skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks Fyfy18 for your recommendation! Plazida is a really new coworking concept, they recently opened so competing for the key word "coworking madrid" is not that easy, takes time to appear but they are def. working on it :)
I am not from Plazida but I can highly recommend you to visit them next time you are in town, it's a really cool concept, especially for people who are not from the city.
C99 actually lets you make "pointer literals" (dont know the proper name) by putting an addressof operator in front of rvalue expressions. I cant offer a better explanation than the one you gave, though.
HTTP 204 is amazingly under utilized in avoiding JavaScript. It allows messages to a server without a page refresh or XHR.

Click a link, server replies 204, browser stays where it is. Remarkably handy and imho underutilized.

If you don’t mind a little basic JS you can do some pretty powerful things without any XHR.
Cosmonaut Aleksandr Laveykin on best space movie, 20g g-forces, and soft landing
For that visual part, I think that that is the case for most people, including those without aphantasia. From what I have gathered from personal experience and by talking to other people, this so-called mind's eye is (somewhat unintuitively) not really related to your actual eyes, so closing them would not necessarily lead to you seeing things. When I personally know something strongly enough to "see" it without it being in front of me, it feels more like I begin to momentarily stop focusing on the input from my eyes and instead prioritize that thing. It is not like overlaying some images over what I am seeing with my eyes (although some people are apparently able to do this also), but rather I temporarily ignore my eyes and am more interested or focused on this alternative source. This is an entirely* voluntary process and can in fact require some effort on my part depending on how corrupted the data is, but I could not say how it is for others. The images are not at all intense or of high fidelity, and failing to focus on them is sufficient to stop seeing them for me. I might just have relatively weak image visualization though.

I am not sure if I have any meaningful anecdotes regarding reading fiction. I do not believe I have seen or otherwise visually imagined the events in either fiction or non-fiction most of the time unless reading it made me recall something that I remember. It might be possible if I were actively trying to do that, but I can say that whatever experience I am extracting from reading fiction is not primarily due to being able to see it. If people are really imagining that sort of thing automatically, I feel pretty envious of that myself.

When it comes to sounds though, I am something of a captive in my own mind. For the majority of the period that I am awake and not highly focused, my mind is using approximately 98% of its resources to replay, construct, combine, and modify music. This is usually much more interesting than what I am hearing and what most people have to say to me, and it can require conscious effort to hear the latter. Unlike the images, this sound is of high quality and is not at all consensual. I have been told that this is not quite normal. In hindsight, this could have been a useful trait had I worked with it instead of worked through it.

*Assuming that these memories are not brought on through involuntary means, such as some drugs and trauma-induced flashbacks.
GP was probably sarcastic
Neural machine translation (NLP with deep neural networks) has become quite good and is increasingly put into useful products.

(Disclaimer: I work on DeepL translator)
The government is on your side.
It wouldn't avoid the UK courts getting involved; consent from the UK for onward extradition from Sweden is subject to judicial review, much like any other extradition request.
> There is a sealed indictment against him in EDVA which was accidentally released.

No, there was an inadvertent mention in a filing made in another case which strongly suggests that there is an indictment in EDVA, which would have to be sealed because no unsealed indictment exists. The indictment itself was not released.
Personally, I started with Eugene Charniak's Statistical Language Learning [1] then continued with Manning and Schütze's Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing [2] and Speech and Language Processing by Jurafsky and Martin [3].

The Charniak book is primarily about HMMs and quite short, so it's the best introduction to the subject. Manning and Schütze and Jurafsky and Martin are much more extensive and cover pretty much all of statistical NLP up to their publication date (so no LSTMs if I remember correctly) but they are required reading for an in-depth approach.

You will definitely want to go beyond HMMs at some point, so you will probably want the other two books. But, if you really just want to know about HMMs, then start with the Charniak.

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[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/statistical-language-learning

[2] https://nlp.stanford.edu/fsnlp/

[3] https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/
Thanks Emerongi for sharing what matters to you in a coworking space :) Did you find one that has all you are looking for?
Yes — so much so, they added it as an extra assumption to their model.

The original justification is that we have things like Bell’s experiment that say reality is non-local or non-deterministic, because they exclude local determinism.

But since then, we’ve found increasing evidence that it’s non-local, and so the choice made for the Copenhagen interpretation, to preserve locality at the cost of determinism, becomes unjustified.

It’s now included as an extra assumption out of tradition, and because no one wants to seriously rewrite things. However, as Smolin contends, that may be a dead-end intellectually and an impediment to unifying QM with relativity.

A non-local, but real QM interpretation has a more straightforward paradigm to merge with relativistic gravity: it aligns their models philosophically.
I just want to have a pizza delivered to my balcony one day
Is it totally exactly true that a `glvalue` is either an `xvalue` or a `lvalue` and nothing else?

Similarly, is a `rvalue` either a `xvalue` or a `prvalue`?
What is your type of coworking space?
> censorship resistant transfer of value

But how do you get actual value out of it, i.e. currency? AFAIK most exchanges have pretty strict money laundering rules these days, it's not like Wikileaks could just open an account to liquidate those BTC donations...
is this the case also for foreign nationals (e.g. Australians)? and in combination with terror laws and agreements[1] between UK/US (not just civil/criminal law)?

I think if he does a little bit of time for jumping UK bail then the second he walks out from a UK prison the CIA will be all over abducting his ass. And he'll never be heard off again. I recall Hillary Clinton wasn't ashamed of suggesting "Can't we drone the guy?"* She and her ilk was considered a lot more moderate compared to the criminals in DC right now.

[1] edit: never mind I found it: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/uk-wont-send-ter... - seems that prosecutors would have to play their cards right and just promise to give him life in prison instead. Spending the rest of his life in solitary isn't really much of a consolation.
Found some old Dreamcast code
The Swedes have previously allowed the CIA to just straight up kidnap people, outside of the legal process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repatriation_of_Ahmed_Agiza_an...
This has been possible for as long as I'm using it on Android. Ability to run uBlock is great.
> All it can do is move money around.

Not to be pedantic, but this is exactly how the economy works. One person's spending is another person's income and vice versa. An alternative definition of an economy is "the way money moves around"
No such thing happening on my site 'Throw_no_humour'

Shouldimakeit.com is is a simple quiz made in Typeform.

I ask for no data at all from users, it's totally anonymous.

Once the person has finished the quiz, and if they get a high score I have a button that clicks through to a landing page of a book I wrote. ( userbly.com )

It's called content marketing, just like Unsplash did and countless other websites do.

Provide something of value in return you get a chance to open a conversation about something you made.
Ask HN: Which donation platform are you using?
I'm making an open source forum, and I'm planning to add a feature.

People can be donated for their topics, (I think good content should be encouraged).

The function is:
1. People add the payment to their profile.
2. Show a donation button on the bottom of their topic, if he thinks they are worth.

I know maybe Paypal, Stripe can do this, if there any advice? Thanks
> First of all, that's unrelated to the extradition to Sweden.

It's not "unrelated". It shows the US wants him, as he claimed.

You write that the UK would have had to authorize a further extradition from Sweden to the US, but does that authorization depend on the same level of judicial review?
I'm not a scientist, but in software development some people used to think that planning and designing everything up front was a good way to go about things. Turns out that taking all the big decisions before getting your hands dirty and really learning about the problem domain isn't really a great idea.
It's pretty shocking here to see pro-fascist comments like this which reward the Russian Intelligence operation called "Wikileaks" and its constant war against democracy, liberty and free elections in not just the U.S., but also Europe.

Sometimes you have to wonder why folks this guy truly hate the U.S. and the West and side openly with mediocre spies involved in intelligence operations against his own home.

But this is our reality: the new fascist right storming the world doesn't care about elections, democracy, liberty, or anything.

I proudly stand against the rising tide of dictators and fascism and the intelligence war they operate against the free people of the world, a war in which Julian Assange proudly operated in on the side of fascist dictatorships.

Our freedoms, our ability to conduct fair elections, our very ability to communicate is under concerted nation-state attack and if we do not rise to defend ourselves and our ability to associate like we do, we will lose it. It is already on life-support. We are losing it in real time.
> If international treaty obligations block sovereignty, then the UK isn't sovereign within the UK either (!)

Yup. International treaties are an exchange of sovereignty for something else. The general public imagine that XIX-century-style nation states still exist, but they haven't for a long time. I suspect the USA's rhetoric of patriotism, especially post-9/11 exacerbates this view. Even the USA shares a lot of its sovereignty with external entities (gasp!).

The only XIX-century-style nation state left might be North Korea, FWIW.
"Standard" != right.
I know people that have said "I don't care about my Alexa because I have my phone all the time anyways", but I think this is really the wrong way to approach privacy. They're just accepting their fate without any type of recourse.

I am a fan of Android and it's what I use, but I don't like the privacy concerns. Maybe I'll switch to iOS soon. I'm not patient enough to try to use a device like the Librem phone either.
Snips' home assistant does local processing

https://www.home-assistant.io/components/snips/
> Has anyone tried modifying the description of a card in Asana lately? It's freaking slow! The UI lags for no good reason as you type.

I'm glad to see Asana called out on this. I swapped form Trello to Asana at the request of a client about 12 months ago. The feature set is comprehensive but performance is bafflingly woeful. I cannot begin to fathom what they're doing that causes my i7 to come to a screeching halt every time I drag a card from one column to the next.
Statement from NPM
>That's because it wouldn't be an extradition. Embassies are not extra-territorial. British police didn't storm the embassy largely out of politeness and convention.

My comment specifically acknowledged this, however I see a very real chance that a court might view this as an extradition. It is the .ec government handing him over to a foreign country after all.
wow really cool, unfortunately i need chrome :( but very nice work!
He’s more likely to be executed by whichever information sources he has a risk of ratting out in a trial than by the US. Maybe he won’t even make it to US land.
Yes, at war there are always these ideological explanations that try to justify atrocities, and people tend to accept them when they are from their side of the war (but not when they are from the other side).
I prefer to see if those users will come forward and comment on this without being named directly.

However, if you're genuinely curious, algolia brings up plenty of examples pretty regularly. In particular I am thinking of a discussion from 2012 in which one particular HN 'power user' makes a lot of comments trying to debunk the idea that Assange actually feared extradition to America. That's one particularly egregious example off the top of my head, but there are plenty of others. I have another cute example of that same user citing the case of Polanski to argue that extradition to America was unlikely. In 2016 this user flat out said that Assange's expressed concern of extradition to America was 'dishonest' and 'irrational.'

I believe that should give you enough to go off of to find what I'm talking about. Like I said, I would rather see if that user comes forward without being directly confronted, and what they will say if they do.

@areyousure I have given you ample leads to find the specific comments I am talking about. Are you sure you looked? You won't have to go down the leader list very far at all to find the user I am talking about. It's 9am in Chicago, maybe he will be gracing us with his insight soon!
Unfortunately, we're not there yet in California, either.

I worked at one of the most progressive / women-friendly companies in San Francisco, and as of last year, only 34.3% of our technical roles were filled by women (company size ~1,000). I'm eager to see this year's numbers, and hope they've improved, but there's undoubtedly a lot of room to grow.
Any possible relation to the arrest of Assange? IMF board approves $4.2 bln financing deal with Ecuador March 11 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund’s executive board approved the $4.2 billion financing deal with Ecuador https://www.reuters.com/article/ecuador-imf/imf-board-approv...
That makes it sound like it's still only theory that it would benefit mice. But they actually tried it:

> They isolated two chemical compounds — Y27632 and apocynin — and tested both on skin cells, with positive results. “Application of these drugs to full-thickness skin wounds significantly promoted wound repair,” the study said.
US has formally requested his extradition so its probably no longer sealed.
You had me going with a convincing argument till you finished your second sentence.
Hey look we have democracy, freedom, free speech but if you actually try to use any of these seriously beyond ranting about some politician to actually exposing the rot we will demonize and come after you.

This is a nice arrangement, the vast majority will never offer organized dissent and can keep on posturing about 'freedom' and 'democracy' while those who put their head above are swiftly cut down to size.

Isn't it curious that the bare basic actions of whistle blowing and dissent are not able to operate freely in the west?
What technology exactly do the established players are catching up to?

I'm under impression that the value of Tesla comes from the brand itself and Elon Musk's persona. The tech itself is nothing special, they are far behind in autonomous driving but the brand is very strong, they easily upsell "one day it will be autonomous" packages.
But the amount of hours worked are probably insane. I wouldn't be surprised if she was in her lab 12 hours a day for her whole post-doc or something like that.

Many people are intelligent enough, but are not going to work hard enough.
looks like they are trying to charge him with computer related offences.
Once you post your impossibly distant black hole images, I'm sure they'll consider your pull request cleaning it up...
It is unfortunately common for rape cases to go unreported/unsolved because of the lack of physical evidence. I certainly don't blame investigators for trying to interview the acused, but without evidence or a confession there's nothing for them to do.
> is this the case also for foreign nationals (e.g. Australians)? and in combination with terror laws and agreements between UK/US (not just civil/criminal law)?

Extradition is based on criminal law, even if the offense is terrorism; and, yes, it's a matter of human rights law without exception. (That is not to say they might not do a covert rendition rather than an extradition with death on the table, but the fact that the formal process of extradition is being used means, with a high degree of certainty, that it will not go forward absent a formal guarantee that capital punishment is off the table.)

> I recall Hillary Clinton wasn't ashamed of suggesting "Can't we drone the guy?"* She and her ilk was considered a lot more moderate compared to the criminals in DC right now.

Perhaps in some general sense, but certainly not on the specific issue of WikiLeaks and Assange.
Note: this is a real question with real curiosity. What are googles best AI tools?
suppose you have a shared ptr and you pass it to a function with overloads for move and value. what should the compiler deduce? it can't tell if it's legal. it can't tell if it's illegal

I agree this is a nasty thing to rely on, but id rather be verbose and know what's happening than have more deduction guides/similar
Worth also noting that Luke Harding has been involved in some rather extraordinary claims, seemingly without corroborative evidence.

The most startling is the allegation that Paul Manafort personally visited Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy – probably the most surveilled building in the UK – secretly, more than once, "according to sources."

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20181127143814/https://www.thegu...
I agree with you that there's no direct zero-sum connection between public transport investment and self-driving cars but I'd say that's missing the point.

This is a tangent, but there aren't two separate pots of currency labelled 'PRIVATE FUNDS' and 'PUBLIC FUNDS' in society. Nor does private industry have a monopoly on R&D. As you acknowledge, it's entirely feasible through political action to change society's declared priorities, and there's nothing 'full communism' about it: Private companies operate within the market defined and backed by the state and legal system.

Self-driving cars, even if ready to go tomorrow, present a worse value proposition than public transport unless we enter into the realms of a post-scarcity society. My opinion is that it's a shame that the current sociopolitical system has ended up offering better incentives by having half a dozen mega-corps pump endless amounts of money into their own proprietary research of something less useful to society than public transport, which provides similar functionality.

Is it a useful, actionable statement? No, of course not! We're wasting time on HN not debating in parliament ;-)
Using 6 page and 2 page documents to make organizational decisions
Ironically, the largest element of the website is the poorly optimized, almost 400kb hero image. After running it through https://tinyjpg.com/ I got it down to 75kb.
> "A lot of people said" is not enough for a proof.

Agree. Here's something like video proof from BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35639549
I would like to locate all HN comments which said he never would get arrested on behalf of the US, and that Assange objections was all just pretense for trying to escape justice from the UK/Swedish legal system.
> If they do, the money goes to pay founders/investors in the target company

And when Tesla spends it, the money goes to workers that perform the physical labour. These situations differ in amount of people getting rewarded and in how long these chains are, but in the end, you give money to people for exchange for something valuable they created.
Umm, given that upon his arrest by the UK police the US government requested his extradition before the Swedish government did, I would say that invalid pretext was neither invalid or a pretext.
Tell that to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. We've executed for sharing secret documents before, and may again.
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> just wasted seven years of his life in a self-imposed prison with absolutely no upside except delaying whatever awaits him now.

Well, makes one wonder what kind of thing he was trying to delay.
Since everybody seems to be looking for subterfuge in these comments, I'll try to answer the actual question you've asked.

The images in the google search link you supplied are all, without exception that i can see, artistic renderings of a black hole.

There are images of gravitational lensing [1] that show a basic distortion of light from gravity, but none of them reach the intensity of a black hole's 'event horizon'.

The body that we are seeing is at the center of the bright spot in this image [2], and is the source of the blue jet of material coming out. (I originally thought that jet was projected laterally, but in one of the two recent Veritasium videos on this topic he says it's actually heading almost straight at us and is 5000 light years long.) However, it's such an infinitessimally small part of the above image (about 1/10,000,000th the size) that we do not possess the optical resolving power to actually see it. For example, Hubble can resolve down to approximately .05 arcsecond. This image is approximately .00004 arcsecond. To get that resolving power they had to combine signals from radio telescopes all over the world using a technique called Very Long Baseline Interferometry. The contribution of Katie and her team is to extract a useful image from the petabyates of data that came from that exercise.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lens#/media/File...

[2] - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/M87_jet....
There's a better video of the drones here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prhDrfUgpB0

Google's delivery drones combine a multirotor design with fixed-wings. It seems like an eminently sensible design to me; fixed-wing operation will be quieter and more power-efficient, allowing longer travel distances (unlike the early Amazon Prime Air videos [1]), while hover capability avoids the need to parachute the load (unlike the current Zipline drones [2]) and provides a hover-and-land-almost-anywhere capability I imagine is useful.

Presumably the winch-down-the-load design reduces the risk of a user putting their hands into the blades - not to mention reducing the risk from customers choosing an inappropriate landing location; I imagine the drone can also jettison the winch cord if it gets caught on anything. It precludes delivering directly to apartment windows - but AFAIK no-one else is trying that either.

It's a pity they haven't released clear info on these drones' range, round-trip time and weight carrying capacity. Which are of course critical to working out the profitability of a citywide coffee delivery service.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR9PoBAssw0
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnoUBfLxZz0
And by investing in more and more new software companies. The likelihood of them succeeding goes down. Roughly until an investment in a software company is as valuable as a hardware company.
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Isn't it confirmed that the Russians hacked the DNC e-mails on the day that Trump famously said: 'Russia, if you're listening...". Wasn't that in the indictment for the 12 members of the GRU?
You have always been able to use every desktop extension on mobile FF, at least as long as I have been using it.