skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that they have built those businesses doesn't mean that they can draw informed conclusions on whatever they want. I doubt that Bezos has his think-tank of domain experts giving him background on every question he gets asked during interviews. Sure, if Bezos shifted his attention to healthcare, a month after the announcement I would give his opinions weight, because he's proven adept at analyzing situations quickly, given motivation. What's the motivation to learn about X problem in the world at any given time?
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> I remember spending several hours in one instructors office trying to figure out where I was going wrong. She was also confused because all of my intermediate work was correct, but I always came up with the wrong answer

In grad school, I was a TA for some undergrad EE courses. We (the TAs) and professor corrected tests together and whenever we encountered a wrong answer, we'd always replicate the student's work to find where things went wrong so we could a) point it out and b) give partial credit whenever possible. For a class of 120 students, it took four of us two days to get through all of the tests.
Noticed the same.. definitely intentionally misleading.
Exactly. This is why the previous Ecuadorian government granted him political asylum - his legitimate fear of persecution by the American government for publishing their embarrassing secrets.

The current government of Ecuador has not only handed him over, however, but has even handed over his personal belongings in the embassy to the US government. So much for protecting him from political persecution!
Yeah, I moved it to the top. Funny how I can't talk about the character being too overloaded because it has another meaning to the forum...

Edit: the parent comment was replying to an earlier version of my comment, in which I used + because I didn't know that * could be kind-of escaped by putting a space after it
Well, there is always:

*mut fn(T, ...) -> U
I don't know what you're talking about. If you'd rather not walk that far (it isn't far but say it's raining or it's super hot) and that's also a quick bus ride away.

Also, the "metro" is great but it can get crowded like any train can during peak. You gotta qualify what you mean by "unless you happen to be on the right line."
Use four spaces at the
beginning of the line *
I would argue that this is the intended outcome. I do not believe we have enough control over our government.

Edit: I guess I should add that a lot of people in the US believe it is good for the US government to have absolute power in the world, because they think it’s okay for “their side” to have absolute power over others. Often I think they associate “our side” to be the side of the “good guys” and thus find our grip on global hegemony acceptable. Except there are no “good guys” who always behave in a fair and even way, that is a childish fantasy used to keep us on board with the serious injustice perpetrated by governments the world over. The US government is responsible for oppression and murder the world over in addition to the good things we might do. We cannot blanket trust any government to behave appropriately in secrecy unless we want to simply abdicate our responsibility for the harm that governments then cause.
Yeah but they are reinventing the wheel
How in the world is being prosecuted for publishing a country's dirty laundry not the same as being prosecuted for a political offense... (Not saying you're wrong, just questioning whoever came up with that definition and if we should maybe change it.)
Is game of throning entire industries going to replant the Rainforest in Brazil?

Cause that's the only way climate change is going to slow down..
Well, wait a second here. Tptacek seems to have been clear in saying that Assange being extradited from the UK itself is much more likely than being extradited from Sweden. Assange ended up being extradited from the UK itself.

Since he was forced out of the embassy into the arms of UK police, and never planned to go to Sweden, I don't think we'll ever know if he would have been extradited from Sweden (or on route to Sweden) or not.

Tptacek was making a point that's a bit more nuanced than you seem to give credit for. He hasn't been "proven wrong" by the UK allowing US to extradite Assange.
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> otherwise good constitution

well, if we're capable of telling the good parts from the bad parts, why do we need it in the first place.

- edit, you contradicted your initial "slippery slope" point. either we judge the constitution or the constitution judges us. either it's a buffet where you take what you like or you don't. which one is it, tauthage?
If you're into GraphQL and want to contribute to a WordPress project, I'd suggest wp-graphql
https://github.com/wp-graphql/wp-graphql
This is the most important part of the indictment, and it's right on page one:

> ASSANGE encouraged sources to (i) circumvent legal safeguards on information; (ii) provide that protected information to WikiLeaks for public dissemination; and (iii) continue the pattern of illegally procuring and providing protected information to WikiLeaks for distribution to the public.

The main charge here is that Assange actively encouraged people to break the law. Since he wasn't a US citizen and had not signed a non-disclosure agreement with the United States, many of the laws protecting classified information do not apply to him directly.

The first section of the indictment describes the various ways in which Assange and/or Wikileaks said, more or less, "gee, it sure would be nice if someone got these classified documents for us." The next section, titled "B. Chelsea Manning Responded to ASSANGE'S Solicitation and Stole Classified Documents from the United States", explains how Assange's solicitation lead directly to the criminal acts committed by Manning.

Finally, we have a section labeled "C. ASSANGE Encouraged Manning to Continue Her Theft of Classified Documents and
Agreed to Help Her Crack a Password Hash to a Military Computer". This described how Assange provided Chelsea Manning with tools allowing her to circumvent passwords and other protections on classified computers.

So this isn't as simple as "a journalist received classified information and is being prosecuted for it." This indictment lays out a very specific crime, which is (Assange) directly encouraging and enabling another individual (Manning) to commit a crime (Espionage) on his behalf.

You can argue about the validity of these charges, even the validity of the classifications levels assigned to some of the material given to Assange, but we should be clear about exactly what is being claimed by the government, as well.
> I find it weird that there would be serious consideration for anything other than a durable clone of the original.

Why? The "original" (i.e. the thing that burned) was the result of numerous changes for functional and fashionable reasons over the century. The famous Viollet-lde-duc spire was a recent change only 150 years old. Life is change; cities and old buildings are palimpsests; to try to ape an earlier age is a form of cultural death.

The same is true of the Louvre which has grown and changed in use and shape for 900s years and few complain about that.

Regardless of what happens, the result will disappoint and even enrage many people. Either it will be an attemptt to be authentic, but won't be authentic enough for everyone, or it won't be and that will cause a different kind of outrage. And every change will be mourned by some as a "missed opportunity". C'est la vie!
honestly so crazy. I, like many others, dedicated so much time to what and was truly heart broken when it disappeared. Spent countless hours, days, weeks interviewing people. Countless hours, days, weeks rippings and uploading to reach TM. Made some good friends and some I'll never cross paths with again. A true shame. Sadly what came next, although good, will never be the same and I do think it's because of how easy it is so stream music.

EDIT: the loss of the forums, knowledge, metadata is truly heartbreaking... i really can't think about it too much
Or instead of describing Wikileaks publications as "theft" you could describe it as publishing whistle-blowers who are exposing illegal corruption (like the NSA spying case), and whistle-blowers are legally protected in many contexts.

N.S.A. Collection of Bulk Call Data Is Ruled Illegal
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/08/us/nsa-phone-records-coll...
>The UK won’t extradite Assange if he faces execution. The US will have to make a binding promise not to sentence him to death if it wants to actually get custody.

That may not be absolute, we seemingly have agreed to waive it elsewhere - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44929067
The charge is that Assange helped Manning access classified material, not that he published classified materials. The distinction is important. It's why I can't hack into a CIA office, publish the materials online and claim I'm a journalist so I can't be prosecuted.
Again,people often make this sound simpler than it actually is. I don't like paying taxes,nobody does. I'm also not stupid enough to deny that even though my income is higher than national average,I'm most likely getting more in return than I contribute. I'm also strongly against any tiered tax model,where you pay more if you earn more.There are some freeriders out there but the majority did put extreme amounts of energy to get to the point where they can make lots of money and that can't be said about everyone. If extra money to be raised from additional taxes,it shouldn't go towards F-35s, carrier ships or some other shit but rather towards education, some element of risk acceptance towards encouraging people to start business,create and etc. However, until we continue having people who vote based on show values rather than merit and not ensuring the elected once doing what promises, there's no chances of changing any of this.
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Isn't this why the Swedish rape charges have popped up again? - around extradition, Sweden has historically been a patsy to the US.
Direct link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YALSJTI33g
Who’s problem are you solving?
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19995363.
Also tptacek: "The fact that they won't render Polanski to the US cuts against Assange's argument."

Let's be real here, he never would have made it to Sweden. One way or another, Assange's fear that leaving the embassy would end in him in an American courtroom was neither irrational nor dishonest.
Maybe the society has to finally adapt & embrace to the way things are going in the last 20 years: music stars to earn their money in the concerts they sold out due to "piracy" and not from selling CDs, movie stars from royalties paid by subscribers of Netflix and HBO and other such services, or even monetize their popularity directly from endorsing products.

Software developers seem to be the first to adapt: you can't pirate a SaaS or a cloud. One can try and copy it, but will be always behind the first moved and the original creator, because they always seem to have good ideas.

Equating IP with real estate is bad for the society: why would someone keep producing and keep performing if they made a hit with a song, or a movie, or a game?
I think 100% is too high, but I'd consider 80%-90% reasonable.

There comes a point at which marginal wealth stops having much utility, other than as a metric to compare yourself to others.

Steve Jobs's behavior provides a decent demonstration of this. He was okay taking a $1 salary because it cast him as the great CEO taking a hit for his company. But when the board insisted on paying him, he told them their offer was too low. He wanted to be _either_ the great sacrificing CEO or the great CEO who is equally well-compensated, because he didn't actually need the money, but he wanted the reputation from it.

If it's just being used as a yardstick anyway, we might as well tax most of it.
I've had conversations with a guy who works at one of the companies that makes high-speed cameras. One of the interesting thing to come out of those conversations is that below a certain threshold of frame duration (which is related to, but not necessarily the recriprocal of the frame rate) a camera with that capability becomes subject to ITAR, because supposedly said camera could be used to develop nuclear weapons.

My intuition is that the camera described in this article would be subject to ITAR were it developed in a western nation. But, I doubt China gives any fucks about that.
I don't find her that good looking.

Was it the lack of others doing the same job as her, or has cultural standards of beauty changed that much?

Some of her flapper and poise pictures look good, but not super special.

Maybe it is just me.
I think that anybody who thinks that US government can lose, that the outcome for such a high profile case isn't predetermined is naive.
> this sort of nakedly exclusionary urban restrictionism is a particular shame of the left.

But that doesn't really address my point. Also, I disagree with that statement on two counts. First, "Democrat" and "liberal" are not synonyms, and second, it's not a "particular shame of the left". It's a shame of the wealthy and privileged.

(Just to be clear, I'm not a Democrat)
> 57% of Americans believe that children in America today will be worse off financially than their parents.

I cannot seem to find this in the linked survey( seems to link to some methodology about us-german relations). Can someone help me find it. only google hit for this is this YC article.

> We believe this mindset is the result of increased family debt, stagnant wages, and a lack of government commitment to provide equal access to the basic services families need to thrive.

What is the basis of this guess?
I suspect you are being downvoted because you have not provided any sources. Can you reference specific court cases for this claim?

> Courts have analyzed what makes someone a journalist for purposes of these laws, and at a minimum, whether investigation/research or discourse (i.e., writing or video reporting) is involved, they all agree that analysis of the investigated/researched material is required.
Debian Buster packages when?
Why is this evolution? I imagine this is nothing new, we just hadn't seen it before.
Correct. Changing people's behavior by making complex laws makes no sense.
>except the Trump stuff

Assuming this is true, doesn't that prove he analyzed it and decided what he thought relevant to be published? You may not like the metric he used in his analysis, but have the courts ever up held standards as to what metrics used count?
Thanks. That’s news to me.

I know that previous non-binding promises (which were then ignored; i.e., people were executed) caused diplomatic trouble, so I still expect the US to make a binding promise.
Hmm. I'm interested in making a compile-to-COBOL language only because that way a company could incrementally migrate an old COBOL codebase to the new language. In other words, the new code (which compiles to COBOL) and the old code (written in COBOL) would be fully interoperable, sharing the same data types, calling conventions, etc.
Thanks, I didn't realize what a hassle the DRM stuff had become.
Who is tptacek and why should we care what they have to say?
It should work as long as there's a space after the asterisk:

> Fn* closure traits implemented for Box<dyn Fn* >

This threw me for a minute. Function pointers not using * is confusing enough without using glob syntax to talk about function types!
This sensor has a 55 mm diagonal vs the 43 mm diagonal you see on a full-frame sensor. That's 1.7X the total sensor surface area.

I guess there's some people who will "need" this, but the vast majority of photographers (even professionals) can make do with smaller and cheaper cameras/lenses. I have an M4/3 camera on the other end of the scale that fits in my jacket pocket when I put a pancake lens on it.
The programmer who created Python isn’t interested in mentoring white guys
> co-operative prisoner's dilemma situation

That’s what governments are for ;)

Seriously though, as with so much else in economics and politics, there are many more things that need to be determined than just a nice end-state. That doesn’t mean the nice end state isn’t nice or worth searching for routes towards.
San Francisco police try to criminalize legitimate newsgathering
Right, the proposal for try 16 needs to say: we are we succeed this time because tries 1-15 had flaw X and we have remedy Y that overcomes it.
Killer perhaps, but I'd rather numerical than experimental development of nuclear weapons
Right, but it was being compared to a space heater, not a heat pump.

Not to mention heat pumps require somewhere to pump to/from, you can't just put one in your basement, plug it into the wall, and heat up the basement. Also heat pumps work best with mild differences, like say 40F inside and 60F inside if you want to heat.

Heat pumps reduce to space heater efficiency if it's sub-zero Fahrenheit outside I believe.
This is such a rewritting of history.

Everyone was claiming that there were no secret charges, and we were a conspiracy theorist if we thought so.

This went on for years.
> (Posting unverified documents without making any attempts to verify them is not a journalistic activity.)

Seems like main stream media in the US proved the last few years that they were not journalistic by not making any attempt to verify the Steele Dossier.
Help me understand. Here is what I am thinking:

If I have a cell with 5 "beans" (hypothetical counting organelle) in it. And the cell will die if it does not have at least one bean. These beans stack on top of each other like Legos, and "float" inside the cell so that the top bean is at the surface of the cell, exposed to the weather. Every winter the exposed bean dies, so that each year there is one less bean - and the next highest bean is now "floating" at the top. After 5 years there will be no beans left and the cell will die.

Now try to do that by counting up. How does it work?
That breaks mobile. I get a scrollable area with no scrollbars, so the content just looks clipped.
Interestingly enough, throwing is the human trait / behavior with the biggest known measured disparity between the genders on average (this includes physical, mental, and emotional abilities).

See Table 1 https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/amp-606581.pdf
I expected to see the Casio Databank - the best dumb smart watch I've ever owned.
Maybe the society has to finally adapt & embrace to the way things are going in the last 20 years: music stars to earn their money in the concerts they sold out due to "piracy" and not from selling CDs, movie stars from royalties paid by subscribers of Netflix and HBO and other such services, or even monetize their popularity directly from endorsing products.
Software developers seem to be the first to adapt: you can't pirate a SaaS or a cloud. One can try and copy it, but will be always behind the first moved and the original creator, because they always seem to have good ideas.

Equating IP with real estate is bad for the society: why would someone keep producing and keep performing if they made a hit with a song, or a movie, or a game?
Direct link to the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEhSXTKpjQE

Also, all the design files are open source and available on Thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3649542

Let me know if you have any thoughts/questions!
I don't advocate violence so don't beat the person who is doing this up but... well maybe just a little bit.
The only English-speaking countries left that still occasionally use the long-scale are Canada, Mauritius, Seychelles and Vanuatu. This is because they are bilingual nations that also speak French, where the long-scale is still used.

Trying to do locales in Canada is always fun, since we can't make up our mind. "How far? 100km." "How tall? 5ft"
> This article predates it, but OS X (particularly after it mutated into iOS) represents probably the biggest source of systems innovation in the two decades after this article

There was almost nothing innovative about OS X, even when it came out. It was just packaged and marketed very well. Objectice-C and NeXTSTEP was a user land improvement over typical C user lands, but that's not saying much.

> OS X was modern for its time

It really wasn't. The Mach "microkernel" was from outdated 80s research. It's bloated, slow and inflexible compared to the state of the art at the time.
So ... if they ran an API, and open sourced a client, would they be running it? ;)
Last year, I tried to sue them in Small Claims court (in California) using this as a guide: https://blog.legalist.com/i-won-8-000-from-equifax-in-small-... .

For me, it was unsuccessful. They sent out a representative and we argued away from a judge (forget the term used) and I decided not to see the judge because if I argued before him and lost, I would be "unable" to bring it before a judge again.

I've heard of this tactic working for certain consumers (like in the article above) but for me what was hard to establish via small claims court, was how exactly I was facing monetary damages. Most lawsuits allow punitive damages, but small claims court does not, so you have to prove exactly how you were monetarily damaged.

That being said, I would definitely be down to sue them in small claims court again using a better strategy. I would also join a class action lawsuit.
Yeah, wearing a suit for a tech/game job interview will only hurt your odds and it definitely won't help.

It's rare when someone interviews in a suit, but when they do it comes up in evaluations and not as a positive indicator.
Could you comment on the yellow vests? It feels like those protests specifically centered around that (or at least Macron's way of plugging the wealth tax) and it seemed to have a lot of popular support.
It's a for-profit company who "loves" open source and hosts a lot of it's projects. But the platform is still not open source. Go figure
Ask HN: Co-founders 4-years-in to revisit equity split
We were those not-so-smart entrepreneurs who didn't have co-founder agreement in place when started the business. The terms were agreed verbally. 4 years in we are debating what were the original terms.

- Original terms: Co-founder A is taking care of all the business expenses and paying co-founder B a minimum viable salary.

- Co-founder A does not communicate how he treats the money he put into the business.

- Co-founder B assumes co-founder A is doing an equity investment with that money.

- Co-founder B agrees on 15%/85% equity split assuming the investment is for a few years until the business is profitable or raised capital.

- Co-founder A bootstrapped the business for 4 years ($300-500K) and decided to raise capital.

- Co-founder A says that the money he spent on a business should be treated as a debt to the business. And wants this money to be repaid to him at this on later funding rounds.

- Co-founder B says that if that money is a debt and not an equity investment, the initial equity split should be revisited.

2 questions:

- Were the co-founder B reasonable to assume that co-founder A is making an equity investment and not debt while accepting a lower equity split?

- Does Co-founder B have the grounds to insist on revisiting the initial equity split because after 4 years it is apparent that co-founder A treats his money as debt & not equity investment?
Definitely. The only reason many software developers don't live paycheck to paycheck is because it is actually a hassle to spend that amount of money.
It’s amazing to me the distinction the government is making here with Wikileaks. How many things related to the Russian probe were leaked last year? Wasn’t it one “bombshell” after another? No problems there even though that information turned out to be false but was plastered across every tv screen in the country.