skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a curiousity, is “far left” and “liberal” even related? Seems like the far left and far right are two sides to the same totalitarian coin. Liberal implies a respect for the freedom of individuals while “far left” puts the collective over the rights of the individual. The word liberal has lost its meaning. The far left (and far right) is incompatible with freedom. Cases in point: Venezuela, Cuba, the Soviet Union. The far left closer to fascism than liberalism.

http://thedailyjournalist.com/thethinker/fascism-is-far-left...
But then... is he really fearing for his life? Is it really about him knowing secrets or him trying to avoid the rape charges in Sweden?
> That every job currently requires ~40 hours a week to perform is, objectively, a ludicrous claim to make.

And that's not what I was saying. I was simply suggesting that there might be some jobs where 40 hours a week is needed, since, as I said explicitly, how many hours is required depends on the job. Therefore the blanket statement the post I responded to made about what a proper "work ethic" is, was way too strong.
This is such a contrasting comment I am curious if you remember how you consumed information back then to i.e. develop admiration for the whistleblowers, and retain the political operative narrative that Obama was somehow sympathetic and good to these causes.
The beauty of Blockbuster is that you don’t have to! Thanks to the First Sale Doctrine, in the US, you don’t need permission from the copyright holder to loan out legal physical copies of copyright content.

The reasons “rental copies” exist is because they were more expensive versions that were available early so the rental stores could have them before they were for sale.

But it was (and I guess in rural Alaska maybe still is) perfectly viable to build a rental outfit based solely on retail copies of movies.
Hes in London, do you mean to smuggle him to another embassy of a South American state in London?
Plus, the UN's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has also found that he is in arbitrary detention... in 2016. The UK has conveniently ignored this breach of human rights.

Whatever Assange did or didn't do, and whatever this media and political spectacle is, it isn't justice.
Syntactically, those are things that could have been implemented as operators, but aren't, they're just LOOP keywords; lots of functions take keyword arguments (edit: even if LOOP's are a little different from &key parameters). LOOP avoids using unquoted lists for things other than calling operators.

edit: Oh, right, destructuring, too! I guess that also counts.

Out of curiosity, how would you feel about a macro like this (ignoring that it
doesn't enforce any keyword order)?

(defmacro for (var &key = (then =) while do)
`(do ((,var ,= ,then))
((not ,while))
,do))
This is the common response from proponents of LSD. To them, it's never the LSD, and instead the adverse reaction must be because the person had a mind that was predisposed to some sort of mental illness.

Even if it's true that someone has some kind of latent / dormant condition that is ultimately triggered by the LSD, then the act of taking the LSD itself was the catalyst, and the person would have been far better off not ever having taken the drug.

The drug is illegal, and the argument growing up was that the "government was suppressing free thought" or whatever nonsense was being pushed, but the reality is that such a drug is dangerous and absolutely does hurt people. Whether connected to a predisposition of mental illness or not, it's not a hard connection and people should be extra cautious when considering whether to engage in such behavior.
I mean: what would an answer even look like? At what point would questioners be able to say "Yes. That's it. That's the nature of consciousness!"? What would constitute even a partial answer?
You don't need contracts with Hollywood; you can just buy the discs--although my understanding is that at least the big renters did have deals of various sorts. The article says that the Alaska Blockbuster stores, which were owned by someone else, were just slowly failing. This isn't a case of successful stores being shut down because a parent company as a whole failed.
Hunting for fossils in the quirks of language
Wasn't NetBSD 8 supposed to have zfs? Last time I read something about it, it sounded like it was practically finished. But the release notes do not mention it at all.
If I believe that aliens exist somewhere in the universe, is that unscientific?
Agreed. And yet: some nation-scale crimes are not that far in the past (or are being committed right now). On a tangent, it is also interesting to reflect what our children will think of our times when they’ve grown up. Will they e.g., see our lack of action on climate change as moral failure? Or even more interesting: will they see failure where we don’t even see an issue nowadays?
You are engaging, right now, in philosophical meditation on the nature of consciousness.

You can't reject the premise that we are automatons outright just by saying so. You're standing on the prow of a MASSIVE philosophical ship of people arguing exactly the same... But just next to you is an equally large ship of people arguing the opposite.

Nobody has been able to prove conclusively one way or the other whether or not people are automatons. Nobody has been able to conclude that consciousness is even real. This is just "I think, therefore I am." Maybe it feels good, but it's just another philosophical theory. There's many others.

If you have no interest in participating in them that's fine, but you are participating anyway :p
Obama was not sympathetic to these causes. That's why it would have gained him so much respect from me.

I posted the quote in another reply, so sorry for repeating it, but: "I disagree with what you are saying, but will defend to the death your right to say it."

This value is probably the most important to me, and it is something that I think is fundamentally American. I would have loved to see Obama exhibit it.
When you basically own the market you are active in the rules change for any company. Because with that kind of power you can easily force out any competition and then switch into neutral and coast.

And normally I had to endlessly argue with people about why competition is good. But now you have an excellent example in AMD vs. Intel where after years of stagnation and no price drop in sight Intel was persuaded into offering more cores at lower price by the simple fact that they suddenly had competition.
I will believe it when I see it.
Wow that was a lot of plug-ins to disable. Took me a while. It's shocking how they left enabled by default.

> disable focus stealing in your window manager

Can you expand more on this. Two issues I have is:

- Launching IntelliJ and another app simultaneously would pop IJ on top. Very indicative of how Windows platform works. Basically not an issue as I launch it like once a month.

- Saving/building something would switch focus to Messages panel. Clicking on item in project view opens a file, but typing still happens on project view panel...
> Why do web browser developers feel that "run existing C++ code in a web page" is the most important thing facing the web?

Well, not only browser developers. Often the corporate higher ups just suddenly want things like being able to run C++ based product in a web browser. I'd also rather use a native application, but others don't seem to always agree.

> why would I want the overhead of a WASM VM on such a device?

For example for rapid prototyping or as a way to safely provide plugins at runtime on the device without requiring to flash firmware (or more expensive, larger flash chip). Anyways, there'd be no VM (or GC) overhead during execution other than bounds checks, because you can just compile WebAssembly into native in one go.

> You won't fit V8 on it.

Why would you need V8? You'd just need something that can read WebAssembly bytecode, allocate registers and emit platform native assembler. I think direct 1-1 stack machine mapping codegen could be made in few tens of kB. A bit more for basic register allocation.
Test Lic
Show HN: Gitleaks v1.0.0 - Audit git repos for secrets
Gitleaks v1.0.0 introduces major performance gains, cleaner ui, and some new features.

https://github.com/zricethezav/gitleaks/releases/tag/v1.0.0
Comparing to info-wars is either really ill-informed or an act of rhetoric. I see nothing in this piece even remotely on the level info-wars (e.g. claiming Sandy Hook was staged).
Why do we discontinue vaccines for "eradicated" diseases? Is it just to save money? Did the vaccine have side effects that stop being worth it? On the other hand, besides protection from bioterrorism, can a vaccine provide some benefit in protecting against related diseases?
Hmm sample size is too low to draw conclusions. 3 vs 8 over several years? Ehh.

But you're probably right for other reasons. He was a bit of an authoritarian despite talking like a cuddly bear. His relationship with the intelligence community is probably what allowed him to spy on the Trump campaign and more or less keep it on the down low for a while.
Your comment is less an incisive analysis of the article than a coat rack to hang a bunch of loosely-related ad hominem attacks on the author along with unsubstantiated and unbelievable attempts to cast doubt on the article's thesis.

Namely that Assange is a political prisoner, likely to be transferred from eight years of effective imprisonment in the embassy to an actual prison, and to remain imprisoned for a long time, all without being charged of any serious crime.
I don't remember how much it carried over to the DVD era, but there was a period when typical VHS tapes were priced very high and the expectation was that individuals would just rent them but some, like certain Disney films, were "priced to own" on the assumption they were the sort of movie which could be a Christmas stocking stuffer.

I think some of the big chains also had deals with the studios where they'd get a bunch of discs for a reduced price and paid a revenue percentage or something like that.
The numeric value of Unicode codepoints does match ASCII for codepoints < 127. However, Unicode codepoint numeric order is not collation order. Collation order isn't encoding-specific, it's locale (language)-specific.

My current locale is en_US.UTF-8; if I changed that to a different locale ending with ".UTF-8", the codepoint values haven't changed (still Unicode), and the encodings of them haven't changed (still UTF-8), but the collation order might have.

One can observe this change even without getting exotic. In the "C" or "POSIX" locales (synonyms), the ASCII values sort in ASCII numeric order ("ABC..XYZ...abc...xyz"), but in "en_US", they sort "aAbBcC...xXyYzZ" (because that's what a native American English speaker would expect, if they're not familiar with ASCII).
A lot of things in this article have made me wish for some sort of literary brutalism movement. Even now, after second read, I'm not exactly sure what the purpose of the article was, or the author's goal in me reading it. It's also littered with a bunch of commad and parenthesised asides that I didn't get the point of.

Not that I didn't find it interesting, just, I feel it could have gotten the job done cleaner.
No one complains?

I'm on mobile, but I'm just going to assert that I could pull up 50+ articles published in mainstream news organizations criticizing the US military industrial complex in the last 10 years alone.

Eisenhower is quoted endlessly.

Everyone complains. The problem is taking the next step.
What about if you disable the machines video cameras for a while, as a punishment? Do you think it could learn to fear that?

You and I can understand death without actually having experienced it. Surely a machine could too.
Someone does not need to have a "family history of mental disorders" to become an acid casualty. Some people simply have a bad reaction to the chemical and there isn't a reliable way of knowing in advance how a person might react to it.
Understand the “double spending problem” in a simple article
That’s the point - there are other, slower, safer means to effect positive change on your mind that don’t run the risk of fucking up your brain from some random effect you had no way of predicting. The point is that it’s effects are powerful, which is why there is finally a revival into what exactly is happening.
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> We're drastically changed our environment and increased our prosperity over the past few centuries. It would be amazing if our moral intuition were invariant in the face of changing conditions!

This is all correct, which is why I said "intuitionism alone". The reason is the absence of a clear causal connection: our (meaning the general public's) moral intuitions have developed in tandem with political and economic progress, not as a cause or purely as a consequence of it. Combined with the massive volume of political and ethical theory produced shortly before the emergence of the world's first liberal democracies, I'm inclined to believe that the causal arrow goes in the other direction than the one you suggest.
The lasting message will be that if, as a private person, you help people reveal State Secrets of the most powerful countries on Earth --especially including evidence of war crimes, illegal spying, and assorted abuses of power-- you will be hounded and end up a forced recluse, tortured prisoner, and dead. The widening use of drones is likely to provide evil politicians with the shortcut they generally desire.

Could Assange have organized Wikileaks and gotten such impact as he did while remaining safely anonymous? he must have known he was going to make countless enemies in seats of extraordinary power.

[added] My own lesson from this thread is that Assange is amazingly polarizing in this forum, and there is more bile here than I have ever witnessed in HN (almost half of the comments are greyed out at the moment). Much of it seems driven by political inclination rather than reasoned discussion, driven by the substrate of the government abuses of power he set out to disrupt.
and What? How does your parents immigration affect US history? Do you think paying for true cost of slavery means you will have to give up your house or bank account?
Because he's wanted by the US?
You taught me that there's more than one type of DBA. It took me 6 years to learn that. Until that point I thought there was only one type of DBA and they did ALL the DBA things. I now use the chart you showed in the Senior DBA class to help guide the structure of our company in a way that makes sense for everyone. Seriously, a non-technical thing!

- Chris
Explanation of Ploutonion at Hierapolis, “the Gates to Hell”
Let’s say it cost $5 per person to vaccinate against smallpox. That’s well over $1 billion to vaccinate all Americans against a disease that no longer exists. Surely we could do something more useful with that money. Maybe vaccinate against a disease people can still catch.
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Yes, I suppose I've gotten sucked into a philosophical argument. :-)

My contention is that consciousness is Sagan's dragon in the garage though: the reason nobody's been able to prove or disprove its existence is that it's not a concept amenable to disproof, as it's possible to infinitely propose some gap between what neuroscience tells us and what we "feel", even though there's no practical necessity that we acknowledge this gap even exists or needs explaining.

There is an infinite universe of things we could believe without contradiction, but we tend not to believe the vast majority of them. Why should we believe in consciousness?
That isn't how prosecution for high crimes works these days.

No nation exerts so much effort recovering someone with a bench warrant for failure to appear unless there's an empty cell in a black site with your name on the door. They even tried playing the "...but he's a filthy rapist!" card to turn the public against him. It's disgusting.

There are actual murderers on the lam who aren't being pursued as aggressively as this. They want him this badly and they don't even have any substantial charges to bring. It's an unfair fight by any measure.
> Trees, graphs?

Easily represented as a vertices-array and an edges-array. It's conventional to index the (directed) edges to optimize iteration over all edges from a given vertice. If you're being "sloppy", you can also represent edges as vector<vector<int>> (one array of destinations per source). This is more convenient but comes with the slight disadvantage that these arrays are physically separated (for example, you'll need two nested loops instead of only one to iterate over all edges).
As a matter of post-SLA curiousity, what is in the status line?
I don’t understand this common response at all.

If I prescribe penicillin to a patient with a pcn allergy, the fact that I “uncovered an underlying flaw” is irrelevant. Pcn is dangerous to them and should not be prescribed to them.

This is true, in one sense or another, of the majority of adverse effects people have from medications given in therapeutic ranges. It’s basically what having an adverse effect -means-.

It doesn’t mean that medication shouldn’t be given when appropriate, but it’s not a rationale for deflecting attention from the risks of the medication.
We can't have nice things because non-enterprise historically (on the whole) will spend --zero-- dollars for software they use.
> the requirement to have to stop or make a special trip to fill up with gas every time they get empty is a disincentive to purchase combustion vehicles

Not really, since this is a requirement of electric vehicles, too.

> the fact that it's already "full" and ready to go every morning can be seen as a major advantage.

That's not a fact but a speculation. It requires infrastructure at every vehicle owner's home (including adjacent, dedicated parking for every such vehicle!) that does not yet exist, for this to be true. (Substitute/add "workplace" for "home" may be slightly more likely but not for any specific vehicle).

A combustion vehicle owner could have similar infrastructure installed for liquid fuel, or hire a service to top vehicles off at night. It's too expensive, so "nobody" does it.

Is there even data that shows what proportion of commuters actually park in their garage, carport, or somewhere similarly electricity-adjacent?]
We use different Trello Boards for different projects.

We use it in very minimalistic way:

3 Lists - To Do, Doing, Done.

I manage projects so I add tickets and tag the person who has to do it.

If needed I add due date.

I put a watch on 'Done' list and once something is there I review it out.
Journalists love to argue that journalists should enjoy special first amendment rights, and a central theme of OP is the government prosecuting whistleblowers but not the media companies who publish the info. Even the most Snowden friendly outlets seem to write like that. That seems super weird. The exceptions should be due to public interest, not due to being a newspaper.
who's trying to eat usb3 ?
You should read up on the e-way bill system that has been introduced. It is a total nightmare. Do you realise that under this law even ordinary citizens have to generate e-way bills if they transport anything valued at over Rs.50,000 in their own vehicle?! Technically you can be help liable even if you have a laptop or even a phone valued at over Rs.50K in Total - that is, if the value of the goods totals upto Rs.50,000. This is rife for abuse.
> That the UK might (based on no evidence presented in this article) be wrangling to convict Assange under contempt statutes, because, I don't know, the UK is super corrupt and out to get Assange.

The UK police basically besieged the embassy for 8 years, spending literal millions of GBP to do so[1].
The prosecution already talked about "contempt of court"[2]. But yeah, it's all in Greenwald's and Assange's head.

As for "corruption" in the UK, Greenwald might be a bit biased[3]. If your partner is essentially taken into Sippenhaft to bully you, you might be too.
And it's not like the UK even extradites it's own citizens to the US, so why would Assange have any reason to worry given he is not even an UK citizen?[4]

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31159594

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/world/europe/julian-assan...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/18/glenn-greenwal...

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/nov/14/amber-rudd-appro...
By way of XPath. I don't disagree but--that's stupid because of... using XML at all? Complications of altering/documenting ad hoc taxonomies? Mixing paradigms under a unified syntax? Something else?
> before they were for sale

Right, I bet a substantial pct of customers would just buy the dvd outright these days, if they can just get it from retail
Our team uses Kanban just as a way to keep track of all the tasks we have and see what anyone of us is working at a given time. It's then up to the project manager to distill that info and distribute it to whoever needs to know. As a developer, I don't do anything but switch what I'm working on
If you google esports investors, you can find plenty of people who are investing in the space, who often are also willing to be advisors. Here is a list here: http://deepspacevc.com/who-is-investing-in-esports-startups/
Not only did Apple return to relevancy during ballmersoft but they completely surpassed Microsoft in revenue and profits. And it was in an industry that Microsoft had every tool necessary (tech, talent pool, supplier and carrier relationships, ip portfolio) to excel in (other than good leadership).
I’ve seen a friend become semi dependent and kinda disassociated from reality after multiple times a week use of various research chemical psychedelics. It seemed to bring out some underlying bipolar like condition.

Anyway; also a strong proponent, but I’ve seen the potential harm as well. On the balance it seems worthwhile for many people, and good for many people to try a little LSD at least once.
Sounds like your friend decided to optimize his medical recommendations based on return business and has found reasons to blame the patients as a justification for operating on business metrics. The patients are probably doing the same thing, who needs to pay a doctor to tell them to diet and excercise?
Yup. I upgraded to a slightly more expensive with 1Gbps down just to make the pain happen only every two years as opposed to one. :)

But still it seems to be the best choice if you plan ahead to suffer just once a year.
So CS should get a job at tooling companies because that's where deep things are done ?
This has been my experience as well. Tight-knit communities do not age very well. They're almost cabalistic.
It gets real when you're hungry, when your stomach/gut is in command.
It makes me profoundly sad how the world (or at least my world, mostly far left, liberal, educated, etc.) has turned so hard against Julian Assange. He's a hero in every sense of the word.

If this Assange guy hadn’t gone all-​in on supporting Trump, Russia, & co., he would still have a broad base of support among liberal Americans—many of the same people who lobbied for Chelsea Manning’s release. Epic bad strategy on his part.

Also, beyond partisan alignment, another reason I view him more dimly than I used to is his habit of dumping entire inboxes. Compare to something like the Panama papers that was vetted by journalists...
You should know that the e-way bill system is applicable to end customers as well - if the value of goods that you are transporting in your private vehicle exceeds Rs.50,000, you are liable to get an E-way bill prepared! Think I am joking? See this:
https://cleartax.in/s/eway-bill-end-consumer/
"its own citizens", now for the issue of extradition, I'm not sure it even counts as an extradition in the case of an embassy (though theoretically at first glance it would count)