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The clear vendetta against Assange, his colleagues (either direct or indirect), Wikileaks and publishers in general is a clear and present danger to the rule of law across the Western world.

Journalists, activists, publishers and security researchers are all being directly harassed and maligned by the US and its allies purely because Wikileaks revealed information the US would rather it hadn't. It's a disgusting affront to the rule of law.

Craig Murray's latest piece on the DNC lawsuit being thrown out is incredibly informative about exactly how this narrative is created and spun to turn people against WL and its affiliates / allies / peers.

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/08/in-the-world...
I may be misinterpreting what you're saying, but just in case: the critique isn't about "style", as in being too direct or offensive or anything like that. It's about the value system, and about how arguments are evaluated.

Case in point: a few days ago an article about India/Kashmir shortly made the front page (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20612461)

The ensuing discussion is entirely obsessed with the legalistic details of India's action: what sort of law is it/who has the authority to recind it/etc.

Read any news report on the topic and those questions are secondary to the intentions and actual effects of the policy, i. e. "is this intended to allow resettling a majority-muslim province with Hindus and thereby dilute it's culture as part of a nationalistic campaign?"

That sort of superficial legalism is rather prevalent. Any discussion of a public protest will include some people complaining about protesters not staying on the sidewalks. Discussions on law frequently find really clever "cheats" relying on too-literal a reading of the text ("Freedom of 'Speech', not of 'Writing', the New York Times doesn't have a case").

If I were to over-psychoanalyse, this approach seems to gell with a certain type of uber-rationality that denies the value of anything that cannot be measured. Hence, I've seen repeated suggestions that web fonts shouldn't exist because nobody needs more than one readable font or, more generally, that "design" is superfluous wastefulness at best and often akin to lying.
Whoever is "right", it wasn't just the media, but also lots of developers, who felt it was a shameful display of misogyny. So it is certainly wrong to claim that the media spun this story a certain way out of the blue.

Also, if I didn't think my opinion was correct it wouldn't be my opinion.
As a counterpoint, comapre that with eg. reaction to QuickJS, when it was announced. People did not know who's to be credited for most of the work (only that two people claim copyright in the code), but if you look at the comments, it's all praise for the better known name, Fabrice Bellard, and almost no mention of the other person.

People will praise who they want to, and will bother to verify, only if it disagrees with their prejudices in the first place.

There's also a difference if those prejudices are based on something like past achievements of the praised person, or on something unrelated, like being a woman.
Isn't that anthropomorphizing right there? Maybe more correct to say "The evolved stimulus reactions in individuals resulting in complex group behaviors is striking"?

Bees are a great example of mindless creatures with no awareness. They die a horrible death when they sting someone (their internal organs ripped out of their bodies with the stinger) with no obvious awareness of what they're doing.
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Oh Jesus! I feel really sad for this new selfie-generation. They just don't know how to enjoy stuff.
This is unrelated to the topic, but your comment is a good occasion to learn more about what seems to me to be weird (grammatical) article usages by English speakers.

Why did you call it _Les_ Olympiades, and not Olympiades (no article) or _the_ Olympiades (article in English), or _les_ Olympiades (no capitalization of the article) ?

For Porte d'Italie, you did not add any article, i.e. Porte d'Italie and not _La_ Porte d'Italie. Why the difference?
Sichuanese is much more of a dialect than Cantonese. Even my sorry laowai Chinese can make some of it out. Cantonese and fujianese are about as far away from mandarin as dialects get, and they still are somewhat intelligible with manadarin and each other. The real different languages of China are like Tibetan, Mongolian, zhuang, Miao, Uighur, and a plethora of minority languages, but < 10% of the population speak them.

Mandarin gets you far for work or life in China in most Chinese cities. It stops working that great once you get to heavy minority areas outside big cities.
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Yeah, unsafe doesn't have to pollute callers (async in C# is a good example of something that does)
The Linux kernel is the only GPL piece still used on Android, and who knows for how long, given how little userspace is actually aware of it.
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It would behoove you to not guess at how I arrived at my beliefs and where I live and then claim I've got preconceptions.

I can see the facts of the Chinese government's authoritarianism, their persecution of their minority populations, and their international behavior just fine. In fact, they're so economically influential, that I find criticism of them is muted, and tolerance of their crap is high.
I don't know, I ceased regarding the UN as a source of scientific observations. This sounds like a PC person in an office publishing a memo.
I’d be curious to see map with a lambda as well as using numba directly rather than through numpy compared as well.
Why do you need a VM? I'm still running 2k3 office natively on Windows 10, no problems at all.
Since account creation was disabled, I'm sure it's the easiest moderation job going.
At the point where the kernel knows that it should be returning a null pointer, you're probably already operating in a severely degraded state

That's only currently the case. It doesn't need to be. As per your example, you could just as easily provide an upper bound to the page table scan, and return NULL when enough pages can't be found in 100us.

It's not possible for a program to react gracefully to a system OOM.

A program should never receive a system OOM, the fact that Linux' memory accounting is so bad the system itself can run OOM is the problem. It is perfectly possible for a system kernel to execute in bounded memory, and never let programs claim parts of that. Linux just isn't designed that way.
They don't need to drop Android, just Linux kernel.

ART is being ported to run on top of Fucshia.
Having done this many times, my main takeaway is that storing state is what the DOM was designed to do and it’s faster than a virtual DOM.
A shared key would allow impersonation/spoofing within the group.
Preferably none. Saner APIs like Android will call low memory signals and start swapping out applications both ahead of time and as needed.
It also has a relatively smart memory manager to detect unexpected vs expected spikes as well as slow leaks.

POSIX has no such API. It was designed in a simple time.
Yeah, I used to hold similar naive views fresh out of school. Reality is, at least 98% of the software out there is just redoing what has been done, copy paste for slightly different purposes, integrating libs in slightly different ways.

But maybe its hard to admit it, lower down your ego and be a bit humble. Yes, software development is a creative work, but so are all other engineering branches. And yes, we have massive issues with code, process and people quality across whole business.
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Discussion about heavier weapons is interesting and worthwhile; there is a line there. But we're not talking about that, we're talking about guns right now. If the line of policy ever gets past guns we can all have a debate about hand grenades and RPGs.

Howver, again, you are slipping sideways off the topic we're discussing. You're discussing what good policy is towards weapons. That's not what we're debating. This thread is about what it means to be free.

If you could buy an RPG launcher, you would undoubtedly be more free than if you could not. This is by definition. It doens't mean you'd be safer, or better, or that this is good policy. It just means you'd be more free.

"I consider myself 'free' when I take steps to minimise the infinitesimally small probability that something bad might happen, and I know that the steps I take will not result in an even worse 'bad thing' happening."

This definition matches the word 'safe', not the word 'free'. (If you disagree, I wonder what your definition of 'safe' would be that differs from this?)
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No, I don't know of any. But that's not relevant to what I'm claiming, which is a much narrower claim.
Reckless driving is a crime, yes.
It’s always funny to me to read some of the posts and comments on HN. A lot of (most?) HNers are working to silo off and rent seek. Yet we see posts about how we lost software freedom here.
The constant necessity to re-enable turned me off from Matrix, and I'd guess many others. Perhaps the defaults should be much softer.
Yes but people have been (rightly) saying this for years. And you'd have been mad to get out of it back then. I'm a passive investor guy. I can't call it and will continue my drip feed.
"Sustainable diets" are often unhealthy, ultraprocessed, soy based carb heavy stuff that kills you off early. It is possible that people dying would rein in global warming but I'd like to pass on it. What most people need is a healthy mix of meat, dairy, veggies, and fruits. If you are not overweight, that alone saves a fair amount in GHG emissions.
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Listen to every single other report about it then. All the same result.
So google’s not evil because they disclose that they’re a wolf??
I don't know, it seems a small goal to aim for if they specifically chose 6cm, so it'd seem like it's a (current) limitation of what they're doing. It doesn't seem like it'd be a limit that'd be too hard to increase though.
You do understand that no amount of RAM will fix a buggy or leaky application? That buying more ram has weeks of latency or is altogether not possible by hardware or politics?

If you know you want to keep bare Xorg alive with no window manager, taskbar or desktop, there's oom_adj magic knob, accessible by systemd.
And memory cgroups.

But on a shell server, you actually want to kill that Xorg but preserve background tasks.
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I understand what you are saying, but on the other hand we don't call calculus "physics" just because it was introduced by Newton (and Leibniz, yeah yeah).

Also, modern economics use some heavy mathematical tools, yet nobody says its a branch of mathematics.

And lastly, psychology is in my opinion one of the most important branches of science right now.
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A lot of this had to do with how open source grew over the last decade - it grew into startup culture, not FOSS/copyleft culture. As a result, most open source licenses are permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD, etc.) and not true copyleft like GPLv3. And permissive open source licenses benefit companies tremendously.
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A key aspect of the scientific method is that claims can be demonstrated to be not true (it doesn’t matter if the demonstration is done in a lab or not).
>The control and power of companies like Google and Microsoft is devastating to governments around the world because they have the power and the right to control whatever data they provide via their search engines.

Actually, it's the exact opposite. They are tools of control. Google and Microsoft happily provides the governments of the world with whatever information they want about their users.
Well, the next crash can't happen until the FOMO crowd buys stocks, now can it?

If you want to invest in the stock market, don't try to time it.
I thought meat and diary farming was the biggest strain on environment? You can live pretty healthy while minimizing those product intake.
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Nothing processed about a tin of chickpeas.
Running uBlock or similar is now a part of a basic web browsing hygiene.

There used to be starting projects which used cryptocurrency or some other token system to allow you to "load" your browser with credits, which then would get auto (or semi-auto) voluntarily distributed to the websites you read, which support this mechanism. But I think they haven't caught on. But essentially, I hope they come back.

In the mean time, I'm still waiting for a reasonable solution to block advertising and tracking scripts on the mobile - as e.g. I think no sane (and informed) person will use a closed source browser, e.g. Brave.
Very interesting ... A friend (senior lecturer in astrophysics and mathematics) is looking for a collaborator for this application.
and almost always turns out to be false :)
There should be some fuzziness about decisions otherwise you encourage gaming to see what can just get past censors. It sounds unreasonable but it works well in practice.
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The mods should keep an archive of decisions that go the other way. This would keep a balance.
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I've been waiting for an excuse to compliment the mods here, without it being off-topic. They do a great job! Of course, it also helps that the community here is more reasonable than most.
I was talking about things like Beyond Meat and Impossible Burger.
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> a jury of random people is probably the most qualified way to determine the question "would average people see these two things as substantially the same."

A jury of random people can be confused and then convinced by lawyers. That's the way they like it, and that's the problem with jury selection - they chose people specifically because they are not knowledgeable.
if you think a 10% fps gain is silly, why buy a high-end cpu for gaming at all?

also the "only at 1080p" meme is not really true for some esports titles. counterstrike is so cpu bound that it really doesn't matter what resolution you play at.
Couldnt some dragfish atmospheric mining by the ISS recapture the helium? Also shouldnt it spiral out by other planets (venus)carried by solarwinds- and collectable via a electro magnetic scoop?
So, almost 80% of emissions come from transportation, electricity production and industry[1] but let's focus on diets(9%) and forests.

I'm all for better diets and better managing of forests but this is like saying that to put out a fire we really should be concentrating on spitting on it instead of calling the fire department.

[1] - https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...
There are plenty of countries without any communist history that are in much worse shape than either China or Russia, so this can hardly be a sufficient explanation.
One could say the exact same thing except for the other position. Certainly there exist a number of journalists who think the media’s reporting on the topic was biased in order to garner more clicks and/or push an agenda, so it is wrong to claim Bouman just fell victim to sexists. Total non-argument.
I'm not sure but there's a string ensemble playing 'Nearer, My God, to Thee' outside the window...
There are two questions here:

1) Is Google more evil than a hypothetical benchmark company producing similar products?

2) Is the product space Google works in fundamentally bad?

(1) is a pretty clear no, Google is about the best we could hope for given that a single corporation is in the product spaces that they are in and trying to sell ads. (2) is much less clear, there are many historical instances where the existence of a Google would have magnified the damage done. Realistically it isn't just them either, the radical dropping cost of surveillance was raised the other day and Google's work is only a small component of that.
So declaring that you are doing evil things makes you not evil? What a bizarre logic.

What is evil? The dictionary defines it as "profoundly immoral or wicked". It also states that morals are "concerned with or derived from the code of behaviour that is considered right or acceptable in a particular society".

So, as a society, do we consider it right or acceptable for a this private information to be collected and utilised in this way? If we deem it unacceptable (which I personally do, but I don't speak for society), then google is evil - along with all those others doing the same thing.
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Past discussions referenced in the thread :

The Lifespan of a Lie – Why can’t we escape the Stanford Prison Experiment? : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17287319

Zimbardo’s Rebuttal Against Recent Criticisms of the Stanford Prison Experiment : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17387601
None of this seems necessary, because every western nation is undergoing native population decline.

If you really want to help, all you have to do is lobby to support economic development of the places that are the feedstock of western country population sustainment.
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Distributing binary packages outside of OpenBSD's official repository is generally discouraged, as you'll need users to install your public key (packages must be signed, unsigned packages are rejected by pkg_add), and set a custom installurl. This is unsafe as you could be providing other packages overriding the official repo.

In general, ports should be submitted to the ports@ mailing list, in which case packages are built and signed by the OpenBSD project instead. This way they can be built on multiple architectures, and be available for release and -current users.

If you do intend to distribute packages, you still need to use the ports infrastructure for it, ports exist to build packages. They should not be manually constructed.
The recent(?) screwing down of results page that do not allow jumping to the n-th page or do not disclose any results past the 2 or 3 pages of paid results impels me to believe Betteridge's Law has been broken.
That's because the whole Android API and ecosystem was designed to make it possible.

You cannot get away with that and POSIX applications. They have zero or bad session support. There's no global always available database to help you (Android has 4), nor event scheduling bus. (Dbus is a joke, it does not allow sending event to non-existing endpoint to be delivered later.)

Every application using the standard mechanisms will get relaunched and activated as needed if it got shut down. It will receive a Bundle with state it managed to save and with original launch Intent. It can access an sqlite database to be made available via a restartable ContentProvider. SharedPreferences are also stored. Etc.

In Linux world, there are no such de facto standards and what is most common is utterly broken.
Same in Windows (only registry is persistent, it's not meant for data storage) and in OS X.
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Thanks for the tip! That's one thing that hadn't occurred to me to try. I've tried the same thing with TV/movies, but the subtitles are usually not identical to the spoken dialog - they tend to be simplified and paraphrased to be shorter - but eBooks should be very faithful to their written counterparts.
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Precisely my thought :).

Also, what about the builtin array module? https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/array.html
I'm relatively new (this year) to HN, but it has quickly become my favorite site for news (and tech news). While part of the reason for this is the clean, non-commercialized interface, the primary reason I frequent this site is the expert commentary on posts.
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Because we are busy building Facebook. Or some other similar facet of online life.
Sure, I agree but that's not a whole foods plant-based diet anyway (which is what the article is actually relating to).
Directly contradicted by observations above. Try again.
And a complementary video on the neighboring channel Military History Visualized: "Kriegsmarine's Wunderwaffen or Desperation Weapons?" [1]; showing and describing one of Germany's late war midget submarine models.

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The concept of "submarine articles" [2] comes to mind (sorry).

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF-bnhgZ_mY.

[2] http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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>Software is the only industry where you are asked to build systems that have never been built before but that are more complex than anything ever built in the history of "mature industries", on top of astronomically complex systems, and estimate it with an accuracy of 5 to 10 days and a few thousand dollars.

You are seriously overestimating complexity and novelty of most software development, while underestimating engineering in other industries. I work currently as software developer and previously in a branch of a civil engineering.

Do you seriously think that other engineering disciplines to not have those small little problems that plague us all the time in software development?
They do, but they can offer their solutions based on data, not just whim.
They do also have codified standards, and guidelines and certification exams.

On the other hand software development is relatively new discipline - other fields had hundred of years to mature.

EDIT: and they are catching up with rapid prototyping - it is getting cheaper and faster.
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