jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It is tiring correcting your repeated inability to read:

> even if the Swedes could question Assange while he was in the UK....

There is no "even if" about it. The entire core of your current argument is baseless fiction:

"It is submitted on Julian Assange's behalf that it would be possible for me to interview him by way of Mutual Legal Assistance. This is not an appropriate course in Assange's case. The preliminary investigation is at an advanced stage and I consider that is necessary to interrogate Assange, in person, regarding the evidence in respect of the serious allegations made against him."

> The court examined this material...

No. The Swedish government did not provide any supporting materials for the allegations in its warrant, and neither Assange nor the court was given access to relevant evidence despite the defense repeatedly calling for it. If you think the burden of disproving he-said-she-said allegations based on secret evidence is reasonable and defendants have anything but an "extremely limited" ability to challenge accusations on the basis of fact, you may as well just tank the presumption of innocence and start championing military tribunals for the general public.

> You're clearly very angry with me for some reason

No. I pity you. What horrifies me is your inability to think, and your complete abandonment of the do-unto-others Christian and democratic principle that the legal system should be invoked in ways proportional to the accusation and bearing the public interest in mind. I'm appalled you fail to see these events as what they are: a disproportionate and punitive attack on public-interest journalism. And I am shocked at your repeated failure to understand the referenced passage in which the Swedish prosecutor flat-out admits THERE IS NOTHING LEGALLY STOPPING HER from accepting Assange's offers to cooperate in whatever way would not expose him to extradition to the United States.

Sweden could end this impass in a matter of hours. Your failure or refusal to realize this makes you an apologist for the abuse of power. But it doesn't matter, because at this point you have spent the last half-dozen posts arguing around the reasonability of the extradition instead of providing an example of a commensurate offense.
(118 comments as I write this and no one has used the word "profile"!?)

“The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.”

~Knuth (or maybe Hoare)

https://xkcd.com/1691/
He doesn't just reject the mainstream AAA titles like God of War though, but everything from heavy-physics-model IF like Hadean Lands to heavy-character-model IF like Blue Lacuna to consims like Europa Universalis to emotionally-driven immersive sims like Gone Home to... well, anything that isn't a verb selector triggering algorithmic character reactions.

I can't remember where I read it, but a critique of his work from... 5? years ago, was essentially "the dragon is already dead, but Crawford can't accept it because his sword didn't slay it." Generously, at some point he lost sight of the goal in favor of the tool. Less generously, he saw the holodeck, wanted specifically that, and came up with the tripartite dragon as the dog to wag.
Original study: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2021.6420...
I didn't vote but I wouldn't upvote a comment saying israel is doing good when they are a occupying power with first and second rate citizens. If they did good they would help the Palestinians first or equally, not let them die off.
Very interesting food for thought. Thanks.
Agreed.

I used to watch quite a few older and newer movies when it was a DVD service. Now, I just get all of their branded content shoved down my throat with little if any options beyond that. Search is inconsistent at best.

I've been thinking about canceling my subscription for a while now as I feel the value of Netflix just isn't there any more.
Guess I'm just out of the loop! Thanks for the link
Most things in life are not simplistic black/white decisions, whereby bad outcomes occurred because the people themselves were bad.

Doing anything results in trade-offs. Some trade-offs are worse than others, and some have horrible consequences, like deaths of many, but writing off the decision as a racist one implies malicious intent, which ignores the potentially real decisions that were being made.

For others reading this thread, parents seems to be referring to the Bengal Famine of 1943. Wiki has a decent summary, but it again demonstrates the circumstances and trade-offs that were made. Was it a good outcome? Famine and death certainly isn't. But was it done maliciously out of "racism"? Some scholars claim so, but often these are the same scholars who see everything through a lens of racism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943#1942%E2%...
It's not _quite_ meant specifically as a better Python, but it can play that role and there is every intention of making that something that has "product truth" to it. You can look forward to some concrete improvements along those lines this year, specifically in the notebooks tooling space and some library support!
Sorry, I meant the US ones are nothing like that. It was totally inaccurate. In the USA, all the farmers/ranchers know where the stuff is.

"Excuse me, we're looking for Sierra 7." "Yeah, it's down this road for a mile, then left on 127."

And the Soviets wouldn't have been fooled either. So they look like military installations.
The soviet setup for launch control is similar to the US - decentralised, manual actions all over the place to make it happen.

Visited a soviet silo just outside of Pervomais'k, Ukraine (thoroughly recommend a visit if you find yourself in that neck of the woods, you can sit atop a Satan missile and wave your cowboy hat until a burly Ukrainian tells you to get off before he shoots you) - it's a two-key system, with two buttons, on opposite sides of, well, a really tiny room. While one could reach both buttons and keys simultaneously, the idea was that the keys would be carried by separate people - however in practice, they both hung from a peg on the back of the chair, meaning that someone could have theoretically initiated a launch singlehandedly. Theoretically, because the other fun fact revealed was that most of the time they were nothing like launch ready, and perennially struggled with equipment failure.

Oh, and don't forget that the super-secret launch code for minuteman missiles across the US was... uh, 00000000, for several decades.
Statistics refers to the subject (usually), while a statistic has a specific meaning within statistics.
What is a successful career to you?
Please get us uBlock for Chrome on Android and iOS.
I appreciate the corrective upvote.

I also agree that the professional activist gig is rare and difficult to land, but that doesn't mean people don't try.

Pao is already making waves by cleaning up the "woman-hating mess" that is reddit. She's already gained hero status[0] within some circles for this lawsuit (sorry for the pay wall). It's hard to place a monetary value on securing yourself a place in the history books but that's what she's done, in 50 years her name will be listed among the brave women who fought for a better world.

Add in the human aspect of maybe not wanting to admit some personal failures and the lower bound of legitimacy needed to bring the suit isn't very high.

You seemed to be saying you couldn't see any possible motivation other than the legitimacy of the lawsuit, so I'm suggesting there are several beyond the obvious payout.

On Sandberg being establishment, I agree. But I don't think I agree that feminism in general or "professional activists" are anti-establishment.

[0] - http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/Ellen-Pao-like-An...
I forget that you have to hedge every comment on HN :-P
Of course there are not zero problems on Windows. I had a bunch of trouble when Windows 10 came out with a laptop I bought just before, I never got the touchpad working as expected. With Linux the touchpad works fine, but then yellow looks like mustard on the screen...

What I mean is: I can go to the store and buy a random thing, and I can just assume there will be a driver at all and my PC will find it.

I work for a company which manufactures industrial PCs with touch interfaces, and one thing we noticed with our X86 line is that we can just stop caring about drivers. Although everything down to the touch panel and the mainboard is custom, you can just throw a windows OR a Linux (Ubuntu) iso at it and it will work 99%. This is not about Windows vs. Linux, but about PnP vs. no PnP.
Not sure why you are getting downvoted, I want to know more about that too, that sounds outrageous (but not surprising)
I think their main point is that mathematical models, without connection to reality and logically tracing out the fundamentals of how and why people act, are dangerous in isolation. Statistics is useful, but statistics can lie. Having a conceptual framework of why people do things is valuable. Then add the mathematical models on top.
What I mean about ASN.1 is that if you have a field foo that's defined as

foo SEQUENCE { corge INTEGER, grault OBJECT IDENTIFIER }

you can't compatibly augment it with a new field quux as

foo SEQUENCE { corge INTEGER, grault OBJECT IDENTIFIER, quux OBJECT IDENTIFIER }

and it doesn't help you at all that grault and quux are both OBJECT IDENTIFIERs.

Which HTML tag names had collisions? I can't think of any at the moment, but admittedly I'm no HTML expert, though I've been reading HTML specs since HTML+ and before.

I'm more interested in problems not happening than on having someone to blame the problems on.
Start a tech meetup? That’s hard, but it’s also incredibly good for your visibility.

Even a medium size EU city should have a critical mass of developers by now.

Of course, it would be nicer if we just had decent employers in the first place.
UUOC is a pedantic ford-chevy argument.
My question was what would lead us to believe (from those reports) that they did try to have him swatted versus someone actually concerned making the call.

So your answer has 0 value.
You need to stop talking and start learning.
There is NO way to correctly employ corporal punishment. At all. Time and time again, hitting a child for misbehaving has proven to increase aggressive behavior and decrease self confidence. It also has the complete opposite effect as intended. I could go into the psychology of it, but as you are on Hacker News, you know how to use Google.

For that matter, the other two "liberal" methods you mentioned, shaming and time out don't work either. I believe what you are attempting to discredit is known as positive discipline. That traces its roots to Alfred Adler, with the date being 1964 when he first mentioned it. That's hardly liberal. However, if you actually study positive discipline, it's nothing more than taking the ideas of Dale Carnegie and applying them to children. And Carnegie freely admits his ideas were drawn from the Bible and other religious texts.

They are hardly liberal or conservative.
Since part of the allure was the need for "no passwords" in order to be simple, I doubt explaining SPF to novices is going to be a step forward.
You realize you broke the law and admitted to it.
I was thinking about implementing a posterous-like email system for calendaring, and was wondering how they authenticated the emails. I recall them getting "hacked" around launch and there being some TC article about how they responded swiftly by adding new security measures.

Just registering the "usual" smtp sender / relay and prompting the user before posting something from a different spot could help. I don't know enough about MX records yet, but matching up the domain and sending IP could be another good measure. How else can this be improved?
Thanks for the update, and for giving it a chance. I agree that the production values are pretty bad...

Good luck in your search. I've never heard of an ad-hoc implementation of assembly language before, but while we're talking about wanting to head for the hills... :)
"Of course, the raw text above won't suffice."

http://annieinfinite.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/then-a-m...
Yes, it would be slow and large. Because it's large, you'd get less memory in the same area. Another factor is that RAM and CPUs are usually on completely different dies to begin with, which are manufactured with somewhat different processes so you can't just copy and paste them onto the same chip.

Incidentally, this is what computers looked like 30 years ago. You could have a CPU with a bunch of address and data pins wired up to a RAM chip that would give you whatever address you wanted right away.

Loosely speaking, a modern computer still works the same way, but memory speeds haven't kept up with CPU speeds. So, to make our software run faster, we put layers of smaller, faster memory between the CPU and the larger, slower memory. But the hardware hides all of this from the software: you don't have to care, unless you want to optimize things. So we have registers, L1 cache, L2 cache, RAM, SSDs, HDDs, and the network. You can write a program today and all seven layers of caching might be mostly transparent, some more so than others.

A lot of this complexity is in the hardware, and other parts of it are in the OS. Application developers have it easy.
.md is the ccTLD for my country (Moldova), which got me excited and confused for a bit - was trying to find the connection with music in Eastern Europe. I'm not sure how to feel about such ccTLD abuse and conflating TLDs with file extensions in general.
I don't want a tool that I have to run as root and that is going to touch anything in /etc/nginx/.

I do want a tool using which I can do something like:

$ letsencrypt 'foo.bar.example.com'

which would spit out foo.bar.example.com.key, foo.bar.example.com.cert, and foo.bar.example.com.csr.

I'd also like to have:

$ letsencrypt --renew foo.bar.example.com

Which would re-generate all these certs. The main problem for me, just like for you, is that domain validation certs are not free (or at least somehow included in the price of the domain registration). This type of tool solves that.

If, on top of this tool, we also get something that lets a person new to ops autogenerate or even autodeploy an nginx vhost with TLS/SPDY support, awesome! But the ability to generate and renew certs from the command line, for free, is what I want and probably what you want too.
Linux real time scheduling (SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR) use a variation on this that approaches it from the other side.

Tasks in those two scheduling tasks will basically never be preempted by a lower priority task nor a task in any other scheduling class. However the system has an overall percentage limit on how much of the cpu tasks in these classes may consume. If they consume more than this limit, they will be preempted and non-RT tasks will run "for a while" before heading back to RT tasks.
The dispensers have a sponge and water bath. The glue has a unique and not unpleasant smell.
Exactly. They’ve learned from experience what happens.
And also, you'll need IP addresses for each subdomains hosted, which can rack up costs. Though most of "modern" browsers and OS support SNI, this is less of a problem now.
I downvoted you because you’re wrong and harmful.
It’s not just the engagement. It’s the publicity and brand awareness too. Every time the news wants to report on what trump said, they talk about and link to twitter.
as an anarchist, i can explain that none of us support government restrictions on speech, and i would like my enemies to be as loud as possible so i know who to target.
I think you should watch the speeches given at the event immediately prior to the rioters going to the capitol building and violently seizing it, including Trump's.

It's the nature of the things that you can always argue about whether a particular speech rises to the level of incitement. E.g., the words like "stir", "encourage", and "stimulate" from the definition are not black-and-white terms.

However, the actual sequence of events are a pretty strong argument for incitement. There's a simple and easy to follow implication of cause and effect here.

Also, remember, we're talking about his video after the violence broke out. If he didn't understand that his claims of election fraud before the riot would lead the riot, he must certainly have understood it during the riot.
> Clients are open-source, so you can see the code for e2e encryption.

Cool. Unfortunately the cases where it's applicable are too limited for my liking.

> Matrix.

Matrix is great, I just wish I had more luck onboarding my network onto it. I really enjoy using Element.
Do you think that he wouldn't have done what he has done if there was a wealth tax in the US?

I think the answer to this is a resounding Yes, he would not have done it.
Tesla and Musk is the perfect example of why a wealth tax on capital is insane.

Tesla market cap is 750 Billion, but the profit is 500 million, and the stock owners that haven't sold have realized $0 profit.

A 1% wealth tax on Musk's 200b ($1b) would be 4 times higher that the profit of the entire company.

Under the current system, the moment he cashes out any stock, he will have to pay taxes on his actual profit. The reason we income instead of wealth, is that wealth can go up and down without the owner seeing any benefit.
Wow, that's not a bad rate. Do you find the coverage adequate?
Thus driving that content to other sites where no differing opinions will be found to moderate the extreme positions on either side, thus assuring further polarization. The posturing and virtue signaling is idiotic.
No Lisp! And clearly written from a frame of mind that hasn't imagined much beyond the capabilities of C and Java.
>They are different things. Retail banks take risks with their money (if a lend doesn't pay off, they are the ones that pay for it), IBs take risks with other people's money.

When I buy stock in, say, Google or General Motors, whose money are they taking risks with? I didn't tell Google that I wanted them to put money into Uber, nor do I think it's a great idea. Too bad for me I guess.

And what do you mean "they pay for it"? Do you think when Joe Public defaults on his mortgage it comes out of the broker's bonus? No, the default risk is priced into every transaction the bank does. You and I and every other shareholder or bondholder pay for it.

Investing is investing.
Having worked at a couple of large companies where, unfortunately, incompetent managers were the norm, I'd wondered quite a bit as well how incompetent people get into positions of power.

I think one explanation is that the ability to rise within an organization (political skill) is orthogonal to the ability to be competent at your job role (technical skill). So you see a lot of VPs of engineering who have absolutely no clue how to build a product, and have never built anything of value, who rose through the ranks and got there because they know how to "work the system". Great VPs need to good at two very different things: politics, and their actual job, and for this reason they are rare.

This is of course no different from the reason why politicians are generally so terrible at their job. (Why Todd Akin, of "Legitimate Rape" fame, is on the House Committee for Science, Space and Technology, for example.)
Go is probably less controlled by Google than either C# by MS, or Java by Oracle.
To be fair, I didn't think evolution deniers were present on HN either.
While one thread is in the action of rotation other producers return right away from the offer. The possibility of starvation occurs if the same thread each time it retried, that buffer has advanced to the next rotation. If adding 100 byte messages to a 128 MB buffer that is greater than a 1 in a million chance on each rotation. To have this continue then the probabilities have to be multiplied for the number of times you expect it to happen. So for ultimate starvation that gets crazy very very quickly ;-) Do you see it as more likely than that?
The problem with statements like this is their total lack of balance.

What I mean is that because of Guantanamo you will have people like this going on the air at Russia TV claiming the US Government is a "criminal organization". Nevermind that you are hearing this from KGB sponsored Russia TV that will not discuss at any length things like genocide of over 1 milion chechens or murders ordered by Putin.

For me, it's a bit like someone in the 1930s going to a German Nazi sponsored radio saying how bad racism is in the USA while not thinking twice about anti-semitism of the Germany.

And then at the end of the day you really end up with people who think USA is horrible because of things like Guantanamo being totally prone to Russian propaganda. When Russia is so, so much worse.

The things aren't in perspective when you get rid of context.
I've done it as well with my parents, who love wine. At the shops I've been to, you buy the grape concentrate up front and they handle to process of making it up until bottling. Once the juice has fermented, you go in and they walk you through cleaning and sanitizing the bottles, filling them, corking them, and usually shrink-wrapping the tops. They provide all the supplies except the bottles themselves - customers bring their own, saved from buying wine the "normal" way.

Never seen a shop do ageing, so the wine will be noticeably "young". My parents like dryer and sharper white wines anyways (Pinot Grigio, Riesling, etc.) so it doesn't bother them. Also note that due to taxes and such, the cheapest wine you'll find commercially is C$11 a bottle, so even at C$20 / gallon you're getting a great deal if you like the resulting wines.

Personally, I quite like the wines my folks get through these shops - properly chilled they make a wonderfully refreshing beverage in the summer, and we'll often drink a few bottles on the back deck together when I go to see them.
It notes that it’s supported iPhone XS or later - what feature was added to the XS that is not in the X? When Apple names the “pro” model like this does it mean that the XR from the same generation is not supported?
GS is the backend for Apple Card. Is it also the backend for Apple Pay? I don't think I've seen any evidence of that. I also don't see why Apple would need GS for that. Each bank needs to support Apple Pay, and Apple likely just integrates directly with Visa, Mastercard, Amex, etc.
Of course there is. It depends on who might know you're on a certain website for example. My wife vs my best bud for example. One would hold me a lot more to account for some websites for example whereas my buddy couldn't care less.
My understanding is the growth in PhD holders far outstripped the slots they could fill in Academia in the US sometime around 1970. Why would you want to put yourself into such an oversupplied labor market?

I assume your talents can be far better used in the private or government sectors.

Fellow HN users: Am I mistaken?
Transfusions seem unlikely to work at this point based on evidence to date, probably because the factors involved are very short-lived. E.g. transfusions failed to move the needle in mice:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4215333/

There is a human trial for transfusion of young blood to Alzheimer's patients but this is probably not going to tell us much, because it is so specific, and because the mouse transfusions didn't work.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329831.400-young-blo...
Does this Starbucks unethical? Because that's how they sell me coffee.