skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US cannot seek the death penalty for people extradited from the EU.

Well ok, they technically can break their own treaties but then no EU nation will ever extradite to them again. And many other countries require similar assurances which would now be worthless.

Incidentally, the maximum penalty for the charges is five years, which is far short of a death sentence.
I've cut most social media and cell phone use out of my life (I still allow myself HN and a particular musician's forum).

Something that drives me nuts now is people staring at their phones while ostensibly hanging out with me and being social. I have a couple of friends who are hardcore Pokemon Go players, and I can't go anywhere with them without them constantly hunting for Pokemon on their phones (or checking FB, or whatever).
Your sentiment could be the reason why aliens permit these fleeting reveals, assuming these really are alien crafts.
This is why most ads target within 30 days.
1. I find stock analysis to be fun. There's a huge variety of information available because of the required 10k forms, quarterly filings, and so forth. I've been doing this since the start, you can ask the Tesla Bull "Toomuchtodo" about it, he and I often butt heads on this subject (but we both enjoy the discussion).

2. Tesla is such a divisive topic right now, that you can gather a lot of opinions and viewpoints on this stock. Other stocks, like Costco or Target, are less exciting. There's so little discussion that almost no one would want to talk to me about those stocks.

3. I can state strong opinions as a test to myself. They're documented, and sometimes I'm wrong. But making predictions and improving my own predictive skills in the market is absolutely essential if I want to make money in the long term. So I'll get my "paper practice" with Tesla, with regards to investing strategy.

4. The topics I DO care about deeply, don't get upvoted and don't get discussed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19702487 .

It takes two to tango. I post interesting subjects when I can, but everyone around here is talking about Tesla. I'd rather talk about GPUs and CPUs, but there really isn't as much discussion around that subject these days. (Unless... Tesla makes an ASIC chip. Then I get to talk about GPUs, CPUs, AND Tesla at the same time!)

If you're insinuating that maybe I have a greater reason... I own ZERO Tesla stock. The shares I do own are Costco, Lattice Semiconductor, Ford, SPY ETF, Pebblebrook, and a few others. Tesla is purely a theoretical exercise for me, since there's a lot of discussion online and analysis available. Other stocks don't even have a fraction of the analysis or discussion Tesla has, so its great "practice" as far as I'm concerned.

I don't short shares either. So no shorts, nor do I have any put options right now. (My last put options / bear bets were on Kellogg and on Bank of America, if you want to know my stock-trading history). I don't make many bear bets or play it short very often... its very difficult to predict short squeezes and other issues like that, so I recommend people to stay away from shorting.
That is the entire purpose of a trial. The accuser brings forth evidence against the accused.

Assange is under federal indictment meaning that a grand jury was presented evidence and decided that it was enough to file charges. However, the parent comment claims that Assange is innocent.
> “Intellisense with AI now available on VS Code” is Microsoft’s nice way of saying “We harvest the shit out of your data”.

What? The IntelliCode description says that "Contextual recommendations are based on practices developed in thousands of high quality, open-source projects on GitHub each with high star ratings.". I'm not clear on how you think Microsoft will harvest data from doing this - much less how it is related to ads.
Odd, I'm seeing more and more people trying to find ways to escape Exchange, and not having it as a driver towards anything. Nobody likes being driven by artificial lock-ins.
> AWS is cheaper than everyone else.

Can you provide a source for this please? I recently priced out AWS, Azure, and GCP for GPU workloads. I found that AWS and Azure were approximately on par, whereas GCP was significantly cheaper:

AWS p3.8xlarge: $12.24/hr [1]

Azure NC24 v3: $12.24/hr [2]

GCP n1-highmem-32: $8.311/hour [3]

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/p3/

[2] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-ma...

[3] https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/
They also chose Australia on purpose, because the energy market there is pretty messed up and the result is high energy prices, i.e. higher profits than the same system would see somewhere else.

For battery storage to be cost effective in general it has to be quite a bit cheaper than it currently is. The cost has been declining, but people who expect exponential curves to continue forever are generally disappointed. It may or may not hit a stable floor before the cost is low enough to actually replace baseload power generation. What it is likely to be good for is to get over the load hump between dusk and bedtime for solar -- but that requires a lot less storage than being able to carry the whole night. Especially in winter (when the nights are longer), and especially if we expect people to switch from carbon-based to electric heat.

The issue is we need to be building things to replace carbon right now. Even if batteries become cost effective in a decade or more, that's too late. And there is no guarantee of even that.
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The article doesn’t mention Google collecting and storing location information even when it’s turned off, and having the users figure out more convoluted ways to get rid of that tracking. Scrubbing this information periodically is not a substitute for not collecting or storing it in the first place. Whenever that’s done, I’ll probably accept that Google is doing something for privacy.
I personally don't believe them. I have an android phone but no Google login. I don't even want to begin to try and work out how to get them to scrub my anything. I've asked them for a copy of all my data based on phone number under GDPR. I've also instructed them to delete what they have about me. Obviously very interested to see how it works out.
There's also this: http://client-side-vue.herokuapp.com as an alternative

https://github.com/justinwash/Client-Side-Vue
I completely agree with you and the parent comment.

It's like people now come online to just loudly scream their opinion about something, then leave.

Whether a tech person likes or loaths Facebook is not really of interest or any gain to us as a community. Like you said, it would be massively interesting to learn exactly what tech and how facebook are re-writing their app, but those conversations don't even happen on HN anymore.

It's amazing to think what the state of automobiles and driving will be in 5 and then 10 years (which is really not far away at all), and yet every single discussion thread just argues about the demise of Tesla instead of discussing, planning for and building the future that is inevitable, with or without Tesla.

> Every topic related to those things quickly devolves into a bunch of people just yelling at each other over semantics, and it's very hard to have any real nuanced discussion.

As much as I hate censorship, I think the moderation team at HN would be wise to shadow ban (or just outright ban) accounts that post negative rubbish, or simply expose their opinion on a topic.

Maybe there should be a rule that a person's opinion is off-limits in HN discussions. Discuss the topic at hand, but don't just cram opinions down throats. (yes, I get the irony, I'm expressing my opinion here)
It doesn't matter though. Just as people are rightfully skeptical of Uber's selling a dollar for 80 cents, it looks like Tesla are doing the same thing.
Microsoft's core revenue is still due to market lock-in of their proprietary technologies: MS Office and Windows itself. There are other office suites out there, but nothing can gain much market share without complete compatibility for MS Office file formats: docx, pptx, etc. Microsoft produced a version of Office for Macs and that allowed Apple to grow greater than niche, but their market share was always tiny compared to Windows.

Outside of Windows and Mac, you're in Open Source land, which is great if you're technically minded and want to tinker and explore, but not much of an option for folks who just want their computers to work with the consumer software and file formats around them. Other than Apple, where are the commercial alternatives to Microsoft?

I'd be much more sympathetic to Nardella's renaissance if it meant real consumer choice. The situation is better than it was under Ballmer, but not as good as it could be in a real free marketplace.
The guy you're responding to said "crimes by US officials that Assange revealed", not "crimes by Assange that US officials revealed". I misread it the first time too, but he meant the opposite of what you thought.
Wouldn't writing an Antlr grammar handle this?
Same here. But we should keep in mind that there is no guarantee that their stance stays the same, and they pretty much only answer to money and nothing/nobody else.
As someone who spent more or less a year doing "growth hacking", heck yeah SEO is one big hairball.

I understand the reason though. It's basically an arms race between the search engines (or just the Big G) and those who "game" the system, especially with ill intent in mind. At the surface, SEO is "easy": just build up links, links, and links. But when you're not hitting your projections, it gets difficult (at least for me, as a software engineer) to drill down on what part of your strategy is holding you back, isn't giving the intended ROI. A curious thing I learned during my time doing SEO is how there's an industry built on, basically, interpreting the whims of Google's algorithm, trying to shed light what part of your strategy can be improved. Might be common knowledge to others, but definitely not to me.

But I don't buy that this leeches SEO away from GitLab. AFAIK, URLs are no longer as weighty to the algorithms as they used to be. At most this would leech off on GitLab's brand; maybe some GitLab fans would think GitLab released something new and then they realize they gave their eyeballs to a _GitHub_ product. This could fool humans, but not the algorithms.
The Leadership Sort Deck identifies 20 characteristics reflecting leadership priorities for the job.

It's an invaluable tool to assess and interview candidates. Really helps cut through the BS.

> https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Architect-Sort-Cards-Lomba...
Actually, there was some evidence that Seth Rich was indeed in contact with Wikileaks. There is no confirmation that he actually was the source of any leaks but there were email exchanges with Assange on his laptop and he appeared to be _intending_ to leak at least.

This was according to Seymore Hersh, you can find audio of him describing Rich's involvement and other discussion on the topic.

To be clear, Rich's murder could have been a total coincidence and he could have possibly not been the source of any published leaks. Given that, it was not weaponization but a reasonable assumption on the part of Wikileaks to conclude that Rich had probably been assasinated.
Jesus. That's pretty outrageous.
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I like line about market cap being a useless metric for your own success. It's great on the meta-business side of things, but for real-world things it's hardly relevant.
Tesla are about to start offering insurance. Musk has been tweeting about it quite a lot. Starting with the US soon, and a recent tweet said probably over a year before they get it figured out for the UK/Europe.
It's kind of all linked together. If you use Exchange, the natural evolution to the cloud is moving to Office 365, which then entails a bunch of knock-on effects. Once you are linked in to the Azure ecosystem, it is hard to break out.
You've described someone in my family exactly. I agree that it's predatory and terrible; maybe it wasn't intended to be, but perpetuating the situation doesn't seem like the right approach.
That sounds like something Slavoj Zizek would say. Capitalism is the cornerstone of American culture, so everything we do easily falls into a "pump up those numbers" mindset.
This is neat! What were a couple of your biggest challenges when creating this?

Does the number connections to a router effect how many people can join? I think around 250 is the limit thought some have problems after 50.
"succinct" is hard to answer. It depends a lot on the upstream package. For most packages the package expression looks like data:

(define-public r-valr
(package
(name "r-valr")
(version "0.5.0")
(source
(origin
(method url-fetch)
(uri (cran-uri "valr" version))
(sha256
(base32
"14jhrwkiwmha3vlmm7b50n2xxyizj6ddmy89gb20mpzq7qhz1ika"))))
(build-system r-build-system)
(propagated-inputs
`(("r-broom" ,r-broom)
("r-dplyr" ,r-dplyr)
("r-ggplot2" ,r-ggplot2)
("r-rcpp" ,r-rcpp)
("r-readr" ,r-readr)
("r-rlang" ,r-rlang)
("r-stringr" ,r-stringr)
("r-tibble" ,r-tibble)))
(home-page "https://github.com/rnabioco/valr")
(synopsis "Genome interval arithmetic in R")
(description
"This package enables you to read and manipulate genome intervals and
signals. It provides functionality similar to command-line tool suites within
R, enabling interactive analysis and visualization of genome-scale data.")
(license license:expat)))

This defines the name "r-valr" to be a "package" value with the given fields. The "source" field describes how Guix should obtain the source tarball ("url-fetch" is a procedure that implements a URL downloader, but there are others like "git-fetch", "hg-fetch", etc) and what the hash of that data is supposed to be. The "build-system" field tells Guix how to build the thing. "r-build-system" is a very succinct way to say "do with this package as you do for all other R packages: unpack the tarball, run `R CMD bla`, then run the tests, etc". We've got quite a few such build systems: "gnu-build-system", "cmake-build-system", "python-build-system", "ant-build-system", ... All of these can be further configured via the "arguments" package field, which isn't used here, because this is a boring package.

The "propagated-inputs" field is an association list of arbitrary labels to actual package values --- the things on the right hand side are variable names that are bound to package values, which are unquoted here, so this field really contains actual references to these other package values. The result is a lazily constructed graph of package values.

Some packages can be really nasty, though, when the developers decided to ignore conventions and implement their very own way to build their very special software. We can usually accommodate those packages by starting out with e.g. the gnu-build-system and then modifying the build phases: deleting the "configure" phase, adding a custom phase before the "build", replacing the "install" phase, etc. The system is flexible enough for all of this, but for really ... special software I would no longer call this "succinct" or "intuitive".

That said, most packages are easy. Almost all R packages, for example, look like the one above. But there are some really frustrating ones like Tensorflow (due to the fact that we use CMake instead of Bazel because Bazel hasn't been bootstrapped yet) or the old JDKs (that we use as part of a longer bootstrap chain) that are plain ugly. You just need to know when to give up, I suppose :)
That's not compatible with how the law or principles of American governance work. Your home is your castle.

Ultra-wealthy aren't laundering money in real estate because property taxes are too low. The situation we have today is a obvious result of fiscal policy made in the 80s, that was predicted then.
I really think that explains much of the problems of our industry. CS should teach the fundamental concepts all these languages are based upon. When you've learned that a new language is merely a different mapping of these concepts rather than something completely new, it becomes quite easy to pick up new things. You understand they are just assigning different syntactical weight to the same old concepts.

In that respect I liked that my education taught me things like LISP and smalltalk that are quite different from C/C++/Java that was big at the time. If I didn't have that field of view I might think smalltalk is its own thing entirely and I'd have to relearn everything.
The guy in that story had had autopilot malfunction several times on the same intersection so it seems unlikely he wasn't paying attention just because Musk oversold autopilot.
There is telemetry built into VS Code that you can turn off, but it is turned on by default. There is no way to know how they're using that data. Microsoft also collects data on Office365 platform and even local Office 2019 installs.

I was trying was to make a tongue in cheek point, rather than specifically digging into exact methods of how they collect data. You may be right but it is besides the core issue we are discussing here.

At the end, it is irrelevant how they're collecting data - all you need to know is this: https://about.ads.microsoft.com/en-us
From My experience with iPhones the opposite is true.
If it's less work to solve that problem than refactor all the relating code, and the impact on maintainability is minimal, likely yes. But considering the amount of users we have and the current lack of any crashes relating to mmap there are unlikely to be any future unforseen issues.
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Fraud for which they get slapped on the fingers.
> The destruction in Kapende, where no house remains occupied or intact, marked the culmination of three days of violence in Lucapa, a sprawling mining town in the northeast surrounded by some of the world’s richest diamond fields.

> About 300,000 Congolese have fled Angola in the last few weeks, many of them in response to the violence in Lucapa at the beginning of October.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-angola-drc-violence-insig...
I agree with you that Azure is a catastrophically miserable dev experience, but it's a mistake to compare price based on list prices. I've worked with companies who are based in India whose Azure cost through a CSP was like 40% of list. I've also had customers get huge, huge discounts offered to them to use Google Cloud. I don't know how low Amazon goes.
Many opponents of environmentalism aren't arguing their points in good faith and acting as if they are cedes victory to them. To many opponents of environmentalism, it's not about saving/destroying the Earth, it's about spite. Spite for "liberals", spite for "the nanny state", spite for anyone who isn't on "their side".

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/05/business/energy-environme...

>“Why don’t you go live in Sweden and get the heck out of our country,” Mr. Blue wrote.” I will continue to roll coal anytime I feel like and fog your stupid eco-cars.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelt...

>Taking joy in that suffering is more human than most would like to admit. Somewhere on the wide spectrum between adolescent teasing and the smiling white men in the lynching photographs are the Trump supporters whose community is built by rejoicing in the anguish of those they see as unlike them, who have found in their shared cruelty an answer to the loneliness and atomization of modern life.
But what would be accomplished by that? Why do it in the first place?
I wish people would have a little optimism, or at least just say things like "wow, I personally don't think it's possible, but damn it's going to be exciting to watch them try".

Uninformed optimism? Not so much. How about some charity and informed, insightful analysis?

We need people who are working hard to build a better future, so lets not bury them in a pile of hate and negativity.

Agreed. By the same token, we can ditch the hate and have more informed negativity when it's warranted. It's mental laziness to just slam the lever all the way up because you like the feel of "up," or to slam it all the way down, just because you think "down is cool." The difficult and valuable thing is to move the lever to where it needs to go through technique and good judgement.
But in this scenario that also reduced rental space.
Neat project. I'd love to see it combined with something like Project North Star AR.

But for expert use... When smartphones were new, the user population untrained, and onboarding was critical, there was the idea of skeuomorphic user interface design. The app should resemble the real-world object. So affordances would transfer from novice user experience. The calendar app should have lined pages, a spiral binding down the center to hint at horizontal flipping, and textured leather margins. :) We don't do that anymore.

For expert users, what are the odds that the severe constraints of physical reality line up nicely with the domain constraints desired for maximum productivity? How long before people start complaining "I don't like reality - no stretchy arms - you actually have to walk over to something to grab it - yuck".

I joke that I currently don't do V of VR, because I almost always have camera passthrough, don't do A of AR, because I'm usually ignoring the world other than for user input, and don't do R of either, because the UI is so often aphysical. Resemblance to physical reality as design smell.

Though how to "think with your hands", when HIDs are still so crude? Tracked/instrumented manipulatives could be neat.
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I think it really depends on the person. I had the same feelings of being isolated and not really getting to know everyone. I ended up getting an office job which is great. I love seeing people and having a separation of work and home.

I know others who now do remote and absolutely love it. From what I understand though they are in my same situation but it just doesn’t bother them. It all depends on your personality and what you are looking for.

Perhaps find a local coop workspace where you can go meet other engineers in your situation but then is that even remote anymore?
Population shrinking is a good thing long term.
I don’t know an open-source example off the top of my head. But that’s the gist of it… you keep an array somewhere with all the address ranges mapped. If you get SIGBUS, find the corresponding map, replace it with zeroes, and mark it as having an error. If there is no corresponding map, uninstall the signal handler and return—the thread will SIGBUS immediately after return and the default action will kill the process.
The recent use of DNA-based ancestry sites' genealogical data to solve cold cases would suggest we're not far off.

[1]: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2167554-serial-killer-s...

[2]: https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/9kpnnz/linda-ann-okee...

[3]: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/02/19/maine-man-accus...
"already"... their post came after mine. rolls eyes
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This has been a long time coming.

Ultimately the users must have the capacity to understand how they are being harmed.

Eventually bringing a class action will risk catastrophe for Facebook.