skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That code definitely wouldn't pass code review by me. Terrible commit messages too.
And what is he actually arrested _for_?
Oh that is such a weak hook to hang a hat on, but ok.
"If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

It's not supposed to be an aggregator of mainstream news. Unfortunatley, it has become that.
But you do need JavaScript to read the article about building a front end with no JavaScript...
I'm a Chinese developer. Yes, English is a high barrier for most Chinese developer to get in touch with developers out of China. I can read, write without any problem but talk is hard for me as I have no chance to talk to any English speaking people.
> He was on bail facing extradition for rape and sexual molestation charges

Just to be precise the actual charge is that he was accused of having sex without a condom without telling his partner.
> Remember this all started with the leak of the "Collateral murder" video. That's when the Interpol notice went out, and he had to seek asylum at the embassy.

Collateral Murder was published in April, 2010. The warrant came in November of that year, seven months later.

Yes, sure, it possibly takes that long to organise a conspiracy, especially if you have to recruit a Swedish feminist student into the CIA and also get at multiple prosecutors in one of the least corrupt countries in the world. But the connection still seems tenuous.
Well. I think why so many people are bitter, including me, is that when news like that break out - you want to say to yourself "that could've been me". I have interests in science, I might do research one day - that could be me!!! I want fame! :) But then you look at the repo, and you realise that even if you were taking part in such a research, and tried your absolute 1000% you probably would be that nameless guy with most contribs. And that credit for your work would be taken, because you're expected to perform, because you're a guy! Of course you work like crazy, of course you do all the hard bits, but that's only expected. But if a girl does something close - then she's a hero... I haven't been there, and I haven't seen those people, but I work in IT and I know how it goes, guys work unreasonable hours, and put in unreasonable efforts to make projects succeed. Girls usually take more "balanced" approach. I think having mixed teams is absolutely critical for a success of any IT/Scientific endeavour! I think the right balance between masculine and feminine energy is what give the team right motivation, right pace and keeps it sane to accomplish impossible! I enjoy working with female developers perhaps even more than with male devs! But! The article should've said something like "every successful team needs both genders" - or something of that kind. There should be a message of unification... And absolutely - they could've highlighted her contributions, but highlight it as a part of a team! You don't even have to name the guys, just say "among team of 6 male phd scientists was a female who did meaningful contributions to the code and kept team spirit high". But this is incredibly demoralising! After this you want to say - I'm NOT getting on any team - I will own my work, even if that means working 100000%. And yes, after this article more girls will get into science! But LESS BOYS WILL!!! Might as well call this

"Katie's Hole" :P
3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19599699

(sorry for this shameless promotion of my HN submission)
Apple is better at PR for sure... but we have seen in the past that they lie about sharing your information with the government...
You cannot just plug and play, Toyota's vehicles dont have the requisite chassis and space for the battery pack. They'd have to redesign their cars from the ground up, and they're too busy with hybrids and fuel cells to undertake a bev revolution.
DOS is still surprisingly usable in the modern world with a little work. That isn't super surprising though given how simple a system it is and how ubiquitous it was in the relatively recent past.
I imagine Uber or Lyft drivers would be good candidates.
I keep walking into shops and look at a god-awful mess on the screen, with complex builds, state, unit-tests, and all kinds of other stuff that come together to create an app. Then I look at these same apps and realize that there's something like a 20-to-1 ratio between all of that and the simplest possible solution, which many times (but not all) involves JQuery.

Hey, if whatever works for you is awesome, please carry on. But if you're behind schedule, the SPA is too slow, the users say it's buggy, most of your devs couldn't manipulate the DOM directly if they were forced to, and the lead just spent until midnight getting the build working right, then you might want to start examining some of your development and architecture choices.

I love tools and abstraction frameworks -- right until the time they start taking over more time, effort, and learning than just pounding a solution out in something like JQuery would.

I'm glad the update is out. Looking forward to playing around with it some ... the next time I need something as full-featured as it is. With greenfield development, we start with zero stuff and carefully justify each addition after that.
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Meanwhile the reported Brexit will cost 6 billions euros in additional membership fees.
I use Bootstrap 4.3 for my side project and I still find myself enjoying jQuery.

It's a great library and I am thankful for the people who have made and contribute to it. I've used it during my web development career years ago before client side rendering was a thing.

I believe if they were to meet their goal of modernizing it, jQuery will be going on much longer regardless of other framework out there.
Why do people keep saying that he helped elect trump. Because he exposed lies and corruption of another candidate? Are people still bitter and upset at the 2016 elections?
>> It was already quite disgusting how powerful entities were able to seemingly fabricate sexual charges as needed.

The sexual charges really don't look fabricated or to have had any political motive at all. The wikipedia article on the allegations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange#Swedish_sexual_...) makes it clear that the charges were dropped after Assange was initially questioned by the police, then a special prosecutor reopened the case.

It's not unlikely that the special prosecutor had a political motivation for reopening the case, but it's not at all clear that the women who made the original allegations did.

From my reading anyway, Assange crossed a line, perhaps not realising that what he was doing was sexual assault, molestation and "lesser rape" under Swedish law, and he would have gotten away with it if he wasn't Assange, which makes the special prosecutor's reopening the case suspicious. But I can't see any fabrication here. Nobody forced Assange to do what he did (which, as I remember it, was to initiate sex with a sleeping woman who therefore could not give consent). The women who accused him were well within their rights to do so.

He just screwed up bad and that made him vulnerable to political persecution.
Why would he get a sentence for treason? He’s an Australian citizen and it would be a US court doing the sentencing.
how is it violating anti-trust is what i want to know. you don't put your website on google amp so google ranks you lower - they've told you this upfront. if you don't like google amp you can choose to not support it and take the advertising/SEO hit(which is really a monetary hit)

except no, people say they are "forced" to use google amp. well duh, google was also "forced" to make amp due to the shitty way people design websites in general(slow, ads in awkward places leading people to install ad blockers etc etc)

amp is inevitable in my opinion - the old style of ads are intolerable to most users now and google needs to keep up since ads are their core business
That's what we do for billionaires like Martha Stewart and some millionaires. Anyway there is a huge difference between suspect, person of interest, and convict.
For what other activities do you think the US would want him extradited?
Of course it's related to the business proposition of investing in those companies. I never suggested otherwise. I'm talking about the consequences of the dynamic.

Most of the money invested in tech (excl early VC money, which is a small portion) very little is "true" capital investment. It's like the difference between investing in swappable corn notes and investing in seed corn which is going to be planted. One results in more corn. The other might be more profitable, depending on the year.
> If he was anyone else

If he was someone else who had a European Arrest Warrant outstanding for rape, the authorities would take it seriously. Our press are going to have a dim view of a foreign (alleged) rapist running around because the police couldn't be arsed.

Jumping bail to an embassy in Knightsbridge and talking to the media from the balcony isn't going to help them look the other way either.
The only other way to handle <pre> tags is to wrap these long lines, but i do not see how that is not fundamentally broken considering that the entire purpose of the <pre> tag is to show preformatted text.
Interesting take on cheating on old doctoral work. However, this case had no 'national security' concern, nothing worth covering up. Instead it is a chance to maybe take out a political rival.

It's true that the german military is under constant scrutiny, but a lot of bad stuff has been covered up in Germany as well, especially in the world of sexual abuse by churches and institutions that is being uncovered in slow-motion these days.
breaching bail is not actually a criminal offence

https://greenandblackcross.org/guides/should-i-ignore-police...
Unfriend your ex before it is too late for you
I feel like when people say ‘realist’ in this context, they mean someone who believes that ordinary intuitions about the way the world works are how the world must work at all levels. And there is no reason to believe that our minds were evolved to understand reality at anything but the macro level.

I’ve long thought that the study of physics at the extremes is as much a study of the human mind and what we’re capable of comprehending as it is a probe of fundamental reality. Which is to say that experiments are essentially a chain of processes by which we translate information from whatever we’re studying into a form capable of being understood by our mind — often translating it into something visual so our visual cortex can process it and store it.

But I wonder how much is out there that is simply impossible to transform in such a way.
The problem is that it works both ways.
"A lot of people said" is not enough for a proof. What might be happening, is that Alice and Bob are friends. Bob spends some time researching a topic, say looking for a new car of brand X. He calls Alice and tells her about him wanting to buy a car of brand X. Some time later, Alice sees ads for car of brand X. Now, it could have been FB listening on the phone call. But there's another possibility - FB knows that Alice and Bob are friends, and it knows Bob likes brand X, so it assumes that a friend of Bob will be interested in brand X.
What exactly is Teslas technology advantage? Pure electric cars are fundamentally simpler cars than both ICE and of course hybrid models. And most other brands had hybrid models for a long time. I seriously doubt any established car manufacturer longs for Teslas technology.
This paper[1] gets at it for one.

From the abstract:

" Consistent with the importance of exposure effects in career selection, women and disadvantaged youth are as underrepresented among high-impact inventors as they are among inventors as a whole. These findings suggest that there are many “lost Einsteins”—individuals who would have had highly impactful inventions had they been exposed to innovation in childhood—especially among women, minorities, and children from low-income families."

[1] https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/134/2/647/5218...
If you are not already intimately familiar with them learn about FSA (= finite state automata), aka FSM (finite state machines).

Most interesting facts about Markov chains (e.g. the Stationary Distribution Theorem) really are probabilistic generalisations of simpler facts about FSAs (e.g. FSAs cannot be used to "count"). In my experience, understanding them first for FSAs and then seeing how they generalise for the probabilitic case is a good way of approaching this subject.
Well, what would be a "first image"? There have been countless images depicting black holes since forever:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=black+hole&t=h_&ia=images&iax=imag...
One of the few redeeming features of the HN conventions of civility and seriousness is that we don't have Reddit's problems and we don't need to talk about Reddit.

But what could possibly qualify you to say that "Andrew is definitely smart (smarter than an average HN user) and his code is very important"?
I seem to remember that Compaq business PCs in the late 1990s/early 00s had BIOS/NVRAM setup that looked suspiciously like a customized build of Windows 3.1. You held ESC or something during boot and you got a mouse-driven interface to set various hardware settings. I remember it being quite the contrast to the more common text-mode menu based BIOS setups.

I never looked into it whether it was actually in ROM/Flash or whether it booted off a special disk partition.

Here are some screenshots I found that kind of match what I remember:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/55026075@N00/4140236576/in/pho...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/55026075@N00/4139477409/in/pho...
1. Experience with ever increasing levels of responsibility. To me senior engineers/developers should have a minimum of 8-10 years of real experience. The people calling themselves senior that have < 5 years to me almost always not senior level regardless of what title someone let them have -- but I have seen exceptions so you still have to base it on the person.

2. People skills, communication, respect for individuals and team

3. Minimally ego driven (everyone has an ego, just can't let it get in the way of good decision making)

4. Technically competent in design and architecture, but I don't care if you know how to write a B-Tree from scratch or implement some stupid algorithm. What I care about is you know when they are needed and what the design tradeoffs are, if you know that you can lookup the best implementation.

5. Team building skills, organization

6. I also look personally, for people who are de-escalators and calm. Working people up doesn't solve problems, calmly seeing facts and figuring out a plan is how to solve problems and lead a team.
Just as Amazon the company has multiple shareholders I suppose
majority of your girlfriends? so you are the alpha male everyone is talking about, talking our woman
"suspect" and "accused criminal" are synonyms.
Reload the page for the news of his extradition
I do! And many of them. But imagine you have a strong, particular physical trait and you are in a room with others who do not share that trait. Usually you forget about it, but sometimes it matters because you have to use a different bathroom, or you don't get easily invited out for drinks because of tension or maybe you don't speak the language well, or maybe there are perceived cultural barriers. If you saw someone on television or in the news about someone with your trait and excelling in your field, imagine how delighted you would feel! That somehow, after all you do belong in that field. It's a natural human response to want to feel part of a community, and that's hard to do when you are a singular type of a clearly-visible trait.
funny? probably not.

And as for no interest in extraditing him, he was arrested in response to a US extradition request.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/live/2019/apr/11/wikileaks...
The diplomatic cables were borderline? Really?
The one hour compliance is proposed legislation, not actual law. If the requirement makes it in I expect it would be for extraordinary cases at high traffic sites, like the new zeeland terrorist livestrem on youtube.
Astronomy is about computers to the same extent that computer science is about telescopes, as I think Dijkstra said.
> Unfortunately for Tesla, at its current valuation, nobody is going to buy it.

A stock-for-stock merger is also a possibility, it's been done before.
Exactly. Assange works on principles. He publish even things that will counter his own interests: he leaked information about Lenin Moréno wrongdoings in http://inapapers.org/
The whole liberal media who used to work with wikileaks turned their back on them because they leaked wrongdoings from the Democrats.
This is correct according to the text of the law.

However, according to precedents the criteria “the matter can be satisfactorily investigated” is not easily satisfied in case of serious crime that is contested (see the court case RH 2011:4).
”Imagine if Toyota bought Tesla. That may be the best outcome possible”

Culturally it may not be a good fit. Toyota, now days, is very conservative and risk-averse, and a Tesla under Toyota ownership may not have the freedom it needs to continue the kind of moon-shot innovation and investment that has got it where it is now.

From Toyota’s perspective, there’s nothing to stop them building high quality EVs in high volume and competing with Tesla. They don’t need to buy Tesla to do that.
Reload the page, extradition confirmed.
> I'd imagine the CIA has more reliable and straightforward methods of arresting/disappearing someone

Probably, but there are likely extreme hurdles to such "disappearing" of well known persons (especially those who are not universally hated). Having the technical capability is one thing. Effectively acknowledging its use in a mostly friendly, sovereign country is a very different matter.
Play espionage games, win espionage prizes.
"release the hypnodrones !"
Long term consequences as 'preventing other secrets from being leaked' or 'maintaining an image as a trustworthy and ethical actor' on the world stage?
He looked fine just two years ago[1], right before the Ecuadorian presidency changed hands.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/may/19/julian-assange...
My personal favorite introduction to MC(MC) is lecture 1 of statistical mechanics and computations [1]

[1]: https://www.coursera.org/learn/statistical-mechanics
He cant be extradited without there being a guarantee that he will not face the death penalty.
Extraditing from Sweden would probably require the permission of the UK government, who are generally more than willing to bend over backwards for the US on this kind of thing. What it avoids is getting the UK courts involved; how much that matters in practice is an interesting question. Also, I don't think the US was ready to extradite him yet back in 2010.

Edit: yep, arrest warrant supposedly issued in December 2017 over his work with Manning back in 2010.
wikileaks/Assange during the recent US presidential elections. that’s what did it for me. even now, knowing what we now about Russian interference, they still have the “Hillary Clinton email archive” proudly displayed on their homepage.
also, there are those rape cases for which he ran away.
shady stuff.
Here's a video that shows two guys that were present during his arrest: https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/111512606296137318...
The US is simply out of control.
Even if it's including annual contracts in the 2019 numbers, 1,000% growth per year — all bootstrapped — is great. Congrats on that!
Reload the page extradition to US has been requested, as expected all along
So, in the initial phase, he gets to decide that charges against him are bogus, and that he doesn't need to submit?

I think this description is a little too martyring for my liking.

I'd love to know what civil freedoms of yours you believe are going to be impinged by virtue of this post.
Spending some effort on SEO would be a good call. I was in Madrid a few weeks ago and my searches for "co-working space Madrid" never turned up this place.
Retinol has very strong and noticeable affects actually. I use it for acne.
The US, and the MET police, have already confirmed that Assange has been re-arrested for an extradition warrant to the US.
Tesla isn't burning billions anymore, have you seen their last two quarters profits? Now, especially if they cut investment into new factories, they will have trouble bringing new products but they could still make 7k cars weekly and press pause on R and D.
Or you could believe that your reputation is so important that you should defend your self responsibility for your crimes to preserve the credibility of your civil work.
Looks like he was arrested on two counts: skipping bail in the UK, and an extradition request to the US soon after [0][1].

[0] http://news.met.police.uk/news/arrest-update-sw1-365526

[1] http://news.met.police.uk/news/update-arrest-of-julian-assan...
>the closer this role model is to your inherent and unchangeable properties (age, sex/gender, origin, social class), the more it can inspire you. //

Citation?

I call bunkum on that. TBH it seems both sexist and racist to say one can only be inspired by people of one's own characteristics (in science).

In this case the sex and race are irrelevant to Bouman's contribution AFAICT.

If you were talking about someone like Payne-Gaposchkin, then she overcame a deal of sexism, fair enough.

The whole she did it and had ovaries, omg, seems so condescending and unnecessary.
The request is already in and he's been attested for that too
As suspected, it was "on behalf of U.S. authorities"[1], exactly as WikiLeaks suspected would be the case. This sets a terrible precedent even for mainstream journalists, so if they have any sense they'd defend him.

1 - https://www.washingtonpost.com/gdpr-consent/?destination=%2f...
I guess we didn't the read the same threads about Elon Musk on HN.
Question has been answered.
1.3 million electric vehicles were sold last year in China.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/08/fitch-says-chinese-electric-...

Tesla is a premium brand. There are other more affordable EV’s being sold in China.

We’re way past initial innovation.

The largest car market in the world is migrating to EV’s.
He is a dual national now, which only complicates any attempt, Australia's connection with Five-eyes and other military and political arrangements aside.
> Scotland Yard has confirmed that Assange was arrested on behalf of the US after receiving a request for his extradition.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/live/2019/apr/11/wikileaks...
I'd argue that in practice science is more of a pile of giants.
Wait, I know about the top-down reopening of the case, but do we know for a fact that the original accusations were kosher, or is this just presumption of innocence for the girls?

(I mean, presumption of innocence is important and too often [the word escapes me... only imperfectly/partially given to] would-be sex offenders. On the grounds that we are judging some random girls it should apply; OTOH on the grounds that we are forming an overall character judgment of Assange... this matters if it gets to a jury trial, for example.)

[Edit: I plead guilty on the count of using a casual-conversation "girls" in a more serious discussion where it can be legitimately challenged as being implicitly dismissive. Elsewhere I stand my ground, although it's better developed/explained downthread.]
Why do you say it is weak? There is no doubt that federal law was broken when the GRU hacked the DNC and Clinton emails. A violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1030 is a very serious crime in the US.

Conspiracy to commit a felony is likewise super serious - sometimes even more serious than the underlying crime.

So, why do you say 'weak', if the evidence supports the charge?