skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not that simple. They want certain concessions from tech companies and others.

Ie “It would be a shame if something were to happen to your business model here.”
So not only are Assange and the people who gave him information supposed to risk their lives to bring these things out to the public, they are also supposed to do it in an objective balanced manner?

Facts are facts. As long as they are printing true facts, they can only be doing good, even if they are only printing the truth about one particular country. Even if they were only printing leaks from a single policital party in one country (which is not the case), as long as all that they are printing is true, they are helping much more than they are hurting.

If you know that Russianoor Chinese or whatever else leaks exist, and if you have enough access to know that they are also true and that WikiLeaks refused to print them, why don't you print them yourself?
you are suggesting that commercially available and mass produced locks are easily defeatable. I agree. but that was not my point at all.

you see, I am legally allowed to blow my life's savings installing a lock that is secure - if I so choose. and if I do, I'm not legally required to resister the key with the police department... just in case they need to serve a warrant later on. nor are lock manufactures required to make the key available to police for each lock they sell.
> I'm wondering if any of this will change now that Apple is going all-in on vertical integration, basically unifying their platforms so you can write a game once and run it on Mac, AppleTV, iPad and iPhone

Nothing will change. Mobile games will continue being mobile games. Hardly anyone else will bring their games to the "unified platform" for the simple fact that you cannot run the same game on desktop and mobile.
Scott Alexander is not his full name. His last name is still unknown to the public, and is what Scott doesn't want to release.
Is anyone tracking the number of people who experience these "other things"? Every tracker I've seen focuses on the number of cases, the number of new cases, and the number of deaths. Seems like we won't have a very good idea of the real damage being done until we also track the number of people that survive but have new disabilities. If that number is significantly large then the coronavirus is more dangerous than anyone is admitting.
He will be fully exposed to harassment if the New York Times prints his name.

There's a large difference between the New York Times printing your name, and it being possible to find your name with careful digging for it.
I'd tend to believe your take on it. Pulling the rug from all the companies using Wirecard to process payments could cause mayhem.

Though when it comes to a buyer, hard to tell how they'll be able to get to a fair valuation given the fairytale numbers they have in their books.
Police arrested wrong man based on facial recognition fail, ACLU says
I think free speech should be absolute. The SJWs will downvote this to save their precious NYTs.

S. A. [redacted]
For $5 you can get an entire VPS from DO. You can also get similar services from Firebase for less. How is $5 for a service that offers a very very basic NoSQL API and simple Auth API cheap?
Do we need an amendment to the constitution? We can't keep fighting these fights. Eventually they will win.
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> the country is deeply hostile to capitalism and innovation

Sure, but payment processing, money transfers, e-wallets etc. are regulated matters in Brazil as they are in the EU and in the US.

Facebook is not registered as a financial institution and is not a participant in the Brazilian Payments System, unlike PayPal and other local and international players, so you can figure out why the Central Bank put a stop to Facebook's launch.
Confirmed. I also think so.
Global Foundries eyes new chip plant as Washington mulls semiconductor stimulus
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23628394
People won't vote for them.

Everyone complains about how politicians behave, but the truth is that they won't vote for you unless you behave like a politician. Voters are just as two-faced as the representatives they complain about.
An archive of his blog can be found here: https://twitter.com/Altimor/status/1275539748686163968

And a popular article was "I can tolerate anything except the outgroup" although I think the non-political articles are actually far better (e.g. "My IRB Nightmare": https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:VpJS0s...).

One of my favourite articles is actually a work of fiction ("The Proverbial Murder Mystery": https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KNe8Ic...).
I have a copy of this book and haven't read it. I keep fearing my background won't be strong enough. I struggle with some high school math (I did get a math degree many years ago but haven't kept up with even basic algebra, and it shows). This book's preface says it complements How to Solve It, another book I've been scared to crack open.

Nonetheless the thinness of the book and the foreword about applications and real world math are very promising. Maybe I should try it out. Any thoughts from someone who has read it?
It’s worth noting that if iOS allowed for setting default apps like other operating system this wouldn’t be as much of an issue because then I could always open a reddit link in the app of my choice and no longer need the clipboard workflow.
> "Linux is only free if your time has no value", as someone on this site recently put it

Lol @ "recently", that line has been around for 15 years or more...

(as a line, it's a bit dim: by using and improving Linux you are basically helping humanity at large more than any given corporation, so the net result is not necessarily a loss)
He doesn't want to prevent people from finding his real name when they search for 'scott alexander', he wants to prevent people finding his blog when they search for his real name.
I agree, I tried to upload a 1 Megabyte sized CSV and was promptly shut down (on the trial tier). In 2020, a floppy disk worth of data is too much?
That is the single worst looking syntax I have ever seen. How did they manage to do any significant amount of development instead of just bug hunting? IDE support?
> I really appreciate it's polished interface that is not always a priority in OSS.

What you would say about AzPainter UI?[0]

[0] https://github.com/Symbian9/azpainter
> In the forum I was working on, downvotes were limited per 24h

I believe this is also true for Hacker News.
> I've never heard anyone complain about the term black market

It is not the most used term in the world. Why not try gimp, git, white/blacklist, etc?

> or want to pretend that slavery doesn't go on in the middle east

To be frank I was unaware that slavery was a thing in the middle east until I stumbled upon the GP's post so I presume that such a thought is not that rare. Are you sure that you just did not talk about the topic with your friends?

> I think that the idea that free speech is under attack is entirely a fabrication

This is probably due to your personal beliefs. I presume that you consider it free speech as long as your own beliefs are not being censored. Just in another post in this thread you talked about how firing that professor would be an ok thing to do https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23638867

As for examples of free speech being attacked. Check out the whole Stallman case from last year, or the Assange case, or the Damore case, or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23635384 - there was even a case with a ruby github project not that long ago. I personally was accused of being a pedophile and there was a "petition" to ban me from a server that I dwelled on (by someone who was not even a member) because I dared to defend Stallman's right to speech.

> if anything leftist and social justice circles LOVE offensive content

As long as it is offensive against the people who they dislike, yes.

> there's a good reason ... see use of "retard" or "spastic", or the fact that "aspergers" is ...

It is not a fact of nature that there is a good reason to avoid these terms, rather, it is your personal opinion - accusing them of ignoring what you consider as a good reason when they do not consider it as such one is not logically inconsistent.
Right now, the "powerful people" are shaping the narrative far more by what they censor, than what they say. Preventing particular sides from sharing their views shapes the debate far more than adding noise to another side.
More visibility to 'new' is good news in my book.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23638624
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>I think it says something that this is the best you can come up with.

Hi I can basically see you sneering with a "gotcha" face through that text. Sorry but Assange's history of leak revisionism, favoring Russia specifically, is deep.

When Assange was working with "Anon" who was really an FBI snitch, he accepted files hacked from Syria. When they were released they were missing information about Russia including bank transfers of billions of dollars. Assange's selective leaking based on his biases has been documented for years:

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/wikileaks-syria-files-syria-r...

>The court records, placed under seal by a Manhattan federal court and obtained by the Daily Dot through an anonymous source, show in detail how a group of hacktivists breached the Syrian government’s networks on the eve of the country’s civil war and extracted emails about major bank transactions the Syrian regime was hurriedly making amid a host of economic sanctions. In the spring of 2012, most of the emails found their way into a WikiLeaks database.

>But one set of emails in particular didn’t make it into the cache of documents published by WikiLeaks in July 2012 as “The Syria Files,” despite the fact that the hackers themselves were ecstatic at their discovery. The correspondence, which WikiLeaks has denied withholding, describes “more than” €2 billion ($2.4 billion, at current exchange rates) moving from the Central Bank of Syria to Russia’s VTB Bank.

We know this because the courts showed the data that Assange personally held back.
Six Degrees of Kanye West, a fun little website that lets you search for a muscical artist to see how closely they're connected to Kanye West through collabs.

https://sixdegreesofkanyewest.com/

I built it back in 2016 and haven't updated it since so newer artists don't show up.
He is constantly harrassed and smeared on Twitter so it's unsurprising that he doesn't want this turned up to 11 by the NYT.
Paint.NET is also on the Store.
but why do you think that 3 letters such as the FBI, DEA, or the NSA or CIA will stop using strong encryption?

do you really think that the DHS will just break its own encryption because of some laws?
Linux on a Laptop, 2020 Edition
Does Dark Matter Exist?
The only conclusion I can raise from people like yourself who argue Julian Assange be imprisoned is that you welcome ignorance. You genuinely wish to not know what powerful people are behaving in this world. And that conclusion is in many ways scarier to me than the fact that he is being prosecuted for the crime of journalism.
Top things you can do today as a DevOps to annoy developers
Spend some time jotting down the most sever f*ck-ups you can produce to really drive your colleagues crazy. Any to add?
It is about remaining neutral so that people with common interests can collectively work towards a common cause. While the "pro-eviction lobby" is unlikely to be a part of that cause, many landlords could be. From a business perspective, lost tenants represent lost revenues as well as increased risk from new tenants. From a humanitarian perspective, many landlords maintain a good relationship with their tenants and do not want to see them homeless.

An advocacy group that examines an issue from a singular point-of-view risks alienating those facing similar issues yet hold other perspectives, thus shutting down dialogue. It becomes a power struggle, rather than finding solutions through commonalities and balancing conflicting interests. This is not to say that non-confrontational approaches are perfect, but they provide a much more solid foundation for negotiation.
This might be a ruling against Russia but it's significant since this is an ECHR level ruling and it could really become de facto case law for all other ECHR members (including Turkey/Russia but also the whole EU and the UK still).
imsisms is becoming a strange problem I have yet to figure out how to deal with in my day-to-day conversations.
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Like our protests?
Down-vote does not mean censor. It is just a community-oriented way to sort comments.
There are, and they are registered as payment processors or e-wallets. Facebook isn't.
His last name is not unknown to the public, but it requires conscious effort to find. Posting it in the NYT is much more significant and means people who google his real identity will find his online one, as well as the reverse.
> GPU drivers are buggy (unless you use Metal

Metal drivers are buggy as well and it's sometimes even better to use OpenGL:

https://twitter.com/pcwalton/status/1255250372215611397

https://twitter.com/pcwalton/status/1255571085304541184

https://twitter.com/pcwalton/status/1267962397722988545

https://twitter.com/pcwalton/status/1260636769852157954
You don't have to watch more then one YouTube video review of whatever Tesla model to know that there will be more then a few "issues" with a brand new Tesla, that we can all agree on.

We can also say that people who educate themselves on the brand first, go in knowing that there will be inconsistent gaps and possibly other problems as well with their brand new vehicle. Most will want the vehicle regardless and bet on Tesla Service being able to fix the issues at one point or another (ie when Tesla figures out why certain parts are not working as expected and create replacement parts to fix them).

The problem, from an outside perspective, is that Tesla is operating as close to the bone as possible on costs, so the accepted variances in manufacturing are larger than what Ford or Honda would have due to the economics of scale.

I don't want to say that this is necessarily a worker problem, because at the end of the day, when a vehicle rolls off the assembly line, (I'm assuming) Tesla has quality control people to verify the vehicle is meeting their requirements, so these are the people who are either not raising the flags on production, or the variances are "acceptable", which is what I think it tends to be. To create tighter variances usually means slowing down the process, which in turn will reduce the number of vehicles leaving the plant, thus lower sales, etc.

I have no doubt, in years time, Tesla's quality of build will improve. But as a recent video review I saw on a Tesla vehicle said, "if you have OCD, you might not want to buy a Tesla."
I generally use a full-screen browser. I never want a full-screen line of text.
I find this fascinating. You excuse a state apparatus who you are responsible for as a democratic voter. That state apparatus had clear interests in a certain region and fabricated evidence to justify a war.

And you moan about character flaws of someone who helped get evidence of misbehavior to the public? Seriously? No other problems?

edit: You know that intelligence agencies try to discredit dissidents and make up fake evidence, do you?
Wow, fuck you.
> GIMP is a general image editing software while Krita focuses quite specifically on digital painting and art

AzPainter is one more app which focuses quite specifically on digital painting and art.[0]

[0] https://github.com/Symbian9/azpainter/wiki/Tutorials
There is nothing "low code" about work in SAP. Any time you need something remotely custom you need to blow the dust off of ABAP and code it yourself. This happens a lot.

Salesforce even requires you go write up some Apex when you want to get into heavy customization.
I don't know Damore personally, so this concern might not apply, but I wonder if neuro-atypical folks aren't the hardest hit folks in the current reenactment of The Crucible.

EDIT: And The Scarlet Letter seems relevant as well.
He has published numerous falsehoods. Please don’t buy this uncritically.
What? So what do German use for 10^9, Milliarden?

In French we use Milliard for billion and Trilliard for Trillions (and millions for millions).
> and I think it stopped working on Linux altogethe

Linux client works great! Probably precisely because it's now an electron app.
A former employer recently got a fraudulent restraining order against me. I’m homeless and encounter the police all the time. I consider it a probable contributing factor to my death, which they are almost certainly pleased about. Nobody in any way has ever seen me as violent, but now I am in a national “workplace violence” protection order database, aka. violent and/or unstable. I am homeless and would rather continue my career than fight it. It seems like it could make people with less to lose turn violent. I feel anger and disappointment like never before. (OpenTable is the company, their engineering leadership are the drivers of this).
Assange is in prison in the UK because he skipped bail.
Noooooooooooooooo....
Yeah I don't really understand. Is this like....satire? A joke about something that happened before?
I'm from TN. It's no surprise to me that they also target DNS over HTTPS. Marsha Blackburn has long been in the pocket of large internet providers. She successfully stopped a large city here in TN from expanding their own successful municipal broadband.
Strange, works fine for me, you can pick as many calendars as you want in Assistant Settings > Services > Calendar
When everything is chromium there is no competitive advantage for any of these chat applications. For example, before, Skype used to be based on the Qt framework and it used less resources and actually had more features - like universal push-to-talk and better integration into the OS.

Welcome to the future - lets Javascript all the things...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SCfNhyIo_U
Doomscrolling Is Slowly Eroding Your Mental Health
yep. Millionen, Milliarden, Billionen, Billiarden, Trillionen, Trilliarden
Sure, and journalists should defend journalism. Meanwhile most news media employees celebrate the persecution of Assange...
Hmm... accurate point. There are several items in his "not in the Bible" list that are most definitely mentioned, several times!
My main complaints are two:

- It takes 4-5 clicks to create a meeting and share the URL, which is what I want to do most of the time, multiple times a day. I end up preferring Skype (when with only 1-2 other people) just because of the hassle of "Creating a meeting".

- The UI randomly moves around: the chat button and the chat, for example, are in a place when Zoom is in window mode, in a different place when Zoom is fullscreen, and yet another place when I'm sharing the screen. If I have to teach, I prepare the various zoom windows (chat, participants, videos) in a certain configuration. As soon as I start sharing screen everything changes. It goes fullscreen whenever it likes, and all that.
[Hypothetical] If I buy a legitimate product from a legitimate seller, and end up with a counterfeit due to commingling, I don't see any reasonable story for how anyone but Amazon should be liable for that. They substituted the product I ordered with an inferior one.

And then, of course, Amazon should turn around and sue whoever provided them the counterfeit product. But the first level of culpability is still with Amazon.

It's like if I'm driving, waiting at a red light, and someone rear-ends me, causing me to rear-end the car in front of me. The person I hit sues me, wins, and I turn around and sue the person behind me for both the damage to my car and whatever I lost in the first lawsuit (probably all via insurance).
I think the majority of people would prefer if encryption weren't a thing - as they believe it's primarily or exclusively used by criminals to evade law enforcement.

If most people want X, and our elected officials are working on making X a reality, then isn't democracy working just fine?
Please list your sources when discrediting someone
That was my initial feeling about GIMP when I first tried to use it years and years ago. After many false starts and head scratching, the logic of it finally sunk in and now I find it pretty straightforward and logical. You just have to find a way to get over the very frustrating hump of understanding its basic design. But if all your needs are met by a program that doesn't demand that initial investment, all the better.
In fact, I'd much prefer to share with apps like WhatsApp (although I don't use it anymore) and Telegram only the contacts I manually select. There's no reason for them to know all barbershops I ever called too, and I don't even really need to know that an acquaintance of mine started using Telegram, I only contact those who I know to use Telegram beforehand anyway.
Of course Russia meddles in election, the US does that too. That is not relevant to the FISA abuse wich let to severe surveillance of the current administration to find a straw to attach it to them. They didn't find one btw. which is unusual in politics. Trump may indeed be extremely clean and that is something quite hard to say.
> Why doesn't Facebook do it in the US?

Facebook just got bloodied by regulators and the Congress over Libra.

U.S. payment rules are also quite strict. Brazil’s are too, but Facebook was comfortable ignoring those.

> Too much opposition from the large payment processing lobby?

If payments regulation worked like that, Stripe and PayPal and Venmo and Apple Pay wouldn’t exist.
I do not see president Biden pardoning Assange
They pretty much all do that if you want the full functionality. They’ll tell you if you disable that that you’re little better than having no product at all.
I don't understand, why do you need a search engine at all to access the link?
I think this really kills the idea that Assange was ever a real journalist. Directing cyber attacks and theft of information is not journalism.
I'm not sure what exactly were you trying to argue against. Pretty much all real world distributed systems are perfectly asynchronous, don't have perfect clocks perfectly synchronized to rely on them, don't have bug-free real-time algorithms, OS and hardware, etc. So real world is exactly where the paper applies, i.e. it is impossible to guarantee consensus in bounded time. Sure, with large enough bound and large enough quorums you can get very high probability of achieving it in bounded time, but never 100%.
This is a ridiculously bad faith allegation. Is that really the only conclusion you can raise?