skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://blog.usejournal.com/princess-qajar-and-the-problem-w...

> Junk history is embodied perfectly in a recent viral meme that portrays a nineteenth-century Persian princess with facial hair alongside the claim that 13 men killed themselves over their unrequited love for her. While it fails miserably at historical accuracy, the meme succeeds at demonstrating how easily viral clickbait obscures and overshadows rich and meaningful stories from the past.

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> Unfortunately, not only does the “Princess Qajar” meme boil down this deeply-nuanced element of cultural history into junk history clickbait, it also makes it worse by adding the sensational claim that thirteen men killed themselves over their unrequited love for her. Naturally, there is no source given to support this claim, which appears to be pulled from thin air. Were it true, it would seem like worthy material to include in even the shortest legitimate biographical information about ‘Esmat, but it doesn’t appear anywhere.

You raise a good point about shifting standards of beauty. You simply picked a poor example, one made more out of clickbait and meme culture than actual history.
I believe the area between the dotted and solid lines is a mirror. The blob of light is visible because it's passing through some medium that scatters it, then when it disappears it has been absorbed by the mirror, then we see it reemitted shortly after.
I was able to take a few under strict "eyes only" conditions.
There had been photo leaks a few days prior of someone who had bluffed through the security and sold photos to the press.

The press were going through the same day I was there, there are surely similar / better images that mine online.
They exposed all the options. That’s very useful. They made their case. That’s very useful.

This is the most discussed feature of Rust ever. The team spent a lot of time and energy on it, way way way more than any other feature. Several team members flip flopped positions several times.
Most of the arguments may not be new, but given the overwhelming reaction to the recent blog post, I think it would be worth reflecting on that reaction and seeing if there isn't a reasonable way for the crowd to be heard.

For example, I don't know if this was a new idea or an old one, but standardizing the general concept of dot-keyword before following through with dot-await, even if it ultimately doesn't change the decision, would make the decision easier to swallow (for me).
Palmer Luckey: 'I Left Facebook Because I Got Fired'
You can define local path or remote git repos as dependencies if you like. That does involve Cargo of course, but if you choose it should theoretically not leave your firewall.

Also, you can run a local copy of all the documentation in all the repos pretty easily too.

Huge asterisk: I've never tested any phone-homes, if that is what you're worried about. But, it can be pretty offline-friendly.
...and also for WKRP In Cincinnati. Anywhere you do see it, it's not with the original music. They stripped out all the old radio tracks and replaced it with crap.

What a shame that the rights holders are so short sighted. The nostalgia those old tracks would create would surely sell more records. And it's not like anybody is going to be satisfied with replaying the video when they want the song, with the characters talking over the top of it.
Still, neither side is posting any proof of their lizard or not-lizard assertions.
I'm a little flabbergasted that the idea of animals using tools is so groundbreaking. I've seen squirrels pick apples up off the ground, climb to the top of a tree, and drop the apple over and over again to break it into small convenient pieces. I've seen birds do the same thing too, with shellfish. You see all kinds of stuff when you have your eyes open.
The new Ecuadorian government - the same one that handed him over and which has a clear interest in justifying this action by defaming him - has not provided any evidence to substantiate their lurid claims, despite their apparent willingness to leak various surveillance videos of him to the press. It's sad to see people taking baseless accusations by an involved party at face value.
> And all income earned by a US citizen is subject to federal taxes, regardless of where in the world the income is earned.

This is just the same as many countries. All income earned is subject to tax in the country you live in, regardless of where in the world it was earned. However, this only applies when you are tax resident. So I can't see any reason why a wealth tax in other countries couldn't also apply to global wealth. There's a precedent set by their income tax already applying to global income.

The almost-unique difference in the case of the US is that it taxes its citizens even when resident outside the US (I realise there's a deduction for taxes you've paid overseas).
Exactly. tptacek loves to talk with extreme confidence and 70% of people will just listen because he says so. But he's just someone who likes to post on HN an extremely high amount, he's not an authority figure.
Purdue infiltrated WHO, manipulated opioid policies to boost sales, report finds
I’d love to know of a disabled musician who fits the archetype which is typically thrown around in this discussion. It seems to be purely hypothetical.

Also, this argument discounts second order effects. Who knows what new innovations might be brought on by the need to find an alternate revenue source.
I also have been wondering whether I am out of the loop on some joke...
> Publishing the latter stuff almost certainly got people killed

Citation Needed?

Also, were those people involved in those [war crimes]?
Why is this accepted in the community and not considered racism? If I said I don't want to mentor any trans people, I would be crucified by the community.
> * People believe that you shouldn't be able to remix art to make money off it.

Say goodbye to a whole era of hiphop and electronic music.
Have releases generally been solid? Is this okay to install on my server today, or is it like Ubuntu, where you're supposed to wait for the first point release because .0 is actually a bit of a beta?
People don't want to be "the poor".
VPN = freedom
> Things can be dictatorial but fair.

So who gets to choose? One person's benevolent dictator is another person's despot.
The crowd was heard. There are also many people who are in favor of the syntax that was chosen! This is not a situation where the community is overwhelmingly settled on one thing and the team is settled on another.

Yes, that has been discussed. It hasn’t been committed to in any way.
The US has extradition treaties with most countries it seems:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_extradit...
Crimes committed against the United States are seen as crimes committed in the United States. This is an issue of sovereignty, as there is no (for most intents and purposes) higher, international court to pursue the case in. Therefore, the case is tried in the United States. It's similar to any other foreign national conspiring in crime in the United States. They don't have to physically be in a country to break a country's laws.

The country that the individual was in when the crime was committed can certainly handle the issue and not extradite, however, generally these agreements avoid that.

This existed before the internet as well.
> World's richest 10% produce half of global interesting things worth reading about

Completely disagree there - the stories I got out of kids in remote Chinese villages were way more interesting than the shit I see on top of news.google.com, and far less depressing to boot.
Although I don't pretend to understand the specifics, I expect that any charges against him will be on the corner cases. They won't be a frontal assault on Wikileaks. After all, what's the difference between WL and the New York Times when you get right down to it?

My guess is that hidden on page 1050 (or whatever) of the charges, the meat of the matter will be some sort of Swiss Army knife of Justice Department power involving a kind of conspiracy, meeting with C. Manning, or whatever. Truth is, they can put anyone in prison any time they like.

Thank goodness the intelligence nomenklatura in this country isn't joined at the hip with the Googles, Facebooks, and AT&Ts of the world. Then where would we be?
Talking about the majority, I assume.
Spotify’s collection is nowhere close to what what.cd used to have before it got shutdown.
It's hilarious that we've come full circle on that. It was dropped because it was absurd that you'd need to wear a suit in order to be a good engineer especially when you never see a customer. It's equally absurd to suggest that wearing a suit makes you any less qualified- but everyone has seen that one movie where Steve Jobs acts like a douche and hey presto! The entirity of SV ends up exactly as judgey as Wall Street but in exactly the opposite direction.
This is really cool--did you hear about how a bunch of hospitals are coming together to manufacture generic drugs that are marked up by PBMs--I imagine if something like that where a stakeholder with input in the buying process can come in and guarantee like a monopolistic market for an upstart..the drugs are going to be cheaper but the fact that the hospitals themselves are consumers means people can take long term bets without fear of losing money
> World's richest 10% produce half of global food.

Citation required.
Can you send me an email at my user name at gmail dot com?
Something similar happened to me years ago. In the process I sent a tar-ball. He replied with, "Please resend the attachment as industry standard ZIPFILE."
> idiosyncratic computer-programmer wishful view

What did you mean by this nonsense?
I agree with FPTP being bad. But keep in mind the big advantage of the system is keeping two parties close to even, leading to more frequent regime changes. This makes it harder to rig the system in your favor, thus providing long term stability. I'm not sure if term limits alone would would be good enough at that.
The charge could have been limited to working on cracking the password. Instead it explicitly describes activity common to reporters and critical for democracy: publishing information the source obtained "illegally". In quotes because a government with something to hide will generally hide it under a national security secrets act.

Why make charges that could destroy journalism when you could charge with something that doesn't? It's hard to understand, unless of course the press is "the enemy of the people".
Sure, but if you believe fuzzy marketing claims like this, I've got a bridge to sell you. It'll make you feel like a billionaire.
Also, as backup: https://cryptome.org/2019/05/assange-031.pdf
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A Subway Saboteur Is Pulling Brakes Across the System
Its funny how some people did 180 on Assange very quickly after the DNC email leaks. The whole point of auch leaks is you can not pick and choose which ones you like and which ones you dont!!
Some even claimed that he was a Russian asset. This is really depressing.
Except all those 40% who don't have $400 to spare.
Israeli security isn't like TSA. Everyone gets a short interview with a professional (not some minimum wage worker) where obvious red flags are spotted like a story that sounds rehearsed. If you pass you are assigned a security level based on the interview and other factors that affects how thoroughly you are checked in the remaining procedure.
Running a Yocto Generated Distribution on Google Coral Dev Board
That's an extreme misrepresentation. Unless your argument is that on this site there was probably someone who held that opinion at the time. But before Snowden, many people here were under no delusions about US government spying, and few people have ever doubted the UK's willingness to cooperate with the US on anything. People only doubted, and still doubt, Sweden's willingness to extradite Assange to the US for espionage. They don't do that. Sweden wants him for rape.
Yesterday my account displayed "currently playing on another device" on a browser I've never used, and I also noticed music from russian artists/letters I've never played in my song history. Signed out from all locations, and changed password and I haven't had any other issues yet.
Of course it is not. What I'm saying is, optimal economic decissions of some people might not be good for people in general. When it comes to copyright we can't consider only the good of the creators and people who paid creators.

Copyright is not just for popculture. Also learning materials, software and culture in general. Tonnes of people in the world got their higher education on pirated software and xeroxed books.
Make discipline an important part of your life. Do not rely on motivation or passion or interest to get things done. Tell yourself what you will do and then do it without question. The more you practice this the better your time management and focus will be - your mind has nowhere to wander for excuses because there are no excuses to be made.
It would have completely destroyed the vaults, and everything inside.

The firemen had planned to let the roof burn - it would have been impossible to stop, and would have pulled resources from the more inport tasks, namely protecting the towers and keeping the inside temperatures below flash point.

The North Tower was particularly important: the bells are mounted on a wooden frame that is independent of the stonework - when they sound, the wooden structure absorbs the movement and weight changes, so the tower structure isn't stressed. If this structure burnt, the bells would have fallen, causing catastrophic damage to the tower and probably the structure itself.

As it stands, there were only three holes punched through the vault - which is incredible considering the weight and heat directly above them.

The firemen came under intense criticism during and immediately after the blaze, but the proof is most definitely in the result.
Ultimately it's the customers who are responsible, not the owners of companies. It's the customers who create the demand that the companies only form to satisfy.

By your standard, a few members of the Royal Family of Saudi Arabia are personally responsible for a sizable portion of global emissions and completely lets off the hook every single consumer of oil and gasoline in the world.
Where they do have power, they wield it. See: international relations regarding Taiwan.
It says it's unpopular right in the title of the article.
True, but if you control both the serialisation and deserialisation you can get away with it
Netflix dropped the idea of being a universal streaming library years ago; once the copyright holders realized the actual value of the streaming rights to their properties, they stopped letting Netflix license them for peanuts and the total cost of licensing everything became way too high even for Netflix.

That was what fueled their move towards producing original content -- they knew they wouldn't be able to license third party content for much longer, and they needed to have something people would want to watch when that day came. They've explicitly said they see their future as being the next HBO, where what draws subscribers is access to Netflix-original content you can't get anywhere else rather than access to a deep catalog of content from lots of different sources.

> Basically match any Redbox prices (1-2 dollars)

Redbox has the same advantage that Netflix had back when they were shipping discs by mail, namely that discs are a physical artifact and thus subject to the first sale doctrine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine), which says that the seller of a physical good can't put artificial restrictions on what the buyer of that artifact does with it after they buy it. As long as copyright holders sell movies and such on discs priced for everyday consumers, services like Redbox can also buy those discs at the same low price and then rent them out to people, and the copyright holders can't impose a post-sale restriction to stop them. They sold the disc, once they took the money they lost the right to say what it could be used for.

Stream the same movie instead of delivering it on disc, though, and now since there's no transfer of ownership of a physical artifact, the first sale doctrine no longer applies. Anyone who wants to stream that movie has to negotiate separate streaming rights with the copyright holder; the copyright holder is free to demand however much it wants to as part of that negotiation; and if that price is too rich, the would-be streamer doesn't have the option to just buy a bunch of licenses on the consumer market the way they would with discs. Their only options are to pay what the copyright holder demands, or not carry the title. So

All of which means that streaming services will always be at a severe disadvantage price-wise to services that rent out physical media -- even before you start factoring in the cost of all the infrastructure needed to stream video reliably to a global audience.
Coordination and direction are the means of power. Without these, one does not actually have power.
> github is not the community. It is a tool.

Not really, no. HackerNews, Slashdot, subreddits, are all communities. Same goes for GitHub. The positive network effects are a considerable hurdle to its competitors.
Really shocked by the allegations. Has any unethical behavior like this ever happened in a Silicon Valley startup before? Would there have been any way to see this coming?
I don't think it's the tool use, its the specific tool use - they are observing a new behaviour. It's not that they assumed they couldn't (I mean, look up "Chimps using tools" on youtube), it's just a novel behaviour, which is neat to see. It's not something groundbreaking, it's just notable.
Right. As I recall, a lot of the prior discussion revolved around the rape charges. One side argued that Assange was hiding from a rape charge and the other arguing that the rape charge was a cover for a secret extradition agreement between Sweden and the US. That latter stance has yet to be proven.

I don't think that there were many people arguing that the US didn't want him but it looks like the US was willing to wait for him to wear out his welcome with the Ecuadorans and completely skip over the Swedes. I wonder had he never gotten to the Ecuadorean embassy if the US would have raised a competing claim with Sweden.
... Is us governmental corruption and abuse of power so bad that were willing to say "yeah but China and Russia would do it too"? Cuz that's bleak...
People don't care who owns Go. They just write awesome software in Go such as Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana and VictoriaMetrics [1]. Go authors created simple, clear and productive programming language. Community-driven design for programming language may be disaster - look at incomprehensible C++ Frankenstein.

[1] https://medium.com/@valyala/open-sourcing-victoriametrics-f3...
Swathes of the US public seem to be cheering as their own country is going down. Strange times indeed.
I'm not sure why I would need to come up with ways to finance the production of goods that people don't want to pay for. Going back to my previous example, I have no idea how the Detective Pikachu movie would get financed if everyone in the world had the same lack of interest in it as I do. But I also wouldn't be too upset if no one was interested in a Detective Pikachu movie and it never got financed and produced.
Blind acceptance of Edsger Dijkstra's writings considered harmful, such as goto and array index starting at 0.
Consumer-fundamentalism is the most dangerous faith-based authoritarian system the world has yet seen.
Watch out for this even more obscure gotcha – if you're dealing with large enough arrays, V8 will throw an error:

[].push(...new Array(120520))

results in `RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded` on node v10.15.3.

[ ...new Array(120520)]

works fine though!
I think stuff like wolfram language and mathematica probably have some "universal" numeric type.

However, I don't know a single mainstream application programming language that has a single numeric type that can handle: arbitrarily large integers, floating point values, and correct decimal arithmetic (0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3). I have at least a passing familiarity with probably about a dozen general purpose programming languages, and none of them can do it. If anyone knows of one, I'd be interested to learn about it.
They haven't popped back up. He's being prosecuted for evading the original arrest. Of course this is obviously just a pretext for the US getting their foot in the door.
Good thing we've added billions of people to the world, or the percentage would be less diluted.
Is it really the majority however? Or just how the majority appears? I know that it can sometimes feel like one is in the minority because disagreement stands out more than agreement.
Does that mean it only needs internet for the first build. And then, subsequent builds won’t need internet connection (if I don’t add new dependencies, of course), kind of like Maven?
Before focusing:

1. Write down the list of things I need to do today AND tomorrow. (If there was a list of things that I like, "list" would be at the top of that list :)

2. Draw "points" beside some items, indicating their urgency.

3. Choose one which better fits my current state of mind (late at night I work on repeating tasks, in the morning I work on creative stuff, in the afternoon, esp. after lunch (!) I mostly think and strategize, so I do programming then).

During the focus:

Either

1. Café noise app (or online web apps)

2. Nature sounds (rain, thunder, ...)

Or

3. Soft music (if what I'm doing requires attention) or chill music (if the task is boring and repetitive, ugh!)

4. keep going as long as I __feel__ doing it. I don't believe in Pomodoro or similar apps.
You can work completely offline. All official tools support it.

Rust team can't do much about ecosystem though. There are some libraries which download resource (say, large data table) over the network at build time. I consider these bugs, but maintainers of those libraries may disagree.
Heard of Causeway Bay Books? One of the men was a Swedish citizen and was taken from his home in Thailand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causeway_Bay_Books_disappearan...
There's a reason some brands take off and it's generally because before fashion they have a legitimate value proposition. Patagonia used to be a great item (still is). That great item turned into a messaging symbol that the owner knew how to spot a great item, and in turn it's been adopted by someone who wants to message that they know how to spot a great item.