skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. I think he or possibly his underlings were more than willing to accept Russian help with little regard for legality, and Russia had their own reasons (personal hatred for Hillary Clinton by Putin, sanctions, etc.) for preferring Trump.

I think Trump would like to be Putin and to re-make America as a Russian-style gangster state with himself and his family as mafia dons. He's not Putin's puppet and has no loyalty to him. Trump is too narcissistic to (consciously) be anyone's puppet.

BTW I also think Trump has no special loyalty to the alt-right types he rode into office and would toss them under the bus as well (as he did with Bannon). Trump has no beliefs except winning and amassing power and money. He'd flip to far-left socialism in a day if he thought it would be a better route to power.

Just my opinion for what it's worth.
The hmm_filter project implements Viterbi-inspired algorithms and transition matrices in Python, might be also a useful learning resource:
https://github.com/minodes/hmm_filter
> It's really hard to know what to even believe

You might check out this[0] extremely detailed write-up from Andrew O'Hagan, the author who was hired to ghost-write Assange's autobiography, and wound up hanging around his inner circle for some months. It's a pretty sympathetic account, but it's hard to come away from it sympathetic to the man. While O'Hagan praises Assange's ideals and seems to like him personally, he doesn't gloss over his flaws, and the portrait he paints is ultimately of a supremely self-interested guy who spends much of his time scheming against his closest allies and lying to pretty much everyone.

One exchange that stuck in my mind:

> There are few subjects on which Julian would be reluctant to take what you might call a paternalistic position, but over Snowden, whom he’s never met but has chatted with and feels largely responsible for, he expressed a kind of irritable admiration. ‘Just how good is he?’ I asked.

> ‘He’s number nine,’ he said.

> ‘In the world? Among computer hackers? And where are you?’

> ‘I’m number three.’

[0] https://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n05/andrew-ohagan/ghosting
Anecdotally, the team I was in in AWS needed to build a complicated component, one that, should it get it wrong, would be disastrous for the service.

They'd estimated about 4-6 months for a two person team, made from some of the best engineers in the service, focused entirely on it to get it written, tested and out to production.

They decided to use TLA+ to model, despite neither engineer having used it before. They lost about a week to getting up and running with it (one engineer's only complaint was how tied in to Eclipse it was), and then spent the res of the month working on and modelling the whole task.

It found problems. A whole bunch of them. The fixed the model until finally TLA+ gave them an all clear.

Then came the coding. Well... that didn't take very long at all. The TLA+ model effectively outlined all the code and methods for them. The actual programming ended up being almost a cookie cutter simple code.

In total, the new and complicated component went from drawing board to tested and ready for production in about 2 months. Despite having had to learn TLA+, it ended up taking less time than if they'd not written the TLA+ models in the first place.
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And here I found out about detail and summary tags. Brilliant !

And next I find out it's not compatible with MS browsers. Sad.
Her story is trully inspiring! She seems like a really likable person, has been hard working, with great results, making a major contribution. The photo with her and the hard drives is amazing and I am sure she will inspire many to enter science.

However, I think to call her "the woman behind the first black hole image" is a hyperbole. It makes it sound as if she was _the one person_ responsible that all this came about. -- But that is not the case. Arguably, there are others who have contributed as much if not more. This is what makes me somewhat feel that this focus on her is not quite fair.

Coverage in mainland Europe has been different so far: Prof Falcke gets a lot of credit for the image/project. Falcke is heading one of the major teams that contributed to the project. In fact, many here attribute the conception of the project to him. But how many in the English speaking sphere have heard or will ever hear about Falcke? Why is that?

My personal guess is that the reason for this is: 1) The Anglo-american media were looking for inspiring EHT scientists from the English-speaking world. 2) Bouman fit that description best.

So, imv, something like "The inspiring story of Katie Bouman" and some credit to some of the other major figures like Falcke would have been fairer.
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I feel conflicted over this. I was a strong believer in the original mission of transparency and showing us what the world's elite and powerful were doing. But once they started playing favorites with information disclosure during the 2016 election their entire existence became tainted in my mind. Obviously I don't want to see the man burn for showing the world some of the terrible things that happen behind closed doors but I also don't trust him or his organization anymore to be impartial arbiters of transparency.
People are never impressed by my strict fasting-between-meals regiment̶.
Men are more likely to be harassed online than women. Women are far more likely to experience one of the types of harassment: sexual harassment, but when looking at harassment as a whole including threats of violence or being called offensive names, men are more commonly victims.

https://www.pewinternet.org/2017/07/11/experiencing-online-h...
The women in question were caught lying about the charges in various ways and destroying evidence by deleting tweets and texts. There's no reason to believe them about anything really: behind the "he said she said" nature of the condom claim, if that was the only matter under dispute they wouldn't have changed their story.
I'm deploying a simple SPA I wrote as a sole developer for a client later this week, and the clients have been thrilled with it so far. I've written less code than in other traditional webapps, the app is responsive and works well, and I know that sudden changes in server infrastructure (they're on-prem hosted and looking at moving to a Windows/IIS environment) aren't going to require a full-on rewrite.

I think that's probably the sweet spot for SPAs though honestly - small scope internal apps (served over relatively quick intranet connections) with access to minimal client infrastructure (all you need is a web browser).
If there was even a hint of true illegality don’t you think there would have been charges by now? Especially in Trump’s government?
Thanks for the link to actual facts about his legal situation in the US.
Anyone know the retrieval cost for Ice Cold? I don't see it mentioned in the post.
First of all, I'm opposed to that law. If it was up to me, it would be annihilated from existence.

Please understand that joining a few imprecisions, innocuous in isolation, the result is totally incorrect.

'Incorrect' would have been better than 'BS' indeed, sorry. The reason for verbal escalation is we have to see this kind of "imprecision" very often and it's not funny anymore.
The indictment charges that he conspired to crack passwords on government computers. It appears that the free press protections extend to only accepting documents, and not pursuing of them. This makes sense to me on its face. Newspapers reporters hacking into government networks goes beyond reporting, and should not be journalistically protected.
He's not being extradicted, he was arrested in connection with an extradition request. He now has the opportunity to fight his extradition in court.
No, it isn't negotiable, by both the Charter of Fundamental Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights.
> Would it be more fair to say it's an abuse of CSS?

In the sense of "improper usage", it applies to the resulting HTML with any CSS or without it at all; CSS is merely used here to make it look fine in some cases.

Hacks can be clever and amusing (I was amused by this one too), but usually get rather annoying as they get used widely and break things.
Sorry for the confusion — website is still new.

In analyzing people's percent change in total volume lifted over 60 days on FitnessAI vs users on Lift Log (a basic weightlifting journal app)
Read the top of the very first page. It is a conspiracy charge. This is made clear on pages 4, 5, and 6 as well.

Then read 18 USC 1030(b).
Reading some of the comments in here and in previous texts, I think everyone should try to heed to the following guidelines:

- When an individual/team's work is emphasized by their biological characteristics, it is often meant for clicks or to drive emotions (positive & negative)

- When that happens, ask yourself whether the author of the paper did it for nefarious reasons or not.

- If the cause doesn't seem nefarious, ask yourself whether the society around you has outgrown the biases towards X biological characteristics

- When interacting with others, do not base your actions and thoughts on their biological characteristics.

- Celebrate, debate and criticize the work that the individual/team did, the work the author of the article did and the comments.
That's a good explanation, but I've found it helps to write out examples on paper and test them by hand.
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The sexual assault case is not dropped. They said they will resume it today.
No, there are definitely people who care about those things and those are things that should definitely be cracked down on. But human nature always prevails and the power hungry always want more power. "Won't you think of the children" is sort of a punchline for any sort of barely-masked power grab legislation that has gone through in the last few decades.
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> Their battery tech is better than everyones. ( Why is the Audi E-tron and Jaguar I-pace Less range than even the cheapest Tesla? )

The Audi e-tron deliberately over-provisioned the battery to give it a longer life and to enable faster charging. Only 88% of the battery (about 83 kwh) is available for use, but the upside of that is the e-tron can maintain a 150 kilowatt charge rate up to 80% state of charge which no other current EV can do:

https://support.fastned.nl/hc/en-gb/articles/115015420127-17...

Not even the Tesla Model 3 on the new Tesla V3 chargers:

https://electrek.co/2019/03/07/tesla-v3-supercharger-action-...

The e-tron's main problem is that it's too heavy for the battery it has. It either needs a bigger battery or a lighter construction or both.

But the Hyundai Kona EV, the Kia Niro EV, and the new Kia Soul EV all have good range for a good price. The Kona narrowly beat the Model X in this 1000 km road trip comparison:

https://insideevs.com/hyundai-kona-electric-race-tesla-model...

Tesla doesn't seem very far ahead.
I built front ends for industry for 14 years without JavaScipt. Nuclear power plants, battle ships, manufacturing plants, electric grids, air traffic control systems.

Pre-browser - ah, those were the days ;)
Top priority — if rev stays steady and we can afford it absolutely!
and also doing stuff like computing Fourier matrices:

https://github.com/achael/eht-imaging/commit/40665b2f4c5a220...

But who's counting, right? Seems that you have to not only manage the team writing the software, but you also have to write the entire software to get credit.
I think the point being made is not every dollar spent is equally as productive in the meat space.
Punishing people for refusing to testify is, yeah. There is no right to non-friend-incrimination.

You can stay silent in your own defense, but if the government can prove that you have information on somebody else, they can compel you to give it up.
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Event horizon telescope source code
There’s also nothing stopping you from generating broken HTML or CSS on the server that won’t be interpreted as anything useful by the browser. Or messing up your CSRF tokens so that your forms don’t work. Or having broken links.
This is really nice context to have. I would generally agree with you that, in the current mobile IME landscape, it's hard-to-maybe-impossible to get close to the text editing UX of a native app with the web platform.

I guess my point of frustration is to watch project after project toss itself at the task of implementing a nice Medium-ish desktop UI, announce a new "standard" for JSON-based rich document serialization, get mobile support about 80% of the way there, and then just... leave it like that.

I don't have enough data to make a firm statement, but I would bet with confidence that that if you include native mobile apps in the calculation (iOS Notes app, Google Keep, Wordpress Mobile), mobile rich text editing is either more prevalent than desktop, or on a strong upward trend that will overtake desktop text editing in the next two years. The popularity of hybrid devices like the iPad pro, where you have a desktop-class processor and screen size but an iOS IME is only going to boost those numbers.
Why would a cookie be set for .amazon? I've never known a website to set a cookie for .com, for example. That would be silly.
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My comment was referring to the 1.5 years Assange lived openly in London, while Sweden was trying to get him extradited. I don't believe they'd storm an embassy to get him, but a couple of men grabbing him from off the street wouldn't be too out of character.
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I don't like Hillary, but surely it's within the rights of a political party to select candidates however they please?
What a sad day for driving enthusiasts everywhere. Went to the BMW dealer last fall to test drive a 2 series and was told there are no manual 2 series cars in all of North America and I would have to get one shipped in.

But progress is progress I guess and if people want rechargeable, self-driving, ugly crossovers they'll get them.
Disabled CSS would leave such form still usable. It wouldn't look, and behave exactly as intended, for sure, but I suppose these days no one expects unchanged user experience while disabling CSS. Meanwhile, disabled JS on JS-based forms usually kills them.
You were probably thinking about the startup Summly, which was founded by a 16 yo [0]. Summly eventually got bought by Marissa Mayer while at the helms at Yahoo! for $30 million [1].

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3399377

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5442290
This.

There are some good certs, like AWS and RHCE and some really crappy ones.

Talk to people before doing them to get a feeling if they're worth it.
>1. He was wanted for questioning for rape and sexual misconduct in Sweden. According to police records, he had sex with a woman who demanded that he wore a condom, which he did at first. Then next morning she wakes up by him penetrating her without consent. She then asks "are you wearing anything", to which he replies "I'm wearing you". The sexual misconduct charges are dropped due to statutes of limitations, and the rape case is dormant due to low probablility of resolving it. Maybe they will open it up again.

That's typical CIA character assassination 101. Pay a prostitute to sleep with the perpetrator and bring up false charges.

Do you think it's a coincidence this happened right after the leaks?!

>2. Assange fought the extraditions through several UK courts. He had multiple chances do defend himself, and lost every one. He lost a high court appeal, then when the supreme court upheld that decision he fled to Ecuador.

UK is a pseudo puppet state of the US at this point. Fun fact - the UK government paid $300 million to the US government to spy on its own citizens.
Aside: “A valid SSID is 0-32 octets with arbitrary contents”

An SSID is up to 16 bytes of arbitrary data e.g. 16 nulls is a valid SSID - I wonder how many UI flaws (or security flaws) result from that decision...

Why wouldn’t WPA3 introduce sane limitations on SSIDs?
The UK recently changed their stance wrt requiring no death penalties on extradition cases. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/23/uk-will-not-...
How to Re-Create the 'Interstellar' Black Hole
I, for one, am impressed that you have an entire regiment.

A platoon is the best that most of us could hope for.
I might be mis-reading the article, but it doesn't indicate that the policy on requiring pre-extradition guarantees against the death penalty since the people in question were never extradited from the UK in the first place.

As they're no longer British citizens, were arrested in Syria, and are already in the US awaiting trial, it doesn't seem the UK would have much basis to argue against prosecutors seeking the death penalty.
React does this, both for performance and to normalize event behavior across browsers.
The extradition request arrived in 2012, but they managed to keep it secret until this arrest. Now that official press releases have come out from both countries, we know the charge underlying the extradition. The fact sheet linked from the UK press release explains that the rules for UK->US extradition would require consent from the UK, including consideration by the UK courts, of any additional offenses that the US may want to add while they have him in connection with this extradition.

https://homeofficemedia.blog.gov.uk/2019/04/11/extradition-f...

They may very well approve some additional offenses, but probably not ones with the death penalty.
I want a phone-sized Windows 10 ARM device that runs desktop-class software such as this version of Firefox when docked (and adapts to mobile capabilities when undocked, as a responsive web-app does). Although not Windows, Purism seems the most promising runner in anything like this race today, and I'm hoping more contestants enter the race.

In any event, thank you Mozilla for supporting this platform. I hope Microsoft puts some more serious weight behind it.
cost (max 15000€/$ for a low end EV)
range (400-500km minimum)
charging infrastructure (at home and on the highway)
charging speed (not longer than 20min)
A most favorable reading of your post has you:

- dragging in gender by the hairs (as if it is relevant)
- trying out the trope that people are denying her title, because she is female.

If anything, I see you contributing to sexism, even though I believe your intentions to white knight are good (though likely biologically inspired to enhance your chance of mating).
We didn't get both, we only got M87. Sgr A is dimmer, so it needs more number crunching to get a good image
>So it is not a question of not being hip. We just don't need the arm bands and extra guard rails any more.

You say that, but the current state of the art is to use a package manager and a workflow with a compilation step to import packages with arbitrarily deep dependency trees just to do simple things like add numbers together or add whitespace to a string, and using frontend frameworks to do the same DOM manipulation JQuery was doing years ago, but with a virtual DOM abstracted over the actual one.

I agree with you in principle, but to me, everyone seems to be moving in the wrong direction, and as a result, the JQuery model (typically "include one library, maybe two for UI and another for the plugin") is starting to look sane.
Markov chains in essence are simple. Instead of diverging and reading all the theory, I'd recommend do it on a need basis. Learn as you go. So pick up a problem and move ahead. I don't think it is fruitful to just learn everything about Markov Chains just for the sake of it.

Markov Chain Monte Carlo to sample from probability distributions is a good start - https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.1901 if you are into sampling.
From what I understand, the training input images are just to establish the relationship between sparse data points and full image, regardless of subject matter. Since they were getting the black hole picture out of the trained model regardless of how it was trained, it's likely that the model was producing accurate results of what the "camera" was pointed at. If they had pointed it at an elephant, the model would have produced a picture of something elephant-like because it was somewhat accurately reconstructing a full image from sparse data points.
So a woman who takes the "morning after" pill could be executed? Are these lawmakers insane?
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You can't make that bet. Mathematics is just a language; if there were phenomena that couldn't be explained by mathematics, they could not be explained at all. And we probably couldn't communicate about them in any consistent manner or conceive of them in a useful way. That doesn't mean these things can't exist, only that we could never be rationally justified in saying that they do.

Thus it is possible that the true nature of reality is forever beyond the reach of human understanding. Of course, that's almost irrelevant to anyone who's trying to advance human understanding rather than, say, command complete mastery over the universe.
Races don't exist.
Define top talent :)
I tried looking around but didn't see anything about it.

What makes this optimized for WSL?
They're not just training the model to make pictures from nothing. They're training the model to make pictures from an input.

So I assume they're simulating what an input would look like of, say, a planet or astroid or elephant or whatever, given that it was viewed through the relevant type of sensor system. Then when they feed in the black hole sensor data, they get pictures that look like the black holes we imagined. Even if we never told the model what a black hole looks like.
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Our equivalent to lvalue/rvalue is “place expression” and “value expression” https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/expressions.html#place-e...
C++'s move constructor can throw exceptions. An example would be moving a linked list, and the allocation of dummy tail node can fail. In my opinion, the design choice to support recoverable allocation failure in C++ reasons for most other designs.
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Please see the FAQ as it relates to job postings.

i.e. there is one day and post that is permitted unless you are a YC company
I feel like Geometric algebra / clifford algebra is something more people should know. It makes N-dimensional vector algebra easier and more intuitive.
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So they sympathize with you, but can't do anything about it. Doesn't really help.
Or an electoral campaign around the corner...
Due to significant political and social differences. For example, why has the value of a high school diploma decreased more in the US than in Europe? Why does the US have more of a problem with for-profit colleges? Why does the US have such a rapidly rising cost of college (regardless if the cost is paid by students or by the state)?

If I had to give a single root cause, it would be how we vote (the US system leads to a far stronger polarized two party system than Europe has).
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The fact that Assange is being extradited not snatched via rendition means he is going to face the US justice system. He is being charged in Eastern District Virginia with conspiracy to commit computer hacking.

If Assange just disappeared one day, then maybe worries that he is going to receive extrajudicial punishment or indefinite detention would be warranted.