skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the same time they keep Assange locked in an embassy far longer than he could even be sentenced to for the crime he is accused of commiting.

It was Assange's choice to go the embassy, to request asylum, and to remain there for 7 years. Nobody made him do that.

And the Assange case certainly seems much more flimsy, I'm not even sure what he is accused of, exactly. But it certainly seems to boil down to some he-said, she-said situation that will be completely impossible to get to the bottom of.

Possibly. Assange fled to the embassy when he was informed he would be extradited to Sweden to face an investigation. One of the weird things about Swedish law is that back then it might not have allowed criminal investigations in absentia.

So his actions certainly seem to indicate that he fears something more than just being found guilty of "less-severe rape". (Sounds a bit weird but is the crime he is accused of IIUC.)

This answer is actually known. If he had been found guilty of rape in Sweden, he would have been deported back to Australia (since he is an Australian citizen). And Australia has no restrictions on extradition to the US, such as the exception for capital charges commonly found in the EU.

But when one combines this with how other cases seem to be handled, as well as considering proportionality, things are less clear.

This one is easy. That was actually Swedish policy (and possibly actually Swedish law) back then not to pursue criminal cases against foreigners outside of Sweden, and they applied this same policy to Assange as well. [https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-14/julian-assange-to-be-...] But then the prosecutor got absolutely railed in Sweden for letting an accused rapist escape justice simply because he fled the jurisdiction. Unlike the Aland Islands case, in which the suspects were arrested but permitted by authorities to return home, Assange simply left...and that makes all the difference. It's one thing for someone to escape justice because authorities fucked up. But it's another thing to let someone escape justice simply because they decided to opt out of the process.
Feature parity for most people, not userbase parity.
You still have to do some tuning and at least assign RX queues properly.

You want to drop unwanted traffic before you start spending more cycles on it.
None of those things really matter to the target audience though. Freesync doesn't have much use when you're working with static images or videos with a fixed frame rate. When you're editing video, you want your refresh rate to equal the frame rate of your video (or a multiple or it) to avoid judder and interpolated frames. A refresh rate higher than your frame rate, but not an even multiple of it, would be worse than running at the same rate as the video. Running it at an even multiple of the frame rate may provide some benefit, but it is marginal.

The pros are mainly concerned with color accuracy and gamut, neither of which gaming displays are known for.
In my experience it isn't really the people in the left lane that present the biggest problem, it's the cruisers in the middle lane (on a three lane highway). They effectively cap the speed of the highway because you have to match their speed and squeeze in (they rarely leave a legal amount of distance) just to get to the other side of the highway to go faster, or to the right to take an exit. I really do wish cops would do some enforcement of the keep-right rule so the highway would flow smoothly.
Yes, because there's more of them than you, by many orders of magnitude.
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I get the complaining but hey Apple released a new Mac Pro is pretty cool. They could have just decided quietly leave the market completely.

I also appreciate how the display is a thing now. Not everyone remembers the verrrry long period where 1920x1200 was the best you could do even when laptop displays were shooting off into the retina world. A high dpi developer workstation with tools to match could be a beautiful thing.
The Canadian note is many generations out of date.
The released FTC report, at the very least, will be cited for years in civil lawsuits against Facebook.
Just don't bring up the Berlin Brandenburg Airport. Never, ever do this.
You're welcome to your definition, but if you think developing for desktops, notebooks, smartphones, and tablets, with all the differences they encompass is trivial, you're in for a shock.

Even with other cross-platform offerings like Flutter, React, Electron and so on, getting one codebase to work out of the box on just two platforms can be a challenge. On mobile, there tends to be a need to drop down from the cross-platform stuff to something native for performance reasons — Discord does this for its chat buffer on iOS, Facebook does this for practically everything.

So while people take to their ideological high horses, there'll be people out there who can really benefit from being able to develop for Macs, iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches, and Apple TVs with a single, familiar, and easy yet powerful API to provide a glass of ice water in cross-platform hell.
Microsoft has a long history of illegal anti-competitive behavior going back decades. I particularly remember an attempt to break Lotus Notes in a service pack that backfired and broke Windows servers.

This was as they were building up Exchange.
The criticism isn't just the price. it's that the hardware does not match the price at all. A similarly specced PC would cost half the price, and would probably be able to use stuff like Nvidia cards with CUDA that has become pretty important for some of the groups you mention.

If it was a beefy workstation with specs to match the price I don't think people would complain (or at least as much).
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In my experience its hard to impress kids these days with little experiments and devices. They are already growing up with magical things as an integral part of their lives. The real problem is to convert them from consumers to being producers.

To do this I would recommend having them build something as opposed to doing show and tell or wowing them. For example, take little robots like Cosmo and have them program it. Or have them build drone from the kit. Or use visual programming environment to create fractals. Snap circuits have many under $50 kits with fans and lights.

Also a lots of good toys in this list: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/OXK2YDXOQCG2
I believe this knot is similar, but not quite the same: https://www.animatedknots.com/uni-knot.

The site also has the noose knot which can be extended to create a hangman's knot: https://www.animatedknots.com/noose-knot

There is some discussion on the noose knot page that indicates the hangman's knot is deliberately not included in the encyclopedia. The site doesn't give a reason for not including it.

I agree it should be included in an encyclopedia of knots. Any knot can be dangerous if you put it around your neck.
This always comes up - the vocabulary we use in this discussion has been heavily tainted over the years by those who would most benefit by broadening the definition of monopoly. Keep fighting the fight. Precision in language is vital on this front.
This usually hinges on intent. The most common money-exchange scam is exactly this: the mark receives a stack of one-sided copies instead of actual currency, and the perp runs away before the mark notices. People have gone to prison for this.
> What is your evidence? I cited mine above.

My evidence is the congressional record which indicates republican politicians overwhelmingly oppose NN and democratic politicians overwhelmingly support it.

I wouldn't regard a single post on a subreddit as evidence; it is at best an anecdote, and one of dubious credibility IMO.
I didn't know Sucralose had any effect on my blood sugar!
I just finished "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub":

"Why, the Trojan Horse marked the birth of cryptoequestrianism!"
What I find more concerning is that, at least in the UK, gmail seems to include the public IP of the sending device in the "Received" email header. Because I assume that it's possible (not sure if legal in the UK) to buy the mapping from IPs to names / identities, this means that it isn't possible to use an unnamed gmail account in an anonymous way. I guess that most gmail users are not aware of this issue.
My cynical suspicion is that the tech giant's platforms allow for citizen organization in a way that the other ignored monopolies do not.
I watched this a few months ago for the first time - it blew my mind. Made it completely clear why you're instructed to put your mask on first before helping others.
Why? Many countries have quite clear rules what makes acceptable non-real money, so this often can be relatively easily answered.
People like in anonymous communities all the time. One motivation would be to impress other (perceived-to-be) successful members so to be asked for stories to tell, for advice, etc.

I don’t know why people are like that, but anonymity thins out the middle group of semi-/socially-truthful people by providing an opportunity to be much more honest or much less honest than is normally possible.

$500k is achievable total compensation at a few companies for some people, though.
Does that compassion extend to anything more substantial than "aww, poor them" or donating a few bucks and into sustaining meaningful change in the way we deal with the issue?
I imagine you pass it crumpled or rolled up.
This is not so an idea of it's own. But, the thing that still wows me when I really consider it, is scales. I don't think people outside of this field ever really consider just how small and just how fast these switching machines are.
It used to amaze that a programmer of an 8-bit game machine in the early 80s would know how much time they had before a certain scan line was reached, what the computer would do while waiting for the TV to reach that point that is instantaneous to us.
I've seen transistor projects built up to make an 8 bit adder. The transistors taken to a higher level of logic gates. You flip switches and different lights go on or off. Then extrapolate that to a chip with a few thousand such circuits switching on and off many times a second, then extrapolate that to modern machines doing that with millions of transistors at nano scale at ghz, so that the simple act of switching circuits on and off results in say, voice recognition or AI, or drawing pixels to the screen or working out geometry for 3D graphics. The many levels of abstraction to get there.
You don't need fancy things, because just the most basic machines are actually pretty amazing, and then to think that they are just 'basic'. Then there is the networking of many of these machines just to send even a text message around the world and have someone get it seconds later (let alone millions of people doing the same thing at the same time). It's pretty ridiculous to think about, but we usually take it for granted or are completely unaware of just how complex this is. And so simple at the same time. It's surely humanity's greatest achievement.
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According to this reddit thread which references a Twitter feed, it does work with magic trackpad: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/bwfk09/mouse_support...

I haven't tried it so I don't know.
It should be noted that not all Autobahns are equally well built and maintained. Even though they are called "Bundesautobahn" (federal highway), it's actually the states who are responsible for construction and maintenance. Some do a good job with that, others not so much.

For the best driving experience I'd recommend Bavaria. They have well maintained roads and less congestion, also only few speed limits. Avoid Baden-Württemberg and especially the Stuttgart area, unless you really like traffic jams.

Here's a map of Autobahn sections without speed limit: http://autobahnspeedhunter.de/routes_de/
There are things much scarier and devastating than uranium. It took 10 micro-grams(10^-5 g) of Pu-210 to poison(ARS) Litvinenko. You cannot see that amount - so tiny it is. And the damage is almost 100% gamma rays - so its hard to detect and the damage is lowered when handling and maximal when ingested.
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Spreadsheets are becoming old tech as big data picks up, which is why you're seeing a split in the substitute products.

For smaller datasets, there's online solutions like Google Sheets and Airtable. For larger datasets, there's thousands of different databases that work better than Excel. Either way, consumers have options.
Out of circulation, too?
The government sanctioned AT&T’s monopoly in exchange for building the world’s most capable telecommunications. They’d probably still be the only telecom, if they could have behaved.
I rather like Windows machines in 2019. I believe Apple fumbled the “Pro” market big time but it’s really not something worth for them to chase in my view. I really see this new iteration more as a goodwill gesture to their pro user base than an attempt to recapture the market.
> Antitrust enforcement in the US doesn't care about whiny competitors but if the enduser and customer is harmed

So why does it allow harmful mega-mergers of ISPs and corrupt buying of laws that forbid building municipal networks, which is just a tactic to cement local monopolies?

The whole net neutrality topic is primarily about competition law. And lawmakers still (supposedly) can't wrap their heads around such basic thing, dancing to the tune of said monopolists, who pull their strings with legalized corruption.
>>> I'm curious what you see as the antitrust violations that lead to high housing prices?

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what is the need to have such a knee jerk reply? Seriously, why would you say something like that?

My comment meant: "Bye bye " for me. As in: I'm not using it anymore.

I don't get you man.
Heh. I'm just a fan of the right tool for the job. ;-)
I would argue for a Lisp. If you’re asking the user to use a language they’re not familiar with, it might as well be one that will expand their horizons, despite the potentially offputting syntax. It would be really cool if you added a key that switched from s-expressions to Sweet expressions[0] (and vice-versa). Forth is painful to use for anything more than a toy and no matter what language you choose it would be awesome to see a live-updating (graphical?) REPL.

[0] https://readable.sourceforge.io
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> You get to talk to someone in real time.

Except it’s not real time until a support person is notified and responds minutes or sometimes hours later. Chat pop ups feel like a lame trick these days every time I try to use them; they pretend like they’re going to be fast and then make you waste your own time waiting. The last one I used the other day made me wait more than 10 minutes, so I did something else, and when the support person responded and asked a follow up question and I didn’t answer in 5 seconds, they closed the support ticket, making me start over. I’d rather use email.
> then ride on the right or left side of the lane instead of right down the middle. Then you are not impeding traffic.

It's actually better to ride in the middle of the lane. Riding at the edge of the lane makes it far more likely that you'll get sideswiped.
My intuition for that, and you can tell me if its wrong.

The normal explanation for Word2Vec is 2 weight matrices, so the formula looks like this: (One_hot_input x W1) x W2, which is then softmaxed.

W1 then is the matrix that contain our focus embedding from, but if we only evaluate specific words on the target side, then W2 are actually our context embeddings, and the normal multiplication then is focus_w x context_w.

Am I wrong?
Google doesn't have a monopoly on search - the supply for search engines has many equally accessible competitors supplying the market.

FB has a monopolistic-power in the network effects like you said, but even then entrants like Snapchat show that the network effects can be gained for new competitors.
Are you saying that this model has 100x perf from the previous one? Or 10x? Or 5x?
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I suppose it's possible to have a difference of opinion on the meaning of "open". The BIOS was the only bit of the design that IBM had any IP in, and they definitely intended other hardware manufacturers to make compatible products, if not perhaps entire systems.

It's important to remember the regulatory environment that IBM had operated in at the time.

For more than a decade it had been illegal for IBM to exclude 3rd party hardware makers from its mainframe market, beginning with the so-called "plug compatible" peripherals, which resulted in publishing standards for the IBM Channel interface, the prohibition on refusing to allow e.g. 3rd party memory for mainframes, and importantly, the requirement that IBM license its operating systems and software to run on any manufacturer's hardware.

This was the environment that the PC was designed in. The (IMO) open design - which was not an accident - was really the only possibility that IBM had while still holding to those earlier legal restrictions on bundling, tying, and license restriction.

The fact that Compaq could reverse-engineer the BIOS was inevitable given the market opportunity. IBM tried to hold on to that thin reed but it was a doomed effort. As the "PC Compatible" market took off IBM became irrelevant to much of the growth in the industry.
To be fair, Germany is a tiny country and the autobahn spends a lot of time under construction. It's dug much deeper than typical American highways. Nobody in the US wants to pay that much for road construction.
> Imagine we're 20 years into the future and Ford has just successfully managed to lobby (with quite some industry support, mind you) for mandatory Vehicle-to-Vehicle/Infrastructure comms, where every car has to be able to talk to every set of traffic lights, speed sign, and other vehicle.

Right, but this is where the analogy breaks down. Its more like "some municipalities decided that cars on their streets had to be specially registered or they wouldn't let you drive. Some people like those municipalities, but they aren't the majority, and you aren't, at all, forced to go near them.
> The other way would be to ignore the bike lane and ride in the center of the lane that you would use if you were driving a car through there.

This is what I do for the most part, and I'd say very roughly 20% of cyclists do the same. Few cyclists are confident enough for this solution.
I’d actually argue that it’s perhaps great that the abstractions work well enough for someone to not know networking to be productive in web development.
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That's of course true, but bandwidth is usually not the problem with eg. SYN attacks.

Iptables is there to ensure you can handle as many packets as possible per second, not bandwidth.
> At the same time they keep Assange locked in an embassy

Assange wasn't locked in the embassy. He was free (and encouraged by the British, and until they gave up the Swedish) to leave at any time.

Assange chose to stay in the embassy for longer than his likely worst-case sentence, until expelled, in a futile attempt to avoid potential US charges he wasn't then facing and which his decision to delay proceedings so long made actually enabled to come through while he was still in custody following the expiration of Ecuadorian hospitality.
Note, this is not a “lifestyle job”
I just came across this YCombinator-backed company careers page (https://www.bottomless.com/jobs) and saw this:

"Be part of our founding team. Note, this is not a "lifestyle job". Our goal is to build something great for a lot of people, not to maximize work/life balance."

I am genuinely curious what type of people actually decide to take these jobs? I understand that working at a startup will be different than working at BIGCORP, but what kind of people decide to go for a company that clearly announces long works hours (and probably below average pay) like that?

It's difficult for me to understand whether the founders of these companies are genuinely deluded, or whether they just hope to find someone dumb enough to buy into their "mission"? As long as you're an employee, then being a part of the "founding team" doesn't mean anything. Am I missing something?
It's a pretty great example of the wisdom of "doing one thing well." This site should just have a Wikipedia link to each country.
What you are describing already exists and it's much cheaper, it just doesn't have macOS in it.
Is this really that common? That's disheartening, I want to spend time in academia but experiences like this are sucking the fun out for me...
The Egyptian note has the number zero, but the writing still says Fifty Pounds.
I haven’t come across many if any Normal every day 21+ people finding it creepy. Useless perhaps, but not creepy to point of that’s the reason they won’t buy or use it.
> congressional record

Politicians do what their constituents want now? That's new.

> I wouldn't regard a single post on a subreddit as evidence

Visit [1]. See the spike in the graph? That is the link I posted above. It is not anecdotal. As I said, this is the most upvoted comment ever removed from that sub.

[1] https://revddit.com/r/the_donald
They have patents on a lot of stuff. I think cut and paste was one but memory might be off. They use patent suits to suck billions out of Android suppliers. We'd probably have seen that with Windows-compatible desktops like ReactOS if they got mature enough with enough users.

Further, Oracle going for the API ruling means companies like them could monopolize at API level by making ports even riskier and costlier. Then, there's the interface look-and-feel which Apple likes suing over. That's at least three ways they can go after competitors.
0 Billion Dollar Bills would be useful in the Trump era.
Is there something wrong with betting based on a calculated risk?

VCs do it all the time, why can't a government do it?
Yay! I am sick and tired of crappy iPhone ports to the iPad where it wants to turn my iPad pro into a ginormous phone screen. At least now I hope that crap goes away.

It has been fascinating to watch the evolution of the iPad version of iOS and the desktop version of Windows 10 to better support a screen/pen/detachable keyboard sort of world.
> I want to see a modern one, if possible with free software GPU support like for the Mali

The Mali drivers that were just mainlined last month aren't necessarily feature complete like Intel, Via or AMD GPU drivers. Mali is licensed from ARM, which would be a showstopper for US embargoed companies.

> Which is exactly why I want to see MIPS64 that can do all that without hardware acceleration - and much more with it.

If MIPS64 were competitive on price, we would have a plethora of tablets & boards based on it. Currently, dated Mips 24k cores are a $0.10 afterthought that is used to boot and initialize the dedicated ASICs. We've started seeing ARM cores eat the router market though, they're likely delivering more performance for that $0.10.