skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to remain impartial when the prosecutor's case mainly rests on WikiLeaks knowingly and wittingly publishing unredacted files, and one of the key witnesses who could refute this point is not allowed to talk about it. From the text:

>James Lewis QC for the prosecution had been permitted gratuitously to read to two previous witnesses with zero connection to this claim, an extract from a book by Luke Harding and David Leigh in which Harding claims that at a dinner at El Moro Restaurant Julian Assange had stated he did not care if US informants were killed, because they were traitors who deserved what was coming to them.

>This morning giving evidence was John Goetz, now Chief Investigations Editor of NDR (German public TV), then of Der Spiegel. Goetz was one of the four people at that dinner. He was ready and willing to testify that Julian said no such thing and Luke Harding is (not unusually) lying. Goetz was not permitted by Judge Baraitser to testify on this point, even though two witnesses who were not present had previously been asked to testify on it.

>Baraitser’s legal rationale was this. It was not in his written evidence statement (submitted before Lewis had raised the question with other witnesses) so Goetz was only permitted to contradict Lewis’s deliberate introduction of a lie if Lewis asked him. Lewis refused to ask the one witness who was actually present what had happened, because Lewis knew the lie he is propagating would be exposed.

[...]

>Summers then asked about events leading to the publishing of the unredacted cables. Goetz said this was a complicated process. It started when Luke Harding and David Leigh published a book in February 2011 containing the password to the online cache of encrypted cables. This was discussed on various mirroring sites, and eventual publication of the full cache by Cryptome after Die Freitag became involved. Cryptome was at that time very well known and an important source for journalists.

>Summers then asked about the breakdown of relationships between Wikileaks and the Guardian. It was at this point that Baraitser ruled that Summers was not allowed to ask about what happened at the dinner he attended at El Moro restaurant. Summers made a formal request, as Lewis had introduced the subject with other witnesses who unlike Goetz had not been there. Lewis objected, and Baraitser said no.

Can someone explain to me how this is possible? I mean if witnesses with material knowledge about one of the key charges are barred from speaking about them during the trial, how are we to believe that this isn't anything other than a kangaroo court?
Do you have a website or GitHub link?
Physics is especially a poor domain to pick an analogy from at the moment. But if we can borrow from that whole religious domain I think the following is more apt.

Maybe the people of Germany have an invisible halo protecting them from bad woo woo from Wuhan.
If you look at it the other way. If change works on us-east-1, it should work everywhere else.

If their goal is to reduce the number of affected locations (and not care about number of people) then deploying to us-east-1 makes more sense.
Fascinating, this is such a hot topic which is going to be debated for decades.
I for one think that EU needs to take several steps forward. I personally am for a single country, or how federalists like to say, United States of Europe.

It seems to me like the "best case" scenario geopolitically and economically for EU.
Super cool, thank you!
It's an uncomfortable truth. Downvoted!
I do this very much part time and with recurring clients so I don't have a great generalizable answer. But for me, I charge a fixed price and then it's on me if there are bugs (actually, the incentives are nicely aligned here. Fewer bugs means less work for me and less hassle for my clients). As far as feature requests, I will throw in small things for free, even if not agreed upon. The assumption that I'll need to do extra little things here and there is built into my rate.

For bigger things, it's important that expectations are set upfront and are clear to everyone. That way, if someone wants a new feature, they can have it for a price.
Urbit doesn't seem to tie the ownership to physical scarcity of computing resources, though. They just invented some "land" to seek rents from, or sell to those who would seek rents. I'm all for spending money to bring physical computing resources to the system, including reselling access to those resources to others for profit, but the whole "stars / planets" false scarcity model ruins Urbit for me.
I still have a basic alarm clock with a battery for back-up. Back when I was in the Army and oversleeping carried somewhat harsher consequences, I also had a mechanical wind-up clock as a backup.

I would absolutely never trust a software-controlled device as complex as a smartphone to wake me up in the morning. If I'm traveling on business, I'll set the room alarm clock and also request a wake up call from the front desk.
There is one fundamental difference. States don't control the currency. The federal government can print money to solve this issue. States can't, they can only raise taxes.
InOpenScad you cannot edit models via mouse. You write scripts that look like this:

// Outer box depth
boxDepth = 60;
// Lid height
lidHeight = 10;
module closeTab() {
translate([-5, boxDepth/2+1, lidHeight-5]) {
rotate(a=[180, 0, 0]) rotate(a=[0, 90, 0]) linear_extrude(height=10) polygon(points=[[10, -1], [9, 2.5], [8, 2.5], [7.5, 1], [-1, 1], [3, -1]]);
}
}

OpenSCAD itself just visualizes these and allows you to easily set parameters via a GUI. IMO this approach does not work for more complex models, makes small iterations much much slower. The difference between F360 and OpenSCAD is huge, its like comparing Paint to Photoshop.
Yeah, and this is the correct way to automate anything relating to github. Their API is insane.
I keep seeing comments like this. I don't really get it. Is it snark? Is it assumption? Do you actually happen to know?
> Those are still loans that must be paid back

Yes, obviously - what did you think deficit spending was? But the point is the cost of fiscal expenditure is lower than it has been in the past, and it seems like we have a really useful thing we could be spending it on.

To me, it seems like normal "propensity to consume + ability to pay" style distribution of masks won't help that much in a pandemic that disproportionately spreads among the poor and where the more people wearing the mask, the better.
Yes! We're at https://www.narrator.ai
>perhaps because they are geographically isolated

Germany has open borders with all its neighbours and freedom of movement. There is a lot of migration, in no way could they be described as an isolated community.
Not surprising from the government who has imprisoned and tortured Julian Assange for managing a news site.
This is another really great reason why the herd immunity threshold is lower than it has naively been claimed. If the effect is as large as TFA says then the threshold is actually much lower than the ~60% level.

This has a big impact on the estimated death rate for achieving herd immunity. The other factor in that estimate is the CFR which is also plummeting over the summer, although there’s reason to believe CFR could go back up somewhat in the winter depending on how much the gain was environment versus how much is due to better treatment protocols and therapeutics.

For example, if the immunity threshold goes from 60% -> 20% and the CFR goes from 5% -> 1% the estimate death toll is reduced to 1/15th (6.6%) of the original estimates.
Yes, we don’t say these things about PHP anymore, it’s dismissive and cruel ya know. The bad people now are JavaScript programmers, go nuts!
Yeah, I wonder if `git` could be improved based on this.
Is anyone tracking the current spot price of N95 masks on a chart?

Would need a true price, i.e. what do you have to pay if you have no "special powers" like a hospital. Spot as close as is reasonable, maybe with 1 week delivery; I am assuming that the forward curve is still in backwardation. That would be the best tracker of shortage. The curve itself would be interesting, if it ever flips to contango without spot going meaningfully down that'd mean serious problems (nobody expects capacity increase).
In terms of where money goes, it does. Mozilla Corp both makes and spends vast sums of money (browsers are fantastically expensive).

Mozilla Foundation, in contrast, makes and spends relatively little compared to that. Seriously how much do you think this crowd-sourced project is costing the Foundation?
This is essentially not true and misunderstanding of why the EU exists in the first place.

"When 'one day' it's presedential it will be voted for by the European parliament."

And who will propose and design the legislation?

The Executive!

Definitely not elected MEPs, because they are barred from doing so!

MEP's, in 2020 remain forbidden from initiating or enacting legislation. They have the bare minimum power to legitimize the institution as 'democratic'.

The EU is the only 'Constitutional Democratic' entity in the modern world wherein legislation is created and controlled at the executive level.

You might technically be correct in asserting that the MEPs have 'more power' after the Lisbon treaty, very little has changed, and there is no reason for them to change it.

Not until the Treaty of Lisbon were elected MEPs even required to be consulted (!!) for the selection of the executive! Constitutionally they were irrelevant. Only since the Lisbon treaty do MEPs technically have to be consulted, and even then, it's merely 'consultation'. It's not binding.

Never in the history of the world has power been given to the people unless they have basically 'forced' it, by using one lever of power or another.

The EU is very well designed by the elite to avoid populism and 'interference' by organized or populist plebes.

It's the perfect mechanism to have control and enact legislation with minimum of oversight, minimum of media coverage, minimum of procedural problems from the plebes.

The elite can argue, but only among themselves.

The EU has negative incentive to add more democratic oversight, because in their view, it just adds more problems and risk to the situation - god forbid a 'Donald Trump' should be elected in Europe.

The only way voters will get more power is if they take it, either through MEP insurrection, or, one or two state powers have some kind of reason to push for it. I don't think either of these cases is on the table, I can't even imagine a scenario will happen.

So if 'the entire history of civilization' is a guide, there will be net less democracy in Europe, as they give very little power to MEPs, and move more powers away from national assemblies towards the EU, where unelected bureaucrats and members of the inner circle can do 'what they think is best'.

And there's nothing anyone can do about it.

As for GDPR, yes, it was nice that MEPs could put up a fuss and have some parts of legislation changed, but they were not the shepherds of this legislation by any means, it was written and controlled 'from above' at all times.

FYI here is the original draft from 2012 [1]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20121203024154/http://ec.europa....
yes it is https://www.narrator.ai/
Also, I doubt the building regulations around underground structures is terribly well conceived. Especially in Oklahoma, where I imagine most underground "structures" are either basements, or serve as little more than storm shelters.

Most houses are designed and built to the minimum regulatory standards. It's expensive to overbuild structures, so people aren't going to do it unless they have a very specific reason to do so. Without any regulatory framework, or a bunch of experience, it's hard to expect anyone to get it right.

This house is not a basement, but it seems to be built like one. Basements have houses and roofs above them that serve to move water away from the structure and provide a source of dry, conditioned air from above ground.
Actually we had a corridor chat in my team about that yesterday, I was surprised that even people from conservative countries like India and Pakistan still had some variant of putting all salaries in one pot.

On the other hand I know a few people with his and hers accounts that are happily married so YMMV
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.

Words are just words. One may hear or read words that provoke them to violence or other negative behavior but blaming the speech in whole or in part removes agency from those who choose to react in a negative way.
Fittingly, the article is all about Feynman’s comments on Wolfram. Feynman was himself insufferable in many ways, but also quite capable of playing well with others, being one of the archetypal examples of good teaching
I do still play on my PS Vita, and I'm still sad that Sony abandoned it quite quickly after it was released, for me it's a perfect portable "Risk of Rain" machine (although I've played other games on it too!), it's also cool that they've ported some PS1 games to it like Metal Gear Solid, I wrote about my experience here: http://kaspergrubbe.com/i-bought-a-ps-vita-in-2016-first-imp...
> What do you mean by that? Do you seriously think that somebody (who exactly?) is suppressing news about this court?

Why are you putting words in my mouth? Especially the "seriously" is completely out of place since I never said what you claim I did, so why do get worked up over it?

Where was I implying a conspiracy? Did you consider that there are other theories that are consistent with my original statement - for instance, it's completely conceivable that a skilled legislation publishes information about a proposed law of they know it's likely to create a backlash in (some parts of) the media in a more subdued way, specifically in order to lower the odds for getting said negative press.

I agree that this "suppressing news" theory that you brought to the table is nonsense. But it's also not necessary if you've got a PR person who knows their job.
You can check out the substra orchestration back-end which this is built upon https://github.com/SubstraFoundation/substra

disclosure: I work for a partner
Many in the LGBT community feel that the acronym does not accurately capture their identity. LGBTQIA+ is the currently acceptable acronym to use, so you can see how the use of .lgbt would be "harmful". Also, you can't have a + symbol in a TLD, which would also be considered "harmful" should it ever be up for implementation.

All in all, the use of gTLD names to reinforce identity is stupid. .com and .org mean company and organization. It's the words before those letters that define the type of company or organization you are, that's where your identity is supposed to lie.
This happened to me on an earlier release years ago.

Personally, I always update in August to the betas. I’ll take the new features with the bugs.
I own roughly 40 acres of Douglas Fir forest in Northwest Oregon, and let me tell you — there’s no black and white answer to this. This is a long post, so buckle up.

Start with invasive shrubs like blackberries. They spread wildly and require a ton of work to maintain. (And before people say “use goats”, know they are not a magic bullet.) Limbing trees, where you remove branches under 10’, can help prevent “ladder fires”, but it’s time consuming or costly if you need to hire someone to do it.

Forests need to be thinned, invasive species kept at bay, and fuel in general needs to be removed or burned. And this stuff is alive so it’s a perennial thing to deal with. Even with grants, profit from timber, etc, it’s a lot of work, time, and money.

In retrospect it’s easy to point fingers at the National Forest Service and criticize their policy of putting fires out. Imagine for a second the opposition they’d face had they just let fires burn for the past half century. Even if it’s the “right” thing to do, it would be a very hard sell. People generally want to see action, and have a hard time seeing inaction as “doing something.”

Similarly with controlled burns. I’d love to burn our land every year the way that Native Americans used to — but it’s not without risk. There’s simply too much fuel.

Up in Oregon things have historically been very wet. Comically so. The result is a lot of lush vegetation. Which dries out in a drought and becomes fuel. As these unprecedented burns happen more and more frequently, they push forests into new phases of succession, where a new cycle of shrub-drought-fire becomes the norm. These firestorms are a different breed from the mild creeping forest fires that are part of a natural forest ecosystem.

All of that said, forest management is incredibly important. We need a new approach, and I’d argue we need more grants for the landowners who can’t afford to do the work necessary to prepare their land for this new climate. We also need to take a serious look at all of the development in the wildland-urban-interface and figure out how we’re going to address it. And yes, to the chagrin of many here, we need to address Climate Change.

But, all of that said, none of that IMHO absolves PG&E from gross negligence in failing to properly maintain equipment in areas of known heightened risk.
Is your problem with the crowd then, and not information? You show your hand, Dirlewanger :)
...unless you use their CLI wrapper over the API (as in this post) :)
It's a "wtf", not the end of the world. Cheers for the snark tho
1. You don't have to manually add keywords.

1.1. Far more websites. Reddit, Flicr, Youtube, hell Yahoo, GMaps, Youtube, HN... Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, DBLP... pretty much all the places I would want to search on are available.

2. Cross browser. I use Chrome on my phone, and FF on my laptop. Safari, when the battery is below 30% and I'm not near a power outlet. Setting default search engine as DDG brings me the bangs across all these places.
AFAIK, Steam has never insisted on exclusivity from those selling on its store; yes, Valve's own games aren't sold elsewhere but that's not quite the same as demanding exclusivity from others.

And Epic explicitly refuses to add forums and reviews, which many of us find to be invaluable sources of information.

And Epic has/had atrocious account security; for instance, not verifying email addresses on new accounts.

Those are my personal gripes; you'll find longer lists elsewhere.
I think this is also a good example of how "smart" technology is infinitely more fragile than "dumb" technology. I had a similar issue way back in the day with the first iPhone, where there was a bug if you had something pop up with a modal alert in the middle of the night the alarm wouldn't go off because only one modal at a time was allowed.

I've had a couple similar experiences since, and because of that I always set a simple "dumb" alarm clock whenever I have something important I need to get up for. It has literally never had an issue, simply works exactly how I want it, every time.
I agree. Names don't really matter unless the are obviously childish and silly. I think "mebibyte" etc. have the same issue. I don't care how technically correct they might be, I sound like and idiot if I say them so I'm not going to. "Super-sonic acrobatic rocket powered battle cars" (successfully renamed) and "GIMP" (inexplicably kept) also spring to mind.
> have. But as fires have demonstrated this year... fires are going to happen. Lightning, gender reveals, a broken muffler... Something will provide the spark.

I've seen this sentiment in other replies also. To me it implies that you're saying that fires are being started at near the maximal rate allowed by the forest conditions, so that increased sparks are ultimately meaningless. Is this the case?
Most in-demand 3DS games have not been cheap in years. They've been pretty expensive due to low printing (Bravely Default, DQ remakes, most Atlus RPGs) for years now. I'm guessing Nintendo games are OK due to so many people owning them though.

3DS eShop might be a safe bet but aside from the usual downsides of digital, the games are tied to the system, not your eShop account.
Is there a tutorial on how to get alyx running like you describe?
>Maybe the people of Germany have an invisible halo protecting them from bad woo woo

Yes, it's called Angela Merkel. The numbers are difficult ro read but it looks like countries with female leaders have faired better than the rest.
I was a little shocked (and really, really sad to hear one of my childhood heroes answer like that). I recorded the interaction-- albeit via my iPhone in my pocket-- so the audio quality probably isn't very good. I'll look to see if I can dig up the recording. (This was from his October 30, 2017 visit to Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. I didn't find a recording available online with a quick search...)

Edit: Found it - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lLz56N2PKCmPIGrzt1WT9n4B08P...

My phone was in my breast pocket so the audio quality isn't very good, but I did my best to clean it up.
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I think he means a CPA. Certified public accountant. They are the ones who actually write the report.
.NET Core is a ground-up rewrite of the frameworks and tools. It's completely decoupled from Visual Studio. This would get you started on a toy project (one source file, one project file) now:

dotnet new console --output sample1
dotnet publish --self-contained -r linux-x64 sample1

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/get-started
I do the edges first and then the corners. I changed it up for novelty and to force myself to come up with a different solution. So I've got permutations to manipulate edges that also mess with the corners, followed by ones that manipulate the corners.

I've wondered if there is a way to do it by restricting to smaller and smaller subgroups, but that'd probably be a lot of work to figure out.
I have friend who immigrated to the U.S. when he was in his teens.

After graduating college and finding a good job, he went to get a roommate and move out. His parents were horrified. "Why are you going to move out of your family's house so you can pay money to live with strangers you found on the internet?".

At first we all laughed because it seemed like a case of immigrant parents no getting how things worked here, but the more we all thought about it, the more the parents seemed to make an excellent point, and one none of us had really considered.

Not sure when families living together became a sign of failure rather than a sign of a close family.
The air gap was one of my first thoughts. This is common on woodframed homes, where you have the a vapour barrier, insulation / insulation + framework, a moisture barrier, an air gap and then the water shedding layer (siding, render carrier, brickwork etc). Even in the UK where wood framing is less common it's almost identical to our roof structure where you have insulation, the roof framework (with ventilation in the eves), a water barrier (classically tar paper) and then the water shedding layer (concrete, slate or clay tiles).

I guess one challenge is how you would have sufficient ventilation in the gap underground, perhaps you'd have to use some kind of forced air ventilation with all of the problems that would entail.

However, by the time you ventilate that space you have now negated any thermal mass advantages you had from building under ground in the first place by introducing ambient air.
> The very sad part is the people deciding this have absolutely no understanding what they are doing

I'm all for Hanlon's Razor, but its application to IP, and especially software patents, is getting a little strained over the years.
Personally I wouldn't be mad, the homebrew and hacking community will probably stay strong for years. I'd be surprised if you bought it think you'd be playing brand new games?
It's a moot point. People either have pre-existing immunity or not.

Unless there's a cheap way of checking (read, cheaper and easier than vaccinating), there's no point in worrying about it (for the purposes of individual protection).