skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wikileaks used to be something, then Assange decided to filter leaks based on whatever biases he felt that day. He alienated a lot of his initial supporters doing this, focusing only on leaking content from "the west." Later fully engaging with state sponsored hackers to meddle in the US election[1] while again ignoring any leaks about Russia[2] and friends.

As far as I can tell there is nothing left of Wikileaks, its just Assange now.

[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dt6BBwBXcAEL-Fj?format=jpg&name=...

>"if you have anything hillary related we (Wikileaks) want it in the next tweo(sic) days prefable(sic) because the Democratic National Convention is approaching.."

[2] https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-l...

>WikiLeaks declined to publish a wide-ranging trove of documents — at least 68 gigabytes of data — that came from inside the Russian Interior Ministry, according to partial chat logs reviewed by Foreign Policy.

>“As far as we recall these are already public,” WikiLeaks wrote at the time.

>By June 2016, Assange had threatened to dump files on Clinton that would be damaging to her campaign prospects. A month later, on July 22, WikiLeaks published tens of thousands of emails out of the Democratic National Committee — preceding the massive dumps in October of emails belonging to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.

>In late August 2016, when WikiLeaks’s Clinton disclosures were in full swing, Assange said he had information on Trump but that it wasn’t worth publishing. (In a message to FP, WikiLeaks now says the organization “received no original documents on the campaign that did not turn out to be already public.”)

Weird that data "already being public" didn't stop Wikileaks from forwarding the content before when it came from Russian backed fronts:

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/885395248612085760

>@wikileaks

>Pro-Russia hacker site (or front) "Cyber Berkut" publishes alleged links between Ukraine and Clinton
Yeah, that's probably it!
It is spot on. Macs are less than 5% of the Steam audience, software now needs notarization, developer tools cost money in the form of hardware, GPU drivers are buggy (unless you use Metal and buy into Apple ecosystem), modern OpenGL was abandoned years ago, etc. So developers only target macOS if the game gets big enough.

From the point of view of gamers, it is annoying. The recent 32-bit support drop killed a huge amount of macOS games. Now I have to bootcamp to play some of my favorite games. The GPU performance is also quite bad due their fight with NVIDIA.
Windows Phone’s hub concept was marvelous. As a user I don’t care if I’m messaging you though MSN Messenger* , Skype or XMPP; I just want to IM. Gaming hub integrating with Xbox Live was a nice touch, it felt like MS finally got the concept of an ecosystem.

* let’s keep it time accurate :)
Things I wish I had known when I started programming, Part 3 (2019)
Krita is absolutely incredible FOSS, really well polished, feels a joy to use, very intuitive.

There are a few quirks, such as changing the colour of a vector, you have to 'stroke' it (i.e. turn it into a raster) with a particular colour -- the feedback loop for this is fairly painful, but admittedly there's lots about the software I don't know, so there may be a better way.
I'm not sure that's entirely a reasonable comparison.

The idea behind strong (especially E2E) encryption is that even with a warrant, the information in question is entirely inaccessible.
I'm with you, politically.

However a problem with presented data aggregation, combined with a clear policy objective, is that many will assume the data is cherry-picked to suit the policy objective, and the aggregation is therefore unreliable, low quality data, subject to suspicion.

An analogous situation, politically in the other direction, is occurring with number of COVID-19 deaths reported. Everybody who cares knows it is substantially under-reporting the true number, because it only reports confirmed, tested COVID-19 cases. Yet it is usually presented as "the" number of deaths, and discussed as though that is the factual number.
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I think we should have some kind of "clipboard firewall" where you can restrict if a clipboard copy operation in an app X could be pasted in app Y.

We have developed a free Windows app and will release it soon.
I think something more interesting might be like a voronoi diagram of all cities such that the city is in like the top 5 within a 1000 miles radius or something (or just that but without the voronoi part). This should preserve the fact that only the largest cities in some area are present, but eliminate the arbitrariness of the boundaries. I think you would want to compute this with a sweep line algorithm.
I can't always remember what a person's name either. No one gives me crap for asking what their name is. I don't feel like asking what someone's pronouns are is a safe question yet.

I'm more concerned about getting crap from someone who only thinks there should only pronouns for their notion of binary genders. For now I just use "they/them" for any given person if I'm not sure, because it's safer than asking in many cases.
In the spirit of interesting way to browse Hacker News: http://datapeek.org/ ( Hacker News comments backed by data )
Common mistake if you come from a language using the long scale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
That’s irrelevant. They have customers with complex integrations who can’t move. That’s worth a lot of money. Someone will want to acquire that.
In what sense is this not the right way forward? This seems to be the trend that’s been with us for at least 20 years. People increasingly pick the news they want to hear.
You probably know this, but due to the 12 note tuning, most intervals on a piano are slightly off from perfect intervals.
EG, on a string instrument or with voice it would be natural play notes a major third away such as C and E with a frequency ratio of exactly 5 to 4. There's no way to get every natural ratio exactly right and have 12 notes in an octave, so most of the intervals on a piano are tuned to approximations of an exact frequency ratio.

So pianos have at least 2 things working against having perfectly consonant chords.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_intonation
I agree with this. It's very frustrating to see people downvoted (even when I disagree with them) when they have articulated their argument eloquently or made an original point.

It happens a lot here, and it doesn't reflect well on those doing it IMO.
I'm curious, what exactly did he say?
To me that’s not misleading in that they count city proper rather than metro areas.

Both have their places, but I wouldn’t say one is more misleading than the other. One is administrative and one is more demographic.
We are. We just aren't americans, so we are counting on Americans to vote (or engage in the process). Thanks in advance!
The Italian deaths in WW1 were overwhelmingly soldier deaths, as the fighting on Italian soil was limited to north-east border of the country (where incidentally I am from). The civilian population was largely unaffected by the war.

> And as many again from the spanish flu.

Who talked about flu? You were talking about WW1, now you are pivoting to the flu?

> And all of Europe was in a permanent condition of poverty until way into the 20th C. 80% of the population was poor working class even in 1970.

This is also grossly wrong. I suggest you better inform yourself about the 20-th century history of European societies before spouting more nonsense.
> The academics McMullen contacted at other U.S. research universities told him they had funding for their own research, but not for his.

This seems like it could be a massive problem with research. It means that grad students don't get to develop their own ideas, they have to work on their advisors research. Admittedly there are a lot of people who have trouble coming up with their own ideas, but this basically seems like a suppression of independent thinking.
They would if they could position that loss of $10 billion into increased sales. Is that plausible? Maybe not, but it is certainly possible.
In the forum I was working on, downvotes were limited per 24h, so people eventually saved them for really bad / offensive / spam comments instead of punishing people for their opinions (except a few who even wrote scripts to downvote certain people systematically...).

The problem is in my opinion that once people begin to act like this, their victims behave like this also. If you get punished for arguing against somebody, you learn to stop arguing and just downvote that person instead. It's a chain reaction.
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I agree with most skeptical commenters. I once read about a study of singing in traditional cultures. Men and women would sing the same melody, except one octave apart due to differences in physiology. Reportedly, they did not perceive their singing to be separated by any interval; they perceived that they were singing in unison.
I am just going to assume the GP already knew everything you just said and reply that you are missing the point.

Change 50% to 30% and his point does not change. There are large number of American who voted for Donald Trump with religious fervor, and unless you are planning to do a Thanos, you will have to come to term with them.
They aren't, until someone can afford the lawyers necessary to prove their responsibility. Or the class is large enough for group action.
Putting a price tag on privacy is a new revenue model
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I didn't read parent comment as "Microsoft and Valve are bad and I don't want to give them a dime, ever". I read it as "I want to direct 100% of my donation to the project I'm looking to support, Krita". Which sounds reasonable.
Aren't the news dead silent in regards to that accusation?

Moment US raised its charges, the Sweden rape case is nowhere to be found.

Not to mention, Assanage agreed to that investigation if they could guarantee not to be extradited to US.
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Given that the UN investigation considers that the allegations were not credible, and that the Swedish prosecutors had all the access and precedent they needed to carry on their investigation remotely if they had wanted to, I see much more reason to think they were not credible.
'The money's gone': Wirecard collapses owing $4B
Mejit in the Marshall Islands has a population of 348.
I’m having a hard time believing that you helped work against slavery, as you say, because to me your follow-comments don’t reconcile with someone empathetic to fighting against an injustice yet dismiss those who have a connection to the injustice as just a PC problem. Did you mean to say that you were just devising an example for argument’s sake?
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That's not what iPhones are for. The android market is more for the tinkerer historically, Apple is just supposed to work the way it was intended, always was that way. Android is moving that direction too so not sure what to choose now?
Get that expert or celebrity to answer your private question
I’ve tried them, none really work as well as Google’s location history.
The linked video gives a code example and describes haptic support specifically with xbox controllers, but perhaps it's only the newest ones?
You sound as warmblooded as a snake. Got any facts to back up these claims with prosecutor?
I somehow think that the people who get insulted and make a big deal about such terms aren't people who actually do something to help with these issues so you wouldn’t need to care about reaching them.
I am not native English speaker but I like it in ruby, helps with double not:

if not not_implemented
unless not_implemented
Oh wow, I didn't realise Microsoft are also releasing ARM hardware.

Back on topic, I also run a digital ocean k8s cluster at decent expense, and cluster of pis is a very enticing idea
Not much here for Estonian movies, but Kevade is the obvious standout; it isn’t my favorite older Estonian film, though. I’d recommend trying to find The Last Relic (Viimne reliikvia), if you get the chance. It’s a medieval adventure with some catchy songs, especially “Põgene, vaba laps!”
Enjoy your honeymoon
Tweet that article mentioning the Zoom founder @ericsyuan and @zoom_us
Sorry, could you clarify? It seems like zero airflow would inhibit a constant temperature?
Can you explain why? I don't think I've ever used useCallback and certainly not for this type of functionality. I'd love to learn
macOS 10.15 has built-in xbox controller support.
Without trying to start a flame war, the author is not accurate in what is in (or not in) the Bible.
US government ending funding for coronavirus test sites in 5 states
Which is why I once sang in a choir for a couple of years. Nothing beats perfect harmony.

Similarly, I was once convinced everyone in our jazz-rock band was out of tune after I had experimented with alternative tunings at home the whole day. Yeah, equal temperament is really quite a bit out of tune, but somehow we seem to manage just fine.
>I hope people don't forget that Wikileaks has never once published anything that has been proven false.

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/885395248612085760

He has helped launder edited material from Russian state sponsored hackers in the past. That is one instance, should I find more?
How is Amazon not obviously guilty of aiding and abetting, willful negligence, or at the very least reckless endangerment? In an individual case I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. Yet the bodies keep piling up under Bezos.
It's so much worse than this.

Via instant messenger, Manning asked Assange whether Wikileaks could crack NTLM hashes. Assange said (paraphrasing), "Yeah, we can probably do that." Manning sent the hashes. Assange said he'd work on cracking them. A few days later, Manning asked if the hashes had been cracked. Assange replied that there hadn't been any progress.

End of story. That's a federal crime. No hashes were cracked, let alone sent back to Manning. No additional access was gained. He simply agreed to accept the hashes from Manning, which were freely offered.

Maybe he agreed because he didn't want to spook his source. Maybe he never even started hashcat. We'll never know.

edit:

source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/886185-pe-123.html (middle of page 6)
> Many people have no trouble having one piece of chocolate and then leaving the rest for later. Many other people are unable to stop themselves from downing the whole 200g block.

This is me. :(
It would be cool if Krita's continued excellence encouraged other user-facing open source to focus on usability. They could push software to be better the way Ubuntu's 6 month release cycle and focus on desktop usability/stability pushed Linux in general to get better.
I love it when people throw the term "objectively false" at anything they disagree with - in this case, the person is sharing their opinion on what should be reality.

Someone's opinion on how things should be cannot be objectively false.
They were credible until they were revealed as complete fabrications by no other than the UN human rights reporter:

https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?N...

https://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2018/02/13/news/few_documen...

https://english.elpais.com/spanish_news/2020-05-01/why-julia...
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It is indeed the way traditional policing works. The average police officer things facial recognition is the visual equivalent of Google and since he/she can similarly rely on search results - they either have no idea about false positive biases based on race or worse, probably are too lazy to dig deeper.

Though the suffering of the victims of such wrong matches is real, one consolation is that more of such cases will hopefully bring about the much needed scepticism in the results so that some old-fashioned validation/investigation is done.
Yes, we're in a recession. But the stock market rally still makes perfect sense
I guess it uses your contact information to get the names out of your voice.
e.g: "Send a message to Lemony Snicket" would be easier to understand when the voice processor knows there is someone called "Lemony Snicket" in your contacts.
Didn't include that, but that's a great feature.
Have you seen the mist, cause I would not classify the ending of that movie that way.
Banks are slow to increase rates on savings accounts, but quick to reduce them
So someone gets shot and the chaplain doesn't remind us of the sins of judgment or wrath. He reminds us that the man shot in the back was a sinner??

Even assuming agreement with his religion, he's not even a good chaplain. His own religious texts say he shouldn't judge, and here he is judging a dead man he never met.
> Software reuse is more like an organ transplant than snapping Lego blocks

Funny, but Lego fans almost interpreted "organ transplant" exactly as "snapping Lego blocks".[0]

[0] http://xkcd.com/659/
It's not just that the Linux client works, it's also getting updates every once in a while.

Unlike Teams client.
Per the WSJ article on the same topic:

"J.D. Power asks vehicle buyers about their experience during the first 90 days of owning a newly purchased car or truck. The Silicon Valley electric-car maker avoided past scrutiny by the 34-year-old survey because of a quirk in some state laws that require an auto maker’s permission to use new-vehicle registration data to contact customers. Tesla hasn’t provided that permission, according to J.D. Power."

It goes on to say that the data was collected from 35 states that do not require Tesla's permission.
Microsoft only takes 5%. That's a good deal for the ease of installing and updating.
Ask HN: Did you break the lockdown rules?
I strongly believe in freedom of movement and chose to regularly break lockdown, meeting friends, going on dates outdoors and making non-essential journeys. I believe if we don't exercise our freedoms then they become easier to take away.

Quite a few other people I know also broke the rules, although didn't share my general opposition of lockdowns. I personally found it disturbing how many people took pleasure in reporting rule breakers or posting pictures and shaming them on social media.
i am having a hard time with this one. really. this is getting blown out of all proportions. seeing some names there is very surprising to me!
I like white house markets or empire.
North Star Metric
It's at 59.9, 30.4, which edges it into the Moscow box.
Yes, the same as any unrecorded conversation is inaccessible by warrant after it happens. Law enforcement doesn't need omniscience, but we do need freedom to associate and privacy in a democracy.
So now more and more mainstream OS have storage encryption easily enabled, everyone in tech seems to need to communicate about how much their product is privacy friendly and you would still say that the last decade of tech leaks hasn't been very productive? I'm not saying that it changed everything and that we're now safe, far from that. But at least that topic is now unavoidable.
This seems to be the context:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/22/nyt-is-threatening-my-...
That really depends on the level of debt that charges the company. If it's very high you won't get that before the bankruptcy court finishes their job.

The fact that you need something doesn't mean you'll get something.
This is an interesting approach and I can see the benefits for non-fiction books, as many of them have a certain degree of "fluff" anyway you want to skip quickly.

It does seem a technique that is more suited to physical books though, I don't see myself easily skipping to and back on an e-reader, but maybe I'm doing it wrong.
They added support for PS and Xbox controllers last year, but it’s a bit too late at this point.

They added support for the pro Xbox controller this year.
Can anyone please ELI5 what this is about? What does the phrase "Slate Star Codex" mean? Now that all his blog posts were gone, what topics had he generally written about that attracted so much attention?
For maybe some regex tasks sure, but there are also plenty of Python operations that are significantly faster than Perl, not to even mention all the data science stuff. I might have misunderstood the comment as evaluating the language on one thing doesn't capture a broad/general spectrum of usefulness.
Symbian (and Java ME was awful as well) was not developer friendly at all till towards the very end. By then it was too late. You never had a choice to get rid of the annoying untrusted app pop up, and getting code-signing was a nightmare.

Apple was in contrast incredibly developer friendly when they started their store and then Android one-upped them (only 25 usd to join!).
The Spectator is not only profitable (rare amongst newspapers) but has seen a surge in subscriptions. It's given back its COVID support money from the government.

It's actually the left wing papers that tend to lose money, as they're reluctant to go behind a paywall. They prioritise influence over profits. The Guardian is the clearest case of this.
People lose jobs and suffer threats and harrassment if the cancel culture mob turns it's sights on you. It's not something you can just not care about.
The 60°00'00.0"N, 30°00'00.0"E intersection is actually slightly northwest of Saint Petersburg, so it ends up in the same square as Moscow.
I discovered Prof Mahajan through his "Teaching College-Level Science and Engineering" course on MIT OCW. I must have watched it six times during graduate school. He also has an OCW course based on this book.

http://web.mit.edu/sanjoy/www/
I did exactly this.
Exactly, it's not like the police isn't abusing physical access to goods, or "lawful" access to phone conversations or citizens databases.

How else will police fund their new cars [1] or arrest the new boyfriend of their ex [2] ?

My point is that the government sees no problem at all with the potential for large scale abuse of government access, just like they don't have any serious safeguards against abuse of existing ones, for example, holding physical keys (for example, would you consider using emergency keys for entering a girls' dormitory and forcing everyone in the hallway to "check for lockdown laws being upheld" a perfectly legal precaution. And if they do it for such absurdly juvenile things, what hope is there for them to do better under pressure ?)

[1] https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/reforming-po...
[2] https://psmag.com/news/stalker-cop-police-protection-danger-...
Sadly, the blogs.perl.org site lacks many things. It is now officially recommended to blog somewhere else.
Before understood more about gender identity, yes. I think it's likely more that I was speaking to a person when they were low on patience for reasons that had little to do with me. But it's amazing how vividly remember upsetting the person, and how afraid I can be at times at doing it again.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23610416
The ones that were curiously timed with the US wanting him brought to heel for wikileaks?

The ones that were curiously dropped late last year when extradition from Sweden was no longer needed?

I don't know Assange, and don't find him a likeable character from the reports I've read, and don't think much of wikileaks and its lack of filtering, but the whole Assange sexual assault allegations case stinks.
Are they?

Or, are the viewpoints of those in Westwrn nations more diverse?

In the "old days", opinion was often formed by highly controlled sources, compared to internet standards.

TV, radio, newspapers, magazines were created entirely from within (for example) the US, with strong editorial control.

Now, one person with a divergent view can spread said view nation wide, regardless of from where they hail.

So, I contend that views are more divergent now, more varied. And with that, comes a greater difficulty in crafting laws which "almost all" agree with.

How do you support the will of the people, when there is no collective will?