skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is related to the leak. She won't testify to the details of how Assange helped her.
While I like that the article points out that the likely reason for the increase in the percentage CEOs gone is likely due to tightening of standards, I disagree with their assessment that its due to the rise of the MeToo movement.

Not downplaying MeToo, but the last several years have seen the likes of several auto companies faking emissions test results, for example. Then, you've also some major data breaches at big companies that have seen C level execs shown the door (e.g. Equifax), which personally I'd label both of these ethical violations and amoral, but for different reasons. Faking test results to beat a teat you can't otherwise pass is, for what I hope, obvious reasons. Failling to protect critical personally identifying information (PII) is a dereliction of duty and has exposed over a hundred million US residents to potential identity theft issues, in the case of Equifax.

From my observations, I think CEOs (outside of Entertainment industry) rarely get taken down by harassment allegations, but usually for underperforming or alleged fraud or other malfeasance.

I'm also not saying that it doesn't happen, but they usually have enough money to "make it go away".
The most optimal strategy I can consider towards making efficient use of my time is to spend absolutely none of it researching methods or techniques to do so.
It is a reference, yes, and without optimization, is a pointer to a value.

Your parent is suggesting to not think of it in such a low-level way, and instead think of it as a permission. In this case, the pointer being optimized away makes more sense, as it’s not really about it being a pointer.

I’m of two minds about it, to be honest.
At face value it doesn't seem so crazy to charge him for this. I mean it is committing a crime by proxy as opposed to passively obtaining information from a source (the latter of which journalists should be protected for).

If I give tools and a robbery checklist to someone and tell them to rob a bank, surely I'm still able to be charged and probably for a higher crime right? At least that's how these charges seem to me. I guess I don't see how it's invalid.

I do however see how this could set a dangerous precedent should the courts allow loose interpretation of the outcome to mean "reporting leaked information is illegal"
Apple has had a difficult time with its project titan vehicle program and scaled it back to a primarily software (autonomy) effort. I can't see the companies or cultures meshing well and it seems more likely a major auto manufacturer would acquire it vs a tech company.
> 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.

Nothing about that interpretation is new, thus plenty of high-profile journalists, and journalistic NGO [0] have already responded to that particular "charge" back in April. Like Glenn Greenwald pointing out that "massaging sources" is a major part of investigative journalistic work [1].

[0] https://rsf.org/en/news/rsf-calls-uk-protect-role-journalist...

[1] https://theintercept.com/2019/04/11/the-u-s-governments-indi...
I like this idea, I wish it were easier to build a sunshade though. Have you had success with any methods?
Why don't we have that anymore?
The State of Fluid Web Typography
It takes days in the UK because we have a crappy system where instead of having a central register of number -> provider, calls are still routed to a ported number via the "donor" network, i.e. the network the number range belongs. So I just ported from O2 to EE, and my calls and texts will still go through o2, and then sent on to EE. Not very efficient.
Do you use any of the governmental or private social services? Medicare? Housing assistance? Food stamps? You don't have to answer but those programs don't exist in that manner for the majority of the world's population. The fact that you live in something that could be called a building is evidence of your wealth comparative to most of the people on this planet.

Let me put it this way, if all global income were distributed equally it would be roughly ten thousand dollars a year per person. That's all in. Roads, police, social programs, private spending. Ten thousand dollars is the average household income in China. That's a the most fair distribution possible.

Do you know what the per median per capita income is in India? A growing nation with a tech sector and nuclear weapons? Less than $700 a year. Here's the worst bit, people in India are also disabled and deal with the same personal struggles that you do.

I'm not saying this to trivialize your life but the facts have to be put into perspective. People living in western nations, speaking English and with internet access really don't have the right to call themselves poor. Comparatively poor yes, nominally poor? Check your privilege.
47% of California households do not speak English at home.
Sadly I think no one will ever pay money for games for an unadvertised, not-sold-at-retail, open source game platform, which means people aren't going to make quality games that cost money to develop, which means adoption will be all the lower. So, that means it's not "viable" in a commercial sense. I would rather like to run a sustainable business, which seems more plausible with the playdate than anything else on the market outside nintendo/sony.
Well, you've done a good job of spiking it.
Well that's positively pleasant... I really appreciate the link though. Checksumming happens quite frequently I wonder how much the removal of these instructions will impact the performance...
Agreed, I think I made the leap to decentralization primarily for resilience. Tox looks great, I'm gonna try it out, thanks!
"The hiding-from-rape argument has been pretty much debunked by the 7 year timeframe. I don't know what Assange was up for in Sweden, but it beggars belief that he would get more than 7 years jail for a non-violent crime. A fine and community service, maybe. Most aspects of the case must be almost evidence-free and would be a struggle to prove if he says 'didn't happen that way'."

Isn't rape usually considered a violent crime by default? Apparently rape is between 4 and 10 years in prison in Sweden so it could certainly have been more than 7 if the Swedes decided to throw the book at him. Having made them wait, they might have been more willing to do so.

But think that even if it was certainly less than that Assange's actions don't disprove the accusation. The embassy was arguably more comfortable than prison and effectively allowed him to continue his political activity (despite the Ecuadorans request that he not do so,) and more importantly, there's a bit of a sunk cost impulse: he probably didn't enter the embassy with the expectation of staying for 7 years.
Tool seems like a fairly bad example because they are touring right now (not here in Australia though, sadly).

All your examples are the top of the top - most artists can't afford to not tour.
Commute hassle does not come out of productivity. Workers are simply forced to leave their homes earlier and return later, spending less time outside Moloch’s grasp.
This is the kind of stuff that makes me feel the trade conflict between the US and China is overdue. The world’s two biggest economies operating on such a different standards of IP was bound to lead to conflict eventually.
According to the article posted, these were not.

>After finishing their ice cream, customers handed back their well-licked penny lick, and the next customer ate from the same cup. Because of the conical openings, Jacks couldn’t keep the narrow point clean if they tried. Penny licks became the perfect vessel for transmitting disease.

I suspect we might be able to improve on this, perhaps with some kind of new fangled sanitising machinery, more suited to this bright new modern age of steam. No, wait, I'm getting it wrong. Remind me, which century are we in again?
That's incorrect. Assange was trying to brute force the administrator password on a DoD system to give Manning elevated access on the host that she didn't have at the time. It wasn't an obfuscation exercise, it was an attempt to uncover classified information Manning wasn't privy to with her current account access.

*Edit: and it was done after Manning had handed over everything she could access with her own account. At least that's what the charge is in the initial indictment.
Uber Brings Its Jump Electric-Bike Rental Service to Britain
holy shit, shut the fuck up, weirdo.
Excited to read this and contrast with Tad William's Otherland.
I used to think this was happening with music, then I realized I completely and accidentally switched to indie distributors.

Examples: any music from “nightvale presents”, and “dark compass” podcasts. DC has an epic best of 2019 as the current episode.

I’ve had mixed luck finding works from those sources on the big streaming services, but I listen to them legally nevertheless.
I agree, this will fade with the news cycle. Boeing has made considerable errors but their customers want the plane as it saves them money for retraining. If they have solved the engineering issues (and with this hot spotlight one would hope that is the case) this should end up being a bump in their long history. With this said, I still thing the general outrage at their handling of this is well deserved and the second crash should not have happened if they were focused more on safety and less myopically on their bottom line.
It’s not in their interest to give me money, they have no interest in that at all. They simply want me to continue working and updating my project so they can keep making money.

I don’t need a part of their money. Those weren’t the terms that I put out my software with. Imagine if you had to donate money for every package and library you used. Building applications would get very expensive quickly, when it could just as easily be cheap and free.
Wow, what a way to completely and totally miss my point and turn it into a completely unwarranted personal attack.

There are lots of people here who are not living in Western nations.

I'm done arguing this. Your remarks are not remotely in good faith.
Wow, my brain can't process that. How do the squirrels climb if they're holding the apple at the same time?
Can we put aside the financing part of this and just address how crazy this suggestion is just as a matter of common sense? Our country pays significantly more than its peers do on health care. The crisis in health care isn't that it's not universally free, but that it costs too damn much. The "just put $2T on the debit card" answer to that problem says, ok, fuck it, the systems that are overcharging us for care, leave them alone, give them their money, and let's figure this out later. But that money is going somewhere. Of all the places the federal government can route a dollar, how does it make sense to send it to companies that are, deliberately or unintentionally (through inefficiency), overcharging us? How is that not just abject surrender?
An already affluent guy convinced affluent investors to fund a technology company which the social meme was going on and on about being the next big thing.

I find it hard to believe there was any sort of real “risk” to Bezos future ability to earn a more than average wage.

It’s an information and networking game. You can say there’s some sort of numerical or quantifiable risk. But I suspect Bezos status pre-Amazon, in an early 90’s economy, with a very different wealth equality and cost of living scenario for the masses, he was well buffered from any long term ruin.

Just consider how much it’s changed: 22 people invested $50k according to Google. What’s that get you in 1994? My after tax take home is $110ish/year depending on bonus. My purchase power is a fraction of what it was a generation ago. I should be taking home $500k/yr to enjoy the same purchase power as someone making $110k in the 80s. And this is “normal”, we’re told.

Most people don’t even get anywhere near the network access and education he had.

The notion that we exist in a meritocracy is mind bogglingly engrained in the masses. Bezos earned every cent, it seems. They pay economists a lot to measure very carefully and confirm as much.

Bezos is not that good and that special, and took very little real risk. Society is rewarding him so much because that’s what society is told is correct.
That would simply create a gigantic greenhouse that would require enormous energy inputs to keep it habitable during most of the year. Not the most eco-friendly solution.
Artist creates nanosculptures smaller than a human hair
Marine iguanas, found on Galapagos, are another counter-example to reptiles being strictly meat-eating:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_iguana#Feeding

>The marine iguana forages almost exclusively on red and green algae in the inter- and subtidal zones.
What reproducibility are you referring to?

LSD was marketed as a medicine under the name Delysid for over 10 years mid-century but only afterward did it gain a schedule 1 classification after it was declared to have no medical uses.
This is gobbledygook. You say that the irreplaceable thing is gone and cannot be replaced, but also that somehow we now have an opportunity to modify it?

The cathedral is mostly intact. This is a repair job, just like a repair to an Old Master painting damaged by a vandal. A restorer wouldn't use the latest and greatest synthetic painting materials (acrylics or paints with synthetic binders) to repair an old master. They might use some new technology in the process, but they wouldn't treat the job as an opportunity to indulge their personal creative vanity and leave their mark on the painting. There is more than enough creativity and self-expression in the task of restoration.
Some people like the background noise, some people really don't. I'd personally prefer silence. As you say, YMMV.
This is awesome! I'm the founder of Alto Pharmacy - let me know if we can help with anything (matt at alto.com)
It's mentioned in the first sentence.
Stronger than aluminum, a heavily altered wood cools passively
I imagine a lot of their activities aren't counted as revenue. They don't pay someone to build them a shack, but do it themselves, or with the help of family. They don't pay a babysitter, but have their community watch everyone's kids. They are able to build shacks, and farm vegetables, whereas in the US they'd be driven out by various anti-homeless laws (not their land to farm, illegal to build there, etc.).

We don't have to talk hypotheticals - people living off $1000 a year around the globe are able to have children and families, whereas in the US, they are not (in any significant amount).

And the economic opportunities in the US aren't relevant - we're trying to compare living on $1000 in the US vs. developing world, so adding 'economic opportunities' is saying "it's better to live on $1000 in the US because you'll be able to make more than $1000".
>I wish I could still use them for communication somehow.

Bitlbee + IRC client.
How would Jeff bezos be in a better situation than some small business owner if both companies failed?
> Espionage is not a political offense in either the US or the UK.

But it is in Sweden. That fact is conveniently forgotten when people were and continue to push the narrative of "Assange shouldn't be extradited to Sweden because they'll hand him over to the US".
Loop (https://loopstore.com) is by Terracycle? I'm glad they're still doing well after their natural fertilizer lawsuit fight with Scotts Miracle-Gro.

Too bad this is only available in a few states in the North East.
Which is why it's optional.
Wait, I'm confused. Why did Apple take the game down worldwide instead of only in China? They only "violated" Chinese copyright law, but they're punished for it globally?
It is very overdue and close to reaching a flashpoint. The markets have been getting slammed recently over trade war rumbles. Not sure how it will all end, but China really needs to fall in line with the RoW and adopt sane standards for intellectual property. This cannot go on.
I'm dubious of this. To read

“Now I have no moving parts. Now I have the ability to connect things like iPhones and iPads for remote power management, which increases safety and improves efficiency. I can set the distribution panel to a schedule so the flow of power is seamless, unlimited, and shifts between sources automatically. You literally wouldn’t notice. The lights wouldn’t even flicker.”

Note the "between sources" claim. Replacing mechanical separation with solid state to interrupt a circuit is one thing. Switching between two (presumably AC) sources is another.

Either he's talking about LOW voltage DC and being misleading while he also discusses his company's circuit breaker... or he's actually proposing a 'transfer switch' that does NOT rely on mechanical separation.
On the one hand this is great, it's hard to argue that it isn't a good thing to have a very fast CPU-based AV-1 decoder built into Firefox.

On the other hand, I'm wondering how long this decoder will be relevant, especially considering it could still take a while before AV-1 video will be widespread on the web. I fully expect everyone and the kitchen sink will have hardware decoding before long, which is vastly superior over any software implementation.
I’m not too familiar with Forth, but I see posts about it and variants like this on HN from time to time.

High-level, what makes Forth interesting? What are it’s major strengths and weaknesses?
Massaging resource isn't the same as telling someone exactly how to break into a computer system, and Greenwald knows that.
It is overdue but it's being prosecuted under a flawed understanding of almost all aspects of the situation and inane and unfocused policy. You tackle China first while building an economic coalition of interests with shared goals. A sane and competent person would focus on one task at a time and not undercut the strategic interests required to achieve that task, achieving perhaps effectively nothing.
I use an apple mobile; is there any way* to download the Playsaurus game Clicker Heroes? I know it has, at least at times, been possible to install an app via, say, a web browser like firefox where that app would not appear in-store. I am not sure whether such a thing is possible anymore but would like to support the game and its developer/s.

*without rooting or unjailing the device
I'd prefer a San Francisco tent city

California is currently experiencing a resurgence of "medieval diseases" that is believed to have started in the homeless population.

I lived in a tent for nearly six years. I wouldn't want anything to do with a tent city in a major metropolitan area.
"Numbers" actually conceal a lot of complexity.

Is 2 between 1.9 and 2.1? What about between 1.9 and 2.1111111111111111111111111111111111111111?

What about over/underflow? Do you wrap, clamp, throw an exception? Do you round or set +-inf? Can you divide by zero? Can you divide an integer by a floating point number, and if so what would the result be?

What happens if, say, you multiply an 8-bit and 16-bit integer and the result (using twos complement) doesn't fit in 8 bits?

"Use IEEE-754 doubles for everything" answers all these questions. I think JavaScript is basically junk, but I find at least this aspect to be rather elegant (to the point that I suspect it came from somewhere else, haha).
Huh?

You could define mins and maxes into the language, or even clearly and unambiguously leave everything up to the judge.

My proposal does not change the laws at all--what people create is up to them. All I propose is a language where the language itself cannot be used by the special interests against the better interests of the people. My language leaves corruption with no place to hide.
Did the non Chinese have any trademarks? Anywhere?
Let’s say they make a binding promise and then try and execute him anyway.

What then? He’s dead, and US-UK relations are basically unaffected. Where is the recourse? Who would seek it? No one would be punished, just as for the other violent crimes being discussed in this thread.

Or, what’s worse: they don’t kill him quickly, but instead torture him to death like they tried (and almost succeeded in doing) to Manning. They could even do it in the context of a multi-year protracted non-capital trial, making it seem like they were intending to comply with their promise.

Their goal is suffering and intimidation, make no mistake. Death or not, they are within sight of their endgame. Once he is in their custody, his life will become very, very painful, regardless of what the law says or whether or not he is given a trial or whether or not he is convicted or whether or not is is fair or just. He will suffer, and probably die.

Remember, he is the adversary of the organization who hacked their own Senate to avoid oversight. (No legal repercussions for that, either. The CIA is allowed to hack the legislature.) They give zero fucks about the law, because they know it doesn’t apply to them.

(To add insult to injury: that oversight they were avoiding? It was because they torture people.)

Even Mengele didn’t have that kind of carte blanche.

Literally no law in any country practically applies to the US military intelligence machine at this point.
Apple recognized Chinese claims of IP over the rest of the world.
I'll buy you a ticket to Rwanda if you prefer
Added complexity likely provides a nice bump.
New to C: this calculator is the first thing I wanted to share with you guys
Memorial+Day+DreamCloud+Sleep+Coupon
We've restored the original title, in keeping with the site guidelines: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

Submitted title was "More CEOs were let go for ethical violations than for any other reason in 201".
There idea wide gulf between completely open government and one where secrecy is the default reaponse with very few checks and balances to ensure that those items marked top secret have a valid rationale for being labelled as such.

I would argue that countries like the USA have moved too far in the latter direction and could use a good shove back to the middle.
Yes. In the US and Europe I believe.
Yup. And as a bonus, they'll throw out all the junk mail. Also, if you travel a lot, or often relocate overseas, for a very reasonable rate they'll bulk mail you everything on whatever frequency you would like.
We could invent some new fangled name like washing for this advanced new process you have in mind.

I think this thread is in the 18th, but can't be sure. :)
I have loved some of Stephenson's books, but haven't made it though Seveneves or Dodo. But he's built up enough goodwill with me that I will always give his next book a shot.

A plea: Read Anathem if you haven't. It's great on a number of levels. The less you know about it going in the better.
Why wouldn't Apple do better research before boneheaded actions such as this?
And Serge
>that's exactly my argument why he's not a journalist...if you want to protect journalism from being criminalized, then criminal activity cannot be called journalism.

If you want to protect the standard of "innocent until proven guilty", you shouldn't deem them guilty until proven innocent; though it seems you already have?
Can you explain your statement about Mastodon? I’m out of the loop on that one
Bulk dispensers are already the standard in commercial/institutional settings. Motor oil often comes in boxes (like boxed wine) now.