skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is an important point missing in the debate. This is an extradition hearing. It doesn't matter whether Assange is guilty of the alleged crimes the US has come up with or not, what matters is whether he is expected to receive a fair trial in the US and whether the potential sentences in the US would be roughly on a par with what he'd expect for the same alleged crimes in the UK. For all I can see, this is definitely not the case.

You can even make a case that almost nobody should be extradited to the US by any country, since the US justice system has serious flaws, might not be just at all (e.g. it has about 10 times longer maximum prison sentences than in the rest of the civilized world) and the US penal system constitutes a constant human rights violation. For example, the administrations of many US prisons are notoriously unable to prevent the raping and murdering of their inmates. I've even heard people from the US making jokes about prison rape, as if that was to be expected and part of the "justice". As another example, a prison in Illinois was under 23 years of permanent lockdown, meaning that all inmates were in isolation for 23 years. There are credible accounts that Assange is facing imprisonment in high-security isolation facilities similar to what they did to Manning for a long time. I cannot understand why any civilized person would allow a treatment as inhumane as in US maximum security prisons with isolation, regardless of the crime.

Generally speaking, countries should review their extradition treaties. US justice is non-proportionality based on revenge and involves frequent human rights abuses. The same is true of other countries like Japan or Russia, but AFAIK extradition requests to these countries are much rarer.
Tortured?

I mean, some of what you describe is unpalatable, unpleasant, and maybe (IANAL) contrary to expected standards of the treatment of prisoners... but tortured?
In the US we have an additional problem that 2 weeks of hospitalization means certain bankruptcy for many people (myself included). So it might be rather difficult to get people to voluntarily show up for tests and such.
Many parts of China have been on lockdown for over 4 weeks now. Hundreds of millions of people have still not returned to work. I am not sure a lockdown of this scale will be accepted in other countries.
I just figured out a similar workflow using PyCharm Pro. I set up a Deployment mapping from my Windows laptop to my Linux workstation which deploys code whenever I save. Then the Linux folder is volume-mounted into the Docker container. I set up a Remote Debugging configuration, and then after the Docker container is brought up, it will attach via SSH to the Python instance running in the remote Docker container. (Your code needs only have the pydevd_pycharm library installed.) From there you can breakpoint, watch variables, interact at the console, etc. It was a bit of bear to set up, but now I find it very tractable to run and immensely useful.
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We recently did an entire blog post series on API versioning (https://plus.tools/blog?tag=versioning). This is the wrap-up post with final recommendations.
The US is the largest developed economy and has some of the high per person emissions in the world. It’s hardly going to be possible for another country to have a larger fall if it’s five times smaller with half the per person emissions.

The other point is this relies on fracking, and the carbon intensity of fracking depends on the level of escaped Methane. It can actually be worse than coal. And Trump has just reversed a lot of the regulation which prevented venting of Methane from fracking sites.
We stopped using severity because of this about 2 years ago. We now just have Critical, Normal, and Low priority.

It was just extra work/mind cycles for no gain. I don't feel like I'm missing out but happy to hear where this makes sense
True. Like I said: "from this description". No idea how accurate it is. It would be good to have other sources.
Agreed.

I did an accidental retreat by attempting to climb the Cotopaxi volcano, in Ecuador.

Lodged at "Secret Garden".
To our suprise on arrival, they had no wifi and we could not get cell tower signal.
So we had to find other ways to be entertained. They helped: activities + daily group hikes and mountaneering trails that are bound to leave you ready to crash by 8pm. We are not big hikers, in fact we hike at most 3 times per year - but we found that the combination of peer pressure, adventure/adrenaline plus the need to do something kept us going on daily treks.

1-2 weeks of that and you could be forming a positive routine. At least you will be rested.

PD met an SRE from Netflix there. He successfully summitted the Cotopaxi. We hiked it... but did not try to summit due to difficulty + sleep deprivation requirement to make an attempt :)
Social media platforms need to be redesigned in a way that reduces FOMO
Microsoft do the same tricks to push users to switch back from Firefox/Chrome to Edge : https://twitter.com/WindowsLatest/status/1226184938552098817
This is the German map for the 'standard' flu https://influenza.rki.de/MapArchive.aspx I think such an app and maps just leads to panic. Use the dropdown to switch to 2017/2018 or even 2004/2005. Based on those maps it looks like no place in German was safe, but it was a flu year like any other.
>Should we regulate that? No, we should regulate idiots in cars.

This is akin to the argument that we should replace steering wheel airbags with massive spikes in the center to promote safe driving. Could it work? Maybe, but seatbelts and airbags are more effective than regulating human behavior. In the same vein, there needs to be innovation in the self-driving safety space until we actually achieve Level 5. Autopilot operates in a weird chasm where the general public understands that it's not there yet, but expects it to be very soon. This leads to false assumptions about the capabilities of the system.
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Scrapped my wishes of visiting as they started an unrelated war to save face against terrorism they probably caused themselves to a degree through intelligence operations where they propped up the perpetrators. The same they did with Saddam. At least they cleaned up that to a degree, but it also wouldn't win many prices.
No, I meant to my eye; I don't speak RP. But what training I have says to analyze e.g. "parker" as CVCV, p-ar-k-er.

I don't see more difficulty in saying "ar" is the first vowel in "parker" than in saying "th" is the second consonant in "wither"...
> If you produce it, you’re on the hook for its safe disposal

I'd prefer laws that producers are on the hook for enabling safe disposal.

This would cover the plastic junk issue, because most of those things cannot be recycled. Some can be "downcycled" (recycled into something less valuable), but that's still not great.

The problem with your proposal is that lots of products (like batteries) can be safely disposed, but a consumer could do something malicious, like throwing them into a river. A manufacturer should be responsible for producing products that are easy to use safely, not for the actual safe use.

We see the same thing in other industries: auto makers have to include seatbelts, but they can't be sued if someone chooses not to use one.
[1] https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikilea...

A source for that statement.
That would be pretty cool... except it would require non-renewable sources and likely be more CO2-intensive and energy-intensive, so the window of opportunity for that switch has probably come and gone.
You are using the wrong algorithm for filled circles. IIRC MS Paint uses an algorithm based on the mathematical formula for a circle, which creates a pointy out pixel which looks a bit out of place.
Searching for faulty airbags in vehicle complaints
They should have done something - but then again, what?

Well, arresting the doctors that were comparing cases in a group chat seems like a good start.

/s
There's an obvious public goods problem here. My personal emissions have no measurable effect on the climate. I could reduce my emissions to nothing and I won't see a difference. If everybody else pitched in, I could personally do nothing and the climate would still be saved. Either way, the outcome is the same whether I help or not, so my incentive is to do nothing.

That's why your friends haven't reduced their personal emissions, but probably support policy changes that would incentivize mass changes in behavior. It's the same reason we can't rely on voluntary donations to build the roads, but people support taxes for them.
Out of curiosity, which sites are these? Do they also similarly break with Firefox or other non-Chrome browsers or only MS Edge?
Execution, delivery and all the subtleties therein. Sounds deceptively simple and it is but the details are what matters. People can have the same idea but execute and follow through with very different results.

For example: plumbers all basically do the same job. Except they don't. They vary in how well they do it, how well they turn up on time, so in general their technical skill and quality of execution has a big impact.

Another example: Movie makers have the same or similar idea as others. Except the idea is executed differently. Technical skill still matters but the idea itself needs to be fleshed out differently to avoid "being too similar". Synthesise not replicate.

In business, you provide value. Figure out to what degree you can simply replicate (plumber example), to what degree you need to synthesise (movie maker) and for how far you can innovate towards differentiation (be better than the other plumber). Sometimes you just replicate with a few twists just enough to not make it too identical (Better movie maker example).

Get others in your market to provide opinions of the other company's offerings. Is it price? Is it the breadth/depth of the offering? Can you leverage something about your environment differently? Some aspect of your teams skillset? Speed of delivery?

Another way of looking at it: if you were to set up as a franchisee of that other company how would you do it? What would you need? What costs? Where would you operate from? Make lots of assumptions and sanity check them. If franchising is unfamiliar, if you were to set up a business from scratch how do you plan on proceeding?
>In China when the government tells its citizens to do >something, they just do it. They don't ask why. They don't >deliberate on whether it's the correct choice. They simply >follow the directions. In the West, everything is up for >debate. People don't like to be told what to do.

No, they do not. Chinas propaganda machine just tells you they do. That is why china- even with all its measures couldnt clamp down. Behind the waver thin authoritarian theater presented lurks the same chaos as in africa and india.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_mummies

https://www.damninteresting.com/sokushinbutsu-the-ancient-bu...
We’ve lost the Drug War. That experiment was already done decades ago. Enforcement doesn’t work. IMO we need to focus more on medical facilities. It’s a mental health issue
I’d be interested in your sources for these statements?

I understand the long history of cooperation between the US and UK (not always balanced) but has anything substantive changed since, or because of, Brexit?
Same with Firefox.
Couldn’t edge just turn on “ad blocking”?
In that case it would be neither more nor less dangerous than a regular pressure cooker.

That is to say, potentially lethal, but protected against by education, not having sockets in the bathroom, and having RCD protection on sockets.
Become Jeff Bezos and put $10 billion [1] towards lobbying...

Last Christmas I was looking for a good climate charity to donate to. I was disappointed to find that GiveWell [2], which does great reviews of charity effectiveness, found a lot effective charities in public health and one in poverty reduction, but nothing in the area of climate. It's very frustrating.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/17/technology/jeff-bezos-cli...
[2] https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities
How much time per week do you spend on the course? what is the course fee?
Of course it wasn't captured, it's a modern audio track applied to a colorized+upscaled, originally silent film.

Silent films (which meant that literally no audio track was recorded) did depend on the cinema creating one, either through people literally banging on cans, through an orchestra, to an outright Rube Goldberg contraption: https://psmag.com/environment/sound-effects-in-the-silent-mo...
I agree. Perhaps the old user agent sniffing, from that recent age when Edge was NOT Chromium, is still mostly in place. This seems like the more likely reason to me.
I wonder why Microsoft isn't doing that, they could just use Chrome user agent for all Google websites.
Yup, this is before the car revolution took off.
>He's not in a labor camp, he's not being whipped.

Solitary confinement without any justified reason is a form of torture and from the UN employee documents linked in this thread it is illegal and against human rights.

FYI you could have torture that is not physical in case you did not know. For this individual that was not proven guilty and is not a danger he must be treated as any other individual, not that if he is guilty you can torture him anyway.
> Technologists like us and archive.org should be boycotting it. Cryptocurrency nonsense, swapping ads with their own, soliciting donations for creators without their permission... Brave is a known bad actor in the browser market.

I disagree. Existing browsers are "good actors" in an online wasteland devoid of privacy [1], and Brave is a "bad actor" in this context because they're trying to disrupt this awful status quo. Per Krishnamurti, "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." So it is with the browser landscape.

No doubt they will make some missteps, that's typical of any novel approach to finding a balance of privacy vs. viability of free content. The ad model is perfectly sensible in this context.

[1] https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf
They provide some distinction between the impact and how soon something is to be dealt with. But in many cases, they tend to go together in a proportional manner, at least for the top values of severity and priority. And in all the cases I've seen, people understand them as directly linked together and never try to assign different values (that seem to crisscross if you put them in a two column table).
Uh, some of these vulnerabilities are critical. And just because corporate signs up for a HackerOne bug bounty doesn't mean that the security engineers managing triage are happy about it.

Security analysis and penetration testing always results in the perception that the security auditor is calling their baby ugly. Always.
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Because as the quote said, it depends on the client requirement.

"if you click anywhere in the left half of the screen during the 5th screen all the settings get deleted" might be a very severe/critical bug, but if the client says "thats fine for me don't worry, but can you fix the wrong color on screen one where the logo is purple instead of fuschia that's not acceptable for my needs" then this one has a higher priority, even though it's much less severe.

Your job is not to build the perfect/best product, it's to build the one your client want and is willing to pay money for.

The mixup between priority and severity only comes from the modern era when so many product get made for internal consumption, or where the user is not not the buyer.
Actually I’m in Japan at the moment and people seem to be taking reasonable precautions without the use of force.

Wearing masks, avoiding crowded places, maintaining good hygiene, staggering work hours, working from home and stocking up on supplies.

I mean, where does this idea come from that people need a dictator or they’re completely lost and as you’re saying, freedom in this case is a bug?

You might find because people have access to free information and good services means they can look after themselves and they just might ?
Buying coal isn't effective by design - you'll only encourage market to produce more & more coal.
> “Our approach is taking the drivers out of the truck and have them working remotely to make high-level decisions while the truck is on the highway,” Seltz-Axmacher told FreightWaves in May 2019. “To be honest, I don’t think that a super-computer can be built that is smarter than a truck driver.”

Probably why they didn't get funding. VCs don't want to hear that (even if it may be closer to the truth than anyone wants to hear).
We need a world map that is refreshed on a permanent basis.
There is no way somebody could face in Germany for whistleblowing (or computer hacking, etc.) the same as what Assange is facing in the US if he's extradited. The alleged crimes they've stacked up against him have a maximum sentence of 175 years in prison. It's simply ridiculous.
Great PEP :-)

It also mentions further down, that for lists er have both

a + b

and

[*a, *b]

As well as other ones I hadn't even thought about like a[len(a):] = b.
I'm not sure if it's just my imagination, but your comment, and especially the “real French” part makes me uneasy.

You aren't implying anything racist are you?

BTW I way less worried about thugs than about antivax mums and other fakemeds enthusiasts believing about conspiracy theory involving “big pharma”.
PS: it turns out you can restore dot files from the Time Machine backups but it's not enabled by default:

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/141321/how-to-rest...
Being a compiled program vs something in python or Ruby probably makes the majority of the difference!
Don't forget about marking a bug as p3 (fix "later") but upping the severity to make the reporter feel better
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The problem is that we will need thousands of reactors. 10 years for a single one won't cut it.
If Google were truly behind open web standards then they would have nothing to fear and no need to promote one standards conforming browser (Chrome) over another (Edge, Firefox or whatever). This just shows that the ultimate desire of all these corporate backed browsers is some degree of vendor lock in, which is why they feel the need to advertise their browser when their competitor's is almost 99.9% identical in functionality and a drop-in replacement.
What is my Linux command prompt telling me?
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I guess A.I. can say Assange wasn’t a prisoner until he left the embassy, then he was detained and imprisoned.

Never the less, A.I. is probably influenced by politics as much as any other organization. Like the ACLU. Before the 2000s they were more about principles by and large and now it’s become principles+politics.
From the day 1 proceedings [0]:

> Normal courts in this country are public buildings, deliberately placed by our ancestors right in the centre of towns, almost always just up a few steps from a main street. The major purpose of their positioning and of their architecture was to facilitate public access in the belief that it is vital that justice can be seen by the public... When enquiring about facilities for the public to attend the hearing, an Assange activist was told by a member of court staff that we should realise that Woolwich is a “counter-terrorism court”. That is true de facto, but in truth a “counter-terrorism court” is an institution unknown to the UK constitution. Indeed, if a single day at Woolwich Crown Court does not convince you the existence of liberal democracy is now a lie, then your mind must be very closed indeed.

Something very fishy is going on here, it seems. So while the proceedings might appear to be above board, it seems that Mr Murray (the reporter here) is convinced of otherwise:

> It’s the Lubyanka.

[0] https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/02/your-man-in-...
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The point of staying in even if you're young and healthy is not for your benefit, but so you don't walk around spreading the virus everywhere to people who aren't as young and healthy.

It's not about you, but it can be hard to think about people other than one's self.
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There is about 400 ppm of carbon dioxide in atmosphere now.
I'm in the middle of writing a general update / reassessment (usual caveat: nonexpert space alien cat on the Internets).

1. The wider spread is concerning.

2. Institutional trust, capabilities, and competence in numerous countries is a key factor. Notably in Iran, though also North Korea (its zero case reports is increasingly implausible), and Africa (many ties to China, no cases outside Egypt's sole case).

3. Testing and monitoring are critical, but limited. Keeping ahead of spreads, testing and screening protocols, and back-tracing community transmissions to a confirmed source, will be key to limiting further outbreaks.

4. Second-order impacts are likely to be far greater than the medical consequences, all told. China's CO2 emissions are down by a quarter, not because a quarter of the population is medically impacted, but because preventive efforts, including transport, work, and education shut-downs, have tremendously reduced total activity. Reported cases are 0.005% of the population, deaths 0.0002%. It's concerns (valid), not medical severity itself, which are driving these impacts. Recognising that the present costs are well worth a potential future avoided risk are well-worth paying is a message that needs to be effectively communicated.
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The hardest part of leaving Google is admitting: I was wrong about Google, but it's OK, everybody makes mistakes.
Ha, more like putting it in a block like `if (debug == True) ...`
> We regularly take long three hour drives to get to a scenic spot that I would never consider doing in another car.

There is an interesting implication here, a point that I've tried to make a couple of times but this anecdote does a better job of it. Automation of self driving will lead to much more driving than we have today because today the requirement is that someone needs to be willing to make the trip as well as the vehicle. With automated driving that requirement drops away so there will be many more trips that do not happen now. This will lead to more congestion and will to some extent undo the 'green' effects of the electric revolution.

> With autopilot engaged, I am monitoring everything - probably with more accuracy then if I was driving, due to the decreased cognitive load.

But you've lost situational awareness and won't be able to recover it in time if the autopilot decides to call it a day due to the complexity of the situation. This has been studied countless times for airliner pilots and operators of rail vehicles.
Drug interactions are not a lookup. Some people have problems some do not. We don't even have interaction data on all possible combinations of two different drugs, much less all the 6+ different drugs that some people are taking. There is a lot of "Educated guesswork".

For someone only taking one drug for a couple weeks and the a year latter a different drug for a few weeks it is easy.
I get the idea - the old stuff was impulsive nonsense too, of no more real value except as it illuminates how the human spirit never changes much.

But older-is-better/more important is a foundational principle of historical academics.
That whole website is an iframe with donation buttons and ads overlaid. The original url is https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
To be fair, even Microsoft does UA sniffing for their own products. I remember there being a post on HN about onedrive website not working in Firefox, but working with a different user agent.
You raise the price for people who want to burn it.