skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that people misinterpret the 1st Amendment as providing protections specific to "news organizations" (though various states have given various state-level protections to news orgs). But the author here doesn't appear to be doing that. The full paragraph and the next:

> Is the WikiLeaks founder, who until Thursday had been holed up in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London for years, essentially a publisher — though a notably strange one — who believes in taking radical steps to expose government secrets, and who thus should be afforded the same First Amendment protections given to news organizations?

> Or is he a reckless traitor — and by no means a journalist — who deserves no such consideration and who should be prosecuted without worrying about free-press concerns.

Her rhetorical question allows for Assange, an individual, to be considered a publisher, i.e. a news organization. In the next graf, it's clearer she's framing the conflict as: "Is Assange a journalist and thus are his actions protected by the rights to a free press?". But I agree that the sentence you quoted could have been better stated as:

> and who thus should be afforded the same First Amendment protections given to journalists.

But I assume the reason why she said "news organizations" is because her intended audience are people who work at news organizations, i.e. they should be reading it as:

> and who thus should be afforded the same First Amendment protections given to you.
I checked Google News in an incognito browser window, and this is the top item right now.
Meanwhile, in major American cities, people sleep on the streets and even middle class people can't afford housing.
"What's OpenBSD" you say? https://sivers.org/openbsd
I'm not an expert but it won't have difference in that case I guess. The current Korea's 5G is deployed at 3.5GHz whereas 4G is usually at 1.8GHz in Korea, so it would have shorter ranges or the technologies is not mature yet. The articles describing the current 5G deployments are a mess so I'm not sure.

However, 5G won't have any significant advantage over 4G in those frequencies other than a little bit improved throughput. The ultimate goal of 5G is to use frequencies above 6GHz, usually around 28GHz (!) in order to have sub-1ms latencies and ultrafast throughput. This requires numerous "small cells" deployed.

I found unbiased sources below. You will find that these articles assumes the frequency above 6GHz should be used.

[1]: https://www.gsmaintelligence.com/research/?file=141208-5g.pd...

[2]: https://spectrum.ieee.org/video/telecom/wireless/everything-...
Amazon was CF positive and invested it's cash heavily in capital assets (warehouse, etc.). Uber invested (burned) its money on subsidies. Not really a comparable.
The conventional wisdom is that self-driving cars will be much cheaper than rideshare, and the only question is when they'll reach level-5 autonomy.

But what if they're not actually significantly cheaper?

Let's say an Uber driver who works 60 hours gets paid $1,200 gross, or $20 per hour. Could the self-driving car drive the same trips with $1,200 lower cost?

Not a chance. Because the $1,200 paid to the Uber driver isn't just for the driver's time, it's also for the reduced resale value of the car, and for fuel, and tires, and repairs.

And those costs for the self-driving car will be much higher because the self-driving vehicle will be newer, and larger, and loaded with expensive computers and lidar.

The self-driving car will also require 24/7 realtime monitoring, and customer support, and a depot staffed with technicians, and a field service team.

The IRS rate for deducting business use of a vehicle is $0.58 per mile, not including the driver's time. I'd bet the cost of an autonomous car will be well north of that.
A couple inches to the left and that dialog would have been comedy gold :b (Although more seriously, I'll speculate that it looks larger than it is because it's reflecting a lot of light).
There is a big difference between these two cases:

1. Here are DNC leaks, here are RNC leaks. Thanks, oh you want me to withhold on the RNC ones because you like those. Sure!

2. Here are DNC leaks, we have some RNC leaks, but we won't give them to you. Thanks, can I please have the RNC ones too? No. Okay.

In the first case, one actively withholds important information. In the second case, one is publishing all information available.

You might argue that in the second case, you should hold fast and say 'give me everything or I don't show anything' and therefore case 2 is bad. But you can't deny that case 1 is worse than case 2.
Could an employer reliable use this as an indication that an employee is at least competent? If so I'd love a programming equivalent and be able to avoid FizzBuzz like tests.
I would prefer them to keep a separate version for Germany which will have additional indication that this page was censored by German government. People coming from other IP addresses should view original page. Surely Germany can't forbid people from the other countries to get some information from servers located outside of Germany.
I thought that the history is supposed to be available for legal reasons. It's the only way that contributors to the article are attributed, as required by the Creative Commons licensing.

Edit: quite a bit of the history is unavailable, but the names of the contributors can still be seen. Perhaps that's sufficient. https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Waibel&...
Playbook of valley companies in 2019:

- Systemically ban and censor conservative speech. Never-mind that 50% of the country and about 70% of the world adheres to the EXACT same, fairly reasonable opinions.

- Launch a massive PR campaign (opening salvo of which is accusations of Nazi adherence) against those crying foul, or pointing out the clear ultra-left bias in censorship and actions

- Claim that private companies hold no MORAL responsibility to uphold constitutionally guaranteed free speech laws

- Claim that the internet be treated as a utility, with free access to everyone, but ignore the fact that massive monopolies controlling the REAL utilitarian aspects of the internet (search, email, payments, hosting, cloud, etc. ) are all in cahoots to kill conservative speech, with cognitive dissonance of how they've combined to de-platform entire philosophies from the internet that they control

- Behave with absolute impunity with political agendas, and claim to be neutral
I love the class of databases that are built on top of Postgres. It goes to show how far people can extend Postgres. I hope others can follow suit.
> The First Amendment probably does not apply to non-Americans with respect to their conduct abroad.

How does a Fourth Amendment case turning on the interpretation of specific language that is not present in the First Amendment lead to that conclusion?

(Also, since the alleged conspiracy was related to acts that would be committed within the US, by a US citizen, it's far from clear whether, even if the rationale of the case you cite did apply, the result would still be that there was insufficient relationship to the U.S. with regard to the act in question.)

Note that I don't think the First Amendment has any bearing on this case because of the actual conduct at issue, but if it did, I'm not seeing how the case you point to would make it inapplicable based on Assange’s citizenship and location.
Burma is a fascinating story. They switched, like Sweden, but without planning.

The reason? A fortune teller said the country would be prosperous.

And now people exit the bus into the traffic instead of the sidewalk. Because nobody has the money to replace the buses or cars.
They explained at another point in today's stream that the pieces you see flying around are solid oxygen from a drain on the second stage. Totally normal and you see it on every one of their launch streams!
Interesting find! Earlier in the feed you can see a solid piece of oxygen [0] bouncing off the engine. The particle you mentioned is going past the spacecraft (forward), so I can't see it being solid oxygen. My guess is a piece of dust that is being illuminated, and the camera is picking up the reflection but is blurry, making the particle look bigger than it actually is.

[0] https://youtu.be/TXMGu2d8c8g?t=2729
They will, though, be at a disadvantage in pace of new features, hardware refresh, etc. The gov version will lag far behind the general offering. It's also possible the general offering will go down in relative pricing, like cost/mb or same price, but faster CPU.
Because Capitalists shitting on themselves are not being productive enough about it so once again globalist out-sourcing is the solution to the problem of globalist out-sourcing.
At 45:09 (T+ 00:25:12) for less than a second the video flips to...something...weird. Anyone know what that is?

https://youtu.be/TXMGu2d8c8g?t=2707

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/GcDytsl
Just looked up Dropbox stock price. Not exactly pretty. This is not the 90s when the retail investor could make money from tech stocks. SNAP is bad, Dropbox doesn't look good. Neither does Lyft.
You're welcome to crack the password and frame it on your wall. Using or intending to use it is the crime.

The state would have to argue your intent to log into their computers and you'd have the chance to respond. The jury would decide whether you meant to gain unauthorized access to a computer system or just geeked out over password cracking.

Practically, I could see things going poorly for the over-enthusiastic cracker, but theoretically they'd be within their rights.
I dunno. The worst part of Go in my opinion is that disaster that is packaging. I like rust because there isn't eleventy ways to do things like that. I can certainly see your perspective. I'm just of the other opinion.
> If Assange conspired with manning that would be a different story, but it doesn't seem to be the case.

I'm guessing that they have evidence that yes, he did conspire.
> Hey, if I step in front of this car, I don't get to sue a fairly poor driver, I get to sue a mega-corp for a tonne of money cause the algorithm should have stopped

Haha, that's an interesting grey zone I didn't think about (I'm swiss and usually non-direct/non-physical damages cannot be claimed here if they cannot be demonstrated/proven/tested). Hat off :)
Uber Eats does more tx volume than Lyft's entire business
Here, I will try.

In my opinion, Assange lost his moral high ground after it came out that he was communicating with Trump Jr. and helping the Trump campaign. And that he delayed and timed the DNC and Podesta leaks to cause maximum advantage to Trump, instead of just releasing them when ready. On top of that Wikileaks lied that they did not have contacts with the Trump campaign.

Not to mention that DNC and Podesta were private entities, not government officials and zero illegality was revealed by those leaks. He later was asking Trump Jr to ask Trump to recommend himself as the Aussie ambassador to the US as payment for helping Trump win.

If he exposed corruption or overreach in the Obama admin, or something that Hillary did as SoS, that had the side effect of Trump winning, that's fair game and he would have my support.

In other words, exposing government overreach = good.

Indiscriminately releasing private entities emails with intent to politically influence and gain political clout = bad.

For all of Snowden's fault of releasing too much information and details of NSA thats expected of a foreign focused intelligence agency like NSA after the initial leaks, atleast he never took partisan political sides.
This back and forth about methane on mars has been going on for a while. Not divided politically either, the US has gotten both results over various missions. The speculation I've heard about this is that the methane isn't global and isn't being released constantly, leading to confusing readings.
I don't think it's unheard of though: my employer has their own Nuget package server for internal packages.
The reason we think that user data wasn't the target is based on looking at the attacker's trail, which appears more focused on seeking additional credentials rather than exfiltrating user data.

https://matrix.org/blog/2019/04/11/security-incident/ is a recap of the situation.

In other news, https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=matrixdotorg isn't an official account for matrix.org, nor are they likely associated with the project.
Feels like The Big Rewrite, but successful
Postgres is an amazing foundation to build on!
That's interesting, but I don't know what I'm supposed to take away from it. The article is trying to spin it as negative, but they never get to the point.

In the United States we'd never preemptively build up a city like this, so obviously China is different, but I don't see what the problem is. They have lots of interview with people saying buildings are empty, but nothing official saying it's a problem or that the Chinese government is worried about it. What were the expectations for filling the buildings? Are they behind schedule?

And sure, $4.5-10 trillion in debt sounds bad, but it's less than half of ours in the United States.
Indeed. Back in the dark ages I interviewed lots of sysadmins in a Solaris shop. Those that had a RHCE generally knew their way around a unix box. Other certifications did little other than indicate that the person worked somewhere that required the other certification.
> If Assange conspired with manning that would be a different story, but it doesn't seem to be the case.

That's literally the exactly what he is charged with.
The Space Shuttle’s Controversial Launch Abort Plan
There is actually already an ongoing collaboration between Wikipedia and Internet Archive to snapshot almost every single web page to Wayback Machine as soon as they are referenced on any Wikipedia site:

https://blog.archive.org/2018/10/01/more-than-9-million-brok...

The pages are being archived at a rate of 20 million URLs/week.

PS. This is not free. Internet Archive is one of those great online institutions that needs a steady stream of donations to buy the hardware that keeps the project going.
There’s a ton of people who want a variety of solutions for a ton of things; many people require on-prem for this kind of thing. We’re building out a variety of solutions, this one happened to land first.
Crossing the street is a hugely public thing to do, and is not something any reasonable person would consider information they own. So most would class it as public domain and maybe data collected could be used to make decisions.

But this does lead to interesting scenarios, where some parts of the country are not tracked and others which are tracked. Private areas, your data would not be recorded and hence be your own.

So I guess your data is yours if no one else records it.
Oops... forgot to walk outside to take a look.
Beresheet means "genesis," and if we know anything about the genesis of the universe it's that there's a big explosion.
LOX tank cam - similar to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPnCKK1isMI
That's not just about the rural, many minor cities have this problem too as far as I know. But I haven't been to there to check myself (and actually hesitate to).
I would just like a tool that can search my computer that was written in NodeJs and has an api. Does this exist?
i think we should switch to talking about information , not data. data is like photons, they are mediators. An agent owns his information content which is his internal thoughts and intentions. Everything he makes in your online property is a trace. The traces belong to the owner of the online property. Just like how your footsteps on my home belong to me, while your foot belongs to you. Data are measurements of those traces, thus they belong to you as well. The self-ownership of the agent's information content is not compromised.
I mean it's clearly a stargate.
Yes, we're discussing an alternative design here. An automatic move should change the semantics of the program, rendering later uses invalid.

This does not break RAII- it merely changes the defaults. It should be copies that are marked in the program source, not moves- this is unfortunately not backwards compatible, but it's also not a problem for how RAII gets used.
> Nobody holds an allegiance to Lyft or Uber - they pick whichever is currently a better deal for both driving and riding.

That's not exactly true: I use Lyft exclusively because have anti-loyalty against Uber because of their greater level of past unscrupulous behavior and scandals.
Perl5 has some design features that are not as good as they could have been if it broke backwards compatibility. So there were a lot of limitations on how things could get added. (Code written in 1987 will most likely still work on the latest version of Perl5 released last year, or even on the version coming out later this year.)

The Perl6 project was to reimagine the design by breaking things that needed breaking.

If your premise that Larry is bad at language design, then you should be able to find something in Perl6 that is “terribly designed”.
I won't be holding my breath, so feel free to take your time.
Whoa - thank you for pointing out the solid oxygen. That is mind-blowing to me! Super cool!
How is archive.org not exempt? They are outside of EU jurisdiction unless they made the mistake of opening an office over there, which would be trivially fixable by shutting it down.
> He also said that his internet access had been cut off “by a state actor” when the Ecuadorians kicked him off their WiFi.

That's strictly true, though misleading.
Is it time to decentralise Wikipedia...?
it is not that hard to gain foot in any market. just advertise lower rates to customers and higher pay to drivers and within a week u will have more than half of all uber drivers registered on your platform too. 90% of people driving for uber also have lyft account if lyft is available in their area. uber has 0 brand loyalty. it has failed to establish itself as a safe option. its just as shitty as the next option in eyes of most riders.
What funds are those specifically? Certainly not the S&P 500. The Russell 3000, but they don’t have a choice.

The point of investing is deciding what you believe in (financially speaking)! If you don’t like Uber, make some money on it! You can’t short in an IRA, or sell naked options, but you can sell futures or buy put options. All of these would express a bearish sentiment on Uber. So don’t feel like you sre being screwed, go make some alpha!

For the record I agree with you, and will short Uber the day it IPOs. I’ve already made some good money on shorting Lyft and expect I’ll do well on the same strat with Uber.
Hate them deactivate me for no reason customer stated I use profanity really?
What's going to happen when someone like this professor decides to swing the GDPR hammer at Internet Archive to get the rotted page purged first?
SQ up 5.8x since Nov 2015

TEAM up 4.1x since Dec 2015

TWLO up 4.7x since Jun 2016

SHOP up 7.4x since May 2015

OKTA up 4x since Apr 2017

ZS up 2x since Mar 2018

Retail investors can definitely still make money.
I feel like you're missing GP's point. Even if we stipulate that leaks are in the public interest (inasmuch as they expose corruption), selective leaks give an undue amount of power to the person deciding what to leak. If we were getting a similar number of leaks from the DNC, RNC, USA, non-USA, etc. I honestly wouldn't have a problem with it. When the leaks are all focused in one direction though, it looks less like journalism and more like propaganda.

That's separate from the question of whether it's criminal though. I haven't read the indictment yet and don't have an opinion on that.
This comment thread is both celebratory and hateful, truly disgusting from Hn.

Celebrating space mission failures for any reason is a terrible look.

This is a cultural difference, try to take a step back from your own preconceived cultural norms. What's considered confidence in Israel would qualify as hubris in American culture - there's much less value placed on being humble or soft-spoken in Israeli culture. I make no judgements about if this is better/worse but I certainly wouldn't dream of relishing in their failure even if I perceived them as "cocky".
Hate then deactivated me because customer stated I used profanity REALLY?
Clinton has been in politics for decades. Trump has not. Humor me here, but perhaps trump didnt have any dirty laundry we weren't already aware of.

Clinton rigged a primary and controlled the dnc from top to bottom. Do you think trump somehow had something on the same level as that?

I really don't understand this argument. The only thing they had on him was the "grab em by the pussy" recording. He was already well known for having some shady real estate deals.

He was not the former first lady, secretary of state, or a senator that had the power to do corrupt things for decades within the government.

When Watergate came out, did Republicans deny the facts and ask why equivalent dirt hadn't been dropped on McGovern? No, they read the facts and believed them without worrying about partisanship or trying to spin it into a Russian boogeyman.

You dont sound like you read any of this information or refuse to listen to it on principle. I have no doubts that the people had every right to see what Clinton was doing and criticize her for it. I'm not going to ignore the revelations because trump is a mean guy and I dont like him.
The Economist and Stratechery for me. Also CaspianReport for bigger picture geopolitical stuff. CaspianReport is free, but I give on Patreon which ensures he can focus on quality content rather than attracting advertisers.

I really like the Patreon model, I give to 20+ different Youtubers and writers because I hate what advertisers and corporations have done to modern day media, making it all about eyeballs instead of education.
Thanks for that link. FB has a dual-class structure, but its owned by all major ETFs: https://www.etfchannel.com/etfs/?symbol=FB

If UBER gets into indices, that would be scamming hard earned 401k dollars of unsuspecting ordinary folks. Sigh... More hate for Silicon Valley when folks figure out
So I attended Summit the past few years and each time sat on an education panel run by the head of Red Hat's education program. Most recently we discussed Red Hat Learning Subscription and the relative difficulty of the Red Hat Certified Architect track. RHCA requires the student complete certified sysadmin, certified engineer and then 5 more courses.

In previous years RHCA required passing two gauntlet exams: Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting. These exams are no joke and will trip up senior sysadmins. Many RHCAs were upset that Red Hat lowered the bar by removing those two exams and not creating equivalent exams on the other tracks which are for development or devops concentrations instead of classic system administration.

In my personal opinion Red Hat should have instead created multiple red hat certified engineer certifications for each of the various concentrations which could then feed into Red Hat certified architect certifications.

Last year the head of the education program stated he wanted redhat certified architect to eventually be the equivalent of getting the notoriously difficult and rigorous CCIE. As a RHEL 6 and 7 RHCE with this move I feel like they've gone the other direction.
> Or can we admit that he had an agenda in all of this that didn't align with the best interests of the American people?

What agenda would that be?

Edit: It’s a sad state of affairs for HN when a question like this immediately gets downvoted twice without explanation. HN is indeed changing, and not for the better.
He's been pretty upfront about his date prediction abilities:

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-blames-missed-mode...
Yeah, we’ll said. I’ve been thinking of teaching some beginner electronics classes there.
As I said, a failed docking attempt.
Yet not many people switch to Bing but so many drivers drive for both Uber and Lyft and riders who easily take whichever is cheaper between Uber and Lyft.
Nixos 19.03 Released
The museum that revels in failure (2018)