skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR: I do think some of what Assange did was morally wrong, but not nearly as much as what he's legally guilty of. I feel that way because the way the US government weilds the information classification system makes it far too blunt a tool.

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Thank you for rereading and acknowledging. The then-current troop operations information is a great example of sensitive information that shouldn't be public for obvious reasons. (Although I don't want to tug at that thread too hard because it leads to opinions on the validity of the war in the first place. It's complicated. ;-)

That's a well-reasoned view of the specific thing that was done wrong. However, our government doesn't seem to want to draw the line there. There was a lot of other stuff in that dump. Some of it was embarrassing. Much of it was banal. But the US government doesn't want to make that distinction. It was classified information, whether that made sense in every case or not.

I can't say with any certainty, but I doubt the troop operations information was intentionally released. If, hypothetically speaking, all the other information in the dump was declassified, I don't think Manning and Assange would have wanted to release information that would endanger lives.

I think they were just overzealous and didn't have the time or want to take the time to comb through it all first. Look how long it took journalists to do it.

So if they were being specifically prosecuted for the troop ops info, that would be one thing in my book. It's quite another thing to be accused of high treason for disseminating embarrassing things and things that are only considered sensitive because that's the default classification.
I wonder who exactly would vote to pay for that. Covering the entire US to a quarter-mile resolution would probably be the most expensive project ever undertaken.
Of all things why does this keep getting posted here? Curious
Does this mean that the only effective way to get our Vitamin D is from sun exposure?
The whole point of the article is that there’s an actual threat to respond to. We should focus on real threats and not imaginary ones.

I’d be happy with requiring ID as long as it’s free and easy for all eligible voters to obtain. That has not been the case with these laws so far.
The "Dragon Book" glosses over parsing? Yagoddabekidding.

It teaches how to write LALR(1) parser generators, with detailed expositions of the algorithms including step by step execution of shift-reduce parsing. There is a chapter on implementing regular expressions. It has examples of the use of the Lex and Yacc tools.
This made me go "huh, then how do they know their sensor is working at all?"

The answer is that the sensors are two spectrometers that detect all sorts of gases, not just methane:

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadir_and_Occultation_for_Mars...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_Chemistry_Suite
> I see that graphic a lot, but it's not a very useful one, because it ignores residential patterns.

Yes parking needed for cars would be several times bigger than what cars occupy.
>So if someone tried to break into your home and failed, that means they never committed a crime?

If someone acquired the same lock as me, tried to pick it in the privacy of their own home and never actually broke into my home I would sure hope that they wouldn't face criminal charges.

>That's why the maximum sentence is only 5 years.

10 for what he's being charged with, no? I could very well be wrong here, but I thought that's what the 1030(a)(1) carries.
Fascinating. For some interesting US history on the topic, see: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/right.cfm

In particular I found this interesting: "[...] most American cars produced before 1910 were made with right-side driver seating, although intended for right-side driving [mirroring how horse-drawn carriages had been set up]. Such vehicles remained in common use until 1915, and the 1908 Model T was the first of Ford's cars to feature a left-side driving position."
I don't think it's a contradiction, really. I'm engaging in precisely the same behavior as cars do when they're parking behind another car.

What I'm not doing is coming to a stop in front of vehicles that are expecting to keep moving. And I do signal.

All that said, I did state that I try to do nothing unexpected. It's not always possible (and I also don't always know what others on the road are expecting).

> Whatever's wrong with signalling[...]

Nothing, and that's what I do if it's not possible to safely pull over and allow the cars to go by. But I also know from personal experience that drivers really hate it if they have to slow down because a bike is in front of them, so I'm trying to keep them happy.
VS Code, like Python, seems to be the second best tool on everything: it looks good but not as much as Atom, it's fast but not like Sublime or Vim, it's a lightweight IDE but not a full IDE.
Robbing or attempting to rob a bank to donate to the local food bank is still a crime.
I remember that one. It came in just under the deadline and it would have been pretty bad if that got into 1.0.

The resolution of this not only had a notable effect on how Rust thought about memory safety (in particular, that leaking memory could not be considered unsafe as it's always possible to construct a leak using safe Rust if you have access to Rc, and as a result `std::mem::forget()` was changed from unsafe to safe), but also informed the way we used RAII going forward, as the fundamental unsafety was due to the use of an RAII value as a token representing external computation and was not itself used in order to perform that computation, which meant leaking the token didn't prevent computation from happening. In all other known cases of RAII, leaking the value is safe because without the value, you can't access the protected resources, but in this case the token represented a thread and the thread of course would continue to run after you leak the token. As a takeaway from this lesson, you can't use tokens to represent external processes, and probably shouldn't use them to represent e.g. hardware that needs to be put back into a known state when the token is dropped unless you have a mutex in there as well (which would cause deadlock if you drop the token and then reuse the resource, rather than sending bad commands that break the hardware). Instead, any time leaking the token would cause unsafety, you need to structure your code to use explicit scopes instead, such that the library can clean up at the end of the scope.
No. https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/494/259/
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True. If the hack was related to divulging accurate but classified information detailing Australia's recent invasion and topple of two sovereign nations, against recommendation by the majority of the UN, it would likely play out different.
I agree Waymo is doing the best here, but Waymo is nowhere near a real self-driving car. They can't make unguarded left turns. Or drive in the dark, or the rain. Much less the snow, or in construction, or on poorly marked roads, or roads that aren't marked at all. Or city roads that aren't laser-mapped to the centimeter. Or roads with many pedestrians. Or cyclists.

And even when they do make it work, how is money going to be made by someone like Waymo? I don't see a route to the supposed massive profitability that would justify the huge investments being made.
It's worth noting that while the wealth fund is enormous, it is also being spent [1] to cover budget deficits. (More specifically, the returns are being spent.)

The government has historically tried to avoid doing so, but had to dip into the funds in 2016–2018. The rules around spending was formalized in 2001 [2], but the extent to which Norway was dipping into the funds has been controversial the last few years, with economists warning that it puts the country at risk in a future economic downturn.

Norway's wealth fund is actually codified as law, which makes it difficult for a future government to "steal" it.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-02/norway-st...

[2] https://www.regjeringen.no/no/tema/okonomi-og-budsjett/norsk...
Fatal? Really?

That kind of adjustment is necessary to get meaningful results.

Like many men my age, I have developed an autoimmune reaction to the bits that are supposed to absorb B12, so I have to take 5000ug to absorb the 2ug I need. Should I be counted as benefiting from supplements? Lab tests showed an elevated homocysteine level, an indication of B12 deficiency. I would say not.

Testing everybody for every possible deficiency, or need for a more than normal amount, of any particular thing would be very expensive, and inconclusive. Taking a multi supplement might take care of many such problems without the analysis, but there is now plenty of evidence for harm in megadoses. (Maybe I got my auroimmune reaction from megadoses?) In any case, a multi doesn't have enough to fix my problem.

What is clear from many, many careful studies is that many particular supplements utterly fail to provide the benefits expected, for most people, and actually harm some people. That includes particularly vitamins C, D, and E, and fish oil extracts.
I do a lot of code review, so I'm excited to be able to do that from my editor where all of my other tooling is set up instead of in a web browser. Suggested code changes will be much easier if I write them in a context where I can compile/run them. And no more clicking that "expand" thing 20 times to see something earlier in the file.

Thanks, Atom team!
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It’s time to retire the ignorant notion that nation-state space programs can be morally disentangled from the governments pursuing them in no small part for political ends. Their success is the regime’s success.
I love how we just assume SDC is just fact. No mention of weather issues, privacy issues, governmental legislation slow down, infrastructure that they drive on.

The human driver still has a minute. It's not like we are talking about Semi Trucks that will primarily have to navigate interstates.
I'm not an Uber-hater - but they don't offer anything unique and the valuation is insane.

Their problem is that if they rack up prices/commission to pay off their investors, then both their drivers and riders will simply switch to the next pre-IPO company that will connect them for less.

Uber in my mind is like all the other social media sites. We appreciate that they're the best thing to connect us at this time - but if something better comes along, both sides have no loyalty and will move on.

Can anybody imagine an Uber provider/rider they've met paying over the odds for an identical service because "they love the Uber brand"?
Especially not when they have open sourced it under a liberal license.
Aren't most index funds, almost by definition, required to buy their shares? If Vanguard owns a piece of every listed company, they're going to buy Uber at pretty much any price, right?
I love that description of your evolution and I’d say it was actually the same for me.
It was a private mission financed by a private person, not a national program.

Ethnic cleansing of the native population maybe happened in the US or Australia, not in Israel where 20% of the population are Arabs and many of them are not even native but rather immigrants from other Arab countries, exactly like the majority of Jews in Israel who were forcefully kicked out of their homes in the Arab world.

There are almost no Jews in Arab countries today, so who does ethnic cleansing?
> I would hope that the government would have to show actual acts in furtherance of the conspiracy to charge people

It does, in fact, have to allege such an act in order to charge conspiracy (but the act in furtherance can be by any party to the conspiracy; that's how conspiracy works.)

Three such acts are charged in the indictment; two by Manning, one by Assange.
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You are semi-correct. The tail sitter design was abandoned because it was too difficult/unstable to control while using the winch.

The core team that started Wing quit X awhile back and formed a new company, Skydio, which has built an incredibly cool drone for the purpose of high-tech narcissism:

https://www.skydio.com/

https://www.pcmag.com/review/366306/skydio-r1
I certainly respect all reasonable opinions on the matter, but I'm personally convinced that there was some sort of, ahem, intervention involved. It seems that the mechanics of life involve many complexities that seem far from inevitable. Who knows, you may be right.
> the only way it can become profitable is to get SDC's

Can't they just get out of markets that are loss leaders and continue to operate in profitable markets? Note that they should but that's always an option if profitability becomes an immediate issue.
I am not an attorney but this guy is https://attorney-myers.com/2013/11/surveillance_cameras_reas...
Nearline and Coldline have a per-byte retrieval cost in addition to the increased-but-still-low cost per operation.

https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing
Depends. A foreign citizen visiting or working in the US is not allowed to own guns regardless of the 2nd amendment.
The overweening pride is hubris. The retribution for such is nemesis.
Don't worry, many of the taxi\uber drivers record inside their car, too.
The indictment is not only about hacking, but about aiding the source in avoiding detection, and encouraging them for more documents.

There is zero allegation of hacking. Rather they are saying Manning sent a hashed password and Julian said in the chat he sent it to his team and then it never went anywhere. Calling this hacking is a big stretch.

This article from 2011 shows the Obama justice department knew all about this[1], check out the last two paragraphs which I will post here:

"In the exchange prosecutors showed in the courtroom, Manning appeared to have sent Assange a “hash,” or encrypted, password. Assange said he’d passed it on to members of his team, but the exchange prosecutors showed did not indicate whether WikiLeaks ever actually helped Manning with the password.

That chat could be a critical one for the parallel criminal investigation the Justice Department is pursuing into Assange and WikiLeaks. If Assange gave Manning advice or assistance in breaking into computer systems, that could transform Assange’s role from a mere recipient of secret data to a conspirator in efforts to steal it."

I am curious why you think the Trump administration is pursuing this now whereas the Obama DOJ declined to prosecute sighting the "new york times problem" as described in the previous link.

[1] https://www.politico.com/story/2011/12/defense-manning-was-o...
In VC parlance, a "moat" means something much more than just needing money to enter the market, but an insurmountable barrier even with a lot of money.
Please see the discussion below; I already discussed this at length :)
"Less bad" and "equally bad" are incompatible statements, you're claiming both are true
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Am I reading that right? they earned $2.16 per trip on average in 2018?
> I believe in multilayered security. No one approach to security is sufficient, but combining as many approaches as possible can allow each approach to help cover the weaknesses of the other approaches.

Agreed with you there, I'm not saying that multilayered security is a bad thing.

What I'm saying is that right now, in terms of easy and accessible DNS privacy, we have 0 layers. Don't you think it might be worth sacrificing this one partial, incomplete access control solution in favour of solving that?
Tesla "autopilot" is only L2 that had multiple accidents including fatal[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-driving_car#Tesla_Autopil...
> Out-parameters are a terrible choice in C++

why? I personally love functions like `EResult function(const T1& inParam1, T2& outParam2)`. the function signature makes it obvious what the function does (or should do, at least) and it's easy to avoid accidental copying.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030#b

"(b) Whoever conspires to commit or attempts to commit an offense under subsection (a) of this section shall be punished as provided in subsection (c) of this section."

Seems pretty straightforward.

Please don't post about how the law works from your gut feelings about the matter. This forum is awash in people just imagining what the law is every time it comes up. Go look at the law itself. There's no requirement as you've imagined there is.

This was a bit snarky before my edit - please excuse me.
They're free to voice those thoughts wherever they can, just as Mozilla is free to opt not to host their app if they find said thoughts and opinions to be offensive. Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences of said speech. If Mozilla received enough complaints about the speech being promoted via the app, then it is within their right to choose not to host it.

How is that such a hard concept for so many people in this thread to understand?
I tried googling for this but turned up short. Do you have a source for this?
He has First Amendment protections. That doesn't apply to what he's being charged with, which is conspiracy to gain unauthorized access to US military systems.
Some previous discussion on coverage[0] here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19616970

[0] https://www.creativeboom.com/resources/monotype-launches-the...
I've had plenty of poor but not shocking Uber/Lyft rides. Its nice you can rate them and get them out of the ecosystem. However, as time goes on, the bar on Uber/Lyft's drivers will lower, the cars will get dirtier and less maintained and the costs will get higher.

The stabilization point is probably close to taxi service. I think that Uber/Lyft really solve for SF's taxi problem mostly.
See, now that you've said it, it really is quite interesting.

But would that insight be plainly obvious to most? I highly doubt it. I have an MS in an engineering discipline, and this was not obvious to me until you said it. Maybe I'm just dumb (I kid - I would have picked up on this while in undergraduate or grad school, when I could really throw my weight around in mathematics, but like anything else, linear algebra is a muscle that wastes if you don't flex it) but really there should be some commentary associated rather than a raw article - the parent comment is totally right.

I could link HN to pentation or the Ackermann function; they're interesting, but useless without context.
Optimally running your own drives also assumes that you can fill the drives ... and the next byte doubles your cost.
The First Amendment probably does not apply to non-Americans with respect to their conduct abroad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Verdugo-Urqui...

> The Court held that the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures did not apply where United States agents searched and seized property located in a foreign country owned by a nonresident alien in the United States. Chief Justice Rehnquist authored the opinion for the Court, joined by Justices White, Scalia, Kennedy and O'Connor, contending that "the people" intended to be protected by the Fourth Amendment were the people of the United States, and that the defendant's "legal but involuntary presence" on U.S. soil (a direct result of his arrest) failed to create a sufficient relationship with the U.S. to allow him to call upon the Constitution for protection.[1]
How would you set one alight? A fire arrow seems much simpler.
It's a double edged sword. Increased telomere length will not only make it easier for your normal cells to divide more, it makes it easier for cancer cells to divide more. It's actually an anti-cancer adaptation for some mammals to turn off their telomere repair.
Particularly in the case of taxes, where the benefit one gets from having someone else prepare ones taxes is directly proportional to wealth. The people with the most ability to change this situation are the one's who are have the least skin in the game, because they're probably hiring an accountant anyway.
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This is what Bush/Obama/Trump would like you to believe (as most Presidents would, I'm sure), but this is definitely not true in all cases... or even most.
That is irrelevant to the fact that he's being charged with conspiracy to, which doesn't require that he's the person who actually gains access.
A good friend is a Chines ex-pat, and her sister is still in China, her sister is a gynecologist and during the one child policy days it wasn't uncommon to have the authorities bring in women who were full term and force the sister abort the baby.

As my friend would say, "My home country has absolutely no regard for human life."

The reason the twin's guy was punished is because he talked about what he was doing. I'm sure what China is doing to "undesirables" or "prisoners" is probably on par with what Mengle, and unit 731 was doing to people.

To think the Chinese are confining themselves to animal experiments would be foolish.
Subtitle is a better heading and less border-line click-bait:

"Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft did not find the gas in red planet’s atmosphere during its first months of operation"
I'm sorry, but your experience seems to me to just scream of a fallacious appeal to nature. While there are certainly issues with herbicides and insecticides, just because something looks nice doesn't mean its the better option.
I don't see how the "location" matters. I'm arguing that it's a similar subject. If you're investigating advertising practices, I'd hope that you know quite a lot about that subject in general, which includes how it's done at other companies.

How can you talk extensively about the way Facebook does advertising without knowing how its done everywhere else? Doesn't that make you a bad journalist?

By analogy, it'd be like if someone was reporting on how a burger at McDonalds tastes, without having eaten a burger anywhere else.
Why do you think that dead grass surrounding a vineyard is harmful? The only conditions under which this would be a bad thing are: a) there is a wider environmental impact; b) there is a risk to consumers. Neither of which you could see by casually strolling by.

This type of anecdotal feelings based decision making is how we ended up with widespread anti-vaccine, anti-gluten, anti-GMO sentiment, etc.
The definition of a criminal conspiracy requires intent and an agreement to act in furtherance of that intent, and only one of the conspirators to have committed overt acts.

Everyone with mens rea is guilty of conspiring, not just the person who committed the actus reus.
But given that Uber is not profitable now competing with Lyft both with human drivers, why would it be profitable tomorrow competing with Waymo both with SDCs?

Even if the profit is no longer negative, it should be near zero since there is not much moat, and it's not even clear whether Uber would be able to compete at all against Waymo (better tech) or even carmakers who own the cars.

The only thing Uber has is brand recognition, but Google Maps actually has even more brand recognition and that's where Waymo is going to be unless antitrust prevents it somehow.
Collusion is when the parties coordinate on the price increases. If they both increase prices independently to achieve profitability, then I don't believe that to be illegal.
I wonder what the average age is for the people competing and if the sport will go through a generational crisis as the people who presumably grew up with pinball die off.