone asked why Israel is considered a "beacon of democracy" in the region. That opens the conversation to why liberal democracies elevate it over the region's autocracies. The tolerance it shares with other liberal documents is germane.
Fractal music (2010)
Is this coming to all Shield models? My 2015 doesn't have any ads (yet).

I also own an ATV 4K for streaming HDR in DV (Netflix, Disney, etc) but for Plex the Shield is still king. It can direct stream HDR10 and can do HDMI passthrough of any audio format (eg: TrueHD). The ATV decodes surround sound to PCM and while the quality is good, it causes audio sync issues and I think it loses Atmos information (I only have 5.1 setup).
I think the Iraqi war was more frustrating than those two put together.

You realize that this wasn't the first time the US did this, so I feel we should question these claims as much as possible.
> The idea that you can't cook [specifically] Chinese food on an electric stove

I never said that.
If you violate policy (of which there are likely many varied yet incontestable interpretations), AWS pulls the rug out from under you faster than one can say "neutral". That's excluding they do not make newer policies on-the-fly.

Ex A: https://signal.org/blog/looking-back-on-the-front/
So then the question becomes Did Amazon let police gather evidence before touching anything?
In my old house, on UMTS, I would have perfect signal except for 6am-4pm when the local school was there. It was fine in the summer. The local school soaked up the entire “cell” and my house was a dead spot.
That's a fair point, although bad actors will also wait around for years for your work to become more interesting/relevant, if they think there's a chance of it.
> Blackmail is a valid explanation if you don't have another more powerful recourse. But they do, they can just report them to the law.

As other commenters have pointed out on GitHub, Muse does not appear to have a legal leg to stand on. If they did, they would have simply sent a DMCA takedown notice a long time ago — but that would require Muse to swear under penalty of perjury that they believe the content is really infringing, and they must know it isn’t.

So instead they’re making scary threats and hoping to spook the developer into taking down the repository himself. As you put it, they “don't have another more powerful recourse” and so they’re making threats that they can’t actually follow through on.
There are a lot of people out there who remember shareware CDs. I'm always surprised by that particular aspect of software nostalgia. Same with things like ads in computer magazines; lots of people remember extremely well.

Did the game happen to be one of these?

https://archive.org/search.php?query=senet%20shareware
>>> There is so much doubt in this comment section around the validity of the accusations.

>>> We have a number of countries putting forward the knowledge they have mutually agreed upon. What is shared is known to a high degree of certainty. Any details that are questionable would not have been shared prematurely.

>> "Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction." — Dick Cheney, before the US and coalition of the willing invaded Iraq.

> 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?

I think the logic is once an organization or its leaders get something wrong, you should never, ever believe anything that organization ever says ever again. Even 20 years later after the leadership and staff has turned over a couple times.

Of course, that's totally unworkable idea when applied consistently, so it's only used, knowingly or unknowingly, to reenforce existing biases.
Not the same thing. Solarwinds saga (the one Russians are blamed for) was 1) extremely targeted and 2) extremely sophisticated. Exchange attacks on the other hand were indiscriminate (not targeting any single country or infrastructure, just unpatched Exchange servers) and very simple (they used 0day chain, but it was three months old and likely somehow leaked as multiple groups got access to it at the same time).
Semple also sells an acrylic black paint which, while not this black, is pretty dang black and can be touched.
I was with an organized tour so it was relatively safe. I wouldn't go alone without proper training and equipment though. For the water, we drunk some "local" water at the inn. I think/hope that it's treated properly. Most of the food we ate was also bought by us before the trip.
For a "cannot unsee" demo of Simplex Noise in 2d, see the animation on the first row [1]. Simplex Noise is a light/dark pattern in each hexagon.

[1]: https://www.redblobgames.com/x/2107-webgl-noise/webgl-noise/...
it's not obvious to me what's their revenue model?
NASA Returns Hubble Space Telescope to Science Operations
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