skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> runs faster than native python and R

That's a bit of an understatement. It's about as fast as C and Rust (ignoring JIT compilation time).

https://julialang.org/benchmarks/
I'm unclear on what it does beyond normal spyware that every scammer in the world uses. Is it just really good spyware?
Supposedly part of the Android TV certification requirements include only using their launcher.
I haven't resorted to changing my launcher yet, but I will definitely avoid purchasing a new shield (when my old one no longer suffices) as long as this is the user experience
Not sure that quoting Rick and Morty like it’s some kind of gospel is the best argument for education reform.
I really don't want any venture capitalist moonshot thinking anywhere close to a language I use, the risk of failure is way too big and that will leave the ecosystem in chaos. I'd rather they find a model which aimed at stability in the long run, like funding by the big industrial users.
I misread this (ambiguous) line at first

> In 2017, Semple also released a cherry-scented version of the Vantablack pigment exclusively licensed to Kapoor.

and thought that Semple had mixed cherry-scent with Vantablack and licensed it to Kapoor exclusively. It would have been an interesting move, particularly from a legal perspective, although I would have expected a different scent than cherry...
URLs are given.

Didn’t Amazon just shutdown the servers belonging to such a group?

pihole probably would be too late to stop them anyway.
How to load test with Goose – Part 3: Bigger instances
Only if you say so.

There is a degree of rational fear, rational expectation of being tracked. Your degree of fear though is irrational unless you are, in fact, a journalist in an authoritarian state.

You are saying that you are so paranoid, you don't trust iMessage to be End-to-End Encrypted because it has zero-click exploits developed as part of a cyberweapon that is explicitly targeted against high-profile journalists. You then think using Signal or something is more secure, even though if this was pulled off in iMessage (more sandboxed than any other messenger security-wise), your other messengers probably are also flawed and you shouldn't use any of them.

In fact, you shouldn't use a mobile device. And maybe for your situation, that is right and rational. But for most people, it's not.
It is not in our current set of major products. That said, informal office discussions mentioned JuliaDB as recently as last week, so it's not forgotten. If there's a demonstrated market, say a need for new high-performance cloud data science tools as part of the pharmaceutical domains we work in, then something like JuliaDB could possibly be revived in the future (of course, this is no guarantee).
Very surprised to see just few comments mentioning EPUB, which is IMO is much more suitable for document-centric approach. An open standard with freely available[1] specification and never had any problems with EPUBs on PC, tablets and phones.

[1] - https://www.w3.org/publishing/epub32/epub-spec.html#sec-intr...
Jesus Christ, this software really is a weapon.
There's not a comparable device short of plugging a pc in to my tv and I'm not going back to that life. I play retro arch installed from the play store, stream my pc from my office in to RDP, and connect a wireless kb to one of two usb ports in the back. I also generally like the Google stuff including the assistant integration. The device is perfect in every way and I shouldn't have to throw this $300 device that's worked great for years in the trash because Google made a bad decision about the launcher. It's better than roku, firestick, and apple TV and they all have worse problems.

Throw it in the trash can't be the response to everything. Why don't I throw my phone and my car in the trash? Maybe I should throw my fridge and microwave in the trash too?

If my fridge started showing ads one day, suggesting that I shouldn't be pissed because I can just throw it out and get a cooler of ice is not helpful.
My daughter did kindergarten online. I once observed that at least some kid behaviors remain the same online.

The teacher lost connection one day and one of the kids said "she's gone!" and it was immediate chaos, everyone started talking and making noises, one kid was literally screaming the whole time, the kids were drawing on the screen and fighting over who was sharing their screen, everyone was laughing and having a good time until the teacher reconnected. Later my daughter fondly told me about it, but I had already overheard the whole thing from the other room.
I'm sure there is some good in there to have some solid funding for additional development, but now that it's a commercial venture, I'm terrified to see the revenue model. The moment you build your profit platform on top of someone else's profit platform, you become someone else's servant.
I see your point, however, having worked in newsrooms - it really is about their beat and their threat-model. My organization covers a wide range of beats and folks covering national security or other sensitive topics have an entirely different workflow compared to those covering, e.g. housing.

I think being responsive to their needs and building trust will go much further. Also, designing a one-size fits all model will just mean that your reporters will either ignore the guidance or find a way to work around it.

For instance, the most recent credible threat we have had against one of our reporters wasn't a state-level actor, but rather folks on the internet (trivially) finding their address and doxing/harassing them and their family. No amount of technology hygiene will change the fact that voter registrations are public records.
There you go! You just need to believe in yourself and things will happen magically.
What's the argument against using R and dropping into RCpp for very limited tasks? I (helped) write a very widely used R modelling package and while I wasn't doing anything on the numerical side, we seemed to get great performance from this approach -- and workflow-wise it wasn't too dissimilar to 25 years ago where I had to occasionally drop in X86 assembly to speed up C code!

(Not a hater of Julia at all, very much think it's a cool language and an increasingly vibrant ecosystem and have been consistently impressed when Julia devs have spoke at events I've attended)
Given how much care they took not to write the payloads to the phone storage, presumably they took the same care not writing it to server storage on cloud hardware.
I'm curious if any of the expert software designers use mathematical principles to verify their designs or model checkers/analysis to explore their designs.

I find there's a lot of informal folk-lore when it comes to "solid" software design. Asking experts is likely to surface answers as numerous as the stars in the visible universe. There may be common threads in popular discourse but it seems only to be buoyed by personality: a popular project lead or evangelist discusses their methodology and a constellation of developers grab on to it in order to emulate their success. Others find harbour elsewhere.

And yet very few of them formally state how their approach works to solve real engineering problems. The gang of four book is a book of patterns. The book itself doesn't contain any formal analysis of these patterns. Even among these patterns there is a world of contention about which ones work, which ones are less useful, etc, etc. A beginner into this world, typically an intermediate to advanced programmer with a few years experience under their belt, hits this wall and is left to flounder and find their tribe.

I liken it to beliefs about the efficacy of software engineering practices. There's far too little evidence about them to make any strong claims to their effectiveness. And yet people have built careers around evangelizing certain ones.

(And often when you ask people to be more forthcoming and give their formal definitions they wave their hands and say that software development is art not engineering and that it's about craftsmanship and beauty not cold, hard, unfeeling things like calculi, categories, or algebras)

I have little faith these days. Unless someone can formally describe their abstraction it's neither simple nor elegant to me. Such terms are qualitative in the absence of formal definitions. What is simple to you might be a hodge-podge to me. Code sans sensible abstractions is procedural spaghetti in my opinion: simple to understand in small, local parts, but impossible to comprehend as a whole. But if you can explain to me what the objects are, the operations on them and what they mean, and the algebraic properties of those operations then I'm much more certain about what we're discussing and can agree that given such definitions whether something is simple or elegant. What programming language the system is ultimately implemented in rarely matters as much as getting the design right.

Update: I'm curious because while I find these tools useful I often feel like they're under-appreciated and perhaps hardly used outside of certain small circles in practice.
Cloudflare has taken voluntary action on sites 2 (or 3?) times now. They can no longer claim complete neutrality. I don't know about Cloudfront.
Yea, you are right about the 2% interest rates changing the breakdown. I was referencing numbers I ran back when rates were 3-4%. That said, most folks still rely on 30 years mortgages!
Which is a sad state of affairs.

Want to run a service with few problems? Here are the 6 companies you better run it through otherwise you can’t guarantee anything.
>but there's just no escaping it in this day and age.

Yes there is. Absolutely no closed software ever. That's the rule you use. Even the modem on the phone I'm typing this on is running FOSS firmware. Don't compromise your freedom for convenience, you always end up with neither when you do.
As an iOS user, there's a couple weird ones: Apple prohibits apps from putting ads in notifications, but sends a notification ad for every new Apple TV+ show. "Rules for thee, but not for me"
That is certainly better than the Shield, which is giving me recommendations for stuff I don't subscribe to.

As far as I understand though, is that it will show recommendations provided by installed apps. I do have Prime, and I still don't really want recommendations without explicitly asking for it.
I would like to also couple an algorithm to generate those images. Maybe just randomly select nouns for the title, but pass on augmented/cleaned versions of the title to some generator + CLIP to autogenerate fitting images.
kinda tries to make coding like python but running like fortran (without having to resort side-batteries like numpy/scipy)

designers seems to have a good amount of PLT knowledge and made good foundations
SPAC-Ing the Southeast Asia Story
Fulgin color straight from "the book of the new Sun" saga.
Composability, speed, static analysis, type system, abstractions, user defined compiler passes, metaprogramming, ffi, soon static compilation, differentiability and more create an effect that far exceeds numba
I'm surprised given how much of it is already in plain sight. Sit down with any security engineer and you're going to hear a bunch of stories about strange network activity they've observed over the years. And this is just the stuff that's been detected.
Discussed 3 weeks ago (500 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27643208
The media in Sweden use both by the looks of it. They do that for IKEA as well but it doesn't really make sense imo since it's an abbreviation of names. Both are made up language constraints anyway so I don't really see why the typographic rules of a language are more important than the equally artificial typographic rules of a company name.
So why was there so much fear mongering and safetyism, suggesting that even a small risk of opening up schools is unacceptable?

Because teachers are adults. Often, adults over 50.
I have disabled the Google Play service to disable the ads on my Shield devices (I thinks this prevents YouTube from working, but I only use YouTube on a PC where UBO can block the advertisements.

BUT, I rarely ever see the launcher/home screen anyway.

While within whatever app you are using if you click on the 'options/hamburger' button on the remote, you can scroll down to 'Apps' select the next app you want to launch, and select 'Open'.

2-4 mouse clicks becomes 4-6 and you bypass the home screen.
The author does identify a problem, and so you want to focus on that. That's fine. There is the issue of triviality, however.

The problem described is widely felt, and also widely discussed. We already know this stuff to be a problem. For the piece to be worthwhile, then, it should do something that is not present in the other instances where the topic has been raised. It should articulate (or at the very least exhibit, without necessarily articulating) a solution for us. It doesn't. A bad remedy to a genuine problem does not yield a solved problem.
Europe floods have killed dozens of people, but no one in the Netherlands
always a narrative/explanation...right on
> In we know that HTML is going to be much more compact (and compressible!) than PDF and that's the biggest advantage I see on a web where bandwidth still matters.

PDFs can be tiny if they do not embed fonts. Serving fonts is very much a complex technology in HTML world.

Browsing the web is a pain in the ass if you don't use a browser compliant with up-to-date standards, but the whole "HTML can be lightweight" argument pretty much depends on avoiding much of today's standardisation. As an objection to the original argument, it is not comparing like with like.
But you're making a mistake: you never owned this device, you obtained a perpetual license to use it :D
They're not incapable of either. Are they as motivated as the government? In general, no. Genocidal dictatorships are more motivated than random script kiddies and "evil" black hat hackers to go after high profile government and government-adjacent (infrastructure) targets.
I'd be curious to read some reliable statistics on how many people in the UK (and the US) actually get arrested for picking wild psilocybin mushrooms.
Great point about the PMI.

For rent growth, do you think I should use the home price appreciation rate or make a new rate? Right now rent goes up with inflation.
Unfortunately surfaces coated with this (or Vantablack) cannot be touched, the coatings that creates the effect are too delicate.

It's basically good for art projects and scientific applications.
From the website:

>Q. Can I paint my car / bike etc…

>A. NO - 3.0 is quite fragile and will just scratch off, it won’t weather well.
Also, numpy has about a 100x overhead door small arrays (10 or fewer elements).
I went into embedded systems.
If 20 hours a week is enough to live "normally", I think you'll find a whole lot of people choosing to work 50 hours per week to get to retirement in 10 years instead of 45. (At which point, the income provided by 20 hours/week will not have anywhere near the purchasing power that might allow it to be "enough" because so many households will have adults working a total of 50-100 hours per week, which will tend to out-compete households working only 20 or 40 hours per week.).

https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-si...
What other meaning of the word "or" is there?
Means vs. Medians vs. Modes from 1M+ trivia responses
A lot can be said about Israel, and this NSO stuff is extremely alarming. However, they also should get some credit as (one of?) the only countries in the Middle East where the laws don’t dictate that people be persecuted and/or killed for being homosexual.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Israel
I strongly prefer the Apple TV UI approach over all the rest.

The whole content recommendation view is contained withing the Apple TV application, instead of the home screen. The home screen gives me an unsullied grid of applications.

If I want to have the content recommendation view be my default, the settings gives me the option of defaulting to it instead of the home screen.
Right but I don't see how it's useful in this context given that rotations, reflections and translations of an object across the canvas can give you high MSE while retaining most of the original image.
If we assume that cryptocurrency mining is bad and alternatives like PoS are better then the act of building 1000 cryptocurrency miners wasted those resources way before they were destroyed.
Is there a large amount of natural gas to-home infrastructure outside of cities now? I suppose this will vary by region. The (admittedly, few) family members and friends I have who live rurally and use gas have propane tanks that are filled by truck, not buried gas pipes coming from the street.
Deepfakes, Deepfakes, Deepfakes lets nuance the conversation
Is this a research attempt for a product idea?
> “terrorism” originally exclusively denoted action by the State against its own subjects

Correct, in the French Revolution, I believe. There are a variety of definitions of terrorism. The common elements seem to be the (a) peacetime use (b) of violence (c) against non-combatants (d) as a political tool. There also seems to be an unspoken requirement that it occurred after the formation of modern states (otherwise almost all of the preceding human history was terrorism and the word gets normalized); the French Revolution is a useful line.

The NSA targets non-combatants (c) in peacetime (a). It does not use violence (b), though it does enable it (⅓b). It does not do so for domestic political aims (to any proven degree); the degree to which it does so abroad depends on where one draws the line between politics and geopolitics. (The CIA, in contrast, engages in all four overseas.)

When an organization that has done terrorism becomes a terrorist organization is another question.
Can't tell if you're serious or not. Decent humor is pretty easy to spot. If something is unclear it's probably not a good joke
You'd be shocked how infrequently law enforcement officers get investigated, let alone prosecuted, convicted or sent to prison for anything you just listed. That goes triple for lawyers, lawyers have sent innocent men to prison for 30+ years for pretending exculpatory evidence didn't exist and they don't even get asked to apologize because it could throw other convictions into doubt. They should be thrown into doubt, but the thought that a murderer or mob boss might go free (even if that lawyer has only ever prosecuted non-violent drug offenders) is so powerful that lawyers have to be caught in the act and seen by thousands before they'll even begin to consider looking into the activities of a prosecutor. Defense attorneys on the other hand tend to be under paid and overworked, increasing the odds of a false conviction.

Remember kids, the criminal justice system has a strong bias towards conviction if charges are filed, so don't talk to the police. You're only helping them build a nonsense case against you, even if they've got another suspect you never know when a rookie cop is going to decide that getting you on Jay walking is good for his numbers this month. Unless you personally witnessed a serious crime like assault, rape or murder, shut the fuck up.
Keep reading:

> At the same time, the company is legally obligated to enforce violation of copyrighted works licensed to them. There will soon come a time where hesitation is no longer possible.

They’re not showing restraint, they’re saying “we’d rather not destroy your life, but we can and will if you don’t comply.”
Would it make more sense to invert it and plot cumulative cost?

Rate of return in the results is basically the opportunity cost of your increased spend on the house. That can be compared to other possible investments.
To clarify, are you arguing that NSO Group have had a bigger impact on innocent people, suppression of speech, etc. than the NSA?

If so, I'm not sure I buy what you seem to be arguing, that "NSO case in India" and "It can be used to plant evidence" makes it anywhere near as bad as what the NSA has done/does. In my opinion this is exactly how a "poor-man's NSA" would look: What your money can buy from greedy corporations protected by nasty governments.

>legitimate opposition

Who decides what is legitimate though? It sounds like weasel words to me, just like "terrorists" (that get defined by those in power and then maybe later becomes revolutionists and heroes if they actually win). Going after Snowden, torture in Guantanamo, and using three letter agencies for industrial espionage is also "legitimate".
> 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 like cache lines and latency ("practical engineering constraint solving") that drive the best designs, and far ahead of things like "database normalization".

Database normalization is a tool to deal with correctness (avoiding data anomalirs) and flexibility, cache lines and latency deal with performance. Fast but wrong and/or brittle designs are no more “best” in general than correct and flexible but poorly-performing ones; though the exact balance between those two things differs between applications.
I only own one Tesla so I guess I don't win in that department.

Anyway, this was all before the subscription package. Things are not the same as they were in 2016 with the introduction of the 200/mo subscription. By saying "your cars have the hardware to do FSD" it means they're fitted with all the required accessories. If Tesla needs to give them a more powerful computer as a complementary upgrade once they purchase FSD, so be it. It doesn't make sense for Tesla to just ship out a bunch of the more powerful chips to people who never intend on using FSD. And like we've already covered, if you purchase FSD in full, the chip is entirely free.

I guess it comes down to whether you'd rather have a subscription or not. Either FSD remains only accessible in a "bulk purchase attached to the car" capacity, or Telsa figures out how to work the economics of adding in a subscription model. I tend to think this subscription model opens up FSD to more people than not having it, so I think it's a net positive.
Supposedly Wolf Launcher stole its code from some abandonware launcher, and is not open source. I'm wary of using it, personally.
Simple solution: just use "dumb phones" or burners

No non-open source "smart" phone is going to be secure enough. If you never store your data on your phone, you are safe from these hacks. Now you have to just protect from physical attacks :)
Brython: an implementation of Python 3 running in the browser
I like this thread.
I'm hoping to put together a tool to help catalog info from a specific class of vintage automobiles. The significant info is typically contained on a tag like this

https://www.forbbodiesonly.com/moparforum/threads/fender-tag...

I'd like to capture each item that is delimited by whitespace, convert to text, and store its position and line in a database.

The same code may appear more than once with different meaning, so position is important.

The tags are often different colors as well.

Anyone know which technology may be best or simplest to implement?

This is for a historical search function.
Yep, the Shield TV really does seem to have some of the best hardware and sort of "just works"

I'd normally just have a Linux box with Kodi, but once you try to get 4K HDR working, things start getting prickly. GPU and driver combos were a bit of a pain and even Windows had issues.
> but Googling just found 101 articles

This is just what Google does now.
Are you saying that the market, such as it is, is doing a good enough job of managing software vulnerabilities and their consequent breaches?
The good ol' "do as I say & not as I do" routine.
Plot twist: These are all real beaches but they no longer exist because of climate change.
To be honest, Apple never enforces that rule on third parties anyway.