skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's what OP meant. At one point, I also thought WikiLeaks was going to be a new type of internet-era news organization pushing for full transparency, regardless of the target. I was disappointed when it turned out they were aimed solely at discrediting America and would editorialize and time their drops for maximum damage. They decided to become that kind of an organization, and they lost credibility in my and many other people's eyes.

>Facts are facts.

No. Facts are never enough. "The Sun sets in the west" is a true fact ... that is compatible with both the heliocentric and geocentric models of our solar system. Facts always need to be contextualized in some narrative or ideology before they are useful (for a specific purpose). True facts can be used to lie about the greater context. That's why objectivity and fairness is so important for news organizations. WikiLeaks is a dishonest organization.
Exploiting an Envoy HTTP proxy heap vulnerability
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Not sure I understand your point, he is not being indicted for publishing false information. Assuming he never did, why would that make the charges bullshit?
Will their cards still work?
My wife is not in a tech related industry, so I consider her "normal," and yes, she does use albums.

She has albums for work stuff. She has albums for home decorating ideas. She has albums for the various screenshots she collects of things she wants to remember. She has albums for different places she's been.

I know that the people she's friends with use albums because I've heard it mentioned.

I think normal people use albums. Tech people don't. Which explains why a company like Apple, that tries hard to court normal people, not tech people, has them.
> the vibe I got from WWDC keynote and platform state of the union was that they seem to have more focus on this now

It doesn't matter - I don't think they really understand the dynamics of the traditional gaming market. They are bewildered that their strong position in the mobile-game arena, which is due almost entirely to the economic characteristics of their customers' demographic, is doing nothing to improve their position in the desktop/AAA game, which plays by a different set of rules and appeals to very different constituencies.

It's a bit like little chains of trendy indie cinemas were trying to get Marvel or Warner to make films with them in mind: it ain't going to happen, they just don't care, their business works on a different level both on quality and quantity.
Selective leaking and selective redaction do not correspond to any US crimes and if they did could be leveled against many publishers.

What is the point of raising this in the context of a criminal
indictment? I haven’t even examined what you are raising for accuracy, I’m merely asking, what does this have to do with throwing someone in prison?
Couch it like that, not using throwaway ambiguous phrases but describing it more precisely?
What's more terrifying is that this is something you understand.

Think of all the bills you don't understand that are just as bad!
> even if we're talking about the death penalty.

And that's also the core argument why some countries abolished death penalty.
It would be good if empty pieces of land were shaded differently, too.
> using the term "moral high ground" is not helpful for a number of reasons

The U.S. had a global nuclear monopoly for several years. It didn’t abuse it. That’s a hell of a high ground.
I'm not sure this podcast is so great. It's a self-promotional piece that takes ages to convey any information and get to the point. I regret listening to it.
This is a politically motivated perversion of Justice , you here are implying he is loyal to Russia and therefore deserves it.

You know, even if you were right, you are not helping your case?

Its not just my opinion, its the UN opinion. https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?N...
Just curious, how would you manage bitcoin fractional shares.
What vertical farming and ag startups don't understand about agriculture, part 2
> But defending the opposite kind—lies spread by the powerful—is helping them silence dissent.

But that just moves the problem to the question of "who is powerful?", doesn't it? Everybody feels that their side isn't in power because their goals and ideals haven't been completely achieved, so obviously they are the powerless who are speaking truth to power, and therefore the other side are the powerful who are spreading lies to silence dissent.

That doesn't help. I think there's a good chance for anybody that they are wrong in their perception of who is in power, their perception of what "the powerful" want, their political convictions and theories of life, so any kind of distinction of what speech to suppress and what to allow is pretty much a coin flip with regards to this "allow & support speaking truth to power".
That narrative is not expressed in the post here: https://slatestarcodex.com/

Where does your account come from?

If I had to infer what happened from SA's post, it is that he agreed to an interview, did the interview, learned that they intended to use his name, and then raised these objections.
>For that time in history, it could be argued that the decision made sense. Japanese subs did shell the US mainland, and Japanese-Americans in Hawaii did help a Japanese aircrew try to escape after Pearl Harbor. Japan planned to return to Hawaii after Midway to occupy Hawaii.

It could also be argued that it made sense to do the same for Germans since we had a minority of Germans siding with Hitler and even holding Nazi rallies before we got involved in WWII. We weren't exactly good arbiters of fairness when it came to race either.
I don't believe he was in solitary confinement up until then.

Here is the UN (Nils Melzer) saying he is not, in May 2019 [0]

> "Although Assange is not held in solitary confinement..."

There were photo leaks early on showing Assange interacting with other prisoners, with the leaker saying he was popular.

I believe what Wikileaks refer to as "solitary confinement" is being put on the medical wing, and not in his normal cell. Obviously Wikileaks are interested in making his imprisonment seem as harsh as possible.

[0] https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?N...
Very common here in the US to do this with all countries. "Germany" is a country, whereas "Germans" are people. So in a sporting context saying something like "The Germans are better at passing the ball" makes more grammatical sense than "Germany is better at passing the ball". Same for the Italians, the French, etc.
Your engineers sound very impressive. Too bad about the management.
It's probably more "Our customers have policies/certifications requiring they have antivirus software everywhere, even if that's stupid. We could tell those customers that we can't offer a solution and they'll go somewhere else. Or we could make the thing they 'need' and get their business". Not very absurd at all.
Assange case? It's been a very bad idea for decades to get on US governments shit list. The range of options range from financial restraints to summary assassination without a trial.

People should understand this. US is a stabilizing force in the world but they are not about universal human rights or world peace.
Yes, if I need an explanation of governance failure, I would blame Russia too. I just don't get why you believe it without any evidence.
This paragraph puts it succinctly. Especially the last sentence:

When I expressed these fears to the reporter, he said that it was New York Times policy to include real names, and he couldn’t change that. After considering my options, I decided on the one you see now. If there’s no blog, there’s no story. Or at least the story will have to include some discussion of NYT’s strategy of doxxing random bloggers for clicks.
I love https://jvns.ca/ !!

Also there's an awful lot of good stuff on http://amasci.com/

Mine looks like http://www.adamponting.com/

Thanks, you reminded me I read Steve Krug's Don't Make Me Think, Revisited (2014) recently and decided a lot had to change with my site! Excellent book. Actually I was mainly inspired by the advice on http://amasci.com/faq.html . The last few years I've been making LaTeX PDFs of what I explore/think about/do/learn, instead of putting it online, which is a shame I guess.
Interesting that a small country like Cuba has two cities in a square.
Why do we still use game pads anyway? Why not just put some sensors on the fingers and the body itself and capture the motions?
I read every comment waiting to see if someone would point out the obvious.

This blog is 100% accurate, and nearly everyone took the wrong point away from it.

There is a very good reason we don’t build anything but the most trivial structures from Lego.

Composability and reusability are great, but not at the expense of suitability for purpose.

You could build a house or a car out of Lego, but it would be worse on almost every possible metric than a regular house (unless your primary use case for your house is to take it apart and reconfigure it easily).

The same goes for software. You could build everything from unix pipes, but that rarely happens past the most trivial scale.

In fact, the clue is in the article. Evolution is not very tolerant of inefficient systems; animals haven’t evolved hot swappable organs, they have a complex interconnected system because 99% of the time, it works better.
Sorry I must have missed where anyone in this thread-chain has asserted that statement at all.
He goes by his own full name in a published book, and his chapter names the blog he deleted in the very first sentence.

Why wasn't the outrage over that? Is that because it's a Rationalist Community book, whereas the New York Times is Outgroup?
The Trouble with Counting Alien Civilizations – Issue 86: Energy
Meanwhile, neither Sweden’s nor Norway’s capital is in the map. But two smaller Norwegian cities are.

I think this just teaches you the issue with discretization.
Some previously mentioned childrens' programming: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23387876

Masha i Medved[1] have recently been running a series in which each episode focuses on a different country. Today's happens to be the US[2]:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5sMJtXcZTo

"Tell me Mr. Siberian Bear, where does power come from? The Hare says it comes from money. I say it comes from truth."

Getting things past the censors:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Файл:Sharik_Figvam.jpg

[1] itself a reference to a folk tale, while "immensely popular" means Masha has even been a guest on the same late night talk show frequented by better US ambassadors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmcHXt1va_c

[2] just in case any americans are curious about what what parts of their culture make it across the Bering strait.

"American Boy" (1991), a song by a late-soviet pop group, may also be of interest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7hAo28NCXc (Apina and Varum have gone on to lasting fame)
> However that's not what you were doing; you were stating the point that being with a group doing x means you will labelled as x.

I still say that. If you attend a demonstration organised by a far right group (FLA), heavily promoted by other far right groups (Britain First, EDL), and prominent members of the far right (Stephen Yaxley Lennon, Paul Golding) then you're going to be called racist.

You're desperately trying to say these crowds were people interested in statues and merely peacefully protesting to protect statues. That shows a complete lack of understanding of i) who organised the demonstration ii) the language used to organise the demonstration iii) the behaviours displayed during the demonstration and iv) the commentary across the political spectrum condemning this demonstration as racist thuggery.

> yet the difference in the media descriptions of the two is pretty glaring would you agree?

At some point you're going to have to come to terms with the fact that in the UK the far right pose a far greater risk of harm than the left.

The people you're desperately trying to defend were drunk, coked-up, racist, football hooligans on a rampage. That has been fairly and accurately described by UK news media, including those on the right.

Daily fucking Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8404751/Police-fear...
XBox One and PS4 controllers have been supported on Mac and iOS since last year. The situation was pretty grim before then, but things are much better now.
Nope. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2007/12/06/soto-11.html

> I don’t really know much about Python. I only stole its object system for Perl 5. I have since repented.
Wrong!
https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2020/06/23/anthony-fauci-m...

The masks were alway recommended to slow transmission.
The thing is all those three letter agency’s make heavy use of civilian contractors and commercial products.

There is no doubt they are using some bigco vpn or other software that can/will eventually be compromised.
Scary scenes in Brazil as Bodies of Covid-19 victims lay next to patients
By this logic, how do you trust Apple? they're a famously blackbox company with access to all your data.
just because they say they're not data mining you, doesn't mean they are not.

slippery slope arguments go all the way to the bottom
All of them are sponsored by the government. I think the counteract is to have all meetings, phone calls by public officials open for scrutiny.
Most of the people I know are LGBTQ with a large contingent of nonbinary people and trans people. The common theme when people bring this up from the other side is it's nice when people get it right on their own, but it hurts more when people assume wrong and then double down.

Using the wrong one can activate a low-level fear response for people trying to "pass" on the binary, but it's easily quelled by generally being kind. The fact that you're concerned about being wrong tells me you aren't the kind of person they worry about. Conventions wouldn't hand out pronoun stickers and pins if the widespread expectation was that people would just know.

Most of the social pressure you perceive comes from well-meaning cisgender allies trying to use their privilege to mold the world into something a little safer. Sometimes they go overboard. Have you ever seen a cisgender person try to argue with a nonbinary or binary trans person about their own identity not realizing they're talking to a person they're arguing about? It's surreal. They mean well.
I think that the list "Not parts of the bible" is meant to represent index entries that are general topics that are spread over the whole text, as opposed to the "Parts of the Bible" list which are index entries representing contiguous named chunks (Old Testament, Genesis). I agree it is confusingly phrased.
I think this is exactly what Nintendo was thinking when it came up with the Switch and it's pretty brilliant.
It's not even a new siren song.

Every few years someone comes along with a new toy that promises to finally deliver.

It's been going since at least the 90s (when I was old enough to start reading programming magazines (remember those?))

Truly, software development is sisyphean in nature...
Should you change your branch name to “main”?
Can you point me to that discussion? I'd love to read more about it.
I read 4 or 5 books at a time usually. There is no problem if they are in 2 to 3 different languages, and span across multiple genres (historical, biography, non-fiction, fiction), he already lost me at "think about the title, I know it sounds mundane", yep, cause titles are always what the author comes up with, not what the publisher wants...

The only thing I can tell you from experience: Have the self confidence to drop a book, read what interests you, not what is on some "list of books" you have to work through. And take your time reading. I learned it the hard way, but I'd rather drop 10 books, find one extremely insightful, and read it slowly and carefully and twice if I have to than speed read 20 books and remember nothing.

I am extremely doubtful about "hacks" like this ; glad if it works for him, my experience is nothing of the sorts will ever work for me.
That's not entirely true. Zoom does have tabs called 'Chat' and 'Contacts' where you can find all your contacts & initiate a 'Call' with them without ever having to share a URL / ID
I admire his CLI approach to things, but this just seems dogmatic:

echo -e "\noutput\n.psc*\n.purs*\.spago" >> .gitignore

Sure, ok, saying "add these entries to your .gitignore" is too pedestrian?
That's why I voted for Tulsi.
Got depression doing Symbian development. (I am not kidding.)
For VR, that is pretty much what we do! For some higher-end stuff like the Valve Index knuckles, you don't even need to hold the controllers - they strap to your palm and track the position of each individual finger
I don't understand why Microsoft (or Google) never worked on making the formula bar easier to read. It doesn't seam hard to imagine a more visual mode to help work with complex formulas.
I love AzPainter, it's very reminiscent of PaintTool SAI on Windows. It's one of the snappiest programs I've ever used, it starts faster than vim. This is no doubt because it is written using its own simple UI toolkit. But it's significantly less powerful than Krita/Gimp and the UI is quite quirky sometimes, for example the way cropping works in the B version and the normal version are completely different. But I use it despite these things because I find it quite charming.
I think it depends if it's free (GPL/MIT/etc) software or not. Then it's truly a gift, rather than a black box

Though I have a hunch this won't be free software and will have all kinds of telemetry you can't disable.
Came here to point out that this was written before economics was considered a science.

This was written by a white man with a white life experience.

A lot of the ideas here are unproven and have no rational basis.
One I use regularly is that Chrome on iOS does it when you open a new tab. It offers to search for the text in clipboard or go to the URL if it's URL format.
Zoom could easily subsume this though, just add a contact list and a call UI. I guess that actually isn’t entirely trivial but certainly doable.
it was my impression that a lot of those Symbian warnings weren't so much trust/privacy related, but were driven simply by "european" service plans that charged a lot of money for SMS (sending) and network data, and users were hypersensitive to receiving huge phone bills.

source: I used my Nokia phones internationally by swapping SIMs and there was a huge difference between US and European plans.
If I understand well, you are essentially saying "well done".

Let us agree to disagree.
> Both give you regular reminders of which apps may be snaffling your data. Both let you manage access and selectively deny apps.

But that's cool with users. It's not annoying, it's more or less a one time thing, maybe a hint more if the app is a bit more unusual.

The Symbian notifications? That's a "I hate you, user". Especially the secure connection. Why would it ever ask that?

On the other hand, some of those warnings made sense at the time. Mobile internet was so expensive that I never enabled it. Right up there with MMS one of the things that priced itself out of the reach of regular customers. It was like 3€ to send one single MMS, Internet was also in that domain - per Megabyte (I should note here that the country I lived in is technologically a third world country). That changed only later. So a more modern iPhone and Android could design those things differently.
Can those customers not install ClamAV? Does that not count as anti-virus?
Arbitrary precision arithmetic.
A game pad is a sensor that captures the motions of your fingers.
It’s not hard to work out what it means, but the headline should probably either be:

“Julian Assange Charged...”

or the original

“Wikileaks Founder Charged...”

The current half-and-half is a little strange (who founded Julian Assange?).
Show HN: Sourceful – Crowdsourcing the best public Google docs
What are your thoughs about using Google Docs and Sheets as a quick-and-dirty way to create and distribute content, especially by non-tech-savvy users?

It appears that the use of this format has been growing, especially during the recent events (coronavirus pandemic, climate change then BLM protests).
Chicago is having significant population loss, so that gap will only grow. I believe Houston is about to pass Chicago.
regarding the colour adjustments what do you think of G'MIC ? It integrates quite well in both GIMP and Krita and all the filters can be edited easily with sliders / text boxes / etc..
Ahh gotcha. That's crazy.
I'd argue that in actual fact we have an advertising industry. The rest follows from that.
People who are getting evicted are stressed. They often trash the property or behave in such ways that others don't want to live near them.
For the ll, it is money; for their neighbors it is their life.
> No one forced all news organizations to dump their in house advertising for easily blocked ad versions

Sure they did. The market 100% absolutely drove papers to transition to digital ads. If everyone in an industry makes the same change, how can you argue that said change wasn’t demanded by the market? To argue that they got lazy completely ignores the economic forces that have motivated print publications over the last 30 years. Scared? Sure. Lazy? Spend some time in a newsroom and see for yourself how desperate they are.

Newspapers used to have two primary sources of income: subscriptions and advertising. Subscriptions brought in pretty stable income while advertising brought in higher margins with increased variability. The two were also deeply linked: advertising rates were set largely on the amount of reach that a paper had through its distribution. Papers with higher distribution could command higher advertising fees.

Then the internet came along and hollowed out the subscription base for publications around the country. Income streams for papers decreased and became less stable at the same time. As subscriptions dropped, so did the paper’s ability to advertise. To supplement income shortfalls and try to figure out how to exists in the digital age, papers started adapting their business models for the internet. They saw decades of declining print advertising revenues, driven largely by a shift towards cheap and targeted online advertising.
> I definitely see the benefit in saying that certain topics are out of scope for a given community. But saying which ideas are acceptable and which are not sounds like codifying the dominance of an official viewpoint.

Yeah, exactly. But any anthropologist or sociologist will tell you that any social group works exactly that way, it's an inevitable reality of being social humans.

The trick to support freedom of expression isn't forcing all possible communication forums to accept all possible topics and ideas; it's to create cross-pollination groups where some ideas that are taboo in other forums can be discussed in an adequate context.

University used to be such a forum intended for cross-pollination and having a different set of taboos than the mainstream society, before it was hijacked by the dynamics of social networks.
I can guarantee you that there are tons of apps that send your clipboard verbatim to their analytics services, because some product manager "wants to see the data".
I'm guessing it's about some much smaller point.

His employer is probably very unlikely to decide one day to idly google, "slate star codex author real name", figure out that it's him, and make any major decisions based on what they find.

However, almost any employer, upon finding itself unexpectedly exposed to frothy-mouthed Internet rancor as a result of a major news outlet writing a story about the online persona of one of its employees, would at least seriously consider firing them over it.