skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> These results suggest that an emperor relied on his military for support.

The is obvious to even the laziest Roman history reader. The emperors knew this well, and bankrupted the state to shower donatives on troops.

Now you know one of the reasons the army is forbidden from being deployed on US soil. The founders understood the risk of a military dynasty taking over.
desktop != laptop.
It is a standard clause in most extradition treaties: if country A extradites person X to country B for a specific crime, country B is not allowed to to extradite person X to a third country, or even try them for a different crime (except crimes committed after extradition).
Facebook did not get any money for Cambridge Analytica's use of their API.
"I'm calling your bluff, I don't think you have any counter-arguments to the article and you're leading with your best argument already: nitpicking one paragraph."

No, i'm just not bothering. Really.

For example: It quotes vic gundotra for why android happened, a man who literally was not at Google until after Android was released.
(and who Andy Rubin definitely did not give a shit about or chat with until much much later. Vic may have left an SVP, but he did not come in as one)

"But we had this discussion before and I pointed out that Google, an online services provider with zero mobile experience and no name recognition had a very poor chance of convincing manufacturers to go for their unproven, inferior to pretty much anything OS (including Symbian and Blackberry). They might as well have just licensed Windows."

It was definitely not inferior, but i'll ignore your opinion on this one and stick with the substance.

You conflate two pieces, one of which mattered, and one of which didn't:
"Google not charging a license for the OS and making it open source must have been a big part of what convinced them to pick Android instead. It's just very logical that they would be swayed by price and the possibility of changing Android if they wanted to."

The not charging was the main part of it (they actually mostly expect it to end up saving their low end from licensing fees), and yes, customization mattered. But ability for partners to have source is completely orthogonal to open sourcing.

In fact, most of the partners were heavily against open sourcing it, because they felt it would cause them to lose their value add. They also didn't want to have to deal with the compliance aspects of android OSS licensing even a little bit! They were also strongly against having to non assert patents.

I spent about a year of my life convincing htc and others it would be okay for them if we open source d it. (As mentioned elsewhere, because Andy wanted to help the world, not because it was critical to Google strategy). In fact, the open source release almost didn't happen at the same time as the SDK release, and was considered fairly secondary. The only critical piece was the compliance source.

So again, I don't know why everyone is so stuck on the open source. Closed source worked fine for partners, and still does. It's even what they want.

I'm going to state definitively a thing that is as true now as it was then:
The hardware manufacturers do not give a crap about Android being open source. They did not care then. They still don't care.

In fact, they still see it as a net negative. They want to be able to develop with Google in private branches that the other hardware manufacturers can't see.

I'm not sure why this is so provocative to people. It's not like you see these hardware manufacturers running around trying to be pillars of the OSS community.

In any case, I've said more than enough about this multiple times and I'm not going to spend more of a weekend arguing about this. You are welcome to rewrite history. Someday, I hope you are successful enough to experience this as well.
The difference is that penicillin allergies can only be triggered by penicillin (or maybe penicillin-adjacent analogues). Mental illnesses and psychedelics don't work the same way.

Psychedelics bring these issues to the forefront, but they don't necessarily cause mental health issues, as the same issues could happen without LSD. I understand what you're trying to express with your example of penicillin, but it's not the same thing.

In my opinion, it would be more accurate to compare psychedelic drugs to activities like meditation and fasting, which also have a risk of anxiety, discomfort, and bringing out dormant mental health issues in some people.
Current Lack of Real Property Rights on Celestial Bodies Will Run into Problems
I'm not sure how many copies on hand a rental store would need, but Hollywood has tried to block rental companies from buying in bulk for years. RedBox was sending employees out with gift cards to buy up enough stock. There were some lawsuits against retailers by Hollywood outfits for selling too many to single buyers.
Oh, it goes further than that. :-)

The assumption that data is something to be maintained internally, at best hidden behind an interface (a procedural one) and at worst "exposed" is so ingrained that it's hard to think of it any other way.

However, why can't we have "data" as the interface? The WWW and REST show that we can, and that it works quite swimmingly. With a REST interface you expose a "data" interface (resources that you can GET, PUT, DELETE, POST), but these resources may be implemented procedurally internally, the client has no way of knowing.
For profit!

You know what's better than selling an expansive drug for a deadly diseases?

Selling an expansive drug for a deadly disease that no longer exists!

This way, you get profits without the potential lawsuits from patients, of having to bother with stupid things like efficiency or unexpected side effects.

Even better: your customer is the US government - the same customers that buy F-35 flying turkeys.

I thought fearmongering during the various influenza fears until the governements stockpiled oseltamivir (tamiflu) was brilliant. But this is pure genius!!
the only fact here is that he works with RT. rest is just random opinions of random people.
"The only way to make it work, to convince carriers and fight Apple, was to keep it open source. Or to sign it away to the carriers :)."

Again, it's simply not. You are confusing having access to source with being open source. The partner were happy with closed source.

They did care somewhat that they had source. They definitely did not care if anyone else did, and didn't want anyone else to.

"If you're curious about the story there's a good book with all the behind the curtain details: Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution."

I literally was in the room, so i don't need the book :)
Done! The counter now resets on tab switches.
Couldnt upvote this more. Imagine sitation in which you drive on highway and on the other side of median you see a car crashed with people burning inside. You drive by without stopping because pulling over on highway, leaving unatended cr and jaywalking across highway lanes is illawful. What kind of society one would live if we would never engage in any action because of blank asumption that eventual parsonal liability outweights our nobility.
Great stuff. Will use it for my next launch.
How do you reconcile that when using a proxy to search, like DDG with the `g!` flag?
Assange now supports Vladimir Putin over the US, and there's no amount of whatabouting that can defend Putin's actions.

(And I hope you're aware that Assange isn't American!)
It's tempting to take this point of view, especially when it's your own ancestors that transgressed. But it's also important to realize when, generations later, the victims of those transgressions are still feeling their impact. It's a touchy subject and we have to guard against the language we use to talk about these things. We can't talk about sins or blame---no one is to blame for the actions of their ancestors. But I don't think it's out the question to say that those who's families benefited from exploiting or hurting others have a responsibility to make reasonable accommodations that help remedy current legacies of those misdeeds. What constitutes reasonable, of course, is debatable, but the responsibility, to me, isn't.
If one can inherit one's ancestors' wealth and privilege, then surely the same should apply to their sins to some extent. The asymmetry is problematic.
There's also a seemingly infinite gap between what quantum mechanics tells us and how the universe seems to function at our level of perception. Do you also think that there's no practical necessity in trying to explain the gap?

The problem I have is that you are assuming that we've learned all we need to learn about consciousness and that no more questions will yield useful results. Perhaps if we were devoting more time to philosophizing about consciousness than curing diseases, for example, I would agree that we're wasting our time. But I don't have any reason to believe that there's nothing more to consciousness that can be knowable. Besides, we've only been seriously studying the brain for the last century. It would be a remarkable stroke of luck that we'd have figured out consciousness by now.

A satisfactory answer for consciousness could be that there is some fundamental law to the universe that matter, when configured correctly, produces conscious experience at varying degrees. The reason that could be satisfactory is that that path of questions would be fully followed back to the more fundamental questions about existence in general; even if 1000 years go by and we still conclude that the universe is indeed irrational, that means that we'd have answered most or all the rational questions we have about consciousness, among other things. Gravity, for instance, is usually not accounted for in chemistry because, at that level of granularity, its effects are irrelevant. At a larger level, it's a different story. Now I'm not saying that gravity is a direct analogy to consciousness, but of course we could stop at our current understanding of gravity because there's some infinite gap between the how and the why. We don't have anything else to learn there, right?
Sure, but those code points are arbitrary. For instance in German languages, you may want a-z to include umlauted vowels, or you may not. That's a locale specific setting, even though the umlauted characters come well outside of the range of ascii a to z.
I am awed every time I think that we have eradicated a disease.

It’s just such a “the future is now” thing. I mean, it was 1980, but still.
Worth noting that Brexit spiked Rep of Ireland passport applications given that everyone in Northern Ireland is eligible.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/brexit-ai...
I love that the subtitle gives the answer.
> human consciousness is founded on the ability to interpret analogies

That's a scary thought, because at least anecdotally it feels like run more and more often into people who can't handle analogies, and aren't even trying. It's like someone who can't digest food not because of something to do with their stomach, more like because they put it in an envelope or in a drawer.

That is, so often the response to an analogy is a difference between the two elements of it being pointed out, any difference at all is supposed to suffice to "refute" it. As if there being a difference was not implied anyway (it makes no sense to "compare" two things that are 100% the same), as if the areas of difference necessarily said something about the point of the analogy.

"The mind is a flame to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled", maybe so it is for consciousness. We take it for granted that we ill remain conscious now that our "species" achieved it once and for all, that we simply become it automagically because the "is a member of conscious species" flag is set in some invisible book... but since it doesn't require consciousness to imitate words and actions and operate machinery, we very well could loose it before we notice something is wrong.
The warrant was only withdrawn because without being able to interview Assange, the investigators cannot move forward. They have also reserved the right to reopen the case should Assange return to Sweden before the statute of limitations expires in 2020.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/may/19/swedish-prosec...
The Intercept has a lot of issues but Infowars is a whole other type of disgusting thing.
Just like OS concepts like sockets/files/pipes and how clang/ld/dyld actually works.
> I can’t see how a moral person could stand by his decisions, honestly.

I feel this way about anyone who attempts to deflect the USA from scrutiny, with regards to the war crimes it has flagrantly committed in the time that Wikileaks has become relevant. It seems that the USA can do no harm when it comes to war-fighting, and the American public remain, as ever, wilfully ignorant of the crimes being committed in their name - and for which therefore, they bear responsibility.

Without people such as Assange willing to stand up and decry these heinous acts of inhumanity being committed by a government hell-bent on maintaining the social fallacy that it is a "wholesale rights defender", when nothing could be further from the truth, there would be a whole lot more offences against innocent people occurring.

The USA and its allies have been wilfully destroying civilisation around the world, for decades. We need more people like Assange who are willing to stand up and point this out, and most important of all, the world needs Americans to take their heads out of the sand and realise that their nation is in fact a wholesale exporter of death and destruction, and you are paying for it.

Incidentally: The fact that Putin is right about Americas crimes, doesn't mean that wanting to do something about America's crimes immediately aligns oneself with Putin. That is just smear tactics and vitriol.

What's important is the statistics: one bomb dropped every 18 minutes, mostly on innocent people, murdering them - for the last 3 decades.
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

It's Carl Sagan, apparently.
Maybe instead of "investigating" data companies, just realize that data companies' sole purpose is to profit off violating user's privacy? I mean it says it right there in the name, no investigation required. If a company uses data for anything else than providing legitimate service to its user, it should be kicked off the platform.
He's not. This is not a piece of reportage, it's an op-ed half-heartedly masquerading as such. We have regular 40123 comment threads dissecting the potential biases of actual reporting from the New York Times and other news outlets. This thing is almost completely overt, it seems silly and weird to ponder whether some subtle lean or scale-tipping can be gleaned in it.
It's a reference to cipher from a Borges story:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel
Unless that country happens to now currently be a part of the USA, it has no relevance.
> Why should we believe in consciousness?

Because if it didn't (somehow) exist you couldn't ask that question.

The word "consciousness" is a synonym for "now".
It's a genuine scientific question: adding a useless feature slows down NN training, but how much? Is the impact as negligible as can be expected?

There's no reason to spend lots of brain cycles on low-value theory and possibly wrong estimates instead of lots of GPU cycles on a conclusive experiment.
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Is this related to the i9 Macbook Pro overheating?
And tslint ... <-- does not work so great on my vscode for some reason.

(mostly looking for interesting stories... out of the closet)
Rockets landing themselves all backwards is pretty amazing no matter how often I see it.

Rockets don't do that.....
Did you actually read the article? Amazon's Fire OS could have been a very successful OS. If only it wasn't cut off from every API Google has to offer. And OEMs weren't blocked by Google from using it under threat that they will also be cut off.

Alibaba's Aliyun OS would likely have been a successful OS. If it wasn't in the same situation as Amazon where no OEM would touch it and the OS itself wasn't cut off from anything Google.

How is the removal of these artificial limitations "handicapping" Android? Wait, don't answer.

So my good sir, you are either a troll, or simply unwilling/unable to understand the issue. Reading the article would have answered every question you pretend to want the answer to.

Maybe if Google banned you from Gmail because you have an email address with the competition you would understand the situation better.
Are you so sure all these "leakers" aren't actually intelligence operations? Particularly Snowden. Didn't anyone else sense how stage managed it felt? I never bought the act, but it was a good act tho.

Strategically I think the limited hangout / power projection has utility: you get to watch who reaches for encrypted apps once they know, selectors "self-select" has to increase signal/noise ratio; and you get to start a debate about "privacy" which ultimately ends up targeting the tech companies (which it is in state interest to have leverage on, but it also works for tech companies because they get to be the "saviours of the people" when of course they are also collection partners); and you get to say "our intelligence services have been crippled" and ask for more money and legislation, particularly through the secret courts.

To me, "Operation Snowden" was about strengthening US intelligence capability/posture, not weakening it. But of course, for public consumption, he must be called a traitor. I think for that reason, because he sacrificed himself to this narrative, he truly is a patriot, but just not for the reason most people think. :)

As for Assange, I think the guy is a fraud. Or at the very least an idiot who sacrificed what may have been a platform for reform / awareness for his own ego / sickness. Sad. A waste. That is all. :)
> if secret constitutional abuses are happening/begin to happen

Have you heard about an organization called ICE that illegally locked children inside office buildings and strip centers?
Well, one other phenomenon about Gethan is that they've never had a war, so it might be easier to get away with there. :)
In this case, it sounds like CH is using publicly available data only. That doesn't sound like a violation of user privacy, unless Facebook is misleading users about what portions of their information are publicly available.
They do pull out battery life estimations when it becomes an issue.
In the case of the treaties covering the European Arrest Warrants, you can be extradited to country C with consent of country A and country B. Of course, that means you can take things to the highest court in both countries before anything can happen.

The response in the Assange case has always been about Sweden either violating treaties or about the US performing an extraordinary extradition.
That's not a fact. He independently produced a show that RT bought and ran.
Oh, and the Serrano series also by Elizabeth Moon!
What are the distinguishing features of NetBSD in comparison to OpenBSD and FreeBSD?

From the respective home pages, FreeBSD targets high performance, OpenBSD security, but it is not so clear to me what is the focus of NetBSD.
Perceived balance of Unix tradition, progressiveness and sane engineeering/community.

The base build system (build.sh)[0] which is essentially Makefiles is absolutely beautiful to work with, ditto for pkgsrc[1]. They’re “progressive” enough to include dtrace[2], work on neat security[3], and kernel models[4][5], but have eschewed modern Linux-isms like ip(1), systemd. Of BSD v Linux, my heart is definitely with the more traditional BSD. Of BSDs, I feel Net is capable enough, simpler than Free, but more feature full than Open. The other interesting BSD would be DragonFly - really interesting, but I’m happy enough w Net that I’m not going to swap it out, and don’t need more (different) systems in my life right now.

[0] https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-build.html

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pkgsrc

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTrace

[3] http://www.netbsd.org/support/security/

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rump_kernel

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6562611
If it is, maybe related to LTT's live stream yesterday that used it? https://youtu.be/jtHhvcdjNWw
Agreed.The way I see it is, if Jio monitors your contents and selectively provides higher bandwith for Netflix contents putting others at risk or Netflix selectively providing preferences to Jio subscribers, I think that would go against the spirit of net neutrality. Providing reduced rates for certain subscribers is kind of providing premium membership, which is a way to attract consumers.
ltt did a stream yesterday where they used power gadget to show it throttling... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtHhvcdjNWw
The issue is that the "past" is created, and interpreted, in the present.

See Quantum Eraser experiments by Wheeler and what the consequences of that are for what it means for "past/history" to "exist".
Man, my experience with VS Code has been the polar opposite, especially WRT the "Just Works" description of the debugger. Some folks on my team rave about it, so I gave it a real shot, but it's just not workable for me.

Errors left and right from core JS functions. Unable to create temp directories, complaining that they already exist, and deleting those directories leads to complaints that they're missing. Running the exact same start command from the command line works smoothly, so I have to think it's some "magic" that VS Code is trying to do. I gave up and went back to IntelliJ.
At some point, you need to modify some state, otherwise your program/language is useless. And that's not me saying that, I am just quoting, or at least paraphrasing, Simon Peyton Jones:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSmkqocn0oQ

And of course a lot of so-called "functional" programs just outsource their state management to some sort of relational database. And the people talking about their creation will praise the state-less-ness of their creation. Unironically.

What can you do? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anyway, more practically, the vast majority of workloads do not have computation as their primary function. They store, load and move data around. Computers, generally, don't compute. Much. For those workloads, a paradigm that tries to eliminate the very thing that the problem domain is about, and can only get it back by jumping through hoops, is arguably not ideal.

https://carlstrom.com/stanford/cs315a/papers/barroso00piranh...
Let's be clear here. There are TWO eradicated diseases. Smallpox and a cattle disease that doesn't affect humans.

Otherwise our track record isn't stellar. The efforts with other diseases that could be eradicated have struggled. Polio is closest with just a few remaining countries. Future eradication attempts may be much harder due to the rise of anti-vaxxers.
You guys can still find it on reddit. If you guys still want it to do tests.
I believe it needs to be adopted as a therapeutic alternative to current psychiatric therapies which are toxic and destructive and deadening by comparison

There are people who have rosy anecdotes about each of the therapies you call toxic and destructive. There are also people with horror stories about LSD. You are inappropriately extrapolating your own personal experiences to everyone else.

It's ironic to say this to someone who's advocating mind expansion, but... you need to be a bit more open minded.
NetBSD supports many platforms: https://www.netbsd.org/ports/
Hey you just described Greenwald's whole song-and-dance rag. You got that guy pegged. Good job!
Any more details? Their service was great!
> Going with the principle of parsimony - consciousness is arguably inefficient.

Why is that? Very unobvious conclusion.
We dont. I wish we did.