skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...or I could just use a truly-secure option that doesn't destroy my personal security model. Owning an iDevice presents a considerable security risk to my current setup.
You could do far better than iOS. Worse though is that it encourages very poor infosec because when it's profitable for Apple and often makes doing things correctly difficult or impossible.
Also, the article concludes that FMA hurts accuracy, and this is at best misleading (FMA is better in the worst case). But the example given does highlight something important:

Depending on the case, the accuracy gains can be tiny (so much so that in this example the FMA version does indeed return larger errors in most runs), and the performance gains can be small too.

On the other hand, the price to pay for letting the compiler freely decide whether/when to fuse * and + is huge: reproducibility. Since x87 was deprecated, having floating-point results be bit-for-bit consistent across platforms, compilers and optimization flags has been amazing for debugging. Losing that is a step back and a recipe for headaches.

I was surprised that gcc enables -fexcess-precision=fast by default (in GNU mode), hence enabling transparent FMA and potential headaches. Specifying the standard (e.g. -stdc=c17) fixes that.
Those also don't care if you've had it before either
TaeKeyboards has a video where he does that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKpsohmQMwE

It looks pretty good, but you can't put a clearcoat on it, so it's not durable enough to actually use as a keyboard. Still a fun item to have on your shelf though.
Nvidia had been opting out of this launcher update for at least a year, so they knew it was there.

They may have been less aware of the timing of Google over riding it, but they should have at least known enough to be working on an alternative (assuming they wanted to).
TIL my corporate webfilter blocks Amnesty's website under "Advocacy Orgs".

I guess human rights don't line up with corporate values.
A good science fiction book about an intelligent alien race that evolved on the surface of a neutron star, written by a physicist:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/263466.Dragon_s_Egg
> assign a color to the universe is somewhat nonsensical

I don't understand that - could you elaborate? Thanks.
> I just can't understand what the thought process was in making this a default behavior, let alone one that cannot be disabled.

I do not get the bluetooth-automatically-starts Apple Music behavior.

I haven't tried but I just checked the iMessages preferences and you can disable being contacted via your phone number or email addresses, with check boxes for each. As Macs don't have phone numbers I think this would work? I do use apple messages (which is why I didn't try disabling it), but use WhatsApp and signal more than I use the default.

I have no idea how good the mac's security might be, just pointing out my experience.

I agree that Apple could do better with eliminating their bundled apps, but I use third party calendar, address book, reminders, photo, etc with no issues. And I hear quite a few people are willing to use chrome (ugh) as their default browser and safari doesn't get in the way.
I’ve seen people go through the pipeline with “no hires” from interviewers because of small differences of opinion. In your case, I’d wager that the disagreeing interviewers feedback may have just been discarded.
No you weren't. I'm making an opinion statement. There's nothing entitled about it. What am I entitled to? Nothing. It's only how I feel about the labor usage the Godot team utilizes.

If I said apples are a terrible purchase because I think oranges do a better job satiating you, does that mean I'm entitled? An ass?

Maybe think more carefully about how you speak to people. "I don't like your attitude one bit," is a statement you make to someone when they are subject to your approval; and I'm certainly not subject to yours, nor are you mine.
Ahh thanks! To build the initial library, which sat at ~180 goals, it took us about 2 months. A lot of the goals were crowd-sourced/submitted by experts and high performers within specific roles!

Since then, we've been slowly adding to the library, from new roles to new goals for existing roles and it's currently sitting at about 230 goals. If there are any roles that you think we're missing, we're all ears!
We had three big data pipelines written in numpy that we'd spent a lot of time optimizing. Rewriting them in Julia, we were able to get an 8x (serial -> serial), 14x (parallel -> serial), and 28x (parallel -> parallel) speedups respectively – and with clearer, more concise code. The difference is huge.
As others have pointed out in this thread, "misinformation" has easily extended to politically inconvenient facts, such as the lab leak theory. The government absolutely does not, and should not, have the authority to censor what it deems to be misinformation. The fact that the government is directly coordinating censorship of a highly political subject absolutely discredits the notion that these are just private companies executing "corporate freedom of speech". It is a flagrant violation of the first ammendment at this point.

Saddam Hussein not having WMDs and the Iraq War being based on false pretenses was considered misinformation under Bush. NSA mass surveillance was considered misinformation under Obama. Climate change was considered misinformation under Trump. You are advocating for a "ministry of truth" to enforce the official government narrative. People need to be allowed to discuss these things, because the US federal government's track record for being a purely truthful, altruistic entity is quite poor.
We weren’t there to steal things..We were just there to overthrow the government
Weren't they purchased from the bank after the studio was foreclosed on by the mayor for 5$? How can it be anyone else's property after that?
Yeah. Like I said, it could really do with more contributors who can work on these issues and add keep adding features. rayluo who is a major contributor (developed brip to support using regular PyPi packages with brython), for example, works at Microsoft, and most probably does this in his spare time. More people like this can help bring Brython up even more, so there's a majority coverage for what JS can do, with Brython. Joining their Groups forum really shows you how much they're working and how much they're dedicated to this. This is only going to keep growing, if more devs and contributors hop onto the project even in their spare time.
No, he is right that you are using bad words because you disagree. I wouldn't have added this but the thread just keeps going.

Just because someone want to be as secure as possible while using their electronic devices and you think they are being extreme doesn't mean that they are being paranoid. It has nothing to do with being paranoid. It could simply be because it is fun to try and secure your devices or to gather knowledge on how to do so in case you need to apply the skill-set at work or a thousand other reasons.

>you don't trust iMessage to be End-to-End Encrypted

I don't secure my devices as GP does but I also do not trust for a second that iMessage is securely E2EE. It is not something you hear rarely if talking about the topic, in fact it is very common argument on HN that iMessage messages are saved unencrypted to iCloud.

>this was pulled off in iMessage (more sandboxed than any other messenger security-wise)

That is almost the opposite opinion of iMessage than what was posted by researchers yesterday on HN (well, Twitter originally). In fact they stated:

>"BlastDoor is a great step, to be sure, but it's pretty lame to just slap sandboxing on iMessage and hope for the best. How about: "don't automatically run extremely complex and buggy parsing on data that strangers push to your phone?!"

In short, Paranoid is misused a lot like this. Just like Schizophrenia (it is often used about having multiple personalities or many opinions that clashes, but neither is correct usage).
Didn't CopperheadOS shut down years ago? The developer, Daniel Micay, now develops GrapheneOS.
Ah, got it - thank you for the explanation. I’m not familiar with this space, so I had no idea that practice existed!
I ran pdflatex from a 2017 TeX Live install under Ubuntu, and viewed in Acrobat Reader.
Ask the people working on Redox OS, which is a Rust-base kernel and userland. They would know better than me, and they state on their website that running a completely memory-safe OS in Rust without calling unsafe() is not possible.
Websites are unregulated. iOS apps have to abide by Apple's terms. This is exactly why developers are mad about any number of things: paying Apple's commission, but also complying with their privacy dictates.
Or "MVC is often thought of as mapping to the three tiers although that's a bit of a simplification that doesn't fully capture the mapping."

And there are essentially always nuances. So that's not really a controversial statement. At which point, the tech lead can accept the answer as pretty much what they were looking for or can probe further if it's actually the nuances they're interested in.
This article’s main purpose seems to be to fill the gap you observe:

“ Perhaps you might have also picked up on one of the more discreet but omnipresent characteristics of Schuiten’s work (and thus the Solarpunk aesthetic), which is his undeniable appreciation for Art Nouveau.”
Wouldn't a hosts file or a local DNS[1] or VPN[2][3] with hosts file support solve that without having to switch software ?

I'm using Netguard on Android devices I don't want to root and it's been good. Plus it does per-app firewalling as well.

[1]: https://www.zenz-solutions.de

[2]: https://netguard.me

[3]: https://blokada.org
I'm wary of unbounded thread pools. Production has a funny way of showing that threads always consume resources. A fun example is file descriptors. An unexpected database reboot is often a short outage, but it's crazy how quickly unbounded thread pools can amplify errors and delay recovery.

Anyway, they have their place, but if you've got a fancy chain of micro services calling out to wherever, think hard before putting those calls in an unbounded thread pool.
No, he's saying since the USG used a lie in order to further its' interests and which caused more than 500k deaths, it should not be trusted when it says anything about any other adversary.
I think we all agree SOME crimes should be prosecuted irrespective of where they happen.

Maybe Ransomware attacks should meet that standard? Maybe Assanges acts should too.

But now you have to be careful. Who decides which crimes? What if they get it wrong? Should I face prosecution for legally drinking at 18 in the UK when the US sets a higher age limit?

I think there are a lot of crimes that US takes no interest in, that are much MORE arguably worthy of extraterritorial prosecution.

So at best this is very selective prosecution. And that's unjust by definition.
Can you imagine monitoring the jabberings of modern journos and politicians 24*7. I would probably jump out of a window on the first day.
In my head, Hera is more of a merge of something like apple reminders and apple notes. More of a single-player experience for productivity.

Superpowered has a bunch of similar concepts - however their launch claims that meeting events won't be the focus forever. Moving to github and slack soon. So we'll see.

There are a couple others in the batch that will be launching soon that are loosely competitive.

I think it's part of a broader recognition that people who "live out of their calendars" weren't having an easy 2020.

For what it's worth, we think meetings are the means to the end not the end, not the end itself.
Nothing has changed here. Julia Computing has always been a commercial venture — that's its reason-for-being, providing enterprise support and products built on the language. The Julia Language has always been (and always will be) open source. The two are completely separate[1], but we at Julia Computing invest greatly in the language itself — our success as a company is directly linked to the language's success.

1. https://julialang.org/blog/2019/02/julia-entities/#julia_com...
> I think society these days is divided into three. The ideological left, ideological right, and the people who are more interested in reasoning through difficult problems.

The difficult problems haven't changed much in hundreds or thousands of years. What happens when "people who are more interested in reasoning through difficult problems" have spent a few centuries actually doing this?

Yep, ideologies. That is, semi-consistent sets of beliefs, assumptions and values that explain why things are the way they are, how they ought to be different and (sometimes) how to go about making the changes. I know it can seem hard to believe, but it turns out that even when extraordinarily smart people think about difficult problems, they don't all converge on the same answers.

If you want to start over from scratch ever generation, be my guest. In your rejection of ideology, you're really just throwing away the work done by our ancestors.
>I don't understand the line where lots of people

You're going to have to be more specific than a handwave-y "lots of people" to have good online discussions. You also need to be specific in your terminology. You need to actually address the specific people and their arguments, or else do a much better job of phrasing an inquiry into theoretical tradeoffs. Ie., from your other reply:

>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?

So I do in fact think Google and Facebook at 100% "justified" to shut them down, and I think Amazon is too. I do have lines where I think morally, if not legally, a service can start to drift into quasi-governmental (or perhaps should be that way) territory. An example for me would be core physical infrastructure companies, not just at Tier 3 but also at Tiers 2 and 1. I think those should operate as common carriers. But I don't think social media fits. Not using it at all (as I don't) may have "costs" in terms of social opportunities but alternatives are trivial.

So for me there isn't any dissonance here, I generally support "Big Tech" (and everyone down the ladder) associating as they see fit when it comes to ongoing online service relationships within existing jurisprudence. The initial legal tweaks I'd like would be aimed at things like expanding user power in a purely additive way (like giving people the option to access root hardware/software key stores), or internalizing costs some companies are shifting onto the public, rather then beating down what some people don't like.

Hacker News (and every other forum) aren't hive mind and it's silly and tiresome to have them treated that way. What you did in your first post here was essentially throw up a big silly strawman.
Climate change is another area where this analogy is apt.
Does anyone else feel like India's government is starting to spiral? Particularly their censorship of domestic media has concerned me, and hearing about these crazy surveillance campaigns is starting to give me "human rights violation" vibes.
I work in research software for astronomy, and I cannot agree with that. A very large amount of astronomy software is in Python. Numba has gone a long way toward making non-vectorized array operations very fast from Python.

Most people use a ton of numpy and scipy. It turns out that phrasing things as array operations with numpy operators is quite natural in this field, including for things like galaxy merger simulations.

I work, in particular, on asteroid detection and orbit simulation, and it's all pretty much Python.
These apparently exist in the criminal underworld (see the FBI's recent sting using such a project) and for state security organizations (developed by major defense contractors, afaik).
So, in your view, is security simply not a problem? Is it all a giant lie to fund the security state?

If not, where do you draw the line between real/legitimate security concerns vs. the fake ones?
Around 17 years ago I encoded some information in this little-known thing called JSON because it was more succint and generally a better fit than XML for this particular case. Even so, I'd never encountered this JSON thing before and had no idea if it had real legs or not, so it felt vaguely weird to be eschewing the Great God XML in favour of it ...
Naturalistic Use of Mescaline Is Associated with Self-Reported Psychiatri (Cont)
Great app!

> Most managers get promoted into their role with no training. “Oh you’re a good engineer? Great! Now manage a team of engineers and stop coding”.

I wish this was true. Well, these days people want Engineering Managers to code and manage plus also on the side win a Nobel Prize.
Ah the good old times when men where in charge and women kept at home to man the heath
Apple is actually not in the business of selling the data of their users. They will also risk aggravating large players in favor of improved privacy. A recent example: App Tracking Transparency [1] which makes tracking an opt-in feature to be requested from the user. To no one's surprise users are happily declining when made this offer. Companies like Facebook aren't too happy about it. [2]

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/01/data-privacy-day-at-a...

[2] https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/apples-privacy-update-is-turn...
Yeah, that much I figured out - people are my solution to the depression. Seeing people regularly is what helps keep me happy; not even necessarily friends, though that helps significantly, but spontaneous interactions - the coffee shop, the grocery store, etc.

People are the most interesting things in the word.
Let's just imagine (for the sake of an argument) that you're just about to be given a roadside alcohol breath test by a police officer, but in this universe having just eaten fish or chicken can cause a false positive. The officer asks you if you had eaten fish or chicken recently. In fact, you had both fish and chicken in your last meal an hour ago (don't ask). You should answer "yes".

Most cases where "or" is taken to mean xor are actually asking for a choice, expecting one of the options as an answer. If the "or" is part of a question expecting a yes/no answer, then it is much harder to justify it being an xor.
The biggest difference is probably that the JVM will support both OS and lightweight threads. That's really useful for certain things talking to the GPU in a single thread context.
There is no such thing as a "truly-secure option." As anyone truly concerned about security will tell you.

You will be forced to make compromises somewhere unless you want to live under a rock in the desert. You can't drive without a State ID, can't get a home loan without credit, can't work without a Social Security Number except under limited circumstances, can't make money without reporting to the IRS, and so on. It's entirely about what compromises you want to make, and the tradeoffs therein.
It's not a question of getting something wrong. The Bush administration carried out a massive disinformation campaign to convince the public that Saddam had WMD - something they knew they had no good evidence for. Large parts of the media and most senior politicians in both major parties (including the current President of the US) went along with this disinformation campaign.

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.
In some of my own pursuits, I've seen things that make me agree.

Pool has little randomness, and therefore it is very difficult to beat a player who is better than you. The best players want to eliminate the possibility of that happening by making longer races, racking their own balls, winner breaks, things like that. Pool is dying for it.

Meanwhile poker has a large amount of short term variance (luck) and it keeps bad players interested for years and years. The worst player in the world can sit and beat the best players in the world at any given moment. Poker is still going as strong as ever-- maybe more strongly than ever at this point. People are coming out of the woodwork this year itching to play.

I think most of the greatest, longest- lived games in the modern era will need a high amount of randomness, because of computers doing analysis. Even more, with the absent of solvers and the like, many poker variants cannot be solved in real time and all-encompassing strategies cannot be developed. More computational power could change that in the future, I guess.
It looks to be a transmission gate (a controlled switch). It’s analogous to a N-type MOSFET. If they can create an additional transmission gate that couples the inputs only when the gate pulse isn’t present, then they’ve achieved similar to a P-type MOSFET, and they could implement logic in almost the same way CMOS does.

It would be helpful if the article gave at least some basic information about the device physics.
It's the difference between "this thing has X property" (termination or able to save for offline reading) and "this thing _obviously_ has X property, in a way that you can tell without any expertise, or doing any investigation".

How important this is to users, or whether it is worth it is something I've not commented on, but it is a difference.
> You know what to expect when you see a PDF - static, JS-less content.

You know to expect that, but there's no guarantee that's what you get. PDF supports JavaScript too.
> I believe both missions of the NSA are important. However I believe it should be split into two agencies each Enthusiastically pursuing a single mission to the best of their abilities.

At least with cryptography, I'm not sure how practical that is. I'm not cryptographer, but my impression is that offense and defense both deeply inform each other in that space.
> 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.

If you have a problem domain that deals with thousands (or more) of types/facts/relations, you will quickly find that starting with code and how tightly you can pack your data in memory to be a massive mistake. The computer is arguably the most important stakeholder in all of this design work, but it is not the only critical one for most businesses. Being able to express a complex state machine to a domain expert who doesn't know what visual studio looks like is the biggest challenge I run into in the real world.

"Correct" is more important than "fast" every single day of the week where I work.
We launched the goals library Sept last year and it's been growing slowly ever since. Still more to do on it (and other large/free/helpful resources like our template library https://hypercontext.com/agenda-templates)

Most of the initial goals were contributed by our network so it was built pretty quickly.
Oh my yes.

To be fair, it isn't the job's fault. My manager is very reasonable, the company's policies are pretty reasonable, I get decent benefits (but definitely not great). My commute sucks, but it isn't ridiculous by the completely ridiculous standards of the US.

I think I've just reached a point in my life where I can't stand working in technology any more. I've been looking at job ads in IT for a while now and every single one of them fills me with dread. Sadly I have no other marketable skills. I'm starting to think the only way out is to quit and just live life how I want until my savings run out and then just kill myself.