skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm saying that the media caused all of that through yellow journalism and the pushing of political agendas:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism

Over the past decade they've been in a race to the bottom of what historically would have been thought of as journalistic ethics. People aren't stupid and can see this. Some people are reasonable and have well thought out rebuttals, some are unreasonable and troll to vent their frustration.

Either way, it was the media that created the entire situation we find ourselves in.
You haven't addressed the fact that when someone chooses a male member of the team and gives them undue credit, people don't get upset. Do you really think Jeffrey Snovey was the sole person behind Powershell? That there was no one else on his team that contributed to his project and helped make it a reality? Where was the outrage in that HN thread?

Yet now we have 'the media' pushing a 'feminist narrative' because they're highlighting a woman on the team. Now why would pushing a 'feminist narrative' using your logic cause people to get angry?
How Does Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry Allow Us to Image a Black Hole?
>> Clearly they're following Tesla's playbook -- but with something much harder to produce.

Tesla is aiming at mass manufacturing. This is somehow different from Tesla since the number of units is much smaller.

This is more similar to Model S sans Gigafactory.
>except for the one password

If he did attempt to break the password hash, he conspired to hack military systems. I don't see why someone who attempted to break a password hash for access to classified documents shouldn't be prosecuted, journalist or not.
Yeah, I guess it's a little bad to help crack a password but it also doesn't seem like a huge deal. Part of the stuff that Assange leaked included footage of American helicopters murdering people - which seems like a much bigger deal. If I crack your password and read your email and discover you're a serial killer, then yes, I've done wrong and should be punished for the minor crime I've committed, but you should be punished for the serial killing too.

In my view Assange should be sentenced to a hundred hours of community service immediately after the people responsible for planning and executing the vastly more consequential crimes Assange revealed are sentenced to lengthy prison sentences.
What lack? Use IPv6.
Why aren't sales people paid hourly? Incentives are better aligned when you get a percentage of the contract value. Not completely aligned (the real estate agent is going to be optimizing for deal-flow, not absolute highest price), but more aligned than an hourly wage.
>Hacker News is a toxic place, but not because of all the people who make it hard for under-represented folks. But because of all the "good dudes" who act like it's not a toxic place.

Wow, the bad people are bad AND the good people are bad!
Yeah, I was researching further and found this[0] SE question. Seems to also say the same thing that there is a lot of "space dust" between here and there.

[0]: https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/30339/why-not-...
Regarding his example with the scissors, I would think there are three distinct ways to loop the string through: each of the two he showed, plus a loop that goes through both handles. And I think by mushing the volume of the scissors a bit, you could show that all three of those are exactly equivalent.

And then we might say that the number of ways you can loop a string is actually equal to how many distinct pairs of a holes an object has. It just happens to turn out that three distinct things allow three distinct pairings, whereas two distinct things (ie the two "holes" in a straw) allow only one distinct pairing.

Working backward one step further, this does lead to the slightly unsettling idea that a simple solid object like a ball may have one hole in it. But I can actually get behind that. All the rest of the space not part of the ball is the hole in the ball.
If I remember correctly, Ola is a modern abbreviation of Olaus, which in turn is the Latinization of Olof (which is an ancient name).
I've drawn slightly different buckets for myself / experiences:

A high performance systems language: Asm/C/C++/Rust

A garbage collected language (JIT or compiled): Java/C#/Go

A scripting language: Python/Perl/Ruby/Lua

I think one from each bucket and you'll be able to excel anywhere.
Nobody gets upset when a male gets undue credit because that's not seen as following a politised agenda. Whether that's right or wrong, or how we could fix that, that's an entirely different matter.

People get upset when the media pushes a feminist narrative because feminism is a very divisive issue. Talking about a divisive issue drives clicks, interactions, retweets, etc. Especially when you get dismissive with one half of the pie. The only purpose of the media is to piss people off so they can get eyeballs on ads.
I'm not familiar with the author, but I didn't take the article strictly from the perspective of the labor market. There are people who program as a hobby, for example. For those who are interested, it can be enlightening to see how different language designs lend themselves to different tasks.
No journalist would help their sources hack their employer for more documents. Journalists can take documents their source already has; but helping their source illegally access more documents is against the law.

Imagine if these were physical documents in a safe. A journalist helping the source crack that safe would be very illegal.
> There’s a limit to how much food waste fertilizer can actually be used

once upon a time we fed food waste to animals to "recycle" the caloric content. Think table scraps(but not meat) going to pigs or chickens.

Would be interesting if we close the loop on this household content

Edit: Added note that I meant "vegan" scraps.
Bostons a cute little city and i quite love the beauty of little mountain hamlets in colorado, thank you very much
To be pedantic, he's awaiting sentencing for skipping bail and then an extradition request (or two, depending on how the Sweden situation pans out). He may or may not face trial for the alleged crimes.
That is very nasty joke sir.
> Most police are just doing their job

So do hit-men. I am not saying that policemen are hit-men, but the "just doing my job" argument is not very convincing.
Okay, good point. so maybe we should modify the created datetime of the event more or less 15minutes what do you think?
I’m pretty sure SF is making the decisions it’s residents want and that’s the problem - most of the residents don’t want more density.
I know I am gonna get down-voted to hell for this but here goes nothing:

Am I the only one who was born and used the internet early enough to understand how it actually works? It´s like suddenly everyone is talking about trolls as if it´s some massive internet problem when in actuality trolling is as old if not older than the internet itself. The mere fact that people are complaining about trolls is in itself mind-boggling to me.

People are assholes. You give them the ability to be anonymous and they will take advantage of it. In fact, most of you have probably at one point done something that would be considered trolling. So why the heck is everyone so outraged at the existence of trolls? like really?! How thin skinned do you have to be that some mean comments on the internet aimed to piss you off actually do work? Man I miss the old days when people didn´t associate their online @mynameisabcdef with their actual offline worth and self-esteem.

The less you separate your online life from your offline one, the more you´ll get hurt. Get off the internet, take a walk and if you want to have a proper discussion, seek a forum where people talk seriously. There web is a much bigger space than the cesspool that is Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. It´s as if some people live and die by what is said on Twitter these days. In my book that´s nothing short of insanity.

I get that people want the problem fixed. I really do. But you are up against human nature. If you think you´re going to beat that by pointing fingers and getting angry, then you don´t really understand the problem.

She did something amazing and no matter what, no amount of trolls can take that away from her. Simple as that. And if trolls can actually take that away from her then what she did was probably not so great after all. Let the work speak for itself rather than worrying about what some schmuck on twitter said
> I wonder why more people, especially in tech, don't have agents.

To answer this, it's because as a group, agents have a tendency of screwing up the people they represent.

This is also the reason there are very few successful restaurant or hotel guides.
Unfortunately, this means that iPhones users can be phished. A unsavvy user could be tempted to install software such as a game, approve a certificate and in the process, give an attacker control over the phone.
I do, but it's not ubiquitous yet. Many people are behind IPv4-only CGNAT.
It’s not binary. People and forums can be fine sometimes, toxic sometimes. The question is what happens when things go wrong. Is there a way to recover? Is there enough concern and empathy to actually move forward from a possible hurtful incident? Or do we burn it all down and stop talking. We need more nuance in our lives, more willingness to actually engage, listen and change.
On the other hand, once it's not preserved the future never gets to see it. So you could say that the cultural cost of removing the past should come out of the pockets of the developers.
Some in the press are alleging he’s an “activist”, not a real journalist[1], which seems self serving.

The reason, they hope to “define” what s true journalist is, so that they can remain gatekeepers of who journalists are and what is news. Baffling.

[1]https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/11/opinions/julian-assange-activ...
Yes, there is a reason for the higher cost: price gauging. A pair of 7" displays with Android like software and GPS are ~ $10,000, if you want it in 12" you pay another $5,000. There is no competition in the market. This is why so many people use iPads and $100 software instead.
Is it legal for a journalist to assist another person in invading someone's home, for the purpose of obtaining information that could be published?

It is not. It's very illegal, for good reason.

It's also illegal to do the same thing with a computer system.

People need to start thinking about information systems as property, in the same way that your house is your property, and your car is your property. In this case, the information system is government property, which for some reason many people believe gives us special license to take whatever we want from it. But the same principle applies to the property of private individuals, including you.

So do you really want to live in a world where the governing maxim is that information wants to be free, and that justifies any and all means of getting to it, including breaking into secure information systems?

That sword cuts both ways.
Yes I have always run my companies this way. Even in a bootstrapped company people always knew how many months of cash we had on hand (sometimes scarily few!). And sometimes there were salary injustices and people pointed them out.

Typically when someone thought a salary was wrong they wouldn't complain publicly, but ask "why is the marketing VP getting so much?" And we could show salary surveys, what the VP does, etc.

This kind of attitude helps keep a company together. You know about the common attitude of engineers shitting on sales and marketing as morons or the marketing folks with contempt for the engineers who "have no imagination?" I've never had a company like that.
> The article goes to great length to show that the supposed crimes (except for the one password, maybe) are things that journalists do.

He's only charged with one crime, not multiple, and the “one password” is an integral part of the one crime he is charged with. What “supposed crimes” beside that are you referring to?
I'm not saying it's impossible, just very hard. Especially given the nature of internet business in China. To get to a good growth, you're going to need some help from a higher up in the government which makes it even harder to establish a profitable company.
In other words, the river is several hundred years overdue for multiple course changes, from ORCS down to the sea. The problem is that all the probable new courses are heavily populated.
Then this kind of pay ignorance presumably leads to unhappiness in those people too, which sounds bad all around.
> a grand jury still has to decide if we should pursue the case.

A grand jury has already decided that: that's what an indictment means.
> So your position is that the US government can't be trusted on anything so there's no point in justice or laws?

This is so comical I actually laughed out loud. How did you arrive at this conclusion based on their comment? Walk us through your reasoning.
> should it really not be considered Bad to login to someone else's account

That is not the story here. The story here is a narrative. The apparent "democratic institutions" instead of protecting freedom of the press directly press more whole countries in order to "as a discouraging example" punish a person who managed to expose some of the serious and actual misdeeds of the governments.

In short, what they do is as tyrannical, whimsical and dictatorial as we could imagine, like in the movies about the older times "bring me the head of that guy." And they try to pretend this is simply and "normally" "lawful" whereas there's no other person with such a minor actual punishment in that land that would cause spending a million of pounds for "guards" to get him as soon as he leaves the Embassy, to plan everything that was planned to get him, etc.

So now it's using the minor technicalities, which were before correctly recognized as not enough to charge him because of the potential effects on the freedom of the press, to "bring them his head." Exactly as the Intercept article explains, and the major line is:

"the huge step this indictment represents in the Trump administration’s explicitly stated goal to criminalize journalism that involves reporting on classified information."

Note that Obama's administration already broke some records in that direction.
What stories - the one about PowerShell? Do you think it makes sense to compare the EHT (a literally worldwide effort) to PowerShell?
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The first part of the scenario, where one scientist is held up as responsible for a large team's discovery, has played out in every Nobel Prize for experimental work in the past fifty years. That's how science works and everyone who does science professionally knows this. The second part of the scenario, where the internet goes wild and declares this a horrendous miscarriage of credit, happens only when the leader of the team is female. It is not a miscarriage of credit. It is how scientific teams are credited and how they have always been credited, by personifying the collective work through the persona of the leader of the team. There is nothing new here except the application of misogyny.
Manning was not pardoned, she had her sentence commuted.
Sure, there are several famous examples that everyone is aware of.

Steve Jobs with the iPhone or iPod. Elon Musk with both SpaceX and Tesla. Jeff Bezos with AWS and Amazon's success generally.

In every thread (or media article) in which those people are given opulent credit for the thing in question, it's persistently pointed out that in fact the teams, designers, employees, engineers, leadership, etc. behind those things deserve enormous credit, while the famous person at the front is getting the credit as a visionary genius. Why? Because it sells better to put Bezos on the cover (with his head in a box).

State in an HN thread that Elon Musk founded Tesla sometime, see what response you get 100% of the time. I've been watching that specific response play out over and over for the better part of a decade here as one example. Musk persistently gets given overwhelming credit by the media, and he persistently gets torn down for it.

You also constantly see it when it comes to team efforts generally to take this further. For example when NASA and ESA work on something together and then NASA gets blanket credit. The more famous team will get the overwhelming credit, because it sells. That last part is what it's all about.
Not sure know how far you may be into your career but as one who’s had a couple decades, it’s definitely possible to have both. I have been able to learn two very different languages (C and Haskell) to that level of comfort and am feeling nearly there in Rust. At the same time, I feel reasonably comfortable picking up a project in any of about 20 others with frequent reference to standard lib docs.

With only my own experience and that of people I’ve worked with to go by I can’t provide any broader scope, but I feel like it really is the case that a critical mass of familiarity with different languages and ecosystems makes it far easier to pick up and run with others and be more or less unaffected by the differences. It is probably important that the languages in your set be actually different though, rather than superficially different as most historically-popular languages have tended to be.
> This is why we have a justice system.

And by that you mean church?
It is typically 6%, split between buyer's and seller's agent.
I wonder how enforceable that patent is.
Chelsea Manning's sentence was commuted but she was not pardoned - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/us/politics/obama-commute...
2. If great people don't have growth path at your company, they'll grow by going elsewhere.
>writers are freelancers

I think this is the root of the problem. Say you're a studio making a movie and you want to hire, say, 5 writers, 25 actors, 10 special effects editors, 3 stuntmen, etc. You'd prefer to get them as a package because it's easier for you and you have a better chance of them working well together.

The agencies stepped in and provided that service, but now they have an obvious conflict of interest. If they get $10 million for all of those combined it's now up to them to decide how much each of their individual clients get and, therefore, how much of that $10 million the agency keeps. They have a clear incentive to get the clients to accept less.

I don't know how much of an impact it really has. The superstar writers that can actually use an agent probably aren't being packaged. The interchangeable cogs that don't really need an agent end up with an agency that's more like a staffing firm. I think the only ones really getting screwed are those that straddle the line between superstar and cog. Their agents have an incentive to keep them in the packages while it would be better for the writer to be in the superstar category.
California doesn’t exactly pay for Montana... they do pay for some federal services for which everyone has voted for. In theory though poor management can cause a state to default on its debt.
> not competitive against air travel

Financially, maybe. In terms of the negative externalities impacting climate, high-speed trains are incomparable.
1 - i agree with that sentiment

2 - your comment is exactly why.

Let me explain, first you express your opinion as a matter of fact. Their opinion is nonsense? Why not pose a question as to why one may think that? Consider the culture of 4chans various boards and some of the herd mentality you see on hn.

I can tangibly see on a daily basis trite comments which add nothing of value be upvoted because it expresses commonly held approved opinions (ie. Anti amazon comments or issues with nimbys in sf)

However someone echo a concern about the importance of us military intelligence infrastructure by virtue of supporting msft contracts with the us military, someone is downvoted as a warmonger with little discussion.

The shitposts are real randy
The author wrote 'Writing an Interpreter in Go' for reference.
Languages I Want to Write
That's not true. Teaching is a very important social role and it's very much dominated by women.

Of course there's the most important social role of all: parenting. Stay at home dads do not receive the support and admiration mothers do.
Good thing for the overall economy, so in this case for the EU as a whole. Increasing productive capacity overall is good because it means a society can afford more of the things it values. But again, the EU is in a difficult place because it's not a cohesive country. If you can't convince a German to value the well being of an Italian in the same way he values that of another German, then increasing the productive capacity of the EU as a whole doesn't help Italy at all.
> Isn't his "crime" releasing documents that Manning stole?

No, releasing documents is not conduct that he is charged with.

> Manning, by the way, who had their sentence commuted by president Obama...

Commutation is not a pardon; it is merely a limitation on punishment. Now, a pardon still wouldn't invalidate the Assange charges, but the idea that the fact that a coconspirator got less punishment than their original sentence negates the validity of charges against someone else in the conspiracy is laughable.
> I haven't heard of any union vs union fights happening before

Are you being sarcastic? Unions fight with each other all the time like any other group with their own interests. Unions will try to get the best deal for their own people which of course inevitably means someone else getting less.

Sometimes it's literally a physical fight.

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/16/us/16labor.html
What I find unfortunate about infrastructure-as-code tooling is that a lot of the tooling isn't actually using code, but instead uses esoteric configuration languages. Indeed, the article refers to Terraform with its custom syntax.

Imho tools should use actual code (whether it's TypeScript or Kotlin or whatever) instead of reinventing constructs like loops and string interpolation.

Thankfully these tools are getting more popular, because frankly I can't stand configuring another Kubernetes or GCP resource using a huge block of copy/pasted YAML.
It should have been replaced in the browser.
Expanding commuter service and Amtrak does not solve the problems that CaHSR solves, namely meeting the long-haul travel needs of the next ten million Californians and complying with AB32’s carbon reduction requirements.
Thanks! I wish there was a service I could pay for where I could ask lawyers vague security-research related questions like this. Right now I wouldn't even know where to begin looking for a lawyer that would be an authority on this type of stuff. If I found that person, I'm also not sure I could afford their time.
It doesn't feel like a crime serious enough for extradition to me.

He is guilty of skipping bail, which is a serious crime. It's possible that there's merit for what Sweden wanted to extradite him for, and the courts should look at the merits of extraditing him to Sweden
The title says it's hacking.

The article body says they apprehended a lot of electronic equipment on his house, and many credit cards. It also says he travels a lot. I'm not getting into any specifics because the article doesn't get into them either...

Also, it says nothing about what he actually hacked.
Does the LDAP group submit a Grievance to your org? Do they demand to be paid wages lost from your usurpation of their role? Apples to Oranges. Ftr I am pro-union but this is a uniquely union problem
Scientists are growing meat on blades of grass