skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>fight his extradition to Sweden fearing that he was being set up to be extradited to the United States.

He was afraid of being extradited to the US... so he chose to do that from the UK?

IIRC in Sweden it's actually harder to be extradited for crimes like espionage:

>Sweden’s extradition agreement with the United States, signed in 1961 and updated in 1983, prohibits extradition on the basis of "a political offense" or "an offense connected with a political offense." The agreement does not specify what constitutes a "political offense." Whether the Swedish supreme court would rule to extradite Assange largely depends on what charges the secret U.S. grand jury brings against him.

>If Assange is accused of espionage, Sweden most certainly would not comply, as its courts have consistently determined that espionage constitutes a political offense. For example, in 1992 Sweden refused to extradite Edward Lee Howard, the only CIA agent to defect to the Soviet Union, to the United States. Charged with espionage, Swedish courts ruled that those accusations amounted to the kind of "political offense" specified in the extradition agreement.
Yup, and the state of the art BERT and gpt-2 are both based on transformers.
No, flats are not covered under my warranty as far as I know. Did I seem to say that?

I didn't mind not going to a tire shop... tire shops are not my idea of fun.
Wait, CBP actively patrols randomly within those lines and can detain people without a warrant[1] on a "suspicion" which, in a lot of cases, break down to looking a certain way. How is that not a constitution-free zone?

This whole "well, they need some space around the border to operate" seems to be a red herring. No one's objecting CBP from setting up checkpoint buildings at the US border. They've been doing that since 1789. The extension of this space to 100miles is a travesty. Make it 0.5Mi so CBP can't waltz around random bus stations, and no one will complain.

[1] https://www.wweek.com/news/courts/2019/01/28/border-patrol-c...
Wikileaks only publishes what is leaked to them.

They did publish the `Spy Files Russia` documents in 2017:

https://wikileaks.org/spyfiles/russia/
This looks very interesting! I hope that maybe this project can include a “refactoring parser”, that is, for each token in the parse tree, store where in the source code file that token originated from. Also, white space and comments have would have to be included, such that the round trip (source file -> AST -> source file) is possible without loss. I’ve long wanted to write some refactoring tools for modern Fortran, but not having such a parser is a big blocker—there’s only so much you can do with regexes.
That depends on how plucky the UK is feeling politically. There may be times when the UK feels like reminding the US who it was that actually invented Common Law jurisprudence. And then there may be times when all the Anglophone Commonwealth-allied nations (US GB CA AU NZ) want to prove the strength of their mutual friendship before the observers in the gallery.

Assange was holed up in Ecuador-in-London long enough for politics in both countries to change, but he may have had unreasonable expectations to begin with.

Snowden may not have been expecting to get stuck in Russia, either, but there he was, because every route between there and the place he claimed was his intended destination was so very willing to turn him over, via an expedited process.

At least the UK does the entire extradition hearing process. Even if the result is arriving at a predetermined conclusion via plausible rationale, there is some opportunity there, that one does not have if you enter US custody the instant the plane hits the taxiway.
If you're into serverless stuff and you like this personal feel, you might like Jeremy Daly's Off by None: https://www.jeremydaly.com/newsletter-issue-35/ .. I think it takes that chatty newsletter approach quite far.
This post seemed to use a lot of acronyms and technical words to say not much, are you just saying that humans have more than one camera and gyros, integrated well?
paulcole wasn't talking about Assange being convicted, but rather those whom Assange exposed.
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You're in luck! Those requirements were removed months ago. You can use Assistant with those settings disabled no problem.
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Nadellaissance doesn't work at all and its breaking my soul, fuck off pithy headlines.

That said, the board has done well picking leadership, Satya's driven a lot of amazing cultural change, and business too.
This was a lie told by his legal team and later walked back. In court his lawyer admitted the prosecutors had contacted him a week before in order to set up an interview with Assange.

> He [Assange's lawyer] then confirmed that on 22nd September 2010 at 16.46 he has a message from Ms Ny saying: “Hello – it is possible to have an interview Tuesday”. Next there was a message saying:

> “Thanks for letting me know. We will pursue Tuesday 28th at 1700”. He then accepted that there must have been a text from him. “You can interpret these text messages as saying that we had a phone call, but I can’t say if it was on 21st or 22nd”.

Coincidentally* Assange left the country on the 27th.

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/Misc/2011/5.html
May I ask what’s WP?
It’s unfortunate to see Microsoft (along with Adobe, etc) expanding into Ads. If nothing else, they could really differentiate and join forces with Apple from privacy standpoint to oppose Google, Amazon and Facebook.

Instead, “Intellisense with AI now available on VS Code” is Microsoft’s nice way of saying “We harvest the shit out of your data”. Ah, like a true Ad company. Don’t get me started on Windows 10 telemetry.

I really believe that Apple’s bet on privacy will pay off well in the long term. They’re different companies (Apple is selling hardware) but boy they could have gone into Ads with a MASSIVE user base but they chose to limit Ads in the App Store. It would have been huge expansion opportunity but they didn’t pursue it. And it will pay off as privacy awareness spreads and Microsoft could join them as operating system providers.
Wouldn't jury nullification be restricted to finding someone not guilty because some law is invalid. This would be the opposite, where we find someone "guilty" of "treason" because the jury decided treason is actually a broader crime that covers acts like lying about war crimes. Doesn't sound like jury "nullification" to me.
Just playing devil's advocate a bit, but what would be the downside of just drawing a bright line that owning stock in your employer is inherently a conflict of interest?
I don't really care which way this goes. Assange is a despicable person: he has been a pompous ideologue; he was accused of rape in Sweden; he acted as a "useful idiot" (at best) for the Russians; and he finally irritated the Ecuadoreans enough that they kicked him out of their embassy, which is why he is facing extradition. I'm not eager to punish him, but I wouldn't object to him spending some time in prison.
Sorry, but what do you want to say with your comment?
Changing a broken screen does not invalidate any chips on the motherboard afaik..
https://lobste.rs/ looks great + open-source. I particularly like their invite-only system.
It's the same in every country on Earth.
I gotta say, the "installing" workflow is pretty opaque and confusing. Why do I need to both authorize GitHub _and_ install a GitHub app? If I elect to only authorize it for specific repos (instead of read/write access to all of my repos), why do I need to install it first for some empty project before GitHub can create the repo for the course I'm trying to access?
It's not really baseload power (which runs 24-7) that's needed. It's backup power that runs much less often. That has different economics.
I guess for the writer of the blog it isn't something to point out, but it would have been nice if they explicitly said that.

Maybe it is just just the writer's POV, but I do worry they didn't explicitly say it is deleted as far as Google's storing of such data...
I simply do not believe this.

Unless they're audited by a source that can be trusted and have the findings made public, I will not believe it either.
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> Any language should be if not developed by the tool developer, at least developed with tooling in mind.

I completely agree. A few things I think would help with this:

1) Provide a standard "machine readable" concrete syntax for the language, alongside any "human readable" syntax. S-expressions would work well for this; if someone prefers JSON or XML then I won't argue. The implementation (compiler or interpreter) should have a mode which converts the human syntax to the machine syntax. The compiler/interpreter should handle inputs in either format. This avoids tools having to parse human-readable formats (or worse, run arbitrary preprocessors, etc.), and makes it easier to feed auto-generated or modified code into the system (e.g. for type checking, etc.). Machine-readable formats are also be more robust, since everything's delimited in a standard way, so unknown things (e.g. new language constructs) won't mess up the parsing of everything else, making tooling easier (e.g. linting, documentation generators, etc.). Note that Lisps and Schemes have this already, by virtue of using a machine-readable language as their human-readable language. Others can maybe just serialise their parser's output (as long as it's concrete, not abstract).

2) Allow arbitrary metadata to be attached to pieces of the syntax tree (in both formats). This can be used for comments, but also for source location (e.g. if it's been translated from the human-readable format, or maybe even transpiled from something else). The parent's desire for graphics, etc. in comments could be handled by such annotations, since they're data not just ignored bytes, so they could have e.g. entire Scribble documents attached. Tooling can use this for any data they like, e.g. hints for static analysers, dependency information, required language version/features, blame information, optimisation hints, etc. I think Clojure already allows this, but I've not used Clojure.

3) Keep context/configuration close to the code, or at least allow it to be. For example, if the meaning of some code changes depending on language version, it should be possible to specify the language version as part of that code. That way, tooling is able to obtain and use that information. This could use the annotations from (2). The worst case is when crucial information (like language version, or which arbitrary program to run as a preprocessor, etc.) is kept in some external configuration file, in an arbitrary location, in some bespoke file format, such that no other tooling can make sense of the code (I'm looking at you Cabal!). Even if we want separate config files, the tools which handle them should be able to resolve and propagate that information into the code, e.g. we could ask `tool annotate src/foo.lang` to get a copy of `src/foo.lang` which any relevant context/metadata from the config file appended as a file header. IDEs can use this to get more info about the files they're editing, and propagate that info into the snippets they send into the implementation for type-checking, etc.
This is trivial to do on NixOS:

services.xserver.videoDrivers = [ "nvidia" ];

For a full install for eg machine learning, you'd want these lines, too:

environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
cudatoolkit
];

systemd.services.nvidia-control-devices = {
wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
serviceConfig.ExecStart = "${pkgs.linuxPackages.nvidia_x11}/bin/nvidia-smi";
};
And people with adoptive children will say what, exactly?
Sure but at least with a paperback or movie you are wasting time learning a little bit about the world or appreciating someones art. There are people who are getting all their news from misleading social media posts and comments. People used to read news articles and get a nuanced understanding of the world, now they read and share racist memes and we wonder why politics have never been more polarized.
You have to have a following and be careful with how your market your stuff but yes, I've discovered many products via Twitter BUT they are almost always aligned with my interests and hobbies. Those that aren't, typically promoted tweet, get blocked.
Well the west couldn't and most likely won't stop the muslim religious extremism and China tries to do things on their own. I'm not saying it's good but it's clear that they don't want the same thing happening there.
Rather, where is the proof that he did?

The burden of proof is on the accuser.
My wife is an excellent lawyer. She spends "NOWHERE" the same amount of time as I do to stay in touch with whats happening in the field.

She has to read new laws once in a while (sometimes even once per year). To be relevant I as a Software Developer have to read about new stuff DAILY, while writing to my own blog, do side projects from time to time and learn other stuff i need for my current work.

I would not be lyin when i say being a good software developer (in the eyes of industry) costs you around 20h of work extra per week.
Maybe they don't have any legal presence there? No knowledge of employment laws, regulations, etc.
You're welcome to believe whatever you want, but a decent chunk of my day job is making sure that it's true.
Oh, it had a JSON bug? The fact it supported JSON was one of my favourite parts :(
Nadella has made a few key changes, for example exempting internal product teams from having to consider Windows as the only OS to develop for, changed the incentive structure for sales to avoid pushing products enterprises didn't care about etc... When you're a CEO your success is usually not dependent by flashy all in decisions, especially if you're managing a giant company like MS. You are successful by setting policies that allow your talent to do more of the right stuff, your sales folks to sell more and better etc ...
An eye on experiments that make quantum mechanics visible
The funny thing is that Google will still let you store your home address and they'll display it on the map, but if you have Location History turned off they'll refuse to list it as an autocomplete option when you search for addresses or directions. They know what it is, but they won't let you actually use it unless you expose everything else. It's extremely user hostile and there's no good reason to do it.

Edit: To clearly demonstrate what I'm talking about: https://imgur.com/a/QW9OxAS

They pin your saved locations to the top of the UI. If I click "Home" it will take me to my exact address. However, if I attempt to search "Home" in the search bar I get

"Turn on your Web & App Activity setting to search for 'home' and other personal places"

No thanks, Google. You don't need to know my entire location history 24/7 to take me to a static address you already have saved.
Presumably they can provide papers to the effect. Just as if I were to claim asylum in any other place.

Also, I’m sure they have rates of these things and if it starts getting higher than the norm it could prompt more scrutiny.
He should be forgiven because there should be an exception for whistleblowing.
Mmap is right, though. Pread would also be right. There's a tradeoff and the complexity argument would only win if they knew all this when they started.
> There’s a bit of Silicon Valley cred, too, thanks to its acquisitions of LinkedIn, the professional social network, and GitHub, the software code repository.

I would have thought open sourcing so much of it's framework, vscode, and typescript would have had a greater impact.
That's because mmap() predates multithreading (at least as a usable production approach rather than a lab experiment). It's best for IPC, not sharing between threads.

I forget sometimes that the young'ns never grew up in a world without threads, and often never learned how unix really works.
Stripe is such an amazing company, and I am really glad that they keep pushing workplace innovation this way.

I am currently looking for a new job (exec level) and unfortunately I don't see any great fit with Stripe's current openings, otherwise I would simply love to see how the company operates from the inside.

Keep rocking.
I think my comment is pretty clear.

Just to address your one cherry-picked hardware item:

>Changing a broken screen does not invalidate any chips on the motherboard afaik..

On some devices (those with fingerprint sensors) there are security implications.
Baseload is not the necessity, the necessity is to match the power to the load.

Up until now, baseload has been a convenient way to do that matching because baseload was usually the cheapest source of power.

Once baseload is no longer the cheapest source, it's time to re-evaluate that model. Also, when we have a global communication grid and lots of flexibility in our load schedule, it's also fine to re-evaluate how we are doing pricing for electricity.

That time is now. Utilities are highly regulated, and both utility and regulator are slow to adapt to the quickly changing technology that they're now confronting, after nearly a century of glacial technology change. But they will adapt. As we must not only change our economic mode but also become carbon neutral.

Those with huge capital investments may resist, but as you say, we can repurpose that old coal plant and reuse its connections to the grid, which are valuable and expensive to recreate. In Moss Landing, California, gas turbines are getting replaced by over a GWh of lithium ion battery. The change will happen as soon as utilities start bringing recent pricing into their planning process.
Ugh! As a former Apple fanboi, this is the reason I no longer own any Apple equipment. Apple products are beautiful, and very well designed, but so is a rhinestone straitjacket.
FTA:
> UCLA professor Yang Yang’s lab chock-full of coffee drinkers spent several years searching for a stability-enhancing additive to turn famously unstable perovskite PV cells into a useful product. Then, on a lark, Yang's graduate student Rui Wang suggested they try adding caffeine to the mix.

They tested different compounds for years before finding one that works - I don' think it would add much to the article to list every one of them.
The problem here was wanting to parse a large file at all. You need to be able to do a) online parsing (so you don't need to read the whole file into memory first), b) stream parse (so you don't need to build a parsed representation of the whole thing before you can do anything).
This!

Thank you for writing such a crisp response covering all the right points.

I feel most people just piss on Musk/Tesla and his daring moves - actually IDK why but I don't care.

What I care about is trying to understand the other party. Where they come from. Why are they doing this. What are the risks involved. And in the long term, where are they headed.

Your post answers all of this.

More power to Elon Musk. We need more bold entrepreneurs like him who aren't afraid to be themselves and take world changing risks.
The right to repair does not make the device less secure. Most vulnerabilities are exploitable via the lightning connection. And being able to change your battery or your screen will not magically legitimize "honor killings" or prevent atheists from being open.
Stripe has offices in San Francisco, Chicago, New York City, Seattle, Amsterdam, Bangalore, Berlin, Dublin, London, Paris, Melbourne, Singapore, and Tokyo. Engineering hubs have organizational infrastructure that the rest of our offices may not, like dedicated reporting lines for engineers at the hub, engineering teams which exist at the hub and don't exist elsewhere, and similar.

We have engineers who work out of our non-hub offices as well, but there generally isn't intensive, permanent core engineering work being done out of them like there is in the hub offices.
What "benefits" are you talking about?
It will be a great accomplishment when we can get the idea that a 'full-day' is 8 hours.
"Often it was lonely, isolating, I felt out of the loop on some decisions, I didn't get some in-jokes and nicknames, I missed the non-holiday parties and happy hours, etc."

I am in this boat now. . . and find it really tough. Many others I know feel the same way but it is rarely talked about. How do you get over the social isolation of being remote?
Realistic cat eyes follow you around (webGL and deepwarp)
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Owning stock in your employer can better align your interests with those of the shareholders to whom you answer.

If you believe that mechanism is sound, then I guess the downside would be that you have fewer incentives to maximize shareholder value.
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This is a problem I've run into anytime I'm purchasing "Enterprise" licenses for software. They always want you to contact a sales rep, talk to an integrator, set up a meeting to discuss your needs. My NEED is to pay via Purchase Order...

There was never an enterprise licensed software that didn't involve multiple meetings. The software was the same software we had already integrated in the development environment, we just needed licenses for production. Didn't matter that we'd been using the software for ages, they still wanted to set up hours of meetings before sending us an invoice.
I would never, ever underestimate Andy Jassy. I consider him on par with Jeff Bezos, in terms of leadership and execution, if not superior.

source: worked at AWS 2008-2014.
It depends on how the company grows. The bull case is they grow exponentially taking share from incumbents because their technology is better. They sold very approx 40k cars in 2015, 100k in 2017 and talking 400k in 2019 and maybe 1.5m in 2021, 3m in 2023. (https://youtu.be/Y8dEYm8hzLo?t=252)

I remember with Amazon they were growing fast but the conventional analysts were saying but they make zero profit and then after a bit they are the worlds most valuable public company and Bezos the richest person. If Tesla keep up the growth it shouldn't be too hard to get finance.

Of course it remains to be seen if TSLA deliver the growth and self driving etc.
Depends on what color wheel you compare it to. I see it as a pretty reasonable compromise between the traditional 4 primary colors (red-yellow-green-blue) and the 6 primary colors of RGB (red-yellow-green-cyan-blue-magenta).

Their “mint” lies between green and cyan, the two complementary colors of red depending on which primaries you use.
I think Nadella was driving more of a cultural change within the company. Business wise the path to Azure and the cloud was pretty straightforward and he stuck to it.

The question to ask might be, would Ballmer have done something else then focus on cloud? Like focus more energy on phones for instance? That could have led to a different financial result.
People fleeing for their lives may not have access to paperwork. In fact, the authorities denying people access to paperwork- such as birth records and legal status- is almost certainly evidence for approving an asylum claim in the first place.
Manufacturing capabilities =/= % of process automated. I'm not saying they're effective at production output, or quality control, or a number of other things. I'm just saying that as far as I can tell as an interested outsider looking in, their automation processes are impressive compared to their competitors.
uBlock with dynamic filtering takes care of that for me, but I recognise it isn't practical for >95% of internet users.
The point is that the idea of drawing diagrams instead of writing code (and/or integrating documentation text right into the source code) is a really old idea.

The idea is older than structured programming, older than the C programming language, older than the idea of object-orientation. It's probably even older than McCarthy's LISP.

Safe to say that if it hadn't caught on during this time, then it never will.