skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of time has past since the Assange saga started, and the pertinence to UK politics has gone from top-of-mind to minor. Combined with covid & brexit, this farce has an unthinkable chance of passing without much attention.

To anyone in the UK, please make an effort to stay informed. Thank you to the author for your coverage. You are a patriot, in George Orwell's sense of the term.
On the same topic, I wish I could link with highlights in the page. Having a spec for highlights in URLS would be neat.
There's no reason that pagerank couldn't be adapted to take into account wayback machine urls, there is a link with a url pointing at https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://news.ycombinator.com/ google could easily register that as a link to both resources - one to web.archive, the other to the site.

there is also no reason why that has to become a slippery slope, if anyone is going to ask "but where do you stop!!"
I didn't want to post code, but I guess it's the only way I can see to settle the debate. This should be manifestly linear.

def check(s):
is_palindrome = lambda s: s == s[::-1]
if is_palindrome(s):
return True
d = [a==b for a, b in zip(s, s[::-1])].index(False)
return is_palindrome(s[d+1:len(s)-d]) or is_palindrome(s[d:-d-1])

edit: It must be len(s)-d rather than -d, to handle d=0.
Assange's crime here is embarrassing powerful people. On the one hand, we are never going to get a law that explicitly states this is a crime. On the other hand, that seems unlikely to matter. The US is apparently happy to literally scour the world for places where Assange has done something wrong if the Iceland claim is even a half-truth.

The basic issue that this article goes to is that the judge has broad discretionary power to hurry the defence along, and is using it. That is not unreasonable - defence by stalling tactics can't a legitimate strategy, so the judge must have those powers and be free to exercise them at her discretion. It is appropriate for the judge to have powers to guillotine witness time and to make procedural decisions. Even if they are unusual decisions.

The only thing Assange's defenders can hope for here is a great case study of how the US government doesn't care about details, they will reach out and try to grab anyone who makes it clear how they are operating. And then develop a rationalisation after the fact.

Really the most interesting thing in this article is the pervasive misspelling of "Sweden" as "the United States". I seem to recall a whole bunch of people arguing that Assange wasn't going to be extradited to the United States once they extracted him from the embassy. Possibly I am not remembering correctly and nobody admits to arguing that now.
I am not sure why people put developers on a morally high status like they are able to choose what kind of job that they can do...

I can't speak for other people, but personally I don't believe it's only developers who should leave jobs they feel are bad. Everyone who works in a job that's a net negative should strive to leave that job. The difference between a developer and a telemarketer is that the is a huge shortage of developers so it's not that hard to find a new role, and it's generally relatively well paid so having the resources to change job is much less of a problem, so any developer who stays in a job that's awful is clearly making a choice to do that.

FWIW I'm also an advocate of systems like UBI and negative income tax that would enable more people to make moral choices about the work they do.
I have never asked this before, as it’s usually a useless question, but - why on Earth is this being upvoted? There is nothing edifying about this thread.

Coincidentally I was wondering the other day if there was a good summary of the design choices that make Julia faster than Python, and the extent to which those could be addressed in Python. If anyone knows a good article, post that.
The typical issue with McDonald's food put on top of other food is that it makes you fat and also unhealthy in the long term. As in, it is bad because it does some harm.

Otherwise there would not no issue with McDonald's food on top of regular food.
Would have been a good idea for towing to a site though. They wouldn't need to be powered.
Cases like these reveal the rot at the heart of western governments. In what sense is what Craig Murray has just relayed to us justice? It seems perfunctory, a stage play, to disguise the reality that the judgement has already been handed down.

I remember when it was denied, forcefully and repeatedly, for nearly a decade that the US was behind the Swedish extradition conspiracy. That there was no ongoing US attempt to get their hands on Julian. That he was in the embassy for no good reason. Now we see that there was very good reason for him to remain in that embassy. There is no justice when you cross a corrupt empire.
> You can’t possibly know what a company you join will be like until you actually have been working there 12 months

Does it actually take you 12 months, or did you mean that as a measured, sensible statement? Or are you perhaps looking at it from a bi-directional loyalty or advancement perspective and not just general culture?

For me, that would only apply to companies that I interpret as middling/unimpressive at first glance. The really good or bad companies stick out much more, so I can usually tell by the hiring and onboarding processes and the first couple of tasks you're given, even as a consultant.
> Do people not generally have radios in their homes where you live?

No.

> And you must have a phone or laptop to be typing this where you could listen to the radio!

Do I need an RTL-SDR?
When I realised that programming is just taking a big problem and chopping it into a couple of smaller problems, and then repeating that until your problems are trivial.

The first time (1993) I was logged in on a remote machine and downloaded a file to there from another remote machine. It was just magic that the machine I was touching had nothing to do with that file.

When I hacked together a mailinglist system in shell script.

When I realised that C is basically just all memory locations.

When I understood closures.
IPFS has an incentivization problem just like torrents.

The main reward for torrent uploaders is fame, would that translate well in IPFS?
Nice read and definitely piqued my interest in reading the biography. Though, I’ve only read The Comedians by Greene (which was pretty good. Strong Casablanca fatalistic vibe set in Haiti.)
The new parts are 64-bit instruction set and MMU.
Thunderbolt 4 is on it's way with Intel Tigerlake which doubles the bandwidth but that still leaves limitations such as being limited to x8 PCI lanes which means you're leaving performance on the table if you use high eng GPUs and being locked in to Intel ecosystem so no Ryzen CPUs for you :(

And also cost $$$ which makes it a luxury solution only suitable for the users who absolutely want a thin portable notebook for on the go and a powerful GPU at home for AI/Gaming.
Nice. I forgot how you can do that.

I just use the extension myself:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wayback-machi...
> Moreover, when you link to the WB machine, what do you link to? A specific archived version? Or the overview page with many different archived versions? Which of those versions is currently endorsed by the original publisher, and which are deprecated? How do you know this?

WB also supports linking to the very latest version. If the archive is updated frequently enough I would say it is reasonable to link to that if you use WB just as a mirror. In some cases I've seen error pages being archived after the original page has been moved or removed though but that is probably just a technical issue caused by some website misconfiguration or bad error handling.
Also folk music[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24130589

(peasants with little to no agricultural surplus aren't interested in freemartins, neither four- nor two-legged. Compare
"we also have a ‘big’ cycle of generations" in https://acoup.blog/2020/07/24/collections-bread-how-did-they... )

I'm not intending to watch WAP until I must in order to understand a parody. There's certainly no shortage of other musical sublimation, such as the pin-up pastiche of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpuemnGD-44 .

Bonus clip (with gentlemen, it's "ladies first"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDcixye_0Jo

[1] is there any popular genre that lacks in innuendo? Those highly-censored soviets produced https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tDZl_wj8Fo , which raises a pose estimation question: how could the eponymous girl's tears possibly fall directly on such long spears? Was she standing on a ladder?

Even the Taliban, I believe, allow arguably amorous lyrics, as long as (a) they're not accompanied by instrumentals, and (b) the surface meaning of "beloved" is the divine.
And did it help to find Walter?
Be that whiz kid now. You needed time to “kid” and now you have time to program.
"You don't need bitcoin because you can just wire money from one account to another"

"Okay, you don't need bitcoin if you are not sending your money to imaginary places like Iran and N'Korea"

"Okay, you don't need bitcoin in Europe or US unless one party in your transaction has surname that starts with Ass and ends with ange"

"What do you mean by saying that banks abroad could refuse to open you account if you are US citizen"

"Capital controls and war? What you are, a character in a Neal Stephenson novel or Python developer?"
Show HN: Eigen Values for Portfolio Construction
1. Finding out WPF after years of work on WinForms; in that you can do MVVM stuff, control templating, vector graphics, etc.

2. React and Typescript

3. Jetbrains IDEs
> any extra computer power is wasted by software until it performs no better than a computer from 20 years ago

The existence of Doom Eternal disproves this.

In domains where high performance is important to the product's success, such as graphically impressive video-games, computational power isn't wasted. Bloat is tolerated in many other domains, though. Anything made with Electron, for instance.
You are right. I don't understand why developers should take into consideration any possible psychological quirk of any potential user.
This sounds rather important. I hope that draft versions of this definitive register will be published online so that the general public can easily check for omissions.
I think so. For productive office jobs, a desktop is still a must have. Audits, quality assurance, production planning, sales planning, reclamations, presentations, any form of computer aided engineering, accounting... just random examples on top of my head.

Sure, there could theoretically be a a webapp that can do all this, but there isn't. A penalty is that your QA SaaS service needs to interface employee information and maybe access article information living inside your ERP. Problems start to occur here.

Apps on the web or phone are good for any workflow where your input is basically "yes/no". I think html can be a good compromise for UIs, but that isn't enough to replace desktop software.

I don't see many webapps in any production critical process, they only pop up for some administrative tasks and even that is limited. Maybe you are an IT consultant with everything in the cloud. Or maybe you deliver food or offer transport and orders are managed in an online service. That works, but widespread applications are limited.
Disk controllers have been "smart" for the last 15 years. There's just a desire to run Linux instead of a barebones RTOS.
It is not equivalent, but if someone has the time to read the list, I would recommend instead the reading of R. L. Glass "Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering" [1].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Facts-Fallacies-Software-Engineering-...
We are now in the age of multimodal mobility and this only covers the mode that is easiest to capture (vehicles using data from loop detectors). Having a dataset with the same spatial and temporal coverage but multimodal would be amazing.
Don't forget:

- Patricia-Merkle Trees proven in DC++

- DHT proven in eMule Kademlia
The more of these I read the stranger I find the conduct of Baraitser as a Judge. I may not be an expert on English Law but it’s not hard to see how under any kind of argumentative process of adjudication, where two sides present their facts and are expected to cross examine, object, and argue as part of the process... that someone could make any of the sorts of pre-written statements that Baraitser has done on multiple occasions so far.

Baraitser continues to feel like someone who is merely going through the motions waiting for their pay check and who would much rather not even be there.

The pre-written statement stuff also has the stink of prejudice in the most literal sense of the word. So I just cannot even fathom how it hasn’t warranted immediate sanction given the stupid amount of evidence available.
I think I'm pretty far from him politically, but he is an interesting read. Particularly the various conspiracies around the Novichok poisoning in Salisbury.
The whole animation to live adaptation idea is equivilant to remaking the original with a new cast, bigger budget, and shorter run time if you're going TV series -> film.

Hollywood studios have certain expectations about pacing and storyline.

The writter and director will either have their own ideas about the story, or they will be cashing a paycheck and not care.

Basically it's a bad start creatively. You're almost certain to lose what made the original special.

Really fans shouldn't get exicted about them. The best case is that you get something good but very different.
Tim Ferriss video about Speed Reading
Yeah. That requires access to all sites. I wasn't comfortable adding another addon with that permission.

The permission is just for a simple reason and should be off by default. It is so you can right click a link on any page and select 'archive' from the menu. Small function, but requires access to all sites.
Either a browser extension, or an 'active' system where your site checks the health of the pages it links to.
Any recommendations for battery powered transmitters? I was planning to buy a tracker for my bike
Isn't that called "intercultural competence" ?
The idea to create a visual prompt to remind us of the fact that an original context may differ from the way in which an excerpt is being used is a compelling solution to Nicholas Carr's 'context collapse' [1].
Another interesting approach is through the Webmention [2].
These are ways to promote the augmentative - and relational - thinking Engelbart promoted.
To this conversation I would also add the question of how to make interrelational writing sustainable.
[1] http://www.roughtype.com/?p=8724
[2] https://indieweb.org/webmention
The real scandal is that people still using Google's Chrome.
You can just rent bare metal (or "root servers", as it was once called). Then it just have to worry about the occasional hardware defect, but at small scales that basically never happens.
Realising that 90% of programming advice is unsupported junk.
I get what you're saying and it is all relative, but I'd say "yes" in a general sense. Developers have more agency than most people at working class jobs like telemarketers.

"More" agency is not full agency, but if we're thinking in shades of grey, then I think it's a substantial delta. The stuff developers read and ideas they care about have influence.

For example, agile, TDD, and other buzzword methods for managing software teams started by gaining traction among developers. There is no equivalent for telemarketers. No one cares what they read or think. You can spy on their screen, time their toilet breaks, etc. Software companies do not want developers to think they are bullshit. They don't care either way for CS agents.

It is a matter of degrees though. It's not like an average developer can say no! to some crappy verification step that higher-ups promised their payment processor. I'd also say that agency is waning in the era of big tech.
Phobos is extremely close to Mars so its orbital period is only 8 hours. Its inclination is also very low compared to our own moon. Therefore it is far more likely to cause an eclipse and it occurs in sets.
100x this and thank you for posting.
I enjoyed it because of how nice and serious the responders are, given the ridiculous request. I think that's why it was posted.
Nice! have you thought about making this available as an API? :)
That’s lindisfarm, there’s also st Michaels mount.

This path looks more like the rights of way over Morecambe bay though.
Unfortunately search is something that is extremely efficient when centralized but very inefficient when distributed.

A few years ago I was very interested in IPFS but once I learned about the limitations it was pretty much not suitable for me. If you really insist on using IPFS then your best bet would be to have a central tracker host an IPNS based site and publish its database index as a series of json files. The javascript client will then have to query the index on its own in the browser.

The alternative would be to download the entire database and create a local index. In theory that's not a bad idea but over time your database will grow to several gigabytes. That's not comparable to just going to whatever site exist today and submitting a search term but it could be highly resilient.

The fundamental problem is that untrusted nodes can't provide search services. It's possible that they end up redirecting you to a fake listing. Blockchain style consensus doesn't work for something that requires responses immediately like a search engine.

Also bittorrent trackers are slightly more complicated than just a file store
Also worth mentioning that Craig Murray is facing legal issues of his own in relation to the trial of Alex Salmond in Scotland: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/09/craig-murray...

//edit// I posted this in case anyone wanted to chip in for his defence fund, not to attack his credibility.
Tesla can detect aftermarket hacks designed to defeat EV performance paywalls
This is one of those technologies where I struggle to think of beneficial use cases, but my mind fills with ways this could abused.

That's not to say it shouldn't be researched, or people more creative than me won't think of beneficial use cases.
You can even see the difference with individual artists in their studio vs live performances.

For some unknown reason I’ve been geeking out on Miley Cyrus lately. Her studio releases have that glossy, overproduced sound of too many cooks in the kitchen. Her live performances on the other hand rely on the power of her vocals and a really tight band that has been together for a stretch now.

Just compare the studio release of Slide Away [1] with what they did on the BBC Live Lounge [2]. Lyrically the song is what it is, but there’s so much more energy and feel (to me anyway) in the latter.

[1] https://youtu.be/rrvFv6j3-sM

[2] https://youtu.be/liRu4mhUF7I

Then of course her Backyard Sessions have been a treat for a while now, but would never grace the airwaves:

https://youtu.be/wOwblaKmyVw
Because it has "Julia" or "Rust" in the headline.
> First, I’d like to say I think starting with Ruby/Rails is a bad idea.

It's telling that comments like this inevitably involve Rails, not plain Ruby.

Rails's "magick" is obfuscatory and at times counter-intuitive. Ruby, the language, is pretty straightforward. I wish more people spent time playing with Ruby before diving into Rails.
This offhand reason does not happen regularly. There are cases of places without historical slavery who perceived as poor workers and places with historical slavery who are known for their work ethics.

Maybe it's not only "the legacy of slavery".
Silly q: don't we need to also remove co2 from the upper atmosphere as well? How much missing is there with the lower atmosphere?
In the past I would fall back to WBM when something is no longer online. Though recently I've been bookmarking interesting content very rigorously and just rely on the archival feature of my bookmarking software.
There was a criminal justice system before fingerprint and DNA analysis too. It was just a worse, less reliable system.
> rot at the heart of western governments

Lets name names. US and UK the lap dog.
I was just updating my earlier reply after I thought to look at their use cases page.

I should write a better criticism about that.

Usernames: No, store them as given, just like real names. Also, use UTF-8. Consult the visual rendering engine for decomposing the value to display units, or a rendered result, etc.

Asset tags: Just use hex, or numbers. Mortal people looking at either of those systems understand them quickly enough without further documentation. It's only 4 vs 5 letters, worth the lack of a binder describing why you're not missing crates.

Cheat codes: This is actually fine, I don't care, it isn't important. Though hex or anything else is just as fine.

Cryptography: Less possible artifacts from less letters. 0123456789ABCDEF typically don't contain any difficult to read or alias characters for dyslexic or other non-perfect readers. If density matters (again 4 vs 5) no printed media is going to work out.

Geographic coordinates / addresses: Everyone's using base 10 here, either as big floats or as sets of numbers that are friendly to read. Those articles that have average consumers use an app and send 3 words back from it are making up for the missing safety feature of 911 sending a well formatted set of SMS messages with the call indicating the handset's current GPS data.
Philosopher AI
There is other side to the story. If your app requires a backend server, it is financially prudent to pay a recurring fee that way hosting charges are taken care of and you can be somewhat sure the service will last as long as there are enough users.

There are plenty of games and apps that are dead because the developers no longer make new sales and the previous money is all spent and the business become unviable and they shutdown the servers.

Recurring charges gives the incentive for the developer to fix bugs and maintain the codebase and not abandon it completely once they loose interest, if original developer looses internest recurring revenue makes the code/service valuable so that a new developer can buy who makes enough in maintaining it.

If the app/service you bought does not have enough paying users to even pay for hosting servers or a part time developer time to maintain it, then no revenue model will save it anyway.
> I feel I've benefited greatly from learning it.

I have this feeling (or maybe I should say "hope") that once you learn Pony reasonably well, you kind of take that "reference type awareness" with you and it will make you a better programmer no matter what language you are programming in. It basically makes explicit what you should already be doing implicitly.

I really should put in the effort to learn it someday
trying to hunt down why something is not performing

Again, 99% of the users won't be doing that no matter how good the tracing abilities are. They will post a question on SO/GitHub. Regardless of the language, modern DL frameworks are just too complex for regular users.
After all, they did change their search to accommodate AMP. Changing it to take WebArchive into account is a) peanuts and b) is actually better for the web
Straight out Rust Propaganda and Hidden Marketing.
No Rome, no Athens, no Istanbul, no Bucharest, in part I understand that but collecting data from the “traffic-civilized” part of the continent will only tell a partial story. Maybe from the included list Paris comes close to those cities, even though I doubt it.
Synthesis of tennis player sprites.
I don’t think conspiracies have to be secret.
Elixir compiles and runs on BEAM, which is a technology that's roughly 34 years old.

I think most elixir projects are on Phoenix, and while I can't speak too much about the speed of that project, the poster you're responding too has clearly stated they have an app that's 4 years old and running just fine so I have to believe it's not as much of an issue as you think.